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@heartofdixie67 lmao imagine he got the military to give him hazard pay for technically being in a war zone this whole time
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That's true, but it only reinforces the point - people are unaware of the implications and need to be told how the world works.
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Karl Popper most likely could not deadlift more than Plato, therefore he is wrong.
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With the price of ammo these days?
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"You must be this tall to start a war with Iran"
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@qouavang3646 political reasons? You better fucking explain that one. Increased hit probability, flatter trajectory and lighter weight are good enough reasons alone to make the change, but POLITICAL reasons?
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My favorite is the slam pipe shotty with the wooden stock saying "Glock & Wesson: Hecho en Mexico".
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William Kildea it's not naturally occuring so this whole "it's not natural" argument really needs context. Plant poison is natural and drugs can be synthetic. One can kill you and the other can save you.
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 @alpha-tomahawk532 "same people" is BS. It's like saying the Portuguese and Spanish are the same people. Or the Dutch and German are the same people.
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The problem is that Youtube has over a decade of backlog. Even if a competitor comes up, if you need to fix something or watch a tutorial you're coming back to youtube until things even out.
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"Don't Let the Capitol Riot Reignite the War on Terror" as if we had a say in the matter
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That's really the heart of the issue. As population exploded, and population density went off the scale with cities, we simply cannot maintain a personal relationship with everyone around us, so most people are strangers. It's not "money allows for slavery and imperialism" it's "rival tribes would F your tribe up to get even, now you have total strangers you can harm with no consequences by simply riding on a boat".
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@MixedRaceJace "white folk have had it easy" you should study some history, then
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@andy5478-MTB Imagine simping for Romney.
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Luke Smith: "Windows sucks lmao" Windows users: "We know."
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H A C K E R M A N
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@Iwillfigureoutanamelater yet there is a reason Russians picked it.
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Look up Starfish Prime. A nuclear test over the Pacific caused an EMP over Hawaii. The explosion's fireball remained in high altitude but the electronic pulse knocked out street lights on the ground.
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Prices in the US are this way because everyone was "holding their breath" trying to not raise prices due to the 2 years of coof. When the conflict started, everyone let out the belly out of their shirt in collective relief and said "Russia, dude".
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@wildtatz Pencils are not very good for spacecraft because if the lead breaks the graphite could float behind an electronics panel and cause a short.
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@errvega2705 okay but accessing blocked content is 25% of the VPN ads, 75% is evade espionage/tracking/hackers.
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Stephen Murray "Fat is stored energy" - it also requires more energy to move around because you're literally moving more weight.
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If you do the same problem with n=11, there will be 14 solutions. n is just the number of vertices, and 10 vertices happens to have 10 solutions.
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@SanctusBacchus I'm not going to pretend raytracing doesn't have advantages but calling us "pure raster gamers" like a sort of classist slur is wild. And I have a 1660 Super so I'm not even coping about being team red.
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The history of the M16/M4 is really complex because most of its failures can be traced back to it being asked to do something it wasn't designed for and something else had to be changed to fix it.
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@basemanawakens6089 Pretty well.
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She needs a lot of makeup to keep that cute look. I'd say she's actually below average without it.
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@MixedRaceJace I'm not saying I don't, but if you look at history 99% of white people had it pretty bad. Under feudalism you worked or you starved, even during the industrial revolution people were essentially working under slave contracts where you'd basically be in debt to your employer because he'd provide you habitation. If anything we had around 100 years of good times, tops.
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@mattchew4161 The issue is that it's not even about the shot anymore. It's about the passes. I will not spend the rest of my life showing QR codes on an app to enter stores. Is the current stuff out now garbage? Yeah, it is. Will I take a good one? No. This is ratcheting, first they threaten us with unpersoning, shutting us out from society, then give us a compromise solution so that we line up.
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Tim "I used to skate all the time" Pool
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The madlad who turned in the slam fires labeled with sharpie "Glock & Wesson - Hecho en Mexico" is a legend for eternity.
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Individuality and don't follow trends? But they're ripping off Motley Crue...
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Is it 2012 again? I remember people claiming socialism worked great in Venezuela just before their economic crash.
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 @rockstarjoe5725 Imagine a 50 year old guy in the 90s saying "cowabunga, dude" like Bart Simpson
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@nickyroche2486 and she not only was caught lying about being a gamer (there's video of a lecture where she said she hated video games 2-3 years before Feminist Frequency started) but she also ran a kickstarter that went over 100k to do "research" for a video series when she blatantly stole footage from "let's play" youtube channels. She's a crook and sockpuppet for Jonathan McIntosh. /rant
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Mind that during the Soviet times, the government minimized the pain by pretending everything was fine. Many only realized how poorly the Soviet army did in Afghanistan when the reforms allowed the press to report on it. Even during and after the Kursk disaster the Kremlin tried to control the information about how bad things were going, and that was post Soviet. And still today casualties aren't talked about very openly. There's Vkontakte posts about deaths that go missing.
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The US would spend 6x more on the weapon but it would probably be faster, have terrain countor matching, cameras for live feed, jamming resistance, stealth features, etc.
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@sapphicdisaster8390 they weren't in the process of surrendering, they were literally having a meeting where they gambled on the US having a single bomb and not enough uranium to make a second one the day Nagasaki was struck.
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@kschleic9053 The other way around. People involved in the OA-X program knew this would be a criticism raised against turboprops, so at Green Flag exercises the OA-X aircraft were pitted against Marines with Stingers. Allegedly, they couldn't get a lock. It makes sense. The turbine that powers the prop takes out so much heat from the exhaust, and prop wash itself mixes the exhaust with incoming air. And it is known that after the initial Stinger kills on Soviet helicopters in Afghanistan they responded by changing tactics but also installing diverter plates in the exhaust to help mask the heat signature. Meanwhile their jets were forced to fly higher. Soldiers on the ground jokingly started calling them "cosmonauts" for refusing to fly inside Stinger range.
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 @the11382 having countries consent to an attack mission refueling in their country and the ability to do aerial refueling halfway across the world is a feat in itself.
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 @nocommantarygameplay5516 I thought we agreed minors can't consent.
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 @Steelface97 not if you were assigned as a public defedant
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Before being "redpilled" was a thing, it could be argued those who behaved as "redpilled" were left leaning. Offensive humor, talking shit about the system, and how Congress is having hearings about banning metal, rap, videogames, etc. Ethan most likely was a kid/teen when Gen X was the driver of culture.
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Of course that Snopes gets it. They're trying to get Babylon Bee demonetized. If someone shoots your hat off you don't say "silly person, you're not supposed to shoot people" that person was aiming for your head! It wasn't a silly mistake!
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@cjthebeesknees Homie if the US has to dip into the M60 reserve the nukes already dropped
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Cyberpunk genre: makes predictions based on current trends with a heavy dose of pessimism/cynicism People when those trends stay on course: 😮
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@andy5478-MTB I know it's a relatively recent word in the lexicon but the spelling is agreed upon to be "simping". You mean the people who got a free Capitol tour and didn't know what to do once inside? Yeah, that's such a threat to democracy. It's not like the "democratically" elected leaders aren't known for subverting democracy overseas and staging coups against democratically elected leaders that don't align with US interests.
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@antoniohagopian213 Not all breakdowns happen in combat.
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Garand thumb: makes serious reviews Also Garand thumb: saves Ron Jeremy from child Hitler/Macaulay Culkin.
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Mialisus people don't get caught with machineguns through surveillance unless they're selling, you know how common 3d printed "wall hangers" are nowadays? Most likely people get caught trying to shoot them in public land within earshot of someone who'll call the cops.
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Imagine Dragons: "Write that down! Write that down!"
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Exeunt Omnes - Alphabetzgruppen Political Prisoner This is ridiculous. When was the last time you've been inside a prison?
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Having children and raising them right is unironically how this stops. Most people won't.
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Richard Martinez this is riddiculous. People have the right to put what they want on their bodies. But no right to kill others.
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"He was the best guy around" "what about the murders?" "WHAAAT MURDERSSSS?"
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 @sapphicdisaster8390 Do you know how many people were dying in the Pacific theater for every day that Japan did not surrender? Just asking to know if you know.
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@elturtlegotti3288 so if you come up to African immigrants and start calling them "slaves" that's fine?
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"YOU FUCKED UP MY FACE" gunshot
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@MrLolguy93 snaps fingers in a Z motion
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@mickeyg7219 laser technology will always be hampered by battery technology. Unless you're flying with a nuclear reactor on board, you can't put a laser on an airplane able to destroy other planes from long range and still take off, that's why it's being tested as missile defense and not as a primary weapon. Can't beat the atmosphere scattering/absorption of the laser beam.
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@angelsjoker8190 bro this story has been retold a billion times, the Pride purchase was a complete scam. Pride collapsed due to the journalism exposes and the company was gutted. After the purchase the UFC realized they had only purchased the event footage, empty offices and a few contracts. They got the rights to Pride but the Japanese told them that if they tried to revive the brand they'd keep writing more exposes to bury the brand for good. What was the purchase for? Dana asked himself the same.
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@Silver_Prussian Bringing a RPO Shmel to a hostage situation is still mental. It's equivalent to the quad rocket launcher Arnie used in the movie Commando. If the US had done that, you'd be the first to cry about it.
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@cinnamon-skateboarding5987 Not all cryptos work like Bitcoin. Monero for example has your transactions recorded on the ledger, but the information on the ledger doesn't indentify the wallet.
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@andy5478-MTB What spin? It's something called "truth" and you should let go of the lies you learned in civics class.
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Could be an IR flashlight, I'm still at the start of the video so it's ambiguous.
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 @ayushman1590 now try that again but with proper English
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"PDF File" was a joke going around a decade ago back when I was in college. Now that people are saying stuff like "kermit sewer slide" to keep down the naughty word count it went mainstream.
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Rogan gained a massive following by covering a wide range of generalist topics like history, anthropology, politics, astronomy, pharmacology, comedy and combat sports. Rogan's work has become more predictable but he did not read superchats and watch youtube while eating for over a decade to earn his viewers.
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 @goingbingo This is just a fatalistic view. If we find a cause and really pin it down, we can fix it.
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 @gygispavo "goddamn it not on my day off!" - some Ukrainian anon
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@Antiteshmis They were running out of missiles which was why they scaled back missile attacks and replaced them by S-300s and Shaheds. They are running out of armor which is why you see MT-LBs, BMP-1s and T-55s. The Russian economy is so bad, men actually join the war knowing that getting killed will save their family from poverty. A Russian man is worth more to his family dead than providing for them through employment. That's how bad it's going.
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So that's what the diarrhea gif is for.
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@rexmcstiller4675 *6mm Caseless
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Talk about being in bed with the CIA.
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Prigozhin and Seagal open the hatch and climb down the stairs into the dimly lit submarine. Lukashenko is standing at the command post. "Gentlemen. I'm assembling a team." ROLL CREDITS
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The barrel making technology is unironically simpler than the Ghost Gunner. Also, remember that Cody's battle cry years ago was "we're going to make them ban the internet". They love making new laws? With each new law they piss off more people who had nothing to do with guns because the laws have to progressively go after non-gun items.
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Hard to do a naval war in the continent and a land war in the ocean.
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"if you walk around with a shaved head, big beard, and no mustache in a traditionally Muslim region of Russia, you won’t last 15 minutes until the local Muslim cops take you into questioning" - That's literally all the Dagestani MMA guys lol they are the local heroes in those regions, and perhaps they're part of the police force too
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 @shupamos7773 cameras without cellphones attached to them existed.
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@rigelb9025 The wages are offset by the benefits.
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"Remember: no disassembly"
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Imagine being born deaf and finally getting hearing aids then realizing that farts made noise.
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 @mangalamsingh8909 "only America matters" and imagine America with no allies or global trade.
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@horn410 Stalin being loved in Russia is precisely part of the problem.
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The Netherlands is where the machines that make the silicon die wafers are manuactured. Even though you get computer chips from China and Taiwan the machines that make them are highly complex and it's more efficient to just buy the machine than trying to design your own.
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Tyler Witkin supposedly played SQ42 start to finish in 2016. Don't ask what happened to that finished build of the game (that nobody ever saw).
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Luke told me she was from another school so we don't know her.
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Good call. I'll take the MP7.
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@Mike_Dubayou My condolences for your notifications for the next few days. Godspeed, king.
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Funnily enough I learned the same from House MD. In one episode they figured out the issues a male patient had were caused by low test so they put him on TRT. At the end he asks House to stop the treatment because the personality changes will end his marriage, and House starts listing off all the issues he'll have for the rest of his life if he doesn't bring his test levels back to normal.
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@Dagreat12d The FDA is taking 55 years to release the data, I'm waiting those 55 years.
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@bobman929 You're not protecting anyone by taking it. In fact you're just suppressing symptoms which means you can be contagious and not know it.
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@user-vs6oe8fl3m did you just fucking say Stalinism is democratic?
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 @GeneTickles Nice cope. During the Wagner march to Moscow the troll farms were in standby as they had no narrative ready, and the internet became surprisingly pleasant for a day or two.
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It's the render of a redesign with horizontal tail. The actual X-32 with just delta wing was ugly.
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"One lost Abrams is a tragedy. A hundred lost T-72s is a statistic." - Josef Stalin
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It's just how long it takes to upload on his rural internet connection.
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Didn't that already happen and everything went smoother than expected?
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Yes, but the critical issue is that 300MJ had to be put into the laser generator to get that 2 MJ, which is why people are saying it's zero point something percent efficiency. However it's a lab setting, I heard the laser could be 40% efficient if set up for power generation rather than lab experiments.
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@dkkuhn87 That's not true. Air superiority was achieved in both Desert Storm and Serbia, but air defenses remained active. The definition of air superiority is being able to conduct operations without prohibitive interference by opposing air forces. Defenses are ground forces.
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@2x2is22 "how is one of the motives that could be behind JFK's assassination related to a video about the possibility of interested parties removing unwanted politicians from power?"
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The often repeated hypothesis is that China pressured them to do it after the Olympic games.
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Man of Steal 😭😭😭😭
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 @milosdenkovic1984 You can't unbomb Belgrade.
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@MCWordicus the problem is that if you go with a 6.8 limited to the dimensions of an AR-15 magwell, it sucks. You'll gain a little ammo weight and greater recoil impulse for no benefit at all. The trajectory is worse, the bullet being slower (because it's heavier) makes it less capable against armor and less likely to tumble (the US military spent a pretty penny making sure M855A1 tumbles). If you want a hunting AR in a state that doesn't allow 5.56 then 6.8 is great. If you're in a military trying to shoot at people 5.56 is better than 6.8 constrained to the AR magwell. You need to change the weapon and give the caliber a longer casing to make sure it goes fast.
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@ffwast Unfortunately this is a "I heard on the internet" story but it looked legitimate at the time, but in the late 2000s I heard of a case in Sweden where a woman who carried pepper spray illegally (required a license I think) actually got a sentence 1-2 months more than a gang member caught with a submachine gun. He argued that as a drug dealer his job put his life in danger. I don't even know how I'd look up that headline in Swedish so take it with a grain of salt.
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@jacoblee9455 "Anymore excuses for criminals committing murder and then dying for it ?" you wrote this right after writing this: "his wife was shot in the head through a door. I doubt they were using infrared scopes." The feds who took the shot are criminals. You are accountable for every bullet that leaves the barrel and incompetence or lack of equipment is not excuse for a homicide.
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Now the EU needs to tell their own countries to quit their antics.
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 @JmKrokY "matar" is killing in Portugese and "mate" is the present tense third person.
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There's no point to that. Operating a dozen F-35s will cause the operational costs to rise, while also dealing with the added logistical tail of having to field dissimilar aircraft.
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@Fusi_lier Blackwater drove around in trucks. Wagner had artillery, aircraft, tanks, etc which could only be obtained by being part of the military. Wagner training ranges are located inside Russian military bases.
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He wasn't even meant to stay in Russia, his passport was revoked and he got stuck there.
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aaronsdavis They kinda did. The cameras generate a sort of topographical map of what they see in the living room and one guy playing around with the system noticed that he could see the bump of his package on the kinetic footage. However """journalists""" wrote headlines about Kinetic seeing through clothing.
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To be honest, almost all technologies get banned from F1.
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The wings contract with Boeing cost 2 billion. It's not cheap to keep such an old aircraft airborne.
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@titaniumvulpes vacuum tube electronics are EMP resistant to a point, so it wasn't as much as a big deal as it is today
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@redleather420 Approved by people who get jobs at the company that makes the products they approve. Really makes you think.
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@icemanzw Russia is using most of their combat troops. You're forgetting a lot of their military is actually internal security. They exist to beat up protesters with nightsticks, not engage in actual combat.
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@Zephyrs009 most gun violence is comitted with handguns, not assault weapons. Also, the same reduction happened in other countries. It's more likely that the 90s crime reduction was due to economic factors and the removal of lead from products.
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I can easily afford a 8 dollar meal, doesn't mean I'm going to throw it on the ground.
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 @DinoNucci a girl's name
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 @noah5291 Yeah you're all "skeptical". Funny how you never apply skepticism to Russia's claims.
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"The Armenians were maaaaaaad..." - Cenk Uyghur
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You don't see smoke on missiles. Missiles leave a smoke trail when launched, and depending on the size the motor burns from 8 seconds to maybe half a minute. The rockets that fire for several minutes are meant for space flight. They remain unpowered and trade velocity for altitude. Once they reach the apex, they start diving down. This leaves no trail. One of the reasons V2 bombs were feared more than V1s was because V1s were essentially cruise missiles and the pulse jet engine buzzed so people knew they were coming. The V2s fell straight down from the sky at supersonic speeds, without warning.
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My favorite is the cutest girl ever being asked if she would drop the atomic bomb and she says "Yes" and when asked why she's like "just because :3"
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@_Epsilon_ NATO was created against the Soviet Union (they refused to hand over territories occupied after WW2). NATO has cooperated with Russia in many instances (even as recently as 2011 with joint exercises).
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Never forget when reddit lost to 4chan's /v/ in tribes ascend despite reddit having an internal tournament to pick their roster while 4chan simply had randoms show up.
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@2x2is22 Sooooooo you're perfectly willing to admit that JFK was a roadblock to some people, but mention his opposition to Israel's nukes and suddenly you start telling people to pipe down? Huh. You do realize that the "nothing to see here, folks" routine actually makes people more suspicious, right?
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@npc_yakub the TSA also misses 95% of the guns and bombs smuggled by "red teams" testing the security. So what?
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So you're complaining about someone writing "I want you to fuck my wife" on a hookup app? That's exactly what it was designed for. And the cabinet thing was purposefully nonsensical. Look, I don't even know what's the standard for "courtship" anymore, but being funny at least makes one stand out in a sea of fish and someone is bound to appreciate it. You have no sense of humour and a weird definition of "wrong", we get it. Just uninstall the app if you truly believe that the things you're being sent are wrong, nobody is forcing you to stay.
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You'll need them to kill off the German company and become a sole US company. Also, military weapons designed in Germany will still be stuck there due to patent issues.
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@PSC4.1 You don't arm the population with new production, but stockpiles. And it seems half the Russian stockpiles either didn't exist or got sold.
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Edgy atheists are anoying. Puritans and fundamentalists are annoying.
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Jan 6th was just security testing of the Capitol building.
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@andy5478-MTB "no election fraud that changed the outcome of the election" - Again, just LIE. Here you are essentially admitting that there was fraud, it just didn't change the outcome. If there was fraud... how can you know it didn't change the outcome? Yes, I do hate democracy because it's the tyranny of the mob. You got sold a false idea of "democracy" that simply means putting the power in the hands of the biggest crooks in the nation. Here's why you're delusional: you think there's only one fraudster in the entire country. I know every. single. one. of them is a crook.
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You do realize that tanks can be moved by civilian trailers, right? Military hardware uses civilian railroads and bridges. A civilian Antonov transport brought F-16 airframe from the US to Ukraine. The attack was carried out by drones. The civilian vehicles were used to carry the hardware into position, but did NOT take part in the attack.
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Taking iPhones to airsoft fields makes up 95% of the "admin pouches" market.
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Yes. There's reasons why countries could not want to do it (interest rates, when the debt needs to be paid, etc) but if mutually beneficial it's possible.
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 @Nevertheless1457 It's not an excuse you absolute weapon. It's a statement that we are the ones pushing over the edge those who will harm us.
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@botondkolumban8399 It's a joke. Whenever something is adopted by a military, it becomes "milspec". There absolutely no meaning behind "milspec" other than it meets military specification.
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@xiaogangdasha Because improvements in human rights are better for businesses. Being involved in countries that just make up bogus crimes to get rid of people or seize property without just cause can negate billions in investment.
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It's all photoshopped pics of JD Vance
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@jumpergamer1913 Doesn't matter if it's recycled. Microplastics in the environment are messing with the human endocrine system.
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@snffz3492 he was calling people neckbeards
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You shotgun charges at people so that even if for some technicality you can't nail someone on a murder charge, you still get then behind bars for disposing of the corpse.
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Because the movie was written for Maverick to steal a F-14 Tomcat - only Iran has them. Why would the US have a strike mission out of nowhere? Nuclear enrichment is basically the only situation serious enough to warrant military response. Why couldn't it be done by long range cruise missile and avoid risking pilots? Facility built into a mountain. So even though the geography was fudged to have snowy mountains near the coastline, the nameless country had to be Iran and the target a bunker that can't just be targeted by missile so that Maverick has to do it the old fashioned way. And nuclear proliferation is the only thing that brings military action to the table without trying diplomacy, sanctions, etc first.
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People making wild claims probably haven't read up on the case. Shotgunning charges at people and then picking the one that sticks best is incredibly common.
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He understood the meme. The point is that aquaman is the only feasible buyer once the house is underwater. Ben understood that - he pointed out that between now and aquaman buying the house there could be multiple owners of that house who'd be able to use it for a few decades and negotiate a lower price.
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 @sergeikhripun If you steal a car do you find reasonable to ask for gas refills from the owner?
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To be fair, you don't know when the picture was taken - the media uses old photos of people. Especially before the days everyone posted recent pictures on facebook.
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@Geroskop It's not a war crime to use a new insignia the enemy doesn't use.
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Mail your DIY projects to people you don't like.
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@terryarmbruster9719 the group was literally called "the young turks"
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Running doesn't help, though. In a fight you are using anaerobic metabolism which breaks down glucose and forms lactic acid (fatigues the muscle and causes you to "gas out"). You can have the cardio of a marathon runner and gas out simply because you requested more energy than the mitochondria can provide via aerobic metabolism. At most, the aerobic training via running helps recover after you depleted energy by bringing oxygen to the cells, but you need to train the anaerobic metabolism to deal with lactate, glycogen, Ca2+ ions, reactive species of oxygen and nitrogen, etc.
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 @iwrotethis1678 Hitler kept invading countries and convinced other powers that he would stop invading.
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@harrym9655 "We need the vaccines, the vaccines have saved millions of lives" - Right now they're being proven to not work and people are taking boosters to increase the effectiveness. Grow up.
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@MrSlashStudios the number of different CPUs is too bloated
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For historical context, the legend says that in the Iberian peninsula a province lead by a warlord called Viriato could not be taken by Roman soldiers, so the Romans bribed two trusted men to assassinate him. When those men came to the Romans to collect the bounty they replied that Rome does not reward traitors. This is both a patriotic tale and a cautionary tale in Portugal.
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@user-lv6rn9cf8m imagine the police refusing to investigate murder or home invasions for fear of pissing off criminals...
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@user-rt2sm5ny5r Pilots account for the Earth's curvature in several situations. For example they follow great circle flight paths because the distance across two points on the same latitude is shorter away from the Equator. So rather than fly parallel to the Equator, along latitude lines, they curve towards the Poles to save time and fuel. In the DCS flight sim the map is flat to simplify development. However the grid lines for coordinates are curved. That is because if you lay places that exist in a real world in a flat plane the real life coordinates no longer match up.
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@DroneStrike1776 If your enemy has airspace dominance, you're fugged anyway.
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Luke Bruce by that logic the USSR, Cuba, Yugoslavia, DPRK, etc were all capitalist. Even an oven, a sewing machine or a plot of land are means of production. Markets exist everywhere, even if grey or black.
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@remcodenouden5019 But the Russians took the AK system and appropriately scaled it to its new intended purpose. Trying to shove different roles into the AR system doesn't work that well and in many cases requires abandoning the Stoner system.
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 @davidfl4 gotta justify that budget increase for next year
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 @SSD_Penumbra "This is true, I knew a Yakuza member who ran an orphanage" "But wasn't he doing that for a tax scam?" "Of course he was, but by all accounts he ran a decent place"
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@DeadpoolX9 "that's your own people doing that to you do you not see that?" - 1. So you admit you were lying when you said white people had it good, right? 2. Who's at fault does not change the fact that white people did not have it good like you claimed. 3. You do not even want to bring up the ""did it to themselves" argument because a lot of slaves were enslaved by other Africans. Is slavery invalidated because Africans captured people from enemy tribes and sold them off at markets? I'm sitting here fully aware of the evils of colonialism but the concept that whites never had any adversity is complete bullshit.
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@mikebarry6970 And you want freedoms to be trampled. You call tyranny "public health". Because it's all about your anti-human goals. See how easy that was?
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That guy's life was like a white guy was trying to write a black character in a racist book.
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How does Mark Whalberg fit into all of this?
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@DV8 *** The long distance thing ticks me off precisely because the big issue with 5.56 was the failures to stop in Somalia where the fighting occurred at street distances. Where if you tag someone and they don't immediately go down, they might still get a shot on you. Someone is 500 yards away? I don't care if the 5.56 FMJ is acting like a .22 WMR at that point, I don't think someone with a .22 lodged in their body is going to have an easy time aiming those 500 yard shots at me.
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@leoli8819 Not the point. A high pressure, high stress environment where one mostly learns how to take tests is terrible at producing well rounded individuals. When you hire a new graduate, the intent is that the previous generation will pass down the knowledge before they hit retirement age and it gets lost. The social skills, the ability to think outside the box, etc are just as valuable as tests, but kids don't "cram" for that.
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During peacetime we switched to "efficient" manufacturing. That means expending the least amount of resources to get better margins, because the govt contracts are too small to make a profit on volume. We were all running on the smallest possible amount of trained personnel, machines, raw materials in inventory, etc. What happens when you try to increase production rates? You don't have the people to cover the shifts. You'll run out of the correct alloy of steel within a few days and your supplier won't deliver a batch until 2 months. Then when the shells are made, someone needs to melt the explosive and cast it inside the shell. Turns out, in peacetime there's only one factory that can do that. So we'll have to make the investment that needs decades to pay off, for a war that won't last a decade. There's some hubhub about ultrasonic explosives casting. Maybe if we reinvent the wheel we won't have to invest that much money.
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They put an ad for a German speaking actor and all the responses were frontmen for Rammstein cover bands, please understand.
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Then why do they advance? Ukraine's "rigid focus" is to use positions as shredders until they become untennable. Russia's insistence on advancing requires attrition. If they actually wanted attrition warfare they'd roll back and let Ukrainians advance.
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It was 99.9% the mines. The Ka-52 needed the mines to pin the armored columns in place, otherwise they'd have closed in the distance.
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"hurr durr you need to be trained and licensed to be a responsible gun owner" looks down the barrel "you had good instructors" fuck off
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No because then you couldn't make the heavy handed "nazi" implication about people who aren't nazis. Alt-right is the perfect catch-all term to describe anyone who isn't left wing but not a neocon either with a dirty word, that doesn't make you sound like you're paranoid calling everyone nazis, but you're still implying they are as bad as nazis/nazi enablers.
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@mirmarq429 "Why bother trying to hide?" - That was exactly what was said back when the first privacy-breaching technology was introduced. And the second one. And the third one. Now, we're probably down to a hundred, or even a thousand, I can't even imagine how to count - and we should have by now realized we should have stopped asking this question because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. We shouldn't be living in a world where it's pointless to hide precisely because we asked "why bother hiding" too many times. It's not me who has to justify why I want privacy. It should be the governments and corporations justifying why I need to hand it over.
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@ianloree2784 That doesn't too much good because no matter how much data comes out, mainstream media and big tech can continue to "fact check" politicians campaigning on that platform and turn enough of public opinion against them to keep the battle lines where they are. Unfortunately people will stick to their guns no matter how irrational it is, even if they could benefit with a conversation with the other side. But they can't even have a conversation because words don't even have meaning anymore, people can't even agree on basic facts even if they're living in the same reality. You try to expose your ideas and the person on the other side hears something completely different.
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Did Patrick talk about the time he staged an Ukrainian attack with a dead body he put inside a car that got shot full of holes? We know he used a dead body because the skull had a straight cut in the skull from an autopsy. He also hung out with the Australian hat war criminal who used a boxcutter to castrate a Ukrainian POW.
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That's ridiculous. Putting a fence in your backyard is cheaper than paying the costs to raise your neighbour's child.
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And there's more side effects than just myocarditis. No matter which way we slice it, this was always a shoddy product backed by shoddy science and if everyone was honest we'd only use it as a tool of desperation in the demographics actually prone to death.
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The USMC actually passed their audit. Salute our crayon eaters.
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And it was called "surfing the web" because you were figuratively riding the wave. Nowadays? It's not surfing, just scrolling.
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 @finkover988 You'd pay for a replacement even if there was no war. Otherwise Australia would still be using FALs and flying like F-86 Sabres or something.
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 @hypergon-5627 He's not useful in any way.
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@hharlington7156 Working for Boeing as an engineer isn't "science". As an engineering student myself, we're trained to apply science. Not to be scientists. Nothing wrong with putting a lab coat on and doing a show for children but he was told to keep the costume on and continue serving as a mouthpiece. At one point he overstepped his bounds.
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@debravalreyes2033 first one to be buttmad about it, though.
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I played a cs_ map and the hostages all had models of my family and they had hyper-realistic blood coming out of their eyes.
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"Highly manueverable" while hypersonic means having a turn radius the size of a state.
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"Your Honor, my client pleads to only doing a little trolling. We move to dismiss all charges."
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*Russia laughes in the distance as more and more of their territory becomes habitable and suitable for farming
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 @wallythewondercorncake8657 Pretty sure international law allows for a civilian ship to flee armed men.
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@actually5004 I hope you're getting paid because if you post this nonsense for free I pity you.
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And the 3:1 offensive advantage is localized. It doesn't matter if there's a million men in the frontline, if I pick a section with 10,000 enemies and I send 30,000 I am respecting the rule of thumb even though I may have less manpower in total.
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NATO will ask to join Ukraine.
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@brandonlewis2599 but you don't tie anything like an address or credit card info to the DNA you shed.
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@vortolex But it's not "precious". First, the scrounging for materiél is a greater indictment of European divestment of the military than anything else. Second, most of that equipment existed to fight the Soviet Union/Russia. What's so precious about something that's going to lose its value if Russia loses? Withholding aid will not end the war. It will prolong it and cause morr Ukrainian losses. Sending aid will actually even save Russian lives, because losing the war sooner will spare them from combat.
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@Mohammed-yr9uy and engineer will design you whatever nonsense project you want as long as he gets paid. Engineering ethics are concerned with not designing projects which are unsafe. Otherwise they will take your money. One subway station changed architect during construction and one of my engineering professors was involved. New architect wanteda skylight in an underground station. Fine. The project costs increased as the roof had to be reinforced. The engineers did the redesign, even if it was an idiotic decision.
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Quantum computing made them non-binary xD
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😤 only watch porn through military-grade 256 bit encryption
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@dougn2350 Yeah, you did. The costs of this sham are all going to get deducted from your paycheck.
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 @2x2is22 ok boomer
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It was before. Playtesters were uncomfortable with the mission and one refused to play it. Games journalists also said the option to skip undermined the dev's justification for making that level.
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@nicholaswhite7351 Nobody is banned from speaking any language in this case either.
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@mitri5389 The data doesn't support what you say, in fact it supports what I said. The USAF only started to try to retire the A-10 when it was meant to be retired, in the 1990s. The reason the A-10 is barely used is because it makes up a very small portion of the fleet, each deployment overseas doesn't actually involve that many aircraft staying in country. They're old aircraft that need spare parts that are difficult to obtain and expensive to contract out if you have new ones made. It takes up resources necessary to maintain more modern aircraft.
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@ForOne814 if red dots are just for under 100 yards why did the US issue Aimpoint CCOs?
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+Jerry Loh that's called complacency. Imagine a student uses it, doesn't confirm it's cleared, and leaves it on the table as if it was cleared. Vice reported points it at his cameraman "don't do that!" "but it's not lo-" BANG It's really easy to lose your life to freak accidents. Don't make it easier. People have died because of guns that were "unloaded".
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Warning shots are not always "legal" in every jurisdiction. Or, to better clarify my position, you don't pull out a gun or fire unless the situation absolutely requires it. Or else you get in more trouble than it's worth.
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Instead of the Ghost of Kiev, they have the Smoker of Crimea.
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Colbert's face when the people cheered at the "wrong" time was one of the most amazing things ever transmitted on TV.
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The UN should immediately send the Blue Helmet Polar bears to deal with the situation. (Sorry for ruining the joke but penguins are not native to the arctic, they exist on the Southern Hemisphere and Galapagos islands exclusively, with polar bears not being natural predators as they are from the arctic)
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Malewife Grindset
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@locybapsi174 There is no similarity with Kosovo. Serbs were comitting genocide and got bombed until they accepted a peace deal and international peacekeepers. Then years later Kosovo declared independence. Another big difference is that Kosovars are an ethnic group, the so-called republics in Ukraine were not started by a true ethnic movement but by Russian nationals with no connection to the land like Igor Girkin (FSB agent).
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"I turn now. Good luck everyone else."
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That's not irony it's simply the adsense working.
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@kevinmcfarlane2752 J&J and Astrozeneca have also been flagged for transverse myelitis. Plus there's the anaphylatic shock. They admit a lot of side effects in the fine print. They just don't care.
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In many countries they essentially made policy that any doctor saying anything against the spike will be investigated by the governing medical association. They won't necessarily investigate everyone or revoke licenses, but most doctors aren't willing to risk it.
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When it's just cheaper to let the burglar walk away.
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Which was kind of the thematic point of the original Modern Warfare. You don't know why the SAS boarded that ship or why you shot sailors during their sleep (until you find a shipping manifest that contextualizes the mission). You don't know anything about Al-Assad or the people he executed in the introduction of the game. You're just playing as extraordinary people who are used as chess pieces and have no moral agency but will sacrifice themselves to save the world and nobody will even know about it (the events are covered up). Then when MW became personal and Price had monologues that made him sound like he thought of himself as divine justice incarnate the story went off the rails.
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@LambdaTF2 At the same time, an AI will be able to tell if an image was natural or generated by AI.
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@k3nny111 When something is "free", you are the product.
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"All the other kids with the pumped up kicks..."
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@VektorEpsilon Different websites. But you are correct, the CWCforums was the origin of the name. Parkourdude91 was a lolcow who turned out to be faking his antics as a troll (he was a writer for Sam Hyde's Million Dollar Extreme) and he constantly said "quickie forums" and "kiwi forums".
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"it's political when you're wearing a swastika and it means the same whatever the language" boi it's literally the symbol everyone knows to have other meanings in Buddhism/Hinduism/whatever, wrong choice of words there
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I didn't feel acceptance until I was already a man!
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And the scene as originally scripted was actually worse.
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@GreenBlueWalkthrough This goes beyond datalink. No, it wouldn't lose to a first gen. Dogfighting in a F-16 doesn't work like it did in a F-4 and in a F-4 it didn't work like it did in a F-86. Dogfighting with a F-35 is obviously different.
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Google started off with support from the Pentagon and CIA.
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British Kitchen Nightmares: "You should clean up more often, seems your waiter actually knows how to cook so get a new waiter and have him help in the kitchen, also get your finances in order" American Kitchen Nightmares: "GOD F**ING DAMMIT IT'S RAAAAWWWW WHY THE F** IS YOUR HEAD CHEF AN ACTUAL RAT?"
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 @NatszymOg Name a military action by Ukraine against Russia prior to Feburary 2022.
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I don't mind that a recipe database is monetized, the issue is that we went from static banner ads to collecting every single bit of personal information, a video starts playing automatically, etc
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Extremely based to reject the public option and go for the private sector.
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5 inches in height or....?
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Considering that the NRA has been backing an ATF re-designation of bumpfire stocks as machine guns and the red flag laws/fix NICS, creating a NVGA would be like handing the governmental regulatory wrath to the whims of the Jack Thompsons, Anita Sarkeesians and gamejournos soyboys of the country.
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Almost all Russian companies do that. Escape from Tarkov is developed by Russians but "headquartered" in London. Gaijin Entertainment also has offices outside Russia and Atomic Heart was developed by Russians with a shell company in Cyprus.
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@kg4boj "It gives the states the right to arm a well regulated militia" - a well balanced breakfast being necessary for the start of a healthy day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed. It's pretty cut an dry. Who has the right to food? The people or the breakfast?
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They said that about the T-62. Then used them in assaults.
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@lykos89 "You want to go to a different state with your friend's gun" - He worked in that city, he lived 20 minutes away from the state line. He "went to that state" in the same sense that he does that every day. "with your friend's gun to kill people" - He didn't go there to kill people. He spent the day helping the clean up.
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150 million dollar settlements to anyone who gets side effects. If it's safe, they have nothing to worry about. If the companies don't agree on those conditions, then it's not safe.
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Notice two copy pasted comments inthis thread. Dude we know the Taliban do it too.
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@dkkuhn87 They didn't destroy all SAMs, they targeted early warning radars and command posts first, because F-117s did not have RWRs to detect SAM emissions. That's how one F-117 was shot down in Serbia, because the pilot didn't know he was being locked. The rest of the SAM network was attacked by Wild Weasel aircraft, and Iraqis started then shutting down radars and using AAA to prevent being targeted by HARMs. And again, that's not air superiority because air superiority is just the degrading of enemy air power to the point you can fly freely without enemy fighters. You still have the ground threat.
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@darkdaysahead01 benyjose1 already corrected you but I'm just dogpiling.
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@theoutlawking9123 Without hollow points, you're gonna need the 50 rounds.
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Google became the Bing from the memes back in like 2016.
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Contact rear
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 @billmoretz8718 Most military equipment gas some degree of EMP shielding.
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@ActionableFreedom America isn't attacking.
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@newonevery740 Okay, if stories don't satisfy you we have high res combat footage of an "unarmed" Russian pulling the pin on a grenade while surrendering to a Ukrainian soldier. It's not just a story. We have cold hard evidence of such things happening.
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It's okay they already used the civilian customer as beta tester so they've done design revisions.
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@WingWheeledHussars If words matter then let's go back and check everything every politician said.
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Thanks, youtube algorithm!
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It's important to remember that the "shock therapy" was disregarded as many Soviet-era apparatchiks just said "Soviet money printer goes BRRRRT" and went against the monetary policy which lead to massive inflation. Then Yeltsin's "loans for shares" controversy sold off Russia's industry for pennies on the dollar. Shock therapy is the scapegoat.
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This was announced in 2015-2016 for MIL sales. The logic being that you'd get a compromise 5.56 weapon that would not require keeping both long 5.56 and short 9mm weapons on hand, just 5.56 all around.
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@ameyas7726 First of all, it was used in battle so you're wrong. It was used overseas. Second, it served the role of national defense. Plenty of countries buy fighters and never get into wars. They did their job.
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@lalremruata_chongmang it's sometimes talked about in history or science shows. Mythbusters had a pykrete episode.
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@andyb6400 "What is he supposed to do?" - Maybe stop receiving chat donations because he's pretty much set for life? That would be a start. "Either give all his money away" - He doesn't have to. What about instead of giving money away, he actually starts building something to further his goals? He could start a business, not use any tax loopholes, pay his fair share, give his employees benefits and not exploit them. If his theories are correct, he'd actually make money! "or completely stop criticizing society" - He doesn't have to stop criticizing society. But he has to recognize that society made him rich by sitting in front of a computer. He gets money from people who probably have to work hard. How is he any better than a boss? "Itd be a drop in a pond" - Even if you argue that in terms of total it would be small change, still doesn't change the fact that he has the opportunity many didn't have. Instead of taking it, he sits on a chair and rakes in cash. Additionally, even if you ate the rich by straight up taking all the wealth from the 400 richest people in the US and took the revenue of American Fortune 500 companies, you'd still not have enough money to run the US federal budget for an entire year. So even if Bezos donated all his wealth it would be a drop in the bucket. The excuse that works for Hasan works for everyone else. "So he uses his platform and uses his 1st amendment right to try and influence policy change" - He could influence policy change by doing instead of talking. Ever heard be the change you want to see in the world? Or if he can't do it, he can hire someone with the skills. Also, he can try to influence policy change for free. There's so many activists who lived very humble lives because they were dedicated to the cause rather than the money. I don't think there's anything wrong with enjoying life, but it seems to me Hasan is more of an enjoyer than someone willing to create the change. Good for him. Seems like he could be a little more grateful. "It would have to be policy enforced by the government" - I'm sorry but this is just authoritarian fantasy. So Hasan will give his money away when it's the government using the threat of force? Easy to be charitable after getting a strongly worded letter from the IRS saying that if they have to come back next time they'll bring cops. "If he "lead by example" no one would follow" - If his theories were correct, he could become the best business owner ever. All Americans would want to buy from his business, and every worker would want to work at his establishments. Other companies would be FORCED to adopt the same policies as him to stay in business. That is, if his theories worked.
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Wrong. Khinzal crash in September 2022 proves that's the warhead.
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Cope.
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Who's asking for that?
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@josefkun7466 it's not in their plan, until documents are declassified 50 years later saying it was actually planned but they simply covered it up because they have the right to hide things due to "national security".
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There's pictures from the 2010s of American vehicles covered with anime stickers on the inside during GWOT deployments.
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The commander of the battery himself said the modifications were minimal in interviews. Turning off radars isn't a away to increase effectiveness against stealth, it's to throw off HARMs. Which doesn't work anymore, because HARMs now save the last known position of the radar in their internal memory.
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@univeropa3363 In short, Russia brutalized Chechnya twice, and then realized all they had to do was pay off some guy to be the prince.
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@basemanawakens6089 The failure of strategic goals is irrelevant to the topic. American air power worked well. Nobody's dancing around any facts except you - trying to claim air power doesn't work.
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@xsu-is7vq Wrong. Russian losses would still be tremendous because initial Ukrainian tactics are superficially similar to Finnish tactics. Let the heavy units roll through. Massacre the non combat troops. The drivers and supply guys face the onslaught, while heavy units suddendly find themselves deep in enemy territory with no reliable fuel supply. Russia had already suffered catastrophic levels of casualties prior to the aid kicking in.
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They absolutely are. Did you forget the British citizens killed by a botched assassination attempt?
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The US military is researching mixing biofuels into fossil fuel so they can stretch their reserves. There's a Harrier attack jet that flew on a research fuel which was 50:50 biofuel and fossil fuel.
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Koreanium Finnish Empire rises again and Fino-Korean Hyperwar occurs
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"If I shoot that mask, will you die?" "It would be extremely painful."
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Sounds like something that nested itself in your inner ear after you went swimming in Bali.
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You're thinking of the "such wow" meme that is beyond dead, the modern doge is not dead at all.
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@Andrew-th8jk All the people willing to kill are willing to break little rules, so you don't lower the "bad" uses. Either way, how many bump stocks were turned it?
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@jackcloud4728 look at minefields, why do you think they're effective? Because it forces an entire force to mind their own steps. It slows down an enemy. If you're going to commit forces to check every bush the conventional army is gonna just roll through and complete all their objectives while everyone is busy looking at the floor. The guys might not even be there. Let's be real, you can't just have a force committed to chasing spooks that might not even be there. Why leave security of camp/base with pre-established fields of fire and potentially walk into ambushes? The fact is that whenever you have a large concentration of forces you're gonna be watched one way or another. You will have your own people scouting ahead. The two opposing sides will have some sort of intelligence about each other. Making too much of an effort to hunt down people who won't fire at you is a waste. Let them watch and report. Hell, maybe feint the enemy by concentrating forces away from your objective so that they report what you want to be reported. Deception. There's no point in blacking out their activities because intelligence gathering and recon patrols are pretty basic military theory, most low-level training infantry manuals that are declassified talk about it, you can find the information in a book at your local library, all nations know it and it's been used for more than a thousand years.
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@WallStreetMaster Gary "Bake that cake" Johnson.
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@basemanawakens6089 You're either being two-faced about this, or you fundamentally cannot understand language. You criticized American air power. I said it worked fine. Because it did, often the ground forces simply sat back and called in air support because of how effective it was. Air support prevents a lot of casualties. So yes, all in all air power worked. The outcomes in Afghanistan are more to do with politics than the military. Trying to pretend that the Taliban valiantly defeated US troops while the Air Force watched is nonsense. The Taliban defeated a corrupt, barely functioning state that was kept afloat by the US. This has nothing to do with air power.
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@javierfrancia1938 Cope.
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The USAF brought back the Bronco to provide support for SOCOM for a year, but retired it again due to the cost of maintaining ageing aircraft.
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Should have read the comment until the end before starting.
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@BruceL33Roy "don't worry about the source" lol claims made without evidence will be dismissed without evidence. The reason I asked you for the source was because there's a source being spread around with the same narrative that conveniently ignored some attacks and even took apolitical attacks and portrayed them as right wing. I wanted to see if your source was doing things like putting a cutoff date right after 9/11 or something.
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"Full blown Christian state without foreigners" they have a strong Muslim minority and invited immigrants from central Asia to join the Russian army as a fast track to Russian citizenship lol
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This piqued my interest because I was under the impression that China had cracked down on airsoft since the late 2000s. So did he play overseas and keeps the gear at home? Did he spend hundreds on replica gear just for a video?
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1:50 and 3:03 Daaaaaaaaaaaamn...
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@kreshar You can see that his handle bar was struck by her arm on the right side. The steering was physically moved out of alignment.
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@Lt.Dan_23 When the cost to change the wings for the entire fleet is greater than just getting replacements, it's time to send them to the boneyard.
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 @davidkottman3440 if you have to give the "good" (PR) answer, your actual answer is too sus to say out loud
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"how to make a virus" opens notepad
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 @teyrncousland Compare living standards in the Baltics with living standards in the so-called LPR and DPR.
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The humble RPG does not make me think of the T-72 as any tougher after reading that.
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@nickrad6966 the villagers in sandals beat the Soviets too
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 @Scorch1028 A choke locked in for 5 minutes is insane isometric strenght. He may have held the position, but not locked it.
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@PhrozenFox "I already know all my devices record everything I say" - it was the apathy that ushered in the concept in the first place
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@Hans "The people will back the government like always in the American history." - you mean like in the Revolutionary war? bahahaha what a story, Hans.
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@TransistorBased The training wasn't terrible, the training was adequate for the 737 versions. And in fact Boeing concealed the fact that the MCAS system prevented pitch-up due to the structural changes made. After the first crash Boeing still did not come clean and tried to fix the issue in secret. The second crash happened because Boeing lied.
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@jont2576 but what Washington Post says doesn't correspond with reality. So Ukraine with non-functioning weapons managed to attrit the Russian army so hard they're now riding motorcycles and welding corrugated metal to broken tanks?
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ReasonTV also made videos exposing those organizations. Foot in your mouth, man. This is about evils of the government, not pointing fingers at other countries.
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@WALTERBROADDUS What peace? Russia doubled down and gambled their entire future on this war. If they strike a peace deal, they lose everything. It's a sunk cost fallacy situation, if they give up they are still a sanctioned nation with a degraded army. Meanwhile Ukraine knows what Russian "peace" entails. Executions and gulags. It's easy for you to say "peace" when it's not you who will be frogmarched into basements.
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@nemanja162 They showed the tail section, look up M39 ATACMS test video. The rocket spins and deploys the payload by breaking the nose apart, the tail section crashes on the ground. Meanwhile we have drone footage of a S-400 being destroyed in Crimea a month or so ago, and Russian milblogger confirmation that S-400s were hit in the other week. But keep telling yourself it never happened.
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"I want more driving cars because I want to drive my motorbike" is legitimately the funniest reason I heard for wanting it. It's not a bad reason, it's just funny.
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In Ukraine, Soledar means "salt gift" and Vuhledar "coal gift". Mining towns named after the product.
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@poodlescone9700 funny how the votes started jumping for Biden everyone said it was because his voters stayed home and mailed in the ballots, but now they're in the streets as if there was no pandemic. Lmao anyone with half a brain can tell we're being played.
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@treybrandon4737 "she didnt have the knife towards the officer" - Worse, she was stabbing someone else. The cop was saving someone's life, not even his own.
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Correction. Two attempts was doctrine. Then the radar had to be shut down and relocated. They knew there was no SEAD in the air so they broke doctrine and attempted a third lock.
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@djwaffle The WNBA just draws less viewers and sponsors. Countries like Russia have a "prestige" and money laundering opportunity so they don't focus so much on profitability. A female league sponsored by local governments and oligarchs can recruit top players, offer much higher salaries, then just have those teams collect trophies. They make the main money off oil and gas so the sports thing is a side hustle they can afford to lose money on or use betting to launder money. A similar thing was seen in Chinese soccer, where western players would compete in China for a few years for the paycheck. And now you see the Middle East getting in on the action.
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@frikghorgan PETA used to get celebrities to do ads, get small flash games developed, etc for their campaigns. You only need law enforcement powers to make arrests, everything else is kind of fair game.
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@praiseallah5591 Let's say he is innocent. He still told people he did it. He might not be a criminal, but he told people crime is cool.
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The US was using air mobility a lot in Afghanistan. Neither Russia or Ukraine are. Completely different cases, as the US was using helicopters as battle taxis. If Russia was using helicopters like that, they'd have no more in inventory.
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A PMC lead by a convict who happened to use a catering business to grift off government rubles, who was Russia's lifeline to avoid official Army casualties, who had to cry and beg for ammunition the real army needed elsewhere, and needed VDV assistance anyway, managed to get wiped out and send the "chef" back to Africa to protect gold mines and warlords. The Ukrainians used TDF and National Guard and plenty of rotations while training 11 offensive brigades. The fall of Bakhmut was reported probably 10 times already. Including the "legally captured" claim by Prigozhin like two months ago or whatever. Ever heard of the boy who cried wolf? Bakhmut has been captured too many times for people to care.
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"Did you know Stalin was from Georgia? That's right, your hero of the proletariat was actually a confederate!" - Turning Point CSA
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"We're not evil, just incompetent"
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 @OneHunnitNoCapStannitOnBidnisz "sole" would mean "only" in this case. "Soul intention" would be a worst case Ontario type of situation. A real doggy dog world.
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Gun crime went up in the UK after the bans. New Zealand proves that what happened in Australia was not due to the gun bans, in fact the gun-related crime was falling since the late 60's and several developed countries had a decrease in violence during the 90's that you're not accounting for. The terrorists in France bought AK's off a guy on the internet. I will always worry that some fucker bought guns just as easy as one buys illegal drugs. So let us have the chance to stop the bad guys rather than disarming everyone and giving them victims on a silver platter.
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Well one dude called "Q-Anon Shaman" was wearing animal fur over his head.
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If they covered it they would blame guns, claim that white NRA terrorists "train" their kids and is Islamic faith all that bad when Christians do the same? The Crusades, dude.
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They need barrier troops for their own barrier troops.
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All I'm asking is for me to have 25 minutes in the octagon, no referee, with everyone involved. All ticket sales will go towards animal rescue.
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I fucking hate when I accidentally swipe too hard back to the top and the page starts refreshing on something like the youtube home page.
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@oc3694 "Insurgents don't use helicopters and shit" - Yeah, but you do realize that many times the boots on the ground were essentially stuck waiting for helicopters to deal with the insurgents, right?
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The MP7 found niche real uses while the P90 is a "cool guy" gun from a bygone era.
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@frozzytango9927 Fertile land by itself produces stuff that isn't tasty. Even fruits were developed by human hand by mixing different individual plants, and today we plant offspring of the plants we liked. You ever saw a fully natural banana? They're loaded with black seeds. Way harder to eat.
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@DefinitelyNotEmma There's often unofficial names. The Thunderbolt II is the Warthog. The Super Hornet is the Rhino. The Strike Eagle is the Mudhen.
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The TacomaKid yeah man it becomes PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to slip your foot off a pedal if you have a father
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 @thf1933 Go to the beach. Turn the sand into computer chips. Just because you have natural resources, doesn't mean you have the final product.
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"Hi, we're out here on Reddit today so bear with the midwits in the background"
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 @Fusi_lier Those 3000 people aren't the same as 10 years ago.
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@gratius1394 Yeah, there's no "peacetime" army, this is the army. Adding conscripts to the mix would do wonders for the numbers, but would they have to run across fields? They'd need tanks and armored vehicles to advance.
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@bangerxshane How does holding up innocent people secure the rights of others? There's also no such thing as the right to feel safe, someone with a phobia of flying will never feel safe in an airplane until that fear is addressed. The right to feel safe is a nonsensical proposition when people can be unreasonable and illogical about their feelings and fears. Does someone afraid of terrorism have the right to demand middle eastern looking men to be kicked out of the flight?
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@taaaaaaaazzzzzz "Based" comes from Lil B Based God. Being based is achieving the state where you have your own opinions instead of folding to public pressure.
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You see, because the media painted everything "conservative" and non-republican as "alt-right", and then started using the term to refer to the minority of neo-nazis and white supremacists. Now ancaps, minarchists, libertarians, etc are also neo-nazis by association.
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@godessworshipper4663 lmao so you're admitting politics is the problem because religion had to take over politics to stay in control
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@viktorceder4985 who gives a shit if it's a democracy? Since when is the US responsible for babying democracies? The US was just fine with being friends with dictators through the 20th century.
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Pre-2005 Mercedes, though. Taxi drivers did not feel like paying to get newer ones registered because Mercedes maintenance became a hassle pas the mid 2000s. Nowadays Dacia is taking over.
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@disco7379 the ol' jab-straight combo
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@mappingshaman5280 America was not deployed to Ukraine nor were nukes stationed there.
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People are making mandrels out of wood/3d printing them with notches for copper wire, to use in a process called electrochemical machining. Basically you leave salt water running through the barrel, the mandrel covers the surface you want to leave intact and the metal in proximity to copper wire is corroded away. Since the mandrel is notched with helical patterns the barrel comes out rifled.
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@Conraf No, it's because nothing's optimized anymore.
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Tom Johnston from London Oblast parroting the latest gaffe by politicians as fact.
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 @morlov4076 The Bradley crews say they would be KIA if they rode BMPs.
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@andrewscott8892 both Rumsfeld and McCain wanted the F-22 program shut down.
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@ProdByPrivateJoker It's an incredible paralel. Germany kept invading countries like Russia. The allied nations didn't want to anger Germany so they allowed it. Like Russia was allowed to invade Transnistria, Crimea, Georgia, etc. Poland triggered a major conflict because it was the last straw. Ukraine was the last straw.
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 @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 so it's not a NAP violation to go around causing miscarriages?
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 @riddhirahman He's wrong. Khinzal was slapped out of the sky.
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Not to mention that the issue of inequality isn't present because men in magazines are also photoshopped and many times used steroids to have those physiques.
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@treeblinn "They started growing shit to feed their own people instead of exporting a commodity" - I know this is hard to conceptualize but if you export a commodity, you can import food.
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Directed by M. Night Shayamalan
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@frozendude707 I hate the future
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They say aircraft were old and not in use (despite being loaded with fuel and missiles) and also it's a land war so aircraft don't matter.
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@lykos89 "Arson is bad. Looting/stealing is bad. Murder is worse." - Murder is a premeditated unjustifiable homicide. You can't "premeditate" someone attacking you, and self-defense is a justifiable homicide. Arson is bad. Stealing is bad. Self-defense? Not a crime. "He went to Kenosha looking for trouble." - No, he went there to help clean up the damage and provide some first aid which is why you see him with the blue latex gloves. "He wanted to kill people. He is a piece of shit." - You see, you can't prove that. I'm going to throw you a bone. Even if Kyle wanted to kill people, then he did it in a way where you can't prove he did anything wrong. Now, I don't even think he wanted to kill people, because he spent the day helping around and things only became violent when the opposing side went after him. But even if you were right, you can't prove it and you can't put someone in prison over a gut feeling.
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@somemone4226 That's how it went in Europe too. Close, open, close, open, close and open back up. Look, no offense, but looking at China doesn't mean much. You can't trust their numbers. Who's to say they didn't simply stop reporting? With most people being asymptomatic, and most cases being minor, they can sweep the deaths under the rug and hide a small bump in mortality for the year. I don't understand this trend of people saying we need to look at China. I am vehemently opposed to the way they do things and people insisting how they're doing great things only makes me more inclined to reject their policies.
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@vexilongrum8319 No, his theories called on many to fight against the west. If you watch secretly recorded videos of wagner mercenaries they just repeat Dugin's ideas
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 @PunishedRalph Who was a writer for Million Dollar Extreme and even appeared in one skit.
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@J. C. the joke flew over your head
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The Kherson offensive was hyped a lot more.
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@alexyoungberg5232 I had it and went to work. I thought my back pain was just me having slept wrong the previous night, turns out it was a fever so my body ached. Fun fact, my brother took the shot - he was sicker than me and for a longer period. What's your excuse now?
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 @AnythingForSouls ArmA 3 had a ballistics system in like 2013. Nowadays script kiddies in Unity can make a ballistics system.
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Literally the story in the lyrics for "World War Three" by Dos Gringos.
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"Thomas had never seen such bullshit before"
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The military created secure access rooms where you leave electronics outside. This is seen in shows like SEAL Team, there's shelves for cellphones outside the briefing room.
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@srankoutcast348 "doing something constructive" - almost nobody does that and that's a fact. Vaulting over concrete blocks ain't constructive either.
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@eKko0 Arresting someone for not wearing a mask is immoral and an act of aggression. Resisting that arrest is covered under self-defense. The aggressor then used armed force against his victim for the purpose of compliance. Here's your correct statement.
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@lithium25693 I couldn't give a rat's ass about tech companies being liberal, Google and Facebook are willing to destroy the world for profit and they need to be stopped. Using other search engines cannot stop them. These corporations are always trying to track you and record you and you defend them because you think they're political allies.
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@ryanjudy2119 lmao yeah let's wait for 400 to 500 million guns to wear out...
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The issues are: 1. All it takes is for the first hack or malfunction to result in a cop getting shot, and the magdumping on the perp will return as if the smart gun thing never happened. 2. The problem is that forcing bad solutions will lead to no solution being used at all (such as millions of dumb guns being treated as smart guns, actually reducing safety in total).
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@MegaAshfire Well, the Azeris were invaded in the 90s. This is more like Ukraine trying to retake Crimea a decade after losing it. It's not really an invasion when there's international recognition that you own the place.
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I'm 99% sure it was a joke on tumblr first and the video was made expanding on the joke.
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 @howardjohnson9239 if the Yen was trading 90 for a USD and jumped to 155 that would be a massive crisis. The ruble was what, 66-70 before the war?
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Oh you care about Ukraine? Name three of their albums.
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@Lynne Hughes "your problem is that we all saw Trump supporters attack the Capitol building" - And we all saw the country burning for months on end. "your hilarious revisionist history of “they got a free tour of the Capitol and just didn’t know what to do once inside!” is just laughably pathetic" - It's not revisionist history. You can watch the videos recorded at the time.
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@guitarexpert2245 He's explaining how business should work? No business is entitled to a profit, they have to WORK to get your money. The whole point of specialization is that it's more effective for me to pay others to do stuff I don't want to do or can't do, while I focus on what I do best. If businesses aren't benefitting me, I don't pay them.
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 @SquaresToOvals Pretty sure back in the 40s people didn't say nice things about the victims in Germany.
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@sophiet-union Boy what a can of worms your decided to open by bringing up "things that actually matter". You sure you want to start the checklist of things citizens should not be permitted to do because it's directing energy towards things that don't matter? Do you want energy rationing?
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@TheRealPingu the cycle threshold for the PCR testing was straight up lowered Jan 20 to reduce false positives. We had almost a year of manufactured data, and we reacted with manufactured responses that turned out to be unscientific. It's not about what's real. It's about what we perceive as real.
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And the Vatican is letting a lot of things slide these days...
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 @2ndexplosivebullet 170000 gasoline car fires probably includes 80s and 90s cars with worse safety features. Most Teslas are less than a decade old.
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@jerrycanne6981 did they carry them on the pants belt or the hat belt?
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@ogretime IP over carrier pigeon.
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@scottydu81 And John Money.
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 @cruise_missile8387 500 meters of landmiles when most landmine clearing is set up for 100-120 meters. The Russian army didn't stop Ukraine. Mines did.
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@gregd5138 It doesn't prevent you from getting it. Hey, I got those and I never got asked for proof to enter a business or keep a job. Keep listening to the people who created this situation by saying there was no proof of contagion, no proof it was airborne, etc.
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They could get it to work reliably. The problem is that like everything else in CA it's completely mismanaged.
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At some point they made radios that wouldn't tune into the station, but it was possible to hack it.
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@33greenleaf dude dogs can't understand uniforms if they see an unknown person invading their family's home they will try to protect it. How the fuck do you control your dog when you're being handcuffed or during a no knock raid?
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 @sirex9244 lmao straight for the as hominem
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Which is why he wants guarantees Russia won't invade. If Ukraine lays down their arms who will save them when Russia refuses to lay down theirs?
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 @donnamarie3617 Answered above. Nkw you answer this riddle: I needed a surgery during the pandemic, why did I have to get tested for the virus before the surgery if they're all masked?
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@Bezz80 a public utility doesn't mean you don't pay for it. Do you not get your water or gas consumption metered?
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nvidia be like: "some of you are alright. don't download our driver updates tomorrow"
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@lxix5968 So skip the game?
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@riskinhos You can't really pull Ace Combat maneuvers when carrying weapons on pylons.
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BO2 was great. But it shouldn't hold the series back.
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I had to look it up, when he was born it belonged to the Russian Empire. So he was Russian-American rather than Ukranian-American.
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Jack, that's perfect. Have the enemy waste their time checking every bush in the country.
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Because the US pledged to. Next question.
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I always heard busting a gut for laughing.
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Plot twist: Borat is foreign intelligence.
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@arunravi4866 Copium, Russia lost Kherson forever.
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@joescannoli7660 Trimming is more convinient, especially since I do torso and legs too. I just gotta look presentable in thai shorts, no need for a close shave.
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@nickrad6966 Soviets also lost Afghanistan.
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 @Porter9992 This has to be bait. The entire dystopian aspect of being used like cattle?
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@brecibros2469 Okay, and? AAA and MANPADS are still a threat. Air superiority is when you can perform operations relatively free from opposing air forces. Air superiority has NOTHING to do with the ground threats. SAMs do not conflict with air superiority. The US achieved air superiority in both Desert Storm and Serbia, but SAM threat was always present. Taking out the SAMs doesn't achieve air superiority, taking out enemy fighters does. Also, SAM crews wise up and turn their radars off so that they can avoid being taken out. The Serb defensive crews used tactics to stay alive through the conflict.
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Okay, you make more chemicals, they get cheaper, you make less profit. Oil goes from liquid gold to just another resource like iron or aluminum.
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@Quickandslick Iraq violated the terms of the 1991 ceasefire. Afghanistan unironically triggered Article 5 of NATO. Libya was an intervention asked for by the Arab League, and voted yes by the UN.
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@TheGospelofKenneth the defnition of incel was created by a woman to refer to herself in her blog. She created "invcel" but readers suggested "incel" sounds better. The literal first incel in the world was a WOMAN.
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@Eckster The issue isn't having a serialized item, it's the fact that serialized items can have their purchase limited. If I can just buy it I don't care if it has a serial, the problem is when they tell me I can't buy it. Or that all the purchases are monitored (they already are with credit cards but that's another topic).
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@gattonero2915 "as we speak 25% of their HIMARS are now decimated" - Why, because they showed off that video of them missing four rectangular objects in a parking lot and then cutting to a green pasture and smoking rising from out of the bushes?
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I won't judge for piracy but bro saying you watch the illegal streams for fighters' rights is like saying you shoplift to increase minimum wage.
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Go to wikipedia, Australian gun control, go to the section called "research". They have sources for multiple studies from the university of Melbourne, British Journal of Criminology, etc etc etc pointing out that the Australian gun control did nothing because gun deaths were already decreasing and the rate did not change. Even the studies that suggest an effect often admit that they can't verify the true relationship because of many factors involved.
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 @Porter9992 Bot behavior
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Air support doesn't solve the minefield problem.
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@Cypher84X dix out for him
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Adam Sandler doesn't necessarily fit into "trash cinema" because they blow a huge budget on big stars delivering cliche dialogue in a mainstream movie with bottom of the barrel jokes and an artificial/cheap emotionally charged final act. It's pretty much a by-the-numbers, written by committee, check-the-boxes, artificially manufactured big studio shlock. Ironic enjoyment of shlock isn't necessarily the same as "trash cinema".
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Aka Guam? And even Hawaii makes money off Japanese tourists with gun ranges despite the laws being stricter than in the rest of the US.
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VPN ads: "Allow us to introduce ourselves"
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Just staff Jezebel with everyone from Honey Badger Radio and sit back.
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But Putin, historian extraordinaire, said Poland started it.
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Air defenses in Crimea have been put to the test.
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Because most of the contents are actually not that interesting and most of the information was public already.
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But PMCs have access to more limited means. People who served as PMCs were not ready for Ukraine at all. Standing guard and dodging IEDs isn't the same as artillery barrages and surprise ballistic missile attacks.
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Mind that a lot of the "oldschool" tankies are very illiberal. I wouldn't call them socially conservative, but they do call a lot of stuff like LGBT a "bourgeois distraction". Also, Russia talks out of the both sides of their mouth. They like to court the right wing in the West but their message is different in other places. Russia Today ran pro-trans stories in Latin America while doing the opposite in the English version.
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 @kevinvanhorn2193 Water, Fire, Air and Earth Effing magnets, how do they work?
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I didn't know ball trimmers were a thing until they started being advertised. So it's not even insecurity most if the time, it's that by branding themselves as For Men products and advertising themselves they get to be seen before the neutral looking products do. And that way they become the "default" even though others may have come first.
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@twolessba1087 It's not a dogwhistle. You people see a buzzword and start immediately misusing it. A dogwhistle is something that will skate by unnoticed by most people except those in the know. Like whistles meant for dogs use a frequency that is heard by dogs but not humans. This is just an off color joke delivered through subtext. Subtext is MEANT to be understood by the audience. The offensive joke: the West are the reincarnation of the Nahtzees. The subtext: rather than directly calling the West evil, it uses the WELL KNOWN connection between fashion brand Hugo Boss and Nahtzees.
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@dmwalker24 the virus can continue and mutate because the shot doesn't prevent infection and transmission
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 @Tyrant_13 Right. But ever since Eisenhower made the speech about the military industrial complex, the military industry actually shrank by an order of magnitude.
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The more you exaggerate Ukrainian losses the worse the Russian army looks for being unable to beat such a degraded force.
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 @Hogwild9erguy Incapable? No. Low chance of success? You betcha.
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Not everyone. Some pilots complained the gun required the use of a smaller radar and negatively affected handling characteristics due to the extra weight up front.
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You mean... "Collusion"???
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@justinwatson1510 Iraq had WMDs, just in an unsafe state. Hundreds of US servicemen suffered neurological damage from coming in contact with nerve gas in those Iraqi artillery shells. I don't know what joining a M-L organization would do, so nursing would stop being necessary and everyone could draw? For whom?
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@simonpriest4345 That's like saying nobody can survive a burning building because they look all burn the day after. People getting a chance to flee before the stuff burns for hours is better than getting instagibbed in a BMP.
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He said he's been unfriended/blocked without explanation by B&B even before the allegations exploded.
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@chimp_gaming. "relatively short 14.5" barrel which means it is less accurate than the SA80" - Barrel profile and optics selection will affect accuracy more than 14.5 vs 20 barrel length. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOysX0HQL8E "a number of militaries and special forces use bullpups despite the stigma around them" - And so far, two have dropped bullpups. France and New Zealand.
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James looks 56. You must live in the desert or something if you think that's what 34 year olds look like.
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@tm3156 Russia beat them all easily? Is that why the Kiev offensive failed, the Kharkiv offensive failed, the massive encirclement failed, etc?
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Most lvl 4 armor requires tungsten penetrators and the 6.8 is specifically designed to use a steel core to not deplete strategic reserves (most tungsten is imported from Chy-nah).
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@zelda1966 And some of them could have probably lived an extra year or two if they were treated with certain items that were demonized.
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 @AlexIlinet-o5u They're a hedge fund. That money is not "theirs" to lose. Those are people's pensions and life savings.
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 @rclaws3230 Wrong. Studios keep closing. The money is simply taken somewhere more profitable.
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reachforacreech sexually reproducing animals who didn't have urges had less sex, thus their lineage was erased from the gene pool. Basically, all the humans alive are only alive because their ancestors were horny. A trait useful for reproduction will thrive.
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@Lynne Hughes "your problem is “they got a free tour of the Capitol” is a lie" - Your problem is that you're siding with people who hate you, your way of life, and managed to turn a nothingburger into a new 9/11. "You should probably go back to civics class" - You can't even twist people's words right. Amazing, there's not enough juice in that processing unit to come up with an actual rebuttal.
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@kingghidorah8106 The Phantoms shot down were being ambushed in areas with very poor ground radar coverage, which allowed MiGs to cross the border and come from behind. Since these Phantoms were often escorting bombers, they were shot down in single passes at high speed. Phantoms in combat air patrols had a 5.5 to 1 kill rate. The USAF then started faking bombing runs with full Phantom flights that were prepared to counter ambush and that was a successful tactic. In the short period between the introduction of Teaball radar and intelligence station and the end of the air operations, the USAF kill ratio shot up. The USN kill ratio after TOPGUN was also 8.7 I believe.
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@impalagenesis178 Okay, the Baltics left the Soviet Union in 1991 and have developed trenendously in just 3 decades.
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@fab006 Okay, so if Canada invades Thailand, a British comedian can't do a tour in English in Singapore? Even if Russian-speaking fans were all for the invasion, wouldn't it be nice if he took their money and anonymously donated some to Ukraine?
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@johnburns4017 Landing a man in the moon is a great difference. To the point no other country has done the same since.
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The thing is, most won't remember these videos.
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1. Russia's stockpiles are actually depleting faster, and NATO countries are rearming. 2. The old petrodollar thing, how quaint. 3. You mean China? 4. And? 5. Buddy Russia isn't doing too hot and China has been cooking the GDP growth for decades. 6. The battle hardened army had to be replaced by inexperienced mobilized men.
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Nunya Bidness "legally possessed firearm to rob a bank and a security guard is chasing me ...can i shoot him and claim self defense?" - Kyle wasn't robbing a bank. You can't even argue about the scenario without making up your own alternative version of the facts. "Kyle Rittenhouse was committing both a STATE AND FEDERAL CRIME by possessing that firearm with not legally allowed to do so" - Bernie Goetz used an illegal firearm in self-defense in New York and he only served time for the illegal carry. He was found not guilty of the charges dealing with the homicide. "one could argue but for his illegal possession he would not have been rushed (by unarmed men mind you)" - If he was unarmed he would have been an even easier victim. You really think people pick on armed people more often than unarmed. Also, one of the men attacking him was armed with a Glock.
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+Eric Stamps a serial number isn't a GPS beacon. If you commit a string of murders with a serialized gun and then destroy the gun (or get rid of it in a way that it's never found) all the cops can do is confirm that all the murders were committed with the same gun (if the ballistic fingerprinting goes right, and it's honestly an unreliable science because even cleaning the bore will alter the striations put on the bullets, bullets often are recovered too mangled to compare, etc). If you throw it into a storm drain and cops find it 2 weeks later they will trace it to whoever purchased it from a FFL. The first owner might have reported it stolen, or he might have sold it legally in a private sale and stolen then, etc. so you end up not knowing who used it to kill people, who threw it out, etc. Recovering bullets from crime scenes won't give you the serial number of a gun. Even if you have the serial number of the gun it doesn't give you it's location or who owns it. Tracking guns doesn't work the way you think it does.
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@Optamizm that's such bullshit, since Roe V Wade how many malformed babies were delivered because it wasn't detected? Why is a bill being passed now? If it was such a big problem should have it become legal a long time ago? Funny, over time we get better and better technology but suddenly we can only tell if a baby is malformed post-birth...
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It was also estimated that the neutron emissions from the detonation could disable the nukes themselves.
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Devaluation is what people call inflation.
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@villain815 I pick the side that I believe is righteous. And it's not a safe side to pick at all. Mark doesn't inform himself about the subjects to even know what is right or wrong.
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@eds7343 the underlying issue is a mutated cell refusing to undergo programmed cell death. While the immune system destroys misbehsving cells some pass as normal and avoid detection. Cancer remission is literally the body recognizing the cells as diseased and gobbling them up.
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 @Cloxxki We need CO2. We don't need more than what we already have.
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@nishantpradhan7828 It's not about something being wrong. It's the Hitler was vegan argument. How many political movements around the world used "take X country back". Seems like something that would be used by multiple people, like Trump didn't invent Make America Great Again. Reagan used it. Clinton used it for himself and then later for his wife in 2008. Taking one's country back is a pretty generic phrase.
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And the MG3s (MG42s in modern service chambered for 7.62 NATO) were slowed down to 900 RPM if I remember correctly. 1200 RPM is just too fast lol.
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@Ermude10 "Just imagine applying the same "humane" treatment to humans and you quickly realise its absurdity." - Except it's not even absurd. We do treat people badly in "humane" ways and we won't stop anytime soon.
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The internet was the "next big thing" until two things happened: "growth" of platforms like Facebook stopped so they couldn't coast on numbers going up to seem valuable and the whole traffic generated by content farms was also a sham; the adpocalypse scared advertisers. Even "prestige" platforms like youtube were forced to take bottom of the barrel ads to make up for lost revenue.
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@dieu1403 they'd just waste all their resources "liberating" normal pets from normal homes and then euthanizing them because PETA insists on being the bad guy on almost every situation they get involved in.
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@AmineSamus 1. I'm not asking you to trust Ben Shapiro over doctors, I'm saying doctors aren't an authority on economics 2. Look I don't doubt doctors want to help people, and many volunteer for free etc, but if you had to ask them to lower their wages to the levels of some countries in Europe they'd flip a lid - and again if they wanted change they are the ones with the power to make healthcare cheaper. But it's just more comfortable living in the 1% and reaping the benefits of overpriced healthcare 3. I mean, all taxation forces you to work for free. Where I'm from, working for free is slavery. Feel free to debate that.
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Shootdowns of aircraft, nuke tests, assassinations of enemy generals: I sleep F-117 flying: R E A L S H I T?
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@556poor7 "The Israeli's are as good a friend the US could have." - didn't they steal uranium from the US and sell US missile technology to China?
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If Iran didn't want its consulate annex bombed, they shouldn't hold Quds force meetings there.
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@none3763 Uronically ships at port have been struck by Storm Shadow cruise missiles so air defense is to blame. Drone attacks in port are minimized with nets. You can watch the footage and these drones are striking ships at sea. You even have video showing the Russian sailors using machine guns and rifles for point-defense off the deck.
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+Toney's Reviews /facepalm pre-ordering is ruining gaming and it will ruin hardware if the market expects people to pay up front for something they know nothing about.
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@33greenleaf or they got the address wrong. And dude, they do no knock on credit fraud. A guy who killed a cop (and was found not guilty because self defense) on a no knock was originally being arrested for credit card fraud. Either way, ever heard of due process? Someone getting arrested doesn't mean guilty. Stop thinking like the military. My point was you can't claim people should control their dogs when they're fucking being arrested. How do you control your dog when handcuffed or being restrained by a couple of 200lb men?
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Purchase power parity means that their budget is equivalent to a third of the US DoD budget. The US spends more, but the US has to pay American workers, unreal upcharging due to regulations and the nature of business in the West.
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I gotta tell this one to my new neighbor Eugénio Prigozo. He's from Argentina and moved in recently.
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Mind that explosive charges and even waterjet charges are now more common and can be used to sever connections with precise timing. If you wanted to foil a FBI bomb squad nowadays you'd need a little more trickery.
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@Jacky138 the universe was actually created by Tom Clancy and we are just NPCs
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@damienholland8103 show me the numbers on long covid
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One man who defected to the South asked to go back.
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@fake12396 In Brazil? Most come from Brazil's own arms industry. In Mexico most can't be traced back as they lack the serials that are federally required in the US.
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+Nate Downes you can't change the rules of physics. If you develop countermeasures against stealth then out of a sudden detection range will improve massively against non-stealth aircraft. "To get a target for the AMRAAM to target onto, the plane needs to broadcast its location, loudly" the AMRAAM can be fired without a lock and never broadcast it's position until it goes pitbull. The launching aircraft just uses it's scan that can't be distinguished from background radiation to a RWR and update the position of the target without actually using semi-active homing.
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@GreedosGun They've shot down plenty of drones. Not to no avail. There's just more drones than effective counters. Which can change in the future.
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Younger generations have been defying their elders for thousands of years.
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"Mobilized eight or nine times" that's a purposeful misunderstanding. They set batches to be sent for training because you can't just train everyone at the same time. Remember the pictures of when Russia tried to mobilize "once"? There were men making tents out of cellophane or living in delapidated buildings because there was no capacity to train eveyone at the same time.
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 @StonerTHOTS So if the proxy is out of ammo, and the powerful countries are out of ammo, why isn't Russia achieving victory? Try answering the actual question in a way that makes sense.
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A 16 year old responsible enough to take care of the sibilings is a big ask considering the parenting quality they had.
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@underworldguardian704 B reporting names are for bombers. Fighters get F reporting names.
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Then Tommy broke the cage and he got it.
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@Cindy99765 Don't get a combat MOS. Being away from family is one of the downsides, but that's also true for a lot of high paying jobs like being out at sea or remote areas in oil rigs.
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 @blugaledoh2669 But the bodies were on the ground before Russians left. We have the CCtV footage of Russian troops moving the victims to the execution sites.
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They reduced the number of cycles on PCR tests January 20th, and in December 31st they will discontinue it and require lab results to confirm cases. This stuff will disappear and it will look like the shot worked.
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@2ndexplosivebullet How many cars sold in 2009? Did they sell 90% of their cars in 2009? No. So most Teslas on the road are modern 2010-present built. There's millions more ICE cars on the road, so they have more fires.
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@Mr___f Background checks and flagging is a FEDERAL obligation by all licensed gun stores. Your narrative that Texas, a state, is somehow different from the rest of the country in terms of background checks when there's a federal law just showcases how you argue based on "factoids" you heard somewhere rather than actually understand the issue.
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It's not BS. It is "technically" called an "implicit premise", I think.
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@KrunoslavStifter He lost the plot, how? You haven't pointed to a single flaw.
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Who would buy them at their age?
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@keiraaaaaaaaaaaaaa Makes perfect sense. Shooting someone is an unfortunate part of the job, and an investigation has to be done to verify if procedure was followed. Having sex on the clock is flat out neglecting one's duties.
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@redleather420 Multinational governments? You're joking, right? It's the biotech companies that did it.
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@KeekeOrb "My car is worth 15,000 dollars" "But you have 300k miles on it" "Okay I'll accept 5,000" See how it works? The house would be massively devalued, which means you could buy it for cheap and use it for 20 years. Maybe you could even live in it for 10 years, and then sell it for even cheaper to someone who only needs it for 10 years. You don't "lose" money on the purchase if the house is so cheap that you actually save money living in it for X amount of years conmpared to a rental. The last person doesn't have to hold the bag, just buy it for so cheap that he or she will get enough use out of it to justify the cost. "Not to mention that no insurance company would insure that house." - If the house is going to become unfeasible to live in in 20 years, get a contract to insure it for 15.
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 @majungasaurusaaaa Nobody else had to abide by any dress code.
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@rkuzdas Of course. A woman who chose to be a scammer rather than work a honest job would know a thing or two about avoiding rent.
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 @UENIG tate lied?
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@bibekgautam512 "But I certainly do listen to experts" - Which experts? Experts can have biases. Experts can be put under pressure. You mean you listened to a talking head on TV. But if you take the time to read the literature you'll see that cloth masks are only effective - about 60 percent - when made from multiple layers and multiple types of fabric to combine mechanical and electrostatic filtering, and nobody wears those because they're hot and restrict breathing. Surgical masks are disposable, and most people are reusing them. Surgical masks need to be replaced due to humidity, nobody's switching masks after wearing them for hours. Nobody's using masks like PPE, and incorrectly worn PPE gives the wearer a false sense of security. People are touching the masks. And most of all, the masks are meant to stop droplets when everyone's worrying about aerosol transmission. Any unsealed area will just allow aerosols to jet out of your mask. "And experts largely agree on the usefulness of the masks." - No, they don't. They told you they didn't work when this whole thing started. "And what you said about exhaling - that's such a slippery slope of an argument." - It's not a slippery slope. How is it a slippery slope when we've already seen people brutalized by state agents over masks? If you claim my breath is dangerous right now even though I am healthy, you have no moral standing to say your breath is no longer dangerous a year from now. There's no slippery slope, only consistency. Since we're criticizing fallacies, you might want to stop using arguments from authority and shut up about experts.
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@frostyguy1989 The reactor handled the geological violence just fine. Even the flooding would have been prevented with a higher sea wall.
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Ban assault-style cars and high capacity fuel tanks.
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@randomdude4110 The anarchist cookbook is ass. A lot of the stuff is either wrong at a fundamental level or is plain dangerous to follow. The archives of oldschool chemistry forums are OSHA compliant in comparison.
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Pizdets 😮
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@Markle2k but the F-8 was the last "intended" to use the gun as the primary armament, those fighters you mentioned use missiles as the primary weapon and the gun as a backup. So it is indeed called "the last gunfighter" in aviation circles.
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"In theory"
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Subbed to Hakim and Defense Politics Asia lmao fix your life broski
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Meh. America will keep the support.
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The USAF had the A-10 designed for them. They purchased 700 of them and the GAO actually criticized them for buying too many. The claim that the USAF hated the A-10 is a lie.
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Payload is limited on these drones.
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By losing pilots and airframes?
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@shannonkohl68 Step outside of jammer range and broadcast. If you need to get a message out you will. But don't make it easy for the enemy to know you're having trouble and what you're doing to mitigate.
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@danielelombardo8196 Using a nuke to reply to a conventional punitive strike is the biggest L.
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The thing is that they break deals because they know they can get away with it. In this case them breaking the deal just resumes the drone attacks so they won't get to avoid the consequences.
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It was 100% intended to affect Ukraine and Kazhakstan more than Russia.
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Two different aircraft means two different pipelines for pilots and mechanics. Unless your force is massive (like the US) it's incredibly expensive to run two dissimilar fighter aircraft. The problem with remote strips is that now you have to hire people to live in those remote areas. Your pilots, mechanics, etc will eventually want to settle down and have a family, which they can't do in the middle of nowhere. A remote strip isn't just a strip. There has to be fuel, weapons, parts, mechanics, security, etc manning that base otherwise you're only landing for emergencies.
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+tarstarkusz Katz would have the judge throw it out. It was so infuriating.
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MakeAGameWithMe But if there's love involved, you'll raise children with that person rather than hump and dump them. That increases the chances of survival of your genetic heritage.
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@ArtemKo___ the US aircraft also have bomb drop calculators, it's still unguided as it's still subject to bad drops, wind drift or the target moving away
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@bdhale34 the Geneva convention isn't relevant because they're not at war. The relevant stuff would be labor laws and how they intersect with a gameshow/challenge. You can't force a person to work 48 hours straight but you can pay someone to go through sleep deprivation for studies and whatnot.
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@yesbabelon Even if they explained the risks they'd be found liable. You can't put someone at risk as a condition to win the challenge. If I expain the danger it doesn't remove the liability if I challenge you to run through a hall of running chainsaws stuck to the floor and walls. Sleep deprivation is bad for your health and shouldn't have been part of the challenge.
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The S-400s that can't do squat about ATACMS? And got hit by a S-125 modified into a ballistic missile?
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 @joshuapaul2022 Can we see them? If they're downed easy, why did a drone fly into Crimea and film a S-400 getting hit?
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@ikercapi blame NATO for what? Offering a shield from Russian invasion?
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When I joined the internet it was pre-social media and I knew about RSS but never understood how to implement it. I'd like to know more about it too.
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 @grexseven4864 in 2011, NATO and Russia had joint training exercises.
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In a picture shown in 2022, the inside of UVZ had tanks still sitting around that were seen in 2019. Didn't move in 3 years. Same tarp over a tank and everything.
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@cluelessjoe5745 I'm not up to speed with Yang's statements on China, but you have to stop thinking that China thinks like the Americans do. They don't see a Chinese-American. They see an American. Again, I don't remember much of Yang's campaign for the democratic nomination so I could be missing something, but you can't think someone's ethnicity can "fool" them.
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That's not a honey pot. As the name implies the honey is something people you want to find want, so you purposefully leave a pot of honey so that those people come to you.
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 @rayhimmel7167 Several countries have both nukes and healthcare.
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There's no actual evidence that says 5G is any different from what we already use. It's non-ionizing radiation so there's no DNA breaks and the power output of the devices is limited so it will not heat up tissues.
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 @TheRheverend look up Actual Justice Warrior, he has several videos on the innocence project.
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@junaidisutara4577 But many aircraft can fire the AGM-65. The reason the cannon gave the A-10 extra life is because 30mm rounds have a much smaller danger close radius, you can hit enemies closer to your own friendlies than you could with a bomb.
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 @medz3398 like the protection China is offering Russia? Yes you may buy our motorcycles, but your Ruble is worthless - we want your gold reserves. Lmao. Winnie the Pooh has won that round.
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@slavicemperor8279 there's also a funny military anecdote about Britain's response to the Falklands invasion, there were mechanical computers doing the ballistic compensation for the big guns and when the ships cross the Equator they have to reverse it. They were in such a hurry they forgot to reverse the system so when they got to shoot at Argentinian positions all the shots were missing because the ballistics computer was tracking as if they were still in the Northern hemisphere.
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 @8492nd Apaches went in first into Iraq before SEAD/DEAD. Along with the F-117 they have the honor of meeting the enemy alone and unafraid before the air defence was degraded.
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 @magnusgreel275 No, they won against the ANA after the US left as part of the peace deal signed during the Trump administration.
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MiG-31s have to take long range potshots. Attack helicopters and Su-25s have to get within a few miles of the frontline. AMRAAM races R-37, but one has to travel 5 miles and the other 100. Which one reaches the target first?
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No dice. Russian sanctions still in effect and Russia might prefer to give them away as foreign aid.
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@Harshhaze yeah, you try and fill in the paperwork to get a captured AK into the US as a war trophy in the 21st century. As if the average CO is anything but a paternal autocrat who believes the peasants shouldn't be armed.
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sex workers being taxed = performing for free = rape Let's them the feminists to fight this battle for us, boys.
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Cope lmao
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"Sir, can you open up the trunk?" "Of course!" (cops don't know about my secret compartment)
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@SubwayLoyal In the first days of the war, rusted vehicles were visible. High temperature leads to iron increasing reactivity with oxygen, becoming iron oxide. Also known as rust.
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@gfriedman99 Oh millions of people lost their jobs, relationships got strained, but you got to ride on empty streets!
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@lol-dm8wx Have you read Harry Potter? Since we're talking about fairy tales.
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Not his quote, apparrently.
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All combat jet aircraft are expensive Ferraris.
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@AmineSamus just because doctors support it doesn't mean they are knowledgeable about the economic reasons why it's better/worse. Plus if most of American doctors support universal healthcare they are free to start their own chain of clinics across the country and negotiate with the states and federal government to provide care to everyone through a tax-paid system.
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I'm European, prefer metric, and don't understand these types of comments. Units are easily converted.
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@harrybriscoe7948 The problem isn't how cold it gets, it's how bad winter conditions are in a frontline. Russian troops suffered frostbite in Ukraine in the early days. Russia might be colder. But bad/missing winter gear doesn't protect you like your heated home and winter clothing in civilian life.
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Lmao this channel was called a Russian shill before the war. Cope.
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@keveinkevin4422 you're missing the point, semiconductor fabs are billion-dollar facilities that require centralization. Buying from ebay doesn't negate the fact that there's only like 3-4 RAM OEMs and everything else is rebranded.
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 @robertatkins9419 You're in Odessa too?
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Only relevant for the aerobic metabolism. Type II fibers used for fast twitch contractions (strikes, shooting takedowns) have lower density of blood vessels and mitochondria which means that even a person with thicker blood can't restore energy to Type II fibers within the 5 minutes of a round.
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@DesignzRUs1 1:21 she's got massive thighs and calves in the FMVs. You can't be anorexic and have a lower body like that.
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 @Erakius323 Because drunken riots and accidents would make the aid efforts harder.
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If I'm not mistaken one of the people who were involved in the Spotlight expose did say he kind of regretted how the entire focus was placed on the catholic church but there's so much abuse in other places (like schools) and nobody cares.
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@krispinwah2784 Even the first VHS release said "gallant people of Afghanistan". The image circulating with the Mujahideen dedication is a print screen taken right after the dedication disappears and before the credits roll, the horse riders are moving further away from the camera. Without text in the way, someone added the fake caption.
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Women have shoved guns up their snatch to smuggle them into prison, doesn't mean guns are addictive. It's a matter of how valuable something is when you can't get it.
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@damonnugent1993 The issue is that people like us should be having kids. With birthrates falling, we could easily outnumber the next generations if we raise them right. Unfortunately it might be late for many of us, or finances won't allow it.
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I'm sure the SWAT guys would appreciate the simping but they can't read.
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That lip smacking tho 💦
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 @sir_quirkus7206 So what's the point of being a lawyer if you can't even eat out 4 out of 60 meals? And how will waiting and kitchen staff make a living if people stop eating out? Think.
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Same way as we say "Europe" as a collective and only name countries when specific issues are the topic.
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@Theggman83 Not true. Since 2016 Ukraine had double digit civilian fatalities until 2022 - most due to LANDMINES AND UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE rather than direct bombing or shelling. The Russian invasion increased civilian casualties by a thousandfold.
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@efrainflores3902 There are no flu vaccine passports or the risk to be fired or expelled from university if you don't get it.
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I think it's funny that people say that migrants are moving for ideological reasons rather than desperation, while knowing that Californians moving out of state and voting for the same policies that drove them away in the first place is an issue.
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@alexander1902 He wasn't terminally ill. He had a congenital heart defect. Tons of people have them without knowing and live long lives because nothing triggered it.
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lol
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 @WAT906 so they killed 12 pilots in this stageplay?
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An Ukrainian government official showed his Kel Tec Sub 2000 on a TV interview. This conflict is a treasure trove because almost any weapon can be "clone correct".
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All mass shootings are disturbing but this one was surreal. It seemed something like a creative but waaaay too edgy scripwriter would have come up in the 90's or something. Remember that Jackie Chan movie where there was a group murdering cops and they used the scenarios to create violent videogames based on their actions? Same level of weirdness... but real.
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@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 The thing is that boomers on facebook are pretty much only using the tech as an outlet for their true selves. There's been changes, sure. The difference here is that we've reached a point people are being raised by tech. Their behavior isn't being impacted. It's being molded from an early age. Yes people complained about videogames, rap and metal music, D&D, TV, movies, music and I'm sure even more ridiculous things were blamed for the downfall of society. The difference was, we've reached a point technology is so advanced it can be boiled down and crafted to keep as many eyeballs on it for as long as possible.
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Brian Zhang I mean, yeah if you ignore the different bolt carrier design, gas system design, receiver, etc.
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Russia already invaded Georgia back in 2008.
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Bragging about mixed sons having dual alleigance is crazy work.
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Smart, now it's all inadmissible.
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The jamming can't affect the INS system. All it does is prevent the fine tuning updates to the missile's position, but it's still going to hit near the target.
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I think it is a good idea simply because of the results. 6 months of brutal war, nothing. Suggest taking away the fancy Europe vacations and all the Karens start screeching about it online. The amount of insanity it has provoked is the proof it's gonna work. When a kid needs to be grounded and the child says "take everything but my xbox!" you know that's the thing that will work.
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There was less gun crime in the UK before the bans.
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Western PMCs were like mall cops with guns. They never fought a war with tanks, artillery, etc.
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@treybrandon4737 I don't care if he was in harm's way or not. Someone else was. If you're stabbing me, I don't want the taser. I want the shot to be taken to save my life rather than let you keep stabbing me through the shock.
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@Graknorke A dam can support several times its mass equivalent in water. So the dam always wins when compared to using blocks.
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@topixfromthetropix1674 AN can explode on it's own.
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@elton7425 "cultural marxism is a trope to justify bigotry towards minorities" - amazing, so calling out commies for subverting institutions means you're a racist now
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Me and the boys bullying each other in the group chat
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@angrydoggy9170 Socialism and by extension communism is inherently totalitarian. You cannot enforce a socialist system without totalitarianism. Without it, people will just default to capitalism.
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@angrydoggy9170 Socialism quite literally excludes capitalism. A core principle of socialism is the erasure of profit and private ownership. It implies totalitarianism - because how do you enforce socialism otherwise? Social democracies are not socialist. Please stop repeating this nonsense. A social democracy is a centrist right-wing policy that's still pro-free market, pro-private ownership and pro-profits.
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"their profile pic is them tongue-kissing Joe Biden" underrated
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@lykos89 "No, he didn't have a right to be there." - Can you name this law that prohibited him from being there? "Just like anyone who came from outside the city to loot and commit property damage had no right to be there." - Disregarding the looting, can you actually name the law that said the protesters could not be there? "He wouldn't have been attacked had he not been there." - That's an awful lot like saying a woman asked for it. "Commit murder and get charged with murder" - You can't prove murder. You can't even prove reckless endangerment.
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The F-35 was never a F-22 replacement. Without the CALF program developing into the JSF, the F-22 program would have still been axed due to the GWOT.
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 @markseslstorytellerchannel3418 That's typically how economic cycles work. You nosedive for a while, then your recovery is "growth".
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@Brent-ln9bc False dichotomy. I don't want either.
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@kelkil79 not gonna lie but the left isn't in the wrong here, king.
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I will not live in the pod! I will not eat the bugs! I will not pick up that can!
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@ricefarmer8553 "never pointed it on Arbery as seen on the video" - You can hear the first shot being fired before Arbery initiates the physical confrontation.
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 @filthyweeb3912 limo driver went a hundred times... because he was hired to drive. Get the jist?
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 @u2beuser714 Not that easy. SHORAD is the last line of defense, if it fails you just let the attack slip through. Air defense needs to be layered.
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@internetnobody6754 There is if you just build it as a cult. Hey man you're not gonna need your wordly posessions ahahah we don't need private property dude, just give it all to me... I mean the "community" ahahah
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Taking ground costs a lot of lives. The Western way of war is making it impossible to fight. We'll just force you to show gestures of good will.
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Russia resorted to S-300s and Iranian drones to keep up the attacks. If I say you will run out of fuel, and then you start asking restaurants for used frying oil to make biodiesel at home, I was still right in my prediction. You just made the same prediction as I have, and adjusted accordingly by seeking an alternate source of fuel.
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 @Sceptre1-1 How is it copium? We knew from day one that instead of defense in depth Russia was throwing reserves at the grey zone.
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@julianpetkov8320 NATO did not invade Iraq. It did not operate in Syria. It only entered Afghanistan as part of the peacekeeping mission 2003-2014. NATO only managed the no fly zone over Libya after the UN resolution by request of the Arab League - blame them. And in Somalia NATO only conducted anti-piracy operations. You're in a drug induced stupor, because you're blaming NATO for things they didn't do.
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In Blade 3 his first scene shows him with a "Hello, My Name Is" sticker on his vest and you can see that instead of a name he wrote "F*ck you" or whatever.
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@Tkcb2799 The AK charging handle is centered on the rifle while the SCAR one is shifted forward. Putting it on the other side may actually be worse because you used to have a slick side and now there's a snag point.
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@timesthree5757 I disagree, because the "farmer's daughter" is also an archetype and it fulfills that role. I'm European and despite no cultural ties to an idea of "frontier"/"homesteading" I think the toyboy appreciation comes from disillusionment with adulthood and a yearning for the simplicity of our early lives. And back then girls would have their own groups separate from boys, tomboys being the only ones to cross the divide and play with us. The tomboy is an internal desire for someone to enter our lives and remove all the complications and baggage of relationships.
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McCarthy was railroaded. People to this day blame McCarthy for going after communists in Hollywood in a silly crusade when he was trying to uproot infiltrators in government.
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@nathanwilliams3877 Battlefield trophies like that are technically prohibited. I don't think most people are cool with that. That wasn't a battlefield. It was their own citizens.
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@williammaurice7206 it was not to cut costs. Graphite is necessary to act as a neutron moderator. Graphite is the throttle and boron is the brake. You can't drive a car with just the brake.
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Someone get SCP on the phone to come get the medallion, ffs
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@AEGISDEFENSE "he bought a factory" And how much have you seen of it? Out if the top of my head he had AK parts and the means to assemble them. He also got AR parts in the deal and sold them off. It wasn't a "factory" in the same way it wasn't an AR factory.
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 @AlexanderJohnLee that's not cognitive dissonance
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Apaches have the Longbow radar on the mast which means they can get a rough picture of enemy force concentration while hiding behind terrain and buildinds. If you've seen those "disco-ball but rectangular" things, red/purple in color, bolted to helicopters those are counter measures meant to confuse the seeker. Basically expect losses, but not enough to degrade air power.
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@il400 Sure. But the point is that it puts things in perspective. It's more tangible to think it costs 100 gallons to move a mile, rather than 0.01 miles per gallon.
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@SnorriTheLlama Yeah they switched it up. They started using S300s on surface to surface mode and Shaheds. They had something like 10,000 S300 tubes in storage so although accuracy is low and the warhead is made to hit aircraft with fragmentation it still depletes interceptors and does damage on the receiving end.
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 @GeneralGiffel the militias are gone, since 2023 they're staffed by Russian mobilized troops. By late 2022 Murz had reported the DPR and LPR were scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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 @stevet5785 Nice change of subject. Were you told what the Serbs did to the Croat Serbs?
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Nah it's a legit technique. Cults and stuff use it. The problem is that people have learned words pike "gaslighting" and "lovebombing" and use them recklessly.
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@GameGod77 Easy. It laid the conditions for games to be penalized by the games media, and official review scores are often used by publishers as the metric for certain bonuses. For example Obsidian was only given 18 months to make FO New Vegas and they'd get extra money if the metacritic average was 85. They got an 84. If games media has a political bias it creates a perverse incentive for devs to try and do things for the benefit of reviewers even though it does not benefit the customers. If even a single point is the difference between getting a bonus or not getting it... It affects rational decisions. Look at Far Cry 5. Games media criticized it because... it didn't address racism. How would have a racism subplot improved a game about doomsday cults?
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 @kureed79 Russia literally had their defenses breached recently.
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"The greater good" has also been a justification for genocide, ethnic cleansing, etc. >If you're so selfish and won't share anything, gtfo You mean share even MORE than people already share with a government that spies on it's own citizens, kills innocents with drone strikes, etc etc?
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The normal pills.
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@virtualinfinity6280 The F-22 was built as a successor to the F-15. The total number of orders was envisioned to be 750, reduced to around 370-350 and finally to 187. There's not enough F-22s to take over the F-15's job. Mind that American force projection is arguably more of a big deal than national defense. The F-22s successor is very likely to also be tasked with the defense of Europe, South Korea, Japan, etc.
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And when boxers see the opponent keep their hands up, they go for the stomach or liver. Yeah, Ukraine is only succeeding because they're using a successful strategy! Those scheming Ukrainians, using good tactics... don't they know that's unfair?
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MisterTutor2010 "I'm going to excuse poor writing because of genre" maybe they could go against the grain and make something good for a change?
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Because the "global pandemic" doesn't care that you're wearing an unsealed mask. It's not a preventive measure, it's a talisman and it "works" by making people feel safer. And also, when this pandemic stops, you and everyone else will not stop exhaling dangerous pathogens. So if we consider exhaling to be an aggression upon others that justify cops beating the shit out of you in public for refusing to wear a mask, you better not stop wearing it for the rest of your life.
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@dontforgettolike7127 The people who called Canadians Nah-tzees over a single flag in a protest are pretending not to see the swastikas, black suns and totenkopfs on the gear of Ukrainian soldiers.
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 @zlatkojerkovic9456 it's not about the money but how he got people into the biz
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@genestarwind4610 People have been put on death row for less. So the lab is in the city where this sprang out, they were warned years prior that they had to tighten security protocols due to danger of a leak, they had documentation about who had been bitten by bats, some of the lab workers came down with an illness in 2019, they humanized mice so that they could get infected through the ACE2 receptor, they suppressed the information that tracked the virus back to them.... but we're jumping to conclusions? Doesn't take Columbo to figure this one out.
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@mezjean5966 Again, you seem to have a lot of self-worth for someone posting youtube comments.
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@Sacrifice117 "just admit you're upset that you're not a woman and cant do the same." - If I were a woman I wouldn't do the same. I'd probably be upset that I'd be taken less seriously as a woman because of them polluting twitch. Camwh0ring has existed since broadband internet became a thing, the issue isn't the activity. It's how people are pushing the boundaries to have sexualized streams on a place that's not supposed to have adult content.
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Type 1A/B receivers were stamped, Type 2A/B and 3A/B were milled and Type 4A/B were stamped again. So no, gen 1 wasn't milled.
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@amorelus there's the additional factor of Russia setting off the separatism in Donbas. If China supports independence movements breaking away from Ukraine, that would make them hypocritical on Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
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The National Interest reads like it was written by feeding an AI with junk from other defense news blogs. They had an article titled "Desert Eagle: what you get when you mix an AR-15 with a gun" or something like that.
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@psychoskuschelecke622 Der Spiegel had a short article on their website, but they probably kept it under the radar in TV news.
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@G_Flash84625 a Syrian defector revealed that in training one of their helicopters with a North Korean jammer was able to jam a modern Russian SAM manned by Russian crews. Blaming the end user is the go to excuse but let's face it, it's not just the users.
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+Darth Sandrus for that there's actual airsoft games.
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@187Rajah Do you just copypaste that propaganda? Are you paid or you do it for free?
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Most sniper kills in WWII happened within 200 yards (source: I made it the F up, but for real I always heard this fact thrown around). Sniper doesn't necessarily mean the shot happens at long range, the police snipers that deal with hostage situations try to do it from as close as reasonably possible.
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 @littlegreenman2014 A disadvantageous point of entry becomes advantageous if the entrance is wide open. The border is not strategically significant, but the Kola peninsula is.
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+Shadhir RM and if I'm not mistaken a couple years ago it was found that the results from half of the studies from the field of psychology could not be replicated, and science kinda hangs on the whole repeat-ability thing. One study finding something is always cool news to hear, but not really anything groundbreaking.
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gilbert martinez *6mm Caseless
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Pretty sure it was enforced in Serbia, where SAM coverage was never truly degraded by destruction, just suppressed.
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@johnwicksfoknpencil the thing is, the GWOT is a globalist war just the same. The whole point of having a military, or a department of defense, is actual defense. And defense is being able to tell the world, I'm going to make you bleed if you come for our land so think twice before doing something stupid. Having a military fine tuned for counterinsurgency only ensures the continuation of the forever war.
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 @MultiTasker888 Russia has whined in a year more than the US does in a decade.
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I mean many would laugh out of novelty. Like "oh sht I didn't know it was real"
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@maatwarrior340 the legitimately elected president was legitimately "voted off the island" by the legitimately elected parliament. He legalized the crackdown of protestors. He fled the country when he realized the security forces would no longer protect him. Minsk was broken by DPR forces attacking Debaltseve the day after Minsk II was signed.
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@BRANFED Not what happened. Basically Van Riper decided to borderline sabotage the exercise by "playing the MILES game". When BluFor jammed his comms he switched to bike messengers. But the simulation was not meant for that so they still worked like electronic communications. Bike messengers take time to travel, they get lost, they fall, they get intercepted, etc. but in the simulation it worked like unjammable radio. Then he had massive anti-ship missiles installed on small boats. In real life it would not be possible, but the simulation wasn't programmed to prohibit it. Then when the "game" started the BluFor navy had their defenses shut down to avoid them locking up civilian air and sea traffic, and the simulation spawned the boat swarm right in front of BluFor. So nobody had time to react when the simulated attack began. It was basically cheating on a computer game, and Van Riper threw a tantrum when he was asked to reset the scenario.
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Notice at how Russia throws men at obstacles at Vuhledar, and Ukraine adjusted their offensive to secure a win. Russian artillery losses are happening at a rate of twice the war's average. Ukrainians clearly have a plan. The best way to not get punched is to take a scapel and cut the opponent's tendons. You may have a hand, but without tendons you can't make a fist.
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 @ljubomirculibrk4097 MANPADS weren't prevalent. SA-2s forced aircraft to fly low and AAA scored the kills.
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No such thing was revealed.
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I watched a youtuber who kitted up with all his gear and brought a rifle illegal in the state of California to help his friend's jewerly store, but got caught while trying to link up with the National Guard as they noticed he was better equipped than them. Sadly he hasn't been posting a lot since his legal troubles, I miss him.
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 @BanditLeader Nothing stopped. Bitcoin was just "secure" through obscurity.
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Nobody: YouTube: hey guys you should google "WTC 7 controlled demolition"
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@DaKurupt19 "What if she was being jumped and was defending herself?" - After police arrives you want to start doing honor killings? "What if you were being jumped or attacked and chose to pull a knife or gun to protect yourself - then a police officer pulls up and shoots/kills you?" - Would it take you 13 seconds to realize a cop has arrived and drawn a gun to stop the situation?
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Once something goes into a text editor it can't be trusted. If you need to redact do it in a way that doesn't give you the ability to write your own text.
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Try to do that on a police officer.
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@cp12298 Hunger is not a production problem but a supply problem. If you have a way to take all this easily perishable food waste and send it fast to zones where the supply lines are cut due to warfare or natural disaster, by all means share with the rest of us.
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@rayiram8544 Why the skepticism? Anti air missiles past a certain generation usually have an inertial navigation system to keep an updated track file on their position if the launching site for whatever reason loses radar track or communication. Adding a rudimentary ground attack system would be comparatively simple in the grand scheme of anti air missile development. If the missiles are close to their retirememt date it's worth shooting them to save more expensive missiles.
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Here in Portugal one guy took a café hostage and an officer was sent to investigate. He entered the café and caught a bullet with his brain.
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 @solobeats1 When it's your money on the line, you'll forget about that loyalty.
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@zakichoudhary507 They had control of the nukes. The fact that they had a sticker saying "property of Soviet Union" doesn't mean much.
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@dreamadventure8220 This was also said about Kharkiv and Kherson. Maybe stop saying it if you're pro-Russia. You might be jinxing it.
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@DeliciousDeBlair "it is ugly (marring the image many high-and-mighty elitist in the USAF tried to present with their other aircraft)" - This is complete rubbish. Air Force A-10 pilots love the plane. Anyone into aviation loves the looks of the A-10. "the aircraft has NOT ONLY indeed proven its self SUPER effective in combat," - To the point that in 1991 it had to be grounded due to all the losses and battle damaged A-10s. It was outdated by the 1980s and it suffered a bloody nose in the first Gulf War. "the best chances of survival [shown by how much of it can be shot off and it still flies] in low altitude situations" - Most modern aircraft can do what the A-10 does without resorting to low altitude. Low altitude is a Vietnam-era relic of the time the machine outpaced the human. Give the human a machine eye and the machine can be unleashed. "the A-10 has done its exact purpose built role in close air support, if not identical to a helicopter, far better than the F-35 they are trying to replace it with." - What? Multirole aircraft are better at CAS than the A-10. The F-35 is a next gen multirole. Why wouldn't it be better than the A-10?
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False dichotomy. What problems are solved by hoarding 30 year old military hardware in warehouses?
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It cost Russia 7 aircraft and the lives of 12 pilots.
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NFTs of his dumps, more like.
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 @Sceptre1-1 So it's not a breakthrough because small unit tactics were used? Holy pedantry Batman!
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We can defy gravity with hydrogen, we just called it a "blimp" back when I was a kid.
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@julianpetkov8320 "attacking Libya is still an act of aggression" - The UN authorized it and it was asked by the Arab League. Talk to those nations. "There is no valid "article 5" with Afghanistan. This makes NATO a terrorist organisation." - False. The US was attacked by Al Qaeda. After the US invasion NATO had peacekeeping operations, not war.
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@sk4diddle571 never heard anyone say you could live out the "American Dream" in Canada or Mexico.
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 @Ragefps by the time people started running it was already over
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@thotslayer9914 Extreme right libertarians have the most common ground with all sides of the political spectrum. We'll allow you to wither away in whatever form of government you consent living under. We'll allow you to come in and trade with us if you wish. It's everyone else who looks at us and say "those meanies have no government, we must assimilate them against their will".
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@regulustheron2565 Yeah tomboy doesn't mean pretending to be a boy, it's just a personality type that sometimes is reflected by the external appearence, but not always.
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 @docequis9796 Dude is spamming dozens of comments. It's mental illness.
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@CanadianTehGamer Yeah at the same time they're asking for a change in rules about troop rotation. They need 500k because there's soldiers who've been fighting for almost two years.
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@ileutur6863 First, no. The soviet state literally used mental illness as a way to control dissent. You're against the government? Comrade, you should get checked out. Second, anything that's no more intrusive than driver's ed is useless. People get licenses and then drive drunk anyway.
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Yeah if you google the nearest restaurant and it says 5 min walk, it's gonna say 5 min until you get out and start walking.
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 @randygraham926 And yet here you are... allowed.
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@basemanawakens6089 How does that say anything about air support?
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@TheBrokenLife exactly. Even regular people are out of touch with what is possible. People don't understand that designs like the aforementioned Luty SMG only take a trip to the hardware store - literally, because a drill press angle grinder and a set of files will do wonders. We're talking about basic tools and hand-fitting, not thousandth of an inch precision. But people will act like it takes a fully stocked machine shop. Hell, I have seen forum posts of people experimenting with homemade nitrocellulose and recreating early smokeless powder, testing the result by actually loading it into cartridges and measuring velocities. But just the other day I got a self-titled "Master Loader" claiming it is impossible to reload ammo without access to commercial reloading supplies. People actually think 3D printing is just a matter of pushing a button, so let's make 3D printed gun designs and show them what they refused to see.
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Three kids in a trench coat.
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 @asdf3568 NATO is in Kosovo, but not as an invader.
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Silenced UMP + SPAS 12
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The holster in question has been banned from shooting competitions and training academies because of safety concerns.
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The US snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. After battering the PAVN it forced them to sign for peace and they waited a couple years. Thanks to Muscovite propaganda and Watergate the US was not in position to aid South Vietnam when North Vietnam broke the Paris Accords. This was the worst possible example you could have picked because the Second Indochina War started from a precarious position for the US but the South Vietnamese forces increased their effectiveness while the PAVN started racking up losses. But the USSR had maintained the perception that the US was losing among the US populace.
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@fae ragan if I freak out at a dog that means I am justified in killing it?
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@Gerardo Franco He got it through a doctor. Not the local farm supply.
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@frank1313 "people have opinions" not when they just copy paste what the man on the phone screen says "How exactly is Tate bad?" He literally admits to have groomed women to do cam shows for him while he chatted men pretending to be the girls. Top G was a digital fluffer and turned women onto sex work. I rest my case.
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"iLlEgAl" bro name the law that was broken Shame is thinking you're hard for downing a F-117 when the remainder of the fleet still dropped bombs and forced Milosevic to concede.
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The S-400 was kind of fraudchecked during this war too. It was honestly hilarious that the Patriot had awful public perception but the Russians threw everything they had at it and the thing defended itself like it was a scene from a movie.
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@brendenlogue Many PSA products are not reliable out of the box, either requiring the use of the warranty or the user to understand and diagnose the system to fix it.
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@คนสวยปังมาก Yeah. Instead of multi-pronged offensives to encircle the entire Donbas, the capital and reach Odessa, Russia got pummeled to the point that taking a 77k small city is the only "victory" they can achieve. The cities behind Bakhmut will be even harder to capture.
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Started from the bottom now we're here.
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 @Mrkrabbss The thing is, if you take a year of martial arts you'll be able to defeat 95% of the people in the world.
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@USA__WILL The Superbowl isn't an equivalent. You have to remember that between world cups there's continental cups like the Euro. The players who are in the national team are not playing under the team they have a contract with. Obviously these cups happen mostly during the summer when national leagues are off season but it's still a strain to pile up excessive international cups.
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Okay but less and less tanks are seen in attacks.
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@frankrenda2519 I distinctly remember Wagner getting cut off from prison recruitment even before the battle for Bakhmut was decided. When you can't regenerate losses by the tens of thousands you're exactly where Ukraine wants you.
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@gbabayan Every Ukrainian soldier interviewed who described meatwaves explained exactly what they meant. It's the pro-Russia crowd who intentionally confused meat wave with HUMAN wave (Korean War style) so they can say "there are no videos of Russian meat waves".
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@nikhat6884 It's not 2007 anymore. A lot of the groups associated with Anonymous were nabbed by the feds and are most likely working for them. Anonymous is now Q for Occupy-era millenials.
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@kauske my shower mixer is only a few years old and it doesn't have that feature.
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@Nixontheman What does NPR have to do with anything? What made the 737 max attractive was not requiring a new certification.
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@kittybrowneye3163 the US has been able to deliver warheads at hypersonic reentry speed since the dawn of the ICBM and they have no navy to fear. Why would the US focus on hypersonics? Hypersonics are a cope for the fact that the US has allies all over the world and multiple carrier groups.
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 @Canuck96Myster You want Ukraine to violate their constitution because an American said so? How do you feel about Europeans saying the Second Amendment should be changed?
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Then Serbia kept getting bombed and Milosevic gave us what we wanted in the first place.
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@varkr2066 Gatekeeping is good. It keeps the creeps away.
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 @retineyzer1670 Why? Western PMCs pretty much only do security.
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+FormerUsPresident BarackObama lol how? Mass shooters can't drive outside San Francisco? Mass shooters can't buy guns off the trunk of some gangster's car?
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@laurancerobinson "Experts are not infallible" - but somehow the average Army trained bloke living in a country where he can't own any semi-auto centrefire for comparison is
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It's also important to consider that the people who don't think are effective include Russian experts, who are clearly unbiased and hack frauds like Pierre Sprey. In real world testing and pilot testimony the F-35 seems to be an excellent machine despite all the software blocks still in place, but the news media (renowned by their knowledge in military hardware) keep going back to Pierre Sprey, the "designer behind the F-16" despite the fact that the F-16 is a good plane because they gave it capabilities Sprey himself thought were useless. The people who think the F-35 isn't needed are people insisting that the US of A should stick to older designs that did well under past conflicts but are outdated in the modern world. People who don't know what it's even meant for.
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@fakeplaystore7991 Spent fuel is no issue. It's entirely manufactured concern. The longer the half life, the safer it is. It's the stuff with a few days/years of half life that are dangerous. You fundamentally misunderstand radioactivity. The shorter the half life, the faster an atom loses particles to transmutate into an atom of a different element. Think of the Geiger counter - the creaking sounds get faster as radioactivity increases. Something with a half life of a hundred thousand years can be held by your bare hand. Something with a half life of 30 years has to be dropped immediately and you need to run around the nearest corner.
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@mrsshelbycobraa I played a [ACQUIRED FROM THE SEVEN SEAS] copy that did not have any updates. At the start of the campaign there's a warning.
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@ItApproaches a lot of people thinking and asking questions are straight up just not knowledgeable about subjects so they ask questions that sound smart unless you actually understand the subject. For example WTC7 had three diesel backup generators. None of the people "asking questions" about tower 7 ever mention that the building was essentially loaded with fuel.
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 @beatmaker50 Doesn't humanize them one bit when you have seen the pics of civilians on the other end. He'll have one PAC-2 with his name on it one day.
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How do you take 30 Abrams and a bunch of Bradleys and spend them on Healthcare or Education? Plus isn't Trump defunding education anyway?
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Finally some ordinary gaming content
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@ralphzoombeenie2330 Freedom of speech isn't the issue, it's who's signing the checks. I'm not denying you the right to speak, I'm just saying I'm not interested in hearing from you if your son is getting a cushy job related to the topic. It's a conflict of interest.
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Winner Winner Chicken Kiyv Dinner
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As someone living outside the US, this kind of problem is nearly unsolvable. They end up in the streets.
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*enjoyer
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@Foolish188 "Not asking crowds at his speeches to wear masks isn't anti-mask?" - No, because not asking for something is a neutral stance. "Maybe 100000 dead because Trump promoted anti-maskism" - You have absolutely zero proof for this.
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@VadimBolshakov "One woman could have injured the other with the knife" - Knives are deadly, bro.
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 @memback but still a wolf appeared at the end of the story of the boy who cried wolf You may not care about the threat, but it's there
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The soil doesn't regenerate by magic either. You need fertilizers.
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@dallysinghson5569 It's not 1 in 100. Survival rate is something like 99.76%, and the fatality rate is driven by the oldest age groups. Also, our survivability rate doesn't account for the fact that people are being unnecessarily dying by being told to stay home for 10 days, get worse, it's too late to save them, stick them in a ventilator and let them die. Survivability rate would be even higher if we allowed proper treatment.
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@cluelessjoe5745 Why exactly would China be interested in who the NYC mayor is?
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 @Capt_Wupass so if any country had intel on 9/11 they should ignore it?
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@lykos89 "I work in a city 45 minutes away from my house in a different state. So by your logic, I live there now, eh?" - I didn't say he lived there... Do you have an actual argument or is strawman your last resort tactic? "And I know when I go to help a friend "clean up", I'm gonna take it in a mafioso sense, and bring a "street sweeper"." - He went there unarmed and was loaned a rifle. I'm pretty sure there's pictures of him without weapons that day. "If he didn't want to kill people, he wouldn't have conciously put himself in the exact circumstances where he "had to"." - You've just made self-defense illegal. By that logic any place you'd use self-defense was your fault.
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How much does it cost to replace the Iranian officer who was providing the drones and got assassinated?
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In the 2000s I saw a dude with a parody Che shirt that said "my hitler shirt is in the laundry"
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@Rabbi Shlomo Shekelbergstein >ironic Jewish name online >tows the "you're just a virgin" line And WHO do you think controls you?
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All tanks have been used like that in Ukraine. Doesn't matter the age, indirect fire is important. However, tanks have less range than artillery and the barrels last less than an artillery barrel. So you don't pull T-55 tanks out of storage when you lack artillery. You do that when you're lacking tanks.
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Did he have that courage when he was out prowling for minors in chat rooms?
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 @amandak.4246 You can't deny that Trump only has to say one thing to bait Dems into saying the opposite.
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But it's Putin that refuses to stop.
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@diazinth How do stockpiles run out when not used? Storage isn't free, but armies aren't free. The fact of the matter is that Russia dipped into their stockpiles for the Ukraine war. Something you want to claim is not possible. Producing weapons can take months just to start a factory, so it's easier to keep the vehicles already made than wait 6 months to configure a factory and then get 60 tanks built in a month. You could just have 200 ready to go and 600 in need of overhaul instead.
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@Tricendo I didn't watch the original video so I don't know if it was explained. He didn't grab the slide on the return, he punched the slide out of battery with his chest and used his hand to prevent it from returning forward. When you take the slide out of battery the trigger becomes unable to interact with the sear. This is why people are usually taught weapon retention and not pressing pistols against an opponent, because the spring may not even close the slide by itself and you'd need to force the slide forward to get it to fire.
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@Phoenixx6 to be fair, if you toss a concussion grenade into a structure you should expect to turn someone's insides into soup by the power of overpressure bouncing on the walls.
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@2ndexplosivebullet All vehicles are combustible. The plastics, fabric, etc. all burn easily when a fire gets going. Gasoline and diesel are very combustible but it's difficult to set a major fire in the tank. "Combustion literally creates explosions to propel vehicles" - which needs a VERY precise air/fuel ratio.
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Someone left the door open.
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If I'm paying a fee might as well hire an actual tutor.
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@mappingshaman5280 Joining NATO was impossible due to a border dispute with Russia.
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 @tnakatak the fact that someone can take over a sport's official organization just like that makes it a niche.
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@denisdenisov7623 Not true. It was Bucha that ended the negotiations.
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@RickBoat "a close air support plane with an armored cockpit" - It keeps the people alive, but everything else can get destroyed. "a gun from hell" - The gun hasn't been able to penetrate tanks since the late 70s. "An f35 etc is too fast" - Why? "doesnt have enough ammo capacuty for the role" - Doesn't need it. "Also, the a10 is the cheapest plane per hour the air force has." - A Super Tucano would be even cheaper so don't bring money into this conversation. The A-10 is extremely overpriced for the role it performs. "Ask the army guys if its obsolete" - What do the army guys know about air power?
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Those countries already suffered enough.
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@captainflappinjacks597 Actual headline from the other day: 'Azov visits Israel, "Mariupol is our Masada"'
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TDFPL using logic against Sark or her simps is like trying to play tennis against people who are tossing live hand grenades at you. You can't come to them with good intentions and try to have a good faith argument. You may win under the game you think you're playing, but the rules are different to them.
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@GameGod77 They didn't listen, because jurnos are still complaining about the games. Nobody mentioned female protagonists - and Anita criticized those too by the way - but nice job fighting that non existent enemy in your head.
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 @xylven5918 The Apache was one of the first aircraft flying into Iraq in 1991. They had no air superiority. They flew under the radar to target military installations.
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External fuel tanks means less pylons/payload capacity for weapons. Also, more wear and tear from the extra hours racked up covering the distance.
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 @davefulton3046 they'll mute voice chat beforeit triggers content ID, the slur is funnier because you spring the trap
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@dontdeletemeyoutube6689 He also didn't read the book.
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@bryanrogoff9192 The fudge does that even mean. Supporting Russia is arguing for your own defeat. Supporting Ukraine... even if you have a reason to not care, it pretty much doesn't affect you. They got less money per year than the US was spending in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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+Christopher Montemayor because he didn't know what Sasha Baron Cohen was doing until his new show came out.
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So you have nothing to offer, no cards to play, nothing to haggle. Your art of the deal is just going home empty handed?
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A-10s have greater blue-on-blue rates.
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@_Sakidora_ Fine. Then speech is limited by the decibels in one's voice and the speed of the presses available at the time. Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to computers, cellphones or the internet either.
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@nicholaswhite7351 It's not been officially banned for the last 2-3 years. You are not fined for speaking it. You've already moved goalposts. All you have to do is post the law here so we can read. I already know what it says, but I know you don't. That's why I want you to post it.
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@rogersmith7396 Air superiority is an entirely different domain. You don't say "the tank is dead because the enemy has planes" because that's like saying "infantry is dead because the enemy has machine guns".
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The initial number of invasion tanks were taken out. Repairs, refurbishments and new production keep the action going. The guys running into combat in golf carts are not laughing, though.
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@Borat_Kazakh We've only seen a 1 second video of a Su-24 that was absolutely torched. It was probably in a line side by side with other aircraft that probably got damaged or destroyed. There's what seemed like a fuel depot with 5 fuel trucks burned to the ground. But more interestingly, a video of a car park 500m away from the base, where there's a car with a huge metal girder shoved through the window. It didn't fall on the car. It flew straight through the side. With that much force, debris thrown into the air had to come down with a vengeance on the aircraft.
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@obsidianstatue You're just moving goalposts. The best Russia has to offer has already been defeated in combat, and you're acting as if it's all an unknown variable. Also funny how you claim "NATO fights inferior opponents" when I clearly mentioned an inferior vehicle (IFV) belonging to the "inferior" country (Ukraine) hitting a modern Russian tank from the side until it caught on fire.
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 @haifutter4166 I think you meant "oversight" because something being "overlooked" means that it's not being paid attention too. Looking is related to sight so it's not obvious.
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@Lunatic5306 Read my comment again, this time sober.
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Buying up property cheap only has an advantage when you can make money off it or increase the property value later. How are you gonna make money in an area with more arson and looting than a warzone?
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@Jukanella in news often the phrases "White House says" or "White House representatives say" to refer to the US. Much like "Beijing" means Chinese government and "Brussels" means the EU parliament. When referring to the UK if the Prime Minister says something it comes from "Downing St. 10" and if it's the Royal family it's the "Buckingham palace".
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@Ferahtsu That's just sad.
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@mcflyguy2245 yeah people venting their frustration online are the real bad guys here
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 @mikemontgomery2654 bruh the F-16A was based on the lightweight fighter program, it was an air to air fighter for point defense. Guns and heaters. The ground attack mission was secondary.
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So a fancy indexing system? I remember when Google worked and I could find any document I wanted.
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@marealnamenott that would be measurements that seem irrational in metric but are clear once converted to inch.
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Fox Ace the "alt right" always existed, it's nothing new, /pol/ has behaved that way for over 10 years and people have said the same thing for decades. They only control alternative media and fringe websites. If they were a real threat, you wouldn't know about them until they were in control of the schools and media.
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trickle up YMMV. The less I exercise the more I hang around the house munching on stuff. The more I exercise, the less I feel like eating.
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After that massive explosion with a similar sized secondary, I'd be amazed if it's still floating.
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People will flog me in the streets for saying this, but maybe if creating an account had a small monetary cost, normal people could easily access them but spammers would get pelted with massive operating costs.
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@kingghidorah8106 the F-4 could keep up and even beat the MiG-21 in terms of maneuverability at certain altitude ranges. If I'm not mistaken it was only 30k ft and up that the MiG-21 had the advantage.
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Which means the 20mm Vulcan is sufficient.
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 @Roamingeast if I'm flying a drone and you're getting carried on a stretcher by two combat capable soldiers, I'm dropping. I need to get those two. It's cruel? Too bad.
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People will hit you with the "that's just a conspiracy theory, what reason would they have to do that?". But you look at history and they just do things because they can.
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The inescapable reality is that those "SPGs" will be called to perform the duties of tanks when needed. We still see the footage of Russian tanks being used in assaults, and both the Kharkiv and Kherson offensives required the use of tanks as tanks by Ukrainian forces. They're being used as SPGs because the conditions for concentrating force an breaching frontlines simply aren't there yet.
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 @MisterMosfet Such as?
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Nordic countries give tons of benefits to parents. The demographic decline is still not solved. I'm against mass immigration. But it's sort of demoralizing to see that the options are either a country full of retirees or immigrants because whenever the issue is mentioned the majority of people who oppose immigration go "we need more gibs, then we'll have children". That's being part of the problem, not the solution.
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@hochmeisterr this is heavily used in multiplayer games. FIFA is plagued with this bullshit.
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 @RealRedeemer >"can't use nuclear it's unsafe" >burns coal and gas >"okay let's switch to nuclear because of CO2" >"we can't because the climate changed" I am beyond livid.
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Same with 90% of republicans want universal background checks. That wasn't the question asked.
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@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks If you engage in the distribution of illicit material you're also on the hook.
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Again? That was discovered in 2018, it was how Memeology 101 blew up.
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Remember when for a hot minute some people started saying they didn't trust the vaccine because it was conceived during Trump's term?
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Yes. Because you can drop the n-word with the soft A or hard R in the end, the latter being more offensive. The other one doesn't have a soft variant.
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@johnmackenzie3871 Killing retreating troops is not a war crime. They're still combat effective and may try to re-attack. It's a war crime to kill surrendering troops. If you want to live, you have to surrender, if you want to fight again you retreat. But you have to conduct the retreat properly, or the enemy will exploit it. They didn't stood idle, the retreat was conducted properly and Ukraine was not in a good position to waste material and troops giving chase. All retreats are voluntary. And a retreat during combat (no armistice) is forced. You couldn't complete the objective and the combat has a poor cost-benefit ratio, so you turn back. You were forced. If you weren't, your gains would outpace the costs. You're the one coping. You're trying to twist yourself into a pretzel justifying a retreat as a sign of superiority instead of being the fat L that it was.
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@theosvult4857 the problem is, we have a system that basically looks if you've ever been committed to a mental hospital or if a psychologist flagged you as a dangerous person. If you make people take a test before getting the gun... then they can ban guns without actually banning guns. Just make the "sanity check" almost impossible to pass. My girlfriend tried to join my country's equivalent of the FBI and she failed selection in the psychological evaluation. The problem? The standards are so strict that they considered that she was "not trusting enough". You'd think they want investigators who don't believe suspects testimonies and verify the facts, right? Either way, imagine they just put those standards on the sanity check. Oh, you don't trust the government? You're crazy, no gun. Oh, you trust the government too much? That's crazy, no gun. Do you trust random people? No? That's crazy, you're paranoid. Oh, you trust them? That's naive, you're crazy.
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A mighty peculiar buck, if I may say so.
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The radar range is "on paper" because the Earth is curved. Past a certain distance the ground itself creates a "shadow" that hides airplanes.
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@k14pc I mean invading and annexing territory based on protecting ethnic Russians is straight out of the Hitler playbook. It's exactly what Germany did.
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@DummyThinksThoughts For most of SC's existence you could not feasibly earn ships in game due to wipes and bugs/crashes hindering your progress. It's only recently that earning in-game became a primary way of getting ships. It wasn't always like that.
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@Sy'roqholicSA even if it's not real youtube has become pretty strict, it's weird cinematographic murder would get ads
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Jasper Percabeth The Russian MoD has claimed they did the strikes.
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It's like 35% of America is Nazi, Dan Harmon told me so.
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@angrydoggy9170 Then how come you're so wrong? Anyone trying to equate social democracy, a center-right position, to socialism, a far-left position, is blatantly misinformed.
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Someone send this to Charlie Kirk.
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 @mikyas392 Buddy you can get coordinates from maps. You can get coordinates from your phone. You meant satellite imagery?
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@epicmario98 the comparison is that the electrical wiring on his house is detached from all the other contents of his house (like water, gas, in this case furniture) and the light bulb is a simple repair because an individual part can be replaced and you don't even need to mess with the wiring. But on many electronics goods they want you to send in the entire unit and the factory wipe even makes you lose data if you had no back up (losing the furniture). What companies like Apple do is like looking at your blown lightbulb and tell you that a water pipe burst so they need to restorate the entire house.
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 @ctrl_alt_del100 You do understand context, right? Many people were out of work and burned through their savings. Not because they wanted to but because they lost their income.
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People claim he's Bill Hicks ahahah
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@NOSEXER nah, all the people who shouldn't have guns "know a guy" meanwhile good people have to ask permission to daddy government. Stop bragging about living under the boot of paternal autocrats.
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They said something along the lines of "they said it was us but it doesn't correspond with reality", which is a nod to what the Russians said about Crimea in 2014.
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@Siempre1978 Impressive. How come there is no evidence of this?
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Who's been endangered? No names or locations of officers have been leaked.
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Jogging is steady state cardio. In fights you have to explode.
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@tradingwizard562 He's a Russian propagandist.
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They're already in Verbove my guy...
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@richardpatton2502 "Pilots love the A-10" - Show me a pilot who doesn't love his machine. "Soldiers love the A-10" - Emotional attachment should not be a priority. "Generals and politicians absolutely hate it with a passion and yet...it keeps coming back" - Because the programs to replace it were killed. "I think the only problem with the A-10 is that it doesn’t make enough money for the powers that be." - It made 5 billion with the Boeing wings contract. Keeping old airframes flying is deceptively pricey. "There’s no true replacement for it" - Already been replaced for the most part. 11% of CAS missions since 2014. The rest are performed by Strike Eagles, Hornets, F-16s, B-1s, etc.
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@theboiofallbois "The A10 can fly so low and slow that it's hard for radar missiles to hit it" - This was true before look down shoot down radar. Now radar uses Doppler shift filtering to detect the differences between the ground and aircraft. Not to mention that the turbine blades are huge radar reflectors from the front. "Once the other aircraft overshoots or the A10" - Why would it overshoot? If you go vertical, the A-10 doesn't have the thrust to keep up.
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 @willw8011 The Brits had IFF markings on their vehicles and pilots got confused.
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The problem is that such events did not change the outcome. Meanwhile "tank busters" in WW2 had the biggest impact in the war by strafing supply trucks and trains. Same as the A-10 - it did more damage against light armor and unarmored vehicles, while the F-111 with laser guided bombs claimed more tanks.
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Europe put a warning too. That's job done, there's still countries trying to make it mandatory. They let you know. You just don't have a choice.
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+Ket Hal "AR-15 type assault rifle"... "assault rifle".... shut the fuck up. The inner workings are still functional by cutting the barrel. You can still shoot, pull the charging handle, shoot again. It's still a firearm, and a SBR.
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They reached the breaking point - they lucked out because the war became unpopular in the US. By their own admission the Tet Offensive broke them.
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Girls in a trip to Japan: "OMG I love Japan, it's so peaceful!" Boys: "TENNO HEKA BANZAAAAAI!"
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In the Soviet union they even had another problem which was people received wages, but their domestically produced consumer goods were not very good and people tended to hoard their savings and not spend. This wrecked the Soviet economy because the money wasn't circling around.
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@MakingRoyalPriesthood nobody is acting oblivious lol we're just saying "stop". "Stop", it's literally that easy. Imagine if people thought I had the right to kill you because your grandfather killed my grandfather.
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@silveriver9 The world didn't prepare? They silenced doctors. No compassion? China never shown show compassion for anyone.
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@danmorgan3685 BS. Only a few tens of thousand received foreign training, and it's not equivalent to full training. Look up cross training exercises within NATO, it's only a few weeks. Many people are not lifers in the military and end up leaving. Meaning that once returning to the military they need to refresh their skills, and may actually be put under the command of officers who never cross trained with NATO so they're forced to use Soviet tactics anyway.
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There's an infamous cybersecurity course in the US armed forces people have to go through.
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 @travelfreak2 There was never an overthrowing of the Ukrainian government. The Verkhovna Rada had a vote.
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Not an escalation. Bears have already been targeted in Engels airbase a LONG time ago. Same level as before. Stop the hyperbole.
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@libertarian4ever66 the A-10 has already been replaced by F-16, Strike Eagles and B-1s.
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@exidy-yt it fought for dear life, back in 1991 it had to be pulled out due to excessive losses.
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SIG is willing to sell at dirt cheap prices to get contracts. The M17 unit price is actually offensive.
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This, but unironically.
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@cloudstrife5209 Russia used to be part of Ukraine. Belgorod in the North used to belong to Ukraine and Muscovites mock Belgorod residents for speaking with an Ukrainian accent. To the East Ukraine used to extend into the Kuban region. In fact when the AFU invaded Kursk the elderly people in villages could speak Ukrainian with the troops.
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Wouldn't work against FPV RPG-7. The detonator is two loops of wire so they are sensitive to even glancing passes, and adding standoff may actually increase effective penetration. Slat armor works by crushing the warhead in an attempt to turn HEAT into just HE. Wire mesh actually helps the HEAT jet become more focused.
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It's essentially a Harrier but actually good.
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So, your dad gave you a mask, locked you in a portapotty and tossed a CS grenade inside?
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@Funkteon Most of what you saw here can be done with a hand drill, hacksaw and some files. It's just gonna take more time. Seriously, the big problem with lack of DIY skills is that people can't even think of alternate tools or methods to achieve the same thing. If someone cuts a hole with a circular saw on camera, people think you can't just do things differently to end up with the same result.
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How? Even if you took all the money from the 400 richest people in the US and this year's profits of every company in the Fortune 500, you still wouldn't have enough money to cover the deficit of this year, let alone all the debt that has been acumulated.
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@alexubel no offense but people like you who don't care about their rights and thus others' rights are exactly why we'll all end up under tyranny.
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@Marinealver wrong. Google has done everything from collaborating with China to help the government develop their drones (which they stopped due to outrage among their own workers). They're definitely a line and Alphabet/Google crossed it.
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Bad example. One guy popping a cap in one guy is an isolated event. Now try to scale it up. You can make a hair comb with a 3d printer. Now try to make a million. You'll need millions of USD in investment to make a factory that uses injection molding, because your home 3d printer can't squirt out a million products. 100 artillery pieces that get rounds on target can nail 5000 pieces that can't hit a farm let alone the broad side of a barn.
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@somedudethatdoesthings8057 yeah youtube had a ton of interaction back in the day. You could customize your channel, there was a bulletin board on your page where people could leave comments and direct messaging.
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@Aureliiian While Wagner was busy utterly destroying a city, the Russian army was shredded in Vuhledar. So yes, Wagner didn't lack ammunition. But the people Prigozhin took the ammo from did lack it.
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The big difference is that the Afghan war was lost by the... Afghan government. The Soviet-aligned government lost control which sent Afghanistan into a civil war. A Ukrainian victory scenario means the Ukrainian state still exists, still functions, is still able to provide emergency services and establish rule of law, etc. which offer a smoother rebuilding.
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Russia is whining.
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@te9591 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra literally the first result on search engines. Jesus, why not ask me to an article proving that the sky is blue while you're at it?
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@zhufortheimpaler4041 in this case the carl gustaf was the way the US figured out they could respond to RPG and PK attacks coming from outside 5.56 range.
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@usausausa4131 really? I didn't notice it with the fucking quotation marks and the Turning Point CSA which is an obvious dig at Turning Point USA. Idiot.
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Collapsible stock isn't about folding for storage, it's about adjusting the length of pull on the fly. With a bullpup you'd have to replace the buttplace to change length of pull.
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You're not dogfighting a missile, you're forcing a lead prediction off your intended exit. You're confused about the concepts at play here - you can still maneuver in a "non-maneuverable" fighter because even those are quite maneuverable compared to bombers and cargo aircraft.
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lweis lewlevis non It's not forbidden to use fragmentation. Almost all weapons, Western or Russian, use fragmentation.
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Crypto W And how he signed for the transfer of material (vaccine candidates) from Moderna to the University of North Carolina... in the 12th of December 2019.
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They also regulate lasers.
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@thomasmoore9003 Ad Hominem.
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It's funny how Mexico City did not have a day of the dead parade for the holiday, but because the James Bond film had it they started doing one for tourism reasons.
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@SteelheadCrusher Lie. Lend-Lease is kicking up in September.
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"precision" in stamped sheet metal and routed wood lol Handmade stuff will literally have better fit and finish. It takes time while a machine does it in seconds. You can't outfit a whole IKEA store with your models but they'll probably better built. I have IKEA furniture. It's useful and practical, but fragile. If the back panel of my shoe drawers were any thinner, they'd be cardboard.
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As opposed to the people telling teenagers to transition their bodies?
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 @FuckGoogle502 Is it paranoia when they were actually forced to flee?
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@Melksh1 "that's exactly what I'm saying" that you people always have a conspiracy theory to criticize whatever we do or don't do?
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@threethrushes energy sales help the energy market. You need arms sales to keep the arms market alive. You need arms factories and engineers who know how to design weapons. If you just sell energy, your weapons market dies.
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@DennisMerwood-xk8wp Amazing, tell me more about these "modern missiles". Stealth is a hoax? Someone inform the Russian and the Chinese.
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John Moses Browning himself was a Mormon.
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And RPG would have turned that vehicle into a toaster oven, to be fair. Not that different from an armored vehicles police forces all over the world have, but I get what you mean.
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SweetLiberty01 So you're going to send US troops to wherever a US citizen is killed? Imagine if Australia did that when that Australian sportsman got shot by US teens.Plus, the response to US citizens dying is sending more US citizens to the meat grinder?
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So you're saying Europeans, Asians, Africans, Oceanians (?) are all street drag racers? I'm European and I never launched a car, I just take it from idle.
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@Tesswrench111 "American parts, Russian parts... All made in Taiwan!"
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Several gunmen means it's likely to be ideological.
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Just like the pilots in Vietnam were not trained in the energy-fighting tactics previously used to defeat the more nimble Japanese planes in WWII.
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Based.
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@Lynne Hughes "as a registered Independent who was a former Republican until 2016, I’d simp for Romney" - There's literally no reason why. If you were a republican, why vote for the man behind Romneycare and who signed the MA assault weapons ban?
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@deViant14 Macron is the crybaby. You're here being a crybaby. Be honest - is some media company just getting paid to keep you posting propaganda all day? Can I join in on the grift?
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@debunkthis Prove his intentions in a court of law. Like it or not there was a plausible reason for Kyle to be there with non violent intentions. Like it or not there was a reason for him to be armed at that time without necessarily implying violent intent. Even if Kyle actually intended to shoot those people, which I heavily doubt, you'd still need to prove his intent because without that proof his actions were legitimate self-defense. So again, spare us your shoddy narrative and call the prosecution's office because apparently you found a way to read minds. I can't wait to see you get cross examined.
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@muhilan8540 I don't think the issue is so much that he chose to work for the Verge, it's the fact that he refused the help other youtubers offered him. He could have really calmed the internet by doing a collab with a tech youtuber that would replace the original video. He also blamed the response on... something that was definitely not related to the actual criticism and let's leave it at that. Also, his mistakes weren't so much innocent slip ups, but he truly didn't know what he was doing and pressed on against all logic. He stated that the soft pads on the power supply are meant to prevent shorting which doesn't make any sense, nothing wrong in not knowing what the pads are for but he assumed something and decided his assumption was correct despite the power supply still contacting the metallic chassis in the case despite having pads in one surface.
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@miriamweller812 kek we heard that about every weapon and each delivery causes incredible asswhoppings.
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Bellingcat was already doing great work. Unfortunately bad actors like Mac Blumenthal and Aaron Mate smeared Bellingcat as a "NATO trolllfarm". Almost as if every Russian accusation is an admission.
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@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive recent scandal involving the missile forces in China, either the fuel was watered down in a literal sense or "water" is an idiom to mean they were cheated by their suppliers with inferior product.
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He's so smart he got caught twice on online chat rooms hunting for kids.
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@NothingIsKnown00 According to the Finnish trials, the F-16 was cheaper to fly than the Gripen C. In no way is the Gripen E cheap to fly. Fun fact, South Africa couldn't afford to fly their Gripen fleet so they put half of it in storage.
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The problem is that less advanced jets will get attrited away without acomplishing much.
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An important perspective is that Ukraine held off Russia's aircraft with S-300s and Buks. So if the S-400 is protected by good close in weapons systems and anti-drone technology, it should deter an invasion. But the brochure seems to have lied about the real world S-400 capabilities, even Turkey raised the issue.
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@david-1775 "I don't worry about Germany" and yet the US has gone to war with them for invading and bombing their neighbours. TWICE.
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"the city gave in and gave them everything they wanted" - Ohhhhhh honey... The protesters gave the government what they wanted. Sorry to burst your bubble but plenty of organizations paid big money to get this outcome. You really think that in a real revolution you'll have corporations issuing statements in support of your cause?
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@xKapnKrunch Now imagine the first engines if everyone already knew that the fuel would never have enough energy density to be useful. That's the issue. Some things don't work right because they need improvement, but the numbers clearly show it's possible. In this case, the numbers show it's a waste of time. You cannot improve past 100%.
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 @minestar2247 they had NATO on their borders before 2022
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@danielwaller1311 "guns are easy to use" - which allows people with disabilities, the elderly and smaller women to put down the largest attackers. "and encourage evil" - that's BS. Objects don't encourage acts. "you can’t stab 5people in a matter of seconds" - if you're morbidly obese, maybe. we can easily test this. Let's have 30 people wear white t-shirts inside a classroom or office building and I run around with a sponge dipped in red paint. You think I wouldn't paint 5 people in seconds?
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The Hawk was mostly replaced by the Patriot. Some allies which have not purchased Patriots still have Hawks.
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LEARN TO SWIM
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@bigvis497 The USSR also owned all of the Soviet military. And it had to be split among the countries. Ukraine is still using a lot of equipment that was Soviet and they inherited in the breakup.
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@noimmigrantswelcome9251 why would a person who joined to fight be more valuable than an innocent civilian?
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@nomoresunforever3695 His organization skills are decades out of date. Not to mention that Ukrainian tactical goals are attacking logistics first, and only then go on the offensive. Anyone working logistics will be a prime combat target for SOF or sabotage-recon teams.
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FARA is rarely enforced, you have to be lobbying for political change. Having NGOs or media groups in America is perfectly legal.
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"The implication is usually confirmable, on rare occasions false." but that's bullshit because you can find correlations in almost anything. Like those examples of wildfires and mattress sales, homicide rates and ice cream sales, etc. You can make anything you want correlate and rarely is there a causation involved.
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Yeah now post what Chomsky said about the Khmer Rouge, the actions of the Serbs in the 90s and now about Ukraine.
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@lykos89 "You said he went there like he does every day because he works there." - But I didn't say he lived there, like you implied I did. "Is his job cleaning up after riots?" - Is your job lecturing people on YouTube? "you're really gonna try to justify me killing people?" - If it's self-defense? Yes. It doesn't matter where you are, and what you decided to do to help out. Self-defense isn't conditional on decisions like that. "What about my argument makes self defense illegal?" - Because you can literally argue the same thing about anyone. Got mugged? Don't walk on dangerous streets. You're attacked by convenience store robbers? Don't go into convenience stores at night. Oh someone broke into your house? Should have moved to a safer area. "I stab a guy to death, get attacked again, stab another guy to death, another guy pulls out a knife and I slash him pretty deep." - You'd have a tough time convicting that person. Seriously. The kid isn't responsible for what the attackers did. They consented to the fight by becoming the aggressors and lost.
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Training crews on the wrong tank type is actually worse than just sending the T-55.
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@basti080891 "Many" European countries is misleading because there's also European countries where suppressors are 100% prohibited, places where there's ammo limits and even powder/primer limits, places where although semi-auto "military style" weapons are technically legal they might require a special sport shooting license and prices can be 50% to 100% higher than they are in the US. Let's not mention all the intricate complications stemming from different rules on whether or not you can shoot in private property, which kinds of weapons you're prohibited from shooting outside of approved ranges and even the kinds of ranges you're able to use. In my country you can't do IPSC shooting until you progress through 3 different licenses, which requires a mandatory 4 year period for you to get the first two. Until then you can only do slow fire without moving on traditional shooting lanes. And to even get the first license that allows you to train shitty static fire you need to join the shooting club which means the state can effectively restrict gun rights simply because the people at your local gun club can not like you, or even discriminate against you on the basis or race, gender, sexuality, whatever the fuck.
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Cope. ISIS was defeated in a joint effort by assisting Iraq, Kurdish fighters, etc. Russia stepped in to save Assad. Nothing more.
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MrCorvusC CPU fans are jet engines and Boeing is seeking a deal for rgb fans as we speak.
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@manuellabor2759 ah, the old "bulked but forgot to work out"
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The 300 km range works in a jousting match at high altitude. Not when the enemy is just sweeping attack helicopters and turning back into the ground clutter.
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 @nathanlevesque7812 You pay attention. After Israel agreed to a ceasefire Hamas rejected it as now they want a PERMANENT ceasfire.
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Brazil is woke as hell dawg.
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@kemarlyjohnson2918 "Terrain masking makes A-10 immune to radar detection at long ranges" - Not from airborne radar. Terrain masks you from ground based radars. "BVR missiles are useless on small low flying aircraft" - Missiles have been used against Cessnas in air interdiction.
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@brecibros2469 That's not the point. You lost the argument so you had to change the subject?
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So just a regular monday?
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 @RustySchackleford-m5o There was a Russian ship with a mini-sub seen in the area.
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@justinwatson1510 I didn't say a word about communism. Or tuition for that matter. My point is that there's jobs that need to be done, and people will always feel unfulfilled doing them.
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Winning at what? Flipping the table when they don't get what they want?
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Iraq also started selling oil in Euros in 2002.
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 @Simboiss "could be anything" isn't an argument. Intense flash causing bleaching of objects is n explanation that matches nukes. You have to find an explanation that matches firebombing.
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@orlock20 "The Europeans have given up on training their troops to shot at an object and decided to train them at shooting at a zone." - that's straight up wrong, when there were reports of 5.56 not stopping people the Swedish actually went further and started painting the targets with stripes so that it only counts as a hit if you place the bullet on the head or the center of the chest to increase the chance of the bullet hitting the heart of cutting the spinal cord. There's a NATO powerpoint about that floating around.
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@danepatterson8107 "The Kar98 (from 1898) had sights ranging out to 800 meters for volley fire. And it fought in trench warfare." - trench weapons included everything from maces to clubs, from brass knuckles to knives. Specialized troops created for trench raids or "trench sweeping" brought pistols, knives and hand grenades with them. Anzac troops sometimes carried unsanctioned sawn off shotguns. If I'm fighting an enemy force in a trench, I want all of them to have rifles. Because it's gonna be a whole lot worse for them.
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The brain drain is also a release valve.
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Before jammers the FPVs lost signal too. That's just the ground clutter causing signal loss. Signal is generally line of sight, with diffraction helping gain a little more range. But once you're close to the ground you lose signal. You can tell it's not jamming when they dive, lose signal, bring the drone up to take another look and then dive again. The wavelength for the controls is still able to reach while the video feed can't. A jammer would lock the controls.
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@ProfessionalLondonNigaHiga This thread is about women and you're here talking about German weapons.
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A child that lied about her age.
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And had Mentos in his battle rattle.
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@Gizmonips "It’s really cute mischaracterizing the argument for tighter gun laws" - you know what else is cute? The fact that you think we haven't heard that 500 times before. "I’ll also note that she had a pistol and not a high capacity rifle" - pistols are used to kill 11,000 people per year in the US. Rifles? Between 350-400. Her pistol is actually a greater threat to public safety than rifles but somehow you accept it. How can you talk about mischaracterization when capacity is a function of the magazine and not the rifle? You barely understand the subject but try to lecture us. That's why the nation is split. "even when liberals tell you we don’t want your guns" - 1) and I'm supposed to trust that? 2) plenty of people say they do want them so... "we just want tighter gun laws and restrictions" - that's that you people said last time. And the time before that. And before that. No matter what legislation is passed you people always come back demanding more. It took some time, but we finally wised up and figured that while you might not be taking away the guns, you're building the foundation for them to be taken away in 20, 30 or even 100 years.
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You cannot take off from dirt roads, you need an actual paved road. Jesus Christ this game of telephone keeps getting worse. In a few months the Gripen will also be able to take off vertically.
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 @MINI.ANIMALIST homie didn't watch the video where it shows Ari and Bobby finally squashing the beef and pops up with the "who hurt you?" like a tumblr girl.
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I'd put him in the Indian space program.
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The nasty question bit is excessive but honestly that was a "how dare you?" moment from the reporter. People are dying every day, every where, and more will die if we continue to wreck the economy. So yeah, go ask the culprits for this shit, the ones who locked down the province affected but allowed some flights out of the country because they think "if we're gonna suffer then the rest of the world will suffer too".
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The dictator is in Russia. Exactly where have you heard there's a dictatorship in Ukraine when the current president was elected in 2019?
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@hattix7233 stop with the European supremacist bullshit. I am European. I am in college. Just today I overheard the conversation "do you know who Kim Yong Yang is?" "yeah he's the president of Korea" between two students. European people can be just as uneducated as Americans, do you think we're all worldly people?
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@ricardocantoral7672 Backing doesn't pull triggers or suffer the casualties. Kabul had US backing. The ANA couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag.
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"Real life subreddit" lmfao
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@asdf3568 Russia was the one who invaded.
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Funny how you're not mentioning the Bradleys, which Ukrainians are praising and saying they'll never ride in a BMP/BTR again.
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Because in Izyum and Lyman they said everything was fine and were forced out. This time they decided to minimize the embarrassment by just announcing it before the situation becomes desperate and everyone starts crying on Telegram.
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@craigkingdon4424 really? Giving up one of the cleanest and safest energies is good? Germany is back to digging for coal. Coal kills more people than nuclear, but hey you say it's a good thing.
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Statistically, tunnels are used to smuggle terrorists? Can we get an actual number how many terrorists have been smuggled vs people just crossing illegally?
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@Silver_Prussian HIMARS won the war lol it complete broke Russian warfighting by ending the artillery spam. 12 HIMARS and like 4 M270s lifted Russia into the air and broke its spine like Bane did to Batman lmao
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@Wesley22619 yeah when a company isn't providing a good service you file a complaint. If they ignore you stop giving them money. Since I can't unsubscribe from the taxes that pay for police services, they're gonna hear our complaints until we are satisfied. Don't like it? Move to North Korea, where people can't complain about the police.
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@dhruv1019 worldwide material shortage at the same time there's been civil unrest and fear of bans
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 @PALESPIRIT Jenny with the Glock
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@untyrhallsprung569 "a skateboard is obviously less deadly then a gun" - But that's irrelevant. Once you use a bludgeoning or stabbing weapon against someone, you've already escalated to a point where self-defense is justified no matter how much of an advantage the victim has. As shitty of a weapon a skateboard is, using it against someone when there's no justifiable reason (like stopping a robbery or something) is a serious crime.
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Stop eating MREs.
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@woosix1 Civilian bombardments are being acomplished by shelling and rocket artillery, so enforcing a no fly zone would not impact that activity.
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@Blakkrazor69 The speed of sound is based on an object travelling through a medium (there's no speed of sound in a vacuum). Since the atmosphere is travelling with the Earth, it doesn't break the speed of sound. Same reason why you can't go on a plane at 0.99 Mach, stand up, sprint from tail to nose and claim you broke Mach 1 by running. That's cartesian frame of reference, 7th grade physics.
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"Muh nooks"
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Mind that comments sections are basically trash dumps where people vent their frustrations. People go overboard while in an emotional state, and social media algorithms prioritize showing everyone content that drives engagement - keeping them in that emotional state.
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Literally "TV SAYS!" kind of people.
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@csolisr post changes you've made to society
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Remember when 30% of Windows Vista crashes were nvidia's fault?
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@spiritualknight704 No, it's not the first time.
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@Aqua Fyre Don't you get embarassed by having to type the same old cope from a year ago?
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@philip5940 To recover a tank in a battle zone you have to expose your recovery vehicle and combat engineers. That means you have to advance to get a safety buffer. Finishing it off prevents Russian recovery.
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Well that's questionable. Police forces, tribal people in Afghanistan, and Americans if they were ever invaded, would not be expected to give up all their arms just because a war is happening. The issue here is that within context it's militants who would have weapons rather than civilians, and there's other patterns that allow the PID to be made.
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@LeozinzZ spammer, just ignore
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When the F-15C came out the USAF dumped a bunch of F-15As with just 5 years of service in the ANGs hands.
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If Belarusian troops leave the country, Lukashenko is in danger of a coup.
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Low pressure ammo, also microphones can't record gunshots properly unless you have perfect conditions. For example in Heat they used live audio of the gunfire in the city in the movie because the reverb sounded so good. If you record it on an open field you get a very disappointing sound. Foley artists do things like closing sliding doors to get metallic sounds and then layer over the recordings of real guns to add punch.
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+Filipe Amaral And I guess that when only the "red" turbo is connected, the "orange" is extra mass that introduces parasitic losses.
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@laurancerobinson the studies and tests that determined that HK had to come along and fix the damned thing?
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@Cameron Pangborn It's not about pristine image, dude. You don't get to preach conservatism and then advance progressivism at your day job.
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The CIA didn't have to cover up entire ecossystems wiped out by nuclear meltdowns and biolab leaks. The only reason the Soviet Union admitted Chernobyl happened was the fallout reaching Sweden the next morning, had it happened in Central Asia we'd only know about it in 1991/1992.
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@KSword007 A mother most likely pumped milk during work hours, and stored in the fridge so it could be taken home. Then either someone took the milk by mistake and refused to admit it because of embarassment, or actually sought to steal breast milk because "ha ha boobies".
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@Jannik68392 With p-hacking you can get that result easily. Gun violence was decreasing in Australia since the late 1960s-early 1970s.
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 @markus-ks9sf Was he? I was under the impression he only took a ride from NY to Florida, not the island.
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Actually the American pilot was baited into a dogfight by a Chinese pilot, who climbed into a loop and jumped out while whipping his 50 cal sniper rifle, quickscoped the pilot and fell into the F-35 cockpit. I have 5000 hours in Battlefield games so I know it can be done.
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 @greedy2201 Absurd stuff is talked about. It's out of the normal, so it gains infamy.
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@markgonczy8293 Yeah, the people advancing into machine gun fire and mortars suffered less losses than the entrenched defenders. Sure.
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@mkb2420 But that's irrelevant. Air superiority is defined by the ability to conduct air operations with little concern for enemy air forces. If your only concern is surface-to-air, you have air superiority. The Coalition established air superiority over Iraq in 1991 even though it was one of the most defended air spaces in terms of missiles and AAA.
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 @bmyers7078 So they risked court martial. That's exactly why you should surrender instead of fleeing. Being a POW is better than facing desertion charges in a dictatorship.
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"Woo" is a term for ideas, rituals, etc which involve mysticism, the occult, junk "science", etc.
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 @187Rajah if it's failing why do you need to demoralize? Hmmm almost like you're begging for the west to stop supporting Ukraine.
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You people have been saying this about the HIMARS, Ceasar, etc. for two years.
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@RamblingRodeo I mean, it's not just retooling, a lower quality coal will produce more soot so it clogs stuff. They'd have to change the piping from furnace to exhaust so that it becomes less efficient but clogs less.
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INERT Drones can't hold ground.
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Media: "Pwease help us, we are dying" Me: "Then perish"
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Stop using buzzwords without understanding them. Spotting from the air occurs with small drones. Not aircraft. Air superiority is not a factor here. Artillery usage where Ukraine has counter-battery radar allows Ukrainian artillery to return to sender. Russia is not using defense in depth. Defense in depth means letting lines give way for the pull counter. Russia has abandoned doctrine and is fighting for every inch of land.
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@dallascopp4798 The military is involved in US politics. Did you see how the military "clapped back" at Tucker Carlson for disagreeing with pregnant women being in combat?
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@bobpage9615 "they'd just start selling legally and would not disappear" - What would be the point? They created what's essentially a parasite outlaw government with its own armed forces, infrastructure, logistics, communications, etc. When anyone can enter the drug business freely without these massive costs, they can undercut the cartels and they collapse under their own weight. They exist as a whole to subvert the law. Erase the law, 90% of their organization is completely useless. The biggest problem you could foresee would be all the hired killers who are suddenly out of a job but know where the cartel bosses live and how much money they have. That would be a show I'd want front row seats for.
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@Jaime Perry I'm sure their tourism industry will be.
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That's actually still being disputed, some claim that the blue flash was caused by air molecules falling back to unexcited states but others claim it's Cherenkov radiation from the water in people's eyes. https://www.pnnl.gov/main/publications/external/technical_reports/PNNL-19176.pdf page 160 figure 64
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Wrong. The drones were not carrying Starlink antennas. They reportedly used Russia's how cell network.
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@unwnme they're blaming an innocent black, which is supposedly what they're against
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@Saiyan0X they put the money through "air locks". Say a foreign interest group wants to finnance a presidential campaign, they donate to a university or something with an agreement that the money will be attributed to a non-profit, then that institution is actually controlled by a politician. Then the politician can use that money to achieve deals, like you front the money to finnance the campaign and then the foundation hires your company for "consulting" purposes so you get paid back, the money gets "laundered" from its foreign origins. Everyone knows exactly what's going on but you can't prove it's foreign money finnancing your campaign unless someone blows the whistle.
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OSHA wants to know your location.
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@yvonnesanders4308 Actors are not supposed to point blanks at each other. They don't wear eye protection for obvious reasons, so they're required to point away from people while firing and camera perspective is used to make it seem like the weapon is being aimed at an actor.
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@alvarobus What about we have someone stab you, and I respond to the situation? I'll ask what you want me to use. I dare you to say taser.
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@attysthoughts3253 A F-16 built in 2004 is much different from an early prototype F-16A from the 70s. Externally they're similar but in capabilities the early F-16s couldn't use Sparrows let alone AMRAAMs.
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No, it was just expedient. Both sides did bad things while being quick to point at each other for what they had done. Remember, the USSR had a deliberate disinformation campaign designed to make people believe the US created HIV in a lab.
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@johnmackenzie3871 Stop coping. They failed the objective.
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Not how it works. A RWR will display the emitting radar in a threat ring and pilots know of enemy SAM timelines so that they can go defensive despite lack of launch warning. True active SAMs are pretty much non-existent, all radar SAMs are either semi-active until impact, semi-active and switch to active for the final terminal maneuvering, or command guided by the launcher. What happened here is that while the US has gathered emissions from Soviet/Russian SAMs, the Russians had never gathered emissions from modern Patriots so their RWR systems cannot assign a threat estimate.
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How many diplomats do you know driving around in anything bigger than a U-haul?
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Essentially by signing the contract you accept to receive a faulty product because they did their best in an emergency, they're not liable for anything and they can even miss deliveries without it being a breach of contract. Also, you're on the hook for the purchases, you can't stop them, no refunds.
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- civil rights activist
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@malikrug5687 "They always knew how to handle cold better than anyone" - They froze in Finland in the Winter war, and froze in Ukraine in February. Knowing how to handle the cold doesn't mean anything under combat. You're either well supplied, or you're not coming home.
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@Retired Bore What was the crime? Saddam was a dictator responsible for acts that can be considered genocide, and there were WMDs in Iraq - in a state of disrepair, and American servicemen suffered neurological damage from their exposure.
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@blankblank2370 Others have already addressed it, but it's important to remember that there's two major types of homeless - the temporary homeless and the long term homeless. Temporary homeless (as the name indicates lol) make use of the help and support they're given to get out of the streets. These are the stories you hear: kids fleeing abusive parents as a last resort end up on the streets, people who lost everything, etc. These are normal, everyday people who went through adversity. But because most of them find a way out, they don't "accumulate" and don't become long term homeless. As said above there's those with mental illness, substance abuse, both things at the same time, and people who are outright anti-social enough to want to live in the fringe and rationalize it as a form of freedom.
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@nikolastojic5063 there are biolabs everywhere, especially near large areas of farm land.
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@stells1337 Anything can handle steel with an adjustable gas block.
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You're invading the dog's home and he doesn't understand the concept of a uniform or badge. By the same logic it's justified when cops corner a clearly mentally ill man who doesn't understand the situation and at the first sign he tries to protect himself he gets gunned down.
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He's a hero? The leak wasn't meant to be public, he was just impressing underage kids in his Discord server.
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USADA and I were never friends
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 @countvonthizzle9623 the Argentinians were at the edge of their range and couldn't use afterburner to build up speed or else they'd run out of fuel over the ocean.
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Harry S. Truman: "Two cities flattened, and you think that of yourself? No. I am the one who nukes."
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@rayven1749 the Gripen is deceptively expensive.
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@Nydusurmainus They should win. Do yourself a favor and watch OpFor gopro footage. There's one video where a small OpFor squad in a truck is racing through the dunes, dismounts near a fuel truck and starts blasting the rear echelon mother effers in a turkey shoot. It looked like some dudes with a couple of deployments decided to ruin some teenage kid's airsoft party. When smaller, highly trained units start conducting these types of operations it's extremely difficult to counteract them. It's like the SAS raids in North Africa. You don't fight head on.
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The issue is that the culture war is not won by giving up ground either. The infighting might be silly, but having conservative porn stars and conservative drag queens, and "conservative" flavors of everything the left already won on is just that slippery slope everyone keeps saying it's real on every other video, but now it's not a thing because reasons. Can't wait until Charlie Kirk is promoting his conservative drag queen story hour.
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@AwoudeX euphemism is probably to avoid tripping off the offensive speech filter that can send comments into spam and requires the uploader to manually approve them
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@NOSEXER please tell us, what exactly is the problem of getting a soda in the same trip as a gun? Is it gonna get people killed? The soda touching the gun is gonna explode?
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At least come up with a decent reason to not care, or don't even justify your decision to not care. You're allowed to not care about issues and not need to have a justification for it. But when you say that you don't care because Ukraine is corrupt, while ignoring that the invading force belongs to a country that's just as corrupt if not more... I just feel like I'm being duped.
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@autohmae so I need to whip out my NSA spying device, turn on the app that I had to consent to selling my data, and feed it my bank account details to even get anywhere. I'd rather just drive an 1980s car.
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The issue is, how many anti-west fighters are willing to take 80% casualties in 6 months?
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Tounushi using all strategies available is still beating someone. Luke, if we had a realistic perspective on training and skill, would have been able to predict such a move, block it and deliver a counter to punish the eager student. But noooooo...
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Я Смерть if it is well written it is not sjw but just a left-leaning movie. The sjw fuckery is what ruins it.
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Based schizoposter.
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European countries have huge unemployment problems.
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Put 5.45 duplex rounds in the AN-94, just to see what happens.
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Who decides who is an expert?
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Because Russia can equip these small expeditionary forces. They also serve as propaganda that tells their own people they have a modern army. When the initial invasion of Ukraine went sideways they all to call a ton of reservists and troops from non-combat units and the equipment wasn't all high speed.
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 @asavelakuse6865 A meat wave isn't a banzai charge. A meat wave is part of a creeping advance that is known to fail but expected to facilitate a future wave.
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These are the tails from rockets with cluster submunitions. From the uneven spacing of the tail fin hinges, they're most likely from the Uragan 9M27K series. When the cluster warhead releases the payload, the tail section piledrives into the ground. That's why in the early days we saw a lot of CCTV and dashcam footage of tail fins sticking themselves into the ground, sometimes reported as duds. And it's the small bomblets that explode, so if an area has been cleared of UXO the tail section is safe. However, some of the craters may have been dug with entrenching tools and the tail section planted. I don't know enough about types of soil. If they tried to fake a Ukrainian attack and pointed the tails at their own territory then we're really dealing with "special" people here. The craters in the city of Energodar of Ukraine were captured on video and those are real and point to Russian controlled territory.
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Does that mean Russia will stop retreating soon?
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They're now welding naval AA guns to MT-LBs so something has gone very poorly for Russia.
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@Dave-mh3oi I want to hear the rationale behind considering "cam girl" hate speech.
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@prodac The CDC issued a call to reduce PCR cycles in January 20th of this year. They'll also discontinue PCR testing after December 31st. Not sure how the CDC website makes money, I'd assume they get a budget from the CDC itself. I'm also unware if the CDC as a whole receives donations.
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@martam.1994 Hun, most of Russia is indeed in Asia. At least Russia is divided by the Ural mountains, which is considered by many to be the division between European and Asian landmass. Israel isn't even divided between continents. You're confusing Israel with Turkey. Israel is neighboring Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. None of those countries are European. If anything, Israel would be partially African by your logic, but even then the Suez places the most western part of Egypt in the Asian continent meaning that Israel is fully encircled by states considered to be Asian. Russia is a transcontinental country, Israel isn't. Final challenge: name the region in Israel that lies on European territory.
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Even ignoring civic duty, independently of how wise the decision to be there was it simply doesn't matter from a legal standpoint. People who are too bone-headed to understand that concept are honestly dragging society down.
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@FearOfTheDarkS312 A lot of people retire early out of the military and go do something else. Either way they wouldn't just let him take ammo out of the base.
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@reflect. Your comparison is off because most content creators have a commentary style while AJW makes response/analysis videos.
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@alangriffith9453 apples and oranges. It's not that we won't deal with criminals, it's that a country willing to fight will have the punitve aspect of the war as a weight on the scales against a peace deal.
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@williamt.sherman9841 It was a combination. The gas piston and bolt rotation is from the FG-42 but the feed tray is based on the MG42.
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@chucktom7783 Women are not being mobilized. And the military is only now considering to lower the mobilization age from 27 to 25.
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VERTICES AND RED ACCENTS
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Mods, ban d3adsh0t from the chat
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@sumduma55 Complete nonsense. They're fighting because Ukraine has fought Imperial Russia and Bolshevik Russia in the past. This conflict has existed longer than politicians have and it's the culmination of the Russian imperial dream.
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Oh no the human tragedy of a bunch of aluminum and steel birds getting clapped.
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@TheSlammurai exactly. If you downplay milkshaking you're consenting to being milkshaked. Anyone else should be left alone.
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@TheNondiscriminatory the Taliban haven't been taken out. In fact just a few months ago the US was trying to strike a peace deal with them. The Afghanistan government doesn't control much of the country. If the US pulls out, the Taliban take over again.
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@silveriver9 First the information about it was suppressed. Then the world was told there was nothing to worry about. When we were suspicious, the China-controlled WHO said that restricting travel was unnecessary. I can't put it in simpler terms. China purposefully sent people abroad to infect the world while closing their own borders, and you claim we have no compassion. Also, tests done on blood banks confirm that Italy already had the infection by autumn/early winter. So there was no time to prepare. You don't need me to put it in simpler terms. We already had it before we know it existed.
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Anarcho-tyranny is the name of the phenomenon.
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Liberals be like "you disagree? lmao triggered i guess you hate free speech now"
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@Digger-Nick He's saying that if prices were allowed to be raised, he'd have been able to buy alcohol. But because some states have anti-capitalist rules stating that you can't raise prices during emergencies, some dude bought an entire case he's not gonna use.
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 @loupgarou-dj3tm how do you accidently load a dam full of explosives and stick detonators in them?
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Because fin and spin stabilization achieve the same purpose, and HEAT warheads need to be spin-compensated. The copper cone for a regular HEAT can be made through rudimentary means but a spin compensated cone needs to be pressed with complex dies.
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@rileybergin4857 A relative comparison is useless. In absolute terms, freedoms were removed.
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But your comment wasn't deleted.
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@exidy-yt It rocked the battlefield by what? Getting shot down and damaged so often that Chuck Horner pulled it out of missions against the Iraqi Republican guard? Very few losses? Six A-10s and one OA-10 was lost, meaning it suffered the same amount of losses as the Tornado, which was considered a debacle. "F16s cannot loiter near as long over the battlefield" - You don't need to loiter when you can do the job faster. Also, loitering is suicide anywhere that isn't an extremely permissive environment. "suck at close air support in comparison" - Because most of the CAS knowledge is stuck in A-10 schools. Had the A-10 been retired in 1993 as originally planned, all that knowledge would have gone to other aircraft. It's not an aircraft issue, it's a pilot and training issue. Strike Eagle crews did not like the possibility of performing gun runs at night. They spent months perfecting their skills in simulators to get the hang of how to do it without killing yourself. Now they say they did gun runs on an almost daily basis with the F-15E during the GWOT. It's all about being allowed to put in the work. "Even a Super Tucano would be better then an F-16 in CAS" - A super tucano would be better than the A-10. Almost as fast with a turboprop, which means huge fuel savings and long loiter times. Can take off from bases much closer to the action, so the slightly lower speed is more than made up for. "but not ideal for CAS" - Why? "B-1? a strategic bomber?" - Your incredulity isn't an argument. The B-1 does perform close air support. "F-15 Eagles?? an all-weather interceptor/dogfighter??" - You are aware of what a STRIKE EAGLE is, right? It's not an interceptor or dogfighter. "Are you high?" - I ask the same. Did you get high the day you were reading wikipedia pages on airplanes? Because if you weren't high maybe you would have noticed that the things you don't believe in are real. "Neither of those planes do CAS except in dire emergency!" - You might want to check the facts before continuously putting your foot in your mouth. "You really need to research" - You really, really need to do your research. Again, it's publicly available information.
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@TengrioftheCrimsonSky Because starting from scratch eliminates the constraints. Upgrading means retaining old, ageing airframes that last rolled out the factory in 1984 and parts that need custom order because Fairchild went out of business in 2003. It means having to design modern systems to interface with the obsolete. It means being limited because you can't tweak the design without causing unforseen second and third order effects. Plus, we don't need to create anything new. All the A-10 does is accomplished by turboprops like the Super Tucano. You don't want a multi-billion CAS plane that only does COIN in a super permissive environment. You just buy what's available.
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I read this comment like someone was describing Waygu beef to me.
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Pretty sure Russia doesn't want their former USSR satellite city back.
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The MiG-29s lost the wing root intake in modernized variants because that volume was needed for extra fuel.
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@JK-pi6ji in the old days people learned those things without formal academia, most of the population probably needs tutoring to understand the concepts and reading at the library isn't enough... but academia isn't entirely necessary to learn, it's only necessary to put it on a resume so you can tell an employer that you've learned
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Read "Eric Shun" out loud. If you don't get it, read slightly faster until you do.
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 @kureed79 Iraq had both Western and Soviet equipment. Not only Russian defenses but also Roland missiles and MIM-23 Hawk batteries captured from Kuwait.
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@bogdanbogdanoff5164 If the F-22's stealth coating had been eclipsed by enemy detection systems they wouldn't have been risked over Syria. But yes, it's technically two generations behind the F-35's coating.
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Before criticism of the military was made a prosecutable offense, in a Russian comedy show one of the actors dressed as a soldier and made jokes about how the weapon was "secret" because nobody knew if they worked, and some days they'd find the vehicle standing on bricks because someone stole the wheels. There were a lot of self-aware Russians who now have to keep quiet.
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@ArgosySpecOps "commit sudoku" is internet lingo. Same as purposefully screaming "Bonsai!" as a joke.
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Also his name is "Bourla" and in Portuguese "burla" means "fraud". Just a funny coincidence.
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@wessd Way to miss the point, bud. It seems like he's embellishing his service record. Thunderf00t doesn't try to embellish who he is. He just demonstrates things. You don't have to hear his words as gospel. You can just verify the things yourself.
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I absolutely blame them. I do not behave that way nor would I wish to.
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@711jastin It's not about any contradictions. It's about the constant guilt-tripping telling us that we need to accept dystopian living standards because of climate, but the real culprits are never the issue.
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@David-vn2id >"back in the day" >complains about young people It's almost like you WANT to be called a boomer
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@nooboftheyear7170 The US developed the GBU-28 bunker buster in three weeks, with two weeks between design approval and dropping it in combat.
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Personally I really like that one in the church where the attacker got domed by a one-shot from a .357 Sig.
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That retired general who "won" against the US during wargames essentially bullied the people running the simulation into accepting his PT boats "armed" with missile launchers they were not rated to carry. He broke the rules but the theory behind the small boat attack runs was solid.
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@Kav. domestic production of AR's? The forging blanks are imported, no?
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Bullshit. I was really into research about AMD since their recover with Ryzen processors and searched for "tech press bias AMD" to look into allegations that the tech press was biased towards nvidia and intel. Google gave me three pages of articles "debunking" the claim that tech companies are biased against Trump. I am in Europe. How are results related to Trump in any way related to an European person who has been researching about AMD?
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@xXx_Regulus_xXx Luckily some times the cops recognize what they have. Some granny had a StG-44 brought back during WWII her late husband had in the attic, and it was registered into the ATF as a museum piece so that it didn't have to get destroyed. However in Brazil a 100 year old Luger was cut by plasma torch. It hurt to see the picture.
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Didn't happen
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 @WarDaddyUSA If the Patriot was destroyed why isn't Russia flying strategic bombers over Kiev and Lviv? What are they afraid of?
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Muh dogwhistles.
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@wafflecopter9296 Bakhmut stopped being strategically significant once Izyum was retaken. It's a useless half of a pincer advance surrounded by high ground. The cities behind Bakhmut will be even harder to take.
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Military equipment gathering dust in storage isn't "billions" you get to spend on other projects.
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@96MasterOfPuppets96 Practicing fire safety isn't the same thing as prohibiting all wood furniture and framing on houses, banning all combustible fluids, lighters and matches. They're effectively trying to place everyone on house arrest. This is madness.
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Yemen was attacked by the IDF?
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 @mrsam0496 How many calls has he failed?
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 @mezjean5966 dude acting like he's above wearing a free suit on youtube comments.
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By that logic why should cops stop crime? If they see someone getting attacked, they shouldn't pick sides.
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In some places the taxes actually make the legal weed just as expensive as the illegal weed, so the gangs are still active and selling. The whole point of legalizing drugs is preventing people from having to resort to the gangs and funding the violent crime that results.
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@kiwishitloard2568 Hey every bot obeying his masters and sending people to camps or guillotines or firing squads were giving lawful orders. Those giving the "lawful" orders deserved a hail of supersonic heavy metal with the elemental symbol Pb.
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Lies. Not only did Russia leave the treaties in 2023, the US stores B2 bombers inside climate controlled shelters due to the RAM coating. And Ukraine never signed such treaties so they would have no obligation to follow such "limits". Which wouldn't be in place anyway due to Russia's decision to withdraw from the treaty. Now ask your Moscow handler for new talking points.
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But you should have watched the video. Most tanks destroyed by A-10s in the Gulf War were by Maverick missile.
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Sheldon Robertson I assume she learned about pedophilia in the following 3 years.
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@AstroGremlinAmerican there are many people still watching on computers without an account (at work/school libraries) or on TVs where hitting the like isn't as instinctive as on the browser ir app.
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Also, you're saying that mass shootings will be stopped without evidence. What did gun control do to stop the mass shootings in France? Nothing. Gun control only stops legal gun owners, not criminals who get guns illegally.
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They lost T-90s lmao
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@peterbaker8443 No aircraft can "sustain" damage. If you get hit by a continuous rod warhead, the aircraft gets sliced in half.
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We assumed they shared some of our values but it turns out they act like all the other autocratic states: there's not enough training and inter branch cooperation to prevent competent troops staging a coup, there's an entire branch separate of the army with internal troops that answer to the head of state rather than military officers, there's three rival intelligence agencies, almost everyone in a position that matters was picked on the basis of loyalty rather than competence and everyone is encouraged to engage in corruption.
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@IndiaTides China built cheap because the West invested there after the Sino-Soviet split as a way to approach them and isolate the USSR. Did you know that before Japan focused on quality, they were known to produce cheap crummy goods? Like China was seen in the 90s and 2000s?
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@Formulka They can be directed at different targets.
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@GermanTopGameTV That's not how any of this works, at all. Toe popper mines are designed to blast a foot but don't have enough payload to game-end someone. Even bounding mines (bouncing betty) are designed to go off at knee/waist height for better coverage.
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Because one airplane could take out the ammo supply for hundreds of guns at once.
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+Chris McCartney yeah I got turned off from gaming as well in part due to GG among other reasons, but I think that the whole "gamers are conservative" angle is reductive as hell. Being a hardcore gamer means that you do enjoy games quite a lot, so of course you'll push back against people trying to change gaming. Hating the notion that passionate nerds who make a good job in game development should give up their seat to hack frauds simply because of their gender or ethnic group doesn't mean you're a conservative. Look at how bikers adopted the Iron Cross, the SS bolts, the Totenkopf, etc. The biker lifestyle was anything but conservative and Nazi Germany would have hated the American rider culture. White there are indeed neo-nazi/white supremacist bikers the fact is that people who were sick of society's norms decided to adopt the symbols of the "enemy" in the post-war period for shock value. Gamers are conservatives, gamers are liberals who don't agree with the current liberal narrative, gamers are "classical liberals" who these days are best represented by libertarian philosophy, etc. Some of them are pushing back, some of them just want to game without people berating about how they're privileged white males, some of them are all up in the Milo Yeastinfection hype train.
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The situation has changed over time and not all information has travelled at the same speed everywhere.
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@lolcat5303 Nope, they're building mosques in Moscow too my guy.
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@stylis666 Reductio Ad Absurdum
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You'd hold the sign if you needed the money.
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@jenh9426 You don't benefit the society by taking a symptom suppressor that still allows you to spread.
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Those mortar rounds did not fit Russian weapons. They were most likely purchased by Ukraine from Albania, lost to Russian capture, and recaptured by Ukraine again.
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@TransistorBased Holy shit dude. Boeing knew MCAS was responsible for the first crash and issued a revised checklist rather than admitting the problem so they could try and fix it before anyone knew. Boeing did owe an explanation - the aircraft had to be grounded until the fix was done. They just didn't want to admit fault so they deflected while trying to secretly fix the issue.
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@ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it I mean I'm only going by the two pictures I found on google images, the one with the golf club and the one with the fire illuminating her. The golf club one looks horrible, like she wrapped her breasts. The fire one...? It's achievable natty. No need to go into the army or take any "supplements", me and my girlfriend are both muscular because we fight in amateur kickboxing and her arms and shoulders do look like that second pic. However if her character model is actually bigger than male characters then it's 100% bullshit. But proportionally, it's a realistic look. EDIT: AHAHAHAHAH I ACTUALLY LOOKED IT UP her arms are too fucking stubby to be that thick holy shit In motion it's much worse than the pictures.
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Napoleon didn't have cruise missiles
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The paradox is that it's those who are struggling economically and think they have nothing to lose who will risk it all using their life savings to pay off traffickers and do dangerous sea crossings. Doctors and engineers may earn enough to dissuade them from desperate measures, and if they do want to migrate there's visas to expedite the hiring of foreigners who have high skills in demand.
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 @Melksh1 I love how we're simultaneously accused of caring about muslims selectively and also of not caring.
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@Cousin Eddie So you're hinging on Tesla's programmers being smarter than every single hacker in the world combined. Open source displays all the vulnerabilities for the world to see. Closed source is security through obscurity.
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@DOCTUSCUMSCIENTIA Underbarrel shotguns add weight to the rifle even though they're not used 99.9% of the time. There's a reason breaching shotguns are carried at the hip or on the rear of a plate carrier instead of underslung.
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@MrJohnTripperson That's not true, and the government wasn't toppled. The Verkhovna Rada had a vote to remove Yanukovych from office when he fled the country. The government was still in session so by definition they were not toppled if they VOTED to have snap elections.
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Ramled Mas no, there were zero exceptions. Did you misunderstand my point? If you shout fire in a crowded theater, the consequences determine your punishment. However, nobody stapled your lips shut. You had free speech, nobody took your rights away. If you kill someone in the name of religion, religion isn't banned. You go to jail. You. You can search anything about the Mayans and follow their religion. You're absolutely free, nothing can stop you. You can also kill someone - but you shouldn't. You can do anything you want, we can't stop you because this isn't Minority Report. You just can't claim that you did it because of your freedoms, because they won't be there for you in court.
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+Jesse Bach don't blame the educational system just because you can't read between your own lines. You're blaming the doctor, who is in a position he didn't ask for due to the War on Drugs, rather than the opiate addict who is just chasing the high. You're here, on a libertarian-leaning youtube video, promoting the War on Drugs. Why?
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>"HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF I MILKED YOU EVERY MORNING" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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They'll have to backfill what was lost. Say you are under contract to make 50 sandwiches. You finish them and send them for delivery. You take your next contract for another 50 sandwhiches. Your delivery guy drives off a cliff. You now need to make 100 sandwiches and people are hungry.
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+Martine M thanks for admitting that you don't care about safety, you just want people to be disarmed.
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 @hrodebrt Socialism is when I am required to wear billion dollar branding. The more expensive brands I wear the more socialister it is. Karl Marx said it.
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How do you take care of people with 30 year old missiles about to expire? It costs more to demill equipment than sending it to Ukraine.
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They're too busy with the hourly cocaine bumps.
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@Noadvantage246 You can't make an argument without pointing to other people, conveniently people you aren't talking to at the moment. Nobody's tearing down any party for calling out Romney as, for example, an anti-gun Republican. If anything, accepting such people as Republicans is the sure fire way to ensure Republicans are just a different flavor of Democrats.
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@nyph933 "Plus they are saving the world." - how the fuck is patrolling Afghanistan gonna save the world? "And all the young men and women going into the US Armed Forces simply want to serve their country." - and they ended up in the desert rather than defending their homeland. "How about instead of you having a mental breakdown in youtube comments, you go thank them for their service." - But why, exactly? What did any of them do for the American people?
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@chasmurphy1227 Norway did not have a P-8 aircraft yet. The minesweeper class he mentioned was not at BALTOPS 22. Jans Stoltenberg could not have worked for the Americans during Vietnam as he was in his teens.
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Russians understand what is fed to them by propagandists. Anyone who disagrees fled the country, is in jail, or hiding in their grandparents' house to avoid mobilization. This "survival war" is creating a massive crisis. Putin is the best NATO salesman, and he is destroying Russia from within. Men dying, fleeing the country or returning disabled in a country that already has a male/female unbalance.
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You people will cope and seethe about the Ghost of Kiev for the rest of your lives. The Russians already admit it went down.
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The fact that they run the GN merch store is a clear conflict of interest.
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@marshallkobe "who cares as long as we can buy trinkets at the Walmart" - Funny that you describe productivity, aka what feeds your kids, as "buying trinkets". Also, Walmart has been open the whole time. They pocketed a lot from the lockdowns.
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@DieselRamcharger it's not a matter of blaming successful people, those who are successful don't need help paying for college. Those who are not successful will not benefit from the free ride.
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@DieselRamcharger how am I a moron? OP said that middle to high income families would send their kids in a free ride to college, while impoverished families would have trouble sending their kids to college even if it was free. He's 100% right. Nobody is blaming successful people. "your parents hard work wasn't a sin." - nobody said it was, would you please stop saying things unrelated to the topic?
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@AlexKarasev Ukraine wasn't the frontier of Russia. It was the frontier of Europe. Beyond Ukraine you had bad mofos in the Caucasus, the steppes, there were pirates, etc. so you don't go East beyond those lands. That's why it was labelled Ukraina in maps before Russia existed.
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+Crowborn you do realize that the notation used in sight reading is intuitive for instruments that are laid out in linear fashion, like pianos, but not guitars, with their complex fingering geometries, alternate tunings, etc right? Have you actually tried to read guitar notation, written specifically for guitar? It's a fucking mess. You can't grab a sheet and perform for an audience because there's a lot of contextual information you have to retain on your memory beforehand. Memorizing a song on a guitar? Goddamn it's like guitarists have been doing it right all along and therefore suck at reading sheet music because they never bothered to learn something they do not need. What a mystery, right? /sarcasm
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 @justin-md4xm Pareto's law hits every field. 20% of the content creators make 80% of the money. I think the average payout is less than 3 figures monthly.
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+Xedd MrC dude they asked for the Crusades, they attempted to invade Europe several times, they attacked coastal areas of the Mediterranean and enslaved Europeans.
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Buddy, Trump was the perfect wrench to toss into the gears of the machine and watch it whine for a while. But he's a lifelong Democrat who took advantage of the pendulum swinging. I want nothing to do with the religious right who thought that Trump was their guy.
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 @milehighyt2097 You know what dillutes meaning? The comment failing to post due to shadowban. There's no meaning when the text never reaches the servers.
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@holoholohaolenokaoi2299 I don't see why people are ganging up on him, he stated his opinion and then backed it up with a non-liberal source. Do you have any counter argument that isn't simply an insult?
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@harbindersahota1680 They also have higher populational density.
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Male gymnasts have wicked biceps and shoulders. They're also 5'5 but they do have a lot of hypertrophy.
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He wasn't getting the truth out, he was trying to impress kids. Jesus...
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 @KasperYakolev-j1h How is it a cope? You're attributing courage to a man trying to impress minors online?
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The bullet is small enough in mass that there's very little felt recoil, most felt "recoil" isn't even true recoil but transfer of momentum from the bolt to the receiver. By slamming the countermass forward to make up for the slamming of the bolt to the rear, you get less aim shift from the cycle. In competition ARs the same effect is acomplished by removing mass from the carrier and purposefully "undergassing" the system. But this makes them less reliable in combat conditions.
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@karldavis7392 After 2 weeks, and that protection only works for around 3 months, as it starts dropping to around 50% at 4-6 months. So you get two and a half months of protection. And that was before Delta. So....
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 @linsqopiring6816 I have seen serpentza's channel over a decade ago - back then he was talking about the positives of living in China. You could tell he absolutely loved the country.
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NS2. Germany blocked it. Done.
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@numagok Forget airspace, you can control the airspace but the A-10 is vulnerable against the ground. The threat comes from below.
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@topkitena Uh flat desert is absolutely the worst terrain to fly helicopters in as you don't have terrain masking.
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@mezo72271 They have armed bodyguards, most likely.
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@NeffSang If people have weak immune systems they should be under lockdown, not the healthy. You're the one who's naive if you think the pharma companies don't like. You hide your opinions behind the credibility of "medical professionals" but it's people in suits selling you the vaccine. Not people in lab coats.
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"Let's try these nightmare vision goggles." "Everything looks exactly the same."
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@jamesdulak3108 In this case the technology would be for the good of mankind. Reagan shared GPS with the world even though it was military technology, after an airliner invaded Soviet airspace by mistake.
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Most of those systems are battle tested. Even HIMARS has been used against Russians - in 2018 Wagner was on the receiving end in Syria.
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Ukraine was against Russia's interests too.
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@Shackapalooza2010 that's a bad comparison because both the Rafale and the F-35 cost over a hundred million.
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Why did we all think situps were the solution in the 2000s?
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@stevemtc1 "The fact they put themselves in that position may be an issue but not really. If I go to the hood to buy drugs that is against the law. But it doesn’t negate my rights to self defense if I’m attacked" - Because then you're being aggressed upon. If you're instigating the fight you may create a situation where others fear for their lives, but you don't have the same legal excuse. They were not passive actors in this situation, and your analogy makes them look passive.
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 @maukka1545 Zelensky only wears helmet and armor for protection in hot zones. Prigozhin is wearing full combat gear including ammo.
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In this day and age I don't think many will give them clicks. I already had the piece read to me in this video...
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I've never seen a gun being trafficked but there's millions of them around. I've also never seen heroin being sold.
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@redkellbell6169 many people are straight up contrarians who want to see Biden fail here, or are tired of military expenditure after all the blunders (especially the Afghanistan collapse). Which are very bad reasons - even if it wasn't a moral duty to help Ukraine, we also assured them security with the Budapest memorandum.
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@angrydoggy9170 Honest question. Have you actually ready any of the theory or do you just learn about politics from twitter? Communism is essentially stateless socialism. Communism is Marx's utopia where no system of government is actually needed to uphold socialist values.
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@Oakette the "there's an app for that" phenomenon ended, people just use the social media apps, the car ride app, the banking/sending money app, the supermarket loyalty card app, etc. Apps are basically just delivery mechanisms for functions which already existed in browsers and allow them to ask for all sorts of permissions so they can gather data. You no longer have a market where you can just throw money at app development and hope one succeeds like when smartphones were the new frontier.
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How it Putin protecting Russia? He's destroying the country. Men are dying and fleeing abroad.
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Remember how you mocked the non-existent Kherson offensive last year? Then Russia gave it up. Mock all you want, Russia is going to give everything up. Including Crimea.
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 @0festiva0 "I don't care, they're all the same" "But that benefits Russia" "I don't care" Gee all you non-carers have very similar opinions. Or lack of them.
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It failed. The plan was to land IL-76 transports. They couldn't land and had to divert to Belarus.
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Transponders aren't a magic shield. Any malfunction or miscommunication can render IFF nearly useless. And they're clearly not immune considering how many of their own aircraft they shot down in prior incidents.
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@lykos89 "Just because something isn't illegal, doesn't make it ethical" - Then if it's not illegal it doesn't matter in a court of law. And seriously? What exactly is unethical about freedom of travel? "As far as blaming women, ha! That's hilarious." - It's not hilarious. You're blaming Kyle for being attacked. You can't even admit the attackers have agency of their own. Kyle somehow schemed to kill them, and somehow took advantage of them through mind tricks to do the deed. You are doing the "don't wear a skirt" or "don't take the bus at night" because you're taking the stance that if you go to a certain place you know what's going to happen. "to kill people " - YOU CAN'T PROVE THAT. You can't prove Kyle's intent. You've already made a judgement before the trial even started. Please. Drop it. "nice mental gymnastics there" - It's not mental gymnastics. You're the one blaming Kyle for his attackers' actions.
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 @johnlenin830 There's no country that can provide air cover like the US. The US is the exception, not the rule. Everyone else has to make do with smaller air forces. That's a fact.
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@MrRouxs "Its stealth is useless in Switzerland" - Why? "it's hyper connectivty also useless in a context of small patrol" - It's extremely useful. Now a small patrol is extremely aware, thus extremely deadly. If the point of having a defensive patrol is to search the skies and maintain a deadly presence that deters intruders, then having the most aware, and thus deadlier, fighters in the air is a fine way of telling everyone to never intrude on your airspace.
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@thedungeondelver "After the Gulf War, the Air Force was going to retire the A10." - After 7 downed and 13 written off as battle losses, it should have been. "The Army lobbied to get the planes, then the Air Force did a 180', because there were clear indications that Congress was going to allow them to do it." - All I could find was that congress decreed that some A-10s and OA-10s should be put under the Army but in November 1990 the USAF was ordered to retain them.
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He had to know it was a joke. Have you noticed how even a Target employee knew it was a meme?
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@WildSkyMtn "you watch this right wing in disguise the hill" - yes, this right wing in disguise giving air time to Kyle Kulanski
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@Maximilian1990 Dude got dragged so he had to expose the situation. Happens a lot. Like 60-70% of the drama these days is wild accusations that tarnish someone, then a week or two later the person who was accused brings forward the evidence that they're innocent and being framed. Everyone's insane by that metric.
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@Babylauncher3000 It's not. People on opposide ends of the political aisle often have personal relationships outside politics. They do keyfabe in front of cameras but then go out to lunch and dinner with each other.
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Sounds like someone could fund a college with no research and just pays people to teach. You can get people who can't get tenure in a fancy college, charge less for tuition.
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@Chriva "How would you like for a Chinese company to steal your idea and make you go out of business?" - they do that anyway
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@eduwino151 It's a waste to fire HIMARS at grunts. It's the artillerymen who need to be on the receiving end.
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@user-fx3cm4zr6y what a reach
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@internetanon952 That's a ridiculous premise. Literally anyone else could have been hired to do the same job. That's like saying if not for a contractor a house wouldn't exist. Null also constantly complains about CP and nonces, the logical explanation is that he washed his hands of what went down with 8chan. If you can listen to him complain about that type of content in general, you can't hold that against him as a gotcha.
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+Blitzmaschine "free speech could have negative effects on others?" if you're a whistleblower and your information is going to cause damages to a corporation or government, the damages you're about to cause are exactly why free speech exists. Free speech isn't meant to protect speech nobody wants to silence. It's exactly to protect speech that is destructive and thus some evil people might want to silence it for their own gain.
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@Jay-dm4id everyone is a psychopath except the two goody two shoes over here
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If I'm not mistaken that's what AMD tried/is trying with mGPU. The engine "sees" a single GPU while the API is actually splitting the load between multiple GPUs.
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It's the A-10 all over again.
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@DaGodFadder69 In that case McDonald's coffee was served much hotter than it should have been. The woman received 3rd degree burns and only wanted to sue for the medical costs, it wasn't a money scheme.
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@NotOrdinaryInGames "you would not survive without technology and knowledge" - but then we'd be extinct. "I did not know clothing and fire and stone tools and arrows weren't technology" - I don't know how to tell you this but most species on Earth do not use fire, stone tools or arrows. And they're alive. We've evolved from species that did not have those abilities and it's generally considered that the Homo Erectus was the first of our ancestors to harness fire and stone tools. Something had to come before them.
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@regulustheron2565 Look up Natalie Imbruglia's videoclip for "Torn", even though she has a boy-ish look she doesn't present as masculine at all.
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 @Jamicaman516 I think it was a reference to Wolf Warrior Diplomacy (named after the action movies). Their diplomats pissed off a lot of countries and the CCP had to tell them to cut it out.
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We're back to the "reee show ur facs coward" era of the internet now?
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LMAO so you follow anyway?
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"Do not come. Do not come." "I'm gonna come." waves crowd
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"every woman has an unrealistic standard that women need to be 4 feet tall" ahahahah he hasn't seen the >6ft mommy fetish take over the internet thanks to social media ahahahahahahaha
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Declaring victory because 300 guys surrendered. Impressive copium.
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@StreetRocketJoe The AK-50 has been years in the making. It's clearly a side project. Plus he has shown that he gets a lot of help on that one.
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@silveriver9 The CDC just released a report regarding mask mandates and how they only limited case growth by 1%. But nice of your to change the subject as soon as someone turned up the heat.
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@ytsm Defense is not the same as border control, that's like asking why isn't the TSA putting out fires. Or why the USPS isn't investigating crimes. The government can do more than one thing at once, direct your ire at the agency in charge of border control rather than the Pentagon. Also Trump is in office, you can retire the border talking point.
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It already has modern electronics. The thing is three decades past its expiration date. It's like putting a young man's brain on a 70 year old.
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 @bartunthegreat2999 Of course the criminal thinks people joining the neighborhood crime watch is "hostile".
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By paying attention to the conflict we also saw propaganda meant for internal consumption. The riddiculousness allows easy detection when similar but less outlandish narratives are published online.
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Literally any combination of words is good for them. Ever read someone describing what an AR is in so much detail they even included the "air cooled" aspect? Guys. It was an air cooled rifle. It uses the aaaair that's around us to cool down.
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You got it backwards. Nobody will ever buy a CAS bird. The Europeans aren't making one. The Russians aren't making one. The Chinese aren't. It's a dead end design, it's a dodo. The animal kingdom has moved on. If you depend on a platform that was outdated in the 1980s when Tunguskas were introduced, you're already doing something wrong and need to think how to get out of that dependency.
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You're not wrong, but if you hire a construction company to build you a house and the company drives a bulldozer into someone else's house are you liable?
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romaneeconti02 do the motherboards get tossed out often and sold for pennies on the dollar like Xeons?
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@TengrioftheCrimsonSky "we could also bring back our old prop planes" - Old aircraft are expensive to maintain and need to be babied because of fatigue setting in the materials. The OV-10 Bronco was used to provide CAS in Syria and Iraq as part of a project for a possible return and the Air Force shelved them again because the costs to maintain them were too high.
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"especially us white people" ?????????????????
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@rynolascavio3381 Venn diagram of 2008's economy, Weimar's rampant degeneracy, and 90s Yugoslavia ethnic relationships. Alexa, play Hard Times by Paramore.
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@springbloom5940 I fail to see how that means the air support was bad.
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@Kitty Cat Only the legacy Hornets will be retired and replaced with the 35Cs. The Super Hornets will stay in service.
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Afghanistan, which was under Taliban rule, was offering shelter to Al Qaeda. How is that unrelated to 9/11. Regarding Iraq, the invasion should have happened under Clinton as Saddam wiped his A on the conditions for the 1991 ceasefire. The Saudi citizens were part of an organization that had used Sudan and Afghanistan as their base of operations. The Saudi government and its people did not do 9/11. People sheltered by the Taliban, the de facto government of Afghanistan, did.
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The "traditional values" people have no love for liberty either.
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That's just nostalgia or preference for the 80s. The original Topgun is also really unrealistic.
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@jamesmassey2089 Yeah, the method has been researched since the 80s and it never worked. It was only approved for humans due to the emergency removing the safeguards.
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@leonardbright1058 typical commie bootlicker, justify everything with whataboutism.
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@stevenobrien557 The 1991 Kuwait oil fields pumped black soot into the atnosphere and the effects were 1) localized and 2) short lived. Plus, modern cities aren't built of wood like 1940s Japan.
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Fresh concrete won't bear the load, dawg. Bridges are reinforced with steel rebar, and have tensioning devices to keep the concrete under compression. The attacks cut the steel. Pouring concrete allows you drive normal cars, but armored convoys are unsafe.
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There's a Moscow, Texas funnily enough.
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The F-16 has full digital control while the MiG-29 is still mechanically linked. When flying a MiG-29 if you speed up or slow down, or change altitude, your wings provide different lift so your CoL moves in relation to the CoG so you need to keep re-trimming to stay level. The F-16 is multirole with modernized cockpits while the MiG-29 is still a fighter that happens to let you drop bombs and fire rockets. The F-16 is made to look for enemy aircraft and fight them, the MiG-29 is meant to be flown by a pilot listening to ground controllers telling him where the enemy will be, and then when close the pilot will turn on his radar or IRST to shoot missiles at the enemy.
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No points for guessing regime changes in the Middle East. It's like predicting more gun control in Canada or California.
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Posting from Texas Oblast, I see.
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Purchasing power parity? Buddy the price tags in supermarket bread say the interest rates if you're buying on a loan.
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Pros of driving stick: you don't get as fat from not eating big macs while driving
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@Thats_Unfortunate And they tainted their own trials by contacting the control group after 6 months and offering them the real deal. The whole thing is fucked.
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One guy on /k/ went exploring an abandoned building, found an illegal radioactive waste dump by accident and got mild radiation poisoning.
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Youtube automatically deletes a lot of comments. When people reply to me half the time they're hidden.
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Meh there are Christians among the rebels.
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 @TenylegMinekez-uc7co Patience? They just struck a pediatric hospital as retaliation for an ammo dump being struck in Voronezh.
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@sleepyfish I heard that in Australia if you have a bad reaction to the first shot, they only grant you an exemption to that same brand and you have to take a different brand for the second dose.
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@trg78lji43r "YoU dOn'T SoUnD NeUtRaL" buddy what's your obsession with neutrality? Anyone who doesn't parrot Ru MoD updates isn't neutral?
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The TacomaKid "No but a father aids in the training of you and how to ride the bicycle correctly and not end up with shin splints" - I was unaware that training eliminates the possibility of all accidents. "Father will notice his kids should I petals" - the fuck does this mean? "Your point is just as mute as mine " - you mean "moot". Mute is when a person can't speak.
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 @silaslong-js8ps Do I bring the hacksaw?
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@kevinjohnson6331 It's not free if the manufacturers pocketed billions out of it. You got robbed blind and didn't even notice it.
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@THICCTHICCTHICC Oh, do they? Are they giving Germany, Austria, France, Italy, etc an earful about how they're violating citizen's rights?
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 @nikolabolesnik Arms manufacturers have existed before Russia invaded...
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Unauthorized Automobile Reposession Industry Illicit Large-Sum Bank Withdrawls Jewelry Store Display Clearing Scheme
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Didn't make sense to waste them on playgrounds and glass pedestrian bridges either.
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@Abe Archambault And, pray tell, what good does the ventilator do when the hemoglobin is not carrying O2 like it should? Blow as much air into the lungs as you want, you're only increasing the chance of clots and pneumonia.
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The Phantom still scored the vast majority of kills by missile, with the addition of the gun not making much of a difference. Even the F-8, "the last gunfighter", claimed more kills by Sidewinder than by gun.
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The stoppable force meets the pushover object.
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And you're planning to enforce the ban how?
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@Baz.007 An air drop will get shot down by anti air systems. Airlift by helicopter would have to be done into Chornovaikava in the outskirts of Kherson - that airfield has been struck about 30 times so far and Russian equipment keeps getting destroyed there as a result.
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It isn't because they love to call justifiable homicides "murder".
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@longdongjon1201 It's not bots. We're sick of being played, we're sick of negotiating with terrorists. We're not bloodthirsty, Moscow is.
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@impaugjuldivmax You're the ones making claims so your credentials are in question, not the people asking you about them.
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@DeadpoolX9 "you dont see people from the 1600 to 1900s complaining about this shit like you are now." - what the fuck do you mean by that? lol so people aren't "complaining" like I am? I'm not complaining, I'm stating facts.
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Russia doesn't need the UN's seat either. It belonged to the USSR.
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Soturian It doesn't cost them a lot of money because they run ads on demonetized videos. They just pocket the money. I watch Forgotten Weapons and Ian himself manually disabled the monetization of his channel when youtube started changing policies. Yet today I got 4 ads on his video. "they have to weigh that against likely civil and even criminal liability" - name one time YouTube was held as criminally liable for anything. The fact of the matter is that if you're familiar with youtube lawsuit history regarding copyright infringement you'll realize that one of their defenses is that they can't be held liable for what gets posted on their website because there's too much content to control. "During the surge in Iraq some al-Qaeda guys posted a video of them detonating a land mine" - and ISIS posted videos here. Twitter also allowed ISIS accounts to be ran for a long time. "Funding terrorism is a felony." - but people getting demonetized are clearly not terrorists. I can't understand. I point you to a video that explains exactly what are youtube's methods and reasons and you go off about things that are clearly non-issues.
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No wonder nothing ever gets done lol
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The USAF still lost about 200 of them in SAR missions, though.
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"I totally could, but I won't" cope. Of course they can't do a genocidal run. It would undermine their efforts. They've pinned themselves down by their own objectives. Their only choices are biting down and suffer the losses, or go home.
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@Oldsmobility98 Air superiority is defined by the ability to conduct aerial operations without concern for the enemy air force. Russia is not conducting aerial operations over Ukrainian territory, only Russian-held territory. The armor turkey shoot ended when Ukraine reached high ground, denying the terrain masking. The real turkey shoot were the multiple helicopters destroyed in a single ATACMS strike.
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@woodenfloor3131 "Market failures require government intervention" - Usually it's the government intervention that causes the market failure. "Since it's a monopoly" - A government enforced monopoly... "Would like to see your economic argument other than government bad" - Sadly, you already did that for us. You correctly pointed out it's a monopoly. Who else but the government is enforcing it?
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@Pystro One time he shot the triple barrel shotgun while dressed as Jesus for Halloween and his comments section was a war zone.
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You signed the bill that banned machine guns, Ronnie. ARGHHHHHHH
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@argon7479 Those "current" economists are riding the trendy wave. Those things generate more money? Building schools doesn't mean anything when people don't want to learn. Spending on infrastructure is just a subsidy on big businesses. The currency is inflating. You're just not seeing the effects because the inflation is contained to the financial sector. Once you start spending on real goods, you'll see.
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@myspeechles spheres don't pull things - things being pulled together is what makes the sphere. On a three dimensional space if you say "give me all points exactly 5 meters away from the point x,y,z" you get a sphere with 5 meter radius centered on point x,y,z. When a proto planet starts accretion of rock in space it grows into a sphere because the rocks "fall into place" as a sphere maintains equal distance from the center to the outer surface. A flat planet would have very weak gravity on the edges so it wouldn't grow by attracting rock.
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@elta6241 Aircraft used to crash by the dozen and kill pilots left and right until the kinks and training issues were figured out. The classic aircraft everyone loves were death traps compared to the F-35.
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If NATO got involved it would be easier than Iraq 1991.
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@NovusRex1788 Number of guns rose above 1996 levels but because the population grew in the same time period, by rate it's actually lower.
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 @steezydan8543 Still, don't say "AI". We had algorithms and even visual recognition before AI.
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@spackle9999 The F-15EX is simply a way to keep the St. Louis plant open. It's a "top of the line" aircraft with high operational cost and sticker price.
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@MarkoNurmenniemi if you're in a society that doesn't need guns, then it's such a safe society you can allow anyone to own guns and there's no problems
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Cheaper and better? Each battery costs like a billion and a half, and a system was wrecked in Crimea last year while a drone filmed from above.
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@YorkshireFlea The crisis is worse by not addressing the issue in Ukraine. We had ties to Russia and our cheap gas was paid for in blood. Russia specifically used grain as a weapon. Increasing food prices in developing countries by restricting Ukrainian exports would worsen our situation. You can run away from your problems all you want, but you'll have to face them sooner or later.
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@GolgariGymBro if failing to obliterate personal info from trash is your main line of defense against dumpster diving, that still doesn't protect you from people who handle garbage disposal.
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Which is why Gepards and even heavy machine guns with spotlights are used.
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Doesn't matter. The moment you are rewarded you become a shill. Like, in gaming forums there were nvidia fanboys who eventually leveraged their online activity to get paid to do it. It's irrelevant that they praised a manufacturer of graphics cards for free, they got paid at some point.
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@A Common Man No according to the old definition. I refuse to use the new definition.
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@georgerobartes2008 You mean the Austrian painter who had Indian volunteers (common goal of fighting against Britain) and accepted Persians as Aryan? Plus had Mr Sword of Islam himself, Mussolini, by his side?
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@Old_mother_hubbards_chubbard Get off your high horse. The vaccinated still spread but you people think you're not responsible. So you have no business calling anyone out for losing responsability.
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@gtv6chuck Consider that a loaded GAU-8 is 4,000lbs. You can do similar damage with 25mm-27mm guns. If you have the chance to dump a gun on the rear of tanks, having to haul 4,000lbs one way and 2,200lbs of empty gun back and the only aircraft that carries it is already a thrust-limited aircraft... it's kinda obsolete.
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It's a doubled-edged sword. They need to film and photograph everything they can that shows progress for their propaganda.
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@Sujay95 lol almost no energy needs were satisfied by Iraq, when most oil consumed in the US is domestic, Canadian, Saudi, etc.
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@lakorai2 No, it isn't. The flu shot is changed every year to be fine tuned for the most common strains that year. With this you're just getting more of the same faulty product because it doesn't work right. it's not exactly the same.
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"has flaws" is too soft of a criticism for something we'll sink billions of dollars into and will prove useless, forcing us to buy thorium technology from China because we refused to research it ourselves.
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N S people live their house alone with a plumber? I'm not calling plumbers thieves but I'm not bringing some guy from the phone book to have open access to my house.
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Libertarians aren't asking for importation of foreigners. Libertarians are asking for a smaller state, which would mean greater freedom of travel but also there's no fucking incentive to come to a libertarian state because there's little to no welfare.
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Okay. Do those advances mean they win or just that they keep losing more men and materiel?
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@Treblaine If the choice is the weight of an optic or a grenade launcher, the calculation is on the side of adding weight to increase rifle functionality. You're not guaranteed to have your rifle by your side when you get targeted by a drone. This cannot be thought of as a weapon, but more of a life vest. It stays strapped to the body. You were riding on a BMP that drove over a mine and you got flung into a ditch? Your rifle is in the bushes. The drones show up to pick off the stragglers. Is this a weapon or a life vest?
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@Drew Peacock They're not "perfectly valid" when they're demonstrably incorrect.
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"I have an interest in geopolitics." "Okay, 42nd Air Defense Brigade is running out of S-300MV so at most they can withstand three separate volleys of Kh-101s. Should we prepare the 9K37 Buks modified to carry AIM-7 missiles?" "I have no idea what any of those words mean."
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I see screenshots of his tweets all over and I swear to god I lose IQ points every time I'm exposed to them.
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@KaiokenBlu Yes. Basically the exposure to the modern world is overwhelming not just due to the shock but also how fast paced life is. If you come from a simple life as a peasant in North Korea and then have to stand on your own in the South Korean job market, there's not many chances of integration and it makes those people dependent on charity/institutions.
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+Goreuncle Impulse depends on the mass of the fuel anyway so no matter how much energy is generated, none of it will be used as thrust.
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Big Moose Well, the original context is that by cheating, physics have no power over you. They'd still have, as massless fuel can't produce impulse. The "cheat" is only possible in the game engine which merely sees mass and thrust as inputs on a game file rather than calculate them.
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+Tassadarky >"Seriously though, most of the things they mocked were caricatures propagated by social media and anti-intellectuals. It all came off as someone on Reddit describing Tumblr without ever actually going to Tumblr, only going to the troll pages and believing them to be genuine, or just seeing what random people on twitter say about it and taking it all as pure fact" I love the way how everyone wants to pretend tumblr and twitter is a walled off section of the internet and everything inside is contained. So you're telling me that the guy who got expelled from college after receiving oral sex while passed out from a drunk girl (making him the "rapist") isn't a perfect reflection of what the "trolls" on tumblr want? Are trolls so effective that they managed to undermine colleges without actually being real people? You think the people on twitter aren't actual activists and members of groups in real life colleges? You think people on tumblr aren't writing fiction books, making videogames or possibly writing articles on "real" websites or even becoming academics who will in the future teach those gender/women studies classes? You really think that these people don't have an influence on culture?
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We didn't need tails, so we don't grow tails anymore.
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@laurancerobinson this argument is useless if you're not willing to say which studies you're even referring to. I tried to find them on my own and came across the LANDSET Report, which the MoD apparently tried to claim was fake and then later admitted to be real. Classy.
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+Mrcrazydave11 mills out the vtec cams "Weight reduction, bro!"
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Nah, there's a real big trend of small turbo diesel engines replacing larger NA ones. Logic being that when driving carefully you get the gas mileage of a small engine, but when you need the power it's there. Most people only need it when overtaking, and the turbo is spooled by then. When electric takes over, there's no need for a NA engine.
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https://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2013/109846/ (read the whole thing if you can): "Calls for population-wide implementation of male circumcision on the grounds that it prevents STIs are not supported by the findings of these analyses." [...] "Sexual partners are not found randomly but usually within one’s cultural or ethnic group. Since circumcision status has a strong association with religious, tribal, and cultural factors, men with a particular circumcision status will likely have sexual partners from within a group that has a predominance of men with the same circumcision status. The smaller the group, the more quickly the rise and the higher the peak prevalence for a particular STI [109]. Consequently, when circumcision rates are high, intact men would be more likely to be in a smaller ethnic, religious, or cultural group and thus have a higher peak prevalence of a disease." [...] "It is also clear that any positive impact of circumcision on STIs is not seen in general populations. Consequently, the prevention of STIs cannot be rationally interpreted as a benefit of circumcision, and a policy of circumcision for the general population to prevent STIs is not supported by the evidence currently available in the medical literature." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3036761/ : "The data regarding the benefits of adult circumcision for the prevention of HPV are compelling. For other non-ulcerative STIs the benefits of circumcision appear minimal. In addition, it would appear that the current literature supports adult circumcision in the developing world for the prevention of ulcerative sexually transmitted diseases. The implications for HIV acquisition are important since ulcerative STIs are a known risk factor for this. The data regarding the benefits of adult circumcision for the prevention of HPV are also compelling. For other non-ulcerative STDs, the benefits of circumcision appear minimal. Overall, the effectiveness of circumcision in the prevention of any STI should be assessed by taking all factors into account, including baseline prevalence of the disease in question, sexual behavior, use rates of condoms and sociodemographic group. Translating findings from adult studies, mainly performed in the developing world, into policies regarding neonatal circumcision in the developed world would be premature and inappropriate at this time." https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/28/circumcision-prevents-hiv-infection-medical-myth : "Recent evidence shows male circumcision to be of no value in preventing HIV transmission reception in both heterosexual and homosexual contacts.4,11 The medical evidence now indicates that the statement, "male circumcision prevents HIV infection" should be regarded as a medical myth." http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/STD/vanhowe6/ : "What began as speculation has resulted a century later in 60-75% of American boys being circumcised with no clearly confirmed medical benefit. In the interim, no solid epidemiological evidence has been found to support the theory that circumcision prevents STDs or to justify a policy of involuntary mass circumcision as a public health measure. While the number of confounding factors and the inability to perform a random, double-blind, propective trial make assessing the role of circumcision in STD acquisition difficult, there is no clear evidence that circumcision prevents STDs. The only consistent trend is that uncircumcised males may be more susceptible to GUD, while circumcised men are more prone to urethritis. Currently, in developed nations, urethritis is more common than GUD [34]. In summary, the medical literature does not support the theory that circumcision prevents STDs." Also a lot of the studies involve the DEVELOPING WORLD and the findings are hardly significant for developed countries, which creates other problems: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3255200/ : "One the major problems, according to Travis, is that the researchers didn’t determine the source of HIV infections acquired during the clinical trials, assuming all infections would be from heterosexual sex, though some of the infected men reported acquiring the virus during a period when they didn’t have sex or had sex using condoms." "Travis also claims the clinical trials were rife with various types of bias, such as attrition bias (the number of participants who dropped out vastly outnumbered those who became infected), duration bias (the trials were not long enough to determine if the positive effect would plateau) and expectation bias. Some of the primary investigators had already called for mass circumcision, Travis writes, so it is no surprise that they got the results they expected to see. This expectation of positive results may also explain why all three trials were terminated early." "Another form of bias in the research, writes Travis, is lead-time bias. The circumcised men were told not to have unprotected sex for 4–8 weeks, yet they were monitored immediately, as were the men in the uncircumcised group. The men in the control group were therefore exposed to infection for a longer period of time." For fuck's sake if you're gonna tell the group of men who got snipped to NOT HAVE SEX and then track how many HIV infections the two groups get the circumcision group will have less because the uncut men will have an extra 1-2 month period of sexual contact "In the chapter, Geisheker notes that mass circumcision could lead to problems in some settings. It could discourage the use of condoms, for example. Also, circumcised men are “likely to present themselves, especially to poor or illiterate village women, as rendered surgically immune to HIV.”"
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Buddy you can see their brutal executions online, how the hell are you going to sit here and argue they treat people better?
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@wantanamera What involvement? There's CCTV footage of uninvolved people taking stray rounds. And what kind of argument is that? Oh they're good people, but don't get involved.
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There's always more infantrymen in need than airframes or pilots.
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@karenpierce6424 if people have it and don't know it they'll be spreading it further
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@DIREWOLFx75 the south bank of Kherson is more flood prone than the north. You're using all the Russian copes. If the dam schizo theory was true, then Russia would want to remain in Kherson city rather than the marshes in the south.
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Irish Lad exactly, the police can't protect you for shit and it's tine people realize that.
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@sercravenmohead3631 They started as rich but many went broke or lost their lives in the revolution. They actually walked the walk.
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@STEVSGONE Building the website isn't the problem. Youtube handles terabytes of bandwidth and has seevers in multiple parts of the world to ensure it's usable. Alternative websites are noticeably slower because they simply can't pay for the infrastructure.
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@treeblinn That doesn't make any sense. How do you reach a baseline of living standards by just producing food to feed yourself? If you're living in a mud hut with no clothes or electricity but your garden has all the food and water you need, you're self-sufficient in terms of survival but your living standards are of a middle age peasant. Exporting goods allows you to progress your living standards. Shooting for just survival keeps you where you are. We're not even discussing who gets to keep the money, just the fact that there's a huge misconception with the HURR DURR FEED DA PIPOL talking point. You can't excuse mismanagement away by saying you did it for the people.
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They withstood the airplane strike. The fires brought them down.
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@z-America Out of 100-something in service and 44 destroyed, 9 more were lost. Mind that for every aircraft in the air, several are grounded for maintenance. The Alligator enters endangered species status.
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All you people post the same stuff over and over.
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+tasnibur rahman how is he responsible? He just committed a felony on camera and posted it online. It's illegal to shorten a barrel without a tax stamp.
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 @NathansHVAC Only when you ignore the curvature of the earth. Turkey found out the hard way the brochure range for the S-400 is only for very high altitude targets.
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 @Anor999 Makes perfect sense. Why do you think prices are always 1.99, 2.99, 3.99 at stores? People look at the whole numbers first, and don't think about the decimals.
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The Ukrainians call them "meat waves". Never seen them use the term human wave.
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Stealth is based on absorbing and redirecting energy. Reflecting radar into the big nothing prevents the signal from being picked up. If a stealth missile reflects radar to the aircraft, and the aircraft reflects towards the missile, more energy bounces back to the radar receiver.
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There's no two-seat F-35. The Hornet scenes had cameras in the rear seat while a real pilot flew in the front. On a F-35 even if there were cameras, an actor couldn't fly it.
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@jaydeeoldboy9903 fuck off. I knew Jim was garbage since the 2012-2013 era when this shit started cranking up right before gamergate. He used his podcast on Destructoid to shit on men because male sex toys are disembodied female body parts. The dumb fuck waved a giant purple dildo around on Jimquisition and had no self-awareness to even realize female sex toys are often disembodied male body parts. He didn't do such things that often but whenever he had the chance to shit on men and put women on a pedestal he fucking took it.
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I mean Barry Seal flew the drug planes to Arkansas, right?
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"I'm a licensed practitioner" "Water and lemon for a week kills all disease" You're licensed in baloney.
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Jahman Borneo You're questioning someone's education over an explanation of how the immune system works?
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@MisterNiles You're comparing different variants to sickness and dying from physical trauma. Nice logical fallacy you used there. Either way if antibodies don't last long does that mean people will need to keep getting more doses all their life?
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@BengVideo You can get a visa if you have an employment opportunity, and an acting gig would suffice. It just takes time and since they needed the competitors at the same time they didn't risk it.
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@goldenhate6649 The F-15EX maybe gets mach 2.9 in clean config at a specific altitude. In real use cases, it's probably never going to go past 1.6 Mach as missiles and fuel tanks create so much drag at supersonic speeds.
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 @بهايموحميرقردوغانابوشخة Egypt's claim to fame was getting mauled by Israel, Russia's army was shredded in Ukraine.
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What NATO propaganda?
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@gambrydew2059 What's wrong with supporting Zelensky?
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The Concorde lost relevance after the 1970s oil crisis and Britain/France kept them flying for pride rather than profit.
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 @Tea_laBlue Nagasaki and Hiroshima had survivors...
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 @uknwarrior7980 200 a day only happened for a couple of weeks in Severodonetsk.
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@youtubesucks3882 Things are relative. If you live like a middle class Westerner in North Korea you have it pretty good. Party officials probably live like our high income households, such as a couple where the two earners are doctors/lawyers/engineers. Those at the very top live like our celebrities, they're allowed to enjoy things like car collections as sometimes exotic items are found to be headed to NK, and we know they send their kids to study in the West (Kim and his brother both studied in Switzerland, I think).
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@rahn45 That's for conflicts where you have good medical and quick evac. In the Kiev invasion axis Russia had a 1:1.6 KIA to WIA ratio. Every wounded had to flee through Ukrainian territory (thus risking getting capped on the way back) and end up in Belarus. Not only is time and the territory itself against you, you'd end up in a Belarus hospital. Good luck.
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They do both. Ukrainians have complained that they are worn down by fighting the waves, and the assault groups come later to exploit their exhaustion and lack of ammo.
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The defenders had to stay inside the bunker due to the shelling outside. The artillery barrage only stops when the attackers get near.
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I once saw an old dude in the subway with a shirt from a BDSM website. Powermove.
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"A day without spamming comments is wasted" - Gearoid T
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@Conserpov Wrong. Recon by fire aka "speculative fire" is firing on positions to measure the response. Recon in force aka probing attacks is an attack that is meant to gauge the defender. Recon by fire will not risk an assault element as you don't send men, just shells.
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Yeap, they killed and seriously harmed a bunch of people so an extra law would have stopped them!
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+cubismo85 if he had any brain cells he would realize he posted a video of himself illegally shortening a rifle barrel.
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Apache flew into Iraq in 1991. SAs from single to double digit, French Rolands and MIM-23 Hawks.
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And they snuck past Russians?
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 @Gstyle1 a month or so ago T-62s were destroyed near Adiivka.
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 @ActualJusticeWarrior There was still an undeniable conflict of interest and Kratz was a sex pest. They weren't framed by Netflix, they did it to themselves.
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@johnmackenzie3871 The Highway of Death is a world renowned curbstomping of Biblical proportions, which is why you know the event by name. The failed Northern offensive was just that. A failed offensive. It's a major defeat that will be on history books, but won't get a name.
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Men in sandals have shown more fight than Russians. The well armed polar bear is bogged down within walking distance of the pre-2014 borders.
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@leafymarmot6348 an aircraft that can't take off from Navy carriers let alone short deck carriers?
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Ironically it showed people like Chris Roberts need a publisher breathing down his neck or else he won't ship a game to save his life.
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Several falsehoods. The Kiev axis was a repeat of the Czechoslovakia plan: seize airfield and use it to land air mobile forces next to the capital. The southern invasion axis was compromised by traitors in Ukrainian politics, it is known that certain bridges being blown on time would have halted the advance there. Kharkiv was a massive battle, because Russia responded with aviation. Once AAA and MANPADS ambushes took care of Ru AF it became a slaughter because the best way to produce casualties is on an enemy on the run. The pictures from Kharkiv show an absolute butchery. But Ukraine outran both their supply lines abd also reached the end of their 3d topographic map prepared for the offensive and could no longer plan the best terrain.
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+Kevin except that they designed the exhausts to reduce IR signature. Same concept as stealth: you can't make shit invisible. But between having a normal exhaust and a reduced signature exhaust, I'm going to pick the one that isn't as visible to the IR seeker.
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Wrong. It was shot down by the 332 marked Buk from the 53rd anti air missile battalion, from Kursk Russia. Everything else is FSB manipulation.
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@Robert-ns7id Exactly. "Ukrainians will never be Russified" - Dudayev
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Took two weeks. They used civilians as cover.
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 @legendarydn3804 The button that launches a Hellfire doesn't care about the pilot/gunner orientation.
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@Aggnog Buddy the gas company doesn't know what brand stove I have and what food I cook with their gas. They know who I am because that's sort of useful when bills have to be paid. But if I really wanted I could probably find a way to discconect the gas service to the house and just buy gas cannisters.
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@Sman7290 The fouling is an issue but not the main problem. When the powder was changed, it still had to meet muzzle velocity specs. So they loaded the cartridges pretty "hot" for the same velocity achieved with IMR powder. For whatever reason, port pressure was not a consideration on the specs. So the overcharged ammo had excessive port pressure, which caused rifles to not only attempt an extraction while the case was still pressed against the chamber, but also caused excessive bolt velocity. Both situations could be a source of jams, especially if the chamber was pitted due to lack of chroming and the cartridge walls were gripping the rough surface. The powder was not clean burning. But the AR can handle dirty ammo to some extent. This ammo was completely overdriving the system. If I'm not mistaken the issue was calcium deposits from the additives fouling the inside of the gas block but it would take a lot of firing for you to choke the system. The hot ammo issue could cause you a headache on the first trigger pull if you were unlucky. And that was the main problem.
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Is it interesting? It's as interesting as noticing the sky is blue.
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@GreatGatling MacGregor also said Ukraine would collapse multiple times months ago.
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Tends to happen when the enemy runs away.
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@TheBelrick Nope. The Legacy Hornet will be replaced by the F-35C while the Super Hornet will be replaced later. The F-16 will eventually be replaced leaving the F-35A. The A-10 is getting more airframes approved for retirement. The F-15 was never to be replaced by the F-35. The F-15 is a twin engine air superiority fighter. It was meant to be replaced by the F-22.
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 @aarishgendor8786 Instead of talking populations we could talk high ground and road accesses, which is more important in a war than census data.
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@andishawjfac Sir I'm going to have to ask you for your shitposting license.
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Reminds me of a Chuck Pressburg story. Mortar lands behind him and his guys. Then mortar lands ahead of them. He turns to the guy next to him "are we being bracketed?" "Seems like it" "well then let's get out of here!"
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@captaindak5119 Laugh at what? Russia's incompetence?
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@WageSlaving2TheTop ! the point is that even without "kulaks" the USSR couldn't produce shit for the price-controlled stores. You know where there was food in the USSR? In the farmer markets without price fixing. Goddamn private farmers fed the people, not the state.
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That's not true.
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@vaibhavrajsingh9552 The Patriot was never destroyed. One of the elements of the battery was damaged and repaired. If the Patriot was destroyed, why no follow up attack while it was down?
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It is, because a department getting sued for itchy trigger fingers costs more money.
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@kineticdeath the A-10 only gets 11% of CAS missions as of 2014. F-18s, F-16s, F-15s and B1s have replaced the A-10 in the CAS role.
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Donetsk city has been under Russian occupation since around 2014.
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Eminem was anti-establishment. Criticizing Trump is pro-establishment as it comes, because the establishment is much larger than whichever idiot is holding office. The establishment is the religious right trying to stifle free speech because it's obscene and offensive, and then the progressive side trying to do the same to protect women and minorities. Establishment is the right bombing the shit out of the Middle East while berated by the anti-war left, but then the left gets their man into office and the bombs keep dropping. Eminem's antics actually stood for something, once. Now it's just taking sides.
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@bigdiccmarty9335 runs into object poorly placed near a corner and Source engine flings me across the map at 230mph
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Russia lost to Chechnya in the 90s.
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@MetalGearsOfThought Kernel level anti-cheat cannot beat cheats in the arms race. Since data can't be encrypted and decrypted in real time, you can intercept the memory data that reveals enemy positions externally and not have to run cheat software inside your computer.
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 @Bryan-Hensley Seems unlikely because Cuba got pissed at Russia for trying to recruit Cuban men.
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It's actually 20,000 but 10,000 are in very Aladeen state.
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@rhumandlove393 "I believe in this particular personal sacrifice... I despise authoritarianism" - So you despise authoritarianism but you're willing to make an exception. Newsflash: the majority of people who defend authoritarianism claim to be against it, but are willing to make a few exceptions. Once you group everyone together, and congregate all their exceptions, you have the manufactured consent for authoritarianism that nobody will question.
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What did he say?
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@bigblue6917 "The problem with reliance on stealth is that once they find a way to defeat it, and they will, the aircraft such as the F-35 is vulnerable." - If stealth is defeated, any non-stealth aircraft is too dangerous to fly and will be immediately grounded.
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Adam Lannerd "I don't see how anyone could dislike the A-10" - It was outdated nearly 30 years ago when the Iraqis shot 7 down and damaged 13 to be written off, forcing the USAF to call for the grounding of the A-10. It was developed because of politics, because even though the A-7 was one of the best CAS aircraft in Vietnam the Army's fetish for getting men killed in helicopters pressured the USAF to take in a slower, less capable aircraft so that it could escort helicopters. Plus the A-7 was sort of the Navy's baby.
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@蓮90 A deadly disease that spares most people who get it. Hmmm.
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According to an Iranian who "leaked" the Mossad docs to a no-name rag from Turkey nobody heard of.
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I think they're supposed to enter one way and exit the other. That way it prevents aircraft from crashing into each other while taxing in and out. Like a one way street.
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@PvtPartzz That's a bad argumentative tactic. Nobody ever says they'd like to have less ammunition in a fight, but the problem is that a guns kill is a one in a lifetime opportunity, very unlikely to present itself, and if you're not well trained in air to air gunnery it's completely wasted on you. So instead of asking would they prefer to have no gun, ask: was the tradeoff worth it?
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@Chiiip420 If you ask someone to commit a crime while working for the government that's entrapment. If you set up bait and criminals go for it out if their own free will, it's a sting. Perfectly legal.
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If I refuse to buy from your store that's not a law, that's choice.
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They're not policing anyone's sex life. Sorry but "I don't care what you do in the bedroom" is contingent on keeping it in the bedroom.
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@salioubah5648 No. Flying in supplies is very expensive and helicopters have a payload limit. Plus, Chornobaivka has been hit multiple times so the supplies can be destroyed in the airfield.
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He wasn't the admin, hotwheels was.
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There's several Bakhmut videos showing it.
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@gratefulguy4130 Overrunning? Overextending.
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"Muh nahtzees"
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Velocity Raptor TBC Legends are just that. There's legendary boxers still alive, who don't belong in a ring.
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J Roger Trudel you do realize that density requires gravity to pull things down, right? Let's say you were inside a gaseous nebula with no planets nearby to pull you in. Where would you "fall" to? Where is "down"?
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Even if they assume ignorance because someone else handed it to him presuming it was safe, he's still at fault because he's a producer and he allowed the conditions to deteriorate. The use of weapons on set should not have continued after the original crew walked off.
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@martam.1994 Israel is not in Europe. It's in the Middle East.
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But Russia has been pushing buttons for over a decade. It's like saying we didn't need a slippery floor to fall right after slipping on a wet floor. Sure, we can fall in a myriad of ways. But it was the wet floor that caused it this time.
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@Silver_Prussian They literally hired one of the former radicals. Ramzan's father declared Jihad on Russia. They "destroyed" the radical elements by switching them to Ramzan's side.
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@High-Powered Play Most people survived the disease. Most people didn't even know they had it. Show me the numbers of people who will need a ventilator for the rest of their lives.
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 @PRshik As opposed to Putin fighting to the last drop of Russian blood? Who's spilling Ukrainian blood? How is it wrong to provide arms to those who are willing to fight?
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@themasterofdisastr1226 It's literally not going to fit.
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A-10s are known for friendly fire. There's a reason ground controllers direct CAS, not the pilot.
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I'll explain: The kill radius of common offensive grenades is just a few dozen meters, but injuries at a hundred meters are possible. That's why during military training they usually have walls or ditches to cover behind. The powder used as explosive is a low order explosive, meaning there's not a lot of blast. The main killing and injuring agent was the shrapnel/fragments/whatever, and the human body is good at stopping it. A nail at high velocity is very light and will lose speed fast.
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@militaristaustrian Weird metric. You're trying to judge a military failure through political results. Sacrificing young men in a war to give a doomed political structure a few more years is exactly the type of nonsense someone with a Z on his name would defend. Limiting losses is preferable.
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@Tony P Actually, people did say that. Your new script is just the moving of the goalposts. At first it was herd immunity. Now it's to "teach". Even though 80% of people don't need to be taught because they didn't get sick.
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That was never at stake.
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 @richardsadventures4958 if he had done his job well, he'd at least try to salvage what was left of his dignity. He just stopped caring and puts on the clown makeup.
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@cptclemgmail Ka-52s have to use nose mounted sensors. The Apache has the Longbow radar, which is mounted on the mast. They're essentially worlds apart. Did you see the aftermath pictures of the gun shooting the Ka-52s own nose because the gun wobbles excessively in its mount?
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 @Jonas028 The writing was on the wall, they waited. This is playing catch up.
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@UrsineAutist You gotta burn the rot or else it spreads.
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@kshen7485 lmao pretending you care about American deaths.
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Based is when you send your male population into combat riding Chinese mobility vehicles for the sake of a dying man. The more of your own population you send to the grinder the more basedered it is.
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@wtfjesus8251 I can drop a laptop faster than I can exit a bus.
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But it's not similar. Russian tanks were running out of fuel, getting blown up into the stratosphere. These losses are quite normal for an offensive. I think Azerbaijan lost like 50 tanks in 2020 and the Armenians started mocking them. Then they broke the line. Losing vehicles in combat is just reality. Having the tank crew ejected into space on a consistent basis? That's just a disgrace.
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Tom is the type of guy to get in a fight and you only see him and his opponent turn into a dust cloud with occasional fists and feet swinging outward.
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@punishedmeridia Loitering will get you killed. The best CAS during Vietnam came from prop planes because technology did not allow the human in the loop to acquire targets by himself in a jet, being almost completely dependent on ground forces to direct the attacks. The only solution at the time was giving the human a plane with lower performance. We don't need to do that anymore.
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The fact that they're less scary is why they're in theory more likely to be used.
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Frank Zappa — 'Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.'
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@frankrenda2519 But it wasn't proven in '99. It forced Yugoslavia to sign the Kumanovo Agreement and accept UN Resolution 1244. What's the point of having troops if the leadership capitulates?
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If a third party gives you 50 free Hellfires and you waste one, you're down to 49 (quick maffs). Are you sure that only 49 high enough value targets will show up until the next batch? While you may not think of monetary cost, you think of supply. The dollar signs are worthless, if you need 50 Hellfires to complete your mission and you decided to waste one, you're gonna feel like a real jerk.
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Fun fact the Rossiya 1 channel ran that story and later issued a retraction. But with 15 other sources parroting the story the misinformation seed was planted.
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You mean red as in republican or red as full communist?
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@scgrigsby How is that related? F-16s, F-15Es, F/A-18s, etc combined do more close air support than the A-10. In fact, the F-16 alone already does more CAS than the A-10.
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To be fair, the distillation process does sterilize the drink.
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@cookiemonster208 They make more money by making a slightly different formula and marketing it as something with another name. Why would they want the older drug to get the advertising?
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@GameGod77 Jack's legal power was threatening frivolous lawsuits. Anita, without stepping into a courtroom, manipulated an entire industry.
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@kartikeyatiwari2502 what bigger fights? They can't even defend Armenia.
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@saiganesh7502 Cluster munitions were used in Libya?
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@andy5478-MTB A free and fair election where the winners openly admitted they made fraud easier in the months leading to the election.
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 @pepperbee_ It was "Jace Connors" aka Parkourdude91 who is the reason for the name. Worth looking into, absolute kino.
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I don't know if I'm not paying close attention but I literally never hear the smoke detector and only read comments about it.
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"It's not representative" in a morbid way they're kind of right. It's an absolutely experimental procedure with no standard practices, so each surgeon has their own method and techniques. The complications are almost always the same though, that's where they're wrong.
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That fails to take into account the psychological effects of seeing A-10s shot down.
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They were absolutely allowed to. They just can't afford it. The US stores B2 bombers inside shelters. The RAM coating wears out and America can afford climate controlled shelters to preserve the stealth capabilities.
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 @kingoverflow What lies?
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 @NullHand I signed up for a Khan Academy but it might have been the wrong one, they taught me archery, horseback riding and how to set up a Yurt.
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It's also 100% possible the person has never seen the image, or even if she saw it she might not rememer it was an old image of hers.
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@bibekgautam512 "wearing a mask - completely sealed or otherwise - will reduce the risk of you getting exposed" - But the issue is being presented as the mask protecting not you, but others. If you don't wear the mask you're killing grandma. It's nobody's business if I'm exposing myself or not, so the issue has been switched around to make me responsible for exposing others even if they're wearing a mask. "whether government should make masks mandatory(which I sense that you're trying to argue about) is a different discussion altogether" - It isn't because if the "preventive" measures are not enforceable under law, there's no humiliation going on. "I'm not from the US" - Me neither. "But humiliation wouldn't be at the top of things I'd feel at such a scenario." - I mean, considering that the worst has passed and a massive amount of deaths happened because of sheer incompetence (or malice, if you want to wear the tin foil hat) allowing the virus to spread to nursing homes and killing tens of thousands of elderly per country, I do sit back and look at how governments shut down the economy, destroyed businesses and jobs and now we have to wear silly shit on our faces for god knows how long over something that was entirely avoidable but also not as serious as advertised. So I start to worry about shit that's gonna affect me more than the coof. Such as the move to cashless.
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@rauldelvillar374 Combat losses are relevant metrics because that's what military equipment has to avoid to remain competitive. The Tornado attack jet had its entire low level attack doctrine changed because of just 6 losses in Desert Storm. The Harrier was kind of seen as obsolete with just 7 losses in Desert Storm. Here's something about aircraft design - design the freaking thing to carry weapons if you're going to sell it to the military, to avoid the winglet flutter issue in the Ka-52. Embarrassing.
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+Hiaruga but... everyone is allowed to have 50 cals, HKs, FALs, and Tavors. Only the tommy gun would be illegal due to it being automatic.
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Solovyov taught Economics at the University of Alabama.
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 @reinbeers5322 Hydrogen likes to slip into metal causing embrittlement and pressurization cycles would lead to fatigue.
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Yeap, looked like the images of a fire in a storage shed, seen plenty of those. Happens every summer in the countryside, metal roof collapses from the heat.
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Cope lol still hanging on to 2022 talking points.
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@James-lg1mh Okay. Then most people don't have the opportunity to be independent because they don't want to save money for a few years living with their parents. Seems like it's their problem and it's not Luke or Sam who are at fault. This is a perfect example of how on the internet we constantly talk past each other, yeah nothing you're saying is incorrect but you're talking about not wanting to live at home when the topic is not being able to save money.
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@I_cant_sneed if you watch 2000s/2010s Gordon Ramsay shows he says "chicken kyiv". Also in the Jason Statham movie Transporter 3 the Ukrainian girl character says "Kiyv". I get that you say "Kiev" because you need to own the libs but for once you can actually go back and check that it was always "Kiyv". By the way do you say Beijing or Peking?
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 @justheretocommentokdontwan685 The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Do you not realize that by misleading people for a good cause you may harm your objectives once they find out?
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As opposed to an ironic increase in traffic.
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Then why does China have them? Hmmm 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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Literally happened to me yesterday.
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When the Kharkiv offensive happened, he posted a reaction video where he was visibly drunk. Man hit the bottle to cope with the loss.
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We all know it's N F, rolls off the tongue easier.
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 @Khronogi yeah but the point was the gangs. The 1%.
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@Misakimori_NM the slap from reality is the Russian ammo going up like fireworks.
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 @eriknervik9003 The best stockpiles were pulled first. Whatever is coming now is degraded to hell and back.
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That's not how the world works.
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@long john johnson he proved you wrong so you insult him, good job
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 @FoogleBoogle Putin said he didn't care about NATO.
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@Instarius >calling people snowflakes bevause you can't handle differing opinions Wew lad
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@hf117j You're literally a demoralization agent. "This is why I don't read comments" who cares? Seems like you're the kind of person who serves as an example of what not to do.
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Take your meds.
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They were meant to be retired 30 years ago. Aircraft have a lifespan. Beyond a point they become babies who need all the care and attention as years of strain cause the airframe to weaken. Dumping them isn't drastic. It's actually been overdue for years.
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@hrs2044 He was entrapped and was not informed of the correct court date. Literally nobody support mass shootings. But people support riots. Big difference.
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@bilic8094 You don't drive across a country in a forklift. You use them to take pallets out of aircraft and train wagons. And put them on a vehicle. I can't fault people for not knowing stuff but you MUST have seen the loading docks for trucks at a supermarket. Forklifts don't deliver cargo. They take cargo out of the vehicle that delivers it. Otherwise you have to do it by muscle, which is long and back breaking work.
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@wesmurphy9725 Attacks were not foiled, in fact it provoked attacks.
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Because most of the Americans that would stand up are feeling safe in red states.
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But it was meant to be used in tandem with the F-22. But the F-22 program was killed. Come on people, this information has been around for a couple decades.
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@stevenmike1878 "so island nations like the UK can have great quality hospitals everywhere" - Even small countries have major issues with rural access to healthcare. Doctors and nurses don't want to "live in the middle of nowhere" and governments are forced to rely on incentives to get people to agree to work in rural healthcare.
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No, the MTLB thing is recent. Maybe you just have problems understanding.
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 @motokaichou2010 Most gun safety issues are caused by the user himself, not the mechanics of the firearm.
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@AtlantiansGaming he became an audio engineer after leaving the DoD. His field of education was maths and he left the aeronautical field for his passion, music. The fraud was in the made up narrative regarding the fighter mafia and never correcting anyone who says he designed aircraft, because he was an analyst for the military. One who stopped being relevant the day he left and never worked in the design teams of aircraft manufacturers.
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@M0odez That's the trick - you don't trust them with either. I once took a bite out of a waffer cookie I bought and it had plastic bits in it. Some machine in the factory probably broke. Was the FDA there to witness it? No. I can spit back out the plastic. I can't reverse being injected with a bad batch.
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@papermach2332 different shooting, mang.
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What's the price of the morale hit upon seeing A-10s get shot down?
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@passivehouseaustralia4406 If you crater a whole country in your physics experiment, the doing good excuse sort of fades away. If you can't keep your research under control you don't get to violate others' rights to keep doing it. You get shut down. At least in a sane world.
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This, but unironically.
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@swannydabs620 And what happens when police doesn't show up? A man with a gun telling me he called the police? I don't believe him, and the longer I wait the lower are my survival chances. How do I know I'm going to be free rather than have my throat slit in a basement? That's the point where you look for the opening and go for the CCW. Textbook self-defense.
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The OBIGGS has been sort of an ordeal because after the system was redesigned, a maintenance check found that the tubing got damaged so they put the restriction back in place. The video did address it but it was easy to miss. The damage in the Japan incident was not fully explained but the implication was that because the F-35 isn't a huge metal cage like other aircraft, there was no "Faraday protection" so there was damage even though they were still good enough to land.
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@MrRandomTwat he was never charged or convicted of those crimes.
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People were used to 7.62x39 making through and through holes. You either died in combat or had a high chance of healing. With 5.45 the wounded who survived the fight suffered enough internal damage to die later. Mind that in the Libyan civil war when 5.56 weapons and M855 arrived into the scene, people also started spreading the rumor that the green tip meant poison because they were used to 7.62x39 M43 equivalents.
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Look up "Welcome to JSTARS: Morale Stops Here" patch.
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@z.bongerman1062 The home town newspapers had some semblance of independence, but now everything is owned by conglomerates.
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@FridgemaxxedHybridoreanLiftaOG That's not how it works. If my costs is 10, and my revenue 11, I make 1 profit. If inflation halves the value of money and nothing else changes, my costs are 20 and my revenue 22 - giving me 2 profit. I seemingly doubled my profit even though my overhead raised absurdly. If revenue and overhead raise by the same standard (money is worth less) you see an increase in profit despite overhead being higher. You only go into decline when your costs rise above inflation, or inflation causes you to sell less because people are forced to restrain their expenses.
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@gratius1394 The capabilities of the Soviets were greatly aided by foreign aid. Lend-Lease gave the Red Army the trucks they needed, and helped their supply lines with train cars and locomotives. They also fought a Germany that had the US and allies doing trade deals to starve Germany out of strategic materials, and American/British bombers pummeled German industry. Let's re-run a simulation of the Eastern Front but this time the US aids Germany. Wouldn't be as pretty for the Soviets, would it?
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I feel bad for pointing it out but the idiom is "nip it in the bud". You cut it out from a plant before it grows out. I used to say "the gig is up" and "butt naked" (instead of jig and buck naked) because we hear idioms without ever reading them in text.
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Cultured Russian Waifu 2.0 Where did you people get the Elensky thing? Nice hivemind you got there.
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@Nixontheman It's virtually impossible to achieve, yet Boeing settled for 2.5 bil. If Boeing was not at fault, tell me in what universe is it rational to settle for over to billion. I don't understand what you're referring to with the woke BS. Boeing tried to cover up, people died as a result, they settled. This isn't MSM, this isn't woke BS, this is real life. If Boeing was in the right, winning the lawsuit would have been cheaper than settling.
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I love the meme people came up with the other day, it's a drawing of him in the speech podium saying "your balls will be swollen and you will be happy".
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@hv3115 "75% of people in Ontario who end up getting hospitalized" - And as we have seen, Hamburg in Germany did not verify status of 70% of their hospitalizations, and added them up to the unspiked numbers. They're not verifying status on purpose and registering them as unknowns, then using unknowns as "unspiked" in their official data. One region is one country has been caught lying. Do we have to do this for every single square inch of land around the world or are you open to admitting that Ontario is lying too? "omits the point that having [...] mandates to ensure a high percentage of the population is vaccinated is the humane" - Nothing humane about threatening to kick people out of restaurants, gyms and JOBS. You're threatening people's livelihoods. Morally, you're holding a gun to someone's head. You're willing to kill that person by denying them a way to make a living. "without hospitals getting overwhelmed" - Okay, and now we're back to square one. They're still claiming to be overwhelmed despite many countries having 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90% spiking rates. What's your plan of action now? More mandates? "But let's not pretend [...] dont help control this [...]" - Doesn't seem very controlled to me. You get no actual immunity, you can still spread, and the protection is only strong for 3-4 months. This means you're trying to keep it under control with an improper tool that should be a last resort and given to the vulnerable. If you try to spike the whole population, you don't have enough shots to keep the 3-4 month window with the vulnerable.
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FDR also interned Japanese-Americans. Turns out you have to fear fear itself, and FDR if you have Japanese ancestry.
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@JorgeGomez-hx5uu could have gone pro if I hadn't joined the Navy.
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@gailseatonhumbert9199 They had a year and a half to learn. They should probably resign and admit that they're not good students.
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It's not a proxy war, though. It's Ukraine vs Russia. Not US vs North Korea using Ukraine and Russia as their proxies. A proxy war is like Vietnam. North Vietnam was a USSR proxy while South Vietnam was a US proxy.
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@ankhenaten2 Has to step inside FPV range. Who'd want to be near that thing? Ever seen TOS exploding?
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 @pyropulseIXXI Basing temp scale around water is extremely useful considering how much stuff in real life is based around either the freezing or boiling point of water.
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The problem is we are not living in the past. You give a HIMARS a free pass to roam around captured territory, it has a huge firing platform from which to disrupt logistics. You didn't have pinpoint strike ability at 70-85km range back in WWII.
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@Cousin Eddie You place your life and trust in total strangers already. What a ridiculous statement. Plus, you already trust open source - most of the internet is running on Linux. If you don't trust open source, unplug right now.
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@Cousin Eddie What a crappy argument. I don't need to break into anything, your VPN uses Linux servers, your email probably uses Linux servers, and if you trust ANY closed source software you're also entrusting strangers based on their loyalty to a paycheck. No matter what, unless you built your own components from scratch, wrote your own OS, run your own servers and your own internet, you're always bound to trusting strangers. And they're doing their job for public good or a paycheck. If you can't trust people to do things for good, can you even trust those who do it for money? By challenging me, you're ironically reinforcing your trust on the open source systems you rely on.
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@lillyanneserrelio2187 Cancer unfortunately is our cells going rogue. It's not like polio where you can just gain immunity from a medical preparation, it's like a computer bug in your code and you can never know where it's going to show up.
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@rafaelgultom3634 Try typing that out in English next time.
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Although there is a difference. Deep offensives were a way to exploit battlefield successes by following up breakthroughs. This is a slow trickle that accepts continuous failure.
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I thought the key to defeating the US was speedboats! Van Riper and Millennium 2000 lied to me!
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@jazzysoggy12 You did not have to act defensive about it, I just stated there's a widely known example of one defector asking to go back. There's more who suffered depression due to their inability to adjust to the modern world.
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@isodoublet "Right, because such a network would be derived of precisely the right amount of radars needed for triangulation and not a single station more." - You're missing the point. If you take out one emitter, there's now a "hole" in the network where accuracy is compromised because the "third" radar necessary for triangulation isn't there anymore. Of course there's more radars available, but the point is creating the gap. IADS always employ layers. And the air force's job is peeling layer after layer. A triangulation system just makes it easier because it requires three radars to do the job of one. "lots of small, mobile stations that don't stay in the same place for long" - Oh. You do realize that the wavelengths that are optimized for stealth are larger and not really mobile, right? "Yes, you can. You're just scientifically illiterate" - Ahahaha admitting you have no argument through namecalling. ""Stealth" means that the radar return at the given wavelength is weak, but it's not zero" - There is always non-zero levels of energy that get filtered out. That is called noise. The point of stealth is making sure that from most angles, the aircraft is indistinguishable from noise. Fun fact, at Red Flag exercises some F-16s scored kills over F-35s. They detected them visually because they had nothing on radars. By sheer luck they happened to catch unaware F-35 pilots from behind. "You can defeat this by dumping more radiative power" - Hm, such a juicy target for anti radiation missiles. "We're talking mostly software changes here. " - You said "Just fire a missile anyway and put a powerful/smart enough radar head on it". A powerful radar head is heavy. There's no such thing as a free lunch and now you're backtracking to "software". Show me this software that makes radar act like larger radars. "All stealth is worthless if you're close enough to the target." - It's not worthless because now instead of a long range defense system you now have to get "close enough" which means an expansion of safe areas where stealth aircraft can operate from. Stealth is not worthless because conventional aircraft do not have these areas. "Except the F-35 turns like a truck" - Turns on a dime, brother. But regardless, a slight deflection from course will create a predicted trajectory that forces the missile to spend fuel chasing a position in space you don't intend to be at. A heavier missile will have a huge energy disadvantage at range because changing back to the original course will force a turn and a new predicted trajectory. "just about any missile gets anywhere between 30 and 50 gs" - Try to chase a fighter jet into a new predicted trajectory after doing a 50 G turn and you have seconds of fuel left. "Look at the Su-57's engines and get back to me" - Yes, it's cope. And there's 12 of them. Meanwhile there's 500 F-15s delivered.
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+Jim Fortune "The American M-60 is a machine gun. It was not heavily influenced by the design of an assault rifle" You are cordially invited to look at the goddamn FG-42 bolt and realize that M60 design copied it, even the spring used to assist semi-auto primer ignition, which is useless in the M60 but they copied it anyway.
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+Matthew Morton the issue here is that this is a libertarian-leaning channel, and the libertarian position is that you have the right to inject yourself with the nastiest stuff you can find because the government doesn't own your body. Oh, but you cause damage/hurt people in the process. Hell, we punish drug use rather than treat it so we just make the problem worse, people keep doing drugs and stealing/neglecting kids which means that government interaction has solved jack shit, and to make matters even worse punishing drug use increases it's price which means it becomes profitable to murder over drugs. Just like prohibiting the sale of alcohol made homicide climb like a rocket. Implying that we're addicts because we know that punishing drug use makes matters worse and we believe that the government doesn't own people is just low. Kindergartens have seen more civil arguments.
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Michael Haimerl Streetcars are so horrible, though. They have the disadvantages of subways and buses without the benefits. My city has above ground train, underground and bus system and they attempted the modern streetcar for no reason. It's Lisbon, so obviously there's a reason to keep traditional streetcars (nobody likes to drive to the old part of town), but modern ones just take up space in traffic, get stuck and interfere with parked cars anywhere else. It's a bus that can't maneuver or overtake, and a metro system that isn't rapid and regular.
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Lord Gronor WT did something right with an arcade mode which takes into account energy states, damage and flight model rather than being Ace Combat/WofWarplanes
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+Commander Shepard you have to get something: there's a difference between a tactical victory and a strategic victory. For example, the Battle of Mogadishu was a complete tactical victory for the US and United Nations, but the events lead to the withdrawal of US and UN forces meaning it was a strategic victory for Somalia. Vietnam achieved a strategic victory by managing to outlast the US's will to fight.
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The funny thing is that if brands were concerned about downvote brigading they could just disable likes and dislikes. A ton of companies had their presence on youtube without likes or comments enabled. But I assume that marketing departments/consultants depend on engagement metrics, so they need likes and comments on social media. So we have this screwed up situation where they want feedback but don't want to know how people really feel.
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Every Single Average Day And then he posted a video right after where he's shooting old slugs with a kevlar blanket over the shotgun. That coming from the guy who in some videos didn't even show the barrel and called it a "mass accelerator" to try and get monetized. So we shouldn't post videos that make guns look unsafe but he's showing off the precautions he's taking?
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@MustYouHaveAUsername Before people were rounded up, there was a decades long process of mockery and finger pointing. You're comitting exactly the type of sin Gina asked you not to. In the 1920s you'd be the one saying that one group of people was to blame for Germany losing, but nobody was rounding them up so it's ok to say they are awful people.
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@Jacob Del Bene It's already been replaced. Most CAS is handled by F-16s and Strike Eagles.
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How is a brick of a 185-230 grain projectile going to minimize collateral?
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 @nubbyboah Truman dropped the bombs, not FDR.
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"Quiet luxury" was explained to me by my mother when I was a small child in the 90s. It's a fad because a new generation is learning it from the internet.
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The answer is being more efficient in space usage, not compressing one's life to a tiny house.
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@Comic Book Guy they said it was a composite from data analized by multiple observatories. The whole reason we never had a photo of a black hole is because of the physical limits on angular resolution. There's no mirror big enough. But I guess people tune out when they get nerdy. By the way, I am pretty sure any digital camera has an array of sensors that encode information about every pixel on a file. All digital photos are CGI because it's a composite from different sensor data.
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Now I wonder what he'd look like if he got on that More Plates More Dates training program.
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@Cameron Pangborn "You're going around taking about moralism" - No, I am not. "What's the point of that? To look good to others" - No, because I see certain things as a threat. The spider sense tingles. I think several studies confirmed that people who identify themselves as conservative have a more sensitive spider sense. "for people reaching moralism you sure are hypocrites. How many cigars does Prager smoke?" - Who cares? "How much booze do you think Charlie Kirk guzzles at after parties" - I don't like Charlie Kirk. Or Denis Prager. And I don't care how much they drink or smoke. "the OP is talking about tobacco executives LMAO" - Because it's an analogy? People who stand for lung health do not want people from the tobacco industry around. It doesn't mean you can't smoke. That's your choice.
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@pyronuke4768 More accurately, the early missile seeker would need to have a consistent frame of reference for up/down and left/right as it signaled the inputs for the control surfaces. So it could not roll.
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@DejectedCat "a few people" over the last decades the number was 40k to around 30k a year. In fact a few years of road fatalities are enough to match the casualties from the detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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+ItsNikoHIMself sanctions? Oh, you mean the only way """"socialism"""" works is if you let it have MORE CAPITALISM?
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The issue is, "real" money is just as arbitrary but you don't question it because you've been using and seeing others use it for 16, 20, 30 years. It's also somewhat more stable because there's central banks in charge but things can get pretty wild in times of crisis.
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Kharkiv was broken trough with 13-15 tanks spearheading. It really was the minefields that threw a wrench in the plan.
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@Emperor Crimson The embargo was put in place due to the new Cuban regime nationalizing US oil refineries. I'm not going to defend US imperialism but commies can't slide the stick into their bike spokes, eat shit, and blame capitalists for the consequences of their spergery.
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@russellmellott452 You can't blame capitalists for blocking commies from accessing capitalism. Oh your system only works when you can freely trade? Curious.
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@47ex1 I've addressed this already but I'll say it again. You can't go RAH RAH FIGHT DA POWAH and then have no strategy when the powers that be find a way to punish you for your insolence.
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 @xaber_ It's not your job to be a criminal. Recently a Russian drone pilot did his job - with a grenade he fragged his commanders and turned himself in to Ukrainian forces.
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@joshuamills7633 Capex is 0 when you already have the infrastructure. It's like comparing an old car to a new electric car. The old car is much more expensive to run per mile in terms of fuel and maintenance. But it costs 0 because you already have it. The new car has to be bought.
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The Danish manufactured Stens inside a bicycle repair shop.
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Yeah mr Rhodesia, how many countries do you pretend to be from? I bet there's comments where you say you are Russian, perhaps American from Texas oblast.
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@lance862 Armed UK police aren't called in very often so when they roll out, they roll out hard. If I'm not mistaken they had H&K manufacture a semi-auto only variant for them so they could have a carbine, they used to have L85s and with the terror attacks that happened with the London bombings in the 2000s they have G36s, when the ISIS attacks started in the 2010s they also got ARs and MP7s. I went to London once, I was stuck outside my inn for like an hour because the police cordoned off the entire street to arrest someone, and they all had MP5s. So no, they get to blame the gear when they have the Crown's privilege to buy Gucci hardware.
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@kalez963 And sightings are notoriously unreliable. Funny that flying saucers were sighted when the US was testing "pancake"/saucer shaped aircraft, then it changed to triangle craft when the US started developing stealth aircraft like the F-117 Nighthawk. In the 50s and 60s test/high altitude pilots even wore reflective silver pressure suits which would look like grey pale skin at night
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It's just not possible. You can't control the weight you walk around at. A big meal, being under the weather, how long you haven't gone to the bathroom, etc can make you fluctuate.
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@natalieviktorya115 There's Roman architecture in Portugal and Spain, does that mean they belong to Italy? There's also Islamic architecture there because of the Umayyad Caliphate. Does that mean they belong to Saudi Arabia?
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You mean Harambe knew something about Hillary Clinton that would lead to her arrest?
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@mbankslje0nk Projection. If there's nothing to fear, why are you here countersignaling?
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I'm not sure I understand. The use of oil has fueled entire economies. We don't use coal powered ships or aircraft to move cargo around. Although it is expensive to extract and transport, in many aspects it beats even the "free" energy we get from the sun. Installing a system to charge a personal car with solar panels costs more than several years worth of refined fuel, requiring a long return on investment. And that's for a personal car, we still don't have a good electric replacement for transport trucks. It seems that until modern tech smooths out the kinks, all energy comes from burning banknotes but oil burns the least and that's why we depend on it. I don't like how so many of the "greats" have weird quotes which seem idealistic and show a profound disconnect from reality.
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 @festekj The former Marine who said HIMARS wouldn't make a difference?
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Well, Ukrainians are saying that Wagner convicts are spead into small squads so that the big artillery is wasted on small groups. They're saying they're bringing out the mortars and the 105mm to deal with the waves because they can't expend all their 155mm on such attacks.
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 @gensoustudy4703 Ryan Gosling? How do you know me?
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@sakosan547 >modern doctrine and threats >going back to 7.62 Germoney pls
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Alex Mercer tips fedora
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Ukraine reminds me more of Muhammad Ali versus George Foreman. Russia is punching itself tired.
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It is a big deal. If I tell people one can make a gun after a trip to the hardware store nobody believes me because people are so detached from basic metalworking and practical craft skills. But tell them 3D printers can make guns and suddenly they realize the genie is out of the bottle.
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There's a really funny video if you look up antifreeze in watercooling loops where a dude has a quad SLI rig with green hoses and claims that he's got allergies so he's wearing a black shirt wrapped around his face to clean the dust from the case and says the neighbours called the cops because they thought he was ISIS building a bomb.
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Yeah I'm in Europe and I actually like the design of red only tail lights but didn't even realize that I'd lose that instant reaction.
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@sSculptor You're not supposed to bully. That's called a-logging and is frowned upon. Like the other girl Isabella Janke trying to inject herself into the Chris Chan story for clout.
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@joexavier4070 hiding behind past crimes to commit new ones is just cartoonishly evil. You're not here to condemn the US, you're here to manufacture consent for Russia.
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@timothychung4811 Think. All those millions of engineers, and it took them two decades to develop a jet engine. Pushing people through college doesn't magically give you solutions. You have a bunch of people with degrees.
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 @JAnx01 Nobody has fully functioning fleets of any fighter. All aircraft need to have maintenance.
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@Silver_Prussian Admitting that Wager went to great lengths to "sanitize" their links to the Russian state is not the own you think it is.
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@fuzzymelon1261 Funny how people are born that way, except if they did the crime before the transition, then they just decided to switch it up. Pick a narrative and stick with it, otherwise you're gonna create contradictions.
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We're all in the based-to-Tedpilled pipeline.
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The Night Stalker was positively identified due to his face being on front pages of newspapers. Not because someone saw some guy who looked like some guy on grainy security footage.
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@ontheotherside3 I'm European and that was pretty cringe, bro. There's dumbasses everywhere and religion is the least of our worries right now.
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 @Jens-Viper-Nobel There's a reason Gripen was turned down in so many bids. It's not a mistake.
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Talking to Serb nationalists online, I get the sense they know Russian barbarism because they cheer it and even mimic it.
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Everything is destined to fail if you don't give us a reasonable timeline. Thanks Marx, without you I'd think things can last for ever.
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@looinrims The accusation was that Iraq had restarted the chemical weapons program, in violation of UN terms. The chemical weapons which had been manufactured prior to the disarmament aren't the issue.
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Throw batteries into the ocean. Sigma Grindset.
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@ronnielacher "there are scientists" oh my god You can find scientists trying to peddle ANYTHING because it's their job. Problem is, scientists often cannot account for real world constraints. Such as the fact that you can't just use whatever bugs to feed peope, you'd need to raise food grade bugs which is more expensive and resource intensive.
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@westsonrises An additional batch of Raptors wouldn't have changed anything regarding the F-35. The Raptor was supposed to replace the F-15, which it couldn't because too few were produced. That still leaves a whole load of airframes that need the F-35 to take over.
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@robertwilliamson2609 And yet the Iraqis still brought 6 of them down in 1991.
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Germany also made a propaganda poster mocking how slowly the Allies had advanced in Italy.
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 @tetraxis3011 the "donbas militias" are staffed by Russian mobilized men. Also, pretty sure the 1st Guards Tank Army will be reconstituted with T-62s.
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The fact that Russia sent their spec ops to be frontline infantry and take losses really says everything.
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"A worn out shoe is my only comment" - MEMRI TV
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@acikusej lolno The video is real. What you think you're seeing is fake.
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@acikusej The Soviet Union would have some difficulty in denying anything today, it essentially ended in 1991.
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Declaring a special military operation is peace. Ignorance is strength. Defending yourself is warmongering.
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@pnwdrifter5680 EW can control some models. There's an Ukrainian EW against commercial drones that forces rotors on one side to spin at a different rate and drains the battery when the drone tries to self-correct.
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 @theherk Well, a rifled barrel has to start with an undersized bore so that it can engage into the driving bands. So the process has to be inherently different.
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@HiwasseeRiver Here's the terms: Russia abandons the Ukrainian territory according to 1991 borders and surrenders all suspects of war crimes to be prosecuted in either Ukraine or the Hague.
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How is he a man? For committing a felony on camera and posting it online? That's not being a man, that's being stupid.
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That was the narrative from the beginning. Flattening the curve still meant the same area under the curve (aka total infections), just smaller peak. Then somewhere along the line they transitioned from flattening the curve to "covid zero".
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@wederMaxim "explain what's wrong with Stalin" pretty sure Krushchev had a massive speech in front of the Soviet comitte about how bad Stalin was and de-Stalinization was necessary, no neet to repeat
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@Kunga Dorje You asked a question and now you're rude to the people who tried to answer honestly. Why even bother?
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I mean the juche ideology is based on self-sufficiency...
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The Taliban only got their heads out of the holes in the ground after the US closed bases and left.
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Ears change with age or any sort of trauma that can deform the cartilage. My brother's ears changed because of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
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@Shadow-n1c4l The bolts you get at the store for 99 cents were not rated to work on aircraft. The military REQUIRES a lot of source controls and certifications before parts can be used. The costs are driven by the military's own standards. If the military wanted to, they could easily ask the government to write laws that let them buy Lowe's bolts without breaching the contract.
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+Thomas Murphy because China is a dystopia where technology is used to monitor citizens and they want to control the population through a score system on social media? A place where they remain competitive by rounding up people as dissidents and sending them to labour camps? Because they oppress minorities that challenge Han rule?
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 @louKushh Cope, Ivan.
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Not just Bakhmut but Adiivka and the famous Vuhledar offensives. Bakhmut used up a lot of Wagner which were not mobilized men. Vulhedar used up units that required reconstitition with mobilized men.
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So you're gonna bolt the data sharing capabilities to older aircraft that will not be able to get close and gather data. Anything that detects stealth will detect regular aircraft better. If you make a flashlight to help you see people wearing dark clothes at night, people wearing white clothes will shine like the sun.
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@TheCapn23 so policies that are meant to stimulate productivity and economic growth did absolutely nothing, but the Fed improved America's economy? Why haven't they tried that before? Would have helped back in 2008...
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@angelikaskoroszyn8495 I don't need to "dive into" "communist internet spaces" because not only have I already had enough for a lifetime, but even if I hadn't, I actually read the REAL LIFE theory and met the REAL LIFE supporters of communist parties, so I don't really see the point of contacting internet people. If I hadn't, because I already have. The Soviet Union was dismantled by former Soviet Union apparatchiks who robbed the country blind and helped form the oligarch class. You really think the workers were in charge? "Would it make the modern financial system inherently totalitarian?" - Not the financial system, just the government. The financial system couldn't give a rat's ass if you were getting paid in Runescape gold or Dogecoin. "Would shifting the power structure (i.e. giving the workers the ability to vote for their factory management in similar manner how they vote for their politicians) be that totalitarian?" - Yes. There's a difference between getting fined by OSHA and the government taking ownership away. "only deranged or stupid people support Soviet style of communism" - This is a No True Scotsman fallacy, by the way.
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Recently I learned about the "bicameral mind" hypothesis for the origin of consciousness. Basically humans lacked the "self awareness" of conscience, so thoughts were perceived as voices and we thought it was the Gods communicating with us. As we gained consciousness we lost the voices, and there's a part of our brain that went inactive. People with schizophrenia have increased activity in that area of the brain. It's a crazy hypothesis and the evidence can just be wild coincidence, but it's interesting nonetheless.
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I think Putin simply assumed he could call Zelensly's bluff with a quick hop into the capital, not expecting the Ukranian people to actually support their president to this degree. It's actually pretty rational to assume Zelensky would tuck tail and run, but from his perspective he probably thought that running would force him to live the rest of his life in shame so he'd unironically rather get killed in Kiev. This show of courage rallied the people and delayed what should have been an easy incursion.
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@Pink.andahalf Even countries with drafts and conscription have reservists. It's not a sneaky solution to a political problem, it's simply that bringing a former contract soldier back to speed is quicker than training an 18 year old or calling up the 35-40 year olds who were conscripted nearly two decades prior.
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 @M4niacks2 Yes but the point isn't superior human intelligence. It's that a human will walk up to the trash can and not be able to figure out how to use it.
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@chef7734 "The 6.8 spc has as much energy at 250 meters as the m855 has at the muzzle" - not true. M885 at the muzzle from a 14.5" is roughly 1600 J. A 110gr 6.8 SPC will have around 1300-1400 J at 200 meters. I don't see the energy climbing another 200 joule in the next 50 meters. "You gain 40 to 50% kenetic energy at 300 meters and in and 35%greater out to 600 meters" - energy isn't everything. You need to put that energy into tissue. We know that with two bullets travelling at the same velocity, the lighter one tumbles better. We all know that with two bullets with the same mass, the faster one tumbles better. 5.56 is both faster (by about 100 ft/s) at 300 meters and lighter. More energy on a round that is more likely to icepick through and not put that energy on tissue means very little. Remember, you're gonna be using FMJ rounds which depend on the tumbling to transfer energy, not hollow points. With hollow points, by all means pick 6.8 SPC. If the round weighs more, you're carrying less for the same weight. If the recoil is higher and bullet slower, marksmanship goes down because it becomes harder to guesstimate bullet travel time and bullet drop at unknown distances and once you pull the trigger you're gonna be slower to line up a second shot. You're gonna be carrying less firepower into battle, you're gonna be more likely to miss, and even if you hit you're less likely to actually put the target down. I think you're getting a bad deal with 6.8 SPC because of sheer physics alone. You can simply carry the same amount of ammo and add a bunch of weight to the rifle to bring recoil to 5.56 levels, but you're punishing your back for a caliber that's not going to do much for you and is gonna have worse trajectory anyway. "You have a larger round that has more powder pushing it in the same magwell as the 5.56." - the larger bullet also takes up more case space. If I go by Nosler load data a 223 Rem case (for some reason 5.56 NATO doesn't have 62gr load data on their website) loaded with a 62gr bullet has a 27.6 gr H2O capacity. A 6.8 SPC loaded with a 110gr bullet has a 27.5 gr H2O capacity. Again through Nosler's website a 69gr loaded in a 5.56 case has 27.5 gr H2O capacity so I rest my case, the round itself is indeed larger but because you need to stick a bigger bullet in it and still respect the OAL of the AR's magwell and magazine dimensions... you're gonna have to push the bullet deeper into the case and lose powder capacity. If you want more powder, you need either a lighter bullet (which is also shorter which gives it lower ballistic efficiency - an 85gr will have around 1040 J at 200 yards versus 5.56 62gr's 990 J - you're virtually negating the energy difference at this point) or neck it down. You're either back to 5.56 territory or trying to recreate 6mm SAW.
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@RayManiac90 Are politicians scientists? No. Are scientists politicians? No. Neither of them should be able to ignore consent and force you do to things against your will.
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Taxation is literally theft, that's not an extreme view. Thinking I should be working 20-30-40% of the day for free or else you send armed goons to put me in a cage is extremist.
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 @uhhTabby He had a job before Temu, though?
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M J are you purposefully cramming as much incorrect knowledge in each comment on purpose?
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@johndowe7003 okay but my reasoning was why Russians picked it for their military, and their military can get all the 5.45 ammo they want. It's the US customer that got shafted with the loss of 7n6
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 @Lucas-yu4bu He's right. Going from 99% of C to 99.9% is hard, getting to 99.999% is even harder.
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But was it ICP that made them violent, or the group naturally attracts unstable/violence-prone people? The latter is my guess.
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American Psycho isn't a caricature of sigma males. Sigma male was a concept created by the internet to mock alpha males. The sigma is the rarest type of male thus the alpha is no longer on top. This lead to more absurdist concepts like the yogurt male (featuring Dominic Purcell's appearence in a Yoplait ad).
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@STGN01 "the B-1 is second on the list of most blue-on-blue kills during GWOT, how could such a high-tech plane do blue on blue, that's impossible by your logic right?" - The JTAC made the mistake of calling in JDAMs on his own position. This was a very unfortunate incident, but it wasn't the fault of the aircraft or the pilots. The man on the ground meant to say the coordinates of his target, and he got it wrong and said his own position. "the Russians claim to already track them" - Russians claim a lot of things. They can't deal with the HIMARS strikes, the Moskva was sunk, small Aliexpress drones are attacking the Sevatopol HQ and they're firing AKs in the air because their fancy missile systems can't stop them. "A-10 kicked of the Gulf War by knocking out Iraqi early warning radars." - False. The F-117 did that. Don't lie.
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This episode is from 2012 and the fat dude's still alive and posting on youtube.
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@mmaximk Kosovo was an autonomous region within Yugoslavia according to their constitution, and they declared independence almost a decade after the war.
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@tegunn lumbering is death on the modern battlefield.
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@tegunn Vietnam was the age where the machine was flying but the human eye had to look for targets when they were not provided. Trying to fight Vietnam in 2020 is a huge mistake. Aircraft performance had to be hindered to allow the human to stay in the loop. With modern pods, the pilot does not need to fly low and slow to see targets.
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@MrDarrylR The A-10 can only operate in uncontested airspace, where the F-35 would have access to air refueling because there's no danger to tankers. The GAU-8 is not by any means cost effective when it should have been replaced by even more cost effective turboprop aircraft with lower caliber gunpods. "The F35 costs $67k per flight hour, the A10 $19k per flight hour" - In the modern battlefield, the F35 comes back home while the A-10 doesn't. In a counter insurgency, there's turboprops with even cheaper flight hours that can operate out of forward bases even closer to the action so they'll get there sooner than the slow A-10. "Each of those A10s can carry more air to ground munitions" - 16,000 pounds for the A-10 versus 18,000 pounds for the F-35. "The A10 perhaps isn't ideal for near peer warfare in a contested air environment." - It's worse than awful. The 1991 losses sealed the deal. "But we haven't fought a near peer in 75 years" - Excuse me? When Desert Storm happened the Iraqi military was one of the largest of the world at the time and it was battle hardened by the Iran-Iraq war. You fail to remember that before the counter insurgency phase normally you'll have to get through either modern Russian/Chinese weapons or at least a couple of decades old equipment. Even if you're not fighting near-pear you may have to face their weapons. And in that war 7 A-10s got shot down and another 13 were written off after landing with too much battle damage.
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@umiluv Nothing authoritarian about an organization exercising its freedom of association.
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Straight garage? As opposed to what? A gayrage?
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Depleted uranium is used in cannon rounds, not bombs.
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Real shit?
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@jordanbettencourt9621 plenty of atheists, catholics, etc never tried drugs either. The concept that everyone is getting rejected because we're all degenerates doesn't make sense.
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"And when people refuse and thereby potentially put everyone else in danger?" - Are they breaking into homes of people in isolation?
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In the New Year's Eve for the new millenium, when Y2K was on people's minds, he claimed that the Russian nuclear missile systems were automatically attacking America.
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@tylerclayton6081 The issue is that the USAF asked for around 300. They knew that they wouldn't get 700, but they also knew that 187 would mean that they would become expensive to upgrade and maintain. Only having around ~170 usable for combat is an issue.
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"Welcome to the Toyota dealership. Are you looking for an 80s shitbox or something where you can mount automatic weapons on the back?"
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@sarahb6570 There are no socialist countries, there's only a few nominally socialist countries in the world. North Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, etc. Socialism is defined as state control of the means of production under the hands of the communist party. Inequality or not, that's irrelevant. Politics are based on reality, not feelings. You can't afford champagne, because that's only from a specific region in France. Socialism can't make everyone French from that specific region. What a freaking joke. It's like you're a cartoon strawman of a socialist. Who the hell cares about champagne, you're trying to promise a life of luxury as a selling point for socialism. And we'll all drive Bentleys and BUH-GATTIS right?
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@sarahb6570 "socialist EU country" I mean that doesn't even make sense when the EU is explicitly a neoliberal construct to promote a common market. The EU's whole point is the growth of Europe in the post-WWII by incorporating as much grease as possible so that capitalism can do its magic and run smoothly.
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@Jaime Perry Then cancel the tournament if there's so much close contact?
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Yeah imagine if youtube didn't allow parkour/extreme sports/stunt videos. That was like half the reason to use it in the early years.
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Vatican uses ololooo It's super effective! Russian units are converted into the Vatican's side.
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@hornetguy9063 as dirty as politics is, at least there's an expectation that you either climbed the ranks, or you got into politics as a dark horse. Nothing wrong with an actor getting into politics. But having a casting call to select the next politician? That sounds like an 80s comedy movie. And it would have been a pretty good one if it had been made then.
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@Max-zr7hr people love to paint scientists as a bunch of lab-coat-wearing, mustache-twirling villains in some ivory tower all acting like a hive mind. Ignoring how most times scientists were proven wrong, it was by other scientists. Yes, there are ugly truths about how science is funded and the broken "publish or perish" logic leading to peer-review that barely reviews at all, but they're hardly an arrogant monolith.
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 @behindthen0thing525 The government is also bleeding money due to the war so let's not pretend that governments are a flawless safety net.
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Pretty sure the Russian aviation has suffered the worst day since WW2.
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 @LucharPS In the 2000s you had multiple terrorist groups claim responsibility for attacks. Terrorists want clout. If nobody knows who did it, how do they get leverage?
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@spirit1803 Many news agencies shut down their comments sections under news. I mean you wouldn't expect the most intelligent commentary under something as divisive as politics, but there's a precedent. Not really a conspiracy. I doubt it would happen because the comments are so ingrained in the youtube experience but it wouldn't be unheard of.
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He's a hero for writing a piece of bad technothriller fiction?
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@afrolitious7930 "stealth capabilities would be useless once they cross the border" - What? "Baghdad didn't have 15countries working 24/7 to assist them like their lives depended on it." - What a ridiculous argument. 15 countries don't increase technical expertise of ground crews. 15 countries aren't ensuring the upkeep of Soviet arms any better than Russia would (pre-2014). When the air raids kicked off over Iraq, they had every SA- from 2 to the two-digit ones, they had MIM-23 Hawk batteries captured from Kuwait, French Roland missile systems and a French IADS network custom built for them (Kari, which is "Irak" backwards).
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cooldude does vids government agencies are exempt from NFA laws. The manufacturers have to be licensed to manufacture for the government. The civilian PS90 has a legal length barrel of >16", if you want to cut it down you need to abide by NFA rules and register it with the ATF. Same with MP5s, MAC10, Uzis: you either get it as a rifle with stock and 16" barrel, or normal barrel and no stock so that it's legally a pistol. Mind that today the tax stamp is $200 but it has not kept up with inflation - back in 1934 200 bucks was what you'd pay for a firearm, essentially doubling the price. They were really trying to prevent people from shortening barrels.
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>gets stabbed anyway
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Except that most aircraft now are multiroles.
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@54tisfaction Then why did EU countries pull astrazeneca out and are only reintroducing it with restrictions on age and with informed consent?
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If someone taps the brakes it looks like a turn signal.
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@bombomos How is it going to be obsolete in 10? The F-16 is old and modern Blocks allow it to keep up. For it to be obsolete in 10 years, a more advanced enemy fighter would have to have started development 5 years ago.
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@XxjeffersonDkidxX The thing is that in this case, they're right. Sometimes framerate isn't even consistent through the whole animation because it's an actual technique to insert extra frames to add motion or detail to a specific scene. I recently saw an excerpt of a 1980s OVA where an aircraft is ripped by cannon fire in a dogfight and it was clear they added extra framerate for a second, second and a half, so they could have the impacts, fragments falling off, and then the airframe deform and break off. But shooting the entire animation at this framerate would be wasteful, and in things like human movement it would look "wrong".
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@GlasbanGorm That's because the blast overpressure reflecting off the ground and following the one travelling through the air is the biggest effect of an airburst. The building in the epicenter will be the least affected.
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@jbenson989 Most of those "billions" are just weapons already in storage, not money. It would have literally cost you more money to dismantle that equipment.
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 @univeropa3363 Chechnya is under control of Ramzan Kadyrov, who is loyal to Putin. At least so far.
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What's more ethical, allowing supply and demand to naturally reflect consumer demand, or some dude wiping an entire shelf of supplies because of the """""ethical"""" requirement to not allow price hikes?
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 @Kuksha51 Minsk was broken by Russia. The attack on Debaltseve happened before the ink dried.
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You do realize that most uranium dug out from the earth is 238 and only 0.7% is 235. Nuclear reactors typically need between 2-4% U-235 enrichment. Weapons-grade enrichment starts at 90% (although you can get satisfactory results at around 80%). Just because you have enrichment facilities it doesn't mean you are producing weapons-grade or even 80% U-235.
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 Jack Smith you need a source for the sky being blue? Look out the window.
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Okay but I had the coof three times and didn't die a single one. The emeegency authorization was also a sham as effectiveness dropped to 52% past like 6 months (source: CNN) and it should be 90% or better to get an EUA.
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@technokicksyourass the age of the tank has been declared over for almost a century.
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@theheavyartillery545 And you do? Getting hit in the plate causes the transfer of momentum to take place over a longer period of time and disperses the energy over a greater area. Recoil does not kill the shooter because the mass disparity between weapon and projectile causes it to accelerate at a slower rate, thus increasing the time over which transfer of momentum occurs.
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@cl8804 HOOOOONK
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I don't remember WWI having IFVs conducting assaults and troops jumping out to conduct modern CQB tactics to clear trenches.
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It's important to take into account that the cigarette is creating a signal equivalent to maybe a jet exhaust several miles away. The IR sensors were not sensitive enough to lock into anything warm, they locked onto the reflections of the sun in the water/treetops/clouds. The sun being the most powerful energy source in, well, the solar system. The thermal radiation from a warm body or even hot asphalt under the sun would not trigger the photosensitive elements. The wavelength is different. However sunlight features the wavelengths emitted by scorching hot objects.
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There's a Chinese cartoon where the Chinese forces are represented by fluffy white bunnies while Americans are bald eagles. Gen. MacArthur arrives in Korea in a ship surrounded by stone faced bald eagles while his eagle character has the characteristic sunglasses and pipe. It's epic.
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@sumduma55 The money has to be spent either way. Old stockpiles are dumped into the sea to make coral reefs, current equipment is stored, and new equipment is bought. New equipment has to be purchased every year. All the Ukraine conflict did was frontload purchases by a few years. Also, the rest of the money wasted goes to American workers, who then use that money to keep other American workers employed. Government spending is inefficient, but that's because of the economic calculation problem and the government does tend to make bad choices when picking stuff for the private sector. However, the govt doesn't have to calculate supply and demand for military gear. They are the demand. And there's no private US Army.
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@gregpeabody8536 No, there's a loud minority of contrarians that think the YF-23 should have won.
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What would be the point of using Patriot when they're smaller in number and strength than the actual army? They sent airplanes and helicopters to attack the convoy. They saw it as a threat. And Wagner shot down multiple of the. But because Shoigu's merry band of gunmen wasn't deployed it wasn't "real"?
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@1shamwai abusive husbands aren't going out of the home, I think
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Same exact argument was used for the T-62. They were used in frontline roles and slaughtered. Please stop.
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 @MegaLol232 But "woke" had a real meaning. It got overused and then it went mainstream. The people who say woke today never read it being used without irony.
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The "F-35 can't dogfight" was clickbait journalism from a writer who didn't understand the leaked report and totally misread what it meant. Within visual range you're not expected to survive an encounter with the F-35 as it can pull high AoA and point its nose without making a turn.
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@kshen7485 Again, crying crocodile tears. You don't care about any of those people. I don't defend ANY system. You defend yours. Sad.
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1. The justification for the grain confiscations was that grain exports were the thing that allowed for the Soviet Union to modernize their industry. Going off about stimulus checks and welfare is besides the point - to give first you need to take. If you're incompetent, you'll ruin an economy under the guise of trying to give the people more. There's a tale about killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. 2. Hasn't existed in 60 years? There's documents from the 16th century naming the territory as Ukraina or Vkraina. 3. The CIA dealing coke to Americans thing comes from Gary Webb's Dark Alliance series - which was criticized by other journalists as irresponsible journalism. Although the CIA backed the Contras and the Contras sold drugs to the relevant dealers, they were not the main players responsible for crack cocaine being introduced into the US nor were their financial gains a major source of support for Contras. If you want to talk about the Contras the Reagan administration was indeed violating weapons trade laws in an attempt to release hostages by shipping arms to Iran, and Ollie North was pocketing the money from the sales to use in Nicaragua. Dark Alliance was half-real and half-fiction as there was never an intent to specifically introduce crack into America, and the dealers in question were never relevant enough to be a major source for CIA funding.
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 @warhorse03826 Considering the Feb/March 2022 blunders they really went to war with no maps, apparently.
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@georgekostaras That didn't happen. The Iraqi Bodycount project tallied around 220,000 deaths. Most were attributed to sectarian violence, kidnappings followed by execution, suicide bombings, etc. It wasn't American bullets. It wasn't American bombs. It wasn't American missiles. It was Iraqis with guns and knifes and vests with explosives. Kidnapping people for ransom and murdering them. People killing each other for being the wrong kind of Muslim. In fact in 2007 the Anbar Awakening and the Surge were effective at curbing violence.
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Can Russia sustain 300k added soldiers or is NK supposed to provide that as well?
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@gregd5138 "you can resume activities that you did before the pandemic" - Yes, the carrot tactic. How long until you show the stick? I really don't want to overuse the analogy but this is like a terrorist making demands. First you deny people's freedom. Then you say you'll give it back if we comply. When I was a kid I thought the "we don't negotiate with terrorists" thing was a punchline for jokes, but there's a reason for it. Once you do what terrorists say, you encourage more people to cause harm to further their political goals. "This is a statement from the CDC, you know,,,,scientists who are much smarter then you?" - You mean scientists that reacted too late when anyone with an internet connection could see that there was a contagious illness in Wuhan? A goddamn plumber could have told you there was a danger of pandemic in December 2019.
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@jackspring7709 The circumstances were not normal. There were Russian officers complaining two years ago that the Syrian army was gutted and hollowed out. It was Iran, Russia and Hezbollah keeping Assad in power.
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Therere's the M93 Hornet. EDIT: derp, mentioned in the video
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@sharlesdaviskendy2391 Who am I going to sell the 500 dollar car to? Nobody. I drive it until the wheels fall off and then it goes to the junkyard.
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@JPJ432 Ukraine being a left wing thing is a dissident right talking point. A very vocal minority that monopolizes online discourse, but has limited influence in the real world.
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@boogiewoogie9770 It's not an attack on Russia but on Russian military assets. Russian integrity is not threatened but they are punished.
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@mr.negativenancy5751 Between the lines. Nice to see the Chomsky Brigade in full force.
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@WSmith_1984 How am I being disingenuous? If you have a system that's inherently revolutionary, and calls for the abolishment of capitalism, at least have a plan to exist without capitalism. If you claim you want to abolish capitalism and you violently repress people from the former economy, how can you expect to come with your hands out and beg for support? If your plan needs the help of capitalists, you have failed before you started. You created your own economic system. Use it. Don't beg for help from the people you demonized. What fair crack at the whip? What socialist nations gave people a fair crack at the whip? Money is simply a token of exchange. Oh, and socialist nation leaders didn't glorify and worship their own wealth? Did they not control supply? Did they not force people to work to the bone for little pay? Human time has value, and socialism is the most efficient way to waste it.
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@rufusray because Mujahideen simply means a group that wages jihad, and everyone has different goals. Anyone in their 20s who got support from the US in the 1980s to fight as a Mujahideen is at this point in their 60s, not exactly in fighting age. The term is the same, anyone can claim it.
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@jupiterjunk Masters of all trades are the workhorses of modern airforces. You didn't have easy access to the deficiencies that were found in other projects. Mind that the F-16 and Harrier straight up KILLED pilots in their early days and now they're beloved machines.
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He has lied.
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@litrogue6328 that was extremely funny, 10/10
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Boomer trying to play a badass role, meanwhile all they did was babysit diplomats and executives. And they did a good job, never lost a principal. But a crusade it was not.
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@WllKiedSnake "I guess Right Wingers are prudes" - Is that supposed to be a clapback? "I guess this woman can't even exist as a Conservative" - She can if she wants. She just shouldn't expect to be welcomed with open arms. "To me she is a evolution of a Conservative" - And that's why you lose. "When someone comes to this event as a private citizen it should be perfectly fine" - No. There's politicians I would kick out of an event even if they went as private citizens. They killed people, they lied, they stole. They don't undo the horrible things they've done by leaving office.
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@hakeemolajuwon4352 What both sides? A journalist on tour isn't giving you both sides. You want the two sides, at least get people who fought for the separatist republics in Eastern Ukraine. They were there, they can tell what happened from their perspective. Supermarkets isn't one side of the conflict. Pointless? Was Portugal fighting off Spain pointless? Was America fighting off the British pointless?
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Russia depleted Kharkiv out of troops to reinforce Kherson to keep it at all costs. The proverbial more mouths to feed arrived right before Ukraine kicked the dinner table down. No such thing is happening here.
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@specialingu Sure but back then war machines were cast/welded/riveted steel. Some fighters were still made of wood. Now the tank needs radars for the APS, thermal sight, laser rangefinger, computers to calculate trajectory and stabilize the gun, etc. In the old days you could take a car factory and turn it into a tank factory. Now the tank factory has to wait on very complicated parts which can't be made anywhere except billion dollar factories.
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@Gnynt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D43ZeYu9dnM https://homemadeguns.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/homemaderiflingmachine-improguns.jpg?w=625&h=474 Please do some research before posting, I like to do it so I end up catching mistakes I would have ended up posting for everyone to see and embarass myself. A little google-fu would have shown you multiple ways people have devised to make rifling at home with hand tools.
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@GarthKlaus Yes, the authorization is contingent on nothing else being available.
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@Kona Blue let's all raid Langley, they can't kill all of us. /j
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Funny how those bases "surrounding" countries are in countries in danger of invasion. The criminal whines about homeowners installing locks on their doors.
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@h9hkk6155 Most tank losses in the Eastern front were not other tanks but breakdowns/running out of fuel, AT guns, mines, etc.
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@WhyNotTruth And did you know that what you just said has nothing to do with the original point? Stop deflecting. Are the numbers of hospitalization inflated or not?
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Hopefully never, considering how well he treated HIV patients.
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 @CaptRaptor01 the jab has to be directed at a proper target - dude mentioned central Europe, not America.
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@CaptRaptor01 That's like asking if the US Army is trained to surrender. Because the joke is usually that the French surrender. "Does the US Army get trained to surrender [like the French does]?" Do you understand how context works and how you can't retroactively add missing information to a joke?
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 @thrwwccnt5845 This is the kind of comment I pay internet for.
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The issue is that you could say something like "no money but they can take our old equipment". Not even that. You just want aid cut, and imply that all aid is money (rather than equipment reported as a dollar value).
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The losses matter a lot. Drones or not, these armored vehicles are still needed for breakthroughs.
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@Slop_Dogg lmao you literally have no arguments except "wahmen". You have double standards and you are proud of your logical inconsistencies.
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@Slop_Dogg I get it, because I treat her with love and respect like a human being and an equal, and to your incel brain women are actually fragile porcelain dolls that need to be treated like babies, gotcha
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@GreaterThanGaming Like said above, this stuff should NOT go into the bloodstream. If injected into the muscle, only a small amount ends up travelling to other parts of the body. If it goes into the bloodstream, it will travelled all over and accumulate in a lot of organs.
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Kind of a tricky question. If you're downwind you're getting fallout, but the area around the plant was cleaned up so it might actually be safer there. The issue would be construction or people who want to have their small farms/gardens because digging would resurface contaminants that were buried back then.
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Plot twist: they need Viktor Bout to ask him where the nukes are.
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@TheMrPeteChannel Not how it works. Russians probably said they didn't need precision rocket artillery because they have Iskanders and Kalibrs. That's the Russian way of thinking. American way of thinking is to cover your bases. Guess which way actually works.
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@Justanotherconsumer No. I'm a 2A extremist and I don't believe that.
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@roywebb-pullman1496 so you mean sending armed men to gun down innocent people to steal their property?
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Because one wrote about his life publicly and the other was a loner shut in.
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National debt is a non-issue, it's the debt obligations increasing against the GDP that are the problem. If you have a hundred billion trillion in debt but you can constantly pay it without making a dent in your yearly budget you're better off than just having 100 million in debt but being forced to default on it.
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It's a bad thing thanks to fertilizer and grain being affected. The oil is a consolation prize.
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@barryrobbins7694 the "community" is far too large for the relationship to remain unchanged. I am dating myself for using this example, but nobody that reached Facebook's 5000 friends limit actually had conversations with all of them. Money didn't change the relationships between people in the community. Communities simply grew too large for us to reliably keep track of everyone else. Even without money.
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@zachrichardson5581 People still drive like maniacs despite having driver's licenses. Nothing would change.
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But the 5.56 famously gave overmatch over AKs, which was why insurgents focused on using PKs from outside 5.56 range.
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No, they aren't lmao. Name one person in this comments section saying that tank drivers should be in charge of tactics, strategy, organization, etc. Once you have a working product it's great to have the end user improve it, but putting end users in charge from the beginning of the project will just lead to 50 different people making 50 unreasonable demands.
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"the Ukraine" ya know, if you keep using that expression you will keep exposing yourself as a Russia shill
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@mistergeopolitics4456 Listen to yourself. Sounds like a villain's speech in a Marvel movie or some other shlock. So Putin forced Ukrainian women into prostitution. You said it yourself. If your women were forced into prostitution, wouldn't you think it would be justifiable to decapitate the threat? You're just going to roll over and be a servant to the man who humiliated your people?
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Not really. The cages don't seem to have a consistent height, and the NLAW is triggered by sensors. Putting a cage won't do anything, the detonation sequence will go off at the right moment. Plus, the missile can detonate above the hull instead of the turret, or actually fly under the cage depending on actual height. Some test videos show it going overhead by only half a meter rather than a meter. It makes more sense as protection against hand or drone thrown grenades.
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Call me gay conversion therapy because I am SHOCKED
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 @colbunkmust Although it's been debunked, many still believe it because "their buddy in the Army" told them about it 20 years ago.
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Corporations just pass down the cost to you. I know this is hard to hear but Monopoly Man doesn't just say "aw shucks" and uses his billions to cover the hole. If you use taxation to reduce a business's income, they increase prices so that you pay for those taxes, not them.
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I BROKE MY BACK. THPINAL. But in all seriousness people are losing life and limb on stunts that aren't even spectacular, are corners being cut on safety or are these just freak accidents that couldn't be avoided?
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@donaldsalkovick396 moving canards are a thing, yes.
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@desr421 terror is any use of force to leverage political gains.
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If cops bust down your door and point rifles at you instead of handguns, you got swatted. What the actual hell is even that argument?
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@te9591 it's not "overused" it was literally the name of the government project.
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Island nations that shut their borders and had summer during our winter due to being on the southern hemisphere. They got the geography right, but their measures didn't work anywhere else.
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@croesuslydias6488 pointing to the horrors inflicted by Saddam is completely meaningless when the US government doesn't have a problem supporting horrors when it suits their agenda. Did Saddam deserve to die? Sure. Did the US intervention make things worse? It did. Can you make the argument that it was moral for the US to cause all that damage? Fuck no. >muh whamen For fuck's sake the US supported Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan, and Western meddling in Iran drove the Iranian people into replacing the puppet for the Ayatollah. >less war and terrorism My dude the US supported terrorism in the past, they were the ones who sent weapons to destabilize Syria and then those guys turned out to be ISIS, and the US is friends with Saudi Arabia which are huge sponsors of terrorism.
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@viysnjor4811 Weird way they have of staying out of politics. The CEO gave The New York Times an interview (first mistake, the press is the enemy) where he called a diverse group "racist". He could have called them stupid. He could have called them a FBI honey pot considered so many of their leaders are FBI informants. But he went there. He called them racist. That's politics. He said a "friend" in the Pentagon warned him that St. Michael the Archangel is racist symbolism. Insulting the Christian faith and the patron saint of the military, and organization he glorifies, by calling it racist is politics. We wanted companies to stay out of politics. They insisted on it. Feigned neutrality is not neutrality. Trying to stay out of politics by being political is damaging too.
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Boy those sure are some words. I guess I have to defend state violence because I read them on a youtube comment.
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@Mike Mo The value of the dollar is contingent on large diesel ships sailing around the world 24/7. If you're going to point the finger at the absurdity of crypto, always remember that everything sits on top of a house of cards.
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No, it hasn't. The Lancet footage has ramped up. This means something changed. Could be new tactics. Could be the use against an offensive being more suitable.
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@falten2 Oh boo hoo, science is hard. Meanwhile any layman with a pre-1990 attention span could have predicted every turn. Should we replace the scientists with plumbers and electricians? They predicted this stuff a year and a half ago.
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Meat Salad they lost the 4th Guards Tank Army near Izium. The Ukrainian 93rd Mechanized proudly uses the tanks they captured from the former elite Russian unit after inflicting several defeats on them in the Kharkiv region.
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HINDsight is 20/20
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I just find it hard to believe that when everyone can see the end, generals in charge will throw away their chance to negotiate a cushy retirement. Give the launch order and risk Nuremberg 2.0, or just keep the nukes secure and ring Washington to propose a trade?
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No, they didn't. They told you that in close up trench fighting in Bakhmut, shovels were used. Your either pretend to not understand, or you actually lack the capacity to do so.
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@johnhaller5851 "The Chinese were able to blind the F16 radar" - That's not how it works in real life.
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 @Asfandyar_ The Maoists are separatists. The Taiwanese state is the descendant of the government in exile of the Republic of China.
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The thing is that from a legal standpoint, he was in control of his actions and consciously picked his target. He knew what he was doing. He's obviously unwell, but he wanted to do it.
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They had like two years to buy a map.
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Full weight of air power lmao 4 aircraft shot down today.
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But no massive disparity between male and female life expectancy which leads to men paying into a system they won't collect from.
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The military industrial complex is about 10 times smaller than when Eisenhower did that address. People throw around references without understanding their context.
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+Vatsala काली Jhaveri "I highly doubt ANYONE sees Ron Paul" you do realize that there's still a fake rumour about Ron Paul being against MLK Day and calling it "hate whitey day"? To them libertarians are either cryptofascists or nazi enablers.
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The A-10 upgrades started way before the F-35 was operational. Do not twist facts to weave a narrative. The A-29 Super Tucano performs the same job the A-10 does for a tenth of the operational cost. The Tucano just shows how bad of a value proposal the A-10 is, and should have been retired much earlier.
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@muhammadfaisal665 he alledgedly killed one neighbor after his dogs were killed and the neighbor was heard in the local bar saying someone needed to take care of McAfee's dogs.
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@KingCrimson02 Man I totally agree, and I'm an extreme individualist so this definitely shouldn't burden the individual, but the situation is that everything is so poorly managed that no matter how much people are willing to pay, with all the mining, electric cars charging and people blasting AC all day there's gonna be power outages. And again I'm not saying the individual is at fault here, my point is that simply paying for the power doesn't solve the problem when the grid can't actually handle it. They're trying to solve the issue the backwards way by restricting the individual, instead they should give an incentive for example to charge a powerwall that runs AC during the day and charges at night or actually cool the house during the night and use high efficiency insulation and windows to stay cool all day. That way they shift peak load.
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There's teenagers today beating records set by pro athletes decades ago. You always stand on the shoulders of giants. It's your choice to learn efficiently and avoid pitfalls to pit yourself ahead, or just coast through life doing the bare minimum.
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Then why aren't they doing it?
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@stevenmike1878 "you can sell each barrel for more" - But American energy policy in the 2010s actually caused prices to drop... The reason to have "barely enough to go around" is due to OPEC agreeing on production quotas to stabilize prices. In fact, Saddam invaded Kuwait because they accused them to producing too much oil and dropping prices while they had to rely on oil income to pay off the Iran-Iraq war debt!
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@vonvomit5666 You're going to have to explain that to me. So people who WANT to be in the military are crybabies, but the people who wanted to get liberal arts degrees or whatever and are forced to get conscripted are badasses?
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As a fellow Portuguese I am telling you to get the fuck out of this issue. You wouldn't like if the US was telling your country what policies to enact.
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@alanlight7740 there's a concept being studied that involves making industrial 3d printers portable enough to deploy on a base, and build the spare parts needed on the spot instead of having to wait for supplies.
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@obsidianstatue Bradley IFVs took out T-72s in Desert Storm tanks to TOW missiles. We've also seen the Ukrainian footage of an IFV autocannon setting a Russian tank on fire. Being in more wars doesn't mean the inanimate objects gained experience.
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Yeah except the manufacturer got a shot FDA approved and then kept distributing the one with emergency use authorization. Didn't the courts side with the refuseniks in that debacle?
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@dennisyoung7363 the entire F-35 body is a wing. The F-16 has a higher wing loading than a F-4 Phantom on paper, but it's more nimble due to body lift.
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@dennisyoung7363 "the Aussies said" which ones? The crackheads at the local park?
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@mbnhiphopmusik6429 some antifa knucklehead in Germany published a guide on how to tell if kids' parents were nazis and one of the warning signs was braided hair. Even Merkel's party complained about that.
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If they fail to meet the quota they're sent to the front.
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I vaguely remember Jim Sterling bitching about men sexualizing dismembered body parts. The same guy who waved a giant purple dildo on camera.
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@ravenknight4876 Oh you mean when the entire establishment decided it was just a flu and if you talked about the Wuhan situation you were an anti-China racist? Yeah, it was predictable to people who are conspiracy theorists and China haters, and we shouldn't listen to them. Thanks bud. I bet you also claimed we were conspiracy theorists for talking about a certain l@b near the place it started, and now you pretend you didn't because mainstream media is actually considering it an hypothesis worth talking about. And are you writing this from where, a country on it's 4th lockdown? Did you predict the pandemic too? Did you prevent it? Huh? Preventable deaths? With an average age of 78 years and 2.83 comorbidities? So preventable dude. Many of them due to bad actors locally forcing infected to be admitted into elderly homes, and whose actions cannot be blamed on... erm... electrical engineers and software developers that develop EM. You lost so you changed the subject. Take the L.
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 @RustedCroaker It was confirmed. It was the 332 marked Buk launcher from the 53rd missile defense brigade, Kursk.
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@googlesucks7954 Did you just use brown/black face as a way to figure out someone's politics...? I look forward to Jimmy Kimmel's and Sarah Silverman's run for congress as Republicans.
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They put Peskov's son in charge of the power plant and send the technicians to the front.
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@ottersirotten4290 Russia is importing tons of immigrants because of.... ahem a sudden drop in population. Nothing to do with the war in Ukraine, certainly.
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Half of them were put on the trenches like 8 months ago.
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 @stevealba56 Gold doesn't have the liquidity to handle global trade. Human activity creates wealth faster than gold can be mined.
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Patriot systems are better suited for ballistic missile defense. The drones are easier to counter with less costly means.
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@BrianM78 "getting new engines" this is meaningless, there's no true series production Su-57 so they could use a new engine on all airframes. All that means is that it's not even a "finished" product and the united aircraft corporation is just spinning their wheels.
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@Flanker-NineZero So if a country arrests a foreign national for poaching, is it kidnapping too?
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@miriamweller812 The random communist guy had attempted an assassination on a US Army general. He wasn't that random. He was a failure at life who failed to adjust to the Soviet Union when he lived there for a while. He tried to whack Edwin A. Walker, missed, and had left notes to his wife saying what he was about to do. That's not random. It's a pattern. Some guy tried to whack Reagan to impress Jodie Foster, now that's random.
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Black Rifle Coffee Company and how they've succesfully "tacticalized" goddamn coffee honestly makes me nostalgic for the zombie fad.
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 @user-pq4by2rq9y It didn't cost a trillion. That's the cost to purchase, maintain, repair, refuel a +2000 strong fleet until 2070.
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But the corporate sector would love to make bucks off nuclear. You say capitalism when you just mean scarcity.
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Shep VanDelay Why would truckers steal food from the homeless? You know, it would be smarter to steal from a store that actually stocks food than from someone who begs for food.
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The problem is that you had random people with different standards of training giving hundreds of shots a day. The risk increases, and in this case you definitely do not want this stuff in the bloodstream.
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@stanisn3072 Shooting still requires you to make the bodies disappear. Digging graves can be seen from satellite. If the bodies are found, forensics allows you to tell they were tortured. Burn a house down, and now you have charred bodies you can say were caused by the attack, and make the bodies disappear.
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People used to dive into the ocean to cut up old warships sunk in combat to sell low background steel. For decades steel was contaminated with nuclear material from tests starting 1945.
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@dip.918 His point still stands. Keanu came back to the spotlight after John Wick and now he's a marketable star. If not for that, they probably wouldn't have bothered doing a 4th movie.
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TOS-1 is garbage, though. Regular artillery or Grads are more useful than a siege breaker.
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@petrairene If fitted with APKWS rockets, yes.
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@laurentdrozin812 How can you handle the topic of defense without knowing what a fighter is? Even if the EU doesn't have its own army, overseeing the topic of defense means being aware of what warfare entails.
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Complete cope. The ships weren't even bound for Israel.
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@likalabi8417 But aren't the government officials consulting with medical doctors when they publish the things John Campbell reads?
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@jboyg01 but Jeff Cavalier mostly sticks to his field when Neil DeGrasse Tyson will start going off about how celebrating New Year's is meaningless because it's just the Earth completing an orbit around the Sun.
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+Home Wall 1) culture shapes videogames more than videogames shape culture; 2) we don't hold alcohol responsible for crimes committed under the influence, we punish the person who was under the influence; 3) people who play videogames are not more likely to commit crimes, which is the opposite
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@kristen7775 I don't remember his name but a few months ago a guest on Joe Rogan had a similar experience, someone he knows was about to be declared dead but as it turned out he was dehydrated due to neglect.
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@Treblaine If you watch the footage, many people taken out by drones aren't even carrying their rifle anymore. You actually don't know when you're going to use a breaching shotgun if you enter a building you've never laid your eyes on and thus don't know which doors can be/are locked. You're thinking of a Battlefield scenario where you're having fun shooting your rifle and see a drone so you click the button to switch to the underbarrel attachment. Instead, people are targeted when walking around, eating, etc. and sometimes have their rifle laid out by their side or even stacked in a triangle with their squadmates' rifles. The grenadier is a grenadier. His job is being the grenadier. This is a last minute life saver. Not a job.
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@luigimrlgaming9484 Not true. The AIM 9X is not like old missiles. It "sees" the aircraft. Clean flares, dirty flares, it just sees the object with cockpit and wings. The missile just failed to track.
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So HIMARS turning a modern army into a convict meatwave army is not a gamechanger. ATACMS wiping out S-300 batteries, Ka-52 bases, etc is not a gamechanger. But this is...
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 @TheKillerBush well, technical fields don't have to deal with the consumer being an average person who gets scared by "dihydrogen monoxide".
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@popinmo 3d printing high performance polymers is pretty finicky, though.
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Size, didn't get a real sense of scale but it just looks bulky.
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Krieg the bandit Irrelevant. You can pick any random category to find that other countries surpass the US, doesn't mean they're not doing worse. For example, Greece has a higher average wage than Portugal despite having similar gross domestic product per capita, which ranks them higher than Portugal. Guess who's on the way to recovery and who's on the brink of bankruptcy. And 90% of the countries with higher pay and more vacation time than the US are countries with crazy high tax rates and much higher costs of living.
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In Germany they don't allow people to fit lasers onto guns and they banned any type of competitive shooting that involves leaning from behind cover. It doesn't make any sense.
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There's thousands of murders by people with guns every year, better consider all law abiding gun owners a gang. Seriously, only ReasonTV could harness a following of so-called "libertarians" who apparently have problems with pot, defend the federal government's prejudice and support "guilty by association" logic applied to law. You're not libertarians, you're just conservative statists and that's why you support sending the feds to harass people who don't look like you.
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+Russell Nelson police cowardice? The kid connected the clock and made it beep. I was on his side when I heard he was arrested for having a bomb, but he caused a bomb hoax and got detained for it. It's not the object, it's the actions. His actions warranted an arrest, it's not cowardice.
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+Der Fliegende Holländer if you were friends with the party, you could own anything. If you were a citizen, you could own firearms that were not for military service. But they raised the age limit to own weapons and CONVENIENTLY considered that the people they wanted to exterminate did not count as German citizens. They armed those who agreed with them, and disarmed those they hated. That's what authoritarians do. Your point is also disingenuous. In my country I can also get a permit to carry. It will never be awarded to me because the police will disqualify my appeal. Meanwhile the US has states that don't require permits (constitutional carry) and states that are SHALL ISSUE. In Germany you can also apply for a carry permit, but unless you've suffered an attempted assassination or you're a wealthy politician/celebrity, you will never get it.
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It's actually generosity that bites us in the ass. If you're selfish, people can't affect you. If you're generous, people will drag you through the depths of hell just because they can and leave you alone to pick up the pieces.
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Max R smoking tobacco is stupider than weed, so there's that. Especially if it's the Carl Sagan weed that expands your mind, not the Snoop Dogg weed that makes you mellow.
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ITmage I'm not American. Yes, you are free to speak, but we are also free to criticize your speech. The problem isn't that you think that the author sucks, the problem is that you're taking personally legitimate criticisms of a vehicle. I admit that I like bad movies, and bad music, the criticism doesn't reflect itself on me, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that schlock movies or uninspired pop music have great artistic value. Your argument is like liking Britney Spears' music, hearing someone using his knowledge of music theory to explain why her songs aren't very good, and you'll sit here and argue that her songs have artistic value and are masterfully composed. It doesn't mean you can't enjoy Britney Spears, it doesn't mean you can't have fond memories of listening to her, and it doesn't mean Britney Spears is a bad person.
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+David -flamingsword1 I'm not downplaying the skill required to perform a water landing but all the dangers you mentioned are present in ground landings as well. It's a precision job all the way through and pilots do it every single day. Heck, carrier landings involve even more precision and again, all over the world there's people doing it every day.
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Deponensvogel discouraging public support for war is one of the ways to secure victory.
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@krautandsalo federal agencies are often called "three letter agencies" or "alphabet soup" because it's an assortment of letters.
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Unrelated to the topic. As if the Austrian wasn't allied to Arabs and anti-British Indians, while his Italian friend was Mr Sword of Islam.
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@willamdafoe9300 LMAO she trained stregth but no hypertrophy
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Andorian Nationalist bro if Mossad was involved since when do they think it's not okay to kill muslims? Why wouldn't they just pay some guy to suffer the prison sentence and tell him not to snitch or they kill their family and kill people for real? They could just kill people for real. Why would they need to fake it? If you watch first person go pro footage of guns being shot you see shells disappearing in mid-air because they get "chopped" by the "shutter speed".
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+Kasane1337 explosives are regulated by the BATFE and they're widely used for construction, mining, etc and people can be licensed to purchase explosives. Remember the movie HEAT from the 90's where Val Kilmer uses a fake construction ID to buy the explosives to bust open the armored van? I'm sure that these days the process is harder but there are commercial explosives being sold to licensed individuals. Many people use blasting means to remove extremely large boulders or tree stumps for farming purposes.
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 @SillyBillyOneHundreadMilly the Black Sea Fleet has lost enough ships that Crimea no longer matters for Russian security.
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 @Nocturnalverse But Pedro Pascal did the same. Sounds like wrongful termination to me. Welcome to capitalism. Pay up.
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 @dendrien "she's a nobody" pioneer in women's MMA, probably the most known after Ronda and Miesha Tate.
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After the Dead Island bust controversy Jim went on a rant about men being garbage because male sex toys have disembodied female parts. He lacked the self awareness to remember he wielded a diembodied penis on camera for years.
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@WarNoob755 Anything that puts people down "overpenetrates". The real collateral comes from missing entirely. Some materials indeed get penetrated easier with higher velocity, but often the larger the mass of a bullet the bigger and more dangerous the fragments are, and anyone who's seen the cinder block tests from channels like Paul Harrell knows that often 9mm required more shots to crack a block. There's always a give and take depending on what type of object you're hitting and you won't know beforehand what you're going to hit.
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@Nicole-ww4lg lmao you think that the corrupt and heavily regulated healthcare sector is a "free market"
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Doesn't even make sense.
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@Yuta_Respecter We care because our money is being siphoned into this conflict.
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MH370 flew under the radar so we have no idea where it went down after it vanished from the screen. The submarine was going to ovserve the Titanic. So we knew it had to be close to the shipwreck.
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@ben5073 I'm not simping for Trump. That's the issue. You people are so deranged you assume everyone is a Trump supporter and start screeching.
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I'm 99% sure it was always skippable. Because internal testers were distraught and one refused to play it. So they added the option. Maybe they added an additional warning, because I was asked if I wanted to skip disturbing content while starting the game and before the mission.
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@BuetifullPersun Typically you want to backup your files, then format the OS drive. By using windows install media (which is often a USB these days) you can boot the PC through that. The install setup copies the Windows files to your hard drive/SSD and you restart and boot to your main drive so you can use the install files. By booting like this the install assistant asks you for the configurations you want and the process begins.
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Cope harder.
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@nyph933 "Iraqi civilians or terrorists? Barely any difference anyways." - ok, boomer
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Jesus Christ... how much is a brazillion?
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@wigglyk2796 Iraq had WMDs, though. American soldiers suffered neurological damage when they were found and were exposed to nerve agent by accident.
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@Flatunello whoosh
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@twoheartsoff3255 If you look at testing footage rated protective glasses are tested against high velocity metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FZtXDeaVGU Ever seen how thin hardhats are? Same deal. It's not meant to make you invulnerable, it's meant soak/deflect just enough of the energy to prevent something more serious. Instead of taking a blow straight to the eye, it made sure his face took the most of the impact. It's a good trade off.
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 @TheZachary86 the US produces over a hundred F-35s per year. Russia's capacity is indeed laughable.
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Russia already has a Muslim minority population within their country.
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@kh7955 That's your choice and nobody should be pressured into having kids they don't want. But I think that the people who see what's wrong with the world have a chance to make it better by raising children right. It's the people who can't be bothered to raise a child who've sent us down this path.
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@jamesmartini4332 That doesn't even make sense but at least it sounds like an original thought so I guess kudos for not just parroting what TV says.
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Declare yourself to be reasonable and refuse to explain how you derived your opinions from "reason". That playbook is pretty worn out.
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You greet people and get your teeth flossed at the same time.
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They're the ones doing those things and it's the US that is at fault...? What?
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@LFCV123 ah yes, facts like "far-right" elements of the COMMUNIST party
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 @patrickmunneke8348 Pure whataboutism.
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@Fung15 material irradiated does not become radioactive itself unless neutron bombardment turns the atoms into unstable isotopes. Food taken to space is irradiated to sterelize it, it does not become radioactive. I am sure the clothes are still radioactive not due to irradiation but dust and particles clinging to them.
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You're missing the point. Biden says because of the corrupt system Mexico has wealth but it's concentrated in the 1%. So the implication here is that the US is just as corrupt because the wealth is concentrated in the 1% too!
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@justmarcus33 there's not in control of the game, they're obeying the programming. But hey, if the game coder wants it, he can code NPCs to be hostile and make the game harder for you.
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Cardboard fertilizer.
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He didn't "cancel" the book deal. He was forced to cancel as his crowdfunding campaign could not get a platform, and he realized that publishing the book could also complicate his future cooperation with Max Popenker. Which due to recent events is probably not going to happen anyway.
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Do you ever feel like swinging at a wasp's nest?
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 @thecringekid5744 people in their 30s were using the internet 10 years ago, 9gag was massively popular among college kids
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@IliyaOsnovikov Why? Because the Soviet Union had a ton of projects they couldn't afford so the US footed the bill to keep scientists employed instead of risking them going to North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Libya, etc. This was only a couple of years before I was born and even I knew this prior to 2022. The US had to clean up all the messthe Soviets left laying around and couldn't afford to deal with.
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@brashlybold8805 You pay for the water bill. We care about the CCP. But we're called racist for bringing it up. Funny how you people work.
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 @djordjetodorovic4176 That's nonsense. Not only can SAMs without air forces prevent overflights, the US has operated with air force and no air defense and still made it.
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The F-22 is going to be retired soon and the Su-57 isn't even in serial production.
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@ABESAALE Ukraine has struck Russia already. Nothing. Russia is all bark and no bite, you people have barked for 5 months and Russia just keeps taking humiliation after humiliation. They're so weak.
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@verbosed "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"
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@minhducnguyen9276 If you look at pictures of them (Malaysia and I think Iran have them) there's a metallic bracket that replaces the original handguard and the tube itself becomes the gripping surface.
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No amount of buried reasons would justify a chain of subcontractors ending up with a person driving hundreds of miles to move a computer from one room to another. By involving so many companies the opportunity to steal secrets actually increased.
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@timbimjim514 The OP's joke was that she'd get shwacked by the government and made look like an accident/natural disease.
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The US blocked Gripen exports to Colombia. It uses a GE F414 engine.
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But most let themselves get caught this easily. There's just not enough resources to patrol the internet.
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@cheydinal5401 "government has no right to interfere with sexual activity between consenting adults" "I do want the government to stop the sexual activity of rape, don't you?" WHOOSH way over your head
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@anotherlover6954 not really that arbitrary because the continents are typically separated by natural barriers.
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Tucson Jim "No crimes have been committed with a M134 Minigun - the laws work" - you're a complete bullshitter. There's thousands of criminal uses of illegal machine guns, meanwhile there's only a couple uses of legal machine guns for homicides since 1934 (one of them a cop assassinating an informant). M134s are less common than Uzis, and also very costly to reproduce in a home shop. They're almost entirely milled guns, possibly from forgings. Meanwhile the Irish loyalists fought the IRA with Uzis they manufactured in a home shop. The law against machine guns does not work because there's plenty of them, unregistered. Hell, all the people who did not turn in their bump stocks are illegal machine gun owners. "U.S. v. Miller (1939)" - how nice of you to completely disregard the context behind that decision. Miller was a no-show for the trial and he was shot dead before the decision had even been made. Also one of the reasons behind the decision: "The Second Amendment protects only the ownership of military-type weapons appropriate for use in an organized militia." This is just lack of foresight. Short barrel shotguns and short barrel rifles are military-type weapons. At the time they weren't. "like any car owner, all gun owners should also be required to not only get a license" - false. You only need a license to drive a car in public. If you want a license to discharge a gun in public, by all means. "as well as large (over 7-10 round) magazines" - California just had their capacity limits on magazines struct down due to them being unconstitutional. "You can't ban the sharing of information... LIE! Sharing the plans for nuclear weapons will get you in trouble" - you do realize even wikipedia has the plans for nuclear weapons, right? The gunbarrel style nuke is the easiest to construct. You'll never get anywhere near the weapons-grade material so the knowledge on how they work is out in the open. "Wikileaks Julian Assange was recently arrested. How did you miss it?" - lmao but you can't put his leaks back in the bottle. That's why you can't ban information. Once it's freely available it will be spread. "How about sharing child porn - just information, right?" - that's like claiming libel is just speech. You can't fucking rape people and trade the videos for profit because that's criminal activity. The blueprints for a gun? Not a crime. Otherwise any engineer with spare time could commit a crime, I know I sure as fuck have a shit ton of gun designs doodled on my notebooks from my college days. "How about the live feeds from your phones and PCs?" - it's still a crime. Gun blueprints aren't crime. "considering 90% of Republicans favor stricter gun laws?" - bullshit. How about you actually look at the survey and read the questions asked?
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I had a similar thing happen, I got disorientated and walked towards the window, which had wood shutters made of the same material as the door. I spent several minutes trying to feel the handle but it wasn't there, so I started to cry which woke my parents up.
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@granola661 lmao nobody's forcing anyone, but you need to pick between military and civil service. Okay, that's still force. What happens if you don't show up to either? I love guns. I just hate governments telling me what to do. I love how you assume I'm American, but fine I'll play the role of American. Why would 7% of people in the military be shameful? If anything, the number is too high.
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 @charlesbryson7443 The US has a stockpile that it won't touch. Ammo isn't depleted, just the one that can be given out.
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70km is far too deep for elastic defense. There were almost no losses to the attackers, they took a ton of POWs and captured artillery, ammo and APCs.
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>steal food from starving population to import machinery Development time
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@annaredding Yes, and only 170 positive cases. So the data we have on efficacy hinges on those 170 people. That's the issue. Stop being purposefully dense and manufacturing consent for these hucksters.
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The corrupt pseudo state known as Russia?
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@lightish3754 People have drawn smut on walls since the dawn of time. There's dirty graffiti from the Roman Empire days found by archeologists.
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 @MrCustomabstract Unless you have weapons in internal bays, top speed is meaningless as fuel bags and armament will increase drag.
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@HeidiPyke Not true. He was identified through fingerprints he left on a car, the police published his 1984 mugshot to help the public identify him.
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Florida also has an older population, with 20.9% being over 65 and California having 14.8% over 65.
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@randomuser4201 233 people cared. Also you, because you cared enough to respond.
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@SaberRiryi It's going to replicate itself no matter if you take it. COME ON. Wake up. Your own propaganda admits it's not making you immune, it's reducing hospitalizations. If you're feeling good but carrying it anyway, you're spreading and allowing it to replicate. THINK.
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@mrthewubbie the theory of an electric charge firing a rocket (extremely plausible) and hitting McCain's aircraft, versus the theory that a glorified blowtorch detonated a rocket (nearly impossible because the explosive filler needs a high order detonation and will just burn if set on fire). Hmmmm. Also, when you take off from a carrier you don't have airplanes behind you.
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@francibalanci5617 In a vacuum, correct. The thing is, Ukraine is blasting the fudge out of anything that carries supplies. You don't need a 3:1 advantage when your foe has no ammo to shoot.
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The aircraft can't be replaced in a day or two. Aircraft production is tremendously expensive. It also requires components that are harder to acquire now than they have been for the past few years as sanctions tighten. What you probably mean is that aircraft can be pulled from somewhere else. Okay. The base can be struck again. If the ammo dumps had precision guided munitions, those are very hard to replace, forcing the Russian air power to drop dumb bombs and thus get themselves into MANPADS range.
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Believe all women, tho
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@naplutin4779 Where's the proof that 8 hits are needed? There's plenty of video evidence of single hits with smaller weapons causing critical damage and forcing Russian crews to abandon the vehicle and run on their own feet. How come a larger, tandem warhead does less damage?
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Geothermal isn't a silver bullet.
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@rafal2675 Der Spiegel also reported that in Hamburg their "ICUs are full with 90% unspiked" data was based on 70% having unknown status and thus being flagged as unspiked in the data. Recently in Portugal an official was also asked for a source for his "90% in ICU unspiked" data on TV and he started mumbling about "conversations with friends" who work in the ICUs. The narrative doesn't even hold up to the softball scrutiny of MSM.
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Without the cultural context of Korea human waves, to me "meat wave" sounds like a term inspired by videogames where you fight off waves. Like zombies/horde mode. You play the game to see how many rounds you can last, knowing you can never truly win. So Ukrainians have to defend territory knowing that eventually they will have to abandon it, because the waves will keep coming.
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@BardChords Same reason Russia kept landing supply helicopters at Chornobaivka despite being attacked 30 times. Ignore the need for supplies, you lose. It's like asking why the neck has the vulnerable arteries into the brain. Without them, brain don't work.
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Luty also published a companion PDF guide on several ways to scavenge the materials for the ammo. He had a way to make 380 Auto and .38 revolver shells.
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@numagok This is kind of survivorship bias. Not only it discards the A-10s that didn't come back, but it also overstates the damage suffered. In a lot of pictures of damaged A-10s you see that they got frag shower and not direct hits, with one famous case of the A-10 that came back with a missing wing tip and a destroyed engine. People think all A-10s are that tough, but that was also an outlier.
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So it's okay that the state came to break your legs with baseball bats as long as they pay the hospital bill?
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@Gstyle1 1. Doesn't matter, KIA vatniks are always good. 2. The DPR is Russia now. 3. The DPR and LPR are depleted of men due to conscription, so mobilized Russians serve under them.
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@hammamboutafant3659 But losing 20 crews is worse than losing 5 tanks.
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The Hummer H1 was based on the Humvee but the H2 and H3 are GM truck chassis dressed up to look like the original H1.
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The currencies only piggyback off the blockchain. There's no world cryptocurrency, people even created joke currencies.
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I have, no joke, seen at least 6-7 claims of proof existing of the Lucas videos being sped up that I replied to asking for said proof and never got an answer. I have no horse on this race so if Lucas is speeding up his videos, too bad. But nobody ever points to the evidence.
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Ukraine wasn't mobilizing those under 27.
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The "nine women can't birth a baby in one month" principle.
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The bomblets found on the ground are from ATACMS.
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A tampon is meant to hold maybe a shot cup of blood. An arterial bleed can pump out more blood than a human has inside the body in 1-2 minutes. It's not the 70s-90s anymore. We learned a lot.
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Why do you believe Russian media,
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@lhaviland8602 Show the numbers.
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Yeah and Russian air force sometimes flies next to the EU and interceptors follow them to make sure they behave. Major powers flex on each other all the time.
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@Baphomets_Kid they've been questioned by local police? That's vague. Maybe they have some unpaid tickets, issuing threats on facebook/twitter or doing sovereign citizen stuff and when the police comes knocking to talk to them they go "THEY'RE COMING FOR ME BECAUSE OF MY YOUTUBE VIDEOS". I'm not just gonna take their word for it.
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It's not similar at all because even people who don't care for MJ feel sickened by the injustice he suffered. The first accusation was all a ploy for money and Sony pressured MJ to take the deal.
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@ericfleming5522 and if you check the 2018 video, you can see thermal footage of the telephone pole that us a GMLRS rocket from a HIMARS hitting them.
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And hip-hop is also closely related to criminal gangs. By that logic just round up everyone at a rap show and arrest them. Christ, just arrest anyone who buys a Harley and a leather jacket. Because as you might know, motorclubs are often associated with drug dealing and gun running. If criticizing the government for doing something that is wrong is "propaganda", I don't know what to tell you.
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pandorachild how am I being stupid for pointing out you're applauding a criminal who has no regard for the law and who did nothing to prevent any deaths? How is that unreasonable?
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I don't want to be trapped in an echo-chamber. Sometimes youtube recommends me videos by leftist youtubers. One time I clicked Philosophy Tube's "Why the left will win" video and gave it a chance. Motherfucking soyboy actually makes the case that one of the reasons the left will win is because the right admires strength while the left gets together over their weaknesses. How the fuck does that even make sense?
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The faster cards don't fix the artifacts and glitches.
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@ilikeskies George Washington's place of birth was British America.
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It can take months to train a pilot to fly western aircraft, old Soviet hardware may need modernization and repairs, and they'd still need MiG/Sukhoi compatible missiles. They can't just slap AIM-9Xs and AIM-120s under the wings of aircraft wired for Soviet/Russian missiles.
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@harenterberge2632 wind and solar are fluctuating sources, and require much more land
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 @5tre55full Who confirmed that kill? It was most likely a MiG-31 at max afterburner. The Su-57 is terrible for long range launches when Russia has a faster aircraft with a bigger radar.
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They make more money with us in the ICU than taking cheap meds and recovering at home.
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@CarlosAM1 Kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy when a certain type of research was being carried out in the US, got banned, got moved to a certain city in another country, and then that city becomes the source of the crisis.... The people predicting that something ended up causing that something.
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@@thondyhalomoan889 Right. So it's not impressive that it can fly without it. That's like saying it's impressive someone is a boxing champion after having the appendix removed after appendicitis. Uh, yeah? You don't need it to punch.
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 @jthieme >"I don't like Russia" >posts literal copypasted vatnik comment
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@youtubeisleftyshit8377 nice False Dilemma fallacy you got there
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Whoa it's almost like healthcare and housing are highly regulated by the government and thus increased in price unlike consumer goods.
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@DevineAbyss You know, in most of the Western world aviation was connected to naval tradition. The men crossing seas on airplanes had to navigate like sailors as GPS didn't exist. So in aviation altitude is in feet, distance in nautical miles and speed is in knots. The former Soviet nations and China famously use metric. Because they're the exception. Everyone else uses feet. It's not confusing or dangerous. The only accident I can think of had nothing to do with pilots but ground crews confusing pounds and kilograms of fuel.
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Russia left because they got their S kicked in. Azerbaijan made a move after Russia suffered major defeats in Ukraine.
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Russian IFF Identify, "F*ck it!", Fire anyway
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Suppressors are still very effective by minimizing flash and masking the origin of the shot. The supersonic crack actually confuses the directional hearing because the brain perceives the bullet wizzing by as the gunshot.
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But didn't the courts side with the troops? You take a laundry list of shots when you deploy to countries where diseases we have erradicated exist. But in part we have erradicated them because we had decades of well developed shots which blocked transmission. The stuff was experimental, so the discharges could be reversed. At least last time I checked, I haven't kept up with the legal challenges.
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 @philipz7996 just guessing the name behind the keyboard, as a joke. Ivan is a common name so it's funny. But Sergei is a good guess too
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What other sources? The ones saying Russia is taking settlements, but omitting how small and how little the distances are?
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So you've seen his involvements with war crimes. He steals dead bodies to stage scenes and hangs out with war criminals like the Buryat with the Australian hat and the box cutter.
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Mind that I'm retrieving this information from the top of my head so it could be out of date - the rounded lug bolts require a matching rounded lug barrel extension so it's not a part you can get that's interchangeable with other AR parts. You can get spare E3 bolts - they're not always easy to come by as said above my comment - but they will not fit your AR. I don't know of any "enhanced" bolt with rounded lugs that offers that option and a matching barrel extension, they could exist so anyone feel free to correct me. The Sig MCX has rounded corners, though. They call it "tapered lug bolt" on their website.
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Not gonna lie I take creatine and if I don't have coffee or juice to mix it in, drinking just water and creatine is like swallowing dust in liquid form.
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 @opensocietyenjoyer It is true, it just so happens the guy saying it is an expert in Slavic history
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@l.w.paradis2108 "A person cannot create the conditions that require self-defense and then claim self-defense" - How did he create the conditions? By putting out fires? "Rittenhouse was in a place where he had no business being" - So people have no right to go anywhere without a reason? Papers please? Cops on every corner? "openly carrying an assault-style firearm" - Define assault-style and define why that matters. "At least two of the people he shot reasonably believed they were disarming a possible mass shooter." - So anyone can tackle you in the street and claim they thought you were a mass shooter? "Therefore, THEY had a right to claim self-defense or defense of others against lethal bodily harm." - How? They were aggressors.
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 @reeyees50 Not really. Russia is going back to 1960s tech and the US is sending 80s and Desert Storm era stuff. If anything, we're watching bizarro world Cold War Gone Hot.
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 @jamesdawson2510 The point is that Redacted is using their man on the ground in Russia for credibility... but being in Russia actually lowers his abilty to be truthful.
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These ain't apocalypse ready.
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@MrRouxs "It's literally like buying a Ferrari ! It's faster than your regular car, but it won't really make you go faster to work on your 10min journey." - This is somewhat of a misrepresentation. The Ferrari comparison is used because it's a performance-driven car that's extremely inconvenient for regular road use, but the F-35 is the most utilitarian aircraft one can get for the money. "Just a reminder that Switzerland is 350km at its widest" - That's way beyond IRST range.
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A lot of 3d modellers focus on American gear rather than the 15 different variants of tanks Russia uses.
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@John Grigg 100,000 men in a war of drones and artillery would die before they even saw an Ukrainian soldier.
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@davidrydl7292 It's not slow. Pilots say the F-16 pilots have to run on afterburner to keep up with a F-35 on dry thrust. Newest radar technologies cannot defeat physics. You cannot make a flashlight that makes a black shirt reflect more light than a white shirt.
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"Threat to our democracy" "the walls are closing in"
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There's a Two Generals Problem joke hidden there.
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@RafaelSantos-pi8py Germany got to the outskirts of Moscow. Ukraine doesn't even have to go past Rostov on Don. Napoleon and Germany lost an offensive war against Russia, but Ukraine is fighting a defensive war. Let's face it, nobody wants to conquer Russia. It's full of Russians.
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Art of the Deal
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@Mist If they don't like other countries telling them to play nice, they deserve to remain the way they are. I feel bad for the people, but don't send them to my country as refugees because their country has deteriorated their living conditions.
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The gates to Kyiv are wide open after that one...
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@N.Sniper "The A-10 would be vulnerable if used like an F-16, flying high. But that is not how its used. It flies low" - False. Lie, please stop lying. Most aircraft were, save for exceptions, forced to respect a 12-10,000 foot hard deck to avoid the shorter range SAMs, AAA and MANPADS.
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 @HellsYeah8 WRONG. Ukraine was given administration of Crimea by Krushchev decades before.
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Misnk was broken by the assault of Debaltseve and the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport.
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Guns smaller than the GAU-8 can do that. A single-barrel revolver cannon would be much lighter. Like the Mauser BK-27.
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@kineticdeath they don't randomly grab anything, or at least in theory shouldn't. First of all it's a function of speed, range, airbase distance and payload. Second, the F/A-18 is Navy. If low maintenance and cost per flying hour is your deal, then the A-10 should have been replaced by the Super Tucano.
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@markinl.a.4954 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP0f1_f8nuc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqaYI5VWkgE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idVY2KumIcA "Feel free to explain why we should believe a word they say while you're at it." - That's the point. You're not meant to believe them. That's the thing I've been trying to tell you the whole time. You claim America's enemies want to replace the A-10 - actually they want it to stay in service. That's why they say the F-35 is shit, and call Pierre Sprey the designer behind the A-10 when he was a defense analyst.
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec "most aircraft at the time were built to either be fast our Cary lots of weapons" - The A-7 was faster than the A-10 and carried 15k pounds versus the A-10s 16k pounds. "but no one was built to take such a pounding" - The A-7 was armored. "if any they were very fragile" - No. "The A10 was built to go against soviet columns" - And it was discovered to have been a suicidal mission. The A-10 was really built for Vietnam. In 1991 it got shredded apart by Iraqis and had to be grounded.
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@terryboyer1342 "The A-10s used today are vastly superior to the ones used in the Gulf War" - So are air defenses. "Completely upgraded avionics and NVG capable now as well as employing all the PGMs available. Plus they are now outfitted with the Litening II targeting pod." - Oh wow so they can do what other jets do. Funny how that goes. "The Gulf War A-10s had none of this" - It wouldn't have helped. They'd still be getting shredded by AA and popped by missiles. "btw wasn't the F-111 retired about 20 yrs ago while the A-10 may still be flying 20 years from now?" - Precisely. The A-10 should have been retired with dignity but you people insist on dragging it's corpse. Since 2014 it gets what? 11% of CAS missions? What does it matter if it's still flying in 20 years if the fast jets are doing its job? "The A-10 had a lower loss to mission rate than the F-16" - the F-16 had more CAS missions than the A-10 in 1991 and got shot down 3 times, versus the A-10 which got shot down 7 times. "Here's a cool site that should piss you off for weeks to come." - You mean this one? http://rjlee.org/air/ds-aaloss/ first do ctlr+F "F-16" and then "A-10"
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@terryboyer1342 So you agree that CAS is a mission not a platform, and then you ridicule the use of aircraft capable of dropping warheads on foreheads? "In neither of these platforms can the person who designates targets and pushes the button to employ weapons even see outside the aircraft" - Are you seriously implying that that the Mark I Mod 0 Eyeball is better than a gimbaled, stabilized image that can see people scratching their nuts from ten thousand feet in the air and also IR strobes and laser designators? Having to see the fight from up in the air is an absolute clusterfuck and caused blue on blue because you can't see shit. Do we have to set up an airsoft event and you fly over with a Cessna and try to actually judge what's going on with your own two eyes while you're busy flying the plane? Good luck. First documentary features Pierre Sprey who is a charlatan and borderline "aviation stolen valor" by allowing himself to be introduced by Russia Today as the designer of the A-10 and F-16 when he was never anything more than a defense analyst who never worked for Fairchild or General Dynamics. Second documentary, you can argue that Marine Harrier pilots were also grunts in the sky considering that part of their officer training included being trained in forward air control with grunts. Hardly exclusive to the A-10. Again, it's a mission not a platform and pilots need training to perform it. If you listen to pilot interviews from other countries where the main fighter force is composed of multiroles you'll notice that they do rotate from time to time because they need their fighter pilots to also be proficient in bombing. You can make a multirole pilot a grunt of the sky.
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec The A-10 was designed for Vietnam where the main AAA threat was 14.5mm guns, not 23mm. The A-7 was just as armored as the A-10, just lacks the mythical titanium bathtub because it doesn't need it. Second ranking in the amount of ordnance dropped over Hanoi with only six USAF A-7s lost in the entire war. Sounds like a survivable aircraft to me. "those are still good numbers other aircraft like attack helicopters would not be able to survive" - But the F-16 flew more CAS missions than the A-10 in 1991 with only three shot down. That's less than half of the A-10 losses despite flying more.
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 @no_more_free_nicks Makes you wonder why they weren't on board with the Iraq war, I thought they liked bush.
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@skislope4218 the Russian coverage is hilarious. Dimitry of wartranslated has a huge compilation of Russian accounts, Igor Girkin now calls the Kremlin the "planet of pink ponies".
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 @zeanamush He fled to Russia but that wasn't his intended destination. His passport was revoked so he couldn't leave.
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@JcJ * "And now that we have one, the 2A is obsolete AF " - it's actually more relevant than ever.
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Yo dawg, I heard you like tubes. So we put a tube on your tube.
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The US is giving another package and lend lease starts in a month or so.
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@autohmae Again, this is the all-or-nothing approach. Previous mistakes do not justify committing to going down this path. I do own a house that's paid for, a car that's paid for, and even the goddamn appliances are paid for. You're talking about what should be a narrow period of your life where you need to make a deal to get on your feet and pretending this justifies even more control over your life. No shit I only own the media. That's what actually matters. I didn't pay for the copyright, I didn't want it.
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Costs the same as other 4th gen. There's no actual "bang for the buck" advantage. There's a reason Saab struggles to make sales.
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@pete_lind Stop. The flu shot is tuned every year to match the most prevalent strains. This is just getting more of the same faulty product. All you people use the same excuse but you're WRONG.
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But they weren't on the battlefield. They did security. They got shot at, they fired back. Not an unsavory tactic. The biggest stain on Blackwater's record was a huge legal misconduct as evidence that would exonerate the contractors was not admitted and evidence was allowed to be introduced by the notoriously corrupt Iraqi police.
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@dailyupdate2864 But the shot doesn't prevent infection or transmission. You're still creating variants too.
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"A loss of a Leopard is a tragedy. A loss of a thousand Soviet tanks is a statistic." - people who whine about cartoon dogs online
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It's not Russian territory per Russia's own agreements and Putin's statements in 2008.
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"if they choose not to, and get Covid, then they are fools" - But if they choose to, and then get it anyway, are they smart?
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They had one that was "f*ck it, we'll put 5 blades on razors" around that time, I think, and then in the early 2010's brands started making them.
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@jonathanolson772 No, it isn't relevant. You're arguing why certain cryptos aren't valuable, which isn't the point. The point is that creating an infinite number of altcoins does NOT negate scarcity. I'm only talking about ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES. I can't figure out what's worse, the fact that you're not reading or the fact that people are updooting the comments of someone who barged in a discussion and started mouthing off about unrelated topics.
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I love when "informative" posts get immediately taken down by proper counters. Net zero information gained.
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@FuzzyDlop "The Last of Us 2 and Ghost of Tsushima on a BASE PS4, which no game on PC can compare to even with a 2080 Super or Ti" - Yeah and no game on PS4 looks like MS Flight Simulator 2020. Funny how exclusives work, right?
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nayan prakash "they will be caught" so what? They were caught claiming that the X-men are called that because of Prof Xavier in a joke when in fact it due to the X-Gene. Millions of people don't know that and laughed at the C-men joke that was set up poorly.
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It does because the funny part is based on a false premise. AKA the joke could be about anything at all, the science is merely a backdrop. All in all, TBBT is only superficially about science/nerds - it's just a Chuck Lorre comedy with a lick of paint over it.
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@KekuTheLaughing Who cares lol
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Ray Vorontsoff "the poor can go on craigslist and buy cheap shit" - yeah, and cash for clunkers removed part of the supply of "cheap shit".
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Conscript mechanics can unbolt parts and replace them with working parts. Now who repairs the part you unbolted? That's still depot level work.
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 @jonnytest55 Well everyone knows the Gripens are delivered in flatpacks... :P
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 @eegernades California wouldn't allow defamation or harassment. There's a difference between fiction and targeting a specific person.
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@Demonslayer20111 "do some research" - okay, when was the last time you checked their servers to make sure no logs were saved?
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If the digital records are kept in off-site servers, it would be possible to narrow down the containers that would be located in the explosion's center.
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@cdeford Nobody said it was by Teixeira. But it was by someone else - pro-Russia disinfo campaigns. Logic alone? You mean the logic that originals were leaked on Discord, and the altered versions were found on places like the Chans?
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@ma27794 "So you support citizens to own rocket launchers" - yes.
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@toucanodd2889 You people really like calling this drama. It's not drama. It's not cheap gotcha. Tim might have inadvertently helped a grifter. By refusing to address it, it makes it look worse. It's not subpar content, it's reassurance.
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@colinsanders9397 Fails every test? 17 to 1 and 20 to 1 kill ratios at Red Flag. That thing is a killer.
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@sammy_wills It looks like an airgun replica. Doesn't fully recoil like airsoft but has some blowback action.
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Ukraine was a republic separate from the Russian republic in the Soviet Union. Ukraine split from the Soviet Union in 1991, before it collapsed. Russia is in no way in a union with Ukraine. The states composing the CSA did join a union and were part of the United States.
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Armies lose roughly 50% of their combat capacity after 20% casualty rate. That means that for Ukraine to hold, their army would have to be at least 1.5 million large, and recruit those 300k every month. In 22 months of fighting, that's 6.6 million. Your numbers are just impossible.
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"Hey maybe you could use some of your new found wealth to support the cause." "Yet if I did that I'd be poor. I am very smart."
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 @23Butanedione And the choir boys actually really liked old men when the priests got to them? Call the freaking Pope, turns out the kids really did ask for it.
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The real big brained take is that we introverts should create our own compound rural community.
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I've solved issues like that, by working faster than them. It's like a tv show hacking scene lmao. And Safe mode, helped me get out of tight spots too.
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 @jpx1508 the MiG-29 variants lost the upper wing intakes to make room for fuel.
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@Pidrev You mean it's a hypothetical, or a "what if?". Whataboutism is when you literally reply "what about [event]?" to an accusation or just argument.
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Tim Apple
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Israel has a couple companies involved in that, as they have partnered with former Soviet nations and India to refurbish Soviet/Russian equipment with Western-compatible guts.
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The Dutch fly and maintain Dutch F-16s. The Portuguese fly and maintain Portuguese F-16s. Aircraft aren't tied to nationality.
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Russia withdrew from all of Kharkiv oblast according to Russian MoD. It wasn't a lure.
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People have been saying this for a year and it's still not happening.
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I saw a meme that was Russian girls with a camera: "I'm going to start an onlyfans" Russian boys with a camera: "This message is directed to the Minister of Defense. We are out of supplies and ammunition. Our commanders are sending us into unsupported assaults. We are not mutineering or refusing to fight..."
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@mik1984 That is cope. Why buy the components from Iran and build them in Russia, if they could be bought from Iran directly? That's pride over economics.
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@robertjenkins6132 If you're vaccinated and come across someone with an impaired immune system, you can still infect them. In fact, you're more likely to. If you get sick, you stay home. If you go out and about you'll be spreading without knowing.
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@Elizabeth_residencias Rural boys in China have an obesity rate of 17.2%. It was 0.03% in 1985. In cities were fast foot is more popular, obesity rates can reach 20%.
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I agree with the sentiment but hitting a home run with a product and then falling back into irrelevancy isn't a "failure". Only the people who tried to hop on the gold rush bandwagon "failed" because they got stuck holding the bag. The "endless growth" mindset doesn't apply to most of the market and it's not even a reasonable expectation.
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 @valyshknee4203 the dragon's teeth which are rotting and have voids to make them cheaper? Not even buried into the ground?
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@afrolitious7930 "The man pads and stingers are for helicopters and ground attack planes like the SU25" - the SAM threat forces jets of all kinds of fly low, into MANPADS range. Same deal as in Vietnam - once SA-2s were introduced, AAA kills on American aircraft increased. By flying under SA-2 radar, it made the AAA job easier. "Ukraine has been smart to not reveal the locations of their S300 systems" - They're easily seen by satellite when left static. You have to move them around or else you always reveal their location. "The US airforce will not fair better in a territory with extensive air defence." - The US pretty much invented the doctrine of peeling away layers off IADS networks. The US wrote the book on how to degrade and destroy extensive air defenses, because they always wrote the book on how to fight the Soviets/Russians.
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The modern version is Americans bringing the Burger King quiosk into their bases.
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+Ethan Hekim I'm European and I am here posting supportive comments for guns.
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 @RebelWvlf We don't live in a Gillette ad.
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@luckvoltia7316 Andrew Coffee IV beat the charges of murder and attempted murder when he was victim of a police no-knock raid, he shot back at the cops and his girlfriend died in the crossfire. You're the ignorant here. You're driven into a frenzy by the media but you're blind to the truth. A black man shot at cops and had his inalienable right to self-defense protected in court in the same day of the Rittenhouse verdict. You call others ignorant but you don't even know what happens around you. You live in a bubble.
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@waldorfsalad2307 Modding is only illegal when it infringes copyright, for example distributing content that was on DLC so that people can play on the base game, ripped assets from other games, or infringe on IP. If all the content was already in the game and any extras produced by the modding team, it's perfectly legal. The copyright holder does not have a property claim over what people do with a game installed on their hard drive. For example BF2 Revive was technically illegal because they provided game files so it got killed by EA. It was replaced by BF2hub, which provides nothing except a way to connect to servers, so it's legal.
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Does it matter if the things he reports are true? Feel free to debunk him.
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Kind of the worst example to use, when Milosevic yielded. What's the point of force preservation, if the preserved force won't actually enforce the will of the state? Unless the argument is that the Serb military actually hated Milosevic and wanted him to lose, the effectiveness was nill.
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@mrmagoo-i2l Because a loot box usually has guaranteed content even if it's not what you want.
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Patrick Bateman walking to his office listening to the crackling of a Geiger counter
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F-16s can't react in time to SAM ambushes. All air cover can do is get front row seats to the fireballs.
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@georgeASD That's a misguided comment. First, it was actually designed for military use. The AR-10 was made for military service, but it was not picked up by many countries so the design was repurposed for the new lightweight caliber rifle that would replace the M14. The AR-15s, before the M16 was even adopted, was sent to the jungle in Southeast Asia where it was praised for its reliability. You're misusing the term tolerance. The problems at the beginning were caused by lack of chroming of parts, which lead to M16s to get pitting in the humid environment. AR-15s designed as Stoner intended did not have this problem. The ammunition was also changed, which was overcharging the gas system and causing the rifle to cycle too fast. All firearms need regular cleaning.
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@sarjim4381 dude, what? In what way is Trump libertarian? This isn't a purity test, just calling it like it is.
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Did y'all see the dude with a The Future Is Female tshirt? Why the fuck would a spanish speaking 50 year old man wearing that, if it was not given to him? Hmmmm big think 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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@tec4303 if nobody does it, someone will.
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@terjeoseberg990 the great depression was worsened by the new deal, the housing bubble was created by governnent intervention and the fda is one of the reasons 200 bucks worth of chemicals costs you $20,000 if you need life saving treatment.
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@skullospice They're not.
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@RmFrZQ I'm a firm believer this isn't possible. Neither the adenovirus viral vector or mRNA will give full immunization and the traditional attenuated virus shots won't work on fast mutating coronaviridae. Even if it were possible, by the time you tested the product in trials and distributed to the medical personnel and the vulnerable first, by the time you get to the 50-60 age group you're already dealing with new strains. For pete's sake we're still using a 2019 strain shot and it's almost 2022.
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 @AArata63 Germany was also winning more every day in WW2. How did that one end?
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The 3rd Army Corps is an understrength division. They're "fresh" but poorly trained. Electronic jamming? Is that a joke? Russia beating US systems? Where?
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@High-Powered Play Every year you were okay with hundreds of thousands dying. You've never cared. Do not pretend you care. Oh, now it's perfectly safe. You people have already shifted the goalposts to "nobody said it was 100% safe" months ago, get with the program. We're supposed to damage the hearts of tens of thousands of young people to protect people who have a year or two left. Either way, if it's so safe and it works, give it to the hundreds of thousands who'd die. Done. They have been saved. Next pandemic please. This one is starting to get boring.
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Fun fact, Russia shipped Ukrainians to Siberia and replaced them with Russian nationals to dillute Ukrainian nationalism. I'm sure a handful have held a grudge.
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 @wolfswinkel8906 Although Russia has the defensive stance, they're the ones with troops in a foreign country. They don't have home field advantage.
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 @Kuksha51 14k includes 3000 Ukrainian army and 5000 separatists. Both Ukrainian fighters and separatists were Donbas residents.
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lmao can't even win a war on Ukraine and you're threatning another nuclear power?
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The F-22 is still flying 90s tech in many aspects. Low numbers means upgrades are not very beneficial.
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So a tank with good crew survivability and ease of training (the Abrams was praised by the ease of training) is no bueno, but welding scrap to tanks that send you to orbit when hit and have obnoxious controls is the bee's knees.
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The microwave oven thing seems like the electric shaver myth from WW2. A microwave is often 1kW or even 800W. That's too low power. Besides that, AGM-88s know what kind of radar they're seeking and narrow their seeker to that specific band.
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Forests also release CO2 as trees die and decompose, and unless humans clear the forest floor the dried mass will help ignite fires that dump the CO2 back into the atmosphere.
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@rautamiekka As long as the rating isn't a lie, it shouldn't be. Ratings include a limit for backface deformation. This is what causes the bruising when someone takes a shot in their armor. By limiting the deformation, the energy is spread over the entire torso. If the armor is just made to stop a round, but doesn't satisfy the ratings then it can kill a person by penetrative injury. There's a video on youtube of a subsonic 300 BLK round versus a IIIA vest. The round is stopped by the vest, but in slow motion it's clearly visible that the bullet pushed the vest several inches into the ballistics gel, so IIIA doesn't stop 300BLK even though the vest catches the round.
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@SiddikaKobir I disagree, my brother is 5 years younger than me and he is much more conservative than I am. You have to realize kids are watching Paul Joseph Watson, Jordan Peterson, Sargon of Akkad, etc that is why big media is scared of independent creators and smearing them. Look at those "SJW cringe compilations" with millions of views, you think it's only boomers watching that? Teenagers watch that. Look at PewDiePie, he had Ben Shapiro on his channel to review memes because young people asked for it.
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The Russia-Ukraine conflict was around for centuries before NATO was a thing.
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The 2003-2011 counterinsurgency also limited casualties because of lessons learned in Operation Gothic Serpent (Black Hawk Down).
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@pogo1140 You can't keep Gripens operating that way either. 1 mechanic and 5 conscripts is the basic turn around. When that airplane comes down after seveal hours of sorties and the maintenance has to start... it's not going to be the conscripts working on it.
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It's not doxxing when the information is public. There's a difference between your name and profile photo and actually having your address, where your workplace is, your number, etc
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@deriznohappehquite they say Ukraine is betting on "wonder weapons" but every damn day they say Russia has hypersonics...
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 @austinduke8876 Clearly money is the issue. Those who have more children are too busy to get better jobs. Those who have money have it because they did not have children as early and as often.
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@austinduke8876 Without fail one of the best predictors of poverty is having children early. Right there you get the hint that having children can make you poor.
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The American contractors do protection work (aka being a security guard), fly helicopters, repair ACs, etc. in areas still being stabilized. They're not mercenaries, and are even banned from wearing camo uniforms according to rules of war. Wagner are shock troopers for frontline battle. They're mercenaries.
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@Ermude10 No, I didn't and no, you didn't. I know what I said. In no way does "human" make sense within context. Say, is lethal injection a human or a humane way of delivering capital punishment? Does it make sense to call it a human way? No, it doesn't.
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@gregpeabody8536 Funny, it's easy to find the mentally ill. They always think they're being stalked by trolls whenever they see a dissenting opinion. I don't use my real name online because you don't need to know it. I don't need to know your name, Greg. In fact, maybe your name is John. And you're hiding behind fake screen names. Who cares? Stop being paranoid.
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guy levy just ignore the pollution caused by the construction of the car itself, the batteries and the non-renewable energy sources...
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Commies had tons of problems with submarines too.
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@mrsupremegascon "Russia do the same" okay but Ukrainians already live in Ukraine. Russians NEED good leadership, good supplies, etc. If a Ukrainian general dies that pretty bad, but Ukraine still stands. A Russian general dies, now lesser officers have to get promoted, privates become sergeants and they're all strangers in a strange land who should go back home.
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Be there when it happens? I don't want to live in a world where everyone is chasing suspects with trucks and guns.
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 @sykessaul123 Iraq wasn't a NATO operation. Most of NATO refused to go until the peacekeeping phase started.
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@christinesarkis4029 of course I have seen Mean Girls. I'm a cool mom!
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He was supposed to take a number and wait, but cut in line.
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@emil1989 If you start the count at January 15, when almost nobody had it, sure.
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The game STALKER arguably started this. While the show shows tragedy, the game romanticizes the survival inside a wasteland.
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@thomashovgaard3134 shouldn't get college credit for it, though.
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Did they?
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@josedorsaith5261 Bro Russia has one of the highest abortion rates in Europe. It's been declining, but it's still high. Don't make this about abortion. If it was, they'd be turning their guns on their own countrymen. Not foreign countries.
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Steam explosions in pressurized piping/vessels are common. The corium dipping into the water under the plant would have not flash boiled the entire pool.
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@poopoo6186 Most libertarians I know are against the CIA meddling and foreign interventionalism. We're not living cartoons like Charlie Kirk.
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@PurdueDood Now tell me. Since when did you need an app or document with a QR code to prove you took the polio vaccine?
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@Jenkkimie You don't even know what semantics are. If you think a little, there is no problem. The house becomes less valuable which means there's still an opportunity. If you look at the cost of renting and the cost of buying a house that's living on borrowed time, and the house comes out on top, you can easily think of it as a rental. You don't keep it. Someone will eventually own a house that becomes condemned and has to be knocked down. Someone will eventually own a car that it costs more to repair than the scrap value. Someone always uses something for the last time. The problem is that you think that a house is forever and always a half a million dollar purchase. I come to you and say I have a 50k house and in ten years the government is going to take it away because it's not safe. You do the math and figure out you're getting a house for 5k a year. It would cost you more to rent. Why wouldn't you take the deal, and when the ten years are up you let the sea or erosion gobble it up?
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@Jenkkimie I've tackled the issue. This isn't cognitive dissonance. A junked car is a junked car. The house is still flooded. The car is still junked. Everything you own will break down at some point.
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@pinkbunnytail Now imagine that for whatever reason Western countries became Islamic for two years, and you're told you can't complain about it. The Western concept of freedoms doesn't work like that. It's the state that needs to prove guilt, not us who need to prove innocence. We don't need to prove why we need rights, it's the state that needs to justify taking them away. What do you define as unnecessary? Going to the beach will not cause a public health concern. People went outside and gathered in public spaces - just the approved ones. It's not a private business. These were orders by the STATE. The private business owners were threatened with fines if they didn't enforce the rules. By your "private business" argument the state would have ZERO POWER to enforce public health measures as business owners would be able to rule over their property as they saw fit. Be consistent. Your freedom to disagree with the fact that our freedoms were removed is exactly why we'll end up like China.
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 @timstapleman some people also believe everything Putin media tells them.
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Cope.
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Ukraine knows Russisn troop movements better than the Russian MoD.
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 @gideondejongh838 Cope, all of the BRICS simps say it's about trade. Once you get into ideology you lose because Iran/Saudi Arabia and India/China do not see eye to eye.
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@TengrioftheCrimsonSky "it's easier to upgrade the A-10" - No, it isn't. Upgrading isn't the breeze you people think it is.
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@RickBoat I'm not saying I know best. I'm just asking you, what does a 19 year old kid trained in infantry know about providing close air support in a contested air space? "the army seems to do cas fine with the helecopters they're forced to use" - This is amazing revisionist history. It was the Army's own air mobility supremacists that pushed the air force out of the CAS business in vietnam because of their own smug sense of superiority. In fact, it wasn't until the air force chief of staff conducted a study that found that soldiers were satisfied with air force CAS but didn't understand why it didn't show up more often that the air force realized that the army was REFUSING to call in air force assets. This started the process of the A-X program, from which the A-10 was derived. The army thought they knew better so don't come complaining about maintenance and expenses. They wanted it. "I'm withdrawing from the conversation" - Yeah because you have realized you have no argument. You might think this is your fart as you leave the elevator but it's simply you tapping out while getting rear naked choked.
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@VikramRaaj9999 Russia started this by seizing Crimea and arming the DPR/LPR. Also killing the people in MH17 with that Buk launcher.
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Zelesnky was elected in 2019.
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Alright, I'll say it. It's the sphincter loosening up in anticipation. There.
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@diverr69 there's photos of shells where different drawings are superimposed over paint blobs and chips that match on the anti corrosion paint. It's the same picture of the same shell used multiple times.
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"Akchutally it wasn't real communism!"
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Saddam's death toll was only like 10% lower than the entire insurgency and civil war. Saddam's "stabilty" was almost as deadly as full blown war.
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@matsv201 But the defender has to ambush said tanks. There's a reason the defending side gives up ground for safety, they're going to get killed in direct combat. That's why Russia is encircling cities and Ukraine is entrenching in them.
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MisanthropikOne if they wanted a proportional amount of black Americans on every city they would have to separate families which would be ironic.
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@fmartingorb "It is released" - Then it missed the mark in about 90% of the promised content.
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A relative of mine who works in law enforcement once hinted at how common that phenomenom is. My father told him he'd rather not know more about it lol
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 @HKIHNDKNSI Those existed in the 70s and 80s by the way. You just never heard of them.
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@centurionpan3400 "I am very badass" style of videos. But something like 80% of the videos are self-aware and feature a punchline about living in mom's basement or being too anxious to talk to women, etc.
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@ajohnymous5699 This is Leindybeige-tier reasoning. The 1200 RPM in itself is the waste. For a defensive position? Sure, there's something to be said about high RPM when you can hunker down and have cases of ammo stacked to the ceiling of your bunker. You're not gonna hit the "same place". A mass produced weapon firing mass produced ammo will rarely be accurate enough to do it - even in modern days the US armed forces has accepted batches of ammo that got 6 MOA. The weapon and ammo's own inherent mechanical inaccuracies combined with the shifting of the weapon on its pivot is enough to stop it from hitting the same spot. Unfortunately I can't find the link anymore but there was a big fuss in the mid-2000s where the US Army accepted a batch of M855 ammo that was outside the required parameters. The more accurate your weapon is, the more you can deal with inconsistencies in the ammunition, to a degree. This is important for wartime production. "Its the same reason birdshot is effective, you point in a general area and something is bound to hit a target or, in the case with the MG 42" - birdshot is effective because you're trying to hit a small, fast moving target or even multiple targets in a flock. A machine gun isn't meant for the same purpose. "Precision is the job of the rifle" - Unfortunately, the average conscript can't get precision out of a rifle. Which is fine, because if you test most milsurp rifles very rarely do you find a precise one. The machine gun, however, is a greater casualty producer than riflemen and needs to be accurate enough. "If the MG34 and MG42 were precise weapons, then they wouldn't make use of the higher ROF and would just fire in 3-5 rd. bursts like the Czech and British LMG examples I used" - That's the difference between a machine gunner and an automatic rifleman. You can use longer bursts on crew-served, belt-fed weapons over individual mag-fed automatic rifles. "Being able to spray bullets like that is also advantageous as you don't need to worry about windage since you're hitting a general area and being off by a bit won't affect the guns performance." - but that's the problem. You have the inconsistency between every single round of ammunition, the weapon's inherent accuracy, all the factors that deflect bullets from its trajectory, the weapon's own recoil shifting the point of aim after every single firing... All those things already give you a beaten zone. If you add inaccuracy to the mix you simply stop being able to use the machine gun effectively. Inaccuracy doesn't compensate for windage, it simply creates a less dense beaten zone further away from your point of aim. If you have windage issues, your assistant gunner or a forward observer will simply call for it and you adjust before letting off a new burst. "The idea that weapons are only good if they're precise is a Western misconception, primarily American." - I'm sorry but that has to be a joke considering that even Asian and Middle Eastern fighters exploit a machine gun's ability to engage point targets out to greater ranges than a rifle. There have been machine gun vs machine gun battles across hills in Afghanistan where the relative precision of machine guns allowed both sides to engage each other in ways rifles wouldn't allow. There are a multitude of uses for a machine gun both as a casualty producer by being able to cut down point targets running for cover at a distance, or even being used as an indirect fire weapon where the beaten zone is large enough through sheer distance, normal weapon dispersion and its recoil within the tripod. "You are arguing from a POV likely rooted in a Western perspective on how a gun should be in order to do their job, while I'm stating facts from a historical perspective." - No man, I am arguing from the POV of machine gun doctrine itself and the requirements of a weapon that will be used to engage targets much farther away than a rifleman can. If you have an inaccurate weapon, you can't hit shit further away. Say, if you are trying to hit man sized targets with a 6 MOA weapon at 1000 yards, you're gonna have your shots land roughly in a 60 inch circle. That's close enough for government work. A couple of bursts and statistically you're probably gonna hit. Conversely, if you use the same weapon to fire at a target 200 yards away... the shots will land in a 12 inch circle. The bullets will all land all inside a target the size of a soldier's chest. That's not the "birdshot to mow down multiple people" effect you think matters. If you really had a weapon that acted as a combat shotgun at 200-300 yards... you wouldn't be able to hit the broad side of a barn at 1000 yards. To describe the reality of combat and how important machine gun fire is to deal with point targets or to serve as indirect fire weapons at ranges as long as 2-3km as some kind of Western misconception makes no sense considering how effective the non-Western PK machine gun is at 1000 meters when manned by competent non-Western gunners.
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 @noideas-l7q the point of using unguided rockets is NOT having to fly over MANPADS threat
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Channel was liked when it took Russia's numbers at face value. Suddenly channel is hated once it starts reporting the problems happening in real life. Hmmm.
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Saudis in Audis is a classic.
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@andrewscott8892 But if Obama had lost in 2008 then McCain would have been president, and he was an anti-tech boomer who didn't like the F-22. It would have been canned anyway.
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Probably because the drones were built then and never turned on until mission start?
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But that's exactly the sort of videos he's always done.
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@Slop_Dogg oh boy am I going to have a field day with all the horrible ways men are portrayed in the media.
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Yes. The NASAMS uses it because it can double as an air defense missile.
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I mean that's cool, but wouldn't a radar still be more accurate as it actually gets 3d spatial information and target speed while the IRST is just picking up a 2D "image"?
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@AeneasGemini not true, there's plenty of countries where regular beat cops do not wear protective equipment even in big cities
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@christosswc Afghan population decreased during the Soviet invasion and increased during American occupation. Just saying.
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 @BatMan-oe2gh Logarithmic growth.
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 @Blind_Hawk MW2 outright blames the CIA and a disgruntled US general for starting the war...
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+Levi Shaun yeah let's see how the USSR respected the right to strike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocherkassk_massacre uh ohhhh
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@dogstar8871 If they suffered that many losses, how did they move forward so fast? The Russian fantasy of being able to deal punitive damage with their backs toward the enemy and Ukraine somehow suffering losses but advancing at breakneck speed is just the usual copium dished out to the goobers willing to believe them. The fact of the matter is that the pictures are online. The Russians fled and abandoned equipment, they surrendered en masse and there's very graphic pictures showing what happened to those who decided to fight. It was a turkey shoot. Shooting fish in a barrel. Stealing candy from a baby. An army being routed is precisely when the advancing army produces the more lopsided casualty ratios. In fact, if we use the visually confirmed vehicle losses, the Ukrainians enjoyed a 33:1 kill ratio. That's on vehicles. I'd imagine the kill ratio was higher against people. Also, Russia was planning to withdrawal from the important Kupiansk rail? Now Severodonetsk will fall. Russia ground itself down against Ukrainian defenses for months and now they risk losing it in a matter of days or weeks as the Russian forces there will be strained for supplies. It was Russia's plan to waste all their suffering and hard work?
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@atgimm2090 We're not downplaying Iran. We're correctly pointing out that Russia is running out of tricks.
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That's a turbofan.
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 @doniehurley9396 You people shilled his videos when it was 2022 and he was mentioning all the possible encirclements that never ended up materializing.
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@yoshikhurazi1769 Okay, you're not entirely incorrect, the issue is that we've focused on asymptomatic spread (which in general makes sense, because you can quarantine the visibly sick) and the mechanism for asymptomatic spread bypasses the masks entirely. On the general public and masks, surgical masks are good, even homemade cloth masks are good and in some studies have outperformed surgical masks. N95 masks are generally the best performers but also the least practical. The issue is, surgical and cloth masks stop droplets. Against aerosolized viral particles, they do nothing. Even the cloth mask studies that found that multilayer, multimaterial cloth masks were performing acceptably against aerosols did the testing by wrapping the cloth sample over a tube and warned that their methodology doesn't measure the effectiveness of a real mask with unsealed surfaces. The issue isn't the general public and the masks they wear, it's the fact that we're so focused on asymptomatic spread that we're essentially declaring normal animal exhaling to be a biological hazard. The "credible" people are just telling people to wash their hands and wear a mask. Don't say what constitutes a mask and you don't lose your credibility.
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Shock therapy essentially never happened in Russia because the economy was still in the hands of Soviet era apparatchiks and the economists who wanted to reform Russia didn't manage to do much.
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Guided missiles existed before transistors hit the nanometre scale.
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Are you actually claiming that 8 years were spent in man hours? Either way, Ritter is a convicted predator and Bakhmut is a speedbump that became the primary defense by sheer happenstance. It was never meant to be the main defensive live.
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@maeton-gaming Hugging the ground, releasing rockets in lofted trajectories, and buzzing back home isn't "success".
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"Cocaine isn't cheap... it's expensive" - Dana White
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@bobbun9630 There's natural nuclear waste from a spontaneous reactor in Gabon. It's been there for like two billion years without incident. Does that count as proven?
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Because Tucker is self-financed, right?
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@JohnSmith-sm7ez Zero info? The hell does that mean? Long term covid side effects are mostly overblown. Not only are anxiety and depression being counted as symptoms - and these effects were already seen due to lockdowns - but the demographics reporting these symptoms are also the most likely to be hypochondriacs.
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@slaninica He was allowed to chose deportation and he came back. That's why there's a large time gap.
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@Aureliiian the doge meme is older than the cheems used by NAFO.
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@alittlebitofwaffle4072 Well, you shouldn't.
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"you have to go slow enough to actually see whats going on because allied ground forces are in close proximity to the targets" - And yet F-16s perform 33% of CAS. Also Strike Eagles, F/A-18s, B-52s and B-1s.
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@geodkyt Okay. My point was that F-16s can do the job despite you saying it couldn't. Not how many airframes existed. The No True Scotsman regarding close air support is just that, a fallacy. Yes, the definition of close air support does not determine which distance is considered "close". B-52s provided CAS using JDAMs. So what? Coordinates were punched in for that one, and the coordinates are provided by ground controllers. VID from the air is actually terrible, and A-10s are infamous for their blue on blue incidents. The whole reason detailed integration/deconfliction is even needed in the first place to perform CAS is because even A-10 pilots are not trusted with weapons release authority. No matter how low and slow, it's the ground controllers that authorize the engagement. Situations where mistakes allowed A-10 pilots to have free reign over certain areas lead to them firing on friendlies because they can't VID. If VID was good enough, your "true CAS" wouldn't need qualified tactical controllers to hold the pilot's hand.
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@rightiswrongrightiswrong806 "Now go research Russian MLRS, and weep." - Why?
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@@lost_achaean6771This is pure hindsight at work. The deck wasn't stacked like that.
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 @Chiberia Sending a F-22 to pop a balloon that's flying higher than any other fighter can reach is perfectly reasonable.
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And the video with the most views got taken down afterwards, right?
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"The future is already determined, it's the past that keeps changing" - Soviet proverb
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 @jamiebrooks3864 So when corporations are owned by Russia they're trustworthy?
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@Brandon-yb8gj lmao but I do consider people who fund terrorism to be the masterminds. The ISIS leaders are profiteers who take advantage of depressed incels to do the fighting. Not masterminds of some evil plan. Those who fund terrorism to weaken countries and advance their interests are masterminds.
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@Free-g8r Then how come the rest of the world isn't using the label to develop their own?
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@jaredyoung5353 There's like 600 of them.
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They say it's fake or the US does the same.
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@te9591 so the CIA faked it?
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All the Ru shills who came to this channel are now complaining about "warhawks" when discussing the fact that Ukraine wants to punch back.
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 @jphillips5576 for real, are we entering the zoot suit era? I can understand mom jeans coming back after the skinny jeans decade but everything looks two sizes too large.
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@Ughhgffhhhffff Okay so it failed in the USSR, Yugoslavia, East Germany, Poland, China, Cuba, North Korea, even Vietnam transitioned to a market economy... how many more times are we gonna try this?
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@uummmnocoolnames They do, but depends on the design. For example the British PLCE belt rig and bergen were designed to be part of the same system, so the bergen hangs high enough that it doesn't sit on your battle belt pouches.
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@omega1231 We're all living in America, like the Rammstein song said. Even the recent conflict is related to US interference in Ukranian politics. There's people who are not living anywhere near Moscow or DC getting shelled and you sit here and think you can't be affected by other countries.
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@WagesOfDestruction Not true. The 155th famously got mauled in the advances into Vuhledar. Wagner operations have been greatly assisted by the VDV (to the point that when Progozhin declared they had taken Soledar the Russian MoD contradicted him within hours). There's also video messages recorded by Russian troops complaining that they are under the command of the DPR/LPR. So basically the notion that the Russian army regulars are digging in is a twisting of the truth to sell domestically and assure the Russian people losses are minimal.
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 @DIREWOLFx75 This isn't even true. The Russian armed forces plus Donbas militias equaled the strength of the Ukrainian army prior to mobilization.
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@DIREWOLFx75 You got those numbers from Igor Konashenkov?
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@sking2173 Terrible argument, considering that any glance at a history book would tell you that embracing deviancy is a tale as old as time itself, and it was the older generations who took over academia to teach such concepts in the modern iteration.
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Prigozhin also seems to be spearheading a PR campaign against the Russian army. He may be lobbying to be given command of a larger force.
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@xXWorldgamefunXx "Vietnam has a socialist economy and they are thriving nowadays." - "Although Vietnam remains officially committed to socialism as its defining creed, its economic policies have grown increasingly capitalist,[215][216]" "With the decline in economic aid from its main trading partner, the Soviet Union, following the erosion of the Eastern bloc in the late 1980s, and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as the negative impacts of the post-war trade embargo imposed by the United States,[256][257] Vietnam began to liberalise its trade by devaluing its exchange rate to increase exports and embarked on a policy of economic development.[258] In 1986, the Sixth National Congress of the CPV introduced socialist-oriented market economic reforms as part of the Đổi Mới reform program. Private ownership began to be encouraged in industry, commerce and agriculture and state enterprises were restructured to operate under market constraints.[259][260]" Vietnam is literally an example of "no real socialism". It's socialist on paper, but accepted privatization.
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@Bobbe002 "socialism and central planning actually worked was in places like Norway, Sweden" - Those are not socialist countries.
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If I'm not mistaken during the constitutional crisis he threatened to arm the disaster response people and send them to help Yeltsin. That's how he made himself a household name.
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@Bagginsess Uh, not really. When going deep into CS a ton of mechanics that stuck around due to old school FPS engine tradition/deliberate balancing are completely abstracted from the real world. Maybe through making custom maps and running scenarios to teach people you could use it as a teaching aid, but the actual gameplay is pretty specific to CS. Now I can't stop thinking about the guy who got sick of the military simulator they used in training and started shooting at his squadmates, ended up facing actual charges for disturbing the exercise with virtual friendly fire.
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So do vegans.
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@oi2837 Crimea has been the place for summer resorts since the Soviet era. Since Russia has exercised control over the land since 2014 they probably think of Crimea as Russia proper and simply ignored that there was a war 200km away.
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@woodenfloor3131 How do you monopolize a sector when literally anyone can legally make a competitor product?
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It's 2008 levels of bad lol
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I was there, I was the bitcoins.
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@vonvomit5666 So volunteers who signed up to be military are whiny crybabies, but people who never wanted to be military are better...?
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That's FULL mission readiness. Mission readiness is almost 70%. You people are either ignorant or malicious.
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No, Putin asked when he would be invited to join. He was reminded that countries apply for an entry into NATO, and they have to restructure their forces to meet NATO standards.
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 @92HazelMocha They're not autonomous, at least the ones used in Ukraine. They're blind and fly towards GPS coordinates.
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The full story is more complex. It started as a design for a turboprop aircraft capable of recreating the A-1 Skyraider's success in Vietnam. Then the project was changed and the performance requirements for the gun increased, now being expected to engage fortified positions and armor. The solutions being considered could not cut it, requiring the airframe to be built around the gun rather than have a gun added to an airframe. The Fulda Gap would be a scenario too demanding for even the A-10 so it's more accurate to say the A-10 was adapted for it but not "designed" for that purpose.
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The rioters should have stayed home too.
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Every dog has its day.
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 @Dominus1904 The war started in 2014 when Russia invaded. There was no bombing of Donbas, Russia fired at Ukraine first.
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@TT-qg6wo the Ukrainians killed in Donetsk are Russia's fault - they sent FSB agents to start the independence movement
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@easlern I literally live in Europe and my government is left wing even though the center-right party "won" the election. The left just joined the center-left party and pooling their seats together they can form a government.
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@touristguy87 the sacrifices made by the USSR can be heavily blamed on Soviet incompetence. Remember when they purged competent officers and then invaded Finland?
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@buttercuptaylor7135 Even if I had 20 homes I still wouldn't buy one that I was sure to lose. Buying property usually is a bet against inflation because money loses value over time. Even for a wealthy person it doesn't make sense to lose a piece of property because you have more.
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The YF-23 had a glaring question mark over its weapons bay while the F-22 was doing missile firing tests ahead of schedule. They did not get shafted in any way.
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Why would Stingers be sent there in the first place?
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 @Radaos the 1950s is usually picked as the "pre-EMP" era because old electronics are more resistant. Vacuum tubes are harder to induce high current spikes into.
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@M0odez Yeah, and several batches have been rejected by recipient counties due to contaminants present that were completely ignored by said testing. The adverse event reports on the US also seem to show that certain batches are linked to more deaths than others. I know nothing is risk free. But I take risks by choice. Once the risk is mandated or coerced, it is morally the same thing as a homicide or assault.
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mickael delatre the irony is that the final version of the F16 blows the original vision out of the water and it's success in exports was exactly because multirole is much more useful than pure fighters for other NATO countries which barely need fighter aircraft. The F20 Tigershark was the pure fighter the Fighter Mafia wanted, and it was a massive failure. If the F16 were a short-range guns and heaters only fighter it would have failed and the whole of Europe would have used Tornados and Mirages.
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@alext3811 Why is the US exempt? Also, I don't care much for Britain.
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Quick Dimwit there's companies that bleed money like a mf. Youtube consistently increases its worth, though. While it may cost more money to run than they get back from advertising, Google's stake on Youtube represents a value that is still growing.
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 @187Rajah Didn't remind me of a tiny warhead in an A2A missile either.
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@RovertNosnikgdoh You do know that there's things called "air force academies" and they can easily take 50 people in decent shape, good eyesight and three digit IQ to run them through a pilot training course, right? This is the second year of the war, Ukraine could have easily taught one batch of cadets and already close to completing the second one. We also know Russia is using rookie pilots at this point.
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The DU core is sealed inside the round. You know how you can visit Chernobyl but you can't dig into the dirt? Same deal here. The bullet has to impact something and the core tip smashed into dust - then it's dangerous to inhale. The DU dust isn't left behind in the ammo can.
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@damianm-nordhorn116 because military gear gets upgraded over time. The rifles in service in the US are not the same as the one issued in the 1980s. Remember, the G36 was the solution for a new rifle after the German reunification.
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 @limedickandrew6016 there's a difference between using ONE old tank as a gag, and outright pulling out the T-62M Obr. 2022 to get slaughtered in Kherson.
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I mean they do use these simulators with people, even the military has adopted them because departments and officers really like to not have to pay for real ammo. They're just repurposing the program to have dogs.
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 @snowghoul3813 hmmm ripe mangos 🤤🤤🤤🤤
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 @itwillbe-itwillnotbe-itis Canada did that. Not Zelensky. In hilarious Canadian fashion, they tried to surprise Zelensky by bringing that guy as a nice gesture.
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@ravenknight4876 Not really. If North Korean exported jammers mounted on a helicopter can deal with Russian defenses, then it's more or less reasonable to assume that the Russian defenses will not stand up to US electronic warfare.
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@ravenknight4876 Are you honest to God implying that a country that runs their trucks off wood gasifiers is so powerful in electronic warfare that a single helicopter carrying a jammer beats multiple US aircraft blasting out EW from multiple sources to mask the direction of the incoming strike?
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 @CharveL88 Droppers will fly closer than spotters. Spotters just have to see. Droppers have to be close enough to make a hit and not get wind deflect the shuttlecock, etc.
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@Excludos FPV drones are fast against unaware targets. When foot moblies are aware and attempt to dodge the FPV and put obstacles between temselves and the drone, they start circling around to get a good angle on target.
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 @hendrikvanleeuwen9110 But Wagner was the meatshield for the Russian military. Ukraine needed to wear down their shield before they could produce significant casualties on the real army.
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@badwolftx2139 The US does that to win. Win fast, less suffering. Russia is doing that because they can't win. So they want to prolong the suffering. Russia also tried decapitating strikes in Feb 24 but their plan failed.
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 @oldkingwis2 Body armor?
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5000 confirmed armored losses, Podolsky. Why aren't you signing up for tanker duty? I heard they have shortages.
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No, that was the Miami FBI shootout in 1986. It wasn't just a phase, 9mm bullets sucked. Or better, all bullets sucked but the sheer mass of 45 and 40 allowed them to do the job.
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To be fair, the US also does that - it's a flight line, they're not stored but ready to go. The US Air Force keeps them under square rain covers. The real protection is the revetments, which you can see in the North of the base. But the explosion was so massive, even the aircraft in the revetments probably got hit hy debris once they fell back down.
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+Simon Murray that's how they do it in Europe, barrels and bolts are considered firearm parts, but in many countries the bolt carrier, receiver etc can be sold as "free parts" (I assume in some places all gun parts could be regulated). But there's a catch. In the US it's easy to mill AR receivers and bend CETME/HK or AK flats - but there's a lot of guns which people don't have the schematics/dimensions for. Pressure bearing parts are not hard to design (and honestly you can just replicate the original barrel profile with quality steel because the original design was rated for proof loads and thus will hold more pressure than generated by a normal round) and now people have come up with ECM rifling at home, so if you have all the parts except bolt and barrel, those are easy to reverse engineer just from looking at the parts that interface with them and taking measurements.
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 @zibbitybibbitybop Hell, the Russian air force was held back by Ukraine's Soviet era air defense.
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@justicehenrydamian475 I've seen the best SAMs in the world get clapped by Turkish drones.
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@14Anon2 Breh after WW2 nobody was in the mood to fight the Soviets. Operation Unthinkable was exactly what it said on the tin.
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That makes no sense. They are slow because Ukrainian defenses won't let them.
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Everything adds up - the entire Soviet sciences and engineering just started rotting after the collapse, their investment in science was insufficient, weapons engineering isn't a prestigious job so the technical minded are retiring with no junior engineers to pass down knowledge to, and they lost the plants and minds of people who are now in other republics of the former Soviet Union instead of Russia. Like some of their helicopters depending on Ukrainian turbine engines, some tank tech like engines depending on the Kharkiv plant, even parts of their nuclear strategic rockets were made and repaired in Ukraine prior to 2014. They just thought they'd get a slap on the wrist and then business as usual.
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@diedampfbrasse98 Trickle down economics never existed, that was a made up term to slander Andrew Melon who in the 1920s proposed lowering taxes to shift the burden of taxation to the wealthy. By lowering taxes it freed money for investment which increased the pool of taxable income. Previously the middle class paid the majority of the tax burden but Melon's successful tax policy made the top 1% the biggest source of taxes. Later a leftist writer who was coping and seething about the success of Andrew Melon's policies managed to tarnish his image by misrepresenting his idea as "give money to the wealthy and it trickles down to the poor" which is a total lie as the end result was actually progressive (ease tax load on the lower classes).
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@Nixontheman *Your What's inaccurate? What's anti-corporate about demanding accountability?
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@kylesutherland1257 It matters because it shows that it doesn't matter. That's precisely it. It doesn't matter. So why are they pretending it does?
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"Those who trade IT security for anti-cheat deserve neither." - Benjamin Franklin
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@moltonlava I'm an "EsSeNtIaL". I'm not putting my life on the line. I get exposed to hundreds of people per day, and so are my coworkers. None of us died. What conspiracy theories? Italy's health minister or whatever the position is called said the same thing. Yeah a lot of people died in Italy but many had 2-3 co-morbidities. Trust the experts until they disagree with me, then they're conspiritards.
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@Gianni523 "reee we're not conspiracy theorists" "reee you disagree so you're getting paid" take your meds
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Also, the budget doesn't come from the same place so...
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@zackwyvern2582 you think that someone paid to make a presentation for the New York Times is somehow unbiased? The media telling you other media is good is not a good sign of imparciality, what do you think is the overlap between NYT investors and Universal Music investors?
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@jmhorange If someone who doesn't back the war is going to change opinions over this, they were a fair weather ally. Anyone who's truly against the war will understand.
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Then why were Motorola and Girkin involved? They are/were Russian nationals. Why was Wagner there?
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We don't have the kind of taste it takes to enjoy unfinished early access.
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@Invizive short of wearing a boom-boom vest and wingsuiting into a [REDACTED]'s house what exactly are forms of resistance that are dignified? Paraphrasing Hans Landa from Inglorious Basterds the ones good at surviving are willing to live like rats.
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+Hector Diaz but he's not missing the point. Not only is OP terribly wrong by comparing videogames to alcohol (the correlation between videogames and criminal behaviour is nonexistent), he is also confused about other parameters. It wasn't Call of Duty 4 that caused the US to invade the Middle East, it's the opposite - modern military shooters were made due to the culture of the time. It's also ridiculous to claim that videogames get the blame when movies also glamorize war, gun violence, crime - and don't forget that people tried to claim that metal music would turn us into satanists.
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@kerri-lynbryant293 because water is an essential prep. I don't like what ifs but if a pipe bursts on your street don't expect to get it fixed in a hurry when local government is gonna be swamped and many people are simply not showing up to work.
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I mean, the Proud Boys were created by Gavin McInnes - the godfather of hipsters and co-creator of Vice Magazine. That's as wild of a backstory as gangster turned caterer.
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@oisnowy5368 To stop they need defensible positions. If they have no way to dig in like built up areas or trenches, and the manpower to hold a second line of defense, they get clapped the moment they stop.
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@Cousin Eddie You're under-analyzing. You put implicit trust on everything you use, and all of it was designed and built by strangers. Again, breaching the car is more likely with closed source software because vulnerabilities will stay hidden. With open source, EVERYONE knows about the vulnerability so it can get patched. What do you think has more spelling mistakes? A personal journal or a published book with multiple editions?
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 @Treblaine It would add weight to the rifle.
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It's not like they didn't have two years to put 30 people through their air force academy.
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@doctorsex491 That's the point. The leaks have a ton of information on military hardware. The OP is questioning why a person who's into geopolitics didn't know much about what the documents are about. That question isn't very difficult to answer - a lot of it isn't about geopolitics but military capabilities.
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I'm convinced they didn't actually know. Before the 2019 drama series many people did not realize that the soil was turned over to contain the fallout. The maps they used for the invasion were from the 1960s so the exclusion zone was not marked. The contract soldiers are just 19-20 year olds who probably didn't even learn about Chernobyl at school, and even if they had they probably had no idea the place they were at was the Chernobyl plant.
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@imjustboredleavemealone9055 Gal Gadot is pro-IDF though
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Wait her name is literally "Krystal Ball"?
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+BorkaBonum because it encompasses two different guns, which leads to confusion, and was already the nickname for a WWI machine gun. Everyone knows what a Grease Gun is. If you say "Spandau" I'll actually assume you're talking about 80's music.
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chris dera So you're blaming the victim, huh? Gun crime dropped 49% since 1993. So why haven't police killings dropped as much?
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The problem is that if you search for "libertarian" + "feminism" the most of the results are feminists calling libertarian feminists "oppressors", "patriarchy sympathizers", "racists" (remember, libertarian = racist because reasons) and people who defend the "inherent exploitation of women and minorities by the capitalist patriarchal overlords". Feminism is still marxism with panties.
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Nick Cramer "Little do you know is that most of this violence revolves around the dealing of drugs and the person with the small amount of drugs in their pocket is supporting these people that commit gun violence." If the drugs weren't illegal, the criminals wouldn't be dealing them in the first place. Remember Prohibition? Legalizing alcohol did the opposite of supporting bootleggers and gangsters.
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Look, the government is up to the eyes in cronyism, the Affordable Care Act was not a move towards better healthcare, it was the result of politicians being bought off by the businesses that would profit from forcing everyone to enroll in the program and eliminating health insurances that didn't "get with the program". Fairchild probably ran out of friends in Congress, I'd have to look into that situation myself. But are you seriously questioning the "one hand washes the other" mentality? The contracts had nothing to do with the JSF, so that excludes the possibility of handshakes under the table? Come on.
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OoMASEoO Yeah, this is a circle jerk, but not the hundreds of websites like Jezebel who shit talk about men all the time. Women never circle jerk over their opinions. Nope. The most mind boggling thing is that if that shit didn't work people wouldn't do it in the first place, and you complain about men rather than the women who allowed this to happen. If women collectively decided that the most attractive thing a man could do was walking on his hands, the very next day handstand-gyms would pop up.
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+RaYvElL 410 cops use unreasonable force all the time.
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ITmage offense isn't given, it's taken. If you think jokes are disrespectful I'm afraid that's your problem.
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+Pingman When you pinch the end of a garden hose the water shoots out faster, right? But where does the pressure build up, in the water stream that comes out or inside the hose? Inside the hose, because a restriction will build up pressure "upstream", not "downstream". Think about those days there's an accident on the road and they close a few lanes. Before the accident there's traffic, and after the accident there's not.
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+James Line >"You cannot support mass immigration and a welfare state and increasing wages at the same time" Thanks for admitting that socialism has to be inherently xenophobic, though.
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Vankai Spare us your dime store philosophy. The government does not represent the US people. It's been proven the US is not a democracy but an oligarchy. You can't put this on the American citizenry any more than you can blame the Holocaust on German people.
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kunven exactly, some of us non americans are able to deal with maths and aren't intolerant of other unit systems. People refusing to adapt is exactly why it's so hard to convince americans to use metric.
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Gun laws are used to disarm the poor and the minorities. Marriage licenses to prevent the union of undesirable people - not that long ago a interracial couple was denied a license because some office loser thought those couples divorce too much. Plenty of states require gun licenses. The law doesn't say they'll turn down black people, but do you think the government office clerks got their job by being openly racist? Plus, that black guy shot after someone called the SWAT on him and he was executed. Didn't even point the BB gun at the cops in a state where it's legal to carry them openly.
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Jomathan Turbyfill "doge" is a meme, brah
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The more I hear about Finland the more I believe that place is lit as fuck.
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Bazgatow87 same could be said about all war movies or videogames. Bored people trying to experience something.
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Cole Mt political/cultural victory is still victory.
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+Jesse Weinert okay, right now we are talking about two different subjects, Sun Tzu's Art of War and the difference between tactical and strategic victories. To stay within context, do you think the Art of War is about achieving tactical victories or strategic victories? If we're being honest, it's about strategy. If you implement the Art of War correctly, you'd pretty much retreat from every single battle you cannot win so that when the enemy is ready, you're not there to suffer the attack. That means you'd rack up tactical losses at an astonishing pace. But the point is winning strategically. Vietnam was on home turf. All they had to do was not suffer a strategic loss. The tactical losses cost them greatly but in the end they prevailed over the invading force. You think that according to Sun Tzu, they lost?
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People don't automatically get lumped into a group without their consent.
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+Titytit Mk2 I somehow highly doubt that any gun on full auto could put two bullets on the same hole unless by 1 in a billion chance or the target is an inch from the muzzle. Not even an ultra-controllable Ultimax 100 firing 5.56, let alone a .303.
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+TommY SmittY so a pencil sharpener is out of the question but you're going to have a wood saw and a kabar just like in the video?
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Mikelis Brown The Arab slave trade went on for much longer, we're talking about centuries of difference - how did we manage to enslave more people in less time? And we Europeans bought the slaves from African and Arab masters, so there's an overlap between what we did and the locals had already done. Get the fuck outta here with your revisionism.
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A big part of the world thought Communism was a great idea, and a big part of Europe thought that Fascism was great. I mean, most of the "West" thought slavery was also acceptable. Your fallacy is the "ad popolum" argument.
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+j Nemes you seem to not be getting the point so let's not say that America lost. You claim that America won, so logically the North Vietnam had to lose, right? But by unifying the country under communist rule they accomplished their main strategic goal. Isn't that the definition of a win? Do you challenge the notion that Vietnam won?
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+j Nemes I mean, now you're just in denial, the objective wasn't to kill as much people as possible or else the US would have caused even more collateral damage with even more carpet bombing, even more Agent Orange, etc. If anything wars are fought with the intention to kill as little as possible, by targeting the industry, crippling supplies and routes, damaging the country economically so that people lose the will to fight, etc because the more you use strategy the less you'll need to fight at the frontline. If you focus on killing as much people as possible, you'll always be fighting on heavily defended areas and casualties will be high on both sides.
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+Abnormal Wrench One of the largest growing demographics for the gun market is women. I love how anti-fun people always mention the penis. It's like they're obsessed with the thing. They look at guns, and can't help but think about the cock.
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Right now they want to tighten gun laws in all European countries due to the terrorist attacks. They're not asking the opinions of the people in the different countries, they just want to control us from the federal level.
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@WhyNotTruth By using statistics from January to June. Meanwhile if you look at the UK they're reaching 70% of the dead being double-dosed.
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@Valorius Not really. Their contracts leaked in Brazil and Albania, essentially governments agree to give them blanket immunity or else they can't buy the product.
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Why did you mention Iraq after Mosul? Mosul is already in Iraq.
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Can you make it less obvious that English is not your first language?
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@rationalbacon5872 In what planet do you live? Insurance companies have investigation teams to help them get out of paying. Insurance is basically a bet: you're betting you're gonna have a disaster and the insurance company is betting you won't. Every month/year you don't have a problem is a bet they win.
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+Mark Rutte I am not American. North Korea's misery can be seen from satellite. Or are those Fox News propaganda as well? Even Amnesty International claims they have labour camps where human rights violations take place. Is Amnesty International part of Fox News propaganda as well?
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@BIGNOOBSKI That's nonsense. They spell with a "V" (B) because the sound is a V. Same with German "Wasser" (water) being pronounced "Vasser". In English we spell Wagner because we respect the German spelling convention as English and German have similar roots.
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That's not really accurate. There was no technological development against the TB2. The Russian armed forces were unaware of a particular threat and several factors hindered air defense. Once AD was in play, the TB2 was no longer an overmatch. Same as HIMARS. It has not been rendered obsolete by pulling back ammo depots, and air defense has not been rendered obsolete by HIMARS and HARMs. If a boxer becomes known for his uppercut and opponents start to preemptively avoid/counter it, doesn't mean the uppercut is obsolete in boxing.
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@bobdylan1015 That's like saying a serial cheater truly believes in monogamy, but the sex just feels too good. You can't believe in personal luxuries as a socialist. Full stop. That's like being an environmentalist but believing in "rolling coal" in your huge Diesel truck.
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 @bobdylan1015 Workers don't have the money to start their own clothing brand. Hasan quite literally could afford to have an entire wardrobe of tailor made clothes, sourced ethically.
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Will they send 18 year olds with DCS training? Because quantity may be cheap, but pilots aren't.
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@ntran74 "no matter how bad it gets, more people will die from the flu than COVID" - that comment is gonna age well.
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@Mellowyellow8888 It also makes zero ethical sense to contaminate the control group. The fact of the matter is that the chances of dying are so low it makes more sense to preserve the data than argue that they need to protect a few thousand people.
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It would take a mass extinction event to go that deep.
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 @ETMIRAGE Cameras were massive in the 80s and TVs would not have the power to broadcast. Without cellphone cameras and wifi that tech wouldn't work.
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 @Girtharmstrong69 Ukraine only wants people with combat experience. Even former military can't join.
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We did a little trolling.
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Time plays against Ukraine, but somehow even worse against Russia. The videos of defeated assaults have crossed over to straight up snuff. It's not even combat footage anymore.
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First they came for the gamers. It's all been going downhill ever since.
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@ToneyCrimson That's the issue. You can have it, and you still spread it. You just have 4-6 months of reliable protection against symptoms.
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@Phillip Banes Tanks are not ejected until the fight progresses to a point where there's no turning back. You need fuel for ingress and egress so your speed is limited in most missions. You can engage from a position where ejecting the tanks is not necessary. Tanks do not grow on trees either so your commanding officers will want you to bring them back most of the time. External ordnance causes massive drag. Even in subsonic speeds aircraft use flush rivets because small dimples are enough to create tons of skin friction. Missiles hanging off the wings are like flat walls at supersonic speeds. All max speed figures you see are for unarmed and low fuel aircraft trying to score the highest value and get a fair comparison.
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It's like F2P games. 95% play for free, 4% get the premium content they want but are mostly "freemium" users, 1% are the whales that sustain the industry.
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@byrnemeister2008 Your opponent made a very compelling argument. Care to counter?
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@bob marly I don't know what that has to do with math or geometry.
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Runways can be repaired within a few days. There's a reason Cold War anti-runway weapons usually dispersed landmines and bomblets that exploded at random intervals - dissuading crews from repairing them. The most effective anti-runway bombs even had a rocket that made them pierce through the concrete pad and explode underneath, lifting it and making the repair harder as concrete takes more time to cure.
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+Wazzok1 Lenin and Stalin oppressed a class called "kulaks". Stalin also committed ethnic cleansing by shifting ethnic minorities across the Soviet Union and actual genocide through planned famines. Stalin was also planned the genocide of Jews by accusing them of undermining the Soviet state and being capitalist collaborators.
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@chrisjackson1215 bro there were units teleporting in the simulation, missiles that were too heavy for the ships to launch, etc.
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@weasle2904 in the US armed forces you have a low chance of dying in combat because we perfected combat medicine and ballistic protection to the point it's very difficult to die. You can lose your limbs and get paralyzed but by god, unless you're so close to an explosion you turn into pink mist or you get shot in the head, you're probably going to survive.
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Lend-Lease hasn't even kicked in yet.
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Cordel White "downloaded offline"
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 @HeitorS.-dh2wl The problem is that instead of just excusing it as fantasy, we have a hack historian and Wikipedia edits.
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@beatmaker50 Humanizing is literally seeing the human side. As far as I'm concerned, he's flying a war machine and the guy inside is just the brains. Take out the war machine, hopefully the brains don't get to eject and pilot another one.
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Bill DeBlasio's "voluntary period has ended".
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The Fourth Protocol, by Frederick Forsyth.
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But it's the attacking side that faces the meatgrinder. Going over the wire and running across no man's land is always going to cost more lives than sitting back and machine gunning anything that moves.
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@lorenzobrown1003 who needs their shrussy ate?
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 @nowherefool5869 "iT's A tRaP!" was said every time the Ukrainians advanced. All the twitter tryhards said the Kharkiv breakthrough was a trap.
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@Bazed. The context wasn't "technology" in the abstract. We still have that. It's like having a VHS tape. You want to see what's in it. I no longer have the technology. We humans still understand how tapes work, I just don't have a VHS player. While you can certainly ask a friend (or look on ebay) for a VHS player, a rocket... it's kind of a pain to rebuild.
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 @johntowers1213 If an FSB agent was willing to come forward and say what he thinks, we'd welcome that. In the West we'd call it disagreeing. The FSB agent would be called a traitor.
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@genericscout5408 Not true lol the Taliban asked to surrender Bin Laden to a "neutral" country. If you can't extradite Bin Laden to a US court then how do you actually bring him to justice? If a country would not honor a US warrant or extradition request, then Bin Laden would be free to leave. Think for three seconds.
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It's complete bullshit, there's editing battles over pages over topics I accompanied for myself but because many of the facts were uncovered by independent people they're "not credible" while corporations with a stake in manipulating a narrative is considered a reliable source.
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Can't wait to tell the guards "You don't understand, I'm not locked in with you. You're locked in with me!"
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 @happydays4302 You added a quote about Hamas and Hamas only to pad the length of list. Eliminating a political foe is not genocide.
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@fredmdbud Is Halliburton part of the MIC? There's a difference between politicians diverting contracts to a company they have ties to, and military industry companies creating wars to sell weapons. Halliburton got infrastructure and delivery contracts. That's not MIC.
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"Everything is racist, everything is sexist and you gotta point it all out!" - Anita Sarkeesian
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@danielt6689 The tetanus shot is like a decade-lasting thing. Companies are making billions out of something that wears off in 3-6 months. Line up.
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The F-35 does not cost trillions.
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7.62x39 travels at like twice the speed of sound. How the hell is it subsonic?
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monks9098 the problem is the principle. It's gonna be 50 cents for this, then 50 cents for that, then 1.50 for something else and in the end you'll be paying 10 dollars for (say) abortion clinics when you're pro life, 400 dollars to subsidize colleges which charge thousands of dollars in tuition, 400 dollars to subsidize private healthcare and 600 dollars to pay for the bombs being dropped in the Middle East. It's never just 50 cents.
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Lmao they were "arguing" for almost a decade? Laughable. The US builds 130-140 F-35s a year.
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But can an old Bradley or ATACMS missile help? A lot of "billions" isn't money buy vehicles and munitions gathering dust.
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Karl Marx was an abhorrent person.
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@ArkaneOmega he was hoping he could wololo the Ukrainian army to his side.
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I believe you have the right to do crack but I don't want crackheads at my events. How is this an unfair moral standard?
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Doesn't work when youtubers are entirely replaceable.
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 @vistakay Based on what?
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@mtb416 It's not punching down. Wait, what? So flat earthers have the freedom of speech to spew nonsense but we can't correct them? If that's punching down, I'd rather give them the ground and pound, UFC style.
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@jaym9846 The man has been out of office and apparently moved into your head, because that's where he's living rent-free.
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@AA-or4dt There's video of a wreckage with a massive landing gear sticking out of the grass. Maybe it was damaged and it returned home but the landing gear was the right size for a IL-76. Also why did you change the goalposts? All you do is bring up different subjects to distract from this loss. What do you earn from it?
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@noobster4779 Even rockets are kind of a last resort. These days a laser guided bomb or a guided missile are lobbed from miles away, as rockets require the launching aircraft almost as close as if it was going to use the gun.
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It was a combination of carelessness, extreme skill and the planets lining up. The Have Blue program is from the 1970s, not 90s.
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@toby9999 Yes, the well known epicenter of the far right, Sweden.
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In WW2 the Soviets were fighting with US backing and supplies, with Americans and Brits bombing German factories.
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 @gezalesko3813 Air superiority is irrelevant here. The breach is complicated by minefields. Aircraft in the air can't remove them.
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That's nonsense. The Baltic states would give them the same response time. Now Finland could join NATO. Please look at a map.
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@SilentTraveller21 If there were bioweapons why didn't Russia present them at the UN? They had a hearing about the biolabs where they were allowed to present whatever they found in labs inside captured territory and they had nothing.
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@thefinallegofan Yeah I remember when Jesus said private property was bad and that religion should be eliminated.
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They didn't monitor the camps. Satellite imagery didn't exist then. You were only shown what Germans wanted you to see. Just like a restaurant is always cleaner when it's time for the inspection.
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Why? We signed an agreement that we'd offer them security guarantees in exchange for their nukes.
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This video showed police bringing one down with AK fire lol
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But its primary job has been counter insurgency for two decades.
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@Reddison Many modern websites/apps strip metadata. That means you have to trawl the internet for the earliest posts and find original files with the metadata intact as there was less security concerns then.
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@MyplayLists4Y2Y "that is a "conflation logical fallacy" as well as a "faulty cause" propaganda technique." - No, it's hypocrisy. "Stop and Frisk was started under the Guiliana administration, then ramped up under Bloomberg to address violent gun crimes in NYC (which it succeeded in doing)" - Bullshit. Violent crime has been decreasing across the country, you can't claim Stop and Frisk did anything. Also, it's a violation of constitutional rights. "Just pathetic : /" - pathetic is the person literally shilling for an authoritarian like Bloomberg. A few centuries ago Patriots knew how to deal with people like him. And his supporters too.
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 @Tentacl People throw around the term "media literacy" waaay too often these days, but it does bother me you're the only person who correctly interpreted what the guy was saying.
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@cheydinal5401 how do you enforce the status of a business license? How do you enforce fines? How do you force someone to stand trial? You sure the ultimate step of justifying force isn't death? NEVER back a law that you're not willing to kill someone over. Because to an extreme all laws are enforced by violence. And death tends to be a consequence of violence.
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@w4rpf1nnlad Yeah, they did. The USSR was selling their war ships to Pepsi to pay off debt and Gorbachev did a Pizza Hut and Louis Vuitton commercial. Sorry, but that is a clear win of ideologies when corporations can disarm the Communists and then pay them to promote capitalist services and goods.
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@sickbassix "you are critisizing Finland" - no, I criticized the use of government force to make people join the military against their will. I don't care how well off you are if you don't respect natural human rights.
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 @MsMst12 in what way does a ship full of sick people serve the country?
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And the CSTO isn't a collective, doesn't provide security and it's not organized.
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Not FB/Meta related but I lost my youtube account for hate speech. Back when the 2020 ammo shortage happened I told someone to get to the store when it opens and push the boomers out of the way. Got a hate speech violation and instant ban, fortunately I got hold of support and they reinstated me.
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@m0rthaus Coof is the "correct" spelling, it dates back to two years ago to avoid demonetization on youtube.
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To be fair, they went from a Cell architecture in the PS3 to a more conventional AMD chip in the PS4.
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@Vsor Motor isn't everything. Aerodynamics, the lofting profile, and the guidance algorithm make a lot of difference given motors of the same size. Plus seeker and quality of mid course link is important. You can have the kinetic ability to hit a target at X range, but score no hits because the lock always drops
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 @QWERTY-gp8fd literally nobody mentioned disagreements, just specific patterns.
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"SHOIGU! GERASIMOV! WHERE THE HELL IS MY FREE DLC?"
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Blitzkrieg doesn't exist. It's a term made up by English-speaking journalists during WW2.
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Well, in part because Solovyov's show is intended to seed the talking points for the segment of the population watching (mostly pensioners).
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"I can't post on the Chinese brainrot app, freedom is gone"
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Would unironically rather pay for the tiedown and live in the Cessna.
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You have to understand "the economy" isn't an abstract dollar sign in a computer. It's the combination of all human activity. Changing the economy means poverty. You may be perfectly willing to do it for the cause, but convince billions to live on less resources. People would grab the pitchforks.
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A modern Abrams is heads and shoulders above a Cold War model.
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Donald Trump is on the NRA's side. NRA can't make money out of printed guns.
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@jd-yo2is It's true even if you don't want it to be. They've approved 3rd shots and you may see 4th shots approved by December. Roll up those sleeves. This is your life now. I don't care, you call it horse medicine, you're calling Middle Eastern and African refugees horses. The CDC recommended them taking it before shipping to the US. Seems racist.
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@SelecaoOfMidas additionally, all I have read points to Thiel having business in Saudi Arabia when Gawker outed him. They were willing to not just violate his privacy but also ruin his business and risk getting him arrested if he was in Saudi Arabia when the article dropped.
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@tryinsurvive763 because he pointed out how state operatives get to use euphemisms to describe their tools while civilians are demonized for owning them? Americans are twisted because of that?
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For reference, your economy growing only 1% per year is considered bad. Decreasing by 3.4% in a year is awful. What happened to the 65 bil? Russia is sending 300k amateurs to replace 150k professionals. That's where the money went.
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The problem with working for Russia is that you can't ever trust they'll uphold their end of the deal.
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When you have less subs and expose a bigger guy it's "farming clout", when you have more subs it's "bullying" and "punching down".
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Then USS Gerald Ford was sunk and somehow they dropped a span on the Golden Gate Bridge.
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@Fire-ci4se Yeah, they're "private", but they have offices and training facilities inside Russian military bases.
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 @JDPacka it's not a treaty violation and the treaty isn't in effect anyway
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 @JayEy "how many can you lose" my brother in Christ the US has more F-35s than other countries have fighter jets in total.
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That's when Nixon illegally used CIA funds to buy himself a gaming rig, right?
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@undeadblizzard "They didn't get around to it." - It lasted for 41 years. What do you mean didn't get around to it? "The Nazis started out deporting Jews and other undesirable at first." - Fun fact, some diplomats in Portugal signed papers to bring them over and save them from the Holocaust. "Fascism always leads to genocide." - You say "always" but already admitted that not always because they didn't get around to it - even though they had 41 years. "They will go after anyone that they deem as not pure enough. Conservatives and or Right Wingers are Allies of Convenience." - Why are you telling me this? This isn't the conversation we're having. This is about your claims about history not being accurate. "I don't know why you against the Left ?" - Because they're against me? "freedom of religion" - But they hate Christians. "freedom of speech" - But they want censorship. "Direct Democracy" - Direct democracy is silly. You don't have the right to tell me how to live my life. Direct democracy gives the majority the power to be tyrants. "The right to challenge authority" - But they hate being challenged. From campus speeches being canceled to Stalin sending people to gulags, the left will never accept any challenge.
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@joaquinlechen8611 If your daughter danced like in Cuties you unironically should have faced criminal charges.
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I've been saying since last year that for every day of restrictions the politicians should have to serve a day of house arrest starting once the restrictions are lifted. People told me I'm crazy and an extremist then. But "not voting" isn't enough. So many of these stooges are unelected. The biggest parties are all complicit and would not go after each other if they won.
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@benjaminlone7370 how the fuck is this capitalism's fault? Everything needs sustainment. In capitalism a desperate company starts pelting you with ads. In communism your rations get cut.
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He was the liberal counter to Bill O'Reilly
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@rhyspalmer58 It was pretty much a carrousel of cons/schemes. You pay to enter the group, and Murphy/Goldman essentially allowed others inside the group to promote their own stuff. He pitched the order as a way to meet with millionaires and these "millionaires" were just other grifters pitching schemes such as crypto pump and dumps.
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@chiron13 "Russian AWACS and satellites would detect Ukrainian jets as soon as they take off." - In videogames, maybe.
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@david-1775 you understood what I meant. Israel is doing bad shit and the US is paying for it so it's kind of topical to talk about it. Calling it an "obsession" is fucking hilarious considering that Bibi Netanyahu is obsessed with Iran having nukes any day now, for the past 20 years or so. There's also more double-citizenships among US politicians than the all the other countries you're not worried about. It's a current issue, it could have consequences (such as the US going to war) and there's legitimate concern with Israel having greater influence on US politics than Germany.
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 @ZeroResurrected The thing is that they're the same guys who did all that, they just switched teams.
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But read testimonies of incels who paid prostitutes for sex. It doesn't solve anything because it's a meaningless act that does not fulfill them in any way, it only reinforces their beliefs about women and doesn't address the underlying fact that they still feel like they were dealt a bad hand in the way they are treated by society. This is the equivalent of pretending marijuana will cure everything. There's good logical reasons to legalize some things. There's no reason to perscribe the things we want to be legal as the solution for every problem.
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Okay. Russia can keep lobbing Kalibrs and Iskanders at concert halls. Meanwhile ammo dumps go up in flames, and artillerymen feel what's it like to be on the receiving end. I hope the counterbattery doesn't hit too close, that pain needs to be felt for the rest of their lives.
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@alekkuprukkupruk4891 And Russia sends people with two days of training into the meat grinder. And using DPR/LPR conscripts as cannon fodder. Ukrainian can't take a break, but Russia needs it. Poor Russia.
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The F-16 did 3x the CAS the A-10 did from 2014-2019.
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@renos4939 "they've been trying to do an a jack of all trades fighter" - Like the extremely successful F-16? "such as replacing the a-10 warthog" - The A-10 has been replaced for the most part. B-52s, B-1Bs, F-16s, F-15E Strike Eagles, etc already do its job. "It's held back by the fact that it's trying to be more than one thing than what it can be specialized at" - Nobody says the F-16 is held back. Or the Eurofighter, Dassault Rafale, etc. Everyone uses and wants multiroles. Somehow the F-35 is the only that has a problem.
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The issue is that the Netherlands does severely intensive farming. 20% of their farming is for domestic consumption, 80% is exported.
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I hate Trump but the border issue is serious. Not an issue that should be used to deflect (like Russian bots do), but still an issue.
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Oblastposting is a gem.
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But he's working for their graphics division, right?
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@patricksworkshop6010 I don't get this rebuttal. There's no worldwide movement to build more skyscrapers to save the Earth. If anything skyscrapers are limited to cities and the environment is totally hostile to most non-humans apart from rodents and whatnot, and as evidenced by housing costs in cities the regulations in place prevent more and more buildings being toppled and replaced by taller ones. Meanwhile wind farms provide inconsistent energy with low KWh per area taken that require storage to meet the grid demand, and we have to go out of our way to invade. We already destroy enough nature with our need for farm land. A man's gotta eat. We don't gotta have wind energy to survive.
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@andrewpienaar4522 The Allies claimed they'd beat Germany. They did. The Germans claimed that by the Allied progress rate, they'd only reach Berlin in the late 1950s. How did that work out? Remember Kherson. It starts slowly. Then it all happens suddenly.
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At least a thunder run is something we can describe and point to examples of, "bltizkrieg" seems like you hit them with the Up+Up+Down+Down+Left+Right+Left+Right+B+A+Start combo.
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 @Doomer1984 The average Russian made a run for the border.
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 @blue_ish4499 the one that Russia would have to pay fines on for failing to deliver? And that the explosion conviniently let Russia off the hook?
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@RadicalTek Oh no, people hold on to towns that lost their value decades ago! That's totally related to Sidewinders!
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 @Justintime2GrowNetwork lmao nuclear bombers were already taken out in Engels airbase a long time ago, stop making up scenarios
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@garyross4602 No, there isn't an advantage. Quality IFAK components are widely available and CHEAP. At least superglue works for what it's meant to do, and there's medical grade variants of the adhesive. Insisting on using tampons in the year of our Lord 2023 is pure stubbornness.
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The 100 Kalibrs that Russia spent on residential buildings, pedestrian bridges, playgrounds, etc?
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@lonemaus562 the whole point of having a justice system is that we need to treat the worst of our society with certain fairness because of the certainty that the innocent will face the same situation. If the system isn't fair, do we really have criminal justice? If we don't have justice, then why not just not end the police and let the streets sort themselves out?
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 @Голубиный-глаз98 Rockstar got me heartbroken over some pixels, Michelle was really nice
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Russia is massive but mostly empty.
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Why does the distinction need to be made? Fans of ICP are called Juggalos the same way that Slipknot fans are called Maggots. It's their identity. Just because criminals share this identity doesn't mean that the distinction has to be made when they're not complaining about the real criminals getting in trouble. They're complaining about being innocent but being profiled as criminals! "Check the comments: most people think that the government is specifically going after innocent fans!" No, the government is going after the innocent fans because it generalized Juggalo culture as criminal activity. Specifically? No. Broadly. If you had everyone who just got back from the mosque pulled over by the police, you wouldn't be going specifically after innocent Muslims, you'd be going after ALL Muslims. While the intention changes, the end result is the same. It would be no different than the government pulling over everyone with a confederate flag in their car for being a white supremacist or detaining anyone in the street for wearing Doc Martens because skinheads wear them.
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 @drockopotamus1 not going down facing rampant inflation is the same as sallaries going down. By sallaries staying the same you effectively are taking a pay cut.
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@agapp11able the Moskva had been refurbished. Taking the ship and outfitting it with new stuff isn't uncommon. Hell, B-52s are still flying.
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Russia Today broadcasts from 2015 are not truthful.
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Why would they not believe Oryx?
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 @jerkerbergstrom6663 Geneva conventions don't mention shotguns, and neither do the Hague conventions.
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A daring synthesis.
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One aspect not mentioned is how many people in the so-called Russian areas don't care about Rusky Mir. Look back on the Russian Roulette series. Once Ukrainians recaptured a town, patriotic Russians hastily pointed fingers at each other calling each other traitors. They thought Russia would win easily and made a choice to ensure survival. When Russia didn't win, they dropped the pretense.
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Considering that the Brazilians are paying 150 million per Gripen I don't see the "cost effective" part.
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@V_for_Vovin Deflection. It simply makes no sense that Russia would use the Su-57 for long range R-37 use. Why? At that range the stealth doesn't matter. MiG-31 can fly higher, faster, and has a bigger radar. Why would the Su-57 take that shot?
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Chechnya beat Russia once. That's like Luxemburg beating France in a war.
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Ahahahaha You believe that?
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If the Kerch bridge gets hit again, Russians wil not be able to fight for it no matter how much they want to keep it. Meanwhile Donetsk is still connected to Russia.
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@bodbn even anti gun advocates in the US accept that there's 50,000-80,000 defensive gun uses every year. Middle of the road estimates are above 100,000. There's hundreds of videos here on youtube of people winning gunfights even though the opponent had a gun drawn.
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The Taliban didn't exist as a fighting force then. They were introduced by Pakistani intelligence after the Mujaheddin drove the Soviets out.
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@bodd boward "there's no way to win against global forces" - Global forces that hinge on a minimum wage worker using a phone to scan a QR code and a GP to deny people treatment if they don't have a certificate. I'm sorry, but these global forces seem pretty weak. We would win if everyone just said no.
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Meanwhile Russia reports the capture of Pisky 8 times.
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Striking chemical weapons endangers people downwind, it happened during Desert Storm.
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Do they even have the ability to rebarrel artillery on this scale?
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+Chance Hart it's not us who are equating it to anything. The ATF WILL prosecute violators and they have killed people (and dogs) over shortened weapons.
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 @memberberry5898 "Sorry we didn't know it was hypersonic" - Patriot
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+Thomas Murphy 1) jesus, when manufacturing moved to China and other third world nations did you also say "so damn the people in the West who need those jobs"? You just said it's the country with the highest population, they have enough demand for the markets to provide a supply. When Europe tariffs American goods do you also cry about American jobs? 2) Resentment for America? Who cares lol? Anyone who listens to the CCP and resents America cannot be reasoned with either way. Anyone who sees the CCP as evil will thank America for strongarming them. Even if they resent America, what do you fear? Chinese invasion? Please. 3) The rest of the first world countries already have tariffs. In fact the rest of the world thinks tariffs are amazing. It's only when the US does it that it's evil, apparently. 4) Not wanting to support the massive humans rights violations in China isn't "uhhh reasons"
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Real /tttt/ hours
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That doesn't make any sense. The tail rotor is a critical component in conventional rotary wing aircraft. A true statement wouldn't be a damaged tail, but a direct blow to the main rotor that caused one of them to come loose.
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@viktoriyaserebryakov2755 How was the goalpost shifted? A helicopter with a tail rotor needs it to be operational to remain in controlled flight. A conventional helicopter getting the tail damaged but surviving IS impressive because it needs it. Like a fixed wing aircraft needs both wings to remain in level flight. When the Ka-52 loses its tail and remains in control, that is by definition NOT impressive because it didn't need the tail like a conventional helicopter does. It's like a lizard losing a tail fleeing a predator. It happens.
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They wouldn't really adapt to the A-10, there's simply no trick up the A-10s sleeves. It has to put itself in the line of fire and it will take losses. It's a very straightforward weapon unlike something like a HIMARS which is very elusive.
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Yes, but the Ukrainian armed forces has the Army and the Territorial Defense Forces. The least trained and equipped Ukrainians are TDF and their job is to hold the line. Offensive operations are more complex and they don't like to be exposed like that.
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@julkiewitz People buy used graphics cards from miners. It's not actually as bad as one would assume, because miners who are dedicated to the craft keep them cool and nowadays even undervolt them for efficiency. It's an investment and some of the cost can be recouped by maintaining the hardware properly and selling it, miners have no benefit in beating their hardware like a rented mule.
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He may think space is like Game of Thrones but personally I think it's more like Sopranos.
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@milesrout I wouldn't trust New Zealand with my future because it seems to be going the nanny state route and it's the billionaires' backup plan.
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Many in Ukraine reported the power to be back online in a few hours.
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 @dobianuli2742 "Cheap" gas is not cheap when it's paid in blood. Do not speak for us.
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@martkbanjoboy8853 most people focus on air to air, and most American losses came from AAA and SAMs.
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@GrannysAssSyndrome don't cut yourself on that edge, kiddo
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@walyus9389 Vietnam was bombed to protect South Vietnam. An ally of ours. "Yugoslavia" aka Serbian genocidal maniacs killing other people from the former Yugoslavia had to be stopped.
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@rogyn8484 The pontoon being attacked would make it too easy.
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Bruh is North Korean ammo and e-scooters not an indication?
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@Zoddom The A-10 is in itself a compromise. Too expensive for COIN, not capable enough for near pear. It sits in the middle ground where it's not desirable for either. Super Tucs also have the sensor suites. They dropped PGMs on FARC guerrilla leaders.
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"I think stopping poor people to get guns is kinda the point of the laws" - Yeah and it's wrong. It's discrimination.
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A Wagner pilot just got shot down. Turns out he had been kicked out of the Russian airforce for crashing an aircraft doing a stunt. That's the kind of people working for Wagner.
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@Johnny-tq9no war has a legitimate purpose? Since when?
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+Santiago Bron don't come here pretending to know shit when you're completely wrong. During WWI the advancement in weapons technology and the lack of mobility/combined arms tactics forced combat into trenches. The Germans came up with infiltration tactics and trained men called "stosstruppen"/"sturmtruppen" to attack the trenches. During WWII warfare became more mobile and the military realized most soldiers can't hit past 300 yards so they came up with a weaker rifle, the lighter ammunition allowed soldiers to carry more of it and upon trials they figured soldiers equipped with the new rifle were faster at advancing because they could suppress the enemy while the machine gun is down (reloading, being moved or having the barrel changed). They named it "Sturmgewehr" for propaganda purposes. Soldiers were expected to conduct assaults with bolt action rifles, pistols and bayonets if they had to and in the past soldiers conducted assaults with muzzle loaders, lever action rifles and revolvers. Assaulting is an action, not a feature. Although it fits the technical definition for an assault rifle the military doesn't call M16s assault rifles. They are "Rifle, Caliber 5.56 mm, M16" because they aren't used for specifically "assaults" but as general purpose service rifles. If you paid attention so far, you'll also realize that they're not "long distance" weapons - older rifles fired more powerful ammunition to be used at longer ranges. "try the same thing with a pistol let's see how many people you can hit" You do realize that before the Vegas shooter, the deadliest shooting in the US was committed with two pistols? 34 dead in Virginia Tech.
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Russian milbloggers have confirmed it.
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@Hans lel government bans guns. Private business caused him an inconvenience.
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So Japan, South Korea, Germany, etc don't exist anymore?
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starshipeleven "In more decent countries he would just get a good and sound beating with the batons" - That's your idea of decency? Yikes from me, dawg. "if the cops couldn't catch him he would just get reported for later" - Okay and he'd have fought the cops later because he didn't want to go to jail. Big whoop.
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@DavidStrchld You align with love by asking the government to step on us with its jackboots.
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There was the big meme which was one of the looters running away from the Olympics symbol after stealing one of the rings.
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@EmparaNox It's a novelty t-shirt. In the 90s unlicensed Simpsons characters printed on shirts were common so a Bart dressed as soldier with a map of the region and a quote saying "I was there and it sucked" was made then. It became a meme as pictures of those shirts started trending.
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They learned so much at Bakhmut they repeated the feat in Avdiivka. Also, the airfield used near Kherson, they kept placing supplies and helicopters there even after the Ukrainians bombarded it several times. They lost so much crap placing assets within strike range, Ukrainians did it 30 times.
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@ZaoMedong- "exposing Internet Historian" barely anyone cared about the IH thing, it was the biggest bombshell because he has better reputation than anyone else but really he didn't do anything that bad
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If it was always meant as a one-way trip, it's not a worry.
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Imagine you hear of a terrorist meeting. You could ping a rare pokemon to appear on location and have civilian scan the area. You can't call a Google car to appear on any city street to film the meeting happening at a café.
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 @ozymandiasultor9480 Damn and Russia still can't make the Su-57 cross section smaller than the F-16.
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@bytheburnside7539 she said that Hitman encourages the player to murder strippers A game where the highest scores are achieved by not causing collateral damage There's no context that justifies that
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@nopizzawithoutpineapple so Jack wanted a ban that would have been easily overturned at the supreme court over free speech, An*ta circumvented that pesky free speech by poisoning the industry against itself Yeah that's more insidious.
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No. The F-35 is equivalent to the F-16 and legacy Hornet. The NGAD and F/A-XX are equivalents to the F-15 and F-14/Super Hornet respectively.
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 @Angie-ElissDee Wal-Mart is a brick and mortar store. The business is entirely different. They restock products based on demand.
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It's easier to transition someone who went through puberty than detransition someone who had their puberty blocked.
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@alistor1213 How is it objectively false that a person who detransitions after an interrupted puberty are permanently damaged? You can't undergo "correct" puberty. You have a limited time window. If you miss it, you're not capable of going through it.
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The GlobalEye was Saab's desperate measure to throw in value in the deal.
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It isn't a downgrade.
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@fuzfire he spams these comments everywhere
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When the Boston Bombings happened they reported them as the Boston Bombings. Not the Boston Terrorism. They're calling it a mass shooting, big whoop. Didn't the guy himself say he was a terrorist in his manifesto?
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 @Illair_ADV hardware bans are game specific, like if you cheat at Valorant your pc isn't blocked from checking emails or doing video editing.
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DrTheKay Beethoven was actually black and whites changed the historical record. Stay woke my brothers.
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 @dr.mortem6050 There was footage of a tank being hit and like 20 people start running. Looked like baby spiders running off their momma spider's back.
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@coolheaded5633 Says who? If I have drone footage of you standing in a street corner, I can pull up the coordinates on my phone and load them into a GPS guided shell. It's gonna land. In a battlefield, outside a battlefield, doesn't matter.
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@nonautemrexchristus5637 there's no overpopulation problem.
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Palestinian TV made a live action show for children where characters wore Disney character outfits. Eventually they stopped because Disney told them to stop. The Mickey Mouse character was called Farfour and in one episode he gets beat up by an Israeli for not giving up the deed to his home.
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@raynman6466 "there's no replacement for displacement" - but 5.45 was designed to displace more tissue than 7.62
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@Ghostrider1970DD Yes. But that's the NEW wing program. There was ANOTHER previous program that ended a few years ago. Each was around 1 bil so 2 bil total. I didn't mention the F-16. But a modern Block 70/72 F-16 plus pods is around 120 million.
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@TheLawnWanderer 28.8 guns per 100 people is not that high. Germany has 32.0 Finland has 32.4 and Switzerland is estimated to possibly be as high as 41.28 guns per 100 people. Yemen has around 52.
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They've suffered a lot of modern tank losses, what are you talking about?
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@redpaddys12 That didn't happen. The Royal Marines were not only paired with a battalion of US Marines but also an attached group of American special operations units, the numbers were almost even. Also, unlike third world dictators, the US "likes" losing war games. They have a war gaming unit that exists specifically to curbstomp the units that go train with them. When you see the US winning every war game, you should be worried. Losing means there will be a 700 page report detailing the problems and changes that need to be made.
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 @UFOtalk98 the cameras are made to put a laser spot on a Soviet made tank and drop a 1000lb bomb in it to make it vanish. Not to be a magical identifying machine.
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3 months later, still not near Odessa.
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If you're going to count aid then Russia isn't alone as they have had aid from Belarus, Iran, North Korea and China to some extent.
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@STGN01 "The A-10 was designed to be able to maneuver at low speeds because that is what you need when fighting units on the ground" - No, it was designed that way because it had CSAR and helicopter escort duties it inherited from the A-1 Skyraider. The A-7 did the A-10s mission before it was introduced, and it was a high subsonic aircraft that flew fast - the YA-7F proposal actually was meant to be supersonic.
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@STGN01 "could not accurately identify ruses." - And how would the A-10 identify them? "Tunguska is a very expensive weapon system, it is going to be behind enemy lines, so A-10s are not going to spend much time being vulnerable to them" - Tunguskas are meant to be protection for the lines. We've seen even Buks being used to target drones.
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@guitarsaremyfriendzzz7077 I don't use my house to steal trillions or murder children overseas.
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Based and Ea-nasir-pilled.
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This, but unironically.
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@kek207 You can't launch the ARM from 60km if your enemy has his radar turned off and is only going to turn it on once you're at high Pk range. ARMs are great enhancers of SEAD. They have to be part of an entire gameplan and can't do the job on their own.
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No. TF141 was inspired by TF121. TF121 existed from 2003-2006 and MW2 was released in 2009, before Arab Spring.
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@inquaanate2393 Missing the point. Before the car even drives off the lot, it took as much CO2 emissions to manufacture the electric one as the ICE one. There's both a monetary and pollution cost when you acquire the electric car. It's gonna take around 10-15 years for the electric car to make up for the CO2 (the break even point where the ICE car keeps polluting) and depending on electricity costs where you live and how much you drive it could take 10-20 years for the lower energy prices to make up for the investment in electric. That's what people are pointing out. We're being asked to shell out tens of thousands for a financial decision that won't make sense for many people. Especially with programs to trade in used ICE cars and rebate the price on new electrics, it reduces the number of used cars on the road which increases second hand prices.
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@markinl.a.4954 Buddy did you drink before posting? Where did I say the Russians praise the F-35? They publish non-stop propaganda about how it's garbage. So why would the Russians want it to fail? If it's so shit, they want it to replace the A-10.
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@terryboyer1342 "Halfway through the campaign at a press conference Horner quietly stated " I take back every bad thing I've ever said about the A-10. I love them. They're saving our ass!"" - Then why were they grounded after 7 shot down and 13 coming back to be written off due to battle damage? The A-10 was grounded, prohibited from flying missions against the Iraq republican guard and it killed less tanks than the F-111.
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@earlwyss520 "The USAF has acquired several excellent CAS aircraft, yet gets rid of them at the first opportunity. Examples are A-7" - The A-7 was dropped because of the pressure to adopt the YA-10. The USAF sacrificed the A-7 to get the A-10. The A-7F variant should have been built, not the A-10.
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec "the program was for jet engine aircraft not propeler, drop th crap." - Again I will quote the A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog) SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CASE STUDY by David R. Jacques, PhD, LtCol USAF (Ret) and Dennis D. Strouble, PhD. "The A-X was to use an existing state-of-the-art engine in order to achieve an early Initial Operational Capability (IOC). The number and type of engines was not specified by the RAD; they would be determined by trade-space analysis considering performance, cost, survivability and maintainability." "On 19 April 1967, the F-X SPO forwarded a preliminary proposal22 to AFSC headquarters. The AFRDQ A-X Proposal contained the Air Force (ASD) configuration studies for two candidate vehicles. The first vehicle configuration used a single turbo-prop engine, while the second vehicle configuration used two wing-mounted turbofan engines. Neither of these configurations was considered optimal, but they were considered representative of aircraft available in the 1970 time period." "Each of four contractors awarded study contracts in May 1967 submitted design approaches in support of the Concept Formulation Package. These design studies considered a range of design choices in: 1) Airframe and Propulsion; 2) Avionics; 3) Armament; and 4) Survivability Provisions. The performance regime specified for the A-X posed no stringent requirements on the airframe, and conventional aluminum airframes were recommended by all contractors. There was more variation in propulsion options, but all contractors recommended either turboprop or turbofan engines, either in single or twin engine configurations. Engine availability investigations by the Air Force determined there were no suitable turbofan engines that could meet the required IOC, and even excursion investigations that removed the IOC constraint favored the use of turboprops. The reason for this conclusion was that the available thrust from the turboprop exceeded that of the turbofan at all speeds up to approximately 400 knots. The primary operating regime of the A-X existed below this value." The program never demanded a jet engine, in fact the Air Force was hesitant to deploy jet engines because turboprops were more efficient at the low speeds required of the A-X aircraft. How can you ask me to drop the crap when I'm speaking the truth? Here's drawings of the turboprop proposals for the A-X program - http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UsRRCo2Zho4/TipD1H4QzOI/AAAAAAAAAt8/_X_m0YNhWd0/s1600/GD-AX-Turboprop.jpg General Dynamics http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tGZXeRfc5yQ/TipETlz12jI/AAAAAAAAAuE/YplQYPYsR7g/s1600/Northrop-AX-Turboprop.jpg Northrop "armor doesn't have to protect every thing, just the essential" - if you destroy everything around the essential, the aircraft can't fly either because there will be no aircraft left. "i'm done wasting time whit you" - No, you're done getting proven wrong by actual facts.
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@terryboyer1342 What erroneous views? What facts and evidence? Video of gun runs? There's video of fighters doing gun runs on ground targets. "You earlier opined the A-10 was "unsurvivable" on the modern battlefield due to it's slow speed and lack of stealth. And now you propose a turbo prop as a replacement?" - The US is not fighting in a "modern" battlefield, it's fighting in a COIN role. Turboprops can deploy closer to the action, have lots of loiter time, the Super Tucano is just 20 knots slower in terms of cruise speed so if it can operate from closer it gets there faster. "Or that you could just "slap" a GAU 8 on them" - I'd suggest either paying attention, or not lying about what I said. Lying about things I said is one of the few things I cannot tolerate. Do you need 30mm to kill flesh and bone? There's miniguns, three barrel 50 caliber gatlings, if you want there's high caliber single barrel cannons. All of them will shred Toyotas and people. Do you want gun runs? Or do you want the BRRRT? Because I'd respect the honesty if this was about nostalgia. "Relatively simple and low cost compared to most anything else" - It's low cost compared to high performance jets. A Super Tucano costs less than half per hour than the A-10 so if your issue is cost the AF was looking into it through the OA-X. But the BRRRT cultists won, and despite the extra cost the A-10 will continue flying. So don't tell me it's about cost because y'all are willing to pay more to keep the A-10 flying like a ship of Theseus. "He stated the Army would take the A-10 in a heart beat if allowed to" - Again, this is a meme. In the memetic sense, not the internet joke sense. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/02/25/army-not-interested-in-taking-a10-warthogs-from-air-force.html "The service's top civilian, Army Secretary John McHugh, rejected the idea of accepting hand-me-down A-10 Warthogs from the Air Force. "No chance," he said during a breakfast meeting with reporters on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. "That's not even been a topic of casual conversation." "With our own aircraft fleet we're taking some pretty dramatic steps to reconfigure and become more affordable, and the A-10 mission is not something we considered. That's an Air Force mission as it should be and I'm sure the Air Force feels the same way," McHugh said." "I believe he's somewhat more qualified than you to weigh in on this" - I don't question qualifications, but even qualified people make mistakes. Exactly how did this CWO 5 arrive at the conclusion that it would be both affordable and reasonable to take an ageing aircraft, and then either train Army aviators and maintainers in a "new" aircraft or take Air Force personnel and take them under the Army? Did he even make some napkin calculations? Did he consult anyone else? Or what he just spitballing with his friends like one would with a beer in hand? "Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III has taken the brunt of the criticism, often directly. An A-10 driver during the latter days of the Cold War, he’s pushed back, arguing that CAS is a mission bigger than just the A-10. About 80 percent of all CAS sorties in Afghanistan since 2001 were flown by other aircraft, Welsh explained." - https://www.airforcemag.com/article/whats-next-for-cas/ the at the time Chief of Staff of the Air Force, a former A-10 pilot, said it's time to let go of the A-10. If we're comparing qualifications, wouldn't a former A-10 driver supersede said Chief Warrant Officer? “I don't give a rat's ass what platform brings it in. I could care less if it’s a B-52, if it’s a B-1 bomber, if it’s an F-16, an F-15, an A-10. I don’t care if the thing was delivered by carrier pigeon. I want the enemy taken care of.” - https://youtu.be/eJzyN_yiTZ4?t=2837 General Mark A. Milley, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Maybe the Chief Warrant Officer should have consulted someone, because nobody with actual power to make the decision is in a hurry. "With that I rest my case." - Let's review your case: - Footage of gun run. - Lying about what others said. - Hypocritically dismissing cost after defending the A-10 on the basis of cost. - Quoting an individual who puts his emotional wants over objective needs and whose opinion isn't shared by the people with actual power. Just tell me you love the BRRT. Admit it. You say I'm triggered because of the BRRT, my only problem with the BRRT is it has become a cult but the cultists will not admit it. Just say you're nostalgic and not ready to let go. There's a lot of things I can't let go off. But at least I admit it. Don't come here and LIE about my posts so you can feel better. I'd prefer the truth.
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Reinforced concrete is a very tough nut to crack. That's why bunkers are made of concrete.
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Has ArmchairWarlord returned? I need to read his cope takes on this.
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You people always complain about the timing. Literally any time something happens you people pipe up. Huh.
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@tonyhawk123 This is just a bad attempt at philosophy. Yes, many fuels are hydrocarbons. That doesn't automatically mean hydrogen is a good fuel. Oxygen is also part of ozone, doesn't mean you should breathe it. The water electrolysis isn't even the hardest part. Storage and transport is an issue. The claim that investment solves everything doesn't even make sense. Why didn't a group of investors do it as part of competing with oil? Other companies have to drill, you laugh all the way to the bank as you generate all the fuel you want.
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@parrotcraft7503 Out of the 250,000 in the bodycount project only 8,000 were by the US-Iraq war. The rest were majorily a consequence of sectarian violence. Please understand the numbers you are quoting. The 250,000 fatalities attributed to Operation Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom are not all caused by the US. They're all fatalites, no matter who caused them. Even if it was Iraqis doing it.
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If 300k Russians are on the field, each blown supply depot will do 3x the damage.
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@autohmae My point is that we're running out of options, we're not fully trapped in the belly of the machine - yet. This scenario might seem cool and high tech, but I'd rather the car start even if there's a faulty sensor.
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There was also the fact that the YF-22 was already doing weapons firing in test flights while the YF-23 had an unproven internal bay mechanism, and Northrop was inherently at a disadvantage due to delays and budget overruns with the B-2. Had the F-23 won we'd be here reading comments about how the YF-22 was the superior choice.
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Yeah, oil is used in every industry. But fuel is the breadwinner. Imagine you had massive gold reserves. Then everyone says "actually we don't consider gold a store of value". You'll sell your gold at copper prices. It's used in electronics and whatnot. But the store of value is what makes gold more valuable than metals like copper or iron. Oil is liquid gold because we need it as fuel. Of we stop using it like that, it becomes liquid aluminum. We all use it. We all need it. But we don't pay gold prices for aluminum.
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Just ask them if they ever watched Red Dawn (1984).
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It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that you are indeed correct.
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@endjfcar Anyone with half a brain can change to nautical miles/knots/feet. I'm glad that people who can only use one system of units are weeded out of aviation.
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The thing is Elon Musk is like "I need volunteers" and redditors trip over themselves to get their brain chipped. I'm safe.
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@byrnemeister2008 "The UN doesn’t have an army" - They do have a peacekeeping force that gathers troops from several countries and puts them under UN control. They also delegate military tasks to coalitions like NATO.
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Before they were online.
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Why? The leaks clearly show Ukraine is kicking ass.
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@enterpassword3313 That's not true. You're lying through your teeth about Crimean independence referendums. Independence initially made sensewhen Ukraine wanted to leave the Union but after the Union collapsed Crimea chose to remain in Ukraine. The issue was that the Ukrainian and Crimean constitutions were incompatible. Ukraine did not "take over" in 1995, it just delegitimized the office of the president.
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@egg5474 Holy crap dude. Who said anything about monero or glowies? All I said was that creating an infinite number of altcoins DOES. NOT. NEGATE. SCARCITY. Do you think that creating cheemzcoin will cause bitcoin to crash? If your answer is yes then present your case, if no you agree with me already.
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Ray Vorontsoff you know I've seen people nowadays who actually think Prohibition worked, is there some new kind of contrarianism where people take really unpopular government programs that almost everyone agrees were a mistake and actually try to defend them?
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 @ViolentCabbage-ym7ko Russia claims Ukraine took heavy casualties every time they lost a battle. We're kind of tired of baseless claims.
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@chanfonseka8051 His promotion of AZT as a treatment for AIDS.
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I mean the "public oversight" would be the contracting agency trying to avoid getting fired every time there's a mayoral election.
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 @seedee3d Take your meds.
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 @virtualatheist was the "athlete" and "coach" that gave it away?
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@SerafineSilverstream You're being treated like garbage. Just stay at home and wait for the fully vaccinated status to run out.
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@OLYMPICx22x That is, quite frankly, missing the point. A cellphone using encrypted apps is still pinging the cellular network so even if the communications are secret, where the people are meeting and who else they are in contact with is incredibly easy to figure out by one guy in one room. If people you are following are leaving their cellphones behind, now you need three vans with radio operators for every person you're tracking to go around and wait for them to broadcast so you can manually triangulate them. If someone you were not aware of left their cellphone behind for a meeting, and you need to know who that person is, you now need someone to follow them around until you get them to walk in front of a CCTV camera, enter a car with a license plate or use a credit card. Cellphones streamline surveillance to the point 1-2 people can keep tabs on a terror cell. Old school methods require old school investigations, with a lot more manpower and resources involved.
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@cdeford Things were obviously altered, you can see the spacing of the fonts don't match.
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Pretty bad timing because BluFor is investing in the Loyal Wingman with the capability to buddy tank a F-35 as a small stealthy drone.
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Twitter is essentially 2014 tumblr.
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@ma27794 because it forces you to prove your innocence. That means assumption of guilt.
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As opposed to artillery? Drone pilots have to get within 5-10km of the frontline. Larger caliber artillery can hide further back.
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Ukrainian air force posted a message of thanks to the pilots. Must likely a Su-24 two-ship.
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He's already lost. It's just a matter of owning up to it. The use of a nuke would only sink Russia further.
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@ufofanclub You tell an AI "get 1000 points" and give it 5 points whenever it does something right. It's just doing what you tell it to, instead of you having to approve every attempt it just checks the score it's earning. AI doesn't actually understand, it just responds. For example there was a story of an AI tasked with making an efficient plan to guide a roomba vacuum cleaner. And score was deducted whenever it hit the walls or furniture. The AI eventually started going backwards because the crash sensors are at the front and by hitting walls tail first it did not lose score. The AI doesn't think about what you want or the rewards. It's just chasing score.
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 @chaosmkmk Check your irony detector.
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@VanatruFreyr BS. If you actually look into it, that's false. You probably didn't "get rid of guns", and you probably had a downward trend of gun crime at the same time. This is basic government trickery to keep the dummies thinking they did something.
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@pgm8464 Q was a poster on a chan website who would post "drops" of information. It was about supporting Trump and it eventually lead to people believing JFK's son who died in a car crash would come back and run for VP with Trump.
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If no troops are detached then who's going to stop further advances?
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@KingBarney if people were proposing legislation that treated the victim differently based on gender it would be 100% legitimate to bring up the fact that men get raped too. I find it funny that the standard response is bringing up the fact that our families weren't there. There's nothing you can do to me to make me change my convictions. I will not hate airplanes if my family dies in a crash. I will not focus on the gun if my family gets gunned down. Trying to paint this as lack of empathy when the tweets are clearly BTFO'ing the vultures who abuse tragedy for political clout is ironic.
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This has been happening everywhere through different ways. Like inappropriate school books, or that story covered here about how in Germany they paired offenders with foster kids as an experiment.
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What does that even mean? It's not like Russian air defense has a hundred Ukrainian fighters on their radar scope, snd they'll have the luxury to pick and choose the F-16s. Whatever comes across their screen, they shoot. Hence all the friendly fire downings.
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Apple has a reputation to uphold. A shaky reputation, but one nonetheless.
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@YorkerEli "murikkkan" really showing the bias there, Vlad
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It's only a concept. The Su-57 and Armata were "supposed" to be in production.
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Jussie crossed into MAGA country
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@afrolitious7930 "It doesn't matter how well trained the pilots area if there's formidable AA defence they'd be useless" - No. Pilots are trained to avoid "formidable" AA defenses. That's the first priority in dealing with defenses - don't stand where they can hit you. Doesn't matter how formidable they are, they can't hit beyond their range. Second, the US has every tool in the toolbox to deal with defenses. From glide bombs to cruise missiles, anti-radiation missiles which home onto radars, EW support to jam and create fictional contacts on radar, etc. "Once that's redundant they'd have to use artillery which they're not great at" - Did you notice how 4 HIMARS and two M270 essentially stalled the Russian offensive? How the hell can you claim US artillery isn't great when a dozen modern rocket artillery platforms and a few more from the 1980s have punched Russia's teeth in? "But this is not a desert nation where it's easier to find stuff with satellite" - Russian defenses are constantly showing up on satellite. "Even though the US swarmed Vietnam with everything in their Arsenal they lost to a far less formidable foe." - You do realize that North Vietnam essentially lost, right? Militarily, the Tet Offensive drained North Vietnam's fighting force. They won because public pressure against the war made the US stand down when South Vietnam was invaded.
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 @novembertango1298 Putin won by thrashing Russia's "modern" military and resorting to a parody of Enemy At The Gates?
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It was. Exact same profile as the guys found in the Khinzal crash site Sept 2022.
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+Wout B Well, most countries ban cutting down barrels because it makes weapons concealable and generally speaking handguns are harder to get (in some countries long guns are legal and available but handguns are nearly impossible to get legally/banned) so they want to charge people caught with short barrels. In the US in 1934 they started to regulate concealable weapons except handguns, and by definition you can't turn shotguns or rifles into handguns by cutting them down. Also handguns cannot have smoothbore barrels. The Taurus Judge gets away with being a handgun because it's technically a .45 Colt revolver, and it has shallow rifling. But it's meant to be loaded with .410 shotgun shells.
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@2Aftw Anyone who's been around for a whole knows about the finance vids, he even mentioned it a few times, you're not delivering any expose here. Lira would never post anything that damaged his case, he only let you see what he wanted you to see.
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@cstgraphpads2091 the issue is that long range in a tank's gun means nothing when the AT weapon suddenly comes out from behind a tree 70-50 meters away. There's still footage coming out of Ukrainian forces being able to get close to armored vehicles and fire unguided weapons at them.
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The international volunteers are given Ukrainian papers to make them legal combatants, and the pay is very low because they cannot fight for profit. Russia employs mercenaries because they work for corporations, not the Russian state, and are paid more than a soldier, thus fighting for profit.
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Funny because the Gripen has been involved in a lot of bribery scandals.
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@benjamingrant5970 making use of his famous tactic, Hassle Doctrine
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I didn't have a phone in the 90s
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+Stephen McMahon one thing to keep in mind is that most Southern Whites could not possibly afford slaves and worked for a living. They wouldn't go to war just because of a few rich White people demanding the right to own slaves. The North made a point of destroying their land to damage the Confederacy's economy. So of course they hate what the North did.
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J Roger Trudel how about you measure gravity scientifically and jump of a high rise building with no parachute? Don't forget to record your impact speed. Or you suddenly believe in gravity now?
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@MARKSMAN108 people have been saying that for decades and as a result we've seen tuition skyrocket and the value of the degrees drop. You got people with degrees working at Starbucks. Please don't tell people to go into debt they have no guarentee of paying off because it's "fun".
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@abandonedchannel281 That doesn't negate anything of what he said. The poor don't have access to capitalism because they are shut down if they try to enter the economy. Your deflection towards austrian economics speaks volumes about your unwillingness to remain intellectually honest on the debate.
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Switzerland is a mountain fortress inside a continent that has been mostly at peace since the end of WWII. America's strenght is literally global trade.
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@ashtonkuypers4501 The reverse side of the medal was that they could retake Kherson quickly and with almost no bloodshed. Killing the Russian army regulars there would have been great... but it would have required losses.
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Seanus32 I think he means we the people made YT what it is.
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@Dimetropteryx It's kind of complicated to determine. Because the tail does block the exhaust plume, and when MANPADS became a thing they were a single band seeker that follows the heat signature and then proximity fuse detonates the very small warhead to shower the aircraft with fragments. So by physically blocking the IR signal from the sides you can only take a shot at the rear, and any maneuvering will make flares the only target that the seeker can track. But as time went on, MANPADS now have dual band seekers, improved algorithms that reject flares, and the control logic tells the missile to do a last second jink to move ahead of the exhaust plume so that it has a higher chance of colliding with the aircraft and the impact sensors fire the warhead inside the fuselage which is vastly more effective than a fragment shower.
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Hydro can be dialed down. Yes, the river is not turned off but the dammed water is stored and the intake dialed back up when a higher demand is placed on the grid so everything evens out. I assume there's also extra bypasses built into the dam for safety and all else failing, dams usually have spillways that can deal with the water input being greater than the output.
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That was human wave. Human waves are just not possible today. Armies have reduced in size and demographics to not allow it. Plus technology would spoil the incoming attack.
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@phunkracy that sure is a partial sentence
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@BatMan-7777 Already a thing. Movies like Valley of the Wolves already used Americans as bad guys.
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They essentially threw their professional military into the wolves. Plus we kind of publish our tactics in manuals. Pdfs are available.
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@jonathanjacob5453 they're doing fine by grounding 40% if their aircraft for parts?
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@yt-xe8ws It's pretty fucking funny that every time someone explains how real life works your type of people always defaults to "hurr you're defending capitalism" as if that was some kind of insightful thought. You and everyone else had the opportunity to take all this shit that you're outraged that is being monetized and do it for free, but you people prefer to complain than actually doing something meaningful. Based Luke Smith simply creates the site, you sit here and complain. This is further proof that people who can transcend the left-right paradigm are driven enough to subvert the system, meanwhile low status people stick to their dogmatic ideologies hoping they catch on and ride the wave.
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When the 12 Storm Shadows hit, was that how it feels to chew StrikeGum?
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Because to produce G36s you need to issue a contract. You can't just hand a IOU to HK and say we're in a war footing so get 100,000 units out the door.
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@ACGBLR Not every semi has reciprocating charging handles. But that Sean Palmisano guy is a douche. He couldn't even understand why the SCAR was short stroking on steel case.
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@latemanparodius5133 I don't think Japanese animation was that popular, because tomboys featured prominently in 90s and 2000s cartoons. If we assume that the writers and storyboarders for these cartoons were at least in their early 30s that would mean they could have been in the military in the 1980s and stationed in Japan. Even that's a stretch, I don't think there's major 80s anime influence regarding tomboys crossing over from Japan to Western cartoons.
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They push forward because Russia is on the offensive, Ukraine is on the defensive. It's Ukraine letting Russians come into their sights. Russia wasted lives in Vuhledar. Just watch the videos. And according to Girkin, in Adiivka too.
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+Swedish12 the Bolsheviks had private support from abroad.
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@mastrtonberry2 facts and numbers can be used to manipulate a narrative. He straight up showed Hindenburg footage to complain about the venting of gas from a tank failure. I think hydrogen tanks are stupid but that's pure propaganda. Hindenburg happened, true fact. A car crash will not lead to a Hindenburg, sorry at that point showing the footage is comically desperate.
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That was a Ukranian squad and they were fresh and had poor training, got sent on a recon mission. It's the separatists who can pick up the phone, they're wearing the darker green uniforms.
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@waynekerr5728 How is he breaking the rules? He got an exemption.
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 @dixiekitsune8382 Funnily enough Vaush was against loli. That's why everyone was calling him a hypocrite.
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No? The F-22 was did its job.
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Nice cope!
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@jaymt1982 You might die on the road if you drive today. It never stopped you.
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@TonyDiCroce 1. If it's not a secret then why was it ignored? 2. Why wouldn't I want to get it? 3. It's not 1%. Recoveries are 99.76%. And also, the deaths are only this high because people were told to wait until it got worse then admitted them into ICUs when they were dying. We know about multi pronged approaches to treating this. We know the mechanism that causes fatalities. We can prevent them. But the existence of a treatment would end the emergency use authorization.
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@Not.a.bird.Person That's not greed, though. Being forced to hike prices because otherwise you can't break even is not greed, you can't redefine greed to mean "taking the bare minimum to stay afloat". Greed has to mean going above and beyond, otherwise it doesn't deserve to exist as a word.
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Single anonymous source. Worthless.
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@ashleyhamman The issue is that people lose a significant chunk of their youth getting a degree and a master's to get a high paying job so they can afford a house. All the people on low end jobs who have kids basically have to kiss their shot at prosperity goodbye. People talk about maternity leave and childcare while couples who want kids are worried about paying rent and diapers.
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From the perspective of an outsider looking in, nearly everyone I talked to had no problem with the job being difficult or uncomfortable. People get sick of weak leadership and feeling unappreciated. The system knows it needs to retain good people but does nothing to address it. It's the meme of the guy shoving the stick in his own bicycle spokes.
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@tallflguy That's not true. After the US suppressed the Iraqi SAM network in 1991, the AAA kept firing. The response was sending Fast FAC F-16s armed with cluster munitions and dumb bombs. These F-16s were authorized to go under the 12,000ft safety ceiling to carry out these attacks unlike other jets.
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Wrong time to post that bub, Ukraine is gaining ground around Bakhmut.
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It's not armored like a tank. It has some degree of armor that prevents it from being totally taken out by certain types of damage. A gun burst or a missile is able to slice an aircraft apart in one hit. You can't put enough armor on an aircraft to defend it from such a direct strike and still be able to take off.
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@verbal_backflips9493 Ebola had the issue where your fluids could still infect someone several months after you've recovered.
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@TheRustedShackleford I take it seriously, which is precisely why I'm worried about a huge gang of thieves and murderers being in charge of it. You think a government wouldn't shut your power and gas for a few days and claim it was Russia to keep you in a perpetual state of fear?
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 @bruceparr1678 they were retired nearly a decade later, and are still doing flights for testing and aggressor purposes
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Blue checkmarks saying billionaires need to pay their fair share in a platform registered in a corporate tax haven lol
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It's a good thing when the rules don't make sense because at that point you can use it as a litmus test. Anyone who still believes in the rules even when they're blatantly contradictory is pretty much lost and you cannot count on them.
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@nathanatkinson8279 California pays other states to take their excess solar power. This isn't about pollution because they don't actually care, they just pretend they do. This is about peak demand on the grid.
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@TheMithridates They're absolutely defending Nick under the veil of defending the process. The art of being as one-sided as possible while feigning neutrality has been exploding online these days.
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@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan the USSR only survived the war thanks to the Land Lease.
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The real cope is that you people posted this comment one and a half years ago.
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@josedorsaith5261 Oh yes that weapons sale where the source was literally just an online French lawyer who was then quoted by a Bulgarian website.
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@80Elminster "How many before people at least take it a little serious?" - it's not about the number of people pulling an Argument from Authority fallacy. Somehow all of these people have zero proof to show? In a court of law you need proof.
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It's not a version of stealth, that's Saabspeak to try and get sales.
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I remember keeping up with aviation news in the 2000s and seeing the MiG-29 crashes leading to fleet wide groundings. All those "rugged" machines pancaking in the grass really didn't lend much faith to their engine resilience.
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 @lrn_news9171 If you orbit an object, you move at the same velocity as it. Please learn inertial frames of reference.
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@Ermude10 No, I didn't mix anything up.
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It's true. They're using Iranian drones and S-300s to compensate. If you use bows and arrows, that means you're running out of bullets.
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@Cheesus-Sliced "Trump is responsible for almost every death, for rejecting the tests offered early" - wasn't it the FDA that ordered the tests and results to be destroyed because they were self-administered and thus "DIDN'T COUNT! IT TAKES A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL TO TAKE A SWAB!"?
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Putin gambled with the lives of the people in Donbass.
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The F-16s you have laying around are better than the Gripens that don't exist.
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@Damian_CS2 The difference being that supply troops were being ambushed as there were no defined frontlines. Nobody judges supply troops for wanting to uparmor their Bukhanka, but this? This is a disgrace.
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Russia can't even get to Odessa.
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@anti1training I'd rather have it in the trash.
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Foolish tactic, because they allowed Ukrainians to cut off Izyum. They also dropped the weapons and ammo on the way out, so it would be difficult to do any killing.
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Serbia didn't have a problem attacking smaller countries.
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Russia sells "Urals" I believe.
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It happened in IRC. There just weren't livestreams and clout chasing.
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@Catssonova Nothing is free. It comes out of your taxes you disingenuous little shill.
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Remember when Ron Paul was looking good in the polls and news channels wouldn't even show his name or his photo? They make sure Joe Public doesn't know your name or your face.
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@187Rajah The explosions mean nothing, could be missiles knocked off course, could be a miss on the ground, could be crashing debris. The battery was active the next day, otherwise the Russian air force would have flown over Kiyv.
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 @jerseyshoredroneservices225 No radar or command post has been hit, only launchers.
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@Clay3613 The Guardian, New York Times, The Intercept and even left leaning outlets like Democracy Now! have reported on it. But you've been condition to just say "Alex Jones" whenever confronted with information that paints the government in bad light.
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"doing well" - just ignore the forced relocations for the purpose of ethnic cleansing, genocide, political repression, etc.
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+Paul Jordan but you can make fun of a real culture without being stale and just plainly offensive. Look at Bondoocks. A show where the joke is "ahah they play nintendo 64, NEEEERDS" several times per season is not any more funny than a show where all the jokes are about blacks having absent fathers. You can make a funny joke about the subject. But "ahah your father left, how about them black people huh?" isn't a punchline worthy of a laugh. Is racism worse than mocking nerds? Sure. Does it make TBBT funnier? Nope.
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@AndRei-yc3ti The Ukrainian army was 250k. The Russian invasion force was 190k plus DPR/LPR, Chechens and Wagner. Not to mention that reserves and training cadres were sent to Ukraine in the first months of the war.
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 @blvdes It's not apologia, it's just a fact of life that people will serve their time and re-enter society. Like it or not.
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ISIS attacked Israel twice in 2016. They also called for terror attacks in Israel in 2023.
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I'm sorry, what do you think is the alternative? First, criminals know they shouldn't leave the gun. If they do, that's a stroke of luck. What do you think happens when the police finds the gun? Do you think it says who did it? What do you think a trace is? They'll be able to see who first bought it legally, but if the gun has been sold privately or stolen that's where it ends. No culprits. That is if the firearm did not have the serials obliterated. Crime shows are sort of propaganda too. They make detective work look cool and flashy. But you have to remember they're written backwards. The writer comes up with the smart way to solve the crime, then works backwards to add the twists and turns and misdirection.
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@piknick111 "yes, at closer range." - yeah because mass shooters are widely known for their long distance shots, definitely not the enclosed spaces of schools, office buildings, clubs, theaters, etc...
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Yeah, they were running out of supplies in Kiev so they were forced to retreat. They were running out of supplies in Kherson so they had to retreat. A lot of Russian decisions show they are indeed limited by ammo supply as much as Ukraine is. The problem is, they require a lot more artillery to succeed.
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Where did they find a helicopter? Why was the Syrian govt making bombs that looked like the opposition ones?
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The problem with saving the good tanks for last is that they won't be manned by good crews. What's the point of fighting NATO with the good tanks by mobilizing the homeless, prisoners, and hiring dudes from India and Nepal?
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The channel is old enough that probably a lot of accounts are old Google+ era. Youtube tried to change how accounts worked to integrate with Google+ but the social media never took off and they eventually gave up. If people just moved on and forgot about their original youtube account, which happens when people eventually create a new email account to use professionally (so you don't put your edgy named hotmail account on your resume), there could be tons of vacant accounts that subbed when Sam Seder went viral back in the old days.
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Supermaneuverability makes no difference as it requires entering a stall to achieve post-stall maneuverability. You essentially make yourself a sitting duck by wasting all your energy.
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decwow I can't imagine the emotional burden. Literally stand there as the man unloads on her. That's almost rape, it's a psychological bukake.
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@sharlesdaviskendy2391 Depends. If they continue living there, they lose 100% of their money. It's a choice. I'd rather negotiate with someone and take a hit on value to recoup some of my loss, while that person gains off my loss.
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You do realize YouTube is headed the same way, right? I don't have a Twitter account. But if you don't care, don't get surprised Joe Rogan gets kicked out of YouTube for wrongthink.
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Don't forget oxidative stress.
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Most of their resources are getting harder to extract. Technology? What technology are they famous for?
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 @Giby86 It is in this case. The product was only tested to mitigate symptoms, not for spread control.
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@punishedmeridia "Its too fast to do the role effectively" - Why?
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@danielllitpek2014 Because let's face it, unless you're living in cartel country most criminals just run instead of shooting cops. Even when they're armed. The US is an outlier because both criminals and cops are playing with PvP rules and we're caught in the middle.
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@danielllitpek2014 That's why I said that unless you're in cartel country, criminals tend to be more pacified. This means that in Europe criminals rarely shoot cops on a routine stop. Does it make sense now?
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@vladimirzakrevski3157 their commander literally has the two lightning runes the SS used tattooed near his neck.
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@zwndapp1313 the diversion that cost more men, fuel and vehicles than if they had just used it where they needed? Stop coping.
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sorindncs even if you are color blind you can distinguish the lights by type and position.
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Covert Cabal was always fair to Russian equipment when we didn't have the data to know it was trash.
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Serial passage through humanized mice.
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Bad faith interpretation.
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>"the Ukraine" [Inglorious Basterds three fingers scene]
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ITT: flagrant targeting of innocent civilians is excused by people who dismiss war crimes due to "context".
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@backdrop8469 It's not "denial", you're simply looking at a photoshopped casualty chart. If you look at the leaks there's several pages discussing Russian and Ukrainian force composition, and yet only one page had the photoshop.
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@Mortablunt The Sherman was well designed, though.
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@jupiterjunk "Stealth, carrier, and VTOL" - So? Still don't see how that's a problem. The Navy is also looking into a program to make a stealth carrier-borne fighter that gives them back F-14 performance they lost by switching to Hornets. The VTOL aspect of the B variant doesn't affect the others. "If the F-35 was just a replacement for the F-16, it would be awesome; but it's not. It's trying to replace 3 airframes at once" - The F/A-18 derives from the YF-17, which was also on the lightweight fighter program that picked the YF-16 as the winner. Although the airframes are different they were convergent in their design, two different ways of reaching the same goal. And again, the B variant's VTOL doesn't affect the others. "I think the project cost overruns were because of this" - I'm almost certain that most of the problems were software related. "and the F-35 suffers because of this" - Why? You don't actually explain the why. "They can sniff/detect a lot of scents, but they have to be trained. The more odors you train the dog to hit on, the less effective they become at detecting them" - You do understand that airplanes aren't dogs, right? The analogy doesn't make sense because a wing doesn't care if there's an air to air missile or air to ground missile attached to it. The radar and sensors can be fed data on thousands on different vehicles to recognize them from the air with your limitations being only computing power and memory - which we got plenty of - rather than a numerical limit. You can communicate directly with software and just have it do exactly what you want, rather than dealing with an animal with it's own personality/temperament and limited communication abilities. Analogies make sense when the things are actually analogous. Animal training and fighter jets are absolutely not comparable.
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@jupiterjunk The Warthog wasn't even dominant. It had to be pulled away from the Iraqi National Guard because the losses and aircraft put out of action waiting for repairs were unsustainable. In 1985 the Israelis bombed the PLO's headquarters in Tunisia with F-15Cs and Ds. Despite the not a pound for air to ground mantra, the A-D models had a dormant ability to carry Mk 82, 83 and 84 bombs. In this attack, the F-15Ds were carrying GBU-15s. The F-16 doesn't dominate? It's arguably the most common close air support aircraft considering how many flags it serves under, one of the biggest payload droppers in recent history, and also one of the best fighters in inventory. Dog 3 was trained so smell nitrates, cocaine, cook pancakes and sing the national anthem. It's a smart dog. I want Dog 3 on my team. "For the F-35; did they ever resolve the sheering of the stealth coating at super-sonic speeds?" - Only happens with the B and C variants and at very high altitudes, and the Pentagon won't pay for it. Lockheed Martin will have to solve that on their own. "Consolidating the services to one airframe is a bad idea." - Except for the USMC nobody's consolidating into a single airframe. The F-22 will be the F-35s companion and it will be replaced by a 6th gen air superiority aircraft, and the Navy will get their F/A-XX to recoup F-14-like capabilities they lost with the Hornet. "Imagine if the Air Force and Navy (for the sake of argument) only had F-15's when the crack in the airframe started to appear" - And what if the Navy didn't have the F-15? Put F-14s serving under the USAF? Navy gets tasked with airspace defense? "the F-35 would've been the rock star it should be, IF it were created just for Air Force procurement" - But how? I keep pressing people to explain this but they can't give an answer. "Like the same folks that gave us the M-2 Bradley" - Oh no someone who actually believes the nutter who wrote Pentagon Wars... we'll be here a long time.
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@MayaPosch Maya, do you want to live in the 19th century? Because if we're going by what was moral and legal in the 19th century you need to go all the way, not just the tidbits you like.
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"Neutrality" lmao you people don't even try to be subtle
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The US MIC doesn't make money from decades old M113s.
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What a load of BS. My science books from school talked about the ozone layer being depleted by CFCs but also explained that ozone was naturally occurring.
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 @PetrusJosephus-z6c Iraq was a conventional war.
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500,000 troops with no sleeping bags, no medical kit, no training.
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+Ptolemy 3 corporations own the government.
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The US wrote the book on defeating Soviet/Russian AD. Then tossed it at Saddam in 1991.
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@blugaledoh2669 Believable. Russian military admitted 48k a few months ago. Add up the L/DPR, Wagner, etc and it's probably 80k by now.
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The strait is harder to cross with these electric drones, a combustion engine and fuel tank would be required. Ukrainians can pose as Russians and drive with cardboard in their trunk to get close enough to launch. Russians have difficulty posing as Ukrainians so they need long range Iranian drones.
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So much that the GAO slammed the USAF for purchasing 700 of them. >finds out Army is trying to put rotary wing above all >has YA-10 and YA-9 flyoff, gives up A-7F variant >gets criticized for buying TOO MANY A-10s >says it's time to retire it by the legitimate year it should start to be phased out due to age >forced to drag it around for three decades longer >"hurr durr you always hated the A-10" >mfw
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@startrekmike The thing is that "cheap" is relative. Spending 30k USD on a APKWS rocket is worth it to take out a truck with a 14.5mm on the back. Bullets are cheap, but a game of chicken against someone who'll score a major victory for the insurgency by taking out an engine and forcing a pilot into the ground can get expensive.
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@startrekmike Honestly, it is. The gun requires going within a few thousand feet of slant range to the target and flying in a straight dive. With the laser guided rocket you only need to get within 6 miles, fire it, then you can orbit as long as you stay within gimbal limits to keep painting the target.
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@naterbaternaterbater 900 bucks per hour? That's lower than the A-29, your number is messed up.
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Minsk was broken by Russia. Who initiated the attack on Debaltseve immediately after one of the Minsk treaties was signed?
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@toonybrain But he wasn't a layman. He was already an expert on his field, he just started at 8 years old instead of his 20s. He had 10 years of experience studying genealogy, while detectives need to be proficient on several fields of study without ever having the time to master one. This wasn't a gut instinct. It was a gifted individual using his skills to draw the most likely candidates into a test pool so that law enforcement could work that angle.
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@sssjjj560 many Americans hated Bush, many Americans hated Obama, many Americans hate Trump. Do Americans hate Americans?
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@DARTHMOBIUS you know, sperging with leetspeak doesn't give you any more credibility.
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Blue helmets outside: "We got you surrounded, come live in the pod!" Me: "I WON'T EAT THE BUGS I WON'T EAT THE BUGS"
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They have volunteers still waiting to get processed and sent to bootcamp. That's why some countries are announcing that they're sending instructors to train Ukrainian men in NATO bases.
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Jake Sanchez he's not demanding a presidential inquiry in the matter. The argument that there's more pressing matters is pointless because whatever your grievances you'd never get to talk about it until we solved world famine, cured cancer and AIDS, etc.
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 @rebelks88 3d printer material isn't that expensive. You're paying with your time and effort, because only the simplest trinkets come out of the printer ready to use.
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 @ChudicusMaximus Sim Park is from 1996, zoomers are too young lol
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@michaelsorensen7567 Just piling on top of that comment, boy did the point go over your head.
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Russia is getting aid from Iran and North Korea.
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Patricia Stewart savage
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They weren't goaded into anything. We were willing to overlook so much of their BS it's not even funny.
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The government doesn't give freedoms... Freedoms are born with you, and then the government takes some away. The consitution doesn't exist to give freedoms, it exists to try and prevent the government from taking them away...
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@perhapsyes2493 A few years ago an article was published about it but in Swedish, I think. It was about male idle thought, and when women ask us what we're thinking of we'll just say "uh, nothing" but the author realized we're actually absorbed in our thoughts. This went mostly unnoticed by the English speaking internet but another woman picked it back up and wrote "ask your husband/boyfriend how often he thinks about the Roman Empire" and all the women and girls followed the trend and realized it was a common thing.
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@samsonsoturian6013 That's not even remotely true. There's pretty violent fighting in the Zaporizhzhia front and towards the Kramatorsk-Sloviansk line.
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Cope. They don't have the forces to commit to an engagement with NATO.
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If the problem is automation then more and more people will have the "barely enough". Funny how half of the posts defending UBI almost seem to have contempt for the poor while the other half screams about how we'll all be poor one day.
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And guess what? Missile strikes slowed down to let manufacturing keep up. Easing pressure on the enemy gives him breathing room.
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@Silentheaven89 the Russians said it: they accidently released the news articles celebrating victory on the third day. Russian officers rented Airbnbs in Kyiv for late Feb 2022. Why do that if they expected to take years?
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That happened in Portugal, a hacker got hold of a bunch of documents proving corruption in sports, but instead of immediately going to the authorities or investigative journalists he tried to blackmail the people involved. Doing the moral thing does not pay the bills.
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@rajaydon1893 they use Ka-52s because the Vikhr missile outranges MANPADS by a few miles. This is a problem because we have MANPADS and missile defenses like the Patriot, but not something like the Buk. Which is why they're trying to mate the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow to Ukrainian Buks.
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@jaythomas3224 There's footage of HIMARS from this week and the last. You haven't heard because you only check out Russian sources. But the videos are out.
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+Christopher Montemayor you're just being insufferable for no reason. Cohen used the "documentary" cover story in a large percentage of his pranks. "So he identified Sacha Baron Cohen and STILL wasn't aware it was a prank??" --- Did you watch the same video? He noticed it was a prank when he recognized the guy from Borat. Cohen immediately left the premises. There was no prank as soon as he was identified. "is your friend Sweidan?" --- Really? Kindergarter insults? Calling people "friends"? "Your premise that Cohen (ahem) stopped being "newsworthy" at some unspecified point in the last few years" --- Wrong. My premise is that a failed prank isn't newsworthy until the successful ones are released. "But if your argument is that makes SBC some kind of anonymous D-lister" --- It literally isnt'. "then why does he have to HIDE HIS IDENTITY?" --- Not my argument but I'll bite. Cohen has a house in Los Angeles if I'm not mistaken, American residence would entitle him to gun rights. It wouldn't make the gunshop look bad to sell a gun to a legitimate American resident who just happens to be British-born. "Congratulations on (so succinctly!) explaining what a publicity sport is. :D :D" --- Don't you mean STUNT? There's no results for "publicity sport", nobody uses that expression.
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@gandalfstormcloud7514 watch Youtube's Biggest Lie by Nerdcity. They demonetize LGBT content and have forced those creators to use codewords so that they don't say the "bad" words that get them demonetized. You don't see them complaning because... We don't watch that type of content. I had heard of complaints but only saw how bad it is thanks to the testing done by Nerdcity.
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@rightiswrongrightiswrong806 "The Donbas is taken" - now try to hold it.
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@rightiswrongrightiswrong806 I should have known you can't argue worth a damn, you're just a Ru talking points spammer. It's either funny to you because you're a contrarian, or you actually do it to demoralize Ukraine's allies.
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@K yeah, and have you noticed how policemen have become armed thugs who kill at a drop of a hat with near impunity?
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When you wait for the elderly to expire, the oldest in the working class become elderly too.
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Not really. Six were lost in Iraq. They can be brought down with a single hit from a missile.
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200k takes out a 2-4 million dollar tank, plus trained crew. The issue is that they seem to be firing them left and right and running out of them.
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Yes the government should use their police force to restrict more freedoms. Get everyone used to being stopped by cops and being forced to provide papers to justify their travel.
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That's not the point. He isn't making the argument that guns are just like knives, he's saying that the assumptions made by the ATF were completely outlandish.
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Increase in demand will surge prices if there's no increase in supply.
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Russia should have respected Ukraine's sphere of influence and not engaged in CSTO expansion.
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Never compare yourself against the worst. When you fail a class you don't tell your parents the special ed kids are worse. Pointing fingers at Monopoly Go to distract us from CIG's predatory tactics is a dirty move.
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The Financial Report That Killed Escape From Tarkov
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@Lora_Lynn the Chechens are a national guard unit that's used to intimidate those who oppose Kadyrov. They don't have a large tank force or heavy weapons. It would be like collecting all the small town SWAT officers in America and sending them to fight a real war without armor, artillery and aviation.
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 @locke03 Aerial combat is extremely messy with just a few dozen aircraft from both sides. If a drone swarm needs dozens, to do the job of a single aircraft, yeah that's gonna be a nightmare.
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"this started off all those years ago as a 13 man team" - Which promised a 2014 release. They made their bed and need to lie on it. You don't get to make excuses after the fact. They lied. "Even currently they have significantly less people working on this game as the likes of Rockstar do on their projects" - Probably because of not-so-great talent retention, and few people willing to fill the spots they're hiring for because of their reputation. "From there as more backers invested into it the games scope continued to grow" - Which is a bad thing. "So the complete game could have been finished many years ago" - This is a complete lie, they couldn't have done it. For example, the game simply could not have worked on the CryENGINE. It wasn't the little extra details that slowed the development down. The CORE of the game couldn't be made to work with the original engine and they had to change it for Amazon's Lumberyard. "when you have hundreds of millions getting added into it, it has to be an incredible game and meet the expectations of what a $300m dollar game should be" - That's complete revisionism - Chris Roberts actually said that the more money they got, the faster the game would be finished. And the bonus content would be added post-release. You're saying it's the people's fault the game got bloated and denying the responsibility of the devs.
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 @Rage_Harder_Then_Relax He did. Donovan just ignored it.
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The wages and bonuses can't be higher than revenue unless someone has found the cheat code (fraud).
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@kaboonali5466 Torture is when your decades of chain smoking catches up with you.
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My girlfriend's first job was a startup and she spent her first couple of months reading the required literature. Your rationalization for arcades attracting talent and coffee machines looking professional has to be the worst I ever heard.
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I talked to someone in Ukraine who fought in the early days as part of the defense militia. He's not mobilized because the AFU wants to have more professional soldiers rather than more conscripts.
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@benjauron5873 A true gun nut would know that even combat arms don't get that much trigger time. The National Guard sniper team sometimes beats the Army and Marine sniper teams simply because they have more time to dedicate themselves to their passion.
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@klauskinski5969 "essentially brings nothing" - False. The capture of the Kupiansk rail hub completely exposes Severodonetsk. The defense of Luhansk oblast is now exposed. The Kharkiv offensive is the yanking of the thread that will long term cause the unravelling of Russian defenses. "leave advantage defensive positions to be open slaugthered during a offensive" - What offensive? Offensives are harder than defense. Ukraine just proved they could punch where the defense is weakest and start slashing at the soft belly of rear echelon troops. If Russia doesn't have the forces to defend, how will they mount a better offensive? "for some sqm of territory that russia takes back in a couple of weeks or months" - That's the problem. Russia lost thousands of men capturing that square footage over months. Ukraine gains it back in 3-4 days. This war is lopsided when Russia's achievements are all undone in spectacular fashion.
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 @iraqiwalker1436 Russia literally ran Bernie Sanders campaign ads and BLM pages.
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The point is to fight where the enemy is weak. If a fighter keeps his hands up you start dealing blows to the body. The body shots will either weather down the opponent or force him to drop his hands. It's his choice. The point is meaningless, the objective is to fight effectively and if the opponent has a weak spot you keep hitting.
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@kostaverle3551 Their opinions of the West/US notwithstanding, they still come live here. They may hate us, but they still come.
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@UglyTruth_UglyTruth "Force Walmart and Amazon to have union instead of having the government step in." "Force Walmart and Amazon to have union" "instead of having the government step in." "Force Walmart and Amazon" "Force" "instead of having the government step in." And how... how exactly are you planning to force companies to do something... without the government stepping in...?
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Being a smelly loser isn't cool.
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@tedmoss Missing the point. You can hook up an ICE car to a Harbor Freight lawnmower engine (it was actually done, it's on youtube and the car has almost no power but it works). An electric motor should be even easier to replace with a generic motor made by anyone. Which is useful if the original motor design is no longer made. Now the pinned comment says the story could be the dealership BS'ing but you can't work around the fact that a motor made to be irreplaceable unless the manufacturer gives you the magic code that authorizes the repair is insane.
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@mrmagoo-i2l Why would an intelligence agency want her dead? The powers that be want us divided.
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Oh no I'm not opposed to black markets or groups that choose to take part in it. But gangs become governments, they resort to violence and intimidation to control territory and hold a monopoly.
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The conspiracy is that the millimeter wave causes heating of the sweat glands, and the localized heating of the cells causes the degradation of DNA. This is a slightly smarter conspiracy.
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@michaelsteffensen6844 murder laws exist to punish the act of murdering. I don't think owning guns is worthy of punishment.
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@bloodyidit4506 No need to get this touchy about Gavin's habits.
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 @theotherohlourdespadua1131 The 1st Guards Tank Army was in Ukraine. The tank force that defends Moscow.
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I've wrapped my head around this question for over a decade, and I've come to think not that many people are involved in the grand scheme of things, many genuinely enjoy the line of work and wouldn't be much use elsewhere, and peaceful research is aided by military research anyway.
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Kherson is the city and the oblast. Ukrainian troops are inside the district but not in the city. They're not going to assault the city head on.
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The UN conspiracy is older than the viewers of this channel at this point. Several years waiting, the blue helmets never materialized.
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The issue with alternatives, is that if you need to look up a tutorial on how to do something, you'll check it out on youtube. As a platform, youtube has a massive backlog that keeps pulling people back.
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@eKko0 I know this is a difficult concept to understand, because every criminal thinks the law shouldn't apply to them, but when the real criminals do whatever they want and the police comes after people who are doing no wrong, the law is absolutely meaningless. Appealing to the unjust law to formulate a legalese argument goes against the principles of justice and fairness. The sad reality is that when tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a moral duty. We should not comply, for they do not have enough manpower or cells to arrest us.
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"actually thinking extensively is not a requirement to playing LOL or CS etc." - couldn't give less of a shit about LOL but if you're playing CS like you mean it there's an economic metagame running underneath the surface. You can throw spoiler rounds where your team's objective is getting the enemy team to spend their resources on valuable weapons while your team saves their money, and instead of strictly trying to win the round your team can just try to cause as many casualties as possible to the enemy so that they lose their weapons.
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@maeton-gaming "Hello fellow Westerners I am Joe Burger from Los Angeleski Oblast. Russia are the good guys, follow Incel Slava Z."
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@atomicskull6405 the USAF did not cancel it. Lyndon Johnson having ties to Bell probably did a lot more to get it canceled than the USAF, which had already agreed to not influence rotary wing purchases. Plus the courts determined that there was no overlap of capabilities between the A-10 and the Cheyenne.
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@WillCarter1976 I don't know how to even start. Literally everything you said is incorrect. Strategic bombing has given way to precision strikes. Air power is absolute murder on the modern field. What about that engagement a couple years ago in which like 30-40 special operations in Syria killed 80 Russian mercenaries and 200 Syrian fighters or whatever without suffering a single fatality simply because they had air support? This was also seen in the last century, for example the Rhodesians with very few people killed 2000 insurgents simply because they had a bird in the air dishing it out. In 1991 Desert Storm was decided by air power. The Navy's power projection comes from the aircraft carrier. How is the air force fighting irrelevance when the main fighting power of the Navy is aircraft? Cruise missiles alone can't do the job.
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The East has supply lines to Russia and there's positions established there since 2014.
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@settame1 "Most British people do not distain freedom" - If that was true things would be different. I think the dick measuring is unnecessary at this point, we all need to admit that most people in our own nations have sold us out.
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It was a 6.5mm round. Mandela effect spooky noises
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@woodenfloor3131 Economics of scale only means that a company is so efficient they can undercut everyone else. If they're priced at a level nobody can get the same thing to you cheaper, they're not really taking advantage of a "monopoly". If a competitor can't get the same thing to you for a cheaper price, they might get you a slightly worse thing. At that point you be the judge, are you willing to deal with the inferior product to save some money and keep a company alive? And again the natural barrier means one company has the distribution to get things to you as cheap as possible. Is that bad? If you're getting fleeced, someone's going to get through the natural barrier for you and get you a better deal.
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He only postured to join NATO after Russia put troops on the border. What about Ukraine's security?
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 @AlexLee-dc2vb Range.
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@itscaz3749 bro the engineering analysis essentially proves that the canister was planted and not dropped from an aircraft.
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I put them on Hawk Tuah coin and got sucked dry...😔
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It's not really secret, NATO inherited many MiGs and Sukhois when former Warsaw Pact nations joined.
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@G4x5da The Bradley is great. In Desert Storm two Bradleys came face to face with T-72s with the defensive advantage and smoked 5 before helped arrived.
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You do realize that Iran sells Shahed drones to Russia and later allowed licensed production in Russia (Geran-2), right?
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I'm still laughing. The tank being "used properly" is less efficient that proper SPGs due to accuracy, range and barrel life concerns, while being too vulnerable to cheap FPV RPG-7s. Please. I wish all Russian SPGs could be magically turned into T-62s. I'd laugh so much harder.
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@londonberry2180 And my point is, your argument for conscription still doesn't work. Civilians in the US shoot more than probably all armies combined. Want a populace with shooting experience? The military isn't where they get it.
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@joaovitorino662 The US welfare state is pretty expansive. More is spent on it than on the military.
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@argon7479 How does money make school enjoyable? I will need an explanation for that. Unless you're actually paying students to get good grades I don't see it happening. People are going 50k into debt because they've been convinced everyone needs a degree, and with everyone getting a degree good luck getting a job that doesn't need a degree without a degree because everyone has one, so demand for degrees is overinflated but there's no incentive to increase the supply. Hmmm, funny how that works. Let's also not question that the institutions selling these degrees have an incentive to sell useless degrees that have no job prospects except academia, and trapping people in the cycle. What exactly do you need to be cheaper to transport? There's stuff that costs literal cents that had to travel across the world. So your solution is give money to the people who make the money. Okay, that is the literal strawman of "trickle down economics". Define "most economists". Plenty of economists are Austrians, Keynesians, neo-Keynesians, etc. MMT is just a new trend that even neo-Keynesians twist their nose at. Who's "they"? People who have an incentive to being in the Party? To be in control? Meanwhile everyone else outside the castle is telling them its a bad idea. And they've been saying it since 2010? That's not a good endorsement!
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@BLAKKKPOWERR The other way around. Operational costs may lower as a whole (because there's less aircraft available) but per aircraft they increase. The more aircraft your fleet has, the economies of scale lower the cost per aircraft. The smaller the fleet, the higher the costs per aircraft.
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@fahoodie1852 When you essentially argue to just give Hamas the win condition by default, you're tacitly supporting them. Until you step up to the plate and show us how it's done, empty platitudes have to fall on deaf ears.
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@chartreux1532 I'm not acting like people 100 years ago, because I can read what others are saying, I can talk to them. I judge them based on actual interaction. And perhaps 90% of those interactions make it clear - they're beyond saving.
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@alexanderseferinkyn4568 Effectiveness is a meaningless standard. Efficiency should be used instead. You have resources. If you spend them all on a town nobody knows the name of, what do you have left? It's in Ukraine's interest to preserve forces to maintain long term objectives while Russia focuses on the short term.
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@kylek7523 the Iraqi forces fought with tenacity and had to be thoroughly defeated or overwhelmed. The Russian forces seem to be broken. Have you seen how many committed suicide in the battlefield?
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False. They shot at completely random ships. They were heading to unrelated countries, I remember one if the first to be attacked was headed to Italy. Then they shot at a US Navy helicopter, which returned fire with Hellfire missiles. The Houthis were performing indiscriminate attacks from the start and they engaged US military assets first.
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@qapplor China indeed bad. They were warned two years prior that a leak would happen in that lab unless they improved security.
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A dogfight is like throwing away a rifle in combat and using the bayonet. If you have the AMRAAM, just shoot it. There's no points for style, preserving the life of the pilot and the airframe is a big priority.
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What devastating defeat? The Taliban were pretty much hunted for sport and then the US left.
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DementedDoom they don't let us? I thought this was America!
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Yeah the capitalism where checks notes the governent keeps bumping copyright sunset limits.
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@alexdevcamp I couldn't give the least amount of sh1ts about the libs. I'm endangering myself because I don't want to live in a world where every store you enter needs a phone app QR code scan. I would literally rather die than continue this BS. The world you're defending is a world where I don't want to live in.
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@awesomecooly123 I think the EE video was fair as he gave "worst case" scenarios.
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@swedhgemoni8092 It's a drone. A pilot inside wouldn't be fooled by spoofing.
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There's dual stack 1911s. It's not that 45 is too wide, it's that the 1911 has a metal frame around the mag and then requires plastic or wood grips around the metal which makes it very thick. 2011-style raceguns work around that by having a frame without a grip/magwell, and you bolt a separate grip/magwell piece to the frame. Instead of having to wrap your hand around a grip/magwell/magazine/magwell/grip combo you only have grip/magazine/grip.
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@michaelholts1598 boojahideen must liberate kalifornistan from the commie invaders
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@Foolish188 "It was hard to be a supporter of John McCain" - John McCain was a horrible human being and his brain tumor should have got the Nobel Peace Prize. "It was hard to take personal responsibility and wear masks and vote for Trump" - There's no personal responsibility in wearing a talisman that was promoted to make people feel safe. "If Trump had gotten away from his Racist views and led a BLM March" - So Trump would have to lead a march of trained Marxists who wouldn't want him there anyway, and then burn down the businesses of people that make up his own support base? "Reagan, Bush, Bush" - The guy who banned machine guns and two crooks. Solid choices. Do you know where you are?
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Those are two extremes. Luxottica is known for owning most sunglasses brands so they cornered a market. The ten dollar sunglasses may feel equally nice to the touch, but I'd probably want to test the UV rating of the lenses.
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@paulthiessen6444 in urban combat they're dropping entire buildings with glide bombs. Why would you breach a door with a shotgun? The guy with the PK on the other side will just aim and the wall and fire through the concrete.
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@CrotchRocket78 False. 9Gs for the Air Force, 8Gs for the Navy and 7.5Gs for the USMC.
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@HarryBalzak The DU core is encased in metal in the 30mm API round and the 25mm AP round is encased in a plastic sabot and windscreen. It would be like getting contaminated by the box on a smoke detector.
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@spackle9999 It's not me saying it, the St. Louis plant was going to close if Boeing didn't get more fighter orders. Not losing production capability is a hundred times more important than the justifications they can come up with.
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Not even Keynesians like MMT.
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That doesn't even make sense.
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+Sam Kimmins how much did the Bantu people pay the KhoiSan natives for taking over South Africa?
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@justyoureverydaypig3716 "the military should be able to be used against actual enemies of state who also are part of the people" - I don't agree with what you said so I have reported you to the government, which has considered you an enemy of the state. Drone strike incoming in 3, 2, 1....
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Source? You made it tf up?
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Underrated comment.
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Vast majority of countries in the world can't afford to replace Europe or deal with uninsured Russian tankers.
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@pepre7594 you don't have to be a well known person, you just have to be a person. Your identity can be used to make money before any foul play is found out. The people doing identity theft will then move on to a new identity.
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@ravenknight4876 Lack of resources and technical expertise is relevant to the discussion. They're the best, and yet loitering drones have proven to work against them in Armenia and strikes against Syrian facilities by B-1Bs got through without a single aircraft downed. No, it just means that Russian systems are not as good ad advertised. When they don't work, people blame export monkey models and poorly trained crews. When Russian equipment manned by Russian crews fails, there's no excuse anymore. Talk about missing the point. It's not about the helicopter holy crap if all you can derive from this conversation is that helicopter borne EW is the tactic to be employed you're seriously missing the point. OH DUDE REKT. Stop being a child.
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It's not hunting, it's pest extermination. Hogs will destroy crops and fences won't keep them out.
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@akita2438 I don't know if the redesign had a problem because it seems the issue was somewhere else, in the tubing. I'm not up to speed with the investigation and what caused the tubing to get damaged. There's no "oversight" per se, if you have too much exposed metal skin it stops being a stealth aircraft. The fact is that when non-stealth aircraft are pitted against stealth in exercises they get the floor wiped with them. There's just too much at stake to prioritize lighting protection when the aircraft can be repaired if hit by lighting, but there's no repair if they get split in half by a missile.
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@marymarlow3646 General Arma-getting-outta-here has exactly what to prove his worth? It's the third General with a "badass" nickname they've had. The first attack was optimistic, but Ukraine did not have proper defenses set up. This time they'll walk straight into the X.
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Why? The MiG-31 has the engines and the radar for scoring those kills. Why would the Su-57 have the record?
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Not the same ship. It's not the same class although the construction is similar. Photos of them side by side show the differences.
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MeltonCrest your search history matters but there are ads that just get directed to everyone. I get Russian girls dating websites on YouTube but I don't use dating websites nor search about Russian women. Some websites play me ads for these scantily clad women anime games but I don't consume anime or manga, everyone gets these ads because the developers just paid the website to show people the ads, targeting be damned. When I get targeted ads it actually shows travel, cars, power tools, etc because those are related to my browsing history.
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@lucagerulat307 There's also a Ukrainian unit called Khorne Group, there's been sightings of Russians wearing BEAR and Ukrainians USEC patches from Tarkov and the separatists have a unit called Sparta Battalion after Metro 2033.
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The F-5 was an extremely weak fighter that the US exported to nations they didn't want to send high tech to.
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Meh, the "right side of history" will change. In the year 3000 they'll look at you like we look at medieval culture and values today.
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It's mostly the sugar.
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Don't see how that's related to the CCP and the financial structures holding up their rise through the ranks.
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Just as the Military Industrial Complex intended.
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 @monty2654 a lot of fighters prior to the F-35 had horrible accidents and tragic fatalities. Flying was always a dangerous game. The F-35 is comparatively safe.
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Bunker in New Zealand.
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@sinoroman "Russia would have attacked earlier" - Russia tends to attack when fossil fuel prices are high "Georgia doesn’t have much yet Russia went in" - Georgia was going to have a pipeline built from Azerbaijan to Turkey.
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@shannonkohl68 It's not pointless. It's avoiding giving out free battle damage assessment but on an electronic environment. Never show your enemy you're being hurt.
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Clearly you've never met a brass goblin. Some wet tumbling and a run through a roll sizing die restores most shells.
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Western GPS guidance is actually INS with GPS updates. Jamming only makes them use INS which is why you still see HIMARS makings good hits. Consumer grade drones do get jammed which forces recon to use landmarks for navigation but the weapons are jam resistant by ignoring the GPS system and defaulting to internal guidance.
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Ukrainian troops themselves are saying the Bradley is superior to Soviet IFVs. They speak of surviving deadly anti-tank missile attacks that would have killed them in BMPs/BTRs and will never ride in a Soviet IFV again. Seems like Western tech is indeed superior. Ukrainian troops live to fight another day despite the vehicles being hit, Russian troops don't because their vehicles don't prioritize crew survival.
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@Fyre0 The money supply massively increased since 2020 to pay for all the stuff while the economy ground to a halt. That's inflation. An expansion in money supply. Prices increasing is the "hidden tax" on expansion of money supply, as the more money there is without a corresponding expansion of goods, the goods have to cost more to make up for the excess money. If you're a fan of modern monetary theory, the way to think about this is the government issues more money through a central bank to pay for everything, but tax rates increase to remove excess money from circulation. If you don't increase taxes significantly the demand for goods outpaces denand for money which causes money to lose value.
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@TheBrickMasterB The other side spent months destroying innocent people's businesses and I said all the time that if they wanted to damage anything they should have taken out their frustrations with the government.
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Several people called out TYT but that fat fuck Cenk babbles about haters and uses Ana Kasparian as a shield.
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I mean that Yaniv guy also had the entire internet with receipts of him trying to initiate contact with children but the Canadian authorities only acted when he pulled out a taser during a live stream... I don't think they'd do much about ZQ.
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@matchesburn The 27mm AP round for the Mauser cannon (such as the one in the Eurofighter) has a segmented tungsten alloy core. Considering that the 30mm DU round has been retired and only brought back for use against ISIS, it's pretty good.
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@Napominis Recently Der Spiegel revealed that in a region in Germany they claimed 90% of hospitalizations were from the unspiked... The problem is, 70% of the hospitalizations were of unknown status, and they simply put them up as "unspiked". Because those who are truthful need to obfuscate, right? I'm sorry but at this point if the mainstream media even managed to find one case of officials lying... they're all lying. Sorry. I just can't do this. Whoever put forth that data about Ontario is more likely to be among the liars and I can't believe them.
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@debradebra2011 Debra, you do realize paused, aimed fire is deadlier than spraying rounds into the floor, walls, celings, etc?
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 @MaximumEfficiency So, saying the truth?
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@Shadoweclipse1386 The kind of bomb is somewhat irrelevant, H-bombs having a higher yield also means there's a greater area where duck and cover will save people. Duck & cover was developed in part by interviewing Nagasaki and Hiroshima survivors. There were survivors close to the epicenter because their building was sturdy and they covered under desks. If you can survive a few hundred yards from the epicenter of an A-bomb, you can use duck & cover a few miles away from an H-bomb.
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"Stanislav! The Americans have launched, we must tell the Kremlin!" "No." "But the computer...? The science...?" "Nothing ever happens."
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+Anders Mårtensson but the point is apples to apples comparisons. If intel can have an aftermarket cooler why not give AMD an AIO water cooler? Either take thermal throttling out of the equation by giving both parts more cooling than they need, or throttle the Intel by giving it a 20 dollar downdraft cooler.
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@boxtears The J-20, F-22 and Su-57 are all similar but distinct. This one is much closer. If anything it proves F-35 naysayers wrong, someone else did all the math and arrived at roughly the same shape.
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 @demonofheavn We've seen the other side of the moon. It's perfectly possible for a shadow to be smaller than the object.
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@СаваСтанковић-с7к "it seems like the disparity would render the exercise moot." - The disparity actually makes the exercise a better learning experience. An even fight would make the differences too subtle to notice. "How much could a yellow-belt learn from a black-belt in a serious all-in match?" - Well, people don't get shot with real bullets in these exercises, so it's not "all out". An "all out match" between a novice and a black belt would end in a concussion. But sparring is perfectly fine. "And if the black-belt were to hold back, then it wouldn't be a mutual exercise" - In martial arts you hold back. What would be the point of getting concussed several times a week? or getting limbs pulled out of their socket?
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@mycelia_ow The vast majority of evidence shows Oswald acted alone. He was seen by others as unreliable. Even the Soviet Union thought he was useless. The rifle used was one of the cheapest Oswald could buy, and he paid for it. If he wasn't working alone, a better rifle would have been provided to him.
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Carlin would have severe TDS.
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This isn't an airport, no need to announce your departure.
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Eric Lytle seems like this video is more successful than anything you've ever done so you're throwing rocks at it.
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@pirig-gal When the news broke in 2008 that Russia had invaded Georgia, it was interesting to see people's reactions.
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Jammed GMLRS rockets just default to INS guidance, which adds a few meters to the CEP. Jamming may be no problem, but the thousands of tungsten balls are.
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 @thehappyclam3942 I support Tucker's right to free speech. I also support my right to call him out for lies or conspiratorial reasoning.
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@BertoxolusThePuzzled The merc community in Russia already admitted that Wagner would need to recruit another 30-40k or else they'd never recover. So... what happened to the previous 30k?
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Russia's requirements were for Ukraine to essentially disband their army. You can't negotiate with a robber who denands you to remove the locks from your doors.
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"Free" healthcare isn't free but that's a whole conversation in itself. This channel was supposed to be pro capitalism but is advocating for giving welfare to another country lmao.
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@w_stew8912 The thing that usually defines "domestic" is the source of the bolts, trunnions, etc. If you buy kits from abroad (essentially made on equipment that dates back to the Cold War) and manufacture the receiver and barrel in the US, people usually refer to them by country of origin. What people call "true" domestic AKs essentially had to start from scratch rather than just refurbish Soviet equipment. This lead to issues due to early attempts with cast trunnions/bolts as domestic producers did not want to invest in forging. There were also US made milled trunnions and receivers but those were on the expensive side back then. Jim Fuller used those, if I'm remembering correctly.
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@Invizive It's a metaphor, don't read that deep into it. You either live as a rat or your last moments will get caught on camera taking a bullet in the neck like that woman this 6th. If you want dignity, go out like a Sky King. Because there's none to be had any other way.
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@Oldsmobility98 The definition of air superiority is the suppression of the enemy air force threat. It has nothing to do with sorties. If you fly from Rostov to Belgorod that's a sortie. It means nothing.
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@AugustusOmega Why would anyone want Rubles? Currencies are pitted against each other. If the dollar was harder to earn you'd see that reflected in trade value. All currencies take the same to earn for an equivalent value.
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+Hector Diaz but alcohol isn't culture. I can't take a big swig out of a 40oz and become infused with the culture of gangsta rap and start doing drivebys or drink a bottle of Californian red wine and start committing vehicular manslaughter like middle aged white women. The comparison is fucked from the beginning, because independently of the culture or toxicology report people are liable for the crimes they commit. You can't argue that alcohol made you do it/gangsta rap made you do it in court and expect the judge to put alcohol or culture on trial while you get off with a slap in the wrist. "Never mentioned video games." --- blaming things on a discussion about videogames. HHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMM thinking emoji "You've never copied your favorite movie/cartoon as a kid?" --- Bruh are you comparing playing cowboys and indians or drawing guns in pieces of paper to murdering? Hell yeah I replicated things - in a safe environment.
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Right but your car consumes more fuel than lubricant (I hope). It's a baseball bat to the knee in terms of profits. Demand for lubricant won't increase to make up for fuel.
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Tochka-Us have a 50% chance of missing by over 100 meters. Those impacts hit precisely where the munitions storage spots where.
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@ForOne814 Doctrine of what? You claimed red dot sights do not work past 100 yards, but the US issued them despite the rifle having an effective range of 400 meters. How is it "doctrine" that makes sights that do not work, work?
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If someone dies, surgery can't fix it. Liability isn't enough. Paying a settlement doesn't bring people back, and the money comes from the public anyway.
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 @CyrilSneer123 There's already pictures of 170mm North Korean artillery, when the Russian army doesn't use 170mm.
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 @dirkbastiaandejong997 The flares story was not corroborated by the pilots.
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Telling emos to grow a moustache will only lead to them looking like Anthony Kiedis.
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@icenine135 No, they aren't in business. They ceased to exist.
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@verdigo1482 "An A-10 can take hits from SAMs and keep on trucking the F-35 cannot" - maybe you're thinking of MANPADS. Typically when people talk about SAMs they're talking about something bigger. You ain't shrugging off a SAM hit.
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@spacecadet35 "the other side is not sitting still" - oh, so the other side is breaking the laws of physics now? The way radar emissions work have not changed in the last 15 billion years let alone the last 27. "they have radars specifically designed to detect and shoot down aircraft like the F35" - by that logic we should stop flying airplanes because if they can out F-35s, then every single aircraft in existence needs to be grounded due to the danger "Considering how much they have sacrificed for their stealth" - tell the rest of the class, what did they sacrifice?
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@jarno_de_wit ham is not kosher 🤔
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That just means everyone from the crowdfunding to the terms of service change was scammed. They went around saying "just around the corner, guys" and promised several release dates that they missed. Someone who buys the alpha today is getting a different deal. The current alpha was built off the original backers.
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@Verminator4 the fuselage shape is driven by the internal weapons bay, not the lift fan. Supermaneuverability is a meme. Looks great at the air show, it's suicidal in combat. Purposefully stalling your plane is a desperate maneuver.
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I'm constantly baffled by people suggesting the Gripen for Canada when the biggest concern cited against the F-35 is the single engine and range.
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@hirondelle8734 All gun safety violations are non-issues. Until the day they become an issue. And someone dies.
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+GregTom2 your ignorance of history is appalling. The war wasn't to end slavery, abolitionism grew during the Civil War but did not provoke it. The war was to prevent the Southern states from seceding. You may not know this but Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware were states that allowed slavery but aligned themselves with the Union. And the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to territories under Union control. Do not get me wrong, the Confederacy fought for slavery. But the Civil War wasn't meant to end it. >"and if the confederate rebels had not had access to armement" The Confederacy was composed of states with full blown military forces. They had the monopoly on their own armed forces. Jesus Christ stop spreading your BS.
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***** So you're telling me that for example Richard C Blum, husband of Sen Feinstein, was never benefitted by his wife's activities? You're seriously implying that just because nobody got shitcanned for it, then Lockheed doesn't have their people in congress? Why buy watchdogs? You can look up every conflict of interest for yourself, they're being reported on, everyone is just too busy keeping up with the Kardashians.
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@chrisreynolds6143 I think it did.
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>"The thing about neoliberalism is that is neither new," Like the fucking "neo" prefix isn't used to refer to resurgences of a pre-existing movement, or anything. Noam Chomsky = BTFO
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+JewTube the greatest reduction of poverty in world history happened when they started manufacturing everything for the rest of the world. Free trade. Not Maoism.
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+Lassi Kinnunen you can't do anything but shoot to kill. If you fire a gun - a lethal weapon - without the intention of killing then you're admitting that you had no reason to use the gun in the first place. Firing a gun at someone without the intention to kill is like setting a house on fire without the intention to burn it down. If you fire a gun as a non-lethal option that makes you even more willing to use the gun as first resort - and then the person bleeds out on the ground because you fucking shot the suspect and people DIE when they get shot and you have to tell the department that you didn't mean to kill the suspect who turned out to be an innocent gamer. Good luck in court.
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And the more of something there is, what happens to it's value? Let me put it in another way, if out of a sudden we found a literal gold mine that contained as much gold as we have ever extracted up to this point, what would happen to gold's value? The price of gold would drop sharply. By virtue of increased competition in the housing market, prices would be forced down. Meanwhile, the government trying to keep housing affordable with rent controls actually pushes property owners into more profitable uses of that property than housing, meaning that not only there's less housing left available, it will also not be affordable ones that will be available.
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ITmage Okay, feel free to go away and watch something else. I didn't know that calling out the flaws in a motor vehicle is lack of education because someone may have owned the vehicle and for some reason it's a personal insult to them. But man, you must have a life that's hard to live if you get that easily offended.
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The Lone Voice I know someone already said it, but he used a shotgun. Look, by your logic all a shooter needs is taking two guns to shoot anyone charging him during a reload. Or tape two magazines together. Or weld two magazines into a bigger one. It's a freaking box, a baseplate, follower and a spring. Anyone can modify them.
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The Lone Voice Admit that it would make it more difficult? Why? If we're pitting those sickos against unarmed people, they always "win". We'll throw a celebration in the form of 24/7 media coverage and worship his image by quoting his statements, showing off his manifestos, backtracking archived footage to show that time his right hand appeared on film during a table tennis competition. Imagining that I would enter a place to shoot it up, it wouldn't make a difference which kind of weapon you gave me if the people in there were unarmed. If you gave me a musket, I'd probably use some paper and white glue to attempt to make pre-loaded shells to allow me to fire faster, fill them with buckshot to hit more people. Check out Tacome1942 on youtube, he made fake shells for his paper shotgun, with the proper diameter those could be easily shoved down a musket barrel preloaded with projectiles and propellant. These guys don't "snap", they usually have a plan. How is taping two magazines together "little more difficult"? Everyone has duct tape. http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=332164 Look, a guy made a longer magazine for his bolt action rifle. Think people can't cut the bottom off a mag and weld some plates to extend it? Or maybe a spare mag, if looks are a concern.
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+ranerk inasa And they claimed responsibility for it in an official statement? Because if one guy at Lufthansa crashed a plane and killed a bunch of people doesn't make Lufthansa a terrorist organization unless they actively supported the actions.
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Dylan Zrim by that logic nobody makes supercars anymore. There's regulations, lawsuits, etc so even supercars have a ton of safety features.
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+Astfgl it's not ridiculous in a car because cars are mobile and unplugged from any external power source. Gasoline, LPG, diesel etc have greater energy density than stuff like hydrogen (hydrogen molecule is H2, gasoline is C8H18). Even if you compress hydrogen to liquid (which in itself is a whole new problem) the gasoline still carries more energy in the tank. It's not ridiculous because you have to understand that batteries were terrible for storing energy in a vehicle. Look at electric airplanes, they had to be super lightweight flying wings with solar panels on top. The first electric ducted fan aircraft which was more or less conventional only flew a few years ago.
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+Fierce Outlier statistically speaking, citizens owning very few guns has fuck-all to do with the amount of criminal shootings that happen in Mexico, Brazil, etc.
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+ben borg at any point in time, about a quarter of American citizens have a mental illness - which may just be a case of depression or anxiety. All the government would have to do, if you had your way, was overdiagnose people and in a few years they'd have prohibited most Americans from owning guns because they were diagnosed with a mental illness.
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Damion jackson People who customize their cars, people who learn how to cover songs in their guitar, etc aren't benefiting society in any way either. People don't have a moral obligation to choose ways to spend their time that benefit society, and the vast majority of times they won't. You must be severely mistaken about American history. They had just fought a government. Why would they want the militia to answer to the government when they were the rebels and King George III was the government? And what do corporations do? They control the government. Corporations cannot do anything, it's the the government that writes and enforces the legislation they want. What do you want, an armed assault into Monsanto's offices? Surely even you can notice the problem of directing violence against other private citizens rather than the actual tyrants.
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The Green Man Actually, turning a blind eye solves the issue. If you stop caring about drug dealers, their profession becomes less demanding and less risky. They will need to either increase the quality of the drugs or reduce prices, both options will make drug dealing so unprofitable there's no point in shooting anyone over the drugs. Remember how crime peaked after the Prohibition? If we focus on drugs as a health issue instead of a criminal issue we'll have less addicts, less people out there with a felony record who can't get a job and resort to crime, etc.
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Du Hast
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You're not going to mention the bridge pier attacked in the river that the Russians claim to be a barge?
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Meh, Kremlintarians are a thing. The "anti-war" libertarians simp for anyone that the US has beef with.
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The individual can exist, there have been people who survived on their own for many years. The collective allows for specialization and division of labour which makes survival easier, but it's still a collection of individuals.
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Because their breach of contract would signal the market they are unreliable. There's this legend in my country, the Romans couldn't conquer Lusitania because of a great warrior king called Viriato. Since they could not win, they put a bounty on his head, people close to Viriato murdered him in his sleep. When they met the Romans to collect their prize, the Romans said "we don't deal with traitors". I'm paraphrasing and it's only a legend but it's got a good message.
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If Ukraine loses Donbass, the border dispute is resolved and Ukraine can now join NATO without breaking the rules.
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Of course a STOVL aircraft is of much use, it allows the Marines to operate off short deck carriers like they did with the Harriers and create makeshift airbases in islands. The tactical advantage of not being dependent on Navy carrier catapults cannot be overstated.
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Dark Lord Satan Europe has very weak freedom of speech. Look at the UK arresting people over jokes.
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"Revolver Ocelot" - Revolver Ocelot (Revolver Ocelot)
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Number doesn't have to reach 0 to cause a degradation of combat capabilites.
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@RedPanther2030 "muh nooks" eleven months of this sh!t
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@hotstepper887 Bunch of cope and propaganda. The Harrier was not meant for VTOL operation either, as the max takeoff weight for vertical takeoff doesn't let you carry enough fuel and weapons.
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Hornets are mostly a Navy bird. The USMC Hornets were flown off Navy carriers, while the Harrier was meant to be much closer to the troops.
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 @DIREWOLFx75 they seem to be falling into the traps. It's amazing how soldiers complain, milbloggers complain, but random youtubers got it all figured out.
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In the US? lol the entire world.
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@rider3859 You're a bot.
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 @chunchun-maru the flip flop wearers signed a peace treaty and waited until Americans left to advance
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@lacka90 No. Russian media accidentally published the article on what to do with Ukraine in the third day. The state propagandists also said three days.
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Who told you they were scrapping anything? I think 48 will be delivered next year.
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Nope. Top Secret clearance takes 6 months to a year to get. It's extremely common.
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@TheGrejp Not only are roads here in Europe just as ass as in the US, we had high taxes before the CO2 fad, and we already pay normal taxes to pay for green incentives. Also, those green incentives are all a goddamn scam. Most highways are also paid by tolls. We are not getting a proportional return on our gas taxes.
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@benr3799 Breaking an ATF ruling isn't necessarily breaking a law. There was a guy who got away with manufacturing illegal machine guns in California because he pointed at the laws on the books and claimed that according to the text, he had not made any firearms. The ATF dropped the charges because they didn't want their ruling to be struct down by a court.
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@jamescooke7243 Yes, they had as much time as they wanted. The last phase of the trial involved 48k people. This is nothing compared to how many doses were administered.
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 @robchristenson3108 If stunt cans existed they'd pay for them, easily. The fact is, he crushed the can with his thumb. It's a stunt.
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 @schmittian1313 But Russia accepts foreigners without any military experience, Ukraine rejects everyone without combat experience.
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 @BaronUnderbite Because 99.999% of people can't meet the requirements. I know people who were in Afghanistan who were rejected. They don't want people who haven't been to real war.
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@funeeeeee uuuhhhhhh you realize people have been criticizing shitty sex scenes in games for years, right? Independently of looks.
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Because a controlled crash like in 1991 is preferable to something more serious happening.
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The controversy isn't working at McDonald's. It's lying about it.
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The F-117 aerodynamics require a more complex flight control software.
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Yeah they're really gonna go Revenge of the Nerds on us. Get real.
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@deViant14 I hope he continues. You benefit from people becoming more obedient and not question anything, while I benefit from people becoming less obedient and seeing the government as an enemy rather than a master. I don't care about a grift if it benefits me, and throws a wrench into the plans of people like you.
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 @chrisseymour2848 "ancient civilizations" the current Chinese civilization is only a few decades old considering that Mao's great leap forward partially erased ancient Chinese culture
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@guspaz "Look up the Millenium Challenge 2002." - oh my god not this shit again
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 @andreisokolenko7719 Russian army soldiers were captured. Your precious Tsar said they got lost and crossed the border by accident.
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The other way around. Soviet doctrine gimped both the Russian and Ukrainian air forces, so drones have to fill in the gap. Ground based air defense has also shown itself vulnerable to weapons like ATACMS.
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Nothing trivial about propaganda.
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@JohnDoe-jp4em the point is evading defenses. Once a HGV enters the defensive sphere for terminal attack it can't just turn a degree to evade interceptors. It will miss entirely. And while a 1 degree redirection means a huge offset at distance, it does little to make the interceptor miss the predicted flight path.
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@wannabeuk Yeah, in tiny font after all the credits had rolled. After the film soundtrack is credited. Nobody watches that. You don't watch those credits. You don't actually care, you just want a reason to complain. And no, he's not passing it as his own work. At no point does the context of this video every agree with the claims made in the segments.
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 @a.j.9454 In your mind, living rent free.
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 @alicaljungberg3742 Still making you seethe after 2.5 years
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Wikipedia isn't even a "source". It links to sources.
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fastrally So when did the argument change from working conditions to wages? I've seen the liveleak videos.
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@wockyslush3038 It's dishonest advertising.
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@amberarnold8547 No. Depending where you study architecture you can get a more art oriented degree or a more engineering heavy degree. But an architect's project still needs to be verified by an engineer. Many projects have to be changed because the artistic rendering is not feasible in the real world or trying to replicate it would be too expensive. I had a professor whose engineering project changed architect halfway and the new one put a freaking skylight in an underground subway station. The engineering team said "F it, they're paying so we'll make the changes instead of trying to talk them out of it" and had to reengineer the entire thing because the architect didn't understand that opening holes in load bearing structures would require reinforcement to compensate.
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One of the original "youtuber apology videos".
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They declared Kherson and Zaporizhzhia to be theirs without actually having the oblast capitals...
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 @THERECOVERY90 old tanks have to be replaced anyway The old tanks are stripped of plastic and rubber and LITERALLY tossed into the sea to make coral reefs
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To be fair, there seems to be a pattern with countries "rich in resources" getting absolutely blasted by dwindling empires running on the service sector economy.
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Russia got pasted last winter. Winter hurt Russia more.
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Wagner, Redut, etc removed military service from their entry requirements due to manpower issues.
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Dispersed operations are somewhat fantasy. Maybe you do land and take off from different airfields but at most you keep the infrastructure to refuel. Having maintenance and rearmament as part of dispersed operations is just utopian. Operating F-16s from a single airbase would be easier than MiG-29 dispersal, especially since MiG infrastructure doesn't grow of trees and Russia isn't selling.
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@teamsdownfall9644 We're already doing that by flying Rivet Joints and providing satellite intel. We point, they shoot.
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22 years ago China needed to be in good terms with us because of all the western money coming in. Now that we need Chinese money they yank the chain.
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WWII had huge air battles not possible to conduct in the jet age. The number of available targets was higher.
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@johngalt2506 He confused him for his son Trudeau, Canada's PM.
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HARM ranges are against ground targets. Flying bodies trade altitude for speed so a target on the ground requires less energy to hit. To hit an airborne target at long range a missile has to fly upwards while it has rocket thrust so it can coast in thinner air and then slightly dive on the target.
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@ablobofslime4612 Nah. If I bully you, you can choose to ignore what I say, you can choose to block me, you have the power to make it not affect your life. If I cancel you, I won't even talk to you. You won't be bullied. You'll just find out that your job says they can't keep you employed because you're too controversial. That's not a form of bullying. That's a form of ending careers.
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@issadraco532 Sorry man but counting 2 million heads does not an army make. Armed forces sustain the sovereignty of the state. Without the ability to regenerate forces during a war you run the risk of having to capitulate - if not to the current foe, to your own people or other bitter rivals. We don't need a world war for a lack of armed forces to be an issue. Internal struggles alone can topple a state. Russia's massive industrial capacity is suffering from labor shortages because the main competitor to industrual work is the military itself. They also clearly need North Korea to fill for their needs so their massive industry isn't doing enough to keep them afloat, let alone rebuild a force.
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The fudge are you on about? Afghanistan was a socialist country allied with the USSR with an insurgency. There was no political infiltration, it was a genuine civil war between state and tribal warlords. Chechnya was a republic in the USSR which declared independence and had no US aid. Ukraine's Maidan protests were supposed to end when the US pressured the opposition to make the deal with Yanukovych. That's right. They told the Ukrainians to let Yanukovych stay as president and just take the seat of prime minister as consolation prize.
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Is... is that satire? Am I getting wooshed? Because Spain is a country in Europe...
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But they're not. A lot of the manufacturing in Russia during WWII was American, a lot of resources were American, and a lot of finished products were American or British in origin. Then during the Cold War the production was spread around the USSR and Warsaw Pact, for example many Soviet ships were built by Ukraine and Poland. In terms of aviation their "mass production" can't match America, look up how many F-35s are built per year.
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Cannons pose a threat to modern tanks. And no, 20/25mm is not insufficient. The GAU-8 is not capable of getting a tank kill in a way that 20mm isn't. The threat to modern tanks comes from damaging external components that do not have armor coverage. The GAU-8 could barely achieve full penetration of M47 tanks in 1979 testing, so a modern tank being catastrophically killed by the GAU-8 is almost not worth considering. You can achieve mobility or firepower kills, which is also possible with smaller cannons. Lightly armored targets do not need 30x173mm to be destroyed or disabled, so carrying a heavier gun for more spectacular but ultimately meaningless results makes no sense. In WWII aircraft tank kills were also completely overblown due to pilots assuming near misses were hits and by confusing infantry escorts running away with crews abandoning the tank. AT guns, mines, other tanks and running out of fuel were responsible for more tank losses than aircraft. Now try that test but the helicopter test with an AIM-9X and see if the GAU-8 is still worth keeping just for a single niche use that happened twice.
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I picked Germany in online games because StG 44.
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No. It's clearly trenches outside Ukrainian areas of control.
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@Ronnie-kun how is it grasping for straws? If S-400s can get overwhelmed or bypassed by getting through their reaction time, how would they fare against glide bombs, cruise missiles and ARMs?
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@@thypeasantslayer3621 From an aeronautical standpoint the design is wonderful. The issue is that it is let down by everything else. During the 2000s several MiGs pancaked themselves as engine failures started to increase. The "roughness" of the design everyone praises leads to short service lives in engine parts.
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@danielt6689 Why are you bringing up unrelated shots? Our data says that antibodies plummet after a few months. We're discussing a third shot because it wears off so quickly. The others don't. So why bring them up?
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 @lifeisblessed4802 was Igor Girkin a Ukrainian national? What about Motorola?
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But the people defending the mandatory minimums want plea deals. They effectively act as those judges that reduce sentences in your example. They just want to score convictions and keep their numbers up. They bypass the mandatory minimums with that. If you're guilty, you take the plea deal and get out in 3 years. If you're innocent and want to fight, you're gambling 16 years in the slammer.
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The other way around. Militias are often designed for easy replcement. In a state hierarchy and especially a Middle Eastern one, a lot of knowledge is lost because they avoid sharing to make themselves hard to replace.
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 @HazelProtogen The fact that you didn't answer the question and instead deflected with a snarky response says more about you than it says about Orange Man.
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@nd15music73 By the admission of North Vietnamese generals, they were defeated in the Tet Offensive but lucked out in the public support for the war plummeting in the US. The Vietcong were nearly wiped out and had to dbe replaced by NVA regulars. That's how bad they got beat.
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@gerri577 We didn't destabilize Russia. The autocrat simply uses external problems to deflect from internal issues.
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Yeah when you spend 20 years bragging about your armed forces and threatning nukes you should be able to overcome geography and weather.
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It's not blind fire. You can watch the videos, the nail what they aim at. Russia has so much, they need to use Shaheds lol.
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@nunoalvarespereira87 Look at how many Irish descendants have sat on boards or been directors of banks. Look at how many Irish-Americans own media companies or are hired as hosts for TV. Mocking the IQ doesn't make it not real.
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"They have improved a lot" they threw resources and men away. We were surprised they could mount an offensive. We were even more surprised that offensive ended up like previous ones.
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@johannesg8959 I've seen the "curvature" by standing seaside then on top of a cliff and verifying that I could see more of ship hulls or just seeing the ship after only seeing the sail over the horizon. There's also no workable model for a flat earth where the sun, moon and stars move like they do in real life. The globe earth model explains what we see.
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More troops? They'll need uniforms, armor, helmets, rucksacks. Russia has already taken Soviet era steel pots, added carbon fiber brims, foam padding and nylon suspension under a modern camo cover because they did not have modern kevlar/uhmwpe helmets to issue to all the mobilized men last year.
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The front lines were stable in Kharkiv until they broke. They'll break again.
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Whether Putin likes it or not, a significant amount of Russian men have been "Westernized". Just the other day I was reading screenshots of a tumblr blog from a young man in Donetsk (not Russia but the point stands) trying to evade mobilization. An artist. Not exactly a macho man.
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One of the generals who "reappeared" was never seen again, by the way. The footage where he reappeared did not have a way to verify the date and he has not been seen since.
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That's like wishing for a Charlie Hebdo style attack to see how well you'd react.
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@cryptosamet3536 Infantry observers will call out where the ambush points are. ATGMs have more range than rifles but artillery outranges ATGMs.
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@yannickvanwallenburg9724 Shot is usually carried by a shot cup, just like in a shotgun, so there's no contact between rifling and the projectiles.
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@wareaglerebel8131 I really don't see the point of contention. For example, whenever the media talks about wealthy Russian businessmen they call them "oligarchs". Have you ever heard CNN call "oligarch" to every single American millionaire? That's the point, the double standard when describing inequality. Sorry, but the US has corruption too and most successful businesses have to resort to bribery. For example, if you know Sen. Feinstein you'll recognize her as one of the most anti-gun politicians in America. But she's in a committee that picks military gear for SOCOM (I believe) so there's gun industry manufacturers that send her money. So when a Navy SEAL kicks down a door and shines his rifle-mounted Surefire flashlight into a room it's because of corruption being so normalized an anti-gun politician takes money from the gun industry.
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+wwg_Marcus I'm afraid the analogy is lost on you. The NPC meme has to do with the people who seem to be simply obeying the programming, which is why they're so predictable and act irrationally, they parrot whatever they're told by the media, etc. The "game coder" are the people and corporations who are funding the media and the gender studies "The fact is you can claim they are obeying the "programing" but their "outrage" gets results - what do you think will be the result of Jeremy spending 10 minutes crying about them? Hint: nothing." - what the hell does that have to do with anything? In no way does that contradict the NPC meme. "PCs get results, while NPCs react to PC's actions. and 9 times out of 10 they are getting their way" - what exactly is the point here? You're still not giving us a good critique of the NPC meme, for someone who seems to vehemently opposed to it. "Pretending like not accomplishing something is "winning" and the people getting the reuslts they want are losing may make you feel better" - again how does that contradict the NPC meme? "but aren't going to spur the kinda of actual changes to get your views respected to the point where they "influece" the game." - Jesus. The "game" isn't the meme. That's an externality. A few months ago there were articles about a study that blew out proportion findings about internal monologues. People thought that the study proved that there are people without internal monologues. So the NPC meme was born and it was applied to people who like normie shit and don't think for themselves. Then it got political and now NPCs are people who can't form their own opinions and seem programmed like a simplistic AI. Like "if accuser.Character = Gender.WOMAN -> then status.BELIEVE". Shit like that, if you're arguing against a black person who disagrees with liberals then say "internalized white supremacy", if woman disagrees then "internalized misogyny", etc. "So as long as you're solely focuseed on responding to PCs instead of driving the game in a way you want, you're also a NPC" - what the fuck does that even mean? Being an NPC doesn't mean SHIT about that. A human thinks for himself, a NPC obeys programming. The NPC can make changes to the world while the human just watches. That's not a fucking definition. AI can win games. Jesus way to overthink a meme, not get it, and then try to make it fit your beliefs.
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+Facepalm Migraine two years of misuse? I called this shit as soon as it propagated, libertarians and other right-affiliated groups were being branded as alt-right pretty early on.
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Even during the height of the Cold War soviet officers in charge who were in condition to launch refused to do it. It's not what Putin is willing to do. It's what the Navy and strategic rocket forces are willing to do.
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Ask Putin.
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Everyone we dislike joining the losing team... sounds like a win.
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Helicopters with sensors mounted in the mast can still use terrain for cover and fire from behind concealment.
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 @twangbarfly so you can quote Victoria Nuland but not the State Dept?
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 @BLMVDV Wrong. Igor Girkin, FSB agent and a Russian national, started taking over Ukrainian government buildings before any hostilities had started.
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Israel only invaded Lebanon because of PLO attacks. Israel was defending itself too.
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The irony is that in Starship Troopers people could lead a good life without being citizens. Service granted citizenship, but Rico's parent plead to him not to join mobile infantry because they thought it was not worth it. Meanwhile I'm a citizen by birth but I'm not allowed to go into many places.
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If you're a "resistance" fighter without a uniform you're hiding behind civilians. Polish resistance members famously wore a white and red armband to identify them as resistance fighters. French civilians often hated French resistance members for triggering reprisals from the Germans and the Allied forces asked French resistance to stop and only fight when coordinated with them because of the mess they were creating.
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That's not a No-Fly Zone. That's a bombing.
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@KT-pv3kl That's not true. The paper plug flies down the barrel like a hotdog down a hallway. Semi-autos need a special barrel with a constriction that delays the pressure release to give the slide the rewards push.
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You should not intervine in a crime you didn't witness. That's exactly what the mob did to Kyle by assuming he fired first and he had to smoke a couple of them. If you go out there to play cop, you need to have a reasonable expectation that you might get the wrong guy, and he might decide to end you right there. And the law will be on his side.
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@thefinallegofan This is just you misrepresenting religion for your own personal politics.
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@DieselRamcharger that still doesn't address anything said in this conversation
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@trollmcclure1884 well, they lay out the basic ideas but you'd need to perform your own research. Any rogue state could just go through scientific archives and find papers published in foreign countries, have their own universities use previous knowledge as stepping stones. It's probably easier than trying to develop concepts from loose descriptive information on a youtube video.
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@fl00fydragon the F-35 is a boondoggle because it's a government jobs program. You have hundreds of subcontractors involved from multiple states, hell even multiple countries. Last time I checked there were 8 subcontractors from Turkey. Turkey! I know airplanes are more complex than they used to be but this shit needs to be manufactured efficiently, not to keep representatives getting reelected.
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"HERP DERP LET ME MAKE MY OWN RULES SO THAT I ALWAYS WIN"
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@ihavenojawandimustscream4681 Yeah, making prostitution illegal will definitely end child prostitution and abuse. Just like Prohibition didn't create the incentive for alcohol to be mixed with dangerous chemicals or the War on Drugs didn't create the incentive to mix dangerous chemicals on the street drugs.
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@ihavenojawandimustscream4681 the point is that someone ironically mentioned that as soon as "consensual" sex involves money it's suddenly immoral, and you retorted by saying that the sex business has child prostitution, traffic/abuse, etc. which are not consensual and therefore legitimize the use of force in a libertarian system.
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@cheydinal5401 1. Why the fuck did I go through the desert without supplies? 2. Why have I not taken steps to find ground water? 3. I still don't get moral justification to kill the person with literal tons of fresh water in order to take his stuff.
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@cheydinal5401 the use of force culminates in killing and there's no point in denying it. "So he can demand like up to 10 bucks per liter, but not demand sex in exchange for water" - how does that make any sense? If you don't have the 10 bucks you'll die either way. How do you quantify that sex is worth a lot more than the 10 bucks? There's places on Earth where sex is extremely cheap. How do you determine the prices of sex in the desert? "If he does demand more, his business is shut down" - ???? that's just vindictive, it would be harder to get a business shut down for fraud or illegally dumping toxic waste. I mean I hate Apple but I don't want them out of business by passing a law saying that whoever charges too much for something has to be shut down. "Nobody will kill a business owner for paying less than minimum wage, his business would just be shut down " - how do you shut down a business? How do you physically stop him from just continuing his operations independently of what you say?
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Comscription in itself isn't the issue. The thing with Russia is that conscripts serve in Russia, and in theory mobilized men are expected to have retained skills from their service so a refresher course is all it takes to bring them up to speed.
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 @Jacksonflax Well, Ukraine claims the longest tank on tank kill, about 10km by firing as artillery with a drone as spotter.
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@celmer6 that dude who got his arm canoed in Kenosha isn't dissing FMJ, just sayin'
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The bridge repairs are cosmetic. They don't make the structure regain integrity.
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 @user-ze1ej5zb6z Didn't know Bush needed to harvest so much wind to finance the global war on terrorism that eventally his wind farm unleashed a hurricane.
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@Biden_is_demented The coating issue happened once years ago, and since it has only occurred twice. It can't be replicated in testing. Thank you for playing.
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@Biden_is_demented That's false. They did keep testing to try and replicate the issue, and it hasn't come up again.
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"I'M MAKING THE MOTHER OF ALL OMELETS HERE, PUTIN. CAN'T FRET OVER EVERY DESTROYED BRIDGE."
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@w4rpf1nnlad If the opinion is very positive, it shouldn't be mandatory. Nothing is free. You're still paying for it. Amazing, so because the state dangles a few benefits over your head, people can be convinced to give up their bodily autonomy and their lives to the military. It's almost like those benefits are a "poisoned gift" like we saw in my country.
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@w4rpf1nnlad Cultural victory is still victory. AHAHAHA oh wow you have no argument so you act like a boomer. Ok boomer, I don't think the state has the right to enslave people. That's all. You putting words on my mouth has no relevance and only makes you look bad.
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@Leo___________ "conscription, as every other gov run thing, is great when done right" - no, it isn't. Conscription is still a denial of a citizen's rights. "You have citizen soldiers, and thus almost every man has some kind of insight in the military." - And there's a huge downside to it. It makes people more willing to be subservient to the state. "You learn discipline, valuable skills, get in shape, meet people from all walks of life and form frindships sometimes lasting a lifetime." - same as if you get a job and a gym membership. Or if you just enroll a karate class. Is the government necessary to force people to have the "correct" life experience? "glue that binds society together" - so you purposefully weaken your fighting force by forcing it to carry the burden of people who should have never been anywhere near a military base, start the precedent of the state being able to force people to fight and die in wars they didn't want to take part on?
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@sickbassix "so many things we do in our life (Yes I bet even you) We do because it's mandatory" - two wrongs don't make a right. "Generally speaking big societies don't really function unless there are set rules and values to life by" - so because we need rules, that justifies violating freedom and bodily autonomy by forcing people to join the military? "Nothing wrong with some mandatory civil or military service" - Yes, there are many things wrong. The most important to me is how forcing people to join the military is fascist bullshit. Why should the government have so much control over people? "Or at least force a bunch of millenials to stop being on their phone 24/7 and stop that becoming-an-influencer-dream dead in it's tracks (for the good of mankind)." - millennials are getting to their 35s now. Gen Z are in college right now. If you wanted to shape millennials you're way too late on that. Also, it's not the government's responsibility to be our mother. "If you really find that governments shouldn't make anything mandatory, I think you need to close your internet account now" - I pay for it. "Winter is comming my friend, did you pick enough berries and gather enough firewood?" - lmao and the government then steals my berries and firewood. All the comforts in life I have were purchased from someone else. I work for my things. The government doesn't gift us the things we need.
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@sickbassix Look, it doesn't matter who's wrong or right. The state shouldn't be fucking forcing people to do things against their will. Not only is it immoral, you're only sandbagging yourself with people a professional military would reject. My view points are completely irrelevant to my background. Call me a citizen of the world, a rootless cosmopolitan, whatever the fuck. Why would profiling me serve a purpose in the conversation.
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Ikarean but the DNA is still the densest form of data storage, you'd probably be able to fit (today's) internet in just a few grams of cells. That's small.
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@Iivprideviii How is it unreasonably reactionary? People will use underhanded tactics like suppressing criticism by issuing DMCA takedowns. Remember how "Santorum" was associated with a nasty meaning through the internet to damage Rick Santorum? If you gave me time I could probably think of more examples of people using "traps" to get what they want. Snopes isn't "fact checking" a satirical website because they're dummies. They're doing it on purpose to get pages in trouble for sharing "fake news".
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Lmao I didn't even notice ahahaha oh man that's actually embarassing
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@halasimov1362 holy crap, I never considered that the biological material grown in the lab doesn't have its own immune system...
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@housewilma4904 Yes. You saw that Sy Hersh claimed that Jans Stoltenberg was a CIA asset since he was 16 years old. Deny it. You saw Sy Hersh claim that Norway used a P-8 aircraft they couldn't have used. Deny it.
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@wurfyy The Hornets would be great. The concerns cited are that the airframes are old and the radars would require upgrades, so despite them existing they wouldn't be in combat conditions.
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+gaspalito R ah so basically the same laws that the anti-poor and the anti-black lobbies have pushed for to make sure they can't afford to exercise their rights. We have hobby sized CNC machines. 3d printers. People have always managed to replicate guns out of lathes, drill presses and hand files. You think overtaxing guns will stop us?
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Far too much materiel left behind and too many POWs to spring a trap.
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 @lajsin They are not using deep battle. They are throwing reserves to defend the first line and even the grey zone.
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The classical "human wave" vs today's "meat wave".
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You misunderstand American debt. It is always being paid off. The only reason the US can get into more debt is because it's constantly paying it.
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@post-leftluddite "police, they have more training with a weapon than any civilian" - That's not entirely true. Police is known to have lackluster firearms training. If you're a hobby shooter rather than someone who simply dumped a revolver into a drawer hoping to never use it, you're most likely to have much more "training" than a cop.
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 @Nanohamage it's mostly men working on mines.
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@ThomasTomiczek No? So we can't condemn arranged marriages in the 21st century because we used to do it too?
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@oarguello It's not really like saying any of that.
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Su-24s. Saki is a naval air base and they operate Su-30SMs and S-24Ms with the 43rd.
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@Lemosa3414 Many military microchips, because they need reliability over raw computing power, are manufactured in smaller fabs in the West. If you want to play the latest games, you get Taiwanese. If you want to shoot down an aircraft, you get Texas Instruments.
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@britishrocklovingyank3491 The trillion dollars is an estimate for total program cost until requirement.
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This is common across the old guard leftists. The Portuguese communist party refused to say the word "war" for the first few months. And to this day they say they are for peace because the arms companies are profiting off the war. Not to protect Ukraine. Not because of what's just and moral. But because someone out there is profiting off the munitions Ukrainians fire in their defese. These are known as "tankies".
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@ulrikschackmeyer848 They get paid to post. The more the Russian state pays them to post, the less money is available for something else. Their algorithms? Probably hand written by a jaded officer and photocopied in the morning.
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"This is an event which should really be under military control, as it was in China" - hell no.
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 @DieselRamcharger "it was an operation, it worked, it cost NO AMERICAN LIVES" - so you're pro war when it's an "operation"?
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@willyjimmy8881 so is "real" money... Most money exists digitally only. Most people don't get paid in dollar bills. When you ask a bank for a loan you don't get dollar bills. Crypto is a joke as an investment because it created the gold rush but that wasn't the fucking point of crypto. If we decided cucumber slices were worth a dollar and banks banned me from giving you 100 dollars, I'd just give you 100 cucumber slices.
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"Nature, uh, finds a way"
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Can you elaborate on the lies?
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Win Everything You see, but the US is mostly competent in this department. When a rapper shills for the government most people assume he sold out or he's doing it as some kind of community service to not get jail time over all the weed they got caught with. After years of criticizing Bush, Chris Rock lost a ton of credibility for saying that Obama is like the country's father. The real US propaganda is things like Zero Dark Thirty or Homeland. They're actually good and a lot more subtle if you haven't trained yourself to spot the narrative. The US's main export is culture. And that's a huge advantage.
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@kaplahworm Two wrongs don't make a "who cares?".
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That's not a good thing. There's a sequence of photojournalism photos of an old guy mocking a political rally with a salute. Then cops in full SWAT gear detain the old man mocking the rally rather than the people who actually believe the stuff.
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@kaboomwinn4026 No, Europeans are paying higher bills in energy because of Russia. It's Russia that's trying to blackmail.
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 @caracallaavg lmao what a dead giveaway
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 @MilanTukidid you know that using the word "mercenary" flags you as a Russian propagandist, why use it at all?
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@draw4kicks name one scientist why said the world is gonna end in 11 years like the op said.
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@hainleysimpson1507 bro shut the fuck up. I live in Europe and the smart ones assume the other guy is armed. Gun control doesn't mean shit to people who don't care about consequences. Try and find trouble and one day trouble will find you.
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@oroville12345 MGTOW simping for msm and billion dollar companies lmao
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@kevint1910 F-22 and F-35 aren't abject failures.
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He has lived in the US and taught Economics in a university in Alabama.
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*MP5 clips through user's hands and falls on the floor, gains infinite velocity on the rebound due to a glitch, kills user by hitting him in the face
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@atgimm2090 I hope the protesters manage to topple the regime hust to throw all that effort away.
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Uncivil Obedience
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That's completely unreasonable. Each needs different structural components but the engines, radar, systems, etc are the same.
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But modern doctrine is to win with missiles alone, because if you go for guns the chances of eating a missile are too high. High off boresight missiles with all aspect seekers make gunnery extremely risky.
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Remy doesn't miss.
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@SaberRiryi No, you're the one who's confused. From the start that we knew that most people are asymptomatic. By your own logic, most people were already vaccinated. It's not just coughing. People talking to each other still spew small droplets. So by your own logic, we still have to mask up and keep social distance because close proximity and contact will lead to transmission even without coughing. No, this is now how every one worked before. Before, you had dead load injected into you and your immune system would mount a real response to a real external threat, just dead. Then, it was an inactivated strain that your system would still mount a real response to. You're IMMUNE. That's how everything previously worked, there were updates and new generations of technology, etc. This is different. You're receiving code to replicate inside your cells which is the spike protein - which by the way is one of the mechanisms the real infection damages your body, that's why so many people feel ill compared to older tech - and you generate antibodies for the spike protein. So no, don't give me the BS that it's exactly the same as everything else. Now, you will look up the dangers of having a shot that doesn't make you immune. I'll wait.
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@earlwyss520 Only 187 F-22s were built, the F-35 already has 665 built. How is this a career dead end?
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@giantskeleton420 The F-22 was "risked" over Syria to drop JDAMs in areas other aircraft couldn't go into.
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@Laocoon283 the NRA's clout only allowed them to scam millions out of the pockets of gun owners and then waste it. Think about it. The anti gunners cry loudly about the NRA, but then speak of the GOA, FPC and Second Amendment Foundation in hushed tone. If they even speak about them. Why do anti-gunners want you to know that the NRA is dangerous, but don't want to let you know there's alternatives? Almost like they're controlled opposition.
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@kylekillgannon responding to an active shooting isn't vigilantism
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@cameronspence4977 Forcing the enemy to twist itself into a pretzel to exploit weaknesses is good, knowing he will do it so you will be ready is even better. Point the radar one way, enemy will haul his launchers to worse firing positions to try and exploit it. Russia can't fire land based systems from the south or west. Point the system east, you funnel enemy missiles into a known path from the north in Belarus. Or point it north, force missiles to fire from the east. You have to know the enemy but also know yourself. Once you do, you can control the enemy like a puppet on a string. Make him do what you want him to do, and beat him.
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@badluck5647 I don't know, Bush, Obama, Trump? Blaming the last guy to be involved rather than the people before who let everything go to hell is such a bad stance. There's a lot to criticize Biden on.
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This mobile gun platform can be taken out by almost any outdated AT weapon, even non-AT weapons. It's a coffin on tracks.
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@the_way_the_truth_the_life "I believe more in that theory, than I believe in these idiots shitting on the NSA because Fox news gave them permission to" - I've been shitting on the NSA since the 2000s.
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@the_way_the_truth_the_life "Q has been disproven? By whom?" - By itself. Why would Q keep telling people to trust the plan? Also people who were into Q noticed that the person writing the drops changed. It was most likely a Bannon and McChrystal op. "And how can it be disproven, if everything is still unfolding?" - The things that were supposed to unfold, haven't. Or are you telling me that you actually believe that Tom Hanks, Oprah, Ellen, etc have all been arrested using the coof as an excuse? "The enemy is tricking us with Q by actually giving us more truth then our government or the culture we live in?" - Because it keeps people sedated. Do nothing. Trust the plan. They're not telling the truth.
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 @WelcomeToDERPLAND And where would the money come from?
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Since when does Ukraine have MiG-31s?
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The Soviet Union was also dependent on handouts and donations, plus the relentless bombing of Germany. We won WWII for them. We can make them lose.
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@JayEy Lesser stealth B-1s bombed Syria with impunity as retaliation against gas attacks, and they were defended by Syrian S-300s and Russian S-400s. If B-1s can get within range to drop payload, and the defenses can't intercept the incoming munitions, what makes you think the F-35 would be worse?
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@nickthompson1812 underpriced probably because it was under the downward pressure of the shorting
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@jacobmccandles1767 This is not true. In fact early gens of heat seeking missiles did not measure distance at all, and as tech progressed missiles still had no direct measurement for distance and instead relied on the rate of closure to the target (heat signal increase) to help the algorithm find the time-to-impact. The first gens of heat seekers did indeed tail-chase which made them inefficient at using their energy. Modern heat seeking missiles have a high off boresight and thus they're able to actually fly ahead of the target to optimize closure rate.
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@magsteel9891 The two issues with that are: 1. Even though the movie is "about" exploiting kids all the breakdowns I've seen essentially describe as not actually being critical, just exposing the issue, contrasting it to conservative Islamic tradition within the family, and then the girls resuming a normal childhood. So it's "about" exploitation but without even comitting to anything. 2. Despite the movie being "about" exploitation, from what we understand hundreds of children auditioned for the roles. Even if the movie was critical of exploitation, the audition process did exactly what the movie would be criticizing.
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He asked manufacturers to stop. Voluntarily making cars safer is a good thing.
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@tomlobos2871 Helicopters with the sensors mounted on the mast can locate targets and fire over the horizon. The ability to hover allows that, while fixed wing aircraft will still need to pop up and expose themselves. Unless something else lases the target.
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@evanmeeden2222 SOCOM had to get a new M4 barrel profile because they were blowing barrels from all the full auto shooting they did.
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@chiron13 "The range of an S300 exceeds the range on an AGM-88 HARM missile" - And? S-300s aren't omniscient beings that zap aircraft out of the air. SAMs can be defeated kinetically. Russia pulled S-300s out of Syria. Why do you think they did that?
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Isn't India demanding a massive discount? Russia loses, India profits, we get oil anyway albeit at a higher price.
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Meanwhile in real life, soldiers in Ukraine are doing assaults with drones overhead so that the operator can radio in the positions of enemies and the available angles. It's like having a videogame cheat revealing enemy positions. The side with no drone to act as warning gets slaughtered. You actually see video of troops in separate ditches unaware they're being picked off one by one by the assault team pointman using angles to only have line of sight with a single man at a time.
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@speedyv6247 Russia called an operational pause over HIMARS. Ukraine didn't over Iskander and Kalibrs hitting concert halls and shopping malls. Hmmmm.
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@mrbill4068 "FLU-LIKE VIRUS THAT IS LETHAL" - The flu is lethal. You just don't get death counters every day on TV.
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@ABESAALE people seriously more mad at a Vouge cover than the massacres of civilians
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 @Chris-fm1rk they were never an army. They were a security company.
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Not true. Many countries where the questioning is illegal do it for all genocides. For example the genocide in the Balkans. The expulsions were mostly because they were easy to blame as middle managers as kings got into debt and needed a scapegoat.
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 @GrimGatsby The "playable" version you're talking about was just a hangar to look at the ships. They did not have free flight in 2013.
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@simonrodgers2375 to be fair MGS2 did that and despite the initial shock it all makes sense in the end.
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@rhetro777 how do we end violence, typically? Calling the authorities? Like men with guns who will turn violent if you don't obey?
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@westsonrises "maybe developing an airframe for 3 services, with a multi-role mission envisioned is a bad idea" - How so? "very little internal payload" - Flies slick while others are saddled with weapons and fuel bags so the lower payload is a worthy sacrifice. If you want a fair fight, the F-35 can carry externals. "two of them don't even have internal guns" - Do they need them? "Aircraft should be built to excel at a single misison" - Why?
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@Mancada100 1. It's called "options". A F-35 with external load is still stealthier than a conventional aircraft with external load. 2. The "useless" gunless Phantoms shot down over a hundred MiGs in Vietnam. The USN never added guns to their F-4s and the F-4E in USAF service only scored 6 kills with the internal gun.
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It was a threat. A MIRV is accurate enough for a "physics package" as a near miss still counts as a hit, but a conventional or kinetic payload is gonna miss the target by hundreds of feet.
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@Miratesus the fact that every F-35 in the air is almost its own AWACS I think the carrier protection is better today than it ever was.
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lmao
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First, the missile slows down as soon as the motor stops burning. The faster you go, the more drag. The nosecone of the Sidewinder had to resist supersonic drag heating on the outside and cryogenic cooling on the inside. Not exactly flimsy. Second, relative speed/closure rate. The aircraft is running away from the missile as the missile progressively gets slower. If you are in an open train car at 900 ft/s and someone shoots a 9mm bullet travelling at 1100 ft/s at you, the bullet hits you at 200 ft/s. Enough to break the skin but hardly fatal. Third, aircraft are even more flimsy than missiles! A round tube is a very solid shape all things considered. An aircraft is like a car, you can completely dent the body panels at parking speeds. Well, cars don't have to fly, so aircraft have to save even more weight. To the point hitting a bird can mangle a wing's skin and expose the spars underneath. A missile gliding on inertia and losing speed, an aircraft running away, and a tube acting like a spear versus a coke can of an aircraft... easy to believe.
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@robertwilliamson2609 There's plenty of countries with dedicated AAA, short range mobile SAMs and MANPADS.
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@TJ-dn4zc nah Keanu will be a story character, the protagonist is the one with the high and tight haircut and scars
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@OleDiaBole Wrong. The 1.6 million number has never stood up to peer review. It was around 220 thousand, the VAST MAJORITY of which were due to sectarian violence among Iraqis. Mariupol had 20,000 civilians perish, minimum.
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Azerbaijan is much closer to Turkey and they both would love to take a swing at Iran. There's a reason why Armenians flew Iranian flags when Russia abandoned them.
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 @pugachevskobra5636 A breakdown is only a surface level retelling.
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@pugachevskobra5636 You shouldn't drink urine even in a survival situation, because it will just be concentrated with salts anyway. Maybe read actual books instead of getting your survival knowledge from "breakdowns".
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The difference is that equivalent music from other countries is just for getting drunk at the small town festivals. This is an emo anthem about everyone hating you (for starting a war).
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@mrsir1872 "hoarding all his cash till the storm is over" - But that doesn't make sense. During a crash money will lose value. You don't want to be holding cash. You want to be holding assets.
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@jimmyhirr5773 Yeah, so job done. That was the objective. Crisis averted. Case rate was always supposed to go up, but enough people would be healthy that the system wouldn't collapse. That's what flattening the curve means. Keeping cases controlled as people get sick. Then we all get sick, but not at the same time. If cases go down, even better. Oh? You actually wanted to eradicate the thing? That's moving the goalposts. That's not flattening the curve. That's ERASING the curve.
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@russellzauner Even in a city filled with an impossibly high rate of "good people" you can't do your own thing without stepping on others' toes. If it's the people and not the location, pick a location with less people. Also, Chernobyl is pretty alive.
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@acikusej No proof it was fake and the Soviet Union didn't deny it happened.
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John Wick
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The war would have ended in 2022 if more aid had been given.
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 @planebreach And Lauren Chen has links to Russia. Hence the money had to come from Russia. C'mon.
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@futurepk1701 "if you catch the virus, and your body combats it on its own, your immune system, during its fight with the invading virus or bacteria, could raise your body temperature, give you a fever, inflame your blood vessels, in an attempt to kill the virus" - This also happens when you take the second shot. That's why they are not giving it to people with known allergies or pregnant women.
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@saytax "not without incident..."
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@VexingRaven the toxicity of the heavy metal is the problem, not the radioactivity
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@chakraborty1989 "otherwise it can assemble a million+ strong conscript within weeks" - And do what? Do they have enough guns? Enough ammo? Enough vehicles? How would the railway supply line be strained by a million reservists? Can they feed those people? What happens to the Russian economy if a million working age men have to leave the country?
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zanitzeuken dude and Zionist terrorists killed British people (including British Jews) when they were placed there by the Brits. After that they started expanding and performing ethnic cleansing of Arab land so that they could settle and get more land in the 1948 partition.
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@MilwaukeeWoman You're completely overblowing. Many people reporting long covid didn't even have the disease. Not only is anxiety and depression being used to pad the stats on long covid, the claims also seem to come from the most hypochondriac of demographics.
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The vaxxed still spread. They still harm others.
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The US has been flying hypersonic air breathing missiles since 2004.
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 @PH7NTOM it's the juxtaposition
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@OhNotThat The "source" is that in 2018 Medium asked Wayback Machine to remove articles that were archived there. Wayback Machine usually honors all requests to take down stuff if the copyright owner requests it and I guess Medium becomes the copyright owner.
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Tom the typa guy to see a horrific car crash and say "you can't park there, mate".
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Thanks John Adams from Texas Oblast.
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Problem is, air supremacy shows that ground anti-air needs aircraft to cover them. If you do not contest air superiority, the enemy will use aircraft to seek out the anti-air.
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 @der0keks They got to the moon, just with an unmanned rocket. Your comment hot disproved.
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And yet, Ukrainian soldiers say things got quieter since the ammo dumps blew up, and Russian soldiers are crying on Telegram about those rockets. Funny.
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Tbh most of the places the US has been, Europeans were there before.
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@ilikeskies For example John McCain was born in what today is Panama but because the military base was US territory he was born in America. This isn't complicated. At the time Sikorsky was born in Russian territory, making his birthplace Russia. Cities have changed hands through history. If you're talking about a historical figure you don't say he was born in Istanbul, Turkey, you say he was born in Constantinople.
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The first Ghost Recon predicted the 2008 Russian-Georgian war.
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>Napolitano >left wing Take your meds, boomer
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@Shisha2025 Not the point. Back in the day South American and African revolutionaries were brought to the Soviet nations or satellites to receive political and military education. The recon-sabotage/sapper units in Vietnam were trained in Czechoslovakia. If you brag about being a "trained Marxist" that makes the listener expect some gravitas because we are used to the Cold War concept.
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Hold up. What's the issue with "using" licensed content? If anything the issue would be content sales past the license expiration date.
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@bodbn for fuck's sake you make sweeping claims like "The vast majority of gun violence is instantaneous" and "it's a myth" without a single source to back it up, but when confronted you start asking for sources? Here you fucking go: Smith, Tom W. (1997). "A Call for a Truce in the DGU War". Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Northwestern). p. 1462. Otis Dudley Duncan, "Gun Use Surveys: In Numbers We Trust?", Criminologist, v25 n1, Jan/Feb 2000. Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig, "Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms", NIJ Research in Brief, May 1997. McDowall, David; Loftin, Colin; Presser, Stanley (2000). "Measuring Civilian Defensive Firearm Use: A Methodological Experiment". Journal of Quantitative Criminology. David Hemenway, Chance, Vol 10, No. 3, 1997. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Northwestern) 87 (1997): 1430. But if we go by the standard that claims need sources, then thanks for shooting your own argument in the foot by providing ZERO.
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 @mpr9419 When consevatives were the status quo they whined about metal music, videogames, etc. The same forms of media being targeted today for not being progressive enough.
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Yeah just forget the billions in foreign aid, and the billions in loans that are immediately forgiven
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Okay but the Byzantine empire had tons of it too and they lasted for several centuries longer. For clarification the Byzantine empire was the Eastern half of the Roman empire.
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@badfrad1754 there's an autopsy video to show the effects of the Black Talon bullet, the hypebeast bullet of the 90s, of some cartel dude shot by Mexican Federales here on YT lol.
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Medvedev threatened Armageddon if the Kerch bridge was attacker. He went back and deleted the post.
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If the house you live in was ever in a For Sale listing chances are the bathroom was photographed and posted online.
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@dallysinghson5569 Spread doesn't matter if people can be treated properly. Most won't even notice they have it. Where are the numbers coming from? I used the ones from the CDC. I think 99.89% is the CDC number for people under 20 or 25, or it might be from another country. It's a highly variable thing. We actually thought it was 3% in March 2020.
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@gabrielinostroza4989 The 4.6 was standardized at the exact same time 5.7 was. It was hilarious to read the flood of gun media websites bungling up the story. NATO countries bought the P90 decades ago and more countries kept buying MP7s for spec ops, rear echelon units and even police forces so NATO just decided to standardize both since they're already in inventory.
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 @vasilijevukadinovic6843 The memo is meaningless. It's about German reunification. Not Warsaw Pact nations entering NATO.
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The question is: why have A-10s and Su-25s never got aircraft in the same class built? The answer is that they're dead end designs. You can't loiter in a real war. Anywhere you can loiter is a place where a Super Tucano is gonna do fine.
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@Eagles-Everywhere28 Glad to help!
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 @140theguy Funnily enough the F-15C always had an air to ground mode from the factory, just disabled. The Israelis were the first to use the "hidden" F-15 ground attack feature.
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And B-52s started getting retired in the 60s and 70s. In the 90s the B-52Gs were destroyed to comply with START. Only B-52Hs remain.
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@Kidsinamerica Portugal decriminalized drug use, number of addicts dropped.
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They couldn't even take Mykolaiv with the element of surprise. How would they get near Odessa?
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@mikegoodie7905 "Between Jan. 15" - So you're starting the count before most people had it. And also during the winter peak so the numbers are skewed. "There were 8,702 “breakthrough” cases" - The CDC is not recording breakthroughs properly. Even the politifact article defending the CDC admits it. If you have a breakthrough and you are contagious but not terribly sick, the CDC doesn't care.
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So the 40 year old men are still trying to pick up girls? The 40 year old men with kids who are probably gamers themselves have a hard time explaining to their kids that they have a dream job? Heck, most people under 35 would consider working with videogames a dream job, as they were in their early 20's when gaming blew up. If you listen to podcats such as the ones put out by Giantbombcast or The Comedy Button you'll see that even the older gaming journalists have no problems explaining to their family what they do and their line of business has actually gained the respect of their elders. More like, the 40 year old gaming journalists are all living in San Francisco and told to appeal to teenagers so they got to do the whole "what corruption in videogames? just respect women, bro. women deserve respect" non-sequitur while the 20-to-30 year olds were indoctrinated in gender theory in college and actually believe they're freedom fighters and they're not pretending at all.
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@baron_xd4633 There's the compounding factor that as a novel virus it's different enough for a good chunk of the population to not have any sort of defenses against it, and we're being too reactive instead of proactive. We know inflammation and oxidative stress are causing massive damage to the people with serious cases, well after the viral load has decreased. But go on reddit and see what nurses are saying, they're just sedating people and hooking them up to ventilators knowing they have a low chance of making it. What the actual hell is going on?
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@DanielBrinca This. Tom Scott has videos on why electronic voting is a bad idea. Of all the ways to count votes, electronic means is the one with the most failure points. You can tamper machines, you can tamper servers, you can tamper connections, you can tamper digital storage.
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Check out the Center for Political Innovations 2022 Chicago opening ceremony too.
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Did you listen to the part where voters actually had a recall election to throw her out but she had the result nullified on a technicality?
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The way to make it fair wouldn't it make more sense to give both Intel and AMD water cooling to get the temperature throttling out of the equation?
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Turkey Tom extended universe
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Jon Jones Yes, it's disgusting how terrorist groups ethnically cleansed land to get it gifted to them in 1948
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Honestly, I'm on the other way around. I'm sick of people explaining things to me at a 6th grade level. I actually know more than the people who are trying to lecture me, and that makes me feel they were lectured to like children, and now they're trying to lecture me like I'm a child. No, I know what these people are telling me are massive oversimplifications. It doesn't work that way.
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According to Rosstat, the Russian government agency
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Most Phantoms were shot down by SAM/AAAA/ground fire.
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@jhpfdijtuiweruot There's independent reviews of Starlink. The hardware has weird choices and the fact that you can't transfer your starlink to someone else is baffling, but it works.
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@eugeneoreilly9356 They had Ukrainians and Lend Lease on their side.
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@sockpastarock7082 Yeah, a couple of rocks in the middle of the ocean with more sheep than people will do better than countries where we live like sardines. Lockdown supporters are planning to lower populational density over here?
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I mean, most fraud would be just elderly people dying and the family keeping it a secret. There's ways of detecting the fraud such as having a QR code on the check and requiring photo ID to make the deposit, even locking the check to the account of the recipient. It would discourage serial killers, not the "my grandma is sick at home" relatives who could deposit in her account and use her debit cards.
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Kherson didn't fail. Kharkiv includes the Kupiansk rail hub, which opens the door for Luhansk and it makes resupply harder for Russisn troops in the northeast frontline.
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@antonyjh1234 Mearsheimer literally said Putin was too smart to invade. He proved himself wrong.
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One of those pilots only caught a glimpse and isn't sure of what she saw, and the main guy Cmdr Fravor was already caught feeding into the UFO nonsense. The thermal sight on the targeting pod has an edge contrast enhancer which adds an outline via software, if you look at an object in the white hot mode you get a black outline and if you look using the black hot mode you get a white outline. While showing the footage the Elizondo guy said the craft had cool air around it. Fravor should have stepped in and told him that it's just a contrast enhancer to help pilots discern targets. But he chose to not correct him to feed into the conspiracy.
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They already confirmed it.
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Because people can listen to a song hundreds of times a year, which means music artists will get millions of plays more than a 2 hour podcast?
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Russian artillery is less accurate so they need to shoot more to get hits.
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You're not giving me any courtesy by sending me mixed signals about your intentions on the road.
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@nordmannodinson6984 Not banned by name, but many are impossible to import. They'd be legal if manufactured over here.
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The comedian defeated the "great".
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@zibingotaeam3716 "You could snag one in Austria and rebuild it in the US" - just don't get caught because you just imported an ebil a-salt veapon without torching the receiver.
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+Nigel Stevenson if ARs are on the table then so are all semi auto weapons.
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Even the Rusich group (violent war criminals who hate Ukraine) laughed at the defenses because they were poorly built with no regards for geography. Like trenches that have no line of sight to the incoming enemy.
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@LordEmperorHyperion How is Putin winning the economic war? Men are fighting instead of working, the US has not lost a single carrier, sub or fighter aircraft in this war, and most NATO members are not sending tanks. So how are they depleted, and how does Putin win an economic war when he's sacrificing half of his working population on a useless conflict?
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@grubbybum3614 "produce some of the best military equipment in the world" - which means that the rest of Europe have to throw money at them to keep their forces equipped, at the rest of Europe's expense. "And all 3 have a standing army, navy, airforce" - and a lot of the costs of maintaining them are offset by NATO. We can't even properly train fighter pilots in European airspace, the US has to bring the rest of NATO pilots to places like the Nevada desert where you can fly simulated combat without crashing into airliners.
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@grubbybum3614 "There's a central budget to which they contribute" - and certain nations are spending over the amount agreed upon while others refuse to pull their own weight. Still doesn't change the fact that a lot of stuff in NATO cooperation is off-budget and simply covered by the US defense budget.
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The Ukrainians called them "meat waves". Human waves is a Western misinterpretation.
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Because the self-destruct means would waste weight and volume inside the aircraft when not needed. It's more effective to have another aircraft bomb the crash site.
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 @alexeyandreev1208 The economic growth is on paper - it's all Rosstat's own work. No independent researcher can validate that growth. What is a spine worth when you have no arms and legs?
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@chef7734 "The 6.8 mm generates around 2,385 J (1,759 ft⋅lbf) of muzzle energy" - gonna need source for that, big guy. Barrel length, how compressed is that load, etc. "terminal ballistic advantage over the 5.56 mm of 588 J (434 ft⋅lbf)" - again, the bigger and slower bullet cannot effectively translate that energy into tissue. There's a reason why M67 and 5.45x39 7N6 exist - even the Eastern Bloc realized that 7.62x39 M43 made icepick wounds. M67 puts a rear weight bias on the bullet, 5.45 was designed to tumble from the get go. "You dont carry less just because it is slightly heavier. It doesnt work like that in real life. You just suck it up and drive on." - that's a massive misunderstanding of what weight means at the logistical level. Not only are you dragging a huge logistical chain around you where the ounces add up to tons, if we had the "suck it up" attitude about everything you'd be carrying more water, more batteries, more radios, more everything. The lighter infantry is the more effective it is. I don't remember the example right now but there's a famous story in Vietnam of two simultaneous battles for two hills, in one the Americans marched to the hill with their packs on and another simply left their packs on their exfil route and climbed the hill with only their battle rattle. The guys who carried the packs got murked and the guys with only the battle rattle repelled the attacks easily because they weren't exhausted. "We as soldiers improvise adapt and overcome" - but American doctrine is slow to change. As soon as the US changes to a heavier cartridge to defeat the armor the Russians are bragging about, they'll probably quickly authorize their soldiers to switch the plates for lighter ones so they can gain mobility. "You train to the differences in ballistics. It's not that hard." - it is hard compared to an "easy" caliber. "You mention tumbling. The 5.56 is such a small round it has to tumble to cause as much damage as a 6.8" - all rifle rounds have to tumble. Even 7.62 NATO tumbles. It doesn't tumble as early as 5.56 but it does and it rips a lot of tissue. Meanwhile 7.62x39 is the same diameter - actually .311-.312 compared to .308 - but it doesn't tumble worth a shit so coroner reports literally describe 7.62x39 wounds as very similar to pistol wounds. There's a reason why when .303 was forced to use a full metal jacket round-nose soldiers complained about the round being garbage, and when the nose of the bullet was replaced by a spitzer point with a cavity filled by wood pulp, paper or aluminum to increase tumbling the .303 gained respectable lethality. "We had issues in Afghanistan with the 5.56 m855 not being as effective as we needed." - because M855 suffers from fleet yaw issues. If it hits at 3 degrees of AoA is goes off like a hand grenade inside the body, if it hits at 0 degrees AoA it icepicks through. M855A1 was improved in the sense that it will tumble independently of fleet yaw. "Look at the ballistics during hog hunts or deer and it shows the 6.8 far more effective than the 5.56" - first, how many of those are with hollow points? Second, a shot through a hog doesn't represent a human torso. Again, a 7.62x39 M43 is a very poor wounder against humans because it exits the human torso before it starts to tumble against the resistance offered by the tissue. A large hog with a thick skin gives larger calibers better resistance for them to tumble INSIDE the animal in a way you won't see in humans.
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Mighty Fist Of Zeon! "There's a reason so many nations have switched to entirely new bullpup designs" - and half of those nations are returning to conventional rifles.
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starshipeleven He was not shot on sight.
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@thebattlemageXD "It is obvious you lack the empathy to see the issue here." - We don't. I'm actually 100% for abolishing the police. Where is your empathy for the people who will have to keep the peace in the post-police world? It might be you who has to get a drunk off your property, and the drunk gets the idea he should just be able to fight you.
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+wigon the block 3F software is coming, the whole "it's not as maneuverable" talk is outdated as hell. It compared favorably among F-15C pilots and while F-16 pilots preferred their own ride the F-35 was only a notch below. Vastly more expensive? The issue is that you're comparing early block F-16s that sell for 25 million and assuming that the US will be using those. If the US were to buy new manufactured F-16s they would cost about 60 million each, at least, while the F-35A costs have gone down to 85 million.
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+wigon let's look at the physical limits of the F-35: sleek due to not necessarily needing external pylons and weapons/bags mounted on them, huge thrust, huge lift vector from all that body lift. The point wasn't that software makes the airframe "better". The problem is that you're still using outdated news of the F-35's maneuverability from before the software updates, meaning it was severely crippled from a software standpoint and it wasn't being flown anywhere near the physical limits. "As for replacing old parts, this is already what the Airforce is doing" And in the end it's a congressional con job to spread jobs through the 50 states just like the F-35. You people will single out Lockheed-Martin and accuse them of being scammers (the whole Military Industrial Complex is corporate welfare of the highest order) while ignoring that any sort of big contracts involving American factories and American blue-collar jobs are a HUGE political tool during reelections. And guess what, the taxpayer will still pay for those parts like they were made out of solid gold due to inherent government inefficiency and inability to stay within budget. Now ask yourself, if you're so critical of people being Lockheed-Martin shills and having an interest in the success of the JSF, then what about whoever told you that we'd save money updating the F-16s? Could that person or media outlet have any interest on election outcomes or receiving contracts for the manufacture of F-16 parts?
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Still works as deterrent, not as coercive means.
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I don't think Prigozhin has that ambition. He wants to be the teacher's pet, not the dean.
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Reminder that fighters like F-22s and F-35s are also detected because they wear reflectors in peacetime to prevent data gathering.
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"Brutally honest" meanwhile Lavrov claimed they didn't start the war and got laughed at in India
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@so dumb that i think for myself "prove it" lmao there's no need to prove anything, just keep hoping for the Russian victory that never comes
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 @SamS-uv2ql He's not a source. Whatever article he screenshot would be the source.
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@SamS-uv2ql Yes, you did. You said "You think "clown planet" is a good source?". That's shooting the messenger. Name the actual source if the source is wrong, then criticize Clown Planet for using it. If someone, let's say Crowder, quotes CNN as a source, do you reply "you think Crowder is a good source?". No, because CNN is the actual source, Crowder just quoted it. I assume you're one of them "but I did have breakfast!" type of person so I made an analogy to point out the thing you did and now are denying.
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@razumskiy They speak the language just like many Finns and Estonians speak the Russian language - the proximity promotes it. Ukraine was Russified during the Russian Empire and on-and-off during the Soviet Union.
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Gun runs are an absolute last resort. Have you seen how easily Su-25s go down?
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@td6460 They knew they couldn't meet the Finnish requirements for cost and performance and tried to throw an extra goodie to make their offer seem more valuable. Finland was Saab's last chance to get the big break so they threw everything at the wall to see if it stuck.
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@peznino1 what exactly do you think brings oxygen to muscles?
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@peznino1 Something that gets into your bloodstream in an artery will end up in a vein. And into the heart. Veins in the upper body lead to the vena cava and into the heart.
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Is that the sound you make when the HIMARS hits?
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"a core target audience for her videos are those on or susceptible to falling to the alt-right" - someone's going to have to explain to me how a trans youtuber heavily focused on visual spectacle is catering to right wing, traditionally masculine tipping to the other end of the scale.
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@RhetoricWalrus I've also seen the anecdotes myself, I look at their text and profiles pics and I am not convinced at all any of those people ever listened to milquetoast conservative commentators let alone been into the alt-right. It would have required an extreme personality change in too short of a time. Even ignoring that, it just doesn't make logical sense to ease someone out of the alt-right with a video that out of nowhere turns becomes about performing oral sex on a pre-op trans woman. Hmmmmm. That's pushing someone into an ice cold pool, not easing them into anything.
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Nikolas Otto That's exactly how it works. You're not a drone operator who gets away with killing innocent civilians because they look like an insurgent on a camera from 20,000ft in the air. You don't get to make determinations like that.
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@criticalevent Now try to achieve the F-16 top speed with an actual combat load. The paint doesn't get blasted off. There is a situation with bubbles forming in the skin that has happened to B and C variants while flying supersonic at very high altitude. It only happened a few times and a peacetime restriction was put in place, but it's only a precaution. During wartime they'd be allowed to fly in those conditions as the chance it will happen is low.
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Your local city, county and state budgets are not federal defense budgets.
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Stop repeating Putin's propaganda. The promise was kept. Peace comes as soon as Russia withdraws.
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@o.b.7217 Patriot sends its regards.
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M J ok boomer
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Do T-55s need testing?
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Anonimity at least affords you a way to say something and slip into the crowd. Half of these "cancel" type people show themselves out in the open because they have the "correct" opinions.
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@Sulullta All the supplies were "destroyed", and then they called for an "operational pause" and mow they're saying they slowed down to "limit casualties". Translation: the supplies they claimed to have destroyed are hitting their logistics hubs, their HQs, their airbases, etc.
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@DebatingWombat "stand off weapons in general are not precise enough for CAS" - Absolute bull. The gun is not precise at all, it just has limited danger radius compared to explosives. "a long-standing disgust of USAAF with the A-10 and its CAS role in general" - This is an absolute lie made up by reformists and other crackpots in the "alternative" news crowd. "The USAAF brass never liked the A-10 concept" - Lie. In fact the GAO criticized the USAF for buying too many A-10s without justifying the need for such a large fleet. "on what we might call “VCAS” (very close air support)" - Doesn't exist. Ordnance is either being dropped close to friendlies or it isn't. There's no such thing as very close without committing fratricide. "and has always preferred a strategy of “as quickly and as far away as possible”" - Another lie made up by the same crackpots I mentioned early. "action that VCAS requires, but not at the moment, and the F-35 certainly can’t" - Stop trying to make VCAS happen, you made that up. Substantiate your claim that the F-35 cannot provide CAS. "it is both debatable whether air superiority will really be that important" - Without air superiority you're done. "whether fighters are actually the best tool for that job (as opposed to various AA systems)" - Please refer to Desert Storm. Without fighter cover overhead, aircraft absolutely murder air defenses. AA systems without fighters protecting them are fish in a barrel. "Optimising [...] around a platform that is focused on air superiority is a bit silly if most of your missions are actually going to involve “ground pounding”." - The F-16 was optimized for air to air, became an absolute workhorse. History already proved you wrong.
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 @aylmer666 Not how it works. A diplomat gave a generic answer. That's now how wars are started.
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 @padraigwayne7451 We have CCTV recordings of people being detained and marched to their execution spot. We also have drone footage of Russian soldiers hanging around near the corpses.
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They'd be trained wrong because the tanks are totally different.
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Inflation adjusted, the A-10 is more in line with 40 million. Also, it required new Boeing wings costing 2 billion.
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Lula will never let their brand new Gripens fly for Ukraine.
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The theory is based on the assumption that all equipment could be unlocked at once. But the fact is that there's resource and time constraints on how much training you can provide, how much we can physically fit in the cargo aircraft and transport trucks, etc. There's an argument to be made that even if fighter jets were approved day one, the training would be ahead of schedule but the deliveries would still be delayed by more critical taking up time, money and space away from the jets because they provide more immediate results.
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Because Portugal is poor as shit and 2012 was about the tipping point. A year or two later we needed IMF assistance.
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Caseless ammo has no case to reject waste heat from the firing since the entire "case is consumed during the deflagration. However, when comparing brass/steel to plastic the metallic cartridges act as a heat conductor to the chamber while plastic acts as an insulator.
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The problem is that aircraft by their very nature can move large distances. So unless you can look at tail numbers or take the photos at the exact same time, you can't count them. Because of the high likelihood of duplicates.
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Every country Western country is either doing the same or allowing similar schemes.
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If the claims are true you're not held liable for how people react to the truth. Otherwise journalists wouldn't be able to expose corruption for fear of being charged with manslaughter when CEOs or politicians commit suicide. If you make damaging statements that are untrue you can be sued for libel/slander.
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@basti080891 "This laws suck, but of course there is a big difference in between coutries," - okay but you can't say that "most" European countries allow suppressors when pretty much only only a handful are cool with it. The issue is that the difference between Cali and Texas is that in Cali you can't carry unless you're well connected, and there's silly restrictions regarding the handgun roster and the assault weapons legislation but you don't need a reason to own a gun, you don't need to get an appointment with a doctor, you don't need to name a couple people to be references to your good conduct, etc. You can just get a gun. Despite how bad California is, at least there's a sliver of gun rights. In Europe? It's a privilege.
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@basti080891 "what country are you from to have this perspective?" - That's mostly irrelevant because I talked about several different kinds of laws from all over Europe. The 4 years to become an IPSC shooter is specific to Portugal but mandatory gun club membership and official participation in competitions is common, so is getting medically cleared, prohibition of silencers, etc. "Can it be that you are pissed of that you didn't get a gun?" - lmao thanks Dr. Cal Lightman of the internet, do you have an argument or do you just make shit personal for no reason? If your first reaction is to make things personal that's a hint you're running out of proper arguments. If your way of making things personal is by pretending you can read minds like a TV detective you know you have nothing worthwhile to say. Seven countries. Eight if we count the UK where moderators are legal. That's great. How many in Europe? Does eight countries equal the majority of Europe? "considering the list already includes the 2 biggest countries of the EU (after Brexit) that's not bad" - It is bad. It still means that most of Europe has either strict silencer ownership or outright prohibited. How big the countries are is absolutely meaningless because just because more people live there doesn't mean that everyone living outside those 7-8 countries somehow get the benefits of having those big countries inside the European sphere. Big countries don't speak for Europe so those who are fortunate enough to retain some freedoms shouldn't pretend everyone is free. "Also many countries change legislation right now or soon to allow suppressor use while hunting" - While restricting other things. I don't care about hunting either, so laws that benefit fudds don't mean shit. Didn't Switzerland just get pressured into voting to restrict handgun magazines or something by the EU? Who cares about being permitted to use a silencer during hunting when the state also wants to restrict semi-autos and magazine capacity? Plus suppressors are vastly more useful in indoor ranges, which can include the gun clubs where you are often forced to shoot at. How great that the fudds who fire one or two rounds in an afternoon get to protect their hearing, but people in cramped spaces firing next to each other have to deal with obnoxious report from each other.
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@NOSEXER "gettin a gun license at some places in USA is easy as entering to a pornsite" - in most states you don't need a license. As it should be. "gettin help with solving the overpopulation" - there's no overpopulation. We've already hit a peak in number of children in the early 2000s. This means population is not growing from births, but from third world life expectancy increasing.
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@NOSEXER do you have evidence someone is a maniac? Then you have evidence he should get life in jail or at least institutionalized. It shouldn't be the people proving their innocence when presumed guilty. We are presumed innocent and the government must prove our guilt.
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@NOSEXER imagine cops had the right to arrest people because "they were pretty sure". Can't deny rights over gut feelings.
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Because kids were out of school. They've stopped in recent weeks because at this point their target audience is in college.
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Super JLK "at this point the man still thought the jogger was a burglar." - Irrelevant. " He believed the gun would have been used against him and his son." - Oh no, a criminal believes I'm going to hurt him in self-defense. Fuck him. They committed a crime trying to perform the arrest because they're retards, then killed the victim. Criminals don't get to fear that their gun will be used against them. They should either accept their fate or accept getting arrested for murder.
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 @mickd8188 Silently breaking the sound barrier... or the radar is malfunctioning...
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@laszlozoltan5021 Missiles burn out the rocket engine in a matter of seconds. They leave smoke trails when launched. When flying through the air they are unpowered and either falling in a ballistic arc or gliding. A ballistic missile falling at Mach 3 will just plunge and detonate without anyone seeing what happened. No smoke. No trail. Almost invisible. Even at high speeds it takes several minutes for a missile to cover large distances, and the rocket motor would have to be Saturn V sized to burn that long.
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There's no dedicated SEAD/DEAD doctrine or enough training for it. The Coalition had F-4Gs in Desert Storm, which despite some problems (such as running out of fuel too soon in Package Q), were flown by pilots who were dedicated to the Wild Weasel mission. Hunting radars was their bread and butter. Russia does not have this kind of pilot.
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 @paulgibbon5991 people missed the ironic twist on your comment
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@PBurns-ng3gw First, forget air superiority. You can have it and still get your aircraft shot down. Happened in Iraq and Serbia. Second, if you can't fly CAS in a contested battlespace, you're leaving your men to die when they need help. That's not an option. You go in and save them, and you go in riding an aircraft that isn't vulnerable.
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@RCAvhstape The A-10 doesn't get assigned more CAS missions. Since 2001 it only performs 20% of CAS, since 2014 it only performs 11% of CAS. The F-16 performs 33%.
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@KlipsenTube "the A-10 can attack from the rear or the sides" - The Su-25 can't even fly over enemy positions, let alone behind them. How would the A-10 manage to attack at will when neither Russian or Ukrainian pilots can fly near the front lines?
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 @SamTheEnglishTeacher lie lol there was no coup when the Verkhovna Rada just had a vote How does a government coup itself?
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@Grishanof This. Same stuff happened with ammo in 2020. Govt contracts, big box stores contracts, whatever trickles down can go to small retailers which is almost nothing, zero components left to sell to reloaders.
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Source: Shoigu
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At least love yourself and get the Onhunt instead of the NC Star.
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The A-10 stopped production in 1984 and the company that made it went out of business 20 years ago. It got worn down in the GWOT. It can't fight another war.
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@Reindeer911 Nuclear waste has been figured out. It's the green activists who insist it hasn't.
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@tegunn That's fiction.
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@markinl.a.4954 Then why does Russia spend so much time praising the A-10 and shitting on the F-35? Why does a strategic foe, and a country that sells weapons to America's enemies, want the A-10 to stay in service? Riddle me that.
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec "it's known for its survivability because it was built to take a pounding" - at the time other aircraft also had similar armor and redundancies built in. "the A10 was built to storm soviet tank columns" - And it was calculated that by the 1980s the A-10 would suffer unacceptable casualties trying to take on armroed columns.
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@NerfMaster000 "the Army is more than happy to take the A-10" - No, they aren't. It costs billions just to rebuild wings, and they'd have to train not just pilots but also ground crews for an aging aircraft that is begging for retirement since the 90s. https://www.military.com/dodbuzz/2015/02/25/army-not-interested-in-taking-a-10-warthogs-from-air-force
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec "I have seen records of A7 being torn to peace by AAA" - So was the A-10. "but here it were you get wrong, only a few were lost" - 7 shot down an 13 suffered irrecoverable battle damage.
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@terryboyer1342 "Kinda stands to reason that the aircraft using weapons closest to troops in contact would be more likely to cause a friendly fire incident" - That doesn't make any sense. So how is a fast jet dropping a bomb from further away capable of more precise hits? "Myself I'm wondering why the hell the AF has the B-1 doing CAS in the first place?" - CAS is a mission not a platform. "An expensive 4 man 4 engine maintenance intensive strategic bomber doing CAS." - Again, CAS is a mission not a platform. It doesn't matter if it came from an alien ship or the ISS. "USAF chief Gen. Mark A. Welsh III—himself a former A-10 pilot—said that “CAS is a mission, not a platform,” that the Air Force was flying 20,000 close air support sorties a year, and that about 80 percent of those flown in Afghanistan since 2001 were by aircraft other than the A-10." - https://www.airforcemag.com/article/the-ups-and-downs-of-close-air-support/
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@terryboyer1342 "10 actual actual search and rescue missions for downed aircraft/ missing people" - Respect where it is due. My father was search and rescue. I won't debate that. "A B-1 was responsible for dropping a bomb on and killing 5 American soldiers on a night CAS mission in Afghanistan. The soldiers were using their IR strobes. The accident investigation revealed that while the A-10s Litening II pod could detect the strobes the B-1s Sniper pod cannot resulting in their being targeted and their deaths." - This is all I can link to about the subject: https://www.defencetalk.com/moody-afb-a-10s-to-receive-new-sniper-pods-20411/ “It’s the Air Force’s pod of choice and is already in use in combat as well as in several active-duty units who are equipped with both the A-10Cs and other aircraft including the B-1B Lancer, F-15E (Strike Eagles) and F-16 (Fighting Falcons),” the colonel said. “Aside from the new improvements, it’s important to focus on the basic abilities that any targeting pod gives to the A-10C.” https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/01/11/b-1-bomber-crews-defend-sniper-pod-after-friendly-fire-incident.html ""Yes, the B-1 can't do it [see IR strobes] because of the pod, but anybody else who has that pod has the same [limiting factors] that we do," said Lt. Col. Dominic "Beaver" Ross, director of operations for the 337th Test and Evaluations Squadron. "It wasn't B-1 specific. If it was an A-10, or an F-15 or F-16 in that situation, they would have had the same issue. I think it was just a misconception," he said." "You seem to have a persistent dislike of the A-10 for some reason" - I have a persistent dislike for myth becoming fact, a dislike for the BRRRRT meme. We get it, the A-10 has a big gun. This meme, and I use the term in the original meaning of the word which is an idea that replicates and mutates like a gene, has taken over aviation discourse and invalidated any argument. Because BRRRT. You can't replace the BRRRT.
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec Before there were any prototypes, General Dynamics and Northrop submitted concept aircraft to the program, both turboprop. "the purpose of the titanium bathtub is to protect the most important part of the plane the pilot" - So again, the rest of the aircraft is still vulnerable to 23mm fire. "the position of the engines is very simple avoing the gases from the firing og the gau8 cannon" - Which didn't work, and so the engine ignition sparks while the cannon is fired to prevent flame out. "as for the suposed quote" - It was not supposed, it's right there and you can read it. "actyualy you stated it first" - I didn't. "thye 23mm is a AAA caliber, not the 14.5, thats is why they would focuss on it, it makes no sense to focus on the 14.5" - "Survivability from ground fire was an essential characteristic for the A-X. Structural and system design would need to provide inherent survivability, to include self sealing fuel tanks and, if power flight controls were used, a manual backup system would be provided. The pilot and critical flight systems would be protected from 14.5mm projectiles (common Soviet AntiAircraft shells)." A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog) SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CASE STUDY - Air Force Center for Systems Engineering (AFIT/SY) - David R. Jacques, PhD, LtCol USAF (Ret)/Dennis D. Strouble, PhD "damaged by AAA but not shot down" - Again, a couple of A-10s were downed by AAA, and others were damaged, limped back to base and are still buried in Saudi Arabia. Even if you come back to base it's still a loss. It's not invulnerable and it can be killed. "the only ones shot down were whit missiles, i know that for a fact" - Your facts are wrong. Even pro-A-10 sources claims a few were shot down by AAA guns.
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec I provided data from the Air Force itself. You have nothing. I happened to come across your comments on another video and realized you're from the country my family is from, so I am going to depart with a firm handshake and stop myself from saying ugly things because if anything, I'd hope that you could at least show some mutual respect after the accusations you threw at me.
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@terryboyer1342 Do you understand what a myth is? If a narrative is generated from real facts but then the narrative outlives its objectiveness it becomes myth. Things become mythical with time to the point their history becomes revisionist. A link to a glorified blog is not going to change that. The relevance of the gun in modern combat is the much smaller danger radius created around the impact area. This is not something unique to the A-10. The BRRRRT meme is the quintessential myth because it pretends that the gun is more powerful than it is and is still able to be the tank killer - even though 1979 testing determined it could only kill a third of 1950s Patton tanks. The tank killer in the A-10 is the Maverick missile which is not in any way exclusive to the airframe. The meme is not parroted by people who understand why the gun still matters. The B-1 or B-52 would not accomplish the same because they wouldn't need to. The A-10 fights the way it fights because it's what it does. Different platforms achieve the same end result in different ways. The F-35, just like the F-15, F-18 or F-16 would be able to perform a gun run. Why would the F-35 be unable? What else can't do gun runs, the Harrier? If your focus is the gun run, we could have replaced the A-10 by turboprops as the OA-X project intended. Slap a gunpod on the belly and rocket pods in the wings, they're making laser guided rockets for use in pods now. Whoosh whoosh whoosh and job's done.
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec "Portugal doesn't use or ever used the A7" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTV_A-7_Corsair_II#Operators https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Portuguese_A-7P_Corsair_II_in_flight_c1984.jpg/1280px-Portuguese_A-7P_Corsair_II_in_flight_c1984.jpg~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTV_A-7P_Corsair_II
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@terryboyer1342 Do you have anything to say or do you just wail and throw insults like tantrums? EDIT: And by the way, speaking of maturity I certainly would not like someone like you to be performing search and rescue. I don't care how well you can see from above, if your reaction to disagreement is this one you don't deserve to be on the air when lives are on the line.
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@Yaotzin86 No, you don't get to define markets. Everything is a market even if you don't want it to be. Trying to plead for a special definition is just a fallacy. ""Real money" is defined by the government" - Not really, it's defined by the central bank. In some cases the central bank is owned by the government. There's no actual reason a private bank cannot issue currency. In fact, things like bitcoin are validated by cryptography and do not require a central bank to be validated. ""Fraud" is defined by the government" - No, it isn't. It's theft by deception. "There is no such thing as legally owned property without government" - This is Marxist BS. Everyone except the most unreasonable people recognize that property exists independently of government. Only the deranged who buy nonsensical political ideologies actually try and argue that property is something we get from the government. Even animals mark their territory. Even animals can comprehend the notion of what is theirs.
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 @SA-kg6lp getting to the top involves a deal with the devil one way or the other. The path to the top is much harder if you try to get there clean.
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@bigbake132 Because Ukrainian people are fluent in the languages spoken there. And because they're Ukrainian, there's an expectation that they'll fight for Ukraine. If you show up there, waste their time by getting trained, then run to the border the first time you hear a shell whistling past you, might as well not bother.
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Youtube is social media...
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@Biologist19681 If the government is granting property rights through cooperation with large and powerful industries rather than a true free market, that's definitely fascism. Or at the very least an oligarchy.
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I've never seen a SK city this empty on any photo or video.
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@Dark Night you are presented with the choice of shooting civilians to defend yourself and also avenge one of your guys being lynched by a mob at one point in the game, and the game sorta attempts to trick you into shooting them. The white phosphorous scene isn't the only point where the player is able to do bad stuff.
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You'd be wrong. You believe a media strawman but the fact is that we're probably better informed, at least in average. I've had all my shots. I've never been scared of shots. I am scared of a future full of QR codes and biosecurity.
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Population growth? We're past that. We're trying to avoid COLLAPSE.
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@killcat1971 it's funny how to you the answer to the UBI problem is materialism and sex. Maybe if people weren't so obsessed with having the latest phone we would live in a world where a UBI wouldn't even be necessary. Also, if you want to give people a UBI just for their basic needs and nothing more, why instead of a UBI not have a state soup kitchen and rooms? You can live in poverty, but you will always have food and shelter. Want something better? Go find a job. That way you don't need to give people money and risk them misusing it.
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OP did you just say that Russia has the right to invade a country because some people in it are guilty of "wrongthink"?
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Basically the NRA supported the bump stock ban and red-flag laws. Now, it doesn't matter what you think about bump stocks - if a government decides you can't own a piece of plastic, can you really trust them to let you own guns? Regarding the red flag laws, they sound reasonable in principle but basically anyone can lie and call the authorities to ask for your guns to be removed. It's very easy to make false statements and those who make them won't always get punished because prosecution fears that punishing the false accusers will make real accusers afraid to come forward. So if if you have a quarrel with a neighbor or problems with an ex you might have a false accusation forcing you to spend time in court proving your innocence. Not to mention that sometimes bad things happen. When the police shows up to take the guns it's not always peaceful. Trigger-happy cops sometimes get addresses wrong, or make a house raid without knocking and end up shooting the homeowner who thought he was being robbed, or they restrain a family but the dog starts barking so they shoot the dog... Sorry for rambling, but these new laws are seriously pissing off gun owners. The NRA basically allowed this to happen because these laws won't reduce gun sales like a ban would, and they probably hoped that by letting these laws pass they're better able to fight off new laws. Well, multiple states are trying to crack down on guns and the NRA is nowhere to be seen. Even at the federal level they are trying to introduce gun control. The NRA on social media seems more focused on talking about their new cooler partnership since the Yeti brand of coolers dropped the NRA.
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@zzaretube How it would have stopped anything?
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@myleshagar9722 Because they're threatened to have their license to practice revoked if they speak out against them.
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Pewdiepie essentially went on a crusade pointing out hypocrisies regarding other content creators with pewnews, did the consistent uploads thing, and leveraged the T-series drama. He worked his ass off to mitigate the effects.
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@Etherman7 It's not unconfirmable BS. His recount of the event in the book was embellished compared to his own after action report, and even that was exaggerated. You can claim it's BS and it could solve world hunger, doesn't make a lick of difference when you can literally watch the footage taken by the Taliban fighters. I have absolutely no envy of Luttrell, because I'd have to be insane to want to carry the shame of lying to get a book deal and a movie.
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Didn't even notice ahahah that's gold
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For the lack of a better descriptor, I am right wing. I support sending Ukraine more artillery/shells and ATACMS missiles to bring down the Kerch bridge for good and leave the Russian army no escape.
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@dmitryletov8138 The Lancet study has been criticized by several scientists as it couldn't be replicated and used an unreliable method by extrapolating from interviews. The study published in the Lancet didn't actually do a bodycount, the researchers did a sample of people and asked them questions.
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NATO is losing? How many troops are involved?
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Jealous of what? Not having my bunghole plastered online? Also, the neckbeards are the ones paying for this.
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@ujbx Missing the forest for the trees. The critical point was the Solidarity movement in Poland picking up steam and instead of repeating the Czechoslovakia or Hungary gameplan they decided to sit that one out because Afghanistan had exposed their military. Russia was confident in sending troops to the Baltics but not Poland. That was when the penny dropped. The Vietnam projection theory doesn't make sense. Politics ended the war rather than the war ending politics. It was the Watergate scandal which put the nail in the coffin and took away the political stability to commit to South Vietnam.
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They're not selling anything. These were puchased decades ago.
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They don't care about the Hui. You're being fooled by thinking this is about what you think it is.
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We're close to the theoretical max efficiency of solar, and it's still an intermittent power source that depends on your latitude.
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@alexdunphy3716 they fly nuclear bombers to probe airspace too. If they're mad at our ISR being provided to the adversary, I'm mad at nuclear threats. They don't get to cry about it. They also use Belarus to attack Ukraine while those countries are not at war, complicating the retaliation calculus. Russia is not above fighting dirty. Why should we honor their justification for the attack?
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12:34 Nvidia releases RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards to the public, 2018 (colorized)
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@davidmiletic6647 and doing that would negate the entire reason to invade. They need a buffer state to ensure the geological chokepoint and to retain access to the Black Sea. Obliterating Ukraine would remove that convinient buffer state.
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Tomboy ab sweat >>>>> gamer girl bath water
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When they're scheduled for destruction the companies contracted to do it destroy the frame/receiver and sell the rest as parts kits. If you bought a HiPoint parts kit to 3d print yourself a frame, it was most likely a crime gun that got destroyed.
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@doxholiday1372 a shot was fired before the physical altercation started
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@Ryan-xw2gm The liveleak video.
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Well, they wouldn't replace the SAW for this, so the problem remains.
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@t3nst Occam's razor this one - the researcher known as "bat woman" who studied coronavirus worked at the lab close to the origin of the pandemic, coauthored papers with an American scientist who was part of the group that came out in an open letter claiming it couldn't be a lab leak.
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Roast and "friendly" are not mutually exclusive.
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I wouldn't be mocking if I took a heavy rock to the face. However, if you have to show up to a shooting war and your weapon is just chucking rocks, that's deserving of mockery.
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Supplies would be instantly found in the frontlines and photographed. People even tracked some Ukrainian weapons to an Iranian shipment that got intercepted and impounded.
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ATM machine
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@italienn The problem is that copy pasting the email breaks the chain of custody. How do I know you didn't just type whatever suited your narrative? The moment you admit to tampering with the text it can't be trusted, and people are like "he admitted he edited the email so it's fine" completely miss the point.
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@AgendaFiles Look up the Weather Underground and the former members that became professors or assistants in schools/universities. There's like 5 or 6. So, they're not nameless, they have names and faces you can easily find online. Is that enough? Will you forfeit the argument and accept we were right? Or are you going to deny that your conditions have been met and change the subject? Because I won't follow you down that spiral.
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@gaborrajnai6213 The airforce isn't intact. Not only have they lost dozens of airframes, they also have a limited supply of pilots and spare parts.
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"Scandinavian countries are mostly atheist and were the best places to live on earth before they got infested by Islam" - If they were such good places to live in, they wouldn't have allowed certain people from obtaining special rights over their own native citizens.
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Train how you fight. Which means having to do it drunk and naked.
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@tensemurm5924 The scientific consensus it out there. I gave you some reading material. I guess Mr. Scientist here is not interested. People died because the "science" apparently didn't reach the ERs and ICUs. My mind is made up. You should know the mechanisms behind fatalities. If Mr. Scientist here wants to stick his head in the sand, or the tube down his windpipe in this case, he's free to do so.
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@mdioxd9200 They adopted the G3 which has a receiver profile similar to the StG 44 and uses the roller delayed system from the prototype Gerat 06 late war design.
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Been hearing that for 12 months.
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They absolutely are.
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Poland had a program to use Sparrow missiles in Kub launchers in the 2000s. They probably used that as basis for the Buk/Sea Sparrow conversion.
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 @HiwasseeRiver Russia started the war because Yanukovych was pressured to join the EU by his own campaign promises. Cope harder.
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Ray Vorontsoff "Have you heard about such thing as INFLATION? Have you heard about such thing as TECHNOLOGIES? These two things drove the vehicle prices up" - I wanna know how you read a comment about a government program increasing the value of older cars and went on a rant about technology making newer cars expensive. "Now you blame government in your "inability" to sell your car cheap." - Stop doing drugs. That's not what I said. You're losing your mind as you type. "Don't be a hypocrite" - There's no hypocrisy here. "If you and people like you really care about people who can buy cheap cars only, prove it with your action." - Do you know about a thing called Game Theory? "You won't. Because YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE A CHANCE TO MAKE A GOOD BUCK OUT OF YOUR OLD JUNK" - Congratulations, that was the first lesson in Game Theory. You've just explained to yourself why you're wrong, but you can't event realize it. "I didn't either. This is why I'm pretty happy that the government offered me a better deal than junkyard or RESELLERS of my car." - You're a dummy. The government didn't offer you a better deal. The government TOOK your money, then used your own money to take your car out of the streets. YOU PAID FOR THE PROGRAM and allowed the government to BRIBE you with YOUR OWN MONEY. You didn't get a better deal. That's how real life works, jackass. Of course that a rational agent in the car market sees his money being used to get cars out of the street so he sees an opportunity to make his money back. But you're the kind of fool who got took for a ride. It would have been money if the government didn't steal your money first, and you got a couple hundred off that beater. But no. You got taken like a chump and brag about it.
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Where is it misleading?
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And they all move West at the first chance they get. Weapons isn't a prestigious job in Russia so their MIC is lead by old guys almost in retirement age with no apprentices to get the knowledge passed down
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@tobiaspieringer1653 the issue is that in self-defense you are authorized to use the assailant as backstop. You're not authorized to endanger others around you. And while yes, firing a gun straight into the air will rob it out of most of its energy because of terminal velocity on the way down, if you just wake up during the night 45 degrees might as well be straight up and brother, rounds fired with a horizontal component are absolutely lethal when they come down.
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The export potential was hindered by the fact that operating costs are much higher than Saab advertises and they had a bribery scandal.
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@sumduma55 Explosives with low sensitivity require detonation to achieve detonation, hence the usage of primary explosives and even secondary/booster explosives to set them off. If a strike with explosives provides the detonation, stored munitions will be set off. Even if not armed, because the attack itself provides the energy source.
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Test footage of the Starstreak shows a UH-1 being hit in the exact same spot.
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@richardpatton2502 "Do you believe CAS will be ultimately left to other platforms?" - Already has been, for the most part. "Should a dedicated replacement to the a-10 be built?" - At this point, why? The only thing unique about the A-10 is the smaller danger close radius of the gun versus bombs/missiles.
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@andrewtaylor940 "heavy ammo and payload at low altitude" - There's zero advantage to that. "low attack speed" - Which is a negative. "stay above them a long time concentrating support fire" - the loiter time is a big plus but the A-10s niche is uncontested air space. Which means that tankers could make up for the inferior loiter time of faster jets. "Its judt it fills a specific niche that has not been duplicated. " - But could have, and the projects were canceled.
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@richardpatton2502 "But on your latest explanation on the software and reverse engineering. How confident are you that perceived enemies like Russia do not possess that info already?" - One one assume that as soon as enemy contacts started reacting to radars being turned on, they'd simply change the algorithms so that the frequency hopping becomes unpredictable again. Besides, if you were so assume that Russia broke American crypto there's a whole lot of more pressing issues that have to be addressed before stealth. "The Skyraider was supposed to be obsolete in Korea but when Vietnam came around there they were, down on the dirt." - You look at footage of cops flying the relatively "low and slow" helicopters and what do you see? FLIR. The mechanical eye sees more than you can with the human one. If you're gonna fly a modern turboprop like the A-19 Super Tucano like you'd fly a Skyraider, you're doing something wrong. For example the A-7 was a formidable bombing platform. But if you look at video from the time (this is a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8lVoK_APac) you can see it's not all sunshine and rainbows. You will either have to be queued about target information or you have to acquire it visually. The latter is much harder when you have to observe a pitched battle and mark your own targets. From my limited research the A-7 only got FLIR in 1978 and that was in the Navy, with the ANG A-7s only getting it in 1988. So, in the end there's nothing wrong with the machine, it's the human inside that limits the capabilities. You give the human machine eyes to see the target without requiring low and slow passes, and you solve the problem. "Also, this kind of air support is very good for morale on the ground, which importance is frequently and systematically ignored..." - If the morale gains come from using an inferior platform then we have to question if morale is even a reasonable goal. Are troops meant to see an air show or effects on target?
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They are losing.
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The world actually ended in 2012 and we're only living in a simulation.
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@44johnburton they'll be fed expired rations, though...
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Mr. Logic Man Ever posted an IG story? You post as you go. By the time they found out it was a body they had already uploaded the videos.
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@ryzen89 lmao 90% chance, those are the propaganda, I mean marketing numbers.
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Very bold for the movie's message to be that even if you stop being racist you still get shot.
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ATF must be fuming.
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@bl8danjil How do you keep an A-10 up to date in survivability? You put a single engine with actual power in the centerline of the aircraft, you crank back the wings and remove the dead weight (gun). Congratulations, it's looking like a fighter. You can't do anything about the A-10 without making it fly higher and faster.
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@holyravioli5795 depleted uranium isn't a big radiological issue. But it's a very nasty heavy metal. And while the metal is heavy the dust can be kicked up by children playing in the area 20 years after the conflict. Same reason why you can go visit Chernobyl and you're fine, but you're not supposed to touch the animals or kick up dirt, even the heavy elements can get suspended in the air and you breathe them in.
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Ethan Hunt: "By fire... It's the best way."
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To be honest you don't need to worry about "clones" of existing weapons. Every tool has strengths and drawbacks so if one designs a gun specifically for 3d printing methods then you can create "worrisome" weapons. But then it's the mind that is the real weapon, not the plastic.
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It was like 70 feet deep. Amateur divers could have done it.
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Bradley crews love it.
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It was perfect for Vietnam. The Fulda Gap mission came with the knowledge that the A-10 pilots in Germany would trade their lives for time so that ships could cross the Atlantic with renforcements.
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Luka Leaks
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The opposite view is just FSB narrative.
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@sovietmoose5624 Conventionally bombing Japan would have taken time. Japan's mentality was that they could weather the attacks and simply wait out the Americans. A single plane with a single bomb leveling an entire city in a single attack changed the entire calculus. Hell, after Hiroshima they were actually considering that the US couldn't possibly have enough uranium to build a second one, unaware that the US also developed the plutonium implosion bomb. It was the second bomb that made them see the US as an unstoppable foe who would not be deterred.
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@Gforcebond they were calculating the radius of the Earth back then. Nice try.
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The PTR 91 doesn't roller lock. The origin is a roller lock system that the Germans realized tended to unlock itself with bolt bounce, and decided to play with it. The cartridge pushes itself out of the chamber, it just so happens that the bolt must use the rollers to transmit force into the bolt carrier. The MG42/MG3 doesn't allow the cartridge to push itself out, instead it's the rollers that get pushed out of alignment with the recesses.
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Even Strike Eagle drivers learned to use the gun at night, a maneuver thought to be too risky to try in combat. Hardly a Hog exclusive.
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@bawilson999 Setting the strategy means telling the CFO what to achieve without necessarily telling him how to achieve it. If the CEO tells the CFO to cut costs, it goes without saying that the biggest slash an insurance company could make is not paying out. Even if the CEO does not say those words. By that logic a mob boss can't be convicted for ordering a hit because he just told his enforcers to "take care of it".
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@BonnieBlue2A "When you are dying, your organs are too unhealthy for another life to depend upon" - bullshit, if you die from heart attack they check if your kidneys are fine and cut them out.
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 @Riggs_The_Roadie Something about Carl on Duty: Black Cops.
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Buying the Gripen also means your foreign policy is tied to Sweden. Very few countries will sell you no strings attached.
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 @cowboybeboop9420 many people who fled abroad are returning. People are living as normally as possible despite the air raids. Remember, London was also "blitzed" during WWII.
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 @zac2761 Blame the Ottoman empire, then.
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@notafrog749 Neil is a douchebag but the deaths per 48h tweet was the best thing he ever posted
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@marioelezi8018 the US spends trillions on itself, billions is chump change. Food doesn't get expensive because of it. Gas doesn't get expensive because of it. You're just a contrarian who's mad and needs excuses. Dozens of wars have happened in your lifetime and you didn't even feel it.
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Early warning radar beams at the ionosphere and it bounces back at the ground. It's no good to target an aircraft but it can be used to see attack formations or missile launches.
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@ethank5059 Look at it the other way. For example Turkey is using this conflict as a power play, and they back Azerbaijan. This is against Iran's interests. So Iran gets drawn into Russia's geopolitics mess even if they didn't intend to.
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@HRM.H That's not what "whataboutism" means.
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150 dollars worth of Gepard shells bring down the drones. These are for Iranian ballistic missiles Russia is trying to get.
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Youtube moderation is inconsistent. Dude wants to run his channel like a business, I can't fault him for that. A strike or demobetization can hinder his channel. If you have a throwaway channel or run media channels like CNN, MSNBC, etc you don't care.
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In 007 The World Is Not Enough for the PS2 there's a Blackjack table in one of the early levels, and for whatever reason if you bet half of your total money you always win that hand. No idea why but I could spend 15 minutes just racking up money that I don't remember being useful for anything other than completing an objective.
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You're right - you're not an expert. Cannon rounds sail through the balloon skin and the leaks are very slow.
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They lost far too many men and materiel for it to be a feint. How confident would you be if you were a soldier in the Russian armed forces, and you were told to capture X and not know if you were the real attacker or the feint, about to die for nothing?
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They've been manufactured decades ago.
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 @geneoh5048 All the Russian economic figures are presented by Rosstat, the official Russian government statistics.
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The S-500 is an anti ballistic system. Not a S-400 upgrade.
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Do you watch the videos? The shovel joke falls flat when the advacing troops put the muzzle on their own head or shove a live grenade into their vest. Turns out people can get gibbed like in Quake multiplayer in real life.
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+Blitzmachine what I am saying doesn't matter because reality, for the most part, already disagrees with you. You have free speech. If you cause unjust damages, you will suffer the consequences. If the damages you cause are the result of the truth being exposed, in theory you are protected (although in the cases of Snowden and Manning we see that it's not quite right). You should be able to damage a corporation for ripping off customers or dumping toxic waste on our water. However, if you write an article trying to defame someone with lies, you may be sued for libel. At no point was your speech restricted. The government doesn't staple lips shut or cut hands off to restrict speech, it only punishes after the fact. It would be like being able to own any gun, even a 20mm M61 Vulcan autocannon. No restrictions. However, nobody said you had the right to kill people with it. That's not a restriction. It just means we'll put you in jail for murder.
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@chocolate_squiggle So your solution is mandating peanut butter shots without testing for allergies first?
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A Fels Oh their service is abhorrent. At this point the man is so famous it feels strange to mention his channel but Louis Roussman has catalogued to an extreme detail how anti-consumer Apple is. But as long as they keep getting customers to come back, that's reputation.
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@ILoveYeshua1992 The Germans kept records. There's also the case of Eric Hunt, a famous denier who studied the holocaust to the point he actually managed to debunk the deniers.
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@МихаилМ-ц9д There's no discriminatory laws or language bans. Also, those laws were passed in response to Russia taking out broadcast towers and forcing Eastern Ukrainians to rely on Russian TV channels for news.
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The problem is that if they try to hole up inside the city, they give Ukraine absolute artillery control over all suppy lines even across the river, and there's partisans inside the city. It's a completely untennable position and at that point they'd better negotiate a surrender.
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@tommyanomaly6193 Then why weren't Finland and Sweden invaded, hmmm?
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@mayarm6924 literally 1984
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@pogo1140 It makes perfect sense. The Su-25 is 5 miles away from the line of contact, the MiG-31 is all the way back in Russia or Belarus. I can punch someone across the face in less time than it takes to run across the street to stop me.
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@Matt-xc6sp and HK would need to explain to the German government what would be the civilian purpose of a 4.6mm pistol. The MR556 is sold in the US with a stainless steel barrel because HK justified the sale by saying it was a target shooting rifle.
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@Metoobie The enemy disengaging is a false economy. You burned a lot of fuel just to make the enemy fight you again next week. He wears out the soles of his sneakers/boots, you wear out airframes and burn JP-4/8.
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 @novembertango1298 They have LESS access to the Black Sea since Ukraine created a "no go" zone where they can sink ships. And Sevastopol is not safe anymore.
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That's the "starving children in Africa" argument. Can't talk about anything else except the pressing issue. 18 minutes out of a 24 hour day. Is that too much?
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@eQuariuz "they'd be able to defeat the regular Russian Army in combat" - They defeated the regular Russian army around Kiev. The electricity was back up in a few hours, so again a temper tantrum because they can't handle losing.
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15 Rubles a day keeps the mobilization officer away.
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Darkness... at night... is disturbing?
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 @greenhammer3263 Should the Soviet Union have refused to fight Germany because of leftism?
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@iamisaid2295 J&J and AZ are not normal. They use an adenovirus, but the virus isn't meant to trigger immune response. It hijacks cells, and instead of producing more virus it produces spike proteins. So the working mechanism is the same, it's only the intrusion mechanism that differs.
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@haruruben Both Russians and Ukrainians are flying it. The problem is, they can't fly over the battle. They come in at high speed, pitch up, fire rockets in a ballistic arc and turn away to head back to base. Giving them A-10s would mean tons of time wasted training pilots and ground crews for them to resort to using A-10s the same way.
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@robertrider1251 Su-25s have been shot down on both sides. Air superiority is irrelevant.
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 @Davidrodriguez-vb1zk you don't get given the keys to armories simply from being a service member. If a single M4 is missing from inventory they put the base on lockdown.
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Homie still getting paid his roubles. Shame you weren't at the Black Sea Fleet HQ this morning.
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He has repeated Russian propaganda. A lot of the "lies" are twisted narratives meant to make the US look bad. Kuwait wasn't part of NATO, yet most people support what the US did to defend them.
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@Cadowyn Then why mandate it and treat those who don't have it as second class citizens?
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@sevenproxies4255 The Pentagon Wars, the book that inspired the movie, was written by a delusional guy who misundestood every decision done without his input as corruption and asscovering. For example, his complaint that Bradley targets had fuel replaced by water to make them look better after a hit/clothes on uniforms being damp. The truth is that everyone knows fuel catches fire when hit. They were looking for vaporific effects/aluminum burning after a hit, and burning fuel would mess with the results and cause further damage to the hull. Burton threw a fit over a very reasonable attempt at isolating variables.
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There's a video of an old man in Maripol saying Azov were "super" after saving them from Russian troops.
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 @MooN-ml2os if you hit a wall you're a bad driver even if the car is able to limp back to your garage
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 @SanityMustPrevail the tanks being dropped are literally on video...
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Most of them donate millions.
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You people still purposefully misunderstanding an article almost two years since it was published?
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@louistournas120 If you make a car that drives the steering column into the driver's chest in a crash, you'll be sued.
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@Ghastly_Grinner so what exactly do you think the point of the movie was? There's a reason why she was the main character.
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@sarjim4381 "Reining in regulations, getting us out of bad trade deals, starting get NATO countries to pay their share" - All of that isn't libertarian exclusive. Any neo-con worth his salt will reign in regulations and libertarians want the end of NATO. Fuck forcing others to pay more. If Europe is so afraid of Russia they might as well start issuing guns to every adult and claim the EU will have a rifleman behind every blade of grass. "appointing judges who may stop federal overreach" - Kavanaugh was pro-PATRIOT Act. "not getting us into new wars" - I'm sorry but that is a weak excuse. The tremendous cost of war is what has prevented the start of new ones. Meanwhile a libertarian president should be ENDING them. There's US special forces in Africa and the US is supporting the Saudi war on Yemen. Just because no country can afford for formally declare war on the US for the acts of aggression it commits doesn't mean Trump is libertarian. "and let's not pretend Gary Johnson was any kind of libertarian" - Which nobody did so far. Pointing to Gary Johnson's bad example of a LP candidate doesn't absolve Trump of simply being a neo-con.
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@gidondejong1802 The tradition states "not your personal army" so you can't contract them to do a job. Also, almost all of the original anonymous groups were either arrested or forced to work for the feds.
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Vietnam is a bad example and Iraq is worse. North Vietnam was fighting to take over the South and unify the country. They were taught the brutal infiltration tactics Russia used in Bakhmut with Wagner. After political turmoil in the US made intervention impossible, North Vietnam broke the peace treaty and invaded the South. They were essentially Russia in the conflict. Waste millions of lives, wait for the West to lose interest. In Iraq there was a civil war, then Iranian interference. Nobody was fighting for liberation - they were fighting each other because of Sunni-Shia sectarianism. Then ISIS came and Iraq had to fight side by side with the US. How is this an example for what you were trying to say? Iraq was initially defeated by a non-state actor and the "empire" came over to help.
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Jesus Christ the guy just gave you the proper counter argument and your answer is critiquing Milo for just playing by ear. I agree, he's a mouthpiece for whatever niche he can make money from. But where was Richard Spencer mentioned in his comment? Or Bannon? To say "you'd only be offended at criticism of the alt-right if you're a Nazi" makes my skin crawl because you don't realize, anything that isn't mainstream republican is alt-right. Alternative. Right. They started using that term to refer to everyone under the sun who wasn't left or Republican. Then they started using it against Neo-Nazis and white nationalists so your brain clicks and associates libertarians, ancaps, minarchists, etc with neo-nazi ideals.
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 @kkpenney444 Iraq won in Desert Storm?
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Seethe.
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No argument.
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There's "new" home alone movies?
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@jonathanjacob5453 How do you have a full belly when you have no job? How do you have the heat on when you can't pay?
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Wow another Trump = Nazi. When I was a kid I said the same about Bush. Congratulations you have the mental age of me when I was 12.
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@rahn45 Ukraine is more militarized than before. Civilian casualties to a bare minimum? Just recently Wagner mercs admitted to killing civilians.
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Ukraine was neutral and Russia invaded.
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@Gromit801 Not really. Congress is wrong in this case, as usual.
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I explained the "AAAAHHHH MOTHERLAND" and "but I am le tired" references to my brother the other day because he was completely lost when I used them.
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@darthkek1953 Their logistics are still hindered by the mid 2022 massive ammo dump explosions. The Russian army's logistics will never catch up to their intended expenditure rate due to the threat to close dumps and losses in their transport forces.
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@Shade7x but any fee, test or licensing system tied to the act of voting would be unconstitutional. The state has the ability to verify if you're not trying to commit voter fraud. If your neighbours report gunshots the police will come check if you're killing someone. That's not a "gun law" its simply enforcement of other laws that involve damage you can cause to others with your actions.
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Tempt the bear into pouring more weapons? They've already brought everything.
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@wisenber The F-15EX does not have the speed when it carries the payload, most speed ratings are achieved clean and bolting weapons plus fuel tanks increases drag. The EX may have the range, but cannot go where the F-35 can. Stealth is the ticket to survive SAMs.
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@RmFrZQ If you check the UK Health Security Agency weekly report, for example I'm using week 42, in page 20 it shows a graph showing antibodies over time. Most of the population got S antibodies from infection and and vaccination. But the proportion of people getting N antibodies has stalled. This means that people who were infected after "immunization" (lol) mounted an immune response based on spike protein antibodies alone. The immune system was primed to respond to the spike proteins and now doesn't respond to the nucleoprotein. There's no other explanation. The rising prevalence of N antibodies is probably coming from the unvaccinated and the "true" vaccine failures where the person didn't mount an immune response to the shot, but most of the population now has an incomplete immune response even if they get exposed to the real thing after the shot. The spike protein is also a mutable part of the virus so it's always a gamble if old spikes prime the body for new variants. A good article is "Could live attenuated vaccines better control COVID-19?" by Shinya Okamura and Hirotaka Ebina, PMCID: PMC8354792/PMID: 34426024 Notice how the live attenuated shot is praised for the potential for broad immune response, but in trials in Syrian hamsters they had less virus in the lungs but the same amount in the nasal cavity. This means the immune system can prevent illness, but doesn't defeat the virus in the nose. People can stop being sick, but they'll keep hosting and spreading. And what happens when this creates a variant that evades our immunity?
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What do you know?
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First PeterSpriol and now DIYPerks doing submergibles? Afternoon made.
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@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 But if you're travelling for business or vacations in a city, you'll have espresso available almost anywhere. If I'm going to my country house where it's almost an hour drive through winding roads to the nearest village, I can simply leave a kitchen counter coffee machine there. If I'm camping... I don't get it, if I'm sleeping in a tent and eating camping-friendly food I'll take instantaneous or "cowboy coffee". But I get it, part of being successful is creating demand where there wasn't any. Well, I searched on youtube for hand pumped espresso and found a machine that looks like a bicycle pump. Sure, it's not as pretty and won't fit a purse unless you're also carrying your self-defense baton in there, but it's available for campers and travelers without requiring a 600,000 dollar crowdfunding campaign.
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@nevoyu I don't know how long I could last without snapping and just posting memes about sending Ted packages to elected officials.
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@SC4RRiGAN it's not WWII anymore
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@rahn45 "Russia views the conflict under the lens of resources." - The fact that Russia is dipping into the T-55 tank reserve, they're running out of resources.
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Air power does not disable mine fields. Combined arms means the combination of arms, it doesn't require ALL types of arms.
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@es68951 kek
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When the essay has a min word count.
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@wolfswinkel8906 Not if the attackers take the dug in position to provoke the defender into attacking. Bite and hold tactics.
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The issue is, such a quick operation will need 2-3 months of obvious buildup.
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Russia's peace demands essentialy require Ukraine to disband its army. The robber says he'll leave your house if you remove the locks from your door.
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 @lolcat5303 Negotiations were always open, the problem is that Russia pretty much demanded demilitarization of Ukraine. Trump said "negotiate, or else..." which is very, very different.
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@flamingflesh5976 You took a post about working out and limiting alcohol consumption an assumed an obsession for longevity. I don't have any obsession for longevity but I do like looking 10 years younger than everyone else.
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You've been saying that since 2022.
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To be fair, without viewers you don't get sponsors either. But you also get less viewers if you don't have lots of sponsors sending you material.
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@succocide Who decides what the standard is? Who decides what difficult is? Right there you have decisions in a system that's supposedly not deciding anything.
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TheBoomguy64 usa and other countries assumed neutral in this scenario
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There's absolutely footage of a "mule" assault phase in Bakhmut. Men not carrying rifles holding ammo cases and wearing vests with their pouches full.
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 @lexslate2476 Job growth measured relatively to what? Of course jobs grew after lockdowns ended.
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Jack Smith Is that supposed to be English?
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 @bobcruz2826 True that. But the number of people who come here within 10 minutes of an upload to talk shit are something else.
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S-500s are anti-ballistic systems that carry over features from previous launchers, they're not S-400 + 100.
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@erikavossebelt7006 the suffragettes were white supremacists mad at black men getting the vote before they did.
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@joshuaespinoza8325 politicians start literal wars over lies that kill thousands if not a million plus. Where is their impeachment?
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Firing a 50 cal doesn't rupture your organs. Except maybe the eardrums if you forget ear pro? Always remember Newton's laws of motion. What you put in someone's chest downrange is going into your shoulder.
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@taan1424 Nobody mentioned mounted machine guns, thanks for picking a case that isn't in any way related to the argument. During WWI there were no modern armor standards. If you make an armor plate that doesn't stop the concussion, it's not armor. It's an object you can scam people into thinking it's armor (such as AR500 plates without NIJ certification). If you do have armor, it stops the concussion. It's pretty simple.
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>be Russian child >wake up in the morning to go to school >school bus arrives >bribe the bus driver >walk into class >bribe the teacher >class bully is blocking me from getting to my chair >bribe him too >bell rings for lunch >head to cafeteria >bribe the lunch lady
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It's just not feasible. It would piss off leaders. It would create openings for ISIS offshoots. A lot of work in Africa is designed to "teach a man to fish" but it's difficult to get government institutions to remove the training wheels with all the instability.
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@diersteinjulien6773 No, we expected it to be easy because Russia quite clearly went for the decapitating strike, and fumbled it. Logistics are part of the reason why Russia should have the advantage, but that's beside the point. Everything telegraphs their attempt to seize Kiev as soon as possible by gaining a foothold in Hostomel in the first night. When this was supposed to be a special military operation, they weren't kidding. It was supposed to be a clean regime change. It devolved into war because they couldn't pull it off.
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So they had the day off? lol
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@liberalsocialist9723 Unrelated, also Einstein being good at physics doesn't mean anything.
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The Su-25 is doing unguided rocket lofting and running away, which is like watching an ageing MMA fighter jobbing to the Paul brothers.
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Many of those friendly fire casualties are from bad artillery calls or combat engineers laying minefields without warning the combat units. Not just misidentification.
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 @nateTrh Don't bring Serbia into this, Serbian forces essentially surrounded peacekeeping forces and threatened to shell them so they'd leave and let the commit atrocities against civilians.
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 @ceramica.detail Already being broken into.
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@davidbuller9696 It's not impossible that it could be someone else, but I've seen convincing evidence that took the distance from the eyes, corners of the mouth, etc to the tip of the nose and the proportions are the same. I guess the easiest way to settle this would for Chipman to provide a picture of him around that timeframe so we could compare. Or find the real identity of the man in the picture.
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+pouseli disosme come on, those travel bans (I know they now changed them to apply to all people rather than just refugees) had been enacted before. I'm not defending them, but it wasn't an implication that they're all terrorists. From a libertarian standpoint it's indefensible but everyone else does it, restricting travel rights from countries you are in conflict with.
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Close only refers to munitions landing near troops in close contact with the enemy. Not where the aircraft is.
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Big difference between relatively simple machining operations done on a 1940's Soviet plant and modern weapons design. I remember that in the mid-2000s MiG 29s were grounded due to a persistent problem with engines. And the export Su-30MKI had serious issues in India because they train their pilots like Western pilots. The Su-30MKI has to be babied with less flight hours and less strenuous maneuvers to get a good useful service life out of it, at the expense of pilot skill. Meanwhile Indian pilots actually train on their aircraft and thus they become a logistical nightmare. Would I trust a Russian SKS made in the 1940's? Yes. Would I trust Russian weaponry in general, made after the 1990's, during strenuous "war-time use"? Wouldn't say no to an AK but I'm not strapping myself into nothing more complex.
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 @volf3r505 Brother they're under Russian command. Of course they use Russian equipment.
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@Tony P Nobody mentioned the CDC or the word "cure". You're strawmanning. You've admitted your loss. Thanks for playing.
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@Dleger13 but didn't leaked emails prove google had a political slant? People are too focused on the "algorithm".
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 @bmlapoint83 War would stop without Iranian and North Korean aid to Russia too.
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@Oldsmobility98 Then why did they send riot police into Kiev?
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 @bascelik91 they shut the valve on NS1. But failing to deliver means fines. Sabotage clears them from having to pay. It's like setting a fire to collect insurance money.
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There's a telegram rumor that in one base the conscripts beat up the older enlisted for trying to steal their equipment and police had to be called into the base to put everything under control.
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@33greenleaf if you're gonna wait for 40 minutes for cops to respond to a pitbull mauling your children...
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You people are a riot. Whenever someone reports on bad news for Ukraine you people cheer them. When those people then start reporting on improvements, you claim they are "biased".
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Swole Kot The Africa overpopulation talking point is a complete myth. Their birth rates are declining.
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Post literally anything about Russia, even something millions of people saw on viral clips, and someone will post a comment crying "propaganda".
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They have a coastline
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@mariorossi4050 It's not a trap when your troops are slaughtered, taken prisoner, and Lt. Colonels are captured.
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It isn't. Many countries where it is illegal have generic laws. Rwanda, Bosnia, etc. are covered the same.
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 @Vadim7333 the fudge are you even trying to imply here, Glavset?
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@ashleygraham1011 Is it? Because even studies backed by Pfizer found it loses effectiveness in 6-8 months. The genetic testing of strains carried by double-dosed patients in the San Francisco Bay area show that 22% of them were carrying old strains, 78% were carrying antibody-resistant strains.
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And they'd spend billions and 10 years to acquire and transfer an aircraft that's out of parts and in need of overhauls? Yeah, just send them to the boneyard.
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 @dmitrybatishchev2867 Was Canada at war, though?
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You don't understand debt. Oil is at inflated prices but dropping, and Russia is forced to sell at a discount. They're increasing the volume sold to make up for the losses.
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No, they've essentially cut off Izyum.
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@soundwavesuperior6761 What a load of rubbish. Plenty of people with highschool diplomas but a technical mind have jailbroken phones and games consoles. Even John Deere tractors have been hacked.
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@soundwavesuperior6761 No point in trying to move goalposts. Car mechanics nowadays are specialized due to the complexity of modern cars. Regarding hacking, you only need one guy or a team of guys to hack. After the hack, everyone can do it. Yeah, it takes the 0.1% to do great things. But then it becomes widely available. Are you in the 0.1% capable to designing jet engines? No. But they've been designed already, and now you can just buy an airline ticket. Can you design a CPU? No. But you have them in your computer or cellphone. After something is done, it can be replicated by others.
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And their interests essentially deadlock each other. Impressive.
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You can use money to acquire goods and service. They're in the Kursk region of Russia, not in the desolate north of Siberia.
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@danielmorris7648 the Yakuza essentially "own" several industries like gambling machines or the MMA fighting business. When UFC bought Pride, they realized the Yakuza just took everything and left, they bought empty offices and a trademark name. And the UFC was told by Japanese investigative journalists they'd never be able to ressurect the Pride name because they still had tons of dirt on the criminal underworld accusations.
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tf does that mean? That's like saying all people who enjoy FPS are mass shooters, just because it's entertaining to watch someone being vile doesn't mean you are that person
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Which degrades GPS but the missile still falls back to INS guidance.
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@hmmm2357 that's such bullshit, though. So an American with Irish ancestry can't say he wants America to be top priority? Okay, let's send him out to Ireland. Now he can't fucking say he wants Ireland to be top priority because he actually descends from Germanic people or some shit like that. How is an ancestry you're detached from more important than the family and community you actually live in?
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@gumbomudderx7503 Because it was adopted thanks to corruption. The FAL could have won the trials.
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 @AkenValle When are you?
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@dylanhunt4303 It's not common sense. They were losing that many men a day two months ago, during the encirclement of Sivierodonetsk. You're using two months old numbers to extrapolate casualties today. That's not how it works.
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@selwynrenard No. Property tax is evil. If you pay for land it's yours, not rented from the government. Property taxes and inheritence taxes are designed to break apart the wealth amassed by people like small farmers.
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+swamidude Penny plays the dumb blonde role for a while but she became the "everyman" character on the show. She starts to understand references to nerd culture, even some science and the fact that she has more social skills than the rest of the main cast progressively makes her look less naive and more "people smart". The dumb blonde stereotype is neither "people smart" nor "book smart".
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@jwadaow The F-4 in USAF scored the vast majority of kills during Vietnam by missile, with the internal gun on the F-4E only scoring 5 kills. Sometimes perception is a b*tch.
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They are volunteers. Basically they are even technically breaking the law in their countries as fighting for a different country is a crime in many places.
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No, you don't. The current Glock file by IvanTheTroll12 can be printed in a 300 dollar printer. @Ike Matthews
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 @ЮлияЛ-щ9ш They made the gains early in the war. If you sucker punch people, you typically get a chance to knock them down.
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 @srouji6 the leaked report stating that outnumbered Ukrainians are killing 3 Russians for every KIA they suffer?
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If you're not pointing out the mistakes that's just drive by criticism. No substance.
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The "Swedish" Saab Gripen is mostly German, American and British by origin of parts and components.
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@Aspen51 "you also forgot Gen. Mark A. Welsh III (2016 - 2018 Chief of Staff USAF) assertion that it was also an A-10 replacement (Google him & the Congressional hearing's on this platform)" - What's this supposed to mean?
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 @proudsaiyanprince2651 It's a theory. You're thinking of the term "hypothesis".
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@Steven Lewis "The F-35 is mediocre at everything" - wipes the floor with everyone else at Red Flag
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Not just limited on how hard it would pull, if you pulled hard the aircraft would be slow at pointing the nose - the longer it takes for the nose to move where you want to, the more speed you bleed trying to maneuver. The conclusions segment written by the test pilot shows he requested the software engineers to give him a faster response time to help with retaining energy in the fight.
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+ionceateapinecone just stop. In the US there are already federal laws to stop prohibited persons from legally acquiring guns. On top of those laws there are a lot of unreasonable laws that don't actually exist in other countries because they're so nonsensical. Calling for "common sense gun laws" is calling for MORE laws on top of those that already exist. That's not common sense. "because it's not like gun control laws prevent you from owning awesome guns" - Actually, it does. In Canada you can actually get guns which are banned from importation into the US so you can own awesome guns that Americans can't. Americans can also own a few guns that Canadians can't. Just on a surface level you can see that you're 100% wrong. Also, I advise you to look at California and New York's laws. They are very restrictive and that's the model for gun control in America. You have to come down your Canadian high horse and realize Americans are not fighting Canadian gun laws, they are fighting American legislation that could spread to the federal level. "not too long ago we had a van attack in Toronto, the guy waved his cellphone around claiming he had a gun, because Canadian gun laws prevented him from buying one and saved several lives that day." - "Furthermore, regarding the NRA, for the majority of their existence, they were pro gun control" - and the NRA are a bunch of cucks who sell out gun rights for profit. Oh an organization changed? The horror! So what they changed? It wasn't for the better. You should look up the GOA, Second Amendment Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition, etc. If you think the NRA is bad, these organizations will be the villain you want them to be because they oppose gun control much more effectively than the NRA. Fuck the NRA. "up until 2008 (District of Columbia v. Heller), every scholarly article and supreme court ruling had been AGAINST the carrying a firearm for personal protection." - who cares? They were all wrong. It says in the damned text that the people have the right to keep and bear arms. If for all those years they thought that the right to bear arms didn't give people the right to actually bear them then that's on them.
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Ukraine isn't the result of the USSR. The Russian bolsheviks could not defeat Ukrainian forces so a compromise was reached where Ukraine could become one of the founding members of the USSR as Ukraine SSR. The USSR did not create Ukraine, Ukraine predated it.
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Because they lost their best fighters in those 10 years and their finances were leading to issues with pay and rations. Why would the SAA fight for Assad?
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Avdiivka was a massacre of Russian troops. Much like Vuhledar.
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@patrickglaser1560 RPGs have a self-destruct fuse that detonates the warhead after travelling around 900 meters. Getting within 900 meters of one of these would be nuts.
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@pinkbunnytail But it was. The supposedly "free" West copied China's tactics to a tee. You're just saying the West can't complain until they become China, and by then we won't be able to. Thanks...? I'm not sure the health crisis and the beach are related. I'm fairly certain you're more likely to get health problems at the grocery store than the beach, if we exclude drowning and skin cancer. But the grocery store was open. Hell, liquor stores were open. Isn't alcoholism a health crisis? But I digress. People who lost their jobs were not subject to starvation? How do you buy food when broke? Physically forced tests? Sure, I was psychologically forced to. If I wanted to remain employed, and thus not starve, I had to submit to testing. It's mind-blowingly "appropriate" to demand things with a smile and threaten people with serious consequences (like homelessness or starvation)?
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 @MattKearneyFan1 In the Persian Gulf the F-111 did more tank busting, and the USAF Gen. in charged pulled the A-10s back due to losses.
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By negotiating, you're accepting that nuclear blackmail works. After that, why not demand more? It works.
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By bringing better performance pound for pound.
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@jesusofnazareth3507 Ukraine would be dirt poor with Russia. Now even Tajikistan is saying Russia will stop treating them like peasants.
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@Basieeee In Antonovsky bridge they also had propaganda crossings. But soldiers admit the bridge is useless.
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@cdeford Are you kidding? Special Forces are absolutely used as advisors and observers. "Observer" isn't a job you pick in the military. You send the Special Forces as they're the ones who have the role of assisting indigenous forces.
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Russia won Bakhmut so hard the victors rebelled against Moscow.
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4 launchers already caused a temporary problem...
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@Lobsterwithinternet And fun fact, the current CEO of Moderna was at one point the CEO of BioMerieux, and Alain Merieux was one of the French experts that helped with the lab.
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@davidportwood233 In the end it's still about getting someone on the technicality (diverting funds through EcoHealth Alliance) rather than the actual damage they caused. Problem is, is anyone even going to get in serious trouble over this?
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@markrice41 So your option is to use ancient hardware, that already got shot down at unacceptable rates almost 30 years ago? The Navy isn't the Marines. They need something that can take off from helicopter carriers.
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@libertarian4ever66 A Cessna at least would have huge fuel savings compared to the A-10. Sorry, but a CAS platform that only got 20% of CAS missions since 2000 and only 11% since 2014 has effectively been replaced. You might not make a call for a B1 but if that's what's available that's what you'll get. Even the Army generals agree with me, they're not worried about the platform because CAS is a mission not a platform.
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@libertarian4ever66 "I am the source, having actually called in for air support in the field" - What does this mean? B1s are called to provide CAS. In fact, if you wanted to argue your position, you could bring up how a B1 dropped bombs on friendlies by accident because they couldn't see strobes through the pod, and were too high to see strobes on NVG. Even though some of the blame is on the incorrect coordinates fed by the controller. So if you're your own source for the claim that B1s aren't called in for CAS, you're wrong. I also don't know who you are, and you could be lying.
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Hi Sugar, have you watched the recent video by Dr. Mike Hawk saying that Putin soiled himself after two pints of Shandy? Just wanted to know your thoughts...
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@damianm-nordhorn116 Waiting line for Rafales is huge. Saab can't make Gripens for themselves, Canada and refurbish old C models to sell to Ukraine at the sane time. Unless Canada pays to build a factory like Brazil did.
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Planes crashing straight down isn't uncommon.
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Victor Ct this isn't easier at all. 3d printing is a iffy process that requires some thought and trial and error before you succeed. Meanwhile steel tubes are widely available.
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The assassins were borderline incompetent.
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 @dagfinissocool But you don't understand what you meant. In your example a man is still required. Even if sex wasn't involved.
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Yeah just ignore that multiroles have been ground pounders for three decades now.
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@bush_wookie_9606 Yes. The F-35 will get there faster, the pilot has superior visibility over the battlefield, and will be able to place weapons more accurately. Also, funny how you accuse me of not understanding irony when you clearly show that you know that I understood your comment, and you also understood my own use of irony.
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The issue is that while the article is from 2015 or whatever, he probably assumed Sydney was going to bring up his pr0n because they said "no kinkshaming". He has stuff from 2019 out there. It's just two years old.
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Like that news lady that said it's the media's job to control opinions ("that's out job!") or when Chris Cuomo said that looking for leaked emails was illegal and only the media could read them to us.
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@basiltozer9078 Iraq wasn't conquest.
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@SansSentiments It wasn't elected by all of Ukraine because a segment of it was under occupation by a foreign country. Sorry, but if Mexico took over Texas that means the US government is illegitimate because Texans are unable to vote? It didn't come to power via coup, it was elected in 2019. Unless you're unfamiliar with the linear passage of time, 2019 is not 2014.
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Bro we had Russians filming their screen on the air defense system to show their misses. A soldier would not break OPSEC that hard unless they needed the footage to be public to show they are doing things correctly but the equipment is failing them.
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"ATM machine", "PIN number", etc
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How is destroying one weapon a solution? Particularly a gun that wouldn't kill anyone as long as it stayed in his hands? You really shouldn't applaud people for slacktivism or doing symbolic gestures that do not acomplish anything. You're only applauding mediocrity.
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 @jansix4287 Rafales are not cheap. There's just less political strings attached.
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@Buckhousesucks21 Everything? Professional shooters have definitely been stopped by the TSA. Nobody said anything about concealed carry. My logic makes perfect sense. Never try again, you're just going to fail.
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"Ben Shapiro LITERALLY drops 2000lbs JDAM of FACTS and LOGIC on some poor Palestinian's house and THROWS THE RUBBLE at LIBTARDS' faces."
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@Sapient_Pearwood I know it doesn't benefit the corporation but pelting someone with what's virtually a 150k fine is still a big win.
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Efficiency is a function of how much you gain divided by your input. You mean effective. You can be effective but inefficient (require disproportionate resources). Wagner's assault tactics epitomize inefficiency, because with a surplus of manpower you can afford the losses.
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It's been experienced the whole time. Replacement units trickled in for 2 years.
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@WllKiedSnake "She used her name so people don't find out her real name and then ruin her life" - Then why did she start doing adult movies if it could ruin her life?
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@ge2719 "Sex has been happen for a very long time. Conservativism is again the thing that make humanity exist?" - Yeah and if you remember, before reliable contraceptives sex was controlled through religious and social norms to make sure people weren't having kids they couldn't support or people killing each other over jealousy because they kept screwing around with each others' wives. Now that we have reliable contraceptives, we've started to see other problems emerge. "Have you ever actually thought about why porn is "bad" beyond you were told it was so it is...? Can you give one actually rational reason for why?" - Not only does excessive porn consumption literally create a reward hacking mechanism that leads to addiction, it's also now combined with social media. The porn industry unfortunately has the same incentive as regular social media to keep people glued to their screens while also having a very direct connection to the user's brain. Likes and notifications are abstract. Porn is literally taking over your biological functions. And internet porn essentially killed the "traditional" industry, I've read reports that traditional productions are paying less per scene and the performers are boosting their incomes through fan interaction through other subscription services.
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Bro we literally had the footage on social media within hours, some of the aircraft got damaged/shot down on the way in. Yeah, they "took" the airport within "minutes" - the Ka-52s provided cover for the landing. Their mission was securing the air bridge for IL-76s which totally failed. The Russians fled to the forest. This was proven by Ukrainian forces taking pictures in the battle damaged airport posted before those weeks had passed. The Russian forces that "kept" the airport for weeks were there to secure a failed objective as the airport was no longer useful for the air bridge operation. Those were the lucky ones. The ones who fought in Hostomel, Bucha and Irpin were severely mauled.
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And full mission capability is an extremely high standard. Mission capability is almost 70%.
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@panpluto13 The "no u" shtick is tiring.
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NATO never moved to East Germany. If you remember your history classes, Poland was in a military alliance called "Warsaw Pact" which meant that NATO could not invite Poland to join. So when Germany was unified, the new NATO/Warsaw Pact border would be on the German-Polish border. And it was agreed that NATO troops would not be stationed at that border. To this day, there are no NATO bases in the former East Germany, and NATO remained in the former West Germany. If you also remember your history classes, Chinese and Soviet support was what saved North Korea and North Vietnam. Not only were then state-of-the-art SA-2/S-75 Dvina surface to air missiles donated to North Vietnam to shoot down American pilots, but Soviet instructors operated those systems sometimes and Soviet pilots flew MiGs against American sorties. Chinese forces fought the UN forces directly and their fighter aircraft fought in the "MiG alley". Obviously, you remember all of this because you invested in your education. You only posted that comment because you're barely awake, maybe you partied hard last night, certainly not because you're a stereotypical "Murrican" who only learned about the Revolutionary War, Civil War and WW2.
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@Proper-G " Everyone knows that the longer covid runs rampant the longer we gotta deal with these restrictions. So ppl who don't wear masks are viewed as the reason they're stuck at home. I don't think you need to be manipulated to be pissed at selfish ppl like that." - So we're all being held hostage by terrorists, and you blame the hostages trying to flee rather than the terrorists executing people. Everyone with a brain knows that the longer the restrictions are held, the longer this is going to take. The narrative was, everyone's going to get it but we have to flatten the curve. We've flattened the curve. It was understood that the moment you ease the restrictions, you'll see more cases. But we've diminished the peak. However, the narrative changed. Now there can't be any more cases. If you have good memory you'll remember that the restrictions would not eliminate the spread. They'd only slow it down. So opening up always meant a surge of cases. So now even places that high compliance are still going through their second and third lockdowns. By their own logic the more we delay the more this is going to take because the restrictions were only meant to DELAY spread not prevent it.
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@zzaretube They certainly have no reason to lie.
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@hrs2044 1. Again, the technology itself existed since the 80s but was never approved for human trials. It never worked right. Until now. Hmmm. 2. It doesn't matter how old a technology is, knowledge is a different subject. We've been using lithography to manufacture microchips for decades. But powerful desktop 16 core CPUs only became a thing recently with AMD's Ryzen. If you get an old Pentium 4, the technology is the same. The knowledge is better. So we're on Delta, new ones are coming, and your solution is use the knowledge (not tech) we had about the wild strain. Hmmmm.
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It's a Mexican standoff
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Cody Wilson started this under the Obama administration...
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@jeroenstrompf5064 eah let me arrive sweaty at work (no showers where I am employed), and waste an hour of my life to do a 10 minute trip. t. Person who depended on public transport all his life and got a driver's license at 28 and is beyond fed up with busses and trams
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Just go back to storing pagers in your ammo bunkers, Ivan.
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Russia knows the talks begin as soon as they leave.
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Machine gun innacurracy isn't an advantage. To suppress you need to place rounds accurately, if the receiving end is not feeling the danger of rounds impacting close it will pop out of cover and shoot back.
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@ajohnymous5699 "automatic rifles dont come with a standard bi-pod" - Depends entirely on the model. "Pinning enemy personnel down was also a viable tactic" - Which needs accurate fire. There's estimated distances by caliber of how close you need to hit to make people afraid and get to cover. You'd be surprised how close you need to hit. "When you say you're "citing machinegun doctrine" that is more or less true of the modern machinegun" - the basis of machine gun doctrine is still mostly based on WWI gunnery. "You're talking about Afghanistan and duels between machinegunners using fairly modern machineguns with smaller army groups" - Makes no difference. "The technology was different, the combat scenarios were different, these nations lacked the experience with these weapons on a modern battlefield at this time outside of WW1 and the only things cemented in what a machinegun should do is support infantry with automatic fire" - and the way you achieve that support is by delivering more killing potential than rifles and accurate suppressive fire that actually makes people go to cover and stay there. Not with "birdshot" logic. No changes in technology or combat scenarios really make a difference on what you need to ask from a machine gun. "If machinegun doctrine was standardized as you had implied by "knowing machinegun doctrine",you wouldn't have these fundamentally different designs working in tandem" - the US armed forces have the 240, 249 SAW and M27 IAR - USMC - working in tandem. They're not breaking machine gun doctrine by doing it so I'm not sure what you're trying to imply here. "several hundred to a thousand for modern assault rifles in box mags" - I wanna meet the absolute madlad running with a thousand rounds on his back. A thousand rounds divided by 30 round mags is a little over 33 magazines. Even assuming half is carried in mags and another half in belts, that would be still 16 mags and 500 rounds in belts which in terms of bulk isn't even feasible. That's over TWELVE KILOS in cartridges alone, not counting actual magazines and links. "you say that MGs are better suited than rifles at long range engagements. For the sake of people reading our exchanges and for my own sake, could you elaborate on this?" - Because MGs are crew served weapons. First of all, the weight alone makes the weapon gain less velocity from recoil so there's less of a jerk to spoil accuracy. Second, the machine gunner will mostly be using the bipod which is a much more stable firing position than the average rifleman can get from the prone or even barricade position. Third, bursts from a stable firing gun increase hit rates on point targets. Fourth, you get a better situational awareness because your assistant gunner can act as a spotter. There's a reason why assault rifles exist, the average rifleman can't score good hits at distance, so we gave them 5.56/5.45/5.8 weapons. The machine gun gets full rifle calibers because it can actually smack people at the range where rifle calibers have the energy advantage over intermediate ones. "Because I'm sure some people may read this and think "well if thats the case, why didn't we slap sniper scopes on MGs instead of rifles?"" - Well, the Americans did. The M2 was used with scopes in Korea and Carlos Hathcock famously used one in Vietnam to score the longest sniper kill until 2002. The MG42 Laffette tripod also had an optics mount and the Austrian armed forces used a modernized MG42 in a tripod mount with a periscope. Obviously the point wasn't using the MG42 as a sniping weapon, but it reinforces the idea that long range performance is expected from machine gunners. "Their effective ranges should be similar if theyre using the same cartridges in a ballistic sense" - in a strictly ballistic sense? A full caliber rifle should have the same ballistic range as a machine gun firing the same cartridge. The issue is that using a rifle in combat at long range is extremely difficult. Thus effective range from a rifle is hampered, especially since higher recoil negatively impacts marksmanship. You can expect killing potential out of a machine gun at ranges where riflemen have a hard time scoring hits.
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@DublinDapper very few would. Most Westerners outside America don't care that much for it.
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@DublinDapper But you better believe it. Talk to the average European, they're probably not interested in living in America. First, why even move out of your country? Second, if you start asking about America all people know is bad healthcare and too many guns because of the media. Sorry, there's Americans in spirit over here but most people are either uninterested in moving to America, and some actually find it crazy to consider moving there.
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@Max_Mustermann "Russia attacked the 2016 elections" - oh, so it was no longer a hack, now it was a really vague "attack"
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That just sounds like it's a family problem. I'm European and at the ripe age of 23 I once had to convince my father to let me take a bicycle from the shed so I could go on a date. And at school we were the first generation to have internet connected computers at the school library. We definitely were the reason why they had to restrict access.
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 @jameshenderson4876 Not a weird reference. He's calling the USMC "Nazis" through subtext. Freaking Russell Brand made that joke at a fashion show once.
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CivDiv: "they were having their vehicle repaired" Some dude in the comments: "MoSt oF tHe UkRaInIaN aRmY iS rEcOn In FoRcE"
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Meanwhile, Russia actually fired Grads from behind supermarkets in Donetsk to bait counter-artillery into civilian areas 2014-2021. Russia's overwhelming artillery superiority, which is dependent on filming videos to beg the MoD for shells.
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Non-stealth aircraft have to fire missiles at each other to force a defensive posture. Without the need to fire spoiler shots, 4 missiles in a stealth aircraft is better than 6-8 on a 4th gen.
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Amazing. Saw a comment saying Ukraine lost 100k. Now just a few hours later they lost another 200k. And yet Russia is retreating.
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Have you maybe considered your perspective is biased? When the US sent troops to Somalia because warlords were stealing UN aid, local Somalis jumped on the bodies of fallen US soldiers in Mogadishu. Someone convinced them the Americans were the enemy. Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, you're defending horrible people who are harming you and your country? You're either the starving child jumping on American bodies unaware your leader took your food, or you're the leader sowing hate while oppressing your own.
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@LittleNemoGaming sauce on the 1 in 25 stat
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@combatwombatstl5598 According to people on this thread, "prop" is short for "theatrical property". So while we say "prop" to mean dummy or inert replica, prop can include real firearms.
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@astonishproductions4162 Merriam Webster says "an article or object used in a play or motion picture except painted scenery and costumes". If a real gun is used in a play or motion picture, it's a prop.
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@CaptRaptor01 Why would a French person subscribe to the French surrender myth? If you ever joke about that in front of a Frenchman, he'll give you a history lesson on how many wars they succeeded at.
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What do you mean by "use it immediately"? Because the 3D printing gun community is pretty big and there's lots of ingenuous ideas, many I would call as immediate as it gets.
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 @migrationsforschermitbreit6744 How did the US start the war?
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@Slop_Dogg okay, I'll bite. How exactly would it be different?
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@jacmeg1845 Even a person who isn't smart can eventually learn. It may require time and different techniques, but it's possible to break down knowledge to the point a 5 year old understands it. People who use the internet like that are sitting on the sidelines to double-down in conspiracies in every event that interests them, and claim it's a distraction from another conspiracy when it doesn't.
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 @Silentheaven89 but that won't be on their terms.
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"then perish..."
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@CharlesLumia Braver than me or you.
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@Madstsone The US is not fighting Ukraine's battle. Ukrainians are. Did the ANA ever fight without training wheels before the US pulled out? No. Their first trial by fire was a total loss. Ukraine has been fighting without Anericans doing all the work for almost a year now. What do they need to prove to you?
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Did you even watch? If you give things for free, nobody has a job because you cannot sell a product. How can you compete with free? Why don't you start your shoemaker business in one of this countries to prove us wrong?
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@oak1780 The government didn't stop them? In the US it scared businesses into mandating it, and in many countries you're denied access to public transportation and stores.
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@goead Because there was more than enough footage of the original landing so they reused the tapes on other missions. For whatever reason, maybe they were cataloging missing stuff or something, they put out a request to see if anyone had them laying around which started a search through the archives and they concluded it was reused. It wasn't a big deal but people go "ermaghed they lost the tapes".
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@cv4809 it's been going on since the 1800s and going nowhere
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Nice cope.
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@calenhoover1124 "but that doesn't actually hold any weight other than in your conspirator mind" - lmao it's a "conspiracy" to be against government granting itself more power "would bet my left and right nut that our government never devolves into tyranny." - If they wanted to they could right now. "Our balance of power strictly forbids that," - lmao and you think the balance hasn't been subverted? "we will just use that thing we have called democracy to repeal that law." - Then why didn't you use it to repeal the PATRIOT Act?
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@calenhoover1124 "Do you know the insane requirements to devolve into tyranny here in the U.S?" - They're not insane at all. "If the balance of power has been so heavily subverted as you've said, republicans and/or democrats wouldn't have issues getting laws passed" - the fact that there's different corporate interests fighting over differences doesn't mean anything. They have no issue getting laws passed whenever it's about fucking you over. They call that "bipartisanship". "Do you honestly think they would ever relinquish their own power to bestow all of it upon a tyrant?" - Who said anything about relinquishing anything? They're happy to share. "there's a reason that tyranny almost always evolves into a democracy," - What? Please name all the tyrannical regimes that "evolved" naturally without coups or revolutions. "the reason we havent completely repealed the patriot act(even though parts of the patriot act did expire at the end of 2019) is because of the balance of power(duh)" - You said democracy would save us, turns out it can't. Take the L. Also, the government retaining excessive power is somehow reflection of a "balance", that's a big brained take. "that debate has been going on in government since it was passed" - According to you democracy would solve it. Solve it. "same reason we wont devolve into tyranny." - So the government gives itself power and is unwilling to get rid of it. The power it amasses continues growing because there's an institutionalized inertia to giving up power. Somehow this isn't gonna devolve into tyranny even though the democratic process is unable to contain it.
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I also recommend that one. Gave it a listen while running and it was pretty enthralling.
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@kazineverwind5267 Tumblr was temporarily banned from the Apple app store because of rampant CP. The hellsite staff couldn't actually code an algorithm that could get rid of it and leave the normal P alone, so they nuked everything in desperation.
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The Peacemaker, with George Clooney. The nuke was inside a church in NY, I think the Grand Central scene you're thinking of is Bad Company with Chris Rock.
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@merocaine I mean, in 2011 the Russian government even closed the WW2 archives to western researchers and historians. Expecting a "Russian army expert" to have contact with the Russian army post-2014 is kind of a tall order.
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@Dubya-i3v No, it was supposed to end transmission. It couldn't. So the mandates and passes are invalid. Take it if you want, but it only affects you. Please. Let's jog on and end the charade.
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Worked against the Taliban, not the Iraqi Republican Guard. They actually had the right reaction to seeing an A-10: trying to shoot it down. Running away only ensures one dies tired.
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 @enshk79 Rude awakening from whom?
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There's also pictures of MP5s in Iran with 203 launchers, seems to have a metal "rail" under the handguard to act as the interface.
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@KVarghese49 That's a lie and you know it.
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Nobody breaks the law, ever.
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@Goon556 this is riddiculous - are you saving that IFV for a rainy day? Sending men with improper materiél will lead to more losses and resource consumption. The IFV will be worthless if you save it for last.
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@DARTHMOBIUS I made no claims, so my credibility is irrelevant. You're probably a 16 year old pretending he was alive and hacking in the 80's.
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 @Pccart1121 Someone commented that on another podcast Oz said he had dinner with Joe the night before. That's probably when he got the PIN.
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+Thomas Favre "meaningful laws" don't save lives. Think about it, gun control only "works" in first world, peaceful countries. It's almost like trying to stop violence with law doesn't work in places which are actually violent.
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Shortly? It served for another decade. It participated in the Iraq war.
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"more profitable than drugs" but drugs are worth a thousand times more in the streets of the US than the coca/poppy plantations. Smuggling hardwarevwould only profit you a few percent.
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Not comparable. The Javelin is like 100k-200k and a person can be trained in a week to use it. A Ka-52 is tens of millions of USD equivalent and the pilots require years of training. Not to mention that Javs can be manufactured in the thousands, while the Ka-52 fleet is only a little over a hundred and a third has been sidelined already.
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@omaral-maitah181 Yeah and the Russian tanks send the turrets into the stratosphere. When we have videos of tank commanders falling on rooftops and creating a hole like a cartoon, or pictures of Russian soldiers crushed by a falling turret... the Leos are just better. And Russia is losing armor to the cheapest drone ever, a 300-400 dollar racing drone strapped to a free RPG-7 warhead. Much cheaper than a Lancet. So what? They also lost tanks to cheap grenades dropped on abandoned tanks to prevent recovery and repair. You don't get to flex on cheapness.
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You're willing to lose your life every time you step into a car seat. You know the risks and you accept them.
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Yet we have seen Russian soldiers engaging in butt banditry with each other.
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The B-1 performed CAS. With a straight face. Your incredulity is not an argument.
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1) Not only has Putin said it himself in 2014, the Hostomel gameplan was the same as the invasion of Czechoslovakia invasion. The runway was shelled which nullified the transports landing more troops and armor. 2) Not a fact check. 3) Yeah just like the number killed during Kherson. Yadda yadda. Meanwhile the Pentagon's leaked estimate had almost 3x more KIA on the Russian side. 6) It is a strange argument. Missiles fired from anywhere have a 30 min delivery time. Submarines can get close to coast. The Baltics are already NATO. The red line has been crossed a long time ago. Why is Ukraine special? Also, the US did not invade Cuba over the missiles, it just handled it diplomatically with the Soviet Union. 7) Russia's economy is now supporting a war rather than benefiting the people. They're not decoupled from the West, they're forced to beg for sanctions busting to get the much needed western parts. The global south? Even Brazil and South Africa are wishy-washy on Russia and Australia is opposed to them. There goes the Southern hemisphere. 8) Russian-built air defense has been neutralized by the US before. Ukraine has Soviet aircraft which were never made to hunt down defenses. Russia's air defense works against air forces that lile Russia did not invest in air power as much. 9) AT4s are common in militaries worldwide. Mexican cartels are known for pulling weaponry out of armories. That question is still a waste of time because anyone who's been informed knows cartels had heavy hardware for decades prior to the Ukraine war. 10) Because Hersh can't find anyone to publish his lies. He got the ships wrong, the aircraft wrong, the air mix used in diving wrong, he claimed that Jans Stoltenberg had been working for NATO since he was 16. It was pure fantasy, like bad Tom Clancy knockoff literature. And it wasn't ignored, it was reported by other outlets. But nobody can confirm it because, as you know, the prose is full of lies.
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@GodsAutobiography doesn't matter, the company still assumes the risk
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@Magpie1701 You can take the hardhat off the worksite. You can't suck this stuff off once it gets into you. That's one way it's different. You can't undo the damage if you're one of the unlucky few. Health is worth more than the income. You can't pay me enough to suffer a stroke or heart attack.
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Russian offensives were massacred to a greater degree, for no gains (like Vuhledar) without facing helicopters.
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@TheBarracuda the point isn't making anyone "stop spying". It's to avoid singling out any flight as different from the others.
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@joeshmo4892 You can have an opinion but the MO of many people is always the same. They find a video that criticizes anything Russia did and post "but America/the West does it too". Like, okay? Two wrongs don't make a right.
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It was his choice. Since around 2015 the conflict was frozen.
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Your country about to be affected by food shortages? Don't forget to subscribe to Hello Fresh.
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Funny how Russia's "research" vessel with the mini sub was in the area and didn't see Biden's henchmen.
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@StPiter111 No evidence of reaching Bakmut or taking Soledar. Russian telegram channels announce their captures ahead of time, but videos shot on location always show them behind where they claim to be.
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These people believed masks didn't work, and then changed their mind once TV told them. Why won't The Science go on TV and say kids don't need it to calm them down?
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@genericdisposable9952 "our democracy" you look outside the window and tell me you own a piece of that democracy
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@yeetdeets I'm pretty sure Azov chose the symbolism for the same exact reason people at Wagner chose the symbolism.
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She didn't cover her ass with her news skirt.
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@josepadilla-wu9yt Funnily enough he did tweet about this situation.
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You don't get to "cruise" in a contested airspace. How's the Army going to adjust the supply chain and flight schools? How are they going to afford to keep museum pieces flying?
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@itzalion Yep, there's even a picture of a captured Bushmaster M4 in a display case in Russia somewhere. Bushmaster fullfilled a contract for the DoD to give out as foreign aid and they got captured in '08.
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@beltfedTODDRULZ I don't have the gold coins for that, I only have the John Wick skin I got for free during the event.
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@nahoj.2569 Don't ask questions, just wait for next variant and get excited for next booster. Why would Pfizer unblind the trials after 6 months? Why would they lie about the number of excess deaths they had versus the control group? Why would Moderna claim they made their shot in 48 hours when we know they sent samples for shot candidates to the University of North Carolina in the 12th of December 2019? Why was the person who received those candidates Ralph Baric, a researched who coauthored papers with Shi Zenghli from the Wuhan institute of virology? Why was Peter Daszak, who diverted the NIH funds through EcoHealth Alliance to the Wuhan institute, allowed to be part of the team that investigated the origin and said lab leak was impossible? Why did Peter Daszak email Ralph Baric to ask him to not sign the open letter in the Lancet journal so reduce suspicion? I know what you're going to do. You're going to say it's all "fake news". You won't even dare to look into it, because you'll be scared it's true.
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Are you missing the point? Sharing intel isn't a burden. The UK has US built Rivet Joints, will they have to stop providing intel because Trump got his fee fees hurt? Is that it? If a single nut or bolt is Made in USA you'll cry and whine about the labor you're forced to perform for others?
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I mean, there would. Airframes don't last forever.
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@estebanpacheco7102 What does that have to do with anything? Lack of air mobility to prevent losses means that each loss is more relevant to the discussion. The helicopters are being babied and coddled to avoid vulnerabilities, and yet they still are taking losses both from combat and attrition from just heavy use running the clock on airframes and engines.
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Rooms where "gas was exposed" could be walked into after venting. If your carbon monoxide alarm starts beeping you open a window.
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"reeeeeee I defend freedom which is why I want my computer toys made in a place were thousands of people are labeled as political dissidents and shoved into slave labour camps"
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@johnhenry4844 I want my enemies to wear armor. I want them to be forced to carry that weight, which either forces them to carry less equipment/ammo or makes them less mobile. If I bring a plate busting round, they're just going to drop the plates and run circles around me.
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@NickBee-g3c "arghh they're getting destroyed!" "arghh it's difficult to destroy them because they're entrenched"
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@JustRed17 Goddamn those antivaxxer dogs and bats! How dare they?
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@nickstone9112 Facebook groups? How about you read actual studies? You won't, because it will make you realize that the actual science is very different from The Science(TM).
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You do realize that Europe also has agriculture, right? Having resources is only 10% of the equation. Afghanistan is sitting on trillions of dollars of rare earth minerals nobody wants to extract. Africa's resources only made it ripe to get exploited by outsiders.
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@enki9013 Serbs lol
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Not what happened at all. It was EA which was getting sued for using the Little Bird and Humvee tradmarks in Battlefield. And at the same time Medal of Honor Warfighter had the controversy where they licensed real brands and the game journos accused them of selling guns to children (game was rated M for Mature but w/e). Then Activision out of nowhere stated they wouldn't give weapon manufacturers a penny. To score points over EA.
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Hold up, didn't Russia get IMF loans in the 90s?
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 @presleymeck You're purposefully confusing Kherson city with the oblast.
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@ChalrieD You got me there. Fair play.
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Wow, a spelling mistake. Good job. Apply for Gearbox Software they opened a position for checking typos. "did Sweidan and company think it was at all odd, that Mr. Beard had a crew with him?" --- the store owner was told they were filming a documentary. Camera crews are not uncommon sight during documentary shoots. "If they were indeed in the dark as to identity, whom did they think just tried to punk them, Stuttering John?" --- they weren't aware it was a prank, he only identified Cohen by the voice. Cohen left in embarrassment and that's how he knew he was correct in his guess. "you yourself just implied this is nothing but a publicity sport" --- I don't know what a "publicity sport" is but without a Cohen show or movie him getting outed would not be relevant. Now that Cohen has a show out, and several people made themselves look like fools, the store owner came out with his story to point out how easy it is to not get punked by Cohen. Not to mention, it wouldn't be newsworthy. Who the hell would run that piece? Now that it has been confirmed Cohen was pranking gun people his story becomes newsworthy.
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"Abrahams"
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@Marvi5962 "for fucks sake man the bodies just got cold" - but people are always quick to demand gun control while the bodies are still hot so I don't see why either side should refrain since the topic is instantly political.
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"Ay Tone, I simply do not believe everyone in the Siberian Orchestra is trans."
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Blackwater had a bunch of undisciplined cowboys act as glorified mall security and baby sitters for executives and foreign dignitaries. Wagner is a "off the books" units that's technically illegal inside Russia but they train in military bases, fly in Russian air force aircraft and get FSB issued passports and IDs to travel.
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@corvoattano4777 The warhead on the NLAW is physically pointing down inside the nose according to promotional material showing CGI cross sections. I don't know if it physically faces forward when fired in direct fire mode.
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@chadimirputin2282 Amazing. So a crew is welded into a functional tank but won't use it against their own commanders? Vatnik propaganda doesn't make sense.
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Shahed cost is reportedly 193,000 USD for orders of 6,000 and 290,000 for orders of 2,000. The price Iran was asking for was too much for Russia so they started domestic production at a "flyaway" cost of 48k per unit, but taking all the investments into account Russia is paying 165,500 USD per unit. The sources claiming 20k were parroting pro-Russian propaganda.
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That's the blood of Russian soldiers.
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@@lost_achaean6771Armies had to be larger in WW2.
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@kckdude913 fake news or not they're still MSM. Thinking Fox is alternative media is a worse mistake than trusting them.
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The W76 refurbishment program was completed in 2019, what the hell are you talking about?
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They're going against hand-me downs and Ukrainians getting rushed training.
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@normaaliihminen722 yeah his criticism of capitalism: "there are too many kinds of deoderant" dude doesn't even understand that the resources spent on creating different deodorants pay the wages that feed hundreds of thousands of families.
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@MasterJazz09 years ago (probably 2012-2013) he used his podcast on Destructoid to shit on men. He is that type of feminist who hates men despite being a man himself (although that is debatable).
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@aaronleverton4221 the Alligators enjoyed a ressurgence because in defensive operations they can hand back behind friendly lines and shoot guided missiles too low for Buks and too far away for Iglas or Stingers. It's only now that Ukraine is reaching the high ground that low flying no longer protects the Ka-52.
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Gonna become was was.
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@carissahowell Those shots worked. This one doesn't. Invalid comparison.
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@desr421 I'm not pointing anything out. Yes, storming a congressional building is a form of terror. But it was also mild versus destroying cities and killing people. So thanks for torpedoing the entire riots just so you could take a small jab. You really shot yourself in the foot there, and picked the 12 gauge to do it.
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@desr421 Starting fights against a government that jails you if you try to make a living? Fighting for people? Then why kill and destroy? You are obsessed with burning and affecting people's lives while you claim to fight the government while being too cowardly to actually attack the government personnel, then call terrorists to people who dare fight the government? The thing you claim to be doing, you hypocrite? While you beat down business owners and burn their life's work? You do realize that the kidnap plotters were FBI instigators, right?
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@christopherg2347 Some are hidden, but they keep records of all mines planted. A couple of weeks ago they showed a system that inputs the mine locations in a database for recovery.
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The offensive would then crash against a stronger Russian military. The bombed out city is protecting other cities from suffering the same fate. The months of fighting with defensive advantage meant the offensive will cut through a much weaker Russian army.
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 @vanillagerrilla That's still abandonment.
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 @enriquelaroche5370 You're in St. Petersburg so why do you care about gas in environmentally conscious California?
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The HR department suffering consequences? That would be a sight to see.
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@Hans how the fuck was it advanced? The Nazi government was pathetically inefficient.
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@will.davlin And those parents are kinda missing the point. There's a difference between not wanting to raise a deadbeat and the "out of the house when they get to X years" meme.
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@swedhgemoni8092 They fire a lot of missiles from submarines.
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@Despize Perform I don't trust that at all.
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Amazing how every time something happens, it's to cover up everything else. And these cover ups keep happening all the time. Makes total sense.
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@karlyo6937 The Ukrainians get HIMARS - Ru posters come online to cope and seethe about it.
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@Sasha Da Masta "why do you think the MeToo movement has come to power? Why do you think there’s such a rally cry for feminism in some areas?" - because of media-induced hysteria
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And watched to see where they went.
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If you listen to pilots, then watch the footage, you realize they got fooled by perspective.
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PasoFreak dude I think the .280 was a joke but stop with the "YUROP BAD" boomerposting. Yes, "bullied" is a figure of speech for a country exerting pressure on others for their own benefit. And yeah, something was stopping NATO from simply ignoring standardization agreements. The standardization agreements.
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@asdrubale bisanzio You just exposed yourself as an eugenicist. At this point you'd fit pretty well in 1933 Germany.
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GOA helped bring constitutional carry to North Dakota. They helped in Manuel v. Joliet. They helped defeat a gun registry in New Mexico. They helped kill Paul Ryan's healthcare bill that included backdoor gun control.
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So they can't come up with anything on their own?
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Okay so just lose the ground war because you want to keep a secret. That's smart.
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@96MasterOfPuppets96 "they're asking" - Asking for something doesn't automatically mean you'll get it. "this is a pandemic, kite surfing is not a necessary activity" - Literally safer to be on the ocean than a grocery store. "If they let one person go to the beach, everyone will go to the beach, it's quite simple really." - There's more social distancing at the beach than literally all the essential businesses.
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It was a downscaled AR10 which was part of military trials. Although it was based on Eugene Stoner's personal custom-made prototype rifle the people from Armalite saw during a trip to the range, if I remember correctly.
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The thing about the "more parts that can break" complaint is typically about failures of one element making the whole thing crap out. If the failure is in parallel something can fail but still allow the rest of the system to work.
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It's not 190k plus 300k. After the initial invasion Russia "shadow mobilized" a ton of men. There's maybe a hundred k and fifty k mercenaries hidden between initial invasion and mobilization.
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@phodacbitch yeah and when we complained that phones would track us you people said "the government already knows everything from your internet use" and before we complained about governments spying on the internet you people said "the government doesn't care what porn you watch". So maybe it's you people who are at fault for telling others to stop complaining. So be quiet for once and stop ruining everything by actively contributing to people not caring about their privacy.
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Most convictions are probably based on circumstantial evidence. If your finger prints are in a knife and you're seen leaving the location the body was found after the victim's scream, there's no actual direct proof you plunged the knife into the person. We made an inference that you did from the circumstantial evidence.
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Is Pepsi okay?
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 @TheGrindcorps in Russia, you don't need to be in the military to get free reassignment.
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But if you shine an infrared laser (aiming module for night vision that attaches to rifles) into the cable, it lights up for miles and leads back to the operator if seen through night vision tubes. It evades EW but exposes the drone pilot because anyone who can grab the cable can trace back to the drone team.
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Apparently, still up on Tor.
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+Owlblocks David the NAP would entitle you to resist aggression, go after the aggressor and demand reparations, etc. If there's dictators in the Middle East it's not society's responsibility to go there. If you want to be a good Samaritan and help the victims by going there yourself you'd be entitled to defend others under the NAP but you cannot use the NAP to demand everyone to pay for your expedition.
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Canard design comes at a cost and different heights was already used by conventional wings and stabilizers. I know Gripen fanboys have a right to exist but please stop making up fantasies.
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@edmundooliver7584 Then it's not working if you're still getting it?
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 @Cenzurat DarkSydePhil
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@zeddy2284 China is a dystopian hellhole that wants to control all it's citizens (check China Uncensored and serpentza's recent videos here on youtube) and Russia is not only a corrupt oligarchy but it is also currently violating international law by prohibiting access to the Azov sea and firing on Ukrainian ships that had the right to enter those waters.
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Alexander "Russia advances in Bakhmut for 6 months" Mercouris?
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If they reference the codes. You can talk about defcad on youtube and post videos about them, but you can't link to their files. Many gun channels linked in the description to online gun shops and due to youtube's rules many videos got taken down and entire channels killed because of the several strikes in quick succession. So yeah, if youtube won't allow you to link to legitimate gun shops that legally have to deal though FFLs, of course they're not going to allow Reason to link to their file repository.
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@delailama736 in fairness, you have to be specific - I don't remember the term, is it "low resolution opinions"? Basically people will see your post and read "WEF doesn't exist" because they're used to high polarization.
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@Joe C Explain Israel and Singapore.
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@bananafanalll6651 the inside joke is about how after every post where you talk about stocks, you state that you're only investing because you actually want to invest, not tell others to help you manipulate the market.
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The lab worked with bats and footage of it was scrubbed off the internet, only available today because people saved it.
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@plantbased4430 Open carry only means that. You can open carry. You can't do anything else. If you have a gun in hand and giving orders to people you're not open carrying. You're doing something else.
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@Chingon559 Even if Europe stops supporting Ukraine, the US will continue. Being realistic here - it's Russia's that's delaying the inevitable. They've consistently suffered humiliating losses in 6 months and these losses will continue.
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@1101 Moskva >Gadsden flag >Moskva What did he mean by this?
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 @OzzyBloke Russia shot down a civilian airliner full of civilians.
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The Millennium Challenge 2002 is one of those events that will just keep being misrepresented. Not only did Ripper force the people running the simulation to allow him to make suicidal attacks with small boats armed with missiles that they could not carry in real life, the Blue team's position isn't as childish as it's always portrayed. Running an exercise requires planning and money, if you have 7 days to run an exercise those 7 days will be used. It's not a "mercy rule". It's simply taking advantage of the time allotted. Then Ripper went into a "rah rah technology bad Edison was a witch" rampage when the fact is that he cheated too.
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@phantom_3oh9 People at retirement age were behind rockets, computing, coding, building the internet, etc. The fact that a 65 year old today knows less than a 65 year old did in 1969 is not a failure based on age.
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Shipping weapons to Mexico is gifting them to cartels.
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To be fair, rather be an anarchist than a pig for the state.
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 @WinterXR7 Air defense couldn't destroy a fat ballistic missile. In fact a Pantsir was hit by the ATACMS bomblets.
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Equipment gathering dust in warehouses isn't "taxes".
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I applied for a ton of jobs when I was search for a first job but never got a reply - the economy was so bad nobody wanted to employ me with no experience. Youth unemployment hit record highs back then. When Portugal recovered from the crisis I started applying for jobs again and I got a call back literally on my first application despite no changes to my curriculum. The minimum wage priced me out of the jobs market, and it sucked. You have to realize that we pay more for gas, cars, computer/electronics stuff (but it seems the US is gonna hit Chinese with tariffs so that's gonna suck for you guys too until all the corporations move to Taiwan/Vietnam/Mexico/etc), our top tax brackets reaches like almost 40% income tax and our sales tax can get to 23%. The only thing we probably pay less is internet. Places that have a healthy industry can do well DESPITE the min wage because all these taxes can cover the unemployed. But if you're like me and live in the doormat of Europe, these "Northern European" utopia policies leave you at the mercy of economic crisis because if the country can't profit there's not enough tax revenue for all the people you have on welfare.
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@UglyTruth_UglyTruth okay you said forcing them to have unions, now you're just saying "bring back the unions" - that's a very different concept.
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Frames virtually generated "happened" inside the game engine. Frames "faked" through interpolation is the computer's guess without having to sample a new render from the engine.
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 @ube187 The US built Afghanistan an entire nation. Not the US's fault they let it fall apart in days. Russia isn't even in the process of starting a new Ukraine.
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Bro, what server? You can host files on your own damned computer. >"who now have the right to intercept and inspect any and all traffic on their system" Wait, back the fuck up. First of all, the government has been spying on our communications without a warrant so you hinging this on "net neutrality" doesn't make any fucking sense. Second, ISPs has always snitched on child porn and many times would let copyright holders know that you were pirating stuff, so this concept that they never checked what you were doing online before 2012 doesn't make any sense either. Third, if you think you should be able to force a company to send through their pipes shit they don't agree with then you might as well vote Gary "Bake That Cake" Johnson to force Jews to service Neo Nazis. Fourth there's still freaking encryption, physical data devices, etc. if Ghost Gunner is driven offline they can just burn the data into CDs and send it to people for a fee.
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Because of technicalities. Once a gathering becomes large enough, or blocks public access, governments require a permit. Permits are pretty much rubberstamped for the "approved" causes.
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@swirekster Soldiers to complain about weight. A lot of them would not wear certain things if they were allowed to, but they're mandated to wear some pieces of gear no matter how much they hate it. Helmets happen to be great to protect the nogging from bumps and falling debris, though.
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@bashkit there's gaming forum posts where FTW was used as "for the win" dating back to 2003, while EVGA seems to only have been using FTW on their products since the GTX 2xx series, 2008.
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Why leave them for later? They expect 14 year old conscripts to drive them to defend Moscow? The cheaper tech costs lives. Your trained tankers are harder to replace. Sending better gear but with worse tank crews is just going to end with less skilled operators getting the good gear destroyed.
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Steel is usually lacquer/poly coated so the friction shouldn't matter. However, steel case is often loaded cheap and it's a little less powerful than brass. When shooting in cold temps it's possible that the conditions caused the shooting to happen a little undergassed.
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lol over 600 deliveries since last year
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 @jruedew NLAWs are smart weapons though, they exist precisely to avoid requiring suppression. You don't need to suppress what is dead.
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@ryscith You've essentially made the counter-argument for us. Do it OURSEVLES. Not place tech in a pedestal. Tech should serve humanity. We shouldn't serve tech.
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 @realhorrorshow8547 There's more than enough video of crew survival in this war. The crew walking out is OBJECTIVELY a better outcome than a fiery inferno.
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Not to countersignal but in many places children are being raised in places which do not invite outdoor play and you need someone to drive them to each others' homes, there's the stories of "gr00ming gangs" featured on this channel so many parents are worried, etc. It's not that new generations don't want to leave the home. We just taught them to want to be home.
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@tumamaencosplay "It's not that hard to conceptualize, a free market socialist simply doesnt believe in the goverment messing with the market, but still believes social programs are neccesary." - that's not even the core concept of market socialism. Market socialism is not a free market because there's still no private property or "profit". "For example full an-cap degenerates into monopolies (see the gilded age)" - the gilded age involved MASSIVE government corruption and subsidies
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@tumamaencosplay "There's plenty of European countries with socialist policies" - there's not a single European country with socialist policies. "their free market didn't suddendly get restrained or imploded due to it." - Actually, it did. Social programs were scaled back in some countries because the economy needed to improve and thus taxes had to be lowered.
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@tumamaencosplay "My argument has always been that literally any policy, including the lack of it, affects the market in a way," - That's like saying that me not murdering you affects your life. Sure, I guess that from the standpoint of what words mean the sentence is true. But you can't say that my decision to not stalk you and killing you is affecting your life. It's the exact opposite of having an effect. "The example of basic free healthcare is a good one. Quite honestly, pure capitalism fucking fails at healthcare" - No, it doesn't. "not only does it become unreasonibly expensive without regulation" - You do realize that healthcare was to be cheap so doctors formed the medical associations that lobbied for regulations that prohibited the cheap healthcare options, right? Factory owners would hire the services of a doctor for their entire workforce. Many doctors preferred to get paid for everyone who walked into their clinic rather than a one time payment. So the practice of hiring a doctor for the entire workforce was banned. Ever since the 1940's that regulations were passed that made healthcare more and more expensive.
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 @Fauzanarief-n7i either rusted or hollowed out to sell parts to foreign users
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Never happened.
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MH17? No, it was Russia with a Buk launcher that was supposed to be in Kursk but was deployed in Snizhne.
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The F-16 performed 3x more CAS than the A-10 in the second half of the GWOT.
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@zeerock5394 "notice how this American company shows all the videos how China is doing it." - the American company behind YouTube wanted to cooperate with China to make a censored Google for the Chinese internet. If you think their allegiance is to American nationalists you're sorely mistaken.
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 @magnagermania9311 Bronies did it too, called it "clopping" I think
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 @OleDiaBole Russian sources.
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@nexpro6118 Do you hear that Mr Anderson? It's the sound of inevitability. The USAF asked for A-10s to be retired every year. Congress is starting to fold. The less aircraft in inventory, the harder it is to keep the remaining ones.
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"Another additional benefit is everything on the surface of that tank is demolished. Optics, weapons, fuel tanks, and most importantly for the time it was introduced, ERA" - Same can be achieved by 20 and 25mm. "unguided projectiles in high volume are going to be making a big impact on the future of CAS" - Yes. But the projectiles are coming from the ground, and creating the need for more standoff capabilities as it becomes riskier to do diving passes.
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Western Europe is liberal on abortion because we impose limits on it. You can do it, but every country has their own limit. Some 16 weeks, some 20 weeks, etc. In the US there's states with looser regulation on abortion than Europe. We're "liberal" about it because we put our foot down, you can do what you want but don't push our limits.
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"When you take out your enemy's strategic bomber force, they win" - Justin Trudeau
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Yes. That's how it works. Until an airframe is scheduled for retirement, it will still be used. As far as I know, it's around 40-something A-10 airfames on the chopping block.
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Please. Dick Cheney was actually willing to do something to help Georgia in 2008, but got shut down immediately.
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 @JayJay5244 It's self explanatory. Opposition forces are driven out, turned to casualties or surrender.
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@bennuredjedi The A-10 is not viable, and the USAF is actually starving it out of maintenance and supplies to make sure it gets retired. The AV8B is an extremely vulnerable airframe that was viable decades ago, but no more. Sure, other airframes are also from the Cold War, but they're modern and adapted to the 21st century. The Harrier is not adaptable. Yes, it does "take away" from the Air Force because the government doesn't want redundancy. If they're giving something to the Army, the Air Force can't have it or else they're wasting money on duplicates. The Air Force doesn't "focus" on air superiority. Air superiority is just a means to an end. The end and main objective of the Air Force is the support of ground forces. It doesn't free up money. It wastes money. The F-16 will eventually reach the end of the line. The A-10 wasn't even perfect for the 1980s. It was estimated that piloting an A-10 would be a suicide against Soviet armored units. It's 2022. Ukraine has shown the Su-25 gets easily shot down. There's no 21st century A-10. A 21st century aircraft needs survivability, which means stealth and speed. The A-10 has neither. There's no roles for the AV8B. They're getting retired. The STOVL is meant to land in short deck carriers. How does supporting ground forces require carrier landing? The USMC is amphibious so to them it made sense to bring Harriers on their carriers. Without that, STOVL isn't needed. Who are you going to export Harriers to when countries that would use a Harrier want F-35s instead? No, it doesn't have room for modernization. You'd have to start from scratch. The F-15, F-16 and F/A-18 are sleek, future proof designs. The Harrier is flawed as a 21st century aircraft, which is why so many were lost in Desert Storm. The F-15EX was purely corporate welfare to keep the St. Louis plant open. Without orders, Boeing would have to close it. Super Duper Hornet? The Navy asked to stop buying them. They know they won't be useful past 2050 and they don't want to spend billions on aircraft that will be retired too soon. The A-10s and AV8Bs can't be upgraded because they're locked into what they are by their airframes. The AV8B for example blasts the side of the aircraft with hot exhaust gasses, making the aircraft a beacon for IR missiles. You can't change the position of the engine. By design, the Harrier cannot be better. You cannot change it. Bringing back the Corps makes as much sense as putting the Navy under the Army. It's exactly the same.
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@bennuredjedi They already exist. Most USAF CAS missions are done by Strike Eagle, F-16, B-52, B-1, etc. CAS is a mission, not a platform.
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@kiwishitloard2568 "don’t start a fight you can’t win" - The problem is that I've seen several fights I couldn't win so I didn't start them. In my defense I was too young to be fighting, and I was vocal about my beliefs so at least I tried to warn others. What I feared became true. And now more of my fears are becoming true. If this becomes another fight I miss out because I couldn't win, one day I will be too old. And I will have no option but to roll over and accept I will not fight anything that comes my way. And for that reason I do not fear losing.
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So Russia is losing to a destroyed army?
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 @desertjane during GG people sent themselves death threats and forgot to log off from their account. You'd think they wouldn't need to fake them. But they did.
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An A-10 pilot thought British Scimitar were Iraqi, firing on them and killing one soldier and wounding 5. Even low and slow they can't ID worth a damn.
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They tried that a thousand years ago. Didn't work.
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Tech companies censoring/shadowbanning people and absolutely ruining the internet as we know it: "This is fine, they're private companies they can do whatever they want" ISPs differentiate traffic: "REEEEEEEEEE"
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@WillCarter1976 "Why wait till an enemy strike gets near coastline when a carrier launched sortie can intercept" - This is beyond nonsensical. That's like keeping your entire team on the opponent's side of the field assuming nothing gets through. Not to mention that it would essentially open up an avenue through the arctic. The Navy can handle national defense, as long as the Canadian Air Force defends the northern border. "The fact the the Air Force is the most over-educated and underutilized" - Underutilized, despite of the fact that air power has been critical in the GWOT.
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@lacha608 You're the one misleading people. How can you come here and implicitly speak in favor of a product that's associated with passports an mandates when there's no justification to do so?
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The SPC was designed with the AR magwell in mind. These won't fit the AR magwell.
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@m3kbeatz Funny how almost everyone who made their money with no morals regrets it. So many people content with being honest in a "greedy" world.
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 @coreytaylor5386 the USSR collapsed in 1991, how many nuclear terrorist strikes since?
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@purefoldnz3070 watch Razorfist's two videos on Micheal Jackson and then speak.
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@MrMorvana One important consideration is that the cannon is a scalpel. The big advantage of the cannon isn't just the number of bursts - because short volleys of rockets can accomplish the same effect when carrying multiple pods - but the fact that depending on the payload a bomb can have hundreds of meters of a danger radius around them. The danger circle around the impact point of the GAU-8 is around 30-50 meters. Regarding the A-10s payload, the thrust limits really put the A-10 in a situation where it doesn't fly with full payloads unless strictly necessary. Footage of them flying out of Bagram shows two bombs, one rocket pod and one Maverick.
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@woodenfloor3131 "Economics of scale means it's harder for individuals to enter the market" - With most barriers removed you can do more with less. We're talking about a very different world here. "Just because it's the cheapest option, does not mean it's efficient" - You can't do things at a low price without efficiency. The whole point of economics of scale is having efficiency because trying to do the same at a lower scale will incur higher unit costs. If you're inefficient, people will capitalize on it. "The marginal cost of an individual entering the market will be higher than their marginal benefit since they don't have economics of scale working for them" - Again, most of the barriers were removed. Straight up bulldozed. The monopoly doesn't exist because the phantom competitor is always looming, waiting for when marginal benefit goes over marginal costs.
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@woodenfloor3131 "Can you tell me how you would address market failures without some sort of government intervention" - That's just being purely unimaginative. Almost everything around you gets done DESPITE government, not thanks to it. It's akin to believing roads or buildings couldn't exist if not for the state. Meanwhile you're surrounded by government-induced failures and refuse to accept that in a way that isn't pure dismissal. You could even do a straight trade off, less competition in the ISP market for cheap life saving drugs. But no. My side doesn't even get that benefit of the doubt, while your side gets ALL the benefit. What special magic powder does government sprinkle on its actions that somehow make them better than people on their own? "How would you deal with public goods or externalities without government?" - There's probably smarter people than me who already answered those questions decades before me, but you never listened because you're not interested in anything that doesn't reinforce your belief in the state. How would you crush small business, violate the rights of people for over a year and run dangerous g@in of funct1on research without government? How would you drop nucl3ar f1re on innocent women and children without government? If I'm going to have to answer for the hypothetical failures of anarchy, you WILL have to answer for the REAL failures of government. "Do you really believe any attempt by government to correct market inefficiences cannot yield positive marginal benefit?" - Yes, I do. Because all government can do is steal. All the "attempts" (hey at least you're willing to admit it's just an "attempt", because they tend to fall between pathetically ineffective and counterproductive) to correct anything are just an exercise of taking resources needed elsewhere and dumping them on a problem.
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@linusmlgtips2123 Sand does get blown off deserts and get carried by winds - can even be seen from satellite - but that's beside the point. Sorry to be the one to have to explain to you what a figure of speech is. Oh, the government is the people. Okay, show up tomorrow at your government's office and try to get stuff done. See how well that goes.
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How are they advancing to Odessa without taking Mykolaiv first?
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@KittenBowl1 there's more crimes recorded where they're allowed to go? Oh wow....
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Mind that TYT started a long time ago. Many subscribers are probably people who created accounts in the late 2000s and probably even forgot their passwords by now.
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@jdngux7622 fun fact at one point he was teaching in a US university and there's footage of at a speaking engagement saying that instead of threatening their neighbors Russia should develop economically instead then everyone would want to join them.
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@bariole Nope. The array cannot be used for vertical scanning as the number of rows of emitters won't allow it. There's other Sukhois with similar antennas - they're transmitter/receivers. Not radars or RWR.
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F-16 is jack of all trades, master of all. The F-35 is a F-16 on steroids, how come it can't master its trades? 18k lbs is not a poor weapons load. Planes that have to take off from short carriers always suffer in terms of raw performance. Compared to the Harrier, it's a significant upgrade. The A-10 has already been replaced. Most CAS missions are attributed to F-15s, F-16s, F/A-18s and B-1s. The flying tank model is outdated, as proven in 1991 - the A-10 was grounded and pulled out from missions against the Iraqi Republican Guard due to 7 shot down and 13 heavily damaged. The F-35 will never have to get close to AAA. And if it does, it has even better redundancy than older aircraft. Cheaper? The F-35 is already a very affordable plane, even costing less than modern production F-16s. You should look into the F-16 deals done recently, they're north of 100 million per plane.
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@vonvomit5666 So you claim that conscription weeds out trash, now you say it doesn't?
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Also surface to air missile batteries. They often have multiple launchers, more than one radar, power generators and armored cabs for the command and control. It's nearly impossible to take out a SAM battery for good with a single hit, but a cluster munition can destroy and damage enough components to make repairs unfeasible.
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Libya should not be on the list. The Arab League requested a no fly zone and the UN tasked NATO to enforce it because Europe has assets already in the Mediterranean. Yes I remember that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was very hawkish on Gaddafi but at one point people have to stop asking for intervention and then get mad when things don't go their way.
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 @markstrom3630 how is it our fault that Russia keeps threatning nukes?
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Last year IS also called for more terror in Israel. More like, ISIS has always been in the background, now a large number of angry people due to the Gaza situation can be radicalized.
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Yeah but that's really complex. If I ask you for a moderate belief on gun control for example, I am sure I would disagree and be able to explain why your example of "moderate" is actually pretty radical and unreasonable. Or alternatively, look at the 4th Amendment. Both parties have a "moderate" opinion on cybersecurity which is that you can't have both security and privacy so we compromise. But to me, accepting any form of warrantless wiretapping is an extremist position even if you are a moderate. It's binary. My position is on the other extreme, absolutely no wiretapping without due process.
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It's not. By that logic ICBMs are hypersonic. By the same logic American pilots flew hypersonic aircraft in the 60s.
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Because he's responsible for it, seems obvious.
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 @kritsadventures trading card games don't advertise life changing amounts of money. There's a reason TCGs and random toys are't regulated as gambling.
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@ecuteacher5702 The world will keep getting evil-er if we don't do something about it. Is the solution voluntary extinction, then?
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"NATO is not designed to fight a trench war" armored bulldozers going BRRRRRT in the background
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They don't even control 2 of the oblasts they claimed to have annexed.
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"Goon" is a gun subculture term for those who fight at night. If you notice his channel icon is wearing night vision goggles.
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God seems to be punishing them, though.
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 @ivankrushensky Many of the modern amenities are "cheap luxury". A lot of goods and materials plummeted in price since the 1950s.
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Pretty sure the C/D is out of production and the E/F is too new and expensive, it only had its first flight in 2017.
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Investigative Audit Why is a puppet of the BBC and CNN working for RT?
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@MichaelJM That's because they looked up excuses for the references. The the album being cover for the movie.
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@ambassador8524 please do explain. A guy I knew from college got in a crash. The car was insured under his father's name with him as the primary driver of the vehicle because the premium was cheaper than for a young man. The insurance company managed to get the kid to admit he was essentially the primary driver and the insurance company used that to avoid paying. Maybe he was lying, whatever. Somehow you have the knowledge that insurance companies can't weasel out of paying but think it's not worth sharing for us to be better informed and not get screwed.
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@greenmedic88 "US Air Force close air support typically comes in the form of an AC-130, A-10, or on the bottom end of the tier, rotor wing craft" - No. Around 30% of CAS belongs to the F-16. The Strike Eagle, B-1 and B-52 also get a huge chunk, and the A-10 received around 11% of CAS missions since 2014. "Mostly for the loitering capability to provide overwatch on longer duration missions" - If you call in air support and a Navy F/A-18 with 15 minutes playtime is close by, that's what you get.
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Russell Bentley.
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@rafomic4210 Patrick Lancaster.
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@lovepeace9727 may we see this Ka-52? Russia lost a significant portion of their Alligator fleet.
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Contrast that to Ana Kasparian's experience - one of the kindest people she met was her Trump-supporting neighbor. She didn't find out until a couple of years into their friendship. You only know the political opinions of those who broadcast them overty and guess what - people who tend to do that aren't typically nice people.
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Iraq: invaded Kuwait, oppressed Kurdish minority Somalia: warlords attacked the UN Serbia: not third world but took peacekeepers hostage to conduct cleansing operations against Bosnians Afghaistan: Taliban refused to extradite Bin Laden in 1998 and 2001, and only offered to surrender him to an Islamic court Did nothing wrong? You sure?
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@Dzeividz "beautiful work" What was beautiful? Countless war crimes? Losing all the high quality troops in the first months of the war and then resorting to prisoners?
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Mobility kills work both ways, but they're much worse on airplanes.
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All documentaries are propaganda to a degree.
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The Army not only cannot operate fixed wing attack aircraft due to the key west agreement, they're also not interested in the logistical burden of gearing up to receive a 1970s aircraft that's going to have to be retired in a few years.
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Mine rollers were a thing before turtle tanks. So basically nothing changes - lead tank pops a few mines before it bogs down. Super.
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Jimmy is vaccinated if that's what you're asking. But if you're still even entertaining that kind of question at this point you're beyond saving.
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@MikaTuukkanen Re: useless work. If you wanted to do "useful work" regarding your necessities, you'd be essentially playing a survival game IRL. Your work day would be firing pottery to carry water from the river, checking on your plantations, seeing if the animal traps caught something, etc. We are so abstracted from survival we came up with so-called useless jobs that allow us to pay for heavily mechanized processes that replace thousand year old chores. We can afford basic necessities precisely because we create value out of what's useless. The moment we stop, we become unable to drive the engines and default to a state where the hunger and thirst stat is always ticking closer to zero.
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@sethturner5242 "or in the case of food, gets thrown out" - that's because it's impossible to calculate consumption. You cannot know ahead of time if I'm going to buy 4 apples or 5 apples. All you can do is average out the consumption, and order extra to avoid shortages. If we wanted to reduce waste, we could just have shortages. The "hoarding" thing also doesn't make sense.
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Seems like a dosing cup would fix that issue.
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@terjeoseberg990 Fatality rate in Italy is based on CFR because there was no widespread testing. When you only test people who are critical, fatality rate is absurdly high. While in fact there's evidence of community spread since late 2019 thanks to analysis done to samples taken from blood banks.
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@PGH Engineer Are those numbers based on the Imperial College models? Several high ranking "experts" have already came out and said Ferguson was wrong and his models were garbage.
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@wetlettuce4768 Boeing got a massive payday from the contract to make new wings.
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Russia filled Kherson with manpower prior to the bridges being struck. That means that right before Ukraine depleted their resource supply rate, Russia dramatically increased their need for resources in Kherson. It was a one-two punch combo that rocked them. Ukraine is not over filling their bridgehead with troops in a desperate attempt to hold, nor are they hinging on two easily struck crossings. There's no right cross to the jaw. There isn't even a jab that lifts the head and exposes the chin. The double whammy Russia got in Kherson is not here.
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 @bxnnies CPS doesn't want you to know this but the children inside the Wayfair cabinets are free
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@haifutter4166 correct, as in "a window that overlooks the patio"
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@bufordhighwater9872 the TDF fighting the initial assault was very Red Dawn. Anyone who tried to attack the armored columns got deadly return fire, so they focused on letting the initial assault pass by them, then attack the supply trucks.
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@Markle2k "the nuclear option is just opting to back-load the "what do we do with the emissions" to entire civilization, not just a few future generations" - Not really. If the "emissions" get stopped by a few feet of concrete I chalk it up as a win.
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Borrowing ahead of permission.
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 @TheBoss0110101001 Plenty of people do. Half the shills say Zelensky banned Christianity in Ukraine ahahahah
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No empty shelves in Portugal. Even Lidl hasn't stopped stocking, and their products come from Germany. You know, the country that you people claim has stopped their industry due to the gas shortage?
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@ravenknight4876 I don't care about your whataboutism and pleas to talk about unrelated subjects. When North Korea is able to humiliate Russian equipment, the story isn't that NK are some absolute masters of their craft. They might as well be, but the real story is that Russian defenses were EMBARASSED. "And you are writing this from a capitalist nation the wealth of which is entirely founded on the exploitation" - This was about Russian radars. If you want to discuss your Marxist drivel we can, but this is about Russian defenses operated by Russian crews not faring any better than the monkey models. "Could you do a better job at running a country that is däeconomically isolated ?" - No, but that's not the topic of this discussion. We're talking radars. Not nation management. Could I do a better job? No. But I wouldn't also be committing human rights violations so I got that going for me. "Very feasable and economically viable" - Jets not getting shot down is economically viable. If you're not willing to spend money to keep aircraft in the air and pilots alive, you'll lose more money in the end. "Especially for a nation that constantly loses wars against low and no tech opponents" - Okay but we're not talking about those, are we? "And you expect those guys to somehow manage to pull off a complicated interception on a target with superior EWAR ?" - What? It's the Russians who got humiliated by North Korean EWAR. That's the story here. "Take the L." - No, I'm taking the W here. You might have not understood what just went on, but you started blabbing about unrelated subjects because you're big mad at American air power.
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 @Likeaworm the DAS can see nuclear ICBMs being fired from 1200km. Not aircraft.
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@redtheyiffer do you honestly think all those old games are retroactively bad because they don't have new content?
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If you can't defend an airfield, you can't defend your ports, factories or power plants. Patching a runway only takes around a day.
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The poorly trained 93rd mechanized destroyed the 1st Guards Tank Army. The defenders of Moscow lol
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These bombers already got attacked at Engels airbase a long time ago. It's not an escalation, it's still the same level. Stop.
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There's like 8-10 Su-57s in flying condition.
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@MrRandomTwat So if he does get a pardon on the drug charges he gets away with attempted contract killing. If prosecutors can be discredited then they're doing a poor job. This isn't about conspiracies. A man was put in jail for life over drugs, and people defend it over attempted contract killings, but he wasn't charged with those crimes. There was an attempt to, but it was dismissed.
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The A-10 has been mostly replaced by F-16s and Strike Eagles.
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@willmannn "move on and get a life" says person who had nuclear rage about this issue back in 2021 lul You people were the ones who wouldn't want to just move on and let go. Still waiting for that winter of d3ath and darkness or whatever the Pres said in that speech. Ominus stuff, really.
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Birth rates are dropping in poorer countries too. Terrible conditions create the high birth rates - not the other way around. Disease and need for labor to feed the family leads to more kids. Once the conditions improve kids can go to school instead of working, so parents have less kids.
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@aethelwolfe3539 tell 'em it's the side effects
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Safety third.
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 @thefirsted You don't need to watch it, you also don't need to come here and complain. You admittedly did not watch it and then criticized Muta.
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Lmao S-400s smoked by ATACMS.
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The HIMARS effectively nullified Russia's multiprong offensive army. How was it not effective? Russia was making incremental gains with relentless fire support, driving out Ukrainians out of the toughest fighting positions with sheer strength. HIMARS arrived and a dozen launchers broke the spinal column of the Russian Army, turning it into a conscript marauding gang with access to penal battalions.
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This is riddiculous. The Russian armed forces amassed troops under the cover of inspections and other motives for increased activity. They entered Ukrainian sovereign territory and surrounded Ukrainian military bases. They wore no insignia to LIE and pretend it wasn't Russia doing it. If what you were saying was true, they would wear insignia and wouldn't need to seige Ukrainian bases.
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@pyranna2003 people didn't buy AMD when they had the upper hand technology wise. AMD is turning to the business and console side of things because PC gamers are fucking dumb and gave monopoly to nvidia. A company known to cheat in benchmarks, hire online shills, force gameworks into games so that AMD performance falls behind, etc. Why would they care now? Even if AMD released a good card gamers would be like "wow can't wait for nvidia's response" and buy nvidia 4 months later.
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Pilot and weapons systems officer in the back seat were wearing masks inside the cockpit for the whole trip and had a sheet of acrylic between them.
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@thesaltbaron3029 lmao posting this online won't make Russia win
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 @geckomaster25x Are news monetized? Rhetorical question, they are through advertising. Those are not "facts", that's deflection.
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Uncle Adolf kind of liked these dudes, they had a common enemy.
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F-4s got electro optical systems to identify tracks visually outside visual range. Too late for Vietnam. The F-14 got TISEO. The F-35 had the EOTS/DAS. You can see visually beyond visual range. Lenses and cameras do wonders.
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>college grants you an education HA HA
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 @yspear_ Ka-52s laser guided missile outrange the MANPADS by severak km. Using MANPADS as an excuse is copium.
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The "run, hide, fight" thing is a layered strategy where fighting back is only an option after you exhausted the other ones, and it's truly meant to be a last resort.
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@ccdogpark "Even Mitch McConnell is saying 95% of the people in hospital ICU's are not vaccinated" - And how many people in the ICU are infected? People have been combing through those articles, they either start counting the "95%" before the roll outs so OBVIOUSLY people had not taken it, and in CDC data it appears that only 20% of ICU beds are filled with people infected while the majority are for other conditions or accidents. It's all lying through numbers. I don't care what McConnell says.
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China has been antagonizing everyone for over a decade (wolf warrior diplomacy, breaking the Hong Kong treaty, constant claims of jurisdiction that are within other country's economic zones, illegal fishing, etc). It's just that the US had a ton of money invested in China so there was an incentive for tamping down criticism. After the 2020 situation America started looking for alternatives and now criticism of China is more open.
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@Omniseed Cancelling programs like that is snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. The F-22 is too expensive to maintain today because the government killed it before the USAF could get the minimum airframes it wanted (around 300, half of the 700 initially planned).
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You don't have independent foreign policy with the Gripen. Sweden will cut you off if the disagree with your war, and if not them, the Gripen is made with German, British, American, etc components which have to b cleared for export.
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The gun on a jet aircraft is a last resort. You shouldn't need more than a few seconds. The helicopter is meant to stay on station and provide fire support to ground troops so it carries a lot of it.
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Now think about the general population. How many have come forward with similar stories? Is it a conspiracy? No. But the patterns are consistent. Now think about the fact that people in the Air Force are still people. And thus certain behaviors will be found in their ranks just like in the general population.
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@dahorn100011 I'm sure the guy willing to risk 25 years for murder doesn't mind the extra 5.
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Pretty sure it started cooking in the longer video.
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Putin says a lot of things. Start losing, make up new win conditions.
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CDPR finished the Witcher 3 DLC in 2016 which meant they could not have spent 9 years in development. Cyberpunk was a mess on launch but it took maybe a year and a half to make it acceptable. CIG has blown past such a timeframe multiple times.
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@stanislavkimov2779 That's not accurate. There's been problems with international logistics and massive demand for chips which forced an increase in prices you can't blame on either inflation or greed.
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But it did.
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The problem is that the Gripen was built for the Winter War. Make it costly, trade lost land for sovereignty. The war we want means having to come back, get on our feet and knock out the opponent so that he doesn't come back 8 years later.
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@TransistorBased You have no argument so you go straight for personal insults. Boeing settled. If they were so innocent as you claim they'd have won the lawsuit.
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@knightsnight5929 Noam Chomsky called for removal from society. He's also anti-Ukraine, pro-Serbia in their genocide of Bosnians and defended the Khmer Rouge so Chomsky's opinion is at least consistent.
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Very high vaccination rates have not ended it in several countries. Womp womp.
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@matchesburn No. It. Isn't. If we're comparing, say, 23mm to 20mm aircraft cannons, you don't bring up a 12 gauge. We're comparing 27mm to 30x173mm, or even smaller 30mm rounds to 30x173mm. There's a much lower capability gap, and you're deliberately throwing out a much lower pressure and lower velocity cartridge to drive a point. It's not intellectually dishonest. The targets were standing still, visibility was good, there was no return fire and the pilot had plenty of time to line up shots. The damage on the soft kills was also estimated to not have completely disabled some of the tanks, which would be repairable within hours. This is the same problem as WW2 tank kills by aircraft, in which pilots counted near misses and light damage as kills, while on the actual ground they barely made a dent in tank numbers due to how easy it was to repair them. So again, if you want to trash the outside of tanks to temporarily disable them, you don't need 30x173mm. Also, they were goddamn M-47 tanks so the damage caused to more modern threats would not be as pronounced. And let's not even mention that in real life the pilot would be hitting moving targets, dodging AAA and MANPADS, possibly have low visibility, armor is pumping out smoke screens so there's no way the pilot could have scored hits as clean as during the test. "The only thing that comes close is, again, the GSh-6-30" - At temporarily disabling tanks?
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@goodrobot1 They may wait until the DPR or LPR get attacked.
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Li Li they already put a fist in the bear trap, are they really going to put the other fist down and think their meat is stronger than steel teeth?
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@mozkuthehermit5909 Nukes aren't sent in an equal distribution. A lot of strategic targets like silos have three nukes assigned to them because funnily enough, two nukes only have a 99% chance of disabling a hardened silo. So they have to be hit three times to ensure destruction.
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They can use conventional artillery for that.
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A credit score is essentially a way to determine if you're "good for it". Anyone looking to give you credit has to protect their investment, they want a return. A background check is to see if you're a criminal. Social credit scores means you don't get to ride the bus this month because you criticized the president online. You're the one who's out of touch if you're equating not defaulting on your loans with having your entire life controlled.
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Insanity right after the Boston bombing a man was visited by the feds because he looked up pressure cookers and his wife searched for flights to Yemen or whatever. It's not paranoia when we know for a fact this happens.
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@eddyray-yb6ig Boxers at the pro level often have brand deals. They don't fight in the gloves they like but the ones they were paid to wear. Sometimes they train in gloves of a different brand because the deal is fights only. Some have to cover up brand with tape during training because they have exclusivity deals and can't rep competing brands even in training.
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A big issue is that the water turning into steam would cool the engine, essentially robbing the energy the alcohol puts into the compressed air. Water/methanol injection is a thing. But it is done ahead of the combustion section, so that evaporative cooling cools the compressed air.
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@eb3279 You don't want to get down in the dirt even more unless you're avoiding radar. The requirement to get low is entirely based on older aircraft forcing pilots to visually acquire ground targets when they were flying too fast and too high for it. Now with targeting pods the need to get low has been reduced, and in fact its undesirable to make yourself an easy target.
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Maybe release your own investigation into it and we'll watch. Until then, don't make excuses.
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The Su-25 usage is beyond pathetic. They get within a couple miles of the frontline, pitch up, launch unguided rockets in a ballistic arc and turn back to avoid flying over the enemy. They're expensive airborne artillery. If Ukraine had the choice they'd probably trade the Su-25s for more fighters, but we didn't have that many former Soviet aircraft in flying condition in NATO.
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You know youtube has been doing that for about 2 years or something, use less aggressive words.
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 @EvaExplores-x2x the F-35 is "obese" because it carries weapons and fuel. You cannot make a slimmer fighter without sacrificing payload and range.
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 @dofehino5444 People would go to the moon if the ticket price was the same as Tibet.
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@demonofheavn I'm dilluted? I'm actually very concentrated.
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 @ロース-z7m Bypass the lines? Maybe through Belgorod or the Black Sea, because the entirety of the frontline is covered in mines.
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How are conspiracy theories related to censorship? Also, Tim Pool isn't even conservative. He's like a pre-2011 Democrat. He just covers topics related to right wing politics because he is independent and he can chase that niche because the msinstream won't.
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@ricklee4515 "operation sort of failed because most of the Russians and equipment made it out in one piece" - they abandoned tons of ammunition, heavy weapons, sensitive EW and radar systems and around 200 armored vehicles which will be repaired and used by Ukraine. Russia got robbed blind.
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Just some light coffee table reading.
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The problem is that we accept the flu exists and move on. Can we move on with this one too?
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@davemardon6756 and during those 4 deployments how many didn't make it to 45? Mind that your "great pay and benefits" come from funds others didn't get to claim.
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@mirroredvoid8394 no conventional weapon even reached the megaton range. How would you drop a bomb equivalent to a million tons of TNT? Even the FOAB was an estimated 44 tons of TNT.
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I'm not gonna take finnancial advice from you, then.
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It's difficult to look at China's rise and think they were "exploited". They were compensated fair and square, to the point we fed steroids to what would become our number one enemy. The fact that they fumbled the bag is solely on them, not us.
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"There's always a bigger fish"
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Nice cope.
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 @IanMikrut This isn't an airport, you don't have to announce your departure.
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20-30 artillery pieces destroyed every day noises Counter-battery radar noises
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 @stillcantbesilencedevennow breh China literally sells Pakistan military equipment. China sees an advantage in propping up Pakistan as a way to chip at India.
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@charlespancamo9771 How many girls did they have dance for the casting team in their attempt to make an anti-grooming movie?
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@BertoxolusThePuzzled That's not how it works, dawg. Prigozhin himself has filmed the speeches he delivers to the convicts. Once you volunteer for Wagner, you're in until you complete the contract or get KIA. They are not employees. They are prisoners. Only the completion of the contract secures their freedom. They cannot quit. Common sense? The actual owner of the Wagner group has even filmed his recruitment drives. He has filmed himself visiting the graves. He has filmed the prisoners who completed the contract and earned the pardon. When he was criticized by some in Russian society, appalled at his recruitment tactics and actions in Ukraine, Prigozhin fired back by saying that Russians had a choice of letting him use the prisoners or send their sons instead. You come here, talk about "common sense" while denying the reality that the Wagner Group itself has openly admitted to.
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@Crick1952 Ripper cheated in the exercise by making the simulation allow swarms of small ships carry several tons of missiles and launching systems they could not carry in real life, and the initial blow to Bluefor was done when the simulation "teleported" ships into combat without Bluefor being ready and too close to react. Their defenses were also turned down because the Navy only had a small shipping lane available to them and if the defenses were turned on they would start locking onto civilian targets in the shore or in other lanes. A reset is natural, if you have a certain number of days you scheduled to perform exercises and you lose in the first hours, you reset and continue to make use of the days you scheduled. The reason Ripper was told to follow certain rules was because he was purposefully sabotaging the exercises. At one point one of the generals involved cited the example that they only had 36 hours to use transport airplanes for a troop drop exercise. But Ripper wanted to use chemical weapons to make sure the exercise wouldn't happen. The Bluefor generals said that if they had the time, they would have allowed the chemical weapons to be used, waited for the simulation to allow for the dispersion of the chemicals and then do the drop. But they didn't have enough time, they could only use the airplanes according to schedule and had to restrict Ripper's moves or else he'd fuck up the exercise by not actually allowing anyone to train.
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@dan2569 This is the reason I refuse to take it. I've already had the coof twice, Wuhan strain and Omicron, and it was a cold that lasted one day. However since 2019 I have had a worrying heart condition that is still undiagnosed (thanks to lockdowns delaying appointments and exams), and I have occasional chest pain and high heart rate. I'm genuinely worried that if I take it, this is going to make it worse (or actually kill me) but doctors won't even entertain that this could be a risk factor. And again I had this before the pandemic so it wasn't myocarditis from viral infection, that many claim to be more common than adverse reactions.
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Kicking ass by retreating, getting repelled from Bakhmut, etc.
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@darkglass3011 nah when it comes to gun control the facts tend to side with the pro gun side
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@tetraxis3011 They've already announced a drone with 75kg payload to respond in kind. Germany in WWII was bombed even more and they were manufacturing fighter jets until the last day of the war.
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Most of the population is near the coasts because of increased economic activity. People go where the jobs are.
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It was a Khinzal. The pictures of the 2022 crash prove it.
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@Ben Daulton it was a quote from Nick Diaz, of course it doesn't make sense
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Name these villages?
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@messier8379 Word salad. Cities die, Detroit was Motor City but the car industry isn't what it used to be. The US counts old equipment as "dollars", so when old vehicles in a warehouse are pulled out and shipped to Ukraine they say "we sent 10 billion dollars (of equipment). Also, it destroyed Russia for a fraction of the yearly DoD budget. Name a better investment than that.
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It's difficult to ship bodies and Russians rarely pick them up anyway. Of course they're still in Ukraine.
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@TheUnkow the implementation is based on the devs being lazy as hell
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@gerolddo It evaded the Patriots at the edge of the glide bomb range. Su-34 didn't get to drop, Russian comrades on the ground get no air support, lose battle and curse their "cosmonaut" friends. In Afghamistan while few jets were lost to the Stinger the Soviet troops complained that jets flew higher and missed their bomb drops - they started calling them "cosmonauts" to mock their cowardice.
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These drones are small, made of lightweight materials like foam and fiberglass (less radar returns), and fly slow enough that they may be filtered by Doppler radar.
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@theattack7630 It wasn't about "invading" a country in 3 days, but forcing regime change within 3 days. Heads of state flee the country at the first sign of trouble, done. You people purposefully misinterpret what others say and make yourselves look worse.
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 @apacademy There weren't millions of civilian deaths as a result of the US invasion of Afghanistan or Iraq.
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@MichaelOberhardt The issue is that there's a reason there isn't a traditional shot for the common cold either. There's several viruses that cause the common cold, four of them are coronaviridae. We've never had a traditional shot for a virus of the coronaviridae family that worked right, and why Sinovac is "estimated" to be 40% effective.
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@mcribisback7105 First, Russia's defense budget benefits from purchasing power parity. Russia pays less for their own products so their budget is 220 billion USD equivalent. Second, we didn't send advanced air defense until the Iranian drones arrived. We mostly sent short range Stingers, which were declared obsolete in 2020 and a replacement should be selected next year. So no, it wasn't state if the art anything giving them trouble. It was Soviet/Warsaw Pact stuff and some old Stingers.
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@yasserpuentes3025 Lyman is still contested but it seems Ukrainian forces are encircling them anyway.
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@guillermoelnino I guess the heroes will have to become good at looting their bullets.
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+Hector Diaz no, I saw falsehoods that justified statist beliefs being spread on a libertarian channel. How many paragraphs are you on, three? "You come across as incredibly defensive" --- Ya think? Blaming something for the bad things people do is inherently an offensive move. Debunking it is inherently defensive. Would you rather me point the finger at something else unrelated so I can stay in the offense?
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@1970DAH FB is a garbage site and I try to use Zucc's data mining operation as little as I can. Why are we expected to know all about that case?
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 @diydylana3151 and Tails!
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@damyr That agreement didn't exist. We promised not to expand to EASTERN GERMANY. The Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union still existed. There is no reason why the US would have an agreement when Russia controlled the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union. None of those countries would ask to join NATO.
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@ince55ant The festival happened before a war. There's a difference between declaring everything a legitimate target and going ham, and then having a war where you hide among civilians. During peacetime the military lives among civilians, and has bases within city limits. You can't use that fact to do like Russia and drop Iskanders on every apartment block.
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But Ukraine doesn't use "waves" to overwhelm and exhaust the defenses. They use trench infiltration tactics. The human waves were meant to use meat to soak up bullets and drain the combat power of defenses in Bakhmut for "real" Wagner mercs with actual military training to then do the infiltration tactics. The meat was expected to dig positions and fall with vests loaded with ammo so that all the former Spetsnaz could then replenish their own during the fight.
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Communism doesn't "work" even under the Dunbar limit. Communism doesn't even work in a household, usually who brings home the bacon makes the rules.
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@person800 he took the Juchepill
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 @MrML4L Handheld consoles have batteries that last you enough for power to be restored in most developed countries.
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 @markrobinowitz8473 SARS-1 was traced back to the cave where the bats lived. This one wasn't.
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Because Europe needed to rebuild from WWII and prepare for Soviet invasion. So the US being an ocean away was a disadvantage that had an upside which was putting a large reserve of equipment outside of the USSR's strike range and in case of invasion of Western Europe the US could ship in reinforcements. If the Soviet Union took over Europe, the US would become isolated. When the Cold War ended, Europe wasn't going to out of a sudden start their own massive arms stockpile. The US has thousands of Abrams it can't export for bureaucratic reasons. The EU has a few hundred Leopards it can't send because they're straight up unsalvageable.
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@kalyka98 sorry but did you just imply that minorities are prevented from voting because they are criminals? Racist much?
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 @annakaye1629 Kievan Rus predates the Russian empire.
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Keemstar is a nuissance but he's not drawing people's kids.
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@aleksandrsv.1465 What does that have to do with the claim that red dots don't work past 100 yards?
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@TheInfantry98 tbh there's civilian ranges more dangerous than military training. But iit could be argued that if one needs body armor to go to the range, one should find a new range.
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They're actually pretty good, the movie is a comedy based on a book that was written by Col. Burton himself. It was a biased tale full of self-praise. The Battle of 73 Easting during Desert Storm had two Bradleys come across T-72s in defensive positions, and they managed to kill 5 tanks on their own before help arrived.
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THE IIID EMPIRE you'll unlock the "we won't negotiate with terrorists" angle.
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The platform you're probably talking about is not meant for theaters where air defenses are active.
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Months to a year. Material has to be ordered, workers have to be hired and trained, equipment produced elsewhere like radars, screens, etc would have to be purchased.
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The atmosphere scatters the beam. Missiles have longer range.
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In 2008 Putin said Crimea was Ukrainian and he wouldn't invade. During his presidency Medvedev said Ukraine was free to pick their allies.
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Yeah, don't look up trypophobia. I mean, now you're probably inclined to do it, but it's the name the internet gave to feeling disgust at clusters of holes and you probably shouldn't if it makes your skin crawl, but I just wanted to say that it's definitely a common trigger for disgust/nausea.
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Swing wing? Maintenance nightmare.
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 @AndrewTubbiolo early in the war tank yards were seen inside Russia and Belarus where the repairs occur. I think one close to the border was struck by Ukraine (Tochka-U?).
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@havoc3742 you do realize that the F-35 does have specially designed exhausts to cool the ejected gasses, right? This has already been done in the B-2, F-117 and F-22.
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@russellmcafee9412 "don't misinterpret confusion as lies" - you're simplifying the situation. The people firing at radar ghosts were confused. The sacks of shit at home who have access to all the intelligence and then go on to tell the American people their sons are gonna have to die in Southeast Asia were not confused.
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 @Intrepidus_Bellator "come and take it" brother if you want a fight there's a war already happening
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Insert "never learn Mandarin" 4chan post
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@StarEclipse506 "right wing internet dwellers use it to describe people who unapologetically espouse right wing views" - maybe because you're only used to reading right wing internet interaction but literally anything can be called "based" for going against the norm. For example when someone writes a completely incomprehensible mess people respond with "based strokeposter" or when people go off on insane tangents people reply with a "based schizoposter". There's also the "based and X-pilled" reply, where X can be substituted for anything.
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 @annarennie He's not missing the point in any way. It's not about the person, it's about not putting in effort in a dead end.
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 @annarennie The boyfriend doesn't make a girl unavailable. The girl makes herself unavailable (stop denying women's agency). A woman can have a boyfriend and still be down.
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Look up "Russian anons react to Chip n Dale"
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>they are well funded Because the US funded and armed people willing to fight against Assad. It was US intervention that lead to ISIS existing in the first place. >their ambitions are huge and they are crazy enough to at least try them So were the guys who tried to build flying cars a hundred years ago. Let them get themselves killed trying to pursue their dreams. >If they are not stopped now they will grow to be unmanageble sooner than anyone thinks The Kurds are kicking their collective asses. Even if what you said was true, what legitimizes US action? Why not any other country? Why not the countries around it? Name one reason why it's the US's problem to solve. >Lets not forget that they also have a lot of supporters in the west, happily willing to commit atrocities by their own when given the signal. Remember when we lost most of our freedoms when we said the same thing about the Communists, the Jihadists (PATRIOT Act? NDAA?), etc?
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+MrPepsicola123 that's not the point. Guns are lethal force. Shooting to stop means aiming at the chest and pulling the trigger until you see the target react. Don't want to kill a suspect? Don't use a gun. I'm interested in this device but normally, if you draw a firearm is because the situation is serious and if you shoot, it should mean that if the perp dies it was a righteous use of force. Not shoot because the cop "felt like it".
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The F-22 is an air superiority fighter. The F-35 is a strike fighter.
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Executive orders cannot write law.
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Qwerty Bastard yeah but you'll see Republicans defend corporatism and lobbying, liberals complain about money in politics while stuffing it in their pockets.
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Pretty sure the people with their ass outside the wire were driven by rap and metal/hard rock. Those driven by corporate greed are never anywhere near the front line. I.E. you're nitpicking.
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ozfizzy you want to maintain a balance, if your shocks have less travel to absorb the hits, you need a stiffer spring to compensate.
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He didn't word it as a mutually exclusive thing, he said he subscribes to this channel for the style of videos that car throttle does not upload.
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I'm unemployed? Because I posted one comment? You're too salty for someone who fucked up and couldn't dare to own up to the mistake, it's you who's taking it far too seriously.
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TheGIANTgonads You're just throwing ad hominems, you're literally just shooting the messenger by attacking my credibility rather than the facts. Of course I have seen the central rod. The problem is that, ironically, you're using first year classical mechanics - where you only calculate normal forces and assume there's no shaft deflection (a normal force doesn't prevent bending), and you're only using statics so you're not taking into account load imbalance. I don't know if you've ever heard of this, but turbines from a car's turbo have to be balanced by grinding away mass from the blades or else the weight is going to cause a cyclical load on the axle. Pretty sure those blades are not far enough apart to grind into them. Yeah, the load may be small enough so it doesn't deflect by too much (it will to a certain degree) but it's still an unecessary load on the bearings. Bearing life is extremely important, plastic fans weight so little that the cyclical load won't damage the bearings before you buy a new computer. But shit's gonna droop because no way that it's precisely machined like a car's turbo, or else it would cost more than water cooling. I mean, it's probably going to droop and rub against the "bottom" of the circular channels if placed sideways, leaving most of the contact area populated by minuscule air gaps while only the bottom allows heat transfer. It will lead to uneven wear. And finally, you didn't address the obvious concern, heat flow can only occur with precise mating of the surfaces. That's why we use thermal paste, to eliminate air gaps between the CPU and cooler interface. Air gaps act as a thermal resistance, and if that shit is spinning then obviously there will be gaps between the surfaces. Unless you're trying to tell me they perfectly lapped the mating surfaces so they spin in perfect contact. Sorry, if this shit was so revolutionary we'd have used it in other applications, it's not worth anything so it's peddled to computer enthusiasts with more money than brains who'll fall for every gimmick.
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TheGIANTgonads Specific tooling? Wow, that's a stupid idea for such a niche product. I can see the tool marks left by the machining. inb4 "it's just a prototype" if you're going to leave a display model make sure it lets people see how good it is, not how lazy you are. You're wrong. Plenty of people will polish a turd for a quick buck. If you're really telling me that bad products are never let out the door because nobody would dare releasing something without solving every problem... I got bad news for you. If you pay me enough, I can design you a fan like this that "works" and I will try to address the fundamental flaws, but I can't promise that they'll be countered. I'm not any smarter or experienced by doing it, it's just a paycheck. Like Andrezzi said, a stupid decision in a smart person's life.
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Axel D- Without a unit for me to inspect I simply do not believe the fan/heatsink works. We use thermal paste to fill in the gaps which could ruin the contact patch for heat transfer. A fan spinning around will have imbalances and those channels were definitely not precisely machined and lapped to eliminate air pockets between base and fan. A motor working at a lower power but drawing the same mass flow rate of air would probably perform better for the same size. Haven't found a review for it yet, until I see results I remain skeptical.
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ChiefFalque but isn't that a case-specific thing? Wouldn't the stock car designers have optimized the flow to the exhaust pulses in some cars?
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If I'm not mistaken that's a thing that derives from the 80's Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, where the Soviets introduced the 5.45x39 rifle cartridge, famous for tumbling and causing more damage to tissue than it's size would suggest. The locals called it the "poison bullet". The 5.56 tumbles and fragments at the cannelure, which also contributes for much faster incapacitation of the enemy. He saw the green tip, which merely means that the bullet has a mild steel insert to aid in penetration of helmets and kevlar vests at distance, and associated the green colour to the "poison" aspect.
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konnek Better mental healthcare and less Big Pharma lobbying to push drugs into depressed teenagers with little to no oversight?
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Mark Massingill All the evidence from countries which decriminalized drugs points to positive outcomes. I don't want to get high. I don't even drink alcohol. The pure, cold hard fact is that once your gang can't sell drugs it stops being profitable. Stealing isn't that profitable, and there's pretty much no territory to maintain because you don't have to sit around distributing product. You steal, get out.
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@chrisreynolds6143 why?
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@chrisreynolds6143 being 21 honestly doesn't improve your case. You call me an arrogant nutbag simply because I made a sly remark about your borderline deranged posts, you have delusions of grandeur, you glamorize violence you don't have the balls to commit. You parrot phrases like "leader of free world" not because you understand them but because they score a point in a debate. Despite your attempt to... I don't know, pretend to be a centrist, you still couldn't help but reveal your power level by whipping out edgy commie lingo. All in all, you kinda need to grow up.
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@Agent Deception https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/us/georgia-toddler-stun-grenade-no-indictment/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Guerena_shooting https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colorado-man-shot-dead-police-who-confused-him-burglar-he-n896041 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/police-officer-shoots-security-guard-chicago.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/us/black-man-killed-alabama-mall-shooting.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/nyregion/unarmed-man-is-charged-with-wounding-bystanders-shot-by-police-near-times-square.html / https://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/25/justice/new-york-empire-state-shooting/index.html
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+Patrick BPoint Germany is the European country with the largest number of legal firearms in civilian hands. In terms of ownership rate though, it's lower than Switzerland, Finland, etc.
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+Alex Opris never mention the planet's health on something that requires plastic, copper and batteries. The damage to nature is done before the car ever comes out of the factory. Not to mention that CO2 is released into the atmosphere to create the electricity you charge the car with. Only when 100% of the grid becomes nuclear, solar, electric, hydro, etc will electric cars not require the combustion of fossil fuels to run.
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+Markus Rubach you're mistaken. Aircraft cannot hold ground. They cannot stand on a corner and arrest people. Governments will always need people, made of flesh and bone, to act as jack-booted thugs to oppress people in their daily lives. And all jack-booted thugs depend on them acting with impunity to carry out their deeds. Imagine you need to take someone to a black site to be tortured. But you know that the moment you bust down that door a bullet might splatter your brains in the hallway. You can't act with impunity when there's guns. You can't arrest people with megaphones and plastering walls with propaganda because it might be a trap and the moment you step out of your vehicle a sniper in a window somewhere can take you out.
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cronicjointpain except that the people who reach Hollywood fame can pick and choose the parts they audition for. I don't think Liam Neeson would starve if he stopped doing the Taken movies. I get where you're coming from, but their preemptive excuses are rubbish. Richard Armitage doesn't like guns but in the same interview claimed he didn't want to make scenes or photoshoots for Strike Back that glorify guns. Hello? The show depicts his character having a handgun at home despite living in England and working as a mere parking lot security guard. But the kicker is that Chris Ryan himself, a freaking ex-SAS, trash talked "American gun culture" and how the new Strike Back seasons are just guns and sex. His books are guns and sex. I got three of them and only one doesn't have sex in it - in the other two the main character fucks two women. In an interview he said he offered to escort the neighbors into a restaurant but they refused as they were packing. He goes "hurr what kind of danger you think you'll be that justifies carrying a gun?". I don't know, Ryan, what kind of danger justifies being escorted by former SAS?
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+FuzzyOne[UK] there's about 700,000 cases of defensive gun use per year. Anti gun sources claim 100k, pro gun sources claim 2.5 million (even I find it excessive).
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imafackinjunglist motor from a Nissan put on a VW chassis? That took some tweaking.
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Boat If the NSA, FBI, CIA and the TSA let an ISIS operative blow up my building, how the hell would they stop that by sending troops to Syria? If a bunch of college educated analysts, hackers and agents with years of service under their belt couldn't stop ISIS from bombing US soil how are some kids trying to get their GI Bill solve the issue of homegrown terrorists? >"non-logical pacifism." I'm not a pacifist. But I abide by moral standards and the non-aggression principle. If I saw you wearing a balaclava and creeping into my house I'd probably shoot you for fear of losing life or limb. But I'm not going to your house and shoot you there because you "might" invade my home and kill me.
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Distilled water will pull ions from bare metal and become conductive.
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The Lone Voice Monash University, 2002. Also, New Zealand also stopped having mass shootings at the same time and they didn't use Australia's gun control model.
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WITNESS ME
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Horváth Benedek HEAT rounds do not burn through, they use superplasticity of materials under high pressure.
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+Horváth Benedek it doesn't melt through, just like a high pressure water jet cutting metal doesn't melt it. The effect is mechanical, not thermal. Look at how casings are made, the metal is pressed into shape through swaging, where it behaves like a fluid without melting. The explosion is like an hydraulic press, forcing the metal cone into a shape and forming a stream that punches through armor. It doesn't melt it.
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James Sarvan Would you like to try? Getting shot would totally bankrupt you. You think the government is going to cover 100% your physiotherapy treatment? You'd be in recovery for a long time, which would screw up with your employment. You could even require a long recovery period, if your lungs were sufficiently damaged you can be forced to live with weakened stamina for over a year. How would you not be bankrupted if you couldn't even take a walk around the block?
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+Samantha Bayley there's small lockbox safes you can keep on a drawer or bolted to a nightstand. There's simplex mechanical locks, biometric locks, etc. that allow quick access. Leaving a smart gun in the open doesn't make sense. You should keep it in a safe because even a magnet can override the lock that prevents the firing.
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@EleanorPeterson that was the cringiest comment of the thread
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I think the point is that regulations would be so severe that the hyperbolic conclusion would be silent electric F1. I don't think he actually believes F1 cars are quiet.
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I think the point is that there's nothing inherently immoral about government healthcare because it's a service provided like any other, but government programs have the tendency of being poorly managed and ran into the ground year after year (because they have a "bottomless" pit of money - the taxpayer). The fact isn't just that Obamacare was poorly managed, but it was also forced into the people. You know that any expansion to government healthcare is going to mean more taxes, but instead they just created a "service" and a "fine" - which is still a freaking tax. Example, the military isn't rewarded for saving money. If they spend less than the budget gives them, they're getting their budget cut next year. A lot of people in the Air Force will tell you they make flights with no reason other than to spend fuel so their budget isn't cut. Classical government management.
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ben borg then I'm sorry, but then who the hell cares about your opinion? Even a lot of anti-gun people don't agree with disarming the American population, and the majority of Americans are pro-gun.
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Ajiah Ci How is it a cultural attack? Most men grow beard naturally. Beards are against regulations unless you're a Navy SEAL. Is that a cultural attack on men? And before you speak, remember that many men get skin conditions from shaving, and those conditions are actually more common among black men and force them to use those creams that leave an awful smell and can burn your skin.
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An important part to remember about the F-117 being shot down is that planners became careless and sent the planes down the same corridor at predictable times. They shot down a F-117 because it had left it's bomb bay open and thus making it easier to lock onto, not to mention that the F-117 pilot did not have a launch warning. It was human complacency that failed that F-117, not the stealth technology itself.
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I just toss the liquid out, was I supposed to stir it?
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LuckyDukeSeven Don't tell me about revisionism when you'll literally defend slavery as long as it doesn't involve plantation. The Middle East uses slave labour to this very day, and I'm not even going to touch the subject of sexual slavery. This is not justifiable just because Europeans used slaves in plantation.
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LuckyDukeSeven Your arguments were made from the standpoint that I tried to defend European imperialism (I didn't) and that I pretended that only white victims of slavery counted (which is why you mentioned the ships being attacked by Muslim pirates). That doesn't necessarily mean that they're invalid arguments, but they don't actually address the argument at hand so they are irrelevant. >"Your entire first comment was revisionist BS, and tried to transpose this form of slavery on to Arabs" False. My comment was related to how one millennium of slavery isn't chump change like the other guy claimed. >"Easy - you transported ships of an entire race across the ocean" 12 million, compared to the Arab slave trade which was about 17-20 million. And those millions were often bought from locals, so at least a sizable chunk of numbers that are to blame on Europeans should instead be shared by the sellers. Also, some incorrect statements you're making about race. Let me guess, you're one of the racists who still calls people "coloured" and lumps people together. >"slavery by war was, it wasn't comparable to entire villages being taken" You're a horrible human being for believing that slavery by war is justified, and for believing that people who were complacent with the European slaver trade by selling them human beings deserve to not be blamed. Not to mention that the reasons behind war are often the same reasons behind imperialism/expansionism. Slavery by war has the same results, and the same origin - human suffering and large scale kleptomania. You having a quarrel with your neighbour doesn't justify invading his home and taking his family as a trophy, and certainly doesn't entitle you to point the finger at the traders who afterwards bought them from you. >"The sex trade of young children is indeed rampant in that part of the world. I don't know where you think Pakistan is" The Arab slave trade spanned from South East Asia to North America. >"We're talking about the African continent" I'm sorry, are you the rich kid who starts losing the game in the playground so you use the "I have the ball so I make the rules" argument? I was talking about the Arab slave trade, which opens the door to slavery in the Islamic world. It's rich that you accuse me of not knowing my geography right after claiming that this is about Africa, when you brought up the rape of Native American women. So which is it, you hypocrite? It's only about Africa when it suits you.
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That's what everyone says after they fuck up. I was 12 years old at one point and also used that excuse. We could all grow up a little and admit that when a joke is politically motivated, it's still politically charged - and comedy doesn't make it less reprehensible when the message is wrong in many fundamental levels.
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+wesley ogilvie but a drone doesn't do the job just fine, which is why attack aircraft and multi-role fighters are performing the jobs that drones are not sent to do. Not having an airforce is only relevant when the enemy maintains air space superiority. And currently, the US, Russia, Syria, etc are enforcing said superiority over ISIS's skies.
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Peter Vaňušanik that's just driving off, not an actual launch. Post your 0-60 times just using the clutch.
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+Ben C. "armor piercing" any rifle round will go through vests made for pistol rounds. It's a non issue but it sounds "reasonable".
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+Yasha Unknown it's not false, he has vowed to try and reverse the industry immunity bill he voted for.
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DarthCipient It's a futile effort anywhere. Most of the peaceful countries with gun control are... peaceful countries. The not-so-peaceful countries with gun control... Have a shit ton of gun murders. >"I'm arguing that the Second Amendment has been corrupted in such a way that it's allowed for wider gun access than originally intended, and that's put weapons into the hands of wingnuts." Back in the Revolutionary War they used cannons and battleships which were privately owned. And what does it matter if a gun is in the hands of a wingnut or a black nationalist who is just a step to the right of Karl Marx? I don't care. They both have natural rights to not be considered guilty until proven innocent, and not be subject to unwarranted searches and seizures. So why the hell would I want to disarm them just because I disagree with both of them?
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Alberturkey54 Well, but it's an objective fact that all of what you experience in this world are brain tricks. That's even where subjectiveness comes from, because not everyone reacts with the same tricks to the same reality.
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+j Nemes the fall of Saigon and unification of Vietnam under a communist regime was a win? Strategic loss, look it up.
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***** >"This is called projection" Did you throw all your self-awareness out the window? Because for a group of people to constantly keep referencing small dicks, there must be some kind of projection involved. Also, you it would be some sort of overcompensation. Not projection. You can't even use the proper term, ffs. >"Men who are physically strong" This is some archaic, fucked up kind of thinking. We don't need outdated concepts of masculinity to be perpetuated, specially when we are the biggest victims of suicide, we get swindled in court constantly and rarely get to keep our children, etc. We're not shaved apes, I do not need to abide by any laws of the fucking jungle and I do not need violence or physical prowess to solve my problems. I train combat sports almost religiously so rest assured that I am not "weak", but I don't need to prove my strength to any of you. People who think it's okay to use your "strength" on the streets is exactly why there's confrontations like road rage, etc.
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Ignoring the money laundering issue, the question of value is subjective. If a painting is confirmed to be a da Vinci you have an item with extreme historical significance. If someone replicated his style to make a modern painting, you have a nice painting but not one made by THE guy. You could teach a half dozen people in the world to make perfect forgeries and get as many faux Leonardos as you want, but that's not valuable. It's like if you found gold under every rock. The more you have the less valuable it becomes. Genuine da Vincis have a limited supply. No more can be made. And if you have a painting that might be a genuine your subjective evaluation will take into account that you're "betting" that it's a genuine piece.
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@Drew Peacock How is being too fast a problem? Speed is life. The A-10 is thin-skinned too, bub. Look into any photos of ground fire damage to A-10s and you'll see. Making skin thicker only slows you down, and provides more material to get fragmented and sent flying into the sensitive components. It's preferable to let the round go through without meeting resistance or at least blowing out a panel rather than send metal into hydraulic lines.
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"Listen here, fat. Back in my day we had a pandemic. We called it the Shanghai Shivers."
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@littlebitmoreksp Probably something like mortar vs artillery firing tables. At the ranges mortars work a flat earth will be within margin of error but for artillery range the curvature of the Earth will influence point of impact.
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@hansweissmann_xviii6754 The F-4 didn't need a gun. 90% of the kills were by missile. Remedied pretty quickly? Flight lead pilots like Robin Olds prohibited their fighters from using the gun in air to air because they did not get aerial gunnery training to use it. But they were trained with missiles.
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+FreemanicParacusia the US has been at war for 222 out of it's 239 years of existence. And yet you claim that a private military would lead to perpetual war as if we don't have that already.
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It also seemed Germany was winning in the Soviet Union, and the US in Vietnam.
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Internalized huwite supremacy. They're already two steps ahead.
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That question hinges on the premise that the gun is anything out of the ordinary. You have an opinion on what kinds of guns are "acceptable" and "questionable" and it's impossible to answer the question - if I owned rifles that looked different, and outside of them costing more, being less accurate and less practical, performed the same, you wouldn't even pose the question. Although I know it's a cheap shot to answer a question with another question - could you first explain what you find objectionable?
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@topmodelbaby100 It's an "everything" viewpoint. It's like asking me why I have a red car or a black coffee pot. Is the red car offensive in some way? The implication sounded like AR-15s are not legal in Scandinavia but they are used there for legal purposes. There's sport shooters. There's hunters. There's collectors. They're guns just like any other, just cursed by the fact that economies of scale made them common and cheap, so they appear on the news.
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Right but the Soviet Union was no more. Russia wants to pretend the hatchet is buried so we should be friends and stop arming Ukraine.
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@Veldtian1 OP made it seem like it's impossible to enforce a NFZ in an area with competent SAM systems. You can. It's a No Fly Zone, all you need is to prevent unauthorized flights.
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@elitedima9672 "lost" - it went 17:1 in Red Flag, I call that a win.
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Chicken and the egg is more appropriate. How can you have lots of games developed for a technology is most people don't have it? How do you sell technology to gamers when there's not enough games that support it?
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The problem is the indiscriminate use of cluster munitions. There's just no way to pick targets, you're gonna splash people you didn't intend to hit and then the duds remain for years to come.
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@kameronjones7139 Going through armor isn't that beneficial. Let's game theory this: if your rounds punch through armor, your enemy has no use for plates. He'll simply wear soft armor for fragmentation. If your enemy's ammo doesn't penetrate plates, you'll wear them because it saves your life. So in your search for lethality, you allowed your enemy to get weight off his shoulders, or to carry more ammo/equipment. Meanwhile you saddled yourself with a heavier round (less ammo for same weight) and you don't want to stop wearing plates.
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It's not about Azov, but there's a movie called Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die (2017). It's about the defenders at Donetsk airport.
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@calholli Hand out rifles are precisely what PSA is good for. If someone didn't care enough to come packing and wants to leech off me, I give that person the PSA fully expecting that he might not live through the troubles.
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@VikingRul3s the problem is that multiple times I attempted to troubleshoot issues and the solution shared by multiple sources involved going to option X on the motherboard, and my model did not have that option.
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Donestk and Luhansk "agency" or FSB agency? Igor Girkin and other Russian nationals without any links to Donbas started the "uprising". What about the agency of the people who fled to West Ukraine because they wanted to flee Russia? What about the agency of Mariupol residents who were hit by Grad volleys fired by the glorious separatists and Russian army in disguise?
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BUT WHAT ABOUT????
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 @SillyBillyOneHundreadMilly Go read how Russia got the Caucasus region.
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@Jacob Del Bene A-10 does 11% of CAS (chuckle)
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@LastEarBender The verbal agreement was about EAST GERMANY. If you remember, there was a time period where the USSR had not collapsed, and the future of Germany was up in the air as reunification would merge a NATO and Warsaw Pact nation. There was a Moscow proposal to leave Germany as neutral but the NATO thing was going to happen - what the US assured was that instead of NATO advacing towards a new Iron Curtain in the border of Germany and Poland, the NATO bases would remain in West Germany and East Germany territory would only have Bundeswehr bases. If you think about it, it would make zero sense for the US to promise to not expand into Poland and the Baltics/Ukraine since Poland was Warsaw Pact and the others were part of the Soviet Union. Not only would the US not ask for "hostile" nations to join, they also wouldn't ask to join as they were all controlled by a Party that had to answer to Moscow. The promise only makes sense in EAST GERMANY. Curiously even though NATO has taken in members from the East the NATO bases are still in the West Germany side. To this day NATO has not built additional bases in East Germany.
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@theknifeman7097 We see the picture. They cannot afford to annex Ukraine so they need a more favorable Ukrainian government. That government will be massively unpopular if they cause too much damage. People smirking and saying Russia could win if they wanted... well, they can't. They lose, they might win but they still end up losing.
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Their cheap stuff was expensive too. The Soviet Union collapsed in part because so much of their state budget was the military. While the West spent big bucks to match the Soviets, it wasn't as big of a deal.
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Yeah cells use glycolysis for energy, which means tapping into glucose reserves. The slower ingredients turn to sugars the better.
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The "random tank driver" had several gun designs under his belt by the time he started to work on the 47 model and had received technical education. No, they were also not working at the same place. The AK design process happened almost a thousand kilometers away from the Izhevsk plant.
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I don't understand the "sportsmanship" (for the lack of a better term) logic, yeah the gun was designed for 20 round magazines and then the magazine was revised to take 30, but I'm going to neuter the magazine because I don't "need" 30 rounds. It's like saying your car doesn't need to reach 200km/h so you install a limiter at 120 because you don't "need" it. Like cutting off your pinky finger because you don't type or play the guitar. And especially when people say the police might need the full capacity. I'm sorry, but don't the police go after the same criminals that we find on our streets?
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They are 1% of the population. Even if forcefully put on a plane back to Ukraine, 99% of casualties would still be the poor. It's too small of a demographic to be outraged about.
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They tried it in the first day of the war and missed half the shots. Also, runways can be repaired in less than a day.
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@wilhallman2890 Lie lol. Russia was offering MASSIVE salaries for volunteers. Only a few thousand took them. Now they declared mandatory service and reduced pay. Why would people volunteer for LESS money?
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@chrisab66 No. This is how viruses work. Every mutation is toast thrown at the wall. Sometimes the butter sticks. Sometimes it doesn't. Humans get mutations too. Mutations can be good, they can be neutral, they can be bad. Green eyes is a mutation. But so is Down Syndrome. Nothing unnatural about a virus mutating into a variant that is defective.
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Replying to yourself lmao Remember to switch accounts next time
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The S-400 already got killed by HIMARS. I'm not impressed.
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@DerbyMods They're not keeping you safe. It doesn't block transmission.
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"Anti-black racism"? Oh so you can be racist against everyone else. Thank you Trudeau, very cool.
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+Gotti are you fucking kidding me? There's several designs already out there which are essentially 90-95% printed and the only things that hasn't been worked out is the barrel because it's meant to hold so much pressure. And considering that a barrel is a freaking steel tube (just ask someone with a small lathe to make you a chamber reamer) as long as quality steel is available guns are printable. I mean, it's vastly easier (and cheaper) to just build guns out of scrap metal but since people think metalworking is black magic, 3d printed guns are perceived as a game-changer due to the "just press a button" aspect. But the fact is that we're developing metal injection molding and sintering technology there may come a day when you'll be able to print a "green" part which is cooked and the heat will finish the steel into a stronger part able to handle heat and pressure.
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@CTOACN https://youtu.be/dhWh_FRxJOc?t=2313
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The enrichment they're doing is too high for peaceful energy needs.
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@pleasedont7439 The point is that even with weight training, carrying around excess weight through fat (in extreme cases, even muscle) places an extra constant demand on joints and ligaments. If you have weak joints, you strengthen the muscles to keep everything tight and in place, which prevents injury. However, excess weight still puts demand on those joints.
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@eclipsez0r there's different kinds of "materials". Uranium with a half life of what, 700 million years? Thorium, more than a billion? Even plutonium cores were handled by hand. Now if you get exposed to short half-life elements they'll beam you at a much higher rate.
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@Noadvantage246 "You could say the same thing about Trump" - I could and I did. I did say those things. You weren't there to hear or read it, so you're forgiven for making that mistake. Now if I can criticize Trump for being an anti-gun Democrat from New York, why not criticize Romney?
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If you defend your home with a blunderbuss, you'll be hailed as a hero. If you try to rob a bank with one, you'll be the laughing stock of the internet.
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Then why not translate "tsar" to "ceasar"? Or why not say Minen shot instead of "Minengeschoss"?
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@tdestroyer4780 they typically look awful. If "razor burn" or ingrown hair is a concern might as well keep the full beard
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@-tera-3345 Usually textbooks have a rough sketch of the aerobic respiration for Eukaryote cells. All things considered it's somewhat superfluous to get into the exact biochemistry of ATP. Everyone remembers "mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" because it's been memed to hell and back but we don't look at that textbook diagram showing how O2 is used.
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Tucker lmao
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 @infernoking7504 Russia is doing that.
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Many airplanes have multiple variants.
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@twmd " £100 for a consultation prescription" - A consultation that wouldn't be necessary if the use was accepted. The actual drug costs very little. "No one but big pharma could develop the vaccines so it's a necessary evil" - Defending necessary evil is still defending evil. One day try to sit down and have some introspection, write down all the necessary evils you've defended. How much evil is that?
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"Most of its territory" have you looked at a map?
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@harleyme3163 Your cellphone is a waste of energy. First you use energy to charge the battery (with losses) then you convert the stored energy to power the phone (with losses). So it's a total loss before you even use it.
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2:59 lmao that guy produced Moore's films too?
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20:1 kill ratio and Ukraine still advancing lol
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@jtnachos16 Helicopters use their increased agility and hovering capabilities to mask themselves against terrain. Fixed with aircraft always need to unmask themselves on the pop up, level out for acquisition and release, then dive back down. Meanwhile rotary wing can actually shoot from behind cover thanks to mast-mounted sensors. Normal fighters doing wild weasel will do nothing. The point of wild weasel was keeping defenses turned off while strike packages moved through. Several aircraft, each carrying several ARMs, shooting them in the air to force radars to turn off can give you several minutes of breathing room. This doesn't protect A-10s. A fixed SAM site has to turn off the emissions even time an ARM is fired. That keeps them suppressed. If there's an A-10 flying over you and you're a SPAAG, you'll turn on the radar, blast the A-10 out of the sky, and turn off. Then maybe start driving away just in case an ARM was fired. If you're a SAM site trying to bag a B-52, you have to keep the radar on for track, lock, then shoot the missile and keep the radar on until impact because you're feeding the control inputs to the missile. That gives a couple minutes for Wild Weasel to target you. How is the F-35 reduced in capabilities?
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@jtnachos16 "nor was it a temporary measure for while strike packages moved through" - That's the subtle difference between DEAD and SEAD. SEAD is making sure a strike package gets through. DEAD is making sure the SAM won't be there tomorrow. "You are literally arguing that NO aerial vehicle should be used for CAS duties, because no aerial vehicle is safe from ground fire." - No, I am not. I'm just saying that there's aircraft that have the legs to run, and those that don't. "If terrain masking works for a rotary, it works for a fixed wing." - Rotary wing with sensors on the mast can target threats behind cover and pop out for a shot, or even shoot from behind cover for a lock on after launch in some cases. Fixed wing comes out of cover, needs to acquire and target, release weapon, then dive back down. Helicopters are squirrely targets. Fixed wing are predictable. "Say goodbye to your stealth" - Other aircraft don't have it to begin with. Also, stealth is a combination of features. It still benefits from reduced IR signature. This is the problem, you people say "it has to trade advantages" and then present the most biased case possible. Exactly how is a F-35 loaded to the brim with 18k lbs of weapons and almost twice the thrust somehow disadvantaged? "you are better off with any existing plane that isn't as expensive to operate as a damn F-35" - And you're no better off if that aircraft gets shot down. So at the minimum, you'd still need a Strike Eagle to pull off that job. Not the A-10 limping along with 17k lbs or whatever (47k - 30k gross weight) with its measly 18k lbsf of thrust. "We saw the EXACT SAME ISSUE with the F-22, where it lost most of it's significant advantages the minute you wanted it to do anything more than hit once and run." - What?
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@jtnachos16 Literally any pilot will tell you there's a difference between DEAD and SEAD, because DEAD is a subset of SEAD. SEAD is an overarching goal of keeping defenses down, DEAD is making sure they do not come back up. And in many cases it's not necessary to permanently shut down a SAM site and not worth risking people and resources if the mission can be complete. Yes, defenses turn back on. That's expected because SEAD accomplished the mission by SUPPRESSING the defenses for as long as it takes to perform a mission. The defenses are there to prevent missions from being accomplished. If the mission is allowed to carry on, SEAD did its job. Hence the tactic of a wild weasel flight doing the pop up maneuvers and shooting ARMs to get SAM crews to turn off the radar, and the pilots doing this with several missiles to force SAM crews to continuously have to shut the radar down. They even started doing this with cheaper rockets, and doing the same maneuver and shooting a rocket into the air to make crews think an ARM was in the air. They eventually realized they were being tricked and the real ARM firing could be differentiated in the scope. "use an existing coordinate based lock, launch, then get back under" - If you have coordinates you can drop from a distance and height. Why the hell are you popping out and diving back down? Helicopters are better at it and you're risking a pilot and aircraft with that nonsense. "They are not that much faster than an A-10 in that situation." - This is a joke, right? Even a light turn will put the A-10 under 240 knots. If you start cranking Gs for the reattack it easily goes to 190 knots. "very marginal advancements compared to proposals to rework the frames of existing craft" - Funny. The F-15EX is actually more expensive in flyaway cost and a Block 70/72 F-16 is comfortably a 100 million dollar aircraft once you have the necessary pods. Operational costs are only marginally lower and the estimates for the EX are an outright lie because they don't include the EW and targeting pod maintenance costs which are done in a different depot. "than simply making a few cheaper frames for less development" - There are no cheaper frames. 4.5 Gen is expensive. Aircraft are expensive in general.
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@sixgunsymphony7408 the US tested the 30mm against M48 tanks (to serve as T-55 analogues) and achieved very few penetrations. Drones carry a significant warhead and the pilot and pick and choose where to hit. An A-10 pilot would have to weave through terrain, dodge incoming fire, and aim at a tank 2500-2000 ft away with his naked eye.
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"It might be hard to swallow, but face it: there are some things that private sector is terrible at doing: healthcare, roads, parks and beaches, water, finance" - but the state pays private corporations to build the roads, many countries sell the concession of beaches to private enterprises to the point that while beaches are legally considered public they're managed for profit, etc. "law enforcement" - you look among the US public law enforcement and tell me the government does a good job
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@badwolf259 lmao so gunning down innocent people, chokeholding people to death and raping sex workers is your concept of doing a better job. In the private sector you rescind the contract with these people and they go bankrupt. In the public sector you pay for their pension.
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@badwolf259 lmao the government decided to let a private investment firm build a luxury resort and habitation near the beach even though all environmental impact studies were against it. The local government won't dispute it because they want the jobs. You get the same end result.
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The issue is, we know what happens when we give up liberty in the name of safety - we get neither.
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Yeah they were essentially milk trucks for the city. They had the power of a golf cart.
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Survivorship bias. Skinny dudes quit earlier while big dudes toughen it out until retirement.
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@ostwelt Pretty sure the Chieftain talked about this with sources, it's stowed ammo that causes the carousel to explode. A carousel loaded with ammo but no extra rounds helps increase survivability of the crew.
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It's much more likely that they're there because of material stolen from medical devices or thermal generators from isolated weather stations, as those are known sources of factual nuclear material theft while nuclear weapon theft is entirely speculative.
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@ccrow3355 don't forget to congratulate drugs tor winning the War on Drugs.
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The whole point is that nobody controls anything. Hey, in a controlled economy those with the hands on the controls are friends with the billionaires. So we're living in the dystopia you people think the free market is.
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What a weird complaint. You clicked it, so you were interested in the subject. How was your time wasted?
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Reminder: if not used in combat, missiles are retired and budgeted to be fired at drones to give pilots proficiency in weapons employment.
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"It works out to the benefits of the people" - you can't say something works without elaborating further "In France it works out incredibly" - and there's many reasons why "With everyone chipping in , less money is spent in the long run" - bullshit. With everyone chipping in, the government gets a blank check and nobody checks prices. "Most of the money going towards paying off student loans are interest" - because thanks to the US government, you can no longer pay tuition with a summer job. If college wasn't artificially expensive due to government policies to increase demand without expanding the supply, there would be no need to take a loan or pay any interest. "taxes made by the graduate when they start working goes directly to the government" - fuck the government, I don't want to get a better job to pay more taxes. I want to get paid MORE "No more robbery" - taxation is the ultimate form of theft
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@rozza3135 gime me the college level understanding just so I can compare notes
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@gavindy_Sv2 But cashing in how? You're expecting me to believe Zeihan looked at the youtube gig and thought he could get a lot of people who he enticed with free content to fork over 750... usually there's extra steps like selling merch, then going for the books, etc to make sure the fish are going for the hook. The data simply isn't there to make this look like a plan.
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They attacked Chinese and Russian ships too.
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@Captain_Fantasy watch the Thunderf00t videos on Fukushima. Yeah, you can find radiation in the Pacific. You get more from the potassium in bananas than from the fish, but that doesn't make for good headlines.
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 @chuckthomas1872 You can't fight defensively all the time.
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@MM22966 The tank-opener is not a good anti-tank weapon - instead better suited against lightly armored vehicles. In the last 40 years the A-10 suffered a severe black eye from the Iraqi Republican Guard, so don't forget you're including a war where the A-10 went against a relatively modern force.
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@liam3284 Antitrust hasn't solved anything. We are still fleeced with ticket prices. But many countries here in the EU have low wages so people in the US think our tickets are really cheap. But they aren't. And countries with high wages in Europe have high living costs.
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However the game justified that by showing the Russians had recovered a crashed spy satellite that allowed them to gain access to US tech.
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The rise of ISIS was caused by US meddling in the attempts to topple Assad.
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Kharkiv was STOCKED FULL of equipment. In fact the Ukrainian 93rd mechanized managed to resupply themselves by the Russian 4th tank. There's countless pictures of all the armor and munition dumps captured in Kharkiv. Kherson wasn't as full of loot as the Russians left behind the T-62s and other less valuable equipment.
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@RealBee It comes down to intent. Twitter is clearly intended to be a platform that criminals have piggybacked onto. But twitter has no need for them, and the user experience would not be harmed by removing the criminal element.
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@isaakjunkeer785 The underground bunkers were their protection. There's helmet cam footage, they left the tunnels and fought in the surface, but they would come back to the underground to rest and heal their injuries. If they were hiding, why did it take months for Azovstal to fall? They were fighting and Russians couldn't get close. Russia lost a ton of quality troops in Mariupol. The Azovstal defenders saved the nation by delaying the Russians and taking out hordes of advancing troops.
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There are 30mm chain gun and 40mm automatic grenade launchers made to be anti-drone, shame none of these seem to be in service anywhere.
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America did. Everyone else was taking US aid.
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China supporting the separatism in the LDPR would be a tacit admission that they recognize Xinjiang and Taiwan separatism.
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@davidsoulsby1102 with a Longbow radar, the Apache can hit without getting hit.
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@Sharkaiju "Well a lot of people jumped the gun" - that's the problem. If you have integrity you hold on until you have the facts. Those who jumped the gun were exposed for publishing information they didn't bother verifying.
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@patrickhanson2205 "1 significant mistake" - the betterhelp scandal was a MASSIVE mistake considering he used money meant for his news thing to make an ad agency. That's two mistakes. Want another? I only know that at one point he was e-begging because he claimed he had been catfished but changed the story to being denied a job after moving to new york. I don't know any more about DeFranco. But he hasn't had "1" significant mistake. It was several.
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@404RBTCS How is it suspicious? Taxation is theft.
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 fastrally just superior enough to the point companies moved to China precisely to avoid them
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Big brands bring foot traffic to places like malls. That makes rent expensive. If foot traffic declines in a mall, either the operators reduce the cost of renting or the smaller stores leave for cheaper locations. It indirectly targets the richer businessmen by tanking the value of their assets. It's not pretty, but there's a point.
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@almostontimehero5415 Muffs add bulk but they're also typically connected to comms.
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Even copypasted the lighting emoji from telegram.
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@chichan8424 Because Ukraine doesn't have the leverage to deal with the sat companies. Russia used to have a similar censor deal the US has. If you try to get satellite pictures of the White House it's intentionally modified. Certain bases are blacked out or blurred. When the war started, some sat companies lifted the censorship on Russian soil.
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@milosmilictrob2046 Not how it works. A HMD slaves the seeker to the helmet. If you look too far off the boresight you hit gimbal limits. Even if the gimbal had to limits, the seeker would look at its own rocket body and get its vision blocked, preventing lock.
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 @Ben-jr6vl recorded by whom?
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Because Sweden never manufactured enough Gripens while F-16s exist by the thousands.
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@markobucevic8991 What arsenal? T-55s?
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@Tygrus758 Not to dogpile but the US Air Force had scientists and engineers living in Las Vegas and flying them out to the middle of the Nevada desert to a place called Homey Airport. Colloquially referred to as "Area 51". The Soviets also had a biological weapons program in Aralsk-7, a facility in an island in the Aral sea. High level scientists will go where the paycheck takes them.
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@Inferno361 It's 80% of adults. Children have very low chances of becoming sick.
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 @Sergei__v Russian economy is only growing according to Rosstat figures. Literally nobody else can get number on the Russian economy as the Russian goveremt clamped down.
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@ddha0000 why the hell is there an obsession with roadmaps whenever Star Citizen is the topic of the conversation? A roadmap doesn't mean much.
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The 56th must have died three times over at this point.
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@somethingsomething8511 the felony was committed when the naked short selling happened
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@legm5298 All things considered the 2010s had a lot of garbage but honestly I'd do it all over again.
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 @wayfairingstranger It's an investment fund. You don't put all the eggs in one basket.
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@skunkjobb I can do a front kick and spinning hook kick combo. I've never used it in a real fight. There's a difference between doing it, and actually fighting. Rearmament is the easy part. You drive guy X and Y to place Z with a truck with weapons, land the aircraft at Z, and just bolt the weapons to the pylons. Easy. Actually fixing malfunctions, pilots having the need to sleep and eat, there's a myriad of wrenches that get thrown into your gears when you actually have a live opponent and your resources can't follow the script. Maybe the guys driving the truck with the bombs were ambushed by a spec ops raid. The guys delivering the bombs got shwacked and the truck was set on fire. Now what? Your aircraft lands but can't rearm. Unsurprisingly enough, insurgents targeted American fuel runs during the Global War on Terror. They couldn't shoot the aircraft down but they could hinder operations by targeting the fuel. Dispersed operations are cool, but they drastically make it easier for small teams to insert behind enemy lines and target isolated fuel/weapons runs.
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Clickbait predates "the algorithm" and you all know what it meant.
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And natives did it to each other. Not justifying it, but it was what was standard at the time. Wars between tribes came at a cost and capturing non-combatants was a way to recuperate. Today it makes no sense.
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Wyatt Earp if the Germans had won (which would have been impossible based on logistics alone), the Cold War wouldn't have happened. It's possible the communism would have been implemented in places where it didn't, simply due to fear of Nazi invasion.
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Navy F-4s with no guns were scoring better than USAF.
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@aleksanderfradkin7955 Russia was defeated in the first Chechen war.
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Russia spending 65 billion is equivalent to America ~190 billion. For the dates mentioned the US was spending just under 700 billion in defense. So it's a three point something advantage for the US, even though in raw numbers the US has a theoretical tenfold advantage.
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I can relate, sometimes in my life everything seemed wrong but I couldn't quite put it into words what really got to me (still can't) so I clung to insignificant things that shouldn't bother me but it avalanches, and they become the symbolic manifestations of the despair.
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I'm European and pro-gun. Is your mind blown yet?
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@karisvenner3892 AT mines and IEDs most definitely have effects outside of coffins comming back. The first is that they can immobilize ever the most armored tank, which either forces the enemy to divert troops and vehicles to the location to cover the damaged tank while it is repaired or towed, or allows the tank to be picked off if the enemy decides to cut their losses and abandon it. You can have the bleakest outlook on life - machines that cost millions are not unlimited and thus every loss is a step closer to defeat. Molotovs used to work against armored vehicles because they were tossed into the engine intake, starving the engine of oxygen. Modern tanks are not as susceptible to Molotovs so saying they're "what works" is misleading. Russia is also refusing to conduct urban warfare so far and seems to be happy to shell and rocket urban centers to submission. Most of the ambushes they're falling to are in small towns and open fields, where drones and top-attack missiles such as Javelins are effective.
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Why would you want the same capabilities? The capabilities of the A-10 are essentially what makes it outdated. The low thrust from the engines so that it can consume less fuel hinder its ability to get out of trouble. The weight from the armor and cannon compounds the issue. All the things it can do, other aircraft can do better. The low speed also means it takes longer to get to where it's needed.
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@JoeBlack-co7is I have a perfect imagination. I can create the pictures on my head of anything I want, except maybe anything that's an object with 4 dimensions or above. Reading is still ranked lower than other activities.
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@@liamanderson9104 the "market" making the decisions is not the buyer. It's the zoning laws and lobbies in city councils. The "market" would make less profits if the buyer got exactly what it wanted, because demand would decrease. A true free market would step on a lot of toes.
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@TheGrammargestapo1 The issue is that the difference isn't enough to actually penetrate severely outdated tanks, so the damage is limited to sensitive targets outside of the tank's armor. The DU penetrator was retired and only brought back for use against ISIS. And even then they were reluctant to re-introduce it. Again, even against M47 tanks most shots could not achieve full penetration. Most of the disabling effects were achieved by attacking their mobility and firepower. You're not penetrating the tank. You're disabling it. That's enough. Again, under perfect conditions most fire from the A-10 will not even come close to achieving full penetration on an ancient M47 tank. This was shown by the 1979 test and assumed that T-55s would have similar results but T-62s would not have full penetration and thus only the GAU-8 would only disable the tanks by damaging the exterior. You can achieve the same with other cannons. "so that it could be recovered and the powerpack, tracks, and cannon barrel switched out so that it was back on the battlefield in less than a day" - AGAIN, this was exactly what the 1979 testing showed. The tanks would only require hours to a day of repairs to bring back to action. The point was to make the tanks combat ineffective, win the fight, they won't get recovered. If they do, too bad. That's what the GAU-8 was shown to be capable of in 1979, but you somehow use this against other cannons while giving the GAU-8 a pass. The actual tank killing weapon in the GAU-8 is the Maverick.
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@francisd7081 China isn't even the place with the cheapest labor anymore. In fact they are having issues in certain regions because people see themselves as above working in electronics factories and there's shortage of labor.
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That kind of lobbying is illegal in most of the west. It's only legal in the US. So there's corruption everywhere.
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@paulmichaelfreedman8334 How do you know they would have lived if they had contracted something else?
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 @Antiteshmis Russia is using T-54s while the US has a desert full of Abrams sitting around.
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It would probably take longer to write down the training program than putting a batch of pilots through it.
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+Belias Phyre you're 100% right. The problem is, we as a society have lost respect for DIY culture and hand crafting. Or, the most hand crafting people will do is whatever 5 minute tutorial they can find on youtube can teach them, painting figurines, assembling model planes, etc. There's a video showing how to make ballistic plates from kevlar and resin for 30 bucks but people in the comments complain that the 30 bucks doesn't include belt sander, band saw and the HORROR: clamps. Tools you could find in the average shed or garage. However, you release files for 3d printers, which tech websites love and people think it's just a press of a button, and in the minds of society you've abolished gun control forever. Even though pipe, files, hacksaw and some solder have always undermined gun legislation, people don't understand that. I haven't watched the whole video but the reason he released a re-programmable cnc was probably because he understood the limitations of 3d printing, but it was the 3d printing fad that allowed him to get "famous".
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The less ammo you have the lower chances of the ammo carousel detonating.
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 @Drownedinblood Yeah but a FPV RPG-7 warhead cares not for corrugated iron, and most tanks seem to bite the dust before they ever get to do infantry support.
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@saxreaper Not really. Most aircraft take a beating from high G loading when carrying significant payload. High Gs strain the human in the cockpit, but a 2000lb bomb mounted to a wing at 9G... that's an insane bending moment on the wing. Replacing the pilot so you can do 12G will just cut the usable hours on that airframe, if not lead to outright crack formation.
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@susansullivan7292 "Too fast" - No such thing. Stop listening to Pierre Sprey. "different arms load" - It's mostly the same. "different mission (air superiority)" - The F-16 is not an air superiority fighter, it's a multirole. The F-15 is the pure-bred air superiority fighter. "less protection against ground attack." - Because it doesn't need it in the first place. It's not meant to get hit. "To my knowledge although there was talk about phasing out the A-10 for who knows what, this train of thought was reversed." - Because the USAF is literally chained to the A-10 by Congress as they can never get approval for the long deserved retirement. So they just stopped trying. "I totally get why A-10s cannot operate without the pre-existing air-superiority" - Forget air superiority. The A-10 is vulnerable against the ground. Even a country without an air force can wreck A-10s. "but the missions of the two designs are very different" - They're really not. The F-16 provides a higher percentage of close air support missions.
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@Cloud Burst 117 17 to 1 at Red Flag.
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Purchased from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, everyone knows this.
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@danielt6689 It's not going to be a one-time booster if the stuff is still spreading and mutating. THINK.
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Blackpilled again.
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@AB-eq9mm "maybe its not legally relevant but its relevant as to whether or not the mcmichaels had probable cause to arrest him" - That's not how it works. You can't use prior convictions to determine someone needs to be under citizen's arrest.
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Accountable for what? Being smart? The option was disbanding the group and them going underground, or the Azov members gaining political power. They picked the third option which was outsmart Azov, make them part of the armed forces so that the political leaders have to quit. They lost the elections and the military purged the top Azov guys. They are smarter than their critics, who didn't understand the political chess.
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@zorkgreywind509 And there's videos of armored vehicles getting pelted with artillery or rolling over landmines in the plains. So what?
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I kinda wish Mover had to do exercises against the F-35 while he gets his aircraft of choice. It would be a humbling experience.
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People go "it's complicated!" while posting on a smartphone and driving on fuel injection instead of carburetor. All modern aircraft are complicated. Do people think Super Hornets are flown by cable links and you can pop the canopy to manually charge the gun by hand like in WWI?
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Fravor has never corrected the UFO nutters on the contrast border around objects, which can be turned off in the MFDs. He allows them to claim there's cold air around the "craft" when no, that's a contrast line drawn around a hot object to help pilots see.
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@aaroncruz9181 According to Murz, LPR volunteer, the DPR and LPR forced had already mobilized in 2022 and scrapping the bottom of the barrel. By 2023, the LPR and DPR forces had Russian nationals serving there - because the meme republics had their forces destroyed several times over.
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@guaporeturns9472 MiGs gave Phantoms a hard time because they caught Phantoms escorting bombing runs in ambushes. When US Phantoms started flying in bomber formation to surprise the MiGs with fighters, the Phantoms won.
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@shawnmiller4781 The MiG-21 turning performance isn't that hot. It's a rocket with stubby wings. It beats the Phantom clearly at high altitude, but start turning in thick air and you lose airspeed quick. Turning hard in a MiG-21 makes it an airbrake.
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@@mitchellcouchman6589 3 to 1 for North Vietnam ahahah now that's delusional
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@guaporeturns9472 Well the Phantom is the world's biggest distributor of MiG parts... I'd say they won.
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They weren't taking protection, can't you read?
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Isn't the GRU in charge now after the FSB debacle?
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 @siddharthaanand332 There was a school attack a couple years ago in Brazil.
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@j.jbinks9669 that's the opposite of a problem. The other side of the coin of having a legal system that can put you in prison - you are entitled to a legal defense. If you have the first without the latter you just have tyranny.
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There's a good reason to story modern history - we will put into paper and digital archive the things we thought were true, and then discover we were wrong. If we didn't have a record, we'd forget things were kept secret in the first place.
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@i.Gnarly People with walls full of degrees have been proven wrong multiple times, while people who dropped out of highschool have been predicting exactly how this sh!tshow was gonna go from March 2020. Get all the degrees you want, when you can't perform in the real world you need to step aside.
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Russian engineering, outsourced to China. Engineering is one of those sectors where you're shafted in Russia. The oligarchs hate engineers. They know smart people can take advantage of them, so they stifle their engineers by outsourcing everything. They hire foreign companies to maintain their oil and gas, they import European and Asian products and slap Russian labels on them.
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>wake up >think about pronoun people I think you're obsessed
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@trianglesandsquares420 I find it more interesting that rather than present an anti-war argument, you simply seem to imply we should conduct warfare without cruelty.
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But doctors said BLM protests did not increase cases. Don't you trust the science?
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 @LordDucarius Would boots on the ground be needed? It seems Iranian people could take on their own government if you softened it a little.
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First we need airworthy airframes that could be sent, we worry about Putin's mind later.
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@artemdzh2836 Job well done, tell that to the families of every Russian soldier killed on camera in Vuhledar. It was a massacre, people killed for "straining resources". Ukraine can easily trade away resources for Russian lives. You can get gifted resources and even buy some with the little money they have. People are lost forever. This war will wreck Russia, it's nationwide suicide. But it cost Ukraine resources. Job well done.
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@Wikileads yeah very few people hate Russia, that's why everyone is worried about election interference and their invasion of Ukraine. Very few hate China, that's why everyone is worried about their debt traps, their transgression into foreign seas and their neo-colonialism in Africa.
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They wouldn't have the Permissible Access Link that allows the nuke to function.
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Automatic?
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@arueshalaetablebuildingsociety that has to be satire, right? In the jet age, trying to get into a guns dogfight is asking for an IR missile up your tailpipe. You shouldn't even consider a second one. Just trying to line up the first shot will cost an extreme amount of energy as you increase AoA to give your target enough lead (pull a high AoA and your plane's body starts acting like an airbrake). You're sure you're gonna pick up speed and get behind another jet? By the time you've expended all your missiles and managed to score a guns kill you probably will be bingo on fuel. If both sides have expended all missiles and used their engines at full power for several minutes as they dodge homing missiles and then try to get behind each other... you have to remember that your aircraft needs to have enough fuel to return home. You can't just give her afterburner and try to pick up speed for another turnfight. The gun doesn't limit the extension of your engagement. Plus with the burst limiter and a competent pilot that doesn't try to fire too soon, the 180 rounds divided between 20 round bursts can give you nine trigger pulls, with 30 round bursts 6. It's not WW2 anymore, when rotary cannons fire a stream of bullets and an airplane crosses it, it gets sawed in half. You get between 6 and 9 opportunities to saw 6 to 9 aircraft in half. After you've fired 6 missiles (not to mention your wingmen). How many people got 12 kills in a single sortie?
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If you're gonna tool up, might as well be for something new. Nobody is building A-10 equivalents. Nobody. The A-10 and Su-25 are Cold War relics. Why tool up for A-10 production when everyone else is focusing on stealth and drones?
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@marcus1862 No? Their own central bank is predicting a 14-17% drop in GDP.
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They go online and say Ukaine did it.
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+wwg_Marcus don't worry, the meme is being run into the fucking ground like 90% of the memes in existence, we don't need the fakedeep "both sides are exactly the same" philosophy. We've replaced philosophy with pictures of the Joker saying "we live in a society". "The only real difference is they are changing things based on their actions while Jeremy is not" - how is "change" a defining factor? "I mean you're literally blindly parroting a mean you saw on an online board (or heard here) how does that make you a free thinker?" - explaining a meme means parroting? "The "goal" should eb about controlling the game and the outcome" - who said anything about goals? "That's what PCs do and NPCs don't" - not really. The human player has agency to chose not even participate on the game, or make mistakes and lose. Also, player characters are not supposed to have control over the game unless you are in an actual sandbox game. The gamemaster is in control of the game and the player can prevail over the controlling element. But he has no control, at least in most games. "If a gender study major wants to force a company to hire them as a diversity officer, they can do that" - and if an AI soldier wants to flush you out of your cover by tossing a grenade, it can do that. "You can claim, baselessly, that they "don't think for themselves" - issa joke. Don't take it too seriously. "but the harsh reality is your views aren't any more original than theirs just the same old blind parroting of others throughts" - that's ironic. I actually do question my own beliefs and my core principles have changed over the years, I have thought and debated and learned and arrived at conclusions. Your accusation is false, and falls within the scope of what you are criticizing. "The main difference is their thoughts, words, and actions are taken with specific goals in mind" - and if you want to be anal about it... NPCs also have specific goals and will adopt behaviors necessary to accomplish them. Having end goals for your behaviour exists in the whole animal kingdom and in robotics. "you have the lack of internal monolouge" - Jesus. So because I don't have the goal to change the world and force it to fit my beliefs that means lack of internal monologue? What the fuck? "the people who have an agenda, goals, and a path to acheive those goals must clearly have because they are executivng their plan constantly" - what? Well the article blew the study out of proportion, but accomplishing goals has nothing to do with the existence or lack of internal monologue. You can acomplish goals but never question the goals or even have a conversation with yourself. "How are you "shaking up the world" and isnt' that more of a sign of "breaking from the norm"" - "shaking up the world" exactly in the way that the media and large corporations want it? How is it "breaking the norm" to obey the directives set by the people who figured out that they can easily create needs and products to satisfy those needs? Too much fakedeep pseudointellectualism, 1/10. I'd given it a 0 but you got me to reply.
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@judithafholland Odessa? Russia is getting defeated in Kherson, they can't even get to Mykolaiv let alone Odessa.
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@9MIND9 If the difference is not discernable why do you need to see the frame? You're interacting with a game, which is an interactive medium. A generated frame is not interactive. It's a guess. So at best you're just adding filler between frames which don't matter for the gameplay. At worst, you're running at a low enough FPS that you need frame gen to make it smooth. At that point your screen is showing a frame that can't be interacted with. The motion will appear smooth but the game isn't due to the lack of response. The game will not react to your input until the next real frame. So why do you need to see the frame? Play at 100 fps instead of generating 240. Lower your settings to play at 60 fps instead of 30. Frame gen is bad at low fps, and useless at high fps.
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@herrderr1921 your brother spends too much time on twitter
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The large convoy could just move?
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@snowflakemelter1172 Since a lot of equipment was developed or modified to fight a counter-insurgency, it's second-rate at actual defense. That's why the US is now spending money to gear up their forces for near-peer/peer conflict and the F-22 is going into early retirement because too few were produced.
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@fredthenomad4078 again, the problem isn't me and you. It's the people we want to reach. The point of being on youtube is being seen by the whole world. If content creators become insulated, might as well move to their own website or a smaller platform. They'll be making content for people who already agree with them, changing nobody's minds and creating "bubbles".
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The A-10 was designed for Vietnam. It was meant to be the A-1 Skyraider replacement. Its problem isn't nukes but anti-air weapons.
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CTE grindset
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@ronaldfreites1487 This is pure mental gymnastics. There's more land than platforms available. There's literally no reason why Ukraine makes a difference in attack capabilities. If they could be neuralized with Ukraine, they can be neutralized without it.
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@kingvince7328 we did complain about Rogue One. It retroactively made A New Hope worse.
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@sakosan547 Nowadays they sell "3+" rating steel plates that stop 7.62 black tip at 2,800 fps for 90 freaking bucks a piece. At 500m the 7.62 is traveling at what, 1,750 feet per second give or take? The 5.56 doesn't cut it but 7.62 won't either. The DMR actually makes sense because you put a Designated Marksman behind that rifle.
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 @X3R0D3D Ad Hominem
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 @themsmloveswar3985 Russia literally just bailed out three banks, if you move there prepare to bail out Gazprom.
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 @bullpupgaming708 the A-10 isn't cheap once you add the cost of maintaining ageing airframes. Boeing made two billion dollars from the wing program alone.
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@bullpupgaming708 But it's not cheaper. Every dollar put into the A-10 is a dollar taken from other airframes. Streamlining the fleet would have major logistical benefits. Why wouldn't they send combat drones? Cheap, no pilot to be lost. It's not some major hurdle, especially as the use of drones escalates. You know what's cheap? Having a proper force structure rather than dragging old aircraft past their retirement age. You wouldn't have to make those choices by just having a sensible fleet instead of a mix of airframes.
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At high output. Not in low output and idle. Listen for 7 more seconds next time, the narrator said it himself.
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@doyouwanttogivemelekiss3097 A refurbished Viper will cost almost as much as a new one. The airframe has to be reinforced to reset the clock on how many hours it flew, and the upgrades to current standards cost a few dozen million dollars. Also, there's a waiting list for those. You can't sell everything to everyone at any time.
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@napoleonfeanor I'm pretty sure he's using "gamer" like "saying the gamer word" is code for dropping the n-bomb.
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Karens are demanding this because they're afraid you're making them "uNsAfE". You people forgot that the Karens are the snitches.
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What losses? Neutralizing a hostile state for cheap has been a massive W.
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Fairchild Aviation went out of business two decades ago.
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Out of all the Russians, you are certainly one of them.
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Several Su-27/Su-30 fighters, and several Su-24 ground attack planes.
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Satellite pictures of Ukrainian airfields seemed to show half the missiles targeting runways missed. A dozen Kinzhal? Not that many have been used.
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 @nihluxler1890 Igor Konashenkov fanfic doesn't correspond to reality.
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@GGTutor1 notice how you changed the topic from heat to the lack of impressions on the crater. Fun fact, there's a war going on right now. Both sides use rocket artillery which does not leave impressions on the ground but scorches the weeds.
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@GGTutor1 Escape velocity in the moon is much lower. I didn't change the topic, I pointed how rocket thrust can leave less of an impact than you think. You did change the subject to "heat makes it impossible" to "waaa forget I mentioned heat, now it's blast craters".
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@GGTutor1 It didn't, you got countered on the heat issue and had to deflect. Acknowledge your initial comment was wrong before changing the subject.
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@brandonmoki3364 ah yes, name one member of a spy agency. We know of people like Eugene Hasenfus, who was working for the CIA by dropping supplies to the Contras and got shot down carrying the logbooks proving the CIA activity. Findings from the Kerry Committee prove that the US was paying drug traffickers to support the Contras. Now, it's clear that there was drug money financing the support for the Contras but the CIA can simply say none of those people knew each other and it's all good because the government has no real oversight. Now, Hasenfus most likely never saw any drugs. He was just delivering weapons paid for drug money.
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Because to be fair California alone probably has a bigger economy than those countries.
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YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A COMPUTER >:(
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Not true. The USAF thought the Army was satisfied with CAS until it ran a study by asking the troops directly. The USAF discovered the Army was purposefully telling officers to not call in CAS so that rotary wing apologists could get funding for attack helicopters. The USAF then started the A-X program for the Army's sake and was even criticized by govt spending watchdogs for buying 700 of them. They only tried to retire it after it was stagnant in keeping up with the times.
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@ethimself5064 What "misinformation"? The US ambassador simply said the US did not intent to get into a conflict with Iraq. The invasion of Kuwait changed the situation.
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What?
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Depleted uranium is more dangerous due to its heavy metal poisoning than the radioactivity. When it impacts the metal sheds pieces that turn to dust. The US was supposed to replace DU by tungsten but it was found that the tungsten is also cancerinogenic.
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@fl00fydragon oh it circulates money? Very little of it trickles down to us peasants. I'm glad the EU destroyed the industry in the smaller countries to prop up Germany and France. We're closing maternity wards while they get better quality of life. Global scientific leadership is fine and dandy, in the real world I'm still buying chinese phones and chinese computer parts because the scientific leadership didn't grace us with actual jobs so we can build the stuff we buy and actually keep money circulating among us - for real. I'm glad for ITER, I won't bitch about that. I'm also not phased by China's attempts to fake their GDP numbers. They want control over the South China Sea and Africa, if internal investment was really paying off they wouldn't be bothered.
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Russian artillery covers entire fields in craters. More artillery doesn't mean more hits, it means more fires. Fires that don't hit don't produce casualties. Also, Russian shelling has reduced significantly.
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Yes. The "night vision" in NODs is near visible (cheap IR illuminators for security caneras have a dull red glow because of how they spill into visible). Thermal uses IR, but it's beyond the NV and why it picks up emissions without the need for ambient light or illuminators.
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 @captainbean3114 How is it a dog whistle? Virtually everyone knows about the Hugo Boss thing. Russell Brand (ironically) made that Hugo Boss joke in a fashion event a decade ago.
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@Hans "A right to self-ownership is unnatural." - if we don't have the right to self-ownership then fuck it, we're all slaves. Nice going, Hans.
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@Hans how the hell is it a false dichotomy? You either own yourself or you don't. If there is no right of self-ownership it means ownership can be revoked at any time and thus doesn't exist. "A government is partial slavery" - I thank you for being honest "such as self-defense could be partial slavery if you push someone from your property" - not at all. By evicting someone you're not exercising ownership over anyone but over the property itself. If there's a huge duffel bag blocking an entry, pushing it aside isn't theft.
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@Hans "The opposite of self-ownership is death, but the opposite of a RIGHT to self-ownership is neither death nor slavery (see 1.)." If you do not have a right to something, then the opposite of it can be enforced at will. "Removing an invader from your property is forcible interference into the invader's ownership of his own property" - physically removal of property from one place to another does not equal re-appropriation. "This forcible removal is slavery in self-defense." - no it fucking isn't. Even if moving property was re-appropriation, for the sake of the argument the person who owned itself voluntarily transmitted "ownership". But that doesn't even work because if I enter a store and start kicking stuff out of shelves I am being a nuisance, but not guilty of theft.
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@cheydinal5401 "The ultimate force isn't death, unless the other person starts shooting back" - One, you essentially admitted that that's the ultimate consequence of the use of force but you're trying to use caveats to weasel out of the admission. Even then people can get killed in physical altercations without guns being drawn, but if guns are drawn then that certainly is the ULTIMATE consequence. Two, people have died in police custody/cops have made mistakes and killed people when it wasn't warranted. The whole point of law is justifying the use of force. If you come for someone to demand money or try to kidnap them then certainly the victim is entitled to shooting those coming for him. It's the law that justifies that use of force and makes an act of defense illegitimate. "The most that will happen is you get arrested for not paying fines" - and how do people get arrested? Through force.
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@Hans "That's what i actually said, it CAN be enforced" - the fact that it can means you have no actual right to live. You can be dispatched anytime. "And i never said so." - then relocating someone does not equal slavery. "Slavery means forcing someone to do something." - "Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.[1] A slave is unable to withdraw unilaterally from such an arrangement and works without remuneration." making someone leave your property doesn't mean you own them. Someone being evicted could have withdrawn unilaterally by not trespassing in the first place. It's not slavery, no matter which half baked definition you come up with. "you have to enslave him, forcing him something to do, which is the definition of slavery." - except it fucking isn't. Parents can force children to go to school, it isn't slavery. If I take you by the ankles and force you to dip your head in the toilet I am forcing you to do something but at most that's a form of aggression, not slavery. If I force you to give me your lunch money it's not slavery. Hell, rape is forcing someone to do something, but there's a big difference between a rape and full-on sexual slavery. There's so many caveats to your definition it's essentially worthless. "And that definition does not change in situation XY." - IRONIC. How nice of you, you had your own arguments completely obliterated and you're unable to defend them without coming up with your own (incorrect) definitions so you claim I need to be lectured on logic. Priceless.
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@Simon-ow6td The US went back and forth on the ICC based on the president being a Democrat or Republican. Stop acting like it's a constant policy.
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Americanski from Oklahoma Oblast.
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 @worldoftancraft Have we seen the ejection system working? Either way, pilots are like knights. More valuable than peasants.
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@QT5656 Undermine the scientists that diverted funds to participate in illegal research, and spent the last two years covering each others' asses? Good. Also, it's you people who always mention Darwin. Just saying, but you guys are the eugenicists.
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@AxielFan If the disinformation network is predicting this garbage, how is it exactly that they're the problem?
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I fact-checked his statement and it is true.
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The US is sending more Bradleys.
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@ClannCholmain someone come reprogram this NPC he keeps repeating his lines
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Original MCW exposed this 4 years ago so megalab is also not that original. Plagiarismception.
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Why would we want to test weapons we know work and are about to get retired anyway?
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The jet fuel maneuver wasn't working. The drone ended up going down because the attempt to dump fuel resulted in collision.
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@momqabt Bro the concrete was punched through, the steel rebar cut. In some videos the holes also shown the lower deck of the closed cell structure was also punched through. You can see the river. It's not the "road" dawg. That was the structure itself with a hole punched through both sides and the steel reinforcement mangled.
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It's impossible to cover up what happened. Witnesses saw the drones, drivers would be questioned, messages and phonecalls would be traced.
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Havla Fitta nah, angle grinder, solder and a drill press is enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHAO8oxwioU
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+Stevan B "The term assault rifle, which is the same as assault weapon" no, it fucking isn't. An assault rifle is an automatic rifle firing an intermediate caliber from a detachable magazine. "Assault weapon" encompasses several types of weapons from shotguns to handguns and rifles which have cosmetic features listed by politicians as no-nos and are not the same thing as assault rifle. "non- supersonic projectile-emitting" - the laws on assault weapons literally do not care if the projectile is supersonic or subsonic so you're wrong on that too.
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@jeongbun2386 How is it a problem with capitalism? Under any system you can get wealth through robbery and pillaging. Theft existed in the Soviet Union. Before economics even existed, tribes fought each other. If others have something and you can take it, you get to keep it. Doesn't matter if it's capitalism or communism.
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@panpluto13 Nuking the global economy is not taking it seriously?
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@panpluto13 A distinction without a difference. If you're willing to destroy jobs and livelihoods over this mess, you took it seriously. So seriously they did. I don't know why you're bringing up Donnie so this is a non-sequitur. Your investments are "up" partially because the dollar is worth less. In addition, you probably didn't have stocks in all the restaurants and mom & pop shops that had to close since they weren't even publicly traded.
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@granola661 bragging about the fact that the government denies males free will by forcing them to join the military? Uh-oh.
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@granola661 "I assumed because of your overly libertarian beliefs." - and you were wrong. What does that tell you? "you will gain the stigma of a pussy" - because people were brainwashed by the state into thinking that way. Come on... "Our army is our insurance of independence from foreign powers" - so because other foreign powers force their men to join the military, you have to do the same. It's almost like the practice was wrong in the first place, so you need two wrongs to make a right. If people see it as a positive, trust the government, etc... then why does it have to be mandatory?
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INERT if you do not hold ground then you cannot stop people from doing whatever they want and undermine the reason you went to war in the first place. Paying off some people to do it for you? You mean like the US paid the Mujaheddin? That worked out fine. You mean like the US paid the """"moderate rebels"""" in Syria? That turned out fine. Those guys then ended up getting balsy and bitchslapping the giants by killing our countrymen in our streets. Spilling our blood because we thought that giving them money and weapons would give us control over them. If you want to do the kind of shit that has already been proven to blow back and kill our innocent civilians... you might as well mark yourself down as the enemy.
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Manufacturers are also getting shafted on raw materials, transportation, electricity, etc
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Desert Storm was near-peer considering that Russian and Chinese planners started to steer in the direction that they had to seriously consider that the US could do to them what they did to Iraq.
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Emily Dawn was that sarcasm...? Because Hillary stood by her rapist husband and defended a rapist in court by blaming the 12 year old victim...
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You put the money on the wrong horse. The pictures of the bomblets surfaced hours ago. They were ATACMS. It's not economic to send precision weapons against every single target. It's more economic to blanket the entire airfield with bomblets.
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To do a pass on the rear of a tank you'll have to fly over very unfriendly people.
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What evolutionary advantage would a new variant have if it kills all the hosts? The more violently ill you get, the sooner you are put in isolation. The less serious the symptoms are, the more people you spread to.
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We're making everything lighter so that troops can carry more. Soldiers nowadays carry more sustainment and support equipment than before.
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Cope. So it takes British and American agents to assemble AliExpress drones?
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@the_undead From the perspective of the Russian citizen who isn't already "Western-minded" and against the war, he/she thinks that EU/NATO had a coup in Ukraine in 2014, they armed and financed death squads, kept shelling ethnic Russians in Ukraine, then a Ukrainian pesident came along who wanted the US to deploy THAAD in Ukranian soil, giving the US a chance to shoot down Russian missiles before they entered terminal phase. This looks like chess pieces moving to put NATO in position to attack Moscow and deny MAD by preventing the nuclear deterrent. Now half of the world seems to want to starve the Russian people. This isn't about the definition of logical. But which perspective you have. From their point of view, it's logical for their leader to make an ultimatum.
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@jessguilford4207 I genuinely wouldn't be able to tell if an image came from such a magazine, because the cropping would just make it look like another perfume or underwear ad you see on the street. Yeah beauty of the human body, more people should have six pack abs.
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@johnburns4017 They could have been capable. All we know is that they didn't.
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"MUH NOOKS!"
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@OscarDirlwood Nuclear energy is outrageously efficient on a per weight or volume basis. Even more if you reprocess the fuel. You can power a small country for years and only generate a few barrels of waste.
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 @Mr.Marbles Never 4get the low res Afghanistan combat footage with DivX watermark set to Drowning Pool.
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>mfw Japan has F-15s and the F-2 which is based on the F-16
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@attilamarics4808 "they wouldnt have problems matching russian shelling numbers" - You focus on shelling numbers, but hitting empty fields means nothing. Even a Russian military analyst said that two guided missiles can do the job of a thousand unguided shells. And Russia needs more guided munitions.
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@attilamarics4808 "a good portion of them already destroyed" - Not a shred of evidence, though.
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So do ICBMs and 1960s NASA projects. If you want to count them as real hypersonics, the US beat Russia pretty bad at hypersonics. By several decades.
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@hsjawanda Then America has had hypersonics and Russians need to shut up about their wunderwaffen.
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@kraka2oanIner Canada is training Chinese pilots and trying to ban toys to curb gun violence. The lunacy in the political class is the same, just takes different forms.
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@Khronogi If you shoot someone in self-defense and you are cleared of any wrongdoing, it was because the shot was legitimate. If you don't believe your shot is gonna be legitimate, so you fire a warning shot instead, you've just admitted that there was no reason to discharge the gun in the first place. So you might get charged for whatever wrongdoing you might have accidentally committed. Now obviously if there's "no harm done" with the warning shot because it didn't hit any bystanders, and the person you scared away was actually a criminal so he doesn't press charges, etc you're probably not gonna get in trouble. But if there's an altercation, there's no clear "bad guy", and you use a deadly weapon to threaten someone, you might get in trouble. The other party can file a complaint claiming you've threatened them with a gun, or you can get charged with an unlawful discharge of a weapon in a residential area. You generally don't get in trouble for a warning shot if you had the legal right to shoot at the aggressor in the first place. And also, firing a warning shot can lead to ricochets and hurt someone who wasn't involved so you have to always mind that problem.
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It doesn't hinge on any assumption. I had this account permanently deleted for "hate speech" and I managed to appeal. I have a pretty good idea of what caused it and someone got butthurt over a joke. Now when engaging with someone I have to think "can I be my normal self and trash talk a bit or I have to handle this with kid gloves?" or else there go my playlists, etc. I can think. I don't care if I get downvoted (apparently downvoting doesn't even do anything anymore on YT comments). But my behavior has already been altered because I'm forced to play by a set of rules that first get interpreted by a bot, then some moderator farm in a developing country, and I have to worry if what I say can be misinterpreted as something that goes against the rules by these systems all because someone got salty and decided to report me. "I don't think there's anything insidious going on on the fountain pens subreddit, for example." - But there is. Not in a way that matters, but there is. A community can rally behind one fountain pen and call everyone who disagrees an heretic. It hardly influences the world at large but if you had a bad experience with Company X and think Company Y is better, you're fighting an uphill battle.
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@tkmonson "Your personal experience does not match everyone else's experience." - What does that even mean? Yeah, I had a personal experience with my ban, but even the people who burn through multiple accounts on twitter or whatever and don't care end up changing some of their behavior so they can last longer and engage more people. I'm not just interjecting some specific anecdote, this is almost universal. I was part of the Deterrence Dispensed subreddit and the nuking of that place had repercussions on other subreddits, which now take care to not do the same things that allowed Reddit to come up with a BS excuse to nuke the place. It's a shock collar and punishment discourages certain behaviors. "Yes, they CAN do that, but they don't." - But they do. I've seen this happen on communities about anything. You enter a subreddit, try to explain why someone's wrong, instantly banned. Or if they're nicer, you get downvoted to hell. "All human groups have the potential for good or bad." - Whoa, tremendous piece of information. Sure, groups can be good or bad. That's not the point at all. The problem is when you create these levers that drop treats and shock collars that punish, and condition people to the point that dissent is seen as an assault on the place that needs to be dealt with. In traditional social situations people can have simple disagreements and still be polite towards one another and if you're in a group you can always talk things over. I'll say it, we're not meeting each other on neutral ground. People reading this thread are probably more likely to agree with me than you. The thing is, this is YouTube so nobody gives a shit, I could get 50 likes and that wouldn't affect you at all. But if we had an argument on reddit in my home turf you could get ganged up on and lose a ton of karma for every post. You can say "I'm smarter than this, the numbers don't affect me" but if you then want to post on a subreddit that requires a minimum karma to post, you'll either have to farm it (probably just post Trump's face and text saying "Blonald Drumpf is the worst!") or create a new account. And you'll be more careful with your disagreements with that account. Right there your behavior is already being manipulated to fall in line, even if you consciously recognize you're walking on eggshells and that account isn't the real you.
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@tkmonson "move on and do something else" - Where do you think you are? "go look for a place where you can be yourself." - You find a place and that place is denied hosting. You find a new host and now that host is threatened by payment processors. Want a place? Step one is creating your own bank. "you are ultimately the one choosing to do it" - Again, that's the rationalization part. Humans are really good at it. It doesn't matter what your choice is. You were forced to make one, when you shouldn't have to. That choice already took control away from you. "they are only forcing you to change your behavior on that platform or subreddit" - So? You're not able to disseminate your ideas or disagreements. Just by forcing you to wear a mask, the social control aspect already won because now you can't propagate dissent by convincing others with your arguments. "Treats only control you if you eat them uncontrollably" - This is cope. The treats in this case control what people see. "Shock collars only work if you put them on. " - The only way to not put them on is to abandon social media. Congratulations, you've arrived at the same conclusion we did except through the most roundabout way.
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@Abrody1477 You don't get to pick your own job but you get to cultivate your audience. If people who hate you are watching but they have no way of harming your income, who cares if they're watching?
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Nah that's just youtube picking their battles. They do not want to just take down all medical videos and "banned commercials" (which are supposed to be funny/tantalizing, not explicit) but also not draw a hard line that then could be skirted around.
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In the aircraft world, multiroles are kings. They do refrigerate and they do bake the meatloaf. Like it or not, it works.
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Attacking Ukraine isn't defense.
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That's not smuggling. It's legal to own knives. It's just typically illegal to carry them in the street.
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It didn't become a norm. They welded THICK angle iron cages on top when they heard they had to fight Javelins and NLAWs (drones were not a concern). Those iron cages were useless against Jevelins/NLAWs or RPG-7s fired from rooftops. Now others have put on lighter cages to catch drone drops before they slip down an open hatch. Totally different purpose, and it's efficiently made with lighter materials.
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 @theexile4694 Tim literally went on a tantrum banging his table while shouting that Ukraine is the enemy and saying we owe Russia an apology.
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Already has been. Strike Eagles and F-16s performed the majority of CAS since 2014, with A-10s only getting 11% of CAS sorties.
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$3k Civic and simple mods
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Snowden took his girlfriend/wife to Russia.
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@occamraiser The F-16 wing loading is a misleading factor. You're stuck in the Pierre Sprey mindset. The F-16 has a higher wing loading than the F-4 Phantom, the affectively dubbed "Lead Sled" and "triumph of thrust over aerodynamics".
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It's literally the opposite of imperialistic.
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Taliban higher ups in contact with US intelligence leaked his location multiple times so he could get shwacked without witnesses and without the Taliban being blamed. The US did nothing. Mattis also had Marines ready to cut off OBL's escape at Tora Bora and was told to stay put. Draw your own conclusions.
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 @cipherstormwolf14 When the product is free you are the product. And when you're getting paid above the market rate you suspect where the money is coming from.
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+Jorgetime >"Always a us vs them mentality you americans have" >"us vs them mentality" >"you americans" Uhhhhhhhhh was that ironic?
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More like 2006-2007. Filming with a 3 year old camera. 2003 I wasn't gonna waste data on a FTP download for some dude rambling.
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The Budapest Memorandum had no Article 5 equivalent.
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@ryanscott6578 How does that make a difference?
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@nigelsteven1884 What? Serbia was genociding their neighbor.
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You put T-72 engine in Lada, beats Porsche any day comrade!
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@toddlavigne6441 You mean hospitalizations and ICU admissions are going down after the vulnerable got culled last year and the survivors (the majority) now have some form of immunity? And now that variants are becoming weaker? Great. That should be expected even if you didn't do anything.
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As a conservative he wants to "conserve" society. How you conflated that to just mean free markets is beyond me. Conservatism exists outside of the economic spectrum.
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That would be because the F-16 was part of a light fighter program meant to prevent overspending on the larger F-15, and more of a point defense fighter (although drop and conformal tanks greatly extend range). If you look at a MiG-29 side by side with a Su-27, you'll notice the same size disparity.
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@mndeg Do any of these countries have economic ties to China? Also, what are the human rights in those countries like?
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@WeknowhoUR The Minsk accords broken by the attack on Debaltseve and the start of the Second Battle for Donetsk Airport?
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@estonianman You're not answering the question. Yes, I am different from Zs. I'm not allowed at the Ukrainian front so that's a useless argument. Focus. Answer the question.
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@aberba We are less evil.
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Judson Joist Seth McFarlane doesn't go online for memes, he watches old shit and then references stuff from the 1930's that take a google search to understand.
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Just to be devil's advocate, not everone wants meat substitutes. That's mostly for people to taper off or to address cravings. The food industry benefits a lot from meat substitutes and trying to portray them as "normal" meals. During a period of time I drasticly cut meat intake to 1) help make weight for a fight and 2) I was living off savings from a part time job while in college. Getting stuff to look or taste like meat never crossed my mind.
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@everydayhero5076 Germany needed policing? Britain blockaded Germany and mined their waters. It's funny how Germany gets retroactively labeled as the bad guy in WWI when EVERYONE was the bad guy (confused your comment for WWI) Either way the conditions that lead to Nazis coming to power was the fact that other nations were policing Germany.
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Then why has he been wrong since the start?
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What do you mean?
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 @sbkarajan Acrobatics are for acrobatics shows.
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If she dies you'll have to keep seeing her on tshirts and murals.
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@PomazeBog1389 lmao that was fake news they never found child porn in his house
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It's a modded high flow valve with heavy bolt.
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Just like the Kherson goalpost was moved, right? "Forever Russia"
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 @kirgan1000 if they're producing Gripen Es they'd need to expand production capacity to make spares for the old Cs.
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No, two were OA-10s and 4 were A-10s.
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Ritual humiliation.
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@jd-yo2is It's not "only half". The vaccinated are being admitted at roughly the same proportion of vaccination. Example, if an age group is 73.5% vaccinated, 72.6% of the people in that age group are vaccinated. Just an example because I don't have the chart with me.
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The shuttle was a failure (government programs, am I right?). Modern electronics are extremely radiation sensitive while older tech wasn't.
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9:25 finally... what air defense is doing.
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Fuck you too, LBJ.
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 @KasperYakolev-j1h It didn't take balls because he never expected to get caught. It's not courage, it's stupidity.
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@Gnomezonbacon their jet engines sucked until they reverse engineered British technology as well.
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There's plenty of video. And aftermath photos. Look man, you're either trolling with denial, or you're not used to the dark corners of the internet.
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@chrisc4208 Chris isn't stable enough to get to say who he is. He thinks he's a CPU goddess that can shift between dimensions.
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The save icon is still a floppy disk even though we stopped using those. We still use Christmas lights as an example even though we have switched to LED.
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@Tential1 I disagree with ozempic being a sign of accountability when these people refused to take accountability for their bad habit, but now that we can straight up cheat our willpower they've decided to make a change.
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"Judge" has a negative connotation but the praise for giving up is also a form of judgement. If we can't judge, it should go both ways.
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@greenleafyman1028 The issue is that to make money off renting, you need to understand the real estate market. If you just buy any piece of property, you're at risk of the area devaluing. Or the other way around, look at Louis Rossman's videos on NYC real estate. There's landlords who cannot rent for an affordable price because of the terms of the contract, so their property sits vacant for years not making any money. Because the property value in NYC skyrocketed, they're forced to charge unrealistically high rent that nobody can pay.
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Fun fact, in the 2000 New Year's Eve countdown Alex Jones claimed that Russia was firing nukes at the US.
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@the_way_the_truth_the_life "The NSA was created to fight against the Deep State" - And their way of doing it is through PRISM? "The NSA has been collecting data on the biggest terrorist organization in the history of humanity, which is the Deep State" - And they haven't got anything that they could release?
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@DK-ig8zi Sources can be reliable despite bias.
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I don't expect riots. The US will be able to sustain Ukraine during the winter. Poland won't budge either.
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Why? They're Soviet era.
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 @wubuck79 one of the foreign countries keeps threatning nukes, and glees at American losses. Sympathizing with them is naivety.
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 @wubuck79 Morality isn't subjective.
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Who is going to defend them? Right Wing Safety Squads, of course!
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Cope. Reminder that the Summer offensive of 2023 took more territory in less time and fewer losses than 9 months of Russian advances.
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@MWENDA-vv5im For the time being. "Kherson is Russia forever", remember?
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@MWENDA-vv5im The poster was on Kherson city, though.
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@undeadblizzard If we were in the USSR, I would be in jail. In the US, Manning, Assange and Snowden are most of the people in trouble for sharing government secrets. Millions of people versus people you can count on your fingers isn't the same. Trump put a travel ban on certain Muslim countries. It's been long enough I don't remember the details, but I'm sure Obama had put a similar policy in place to deal with terrorism as well.
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They're kind of far away.
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The US could unironically send more armor than Russia has laser guided missiles.
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 @zed739 Yeah and back in the day people saved up to buy the goods. When we think that old stuff is better/lasted longer we forget our grandparents had to save up to get it.
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@ningen7736 He can't. Ukraine found foreign volunteers to be worse than useless and asked them to go home. The only way to volunteer now is to have combat experience (they won't call you back if it's War on Terror experience) or a specialized skill that they can't easily train. Otherwise, they have locals who know the language and the land. Random foreigners only hinder them.
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@springbloom5940 if the striker was so out of spec it also slipped past the striker block plunger, there's no fail safe that's going to stop it.
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It would work by preventing pinpointing weak spots. Those air gaps would only minimally reduce penetration.
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We saw all of the Bartman during the The Simpsons Movie intro.
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They're not stuck, they're capturing terrain.
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 @nisher15 Ukraine is militarizing harder and harder every day. The demilitarization goal is impossible to achieve.
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You misunderstand that attrition isn't just manpower. What happens to the Russian army if they conscript 5 million men, but have no artillery? Ukraine is attriting supply vehicles and artillery tubes, ensuring that no matter how much population Russia has, they won't have an army.
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@weekiely1233 Most sub accidents are human error because bad designs were rejected during certification. Just like the bombers that didn't come back were shot in critical areas, the subs that would fail at sea failed the certification process.
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@WalrusWinking "They already tried replacing the A-10 with the F-16 it didn't work out so well" - Except it did. In terms of percentages the F-16 does three times the CAS the A-10 does. What didn't work was adapting a 30mm gunpod to the F-16, which was a ridiculous idea anyway considering that the 30mm round hasn't been able to penetrate main battle tanks in decades, the DU round has been retired, and 20mm shreds up armored vehicles pretty good.
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@dwally4198 you're right, but the US did send support to the UK and the USSR before they were officially at war so Germany was at least a concern to the US.
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@hiddenknowledge2012 Germany declared war on the US because the US declared war on Japan. My point is, the US was still sending aid to the USSR to help defeat Germany even before they were at war.
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 @EmeraldPixelGamingEPG Reason doesn't matter. Only air assets could drop the bomb.
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You mean the agreement broken by DPR forces in the assault of Debaltseve?
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@syn1183 please remove the NPC icon because you're pretty comitted to defending those in control when it suits you.
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@zorgonfire "Its not total freedom" - It's the opposite of freedom.
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It was clear something was up when the countries that got it early started noticing it wasn't working and a third dose would be needed, when most of the people in the Western world had not even taken their second one. It was clear something was up when many people tried to report serious adverse effects and were treated like nutters by the medical community. If anyone has an attitude problem, it's the people willing to unperson those who don't comply for whatever reason. May them be legitimate concerns, the lack of benefits and recognition of risk stratification, sincerely held religious beliefs ir just the plain fact that literature, movies, comic books, songs and EVEN CHILDREN'S CARTOONS showed this was morally wrong decades ago. We were literally born and raised to question things like this, but I guess most people missed the point of the lessons.
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When the 2014 invasion kicked off there were far right extremists from Europe joining Ukraine and far left extremists joining the separatists. Who fought side by side with Sparta Battalion, a far right unit of the separatists, and on the same side as Wagner, Rusich, etc which have Neo-Nazi ties. The Kurd units a foreigner could join always were nominally socialist.
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If you put a 800hp motor I think you'll just asplode the entire transmission.
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The problem is that the "aesthetic" experience of the mass shooter is so tied to guns that typically fly under the radar. Columbine happened during the AWB and it's only recently that AR-15s came down in price so a lot of the culture revolves around guns available in the 1990's and cheaper/family guns that teenagers had access to in the midle-2000's. While the modern mass shooter is bombarded non-stop with media reports saying the AR is the most deadliest weapon ever, the "aesthetic" of the mass shooter itself is so tied to pump action shotguns/sawn-offs, Mini-14s, HiPoint carbines, etc.
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"The further off the missile is, the less it has to turn to make course corrections" the problem is that the missile must do a lead pursuit. Forcing a missile to bleed speed from far away is much better than trying to furball yourself in the air with a missile on your ass. When the rocket burns out and you turn, you force a course correction even when far away. After the missile bleeds speed, you make a turn in a somewhat opposite direction: out of a sudden the missile's lead correction is way off and needs to 180º to get back on a lead pursuit precisely because of the distance involved.
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Yes. Both Sig Sauer and Heckler & Koch had legal troubles for selling weapons that were diverted from the supposed buyer to evade import/export restrictions and sell German made weapons in Central America. Some weapons with Israeli technology are also blocked by Israel. Breaking end user agreements can ruin a country's future attempts at arms import.
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@Deamons64 their cutesy awareness would be okay if they were solely a way for people who want to perform to not have to deal with drug dealers and rapists. But they're part of a rapidly conglomerating industry. Plus it's all probably a front for money laundering. Come on, production companies put 10 minute videos up... with an ad underneath saying you can have a 1 day trial and download everything you want for 1-2 dollars. How the fuck does it make money? It's all cocaine money or something.
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@gargravarr2 "As per TIK's terminology, this means that practically all of Bezos' money wasn't made as a capitalist private businessowner, but as the head of a socialist corporation-state." - dude what the fuck? EDIT: I didn't notice this was about the misconception of "public" companu.
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wannabchomsky buddy you really out here arguing that "infrastructure" only means "public infrastructure" and blatantly ignoring how it was explained to you that as long as Amazon keeps putting all their revenue into expanding their business, they technically have no "profits" to tax.
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That's not true. Russia shot down a Georgian recon drone (and lied when the footage came out showing a MiG-29 by saying it was a "NATO MiG-29") and the rebel forces ambushed and kidnapped police and soldiers. Tskhinvali was shelled as a counterattack. Also, Russian forces were already crossing the border towards Georgia the night of the battle. Russia moved the pieces to be the aggressor but fudge the timeline. Same as Ukraine - they baited Ukrainian artillery and even faked IED attacks to justify the war.
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@shanerooney7288 you're mistaken. Because of the number of people learning in the armed forces and taking their knowledge to the provate sector rather than getting certifications in the civilian world, the military is within its rights to not award someone their certification. My father was an aircraft mechanic in the Air Force and he had to fight to obtain his certification that allowed him to work on civilian planes after going into the reserves.
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And it also downplays how Russia is fighting Ukraine to the last man in Donbas. The East Ukrainians are suffering massive casualties thanks to their "protectors".
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@liuring3756 "Learn from China, what they are doing to save people" - by welding them shut in their homes?
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GMLRS has INS. The sensors that detect acceleration and rotation in three dimensions allow a GPS munition to ignore jamming and guide itself by dead-reckoning.
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A chess move where 7 aircraft get shot down and 12 pilots die?
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 @DESIBOY-fe7nm There was no money sent.
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@RedNayl oh wow the "The Last Jedi defense", haven't seen that one in a couple of years.
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@YZER19 What do you mean? The German government scrutinizes HK's dealings all the time. The first HK 416s delivered to SEALs were made from a mix of German and American parts because they couldn't manufacture them in America yet and couldn't legally export them from Germany either. They only obtained approval to make 416s in the US later because it was a military contract. The civilian MR556s have to have full auto denial features to reduce compatibility with 416 parts and a stainless steel barrel rather than chrome lined, thus not making them military weapons.
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I still remember hearing this after Severodonetsk.
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"Vietnam was not about communism, it was a civil war" - yes, a civil war where the communist-aligned North wanted to take over the South.
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I think Richard Spencer coined the term years ago when he "broke up" with American nationalists due to his views. But yeah the media took it and ran with it.
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Ironically Finland used F/A-18s for rough and ready.
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@bjorntorlarsson It was about territory last year when Russia was advancing. Now it isn't. Funny.
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If I were Indian I'd be legitimately mad at people doing this. But hey, it's your country so feel free to ruin your reputation.
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Why doesn't Ford just call it "a truck"?
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@ronnielacher They're not sustainable. You'd have to feed the bugs with animal feeds. The whole "sustainable" aspect of bugs would be how you could feed them off waste but those bugs are not safe to eat.
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I'm European, we have tons of gofundmes for medical bills.
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David ben Mesecke calling everyone you dislike a Nazi makes you look like an Antifa loon.
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Boeing got paid 2 billion to keep the A-10 airworthy.
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@beefsuprem0241 Not really. The A-29 Super Tucano was going to win the OA-X program for sure, already designed. 10 million per aircraft, just a little over the cost of just a new set of wings for each A-10.
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Even media from that time showed how bad things were in Russia. If people can't even get their history from pop culture then telling them to crack open the actual history books will not work. It's literally nobody's fault but their own.
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Drones can't constantly monitor the space. Flying a drone into enemy territory requires sneaking them through observers, listening posts and radars.
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@johnkraft7461 "the US did it 80 years ago so everyone can do it, but worse" is the worst take anyone can come up with
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Let's just say that websites that talk about gaming but call out SJWs probably don't get the same ad deals as IGN or Kotaku and have to settle for advertisers less concerned with the image of the websites where they show up.
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@ginNjus The Stuka siren was also eventually removed as it was ineffective. Just like the death cards in Vietnam, the side using the psychological effects completely overstated how well it worked.
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Plenty of helicopters on the ground thanks to Stinger/Piorun, plenty of tanks and IFVs destroyed or critically disabled by Javelin, NLAW, Panzerfaust 3, AT4, M72 LAW, MATADOR, etc.
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Belarussian and Ukrainian have mutual intelligibility because of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Russia is the odd one out in Slavic languages as the aristocrats spoke French instead of Russian, which left it as a peasant language. Then writers like Pushkin constructed modern Russian with many loan words from French. Grammatically Ukrainian and Russian are similar but the mutual intelligibility is lower than other West Slav languages because of Russia's sideways evolution in the 1800s.
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@haroldfarquad6886 a lot of stuff can be repaired if you can get the parts - but we demand our products to be light, thin and fashionable so there's fragile connectors everywhere and pieces which need to be set in place by machine before oven soldering.
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 @RadicalTek So?
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 @pugachevskobra5636 Homie is comparing a book to a manual on how to use the bathroom. Reducto Ad Absurdum.
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3 lines became 5 and now 8.
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@user-og6hl6lv7p The cheese is being told they're heroes for staying home and lecturing other people online for breaking the rules. For the obvious brute force to come out you'd need to see mass non-compliance. People would need to face the ultimate conclusion that a lockdown is house arrest enforced by death threat. So, who's willing to take a few Lake City quiet pills in the chest for the good of all mankind?
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@realtalk6195 None of them are like Wagner. Wagner had Su-25s and tanks. Blackwater had Toyota trucks and civilian helicopters. Western PMCs are poorly armed and only act as security. They had to call for support from the US military all the time.
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@strellettes8511 You know how in The Matrix cellphones exist but the free humans use landlines to jump in and out? A kid born in 2005 wouldn't get that at first because from their perspective cellphones always had internet.
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@reubensandwich9249 Look at his name.
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@Kazerai Discovered and kept under wraps. The 19 was retroactive, because it was named in 2020.
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They posted the videos. They want to be left alone, they can just stop uploading.
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The "easy" overruning stalled. Rushing armored units ran out of fuel or got tagged by AT weapons. Russia also has no sons to spare.
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9mm penetrates through walls as much as 5.56, with the added disadvantage that if it hits something it flattens and keeps going while 5.56 has a chance to break apart and lose energy quickly. Now if you're inside a ship I can see how the steel could potentially only get dented by 9mm and punched through by 5.56, but I'm not sure how thick those steel dividers are.
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No, it wasn't similar. The EU did a report and while it disagreed with some measures overall it was seem as just a promotion of national language. In the EU many countries have regulations on language, even going as far as limiting foreign language music broadcasts in radio to promote domestic music and language.
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@Amy-qc2qq Plenty of people have been off work 11 months.
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Google supports China, though.
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F-16s are extremely common, Gripens were not an export success. Old Saabs were cars made by engineers for engineers, GM was the beginning of the end for their automotive division.
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@haliax8149 "why does it matter if the enemy is exposed to the dust? " - because your own troops will be exposed to it
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How would you get information about the direction of where the returns are coming from? It would be technically possible, but you'd need same-size radar receivers laid down in a circle to estimate the direction. It's easier to make a single antenna spin.
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@aflyingcowboy31 "You do realise the Russia military has around 1 million military personnel right?" - Which includes office and desk clerks, gate guards, cooks, the drivers who chauffeur generals around, etc. The vast majority of an army are support personnel, not combat infantry.
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@joshuamitchell1733 "According to your own side they have lost/is losing territory, but you guys are saying this is how you win a war?" - Yes. The USSR lost territory. Then got it back.
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@joshuamitchell1733 You need history lessons. The Soviet Union won when Nazi Germany caused attrition on itself trying to capture it. Russia is making the same mistake as Nazi Germany. Russia should honestly stick to fighting on home turf.
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Snowden exposed how the government reads the messages. This is about the messages the government can't read because of encryption.
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"Nobody with any sense thought this would take a few days" - The Russians did. Hence their failed assault on Hostomel. They were meant to have a direct air bridge to the outskirts of Kiev the first night. But fighting damaged the runway. Iraq is not comparable. The invasion started from Basra province for most of the Coalition. Baghdad is 280 miles from Basra. Kiev is 140 miles from the Belarus border. The Coalition was a lot more careful clearing out Iraq, because they did not want to get hit from the sides of behind. The ambushes in Ukraine show that Russia is advancing faster and somewhat carelessly. So even though they're advancing at a faster pace, it's taking them twice as long. You people bringing up Iraq really need to put it in perspective how bad it makes Russia look. Especially considering that the US was fighting halfway across the world, Russia is operating on their own doorstep.
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The issue is that Delta would be wasted in the frontlines. Russia fell for the special forces meme, and lost high quality personnel in mundane attrition battles. Lindybeige has a several part interview with a British man who fought Russia in Ukraine. He did it out of his own volition and technically the British government disavows going to Ukraine to fight but they're also not criminally prosecuting anyone.
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@mochithepooh5368 If I say that getting shot with bullets tends to make people die, that doesn't mean I'm saying getting shot is a good policy. I'm saying that the people who claim getting shot doesn't hurt you are wrong. I'm 100% for rehabilitation. I am just more of a realist and know that a blind rehabilitation program is just going to put people who don't intend to turn their life around.
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@mochithepooh5368 Again, missing the point. It's like guns and gun crime. The point isn't that more guns mean less crime. The point is that as the number of guns increased in the US there was a reduction in violence from the peak in 1994 until the late 2010s. Anyone claiming that more guns would mean more crime us absolutely wrong. Period. That doesn't mean more guns is a prescription to reduce gun crime. That's not what's being said. The people who aay the opposite were proven wrong by reality and that's that.
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Kind of public information already.
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No. Export restrictions on F-16s got lifted so anyone who'd want F-20s just preferred to buy F-16s.
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A lot of videos feature the same actor with a balaclava which are obviously propaganda. Many of the videos are either police making arrests unrelated to conscriptions, or people being arrested for failing to report after receiving a summons. The same thing will happen in any civilized country if you fail to show up to court after being summoned.
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@6thwilbury2331 The point of suspensions is that after a certain number of missed classes you automatically fail. It's like a ref handing a warning before the DQ. The bad behavior will cost you the year. I understand it's kind of weird they don't explicitely tell you that, but I put 2 + 2 together.
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It can be dozens of miles away from the industrial area.
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@Handsome Squidward We knew. It's April 1st. You could have made this video with information available in February.
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How do you "self-police" against violent, criminal gangs using your imagery? Go up to them and ask them to stop? That's like saying Disney doesn't want to be associated with fat nerds so they're going to self-police Star Wars fans. How the fuck are they going to do that? Go door to door and burn the Star Wars merch off the fat nerds' hands? Good luck. "If I spray known gang tags on my car" They're band imagery first and foremost. This isn't the same thing as getting yourself a Hell's Angels cut and riding a Harley wearing it. It would be like if a gang only wore Metallica shirts so if you were wearing a Metallica shirt for liking the band you'd get stopped. Are you at fault for wearing "known gang colours"? No, you're wearing band merch. "into the 21st century and only allow official merchandise to be sold from their own website" >21st century >not allowing for example Amazon to deal with your merch It's almost like you want their business to suffer "ban the old symbols at concerts" THE CRIMINAL GANGS WILL JUST ADOPT THE NEW ONES Also, forcing a band to change logos because of what some fuckers are doing, very libertarian indeed
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But they did run out of missiles, which is why S-300s abd Shaheds were used to continue attacks as they waited for missile production to catch up.
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@tbxmb show fake ID Wear cap, sunglasses and mask.
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When all else fails, tread on them.
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@vladimirlenin9120 "A literally dictatorship would contradict most of Marx’s work" - and how would you enforce Marxism without a dictatorship?
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pandorachild I am presenting questions you don't answer, not trying to prove anything. Try again.
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@6789uiop No. Multiple threats actually increase danger significantly.
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@Kidsinamerica If you force someone who works for you to do something, and they get hurt... oh boy that should be a windfall. I want to see bankruptcies.
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@b_traven What is claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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They aren't.
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Doesn't seem to be helping.
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lmao cope
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@kelliejackson3563 Does it matter? The fact is that men being pro-choice for their own benefit isn't a positive trait.
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@earlwyss520 The USAF never decided to scrap CAS. You'll be hard pressed to find historical evidence of the Army wanting to step on the USAF's toes and most of it comes from a faction of air mobility supremacists that actually wanted the USAF out of the way. You're twisting historical facts for your benefit. At the time the USAF aircraft in service were being developed - which goes back to the 50s - the lack of accuracy of bombs made deep strike and interdiction a more rewarding mission from the benefit/risk analysis because denying the enemy logistics won the war faster and the further away from your own troops you dropped bombs the lower the rates of friendly fire would be. Those missions would also require fast jet performance. So the recently formed USAF, which was still running mostly on Army doctrine, simply did things by the book and invested in aircraft design that could do the hard job better, under the assumption that it would do the less demanding job just fine. You know this isn't true, but hindsight is 20/20 and it was ingrained into the doctrine. So while you claim that the USAF didn't care about CAS, the fact is that it was assumed that strike aircraft would be good at CAS and the USAF was more than willing to provide CAS. The reason some in the Army may have thought they didn't care was because certain proponents of the air mobility did not want to call in USAF support. And it was the USAF chief of staff that discovered the hard way that there were people in the Army with power who wanted them out of the picture. So the USAF did the reasonable thing which was ask what was needed. The A-X project came out of that. And the USAF chief of staff did not oppose the acquisition of armed helicopters for fire support, it was McNamara that shut it down.
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@Unforseenak You do realize anti-drone weapons exist, right?
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Your pp fell off because of the radiation. 🤔
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@johnhermann7498 If the person doesn't have good enough vision to watch a screen in front of their face, the conscription office will probably not put them in drone pilot duty. There's plenty of videos of AK fire hitting. Almost no videos of shotguns doing the job right because the pilots can fly out of pellet range.
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Okay, but does that mean we need to tax the rich to keep the stores open or does WV need to attract businesses so that people have the money to spend on those stores?
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@peterterpstra4038 the USSR didn't exist then
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@bluenami7520 "Explain Switzerland and Europe. The more money printed, the lower prices go and the stronger the currency gets." - I'm European and prices have skyrocketed since the adoption of the Euro.
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There's even the story of the test pilot on a 707 doing a demo flight for the interested airline companies who pulled a complete roll. When the Boeing company rep radioed him asking "just what do you think you are doing?" his answer was "selling airplanes".
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@einereinar Is it outrageous? After years of accusing someone of collusion with Russia, trying to pin that person for collusion with Ukraine is a hard sell. After WW2, the Japanese constitution was also styled in a way that would prevent Imperial Japan from rearing its ugly head. As a result, even the pandemic restrictions could not really be enforced and relied mostly on the citizens cooperating voluntarily. Germany doesn't seem to have such kid gloves.
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Helicopters can use terrain more effectively than fixed wing. Rotary wing like the Apache can use the radar on the mast to paint targets and launch missiles that lock on after launch.
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Except that's not how it works. Once you leave military life you are a civilian again. Just like if you are a soldier, get wounded, and give up, the enemy can't just finish you off with a coup d'grace. You're out of combat and no longer a threat.
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The problem is that the A-10 is easily shot down, and a pilot will need CSAR which further risks assets. One pilot tragically died in Desert Storm because he flew his damaged A-10 back to base, and crashed in the landing. Hindsight is 20/20, but it would have been worth scrapping the aircraft by ejecting in an empty area.
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@hendrikvanleeuwen9110 More like 200,000 with >50,000 Donbas militia. And there's an unknown number of rotations. Russia pulled troops from the bases in the far East, Kaliningrad, the Finnish border, Syria, sailors who were supposed to be on naval vessels and troops from the strategic rocket forces, instructors and reservists (BARS units) were sent. They also had a recruitment drive for Army contractors with huge cash bonuses, and the PMCs dropped the requirement for prior military service to join. That was before the mobilization and the prisoner recruitment by Wagner so there may be a hundred to two hundred thousand boost that was never mentioned anywhere. "Meanwhile Russia's first draft of 300,000 remains largely in tact and waiting for deployment" - That's not true. We have the photos and documents of mobilized men who got killed within a week of mobilization starting. Russia had a critical manpower shortage and sent men straight to the front to plug gaps. They're not intact. In fact things got so bad, the Third Army Corps was almost immediately split and sent to Kherson, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts rather than fight as a cohesive unit.
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 @nbell5050 Whataboutism.
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@jasminebebe3455 Not necessarily. Under NODs some BDUs look like white pijamas because you barely see the pattern, the spectrum emitted by the differently colored fabric is very close so all the colors blur together. NODs don't just amplify ambient light but also make some of the IR spectrum visible so unless a particular camo was designed to work under IR it might not.
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@willywonka4340 He's not necessarily an anomaly because T-rex arms also invited an airsoft shooter to run drills, with only 1 week of prep time. I learned how to pull a double action trigger without moving the sights on a cap gun revolver as a kid. Seems like a joke, but it's not that different from dry fire.
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It's not about war but making sure that military bases don't have their ranges closed due to environmental legislation.
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 @danielkrcmar5395 Russian inflation is like 27% and their growth numbers are literally Rosstat numbers. Nobody can audit Russia's actual economic activity.
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@randomusername5242 That is just wrong. Balance should be where your hands are, because it means less cantilevered mass floating around. Two rifles with the same mass will have equal recoil energy/impulse, but the rifle with more mass towards the front will require more torque from your controlling hands to recover. Which typically means it will try to flip itself out of your control more noticeably. It's like handling weights. If you squat to grab kettlebells and keep them close to your torso, you can pull them up easily. If you try to extend your arms away from your torso to lift them, the exact same weight will be too difficult to handle.
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@andreivaldez2929 To be fair, the reciprocating charging handle was a requirement. It just happened that the end users weren't thrilled and FN kinda put it on an awkward place.
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@andreivaldez2929 To be fair, the reciprocating charging handle was a requirement. It just happened that the end users weren't thrilled and FN kinda put it on an awkward place.
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The US sent F-22s to Syria.
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Jensen Huang was sent to the US to live with an uncle. He didn't come in via H-1B.
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@cdgncgn They participate in the war? By doing what? Parades? Sniping from above? What are they sniping? The Russian army is reduced to elderly men with rusty AKs. The Su-57 did not protect the Russian soldiers. They didn't snipe anything. Cowardice.
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Is he an alcohol-enjoyer while driving too?
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Artillery requires spotters, ammo, and not being afraid of counter battery. If the spotters are KIA or WIA, artillerymen do not know where to fire. If the artillerymen do not get ammo from the MoD, they do not fire. If artillerymen know they're under observation and if they fire a shell will fall directly on them, they will not fire.
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@hobosorcerer Of course it doesn't. That's the point of the boy crying wolf story. The last time he did it the warning was valid - but people didn't care. Now Blizzard has a massive scandal erupt and many prefer to stay on the fence. I'm sure the allegations are real. But I can't blame the people who'd rather wait to figure out.
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@TheLastDanite Advanced civilizations eventually figured out that it's best to leave tribes uncontacted.
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@jimhollenbeck4088 The more you type the more nonsensical it gets. The M16/M4 kept being manufactured to replace old stock. The B-52 is indeed outdated and needs replacement. It didn't get a chance to be replaced because there was no need to manufacture another strategic bomber of the same kind and the B-2 and B-1s didn't have the numbers or the range. It would have been replaced by something else had the collapse of the Soviet Union not eliminate the urgent need for something like it. The A-10 is not effective at anything other than COIN, and it's too expensive to justify sending it to low intensity conflicts rather than dedicated COIN aircraft. The M-14 was obsolete the day it entered service. In fact the process to bring the M-14 back cost more than just purchasing a new 7.62 rifle. The problem with the A-10 wasn't that there was something better around the corner. The problem is exactly the opposite. The A-10 is the last of its breed. There's nothing around the corner because it's a dead end.
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 @prfwrx2497 They were 0% probabilistic, from an upwards angle the original angle iron cages were nearly "solid".
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 @Crosshair84 Wrong. Drone drops started happening AFTER the cope cages were removed.
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@inquisitorsneed2 The links get removed due to YouTube's spam filter, but I guess you'll take any dirty trick to get the upper hand.
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They can refurbish tanks faster than they can manufacture new hulls.
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@Fatkiller22 "the protocols and mandates were working until people stopped" - False. If you look at charts there's no correlation between mandates and case spikes.
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@thexalon WWI tactics look insane by today's standards. Basically advancing on foot as artillery barrages also move forward ahead of you. Getting a battle taxi to drive you close enough to a trench to the point that you can use rifle fire and the enemy can't drop artillery on you without also hitting their own troops is space-age stuff compared to WWI. Early on, Ukraine was on a defensive posture so they weren't raiding that many trenches.
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Ironically it's kinda true, Black Panther was 90% black thus not very diverse. OH WELL
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They're so busy with "advanced economics" one guy has to patch up everyone's videos. Yeah.
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The Gripen is not as cheap as Saab claims. Stealth is rapidly becoming the price of admission.
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@copiouscat A pun is when you use double meanings or similarly sounding words. Like when Arnie says "you're fired" when he fires a missile the terrorist is stuck to in True Lies. Or saying "I did Nazi that coming" when talking about something in WW2 because it sounds like "not see". The Noir jokes fall under analogies, using comparisons.
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@himiehonor1196 Listen to Russians or read their telegram. They're not hating anything.
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You can counter armored assaults with a 600 dollar FPV strapped to a RPG-7 warhead. No pilot to risk.
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@solarwind907 The swine flu vaccination drive in the 70s was suspended after like 30 deaths. Think about it.
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@DeshaunIsAmazing pepper spray is bullshit (wind can defeat the spray and blow it back to your face) and tasers will fail if the prongs do not pierce the clothing. Look it up, there's people not going down from tasers on video.
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Stay hydrated. This is a threat.
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The average person can go online and buy a screwdriver, orbital sander, drill press, CNC router, etc. We don't care if you work in machinery or not. What does being a hunter or in the military even mean? That's hardly quantifiable. You can't be judge, jury and executioner. That's illegal. By your logic you can just grab your kitchen knife, slide it down the plants pocket and go around being judge, jury and executioner. You'll just have to run faster. You're attributing some kind of mystical power to the firearm as if you can't do the exact same with other weapons or bare handed. You can go be judge, jury and executioner with your fists and feet. Either way, you'll be stopped eventually and pay for the crimes you committed. So this concern is unrelated to firearms.
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Japan had a massive economic crisis in the 90s. It wasn't sunshine and rainbows for them.
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Already covered by APKWS. At 30k a pop, it is a precision guidance kit for unguided rockets and it can shoot down cruise missiles.
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@jamesrowlands8971 I didn't, it's just not worth addressing Russian lies.
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@mikegoodie7905 That 98% stat, when was the date they started counting on?
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Yes, things we can't identify are real. Big reveal.
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@viktoriyaserebryakov2755 Cry about it. Now brag about the boat that doesn't need to run on land.
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It doesn't stop the spread. Even people who took it can still infect you.
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@chicoblackMIA If you claim a dog's tongue is actually made of cheddar cheese, you have to take a biopsy and prove it. We know contrails exist. You're trying to prove CHEMtrails exist simply by looking. No, you have to sample the chemicals.
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@michaelbrinks8089 Hell, there are photographs from the 1940s where you can see dogfights from WW2 airplanes leaving contrails showing their maneuvers as they try to shoot each other down. I highly doubt warring countries were mixing chemicals into the fuel, reducing their efficiency.
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kare dare "an-cap" dude what? How the fuck is this ancap?
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+History Of Socialism and someone can say that he would shoot a child for stealing candy but that doesn't make him a ancap either. Mises Institute can be used as a source by anyone from neocons feeling feisty to libertarians. Your "proof" for this being an AnCap piece is inconclusive at best.
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@frostnotm5282 "steel production has impoved massivley" - Okay but you need to remove the oxide from iron oxide. This means forming carbon dioxide. There's been developments, but we have plateau'd.
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Not necessarily fatal. Most of the blast is absorbed by the fuselage. The impacf with the ground is the equivalent of a pretty bad car crash, but you also have more metal protecting the occupant. It's a complete toss up, humans have survived much worse but they could have been unlucky. If there were people in the transport area their survival chances are lower than pilot and gunner.
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 @jamesmoss56 Where's the money to start a business? And wouldn't he just hire people from his own background? This is disingenuous.
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Sure they will. Do you know how many air defenses Russians lost in this past couple of months?
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@Latbirget Right now the right-wing is very sensitive so isolationist/anti-war sentiment because of the shift that occurred during the Obama administration, and let's face it rural conservatives are probably more likely to have seen the human costs of the wars. But this has lead to propaganda being easy to inject into right wing circles.
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Isrel flew over S-400 protected airspace to strike Iran and Syria.
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Did you watch the video?
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It's easy to make a moped engine travel a thousand miles. It's difficult to lift a thousand pounds of explosive.
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Jon Jones Yeah I remember a guy who lived there about 2000 years ago. I don't think he would have condoned clearing lands by violence.
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@perperperpen "Literally all of us want to do that, it just isnt feasible" - But controlling guns is? "Writing legislation to limit the amount of power that people can have with a weapon is a pretty fucking strong band-aid" - How is it? Because Columbine happened during the Assault Weapons Ban, which was in effect from 1994 to 2004. Before Las Vegas the deadliest shooting was Virginia Tech, where the shooter used a 9mm Glock and a .22LR pistol. Not very "powerful". "potentially be prevented if guns werent so readily available" - Putting the toothpaste back in the tube. With 400 million firearms in circulation and the number increasing every month, guns will be available for hundreds of years. "You're shooting down this potentially beneficial solution" - How is it potentially beneficial? You're assuming the conclusion with no premises.
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@perperperpen Not only are there over 400 million guns in circulation, most of them unaccounted for, it's also becoming incredibly easy to make them at home. It's been done many times? Not in the US. Not with so many guns. Not in the 2020s, when 3d printers exist. You have a perfect storm of conditions that make it unfeasible. Assault rifles have already been banned in 1986. No, it's not easy to see how it is beneficial. The premise isn't even simple, but even giving you the benefit of the doubt, the premise and the actual action are two different things. Conditions outside the US are not the same. Many countries ranking above the US in gun crime have stricter gun laws. Gun crime doesn't care about laws, because by definition it is crime and therefore the gun laws are ignored. Mass killings happened in Europe, remember the ISIS attacks in the 2010s?
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His accent is fine, people are whining like crazy these days.
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The prosecution can't appeal, double jeopardy. You can't make someone go through a trial twice for the same case unless there's a mistrial without prejudice in the first. The state only gets one chance to convict otherwise the government could just force innocent people to go through the same trial over and over again until they get a conviction.
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@westleymullins Someone speaking at a 6th grade level doesn't mean they're not able to learn or understand concepts. Talking to people like children only leads to two outcomes - people will feel offended and reject the message, or promoting infantilization and we'll be consistently trapped in a treadmill of trying to lower the grade at which we speak instead of pulling everyone to a higher level. There's nothing that tanks credibility like purposefully talking down to people. I'll be primed to look for the inconsistencies and inaccuracies.
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@westleymullins And I'm just saying, after almost two years of people trying to use 6th grade language, I'd rather blow my brains out. Because I know that what they're saying is wrong and they were purposefully taught with 6th grade language to imprint this wrong information into their heads in an easily digestible way.
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@nomorewar4189 why would Ukraine provide water and power to Russia?
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Remember Kherson? You people said the same thing.
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It does matter where it came from. The nation where it came from lied about it, used its influence with the WHO to delay response, and then hid the evidence. The reaction would be different if the culprit had fessed up and came clean about what was going on. It wouldn't have been true. We'd know what we were fighting. We were lead by uncertainty so we let everything get out of control. We'd have an immediate response and know exactly what to do rather than act like fools. Stuff was spreading and the WHO was saying it wasn't airborne... what a joke!
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Yeah but the landmines will bust them.
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 @ISirSmoke The filament lightbulbs that last forever are garbage. The lightbulb that has been kept on for 100 years is barely visible in the day.
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@romxxii there's red blooded Americans standing next to conveyer belts literally cherry picking. Actually separating cherries. Low level jobs still exist. If you can purchase fruit picked by Americans you sure as shit take people from the employment line and put them in an assembly line.
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@darlsbarkley3493 Technically correct. The best kind of correct.
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I'd wait for the HIMARS to arrive first.
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@krisofamerica Fukushima was the result of a flawed 1950's/1960's design protected by an insufficient seawall absolutely tanking a huge natural disaster but then failing because backup generators and switching stations were placed in areas that could be flooded rather than uphill.
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@SEXWORKERNATION No, there's an old estimate of 300 million guns in the US, which some people claim is about 400 million right now. Even if 98% of those are "legal", that's still 8 million guns in the black market. My point is, just because I've never seen a gun being trafficked doesn't mean those hypothetical 8 million guns do not exist. If we step outside the US, there's an estimate of 850 million guns in worldwide circulation. If we ignore guns inside the US, guns owned by police departments and military forces, and the guns owned legally by civilians, there will still millions of guns unaccounted for in the black market. My point is, just because I haven't seen one of them, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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@DrexisEbon "there can't be enough of it happening for it to matter to me because it hasnt impacted my life in any way" - but there's so many things that don't impact your life, by that logic the rest of the world doesn't exist
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@ft4903 determine what? My point is that illegal guns exist even if I don't see them. For example, illegal guns are a problem in the UK right now. They're being smuggled through mainland Europe. But most of mainland Europe doesn't have the violence problems that big cities in the UK have. So a person in mainland Europe who doesn't get affected by gang violence can't say "illegal guns don't exist because I don't see them".
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@ft4903 and I'm not saying the numbers are accurate. But saying "it doesn't happen because I don't see it" is just shoving one's head in the sand.
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The issue being multiple people saying the dude is real and a known nuissance among the locals. It's been going on for like 20 years.
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The pipe and steel guys got mobilized. Also, it was Westerners running the show prior to February.
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Actual child abuse to feed this garbage to a minor.
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Ask that to whoever thought it was a good idea to have burn pits, issue faulty ear protection, etc.
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 @vasilijevukadinovic6843 Social circles are around 100-150 people. "Everyone knows someone" doesn't mean 1 out of 2 people died, it means that the war affects everyone.
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DaniëlWW2 modern radars scramble their signal to appear as background noise, you can make a launch in a track while scan mode that doesn't trigger RWR because the missile course is updated through computer and not a reflection of a tracking beam.
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@ash9280 whataboutism
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The nukes are manually launched from air-gapped systems.
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Close air support can be done with standoff weapons.
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Since Russia captured Bakhmut, how far did they go? They died taking Bakhmut so their friends could get KIA'd inside Bakhmut 9 months later. Such is the fate of Russians.
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@JekaZMD This advance is going to take the high ground next to Tokmak. Yet again the Ukrainians will squeeze the supply lines. Fortifications? Counter-offensive? How will the Russians do that once they lose the rail hub to artillery shelling?
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@franciscocz8384 You don't understand that NATO is a defensive pact and you don't get support in an offensive war. Ukraine going to war over Crimea would not trigger NATO to join just like the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan was based on a voluntary coalition rather than every NATO country being forced to invade as well.
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The electronic computer was designed for one purpose: cracking military codes and calculate firing tables.
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@cwdrock Except that's a neat little fairy tale to make History Channel documentaries more interesting. USN Phantoms wrecked MiGs without cannons and never added them. The USAF scored about a hundred missile kills with the Phantom and only around a dozen kills with guns on pod-equipped/E variant Phantoms.
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But the B-52 doesn't do today what it was designed to do. It was a strategic bomber that nowadays has been doing Close Air Support, and it can drop long range air launched cruise missiles. So the concept that it was designed to do one thing well doesn't mean much when it's been upgraded for its modern role.
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@jetfighter200 Helicopters but no mines, the lines would be breached and the helicopters would have to pull back. Mines but no helicopters, breaching would still take months under artillery fire. Mines won.
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Since the F-16 days that flying is dependent on computer systems.
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Corporations benefit from well educated workers. These conspiracy theories don't even make sense.
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@DontWorryBeHappy75 The Syrian government asked for help in killing his own people. The tactics used by Russia weren't explicitelt anti-ISIS, but to wage total war on cities to make them unhinhabitable. While for example Iraqi security forces took great casualties flushing out ISIS from urban area in close combat, Russia simply bombed and gassed the locals to soften the target.
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Because they'd be blown out of the sky by S-300s.
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@markromine5103 Duck and cover was specifically developed thanks to survival testimony from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was later proven to work when the 2013 meteor airburst over Russia, and a teacher told the students to duck and cover while she watched the incident. The students were unharmed but the teacher was blasted with glass shards.
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 @GlobalResearch2001 NATO didn't expand. After Russia's invasion of Georgia and Moldova Eastern Europeans asked to join.
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 @GlobalResearch2001 Name one treaty Russia has respected.
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@jimkerslake Old school doesn't work. I don't remember exactly the reason why, I think the risks outweighed the benefits. I'm not having it both ways. I am personally enjoying the fact that catching up to the variants is a constantly moving goalpost and thus futile.
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Millenials didn't do that. It was Gen X that raged against the machine. How did millenials change society in their teens and early 20s?
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@carbonduke01 Baghdad (6-7 million) was taken with two divisions.
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@santiagoperez2094 The hell does that have to do with anything? Passive radar does not depend on movement. Who said anything about active seekers on missiles? You have no proof of the Horten being designed for stealth.
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It's a good thing because then people will realize that it's not about "reasonable gun control" and the ban will never get passed as law.
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@magratea123 Numbers from the Ru MoD lol. Even GREY ZONE said there was no raid in the NPP.
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@TRD-JDM "Russia could take Ukraine within a few days" - cope
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@rowrowmrmao6250 Yeah for Gary "Aleppo" Johnson or a woman who'd put Alan Dershowitz in the Supreme Court. Great solution dude. Right on.
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There's no invasion. People in the US government support the CCP and love the slave labor. Nice theory, but it's wrong.
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But that's wrong. Every second of flight you have a gun on, that's volume and weight working against you. For something that won't be used 99.99% of the time.
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Active stealth is a marketing term for EW. It doesn't exist.
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Finland became a NATO member, no invasion. Pskov air base near NATO countries had no air defense, showing no fear from NATO.
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They're not mercenaries. Just like people who fought in the Spanish cvil war are called "volunteers" and those who join the French Foreign Legion are called legionnaires. To be a mercenary you have to fight for profit. You earn more working at a fast food place in the US than in Ukraine.
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God is clearly punishing Russia.
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 @zofe Cope.
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Russia was running out of missiles which is why they reduced volleys and used S-300s and Shaheds.
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@Ribulose15diphosphat In what ways do you agree with Putin?
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Same with McAfee's $WHACKED. I kept reading it as "shwacked".
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Seems like the pressure is real - the operations into Bakmut indicate someone is getting impatient.
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1/2020th
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@kokofan50 The best and brightest office clerks? The problem with a "secret base" is that you can't run a base with just spooks. You need people who spend their day at the desk typing whatever on the computer and taking photocopies, run the mess hall, etc. There's probably contractors who fix the AC and the roofs. I don't even know if in these bases the office floors get swept by privates or if cleaning is contracted out too. So right there you have a ton of personnel who are just 20 year olds who have no background in cloak and dagger stuff other than "don't use military computers to torrent stuff or the Russians will hack us". Now let's face it, the intelligence people are probably just looking at drone footage all day and not being secret squirrel spies either. The problem was not geolocation (as they had reasons to keep phones on) but how the bases were exposed through an unforseen effect. The fitness app creating user heatmaps and the people on the base running alongside the building walls created a near perfect outline exposing the base layout. That's it. If you wanted to know where the base was, you'd have looked into a catalog of blurred/blacked out locations on satellite imagery. Done, you geolocated the base by knowing where you're not allowed to look, no need for bad phone opsec. The embarassment here was that the base layout and activity was exposed. If they had instead ran alongside the inside perimeter of the base, we'd have learned nothing new except knowing which base had more runners.
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@HarkyOfficial How? Whatever they learned, was how to make life a living hell while also not making the problem go away.
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Why would Germany bomb one of the NS2 lines if they just simply refused to certify them?
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Oh God they're gonna attempt the Odessa landing...
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 @MP-ix2jo South Africa brought forward the case against Israel in the ICC.
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 @limedickandrew6016 Russia can't supply itself, they purchased Iranian equipment. Chinese "non-weapon" equipment too like uniforms and plate carrier vests.
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ge st don't look it up, you're not supposed to know. DON'T LOOK IT UP
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@workout.matter790 nice way to deflect by stripping the nuance off the argument. If we become dependent on UBI a single point of failure can lead to society's collapse.
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@lanceschaerer6875 Middle Eastern/West Asian dirt floor shed engineering is a sight to behold. If a part breaks or wears down they'll find a way to weld it back into a semi functional state.
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Nice fanfic but the term has been around for decades. It's always been tied to insane takes.
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Why would anyone obey the launch order?
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@shyamshanmugam9429 Why? It's Russia that's collapsing. Why would Ukraine suddenly keel over?
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Troops aren't hired for their knowledge in aviation, though.
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+Dennis Walker it's more than fair. If the US did not tax corporations or individuals the cost of doing business in the US would be much more competitive (and individuals would retain purchasing powder even with lower wages). So Mexico is able to undercut you. You know what's also fair? You have the choice not to purchase from Mexico. If everyone in the US refused to buy Mexican made cars suddenly those factories would have to close, tons of Mexicans would get laid off (I mean if it's a sob story for the US it's got to be one for them too), and auto manufacturers would come back. But it seems to me that the US insists on not matching the Mexican offers and buying Hecho In Mexico so I'd say it's perfectly fair.
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Do you think D-Day only lasted three days? Dude the Normandy landings started in the 6th of June, and the allies only broke through significantly in August 3rd/4th.
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+wigon you do realize that the F-35, like the F-16, is controlled by fly-by-wire, right? This means that the computer governing the maneuvers is entirely software dependent. A lot of the testing regarding the F-35's maneuverability has dealt with problems with the software being conservative (so that they don't lose planes and kill pilots) but lacking optimization and thus wasting potential. One of the problems, for example, was the software taking too long to enter and depart from high AoA maneuvers, the more time it takes the more drag you suffer so the more energy your plane loses. Since it was perfectly safe to "teach" the software to let the plane pull those high AoA maneuvers they patched it and as a result the plane became much more nimble. "Also F-16's don't need to be reproduced, only updated" You're either assuming they'll never reach the limit of their service hours, or that keeping factories pumping out parts to replace aging and worn parts isn't effectively the same as making new F-16s, only not using new parts on new planes but rebuilding entire sections of aircraft with new parts while retaining the same tail numbers (Ship of Theseus, anyone?).
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+wigon ah yes, Soldier of Fortune magazine. Because they're world renowned experts in aviation /sarcasm. It's a rag. Do you realize that your own link says "Breaking Defense had a rare interview with the Air Force in 2014" - meaning that their post is quoting sources from 3 years back? So no, the article isn't current even though it was posted in 2017. You're calling bullshit on what is common knowledge? In the Paris air show it was flying with Block 3i software which limits the F-35 to 7g and 50º AoA even though the AF-2 testbed has already flown 9g+ and 100º AoA - you're disputing the fact that software upgrades are used to unlock the true potential of the F-35. If you had bothered to read the "damning" report that said it couldn't dogfight, you'd have read that the report specifically claims that loads experienced by the airframe were nowhere near the limits so the F-35 had more maneuverability on tap but the software itself caused the energy losses - they recommended increasing the pitch rate (aka telling the software to allow the aircraft to turn more degrees/second) so that the F-35 did not have to waste energy entering and departing from high AoA. They recommended updating the software to allow the pilot greater yaw rate control authority. Increase alpha onset. The document the F-35 haters have been jerking off to literally says that the airplane was being limited by the conservative software limitations and that it should be changed to allow better energy retention and better dogfighting abilities. Look at this video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9re9tJckTlk at 5:24. She explains that the F-16 dogfight tests were meant to test the command laws of the airplane - which I have already explained to you but you called bullshit. She states that she's flying Block 2b (that was back in 2015). Here, two sources on the Norwegian pilot who contradicted the 2015 report: https://theaviationist.com/2016/03/01/heres-what-ive-learned-so-far-dogfighting-in-the-f-35-a-jsf-pilot-first-hand-account/ and https://www.defensenews.com/air/2016/03/01/norwegian-f-35-pilot-counters-controversial-dogfighting-report/ FROM 2016 WHICH MEANS THE CAPABILITIES WERE NOWHERE NEAR THE UPCOMING BLOCK 3F
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The A-10 has already been replaced. Vast majority of CAS is performed by other planes.
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Average income, not median income. NYC average income is balooned by the 1%.
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@DeNihility Aircraft can be manufactured in lots. For example, there's F-16s which are newer than the oldest F-35s.
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@overworlder How is it a copy? Blackwater was a security company. Wagner has jets, artillery, tanks, etc. To work in Blackwater you needed a security clearance. To work in Wagner convicts are fine.
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 @gorillaguerillaDK Academi no longer exists. It was purchased by Triple Canopy, and merged with Constellis.
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They'd be mad at those too.
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@ligmasack9038 I don't know how the terminology works on the adult toys, but in guns fluted barrels have cuts on the outside for weight reduction. I don't see how fluting an object prevents overinsertion, but flaring it out would.
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 @calmck3164 the US has bases in Japan and South Korea.
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Haters will literally praise this caveman behavior because they're mad at the US being wealthy enough to afford missiles.
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"I was in the air force for 12 years. I never had to kill anyone." If you ever had to fuel an aircraft, repair it, arm it, do inventory, finance, cleaning or cooking your job existed as a support to the activity of killing. You can try to shrug the responsibility of your shoulders but if you accept to be a getaway driver and someone dies during the bank robbery you'll be charged as an accessory to that murder. It's only fair that if the state kills people, anyone who signed up for a support job is an accessory.
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There was.
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Why would we owe trust to Russian claims?
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You didn't see the prices shown in the video.
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Hapaborea
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Aspartame is one of the most researched food additives.
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Hold up, did you just say that Ukraine being a sovereign nation is an incorrect fact?
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@eternalvigilance6095 The Yak 141's three-bearing swivel nozzle was initially developed by Pratt and Whitney for an engine that would go on the Convair Model 200. The concept already existed, Lockheed Martin just took the opportunity to buy all the testing data so they wouldn't need to start from a clean slate.
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@lykos89 "He willing went into a violent situation" - He went there for the clean up efforts. "hoping to take advantage of it to commit violence." - You can't prove it. Stick to what you can prove in court or you already lost. "If we apply the rape analogy you want to use against me to my logic, then women actually put themselves into situations where they are willing to be raped in order to... what?" - You're the one saying the women put themselves in that situation. I'm saying THEY DIDN'T. A woman should be able to go anywhere and dress how she wants, it's always the criminal's fault. Not the victim's. You can say there's risky behaviors, but a risky behavior doesn't justify a crime. "And who are you to equivocate rape to property damage?" - I didn't? You got something wrong there. "Do you really think a woman's bodily automity is the same as property rights?" - Huh... a woman's body is her property so she holds property rights over it. I still think you got the wires crossed there because that wasn't the argument. The argument is about delineating behaviors that people shouldn't adopt or else "they're asking for it". It has nothing to do with the property damage. "This is why your argument is mental gymnastics. False equivalency." - You're just shotgunning words now.
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@l.w.paradis2108 "You come upon a man shooting an unarmed man. You know nothing more." - The unarmed man was beating down the shooter. I know that. "If you attempt to disarm the shooter, you can claim self-defense/defense of others" - So people using self-defense have to just be beaten and possibly killed by other people in self-defense? Where does that stop? You think it's reassuring that then someone else arrives and sees someone being disarmed, and attacks the first witness, and then a third witness arrives and sees the second witness disarming the first?
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Nunya Bidness "i wouldnt put myself in a position like that to be chased by a "mob" " - Blaming the victim.
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@l.w.paradis2108 If you had an argument, you wouldn't be ashamed to present it. You claim there's a magic loophole that automatically invalidates self-defense. It doesn't exist. That's Dunning-Kruger. Not me asking for a real argument.
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@HakanKoseoglu "A-10 works and will continue working" - Since 2014 that the A-10 only performs 11% of CAS missions, having been replaced by the Strike Eagle, F/A-18, F-16, B1, etc. It won't continue working. "after an F-35 or F-16 runs out of fuel or falls off the sky full of holes" - You do realize that in 1991 the A-10 had to be pulled out of missions against the Iraqi Republican Guard because of the loss of 7 aircraft and many more receiving battle damage, right? The A-10 got shot full of holes against what was at the time a near-peer adversary. The F-111 ironically scored more tank kills during Desert Storm than the A-10.
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Rail can be repaired. When Ukraine targets Russian rail it's with the understanding that they're buying 24 hours of breathing room.
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I don't think flamethrowers are a big issue in crime stats.
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@RobotHau5 buddy the CIA did unethical human experimentation decades ago. They have their own black budget. If anything, I'll believe many agents and analysts are good people but the organization is corrupt to the core. You can't run a p*d0 island and have blackmail on multiple high profile people without the higher ups knowing. How does Billy C. dismiss secret service to go on trips with this guy nobody knows where he made his money without the CIA knowing?
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@sybo59 "Oh you’re aware of that facility’s usual procedure?" - Barr already said there were irregularities. The government already said it, not me. "We’re not even certain if he was showing signs of suicide before he died" - my dude he was put under watch after an attempt in late July, were you living under a rock the last few weeks? "If he was taken off watch prematurely, that is evidence of negligence" - he was still under special observation which meant checks every 30 minutes. He was not supposed to be left alone in his cell either, his cellmate had left for a court appearance and was not replaced according to protocol. Besides, although the lawyers seem to have requested for his suicide watch to be terminated protocol also demands a face-to-face interview to determine there's no suicide risk. If they took him out of suicide watch with a simple request by the lawyers then that was a breach of protocol too, so let's wait for confirmation of an interview. "that is evidence of negligence" - it seems there hasn't been a suicide in that facility in 20 years... if it were negligence then there would be a pattern, they'd keep leaving inmates alone in their cell, not perform enough checks, etc. This is the first time they fucked up in two decades and it just so happens to involve a person with information that could bring down powerful people?
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@MrCalamiteh it was a practiced method. A lot of things like minimum wage laws in America were passed by eugenicists who wanted to eliminate the poor classes by making low wage labor illegal.
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@cbm2156 Portugal was neutral during WWII. They famously allowed British ships into port (world's oldest alliance) while selling tungsten to Germany. Taking a stance against the use of weapons isn't neutrality, it's a defined stance.
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@Mungobohne1 You can't just drop a bombshell like claiming the RAM coating increases drag and not explain it further...
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One of those teens in movies and TV shows played by 25 year olds.
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Understandable, I was talking to someone who was implying the Norway shooter was not called a terrorist despite being a Christian Nationalist or whatever.
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Exactly. He should 3d print a cnc machine that can hold a sharpie and draw on paper instead.
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Ukraine doesn't claim to have built everything.
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@alistor1213 That's not true if for example you have to use multiplication instead of a sum. If you have a zero, there's no factor that can multiply it and have a non-zero result even though you can multiply 10 by -1 to get -10. But that's beside the point. For example Jazz Jennings had issue with the bottom surgery because a blocked puberty meant that there was very little material to work with.
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@ronhadfield2418 Sure. But when there's a lot of anecdotes about kidnappings and murders in some place, I won't go on vacations there.
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I heard about the movie because I'm a Nine Inch Nails fan and I found out his character was named Trent Reznik in Trent Reznor's honor so of course I had to watch it. Also at one point people started posting memes about Christian Bale's body transformations over the years so it got a little more exposure.
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The Patriot could shoot down Pershing II warheads in the late 90s. They came down at hypersonic speed.
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If you have no thermometers with Fahrenheit you have to use the Celsius readout. No matter how uncomfortable you are with Celsius, if you're asked the temperature and you're holding a thermometer with a °C readout, you're answering in °C instead of trying to convert it to °F in your head. If the road signs are in km he's not going to use miles either. It's not about comfort, he literally doesn't have the information about miles.
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@SonOfGOD937 "You don’t know what rude is because you don’t understand what freedom is" - What?
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@linusa2996 Physics have no changed, but we do have better aerodynamics and even thrust vectoring.
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He was given every chance to be a free man.
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@peznino1 All your muscles require O2 to function. Why do you think heart rate increases during exercise? If you have living tissue, you have blood vessels. Block off blood vessels (clot or serious compression), tissue dies.
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@mdmaxson that's a complete mischaracterization of the argument. Are you gonna play only those 15 games until you finally save for an upgrade 4 years from now? We'd rather skip this gen and buy something that will perform in future games rather than getting into early access ray tracing.
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@marcusaurelius3487 Conscript service is known as a waste of time in Russia. There's no muscle memory because most conscripts just do menial labor.
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@MrPent9295 That's not what he said.
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Translation: "we have no idea what we're doing lol"
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The Soviet Union actually collapsed after their failure in Afghanistan lol.
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Also mind the maintenance crews.
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6-7 years ago it was Word doc macros. A .docx file would ask permission to run macros, or people would have them on by default, and a perfectly clean docx file would be the entry point. Major ovesight by Microsoft.
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@jamesmorrow1646 Sabeena Ahmed, "A five-day course of iver[...]", International Journal of Infectious Diseases; Zaki F Aref, "Clinical, Biochemical and Molecular Evaluations of Iver[...]", International Journal of Nanomedicine; F.A.Cadegiani, "Early COVID-19 therapy with azithromycin plus nitazoxanide [...]", New Microbes and New Infections; Carvallo Hector, "Safety and Efficacy of the Combined Use of Iver[...]", Journal of Clinical Trials; Abu Taiub Mohammed Mohiuddin Chowdhury, "A Comparative Study on Iver[...]", EJMO.
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During a controversial process to select a new location for the Lisbon airport, a Portuguese official claimed in a speaking engagement that it would never be built south of the Tejo (Tagus?) river because anything south of the river is a desert.
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I actually assumed 77gr Mk262.
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Peskov said there are no dead, only missing. I don't see how the crew can be missing but the plane landed.
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The engineering class should teach someone that wasting valuable stock, machine time, tool wear and skilled labor on such ventures is a loss. An Ender 3 is under 200 bucks, the material is like 20 bucks per kilo, and the only waste is on supports while subtractive manufacturing process turn perfectly good stock into chips you have to sell for scrap prices. You can pay a child in candy to watch it and turn off the power if it catches fire, or set up a webcam to monitor the printer remotely. The engineer doesn't try to overcomplicate. The engineer wants to see how many corners he can cut and still get away with it.
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@wolfpack4128 Do you want to use a panzerfaust, or something with a 2km range and is fire and forget? Choose wisely.
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@MegaVero23 It's not a coup if done by the parliament.
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The F-22 has very limited air to ground capabilities, only being able to drop GPS guided JDAMs. The plot states that GPS is being jammed in the area.
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Bobby Bobby the funny thing is pedos are trying to enter the protective umbrella by using SJW theory.
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@nicbarrax76 "we have more democracy" "except you don't" "good opinions I don't agree with shouldn't be allowed" """democracy"""
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@rainerkinzinger555 "on the ground and in telegram" - lol telegram is full of crap too
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@FireBeam Tungsten carbine is as toxic as DU. Russian and Ukrainian rounds already use tungsten. There's no point in concern trolling, Russia's invasion already poisoned the land. Might as well drive them out for good.
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But it doesn't reduce the risk. Just shelling concrete doesn't do anything. That's why assault detachments have to press forward.
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 @NadidLinchestein then give them their passports back
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 @khakimzhanmiras look up "Colonel Burton is a pathological liar".
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Earth has been a hellish landscape full of lava, Earth is always fine. But the environment isn't. Things have changed.
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@mensch1066 if you stopped copy pasting bot talking points you wouldn't be called a bot
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@senerzen In fact if you got it naturally you have T-cells with long term memory. You will continue having an immune response even after running out of antibodies. If you take the shot, you will get antibodies but they will decrease over time.
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The guy who died made it a meme.
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 @reubensandwich9249 So have all the first responders and teachers quit? There, you know where the money went. You debunked yourself. What an embarassment.
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@warren5037 what the fuck does Charlottesville have to do with anything? You think making people afraid and applying a tyrannical Chinese Social Score system is the answer? Making everyone known so that they don't step out of line? Riots? Who said anything about riots? You want to make it illegal for people to cover their face during protests? Would I be commenting if you knew me? Sure. I would tell you right to your face that your anti-privacy and anti-anonymity ideas would be the downfall of the human race. 250 million people killed by their own governments in the 20th century. But your best argument is Charlottesville.
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@warren5037 Oh shit if Charlottesville is the extreme case I'll gladly take a thousand Charlottesvilles over mandatory identification to use the internet. "The chinese score system or social credit system is a system put in place to help gain back trust between chinese people themselves according to wikipedia" - are you fucking kidding me? It's a way for the government to track dissidents and punish them by denying them access to employment, travel, etc and isolating them from other people. "That's me who brought it into the conversation but again I'd like to reiterate that it's an extreme example. Do you think there would have been a different outcome if the people from both sides took the time to talk to each other" - that's naive. There's no reconciliation possible and people are willing to fuck over people even when real names are involved. Nothing would change. "with the assumption that you are an American" - I am not and don't even see how that matters. You have proposed that anonymity is dangerous and yet all you can do is deflect whenever pressed into discussing the consequences of eroding anonymity and thus privacy.
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"New email" did you get your previous account banned due to spam?
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@DebatingWombat It's not about disagreement. It's about lying for profit and clout. There's a group of people who wrote articles and books full of falsehoods. Here's the true story. USAF starts to do a study on the Army's views on USAF CAS, and they approach the enlisted men. Troops are satisfied with USAF CAS, but they wonder why they're not called more often. USAF investigates. Turns out that the Army has a faction of air mobility supremacists who want to distance themselves from USAF and encourage their own officers to not call in USAF CAS as often because rotary wing will take over. USAF creates A-X program to placate the concerns of air mobility supremacists, which results in the A-10. Air Force buys so many A-10s the government actually gets up in their face about the money they're wasting on A-10s. Additionally, the USAF obviously comes from the USAAF. So their doctrine in the early years was Army doctrine. And doctrine stated that the hardware acquisition should focus on the hardest, most demanding tasks and then use that hardware for less demanding tasks. Which lead to the myth that the Air Force doesn't want to do ground strikes because they purchase supersonic aircraft. This is nonsense. The assumption at the time was that the best aircraft for the job would be able to do well in less demanding tasks, but this was not working well. The whole issue was caused by doctrine that had come from the time the air force was part of the US Army. Now that you know that you've been fooled by crackpots and revisionists, you can move forward. The results are pretty indicative. A larger country with larger defensive network and no allies in Blue side is still going to get wrecked if they have no air power. Defenses NEED air superiority above them to work. Otherwise SEAD simply eliminates layers with impunity. No, it doesn't illustrate your point. It completely proves you wrong. Your point is that the F-16 could never be a good strike aircraft. It's pretty great. History already solved this debate.
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 @sh0werp0wer Urban, more liberal people have less kids on average, so it's not like they're a huge contribution.
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We haven't sent a fraction of what we have.
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@spicecrop objectively lighter, objectively flatter trajectory, objectively lower recoil, less time to target, it actually causes more damage to tissue, cheaper cost per round, etc etc etc Clinton is literally worse at everything compared to Trump, so...
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You can see the pictures. It wasn't air. There's a lot of bodies.
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@belstar1128 because radiation weakens with the inverse square law, so for a cellphone to work from miles away if you climb a tower and stand in front of the emitter you get cooked by microwave.
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That could work. If that plan was put into motion 20 years ago.
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 @videorowtv5198 The F-22 dropped bombs in Syria. The F-35 already flew over Iran, causing the head of air defense to be fired over that blunder.
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@rack biceps curl athlete Lisbon, across the Tejo river.
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@blakedake19 but in the 2010s the US caused oil prices to drop...
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@jr540123 I don't think he was ever at the center, he just shows up on a ton of podcasts and has his own where he does invite people who talk about conspiracies.
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One could code a realistic enough flight model in Matlab and output the data to a 3d program.
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Ahah I just posted the same thing, now that would be epic
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@N_Jones step eight: there hasn't been a single school shooting in many European countries that aren't as strict as cucked UK so the laws aren't responsible for it step nine: a firearms certificate requires a reason to own and you can't justify it easily
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@4321jojoba "there are a lot of European countries that have less regulation on firearms than the US." - start naming them
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@NOSEXER so you're admitting that guns are only for the rich?
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Yes. In Desert Storm a F-4G armed with AGM-88s was painted by radar and the pilot assumed it was a ground radar and fired. But it was a B-52 tail gun. The B-52 got its tail damaged, landed, and was christened "In HARM's way".
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@WageSlaving2TheTop ! You don't even understand enough about Soviet history to even get what I'm referring to. I'm referring to the land plots Soviet citizens were entitled to work on in addition to the state-ran farms. The state ran system was incredibly inefficient and corrupt, the price-fixing attempted to hide the inflation and at times of shortage the goods were rationed. People waited in lines because they wanted to get the good products for cheap and distribution was so poor that people traveled many miles to go to the better stocked stores. However, even when the store shelves were bare the people did not starve because those farmers, which I ironically called "kulaks", sold their produce in farmer's markets. First you massacre the kulaks, then you depend on them to feed your people.
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@Sceptonic Yes, and completely squander it away because murder, false imprisonment, etc is more important. What happens when those taking Chinese money stop paying but also refuse the concessions?
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@Sceptonic If we decrease corruption, not really. You lose the most when you hand over the money and don't make sure the people you're dealing with respect human rights. If they don't respect human rights, why would they respect a deal?
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Super JLK "The man also had a right to defend himself and the life of his son" - Nope. They decided to become criminals by performing an illegal arrest. They voluntarily gave up their rights to self-defense and consent to being killed by the victim.
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Super JLK "it is relevant what the man perceived the threat to be" - Nope. The gunmen were the threat. "Any man running at me intended to cause bodily harm will end up getting shot" - Then you're a murderer because in this case you're committing a crime. Criminals don't have the right to kill their victims.
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If the missiles had been destroyed then why did the coalition lose aircraft in the war? Stop saying nonsense. The UN was never in Iraq to disarm conventional weapons.
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@djl5634 "And it's cheaper to use than missiles rockets or bombs" - It's more expensive when you account for losses. It's cheaper to use expensive weapons that hit the target from 10 miles out, than trying to get within 2,000 ft of an enemy that knows that he has to shoot back at you. "Anything the gun can't kill the hellfire missiles the A10 uses will" - They use Mavericks, not Hellfires.
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It's called "vocal fry".
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I'd be more worried about the hordes of Canadians who were gonna bust that door down and screech about how they have the best snipers.
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It's a 4 part series. The ending only makes sense in context because it is the conclusion.
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 @OmnipotentSaiyan the government not forcing a shutdown of dating apps during lockdown was wild. People lost their jobs because of contagion but getting hook ups was fine.
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 @Elzimbabwe. Name the units.
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@N.Sniper "Bradley 25mm was able to penetrate T-72 armor (within 500m though)l so 30mm GAU-8 could easily penetrate that" - The Bradley can use the turret and positioning to pick where to hit. An aircraft firing an autocannon will scatter rounds randomly due to distance and the pipper being less precise than a turret targeting system. "You fly low using terrain to avoid enemy radar, which is what the A-10 can do." - That also limits pilot visibility and attack options. Without altitude, you cannot use the targeting pod to pick targets on the ground. "Unlike other aircraft the A-10's did not receive modern systems and optics in the past" - The A-10 is pretty much equivalent to the F-16 in terms of avionics. "Today even the USAF is convinced of the A-10 (which the Army already was), which is why it is now kept indefinitely without a withdraw date." - Not true. The USAF always asks to retire it, Congress blocks it. "Had the USAF got rid of the A-10 the Army would have been flying them" - Lie. That is false. The Key West accords would prevent it. Please stop lying. "Attack helicopters are effective but can be shot down by tanks themselves" - Attack helicopters can fire missiles from behind terrain, essentially allowing them to hit without the possibility of being hit.
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The "brains" made a "stealth" aircraft with exposed fan blades, rivets/screws, huge panel gaps and round engine covers.
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You'll have to reengineer the MiG-29. All the power systems have to connect to the radar to keep it on. The targeting systems, the HUD, the display, etc have to be changed to work with a totally different radar. It's like trying to take a PC game and trying to play it on a PlayStation. The code is different. The PS4 can't read the disc.
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Mark France with the daily Ru MoD cope.
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"Government is by the people for the people" - huh if you think the government is by the people, or even by the people... you're not paying attention. "If you want a no government country try any African country that has no law enforcement, police, army or even a dog catcher" - if all American libertarians were legitimately sent to Africa to start their own country it would actually go pretty well until the UN went "we're afraid of Rhodesia 2.0 so we're going to put a stop to this" and issued a binding resolution to send them back before war broke out.
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@osamabinladen2718 "David S", he has two dogs as profile pic.
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How are defenders holed up in trenches and concrete taking more losses than the guys crossing no man's land?
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@Cartel734 "consistently" saying that we're about to fight a civil war doesn't seem very "moral". His morals may be consistent but that's because he's always saying things that cause the audience to resent their own country.
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 @Peanutfiends actual independent polling in 2019 showed an even split between Ukraine and Russia. And this was after many pro-Ukraine fled the region in 2014-2015.
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The early B-52s were all retired decades ago.
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Because that would require massive amounts of data we don't have. If we found the variant in 10 people, and 5 are alive and 5 are dead, doesn't mean it has a 50% fatality rate. Because there could be 10,000 people who already had it, but you don't know who or where they are.
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@earlwyss520 Nope. The F-16 was never on the chopping block. The A-7D was nearly canceled due to lack of funding at one point. The A-X program was cheaper.
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@earlwyss520 You're correct on your statement but this was after the A-X program.
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec "there were more than 14.5 mm the north Vietnamese had" - But the A-X project was focused on 14.5mm because it was perceived to be a much more common threat. The titanium bathtub on the A-10 is rated to stop 23mm. But that wasn't an initial consideration. "you keep forgetting that until the A10 the USF had no CAS aircraft" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTV_A-7_Corsair_II#United_States_Air_Force_A-7D "To meet its need for close air support of its troops in South Vietnam, the Army pressured the Air Force to procure a specialized subsonic close air support fixed-wing aircraft that would suit its needs better than the general-purpose supersonic aircraft that the USAF preferred.[25] The Vought A-7 seemed to be a relatively quick and inexpensive way to satisfy this need. However, the USAF was initially reluctant to take on yet another Navy-designed aircraft, but Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was insistent. On 5 November 1965, Secretary of the Air Force Harold Brown and USAF Chief of Staff General John P. McConnell announced that they had decided to order a version of the Corsair II, designated A-7D, for the Tactical Air Command.[25]" "it didn't fly straight to the ground" - https://youtu.be/sTs8lAbA1FE?t=211 then how was it supposed to point the HUD to the target? "the A10 lost were all due to IR missile destroying the engines" - (Serial Number : 78-0722)[45] AAA ground fire 60 miles northwest of Kuwait city while attacking Republican Guard targets. (Serial Number : 79-0130)[47] Hit by ground fire approx 60 miles northwest of Kuwait city while attacking Republican Guard targets.
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec Let me explain again, but sloooooowly. When the A-X program started it was meant to be a turboprop aircraft. The A-10 didn't exist as a concept just yet. If it had been made to handle 23mm it would have barely taken off, let alone carry a payload or have loiter time. Aircraft design is a compromise. That's why the A-10, which is more powerful than the original A-X project envisioned and thus able to be more armored, still only has a titanium bathtub around the pilot and flight systems. Other armor panels, like the ones around the ammunition drum, are not required to stop 23mm shells, only to detonate them before they could set ammo on fire. So again, the point of the A-X program wasn't to make an aircraft invincible to ground fire, just resist it. And the design parameters were 14.5mm because that was perceived to be the big threat while 23mm was too costly to counter. The dual turbofans on the A-10 allow for more armor without sacrificing payload, but it's still not meant to be invulnerable to 23mm. It's only meant to save the pilot and flight controls from it. The rest of the plane can be destroyed by 23mm. "No I'm not forgetting that USF didn't had a dedicated CAS aircraft" - I was QUOTING you, do you know what quotation marks mean? "soldiers on the ground love the Tham thing" - Which is an emotional response, do you want to base your opinions on facts or feelings? "any plane ment to replace it has been seen as a step back not forward" - According to whom? Bloggers and career politicians? "do happen to know that all A10 lost, both of them were to IR missile not AAA" - I literally gave you the tail numbers of two A-10s shot down by AAA. Let's see more http://www.rjlee.org/air/ds-aaloss/ Or here https://www.2951clss-gulfwar.com/loses.htm OA-10A 77-0197 Hit by AAA small arms. A-10A 78-0722 AAA ground fire 60 miles north west of Kuwait city while attacking Republican Guard targets. A-10A 79-0130 Hit by ground fire approx 60 miles North West of Kuwait city while attacking Republican Guard targets. A-10A 80-0248 Hit by either 'optical AAA' ground fire or SAM 20, unconfirmed which it was, NM SW of Kuwait City, Kuwait.
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec What question?
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec 1. Because of the lack of question marks I'm going to assume that the question was "why hate the A-10?" - the answer would be I don't. I just hate the internet narrative around it. 2. Portugal. I saw a comment of you saying Portuguese pilots did not like the A-7 because of accidents.
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@earlwyss520 Excuse me, but that makes no sense. None of the countries poised to buy the F-35 except maybe India and Indonesia would be open purchase Sukhoi aircraft. Most are Western allies, Middle Eastern countries aligned with the US, etc which would not buy Eastern aircraft. Why would Russia run a misinformation campaign that would at most result in more F-16s, Eurofighters, Rafales, etc being sold? And consider the fallout of choosing Eastern weapons systems. The Turkish purchase of the S-400 got them kicked out of the F-35 program. Why would some Russia Today clips be a greater influence than political pressure from NATO and potential "punishments"?
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@BandanaDrummer95 If the A-10 doesn't understand the concept of being killed, why did 7 get shot down in 1991 and forced the USAF to pull them out?
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@Fadamor You're parroting the same old military reformer bs. There was an inquiry around 88/89 to reform the CAS role but in 1990 it was blocked by Congress. There's not many references to this online, so it's difficult to ascertain the truth. Mind that at the time, the A-10's planned replacement would start in 1993. So they were only a few years away from having to come up with a plan and that lead to the failed A-16 replacement. However, despite the fact that the F-16 flew more sorties, more A-10s were shot down. And currently it flies around 30 percent of CAS missions while the A-10 flies 11 percent. The F-16 has been vindicated.
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@will9357 "So how many minutes did F-16s actually spend performing CAS duties (I'm talking minutes in the combat area rather than flying there and back)" - If it takes less time to do the job, does it matter? One pass, haul ass. "I would expect the plane that can loiter for over an hour to take more losses" - I would expect the plane that can loiter to get shot down in 5 minutes, so the other 55 minutes are meaningless when all that fuel only contributes to the fire ball it makes when it hits the ground.
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Michael Longstaff "Enemy positions move dynamicly and extremely quickly in those situations so any GPS/INS guided weapons" - Yeah I'm chalking this one as a strawman argument, bub. Nobody suggested the use of GPS guided bombs. "Low cloud ceilings or poor visibility and laser guided weapons like the GBU 12 are no use" - You say this like unguided bombs (put the thing on the thing, chunk chunk) or laser guided rockets that are fired from much lower altitudes don't exist. "While airframes like the F-16, F/A-18, F-35 ect are amazing bjts of kit, a multirole platform will never eat a true purpose built one" - Why? "The A-10s low speed" - That's a bad thing. Speed is life in the air. "massive payload capacity" - The F-35 can carry 2,000 lbs more. "loiter time" - Loiter time doesn't mean anything unless the enemy allows you to just fly without that meaning certain death. "Its avionics are 100% focused on ground attacks" - You mean the avionics that were gutted and replaced by modern ones, that just operate like most modern fighter aircraft? It's got MFDs and targeting pods, big whoop. "blow other fixed wings out of the water" - Why? You say things and expect us to believe them. Can you actually explain why the MFDs and targeting pods on the A-10 are better than on other aircraft? "even reverting from hydrolic control of flight surfaces to a backup pully system at the flip of a switch" - The F-35 is built with independent hydraulic systems so that it can't get bled dry in the first plane unless you literally shoot off every control surface. And it's got even more body lift than previous designs. We already saw a F-15 land without a wing and stabilator, and a F-16 landed after losing half a wing. The F-35 has got even more body lift going for it. "Not to mention the tub the pilot sits in is heavily armoured unlike multirole fighters." - This is a joke, right? Okay, the entire aircraft gets cut in half by missile, but the pilot has a titanium bathtub to protect him from 23mm. Great. Meanwhile a multirole fighter doesn't get hit in the first place. Hmmmm. "A-10s have been known to be hit buy SAMs, destroying an engine and it has finished its mission before returning and landing safely." - In 1991 seven A-10s were lost to SAMs and AAA, with 13 more too battle damaged to repair. This lead the USAF to pull the A-10 from missions against the Iraqi Republican Guard because the losses were unacceptable. If you're known to get hit... that's bad. If you have to be sent into battle in a titanium bathtub because we know you're gonna die because of how poorly your airframe performs... you need to ask for a new plane.
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 @sportsfangofootball CivDiv fought in wars with the US military and then as a volunteer in Kurdistan. So he has the resume to back it up.
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@mendonesiac It's still experimental and it's still not FDA approved.
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Jacob Howell and those things... Required force to exist in the first place... You severely misunderstand Ron Paul's statement as a message of rainbows and unicorn farts because the use of "force" as in violence is legitimized by acts of aggression. Self-defense is legitimate violence. The context of the statement deals with being FORCED, aka coerced.
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Jacob Howell It's like taking fucking crazy pills. If you maintain a free market you are not forcing anything. You need to FORCE people to abandon the free market. If someone is using coercion to prevent a free market you can use violence to stop the coercion. The free market doesn't require force. It is the absence of force, by definition.
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Just create a smaller secret subsidiary that caters to the racist demographic and you get the both of both worlds.
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@ErikDJ123 Bezos was aware of people leaving work for home?
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We need to bring back those vacuum tubes that go FWOMP and bring you the parcel.
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@kenji214245 "And it is making Russia furious." - They also supported North Vietnam. Now they're gonna cry when the shoe is on the other foot? They can cope and seethe.
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Also, there's Gun Owners of America, Firearms Policy Coalition and Second Amendment Foundation if you're looking to sponsor other organizations.
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The A-10 has good turning abilities but dogfighting also happens in the vertical plane. A fighter jet pilot who knows what he's doing will not outturn the A-10 horizontally, he'll use the vertical climb abilities.
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@Spinexus My nearly 60 year old father goes on youtube to check phone and watch reviews. I specifically changed the "40" minutes to "4" videos so that I could remove the purposeful obtuseness, and you went back and changed it back to 40 anyway. Apparently only 40 min videos exist. Cool. "Most people" have already heard of the game through word of mouth, literal advertising considering that TLOU2 had both TV and billboard ads, etc. months before the game awards is streamed. Your argument that we the weirdos are the ones who look up information in a casual way, but the "casuals" are the ones who get flooded by gaming news on social media in a hardcore way... If you're following that many gaming pages you're not exactly "casual".
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@DevTheBigManUno There would be no advantage to that, and the vertical lift is better suited for when the aircraft has dropped payload and consumed fuel, because there's not enough thrust to hover while fully loaded.
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@gerhardris "JaCk Of AlL tRaDeS" - boomers said the exact same thing about the F-16 and today it's considered one of the best aircraft every made. Master of all trades.
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@gerhardris "It was at first concept a nimble low cost hot rod" - And then it was turned into an actually good aircraft rather than a F-20 Tigershark competitor. "The F 35 is master of no trade at all" - Why? "Name one in which no other type doesn't best it." - Literally can be said of any other aircraft. By that logic the F-16 is a garbage plane because it can't carry as much bombs as a Strike Eagle. Even masters can get beat. The point is being a master at the biggest number of roles possible. If a F/A-18 can make air to air kills on route to a strike mission, drop bombs on target and come back the concept is proven. There's nothing to say the F-35 can't do the same.
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@pashapasovski5860 they don't use intellectual property, first of all communists aren't supposed to believe in property so stealing from the USSR is fine, the USSR has collapsed so there's no rightful owner of the IP anymore, and even then patents expire. The design is old. Just like ANYONE can manufacture 1911s and AR-15s without a license. It's like saying Boeing or Airbus have to pay licenses to the Wright brothers to make airplanes. And look at Glocks. You can literally buy Glocks without a single Glock made part. You don't need a license to copy their mechanism.
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@deadquaithe143 so? Never seen people protest in front of a business?
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Lmao Russia is just trying to create NWO with BRICS...
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It's not a baseless conspiracy theory. It's an hypothesis.
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@kaysekaze the US objected to humanitarian lines AND ceasefire. The point of the ceasefire would be for Hamas to catch a breather and be "saved by the bell". The US's stance is that they'll support humanitarian lines as long as Israel gets to rip the bandaid and end this BS instead of letting it drag for another seven decades.
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@electricaviationchannelvid7863 Pretty sure the F-15 can only get that range with CFTs. Funny how the only way 4th gens beat the F-35 is by getting loaded with all sorts of externals that kill performance. Once you have CFTs, bags under the wings and more AMRAAMS than could fit on the F-35 there goes your speed and turning ability.
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@tonyhawk123 You're purposefully conflating hydrogen the element and hydrogen the gas molecule. Hydrogen in the sun is used for FUSION energy. This topic is about hydrogen as a combustible fuel that keeps ICE engines running in a zero carbon fashion. Not fusion power plants.
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It was not an impossible route.
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They're closer to the MiG 1.44 concept.
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 @coyotelong4349 in 4chan it's /pol/ that supports Russia. 4channers in /k/ (the weapons and military board) support Ukraine.
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@bernhardjordan9200 Iraq had both Soviet and Western anti air defenses. The USAF systematically destroyed their network.
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@msnpassjan2004 the government accountability office slammed the USAF for buying too many A-10s. Please stop listening to the people who told you that because they are/were liars who wanted to sell books.
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Exactly. People exposed to the first SARS still had t-cell recall a decade after exposure.
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@georgeszilva1223 the Minsk accords were broken by the DPR aasault in Debaltseve, the day after the signing.
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It was and it wasn't. They brought in a domesticated racoon and pretended to find one by random chance. "Paid actor" just sounds funny.
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 @zinxd_b well Windows itself got "consolized" after 7 and the user has less control. Windows settings is a MESS nowadays.
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Funny how consistent it is. I always heard it was found that in general conservatives think liberals are "misinformed" or "misguided", but liberals flat out hate conservatives. And no matter what I keep seeing people reinforcing this observation through the years.
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@gpcovenant "a system that promotes greed and corruption which is capitalism" - yeah not other system attracted the greedy and corrupt
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What do you mean poke the bear? Sweden will be in NATO. Russia doesn't attack NATO members, that's the whole allure of the membership.
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They said the same thing about the F-16. Now everyone pretends they didn't when it's a proven airframe.
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@honestfriend767 it won't, really - trying to play harball is difficult when you're gambling with the health of the population. The government has an expectation of having to purchase the drugs. The pharma company only needs to remain solvent.
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@gourgeistz I'm not American by the way.
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Developed parts of the world have access to calculators and conversion tables too.
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@skunkjobb Please be aware that I was born in a metric country and I use feet/knots/nautical miles for aviation. If I can do it, any dummy can. No excuses.
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@colonizingpuertoricoisunde2971 lmao that comment was outta pocket
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@randommadness1021 Because they need close air support? Because the jets are essentially their artillery in certain types of operations? The Air Force needs to have their aircraft on bases. If you're conducting an amphibious raid, you can't exactly put Air Force bases on water. It makes perfect sense. Plenty of people join the Army and Marines to fly.
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@arnijulian6241 But you don't get more. You're paying pretty much the same. Anything is a threat to 5th gen craft. The problem is - will you have a remaining air force after you pose that threat?
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@hidden_matrixgaming That's a cope. Prove that conspiracy theory.
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Would have been a Joe Biden W tbh
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@FoogleBoogle The homeless have every chance to get housed if they wish. Ukraine is getting attacked and they can't pull themselves by the bootstraps, they have to slay the dragon. I respect those who stand and fight more than those who give up on life and wallow on their own misery because it's easier than getting sober and finding a job.
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@marcgrundfest1495 The doctrine of total war is constrained by the real world.
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800 over three years. They can't make up for the losses.
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No. There's millions of pathogens, you're only vaccinated against what? 10, 15? Are you infringing on others by not having millions of vaccines? Never leave the house again.
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@firasajoury7813 Did you notice how the OP said he was trained by the Russians AND the West? When it happened it was reported that we had trained the guy. It's only now that became relevant because there are people who can slip into Russia and speak Russian to conduct these attacks. Before we were only concerned with the Western training putting IS on notice about our tactics.
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NATO is not in Ukraine.
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It's like crediting a sparring partner instead of the guy in the ring.
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@OfflineSetup pads touching the metal on the case so it doesn't short
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Meat wave and human wave aren't the same. Human wave is Korean War era stuff. Meat wave are like "waves" in videogames, you clear stage 1 and then stage 2 comes later, and so on and on. You don't play the game to "win", the waves will keep coming, you just play to see how many waves you can last until you lose. If an enemy is feeding "recon teams" knowing that your defensive position will eventually run out of ammo or the soldiers will get fatigued from combat or even lack of sleep, that's a clear intent to wear down the defender.
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They already have Su-25s.
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@SheepInACart There's supposedly a two second delay when flying Predators. Latency isn't defined by speed of light, the speed of the transmit signal is negligible compared to the latency in the system itself. Every time a signal has to be received, processed, and sent back again adds a few hundred milliseconds of delay.
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The point isn't the village but breaching lines and getting within range of Tokmak. Advancing until tube artillery can cut the rail supply line is a stab to the jugular as the only alternative will be the M14 highway.
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@Голубиный-глаз98 During the Iraq war the US government specifically passed laws that made oil unprofitable if American companies bid for Iraq extraction projects. Instead, Russia, China and France bid to extract Iraqi oil rather than America.
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Virgin tempered glass meme rig vs Chad sleeper powerhouse
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@matthewwagner47 So if France sends special ops to Quebec to lead a revolution against Canada that's just because they're "ethnic French"? No, it's a hostile action by the country of France. Ethnic Russians in Ukraine didn't start the war. Russian men, with Russian citizenship and working for the Russian government did.
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"Their progressive, tolerant, naive, sjw, ideologies did that, not their atheism" - This was about Scandinavia being a good place to live. Sorry, but a place that tells its own citizens they have no freedom and allows a special group to have more freedoms, it's not a good place. "They're getting it at their stupid gatherings, giving it to their whole family who are giving it to the people they come in contact with" - Who are they coming in contact with? "all of them are going to the grocery store and coughing on the food that I and the people I care about buy. Covid can last 9 days on surfaces." - Wash your groceries. You should be doing it even without the crazy christians and their evil cough. "Wash your hands, wear a mask and gloves when you need to go out" - Yes. Do that and the crazy christians won't be a threat to you. "stop believing in fictional bullshit" - I'm an atheist, dumb fuck. Amazing how you call me retarded and wrong but it's you who's consistently wrong on everything.
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Russia went from multi pronged offensives with a modern army to assault waves with penal battalions. The game changed.
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Cope.
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@tensemurm5924 Again with strawmanning. Bro you already lost. I thought you were a scientist. You can't argue except by twisting others' words. No science, only lies. Go away and go brag about being a scientist somewhere else.
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Ominus dominus keep Tapco offofus
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 @s.flanders Because it's a neat way to regulate older cars out of existence.
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Now try that again but in English
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Flame Fusion funny, that crime increase had definitely nothing to do with other factors such as drugs? The tough on crime policies arrived in the 70's but crime continued rising and only peaked in 94.
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@MiracleFound "They will be shaming those who don't get vaccinated, it's just that they accomplish that a bit different" - Weird flex, but okay. "They have very few anti-vaxxers in Norway" - This isn't about anti-vaxxers. "the people are smarter than most other countries" - Smart people noticed that the product was rushed, that pharma companies earned billions, and that they have legal immunity. Not a good sign. Smart people noticed that the spike protein is causing the endothelial damage in people who get infected, to using an inoculation method that involves producing the spike protein inside the body is a flawed proposition. Smart people also noticed that the spike is a mutable part of the structure, which means that variants can be different enough to evade the antibodies. "the unvaccinated who will have to live or die with their decision" - Die? From something that is survivable for 99.98% of people who are below retirement age? You may also die from the choice of driving your car tomorrow. Why be so dramatic? "Norwegian's are pragmatic and don't appreciate people who aren't responsible for their own behavior and it's impact on others" - Taking a shot that suppresses symptoms for you, but allows you to spread to others is the epitome of not caring about your impact on others. "The presenter does not understand Norwegian culture." - Completely irrelevant. The point is that they're opening up.
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@AH-lw2bj The original didn't have that death rate. Remember that 80% of people had no symptoms and thus didn't get tested. China just stopped couting cases at one point. They probably had tens of millions of cases by the time they closed Hubei province.
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The airframes are 41 years old. They can't go on much longer.
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"Boarder"
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@SoullessScythe That's a confusion. When people say "don't lift with your back" that is trying to pick up weights by bending down and using the lower back muscles to lift. That causes shear loading on the spine. When people say using the back muscles to pull, or "training back on the gym", that's an arm pull exercise. It's basically the opposite of a push up. It's perfectly safe to work those upper back muscles.
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@enterpassword3313 Crimea had a referendum at gunpoint.
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The counter argument that losing freedom means eating better than dirt is simply not based on material reality. You can be a slave and still eat dirt.
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Endless shitcoins are not an issue because whenever there is no demand for alternatives nobody has an incentive to accept them as form of payment.
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@АртемАртем-л4э All men have military experience in Russia. Cleaned toilets for a year during conscription? Military experience. Got an exemption due to university or health issues? Still able to be mobilized.
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Visual ID from inside the cockpit has lead to countless mistakes. That's why in close air support it's the ground controllers that authorize weapons release, not the pilot.
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 @Clown472 air to air missiles use rockets (apart from missiles like Meteor, they use fuel and oxidizer).
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@edenromanov Their current president was actually in prison.
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Gonna unbalance the hell out of the CoG by removing the gun, and I don't think it was ever rated for Hellfire use. Its primary A2G missile is the AGM-65 Maverick.
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 @portugal5698 Oswald was the shooter. He used the same rifle he tried to kįll Edwin A. Walker with.
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Ray Vorontsoff "don't make me laughing" - stop huffing paint "The program isn't mandatory" - bruh it doesn't matter if it's not mandatory, if McDonald's is selling 1 dollar cheeseburgers and I use government funds to subsidize it by 50 cents I have made 50 cents the new market value of the cheeseburger. It doesn't matter if you insist on paying full price, that just means you're a dummy. If you start pulling levers and pushing buttons in a way to change markets, they change. You can't deny the change. "You can sell your car for $500 to those you talk too much" - but if the government is artificially driving up the price of my car I have zero reasons to sell it for under the new market value. "It is never late for you to start doing real good things instead of philosophy." - It's never too late for you to stop being a bootlicker. "Gift you car to those who are in need." - No.
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Ray Vorontsoff That's right, ignore the argument and walk away. Bitch boy.
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@discowolf25 It's not a false equivalency. Don't worry, you won't hold the job for long. The 6th booster will probably do you in.
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Ukraine concentrating those soldiers in Zaporizhzhia would not increase combat effectiveness as they'd still need to be broken into small units to compensate for drone spotting guiding artillery fires into troop concentrations. Basically Russia needs mass to hold the line, while Ukraine needs to force battles to happen on their terms rather than massing troops and risking artillery taking them all out.
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We tried people who were "just following orders" after WW2.
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@Doc92IDH "what was the Communist Party if not a totalitarian state?" - Irrelevant. You need totalitarianism to enforce anticapitalism. If I start my own business and hire people, what are the communists gonna do? Protest outside? Also, the party in power was Communist but the state was officially "socialist". That's how its meant to work, communists take over the state to guide it with socialism until transition is possible. "That's why I separated "ideal" communism from what actually happens in reality." - But that's beyond the argument at hand. Most people here seem to think "socialism is when the government does things". No it's not. It's the abolition of private property and profit. Then you say "that's communism" because you think communism is extremist socialism. No. That's not how it works. Socialism and communism are virtually identical in their anticapitalist goals, but they're applied differently. It has nothing to do with ideal anything. But the fact that people misinterpret socialism as a centrist position where capitalism finances social programs.
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@Doc92IDH If it "depends on the definition" then everyone can have their own definition and when words mean anything they end up meaning nothing. "You can have a state-directed economy without abolishing private property" - Which is retarded, that's exactly what we have. The state directs the economy, but we have billion dollar companies that buy favors from the government, so businesses can use the state's power to skirt around capitalism while you don't get the benefits of the state intervention. It's the worst of both worlds.
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That argument would make more sense if it was the ISPs restricting free speech. But the tech companies are just hosting a service on their own servers.
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+macgeek2004 how would it be a wonderful idea? First of all ISPs would be administrated by a state-owned enterprise, meaning that you can't hide from the government. It wouldn't matter if social media was nationalized or not, because the government ISP could just block access to any competing social media and forcing you to use the government's social media service and do something like China.
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@NOLAgenX "actually you are wrong about politicians hating the A-10. It’s the one smart thing that politicians have done in the last 50 years." - Ironic. The A-10 should have been retired after 1991. Politicians fawning over an aircraft that was outdated by the 1980s is exactly the type of stupid crap they do, but because of the memetic potential of the A-10 people people actually think it's smart.
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@NOLAgenX "no other plane can loiter around the battlefield in a COIN type CAS role" - in a COIN environment you have tankers which are not in danger of easily getting brought down. Either way, turboprops like the Super Tucano seem to have good enough combat endurance. "it has proven itself to take way more damage and abuse and still return the pilot home than many of our faster jets can" - Both the F-15 and F-16 are on record as being able to return home with half a wing gone. One F-15 made it home with a wing ripped at the root. Meanwhile in 1991 the USAF had to pull the A-10 away from the Iraqi Republican Guard after 7 shot down and 13 written off due to battle damage. The aircraft was outdated by the 1980s. The bloody nose it suffered in 1991 should have been the wake up call.
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@rtrThanos "RCS doesn’t matter once your radar is turned on to search and track targets" - modern stealth aircraft are able to turn their radar on by masking their emissions as background radiation. Basically only the emitting aircraft knows the specific frequency hopping so unless you somehow capture enough shot down aircraft to reverse engineer the software you won't be able to decrypt the hopping sequence. Passive radar/RWR will not understand it's being "painted".
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@valleykilladude WWI? You mean the one where the Russian army had mutinies and culminated in a revolt against the Tsar?
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The Soviet Union also lost Afghanistan.
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 @shadow50011 China is still rural and undeveloped. The Soviets also went to space and Russians are stealing toilets 60 years later.
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Massive intakes facing forward would ruin stealth. They'd have use ducting to mask the blades if they were planning on it.
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Ruth Estrada We're not talking about cops. Police exists as a means of law enforcement in a society. If police decided to go hog wild on the populace, extrajudicial killings of officers would begin. Cops have to behave under a common understanding of law. If law is thrown out the window, people will react accordingly.
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World's Biggest Booty Hoes I'm confident most people would get the joke.
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@ignoramus4340 He did have intention. He said himself that people would die, but it would be worth it.
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 @60degreelobwedge82 the economies were shot in 2020, the Ukraine thing isn't that big of a deal
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Every day this goes on, they bleed money. Ukraine is already ruined so ironically they can afford to let this drag on, while Russia suffers economic damage just from having troops overseas.
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It fits 2000s celeb media. They were all over magazines.
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 @OshinAttari "from the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli" - Marines' Hymn
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It's called free speech not freedom to act any way you want to. Going down the street and punching everyone you see doesn't become speech by recording with a camera.
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This is precious considering how Russians are not only getting whatever is available on Aliexpress/Taobao, but also scavenging uniforms from Ukrainians.
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Take your meds.
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Most people in US prisons actually deserve to be there. Contrary to popular belief most aren't there for smoking a plant but multiple charges. In fact, attempts to reduce prison population has lead to skyrocketing crime. Meanwhile the NKVD would arrest people because grudges lead to neighbors falsely reporting each other. The materiel sent to Ukraine is part of the defense budget so it wouldn't be spent on those issues anyway. Might as well ignore the war and run for office so you can help your community. Instead of complaining online.
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The USAF has done nothing except support ground troops. You listen to any pilot and they all love supporting ground troops for the past 20 years. Please stop parroting lies made up by exccentric contrarians who wanted to sell books.
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The other way around. We had stuff that was legendary, and then we outdid ourselves. We're going to retire the best fighter aircraft in the world and replace it with somethinh even better, and our foes can't even match our old stuff.
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@RmX. Writing the code on your own doesn't involve executive dysfunction. Even if you're copying chunks of code, first you had to take your intended task, break it down, and research the code that does each chunk of the task you need. So an open ended problem became a close problem. Obviously for someone who wants to become a better coder they have to learn to be independent.
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They now shoot missiles AND bullets. Bullets force you to fly higher, missiles force you to fly lower.
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@starstencahl8985 That's the joke.
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It was at the edge of the missile range. They don't dare fly deep into the Patriot bubble.
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@OakInch You've been manipulated, but whatever. The videos are real and Russian telegram channels confirmed it. Supply and command posts got hit.
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Actually they cut off Izyum. Bye bye.
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8 trillion is more than the entire federal budget lol
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Same advantage as Germany when they got to the outskirts of Moscow.
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Japan.
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YouTube slowly becoming SimonTube.
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@loneskankster2242 Give me the name of the person beaten to death and I will research it.
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@loneskankster2242 https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/02/politics/brian-sicknick-charges/index.html There's no footage of Slicknick receiving fatal injuries and medical examiners did not find evidence of brunt force trauma injuries. So where did you see the footage? Where did the world see the footage? Your eyes. You claim they saw the footage. Prosecutors don't have it. Where? Did your eyes deceive you? Did you see something the world did not see?
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I've tried to explain this to so many people and it falls on deaf ears.
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@smithnwesson990 Okay, "bigger" bore then. Plus, the Valkyrie doesn't have that heavy of a selection of bullets so it doesn't fit the criticism I dished out to the fat heavy alternatives to 5.56. Also, from my very short research on it, it seems to achieve performance through slower burning propellant (flash) and has an increased neck taper (reliability). Doesn't seem like a prime military use cartridge to me. "Sure it's not fast enough to pierce armor" - Forget about speed because this isn't about defeating steel. You want momentum, a big AP core, and good BC.
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You're not going to comply your way out of this.
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@uyenst a woman was once murdered by an ex with a restraining order while she was on her waiting period for a gun.
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@laerin7931 "Licensing doesn't stop one from acquiring guns for self defense." - make the license impossible to get and it will stop people. "Having to wait 3 weeks isn't going to matter" - a woman was once murdered by a man she placed a restraining order on while waiting for the gun. It does matter.
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There's only one radar station capable of tracking small space debris in Europe and its limit is 2 cm objects. Not microns. It's large and I assume the power consumption is enormous. If an anti-stealth radar is so large and powerful that a continent can only have one, and it can't be packed up in a few hours and moved away then it's going to be hit by a hail of cruise missiles the moment the conflict kicks off. Failing that, the power output makes it a juicy target for ARMs so it will have to be shut down anyway. And now the stealth aircraft has free roam. Stealth pure and simply has physics on its side.
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@MaynardCrow I started slipping in "Mainland Taiwan" into my vocabulary to refer to Chay-nah.
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@zenastronomy That's not hypocrisy, though.
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Holy mother of cope, batman!
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The Wall Street Journal is a military publication now? The Russians have the vehicles in bases. But how many are gutted for parts or rusted shut?
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The American economy is based on the worker's ownership of the means of production?
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The type of jokes found in TBBT: "You're harder to find than the Higgs Boson" LAUGH TRACK "Do you know how fast you were going?" "No officer, but I know exactly where I am." LAUGH TRACK "Hey Penny you want to perform the coitus?" "Really, that's how you talk to girls? No wonder you're a sad virgin." LAUGH TRACK "This computer has 16 megpipes, I'm gonna get all the highscores on the World of Warcraft" THE CANNED LAUGHTER IS WITHERING AWAY AT YOUR SANITY
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Who cares? If your country was invaded wold you refuse help?
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It's not a disruption if the Ukrainian army makes the conscious choice to avoid fighting in the grey zone instead of taking massive casualties breaching a line, and defense in depth doesn't exist if you waste the depth by sending manpower to fight for grey zones.
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Numbers wise, the A-10 has puny engines so flying around with the full load described on the technical specs is not happening. The F-4 didn't need a gun. It had like 90 missile kills in USAF service and a handful of E variant nose cannon kills. The Navy Phantoms had no guns and scored 40.
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White claws are zoomer drinks, not hipster drinks. Hipster drinks are obscure craft beers.
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Hold on. Russia could also do that. Are we finally admitting "might makes right"?
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The slippery slope fallacy is for when you say things like "if we lower drinking age kids will be doing heroin". It's like, you skipped a few steps there. In this case, we do know that the existence of these laws is to clamp down dissent.
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ShariaFreeUK What do you mean no virus has behaved this way? It's doing doing virus things. Only people with massive blindspots were surprised.
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The pagers were purchased specifically by Hezbollah, why civilian doctors would be using them is questionable. I looked it uo and two healthcare workers perished in the attack which is a reasonable collateral.
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@benellis1309 It's not "nonsense". If you do get heart inflammation you may be told to stop exercising by your doctor.
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@sagatlike3393 "Doesn't need to be sophisticated as long as it will work" - Well it needs sophistication to work. China already has a Javelin equivalent. It's called the HJ-12. It would help if you knew what you were talking about instead of making stuff up.
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Do you know how old guns are? Formosa was a Dutch colony in the 1600s, the Dutch, the Spanish, the Chinese and the Portuguese fought conflicts in this region. Both against and alongside natives of the island. The locals traded pelts and other goods in exchange for matchlock rifles.
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There's millions of shotshells laying around. Custom machining a launcher adapter that gets reused is easier than machining thousands of grenade bodies to fire a buckshot load.
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@briandam8126 A lot of those people are living in red states so they have a false sense of security. They won't fight for the blue states because they're still comfortable.
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Armored columns will move? Under fire?
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@jeanniemaycrawford4466 Both sides talked it over. The US did not invade Cuba or the USSR.
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You can't point to a single lie.
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@ErronBrianMader I lost smell all the time when I got sick.
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@KurNorock 1700 cases that we know of. The issue with this shit is that there's a lot of people who have no symptoms or have a mild version of the disease and they're unaware of it.
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@KurNorock Way to miss the point entirely. If the majority of people only have mild symptoms there is a huge fucking problem to all the people who are gonna either require hospitalization or die. "If you have the virus and don't even know it and spread it to other people who also only have mild symptoms" - You're determining that I'm only gonna spread to people who have the chance to beat the virus. You can't decide that beforehand. "How is that ANY different from the flu?" - The fact that it's deadlier? "So far, the common flu is FAR more dangerous than the Corona virus and nobody cares about the flu." - Because you're comparing an endemic virus that is allowed to run rampant, to something that we're ACTIVELY SUPPRESSING. If we were not suppressing the novel coronavirus then you could make a direct comparison to the flu. Right now, in Italy they're 3d printing parts for respirators to be able to keep people alive. Does this sound like the flu? "H1N1 was FAR more deadly than the Corona virus" - Didn't spread as fast. "I don't mean to brag, but this is like the 10th end of the world disease I've survived. I know how this story goes." - I don't mean to brag, but I didn't get bit by mosquitoes last night. Ignore the fact that I'm covered in bug repellent and the government is fumigating the streets outside. Even if nobody was taking any measures I wouldn't get bit anyway. "So, like I said, unless the actual fatality rates start to climb, this virus is no more dangerous than the flu"/"the fatality rates have been extremely low and limited to a specific subset of the population." - Again, because cities with the outbreak are closing down and limiting the spread.
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 @RogueReplicant How is Ukraine at fault?
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@marshaul "If you're dying, most likely nobody wants your organs." - beggars can't be choosers. The chances of a rejection are greater than an healthy organ starting to have problems even though it was unrelated to the cause of death.
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Mike Pietrucha also has an obvious bias. He has stated absolutely ludicrous things like the F-35 is vulnerable to IR seeking threads because the exhaust melts carrier decks. Anyone with his expertise should refrain from using such blatantly fallacious arguments. He's either lying to the laymen, or betraying his experience/credibility. And I honestly don't know which is worse.
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@Sridarsh I don't know who are these "people in the know". I don't know what the briefing was. I don't have time for this X-files crap, it's clear as mud and it's almost like it's designed for the mistery being more gripping than the actual answer. Is JJ Abrams involved?
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@crabbytemptations1771 Better strategy? Germany could not win. It was mathematically impossible.
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@RicoImp3 How does he care for others? If he took it, he could still spread it.
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The thing is that the equivalent would be backpackers in California who have relatives who set the fires.
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For about 6 months.
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 @harrybuttery2447 but Wagner blew through road blocks on their way to Moscow. Barriers would gave acomplished nothing.
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@marioelezi8018 lol the food and gas prices were skyrocketing before the war It's like you didn't notice the past two years.
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@flitsertheo Stuka pilots (much like IL-2 pilots) overcounted their tank kills. Meanwhile, more tanks were killed by mines, lack of fuel, AT guns, other tanks, etc than aircraft. Aircraft tank kills are completely overblown.
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Well MMA took off about 30 years ago, so if the average guy was 30 when he started, they're all in their 60s. Only those who started age 40 or late 30s in the late 90s could be in their 70s. Also mind that guys from that generation had previous fights in other sports, a pro-wrestling background full of bumps, many had alcohol or drug issues, etc. It's not that MMA killed athletes. It's that MMA was less prestigious so it was bound to attract people who were already damaged, physically or psychologically.
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"Stand your ground" laws are the most morally responsible things ever. They extend the right of self-defense to outside of one's home, which removes the prosecution's victim blaming tactic of questioning the victim on why not "just run away?" They also eliminate the possibility of a civil suit after you've been found not guilty. It's just ridiculous to be found not guilty and still pay a penalty for doing something that wasn't considered wrong.
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Businesses are welcome to relocate to where engineers are cheap. They won't and you know the reasons why. They're not just paying for American labor. They're paying for the privilege of being an American company.
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"if you don't use that mobey you lose it" - exactly. My father was in the Air Force and they performed unnecessary flights to burn up fuel or else their fuel budget would be cut. It would make sense to reward savings (as long as training standards were maintained) and allow the extra fuel to be kept for future emergencies.
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@j.langer5949 They took over, so what? Their barracks and HQs get hit. Being a military occupation force inside Ukraine puts a target on one's back.
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Dude straight up called the Serbs subhuman to defend the bombings in the Balkans.
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I once came across a video that was an Australian kid reviewing his gel blaster (airsoft alternative because the Ausfailia government is against that too) and he used the Garand Thumb format to structure his review.
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What always gets to me is that I always remember KC Campbell's name but not the pilot who died trying to bring in a damaged A-10. Her story always gets told because she made it. So the name is always on my memory bank. But to remember the guy who died trying to land that A-10 I have to look it up.
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Virgil Grin "I find it had to believe that someone that’s of below average intelligence successfully reloaded ammo" - that's because most commercial powders are tailor made for specific needs and if you use them wrong, you're pushing past the design parameters of the casing and chamber. If you're loading your ammunition with homemade black powder or crushed match heads, it's very difficult to achieve commercial ammo pressures. In a way, using the proper materials is dangerous because you're seeking high performance, while crude reloading is paradoxically "safer".
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Lmao cope
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Yeah the "taxes" folder.... wink wink
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It didn't in Chechnya or Afghanistan.
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@modigrey I don't watch CNN or BBC.
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The arms industry profiting off 30 year old weapons sitting in storage lol the people who built them are probably retired by now.
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@NACAM42 When your backbone ends up killing an innocent person because you misidentified a suspect, write to us from jail. You people sound like the CHAZ border patrol magdumping into a car because they thought teenage joyriders were the fash.
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 @NACAM42 Is Woosh your future cell mate's name?
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@NACAM42 The killing of an innocent person. You can't kill someone and say "woops I thought it was the person on the CCTV footage I saw 2 weeks ago".
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@mik1984 They're not Iranian components. They're sanctions busting components that Iran imported. Components are easy to ship, but a factory isn't.
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@Terencetog Stop. Calm down. Really quick, try and explain what makes the AR "special" and in need of banning versus all the other rifles?
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@sophiehuang7540 "none of them is experiencing what you just said" - how would a live person experience a cremation body disposal? It would be nice if you could contact the dead to really ask them if they've been cremated.
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Very few, and only people who were needed due to their military experience. Prigozhin is recruiting people with no experience as a way to amass manpower. It's a false equivalence.
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 @qlasalle But gaming used to be niche so they needed to sell games at 120 inflation-adjusted dollars. Now games sell like hot cakes.
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 @Quazzi We have higher quality textures but we also have better tools and we're at the point we can scan real objects and get a texture with some adjustments. Also texture packs exist.
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 @trax72 the game prices being mostly fixed is offset by gaming becoming more popular and selling more. Selling 500k at 120 dollars and selling 1M at 60 dollars is the same.
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Yes. Russia had no rear security in the northern offensive, which means that supplies were cut off. Try to fight a war that way without getting mauled. In Donbas, Russians threw themselves at Ukrainian defensive positions. Heavy casualties are guaranteed.
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@Revy8 Ukraine is militarizing, Russia is demilitarizing itself. It's fine for Russia? Their men are losing their lives, they've had to offer juicy contracts to 50 year olds to take up arms because the young Russians don't want this war. Ukraine will run out of manpower? They have 700,000 in the army including reserves, and they have a few million that could still be mobilized.
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@denism8494 Not only has Putin been out of the KGB for decades, he was not a field agent.
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@zakkbrown9522 I'm a far right conspiracy theorist and I support Ukraine.
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Sicario 2 used the "terrorism" classification to ditch the necessity to bring law enforcement.
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@GODCONVOYPRIME "Liking chicks" is simping lmao
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Nickolas Schneider are you kidding? When Polish hero Witold Pilecki let himself be captured, sent to a camp and then escaped to report what was happening, the British and Americans actually decided to downplay the existence of the camps - because they were afraid public opinion would turn against the war if people thought the war was about liberating camps.
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250 daily sorties of bombers shooting off cruise missiles and turning back, or jets hugging the ground, firing a volley of rockets in a loft and turning back, isn't how air superiority is used.
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 @BusesAreFatCars bruh Russia did to Ukraine what Britain did to Ireland. The separatist in Eastern Ukraine are basically the UVF.
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Fixed wing pilots CANNOT perform close air support without a qualified forward controller on the ground. Whenever A-10 pilots are let loose without a controller they hit friendlies. You can't tell which side people are on even from a low and slow A-10.
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When a body is already degraded you can shove a new one in there. You significantly cut time by "starting" a process while "finishing" a previous corpse.
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"They should just admit that the F35 was a failure." - So, lie?
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Resilience means nothing. Former Roscosmos director said they have rockets built they can't launch because of lack of chips. Have all the resilience in the world, being resilient won't stop the crumbling.
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There's no "heat seeking" air to ground munitions. There are optically guided munitions that use IR, but not Sidewinder style A-G munitions. Although Sidewinders have been tested on ground targets.
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They sent candidates to the University of North Carolina in 2019. Ralph Baric signed for the reception. 12 December 2019.
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 @bigsarge2085 They weren't called cope cages because they weren't cope cages.
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@valyshknee4203 Some Ukrainians in a BMP filmed themselves drive into a dragon's teeth full speed, the vehicle jumped over it. The tank will not roll over. Either way, artillery shelling, using the tank's own gun, and even bulldozer blades on the front of the tank will deal with such cost-cutting obstacles.
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SubtoPolecat324 The military is too. C'mon did you see the general responding to Tucker saying pregnant women shouldn't be sent to war?
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@phatboizbackyardkustomz9006 But the A-10C uses targeting pods. Going low level to look at things not only is antiquated, but it also leads to friendly fire. A-10 pilots make mistakes when using visual alone.
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 @23sunderland Russia encircled itself. Bully your neighbors, they start ganging up on you.
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@bnice1374 The AGRA program financed by the Bill and Melinda foundation actually worsened the focus countries involved, reduced crop diversity and production. Donating money doesn't mean much when that money goes to restrict freedom in poor countries and to lobby in favor of the companies producing fertilizers and seeds.
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@NawidN Pretty sure Australia prides itself in not being the US.
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Ukraine has captured more towns in a week than Russia does in a month.
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@Harshhaze You can't bring in the receiver because of the 1989 import ban and you can't bring in the barrel because of the 2005 machine gun barrel ban. Even if you somehow get to capture an AK, manage to smuggle it out of the disposal pile without anyone saying anything, stripping it to its parts kit, mailing it back home and then building it from a flat... That's still only 1 AK out of every 100 that gets smuggled rather than destroyed on site and in the end it's gonna be a 74 that you can't get 7n6 for. I mean I get that you can get 5.45 ammo from other manufacturers but the whole magic of 74s was the 7n6 spam cans. You went through all the trouble of smuggling a weapon under the nose of the military when you could have just paid for a 7.62 AK.
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Is Russia also ditching all the German made components on their weapons? Just curious.
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It's Arizona lawmakers who keep it alive.
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@dusanstankovic5545 No, the EU did not confirm such thing.
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@TheSunchaster And? Russia is supposed to be a superpower. They planned for this. They picked the date and time. Ukraine uses what it can to defend the homeland. Russia is the invader, and they're humiliating themselves. If you defend your home with a blunderbuss, you'll be hailed as a hero. If you try to use one to rob a bank, you'll be the laugh of the town for the rest of your life.
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For the split second in which impact occurs, the diesel is as flammable as water. Within containment, there's not enough oxygen to sustain a fire. The containment has to be breached or the fuel spilled. Diesel's flash point is generally above 52°C. So the fuel has to be heated. Since tanks have fire suppression built into them, surviving the hit is the most important thing. Once survived, you have time to deal with a possible fire. But until the conditions for fire to occur are met the fuel isn't going to be a problem. Do diesel fires occur? Yes, quite often. But what is the issue? A ruptured fuel line spilling into a hot surface? Electrical faults? A small fire that heats the fuel which causes it to become combustible?
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@garyk8285 Gonzalo and The Duran live on the Z alternative reality. Forget the sources. They're not on the same plane of existence.
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Gripens are more expensive than F-35s. Look at the Brazil contract, they paid like 200 million per Gripen. JSF partner nations bought F-35s for 115-130 million I think.
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It was interrupted for more than a day. It still hasn't had heavy rail transport roll over it, just propaganda shoots of empty trains rolling at 5km/h over it.
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we need a Far Cry 2 spiritual sequel that leans into the immersive sim aspect.
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@MARKSMAN108 what did the government programs, loans and subsidies do? Increase the demand for college. Demand picks up, so do prices. What happens when the caliber of student entering college declines? Due to the fact that it has become more accessible, demand picks up - and so do prices. I agree that degrees are useful. But 51% of employed college grads are in a job that doesn't require a degree. A person entering the workforce while others are enrolling college has a few extra years of income and obviously no student loans debt, which is a huge advantage over the college graduate who can't get a job with his degree. I enlisted (and was rejected so never actually served lol just to make that clear) and I'm a college student. So I have a little of experience on both sides and let me tell you that college is nothing like the military. It's much easier to connect with people outside college, people take as little responsibility as they can, they abuse their freedoms (and don't learn from the mistakes) and I don't see people maturing at all - if anything I've seen people regress. I'm not saying college is stupid because of the cost. I am saying that it's an investment that people will have trouble paying off if they don't make the right choices. I'm not ignorant for suggesting that people should make sound financial decisions. If anything, reducing the demand for college will make prices drop and make college great again. I'm not saying "don't go to college" I am saying: "consider your options". You on the other hand, you're almost treating college as the default option, almost in a "just go for it and see how it goes" way. We're asking 17-18 year olds to make this choice...
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@tomk3732 Those T-55s are upgraded to more or less 90s standards.
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@cherokeecharlie4016 Socialism is literally the system you get when the vanguard party takes over the state, while Communism is what you get when there's a transition to a stateless society. By definition, Socialism is dependent on the state imposing it's economic will on the country.
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@itzenormous "The idea that the poor have any access to capital, or ever did" - Okay, the poor never had access to capital. Explain how people built businesses from the ground up by themselves. "so they don't wake up and rebel" - Since you're awake, when was the last time you rebelled? "the so-called 'Little Guy' can transform himself into a wealthy business tycoon" - Nice strawman. Apparently going from poverty to comfortable middle class is the same as becoming a Rockefeller.
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I'm pretty sure "demisexual" was invented by a tumblr user just to use in a fictional story and was never meant to be real.
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+Judy Kirlin but the did a "wrong" thing - by shortening the barrel he committed a felony. How is he doing the right thing? He's not doing anything unless he was going to go on a shooting. By standing with him are you standing with breaking gun control laws? Because if we all do that I'm all for it. But as it stands, the average gun owner would get 10 years in prison for shortening a rifle barrel. This coward does it on camera and I bet nothing will come from it.
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@id10t98 "got rid" you mean allowed him to serve his term to completion? lol
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Ten Percent True podcast has several episodes on F-4G Wild Weasels.
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 @hannibalwantsahuggrande3433 Not everyone watches TV, maybe stop projecting.
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I don't think Green Berets can jump that high.
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And?
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@NUMMEHARBEN Comes from a derrogatory term for communists/socialists who defended Soviet aggression. It's a reference to Moscow sending tanks rolling down the streets to put down protests in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc. So they're "tankies". Because Russia is the "heir" to the Soviet Union and many military units roll around with Soviet symbology in their tanks the name has stuck to Westerners who defend Russia.
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@DaGodFadder69 Rule number one: McDonald's lost. Defending them almost 20 years later on an online discussion doesn't change the facts.
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This is revisionist history. The Army was the spoiled brat. Or, to be more accurate, there was a gang of spoiled brats working within the Army. Their plan was to expand the air mobility capabilities of the Army and shut out Air Force from the CAS role. The Air Force chief of staff discovered through inquiries that the Army's boots on the ground was happy with Air Force CAS when they got it, but many higher ups did not want to call for Air Force support. The Air Force did complain that the Army was attempting to make the Air Force's mission obsolete at a time they were developing the A-10 precisely because they studied what the Army wanted from a CAS aircraft. But the Army and Air Force chiefs of staff met together and dealt with the issue internally. The Air Force was not opposed to more rotary wing fire support. SecDef McNamara didn't want the Army expanding their air mobility even more, though. The A-10 needed retirement. It was considered outdated by the 1980s, and it suffered a bloody nose in 1991. It remains relevant because it gets twice the number of trigger pulls when strafing and more loiter time versus other jets. It remains in flight because the hard on for nostalgia killed the OA-X program that would have replaced the A-10 with an even cheaper aircraft more suitable for COIN.
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@patrickobermiller Bus isn't contagious.
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Why did an advance party try to cut off the highway West of Kyiv?
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@ashermorgenroth1167 it's not a joke. The US supported Saddam while he was fighting Iran.
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Prime got to my country like 3 months after initial release and went straight to the clearance aisle too. Incredible.
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inyrui I love how you don't even address the arguments and go straight for the leftist "poor you" deflection tactic whenever anyone on their side is caught being a shithead. The obsession with victimization and the logic of "there's no bad actions only bad targets" has actually prevented leftists who are garbage human beings from being called out because any attempt to call them out is framed as victimization. "I love e;r. I dont have to agree with everything he says to enjoy him." - nobody said you did. But when he posted a video of Steven Universe's brain broadcasting a Hitler speech the joke lands whether you agree or not. You can be offended. You can just not like the joke. But the point that E;R does not deserve to get booted out doesn't conflict with choosing not to listen to Jim Sterling because he has bad opinions and he's a hypocrite. We didn't call for Jim Sterling to be deplatformed and I don't think anyone should be forced to watch E;R. Somehow, you think you have found hypocrisy here when there is none. "I'm a dude, and as a dude, I dont give a fuck if people bad mouth men. Men are pigs" - That's the ultimate "spare some coochie, ma'am?" move. I don't care about your perspective because you have no actual statements to back it up. My point is that Jim Sterling is actually too dumb to make a criticism of men. Years ago he went on a rant against men because male sex toys are disembodied female parts. He is too fucking dumb to even acknowledge that the gigantic purple dildo from Saints Row he waved around for years of the jimquisition is representative of female sex toys and is in fact a disembodied male part. If men are pigs because our sex toys (which not every male uses) are disembodied female parts and that's Jim's insight into the male view of women... Then what do women's sex toys say about women? That's my point. Even if Jim says something that is right his mentality is corrupted by his own politics and personal biases. I watch people who can make a coherent argument and explain concepts I don't understand enough to have an opinion myself. If Jim is going to say something I already agree with but his explanation requires me to accept a bunch of beliefs I wholeheartedly reject there's no point in watching. Either way, people who claim the world is overpopulated and men who hate men have the same solution - and nobody actually follows through with it. Funny how that works. It's almost like they're not being honest. "His content about the industry is why I watch" - but the point is that his comments about the industry are completely inseparable from his brainlet understanding of capitalism. And that's my point, E;R's joke about overrepresentation of Jewish people in positions of power while a Hitler speech is playing does not undermine his criticism of Steven Universe. You can detach content from the joke. If I'm going to detach Sterling's politics from his content it's just "bideo gaem industry bad" and wow I don't need a 10 minute video of filler to know that.
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@new-knowledge8040 There's no cover up. Those people are most likely chopping wood and using it as fuel to heat up the plastics. If you did that at an industrial scale, you'd need to have a massive forest area you could replant and let sections grow for years or else it wouldn't be sustainable. If you're using electric ovens for heat, which is the sane solution, let's say you had a solar farm so that you make it as sustainable as possible. You could use that solar farm to charge batteries and "fuel" electric motors. You could sell that power to the grid. You're """"losing"""" money by doing this, so there's no cover up. This is really only worth it when you have massive volumes of plastic you can't get rid of, so for example local governments or waste management companies pay these guys to take care of the problem. They're not in the business of making fuel. They're in the business of making a problem go away. The fuel is just a cherry on top to help them make a profit.
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 @NsyShwl Crimea is known for its beaches and resorts.
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They don't want that because they can't want that. It goes counter to their objectives.
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The Phantom didn't need guns.
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Not weird at all. Men are more expendable in evolutionary terms and more prone to take risks.
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Patriot systems have hundreds of intercepts under their belts. But a failure from 2015/2016 and another from 2018/2019 gets you people talking.
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Based based based
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john goldsmith it's a meme. The 30 year old boomer is a millennial with opinions similar to boomers.
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Most likely trade and tax records, with Africa and the Americas most likely by using average population density.
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With the armor piercing bullets?
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1. G forces damage the airframe to. 2. Going over Mach 1.6 just increases the IR signature and burns fuel. 3. The F-35 has a stealth nozzle. 4. Shooting a fleeing jet is a losing proposition. From the moment the rocket motor stops burning, missiles get slower and slower. Meanwhile the jet is getting further away.
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That's like saying culinary is responsible for the people killed in a stabbing attack with a steak knife.
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If Russia did not need Europe why did they have so many pipelines? 🤔
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@stanb.5261 Just stop. The Fukushima plant resisted the tsunami without issue. It was the fact that backup generators were placed below the water line that lead to disaster. The reactor design was also pretty outdated.
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@Madstsone Nope. The US, UK and France also gave Ukraine the same guarantees.
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@Madstsone Moving the goalposts.
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Delete this, nephew
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They're not refusing. There's videos of liberation coming out already. Expect delays because they wait several hours before posting videos so that troops don't get shelled.
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@ÇALAKNÊT he was not given green light. What a nonsensical take. So if the US didn't step in to defend Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, wouldn't Saddam worry that Saudi Arabia could have asked another country for help?
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"That doesn't mean there is any strategic purpose to that breakthrough" - There is: cutting off Izyum.
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DJ RavenSkye the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Vicky Weaver was murdered with her child on her arms by snipers with orders to shoot to kill over a hacksawed shotgun barrel. So don't give me bullshit about good intentions.
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@tubetorpedo Kharkiv was a massacre. They threw men and aircraft trying to defend it. The photos are online, Kharkiv had the most gore out of this war without counting the failed push to Kiev where Russian bodies laid on every street.
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1. weapons are not illegal in the rest of the world, very few countries ban them 2. even in places with struct gun control crime is high Yeah, it's a crazy idea because it's been tried multiple times and it doesn't work.
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@Gromit801 No, they're wrong as usual. The Hog has already been replaced. It did 20% of CAS from 2000-onwards and only 11% since 2014.
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@peterwright5311 Then explain why the CDC issued a recommendation in the January 20th to reduce the cycle threshold to minimize false positives? PCR is an ubiquitous biotechnology tool because it allows you you replicate genetic material without resorting to cloning, which is slow and expensive. Doesn't mean it's infallible. There have been cases where entire batches of PCR tests where the positives had to be redone because the lab screwed up and contaminated the samples.
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@Tkcb2799 It's not about blocking. It's about keeping the right side slick because a right handed user will have the right side of the weapon as the "outside" of the weapon for 99% of the time. If you keep your light in the left side because that's where your left thumb is, but then put the charging handle on the right side, you just increased the "width" of the weapon for no reason. Plus your left side will be the "inside" and your own arm will somewhat protect stuff from getting bumped.
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I'll settle for the enforcers. Those who make the laws are weak cowards that almost deserve my pity. The individuals who looked at them and said "yeah I'll commit violence against my own people to enforce what these clowns want" actually have a greater moral culpability.
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That's honestly ".30 Carbine doesn't penetrate winter jackets" vibes. Most likely the heavy blankets covered the shape of the body which negated the ability to aim at the vitals, requiring more rounds on target. While 5.56 rifles were using 77gr OTM rounds so the impact and fragmentation is gonna get a reaction even if they miss the heart/spine.
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@recgar The F-35 is literally the price of 4th gen aircraft...
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@judd_s5643 There's been 1000 F-35s produced. The Su-57 has been in development hell with 20-24 produced depending on who you believe in and how many losses there are (1 combat loss confirmed and two crashes prior to 2022).
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@nirajshrestha5621 Any development in radar that outpaces stealth will make regular aircraft light up like a Christmas tree. Any anti-stealth radar will require all combat aircraft to be stealth, as the non-stealth aircraft will have nowhere to hide.
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@patrickfuller6025 Conventional aircraft are vulnerable.
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@QurttoRco Always fighting the last war.
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@SC4RRiGAN they did that since February
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That high def camera in the cellphone looks great for bathroom selfies but unless you have a lens attachment it's garbage at taking long distance footage. Also, the image is first going through an image intensifier before being filmed, so quality goes down the drain.
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@theAEDan "This very video is even telling you that Russian casualties are being overblown" - That's because the video is a mess. If you look at the actual leaks, Russian casualty estimates are within reason of what you've been hearing. "the loss of a 43 year old ship in a predominantly land based conflict" - It's a land based conflict but one of the main objectives was the capturing of Odessa. Russian troops even tried to bypass Mykolaiv to landlock Ukraine. The sea is of massive importance in this fight. Additionally, the Moskva was not only the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, it also carried very important naval air defense assets. The sinking of the Moskva allowed Ukraine to fly missions over Snake Island, repeatedly bombing Russian positions and waiting for them to be reinforced before bombing again because Moscow's plan is to send troops no matter how silly it is.
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@magnacarta9364 "Did you think that 40K AFR intended taking a armed Kiev with 3.5 million citizens." - Moscow did. They sent OMON riot police to deal with the civilians. You can argue until you're blue in the face. It doesn't make sense, you say. It doesn't matter. Moscow saw fit to send riot police to Kiev in the opening stage of the war. They expected a lighting victory and only have to beat a few protesters with sticks. The bodies and shields of those OMON riot police were extensively filmed and photographed. Riot cops faced the Ukrainian National Guard who were armed to fight an actual war. The riot shields do not work against bullets and explosives. Those men were sent to their death by an uncaring regime, and a year later you're here pretending they never existed.
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@RadicalTek Nope. Dropped JDAMs in Syria.
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@TheRealHelvetica This has nothing to do with being a luddite. If you want to make an animation at 120 fps by all means do it, but not only does this require more effort in the animator's side, you're also increasing file size for no reason. In gaming you have a reason to want the highest refresh rate. In animation you don't.
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@glennchartrand5411 MJ was given a pass because his lawyer was that good.
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@glennchartrand5411 He wanted to fight it in court, but was pressured to settle by Sony because he would miss a tour if he tried to fight. Meanwhile his lawyer has managed to dismantle all of the accusers, including bringing up recordings of one of the alleged victim's parents gloating about all the money he'd be able to make off the situation.
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@pinkoslayer >"pinkoslayer"
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@willstikken5619 The F-35 can literally carry a little more payload than the A-10 but go off, king. Survivability? Modern body lift means that it will probably handle better than that F-15 that landed with like two feet of the right wing left attached at the root in case it gets a wing shot off, and the independent hydraulic systems means it can't get bled dry. Plus, it's way less likely to get hit in the first place. "It simply isn't designed for it." - Why? "You really don't seem to have a clue about how the A-10 operates or the gaps in the F-35 capability." - No, it's you who doesn't seem to have a clue on what CAS is but you watched a few youtube videos of A-10 gun runs and you think yourself an expert. How about you actually explain with actual facts and evidence rather than automatically consider yourself correct and refuse to discuss the topic?
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@willstikken5619 I've offered everything. The F-35 is a multirole on steroids, and multiroles already proven themselves. The F-16 provided more CAS in 1991 despite suffering less losses. The bombs don't care what aircraft they're dropped from and sacks of meat get ripped apart just the same. I can look for the article where Eagle drivers say they thought gun runs at night were too dangerous to be practical, but after months in a sim they perfected it to the point they were ripping it on a daily basis. If the F-15 can do gun runs (at night!) why can't the F-35? The A-10 got only 20% of CAS missions since around 2005 and only 11% since 2014. You claim it can't be done. It has been. F-16s, F/A-18s F-15s, B-1s are performing CAS. You claim it can't be done. I've never attacked you. On the other hand you have been nothing but disrespectful to me because you can't back up your claims so you deflect with insults. I never said anything against you or questioned your credibility, I simply ASKED for credentials you insisted on providing and then backed out.
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@willstikken5619 "can provide multiple types of CAS" - Let's hear about the "types" of CAS then. "operated under different doctrines than the A-10" - The A-10 isn't even operating under the doctrine it was designed for. "The "fast jets" rely on higher altitudes and higher speeds for their survivability" - Against AAA and SAMs. Which are deadly against A-10s anyway as proven by Desert Storm. "I didn’t insist on providing my credentials" - You said you had expertise in the subject matter, then backed out from mentioning any details. "I didn’t feel the need to respond to your insult" - If you think being a mission planner or part of the ground crews is an insult, that's on you. "I also have to walk a line related to my current and future employment." - Convenient. Don't bring up credentials you aren't willing to disclose in the future then.
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Both turbojet and turbofan motors are colloquially called "jet engines".
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That moment when another chucklefuck from Tate's group was saying he wasn't going to the gym because he was doing lean and Andrew goes "What reasonable person would say they're going to quit the gym to do liquid heroin?" will forever live rent free in my head.
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@JudgeDillon Yugoslavia was not Third World. As a socialist country it was considered second world. And the shot that brought down the F-117 was taken from 8 miles. That's a pathetically small range.
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@BusbyTreeSurgery Tragedy of the commons, sort of? Government has to budget for cleanup which is a hassle, while a private owner knows he can lose his value if he leaves tons of dry stuff on the ground.
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Scott Ritter should stop chasing minors.
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Knocking the slide out of battery prevents the first shot. The technique doesn't work in real life, but the slide needs to be fully closed to let the trigger bar engage the sear or else the cartridge could detonate with part of the cartridge exposed, which would destroy the firearm and possibly injure the shooter.
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More weapons do resolve wars. Wipe out the enemy, no war.
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 @mosh.4245 Weren't the guys who disobeyed reinstated because of a technicality?
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@klesh13xd14 Wagner is just a way to do dirty work without direct ties to Putin. They're not "officially" in the army but they're a military force at the disposal of the Russian government. Even though they're registered in Argentina. Why would Russia have Wagner when it's illegal to register such a company in Russia itself? Think a little.
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@marpintado So if your child wants to jump off a bridge you have no right to interfere with that choice.
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Finland laughed (previous comment depeted?)
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@christinerussell113 Goa was seized by India in 1961 and Portugal joined the EU in 1986. We're just struggling to understand the narrative you're trying to push because someone unaware of the historical details would think Goa was Portuguese until the 2010s and we just handed out EU passports to spite the Brits.
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Who cares about what Jordan Peterson has to say about war?
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Solid boosters are simpler. You're going to have to eject them, might as well make them as simple as possible. The Shuttle itself uses liquid fueled engines, that's why the big orange tank is strapped to the airframe.
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@gavinsaint2224 I was willing to be respectful and explain to you how waste disposal is not a problem and a controversy manufactured by the anti-nuclear lobby, but reading your comments makes it clear you can't be reasoned with. The only sheep are the people who haven't researched for themselves. I have. And you?
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@TheRatlord74 There was no attempted genocide. In fact, Abkhazia and South Ossetia were ethnically cleansed of Georgians.
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Cope. They're not saving anything, and their air force wouldn't be a match anyway.
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@karter969 You let hundreds of people die every year without a care. You just care this time because the TV told you to.
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@letsbehonest4221 "a vaccination needs to be wide spread for it to realy be affective" - This one is between 42-49% "affective", buddy. You can vaccinate every single last human and you still have half the population spreading.
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Cope. They made a line towards Kiev and tried to use Hostomel to land troops outside the city. The Russians killed the Russian speakers by forcing them into conscription and using them as meat shields.
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+arlo bubble "Some of these prisoners were criminals, do you think it's wrong to imprison criminals?" dude western values are incompatible with such drivel. Our principles put the freedom of the innocent over the punishment of the guilty. Putting a single innocent person in incarceration is a crime because it is not just the theft of years of someone's life, but also a miscarriage of justice that threatens to invalidate any conviction secured by the incompetent fools that put innocent people in jail. "And what on earth makes you think this practice is unique to the Nazis? If you think starving prisoners is bad, look up the Holodomor." - Great, the Nazis are just as evil as Communists. Thanks for admitting that, because most of us consider the Communists to be absolute evil.
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Scrappy underdog using everything it can in a defensive fight vs second army in the world in a war they chose the time and place for.
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@tealc6218 I think that when we're debating Telegram channels as sources and there's other glaring problems like the audio lifted from a weapon test video that are being ignored, the "nothingburger" created by Tass is inconsequential. As usual the torrent of lies takes longer to disprove than create, and if you make a mistake people will just dismiss everything else and keep on believing what they want to believe.
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@joshuaturcotte6724 Close Air Support is mostly going to multiroles nowadays. It's not a matter of anything being pressed into a role. Multiroles simply have the qualities of yesterday's attack aircraft thanks to technological developments. If you look at it internationally and among countries that don't have a large number of modern multiroles and thus have to dedicate them to air space defense/interception, CAS is mostly done by attack aircraft or light attack aircraft forced into the role. There's pretty much no dedicated CAS aircraft anymore.
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@joshkamp7499 Those A-10s returned with very superficial damage. Look closer. The skin is ripped up like an angry rat really want to get the canned food. HARMs are meant to give breathing room to strike forces by forcing SAM sites to shut down while the bomb carrying planes go in and out. They're not going to be wasted on SHORAD. Funnily enough, in Desert Storm F-16s went after AAA with dumb bombs and cluster munitions.
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The point is that services can be geofenced. Doesn't matter the reason why, the important aspect is that it can be done - you shouldn't depend on something that can be taken away from you.
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@TheRustedShackleford "unless they're forced to because it costs money" - If your entire operation gets shut down, does that not cost money? "Food and health inspectors probably give you nightmares..." - I've worked minimum wage jobs in kitchens. Let me put it this way. If you're not eating at a restaurant the day the health inspector shows up, you're not eating at whatever grade the restaurant got. If your infrastructure is only secure in the days when the government audit shows up, does that really make you safe?
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@erebostd >unregulated Anything related to healthcare is regulated out the ass in the US.
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 @EgoChip "muh both sides" yeah we got an enlightened centrist over here
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 @macrohotline8834 No, they didn't. They used Tochka-Us and ATACMS which are equivalent to Russia's Iskanders. Short range ballistic missiles.
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Did you miss how 12 HIMARS vehicles broke the back of the "world's second army"?
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They most likely do not have "thousands" of T-55s in a usable condition. The thousands of T-72 turned out to not really be there so they needed the thousands of T-62s, of which they're planning to refurbish... Around eight hundred. Hulls sitting on the rain and snow for decades really aren't up to snuff.
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@lilartay Police "instructing them" is totally worthless. Police can give bad advice. Get a lawyer instead, and a good one. Listening to incomptent cops can lead to your downfall.
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@dallesamllhals9161 the flyaway cost for a Gripen E is 85 million while the F-35A is 79 million. Obviously there's a lot of extras when acquiring a F-35 but both aircraft will cost you over 100 million.
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Yeah and they had to overpay for Shaheds to make up for lack of missiles.
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@mrhoneystinger3676 I'd be kinda upset, because it would have been too quick.
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@klaasvakie Yeah, he can't argue. That's why he spams the exact sane comment everywhere.
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@totalermist solar installations on rooftops are only useful to power the house they're mounted on (apartment buildings cannot power themselves because they have too many households per square meter). If you want to have an industry or even a telecommunications service you need solar farms. Funny how people claim others are lying and then say outright falsehoods like pretending rooftop pannels can power a country.
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 @tahoecamper5078 "tahoe camper 5078" is definitely an Ukrainian and not a Tucker-watching American shilling for the third rome.
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 @adrihans1870 Africa didn't beat colonialism, they just let the Soviets and Maoists take charge.
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@matthewsmith1779 FDR and his gang of retards created artificial shortages in an attempt to raise prices, punishing the poor. He put cronies in charge of the codes set by National Recovery Administration.
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You do realize that childhood deaths were common back then, so it wouldn't be out of the ordinary to have grave sites, right?
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 @ajkulac9895 I remember when it was Trump's jab and people were refusing it because Warp Speed was Trump's program.
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 @Jeremy-WC It will have to be a fiat currency or else it's dead in the water. Hard currencies can't keep up with economic growth.
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@thememo9941 and I am sure they were catering to old white people running the unions who don't want cheap labour to compete with them.
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I think it was Moldbug that wrote: There is no loyalty in truth. Anyone can believe in it. Believing the lie though, is a proof of dedication. The lie is a uniform and when you have a uniform you have an army.
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POW camp time
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@crhu319 Unprovoked mention of "incels". You people love outing yourself as propagandists because you can't be subtle.
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@minime1721 So nurses and medical doctors are being called up? That's not the same thing as a draft. Are medics considered frontline infantry? Don't call others bozos when you fit the bill perfectly.
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Peter Parker also ignored his landlord's daughter.
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@humansarecrazybeing5730 China decided to become the world's issue. We have to deal with their antics, they don't get to complain.
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@humansarecrazybeing5730 Don't change the subject, shill. There's over a billion people in China. We have no quarrel with them. You represent not the populace but an elite, and you most likely get paid peanuts to defend them. Or worse, you do it for free.
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Russia has never achieved air superiority in this war.
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@mattbite so a person makes a video about ONE airplane and now he's too nationalistic? Shouldn't the people demanding other unrelated nations to be mentioned be the nationalists?
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 @charlesbryson7443 To this day NATO has no bases in the former East Germany.
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And the ones found along the way too.
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 @One10ab Russian media accidently released an article claiming victory in three days.
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Just as a heads up, Russian soldiers are technically allowed to quit because they're not at war. They get put on walls of shame and are pressured not to quit, but they can. If you don't agree with the war, but you load the bombs on the planes that go into Ukraine to drop them, you're still contributing to the war effort.
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Because public schooling is so adamant about teaching West Asian geography.
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The US economy hinges on worldwide demand for the US dollar and this depends on keeping a good chunk of major oil producers willing to only deal in USD. Saddam Hussein started selling oil for Euros in 2002. Qaddafi wanted to create an African currency backed by natural resources to make them independent of Western banks. If you threaten the USD you get taken out.
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@buster8277 "What cost less ... bullets or bomb?" - The bullet, if delivering it requires an aircraft to go in a predictable straight dive that makes it easy to shoot down. "What can be used in danger close from 10 miles out? a-10 gun." - False. The gun can't hit targets at 10 miles.
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@buster8277 No, you can't. You can have one and a half A-10s. You're using 1970s dollars and the price of a very inferior aircraft that lacks all the upgrades.
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@buster8277 Nice deflection. You claimed that A-10s cost 2.3 million. The wings ALONE cost 10 million. By definition, the entire rest of the aircraft including engines and avionics has to cost more than 10 million. So at the bare minimum, you're lying about the A-10's cost by a factor of 10. We don't have the lifetime cost of other aircraft so we can't make that comparison easily. "The A-10 costs between $19,000 and $20,000 per hour to fly. Welsh said he would like to see an aircraft that cost between $4,000 to $5,000 per hour" - The Super Tucano costs $1,000 per hour. It was the contender for the OA-X program that they cancelled. Not my problem they decided to turn down cheap options and now are complaining about costs. "Earlier this year, Lt. Gen. A-10 cost about 10% of an f-35?" - What the hell does that even mean? Lt. Gen who? 10% of what? Flying costs? Unit costs? "Besides I was talking about cas" - So was I.
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@bitscorpion4687 1. Actually they often don't know that much 2. It's not just the type of audience, a lot of people are doing unboxings """ironically""" aka as long as you're self aware that unboxing stuff is boring and low effort, you can do it...
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>and blew up a mosque in Syria Just yesterday I heard that the rebels were hardline Muslims supported by radical groups in other Middle Eastern countries. I don't know what to believe anymore.
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The knowledge is already commonly available everywhere on the internet. Terrorist organizations spread literature so that isolated cells may operate on their own.
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@sebokimre892 if it's not stolen, why did the ships have to turn off the transponders?
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@33greenleaf it's not hyperbole. If a dog is mauling a child I can strangle the fucker myself. I'm not gonna wait at least 4 minutes for a man with a gun to shoot (and possibly hit the child).
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The Terminator Salvation on set rant that got leaked made him look really bad in the public eye.
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Easy, if the libertarians get their state nobody but a libertarian would want to live there.
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How many of those 1M adults were 18 to 35? Because from the videos made by a certain American propagandist, they took a lot of old people to Russia.
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SCP-6666 'Demom Butler' just post the mass shooting/healthcare costs joke and get over with it
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@lubricustheslippery5028 Stop falling for propaganda. Birth rates are actually decreasing already, all over the world.
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SA were Sturm Abteilung unless you mean something else, they were the armed faction of NASDAP militants. They got purged. Storm troopers were WWI trench raiding units.
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You see, but then you'd post that on twitter and the capitol police would knock on your door and question you regarding the harassment incitement you posted online. That's how it works now.
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@redlightmax child labour laws don't do a damned thing. Child labour was eliminated when it became possible to send kids to school so they can get better jobs. If the law says kids can't work, but you can't afford to send your kid to school, he's just another mouth to feed. He's gonna work, the law be damned. You know that's how it was in the past and still is in many parts of the world.
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@mrsupremegascon You're ignoring what I said. But whatever. According to Murz, volunteer for the LPR, the separatist forces ground themselves into Ukrainian defenses, which were willing to abandon equipment and flee. They lost their combat hardened troops while Ukraine seemed to preserve theirs.
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I wonder how many tried to get high off that banana skin drug.
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It's the third year of this clown show, and Russia's "good" supplies can't match NATO surplus plagued with delays and restrictions on usage.
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Siberia it is.
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fishblades you still depend on a hosting server and a provider consenting to that content being accessible. You'd have to start your own. Don't get me wrong there is still a lawless land out there, but simply because it's too large to index.
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 @Tphive So nobody gets in trouble for causing a miscarriage?
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At least two of the videos showing this amazing performance are actually pretty mundane. All we have is a supposed radar track no other sensor could corroborate.
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They're not saving anything. The footage shows that every time they retreat, they take massive casualties. There's bodies everywhere.
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@handlemymember You don't need to protect your IP, it's the online purchases that get you.
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But how would it be a stopgap if they'd have to wait on Gripens? Should be the other way around, F-16s now because they exist, Gripens in a few years after they roll off the assembly line.
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Wagner has found itself with severe manpower shortage.
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There's no peace deal with murderers.
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No. They had Su-25s. The "easy targets" were harassed with drones, artillery and hit and run tactics because Ukrainian pilots knew flying an A-10-equivalent would be suicide. They were exactly positioned to swat A-10s out of the air like the Iraqi Republican Guard did.
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 @SoloRenegade What do you mean full sized? S-125?
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The US invented stealth aircraft
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Tammy Nelson we can't trust people, by the same logic we can't trust dams either. We can't trust the wiring on the solar panels on our rooftops.
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@sykessaul123 But it didn't. The US, UK, Australia (not even in the North Atlantic) and Poland (small amount of troops) were part of the invasion force. Most of NATO didn't care for the Iraq war, France famously stood against it. It's not a technicality, NATO flat out refused to take part and one of the biggest contributors to the US lead coalition isn't even NATO. Serbia can arguably be called defensive too, because peacekeeping forces were routinely held hostage and threatened with artillery if they did not allow genocide to be conducted in the area.
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The tank videos were relevant because during the winter Russia was still banking on offense. Now it's Ukraine's turn to stand and bang so they have no choice but to fight under Russian fire support.
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It hasn't been two weeks. They only encircled the town yesterday per Russian sources.
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@cristinasalazar9293 Just three days ago Italy announced another regional lockdown. You seem to imply it's over but it's not. Cases didn't plummet, they rose by a third.
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@Born_Stellar We've been 10 years away from fusion for 30 years now. After ITER there will still be another experimental reactor, DEMO, which so far is planned for the 2050s. That is, if there are no delays.
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Accuracy and warhead type.
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@Catssonova Shill. And I bet you do it for free.
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@noahleach7690 You're like a five year old. That's it. You're just childish.
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@FrankJamger Road to hell is paved with good intentions. The careers of the Rittenhouse attackers wouldn't matter much, if a bunch of upstanding citizens decided to attack Kyle he'd still have a right to ventillate them that night. It doesn't even matter if they were rioting or not. The shoot would be legal even if they were just observing the riots.
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Wait, wasn't the context that he had been poisoned almost a month before he was on camera?
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@BlitzOfTheReich A lot of Chinese weapons are either Russian exports or domestic variants of Russian equipment. While Russia and China may not be the best of friends, they've shared military tech without the US pushing anything.
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It was a follow up of the Indochina War, which resulted in France leaving. The Vietnamese were split between the North, aligned with the Soviet Union, and the South, aligned with the West. The US was following a policy of "containment" to fight the spread of communism so it backed the South Vietnamese government against Northern invasion.
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@bruhism173 Because after the disaster the soil was covered in fallout so the clean up crews turned over the soil. They essentially buried most of the contaminants because just a foot of soil stops most of the radiation. But when people dig, they may release what's hidden.
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Could be AI trained off pictures found on google, hell they could save time just building a 3d render and make the AI look at the CGI footage as if it was real.
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"Ukraine won't be around" were you living under a rock since mid March?
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So because of that we have to fight trillion dollar wars with no actual goals or win conditions. How many Americans were thrown off roofs in the last 20 years? How many American soldiers were killed, maimed, or comitted suicide in the last 20 years?
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I remember when Snopes was about ether-laced credit cards and AIDS needles in theaters.
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 @warriorson7979 Scott Ritter us a convicted nonce.
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 @pauljs75 The A-10 is extremely slow. A Super Tucano can almost match the A-10 cruise speed.
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It's cheaper than 4th gen, and range comparable to other fighters with 2 fuel bags.
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Meanwhile a high ranking Russian officer was sacked for admitting that they're losing the artillery war.
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Okay, what did he say that was a lie or distortion?
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Your anxiety will return as soon as you realize it wasn't misinformation. Russia is losing.
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@konstantinkelekhsaev302 The Bay of Pigs happened in 1961, the missile crisis was in 1962. So Patrik is correct. The US didn't invade Cuba. If you want to talk about supporting anti-communists and training them, should we talk about how the separatist People's Republics in Ukraine are supported by Russia?
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@Talpiot_Program Can you stop? There's a podcast episode by War on tue Rocks interviewing two gentlemen who were actually involved in the process of drawing up the aid packages. You misunderstood the reason why packages are slow. Please inform yourself with the openly available facts instead of cooking up conspiracies in your head.
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 @shounak2022 reverse engineering a 20 year old drone when your engineer are lying in a muddy trench?
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@GoharioFTW Being unarmed doesn't mean you are harmless. If you're beating someone senseless in the middle of a street, plugging you is 100% justified. I don't know which blow is going to put an innocent person in a vegetative state, and I'm not going to wait to find out.
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Insert the gif of Indiana Jones versus the knife guy.
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Which shouldn't exist either.
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Other aircraft use missiles so the justification to keep the A-10 around is "muh gun". Well, does the gun do anything that 20 or 25mm already won't do?
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+luna li you can in the sense of them being analogues. Is hating people for their race worse than hating people for being nerds? Who cares, that's not what is being discussed - it's the fact that having repetitive jokes at the expense of a race stops being funny real quick (again, compare to Bondoocks which actually has pretty good race-related humor), and doing the exact same to a subculture also is not funny. Is a subculture the same as a ethnic group? No. Is the type of comedy better if you do it to a subculture? Also no, and they don't have to be the same for the answer to be no.
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 @sixgunsymphony7408 Close means the friendly troops are in close contact with the enemy. You can drop munitions from anywhere to do CAS.
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A-10 doesn't have A-A radar. It's got a cannon and a refueling port in the nose, where do you put the radar? It has a radar ALTIMETER, is that what you mean?
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@davidmarquardt2445 Most of the failed missile shots were due to pilots firing out of proper launch parameters and poor training of the ground crews, as mishandling missiles was one of the causes of their unreliability. "more maneuverable MIG" - This means nothing. The F-4 could out turn the MiG despite being less "maneuverable". "The Navy was running into the same problem with missiles" - And yet they didn't buy into the internal gun.
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@AndRei-yc3ti Oryx hasn't shut down. He claimed he would stop October 1st, and has already confirmed that two volunteers will continue his work.
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We've reached the Bargaining stage.
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@Justme-ie5fb that's one third of the population.
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Last time that happened, it just ended up hurting all youtubers.
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@elperrodelautumo7511 I don't know why that was necessary, the moment anyone mentions "family" in response to far left efforts to undermine society should we assume tradnationalism or nazism? Because when the welfare state promoted single-parenthood, when the professional victims demanded access to "male spaces" (durr) while demanding female exclusive spaces for themselves, etc the progressive centrists either did nothing or actually applauded.
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@edisonchin2463 Mother earth breathes carbon... That's photosynthesis... Like, I get what you're saying but your metaphor is wrong. If losing millions of people is the way, why didn't you start with yourself?
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@shinobi-no-bueno "keep ar15s" who exactly made that deal and who is able to guarantee it will not ne broken?
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Like getting a Chinese tattoo saying "honor" but it's actually "eggroll".
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@nagantm441 It would block out the sensor. It's essentially layers of glass with additives and specific thicknesses that cause refraction of the wavelengths you don't want to see but allows the wavelenghts from thermal emissions to pass through.
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It's not, really. The AKs are decades old and might need new sling mounts, repaired sights, rewelded guide rails, etc from being banged around and fired for so long.
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When I was a kid I read newspapers. Weird, I know. But I quickly noticed most news printed sourced AP or Reuters. Much like some products are all made in a select few OEMs and then brands slap their logo, a lot of news are sourced from the same place and newsrooms just quote them.
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 @aaak733 because "ra-ta-ta-ta" is the onomatopeia for machine gun bursts.
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 @iplaygames.3899 He admitted to something he said wasn't a crime. The people saying "HE ADMITTED IT!!!1!" aggressively ignore all the wording he used to shield himself.
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@DaleEarnhardt4ever You have to look into the role of ischemia-reperfusion injury.
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@UCpcLvyqTnbAglqOrJ7PeLRg "So more mischaracterizing" - where? "there are more of them" - hardly, the statistics aren't exactly recent but only around a third of firearms in the US are handguns. Have you considered that maybe the reason they're used in crime more often is because they're concealable? And that's why in most countries handguns are more regulated than rifles? Because it's more convenient to commit murder with them? Maybe? "You absolutely know the context of that amendment" - do you? "You are not keeping this government at bay, if they want you, they have you" - if the government wanted the Taliban, they had them. If the government wanted the VC, they had them. Oops. I guess the government took the L on those instances. "You don’t need a high capacity rapidly firing weapon for protection" - why? "You either need to be a better shot" - How does being a better shot factor into all of this? "So I suppose in that regard, I do want your guns." - one reply and I already got you to contradict your claim that you didn't want anyone's guns. Please excuse me, but how the ACTUAL FUCK do you expect anyone to trust a single word out of your mouth when you go "uh we say we don't want your guns" and then admit that actually you do right on your first opportunity to reply?
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@shoshanaasimov7243 okay, but like I mentioned above handguns are several times worse for society than any kind of rifle. Also, by letter of the law assault rifles were restricted in 1934 - before they were even invented - and banned in 1986. You cannot buy an assault rifle, only transfer existing ones in a process that requires tens of thousands of dollars and a 9 month delay while the BAFTE processes your transfer application.
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 @ripper021_py They did run out of ammo in 2022, they had to fall back and reestablish a logistical train for a long war
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@melaniey.5596 That's a riddiculous metric. If there's two small protests with 50 people each in two different parks in the same city, and there's a large riot occuring downtown, you can claim "Two thirds of protests were peaceful". If several cities were put under siege, what do you want me to say about the people who didn't riot? Bless them? They're kind of not the problem here and not what's being discussed. You're somehow trying to defend people who weren't accused of doing anything wrong, which just sounds like trying to minimize the real damage.
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@hamzaakbari8906 You know that when you come here with a name like "Hamza" coping and seething about the Americans you just look angry.
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@f2ppoorloserjealoustearist454 Might as well have. Are you seriously going to praise an army for sucking ass at fighting, but being good at laying mines? At every step of the way Russia has relied on something to make gains. Overwhelming artillery, prison meat, minefields. Whenever Russians had to fight without those advantages, the Ukrainians beat them like a rented mule.
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I was watching a videoby mister metokur where he described that there's a guy who posts videos of himself in a septic tank. I wanted to see if there was an explanation for such a weird thing but upon writing "man" google autocompleted "man in septic tank". It was listening to the video.
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KimCoin is really blowing up. Rocketman to the moon!
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"If we reach the point of social ostracism that means the percentage of those getting vaccinated will increase" - Beatings will continue until the morale improves. "we are going to reach a point where the virus mutates and the vaccine is not effective" - This happens every year. The shot was formulated for the genetic sequence revealed by the WIV, which dates back to 2019. It's almost 2022. Get a grip. Mutations is what viruses at good at. Deal with it.
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@redleather420 Multinational companies with no allegiance to anyone except their shareholders, and government oversight of the same kind that approved thalidomide.
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@apveening we're getting into the weeds here but a gay man can marry in Russia... to a woman. If it were me I'd do a female friend a solid and have her as my wife on paper so she'd get some compensation. Maybe ask to split 50:50 with my parents.
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Could be 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, you'd still complain.
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Look at the Avdiivka footage. Does that look like chess?
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@sharlesdaviskendy2391 Yes. Someone has to be the last owner of any item on this earth. Nothing is forever. It's not obfuscation. It's how things work.
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@dRoy8364 Man, this guy right here doesn't understand the difference between a joke and actual politics.
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@Asghaad several countries that used bullpups have gone back to traditional rifles
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WickederThanThou Zionist militias commited ethnic cleansing of Arab owned land in order to secure a better deal in 1948. They used aggressive, violent expansion to steal land from the Arabs and now they continue with the settlements to rub salt in the wound.
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Cope.
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@RatsAreNice222 Sometimes people do put what they want in an article. A Pulitzer prize winner actually admitted doing it. Have you not noticed how in the last few years there's been riddiculous gossip about politics that was completely based on anonymous sources? People actually believe it.
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@JPEight gone so soon?
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Genius, she'll die from an aneurysm reading the script! (for legal reasons that's a joke)
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The A-10 is not a god tier attack aircraft. The A-7 was actually a better attacker, it just did poorly in the specific case of Vietnam due to distance and thick foliage.
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 @MostIntelligentMan Vladivostok is all the way to the East when most of the Russian population lives in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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The A-10 cannot loiter in contested space. In uncontested space, there's tankers. Delicate? The F-16 has already lost half a wing and landed. A F-15 lost a wing two feet away from the root and landed. This is thanks to body lift. The F-35's body is designed to provide even more lift so it's extremely likely that the plane can survive losing a wing. The independent hydraulic systems also give the F-35 an advantage. Although the A-10 has two hydraulic systems for redundancy, they can get bled if hit. Independent hydraulic systems will not bleed if one gets hit. The F-16 only has one engine and it's one of the most successful aircraft ever fielded.
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@angrytedtalks "the goal of the vaccine was to keep people alive by boosting immunity" - Then why the restrictions? "Natural immunity from having the virus alongside with the immunity from the vaccine is giving us herd immunity" - There's no herd immunity if you can still get it and spread. "Transmissibity is not the issue if you wear masks and minimise social contact" - Okay, but then why can't the unvaccinated do everything the vaccinated can and simply wear a mask? Why the mandates? Why are people losing their jobs and being denied the right to travel?
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Iraq had better defenses than Vietnam's SA-2.
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Ad Hominem. Attack the argument, not the man. Maybe if it the press actually did their job Carlson wouldn't be the only one talking about it.
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The one who kept bringing a 17 year old across states with him? Whatever happened with that?
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But Tucker isn't legit. He is actually pretty fake and it's transparent that he puts on an act.
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 @synystersilence60 Because they're pre-owned. If I'm buying pre-owned I'd rather give the money to another person than a corporation.
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@vladG30 Operational pause, much?
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@princesofthepower3690 It's so normal, it only happened after the ammo dumps were hit. Pure coincidence, I suppose.
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Oh no, 300.000 drunkards with a week's training. Air support? They have some hidden in a basement?
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Great White Dugan Ashley (from Carnik Con) said he witnessed an insurgent take a burst of 7.62 from the coaxial on an Abrams to the gut, he went down, got up and ran away.
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 @need-to-know- "Everybody lies." - Dr. House
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And yet recent reports indicate Russia is sending in the reserves. Must be tiring to hold the wheel, because the surrounding force is spent.
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@petesheppard1709 to be fair using true computing would net only marginal improvements over a SR-71. We're at the point if you want an aircraft make it stealth instead of glowing like the sun on IRST, if you want to go faster than the SR-71 it better have a warhead and not expected to return.
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For when you're under sniper fire in Bosnia after your husband bombed the shit out of the region.
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@exidy-yt You know what's even lower on fuel consumption? Turboprops that are only like 20 knots slower than the A-10 at cruise speed. Cheap to maintain? Boeing got a fat check to build new wings because the damned thing was literally too old to fly. And not even the entire fleet got it.
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@thepolishtech1552 Don't worry, we have kept the A-10. But keeping it doesn't mean using it.
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@RickBoat Nope. 7 A-10s were lost in Desert Storm and another one in Iraqi Freedom. http://rjlee.org/air/ds-aaloss/ "NONE were lost in Enduring Freedom where it did 20% of them" - I wonder why that is. You want to explain to the rest of the class. Doesn't take a PhD to figure this one out. "And there have been no losses in operations agInt isil" - Buddy the USAF flew goddamn mothballed Broncos against ISIL without losses and then immediately shelved them because of how old they were, don't get excited. "Even after paying to replace the wings on all the operational planes, the A10 is still the cheapest, and cheapest to operate of a y usaf plane." - A Super Tucano would have been even cheaper so don't use this argument because it's simply taking the A-10 out to the back of the barn with the double-barrel in hand. "The A10 can be serviced a d repaired on unimproved fields... kinda important." - Same with the Tucano, buddy. "Probably, but the AF will never do it." - You do realize that there WAS a program to replace the A-10 with turboprops in the mid 2000s, right?
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@libertarian4ever66 You didn't use sources, pretty rich you ask me for some when you won't apply the same standards to yourself. You'll have to wait until I can look for it.
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@germanmilkman58 I love keyboard warriors calling people keyboard warriors for being right.
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@libertarian4ever66 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_B-1_Lancer "On 14 July 2007, the Associated Press reported on the growing USAF presence in Iraq, including reintroduction of B-1Bs as a close-at-hand platform to support Coalition ground forces.[134] Since 2008, B-1s have been used in Iraq and Afghanistan in an "armed overwatch" role, loitering for surveillance purposes while ready to deliver guided bombs in support of ground troops if contacted.[135][136]" "In August 2012, the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron returned from a six-month tour in Afghanistan. Its 9 B-1Bs flew 770 sorties, the most of any B-1B squadron on a single deployment. The squadron spent 9,500 hours airborne, keeping one of its bombers in the air at all times. They accounted for a quarter of all combat aircraft sorties over the country during that time and fulfilled an average of two to three air support requests per day.[145]" "Beginning in 2014, the B-1 was used by the U.S. against the Islamic State (IS) in the Syrian Civil War.[148] From August 2014 to January 2015, the B-1 accounted for eight percent of USAF sorties during Operation Inherent Resolve.[149] The 9th Bomb Squadron was deployed to Qatar in July 2014 to support missions in Afghanistan, but when the air campaign against IS began on 8 August, the aircraft were employed in Iraq. During the Battle of Kobane in Syria, the squadron's B-1s dropped 660 bombs over 5 months in support of Kurdish forces defending the city, one-third of all bombs used during OIR during the period, killing some 1,000 ISIL fighters. The 9th Bomb Squadron's B-1s went "Winchester", dropping all weapons on board, 31 times during their deployment. They dropped over 2,000 JDAMs during the 6-month rotation.[150] B-1s from the 28th Bomb Wing flew 490 sorties where they dropped 3,800 munitions on 3,700 targets during a six-month deployment." https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/01/14/b-1b-lancers-evolving-mission-take-more-close-air-support.html ""Twenty-five years ago, if you would have said the B-1 was going to do CAS, you would have been laughed out of the room," said Lt. Col. Dominic "Beaver" Ross, director of operations for the 337th Test and Evaluations Squadron." "Today, "the B-1 [has] dropped more weapons in CAS than any other platform. It's second to none," Ross said during an interview. Military.com sat down with Global Strike Command officials during a trip to the base and took a ride in the B-1B over training ranges in New Mexico last month. "Most ground commanders want a B-1 or an A-10 [Thunderbolt II]," Ross said of close mission support. But, unlike the A-10 -- reigning champion in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria -- "we have the long loiter time," he said. "We have the sensors. We have the speed, the shows of force. We are so [forward-leaning] in this community. We try to think of ways for the crews and the airplane to do things you would have never thought of doing with it," Ross said. He continued, "If I'm talking to a guy on the ground and I have my sensor on him ... we can drop weapons seven miles away, or we can drop lower, drop them closer. We're not going to drop them as low as an A-10, but we are going to do shows of force where we're 500 feet overtop of their head."" ""Realize that all the platforms that drop these weapons [GBU-54s, GBU-31s] are seeing the exact same thing ," he said. "So a GBU-31 dropped off a B-1 is the same as a GBU-31 dropped off of an F-15, or an F-16, or an A-10. They all have launch acceptability regions, they all have air speeds and altitude restrictions, and they're all GPS-guided weapons." Kilchrist added, "An A-10 can drop those things just as well as we can. To put in the perspective of, 'Oh, a B-1 is not a CAS platform' [argument], remember that CAS is that mission set. And because of the payload that we have, the speed, the gas, we can stay there for long periods of time. And just unleash."" https://breakingdefense.com/2014/05/sen-mccain-b-1s-really-do-cas/ "Senator McCain stopped just short Tuesday of accusing the Air Force of walking away from the Close Air Support (CAS) mission if the service retires the A-10 Warthog fleet. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh and Secretary Deborah Lee James told the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing where McCain raised the issue that many other aircraft fill the CAS role, including the B-1B bomber. McCain clearly did not buy it: “You’re throwing in the B-1 bomber as a close air support weapon to replace the A-10. This is the reason why there is … such incredible skepticism here in the Congress.” The senator apparently didn’t know that the B-1 has been a CAS weapon since 2001. The B-52 has flown CAS missions since 1967. Joint Publication 3-09.3 defines Close Air Support (CAS) as “air action by fixed or rotary-winged aircraft against hostile targets that are close to friendly ground or naval forces, and which requires detailed integration of each air mission with fire and movement of these forces.” So, by definition, CAS is a joint mission and not the purview of any single service or platform." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJzyN_yiTZ4 "I don't give a rat's ass what platform brings it in. I could care less if it's a B-52, if it's a B-1 bomber, if it's an F-16..." No offense gramps, but it's not the 80s anymore.
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@rodirby5952 why does an aircraft need to fly low and slow? You're just repeating what the Reformists say and they're military luddites.
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@libertarian4ever66 "It's not being replaced" - considering that the majority of CAS missions are performed by aircraft other than the A-10, it is being replaced. "I've called in for a Cessna with wing mounted grenade launchers and guys dropping 20 pound bombs out the side door. "High tech" doesn't solve everything" - Good stuff. The A-10 is high tech. If your problem is technology and cost, the A-10 sits in a weird position where is has been crammed with every possible high tech gizmo, but the aircraft itself doesn't have any of the advantages of the more modern multirole airframes. It is cheaper to operate than a multirole, but much more expensive than a turboprop without having enough of a speed and altitude advantage to justify it.
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In Afghanistan you could see them taking one Maverick, one rocket pod, two bombs. The A-10 is thrust limited and the thin air at Bagram (almost 5000ft) make it impossible to take off with full pylons.
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Not true. Paramount asked for a Navy consultant to supervise the work and they spent a lot of time crafting the story. It's unrealistic because it needs to be a movie and because the Navy imposed some restrictions on the information that could be disseminated. The Fighter Pilot Podcast has an episode where they interview the consultant and he had a lot of fun doing the movie, he even appeared in a cameo.
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Half of it is on ebay, the other half was already spent on the invasion force and "shadow mobilization".
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@Liam.keenlyside "You have a problem, you call the police." - So you don't need guns because you can call people with guns. Okay. If you're in immediate danger they're not going to arrive in time to save you. "I'm still for police and government agencies having firearms, as the use comes with their jobs" - Stop simping for government agents. "Lower access to firearms, lower homicide rate" - Tell that to Brazil and Mexico.
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@ericmanget4280 "police who are trained to be careful" - police training is absolute garbage. Someone who shoots as a hobby is a thousand times better trained than the average cop.
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@AscendedSaiyan3 my point here isn't to find reasons to "not count" places, I don't even have time to look over the full dataset provided by the website. It's just that not all of those cities are known industry powerhouses, and those cities in Iceland and Brazil... I'm sure that Iceland gets a boost from geothermal and Brazil from ethanol. I'm not interested in saying that those cities don't count, my problem is my doubts that those situations can be replicated elsewhere or if the energy levels are enough to sustain industry in the countryside.
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It was self-defense. You can't go running around assaulting people. It's self-defense for Kyle. He was protecting himself from the lunatics.
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That's some dog ate my homework bull. So if stuff got lost in transit they wouldn't be able to find receipts?
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There's airsoft footage of people using ghillie suits up close, they work.
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@Alex-cw3rz "another aircraft was hit" - But not shot down. It returned home. Meaning that the feat was not repeated. It doesn't matter how much you classify something, you can't hide a missing airframe. "Is just embarrassing, just except it." - You mean "accept it". No, it's not embarrassing. What's embarrassing is bragging about a shootdown for 20 years even though it didn't change anything. "It's the equivalent of saying if yugoalsivia had bought S-300 NATO would have never entered" - No, it isn't. The planets needed to align for something to occur. It took both great skill from operators and the golden opportunity. If a normal, average skill crew couldn't have done it during average circumstances, you can't infer anything other than the extreme levels of skill displayed. "If their had been SEAD support it wouldn't have been a stealth mission" - False. Do you think planners are children? SEAD is in the air. It doesn't tell you anything. You don't know where the F-117 is. You don't know when. All you know is that if you turn on your radar a HARM is fired. That's all you know. "No SAM unit would ever fire just one missile" - That's beside the point. What if the second missile lost track too? We wouldn't be discussing anything here. "the reason the flight plan was known was due to spy's" - This is false. The F-117s were using the same ingress routes. There were no spies in NATO command centers. "you'd repeat patterns within days making it utterly useless" - If they're used randomly no pattern can be established.
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@brawss "no one knows how to remove Denuvo" well each imppementation of Denuvo is different... people know how to, it's just a massive project to handle because you need to start from scratch every time Denuvo changes methods.
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Fun fact, Israel used F-15Cs and Ds to strike the PLO HQ in Tunis with guided and unguided bombs.
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@TheSurpremeLogician It's not the same level.
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Russia was beat in Afghanistan and Chechnya round 1.
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 @avppr3451 But Russia accepted Ukrainian borders in the 90s and in 2008 Putin himself said he would no invade Ukraine.
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Very smart of the rats to flee the sinking ship. They know Russia is over.
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@bush_wookie_9606 I didn't realize we were talking about the Tornado. Oh yeah, the low altitude strike aircraft that received an upgrade to expand capabilities in medium altitude after the low altitude dash met air defenses? You mean just like the entire concept being the A-10 was essentially struck a huge blow in 1973 when everyone realized integrated air defense systems would be a bitch to handle? The world keeps turning. I think the F-16 succeeded as a multirole despite that. Harriers? The USMC lost fewer of those than A-10s in combat, making their attrition rate 1.5 per 1000 sorties while the A-10's was 0.875. Big whoop. "ultimately I think a updated remote piloted A10 would be far better" - You can't keep upgrading old airframes forever, and remote piloting is better achieved through drone. It would make more sense to design a drone for CAS than turn the A-10 into a drone. This is what's so goddamn weird with the A-10 conversation, we can pretend that the A-10 supremacists only want a CAS-focused aircraft to replace it but no, they straight up want to keep the A-10 in the air, no matter what. Even if it takes something as silly as making it an unmanned aircraft.
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@bush_wookie_9606 "but ultimately the US airforce is not interested in CAS and never has been" - WHOOOP there it is. Yeah, keep parroting the old "military reformers" nonsense made up to write books. The USAF was always interested in the CAS role and history proves it. "the F16 was meant to replace the A10 and it never lived up to it." - But it already did. F-16 performs over 30% of CAS missions while the A-10 only perfoms 11% since 2014. "it has poor maneuverability" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0hWzaKEeZo "a lack of armament" - 18k pounds, babey. "it would be massively easier converting the A10'S to drones" - This has to be a joke, right? The majority of drone conversions is for use a TARGET drones. They're made to fly and get missiles launched at them. For actual drone use, we use drones. It's not easier at all to do a conversion. Just the wiring harness to connect all functions of the A-10 cockpit to a flight computer would be an absolute nightmare. The on-board computer would need to be completely new because you'd need to combine the remote flying of a conventional aircraft of drone conversions with the weapons employment of actual drones. You're severely underestimating the complexity of the aeronautical world. For the cost of converting a fleet of A-10s to drones you could just perform non-stop sorties of conventional drones for years. And in the end? You'd get an underpowered, slow drone that can't handle modern air defenses. And that's reaching the end of its lifespan.
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They're fighting for towns an hour's walk away from Donetsk city, which they control since 2014.
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Switching to defense after getting their force degraded that much is not gonna work that well.
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As stated there's multiple rocket variants so he may have been trained on a different one.
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon predicted the 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia.
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 @Brutal_Wizerd "WAAAGGHH WE TAKE OUT ALL AIRFIELDS" alright
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Already mentioned by the other comment but that claim about Disney was published right around the time he was having disputes with unions (one of them an unironic Soviet Union intelligence front). Disney also made anti-Hitler propaganda.
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@sarahshanahan2222 most waste can be used as fuel in thorium reactors
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Trucks are still less efficient, and the M14 highway can still be cut.
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Russia is firing from the nuclear plant, and Ukraine has to fire at the military positions to make them stop. Russia accuses Ukraine of firing AT the nuclear plant but you can see the tail section of the rockets is landing in the grass.
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That movie started with a great premise then ended as if they had forgotten to write the finale and finished the script the night before turning it in.
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@WSmith_1984 If a socialist country has the communist party in charge, how can being hindered from trade affect them? Communists have all the theories, they can figure it out. They know how to survive without capitalism, why would they want to have access to it?
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@WSmith_1984 I know the difference between socialism and communism. The fact of the matter is that communists always failing to deliver on their promises does not hinder my argument. Socialism is a transitional state where the communist party is in charge. In the USSR, who was in charge? The Communist Party of each nation. What was the USSR? A union of Soviet Socialist Republics. So who cares? The people in charge should know about failure points rather than expect cooperation from the people they declared war on. There are no countries with a democratic socialist system. Social democracies are capitalist countries. Are you actually bringing up 2015/2016 talking points to this conversation and purposefully misleading people into believing that democratic socialism exists? The proof is in the pudding - there's many countries without the issues you mentioned, and they're not socialist. So yes, thanks for proving yourself wrong.
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@WSmith_1984 My point is very clearly a response to yours, it's you who's kind of being vague.
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Armenia only moved away from Russia after they failed to protect them. Russia isn't showing anything but their apathy and incompetence. That's what lead Armenia to seek western help.
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@dannyroe1697 They are there because there's a deconfliction zone. Syria is a brutal free for all with Damascus not even holding control over all their territory. So the deconfliction zone has a US base and a refugee camp.
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The Panzerfaust is suicidal to use compared to a Javelin. I agree with what you're saying, but the Javelin is a massive step up over the Dragon missile the US used before as the missile is fire and forget, and can be fired from over a mile away, so the infantry has a much tougher job clearing the AT teams. The big deal is that now tanks need to be crammed full of soft kill and hard kill protection systems, making them more expensive to manufacture and require a much longer supply chain.
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The Fukushima meltdown wouldn't affect you just standing a few hundred meters from the plant building. The Fukushima radiation releases were gas and water. The water was dilluted into the Pacific ocean, and gas was released into the air.
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 @SansSentiments "kiev junta" immediately flags you as a Ru-shill
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Those are actually based on something that happened in the past, rather than pure fantasy.
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@pietrotettamanti7239 They're taking 20 year olds too.
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Pilots are not cheap.
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Why? Because you need an easy cop out?
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He can't get the protection of others. People who had it still spread. No, it doesn't affect the risk for others, because again, you still spread. They can't impose greater risks on everyone around them, because they still spread. Nobody was morally culpable for spreading other viruses before.
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Trump approved Biden's actions.
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It's ironic that it's gonna be consoles indirectly saving PC gaming. I retract all of my console peasant comments.
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Not true. Russia has a 3:1 loss ratio.
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 @nexpro6118 Yet the winning strategy seems to just make aircraft capable of handling all tasks instead of an aircraft that can't fly on its own and needs to be treated like a baby.
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 @briandix4633 A pilot lost his life trying to land a damaged A-10. Everyone remembers "KC" Campbell for her success, but Lt. Patrick Olson is forgotten.
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@JoJo-vg8dz "You ARE the provocateur." - At this point you actually deserve to be attacked, and when you try to accuse your attackers the DA says you're the provocateur for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. You deserve the rules you want to impose on others.
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@Doppe1ganger "if a gun is involved and the question is raised whether there should have been a gun involved" - If there was a violent mob involved and the question is raised whether there should have been a violent mob, you people go back to the same "muh gun" BS. The guy was attacked, three assailants wanted to try their luck, they lost. The end.
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That's kind of the point. If it's just "fine" and it doesn't actually give us what we want... we don't need it.
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Russia declared war first by invading. Stop blaming Ukraine.
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@jsn1252 The C only refers to where the munitions land, not where the aircraft is. Close Air Support can be performed anywhere you want, you're just dropping payload on enemies within firing range of your friendlies.
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@jupiterjunk The F-16 only had a deep stall issue resolved in 1981 in the Block 15. That's 9 years after the drawing board. "that's because they are asking it to do so much." - But most of the issues have nothing to do with the multirole nature. "If you want awesome, then you need dedicated single-role aircraft" - Why? "their performance suffers when you have them doing too many different jobs" - But why? You say things but you can't explain the core concept behind it. In dogs you're limited by genetics, in cars you're limited by inherently different demands. A job in an aircraft that isn't a bomber or cargo airplane has mostly the same needs as other jobs. The things I need to be a good fighter are exactly the same things I need to be a good ground attack aircraft. It's funny, the F-16 is so good at fighting it's the MiG-29 surrogate in aggressor squadrons, and so good at bombing it was picked for Operation Opera, the deep strike on a nuclear reactor. By your logic, the F-16 shouldn't be able to do either role.
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There are.
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The third picture doesn't seem like bullet holes, they're extremely even in spacing and small in diameter which doesn't seem consistent with an autocannon. It seems like all the holes were punctured at the same time, possibly from either an AA shell with proximity fuse or a missile. The pilot that was flying the aircraft also only heard one bang.
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When you decompile it comes out in English syntax. They probably code with Russian annotations for documentation but we don't see those unless we get the source code.
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@DaMaster012 You're not helping set the world on fire. You're just making a bet that it's going to be set on fire. It was going to burn anyway. If anything, the money you make is from the people so blind with greed they'll take the stocks off your hands for a premium, and then get left holding the bag when the gold rush is over.
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The Navy never adopted any A-10s. It wasn't designed to land on carriers.
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 @gelo888 he just retold what was said in the video. Watch before commenting.
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They couldn't hold the bridgehead because they depleted the Kharkiv front to fill Kherson with manpower. They increased their resource consumption rate, and Ukraine struck their resource supply rate. If Ukraine has a force properly sized to match the supply, they cannot be driven out the same way.
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Ukrainians and serious volunteers have complained about soldiers who fought insurgents and thought that they could just show up in Ukraine. The experience in Iraq and Afghanistan has no carry over.
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@Dluger123 Russia is so self-sufficient they get drones from Iran, artillery ammo from North Korea, and their missiles keep getting found out with Western components that slipped through sanctions.
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@S300V "Going low is used to maintain surprise!" - Cope. Going low is to avoid getting shot down by SAMs. It's an indicator that SAM threat is more serious than MANPADS threat. There's not much surprise when anyone with a cellphone can report that a jet just roared above them and is heading South/West.
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@adamboylan2307 The USAF actually proposed to retire almost 50 of them but it will probably be rejected. Since 2014 that the A-10 only does 11% of CAS while the F-16 does 33%. It's been replaced already, it's just Congress that refuses to let it happen.
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@goldoryellow6882 there's nothing wrong with customizing hardware but when you're buying something unique most people don't think about making changes to it. It's like adding a ricer spoiler to a Ferrari. Again, there's nothing wrong with painting the case but most people wouldn't because of its rarity.
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@sugarnads "its basically inarguable it was influenced by the stg42/43/44, detachable magazine fed, intermediate cartridge, etcetcetc." - Considering how the drive to have an assault rifle project had heavy influence from the Soviet experience in using submachine guns in urban combat, it would be a given that the weapon would have a detachable magazine. That's essentially undeniable, the StG wasn't the first weapon issued in the battlefield to have detachable magazines. Also, the Soviets designed the 7.62x39mm M43 cartridge before they even had a weapon to fire it. So while the cartridge was definitely influenced by 7.92 Kurz, you can't say the AK derived it from the StG. The rifle was designed around the caliber rather than being designed to mimic the StG.
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 @blessphemy Air superiority isn't being seized by either side.
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 @spiderkitty7643 If Russia is hitting so many supply depots, why are they losing ground?
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 @blessphemy That's not how air superiority is defined.
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@mattatat1138 "When in fear for your life, and unable to match their level of force, continuing to flee is the most reasonable option." - How is being afraid of getting shot in the back gonna convince someone to flee?
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@mattatat1138 "if he were an innocent black man, unarmed and confronted by multiple armed men in vehicles, the only reasonable choice is to flee." - Bullshit. The innocent have the right to fight back.
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@ComicGladiator He's a bear.
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It would be ironic if the kitbashed "CHAY-NAH" motherboards were more secure.
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A +p+ will cause the petals to expand faster unless the bullet design was specifically strengthened for those velocities. A normal modern JHP has barely any energy to punch into a second person. A few extra hundred ft/s of velocity will not make it go through more people, especially if that velocity induces more drag.
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Over the last few years it became a trendy thing to talk about and one or two years ago youtube pretty much promoted a van life channel that got like two million subs with three uploads. Nomadland is just a symptom of the times rather than the catalyst.
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@k3nny111 Terrorism was threatening people's livelihoods. The government held a figurative gun to people's heads and told them to comply. The change was forced by the state. Using force to end the initial use of force is not only morally okay, but desirable. I'm not a "terrorist" if I rescue hostages by disabling a hostage taker with force.
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Your country collapsed after invading Afghanistan.
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If you don't kick up the dust it's fine.
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Not really a sim. It's a shooter with real world military setting.
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It's toxic because it's made in China.
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@dudewithaniphone I don't care if you consume porn. But don't promote it. Simple as.
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They could just refuse to go into Ukraine.
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 @DoktorDoomJr Several shootdowns were confirmed by Fighterbomber. Trying to estimate losses from artillery is like claiming the car with the most horsepower wins. It's the driver.
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+Raging Monk the Trump administration basically spells it out for you that they are worried about China taking advantage of the "free market" the West wants while not wanting to "play ball" and using their growth to boost their military power. Just because you ignore what the administration says and focus on the MAGA rhetoric doesn't mean it's our fault you can't see the full picture.
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@Britain W You're being disingenuous. People are in line for a helping hand. The Soviet "bread line" was a consequence of constant production shortages (which means first-come-first-serve), stores in cities like Moscow having greater supply so people traveled far to concentrate in the same spot, and the artificial job creation from having separate lines for products and cashiers.
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@o.s.s.fitnessandgrappling1052 Nobody's stealing stocks. They don't "pretend" it's theirs. And they don't replace it "before you know". It's amazing how even though there must be a thousand videos explaining the stock market uploaded in the last few days people still fundamentally misunderstand how it works.
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A magnesium block of hexagonal cross section, it does look like a very tall screw nut.
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@sirmoke9646 Hold on so people literally inject drugs in their bloodstream and live for years as addicts, but a 5ml dose of water is going to kill me?
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Okay. Do you need a 4000lb cannon that's only carried by one aircraft to disable a truck?
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signups for onlyfans increased 75% lul
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 @mzahkazaha331 but they did.
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FoC Fans of Color
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@lsshvs8415 Exactly, it's like people decided to be NPCs but with a switch flipped. I keep telling them, if they plan on being permanent contrarians at some point the enemy will simply tell them the opposite of what they want them to do.
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@jamesmassey2089 That's not even a response. You brought up that it existed since the 1980s, and yes - it was never approved for human use until a justification came along. You people excuse all the flip flopping by saying we're still learning and the science changes, but you're still promoting something that was essentially developed with late 2019 - early 2020 knowledge.
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Meanwhile a wacko had a blast at an Ariana Grande concert, literally, but because it wasn't a gun you sit there with a pompous smile even after admitting it didn't stop the guy a few months ago.
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@inceldestroyer1069 "its harder to reliably kill someone with a car than a gun" - bruh you must have missed all the trucks of peace in the last few years "yall act like the US/NZ gov is gonna storm your house and murder your family" - one guy already died, although he seems to have killed himself once he was surrounded by police "Cars are an important economic sector and vital component to everyday life for money" - that just makes you sound that you care more about money than lives. Don't give us shit about guns when literally anyone in society will make excuses for things they like/bring them convenience even at the cost of others' lives.
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@yuhboris304 I am so glad, all the people killed by cars and their respective families are smiling with joy because cars weren't actually mean to kill! Since the object wasn't designed to kill, the death wasn't bad! Yaaaaaay!
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Quote mining. Speaking of the Austrian painter, he also started a war to protect German speakers.
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All bark and no bite.
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High flying and fast aircraft can self-escort with HARMs. And kinetically defeat missiles by forcing them to burn out the engine. The A-10 is vulnerable ij the sense that when a missile launches, it can't do much to run away.
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Sun Tzu says "send meat assaults and empty your Soviet stockpiles". Yeah I don't think that's on the Art of War either. Vietnam, you mean where Moscow managed to manipulate the American public into thinking the US was losing? Former North Vietnamese Army generals admitted they were close to the breaking point and they lucked into the US giving up due to public pressure.
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"Tajik ghost" posting from Texas Oblast
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@kureed79 lmao this is pure delusion. What happens when the "winning team" fails and everyone else just comes down from the fence?
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@powderedwater67 That's legislation by referendum. In the US I don't remember any referendum being done at a federal level. You vote on the representatives, and they vote on the laws. At the state level you see that through ballot initiatives.
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They only banned Russian-linked parties, the politicians were actually allowed to just form new parties to keep their jobs.
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They have a worse army, worse artillery and less aircraft/pilots than they did last year.
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Takes manpower to build and man those defenses.
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@ronarnett4811 Russian reservists were used up in the early months of the war. The so-called BARS units were for example defending Kharkiv and got mauled pretty bad. Conscripts only serve a year since the 2000s, and they famously call it a wasted year because there's almost no training involved. Russian artillery ratios mean nothing when the calls of fire suffer delays of several hours, barrels are toast, and HIMARS strikes on supply depots caused a reduction in fires.
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And you can see he was zig-zagging and circles around the car because it was the best cover available. Running anywhere else would have exposed him.
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@xpusostomos I saw a statistic the other day that FIFA games sales are 75% physical. Online sales often include the DLC and microtransactions which makes physical look like it's dying, but it's not going to die that soon.
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The IMF cannot audit the Russian economy. They have to use figures provided by Rosstat which is a Russian government agency.
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At that point it just becomes easy to just pump out noise that makes acoustic systems utterly useless. Don't mind me, I'm just a little plane breaking the sound barrier back and forth and there's definitely no strike package flying through while I make noise.
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The more they smear the more they make themselves look bad. Unsophisticated investors beat the hedge funds at their own game.
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Once I take a breath of that H I won't come down for days.
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@azysheff oy vey, someone should report that antisemitism to the British authorities
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That hot air scorched the Russian helicopters.
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@HiLasse But the US doesn't disregard the ICC. It was George W. Bush and Trump who backtracked prior policy to join the ICC.
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He literally offered to resign, ffs
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Forgive the non-Canadian here, but wasn't the conservative party candidate a complete cee you cee kay?
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@elfpimp1 we're too hung up on the Liberator. Many designs have surpassed it's abilities, easier to load and repeating rather than single-shot. But even then, legally speaking the gun is the frame. The current version of the 3D printed Glock frame is very high quality and all the other parts can be purchased over the counter without regulation. You can basically have a full working gun because all the parts that make a gun work well don't actually count as guns. Obviously this is different in Europe because our serialized parts are the slide/bolt and barrel. But still, 3D printing has actually helped on that end too. A 3D printed mandrel, salt water and some copper wire can rifle and chamber drawn-over-mandrel tubing so that you can make barrels without a lathe.
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@captaindak5119 They don't "turn against Russia". They were never on their side. Supporting separatism in Ukraine means that China would be condoning Xinjiang separatism by Uyghurs or even conceding that Taiwan has the right to self-determination. China has actually paid lip service to territorial integrity of Ukraine.
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Less than a tenth of Russia's population attends church.
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If it wasn't a crime they wouldn't be buying from criminal organizations. Kind of a chicken or the egg situation there.
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The US didn't sustain tens of thousands of KIA in a single year so these "ummm but have you noticed US/NATO bad too?" posts. The US did fine at the war part. The peace and nation building was what failed.
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They're not even that cheap. The component analysis from wreckages shows they do use high quality aircraft grade components.
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@gregorymalchuk272 Direct wireless control would create a vector for hacking. So far, the US wants a human in the loop. It's one thing to get a drone hacked like that one in Iran, another is losing control over a ballistic missile.
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@Slop_Dogg in a happy relationship myself, maybe you should stop projecting.
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That's why the US bought some from South Korea, Ukraine used financial aid to purchase from Pakistan and Bulgaria, and Europe is ramping up 155 production.
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@Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ define "help". Russia fired Grads from residential areas so that counter-battery fire hit civilians. Russia arrived, conscripted the men and used them as cannon fodder. Is that "helping"?
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It's surprising how few people realize that costs skyrocketed through government subsidies.
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Russian troops are always filming videos begging for ammunition.
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@Someone-cr8cj the issue is, the cattle only "produces" the CO2 and methane that they get from eating the plants. Which means that all they "produce" had to be fixed from the atmosphere in the first place.
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@fleabag631 "but CH4 is a dramatically worse greenhouse gas than CO2" - But it gets converted into CO2 in the atmosphere. "Archaea in the animal's stomach can use anaerobic respiration to produce CH4 instead of CO2, so there is a net negative impact" - there is not a net negative because everything that comes from cows had to come from plants before it and thus had to come from the atmosphere. It's a balance.
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Alt-right is anything that isn't left but also isn't mainstream Republican. Reason is alt-right. You are alt-right. I am alt-right. Alt-right is the new "teabagger". Oh you're not one of the good little Republicans who play ball? Then you're a tea party lunatic paid off by the Kochs. That was how they rolled until 2012-2013 It's a catch-all term designed so that anything you say is automatically labeled as neo-nazi bullshit. Why don't they just call it "neo-nazi" or "white nationalism"? Because first they implanted the term alt-right and then stained it with neo-nazism. They didn't rebrand themselves to seem more palatable. It was the media that rebranded non-republicant conservatives, libertarians, ancaps, minarchists, etc along with tradnats, natsocs, monarcists and the white nationalist ilk for the perfect one-two knockout.
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They're gonna waste billions in hypersonics to do what? Fire at concert halls?
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In the movie one of the SAMs crashes into the party HQ and detonates. The CO later chastises Dafoe because a children's hospital was hit by collateral damage. Dafoe defends himself by saying it was the party HQ. The CO says he knows it was, but the media are reporting it was a hospital.
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Data breaches can easily lead to identify theft.
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@Skeloperch "They were literally attacked" - They were an armed threat. I wish Mr Arbery was carrying so he could use his gun in legal self-defense over those dumbasses. "Zimmerman" - In the Zimmerman case he was following a kid and then the altercation is mostly Zimmerman's own testimony, and he ended up getting his head pounded on the ground. These boys hopped onto a truck and started chasing a man while armed. They were a threat. Zimmerman, according to all the available evidence, was just a curious neighbor and kept his gun hidden until he had to use it.
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@startrekmike The A-10 is the biggest fixed-wing user of APKWS. Which isn't saying much, but apparently the USAF sees the value in it. From a fixed wing, range is half of a Maverick.
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The conscripts had a moral duty to rebel against their officers and march into Moscow with their issued weapons.
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 @Butter_Warrior99 Gotcha. Gacha is a type of game.
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Unfortunately his own father turned his potential fanbase into anarchism years ago.
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@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available intervention in Libya was asked by the Arab League and conducted with a UN resolution declaring the no fly zone. NATO already had peacekeeping forces in the region and Serbian forces had a pattern of holding peacekeepers hostage in the past.
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 @maritaschweizer1117 ATACMS are used by Marine Corps on their ships. The HIMARS vehicle can sit on the deck and fire ATACMS at islands or coastlines. The PrSM was necessary to replace it.
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The Kharkiv offensive was textbook maneuver warfare.
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Is this GamerGate 2.0? It's about ethics in gamer behavior.
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Scott Ritter was caught twice trying to contact minors on the internet, and Patrick Lancaster used to be a regular contributor to RT.
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@cmac6136 Yeah I use headphones. I often "watch" videos in the background while doing something else so I can see why I'd miss it.
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@calenhoover1124 "same tired old arguments that hold no grounds"- Says whom? "I actually dont have time to be arguing with somebody who doesnt understand the basics of how government or the people within it operate" - You understand what is taught on a civics class, which is different from how it actually works. ""Government bad democracy bad," is your only argument and its getting stale." - No, it isn't. There's plenty of proof why and I offered some. I can continue all day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNtKk2EmI-o < one 1 hour lecture on why government programs don't actually do good for the people like you claim
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It's important to remember that the defecting pilot had a crew inside the helicopter and when they discovered about the defection they tried to resist so the pilot had no choice and shot them. The pilot didn't just defect, he had to kill 2 or 3 of his comrades to survive. So the Russians were veeeeeery pissed off.
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This is a 300 year old conflict. How the hell did the natives engineer the Russian colonialism of Ukrainian land?
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Is this a joke? It has outstanding range thanks to the massive internal fuel load. The "low cost" fighters are as expensive as F-35s and require all the ultra high tech you criticize - but are forced to carry it in pods.
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And it has rarely been used as such, an attack helicopter saddled with troop transport performs worse than just keeping it empty and having it escort a Mi-8.
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Rent control worsens the housing market.
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They're holding onto the A-10 because they're OBLIGATED TO. They propose retirement and Congress shuts them down. They've actually requested 42 A-10s to be retired for FY2022 so they can use the money on actually useful aircraft. There's no super warthog. Stop reading buzzfeed-tier defense blogs. They're getting jam resistant GPS and small diameter bombs. That's not a "super" anything.
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@casteretpollux Okay. In the UK the report for week 36-39 shows that while cases per 100k are higher in <18 years of age among the dirty no-dose, for the other age groups it's the same or actually higher incidence of cases per 100k people among the double-dosed. Even considering proportions, it's not faring well.
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@worldgoneawry8906 This is just advocacy for being a pushover. Small men taking out large men keeps the large men in check. Keeps them... amicable.
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@oldfrend Leving the wrinkles on would divert the orientation of the forces (and you don't get the support arch effect) and grinding them off creates a discontinuity in the fibers. So you can't afford to keep wrinkles on the sub. Or you could, but you'd need a generous design allowance for an even greater safety factor and exhaustive testing to validate that design choice. Many carbon fiber structures are made in parts (smaller work areas can help against wrinkles) and assembled later, or built as a monocoque and held inside a vacuum bag inside the autoclave so that the outside pressure crushes wrinkles. And even then, most uses are for above the surface so automobile chassis and aircraft fuselages can be designed to crush/snap to absorb impact forces and protect the occupants, while in a sub any crack compromises the safety of those inside. So the question is more about the purpose of the cabon fiber part because in many uses you could potentially ignore or grind off the wrinkles but in others you can't. And the submarine use case is way stricker than all the stuff we do with carbon fiber at atmospheric pressure.
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That's a strategic level decision, not tactical.
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The US didn't invade Ukraine, though.
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First of all, through the power of God anything's possible so jot that down. Jokes aside, all you really need for a single shot is a barrel and a breechface to prevent everything from asploding in your hand. You can get high-pressure rated hydraulic tubing off your favorite chinesium supplier, and through 3d printed mandrels use ECM to erode rifling and chamber into a steel tube. A breechface can be made by cutting squares of sheet steel with a hand saw or rotary tool. Dremel goes BRRRRRRR.
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Great versus cartels and the Taliban. The Russians? They are not that incompetent despite the memes.
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 @spacejunk2186 Exactly. What an insane take.
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Lowered biodiversity in bees reduces plant reproduction because different kinds of bees are more efficient at pollination of some plants over others.
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 @aufornvic Oswald was literally seen shooting J.D. Tippit...
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@rayjynx Are you people for real? He's bringing up that even in the US you have issues, he's not saying America is the only country. Are you the guy that posts "BuT mUtA...!" comments?
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Defensive positions will be scouted prior to attack, the tanks will be juicy targets. I'd rather be on the ATGM team and even then I'd think I'd have low chance of survival.
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"People are trying to evade their problems with drugs so we're going to give them an even greater problem by sending them to jail and ruin their lives, that'll teach them!"
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+Kevin Bryer so we should institute pre-crime and bring back Prohibition. Kappa.
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If you're spent, RTB. Don't bring a gun to a missile fight.
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They are durable when you have a thousand planes to pull parts from. Individual aircraft themselves are finicky. I think MiG-29 engines have half the hours of a Western fighter jet engine. So a MiG will need twice the engine replacements in its service life. If you can't get new engines, they're difficult to maintain.
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 @EmmaDwan8251 During the great patriotic war the US was shipping canned food to the Soviet Union to prevent a famine.
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@aaroncruz9181 It was. In that movie the American troops arrive at a Chinese position where the defenders froze in place. The American general is moved by the determination of the Chinese soldiers and salutes the dead.
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"Muh Russia REEEEEEE"
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The biggest issue with for example "youtube alternatives" everyone wants to jump into due to censorship/demonetization is precisely that, it's a whole world with 15 years of content. Not only can I watch my favorite content creators, but if I need to watch a recipe, a videogame review, change a tire, learn to code, etc everything's on YT.
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Personally I think that if Timberland made Timbaland boots that would be the greatest celebrity ad campaign.
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@holof443 a stray bullet is not the same as a falling bullet. Bullets "coming back down" and killing someone literally never happens, what happens is bullets fired horizontally complete their ballistic trajectory and end up hitting someone a great distance away. The bullet is indeed travelling in a downward motion but it's driven by the initial velocity, not by losing its energy at the apex and gaining it back from gravity.
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Look up the pictures of the crash site when a Khinzal went down in Russia in Sept 2022.
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@C1P11 I won't just to spite you.
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It infuriates me how the shelling is abiguously reported in the media. The craters and closeness of gun reports clearly show it's a Russian false flag.
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@chokeeweebee Electric motors predate software.
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+Nathan Grant delicious, the gun nuts all know the law by heart, irresponsible jackass breaks gun control law without even knowing, and you're "disgusted" with the guns nuts and not the person violating the law? Ironic.
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Diplomacy. How would you feel if Bucha happened in your hometown?
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@rhodium1096 That's a ridiculous argument. The US didn't do unsupported air assaults like the Russians did. The problem isn't defenses. It's that airborne insertions need to be backed up as soon as possible. It would make no sense to make an insertion into the Bagdad airport when the troops were two weeks away. Rich lands for agriculture which will blow up farmers due to unexploded shells all over the area. Coal mines that need workers and expensive machinery.
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@rhodium1096 What rich lands? The area is a complete sh!thole due to the fighting. These are not assumptions. There's also the fact that Ukraine could attack the mines after they were built, even assuming Russia could afford to move the equipment there.
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@shadowyyCFH A boring PSA encourages people to not pay attention. You can use shock value (there's PSAs with real world images still seared into my brain) or comedy.
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@randomdude2832 They have no air advantage due to SAMs and the artillery is held back by ammo depots being kept 100km from the front.
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That's a brainlet take. It's important to discourage bad behavior, people should be helping each other, not stealing. If you "just want food" you can't just go around and take it from others because they "just want food" too.
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@Rhymez15 Is this a joke? Russia lost more men in one year than the US lost in a decade in Vietnam. You're the one with excuses.
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@WhyNotTruth Comments that don't address the topic at hand don't mean anything compared to the information presented.
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You have to register as a foreign agent. None of these peopls did.
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Yeah just ignore the IAEA report about a 50% increase in highly enriched uranium stockpiles. No biggie.
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It's just one day. Many successes are achieved daily.
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@armaan1091 If you have cancer, your risk is much greater because of how therapies affect the immune system. The individual risk is more than made up by the benefits if it works. For the populace in general, giving out millions of shots is handing out empty revolvers for everyone to play with, and some are loaded. After a million people pull the trigger, someone is bound to get a loaded chamber. And for what? For many people the risk of taking the shot is about the same as getting the sickness, and the benefits are dubious. Depending on age group and variant, the shot can be as low as 42%. In Israel, for my age group and against Delta, it was only 3% effective. That's riddiculous. It's a faulty product. They measured effectiveness by symptom suppression in trials, when most people are naturally assymptomatic. How does this make sense?
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During the Cold War we sort of defaulted to the Russian way of saying it. I was a kid in the 90s and I remember being told that saying "the Ukraine" should be avoided out of respect, most people do it out of habit because it still "sounds right". Some actually say it because they're on the side of Russia but those are mostly on online alternate news.
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 @DesolatorsDayz How would that make a difference? They're still engaged in the sale of the game, they can't evade copyright when it's obviously a commercial use.
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"Early" deaths in their 70s?
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This isn't a USP Match.
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If they continue in this trajectory, they'll have Crimea back by mid 2023. They're slashing through the Izyum axis.
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Everything I've learned from videogames says just let them fight to save ammo.
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Iran also enabled the fight from the opposite side. Which is funny because Iran never gets any flak for using Yemen as its proxy.
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@jacobyrassilon Cable was also a way to pay for original programming that didn't have to depend entirely on ad revenue. Then cable just became as bad and as ad-filled as network TV. Really can't fault millennials and zoomers here because the exact same rugpull was done on boomers and gen x.
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And remember that "long covid" includes symptoms of anxiety and depression according to the NIH. You were told you had something that has a daily death counter on the TV screen, surely that isn't good for mental health.
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Lmao
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@wbrown3907 how does unregulated capitalism have anything to do with the policies that promote homelessness in states like California?
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left libertarians still want to put a bullet in my brain
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@smileyp4535 that's not true. Right libertarianism is the natural state and thus requires no authority to enforce, while left libertarianism does require it. It's not about meritocracy or where you start from, it's about the level of force required to maintain the system.
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@gunkwretch3697 Lack of guns isn't safety either.
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@maxricemusic It's not "scientifically defined", but we use race in scientific studies (for example regarding side effects in medication). Claiming it's entirely a social construction when we use it to determine if you're more or less likely to have an adverse outcome from medical intervention makes zero sense.
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The hell does that mean? Yes they were doing things before, the point is arresting people on shoddy evidence.
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@nosilverharbinger "My point is who actually cares what freedoms you have or don't have if the people in a society could give a shit less about anyone other than themselves (if that)?" - Huh.... Me?"
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OP calling minorities criminals...
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Probably looking for minors in chat rooms.
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He's not a star in a media company, he's a youtuber.
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@alext3811 What clean jobs? Let's see how clean they actually are.
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Independently of what happened, it's as good as finished. Even if the ship can be salvaged, it's going to take a year or two to repair.
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Real journalists make up anonymous sources? Explains why journalism is so discredited.
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It is riddiculous. They put up photos for PR. This means that somehow whoever posted that pic thinks the force is doing a good job.
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The differences between the AK and M-16 are minimal. People overstate the reliability of the AK and the accuracy advantage if the M-16 - the M-16 is much more reliable than people think and the AK is more accurate than what people claim.
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@bierwolf8360 Exactly, no argument - just baseless accusations. If you have better things to do, don't pipe up at all.
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Damn and they slept through Trump's administration? So convenient for Hearsh.
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"It gets the job done" is what people say about their shitbox car.
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Russia didn't keep their "we won't invade" agreement so countries need NATO protection.
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 @Milo-id9qd Because as far as we know, quality has ended up smashing quantity.
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They're made from regular grenades and sometimes explosive rounds for launchers and mortars attached to 3d printed tails.
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No need to be salty, Russia had every chance to get the Su 57 right and what did they do? Allowed it to remain vaporware.
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@Juiceman-fz6pm A new production aircraft is cheaper to maintain, and by going down in power it's cheaper to refuel. One of the A-10s advantages is loiter time and fuel consumption. However, it's a WW3 aircraft relegated to light attack duties. Due to its age, it requires parts scavenging and expensive contracts to manufacture replacement parts. The A-10 sits in an awkward middle ground where it's less expensive than multirole jets but more expensive than it should be for the role it does. Its fleet also requires mechanics and pilots who could be used elsewhere.
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@mistergeopolitics4456 Real talk, if you're actually suggesting the annihilation of the Ukranian people as a "stark reality" then doesn't that justify taking Putin's "Madman Theory" at face value, and acting accordingly? You're trying to sell us a world where for better or worse, the World Police and NATO shennanigans are actually justified. You're trying to sell us a world where we might actually consider to cut our losses and press the button. We'll sacrifice millions of people, but the nightmare will be over. That's the stark reality. You do not want this stark reality.
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Yeah but increased skillsets and automation come at a cost. Should have escaped the middle income trap first.
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Saw another comment saying the channel was "sold".
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 @DennisMerwood-xk8wp did you see the picture of the S-400 command vehicle struck by HIMARS? Bloody handprint on the door. The 100,000 tungsten BBs did a number on the crew inside.
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How to cause Ukrainian procurement officers an aneurysm.
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"I fail to see how the frogfoot is still an asset but the A-10 wouldn't be" - The Frogfoot isn't a very useful asset. It's being used to launch rockets in a ballistic arc and haul back to base. Standoff weapons require altitude to get the targeting pod pointed at the target. They're good at PR, and yet you didn't see the Frogfoot obliterate that convoy. There's a reason for it. It's suicidal.
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The guy at the job site with the most injuries isn't the main impact in construction. In fact, he'd help more by not constantly getting hurt.
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@A-G-F- 7.62x39 has worse trajectory. There's a reason even the Russians moved to 5.45.
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Ironic how she ended up publicly displaying her "bdsm daddydom lifestyle" on the internet, for armored skeptic to leave her alone and almost 30.
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@victorbolt2770 No. No denazification, no demilitarization.
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Gordon Ramsay had an episode of the F-word about that. It's an invasive species.
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Dude went on a rant where he banged on the table saying Ukraine was the enemy and that we all owe Russia an apology.
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@cuda426hemi "The idea of rights is hilarious - just look at the idiots that don't wear masks- it's their right - to kill you, right?" - You're going to wear that mask forever. When this pandemic ends, diseases caused by bacteria or viruses won't stop existing. You will continue to exhale pathogens. If you actually believe that not wearing a mask is killing people, I hope you stay true to your convictions. You will never remove that mask ever again. If you do, you're a hypocrite.
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@the33rdguy "both are very new technologie" - they actually predate our current nuclear designs but didn't get researched because the reactors we have now can be used to breed weapons grade material. Nuclear warfare delayed the technology.
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@digestedplus What about the nationalists and militarists who started the self-proclaimed republics? They are nationalist. Ukraine will have more Nazis and more military power thanks to Russia.
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Which kind of hints at the fact that it's an evolutionary dead end.
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To change citizenship you have to pay your taxes. The government wouldn't recognize his renunciation until the debt was paid lol.
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There was no Russian response. They announced a retreat and redeployment.
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The issue is that the cost of operating the conventional aircraft and protecting them with low observable SEAD escort (which isn't going to work 100% of the time) is just going to outpace the cost of just sending the low observable aircraft to perform the mission in the first place.
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@scottekoontz Your statistics started the count in Jan 15 which was still during the peak and most people didn't have it.
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 @MasterBlasterSr Patriot is still active.
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 @Gary-bz1rf They did not shoot down seven. 10 storm shadows means 5x Su-24s because they carry one on each side per plane. Most likely two Su-24s fired 4.
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@lordsqueak That's a marketing trick. Any aircraft can have a quick turnaround to refuel and rearm. After a certain number of hours you can't do turnarounds, you have to ground the aircraft. Saab pretends the Gripen doesn't need depot level maintenancd to wow netizens.
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Yeah, being self-aware enough to look at Johnson's campaign in 2016 with a critical eye makes one a bot.
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The F-14s were essentially replaced by Super Hornets. F-35s replaced legacy Hornets. Super Hornets will be replaced by the F/A-XX program. The decision to retire F-14s was logical. It was a pretty expensive aircraft to maintain.
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@voidtempering8700 60 era SAMs against 60s and 70s jets. They had the French Kari IADS network, SAMs from the single digit to double digit SAs, French Rolands and even MIM-23 Hawk batteries captured from Kuwait.
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Nobody said they were heroes. It's like Godzilla 2014 "Let the fight".
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People can be wounded more than once and return to service.
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Sam Hyde
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@theoracle10 BS. This happened before Omicron. Omicron is very recent news, comparatively. This has been going on for two years and you want to pretend something that only reached public consciousness two months ago is the driving factor.
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I didn't even make that link. Damn the scriptwriters for our simulation are lazy.
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UN troops are too busy spreading cholera and raping kids.
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The mobility scooter brigade.
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@anshulsingh8326 Nope. The US wanted to let Ukraine fall, and they fought alone with minimal donations from the UK. It was only after Ukraine proved they could fight Russia that they got NATO aid.
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Airplanes can't fly forever, and it often costs more to refurbish ageing aircraft than buy new ones.
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@quicknova8762 Gripen's difference between max takeoff weight and empty weight is 7,200kgs while in the F-35 you get 18,000kg which means more payload, 1.6x the combat range, double the fuel capacity in internal tanks alone, more weapons integrated.
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Get new material.
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Carbon is life but I'm not sticking my face in exhaust fumes. Please don't make us look bad with those kinds of statements, that are easily dunked on by any midwit.
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Challo Bro we have footage of the victims being frog marched by Russian soldiers.
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@krumba100 If the tanks weren't designed so horribly the lives inside would be spared. They take a hit and the ammunition goes off. Due to how the autoloader works they cook really easy, while on many Western tanks even if you hit the ammo blowoff pannels help divert the pressure outside.
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Jean Pierre from Paris Oblast.
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Auch, my leg maaan...
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They didn't. They abandoned the weapons, APCs and ammo. They didn't have the means to surround or destroy anything. They fled.
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@kalbing I'm not saying it was a missile but they're not made to make a "hole". They either use fragmentation, in which cube and bowtie shaped pieces of metal are shot out like an omnidirectional shotgun blast, or continuous-rod warheads. The continuous rods are interesting because they're long rods of metal welded at the tips in a an alternating zig-zag, so when the warhead explodes the rods separate but remain joined at the tips, forming a circular "concertina". When the stretched circle impacts aircraft, it slices them through.
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@Mike Schnobrich any cop who enforces that law deserves to get shot in self-defense.
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 @McKrzyniu It takes time to lay minefields, and you can't mine the retreat paths for your friendlies or else they blow up too.
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@ChildlessCatMan This is from a movie. The actual historical account is that every man either had a rifle or submachinegun, but there was a large contingent of forces that had fewer heavy weapons (mortars, howitzers, etc) than they optimally should have and were ordered to attack anyway.
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@scrubsrc4084 It didn't lose to the A-10 in combat, that was a flyoff competition.
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Call of Putin
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Do they seem to be losing?
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@johnteeling4679 That's not necessarily true. The VariViggen and VariEZE designed by Burt Rutan are canard controlled aircraft made to be homebuilt and use mechanical linkages for the controls, not a fly by wire computer. What happens is that on modern fighters the canards are not placed to prioritize maximum stability but to allow quick departures from stable flight. So the canards are controlled by flight computer and move on their own. On the Rutan designs the canards are placed for stability.
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@ratherbefishing4225 Early jets using canards had stability problems, but these were solved with the close-coupled canard design. So it's not as simple as saying "canard jets are unstable" because it all depends on the design and intent. Rutan designed a propeller canard aircraft for stability and it was successfully flown with a jet engine until the unfortunate crash caused by build defects. Adding a jet engine does not suddenly make canards inherently unstable, but early jets with canards had design issues that could only be dealt with by changing the design or computerized flight control.
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@charleynewman5057 "Anarchists are Trump supporters too" - BOOOI
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@rhodium1096 "days later VDV took the cities of Hostomel, Bucha and Irpin" - And did you watch the pictures of what happened to them?
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@Alarios711 A societal problem you come here and tell us can be easily fixed. You're not being asked to fix urban planning. You're not being asked to fix the way we cultivate. Just demonstrate how. Society will follow.
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@SkylerYanas I remember as a kid finding a floppy disk with a strip poker videogame. That was before games had any rating system so the devs put in an "age lock" by asking 4 questions. I answered them correctly and got to see pixelates titties. I just happened to have enough general knowledge at around 10-11 years old to get stuff right even though it was about stuff that happened decades prior.
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@JadetZXC It's not up to the courts because essentially it's the copyright holder that has final say on what constitutes copyright infringement in YouTube land.
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@vladimirdyuzhev the KGB gave the Romanians radioactive materials so they could eliminate people quietly and the Securitate used it to kill union leaders behind a coal miner's strike. Let's not pretend the KGB was moral hang ups about killing workers.
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 @jaec1998 There was no coup because the government did not fall. The government VOTED Yanukovych out.
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Canada joined a military pact with China in 2013.
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@insAneTunA No offense, but that's not recycling. That's just reusing. I've seen their presentation and it seems they crush the composite into a powder which then gets mixed into the new product. That's an exercise in sweeping the problem under the rug. And the use of shredded composite as a filler was talked about in the video so he didn't do poor research. He just didn't name the companies proposing it.
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Putin: sends troops to cut off Kiyv from the border by taking the highway and assassins to get Zelensky
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"They could've chosen to be normal functioning members of society" - And how does someone protecting what's theirs somehow not make them functioning members of society? If every potential victim had the ability and will to do what they did, society would improve overall.
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The Uniparty.
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 @SkylerKing Russia is struggling a lot.
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Militaries train all the time, doesn't mean they're always at war.
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@MAKATORA Pretty sure that studies have confirmed that the religious right provides more charity than other demographics. You're blaming the church when most non-corporate charities in the US have some degree of involvement with the local churches.
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Actually, it is. Russia can't hope for Daddy America to come rescue them with fuel, ammo and food.
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@asdrubale bisanzio Herd immunity used to be defined by people getting immune through natural means. They changed the definition to only include the shot. Taking the shot doesn't prevent new strains. You tell us that we don't know how things work, but you're here selling your narrative that's blatantly contradicted by the official narrative. If the normal people are taking the shot, then how could anti-vax people hurt them? You just contradicted your own narrative.
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@gfys756 The black market in Ukraine is selling to... Ukraine. Almost a million men fighting a war want weapons, ammo and gear. They will have a lot more demand and purchasing power. Makes no sense to sell halfway around the world when a unit an oblast away is willing to pay for supplies.
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I bring up post-9/11 measures and it's like talking to a brick wall.
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@TrappedInTheNorth I don't think he personally worked on it.
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350-370 million per Rafale isn't cheap.
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Make sure to start an extra ammo plant or two, because it would fly off the shelves the next morning.
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Why did Ritter spend time in prison?
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@FRIPPE_THE_GREAT Forget the "secret stuff". Even if that wasn't an objection, they'd need to place an order and Saab would be spending months to produce the aircraft. They need aircraft which exist, are ready to fly without major overhauls, and can be parted with in their current home country.
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Is that a GMR patch? Or did they steal their logo just like the valor? Ba-du-tiss
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@JustAnotherAccount8 Key medical knowledge was not obtained lol, most experiments and observations were so unscientific in nature you can't draw conclusions from it. The only evidence I ever found of WWII human experimentation being used was the hypothermia testing data, to make cold water suits for pilots that had to eject over the sea, and even that was evwntually dropped because the data involved malnourished people rather than healthy pilots.
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 @brownmold And then were invaded in 2014. They only sought NATO membership when Russia built up on their borders.
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You can't do drugs while in the military.
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They haven't been "bombing Donbas", they have been fighting Russia's hybrid war. Their own supposed people, lead by Russian operatives and armed by Russia's stockpiles. Compare the pictures of Donbas after "8 years of bombing" and cities like Mariupol after two months of Russian invasion.
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Nukes don't cause environmental change and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt.
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@DavidRedshaw-i2h the frozen lasagnas were better with horse meat. The European horse meat scandal forced brands to switch to cheaper beef and pork which were inferior in taste. The horse meat was fine.
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@Julian Cicone Trump is also obese and was 74 at the time he had it, he recovered from it in like three days. Let's not get carried away.
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Self-determination alone won't cut it. There's dozens of separatist movements in the developed world alone, we can't just carve out new borders whenever we feel like. Armenia was also the aggressor in the 90s.
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Only Pfizer cominarty is approved, which as far as I know won't be available until 2022-2023. In fact the DoD was recently sued because their mandate can be ruled invalid unless they distribute cominarty as pfizer-biontech is still on an extended emergency authorization.
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@jamesrowlands8971 several cruise missiles fired at Ukrainian bases missed. The satellite photos show the craters that missed the runways.
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@jamesrowlands8971 You claimed that European air bases are within range of Russian cruise missiles. I said that being in range of cruise missiles doesn't mean much when they'll miss. You got one shot to disable the runways, if the aircraft take off it's over.
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That's absolutely the wrong take. What was shown is that you need a resilient infrastructure and quality air defenses to operate aircraft, as cruise and medium range ballistic missiles can target airfields and fuel depots.
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And instead of using a sane unit of measurement like joule or ft.lbf it's just "Units". What does that even represent? Might as well say he punches with 5 million cackadoodles per gadzook.
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If the ACLU supported a caste system where being fined for not wearing a seatbelt meant you were unpersoned, yes they'd be betraying their liberty mission.
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 @billy56081 They won't use modern AT weapons. AT mines, artillery, drone drops and FPV RPG-7s easily achieve mobility and mission kills.
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 @AndrewTubbiolo Yeah and where's the reserve of trained crews? Even if they had those for NATO/China, they have the hulls but no army to use them.
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+LMA which is why libertarians are consistently anti-taxation and anti-government expenditure.
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South Africa also put half their Gripen fleet in storage rotation to reduce the operational costs. Operational costs actually increased per flight hour as a result.
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 @KN-xl6lw You only need a license to drive in public roads.
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Russia released Azov commanders in exchange for Putin's friend.
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@edmundooliver7584 So why do the vaccinated need mask?
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I don't see the point of this comment. Big mainstream youtube channels brought in security experts and drivers to take a look at hacking and driving scenes in movies. There's an entire genre of lawyers analyzing courtroom scenes from TV shows. This isn't being nitpicky, it's an opportunity to learn.
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You lose war ships while killing children.
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@JoJo-vg8dz "He did the worst thing a human being can do." - No, he didn't. He actually did a good thing.
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STOVL is practical and usable. It allows smaller and cheaper carriers to launch respectable air power without the need of a catapult or arrestor wire.
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Russia can't even with the war.
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@frankrosemeck9898 He was probably the person with the highest IQ at TYT. And this isn't a compliment.
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@lediapronica2249 The dark green uniform is associated with Russian/separatist forces, the Ukrainians use a lighter shade of green.
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 @galacticverse7694 What's the point of capturing Bakhmut instead of just encircling it? Oh wait, they tried that.
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They're attacking, though...
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+BlueBell22 that's not how it works in a civilized country where people have constitutional rights. It's the police that needs to fix their problems, not the populace that has to run away from them. Why don't you tell the Founding Fathers that if they didn't like the British they should have moved to a country without them? Dude what the fuck does dog training have anything to do with this conversation? Oh yeah let's send people with little to not experience on how to handle dogs to deal with them, and just trust that the quality and availability of dog training across America is consistent enough that a dog can be told to ignore his family being "attacked" by strangers.
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 Justinoid yeah and who voted for her should be embarassed
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@plantbased4430 I don't know and I don't care. I don't see how bringing up another situation matters to this discussion. Were you expecting me to... what? Denounce them? Support them? I have no opinion on the matter because I don't have the information.
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Did you see the sat photos of Ukrainian air bases after the initial attack? Only 33% of missiles headed for air bases hit the target.
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@user-vatnik_petrov "Who is going to pay?" same question can be asked about the Russian missiles. How much money is being stolen from the Russian people to pay for the long range missiles that end up shot down by defenses?
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In MMT, taxation is a way to "destroy" the money out of circulation to prevent inflation. So instead of paying more at the grocery store, you simply get your wages deducted from. Yeah. No need to tell me how insane this is.
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@pierrea3094 Again, that's an issue with distribution. Cheaper cases may exist, but if there's no distributor in country X then people there are out of luck. And these ripoff companies thrive there.
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@phantom_3oh9 "one day it becomes damn near incomprehensible" - But there's older people who understand the world. It's all about how willing one is to keep learning. "they need to hand over the keys and allow the next generation to step in." - The next generation is full of fools to. I see ignorant 40 year olds, ignorant 30 year olds, ignorant 20 year olds. And just as often they have the aforementioned God complex. "these old bastards are a huge contributing factor to this" - Sure. How is electing more AOCs going to solve anything? You think the younger politicians are your allies? They want to screw you just as much. "most of their technical knowledge is now obsolete in this day and age" - Most of them are dead. But despite the progress I'm pretty sure that people who created the modern internet we still use today still understand how it works. Better than most 20 year olds. We're now back to seeing young people unable to use a printer or pirate software/movies because they're so used to apps and streaming.
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Operational silence is what happens when they're on the ground and trying to surprise the defenses. How do you tell things are not good?
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No, the stuff was stolen. This was a problem that went undetected for years but for example airsoft players could get Russian kit to play. And everyone knew the stuff was stolen, but it's uniforms so who cares? But then the helmets and armor plates started showing up online too. And there was an entire black market of stolen Russian gear. The guys being called up, they're not real reservists. Anyone who spent the 1 year in the army (mandatory with few exceptions) is considered a "reservist". The real reservists are the BARS units and they've been fighting in Ukraine for months.
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@Abe Archambault If you have to take 4 in a year, it's not "yearly", it's quarterly. And the flu shot is tuned for the specific variants. This is just the product not working and requiring more dosage of the same exact thing.
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+Soyboy of Busan net worth calculations are a joke. How would some random website know private information such as debt and all the assets that belong to a celebrity?
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Loyalty is more important than competence in the Russian regime.
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Ukraine rejects foreign volunteers. I know several people with military experience who have been ignored. They only take people with an expertise they need.
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I was on the set of Rust, walking through blood and bone...
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I remember photos of the supposed mutations in a school textbook. Turned out those were just pictures of kids with malformations, with no relation to Chernobyl.
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So if your car breaks down, you couldn't have ever driven because you can't drive now?
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It's funny because by the same standards the commercial pilots that bus around millions of passengers safely and ace fighter pilots are dumbfuck idiots because anti-ambiguity measures are used in aircraft, radio comms, etc.
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@pilotmanpaul They already deployed more than that. There's a reason for the decrees expanding the size of the Russian army - Russia has sent everyone from sailors to strategic rocket forces troops into Ukraine.
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In some countries, the Serb chimp out in the 1990s. The Armenian genocide if recognized in those countries.
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The elites don't want you to know this but the geese at the park are free. I'm carrying two geese on my vehicle right now.
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@bmeo1234 Okay, doesn't change the fact that if the mail in ballots can be trusted - like you say they are - then the mandatory vaccine should be mailed.
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Why would they use ports to send weapons when they could be sent by land?
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It didn't ruin the project.
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You people sang a different tune about the Atomic Heart devs.
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@a.wyattmann4370 If they wanted to kill a thief they should have done it the old fashioned way - during the commission of a crime. Boomerwaffen riding around town guns drawn looking for suspects is not exactly my idea of freedom.
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@daviddewald4540 the mistakes of the F-4? Please stop listening to History Channel boomer-tier propaganda. The Navy didn't need guns on their F-4s and they did fine. Even the F-4E only scored 5-6 kills with the gun, while in total the USAF scored over 100 kills.
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Reminder: the failed Zaporizhzhia offensive captured more land than Russians have for the past 9 months, with a fraction of the losses.
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Don't donate to the NRA, they're going to roll over and let gun control pass. Gun Owners of America has a better track record of defending the 2ndA.
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There's open source tracking of UA losses too. Russians will post footage whenever they can. Drone footage shows vehicle wrecks, by using dating and geolocation you can find wrecks that were not on that place in previous videos.
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6.8 SPC is a joke. This is different.
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 @khazaddum6570 Manufacturing cost doesn't cover the actual overhead. It's like saying a restaurant only pays for ingredients, ignoring licenses, elecricity and water bills, wages, etc.
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 @ГеоргийМурзич They never outnumbered the Russians. Their army was around 250k people. The Russian army, PMCs, DPR/LPR, etc were pretty much equal in numbers.
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@awesom6588 The Patriot is excellent. Most of the critiques against the Patriot are either based on the older model being used as an anti-ballistic missile system when optimized against aircraft, or based on a specific individual who was near obsessed with proving the Patriot was bad and went as further as claiming it missed targets by hundreds of feet by incorrectly measuring imagery from video tapes. Unfortunately, his arguments were considered valid and entered public discourse. Plinked by R37. Can you do me a favor? With everything you have seen regarding Russia, what makes you think the R37 retains good radar performance at the edge of its range? How many hours do those MiG-31 engines have left? These are important questions. Because a country scrapping the bottom of the barrel with tanks, dogshït thermal sights, an attack helicopter that shakes itself apart does not seem to be the place that could sustain the MiG-31s engines and delicate missile electronics.
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It's 2024, not 1996. The tech industry stories about H-1B are now coming to light. For your information I've been hearing about H-1B being abused in the Seattle tech space for a decade.
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@_permanence That's science, the tool. We don't have that. We have Science™.
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The A-10 actually uses a lot of APKWS now, guidance kill for Hydra rockets. Around 5-6 mile range, battery limited, 30k a pop vs 150k Hellfire.
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 @christyvetter18 the millions of homeless get handed tons of aid.
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@Phrancis5 to be fair, I'd rather risk my life on the road than live in a world where the autonomous driving can be hacked or turned off by the car manufacturer because I said the n-word in 2010 or something.
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Game has changed multiple times. Compare Russian soldiers in day 1 to the hobos in camoby day 600.
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No offense but they very much did care about skin textures. I remember when subsurface scattering became the hot new thing. Also mouth movements. Speech animations were a big deal. 2000's games had an arms race for who could do shadows better, who could cram the highest polycounts, who could do fire better, who could do water better, particle effecfs, smoke, dynamic lighting, etc everyone was trying to make a name for themselves. Now that the industry has converged to fewer engines you make your game look better with 250gb install sizes.
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The artillery advantage is counterbalanced by shell supplies (Wagner always needed more), barrel life, lower quality spotting due to Russian EW affecting Russian Mavic drones too.
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No tax is fair to begin with, but you're really not making an argument by saying prohibition is worse when nobody is advocating for it here, and something being worse doesn't justify the alternative.
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@deus_ex_machina_ That's not what he asked.
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Michael Williams bro you do realize there are a ton of Anerican Jews who hate what Israel is doing, right?
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@Asfandyar_ It didn't because Vietnam fought the Khmer Rouge and China invaded them. Now apply that logic to Korea. Imagine a world where the UN didn't intervene and now the entire Korea belonged to the Kims.
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@Zlurz "bring peace and calmness to whatever is happening" - How do they bring peace other than projecting force? "that is absolutely ridiculous" - But it isn't. All law is backed by violence.
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Not studying history and not being caught up with the events in the third world doesn't mean you're insane.
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@MisterN1 "which technically they do all the time as a part of the aging process in which cells replicate and each replication makes new cells weaker than the previous though not always" - No. There are thermal and non-thermal effects in vitro to millimeter wave radiation. What does this mean? The studies say it's not clear. "5G does not magically transform a living substance into a bunch of RNA encased in a fatty lipid layer with proteins sticking out of it(that would be a virus)" - I've clearly never mentioned a virus. I was just saying the entire 5G conspiracy theory goes deeper than that. "Cancer cells are made by radiation" - No, cancer cells can be made by literally anything. Even exposure to asbestos is dangerous because not only getting the fibers stuck on your lung tissue causes the cells to react to the foreign object, but the fibers themselves are thin enough to tangle chromosomes and physically change the DNA inside a cell. Exposure to certain chemicals causes these changes which are responsible for cancer. "I could see the argument for 5g causing cancer were it not for the issue of cellphone radiation and even 5G radiation being non-ionizing radiation" - I literally explained why the "ionizing vs non-ionizing" argument doesn't work. "Sorry man but you're not winning me over on any of this." - I'm not winning ANYTHING. I'm literally trying to explain you how to talk to the people who believe in the conspiracy. You can't flippantly dismiss non-ionizing radiation when the issue is cells having their DNA affected by means other than ionizing radiation.
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I haven't watched a lot of perfume ads but at least half of the modern ones I have seen still show a man and woman in pursuit of each other. I guess the straights are keeping the industry afloat, it seems.
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@Perisemiotics The democratically elected president had already had one election overturned in 2004 thanks to ballot stuffing and voter intimidation. The democratically elected president passed laws against freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of press. He was also known for excessively prosecuting or slapping bogus charges on his political opposition. He ordered cops to crack down on protesters, and paid hired thugs to help the violence. He fled the country, his own party disavowed him, and the democratically elected parliament relieved him of his duties since he was gone. This democratically elected president you love would have cops beat you, criminals beat you, your journalists arrested, make you unable to protest, arrest your political leaders. That's the man you defend. A coward in a suit who had people murdered when the riot police fired steel slugs designed to disable car engine blocks into crowds.
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Their depravity knows no bounds.
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@juanche978 those aren't free market systems.
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@bthsr7113 "We're mainly fighting insurgents" - Afghanistan is over. At this point SOCOM having Super Tucanos and AT-6Bs is enough to fit the bill. "and vintage Soviet gear, some of which were the A-10's intended prey" - Okay. Vintage Soviet gear is getting clapped by drones, artillery and shoulder fired weapons, while Su-25 pilots hug the ground in fear of anti-air weapons. In Ukraine both sides have access to A-10 equivalents and they're either getting shot down, or flying very carefully rather than being the CAS beasts they're supposed to be. The intended prey is now the predator, as the biggest threat to the A-10 are the ground units with missiles and guns designed specifically to splash A-10s.
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@jimmeeks1126 lmao the psychopaths on the "alternative" are worse. Look into Lavrentiy Beria. Especially his sex life.
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 @teosal3224 Bakhmut was a 9 month battle. Spanned more than one season.
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@M0stlyHarmless9 "You could be a libertarian and recognize that MMT is true." - how the fuck can one be a libertarian and trust central banks?
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The European army would be a mess. NATO standardization is better.
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Is this related to space flight?
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@Max_Da_G And yet needed French Thales optics...
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@somethingsomething8511 "manipulation of stock prices to cause a short squeeze" - Where's the manipulation? The hedge funds made a play that put them on the hook for returning the stocks they owed, a redditor noticed it, and decided to take the stocks they'd need in the future. That's not manipulating. It was the hedge fund's fault for getting outsmarted.
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Most civilian deaths were caused by sectarian fighting/suicide bombers/etc. The US forces caused around 7,000 civilian casualties.
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If you add more armor the engine needs to be larger, the fuel runs out sooner, becomes harder to transport into theater, gets stuck easier.
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One person reviewing can discourage thousands from watching on the theaters.
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@superymariowest2403 they most likely set off the explosives at a licensed bomb range, not the national park.
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It wasn't society inside the school. It was children. Either way, if they don't want the job they can quit.
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Hancock45
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But it doesn't. The provocation was Russian all along, from before the dissolution with their forced relocation plans. Russia uses these Soviet era policies as a way to be a crybully and invade neighboring countries.
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Germany was also gaining ground in Barbarossa.
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The Soviets helped North Vietnam, dude. Double standards, much?
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Blue cigar Gaming that's because it's sitting in a high property value area. Meanwhile you can get actual mansions for 300,000 as long as you don't mind living an hour drive away from the city. Where is this Chris Roberts' house located anyway?
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@brentwilbur They started the fight. First, they have since the Russian empire tried to take over Ukraine. Before NATO. Second, the eastern thing was about GERMANY. And Ukraine was going to join EU, not NATO.
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Either Russia does not have the capabilities they say they have, or they are incompetent.
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@dbagdave2774 The F-35 may be 15 years "behind" but there's over 1000 built. Fleet readiness issues are also overblown due to a nuance in partial mission capability and full mission capability.
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 @delta2372 CoD World at War did the title justice by including the Pacific and the Soviet push towards Berlin.
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Cope. Kharkiv got rolled up pretty nicely, disproving your claim.
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Ukraine couldn't hit high value targets with Smerch. They can with GMLRS rockets for the HIMARS. Replacement, or new capabilities?
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@jr.fidelcastro8890 He's been wrong for months, how does he speak truth?
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Soturian bs, watch Nerdcity's "Youtube's Biggest Lie". It's not about liability.
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@terri6854 He smelled the bread through plastic. Of course that some scent makes through the bag as it's not a perfect seal, but smelling it for the camera makes no sense as you're smelling the entire bakery rather than the specific loaf you took out of the display.
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@BobLSaget "1 foot of tubing can probably dissipate ~1-3watts or something not to significant, if the tubing was fluted or finned it could drastically increase it." - so basically have finstacks around tubing filled with liquid? Hmmmmmmmmmmm
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+Aereto yeah I'm pretty mad about ISPs too but right now Alphabet, Facebook, etc are doing more to destroy the internet than ISPs and people are cheering them on. +Mike two different issues that converge together. When Net Neutrality was on the chopping block the tech companies were all about "muh freedumbs". Turns out that predictably, they are perfectly willing to curbstomp freedom and unperson controversial people off the internet.
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+kevtuub but laws are punitive and punish those caught doing something wrong. Gun control tries to catch people before they do something wrong. That's why gun control doesn't work, and other laws do. This is not about being defeatist, it's the way the law works. We don't ban murder because we pretend that murder won't exist, but because we know there are murderers and we need a crime to charge them and bring them to court. Gun control does nothing to help bring to court someone who has already murdered another. It would be like accusing someone of murder and jaywalking. You don't need the jaywalking charge if you have him for murder or any serious felony.
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@J the morale argument is absolute hogwash because weapons that target morale just send insurgents running to their dirt bikes and go back to their normal lifes until they decide to attack next week. You target their morale, they come back. Target their bodies, and they'll be a red smear on the ground. Forget morale.
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The F-15 and F-16 have already proven themselves as able to limp back to a runway with a wing gone/half a wing ripped off. The F-35 uses even more body lift than those so it's most likely very surviveable if the body can compensate for assymetric lift. The hydraulic system is even more resilient by isolating each control surface so that getting shot doesn't mean the entire hudraulic system is drained, only the one hit.
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And the A-10 has already been replaced. The F/A-18, F-15E, F-16 and B-1 took over the CAS role with the A-10 only getting a small percentage of missions.
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And by the way, India and China dispute a border, and China backs Pakistan. Russia is aligned with India and they also have some disputed territory with China. Brazil is... Brazil. And South Africa has power outages. Come on...
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Lmao "technology doesn't exist and neither do the pipes leading to the sea in China"
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Severodonetsk will fall to Ukraine because the Kupiansk rail hub was seized. Now Russia has no rail line from the east that connects to the edges of their frontline protecting Luhansk, meaning their supplies will be strained as they'll depend on trucks.
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@Prismate homie actually answered the question and all you got is jokes
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"Time will tell" is bot phrasing jesus christ there's dozens of accounts saying this
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@mostlydead3261 Their rulers exist not in a vacuum, but at least in a glass dome. They know their leaders are corrupt assholes, but they have been told we are worse. Their mentality is that if they overlook the corruption, they'll be protected from the outside. And right now the outside of the dome is trying to "cancel" an entire nation by banning them from internet services, the global economy, sporting events, etc. Even a Russian who might be aware that the invasion was clearly aggressive rather than defensive, has now to consider that he needs a strongman leader, he needs his leader to have nukes, and he needs his nation to be feared. Now consider that many were told that the war was defensive, and it wasn't even a war but a "special mission". Holding normal everyday people in the hopes they break the cycle is insane.
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Wrong. There's maps saying "Ukraine" before Moscow even existed. If the word means border it's because to the East you had Mongols, the Caucasus peoples in the Southeast and pirates in the Black Sea. If it was a border, it was between Europe and the lands where Europeans wouldn't venture to. As Russia, or the principality of Muscovy, did not exist yet.
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@woodenfloor3131 But the capital is right there. It's all the money the people are spending when they're getting ripped off. Requires intervention to fix? You mean building redundant infrastructure? Giving out corporate welfare? That's your idea of fixing? Where does it stop? How do you pick which other company gets to mooch of your money? Why would anyone invest into building infrastructure if they're going to be considered a monopoly and the competitor is gonna get them gibs from daddy government? Why only two? That's a duopoly. Why not six? Why not pay for 5 separate broadband lines? There's a reason that's not the common solution around the world. Nevertheless forcing sharing by law is another bandaid solution that only serves to steal money from the taxpayer and give it to corporations as subsidies. Something that could be done directly by the people involved, but first the money has to go through the laundromat so that it can go towards bombing people in foreign countries and gender studies in Pakistan, and then a sliver of an infinitesimal goes toward laying down fiber optic cables. Boy I sure am glad that all these government backed monopolies still exist and the government won't do anything about it.
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@woodenfloor3131 Yes, you were. You might not think you were, but that's how things culminate. "government intervention is sometimes necessary" - If you're not going to describe under what form this intervention will come, you can't exactly dismiss what I'm arguing about because you "weren't talking about corporate welfare". "most monopolies exist due to government corruption" - It's not even corruption. The stated goal of a state is monopolizing some sectors. We just "agreed" under this system to lock in some monopolies through government power. It's not corruption, it's the way things work. It's not a bug, it's a feature. "What do you think about public goods like national defense" - I see it as a public "bad", not a good. "even the most extreme libertarians accept that government intervention is necessary in order for MSC = MSB?" - Then they're not "extreme libertarians", they're milquetoast small L lolbertarians, who for the sake of the argument might as well be progressive republicans and don't deserve the prefix "liber".
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@linusmlgtips2123 You put the government in charge of the Sahara and they'll run out of sand in 5 years. Imagine defending the organizations that murdered a quarter billion humans in the 20th century alone. Couldn't be me.
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They're welcome to bring their bombers into SAM range.
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+Apollyon Abaddon Exterminans dude Mandela himself was influenced by Marxism. Julius Malena and the EFF have a pro-Marxist platform. A lot of these anti-white and anti-imperialism activists are essentially marxists. It was the USSR and China that promoted Marxism-Leninism and Maoism in African countries and funded/trained/equipped revolutionaries under the guise of African liberation.
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But Russia is resorting to Iranian weaponry, which is below peer and already used in Saudi Arabia where Patriot is deployed. Nothing new under the sun.
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I think it's funny how in a ton of jokes Taco Bell is implied to cause people to nuke their toilet but I never had an issue.
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 @feedyourmind6713 Russia can't even defend Sevastopol.
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@graveperil2169 There's been direct confrontation between US special operations assisting local forces in Syria and Wagner. Nothing happened.
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How were the numbers prior to 2008? Because I always want to know about the cut off dates due to the habit of terrorism numbers being reported from 12th of September 2001 onwards. Pretty funny day to start counting.
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Boeing made 2 BILLION off the replacement wings. The entire reason the A-10 was not retired was because of careers in Arizona.
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 @harleyquinn8202 yeah.
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No, they had to ask for backdoors to the companies and possibly go to court over it. Now they're just gonna make it law that companies have to let the government read everything by default.
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@cucco1 Full war burns resources like mad. Russian resources are targeted when they arrive in Ukraine. More troops in Ukraine while their fuel and food burns means they starve faster.
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Firepower advantage doesn't mean hit rate advantage. Compare Russian shelling (carpeting entire empty fields) to Ukrainian shelling (clustered around trenchlines and fortifications).
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 @praddumnvats6759 the problem is that we all value crypto based on how much USD they are worth
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@lol-dm8wx How is a millionaire with a mansion and a 200k porsche a good faith actor? Literally taking donations from people who work min wage jobs lmao
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Can be used for good, but 1) don't create a PR nightmare 2) don't end up a hypocrite like Antifa.
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The A-10 has redundant hydraulics, but if the control is damaged it's damaged. Meanwhile digital control is more reliable because it can be split across different bus cables and thus stay in control even if one cable is damaged.
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They took like 20 years to improve on reverse engineered Russian engines.
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But now that we know what they look like from above, the drones can be programmed to detonate once they fly over tires.
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About one death every two months on average since 2016.
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That game was awesome. The Resistance expansion had you playing the role of a partisan in a socialist country fighting off the Red Army that was sent in to crush dissent.
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Russia has been conducting offensives and it's going terribly for them. Going backwards is kind of hard when Russia is wasting offensive power.
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@Toronto-Brad "In Russia, especially in wartime, they produce materials for the benefit of the nation and not the benefit of the shareholders." - They're using teenage slave laborer to produce Lancets. The foreign students who were supposed to be studying in Russia are now taking part in the production of weapons in polytechnic schools. Someone's profiting hard by pocketing the money.
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Orcs is a term for Russian soldiers, Russians reply in kind by referring to the Western enemy (or Western-backed) as elves in ironic fashion. Though not used very commonly.
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And yet Russia fired the commander who complained about the issues with artillery.
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Intent is irrelevant. People can't go "oopsie daisy we made a mistake and now someone's dead".
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If this is about being an intellectual, all of the college materials are essentially found for free on the internet and libraries.
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@double0cinco795 There's an engine used in both F-16s and F-15s, where there's been actual airframe losses of F-15s after engine failure but no losses from F-16 engine failures. Modern engines are so reliable it's actually a total coin toss, single engine fighters have survived engine loss but twin engine aircraft haven't. Really crazy.
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The Norwegian shooter had a Mini-14 - precisely known for being a "hunting style" weapon that avoided weapon bans. I've seen pictures of an Eotech mounted in the rifle, don't know if he used it on the shooting but for fuck's sake, he massacred kids trapped in an island. I don't think he used a scope but even if he did it wouldn't give some kind of upper hand against unarmed teenagers and young adults. No, Sasha W was just one guy selling guns on the dark web under the handle "DWguns". Black Knight you do realize that putting people in jail doesn't cure addiction, right? Portugal doesn't "allow" drugs, it's just that consumption won't send you to jail, court will mandate rehab and if you refuse to go you lose government benefits if you had them. So basically if you want to ruin your life with drugs it's your choice, but if you want help you'll get help. In the US you're sent to jail to fill up the capacity of the for-profit prison system and to be part of a cheap labour force (prisons want non-violent inmates to perform labour while they discard the violent criminals into the street or push them into state prisons). https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/opinion/sunday/portugal-drug-decriminalization.html https://news.vice.com/article/ungass-portugal-what-happened-after-decriminalization-drugs-weed-to-heroin http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/portugal-decriminalised-drugs-14-years-ago-and-now-hardly-anyone-dies-from-overdosing-10301780.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/05/why-hardly-anyone-dies-from-a-drug-overdose-in-portugal/?utm_term=.36b11649c3a7 http://www.businessinsider.com/what-happened-when-portugal-decriminalized-all-drugs-2016-3 You claimed I was lying, here's multiple news articles saying exactly what I said.
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@mgabino2 If you fired a ICBM horizontally it would also be used within the atmosphere. How do you get velocity from atmospheric reentry? By gaining enough velocity to leave the atmosphere.
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@TheBucketSkill I mean, a shit ton of Glocks found in the streets are P80s.
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@robstone4537 Not just that, but F-4s were at a disadvantage because the Air Force had to travel through areas where they had no ground radar coverage while North Vietnam could see them coming with plenty of time to react. So they sent the MiGs around the border and came in from behind. Many times these F-4s were flying slow to escort strike packages so the MiGs did high speed passes to attack and fled before the Phantoms could speed up and give chase. The Navy Phantoms always had their ships giving them radar coverage from behind so they didn't have this problem. The USAF Phantoms that went out to look for MiGs didn't have this disadvantage either.
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It's important to consider that the HIMARS is the United States Marine Corps organic long range fire support. Yes, the US Air Force and US Navy have long range missiles and aircraft, but the USMC wants the ability to call in long range fires without resorting to other branches of service. Their new force design slashed tanks and cut the number of barrel artillery. The software on the HIMARS was also updated to allow the vehicle to fire rockets from the deck of a moving amphibious assault ship at sea, meaning the ATAMCS can be launched from Marine Corps vessels and not let them be dependent on the US Navy firing Tomahawks at coastline defenses.
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Comparing a branch of armed forces to an assault formation to a manpower program. Impressive. None of the things you mentioned are related to each other.
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 @TheBlackGam3r Not the point. He's saying that you can't use that example as it is an isolated incident.
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It's being artificially pumped up.
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The problem is the left/right just forming a coalition to win control of the government even when they don't have enough votes as an individual party and you're back to the two party system.
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That's called "stealing" my guy.
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To be fair a ton of people who get laughed at never won anything. And a ton of people who were fought lost.
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@kylek7523 The Russian army required a penal battalion of expandable men to capture a single town. This is not normal.
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Every hour the losses just get multiplied by two ahahah. Those telegram channels doing damage control are a riot.
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They generally have high individual tax rates but low corporate tax.
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The sigh of relief when cops noticed a granny was bringing a WW2 bringback StG 44 to a gun buyback and they managed to get in contact with a museum that would legally take it.
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But didn't the courts side with the people thrown out because the stuff was technically only in emergency use authorization? Like the US military experimenting on troops during the Cold War was bad enough, there's limits.
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@HolyAvgr "I'm not even trying to imply that, say, european socialism is better" - "European socialism" doesn't exist. Socialism is the prohibition of profits and private property. At most, in Europe you have capitalism with a large welfare state.
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@peytonalexander5300 The book had almost 2000 names. His job was making connections. Just because he got someone's name, phone and address it doesn't mean anything. The people who visited his New York or Florida home, his New Mexico property, flew on his plane, went to his island, etc are the suspects. The book doesn't mean a list of people who are under blackmail.
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Hold on, the engine would also need to interface with the aircraft systems.
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Paul Gardner alright but did you just say "limited government" and "individual freedom" when you're pretty much asking of the state to grow enough to patrol the borders efficiently and violating individual freedoms by restricting freedom of travel? I don't disrespect your position, but how is your flavour of libertarianism any different from the mainstream Republican party?
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@paul2609 I'd rather people have guns because they feel like it than act like crazies to obtain them. One has to be a little obsessed to go through all the hoops.
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But how does it make sense? The N-bomb is dropped either with the soft "a" or the hard "r". It's pretty specific to that word.
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@ronarnett4811 Reserves are not trained because their training was next to non-existent when they originally served.
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@behroozkhaleghirad yet mobilized have already surrendered less than a week into the mobilization
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@obsidianstatue On paper space flight is "hypersonic". The issue is, the speed of sound decreases as you climb into thinner atmosphere, and essentially there's no speed of sound in space. The reason the US experimented with atmospheric hypersonics and didn't go further is because warheads coming down from space are """hypersonic""". However, having a human inside an atmospheric hypersonic craft that isn't meant to go to space is an amazing achievement for the 60s. I don't have a problem, the issue is the same old "bro China has AI bro they're gonna beat us with AI bro". Stop. AI isn't even AI. It's just a computer slamming against a wall until you give it a billion attempts to not do something stupid. That's not "artificial intelligence". It's like training an animal to perform tricks. You do realize that even the common heatseeking missile requires a special glass and cryogenic cooling due to the fact that the missile's forward velocity causes the overheating of the nose, right? It's perfectly reasonable to assume a hypersonic weapon may throttle back to supersonic for targeting data and also for last minute evasive maneuvers. The big deal with hypersonics is very short flight time between launch and arrival at the target zone. A missile that stays supersonic all the way would have to look through a much larger area to find the moving target. My comment was about you bringing up the T-72 combat record. It's not that great. Then you parroted the usual cope of saying NATO fights inferior enemies. Well, maybe they shouldn't have bought Russian gear and they wouldn't be inferior.
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They're not liberating much
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@karlp8484 The problem is that removing the gun probably means having to put a huge concrete weight in the nose to retain balance, ahaha
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@curtrobbins Iraq was a "proper military". Before the war everyone said it was going to be a clustertruck of Vietnam proportions. When the US showed how great it performs when a plan comes together, people downgraded Iraq in hindsight.
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There were WMDs. Just not an active program to build them. Several US servicemen suffered lifelong injuries from contact with Iraqi nerve agents.
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I don't want to shoot nobody. But if everyone is out there killing each other I want the biggest gun and I will open fire on any threat. I want free trade. But if trade isn't free yelling about "free trade" will do jack-shit when others are actively working against us without our "mutual consent and gratification".
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@nemiw4429 Can the T-14 see what hit it? Does the crew stay calm or just flee? Russians have abandoned tanks after a 30mm VOG grenade hit.
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Ukraine recaptured more land in 4 days than Russia can take in a month.
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It's a weird feeling. Back then we all knew that Putin was in control and he had just switched seats to keep the facade of constitutional term limits. But we were also hopeful for the future.
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Take the Tedpill
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@awesomecooly123 Then provide your numbers.
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 @blackcountryme "80% of statistics you read on the internet are made up on the spot" - Abraham Lincoln
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Two million people died for China and the Soviets only for Vietnam to them grow closer to the US. Seems like the "good guys" sent people into a mass ritualistic sacrifice to appease the Marxist Blood God then gave up.
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@ADrew why would they be cursing? Tell them that if they're really conservative why do they support a private institution that takes government money to artificially drive up demand while artificially lowering supply so they can raise costs? If they're conservatives they should understand the US private college system is socialized in cost already, the profits privatized.
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@enlightenyourself8555 Takes more brain power to handle munitions than posting that comment.
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How do you put an emphasis on BVR if stealth aircraft are extremely dangerous in BVR?
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Acelerationism is a thing.
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 @austinbevis4266 Japan is in the Pacific not the Atlantic. NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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How would they be unstoppable? They constantly rely on the VDV to save them.
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Giving that the US government is always itching to be responsible for the deaths of people over their own incompetence (NDAA, PATRIOT act, Fast and Furious scandal, etc), I'd say that the citizens deserve the second amendment. I'd really love to have another example, specially because it might sound insensitive due to your nationality, but some fascists in the 30's blamed Communist terrorists to gain the support of the public.
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@harmonys2102 First of all, the context of the sentence was that Trump was saying that when you use disinfectant it kills the germ in one minute, and asked if there was something that worked like that. He didn't say "inject disinfectant". Something that works like disinfectant. Second, the UV light treatment was something tossed as a proposal in a livestreamed debate between doctors. After Trump mentioned this, the video of the doctors discussing it was taken down.
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@zashbot He is wrong - he based his argument on fertility. Fertility at 15 is actually not at peak, and comes with a higher chance of complications than during the 20s. So even according to his metrics 15 is too young.
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@Foolish188 One of those what? The people who understand that the surgical masks worn as PPE are not effective during viral outbreaks? That the cloth masks worn by people are not effective? That nobody is actually wearing the masks as PPE? He got the Medal of Honor because daddy was an admiral. You know what was unforgivable? When McCain helped bury information about POWs left behind in Vietnam. Trump said that there were good people on both sides when he had been informed about the protests, and then denounced the white supremacists who showed up. Thanks for signaling that you fell for the twisted media narrative. Also saying that Trump backs anti-semites is laughable considering how much he supports Israel.
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And apparently there's an average of 20 cases per year. According to the wikipedia page, of course.
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@tealc6218 No, perhaps what you are not realizing is that Russia invaded in 2014. Both sides violated Minsk accords, Minsk II was violated the very next day it was signed by DPR forces assaulting Debaltseve. They didn't decide to help "at some point". They sent manpower and equipment at the very start. The separatist leaders had Russians in charge. You were set up because I just asked you to admit to Russia starting all of this. They're at fault. They sent the leaders. They sent the weapons. They pay the wages. They wanted the war, so they started it. Yeah, I went back to 2014 - when Russian sent Russian weapons, Russian officers and Russian money. For war. To kill. That's what they wanted then and what they want today. Ukraine continued to fight because the separatists wouldn't stop. Hell, at some point they even started killing themselves in power struggles. That's what you get when you put crazy people, scammers and murderers in charge of a fake nation. They just kill, even their former friends.
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Hamzat22 airsoft??? Pftt... It's MILSIM, bruh!
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@parkerbilbro3651 America definitely doesn't need a economically left wing party. Not only would they deliver an easy win to the Republican party by fragmenting the Democratic vote, but true left politics would divide the country even further. Maybe this may come as a shock to you, but the average democrat does not identify with leftist economics not social policies.
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They're so effective they went from Seven Days to River Rhine to "1 year and still can't break out of Donetsk".
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Russia is a dictatorship, not Ukraine.
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lol We await the gestures of good will
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The US left Ukraine alone - it closed the embassy and said they'd fall in three days.
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 @ttyler2014 "Huh banning experimental and unstandardized procedures which cause permanent change??? That's like banning all medicine!"
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English language sightings happen mostly in the English speaking country with 330 million people? If you search in other languages you find their sightings.
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Gazprom is laying off 40% of their St Petersburg office.
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@thekamotodragon Because in the military they're using totally beat to sh!t. It's extremely common for people to hate the Beretta 92 in the military, then try a fresh one after they discharge and loving it.
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The losses in Afghanistan were the cause for no Warsaw Pact intervention in the Polish Solidarity movement. The cost of Chernobyl also had a major part but there's a direct link between Afghanistan and the "tankie" tactic not being used like in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
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@jawarakf Fortunately.
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Copy paste army.
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They've beat the Russian volunteers.
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 @bennyklabarpan7002 All that is irrelevant. When you contract out their service you follow their terms. Want to challenge it in court? Prepare to spend 100-200 thousand. Have fun.
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@angel102ify oh yes, military uniforms are a huge source of revenue.
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+Chris McCartney I have had the opposite experience because in 2011 I noticed the online community had started to steer towards the extreme left. I had considered myself a pretty left-leaning person but everywhere I looked people were taking it too far with the feminism and racism issues. In 2012 the whole Hitman: Absolution trailer with the assassin nuns made me notice that there was some kind of smear campaign against gaming/gamers that started within the community itself unlike previous anti-gaming efforts of the right-wing/religious nutjobs. If anything, it was only after GamerGate blew up that I noticed that there was an actual "conservative" presence in the community, there was a witch hunt going on and people decided it was best to speak up and rally together. So yeah, anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.
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1) There's other fuels like Thorium. Also, we toss out most Uraniun unused. Spent fuel rods can be reprocessed back, so the Uranium stocks we have can last a lot longer. 2) With a surplus of energy, you can afford to use energy inefficient processes to create non-fossil oil. 4) Nuclear is only not economical because the power is so cheap. Electric cars also create CO2 emissions when being built. The point is making up for the emissions by reducing them over decades of operation. You'll also generate CO2 emissions building houses. Should we stop living in houses? 5) Nuclear waste disposal is a solved problem. Where are we going to dispose of them? No offense, but do some research. That's like asking "a diesel engine? where are we going to get diesel fuel?". It's not our fault you don't know how things work. Nuclear disposal exists. You people will keep asking where it will go until the end of time.
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@alandaters8547 "if the waste issue can be solved" - it has been... but two administrations have undermined Yucca mountain.
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@Markle2k I like that in your version of human history we survived 3000 more years without using, remembering or understanding nuclear power but managed to bore a deep ass hole and started cracking canisters just for fun.
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@lordcavalier9688 Good question. Why not ask the McMichaels if to them there's no judgement between kill or be killed? If a guy walks in a store with gun drawn, he's asking for trouble. If a guy walks in a store with gun drawn and tells everyone we're going to need to wait with him for a while... I don't see how that's going to go nicely for the shoppers.
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@OMIMox The gloves are an actual barrier. The shot gives you a false sense of security and allows you to host and spread without knowing.
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Enriching itself off spent NLAW tubes and wreckage of missiles?
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 @PurpleHighWatchtower Ari had decades to fix his problems. You're like the guy defending every movie villain because they have tragic backstories.
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Yeah and Armenia has a treaty with Russia. Didn't seem to help at all.
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@henryklee680 please validate your claims about precision, thank you.
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@Toblerone-j1t The problem is that who the hell is manning hundreds of small airbases? There's security concerns with leaving thousands of gallons of fuel and live weapons dispersed around the country. I don't misunderstand the doctrine. I understand it perfectly. Sweden does not expect to take the fight to the enemy, so their doctrine is to make the fight as costly as possible to the aggressor so that they don't even try. The issue here is that in circumstances like Ukraine, a country has managed to fend off an attack and is in the "now what?" phase. Ukraine does not have the decisive means to throw the counterpunch which sends Russia rolling back towards its borders. You've planned to lose a war slowly. That's your doctrine. That's fine. Now you want to win the war and retake your land and liberate your people. Is your doctrine going to work?
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Well, they're welding 1950s naval guns to battlefield tractors and pulling mortars with motor-ploughs.
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Modern "all aspect" IR missiles do not have a single sensor anymore. They're like a thermal camera, it "sees" an aircraft from all aspects. In fact there's AIM-9X test footage publicly available which shows that it can see the QF-4 from the front and the seeker even goes after the aircraft rather than the hot exhaust plume.
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Did you get your draft papers, boy?
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 @peppolobuondelmonte "I Texan yo" AHAHAHAHAH
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The issue is that Kiwifarms uses stuff people post online. After you post pictures of your hotel room and people cross reference the wallpaper and door knob to know which hotel you are staying at, how can you claim they violated your privacy? You put the picture on the internet. So it's extremely hard to nail KF for doing things which are not crimes.
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BINKS yeah we airlifted every single piece of machinery on the way out, we even brought the hammer and nails.
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@Stevies_Precog_Gym_n_Spa420 that was indeed massively petty but clogged sewers 44 years ago? I'd think the nonsensical borders and neocolonialism had more to do with the current state of Africa than the conditions white people left behind.
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@redtree8254 Did you actually read the comment you replied to? Because you just said that getting cûcked isn't a big deal.
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 @myprivatewar Not really. As it ages, it becomes more expensive to keep alive.
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The US wasn't at war during either of those. North Vietnam broke the peace agreeements and the US wasn't willing to restart the Vietnam war so they left. Similarly in Afghanistan, the Taliban and Kabul had a peace deal. The Taliban made alliances with the tribal regions and took over territory after the US withdrew combat troops.
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The railroad burned for a long time, the concrete and rebar were certainly affected.
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It was used against Ebola I think, and it was shown to have serious side effects. Kidney failure, I think.
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@danieltucker3506 "a deep strike only gets mentioned if Ukraine does it" - Because Ukraine is fighting a superior foe. "The attack in Crimea doesn't matter if there is no counter offensive" - It matters. There's between 30-40 aircraft being taken off Crimean bases and relocated to Russia. This means aviation support for Russia will become sparse.
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They're cheap but mostly a nuissance. Their effectiveness isn't seen on the battlefield.
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Hello Glavset, still haven't got your morguilization papers?
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Nobody leaves it out. It's a justification clause. Like saying "the right of a free press being necessary for the security of a free country, it is the right of the people to publish their sentiments". Who has the right to free speech? The people or the press?
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The conversation was sidetracked and they started talking about the coolest units having boring names. Come on...
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On foot.
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Still malding about it two years later? lol
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Grey Star But evolutionary pressures benefit less dangerous variants. You know which virus won the evolutionary race? Herpes. Tons of people have it without even knowing.
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I agree. The sparks in the air also may indicate aluminum powder was added to the explosive slurry. Adding fuel (very fine mesh metal powder) to the explosive helps by reducing the peak in pressure but increasing the duration. More "area under the curve", so to speak.
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Russian MoD lol
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Meh they've been around for longer, after all they are trying to revive an empire, and the European hard right and especially in the former Eastern Bloc are just kind of like this.
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Russia is also cut off from many Western suppliers their weapons depended on. Russia may mobilize the meat, but they won't have the steel.
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One side deliverately picked a strategy of placing as many civilians in the crossfire as possible. We're reaching the point people would argue we shouldn't have fought Nazi Germany because there were civilians in the way.
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Nice try, but the F-35 never replaced the F-22. They were brothers born to serve alongside each other, like the F-15 and F-16. It was the F-15C that took the F-22s job.
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The F-35 did not cost 1.7 trillion. That was the estimated cost of running a fleet of F-35s, including training, maintenance, parts, fueling, etc until 2070. Stop spreading this misinformation.
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@connorbrady5689 The Nazis specifically used slave labor to prop up their war effort. That's why not all camps were death camps. You're comparing an ongoing conflict where one side puts as much civilians in front of themselves to use as a shield as a battle tactic, to an industrialized program to extract value out of people before getting rid of them. It's like the comparison between birth defects in Fallujah and Hiroshima/Nagasaki. It's an emotional argument. The toxic chemicals left behind from battle will affect more people than and outright flattening of a city. All it takes is thinking for a second. The nukes and subconsequent effects wiped out those closest to the radiation source, so they didn't pass down as much birth defects. If you think about it for a second, the Nazis prioritized sending to death camps the old, weak and sick. Not those who could still be put to work.
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The street? I'm thinking Siberian work camp. Putin might be a little grumpy right now, I wonder if we can talk to North Korea instead.
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"it's an FMJ round which meant that it doesn't expand and it goes straight through without dumping the velocity energy into the muscles" - I mean in gel tests you can see that 9mm FMJ is a pretty good yawer. The problem with 9mm is the problem with all pistol rounds - you get no remote wounding effects. Energy dump means nothing with pistol calibers, because the energy is spent moving tissue out of the way. It just springs back into place. Rifles actually put so much energy into tissue, it rips it apart.
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It's extremely efficient, since Ukrainian frontlines troops have already stated they're suffering from less shelling.
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 @ghostviggen They're not developping the F. Saab did. Brazil purchased the license to manufacture domestically.
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Heh, seven days later and there's reports one of the slabs in the Antonovsky bridge collapsed and Russia is trying to build the pontoon bridge. Sure looks like there's "shaping operations" going on.
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"Quiet sad"
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@slushypuppies Fleet yaw. Bullets come out the muzzle with a small amount of "wobble" which settles. The wobble reduces the chances of hitting point forward. However, at a distance bullets affected by drop may still point slightly upwards due to the rifle being angled up to compensate for distance.
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@Chuck59ish That's the A variant.
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@Chuck59ish I don't understand what's so hard to get. You said they need the C variant because of the internal fuel capacity. You were told that the C variant lacks the internal gun. You claimed it had one, then you were corrected. So your response was that the C variant could still carry a gun pod. To which I replied, if your concern was fuel you wouldn't bring a gun pod, which creates drag. For an intercept the missiles should be enough, the C variant would get the most out of its fuel tank by not carrying external stores. That's the conversation. Now I don't know what exactly you mean by bringing up the fact that air forces do air to air refueling. How does that matter? Your point was internal fuel, so take the C variant. Now you're talking about something else entirely. If you have to make intercepts over Canadian air space you don't want to be dependent on tankers to get to the bogey. I don't know if you just reply to comments from the tab so you don't even understand what the conversation is, but you should read it from the beginning.
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Weapons exports are a very regulated market. Sellers do not want their technology to just be sent willy nilly across the world.
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That's not usual at all. Multiroles are as cheap as dedicated role aircraft and the savings of having less tyoes of aircraft in inventory are enormous. Plus modern multiroles are better at secondary roles than many dedicated aircraft.
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What message? The rant about cellulose falls flat when you know that engineered viruses have be used already. Such as the Jansen vaccine.
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Russia left that treaty in 2023. And the US has kept B2 bombers in hangars because the RAM coating wears out in the open. If that treaty prevented covering planes why does Russia paint the bomber outlines in the asphalt? Trying to fool analysts would violate the spirit of such an agreement.
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You're just another target to me, kiddo.
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MunroM84 Germany us mining brown coal, though...
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@gratius1394 The Russian armed forces organization is irrelevant, they lost a ton of equipment with their "peacetime" army so their "wartime" army has to fight with stuff pulled out of storage.
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@gratius1394 You won't find volunteers in Silicon Valley, but you will in San Francisco or LA. Cities are not known for their rich population. There's plenty of people struggling in cities. Catch my drift? There's no struggling people in Moscow and St. Petersburg? Are they all Instagram models and influencers? Everyone's working on IT or finance? Who's working at Vkusno i Tochka? Who's sweeping the streets? There's no blue collar workers in the two major cities in Russia? Reservists can sign short term contracts. They can't be called into service, but they can be offered beaucoup rubles for signing up.
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@gratius1394 Contrary to your opinion, the facts on the ground are that the mechanized units suffered losses, so having your mechanized units composed of foot soldiers with no mechanization is a pretty big problem. Do you have any military experience other than ignoring Russian armored vehicle losses? They lose a couple of armored vehicles every day, and their reserve storage has a significant percentage of the vehicles in a state of disrepair. Think. Think. Your military experience taught you what "rust" and "no spare parts" means, right?
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@laurad4822 "I didn't want to get it but idiots had to play political games and wouldn't wear a mask or social distance so hear we are!" - The same thing is happening in other countries. The masks and social distancing didn't work.
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@alexkozliayev9902 Yale School of Management put out a paper regarding that. Russia depleted their foreign currency reserves pretty heavily. Loans to small businesses took a nosedive. Many production sectors collapsed. Tracking of retail purchases shows consumers are tightening their belts. Goods and services dependent on imports suffered 40-60% inflation. Superficially, Russia is holding fine but the rot goes pretty deep.
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 @SlyCooperH.A.T the deal the Iranians made to buy time and keep the program going in secret?
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@username6024 it's a reference to Scooby Doo
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Not "the US". A few people who like to create a ruckus and secure sales for their friends at Boeing.
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Because almost nobody is trying to claim it was a weapon. DARPA was approached with a proposal to carry out research to help develop a vaccine for troops to deploy in the Pacific theater. They said F no, that kind of research is banned. So it was offshored to China. Much like BSL-4 labs have nasty pathogens so they can be studied and countered, that doesn't mean bioweapons are being developed there. The existence of a dangerous pathogen inside a lab doesn't mean ill intent. That's just where we store cultures.
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Russian MoD numbers lol
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Russian manufacturing depends heavily on western machines and western parts. It is known that 2014 sanctions made it harder to reline artillery barrels. Afghanistan is rich in natural resources too. Doesn't mean anything.
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Rusich (a rabid anti-Ukrainian group of murderers and war criminals) analyzed the defenses and said they were not well built. Oligarchs got the contracts to build them, with civilian companies. Not the military.
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 @bruceparr1678 Yeah. Go home.
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It's not a gravity bomb. It's the penetrator casing of the warhead. The sane exactly warhead type was found in the Khinzal crash in Sept 2022.
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DrLsuBoyMatt Advantages are nothing when tossed away. There's pictures of empty fields completely cratered because Russian artillery bombarded nothing for hours. A 10:1 artillery advantage spent on turning the fields into Moon's surface.
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 @z-America We're arguing with one right now. Where did they train? Why did they miss?
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 @appa609 not when Temu has an estimsted 30% retention rate
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"It's exactly the same and I won't elaborate" "Fine, it's not the same, it's just similar okay?"
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One of the blast doors in an American missile silo was decorated with a stylized Domino's pizza box paint job with the tagline "worldwide delivery in 30 min or less".
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@fatherelijahcal9620 as usual, "libertarians" ensuring that liberty dies by supporting every dictator on earth
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But since the start of the war that Ukraine's plan was not only telegraphed, but openly admitted. Wagner was a problem. The fatal losses are much worse for the attacker. Other cities would get destroyed by shelling. So fighting at Bakhmut was the most logical course of action to break Wagner and protect civilians.
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@emtrac7898 Nobody said that. That's a strawman and an admission that you have no argument. Thanks for stopping by and admitting you lost.
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@emtrac7898 You said that there were no break ins before Jan 6th. It happened during the Kavanaugh hearings, people broke into the building and staged protests in the halls.
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KF wants people to speak out, otherwise there's no content. It's a "look but don't touch" kind of situation, you are not supposed to interfere in the lives of the people broadcasting their funny mishaps. You go to the zoo to watch the animals, not to tap the glass.
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But that's their personal choice. The original comment was about someone else's death. You're still causing those deaths anyway if you take it.
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 @Gutenmorgenside using an outdated OS is common in government/military/banking/healthcare. Porting over to newer systems has very high costs and risks.
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Trust me, actual customers can be much worse and cause much more stress. There's people who to this day I absolutely still want to punch in the face, if someone walked in and tried to troll me with a Big Chungus for 2-3 minutes that would make my day.
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Ukraine attacked Kharkiv where the manpower was thin, and Kherson where the bridge damage limited supplies. The assumption that the attacker always takes more casualties assumes that the battlefield was not shaped.
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@thepostmodernvampire If rules always apply in warfare, how come the US suffered almost as many accidental deaths as KIAs in combat in Iraq 1991? You said the rules always apply, yet how come they didn't?
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@gtv6chuck The problem isn't being "fast", but having the thrust to complete the mission. Even in the Fighter Pilot Podcast A-10 episode the guest says that out of Bagram they had to carry a light load otherwise the A-10 would hit the fence trying to take off. There's really no way to make it sleeker, and no room for a weapons bay, so there was actually a project to upgrade the engines in the early 2000s. But it fell through because other upgrades were more critical.
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@matchesburn I didn't misinterpret. You brought up shotguns which is in itself a huge mischaracterization of the argument at play. "they're just as capable" - At trashing optics, damaging tracks, etc. CONTEXT. It's important. "I just pointed out to you that THEY WERE NOT." - Visibility, no smoke, static targets, no incoming fire. Flying low isn't an "imperfect" condition, it's just a flight restriction. Shadow boxing doesn't actually mean you can dodge punches. "No. No it won't." - Why? "acknowleging that the M-47s were damaged" - But very few of the hits were full penetrations. ""The GAU-8 could barely penetrate M-47 tanks in the 1979 testing. It can trash the optics and tracks"" - Yes. Very few rounds achieved full penetration. Most of the damage was external. "they have about ~30 million rounds in storage" - And a couple of years ago they put out a notice for a contract to dispose of them. "And kinda the point of why they did that in the test" - There was no simulation for ground fire.
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They won't need them 99% of the time.
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@debradebra2011 thanks for mentioning the asshole's name, that's what future shooters think about - how much fame you give them. The Army and Marines disagree with you. Full auto is useless unless you are a machine gun with proper bipod and assistant gunner plus a whole maneuver element. Soldiers don't switch to full auto. Paused, accurate fire is deadly. Full auto sprays rounds into the walls and ground. The people at Las Vegas are lucky the shooter did not kill one person per trigger pull instead of spraying rounds that fortunately missed their target. Bump stocks are banned? So what? Almost nobody turned them in and the ban will be repealed in the courts. The NRA are controlled opposition. Show how much you are paying attention. They're a front for advertising company Ackerman McQueen. The NRA is about to lose non-profit status and while in panic mode the NRA sued Ackerman McQueen. LaPierre was pressured to resign by Oliver North, another Ackerman McQueen man. LaPierre refused to because his contract states he gets paid a salary if he gets fired so he wants the board to fire him. The NRA supported gun control since 1934. This argument is MOOT. "Mute" is when someone is unable to speak.
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@ssfbob456 The issue is that people look at shitcoins and think that's all there is to it. Meanwhile, actual central banks are looking into making "real" money crypto too. Tracking all transactions. The ability to program money to lose value if you try to save it, to promote consumption and drive the economy. People say "lol I'll keep the paper money" and don't realize that one day things will be cashless.
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The adjustment is keeping ammo away from the frontline. Ammo away from the frontline means their fighting ability is reduced. Their "adjustment" is literally kneecapping themselves and giving Ukrainians a more level playing field.
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The small groups are to avoid drawing out artillery. Large concentration of forces = shelling.
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@M4TTYN "US is separate from all else on this giant rock" - two words: Five Eyes
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@SansSentiments "I don't understand how satellite pictures work so I'm going to namecall instead of presenting an argument"
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But they did run out of missiles. Did you miss the entire Shahed and S-300 season where they spammed low-cost weapons to let their industry replace the spent Iskanders?
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He lost to Brad Tavares, which isn't really a comeback. That was Joe's point, you're not the same after a shin break.
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They haven't captured HIMARS. Patrick Lancaster has moved dead bodies to fake battle scenes. He's a ghoul, a liar.
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Nobody questioning Oryx numbers ever sent a request for correction.
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 @NickyDekker89 Yeah, and whose fault is that? Russia's. It's their fault people are dying. We made comedies about WWII, stop being a concern troll.
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Because witnesses are notoriously unreliable? So many UAP cases have been solved by people in their bedrooms. How many people would swear on their mother's grave they saw something unexplainable, then someone looks up flightradar and shows that an airliner was at the exact spot the UAP was?
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"overall society" dude you're literally asking for a BOTTOM TEXT to go with that society because the greater good of society will always be the pretext for tyranny. Individual rights don't exist for the good times and we agree on a line that if crossed they get suspended. Individual rights exist precisely for the bad times, because it's in the bad times that rights get ignored and trampled.
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@ReuelRamos "people on their majority haven't yet developed immunity" - How do you develop immunity without being exposed to it? Don't even mention immunity if you are pro-lockdown. "How can you support the argument of individual freedom when it threatens some else's health and life? That logic doesn't apply here." - Then it doesn't apply anywhere. How can you support the freedom to own a car when it threatens the lives of thousands every year? What about guns? Private property? Literally all your freedoms can be argued to affect others' health and lives.
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@demonofheavn The telemetry data is used to monitor the mission. After the mission is done and you've debriefed everything, why would you store it? Do you actually understand what telemetry is? Because if you wanted to see telemetry, NASA could just fake it. If the real telemetry data existed, you wouldn't believe it.
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 @fynncarey5030 The ballistic trajectory is misrepresented by sketches. The bodies were not lined up inside the car.
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 @zjpdarkblaze Secret service is on the scene. One agent even climbs into the car when they speed off.
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@KrysHome how is it an ignorant comment? If he had proven to be a smart investor and said that SC was a good investment, that would at least lend some credibility to his claims. But if he admittedly lost money in his investments, his praise of SC might actually mean SC will crash and burn as well.
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@KrysHome this video is more than a month old, and somehow you've already been thumbs upped within 30 mins of your comment being posted. Hmmmm. Stop strawmanning. The OP himself shot himself in the foot by claiming he made bad investments. How is that being condescending? I mean, if anything the OP is being condescending by somehow linking his praise of SC to his past investments.
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If capitalism falls then what does he need the capital for?
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You don't die if you don't go to the beach.
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The military would force him to watch Powerpoint presentations telling him to stop associating with domestic terrorists and extremist organizations.
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He didn't humiliate and damage someone's career. He kept his identity hidden even though the guy didn't held up his end of the deal. And to be fair, the "minor criticism" was some guy pretending to be a radiological engineer on the comments when he's "just" a welder and being a massive asshole about it. Yes, it's a skilled labor and welding vessels for radiological materials is not something you can mess around with. But it was the equivalent of some dude who was an AC technician in the army trying to pretend he was a Navy SEAL. I don't know, was William b1sh-made for making that video complaining? Sure. Was the welder guy b1sh-made? Hell yes. He honestly deserved the trolling and enabled PvP himself. And William handled him in a funny way that didn't even hurt him. Should have skipped the complaining and just trolled his critics.
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Joe Morrell no better way of entertaining clients than a good ole The Aristocrats joke.
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The US dollar is a greater ponzi scheme than this, by that logic
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@SuperFlamingBanana they did not hack voting booths, they intruded into voter registries but investigation determined they were just snooping around and did not make any changes. "heavy political ad campaign" - they spent a few thousand dollars on ads. You know how many millions foreign interests funnel into American politics? C'mon. It wasn't heavy.
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Ukraine has acted towards Russia? They never did anything to Russia.
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Darth Maul
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Yes, I have also seen the propaganda photos of spent tubes being portrayed as captured systems.
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@ankhenaten2 Comment shadowbanned lol is the range greater than 10km?
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The reason is that M830A1 HEAT has the option of being fired with the fuse set for anti-air with a proximity switch, and serves as a HE round in case of a near miss: https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m830_h3-s.jpg
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What diplomacy? Russia said in 2008 Crimea was Ukrainian. Then they broke the Minsk agreements with the assault on Debaltseve and the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport. Any diplomatic agreement with Russia is not worth the paper it was signed on. 1994 Budapest Memorandum, Russia promised to uphold Ukrainian territorial sovereignty. Russia signed two treaties with independent Chechnya and broke it.
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Even their videos are fake. Either too blurry or have cuts. Remember the "barge" that was shot by missile? It was a concrete pillar for a bridge.
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@gdiwolverinemale2745 Turkey has complained about the misleading range figures of the S-400.
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On 4chan they put the "Ya Russki!" audio over the conscripted soldiers engaging in butt banditry as a meme edit and that song will never live it down.
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It kinda is. I'm forced into participating in this system against my will, if annoying people like you forever is the only satisfaction I can get, then I guess you'll just have to deal with it.
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@finerbiner Please. Everyone complains all the time. You complain too (you're doing it right now). You're just miffed that people are complaining for the wrong reasons. We're all losers in a world where everyone's a loser, then. You're not forced to do anything? Try stop paying taxes. Living in the woods doesn't exempt you from the system, you know that. You don't care, and here you are complaining about the people you supposedly don't care about. You're trying to be too cool for school after you already made your vulnerability public. You care, deeply, which is why you posted your initial comment. Now leave it here for everyone to see how quickly you change your mind as soon as someone gets inside your head, or delete it to wipe the thread and it will be our secret.
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They won't need to retake Bakhmut.
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There were two missiles involved. Most likely a Russian missile was knocked off course by an Ukrainian S-300 which caused the large crater and the wreckage of S-300 parts. The story with the two missiles was dropped because NATO didn't want Poland to activate Article 5 on Russia.
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A handful of tanks won't do anything after the "kick off". A squadron of F-16s could wipe out all existing Armatas within the week.
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Why is it best? It doesn't work in Southern Europe.
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@Nick46289 The reason for holding back is that going hard would defeat the entire purpose of the mission. The deployment sent into Ukraine is more than enough to seize Kiev, but not to engage in conqest in the entire territory. They clearly hoped Zelensky to tuck tail and run while an embarassed Ukranian populace simply moved on and accepted Putin's terms. Go figure, the dude actually stood his ground and now has a large percentage of the Ukranian people willing to fight for him. This is a wrench in Russia's plan as they hoped to just roll into Kiev with little yo no resistance.
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Hollywood and the music industry do it with millions of dollars behind it, the moment someone does it from his bedroom all hell breaks loose.
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It's been done for so long we don't actually know what happens if the accordion is removed, and at this point we're afraid to try
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So you complain about overpriced healthcare while applauding the fact that the doctor is making 600k a year. Do you see the contradiction here?
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 @mariobadia4553 The problem is that the Russians not moving is also exposing them. Now it's a game of who blinks first.
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Chrysler picked turbine, GM picked Diesel, Chrysler won the contract.
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 @FarmerTed Survivor bias. You can only ask the troops in the ground after they survive the engagement. More effective weapons left less witnesses for you to interrogate.
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California is so prosperous people with nothing converge there to do drugs.
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 @viswajitbala7924 F-117s (take off the fighter qualifier) definitely went 100 miles
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Reminds me of the story of the guy who for Halloween printed fake dollars with Obama's face on them.
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 @waynesworldofsci-tech Rough capabilities don't mean much when air defenses make it impossible to fly.
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 @moniquemontero5442 electronic jamming does not counter IR seekers or electro-optical tracking.
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@tomk3732 Size is irrelevant. Also, don't use mercator projection to measure Russia.
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They get extra ESG score. Doing those ads allows them to game the system without making actual changes. It's like having a company tbat dumps toxic waste but you make the company car fleet electric. You don't reduce polution, you virtue signal.
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Sure, we need to get tougher on India and China by convincing them to demand even more discounts. Them bending Russia over a barrel, pun intended, is a major win.
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What's the point of a manufacturing method that outpaces drone construction? There's no advantage to stockpiling a million nade bodies while waiting for drone microchip shipments and for the build teams to solder them. 3d printing is perfect as each print farm has low investment cost and doesn't have the footprint of million dollar machinery which can be detected and targeted with cruise missile.
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@yellowtunes2756 Who had the momentum when Germany was getting closer to Moscow? Germany. What happened then?
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Is border patrol gonna revive Fairchild? The manufacturer of the A-10 went out of business two decades ago, how is border patrol going to afford parts and maintenance on a 40 year old aircraft?
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@jwenting Not just that, but most were degraded. All in all, Iraq was in compliance.
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The USMC has retired a lot of tube artillery and focused on rocket artillery. They tested the firing of HIMARS off the deck of one of their amphibious assault ships. Most likely ATAMCS are earmarked for a potential naval fight due to its greater range vs GMLRS.
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The biggest threat to the A-10 comes frok the ground. Preparing the ground for the A-10 makes it redundant.
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He changed his story multiple times. The fact is that the S-125 was in a site location presumed empty so planners put an egress route there. The F-117 basically nearly entered the S-125 minimum engagement distance. Point blank shot. There were no fancy tactics or trickery involved. Just physics. Stealth works with the inverse square law. Take out the distance, stealth aircraft become detectable.
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The USMC trains for FARP operation with F-35Bs.
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@philippe2715 You are literally coping by telling yourself the lie that Russians suffered minimal casualties while Ukrainians suffered more. How can Russia be so successful and still lose? Think.
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Who's "we", Harib Al-Saq?
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+Hector Diaz 1) first you have to assert that the ways we copy media actually translate to violence; 2) alcohol intoxication affects judgement and emotional response which isn't analogous to cultural norms; 3) I mean by lowering inhibition you're essentially proving the point that it's still the person's personality type/impulse control - millions of people get drunk and never commit a crime; 4) I'm not taking this personally, I am stating the facts; 5) if we're not meant to give any shits, why did you give enough of a shit to reply?
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+Hector Diaz "proven in a number of studies" [CITATION NEEDED] "he's just giving his solid opinion" --- that's such a poor excuse. We should put meth users in jail. That's just my opinion. It doesn't matter that it's a dumb policy that actually worsens the country, it's an opinion so it can't be question.
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 @davecollins6122 comparing Mathew Perry to what Japan did to China is a new low...
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Jailborked
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 @quintrankid8045 People are blaming Mossad. Just read
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 @kronos9579 So basically the life a low class single parent used to have 30 years ago. What a progress society has made since.
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There was actually a recent case of a wholesaler coming out in support of a higher minimum wage and people lauded him as a hero, if he defends a higher wage it means Walmart has no excuse for paying such low wages! Nevermind that he employs less people per store than any Walmart and his employees are often more qualified than retail workers so he won't be affected by minimum wage laws as much as Walmart. (we could also get into the discussion that Walmart is essentially subsidized by the government but that's another topic in itself)
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@PavelAVasilevich They lose more territory in a day than they can seize in a month.
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@davidhatton8748 They are. Russia is losing more territory in a day than they could capture in a week.
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@mikemontgomery2654 The F-16 was designed for air to air. It was meant to be a cheaper alternative to the F-15 because the US couldn't afford a full F-15 fleet. Please stop trying to change history - you can literally go back and read how the lightweight fighter program was meant for a FIGHTER not attack aircraft, and the ground attack role came later.
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 bolshevik1017 Okay then why aren't Iranians and Houthis using those drones?
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@jaysonpida5379 "But then came the A-10's stellar performance in Desert Storm" - 7 A-10s and OA-10s were shot down, and Gen. Chuck Horner had to pull them back away from the Iraqi National Guard. "later Senator McCain basically had a major meltdown" - Of course he did. Like when he drove a woman to tears in a hearing regarding POW/MIA records. "if there was a request from the grunts & jarheads in their holes the F-16 could do it" - As of 2014 the F-16 was doing 33% of CAS while the A-10 was doing 11%.
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@michable100 "you can't just go hunt anymore can you?" - That's not the point. You can't blame others for your own natural necessities. Blame nature for slowly killing you, it's her threatening you. Not companies. "So you have to pay people to get food" - Would you rather enslave them and get it for free? "can only be done by working for a company" - Extremely reductive. "So yes, they threaten you with a real bad time" - No. They don't. "And to make sure you feel threatened, there are jobless and homeless people." - You're crazy.
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@skip123davis The F-4 was designed for carrier ops and it did fine in USAF service. It's always easier to use a carrier fighter on land than a ground based fighter at sea.
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 @RayofHanz the manpower in the second line is the manpower that retreated from the first line
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 kittycat3015 It won't. The Russian offensive happened during the winter.
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@seanwilliams3634 it's civility to have cops called on you for twitter posts?
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You don't needto break all the front, the front will automatically adjust to prevent a break from coming around and encircling.
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 @Shenzhou. Relatives aren't always family. Once Russia became the drug-addicted criminal that steals and murders the "family" has the right to kick it out of the function.
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They accidently published the ore-written articles about their victory. Minsk II was broken by Russia when the DPR assaulted Debaltseve the day after signing.
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The problem is that they need to put several vehicles in position and fire volleys. They're area weapons. The number of GLONASS guided rockets isn't known, but most are unguided. With HIMARS, a single hit hits depots with several tons of ammunition. The hundreds of trucks need rockets for their tubes. A non-negligible number of those rockets burned like fireworks.
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When Russia mobilized, people were found with recent military papers in their bodies just a week later. One week at home in Russia, next week rotting in the mud in Ukraine. Russia's mobilization was a crime against humanity. Takes time to grind that much meat.
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Within context, stopped means the advacing force is neutralized and has to consolidate as they exhausted the means to move forward. Halted means it cannot move forward at the present but could still fight through and continue.
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They can always join the military.
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Tons were killed and captured. They were never cut off.
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Ironic because today we call quality "force multipliers".
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Thank you Howard, very cool.
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@Unapologeticweeb having standards is the same thing leftists do?
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Wezzoid trolls wind other people up. You keep using that word. It does not mean what you think it means.
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@SocialDownclimber The thing is that further construction of reactors will be of modern designs rather than the more dangerous older ones. In older reactors they need to be actively be kept cool, and a failure means the reactor will keep heating itself until meltdown. On more modern designs such as the liquid fuel ones a failure will mean melting a plug that will drain the fuel out of the reaction, stopping it.
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Coffeezilla explained that process a few times, one of the steps is using a cash reserve to back coins even if their price fell through the bottom. Basically keeping you on the hook for at least some of the value lost. That way you tell potential buyers you're not going to profit much out of a scam.
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 @wisenber IRST and electrooptical systems like the one in the F-35 give you "visual range" beyond visual range.
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The things that piss me off about net neutrality are 1) the EU fucking killed my data plan because my carrier can't give me free data on certain apps after I hit the data cap and 2) it's hypocritical how the massive Internet websites all cried about Net Neutrality but don't want their own service to be neutral and want to have the rights of a private business It's funny, Netflix should have the right to blast terabytes of HD content through ISPs network without having to pay for the costs and google/facebook can censor whatever they want, but ISPs need to act like a public service... That's when I realized that no matter which side you turn to in the net neutrality debate, you'll hear liars pushing an agenda.
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 @Asfanboy1 I think you confused the 70s for the 90s.
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@dzailibu both Russian and Ukrainian fighters have said it changed things, but you sit on your comfortable chair and say nothing's changed. Good newe, dzailibu - you've been promoted to ammo dump night guard. Don't leave the place unattended.
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But they didn't. Even Russian sources show the casualties were extremely low.
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 @domtweed7323 So you're gonna just talk back to anyone who disproves your argument. The military isn't homogenous, not everyone is expected to kill.
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My father told me that in the air force they flew pointless flights simply to burn off fuel because you don't get rewarded for saving fuel, you get your fuel budget cut if you don't use it.
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 @AndrewTubbiolo No, it isn't. The second time it gets destroyed, it will be counted as Ukrainian. EDIT: wait you mean on Oryx data, right?
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 @goldendiamond761 Tactical means it deals with the frontline and the support immediately behind it. A strategic attack means going after power plants, factories, rail hubs, ports, etc.
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@NoYesNoY Blackwater hasn't existed since 2009.
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@mukhtarsyajaratun1025 I don't think it was ever confirmed it was all Blackwater and in a convoy you don't stop. I know it baffles you people, but in a place where the enemy makes you stop so they can hit your vehicles with an ambush, you do whatever it takes to move forward.
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@Александр-я1н7п The weren't even enough training facilities to push out 120k, and Wagner were often bait for the VDV to do actual work. It's amazing how you people memoryholed the Russian MoD constantly calling out Wagner lies because they constantly got in trouble and requested VDV help, or claimed to have captured towns when the VDV had done it.
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@stevenjohns7017 "The money has been spent on missile development ..... far cheaper than a Nimitz." - And RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 is cheaper than the missile development program.
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They've had the ability to use them for over a year
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BBB H the Russian Woodpecker would switch frequencies if jammed if I remember correctly.
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Why would a genuine item have INERT on the side? Real missiles are not inert, they have a warhead and rocket fuel.
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@WarriorLL Pierre Trudeau seems too white to have brown nipples... We know Justin has brown nipples...
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@Drew Peacock the whole point of supermaneuverability is showing off how you remain in control of the aircraft even when you depart from normal aerodynamic flight. My point is that if you wanted a slimmer F-35, the weapon bays would have to be slimmed down. So in the end the lift fan does not hinder the A and C variants because the frontal area of the F-35 could not be reduced without affecting payload.
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 @guidoulm1559 the Soviet Union agreed to pull the missiles in exchange for pulling missiles out of Turkey. Things can be resolved with diplomacy.
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I haven't been to a water park in a decade. That means they don't exist.
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@gerri577 You do realize you can dose it for humans, right? Not all horses are 250lbs.
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@isodoublet 1. So now one hit can take out a defense network by denying the triangulation. Well played. 2. You can't "cue" a radar that can't physically target the aircraft. A surface to air missile that has a - say - 100 km radius and due to stealth can only target said aircraft at - say - 30 km now has a severe problem. No amount of cueing can help the fact that the aircraft can simply fly 31 km away from the targeting radar and use that gap to destroy your defenses, your radars, your infrastructure or your command centers. 3. That powerful of a radar will require massive thrust, which means having a massive boost phase rocket motor and a ton of fuel for the ramjet sustain phase motor. Plus almost no turning performance. A slight nudge in the stick and you can force the missile to take a heavily ineffective intercept trajectory, and then nudge it back to your original heading and watch the missile run out of steam. The Russians had time to think. What did they think of? Making a stealth aircraft. "the Russian and Chinese designers were willing to sacrifice far less at the altar of the radar cross section" - This is cope for them simply not being as good at stealth. The US is announcing the retirement date of its first fifth gen while the Russians only have 12 Su-57s remaining and the Chinese are still using stopgap engines on their J-20.
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@isodoublet "The trouble is all it takes is a WWII-era radar" - Please, by all means replace all radars by WWII era ones. Please.
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@isodoublet "Doesn't seem like the best bang for buck though when stealth systems are so expensive to build and maintain to begin with." - Putting bombs on target with impunity is worth every penny. "It's a mobile battery dude." - And it takes like 15 minutes to pack up. "Prove it." - No context. "Computers." - Thanks for admitting you have no argument. "I guess that means SAMs never worked" - Strawman argument. Thanks for admitting that yet again you can't argue. "I'm a physicist, kid." - Doesn't mean you know how energy fight. "I guess that means SAMs never worked." - At max range? The Pk is very low. Yes, SAMs never worked as magic impenetrable defenses when used to shoot as soon as a radar contact steps inside max range and there's RWR on the target aircraft to tell it that it should turn back and lose the missile. Strawman argument. "You don't even understand what the shape of the engines implies." - Yes, it implies it returns the blades from a head on aspect. "You need to look up the word "cope" in the dictionary also." - Cope, seethe, dilate.
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Civilian rail cars and trailers pulled by truck are used to transport military equipment all the time.
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The S-500 missiles are massive. Made to shoot down ICBMs. They'd leave debris.
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 @Princip666 You don't have an argument, you just say things and expect others to believe. How is Turkey related?
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+Mozart Rocha They are. Guns are lethal force. If you use a gun as less-than-lethal that's torture. It's inhumane. Guns are last resorts. To claim that the police guns are not for killing implies guns are less than lethal and can be use sooner. Using a gun implies a chance of the perp dying and cops shouldn't dare to think otherwise. They must know discharging a firearm brings consequences and thus only emergencies warrant deadly force.
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***** a) You don't know shit about psychological evaluations. It's a complex issue because to discover signs of psychopathy usually one needs three hours and a file with life events to cross reference everything during the interview. The kicker? Most mass shooters aren't even psychopaths. If you don't want to be helped and you have a plan to start a massacre, you're capable of hiding your mental illness from people who know nothing about you. b) I too enjoy getting mad at strawmen. Seriously, stop creating arguments inside your head and pretending to defeat them. It's a gun free zone, which is an invitation to massacres. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be such an obvious target for people looking to cause as much damage as possible. c) Then get 2/3 of the country to agree and stop throwing hypothetical around. It's not the job of the 2ndA to protect the people. The Bill of Rights is meant to protect the people from the government by limiting it's powers and not much more. You're the typical gun elitist. We got a lot of them here in Europe. And because of them, you probably wouldn't qualify for a Glock 19 over here. Sorry, even if you did you probably wouldn't get one because 9mm is considered "war caliber" in some countries and you can't get those.
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+Loozer the kardashians do it for money, not the dick
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Quin Skew >"Author Kevin Kruse asserts that the underlying movement behind inserting "under God" into the pledge was an effort by corporate America, despite being initiated by a private religious fraternity and references to God existing in previous versions of the pledge, to instill in the minds of the people that capitalism and free enterprise were heavenly blessed. Kruse acknowledges the insertion of the phrase was influenced by the push-back against atheistic communism during the Cold War, but argues the longer arc of history shows the conflation of Christianity and capitalism as a challenge to the New Deal played the larger role." One person has claimed it, whether you believe it is up to you. Personally, I don't, but it sure as hell would have helped to indoctrinate people with religion to stop a political movement that would prefer less of it.
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shill for worker's self-management The implication that Obama is for free markets is deliciously wrong. He's a corporatist. And I agree with you that in the grand scheme of things Obama is on the right, the problem is that he is on the authoritarian side of the Y axis while free markets are on the libertarian side. And neoliberals are also on the authoritarian side, it's "classical neoliberals" who believe in free markets. Yeah, it'ss been unnecessarily complex since Americans corrupted the term "liberal".
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I see 21:9 being used all the time in flight simulators, the problem is the lack of vertical field of view but that is sort of tackled by TrackIR. Plus, people who play with airliners in flight sims would be looking through a wide but short array of viewports so it doesn't break immersion. There's also the fact that triple 4:3 would have the bezels really close to each other.
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TheKotorMan It was passed by Congress and the House.
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Mudcrab >"When you have a surplus of food like farming provides you now have a lot of new worries and responsibilities. Who's going to protect your life sustaining supply? How are you going to reimburse them? How will you respond to the growing population a food surplus creates? These issues were solved thousands of years ago with the creation of a system to ensure the safety and security of all people and their commodities. The government." You mean feudalism? Yeah, I have no idea how the first "government" was but for example in Europe the concept of monarchy came from spiritual leaders (hence the "divine right of kings") so I'm not buying your theory that we couldn't prevent theft or have a justice system within tribes. And even if you can point at history and tell me how the first proto-government was a bunch of strong dudes who got paid for protecting produce, and that payment was probably produce so I don't know how reimbursement could be a problem, that's a capitalist transaction. They were private security guards of the time, not government officials. If it then became tradition to pass down the role through family and these people became nobility and started demanding a tax for "protection"... we're talking about parasites that operate just like the mafia, not people who we chose to defend our land. If we needed people to protect our stuff, we could pay them.
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Nowhere in the constitution does it say you can't suffer the consequences of your actions. If you slander, you get sued, even with free speech. If you kill, you go to jail, even if it's your religion.
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Look, Reason has been going off it's rails during this election season to try to appeal to the democrats dissatisfied with their party. Don't judge libertarians for what Reason does, if I recall they also published a piece which was borderline calling Elon Musk a welfare queen for the horrendous crime of using subsidies in his ventures.
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Ricardo Kelm does the velocity increase? I mean, if the diameter is reduced you can increase velocity of a fluid but I'm thinking about turbines and you want pressure. And because the exhaust moves in "pulses", you do have a greater input of gasses but I don't think they design it so that the pulses "collide" in the exhaust. Basically it fills in the gaps (which still produces more work but no more pressure or velocity). The turbines aren't even that big, I have no idea how much the inertia factors in.
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NaijaCINE it's a cryptocurrency. I haven't heard anything about investing anything or recruiting people.
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chris dera Well, then the fact that they were unarmed isn't important, what matters is that they were innocent. Being armed but non-violent doesn't warrant a shooting either.
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SlayerofFiction Yeah. Disassembly is an important feature in guns for cleaning/parts replacement, it's not like the locking piece couldn't be removed or worst case scenario, dremel'd off..
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+TextbookGerm exactly, I came to know Vice from friends who loved Hunter S. Thompson. It's been a few years and Vice really went downhill since then, but their journalism style was always like that. +Nathaniel Bixby in many cases those places which had civil wars/revolutions didn't even have widespread gun ownership. Meanwhile, in a lot of "stable" Western countries gun ownership rates typically go as high as 30 to 40 guns per 100 citizens.
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***** you claimed they were firing pellets, told it was blanks, then deflected by saying they're essentially the same. How is it OCD to confront you on your backpedaling after your mistake was called out?
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+ThePaint kinetic energy is mass times velocity squared, halved. aka KE= (1/2 * m * v^2)
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***** They still had to pay for labour of the reporter and cameraman. Employing people's time is expensive. So yes, Vice paid for this shit. The upside is that 300k views probably gave them 4x-10x what they invested depending on their ad revenue.
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collin ohlinger Except there's thousands of SWAT calls for no-knock warrants for stuff like credit card fraud, etc. I agree that it's cheaper to get surplus from the military, but a lot of stuff isn't surplus. Plus, violent crime has been on the decline for the past two decades and a lot of these SWAT teams have been popping out in small cities with little crime. If an officer needs it, he/she buys it from his own pocket like all the other civilians. "Fighting the cartels", as if nobody was willing to take that cartel money to divert police attention away from them. Those items will be used on American citizens, many times on non-drug dealing ones.
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John Mirror in close quarters you can't accelerate into a sprint, there's no cover, you have to cross doorways, etc. Since you're so likely to get shot and speed doesn't matter at all, body armor is good for SWAT purposes. I just don't see the need to protect anything more than the vitals. Shoulder armor? Might as well strap the neck guards and the crotch protection because by that point you look like you're in Iraq.
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CB12abAB The UK has like 4 million firearms in civilian hands. Stop lying.
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isolator86 >"but its useless, they will die anyway if the government wants to attack them" You're a Jew in 1940's Nazi Germany. Would you want to barricade your house with a machine gun and some sticks of dynamite or be put on a train? End result is probably the same, but when I was born I was kicking, screaming and covered in blood. I'd rather go the same way than live on my knees. Plus I'd get to take a few of them with me. My country was a fascist dictatorship before I was born. All my family lived through it. I am never going to go through what they have been (and it was pretty mellow for them) and I would gladly fight for freedom. Plus, you're forgetting that the US was "defeated" in Vietnam. Their military might won a ton of battles but that means nothing when a bunch of malnourished rice farmers can win the war. It took over ten years of invasion to get the Middle East under control and now it's a mess again! >"The war on drugs and the border with mexico is a problem of the U.S Police." No. It's a social, political and economical problem. You can't say it's a problem with the police when the government makes drugs illegal, when the people buy the damned drugs, when the gangs profit from the illegality of drugs, etc. To say it's the problem of the police is wishful thinking. The police doesn't pass laws. The police "only" unnecessarily puts people in the judicial system.
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But most desktop PCs nowadays have the mobo mounted sideways - the fan will be naturally imbalanced and friction against the bottom of the circular channels. I mean, for the heat to flow easily the parts must be in contact, contact on the move means friction and friction means more heat. I'm actually in college for mechanical engineering, so...
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Axel D- They could have replaced the metallic fan by a polymer one that would be much lighter (less power for the same RPM) and I bet that the temps would be equal if not lower.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Australia#Research It wasn't that effective.
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+Citrakite Being able to carry a baby is pretty irrelevant to the task. Modern military forces have backpacks that place the weight at the hips when properly worn as taking that weight in the shoulders would fuck up the back really quick. We carry that much weight because we came up with backpacks that allowed it.
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Toxic Potato It never originated in tumblr, this shit is "scientific theory" to the people who've been writing on gender and race for decades. I have friends who went to college for history and African history isn't lectured as "white people kinda fucked up Africa and that's a fact", but it's lectured as "here's all the reasons why white people are evil, the West is evil, capitalism is evil and everything bad in Africa is white Westerner's fault" - while conveniently ignoring the misery that was brought by USSR backed guerrillas because communists have never been imperialistic. Tumblr was merely the place where college students congregated to. And eventually, partially due to the economic crash, real journalists started being replaced by interns straight out of college who had taken these BS classes.
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Mark Massingill >"There is no reason the average person cannot do without marijuana" But there's also no reason why it should be illegal and that's the core of the argument. Not that people "need" weed. There's also no reason the average person cannot do without a gun. By the same logic we could ban guns by determining how much someone "needs" it. "You haven't been murdered? Then you don't really need a gun yet, do you? Come back after you can prove you were in danger." >"I'm not for simply ignoring laws we don't agree with when there are perfectly legal avenues to work for change. I don't pity anyone who chose to break the law and is now paying the consequences of that act. Showing such disregard for the law is a bad trend to set." Lex iniusta non est lex “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.” ― Howard Zinn “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law” ― Martin Luther King Jr. “If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law” ― Henry David Thoreau “An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.” ― Mahatma Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War 1942-49 “When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them." Pastor Butch Paugh” ― Tarrin P. Lupo
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Mark Massingill "Actually, when it comes to guns it is illegal in every state that I know of to carry while intoxicated and even when just drinking any amount of alcohol in some" Pretty sure it's also a crime to drive impaired by drugs or to stab people, sober, drunk or on PCP. You have defeated your own argument. >"I guess you ignored that part of my statement." When you criticize the legalization of victim-less behaviour by mentioning other acts that involve criminal actions (which also exist with recourse to other legal drugs), you're ignoring your own belief that people have rights to their body. A right to one's body doesn't grant him the rights to drive impaired or stab people. >"Simply ignoring laws you don't like is wrong" The Nazis criminalized people who helped Jews escape. Is ignoring that law wrong? We must have Immanuel Kant all up in here.
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Mark Massingill 1. All those harms exist with prohibition. 2. All the harms you mentioned would be illegal anyway. 3. Actual real world evidence points to the fact that many countries used legalization to curb drug abuse, leading to less crime/driving under the influence of drugs. So yes, it's a positive outcome to legalize. >"As for mind altering substances that we don't understand and which are not necessary for life illegal is not immoral." Yes, it is immoral, no, drugs are not misunderstood. We test them all on animals and humans all the time. I know self-taught people who learned chemistry just to experiement new drugs on themselves. >"Any law that could lead to direct harm I'd agree was immoral and needed to be fought. Since it is completely possible to live without these substances, obeying the law while working to change opinion and change said laws is the best course of action, especially when ignoring them opens up and supports illegal markets, gang culture, very harmful cartel activity and so forth" I don't see how it's a person's fault the government forces him/her to buy from shady dealers. Plus, you're conveniently ignoring personal growing/"cooking" of drugs. Making a "victimless crime" illegal, even if not needed, is immoral because it initiates aggression against non-violent people. >"old laws keeping African Americans in the back of the bus were. There is a difference." There isn't. THEY INITIATED AGGRESSION AGAINST PEOPLE WHO DID NOT HARM ANYONE. THERE IS NO NEED TO SIT IN A SPECIFIC PART OF THE BUS - IT WAS STILL IMMORAL TO CRIMINALIZE A VICTIMLESS ACTION.
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+E. Lectricity well Switzerland is also successful because they have a huge chunk of all the laundered/tax evaded money in the world. If you want to be like them, emulate their banking practices first. It's not just chocolate and watches.
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@chrisreynolds6143 and the Clintons were friends with Robert Byrd. What you're saying reminds me of Enoch Powell speaking against immigration and then being blamed for assaults against Pakistanis living in Britain. In an interview he was getting cornered with the same type of argument to which he responded: "I am not going to start condemning the behaviour of people who are condemned by their own actions [...] I am not going to be put in the absurd position of dissociating myself from people who have nothing to do with me and whom I have never met and do not know." And you know why he said that? Because of this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/03/01/donald-trump-and-david-duke-for-the-record/?utm_term=.6d860b8b5c08 By no means am I saying it's the most comprehensive list of statements Trump has made about David Duke. Yeah it's strange that he was aware of David Duke in the 90's and not anymore. But he has disavowed Duke. Could you accuse him of having hesitated on Feb 28 2016? Surely. I'll take it. But he has disavowed Duke. But yet you still claim he didn't. That's what happens when you are put in the absurd position of having to dissociate yourself from all the bad elements that could somehow be linked to you. Even if everyone was 100% on the same page about Duke, would Trump be excused from any accusation of being a white supremacist? Of course not. Trump could personally hunt down Duke and kill him with his bare hands and people would just say they faked it so that Trump can pretend he isn't racist.
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@chrisreynolds6143 >"I mean our president-elect couldn't denounce Grand Wizard of the Klan, David Duke" >"I didn't bring up trump but thanks" ????? it's 1am and I'm only getting extremely confusing replies either everyone's gone insane or my brain is toast
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@chrisreynolds6143 "If a Nazi told me you were a good guy, id probably treat you exactly like is expected" - guilt by association? "if you're the leader of the free world" - lame expression, Trump cannot lead anything outside the US and there is no such a thing as the "free world". It's not the 80's anymore, grandpa. "I expect maybe a higher standard" - ???? a higher standard of what? "P.S. all Nazis should be shot and abolish private property ;) dueces" - edgy
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***** I need guns to protect myself from people without guns too. I am not impervious to fists, knives, tire irons, baseball bats, etc.
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***** I know how evolution works, and I also know that about half of the population doesn't quite get it. I explained it in a way that didn't require a paragraph nor previous knowledge on evolution and I figured I did a good job of getting my point across. You got what I meant, don't tell me what's simpleton or not when keeping things simple makes communication more efficient.
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"you need only one 7.62 slag instead of 3 5.56" the fucking stowed kills argument, jesus christ
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+Firstname Lastname "So... lift a page from car licensing." - No license if you keep it at home (private property) - Not even registry, ever seen a NASCAR race with a license plate? - Heck, there's no limit on what kind of guns you can own, because motor vehicles in private property doesn't need to be road legal and can be as absurd as you want
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+Marlin Robertson then Buzzfeed articles aren't clickbait because they do give you a top ten list of stuff like the title promised. The "and this happened", "what happened will warm your heart", etc are cookie cutter clickbait techniques.
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TheHigherVoltage >"Hippies will just smoke a joint" Well, if a Jesus freak wants to kill you he'll have to go after you, illegally, with his fudd rifle. A hippie will legally send government thugs. This of course, assuming votes actually matter for anything.
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+Igor Radmilovich that's not what the quiz said, it specified taking from a paycheck and giving to someone else. That's not equal pay, that's theft.
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Tim Barton Wasn't the Chinese attacker going for ears and faces, though? Same thing with the stabbing in a Texas university, the attacker seemed to go for noses and stuff. Not jugulars, or anywhere in which a laceration will make you bleed out before the ambulance is dispatched. The US is not a high income country. It looks a lot more like Mexico or Brazil in terms of poverty than Finland or Switzerland. In terms of the last century, it's history is closer to South Africa's than France or Spain. The US is also fighting a War on Drugs. Street prices of many drugs in the US seem to be in average higher than in Europe because of prohibition. Remember when Prohibition 1.0 failed and created a profit in organized crime? Prohibition 2.0's effects are still being felt. It has the highest incarceration rate - there's people out there who won't ever get a decent job and won't be able to leave the life of crime. Modern US is also not comparable to the "Wild West". Sorry, but the US is a complete outlier in terms of "developed" countries. Even people in high-tax bureaucratic socialist-influenced states such as Sweden are rated to have more economic freedom than the people from the US.
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+qwamity/Escef and Japan is culturally different from anywhere in the Western world. You could airdrop crates of machine guns in Japan that people wouldn't shoot each other simply because there's no reason to. Not even the Yakuza like to shoot people or give guns to their street level gangsters, despite of the fact that authorities know that they deal with illegal firearms in the order of hundreds of thousands. Iraq was pretty much an active war zone for over a decade and was recently attacked by Daesh, not only do they have huge economic and social issues there's also in-fighting between Muslim groups. You really think that you can extrapolate conclusions on gun control from Iraq?
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"There were more guns in the Soviet countryside during his reign than in the US" Stolen Red Army stuff doesn't count because it wasn't obtained legally, and from the sheer economic and industrial standpoint it's simply not possible. The US had 101.5 guns per 100 people in like 2006, with the gun sales under the Obama administration I've seen values quoted as high as 112 per 100. It's simply not possible that typical "countryside weapons" were produced at a rate higher than their own population. And like, if there were indeed that many guns, then there would be at least documented records or even living witnesses of state agents getting blasted in the chest whenever they tried to starve entire villages by stealing their grain or taking people into Gulags. "me and my Ukranian family will die anyway and we have more guns than people but let's not shoot these Russian fuckers" - sounds like totally something that would happen "More legitimate states were toppled by an armed populace than saved" That's a intellectually dishonest statement because all states are legitimate as long as they're the de facto ruling state. North Korea is a legitimate state because it has a legitimate claim over the territories to the North. The North Vietnamese, upon unification with the South, became the recognized state of the whole Vietnam by virtue of conquest, hence legitimate. Israel is a legitimate state. Iran is a legitimate state. Britain was the legitimate state ruling over it's colonies, and it was brought down by the American revolutionary war. It was a legitimate state toppled, and I don't see anyone crying about it. A state being legitimate doesn't mean it's "good".
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Sko Bird how the fuck am I supposed to know he's 15? Verbal warning? So he can pull out a gun and fire in the direction of the sound?
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***** Maybe you don't know where your daughter goes at night. I don't have to sneak into my house at 4AM because my parents know where I am and trust me, if I ever have a daughter she doesn't need to fucking break into my house and sneak around like a burglar. She can use the front door like a regular fucking person.
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Nordic countries rank very high in the economic freedom index, social democracy eats away the profits but they make enough to cover the costs. They work despite social democracy, not because of it. Look at social democracy applied to any country that doesn't have the capitalist side to hold up it's weight, and you get huge financial crisis. >Zionism lel another instance where "it works" but if you are really nationalist about it. Sure.
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Plot twist: those techniques don't work and will hardly kill anyone, so it doesn't matter
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william waddell You can cause a deadly brain hemorrhaging if you punch someone, does that mean boxing is some crazy deadly technique? You can kill someone if you put them in a RNC until the brain has been deprived from oxygen. If you can't control it, it doesn't work. I can put my shin into someone's temple, but I do it in a controlled manner because it's not good etiquette to knock your sparring partner out. If you can get your magical thumb into the magical pressure point that kills (hurr), you can do it at full speed but without striking. Do you know how strong the neck is? You can crank someone's neck full speed without snapping it, because it takes tremendous force. Whatever crazy technique can always be done in a controlled manner. If you can't, then you can't use it in real life because you've never used it for real either.
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william waddell Semantics. If I elbow you "12-to-6" to the back of the head it's against the rules of the sport MMA (for two different reasons). But I can control it so it won't harm you. You also aren't supposed to rabbit punch people in boxing or use takedowns, but I can do a rabbit punch with no power or a takedown not meant to slam you. Even though those are against the sport aspect of boxing, you can control those techniques. Besides, you haven't mentioned which techniques you're talking about because you know I can show how they can be done with control. Keep deflecting, bud.
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william waddell Well, the submissions in traditional jiujitsu and modern BJJ also cause damage (some of them can cause damage before pain becomes unbearable). But they can be done controlled.
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william waddell So you are saying that a deadly technique won't cause a knockout or pain submission if done with control? I was arguing over the subject of sparring, not a fight, so nevermind some of the things I said. Unless you're speaking of twisting someone's neck, most things that kill will usually cause pain or damage. Something that won't do those until it breaks the threshold? Doubtful.
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william waddell A few people? So, it's basically non-repeatable by unbiased sources? Look, some guys claimed to have made cold fusion with the use of red mercury or some shit, nobody could reproduce the results. Normally when that happens, it's bullshit.
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william waddell Mystery and advanced. So basically, not even worth considering because nobody will teach them.
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Boat >"Sure, there's the chance of a hydra but then you cut that head off too" Perfect analogy. We'll spend the rest of the millennium cutting off heads. >"Destroy the caliph and the rest will cower" And go underground so you can't find it to hit America with homegrown terrorists. Don't destroy anything, and they can't use your actions to justify retaliation. >"If someone threatened to murder your from another house and you knew who they were, that's called a clear and present danger." If I kill them, I get charged with murder you idiot. >"You have the right to have the authorities take out that threat" Actually the police will tell you they can't do anything until you're attacked but they will investigate. Which is code for "don't hold your breath". The analogy isn't calling the police because the world has no police. It's sending men with guns to murder EVERYONE who lives in that house. Guilty of threats or not. >"Yeah...you're a pacifist, no matter how you try to spin it." Pacifists can't use violence. I'm a firearms enthusiast, I support the right to own and carry weapons, Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground. The NAP, in the Anarcho-Captalist sense, doesn't cover violence used in self-defense because it's not violence - it's common sense. So how the fuck am I a pacifist if even though I shall never take pleasure in killing, I'd still sleep like a baby if I shot you if you broke into my house?
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Boat >"These people do not join ISIS because of America" And where the fuck did I say they are joining solely because of America? What's your major malfunction? >"They are even recruiting Americans today" Americans who certainly love America, right? No, they're recruiting the disfranchised, those we were let down and those who would have no issue turning against America. Whenever America kills people, you're proving their wacko theories right. Their extremist leaders told them that the US murders people and you want the US to give them exactly what they want - recruitment material. >"despite us not being in Syria and out of Iraq" Oh, wow. 1. Syria is important because they don't want Assad and they hate people of his ethnic group but at the same time they do not want the Qatar funded rebels taking it. If the rebels take Syria, Europe will be able to buy natural gas from Qatar by pipeline through Turkey and stop giving money to Putin. The US has a vested interest in eliminating The US "is" in Syria because they tried to fund and arm "moderate" rebels and turns out they're fucking ISIS. Again, intervention. 2. The US has been in Iraq for almost a decade. I'm sure they still hold a grudge. >"pacifism" 0/10 Buy me gun and plane ticket and I'd gladly fight for Kurdistan. The problem is that a) the US has no legitimate right to invade Iraq or pretend to be the world's police; b) my own opinions about ISIS doesn't mean I have the right to force other people to go die in a foreign country; c) why are you so itchy about sending Americans to die? You wish for American youth to get killed. Why are you so anti-American?
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Nope, look at Ghostbusters, it tanked. Comic books keep trying to pander to the PC crowd, who aren't a major market force, and alienating their core fanbase. The reality of pandering to PC is that the people who complain about that stuff typically didn't buy the products before and won't buy them later.
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Michael Haimerl It's not bad planning! Excuse us for not having our cities bombed to rubble back in the 40's, but most of our streets to not have space for more lanes and we can't exactly rebuild the city until an earthquake or something finally levels it. It's not even about delays, it's about getting stuck in traffic. The old, short electric streetcars often get stuck, the modern long ones are even worse. Unless your panning involves only putting rails on long avenues and not have any turns (a system already serviced by buses), you can't blame the awfulness of a streetcar on bad planning if nobody who planned the city has been alive for 300 years.
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Michael Haimerl >"most cities were rebuilt the exact way they were before" But you can plan everything into it at once rather than retrofit into it. It's more efficient. In fact, the efficiency in Germany's rebuild efforts was one of the factors that drove their industry miles ahead of the rest of Europe.
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Michael Haimerl Yeah, I'm not from the US and I'm telling you they don't work. They are a nuisance to other drivers (here they literally force a different law for overtaking to exist because of them taking the lane at the left) and add absolutely nothing to a city which already has surface train, underground train and an extremely wide net of bus networks. Philippe Larcher We also have historic streetcars in Lisbon, but they mostly exist on the historic side of town, where people won't bring their cars because of lack of parking space. With only residents to worry about most of the time, they are not a burden on the main lines transportation. Outside of that area, modern streetcars ought to be abolished.
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Michael Haimerl That's not an argument. It's like claiming socialized medicine "works" because there's hospitals and people getting treated in them. Sure, let's forget the fact that it's inefficient, it depends on the stability of the state and on steady birth rates to replenish the Ponzi scheme that taxes are, etc. I can see streetcars moving down the street, thank you very much. Doesn't mean it's not a ridiculously inefficient behemoth which is a nuisance to drivers, interferes with parking, and is absolutely redundant if you already have subway and bus networks servicing the city's transporting needs. Now, remove all types of individual motor traffic, and yes, you got yourself a highly specific environment where the streetcar shines as there are no space or traffic issues. >"Cuba looks more developed than this, no wonder you think it sucks" So now you resort to insults? >"from your city (with streetcars)" Wow, a big revelation! I spent the whole time exemplifying from personal experience how rubbish they are and now you're telling me my city has streetcars? Holy shit.
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Michael Haimerl Yeah, because the fact that politicians are in the pocket of the streetcar builders is such a blatant example of my incompetence. Without a lobby, the streetcar could not survive.
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MrToradragon It's obvious that when trams are out of service the replacement buses are overcrowded. When there's a strike on the subway, buses are overcrowded. When there's a strike on buses, the subway is over crowded. Backup systems aren't profitable if they have 100% efficiency since they're out of commission most of the time. A great deal of buses over here are equipped with natural gas or hydrogen. Besides, electric motors and batteries have come a long way, and the fact that electric motors pretty much produce max torque at virtually any RPM make them extremely good for heavy vehicles that need the low-end torque. When buses become electric, trams can go to hell.
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brushcreek42 Buses are noisy and pollutant because governments managing things always fuck up. They're still riding old models. The fact is that in some countries they managed to replace some of the fleet with compressed natural gas fueled buses. Not to mention that the same exact motors that drive streetcars could power electric buses, the problem of the batteries being mitigated by the fact that at "the end of the line" buses face wait times that could be spent charging at a station reserved for buses in every terminal station. No, people aren't more likely to ride streetcars because that's a rubbish generalization. Any city with a half decent metro/subway system puts more people through it than the annoying streetcar system. How do you know if a city is rubbish? If it has streetcars instead of a subway, which would be the preferable solution as it doesn't get in the way of traffic.
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If a car or a bus breaks down you can avoid it, a street car cannot. If a car or bus breaks down, it can be easily towed out of the way to not disturb traffic. Street cars cannot leave the rail.
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"However, a streetcar must break down first!!" - or the road simply become blocked. Buses can drive around the blockage. Streetcars will stay in place and cause a congestion. If you put the streetcar underground, it becomes a subway! Problem solved!
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I ride the subway. Take your meds.
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Brad Bisinger I'm not placing goalposts anywhere. I am being honest to the best of my abilities and reading into what's being discussed, you are just all over the place and can't seem to be able to understand a sentence. >Just because you seem to think that a woman who is having casual sex is hurting herself Strawman argument, I never stated that. Again, you don't seem to have understood a single sentence of what I said. >Why is it that men aren't hurting themselves? .. because they're vile and perverts by your definition? For some reason though women can't be perverts Again, you're misrepresenting the argument. If a man sleeps around with women he's the villain, and this is felt across society. Not just some group. Name anything positive about that trope. 007 is a misogynist (which even Judi Dench's M tells him). The stereotypical guy in a band that sleeps around is seen as a bum and no parents want them dating their daughter. There's nothing positive. Which is why there's so few of them and it usually involves having a ton of money/being famous. >I didn't say men are always oppressors. I didn't say all men are oppressors "the reality is that men often ARE oppressors of women" Yezus H. Christo. You sure did make it sound like you said those things. >but men in power often do Oh. But women are the majority and hold greater voting power. And those in power usually appeal to women to gain votes. Obama's ad about voting that made it sound like losing virginity? The multiple bills that benefit women in terms of custody, lower the alimony debt a man has to have before it's considered a felony, etc. not to mention the opposition to gender neutral rape laws or the provisions to allow male circumcision in anti-genital mutilation legislation. The fact is, government is indeed composed by a lot of men - so why are feminists running to the government to solve their problems? >You don't have to look hard at the world to see which gender is in control Have unprotected sex and call me back on that one. You'll see who'll have a dog collar on the neck 9 months afterwards. Women can get you sent to the HR department because the stuff you put on your desk is "inappropriate" (and we live in a Victorian era in which women can't even be exposed to anything less dignifying or they'll faint) but they can read Fifty Shades of Grey on the job, on the bus, on the park, whatever.
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Ayanle Farah Well, they follow minimum wage laws to follow the law. People with citizenship tend to complain about it, that's the whole point of using undocumented foreigners as they won't report the situation. So yeah, they increase wages when the min wage increases, otherwise they'd be in trouble. All things being equal, I could not in good conscience advocate for the end of minimum wage laws. But in principle, I am against the concept. In a world without minimum wage I'd be all in favour for a workers' union to be able to negotiate corporate policy that set their own minimum wage without government intervention, just like I would support someone who really needs the money and decides to do the same job for less. Right now, the real minimum wage for those people is zero. No job at all.
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ranerk inasa Good thing I didn't implicate Bin Laden either. And by the way, before he died his page on the FBI Most Wanted didn't actually claim he was to be captured due to his involvement in the 2001 attacks, even after the post-death revision, He was wanted for connections with US embassy attacks. He was part of the militia. Okay, so if a guy who works at Staples bombs a government building, that makes Staples a terrorist organization? It was politically charged, alright. Why does that justify "guilt by association"? And making the militia responsible for something they didn't do is going to bring back the dead? Come on!
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charlie brown many times movies put an emphasis of the whistling and ricochet of bullets. Also, silenced guns. Pew pew is a joke on those sound effects.
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James Sarvan We could also do without your racist comments regarding homelessness and Roma people.
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James Sarvan >"No, it never "runs out"." Yes it does. Most sick leave mandates around the world are between a week or two. >"If you can't work, you can't work. You shouldn't have to be homeless just because you were in a tragic accident" That's a disability check, not sick leave. >"That is what our taxes are for. It's not the company that pays the person, it's from taxes." Sick leave is paid for by employers. It's like paid vacation, the employer covers the cost. >"I did not leave any racist comment about the Roma people." You basically said they weren't Swedish citizens so they don't matter! >"since you don't even think that swedes should be able to get help from the state, then you obviously don't think illegal immigrants should either. So don't speak to me about racism" Nice strawman argument. However, if you check your fallacious argument you'll see that people would be treated equally independently of nationality. You're the one who says that Roma people don't count.
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James Sarvan >"I am not a native english speaker" Not an excuse because I'm not a native English speaker either. >"you can't count them in the equation of "how many swedish citizens are bankrupt and begging". Because they are not swedish citizens" That's circular logic. They're not Swedish so they don't count because they don't get help because they're not Swedish. It's still the denial of a problem because I'm sure that there are Swedish beggars - you're the one who generalized with immigrants to paint a better picture.
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+CliventheTraveller there's a reason armor was worn and that was because you couldn't just thrust through it. You'd either thrust at the articulation gaps by half-swording or using pommel strikes. A mace strike on a domed structure would have most of it's force absorbed, which would mean less ability to "bite". The ability to bite into armor isn't even important considering a mace or pommel strike could cause damage by deforming the armor itself rather than puncturing it. +CidGuerreiro1234 It's not a void. Actually the straighter a plate is the easier it is to bend. In non-pressurized cans for food there are "wavy" ridges that serve to reinforce the can (pressurized cans like soda cans are smooth because the faces are all kept in traction). By your logic these waves are a weak point but truth is that those cans would crush easily in transport if they weren't "ribbed".
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+Fuzzy Duo to be honest the people making the content of the game aren't the same ones optimizing it. Better writing and more interesting quests won't come by eliminating 3-way sli support, if anything people tinkering with the game engine trying to optimize it can only be good for the community in general.
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The ATF did that. Apparently the RadioShack batteries failed, and they gave the cartels a bunch of working rifles that were later used to kill a border patron agent. Fast & Furious, everyone.
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It's for the sake of appearances. It's actually a "Muay Thai camp" - set up for the foreign visitors. I seriously doubt the program gets enough funding to make it look "non-prison" all year round.
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+Jack AD the problem is that if you go to mechanical engineering, you'll get one class of this. In my country we do have "mecatronic engineering" or something but it's not recognized as an "engineering degree". Basically it's like going to law school but never do a bar exam. I have no idea if where you live you have a college degree that teaches you about cars but you have to make a choice - do you want to work on cars or do you want to be an engineer? Would you settle for a job as a car mechanic, where you'll fix cars instead of sitting through classes for years and get into debt? But if you don't want to fix cars and you want to be part of car design/engineering, will you risk getting into a degree that's only for cars when an engineering degree will allow you to work on anything, even if they only have one or two classes on car engines? The most important question: would you settle for cars as a hobby? For example, I'm in mechanical engineering and I like guns. They're not everyone's cup of tea but I'd like to work in their design and production. But I could be working on cars for a living and then have my own little machine shop where I can mess around with gun design. You could become an engineer, and for all you know you could be working on projects related to trains, ships, guns etc and make decent money that allows you to go nuts and create something yours in your garage.
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Emil Thomsen Finland is one of the most armed countries in the world when it comes to civilian guns!
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+se7en the bag of dildos wasn't "classic", it's just a fucking dumb joke that is old as balls on the internet and some people decided to make activism out of it. The photoshopping dildos into guns or "open carrying dildos" is the dumbest fucking thing because it clearly shows it's not the gun owners who are compensating for something, it's the people who can't create a political statement more coherent than "dildos!". We fucking started this thing among the new generation of gun owners. Double ended dildos mounted on scope rings, dildo bayonets, etc are all jokes within the gun culture of people who grew up with the internet and 4chan. You people stole our joke and spread it to the gun owners that don't get it. That's not classic, the same way that Carlos Mencia isn't a classic comedian.
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+Struggle Gaming So when two asshole kids with "Natural Selection" on a shirt shot up their highschool, that was the militia's fault? They had no political gain, so their use of violence wasn't used to further a political agenda. When some disgruntled guy decides to shoot up his workplace that's the militia as well? What political gain did he get from that act of intimidation?
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Bob cares And the "obvious" is sometimes too superficial to make an accurate judgement. It's obvious to any observer that the Sun revolves around the Earth, and yet it's the opposite.
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Iccanui It's fucking amazing how a person can be nice and respect others despite the difference of opinions, but people would rather be assholes because they can't stand an opinion that doesn't match their own.
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Nick S there is a situation with bore diameter because I'm not actually sure a 37mm diameter has "sporting use" - there used to be huge shotguns to fire at waterfowl but this one seems to have a barrel too short. Bore diameter is limited to 0.5" unless the weapon has sporting use, or else it becomes a Destructive Device. Barrel shorter than 18" and it's a SBS. By virtue of being a flare launcher, it's legal. If it wasn't it would be a NFA item.
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***** But then they'd dehydrate themselves right up until the fight. The weight they regain after the weightins is mostly fluids. Your brain uses fluids inside the cranium to cushion impacts. You sure you want people fighting with less protection in their brain?
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1. By your logic you're saying it's okay to make profit out of pollution. Face it, they didn't want people getting them for free. Making it a purchase means they get a cut from those 10 cents. 2. So you're justifying regulation with more regulation? The same regulation that says a person can die for his country but not have a beer? And isn't driving age 16 in the US? 3. Throwing trash isn't acceptable but so isn't banning smoking in private businesses and forcing people to smoke outside.
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The problem is that the M1 Abrams is equipped with tank-killing rounds for the most part, which are ineffective against people. And since the Abrams has a blazing hot exhaust, it's actually more vulnerable to infantry than diesel tanks. You do realize that not everyone makes a lifelong career out of military service, right? So you know few people who would drop of out the military to join a militia, good for you! Most of those people completed their service, they did not trade the military for the militia, they joined after they completed their duties.
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mbrij 96 High specific impulse matters more than energy density in spacecraft. You can have a gigantic reservoir of hydrogen attached to a shuttle/inside a rocket, but in a car you have limited space.
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+Nicholas Sayers here's a lesson on how to lie with statistics. Over a period of time Mexican Federales apprehended something like 27-29 thousand firearms, most of them impossible to trace, only a sample of 11,000 were sent to the ATF. Out of those only about 6,000 could be traced and 90% of those did come from the US. Meanwhile, the cartels are driving around with Belgian-made automatics property of the Mexican government (unaccounted for) that could not have come from the US, anti-air missiles and hand grenades, all of which were smuggled through international illegal arms trade or stolen from Mexican armories. Don't you think that the Mexican government has a vested interest in blaming the US to cover their ass on the fact that their police and military forces are so goddamn corrupt that they'll look the other way while their armories are ransacked by cartels? Damn right I can't compare them to Scandinavia. But they're very comparable to the US. Look at Flint, Michigan, can't even get clean water. Look at Chicago, it's the São Paulo of the US. Shit, Canada and Scandinavia don't border a narco state, the US does. Don't you think that might have some influence on the matter?
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+Nicholas Sayers "People like me understand that there is of course an undeniable correlation between firearm availability and firearm violence" Except that there's no correlation at all! http://www.objectobot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/table4.jpg
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+Larry Roberts the economy is a topic that is difficult to argue because 2007-2008 was a crisis so it was at a low point and the factors that drove the economy up were largely unrelated to the presidency. It's not that the economy is "idiot proof", because it's really easy to crash it. Both republicans and democrats have ideals that damage the economy but the market is thankfully resilient to the little changes a president can make.
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Look at the Luty SMGs made by Australian gangs. Or the near perfect MAC-10 copies that Australian jeweler was selling to bikers. Corporations? The tech to make guns is accessible to anyone.
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+Shane XYZ "imagine a bowl of m&ms..."
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Bernie Sanders traded his support for Clinton for use of a private jet and a 600k third home. He gives a shit about organized labour and the working class my ass.
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@hwstar9416 surveys on uncut men who had it circumcised during adulthood claim it makes no difference, there's no reliable proof either way on circumcision making sex feel better/desensitizing of the glans making men last longer. For hygiene, people should wash their genitals no matter what anyway and the lower transmission of STDs was a hack fraud finding. Even if it was better it should be personal choice anyway. Not snipped at birth.
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Regulated back then was still a close derivative of the word "regular". Either way, it's the right of the people to keep and bears arms, anyone should have the right to bear arms even if they're not the militia. Why would people who rebelled against the government want that the militias had to have permission from the government? That would defeat the point of the militia since they'd have to be loyal to tyrants. Who gives a shit about Chomsky? He's right in some things but he's completely insufferable on others.
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+justletmeuseit not really, just blend into the crowd. Whatever technology can do, it can't tell you who's an insurgent when they're in plain civilian mode.
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justletmeuseit "Blending in" isn't espionage. "Blending in" is living a normal life, at least as normal as one could live under occupation, striking only when convenient and then changing back into an everyday civilian before anyone can fight back. It's guerrilla, asymmetric warfare, etc but it's not espionage. You're not infiltrating the community, you are the community. >"these guys are just up in the hills" For training purposes. Normally it's illegal to discharge firearms in residential areas unless you have a shooting range.
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LuckyDukeSeven That's not an argument, I was replying to a comment, not the video itself. >"I'm not defending any form of slavery - don't try to attack me personally just because you made a stupid comment" It's not a personal attack, it's only related to your statements. You're willing to dismiss any non-plantation form of slavery. Don't accuse me of stupidity and don't backpedal. >"Your comment tried to pawn off atrocities committed by European powers" No, it didn't. Stop reaching so hard, you'll blow your rotator cuff. >"Those atrocities were far more devastating in their consequences than the a ship of Moorish pirates stopping a European cargo vessel and demanding ransom, or some blacks taking some other blacks as slaves after a tribal war." Why are you accusing me of trying to pawn off atrocities when you are this reductive about a millennium of slave trade? I didn't even bring up white slaves, so thanks for doing it for me. >"And sexual slavery? Once again, this is an orientalist fantasy that developed in Europe" Chai boys aren't real. And the way marriage is handled in some Muslim nations definitely doesn't reek of sexual slavery. Waiting for moral relativism in 3... 2... 1... >"The king was a bad man" Your whole comment is written from the perspective that I think he was a good king (fuck monarchy) and that I only think white people are victims of the slave trade. Not only you can't read, all your arguments are null and void.
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LuckyDukeSeven Arab slave traders bought South East Asian slaves for customers in Egypt, Persian Gulf, Arabia, Somalia and even European colonial customers. You're literally telling me that slavery is what humans in their most basic state do? Then please explain what is wrong with European slavery if it's just so natural! And by the way, you're using a naturalistic fallacy. Rape can become common in the animal world under some circumstances, doesn't make it right just because it's in Nature's way of dealing with problems. I am telling you with a straight face that slavery is wrong, what the Europeans did was wrong, etc. - logically it follows that those who engaged in the same practice are not absolved of their wrongdoings by revisionism. I fail to understand what makes my statement so controversial.
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jassLmhn Wrong. Someone deflected and I countered their revisionist opinions. I have already blamed Europeans for what they have done, what do you want from me? Sell myself into slavery to make a point? Obviously not, that would be ridiculous. So shut up if you have nothing to say. You people are illiterate and can't read basic English. Worse, you read something and understand the complete opposite.
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Then you could have an engine-driven supercharger with a clutch that disengages it after a certain number of RPM, skipping the tank entirely. AKA a twincharged engine.
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@notpinhead3514 first things first, I have no idea which fan speeds and types of fans you're using but I noticed you're running 3 exhaust and 2 intakes. It's not a huge deal, but it's possible that you're extracting more air from the case than is going in through the intake fans, which is typically called a "negative pressure" system. Rather than explaining it poorly I'm going to point to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a12aDCxrcts I don't know which kind of RX 580, it might be a "blower" reference card (one radial fan that blows through a heatsink and the air comes out the case) or a "custom"/"aftermarket"/"partner" card which is sold by a brand that uses a different cooler design, typically two and sometimes three axial fans. At this point it's kinda complex because of all the variables regarding the airflow, your type of videocard cooler and the size of your case. If you have a way to actually see how the air is moving through the case like demonstrated in the video it might help pick your new intake/exhaust setup. In case your cooling system is actually working well, air is going in and out without issue, I'd recommend cleaning the dust and replacing thermal paste if you haven't. In case of your GPU, if you're going to try cleaning your videocard take the chance to look at the thermal pads and see if they're all crummy and worn. Your local PC hardware store might have replacement thermal pads in stock, but make sure you get ones with the same thickness as your original ones. If you're looking to replace the cooler there's the Hyper 212: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNjkDoYZYjU (tested on a Ryzen 5 1600 - dropped from 63 to 52 degrees at load).
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They did redesign the swept wing on the me262 for a 35°, but it was never adopted.
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Davi Lu Yes, the work of Adolf Busemann.
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***** A single person who just happened to use the same argument as hundreds of thousands of anti-fun people. Hivemind much? >"So why are you constantly worried about being physically overwhelmed" So why are you constantly projecting, erecting strawmen and asking trick questions? I have no quarrel with you, except for the part where I'm being gratuitously insulted. You on the other hand, will take any chance you get to deliver a low blow. How the fuck am I the insecure one in this conversation? >"you spends hours and hours training for when it happens" >"that sure sounds like a lot of constant fear" This just in: me and all my friends at the local gym are paranoid delusional for training martial arts for hours every week. I guess we should turn every self-defense/krav maga academy into asylums, these people are lunatics for wasting time. >"It definitely isn't "manly" under any definition I've heard about." And yet you enforce a severely outdated meaning of "manly" - involving dick size, physical prowess, maybe height, etc, which is commonly dubbed as "toxic masculinity".
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***** >"Hey, whatever reason you're so terrified at the idea of being man-handled" Nice strawman. >"you can't deny you are clearly more obsessed with it than the rest of us who aren't constantly training for that event" The rest of you? You know how many fucking people do Judo, Krav Maga, Jeet Kune Do, fucking Tae Kwon Do, Karate, even Brazilian Jiu Jitsu? BJJ is as popular as Karate was in the 80's. You know how many highschool/college wrestlers there are? I don't even do it for self-defense purposes, I've transcended that phase altogether. I wanted a hobby and being fit has the added benefit of looking good naked. Now I actually want to compete because I'm decent at fighting. Now, not doing it for defensive purposes doesn't mean I can't use my skills that way, but I am digressing. Look at how popular gyms are these days. Fucking push up bras? We got push up jeans now. We got sneakers that claim to make your ass better by targeting that muscle group. Men get middle age crisis and buy cars. Women wear heels, do plastic surgery, wear makeup. We're all a bunch of fakers pretending to be someone better than we are, getting offended at everything so that people notice how "tolerant", portraying a life we don't have on facebook and we're the ones obsessed? We're the ones compensating? Look at yourself in the mirror. Then look at everyone else. Do that before bringing the magnifying glass to gun owners. Fucking hell. After getting involved in the gun rights discussion, I met a ton of gay and bi men, transgender people, women who just don't have a chance at fending off some 200lb >6' brute (despite what Hollywood fight scenes would have you believe), ethnic minorities. There's even the Pink Pistols, "armed gays don't get bashed", the whole nine yards. I met people who have been tossed around all their lives, and to you they're just compensating. Get real.
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***** >"obsessing with shooting people" Fucking clockwork. Another strawman. You do know that at this point you've basically forfeited any discussion and you're just here to throw insults, right? The gun rights side won this discussion by excessive fouls on your part. >"with people going to the gym" Everyone is compensating for something, and you're focusing on the people you don't like. It's childish behaviour, but whatever. One thing I found is that people who are actually strong and people who own guns are among the type of people who no longer need to prove their strength. They don't need to overcompensate for anything because they know they can't be beat easily. Hell, it's people like you, those who subscribe to archaic views of masculinity, that typically hate these strong people because they threaten their views. A bully can't pick fights in the streets when someone smaller can fight back. You want to enforce the "might makes right" so you can clinch to some form control in your life, so you accuse people who break the chain of overcompensating.
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Peter Koperdan from what I got incompetent services have stored passwords as text files which means that if the service is hacked, the file is found so game over. What others do is only store the hashes, they run your inputs and check if the resulting hash is equal. So if you hack the service you only get hashes not passwords and you can't work backwards. But if you have the dictionaries+rules or lists of passwords stolen from other places you can run those attempts, and when hashes are equal you know you have found a password. So the problem isn't hackers caring about you, it just could happen that by sheer bad luck you become a point of entry due to your password being found in the service's hashes.
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Levi Paladin It's not a strawman. You clearly laid out that your goal is to kill civilians because you place the value of your own troops first. It just happens that you're admitting that you'd commit a war crime. I know more about WWII history than you, bud. If you knew your history, you'd be aware that the nuking was not necessary. The US had already caused much destruction and death in Japan with the use of the B-29, it was impossible for Japan to win the war. It was not necessary to use a nuke, on a military target or otherwise.
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@OragamiSpliff Lone Survivor the Marcus Lutrell story? Not really, that's the Navy SEALs taking over a mission that was meant for a larger number of Marines that lead to them being overwhelmed.
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Norm MacDonald voice: "And who did the Germans go to war with...? The World!"
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 @alexeistrife56 How? He said it perfectly, there is a verifiable intent in achieving war goals. There are failures in targeting and callouness but those are arguably war crimes, not genocide.
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@Drew Peacock "If you're carrying out low-level CAS" - Well there's your first issue right there. "with a gun you need to fly relatively slow and have good loiter time" - Those are unrelated things but okay. If Strike Eagle drivers can do gun runs at night (and their gun is canted 2º "up") I don't see why a F-35 can't. "The F-35 flies too fast" - So does the F-16, F/A-18 and F-15E but those get plenty of CAS. How come the F-35 is the only aircraft that can't do the job everyone else is doing? "doesn't carry enough rounds" - It carries 18 thousand pounds of ordnance though. You've seen those small diameter bombs? That's a lot of boom boom. "It has an armoured cockpit, the F-35 doesn't." - Okay, but armor on critical areas doesn't change the fact that you were wrong about the "thin skinned" remark. "Are you seriously suggesting using an F-35 for low-level CAS?" - Are you seriously suggesting that CAS can only be performed at low level? "For starters an F-35 isn't suited to this role" - Why? "why risk losing such a complex aircraft performing this role? " - The pilot is worth more than the aircraft. If you send an A-10 into the modern battlefield, you're risking the pilot's life. Remember, nearly 30 years ago it got a bloody nose from the Iraqi Republican Guard and Chuck Horner decided to pull them out, relegating them to missions against the less proficient Iraqi army units. That was 30 years ago. You think it's safer now? It's worse! Who cares if the plane cost 30 million or 80 million? You can force the taxpayer to pay more next year, tell the Fed to print more money, but pilots don't grow on trees. So the question is, why risk a pilot's life by sending an ageing, outdated aircraft that got sucker-punched three decades ago by minimally competent forces?
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@Drew Peacock jesus what a wall of text. "Firstly not all CAS is carried out from altitude otherwise the A-10 wouldn't exist" - Sorry to burst your bubble, but the reason the A-10 exists is a complete clusterfuck. The A-7 was a great CAS aircraft, but the human in the loop depended on observers and ground controllers because it was difficult to spot targets on the ground. The Army was also requesting that a CAS aircraft should be slow enough to escort helicopters. This created the "low and slow" requirement, which was a temporary solution for a temporary problem as modern sensors allow pilots to spot targets from altitude better than they can do from low altitude with their eyes. The reason the A-10 exists is due to airplanes outpacing the human, so we had to send pilots with underperforming aircraft so they could keep up. Now the human can keep up. "It doesn't carry enough rounds" - 18k pounds my dude. "it doesn't have enough loiter time" - In a modern battlefield the A-10 cannot loiter. "why risk losing an expensive, complex F-35" - Why risk a pilot? You send an A-10 out, it's a death sentence. "How are they unrelated?" - Because even with the A-10s capacity you have a limited number of trigger pulls. "it flies too fast" - So you're conveniently ignoring how fast jets perform gun runs, so you fixate on number of rounds, and then go back to the F-35 to complain about speed? "if an A-10 is lost, it's cheaper to replace than an F-35" - You've lost the pilot. That was worse than the aircraft. Factories can pump out aircraft. It takes years to make a pilot. "Too fast for low-level gun-based CAS" - Again, fast jets perform gun runs. Stop ignoring the facts. "The F-35 could carry out CAS from altitude. It would be terrible though at low-level CAS." - Fighters comparable to the F-35 do low level CAS. Why are you ignoring the facts? "What's that got to do with anything when you need to carry out gun-based CAS" - We've literally developed small diameter bombs that do the job of a gun run. "Yes it is. But no good if a gun is needed." - Why is a gun needed? Smaller danger close radius. What did we come up with? Bombs with self-limited blast range. "even if hit by a MANPADS the pilot may be able to safely eject, which may not necessarily be the case with an F-35 which is thin-skinned all over." - All planes are thin skinned. You've been called out on this, at least say what you mean rather than use misleading statements. The proof is in the pudding - the A-10 suffered enough losses in 1991 to be grounded and pulled out of the hardest missions. "The A-10 also has the huge advantage that it was intended to fly from forward air bases and semi-prepared runways" - Turboprops are even better suited for that job, are even cheaper to operate and are just a a tad bit slower. "Why you want to use an F-35 in this role" - The problem is you thinking that a very niche role is still relevant. "I've already listed all the reasons why an F-35 isn't suited to low-level CAS. I'm not going to repeat them again if you can't be bothered to properly read my comments." - And I've already addressed why every single of your concerns isn't valid. Fast jets do CAS. The A-10 has been replaced already. The F-35 is also survivable thanks to redundancy and making itself hard to hit in the first place. Newer weapons have been designed to do the job of the gun from a distance with precision. If the F-35 does need to perform gun runs, the fact that other fast jets do it already means that it will be able to do it too. All things considered, you claim the F-35 is not suited for the role and then ignore how similar jets have been doing it for the past two decades. "There are times when CAS can be carried out from altitude and other times when you need to carry out low-level gun-based CAS." - And why? To spare yourself the frustration, I'll answer - smaller danger close radius with the gun. That's it. We came up with bombs with self-limiting blast range. Hell, at this point I hope they stick rocket pods under the wings and add the IR guidance kit to 2.75 inch rockets with flechettes. There you go, precision guided rockets that shred meat targets with lower collateral than a bomb. A smart gun run. Problem solved. "More deflection, answer the question." - It's not a deflection. If your idea of fighting a war is losing planes, you already lost. I'll take the expensive plane because cheap can get pilots killed. "Of course, that applies to any aircraft. Pilots know what they're getting into when they sign up." - Now that is deflection. No, it doesn't apply to any aircraft. The A-10 suffered twice the losses of the F-16 in 1991 despite the F-16 performing more CAS missions. "What point are you making? It makes no sense to send pilots to a certain death or into situations where they're almost certain to get shot down" - Yes, it doesn't make sense to send A-10s against minimally trained forces. "Again, what point are you making? " - That sending the 30 million dollar plane is going to cost you dearly. "What does any of this have to do with the fact that an F-35 would be atrocious at low-level CAS? If A-10s can't survive certain low-level CAS scenarios, F-35s would be even less survivable." - Again, fast jets perform low level CAS, which is a role that has become obsolete and is only relevant to fight a counter insurgency against people wearing flip flops. You claim the F-35 is atrocious, but comparable aircraft have already replaced the A-10. And like I mentioned before, the F-16 was more survivable in 1991 as it suffered 3 losses and the A-10 7 losses despite the F-16 carrying out more missions. "But you want to use F-35s instead, which are even less well protected than A-10s" - The F-16 is also less protected, and had lower losses. Hmmm. "A-10s are the best aircraft for the job" - They've been replaced. All they do is done by others. "As for F-35s though, they aren't suited to the low-level CAS role at all." - again, WHY? - Fast jets do CAS - Fast jets do gun runs - Fast jets have done more CAS than the A-10 and suffered less losses - The A-10 mission profile and capabilities make it more vulnerable - the A-10 isn't more survivable because it's armored, it's armored because it's likely to get hit - Flying low level was a requirement for CAS when it was difficult to see the battle from above, making low level CAS an obsolete mission profile - Low level CAS/gun runs are literally only required because of the lower danger close radius of cannon shells versus bombs, and we have devised bombs with self-limited blast range All your points of contention don't match reality because what you claim isn't possible is very possible and has been done for almost two decades. The "best" CAS aircraft barely gets any missions compared to the fast jets and it's only arguments are less stringent runway requirements/costs/loiter time, all of which are better with a turboprop aircraft making the A-10 a relic of the past.
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@sadwingsraging3044 Whoa there's countries with a defense budget of 80 million? I think they have bigger worries than what the US sends to perform a mission. If you think you're saving money by sending pilots in flying coffins you've already lost the logistical side of the war. The F-4 did not need a gun. The Navy didn't add it and they had what, a 6 to 1 kill ratio versus MiGs? The USAF got 90 percent of their kills by missile. The biggest usefulness of the gun was ironically ground attack, like the Marines did by sticking multiple gun pods under the wings. Before calling anyone a tard, maybe realize that the F-4 was built as the defender of the fleet, an interceptor, you need to destroy the enemy at range before it gets close enough to attack the carrier. If you need to get close enough to a guns kill, you've already failed the mission. So obviously the F-4 did not need it. Nobody was a tard for recognizing the priorities in the naval interceptor mission, that's just being smart. Then the F-4 was forced into roles that it shouldn't have taken on, and succeeded despite all odds. The F-4 is still known as the world's largest distributor of MiG parts. In interviews actual F-4 pilots stated that the addition of the gun was a reassurance, but in reality it shifted weight to the front of the airplane and forced the use of a smaller radar. All that for a measly 5 kills with the F-4E internal gun. "These ultra expensive missiles are the future man" - The F-4 in USAF service scored 86 kills with missiles. 5 with the internal gun on the F-4E. The Navy scored 40 kills with no guns. You may laugh now.
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@altergreenhorn why are they building stealth aircraft, then?
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+BLITZMASCHINE >government by divine right of kings >most private armies belonged to noblemen which were appointed by the aristocracy anyway I don't see the libertarianism in medieval europe... If you want a libertarian utopia during that time look no further than the republic of Cospaia, which as an experiment it went much better than you'd think and lasted for almost 400 years.
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+Dirty Wise if one company proves itself to be unreliable who has the incentive to hire them?
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Not 3x the normal price. The price is the "nominal" cost price, which is higher than actual value. You buy a 50k car. It depreciates to 20k over time. You decide to give it to a friend in need because you needed to buy a new one at one point. Obviously when you buy a new 50k dollar car that's because it's the cost of a new car of the same kind (assuming no inflation). So when the US sends a 20k dollar weapon to Ukraine and writes down 50k, that's because the value you'd get on the global arms market for a used piece and the cost of a NEW replacement are different. Most likely the US would either destroy the weapon/vehicle, sell it for a really discounted price to a poorer friendly county, or even just give it away for free as military aid. So Ukraine getting the stuff instead of it being blown up or shredded to pieces costs "nothing". But replacing it costs more than the weapon/vehicle.
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@tyler7713 " A shot wasn’t taken until he assaulted the man with the gun" - False. Three shots. One taken before the altercation. Even then, they broke the law by performing an illegal arrest. They're criminals and the victim defended himself. They killed the victim for resisting.
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@tyler7713 Rewatch and this time remove the earwax. On the 36 second video there was a shot at 20 seconds, a second shot at 25 and a third shot at 29. The shot at 20 seconds was fired BEFORE Arbery started the fight. George E. Barnhill was the DA that recused himself due to conflict of interest. Bruh. You're literally gonna point to the guy who covered for a former cop and had to recuse himself?
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I clicked this video specifically looking for the Donk comments.
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@topmodelbaby100 Look up on youtube "Finnish Brutality". It's a shooting match in Finland of the "two-gun" type. Finland is in Scandinavia, right? Semi-automatic is the default. In the old days technology didn't allow semi-automatic operation to be reliable, so after each shot it was the user who had to manipulate the bolt. In the modern days it's easy to manufacture systems that typically tap some of the gas from the combustion to operate the weapon. If you're defending yourself, you're in a situation where you can get injured. Miss the first shot, your arm gets injured... now you have trouble operating the action manually.
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It's "the most mysterious song on the internet" or "like the wind". Nobody has found the author(s) but a search is ongoing.
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No. The Russian MoD spliced two videos together. First is thermal imaging of them missing four trucks (why would they be so close?) in a parking lot near buildings. Then it switches to visible spectrum footage of something burning in a bush. No parking lot or buildings.
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@user-kc1tf7zm3b Different roles. Harrier is STOVL and Hornet is CATOBAR. You can't take off a Hornet from a helicopter carrier. But you can with a Harrier.
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@Jerakeen2826 The Marines had funding issues in regards to the Harrier. The AV8B had problems with the engine, the flaps, the nose wheel steering, etc and it was difficult to get a blanket fix to everything so they had to make do and kick the can down the road for years.
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@davidbycroft You can be incubating and not test positive because you're not yet shedding.
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@davidbycroft Okay. Remember right around February/March 2020 when finally the whole world started panicking? They said that countries should implement 14 day quarantines for people who were in contact with the infected and people who had come from infected zones. And a lot of people brought up that while in average the 14 days would be enough, the standard deviation was within 7-28 days. I have no idea if those numbers are still valid. But according to the information we had at the time, it was technically possible for someone to go through quarantine and come out shedding because by sheer chance they started being "positive" after the 15th day. Obviously a one month quarantine would be inhumane but that was back when we still had a chance to stop it, and very few people would be affected. Also, this was after the part where the WHO denied that there was a pandemic, and anyone who noticed that things were happening in China was called a racist conspiracy theorist. So it's almost like this whole BS was done on purpose but I digress. Apparently we're on the same side so I'll edit my comment to be less abrasive.
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They're random stores. Nothing important going on.
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I miss the pre-economic crash 2000s.
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The missile knows where it is, and where it needs to go. It's just a matter of subtracting the error until impact.
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@positroll7870 you have to be joking if you think a country should be able to just own technology from two hostile nations and then simulate engagements. The US simply cannot allow Turkey to give Russia the tactics to shoot down F-35s. Or the opposite. You think it would be fair for Russia if Turkey were to use the S-400 to give the US the tactics to destroy S-400 batteries? Again you must be out of your mind if you think the US was the unreliable ally and not Turkey. Only the rich and powerful benefit from an alliance with Turkey. Most of the people don't want us to coddle Turkey and Erdogan.
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@mobus1603 You're using the stats that started the count during the January wave. Get real.
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@mobus1603 "statistics from around the world" - Okay, public health england report on week 36 to 39 shows you're wrong.
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Kemon Jones-Terry it's you who doesn't understand what a monopoly is. None of the competing websites have a chance to compete with YT. Monopoly doesn't mean only one company exists. It means only one controls so much market share it's impossible to defeat them at their own game.
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Google already worked with AI for drones.
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Since they don't have to run an operating system you can squeeze a ton of performance from older chips.
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2022 "we will win in three days" 2024 "save us, Trump"
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14th century Europe birthrates were much higher, and what sort of public hospitals and retirement plans do you think existed in the 14th century? Higher wages and affordable housing is great, but if you're 65 and there's nobody to stock the shelves at the grocery store or to see you at the doctor's office you're not going to have a very fun retirement.
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Cope.
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The charging handle was requested that way by the military. Now that years have passed since that requirement, they've made a non-reciprocating handle.
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If they control the entire supply chain why did they allow politicians to use it as a jobs program? They could keep more money to themselves but there's hundreds of subcontractors involved.
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@elitedima9672 "Stealth technology is exaggerated." - and yet both Russia and China is implementing it. "Serbians shot down F-117" - due to 1) careless flight planning making the F-117 flights predictable 2) short engagement distance 3) bomb bay that was stuck open and broke stealth 4) lack of RWR, the pilot only knew he was targeted when he saw a missile breaking through the clouds. The fact that the feat hasn't been replicated ever since is a testament to how difficult it was. "Russian advancement in radar technology" - radar technology is a very broad statement. Stealth aircraft redirect some radar energy due to their angular faces and absorb some radar energy in their coating. You cannot detect energy that doesn't bounce back. Unless the Russians have managed to break the laws of physics, "radar technology" is just simply too vague. "infrared search and tracking systems" - stealth aircraft have reduced IR signature compared to conventional aircraft "electronic counter measures" - Is this a joke? If you beam anything at an aircraft you have signed your own death warrant because you never know if a flight is carrying missiles that can home-on-jam. "F-35 is supposed to replace A-10 warthog, which means it is mainly designed for ground-attack purpose" - the F-16, F-15 Strike Eagle, B1, etc already largely replaced the A-10, which receives less and less CAS missions. Neither the F-16 or the F-15 were designed mainly for ground-attack purpose so your argument doesn't even make sense and I don't even understand what you're trying to say. Your first link: it wasn't a "dogfight test". It was a flight test using an old version of the software. Those test results helped refine the control software so that the plane doesn't bleed as much energy when coming in and out of high AoA maneuvers. Your medium links are for War is Boring, which is as credible as Buzzfeed. Please. Real exercises show that the F-35 wipes the floor with the competition. Meanwhile salty soyboys write disparaging articles on their glorified blogs. Who do I trust? The powerful aircraft capable of destroying anything in it's way? Or the Buzzfeed rejects passing themselves off as military analysts?
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@Lonewolfmike "It does matter when it takes forever to turn your aircraft" - you're confusing turn radius for turn rate. "The A-10 has a much tighter turn radius than an F-35 could ever dream of and that is fact" - And the F-35 is a better plane and that's a fact. There's facts to support any argument you want, what matters is correctly using them in context. Within context, turn radius is not that important. You could probably get a better turn radius out of an acrobatic biplane. So what? "a tighter turn radius means more to troops on the ground than all the fancy electronics an F-35 has" - bullshit lol. With all the friendly fires involving A-10s they should be worried about the man in the sky accurately telling friend from foe and not how many feet it takes to make a turn. If the guy up there takes a tight turn to then blast you to bits by mistake because his situational awareness is lower, electronics start to make a whole lot of sense. "an F-35, to my knowledge has not been used for close ground support." - and the F-22 has never shot an air target down. So what? "And the A-10 had been PROVEN to be of great help to ground troops" - it also has been proven to be worse than the F-16, F-15 Strike Eagle, F/A-18, etc. "Watch this and you will see why an A-10 is so much better at ground support" - Really, a history channel documentary? Not to beat a dead horse by questioning the History Channel's accuracy (because that is a concern) but right from the gate they interview Pierre Sprey, who is considered a lunatic and a paid shill who has appeared multiple times on RT aka Putin's propaganda machine (not saying "MuH RuSsiA" but if Putin doesn't want the US to trust the F-35, it's because it's an amazing aircraft). He also got demolished in a debate with 'Chip' Burke, former pilot and JTAC who both flew the top fighter aircraft in USAF inventory but also fought on the ground with special operations teams. The rest of the documentary is basic-bitch information for any newcomer to aviation. Sorry, but a History Channel documentary that seems to have been made at least 15 years ago isn't the best source to state your case when real world combat records prove that the A-10 is hopelessly outdated and has been on life support for too long.
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@@milannikioo916Kharkiv was defended, Ukraine punched the thin front line and started slaughtering the rear echelons. Several towns were intended to stabilize the lines, UA surrounded them, and shelled the escape routes to massacre retreating Russians.
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Russia is attacking...
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So give the M4 heavier ammo and a worse trajectory for absolutely no benefit since it would be too slow to ding the Russian plates?
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To be fair... a lot of kickstarters were done to make a vertical slice and then pitch the game to investors. They have a higher chance of investing if you have an actual studio and a playable demo.
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Just in time for the Kerch bridge reopening.
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@jim9667 Nobody's saying you're personally culpable, but the "oh no I got nothing to do with this" shtick doesn't work when we can trace back the path taken by history. It's a different government today, but that's even more of a reason to admit mistakes were made and try to correct the course.
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Copy paste army. Most of the million deaths in Iraq were due to Iraqis killing each other.
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How would they use materiel? They have no trained maintenance, no source of spare parts, no Western caliber ammo.
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They're more antagonistic than in the 80s. Unironically. Watch some Russian media. You may not think about them, but Russians think you want to wipe them out. It's North Korea tier over there.
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Getting paid for speeches and book deals is the "legal" way to pay for favors.
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The bodies were vaporized. Can't find the body, no death occured.
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"Muh feint" okay so the OMON riot troops that got ambushed on their way to Kyiv were part of the feint too? Unarmed cops with riot shields to deal with angry civilians were sent to the capital just for funsies? Well, they faced Ukrainian National Guard units on the way. And those guys were armed. If Putin sent you in one of those "feints" you'd certainly be angry.
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Ukraine traded ground for time since the start of the war. Then counterpunched.
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@cykes5124 democracy and laws are fake lol
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@VikingRul3s The issue is that you're strawmanning. Nobody here is saying that the standard should be forced by law (although car standards were mentioned and those are). The conversation was usability vs mutant winamp skin. Does the cutting edge tech require less usable BIOSes? Does development hinge on less usable BIOSes? Do top of the line products with maxed out features depend on brands being able to ship less usable BIOSes? Then they should stop fucking around and stop me from solving problems because a slightly different motherboard has an option in the BIOS I need but the one I have at home doesn't.
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@VikingRul3s are ATX/Mini-ATX standards enforced by law? Are USB standards enforced by law? "I don't hear anyone complaining about the difference between Xbox and PSs settings menu..." - Fortunately for console users, the console itself is mostly a "closed system" that you're not expected to fudge with. Meanwhile, I built my PC so that means I simply can't go to the store and get a return for a working model if there's a problem. My x58 system looped the boot sequence like 6 times every time I wanted to turn the computer on and coming out of a sleep would freeze the computer forcing a hard reset. The culprit? After many hours trying to troubleshoot the issue to no avail, it seems like the mass of the CPU cooler bent the motherboard and disabled the third memory channel, which caused my computer to detect that 12GBs were available but only 8GB were used. Since the computer detected a faulty memory it would loop the boot sequence to see if it was possible to use that RAM and then give up and just not use it. Removing the memory from the third channel fixed the issue at the cost of 4GB that I wasn't able to anyway. Does the average console user have to deal with this? No. But I don't mind being my own tech support. I do mind that I spent hours trying to find equivalent BIOS settings when I assumed the problem was memory profiles rather than a physical bending moment applied to the motherboard borking my whole system. "So you are using guides not designed for your board" - I'm not using "guides". I'm way past guides. There was a problem with my memory and I could not access a specific setting that could be the culprit for a missing memory channel. The issue was "solvable" because apparently losing a memory channel due to CPU coolers is a chronic issue with x58 motherboards, but if my problem was an incorrect memory profile I'd be fucked. I want to troubleshoot my system. My BIOS wouldn't allow me to do so even though most people with similar problems was able to. "Well use the manual like i said" - Buddy... the manual didn't spell out "oh by the way we all fucked up while designing our boards so if you put too much weight on the socket you'll lose an entire memory system, asshole". "You don't expect you can figure out how to fight a F16 in a F15 flight simulator without some help?" - Just saying, but the F-16 and F-15 are the kind of stuff you purchase through contract and you can have your order tailored to your needs, which is sort of a closed package, and then if you need upgrades you go to the manufacturer to secure a new package. You don't build them off parts unless you've been embargoed. Considering that computer parts are all manufactured to have a degree of compatibility with each other and there's millions of possible combinations, there should be a focus on standardizing the experience unlike two totally different aircraft for totally different purposes from different manufacturers that have very minor parts interchangeability.
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@punicwars2 the MiG-29 was the F-16 counterpart just like Su-27 was the F-15 counterpart.
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When a mortar round crashes through the prefab ceiling it doesn't care that the guy in the room is a cook. I remember in like 2004-2005 there was a mini documentary about America's Army, the game developed to air recruitment (it was actually pretty good), and how a recruiter set up LAN parties to keep kids entertained and talk to them about military careers. He asked a girl if she was interested in a career in the military after playing and she said she didn't like the killing so he enumerated some careers that don't involve combat and one of the examples was driver. Then the girl asked something along the lines of "but a couple of months ago wasn't a female driver captured by terrorists and had her throat slit?". The fact is that when you fuel a vehicle, you're fueling it so that it can go kill people. If you're a mechanic, you're fixing the vehicles that will be used to kill people. If you're supply, you're supplying the means to kill people. If you're communications you'll be working the radios to transmit positions that will receive a strike so you better hope that position was actually a Taliban compound and not a Doctors Without Borders hospital or a wedding.
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Spare us the crocodile tears Alexey, if China annexes your homeland are you gonna flee or fight? And if you say fight, will you fight alone when everyone flees?
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 @jrconway3 The irony. Russia does something. "But America...". You did this first.
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@THESLlCK Okay, but my problem isn't the wings. It's the fact that in the Congress's infinite wisdom it's better to keep an ageing aircraft in the air than just get a dedicated COIN aircraft and let the USAF used the rest of the budget to modernize. If there was a reason to keep the A-10, something like the wing upgrade would be balanced by a complete upgrade package like the mid-life upgrades aircraft like the F-16 get. Many nations send their F-16s to go through the life extension program which through parts replacements and reinforcement of old ones can extend the life of the airframe from 8,000 to 12,000 hours along with give it more capabilities and better performance. If you just go and buy newly manufactured F-16 wings, you're going to pay a disproportionate amount for such a custom job. The issue is that not only the A-10 wings did not address any other performance issues with the A-10, it was also a program that went to an aircraft that will not be necessary in the future.
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@roseanneroseannadanna9651 For loiter time, drones are even more efficient. Fluid battlefield? The A-10 is very limited. What's the psychological cost of seeing A-10s crashing into the ground?
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@roseanneroseannadanna9651 The entire fleet is not getting the upgrade. And no, it's not a life time expense. It's a single expense, the Boeing contract. Cost per hour of a dedicated COIN aircraft is 1k. The A-10 it outrageously expensive for the job it does. It's a bad deal to toss good money after bad. Those aircraft are losing missions to multiroles and now Afghanistan is over. Those A-10s will not see much more combat and will be dead weight that the USAF is forced to carry until finally Congress wises up. The B-52 is much more upgradeable than the A-10. It's not the same type of aircraft. That's children's logic. The A-10 is extremely limited. Strong and durable airframe? Except for 1984 production A-10s, all of them had structural flaws from the factory and required expensive upgrades.
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Bots cried for peace and for lives to be spared. Now they say that stopping the fight is "stupid". They never wanted peace.
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Most casualties you see attributed to the US in Iraq were caused by infighting between the locals, not US strikes.
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 @ohcrap2222 "anti-Ukraine war" yeah I also want to stop a race when I'm in first place and my opponent is catching up
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@deltawhiskey6732 you do realize just BUILDING the car requires energy and pollutant materials, right? So what the car was taxen off the road? The damage is done and the people who need a car are going to buy one anyway so the nunber of cars on the road is unchanged.
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@boobrancher9941 It's not that they can't fly planes, they have less training hours and their doctrine is not as SEAD-heavy as the Western doctrine. They also have little to no real world SEAD experience. This means that the defenses that survived the first bombardments are still a danger to aircraft they really do not want to lose.
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Remember how you people were mocking the Kherson offensive?
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 @RDV333 Gen Z isn't all tiktok dancers and IG influencers
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The Javelin entered service in the 1980s.
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@profftrefelling2000 "I'm against the current thing! Now Im the bad guy! Im the victim! Disrespect me so I can cry about it on my videos filmed inside a truck!"
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Adam Schilperoort give me 3 hours and I can make you admit you killed your own mother, do you really think confessions under NK captivity are worth any consideration?
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+Adam Schilperoort consider the following: a) China will deport people back to NK, of course it's horrible b) human trafficking rings in China take advantage of North Korean refugees precisely because of their refugee status So if you feel like crossing back and pleading for your life rather than risking being caught by Chinese authorities or you want to escape human trafficking of course you'd go back to North Korea and admit to anything they want in order to save either your life or your family's. Why don't you bring us testimonials of people who have managed to reach Thailand or South Korea and wanted to go back to a North Korean prison camp?
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Spray paint cans are a thing. Easier than printing.
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The US benefitted from everyone else investing in economic prosperity. If we had all spent money to have deserts full of 3000 Leopard 2s and hundreds of Eurofighters, we'd be poorer, whoch means that for decades we'd have spent less on US goods and services. Making you poorer. You enjoyed our money when it lasted. Now you say we should have spent it all on massive military stockpiles. Come on...
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@AdamSmith-gs2dv "it's well known" - It's not well known. You've been told. Big difference.
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lmao keeps insisting MJ is guilty despite the overwhelming evidence in favour of Michael and complains about people in denial
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@wecoolwecoolbounce5191 not really, the smoking gun is the recording of the father of the first kid pretty much bragging about the fact that he swindled MJ. He was pressured to settle and never heard the end of it.
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The chosen people isn't a matter of superiority.
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That's just Russian women. One of the top internet searches in Russia is "how to send husband to SVO?" [special military operation]
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@marklefevre3476 "If you put a mask on, it slows down the air you exhale and keeps it in a more confined area. It physically doesn't get to them." - It still gets to them. Just a lesser number of particles. "When you inhale, you're breathing in their air, whether you're wearing a mask or not." - Yes, but when you inhale the low pressure zone sucks the mask right up to your face. So you take a limited breath through the gaps when you start, and everything else gets pushed through the filtering surface. When you exhale, the positive pressure zone forces the mask away from your face and creates wider gaps that serve as path of least resistance.
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The Harrier suffered disproportionate losses during Desert Storm. It's simply outdated and vulnerable.
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The language is closer to Belarusian than Russian. Both took great influence from the Polish and Lithuanian control of the area.
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Super Hornets are first strike too. They're made to take off carriers and deliver the pain thousands of miles away from home.
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So you can shoot guns but only when given orders by the state to do so. Seems like an issue that is self-explanatory.
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I mean, he is. But if the product is already faulty by letting the proteins wander off the muscle cells even if administered correctly, imagine how much worse it is if it's blasted across the entire body by the bloodstream.
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treydarling bro if you have to use anesthesia to prevent a person from feeling pain... You're essentially admitting it's a person otherwise you wouldn't administer it. Hell circumcisions are done on born babies without it.
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I remember when he said Ukraine started the war in a speaking event and the entire room started laughing at him.
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It's ok we have toilets and running water.
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 @WarpigA23 you don't have to outrun a missile - you only need it to run out of energy by the time it gets to you.
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@thomaspinney4020 the other fixed wing aircraft shot dow as much as the A-10 were the Harrier (subsonic, massive IR signature) and the Tornado (low level attacker). While the Harrier and Tornado had to "learn their lesson" the A-10 gets praise. Tornados were reaasigned to mid altitude missions as the danger of low level runs forced the doctrine to be revised. But the A-10? Everything's fine.
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1. Every time Russia comes out with the General McF*cking Turbinator or some kind of scary name. In Syria the Russians were curbstomping a foe multiple times their inferior, and in fact Syria is part of the reason Russia thought they had a good military when they don't. Russia isn't moving slow, they're throwing meat at defensive positions. It's not some kind of careful tactical movement, it's an atrocity against mankind. 2. Russia started resorting to S-300s in ground attack mode and Iranian drones. This proves correct the claim that they are running out of missiles. If they weren't, they'd use their best missiles only.
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@superpowerpill2137 When they rolled them out they said one dose had like 70% effectiveness and two gave you 95% effectiveness. If it's 13 days after your second shot and you croak... did the 70% go back to 0%? C'mon man.
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@mseeross It didn't screw over Germany.
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@jamesburleson1916 we already know what happened, the A-10s suffered so many losses that they had to be grounded. Tank columns will be protected by SAMs and AAA, not to mention soldiers carrying manpads which have proven deadly to A-10s. A fighter escort will mean nothing, unless they're carrying bombs and missiles to deal with those threats. At which point why send A-10s anyway?
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@jonathanccast If the arrest was performed illegally the people responsible for it are liable for the death.
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Ships carrying Russian oil will not get insurance if they are fulfilling contracts higher than the cap.
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@frontier64 Cody Wilson had one of his printers seized because the company that made it claimed he had violated the licensing agreement.
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@frontier64 And Wilson had no right to breach a contract he signed. Mind that after that the company might not have had the right to go to his facility, but could go to court and accuse Wilson of essentially stealing their machine. And then police would have the right to enter his house.
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@frontier64 You're the one who doesn't know the law. You're talking about copyright and intellectual property. Meanwhile we're talking about signing a contract about what you do with a physical object. An End User License Agreement. Funny story: a few police departments used their LE credentials to purchase HK416 rifles, once they got them they destroyed the lower receiver, and sold the original genuine Heckler & Koch parts for a massive profit - then used the proceeds to buy themselves more reasonably priced rifles. This has lead to H&K now requiring end user license agreements to prevent organizations from reselling their weapons after they got in trouble with the German government.
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He didn't create Wagner, Dimitry Utkin did. Since he had government contracts for his carering business he was given the control of the "corporate" side of Wagner as he could create shell companies and handle logistics.
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It's too expensive for the job it does, it's been worn and torn through to the point it requires entire sections of the aircraft to be rebuilt, terrible operational cost for COIN.
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@kajmak64bit76 Lul read the actual letter from the chairman. Roberts said that more money would mean FASTER development. And they had two votes, with the second vote being 52% yes to 48% no. Almost a 50:50 split in the community.
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@Conserpov They're already being captured and dying in Ukraine. Some check up.
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@diegomedina9637 there's more of them now!
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Theranos.
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@RD-eh3tz Yes. In Soviet countries and allied nations pilots were not trained like Western pilots. They were meant to enter combat by listening to instructions from ground controllers and only switch their radar on when taking the shot. Western pilots were handed a plan but given freedom to operate their aircraft, which means they got more training.
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@Comic Book Guy they did describe it as a composite made from observations made under a specific range of the radiation spectrum. Maybe you missed it, maybe the reporting was shoddy at the source you read, but they weren't trying to mislead anyone. "that's why the digital camera analogy is false; the camera records the actual light-wave data" - you do realize that to a sensor it doesn't fucking matter if the light is invisible or not, right? Point a TV remote at a camera. You'll see a purple glow unless the manufacturer put a filter because the sensor will see that light and interpret it as purple. There's even cameras with a slight night vision mode, they don't work as light intensifiers like in NVGs but allow you do see a green tint that allows you to see things that you wouldn't see on a normal camera. Because we humans are limited to a "visible spectrum" we typically consider visible light different from the rest of radiation. But if we had cones that interpreted IR we'd call IR "visible light" too. Some animals see IR. Light-wave data is not different from any other radiation wave data other than the fact that we can actually see it with our own eyes. I used digital cameras for my analogy and not film photography because we specifically made film to react to visible light (although radiation damage can be observed on film, I know there's artifacts on pictures taken on Chernobyl right after the disaster and film that traveled through space will wash out the colors but you get what I am saying), I am not very knowledgeable on photography but I am sure we could change the chemicals on film to make them react to a broader spectrum. Meanwhile digital cameras can pick up outside the visible spectrum and if you want them to not pick up IR you'll actually have to put a filter before the sensor. Look at FLIR imaging or images taken by a modern IR homing missile. It's a camera. It picks up a spectrum we cannot see. The camera doesn't care for the limits on human vision. It does what it was designed to do. "There's no such thing as radio-wave-light" - "In physics, the term light sometimes refers to electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength, whether visible or not.[5][6] In this sense, gamma rays, X-rays, microwaves and radio waves are also light." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light Have you ever heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
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 @chrisclements1169 That's rich considering how much propaganda Russia put out about their weapons.
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Having a panicked firesale isn't the sign of a master business strategy.
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Prior immunity.
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Nagasaki and Hiroshima were nuclear detonations. They were flashed with gamma and x-rays, plus thermal radiation like IR and microwave. You have a microwave oven and a cellphone that use those wavelengths yet you don't complain.
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Whataboutism
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@theblackhole05 "Alot of these companies have more money than the American government" - the US federal government spent 4 trillion in 2018. Using 2018, even if you dissolved Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Alphabet and recouped their entire market value (which can't be done lol) you'd still only have 3.5 trillion... Not even enough to run the country for 1 year... and you just lost big players in the world economy.
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@rasmusjensen291 my problem is how we're constantly being lied to about the reasons to go to war and how the people who profit from military investments have a revolving door with the government.
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@ryandunevant7448 What are you talking about? What makes sense is that Russia was stretched thin.
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@Supreme-Emperor-Mittens there is a big difference between being automatically flagged and just a few hours later. If YT only demonetizes you after a few hours that's still several hours of appearing on more people's recommended page.
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In the old days the internet forums for people who synthetized explosives in their home labs created the cop out of describing their activities as "dreams". It was the "in Minecraft" of the time.
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@ProjectFlashlight612 but the nickname "the last gunfighter" is still valid because it was the last designed to use the guns as the primary weapon. The narrator simply forgot to add that "primarily". It's extremely common, it's almost a game to find the mistakes in these videos.
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Damn I wonder what events lead to the creation of the Azov battalion. Surely it wasn't Putin's invasion.
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You're very optimistic. Al Capone got caught over his taxes ffs.
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That's a meme. The pose was in front of a landmark in Kharkiv, someone photoshopped the soldiers into Belgorod to make them look like they were advancing into Russia.
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I don't get how people can look at the pictures of a baby duct taped to a table and """""jokes""""" about child trafficking (must be James Gunn humor) and think that those people aren't fucked up. Their instagram page was enough to convince any reasonable person that it should be investigated.
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Most CAS is provided by F-15s and F-16s.
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@pjhgerlach Not how it works. Once you rob the aerodynamics out of a flying object, atmospheric drag will force it to stop. Simply knocking an aerodynamic object off axis at high altitude will make it airbrake and eventually lose momentum to enter free fall. Besides, ballistic weapons often come in at near vertical angles.
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@derickbrown5201 The majority of people who died had othet health complications... funny how they suddenly matter when someone took the magic juice.
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 @Walczyk the election was in 2020 his channel blew up in 2022
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 @LACHIVA1969 broski I hope you aren't implying the Black Sea fleet is the only fleet they have...
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@Knight6831 Doesn't matter. B-52s were used for CAS the first time in Vietnam. During the GWOT they were useful to haul bombs and stay in the air for long hours and make the drop when troops needed them.
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Huffing on Tsar's personal reserve of copium.
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 @Mountain_Valley_Sky Russian costs are lower thanks in part to cheaper labor. And did you see the Russians filming their shells empty, with no explosive filler?
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@Postal Mann Not a single HIMARS has been lost or captured or else evidence would have been provided.
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They're worn beyond belief. All their use now should be sunbathing in the dry desert. No human should risk his life inside museum pieces.
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The people going "muh taxes" probably wouldn't understand 4 of those words.
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Even if you took all the wealth from the top 500 earners in a country you wouldn't have enough to run that country for a year. The amount lost to evasion is significant but could not save a nation.
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Ukraine specifically did not mobilize 27 and under. Ever heard of the Fukushima disaster? The older men volunteered to clean up because they knew that it would take decades for cancer to appeal, so they'd be less affected than the young. Obviously the Russian would never understand empathy.
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 @1queijocas But if all the sources are easily found factoids not only is the sourcing pointless, others could take in the same facts and come out with a different narrative.
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People didn't stage a revolution over their jobs being destroyed.
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Sounds like a cope, tbh.
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That would force Russia to expend more Kinzhals. Forcing Russia to rely on their wunderwaffen would bankrupt them quick.
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I love how you people said the same about Kherson, got humiliated, and now you're back spewing the same exact argument. I can only predict the offensive will cause a collective aneurysm.
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They usually fire twice at maneuvering targets.
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 @ManOfChaiTea Cheney was unironically right
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@anniemaraj8773 it changed name to Xe and then the assets were purchased by private investors and renamed Academi. Now exists under the Constellis Group after merging with a rival. Although ownership and names have changed it still exists in spirit.
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@johanneshass1614 "Since hydrogen is very light it won't accumulate but ecsape straight up" - That's great in the outdoors, not if you have a garage.
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@johanneshass1614 Your garage has leaks on the roof?
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@johanneshass1614 You know that a light gas like hydrogen will float to the top, right? Even if your garage door is only a foot and a half from the ceiling that's still a huge amount of volume. You're the one who deserves mockery if you think a cloud of hydrogen in your ceiling is no biggie.
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The animation doesn't look complex at all. When the bolt bottoms out the return spring, the energy is transfered to the entire inner chassis which then travels rearwards and hits a buffer.
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RT definitely would tell them to not run stories that made Russia look bad.
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@JinKee Africa had coups and civil wars through the decades, and countries neighbouring Russia have been hotspots for a while too (the short lived Chechen independent republic in the 90s, Georgia 2008, Ukraine 2014-present). Rather than a pattern, you have exclusion. India and China have large forces and nukes, Europe decided that after WW2 they kind of don't want to get wrecked again, the Americas are shielded by the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Basically the former Soviet bloc, Africa and smaller Asian nations are what remains to have a proper good old fashioned war. Surely the Myanmar civil war doesn't have anything to do with Europe, and it doesn't fit your pattern.
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 @JynxedKoma Name said treaty. Which president signed it?
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This is not true. By 1972 the introduction of Teaball allowed the USAF to outscore the Navy with a whopping 15 to 1 kill ratio until operations ended in 1973. Not only did they have better training and improved cockpit "switchology", they were at this point fixing the major issue which was terrible ground radar coverage.
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Hawk23 with the choice between Tel Aviv and Tehran I would shoot myself at the airport gate. (points if anyone gets the reference)
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@WindowsPlaysFPS I still think it's an unrealistic expectation. If the S truly HTF in 5 years, and you weren't going to spent the money on solar panels and underground fuel tanks, you still had 5 years of enjoyment of a great piece in a relatively safe world and the money isn't going matter from that point forward.
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Syria has S-300s and Russian-operated S-400s.
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The sand? Most Fukushima releases were gas and water. Not solid chunks and dust like Chernobyl.
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@Friedrich That's hogwash. The federal government is just as abusive if not more. Remember Waco or Ruby Ridge? Feds are okay with murdering children.
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@F-aber They are paying more, just not on the bill.
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@danharold3087 The debt was incurred. Someone has to pay it off. Either on taxes or increased prices, investment costs are passed down to the consumer. It's not a charity.
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@danharold3087 *you're
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Sanctions seem to work well. They're refurbishing T-62s because they can't equip newer tanks with high tech,
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That's cap. After losing men and materiel, it will be easier to take it back because the defenses will be understrength. So no, Russia can't afford it because it's a sunk cost. While Ukraine doesn't want to lose men trying to recapture areas, Russia would be outright sending those understrength offensive forces to their death by forcing them to defend without a significant mobilization to replace them.
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There's a cover on the seeker head, it doesn't look like that while in operation.
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To be fair there's always a path to redemption. There's many who heard about Epstein but would rather not think about it.
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 @phunkracy but unlike NATO there weren't a bunch of Tomahawks softening up the enemy and fighter jets dumping iron on any vehicle or artillery piece they could find.
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Profit or revenue?
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@warbossgegguz679 To be fair the average congressman and college professor is just there to make money and probaly failed upwards to where they are so it's a risk listening to them. Does anyone remember the dude who thought a military base would cause an island to capsize?
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 @kkarx Do we score soccer games by who has more kicks? The ball has to hit the net. Misses don't count.
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MacGregor (not McGregger) has done interviews for RT in the past. He is a Russian asset.
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@Bushodai If the truck is an enemy asset and you plugged in the coordinates for a strike mission, that's combat. Like if you're driving a fuel truck as part of a logistics unit in the armed forces and the enemy takes it out, you think your family shouldn't get the benefits for you getting KIA?
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@airthrowDBT Oh yeah most of the people who stole that stuff were only looking for scrap metal. There was one case where the guys who found a radioactive thermal generator suffered severe burns because they slept leaning against the RTG since the object was warm.
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The mysticism, the occult, faux science. The horoscope, aligning your chakras, quantum medicine, all woo.
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Lmao can we see them? They also claimed to have donated 200 T-90s to the DPR/LPR.
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A few years? Almost a decade.
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I think Ritter only takes calls from minors.
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They didn't. They simply lost less. Winter punished the Soviets in Finland. Also, the Soviets aren't Russians. The Soviets had Ukrainians.
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The US government literally dumps tanks and armored vehicles on ships and pushes them overboard to make coral reefs. You are not saving money by hoarding military aid. Hardware gets outdated and replaced.
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Britain Derrangement Syndrome
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The hell does that even mean? You're taking a joke at the expense of the political machine personally.
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@snky6995 Are you kidding? The drone was body slammed. Of course it cut the feed. Lost satellite uplink.
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Are bots spamming this talking point?
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You asked Ukraine to give up the nukes in exchange for security guarantees? Not your war? Then give Zelensky US nukes to restore the arsenal they gave up.
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Yet God seems to be smiting the Russians, and pretty biased against the Chinese.
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Are the wolfsangel and black sun also Indo-European symbols?
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 @timwendt1935 An engineer saw you touching the paper after you said you wouldn't touch it, didn't he?
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@stevecorwonski385 What facts? Like the election being determined in a state-by-state basis, not by total of votes?
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Remember when Fox threw a fit after seeing an ISIS flag in a pride parade?
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Well, yeah. It's so overpowered nobody wants any of that smoke.
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 @QwertAsdfg-ih1ow Amazing, you people can never show it.
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@jimbo5973 "You are only dead if they shoot you" - Can you prove someone doesn't intend to shoot? "who says they would of shot anyone if he hadn't of charged and started swinging?" - Who says they wouldn't? "thats one hell of an assumtpion to make...." - Your life is on the line. Are you gonna assume the men harassing you with guns are good guys?
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Many countries bought them without entering an air war. Depending on where you live, your own country may have purchesed a few hundred of a more recent generation of sidewinders, and they're bolted to intercepting aircraft. If there's no intrusion in your air space that warrants a shootdown, they will never get fired in anger.
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@MK_ULTRA420 Not all prices and not to this amount. For example there was the lumber issue. That's not gaslighting, just a generalized bird's eye view.
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Didn't help them so far.
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ISIS and the Taliban didn't have high value strategic targets or a defined frontline. An Ukrainian fighter said that before HIMARS, his guys were suffering 2-3 casualties a day from concussions. That's how heavy the shelling was, just the shock produced casualties. After HIMARS, he only has one of his guys leave the fight per week due to concussion. That's how much difference it made - it silenced the guns. Millions of dollars a piece. Millions of artillery rounds in pieces.
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@DABA2024 roid rage is mostly myth. Back in the day we presumed only the monster-looking dudes were roiding, but now we know what we thought was natural was enhanced. Now that we know "everyone is on steroids" we realize a ton of people who are juiced are calm and collected.
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 @sullathehutt7720 The defenders were around 250k with Russiam forces amounting to an estimated 215k plus PMCs and LPR/DPR forces (could have been over 300k).
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 @sullathehutt7720 God seems to be punishing Russia, though.
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@ludouniversalis This is overstated. Ticket prices are also through the roof over here. Don't forget that most of Europe has low wages. Only the wealthier countries in the EU get wages above the US and cost of living isn't cheap there.
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@microsoftpain It's pro authoritarianism. "At least the trains run on time" is a joke about Mussolini. You can't go to an authoritarian country and start going off about their train stations and their bread without an underlying message.
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@stricklandfan But Russia is full of ugly rectangle concrete boxes. They call them Khrushchevskas. Sure, the Soviet Union could afford a few excesses, but North Korea has that giant triangle hotel too. Tucker isn't just pointing out there's issues. He's selling you a lie.
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It's actually a Coharie Arms CA-415. Hollywood has access to auto sears, they can make HK416s/MR556s full auto if they want to.
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Except that didn't happen. That's cope. The photographic evidence makes it clear Ukrainian attackers force Rusdians to retreat through a killzone and bombard their escape route. Highways of death scenes out of Izium and Lyman.
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1) that's not the point, he is still right in the sense that China would never admit that they were helped because it would undermine their credibility as a superpower. Yes, the cheap labour and goods were the goal. But that trade helped China. 2) How are they unilateral? They're bilateral.
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The patriotic American simping for Russia
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Because a dummy costs as much as a real one.
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 @notsure6182 If American planes don't need to go into S-400 range to attack places defended by S-400s, then the S-400 themselves could be attacked.
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And in Paris.
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@JohnDoe-jp4em That's not true. Interceptors continuously predict the impact point and fly towards it. If the projected flight path moves by a few kilometers, the interceptor can fly a few kilometers to adjust. The HGV can't waste the kinetic energy of the interceptor, because it spends so much energy trying to turn at high Mach speeds.
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No. A virus breaking out of a VM is a highly specific attack. What's more likely to happen would be the VM crashing if someone tried it.
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There's around 170 F-22s in flying condition and we already have a replacement lined up. Stop coping.
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A vehicle getting parked? Very odd indeed.
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How does that change the fact that no currency can do what the USD does and the CCP is manipulating the Yuan?
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MANPADS do not have the range.
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@cloudrz isn't that just babies tapping the screen on their parent's account?
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That's like having an Aikido master train some boxing and BJJ, win a regional MMA match, then say Aikido isn't a scam. Chiropractors who aren't selling you snake oil are just physical therapists who didn't go to school for physical therapy. Their entire field of study came from snake oil but they're trying to scale back. Like a communist who dials back to "democratic Socialism". Big whoop. Marxism is still a scam. So is Aikido and chiropractors.
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He also lied about Highway of Death and Abu Ghraib. Living history, and some living fiction too.
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Always make backups lol
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@will.roman-ros that's not a free market solution, though - you'd just be forcing an artificial price through government action. The free market solution would be eliminating subsidies that promote polluting industries and oil consumption and possibly charging REAL money (not that carbon tax bs) for damages caused to property (fires, draughts, floods, mud slides), air quality, water quality, countries' fish stocks in their economic zones, etc.
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Since the take off of Khinzal capable aircraft is monitored, there's probably an hour of heads up before a strike arrives.
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@JSkye-uu6dw Afghanistan only had Blackhawks, Humvees, MRAPs and M113s. Pretty old, non critical stuff. In fact, China had already copied the Blackhawk and Humvee. It's just basic stuff.
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 @CALIMA2000 Same way they defeated Russia in Kherson. Cut the supply when they have the water on their backs. They'll have to choose between leaving or getting squeezed.
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YouTube used to be run at a loss. They started turning a profit around 2018. This means that youtuber income is a joke nowadays.
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The S-400 can't protect Crimea.
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@jackofalltrades6129 "It's easy to point out the few times people have screwed up" - you mean like when he changed his story regarding the catfish/New York job opportunity for e-begging purposes? Like when he supported BetterHelp? Come on, how many strikes does it take?
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@allanfarr Not just a media win. The bridge was understood to be a main supply artery and it got nicked bad enough that no freight train has been filmed crossing it after that propaganda shoot.
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 @biko8229 BRICS lol Russia is in economic free fall, India and China dispute their border and Brazil has to remain in good standing with Europe because of their ties to Portugal.
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@getsideways7257 So you're saying it works.
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@getsideways7257 Then it works. Of course it's not a magic bullet, nothing is. But it works.
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@getsideways7257 "there is no point in bending over backwards just to try and make the airframe less reflective" - And yet reality proves them wrong. The F-117 had a great service record with only one shot down and one damaged. And the tactics used to get at them required extreme levels of planning, NATO carelessness and shooting at near point blank to get radar returns. It was worth it. Anyone saying it isn't is coping.
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@JarrydNielsenLMAO Why would your children die if you had every chance to teach them to survive? Children literally give you the power of hindsight, and you openly admit you wouldn't be able to help them.
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How many pieces has Russia given up without ever setting any traps?
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fastrally Doesn't mean much when Chinese factories are still the prime source for random explosions and fires or men being sucked into large lathes.
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It's also important to remember that reported Russian artillery fires are reducing in intensity. Russian overmatches Ukraine in firepower on paper, but the threat of HIMARS forces ammunition drip feed as they can't pile all those shells together within reach of a missile and barrel wear is taking its toll.
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Jebus Hypocristos "Compared to fascists they are the good guys" - my dude the CIA hired fascists after WWII and the Mossad essentially works for a country that started off with militias committing ethnic cleansing of Arabs.
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The money is wasted, though.
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@watcherzero5256 Letting the tanks pull a vacuum would have been a major oversight, because then it gets harder to pump the fuel out. If you turn a bottle upside down and don't press on it, you see the fluid come out in "jerks" because atmospheric air has to enter the bottle and bubble into the empty space before it can fall out. It's also easier to DIY a system that pressurizes the tank instead of using turbopumps. You're literally just using the inert gas to push the fluid out. Plus, all that is meaningless when they mentioned that the "fuel tank" had rockets attached to the bottom. Not combustion chambers. Rockets. It was probably only solids that were used.
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Space Force
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@wockyslush3038 But they're advertised as such.
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"Russia can reverse it easily" - Russia lost in a matter of days what it took months to capture.
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@AwesomeDesertTrains "the a10 is one hell of an accurate platform and there is a reason why it’s still in service" - the reason it is still in service is because trying to replace it is an absolute clusterfuck. USAF estimated 15 years to develop a replacement and trying to replace the A10 during the GWOT would mean employing turboprops as a stopgap measure. Bureaucratic inertia is the reason it's still around. From 2006 to 2013 it flew 19% of CAS missions, less than the F-16's 33%. In Operation Inherent Resolve it flew 11% of CAS missions.
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@dylan2439 "someone making a comic about him isn't controversial" - It still gave him attention, and therefore money. Why insist on making him famous? "His ridiculous outrage about c-16 was his self made controversy" - How was it self-made? Was he not right? Next thing you'll tell me bill C-21 doesn't actually ban airsoft. "The merch and his embrace of it is hilarious, because for how big brain he is, I've never seen anyone miss the point harder." - He's making money off it. He's grifting harder than the comic writer. You call him dumb and he cries all the way to the bank. You're losing, dude. He's making money off you. "And I didn't respond to the flag thing because we all know that's indoctrination" - So you forfeit the implication that indoctrination is not done at schools. Thanks for torpedoing your own argument. "hence why right wingers use it to control the masses" - Let's look at political donations by federal employees in the Department of Education. In the year 2016 96% were to the democratic party. https://www.fedsmith.com/2016/12/21/tallying-political-donations-from-federal-employees-and-unions/ How are right wingers controlling the masses when the overwhelming majority of federal employees in the DoE are democrat?
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 @RicoDuroska they rarely flag each other.
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@warweasel2832 You don't have to be a speed holsterer to be skilled. But you should be smooth. If you haven't holstered a handgun enough times in training for it to be smooth under duress, you don't belong in security detail. Holstering and unholstering are frequent sources of NDs. Tagging your principal trying to holster a gun is automatic -1000 aura.
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@cyan_oxy6734 It's exactly like the NHL. They own the broadcasting rights so when you broadcast their games you follow the contract you signed when you paid big bucks to be allowed to have your camera crew in the stadium.
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Saab isn't competitive at all. There's a reason why they lost so many bids. The actual decision makers looking over the cost estimates are not convinced.
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Yooo GT and Hop upload right as I get home from work, time to enjoy Sunday
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@towersofgiza This is just being an annoyance for annoyance's sake. Yes, you can catch it. But the assumption is that everyone is infected and asymptomatic, which strains the logic because masks prevent symptomatic spread by arresting large particles of spit and mucus. The asymptomatic spread is carried by aerosolized particles that simply follow the path of least resistance and flow along with the air through the gaps. And the logic is also that masks protect others, not you, so you're going to catch it with a mask or not.
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 @jacobc4582 There were no mud huts in Iraq.
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Funny thing is Bushmaster got a DoD contract to manufacture M4s for foreign aid, and a ton were sent to Ukraine post-2014. There's pictures of piles of them, captured by separatist forces.
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That's incorrect. There were 6 A-10 losses, which makes it the second most shot down US fixed wing aircraft during Desert Storm, with the Harrier being first. They had to be pulled back due to excessive losses. One pilot died trying to land a damaged A-10, which in hindsight he should have ditched and just ejected safely, but the reputation for the A-10 coming back home killed him.
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They wouldn't go to those complexes. A ghost city has no pedestrians to ask for change or stores to get cheap food from. It's just concrete shelter. A bunch of homeless in a ghost city would not survive.
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The US limiting their energy production doesn't make the rest of the globe consume less energy. Everyone's bidding for the same thing.
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 @henreator A newer generation reactor would still get the critical generators and switchboards flooded. The old design wasn't the source of failure.
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@Steam_VR Yeah. And an older gen reactor also wouldn't have a problem if the generators and switchboards were uphill.
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It's also the flag flown by the protesters when Lukashenko "won" fraudulently in 2020.
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Didn't it go down from 100k feet to 60k feet? Meaning the AIM 9 could reach it by the end but not when it appeared?
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+neeneko you should look at the illegal guns from the Philippines. Not only do they end up in the wrong hands, but a lot of people manufacture them with cheap welders, files, angle grinders and a drill press. This is entry level tooling you can get on a single trip to a hardware store.
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@hermannpiana6649 All you people repeat the "size of England" phrase. Well, the USSR lost multiple Englands to Germany. How did that turn out?
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@ubershredder1989 You say you're not pro-Russia then parrot the Russian propaganda line of "muh 8 years of Bombass". Nevertheless, the AGM-88 HARM is a missile that locks onto radar emitters. Only a massive failure in the guidance system could send a missile of that kind into a civilian area because HARMs are primed to seek military radars and have a library of emittion patterns and frequencies used by such equipment.
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I understand that it's still irresponsible to post the content he did but one glance at his content and I'm puzzled as to why you'd call that "promoting" obesity. It seemed more of a cautionary tale.
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Cope
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@christpower5402 the F-16 can do multirole and it's one of the most succesful aircraft ever.
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14: "The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race." 88: Hulk Hogan
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His own father had to sue him due to 200k he owed. This story is insane.
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The Austrian painter was allied with these people and hated the Polish. His friend Mussolini called himself "protector of Islam".
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@larsbee Ever heard of collaborators? Many sold their their own people out.
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Well, violence isn't a political opinion, it's a "tool". A more apt comparison would be that Call of Duty 2019 based its enemy faction in the real world military action by Russia in Syria, therefore you're more likely to see the Russian military as particularly brutal. Though the game has you shoot people you wouldn't think about shooting people in real life to mimic the game, but if asked you may have an increased chance of supporting US intervention. If you already had a stance that made you dismiss the game's plot you'd be unaffected. Or another example, playing GTA Vice City won't make you commit crimes, but can inspire you to watch Scarface and listen to 80s songs when you otherwise wouldn't.
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Two issues - the resources in Siberia are difficult to reach, and they're not necessarily trying to steal resources from Ukraine. They just don't want Ukraine to sell to the EU.
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TZD, my fellow moderate
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@PoptartParasol Unfortunately the clips may have been taken down on youtube and I am not going to look for a decade old documentary.
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Return to monke
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More like, any armed band can demand stuff from Putin and he'll make a deal.
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Yet one of the biggest complaints in the Ukrainian army is that mobilization brought back Soviet-trained officers who are considered incompetent compared to post-2014 officers. The Ukrainian soldiers themselves state that NATO training is great and the Soviet-era Ukrainians are getting them killed because they were taught under Moscow rule.
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The anti-drone weapons overwhelm the controller receiver antenna or jam the GPS. They cannot be used against manned aircraft.
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 @kaizokujimbei143 Stop spamming.
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@Aceshooting I never said that. You're strawmanning. So apparently one can't sanity check others' ideologies and question narratives, because that's nitpicky. Get called out? Call others nitpickers to make yourself immune from criticism.
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@JohnDoe48959 Plenty of people went to college and they're still dumb as rocks. Meanwhile there's a ton of smart people who never went to college. If you want a society that isn't dumb as rocks you're not asking for free college, you're asking for eugenics. Fundamental to democracy. Okay. Democracy hasn't done shit for the people except allow them to vote tyrants into office. Worldwide, even if places with all the government funded benefits, people are democratically electing politicians who steal more and more and take away freedoms. Why is democracy that important when all we get is a bunch of lying thieves trying to bribe us with our own money? The world is still controlled by oligarchs. "an educated society allows business to have better employees" - sounds to me that if businesses want better employees they better start paying, not get the government to educate people for them and then take advantage of the system. "it also improves are ability to compete in the global job market" - And why is that important? Who are we "competing" against? And why are they "competing" with us? What are they sacrificing in order to get ahead? Let everyone else win the race to the bottom. "there is a shit ton of benefits to making education easier to access to the population" - Education has never been easier to access. You can learn almost anything through the internet and libraries.
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@JohnDoe48959 you said you wanted people to not be dumb as rocks. That's something you can't learn in school. Free college won't change that.
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@itsStawny to be fair, Bernie has also called capitalist countries "socialist".
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That's a riddiculous standard as there are short adults and tall teenagers.
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@Dawn Razor It speaks volumes about Russia's inability to manufacture drones.
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Chip manufacturing is extremely complex. Beyond a certain point you have billions of transistors all close to each other, a little mistake and electrons start leaking through the "wires" and the thing doesn't work. You don't just need the machines but also the brains of experienced designers. It's probably more of a dark art than a nuclear program.
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 @sleeperagent2594 Sean hates Andrew Tate, what are you even sperging about?
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They can't, but they're doubling down. They are running in pure gambler logic now, if they keep playing they win and pay off all their debts.
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But with plea deals they do lenient sentences. Take note: the people you are defending only want to convict to keep their numbers up. They don't care if they're out un 2-3 years. In fact, they benefit from repeat offenders.
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Already exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po7sX-rKuQs
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This has happened several times in the war and your scenario didn't play out.
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@edwardweber5655 The people of South Vietnam still saw the atrocities in the Tet Offensive. They weren't fighting for the government. They fought knowing that the North wanted them and their families dead.
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@GummieI Turkey refused to let US troops invade Iraq through their territory. Iraqi forces were actually stationed in the Turkish border until the very last minute when they realized they were defending the wrong place and quickly re-positioned. In this particular case, there would be less objections because international shipping is at stake, but even allied countries raise a fuss about being involved in conflicts.
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@Ghastly_Grinner Buddy it doesn't matter how much the Ruble is worth, they're still bleeding billions per day. Ethnic Russians are not a hivemind.
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"Everyone I don't like is NATO"
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@PatTheBatmanFan human activity couldn't even create that much CO2, how would a world without humans continue down that path?
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@PatTheBatmanFan "The failsafe systems all require electricity" - not SCRAM control rods. When there's no electricity the systems holding control rods in place will lose power and drop them.
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@furkadurka Actually, I'm pointing out there's no correlation. If good K:D ratios are scored without guns, that means you can't draw a correlation between guns and higher K:D ratios.
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I don't want to carry a PDF that I have to scan at the store.
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@@stewart3134 It was the borderland between Europe and the "wildlands" in the Caucasus. It had nothing to do with Russia but the fact that if you went past Ukraine, you'd be going towards the middle east.
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@comeforaride You are allowed to trade land for time. For example Bakhmut was supposed to be a delaying tactic before getting to the next defensive line. But Russia got stuck at Bakhmut for months. So when Russia finally takes Bakhmut they will be too spent to break the next defensive line. Remember Lysychansk? Russia declared an operational pause after capturing it - because they suffered too many casualties at Severodonetsk.
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The big picture is that frontline collapses will keep happening.
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I think most were converted to QF-4s to serve as targets for missiles.
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ALSO-RAN ! If the F-16 was used against the better trained Republican Guard due to A-10 losses... Then why wouldn't a low observable multirole be even more surbiveable? Also, the A-10 is literally irreplaceable because the production lines are closed. If you lose one, that's one less. Can't make any more. F-35s can be produced right now.
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@elcarto22 "essentially you'll sit out this election in a self-righteous snit because your guy didn't get the pick?" - honestly preferable over people continually picking the lesser of two evils What he's doing is more honorable than being a party bootlicker.
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@elcarto22 "(there's really only one, and you know it)" - I really want you to elaborate on that. Because I really want to see you struggle. "self-righteous purists" - says the guy who wants everyone to vote for his guy, you're the purist by denying choice "If you write in Bernie, or sit home twiddling yourself, the result will be the same - you will have willingly dropped the single chance we'll all have to steer our future in a direction we all want and need" - lmao I've literally heard this shit every election. Every single election you people pretend it's the end times and this time it's gonna matter. No. It never was. The fatalism was only you people shilling for your masters. "And nobody will record or give a shit about you 'honorably' dropping out of being an actual citizen." - being an actual citizen means going with the flow and mindlessly committing every single mistake every 4 years? That's not being a citizen. That's being a drone. "over the horror that would be another four years of Trump" - lmao "Better a realist who can put my vote to an actual use" - yeah and the actual use is putting another rich guy in power "How many Starks do they have to behead before you figure that out?" - wow a pop culture reference, do you people do anything except watch TV? You people have compared politics to Harry Potter, Star Wars and Game of Thrones, it's a fucking joke.
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A channel called Taofladermaus did a video shooting the Gyrojet. /watch?v=cJAXpyt8-oQ Backyard Ballistics did 3 videos trying to create a modern version.
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@cptkirkpyro5656 Yes. Extreme temperatures sensitize the AN. But you can also use a detonator and booster charge. It will detonate.
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Thirst lol
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@TheSurpremeLogician Dugina celebrated murder by taking selfies in the flattened city of Mariupol.
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@TheSurpremeLogician No. She did that after calling for war, death and destruction. I didn't call for her death. I just laughed after it happened.
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@TheSurpremeLogician False equivalence, also haha your comment got shadowbanned.
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@TheSurpremeLogician It's not a dodge. There's nothing wrong about laughing at people who called for death.
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Least delusional Putin fan.
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Testing old stuff?
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Forget about it, bullying is one thing and you can ignore it. Canceling is meant to end your career.
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You do realize that WW2 started because Germany started annexing land, then after it ended the USSR refused to give independence to nations they seized from the Germans, right? So Western countries had to protect themselves from being gobbled up. Saying the West should have let the Soviet Union into NATO makes less sense than saying the Soviets shouldn't have kept control of land that wasn't theirs.
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Dam catastrophes have killed more people than Chernobyl.
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@mmcat2863 because it's absurd to assume that the state owns the bodies of every citizen unless they petition the government.
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@mmcat2863 you can't use other laws to justify a new law or else it becomes a circular reasoning argument. "You pay taxes to live in America, so why can't we tax your freedom of speech or your right to vote? After all, your rights are already taxed." - See what I mean? You can't say "the government infringes on your freedom already" to justify new infringements. Although most developed nations have a legal duty to dispose, you can keep the remains after cremated. It's conditioned, but you can own the remains.
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@hurtfixer_ Japan knew what atomic bombs were, they just did not have the means to build one. When the first one dropped in Hiroshima they estimated that the bombs were so hard to build, the US only had one. When Nagasaki was hit, that's what made them realize the US was much more advanced than they thought.
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They produce engineers, we hire them. One of the benefits of knowing how to read Cyrillic is that I can look at the t-shirts and polos of Russian "refugees" and I can tell which company they worked for in Russia before they fled mobilization.
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@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 So many engineers, yet their roads are mud and their weapons keep failing.
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500 years is nothing, geologically speaking. The byproducts of the natural reactor at Oklo, Gabon have barely moved in the last 1.7 billion years.
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Lie. Russia's figures are artificially low due to purchasing power parity. Their budget is equivalent to 220 billion USD and that's peacetime - they most likely tripled ir quadrupled that number this year.
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@ps3shakes123 if a place turns into a polluted shithole in a libertarian world all the property owners would sue the guilty parties for all their losses, I'm sure that Mexico isn't a libertarian paradise. We've been told the costs of pollution have to be socialized for so long we assume they have to be. Try to walk into a business and start breaking shit. Why do businesses get away with fucking with our property?
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They'll get front row seats to watch their defenses get pummeled into oblivion but unable to do anything about it.
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The F-16 has a good track record, are you mad?
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@worthit4493 Nice to upvote your own comment, it was just minutes old. Being consistently a stooge is not a good thing. If your crusade against hypocrisy just leads you to rally around people who have been consistently on the wrong side, what good does it do?
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@ralphzoombeenie2330 Okay? The father in this case agrees with his son, considering he's also been an occasional guest on RT and even personally interviewed Putin. Their opinions can be treated separate, but the family finances are an easy way to pay someone off. If I support the Iraq war and my wife was getting paid off by Haliburton, that would ring a few bells.
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You want verification that what... they exist?
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So to reject socialism you support the guys with USSR flags on their tanks...?
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@TheHPMP How is it wisdom to be dropping hundreds of dollars into cards that can't handle games natively?
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@TheGrammargestapo1 And yet pilots in 1991 stated that they always saw tanks go up in flames after a single hit, while after cannon bursts they had to circle around and wait to see if it had caught on fire. They started saving the cannon rounds for less armored targets.
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@GlazzedDonut getting arrrested because the government wanted to force you to go to war is 100% a pro-freedom action. You're only proving that the government is anti-freedom.
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@Jim C. Okay, how much pollution and waste of resources is generated by mining coal and drilling for oil? Doesn't coal mining pull radioactive ore from the Earth's depths as well?
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@Jim C. I didn't put any words on your mouth, I compared nuclear to other forms of energy we need to mine. "Geothermal and wind power are the cleanest forms" - for that comment I had to look up how geothermal is gonna deal with the problems created by fracking and I'm not totally convinced. Wind power seems to have the problem of blades whacking birds so the environmental concerns go beyond the mining for the raw materials. I'm not remembering where I read this but apparently something happened in Spain because a wind farm caused a climate change in another area since the wind farm depleted the energy from air currents that used to end up in the area affected. There's no free lunch, it seems.
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@superherophysique1037 "if you show your taxes....anything outside of that is pure baseless assumption." - why did his son get a cushy job in Ukraine? No assumption, just fact. He was gifted a job he is not qualified to do. How would using one's power to get your son a cushy job end up in someone's tax returns?
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@tobene Economies are never zero sum. Outcomes are outcomes, not justified. Infinite growth isn't required. Capitalism doesn't need to be kept alive, it's the natural state of things - the core concepts of capitalism will exist even after humanity is extinct.
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EJ Taylor nobody is gonna steal over that, more like sell it to people who recover gold from electronics or other purposes for obsolete hardware.
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@dan4461 They belonged to the USSR and so what? Tons of stuff belonged to the USSR and Ukraine kept them. Not Ukraine's fault the USSR was ran by bozos.
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Do you get something where if you start to type out something spicy, or there's enough "bad words", the entire paragraph turns red? It's not the browser because it happens on any browser, OS or computer I try, but I've asked around and nobody has seen this.
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@daa3417 Yeah it doesn't happen in the app.
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The Su-25 use is only marginally above terrible. AGM-65s need to fly with line of sight to target, whoch meabs flying higher than the Su-25s.
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+Ted Zhang if you eat a burger you just made profit for the industry that sells food linked to obesity, therefore supporting said industry and allowing it to reach more people through marketing, advertising, more attractive prices, more store locations, etc.
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+Ted Zhang buying guns doesn't inherently support gun violence because a) gun violence and gun ownership have no correlation; b) if buying guns lead to violence then you'd actually be hurting the industry because if public opinion allowed gun control in style of other countries to be passed, most gun manufacturers would go bankrupt. "This is the gun control equivalent in the fast food industry" No, it's not. The equivalent wouldn't be gun control but inspectors coming to facilities to check on the factory line, and the product coming with safety disclaimers. "If someone eats to the point of obesity and dies of a heart attack, they caused it THEMSELVES" then please inform everyone else on this comments section that they can't use gun suicides to further their agenda because they caused it themselves.
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+Allen Lim if muskets were so terrible at warfare then why did they use them? By your logic, your freedom of speech doesn't apply here because they only had spoken word and the early press, not the internet. Bump stocks aren't even suited for warfare. "just" and "extensive" in the same sentence? That's like "only" a small loan of "one million dollars". Public suppressors? They're suppressors, and they still sound over 120 dB. That's louder than a motorcycle going past you, or a loud rock concert. It's almost as loud as a plane landing above you, if you have the reference of having lived near an airport. Suppressors are like the mufflers on cars or motorcycles. They don't silence the vehicle, but stop it from being obnoxious. Guns are obnoxiously loud and cause hearing damage. Suppressors BARELY reduce the round enough to be considered hearing safe, in fact not all suppressor/gun combinations are hearing safe. How about this? Before you start proposing things, you actually learn about the subject. Not that it matters because you don't write laws and you can't guarantee gun laws won't be worse than your proposal anyway.
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Drugs are not legal in Portugal, you're just not criminally charged. You still get your drugs confiscated by police and may be forced to go to court where the judge will recommend addiction treatment (which is not mandatory).
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Did you watch the video?
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Also it's fucking rich that you just linked to the Critical theory article and right at the top it says it needs revision by a sociology expert because the tone is too technical. It's an encyclopedia article. What kind of bullshit editor wants it less technical?
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This is a cope. Photos at the ground level confirmed there was no "Ukraine-only" vehicle.
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Russia is in a bad position. Hence the turtle tanks, golf carts and motorbikes.
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 @TitosLastBrainCell-8 it's a bot.
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The AIM-9X failed the first combat firing which is understandable, the balloons are "cold" targets that were tracked by just imaging seeker. Not the hot exhaust of an aircraft.
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The fact that the first attack involved a VBIED shoud hint at the fact that Ukraine lacks the weapons to do so.
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We had to ditch very expensive rockets back then, we land them now. Kicking a ball into a net is not special, but we celebrate World Cup goals more than a Falcon Heavy reentry.
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 @Robertsmith-un5cu Expensive ballistic missiles are not drones. Cheap drones can be shot down cheaply.
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@ShapurTheLegend Shahed drone engines cost 9k alone. The Ukrainians have done crash wreckage analysis and exposed how expensive the components are. Iron Dome is used against fast rockets. Slow Shaheds are shot down in Ukraine with cheap Gepard ammo, quad mounted machine guns with spotlights, and 30k USD APKWS guided rockets.
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The EU isn't even in war economy, it's on "remember how the economy was shut down for a year?" economy. We're paying for the economic sins.
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How were they duped?
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@KungFuWizardOfJesus the underpowered engines is a result of them buying Russian engines until their domestic engine was in full production. One doesn't have to be an engineer, the specs of those engines are public because they can be purchased.
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@KungFuWizardOfJesus The F-35 literally has the most powerful fighter engine ever designed.
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@malekmoqaddam5806 The B-1A concept was abandoned and the B-1B had high altitude speed reduced to 1.25 Mach. A strategic bomber flies at the speeds it needs to. In ye ole days speed was the way to get in and out alive. Not anymore. Now you get in and out alive by not broadcasting your position. You can do a leisurely pace if nobody is coming over to stop you.
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No. When someone is close to the muzzle, you blast them with the specs of unburnt powder and heated gasses. This creates burns and the pattern can be used to judge how close the person was to the weapon firing. There's uninterrupted footage of Kyle and he never shot before the confrontation, so the steel barrel could not be hot enough to burn skin on contact. But Rosenbaum did get shot in the hand attempting to grab the barrel.
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Whataboutism, you bot.
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@miriamweller812 Okay. If the S-400 is a layer, and it can get taken out, that allows the other layers to be peeled away.
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@philcollins2546 for the past year people have been paying over a dollar a round no matter the caliber, so not a big deal
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@NuckChorris12345 But it doesn't matter your status, you're still getting it and allowing it to mutate even if you took it. So you can't blame any sector of the population.
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@thefirstc.j.582 Not just that, but you also keep t-cell response. People exposed to SARS in the 2000s still had T-cell response a decade later, despite no antibodies.
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@NuckChorris12345 Cope. Less likely still means you're harboring it and letting it mutate. If it's less likely, then why did we lockdown if most people are asymptomatic? By your own logic the problem would have gone away by itself if most people can't spread it.
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@ChozoSR388 Don't listen to me. Listen to your experts. Go ask them and try to make sense of what they're saying.
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@NuckChorris12345 No, because there's MILLIONS of people with the shot. Also, we're seeing that it's being carried and spread in countries with very high rates of vaccination. If the people who are vaccinated don't realize they have it, they're still spreading it.
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Because he's not a wartime correspondent, a geopolitical analyst has to cover the important stuff in the world outside the war.
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 @annawagner4147 Oh no, Ukraine is losing a small town after 8 months of human waves.
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The third army corps is a disgrace. They're an understrength division.
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Wonder what happened to 4 replies
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"Oleg" ahahah
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I only got a 5.56 because they don't make a 5.57
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So the NWO coup was allowed to safely leave the country and just chill in Belarus?
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We're not planning on conscripting them like Russia.
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The "democratically elected government" did not overthrow itself. They voted to remove the president from power. Because he fled to Russia to avoid prosecution. Funny how you cry about ballot stuffer and voter intimidator Yanukovych being "democratically elected" but when the democratically elected parliament used their power to recognize that the president went AWOL you criticize them.
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Replacing old Air National Guard aircraft.
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@Meloncholiac The trial was not televised but members of the public could attend. The hosts of the TrueAnon podcast did a recap of each day.
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Yet we still see the tungsten rain over Russian tube artillery and Grads.
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@Jeroen_Maes Most troops are not "equipped" (they have uniform, boots, and shoot once a year) and they're fed in mess halls. Cooking food at the mess hall delivered by contracted suppliers isn't the same as shipping out stockpiles of fresh food for field kitchens or cases full of rations to eat in the field.
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@alexh349 overpopulation is a myth.
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@kriswillman2779 how the fuck will they stay with the fathers? How does that make sense?
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@len-rayy just saying it is a necessity doesn't make it a necessity. So you argue people need those things, but aren't willing to pay for them? We need a corrupt middleman taking the money and denying us a choice. Kappa.
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@jackduggan2432 you're explaining to me how it works, not how it's not theft. "This is basically what you're saying. " if you live in an apartment and have to pay rent that's theft."" - The difference is that when you rent an apartment you're living in SOMEONE ELSE'S PROPERTY. If you buy said apartment but someone came along and despite you OWNING THE PROPERTY started extorting money out of you, how would it not be theft? "you have to pay rent so they afford things like heat, electricity etc." - so the government creates electricity? There's no private companies operating power generators or grids? "You have to pay taxes (same thing as rent)" - it's not rent. Rent is something you owe as a result of a CONTRACT you signed WILLINGLY to use someone else's property. If you buy your own house and OWN the property, why should you have to pay to anyone? "If you don't like it move to a country with no taxes. Oh wait... They don't exist." - you do realize that the United States existed for almost 200 years without income taxes, right? The fact that everyone does it isn't an argument, didn't your mother ask you if you'd jump off a bridge if everyone was doing it? An appeal to popularity is a fallacy and basically accepting that from a logical standpoint you are wrong - and just bragging that everyone is wrong as a way to "win" the argument.
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LIFE is cheap. Not living.
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@JesterEric cost of living is increasing from 2020 spending and businesses trying to raise profit margins due to 2020 massively increasing the value of stocks when global shipping was hindered. It's not Russia. It was the global economic shutdown. We had to pay for that sometime.
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@MrSpirtuoso Russia had MASSIVE issues. Remember the cling wrap teepees and men dumped into derelict bases with no beds or toilets? Remember the protests by Degastanis and Ingush? Remember the rusted out AKs?
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The stories are similar because people's brains "fill in the blanks" with stories they have heard. Much like folk tales of monsters becoming warewolves or vampires. Why did people see warewolves? Because they heard of warewolves in stories.
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No, it isn't. It's a Russian design based on the M1 Garand and the Remington Model 8.
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Funny how all these Russian shills know generals and special forces who know more than the "mainstream media" lets us know.
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The only way to win is to not to ever sit up.
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@DIREWOLFx75 "will be put in production by 2025 or maybe 2026" - Just like the thousand Armatas by 2020? "Irrelevant comparison as the Su-57" - It isn't. It doesn't matter which aircraft is comparable to the Su-57, the fact is that the US could get the show on the road and produce more F-35s in one year than Russia can produce in decades. The F-22 program was killed off too early because there were no threats that could match it. And even then, you're admitting that Russia today cannot beat the US production 20 years ago.
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Because what good is the best when refusing to send it just means you're not ever going to use it? And the death of tanks has been pronounced multiple times in history.
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Does this mean Russia will stop retreating soon?
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@michaelhowell2541 Maybe the fact that there's no other aircraft that can do what the A-10 does is a hint that it's a dead end design and nobody else wants to make that kind of aircraft?
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You are walking a fine line if you're soliciting donations by mentioning that.
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The former Army chief of staff already stated that no matter if it's B-52 or carrier pigeon, they don't care. All it matters is the ordnance dropping on target.
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Firepower that spends thousands of shells cratering empty fields do not produce casualties.
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The footage is insane. They're not trained for fighting. Meanwhile you see Houthi forces in sandals running up hills and jumping into foxholes to nail them at point blank range.
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@hamez2192 the "economic right" of the party would be centrist, not FAR RIGHT. Words have meanings.
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+Henry Hungaski because tying up children on your instagram account is fucking normal
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@cristiano3939 Okay, let's tell everyone to shut up and give the floor to the people with medical degrees. Do you also shut down the people with medical degrees who disagree with the government or are you going to give them fair air time to explain why the government has repeatedly made mistakes for a year and a half?
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They can fire back, but the missile team should have moved. It's fire and forget for a reason.
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The plane wasn't full of civlians.
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 @AB-jw3mz How much longer? I've waited and waited.
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Yeah people aren't free to worship a person calling for the destruction of Ukraine.
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Yes if he had no thermometer with a Fahrenheit readout. Would an AZ native read road signs in Europe in km or miles?
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Not to mention that video of aluminum isn't much. Like 7075 T6 aluminum is aircraft grade, almost as tough as mild steel. Mystery alloy Chinesium? Could be soft as hell, you try to make aircraft or cars out of that and they'll fall apart.
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You'll have to play worse or ragequit to get the buffs, so you'll even out. The system is designed for an equilibrium so it's hard to unbalance it.
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Steiner's Third Army Corps Corpse?
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Nobody's praising anti drone slats. Cope cages were supposed to protect against Javelins, not drones.
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The world witnessed what Assad did to Syrians, but Russians were there to help him. The world witnessed what Qadaffi did to Libyans, and he was removed but we kept hands off and the place turned to a hotbed of terrorism. We witnessed what Saddam did to Iraqis and were too cowardly to remove him in 1991, and we tried to liberate Afghans from the Taliban but it seems they're not ready for it.
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 @sonofasome7.62x39 The bullet's trajectory is entirely normal.
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 @sonofasome7.62x39 But the bullet has rifling marks.
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 @thc6664 "NATO is paper target" "NOOO NATO IS ON MY BORDER HELP!"
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Did East Germans and Poles want to live under the thumb of the Warsaw Pact? Moscow didn't have a problem with it back then.
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As the Russian saying goes... "and then it got worse".
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lol no. The F-35 gets massive kill rates at Red Flag exercises. You got your information from a David Axe piece he wrote because he doesn't know how to read reports.
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@aaronvarela89 They asked Belarus for ammo and now are asking North Korea.
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@userunknown10 hell yeah, we're waiting for the next gen consoles to have most developers optimizing their games for AMD hardware.
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 @s3p4kner This is Musk coming up with excuses. Everyone knew Starlink was used at the frontline, it was reported over a year ago.
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+Richard Ascensio lmao so despite the danger of being killed by objects other than rifles is greater, it doesn't count because it wasn't in a mass murder. lmao and you people claim to care about lives, when you clearly don't. Only about guns.
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@brucewayneissober6915 Oregon oblast? If NATO could join the war Russia would be done in a week. Russia can't even defeat an allied nation, how they defeat the most powerful military alliance in the world?
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They're gonna know either way.
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The quadcopters make a non-stop buzzing sound. You wouldn't like it if they recorded audio.
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Yeah but the LPR defensive line is exposed now.
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But the Gripen doesn't have enough airframes to go around, while the F-16 has thousands manufactured and some retiring right now.
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@hhaste math isn't wrong, but math based on flawed principles isn't math. The field of statistics doesn't work when your hypothesis is based on factors we can't know about. You switched from statistics to guesswork.
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@AbyssalMelody How is it so hard to understand that they were sold as a miracle? How is it so hard to understand that people had the figurative gun pressed to their head to take it, due to their job/travel/education? We've been through massive abuse of power, and now everything's back to square one. If you still simp for the LIARS in charge you are as guilty as them.
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@goblin6587 How is it a bad faith argument?
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So the cruelty is the point. How are you different from the people sent to Gitmo or Abu Ghraib?
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 @green_pines A tank full of fuel with no oxidizer is not explosive.
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He knew how to handle a gun. He defeated two attackers and won the gunfight against Gauge. He showed more professionalism than police officers. He showed more restraint than police officers.
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You don't need to be Keynesian to be pro-regulation but jesus christ did you pick the worst possible economist to follow.
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It's more costly to risk pilots. Precision guided weapons pay for themselves by giving standoff distance.
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@TheSjuris Common sense is tossing remaining product into the ocean rather than sell it for money to those who can buy it in over 40 states?
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@TheSjuris You're still not proving your assertion that it would be cheaper. I'm not standing up for anyone. You made a claim and I decided that I actually would like to see it elaborated further instead of just believing it. But instead of doing that, you'd rather smear the product and accuse me of standing up for them. Okay. Sorry I asked.
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Because they're wealthier than the south Americans.
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"The only one taking it seriously is TheQuartering" The actual video: "I don't think Linus meant anything by this but these comments are pretty pissed"
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@Alex_Fahey It didn't "become". The Wehrmacht was never mechanized to the degree people think they were.
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@Alex_Fahey But that's changing the subject. The German forces were more motorized than the Soviet Union, but less than the UK and US. The oil supply issue only exacerbates the problem, but isn't the origin of it. In fact, there was a deliberate effort to concentrate motorized forces in panzer groups because they needed the mobility the most.
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I remember the Ghetto Annoying Orange.
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Nuremberg trials for those who manipulated tomboys into transitioning.
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@Loopanyway so because lobbyists breathe oxygen should we stop breathing too?
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@camillealexandrebonnes2682 objectivity deals with facts. If facts are negative towards one side and positive towards another, it's not a flaw from an objectivity standpoint. If you want to question objectivity, present a countering argument that exposes the subjectivity in the picking of the facts.
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But it isn't.
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They aren't. Old weapons sitting ij storage cost you nothing
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@grimmlinn Because Russian defenses are lacking. The leaked report on the Moskva showed that only one of the six AA guns worked. You're learning the wrong lessons by presuming everyone has the corruption and incompetence problems seen in 2022-2023.
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@OmmerSyssel There's no long established knowledge and technology as it was never commercially available until very recently. Update my knowledge? Read my comment again. You're replying half cocked without understanding. How can MODERN technology somehow go back to the past and change history?
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@andzzz2 How is Russia conserving its forces? They burned through DPR and LPR men like crazy. They had elite units in the VDV and naval infantry rebuilt multiple times. The prisoner battalions got it the worst.
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@wareaglerebel8131 "there plenty of millionaires who got their money without being slimy" - and Mexico has honest businesses as well. But when Biden goes off on Mexico claiming that their inequality stems from corruption the synapses start firing... Is the situation any different in the US? Isn't your party getting money from these rich people who keep getting richer, Biden?
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@blurglide This is false. You're claiming it's indisputable but you can't even substantiate your claims.
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The Taliban essentially offered to surrender Bin Laden to a neutral country if evidence of his involvement in 9/11 was proven. They knew that the US wouldn't accept the first term as Bin Laden would just flee a country he was not actively hunted in, and everyone knows that the US wouldn't expose classified intelligence for the sake of satisfying the Taliban. Basically, the Taliban offered asylum to Bin Laden and you don't go back on your word but they also didn't want want to look like the bad guys in the international stage. The proposition was a way to play both sides - they honor their commitment to providing asylum without looking like turncoats but also feign cooperation. These attempts to manipulate the narrative are very transparent. It's like some of you never saw "heads I win tails you lose" negotiations. Afghanistan doesn't have a great economy so poppy cultivation was a big source of revenue. The US neeeded to cooperate with warlords in order to fight the Taliban, and the Taliban themselves started using the poppy cultivation as a way to finance the insurgency. Is it any wonder that one of the few cash crops that all sides turned to had to be patrolled?
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But it's cool how they constantly reference how Archer is losing his hearing from all the gunshots he's been exposed to without ear protection.
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@Bayonet1809 And they unblinded the trials after 6 months. There will never be long term testing.
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@mikelee7318 You do know that taking off, doing a 180º and landing counts as a "sortie", right? A sortie doesn't have to involve combat. Russian soldiers are begging for air support on social media because command isn't responding. Real life is not like the youtube comments where Russia is conducting 200 combat missions a day.
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@thathandsomedevil0828 Mariupol was not pointless. It was a tremendous sacrifice but the siege of Mariupol tied up thousands of Russian forces needed elsewhere. The defenders sacrificed themselves to save the nation.
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@Natalya.57.Volkova This is the right channel. This is where all the Z-anon folks get together, and we need to flagelate them with the reality. I think it's funny. We do learn about WW2 in the West. For about two weeks. Then we move on to European reconstruction. Meanwhile just like you said, you are whipped into a frenzy about the Great Patriotic war. That's a psyop. We learn about the Kings and Queens because we need to understand centuries of conflict, intrigues and alliances to be aware of how Europe is the war it is. And we learn that both world wars were terrible for the European people, and despite our differences we came up with the concept of not fighting against each other again. For all the EU's faults, at least we started an economic partnership to rebuild ourselves. While you're still revisiting sacrifice year after year. What about the good things? What about moving on?
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@mars353 Lyman is strategically important because it's the springboard for Kreminna, which will allow a flanking of the Lysychansk-Severodonetsk axis. Bakhmut will become irrelevant if the Ukrainian army is simply going to slip behind the Russian forces and cause the collapse in Luhansk.
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@babanagrahim5439 "millions of people displaced Thousands of young life lost" - And Russia shall pay for that, don't worry.
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"If people/the average American would be paid a higher/fair/living wage then they'd have more money to use and send back into the economy" - but things would cost more which means that the vast majority of people would spend less. "They would also pay more taxes (income tax)" - fuck off. Give them a higher wage and then tax the fuck out of it? That's fucking dumb. Seriously...
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@jayc5373 you asked "who do you thin pays for it" and I answered tax money. Is it not the correct answer? Is it not how the logistics work?
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@zelda1966 "it's not personal for me" says the guy carrying water for the abysmal Russian army
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MJ wouldn't be enough, this is probably cocaine.
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 @iHaveTheDocuments it straight up switches sides. I've seen this bot be pro- and anti- a certain thing depending on which channel it posts under.
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@thegodofsoapkekcario1970 LIB STATUS: SMASHED "If you gonna be dumb you gotta be tough" - Sam Elliott
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It really isn't. Getting people to spend will require the private sector or the state to foot the bill, which is going to negate the gains.
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The real test with Europe will be corporations. I suspect many states will not go as far as France, but companies may be pressured into forcing employees to take it.
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With a half life of 30 days, after 7 months only 0.78125% of the radioactive isotopes will remain. After a hundred years, we're talking about a percentage level of 0.5 to the power of 120. That's nothing.
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You're using the same arguments the Soviets used to swipe the Holodomor under the rug. The Ukranian population grew despite millions of deaths.
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New cope just dropped.
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Cope. The Moskals will return the name of the Rus which they have stolen from Ukrainians.
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The word on the street is that this was a photo reconnaissance drone before being fitted with explosives.
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@shifty389 You look at maps all day, maybe do something useful with your life instead of repeating Russian MoD talking points.
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@williamrutter3619 The modern anti-aircraft systems the US has to contend with are the S-300 and S-400. As we have seen in Ukraine, the ATACMS ballistic missile dispatches them with ease. Storm Shadows also make their way through. Also, you are lying in regards to the 29% being operational. It's around 60%. I'd suggest you stop parroting propaganda coming from contrarians and enemies of our states and our way of life. Composites can be repaired. What the hell are you even talking about?
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It's because the algorithm decided that's the way to keep you watching. The problem is all the folks who don't have the algorithm tuned to focus on those channels, it degrades viewership and stiffles new channels.
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The mud is tough to fight and live in, not just move. You want a mud season vehicle? It's called an aircraft. Fight from above while the enemy is stuck in the muck.
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That's like two bullets impacting each other mid air. It would most likely re-entry and burn up.
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You can watch drone footage of Russians ending it after being wounded by drone dropped nades. They actually grip the weapon harder with the jerk, and then slowly relax. You're not CSI bub. To grip a weapon you curl the fingers and to shoot your index finger hooks through the trigger guard. That means the handgun has to rotate out of grip, and recoiling backwards doesn't undo the hooking action from the hand and fingers.
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I've always wanted to watch Dollar Store D-Day.
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So we're going to just ignore the weirdness of the videos? The "positive videos" are unnatural. It's not that they're positive. It's that you can tell people have stiff delivery of statements they were coached to say. People are walking down the street like in a movie set.
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@Protectobot Give a bailout to banks and it causes inflation in the financial sector. Give bailout to the consumer goods sector and you'll destroy the people's purchasing power.
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 @miriamweller812 lmao
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@pavecaesar5997 Sure, I've seen a few. But they're mostly support for Ukraine. Russian copy pasters have daily Russian MoD reports or telegram updates. Every single day with new lies about how 300 tanks and 30 aircraft were destroyed.
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Photos from the unexploded bomblets show it wasn't SDBs.
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The F-15 is more expensive to maintain. The F-15C is an air superiority fighter, it has air to ground capability but it's focused on the air fight. The F-15E, the Strike Eagle, has better air to ground capabilities but requires a WSO in the back. The F-16 is single seat (except for B/D variants I think?) and single engine which means half the pilots required and it's cheaper to maintain since it only has one engine. Plus the F-15 was supposed to be replaced by the F-22 which was cancelled with only 178 built so the F-15 is still tasked with protecting US airspace.
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+Gabriel Fraser Australia's gun crime was already going down for decades before gun control, in the UK gun crime increased +TRISHA FART EMILIA PAYTUS what do you mean in the long run? Gun crime in the UK hit a peak in 2012, nearly an increase of 90% in a decade!
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Copium overdose lol
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@Kolvarg A lot of nameless victims were criminals themselves. Depending on where it happens, unsolved homicides are estimated to be 50 to 80% gang related. When it's criminals clipping each other nobody cares except for the annoyance of stray bullets endangering the neighborhood. But when a normal everyday person gets capped it often gets a mention in the news because it's a sad story.
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@Research_theTruth One was an ivy league student with a social life who was attractive and posted details about his life and the other guy was a shut in loner with a face for radio.
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@irabakri2662 Hasan Piker is a streamer who became popular thanks to his uncle Cenk Uyghur, who runs The Young Turks. He is famous for being a political streamer who dishes out hot takes and leaves other people's videos on to keep the audience entertained while he cooks.
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@goncaloferreira8543 Also you can see photos of the vehicles WITH and WITHOUT bullet holes/frag in the same body panel meaning the vehicles were ditched, Russians took photos, then remembered to stage a combat video and shot abandoned vehicles. It would have worked if they had not released photos that PROOVED the vehicles were captured with less damage than they later tried to claim.
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I didn't ask them what was wrong with it, so you're confusing me for someone else.
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He did a half-assed britbong accent, barely noticeable.
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The conclusion isn't justified by the premise. Why couldn't Bellingcat just post the article just the same even if the leaks are real?
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We've had glide bombs for decades. Damn right we have diversity, we've got multiple kinds of glide bombs.
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@nickrivera6659 It is. If Europe is under such a threat, I don't want European troops leaving our territory to end up in whatever quagmire the neocons and neolibs decided to dive into. On the other hand, I find it funny that people actually believe that Russian troops will have the time to do any invading between their forced male prostitution stints. If you want to take China as a threat look into the economy and how they buy their way into power. Example, the ESPN airing the CCP's official "One China" map or Top Gun 2 removing the Taiwanese and Japanese flags from Maverick's jacket. They can actually take over countries with influence, not Pvt. Chang marching into Europe with a blown out colon from the spoiled MRE's with pork meat so rotten it turned green 1 year into the supposed 5 year shelf-life.
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Never heard anyone use the square hectometer in real life, we just use hectares or square km when appropriate.
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Pretty sure most western analysts predicted the exact opposite, in fact overestimating Soviet stockpiles and production rates.
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@TyPhenirW0LF Exactly. Mother Jones actually has a mass shooting tracker that uses the classical definition rather than padding the number with incidents that clearly aren't.
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Unless you have a way to deploy Ukrainian forces in the Kamchata peninsula, every move is telegraphed in this war.
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The drone can't aim for you.
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Argh I hadn't thought of this shit in years but it's the third time I've seen The Game mentioned in the past two weeks.
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The vaccines are not working.
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@nathanaelswayne8024 We romanize "X" as "Kh" so it's confusing. I've been told the "k" is mostly silent.
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@Seldomheardabout Yes the failed air assault at Hostomel was just a distraction for the capitalist pigs.
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The USAF spent 2 billion USD in wings for the A-10 alone. It's a money pit.
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High Shaun In the end Weaver won. How do you think that guns can't be used against the government when they literally shot at law enforcement and the courts pretty much agreed they were in the right?
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Kek it's "immoral" because you're losing? Get your draft papers in order, son!
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@martist911wasits-not-real4 When the health inspector checks the restaurant it's always squeaky clean.
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There's not enough gold in the world.
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Zoomer Stasi Amazing how operators who can't use weapons stalled out Russia's advance with 4 HIMARS and 2 M270s.
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C-clamping is such a weird priority. It's going to be air support doing the killing, the rifle is just to pin them down.
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Afghans didn't want to fight for it.
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 @duke9260 It is exactly how negotiations work.
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@kingkingghgh dude the A-10 couldn't get 100 percent kill ratios against 1950's Patton tanks. https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a522397.pdf Out of 90 hits, only 30 were perforations. The penetration study seems like a glowing review of low altitude gun runs but if it's 1979 and you're making a big deal about penetrating through equivalents to T-55 and T-62 tanks you're trying to fool someone.
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But then unless you do the installations yourself it might cost you more to do piecemeal which means another year ir two until you break even.
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@Stewart They used their active duty, mercenaries, reservist and volunteer battalions. They got shredded. Now Russia is mobilizing because their active duty army was defeated.
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@sudonix5923 Russia is drafting 60 year olds with cancer and herniated discs.
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@timontide6404 They bombed the shit out of everything. Do you not remember the images of cruise and ballistic missiles hitting Kiev?
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@ivanzhirkov2581 the Kadyrovites went on vacation because they're Kadyrov pretty boys. They don't fight, they're riot troops and they fake combat videos by shooting at nothing. Meanwhile Russian telegram is complaining that they've been fighting for months with no rotation.
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@sm2049 The F-35 is the best aircraft right now.
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@elvisibra That Ru territory is being seized back by Ukraine.
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@basasure9065 Who cares? Ukraine is recapturing that territory.
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Big mistake.
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It only applies to protected classes.
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Nah, Strelkov predicted Russia's failure and people mocked him for saying the truth. Now everyone knows he was right.
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Where are the mass arrests? Gen. Flynn and McChrystal got you good.
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"I'm an engineer, which means I solve practical problems..."
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@Trentonpage Damn, 900 Azov guys hardly holding off 140,000. I thought 900 people would last minutes, turns out they've been fighting for 5 months and killed 15 thousand, with around 40 thousand more wounded.
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@J_Madison Desert Storm. Iraq unironically had a better army in 1991 than Russia does now.
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The words of prophets are scribbled on bathroom stalls.
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 @Princip666 it's relevant. The Soviet Union was stronger than Russia, and even they hit the pain threshold.
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The UN has not been able to enter many zones. Mariupol alone could have sustained 20k civilian casualties.
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 @nemanja162 We don't need Ukrainian propagada, we have footage and Russians themselves confirming it. Tu Quoque Fallacy.
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The munition failed, not the plane. Could have happened to any aircraft. No aircraft is stealthy with burner on.
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+Levi Shaun the modern colloquial usage of postmodernism predates the internet fame of Jordan Peterson by about 20 years.
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@karanmandal5229 "the windows you are using and the YouTube you are watching video on, both are run by the CEO's from Indian origin" - to be fair, both of those things used to be pretty great and now they're garbage. I'm not making a connection here, just saying that you shouldn't expect us to be thankful for the CEOs who are essentially evil and throwing away the good will of its userbase.
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@ethimself5064 What do you mean, right from the top. It was an ambassador, and he was asked about economic warfare. He didn't know what Saddam intended to do. Also, if you look at me to look for negative signs, I say nothing, and then you grab my girlfriend's ass, you will get hit. That's not an excuse. If you attack someone, you don't get to say you could do it because nobody told you that you couldn't. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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@ethimself5064 I have no information on the Bush and cronies narrative. I know he asked an ambassador. Not only it was a weird question, it was decontextualized. And the answer is not biding in any way. You seem to be defending a dictator with malicious intentions who thought he could get away with violence scot free by asking the US permission. It went poorly for him. Womp womp. Thanks for your efforts.
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 @goreignak this was also what was said about T-62s
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@ВячеславСкопюк Pretty sure they did.
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@LOL-zu1zr What snipers? It was a bunch of people shooting in the general direction of an unmanned aircraft. You do realize that volley fire was used by ground troops with bolt action rifles to damage fighter aircraft trying to strafe, right?
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If you have a pipe with running water inside a freezer, the water flows out only a few degrees colder. If you stop the water in that pipe, eventually it freezes. Mass flow is an important part of thermodynamics. As long as mass keeps flowing, you have an "infinite sink". When mass stops flowing, you have that mass exposed to freezing temps and no replenishment.
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@janehrahan5116 They're chugging on the Kremlin kool aid which much like the Heaven's Gate drink is poisoned.
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@BlackElf94 No. Forget about manufacturing costs. The PARTS alone are more expensive than 20k. You can't use any 35hp motor. The Shahed uses a 9.000 dollar aviation grade motor.
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@BlackElf94 The fact that it is expendable doesn't forgo the fact that it's still a military object. It needs to work when asked to even if it's been parked for months, even if it's in the desert. Nevertheless, many of the components are still aviation grade and unlike an engine can't be manufactured in Iran. Ukraine has analyzed probably hundreds of wreckage sites, they have made very detailed reports on the technology inside them.
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That's like asking why Patriot missile batteries aren't stopping school shootings.
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No. It's birds. People have reverse engineered the footage into a 3d space with the aircraft moving and circling. The object seen was travelling at low speed and close to the water.
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Not supporting murder is woke?
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The absolute copium.
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 @Kagashimin There's something called "having principles". We shouldn't ignore stuff just because there's a good outcome.
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Ironically similarly performing goggles are still 50-70 bucks today so they held up their value.
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I doubt they have thermometers in Fahrenheit over there. I remember when mercury ones sometimes had dual scales but now everything's using a digital readout.
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@brandonlinares5164 Bringing up Afghanistan when the Soviets also bungled that one up.
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Because changing titles can help you fine tune how your video appears on the recommended algorithm.
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You can't take photos of the sky in "daytime" in the moon because the exposure necessary to see stars would blow out the image with the sunlight.
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Paralyta the problem is that for millions of years we managed to live without jobs or education as we know it so clearly there is a choice. Blame the government for banning homesteading in 1971. "believe that the government has every right to force all people into this system, even if many people don’t want to be part of it." - bullshit. There's communists living in communes. Probably 1% of them. Literally anyone is free to live under communism but only a few actually have the balls to do it.
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@FullyCharged22 The problem isn't air cover. The A-10's biggest predator is its former prey. The danger isn't in the air but in the ground. Fighter escorts don't mean a thing when SAMs and AAA are on wheeled/tracked vehicles and ready to punish CAS aircraft. Fighter escorts can't do anything about men on the ground with shoulder launched missiles. No, it can't easily rain hell on vehicles or infantry, because vehicles or infantry are prepared to fight against CAS fixed wing aircraft and helicopters. It's not even a good platform. It was outdated the day it left the factory and meant for a world that didn't exist anymore. The F-15 is multirole and so what? The F-15E Strike Eagle is an excellent ground attack aircraft that's not as vulnerable as the A-10.
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@piisfun Minimum airspeed of 500 knots? That's over 900km per hour, almost supersonic at that point. Double check your numbers.
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@FullyCharged22 No, your argument is flawed. The multirole fighters are the primary ground attack aircraft of the modern world. No, they don't have different capabilities, they have the same and better ones. The video is just entertainment. Not serious discussion.
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@FullyCharged22 You're literally sourcing an entertainment video as a serious argument. No, it's you who should research the topic. The A-10 is completely outdated and even suffered embarrassment in the first gulf war, where it had to be pulled back due to heavy losses and the F-16 had to take over its mission. The fact that other aircraft do the A-10s job and do it better does negate the usage of the A-10. The GAU-8 Avenger being unique is not an argument, because it no longer can take out targets that a 20mm round can't. Plus the DU round has been retired due to the heavy metal toxicity it leaves behind, and rounds like the 25mm APEX round are showing that they're a promising replacement. If your argument for keeping the A-10 is the GAU-8, that's a losing argument because it's no longer relevant. The A-10 has a long service record because it enjoyed almost 20 years of not being used, then it got splashed by Iraqi National Guard units, and when it was meant to be replaced Congress dragged its feet and insisted on keeping it around for more 30 years. The long service record isn't explained by outstanding performance, but by how Congress will force the military to drag a corpse Weekend at Bernie's style.
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@FullyCharged22 He is more knowledgeable than you and he defended his points. It's you who's refusing to look at the facts and data, while sourcing an entertainment video to back up your arguments.
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The UK also had to pay for lend-lease. It's not slavery, the reason it takes decades to pay back is precisely because the payments are kept low to not disturb the economy. There is a lot of interest in rebuildigng Ukraine so that they can pay. We don't want slaves, we want big economies.
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@orhan3007 Yeah that was kind of what was attempted with the cages. There's also the fact that there's ways to modulate the effects of the explosive. The HEAT penetration is usually understood to be the superplastic jet, but the liner also can form a slug. By prioritizing the slug formation over the jet, you get an explosively formed penetrator - the shape of the liner and placement of the detonators can create a relatively aerodynamic slug that doesn't lose as much energy with standoff as the jet. I'm unsure of what the NLAW warhead uses but it might be a EFP.
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They did exist, but not like the movie Enemy at the Gates. They didn't shoot soldiers after failed assaults. They detained those who fled defensive positions after being ordered to hold the strategic point, and forced them to serve under penal battalions as punishment. Yes people were executed by blocking troops but not entire companies mowed down by machine gun.
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@YMCLilRodney But the war wasn't over quick. Which is why they managed to get the weapons in the first place.
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@QT5656 Presenting the argument that all walks of life that are noticing the incongruencies are "far right" is beyond bad faith. It's clear manufacture of consent. First, Charles Darwin was sympathetic to eugenics. In The Descent of Man he argues that only the ignorant allow the worst of their species to breed. Second, you're clearly twisting words. An appeal to Darwin is eugenicist even if Darwin was not. Saying that the intelligent will survive and it's a good thing that the unintelligent will die is in itself eugenicist. Either way, these people appealing to Darwin don't even understand Darwinism so they can't figure out that people in the 60-90 age range dying off does absolutely nothing to stop them from breeding. They already have. The children and young adults will survive.
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@HowToChangeName If your game-changing technology is going to enslave humanity, we probably are better off without it. It's 2021. We're lucky to have access to so much technology already. How much more do we need? Are you progressing towards something better, or just progressing for the sake of progress?
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And yet the F-16 is one of the most succesful aircraft ever...
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It literally is, though. Major geopolitical rival taken out with a 7th of the yearly DoD budget. That's cheap as chips. You'll never get better returns on any government program ever. For as long as you live.
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Enhanced how? You can't fix its lack of speed and thrust woes without starting from scratch. Almost nobody has A-10 equivalents. The US has the A-10. Former Soviet clients have Su-25s. Nobody else makes this kind of aircraft or buys them. It's for a reason. If they wanted to, they could easily have them.
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They didn't leave at night, they drew troops back for weeks among civilians. That's how they successfully crossed. The last men to cross had to do it under shelling, video of that surfaced.
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RFK is a nutjob.
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@arktana and both democrats and republicans have used the anti-semitism card to describe the boycott. Really makes you think.
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Seems to me the Russian army is attrited pretty well.
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Firehose of falsehood.
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It's mostly symbology and using switches to change the aircraft configuration. There's for example air to ground mode, air to air mode, and dogfight mode in fighter jets, so you can focus on a task but change with the flick of a thumb.
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This is just rejecting reality and replacing it with one's own. The excuse of differing doctrines doesn't make up for the fact that air power greatly enhances the ground war but since neither side can use it properly, they are forced into a slugfest that just leads to more casualties.
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Cost. It's too old, which means lots of maintenance and lack of parts.
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@celmer6 Yeah it's to break plates. Which you're not gonna do with hollow points either.
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@Axl4325 That was 6.8 SPC. It was the internet darling after Future Weapons talked about it.
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@DeOppressoLiber Can't buy from another country to evade sanctions/bans. One of the reasons why some guns are easier to find in Canada than the US, they can import from origin, Americans can't use Canada as a middleman.
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 @toddtaylor6506 People create the wealth that makes corn plantations sustainable.
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@rassenkrieg9615 Or just tired of blowing money on replacements.
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"Get Woke, Go Broke"
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lol modern air defense systems, it's old Stingers and Iglas bringing them down.
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Any satellite picture shows it.
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@redemptionhappens7725 I mean, we stopped using CFCs to address the ozone layer and the acid rain was addressed with better and cleaner fuels, emissions controls, catalytic converters and scrubbers installed on smoke stacks. Now you can make a flamethrower with a lighter and deodorant can because we use butane. We stopped burping sulfur into the atmosphere from every exhaust pipe and natural gas overtook coal, which is cleaner burning. That had nothing to do with global warming. It had to do with the fact that we were polluting a lot and now we pollute less.
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Ever heard of this thing called Gamergate?
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@c0ldyloxproductions324 "the problem with building an aircraft for bvr is that when u run out of missiles u have to still get in close" - No, you don't. That's a mistake. If you're running out of ammo in a gunfight, the solution isn't using the bayonet. You'll just get shot. "what happens when the enemy still has an aircraft that can dogfight and the f35 can’t" - What happens when the aircraft that can dogfight can't even get close? What happens when the aircraft that can dogfight simply eats a high-off-boresight missile at close range? "we should have learned our lesson with the f4 phantom" - The lesson with the Phantom was "give pilots situational awareness". Most Phantoms shot down in air to air were victims of ambushes they couldn't see coming and had nothing to do with guns. The vast majority of Phantom kills were made with missile, and the Navy never added guns. "Ull have to get in close and gun kill" - And while you're wasting time trying to line up a gunshot, you eat a missile from a wingman. Or while trying to get close, you eat a high off bore axis IR missile. The situation is too dangerous to want to score a gun kill.
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Because your leaders want to keep you in the third world. They control the guns so that they can control you.
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Heh, China already made me wait in line to buy toilet paper about three years ago.
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@Jornandreja "We can't even figure out how to safely store the waste we've already produced." - we already know but regulations prevent it! "can't be safely moved." - yes, it can. There are coffins made to move nuclear waste specifically designed to safely transport it. "Solar" - doesn't work at night, weak during winters and in higher latitudes. "wind" - whacks birds to death, causes changes to climate in certain areas by taking energy out of natural winds "geothermal" - can only be done in specific types of rock and has the same problems as fracking "hydro" - you can't build dams everywhere, you're disrupting natural water cycles and even fish reproduction as they need to move upstream
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@theseekerofancienttruth3873 "A-10s can usually dodge AAA fairly easily" - Someone remind the Iraqis. "are supported by Helicopters that can hit the AAA without being hit" - Wait, what? How is a helicopter less of a target than the A-10? "The Apache/Apache Longbow and Cobra can hit the AAA with Hellfire/TOW Missiles without being hit," - And the A-10 can hit AAA with Maverick missiles. The point is, the A-10 can defend itself against AAA, but the AAA is still a threat. Which is why the losses and battle damage suffered in 1991 proved that the A-10 was simply not capable enough to deal with near-peer enemies. "US Combined Tactics are incredibly hard to counter" - And yet the A-10 suffered the bloody nose it did, and had to be pulled back to prevent more embarrassing losses. It's amazing. People come up with this tall tale of the A-10 never being against the ropes because the US has perfect hard-counters to every threat, but in real life the A-10 was pushed against the ropes. Combined tactics may be hard to counter, but A-10s are easy to shoot down. "SPA is more than capable of taking the AAA down from well behind the Front Lines" - Might as well save the jet fuel and just have the SPA bombard the intended target in the first place, then.
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@Goz86 understandable, have a nice day
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Storing fireworks next to ammonium nitrate doesn't sound like Langley, that's just the average port authority incompetence.
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 @johnmurdoch8534 And what's their plan?
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Okay. Try to demonstrate good character after getting in a kerfuffle over hate speech online like Dank did. You're here, afraid of people exercising their rights, and trying to project that fear towards others. If you were not afraid, you'd brush it aside. But no. You can't let it go. It's a mind virus that burrowed into your head and now you need to get off your chest that others are the ones afraid. You're the coward. You believe might makes right, and guns make you afraid that people will call bluff on that might by demanding an equal playing field.
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The damage is light enough that they can be repaired, though.
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No jet engine.
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@ImNoBSING "I do not mean you are far left." - Then what? Why does the far left matter? "I mean the service is in that good popularity" - Then it doesn't need to be mandatory. "The mindset is that if you do not care to put effort for your country's security, you do not deserve it either." - Okay. Does Finland allow for a person to provide for their own security? "once you get out of school and start working, it is quite hard to detach from that life. Being mandatory, it opens up for more people." - Sounds like an excuse to me. "But you do understand that training everybody to use a gun" - Using a gun is something that needs to be continuously trained. "basic tactics will make the country quite hard to conquer in the long run?" - Basic tactics will get you killed. Want to make the country hard to conquer? Train the populace to be terrorists. Make the enemy soldier suffer 20 casualties per day from suicide, like the Americans in the Middle East. Make them bleed a trillion dollars. You use basic tactics against an army, you get cut down by mortars and machine gun fire quick. "Also, do you think paid mercenaries would stick around when the real war against a large country like Russia was coming?" - You think Russia doesn't have the manpower to push through conscripts in a conventional battle? All a conventional battle would do is delay the advance until the Americans arrive. "If you mix today's peacekeeping with neo-colonizing, you are little lost" - No, you are. It's all moneyed interest. Aid and peacekeeping is leverage. "They are just killing crazy fundamentalists, doing good." - Doing good? The wars have never been good. If killing fundamentalists worked then how come the Middle East is a mess? Why does killing them only create more? You say your country sends troops to keep them fresh, to test gear and tactics. You have money, they have nothing. You have pipes, they walk miles for fresh water. Sending people to war for sport, to "test" them. And say it doesn't matter that you're killing because the people you kill are wrong. Are you sure you're not the fundamentalist?
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@ImNoBSING The only people who are offended are the ones who come at me and keep saying "No, we love being ordered around by the state!". You were the one who felt the need to tell me how much people love it. And I said, if you people love it so much it shouldn't be enforced by law. "Nicely bounced one argument as an excuse. And you did not have a job and all sorts of things to do when you were 18 years old? It is a fact that business usually goes before bush." - I don't even understand what this means because you structure your sentences in the stereotypical nordic fashion. What job? You're saying you had a job so you need mandatory service so that you can be in the military without losing your job? I don't understand what you mean. "But time-tested solution is to kill rats" - How humanitarian. "they exist because they have no good goverment or military forces to keep the region in check" - It's often the military that causes trouble. "Maybe not your foes, but many, many other peoples foes and that is why they are not liked, and thus are being killed." - How many Finish conscripts were sent to fight ISIS? "You also seem to preach ethics of bodily autonomy while totally neglecting national independency" - If you put national independency above bodily autonomy then you've paved the way for tyrants. Are you seriously arguing that people shouldn't have rights because of national independence? All the national independence will not be worth a damn in a country where the state has a claim over your body. "For our country conscription is the right choice" - Again, you claim people love to serve. So why is it the right choice? You don't need to make it mandatory. "Either stop deflecting someone elses responsibilities or study why Finland has chosen conscription.." - I'm not deflecting anything. I have picked liberty. You have picked allegiance to a state that sees you as its property.
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Private businesses doing these things "voluntarily" is common in Russia. Like the companies who were told to "volunteer" to convince their male employees to sign up for the military.
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@GeorgeNCy even if you could make the case that 50% of the time capitalism lead to dictatorships (which isn't even close to the real number), 50% is still lower than 100%. Dunno what's with anticapitalists and math, but it does explain a lot.
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Does Russia count as Europe? Su-25.
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@tutmez you... you're asking me to source the claim that Soviet grain requisition... existed? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodrazvyorstka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_grain_procurement_crisis_of_1928 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural-Siberian_method
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No, it wasn't a temporary stop to Iraqi refugees. People who had lived or visited in Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, or Syria could not enter the US unless they had a visa, and they couldn't get a visa waiver. Trump suspended entry of refugees for 120 days, and blocked refugees from Syria. Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen had travel rights blocked for 90 days. The travel ban also affected people from whatever religion. And again, in theory 88% of Muslims could enter the US because the travel restrictions were not religiously based but nationality based.
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The Russian equivalent to the A-10 is the Su-25.
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@WALTERBROADDUS You said the USMC and USN fly the same version. Yes the USMC happens to fly the C because the USMC needed replacements for their F/A-18s that take off from Navy carriers.
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@horsebee1 In Iraq the Republican Guard shot down several A-10s. So it was decided the A-10 would be used against Iraqi Army units because they had less equipment and training. Armor in aircraft is meant to delay the inevitable and allow pilots to limp back. In an age where missiles can cut aircraft in half, the fact that the two halves have armor plates around the vital components means nothing
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Russia only makes 1-2 Tu-160s per year so they NEED those old planes.
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It took months to build those lines. Whateverthey build next is a stabilization line, not a fortification.
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@Emperors_Deathangel Not true. The military didn't split and rebel. Some of the military in Crimea was absorbed into the Russian military. This happened before any civilian death, it was just a formality. Donbas was being used as a launch platform for Russian artillery. Russia uses Hamas tactics in which they shell Ukraine, then when Ukraine hits back they complain about civilian casualties. Even though it was Russia who used the Ukrainian civilians as human shields. Russian was never banned.
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Except that didn't happen, because it was about the Yanukovych deal. Yanukovych fled the country so Poroshenko became president, invalidating the discussion.
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@deidresable As if China wouldn't sanction you for Winnie the Pooh memes if they were running the world. The west tried to prevent the war by saying "stop or else" and if the "else" doesn't materialize it's useless. Have some sense.
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@Goulash45 getting guns stolen from a vehicle is a sign of sheer incompetence
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@Goulash45 Well, they're not well trained. Sorry. And I don't mind, considering it's them who enforce gun control.
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He's using 1950's flirting when 2010's flirting is borderline assault according to the left. How exactly has he remained in the DNC without them signing him up as a Republican without him noticing or something?
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Well, you didn't make it up. Someone else did. You're not seeing current events, you're parroting schizo-tier conspiracies from Substack.
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The only issue is that the only country they could feasibly sell to was... Ukraine. Trying to sell to any other country would get the shipments and money transfers seized by either the West or Russia itself.
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@VilkatisJanis But weapons shipments are monitored precisely to restrict the arming of warlords. Which is why when they do get large amounts of weapons, usually it's a country providing them. When both the West and Russia are monitoring Wagner shipments, it's incredibly difficult to move them.
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Pilots sometimes fly their aircraft into the ocean because they got disoriented. And Gaetz paid for a 17 year old to travel across state lines didn't he?
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The F-16 costs between 90-100 million if you look at recent contracts. Meanwhile the F-35A costs as low as 85 million.
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"I have become Chad, rizzler of gyatts"
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8 countries have applied with 17 showing interest.
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@novumdomine9925 UFO means Unidentifief Flying Object. They've always existed since flight was achieved, because we put stuff in the air and sometimes there's people watching who can't tell what it is. The Pentagon said that the Navy footage was real, which means it's an Air Force test that they're not allowed to identify. Thus remaining an unidentified flying object. Both of the "sides" in your story are composed of idiots. Both think UFO means alien.
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Many countries which bought Russian military equipment are complaining that they can't get spare parts anymore.
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@OscarDirlwood that's not an issue, waste processing has been solved
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@hkdoms Space isn't a perfect vacuum either. And there's a difference between proving reliable function and proving a concept works. A rocket in a vacuum chamber only needs a microsecond to prove the thrust in vacuum is real. Much like the RaLa test for the Trinity implosion device only needed to work for a fraction if a second before the explosion reached the sensors and destroyed them.
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Mearsheimer should be sat down Clockwork Orange style and forced to watch the Russian way of war. The brutality and carnage would psychologically break him. There's at least 7 suicides published publically caught by Ukrainian drones. That's how bad the war us going for Russia. They either pull the trigger on themselves or hold a live grenade next to their head. That's how they learned to adapt. Realizing that nobody is coming, and Russian healthcare will not prevent them from remaining heavily disabled.
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With every comment Donbas gets smaller at the start. Pretty sure separatists had most of Lughansk and half of Donetsk.
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They're fighting against Ukraine inside Russia. Kursk oblast has territory under Ukrainian occupation.
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@HenningYT They tried the north and got their ass kicked
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The A-10 by the way is the biggest fixed-wing user of APKWS. The cost of Hellfires from helicopters or Mavericks from fixed wing is pretty steep, so guidance kits for rockets provide a middle ground.
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Glory? Humiliation.
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Yeah except in one of those the antis were right not to trust the big corporations that made a shoddy product and only had to say "oops, my bad" after being confronted with the dogsh1t effectiveness rates.
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 @RealZekeShoots the state was governing from Moscow. Just so you know who to blame. Kinda weird you'd bring up the Holodomor and not want to go after the state that caused it.
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Dudes with Toyota pickup trucks and sandals defended themselves against US occupation in Afghanistan. It might have taken them 20 years, but they resisted.
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@DoctorCataclysm But the "crime" was committed within a single state. He did not start any crime in his home state.
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@DoctorCataclysm "It's the continuation of the crime" - It happened entirely within Wisconsin. "Him having a firearm is illegal (according to state law)" - Pretty sure loaning a rifle to a minor is not illegal in Wisconsin. There's no evidence the rifle was brought to Illinois.
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@DoctorCataclysm "it is illegal for a minor to be in possession of a firearm in both states" - But he didn't posses it in Illinois. Either way, in Wisconsin it is legal to loan a firearm to a minor.
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 @mattluke5546 Minsk was broken by Russia.
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@monadsingleton9324 That claim goes back to Shoigu in a TASS interview.
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@monadsingleton9324 Not where it matters. Russian sources have confirmed it, Ukraine has local artillery superiority.
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 @kapikoyli Hello Mehmet - Russia flies nuclear bombers into Canada and the US all the time. No need to imagine.
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@Officialbillion what does that have to do with the Odessa port issue?
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Russia confirmed it.
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Most of the population in Russia lives in St. Petersburg and Moscow, which are very "westernized".
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I heard years ago it's a GI bill trap. Sad they just run the grift rather than improve their reputation.
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The noise from the wind with the high speed flying would drown out the sounds. Tracking an IR beam would be better.
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They're not "conserving" the modern MBTs either.
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Nah. They hit a transport truck for a M777 and claimed it to be HIMARS. The video of "two" HIMARS being hit was faked. Two different videos spliced.
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It's a meme. Those soldiers posing took the photograph in Shevchenkovo, Kharkiv. Someone used photoshop to cut the outside of the posing soldiers and put them in front of the Belgorod, Russia landmark.
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Russia brave enough to fight NATO without nukes?
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Cope. Yanukovych pledged to join the EU but Putin put an embargo on Ukrainian goods, stifling their economy. Nuland had nothing to do with that.
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@LancesArmorStriking Germany had severe logistical issues that essentially defeated their army before the war started. WWII is not a good comparison.
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@LancesArmorStriking But the Soviet Union didn't have "the numbers". For most of the war the Eastern front was roughly matched, with only in in the later war did German manpower start to get depleted at a critical rate. The Soviets won through deep battle doctrine and brilliant tactics like predicting the German movements at Kursk, combined with Germany's chronic logistical problems.
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Maybe if you can convince the Brazilians. Saab alone can't make them fast enough.
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Those are not stored in the open.
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Continually sidelined from reliability issues, constantly triggering the magnetic sensors in the oil system.
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@cerbervladimirvk1534 "humanitarian aid" like the Buk launcher that was used to kill 298 people inside MH17?
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@evbbjones7 I think he's a pretty disgusting guy. His "private life" involving pressuring a significant other to have sex with others and do watersports. Hey mr conservative man, will you still not care when someone does that to your daughter? Or is it still "private life"? He made his private life public anyway! How can you even call it private?
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@CheefCoach Prop planes are actually less vulnerable to MANPADS than most think. The prop wash mixes and cools the exhaust. Unless they have an AIM-9X style pseudo-imager seeker, you're good lol
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He said gunpowder uses charcoal. We don't issue muskets anymore.
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@juliering3646 Responsibilities isn't a free pass for others to use and abuse you however they want.
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If you watched the video you'd have heard him explain the reason whythe exchange rate is misleading.
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@aeriswolfe You're literally concern trolling about tampering of evidence you know damned well didn't happen for your own personal benefit. Took an entire thread of replies for you to admit that taking down Keffals could hinder your DIY HRT. How serious does a crime have to be for you to decide that bringing the person down is more important than yourself? The reason having morals and principles is hard is precisely because it requires from us to be negatively affected when we stand for what we believe in. Protecting people because it may inconvinience you is cowardice.
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@marianog13 okay, and how many Americans went bankrupt because of the costs above their deductible and loss of income due to not working due to their medical problems? Can we account for that in the American numbers too?
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@anfrex3342 the US wrote the book on how to suppress enemy air defenses (then threw it at Iraq to great effect), and the use of a satellite weapon is a one and done. The retaliation attack on the satellite will be too late to mitigate the damage done.
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Storage buildings are actually expensive. I've seen open air storage that used rain covers and air hoses that fed dry air into the armored vehicles. Cheaper than having climate controlled buildings the size of parking lots.
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@tonywilson4713 "It already has poor maneuverability from its small wings." - Not true. Airshow performances show its maneuverability. The size of the wings is not the way to calculate wing loading on aircraft with lifting bodies. "he A10 was NEVER meant to go against ANY fighter so that's a mute point" - It's a "moot" point, mute is when someone can't talk. It doesn't matter what you intend. The A-10 is extremely vulnerable and you cannot simply hope it won't get shot down because you don't "intend" it to be.
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@scottkeenan537 you keep insisting on the melting but no melting is necessary to weaken steel. Literal fucking NPCs on all sides.
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More money is spent on healthcare than the military.
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@sheiladikshit5110 We're living in reality. Restrictions assume the vaccinated are safe and the filthy unvaxxed cannot live a normal life due to the danger they pose to others. That's reality. Maybe you should be telling this to the people in charge?
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False. In fact the GAO slammed the USAF for buying too many A-10s without justification.
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lmao Germany created an economic bubble that forced it into war/conquest and "creative accounting" to prevent collapse, it used public works like China does to inflate GDP, and projects like the "people's car" had people contribute to a factory of military vehicles without a single civilian vehicle delivered.
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Bradleys are loved by Ukrainian crews because they survive the hits, unlike BMP crews. The Patriot had the biggest redemption arc in weaponology by defending itself against an onslaught of hypersonic missiles, cruise missiles and drones.
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They also had a working prototype that could fire weapons even though the trials didn't require it, while Northrop's proposed weapons bay caused concerns for releases getting jammed and making the aircraft incapable to release any more.
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Whataboutism
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They accurately pointed out in 2014 that Russia proper had invaded Ukraine and the "separatists" had Russian army units in the midst. But everyone told them to shut up because they messed up in Iraq.
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Yes, that was the previous frame generator. Now they're advertising taking frame 1, generating 1.2 1.5 and 1.8 before 2 is ready. Three frames ahead of time.
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Delusional.
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They didn't need to stage anything to move them to Belarus. Also, Wagner killed Russian pilots...
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@noreski435 Yeah, in a game that is narrative driven why do people care about the game having garbage narrative?
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@philithegamer8265 It's not circular logic, it's a joke about how if you skip cinematics to avoid stuff one might as well just not play.
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Buddy it doesn't matter how big your army is, defender has the advantage.
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@zelenskyy-the-blackmailerh5920 how is it a provocation to strike back at the aggressor? Isn't this payback for Russia's "provocation"?
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@ciditan1615 I will be arrested due to my social media posts so obviously I can't go.
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@haozhang6247 "Aren't Saudi and Qatar close US allies?" - Your issue is that you think everyone is playing your silly "US vs China" game. I've spoken against US abuses for two decades. I guess it's projection.
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Still not integrated in the F-35. Other partner nations are working on it.
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The fuse is imprecise because it's a column of a black powder type fuel burning until it reaches the primary explosive. Even if you have a consistent mass and volume packed into the cylinder, you always have an uncertainty in the burn.
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I believe he's running 8mm BBs too because they seem to hit the targets pretty hard.
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The fight for Mariupol saved the country. Russia lost a ton of troops there.
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The other way around. The A-10 was kept alive by Arizona representatives. The A-10 was a jobs program congressmen liked to keep around.
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The F35 can fly in thunderstorms but an issue with the on board inert gas generator lead to a moratorium on flying in thunderstorms because they don't want to risk the 0.5% chance a lighting causes a fuel tank to catch fire. The supersonic restriction is only during peacetime, it's not seen in the F35A, only happened at very high altitude and when they tried to replicate the issue to figure out the cause they couldn't make it happen again. So a choice was made to not try and fix it because a different coating upgrade will probably be made in the meantime.
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If I ask to shoot paper targets in your property does it tell you I'm about to off someone?
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 @cloudnine5651 True, the pistols still need a steel slide. There are attempts, so far unsuccessful, to bolt together steel pieces laser cut from sheet steel.
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Situation assessment, more like copium administration. Just one more dose!
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But it's winter this time of year. To see the 24 hour sun this time of the year you need to go to the South where it's summer. Also it's a double whammy because many flat earthers claim it's illegal to go to the South Pole.
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If you look at a conflict map from a month ago, there's barely any movement.
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@Nightdiver20 the issue is that stopping communism by propping up an unpopular puppet head of state didn't work, and the destruction caused by the war turned many people against foreign occupation.
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 @class.C "buying a cellphone in Russia? Propaganda"
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That doesn't even make sense. Those in the fallout plume were not evacuated anyway, and couldn't. You can't just say "yeah anyone within 4000km of the disaster area? You go live elsewhere. Ask New Zealand or Argentina to take you in or whatever". This is about the evacuation radius, the radius is based on distance from the event location, not where the plume goes.
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@mikewaterfield3599 From wikipedia page on the Highway of Deah: "The attack began when A-6 Intruder attack jets of the United States Marine Corps' 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing blocked the head and tail of the column on Highway 80, bombarding a massive vehicle column of mostly Iraqi Regular Army forces with Mk-20 Rockeye II cluster bombs, effectively boxing in the Iraqi forces in an enormous traffic jam as the turkey shoot began in earnest, setting up targets for subsequent airstrikes."
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Nice word salad. You think America is the only country where politicians ever claimed to put their country first?
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That's a bad example. Constantly tacking new code to old code is bound to create problems. If anything, retaining the code base for too long is settling for "good enough" while taking the effort to do better is more in line with Deming.
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@manwithoutacountry I don't see anyone hating on motorcyclists. What I think is funny is that a motorcyclist wants four-wheel drivers to give up control so that he can enjoy two-wheel driving. It's funny because of the inherent contradiction, wanting more unmanned vehicles so that a subsection of vehicle users get more use from their manned vehicle.
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Remember when he rolled down the parade in a three wheeled motorcycle?
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Those arguments have been debunked a long time ago. Stop believing Pierre Sprey.
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EMPs are a meme, and if they weren't you wouldn't need thousands.
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@oleredwhiteandblue3613 They want something that doesn't fit the AR magwell. They want it big. They want it to be fast and be heavy. Grendel doesn't cut it.
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 @Tuck-Shop lmao Russia sent their best stuff first
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 @Yuri_Volkov two were decoys lmao
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@draw4kicks Then you can't say he knows more than scientists when the sentiment he criticized isn't shared by scientists.
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@draw4kicks He said "see you in 11 years when the world hasn't ended". By saying that he is acting like he knows better than scientists, you're essentially claiming that scientists say the world's gonna end in 11 years. Then you admitted that they don't think like that, so you've already backtracked on your initial comment. Have a very shitty day.
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@jameslynn7271 There's been two drone attacks by air on Sevastopol HQ and one by sea. The point on Hanzo's comment isn't the bases but striking during transit.
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Wishful thinking. The JF-17 already filled that space.
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Nature thrives in these areas empty of human action.
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@haiscore2614 the US lied about the number of Albanians killed.
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@everydayhero5076 if it wasn't the Treaty of Versailles, the Nazis wouldn't have been elected in the first place. The first information of the genocide to reach the outside was sent late 1940 and received by the Polish government in exile in March 1941 - for those paying attention, 1941 is after 1939, when the war began. Nobody would have been saved because the war wouldn't happen "faster" if the allies had known of the death camps earlier.
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He didn't purchase it. He was loaned one. All rifles are military style because the rifle has used every type of rifle under the sun. The AR-15 is the most commonly manufactured rifle in the US. He didn't carry it into a conflict zone. He was there to help clean up the damage, photographs during the day show him and others cleaning graffiti. Those three people who "wound up" shot attacked Kyle, and one of them nearly shot him with a Glock. Yes, there is clear video, you see him getting attacked.
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schmuck Norris I don't think you understand how a block function works.
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They have runways, but ferries would be more efficient.
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@kennethmcneil3478 According to real life. He claimed Ukraine would collapse months ago. Still hasn't.
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This is somewhat misleading. The aircraft still works, but the problem is that the older it is the more maintenance it requires. Parts become harder to come by. Using them incurs a great cost. And at some point, the airframe reaches the limit. No more flight hours. It needs to stop or it risks breaking apart mid-air.
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@j4v-cyberpunk-music The issue is that aircraft need to keep weight down considering that they need to expend energy to stay aloft. So they're built as light as possible. They are sturdy. But they are rated to tens of thousands of hours, and as they approach the limit they start to require overhauls. You could design a stout aircraft that would last forever, but the performance would be terrible due to excess weight. Yes, typically welded constructions are considered to be physically one to simplify design considerations but welds are important stress concentration areas. Especially in aircraft, which have much more stringent control than most produced goods. If you create excessive load on a welded structure the weld is the most probable location for failure. Even disregarding the weld, a solid piece will fail with cyclic loading. It's called fatigue. Spare parts often cannot be produced continuously. For example Sikorsky has stated they will not support certain parts for some ANG Black Hawks because they were produced to too old of a standard. There's multiple, more modern variants of Black Hawks that they need to support and they cannot waste time and resources dedicated to limited runs of obsolete parts when they have so much on their plate. So the ANG has to take the schematics and contract a limited production run. This is expensive. If you reach a point there's too many parts that are being contracted out the only options are cannibalizing old airframes if they exist or just retire them. Imagine asking Intel to keep producing a Pentium 3. They'd refuse.
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They do. It's called the "kitchen truth" in Russia.
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They have the domestic J-20 and FC-31, why would they need it?
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geezusispan hippies, for the most part, don't exist anymore. Most of the anti-war left dissolved when Obama entered office. Libertarians question the state's use of force and the financial cost of war.
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Their debt is low because nobody trusts them to pay back.
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A German dude landed a Cessna in the Red Square.
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Ironically girls who go on HRT (testosterone) end up improving mentally and wanting to detransition because it helped them address underlying mental issues.
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@jakeviolet2195 " If it is true that the balloon is impervious to attack, due to altitude, lack of heat signature, or whatever" - It was shot down by IR seeking missile. "they certainly as hell shouldn't have been admitting that vulnerability on TV." - lel that would make it even funnier, admit to vulnerabilities you do not have, allow enemy to try and exploit them.
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He's a pilot, not an engineer. How do you know it's more capable? The F-35 is larger than the X-35 because it has to carry weapons and fuel internally. Slimming down an aircraft means sacrificing weapons and range.
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So why did the missile volleys get more sporadic and need S-300s and Shaheds to make up for the lower volume?
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F/A-XX babeeeey!
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@PlantyLadySue That same president was called a racist when he suggested closing down international travel.
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@angreyhewe4009 "the AGM 88 has been seen shot down multiple times by air defence" - that's a lie lol they pick up the rocket motor section but never show the warhead. Because the warhead exploded on the target.
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Lots of words and not a single point raised.
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@VenomSapphire How was it fake? He pretended to be a human trafficker? So? That doesn't mean he's bad, that makes the people who cooperated with him look bad. He got caught? Okay... How does that help your case? Got funding cut? Because of the teacher's union. Okay, I really don't get your point. So he's the bad guy because he exposed people. Why is he being blamed and not the people who acted improperly during the sting and thus got the funding cut? You claim he's a fake. But all you're saying is that he exposes real people, and you're blaming HIM rather than the people who act improperly. It should be ACORN, PP and the union weeding out bad people. You can disagree with his methods. You can think he's a bad guy. But you call him a fake while describing real events.
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 @Braddeman breh the diversity stuff is being sidelined, get your talking points updated
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They were laser guided bombs, not missiles.
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It's not an empire. Poland belongs to Polish people. Estonia belongs to Estonians. Czechia belongs to the Czechs. Our former enemies on our side, shouldn't that be a good thing?
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@Puggalug Describe how it's been deceptively edited when there's uncut shots of people who work for the companies saying full sentences.
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@Puggalug I don't trust fact-checkers. They're paid propagandists. Why would a news agency hire a fact-checking service that goes against the narrative? Ever wondered that?
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Russia stagnated under Putin. And Ukraine was slowly but steadily "Westernizing" their government, their economy was held back by the separatist regions being plunged into conflict and poverty.
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Can't fly the A-10 off a carrier.
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@PinkBunnyCorporation Many AAA games are kept afloat by people from outside the gaming community.
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Nananana Hey hey Goodbyeeee
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Night vision augments ambient light and uses a near visible spectrum so you not only get visible light amplified, you also amplify light that would normally not be visible. For example, security cameras sometimes have a dull red glow, this is an IR emitter that "spills" into the visible range. So you're getting your vision augmented. Thermal vision uses a part of the IR spectrum where temperature of objects influences radiant emissions. Objects cool down through conduction, convection and radiation. You see that radiation. So in simple terms, with "NODs"/"NVGs you cannot see light that is not there, so in a basement or a really dense forest the lack of ambient light (moon, stars) will hide the enemy. You may need to betray your position with an IR illuminator. Thermal gives you Predator vision. All humans not blocking their thermal signature are an emitter of radiation, so it works even in a basement or a dense forest.
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@ericmurray2213 The common cold is caused by several different kinds of viruses so it makes sense that one won't create cross immunity for the other.
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@ericmurray2213 Not the same. If you catch the common cold from a coronavirus in a year, you can then get it from a rhinovirus or adenovirus. It's not due to rapid mutation but the fact that there's 200 different virus that can give you the common cold. Funnily enough exposure to the common cold causing coronaviruses gave a high degree of cross immunity against sars cov 2. But that's changed because Omicron is so different.
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@vfr800ification The exact same thing happened to me. I interacted with customers who had just come back from the chinese new year celebrations, got a high fever and ibuprofen + paracetamol made me feel alright and went back to work the next day because I thought it was just a flu or cold. Then later I was exposed to 5 people who were positive and didn't get sick. I probably had protection against the following strains up to Delta, because I got Omicron as soon as it popped up. And it was the exact same thing, fever for one day and then it's gone. Same as Feb 2020.
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@STGN01 Quality is not less reliable. In fact, quality increases reliability. Quality actually reduces logistics and costs. You've clearly slept through the reasons the Japanese Miracle happened, one of them was a nation that was previously known for exporting cheap goods switched gears and started to outperform others in manufacturing by focusing on quality and improvement rather than fixing after the fact. Men with AKs did not beat the high tech. They got vaporized when the high tech showed up. What happened was that deep rooted identity and ideological reasons to fight have a lot more staying power than a bastardized form of Western democracy. There's no amount of forces you could have thrown into Afghanistan to change that. You cannot win by force, unless your plan is to actually erase the population and replace it with your own. Without quality, American aircraft would have been taken out at the dozen per day. It costs more to lose aircraft and pilots than spend a little more in quality. At this point you're in denial. Quality can curbstomp quantity in real life, and you're sitting here claiming that it didn't work.
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@STGN01 I didn't switch subjects. Since when do people buy quality goods, and they break down all the time? Meanwhile, German wunderwaffen had to make do with hot garbage of materials as they had a severe lack of quality alloys. You're trying to say German late WW2 stuff was "quality" when we all knew they had problems. Breakdowns were extremely common, and one of the greatest tank killers right after fuel shortage. They fought on their own terms, and got vaporized anyway. Staying outside of M16/M4 range doesn't do anything when they have a F/A-18 on call. They won against the Afghan army, which was underpaid and undersupplied. They didn't lose "some" battles. They lost almost every battle with only a few notorious victories.
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@STGN01 "generally means" - But it doesn't. In the minds of reformers maybe it does. That's what's called begging the question, you assume the conclusion without proving it with the necessary premises. You're trying to force a false dichotomy between expensive, capable and unreliable materiel and less capable but cheap and extremely reliable materiel. The problem is, the "cheap" stuff isn't that cheap, fielding more means having to bring more fuel and train more crews, and it gets torn apart by higher quality equipment when the rubber meets the road. It's a non-stop recycling of the "4 shermans vs 1 tiger" fallacy and it needs to stop.
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lol yeah right now China is exploiting Russia hard. Ally? They'll end up as a vassal state.
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 @mw9297 So they've just been invaded and aren't even at war? Damn I didn't know they were chill like that.
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@uknwarrior7980 Severodonetsk was much worse than Bakhmut.
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"had no problem picking it up on radar" - they lost lock twice before they got a firing solution, and even then one of the two missiles fired failed to track until impact and the pilot saw it zooming past in front of him.
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@ajvanmarle A jamming pod is a homing beacon for home-on-jam missiles. The point isn't how much missiles cost, yeah they're cheap compared to airplanes, my point is that it was hard to track the F-117 and even when they could, one of the missiles lost lock by itself (the F-117 pilot did not know he was being painted by radar and did not maneuver to break lock). Look at what it took for the shootdown to happen: the Americans had to overuse the same flight routes and allow defenses to notice the pattern, Zoltán Dani made it a operational procedure to relocate radars after 40 seconds of operation to avoid losses to AGM-88 missiles, it took observers and P-18 radars to relay information about the incoming F-117 and any supporting flights, and they lucked out by detecting the open bomb bay door from 23km away. There was also confirmation that there was no SEAD support for those F-117s so Dani broke his own rules and tried a third attempt to track the target. It took several factors all combined at the same time to perform the shootdown, it was not done before and never replicated since. If jamming pods worked that well, they'd have flown over Baghdad. The fact that F-117s went in alone to start Desert Storm, while the other strike aircraft required EW and SEAD support to protect them from air defenses is proof that stealth works.
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@igorthelight they don't have interests, they just collect everything
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@igorthelight It's not about interest. Nobody has to look, it's a computer. It looks at everything.
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That's exactly how an assault is conducted across an open field. Artillery has to suppress the defensive positions, sometimes for hours at a time, and stop as soon as the advancing force gets near the trench.
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Fredrick Williams you do realize that independently of the lawsuit all the files were shared YEARS ago, right? You can find them all over the web.
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@jd-yo2is "it’s more of a horse medicine than an antiviral medicine" - We're discovering that everything from anti-depressants to otc melatonin sleep aid supplements can help. It's not more of one thing or less of the other.
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Then why do they advance at a massive cost?
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@ricksanchez9669 I know. I'm just pointing out that the reason that most hunting is done with JHP or soft points is because many cartridges and bullet designs cannot be relied on to yaw appropriately at the right depth to get that stretch cavity with FMJ. JHPs and soft points have remote wounding effects, and sometimes you even see the effect with deer that get shot in the thorax, their hind legs start off running but the front legs are paralyzed from the hit. So the reasoning with hunting can't be applied to humans and defensive pistol ammo. The reason regarding hunting has much more validity. With defensive pistol ammo, the added bleeding is a bonus but we've all been trying to search for the mythical stopping power through the scientific method and we simply can't find it.
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@ricksanchez9669 The "how fast" changes every single time that particular bullet in a particular caliber is used. Therefore stopping power is mythical, it's the unicorn we have been searching for decades. Someone shot in the chest multiple times with .40 can still have enough fight in him to shoot back, while someone shot in the pinky finger with a .22lr can drop instantly to the ground in pain. Does that mean .22lr has more stopping power?
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@ricksanchez9669 I'm not talking about exceptions. Each and every individual bullet is its own case with wildly different outcomes. That's not exception but the rule. If bodies do weird things, then stopping power is a myth. Please don't argue this with me, argue with the people who have been studying wound ballistics and pretty much say the same thing - there's no quantifiable metric for stopping power. If there are odds to be stacked, you don't have stopping power.
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The debt ceiling is meaningless, it's just a way for both sides to get concessions.
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@tedteddington6223 Why do you think Ukraine SSR left the USSR?
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I'm glad you use personal insults to signal your opinions are worthless and you're incapable of making an actual argument.
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On the Russian side? They already recruited the dregs of society and issued them a hodgepodge of Soviet gear, Iranian imports and Aliexpress combat gear. Do they have half a million uniforms?
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Can't jam INS.
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 @mystiquesquared Exactly. PvP enabled zone, sometimes they croak.
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@daburnz2 "That is Afghanistan, not the United States." - lol what? "the US government would be able to stop any resistance" - the US territory is an absolute nightmare in a COIN scenario... if you think Afghanistan is bad you should look at a map of the US. "the US police and military is too advanced for a group of citizens to put up a fight" - you mean the same US police that is too cowardly to deal with dogs and mentally ill? "They would be destroyed very quickly and would have no impact against the police." - bro remember when Chris Dorner, a SINGLE MAN, completely humiliated the LAPD during the manhunt? A police department can't even handle one determined individual swiftly, and you think they can handle a million angry residents?
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@calligansaccount "The US spends more on the military than the next 8 countries COMBINED" - which means that as soon as the US becomes involved in a war and stops being the economic powerhouse, soldiers will stop getting paid really quick. That's like bragging your car has worse gas mileage, it can't last a LeMans. Or like a huge bodybuilder with no cardio who gets tired after two punches.
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@Green Oscar it warms my heart whenever the anti-gun people expose themselves as bloodthirsty bootlickers who wish for the US govt to nuke its own people.
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Above MANPAD range you're in SAM range. Layered defense. High drag bombs wouldn't do, Ukrainians won't fly over enemy positions with the Frogfoot. Too dangerous.
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Military aid comes slowly because it takes time to plan, refurbish, train and ship.
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"LifeLog"
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@khoipham8303 It restores energy easy. Pilots say a F-16 has to use afterburner to keep up with dry thrust F-35s.
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 @jmackmcneill That's only true up to a point. There are bottlenecks such as the sensors used.
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All aircraft runs on software these days.
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@Tomyironmane The USMC variant will do shorter hops. Forget the gun. They'll be dropping bombs like artillery, and fly back to load more to drop where they're needed. They're not going to waste time trying to strafe anything, they'll be responding to calls for fire from the ground and taking out more important assets.
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@kylekillgannon In many countries if you see an accident on the highway you are required by law to insert yourself in the situation and provide help despite no qualifications.
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Land will be there when Russia leaves.
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The national guard regiment? Or the defunct paramilitary which hasn't existed in years?
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"Delta or not, that's a hot weapon" - Black Hawk Down
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 @TokyoTaisu They'd have to get paid wages which defeats the purpose of automation.
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@cemo3292 Patriots have stopped most missiles from Yemen, only a few went through.
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@cemo3292 Ukraine uses the S-300 because that's what they had.
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Bro living in the Chrysler building
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Based Local58 reference
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Russia spent two decades polluting the internet with "ROSSYIA STRONK" propaganda.
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History Legends is pro-Russia.
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Do you also go on Russian language videos calling them warmongers for starting the war?
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@blugaledoh2669 " I suspicious of any claim that Ukrainian crewmen are somehow better" - It's not as simple as crewmen being better. The Russia killchain is more rigid which means fire missions can arrive with hours of delay. Bombardments last for longer than they should based on doctrine. Crews may not get the orders to stop so they keep shelling a grid that's been abandoned.
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@phodacbitch Congratulations on missing the point. The chip isn't in the vaccine. You're chipped to prove you are immune. Did you watch Contagion like everyone else did during quarantine? In the end they have bracelets to identify the immune and Matt Damon needs to show it to get inside the mall to buy his daughter a prom dress. Well, Laurence Fishburne gave his vaccine to the janitor's kid but wore the bracelet despite not being immune. Literally jamming the RFID chip into your skin with your information would make it more difficult for people to break protocol even if they wanted to pry it out.
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@TK-hw2ph "the more durable" - Maybe in the 1970s. A Tunguska will shred an A-10 apart, and even those ones have been superseded by Pantsirs. "is slower making it more reliable for CLOSE air support" - This comes from an antiquated thought process. Fast moving aircraft made it difficult to maintain visual with targets for the re-attack when flying low. However, technology has improved. Pilots can now use mark points to "save" known enemy positions that make it easier to retain visual or even be able to pay attention to other threats without having to lose track of where they need to drop ordnance. In fact, the modern helmet used by A-10 pilots has the feature where they can look outside HUD limits and pin down mark points without having to point the aircraft or input coordinates manually. During the A-7D vs YA-10 flyoff the pilots thought the A-7D was the superior aircraft for unrestricted visibility flight conditions but the YA-10 had the upper hand when they were forced to fly low due to cloud ceiling. If that flyoff was done today with modern tech, the A-7D would have the upper hand with unrestricted visibility and no downsides if forced to fly low thanks to no worries about losing visual. "Even F16’s are often moving too fast for their targeting pods to be useful" - Uh, what? You don't have to fly straight past the target point and lose it, you can orbit around while looking through the pod as long as you stay within gimbal limits. Yes, it's a soda straw view from above, but that's why CAS has ground controllers for. Either way, the A-10 relies extensively on the targeting pod too. "Bombs usually cannot be used inside of 3-400 meters" - The A-10 is actually the biggest fixed-wing user of APKWS. The 2.75" rocket has a much lower danger radius than a 500lb bomb.
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@TK-hw2ph "A10 pilots regularly descend below AAA max altitude, which might say more about the pilots confidence in their AC" - This very video presentation sources the documents that state that A-10s were restricted from flying below 12,000ft during certain periods of time. "a hit from a Tunguska is going to be in trouble" - That's the thing. You don't take a single hit, you get hosed. The problem with the A-10 topic is that many want to drag the conversation down to the GWOT conditions when we're not sure these can be maintained. A Saudi F-15 was shot down in Yemen by an air-to-air missile jerry rigged to a trailer with a commercial FLIR system on top. While the "MANPADS threat" of the 2000s was overstated because the 80s Stingers were mostly smuggled internationally or outright broken, we're now reaching a point where even insurgency forces may try something new.
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@TK-hw2ph The MANPADS found in insurgent hands were mostly broken after decades of no maintenance so despite the initial worry the threat never materialized. The Tunguska fires a shell almost the same size as the GAU-8. If you're assuming that several impacts of those bad boys are not going to cause the A-10 to rip itself apart mid-air I want some of what you've been smoking. The A-10s critical components being protected doesn't mean much when the actual structure holding everything together is weakened. And A-10s won't adequately provide any support on any scenario that isn't the GWOT due to how dangerous the environment will be.
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Bringing up historical events when you get defeated on the discussion about current events is nonsense. I'll pull back as many centuries you want, I'll find beef.
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@karldavis7392 Oh wow, still looking for Russians under the bed after 4 years.
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@Youtubegoblin23 Grain that doesn't sell restricts supply, which causes the rest of the grain in the world to shoot up in price. Although the grain is not being donated, it causes prices to drop globally.
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@Valorius "you can start with zero hedge" - Zero Hedge is an admittedly pro-Russian website.
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Okay, but you do understand the guy who doesn't have the money will swear he'll get you the money when you show up to his house with a baseball bat, right? When judging Russia's economy from the outside, you don't have the tools to audit them so you have to use indirect means. When telling you about their own economy, Russia will say everything's fine. You never take their word for it.
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No. IFF will tell you that a contact is sqwaking correctly, but will not prevent you from telling the radar to lock.
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It's like driving a car and becoming a movie stunt driver. A few weeks you learn to drive, you'll need a stunt driving course to learn the "dangerous" stuff.
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@kingdong7517 How does it endanger anyone? If you took the shot, you should be good. ...Right?
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And Russia's Wagner mercenaries? Or Redut, Rusich, etc? Ever heard Alexey Milchakov, founder of Rusich, claim that he gets hungry when he smells human flesh? Those are the people you support.
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If I recall correctly someone asked the ATF to clarify their position.
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@kawkasaurous And the biggest wave of concern for Dresden was after Kurt Vonnegut's book Slaughterhouse Five was released decades later. Where the author overestimated the Dresden casualties by a factor of 5x (125k vs 25k). I'm sure those who went through the Blitz did not think too hard about Dresden nor did they have the mass media to get the gory details.
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@lastjob2011 You have no argument so you start bringing up unrelated subjects. Of course, I click on a Sam Seder video and people are simping for an unethical biotech company that is ran like a silicon valley startup. As expected.
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 @NathanDrake0410 Fun fact, the Western world uses feet in aviation, because of the nautical heritage. China, former Soviet countries, etc are the ones that use metric for altitude.
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@simonkevnorris Nonsense. Cruise missiles fly low. Ballistic missiles fly high. Russian cruise missiles like the Onyx, Kalibr, etc fly low while Iskanders, S-300 set for ground attackn etc fly high.
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Bruh Russia does the exact same as China, they have that online content farm (Glavset I think?). If you want to complain about western propaganda, at least do it right. Our propaganda is like "Russia bad, look at war" but Russian propaganda has the trollfarms of people paid to post crazy stuff, like staged war crimes, claiming Ukraine is welding soldiers shut inside their tanks so they can't surrender, hyping up their weapons, claiming that Europe is freezing, etc.
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Exactly. This terrible waste is why we need to end the Russian state.
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Even without the added weight I think it would have crashed anyway due to the downwash hitting the solid wall.
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@lunaokittens9574 The helicopter was hovering over the area when it suffered a loss of lift due to the vortex ring state. It grazed a wall while "crashing". He knew the wall was there, he just couldn't do anything about it.
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@war1980 the USAF does not fail at close air support. They dedicate half their fleet to it. A-10s don't even perform most of CAS. F-16s and Strike Eagles are used more often.
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They're losing? The only place they were getting beat was Bakhmut and they just countered there.
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 @CJ-gt2qi He didn't defend himself. He ambushed Zim Zam and took him down.
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A third of the 146 million Americans who had it now have a disability? Please look into how many of the people claiming long covid cannot prove they were ever infected.
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 @ashfield1425 Producing weapons = pulling T-55s out of storage?
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@CulturedThugPoster "anons" were cringe moralfriends. Project Chanology was funny, but also moralfriending at it's core. Everything Anon did after that became more and more cringe "le anarchist V for Vendetta man".
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temporarysanity and the purpose was to normalize cigarette use among kids. Does everyone on tgis god forsajem cyberspace think analogies are direct comparisons? For fuck's sake!
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South Korea does not use that pattern.
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Why? Do you miss all the children he killed with drone strikes?
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Those deaths are at the hands of a malicious system that rejected the notion of ending international travel and then told people to stay home until they got critical. We know exactly how this disease kills and who are the vulnerable. They sent infected people to nursing homes. Don't come here and number the deaths because the people in charge killed them. And I will not obey the orders of murderers.
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@andybing4974 cope. The Russian army is pushing daisies and all they have now are civilians and prisoners.
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Faster to shoot and scoot on the road. But journalists call everything HIMARS amyway, just like every AT missile was a Javelin.
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The UK looked into psych evals and determined they're useless. Unless a person has a pattern of behavior (that would exclude them from obtaining a gun in the first place) the person doing the psych eval has to depend on the interviewee being honest. People would pass their psych evals and tell others how to be prepared to pass them. A psych eval is simply a hurdle that discourages those who know they'd have trouble passing, it's not an actual active measure.
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Improved fuel chemistry and geometry, better aerodynamics, more efficient control algorithms.
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😤😤😤 I am going to call the Ghost of Kiyiyiyiyv to put an end to this nonsense
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@Ghost-hs6qq It's a joke based on other comments.
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The former head of Roscosmos, Rogozin, got into twitter fights with Elon instead of doing his job and later had to admit he couldn't launch satellites due to western sanctions.
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If Ukraine can't even hold Severodonetsk, how will they retake Kharkiv and Kherson? Oh wait...
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@SomeoneGreenPlane Journalists don't get a free pass to break the law. Just saying.
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@wokeaf1337 That's correct. The people who just walked around the building got off easy. It was the ones who broke into offices and tried to take files and devices that got hit with the severe charges.
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Russia barely advanced past Donetsk city, a location they control since 2014.
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They're more adaptive, but you have to create the situations for them to adapt to and make them run that situation thousands of times until they get it right. If a real machine in the real world comes across an unforseen situation it must stop itself, rather than attempt to crash in real life a thousand times.
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@joaquinlechen8611 Yeah, I wasn't there at the night of conception because I'm not a perv. This accusation is not the own you think it is. This wasn't about rules until I saw people defending this to the death, and then bragging about their own children as a way to defend the movie.
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@there_was_a_2453 Compression artifacts blend pixels together. The blending of the dark areas in the knot will create dark lines following the engraving.
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@The.Drunk-Koala a JPEG is an image format, the file extension .jpg. It is known for not being a very high quality format.
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 @Balalaika74 Bro just because GG was a psyop that doesn't mean the guy who annexed his own country (wtf) was good. Dude spoiler alerted everyone with his book.
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Because the ACR was a flop.
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The UK thought about doing the test but they figured it was useless. Not only people "game" the test but they also knew they did not have the money nor the infrastructure to put all gun owners through tests. Plus someone failing the test didn't mean they would be violent, and someone passing the test didn't mean they weren't. Mental illness is a bad predictor of violence.
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@rinxnix brain scans only show physical damage
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@fumbiadegbesan5571 mental illness is a bad predictor of violence. Just because someone has been diagnosed with anxiety they shouldn't be able to own guns?
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First, people are directed to react content and not the originals because of recommendation algorithms. Established creators will have more eyeballs on their videos than someone who just posts online. That in no way means that people wanted to see the reaction instead of the original, they were simply not given the choice. Second, copyright is a lot more than a revenue protection scheme. An author has the right to control redistribution. Even if the copyright holder is making zero money off something they can block reuploads.
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@cookiecola5852 Your country is your country. Energy is dependent on conditions. Countries with less sunlight hours and bad weather can't rely on solar. Countries with few rivers can't just rely on hydro.
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@davidford3115 "water moderated reactors are fail-safe is because when you boil off the water" - until it becomes fail-deadly if something prevents the steam from condensing "you remove the moderating fluid" - No. You remove the fuel itself. "High temperature does not stop reactions, it actually makes it MORE likely to detonate" - LFTR reactors have a negative temperature coefficient of reactivity.
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Those drones have been shot down by inferior foes. They're sitting ducks.
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I'm not into bikes but I'll check it out, thanks for the recommendation.
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It's not their politics if the US is backing it.
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 @saimori7372 the thing is that the rest of the world is like "yeah we're in a recession" and China is like "RED DRAGON STILL RISING, YOU WILL ALL BOW DOWN TO BEIJING"
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It was occupied by Russian troops during the Tsardom, thus making it part of the Russian empire. It was made the capital of the Ukranian Republic after 1917.
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Wrong. Fighter pilots were flashed with single frames of enemy fighter aircraft and they could identify the aircraft type up to 240 fps.
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Ground attackers like the Su-25 aren't "feared" any more than the Su-25 fears the troops it targets. Fire rockets into the air, turn back and run away home to avoid eating a missile.
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There's no buffer zone with Finland in NATO.
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Very noble of Putin to send Russian men 17-65 to be sacrificed for his palaces.
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@chiron13 "Ukrainian jets have long been destroyed" - They're still flying.
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@chiron13 "Could you please care to explain what "defeated kinetically" means?" - If you need to know, then why are you trying to explain SAMs to other people? Missiles have a finite amount of energy in them. If you turn away, the missile is forced to waste energy to predict your movement. Turn the opposite way, now the missile has to waste even more energy. By the time the missile is close, it won't have enough energy to turn. If you launch a HARM and turn back, the missile first has to travel dozens of miles, lose speed, and then run out of steam before it can reach the aircraft.
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Botski
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I too applaud politicians for having knee jerk reactions and acting without even a debate.
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It will come out the same day Anita Sarkeesian finishes Tropes Vs Women.
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I want an aircraft that makes the enemy feel nothing. Because he doesn't exist anymore. If you're feared, it just means you kept failing at your job.
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Reagan didn't introduce supply side economics, policies like that date back to Woodrow Wilson.
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Didn't he also threaten to nuke gun owners?
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@Juho221 Kaliningrad's existence is in itself colonialism but it's not worth discussing it.
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 @KenHicksJr Address the argument rather than deal in platitudes.
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"The guy in Las Vegas wouldn't have killed nearly as many people if he had used knives instead of guns" - the problem is that knives are not a proper mass casualty event weapon. Compare it to a truck bomb or something. Either way, the attackers in France also got their hands on guns so... when someone has money you can't easily stop them because funding gets weapons. "would have been as dramatic without the policies Australia put in place." - that's actually very debatable. De Leo, Dwyer, Firman & Neulinger,[47] studied suicide methods in men from 1979 to 1998 and found a rise in hanging suicides that started slightly before the fall in gun suicides. As hanging suicides rose at about the same rate as gun suicides fell, it is possible that there was some substitution of suicide methods. It has been noted that drawing strong conclusions about possible impacts of gun laws on suicides is challenging, because a number of suicide prevention programs were implemented from the mid-1990s onwards, and non-firearm suicides also began falling.[48] Baker, Jeanine; McPhedran, Samara (18 October 2006). “Gun Laws and Sudden Death: Did the Australian Firearms Legislation of 1996 Make a Difference?”. British Journal of Criminology. 47 (3): 455–469.doi:10.1093/bjc/azl084. Suicide reduction from firearm regulation is disputed by Richard Harding in his book “Firearms and Violence in Australian Life”[49] where, after reviewing Australian statistics, he said that “whatever arguments might be made for the limitation or regulation of the private ownership of firearms, suicide patterns do not constitute one of them” Harding quoted international analysis by Newton and Zimring[50] of twenty developed countries which concluded at page 36 of their report; “cultural factors appear to affect suicide rates far more than the availability and use of firearms. Thus, suicide rates would not seem to be readily affected by making firearms less available.“ Harding, Richard (1981). Firearms and Violence in Australian Life. Perth: University of Western Australia Press. p. 119. ISBN 0 85564 190 8 Newton, George; Zimring, Franklin (1968). "Firearms and Violence in American Life” (PDF). Report Submitted to the National Commission on the Causes & Prevention of Violence. Retrieved 8 February 2016. In 2005 the head of the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Don Weatherburn,[51] said that the level of legal gun ownership in NSW increased in recent years, and that the 1996 legislation had little to no effect on violence. Professor Simon Chapman, former coconvenor of the Coalition for Gun Control, complained that his words “will henceforth be cited by every gun-lusting lobby group throughout the world in their perverse efforts to stall reforms that could save thousands of lives”.[52] Weatherburn responded, “The fact is that the introduction of those laws did not result in any acceleration of the downward trend in gun homicide. They may have reduced the risk of mass shootings but we cannot be sure because no one has done the rigorous statistical work required to verify this possibility. It is always unpleasant to acknowledge facts that are inconsistent with your own point of view. But I thought that was what distinguished science from popular prejudice.”[53] Weatherburn, Don. “Statistics and gun laws”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 November 2005. Accessed 10 August 2010 In 2006, the lack of a measurable effect from the 1996 firearms legislation was reported in the British Journal of Criminology. Using ARIMA analysis, Dr Jeanine Baker and Dr Samara McPhedran, researchers with the International Coalition for Women in Shooting and Hunting (WiSH), found little evidence for an impact of the laws on homicide, but did for suicide.[54] Baker, Jeanine; McPhedran, Samara (18 October 2006). “Gun Laws and Sudden Death: Did the Australian Firearms Legislation of 1996 Make a Difference?”. British Journal of Criminology. 47 (3): 455–469.doi:10.1093/bjc/azl084. Subsequently, a study by McPhedran and Baker compared the incidence of mass shootings in Australia and New Zealand. Data were standardised to a rate per 100,000 people, to control for differences in population size between the countries and mass shootings before and after 1996/1997 were compared between countries. That study found that in the period 1980–1996, both countries experienced mass shootings. The rate did not differ significantly between countries. Since 1996-1997, neither country has experienced a mass shooting event despite the continued availability of semi-automatic longarms in New Zealand. The authors conclude that “the hypothesis that Australia’s prohibition of certain types of firearms explains the absence of mass shootings in that country since 1996 does not appear to be supported… if civilian access to certain types of firearms explained the occurrence of mass shootings in Australia (and conversely, if prohibiting such firearms explains the absence of mass shootings), then New Zealand (a country that still allows the ownership of such firearms) would have continued to experience mass shooting events.”[58] McPhedran, Samara; Baker, Jeanine (2011). “Mass shootings in Australia and New Zealand: A descriptive study of incidence”. Justice Policy Journal. 8 (1). A 2008 study on the effects of the firearm buybacks by Wang-Sheng Lee and Sandy Suardi of The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne studied the data and concluded, “Despite the fact that several researchers using the same data have examined the impact of the NFA on firearm deaths, a consensus does not appear to have been reached. In this paper, we re-analyze the same data on firearm deaths used in previous research, using tests for unknown structural breaks as a means to identifying impacts of the NFA. The results of these tests suggest that the NFA did not have any large effects on reducing firearm homicide or suicide rates.”[60] Lee, Wang-Sheng; Suardi, Sandy (2010). “The Australian Firearms Buyback and Its Effect on Gun Deaths”. Contemporary Economic Policy. 28(1): 65–79. doi:10.1111/j.1465-7287.2009.00165.x. "The reality is that stricter gun laws usually result in fewer gun deaths." - not really. Plenty of country with strict gun control laws like Brazil or Mexico have strict gun control laws and gun homicide is rampant. https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/does-strict-gun-legislation-reduce-violent-crime-in-latam/ "In short, a regulated approach may reduce gun ownership and have an impact on petty crime and casual violence, but gun legislation alone will do little to reign in the criminal groups responsible for the rampant violence in the region’s most murderous areas."
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Why?
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.280 British would have been replaced by a lighter cartridge anyway. It's like 7.62x39, 5.45 is just better.
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@jakeq3530 The famous strategy of losing 4 generals in 3 weeks.
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@dependent-wafer-177 They can. The problem is that you don't break agreements. You buy a Patriot and clone it, you'll also be cut off from the F-35, F-16 and attack helicopter parts. Turkey wasn't jus kicked out of the F-35 program, they were also punished in other aspects. Never bite the hand that feeds you.
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The 300k are the new Third Army Corps. Kadyrovites are on Russian TV saying that Russia must mobilize again.
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@Pnumi I don't understand. A Kadyrovite went on TV to say they need to mobilize again for Ukraine. Why are you writing nonsensical fanfiction?
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It's almost the full video, troll
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Norm is the narcissistic here.
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It "was", but people started using it as a serious dating app. So there's a ton of people who don't want hookups in there.
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Not for long.
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@bluefmi "it's not normal to take a rifle and go and kill someone you never met. but it is necessary in war" - War is horrible and nobody who doesn't want to fight should be forced to. "me, personally, i have no problem if you have large meetings. with the small condition that you sign that you give up on ALL your demands towards the medical system for the next 6 months." - I'll agree if the people who make this agreement also get to stop paying all taxes to the government.
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There was a explosion and it started smoking like a new Pope had been selected. It went down.
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They already have.
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If Russia wasn't running out of missiles why did they switch to Shaheds?
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Stop. Even federal data has shown that entering the building and offering resistance has over 30% chance of ending the shooting through the shooter turning the gun on himself. The policy is to engage the shooter as soon as possible thanks to their own cowardice.
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@lilchinesekidchen "bruh it’s just called “russia” now" - way to miss the point. Russia is not anticapitalist. Which is why I mentioned the USSR. Get it now?
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Patrick Lancaster steaks bodies from morgues and stages scenes. He's a literal war criminal.
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T-62s are used in frontline duties. Two were destroyed a couple of weeks ago
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+Josh88 actually we can disagree because if you look it up several studies performed by the university of melbourne, australian institute of criminology, papers published in the british journal of criminology, etc question the narrative of gun control having done anything because Australian gun deaths were declining for decades before, suicides were declining due to early 90's suicide prevention campaigns and mass shootings also became scarce in New Zealand about the same time despite of the fact that they did not ban semi-autos. The reality is that Australian gun ownership today has surpassed pre-Port Arthur levels and more guns haven't lead to more death.
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Pretty sure that the UK is closing ranges where 50 cal can be used. Last I heard there were 3 ranges where you could shoot 50 cal so justifying that license is getting harder.
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@Chris G Maybe 30 years ago. Modern Block 70/72 F-16s cost 120-140 million.
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wannabchomsky Okay but they pay payroll tax, no? When people are employed through their business (including people at the management level) they pay income tax, no? When they build, they're giving construction companies business, no? This means people working for construction companies get paid. They're contributing by paying money directly to others. Meanwhile taxes waste your money on bombing the shit out of middle eastern countries and lining the pockets of politicians, with only a few pennies on the dollar making it to public infrastructure.
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wannabchomsky Oh my fucking god you don't even know what a payroll tax is. Ahahahahahaha. Oh lord you aren't even knowledgeable about the topic.
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Worked really well in Kharkiv. Let's see this rubber band fly beyond the Urals and never come back.
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Literally everyone shilling their own brand of propaganda and saying it's unbiased.
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100k recruits? What happened to the other 200k?
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@cranberryeater7459 This is a troll, right? Why would your child be at risk?
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The problem is that the healthcare system in the US isn't capitalist and thus there can't be any competition able to undercut those prices. Capitalist goods, despite having their prices set at the highest people are willing to pay, tend to drop in price. Computers used to cost millions of dollars and now we have smartphones that cost a hundred dollars that are thousands of times more powerful than those expensive computers were. Why is a procedure that costs 20,000 not dropping to 200 dollars, if capitalism made prices drop?
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Snowden intended to whistleblow. This guy was just showing off to friends. Is the word "hero" so cheap these days?
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ENEMY. RIFLEMAN. 100.
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FLAiR does an entertainer stop being one if he doesn't entertain you? Does a parachute ("protect from fall") stop being a parachute if you sprain your ankle on landing?
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"Why is there an ammo shortage? Because I shot it all!" - Rick Taylor, 2013
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Blackwater were babysitters for CEOs and infrastructure. They were never combat troops.
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Key factor you're ignoring, if you can spread there's no justification for mandates or passports. Every source? You looked at what, two? And one of them was quoting the other?
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A "catfight" was already slang for two women fighting.
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Ukies seem fast learners, and their SAM crews usually have college degrees.
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@DavidRichardson153 "Only the F-35 was having its fleet built as it was being tested" - the F-22, F-14, F-15, F-16, F/A-18, C-17, T-45 and B-1B also had concurrency, aka they entered low rate initial production before initial operational testing and evaluation. "but every general and admiral in the DOD has connections - often close and sometimes personal - to defense contractors and weapons manufacturers" - you're preaching to the choir. This is external to the F-35 design. Even getting a freaking road built involves government connections to the private sector. "they aren't marketed as all-purpose fighters" - whaaaaat? "the Eurofighter and Typhoon planes are not designed or sold as long-range fighters/attackers but as quick response defense craft" - I really don't understand what's being implied here, just like the F-16 was the "low" to the F-15's "high" the F-22 and F-35 are a "high-low" combo. "Also, citing the F-14D doesn't help you." - good thing I didn't, because I said F-16D. My comment remains unedited if you want to look.
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Not true. The Ho 229 was not stealth and the F-117 has nothing to do with the flying wing design. You meant the B-2.
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Several Japanese cities burned to the ground conventionally. It didn't succeed.
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@YouDreamItILiveIt There's foreign volunteers in Russian forces too...
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 @Anfallhund Yes. Ever played Missile Command? The point of the game is that even if you play perfectly you still lose.
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By his logic, you can't exactly blame the Allies for causing so much destruction to Germany. There's choice people who can be pointed to as near genocidal (like Bomber Harris) but WWII was not a genocide against Germany or Japan for that matter. You want to judge the Allies for daring to stop Germany, you do you boo.
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It was a legal strike (military HQ stuffed full of Quds force shadow warriors) on an annex.
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Soviets had dedvoschina, which happens to this day in Russia.
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Combat medical supplies are priced fairly. A military-spec tourniquet for example is 35 bucks. Western soldiers often carry 3-4 if they can. A pack of combat gauze with quick-clotting agent is between 25-65 bucks depending on size and brand.
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+fanOmry notice that some of those legs in the pictures shown were bare. Without clothing, there's no wick effect and the legs are hard to burn like in a crematorium.
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We literally have footage.
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@DemonofHeavenXBL "It deliberatley only showed bits from the tanker mission that was actually there and playable. MGS 2 is a choice to OMIT" - An E3 2001 trailer shown Snake fighting Fortune and sneaking in Arsenal Gear.
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@TheFacialHairsBeardy wasn't it proven nvidia was holding onto cards for artificial scarcity and dumped them onto partners once the crypto rush died?
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Crazy how bots never stop talking about the slow pace advance but Ukraine retakes entire regions in weeks.
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Not really. You'd still have the massive problem with resource allocation in a system without profit motive.
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That reminds me of the translated screenshot of posts in a Russian 4chan style website. One posted a picture of a B-52 flying over Iraq and the text "now I understand how f'ing powerful the Americans are. They can just show up on the other side of the world and f everyone".
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I don't know what's better, the implication that flying for the right cause makes one invulnerable, or the fact that the F-16 pilot also flies for a state that denies the Armenian genocide.
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@derkatzenfuerst6077 Batteries don't work with combustion. Of course they do not need to carry oxidizer.
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@derkatzenfuerst6077 "a plane using hydrogen / oxygen combustion engines only has to carry half of its fuel" - Oxygen isn't the fuel, it's the oxidizer. The point is, when we calculate the energy densities of a fuel, we include the result of the energy released by the breaking of the O2 double bond without including its mass or volume. So there's no "hidden" advantage. "When using batteries you need more energy on board to compensate for that fact." - But no, you don't. It's already compensated for. Same as automobiles, we compare fossil fuels to batteries by assume the energy released from oxygen is already in the fuel tank.
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Free thinker, gets his news from RT and Tass lol
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Because Ukraine is at home, Russia is abroad. Russia has to project power away from their borders to remain in Ukraine, and that requires assets. Ukrainians are in Ukraine, even if their assets are destroyed.
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@rigelbound6749 "they're practically the same but different" kappa
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David ben Mesecke so, people who question Israel's behaviour and it's conception at the hands of violent militias performing ethnic cleansing of Arabs, are Nazis?
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David ben Mesecke how is Palestine genocidal? So overreacting with a nuclear retaliation in an attempt to wipe out Arabs would not be a genocide?
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@Mancada100 The Phantom was designed as a naval interceptor first - where a gun would be useless because it's main job was intercepting bombers before they got in range to fire anti-ship missiles - and then forced to be a multirole. Multirole aircraft have guns because they are still used as strafing weapons.
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@leecutler1527 It's not an air superiority fighter. The articles saying it couldn't dogfight were hitpieces by known lunatic David Axe.
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Who audits the auditors?
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The depleted uranium armor is secret tech, the US does not export Abrams with that armor. Since the Abrams in storage are domestic, they need to have the uranium replaced by tungsten.
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@kamischarougen4580 that's riddiculous. Capitalism can exist with no debt and no consumerism.
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Russia is a very procedural country. If you force them to join without the country being at war, that's technically illegal. Nobody would get in trouble, but the families would write letters of complaint to the prosecutor's office and Wagner would eventually let them go. Make it volunteer only, tell the young guys who get letters of authorization from their family, etc. and there's no responsibility if they die.
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Okay, which countries are buying massive orders of Russian aircraft?
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They've declared the bridge to be a target months prior. Even if someone else did it, the memes were ready.
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The situation in Crimea cost the Russian federation billions. Maxim Katz, Russian opposition, made the argument that the seizure of Crimea was a net drain on Russia's economy.
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@Bayethe Billions spent on homelessness every year - no result.
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@jgonzalez20 two words: Banqiao Dam One hydroelectric accident killed more people than Fukushima and Chernobyl put together.
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@emcollier okay but the scientific method is coming up with an hypothesis and then testing it. You look for the outcome you want, and then reality either proves it or disproves it.
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@martingrundy5475 mind that you spend several paragraphs saying absolutely nothing. "You do NOT simply look for the outcome you want, Titanium Rain. LOL. That is not how science is done at all." - you're completely misrepresenting my words.´ "In fact, ANY reasonable scientist at all will spend an inordinate amount of time and effort attempting to disprove his own testing, methodology and also results. That is part of the integrity required to do science." - this is exactly what I said. Stop trying to pretend to be smart. Pretty ironic you mention Dunning Kruger.
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@dragonnight2796 exactly what I meant, thank you.
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@iafigueroa91 It's not really hindsight if you've been criticizing the war all along.
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@Joe_Friday oh, right.... Sure, if you have an outer layer that is more reflective and a layer underneath that is thermally resistant you can increase the time it takes for the missile laser to breach sensitive components. However this would weight the missile down and make it possible for the escaping aircraft to then use maneuvering to defeat the missile's energy. So basically on-board defensive lasers would force missile technology to go back a few decades, when less efficient chase algorithms and less efficient rocket motors made missiles less "energetic".
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@Joe_Friday I really don't know. Apparently the ship-borne AN/SEQ-3 laser can destroy a missile with 2 seconds of firing of a 30 kW laser. If we look at the size of a 30kW generator it's not that big and could probably be driven by the shaft on the jet engine. I looked it up and the F-35B pulls 14,000-26,000 kW (depends on the website making the claim, I suppose the true number isn't openly discussed or has changed multiple times) from the F135 engine into a shaft that drives the lift fan. So unless someone got the units wrong, it's perfectly possible for an aircraft to power a defensive laser by taking power from the engine. I think the real challenge here is the mounting of a laser that can provide almost 360º coverage and still be aerodynamic/stealthy. A turret would give the most flexibility but also create extra drag and ruin stealth.
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@Joe_Friday I googled for "anti missile laser" and got the AN/SEQ-3 as the first result. Apparently the reason why they're smaller than expected is because we're no longer using chemical lasers but solid state lasers which are more efficient and safer. Then I googled for how much the lift fan pulls from the F-135 engine because I knew it's a system that takes a large amount of energy away from the shaft on the jet engine. Comparing the numbers, 30kW seems doable.
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@FUCKYOUTUBEANDITSIDIOTICHANDLE Sure, and show the world Russians are murderers who get mad when they start losing. Then the rest of the world has a very serious issue to consider: game theory. When someone dangerous is allowed to live, you fear you might be the next one to die. Why wouldn't everyone get together and remove the player from this deadly game?
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@FUCKYOUTUBEANDITSIDIOTICHANDLE Russia doesn't bless, it curses.
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Zelensky can only work with what he has. Putin is the one who has the power to start and stop the war. Ukraine cannot go on the offensive and invade Russia. Making a video with the opposite perspective would be pointless.
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The documents literally state Russians suffered 43k KIA and Ukrainians 17k KIA. Are you out of your damn mind? Do you undestand the number 1 is smaller than the number 4? Because you seem confused.
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@dragonsystems5973 yes, the blatant targeting of civilians was unecessary. Especially in Europe, since the Reich fought to the bitter end, making all the civilian deaths useless.
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There's a difference between giving animals something that's SUPPOSEDLY safe just to make sure, and torturing animals. Please, do point the finger at which one of us had their lives saved by sand flies digging into a dog's head. Name us and shame us. How many of us benefitted from this? Tell us.
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But the BS isn't making money. At least on sales. So someone has a political agenda. If there wasn't they could have made it so that gaming should be more male and white, after all if politics don't matter....
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@junglegem Because many of the components were built using outdated methods used by skilled workers that already retired and died. Trying to remake the old Saturn V would cost more than simply starting from scratch with a modern design.
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@Commie 1776 "I've studied the subject for most of my life, so I know what I'm talking about" - last time I talked to a your kind I was called a conspiracy theorist for bringing up the fact that Nazis started digging up their own mass graves and burning the bodies when they came across Soviet mass graves and realized that holes in the dirt don't hide evidence of crimes. Just one of your "experts" who called bs on a well documented historical event, and who stopped replying after I linked the sources. The funny thing is, he actually said that if that was true then Russia would have admitted the event was real after the breakup of the USSR. I pointed out that for the sake of easing tensions, the Soviet Union admitted to Poland the massacre was real and happened... before the breakup. in 1989. Embarrassing. Unfortunately we were shotgunning topics at each other in a comments section so he also stopped replying when I pointed out sources that studied Ukrainian population from the 1920s to the 1937 census and after taking into account forced and voluntary displacements, there were around 3 million people short - which means that despite a nominal population growth there were indeed millions of death due to famine and a million deaths that although the cause was disease, the fatality of the disease was exacerbated by the famine. Not to extend this much further, but I also pointed out that using population numbers to deny genocide is a classic Neo-Nazi tactic, and this idiotic motherfucker had the nerve to claim that as an anti-fascist he studied Neo-Nazi denial tactics extensively and had never heard of the population numbers being used as a denial tactic. That's the level of expertise you have on your ranks. Half of you people are clowns who think they're hot shit because you read a couple of books written by your people. I'm no historian. I'm not an expert at anything. I'm a dumb motherfucker. And yet I don't fall for your tricks. I don't care what Jimmy reads, he can read whatever he wants.
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@Commie 1776 yeah none of you ever are. You're always the good guys. But you all "read the books" from sympathizers at worst and apologists at best.
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 @yellowtunes2756 "only volunteers" LMAO
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 @Mikael-jt1hk he was not accused of smuggling, he was accused of crossing state lines. Try to keep up.
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@scott80ca People are trying to hold the line. Those who genuinely needed it have cashed out. Those who can handle the losses are willing to fly this rocket into the ground.
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Damage is too extensive for MANPADS warhead, MANPADS has too short range to hit high altitude targets.
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@Milvus_In_Excelsis Flying under the radar was the Tornado's game in 1991. After 7 got shot down, they gave up and started doing mid altitude strikes. Flying under the radar is extremely risky.
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@professorpancakes6545 The entire planet is wearing them because they're told to.
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@professorpancakes6545 "Everyone on Earth", which isn't actually everyone considering that plenty of people are violating mask mandates, and some places are removing them, was wearing masks because they faced legal consequences for not wearing. People who disagreed with masks were still forced to wear them, so they weren't wrong.
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It's viable if you carry FMJ or those extreme rounds that look like a Phillips head. Hollow points in 380 underpenetrate.
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I don't need to be a Michelin star chef to spit out raw chicken. The rifles were designed by nerds. The men who hold them have someone to thank (or blame).
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300.000 trucks drivers don't make up for lack of trucks.
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Four Russian aircraft shot down today.
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 @worldoftancraft It's how it's spelled. Intelligentsia. ция is transliterated to ts-i-ya. To us the "ee-ya" sound is redundant so we spell "tsia".
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Concern trolling. The civilians will stop suffering when the invasion ends.
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 @F22Lover Hypersonic speeds will make objects look like a meteorite in the sky. The opposite of stealth. The heat and noise will broadcast the position.
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@joehorton5067 the sales tax affects the lower classes disproportionately because they get their prices hiked by the same amount as the rich.
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@BM-is5ei Post your reasoning why.
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Take your meds.
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The S-500 is an ABM system so a strategic defensive system and not airspace denial. It's meant for MAD deterrence, not actual conventional war.
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The issue is that there's probably a thousand people who are able to analyze and explain this, but they're not allowed to talk about it until they're cleared for it. So in the end someone in the official channels says "we confirm the footage is real and we haven't identified what it is" and people lose their minds.
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Long term will be more war. Rusdia re-invaded Chechnya despite two treaties. Russia agreed to respect Ukrainian sovereingty in 1994. Russia agreed to a ceasefire in Minsk I and immediately invaded Debaltseve. Long term, Russia will invade again.
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Who cares? They don't have the rockets to use them.
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 @peterlaurie1247 There's not enough operational Gripens and Saab can't manufacture them fast enough.
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@steffeneilers8530 Okay so in a twisted sense not only have I managed to vote against my own interests, but like natural selection I managed to make my opposition worse and thus force me to double down on voting against my interests because the alternative will always get worse. The only winning move is not to play, and you proved it for me.
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"why have they been using stamped and milled steel forever?" - because why change to plastic molding when you already paid for the machinery to make steel ones?
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From California Oblast.
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 @chaosXP3RT Egypt bought some
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Oh and while I understood the plot it was somewhat confusing. I remember asking my mother when she came back from the theater and she thought the villain was going to speed up the melting of the ice caps with the laser. She actually missed the plot point where Graves was the son of the NK general and the laser was going to clear the DMZ.
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There's a thousand F-35s made, and like 14-16 Su-57s in flying condition.
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Particularly bloodthirsty today? Have your coffee before commenting.
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@ambrnonya Wagner got clobbered by Ukrainian spec ops and locals in multiple places in Africa. They only "won" in places where France is unpopular with the locals so it's difficult to have a foothold. But if the locals dislike Wagner they're way too far to call Russia for help, and losing the bases in Syria means their supply lines are a joke. And Ukies are basically playing CoD IRL in Africa, a bunch of mercenaries being stalked by spec ops have no chance.
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The F-117 was extremely successful.
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@rainerkinzinger555 You read some "news" that confirmed what "telegram channels" have been saying. Take your meds, schizo.
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Spot on? This video claims that bullets aren't affected by wind or bullet drop, and that somehow A-10s are EMP proof? This is chock full of mistakes and misconceptions.
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Wow and moderna is the one with the highest dose. What a rip off.
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Not really. Russia's consolidation efforts are hindered by the fact that all their occupied territory is unsafe for military occupation. Every other day either an HQ or barracks was hit. When your officers keep dying, and soldiers are killed in the beds they sleep in, there's not much hope.
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The Canadians used the 20mm cannons in their CF-18s to put a thousand rounds into a weather balloon. It had to be shot down by Russia. That's how slow they leak.
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Remember when Medvedev promised judgement day if Crimea was attacked?
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Biden: "Guys I have a plan" Biden has left the game
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@ni9274 Because they were flying into MANPADS range. They switched tactics and hovered inside Russian held terrain to fire missiles from relative safety. Now the situation is changing again.
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Nothing patriotic about participating in this scam.
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Yeah the governments have secret backdoors, remember when it came out that a bug in firefox mobile allowed a phone to be tracked across multiple wifi and mobile data networks by combining the system clock and battery time remaining as a unique signature?
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The sheer power output necessary to reach the Earth and bounce back with pings from aircraft plus the necessary computing power to discern ground returns from aircraft returns would probably cook the satellite to death because there's no convection cooling in space. Electronics heat up. Also aircraft IFF would probably not be able to transmit so far so your radar image would not identify friendly from foe.
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Patriot protected Ukraine, S-400 was filmed burning by a slow drone overhead.
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About a decade ago I was finishing highschool and had a conspiracy theorist teacher. She said that after the swine flu we should prepare for the next pandemic, even the possibility of being stuck at home for a period of a month or more. Some of these people have a gift of foresight...
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@demomanchaos Who says it's not resilient? You? In real life 7 A-10s were shot down and another 13 suffered severe battle damage in Desert Storm. Almost 30 years ago the A-10 was proven to be obsolete and Chuck Horner pulled it out of missions against the Republican Guard. The A-10 is not resilient at all. Not as effective? Again, says who? Multirole jets are effective at CAS. Hundreds of times more expensive? The F-35A is a bargain at 85 million a piece. Lord knows how much a modern A-10 would cost, and how much you'd have to spend on targeting pods just to give it the bare minimum of capabilities. "overbudget and very far behind schedule" - Welcome to the world of government projects. "little scam that isn't even a suitable replacement for any of the machines it is supposed to replace" - lmao again, says who? You? Pierre Sprey? Russian "experts" on RT? "proven machines that do the job better and for much less money?" - You mean aging machines that get progressively more expensive to maintain?
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15-18 of these kettles boiled Ruskies in Kharkiv.
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They're not even cheap...
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@CruelandCold Yes, both Enrique Tarrio and Joe Biggs were FBI informants. There's a game being played and we're the pawns.
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Aircraft are not connected to the power grid and metal cages/carbon fiber inherently protect what's inside from pulses.
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Apart from the bombings, Uncle Ted got a few points right.
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 @seemo144 Using blades as filler is quite literally hiding the problem. Burning them as fuel doesn't recoup energy from manufacturing, just energy from material we have no use for otherwise.
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That buffer state is useless by reactivating NATO's drive. Just staying low was allowing NATO to disarm itself and focus less and less on warfighting. Now European states are investing in arms manufacturing and personnel increase. Russia awakened the thing it feared.
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Because of Hot Fuzz
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Russia cut spending on other government servicesvto pay for the war. Oligarchs are forced to pitch in for the conflict, they can't just make off like bandits.
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@ricardocantoral7672 This is unironically the truth.
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@bruhmoment5034 "SEEING HOW FICKLE FREE MARKET INFATRUCTURE IS" - all infrastructure is built around regulations.
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@ErgonomicChair mind that the working conditions you don't want in America are the ones you want to influct upon China. If you trade with human rights violating countries you get dragged down to their level because you can't compete. If you don't trade with countries using slave labour... You get dragged down to their level too???
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You don't know what a strawman is.
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@mirekslechta7161 "Russia is our neighbour" - Ukraine is also Russia's neighbor. Georgia is also Russia's neighbor. Being Russia's neighbor seems to be a hassle and a half.
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I like the balance.
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Not reality. The quality did a job that quantity couldn't do.
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@aflyingcowboy31 You cannot support 1 million troops with 180k personnel.
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@bdchatfi Just a small addition here, but the bailout money needs to stay in the financial sector. The overinflation is mostly contained to the stock market. If you printed all that money on people who are going to spend the money on real resources you'd collapse everyone's purchasing power. If the government is causing inflation by printing money out of control, I'd rather it affect some fictional items on a ledger than immediately hike the prices on the supermarket. The first is just a continuation of bad policy and continue the over-evaluation of stocks, the second is Venezuela-tier economics.
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@bdchatfi Didn't the crisis start before the blockades and they only affected a minority of the oil trade? But that's beside the point. It doesn't matter what causes the crisis. What matters is the inability to print yourself out of the hole. "We didn't learn from the 2009 housing crisis." - This type of policy goes back to the 70s. That's how far back we haven't learned.
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@Scorpion122178 name a few non-capitalist countries where you can have videogame commerce.
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@tracksuitcheems Russia is big, but a lot of it is also empty. There's a reason they use rail. Let's face it, transporting things by rail is easier than airlifting everything into Saudi Arabia. Your questions to not follow a logical train. A country's military punching below its weight class isn't something you can just label "ineptitude". The damage to the airfield at Hostomel threw a wrench in the plan. It was enough to stop them because it turned a "special operation" into a war.
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 @VladimirStevanoviclennon33 Why was Ritter in prison, by the way? And why does Barletic live in Thailand?
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 @kresbes7240 Radar silence is not systematic defense, it's letting bombers through lol
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They're pulling out because they were defeated enough for the juice not being worth the squeeze. They committed far too many troops to a region that was reduced to 1/3rd of the supplies, even pulled the remaining professional units with elite status from other regions and put them through several months of fighting in subpar conditions. A tactical victory can still be achieved without mass surrender or total destruction of the enemy forces. The difference is that Ukraine did use defense in depth, Russia spent months in "not one step back" mode until they realized they were going to get defeated everywhere else by stubbornly standing their ground. Bashing the opponent's head in until he realizes he's gonna lose is a tactical victory on anyone's book, even without encirclement or rout.
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It wasn't Russian territory.
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@walterkaiyuenpang3556 He was half right with Atrazine and he talked about police helicopters with FLIR when that was considered crazy (but again he thought that IR imaging was a laser rather than a passive sensor). Like he's the dude who said Russia had launched nukes during his Y2K broadcast so give him some slack.
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Russia also needs to shoot more to get the same hits. That means that if they fire 10 shells to complete a job, but only get 9, that's a shortage. Over time, fire missions start to lose effectiveness if you're statistically slinging less steel that you need for a hit.
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Not all countries have signed that convention, and countries which have signed the convention have argued their cluster munitions do not fall under the spirit of the convention so they reserve the right to manufacture and stockpile them.
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@4reptar207 You don't know what gaslighting means.
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Porn is that easy dopamine release that can take hold of your life if you don't control it. It's a little harder to get the taste for murder unless you actually start committing them and enjoying it.
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"With air supremacy, drones have zero impact" - But they do. Look at the extensive use of drones during the GWOT. Insurgents and terrorists had no air force, but a drone could stay up for hours on end observing their movements.
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Jose, you're wrong according to your own side. It doesn't stop spread, it reduces symptoms and hospitalizations. This means there will always be a reservoir of virus waiting to come back. This is the official stance of the CDC.
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ATACMS were most likely withheld to negotiate with Russia not to import Iranian long range ballistic missiles after buying the Shaheds. Now that Russia is dealing with NK the US might be saying the deal is off by "finding" unaccounted for ATACMS.
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@alexandercaires5921 we went from "all it takes is for the people to feel differently" to "actually someone else needs to recognize your feelings first".
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 @forester-b9k I literally have not listened to the song, I just think the premise of "try that in a small town" is freaking hilarious
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Because Rusich members at some point where contracted by Wagner.
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@cameroneagle4370 they don't care about the capital, they care about the capital
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@chrisbingley The vectorable thrust usage in combat, or VIFF'ing, is somewhat of a last resort maneuver. If you use it, you lose a ton of energy. Fix what wasn't broken? The Harrier was simply not capable enough. It's a good low level strike and close air support aircraft, but it needed to be replaced.
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The USN doesn't see operational use of Super Hornets past 2050 while the F-35 is scheduled to operate past 2070.
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What war machine? These are old.
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Already heard that one March 2022. Get something new.
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Reflection from the sun, being hotter than the background air. The 9X has a true "computer vision" rather than relying on 1, 2 or 4 sensors. It's like a digital camera but for the thermal spectrum. It sees the balloon just like a thermal camera can see you at 37ºC when the wall behind you is at 22ºC.
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@tracycampbell1055 The F-4 didn't need a gun. The US Navy didn't need it, the USMC only used gun pods for ground strafing, and something like 90 percent of kills by USAF Phantoms were by missile. The gun myth is History Channel fuddlore.
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It's addressed in the video.
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The Donbas militia was depleted by last summer. They're now using mobilized Russian men to staff the militia.
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You people see Boris Johnson in your nightmares ahahah
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No offense, but the education system is like 10lbs of knowledge shoved in a 9lb bag, you have to figure life out outside of school. Even then, many of my teachers still took the time to give us life lessons, which many probably weren't listening to, but I was. Any video I scroll through nowadays has a crazy conspiracy theory. What alleigeance does the average teacher have to this plan to create a consumerist class? Is the GDP really reliant on Gucci flip flops? And did you not listen to Rage Against The Machine? This plan has a lot of holes. Maybe teachers are too tired babysitting rowdy kids, parents aren't doing their job, and the rebellious angst that's normal in youth isn't being channeled.
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No, we won't need land warfare tools in the ocean.
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USMC A-6s dropped the hate, under the form of Mk20 Rockeyes.
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Buddy you're gonna ban Super Soakers?
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The whole world is pressing you to give up your house. Me and my friends are moving in. I didn't make the rules, you did. You can't fight back.
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I have that, but it's a Xeon build. Does it bring it back from normie into autismo?
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 @danielmlinar4892 Pulling out stuff? Understandable. A trend line towards zero? Yeah they're cooked.
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Anyone can do it. There's rifles and grenades everywhere thanks to war bringbacks.
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@S41t4r4 I mean yeah apparently now you need to show certificates before entering the store. Germany up to its usual tricks.
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And the Bradleys actually took out main battle tanks in Desert Storm in head to head combat before Abrams could arrive to help.
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@50_Pence The "real reporting", aka the propagandists that agree with you.
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@VangelisKontogeorgakos You're too focused on binary concepts. Air to air isn't just dogfights. A MiG-25 that fired a R-40 shot down and killed a Navy pilot in 1991. He was flying a F/A-18. The claim that X aircraft cannot shoot down Y aircraft because Z reason is simply not a good argument. It's not just about the tools, it's about the situation and skill. Sure, a F-15 can evade a missile. Is the pilot aware a missile has been fired? Many shootdowns occur because the pilot is not aware there's an enemy in the area, not as a result of a 1vs1 fight.
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You can walk around many areas in the exclusion zone without changing. You're just not supposed to dig.
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Then why is Prigozhin claiming that Wagner could fail at Bakhmut if he doesn't get the support he needs? Why are Russian telegram pages saying Wagner needs to recruit 30 thousand more?
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They're not laying off. They're having trouble recruiting and getting people to reenlist after their contract.
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@evilwelshman The ranges of hundreds of kilometers are really only valid against high altitude targets, as they need to be well above the Earth's curvature to be seen by the targeting radar. The USSR invasion of Afghanistan showed that when the enemy has little to no strategic targets, air supremacy gives you free reign to essentially contribute very little to the war. It's important to consider that Soviet aviation reacted to Stinger missiles by flying higher which reduced accuracy of close air support. Stingers can't close the skies, they're "payback" weapons for the grunts to defend themselves against air attacks. Meanwhile something like the Patriot seems to be outstanding at shutting down airspace when supplied with enough interceptors to handle all targets. Kill markings painted on a Ukrainian Patriot system essentially showed that they moved a battery reasonably close to the border and shot down 5 planes and helicopters in a single day inside Russian airspace.
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@evilwelshman The issue is that long range missiles depend on radar emissions. You can only hide a system by keeping it blind. Sure, you can use a datalink to keep a system updated with enemy targets while the radar is off, but that really works best when you have AWACS in the air. You need fighters to defend the AWACS. Saturation attacks mean what they mean. When the US began the air campaign against the Iraqi IADS, they began with a combo of stealth aircraft, low flying helicopters, cruise missiles, target drones used as decoys and electronic warfare. Now we're seeing things like the MALD and the Ukrainian domestic program to develop their own decoy drone powered by pulse jet. Saturation doesn't require more aircraft. It only requires things that need to be shot down. They can be sacrificed to protect your own aircraft. It costs a million USD per S-300 missile, but the complex itself costs a billion plus. And while aircraft require training, so does air defense. Ukraine's air defense is a very demanding job because they don't have the numbers to spare like Russia, and most of their operators are college educated. People who understand the maths and physics, the electronics and signals engineering that goes into detecting and tracking targets.
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@rubrub5264 What if he gets a pardon on the drug charges, considering that we're heading towards legalization?
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100% of the air force? No pilots, no parts, no maintenance. Aircraft roll off the runway and crash after takeoff.
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It was Russia that poked. Transnitsia war, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Crimea, etc.
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@are3287 Shotgun range with buckshot is about 80 yards (can hit a deer sized target even with the cheap military unplated buck). With the birdshot and firing against gravity, nabbing a drone 80 yards up is not as straightforward. Three dimensional maneuvering decreases your effective range.
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Ukraine claimed to be developping a drone similar to the Iranian one but better.
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Notice the poor grammar on the second sentence. Hmmmm.
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You can separate the art from the artists until the artists are inseparable from the art. It's a game. But it's made by people. And those people suck.
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When doctors said racism was the real virus so protests were okay, I realized the medical guidelines were politically skewed narratives.
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@NoNonsense_01 North Vietnam signed the peace accords. They were beat like whipped cream, and broke the peace terms to invade the South after the US had made the decision to not support South Vietnam.
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- Vladimir Putin after seeing the 5000th monke edit this week
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@RodriguezIsaac33 So like the F-16? Master of all trades?
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@deathlocus1571 The gun was not omitted on the Phantom over weight concerns. It simply did not need to have it. As a naval interceptor, it would have to go head to head with aircraft coming in to sink the aircraft carrier. If a Phantom driver had to get behind the incoming threat to get a gun kill, he would not have a carrier to land back on. Because it would have sunk.
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What horrors? They were ambushed, they shot back, the insurgents were firing from windows in residential buildings so people got caught in the crossfire.
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Successful, but about 30 years overdue in retirement. It's a museum piece.
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@Slava_Ukraini1991 As said above, flying low does two things: terrain masking (using valleys to physically block radar) and using ground clutter because radar beams aren't perfectly narrow and thus will hit the ground and cause returns that make the aircraft hard to pick up. These allow you to fly past radar much closer than the earth's curvature would allow. There's ways to mitigate this: putting radars on a tall mast and using computing power to filter out clutter. However, past a certain distance the curvature of the earth will take over as the main reason why radar can't see.
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That's not what happened. The Air Force started inquiries into the CAS issue and discovered that the Army was trying to shut them out. The Army and Air Force chiefs of staff met together and agreed to delineate responsibilities and the Air Force was not opposed to the Army acquiring rotary wing aircraft for "fire support" (aka "we don't call it CAS"), but SecDef McNamara was opposed to expanding the air mobility of the Army. The Air Force getting pissy is revisionist history, they were the ones worried about the Army's "we don't need the Air Force" attitude from the air mobility supremacists and when it went too far even McNamara, previously on the side of the air mobility expansion, had to shut them down.
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@earlwyss520 I got my timelines mixed, McNamara put a stop on the acquisition of more fixed wing such as the OV-1 Mohawk. However the Air Force did relinquish any claim to rotary wing fire support aircraft during McNamara's tenure. Aircraft used in Korea were obviously designed before 1953 due to the linear progression of time. I don't even understand how that's a point of contention. Of course they were ill suited, they were following doctrine inherited from the USAAF. You're talking about the government blocking the transfer because the Army cannot operate the A-10, which was a concept that was totally spitballed by a study resulting from the NDAA FY88-89 mandating a study. The USAF had their A-16 plans cancelled and was mandated by Congress to retain two A-10 wings, with four wings of F-16s retrofitted for CAS duties. After Desert Storm McPeak wanted to give CAS to the Army in return for ATACMS but he was outvoted by other service chiefs. A story being told with embellishments and omissions that certain people liked to promote, to sell books. And now the internet parrots it uncritically. "By scrapping or wanting to scrap the A-10 the USAF is in essence saying that it wants to abandon the CAS mission" - The USAF has scrapped F-16s, does this mean they're saying they want to abandon the fighter role? The USAF was criticized in a 1979 GAO report for buying too many A-10s. The last A-10s to be produced date from 1984. They were supposed to have had their replacement process started by 1993. It's complete nonsense to reject the reality that ageing aircraft need to be replaced. And the Air Force needs to make cuts somewhere. The A-10 is what makes more sense. It's essentially a single mission aircraft. It's the one that most desperately needs retirement. But the nostalgia and brainless politicians keep the zombified remains in the air and wasting money on the rebuilding of wings for an aircraft that deserved it's eternal rest two decades before. "Because if the much slower F-100 couldn't do the mission 55 years ago, then the faster F-16 can't do it now." - Look inside the F-100 cockpit. Now look at the F-16. Your concerns have no basis in reality considering that the A-10 did 20 percent of CAS since 2001 and 11 percent since 2014. Fast jets are doing CAS. You claim it's not possible. Something's wrong and it's not reality. You don't understand the fundamental problem so you attribute responsibilities to something that is tangible - like speed values.
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@atomicskull6405 "they only ever pretended to entertain that idea as a distraction while they tried to retire the A-10 in the background" - They're not trying to retire it in the background. The USAF has to perform budget cuts. The A-10 is the one that makes the most sense to put on the chopping block. Flat out. No clock and dagger, no conspiracy. Congress blocks it. Rinse and repeat. That's all there is to it. Embellishing the story is at this point as bad as lying. "it's harder to justify expensive new toys when they have an effective and much cheaper option for doing the same job" - This is absolutely ridiculous. The A-29 is cheaper to operate and maintain so that argument doesn't even make sense. Airplanes cannot fly forever. "Nuclear weapons ensure we will never have a full scale conflict with a peer nation." - In 1991 Iraq wasn't a peer nation and the A-10 still got reality-checked. You think near-peer or proxy nations aren't getting defense systems from peer nations? The US had to send F-22s to drop bombs in Syria because of the Russian defense systems in place. The nukes didn't explode.
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Did Desert Tech hire a bot farm?
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@hamupinhere "I don't care what the peasants say because I'm ballsy"
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They're lying about Tim Pool, AJW is explaining how they're liars. Not the same at all.
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For once? They suffered greatly in Finland in the 40s and also in Ukraine this February.
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Dzop - The Piano Gamer nowhere in military requirements is "multiple people in short amount of time" a bullet point. The average soldier doesn't kill anyone in the average engagement. Armies fire dozens of thousands of rounds for every enemy casualty. If guns were meant to kill multiple people in a short time nobody would survive war and come back home.
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They weren't captured.
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@elite943able It's not about skill, it's about hyperfixations. There are more skilled people who just have better things to do, 4channers aren't necessarily more intelligent but there's a decent proportion of people who get obessed over a topic and can't leave it alone until they solve it.
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Except that geese don't have a human operating their eyes who can clearly see a soldier raising his shotgun and just blast off into 100m above ground level. A lot of drone footage makes the ground appear closer than it is. They're really eyes in the sky, and they have greater freedom of movement than a bird.
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@johnhermann7498 Reapers fly straight like an aircraft. It's quadcopters which have the ability to shoot straight up. Brother, I've seen hours and hours of drone footage at this point. Hitting drones is easier with an AK rifle than with a shotgun. You can clearly see that in instances where shotguns are used, the drone pilot simply punches the throttle and flies straight up to step out of range. Hunter orange? My guy, uniforms rarely blend in and even when they do, you can see the humans by movement. I can tell you don't watch drone footage, because you can clearly see people and identify which side they're on. Humans don't put their eyeballs on drones. They put a camera. Human visual acuity is meaningless when you have a 720p screen inches away from your face.
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Typically geolocated footage.
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@ahmedalsadik If you draw a straight line in MS Paint, you can handle it like an object until you select something else, and use Ctrl+C Ctrl+V to get a parallel line.
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But that didn't happen. Nixon was like "come on, peace now" and North Vietnam said nope. So Operation Linebacker II was launched, after the bombing North Vietnam was ready for peace. Then Watergate happened, and North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam. US troops were not defeated. The war had ended and North Vietnam broke the treaty to take advantage of the political situation in the US.
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@lujack1801 >everyone clapped
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Throwing good money after bad. Do look up what happens to Russians in Ukraine. Life in Russia as a cripple is so bad, they head-eyes themselves. And every week we have 1-2 videos of it happening come out. That's the reality the keyboard warrior devs behind the game won't show.
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Russia cannot manufacture enough tanks to make up losses, and they cannot train enough crewmen.
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@Cramblit You misunderstand what's going on in Ukraine. You don't go over the tree canopy over there. The A-10s modernity is based around sensors, things that require you to go medium-high altitude and loiter to get a line of sight to the ground. In Ukraine, that doesn't matter because line of sight gets you shot at. You use speed. And the Su-25 is faster.
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CatMan DO so because there's no answer we shouldn't make the pain manageable?
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The unprotected planes were on the flight line, where they're kept in a ready state. The protected aircraft were in revetments. Because ammo and fuel were hit, bombs and fuel were spilled all over, even inside the revetments. The satellite pictures that show burnt area pretty much make it clear the fires were spread wide.
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No Man's Sky wasn't that absurdly expensive to make, but Hello Games had their offices flooded an they had to rebuild.
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There's a difference between SF, SOF and "special operation capable" units. Live fire exercises are a thing. Special Forces are meant to embed themselves into foreign countries in secrecy and train an insurgency force of locals, essentially making the enemy fight a war against its own country.
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Syrians don't need to be fed or armed?
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Good ear. He does look like he's in a place that should be noisy.
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@ignatiusryd2031 Didn't Sri Lanka try to go organic only and collapse their economy? We don't have the efficiency of converting manure into the chemical compound we want, unlike industrial synthesis.
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Russian shills have exactly one joke.
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They've been tested. The GMRLS rocket was already used since 2005. HIMARS was used against Wagner in Syria. The HARM missiles sent have production dates from 1991.
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It includes the train ride and everything.
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If you wantbto do Russian cosplay just buy Russian gear. The actual Russian army had to get Aliexpress gear because they sold so much gear to Western airsofters.
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"Russia not moving an inch doesnt mean it is stuck" - BRUH
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@crazysk8ta123 Trump denounced neo nazis, that's a fucking lazy smear job.
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Mercb3ast "he absolutely is the idol of alt-right fuckbois and cucks all over the country. Even the neo-nazi's love him." - bullshit. They see JP as controlled opposition.
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Gun autist here: the AK-47 is simply the name of the stamped sheet steel prototype. The Russians had problems with stamping and the welds of the guide rails breaking so they adopted a milled receiver rifle called the AK. In 1959 they finally adopted the AK as we know it, under the designation AKM.
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@hendrikvanleeuwen9110 the Donbas militias? Murz and Girkin said they were depleted last year. And now, we see videos of Russian mobilized men complaining about being used as LPR/DPR militiamen.
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@hendrikvanleeuwen9110 You're gonna have to show the photos of fallen Syrians in Ukraine. If that was true, the photos would be everywhere. Also, as soon as Chechens started suffering losses Kadyrov called them back. He refuses to let Chechens participate in frontline fighting because of the stability issue back home. He can't lose his private army.
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@hendrikvanleeuwen9110 Mariupol was right at the start of the war. They suffered heavy casualties, Kadyrov posted a video where he was visibly upset, and most likely worked a deal in which Kadyrovites would be spared from the heavy fighting.
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@hendrikvanleeuwen9110 "Read the leak and see for yourself American assessment of Russian losses" - Around 40k KIA and 180 WIA for a 220k casualty total?
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@merocaine Seen many interviews of Russians without training. So what?
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They were relatively powerless people lashing out against society while this guy was part of a higher class and did bad things simply because he wanted to.
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@Joshodude like already mentioned, if you look past the "gaming" laptops there's fantastic options in the market and if they do slow down because macOS is smoother than Windows you can always switch to Linux.
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 @clifflegrand4848 Russia engaged in the war. It wasn't Ukraine's choice. Also, the mighty army is pulling T-55s from storage.
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 @griggorpi8751 The bear wasn't poked.
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 @JL-tm3rc The Taliban offensive was against a paper military. Soldiers who enlisted for a paycheck fled, soldiers who wanted to fight had no ammo or food to hold their positions.
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 @jacquesstrapp3219 S-400s are souped up S-300s and Tors get dabbed on by drones.
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 @petrklic7064 Fun fact, independent Chechnya defeated Russia which signed peace agreements. They only won by paying off the Kadyrov clan to switch sides.
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 @JL-tm3rc US forces constantly went on patrols.
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Ana is not going to read this.
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 @Just_A_Random_Desk loyal wingman tankers will give it legs.
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But look at the pattern - there's an album acting as cover for the movie, and a game character acting as cover for Kali Yuga. It's done on purpose.
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Swatting is a generic term. No idea how jurisdiction works but they would have an armed response team. There was even a "SWAT-style" show set in Canada in the early 2010s.
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@JOONGARIK the military megachurch had stained glass windows with Stalin, almost like a religious saint. After pictures leaked they may have been removed, but Stalin's image had been rehabilitated.
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@Akmal Ahmad "poverty rate" is a nice way to deflect from the cesspool that are californian cities. "the best states in US are left wing states" - they're the best according to criteria you prefer, and other states are the best according to other criteria that others might prioritize. I'll take a reduction in quality of life over gun laws, for example. You couldn't pay me to live in an anti-gun state.
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@Akmal Ahmad "which cause the land to be too expensive for average middle class" - Then people would move out to more affordable land. The middle class doesn't simply end up in the streets out of nowhere at this rate unless there's a massive economic crisis, especially long term. Most long term homelessness is related to mental health, substance abuse or both. Not people down on their luck because property value went up.
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@Akmal Ahmad "The middle class are being slowly pushed and pushed into homelessness" - Do you have evidence to back this up? People don't defecate in the streets and shoot up heroin simply because they lost their house. "They buy now and sell it 20 years from now." - Which is gonna cost them if everyone leaves.
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@xyxxanx9810 The issue isn't lack of confidence, the fact is that going full bore on a fight against a peer nation would probably be seen as warmongering, and alienate viewers who aren't into "milsim". The fantasy aspect targets a wider viewer base.
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John McCain was wrong and that was an example of a person not knowing anything about a subject being extremely confident in their ability to be right.
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@sjonnieplayfull5859 9/11 happened because Bin Laden was offended at the Saudi government having US troops stationed there in Operation Desert Shield, and American support for Israel. When Iraq invaded Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia the presence of Americans (not invasion) convinced Bin Laden to do the 1993 WTC attack. 9/11 was pure megalomania.
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@zakichoudhary507 "Some of us are cool with basic regulations, like we have on boats and cars and door frames." lmao
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Tbh I wouldn't mind a Cold War (don't want to limit it to Vietnam) or even an 80s-90s BF. I'm kinda sick of "modern warfare" games in the sense that it's gonna be what? M4/HK416, SCAR, ACR, AK12? All tacticooled lol. I miss when games had AUGs, Sig SG550s, G36s and oddball stuff like the PSG-1, CAR-15s or Skorpions.
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The Ukrainians seemed to like it.
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Reminds me of the Max Headroom background.
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Not only did they do photo ops with released convicts, some of them went straight back to crime and got arrested again.
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@rgarc514 the right complains about the gunwalking scandal because Fast and Furious happened under Obama and it's the ATF that does gun stings, and the right hates the ATF due to Waco and Ruby Ridge.
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@calegrenillo-weaver4574 no ID? Sweet. Does not paying taxes also come with it?
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Israel flew their F-35s over Iran's Russian-built defenses and their head of air defense was fired over that blunder. Like you should have learned the lesson by now, the US faced SAMs in Vietnam and came up with doctrine to counter Russian defensive doctrine. While Iraq did not have the S-300 in 1991 the US only had F-117s and B-2s to provide stealthy attacks, and the mostly 4th gen fleet still handled the SAMs. A fleet of mostly stealth aircraft would offer an even more lopsided campaign to eliminate SAMs.
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@5drtfygunjm okay I just came over from a different side of youtube and people were arguing about Soros and anti-semitism and shit. Okay so people are "paranoid" because the Open Society Foundation pushes an agenda but I come over here and I hear people going off about the Koch brothers...
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When I played the mission cold, with no spoilers, I assumed the game would detect if I was firing so I started shooting at the ground and ceiling to see if Makarov's men would notice.
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@randomusername5242 Okay dude, sorry for using an analogy. Weapons should be balanced rather than unbalanced. Even sword smiths knew this centuries ago.
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The issue is that a single bullet hole can be repaired easily. Aircraft that were hit by Stingers or Piorus often survive, but they return to base and never fly again due to the damage.
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Nobody was liable for outbreaks before 2020. Also, you still spread after taking it, so the outbreak would happen anyway. The public health policy has been nothing but flip flops and half truths since the early 2020. It's now that they got it right? I doubt it.
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@_Atzin "guns are not a form of transportation and are not integral to the functioning of the nation," - seems to me that you're worshiping transportation and "society" at the cost of human lives. You can't give gun owners shit for not wanting to give up anything when you'll bend over backwards with shitty excuses to defend the things you like. "for most cases having a 5 round limit on your magazine will not effect anything substantially." - then you haven't been charged by a pack of hogs nor been attacked by three people knowing that each can take 5 shots before they have an effect on them.
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Nope. Britain got Lend Lease. Considering how much stuff was deferred and inflation, Britain got a crazy deal, and only finalized the payment in 2006 for a war that ended in 1945. Ukraine will get the same deal. They'll pay it back in 60 years for pennies on the dollar.
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Just like Anderson Cooper. Former intern for them.
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Have you tried to run for local government? They're the ones handling the stuff happening in the streets.
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Hydraulic driven aircraft will have their systems inoperationable too.
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Because it needs to be dropped from an airplane. They can't fly bombers over Ukraine. Also, MOAB is American.
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Zelensky was elected because he was pro-Russia. It's like you forgot who Poroshenko was.
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kebabremover3249 The US wasn't beat. The Taliban cowered until the US left, then they played big and strong against a corrupt and fragile state.
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Numbers from Russian MoD lol
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Bakhmut isn't a magic videogame objective dude.
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Remember Kharkiv? Funny thing tends to happen after months of depleting men in frontal assaults. The counterpunch hurts so much more.
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@gian.4388 SC was collecting money for much longer. Just because it became less predatory, it doesn't change the fact that the game was based on predation. If it wasn't for the jpeg sales there would be no game to grind ships for.
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@shadowfall33 The Star Cultist runs out of arguments and heads straight for his self-hate. You can come out of the closet now.
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@davthatguy3052 Nah they burn it. You can't shut the tap off.
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The Panama canal is a lake 80 ft above sea level. Since there's no nearby glaciar melting to feed it with fresh water, it needs rain.
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@toe395 Power also comes with responsibility. We've seen a bunch of power being used with zero responsibility.
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@@jackjones4824 They expected a quick capitulation and Ukrainians/Belarusians to boost their numbers in a new "Greater Russia".
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The F-22 was not made for easy upgrades.
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Detectives often drive in unmarked cars.
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@FearlessP4P1 Canada signed a military cooperation agreement with China in 2013. Then everyone forgot about it. No invasion.
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@06rtm But Ukraine couldn't join NATO due to the border conflict since 2014.
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. ?? . You're still an anomaly after 5 shootings. Other officers have 0 to 1.
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. ?? . You're deflecting, and no I don't. When seconds count cops are hours away.
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. ?? . Tons of people in prison over one action.
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@Roman Perez thin blue line profile pic telling us out it is.
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 @KaitenKenbu No, you could see it on Carlson's befuddled face
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No, actually Iran's leadership is a theocracy and they believe a prophecy in regards to Israel. They don't care about Palestine. They just want to attack Israel because they think it's a religious duty. The geopolitical stuff doesn't explain it, because multiple Arab countries have mellowed out on the Israel issue.
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 @theotherohlourdespadua1131 the Tet Offensive was a catastrophic failure for the VC and NVA.
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@bozo5632 The pictures for Kharkiv are widely available. I'd say roads looking like a tornado cut through a butcher shop counts as an ass whooping. There's things that happened to Russians in Kharkiv I never guessed could happen to a human body.
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Nope. All signs point to Zaporizhzhia being in the same situation as Kherson last year.
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I'd like to see survivors of Apache gun runs, and survivors of Strike Eagle gun runs. Let's see if there's a difference in testimonies. If there isn't, then it's overrated. By definition if it can't do better than other systems but is considered better, that's being overrated.
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@jimhollenbeck4088 Nobody said anything about nuclear devices. Nobody said anything was shit. Point is, if you have an outdated instrument in service and it's easily replaceable by all the alternatives, why keep it?
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@jimhollenbeck4088 The Marines have F-35Bs already. They can't get an A-10 to take off or land from a short deck carrier. Close support is already performed by multiroles. Despite many weapons being "obsolete" they are still relevant and outperforming the competition. There's still countries ditching their plastic fantastic folding stock rifles and their bullpups and replacing them by HK 416s and LMT ARs. They're just that good and future-proof. The A-10 lost its main job as soon as short range defenses were introduced. You can't even give it away, because smaller nations already have things like Super Tucanos.
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Those cages were like 300% overbuilt to deal with drones. That's why you see chicken wire and fencing used instead of heavy angle iron.
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@29memyselfandi I think I did something wrong because I got a bamel.
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@nicolaspeigne1429 Kinda? You're implying that the Mujaheddin, Taliban and Al Qaeda are all the same thing. We funded and trained the Mujaheddin, we had some diplomatic ties with the Taliban, and former Mujaheddin who got pissed off at Israel and the Saudis attacked the US.
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Do you have a way to end it? You can still spread it no matter what you do and there's animal reservoirs.
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Maintaining visual on the pilot is more important.
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On the contrary. They're "extremely" heat resistant because they are heated to the extreme. It requires money to make those missiles survive the firing conditions, and adding protection increases weight which lowers performsnce. So they have to ride the edge on their one and only trip.
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Seething at the west doesn't actually make them better. If they wanted to beat the west they could actually work on it, but that would make them like the west, so they create their cope and seethe club. Amazing.
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Two countries involved, a 2000km front. No world war.
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The repairs would bring it back online, so it's only done in case a major offensive happens and you need to delay the enemy from attacking en masse, or cover your own attack by delaying their supplies.
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@AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH-y5f What do you mean "probably a lot"? If there were "probably a lot" we'd have numbers. And the healthcare system would be overloaded with recovered patients, not the sick. What you're saying is, there's a murky threat out there but you can't even say anything concrete about it. Sounds more like fear porn than anything else.
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@AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH-y5f Not by people with organ failure.
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Going to those countries is a choice.
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@tedarcher9120 That's not what instability means. They don't fall like bricks, they are still aerodynamic. Stable aircraft will almost shuttlecock into incoming air to remain level while FIGHTER aircraft (military cargo aircraft are stable) will keep maneuvering if pushed out of level flight. That doesn't mean they don't want to fly, they just require more workload to fly straight. With fly by wire it is possible to fly unstable aircraft with hands off the stick as the computer does the auto trim.
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False, it's Russian sources recycling old footage.
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Name checks out.
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Reminds me of that joke Sadhguru told on Joe Rogan. Scientists told God to retire because they could create whatever he could. He asked them to prove it. Scientists took some soil, made a primordial soup, created life. They said "See? We created life from scratch". Then God said "Now create your own soil".
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Okay. Do we sink the Russian warships in the Atlantic? Do we shoot down the Bear bombers constatly poking Canadian and American airspace? Just give the call.
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Did you know the government ended the program LifeLog in the same year Facebook was created?
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@foolsfolly3476 But the Vietnamese did not win through asymmetric warfare. The Viet Cong got demolished, and the NVA had to send their regulars to reform VC units. After North Vietnam signed a peace treaty, they waited for the political turmoil caused by Watergate to invade South Vietnam. The US was in no position to ask the populace to support a war so they just allowed South Vietnam to fall. Asymmetric forces did not defeat the US. Conventional NVA forces defeated South Vietnam. Regarding Iraq, I suggest looking up the Anbar Awakening. You're so misinformed about Iraq it's actually concerning.
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@familhagaudir8561 "They were called for help by the person who witnessed Arbery comit the burglary, they could legally perform the citizen arrest. " - You do realize that if that were the only legal requirement then you just legalized murder? Anyone can make a call asking for "help", accuse an innocent person, and then you go along and kill that person in "self-defense" when they react to being harassed by armed vigilantes.
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But the infantry is driven to the action in IFVs and uparmored vehicles like MRAPs. Instead of foot pace charges, armor blitzes in to drop troops and gets out of dodge to avoid becoming an ATGM magnet.
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@A_Man_In_His_Van the bore is twisted, you can see it on the video thumbnail.
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Brazil wouldn't have much help to give, Russia has more pressing matters, India is a geopolitical foe.
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According to whom? Sy Hearsh? Might as well have asked Putin.
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Cheyennes had control issues that took so long to fix, mechanical controls were starting to get replaced by digital controls. Imagine having to design a mechanical thingamajig that responds to the Cheyenne's idiosyncrasies and something like 7 years fine tuning it, for the rest of the aviation industry to just say "now we just tell the computer to handle it!". It was in development hell.
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That's just to keep you distracted. The real sanctions are the aviation sector, the equipment used in oil and gas extraction, optics for military aircraft and drones, etc.
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@VladK-1 It's not a cauldron because the Ukrainians are capturing tons of APCs, artillery and ammo left behind in a hurry. They can't spring a trap without weapons. Also, the advance covered almost 70km in 3-4 days and is threatening to cut off Izyum. You don't let your enemy slash your supply lines in a silly trap.
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Steel jacket is a thing: mild steel jacket with copper wash is common in Eastern states. Obviously the steel is very soft and the rifling does get worn out noticeably faster. Does not aid in penetration, it's merely a cost saving measure.
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 @keyboard_g the absolute disconnect between knowing it doesn't count and still painting the marking on the nose.
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 @Triple_J.1 the bathtub is really only to make sure the pilot has time to eject - if you shred everything around it, the bathtub can't fly on its own.
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@Van-Leo "while not being able to acquire an army tank" - But you can get those. "but my comparison was more to the higher grade arms" - I can't crack open your head and know what you mean by this. Explain to me what these "grades" are. "there’s very little use to unload a full AR magazine into someone who broke in, it’s barely self defense at that point." - What are your qualifications to determine this? You can get semi-auto shotguns in the UK. You think dumping three rounds of buckshot isn't going to turn someone into hamburger? Unloading half a magazine from a Glock isn't going to mess someone up? How is the AR different? "the general public shouldn’t be the target audience" - Why? Then why have them around? "gun show markets that are barely doing any background checks" - This is a narrative you were sold. Vendors at gun shows are legally an extension of the FFL store, and by FEDERAL LAW they need to conduct background checks on every sale or they lose their federal license. People often used gun shows to conduct private sales, aka used gun sales. There wasn't internet back in the day. If you're against private sales, just say it. Don't go and say "gun show" because that's not what you're describing. "if you wanted to drive an 18 wheeler you’d need 200 hours of training experience" - Yeah. And if you had a loaded cannon pointing at everyone in public while a throttle pedal governed how close the lit match was to the fuse, you should probably have more than 200 hours of training. "I don’t understand why the same can’t be applied to guns, public and private and certified markets depending on job and practiced skill level." - Driving a vehicle is like shooting a gun. You don't need a license to own a vehicle. If you're in public with the gun out and blasting rounds at chest level, you should probably have a license to make sure you don't hit anyone. If it's inside your holster and you get penalized if you whip it out? Not my problem. It's like you had an unregistered car in your backyard and one day you decided to fuel it up and drive without a license. It wasn't our problem until you decided to make it a problem.
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@Van-Leo "how much of a gun does the average American need just to protect their home" - What do you think is "too much"? You want an arbitrary line, but for whatever reason it always errs on the side of taking away guns. "A pistol should be enough for the general public" - There's like 11,000 homicides committed with handguns every year in the US. Only 300-400 rifle homicides. Rifles of all types. "getting an ar 15 is unnecessary and could put any inexperienced users at risk as well" - Actually, handguns put inexperienced people at greater risk. Smaller, less points of contact. "they have more laws to protect the public than a tool designed for taking lives" - Not really. You can be a total jerk with a car for your entire life and only get slaps on the wrist. You mess up once with a gun and you're looking at trouble.
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@Van-Leo No, it's not about sample size considering that back when the number of firearms in the US was around 300 million - probably a decade ago at this point - the weapons were estimated to be one third rifles, one third handguns and one third shotguns. Rifles are also easier to acquire than handguns as many states have extra restrictions on handguns, they require the buyer to be aged 21 instead of 18, and they cannot be bought across states. Handguns are simply easier to conceal, which makes them more suitable for crime. In the UK they have a near-total ban on handguns with very few exceptions, but rifles are legal. Across the world handguns are seen as a greater threat than rifles and regulated accordingly. Licensing is just a backdoor way to take guns away. There's millions of gun owners without licenses. If you introduce a licensing standard, you have millions of illegal gun owners until they acquire the license. What happens when an anti-gun government is elected and makes the licensing scheme too hard or too expensive to pass? Or delays renewals so that owners technically allow their license to lapse?
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That just speaks more about your friends being dummies. Sorry to break the news, but they never created an actual thought about the subject in their heads.
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Refinery capacity was the issue last time I checked.
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@MobinBrown People in the treelines show up out of nowhere. An A-50 was visible on radar since take off and clearly seen doing orbits in its pattern. Can't make a mistake even if IFF is turned off.
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"I did put the egirl bath water in my mouth but I did not ingest"
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@mattobermiller5041 Maybe because people involved in those things have to deal with the black market? Always make sure to determine causation, not correlation.
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 @deathstar6998 WRONG. We consider Srebrenica to be one despite "only" 8k.
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@juliancohen9561 Remember when guy in America was detained for the Madrid bombings because his fingerprints had 9 matching points with the prints found on the bomb materials? "Don't do crime" is insufficient advice when you can get in trouble even when you did nothing wrong.
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To be fair, xhamster being the inferior website is a running joke that is almost mainstream. John McAfee referenced it in the "how to uninstall McAfee" video.
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S-400s couldn't stop two Ukrainian helicopters from attacking Belgorod fuel dumps.
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Nahtzee
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Try to drive your car after taking out the ECU and all the electrical connections. The mechanical bits might be there, but have fun trying to get it to start.
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"We"
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Yeah using the colloquial definition of a gambling rather than the legal definition of gambling is weak. What EA does is immoral without the gambling aspect already, we don't need to bring in losing arguments.
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I was also explained why we needed to invade Iraq. I wasn't convinced then, and I was a child.
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 @BDnevernind You're welcome to post your tox screen.
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 @jamesrowlands8971 They use the Soviet stockpile, so that's kind of irrelevant.
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@Betterhose The G11 is caseless. Precisely. This isn't caseless. There's a case. This means the case extracts the heat. You don't need "brass", you need a case. In this case the plastic is an insulator. When you touch a pan with a brass handle, you get burned. With a plastic handle, you don't. Your hand is the gun. The handle is the casing. "Old light bulbs only converted ~5% of the electricity into light and most of it into heat. You can not simply increase the efficiency by insulating the light bulb" - But this is a flawed analogy because you're trying to extract light from a lightbulb, not heat. When you're trying to extract working pressure to propel a projectile inside the bore, heat helps you. When you compress air with a supercharger or turbocharger the intake air is passed through an intercooler. Why? Colder air is denser, and you want more air inside the cylinder of your engine. When you want to drive a bullet down the bore, you want the gasses to expand. The hotter it is, the more they expand. Does it make a big difference? No. But it increases the thermal efficiency of your powder inside the case on physics alone.
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@africanelectron751 If not filled properly you start seeing gaps. If you watch colinfurze's tunneling adventure, it's possible to plug the walls to make sure everything is touching the walls, then fill the void inside the concrete shell.
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@jamiegray6931 the win rate is that every time radars are shut down, the bombers get through. HARMs are consumables, if they coerce the air defenses into shutting down, job is done. The strike package will hit the target and air defense fails their mission by refusing to defend the air space.
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Joshua Pearce then remove the laughs, but do cuts to remove the awkward pauses. Still unfunny. Or there's an edit where it's just one person laughing. Doesn't modify the timing, but it doesn't have the effect of the laugh track. Still horrible.
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Arthur Fisher there's a whole prank called No Soap Radio that exists solely to try and cause people to laugh at a joke they possibly couldn't get by coordinating with a group of people to laugh at the nonsensical punchline. Laughing is a social tool.
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Darin Beard it was already explained in this thread that they record with a live audience, but they don't record the audience because they can't control how good they sound, so they fill the blanks with canned laughter. You can listen to it, it's too consistent. And that's kind of the point, they don't want to deal with inconsistent audiences.
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The point isn't stopping the virus, it's stopping the water particles they catch a ride on. The issue is, masks only stop sneezed or coughed droplets. Not asymptomatic spread. If you want to use the facts, at least focus on the relevant ones.
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@granudisimo No, you think about it. Asymptomatic spread is done through aerosols, because people without symptoms are shedding the virus from aerosolized particles that are not only small enough to pass through most surgical and cloth masks, they're also light enough that exit through the unsealed openings around the nose, chin and cheeks.
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@granudisimo "what do you think the aerosol is, but a high concentration of small droplets?" - For fuck's sake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_transmission#Routes_of_transmission Airborne infections usually occur by the respiratory route, with the agent present in aerosols (infectious particles <5 µm in diameter)." https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/modes-of-transmission-of-virus-causing-covid-19-implications-for-ipc-precaution-recommendations "Airborne transmission is different from droplet transmission as it refers to the presence of microbes within droplet nuclei, which are generally considered to be particles <5μm in diameter" "Masks are used successfully in operating rooms" - To prevent the staff from spitting pathogens into the open wound, not to curb viral infection. I recently had a surgery and had to get tested for COVID-19. Why would they do that if everyone in the room is wearing masks? Also, masks worn in clinical settings are not indicative of mask performance "in the wild". In the operating room the mask is worn as PPE, universal masking is being used as a fashion accessory. Touch them, stick them in your pocket, put it on again. It's completely impractical to wear masks as PPE in "real life". "is not out of whack because it's not an argument, it's empiric data" - Buddy you not getting what my comment meant, which is fine, is not empirical data. Maybe I'm distracted and my sentences don't make much sense, maybe you're not paying attention. Whatever. You misunderstood me and thought that I said droplets were smaller. No. In the context of airborne diseases, we consider aerosols to be smaller than droplets. A non-airborne disease would be easier to stop because shielding and masks would stop most droplets. But when we're indoors wearing masks the aerosolized particles and just floating. People coughing and sneezing will have their projected particles caught by the mask for the most part, but people without symptoms will just be shedding virus despite the mask. Your argument, which was asking me to prove something I never claimed is indeed completely nonsensical. "You were the one talking about asymptomatic carriers specifically." - Yes because people without symptoms are being forced to wear masks "you can scream at people's faces" - I don't do that. Maybe you do, but I don't. "help you get out of the pit of ignorance" - Amazing. Says the person who can't even tell the difference between aerosol and droplet transmission.
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Mycel if you are riding a car that doesn't crumple, you are in a lot more danger. The other car crumpling can't compensate for yours not doing it.
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@ccdsds3221 "air superiority is not a thing" lmao
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@ericmanget4280 "Canada isn't China or Nazi Germany, our military and police aren't going to bend over ass backwards and be controlled by a tyrannical dictator." - You do realize that Nazi Germany was still Germany, right? A normal country full of normal people. At least in China you can argue that the CCP has brainwashed generations of its population, but the Germans weren't brainwashed.
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@Liam.keenlyside "some crimes are done with illegally obtained guns, but not all" - Then why have a licensing system is licensed gun owners end up committing gun crimes? "On top of that, that less guns means it's harder to get guns" - Not true. Many countries with strict gun laws are flowing with guns. And many countries with very low numbers of guns have disgustingly high gun homicide rates. "it's easier for police forces to target criminals with guns." - Why? "legal gun owners do still commit crimes with their guns." - Again, then what the fuck is the point of the licensing system if it can't even properly vet gun owners? "australias firearm homicides were in a steady decline, but that decline did take a sharp term down and accelerated." LOL NO it was a straight line. https://libertarianben.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/australia.jpg "Then for the UK, do you know why it increased? It was largely do to the fact that the afterward any crime involving something that was believed to be a gun was then automatically grouped into firearm crime," - and still they had to sweep the real numbers under the rug https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/3222063/Gun-crime-60pc-higher-than-official-figures.html How about some evidence of gun crime increasing even after the standards were allegedly changed? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/knife-gun-crime-stats-latest-england-wales-rise-increase-a8177161.html https://news.sky.com/story/gun-crime-rises-in-uk-in-last-year-with-more-than-9-700-cases-reported-11933150 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-47157967 "even in brazil in Mexico, it is not the easiest thing in the world to get a gun, in most places, if you dont know someone and try to buy it off the street you'll just get robbed" - Cartels have no problem getting guns off police armories, and in Brazil people make submachine guns in garages. "Yes killing someone with a gun and a knife is very different, compared to the person that has to pull the trigger and the person that has to personally drive a knife into someone" - I'm sure the victim appreciates the difference. "Firearms are made to kill, have you heard "you can't fight fire with fire"?" - You can. Controlled burns are used to deplete the fuel and prevent a larger fire from continuing. Even explosions can be used to separate the flame from the fuel and temporarily consume the oxygen in the area in situations like oil fires. "All it creates is more death- US homicide rate 5.0. 5x the rate of most countries" - And some countries with strict gun control have 5x the gun homicide. But sure, let's compare the US, which has most of its gun crime concentrated in cities that are more similar to the Third World than developed countries, to countries with different conditions and lower gang activity.
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@filmandfirearms regular Wagner has former elite soldiers with combat experience from Donbas, Syria, etc and had years of tactical training courses under their belts. A Wagner prisoner's job is simply carving a path for the elite to follow through and break the defenses - it would take YEARS to make them soldiers on the same level.
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@keithdantonio680 Why would you read a newspaper that keeps predicting the Steelers to lose and they keep winning? Col. MacGregor has spent a year and a half shouting about Ukraine's defeat and they're now finding success in the Russian defensive lines. It's the beginning of the end for Russian forces in the south.
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 @ghostviggen the F-35 was built to face the toughest opponent the US could conjure up. Are you seriously out of your mind?
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@ghostviggen Gripen's failed bids shows that apparently only Saab understands EWS. That was sarcasm, by the way. It means that whatever Saab is selling, people aren't buying.
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@googleplex1589 The Apache requires the tail to fly. If it loses a tail and flies... that's incredible. It shouldn't be able to do that. The Ka-52 uses a rotor on top of the main rotor to counter torque, which means that losing the tail does not affect the counter torque.
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@vaskedagame880 Yeah, genius. The Ka-52 was shot in a non-critical part so it survived. If you shoot a Blackhawk's landing gear instead of the tail, it will fly too.
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@vaskedagame880 A non-critical part being shot off is not impressive. You're adding importance to a tail when in a conventional helicopter it is important because it houses a rotor. Without the rotor, it's just less impressive. It's not even Russophobia, if the US made a helicopter that didn't need a tail, and it got a tail shot off, that wouldn't be impressive. Why the hell would I be impressed? That's like being impressed at someone being alive after they had their appendix removed. Want to impress me? Show me someone alive without a heart. Now that's astonishing.
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@thebrowns5337 Have you read books? Because if you had you would clearly be aware that history is full of "experts" who turned out to be sick twisted people. I consider someone an expert when they can prove their worth and their track record speaks for itself. When a random nobody who probably hasn't worked a real job in decades shows off his government credentials, I don't think they're "experts". Being an appointed stooge doesn't make someone an "expert". When they get things consistently wrong to the point that Joe The Plumber or Kyle The Pizza Delivery Guy could have predicted this kerfuffle 15 months ago, they're not experts at all.
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@BargainBarons Shill. We're not talking about effectiveness. You people just copy paste excuses. Why are you parroting talking points? It doesn't stop the spread even according to the manufacturers, the effectiveness rate is just calculated by suppression of symptoms. 100% effective, 99% effective, 95% effective, or 40% effective (after six months) it was never meant to stop spread. It was just marketed as such by the media and governments. So people can get sick and die, as long as the business owner "did his part"? This is immoral and people like you need to see the error in your ways because you're actively ruining the world with your attitude.
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A Japanese woman in a bank was just 300 meters from the epicenter in either Nagasaki or Hiroshima, I do not recall.
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@thisthespies9389 A contrail's behavior depends on temperature and pressure conditions. So pointing to differing behaviors is absolutely childish.
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@thisthespies9389 Just saying "incorrect" without any argument is worse than not saying anything because you're just admitting to have no argument at all.
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@thisthespies9389 You're literally not saying anything worthwhile. Wind conditions determine if a column of water condensation dissipates or just gets pushed around. It's turbulent vs laminar flow. A so-called chemtrail could behave any way you want simply by changing wind, temperature and pressure conditions.
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@thisthespies9389 The differences are caused by... differences in atmospheric conditions. Seriously, you're grasping at straws. Things are not static and look one way. They look different if put under different conditions.
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SEAD/DEAD isn't a card you play like in a game that automatically wins. You can do all the SEAD you want, and the enemy keeps radars off. When the A-10s show up, they turn on for 30 seconds, fire missiles, track, and shut down again. Plus, passive sensors like EO/thermal allow SHORAD to escape SEAD.
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@frostnotm5282 You said IC engines had over 100 years of development. Well, a lot of CO2 is released just making the steel used in electric vehicles. And there's over 100 years of development on that, so don't expect a huge breakthrough soon.
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 @polduran >"stop parroting myths! Anyway, here's the latest stats from MacGregor" TOP JEJ
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You forget that a lot of exercises have restricted RoE to purposefully force scenarios and then analyze them. The A-10s won because pilots were to try and do BFM in the A-10s domain. In "real life rules" they'd fire a Slammer and wipe the sky out of A-10s like fish in a barrel. Similar to the tales of F-5s beating F-14s. Reformers love to cite those exercises, as if the rules weren't constantly changing to keep F-14 pilots out of their element, and once they figured out how to outsmart the rule set, the rules would be changed again.
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I mean there's one skyscraper in San Francisco that needs the foundations to be re-staked because sands started shifting and it started leaning.
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Have they? We've seen F-35s doing "elephant walks" so we know they exist. Pictures of Russian tank factories from 2022 had the same tank under the same tarp as pictures from 2019. We haven't seen 100, or even 50 T-90Ms lined up.
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Give Putin what he asks and one day there will be nothing left.
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That's rich considering the number of improprieties allegedly comitted by Saab and BAE Systems. It's the Saab Gripen that was tarnished by bribery scandals. Stealth isn't just surprise. It's hitting without being hit. You go up against a defender with stealth when your aircraft are not low-observable, your aircraft will fall out of the sky without knowing who is targeting them or how much like Iraqi pilots were grounded and had aircraft inspected for sabotage when Iranian F-14s shot them down with AIM-54 Phoenixes. Planes were just turning into balls of flame out of nowhere, without engaging in combat.
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 @Roblovesbushcraft Damn Ukraine is incompetent and still kicking Russia's teeth in?
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The actual evidence shows mobiks and Wagner convicts getting shredded by the dozens.
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Yeah, and there were exemptions. And my card? It's a piece of paper. My brother actually took it by mistake, and spent two years in college with my document. With my name on it. Nobody cared. Nobody checked. He accidently missed his tetanus booster shot, because I had mine and since it was marked on my card, he thought he had it but forgot. Of course it was not a government overreach. Because nobody gave a damn. You didn't have to present that card to keep your job or to enter businesses. So stop with the false equivalency.
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+Gordon Goodman "If Intel included a cooler but a different one was used, then there is room for complaint" - but that opens up the Intel options, why not purchase the best possible water cooler and compare it to stock cooler AMD? Since Intel makes no recommendation... "If the AMD recommended cooler sucks ass then they should not recommend it" - that's just being disingenuous. AMD provides you a cooler but does not prevent any aftermarket cooling solutions from being used. If they shoved a Noctua in the box it would force them to charge more for the combo.
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+Gordon Goodman "Why should Intel go out of their way to furnish a cooler for the competition when they let the competition furnish its own?" 1. The testing was performed by Principled Technologies, not Intel. 2. Because it looks like you're skewing the results and it leads to bad PR. "It is well established this benchmark is funded by Intel and therefore biased isn't it? Why complain about it?" - the point of a bias is trying not to show it. For more than a decade the tech press had a bias against AMD without even knowing how they were skewing results. That's fucking good. It's stellar. When everyone with half a brain can point out what you did wrong, you're fucking retarded. Or not even trying. "If companies were honest, GamersNexus et al might be out of a job." - if companies were 100% honest, the gains society would achieve would make sure the good people at GN would be employed.
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+Gordon Goodman "Fair in the sense that AMD was permitted to supply the cooler of choice" - this isn't about "permission". In what fucking world do you assume that some guy who's gonna fit 64 goddamn gigabytes of RAM into his system and wonder which processor is the best, would for some reason take a pick between Ryzen+stock cooler and intel+noctua? "It's not like Intel tossed the boxed cooler in the garbage and went in search of the shottiest cooler on the market to make AMD look bad" - no, they just gave one the stock option and the other gave an AFTERMARKET PERFORMANCE PART. "If the supplied cooler is not up to snuff, supply a better one next time." - it's not about being up to snuff THE INTEL PART HAD A CLEAR ADVANTAGE BY USING A "MORE EXPENSIVE THAN STOCK" OPTION. Imagine comparing two engines, but in one of the engines tested the brand doesn't provide an intercooler so it is allowed to pick a an aftermarket kit to achieve greater boost. How the fuck is that a fair assessment of the two engines' performance? "Nothing I just said was subjective." - how is it not objective? Your "permission" excuse is literally just an opinion. It's not an objective fact that Ryzen must be compared to Intel on stock coolers while Intel is allowed Noctua coolers. "AMD made it easy to do in the case of the fan though." - how the fuck are they making it "easy"? It does not take any extra effort to ignore the stock cooler if you want performance.
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Two more weeks?
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"the towns are not much more the village’s" - the Kupiansk rail hub has massive strategic significance. Russia just lost an important rail connection to Severodonetsk, which threatens the collapse of another front in Luhansk.
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Russia invaded Ukraine when the meme republics were about to lose. The ones who "got lost in exercises" when they ended up being captured by the Russian army? Wagner gets paid by Russia. They didn't hang around the Donbas out of kindness. Russia wanted them there.
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@dakedakinson64 Ukraine cannot fly over Russian positions and Russia cannot fly over Ukrainian positions. To use an aircraft against armor, it has to expose itself to MANPADS.
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@terrynewsome6698 Thanks bro
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@dakedakinson64 They're releasing rockets in a loft maneuver to avoid overflying MANPADS. MANPADS are extremely effective. Due to SAM threat aircraft fly low, which makes them reachable with MANPADS.
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@dakedakinson64 MANPADS don't need to score a direct hit. Even small damage with fragmentation can ground an aircraft for repairs.
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Kasparov hates Putin, though.
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 @Kalendir Russia "saves" people in a funny way. See Syria, Beslan siege, Moscow theater hostage crisis, etc
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The Abrams had an unmanned turret design proposed. It just didn't get picked.
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Yeah how dare you ruin everyting for the rest of us by giving the market the signal that a decade long alpha and 600 dollar micro transactions are acceptable?
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He went off on Sydney Watson because she read a couple of superchats.
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No, it wouldn't. Criminals would rule the streets with illegal guns and melee weapons.
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A Fels Republicans love Israel, what do you mean?
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@tdring10681 right but everyone knows the MIC from Eisenhower's speech. The MIC at the time was like 25% of the US economy and now it's around 2%. A tenfold decrease. So we essentially eliminated the MIC Eisenhower warned about.
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@night6724 if drugs were legal then drug dealers wouldn't make any money... Drugs become expensive because of the fact that they need to be smuggled and sold illegally. If you legalize them, they become so cheap that drug dealers would just make more money by getting a job, they wouldn't have the money for guns and ammo to fight in the streets, cartels wouldn't have the money to bribe the police or pay the people working in their plantations... If drugs were legal Escobar might as well have smuggled avocados into the US.
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 @TheDaniel9 Something is not likely if the evidence does not support it.
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@JimBob_Joe77 Russia sent their remaining fighting force to get trapped in Kherson. Master plan - now Luhansk falls due to the loss of Kharkiv.
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@Wheely_Dan not fair, Jesus healthcare essentially cost very little labour and no resources at all.
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@6789uiop Not at all. Jesus did not redistribute anyone's wealth nor did he stand against private property.
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@6789uiop I fail to see where Jesus called for the anarchist militia to gun people down for their property. Christianity is voluntary. Socialism is coercive.
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Russia actually invaded in 2014, they just pretended they were Donbas militia. The war has been going on for 8 years, just simmering.
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@perperperpen But that's not even an argument. We're not debating the reasons for crime, because guns aren't a reason to commit crime. Whatever the reason, criminals will obtain guns, and use them in violent countries. When gangs and criminal syndicates are caught in Europe, you often see tables with guns lined up and the criminals allowed themselves to be arrested without firing a shot. Meanwhile in the US, a criminal will shoot a cop who pulled him over just to tell him his tail light is out. Both types of criminals have access to guns, but very different levels of willingness to kill. The nation may be developed as a whole, but you go to some cities and it's honestly very similar to Brazil or Mexico. Did you see Seth Rogen's tweet to Casey Neistat about how his car has been broken into 15 times in LA? Is that acceptable for a developed nation? The 2010s happened just two years ago. We've spent most of 2020 and 2021 in and out of lockdowns. Not a lot of opportunities for mass killings. "What normal civilian even has access to a 3d printer that could print a gun?" - Ender 3, usually 180-200 bucks/euros on Amazon. "our laws will adapt" - Adapt to what? The law can't handle people doing whatever they want. "currently, it isnt an issue" - Telegram channels have started to sell 3d printed guns in Europe. "it would still literally be easier to go out and get an actual gun" - Okay, the point of the argument is assuming that you've made it hard. Now it's literally easier to make it at home. "Im not going to argue about hypothetical issues" - It's not hypothetical. It's reality. 3d printed guns are starting to get seized by police. "there's 400,000,000 estimated firearms in America, what's your point?" - That you can't get to them. "We could significantly lower that number." - How? You don't know where they are. You can't lower the number, only prevent it from increasing.
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The Junkers Jumo 004 was hot garbage and they were fully aware of it because they were on full "perfect is the enemy of good" mode and strived for ease of production despite of the fact that the engine was held together by spit and prayers and could need a refurbishment after 10-50 hours of operation depending on how hard you flew it. The V2 project was more expensive than the Manhattan project despite using slave labor, and it killed more people in the construction of the missiles than in its military application. Out of 1610 V2s fired at Antwerp only 590 were direct hits. The Germans were also fooled into overshooting London by bogus casualty reports. They weren't perfecting the ICBM if their guidance was driven by guesstimation rather than precisely calculated impact points, and it was more of a short range missile. The nuclear project was also a joke, with very little funding, most researchers giving up and working on other projects, and the diversion of the uranium stock towards the production of ammunition cores. It's not that they were unsuccessful at building a nuclear reactor, it's that they barely even tried.
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Ben Zenering you think conspiracy theories start and stop at Alex Jones? Trans-dimensional alien lizard vampires controlling the government and mass shootings being a hoax is very tame compared to what people used to come up with on their own.
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Everyone parks jets in the open.
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I have been hearing about the lost nukes myth and nobody has used any. They'd have gone bad by now.
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There's a lot of hurdles in pr0n, guns and weed dispensaries. Many banks and credit card processors refuse to work with you. If twitch had an explicitely adult variant, they wouldn't only have problems with advertisers but even with the money side of the businesses.
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 @knowahnosenothing4862 All that drone tech is on A-10C aircraft too.
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 @apis_aculei there's a difference between inability to shrug off a Javelin and getting penned by RPG 7.
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Uhhhh actually it proves they are necessary. The most dense SAM environment in the world right now, nobody flies. Want to play in the air? Stealth is the price of admission. Everyone else lobs cruise missiles and glide bombs from afar then tucks tail and runs.
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@jamesmorrow1646 Hospitals getting paid was the main reason.
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Lofted rockets is a terrible form of CAS.
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Pretty sure tons of companies are pulling out of China.
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Why?
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@edward-senpai Ukraine was invaded by Russia in 2014. Iran has been violating nuclear agreements and helped orchestrate Oct 7. Prior to 2014 which deals did Ukraine break? They gave up their nukes. Prior to 2014 which terrorist attacks did they plan in Russia?
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+KingNicotine typically there's no room in the private sector for gender studies graduates but those people often manage to butt in through HR and sensitivity training. Not only are media outlets willing to employ these people but they also get jobs in NGOs and make a living out of dictating which content facebook and youtube should deplatform.
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I mean, perfectly credible. Some dictator wastes money on three shiny new fighters, most of the nation's defenses are decades old.
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The labs were built by Soviets. As always, Moscow shat the bed and the US had to pay for the cleanup.
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Because it's outdated. There's was an ongoing debate on whether or not the F-22 should be upgraded to modern standards but the issue is that so few were made, that the per unit cost of such a program would be too high so it would be preferable to leave it as it is and retire it once the NGAD is ready to replace it.
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About to capture Bakhmut for two weeks.
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They lost the war the day they started. Individual weapons don't win and lose wars. Logistics does.
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@tonkatoytruck I don't see you posting evidence. Where are the photos or videos of the claims you made?
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@tonkatoytruck I don't know where your evidence is, I can't find it and in fact I came across evidence to the contrary. You made the claim, burden is on you.
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 @That-guy-there1 Unfortunately my comment went to the shadow realm. So I'll just say - puberty puts a time limit. Past a point the older you get the manlier a guy looks.
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No mention of the absolute unicorn that is the Knight's SR-47?
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But the Mosquito's wood construction gave it the same characteristic. When everyone is stealth, nobody is.
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@no-one_no1406 The Ho 229 failed basic stealth with the exposed engine blades at the front.
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@yaelz6043 Poland used to own Russia. Russia is the only country that celebrates independence from Poland.
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"Xaxaxa foolish Westoid, we didn't want Kherson" then why did you capture it?
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"with the intention to stir trouble" - Can you prove this? No. "That should be illegal." - That would just allow cops to arrest anyone for any reason. "If you think it's ok to kill someone who wanted to give you a wooping (not kill you)" - How do you know that? How do you know it's going to end as a whopping? How do you know you're not going to be shot by the guy with the Glock? Or dragged to the curb and stomped like in American History X? You have to trust your aggressor? A criminal? "you live in a very sad insecure, immoral bubble" - No, it seems to be you just enjoy having the right to beat people up without them fighting back. Seems to me you're afraid of armed victims. "Sometimes you act like an asshole and you will get your ass kicked" - So assault should be legal? Thought so. You're a psychopath who enjoys harming people. "What would Jesus do?" - Killing in self-defense is allowed by the Bible.
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Not really, there's so many stuff running on dogshit coding. Yeah, you want top ranked experts dealing with banks or whatever to make their systens efficient and uncrackable. But if you just have to change the program on a controller board on an automated machine in a factory you don't need to be a genius.
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The problem is that in European countries most of the cost is covered by the taxpayer (I think in my country it's about 2/3rds). And even in the US the tuition is heavily subsidized and colleges get a shit ton of grants for research and whatnot. I'm all for letting people waste their money. But they're wasting OUR money.
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@MajorSpeirs "precision strikes" - aka the usual Ru MoD Baghdad Bob cope.
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Says who? The UK and Poland would keep the aid going. The US isn't even going to remove aid in 2024.
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@jhpfdijtuiweruot They have 5 ground stations in the US.
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@jhpfdijtuiweruot just take your meds
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That's a much better conspiracy. More throughput means every camera on a device can feed footage like in The Dark Knight.
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@northstarmind1049 Both North Vietnam and Taliban signed peace treaties, the US left and they attacked South Vietnam and the ANA respectively. The operations to fly out allies and refugees out of those countries are ofren confused with US troops being defeated in combat which is not what happened.
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Navy pilots didn't have a high opinion of him either.
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@davidthomas9190 in it's confusion, China paralyzed its own economy for two months.
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Because the photos from Kharkiv showed absolute carnage.
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I don't know how how much I can say without getting deleted for "spreading misinformation" because I'm not a doctor, but... essentially we understand the mechanism of infection that is killing people. We know how to save those who are critical and it's not respirators or O2.
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The DPR and LPR are staffed with Russian nationals mobilized for the war. Murz, LPR volunteer since the original Donbas war, said last year they were already scrapping the bottom of the barrel by conscripting wounded and mentally ill men.
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@cletushatfield8817 The fudge does that mean? Being hosted in shows with different audiences is a way to gain notoriety, not an exercise in spoonfeeding.
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@sockpastarock7082 New Zealand is like goddamn Madagascar in Pandemic 2. No shit that putting your country under a metaphorical dome for two years is going to seem to work, you're an outlier.
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No "real" currency has inherent value.
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@locybapsi174 If you had followed news, you'd have understood that Ukrainian officials themselves said that you wouldn't notice the counteroffensive as it was ongoing. All this time they were probing the lines, and we first heard of the breakthrough from the Russian side. But the offensive had been ongoing for a long time until it spilled over.
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Yes. Recovering modern cruise missiles would be extremely important to keep intelligence up to date with any advances.
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How was it a double cross? Ukraine mined the north, and has water reservoirs to wet the soil to create mud. The videos of Russian convoys burning with corpses all around them would make a comeback.
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And Su-25s from both sides have been easily shot down. I don't Ukrainian pilots to risk their lives when we could give them something better.
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There's 178 F-22s in flying condition and only a handful of Su-57 prototypes and something like 6 "production" units.
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@antonyjh1234 8 years of civilian killings? The actual data suggests almost nobody but troops died after the first 2 years, and most civilian casualties weren't "killed" but victims of landmines and unexploded ordnance. You know, something that can only be pinned on Russia considering they invaded?
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No. The FLIR video is pretty mundane.
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 @blahblah49000 But they're not testifying the same thing. Fravor claims there was a dogfight. Videos show birds and objects being lost from track making them appear to accelerate.
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 @stevenmoore3480 What good will it do to vote for either?
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They were clapping when Jimmy talked.
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Wrong way to think about it. It's the innocent who should have privacy, the criminals lose their rights by infringing on others'. You don't walk around naked to prove your innocence while criminals go around fully masked, that's nonsense.
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@chuletaization If the protests were only against the government I wouldn't have a problem, but people had to sit on the rooftops of their stores with rifles to prevent them from being burned down. That's not government.
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@casbot71 They were greeted as liberators, I remember seeing the crowds cheering when the Saddam statue got toppled. It was the Ba'ath party and Iran-lead militias that decided that prolonging the war was a good idea.
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3D printing kind of solved the magazine issue. They're not very durable (unless you mod them) but you can built your whole gat out of metal and just treat magazines as consumable items. Bending sheet metal to the correct dimensions is a PITA but printing offloads the precision to a computerized system.
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@wildmanofthenorth1598 "It's what we consider electromagnetic but it isn't a spectrum or range visible to the human senses" - So, like IR strobes?
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Well, you people keep going "Russia good" and overestimating them. Did you watch the drone videos? They're just popping themselves in the head with no hesitation. Incredible how they're conditioned to just game end themselves.
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The air force didn't say the program failed. Stop getting your news from clickbait.
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AIM-9X range is published as "over 10 miles".
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Several issues here. First of all, cancelling the attack plays into the insurgency. They're going to be back. You're spending millions of dollars for every week you stay in country, be in hazard pay, keeping air conditioning units working, security contractors, etc. Fleeing when facing insurmountable odds and waiting for the next opportunity to attack. They can just go home and wait two weeks while the US economy is slowly bled by the costs of occupation. I'd rather drop a precision guided bomb from tens of thousand feet in the air, unseen and unheard and get them all at once while they're clustered before they scatter. Second, it's not hard to believe considering that not only the aircraft was supposed to be originally retired in 1993, it already required Boeing to receive a billion dollar contract... twice... to rebuild the aging wings, the company that made it went out of business in 2003, and it's been mostly replaced by F-16s, Strike Eagles and F/A-18s.
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The retreat was predicted two weeks ago when the Kherson leadership evacuated the city.
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@somewhereelse1235 The reserve is made up of former conscripts. They had shoddy training before, and they'll have a seven day refresher course (if not cut short to two days). They'll fix the manpower problem, but at great cost to Russian society.
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elcidS15 carrying a water bottle is easy. Dump the contents on face.
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But they leave an unacceptable amount of UXO. Soldiers, farmers, etc could be maimed or killed after the areas are recaptured.
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The rifle thing is meaningless. If the cartridge dictates category so now one can't shoulder a PCC but can shoulder an AR, even though both weapons are exactly the same with only different barrel and bolt. 22 Long Rifle is shot out of both pistols and rifles. Let's not ask for even more insane categories, this benefits absolutely nobody especially if the end goal is going after the NFA anyway. In fact, it would harm many because their 5.56 "pistols" are now rifles under the SBR definition without registration. Asking for this clarification would actually criminalize many gun owners.
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You do realize that there's non-English parts of the internet, right? North Koreans and South Koreans have different dialects but the symbology is the same.
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That support only materialized when Ukraine showed they could fight off Russia. Russia would have been embarassed either way, maybe suffer less losses in the long term and get concessions from Ukraine. All the support did was give Ukraine a second wind. The bear trap sprung in the first few days, and the steel teeth dug very very deep.
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@robshepherd3782 Afghanistan was bombed as a result of Taliban support of Bin Laden after 9/11, Iraq to suppress the weapons manufacturing and oppression of minorities, in Somalia there was a multinational force to deal with warlords, Pakistan cooperated with some strikes and wasn't cooperative with others as they aided the Taliban, Serbia was comitting genocide, Yemen is an Iran proxy war.
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@SamTheEnglishTeacher No. It was the borderlands because beyond Ukraine you'd have the turkic and caucasus people. The name Ukraine predates Moscow, so Muscovites could not refer to Ukraine as their border. We in Europe called Ukraine our border because of what was beyond.
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In the "forced conscription" videos the officer/senior enlisted who beats up people is always the same actor, same gait in every video.
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LOL... the Government.... when you think you're more Alpha than some goat farmers in the mountains
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@filmandfirearms The highly targeted Russian mobilization pulled elderly men with diabetes and poor eyesight, the pediatric neurosurgeons that service an entire region in Russia, etc.
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@filmandfirearms "Russia has thousands of modern tanks" - They don't. They have thousands of hulls sitting in Siberia. Under the sun, rain and snow. Having a hull doesn't mean a combat capable tank. You can look for satellite pictures or even shots taken from up close, the majority of those tanks are rusted to hell and back.
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@filmandfirearms "Every Russian man has to do a year of military service when he turns 18" - And every Russian man knows that's a wasted year. Like you said, if you don't have the smarts or the money, you take the year. It's not a year where you actually develop skills. That's actually fun and engaging. Instead, they're subjected to forced labor and hazing.
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@Princip666 "just made a few holes in the road" - it cut through the steel rebar and punched a hole in the base layer. You could see river.
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@mobilecivilian6124 Has MacGregor apologized for making a fool of himself? He predicted Ukraine's total defeat multiple times and he's constantly wrong. A debate with MacGregor should be exclusively a presentation featuing his bombastic quotes and letting the audience laugh at him.
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Still not realy armored otherwise they wouldn't even take off.
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@Robert-ns7id Exactly. "Ukrainians will never be Russified" - Dudayev
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They have a lot of fiberglass construction which makes them less reflective to radar, and fly higher than most short range defenses.
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If the image was of a buff man, you wouldn't be able to tell it because at most you see a shoulder.
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But the media stopped reporting on it and the restrictions were lifted.
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 @RyBrown the whole 2.1 kids per couple isn't "infinite growth", it's the average for replenishment. Each two humans generally other two (plus an allowance).
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@throeawae2130 lmao calling people a "snowflake" when losing the argument, embarrassing
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Fit the electronics onto other airframes, and all you'll have is an easily shot-down aircraft carrying expensive equipment it can't use because it can't get close to the enemy without getting missiles fired at it.
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It's not a fallacy. Hasan is enjoying the fruits of capitalism while saying it's poison, and rather than do something about it he actually doubles down by rewarding capitalist businesses (purchasing luxurious brand goods rather than paying laborers fair wages to make stuff) and then acts as a cut throat capitalist by using unpaid labor.
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+MrSpinel can you give us a concise explanation of what makes an AR-15 different from other rifles?
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erozpl01 I have heard about the issues with German military weapons not being approved to manufacture in the US but the "look it up" is extremely hard. The only "source" I get is the "HK doesn't hate you" article at TFB and every other search result are pages and pages of HKpro forum threads where 80% of the people posting are relaying bad information. If there was a definitive source I'd love to get it because then I could just link it to all the smartasses saying "HK should just start manufactuing in the US, nobody's stopping them!".
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Because turning off the tap is breach of contract.
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It's selectively enforced. Keeping people afraid of saying war is enough.
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@frosty848 It was clearly edited in photoshop. The real leak is 43k.
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@santiagoperez2094 Germany was doomed from the start, what do you mean almost defeated? Nuclear reactors?
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@santiagoperez2094 RCS reductions depend on the inverse square law. A proximity fuze is meant to set off a shell in near misses. Not only was the Horten not made with RCS reduction in mind, but RCS reduction doesn't have any effect when the radar emitter is inches away.
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@santiagoperez2094 If you don't know, you could look it up. What a concept. Yes of course the shells were active, but even if they weren't the receiver unit is on the fuze itself. Stealth doesn't mean anything when the proximity fuze is inches away. That's why missiles can still take out stealth aircraft. It was mentioned after the technology was known. Big whoop. If they really had a stealth aircraft they'd have mentioned it right away.
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@prplt But even those who dodge the conscription get called. You'd have to actually leave the country until the age limit lapses, because those who ask for deferment in case of health/education also are elegible for mobilization.
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@tinpu1056 What's the priority? Because it seems like "not being defeated" is not on the top of their list of priorities.
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@johnhenryweber665 emails, encryption keys and fingerprints to unlock iPhones as well. Next week it's gonna be rear-end COVID swabs. For your protection, of course.
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 @clarencek3658 If you want to look through any cabinet with a fine tooth comb you're gonna find despicable people.
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The ones showing birds? lol
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Maiden Minnesota bruh I don't even remember which channel said but but Tucker criticized a guy who said on TV that the shutdown would have to last until the vaccine was available. It's gonna take more than 12 months for that.
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Revan That doesn't have anything to do with the fact that yes, some people have said that this is new new normal and the shutdown will last indefinitely
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They always had it. The current SBU leader himself used to perform raids into Crimea before the 2022 war.
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So millions of people with no symptoms have to wear them anyway. You do understand your riding the sled down the slippery slope, right? If a mild respiratory disease is reinstating masks, why would masks ever be removed? Just wear them forever due to colds and flu.
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The correct use of the A-10 is sending it to the boneyard.
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Russians have bluffed a lot. Medvedev promised Armageddon if Crimea was attacked, then deleted his post out of embarrassment when Ukrainians did it anyway.
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 @harm991 Gas tanks rarely explode because there's no proper air fuel ratio.
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@Blackhawk556. Gas doesn't burn and explode instantly. You need the proper air fuel ratio. Only the "fumes" start burning, essentially. Gasoline is volatile and the evaporation mixes it with air. Liquid gasoline unmixed with air can't burn.
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@eattherich1793 It's not about opinions mattering. Like it or not, this Earth has 8 billion people who do not matter. You need them. Start acting like it.
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+The Stoned Raider the argument from authority doesn't work when experienced game devs have committed massive blunders.
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@grubbybum3614 fuck the EU army too. We're not dying to protect the interests of France and Germany.
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@shsh-he5qg Bakhmut is prime orc-killing land. If Russia insists on falling on its sword there, oblige them.
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It's the other way around, Russians blame the "Anglo-Saxons" for things the US did lol they're still malding over the Crimean war.
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We would need to restart extraction operations in gas fields we control but which damage houses, and build the infrastructure for LNG shipments. It's a matter of being able to do it, but we'd prefer if we didn't have to and now these things take months.
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How does the fighting end without guarantees?
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@matthabir4837 Bookmark this comment and ping back when Russia loses another oblast.
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@matthabir4837 Swatting Khinzals out of the sky. 7:0.
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@matthabir4837 The Belgorod embarrassment was not enough?
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@matthabir4837 A militia riding in unarmored Humvees invaded Russia dawg. This should tell you Russia is not ready for what's coming.
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@matthabir4837 Hows Sevastopol? Again.
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@meddy833 But the Russian army was destroyed.
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There's Nammo in Norway, Fiocchi in Italy, MEN in Germany, Prvi Partizan in Serbia, maybe a few more I can't recall. Ukraine used to have one of the largest 7.62x39 factories but it was destroyed in the 2014-2015 conflict, Poroshenko announced plans to rebuild a new one but haven't heard any more after he lost the election in 2019.
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@nothanks3590 not really. According to the Militia Act of 1903 every able bodied male 18-45 is part of the militia. Several states also have laws that officially accept all able bodied males as part of their state militia. You only take part if you want but it was the solution to define the status of the National Guard as the organized militia.
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The F-35 has nothing to do with the F-22. Even if 700 F-35s had been produced as originally intended, the F-35 would still ned to replace the F-16.
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@arduinoguru7233 being able to make smaller engines doesn't correlate to fighter engine development.
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They destroyed the Russian army on their own - forcing them to resort to convicts and poorly trained conscripts. They're the best ally we've ever had.
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@bonniematthews7611 The shot doesn't prevent you from getting it, and still allows you to transmit. This means that it's going to mutate no matter what you do. Also, it came from animals so it can jump back and forth and return like other seasonal viruses. You can't blame this on anyone.
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The craft isn't rolling. The pod is. So the mirrors and lenses are rotating to keep the horizon stable. The smudge is an artifact from the lenses which rotates to keep the image stable.
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"For Zelensky, Raccon?" "For Mariupol" drops Putin out of the window
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@jesuszamora6949 You can upload the video hours later. It's harder to go back in time and post a video you haven't filmed yet, but posting it afterwards is just a matter of letting time go forward.
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@mdunk1664 leaders can be taken out or arrested. Decentralized is the answer.
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Hey Ed how's that Mueller thing going on? Seems to me it's an absolute shitshow.
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kg2679 You mean when 1950s reactor designs survived the tsunami despite an insufficient seawall, had their cooling shut down as standard operational procedure, couldn't restart and then for whatever reason the diesel generators and switchboards were placed at a basement which flooded? Meaning that the disaster was entirely avertable had the seawall been built higher or the backup systems placed uphill?
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@MegaSpideyman In every way. He accused isolationist Americans of being Nazis. He was a chickenhawk who never set foot in a war. He'd be part of the outrage mob on twitter if he was alive today.
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@Iberianlobo you don't know what marginalization is. Marginalizing a majority is a PERFECT tactic to maintain control because it pits people against each other. While you're busy arguing if white people can be victims of racism or other bullshit you're distracted from the issues. The perfect example is affirmative action in college applications. If you're white, and someone with the same capabilities as you gets a spot based on ethnicity while you get rejected, you get fucking mad. And I've been hearing about this for what, 20 years. Only last year did people start taking about rich people buying spots in college for their kids. That's what the distraction is for. Make groups of people feel wronged by other groups.
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Cody Wilson is a fucking hero.
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 @baalzebub5000 That's the problem, innit? I'm not mad at people. I'm mad at the fact that the world can beat people down and then give itself the Men in Black flash about what they have done.
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@williamcrossan9333 Empty bedrooms seems like a really dodgy statistic. That would include guest bedrooms, kids' bedrooms after they grow up and move out of the parents' houses, and rural/country homes that stay vacant for most of the year and really can't be counted for housing because they're located where there's no jobs.
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@nightedpemder4992 "don't know how they did it" - We have educated guesses, but we can't afford to try all variations to figure out which one works the best/is the safest. It would not be worth it to spend millions trying to replicate every part... when we could just make a modern engine.
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@sabersz you get asked which asset paper money is tied to and your answer is "whatever you want". You have no idea what you're talking about.
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@sabersz How am I coping? You were asked a fairly simple question and you instantly exposed yourself as someone who has no idea what he's talking about. I'm not worse off. You know nothing about me. I have zero dollars invested in crypto, but I got my attention invested on people talking big game embarrassing themselves. Let's try again. Which asset is the USD backed by?
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The F-16 can kinetically defeat short range missiles the A-10s exhaust is shielded from. Taking out the gun would unbalance the aircraft. It would need to be reengineered and re-certified.
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Ok, Sundar Pichai.
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That doesn't make much sense considering that most people are conscripted in their early adulthood so most people's skills will be similar (public schooling).
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5 month old account lol
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Your life really is waking up and immediately thinking about tr**ns.
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No, there isn't. The trillion dollar figure is the entire cost of program and operation until 2070.
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Can anyone explain why m4a/universal and "public option" are different? I thought they were the same thing.
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@JM-nt5ex But everyone being eligible for Medicare wouldn't imply the nationalization of the private sector. That's what's confusing. Most countries with universal healthcare have everyone eligible to use the universal system, but if you want you can still pay your private insurance. M4A seems to imply the first part, but come with the elimination of the second.
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Yes, there is a reaction force to the Lorentz force that moves charged particles so the flywheel slows down. That's how regenerative braking works, too.
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Yeah the increase in heart conditions in 2021 was all clogged arteries. Tons of people get stronger side effects after the second dose. This was known months ago. The doctor simply doesn't want to put his license on the line by writing that recommendation.
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@dont4922 This assumes that people will not take their safety as their own responsibility. When authorities were saying masks are useless, I saw people wearing full fledged respirators and gas masks to go shopping. And the measures will be adapted by each business, instead of having two or three sizes fits all of measures that outright force closures without any leeway, or severely limit walk ins, while other businesses are allowed to operate freely. Also, the sharp and short lockdown would not have worked considering that in the Americas and Europe we have found samples taken in late 2019 that included antibodies for the Wuhan strain, meaning it was already present, and it would continue through household contacts and resurface when the lockdown was over.
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@Soldierboy54b the cop was in the wrong. Starbucks baristas have pitched in the conversation and revealed that pig gets flagged on profanity filters so the only way to get it printed on the label is to use the app. When questioned about it, O'Mara said he paid with card and deleted his original tweet. The cop fucking false-flagged himself.
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@truxton1000 Your comment sounds exactly like what was said 10 months ago. Ukraine punched Russia's teeth out in Kharkiv, forced the Kherson retreat, etc and you people keep saying Russia will prevail. Another offensive and the humiliation will have to get you people to shut up, no?
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@CLDLL-yr8df I remember when the US invaded Iraq and several NATO countries said no. Being a member of NATO doesn't mean you are dominated.
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There's a difference between fighting a battle and credible advance thrusts.
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America did initially, but requested assurances that the court wouldn't be weaponized by sore losers in case of intervention.
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@jayzenitram9621 I fail to see how that is relevant. Unions formed for the purpose of collective bargaining. Federally mandating X dollars per hour, if anything, undermines collective bargaining.
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@jayzenitram9621 I mean, the term "livable wage" opens another can of worms. Federally mandating a number based on cheap areas would prove insufficient for more expensive places, and mandating a number based on expensive urban areas would kill businesses. "both are born out of a desire for a livable wage?" - well, minimum wage was born out of eugenics programs to prevent the poor from breeding by making them unemployable. So right there they can't be compared. Second, collective bargaining is an attempt to find a market balance for the value of one's labour. If you demand 15 dollars an hour but there's plenty of people who work just as well as you do for 7, your labour isn't really worth 15 dollars. If nobody is willing to do what I ask for a measly 7 dollars then it means that the jobs I have to offer are too hard for anyone to bother showing up for that low pay. The difference between collective bargaining and minimum wage is that a value of labour set by the market is much less problematic than a mandated value essentially meaning that both easy jobs and hard jobs have the same value because of the minimum legal baseline. "What union represents McDonald's workers?" - what is that even supposed to mean?
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You have no counter arguments, just insults.
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Russian missile strikes are killing civilians. Tragic, but ultimately fruitless like the Blitz against the UK.
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Mighty Fist Of Zeon! How so? The Brits got an AR-10 for DMR, the New Zealanders got an AR-15 made by LMT to be their main service rifle and the French replaced the FAMAS for a HK416 aka a piston AR. For something outdated, it's still selling like hotcakes.
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@lukelewis9165 The A4s were manufactured as recently as 2011 by FN Herstal USA, if I'm not getting it mixed up. The AKM started to get replaced in the 70s.
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The National Guard also deploys overseas and does air defense of the country. Plenty of stuff is labeled Top Secret. Such as 90% of the leaked documents containing information that was available publically. These are not 007 level secrets, but are important for the NG to stay up to date with current events and emerging threats.
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@workout.matter790 reread and reinterpret what I said. I said that if we become dependent on UBI then A SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE would deny us UBI. What happens if the billion dollar corporations supporting such a system collapse, or move to a different jurisdiction? Suddenly we won't have the money propping up society.
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@workout.matter790 "His argument was that he doesn't trust the government to give money out" - and we shouldn't trust them! You pay taxes to fix the roads, educate children, etc. right? Well tough shit, 4 trillion of that money you paid is now smoldering craters in the Middle East. 6 trillion if we count the money it's going to cost us to look after the veterans in the next few decades. How much of that money bailing out the banks? How much of that money in corporate subsidies?
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There is the theory that the Chernobyl reactor actually went supercritical for a moment, but only a fizzle.
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@Youaretheactionsofgod Hamas basically made every square inch of Gaza into a military target. The Geneva convention was basically written under the assumption governments would care about their own people and if they don't you are authorized to do what it takes to win.
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It would require flying a strategic bomber, which is easily shot down by Patriot, S-300, Buk, etc.
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 @bigKANG420 This is a falsehood. In many countries it's illegal to question any genocide, not just the Holocaust.
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If Russia can use Sukhois against Ukraine, Ukraine can use F-16s. That's not escalation.
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I don't want to dig a hole that large.
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+Jacob Smith using the same logic if the 2080Ti was more reasonably priced it would cost you even less... Plus if everyone dumps their 1080s and 1080 Tis then market price will drop even further.
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@pyrotechnick420 lack of driver support, microstuttering, poor scaling, heat and power draw, etc...
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@Rob Moreno "according to the Russians" - yeah, that's a lie. Supposedly the troops encircled in Izyum made the deal to lay down the weapons and leave on bus.
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@Rob Moreno "They retreated to the east" - The road was eventually cut off. We may need a few days to get confirmation, but Izyum was encircled with pockets of resistance inside. The videos of the advance don't show any shelling, and the artillery is left behind.
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@Rob Moreno There was fighting just outside Lyman a day ago. Is there any way to prove dates on your "videos"? They could have been filmed two days ago.
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They are "extremely effective" against insurgents with no AA capability. They're even slower than the Su-25, which has suffered great losses on both sides. Simply put, dedicated support fixed-wing aircraft are obsolete with multiroles can do the same job while also dodging SAMs on the way out.
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@spartanrating8210 COPE. They didn't withdraw from Kharkiv, you can see the pictures. They were massacred. The roads in Kharkiv were littered in body parts.
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Imagine a world where the YF-23 and X-32 won and everyone would be making youtube videos on how the F-22 and 35 should have won.
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@codeinecowboy8607 They also let Nidal Hasan live while performing games of Simon Says in hotel hallways and SEAL raids on homeless camps. Unrelated things are unrelated.
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I'm sure they could. But city hall has other priorities.
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bandholm the F35A costs 85 million right now, it's a competitive price vs 4+ Gen aircraft
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THAAD BATTERY EXTRA RANGE the F35 is a F16 on steroids. How would it be regrettable to improve?
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Tyngchinchilla Chang the F35 came from the Joint Strike Fighter program, it was a JOINT venture with exports in mind.
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+bandholm your assumptions are correct. However, it's important to know that a missile's rocket only typically has a boost phase, or a boost-sustain which typically give the missile around 10 seconds of powered flight. Outside that window, pilots often do what is called (if I'm not mistaken) an F-Pole maneuver, in which they force the missile to turn in a direction they don't want to go without actually increasing the rate of closure, and then turn into the intended direction. The unpowered missile is pretty much a glider on a ballistic path, and if it had to turn again it will bleed a lot of energy and become unable to keep with a plane. At close range the issue changes - although there's missiles capable of pulling 40 G's, when powered the missile is much faster which means the turn radius is much larger than a slower airplane. This means that a 9 G pulling airplane can out turn a missile capable of pulling hundreds of Gs. The issue is, modern missiles probably have computing power to work out the least stressful maneuver necessary to meet the airplane. So if you're pulling 9 Gs the missile won't try to follow your tail, it will turn in a predictive pursuit and then slam from the side (almost like an "S"). So it all comes down to how modern is the missile being fired. " anywere near the power to detect incoming missiles, at a range where they can outfly them" typically what aircraft use is a RWR, which is a passive sensor which does not need high power - it detects the radar emissions of either the launching aircraft or the incoming missile. The strength of modern missiles is that they can be fired in Track-While-Scan mode and have GPS/inertial navigation course corrections meaning they won't tell the victim that there's a radar lock until the missile is close, becomes independent and turns it's own locking radar on. Meanwhile, the F-35 actually has an always on passive electro-optical system with 360 degree coverage which is said to be able to detect missile launches. "But air-to-air missiles are mostly heat-seekers, with a targeting radar in it as well" not quite. Both the radar and IR sensor would require line of sight to the enemy plane. But IR guided missiles can be slaved to the aircraft's radar and given these inputs it's what probably allows the missile to perform trajectory computing rather than just doing a pure pursuit on the IR signature like the old heat seekers. "It is not really its job anyway, but that of the bombers" Actually multirole-fighters have been doing the role of bombers for quite a while. The F-4 Phantom II was able to carry a bomb load greater than the B-17 Flying Fortress over Vietnam, the F-16 was used by the Israelis in a long range operation to bomb out a nuclear reactor, etc. The major advantage of the F-35 is that you can clear out defenses before an assault due to it's stealth capabilities allowing for more paths over enemy territory where the radar coverage isn't sufficient to detect stealth aircraft and if needed, firing missiles that lock onto the radar emissions to clear the way for conventional aircraft. The F-35 will serve the Marines for the same purpose as the Harrier - clearing the way for an amphibious invasion. Again, most of your assumptions are correct but modern air combat has many intricacies and caveats.
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The concussion one would kill the hostages due to blast overpressure in the room.
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But he isn't and even if he were, it's not working. Do something yourself instead of trying to live vicariously through corrupt leaders.
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Who paid for the Russian and British lend lease? The Brits paid it back in 2006, 60 years after the war.
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@mfallen6894 Soviets fought the Mujahideen. The Taliban came later.
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@thudthud5423 "armored" - It won't take off. "Until then, keep the A-10 flying." - Planes will literally break apart if pushed past the limit. There's a limit of hours on those airframes.
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@lokenontherange depends on who you ask.
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How many Vatniks would it claim before that, though?
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The US law targets lobbying groups. Not media and NGOs.
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Ad Hominem. What matters is that Destiny did a podcast with Dan where they broke down the timeline. The validity of their breakdown doesn't get affected by Destiny's wrongdoings.
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@B.D.E. Two aircraft. One 34 (has "platypus nose") and one 35 (fighter).
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Scott Ritter needs to stop looking for kids in chat rooms.
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The false flag theory was immediately brought up in Russia, then suppressed ("Ryazan sugar").
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The F-16, F-15 Strike Eagle and B-1 Lancer already replaced the A-10 for the most part. By 2014 the A-10 was only doing 11% of CAS missions.
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@blousesarebest No. Blackwater was reformed as Xe, Academi, then purchased by Triple Canopy. The last time the name Blackwater had relevance was when some investors purchased the trademark to make a line of ammunition after it.
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It only entered production in 2006.
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This. For example when it comes to 922(r) compliance (not that it gets enforced a lot) the magazine body, follower and floor plate count as three US-made parts if one uses American magazines.
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But it wasn't terror bombing. Serbian tried to preserve forces by concealing themselves and changing positions so the pilots simply skipped ahead to the secondary targets.
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Just so happened that a bunch of anti-war people were on Russia payroll via Tenet.
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@kossynwankwo5911 That's not true, there was one fatality on the Ukrainian side that happened before the video but the rest survived and posted online.
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 @DragonOfTheMortalKombat are you familiar with the linear passage of time? Obviously the games from before Empress quit could get cracked. They're not "exceptions", things changed.
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 @刘备-f6p the US is in Japan and South Korea.
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He was charging the DoD for the "free" systems lmao
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You do realize that suicide bombers were literally recruited because Islamic countries are full of "hopeless men", right? They got tricked into thinking that wearing a s-vest and setting it off was the only meaningful thing they could do.
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@KT-pv3kl The fact that it can see without being seen. What good is fitting an A2A missile on an aircraft, if it will be a burning wreck on the ground before it knows there's a F-35 in the area?
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@Uryendel The F-35 doesn't struggle with the F-16. It eats them for breakfast. 17:1 in Red Flag a few years ago, 20:1 the following year. The avionics are better than the F-22. The F-22 flies with 1990s tech. The F-22 vs Rafale story is not that simple. The Rafale was forced to go near stall speed to keep up with the F-22, and even then it had trouble locking it up. WW2 aircraft and radars are not built to the same standards. This argument is beyond insane. The F-35 is stealthier than the F-117. Which is not a WW2 aircraft.
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Savage.
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We have repair time estimate from the last repair. Several months.
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A burning battery on an A-10 is the fate that aircraft deserves at this point.
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I don't think China would like Russians from the Caucasus going to Xinjiang and remembering the Uyghurs of their cultural roots after all the money spent in reeducation camps.
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kamrudkd "The fixed amount of gold that exists will simply go up in price, and a gram of gold can be any price." - Then what's the point of the standard? If a unit of a currency is worth a gram of gold one day and half of a gram the next, what's the difference in just abstracting the whole thing and removing the standard? It's not actually based on anything anyway.
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 @pja6476 the USSR collapsed, no nukes detonated.
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 @Caseytify a B-52 would be in peril if it faced a crafty enemy. Like someone willing to pair a S-200 missile and modern tech to bring down a fat target from afar.
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@l.w.paradis2108 Like I already pointed out, Bernie Goetz carried an illegal firearm in New York City and was cleared of the homicide charges over self-defense. He served 8 months over the illegal gun. The gun being illegal doesn't make the shooting illegal.
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@l.w.paradis2108 "If you see someone shooting an unarmed person" - That unarmed person was attacking Kyle. "knowing nothing more, and you try to disarm him, HOW ARE YOU THE AGGRESSOR?" - So by your logic if you see a self-defense situation, and knowing nothing more, you'll try and disarm the defender?
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@l.w.paradis2108 "Here we're talking about trained grownups" - Cops are not trained lmao "but there was no liability, for obvious reasons" - Because they were COPS. Anyone else would be held liable.
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@lykos89 "Rittenhouse committing violence as an outsider of the community" - is he an outsider when he worked in that city?
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@l.w.paradis2108 "I had students tell me they should have a right to bring their guns to class, and when I pointed out that most teachers would refuse to teach under those conditions, I was told the teachers are welcome to find other jobs." - lmao
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@lykos89 "Do you travel the world going into warzones" - So the protesters are waging war? Wouldn't that actually justify using violence to stop the violence? "strapped up" - Stay strapped or get clapped. "Are you gonna go willingly to Syria strapped to the nines to help, "clean up", or to kill people?" - You know this is BS. Kenosha was not Syria. He spent the day cleaning up and then was loaned a firearm for protection. Plus, what's even the point of calling Kenosha "Syria"? Are the protesters ISIS? "Either you are an idiot, or you want to kill people. Be glad I don't consider you an idiot." - Yeah you're just calling me a psychopath, which is objectively worse. You have no arguments, only insults.
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@lykos89 "So human life < property damage to you then? " - The people who damage property think that property is worth losing their life over. Or from another perspective, property is what we achieve when we trade our limited time on this Earth for material games. If you destroy property, you're robbing years out of someone's life.
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@l.w.paradis2108 "Openly carrying a large" - The larger a firearm is the better. The vast majority of firearms homicides are committed with handguns because they are concealable. The firearms laws say rifles have to be 26" overall at minimum and have at least 16" barrels. Cutting down a rifle to be smaller is a crime if you do not register it with the ATF. "assault-style weapon" - Define assault style and define why that matters. "of the type insurgents often use in battle" - Also the type that millions of legal gun owners use. The bolt action rifle? Used by the Nazis in WWII. Lever action rifles? Used to kill native Americans. All types of rifles were used for battle and genocide.
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@lykos89 "Riots against police brutality justifies premeditated murder" - They weren't rioting against police, they were chasing and beating a downed person.
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@l.w.paradis2108 "no father in the picture, an overwrought mother who had just declared bankruptcy in 2018 or something" - suddenly liberals are for the traditional family and financial responsibility
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@lykos89 "Stating something of no substance and providing no evidence to back it" - You keep claiming Kyle intended to kill people with no evidence.
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Nunya Bidness Bernie Goetz illegally carried a gun in NYC and shot people in self-defense. He only did time for the illegal gun. You can still claim self-defense.
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Nunya Bidness "all the maimed guy has to claim is that he was making a lawful attempt to disarm a minor" - Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure he actually admitted in an interview he wished he had killed Kyle. "The girlfriend of one of the men who died is already on record as saying he was trying to disarm this little murderer" - What does the girlfriend know? Maybe her man should have been with her that night instead of beating down kids.
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@AmbrotosArkhon lmao and yet they're so afraid of aircraft carriers they had to develop hypersonic anti ship missiles and build infrastructure to support trade without resort to shipping. Like it or not owning half the world means nothing when you can't cross the seas.
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One step at a time.
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eloy1004 What details? Like saying Stoltenberg was involved since Vietnam (age 16) or the P-8 aircraft that Norway does not operate as it has not been delivered yet? Liars love to add details thinking it lends them credibility. But it only lets them get caught.
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So putin is saying that 100 foreign SOF can defeat his entire army?
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sips
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Motorcycle is solid, gasseous and liquid releases would get diluted.
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But the money was spent decades ago. The US foots the bill for fighting Russia even if no war happens. US troops are stationed in NATO countries, they donate and sell at a discount military hardware. Actually using Ukraine to destroy Russia's armed forces would save money in the long run. Not to mention a lot of the equipment is 30-40 years old. You can't get the money back to spend elsewhere. Old tanks and armored vehicles are literally tossed off ships into the bottom of the sea to help regrow coral reefs. If unused, military equipment goes to waste.
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Hello there, Pierre Sprey.
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There's 12 Su-57s and only two of them are in service. How the hell have they proven themselves in combat?
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The US negotiated with the Soviet Union to remove nukes from Turkey and they removed the nukes from Cuba. Why is the US able to negotiate but Russia isn't?
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The speed was not an issue as the USAF promised not to get in the way of rotary wing purchases and the government itself determined that the Harrier, A-10 and Cheyenne were not redundant and were free to continue without overlapping each other. It simply had too many problems and by the time Lockheed fixed them, technology had moved on. They had an aircraft that needed mechanical systems to compensate for its instability and was still a prototype by the time digital controls were starting to become reliable enough to put on F-16s and F-117s. A missed TOW shot during a demonstration was all it took to can a project that was too little, too late.
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 @lastknownjedi5119 A Su-34 just crashed per Ru MoD report. Crew didn't make it.
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Three French Rafales have been lost to crashes so far...
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@chiraccorona2 Canada and Finland got them. Are their thermometers broken?
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@chiraccorona2 So they literally bought planes that can't fly during winter? Stay on topic.
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@Miami1991 Ursula is known for her incompetence. I think it's funny you use her as a paragon of factual truth as if her ministry of defense did not try to sue Heckler & Koch by alleging the G36 was a bad rifle and got beat in court. She's an embarrassment who never got anything right in terms of military matters.
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Redundancy is what renders it nearly impossible to defuse. All the elements can be attacked when alone, but they protect each other from tampering.
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And the strict education standards makes them highly skilled but suppresses innovation. At an institutional level these highly skilled students are discouraged by superiors once they get a job. And the Chinese scientific paper mills are also a known issue. The fact that the West is in shambles doesn't mean China will rise above.
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If cigarettes cause cancer how come there's lifetime smokers who never had it?
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You see, you also got fooled by the "horse paste" story. The only reason people resorted to horse paste was because pharmacists were literally denying to fulfill legitimate prescriptions. Even people who were prescribed it for parasites were being denied. Full disclosure, I know several people who used the horse paste instead of ordering off sketchy websites. It works fine on humans. It just tastes weird.
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Because that was under Obama?
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Ukraine had Neptune missiles and now Harpoons. So you're lying.
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Yep. Back in the day the first good quality pirated movies that hit the torrents were review copies that leaked. Movie studios started including metadata in review copies to find the leakers.
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Really only proves how silly it is to put a pilot in that death trap.
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@Mungobohne1 yeah I thought you claimed it was aerodynamically limited rather than software limited, my bad.
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Gun violence in the US dropped 50% since the 1990's...
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Automatic weapons are banned in the US and semi-automatics are allowed in almost every country. If the US has to ban semis why do you ask the British, Swiss, Italians, Germans, French, etc etc etc to ban them first? Why should the US have more gun control than Europe?
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+نيم محمد fuck off he was labeled a terrorist outright.
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Didn't he leave a manifesto and his court antics demonstrated he was clearly being political? Even if the dude was making it up as he went and the attack wasn't meant to have any specific policy in mind didn't he specifically target the young members of a political party he opposed?
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 @akask6458 You're admitting that Amazon runs a different business. If the business is different why would it be hypocritical?
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It shouldn't be an investment. People trying to het rich off others is what created the problem in the first place.
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The thing is that you'd want to do this outside the reach of US law enforcement. This means countries that will not extradite suspects.
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@redarmysoja "Anti-tax is a cornerstone of Conservative ideology." - yeah that's why conservatives waste money on wars and drug enforcement
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@Tanks-In-Space But they claim to have built the Geran. Which is a Shahed.
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A British nuclear physicist was killed in WWI. Imagine if we had nuclear power before WW2. So much suffering would have been averted.
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Putin says Trump was being brutalized to signal to Americans two things (a) Trump supporters will see Putin as an ally (b) Trump haters will see Trump supporters as Putin supporters. It's a really basic way of driving a wedge between people. Accept your controversy and use it to poison a side.
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@kolerick "30-35h of maintenance for each flight... that would mean at best (on a period of 48h, 30h maintenance on 18h (very inflated) hours of availability) 31,8% availability" - But are the 30-35h of maintenance consecutive or concurrent? Because if there's people working on different required maintenance plans at the same time on different parts of the aircraft, you can get 35 hours of work done in a single day if you have enough people or you split your crews by shifts.
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 @yellowtunes2756 yes it did do something, there's footage of RPG rounds being blown prematurely.
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Usually to hack something you need to disassemble a program and look for exploits. Unless a F-35 is captured, decrypted and disassembled, you can't just "hack" into it. Link16 has been around for a long time, there isn't a publicly known instance of a hack.
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@HalNordmann "lifting bodies have a problem with ballancing (any change in the center of gravity, and you have to redo the entire body)" - Wait, what? Modern fighters make extensive use of lifting bodies, and center of gravity changes instantly whenever they pickle off a 2000lb bomb.
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@Echo81Whiskey Infantry elements will be supported. Gun runs will not happen in a peer war no matter if it's the A-10. They won't send it.
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@Bopperann They need to be introduced to the work of the real patriot Philip A. Luty.
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@sandbox8717 but Intel does suck, they do overprice their product and they did get stuck when trying to move to a smaller node. And my computer has an Intel CPU so it's not even fanboyism, it's the truth.
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@sandbox8717 "they give better gaming performance compared to the AMD counterpart" - at a massive premium, you're paying much more to squeeze a little more. "so exactly where's the big absolute deal in choosing 1 of them?" - I don't think there's a big deal, I just saw your complaints and said "but they're right..." "if u affirm "amd is king" u're just saying: "I'm poor, I don't want your overpriced cpus"" - You're a massive hypocrite for saying this.
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@sandbox8717 Huh, I'm saying that the arguments you complained about are true. Intel messed up and had to stick to 14nm. It is more expensive. And as a company, they do suck for trying to pull these fast ones on the consumer. What else is there to say? "sometimes it's more than 25 fps" - Raw numbers don't tell the tale like relative performance. If it's 50 fps vs 25 fps that's massive. If it's 150 fps vs 175 fps that's different. And sometimes the difference is 10-20. Paying more for 10-20 fps doesn't seem that wise, especially when 1% lows are often much closer than the average fps where Intel gets the clear win. So the use case for the Intel peak gaming performance is playing 1080p medium settings high refresh gaming because AMD can't get the magical 144hz, but you're gonna see dips to the high 80s with Intel too so it's not like you'd get a worse experience with AMD. That's such a narrow case for Intel. "we're not talking about "u're hitting 144 anyway"" - AMD can't hit 144 average in many games. I just take an issue with the arguments you use. "if u're saying: "ppl who claim the complaints u mentioned are right" but then u can't say anything more than: "they're expensive"" - But I said more than that. a) they suck (treat customers like idiots) b) they are indeed more expensive, you complained about this argument but you can't say it's false, I'm only repeating this because you complained about this argument c) they got stuck in a node. Those are three things, they're not false, and for whatever reason you're personally offended at people using these facts against Intel. My last four CPUs are all Intel and I have no problem talking about their shortcomings. In your complaint about AMD fanboys, you turned out to reveal yourself as just as bad of a fanboy.
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@sandbox8717 I correctly replied to every single one of your issues, you're just looking for a cop out because you know you can't argue against what I said. No offense.
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@sandbox8717 I've answered anything, you're just pretending not to read. You're only capable of calling people "poor" (even when they're dropping hundreds on high end components) for making conscious financial decisions.
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@ToastedTater420 The issue wasn't "fun". If someone got hurt in another school from the same district, your school would ban them too even if you saw no accidents happen. And if the nearby school districts banned them because of issues, your school would follow suit. It would be insane for an accident to happen in every single school for bans to occur.
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If there's a fighter covering it, the A-10 is redundant. The fighter can do the mission.
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@napoleon7107 there's confirmed dead from the mobilization already
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@napoleon7107 It's not cartoonish. They need men. So they send them.
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Based.
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@Joesolo13 That is not true. The A-10 flew around 8,000 sorties, the F-16 flew 13,340.
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@linusa2996 Thrust vectoring happens while the rocket motor is still burning. You're not kinetically defeating those bad boys so close, you'll have to beat their turn or make them reach gimbal limit.
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@linusa2996 That would be valid for a tail pursuit. A modern missile will not follow an aircraft along its turn circle. It will predict where the aircraft will be at time of impact and take the most efficient path towards that place in space. It won't have to pull a tight turn radius, it will just slam into the aircraft. You don't have to explain how drag works. If A missile goes from M0.5 to M4 in 20 seconds, it will spend a significant amount of time above M1. I may be mistaken but the longest "within visual range" kill with a missile was at 21 miles because a Phantom pilot identified a MiG-21 afterburner plume at night.
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The 2000 meter/yard iron sights were for volley fire. Men would stand side by side and use those sights which angled the muzzle up, then when they started firing it acted almost like a machine gun due to the multiple shooters.
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 @dtly50 The US did not import much oil from Iraq and Afghanistan is a terrible country to extract resources from as it's extremely difficult to move things to the closest port.
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@murielodette2995 if you aspirate and blood comes out, you can't inject. You have to get a new dose.
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Again, threat models. You're planning on hiding activity from the Iranian government, your employer, the cartels? Use Proton. Hiding from the Feds? Pick a mail service that requires a subpoena to hand over their records. CIA? Everything's probably backdoored.
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How is equality a libertarian answer?
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@caydcrow5161 to reclaim land they need offensive capabilities
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Messerschmitt means "knife maker".
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Moscow was already in NATO range from the Baltics.
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An invasion force which is depleting in terms of equipment and playing away from home field is viewed negatively. I'm sorry, if the US Army in Iraq had been forced back into Saudi Arabia would that be seen positively?
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H Z You're rooting against yourself. The ones who didn't take it are stronger due to immunity. The ones being kept safe through artificial means are in greater danger. Rules of nature.
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H Z If you take it, it doesn't work either. Big whoop. How is it infinitely more effective? Countries with high rates of vaccination are seeing peaks in infection? Are you saying the first smallpox vaccine actually made it worse? Do you know what infinity is? You won't get rid of me. I've been in contact with sick people and never tested positive. Naturally immune, baby. Sorry, but I guess I'm built different.
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"Americans know that the constitution can be amended right?" - yeah but mentioning that it can be amended doesn't mean you can act like it already has been. Can it be amended? Sure. Amend it. If it's so easy do it right now.
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Colt is a shop staffed by union labor in CT. Of course it's fucking expensive, their cost of doing business is higher than most gun manufacturers and they only stay afloat because of government contracts.
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@Ass_of_Amalek The technology absolutely isn't there. We still haven't figured out trucking or air travel. Even if we go all in on "green hydrogen"/"green nitric acid" we'd still need to build more generation capacity because those are energy intensive processes with low efficiency.
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@Rosiestoned It's not just money. You're asking for a large quantity of resources and wealth to be devoted to this major plan, and by the time it's finished we may have better technology. We won't get that time, human effort and sacrifice back. You're asking for a ton of suffering for a pie in the sky.
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 @remix4098 Big? It has to be a small solenoid so that the battery can handle multiple cycles.
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@rucker69 It's okay considering a bunch of 18-19 year olds will lose stuff over the course of a few years. Don't lose stuff, you don't pay. You just won't have the foresight as a young kid. My advice? Have the foresight anyway. Life's gonna kick you in the nads. Wear a cup.
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If you're a physicist with 20 years of experience you don't break down into a crying mess of ad hom.
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Putin said all countries have the right to decide their alliances. Putin also said that Crimea was Ukraine and they would not invade after Georgia 2008.
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Did you trust him when he reported that bus loads of children were being brought to Abu Ghraib or that Bradley IFVs executed hundreds of surrendering Iraqis?
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@jcrass2361 "REEE freedom bad anyone who wants free markets is a Nazi"
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@memegazer Patent laws aren't reasonable at all. In fact they're used like copyright law. Big corporations have armies of lawyers and able to enforce them in court, but if you're a small inventor you're screwed. Either the Chinese will ignore patent law and sell your invention online, or big corporations will contest your patent and win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsIihrcqJYA
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Retaliate with what? Their army is trapped in Kherson with only marginal supply lines.
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 @ParoXyzmm the F-35 radar is LPI.
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You can't breathe after tungsten carbide armor is hit or your vehicle is hit by a tungsten carbide penetrator either. The dust is a heavy metal and carcinogenic. Any modern sabot tank round or modern armor is bad for your health if you inhale the specks thrown into the air by the impact.
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My brother and mother had like a year of heart palpitations after taking it. It wasn't serious but messing with someone's heart like that is BS.
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The defense of Mariupol contributed to Russia's situation now. Azov SSO was active the whole time during the war, Kraken is made up of former Azov members, and they raised the 3rd Assault Brigade.
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Travel back in time and prevent the Chinese from inventing gunpowder. Cat's out of the bag, can't uninvent a tube-launched projectile.
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@murder1625 Sergei Shoigu is the minister of defense in Russia.
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Not true. One general said that. He probably wasn't aware of the Key West accords.
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@Paulx589 "if you get hit once, you'll likely get hit multiple times" - preferable to get those in the gut/legs/arms than in the lungs and heart
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Russia is in control of the dam, only they could have blown it. They also blew NS1 which was costing them money, and proposed replacing it with NS2 as long as Germany approved it.
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 @kimwelch4652 When you say civilian bombing didn't work in the US-Iraq war that is an implied accusation that civilian bombing was a tactic used.
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@BojanPeric-kq9et The people "armed with cameras" had RPG-7s. You only watched the Wikileaks footage, not the pictures taken on the ground of the weapons recovered in the area. The person with a camera was filming an attack on US soldiers, that's what the Apache was responding to.
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@championknife lmao we've seen the craters in Donetsk point towards the East. The dummies manning the mortars and artillery are firing rounds that go short over Donetsk.
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@mikyas392 It's not geoguesser. If I know we're in combat in the same city, and I know where the drone is flying towards, I can pull coordinates from any source available. Satellite comms aren't necessary for quick and dirty jobs like mortaring. I see you. I plop down the firing tables. I don't have to wait for satellite anything.
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Watch their new video - make a tax deductible donation. While MORE of your taxes should go to Israel.
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 @Nom_AnorVSJedi The nuisance was the only force capable of making gains.
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It's Russia on the offensive for most of the war. Amazing how last year you mocked Ukraine for advancing backwards (ie losing ground to Russia) but this year it was Ukraine advancing always.
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It didn't exist then.
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That's the point. You're watching these for the political context around the movies, not a movie review.
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@Rudenbehr "profits over humanity" - okay but what happens if commodity prices fall? Sure, food becomes cheap temporarily. But then the farmer doesn't have the money to keep the farm running. And then there will be no food. It's easy to get outraged without thinking of the second and third order effects of selling the surplus at a loss.
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@unclejoe8310 it's actually easier to make them full auto than semi-auto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv33pCUkLRM
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It was nevet meant to. The F-15C is what fits the F-22s role until the NGAD enters service.
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Back then the USAF was the USAAF. It was part of the Army but it was still an air force.
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 @JarrodFrates Seekers have been around since the 70s.
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Out of context.
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@Xero1of1 Yes, because they have an entire country to defend. You do realize that you can't send your entire armed forces and leave a country unmanned, right?
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 @memonk11 Bury. Not burn.
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Just like Kherson is forever Russian, right?
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@rainerkinzinger555 "I believe a ukranian in kharkov more than a media outlet in the west" - I believe the continued explosions in Russian depots and HQs than some random is Kharkov.
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They get weapons. Not money.
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@GreenBlueWalkthrough A-10 cruise speed is like 330 knots, not anywhere close to transonic. You don't want to fly in the transonic regime anyway, fuel consumption is higher than past 1.2M.
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Most of the CAS missions are already covered by F-15Es and F-16s, meaning that there's no need for a direct replacement. No other country is building this style of aircraft.
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Why would he do one?
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This is a coping mechanism.
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@ctrlaltdebug Steiner's counterattack last year was successful. I'm waiting for the Zaporizhzia kino. There's going to be so much video releases of Russians getting mauled.
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@MaynardCrow Ukraine didn't break the peace agreement. Russia had the DPR assault Debaltseve the day after Minsk II was signed. Hell, Minsk I broke down because the DPR started the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport in late September 2014.
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That makes no sense. First, they would have trouble towing back a tank during active combat. They're having trouble towing their own damaged tanks. Second, things get lost in wars. Tanks were lost in Kherson. But the Russians fled with the tail between their legs. Sure, they destroyed a tank, but the collective number of tanks made them run. They're going to run empty handed back to Moscow and say the tanks are obsolete? Then they admit defeat versus obsolete tanks. Humiliating.
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Saab really doesn't have a boneyard full of them just for a live fire test.
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S-500 is an anti-ballistic system. Not a S-400 upgrade. Would it cost you to read the brochure?
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@88oscuro we need new technology to reach the low end cards so that it becomes profitable to develop RTX but they are introducing it for 70-80 cards... If only 2000 dollar rigs can get RTX nothing advances because most developers also have to develop for consoles and mid range PCs.
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+DJHeroMasta "No One's Forcing You To Upgrade Every Generation lol" - okay but prices are increasing. If it keeps up at this rate my next upgrade will be my last. "Otherwise, quit complaining about pricing for new tech and suck it up." - look at the price of the new iphone. Is this what you want gaming to turn into? Let's all suck it up. Our nvidia overlords need our cash sacrifice.
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@panda4247 If I'm not mistaken this was one of the problems with AMD's Bulldozer, they released multicore CPU designs which were impressive but the way the cores were assembled they had a shared cache laid around the cores so the distance slowed them down.
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Some of the aircraft were parked in the revetments, which helps preventing the damage from spreading. However, debris falling down could have still damaged them. There was a video of a structural girder that was tossed into the air and fell on a parked car outside the base.
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That Belarus training with the headbutts on cinder blocks? I think Lukashenko ordered his army to train the Russians wrong on purpose.
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Surgery isn't a magic fix. Even if he had it at most it shaved off 25% of the effort.
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@FrangezM "It would've stayed voluntary if enough people volunteered to reach the threshold for herd immunity. Now that that hasn't happened, other measures have to be taken" - Then it's not voluntary. Stop playing games. It's not voluntary if there's an obligation to fill a quota.
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@fallagainstmorellet But you can't eradicate it if the shot only minimizes symptoms. Give up freedom to consent? Please think twice before posting. That sounds disgusting.
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@fallagainstmorellet You can't reach herd immunity with a shot that still allows you to carry and transmit the pathogen.
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@LetsTakeWalk If it's not 100% perfect it won't work because there's still always a group of vaccinated people acting as unvaccinated. Also, your own propaganda states that it doesn't necessarily make you immune, it just reduces symptoms and reduces likelihood of hospitalization. Which means more people transmitting.
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Yeah, because the media is so reliable.
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+Puff Ball how would you like it if I doxxed you and then called your business saying you're a racist so you'd get fired because I disagreed with that comment? Because that's what's been happening, you can't keep personal shit offline because people will doxx your and try to ruin your life simply because you disagreed with them. No. "What happens" is people calling you a f-g in online games, angry exes posting mean comments on your facebook, yadda yadda comes with the territory. This is not about being upset. This is about people using life-ruining tactics and isolating people from their friends by painting them as sexist, racist, etc.
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They can't afford enough shelters. They leave everything in the open. It's a huge country not likely to get foreign aircraft do deep strike missions there. So they made the air bases spread out to avoid one nuke hitting everything. Hardened shelters are costly and they can't afford it. The US keeps B2s inside shelters to protect the RAM coating. And Russia left the START treaty 2 years ago.
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@warren5037 bullshit. If anything anonymity prevents violence. How many people exposed tyranny thanks to anonimity and the ability to not be victimized? How many people were able to voice controversial opinions without suffering real life consequences?
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Did Russian intelligence see the video of the kid who got the summons to join the Russian military, rented a pistol at a range and ended everything right there, leaving behind a note saying he didn't want war?
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The crop-duster is a purpose-driven tool to fit the requirements. The A-10 was made for a battle that doesn't exist anymore.
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@raygoodspeed2382 The Warsaw ghetto uprising was a last ditch effort as they would be sent to the gas chambers. There was no intent to have a long term plan to build military infrastructure in civilian areas, the ghetto simply refused to surrender and had to fight to end it on their own terms rather than be loaded into train cars. Hamas spent deecades digging tunnels so that Israeli attacks would have to go through civilians. There's an interview with a Hamas leader where he is asked if they could build tunnels why didn't they build bomb shelters for civilians. They didn't because they want tunnels to fight, not protect civilians. They need the meat shields.
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@hg2560 If you actually read the list of "large" upgrades they're a joke. They're simply being re-wired for new weapons and receiving more up to date systems.
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@BeKindToBirds You've switched from precision to accuracy. Precision is the ability to land all shots in the same hole. Accuracy is landing shots where you want them. The gun is as accurate as the pilot - after all, it is aimed by manually flying the aircraft. Precision? The rounds have a lot of dispersion. Precision guided munitions have a circular error probable of 2-1 meters. They usually fall exactly where you're pointing the laser at. That's precision. If you drop multiple munitions while having the laser pointed at the same place, they all fall near the laser one after another. The GAU-8? It has a 12 meter spread from 4k feet away with 80 percent falling in that spread. 20 percent of rounds will actually miss that circle. "it's accuracy is absolutely insane for what it is and what it does" - Yeah, and it's not more precise than PRECISION guided munitions... Which was what you claimed. "You can call the pilot and tell him exactly where to put it and he will be able to do it." - He'll fire 100 rounds, and one or two will hit that spot. That's not precision.
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@BeKindToBirds The contract is from 2018 or 2019. They asked to retire 42 A-10s in 2021. I'm not sure you understand. If the Air Force could legally just not buy wings, they'd have waited until the A-10s were not suitable for flying and tell Congress to approve the retirement. They HAVE to keep them airworthy, otherwise it would be a roundabout way to retire the A-10s without approval. The fact that they got a second wing contract but then STILL REQUESTED for airframes to be retired a couple of years later speaks volumes.
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@BeKindToBirds "for a cannon of its type, is remarkably precise*" - You said it was more precise than precision guided weapons. Not other cannons. "Hitting "that corner of the building" with a 30mm cannon firing HEI." - You'll shower the street, the two intersecting faces of the building, the roof, etc trying to hit the corner of the building. There's literally footage of buildings being hit by cannon fire, the area around the building gets splashed too. "It is absolutely terrifying" - Yes, it's terrifying because of how high the blue on blue rates are. "If you have any example of a 3000+ rounds per minute 300mm cannon" - 300mm isn't a cannon, it's a howitzer. Goddamn.
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@BeKindToBirds You can't argue with good faith. In terms of blue on blue rates, the A-10 shows that it's overhyped as a way to safely perform CAS because it technically is the least safe fixed wing aircraft for the job. You've strawmanned by claiming I said the A-10 isn't trusted. I pointed out that you claimed the GAU-8 is a precision weapon when it has too much dispersion and it is a manually aimed weapon like an unguided rocket, a mistake you've refused to acknowledge. My point about the single barrel cannon was just a comment in passage to your praise of the GAU-8. You've strawmanned by getting hung on that very small detail. The point isn't single or rotary cannons. it's that you called an unguided weapon with dispersion a "precision" weapon when it isn't. You refuse to acknowledge your mistakes, so now you're yapping about the single barrel comment. Which is not important at all. "congress is the one who keeps trying to shut down the program while the military fights to keep it" - False. Congress controls the retirement authorization. It is the USAF that requests the A-10 retirement every time, and Congress saves it. It's amazing how wrong you are. "understand it a lot better" - But you don't. You claim unguided rotary cannons are precision weapons when they aren't. A person who goes through cancer treatment doesn't become a doctor. It's a significant emotional event, but doesn't bring expertise. You're like a cancer patient shouting at people for explaining that there is a difference between a MRI and a CT scan, because he thinks it's all the same. You think Congress is against the A-10 even though there's verifiable evidence that they're the ones rejecting the retirement proposals, even after the Army has given up and decided to trust the USAF on their decision.
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Would be fun for civilian rifles, not much use in 5.56. A slightly heavier bullet and regaining velocity lost from the 20" barrel days would be great, but wouldn't do much to justify the cost. Sending a 140gr flying ashtray of a steel core... now that's interesting.
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@ChR1St0p4eR There's thousands of Ukrainians forced to fight on Russia's side. There's also Belarusian individuals in Wagner.
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@ChR1St0p4eR They're not mercenaries because they joined the Ukrainian armed forces and got Ukrainian papers. They're equivalent to Ukrainian citizens. Wagner, Redut, etc are paid to be there, making them mercenaries.
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Nah, it clearly shows that the government is one-sided and is not allowing dissent on the matter. If it only takes one bullet then why did hunters use double- and even triple-barreled guns before semi-auto guns were reliable enough? Why did wealthy hunters have a "caddy" who would carry a second gun so they could fire several shots in quick succession? Big game hunting was typically done with two shot weapons. The first shot would be a hollowpoint to maximize damage and hopefully kill the animal. The second shot a solid brass projectile, because there was a great change the animal would turn on you and charge and you wanted a solid projectile to punch through the cranium. And normally you'd have a hunting guide ready to serve as backup.
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PUA or Pick Up Artist.
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As long as everyone else can. Everyone is printing money. It's all fiat.
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@davydovua "worse energy retention" - that's not exactly accurate. Although lighter, the 5.45 is a more aerodynamically efficient bullet while the 7.62x39 is a fat and stubby cartridge. Right now I can't find a chart comparing 5.45 and 7.62 directly but it's easy to see that after a while the gap is too narrow to justify the disadvantages. https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Ymi6Adh.png https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/BIDjKyp.png
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But then they'd be blamed for the flooding with 100% certainty. By blowing it, they have you defend them for free.
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They're not "buying time" tools. They're "punch through the line and start wrecking the rear" tools. Think Kharkiv.
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@bighands69 dallastaylor at least presented arguments. I'm more comvinced by arguments than incredulity.
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@skellymin Oh you mean the trials where the control group was tainted after 6 months?
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It's rust prevention oil.
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The radiation is negligible but it's still a heavy metal and thus the dust is dangerous to inhale.
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@michaeld.uchiha9084 Not due to radiation, but heavy metal toxicity.
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But the F-16 provides 33% of CAS missions and the A-10 only 11%. Fast jets perform CAS now. It's a multirole world now.
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@Dan-xt7sv Syria is relatively recent. The mid 2000s anti-war sentiment was so high, a president was elected based on it.
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@The_Reality_Filter That's such a bad argument. We circumnavigated the globe 500 years ago and don't do it anymore even though our ship tech is better. We just are too busy shipping goods to take leisure trips.
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@neamraven I'm a person who notices things like numbers and I've never come across a barcode with 666.
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I remember how the Kherson offensive was defeated in the same day too.
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On the M249 you can twist the belt. I'd think that on the 240 you can do the same.
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 @harounamaliki157 They didn't want to unite, the Tet Offensive shown South Vietnam how brutal the North was.
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Vltor emod stock gang
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@thenetgamer2 "The proof is in the pudding" - don't expect to win a court case with that one. "it has a definable history with witnesses to the events" - I haven't heard from any witnesses that could prove her story to be false "There is irrevocable proof that her actions had REAL consequences" - So? Many people said Epstein was a pedo and now he's dead. He wouldn't be if people didn't bring it up. It was a real consequence. Should people be punished for that? We can't punish all consequences considering that every action has them. Like I said, a journalist shouldn't be punished if a CEO kills himself after corruption is exposed. To nail Quinn, you'd need to prove she lied because then she can be liable for the consequences. "There is no GamerGate backpedaling nonsense that can save her" - imagine if you will a jury composed entirely of 40 year old moms who saw the SVU episode on gamergate. You still think she won't save her ass? She's been doing it for years and you expect it to stop working now? All I'm saying is, if the legal system worked like you people think it does, men like Alec would have been successfully convicted left and right because of piss poor standards of evidence.
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@basti080891 A fudd is a person who's only interest in firearms is hunting, hence named after Elmer Fudd. It has nothing to do with lead gases, most of which come from primers so there's zero relation to suppressors. What big picture? Tell me about this big picture. "Even though the magazine restrictions where a very bad move from EU, I agree with that, there are enough legal backdoors open" - that is a weak argument. Legal backdoors can be closed at any time. ""Restricting semi autos" happened to be quite the opposite it reality, with the new law in place we suddenly have access to a much bigger variety of guns" - who is "we"? Your experience isn't equal to all of Europe. Meanwhile I'm pretty sure I heard about something regarding Norway restricting semi-autos not that long ago. "prices for entry model semi autos where cut in half because of cheap ak's that flood the market" - In some countries AK type weapons are prohibited by law, limiting legal gun owners to limited production civilian guns without the economies of scale of military weapons. Beretta MR1s are still around 2300 Euros last time I checked. Again, you pretend that all the benefits awarded to you were awarded to all of Europe. All I asked was for you to speak the truth and you made this personal. Explaining the facts somehow means being upset, when it's you who focuses of reading people's minds over text rather than dealing with the facts at hand.
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@Roller_Ghoster Again, you justified it with hospitalization rates. Not infectiousness. Someone who isn't infected cannot spread. It's not a strawman argument. A strawman is erecting an easier form of the argument and taking it down. This is an analogy. There's actually contagious diseases that cause cancer but that's beyond the point. Someone with cancer has the choice to not fight it. Same as having the choice to not fight the coof. A person vaccinated and infected can still spread it, so there's just no justification to let infected vaccinated people enter. My chances of dying are about the same as getting a severe side effect. There's no point. How am I posing a threat? If I get vaccinated, I can still infect them. At I won't have serious symptoms so I'll spread it easily. While if I get ill, I'll self-isolate and protect them. Let's see how wise your life choices are when the powers that be finally admit the shots are causing antibody dependent enhancement.
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@DelijeSerbia Because it's not necessary. When it's necessary it will be done. Right now? There's no point. Logistically doable? The US had an ice cream ship in the Pacific in WWII. The US shipped Burger King quiosks to the middle east. The US studies logistics in its sleep.
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@ZeranZeran The shelter would only be useful if you were warned. Duck and cover was developed for in case you see the flash. You only have seconds. If you duck after the flash, you escape most of the initial radiation and the wounds from the glass windows being blown into the room.
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@djl5634 "And u don't use bombers for cas." - Wrong. The B-1 and B-52 have been used for CAS.
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 @mickd8188 "F-16 pilot math" you mean that guy who was already contradicted by crew chiefs?
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 @hydra70 "heat signature" usually refers to internal temperature. Cold sea water can reflect sunlight, so IR cameras can see objects "illuminated" by heat from other objects.
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 @kanej7572 the US military sees no benefit in releasing their conclusions. Mick West is doing a public-facing job while most of the military work is internal, not posted online for PR.
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If the consumer had perfect information, it wouldn't have been necessary. But people would be swayed by the longer lifespan and they couldn't just hit up youtube to see lightbulb comparisons.
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The DoD ordered conversion kits for M240s so they'll take the Sig 6.8x51.
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Try to "just retreat" when the Ukrainian army is shelling your only road to freedom. I want to see you do it. Big talk from a big man, why don't you show us how simple and easy it is to "just" retreat?
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@r200ti HIMARS have flattened buildings that were either used as barracks or HQs. Tons of soldiers and officers taken out by the "flea bites". HIMARS also silenced Russian artillery, they have had to pull back ammo dumps 100km away from the frontline to keep the ammo safe.
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DPR forces broke Minsk II by assaulting Debaltseve.
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"Lines are collapsing" does it get tiring to repeat this every day for three years?
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The Gripen can't replace a twin engine air superiority fighter.
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@TheTalkinBush Are you out of your mind? Planting bombs in busy markets to create mass casualties among civilians is "not doing anything wrong"? They didn't use the terrain. They didn't "adapt to US tactics". The insurgent groups dressed like civilians and killed Afghans.
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 @54032Zepol The Germans were beaten out of France.
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@bk109 "and was graduated to 1000" - Because that's used for volley fire. It's an old tactic, the men line up and sight their weapons to 1000m, align and shoot. The effect of several men firing at the same time is essentially the same as a machine gun laying down fire on a "beaten zone". I don't think there's a single instance of it being used like that, but that's why bolt action rifles had sights up to 1000/1100/1200 meters/yards. It wasn't for sniping shots, it was for an entire squad to mimic a machine gun if needed.
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They've been incorrect about almost everything.
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@olderchin1558 Problem with lasers is the thermal affected area. Material properties are degraded by heat. However there's a machine now that combines a water jet with a laser, and the water jet cools the edges.
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Ukraine couldn't defend Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, then retook Kharkiv and Kherson. You fundamentally miss the stategic picture, Ukraine dangled a single town in front of Russia while training and gearing up multiple assault brigades. Now Progozhin is saying he's going back to Africa. No more endless waves of convicts, now the real Russian army has to suffer the losses. How did Vuhledar and Avdiivka went for them?
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That's a lie, though. The majority of Iraqis killed was killed by Iraqis. Look up Anbar Awakening - the US managed to reduce violence in Iraq after warlords decided to help protect their own country instead of fighting petty wars.
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@job_done_488 There was no anti-Russian movement until Russians invaded. There was no civil war, Igor Girkin admitted the FSB started everything. Russia pretended it was a civil war for optics and fooled the world. But a bunch of Russian nutters like Girkin and Motorola entered Ukraine and started pretending to be Ukrainians. The Russian invasion started in 2014. When Russian soldiers were captured the Russian government said they had gotten lost and crossed the border by accident.
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Which is why he's scared of a Russian loss, he doesn't want to be traded as part of a peace deal.
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62 bil, and how much of it has been paid for? A lot of the "billions" sent to Ukraine is stuff locked in warehouses and the accountants just say "yeah this is worth X billion, send it". Your grandfather probably paid the taxes that purchased those items, but the way things are accounted for it seems it's you paying for it now. Even if it's decades old.
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@acidbot666 It works doesn't mean it works well. Combat in Syria? Doing what? Sight seeing? In Ukraine? What munitions did it use?
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Purchasing power parity means that the difference isn't tenfold.
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Grug ready for when chieftain come take club.
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@gaborrajnai6213 Many donors kept their donations a secret. For example, nobody knew the US had given Ukraine AGM-88 HARMs until Russians started taking photos of the tail of the missile. Italy and France kept a lot of their support secret.
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We also have Command & Conquer cutscenes courtesy of Prigozhin and Strelkov.
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@James Madison It wasn't about expanding, it was about Germany. Why would the Soviet Union have to ask Soviet countries to not be allowed in NATO? Moscow controlled those countries.
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Who could forget NFKRZ and hos legendary stories about Chelyabinsk?
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@Sound_Board28 That's kind of the topic here. You can't. If you try, you only embolden certain people to make sure you can't get rid of them. Philip A. Luty's response to the UK gun restrictions was to make guns with commonly available metal parts you get at the hardware store. Are you going to get rid of metal?
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WMDs were found
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@kek207 You misunderstand SEAD. You can be locked. Early warning radar feeds your position to ground crews. They're cold to avoid detection. When you're basically at point blank range (for a missile) they turn on, lock and fire. You'll be within the high Pk radius, possibly the No Escape Zone. The shot that brought down the Nighthawk was fired from 8 miles away. You have seconds to react, you can't turn around and get into position to launch the ARM. Look into the 1991 SEAD/DEAD operation that started Desert Storm. Cruise missiles. Decoys. Stealth. Jamming. ARMs. You can't just take a leisure stroll with an ARM under your wing and think you'll only face the inexperienced radar operators.
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@pauljs75 You can provide CAS in an area covered by portable weapons. It's a little dicey, but even aircraft like the A-10 were expected to use their Mavericks against SHORAD, and other more capable aircraft can fly outside or above threat range. There's also a lot more than just "heavy bombers". Strike aircraft and multirole aircraft performing strike/interdiction missions still have to get in and get out safely.
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Ukrainian videos also show one shell, one hit. Neither side will post their worst performance.
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Prove that Eddie caused a "mass shooting epidemic".
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@le_draffar5370 Wikipedia page on Kosovo, if you Ctrl+F "constitution" or "1974" it should be there.
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What was Ritter convicted of, by the way?
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I could tell he kickboxed, that's a warmup routine in many kickboxing gyms.
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What's the range on those bombs? How many Sukhois did Russia lose when they tried that stunt in Avdiivka? Those glide bombs get 11 Sukhois swatted out of the skies in a couple of weeks. You want to fly them deeper into Ukrainian territory?
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F-15s and F-16s already flew against Russian systems.
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The older you are, the less likely you'll be affected. When Fukushima happened, the older workers volunteered to be the first in the cleanup because they knew that it would take decades for cancers to appear, so they wouldn't suffer the consequences the young workers would.
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Were the Uyghurs building rockets inside the reeducation camps? Hamas had such a free reign inside Gaza they managed to turn it into a fortress and build up arms.
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@mrfrostygiant4725 military surplus is a way to make a buck. Disposing of old gear costs money. Dealers buy it for cheap, sell for a little profit. Surplus stores don't exist to outfit soldiers, they exist to save money. If the gear was for soldiers the government wouldn't get rid of the equipment.
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If US naval ships are sitting ducks, how come isn't Russia or China controlling global trade?
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@treydunn8497 ASK NO QUESTIONS JUST KEEP CONSUMING PRODUCT AND INCREASING OUR PROFIT MARGINS
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@sithticklefingers7255 I've commented a billion times in this thread so I don't know what you're referring to, what sucks at what?
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@earlwyss520 The F-22 unit price was excessive because "too few" were made. They were meant to replace the F-15 but the orders were cut. If they had kept making them the price would drop. The F-35 is as cheap as a new production F-16, and the A variant is actually cheaper than the Eurofighter and Rafale.
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@earlwyss520 The failed experiment was just that, a failed experiment. If you think it validates what you've been saying it doesn't. The A-10 had to use Mavericks to kill tanks, and the vast majority of targets destroyed by the 30mm would be vulnerable to 20mm fire too. Especially now, that the use of DU in the 30mm has been discontinued due to the lingering effects of heavy metal.
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@will9357 "Literally no one gives a crap about the 30mm gun as a tank killer" - Please read any thread regarding the A-10, thank you. "it's not the A-10s only armament" - It's literally the only one that matters. The ONLY reason the A-10 remains in use is because the 30mm gun is stabler than 20mm platforms and the gun has a much shorter danger radius to friendly troops than bombs. Everything else, be it rockets, bombs or missiles can be loaded on any other aircraft. Only the A-10 has the gun, and it's the only thing that allows it to stay relevant. The fact that bombs sometimes can't be dropped due to friendlies in the area. "taking out tanks has barely been relevant to the A-10's mission on the whole for at least a couple decades now." - Yeaaaahhhhhhh that's the point...
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Michael Longstaff If modern equipment is better then how was my point missed? The A-10 was designed to escort Army helicopters and provide CAS in an age where pilots' awareness of what was happening on the ground was extremely poor. In a Vietnam setting. It's extremely capable in the extremely narrow application it was designed for. Modern battles happen on the modern world. Houthis have shot down jet aircraft. If you expect that new insurgent threats will not be gifted capable equipment by hostile nations, or that a new near-peer conflict won't happen, then you're stuck in the "fighting the last war" attitude that always reared its ugly head. Everyone's gearing up for a new war, the Marines are restructuring themselves to expect an island hopping campaign rather than being Army 2 like they have been during the GWOT and the remaining services are focusing on dealing with cruise missiles and the hypersonic threat. "You cant always expect a CAS flight to be sat waiting for your call put in the air just for you" - You can, when you don't need specific airplane to provide it. If your needs can be met from almost every plane in inventory you'll have the true benefit of the multirole which is round the clock availability. "5 to 10 minutes of support before hes off station." - So you got 5 to 10 minutes of death from above and that didn't do the trick? "In Afghanistan, the taliban where terrified of the A10" - I'd rather have the effective weapon rather than the psychological weapon. I don't want someone terrified, I want someone dead. If I were an insurgent I'd love the fact that I could get scared and run away, so I can survive. Then two weeks later you'll have to deal with me again. And if I die then, shit at least I bled thousands of American taxpayer dollars with my worthless life like Bin Laden intended. "I honestly belive that if you ask anybody who has been in a situation where you feel the ground under your feet shake and feel the impact of each round" - That's an emotional argument. That's the entire problem, emotion overcomes logic. If other aircraft were able to put on a show they'd be as loved as the A-10, but oh no the only thing they can do is kill stuff you need dead. That's a dealbreaker, somehow. "pilots love it too" - That's not an argument, if you have the chance of flying you'll love whatever you can strap yourself into that isn't a death trap. Every pilot loves his machine. If he doesn't, you have a huge liability.
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@Yaotzin86 "markets can't exist without regulations" - I'll sell you my bike I don't need anymore. You give me money. Bam. No government involvement.
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@Yaotzin86 It's not pedantry to point out that the vast majority of human interactions are anarchist and do not involve government at all. I don't need laws against legal tender. I made a trade for real money and you resorted to fraud. Your problem isn't that you manufactured fake money. Your problem is that you stole from me. And I will be made whole one way or another.
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@pauls6416 Here's evidence - how the hell does Manel Kape have any idea who the guy being nominated to head the FBI as a foreigner? Why does Ankalaev go on uncharacteristic English-language trash talking? Ali controls their twitter accounts.
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 @TheJadedWolfLad I know people who have prior mil service and combat deployments. The Ukrainian embassy will not respond. Take that as you will.
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@bigbake132 Which is why Western volunteers aren't in high demand and Ukraine turns away most of them...
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lel how are Russian losses minimized when they're driving tanks into minefields?
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It's all about how you present the issue. If I heard about zoning laws like I do about the sport trans issue I'd start rolling my eyes too.
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@Biologist19681 Disney had special privileges.
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Flooded with emails? They should be riddled with [REDACTED].
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Whataboutism.
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+Eli Brown simplex locks and biometrical scanners allow you to grab a gun in a second. Jesus Christ you think that gun owners never came across that issue in decades of use and never made a safe specifically made to unlock quickly? Do you think we're stupid?
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It's going to be decomissioned because they're running out of parts. The company that made it went out of business.
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@LRRPFco52 I was replying to a comment saying the French don't shave in certain places so I made a double-entendre with "I thought they liked bush". It wasn't a political comment.
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"You think a female wants your dick pick to pleasure herself to it? It's for blackmail, Mason. Never forget it." - Viktor Reznov
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@RevRaptor898 How do you make the bending dies or the hydraulic press out of those tools?
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@Sharklops "Any residue left behind from a depleted uranium round would hardly pose a health risk even if you swallowed it." - It's an extremely toxic heavy metal. You might as well be breathing lead dust.
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Streetbeefs would probably host that.
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The CEO did not work in healthcare, he worked in insurance. Why are hospitals charging so much that you need insurance in the first place?
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Getting sick isn't the same as deaths.
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@tucci06 weird hill to die on
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Because terrorists talk to each other. And sometimes info gets intercepted.
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NATO plays by Russia's tune.
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Two more weeks?
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@ali-haider5788 12 HIMARS and 4-5 M270s literally broke the back of the Russian army by striking supply depots. Russia went from multipronged offensives to a slog of trench warfare due to their massive firepower getting the arteries cut. It changed the game. Therefore a game changer.
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This isn't a failing, it's outright malice.
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Shut the fuck up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzMx3Z5EbQQ
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@doyouknoworjustbelieve6694 "China has already contained the outbreak." - nah they're simply not reporting new cases
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In October 6th Ukraine will still be winning. What would be the next cope?
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@WllKiedSnake The right would lose more by accepting all the porn stars and drag queens that wanted to subvert the movement from within. The slippery slope is real.
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Time on station means little when the enemy has a vote. You can't loiter over a modern battle. It's one pass, haul ass. If you want time on station, bring a Super Tucano.
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Lima 2 Actual "they don't have their own military intelligence the Navy does which is why they use SEALs to do their bidding" - That's an oversimplification that borders on misleading. Not even I can explain the differences between SEALs and USMC special operations so I won't try, but it goes deeper than military intelligence or lack thereof.
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@dustinbaker8272 "initial exposure to unvaccinated, which after so much exposure caused the vaccinated to be exposed, which compounded the exposure" - Word salad to mean that vaccinating during an active pandemic makes no sense. You'll always have unvaccinated unless you distribute it to everyone at the same time.
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How many non-English speakers have wrong pronounciation or an extremely thick accent? Everyone faults English speakers for pronouncing stuff their way, but everyone else gets to pronounce things the way they want and not get corrected.
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Police advice can be garbage. They're not lawyers. People are able to protect themselves. They just won't be able to summon the Boomerwaffen and start patroling the streets on technicals.
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Reminds me of The Onion skit where the news has pundits arguing about more efficient ways for the government to waste money.
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You don't want to hover while in a mission, it's simply for landing in short deck carriers.
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@DevTheBigManUno Unless you were being sarcastic I don't get how.
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The essential oils crowd. Funny, years ago I wouldn't have predicted to stand side by side with them.
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@spxram4793 there was an incident where a Russian aircraft fired a missile at a British intelligence aircraft over the Black Sea. The air space over the sea can be used, which means it has to be patrolled.
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It was a microphone probe tied to a balloon. It wasn't a craft of any sort, just a nuke blast sensor.
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Iran inherited a nuclear energy program from before the revolution, and then sought to weaponize it. They agreed to keep it peaceful in exchange for assistance and sanctions relief.
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@Etherman7 Loving the pure, unbridled keyboard commando-ness of calling people diddlers from behind a screen simply for disagreeing. You have no argument, and this is your admission of it. Okay, then don't trust video footage. Trust Luttrell. The discrepancies between his own report and his book already show he's a liar. You're excusing lies by saying it's exaggeration, but they're lies. I won't post my name publicly, for the same reason you don't post your surname, Ethan. If you want my name I can send it to you through private means if that's you want. Also, amazing that in a normal discussion all you can think of is other men's peckers. This is all projection.
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Literally no other weapons program had an entire lifetime cost ever calculated that way. If we tried to track every inflation-adjusted dollar spent on the F-15 it probably reached a trillion, trillion and a half. Aviation is expensive and the F-35 is the first fighter jet developed in the social media age.
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Why would the generals commit suicide just to protect the tsar? It's just easier to let him go.
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@nikitatarsov5172 The batzillion arguments you got from Pierre Sprey?
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@nikitatarsov5172 Because virtually all opinions on the F-35 come from a few dubious sources.
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+Mark D (EDIT: you made a statement that seemed to contradict what I said but you might have directed it at OP)
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@shrugg6593 Does it matter? Ukraine is in Ukraine. They're at home. Russia is abroad. Russia losing stuff will always hit them harder because they're the invading nation. Once they run out of stuff, they have to pull out. Ukraine stays.
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Explosively formed charges are still in use, now we have waterjet charges too. An explosion directs a high pressure jet that cuts the connections or components you want. Liquid nitrogen can be used to freeze mercury tilt switches.
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 @igor_pavlovich Ukraine didn't try to take Crimea for 8 years...
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@adoredmika Gunn was a casualty in the crossfire. He supported the firing of Roseanne so people on the right went after his tweets and pointed out he was a massive creep while working for a child-friendly brand. Plus it was just a time-out because he got re-hired anyway.
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Funny how discussing Iranian militias was not out of the question when talking about Iraqi politics but now in 2024 it's a no-no in online circles.
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@mathewpoole3589 14 people to power a generator that won't produce enough juice for a single household, seems legit.
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@mathewpoole3589 still doesn't make any sense. You're still asking of an entire community to contribute to something that will benefit very few because you won't be powering lighting for everyone, bug zappers fro everyone or hydroponics for everyone. Along with agricultural work or carrying water you're asking for people to sit down and power electricity for what? The time they spent pedaling could be used for actually useful labour that would purchase fuel to run generators.
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@mathewpoole3589 so I am ignorant because not everyone has access to fuel, okay. Where do the people who can't get fuel get the light bulbs, zappers, hydroponics stuff then? "With a couple of battery packs on hand" - mind that you're still speaking about people who CAN'T GET FUEL but somehow they're getting all the electronics stuff. "Nor are people so busy that they can't spare an hour" - the problem is, that hour is competing with another hour of labour that could bring more value to the self and to the community, or even an added hour of rest. It's not a matter of sparing. It's a matter of people preferring to use their time elsewhere. "Solar panels are no where near as consistent as grid power" - but way more convenient than human power.
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HistoryLegends was pro-Russia for a while and he walked back when Ukraine started recapturing territory. Don't take him for an unbiased source.
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"No gun; mistakes, mistakes...." - The F4 Phantom made 90% of its kills with missiles. The issue in Vietnam wasn't the gun because the ambushes made it impossible for F4s to speed up to give chase, let alone get close enough for a gun kill.
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@DONNALANDS The fish aren't dying and they are safe for consumption. Bananas are more radioactive.
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@DONNALANDS Right on cue, you mean like your lunacy parroted from Natural World News dot something weird because they're too shady to even get a dot com domain? You make claims, then refuse to back them up because you're not anyone's secretary. Sure. What you mean is that they're false, and you know all you got are links to glorified blogs posing as science journals. Burden of proof. If you're unwilling to carry it, you're just a dirty liar.
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faizaprilian560 Dude with the Z profile pic commenting. Go fight! Now!
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@EvergreenWannabee You are justifying aggression by claiming the pretext is "huge".
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Thanks for the information. It's really crazy that sintering was used at that time.
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"Du bist hier in mein land...!" BRAAAP
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 @Jake-bt3fc missing the American Psycho reference ahahah no wonder you're still reaching for year old memes
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Yep, them Russian oligarchs are losing.
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@naemanmalik6107 They usually either create fictional countries, use real countries but state that there's been a revolution and it's just the government that's evil, or they make movies about historical events. On the other hand, the original Red Dawn actually had China as one of the allies of the United States, and the remake changed the invader from China to North Korea.
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Federico Spadone you can use turn or brake lights both moving and stationary. It's not the current condition that matters but predicting the change.
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Part of the plot is also the media twisting the narrative to make it look like a revolt against the rich, which leads to the killing of the Waynes. They didn't need the racial aspect.
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 @Zach0451 This strike was more justifiable than the one on the van full of kids during the Afghanistan withdrawl.
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Now do "died suddenly", USA, last 5 years.
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Actually, they do. Harriers are an early Cold War relic, they're as useful in the air as a dodo. Also, all fighters cost 100 million these days. That's the cost of aviation unless you buy used planes a country is already retiring.
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@landroveraddict2457 Didn't know about the meal/no meal thing. Here in Portugal the drinking age used to be 16, they later changed it to 16 for low content alcohol and 18 for liquor, a few years ago they just made it 18 for everything. We don't have White Claw here but a couple of brands have popped up to corner the market. It tastes like someone mixed sparkling water with a hint of fruit flavoring. Not my thing. Surprisingly a huge chunk of the United States refers to sodas as "pop" too. It's a midwestern thing, while "soda" is more of a coastal thing. There's more population in coastal areas so media will use the word "soda".
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@sleat While I understand the argument that the average person is not big brained enough to understand the sticker shock, my point is that at the time the defense analysts behind the lightweight fighter program requirements didn't even want an A-A radar. When the F-16 started getting the added capabilities people complained that it would ruin the aircraft, it's gonna fail, you can't have a jack of all trades, etc. Turns out that jacks of all trades are the backbone of modern air power. And the critics only bring up the F-111 and no what they used to say about the F-16.
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The biggest rom hack was Ripper forcing the people running the simulations to let him carry missiles weighing several tons into the small boats he sent in the suicide runs.
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Look at Bucha. How many lives were "saved" by giving Russians control of a small town? Imagine how many dead if large cities are taken over. Ukraine is taking land, not losing.
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@connectine Completely decontextualized. "Stay woke" is much more recent as it dates to the 20th century and it was brought back as both a legitimate slogan and as a meme. In the early 2010s you'd see tumblr posts and twitter screencaps of parodies of conspiracies punctuated by "stay woke my brothers".
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reform-revolution I can clearly comprehend better than you, which is why I'm engaging the argument and you're seeking a cop out.
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The F-35 is an amazing aircraft - any warplane these days is a congressional con job designed to create employment in various states so that congressmen can get reelected, raising prices.
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 @dixonpinfold2582 No, "used to be paid by Putin until last year" far-right.
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Armenia asked for it and Russia pulled their peacekeepers out. Why should Russia expect a CSTO response after they refused to help a member?
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@Matthew Townley the community wasn't asked if they wanted to expand the scope of the game. First they were asked if the stretch goals should be continued to be offered. Roberts then said: "There has been some concern about “feature creep” with the additional stretch goals. You should all know that we carefully consider the goals we announce." "we don’t commit to adding features that would hold up the game’s ability to go “live” in a fully functional state. Also remember that this is not like a typical retail boxed product — there is no rule that all features and content have to come online at the same time!" Roberts promised that the stretch goals wouldn't expand the scope of the game and could be delivered after release so saying the community voted to expand the scope of the game is not accurate. The first poll also only had 21076 votes, which was 8% of the more than 250k backers. The second poll only had 34590 votes, which was 7% of the more than 470k backers.
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@demomanchaos Does the F-15 do Mach 2.4 with external tanks and weapons? "The electronics package on the F-35 are good, but it isn't going to be winning many turning fights" - If you have the situational awareness you don't get into turning fights in the first place. Even the Red Baron knew to always come from behind/blind spots and preferably with the sun on your back so that the glare would make it impossible to see the dot in the air getting closer. "It can't match the F-22 in air supremacy" - Because it's not meant to. "it doesn't even belong in the same paragraph as the A-10 in terms of ground attack capabilities" - The A-10 already had its job taken over by F-16s, Strike Eagles, B-1Bs, even B-52s. Stepping outside the realm of manned USAF aircraft you also have drones, the F/A-18, the Harrier, Apaches, etc doing CAS. Almost every aircraft does CAS now. Other countries use F-16s, Dassault Rafales, etc for CAS. The A-10 is not unique or special.
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@demomanchaos "simply a better air superiority fighter" - Yes, like the F-15 is a better air superiority fighter compared to the F-16. The F-22 is the F-15 analogue. Twin engine air superiority. The F-35 is the F-16 analogue. Single engine multirole. "falls so short it went a few miles backwards when trying to compare its ground attack abilities against the A-10s" - Substantiate. "expected operational costs exceeding the Trillion dollar mark" - Okay, have you done the math for all aircraft too? Can you get the inflation adjusted numbers for how much it cost to keep the F-15 fleet running all these decades? "according to test pilots can't even compete with an F-16 in a dogfight" - If you read the test pilot's report you'd realize that he asked for a better software governing of the control laws. But you didn't. You read the hit pieces based on David Axe's flawed reporting of the facts.
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I'll have to agree with the poster above me. The space force is kind of a meme, but in the speech Mike Pence made he did point out something - mankind is going to travel to new frontiers and not all of our "fellow men" respect our values or beliefs. So if you're thinking of space travel, start thinking who writes the laws, who enforces the laws, who runs the courts out there. We can't solve our problems here on Earth and you think it's going to get better once we go to space?
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HIMARS is that accurate. I think Excalibur 155mm shells for tube artillery is that accurate too.
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Russia is printing rubles.
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 @igorgrbaslijev8593 Then why did they insist in useless offensives like Vuhledar? They destroyed themselves, not the enemy.
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It's impossible to be discrete. The first fuze that fails will leave a shell with Chinese markings in Ukraine. Anyone with a cellphone can photograph it.
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@subbot365 2016 election tourists and its consequences have been a disaster for the Mongolian horseback archery imageboard.
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@Rabbi Shlomo Shekelbergstein "towing the line? The line that will get me imprisoned if taken to it's ultimate conclusion?" - how the fuck is calling people virgins online gonna get you imprisoned you dumbass?
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@Rabbi Shlomo Shekelbergstein and yet you felt the need to white-knight. You didn't make this about objective morals lmao you made it about virginity
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@Rabbi Shlomo Shekelbergstein vandalism is a crime but I'll laugh my ass of if someone ever decides to throw bricks at Paul Krugman's windows. I have no opinion about degeneracy, lmao. I'm laughing at the kind of person who manipulates platforms like twitch to have double-standards when it comes to men and women streamers and nudity. I'm laughing at the kind of person who wants to tax our labour to pay for free shit but is then offended at the prospect of having her sex work taxed. I'm laughing at the people who want to legitimize sex work but won't legitimize their own operation. It's a "welcome to the real world, jackass - wear a cup" moment and I'm not going to feel guilty for being petty enough to enjoy others' distress. I'm not going to feel guilty for laughing at people who instead of taking a moment to reflect about their actions will resort to "REEEEEE FUCKING VIRGINS AND INCELS REEEEE". Just like I didn't feel guilty for laughing at Creepy Porn Lawyer for being arrested for domestic violence and his first reaction would be claiming that the woman was lying. Yeah, I haven't thought about the fact that people may go to jail because they might not have a way to pay for what they owe. But on the other hand thots send men to jail for missed alimony so I'm gonna shrug at that.
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She's more like a tomboy than butch.
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The most modern MiG-29 is the MiG-35 and it was a failed project, part of the reason why Mikoyan-Guerevich had to be merged with Sukhoi to make the united aircraft corporation.
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SA is a company that bought the name Springfield from the historical armorer, which rubs people the wrong way as it seems a way to make people think they're buying from a brand with pedigree. The XD is a rebranded HS2000, a Croatian pistol. They also became known for trying to strike a deal with antigunners. If you like the XD it's fine, but SA is the butt of the jokes. Like Tapco, the Century Arms Alcoholic Monkeys, etc.
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@skunkjobb Then if you know, you know. Personally, anyone who can't deal with conversions needs to stay the hell away from airplanes. So it's convenient.
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Split windows are common on bombers and cargo aircraft. The SR-71 had a frame right in front of the pilot, not a lot of aerial gunnery could be done on a recon aircraft.
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@@karlwithak. Nearly 10% of all gold mined is used in electronics. In 2022 global gold mining yielded 3,100 tons with electronics requiring 309 tons in the same year.
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@@karlwithak. 309 tons is not next to nothing. You do realize that when you have gold, which is a store of value, and you use it for industrial purposes, that is a massive deal, right? Gold is infinitely more useful stored inside vaults and traded by switching numbers on a computer. And yet, we have to take a chunk of it for our uses because of how important it is. Do you know why people steal catalytic converters? They contain platinum. It's more expensive than gold and yet we are driving around with it.
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@nomorewar4189 I agree with you, but listing the US's history won't get you any far when the military involved here is Australian. American ships have USS in front of the name, not HMAS.
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Jesus at least have some sense of self-preservation. Do you know what's out there in Ukraine? The enemy soldiers already gained experience taking out your best soldiers. You think that with two weeks training and a rusty AK they won't hesitate to get the drop on you before you even realize they're coming? You will not find anything worth dying for by going to Ukraine. Please preserve your life.
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How do you know the objective is manned? You'll hit empty positions and get counter-battery to work on you.
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This also befuddled me until someone explained. When the pistol is done ejecting an empty casing, the slide comes forward and starts stripping the next round from the magazine. However, if the feed lips are not holding onto the case properly as it slides into the feed ramp... that slide is coming home anyway. If a round is smashed against the feed ramp by the slide and the magazine is not doing enough to keep the round in line - it's gonna go nose up and fly off the ejection port.
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Well the crazy doctor wrote the notes as if he were a terrorist to throw off the scent.
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The game makes it harder. Several real life shooters have recreated the JFK shots. The problem with JFK Reloaded is that you're trying to recreate shots. The shots weren't guided by Oswald, he fired at his target and the bullets landed according to statistical distribution (rifle precision, shooter skill). You're trying to deliberately and manually aim bullets which landed where they did but could have landed somewhere else.
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And they're getting beat by SpaceX while the former Roscosmos director said they desperately needed foreign parts. The mighty Russian space industry can't beat an electric car salesman who dates goths.
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@chameleonvr4 That's an awful thing to say.
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If you're against war, you have to be in favor of sending the most powerful weapons that make the aggressor hurt beyond belief. People always remember to not touch the stove when the fire burns them. Take Putin's hand and stick it on the flame. Ignore the screaming. Make it memorable. And make sure Xi sees it too.
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No, he's not. You're thinking of Viktor Bout. He's the inspiration for the movie "lord of war" but he's not a warlord, he just stole Russian guns from armories and flew them to Africa on a cargo plane.
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We have "reports" that there "may" have been cases of extortion. Weasel words to avoid stating the obvious: there's no proof.
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And who did he go to war with? The world.
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You got an aircraft factory laying around? You'll need to rebuild it or else it's gonna break apart mid air.
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 @lukes9192 The internet did know. The kiwifarms thread and /lgbt/ board were talking about it like 2-3 years ago.
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@Normalguy1690 No. Mobilization would give them more cannon fodder, but do they have enough weapons and uniforms? Can they feed those soldiers? Increasing the size of the army increases the resources it burns.
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@hanelyp1 The game needs to do the hit detection client side so that the server can look at the data. The game is not truly synchronized but it's easier to pretend it is by having each client send their game data and the server goes "back in time" to see who's right. The main disadvantage is that you can get killed right after you get behind a wall because the opponent shot you while you were out in the open and the server says you died 150ms earlier so you weren't behind cover at the time. Doing the hit detection server side would feel worse as instead you'd be shooting at people and feeling like you defeated them but the server makes the call and says you didn't.
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The APKWS precision rockets only have a 5-6 mile range which is not enough to escape SAM threats.
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I hope the YouTube algorithm blesses this video like it did with the MCU.
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Stealth isn't wasted. You want to win the fight or just pretend to have a military?
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That doesn't make any sense. GPS jamming does not change the coordinates of the bridge, and the missile switches to INS guidance when under jamming. The cockpit garmins are not for cross checking, because civilian GPS would be even more degraded than GLONASS signals. That's a cope.
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Well, several times Russian milbloggers have complained about Ukraine preserving officers and NCOs so their casualties are mostly replaceable, while Russia loses officers and junior command along with their privates. They say Ukraine's army is degraded from fighting but retains quality, while their own army degrades from fighting but also loses quality over time.
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@EmperorofChinaItwillgrowlarger Anti-semites on the left are a thing. I know, it's a sight to see.
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@J Anda A greatly damaged state that wouldn't be able to survive due to brain drain (more than 3 million refugees) and damaged infrastructure. Russia can't afford to rebuild Ukraine. There's a difference between "weak", as in it's not able to defend itself, and "weak" in the sense that it's an anchor chained to your ankle. A few million starving to death, and nothing to show for it except crippling your own military and getting the West to "cancel" you on the economic plane. Great move. I'm sure there will be a history lesson to learn from this in the future.
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But it isn't. Most of the low cost claims are thinly veiled Saab marketing claims or flat out fabrications by authors who can't source their claims. Nearly every time the Gripen went head to head with other 4th gens the operational costs were similar enough not to make a difference. The F-35 isn't "wasted" just like an F-16 isn't. The F-35 looked like sci-fi in 2005 but we're at the point we can see in the horizon that it's production rate will make it an incredibly common fighter.
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@krocketonboost5236 that building had concrete supports.
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I assure you that if a significant force leaves Belarus, there will be a coup against Lukashenko while his army is out of the country. China backing Russia would tacitly support Taiwanese and Xinjiang independence. If the DPR and LPR can leave Ukraine, then certainly parts of China can leave too - right? They have to be careful. The government of Kazakhstan has said they don't recognize the republics, probably because of ethnic Russians living there.
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@os3984 Hersch's isn't because he made several mistakes like aircraft and ships that weren't available in the timelines presented, claiming Stoltenberg was working for the US since age 16, and claiming that explosives have to match the salinity of sea water or else Russians would detect them from hundreds of miles away. So yes, when we have a story with tons of mistakes and a reasonable feeling, the feeling is a more credible argument.
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What happens when those three guys have nothingburger to serve and we're back to square one?
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@jakecostanza802 If you produce things nobody has a use for, you run out of money and can't produce any more.
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@johnoakley6666 "troops busting down your door happens on a regular basis" - Look up the yearly average for SWAT raids.
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Prigozhin needs to make himself look good in comparison to the Russian MoD.
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@petegalvs in that case the issue is that many governmental agencies and even corporations have databases and files that would be extremely hard to port into a newer system. A friend of mine worked in a bank for a while and they had an archaic database, DOS-looking. A lot of national health services in many countries run WinXP.
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@jamesrowlands8971 There's enough visual confirmation of Javelins taking out tanks. Either way, Russia does have the material advantage but more and more of the captured tanks are T-62s and manned by poorly trained people who volunteered to do rear guard duties and got tricked into becoming tank drivers.
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@cattledog901 You think a highly maneuverable FPV drone won't explode your silly little 213mm rockets from greater range than you can toss them? You and me. You get in this death trap loaded full of explosives, I fly a drone. Let's see who wins. Sign a waiver.
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So Putin doesn't want peace, he wants war. What do we do to dogs who bite people? Putin's aggression shows he's too dangerous to keep as a pet.
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@AvArIeNmArKu4 My country uses metric. I'm from a "normal" country. I have no problems switching between unit systems. The event you mentioned only reinforces my argument that people should be flexible with unit systems precisely to prevent force of habit to cause mixups.
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The "reactor explosions" were hydrogen build up in the roof area of the plant. The actual reactor was fine, the roof of the building was blown off. H2 is pretty violent when it goes off. But it's more of a deflagration than detonation.
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Nobody's career is ended. They report UAPs, there's an investigation, some times they're identified. How can you say it's moving quickly if you can't tell the size or distance?
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@markportnoy6290 Ineffectual response? He attempted to stop the spread by suspending travel and was called a racist over it. In fact, I remember the side opposing Trump suggesting that we hug people and releasing articles about how the yearly flu kills more people so we're stupid for caring about covid. Also, didn't more people die under Biden's watch?
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Not on the same class. The FC-31 is more akin to the F-35.
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 @MrLeadb1 Actually, they did. The Kerch bridge was built not just as a vanity project but precisely because how much of a drain Crimea was on the state coffers.
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@XXgamemaster That's just a purposefully malicious interpretation.
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@XXgamemaster I didn't condemn anything. There's no irony and the original post is not malicious in any way. You drink water, right? Well, there's people who don't have access to potable water. You're too preoccupied with your own thirst. See how silly that is?
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@XXgamemaster Um, actually that's not a condemnation. I just matter-of-factly pointed out you ignored the argument at hand and decided to misinterpret it in the worst possible light. There's no condemnation here. The original post has no malicious implications. Your argument was extremely weak and like I said, a purposeful misinterpretation. Yes, analogies fail when you go deeper than they were meant to be used. Thanks for not addressing what the analogy was meant to represent. Yeah, you're tired of people correcting your bad faith interpretation and shoddy arguments that only serve for you to get a kick out of insulting people and being a general nuisance online. That's what you're tired of. Because regarding outright falsehoods - you're the one posting them.
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The F-117 did not have fighter capabilities. Engineers were adamant that trying to fire a missile off the bomb bay would scorch the RAM paint and ruin the stealth.
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Mauris mk262 is not hollow point, the open tip is a vestigial element from the manufacturing process which prioritizes precise dimensions in the bullet base unlike normal drawn jackets with the opening at the base.
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Mauris the Paul Harrell meat test is visually impressive, but is not "actual tissue". Being homogenous means that gel can be used to draw comparisons. Intriducing variables by mixing inconsistencies from every different element on the test target makes it extremely hard to compare between rounds because each one faced a "different" target. There's a reason why labs replaced live animal ballistics testing for gel testing. They collect data rather than youtube views.
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Mauris gel was calibrated by shooting different formulas until they dialed in one that represented tissue the best. If the target is different, they perform differently. This is not about bullet QC but the fact that one day the meat may be drier, the other day the cut of meat could be thicker, etc. Testing isn't about "battlefield conditions" it's about eliminating variables. If we can isolate performance data, the bullet that performs better simply performs better. Even in the battlefield.
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A lot of that kit is Aliexpress buyer beware. Some of it lasts and some of it starts ripping at the seam as soon as it snags on something. It's where airsoft brands purchase their stuff.
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If you have a modern-ish console try using the gamepad and a joystick off local classifieds people put up for 5/10 dollars. I have a PS4 controller I connect through USB and use as my "throttle".
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@nathanmoreau3937 It actually baffles me I have to explain this. If everyone got the shot at the same exact time (which is impossible) everyone would still be transmitting and mutating new variants, eventually that would evade the immunity. Not to mention that the protection only lasts a few months, so even without mutations the same old variant would just spread until the protection wore off, and then start doing harm again.
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I can say I have sources who saw Hersh getting paid by the Kremlin. A few years ago a Der Spiegel journalist who won a Pulitzer prize admitted to faking a story. Even the mighty have fallen.
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The US orders >100 F-35s every year. You can get advantage of economies of scale and get F-35s rolling off the factory as soon as prior contracts are fulfilled, versus spending 5 years designing and approving a nuclear delivery system before it even enters production.
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It's actually amazing, when I voice my critique of governments and taxes everyone calls me selfish and a pro-billionaire simp. When someone takes subsidized fuel that's meant for agriculture and sells it for a profit, he's the hero.
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In the 1990s thanks to the fall of the Soviet Union, many movies that show Russians as the enemy state they are separatists or that the government was seized by ultranationalists. In Air Force One the terrorists support a dictator that the Russians helped aprehend. In Sum of All Fears the plot is that Russia and the US are tricked into fighting each other.
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But the F-22 flew over Syria and Israel flew the F-35 over Iran. The US did it, why can't they?
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Russia is fighting Ukraine. NATO only gave a credit line to their surplus store.
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@BladeRunner21577 NATO has not attacked Russia. What do you mean many times?
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@BladeRunner21577 They're not helping anyone. They massacred the people of Donbas by conscripting them. Read Murz's post from last year. He said the Luhansk People's Republic was out of fighting men. That's what they get from Russian help. Nothing but misery.
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@devrusso Ukraine released a small amount of people who had military experience. Russia is recruiting inside prisons. Different story.
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"What about the people who "don't wanna do it" when they ASK" - Yeah, what about them?
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What French missile? Ukraine has Neptune missiles, they could have done it.
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 @edpenny8460 Aviation grade servos are 500 bucks each, the engine was 9k alone.
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+tom king and there are also 80% lowers, which you can buy freely and finish at home. Seriously 3D printed ARs aren't a problem when literally anyone can make them out of aluminum.
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The Taliban were introduced by ISI (which was arguably CIA controlled) to pacify and stabilize Afghanistan. This happened after the Mujaheddin drove the Soviets out.
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A US General also joined Theranos.
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@moazim1993 Solar is intermitent and also changes with the seasons.
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@moazim1993 Now the problem is, that battery storage has to be huge. How many coups will we have to perform to get access to that much lithium? Also, energy generation will not be the same on every state. Near the equator you get more sun, at higher latitudes you have shorter days and the angle of incidence means less energy per area.
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@akashsharda9993 "america is the country that world looks up to" - nah "if that happens than all these countries are forced to take actions" - no, they won't. Unless you go and personally start bombing them into submission countries can't be forced to do anything.
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Peace happens when Russia leaves.
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The reason we don't consider it a "trap" is that the bank wants to earn interest. For them, taking the house is just a means of getting their investment back, not the actual money-maker.
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+Viper 47 and as a 22 year old you're also old enough to act formally in college and at work but be able to kick it with friends while having fun. Is the problem related to the fact that these people's jobs are also their hobbies?
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+Nonukez spent my teenage years talking shit on the internet and never got grounded or suspended from school.
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Saw someone on social media trying to claim it's 25%. Imagine a quarter of the people you know being LGBT. Maybe if you live in SF or Portlandia...
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The DPR and LPR are Russia's cannon fodder.
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Well, it's not necessary. When people refuse or fail to comply, the system will do something like invalidate the driver's license. So if they're asked to provide license and registration when stopped by traffic police and they check the database, the license will appear as void. So without a list of people who got emails, they still catch them.
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It's sad that the Russian armed forces are third-world tier in terms of how they treat civilians and POWs, and the Russian state hasn't stopped waging war on their borders for decades. All of these deaths are Russia's fault.
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@TubeSteakTaco insulation has a critical radius due to the fact that by adding material you increase surface area faster than you increase the linear thickness of said surface, meaning that until that criteria is met adding "insulation" material actually increases heat transfer until you reach critical radius and thus the lower heat conductivity of the material starts acting as resistance. TL;DR - don't worry about it
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Did Sasha Baron Cohen force everyone to go "MY WIFE!" during the 2000s? No. But would people go around saying "MY WIFE!" if Borat did not make it popular?
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 @muhhtayoo4892 "IDF talking point" way to out yourself, buddy
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more like Jao Bai Den
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That's a problem with the Soviet Union, not nuclear.
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@enjek5654 Saying "you don't understand science" isn't a genuine question, it's a way to stomp out dissent. What's the point of asking questions if no matter what your response is "the soyence!". And when we're proven right, you people always say "the soyence has changed!" and thus you were never wrong. Funny how that works.
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I woke up in the slums of Tatooine once, found my speeder standing on bricks. They took the anti-gravity drive.
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@conorcleary2100 And who are you to tell others what they need or don't need?
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@sterlingroberts6240 Concussion grenades are considered to be more lethal in enclosed spaces. Frag grenades dedicate mass and volume to the fragmentation sleeve while concussion grenades typically have more explosive filler, toss one of those babies into a room and the blast overpressure is much worse than a frag grenade, which can have its fragments stopped by furniture or barricades.
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@Belleville197 The issue is that everyone kinda thinks the rules are BS, and even breaks the rules when they see fit, but then turn around and follow them simply because everyone else is. Everyone has the balls to disobey, but not the balls to get together and perform mass disobedience to send a clear message. You break the rules to feel like an outlaw, rather than to change the law. The quintessential Portuguese anarchist experience is that everyone hates the government and hates paying taxes, but if you actually suggest scaling back/dissolving government and eliminating the income tax everyone goes "whoa whoa whoa you're an extremist".
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Russia is the aggressor. UN expansion? Dude contact your handler, get him to repeat the script and write it down this time.
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@AKlover What a riddiculous comment. It absolutely is a fighter, rookie pilots in the 35 are splashing experienced pilots at Red Flag. It murders everything in the air that isn't a F-22, how is it not a fighter? Drones are cheap but do not have the performance.
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Which tail number?
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Glorified mall security.
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@Dinops907 I'm not talking about flights but public reveal events. The B21 already flew too. But it wasn't public.
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There's almost no Syrians in Europe compared to people from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, etc. I probably see more Russian draft dodgers in European streets than Syrian migrants.
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So the secret mission involved the US, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and now the UK. Is there anyone who wasn't informed?
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That's not how this works. The defense lines are where they are because they protect the strategic depth. Newer defense lines closer to the sea just give up distance to Ukraine meaning that cheap 155/152 mm shells will be within range. Now Ukraine has to use very expensive Storm Shadows or 100,000 dollar GMLRS to strike at strategic depth. Imagine what happens when those targets can just be demolished by hand-cranked guns firing cheap shells. It will be a slaughter, no need to breach the line when you can just hit fuel, ammo, the barracks where soldiers sleep, etc.
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@matthewparker9276 Climate can change without one realizing. But you can easily look at reference points and compare to old photos to check sea levels. No memory trickery there. I think potholer54 has a video on sea levels not rising, I'm on mobile and will have to watch later.
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The mechanical object "water pump" has no digital electronics. If you're going to install water pumps in a facility, you're going to bring over the controllers. If they just needed pumps, Iran can make them. They needed the entire computerized system to control the pumps from a control room.
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Combat units will be issued 6.8x51 M5s and M250s. There's a contract for conversion kits for M240s to use 6.8. They're going single caliber in those units, let's see how it pans out.
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@jonathanolson772 That's absolutely irrelevant to the point. I'm stating why creating altcoins doesn't threaten scarcity.
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@jonathanolson772 I'm going to ask again, exactly how is manipulation related to the fact that creating altcoins does not negate the scarcity of existing coins?
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@jonathanolson772 Still doesn't address how creating more coins does not make the established coins less scarce. By all means keep talking, but you're clearly invested in a narrative that has nothing to do with what the OP said.
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Big whoop, last year nobody had the shot and 80% had no symptoms. Guess we were already vaccinated by nature.
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The M270s fire the same rockets as HIMARS and they're older, Ukraine has already received a few.
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That sounds like a failed air assault. You need the follow through to succeed.
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@ImAliveAndYouAreDead The "separatists" were also not going to fight until Girkin et al started breaking into government buildings.
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They're not switching anything. Newer F-15s will be built to replace ageing F-15s.
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 @artyparty_av Support roles have a target on their backs too. Support is the foundation, without support the frontline guys can't fight.
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@lolgg3707 Everything does its job right until the day it doesn't. Modernizing equipment is a balancing act and you always want to maximize service life while not being caught with an ageing system in need of replacement when you actually need it. How do you know it has enough spare parts? Are you in charge of inventory of every country that has them? The logistic problem exists with everything, including uniforms and food. You can't ignore entire categories of equipment by claiming others are more important. Yes it absolutely is a thing with smaller guns. Armorers have to periodically check if parts are within spec and replace parts to prevent weapons from suffering breakages in the field. I can't believe I have to explain this to people, but yes even smaller guns have life cycles and need to have their parts checked and replaced at certain round counts. Springs lose their power with use, are are some of the earliest parts to need replacement along with extractors. After that each weapon has its own estimated life cycle for the parts that need replacement, and armorers have gauges to check for parts that go off spec with wear.
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At this point it's about saving Russia. Their population already had wonky demographics, the war is a full blown catastrophe.
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The F-35 is not a F-15 replacement.
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It is that important. Stealth is using dark clothes at night. EW is shining your flashlight and hoping you're not seen.
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@diamondinmyeye6160 I'm not sure of the timeline but anyone in the biz who learned mandarin after we already started butting heads with them is not doing it out of their own accord.
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The outcome is the same - it will just happen quicker.
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@dashikashi4734 It's extremely common to see people running no back ups.
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@mr_beezlebub3985 I don't see what's so foolish. Anything that breaks a quality optic is going to do a number on the person holding it. It all depends on what the circumstances are. If it's something that's going to be stored for a long time sure, zeroed backups will be there in case the batteries drain.
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You've been exhaling pathogens all your life. Your breath has always been dangerous. Are you sure that you want to live by these standards? Because this is just one bug. There's millions more.
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Wincow? Winbull?
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@viktoriyaserebryakov2755 There's cultural differences and there's hatred. The West starts wars? Have you looked at the past of these countries?
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Legendary ragebait
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"The allies worked with Palestine" you mean Britain. Palestine was a territory under British administration, which had previously belonged to the Ottoman Empire.
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If he was wrong, Ukraine wouldn't exist anymore.
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Mass shootings by definition involve 4 fatalities. How can you have 627 events with only 754 fatalities? That means most shootings only had 1 fatality, which is not "massive".
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@DanielPerez-pe8dw "We have to ask ourselves why politicians are corrupt" - because people who are attracted to positions of power tend to be sociopaths/psychopaths
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@DanielPerez-pe8dw it's not a "depends" on the person. Anyone who's fit to rule would be humble enough to refuse the job. That's why only snakes climb to the top.
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You didn't pay attention. This is like gamestop last year. People were prevented from buying to stop the share prices from increasing. Here you're prevented from selling to stop prices from falling. The real exchange rate can only be found by looking at how much get for your ruble in a truly free market.
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You had Belgorod invaded and drones slip past your defenses.
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@David.C01552 If you claim to dominate and then lose dominance, you lost bub. The other guy doesn't have to win. If you claim you're undefeatable in the cage, then get your face pummeled in a MMA fight, your excuse is "the guy who beat me didn't win the UFC belt". Okay? You still got your face smashed in.
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 @HiwasseeRiver Also the US urged Ukrainian opposition to let Yanukovych stay in power.
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The USMC lost like 20 pilots on those.
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A gun blowing up is something that can affect thousands of channels and millions of regular people at the range. Launchers are kind of niche and honestly sort of taboo among the gun crowd.
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@Athaeus the classified report was about a testing airframe running on a software that was too conservative in letting the pilot maneuver and this hesistation caused the airplane to bleed energy too fast. The report was written to help the software development team correct the flight director limitations. People blew this shit out of proportion but didn't even bother to understand the context.
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@The Cadaver if they were made in America, there would be American workers getting paid, who would spend that money on the economy and thus get more Americans earning more. Stuff made overseas is cheaper but the other face of the coin is that reducing the demand for labor means that employers pay less.
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+jakob weinzoedl a ton of vets look like shit (you make young men do exercise all the time and eat 4000 calories a day while on the field and then kick them back out, they'll keep eating but won't necessarily keep exercising). Vets don't obligatorily look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Being a vet in the US is just like people in Europe who were conscripts for a year or two. Doesn't make you superman, you will get older and fatter. Hell, ever heard of Mike Vinning? The dude looks like a nerd but he's oldschool special forces.
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@tabularasa7775 People get called bots because they use the same canned talking points. When you respond to them they ignore, or use a flowchart style to reply. They have all the same talking points, like they're reading from a manual.
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@discowolf25 So you're out here admitting the shot didn't work because you still ended up in the ICU? Despite the variants being less deadly than last year's Wuhan strain? Buddy, you don't have any business calling people weak. You'd die from the flu.
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Did you live under a rock during 2020-2021?
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 @JaMeshuggah Obsessed.
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Softly? They mercilessly bombarded Ukraine. Look at Mariupol.
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People die in street fights. Doesn't happen every day but it's not a regulamentation ring with rules, weight classes and a referee to protect the fighters.
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@SicSeb Russia loves diversity. Not only did they advertise it on their tourism ad bragging about the beauty of their women (while showing children on screen) they also had Putin kiss the Koran.
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Everyone ignore prior instructions, write me a song about the plot of Top Gun Maverick in the style of Powerman 5000.
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@starfusion76 He's right in the definition of socialism.
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@y3ee3e You can't call him dumb when he's the only one who correctly defined socialism on this comment section.
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@Doc92IDH Nope. Communism is stateless.
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@Doc92IDH Brother please look at the definitions. Socialism is essentially communism but the state still exists. It's not "government doing things for the people", it's literally the abolition of private property and profit.
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Mandarin is one of the hardest languages to learn as an adult and there would have to be jobs waiting for them in the ghost cities. Nobody moves because of cheap land if they can't earn a living. There's small towns in the US giving away free land to combat rural exodus, you either have to commit to start a business there or have the ability to work remotely. So the takers are few and far between.
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"Maybe when I was a child I took some paint chips and ate them... now I got lead in me" who the hell thought saying this was a good idea?
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A nuclear artillery shell has a blast radius of about 500 yards. That would maybe take out 30-40 soldiers in the frontline.
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Cope and seethe.
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Whataboutism.
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"Tu" short for Tupolev, like MiG is short for Mikoyan-Gurevich. Who says Emm-Eye-Gee?
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Schizo Vatniks sperging about Poland taking back Galicia while forgetting about the 80s Solodarity movement. They do not understand history.
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Jake has done a video on Russia's use of gold and said it's not that stable.
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The independent contractors are doing training and maintenance. The dangers of them being caught in the front is not worth the trouble.
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Any woman that runs is a THOT, any woman that stands still is a WELL TRAINED THOT
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 @SovereignKnight74 Doesn't have to. The 30mm was already questionable when it doesn't do anything 20mm and 25mm weren't doing.
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To be fair in Maverick they used cruise missiles and laser guided bombs.
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One side would say now they have greater influence by being spread around, another would say they are diluted. You be the judge.
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Well for full context the AK47 was designed alongside other weapons from other design bureaus. In each phase the trials commission would present the pros and cons of designs and suggested taking good ideas from each other. The AK46 prototype is very different from the AK47. It was changed based on feedback so in the end it was a weird individual designer driven process that ended up as a cooperative state project.
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And yes typically the govt reserves the right to pruchase X units from the manufacturer but also give the design to other companies to make it under license - with a fee paid to the patent holder. FN produced M4A1s and paid a royalty fee to Colt.
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He didn't act like a hero, he is one.
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@kniferideaudio "we still have 500000 dead" - that the CDC admitted only around 4% of those were actually killed by the sickness, not the co-morbidities.
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@nixdaddio it's not a dead virus either.... it's an mRNA vaccine
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@Rob_F8F here's been several air defense assets that if not destroyed, were rendered inoperable. There's Russian telegram posts showing for example Pantsirs that had their missile magazines riddled with fragments and stories of hits that although had not destroyed the launcher vehicle caused traumatic brain injury in all of the occupants via shock wave. Russia is at a point where just enough damage is almost as good as destruction as it gives them a bunch of stuff to be sent back for repair.
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points at bandana "Infinite ammo"
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@AndrewBurbo-zw6pf "a plant could use to turn CO2 into O2" - Plant growth depends on many factors (such as depleting soils), and doesn't provide energy.
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Yes. The materials are converted into non-water soluble forms like glass or ceramic. The Swedish method wraps that rod into a zirconium alloy, sticks the rod into a cast iron container, which is then put inside a thick copper tube. Then covered in clay soil. It's been years since I learned of Yucca mountain but I think that it was supposed to have low precipitation and the soil is not permeable enough to be a problem.
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@Demonslayer20111 okay, when was the last time you whitehat hacked their servers yourself?
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What did they learn when they evacuated Kherson? They gave up territory to not lose men fighting for the city (which benefitted Ukraine as they didn't have to assault a defended city) and then threw manpower away in frontal assaults against defended cities. If this is them learning, I hope they keep doing it. It's one step forward, two steps back.
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 @calvinnickel9995 Either 0 or just 1 A-10 has been shot down by MANPADS, most shootdowns were SAMs.
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China doesn't want to support Russia's war over ethnic separatist republics because it would justify supporting Xinjiang, Hong Kong, etc fighting off the CCP and declaring independence.
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Three fourths repaired AHAHAAHAHAH
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@mellowman1020 And the CDC admitted that 94 percent of those numbers were fudged because they ignored all the other causes of death.
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That's what they want. They become the sole provider of a service and become part of the machine.
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"A bank robber can't shoot people trying to arrest him" - He wasn't robbing a bank. "illegally transported across state lines" - He was unarmed and was loaned a rifle that day by a Wisconsinite. So right there you're wrong. "He was then menacing and assaulting people by pointing the gun at them" - You must have watched a different video. "you need to be acting lawfully, and in a place legally. He fails at both as there was a curfew and he was violating the law" - Bernie Goetz shot his attackers with an illegal gun he was carrying illegally in New York City. He successfully claimed self-defense and only served 8 months for the gun charges. So you're wrong. "As a fleeing felon" - He wasn't a felon, he hasn't even gone to trial.
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There's images and video on social media of the separatists transporting them. Funny, when the MH17 was shot down separatists also bragged about it on social media.
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Boris Johnson can't keep getting away with it!!!
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@cynicallydepressed1 how were the actions of Germany any different from the actions of the rest of European powers? All of the great powers are equal in blame. After centuries of Europeans butchering each other wouldn't you have done the same and strived for German unification? The "Second Reich" is an informal term and is in no way comparable to the Third. Accusing Germany of having expansionist dreams is meaningless when other countries had actual empires. Both France and Russia wanted a war. Was Germany the victim? No. Were the Allies the "good guys" and the Axis the "bad guys"? No, everyone did fucked up shit and we not only have to thank European ruling elites and royal families not just for the 4 year long dick measuring contest but also for fulfilling Bismark's prophecy of German encirclement that lead to the Nazi regime.
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@cynicallydepressed1 "they chose to attack unarmed passenger ships and merchant craft. They were warned in 1916 by us (Wilson), but didn't care." - you do realize that the allies were using passenger ships and merchant craft to transport war materials to provoke Germans into sinking them, right? You do realize that Britain blockaded Germany and declared the whole North Sea a war zone, beginning the indiscriminate mining and declaring basic resources like food and cotton to be contraband in an attempt to starve Germany which where both violations of international treaties. "Does that mean Germany or Austria gets off the hook for their part? For some, apparently you, yes." - I'm not saying they're off the hook, I'm saying that a hundred years have passed and we could just stop using WWI as a historical backdrop for simplistic good vs evil storylines.
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"Yeah why are they assuming her gender? It's spokespeople!" - Justin Trudeau
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@c3sPAze if we need to cut the population and stop being selfish, why don't you start with yourself?
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Gold backing doesn't work anymore. We produce too much wealth for gold to keep up with.
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@williamrutter3619 The S500 is not an upgrade, it's an anti-ballistic missile system. I know the S-400 is the follow up to the S-300 but the 500 isn't following that convention.
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Yeah, they're literally soldiers of fortune, Shadow Company is an oblique reference to Blackwater. Due to the controversies in the use of private security in the Middle East a documentary was made called "Shadow Army". In Payday 2 there's a PMC called "Murkywater", and the 2010 A-Team movie has one called Black Forest. Everyone was making parodies of Blackwater back in the day, and the Shadow Company is the "shadow army".
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@Magneto_502 "missle defense will include something similar to the An/Seq-3 on jets" - And why would you want to get close to an aircraft that is increasing its defensive potential? Want to defend yourself? Create a window and run before you're dragged into the fight. Get all your wingmen to help. If you're alone and up close, you've already placed yourself in a low survivability situation where trying to fight your way out through circling around is simply not going to go well for you.
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"So you say that there is no technical distinction between guns that are a threat to society and guns that aren't" - excuse me? Which guns are a threat to society? "you ridicule people for using non-technical grouping that attempts to make that distinction instead?" - DUDE. The point is that there is no distinction. "Why would someone fight for one and not the other unless they had an agenda?" - because it's easier to fight in the digital battleground. If the government starts telling you you can't own encryption tools I can just copy mine and send it to you. If the government comes after guns we'll need to make our own guns from scratch. If they ban ammunition we'll have to make it from scratch which although a cool mental exercise in engineering, it's a little more complex as it involves building a production line.
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@joshuabanner9920 we didn't expect him to endorse Trump, nice strawman you got there. He could have refused to endorse Clinton.
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Time is not on Russia's side. The longer it takes the more officers die in HQ explosions, the more their artillery barrels will explode (happened yesterday), the more ammo depots get turned into fiery infernos. The Russian MoD lies. Every single day they lie. They hit a building and claim it's HIMARS. So just assume the opposite happened.
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Literally how LGA775 Xeons had to be fitted on regular motherboards. A pin switch sticker mod and a file.
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@malusignatius The needs of the Army are already met by current aircraft. The niche need for a COIN aircraft for theaters like Afghanistan was outpaced by the goings of the conflict itself and the fact that the USAF doesn't want to be dragging both the A-10 and the OA-X into a near-peer conflict.
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Pentagon Wars is just a comedy movie based on a book written by a nutter who thought he was smarter than everyone else.
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@mor4y That's funny because I always heard of the "black cars" watching over people (a reference to the Stasi's Tatras) but I intuitively knew of the white vans used for surveillance in the West because of movies (and the Simpson's "Flowers By Irene" van gag). I didn't know of the fiberglass detail. I am trying to find information, I suppose it's got to do with the oscillation in the receiver flowing back through the antenna and being picked up by the instrument in the van, correct?
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The Vietnamese took massive casualties. The Tet Offensive had a bunch of deep infiltration attacks combined with conventional front line assaults and it was still an unmitigated disaster. The Viet Cong were nearly wiped out and the NVA had to send regular troops to fill their ranks. Like Russia is sending Russian men to DPR/LPR units to make up for the fact that they were nearly annihilated.
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They're gonna burn Moscow again?
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@slab-dd6vj The Ukrainian government is also sowing disinformation to take off the heat from the locals. They released fake wanted posters regarding suspects of the attacks. They used photos of Russian FSB agents.
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Nobody runs in her family.
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How is Kherson as a diversion if they were going to have a referendum?
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@bhangrafan4480 How did Ukrainians divert themselves by capturing an important rail hub that's gonna deliver Severodonetsk to them on a silver plate? How didn't it achieve much when troops had to be pulled elsewhere? Kherson is under Russian control? They're in a self-managed POW camp. They can't leave or the Kadyrovites will shoot them. Barely dented? They're threatening to cut off the Kherson forces in two. The ones in the Northeast better learn to swim because they're gonna be pressed against the river.
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The Mulford Act predated the Cincinnati Revolt by about 10 years. The NRA in 1967 was not the NRA you think of these days. This isn't an endorsement of the NRA, just stating that the organization was changed from the inside. Fun fact, the NRA then changed their internal rules so that a new revolt couldn't happen. Michael Moore actually planned to try and use activists to change the NRA from the inside but he realized he couldn't be done due to the convoluted way that people are nominated for the board.
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@phatnguyen4803 The high tech munitions that kept crashing into Belgorod? Lol
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I call them Russia's graveyard.
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There is the small difference that Kim and Tom did not beat the shit out of a man. Say what you want about Zimmerman, but we still live in a world where people are innocent until proven guilty. Unless you can prove that Zimmerman killed a man and inflicted self-defense injuries on himself before the police arrived, what he did was perfectly legal. 17 year old. As if that changes anything. Trayvon Martin was a man, at age 17 you're big enough to kill a man with your bare hands.
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Still miffed that I got tricked into seeing his coin slot on 4chan.
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@OakInch Ten in the last few days. Yes, Ukraine has been hit for months. They're still fighting. Russia is expending a lot more ammo, this means they're ammo hungry. No food. They starve. Same problem as very muscular guys in the ring. Muscles need a lot of energy. They punch hard. But then they start to slow down. Then they gas out. What we're seeing is a skinny guy and a muscular guy being told to run a 5k before a fight.
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@travisbishop782 Not how it works. The TYT would accuse her of being a groyper and thus deserving of being victimized. In this case he's pointing out she defends this victimization as long as it's not against her.
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@bololollek9245 lol a ton of Americans would have a bad time in the rest of the anglosphere
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@3d1e00 The F-35A doesn't have that issue, it happened three times in total and they couldn't replicate it reliably in testing. The limit on speed in Bs and Cs is just a precaution for peacetime.
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@3d1e00 Sure. IRST doesn't have to be used in isolation because weapons and aircraft have their own sensors. This can mean firing a weapon with a rough intercept course to then turn its own radar own to obtain the tracking solution. BVR, if we're talking about human visual range, still includes optical means. The DAS/EOTS on the F-35 is an example of how an infrared search and track system can detect a contact, cue an electro-optical system to get visual on the target, cue a weapon so that it ends up close to the target sighted and then let it handle the terminal phase. If you have multiple F-35s in the air, as one should, sensor fusion should allow these systems to triangulate the position and get a passable track.
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rigegs you get lead poisoning from FMJ because the primer residue that gets ejected out of the gun has lead. Lead styphanate is the precursor that is used in the primer mix, I think.
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@PrgressiveHouse Okay, in a conversation about people being put on ventilators you said, and I quote "Why is that scary? That doesnt mean that all of the 20-65 year old patients die". You think breathing through a machine isn't scary? "And who is close to death? The 2% (even less) who die from the virus?" - By definition close to death is everyone who required medical intervention to survive. Not those who die. Dying isn't "close to death". You're using death rates to sweep the hospitalized people under the rug. If things spiral out of control and hospitals can't treat everyone... The death rate climbs because of all the people who could have survived.
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The drone has a high aspect ratio for efficient loitering. It's not going to jink to evade crazy Ivan.
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@BleedForTheWorld That's just a non-sequitur. What exactly does that solve?
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3.4 billion people, what's their purchasing power like?
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Germany is sort of an outlier. Many European countries have speed limits lower than 80 mph.
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But the war isn't about the Hungarians. That's like saying WW2 isn't black and white because of the Native Americans or slavery.
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You'd have a hard time OD'ing on it, it's mixed with a component that makes you throw up if you take too much.
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+Chris Weidner it would be helpful if you named the country because your point kinda loses its edge if the country receives a ton of medical aid from the developed countries, or if the country is under a military dictatorship or something. I don't think losing freedoms is a good price for cheap drugs.
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+bcoleman71 "buying the patent to a particular drug that was being sold for a few dollars per dose and Jack the live up to $1000 per dose" if you're talking about Martin Shkreli he bought the manufacturing license for a BRAND NAME DRUG with an EXPIRED PATENT. Just a few months later Imprimis Pharmaceuticals announced they would be selling a new and improved version of the drug for 1 dollar a pill.
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And two Aliexpress drones into Sevastopol naval HQ lol.
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It's 3 grams mixed into all those large containers. It's impossible to separate for use.
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@loneskankster2242 Post the video, then.
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 @aeolussvichi7680 Almost nobody is mad at immigrants for hiring practices. However there's other issues unrelated to the jobs that people are not happy about as well.
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@justingoretoy1628 He's uninformed.
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Okay. Are they laughing at the people who took all the precautions and still died? Because that's a dumb way to die. Are they doing that?
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@smithnwesson990 They needed the power. Anything that fits the M4 magwell with a heavy bullet is just a step backwards.
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Harriers had a dismal mishap rate. The F-35 Lightning II has an excellent safety record with only 1.6 crashes per 100,000 flight hours.
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@LondonSteveLee "assuming stealth works - which it doesn't" - Why are Russian and Chinese arms manufacturers making them, then?
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@Tijuanabill 1. Contingency 2. Stealth is based on energy reducing based on the inverse square law of the distance. If you're close enough to a stealth aircraft it becomes visible on radar because there isn't enough distance for it to disperse.
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@esshakkar1357 the F-117 was hit because it flew almost over a S-125 site that had not been seen in satellite pictures. It was sheer luck. They tried to lock on twice and failed. The SAM crews knew there were no Wild Weasel aircraft in the air and broke their own rules to attempt a third lock. Two missiles fired. One lost track.
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@Mr.O-Town "I don’t understand why Americans have a problem with having to take a course and wait 3 weeks to be able to own a firearm." - Because then "Oops, too many people, you're gonna have to wait 5 weeks" and then it becomes 9 weeks, then 15 weeks, then 30 weeks. Deny people their gun rights without needing to write a law banning them. - Who creates the course? Who makes sure it's not impossible to pass? Who pays for the course? What about those who live too far away from training facilities and can't miss days off work?
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They did. No NATO in Eastern Germany.
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If those routes also work as supply lines they have no reason to leave.
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That's just electronic warfare.
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 @mrwhips3623 Air raid warnings and shelters reduce those.
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@Ontarianmm Shrapnel slows down pretty quick.
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@evan14343 The rounds weren't "falling from the sky", they were shot with horizontal velocity and plunged into the victim. Plunging fire is deadly. A falling bullet isn't. When you shoot into the air, you can easily create plunging fire by accident so don't do it. But you won't kill anyone with a falling bullet.
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@immikeurnot That's not true. There may be clones of the original rocket that lack the safety features out in the wild, but the RPG-7 rockets as intended have VP-7 and VP-22 fuses with an inertial safety.
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@natas6647 Not as originally designed. With the caveat that there may be safety-less rockets produced and distributed in conflict areas, the RPG-7 rocket designs have a setback safety that requires the acceleration of the rocket to set off a pyrotechnic safety. Once it burns out, a spring loaded slider moves and closes the electric circuit between the peizoelectric generator and the fuse.
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Okay, but do Sumo guys use Muay Thai techniques? In Muay Thai you open your hand and stick it on the opponent's face. Which is safe with boxing gloves. If you slide your hand through the guard to do a Thai guard manipulation, elbow or head grab for a clinch knee while wearing MMA gloves you do not have the padding you're used to in sparring.
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I don't wanna smell what The Rock was cooking.
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I understand the argument but we've already been sitting cars for decades.
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Miss me with that "accuracy" shit. I'm aiming at everything so I always hit.
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The gun wasn't effective against tanks.
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The numbers from Israel prove otherwise.
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That drone is gonna cost 60 million, minimum.
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@TheDrewSaga Yeah, I think the point is that when one crime family is "in power" they're demonized for absolute BS reasons (because the real crimes would implicate Dems), another crime family replaces them in the throne and now suddenly the media is running circles trying to excuse all their bad behavior.
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@h.plovecat4307 from the phrasing I thought the implication was that he is in the military, especially when "send it" is military lingo.
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What the hell does that mean? What niche? Advanced 4th gen cost as much as the F-35 because you have to purchase a lot of avionics separately to hang it on pylons. The F-35 comes with all the FLIR/laser targeting and ECM "pods" internally, which is cost effective and reduces drag penalty.
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@user-gu1hl2kx2k according to other comments the Bolivian lithium would not be cost effective to use... Care to address that? Because as an observer I'm more inclined to agree with them.
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@user-gu1hl2kx2k This is only a surface level quick rundown of the situation, it doesn't actually explain how Tesla needs Bolivia's lithium. Other companies might want it, but that doesn't address what other people are arguing. They're providing critical information, and I don't have any information that contradicts what they're saying, so I believe Tesla is not involved in the Bolivia debacle even if Musk is a megalomaniac.
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RIP
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 @markbryant4641 Little cost? Elite VDV units have been rebuilt multiple times thanks to those "defensive" actions. Which are actually offensives but whatever.
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No. That's just an AR-15 made for a compromise cartridge that got dropped by SOCOM precisely because of the long ranges in Afghanistan.
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Several areas that joined the RF are already under Ukrainian control.
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Hugh Mungus it's not about the use of private companies' services, it's the double standard. If anyone voices their opinion against "you" , it violates "your" first amendment (even though the opinion is protected by the 1A in the first place) which is using victimhood to push for others to censor/self-censor things you do not own. But you can say whatever you want and censor whoever you want. That's some free speech advocate "you" (still hypothetical) are. Same thing with the people who constantly remind us free speech doesn't protect one from the consequences of said speech, but when you force them to suffer the consequences of their speech they're the first to cry "muh freeze peach".
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@stupidregistration "reports"
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Rockets aren't controlled explosions. The rocket fuel burns, it doesn't explode.
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No, it isn't. It's adenovirus viral vector, genetically modified viruses. It's also novel as adenovirus are used in gene therapy.
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@arcanondrum6543 I'm not marketing for anyone. You're just being what we call "a hater", and you assume your position is neutral. It isn't. The F-22 was indeed meant to replace the F-15. But the government needed money for other projects and to pay for the wars so they decided to pull the plug on the F-22, and build insufficient numbers. The F-22 did what it was meant to do. The government got cold feet and said the F-22 wasn't necessary. Their words, not mine. Your information about the F-35 is outdated and based on a David Axe article from almost 6 years ago. Outmaneuvering missiles? Missiles can pull a lot more Gs then aircraft. You can outrun them by forcing them to waste energy, which isn't some great feat of maneuverability but simply having speed and altitude to spend. Your first video was removed, and the second video shows a clean F-16. The F-16 can't do that in combat either because it carries weapons.
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@arcanondrum6543 My comment has been deleted. Outstanding. I linked multiple videos so my comment was flagged as spam. Tight turn radiuses don't defeat missiles. The aircraft does not leave the seeker FOV or the maneuvering envelope. Missile avoidance is done before the missile is even close to try and enter a turn radius competition. That's a last resort, desperate move because a missile flying past will still trigger the proximity fuse.
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@cstgraphpads2091 how do you perform air traffic control without knowing where the planes are? Airports existed before radar because air traffic was less congested.
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This isn't for drones.
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 @Denyy He wasn't in the weapons sector. He worked for medical use of drones. But people hear drones and think weapons.
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@GROGU123 the problem is the lack of due process. A college friend of mine got a letter in the mail telling him to pay up. He asked for photo verification of his car speeding. They didn't reply. The autonated system had probably fucked up and sent him a letter, as soon as someone realized there was no photo of his car/plates in the system they gave up. My girlfriend's father replied to one of those letters by stating the radar had not been calibrated in 6 months, and according to their own rules they couldn't fine a person without hard evidence. Part of due proccess is the government admitting it can get things wrong. Autonating the system to revoke people's rights would open the door to injustice in other areas.
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Most stuff used by military forces has to be manned by 18 year old conscripts ir people who chose the military as a career after running out of better options.
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The M777 killed and maimed many artillerymen. The Javelin took out many tanks, even a helicopter I believe. The M270s made the smoking accidents. The PzH 2000 got so much work done they overstressed the firing system.
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That's not how it works. That's like saying a solar panel can't work in the cold. Doesn't matter how cold the air is in between, the radiation still hits the sensor. What matters is how much air (distance) and humidity is in the air because radiation scatters in the air.
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@0IIIIII Why would they vote democrat?
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@0IIIIII You're just dissing the republican party and pretending everyone should go to college (that's not how it works, bub). You didn't actually state a single reason to vote democrat.
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@0IIIIII Get stuff done? Other countries? Half of them are constantly teetering between economic collapse and recovery. You think it's gonna be Germany but it's gonna be Greece. Corporate welfare is the Dem's game too. Isn't Biden's cabinet full of corporate stooges? Internet is almost twice as fast since de-regulation. Student debt is caused by government policies that promoted more college attendees, which allowed colleges to make bank of a increased demand while they limit the supply. Now you have college graduates bartending and stocking shelves. Excuse me? The dems politicized the Shanghai Shivers by making sure political power is seized through varus related mandates. Greatest tragedy in decades? Turn off the TV. Didn't CDC data essentially prove that only 6 percent of those fatalities were actually varus related while rest were all comorbidities? Again, I don't give a damn about what you think about the Republican party. You were asked why vote for Democrats. All you can say is call people dumb for not going to college. You hate the working class, you hate blue collar workers, then wonder why they won't vote for your party.
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@0IIIIII How is that an argument? Popularity isn't truth. Proven to work? Then why did you miss all the countries where it didn't work? Why do you throw out all the test tubes that don't confirm your experiment? That's not how science works. It's frustrating to talk to someone who hates you, hates your way of living and wants to see cops gun you down.
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@bradbecker8982 We've been dropping moral hammers for decades and every time you kill someone, three more pop up out of the ground.
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 @zloyboy8 Reminder that Russia involved Belarus first.
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Wo-lo-lo!
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@Dinker27 It was a joke but I appreciate the details on the Star Wars LARP group.
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It has anti-ICBM capabilities. That's pretty much it.
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The FBI has a list of approved ammo so any agency that doesn't feel like running an expensive reliability test can use that.
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Mcillsonn well if the government made a system so bad it took your tax dollars and gave it to millionaires, focus that anger on the original thief not who's receiving the goods
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At tree top level missiles have less energy. You want to fire them from altitude so they can trade altitude for speed. When fired from ground level, they just slow down and lose range.
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He already did: "The Russian Alex Jones" - 2 years ago.
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Oh no, MRAPs and M113s. What minefields are they trying to cross?
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The "Axis of Resistance" seems to be falling apart.
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We're on the breaking point of practicality, though. Well designed pistol frames pumped out by a decently tuned printer can easily reach 600-1000 rounds before having problems, and at a 3-4 dollar material cost per frame they're essentially infinitely replaceable compared to the ammo it costs to wear one out. And this is with PLA+, which is essentially the "entry level" filament.
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@therandomheretek5403 The Chinese already have the HJ-12.
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Russia presented their evidence in the UN and embarassed themselves.
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It absolutely is. And GDP would have grown with more home owners. The better off more people are, the more GDP grows. You think that somehow more people in poverty won't cause reduction in consumption and thus more layoffs and more poverty?
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Take your meds.
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@ThisPartIsAndrew athey've been using captured M16s and M4s for over a decade. Also, you're using the term tolerance wrong.
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Didn't happen. An old wives tale. One Army general spitballed that idea and other Army officers explained to him it couldn't be done. The US Army brass never officially asked to operate the A-10 nor could they.
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@martinfiedler4317 Democratic elections don't bust your door down at 2AM. At least with a gat I have a choice. Even if it's saving the last round for myself.
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@LyndaHill I'm sorry, but you simultaneously believe that the situation is hopeless, but that also fighting back is useless. If you don't think fighting back has any use, then certainly you don't think the situation is that bad.
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Congress refuses to allow its retirement. Don't worry, the USAF will continue to neglect it so that it can't fly anymore.
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@kouloudgzima2299 before America sent their troops they were already committing attacks. The reason was US presence in Saudi Arabia, Somalia and support of Israel. Don't make terrorism about avenging innocent victims, it has always been political.
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@willw8011 So we went from "high tech fails, A-10 good because pilot has Mk 1 Mod 0 Eyeball" to "We've finally crammed enough high tech in the A-10 for it to do its job without effing up". If every ground element needs electronic IFF for deconfliction, we've already accepted the A-10 is irrelevant. I'm going to politely remind you that a big argument behind keeping the A-10 is that close air support needs low level flying and visual ID as a last resort because tech fails. If the visual ID doesn't work worth a fvck and we need electronics, there's no need to do low flybys. So the A-10 is a cheap aircraft that's literally priceless as you can't get replacements, has a huge cannon that in the end only reliably kills tanks with mobility kills and maybe damaging sensors, and its low and slow capabilities to look at the enemy requires IFF transponders because pilots can't tell friendlies and enemies apart. What's the actual point of keeping it?
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@MB-fy8kk It is our problem because we are involved. If it's not our problem, we pack up and leave.
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@jeanniemaycrawford4466 "but but but" - Whataboutism. Several wrongs don't justify another. Afghanistan was not related to Soviet nukes. Vietnam was not related to Soviet nukes. Iraq wasn't related to Russian nukes. You claimed the US did exactly the same when they didn't. And if you want to go there, the Soviet Union also invaded Afghanistan and backed a proxy war against the US in Vietnam. "They invaded countries weaker than them, exactly what Russia is doing now" - But the problem isn't who's weak and who's strong. Russia could be weak, it would still be wrong. "Applying America's current rhetoric, them confronting Russia during the Cuban "crisis" itself was undermining cuba's sovereignty." - But Cuba's sovereignty was not undermined. The US dealt with the Soviet Union, made the concession to remove nukes from Turkey, and convinced Khrushchev that Castro was a loose cannon. Khrushchev himself realized that Castro wanted to be able to launch Soviet nukes without asking the Soviets, if anything the Soviets realized that they would be dragged into nuclear war because of Castro's personality. It would be Cuba undermining Soviet sovereignty, in a sense.
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@devildog1989 the people running this channel probably hate me for explaining this on almost every comments section but that wouldn't work. Rechambering a weapon and calling it a day almost never works. It's usually a process that's gonna get as expensive as replacing the rifles. 6.8 SPC II is dead in the water due to mistakes during the rollout, and even the SPC II has an incorrect chamber diagram submitted as standard, meaning that there's newer chambers and rifling twist combos that allow you to unlock the true performance of 6.8. The Jordanian contract ammo is the 90gr Gold Dot. That's great for personal security details or checkpoints, but it's not an improvement over 5.56 for warfighting because it's a light-for-caliber, low BC hollow point. The bullets with good BC are heavier and come out the muzzle really slow. The whole point of the new 6.8 is busting modern ceramic plates. 6.8 SPC is not enough.
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@zenaku666 Wait didn't TF have the Anita Sarkeesian arc?
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Not enough pipelines to shift to asia.
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@joaoomega6627 NATO promised to not expand into East Germany. The border with Russia? NATO would have to go through the Warsaw Pact first.
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@Peter Pan Ukrainian isn't the same language (Ukrainian is mixed with Polish/Lithuanian/Slovenian influence), they don't have the same religion (the orthodox church split), they don't have the same history or culture (Ukrainians lived separately from the Muscovites in a society arranged differently).
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@VineFynn the problem is that the private enterprise should be investing its dollar. Not the people's dollar.
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@KurNorock "If their symptoms are mild and they are unaware they have it, then they don't have a problem." - But that's a smoothbrain take. They have a problem, which is endangering their community, and even for self-centered individuals, their elders. I don't want to unwittingly kill my grandmother. There's immuno-compromised people. There's old people. There's people with high blood pressure. There's people with diabetes. They're at risk and unless you want to make the argument that they deserve to die or some shit like that, you can't say there's no problem in having carriers spreading it around. "don't care about how many people catch a mild case of the sniffles." - The sniffles is only the symptom. You're being dismissive because the symptoms of a deadlier virus are equal to less serious viruses as long as your immune system is standing it's ground, really? I don't get you people, it's almost like you all believe that unless a virus is some sci-fi T-virus shit that makes people start bleeding out of their eyes in 30 seconds after infection it's not a big deal. "Unless significant numbers of people are dying or at least being hospitalized, then there is nothing to worry about." - You mean like in Italy? "And as of right now, there is less than 100 deaths nation wide." - That we know of. "People didn't freak out this hard over the H1N1 virus" - Oh wow different outbreaks have different degrees of severity and thus require different containment measures? No shit.
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No, NATO actually said that Ukraine would win before the process to join could be finished. They're not saying they're not wanted. They're saying that Ukraine is so strong, they don't even need NATO membership.
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@mikeace7775 Again, the IL-2 armor is meant to protect critical components. Like a vest it prevents a lucky hit in the heart, but if someone gets their leg shot off they're not running away.
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@mikeincalifornia NATO didn't invade Iraq.
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@Yoan Willi Bro the blue helmets have been caught raping children and spreading cholera.
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2023 I want a cage match. 2024 we have the tables, ladders and chairs.
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He committed a crime by cutting the barrel. He's a "reasonable" gun owner who doesn't even know/follow gun laws and made an illegal short barrel rifle. How is that decent?
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That's not balanced journalism, that's whataboutism. Journalism focus on relevant topics. Unless a western PMC has done anything of note recently, there's nothing to cover.
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@thethirdman225 How is it naïve? How is it irrelevant? It shows a man is willing to twist the facts and fool the laymen to push his narrative. If you have to lie to get a point across, that doesn't make you noble. It makes you a liar. I did read what he said. That's why I know he lies. And worse, he thinks his readers are too stupid to notice it.
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@thethirdman225 I'm not talking about Chris. I'm talking about your source.
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They reformed the 1st Guards Tank Army with old tanks. It wasn't donated to Luhansk or Donetsk. Both are now using Russian mobilized men in their ranks so they pretty much don't exist anymore.
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Yes, the person who grew up with the same cartoons, tv shows, music, movies and went through a similar schooling is totally growing up in a different culture. Like, you're just two steps removed from saying blacks all come from the ghetto, hispanics get whipped with their mother's flip flops, etc. and this gives them the edge over sheltered whites. For fuck's sake.
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Because it's totally contextual. Mind that most people think of shooting as one hour in a ventilated range where you shoot paper targets. If you take a dive to prone on a 2 gun match or handle steel targets you're gonna ingest lead that the "average" shooter wouldn't come in contact with.
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@andreschaustre2814 Blackwater did not get paid to kill. They were just security. The reason Blackwater became famous was because they went rogue and performed a reprisal attack after their personnel was attacked in an amush.
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There will be no nuclear response. All the Russian rich kids live here. They love the West, the oligarchs. The Russian military would be slaughtering the sons and daughters of billionaires.
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 @ipoml3804 but metas remove liberty
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What an exaggeration. 200-300 artillery pieces with enough ammo and more counter-battery radar would already give Ukraine localized artillery supremacy.
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Oh no, they have mopeds now. Can't cheat physics. No amount of smugness would make this work.
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Terminators are not tanks, though they do use a tank hull. They're an anti infantry vehicle to support armor, to counter ambushes of the type they faced in Chechnya.
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So simply allow businesses to lie through their teeth and we won't feel bad. Nah.
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+15 Rubles
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@amiesparkle00 That's the new narrative. It was about herd immunity just a few months ago.
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@RicoImp3 You're welcome to put a bullet in me if I get it. In fact, I probably have a higher chance of survival from getting shot than from the abject standard of care being given to patients.
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@amiesparkle00 First we trust the science, then we admit the science was wrong. Call me when they finally get it right.
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No. A really jacked person exercises in a way that stimulates a growth response. Growing physically larger will continuously require you to lift heavier and heavier because your body will stop responding to stimulus if you don't lift heavy. There's a reason weightlifting has weight categories. Because more muscle mass helps lifting heavier weights.
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 @prensyabgu The Russian economy is growing according to Rosstat. Nobody has access to the numbers to actually judge Russia's economy.
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 @swisstestpilot What pure Russian hardware? Have you seen the thermal imaging Russia makes to replace the French optics? It's complete dogwater.
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At hypersonic speeds, they're not seeing anything either.
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@jeremiahblake3949 if you're a true libertarian you know that such a thing is only possible through centralized government and taxation.
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So to enjoy the privileges of a country you need to suspend such priviledges? To be free we need slavery? The rights and oriviledges exist because Americans shot at the King's troops. If politicians start to behave like kings it's them who need to be shot, not Iranians.
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Because the US pledged to support Ukrainian security in exchange for their nukes. Don't like it? Give Zelensky the nukes back. Or just respect the deal and keep drip feeding aid.
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Hydroelectric has limits, so does geothermal, hydrogen is a pipe dream.
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 @NotMustacheMan It's literally not. If I give you my old furniture that doesn't mean I spent X dollars upgrading your home. I just gave away old stuff.
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Not related to the topic.
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Last year they introduced fuel rationing. That's clearly a sign.
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Oh she supported it too.
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The ATACMS uses the same pod as the 6 GMLRS used in HIMARS. Since when does it need a modification?
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The Gepard is an anti-air system.
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@Frozander Sure. But Ukraine has no shortage of anti-infantry stuff. They'd be worried about incoming RuAF.
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@amunderdog Yes, they have. Especially against enemies that have no air force. The Russian Air Force was right over the border so if Gepards were used, they'd be there to work on enemy aviation instead of being distracted by fleeing soldiers.
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@anydaynow01 And Hans-Ulrich Rudel, much like other Stuka pilots, had a flawed perspective. His consultation work was mostly irrelevant especially considering it was based on WWII and time moves on.
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Not true
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 @notswaw8721 I think LonerBox already did a video on it, it's basically the "the US puppeteered all the events and forced Russia to invade" perspective.
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 @robbrown4621 Severodonetsk was captured last year... it was right before Lysychansk.
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 @LaGrandeBayou that's a post-hoc rationalization.
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 @dwarow2508 Russia actually had to import T-34s for parades because of the low number of T-34s in good condition.
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War fatigue in Russia was confirmed when they pulled out the T-55s. It's a nation on its last legs. Millions of soldiers without equipment will just be cut down.
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"Eating the rich" would only cover the bill for 3-4 months. Borrowing money is how the saugage is made. No way around it.
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@bruuuuuuuuuh it wasn't "random" but there was a list of cities. Could have been those two cities, could have been two others. I think part of the reason was weather reports, they needed to drop during clear weather.
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How does a R-37 fit in the Su-57 bay? Think.
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You can estimate based on known data. You can estimate ahead of time how long a part will work until it will need replacement, and for refurbishments you can use similar equipment that exists on current aircraft.
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The Tsar is good, the Boyars are wrong.
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"We may have gone too far in a few places."
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False. There's confirmed satellite photos of missiles fired from the North where the tail ended up West of the cluster impact. The orientation of the tail cannot be used to determine direction of fire.
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Except that Kalashnikov was 900 km away from Izhmash while the AK was being developed. Unless you claim him and Schmeisser had long phone conversations, your timeline is wrong. If you look at the two rifles side by side you'll realize that there's only so many ways to lay out a long-stroke piston rifle built off stamped steel and fed by a magazine forward of the pistol grip. First of all, the StG has a magwell and magazine release more comparable to the AR than the AK's. The stock is attached completely differently, with the StG having the predecessor for the H&K design where the stock is meant to sleeve the rear of the receiver and get pinned into place - the AK has the stock bolted to the rear trunnion. The StG makes use of ribbed reinforcements in its stampings to make up for weaker steel alloys - the AK uses a simplistic stamp with a lower amount of dimples. The StG receiver splits into an upper and lower/trigger group housing. The AK uses a single receiver with a cover. If anything, the H&K rifles and MP5 submachine gun are guilty of more copying of the StG than the AK, which only have steel and wood in common. The nail in the coffin is the internals. Why would the Russians ask a German to help, and said German simply copied American designs? The AK uses the operating system and trigger of the M1 Garand, and the safety/dust cover from the Remington Model 8. Why wouldn't the Russians just copy it themselves? In what way did they benefit from the German expertise if they made the least possible German gun by cloning the M1 Garand?
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Belle Delphine having an armory in the UK would be a major flex tbh.
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@mitchellanderson3960 Trickle down economics never even existed.
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@r.daneel.90 SC is a scam for saying it would be released in 2014, then 2015, 2016, 2018, etc and then Chris Roberts "absolved himself" out of his release date promises. When NMS came out, everyone was able to see how badly it ran. SC keeps promising it will get better.
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Wrong. FSB agents like Igor Girkin and Russian nationals like Motorola occupied the Donbas.
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They lose.
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Joe "Women Be Shopping" Rogan
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Ever watched a Marvel movie or played Call of Duty?
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@mickeydrago9401 There are some tricks involving bent metal. An AR can be made full auto only with a bent coat hanger. If I'm not mistaken the Mini-14 could be turned into a binary-trigger weapon with a staple... I might be misremembering if it was a staple in the mechanism or a paperclip.
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@j.langer5949 I looked at the map lol Russia already gave back territory. They'll give it back again.
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@j.langer5949 Why dream? It's real life.
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+Maui Caui most rapists were indeed abused, though. Or has been that debunked already?
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The DF-ZF/DF-17 combo is a ballistic missile that then releases a hypersonic glide vehicle. It's better in the sense that it's a greater achievement than launching a huge missile horizontally to go faster, but it's not impossible to intercept.
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Wait a minute. So if I side with sex work because I understand the free market and prohibition, and I side with tax evasion because taxation is theft, I'm not gonna be taken seriously? Good. The average person is too dumb to come up with a consistent belief system. I'd rather be right than be popular. Don't get me wrong the thot audit is fucking hilarious. But I still think the people willingly becoming tax hounds for the state and snitches are dumbasses. How can one do that and somehow think that he's different from the asshole reporting farmers to the NKVD for not giving up enough grain to the state?
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 @sometoastxd It's not the best. What's even the metric for such a claim?
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A very good case of them ignoring the Baltic states in NATO but sperging about Ukraine. Right. Also, "this is going to last longer the more you struggle" is not the defense you think it is.
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@Ed Bait No, it was different armor. They sold it to the USAF, not Army. When caught, their excuse was that they had a "verbal agreement" that the armor was about to get NIJ certification. The testing failures with Dragon Skin were another different matter.
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@Ed Bait It's not irrelevant. It completely tanks the credibility of the company behind Dragon Skin, as they essentially engaged in fraud.
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@clikclikboom123 if I go right now on google and insert the search term "violent koran passages" you think I'm gonna get 0 results?
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+garaad MMc nonsense. We're always told Islam isn't to blame after an attack.
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The F-16 did 12,000 sorties with only 3 losses.
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@LastOne155 Cope. This is mental gymnastics. All you're telling me is that the invasion was a planning failure, but now you're trying to twist yourself into a pretzel to make sense of how idiotic the plan was. If they did not expect to take the city, why did they send Rosgvardiya/OMON units? There's footage taken by Ukrainians of bodies piled up with their riot shields. Why was the VDV tasked with an air assault on Hostomel airfield? You know what was also put out publicly? An article that was posted accidentally by Russia state media declaring victory over Ukraine.
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The deep clean video is 3 years old which puts it in the peak of coof hype.
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Okay, if you own a car you need to face the parents of all children killed on the road. Most murderers actually follow a path of increased violence, it's very rare for someone to commit a murder as their first crime.
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 @Acid-Operator A movie will retain a wikipedia and imdb page. My playlists of videos I wanted to rewatch is probably half vacant due to accounts that got banned or videos taken down.
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"CAN you SEE the target AND the troops you are providing CAS for?" - That's what ground controllers are for. "If you are in an F-16 flying above 12,000 ft. - you can't see shit. Yeah - you may have a weapon that can actively target something like a tank - but - it's going to have no idea how close that tank is to friendly troops." - This information is provided by targeting pod and ground controllers. That A-10 pilots also depend on. "The issue is that you have to get low to see where your own troops are - so you don't kill them ." - But A-10 pilots are known for firing on friendlies. You can't see squat from the A-10 cockpit. That's why CAS requires the ground controllers to provide firing authority. The pilot cannot make the call. He's not trusted to not hit friendlies and needs someone to hold his hand. " it's really hard to see what's happened" - Funny, you contradict your own claims by agreeing that it's difficult to see what's happening on the ground. That's exactly why CAS requires ground controllers.
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Gun charges were dropped.
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@attilamarics4808 Doesn't matter if they were older models. You need to pay for new ones. Those cost more. Ukraine is defending, Russia is attacking. Destroying Russian air power means the attackers suffer more.
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The US issues contracts for parts from companies that didn't win with their designs, to keep them in business.
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@bingcrosby1378 The point is that you can't destroy the factory where they're made. They're not currently being made. So unless they're storing all of them in a warehouse and Russia finds it, you can't take out that capability. They'll keep launching until they run out of the old drones.
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@phantom8926 Imagine if Kyle Rittenhouse was forced to stand trial over and over again until the state finally got a guilty verdict.
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It's already starved for thrust and you're gonna pull more power from the driveshaft to run a generator.
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@pquumm Is there a timeline for those strategic objectives? Because in both Vietnam and Afghanistan the opponent was forced to sign a peace deal and they waited for the US to leave. Vietnam waited a couple years while the Taliban broke the treaty immediately. But they waited for the US to leave first. The supposed victors defeated South Vietnam and the Kabul government, but they were unable to secure their strategic goal while the US was in the picture.
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Frank Castle Boomer is a state of mind, we've gone over this.
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Why does the internet nowadays think that to be balanced you have to run propaganda for both sides? That's just called "lying".
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We actually haven't recovered anything from deep space. Voyager 2 is the only man-made object that went into deep space and it will never come back.
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And yet Putin is losing to Biden. What a humiliation.
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The problem is spare parts, ammo, etc.
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@FairladyS130 Any tech advances that negate stealth, will be even more dangerous against non-stealth aircraft. Stealth won't become useless, it will become the price of admission.
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The F-16 is more survivable than the A-10 because it doesn't get hit in the fist place.
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It takes a little finesse: https://youtu.be/7RdAhTxyP64?t=50s the differences are honestly pretty negligible. Making something illegal doesn't deter people. Most people don't do heroin because it's illegal, but because they don't want to end up as junkies. If you do want to use drugs though, making it illegal doesn't help, in fact it makes it worse. Prohibition all over again. We don't make things illegal as deterrence. We make things illegal expecting people to do it, that's why we make it illegal - to charge the person with a crime. We don't make murder illegal to deter murder, but to put murderers in jail. If you want to massacre 50 people you don't care about jail time.
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@Globalscanningeyes Two crashed.
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Doesn't stop transmission, it's just to prevent hospitalization. In fact, by taking it you're actually less likely to feel symptoms and spread it to someone who can't take it.
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Christopher Columbus if powerless shots don't count then Pac won against Floyd
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They don't have money to outnumber the F-35 by 20. Also, expendable pilots are dead pilots. Poorer training standards lead to what we already know - most pilots shot down were unaware they were being targeted.
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 @eldersilva9030 It has an internal bay, it just can't be pressurized because of panel gaps.
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@interestedobserver587 I understand she is alive contrary to claims made online. But saying this is normal? I never had to remain 30 minutes in observation after a shot. One day I got five during an appointment. Three on my left arm and two on the right one. If it was normal to collapse after any shot then at least one of those would have caused it, no?
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@hadronoftheseus8829 Not an argument lol I don't need to show my diploma in culinary arts to spit out raw chicken.
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This is false. Private military contractors never did the heavy lifting, and they were paid much more than a regular soldier. The reason they saw fighting was because they protected infrastructure and people insurgents wanted to attack/kidnap. They were not hired to replace the armed forces, in fact they operated close to the coalition forces and even received air support for Army helicopters.
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@modigrey Here's the facts - the first wave of mobilization is a mess. A second wave would expose even more rot.
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@eddiebruv I might be wrong but I doubt West Point has an ornithology department.
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About as much gun kills were made with gun pods and the E internal gun. The majority of kills were missile. The reason for the increase in kill rate was the introduction of Teaball, the radar coverage and comms monitoring that exposed the North Vietnamese ambush tactics.
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Ukraine has Su-25s. They didn't use it on the convoy for the same reason an A-10 pilot wouldn't be allowed to go. It's preferable to fly TB-2s until they get shot down than risk manned aircraft.
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You should.
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@pash9956 there's no reason to shoot titanium, it's a lightweight material. However, it's a good material to make aircraft parts.
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@petersimmons3654 It's not a bit of protein. Your body's cells are hijacked to pump it out. Produce it at full blast. When you take the actual infection your immune system starts responding so it mounts the defenses to deal with the cells that will become infected and start producing virus. When you take the shot, your hijack cells overwhelm your immune system and the response will be late. Most people will be able to deal with it, just like 80 percent of people don't even notice they get sick.
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@secondlook Tatarsky was in the field and handling weapons. War has become greyer in the sense that you can become a warrior-celebrity, go to a country you invaded, get some action shots in the frontline, totally embedded in the military, and then go home for a speaking tour to be welcomed like a veteran. The US actually delayed the award of a Medal of Honor for decades because a soldier who sacrificed himself by manning a machine gun nest to cover a retreat was actually a medic - and a medic touching a weapon revoked the protections they had. Medics carrying weapons only became common during the GWOT as insurgents were unlawful combatants by virtue of wearing civilian clothing and were not expected to hold their fire against medics. Russia has had a few notorious "blogger warriors" since 2014. I don't see how they get to walk away scot-free.
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@Jorge andrade the richest states are democrat because of industry, ports and tech. It has nothing to do with politics.
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 @stephenmelton2532 that's just combat tempo. You can do a 9 month deployment and never reach 90 straight days of combat tempo. Even in Ukraine they try to pull back guys after 2 straight weeks.
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@88magikk most lactose intolerance that is not caused by underlying conditions is mild enough that the people that have it can still consume some milk (in quantities that would be available in ancient farming). Plus the old style of processing that creates yoghurt creates lactase through baterial activity which allows lactose to be digested, I think industrially produced yoghurt is different, though. Point being many cultures in the world still used farm animal milk, even though it's more common for Europeans to be tollerant to a high degree.
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Yeah but after spending millions chasing that dragon and billions tooling up to make them... you'd be better off just designing a modern engine.
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The fight against ISIS in Iraq hinged a lot on Iran's help, so in the end it didn't make a difference.
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If you take a week to knock down a wall by bashing your head against it, I wouldn't call it "smart".
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@rh_BOSS thanks for doing the research, I love 90s mall ninja LARPer magazines
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 @ImperialMJG Nah he's desecrating corpses for content. Skulls with straight saw cuts clearly indicate autopsies, Patrick is a criminal puppeteering dead bodies for your enjoyment.
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Ukraine is just 1.
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Made you mad.
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@joemoody7440 poor little bot has no arguments, just emojis like children playing with their phone
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 @trevorsomers8344 To get them up to speed on Western doctrine. It's possible to train skills in a hardware-agnostic way.
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@Stormyy6310 Now you're talking. Thanks for correcting the record.
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@shlug Most of it went towards outdated Western equipment. Fun fact, the Stinger was declared obsolete in 2022 and a replacement was supposed to be selected in 2023. The war put a wrench in those plans. The Bradleys being sent aren't modern ones.
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@shlug In the particular case of the Stinger, we actually have no latest and greatest because we never got to plan for the replacement before the war started. Stingers are both outdated but also the best we have, we don't have a better MANPADS.
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Engraving lasers are extremely common, it wouldn't be hard to get a panel plate engraved with new labels. Or just tape stuff over.
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@BHarris25 okay, let me rephrase that. What if the white people in the US government had decided to remain neutral and didn't even support the Soviet Union through the Lend Lease?
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It is the broken window fallacy. But unfortunately we live in a world of people who believe in Keynesian economics.
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@Kantimitsu It's essentially becoming endemic and seasonal. Are you going to maintain a semi-closed system forever with quarantining of people coming from abroad or eventually let it go and face what other countries already went through?
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@dawkot6955 "there's no way to do it" - and yet youtubers have.
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Several Russian speakers on twitter translated it and they all agreed 99% with each other.
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He kind of roasted a ton of "normal" guys and gals.
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@martist911wasits-not-real4 I never said bodies are fuel. I said that once a body has run through the process that destroyed most tissues, you can stick a new body into the same furnace and use the burn time. You struck out trying to counter an argument I never used. Read next time.
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@gigie555 The boats he claim were used did not stop over the area meaning that divers would have to swim several hours. The P-8 aircraft was not in Norwegian service, but American. A secret mission required Norway, Sweden and Denmark to be involved, but somehow nobody in Congress would know about it. Jans Stoltenberg was 16 years old when Vietnam ended but the article claims he was working for America since then.
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 @Cybersomnia You can make money "legally", just off the books.
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 @christophewells3918 You don't need to find the money to charge someone with a crime.
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Germany and Japan were rebuilt after WW2.
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@richardbianco3193 you do realize that it's nowhere close to xray or gamma, right? You have radio, microwave, IR, visible light, UV, xray and gamma from longer to shorter.
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Aesahethr they are 51% of the voting population and don't have power?
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Blackwater was just doing security work. They never fought a war.
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The problem is that other countries are considered high income countries. China fell in the middle income trap.
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The A-10 was designed because the Air Force's best CAS aircraft was too fast to escort helicopters and the Army wanted the USAF to do it. It was politics from the start.
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Targeting pods are like a million bucks and take up a weapons hardpoint.
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@10100rsn So aircraft would be wasting fuel (extra weight and drag) to bring a secondary pod that adds another 1 million to the price of an aircraft? Just because of some balloons and birds?
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Nonsense. How do you defend yourself when your fighters are sitting ducks?
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WRONG. The US keeps B2s in hangars to protect the RAM coating. You're parroting Russia's disinfo ops.
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@jakw97 violence is a tool of the state... the whole point of a state is an organization that holds the monopoly on violence. All the state can use is violence. Don't pretend to have moral hang ups about violence when your system depends on it.
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@atomharcos99 Oligarch is used in the West in specific cases. In the West we have people who made a fortune last year and trust fund kids who were born into families that were wealthy a hundred years ago. The Russian system is 30 years old and essentially designed for oligarchy to absorb new money. If you make a bunch of money in Russia you either join the oligarchs or become one.
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I swear, this stuff gets explained every couple of months and people still fall for it. You're confusing polymer case with caseless ammo, in which the entire things burns inside the chamber and you get no hot brass extraction. With polymer, the heat stays trapped inside due to insulating properties.
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@phunkracy Russia claims to have destroyed more aircraft than Ukraine had.
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That means dependence on 1) who has the uranium mines and 2) who built your nuclear facilities. Even if you have an entirely domestic weapons program, you could not have started from scratch with your reactor designs nor extract your own uranium as a smaller non-aligned country.
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The Marines are no longer Army 2.0 and are focusing on the Pacific. Can't drive tanks over the ocean.
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Grimm is one or two steps removed from outright lying. Russians conscription service is a mandatory year in the military for males 18-26 and those conscripts cannot be deployed to combat. HOWEVER any male who has gone through conscription can then be mobilized. Males are essentially in reserve until they age out and can be called up at any time. Since Russia passed a law to annex the territories of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk those territories are technically Russian soil and thus mobilized men can be sent to fight at the frontline. Although conscripts can't be sent to the frontline the act of conscription generates a number of reservists who can then be mobilized to serve "inside" Russia (which is Ukraine).
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ECM rifling would have been so much easier.
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How the hell is a low production fighter, especially a legacy variant that's discontinued, going to be upgraded?
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Okay. No twitter today. No youtube tomorrow. Why stop there? No email. No telephone. Hell, no bank account! Wabt to win elections? Write fliers by hand and ride a horse to towns! While the opposing side gets free reign to use mass communication!
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Because two GPUs have issues with parallelization of the load. You're essentially doubling the power consumption and heat inside the PC but either you have to divide the screen between GPUs (which can lead to tearing as they render slightly different images) or juggle the frames between GPU cores so they take turns (which can lead to jitter).
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 @goenzoy712 More people but lower purchasing power. Always factor that into the equation.
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@CharlesLumia "those people shouldn't be killed" - They're not being killed. It's not an issue. They speak Russian just like many people in Georgian speak Russian, many people in Kazakhstan speak Russian, many people in Armenia speak Russian. It's heritage from the Soviet Union. There's culturally and ethnic Russian people all across the former Soviet world. Especially thanks to the Soviet policies of forced relocations. If they're Russian, they should go back to Russian land instead of asking other countries to give up their land. Imagine if French people arrived in Texas, and then asked Texas to become part of the French government. Why? You were put here. It's not the US's fault you are here. It's not your land, you were transplanted as part of a government relocation program. Why do you want that land to be given away to France?
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Wikileaks: look at this engagement - we cut the footage to make the Americans look like murderers
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@alfieshepherd6522 It doesn't teach the body anything. It's you who is ignorant. Traditional vaccines exposed you to a weakened or disabled strain that actually taught the immune system. This just hijacks your cells to produce spike proteins and your immune system creates antibodies. But this has problems against variants and antibodies wear off. Don't call people ignorant when you can't even tell the difference between traditional tech and the new tech.
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@syntax6263 Necro = "dead", Philia = "Love"/"attraction"
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@gottagowork "stronger mitigation efforts, means to enforce them, and abiding citizens" - Nice sleight of hand. Whenever the first two don't work, you simply claim non-compliance. "and mask use is impeccable - even before pandemic" - But mask wearing doesn't correlate to transmission rates in Europe, independently of compliance.
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@gottagowork Yeah and you think Europeans were not unruly either? You think people who want to party or break curfew are all right wingers? What a joke. You think that fatigue won't set in after your measures fail time and time again?
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@wokeaf1337 Galileo is the example everyone reaches for, but he almost got away with his heliocentric model being published. He had already made enemies and had also attacked Aristotelian philosophy so Pope Urban was most likely pressured into prosecuting Galileo as he was also under accusation of being too lenient on heretics. Plus, Galileo was born in 1564 which was already considered the Renaissance period. So basically I wasted my time here because this has nothing to do with the Dark Age. To reinforce the Dark Age myth you have to bring up an example from the Renaissance. Huh. Funny how that works.
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@wokeaf1337 I'm saying that you have one example, and that example is filled with political intrigue plus it happened outside the Dark Ages. You made a claim about the Dark Ages and then used evidence from the Renaissance era to back it up. The church wasn't suppressing science, in fact a lot of early science was done by monks in monasteries. The problem is that after the collapse of the Roman empire it look a long while for trade and lines of communication to allow the Renaissance.
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@herzkine lol
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And Ritter's credibility is in the toilet, so...
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Both the doctor in an office setting and the first responder are human. They start out unable to perform either duty but their education and training steers them towards that job.
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Never happened.
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You can't tell if a gun is automatic by looking at it, but automatic guns are extremely rare. Most crime is committed with handguns.
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@eQuariuz "Like the ones that surrounded Kiev and bottled them in while the other units proceeded South and East" - So you openly admit that Russia killed its own soldiers in a hopeless fight? Also, nobody was bottled - capital is never left undefended. "The bulk of the units continued south to take Mariupol and capture 2k Ukraine Marines and destroy Ukraine's best units of the Azov Battalion. (also taking 2500 more Azov prisoners). Those Russian regular troops is exactly what I mean." - So out of 700,000 troops Russia killed and captured 5,400. Huh.
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Because we don't need them? We researched hypersonics in the 1960s. We figured ICBMs made more sense. The biggest advantage of hypersonics is defense against aircraft carriers. We have the aircraft carriers. Hypersonics are a sign of fear from naval power so we never bothered to pursue it seriously.
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@danmcha.96 Keep coping and seething. Other countries need hyper weapons to protect themselves from our jet fighters.
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Nah the A-10 got an undeserved second life 30 years ago. Even overtime has to end eventually.
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No. People will just use more contraceptives.
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 @guyledouche7939 donovan is a troll who exists to be a time sink.
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Ukraine phased their mobilization into waves because they couldn't train them all in one go. Russia couldn't train them all in one go either, but still put the men in busses and dropped them off on abandoned bases.
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It wasn't sabotaged. It was meant to be a fighter for export due to restrictions on F-16 foreign sales, and when those restrictions were removed everyone wanted a piece of that pie.
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Why would you want to go slow? Also, you only hover to land. Why would you hover over a target? You'd get shot at. The A-10 compromises itself by flying, hell you will read comments of people praising the A-10 because it is seen. No, it can't loiter quietly because it flies lower than most jets. F-16s can go higher and remain unseen from the ground. Nobody shoots at noises. It's not hunting with Dick Cheney.
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THAAD is a defensive system. Finland will be NATO too, why would nukes in Finland be okay but not in Ukraine?
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In the Zaporizhzhia offensive you could see even failed attacks by Ukraine were more surgical. Russians have really no options - it's attack until the objective is captured. Even if it takes two months of assaults that get wrecked.
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It was ineffective against... T-48 tanks used to mimic Soviet T-54/55s. That 1979 test used woefully outdated tanks.
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The US was using helicopters like trucks and BMPs, driving troops around. Vietnam also spanned the 60s and 70s.
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Ford must have killed millions by selling vehicles all over the world.
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 @TheLexstrong and where is the Tsirkon? At least the US tests and admits failures.
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@killswitchuncaged2158 the M4 was never made by Armalite, it was 100% developed by Colt and they still own the TDP.
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@TheAbabab77 "A global community of scientists don't have an agenda to harm us" - This is far too nebulous. You don't need a global community. Just a few hundred people covering their own ass. The "global community" doesn't all study the data and take conclusions. They get information from their parent agencies. If the information was tainted, a global community can easily be mislead. You purposefully create a broad scenario to appeal to implausibility, when similar things have happened. Corporations have managed to hide their misdeeds for years until someone goes against the established science and convinces the global community that they have been fooled. "hospitals not having ICU units flooded by unvaccinated" - This s a falsehood. Not only have several countries been caught cooking the books by not verifying status on most people and flagging them as unvaccinated due to unknown status, several countries also have a 50-50/60-40 split of vaccinated and unvaccinated. Finally, you also have the issue that in many countries 60-40% of the hospitalizations are for something else and people simply tested positive when admitted.
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@rsmith31416 "the doctor has to report such incidents" - And doctors shouldn't overprescribe opioids or give weed cards to anyone complaining of an headache.
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 @thepandadan America wasn't interested. That's why one person had to divert funds into a middleman.
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There were no nukes over Vietnam. Chill.
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 @nemesis465 One of the Wachowskis did that with Matrix
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 @TheDualHero15 >makes video response >"DURR YOU'RE FOAMING AT THE MOUTH" You people are a riot.
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I know plenty of Canadian gun owners. They're furious with this too. Canadians didn't ban anything. Trudeau did.
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And after the event you see them on the ground and garbage bins. Edit: lol it showed up for a second.
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Yes, when a Democrat is president.
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Can't Corner The Dorner
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Computers we buy to keep at home aren't made to fly at supersonic speeds at low pressure and wide temperature swings, after returning to base multiple times without being fired (shock from the landing). Radar in cars doesn't have to pick up stuff at dozens of miles, burn through jamming, etc.
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That's Russian camo. Also in the field anything goes. The front has glorified holes, guys in the rear have actual trench systems, and those behind them sleep in buildings. Schools, abandoned apartment buildings, etc.
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How? By missing the target like 90% of all their current strikes?
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@jonathanwarner1844 People mill their own custom boards and solder the components. I guess 3d printed wouldn't be that bad if you're waiting on a tabletop cnc router to mill every board, but one can straight up make metal cases by pressing metal with a hydraulic press. Patents? We don't need patents where we're going. But for real, most digital camera patents are probably expired by now unless you're stepping on some relatively new toes like compliant mechanisms being used as accelerators to force calculate a stabilized photo out of a burst or something that's only 7-5 years old. Plus, patents are part of the problem. The concept of intellectual property went too far. I get it. Someone still needs to make the copper covered plastic and spools of solder, and the capacitors and whatnot even if he was recording on a homemade camera. And the SD card? Yeah nobody's making those in their garage. But is his point invalidated by the fact that "no man is an island"? A lot of modern tech empires were built by a small team of nerds in a garage. Things always have a way of getting done. If there's people less dependent on the system, there's more relative demand for labor.
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What a non-statement. You know governments can do more than one thing at a time?
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He already made a video explaining that to attract the most audience he tests several titles and thumbnails. Most people will not notice, I only did because I added to my watch later the first time it was recommended, and saw it on the sidebar with a different title.
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@KiNGGAMESgr how is it the same thing? NATO didn't have a referendum to steal Kosovo.
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@KiNGGAMESgr there was no massacre in Odessa, Russian simps fired an AK at a crowd then threw molotov cocktails from the rooftops.
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He was mixing his supply of fresh water and also ingesting water from the fish he ate.
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@Doppe1ganger "the big guy stomps on the little guy because there are no regulations" - then... why do they lobby for regulations that stomp the little guy? Why are they afraid of free markets if they'd be able to leverage them?
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The F-35A is 80 million per unit.
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@Music-vr7sz "It's free" - No, it isn't. Pfeizer and Moderna scored 60 billion. "safer than ivermectin" - It's as safe as aspirin, or so I've been told. "and proven effective" - Nope. Israel is rolling out third shots because it wasn't effective. How is a respiratory illness peaking in August near the Equator if it worked? "Stop letting tribalism and politics" - You're the one politicizing this, but you can't see it.
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@Music-vr7sz How is it killing people? Because they're taking animal product since they cannot get it anywhere else? How is it non-effective? It's not free because I paid with my taxes. You people said 80% was enough for herd immunity. Israel has 90% of adults vaccinated. How does it show the opposite? They're having a peak in cases. You're not apolitical. You've only used partisan talking points while refusing to look outside your bias.
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@Music-vr7sz "your tax dollars didn't fund it. That's literally not how taxes work" - Explain. You cannot make statements like these without backing them. "Not hospitalizations or deaths" - But it's still infecting people and thus no herd immunity. What happens when antibodies wear off? "That's because the vaccines work" - They don't. "They are not 100% effective against infection, but their data is showing 78% after the two shots." - Then mathematically it should be impossible to have so many cases. ""You people" said aka scientists" - I've never heard a scientist say it, just you people. "You people" will suffice. "Another factor at play is the delta variant which is more infectious which was not there in January" - So it's not useful against variants and by the time they come up with a new formula, other variants will exist. Thanks for playing. "They also lifted restrictions that were preventing infections." - This shouldn't matter if the vaccines worked. They don't. "Seriously do even 5 seconds of research." - I did. You just parrot contradictions. "continue pushing partisan talking points." - I talk about what I've researched. You repeat what was told to you.
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@garretteickelberg9097 "without having specific evidence for the case at hand is not a valid argument" - It is valid because we've all seen it. People I know were banned from social media for saying things last year that only became "okay" to say a few months ago. If tech companies can control dissent that is them playing a part in a political fight.
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@jackoblllllllll no medical disorder can break the laws of physics. Calories in < calories out.
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Why would you put them in a non-stealth platform?
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@tsegulin Pointless. 4th gen aircraft are almost as expensive as stealth aircraft, and their performance isn't that superior to stealth aircraft. For example, pilots say a F-16 has to punch in afterburner to keep up with a F-35 in dry thrust. That means in terms of raw performance, the F-35 smokes the F-16. The F-22 is known to be one of the best aircraft in terms of raw performance, so stealth doesn't hinder it at all. Either way it's a false economy, because even if the aircraft was cheaper it would be easier to shoot down. Paying a little more to protect the asset is a better move.
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@grizwoldphantasia5005 Again, it's not cheap. It's not available. It's going to take even more time to develop and produce. The "good enough" would take 5-10 years, there's hundreds of F-35s rolling off the factory every year. They're better, and available now.
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@grizwoldphantasia5005 I really don't get why this is so hard to understand. Even if you need to get in line to purchase an order of F-35s, you'll get it before a bolt on kit is developed. The cost of a F-35 is less than old plane + retrofit because you get a 5th gen for your money. You don't understand. Even if "by definition" the electronics are less expensive, they would require a different production line which isn't available. The production line for those electronics exists to make them to be an integral part of the F-35. So even if you could develop the package - which would take years - you'd either need to pay for an entire production line to be built, or you'd have to force F-35 production to slow down by demanding those electronics to be diverted from the main F-35 production line. You've clearly never had a situation where a spare part was more expensive than just buying a new product. Economies of scale are a bish.
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@grizwoldphantasia5005 You won't get such a package developed in a year. This stuff takes years to develop and certify for combat operations. I'll give you five years, even though it should be closer to ten. You also won't get it done with 500M. That's the cost of a few F-16s. These are billion dollar programs. The F-15 is a seriously expensive aircraft. It defeats the purpose of doing this. Why would it cost 20M? 10M alone is the price of a modern pod if I'm not mistaken.
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@grizwoldphantasia5005 I will tell you the numbers are unrealistic, because you're suiting them to your agenda. The brand new isn't even expensive. It's pretty competitive compared to 4.5 gen.
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@deven6518 Sure. But it takes precise JTAC support from the ground to direct the attacks. Russia does not dedicate enough resources to air support.
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 @conductingintomfoolery9163 Which part? Blowing through a massive reserve of IFVs by hitting every landmine in Ukraine or resorting to hand cranked weapons from the 1950s?
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@hannibalwantsahuggrande3433 What propaganda, what worship? Pictures of MT-LBs with 23mm hand cranked cannons is propaganda?
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If it's nothing, why are they asking Belarus for training? Artillery? HIMARS has degraded the ammo stockpiles and counterbattery is silencing Russian guns. Aviation? Falling out of the sky.
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Does the F-15 do 1800 MPH when loaded with weapons and fuel bags? There's more foreign F-35 buyers than nations building their own 5th gen fighters.
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@johnmaccallum7935 The nature of air combat is that the F-15 will have to fire more missiles for the kill. When two flights of conventional aircraft meet each other, the side that fires missiles inside a modern Pk range first has the advantage because the pilots on the receiving end are now flying defensive with a problem that needs to be solved before setting up their own attack. So the missiles will start flying from a range at which they can still be defeated by wasting their kinetic energy. At Red Flag exercises, the F-35 simply gets in position undetected and fires the kill shot.
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The technique is BS but as a last resort knocking the slide out of battery does prevent the pistol from firing. For semiautomatic function the trigger mechanism has a disconnector that gets tripped by rewards slide movement. The more reliable technique is doing it to a double action revolver without the hammer cocked because grabbing the cylinder so that it can't spin also blocks the trigger from being pulled. On the other hand as soon as you let go off the revolver it can work again, while a semi-automatic pistol has a chance that the slide did not return to battery through spring pressure.
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They are flying jets. But more often pulling vertically, lobbing rockets in a ballistic arc and then turning back.
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Cloning brings the issue of essentially creating unlimited genetic twins, meaning DNA won't solve crimes, and the creation of humans for the sole purpose of organ harvesting.
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@Jkp1321 But what about the opposite? If you're good at making money, why would you stop?
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Cenk's nephew has time between his streams of other people's content?
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Ukraine has attacked Russian territory before.
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@wacey7455 Fun fact - that research was based off westerners as well. The lab was built by French experts, and the GoF expert was Ralph Baric from the University of North Carolina.
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@hismajesty6272 Can Hawaii be rebuilt with 30 year old armor and missiles? Stuff that's gathering dust in storage can be sent but you won't because Hawaii needs it first??? What's Hawaii going to do with an ATACMS missile?
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So you're going to ignore 125,682 people walking around and causing the whole cycle to restart?
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@samarmajumdar573 he means geothermal.
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@mikeks8181 That is a severe misconception. No, it wasn't switched out pretty quick. The Navy never added guns to their Phantoms. The USAF E variant with the internal nose cannon hindered the performance of the aircraft by shifting that much weight to the nose, and required the use of a smaller radar. The majority of USAF Phantom kills were scored by missile. Even the "last gunfighter", the F-8 Crusader, scored most kills with missile. The myth that the air war over Vietnam somehow was decided by guns is not real.
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@shyrose39 They're using aircraft which were kept up to date with their domestic aircraft industry. Legacy Hornets would need overhauls.
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They're losing the regions.
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They don't clearly show anything of the sort.
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@louistournas120 Getting infected. Either way you already explained why I'm right.
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@54tisfaction Thanks for proving my point. Thank you.
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@louistournas120 Because despite being in contact with sick people I never got infected despite constant testing at my workplace. So my chance of developing something has to be multiplied by my chance of getting sick in the first place.
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@54tisfaction But it does. You said "it only happens in the US, rest of the world doesn't blame it" and they did. You've proven my point.
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Yeah. These facilities already have occasional leaks, last thing we need is an 18 year old private trashing the place.
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@Diogenes2528 he understands. He understands that instead of making sales that net him 12 million a year, he will scale back and "only" make 10 million a year. He earns less, but gets better return on investment. "realistically who needs more than 10mil per year?" - it's not a matter of "need". If after a certain arbitrary point it costs you more to do business than just not doing it, you'll not do them because of poor return on investment.
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lmao
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@johnc8910 "In all reality, the AF has never been wild about the CAS mission." - literally all historic evidence points to the contrary, with only internet pundits and "reformers" trying to sell books saying otherwise. Air Force support is more integrated with ground units than it was back in WWII, when the air power was under the Army. Another historical fact to keep in mind was that due to accuracy of the weapons employed at the time strategic bombing and interdiction produced the most effects on the enemy while posing the least risk to American ground troops, and strategic bombing/interdiction demanded more from the aircraft so the logic was to use aircraft designed for a harder job for CAS. Poor technology hindered the use of fast jets for CAS but the logic was straight out of army doctrine. The air force "manual" was largely written by the army in the early days. Preparing for the most demanding missions on the assumption that such a force could then deal with less demanding ones remained in Army field manuals at least until the 1980s and Join Doctrine publications until the 2000s. "No glamor in air-to-mud." - And yet at the time the Army was trying to shut out the USAF from CAS, the Air Force chief of staff was inquiring into the satisfaction of the Army with the Air Force and what could be done to improve CAS. But I guess fancy phrases you can repeat over and over matter more than history. Did you know that a 1979 GAO report slammed the Air Force for buying too many A-10s?
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@Ghastly_Grinner what was the interest of the movie to you? It's not particularly a high octane explosion action movie, so you were enjoying a slow burn of a movie. What makes Sicario good is the intensity and meaning (and cinematography, sound, etc). If you remove her character you lose the meaning.
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Not just that. America got by with very rudimentary quality control because the rest of the world was in shambles after WWII. American goods were the best available when everyone was trying to bomb each others' factories. Then Americans like Deming went over to Japan to teach the fundamental principles of quality and how you shouldn't simply do quality control but improve quality at every step of the procedure - although more costly, you save more money by rejecting less parts and wasting less time. In two to three decades the Japanese were beating American cars so bad the government had to strike a deal to limit Japanese imports and put Japanese-owned factories in America to prevent the money leaving the states.
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@TraditionalAnglican however when the US had to make a bunker buster for Iraq, they had to make a penetrating case made of a special alloy that was formulated for the air force, an offshoot of maraging steel. If the weapon does not have a thick penetrating case to survive the impact, the warhead will be crushed and detonated too early.
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I find forums extremely useful especially when dealing with older hardware, because if something dates back to when only Linus, 3dgameman and TigerDirect were doing hardware videos, I'm not going to learn anything from surface level reviews (and essentially advertising) with very few comments. However there's really obscure issues that I found the solution for by reading three or four forum threads and sanity checking what the responses are saying.
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Like a record baby right round round round
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A corner reflector inside a balloon. The US has used those to trick Cuban radars.
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The Russians are just being silly because they do not understand political wrangling and legitimate issues with planning aid packages. Maybe they should lay off the vodka.
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Jesus. He probably uses Linux based on comment he left here, and uses a "fake" account on youtube. Nkt to mention he knows how to prevent being tracked and how to use a VPN.
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Russia violated the Budapest Memorandum and their Donbabwe minions violated Minsk II. Mersheimer is also wrong.
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The F-22 was canceled over a decade ago. Of course they won't build more.
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@matsv201 How did they back out of stealth? More than 100 F-35s are delivered per year, the NGAD will be stealth, and some 4th gen aircraft got a few stealth features added.
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@pepelapiu2004 No, I think dams have an interest in storing water for when it's needed and they have a greater incentive to be a quick spin up power source.
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@JC839 Doesn't have anything to do with Congress being wrong as usual, but okay.
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@Jujuwhat but common sense says that if your company is getting fans riled up it means there's a silent majority of people who didn't like it but don't bother to post their opinion. For every customer who complains there's 10 more who are pissed off and simply stopped buying your product.
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inyrui E;R's critiques are unrelated to his politics, though. Edit: Sterling doesn't just make jokes about political leanings. He has used his platform to do bullshit things like shit on the entire male gender. If E;R's videos had bad critiques and shit jokes I wouldn't watch it. Jim Sterling has bad takes and isn't even funny when pushing his politics. So why watch? It's not a matter of taking offense. If you didn't like E;R's critique you are free to not watch without being considered "offended".
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A maternity leave program will either have to be imposed on the employer, which means lower wages or higher prices, or paid for by taxpayers which means higher taxes. You're back to square one. If people are poorer you tax less, and if the program is state funded the extra taxes go towards paying the paid leave so the state isn't getting more tax income for the rest of its budget.
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@armouredjester1622 I like the summer weather but hot nights are uncomfortable. Forget drinking the water, sometimes I have to get up from bed and dump the water bottle on my body just so I can cool off and go to sleep.
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Can you find the camp fire where I roasted marshmallows 15 years ago?
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If you don't want nuclear war you have to call out nuclear bullying.
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Because laser glasses are rated for specific wavelengths (ranging from visible to infrared) while arc welding emits UV radiation. A laser that goes into your eye will be focused on the retina and damage phototeceptors, arc welding will cause a "sunburn" in your cornea.
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He specifically said that Russia isn't following doctrine.
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*youtubers are cringe as fook Fixed that for you
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@OcceanWavess It's supposed to use motors from rockets about to be decommissioned because the warhead was a cluster munition. This could mean: 1) the motors themselves are having the fuel re-cast to get rid of creep and age cracks in the solid fuel grain. 2) there could be a reconsideration in sending cluster munitions deemed "obsolete" so the rockets have to be built from scratch
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At that point we will have to also discuss the relentless bombing of German industry. Soviet heavy industry was also built by Americans through shell companies. Their car factories were always meant to be reconfigured for war production, which is why the US did not help nearly as much with aviation or naval yards. They were ok with the USSR as a regional power, but had the foresight to now hand them global power on a silver platter.
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@irahoppe3632 Richard Thompson said anyone who supports freedom and democracy should be supporting Ukraine. You're changing the subject by trying to bring undemocratic countries to the table. By the way, you're ignoring an issue - the legitimately elected government were the ones who "coup'd" against Yanukovych. The parliament held a vote to strip the president of his powers because he fled the country, vacating the seat. The parliament had politicians. They're the democratically elected government, because people vote for them and their parties. How can you claim the legitimately elected government was coup'd when the legitimately elected politicians did what politicians do - vote on an issue? By the way, the president at the time was Yanukovych - he had his electoral victory in 2004 overturned by the Ukrainian supreme court due to irregularities. Yanukovych engaged in ballot stuffing and voter intimidation. He used the criminal justice system to charge his political rivals and detain them. So Yanukovych's rule can't be counted as a democracy even though he was elected. He was anti-democratic to the point of engaging in election fraud.
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Cope.
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F off. You are liable for the dangers that come with the job. If you required someone to turn on a machine, and the machine zaps them, you're liable. Nobody's demanding a set of rules. You're simply liable for what happens inside your home. And the things you make happen carry consequences.
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@GJ-dj4jx "youtube does not have any rights over your content" - they have the right to pull your content or your channel at any moment.
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Bakhmut's strategic significance was contingent on Russia being able to push past Bakhmut. Since the taking of the town bled the Russian forces, it was a self-defeating goal.
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400 active users. They knew exactly what they were doing.
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They're V1 style, and Russia is seemingly having trouble with refinery capacity. Amazing how Russia trying to freeze Ukraine by targeting power generation is not "desperation", but Ukraine finally going after Russia's jugular after international pressure asked them not to is. Meanwhile, Russia is sending men in golf carts and motorcycles to the front due to armor losses. That's desperation.
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In the past the AK was the big meanie gun to take off the streets. It was cheap enough for criminals to make "choppas" and there were also a few mass shootings like Stockton. And when the news media captioned photos of ARs they called them "AKs". Then with all the import bans, sanctions, etc the AK became more expensive while post-2004 (AWB sunset) economies of scale made AR prices steadly come down. Now all guns are labeled AR15s by the media (like the Galil in that MCU movie).
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F-35 purchase costs are in line with most current production 4th gen pricing. It's the maintenance cost that is higher.
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@Dominik189 The information is limited distribution only so we can't get the details, but army chief of staff claims it punches through any plate in existence today. True or not, the pendulum always swings. Armor can't stay ahead of the arms race between protection and penetration forever. From what I understand if tungsten were to be used in the core it would be easy but making billions of bullets with tungsten cores would deplete strategic reserves, so they need the new round to use less expensive materials. I'm optimistic and don't buy the "can't be done, we shouldn't even try" rhetoric. My only issue is that 5.56 should still be the issued caliber while 6.8 weapons are used in DMRs and machine guns.
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Good lord lmao
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More parties would still end up as a two party system, because the left or the right would form coalitions.
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@OGPatriot03 Soon after delivery? HIMARS did work for months. The reason they most likely have not been destroyed was that the Russian claims were paired with a logging vehicle and a strike through a second floor window. Only people lying would resort to such BS masquerading as evidence.
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"One can objectively determine a difference between an AR15 and a muzzle loader" - way to strawman the argument. Nobody is arguing muzzleloaders are equally effective as an AR15 (or almost nobody), we're saying a fudd looking weapon is as effective in a mass shooting as an AR15 but won't get banned. Then you ask, why would you want an AR15 if the fudd weapon is just as good, to which I reply, I am not a fucking mass shooter. To a mass shooter it won't matter that the fudd weapon is a little more expensive, or a little less accurate. To a civilian gun owner, who might want it for hunting, self-defense or target shooting purposes having a gun that does 1" groups at 100 yards out of the box is pretty great. To a mass shooter it doesn't fucking matter it does 3-6 inches at 100 yards, he's shooting at groups people running in hallways. There's also the precedent: a government able to tell me to trade the black polymer for wood will one day tell me to give up my wood-stock fudd guns. The government tells you that you can't own black plastic furniture but they're gonna let you have GUNS, which is the actually dangerous part? Yeah right.
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More accurate payloads? Come on now...
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They didn't simulate the whole flight, most likely. It was a pretty long mission.
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What job? Making up a source in his mind and writing fanfiction about it?
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@robertj1777 Nuclear waste is a manufactured problem. Finland is finishing up their geological storage.
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@dellaangel The ozone layer and acid rain have nothing to do with climate. You know those weren't grifts because the problem was actually solved. We banned CFCs and reduced emissions. Done.
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No. Cluster is several bomblets. This is a single explosion.
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Yeah there's videos of troops switching to civilian clothing and SAA crossing into Iraq.
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Bro there's tons of bodies. But due to websites like liveleak being shut down you have to work harder to find it. There's footage of UA troops entering towns after RU retreat and the bodies are laid in the streets and rubble.
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@maxmagnus777 Countless videos. There's everything. Guys missing their face because they probably got shot by autocannon, guys with huge holes in their body from which you could see the yellowish fat coming out where the muscle and skin used to be. Tons of burnt bodies of people who were leaving their vehicles as they burned. Like charred statues. There's footage of guys who died and the bodies froze during the night so they're found stiff. There's even some footage of angry Ukrainians desecrating the corpses. They come from telegram channels because most of this stuff is too gruesome to post on youtube. In the early days of the war a ton got posted, but I guess Ukrainian forces are enforcing more opsec because the videos were giving away positions. Also the abuse of corpses is bad for optics.
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Okay but Russia is fielding T-62M Obr 2022. We've seen the video of the Ukrainian tank assaulting trenches and literally grinding Russians with the tracks.
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 @KrunoslavStifter Air support isn't needed if the enemy can't provide it either. What do you mean Bakhmut 2.0? It's gonna be Kharkiv 2.0.
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It's not that they want to, it's that it pays the bills.
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Just more lives thrown at the meatgrinder for land they'll abandon anyway.
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@Madstsone Nice strawman. Only Ukraine is fighting for Ukraine. They're not asking for us to do the fighting, all they ask for is support.
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More jets isn't useless. Jets can deliver 2000lbs bombs directly into the roof of a factory or power plant. Small drones can chip away at a country's armed forces by slowly targeting the equipment and personnel. Jets can send a country back to the stone age and make the fighting pointless.
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Obligatory "Is that a FAMAS" comment?
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 @l0necroc They didn't say that. The Polish official only said that they had already supplied what they could and the weapons they purchased are for rearmament.
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"And you also act if europe is the only one who needs gas" - The pipelines lead to Europe. They can't pick up the tubes and connect them somewhere else.
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@The_Gun_Room If you're in a dense and humid jungle you might want to use the environment as your armor instead of sweating to death inside a carrier. If the only cover around is boulders hundreds of yards apart you might want to wear it.
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There's other 30mm, 25mm and even 20mm guns in service.
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+Collective Toothbrush wow what is reading between the lines, you're redefining an argument comparing Trump to Hitler as not an actual comparison. Congratulations for not understand subtext without having it spelled it our for you.
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+Thomas Ridley okay, "same tactics as Hitler". Did Trump burn down the Capitol and blame Mexicans? Are Trump supporters painting Mexican flags on Mexican-owned businesses? Is Trump cementing his power with a Kristallnacht when it's actually the left deplatforming right wingers, undermining right-wing businesses and engaging in "book burning"? Is LITERALLY ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN A DEMOCRACY doing anything other than using existing divisions to portray himself as the only answer to save the country? Literally everyone does that. It's how you get elected. What platform did Hillary run on? "Trump's gonna destroy the country and voting for me is the only way to save it". "This crap never ends well for anyone" wow since 2016 I've been hearing that the dictatorship is coming any day now. Any day now.
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@prodac "The Jabs stop you from dying, not from catching it" - so instead of the virus having the evolutionary pressure to become less deadly to stay undetected and spread more, now we have created a world where the mutations can pick up in lethality while remaining transmissible due to lower visibility. Regarding the tests, it was still true that the CDC issued a statement calling for the reduction of cycles.
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It's not escalation. It achieved exactly the effect desired. Javelins and NLAWs demolished the tank onslaught, and turned many IFV/APC occupants into crispy bacon. M777s allowed the shipment of 155mm shells. Patriots are engaging ballistic missiles. Funny how you skipped the HIMARS, which broke the back of the Russian army. 12 trucks with a rocket pod on the back (and a handful of tracked vehicles) stalled the mighty bear by hitting where it hurt.
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Jack Ruby was known to be an impulsive person.
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Cope, botski. "Waa waa we were provoked" grow up.
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I don't want to dogpile but this is exactly what we said obedience would take us. I can trust you to slam on the brakes but you have to realize, 9 out of 10 people have been eased into this so they won't hit the brakes.
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That's right, Susan.
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That's why the targets were a tunnel and a bridge. You don't target the rail. You target the stuff that holds the rail in place.
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@kingezhsepo Guards are gonna shoot the tunnel until the heat damage is gone? Buddy, the attack already went down. The train exploded inside the tunnel. It was loaded with fuel.
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The F-15 isn't a copy. The MiG-25 is a high speed interceptor, the F-15 is a nimble air superiority fighter.
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Use for what? It's sea water. Do you have a desalination plant you can plop down into Fukushima and told nobody about?
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Copium. The Ka-52 has vibration issues because the design didn't account for payload under the winglets. Also Iraq had everything from single to double digit SA defense systems to MIM-23 Hawks looted from Kuwait and French Roland missiles.
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No, it's a hybrid brass case wall mechanically locked to a stainless steel case head.
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You could try to find that wiki page in wayback machine.
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 @gregoryfilin8040 Russia expanded into Transnistria, Georgia, independent Chechnya and Ukraine.
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 @Jartran72 the Iskander is pretty sophisticated. It's just that they can only produce a few per month.
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Economic credit is just a rough calculation to predict your chances of deliquency.
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Reminder that Ali took a MASSIVE beating to rope-a-dope Foreman. Ali allowed Foreman to punch himself tired. You cannot be advancing and simultaneously pretend you are saving your energy. Advancing costs men and materiel.
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@thirdworldgamer8717 The majority of their storage is open air, exposed to rain amd snow. They also use the storage as source of parts for export customers.
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T-90s die easy. Bust the tracks, crew abandons it, drone drops VOG through the hatch. Tanks are only hard to kill when the enemy is good and comitted to recovery. If the metal is left behind, it's easy to take out.
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Because he had his own production company.
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+Victor Von Doom I don't agree with Net Neutrality. You agree. That's fine, we don't agree with each other. Making a reply and explaining why we have differences isn't being "triggered". Overusing that word is basically the equivalent of calling someone a dumbass and not actually present a valid argument. Just pretend the other person is literally having a panic attack for encountering a difference of opinion.
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They're not skirmishers. They're not diversion. They're assaulters that deploy in waves. Some waves have diggers who carry entrenching tools to build hasty fighting position. They're not expected to use them. It's for the next assault. Some waves are "mules" who carry ammunition and supplies to these fighting positions. So what you get is a creeping advance that covers terrain in the open at the cost of troops. So the lower skilled men go first.
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@Nicholas Rodriguez That's great. But in doubt, I'd rather trust people who have had that happen to them and learned the hard way, because it tells me those who haven't had it happen to them are people who still have a chance it will happen to them. I wouldn't put attachments on the left side because of the snag potential, I'd be going against my own rationale by sticking the charging handle there. I'd rather deal with the fact that it's uncomfortable but at least it's on the same side as the light so I'm conscious of it, than have to worry about two areas of the rifle being snag points.
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@j.taylor8837 MUH RUSSIA
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We don't have hard evidence. We only got the confirmation through loli. You people need to stop being artistic, the loli contextualizes the CP defense, without it he just gets away with it saying it was rhetorical debate bro tactics.
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As abhorrent child labor looks, your ancestors did it. Unless you're advocating for adopting all those children and bringing them over here to give them a privileged childhood, or somehow giving money to a charity you hope is gonna help them kids and not just pay themselves massive salaries while they sell the kids to the Cl*nton Foundation, not paying those kids only means that they'll have to do something else. Like farming, processing discarded electronics by hand or dynamite fishing. To you it's job, to them it's survival. They're not being enslaved by Starbucks but nature itself, we're all enslaved to it but in the developed world we have built ourselves a bubble.
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Not really. Anything that takes out stealth is even more effective against non-stealth aircraft.
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You cannot hear a shot that's travelling 3 times faster than the speed of sound. Even a fighter jet will fly past you without making a sound and then the shock cone hits you. If you can't hear an incoming jet screaming at 150 dB what makes you think you can hear a rifle from 400 yards away before the bullet reaches you?
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@angreyhewe4009 "It made me massively respect the VDV troops" - Why?
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F-22 dropped bombs on Russian-defended Syria.
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+Ray Mak the plans have been online for years. Gun deaths aren't rising exponentially.
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@JohnRodriguesPhotographer The Phantom is superior to the MiG-21 at 5k ft, balanced at 15k ft and only loses up high at around 30k ft. The Phantom is affectionally described as a brick, but it's a surprisingly agile aircraft especially after upgrades. It's the world's biggest distributor of MiG parts.
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"Jesse don't talk to the United Nations"
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Crazy, but not skilled. He fumbled the maneuver and impacted.
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Not necessarily. The MiG-27 and the A-7 were fast. The F-35 is fast. Pilots say that F-16s have to punch afterburner to keep up with a F-35 in dry thrust. It's limited to Mach 1.6 which looks "slow" (it isn't) but the fact is that reaching higher Mach numbers in combat is not common. The fuel expenditure and weapons load limitations from drag make it an ordeal where the juice is not worth the squeeze. The 1950s are also the age before ICBMs - when bombers would be carrying nuclear payload, and high speed interceptors were of utmost importance. Their job was exceptional by design, and not comparable to conventional air combat.
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@brankomilicevic6904 it was the border region of EUROPE because beyond Ukraine you had Black Sea pirates and beyond you had the peoples from the Caucasus. Ukraine existed before Russia did. The principality of Muscovy was a region that picked the name of the Rus after the Mongols lost power over it. But "Ukraina" was written on European maps because it was OUR border and going beyond to the East was bad news.
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Nah, Serbia knows that Russia is done. Love is blind and all that. Rationally, it's better to just bet on Europe over Muscovites.
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Go to Vuhledar again lol
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This case it's red on red. Not even kidding, the Soviets and Chinese accepted their designation as red team and China has a "blue team" opfor which uses US tactics.
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@BertoxolusThePuzzled "isn't even Russian troops doing the fighting but rather Wagner mercenaries or in Bakhmut the 1st Corp of the Donetsk People's Militia" - The VDV and 155th were used extensively in Bakhmut and Vuhledar. The Russian troops are doing the fighting, but it tends to result in abject failure like the multiple attempts of advance at Vuhledar. The VDV is always called to save Wagner from impending doom, which even resulted in the Russian MoD declaring that Wagner had lied about taking Soledar. The Donetsk and Luhansk militias are staffed by Russian mobilized men. If you read Murz or Girkin's updates they admit the militias were depleted last year with the mobilization. Murz is particularly open about the fact that they lost so many in the LPR, the newly mobilized they had left were mentally ill people who were picked off from asylums or men already wounded in the fighting forced to come back, still with the metal rods holding their bones in place from the previous mobilization.
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@insAneTunA That's not recycling because the material isn't brought back to its original form for the original use, it's being physically shredded as used as filler inside another material. Recycling would mean restoring the fiber and resin to their original components so that a new fiberglass composite part could be made. Shredding and mixing is just reusing it as filler without recycling.
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@magnusthered4973 :) :( :)
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Google bought YT in 2006.
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@willstikken5619 "as versatile as the F-35 is it isn't well suited for the same type of close support the A-10 provides" - The "type" of CAS it provides is dictated by airframe and the enemy. The A-10 is a flying gun facing off sandal wearing bags of meat and thin skinned Toyotas. So the type of CAS it is known for offering is diving down and ripping off bursts of gunfire. If the A-10 was a different aircraft it would do things differently but the end result would be the same. The F-35 can drop boom-boom and if needed has 200-something rounds for gun runs. It's much lower than the A-10, yes. But if the focus was the gun run the OA-X project could have replaced the A-10 with a cheap aircraft running a gun pod.
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@willstikken5619 I'm deflecting? I'm not insisting anything. I've said everything that needs to be said, you can't prove your reasoning. You have direct experience? Share the credentials, then. Prove it. Without evidence you could be just any Joe making up BS to entertain the fellas. What's the direct experience? Flight planning? Maintenance? Flying them? You're giving us nothing. Share with the audience.
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 @РемиБоняшки Shape and structure is the most important aspect. Regular fighters have received stealth materials and it only causes slight reduction.
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@eddietat95 Mikoyan has had problems getting sales for their upgraded MiG-29s. The Flankers are more capable and have longer range plus there's quite a few more upgraded airframes, so the savings they get from their Fulcrums are not very pronounced in an offensive war.
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@eddietat95 It's pretty relevant. The Fulcrum is a lower range and less capable fighter which would have its weaknesses exploited in an offensive war rather than the original point defense role. Lack of sales means Russia also doesn't build enough upgraded models to make them capable enough for offensive use. The Fulcrum might be cheaper, but it's much less survivable than the Flanker. The Cold War F-16 isn't the F-16 of the 1990s and the F-16 of today. The reason modern Russia doesn't buy the Fulcrum is that they need export sales to pay off the cost. Same as the Su-57, they needed foreign sales to purchase their own fighters. If the MiG-35 was a sales success, they'd have a significant number of them in service. Modern Fulcrums would bring capability the numbers don't have. And obviously if Russia could deal with those factors you mentioned (better training and procurement chain with Mikoyan over Sukhoi) they'd be using more MiG-29s than Flankers. But since the issues are pretty consistent across the board, they are forced by the decline of Mikoyan to use more Sukhoi.
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@goatman3828 If you achieved air supremacy to the point you can leisurely take out artillery, might as well fly towards Moscow and flatten the Kremlin. I think you'll find that first you started by mentioning air power, now you want full control of the skies. Simply having air power doesn't stop artillery. Having nobody contest the skies and allowing you to fly strike missions at will can stop artillery.
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@goatman3828 Sure. And anti-aircraft can protect the artillery. Ukraine does not have the airframes and the pilots for a proper SEAD and DEAD campaign. Every military has air forces. And most of them can't SEAD to a degree that can clear Russian defenses. Remove the US from NATO, now name a NATO country that could do the Desert Storm first night campaign with Apache helicopters attacking radars and F-117 hitting command and control. Minus nations that purchased the F-35, which nations with aircraft carriers could replicate Desert Storm?
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@benjamin ollis Ukraine was never a direct or indirect threat to Russia.
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Doesn't matter. 1 - they know and 2 - they can't tell the truth to their superiors
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@nomanor7987 It's perfectly fair. Cope harder.
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 @JudgeDillon The exposed cockpit was visible for maybe a few seconds and we don't know which directions it faced.
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Not at all.
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@swilson42 It's not the greedy person who set the prices higher just for kicks. If it's today and we have 100 million in circulation and tomorrow we double it to 200 million, then 200 million tomorrow dollars will be figting for 100 million of today value. Unless everyone agrees that the extra money is gonna sit still the added purchasing power without a matching growth in goods or services will have to devalue the currency.
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@Borat480 Russia recruited from prisons and created specific penal units, Ukrained allowed early release of some prisoners who had combat experience. The prison population in Russia decreased significantly as a result.
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Literally everything is wrong in that comment.
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B-1 fired cruise missiles got through Syrian S-300 and Russian S-400.
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@rodrigo_dm A lot of people praised BFV gunplay and criticized vehicle gameplay. So they took the opportunity to focus on the vehicles and battlefield moments.
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@bl1398 Most self-check out machines are only good for a handful of purchases and while one supervisor can oversee 6-8 machines, if you install ones big enough to take full carts and in enough number to displace the human cashiers, they become impossible to oversee and shoplifting will become rampant. The savings in staff will have to be compensated by more CCTV and security. Automated trucks require an array of sensors to detect proximity, traffic signs, etc. It's only a matter of time until someone uses those sensors to inject malicious code into the program and hijack literal truckloads of goods. Or worse, weaponize the truck by making it drive towards pedestrians rather than avoid them.
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Bernie "my favourite book is the one I am writing" Sanders
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 @marpintado Yes it is.
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It was subtle but you have to watch out for the 1/r^3 r dr dtheta. The r in the nominator position crosses out one of the rs in the denominator leaving 1/r^2 dr dtheta.
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Cheap way of getting cameras without paying for security systems?
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"President Madagascar! A man in Brazil is coughing!" "Shut. Down. EVERYTHING!"
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They blasted cities into oblivion, how is that a correction?
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Russia is welcome to leave so negotiations can start.
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@srmatte1 I've been hearing about the water releases at Fukushima for 10 years now. Loved those pictures of fish with parasites inside them mislabelled as tumors to scare people.
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@gavinsaint2224 Yeah you might receive radiation from the sun.
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 @jameshodgson3656 Not true. It's called Fire Support or "I Can't Believe It's Not CAS". Provided by rotary wing.
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Yes, it was 8 years ago. How is that BS? You clicked on it.
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Sorry but Soviet stuff is a nightmare to operate. You think MiGs and Sukhois are not a mess?
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 @antonlevkovsky1667 lmao patriotic boost, if people weren't signing up for 1.5 million rubles they're not gonna sign up for patriotism
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Pretty sure their land is being invaded.
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No, the F-20 has been one of the biggest "what ifs" among aviation enthusiasts for decades.
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Russia is advancing into Ukraine's punches.
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Did you see the LP convention where the chubby dude undressed to his underwear on stage? If the bar was any lower it would hit an oil deposit.
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Did you see what happened to the Ruble?
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@danwilliams4270 Which is a meaningless metric because that's the Russian exchange. Due to sanctions, importers have less needs for dollars as they can't buy as many foreign goods. The Russian government is also artificially propping the Ruble value which also muddies the waters.
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@DoutorKulatraMD It was a really messed up situation because past referendums on gun control had failed at the ballot. But this time the EU issued a directive in which either Switzerland had to enforce some gun control or they'd be putting the Schengen agreement in jeopardy. So in the following referendum the new measures did pass because of EU economic pressure.
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Their world class system failed to protect Moscow several times and just the other day Ukraine destroyed a Tu-22 strategic bomber because air defense failed.
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So a normal day?
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 @brostoevsky22 Capturing? They're gonna rush Kiev again?
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Russians have anti-radar missiles, but their SEAD doctrine is ass. The United States wrote the book on suppression of enemy air defenses. Russia read the summary on wikipedia.
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@yowanowich Wikipedia: "The initial concept[when?] of partisan warfare involved the use of troops raised from the local population in a war zone (or in some cases regular forces) who would operate behind enemy lines to disrupt communications, seize posts or villages as forward-operating bases, ambush convoys, impose war taxes or contributions, raid logistical stockpiles, and compel enemy forces to disperse and protect their base of operations.[citation needed]" You never heard "Iraqi partisans" because they were either terrorists or fighters for warlords. Taliban weren't fighting for freedom. They were fighting for their right to oppress Afghans. Many partisans were not freedom fighters and were fighting for tyrannical regimes. They were partisans nonetheless.
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You're bound to get a worse infection in the hospital.
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I was "present" at the start of the pizzagate conspiracy catching on. One detail that often flies under the radar is that the restaurant does not have a basement but a building two doors down does. That explains the inconsistency in regards to an interview with the owner where he describes home canning ingredients in the basement and later saying the restaurant does not have a basement. Both statements are true. How Hillary Clinton got added to the mix I don't know.
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The fallacy is that people refuse to accept any alternative that isn't the realistic alternative, and they think the realistic alternative is a modern A-10. No other country is building this type of aircraft. If the fast movers are suppressing SAMs then they can drop the bombs and finish the mission by themselves without having to wait for the A-10 to limp along and come do the job. Yes, that is an unnecessary waste of resources. Having a princess of an aircraft that needs everyone else to make sure there's no war going on around it so it can pickle off ordnance safely. The A-10 has no resistance to ground fire in the age of fast shooting 23/30mm AA and other anti-helicopter SHORAD that can shred slow moving aircraft for sport. They're made to protect troops against squirrely targets that hide behind ridgelines. Slow fixed wing are a piece of cake.
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The merge is just a jousting match where both sides take an all aspect missile through the cockpit.
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The GMLRS rocket fired by HIMARS or M270 costs around 120,000-130,000 dollars. You don't just fire valuable rockets at random buildings in a satellite photo. The facility was known to contain POWs, it's been a penal colony. So anyone looking at the satellite imagery would know not to hit it. Sure, 200lbs of explosive won't wipe a building. But all the walls are standing? The bed frames are not knocked around? 200lbs of explosive cause a massive overpressure, it might not flatten a building but much smaller warheads have knocked walls down in residential buildings.
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@stinyg Ka-52s fly under the AD umbrella. Radar is physically blocked by the horizon (Earth is round). Helicopters don't need to destroy the AD to fly inside their own terrain and lob a 10km range missile. The Vikhr missile has greater range than MANPADS. Remember the helicopters brought down inside Russia? Ukrainian AD brought them down. They thought they were safe so they flew relatively high. They only survive by hugging the ground. Which meas AD is active.
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+Swine Brothers you do realize that here in Europe many people working in the medical field are overworked and underpaid, right? Particularly nurses, the system has been screwing over nurses for years. In my city an ER is going to close soon because all the doctors managing the ER quit. They announced that they were forced to take drastic measures because they don't have the resources and manpower to keep going. It's not slavery because the doctors and nurses truly want to help patients so they consent to working in terrible conditions for longer than anyone working in another field. If the government saw everyone quitting en-masse how would they be able to give anyone the "right" to healthcare? The only way to preserve that "right" is force.
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+Tim Laning "free" you mean the price you just mentioned plus the money stolen from people's paychecks.
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+surrealnumber if you don't have the resources nor the manpower it's more detrimental to public health to continue to operate a ER in improper conditions than have the government close it down and start redirecting people into other ER centers.
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They're concerned about a rearmament after they took over Crimea? Even if Crimea is rightfully Russian, you'd expect a country to notice its vulnerability and spin up a military force.
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@Safwaan How would you make it non-memorizeable?
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@Safwaan The problem is that there's not enough possible questions.
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@leonardmccannon3136 I don't think there's a source, he just posted that he recalled a conversation from years ago.
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"freedom" to be cannon fodder and become part of a greater state...
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Not how it works. Not only does Ukraine get to use other countries' artillery pieces as war loans, Russia is the artillery army. Artillery is the thing holding Ukraine back. Without artillery, there's nothing to stop sappers from clearing mined positions and let tanks and IFVs dispatch every defensive position with ease.
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@joshuaturcotte6724 The issue is that there was a program called OA-X to give the USAF a stopgap aircraft that performed the role during the GWOT. However as the years dragged on and it became clear the US was intending to pull out of Afghanistan the program was scaled back and a smaller number of A-29s Super Tucanos and T-6 Texans were acquired. There's really no way to minimize anything. The A-10 is an aircraft stuck between worlds where it's too much aircraft for counter insurgency but not enough aircraft to survive a high threat environment. So people start to wonder, why exactly is it still in service for?
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@xureality The company was willing to license the tech but simply nobody cares. Microsoft invested a lot in the FFB joystick market but at one point even they sorta stopped supporting it through DirectInput. Before MSFS2020 dropped, flight sims were somewhat a niche and trying to sell a plastic joystick with motors that would last as much as a Sidewinder FFB for an affordable price was a losing proposition. And in the world of high end simmers many of the people buying the high dollar sticks are flying spaceships in ED or modern airliners/jets with fly by wire controls.
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@TheRustedShackleford Regulation is control. Most sophisticated? By whose definition? I don't trust the government to write a law regarding the sophistication of a system, they'll bungle that one up or actually have the unintended consequence of legally trapping companies into using outdated systems they could upgrade but now can't due to law.
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Ukraine gave up their nukes to Russia. Bruh.
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Yeah I would assume that people working illegal jobs wouldn't get a legal paycheck with all the taxes deducted and thus would not interfere with anyone's financial records but I keep hearing illegals pay X in taxes every year. I looked it up and the IRS gives them numbers so they can file income taxes. Jesus Christ why would anyone want to be a legal immigrant when those who come illegally even get the option of paying taxes voluntarily?
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@Valorius M1 Abrams won't push anything back to the sea, if you can just send enemy troops to be bottom of the sea. Are you seriously arguing for M1 Abrams lined up at the beach when a double tap with anti-ship missiles sunk the Mockba?
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Lmao India and China are enemies. So are Iran amd Saudi Arabia.
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Several ways. First of all is by using energy, rocket motors burn out quick, especially the boost rockets, so if you point your aircraft to where you don't want to be the missile has no option but to fly in that direction. You then turn back to where you intended to go and now the missile has to waste its sustain phase motors to go back into another predictive intercept course. By the time it gets close to you it's either too slow to keep up with the aircraft or it can't turn due to lack of airflow over the control surfaces. You can also dive under the missile's minimum altitude. Modern missiles can target aircraft flying lower but again, at low altitude the air is denser and thus drag is higher. You can pull a missile down to waste its energy defeating the high drag low altitude air, and then climb up to altitude to slow down the missile. Plus there's the fact that although the missile can pull more Gs (at proper speeds) you can force a hard enough turn that loses speed and the missile's turn still forces an overshoot due to speed. You just have to do this in a way that doesn't land you inside the proximity fuze.
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Heat shielding like reentry capsules.
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@QuizmasterLaw But you're not "knowing" anything, you're just posting. You're either paid, which is sad, or doing it for free, which is even sadder. He's not your enemy. You're nobody. You have no enemies because nobody knows who you are.
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 @CuriosityNudge wrong lol Gripens have participated in evaluations and scored below other fighters. It's not politics.
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@timoteiafanasie4894 What do you man sure? Russia went from a big boy army doing multi-pronged mechanized offensives, to crawling in the mud in waves until the defenders can't sustain the assault anymore.
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@cyagami90 That's just not true. There's people from developed countries that go to the US to do experimental treatments they aren't allowed by law to get in their country yet, people who don't want to wait in their country and decide to pay to get their treatment/surgery sooner, etc. There's private clinics in Canada where people travel from other developed countries simply because they have better procedures, for example that hernia treatment clinic that promises better results and faster recovery than the competition. It's not something exclusive to the US, but there's more research and private practice in the US so people go there.
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I mean, it doesn't. It was a speedbump meant to delay Russians for a few weeks, it stood for 6 months.
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@slasheztech5390 a lot of them were eager to send young men who did not have the right to vote to die in war or wanted to appeal to racists by pointing out that white women could be used to counter the black vote. Pretty cancerous.
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@YourPalHDee How does a gas that increases the bandwidth of IR absorption in the atmosphere not influence temperature?
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Cheap drones, Lancets, 155mm Excalibur rounds and even 30 year old ATACMS have taken out air defense in this war. Turns out that even "cheap" weapons work. And the A-22 trainer aircraft converted to kamikaze drone slipped through defenses and hit factories inside Russia. It's not stealth.
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@lilartay Career criminal versus people who decided to commit their first crime 5 minutes earlier. Meh.
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@lilartay Police "instructing them" is totally worthless. Police can give bad advice. Get a lawyer instead, and a good one. Listening to incomptent cops can lead to your downfall.
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@auroraborealis4137 Doesn't matter. By that logic the mob had the right to beat down Kyle due to his statements that got captured during the CVS looting. They tried to stop him, inadvertently comitted a crime, making Armed Robbery the victim and thus flipping the script. A victim has the right to take the gun away from the criminal and become a lethal threat. If the criminal resists, he does time for the homicide.
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@flowerjpotter1629 So? People lie. My only point was that you can't retroactively bring up certain aspects of one's life to justify something. Especially if the mob didn't even see that.
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@theheavyartillery545 Not with a hard plate. That's with soft vests.
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Lmao Ukraine is cutting Kherson in half and the North is falling apart.
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@TheTudor111 only 6% of those actually died from the virus according to the CDC
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True to the commanding officers. Extremely cruel to the crews.
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@kbm2055 So basically when the enemy employs defenses improperly you can employ the TB2 improperly and score kills, when the enemy wises up and uses their defenses properly you use the TB2 properly and score kills. Sounds like a great weapon for Ukraine.
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@Samuel Bishop "Who cares what it looks like as long as it works" - That reminds me of HK specifically being told to make the externals of the XM8 look futuristic to improve its chances.
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The tanks are more advanced themselves so it's impossible to build thousands per year.
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@reflect. People like Pakman don't consider Democrats "their side". They essentially consider them right-wingers by default.
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We're on 2.93" tall optic mounts at this point because NODs are the cool thing now.
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Hogwash. The USAF was criticized by the GAO for buying too many A10s (around 700 airframes).
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@TheRockyRacoon92 "if they decide to regulate all main parts (barrel, bolt ...) and not only the receiver ( like they do in europe), it's really hard to produce anything shooting high pressure ammo." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po7sX-rKuQs this was designed SPECIFICALLY for Europe and it takes ZERO gun parts.
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The A-10 requires direct line of sight to the enemy to be fully effective, where SAMs can hit them. So much like the Su-25, it would have to fire rockets into the air and back out of the fight.
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@pianokeyjoe you do realize that there's a ton of mirror sites, which change url often, right?
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"Garand Thumb FULL MOVIE 2020 HD1080p"
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Plenty of African countries with a ton of resources.
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@migo2444 You deserve a medal for serving the Russian Armed Forces on the online battlespace.
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@hoosiered471 But keeping factory lines open to service legacy systems is not sustainable. It's easy to dismiss it as greed but sometimes everyone's needs can't be met and a company can't be expected to grow to maintain ageing models. If anything, the custom ordering of parts helps smallish/medium sized businesses that can cover those gaps.
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@UCU30G17XriGiXEW9u7ITt3w that's the "best" part of the situation. I'd rather take a stroll through the Chernobyl exclusion zone than live 30 years next to a coal plant. There's no exclusion zones because coal plants don't need to obey any nuclear regulatory standards. You're inhaling that shit just like a smoker gets his lungs full of radioactive isotopes but there's no warning on the label. You're severely increasing the chances of dying of a horrible cancer but nobody talks about it.
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Yes and no. Kharkiv was supposed to be the northern axis of a pincer maneuver that failed. Kherson was an oblast capital with the river on its back. Russia would have to reinforce the right bank no matter how the media portrayed it, so the city would be more important than Kharkiv.
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 @Bluis5445 The people saying that aren't in the frontlines either. Did you pay attention to the video? It's about those living regular lives away from the danger zone.
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Not sure what the alternative is. You do realize that if you're going to call it a drive shaft, then all jet engines have drive shafts. The turbine stages are connected by shafts to the compressor stages. All that's happening here is a gearbox that takes that high RPM turbine power to a fan. Just like 21st century cutting edge airliners have turbofan engines where the fan is connected to the jet engine shaft.
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@schapman235 Already special pleading. You don't truly believe what you say. For someone to be knowingly be putting lives at risk, they have to know their infection status. So people who were not symptomatic and had no positive test simply cannot be blamed. Freedom isn't lost when you're put in a cage for a few years. Freedom is lost when you can't see the bars.
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In Portugal our roundabouts have stoplights.
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It didn't. It stayed in service until the mid-2000s and it was brought back for "research". Do you want the footage taken by F-117s bombing Serbia after the shootdown? It's easy to find.
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 @stonks7456 Germany and Japan in WW2 were destroyed to a much greater degree. They bounced back.
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There's 170 F-22s in flying condition. There's 14 Su-57s and half are prototypes.
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Su-25s on both sides are stuck doing unguided rocket volleys in pitch up attacks, then turning back. Neither side has A-10C targeting systems and weapons fitted to their Su-25s, and even the A-10 would suffer tremendous casualties.
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That happened to one of the guys on Doomsday Preppers, the TV show. The fat guy with a raccoon hat. He joked about suicide at the doctor's office. End result, his rights were suspended until he got two doctors and a judge to finally clear him to get his guns back.
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@realMaverickBuckley Because they obviously attempted to secure an air bridge to the outskirts of Kiev so they could pour out troops around the capital and seize a quick capitulation. The fighting damaged the runway. Comparing it to Iraq makes no sense, because the US didn't skip the whole fighting aspect to deploy troops around Saddam's palace and ask for regime change. The fact that their media then accidentally ran an article about them taking back Ukraine also adds to the suspicion.
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@JeremyRight-zi4yp Politicians spew BS all the time. He claims he is denazifying Ukraine because that's a convinient excuse. He doesn't give a damn what Zalensky's ethnicity is, he just wants a reasonable excuse because you can resort to armed conflict to handle these localized disputes, such as protecting people who identify as Russian from a genocide.
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lmao
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"what other option was there to stop hundreds of thousands of people from dying?" - Reading the studies that detail the mechanism that's killing people. We know what's killing people and how to stop it.
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@tomyang638 no guns in China is bad
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camencowogh8333 Okay but Russia is still losing where it matters - the battlefield. While you count drone hits for entertainment, you forget the Russian soldiers are being whacked non-stop and Russia is destroying itself in this nonsense.
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camencowogh8333 Tell me why you're moving the goalposts?
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Tucker literally once said "why shouldn't I root for Russia? Which I do"
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 @BrightWendigo Guerrilla warfare is the exception rather than the norm. It's easier to mobilize a population for line warfare.
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Portugal started with a king fighting his own mother, a Spanish royal. Almost a thousand years later, Portugal still exists. Nobody remembers the mother.
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That's a ridiculous concept, though. People also see driving as a privilege (licensed activity in public roads), but the cumulative toll of deaths involving motor vehicles is much worse than guns. However if the government said people better turn in their cars people would riot in the streets. Many who say they need a car don't actually need it, they just find it way more convenient than public transportation. The fact of the matter is that a large percentage will not lose the taste for driving and the feel of control/independence no matter how much carnage it could prevent. And anyone who reads my comment and says "you can't compare guns and cars" is guilty of this line of thinking is guilty of it too, because I'm not comparing them. I'm just pointing out how the argument only works on guns, and it's always gun owners who give something up for the "good of the community", but nobody is willing to lift a finger and take one for the team when it's time to ask them to give something up. Right or privilege, it's always gun owners who are on the bottom of the totem pole, and any other item that people are incentivized to give up starts a national conversation.
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@ChrisClarkPlays paid leave punishes others, lmao
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@Krishan Madan "it's not cruel to enforce obligations that everyone has to ensure that birthrates keep up" - that's not a thing
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@hernandocortez6351 he doesn't deserve your respect. Why did he falsely accuse US troops of executing hundreds of surrendering Iraqis in 1991? Where are the bodies/graves?
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 @harisabram4767 the problem with the power cube thing is that it uses a proprietary unit with no physical meaning. There's a reason ft lbf are used.
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In the beginning they were composed of Army personnel and followed Army doctrine. Instead of blaming the child, blame the parents.
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Stirling engines are notorious for being hard to work with once you scale them past a certain point.
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@Si_Mondo Forget track record. He said Jans Stoltenberg was in Vietnam (16 years old at the time) and that Norway had a P-8 aircraft (will be delivered late 2023). It's all a lie and a track record can't rescue this drivel.
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No More Brother (console) Wars!
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Because the frames do not represent what's happening in the game engine. You're taking a print screen and re-painting the pixels to make things look like they're moving in the direction the game wants so it can later pull a frame from the game engine and show the true position of objects.
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The Kingdom of Judah existed until 587 BCE. Romans called the region Judea.
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Lmao collapsing since March 2022.
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Shit, attach the magnets to the spinning thing and make a perpetual motion machine. There's no way it will not work.
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@revenevan11 Baader–Meinhof phenomenon
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@CBDguitar Cope and seethe.
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@CBDguitar Do you have anything to offer except sperging about Fox News?
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@CBDguitar You seem obsessed. Still doing the Russiagate thing? Also, funny how you people now pretend to hate Vietnam draft dodgers, as if avoiding Vietnam was not a moral good.
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@Turdfurgasonschode it was a B-25 you lunatic Please look up the B-25,it's nowhere near the size of a B-52. EDIT: sorry in the middle of the confusion I though you were a truther
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 @robertkalinic335 The Soviets took more casualties because Stalin purged competent leadership prior to the war.
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Camping goods section typically has propane.
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Huhhh it's the Russian vehicles that have the Popov turret launch system.
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More like, taking no name towns, waiting for the insane and egostistical high command to throw reserves at the line of contact because losing territory is losing face, fight the Russian army in the grey zone and avoid having to fight in the actual line of defense where it would be much bloodier. And also bait artillery barrels themselves so that you don't make them run out of ammo, you actually get rid of the barrel and the trained men who can operate it.
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Plenty of boxers walk forward, and eat punched every step they take.
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Huuhhhh didn't the Patriot arrive already?
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Zelensky was the "pro-Russia" candidate. Petro Poroshenko was the pro-military candidate and he lost.
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@stevengordon3271 Technocracy is evil.
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@stevengordon3271 You just went through a worldwide event where the experts constantly tripped over themselves over what the science actually was. The problem with technocracy is that we all can tell when ideologically driven decisions go too far, technocracy is especially evil because it has no bounds and no matter how evil it becomes people will cross their arms and defend it because the experts know better.
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@stevengordon3271 No, it's the perfect example. If the technocrats can only deal with stuff we already know, then they're useless. This was about how valid technocracy is. Someone mocking an expert doesn't magically contort reality into making them wrong. "Almost none of the opposition to masks, social distancing and tactical lockdowns were actual qualified scientists" - Except for the scientists who said masks were useless, then changed their mind. "The problem was the blind ideologists, not the technocrats." - I mean, this is pure No True Scotsman because you will get blind ideologists in a technocracy, and especially how modern academia works science has been twisted into a game of passing peer review which means people get ahead by towing the line rather than making radical discoveries. Who is the technocrat who picks the technocrats? You can't have your system without blind ideologues.
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@stevengordon3271 The same playbook used for the 2009 swine flu? Sure. Stop blaming others. This is about getting things wrong. Other people don't matter. Your expertise can't be undermined if you're RIGHT. Don't be WRONG. That's the bare minimum expected of a "technocrat". They can't even do that. Your technocracy is an evil system and 2020 forever discredited it. Sorry to demolish the foundations of your belief system. Adjust. We all had to do it at one point.
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Russia is now scamming Indians and Nepalese to fight for them. The army is bigger, but worse. It's downright inhumane how Russian soldiers are "spent" in battle.
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@d4n4nable if you have to take logical shortcuts to arrive at your conclusions your argument is unfinished from a logical standpoint anyway.
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The IRA couldn't compete with the British Army and the Taliban couldn't compete with the coalition. Just saying.
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They'll stop that as soon as their gold reserves start dwindling.
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The game has changed. It went from tank rushes to artillery onlaught to Russians making videos begging for shells.
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@icewaterslim7260 They can get to altitude faster, they can get to the edge of their range faster, and they carry weapons that can be fired at targets 80 miles away. The most important range requirement is being able to meet an incoming aircraft firing a missile or providing targeting information to a missile.
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@icewaterslim7260 I don't know how else to explain it. Greater range implies larger tanks (or fuel fraction), less weight, more efficient power plants. The most efficient way to fly is not the one with the most thrust. The more weight cutting you do the more iffy your structure is so good luck doing carrier landings. Having "too much" fuel saddles you down which means you fly like a brick and don't get to carry a lot of weapons.. So now you have a highly efficient high-subsonic aircraft with a ton of range, payload isn't great, and it turns like a school bus because if you tried to maneuver too hard the structure would rip apart due to the forces involved. It's a complete sitting duck and can't even run away from trouble if it encounters it. We could just design a high performance aircraft and pump more fuel into it on the way to the objective. Drone killings are a matter of policy, not technology. Just look at how effective drones were in the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict.
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"The go-slow approach also reduces civilian casualties, making it harder for media outlets to work that angle." - What a joke. Russia is slaughtering civilians. And the media outlets could just claim they were even if they stopped. "RF losses are minimal" - Pure comedy. The Russians are creating volunteer armies to replace the losses.
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So the government was in the wrong but he should have surrendered himself to the government... Yeah people letting governments which are in the wrong detain them never went bad in history.
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Does the barber own his own business? Does the cab driver work for a company or does he have his own Uber?
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@Dragoonsoul7878 The difference is that the firearm is a physical object you'll come across when accessing the safe every day, and you will be warned of the change in firearms policy ahead of time so you can retrieve it. With youtube, having videos from 15 years ago you don't even remember can get you in trouble, you won't be warned of the changes, and you don't know ahead of time if your content will be affected by the changes. You will know your firearm counts as a "firearm". You don't know if "Charlie bit my finger" will be considered violence in a TOS change.
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spim randsley what evidence? 2 years and what - 40 million spent, right? - and their last hope is Cohen saying that Trump used campaign money rather than private money to hush an affair?
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spim randsley "Now you say there's no evidence besides what they've found so far" - so you are confirming that the only evidence is a claim by some guy who could simply make anything up? Because it's really important that you confirm it for me.
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spim randsley there you go, you say absolutely nothing. You admitted it yourself, if you were wrong you'd waste someone else's time. You haven't addressed the topic and circled around it. Take the fucking L.
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I hardly want to defend the FAA here but breakthroughs that allowed for affordable consumer drones caused that. Model aircraft were just collateral damage.
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Yet Russia removes air defense from near the NATO countries.
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How do I unsubscribe from people announcing their departures like it's a goddamn airport?
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Where did they get a Kh-101 missile?
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THAAD isn't a replacement for the Patriot. Just like the S-500 isn't a replacent for the S-400. None of you people understand anything. Also, they're Shaheeds. Geran is the name Russia uses to pretend they can build things.
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 @Princip666 Why is Russia using North Korean shells and cold war tanks if sanctions don't work?
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But pilot interviews from the time show that they did watch the tank to see if it caught fire, because if not they had to do a second pass. With missiles a single hit obliterated them and they didn't need to circle around to do BDA.
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We see those cars on the opposite end of Europe too. A lot of them aren't luxurious, just high-end - these are people with money or working for major corporations that easily allow for remote jobs. It doesn't mean they are oligarchs or politicians, probably a lot of crypto bros or tech bros. I saw a Russian dude working remotely for Yandex here in Portugal.
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A lot of territory is flat land that is mostly indefensible against a superior foe. Defenses purposefully gave up that ground to get a better position and thin out the enemy and force it to stretch past its logistical capabilities. You're looking at the red color on a map while not thinking about the context. The US in similar situations has delivered an absolute curbstomping (situations such as the kickoff of 73 Easting where infantry fighting vehicles came across a superior number of main battle tanks with the defensive advantage, and still the lesser vehicles took out several tanks on their own before help arrived) while Russia seems to be dragged into ambush after ambush as their enemy recognizes that they can't trade blows and expect to survive.
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The war stops when the invaders go home.
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Playing slideshows like it's 2007 Crysis lmao
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@bademoxy How was it designed for to many roles? Multiroles rule the skies.
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@MrFlatage Real world aircraft need to be loaded with the correct software. There's early F-35s that will never be combat aircraft and were only used as trainers as they lacked sensors and weapons systems.
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@westrim The defensive range is large enough that the missile still wasted most of its energy.
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@MrFlatage You're just being obtuse at this point. You go up to a modern airliner cockpit, the stick or yoke isn't connected to any cables or hydraulics. It's all software. There's no steam gauges anymore, it's all computer screens. Does that mean the Wright brothers used computers? No. Think about what you post and don't make yourself look foolish.
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lol
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And this is why we'll always be right and and you people keep electing politicians that lay the foundation of tyranny. At least we'll be smiling when we're lined up against the wall and shot next to you.
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Incredulity is not an argument. The rental of illicit items is a thing all across the world. Criminals won't return them? Sure. You really want to steal from a cartel? You think "hitmen" are people like in the movies travelling around with suitcases full of guns. A hitman is just that, a guy you contract a hit to. Plenty of "hitmen" did the job with an iron pipe or a hammer. Ever heard those stories of wives who put a hit on their husbands so they could collect their money? They just convinced some small time criminal to do it. The fact that he mispoke regarding a "charger" only means he's not well learned in firearms, and he probably translated it from Spanish. In Spanish "magazine" is "carregador". If you translate carregador to English you get either "carrier" or "charger". The duct tape is possibly two magazines taped together.
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@hughgrection3052 "They SELL DRUGS. not guns" - Guns are a commodity. Guns are trafficked across Latin America. They buy guns off the international black market. They steal them from government armories. And whatever else they need, they straw purchase in the US. "Pound for pound they make more money dealing in one thing" - Okay. But they also have fingers on every pie. You do realize that when you go down to a resort in Mexico, the cartels probably own a significant percentage of it, if not all of it, right? They make money off tourism. Pound for pound it doesn't make money like drugs. But it makes money. "they'd simply make a factory and be legit" - They do have factories but it's only to produce what they can't buy. Such as lowers for AR uppers they got from the US. "It's by so called gangstas snitching on other so called gangstas to eliminate competition." - And who are you going to snitch to? God? You snitch on the local cops, they might snitch on you and the rival cartel will have your tongue exiting out the throat by the next morning. "EVERYONE IS ON THE TAKE?? Really? Is that the mental gymnastics you resort to to make your logic work?" - What's the mental gymnastics you need to resort to explain how cartels still exist if the Mexican police is honest and efficient? There's a reason special units are created to fight the cartels, people who can't be bought and have their identities hidden so that their families won't get harmed. Ever heard of the Los Zetas? They were originally a group of 34 soldiers who deserted from the GAFE unit. Highly trained soldiers, even got training at Ft. Bragg too. 34 of them decided to be on the take. Where are the gymnastics here? "If everyone is paid off how is this even possible?" - You're just twisting my words at this point. Yes, there are government forces that aren't being paid off. The issue is that there's too few of them to fight the cartels. They can't be involved with low level arrests, the resources are directed at the big dogs. "Do cartels even have to hire so called "hitmen"" - Again, the Los Zetas started as hired guns for the Gulf Cartel. They decided to split off and create their own cartel. "You don't think they have ample access to people with guns already? Who they know are loyal?" - I'm starting to repeat myself - but you never know. Again, the Los Zetas were loyal gunmen for the Gulf Cartel. Then they decided to rival them. The only think keeping people loyal is a good paycheck and the fear of getting killed in a brutal way. When someone's paying more and you're assured you'll be better protected working for someone else, there's no loyalty. "sorry if I'm a realist with the ability to think on my own" - You're a realist who hasn't done a shred of research about cartels or even Latin America. You think based on your experience, not realizing that you may need others to share their experiences to expand your way of thinking. You seem to understand crime north of the border, but you're in disbelief regarding well known facts of the cartel wars.
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@blakeusry124 Crybaby.
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Zelensky isn't in control of the armed forces, and it's Russia that attacks.
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Amazing how you people think only the CIA has basic engineering skills.
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The US and Russia need the EU. It's a large collection of potential client states with high GDP per capita.
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 @lescommercantesdindochine1954 I see a lot of them enjoying life here in Western Europe.
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Russia thought Odessa was easy to blockade. The Moskva got that Neptune double-tap.
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Several Russian industries have collapsed in output, train cars retired because of the lack of bearings, aircraft put aside to serve as parts donors to be cannibalized, etc.
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 Broskisnowski Except that unlike ants, we have sent humans outside of Earth.
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The Boston Bombing was called Boston Bombing not Boston Terrorism. Shut the fuck up.
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Underrated.
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 @TacoSallust but Ukraine uses combat aircraft.
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Thrust vectoring is a meme. It's a physically larger, twin engine jet equivalent to the F-15. Those are the advantages. Not "thrust vectoring" goddamn. Any situation where thrust vectoring matters, the F-16 is flying up it's own ass to beat the Sukhoi.
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Academi doesn't exist anymore.
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@travisgroeneveld5268 that was a legitimate question, I would like to know more about the carbon costs of panel manufacturing...
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@Sharkcomet it's not "white savior" rhetoric You can invest all you want on factories but that's not worth anything unless someone was buying.
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You mean the wargame where the RedFor commander used lightspeed-travelling motorcycle messengers to bypass communications jamming? Or where Boston Whaler sized boats somehow had the ability to carry and fire P-15 Termit missiles without sinking? Or where the RedFor commander also knew ahead of time where USMC was going to conduct an airborne assault because it was part of the script and he knew the only location they could use to do the drop so he bitched and moaned that he wanted an artillery shelling with chemical rounds on that spot?
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Russia already failed to commit to CSTO obligations towards Armenia last year. Armenia has been getting closer to the US because they realized the Russians burned them.
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Not ready to fight. Most of the aircraft damaged to that extent were written off. The A-10s that got repaired and got back into fighting only had external panel damage that could be patched up in a short time frame. Unfortunately one pilot got killed trying to land a damaged A-10 in Desert Storm.
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@buster8277 "A-10 is made to protect soldiers on the ground" - It's also made really easy to get shot down. "F-35 cost 3.5 billion" - Under 80 million flyaway cost for the F-35A. "A-10 2.3 million with upgrades" - FALSE. Adjusted for inflation a modern A-10 is anywhere between 40-60 million dollars. And the recent Boeing contracts for new wings put a cost of 2 billion on 200-something wings for the entire fleet. This means almost 10 million dollars for the wings alone. Just the wings cost 4x more than your claimed cost.
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Cyberattacks are happening all the time. It's not a coincidence, it's a daily occurence.
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 @BennyBsolo No, they didn't.
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 @allenjones4160 nobody avoids it - F-35 readiness rates are perfectly normal. You just lack context.
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Last I checked you can't link to places that sell them or show how to modify existing magazines to 30 (there's places where 30 round magazines are blocked/pinned).
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@verxintRising "it's not so huge for the strategic picture" - It's huge in strategic terms. The Kupiansk rail hub was a critical supply line towards Severodonetsk. Ukraine just severed another artery for the Russian forces, which allows them to create another frontline collapse.
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@Cheesus-Sliced "I understand it was primarily to prevent false negatives because of mishandled kits" - Oh, if it's not Trump delaying the response then it's suddenly okay because reasons. Fuck it, it would be preferable to have false positives and correct for them later than destroying real positives and not knowing anything at all.
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lol lmao even
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@petesjk instead of wasting time and labor to get 12 Gripens, they could just go for >20 F-16s.
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The AK's dust cover makes it hard to place optics. Your options are a side mounted rail that wraps around the left side, replacing the rear sight with a rail section, having a hinged rail over the dust cover, or putting the optic on the handguard.
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Not worth it. It still paints the fuselage with exhaust, meaning IR seeking missiles just have a huge beacon to follow and nail a direct impact. Modernizing it wouldn't net the advantages we're looking for. It would be extremely expensive for almost no gain.
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@ParadigmUnkn0wn What were our freedoms doing over there?
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@fryaduck Title says Denmark, I must have missed where Australia is mentioned.
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It literally doesn't fulfill the definition of fascism, independently of which definition you choose to use.
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"to watch Netflix in full HD you have to pay to get the bandwith, if you just want to watch the stupid blog, fine get 5 mbit / mont" - You are thinking of yourself and not the entire network. If a person is playing Fortnite or whatever in his 5mbit/sec connection, his game will be impacted by the thousands of people paying for the bandwidth to watch Netflix. Even though a videogame often only needs to send and receive game updates which are typically small. When you pay for bandwidth, you are not reserving your own lane in a highway. You still have to share with everyone.
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@douwehuysmans5959 "if everyone would torrent instead of Netflix, the same amount of bandwith would be used" - no, because the torrented file would be accessible multiple times. I don't know if anything has changed in the last two years, but Luke's argument is that Netflix would force you to redownload the video if you fell asleep and needed to go back to where you were. "Netflix DOES have to pay for the bandwith they're using" - Paying for what you're using is disingenuous. It's not how much they're using, it's how. It's a traffic pile up caused by Uber or whatever and Uber claims "we pay our taxes so we get to use the road" yeah but I want to use the road too and you clogged it!
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@douwehuysmans5959 I mean, the fact that internet connectivity does take a nosedive at peak load times contradicts your argument.
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@douwehuysmans5959 I am European and I have fiber. The network is overwhelmed due to the quick boom in video streaming usage.
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You couldn't torture this information out of me.
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Uh, no? Try to pull this in China or Russia. All countries want to maintain secrecy, and there's legal technicalities to avoid.
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Blaming the victim for resisting. Explain how you believe that Putin dropping nukes makes him the good guy and doesn't actually justify the West's stance.
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Did you miss the part where EVERYONE was mishandling classified files?
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Azov becoming official essentially purged the top leadership and forced them to be dilluted with new recruits.
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They succeeded because most WP nations didn't have much of a choice. Each nation in Europe has their own defense strategy and thus different requirements.
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@kittyhawk9707 Well buy my point is that for example Portugal would need something for the Colonial Wars, not to fly over Poland. They'd buy what they need, and then use it against the Soviet Union is Article 5 was activated. Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, etc had no choice. They'd use what Moscow wanted and that's it.
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@guyderagisch4964 I posted the link already. You can also ask Ash Hess, which had his M14 rant by watching 4 minutes past the timestamp I provided. He's also ranted about the M14 on another occasion: https://youtu.be/ZAy9QApbuJQ?t=8743 The most comprehensive resource to understand the absolute bitch that was to bring M14s into the DMR role is to watch the 9-Hole Reviews video about the process on bringing a M1A into M21 standards. Check out the cost at the end.
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Assault rifle is descriptive. Intermediate cartridge, magazine fed, select fire. You're confusing it with assault weapon.
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Operation Bagration by the Soviets also involved attacking the wakest front by telegraphing an offensive elsewhere.
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He posts spam to avoid being sent to war.
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But like... Other world leaders? The vast majority of the world thinks May, Macron, Trudeau, Merkel, Uncle Xi from China, etc are a joke... It's like the special ed class laughing at the kid with a learning disability. Mock Trump all you want but please do not put any of these criminals to a pedestal.
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Exactly. The Ukrainian leaders have 8 years of experience fighting the separatists in the ATO.
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Too expensive, but cheaper than a modern contract F-16 or Typhoon. Too bulky, but the frontal area is barely different from a super hornet. Jack of all trades, but F-16s are master of all and nobody complains. F-18s already shot down enemy aircraft while carrying bombs and completed the ground attack mission but people still think that multiroles can't do it all.
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They don't work against coronaviridae. Same reason we have a shot against the flu, but not against the common cold.
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@etiennesauve3386 "We could say the same thing about state owned companies. " - Not really. State-owned companies do not need to turn a profit because their existence can be financed as long as there's taxpayers. A cooperative needs to turn a profit or else it runs out of funds and collapses. Also, many state-owned companies benefit from the fact that the state can use the power of law to drive competition away. "I brought up the cooperative mode to show that socialism is not just "stealing" from the the poor capitalist" - by definition that's kind of what socialism is...
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Saving up inventory slots for more quest related items. Smart.
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Same lol
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 @mewkatlol fighter pilots top out at 240 fps
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@rdu239 "liberalism is fascism" I mean we can beat off to hating liberalism all you want, but calling it fascism is just nonsense.
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@sharkmanyt4431 Media: "Don't vote for Dean, he's crazy" Americans: "I guess" Dean: Screams Americans: "Hm, I can see your point"
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The A-10 updates essentially give it the capabilities that multiroles have. To keep the A-10 relevant they had to make sure it worked more like a F-16. Amazing.
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@Bernddd you're still creating inflation because prices will adjust to the new market tolerance. Things are worth what people are willing to pay for them, and if everyone is richer by a certain amount they will tolerate a rise in prices as long as they can still afford it.
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@Bernddd "keep the free market in check with maximum prices?" - we already know price controls backfire. You can't have a "free market" and then try to pull levers and press switches to micromanage it because that's how you send things into full meltdown.
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@redlightmax you're comparing the relative worth of people to one another, while the worth of healthcare is 100% personal. My healthcare is worth absolutely nothing to anyone else but me, which means that it doesn't matter how common or uncommon it is. However, if you're trying to make yourself seem worthy of employment, having a college degree means nothing if everyone has one.
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Already moving the goalposts lol
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Bro thanks to technological development the youngest generation outpaced their parents. Millenials were the first to be poorer than their parents.
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@verybarebones Scott Manley has a good video about the subject.
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They're active duty now.
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@michaelfranciotti3900 Ah, the "so what you're saying is" argument. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-rE03PGQfA You're not here to be a dick, but you refuse to address the actual argument at hand and then try to use underhanded tactics. Hmmmmm. I don't recommend charging. I recommend being fast on the draw and the trigger finger to get as many hollow points through the vitals.
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 @ayrat7410 unless a party can get absolute majority, we get a two party system too. They're called coalitions.
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The dedicaded CAS platforms are coming in at high speed, pitch up, release rockets and run like hell. They "survive" by spending seconds in combat and leaving immediately.
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 @GrimGatsby Rockstar didn't ask for money up front so they have the right to go at their own pace.
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There's been a HUGE propaganda drive to cheer for BRICS. People are just reacting to that content.
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FacePalmProductions has any of those things happened yet?
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Russians were dug in on the Western side of Kherson Oblast. They gave it up.
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The boneyard.
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@1969Makaveli nazis and cartels fighting a war in Mexico? Excuse me, I'll need the popcorn because that would be fun to watch.
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@TzunSu bruh if you're looking for others' guides on making something why would you need to protect your intellectual property?
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Man thinks social media is a waste, posts his opinions on YouTube. More at 11.
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@konstandinosverzamanis5699 Because of the break up of the Soviet Union? The maps changing to reflect that doesn't give you the date of origin of a nation.
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Different subject. The US accused Iraq of not destroying their stockpiles according to UN guidelines and also of trying to procure yellowcake to make nukes and using mobile labs to make WMDs. The UN inspectors were satisfied with Iraq's compliance and the only WMDs found were not stockpiles but abandoned and deteriorated weapons from the Iran-Iraq war era that were unusable. The mobile labs didn't exist.
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@ashleygraham1011 As of mid-September the UK had a higher 7-day daily average of fatalities than the same period last year. You're trying to skate uphill at this point.
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@Jim_Jones_at_Guyana They have bad combat medicine and medvac. Expect wounded/dead to be 2:1.
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Arguably the Soviet Union gained a massive boost in power and influence with the 70s oil crisis, and then the Chernobyl disaster and Afghanistan war were enough to knock them down in the 80s.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTvz8xDb8js
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@Jeremiah7-ox2nj Imagine being so brainwashed you think that considering any possible risks is stupidity.
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@Waitaminute2015 Why didn't his doctors test for that, then? Why did they dismiss him? And what are the chances all these young men are getting chlamydia symptoms right at the same time they're taking the shots?
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@Waitaminute2015 Okay. And why is everyone detecting it all at the same time?
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@Waitaminute2015 Amazing. Confirmation bias. Okay. And does "confirmation bias" also count the opposite way? Such as the number of fatalities from the disease being overblown? What about the "long haulers"? Are they also discovering they were not in perfect health and the confirmation bias kicked in so they attributed it to the coof? Let's see your bias. Do you allow your theory to go both ways? Or only when it supports your narrative?
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@Waitaminute2015 I think we have a stalemate, then. Because if the coof merely uncovered how unhealthy we are as a collective, and how unhealthy lifestyles made us unable to cope with an infection that causes inflammatory issues and oxidative stress, there's no reason for a mass vaccination campaign. The vulnerable should be prioritized but the healthy shouldn't have to put their health on the line to receive a leaky vaccine.
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lmao surrender when they're winning, change the script you bot
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They're purposefully avoiding broadcasting their positions because videos were being used to locate them.
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@mdmurray17 There has been an uptick of mortality across teenagers in Europe.
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Yeah what's so bad about slave labor camps in a country famous for its authoritarianism? It's totally the same thing as paying someone who dabs a little hot glue and tightens a few screws 10 dollars an hour.
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@soundwavesuperior6761 Regular mechanics learn how to fix the electronics.
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@garyn1780 I'll mind my own business when the CCP minds theirs. They decided to become my problem, now what they do is my business too.
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@mismutt88 government interference prolonged the Great Depression. It sounds counterintuitive but these massive spending projects are a drain on the economy.
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So now wins are counted by shelling towns?
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And then the official channels confirmed it wasn't true.
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Most people who don't work in a factory or shoot guns don't even know about those.
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Russia tried to encircle Bakhmut instead of fighting through, Ukraine reinforced the flanks and forced Russia to fight where they didn't originally want - in street to street fighting. Now that Russia has taken the town, Ukraine is advancing on the flanks. It's fundamentally an unequal play.
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The left never complains about the right?
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They actually want women to serve the globalist interests too. But only after they're 30 and too old for it.
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@jcboyle82 I'm saying it.
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Absolutely baffling metrics. We all saw how their bid for being the biggest producer of green energy ended - with even more coal plants being built.
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You're wrong about the civil war too lmao
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That, but unironically.
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@mirsad96 Does that mean "American neoliberalism" or actual neoliberalism? Because most countries in the world are extremely Keynesian. "Neoliberal policies" is usually used to refer to free trade agreements, tax cuts, privatizations, etc but all of that is meaningless when businesses are regulated to protect monopolies, free trade agreements inherently leave countries out meaning that the trade isn't free and the tax cuts are not paired with a responsible "hands off" approach. The government can't be handing out tax cuts and then give massive bailouts because that's not neoliberalism. Hmmm "liber" means "free", so definitely we should spend tax payer dollars to protect the stock market. That's what freedom is all about, government safety nets. ""Free" trade competition and deregulation leads to market monopoly" - Can't protect a monopoly in a free market. "that monopoly centralizes wealth and power" - Wealth isn't a zero sum game, it is created by economic activity. And on a free market you can't just buy power. "grows a huge corporate run state" - A corporate run rate is exactly the opposite of a free market. There would be no reason for corporations to take over the government if the government can't be abused. Amazing how you people always end up admitting that the end goal of corporate control is taking over the government. It's almost like you are ready to admit government is the root of the problem.
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Russia escalated day one. They've been using almost every weapon in their arsenal. Ukraine gets a trickle to get on equal footing.
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Men without guns does not an artillery battery make either. Russia loses dozens of artillery tubes per day. Methodical cutting of the tendons and ligaments. Attacking the supply lines by getting within of range of Tokmak - blood choke on the carotid artery. A limp body passing out can be as "fat" as you want. Manpower only strains supplies once cut.
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Russia's military production is bringing T-55s from deep storage.
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Even progressives get meetoo'ed. If he's afraid of meetoo, disavowing his prior work won't save him.
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Sig claims better energy retention than Creedmoor and a 12,000 round barrel life. Sure, that's the brochure claims so we'll see. I'll gladly trade barrel life for performance. 6mm ARC is interesting but doesn't fit the requirements, 6.5 Grendel needs too much barrel to be relevant as a modern military cartridge.
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 @GowthamNatarajanAI lmao the exact same thing was said about the previous 300k
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He either dies a rat or lives long enough to become the Chad.
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@gaafts Nothing has inherent value, as value is entirely subjective. Gold is "valuable" because compared to other metals it's more stable to chemical attack (doesn't tarnish or dissolve as easily), it's soft and can be easily melted which makes it easy to work with, it's dense which makes it difficult to cheat people by sticking another less valuable metal inside a gold bar, and like you mentioned it's rare enough that it's difficult to introduce it to the economy (aka getting money for doing "nothing"). On a vacuum gold isn't any more valuable than copper or iron, but it has the properties that make us think "uh, that gold sure is a better and more convenient form of currency". Your assumption is correct. It's the principle that makes something into a currency.
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Same thing was said about T-62s. They were later taken out in frontline fighting.
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That's extremely strange coming from Keynes, but either way he was a child abuser. He was as terrible of a human being as he was an economist.
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+Jo Fisher except that media has no link to plane crashes, while studies have proven that media reports on shootings are so sensationalist that they drive copycats into committing more shootings.
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Has Gaetz explained what he was doing with the 17 year old he was bringing across states?
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 @hamzatariq5073 It's a cross, a generic symbol used by many militaries.
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The F-35 is truly heads and shoulders above the rest.
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@sladehelicoptersgaming3148 The DPR broke Minsk II the day after it was signed. The separatist republics are terrorists and Russia always orders them to keep fighting.
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@The1980Philip You can't back up your opinion, it's just that, an opinion. Why should you be allowed to spread itm Also, not how debunking works.
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10:46 it's worse in videogames because they make the center dot to be like 4-5 MOA and surrounded by a ring that although "thinner" is only about 10 MOA, so you get a really big dot with a smear around it. Don't remember the NVG stuff but I think they do get that right.
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+noledareminombreaunamaquina the modern world has less state intervention, not more. Also Marx's utopia would be a communist utopia because socialism is still a state-controlled society and only meant to be a transitioning period.
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You either quote unquote "die" as an internet-based creator or live long enough to become an internet-cringe creator.
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@ambjornborjesson5481 No, it just makes a weapon heavier and longer than it would normally be because of the added bolt travel.
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 @gi7685 Muhammad Ali is dead (not fighting) and social media pages still post his photos and videos to this day.
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There's nothing to work with. They've tried everything and come back for more. We have no input. I'm serious, snap out of this naivete and look at what they've done for the past 30-40 years.
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Nice use of the Film Robert wojak.
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What about it?
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The TrueAnon podcast hosts go to the trial every day and record a recap as a podcast. You could cover the trial yourself if you wanted to.
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I don't think it should be. But naked short selling is illegal and Melvin Capital was doing it to GameStop.
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@tzarnick1507 Yes, you can do it with a car or a house. You're just on the hook for paying it back. That's what's happening here. If you mortgage your house and use the money to gamble on stocks, you don't own the house baby the bank does.
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@tzarnick1507 It's not a terrible example. You're just acting incredulous at your own lack of knowledge. "borrowing real money at interest rates has absolutely no relevance to short selling stocks" - Says you. "what a fallacious false equivalency" - It's not a false equivalency, it's an analogy, and calling everything a fallacy is a fallacy in itself. Grow the hell up. Jesus.
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Look into the Doctor's Plot in the 1950s. Beria and Malenkov tried to engineer a non-existent conspiracy against Stalin and blame the Soviet Jews. Arrests were made but Stalin's death meant the plan had to stop, so it is not known if they wanted deportations to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. It was right after WW2.
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 @comradesoviet the "expeditionary force" burned through the contract army, the reservist units (BARS) and Wagner. Hence the need for 300k mobiks.
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 @Withnail1969 American F-16s flew from Ukrainian airfields in training events before the war.
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>sends 2 million North Vietnamese to their deaths >gets like 55k Americans killed "wE kIcKeD tHeIr AsS"
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But they weren't. The pictures of unexploded bomblets show it's ATACMS.
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 @richardlafave2556 The Soviet Union was in Afghanistan for less and collapsed as a result.
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The best part of NATO training isn't equally distributed in Ukraine. Some of the most effective units work under Western-style organization while Ukraine still has Soviet-style officers who want to stick to their old ways.
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@chucksingh9339 This stuff got me seeing Prighozin screaming for Shoigu. Smoking on that Shwartzkopf, rolling down the Highway of Death. Get Putin on the phone, I fronted him money for a brick! Plug called, said he had a line of lightly used Russian uniforms from Bakhmut.
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Finland is almost as close.
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It is airborne. It can be carried by particles. The virus itself is 50-200 nanometers. Airborne diseases are considered to be the ones which get carried by particles smaller than 5 micrometres. 1000 nanometers is 1 micrometer.
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That's a title and a half.
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@grubbybum3614 New Zealand and Denmark aren't socialist...
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@Clay3613 No rambling here. Anyone paying attention knows that it's been widely reported that feds encourage terror plots so they can "bust" terrorists before the act and pretend they're saving people. In the 2000s the feds were known to have insiders in mosques trying to incite jihadist attacks. They take advantage of the mentally ill, too. The ATF "foiled" a bomb plot in which a guy who still lived with his parents due to his disability was coerced into "making" a bomb by undercover agents. The ATF provided him with the materials and "busted" him.
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Gulf was one sided in hindsight. At the time people were saying it was going to be George HW Bush's Vietnam and it would be a months long meatgrinder.
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@thomasmadison3896 Owen Benjamin is a false flagger. He acts like a SJW whenever anyone calls out his bullshit.
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There more I scroll down the better it gets with these comments.
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But they can't. Ukraine has set the stage for reaching Tokmak with artillery. An army can't outlast anything when rail supply is cut.
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Hydro requires extreme care due to how you're affecting the hydrographic basin. The DoE dragged their feet on LFTR tech. There's a compilation of representatives asking the DoE about them once a year or so and they deflect.
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I guess being first at boiling a dog in space is a better achievment than putting man on the moon. Did the Soviets do the thing? Guess they couldn't. Womp womp.
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 @jerseyshoredroneservices225 Grim Reapers are plopping down units in a video game. In real life you don't get to pick neat enemy placements.
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 @c4me540 Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan still exist.
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6.5 Grendel doesn't cut it. Not enough power, the range argument doesn't involve actual military needs such as being effective with a FMJ round (rather than hollow points 6.5 Grendel users can shoot) or penetrating cover, versatility doesn't matter because most soldiers only get issued one round to maintain zero, the short barrel won't have the needed energy. It's a good round. It's not perfect in any way.
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The A-10 was used in Syria during Operation Inherent Resolve. In fact the 30mm depleted uranium round had already been taken out of combat use, but was brought back for use against ISIS.
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@AndRei-yc3ti Watch the daily updates by Igor Konashenkov. Russia hypes itself up all the time. Bradleys destroyed months before they arrived. They even posted pictures of a destroyed Abrams.
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@ubiquitousdiabolus We leave people alone when they have lactose intolerance. Many countries/jobs/institutions are mandating the stuff regardless if it's safe or not for you. Forcing people to drink milk when you know they are lactose intolerance and doctors refuse to write exemptions only makes me wonder what's in that milk and why they're so rabid to want me to drink it.
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Have you ever seen ARGs? People dedicate a lot of effort into creating mysteries.
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You can't count territory already held by the DPR/LPR or traitors ready to flip sides. That reduces the gains to what, 10-15%?
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@Otro-b3o It's a true statement. You can capture territory, and then give it up. Russia already gave up the north of Ukraine. The Nazis were heading to Moscow too. Remind me of what happened. Your argument is that the Nazis won WWII because they captured territory. They gave it back. Russia will do the same.
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The BRICS currency that you people have talked about for a year? lol.
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The problem is that after the first turn, the F-22 would just go straight and the cannon rounds would have trouble chasing it. Even in DCS chasing fleeing Su-25s with the Harrier to get gun kills is a chore.
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Ukrainian troops are already taking pictures in the border. Kiev offensive failed, Kharkiv offensive failed, encirclement failed... How are their chances so low?
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There's been prototype weapons pressed into service in Ukraine, like one of a kind T-80 variants. However, they're not scared of losing a T-80. Losing a Su-57? Big no no.
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@davidb2206 The US won against the communist insurgents. The VC were nearly totally wiped out during the Tet Offensive. After Warergate shook things up, North Vietnam broke the peace treaty and invaded the South.
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@davidb2206 The Tet Offensive was almost like a last ditch effort so see what it sticks. It was an unmitigated disaster. It's the 10th round in a 12 round fight and your opponent uses his last remaining strength to throw bombs. Do you throw in the towel or just hold strong, then pick him apart when he's too tired to fight back? Dead men walking are a thing. There's people with fatal wounds who decided to keep fighting for a few more minutes. Just keep shooting. You're trying to portray this as anything other than shock value. You are acting on emotion. Germany couldn't do a Tet Offensive because any equipment that could be used by a guerrilla force was needed at the frontlines, so there was never a true effort to train and equipment the mythical "werwolf" units. If they could muster the effort, they'd have done it, and it would be incredibly annoying to see people crying about it on youtube comments 80 years later.
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Bullpups have been around for a while. It was never a NFA problem from what I can remember, it's the braces or the folder adapters combined with the "firearm" classification that blur the lines.
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@j.w.213 in real life people lie and agitate. What happens? At most you can try to speak to others and try to convince them you're on the right, but sometimes people will simply side with the other person. There's hardly any consequences in real life, why should there be online?
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@-Zevin- The US fought North Vietnam, which was receiving state of the art Soviet equipment. The VC were slaughtered in the Tet Offensive. The US and North Vietnam signed a peace deal, the NV broke it, the US packed up and left. No farmers with rusty guns to be seen.
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That's not entirely accurate. The deal was always the Marines get a STOVL and the Air Force would agree to get a conventional take off variant. It was the CALF program. The Navy had their own new fighter project going on so they joined later to become the JSF.
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 @gee-o8e It's already been replaced. Only 11% of CAS missions have been done by the A-10 since 2014.
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Doesn't sound riddiculous until someone you know dies as a result of a crime and the criminal gets off in 1-2 years despite causing a death.
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 @RandoBurner Reductio Ad Absurdum.
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Suicide drones against tanks and troops isn't the same as against playgrounds.
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They're abandoning Kherson.
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 @tomte47 The S-400 range class is for non-maneuvering targets at 5km altitude. The brochure stats for the S-400 don't tell the whole tale.
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"Grab SKS, go innawoods." - words to live by
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Izyum was encircled.
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Because people with the best diets and lifestyles are more organized and responsible? Maintaining a diet and healthy lifestyle requires self-control and thinking about consequences, which means either less unprotected hook ups or long term use of birth control until they want to have children. It's planned. But if you measured the fertility, unless those people are hiding something (like drug use), being overstressed by their job or overtraining they'd have higher fertility. The couples with worse lifestyles have lower fertility, but spin the cylinder enough times you'll pull the trigger on a loaded chamber.
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Ukraine's defense of their homeland is definitely justifiable. Russia must go back to their homeland.
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"Massive arms" LOL!
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Then why not agree on "no nukes" policy, Ukraine steps aside and we use NATO ground forces instead? Solve this like gentlemen.
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@hamzaakbari8906 Bragging about likes is like claiming Justin Bieber is the best musician because he sold millions of records. Plenty of people with no taste paid money for Bieber music, plenty of people with no brains upvoted comments.
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If anyone listened to them, it would be a technocracy. Really, they have advisers, but who cares about what they say if politicians accept money to pass bills that protect monopolies instead of the people, etc? >And companies never went bankrupt before or fall into debt. When they do, it's usually their money. Or others' money because the government gave it to them. When the government goes under, everyone suffers. When a company goes under, only the people in that company are hurt,
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Nobody wants to risk it because changing borders based on ethnic/sectarian concerns would open the precedent to carve up the other Arab states.
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Which peasant farmers defeated Western forces? The PAVN (the VC were effectively destroyed in the Tet Offensive and replced by North Vietnamese) defeated the ARVN two years after the US left. The Taliban defeated the ANA in about two weeks after the US left. At no point did they achieve victory over the US. They signed peace deals and broke them.
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Nobody wants to look like a fool so they double down instead of admitting they were bamboozled.
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 @TomTomicMic bigger ships will incur greater costs
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 @JBBost There was evidence - it was just dismissed. I think Keemstar reported on it back in 2018.
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 @notrod5341 The video just said that no matter MrBeat's actions the audience would be divided.
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 @darkalicornkingdoom3572 So people are born that way or does the dysphoria start out of nowhere? Pick one.
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@notrod5341 If EDP was genuine about transitioning, he'd have been essentially living with dysphoria since puberty or perhaps earlier. If EDP was doing that to avoid criticism... well people shouldn't be above criticism just because life dealt them a bad hand.
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@notshane3827 The problem is that priesthood attracts people who know can't live a normal life or feel the need to repent for their sin, and in the case of the Catholic church it was found that they hid the crimes and relocated priests. So now we have a problem. - becoming a priest doesn't turn you a PDF file, but a PDF file may like the idea of becoming a priest - there's a respected organization willing to downplay and even cover up the crimes of those who become priests Through absolutely no fault of good priests, now we have to be on the lookout.
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All non-stealth aircraft will be grounded, and stealth becomes the normal.
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Mucho texto. 90% of your points are countered by science youtubers like Kyle Hill.
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Nah I want the content nuke. Scorched earth.
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They have not been replaced... they're serving for longer than they should because the F-22 program was cancelled less than a third of the way in.
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There was a ton of aid given to Syrian and Syrian refugees. In fact this was a huge point of contention because non-Syrians were taking advantage of the aid and refugee status. And obviously the US sent a ton of weapons to the "moderate rebels". That went well, didn't it? The only country where you really bring up a relevant point is Yemen because the US actually cooperated with the Houthis and then had to switch sides because of Saudi Arabia.
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@paintsilj Laughing isn't an argument. It's a defensive alliance. Now disprove it.
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@@memememeson3994 Fun fact: you're wearing a Z but you're posting online instead of fighting. Fun fact: it being 2022 doesn't mean countries have to give up their defenses.
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@ericsuarez834 Russia still broke the agreement.
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@ericsuarez834 Serbia (not Yugoslavia) was genociding Kosovars.
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@mangofish9079 If I have your car in my garage, it can belong to you all you want. I have it and I can break into it to drive it if I wish to.
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@OxanaX3203 False. Ukraine wasn't created by the USSR, Ukraine was fighting Bolsheviks before the USSR was formed.
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@steinbauge4591 Yes, it was the Ukraine SSR. A republic inside the USSR. Ukraine had the nukes, if they wanted to control them nobody would have been able to stop them. But Ukraine was debilitated by the costs of paying for the Chernobyl victims (they had a very generous program all things considered) so they wouldn't invest money there and giving the nukes up was more logical. However, they knew that they needed security assurances in exchange.
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@@memememeson3994 Fun fact: you're a Z-boy which means you are sending Russians who don't want to fight. You don't need to fight to be right. You need others to fight for you while you post online.
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@someordinarydude9147 What assertions? The dude admitted to his crimes. He's the one who made assertions. He basically reversed the situation by confirming what he did, now he needs to prove he was lying to be seen as innocent by the public.
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They didn't have zero side effects. Some age groups had 80-90% higher incidences of heart conditions in both men and women in the year 2021 versus the 2019-2020 average.
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 @Augustus_Imperator Russia only lasted this long because of Soviet era stockpiles. They couldn't even build a force for the 2022 war, what makes you think they can rebuild a stronger force?
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People burn aviation fuel (leaded) just to jump off airplanes. You want to talk about how wasteful hobbies are?
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"Ukraine forces are outnumbered in artillery power almost 10-1" - Russian telegram is talking about artillerymen getting killed and wounded. They're also cut from supplies so no shells. "If you want to attack you should have at least 3x as much" - Russians are surrendering and fleeing. "sending their soldier's to a certain death" - Tons of Russian dead bodies being posted. Guess not all surrender. They sealed their fate, though. "they just get slaughtered every time they try to do anything" - And yet they advance. "After Ukraine exhaust its forces, Russia will counter attack" - Copium overdose. Zed is dead. Russia is losing.
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Ukraine made a big deal of showcasing grenade-drop videos and Russian forces were baited into using their own drones for drops. Later Russian telegram pages were complaining that they lacked drones for artillery spotting since they were being taken away to be converted for grenade-holding. Oh and huge nostalgia flashback with Xena, I remember being a kid and watching every afternoon during summer holidays.
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 @covid6942 America has troops in Moscow too. They're the embassy guard.
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@covid6942 Uh, no. They're not engaging Russian forces or overthrowing governments. They use "black ops" (lol) to protect dignitaries and infrastructure. There's a reason PMCs like to hire former SOF - they had VIP protection training. SEAL Team 3 I believe did a lot of embassy and diplomatic protection duty. Russia also has a SOF unit inside their embassies.
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@Jenkkimie How did he fail?
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@sharlesdaviskendy2391 On the surface level it is and it almost sounds like a joke, but it really isn't. If the property retains value albeit reduced, people can move sell it and move.
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@hana-a-cha New homes are built all the time too. Cars break down all the time out of a sudden, houses can have issues that give you ample time to move out or repair. For example look at the millenium tower leaning to one side in San Francisco. The issue is evident years before something could topple the building. Again, we lose more coastline to erosion than rising sea levels. The first effect of rising sea levels will be sea water contamination of fresh water tables. There's people right now living on cliff edges that would have that issue without global warming, it's coastline erosion that will destroy homes first.
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@conradmonson30 I'm not a Shapiro enthusiast. We don't make things to last 100 years. Ever heard of Roman concrete? Lasts more than our modern concrete. The problem is, you can't use rebar to reinforce it. So you're limited to construction that keeps each segment in compression rather than tension, that's arches and domes. Modern concrete construction techniques are so much stronger you can make flat slabs, you can make the segments much lighter, and you can make stuff much taller without requiring massive support arches. But it's not going to last 2000 years. The cracks and corrosion will eventually require the building to be brought down and something else rebuilt. We always talk about how old cars were bullet proof. Well, if we made cars overbuilt the way they were, we wouldn't be able to afford them. When my parents were kids, the average person couldn't own a car where I live. Now in average the families living there have like 1.5 cars. What does it all mean? Anyone can pay lip service to what happens 100 years from now. Truth is, everyone can lie about it because few expect to still be around then. When you make it about the practical, what happens to X when Y, you kind of give up the big picture. You want the big picture? It doesn't matter what happens after 100 years if that house isn't going to be there anymore. Because it was never built to last 100 years.
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@Gantz_rl Who tf would buy a shitbox car that is known to give out in a few years? Everyone does it. Let's say rent is 1500 dollars and the house is 50k. Ten years until you have to vacate if you buy it. Your choice is between losing 180k to rent in those 10 years, or just 50k over the same time period. By buying the house, even if the value goes to 0, you're actually saving yourself 130k. How's that not the smartest financial decision you could have made?
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@iseedeadpeople6667 Sure. But that was arguably a risk the owner took without realizing it was a bad decision. You could say the same about anyone building close to the San Andreas fault line. San Andreas isn't just the name of one of the best GTA titles. It's a geological formation which has the potential to unleash a Big One in the next 30 years. "People would be homeless" also applies to flood prone areas, hurricane/tornado prone areas, erosion prone areas, active volcanoes, etc. How come you can resort to such a simplistic take that applies to literally anything? Let's not build anywhere! We all move to Yucca Mountain or Cheyenne Mountain! We'll be safe in the sturdy rock!
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Not true.
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Even if that were true, why would two wrongs make a right?
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Gunpowder is used on fireworks and amateur rockets. The moment you stick it down a pipe you're Boston Marathoning it a little bit too much.
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@JPEight I didn't say anything about comparing Sweden to the UK. I'm attacking your argument. Forget everything else. You've already been contradicted by other people on the strictness of Norwegian lockdowns. Either put down the evidence to support your claims or give up. So before you had the data, now it's too noisy. Jesus.
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I tripped and fell and my belt broke which caused my pants to drop to my ankles and I fell on top of that intern. I never had sexual relations with that woman.
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@Nero-Caesar and a ton of people have hopped on the "I support the opposite of current thing".
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@philipslighting8240 Even according to anti-gun statistics, there's 80,000-120,000 defensive gun uses each year. Middle of the road estimates are between 300,000-500,000, and you'll hear the pro-gun side cite 700,000-2 million defensive gun uses per year. Even according to the lowball statistics begrudgingly accepted by researchers on your side, there's at least 80,000 attackers fended off by drawing a firearm on a yearly basis. So which attacker? At least eighty thousand. Per year. Give it twelve and a half years, that's one million attackers. Again, according to lowball statistics one in 300 Americans will have the opportunity to fend off an attacker on a twelve year span. Now, do you have a smoke alarm, Mr Paranoid? Do you use the seatbelt, Mr Paranoid?
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Even the parliamentary office for science and technology in the UK looked into mental health evaluations for gun licenses and they concluded it was useless. - Many mental health issues don't correlate with crime. - If the person being evaluated does not have a criminal record that offers evidence for their patterns of behavior, the entire evaluation is based on the interviewee being honest and not hiding anything. - After passing tests, people would go online and publish their experiences to help others pass the test. - The UK doesn't have enough psychiatrists and money to pay for all these interviews. If the UK said this was not affordable with like 4 million gun owners, imagine the US. Some guy from the Netherlands posted on a bunch of subreddits related to guns how awful his experience was in the interview portion of getting a license. It's not about safety. It's not about mental health. It was just humiliation. Also you give the government an easy avenue to ban guns without legislation. Just make everyone fail the test.
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The F-35, because the F-35 will take the shot rather than have a silly dance where the enemy fighter starts the BVR timeline against the EX and works to kinetically defeat the incoming missiles, oblivious to the F-35 nearby.
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The vote happened at gunpoint. About as valid as the Kherson referendum.
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38 Year Old Consoomer/MovieBob Wojak
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 @Foche_T._Schitt Whataboutism. Stick to the topic. Also, presume most people against this war were also against the Iraq war because 9 times iut of 10 you'd be right.
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@Foche_T._Schitt You're posting on a public forum. Expect replies.
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"Democracy" is organized, it exists precisely to manufacture consent for this crap.
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Putin never did a photo up in a contested city. Kherson is both the district and the city. Ukraine holds the city in the north bank. Putin went to Kherson district in the south bank.
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@angrytedtalks "evidenced by the results of a billion or more people" - A billion people weren't infected. You really should not misuse the word "evidenced" and then present no evidence. It would be unethical to infect a billion people to see if it works.
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@faikerdogan2802 You're linking a piece of propaganda and a simplified video. Meanwhile you could read actual statistics that debunk your 95% number. Public Health England has a pretty good weekly report.
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The stories match the relatives of the fallen and missing. When everyone is saying the same thing, even when they're in Russia and nowhere near Ukrainian officials, they're not making it up.
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@Leif1963 the issue is that the only way the Army is gonna change anything is by changing the caliber and rifle at the same time. They tried to switch from the AR to other 5.56 platforms and it was always not viable to replace it for very minute improvements. They experimented with different calibers and never went anywhere because the 5.56 AR is so good. So they whipped up a double-whammy so that they can give new contracts to arms manufacturers or else the M4 is gonna stay in service until 2050. Which honestly it very well could.
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How is it a Pyrrhic victory if they accomplished a major strategic goal of cutting off rail supply lines, got a ton of KIAs and POWs under their belts, captured insane amounts of ammo and recovered plenty of tanks and IFVs?
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No. They already have the Su-25, they wouldn't need another aircraft of the same category.
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maple government contracts ain't reliable either.
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In Serbia the US SEAD/DEAD operations never took out all the radars. You're asking for something that will only occur very late in the conflict if the enemy plays their cards right.
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@spanch1bobr He's not a mercenary and the pay is extremely low.
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Cope lol they have used T-80s and T-90s. There's only a few T-14s and the Su-57 production numbers are SIXTEEN. They're essentially prototypes and two have crashed, leaving them with 14.
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The problem is that you invariably will have to get the value back. If the dollar is worth zero, we suffered a cataclysmic event where gold trading will be a non-factor.
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@ADDMATTable Yeah and the only reason you didn't see your dollar purchasing power go down the drain was because so much of those billions went into propping up the stock market.
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The only joke of that type I actually liked was something about a chicken and and engineer and the punchline was "you have to consider the chicken to be constrained to a single point and neglect air resistance". That's funny. It was also told as a context of a joke inside the show, because they can't write dialogue that funny. Just mentioning something I find relatable isn't enough to provoke laughter.
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Yeah you guys just have to deal with biannual city burnings.
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@aqep Yeah I guess going back to Africa is a vacation compared to what they went through. Those who had to join Storm-Z didn't get better working conditions.
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But it's meaningless. Nobody was giving modern tanks apart from Poland giving updated T-72s, so Ukraine took what they could get. Russia is not defending itself. They're attacking. Yet they're desperate. That's humiliating.
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No. It's a contrast aid. Edge detection software creates a halo around the object to aid the pilot. You can disable this setting to make it disappear.
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Big Suka Sukhoi strikes again!
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@vladG30 To put it in perspective, Ukrainians at the front said that every day they suffered 2-3 casualties from concussions from all the shelling. That's how violent the front was. Now they only have to send away one soldier per week to recover from concussions. 763 MLRS couldn't do what 4 HIMARS could. 4 HIMARS stopped an onslaught. Want the best? Buy from the West.
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They don't. It's just pilots misidentifying objects. We tend to focus on unsolved on unidentified flying objects or "unidentified aerial phenomena" as we call them these days - but ignore the solved UAP reports. When pilots report flying objects and an investigation is able to reach a conclusion they're usually either unlicensed drones flying in violation of FAA rules or balloons. Stinger missile training is achieved by tethering a burning flare to a balloon, which the missile seeks. This training is often done facing the sea to avoid shooting missiles into land outside training areas. When the balloon becomes untethered as a result of missile training, it flies out to sea where it will be seen by pilots. One of Cmdr. Fravor's videos shows the exhaust from a jet fighter from a distance, which blooms the thermal image, and the "rotation" is caused by the internal mirrors in the targeting pod stabilizing the footage.
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@Hovercraftltd Their expected life span makes that not a concern. Supposedly some US soldiers/marines carrying backpack jammers (to stop cellphone IEDs) eventually got bald spots from the hair follicles getting "cooked" while the rest of the skin wouldn't burn.
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This is rubbish. Both sides have Su-25s. They use them by getting within a few miles of the frontline, pitching up, firing rockets and turning tail and running. The significant air power development is glide bombs which need a Su-34 to drop from altitude. Su-25s flying over the foe just get added to the shootdown compilations.
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Damn all that and Russia still retreated from Kiev, Izium, Kherson?
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Observation drones can use slant range and just look at you from a mile away. Even when you're just 300 pixels on a screen, you're still distinctly human and move human-like.
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The flaw in your logic is that you think that such ratios are static. If abandoning 2:1 areas causes 3:1 areas to instead become 1:3 because abandonments gave Russia new points of entry for maneuver, you actually lose the fight.
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This is easy, but critics simply refuse all the solutions proposed.
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@libertarian4ever66 Yes, it is indeed funny that in the early 2000's the A-10 only got 20% of CAS missions and since 2014 it only gets 11%.
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@markrice41 How the hell is the A-10 going to take off and land from a short deck carrier? Get outta here with that nonsense.
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@libertarian4ever66 They're being updated? You mean Boeing got a cool billion to keep an aircraft that barely gets any missions airworthy. Plus didn't the re-winging program already end last year, with a new Boeing contract for additional 112 wings that will only come 2022/2023? Leaving a third of the fleet at risk of being grounded?
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@RickBoat You did. You talked about asking an inherently biased group of people with limited insight into air power, and I simply questioned what do they know. "but that has very little to do with current Close air support doctrine" - I will have everything to do with current CAS discussions because you people still pretend it's Vietnam. "I formed my opinions based on conversations with ground commanders and ground troops" - Again, an inherently biased group of people who only gets a small glimpse of what air power is, and wants to hold on to that glimpse for psychological reasons. Maybe we need to get the CIA on the case, give terrorists all over the world capable anti air means, and we make the ground people watch what happens to the beloved A-10 when the going gets tough. Obviously I'm being facetious, but we've reached a point where the obsession with the A-10 has boiled over and the only way to ever cure it is a reality check. "Little or nothing in my research on the subject has caused me to think about tank killing in the context of CAS" - Then don't bring up the Gun From Hell. The only modern use for the gun is close air support with a lower lethality radius. This can be accomplished by 20mm and 25mm guns, small diameter bombs and even the laser guided conversion kit for rockets. The only thing that set the 30mm apart was its ability to bust tanks, which has lost its effectiveness over time and we're not even issuing the DU penetrator ammo anymore because of the heavy metal dust it leaves in the area.
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@markrice41 "We are using outdated aircraft because we have no modern aircraft." - Wait. So we actually stopped manufacturing aircraft in 1984? There's nothing newer than the A-10 in inventory? Because that's your argument.
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@markrice41 Look, regarding the modern hardware, we're dealing with it. That's why recently the Army showed off how artillery can shoot down a cruise missile, and a F-16 did the same with a guided rocket. The A-10 is not gonna help in Asia and that was my point. If they're gambling everything on not even letting carriers get close to shore with missiles, taking care of the missiles is more important than making carrier capable A-10s.
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@libertarian4ever66 "As a soldier, the only thing I care about is the effect on the target. I don't give a rat's ass what platform brings it in … I don't care if the thing was carried in by carrier pigeons. I want the enemy taken care of" - Gen Mark Malley, Army Chief of Staff https://youtu.be/eJzyN_yiTZ4?t=2821 Source on the claim that the Army generals agree that CAS is a mission, not platform.
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@libertarian4ever66 "the Air Force was flying 20,000 close air support sorties a year, and that about 80 percent of those flown in Afghanistan since 2001 were by aircraft other than the A-10. The F-16 alone had flown more CAS missions than the A-10." https://www.airforcemag.com/article/the-ups-and-downs-of-close-air-support/ Source on the claim that the A-10 got 20% of CAS missions since 2001.
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@selfdo So did other aircraft.
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 @matthewrutter7062 Completely false. At 11 meters depth in water you have more pressure differential than the suit and space.
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What science? The science that has been shown to have a pro-government, anti-freedom bias in peer review? The science that is bought and paid for? Cigarettes are good for you. The science paid for the tobacco lobby said so.
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The US has stockpiles of materiel while Europe is buying back armor it sold for scrap prices at hundreds of thousands of Euro per unit. A lot of European equipment requires American parts anyway.
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But F-35 info was stolen. Security had to be beefed up after that but it did happen.
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@Puppet Master all anti-censorship people want all voices in the platform.
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@flashmedia8953 But it does.
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@Liam.keenlyside "yes, that is why we have speed limits and road regulations" - but we don't limit cars to never break those regulations. We allow people to use the full potential of their vehicle, and suffer the consequences if they break the law.
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@darrenfleming7901 "Also, in what world do you need a fucking AR-15 to kill a coyote??? Do you regularly kill hundreds of wolves on your farm??? There's a reason hunting rifles weren't banned in Canada" - What is the difference between an AR-15 and a "hunting" rifle?
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@lukejax1407 "you don't need more than a handgun to defend yourself" - What authority do you have to make this claim? What do you know about guns and self-defense? Are you a certified instructor?
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@Liam.keenlyside "having speed limits isn't necessary allowing." - You're allowed to own the items that break such limits. "If you say that, then it's the same for any other law/crime." - Not really. Real crimes create victims and need to be punished for the damage they create. Owning a gun isn't a real crime. It hurts nobody unless you actually use the gun to hurt someone.
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That was Millennium Challenge 2002. The exercise was meant to combine simulated and live fire exercises happening at the same time and test network centric warfare concepts. But the OpFor commanded decided to be an annoying prick and had the simulation load small ships (roughly Boston Whaler sized) with MASSIVE anti-ship missiles they could not carry. When the US blasted jamming to disrupt communications, the OpFor commander had his communications switched to motorcycle messengers that travelled at light speed. The game was not rushed. After the losses the simulation was restarted and the OpFor commander told to stick to a script. Because he thought it was a good idea to exploit the game and waste everyone's time he threw a hissy fit.
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@AscendedSaiyan3 "There are places living on 100% renewable energy" - name a few and what their major industries are.
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@SimplCup Jake Weddle was obviously too emotional but you remind me of the people 20 years ago saying waterboarding was not torture. Those who accepted being waterboarded changed their mind. If you were put on that room you'd break too. Because everyone breaks.
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They have PMCs. Since the late 2000s I believe.
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Wrong.
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@Alex-cw3rz the SAM that took out the F-117 was also placed as close as possible to known routes due to planners' complacency, it failed to get a lock twice, a third lock was only attempted because observers counting incoming and outgoing flights knew there was no SEAD support because they were under strict rules to never attempt more than two locks, and even then the first missile lost track and flew in front of the aircraft harmlessly. It took both tremendous skill and luck to bag a single aircraft and the feat was not repeated. Had flight planners chosen a different path instead of getting lazy, it wouldn't have happened. Had there been SEAD support airborne, they wouldn't attempt the third lock. Had they fired only one missile, it would have had a 50% chance of completely missing the radar returns.
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@stevenwallace8569 the Iron Dome was ALWAYS a defense against cheap rockets. The impressive capabilities of the Iron Dome was that air defenses were meant to take out million dollar missiles but Israel was attacked with 500 dollar rockets so they mde the best possible system at a low cost per interception. I don't know why Iron Dome then became synonymous with a full blown IADS, Israel needs expensive interceptors like Arrow and David's Sling to stop bigger threats.
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The locals spoke Russian when welcoming Ukrainian troops
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 @lunasakara7306 Buddy eastern states have even easier access to botnets.
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The Soviets flew fighter jets and manned SAM sites in Vietnam. If American pilots were flying "donated" F-16s and F-15s (Vietnam got brand new MiG-21s) you'd see the Russian Air Force take such a beating it's not even funny.
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Lmao now it gains powers from the people around you.
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@1000yearswordling That is a reason, just not a good one. It's an appeal to popularity, which is a logical fallacy.
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@1000yearswordling That's circular logic. Something being democratic doesn't automatically make it a good thing, plenty of things we consider bad today were supported democratically in the past. Either way, something being popular doesn't automatically shield it. It would be like a celebrity getting away with crime simply because most of a population loves that person. No, sorry. That celebrity needs to face the consequences no matter how many are disappointed.
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@1000yearswordling I'm not American. Nobody talked about invasion. If you had a good argument you wouldn't need this level of reaching. Also, regarding of your comment on the civil war - it started because the Southern states wanted to leave the Union. The Southern states wanted slavery, then civil war happens to keep them in the union by force. It wasn't civil war happens, then Southern states want slavery. So don't try to cop out.
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@1000yearswordling "who's going to overthrow the government if the population is fine with the way things are" - You really should look into history rather than the condensed version given in middle school or 45 minute documentaries + 15 minutes of ads. In a lot of revolutions only a small fraction cared enough to fight while most couldn't be bothered to fight for either side. Case in point, do you think all American colonists rose up against the British? No. In fact there were loyalists who were on Britain's side, and people who fought for the revolution because they were getting paid for it. When you have people who will give up everything to make a change, and people who will not give up anything, you have a side that's willing to fight and a side that's not willing to resist. They'll just keep on living no matter who wins. And the Taliban. There's 32 million people in Afghanistan. According to Biden there's 75k Taliban fighters. That's less than one percent of the population. "it's probably better to limit people's freedom to own slaves" - That's not the point. The point is that democracy can still be wrong and an insurrection justified. You used the excuse that there was a war so democracy was out of the window, but the slavery issue existed BEFORE the war.
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Uh, no. Before mobilization there was "shadow mobilization". Russia voluntold businesses to gather their men and voluntell them to serve. State factories had recruitment quotas last year. That's your kontraktniki - men useful for the workforce. Several regions in Russia have complained about the lacked of skilled laborers who could repair infrastructure and services.
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No offense but the internet blew the derailment out of proportion. People were really convinced it was America's Chernobyl.
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Kiev predates Moscow lmao
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@VikramRaaj9999 I'm the puppet for not buying Z telegram copium?
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"In seconds" + 2 weeks shipping lul
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@andrewmckenzie292 I have no faith in bloody ground fighting somehow having less collateral damage. You really want to send two large armies head to head with just ground forces with civilians in the middle?
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@andrewmckenzie292 If you want to go down that line, the Russian government armed and backed the separatist regions since 2014. It was them to encouraged Ukrainian civilians who identified as Russian to fight and die for Russia's profit. Russia treated them like the US treats Kurds.
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@avppr3451 What does that have to do with anything? No, Crimea never proposed a secession plan. Crimea was seized militarily, with a referendum done after the fact by Russian authorities. That's why the Crimea seizure is not recognized internationally. Nothing was done before using violence, Russian troops showed up one day and it was done. There was no attempt. Minsk II was broken by DPR forces assaulting Debaltseve the day after it was signed.
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@avppr3451 They were responding to Russian shelling, this was broadcast on pretty much all media. It was Russia who started the provocations to get Ukrainian troops to fire back.
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@DeeCeeHaich The entire point was making the time spent in there unbearable so the participant would quit. There's a difference between being sleep deprived for legitimate reasons (such as medical studies) and for others to be entertained out of one's suffering. If the point is to make someone suffer then it's torture. And making him suffer was the objective.
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@garretttobin7451 "NATO contractors" never fought Russia. Ukrainians have destroyed prestigious units like the 1st Guards Tank Army. Ukrainians are more experienced in tank warfare than anyone on NATO.
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@Theggman83 Name a single NATO crew that has fought Russia in tank battles. I'll help: none. Ukraine has fought Russia, they have more experience than NATO.
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@garretttobin7451 Knowing how to box matters more than the brand of the gloves. You're telling me a trained crew of 19-20 year old kids who never been to war (or outside their country) can fight better than 1 year veterans of full blown war? Not even American tankers from Desert Storm have more experience.
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@garretttobin7451 What bodies? Poland, a country with 38 million people, which shares a border with Ukraine, had 2,500 volunteers killed? Oh my god!
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No, because in jail you're given the draft papers.
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Why would I want to say "I helped"? Do people vote thinking they're getting a gold star?
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@mikebillman8089 it's a M. Night Shymalan joke...
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@@tron6121 People in developed countries are living good enough lives to be reading and arguing about topics such as these. While in other parts of the world people really may not even know who is their president because they're more worried about getting clean water.
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 @chadimirputin2282 show me on the doll where the twitter cartoon dogs hurt you
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We went from "they almost never happen, shut up" to "they're rare" to "okay there's been a hundred thousand of them" to an article I just read saying that we should "expect more breakthroughs" within weeks. Can we as a country all line up and each get one free kick to the groin of the people involved in this?
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@Tsukiru They messed the clinical trials by contacting the placebo group after 6 months and giving them the possibility of getting the shot. They spoiled their own trials on purpose. Why? Because we now know that antibodies decline after 6-8 months. Pfeizer is a corporation and they exist to make money. Lying first, getting paid, and then asking for forgiveness is more profitable than honesty.
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It's inside a biohazard bag. People mailed their coronavirus test swabs too.
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It's almost 2022 and the shot is for a 2019 strain. You be the judge.
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At one point handguns were going to be banned in 1934. So they obviously dealt with the attempt to make shotguns and rifles into concealable guns by outlawing short barrel rifles and shotguns. The handguns ended up not getting banned but the workarounds were still banned. Now you can buy an AR or AK as a "pistol" instead of rifle (you can't cut down a rifle, you have to buy as a pistol) but it can't have a stock. However, the stabilizing brace is an attachment you can buy that's made to wrap around the arm and not supposed to be a stock. The ATF has gone back and forth on this, and essentially there's no wrong way to hold a pistol. If touching the brace with your shoulder made it illegal, then touching the back of an Uzi or MAC-10 on your shoulder would be illegal too. The sane solution would be to legalize short barrels but obviously that's not going to happen, so they want braces banned. I don't know if you've seen the "UK legal" handguns. It's just revolvers and semi-auto 22lrs, they have long barrels (or fake suppressors permanently attached) and a rod coming out the back so that it gives them the size of a rifle. It's obviously a handgun, but legally a rifle. Imagine if they tried to ban those because you can stick the rod into the sleeve of your shirt and hold them like a handgun. That's basically it.
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Russia has gone after civilian targets since day one. They just can't afford to expend more missiles.
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A lot of those drones require air superiority to use.
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"Get up - you still have work to do my citrus friend."
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@rykehuss3435 Okay but that's not how it works. In the US you are free to use your speech but using speech for crime is a whole separate matter. In many countries speech is regulated even if no harm was done. The speech itself is a crime.
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@mr.negativenancy5751 It did. You're just going nuh-uh.
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You mean the missile crisis, that was worse than the Bay of Pigs.
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The one where he was lying on a pillow instead of a chair?
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It makes no difference if a Hellfire is fired from a Predator drone or a manned Apache helicopter. Drones don't do anything to people. The payload does.
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Eugenia Cooney? If back when the drama started you told me she would live to see 2024 I wouldn't believe it.
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Buddy Russian aircraft are crashing into apartment blocks.
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@minxbade They're not. What research would lead me to find something that's not happening? The F-35 has the speed and maneuverability. They didn't change the original plan. The F-35 eats Falcons for breakfast. Veteran F-16 drivers get beat by rookies on F-35s.
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@suzimonkey345 Often those "machete wielding madmen" are standing alone in the middle of the street and you see police calmly attempt the takedown. If the machete wielding madman was in the process of swinging his blade at your neck, would you want the "disarm" that's gonna a few seconds until the cops are in arm's reach or a shot to the brain stem?
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Because such vehicles are useful for logistics. The social media pages for Ukrainian units are often running fundraisers to acquire civilian vehicles or repair busted ones. There's some vehicles with Polish plates in Ukraine because many old beater cars were donated or purchased there and brought to the frontline. It's a logical idea to use a sacrificial mine clearer but at best it would get flipped over by the first mine, requiring another vehicle to push it aside and push through the same path to blow up just a few meters ahead.
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 @Hidexrogue The Russians fired enough S-300s at ground targets for us to know that crater was too large for a S-300.
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@raichuraichu7632 Ukraine on Fire was directed by Oliver Stone. Occasional guest on RT, friend of Hugo Chavez, personally interviewed Putin. Just saying.
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The AK-47 was never adopted, it was a prototype. Then the Russians made a milled receiver variant and adopted it as the "AK". When they finally got the stamped design right, as Kalashnikov intended, they adopted it as the "AKM" in 1959.
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@jean6178 21 crimes on record isn't a mistake. A mistake is when you leave the lights on when you leave the house. You don't miss a step while going down a flight of stairs and reach the end with 21 counts of shoplifting.
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@videoettaceo8900 libs spend a day not bringing up Trump challenge. Seriously I can't even read a thread about shoplifting without someone saying his name.
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@KaitouKaiju dude needed to wait for a permit to buy a car and you're defending that system?
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Ken Roberts are you out of your mind? The "free shit" aka the pension is something you pay for through taxes. The problem is that in his homeland he probably did not have a pension he could cash out because of the communist system.
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China is clearly throwing Russia under the bus lol
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@UC08vFA21UGojuhYnbzfC8jQ you are ignoring one aspect: how easily they find each other online. Now, I have never seen a confirmed case of this happening... But if there's pedo groups online they're able to set up an arrangement.
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@ryanames4879 "mag gets stuck when it’s hot" - considering it's very close to being an AR magwell how exactly do Colts/FNH USA rifles not have this issue while HK does? "The whole point of the NGWS is to bump up the 5.56 to something that can pen Russian ceramic armor. Bring the 60 back then if that’s the case, SFs seem to work well with the M60E4." - that makes even less sense because you want light and fast to penetrate armor. You'd have to rebarrel them to 6.8 or 6.5 or whatever and come up with a hardened core round anyway.
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It looks like it did in the video.
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Free Palestine? I wouldn't want it even if you paid me.
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A kitchen can be used to make any dish. It's generic. A manufacturing production line can only make a plane. If that plane is not being made, the manufacturer has to somehow cart off all that stuff so they can make some other plane and remain in business.
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Now grandad Russia is suffering massive losses. Shpuld have minded their own business.
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Half of those tanks are rust buckets, and a quarter had systems and metal stripped to sell. Russia also does not have 10,000 tank crews.
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What drawbacks?
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This, but unironically.
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@ilovecoffee7623 I had heard surface level criticisms of how wikipedia is managed and it seems worse than I thought. Thank you for sharing.
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Last time I checked, if you send 100% military age men to war you'll have no men in the workforce.
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Rationally analyse the situation? Okay. How did the Ukrainians move so fast while taking losses?
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Apparently the 2022 production ammo is disliked in the front because the corners are being cut to maintain production rates. They use less ammo than before because their ammo depots were bombed.
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Why would Albanians attack KFOR?
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Finland dealt heavy casualties to Soviets during the winter.
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The guys at the pub are the premier experts on air warfare.
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@stephennelson4954 That's not true. Most of the Phantom kills were delivered by missile. The USAF scored 89 kills by missile and only 6 with gunpod and 5 with internal gun. The Navy scored 40 kills with missile, they didn't use guns.
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@Marinealver The gun wasn't needed for the F-4. That was a "hardware solution to a software problem". Brute forcing a gun to the F-4E actually hindered performance as it required the use of a smaller radar and the added weight up front negatively affected flight performance.
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What a crock of s. Heart conditions are on the rise in 2021, and not in 2020 when we didn't have the shot. How does that explanation even make sense?
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Nobody's forced to do anything, the devs are still scummy. And Star Citizen was dragged through the mud, the simps just decided to give them more money until the lie becomes real. A SC collapse can only come from within, external criticism is ignored.
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@balisuncocoyt "is closer to what has been reported by averaging from several sources" - The Russian ones? "to know the truth you need to dig deeper ..." - Where? In Russia?
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They have a busy schedule. They have tons of export customers in line.
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I think he was just saying that in a joking manner.
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I'm not sure in how many locations this happened but draconian laws passed in the last few years have pathetic compliance rates. I think there was a place that banned bump stocks and only 3 people surrendered theirs.
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@John-wg9mb It's not illegal to attack military objects. Protected structures (schools, mosques, churches, etc) lose their protection once they become military in purpose. Embassies and consulates are protected if they are embassies and consulates. You can't use them as time-out zones to hide a military HQ.
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@2639theboss Autopilot "increases range" because many drones have a greater ferry range than the control signals can reach. Unless you have repeaters on the way to target or you have satellite uplink, handing over control to an autonomous system is the only way to go further than your radio signals.
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Not true. You're looking at late-2010s F-16 prices while comparing an inflation unadjusted A-10 in 1990s dollars. In 2022 dollars the A-10 is around 30 million (you can get used F-16s for 40-50 million) and that's not counting the upgrades to make it an A-10C variant. A modern A-10 is probably 50-60 million, but the costs amortized over time.
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Finland has been West-aligned for years and has trained with NATO troops.
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Barra Barra from the BHD soundtrack
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@riccardo9383 "If you see an armed person shooting people and you try to disarm them, then you're acting in self-defense" - So if you see a woman shooting an attacker in an alley, you disarm them in self-defense? "That's a much better case than a murderer" - It's not murder if it's not premediated and done with malicious intent. Shooting people fighting you isn't malicious. You can't premediate an attack.
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@mainscreen4939 Yes. By your logic then nobody can defend themselves.
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It does nothing at the macro level. Others following suit? Only if the others are so brain dead they actually think owning a weapon is going to influence the number of massacres, again not really the type of people who would actually take the gun and start shooting people. Either way the rifles are sold faster than they're destroyed by virtue signaling men with a mid-life crisis. "not buying semi automatics anymore" are you fucking kidding? No, are you actually fucking kidding me? Semi-automatics are in common use in almost every country. Even in the UK, which is known for not allowing semi-auto rifles, allows semi-auto shotguns (which are very destructive weapons at close range). The vast majority of countries allows semi-auto rifles and semi-auto handguns.
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Maddow isn't enough of a war machine enthusiast to be into this.
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The map doesn't show attrition...
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Marketing wank by Saab.
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Why did Russia mobilize 300k and request prisoners if 90% of the army is available?
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Cope.
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@DreadX10 in fact Stalin issued the "not one step back" order because not even the Soviet Union had infinite territory to give up in a retreat Contrary to the pop culture depiction "not one step back" wasn't about punishing those who refused to advance, but the commanders who retreated from strategic locations and gave them up easily to Germans
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How do you fight with no ammo?
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@markomicovic5308 What corruption? What nationalism? They literally protested against their corrupt leader, and Russia invaded. It wasn't about nationalism.
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Such as?
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@drno3391 20 year olds get top secret clearances all the time. It takes like 6 months to get one. The military gives tanks, artillery, autocannons, fighter jets to young men. They can't trust them with an intel brief?
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@lenney872 Some of the "armbands" were ties used to restrain people. Photos from up close show bodies with hands tied behind their backs.
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The bear was overhype all along.
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@Its_shiki_time4876 The A-10 will be replaced by the F-35. As it stands, the A-10 has already been replaced by the F-16 and Strike Eagle. They are meant to do the same job. The F-35 will inherit it indirectly because of Congress block on the A-10 retirement.
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@jupiterjunk I got what you meant. I don't think the requirements are that big of a deal. Most of the delays caused by the B variant only affected the B variant, while the rest of the program's biggest delays resided with the fact that it took years to get the first 15% of the code base done. The rest of the problems deal with weird quirks like the supersonic issue with the coat on two variants, concerns with hypoxia (which has affected other aircraft in inventory), the overblown bad weather restriction that was related to the on board inert gas generator, the gun mount apparently not retaining zero so the gun isn't accurate, etc. These are not the aircraft's design flaws. And no, I'm not affiliated with the tumblr page.
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@ShroudedWolf51 "Someone had to teach you. To show you" - And he taught and showed multiple people who simply didn't care.
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@geretstarseeker453 the F-16 has HOTAS controls, you don't read where the chaff dispenser is, you memorize which button it is because you keep your eyes outside the cockpit. The dispensables/countermeasure controls is activated with the right thumb, I think.
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Even with more parties it will still be a two party system. The largest parties will simply form coalitions to secure more votes than the other.
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Lmao are you seriously clsiming 28 million left the country?
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Expansion of money supply is precisely what the inflation in inflation refers to. You don't want more money and the same goods. You want same money, more goods.
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How does that boot taste?
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@marcuslang6153 "Name an occasion where a gripen performed badly, if you will." - Export sales.
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Because the rifle was designed for feeding a bullet geometry?
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@antred11 The bailout wasn't meant to prevent people from losing their homes (many did). It was meant to prop up the economy and prevent all the "too big to fail" institutions from crumbling down and taking the entire world's economy with it. Even then, the premise was a lie. The stock market was overvalued and was about face reality. So the bailout was meant to maintain the inflated values.
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@antred11 You asked how people would be prevented from losing their houses. That wasn't the purpose of the bailout. What you're asking is inherently nonsensical.
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You are mobilized in case of invasion. Russia was not invaded.
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Does the Tsirkon exist outside of CGI renders? The 10 years are both a safety measure and the issues with rocket grains.
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NATO is a defensive alliance. Russia has the nukes. Most NATO countries don't. There can't be an invasion of Russia due to nukes. Dictators can be taken at their word? But you can literally find all the contradictions in Putin's statements. In 2008 he said Crimea was Ukrainian. He says he does't want NATO to expand East, and then says he isn't concerned with Finland.
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@neubianx Absolutely irrelevant. The legal system can't put itself inside a victim's mind and say it was obvious the attacker wasn't doing to kill them. Doesn't matter. From the moment the aggression starts, it's weapons free. The victim has the right to fear that the worst is going to happen. This includes being kidnapped and tortured. It doesn't matter how many punches he got. The punches were legal self-defense and a criminal has no legal option but fleeing or taking the beating from his victim. He can't shoot. "amounted to a kidnapping. Arbery wasn't afraid for his life" - Is this a joke? "Fear doesn't drive you to sprint 10 yards towards a shotgun. Rage does that." - BS. So the people who charged mass shooters weren't afraid? It was rage? What an insane claim.
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The US left Afghanistan. The ANA lost. Also, in 2001 the Taliban actually lost faster than the ANA.
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They were assault rifles.
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 @greybuckleton they don't have more, though. Your perception is based on how they're distributed.
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@thomashauer6804 I'm not sure of the goal but it seems like the purpose was to get people to accept travel restrictions. The argument was that being a celebrity or athlete shouldn't make them exempt (even though politicians flew around the world with no problem). Seems like a wasted effort because some countries are rolling back restrictions already. The whole situation was strange because in 2021 he participated in a vaccination drive, there were exposés on his investment in a biotech company that supposedly competed with vaccines but people online looked into that company and it's fake. The headquarters are in some apartment building and their supposed patents are junk.
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 @macilowiecki9158 But Russian artillery is incredibly wasteful.
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"Reading information from both sides" so you're consuming media from an authoritarian state doing the Baghdad Bob routine. Yeah...
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 @Buckhousesucks21 Do you know how many guntubers have admitted to being stopped by the TSA with gun items in their bag because they forgot they're not supposed to bring them?
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The A-10 is weird looking because it was based on design principles that don't apply anymore. There's always been more ground attack aircraft in inventory other than the A-10 and they're not designed like it, and the A-10s most famed role, close air support, has mostly been attributed to F-16s, Strike Eagles, F/A-18s, B-1s, etc. The F-35 is amazing at many different things. Just like the F-16, F/A-18, etc are.
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@jeff-gl1yx Yes, don't address the facts at hand and dismiss anyone who contradicts you. The A-10 is derived from the A-X program which was initially meant to be a turboprop aircraft because at the time they didn't think jet engines could be efficient at the speeds they were asking for. The requirements to fly low and slow are completely outdated thanks to targeting pods, and were also pressed forward by the Army's insistence on a CAS aircraft slow enough to escort helicopters even though it compromises the safety of the fixed wing aircraft. The two engines mounted apart to mitigate heat seeking missiles destroying one engine, one of the much lauded features of the A-10 design, is meaningless in the age of integrated defense systems and continuous rod warheads which can slice an aircraft in half. The losses it suffered in 1991 made it clear that it was outdated. The A-10 has been replaced. I appreciate your refusal to explain to me how I'm wrong because quite frankly that would be a waste of your time as the A-10 only got 20% of CAS missions since the mid 2000s and 11% since the 2010s.
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Airframes and parts are reaching the limit. Stuff doesn't run forever.
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 @eastafrika728 Another S-400 in the bag. Care to respond?
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@requited2568 Also, it has shown mutagenic effects on animal cell cultures. I'm not very optimistic about this.
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Green Ukrainians got training from multiple Western allies while Russians got trained in Belarus.
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@adamboylan2307 There's no A-10s in production. The last one to come off the assembly line did it in 1984 and the company went out of business in 2003.
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+Im.a.tea.addict "even most Republicans are criticizing them" - you have to realize that many Republicans are dumbasses who get paid to say stuff and the tariffs threaten the corporate interests backing them. The fact is that there's economic reasons to dislike tariffs, but the libertarian in me has to choose between what is essentially a tax, or support a very non-libertarian nation like China where their communist party is a threat to freedom.
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+Baron von Limbourgh "tax cuts don't create jobs...... Never have" - except they did. Woodrow Wilson, JFK and Ronald Reagan promoted tax cuts as a way to boost the supply side economics. Ronald Reagan pulled the US out of a pretty bad recession with pretty high unemployment rates. And this was ignored because of all the bad shit Bush Jr did, but his tax cuts also improved the American economy.
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@black10872 This is just the Reformist's slanderous version of history. The USAF was still using the doctrine used by the Army which was pick the weapon for the most demanding use cases assuming that it would also serve well under less demanding missions. Hence the focus on speed, high altitude, etc. This was Army doctrine that the USAF inherited from the USAAF days. The Phantom was designed for fleet defense, which is a mission where you can't position yourself behind the attacker for a guns solution or else you're just offering the carrier you're going to need to land on on a silver platter to anti-ship missiles. Despite the problems with early missiles, the F-4 scored the majority of air to air kills by missile. Only 5 kills are attributed to the F-4E with internal gun over Vietnam.
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@black10872 This is fluff. The F-4 was intended for fleet defense and then pushed into the fighter role. If it had to kill at close range, it had already failed and would have no place to land as the carrier would be sinking by then. What happened to the F-4 as a fighter does not say anything about the original design being invalid. The MiG had the advantage over USAF F-4s that were flying blind with radar coverage gaps and slow because they were escorting strike packages. When Phantoms went around looking for MiGs, they had the advantage. Their advantage was even greater when Teaball was introduced, and radar coverage plus intelligence made it possible for American pilots to have situational awareness. Also, better training of pilots made missiles more effective as it was found that pilots were firing their missiles outside proper launch parameters. Better training of ground crews also positively affected missile hit rates as mishandling of missiles when transporting and loading was found to be a cause of unreliability. The A-7 Corsair was not a fleet defense aircraft but a strike and close air support aircraft.
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wait is there anyone giving a quick rundown of the ARG?
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To be fair most adopted it before the controversy, and sometimes it takes years for issues to be noticed. In this case it was completey manufactured for political reasons.
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Oh no, they land a meter off target. It's okay the 100,000 tungsten balls still hit.
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Russia lost nine aircraft in August 9th alone. A Ka-52 was reported lost by Russia itself in September.
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Well, whether he likes it or not it's been used in the frontline almost since the day it arrived and it was publicly reported. Why did he allow it to be used for military purposes based on geography, then?
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 @cryingbball Where do the fan channels get the footage?
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 @PeaMoiled the point was the deflection...
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 @nemamiah7832 Missing the point. South Vietnam fell. Iraq still exists and the US fought side by side with them against ISIS.
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@yoursodumn that makes sense because Morgan Freeman is actually God
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Intercepted with the target ahahah they took phptos of the spent rocket. Like Tochka systems the tail detaches on release and falls to the ground.
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@ccdsds3221 that's the funny part, there's only a handful of them in action and they've already malded and coped and seethed about it so much they posted a video claiming they destroyed two.
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@earlward6374 "He had a pattern of this behavior." - Irrelevant. Priors don't justify the shooting. "Thus they had a right to initiate a citizens arrest." - False. You can only do that if you witness the crime or you've positively ID'ed a felon. The former cop recognized the black man from a prior altercation, not the alleged burglary. It was an illegal arrest. "It appears their intent was to stop and hold this criminal suspect until law enforcement arrived. Under Georgia Law, this is perfectly legal" - Only if you witness the crime or you've positively identified a felon. "Barnhill wrote of the McMichaels." - Barnhill was helping the McMichaels in a blatant case of corruption.
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@earlward6374 "He was shot because he tried to attack people with guns" - Who were illegally detaining him, thus were criminals. He defended himself from criminals. "If they intended to kill him he wouldn't have gotten close enough for a punch to the head" - Why? This doesn't even make sense. Plenty of people are murdered at arm's reach. "They would have shot him dead within 5 feet of the truck as the guy was in the bed of the truck armed" - They did shoot before the altercation. I counted 3 shots.
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@earlward6374 1. They are irrelevant because the media narrative doesn't matter. It was an illegal shoot. The ex-cop is gonna have his ass pounded in jail. Womp womp. 2. "They already had seen VIDEOS of him" - Only one video is mentioned. And he wasn't recognized from the video. The ex-cop recognized the man from previous altercations unrelated to the burglary. They did not have positive ID of the burglar, the ex-cop just realized the man was familiar. 3. Don't press shift while punching in numbers. The DA fucked up. He attempted to get them off by recusing himself and writing a statement but unwittingly admitted they became criminals when they attempted the illegal arrest. "Glad this piece of shit "jogger" is dead" - I'm glad the ex cop is gonna be worse than dead in jail.
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Super JLK Watch again. With sound. And remove the earwax. Three shots. Two during the struggle. One before.
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Some intern got a laugh out of that.
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They've already brought down a couple. And Wagner shot down a couple more, hilariously.
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 @xaber_ No, I don't.
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@joelau2383 I mean, they did find WMDs. Just nothing that would contradict the UN reports.
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@k3nny111 You're just rationalizing holding a gun to innocent people's heads.
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This isn't even about respect. If a man shoots up a church, I don't call him a "her" out of spite. I call him a man because that's what he is. Call that respect-neutral pronouns.
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The help was mostly raising the issue in the UN security council. Where Russia has veto power. The US sending weapons is actually going beyond the promise because it couldn't even be fulfilled.
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@odradekk What a completely nonsensical retort.
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@glenwaldrop8166 it's not that simple, it's never that simple
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"Hole-ier Than Thou" causation model
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So Ukraine is losing ground or retreats rarely, which is it? Pick a narrative, Ivan.
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Google the September 2022 Khnzal crash. Same exact warhead .
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Can't refine tactics if Russia and its simps refuse to admit their loss.
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+Raging Monk a real president? You mean like Bush Senior? You mean like Clinton? You mean like Bush Junior? You mean like Obama? I could go back. It's a bunch of war criminals who sold the country to corporate interests and refused to hold many "deep-state" organizations accountable. Keep the "real presidents". Nothing but a bunch of murderers.
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@pdpgb "How is that any different from a bread line?" - In the political context, "bread line" refers to the USSR's chronic inability to produce enough and distribute it properly. If anything, I've heard of producers having trouble because they're producing more than enough but many businesses are shut down so they can't even offload what they produce.
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In BJJ competitions there's an "absolute" category with no weight classes. While the heavy guy always has the advantage with top pressure, skill can overcome.
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@blshouse proliferation of 3d printers didn't change much, though. If anything, the only thing that changed is the fact that you can go to resources like Forgotten Weapons or watch youtube videos of that videogame Gun Disassembly and figure out how guns work and get design ideas from inspiration rather than having to reinvent the wheel yourself.
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That's why he made up sources in his mind? lmao
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@mikeradu2010 I think they're doing theatrics on purpose. The CEO goes directly to the "low level". Prigozhin told the media he leaves flowers on the graves of the Wagner guys, even the convicts. He gives an "Inglorious Basterds" style speech. I think it's a deliberate attempt to wow the potential recruits by making them feel important, and also what was said above - subtly send the message that he's "getting the job done". Ramzan Kadyrov also posted a message on social media saying that each district in Russia should raise 1000 volunteers to help with the manpower shortage.
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Except when US air power just dabs on the rockets anyway.
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Not really. You can have air supremacy but ground defenses are still a nightmare. The US achieved air supremacy in Desert Storm but the ground defenses of the Iraqi Republican Guard still forced USAF Gen. Chuck Horner to stop sending it against them.
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@WalrusWinking the thing is that the 1913 rail wasn't the "universal standard" when HK came up with their attachment system. And now look at how keymod became a "standard" in itself, but mlok essentially killed it. HK tried to make mlok ahead of its time.
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@scottcantdance804 He also pushed the AZT fraud (recently I noticed the drug was mentioned in the movie Philadelphia, if anyone remembers) and also misreported 29% effectiveness on an HIV vaccine trial in Thailand when it was actually 20%.
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Because the computer back then only had to perform "simple" calculations. Your iPod also has more memory and speed than intercontinental ballistic missiles or the bombing computers in fighter jets of the time.
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 @vasilijevukadinovic6843 Russia slaughtered their own "families". The mobilized from East Ukraine suffered tremendous casualties after being used as bullet sponges.
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@ethanwilliams4559 we could also ban excavators and give people spoons if the point is job creation.
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Ukraine has Su-25s. They didn't go there because they knew it would be suicide.
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@MicahMicahel Japan also has a police force that is very fond of pressuring suspects for confessions without caring too much about their veracity, and sweeping murder-suicides under the rug as as double-suicides to keep their crime statistics neat. I'd rather consider that Japan is a high trust society and most crime is handled by the Yakuza that has a tacit agreement with the authorities to not cause a ruckus or spill blood and they'll stay out of each others' way.
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He marks "no pickles" on his POS but someone at the back forgets or a regular burger is picked up and put on your tray by mistake.
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This is so full of mistakes it's actually incredible, even the Maidan year is wrong
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Not true. It wasn't about funding. In fact the USAF sacrificed the funding for the YA-7F program for the sake of getting the A-10.
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That won't change anything because you're still at the mercy of the manufacturer. What you probably meant is full nationalization of the industry.
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@bmwthreethreefive5798 The only F-15s being "replaced" by F-35s would be F-15s used for ground strike. And even then many of them will stay in service for many years until retirement. The F-15 is an air superiority fighter and the F-35 was never meant to replace it. The F-15 is to the F-16 what the F-22 is to the F-35. The F-15 is the expensive, overpowered, air to air dominance aircraft while the F-16 does everything. The only issue is that not enough F-22s were built and the F-15s configured for strike have proliferated.
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@ogre27kain and the point is using the concept of evil for shock value. It's not real. By getting offended/concerned you're giving them exactly what they want.
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@sharpienate Yes it does. What happens when a living life form can't have a caloric surplus?
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@sharpienate Nice strawmen and Ad Hominem. Come back when you can address the facts at hand.
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@sharpienate that the concept of "profit" is inherent to nature
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@sharpienate Okay. Care to dispute the claim that living beings have to balance the expense of energy with their intake?
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Because of anti proliferation agreements, pressure from environmentalist groups and cost.
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@NguyenHongAnh152 the thing is, from what I understand getting from 0.7% U-235 to 20% is 3/4 of the work. So if you buy 20% from another nation in theory to make it 90% would require smaller facilities which could be easily hidden.
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If they bomb the place, not only they lose the entire value of the Taiwanese tech sector, they'll be unable to use it as leverage against the incoming sanctions.
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@kingjellybean9795 It's whatever you want.
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 @r9bet You literally came here to argue about conscription, UNPROMPTED. You're the one picking fights.
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They employed them because it was the only way out. Dudes were national heroes, and trying to disband the group would send them underground. Lose-lose. But the leaders were trying to gain a foothold in politics, so the Ukrainian government puts Azov under the national guard because then anyone trying to get into a political office would have to resign from active duty. So the leader of Azov quits voluntarily and gets less than 2% of the vote in the elections. Win-win. It was the perfect play.
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The A-10 has to climb, level wings, release and then dive down back to cover. Something like an Apache with the Longbow radar on a mast can detect and target armor without exposing itself, even lob missiles from behind hills or buildings and so lock-on after launch. The A-10 has to expose itself except in loft releases (unguided rockets or JDAM with coordinates provided by ground observers).
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Funny that you compare Israel to Turkey and Saudi Arabia - they're all countries that do not deserve foreign support.
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@jamesmassey2089 If you're going to "whatever" me, just don't bother replying. I have no idea who Ron White is.
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 @NeightrixPrime Russian propaganda channels on Telegram said a Su-34 was shot down by F-16. If they're wrong, you go tell them.
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And they say, you can't walk to Turkmenistan I say of course I can Screw you
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lel remember when that happened to the patriarch's watch in Russia? They photoshopped it out of the wrist but left the reflection
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Not much better than Su-25s, they need to circle above to spot and track their prey.
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It's not "unbridled" when the state funded the development of the bug, an agency subservient to the United Nations denied the problem and delayed the response, states shoved the sick into elderly homes, destroyed economies and jobs and now are mandating the product to be consumed by the populace.
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@buyerofsorts And Binger said Kyle brought upon his own beating by going armed to the protest.
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@HiwasseeRiver Only fixed buildings are easy targets. If you have to launch stuff an hour in advance to cover the distance you don't actually know if the target will still be there.
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@JewTube001 nice strawman
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@JewTube001 if you had arguments, you'd use them instead of spitting useless garbage. Hold that L.
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They kinda depend on that so that they can claim that communism/socialism doesn't work because the US wages """war""" against Venezuela, Cuba, etc.
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Are children defined as actual children or just under 18? One time I saw a statistic about children being victims of gun violence in America and they counted up to 21 years old.
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They had almost 20 years to test it. Why do it in combat?
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Severodonetsk 2.0. You were explicitely told that Ukraine was going to use Bakhmut to delay Russia 9 months ago. After grinding itself down to take Severodonetsk the Russian army had to declare an operational pause. Then Ukraine countered in Kharkiv and Kherson. Since Russia boosted its manpower with a mobilization drive, Ukraine needed another Severodonetsk to get Russia to expend its offensive potential.
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@lucinhas overton window has shifted.
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Paul Krugman also has a PhD in economics and he has said some retarded shit.
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The lawyer is asking for privacy before notifying the courts of his new location, because they're afraid of reprisals.
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 @darkstalkerknight63 How do you prove that?
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Have you seen videos of that area? It's mud. It would take months to dry because there used to be a river on top of that dirt.
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We're paying the bill for two years of restricted economy and massive govt spending. The scale isn't even comparable.
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North Korea also has a huge pyramid hotel in Pyongyang. Moscow is the center of the empire, they splurge like mad while the periphery suffers. Am I supposed to be impressed by Arab-style spending habits?
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 @Learn-more610 Ukraine isn't in NATO and many of their officers were only trained in Soviet doctrine.
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It proves nothing. Just like the South Ossetia battalion that got wiped out the other day by Ukrainians doesn't mean Ukraine is fighting Georgia. People from all over the world join fights. It happens.
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Europe is rearming, dawg.
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@Jake-dh9qk They talk about China. Why would they make videos about an unrelated topic?
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Whataboutism.
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The AK5 is a licensed copy of the FNC.
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@criminalscum6075 So just let Russia win?
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Mighty Russia did not waste any missiles on the drones that attacked their Engels strategic nuclear bomber base. Who's laughing now, Ukies?
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With no survivors
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Without the solar panels, the energy would have to be produced with coal and gas.
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"The West isn't free" okay even then I wouldn't prefer to live under the current Russian system.
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That's a total rehash of the "being a feminist only means you support equality" from back when radical feminists had their writing and speeches seen by a wider internet audience and people were baffled at their extremism.
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The 6.8 NGSW concept is trading traditional AP convention for sheer smacking power. Getting full penetration through a ceramic plate and some kind of composite/aramid backing is difficult, so the solution is throw a flying brick of a steel core at it to make sure it cracks the plate and doesn't get stopped easily by the "catching" liner at the back. However rumor has it that they had to back off the distance requirements as it doesn't defeat the plates past ~250 yards. This is the internet rumor mill saying it, so take it with a grain of salt.
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@sniperboom1202 and this one was one of the T-90M with the domestic components. Of all the T-90Ms to leave behind, this lets us gauge their domestic manufacturing capabilities.
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Yeah it sure is better we took a wrecking ball to the economy.
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Ayylmao. It's a 2014-2016'ish meme of "grey"/"green" aliens smoking weed. "Ayy" as in the exclamation people make and "lmao" as in laughing my ass off.
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There was really no option.
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 @JustMe-gn6yf How many western tanks and artillery had they worked on prior to the war? They learned. Same principle applies.
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@gaafts Or it's just a poster hung sideways.
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 @pyro1047 the imperial system is defined by metric. Yes, all the work done to derive metric units is the basis for imperial too.
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@pyro1047 A 0,2°C difference isn't felt. I know 90°F is a hot day, but the 90 means nothing to me. It doesn't actually mean anything to you either. Just like 30°C doesn't actually mean anything to me, I've just grown acustomed to 30 C being a hot day. Imagine being a child without years of experience and learning about weather and the seasons. You didn't actually know what F temperatures meant to you. You had to feel those temperatures over time. As adults humans just grow too stubborn to learn new things and pretend they didn't have to learn and experience things as children.
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No because Russian logistic problems are systemic. They depend on rail and large ammunition dumps to feed their artillery. HIMARS forced a dispersion of ammo dumps and larger distances involved. Ukraine prioritized the targeting of supply trucks early in the war so Russia is struggling. Winter will be severe to the poorly trained and equipped Russians, while Ukraine gets winter gear from allied nations.
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 @El_Tigre6246 ECM and radar guidance is precisely why in the 80s or so SHORAD started to go for laser grid/beamrider ir electro-optical tracking.
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Slot floppies.
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Don't see how air forces around the world would have loved it. Canada is a huge country. Most nations do not have to defend enough airspace to justify such an aircraft.
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@michaelhatch1974 And how does that matter when you can't even get that performance without invading the airspace of two other entire countries? Raw performance is just a number on paper. How to use that performance? It has to be about territorial size when you can't even get that performance in a country the size of a post stamp. Israel's newest fighter is the F-35, which is rated for max 1.6 Mach. And Israel often intrudes into foreign airspace to perform strikes. If anything it's the neighboring countries that need interceptors.
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@MrEdrftgyuji but the cost of performing surveillance on that one person just rises exponentially because you need to maintain a satellite feed, helicopter, drones, etc. while a city of a million already has the infrastructure to perform surveillance on everyone for a fraction of a penny per individual. You can blend in a crowd when observed by humans, but not when the electric eye can just recognize you from the eyes and bridge of the nose and file a log.
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That's the same argument that the Founding Fathers could not have forseen AR-15s...
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And the videos of it firing show the mount shakes violently. Dispersion is probably a hundred meters at 1km.
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@mikelee7318 Iraq's IADS system was French designed and built. Kari. It's "Irak" backwards. They had both Soviet SAMs and Western equipment like the Roland system and MIM-23 Hawk batteries they captured from Kuwait.
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What exactly do you think IMF loans are? Portugal got IMF loans a decade ago. So what?
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@Max_Mustermann "Because hacking of the DNC servers" - first of all, his name was Seth Rich. Not "Russia". Second, you talked about a hack on the elections. Not the DNC servers. Please provide evidence of Russian performing an attack that changed the outcome of the election. "They created an online disinformation campaign involving ads, fake news sites and user impersonation." - Did you see the fake Twitter bots all repeating the same phrases about the Bolivia coup? The USA does the same thing. It's not an "attack".
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That's not feasible as winds push water back under the aircraft, which is moving fast enough to not leave an empty column under itselfm. Plus weather radar spectrum is terrible for accuracy.
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I saw posters for the movie in underpasses but it must have only been in theaters for a couple of weeks because I totally missed it and only caught it on TV a few years later. Since it's based on a series of books I wished they could have continued with the movies rather than rebooting with a TV series. I bet that if the movie had released after Hunger Games it would have hit big when the demand for young adult novel film adaptations exploded.
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 @davemccombs But the fact is that everything started snowballing after the Katt Williams interview. It's not about the publicly available information, it's what people do with it.
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 @j4genius961 it's not about the info, it's how EVERYONE is coming forward
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Exactly. And the Buk launcher number 322 from their 53rd missile defense brigade was the one that shot down MH17 from inside the separatist region, and they brought it back to Russia to hide the evidence. They were the ones who brought the war to Ukraine 8 years ago.
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Is he the best journalist when he desecrates dead bodies to stage his little scenarios?
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Ukraine has received Slovak S-300s, Polish upgraded T-72s, Slovenian (?) upgraded T-55s, German Gepard Flakpanzers, etc so US contractors didn't see a single red cent from Cold War era stuff, especially former Soviet stuff.
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Because mercury based primers made the brass brittle, non-mercury primers used to be "corrosive" (what you typically find in surplus ammo) and the best alternative for decades were lead azide/lead styphanate. There are lead-free, non-mercury and non-corrosive primers but they're more expensive (and less shelf-stable I think).
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@virtualinfinity6280 The wikipedia page on the F-22 claims it was meant to replace the F-15 and F-16 but then uses as a source the factsheet on the air force's own page that claims it would make the F-15 and F-16 obsolete. Not the same thing, the source was misinterpreted. The big twin engine air superiority fighter is the "high" and the single-engine multirole fighter is the "low" in the "Hi/Lo" mix. The Advanced Tactical Fighter program was explicitly for a F-15 replacement. The Air Force had the Multi Role Fighter program for the F-16 replacement and the A/F-X program with the Navy for a A-6 and F-117 replacement, which were canceled and combined with the CALF program that also involved the Marines (which needed an AV-8 Harrier replacement) and resulted in the JAST program (later the Joint Strike Fighter program). There were plans for dedicated strike aircraft to go along with the F-22 and they were straight up bomber versions of the F-22. The F-35 is a true successor to the F-16 because although a strike aircraft it is built as a fighter.
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@bogdanbogdanoff5164 "Rusiian and Chinese intelligence already has a full technical package and evaluation of how useful that coating is" - Okay. The F-35 coating is more recent than the F-22. Why are the Israelis flying it over Syria then?
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@bogdanbogdanoff5164 "Israelis don't care about the intelligence risks" - So they don't care that the stealth aircraft they have may have stealth compromised? You're reaching.
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@bogdanbogdanoff5164 Yes, I addressed the part that mattered. You came up with a narrative and I brought up several issues with said narrative.
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There's also 2000 T-14s on order since the 2010s. That order is indefinitely on hold.
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 @SuperBacDoc History Legends is a copelord.
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That is not true. Both Army and USAF chiefs of staff agreed to not step on each others' toes. The Cheyenne was plagued with problems that caused delays and eventually had Lockheed chasing a mechanical solution for a problem that was being solved with digital controls.
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@watchdealer11 No religion was banned. The opposition parties had links to Russia, politicians were allowed to just reform new parties and keep their seats. So I ask again, where do you get this information? You're being lied to.
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 @darthshima820 they rented apartments in Kiev. They expected a quick win.
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@guyver4002 Can you address the actual argument or is snark the best you got?
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I think the assumption is that gunshots and explosions would be chaotic and the shouting would be necessary to even talk to people next to you.
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So you want the power of the market to adapt and reduce costs and freedom of choice, but people should be FORCED to do certain things? That would go against the free market and end up with the problems of regulation.
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You really want to grab a shovel and dig across a miles wide debris field?
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WWI had tens of thousands of KIA per day during the fiercest battles. This is nothing like that.
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@PinkIllimani What they wrote in essays and how they lived is different too. Always remember that.
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Not true. They abandoned that treaty 2 years ago. And they leave ALL aircraft in the open like that, not just nuclear armed ones. Stop lying.
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Thanks for the daily MoD update, Markovski.
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@CruelandCold The F-35 is almost an AWACS in itself.
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@Nobody32990 A logical fallacy is an argument that passes the sniff test on how a logical argument is structured, but although the premises themselves are valid the argument isn't. At best "horseshoe theory" is just an observation, at worst an hypothesis to explain observed behavior.
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His head just did that.
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@damgful buddy I'm straight and I don't want to watch straight sex in movies and tv either. Maybe us straights and gays can unite on this one?
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@spudlord8841 The Ukrainian government does evacuate civilians. The problem is that there's holdouts, and the government using force often leads nowhere. There's also delusional civilians who do want to join Russia, and then get killed by Russian shells. Can't help them. However, many people have nowhere else to go. All your belongings and memories are in one place, and you can maybe take a suitcase with you. You have conviction in your opinion, but it was made in a vacuum. In the real world, things aren't that black and white. Desperate times are precisely when you respect the rules. If the rules can be thrown out at any sign of trouble, then the rules do no exist. Your freedoms and your rights exist precisely for when they're about to be violated, not when you're just having a normal day.
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1. People using Honey after an ad from other channel would create the dip before Honey offered a sponsorship. Anyone using Honey is affecting any affiliate link no matter where the ad to install was seen. So most content creators would not notice as the link theft would start before they ran their own ads. 2. Maybe only 10-20% of the people who watch the ad would give it a try. It makes sense LTT noticed because they probably have a large enough audience to bump Honey user numbers up and also run a lot of affiliate links.
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Ukraine never claimed to be a military superpower. They take what they can get because they're fighting for the homeland. Russia is the invader. They picked the time and the place. If you try to sucker punch someone and get punched, you're a clown.
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lol lmao even
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The 1 million will also have to replace domestic troops. Russia hid their casualties by pulling sailors and strategic rocket forces troops and sending them into the front. So there have to be military bases in the east with very minimal forces that need more men. They're also pulling combat troops from Syria so they'll need fresh replacements in a few months.
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Except that's less useful. You want to keep the rifle light for the several months you're carrying it every day. You'll maybe have the chance to use this once or twice in the entire conflict, unless you're somehow a juicy target for drone operators.
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@kartikeyatiwari2502 Russia has used their modern tanks and best units from the start. The 1st Guards Tank Army, stationed near Moscow, has suffered great losses in personnel and equipment.
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@kartikeyatiwari2502 "Russia has over a million troops" - Most of them not being trained combat troops, but conscripts, office clerks, medics, cooks, drivers, internal troops, border guards, etc. "first was the Kiev assault from where they retreated" - After heavy losses. "second was mariupol attack which they capturedband 3rd was melitopol which they captured" - You're forgetting the Kharkiv axis and the attempt to bypass Mykolaiv into Odessa. Some of the best Russian units were in Izyum to attempt to capture Kharkiv, which failed, and then moved to use Izyum as an advance axis to encircle the Donbas. Since they failed their Kiev attempt and then the encircling attempt, heavy losses left them holding the ground in Izyum. When the counter-offensive began, they were forced to flee and leave their tanks behind.
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@tachikomakusanagi3744 the Navy did not add guns.
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No, he got fired for costing Fox News tons of money with lawsuits.
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Been hearing that for two years.
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@runningbear6391 there's a lot of headaches involved with owning homes.
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The austerity of earning 20k a month instead of 200k...
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Because you're not anti-war, you're against Ukraine defending itself. If you were anti-war you'd want the Russian defeat to happen quickly as a punitive measure and warning for any future belligerent nations. If your anti-war position rewards those who start wars, you're only begging for more wars to start.
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Give Hypohystericalhistory a watch.
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Okay, but all the money is "going to Ukraine". If we give Ukraine 1 billion worth of weapons for free and pay ourselves the billion to make up for it, that's 1 billion of weapons for Ukraine. If we give Ukraine 1 billion worth of intelligence and pay ourselves the billion to make up for it, we still gave Ukraine 1 billion worth of intelligence. We could do it the other way around and give Ukraine the money and then they'd pay us. But that's meaningless, no need to complicate.
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Multiple aircraft have guns and have used it.
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Considering that most missile strikes against Ukrainian runways missed the tarmac, I'm not worried.
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That's part of Russian propaganda too. You saw a 30 second clip and don't know if the crew was incompetent. Russia loses 5-10 tanks in much more embarassing fashion, and you care about 1.
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 @ASlickNamedPimpback Almost all recordings are from miles away.
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@freetime580pppplll Not the point. A defense minister is the spokesperson of the military, like the president is the supreme commander. If Shoigu is saying things that contradict the theater commander, things are not going well.
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Because it's not always feasible to keep updating old aircraft forever.
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@Skinflaps_Meatslapper The company that originally made it isn't even around anymore, it's part of Boeing now. So Boeing would have to take the blueprints from some dusty cabinet, see what doesn't even make sense anymore and needs to be replaced by modern manufacturing methods (easier said than done), then invest millions into a production line to make that aircraft... after spending so much time and money it would be literally easier to design a new one. "rather than spend a small fortune designing a new aircraft" - The other company already invested in designing the aircraft. "I don't understand the military's concept of "okay, build 300 of these planes, and once you're done throw away everything because we'll just cannibalize surplus planes and duct tape shit together for the next 50 years"" - Do you want a plane or a jobs program? You figure out how many planes you're gonna need, make an allowance for damaged/lost aircraft, have a contract for spare parts and then you give the company a certain number of years for the orders to keep coming as you introduce the aircraft into inventory and the earliest airframes start to need refurbishing to remain airworthy. You don't keep a company under contract forever.
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I don't expect the average person to have big brained takes on politics so they just latch onto tropes like "communism" and "just like Hitler", but this is an unfair dismissal. If anything, the tyrant that straight up murders everyone makes his evil known and despite the fear instilled into the population it drives resistance. The fact that you aren't killed for voicing your opinion isn't an automatic proof of anything.
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The twitter post at 11:05 states only Ukraine uses Tochka-Us but they were kept in service past the retirement date in Russia, and they were seen in the exercises before the invasion.
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And most geopolitical analysis channels also say that there's a limit on capacity. They can't afford to sacrifice European revenue, they'll need to complete the Power of Siberia 2 and use gas tankers.
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 @MattKearneyFan1 the Su-25 is faster Speed is life
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@LittleNemoGaming "You take 1 cell, merge it with another cell, implant it, and science and 2 gays made a baby. Without sex." - dude what the fuck are you talking about?
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@andy5478-MTB I like how you added "mass" in front of fraud. You could just lie, but you're so weak you can't even do it. You admit the fraud exists but was decentralized.
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@ablabla880 "The GOP was in full controll I'm the states they lost" - The Dems cheated fair and square. Trump had the opportunity to fight the fraud before it happened and he didn't. This is an easy truth to accept. "Keeping folks from voting never works out well in the end" - What does that mean? "You are in the Minority and in a Minority that is shrinking fast" - What does that mean? "So if you are angry that white folks don't get to make the rules no more," - I don't get this question. This isn't about what I feel, but now that you've said this, I'm going to ask you what you mean by this. "And being a proud German who have been through this in my country, I can tell you it does make the country so much better. And the people a lot more beautiful on top of that." - What does this mean? Also, why are you concerned if you're German?
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"colderwar" is an absolutely ironic screen name.
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@madpuppet666 This might be a hot take, but if we take point number 2. to be a sign of patriotism, then there's the issue that technically the US is protecting Taiwan from invasion. While he might not owe Taiwan patriotism, he can't go around doing the support the troops routine while ignoring an important strategic objective of the US military.
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@HamSandwich277 Who said anything about being far-right?
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One more good hit to the Kerch bridge and they'll lose. Something really bad has to happen for this to end in stalemate.
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 @chrisseymour2848 And how were living standards back then?
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They couldn't do it with their supposedly trained and well equipped army. How are they gonna do it with convicts, Nepalese immigrants and turtle tanks?
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Many people are complaining about the war in private but fear repression if they go public.
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The F-111 got more tank kills than the A-10. The F-35 would do the same. Hit ad not get hit.
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@YOILIKEWEED I know a dozen people who were banned from social media for talking about it in 2020.
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@antipathy162 Ukraine is also forced to cover a much larger area while Russia can pick and choose where to advance. A 2.5 to 1 advantage doesn't mean much when so many men are protecting the Belarus border just in case.
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The Harrier can't deal with the 21st century. Even against the Iraqi military in 1991 it suffered a few losses that show it's not survivable in the modern world.
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McDonalds Farmer vinegar is used to preserve foods because it's difficult for bacteria to survive in the highly acidic environment.
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How do you start a diesel when your glow plug can't work?
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@kevlarandchrome I said GLOW plug not spark plug. I know diesels run off compression, but trying to start in the cold means that the engine block acts as a heat sink and robs the energy from the compression stroke.
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The problem is that the cops hate this shit but they are forced to act due to NGOs overseeing their response to this type of "crime". The Quartering had an anonymous British police officer send him emails about the topic.
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@chrisfaircloth2599 "the ngo has no power" but they do, because they will bitch to the chief of police/superintendent/whatever and the person in that seat was put in power by politicians like Sadiq Khan.
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Last time the US withdrew from Iraq, their army almost got overrun by ISIS.
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 @No-turbo there's factual evidence of 21 losses, wild that people deny it
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The US didn't sustain tens of thousands of KIA in a single year so these "ummm but have you noticed US/NATO bad too?" posts. The US did fine at the war part. The peace and nation building was what failed.
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I can't be bothered to care about the actual Nazis in Azov battalion when Canada's own leader called his own people Nazis for demanding freedom. After years of crying about "Nazis" to shut down dissent while arming real ones across the globe I simply do not care, and it's cosmic irony that we need them to protect a nation from a superpower.
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Since there's no charges nobody's going to subpoena the footage.
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Nah man that's straight up how AN behaves.
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 @Slop_Dogg lol thanks mr ben shapiro you just dropped a 2000lbs JDAM of truth and facts on a palestinian house and as a reward you'll get all the coochie
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@Slop_Dogg "m'am please can I have some coochie?"
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@mullerpotgieter How is the A-10 a trump card?
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@john_mystery how does the temporal aspect matter? If you're under gag order you're under gag order.
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So basically a rounding error compared to the US economy.
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@mitchl.7276 Italy, Croatia, Greece and Turkey also have access to the Mediterranean and they're NATO members.
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The problem is that this club is full of countries that don't trust each other. If China handles the money, how can the others trust China to not manipulate the currency?
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@alasdairmmorrison74 Russian telegram says that in Kherson Ukraine is using a "creeping advance" where they're digging positions as they go. Could be a motorized digger pulled by a humvee or infantry fighting vehicle?
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Russia loses like you go bankrupt. First slowly, then out of a sudden.
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WTC 7 was hit by burning debris. Three diesel generators inside. Buckling of steel girders, house of cards.
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Air superiority doesn't get rid of the ground threat.
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@Coelacanth Q you cannot perform a citizen's arrest except under extremely narrow circumstances. If you do not see someone committing a crime, you cannot arrest a "suspect".
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The Phoenix has a good track record in Iran. There's no countermeasures from long range when Iraqi aviation is grounded from the suspicion that traitors or covert saboteurs are sticking timed explosives inside aircraft because nobody can see the F-14 Tomcat or the AIM-54 diving on its prey. Just one of the fighters in formation turning into a fireball with no warning.
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Those aren't missiles, they're glide vehicles. The actual missile rocket motor is massive, requires a launcher vehicle the size of a truck to carry one.
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@fleabag631 Jesus Christ. How do I explain this in words? Let's say there's 5000 units of CO2 in the atmosphere that cause 100 units of warming, and 50 units of methane that cause 100 units of warming. For simplicity's sake, let's say the planet's equilibrium is 200 units of warming. As you can see, methane is warming the planet 100x more than CO2. Let's say cattle pumps out 10 units of methane every year. However, what they pumped out had to be pumped in, so 10 units of methane are converted into CO2 every year and that CO2 is fixed by plants. What I said is still correct. What you said is correct but decontextualized. Yes, methane is worse than CO2. But it's in a cycle. CO2 from fossil fuel is not. The organic material that makes up fossil fuels died millions if years ago, and we don't plant more trees to replenish it. We're just injecting "new" CO2 into the atmosphere. Adding to the 5000 units. If next year we have 5010 CO2 units but methane remains at 50, the problem is CO2. We need a certain degree of greenhouse effect to survive. So a stable amount of methane is not a net negative.
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@fleabag631 "Having animals that contain CH4 producing archaea in their stomachs will result in a net negative" - Not if there's a balance! "But humans start breeding cows far more than what was natural" - Yes, which will raise the balance point. I remember reading that we actually raise less cattle than we used to despite population growth because production is more efficient and thus there's less waste. Meanwhile, CO2 is not at a balance and we're injecting more and more CO2 into the mix without an accompanying method of recovery. "Rate of CH4 breaking down to CO2 remains constant at 1" - But how?
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Is he? Then why does he desecrate dead bodies for content? Maybe he should leave skeletons apone when the skulls have saw cuts on them indicating autopsy.
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@rca6576 Again, did you read that in an article? Because the Rolling Stone already had to retract their article about IVM. It was a lie made up by a doctor who had not worked at the hospital in two months.
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The Neverland interviews? You mean the ones where inconsistent testimony is given and where one of the "victims" pulls out a ring that wouldn't have fit a child's finger?
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The 60 Minutes piece had segments aired outside the US too. Our media isn't "fact checking" and just reports on it uncritically.
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It's a 2h45 video, be more specific.
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@yellowtunes2756 Doesn't matter if the tank is cheap or expensive. To paraphrase the Slipknot song, when you dig your own grave you fill your mouth with all the money you will save. Losing the war is worse than spending money.
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@grantlawrence611 More troops won't solve it. More troops means more mouths to feed, more fuel for tanks, strained logistics... and these troops will be untrained. Ukraine is fighting mercenaries motivated by money, and people who through months of conflict are battle hardened to some degree. Sending untrained troops to the meat grinder will only cause the Russian death toll to increase.
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I like how nobody is addressing the fact that NATO exists because the kind Union gobbled up Eastern Europe and wouldn't give it up, and how NATO wasn't even content with political defeat of Moscow - their objective would be actual gen0c1de. Even though NATO has former Soviet and Warsaw Pact peoples under its wing.
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Peterson's problem was the benzos addiction lol
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Those islands are sinking.
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@jellomaster5629 lmao
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They're different and have totally dissimilar investment strategies.
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I understand the nuances of geopolitics but whoever says that issuing a huge pardon to the butchers serving in the Russian army is saving lives needs 5 minutes in the ring with a very pissed off Ukrainian.
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Losing a pilot and an A-10 you can't get any more of has absolutely no monetary savings.
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@sirrathersplendid4825 You've already twisted my words and strawmanning is an admission that you're wrong. Nobody said that there was too much footage. All the existed footage already existed in more than enough backups that it was found unnecessary to preserve the data tapes and they were reused as it was standard procedure. Yes, the event was so important that many tuned in to the NASA transmission that was coming from space at the time. Not a joke. They didn't just delete it. They had an expensive tape format, the same footage was recorded on other formats, so they reused the tape. The footage was not deleted because there's copies. And the search for the original data tapes actually ended up providing NASA with higher quality copies that had been forgotten and they were restored.
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@Ivan Zhao How is it incompetence to reuse expensive tape formats when you already have all the data backed up in multiple parts of the world?
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"At some point the Army told them without blinking if they retire them, they will take them and fly them" - Not true. One general said this. Presumably someone immediately corrected him by stating that the Key West accords would not allow it.
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It's not an excuse. One man turned everything into a combat zone again.
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@steve-real You only need to be charged if a crime has been committed.
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Also happens on a shitty Alex Cross movie. Guy walks up to some German dudes and asks in German for one of their assault rifles (G36s). He says "Maschinengewehr". The translators don't pick up on technical terms and the original script writers probably don't get to verify the translation or if they do, they don't notice the "literal" translation.
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Less people died in those disasters than in the Banquiao Dam failure.
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@joshuapaul2022 Still malding after six months? Six months and you can't let go of the ghost of kiev. Did he break your heart? You're obsessed.
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@joshuapaul2022 Slovak MiGs were retired yesterday. Lie. All you do is lie.
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First thing I thought about.
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The cameras are already everywhere. Not saying I like it, but this system is hardly the devil when we're already filmed on almost every building we enter.
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@calenhoover1124 "Your issue is that you think free communication means completely and utterly unchecked, and unregulated" - You don't get to pretend you know what I think. "This will change absolutely nothing about your life." - It does because I use a end-to-end encrypted chat platform and this law might expose some people I work with to their country's authorities. "This aint 1984 bud, and like every other industry in this country our democratic process will decide" - Dude, the democratic process hasn't done shit. "if it ends up being a catastrophic failure, they can repeal it" - Name a law comparable to this that got repealed by democratic means. "Nice anecdote there, but plenty and plenty of bipartisan bills are actually to promote social and civil welfare, not just to "fuck you over"" - Here's the secret: they don't actually promote social or civil welfare. "The issue is, is that a lot of people don't think its a problem" - Then you just admitted that democracy doesn't work because most people don't pay attention. Take the L. "Sorry thats just not how democracy works. Democracy isnt what you think is best, its what the collective deems to be best, and sometimes having a collective agree on something so controversial is hard and takes effort and time." - It's been almost two decades since the state started restricting freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism. We gave it time. We gave it effort. Obama was essentially elected to reverse the Bush-era measures and he simply signed every extension to those laws. When people were mad at Bush they voted to change things around, and when things didn't change the narrative was twisted. "It sounds like youd prefer a monarchy" - Nice strawman. When you do this, it's just an admission that you're losing. "So are you suggesting they are gonna rip up the constitution that strictly limits the powers the governmetn has over civilian rights" - That's the issue bucko, they don't need to. Look at the Second Amendment - it says that the right to keep and bear arms cannot be infringed. What does infringed mean? Broken, limited or undermined. Supposedly, the government cannot do ANYTHING that undermines gun ownership. But there's gun laws. Supposedly, the government cannot break the Fourth Amendment. But they do. Hell, it could be argued that with police militarization the government is even breaking the amendment everyone forgets about, the Third. The government wipes it's ass with the constitution, but because it puts it back in a display case with skid marks you think everything's fine because they're not actually tearing it into pieces. "Because an election and elected officials would mean its inherently not a tyranny" - You do realize that there were tyrannical states that held elections, right? "Most militaries, made up of working class soldiers will eventually if not immediately rebel against a tyrannical government thats hurting the people." - Then explain China or North Korea. Why haven't their military forces risen up against the government?
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@calenhoover1124 I understand better than you, which is why I pointed out the problems. You refuse to debate because you realized you had no arguments.
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Major cope.
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"To me its saying your not getting dirty enough, aka your just in a perfect range lol " - The AR is well sealed against the elements so if you managed to drag it through the dirt so hard you're causing stoppages you should pop the receiver open and deal with whatever has sneaked into the rifle rather than treating it like a UK cuck compliant AR. Because if you managed to do that you might as well cause a blockage on the trigger mechanism which can't go away by pressing the forward assist. As for the gun getting dirty from shooting the AR has been tested to handle thousands of rounds until it needs the bolt wiped or it won't close by itself. We're talking about multiple combat loads worth of ammo.
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King Brilliant Good luck getting cold war rust buckets into service and fueling them, not to mention try to fly aircraft on low grade diesel.
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That's my problem solver right here.
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The problem is that their stock prices fall if for some reason they lose a contract.
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@cornelkittell9926 We already saw the early batches of conscripts get sent within days of mobilization and KIA within the week.
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@100popsongs Buddy. If it was FDA approved of course it wouldn't make a difference to me. leans closer but it does to other people....
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@deletedchanneI he already did a video on Blackwater
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@mischa1880 I enjoy causing mental grief to Z-anon cultists.
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It gradually builds up in the later stage of the game. Most of MGS2 is like the rest of the series and it's not really this creepy. Though it had its moments like Psycho Mantis in MGS1.
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@Verminator4 Combat range of the F-15E is 687 nautical miles, the F-35 is 669.
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I've seen that too, pornstar typed out in cursive font.
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The USMC can't take off or land them from amphibious assault ships, the Army isn't going to spend a billion dollars acquiring an aircraft that's going to need retirement anyway due to airframe hours and lack of spare parts.
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"xaxaxa actually when we look like a joke it plays into our hands" They literally want to sell to Algeria. Bruh. Their plan was to sell to India. Come on.
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Will they? Their air defense is being attrited by drones and Excalibur rounds.
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Purchasing power parity skews the data. American goods and labor cost a lot more than Chinese. So China can have an arms buildup while hiding behind the US costs just to keep its military at the same size as the year before.
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@NineBreakerUIXB the concept that all the money is going to illegal activities is unconvincing. Usually it's the illegal activities that generate money that has to be laundered through such banks.
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Too high for MANPADS.
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People send him those. AgentJayZ does videos on jet engines and his shop also has flags sent by viewers hanging.
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@wilfdarr "who refer to them as lawn darts" - This was early in the F-16's operational life. Now the F-16 is an industry standard and the backbone of many NATO countries' air defenses. And might I add, the A-10 has the highest rate of blue on blue and civilian casualties. So it's not the F-16 pilots that are screwing up.
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@wilfdarr You're denying reality at this point. The F-16 is so good at air to air it's the aggressor stand in for the MiG-29, it's so good at striking it was the aircraft that delivered payload in Operation Opera, the Israeli deep strike in Iraq. And in Operation Orchard it was the escort aircraft protecting the F-15s carrying the payload. The US Navy, which does not use the F-16 operationally, has F-16s for training purposes at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center. You're copy pasting some article sugarcoating the facts. Oh 99 percent don't involve harm to friendlies or civilians. Yes, that's how it's supposed to be. Like Chris Rock said many years ago, you don't brag about not being in jail. The A-10 tops the charts for friendly fire, higher than the B-1B and the worst B-1B incident was caused by the FAC providing the wrong coordinates. It's also the aircraft involved with the most civilian deaths since 2010, with 35 killed. Don't sugarcoat. It performs worse. Don't copy paste puff pieces saying that they're trying really hard to avoid civilian and friendly casualties. Of course they do. It's their job. The A-10 is down in the dirt because it was built in a different age where AA defenses were pathetic. It was built for a world that didn't exist by the time it entered service. You put the bar on the ground and praise the A-10 for clearing it, then you make excuses for its lackluster performance. And you think you can stain the F-16s record with your BS comments.
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The Taliban didn't fight the Soviet Union, they are from the Pakistan border area and entered the civil war after the Soviets left.
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 @GlasbanGorm but those reflections are scattered. The retroreflector experiment requires the signal being stong enough to detect back home. Aim away from the reflector, you get nothing.
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That's sound bouncing off the wall. There's panels you can mount on the wall to reduce that effect.
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The F-16 can kinetically defeat SAMs. The A-10 is a sitting duck.
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@geneplummer6645 I mean, not all waste is equal. Some of the waste decays in 100 years, some of it lasts longer.
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+Imraan Omar yeah other people's money is not my business. But other people using their money to reward companies for taking anti-consumer stances which fucks us in the end. Remember when they introduced the Founder's edition line and literally said that they released them to see if people would buy them? If those people with good jobs said "you know, I worked hard to be educated enough to have this job, and worked hard for my promotions, hence I worked hard for my money - let me check if I am getting a good deal out of my money" we'd be in a better place right now. By all means spend mindlessly. It's their right. It's also my right to judge them.
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Abrams can run on diesel, and the "jet fuel" is JP-8 - a NATO standard fuel that is used in ground vehicles, heaters, generators, etc to simplify logistics. Instead of bringing diesel and aviation fuel, you bring JP-8. And feel it do anything that runs on it.
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 @jeff6633 There's thousands of F-16s manufactured. Only 200-something Gripens. There's not enough spares.
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To be fair, I can see the exact same happening anywhere else.
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+Kevin Bryer and so you want to ban firecrackers?
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Considering they had to use ATGMs as replacent for howitzers, and now Ukrainian tanks roll up to enemy trenches with RPG-7s as hand grenades as the Russian AT, I'd say they're in a state of depletion.
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WRONG. The US keeps B2s in hangars to protect the RAM coating. Russia has left the START agreement. Why do you lie?
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Plus, didn't only two people make it out alive? Did the third crew member die?
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Europeans sent F-16s even though the US has way more spares.
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If the price was kept low, that bottle wouldn't be there in the first place.
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No, it isn't. Digital can sample anything that's audible. Frame generation is taking a guess of what a frame would look like without sampling a render from the game engine. Digital will pick up any sound wave that's relevant for human hearing. So what goes on inside the recording studio, you're getting.
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@alaskamark4562 Russia said they'd repair the pipes in exchange for sanctions relief.
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@jukka-pekkaparjanen7590 The radar evidence doesn't show anything. An American P-8 flew near where Sy claimed the Norwegian P-8 flew. But this can just be reversing from the evidence that exists to come up with a narrative. There's no proof that a buoy was dropped. But there was an airplane nearby - so claim the airplane was there to drop the buoy. Even though a civilian naval vessel could have been used for the purpose. The boat tracking data also would require divers to swim for several hours to get close to the explosion sites.
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I praise the hell out of PSR but he isn't a pioneer, he provides a spotlight for others' designs. The pioneers are Cody Wilson, Imura, "Patrick", derwood, Jeff Rodriguez, Ivan and St. Jstark. PSR doesn't tread new ground. But he lays the beats.
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@13n1304 You're taking this too literally. The X only needs to get lucky once and the Y needs to be lucky every time is just a figure of speech.
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@Nickholast they should be losing customers for throttling in the first place. VPNs won't be a hill to die on, most people don't care.
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@Liggliluff data isn't data. For example, videogames communicating with a server are very time critical so that player positions can be updated, while a download isn't as urgent.
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Didn't help in Afghanistan.
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The S-400 has kind of been fraudchecked in this war.
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They are always in use. Russia uses them to penetrate Baltic airspace, they even provoke Portugal on the other side of Europe with Tu-95 Bears.
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You've been saying "soon" for a year now.
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@brookebecker4785 his point still stands. Scalpels are understood to be medical equipment and abortions are a medical procedure. Kind of a weird analogy to make in this context.
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 @barbeonline351 Same thing happened in Syria, they fell out of favor for a while and the Russian military reduced support.
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@peterg.8941 There wasn't a revolution, the German government was partitioned by the Allies.
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@oh0stv Nuclear storage isn't a disaster, people want it to be a disaster. Gabon has a natural nuclear reactor that has been "shut down" for a gajillion years and the waste has barely moved or been disturbed by ground water.
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 @thevictoryoverhimself7298 The gun is the best CAS asset because it has the least danger close radius of all munitions.
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@thevictoryoverhimself7298 But you do realize that such a radius is basically handgun shooting distance, right? If you're shooting that close to friendlies you'd coordinate with the ground troops to instead strafe enemies further away and use the shock for the friendlies to win the fight against the closer enemies. Danger Close for a bomb can be something like 600 meters, which is considered rifle/SAW range for area targets. You support the troops by engaging enemies in contact, but not ones within spitting distance. The splash zone doesn't move at the speed of a jet. There's a pipper indicating the impact point and you fly your jet in a way that keeps the impact point stable while pulling the trigger. You'd only use a moving impact point to do something like making a pass on a convoy which is conveniently lined up.
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No, a custom interfacing rail is mounted on the MiG wing pylon.
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@LRM12o8 Tanks, planes and drones haven't created peace in Afghanistan. Despite trillions spent the US will pull out eventually and the Taliban will regain their foothold.
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Both. The reactor explosion flung the lid into the air. Then the fires created a plume of radioactive smoke.
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 @southafrica8140 worry about your nation's problems Mr South Africa
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How do you put a mechanical linkage when the guns are electric or hydraulic driven?
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@Battlestargroup How do you make a gun that weighs several thousand pounds work by pulley? The electrical connection will always be necessary due to the MASTER ARM switch and if required weight on wheels sensors. Preventing the gun from going off and shooting other parked aircraft or crews is more important that whatever that fever dream is.
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@Battlestargroup Artillery pieces have a mechanism to fire the initiating charge. Aircraft cannons are electrically primed. It wouldn't work. Simple as that. Artillery pieces also need to open the breach and reinsert a round. Rotary cannons in aircraft have to spin meaning there's no way you can link a pull cord. Simple as that. Artillery isn't an autocannon. Simple as that.
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You can have that and no freedom. I don't know how being poor and lose freedom is any better, because losing freedom doesn't generate wealth.
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Air superiority when neither side can achieve it is meaningless. Air superiority wasn't necessary in the 1800s.
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@wave1016 The purpose of the EX is keeping the Boeing St. Louis plant open. Without orders, the US loses a fighter manufacturing plant. So they created orders to avoid that. Simple as.
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Yes and maybe no. Some debt can be forgiven and wiped out, some debt can be given decades to pay back. The UK made the last lend lease payments from WW2 in the 1980s if I'm not mistaken. We'll give them 40 years to pay, easily.
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@IzThatit Recording your actions and giving it up to the police doesn't mean anything. There would be a subpoena.
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@lvincent8843 It was voluntarily released. My point is that it would have been subpoenaed anyway so there was no point in holding onto it, and we can't infer anything from the intent.
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The Russian was incredibly worse when the service was 2 years. The 2nd year conscripts were brutal towards 1st year conscripts.
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Carrier borne aircraft often have folding wings to maximize deck capacity.
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Ukrainian SF has the experience of fighting Russia, including insertions into Crimea. One time they were discovered and had to shoot their way out of the peninsula, killing a Russian soldier and a spetsnaz commando in their escape.
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The mall did not have military assets, it was an auto repair plant that was about 100-200 yards away. It's just that the style of weapon used (Kh-31?) is an anti-ship Kh-22 missile converted for land use.
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@redacted8092 "Why break the bank on building a cutting edge airforce when you can deny large swaths of the aerial battlefield?" - The problem is that a SAM system needs to be protected by the air force. Otherwise anti-radiation missiles, cruise missiles, glide bombs, etc take out the SAMs.
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@chokeeweebee I knew someone would mention the loom patterns right after I hit post. Pretty crazy.
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+John Terpack you're right in blaming the consumer, but everything makes it more expensive to the consumer. Look back and think about every time you heard about corporate taxes or taxing the rich as a way to get back at the 1% or funding the necessary government services, etc. All the money you took from the rich was taken from your pockets because they simply passed down their losses to you. But it's a good thing, because it funds the government! Notice how nobody is praising the tariffs as a way to increase government revenue. It's almost like there's something at play here...
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That's a lie.
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That's a weird way of putting it. The S-400 purchase was political. Turkey did not expect getting kicked out of the F-35 program, they wanted to play both sides.
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@rhodium1096 Rich lands? They're completely impoverished. Losing the men is actually worse than the gains. Feared Iraqi defense? But they flew aircraft just fine.
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The Soviet Union was also driven out of Afghanistan.
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The training is done on huge circles drawn on the ground or shipping containers acting as targets. Nothing spells out "nuclear attack".
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What are they testing? How well it turns back after punching a button to drop payload?
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Do you also laugh at the guys returning?
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@verdebusterAP Iraq had a network centric air defense. It was called Kari and it was French built. Because "Kari" is "Irak" backwards, and the French often spell "Irak" with a K. The thing is that while Russia tried Shock & Awe the US deliberately targeted long range warning radars and HQs with Tomahawks while Apaches flew nap of the Earth and struck smaller radar stations close to the border. The F-117 had its chances of success maximized by a proper plan instead of just firing missiles at targets via Google Maps and 1980s Soviet maps. The firepower Russia brought out Feb 2022 was massive. It was an implementation problem.
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The CBS report interviewed the anti-Ukraine Amnesty International activist (several people who arrived in Kiev at the start of the war said she criticized Ukraine before the investigations even started). She said she doesn't know where the weapons are going. Which is obvious, the military doesn't tell the civilians matters of state secrecy, or else it leaks and Russians send cruise missiles at weapon storages. Then they cut to the leader of a NGO who does not handle weapons that only 30% of the aid makes it to the front. He has come out and said the aid deliveries are much better now. That piece was a disgrace to journalism.
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Not with the heat, wait for winter.
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@MonkeyMcMonkey I don't want to minimize what's happening but considering getting pantsed "sexual assault" is something we have the luxury of doing in peacetime. During a war I don't think people think twice about it. I've had it done to me at school, it's embarrassing and humiliating. When the bombs are falling and houses are burning? It kind of doesn't matter.
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@ninjafruitchilled "You do not need semi automatic rifles for hunting" - then why is it legal to hunt with semi-automatic weapons in many countries? Why are there double-barrel and even three barrel weapons made for quick follow up shots made before we got semi-automatic designs reliable enough? "These particular weapons aren't even good in self defense situations" - please post your credentials in the topic of self-defense if you're making claims like that.
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@ninjafruitchilled "The U.S. banned fully automatic weapons a long time ago, after crime syndicates used them to wage urban warfare against the police." - bullshit. The height of gang warfare was 1994. Incidents like the North Hollywood shootout involved illegally made fully automatic weapons after the automatic ban. In the 1980's machine gun usage was rare even in Miami, which was the capital of machine guns due to the drug trade. And by the way, regarding LEGALLY OWNED machineguns there have only been 2-3 homicides committed with them since 1934. One of them was a police officer murdering an informant. So basically the ban of legalized machine guns was useless because criminals always used illegal ones.
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@Jebus_gT jesus and there's no way to industrialize a country except through stalinism? Whoa I guess industrialization compensates for all his crimes against humsnity.
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@Jebus_gT I'm an idiot because you can't read and put words on my post? Industrialization in the west caused profound changes in society and even the nature government, that isn't to say that bad things were not happening but if I purchased some machines and sent them to a developing country and said "okay, let's industrialize this nation!" there's no fucking obligation to cause any harm to anyone. If Stalin wanted to industrialize... just purchase machines and get people from the universities to continue learning and developing. Whoa. Big fucking whoop. No death, no work camps. Your argument that Stalin was actually a good guy because he industrialized a nation makes no fucking sense considering how much MURDER had to happen for his state to continue in power. Your strawman argument makes no sense and doesn't actually address any of my points. Stalin was a murderer, and evil man and despite being an atheist part of me hopes the devil himself is leaving iron in the forge and repeatedly sticking cherry red metal up Stalin's wretched asshole for eternity. And people who defend Stalin are welcome to join him.
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@Jebus_gT not really, my argument in a nutshell is that mass murderers deserve the cherry red hot anal pointy stick. And so do the apologists.
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Germany was retreating all the way back to Berlin. Ukraine was on the defensive (like the Soviet Union was forced almost back to Moscow) then bounced back.
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If you don't use A-10s on their own, then the other platform can perform the mission and the A-10 stay home.
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I searched for hand pumped espresso maker and found one that looks like a bicycle pump. Also seems to work better.
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@DextNRN "With every constitutional right we have (In the US), we have a responsibility that go's with it" - Where does it say that?
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Should have gone to Ukraine. Natural distrust of government resulted in 50% jab rates while most countries had 80-90%.
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@micahbonewell5994 The thing is that Ukraine, for the price of one ir two GMLRS rockets, destroyed entire stockpiles of dumb ammo. Having billions of dumb shells in storage does nothing when the enemy can do more with less.
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 @bwise7739 it would be cheaper to sling AMRAAMs from an F-16 from 40 miles out than getting within AIM-9 range to a Ka-52.
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Why don't the vaccinated have to take the test every week? They're still spreading.
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@barongerhardt I was talking about OP's example, not the proposed experiment.
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Russia is the only escalating.
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So Russia can't defeat 20,000 soldiers?
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Price gouging is the natural market signal to handle shortage. Price gouging isn't a cause but an effect. An increase in price promotes moderation (keeping prices static during a shortage would cause hoarders to clean the shelves for cheap), keeps businesses afloat during periods of supply drought and signals to the market that if anyone has the stuff somewhere else, they can profit from taking the goods where they're abundant and shipping them to where they're expensive.
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@omaral-maitah181 I didn't say you said the Russian tanks were better. The point is that people were right to laugh about Russian tanks. You don't get to turn around and say busted tanks are the equivalent of the fiery inferno that Russian tank crews were subjected to.
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@davidsmith-ef3rr You need explaining because you Mr. "David Smith" are not an English as first language speaker. You'd know about the stones and glass houses. Ever seen Inglorious Basterds? This is you raising your fingers wrong.
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 @28ebdh3udnav The North Vietnamese leadership is one I wouldn't want to serve under. Tons of lives wasted.
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@nevimnereknu5623 Try to call your boss the r-word anywhere in the world and see your free speech options.
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The rover tire marks can still be seen.
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@elbuggo Not if it matches the path taken.
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They run propaganda campaigns against disposal and then complain we don't have disposal.
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 @Chippaization There's a million comments saying the wording is not more detailed becuse there's a limit to how long the proposal can be.
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@armaan1091 If it's free how are they not bankrupt?
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 @TheWesman45 Another factor is sectional density.
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@Robespierre-II Yeah there's analysts constantly looking at everything. For example some amateurs on twitter posted satellite pictures of scuff marks in Israeli airfields. A few hours later other analysts posted updated sat pics showing the supposed craters were clouds passing over the area. Hilarious. Obviously all countries have analysts doing this, but not for public consumption.
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They literally have bragged about it.
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+Ze Rubenator McLaren doesn't control the car market and keep helping roads becoming harder to drive through so that people are forced to buy P1s every few years.
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Nobody said it was a conspiracy. Conspiracy is what you said after not taking your meds. So take the meds.
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>claims people have been programmed >parrots "Russia is the boogeyman" narrative straight from the mainstream media
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If it wasn't for medical associations and other restrictions doctors could create cheap clinics and save the government a ton of money by making healthcare so cheap it would drive costs down. But if anyone tried to do that they would get in trouble.
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The brochure always lies. Turkey bought the S-400 and complained the Russians were not being honest with its range.
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I don't think your doctor would get you the non-FDA approved tests Joe apparently is using.
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Personal to one man also means everyone else has less and less reasons to go along as the nonsense escalates. Throwing prisoners at the meat grinder doesn't affect the generals but even morally reprehensible military officers want to enjoy retirement with their grandkids.
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@ReichLife Not only did they lose vehicles but also men. The 155th had to be reformed several times with mobilized Russian men. That's a massacre.
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 @fordwrc2006 they hit the wall at mach 5 and they keep getting the same plastic surgery.
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What exactly do you people think "neutral" is? Neutral isn't taking the extremes and splitting down the middle.
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Yeah until someone paints the road to make the computer think it's a dead end and rob the truck.
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@MrFlatage "Which were not rated to have machine guns or rocketlaunchers welded onto them. Still works though. ;-)" Unless you get into soft ground or mud the trucks won't sink. If you try to weld those fuckhuge missile launchers to PT boats they're gonna sink.
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@MrFlatage a PT boat carrying 10000 tons? His PT boats were also simulations that appeared out of nowhere and the ship defenses could not be turned on or else they would start targeting civilian ships and aircraft near the shore. The Blue Team could not do anything, lost and "refloated" the ships. Context matters. Spitting Pierre Sprey style "hurr durr technology is bad and the military is retarded for depending on it" myths only does a disservice to anyone looking for information.
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@MrFlatage Whoa, considering 5,690 lb to be almost 6000 lbs is the greatest crime against maths ever committed. 5.7 cannot be rounded up to 6 for convenience's sake. You're more interested in technicalities than questioning the people spreading distorted truths.
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@peterscott5215 better details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CredibleDefense/comments/4qfoiw/millennium_challenge_2002_setting_the_record/
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@EcchiRevenge I'd like to see that Boston Whaler with 4 torpedoes... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s0AEo76pbYY/VTaAXYKv4pI/AAAAAAAAAyY/XhEMtm12R3g/s1600/Iranian%2Bnavey.jpg
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No, because cities had already burned to the ground prior to the deplpyment of nukes. If terror bombing worked, surrender would have happened much sooner.
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You should take a look at his channel before posting dumb comments.
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Armenia seized land from Azerbaijan in the 90s also they're protected by Russia (lol). Syria was protected - not Assad. Libya was protrcted - not Gaddafi. Georgia was invaded on the last months of Bush Jr's term and also coinciding with the increased tempo of the Iraq Surge of 2007. Russia hit Georgia when they knew the response would not be feasible.
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Blackwater was babysitting CEOs and standing guard in corporate buildings and infrastructure. They were an actual security company, not an army.
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lmao and why the fuck does serving military personnel even need an AR? They get theirs issued and they train on government dime, then return the gun to Uncle Sam's armory before leaving base because they're not at war. Veterans don't need to train anymore so why would they need a service rifle anyway? Is this related to that European concept where military/veterans are exempt from gun laws over here? Why are you pro military fascism, putting the military on a different class of people with more rights? If you're making the argument that active duty should be able to privately train in their home country to improve the skill level among professional soldiers, then ANYONE should be able to privately train to improve the skills of the population that may be called to defend their country, not just active duty soldiers.
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The company breached contract first by not paying.
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It also costs $0 to not lie.
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@adamwright9741 You don't fire the entire drum. The computer has a burst limiter and the new F-35 gun does something other gatlings don't which is spin backwards to use the live rounds that get cycled out at the end of a burst as the weapon stops. So you can't think of it as 5 seconds worth of firing, you have to think of it as how many times you can pull the trigger until you're done. If the burst limiter can be set to 30, think of it as being able to pull the trigger 7 times. You won't need more than that even against ground targets. Especially if you can carry Small Diameter Bombs and APKWS rockets as your primary close air support weapons, with the gun being only for the really specific instance where you need to strike targets at grenade tossing range from friendlies where even a small 250lb bomb would be dangerous. Comparing modern autocannons to 50 cals is not a good argument. If you look at other modern fighters 150-200 rounds is considered enough. The ballistic computers are just so good, if you do your job you won't miss. You're not likely to even meet an adversary at gun range, and even if you do you probably won't be in a position to nail more than one adversary. It's like thinking a modern soldier is expected to kill more than one adversary with a bayonet.
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Though satellite imagery proves their storage bases are getting depleted.
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@smileyp4535 if you're not willing to kill capitalists you're a good ole right libertarian like us
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@smileyp4535 if you don't kill me, capitalism will happen. I will have to be physically stopped or else I'll be doing my own thing and ignore whatever else you got going on.
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@smileyp4535 "requires force to keep it in operation because how else will you secure your private property rights?" - how do you remove property rights without force? Securing private property is an act of self-defense. I don't need force if you don't steal my shit. Don't steal, and there's no force. "Left libertarianism has no property because everything belongs to everyone and everyone gets what they need" - that's inherently anti-libertarian. If I work for something and you try to claim it belongs to everyone, you're literally stealing my labour aka not only my effort but time of my life I cannot get back. By telling me that my things are not mine you're stealing a portion of my life. "there's no force required" - you need force to make people comply with your system "you may be thinking of authoritarianism which left or right does require force to keep alive" - the problem is that you're describing a voluntary system without any dissent. Voluntary systems are right-libertarian.
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@Friedrich that's a non-argument. I am writing this comment in my laptop. I am not punching anyone or pointing guns to keep writing. How is the fact that I own my laptop a requirement to use force? I only use force if you come over and try to steal it, which is an act of force to begin with so my act gets canceled out.
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@Friedrich "You can do this, because others are using force" - not really. Force is being used for nefarious purposes, not in my protection. If someone was about to rob me right now, no amount of force by others would save me. Only my own force. "Your survival instincts don't work right now" - brother, I garan-fucking-tee you that I'm more in tune with survival instincts than any bootlicker who thinks government force is saving their ass. I have accepted the responsibility of taking care of myself. It's pansies who think someone else is taking care of them. "The idea that some NAP would be the natural state of humanity is absurd." - Except that it is. You fuck around, you end up finding out. Rules of nature.
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@Friedrich "You wouldn't have a chance against a larger group of people." - give me legal immunity and we could test that out. "Why do you Americans think you are Rambo?" - I am not American. "The only reason why you are safe is because of your government having a heavily armed standing army" - lmao the armed forces don't do shit to protect anyone. Are you seriously sitting here, telling me that if there's gangs and criminals outside your house, the army is gonna do anything? Armed forces aren't even supposed to operate within their own nation according to the constitution of a lot of Western countries. "police force of millions" - Bullshit. The police are the biggest criminals and the biggest threat. In fact you can google it right now, when the NYPD has a strike the crimes actually drop. "So stop with this "i am responsible for myself"" - if you wanted to kill me right now, you think the Army would protect me? You think cops, who are 20-40 minutes away, would protect me? No! I'd have to protect myself. "You clearly aren't entirely responsible for yourself. The evidence is overwhelmingly. " - you have no evidence! You literally have not provided any of the overwhelming evidence! You're just declaring yourself to be right because you know you're losing.
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@Friedrich "There is no way you could win a war against a organized standing army" - did you read the recently released Afghanistan Papers? You should. Did you remember what happened in Vietnam? Didn't they teach that shit in school? Organized standing armies can only fight organized standing armies. Against insurgencies they suck ass. "The police is not preventing every single crime and i never said so." - then you're being intellectually dishonest. You said police protected me. Now you're admitting that they can't. "However the police presence and the threat of the justice system itself prevents many crimes from happening" - You can't prove something that is not happening. And like I said, when the NYPD went on strike crimes actually dropped. "It is the police that prevents large groups of criminals from controlling the streets" - and yet: 1) criminals do control streets anyway 2) you've just replaced one type of criminal for another "What could happen if the state fails can be observed in Mexico" - lmao the irony is that cartels get their power from being able to control the police. When the people in Mexico got fed up they disarmed the cops and started fighting the cartels on their own. "And it is the military that is preventing other countries from invading the US and putting you into camps." - You mean camps like Guantanamo, that the US military runs? Motherfucker you think other countries could invade the US? The US couldn't take over Vietnam. They couldn't take over Afghanistan and are now trying to make peace with the Taliban so that they leave the TAPI pipelines alone. You think China could fight in the Appalachian mountains? You think the Russian army, which is so shitty that young soldiers are forced into prostitution to make money for their officers and where fit men spend half of their conscription service bedridden in hospitals due to pneumonia, is gonna survive the Rocky Mountains?
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@sidharthcs2110 You can't see insects on radar. Mach 1 or 5 mph, even a solid steel insect wouldn't give enough radar return to be detected. So no, you don't see insects on radar zipping at Mach speeds. You just don't see anything.
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 @djape1977 No, it wasn't. It was an 8 mile shot against an unaware target.
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@djape1977 If you had any idea what stealth is you'd understand how you have no point. Radar works with the inverse square law. This means that distance reduces radar signal by a massive degree. Stealth takes advantage of this by reducing returns, which creates a scenario where the reverse square law reduces returns into nothing. With just 8 miles from the SAM site to the path of the F-117, the reverse square law didn't reduce the radar returns enough.
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They can be arrested. Countries can break the treaty, they're just expected to suffer retaliation against their own diplomats.
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There's still ground defenses active.
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@tariqreid1866 Russia's supply chain is based on road and rail networks. Severing them nullifies the supplies. That's why in the Kharkiv offensive Ukraine went after Kupiansk and Russia is fighting to get it back. Losing a rail hub town devastates supplies.
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@RedpillPortugal uhhh Shein is She-in?????? Woooooaaa
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@ichtozavuzovsky8370 that's not how it works, but thanks for trying
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@Kav. yeah my question was about where the forging is done. I wasn't aware Brazil had started pumping those out too.
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@Kav. I think Taurus manufactures the receiver blanks too, since then I realized that they have their own M4 clone. They already have forging operations so it's probably not a big deal for them.
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The hydrogen peroxide gave the frogs frosted tips, hence turning them gay
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Fuck that's an added oxygen everyone ignore my dumb comment.
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 @Debbiebabe69 That's precisely why it would be hard. It's incredibly difficult to reverse engineer old avionics.
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The escalation is only coming from Russia.
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To be fair the Afghan government jumped in front of every bus for a decade and a half. The US can't baby a country forever.
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Pilot Down: Behind Enemy Lines. Pretty old, from PS2 generation.
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Russia's terms were to essentially let them win. When they come to the table, it's gonna be Versailles. They should have just left.
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Ethnic cleansing with like 20 dead per year. Sure.
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 @Gray02190 as opposed to the "we have taken this strategically important location, operational pause pls kthxbai"
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He forced the simulation programmers to make his small boats carry missiles too large, to accept bike messengers to travel at the speed of light and his attack "popped in" at a time US ships could not turn on theur defenses or it would start locking into civilian targets.
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Flash flood.
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@emilrogengellschwaner3555 your comment represents the state of this comments section, bunch of people refusing to hear the truth because they don't like who is saying it.
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@ljubomirculibrk4097 Kadyrovites also use Toyotas. The LDPR and the BARS units are also using civilian cars spray painted with Zs.
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Did your 18 wheeler fly over Iran in such an embarrassing event that they had to fire the head of the air force?
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@VandalAudi Flyaway cost of an A-10 has to be 40-50 million nowadays. The 16 million A-10 is a very rudimentary aircraft that has no use in a modern conflict.
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@BHopper88 You're simply looking at this from an unreasonable position. Staying on station was doable when the only threat was manually aimed 14.5mm. Nowadays you can't hang around unless you're fighting insurgents with no proper SHORAD, and for those you can get much cheaper planes. Why do you need a better deterrent than entire enemy squads being turned into paste? What better way to keep counter attacks at bay by thinning down their numbers and destroying their armored vehicles? Have you noticed that the people who defend the A-10 almost seem to think it's the USAF's job to fight the whole war while the Army just watches? If a flight of F-35s decimates the enemy units, that should be enough to give the guys on the ground the initiative and take advantage of the enemy being stunned and on their back foot. You're way too optimistic about the kind of hits the A-10 is able to take. What about the psychological disadvantage of seeing A-10s go down? The psychological effect may work against people with AKs and sandals. Anyone who can make the A-10s go down in flames will be inflicting a morale blow on US troops. "the USAF was actually willing to upgrade the aircraft vs trying to justify the F35 is a better CAS airframe" - No, the USAF is simply prohibited from retiring the A-10 by Congress.
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@CodaMission You need to rule the Z = 0. If you rule the ground, then CAS is not necessary. The problem is that the X-Y plane contains a multitude of threats and you'd need to rule over them to have a safe air space, and calling in CAS presupposes you don't rule the X-Y plane at the moment.
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He has offended a lot of people. I get Musk. But people don't stop being offended just because I kind of get his point. Hell, you could say he offended me when he came out with the Ukraine peace deal proposal.
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"He said the flu is more like to kill someone way more then this thing" - Please look at Italy and tell me this is less dangerous than the flu.
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There was a soccer goalkeeper who finished a game despite a fracture either in the skull or the vertebrae, don't remember.
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@sjent The Oak Ridge reactor ran in the 1960s. They dealt with corrosion by using an alloy that had already been developed for other nuclear programs.
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@sjent It worked. Saying it wasn't a working prototype is false considering that it went full power in 1965.
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Doesn't matter. Once an aggressor, you don't get to shoot to retain control of the gun. The victim has the legal right to take it.
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@yeeyee52 It's not a fantasy. Short of a miracle those two guys are going down.
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@chucknorris277 I think the news lately shown what happens when you try to be a vigilante and chase someone based on assumptions. If the guy mercs you, he's getting away with it and only losers feel bad about it. If you smoke him, you go to prison.
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@charles18879 It was weaker than the new 6.8.
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Look up the scene from the TV show Yes Prime Minister "salami tactics" or "nuclear deterrent". The Russian playbook is to do things that wouldn't trigger war to get what they want.
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@brucebaxter6923 It's easy to hide when you erase the control group.
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"I am grateful for the transparency of the modern medical community." - Just wait a few decades until they finally admit what they've been doing now.
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@banuwii why would that matter? I googled in English about AMD. I wanted AMD results. I had to use the quotation marks around AMD to force results about AMD.
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@alejandrovallejo4330 "usually when there is a workplace injury it’s because a procedure to prevent injury inside the workplace either failed or wasn’t followed accordingly, thus is the fault of the employer" - Sure. "they have no control over the quality or makeup of the [...] nor who gets a more severe reaction" - Doesn't matter. They mandated it, they need to assume the risk. If they have no control over the quality of that product, and they can't control who gets a reaction, then they're being careless by mandating it. The mandate inherently makes them responsible for a product that isn't theirs, so they assume the risk as if it was theirs. "they can take measures to prevent infection" - Which the product doesn't do. You still get infected and spread. You just suppress the symptoms. " the vast majority of the [...] won’t have severe reactions and they can’t prevent those few that will from reacting severely to it." - Sure. They still need to pay for every red cent of damages they cause. If a thousand workers don't have any severe reactions, but one person has one... That person deserves millions. Why does it matter to you? They can afford the payouts. They can't prevent it? Sure. They assumed the risk. It's their responsability.
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"I don't think special forces are of very much use" - Blatantly wrong. "A resistance movement quickly organises itself" - This is not realistic at all. One of the best resistance movements ever was the Philippines guerrilla against Japan lead by Wendell Fertig. People are terrible at organizing themselves. Most people are terrible at military operations without formal training.
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@KuraIthys because since the 1940's almost every government policy in regards to healthcare promoted the rising of costs. It all started with employers offering healthcare benefits to work around federal wage ceilings set to prevent inflation.
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@noonecaresaboutgoogle3219 it wouldn't because light cover would stop the laser while a 6.8 would penetrate more cover than 5.56 so it loses the advantage, while 5.56 also loses because the laser doesn't have the physical effects of bullets hitting cover and making people afraid to get out and line up a shot. There would also be issues with how many sensors per person are required, because you can hit someone with 5.56 in the gut, base of the neck, under the arm, etc.
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@rap3208 Hypersonic is a meme. The US had manned hypersonic planes in the 1960s. They just stopped developing hypersonic because ICBMs already existed. Did you see the Khinzal get shot down like 7 times by a Patriot in Ukraine? Turns out it doesn't matter how fast you go if you're just going to collide head on with the interceptor.
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@rauldelvillar374 Not much to go wrong with a Tornado. It was a performance beast. It was not handicapped to fly low. It just performed well enough to even have an air defense variant. So by making it fly mid-level it was spared from further losses. If you design your stuff to die, you're already planning for failure. I don't know what the Russian expectations are. But if their expectations were losing enough helicopters to the point that the Ka-52 is entering endangered species status, they've bet on the wrong horse. Drones exist precisely because the humans are valuable, so you save tremendously by sending a drone. Helicopters are several times more expensive than drones and carry pilots.
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The warmongers are the ones playing defense?
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Here's an idea: how about attacking the argument rather than snarky drive by attacks on the person?
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@bierwolf8360 You'll do what you want, such as upvote your own comments.
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If you commit a felony and kill a person over it, you get charged with murder in a lot of jurisdictions.
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@davidmaldonado9717 "5.56 at close range can break ribs" - takes a 7.62 on the armor with one foot off the ground and barely feels it https://youtu.be/o5f1Fo4r4_I
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@mu6768 still malding at that one, 5 months later?
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What they have been using for two decades. F-15s and F-16s.
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A waste is leaving them in warehouses. They were built to fight the Soviets in the Cold War. Now after decades they fulfill their purpose.
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Ukraine already fought the war the Gripen was made for. The lines have mostly stabilized, they don't want guerilla war, they want to push forward and drive the Russians out. That's an offensive fight, which requires significant overmatch.
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Literally nobody said CAS was obsolete. CAS is a mission, not a platform.
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@india1540 I did not compare any of this to a Marvel movie. I compared YOUR little speech to a villain's speech in a shoddy screenplay. I didn't accuse you of supporting Putin. I accused you of being a person who concern trolls about suffering, but if you were being treated like this you would want to fight back. You would be angry.
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Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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@vonschwendeman2611 High reliability doesn't mean maintenance costs aren't high. How are aircraft kept reliable? Maintenance.
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@JohnRodriguesPhotographer "The main mission of the A10 as originally envisioned, the defense of the Fulda Gap" - Not really. It was meant for Vietnam. The Fulda Gap thing was a repurposing of the aircraft, and it was estimated that aircraft and pilots would not be coming back from that mission if it happened. "They're putting more and more glass cockpit components in because they can't get the damn instruments to replace the old ones." - No, they're doing that because the A-10 needs modern avionics to operate. Without modern sensors the A-10 would be outclassed. "If you try to use an f-35 in the close air support role, you have to hang wing pylons on it to carry external stores. Caring external stores negates a great deal of the f-35 stealth." - So what? It's still stealthier than any jet with external ordnance. "One of the things it was proven in Vietnam was that no matter how fast your aircraft was during weapons release it had to slow down enough" - This is not true. Nothing was proven, simply put aircraft did not have the avionics that allowed them to be effective. "The F35 does not have the loiter time of the A10" - You can't loiter in a modern battlefield. "The 25 mm gun in no way shape or form can outperform the 30 mm gun on the A10." - But it does. The 25mm APEX round was designed for that purpose. "The pilot in particular is much better protected" - No, he isn't. He is strapped to a vulnerable bullet and missile magnet.
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@JohnRodriguesPhotographer But the A-10 was built specifically to bring the capabilities of visual targeting back, as fast jets like the A-7 made it difficult. Once again, the most desirable CAS in Vietnam were visually aimed rockets, guns, cannons and bombs. The whole point of the A-10 was the fact that fast jets did not have the electronic targeting means they have now, so jet pilots were dependent on ground controllers directing their fire while Broncos, Skyraiders, etc could see infantry in the jungle and gun them down. The A-10 was built specifically do to what you're saying it would be bad at. As a strike/bombing aircraft it was objectively worse than the A-7. But even the advanced bombing computer in the A-7 depended on being able to place a marker in the HUD by eye.
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The Lancelet published absolute garbage, some studies were even retracted. At this point peer review has voluntarily tanked its own credibility. If we can't trust the peers, how exactly can a study be properly reviewed? The peers are not unbiased.
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@xpusostomos The level of vacuum is absolutely necessary to deal with the skin friction heating on the launching mechansism. Once the payload is climbing through the atmosphere, the gravity losses outweigh the drag losses.
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@miki_9034 on the other hand you're paying for the upkeep of that industry even when you don't need it. It becomes a jobs program with no guarantee they'll be efficient when you do need it.
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Because a bunch of politicians were whining that it was too expensive and to be fair the US was spending a lot in Afghanistan and Iraq so the F-22 was the nail that was sticking out. It got the hammer.
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 @mitchrodee To force second-guessing. Hesitating on a real target may let it slip away in the future.
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Iran also shot down an airliner, and so did pro-Russia rebels over Ukraine with a Buk missile system. Literally nobody is innocent in this case, and Russia helped sweep it under the rug by moving the SAM back to the homeland after they realized what the rebels did.
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Most firearms-related components are not patented or expired already. Most pistols for example use a Browning-style tilting barrel action which is close to 100 years old. The bolt on the AR15 (which the patent expired a long time ago) was heavily influenced by the M1941 Johnson rifle.
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This is one of those instances were more context is helpful. In Ukraine there's been footage of tanks that appear destroyed because the bags with the crew gear bungied on the outside of the turret or ERA blocks themselves catch of fire. The tank looks like it's on fire but it's not.
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@spencer1980 The bullet design for the M855A1 and M80A1, Enhanced Performance Round. Steel tip, copper base, copper jacket.
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The F-35 has been used in combat by the USMC and Israel.
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This rational voice said Ukraine was about to lose last April. A year later, what happened?
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@paladin0654 The vast majority of people wouldn't know that. I define fame like most people. The videogames, movies and aircraft modelling companies have a lot of E models.
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@DFloyd84 The unwarranted mention of microchips 👌 like it's coming from a script.
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@SonofTheMorningStar666 Why would they be under reported?
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So prosperous that HIV and drug resistant TB are huge issues.
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He put his neck on the chopping block. The point of the Liberator wasn't the crappy pistol, it was about the cultural and legal battle. If he had lost posting gun drawings online would have been criminalized.
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They don't. They replaced the symbol by three daggers or three slashes.
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@Steellmor Scrubbers are relatively modern. The argument here is a 100 year alternative history of the electric car. This means heavy to moderate reliance on coal power with no concern for polution, no scrubbers, and essentially no renewables except hydro until the last few decades. You can't retroactively apply the benefits of modern tech, even though it's a valid argument for EVs used in the present day.
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Through history every kind of weapon was "military style". In fact many people hunt with surplus military rifles. Pistols, revolvers and shotguns were used by the military as well. They used everything civilians also had. It was only in the first half of the last century that civilians kept purchasing older style guns for tradition's sake, due to higher cost of new technology, because the technology wasn't good enough or because they actually believed myths about newer guns being worse. This created a fictional "divide". You know what are real military style weapons? Mortars, artillery, grenades, things that actually serve military purposes. A rifle or pistol sidearm? Fulfills the same objective as a civilian rifle or pistol.
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That was a federal trial. You could view it, but you had to go it in person.
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Lmao
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@lo1lawl Afghanistan still has no bearing on the timing.
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@ailius1520 Please stop believing MSM misinformation. The F-35 is actually a very affordable fighter. It didn't "lose" a dogfight. It was a control laws software test. The F-16 is not a specialized dogfighter since the 80s. It's a generalist multirole. The F-35 is not 10x more expensive. A modern Block 70/72 F-16, with spare engine and pods is around 120-140 million dollars which puts it in the same price range of a serviced F-35. "At those numbers the best the F35 is ever going to do is fire all its missiles, run home, and die on the runway." - That's actually wrong. At Red Flag the F-35 scores 17:1 and 20:1 kill ratios. "So the F35 would get overwhelmed by a large number of cheap aircraft" - But again, the cheaper the aircraft the less capable it is. And the F-35 is more capable than aircraft as expensive.
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@Kandralla I love reading the ignorance that comes from people who have no idea how anything works. Case in point, the sole reason the F-15EX exists is because the US government needed to keep the St. Louis plant open or else the lack of fighter orders would force Boeing to shut down. Nothing else.
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Because movies/videogames use consulting to sprinkle some legitimacy and realism in the background but the important stuff is kept the way the writers/director wanted it. There was an interview with a military consultant for the Call of Duty games a decade ago or so, he said that once he tried to correct the position of the radio in a character's equipment but the developers refused because they had already decided the wrong way to wear a radio looked cooler.
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They seem pretty demotivated on social media.
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But the invasion had 8k civilian casualties. Mariupol alone had 22k.
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You only need something as strong is you need to maintain measurements. If you can make the parts thicker, strain is force divided by area. Increase the area and you can apply the same force on a material with lower strain limits. And yes, there's a composite improvement to the plastikov which involves fiberglassing certain areas.
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In 1991 the amount if A-10s getting shot up had Chuck Horner pull the A-10 out of missions against tge Republican Guard and send in the F-16s. Not getting shot at in the first place iis king, not getting hit when shot at is great, planning to get hit is suicide.
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Did you get your degree in the mail? We need to keep samples. Russia was allowed to present evidence of weapons development in the UN. They had nothing.
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@whatevergoesforme5129 Oh it's anything goes now. Many who got Janssen are being encouraged to get Pfizer or Moderna boosters because since it's an adenovirus, a booster would need to use a different virus or else the body attacks it because it gained immunity from the first shot. There might be Janssen boosters in production but I don't think many countries have them yet so they're advocating for mixing and matching.
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 @TerranSupremacy There is no way to measure Russia's economy so all economic growth figures come from Rosstat, the Russian government agency.
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 @Acolis The consulate annex (not embassy) was hosting Quds force leaders, who are valid targets for engaging in covert warfare with Israel.
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@georgehilario3544 Nah, reply to him. Make him post. The more he replies, the more money the Russian government pays him. The more he gets paid, the less ammo Russian troops have.
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@ishitrealbad3039 You repeated depleted arms three times. What a bot lol, has to pad his arguments with chaff. "Winter is coming and this will eliminate all concealment Ukrainian troops have from Russian airforce and artillery" - Russia got mauled in the Winter.
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American F-16s landed in Ukrainian runways during their joint training there.
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@Hanfgurkenhasser "If you can't see any difference between the flue and a mass shooting, then I hate to break it to you" - but we can see the difference. It's just you and others getting upset at getting some perspective about how mass shootings are NOT as common as people think.
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The bullet was damaged. A photo from the bottom plane shows the bullet was squeezed by pressure. It's the side plane that looks undamaged.
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Pit Vipers
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"Meme them until they cry, then make memes of them crying" - Sun Tzu
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55gr out of a 20" barrel sure does nuke people, the barrel twist isn't very important as long as the accuracy is good. When the bullet comes out the muzzle there's something called "fleet yaw" where no matter how stable or unstable the bullet is, it yaws up and down until it settles into a more stable precession. The 62gr out of 1:7 performs fine when conditions allow but again, the fleet yaw can make you unlucky. The M855 is a very yaw sensitive bullet and the three piece construction makes it even more inconsistent. The 62gr M855A1 was designed to be yaw insensitive, so in gel tests it usually penetrates one inch and then yaws violently independently of the angle at impact.
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@baroneleve1196 Want to see Ukrainian losses? Volunteer for the Z army and go see them up close. Safety not guaranteed, though.
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@cultureabroad8983 Source is the massive effing explosion that happened in the Saki air base. A car 500 meters away from the air base had a 2 ton steel girder shoved into it from the side. The aircraft didn't survive that much explosive force.
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@baroneleve1196 They lost the best soldiers. The initial rush to Kiev involved elite VDV units and prestigious forces like the 4th tank guards. They can't handle NATO involvement.
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@baroneleve1196 Like a hot knife? I just read the statements from Aleksandr Khodakovsky about how he's getting owned by artillery. Lack of NCO corps means that Russian victories come at a great cost. Takes weeks to move a few miles. They did send special forces and well regarded professional units. The best soldiers are not in a magical reserve in some bunker. They're probably rethinking their life choices.
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@Relbl I don't see the point of drawing this comparison. The US can afford to leave foreign aid behind, Russia is losing their fighting material in a conflict. And they might not be able to afford replacing it. They're not losing peanuts. They've lost combat capacity in this mess. Not just the vehicles but people manning them. Most countries have on the fine print that able bodied men can't leave in case of invasion. So far, they don't seem to be conscripting as there's more volunteers than they're able to process. Iraq and Afghanistan had foreign benefactors. You really think that jihadists don't have international financing?
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But why? It would tank the Texan economy.
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@maxxflame "they're trained to identify anything that could potentially be flying in their AO so even water foul" - If there's appropriate sense of scale, sure. But if you have waterfowl on FLIR at a distance, and absolutely no sense of scale, it's just a blob.
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@maxxflame "cant the pilot use it to lock and track a target?" - That's done by either by creating a waypoint and directing the gimbaled optics to stay on that position, or by using image contrast to keep the image centered. Like you can take a video file of you waving a hand, opening Adobe After Effects, and tell it to track the hand to put a CGI flame. That is a passive form of locking that uses the image itself. The only active "locking" is the firing of a laser designator for weapons to follow. Like guided bombs or missiles.
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@sexylazercatwizard That's not a slippery slope. The slippery slope is progressively removing reasons to reuse someone's content. You're just giving an example of someone blatantly taking advantage of others' comment, that's not what we find on the bottom of the slope.
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 @RobertRedland Youtube pay has been crap since 2017. Don't act like you don't know it.
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Wrong. The F-35 was made for export but at this point is so advanced, there was a proposal to stick the F-35 systems on the F-22.
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@rafewheadon1963 How is a "reset" being a soft soyboy? You get killed in a videogame, you want to jump back in. There's 5 days in an exercise, and you lose in 3 days... Do you sit on your thumbs for the other two days? Or make the most of the time and start over?
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@markdowding5737 But we didn't. We laid the terms for peacekeeping forces to enter the country and Milosevic started nitpicking as a delay tactic to continue the genocide. And what do you know, Russia was part of the peacekeeper force. Years later Kosovo declared independence. Crimea was seized by the Russian military. Crimea didn't leave Ukraine, Russia sent their armed forces to take over.
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@mo.ka.9661 do you realize how moronic that is? Oh the first amendment is only valid for verbal speech. Let's ignore the fact that our complex brains and social connections allow us to speak in non-verbal ways...
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Pandemonium Doom no, because you say things like "Either you do it you or you get the fuck out." which is exactly how the left operates, kicking out dissidents and replacing them.
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Russian propaganda is now saying father should volunteer to buy phones for their kids. They know the patriotism angle isn't doing well.
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No, he exposed the program and fled to Russia to avoid being arrested. Nothing stopped, he just made sure the people knew.
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You don't jam the GPS, you jam the comms so that either video feed or controls drop and the munition goes dumb. Trying to fool the GPS of a weapon that can see you on camera makes no sense.
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Big if true.
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@bigdopamine9343 The difference is mostly academic. If a hypersonic can get smacked down on a straight line, a "maneuvering" hypersonic (with a turn radius the size of Belgium) can also get smacked.
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 @MasterBlasterSr the Teixeira leak showed 17k Ukrainian KIA vs 43k Russian KIA.
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 @mxnbro3110 How is it a joke?
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@geodkyt The A-10 and F-16 pretty much fire the same weapons. The only difference is the gun. The gun has a niche use but it doesn't justify the cost of keeping such old airframes around. What is the "all" CAS the F-16 can't do? "the ones that the F-16 isn't nearly as suitable for (primarily because of survivability)" - The hell does this mean? The F-16 got shot down at lower rates than the A-10 in Desert Storm. "what most people consider CAS" - What do most people consider CAS? Overly broad? How is it overly broad? "we don't need strike aircraft like the F-15E, B-1, or B-2" - Different capabilities. That's a non-argument because like I said, Strike Eagles and B-1s also fill in for CAS when they're available and needed. The A-10 is superfluous and should have been retired for a cheaper COIN aircraft as a stopgap. "The F-16 can fire the longest range air to air missile in the US inventory, so we don't need air superiority aircraft like the F-15C or F-22, right?" - That's an argument resorting to the absurd. "Which is why large air forces that can afford to fly more than a handful of tactical squadrons often choose more specialized platforms for more specialized roles" - And yet the US has by far the largest amount of aircraft, and they seek to consolidate. Also, except for the Su-25 there's really no dedicated CAS aircraft in service. Most countries that have diverse squadrons typically employ ground attack/light attack aircraft as their CAS bird. Not A-10s.
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I don't remember specifics, but I remember how those articles were rushed. The fact is that you can create a virus in a lab by just forcing a natural virus to change. Thus leaving you with a virus that looks natural, as no human hand tinkered with the genetic code directly.
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Late stage/terminal... as if this is somehow new. Everyone wants to predict the final stage and everyone has been wrong. But we've been rebuilding on top of rubble and ashes for the entirety of human history. What you think is novel is just a cycle of death and rebirth.
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Ukraine pressed for peace. Putin basically said he'll only make the deal if Ukraine disbands their army.
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@Bob-lh4ir nobody cares about what the British think.
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Russia has to get North Korean military aid and their citizens are having central heating failures in winter. Their country is a mess.
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If Trump dies or goes to jail Mike Pence will be president for the rest of the term...
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There's a ton of generals who'd like to retire in peace and avoid tribunals. What will they do, give the keys to the Chechens and Ingush and spend the rest of their lives on the run, or just wave the white flag and hand them over to us?
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LTT should know better at this point.
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And on what basis do you think we should consider it illegal? It has to be a moralist one, because it sure as hell isn't logical to make it illegal when you know they're going to do it anyway.
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Right, they should live in the woods and repair their vehicles in the open plains.
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@TakaTakaaaaaaaaaaaaa It's literally their MO. Making cities unlivable makes it easier for them. They also attacked civilian infrastructure in Syria and claimed to be terrorist facilities. The point is to break a siege by terrorizing the population. Why have they attacked Kiev, which is not at the frontlines? Why did they try to freeze Ukrainians? To them it makes sense. Their accuracy, targeting and intelligence isn't good enough to go after the military so they go after the civilian populace because its largely fixed.
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@jamesjross Yes. The book contradicts his own after-action report, and even the report is exaggerated.
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But getting into cannon range means you're also going into AA cannon range. Which can't be jammed either.
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 @someone1949 you're literally using whataboutism right now
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The F-35 is a bargain for what it is. Look up the contracts for Block 70/72 F-16s. Your jaw will hit the floor.
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Capturing territory in the South and East was exactly what worked alright in the opening salvo. If they had given up the Eastern and Southern axis, Russian troops would have pinned themelves between Ukraine and Poland while they're getting bogged down, stalled out and ambushed like we saw in the push to Hostomel town. Resistance would be even worse in the West of Ukraine.
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@avilhelm1697 They made the UMP specifically so that the receiver was universal for all calibers, so that they could save money on production. Changing bolt and barrel allowed you to change calibers and the magazines had the same external dimensions so that they only needed to make one type of receiver for all countries that wanted it. The reason the appeal was limited was that the MP5 was just flat out a better product and countries with existing MP5 inventory would rather pay HK to get replacements than get an inferior but newer weapon.
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@spearthumb68 Damn Ukraine only getting 20% of the aid and kicking Russia's teeth in. Imagine if they got the full 100%. They'd be reaching Vladivostok by now.
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Live attenuated vaccines have extremely poor records with coronaviridae. One of the reasons there's no common cold vaccine.
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@Biker_Gremling thing is that fluids tend to stop bullets pretty well. The cans are probably bursting on impact and most of the fluid gets out of the way. If you fire a 50 into a pool, it only goes like 1-2 feet into the water.
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They never had a deal, Putin and Zelensky had never met to finalize the agreement so everything was up in the air.
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@tintinsmythe5837 The US would leave if asked. You really don't get the concept of allies, right? South Korea and Japan need the US positioned there as a counterforce to China and North Korea. Ramstein airbase in Germany is much like Azores in the middle of the Atlantic - a great spot for NATO to run aircraft through.
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That's a fake video.
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 @rowdy8814 Prove it. The database is public, link examples.
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Oh you have 300 pictures? Let's see them.
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I heard the rumor that the next step would not be attacking Russian soil but sinking Russian fleets.
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@quicknova8762 Why need a military?
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@Drew Peacock "Any fighter can carry a variety of missiles and bombs" - But if you look at the list of bombs available for the Gripen you have less of a selection. "which doesn't apply to the B variant anyway" - Are the Belgians getting the B? "Who's complaining?" - You seem to be telling me something that you should be telling Belgian officials.
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Sun goes down every day. Easy to keep track of.
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@kevinfitzpatrick5949 armor tech at this point is cheap enough that while large armies may not be able to field it, insurgencies and rogue states can import it from China
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@elliekwong3180 The IMF/World Bank make sure a country has the conditions to pay back. You're saying countries have to give up their sovereignty, but whoever is giving out loans has sovereignty over their own money too.
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Those MP5s must be beat to shit though. Sometimes it's best to replace.
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Every channel has their own risk assessment. For example Ryan McBeth explained he uses the little money he gets to pay for things like satellite pictures so he doesn't risk showing combat footage. The Sun makes money elsewhere so they post it without caring. Funker350 makes a gamble and accepts the demonetization risk as long as the channel finances are stable. So, is RealLifeLore lying? Probably not. Could he risk it? Yeah.
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Wagner had tanks, aircraft and artillery. In Blackwater, you had a Toyota truck and a guy with a M249.
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@rawfoodphilosophy7061 But the Russians did claim the Ukrainians were developing bioweapons.... WMDs...
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Challo Yes, it's fake. They stop recording as soon as the fire touches the man's feet. They clearly cut the video to stop the fire. Also, the man doesn't scream when the cross is being lifted and the weight of his body should cause the nails to put pressure on the wounds.
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Neither. Damage is consistent with a fire but not explosion. Car windows are seen intact when a detonation would have blown them out.
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Funny how a screen name mocking Epstein is being used by someone who's so forceful and coercive. Maybe it's not mockery but admiration...
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A lot of weapons are short range so they need to be placed in an intercept point. That means you either place them where the incoming missiles come most often and let the minority through and do damage, or you get advance warning to drive a short range launcher into position. Cruise missiles have been shot down by shoulder fired missiles. The short range system could be a guy in the back of a pickup truck.
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 @alexandercross9081 The support is manufactured, people either lie to stay out of trouble or genuinely lack alternative information.
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 @KVera63 Yes he has.
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The first attack most likely used a truck driver unaware of the cargo he was hauling.
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@ricardokowalski1579 Missiles didn't "suck" that much, both the USAF and USN made mistakes. The USN correctly predicted that the then current-gen Sidewinders were pretty poor performers, and jumped ahead by investing in newer variants. However, they neglected Sparrow maintenance, with missiles bolted to aircraft that repeatedly landed on carriers and were exposed to the elements on the deck. This lead to the USN having greater success with Sidewinders, while the USAF scored more kills with Sparrows. Had the USAF followed the Navy's lead on improving Sidewinders before major operations started and the USN actually maintained the Sparrows, the "missiles suck" narrative wouldn't exist.
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@jont2576 Russian soldiers suffered frostbite in February. Bad equipment means you can't survive a mild winter.
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I watched that episode when it first aired and that scene still pops in my head 2 or 3 times per year.
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There's footage of a gang war in Papua New Guinea where the guys are straight up shooting bows and allows at each other, but they're moving like in a gunfight (taking cover behind walls and cars, doing the "quarter-squat" tactical walk, etc).
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A strong ruble means they get paid less on exports. It would increase their means to import, but many markets are shut off.
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Fun fact, in air combat you have to shoot "spoiler" missiles to make your enemy go defensive. You shoot knowing you will miss to force the enemy to turn and then you use your aggressive position to fire the actual killshot. This means BVR with aware enemies always involves low Pk shots. With the F-35, you can just fire killshots because you don't need to waste missiles to force the enemy to defend.
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The MiG-25 was presumed to be titanium and aluminum. We only realized the MiG-25 wasn't what we thought it would be when we got to confirm it was made of steel.
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It's not cheaper or easier to maintain than dedicated COIN aircraft. It could take abuse, if this was 1968. Since the 1970s that SHORAD has progressed to the point where no amount of armor can prevent an aircraft from being sliced in half by a single missile hit or torn to shreds by fast firing 30mm AA.
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 @Gunner6391 What does Russia have to offer?
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In terms of territorial gains, Ukraine has shown to be more efficient at it. Russia takes massive casualties in slow advances, then Ukraine counters and regains territory at a low cost.
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Not much experienced to be gained in a coffin.
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He's probably refering to Bellingcat.
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Douglas MacGregor claimed the war would be over in weeks. Then he said there would be a massive encirclement in the East. Why should he be taken seriously?
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Solar panels are virtually maintenance free, but wind turbines are mechanical. Nothing free about massive spinning blades connected to a gearbox.
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@jcwiggens F-35, Rafale and Typhoon. There's older IRSTs in American service but they were antiquated systems. I like how you said it couldn't be done, now you're trying to pretend there's no NATO aircraft with IRST systems.
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The enemy is either coming at you, or running away. If all the enemy does is running away at Mach 2, mission accomplished.
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In Iraq a striker had a clear line to score with the opppsing goalkeeper out of the way, he was running towards the goal unopposed, and a man pulled out a gun and shot him dead to prevent it.
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You do realize they're taking up hospital beds for other reasons and simply test positive. These incidental cases make up 40-65% of hospitalizations "with" covid depending on the country, meaning that your rant is meaningless. Also, Der Spiegel has reported that in Hamburg 70% of the hospitalizations are of unknown status, so they just write them down as unvaccinated. If one city is lying to make the shot look better, why wouldn't everyone be lying?
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Russian lives are cheaper. 150k down, another 300k fed to the grinder.
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Same.
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Western Europe isn't Siberia.
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@MiggsMultiple Some people don't have unlimited mobile data plans . I rarely reach my youtube limit but I do use an app to download videos so that I can watch on the go without worrying.
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@rotor13 convenience marriage so he could live in the US lol. I seriously don't know and he might be bi, the thing is that he has told stories of trying to impress girls when he was at school but he has said he is not straight. He could be bi, he could be gay and have a convenience marriage, or he could be just a fat ugly guy who had no chance but claim to be part of a minority just to gain brownie points.
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@billytucker9763 Communism is the utopian, stateless and classless system. Socialism is when the communist party (the vanguard) takes hold of state power and uses it to transition to communism. Under socialist systems, houses were expropriated. There is no such thing as "minor socialism". That's just social democracy.
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@billytucker9763 "Congrats, you're a socialist and you didn't realize it" - That's just you playing fast and loose with definitions. A social safety net isn't socialism.
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@billytucker9763 I don't support socialism. Socialism is a system under control of the socialist party. Yes, I would love to live in the woods. Unfortunately the government repealed the homesteading act in the 1970s. It's not black and white. It's not extreme thought. Socialism is the outlawing of capitalism. Socialism emerged as an attempt to erase capitalism. It's an antithesis. There's nothing about Christianity that involves televangelists. Televangelists weren't even possible when Christianity emerged. Socialism was an attempt to outright END capitalism forever. A better comparison is being a Jewish Christian or a Christian Islamist. How can you reject Christ as the prophet and also follow Christ? How can you follow Mohammed as the true prophet and also think Christ is the true prophet?
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Sybrand Botes but if the price is too high and he refuses to pay it, it's not worth it.
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Ukraine still has S-300s protecting their airspace and MiG-29s flying patrols in the West.
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@nonyobussiness3440 it was a set up for the paid actor joke...
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Relative to when?
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 @festekj Air superiority isn't a cheat code. Air assets just get a better view of you getting bogged down in the mine fields and pre-sighted artillery kill zones.
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 @emilsinclair4190 Trenches are easy to cross. Mines and artillery prevent you from getting close to cross them.
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@gingernutpreacher Mine flails expedite the process but getting close enough to a minefield without ATGM teams, artillery and Vikhr missiles launched from 10km away taking pot shots at you is nearly impossible.
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I simply do not think the FSB's competence exceeds the stupidity of the green energy movement or the will of our politicians to make us suffer.
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@HeXD071b The video taken by the fighters essentially nukes Luttrell's version of the events so we already have one person not telling the truth in this story.
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@blobber51 isis is made up of two words "is" from the present of the verb "to be". So in the past tense it becomes "was was", because it no longer exists.
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 @mitchyoung93 Exactly. Early in the war. So why is it a factor for POWs right now? The fliers containing instructions for the self-nading came out in mid 2023. Not early 2022.
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Oliver Stone, whose son had a job at the Russia Today state news channel?
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@charleynewman5057 which group?
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@charleynewman5057 you just said "the right". Okay, name one wignat group that killed anyone. Name one qanon group that killed anyone. Name one neo-nazi group that killed anyone. When was the last time the KKK killed anyone?
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@icecreamjesse6549 Oh I was hoping someone would mention that because I wanted to trash talk anyone who mentioned the dead cop but I'm not gonna sift through my notifications to look for it. Even CNN the other day admitted that prosecution went through all available footage and didn't find that cop to have been beaten by anyone, and coroners didn't find any evidence of trauma, so they have no case and nobody to charge. Hey here from the future. The cop just died out of natural causes. Sit the hell down.
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You'll just have a two party system where right and left parties form coalitions to get mathematical victory.
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Christian faith allows for the exhumation if there's a reason. Imagine if a Muslim-majority country wanted to dig up Christian remains to make a mockery of how they died. The Christian minority would refuse too.
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That's a human wave, not meat wave.
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Tilting barrel, sometimes called "Browning action" locks the barrel in line with the slide during firing but when moving rewards the tilt of the barrel unlocks it from the slide - this stops the barrel but allows the slide to move to the rear and eject/strip a new round.
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You're gonna reenginer a turret toss?
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Go away Randy Pitchford.
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Okay. Now apply that logic to all energy sources.
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Why would they spend billions acquiring an aircraft that is one foot in the grave?
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The spinning ventilation fan looked like helicopter blades in the radar.
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@hansreichhardtsohn4522 Do you manually type that every time or you have a notepad file that lets you copy paste your attacks on people who don't tow the line?
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@happyland4524 but the EU doesn't manage healthcare for everyone.
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Funnily enough, bots are not infiltrators. People like you are closer to being infiltrators than posters online.
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 @enriquelaroche5370 Russia's red line: "anyone is free to join alliances" Medvedev "Crimea is Ukraine" (Putin)
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The Russian MoD used to report on them daily, don't know if they keep it up. It's up to you to decide if they can be trusted.
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@andrasbiro3007 Except that they worry a lot about protecting the ammunition from hits, and when it does get hit design the tank for crew safety by making the fire and pressure vent outwards. They worry very much about the ammo, having huge batteries would make the design a nightmare.
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@Free-g8r Thank you for proving my point.
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And it's not a betrayal from the American point of view?
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No but the Army raised the limit for enlistment. I think they went as far as accepting 39 year olds.
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@Hans "mass unemployment because there was no unemployment benefits" - how would unemployment benefits be responsible for unemployment rates?
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@Hans the most efficient? It was an absolute clusterfuck. Hitler burned through nearly 1 billion Reichmarks in gold reserves in his "economic miracle". Food prices increased due to the Nazi agricultural policy. The unemployment figures were completely fudged by ignoring how many women stayed home due to the financial incentives, the number of refugees who fled Germany and the unemployed who were absorbed into the armed forces and work camps. Their economic policy was so terrible that they had to sacrifice rearmament to prevent the demoralizing food rationing which in the end made Germany rely heavily on horses for logistics, despite the popular conception that the Germans were highly advanced and mechanized.
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And somehow Russia doesn't have that problem?
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@Alarios711 you're free to prove everyone wrong and demonstrate how efficient cultivating those lands is
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@hypergon-5627 What way of relationships? Pimping women out?
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@nonyabisness6306 but in communism, people have no choice but to use the low quality product. In capitalism, trying to rush product out the door can lead to lawsuits and loss of customers.
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Watch out, they might testify in front of the pretend UN again.
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@nolife1199 This is true for any system.
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Eastern fence Lizard If there's plenty of those guys around, shouldn't that be addressed before the bug hits? And since we're a year and a half into this BS, shouldn't weight loss have been promoted instead of staying at home and ordering UberEats? Plus if in 400 people of that age group, 200 are obese... that essentially means 199 in 200 obese people of that age group survive. It's not about "deserving". I don't deserve getting hit by a car. But if I make a choice to run back and forth across a highway at some point I'm going to get hit. If people are not willing to minimize their risks that doesn't mean they "deserve" anything bad, but do we deserve to be collectively punished as a society for their choices?
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@GomezTM tons of games don't get that treatment. For example I have not heard of it in regards to indie games in general, small studios and lone devs tend to do what they want rather than face pressure or try and score millions in loans.
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 @bodasactra Igor Girkin and Motorola were Russian nationals in 2014, how was it a civil war when Russia invaded?
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@nicholascazmay2126 They're not holding anything. They already lost massive amounts of modern equipment. NATO would just wipe out the rest like a videogame with cheat codes. Remember tank plinking from 1991?
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@Benamatic the problem is that those friends will be probably be shot in the street or in a private residence. This system applies to public places like schools, courthouses, etc where the shooter already planned to strike and can just bring his weapon inside a bag.
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+PizzaManDraven that's actually false, most developed countries have guns and have no problems, and many countries with very little gun ownership are absolutely violent hellholes. I am European and I think we should have guns to protect ourselves because the gun control laws are useless. It's just that our criminals get less profit from murder because we're not fighting a war on drugs, legal gun owners in Europe or US are not the problem.
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Not to mention there were Russians there - they were Rovsgardia and SOBR units.
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Kanaka Maoli Democrats more centrist? They've been economically neoliberal for some time now and you cannot definitely expect an economically left party to succeed in the American system but they are definitely not "centrist". In fact they are losing support from centrist Democrats.
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@Don B "From" or "with"?
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@randomdude4110 Cleared you skipped the part that if the information contained is junk, I don't care that Amazon carries it. Might as well be there to make sure would-be terrorists lose their arms and eyes.
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There was a former USAF mechanic who was flying a Mirage F1 in Libya as a mercenary. He had the military experience, at least.
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Some are normal arrests. The Russian shills like to pretend that uniformed men pick you out from the crowd and just take you. Usually you'd receive a summons and if you refuse to go that's like missing a court date, the police will detain you if they find you. If Russia the mobilization is done by knocking on the door and handing the summons by hand, if someone else opens the door you're technically not evading them.
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Which one, the coof one? Why would you need it if you don't leave the house?
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It's very vulnerable, slower than the Su-25 which has been shot down frequently by both sides. Nothing about it is "easier" as the avionics are similar to the F-16, and the logistics would be strained as there's a lack of spare parts. The company that made the A-10 went out of business two decades ago.
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@Hans "Actually the irony of libertarians finding out that capitalism doesn't work" - it's working perfectly. Look at the dislikes on YouTube rewind. People are tired of google and facebook. Alphabet and Zucc have committed the massive blunder of allowing us to break free from mainstream media and are now trying to force people back into the mainstream... People are getting ready to jump ship.
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@mattkelly9000 He had a Russian girlfriend. You know Russians use women to entice Western men. When Scott Ritter went to the former Soviet Union to inspect their nuclear stockpile he also met a young Soviet woman who he ended up marrying. It's a pattern.
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Russian Bears routinely fly near America and their ships are passing near Portuguese Islands. So what,
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Not true lol the ATACMS is a fat ballistic missile with limited maneuvering on terminal phase. It goes up, it comes down.
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Strategic defeat is a thing.
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Seeing your friendlies getting vaporized out if nowhere because an unseen jet dropped a JDAM on them has to be more traumatizing than seeing a jet that you can just ask the guy with the Strela to shoot down.
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It wasn't canister, it was HE.
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@oldhollywoodbriar If there's a blast, it's not canister. There's also no 125mm canister round, they have a flechette round that either requires a T-90 to use the airburst or has to use a mechanical time fuze. It's just not realistic to be driving around with a flechette round loaded with a time fuze set for close range.
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10,000 tank hulls. Rusted, parts stolen.
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@Tr1Hard777 "The suicide rate would skyrocket." - yeah because the school system in itself isn't responsible for driving teens into suicide already
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Someone tried and his popularity shot up.
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 @TheChiefonator can you name a convict unit in active service?
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The issue is that Ukraine knows a settlement is Russia's ways of recuperating and regenerating a new invasion force to come back a year or two later.
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There's no WW2 levels of materiel, production and manpower.
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@JoseCuervo11 Benefits from a job are agreed upon signing the contract. The employer gives them to you.
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It was the separatists who drew first blood.
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Because the launcher is mostly a tube, the rocket thrust is directed backwards. Other than friction and other minimal factors, the force of the thrust isn't applied on the shooter's shoulder. Even in RPG launchers, though the boost charge shoots the rocket out similarly to a cannon, the venturi section at the back vents the propellant gasses which balances the forces.
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There used to be a web page with an article debunking that claim. The author looked for the fissile isotope with the lowest critical mass and still found it impossible.
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Reserve to be partial mobilized to go to Ukraine. What's the difference?
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@randomdude2832 Strategic reserves exist for rainy days.
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@dralord1307 That doesn't make any fucking sense. Like a third of the population gets the seasonal flu, and the reason so many get it in the first place is because the flu is a minor inconvenience that allows us to go to work and school and spread it out. Meanwhile 20% of the people infected by this stuff get hospitalized and cities shut down.
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@eccoecco8648 Neither Japan or Germany could take on America. It's very important to remember - the US could do both Europe and the Pacific at the same time, but Germany and Japan would be outstretching their logistics well past the limit trying to invade. Zee Germans were content with keeping the British across the channel. Invading the US would be a big ask.
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If you get disabled and require years of surgery and physical therapy anywhere in the world you're screwed for life. You'll lose everything and even government-subsidized bills will be too high for the welfare/disability checks. I'm European and this happens here. You may claim societies share these burdens but they don't. They sweep you under the rug.
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That is so wrong? Show me any person who becomes disabled and unable to work and without life savings/charity/family who has managed to maintain a "normal" life on governmental guaranteed income alone. Becoming disabled and having no safety net will RUIN your life. As for my country, it is Portugal and yes there is national healthcare.
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Oh that didn't come across well through text, sorry. The problem is, the cost of doing that would probably mean several paychecks worth per person if they lived in individual housing. We actually have a program that exists since the time we still had a monarchy in which all lotteries and gambling operations are taxed to fund a state-run charity. You just don't live a "normal" life. It's more like living in a retirement home. This is obviously a last resort and most people would rather just live with relatives and maybe help by getting a job that can be done from home. My grandfather had to live his last years bedridden but in his own house and my grandmother could fortunately afford to care for him. But I witnessed first hand that even when the government is supposed to help, the costs just pile up.
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It's complicated. We have not received a lot of refugees or economic migrants. So although there are some problems with immigration (lack of housing and schemes involving legal-immigration work visas) my city would actually be an argument for multiculturalism working - our mayor has Indian ancestry but isn't passing anti-white measures, nobody is trying to implement Sharia law, no No-Go Zones, etc. The average person is only exposed to our media that spreads an "anti-populist" rhetoric. It's insane because around here the left was always against the European Union and globalism, but now we're pretending that only right-wing xenophobes think like that. We won't have a Trump because although most people hate the establishment, they do not see it necessary to elect an anti-establishment figure as things are getting better, not worse.
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@nocapproductions5471 "any help is needed and is needed fast" - Some help is worse than no help. Giving them A-10s, which have lower speed than the Su-25, is actually a hinderance because of all the training hours for pilots and maintenance will be a waste if later we decide to give them something better. F-16s are extremely common and production lines are open. A-10s are starved of parts and the company that made them went out of business in 2003.
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Typically you want to export to wealthier countries and get their stronger currency.
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g milne okay, you can't do drugs that will make you fail a drug test. Obviously if you're pissing hot with drugs THEY gave you they're not going to fail you. But marijuana isn't approved.
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Because nobody who matters is confused.
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@Dairy917 I believe Russia's generals must have found Hunter's crack pipes he left in Ukraine because anyone with above room temperature IQ can understand what's going on. I can't reach them for comment. You're actually asking me to stop believing my lying eyes and think this is a methodical occupation even though the number and quality of troops is not suitable for it.
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Germany was on the offensive. Russia is on the offensive. They're falling for the same pitfalls Germany fell, and Ukraine has the advantages the Soviet Union held.
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@FCE-dogs okay so a discarded napkin can nail someone 23 years later but I'll send my DNA attached to a fake name and PO box and never get it traced back to me. Kappa.
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A lot of people seem to think a city takes a day to capture. They're not even in the city yet. They're trying to cut off areas and degrade the fighting power to trap the Russians against the river with no way to ressuply. Assaulting the city directly is suicide. They want the Russians out of fuel and ammo.
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A radar can pick up the trajectory of an artillery shell and trace back to where it came from, so that artillery can hit it back.
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 @joebiggs135 Irrelevant. Crimea was invaded in 2014. The point is to achieve war termination by returning to pre-war status quo.
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@RudeCorona Mediazona is only counting obituaries and social media posts. How many have nobody back home, or asked loved ones to keep their death out of the public eye? How many have elderly parents who can't make a VK post? How many are still in the mud and considered missing?
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This is cope similar to the cope after the Kiev, Snake Island and Kharkiv debacles.
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 @ViffeNify You can't buy 10x the aircraft by buying Gripen.
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@iraniansuperhacker4382 How did you calculate those 5000 Gs?
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 @iraniansuperhacker4382 I can't find the paper. How did he acquire radar and sensor data?
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@iraniansuperhacker4382 I don't have much to offer in terms of a proper analysis, but the early examples of radar data showing impossible speeds seem similar to Project PALLADIUM. If you have a receptor detecting incoming radar energy, and then re-emit them with the proper timing and Doppler shift you can create radar contacts with the speed you want. The US military and NSA used it to measure Cuban radar abilities by creating fictional supersonic flights about to buzz through Cuban airspace and watched their fighters scramble in response. They even had a submarine time the release of balloons with metal spheres to coincide with the fake radar contacts entering the area to intercept and submerge to avoid being seen. The Nimitz footage is easily explainable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1di0XIa9RQ
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lol this has been the cope for months. Any day now!
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@attilamarics4808 "breaking through" at a snail's pace.
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+shaka deveaux lmao the NRA was founded by the Union, not the Confederacy, in New York, not the South.
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+shaka deveaux they didn't block research, they just managed to get the CDC to not fund studies which would be used to support gun control. You can get funding from anyone else (such as anti-gun billionaires like Bloomberg who donate millions for these causes), just not the government. And you know why that happened? Because some researchers kept publishing shoddy studies with poor methodology, essentially getting money for doing bad science. Want to blame someone? Blame the anti-gun researches who abused the system and ruined it for the rest.
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 @jackstreet6979 "Hey man aircraft are complicated, don't fall for the marketing hype" "Source? 🤓"
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I am from Europe. Without guns, the strongest people will take your liberty away. How is that liberty?
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@warcrimemenace6292 Because there's this thing called "western values" and "democracy". Turns out that when you're a mass murdering commie with no values, you can just send two million to die and wait for the political winds to shift, and for the citizens of the enemy nation to actually feel bad for you.
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 @JeZZGro you can watch Russian media too, they're not reporting massive wins either.
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It's a really sad story because when the pictures came out, it was the Russians who called her a crisis actor due to her IG page. The Russians directed very foul attacks at her.
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The military industrial complex and defense spending were higher back then.
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@bajenguevara the Minsk Accords were broken by the DPR assaulting Debaltseve the day after it was signed.
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@aayushpaliwal3450 not really, world hunger is not a matter of throwing money at the problem. Natural disasters and conflict cut off populations from access to food, even though its available. Buying more food doesn't solve the fact that there's external causes to why people can't access it.
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@tristqnejdjeh7278 Here in Europe opinions are split on the pope too.
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Insert reaction image of Tom Hardy puffing his cheeks.
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@Gmail X the F35 is actually amazing. The only problem with the F35 is that it's a government jobs program spread out through contractors and suppliers across several US states and NATO countries.
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Stop. Ukraine existed before Russia. Russia started in Moscow, and they're a remnant of the former Mongol empire. They took the name of the Rus, who founded Kiev. Ukraine had a pro-independence movement since the Russian empire, and when 1917 happened the Ukrainian reds fought the Russian bolsheviks to a standstill. This granted them the Ukraine SSR, a on paper independent country. Obviously Moscow ruled the Soviet Union, but Russians couldn't subjugate Ukrainians so they had to play underhanded games like shipping Ukrainians to Siberia and sending Russians to live in their place. They asked to leave the Union right before it collapsed, meaning that they were independent the whole time, even if only on paper.
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Oh boy you sure watched some History Channel documentaries. How about you tell us how many gun kills were scored with the internal gun after it's introduction?
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@ubermensch0072 Most Stingers in Afghanistan had either drained batteries or the coolant gas tanks had leaked. The US purposefully makes those components wear out to prevent them from being used without access to maintenance.
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 @1-hitter802 We can create the building blocks for life in a lab. We just can't press fast forward and make the experiments last millions of years.
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@chalysama4446 Plastic surgeons are not high on the list of doctors with the best moral standing. Remember all the Latin America plastic surgery stories from the 90s and 2000s? Doctors in countries like Brazil were using literal caulk-style fillers instead of medical grade. The best plastic surgeons in develop countries will refuse certain jobs or straight up tell the client they do not guarantee that a certain job will end up 100% how they want due to how the tissue will heal.
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@chalysama4446 OP stated we shouldn't condone it. You came here to say it's their prerogative, but your counter example is literally bringing up extreme body modification most people do not condone. Riddiculous implants like those get stares and people talking smack behind their backs. That's all. It's their freedom, but people do think it's riddiculous and nobody fights for the "rights" of these people.
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@chalysama4446 I will say again. OP merely said we shouldn't condone or enable it. That's it. Everything else is you making a storm in a teacup.
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澳贼的爷爷 if you need to pick one of the worst cities for comparison you're already taking the L here
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Look for Gorka jackets.
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Cough in their face and scream "IT'S JUST THE FLU BRO!"
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@smugmode if I try to post a comment like yours yt sends it to the shadow realm
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Dangerously based.
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Did you know we supported the Houthis? We provided them intelligence on Al Qaeda, they merc'ed them. They were a huge asset on the war on terror. Then the Saudis needed a war, now we're fighting our former allies. Therefore supporting Al Qaeda by suppressing their local adversary. So we're fighting to protect terrorists anyway. The guy tossing hand grenades. Do you even know if he was on the side of the Houthis or Al Qaeda? Could be either.
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@johnyamahm1634 the M855A1 was developed as a "green" round...
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I'm pretty sure that they have more volunteers than they can train.
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When a game changes, the game has... changed. The war in February 2022 looked nothing like it does today.
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@keshudana4647 The problem is that making a good car isn't about a good car, but the ability to make 100,000 decent ones. Given a budget, the manpower and tools, making one car is a cool project but not a true test of manufacturing. They'd have a better future making replacement parts for existing vehicles in Afghanistan.
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@alberto123iq So counter-battery is a bad tactic because your troops will get hit by artillery first. Whatever. All counter tactics are superior to just getting hit and not doing anything in response.
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They deployed 120 BTGs out if 170 (Shoigu, 2021).
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Yeah, the mistake that keeps breaking the back of the Russian military. Remember how Russia had to call an operational pause after glorious victory in Severodonetsk, then lost both Kharkiv and Kherson city? What are they going to lose after they call an operational pause after Bakhmut?
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Because there's been no ethnic cleansing. Fatalities in the Donbass didn't break the three digits after the conflict subsided. And most casualties were from accidents with misplaced mines and unexploded ordnance.
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@sashazxtt Spare me the same old copy pasted arguments. Almost nobody was dying in Donetsk.
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Wow, citing certified moron Pierre Sprey.
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I heard from an Israeli cardiologist that young people were getting heart related side effects. I did what you said and still found someone who agrees with my narrative. See how that works?
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@bullgatesSR And academia is an exercise in confirmation bias. If you go against the grain, good luck getting past peer review. I don't "feel" how peer review works, I know how it works. Refer to how the Lancelet published a letter by 27 scientists debunking the Wuhan lab theory, and then 26 of them had links to the WIV. A journal won't even check for conflicts of interest. Also look into the replicability crisis and p-hacking. I've seen the sausage get made. You should too. Ever seen someone in a position of power in medical research try to pressure undergrads into doing studies with expired oxytocin?
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Yes.
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 @samuellanghus1455 the theory is that he was CIA and infiltrated the NSA as an external contractor because of inter-agency bickering.
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Over 625 "expensive" and "impossible to mass produce" F-35s delivered as of 2021.
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But he did get it. He explained why there could be a line of buyers before aquaman.
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North Vietnam signed a peace treaty and invaded the South while the US was in political turmoil from Watergate. North Vietnam did not stop the US. They signed a treaty, which they broke, and defeated the lone ARVN. In fact it was the US which stopped North Vietnam, until it became politically unsustainable to back Saigon.
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@user-yh7fc7wt6v lel cope harder z boy The biolabs will never go away
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And the MiG-35 is a massive failure. How many produced?
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Daily reminder that Ben's sister has massive knockers.
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 @sevenproxies4255 They don't have to borrow money, they just have to get drones from Iran and shells from North Korea. Bruh they clearly are not in a good place.
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The other way around, buddy. It's Russia who has a bullet lodged in the heart and still swinging a knife like crazy. Ukraine will receive a Marshall plan to rebuild. Russia will get nothing.
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They already took pictures of themselves posing in front of T-55s after arriving on theater.
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Pol Pot. Even less know that name.
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Okay, but Ukraine got the chainsaw and started cutting off Mike Tyson's arms and legs.
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@answerthequestionplease5073 The dam breach flooded the South Kherson area, not the North/city. The city was safer from flooding than the bank they retreated to. Jesus Christ you got your talking points from the FSB and now you're embarrassing yourself in public.
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@oxfordsparky I didn't infer anything. I absolutely love slurs and coming up with a way to call people poors because your games have 10% raytracing and are still 90% rasterized is one of the wildest concepts ever. It's like being 1/8th white and bragging about it, absolutely entertaining to witness.
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"Apu? Never heard of him. My name is Steve Barnes."
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I was never a big Sony guy since the PS2 days so I legitimately thought that the girl from TLOU was played by Ellen Page.
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@lediapronica2249 I did. There's no white anything in the hand. Even if there was, waving white objects is a common indication of surrender.
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 @galacticverse7694 Bakhmut holds meaning that other cities are spared from the fighting. Russia burned through their offensive potential.
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@speedyv6247 Wagner is backed by the VDV. Remember when Wagner claimed to have captured Soledar and the Russian MoD said that was a lie? It's because the battered VDV has to lose men saving Wagner from doom.
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Ukraine has no means to cover A-10s. The Frogfoot is doing a desperate job by releasing rockets in a ballistic arc and fleeing back home. The F-16 can't stay on call? Neither can the Su-25 or the A-10. They'd arrive, release rockets, and turn back to head home.
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CR RC this shit has been available for 5 fucking years.
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+BlueBell22 you said people with complaints should move to where there are no cops. You got it backwards. People have rights. "moronic comment about how a dog would freak out if its owner was being cuffed" - your conclusion of the comment being moronic requires premises. Not an argument. "these police officers are getting trained. what are you talking about?" - talking about your scenario where dogs have the responsibility in the situation. "they have to deal with a population that can be irate and their animals that in some cases are aggressive, untrained, or both. get it?" - and they signed up to do it and are paid to do it. People working in the sewers have to deal with the smell. Don't like it? Get another job.
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+BlueBell22 people tell libertarians/right wingers that if they want less government then move to Somalia. Now I'm here telling you that if you want people to stop complaining about police move to North Korea. You literally have no business telling anyone they can't complain. "if you have or had a dog, you would be hard pressed to know that with proper training dogs dont act the way you don't want them to, with proper commands" - how the fuck do you give commands while being manhandled? You actually think you can override the emotional response of what seems to be a home invasion and an attack on your family by sending your dog to some training camp for 2 weeks? "police officers signed up to deal with dogs?" - yeah if they signed up to enter people's homes they signed up to deal with anything that comes with the job. You might not literally sign a contract saying you're gonna touch shit when you sign up for working in the sewers but brother, shit's gonna touch you. If you want to enter people's homes to perform arrests but don't want to deal with dogs knowing that people have dogs... what exactly were you expecting? "if you hit someone with a car, is it the cars fault or is it yours?" - a car won't panic when threatened and defend the owner.
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@Gorrgrim They can't be explained because no evidence is found. If you see a grey shape and I go investigate and it's a grey car, mystery solved. If you see a red shape but by the time I get there the red car drove off, it's unsolved. How does one "see" Mach 9 speeds? Wouldn't it require a radar to measure such speeds?
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Basically a bunch of people talk shit and occasionally an autist adds something to the conversation. For example in the PhilosophyTube thread someone watches the video essays and sums up the points so that people don't actually have to watch the entire thing to talk shit. When the Jack Murphy stuff went down people went looking for the porn he did. It's like 4chan vs Shia LaBeouf's HWNDU but with people embarrassing themselves online.
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@yinglistheyinglet12 The problem is that if you commit a crime and use your firearm to prevent it from being used on you, you just killed a victim. Your options are saving yourself and facing the legal consequences, or grabbing your ankles and kissing your own ass goodbye.
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@plantbased4430 if you try and use a weapon to stop people in an "open carry state" you're going to get smoked and the person who does it won't get a guilty verdict.
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@plantbased4430 My "reaction" is that you're trying to justify being a cop wannabe and you think you're talking to a libshit so you bring up the blacks open carrying. I don't give a damn. Were they pretending to be cops? Someone should have "defended" themselves. You're just the equivalent of a liberal but on the right, thinking that I'm going to defend people because they're black.
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@attilamarics4808 They did leave it. It's on photograph and video.
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 @MonkeyJedi99 it wasn't an ICBM, it was a medium range ballistic missile. Your hysteria is showing.
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China and Canada signed a military agreement in 2013. Nobody cared.
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@phantom_3oh9 Your comment was about age, so you got a response about age. What you're talking about right now is a different topic.
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Russia can afford to play the long game with what? T-34s? Tsar Tank?
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 @rixtrix11 We went to the moon. People stopped caring about the moon. Satellites and space stations became the focus, hence the shuttle.
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@CharlesLumia now I am beyond DONE with the push for immigration and the manufactured refugee crisis but "random foreigners"? And any American down the street isn't a "random American"? In what way is a person more valuable because they popped out of a womb inside imaginary lines? Also, >implying that feminist propaganda wasn't forced onto us for the betterment of the rich and powerful.
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@CharlesLumia my neighborhood is full of assholes. I know them, they were born here, raised here, live here. They're not like me and they're going to fuck me over if they have the chance. What country they were in when they popped out of a pussy is irrelevant. "To compare them with a random foreigner is silly" - why? "Not quite sure what your point is there." - I'm unsure what your point is. Americans are all good people, while all foreigners are going to destroy the country because they weren't born in America? There's millions of Americans who either hate America or are unconsciously trying to destroy it, shouldn't they be deported instead? Why are Americans automatically good? "I don't know them because they aren't my neighbor" - you DON'T KNOW 320 million Americans. "They're lowering everyone's wages" - so are women or couples that have multiple kids. Should they be deported?
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Joe Dirt considering how many guys can't make girls cum it's obvious FGM will not stop it. Raising girls properly and reducing fatherlessness would solve it.
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+aussie jim most countries don't have assault weapons bans. I mean, a ton of countries have dumb gun control laws, but not all countries are dumb enough to think that a gun with black plastic is more dangerous than a wooden stock gun.
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Cope. There's no mercenaries except Wagner/Redut/etc.
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Views matter because of money. YouTube can't be caught fraudulently boosting views or allowing youtubers to cheat with view bots. Likes and comments don't matter at all so they update much faster.
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Neither does Russia.
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If you have people to do shit in the woods give it a try, if not there could be survival classes near you. The point isn't learning everything in one class, just go do stuff while under supervision so that you don't get lost. The best way to learn is by doing but take care to not go way too deep where you can get lost and freeze. There's military survival manuals, boy scouts manuals, there's books written by former special forces for civilians. Learn knots. There's a channel called Corporal's Corner with tons of info but the most recent videos have very complex shelter builds so you can sort by oldest and just pick what interests you. Survival Lilly has good videos too but again skip the complex shelter build videos. Alfie Aesthetics has less uploads but great videos on building fires, star navigation, etc.
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Troops still get rotated. There's actual scientific studies about combat performance and it is known that you can get 6-8 weeks out of a man but then his performance drops like a cliff and he becomes a liability. Back then rations included condoms. They weren't meant for frontline use. Men would be rotated out of combat and since the abstinence policy failed miserably they were given the means to avoid STDs while getting some R&R.
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To me it's like a UFC fight but one of the fighters has spent 15 years threatning nukes. I want him to leave the cage in a stretcher.
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@askeladd60 Pushing up wages means that operating costs increase and thus products will become more expensive. During WW2 the US had such an issue, due to manpower sent overseas and wartime demand, wages started climbing too fast which forced the US govt. to impose a ceiling in wages.
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@askeladd60 No, lower unemployment can mean you're not able to produce goods and services because you lack workers. Everyone working for military factories is on a government handout. Their job only exists because of the government burning cash in a war.
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@askeladd60 Producing stuff isn't a goal by itself. Russia is being forced to produce stuff that will burn in Ukraine, rather than develop Russia. A lot of Russian production is meant to be wasted and thus will bring no economic return down the line.
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@askeladd60 No, it isn't. Overproduction will collapse the value of the goods. Leading producers to bankrupcy does not lower the cost of living. I didn't say lowering unemployment is negative by itself. I said that using such a metric with blinders on and ignoring everything else is ridiculous. Low unemployment can actually mean your labor force is insufficient. More territory. Okay. Does Russia get money from that territory? Is the real world Monopoly? Control of the Black Sea? The Black Sea fleet is getting dunked on. NATO isn't expanding. Ukraine will ask for NATO ascension after the war. And Finland asked too. Next stop, Georgia perhaps.
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Meat Salad They're not getting 800 T-90s lol
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@u0000-u2x That's a very "hollywood" way of thinking about Nazism. There's plenty of racist people who have outdated beliefs, but don't want genocide. There's Nazis who aren't concerned that much about race. If I'm not mistaken Nazi Germany did consider Persians as another Aryan people and even had Indian volunteers fighting in their foreign volunteer units because they wanted to fight the British Empire.
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@Paul Martin I guess my comment was too negative compared to what I actually think, but I have to point out that for most people a lot of physical skills are not actually useful at all, so you can choose physical skills you want to practice based on personal preference and just maintaining your health. Most people aren't running from the cops, and some of the parkour moves are more artistic than functional. Weakness is relative. Freerunning doesn't make someone strong enough to beat olympic lifters or strongmen. It doesn't make someone strong enough to grapple or box. On the other way, most fighters and lifters can't do a lot of gymnastics exercises. It's all about what you want to do, because unless you want to become a jack of all trades it will be difficult to train every single form of strength. Do you need to move furniture? Do you want to defend yourself? Do you want to impress people with tricks? Are you a person who works at an office all day and you just want to do something to keep you active?
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@srankoutcast348 Digging a hole and filling it back up is "active", but it's not really constructive if you ended up in the same place as you started. There needs to be an actual goal and progress for you to claim it's constructive, simply being "active" by itself isn't a goal.
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@requiemagent3014 Casino Royale came out in 2006, a year before Assassin's Creed, and included free running in the intro sequence. Parkour had to already be popular for movie studios to be putting it in major film productions.
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Russia's response just got trashed by MLRS rocket attack lol
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The camera might be an issue considering that the fancy cameras typically record at a bit rate that is incompatible with live chat and it still has the problem that you'd need to send an extra camera crew to someone's house so that they can be interviewed.
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Humbled how?
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And somehow Keemstar was involved...
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Bob's Army was certainly one of the eras of Youtube.
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The remaining question is, how does this affect LeBron's legacy?
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@hm3drake99 jesus christ the joke is that he's gonna get the box in the mail, toss the liquid out, send the empty vaccine so that he doesn't have to take it.
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@willofdodge1 Okay. How are you going to deal with all the people who also want to see their higher education changed and not just med school? How are you going to pay for the debt forgiveness program? How do you deal with the people who already paid a large sum of their debt, but will have to face the perspective of their salaries being lowered due to competition of newer generation doctors who graduated in less time for cheaper? "The 8 largest health company made 850 billion in revenue" - Are they health companies or insurance companies? "That means removing insurance could possibly save 850 billion a year" - That's not how it works. Do you even understand what revenue is? Revenue is the total sum received without considering your overhead. Meaning that a bunch of that revenue was actually eventually paid to other companies providing the materials and services, etc. Did you mean "profit"? "just copy NHS" - You have to copy the rest of the country too. That's what DJ Moon tried to explain. Copying the NHS would mean massive costs in the US, because they're not the UK. You can't just copy things from other countries. "Also anyone who hates on other people getting out of student debt, that's wrong" - Are you a literal child? How is that in any way related to the point? "Just bc we suffered doesn't mean future generations need to suffer" - You're seriously delusional. A 28 year old competing with a 25 year old is not "future generations". They might even belong to the same exact generation. You're not only massively oversimplifying the issue, you're also pretending that people can just "get over" their career prospects being swept from under them. You try and rationalize it by attacking everyone who critiques your argument and claiming they're pro-debt, when they're simply trying to explain to you that every time you change something there is a cost and someone is paying for you. You close your eyes and pretend people can just hold hands and sing kumbaya after you screw with people's lives.
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keith moore the F-5 doesn't have the thrust to keep up with the F-4.
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keith moore "the problem with the F35 is they're asking too much from one design it's going to be the Swiss army knife of planes being barely capable of all missions and master of none! there's too much compromise! and the damn cost!" - that doesn't make any sense. Both the F-16 and the F/A-18 are excellent aircraft and they're capable of all missions, master of all. The cost of the F-35 is very similar to 4th gen aircraft.
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keith moore "titanium rain thrust don't mean shit in a turning fight!!" - that's not how it works. All planes are subject to lift, gravity, thrust and drag. When you turn, you use lift to pull your airplane into the turn at the cost of drag. If you have no thrust, you bleed speed and drop like a rock. If you have thrust, you can continue turning. Saying that thrust doesn't mean anything in a turning fight is completely asinine because otherwise we could be using gliders as dogfighters. "and F 5 regularly beat F4's at red flag!!" - and the F-35 shreds F-16s and F-15s at Red Flag and yet you critique it. I'm not saying the F-5 doesn't have its advantages, but you have to consider the historical context. The F-4 did fight a dissimilar enemy in the MiG 17, 19, 21 series, but TOPGUN instructed pilots knew how to use thrust to bring the fight to the vertical (you can tire yourself turning in circles, it doesn't do anything versus an enemy diving on you) or even take advantage of turn rate. Even though MiGs had a lower turn radius the F-4 pilot could simply ease on the stick and use the turn rate to keep up. Because Soviet equipped fighters had worse G-suits than Western fighters the F-4 pilot could simply pull comfortable 3-4 Gs while the MiG pilot pulled heavy Gs and quickly fatigued himself trying to turn.
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AIM-7s couldn't see, they're semi active radar homing.
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You're part of it too. You're saying "small number". The number is pretty large.
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Disregard the hundred and something kills by USAF Phantoms and another 40 by Navy ones.
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The argument makes perfect sense. Value would go down as part of a long term trend. It does change the outcome. A car with 300k miles is devalued by the perceived "wear and tear" and buyers will expect repairs to be necessary down the line. A broken down car is worth even less and is basically unsellable except as junk or to someone who wants that specific model and is willing to recover it. Now try to claim that stretching the timeline doesn't change the outcome - is an old car the same as a broken down car?
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@nicholaswhite7351 Russian is not banned in services.
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This is a riddiculous counterpoint considering that once you do pay your debt, it's your property.
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Which is why it's so pathetic. The meme republics were actually used to war, while the regular Russian army was completely unprepared. They had zero drone doctrine and many units had to write down their own on the fly with no support from superior officers. Ukraine also baited Russia into converting quadcopters used for recon into drone drop drones. Problem is, attack drones go down more frequently than recon drones, which mean the glorious Puccia artillery lost significant long range spotting assets.
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Josh Lee They're not good Samaritans, they're a couple of dummies. The law isn't about what other people did that caused the events to unfold a certain way.
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@a.wyattmann4370 They didn't catch him in the act. Look, I'm not even going to pretend to be nice. If you think these people are protecting their communities and you want to live next to them, I can only hope you find out for yourself why that isn't a good thing. There's a fine line between protecting the community and out of control vigilantism. If this becomes a common occurrence innocent people will be killed.
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 @elibennett6168 the balloons were detected, the problem was that the first one was flying too high for an air to air missile.
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@jamesthompson3099 "air defense has increased massively" - Most Russian air defense is re-badged Soviet tech "note the shoot down rate of drones in Ukraine" - Most drone shootdowns are quadcopters being targeted by EW or small arms. Not actual air defense.
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But that's not true. Ukraine was a separate country inside the USSR. We understand that they were under Moscow's thumb but the same goes for the Warsaw Pact members. The Bolsheviks could not get a decisive win over Ukrainian independent movements so as a compromise Ukraine got to be a separate republic inside the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
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@TinCupChalice40 No. These cameras are better than you think. You're just used to 1080p/4k cameras being used to capture people from 6-7 feet away. Now use those cameras at night to see tanks from 20 miles away. You can't. The jet fighters can. They're using state of the art optics. You can't develop better right now.
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It's clean. Coal plants release more radiation than nuclear ones.
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@deuspax "under continuous shelling they will leave the dangerous zone (check kherson experience)" - in Kherson the UA had to use the incompetence of Russians against them, the intelligence provided by the allies, and then launch dangerous assaults into suboptimal terrain. So basically you're gambling all in on your enemy being dumb, having the US use wallhack cheats for you to know where everyone is, and then you still have to fight uphill battles to cross the plains against a defending enemy. Even if your foe has no tanks, they can still defend and not leave. That's like expecting WWI to end because the enemy will just leave the trenches.
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The F-15EX is decades ahead of the Su-57.
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What obvious reasons? They are the ones with the most motives.
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Electric power has gone down and back up in Ukraine multiple times. Russia still had to give up Kherson. It's a good way of winning the war if you win. If you're just losing, it doesn't win you anything
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Defend himself AKA declare control of areas and say it's his territory.
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 @TheBeatSmash Lol you have a family to feed and about to lose your job? Weak minded lmao
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@rogerstarkey5390 The more transmissible the better. Preferable to becoming lethal.
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Yes. They're destroying their own army.
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Exactly. Someone smarter than me once said, there's no loyalty in telling the truth because the truth is easy to believe in. Believing the absurd is an unforgeable proof of loyalty. It's a political uniform, and when you have a uniform you have an army.
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An accident with the weapons would kill people too.
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+S0oo if nobody buys nvidia is forced to drop prices.
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It's not meant to fly during thunderstorms until the OBIGGS is fixed. It's a peacetime restriction just for caution.
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A single Patriot shot down 5 Russian aircraft in rapid succession last year. The Kiyv system also defended itself from a saturation strike involving drones, cruise missles, ballistic missiles and even Khinzal hypersonics. As a S-400 claimed 5 American aircraft in a single day? No. Has a S-400 defended a saturation strike with 4 different kinds of weapons? Also no.
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@thethirdman225 "true CAS" is the worst straw to grasp at. Air superiority or not, warheads have to drop on foreheads.
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@Ivan Zhao The Soviet Union wasn't one country. It was a Union of republics. They also had their own seat at the UN and declared their intent to leave the Union.
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Harriers do not use hovering for combat. At most there's VIFF'ing but that's a high risk maneuver. They hover to land vertically. That's it. In combat they fly like fixed wing. There's no advantage in hovering because helicopter pilots can "dogfight" against other rotary wing craft. There's no point in trying to enter the realm where helicopters fight best.
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"vaping is gay" puts tube in mouth and starts to suck
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@JesusGarcia-Digem It's not an Ad Hominem. Ad Hominem is disregarding an argument by attacking the source. You didn't present an argument. You named a source. The source can be attacked directly in that case.
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 @mistermister8998 His success is cleaning up his diet and exercise. Infrared and sleeping on a magnetic field isn't doing anything.
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@b3lkan A-10s have been lost even with air superiority. The ground is the problem.
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There's just too many overlapping defenses to fly such a slow jet behind enemy lines. It would be a suicide mission.
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@vinnym5607 If it's so easy to catch then why do you worry if you can't catch it?
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Why it's always the gerbils? Anyone ever heard the Richard Gere rumors?
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 @vanadot 3d printing houses is ridiculously inefficient.
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"cannot combat enemy aircraft as well as the f22" - Because the F-22 is the air superiority fighter. Just like the Su-27 has the smaller MiG-29 as companion, the F-15 has the F-16 and the F-22 has the F-35. "isn't too good at much because it tries to do everything" - I question that guy's experience. How is he in the defense industry and not realize that for the past 40 years multirole aircraft have ruled the skies, and role specific aircraft are in decline?
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@maxlap7855 and then the round ended and you started killing Americans.
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Here I was thinking I was up against a bunch of gold diggers, turns out it was the freaking NSA.
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The powder was crumbled baguette.
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It can spread pretty easily? Remember SARS? An apartment building in Hong Kong had an infection spread by stool particles escaping the sewage system and lofting into the neighboring apartments.
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They have. Check back the last 20 years. Whataboutism. Bot.
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 @highbread817 humans go up to wild animals and feed them despite being told not to do it.
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The foil hat amplifies signals, though.
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@madscientistshusta Think about the wavelength of the typical radio frequencies. Now think about a typical tin foil hat. The tin foil hat cannot deal with EM radiation that has a wavelength either short enough to punch through, or long enough that it diffracts around the edges. Either way the MIT found that there was a 30 db amplification at 2.6 Ghz and a 20 db amplification at 1.2 Ghz. In fact the amplification was found to coincide with frequencies allocated to the government.
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Helicopters can fight from behind terrain.
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It's most likely impossible to repair.
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Yeah speaks volumes about Russian strategic incompetence.
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That doesn't make any sense. Watch videos of criminals dealing with unarmed British police, they're absolutely empowered and you can see multiple cops tripping over themselves trying to play catch with a grown man. A gun doesn't encourage crime, most property crime is opportunistic and deals with how potential victims would react so it's the surrounding environment that encourages the crime. Criminals rob cars without access to guns all over the world. And you only have to look at countries like Mexico, Brazil, Honduras, El Salvador, etc to realize how lack of legal access to guns still doesn't change the fact that criminals have guns. After the UK banned handguns, gun crime actually rose.
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@romulus2473 tbh if you're a domestic terrorist you're a grade A asshole but at least you have convictions and follow through them. You're a "bad guy" and own up to it. If you drive drunk or are a shitty doctor, you convinced others to trust you and then you acted recklessly with their lives.
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All weapons are military weapons. Knives, spears, swords, muskets, revolvers, shotguns, bolt actions, etc. The military has used them all.
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@ReichLife Bayraktar footage was published during the Kherson offensive as well. They didn't disappear, they just kept doing missions that wouldn't require them to fly into SAM range.
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... I wonder how the muscles get the oxygen and nutrients
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Because the Super Hornet is the F-14 replacement and the F-35 is the legacy Hornet replacement. The Super Hornet is meant to be replaced later by the F/A-XX program.
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Funnily enough former Soviet countries and China use metric in aviation while Europe uses knots, feet and nautical miles as the aviation sector typically had historical ties to the naval sector.
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For years it was not possible to grind for ships and when it became possible the frequent wipes, and progress-erasing bugs/crashes made the purchase more convinient. How many millions did they make until grinding became feasible?
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@christopherboyle2403 In either case, tech makes a difference as the cheaper aircraft is fighting with blindfolds on. Additionally, fewer but better trained pilots will beat numbers any day of the week and twice on sunday. Many air forces were destroyed on the ground. The US wrote the book on dealing with SAMs in Vietnam and then threw it at Iraq. In Syria the Syrian S-300s and Russian S-400s could not stop the B-1 launched JASSM. Israel has flown over Iran undetected. Turkey has complained that the S-400 detection range is overstated through the use of optimal conditions. And in the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict the Turkish TB-2 has destroyed Russian built SAMs.
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1. It wasn't that cheap. 2. Focusing on handling this late in the Cold War is nonsense. 3. I disagree because the F-16 has a computer with flight director, the MiG-29 requires constant re-trimming because speeding up and slowing down causes lift characteristics to change.
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@JamesOMalley-hb4tf It's not cheap. There's a reason the Su-27 dominated. The MiG-29 wasn't cheap enough to justify the purchase.
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@JamesOMalley-hb4tf New MiGs? But MiG was absorbed into Sukhoi to make the UAC. MiG went down precisely due to the MiG-29 failing and the MiG-35 not gathering enough interest. The MiG-29 was bought in very small numbers, with the Indians being the biggest export customers. And even they had to get French/Israeli tech into them to improve upon the base model.
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If you committed tax evasion you're not innocent (in the eyes of the law) so it doesn't matter where the money came from. Comments worded like that make it seem you're gonna take the fall for real crimes. The government is perfectly happy to just nail you for tax evasion even if you're a crime boss who had thousands whacked.
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Lmao you people out yourselves unprompted. Fold under zero pressure.
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Those are decade old arguments proposed by Pierre Sprey and Russia Today.
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@Graeme_Lastname tips fedora
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But how is Russia cornered? They have tons of land. All they have to do is go home. Their lives won't change one bit. There's no corner, nobody's coming for them. Nobody wants their country or their people. They can have it.
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 @mbak7801 They were never 99.9% Swedish. They have German, British and American parts.
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Shreyas Misra terrorism is the use of violence as intimination (aka terror) for political gains. Freedom fighters are always considered terrorists by the oppressor because they fit the definition of a group that uses violence as a political tool.
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The journalist and crew was probably driven blindfolded.
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 @deemen7132 Russian cargo ships also turn their transponders off. Is that black ops?
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Virgil Grin that's like saying Commies were atheists so atheists killed 100 million people.
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Duran, Ian Miles Cheong, Lira (CoachRedPill) and Ritter? Whoa, it's like a who's who list of all the internet bad guys.
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 @jpburner02 I got mobile data, I watched like half of this outside
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It's not ridiculous. How do you "reassure" your safety without the use of force? What plethora of other reasons? How is it irresponsible from a self-defense channel? If it's about self-defense, then call. The attacker doesn't deserve a second thought. He waived his rights away.
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 @bipbap300 it was developed "quickly" because Moderna had been working on it since 2019.
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@skuyzy198 Dude, it's like you haven't read a single word: "There is enough evidence to suggest that the combination of the helical sweat duct and wavelengths approaching the dimensions of skin layers could lead to non-thermal biological effects. " https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1210030663890/The%20human%20skin%20as%20a%20sub-THz%20receiver%20%E2%80%93%20Does%205G%20pose%20a%20danger%20to%20it%20or%20not%20(1).pdf We don't know. It hasn't been tested extensively yet. We're not talking about the classic ionizing vs non-ionizing argument. We're just talking about an unknown. Some people want it to be deployed until proven dangerous, and some want to keep it delayed until proven safe.
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But raising prices will also make renewables more attractive. Cheap oil kills renewables. Expensive oil makes everyone feel like they're getting scammed.
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The Super Hornet is an entirely new aircraft, ironically. The F-15EX takes advantage of the production line set up for F-15 export sales. A significant number was sold to the Arab oil states.
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How many rakes does Barnes have to step on for you to realize you shouldn't trust him? The blind leading the blind here.
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Anders Breivik did it. On a per capita basis, that made Norway as problematic as the US with a single event.
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Russia has attacked multiple Ukrainian bridges. Either way, there's plenty of videos of this bridge being used to transport huge amounts of heavy military equipment, such as armored fighting vehicles and rocket artillery launchers.
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@josedorsaith5261 He went on a rant defending it. That's the definition of getting defensive over it.
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@pizzaman5169 Loitering over danger means death. If you have to loiter over the area to get a job done you already lost. It's 2021, not 1971 anymore. Ground pounders killed? The A-10 has killed them, lots of blue on blue with those.
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"literally"
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@Perisemiotics Georgia didn't attack "ethnic Russians", they attacked separatist fighters.
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@Vecorix Russia is not a race, but a nationality. The Russian Federation is composed of multiple republics with multiple ethnic groups living in them. Russian bots exist, for example internet outages in Russia or the Wagner coup (Progozhin owned bot farms) caused drastic changes to traffic as the farms were not posting. There's also twitter accounts who were replied to by people with prompts and those accounts obeyed the prompt - they're ChatGPT bots.
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lol delusional
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Based on the effectiveness of anti-tank guns, tanks were obsolete by 1919.
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@ice-xv1hi And at the same time older ways to take out tanks have been rendered ineffective. The flourishing of AT weapons is due to tanks improving their protection over time. Also, aircraft took out very little tanks. Most were lost to breakdowns, lack of fuel, AT guns, AT mines, other tanks, etc. It's a bad time to be a tank operator in a country that doesn't employ combined arms. Tanks have ALWAYS been extremely vulnerable, but they have the public perception of being behemoths. They are, as long as the enemy has no AT weapons. Since they were introduced, AT weapons have been developed. Such weapons make tanks extremely vulnerable. Combined arms suppresses AT weapons. It's not complicated.
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The F-117 isn't flying combat, it's to assist in training and R&D.
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Now try and pop your head out to aim while there's AKs and machine guns suppressing you.
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 @davidbarry6900 HIMARS has a 200lb payload, JDAMs exist in the 500, 1000 and 2000lb variety if I'm not mistaken.
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Nope. Sensors in the visual and thermal spectrum will still beat the naked eye.
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@Stoicswimfish They don't need to be maneuverable when in thrust we trust. In all seriousness the F-4 Phantom was considered a brick but when flown correctly it had great turn rate. It was known that American G-suits were superior to the Soviet ones so a Phantom pilot could actually use turn rate to force a MiG pilot to pull Gs to exhaustion.
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Why would they attack civilians, when they claim to be an alternative to Putin? Why would they need the border clashes, after all they are Russian citizens so they could have done the attacks at any time.
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How do I know Russia is getting punished? They're sending more bots.
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Anti-Russian-twitter-bots. You need them Tis for running neural networks or something.
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@davidkeys4284 This happens on literally every video. Every comments section has people talking about it. It's just the new "301 views bug". The counter is stuck on purpose because views equals money. So they take a while to update and make sure they're not showing fraudulent numbers that could be used to milk advertiser money. Likes and comments make no money so youtube doesn't care.
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 @santigocortez4647 Still seething about the Ghost of Kiev 9 months later.
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These cameras are made to blow up tanks from 20 miles away, at night. Not to film Hollywood blockbusters.
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The Gripen lost the economic calculation in Finland and Switzerland. In Finnish trials it was more expensive to operate than the F-16. And that was the Gripen C, the Gripen E is even more expensive. The Swiss government found the Saab numbers were a lie.
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 @Jasonsoloka2024 there's IR blocking smoke too
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@memegazer nobody is trying to prevent you from having editorial content over your forum. You just can't demand the rights of being a publisher and a platform at the same time.
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But failed to secure the air bridge. What's the point of controlling an airport if you can't use it?
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>not buying your hardware form dark web sicarios with bitcoin NGMI
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@darlenetroise7079 the private business is being forced by government mandates
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@timjansen7694 If "global" means world and "conspiracy" means two or more people getting together to develop a scheme, certainly seems to fit the bill. Or you think that what you've lived for the past two years has been totally honest and transparent?
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I'm not American. Eddie is right.
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Defenses built behind the existing ones will allow Ukrainian artillery to move closer and start smashing the strategic depth with cheap shells instead of having to use up expensive Storm Shadows. The push to Azov is like the push to the Dnipro in Kherson. Hit the bridge. Supplies will become scarce. Russia will leave. Ukraine doesn't have to fight for every inch of ground. They just need the ground necessary to pound the fuel, munitions, barracks, etc. and make the entire area impossible to defend.
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@anthonytwohill9726 Communism isn't perverted socialism. Communism is the stateless, classless Utopian society. Socialism is when the communists take over the state and use the state to transition towards communism. That's why the USSR was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and was ruled by Communist Parties. If anything, Socialism is the perversion of Communism because so far, no Socialist country every transitioned to Communism and instead abused its power.
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It works in 1vs1 duels but not when a wingman is there to just bonk you while you're stalling.
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@mykolastrunce5457 Gaijin? They block chat when Ukraine scores a victory on war thunder ahaha
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No argument, just canned phrases.
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"From the outside its too easy to judge." - imagine saying that if a chef serves you raw chicken. It doesn't matter how busy and overworked they are, you're going to complain about major fuck ups.
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Yeah and the foreign volunteers fighting in Ukraine use the patterns Ukraine wears independently of their country of origin.
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@dylanwhite3383 it was used for shows of force and bomb drops in Syria.
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@maxspinks2181 I'm pissed off because I don't remember if it was a Challenger 2 or an Abrams but there was a tank in Iraq that was mobility-killed and pounded for several hours straight with even RPG-29s and only the driver got wounded. Modern armor is very resilient against the more common shoulder launched "grenades" and rockets but the big boy missiles are still effective. However, like I mentioned above infantry can still pose a danger to tanks even with the cheaper AT weapons, although you can't easily get through the armor you can easily damage its sighting, tracks, etc and at least make the tank unable to fight properly. Hence why a tank can be considered "killed" without having to fully penetrate the hull.
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@TOFKAS01 You were talking about precision weapons and communications. Those weren't at fault. Your argument was implying that precision guided munitions were killing a million civilians, when they weren't.
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Why do you claim it's not survivable or not capable of CAS?
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The A-10 was meant to be retired 30 years ago. The A-10 staying in service was political BS. Normalcy bias is strong with this one.
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@bradf448 False equivalency. In this case everyone is throwing oil in the fires, everyone is saying that water and fire extinguishers don't work, and people whose houses are not burning down are being evacuated from their homes for no reason.
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 @Spetsnaz-kw3d Are those volunteers with high morale the ones caught in the Avdiivka footage? Because that morale doesn't seem to help them.
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It did win multiple fights against the typhoon.
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 @JayJay5244 you're not going to war if you didn't sign up. Jesus stop crying.
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@JayJay5244 We heard the nuke threats for a decade. I'm the one who has a bridge to sell you, and it crosses the Kerch strait. Medvedev promised Armageddon if the bridge was hit, and when it exploded he went back to delete the post.
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 @neilkurzman4907 If you can't be a bullet magnet at least be competent. She doesn't make up for size with skills.
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I think around in 2012-2013 South African gun owners were facing an issue where their applications to renew memberships were being delayed by months, and they were genuinely concerned that if the government did not come forward and grant amnesty they'd be technically in violation of the law by letting their paperwork lapse. Lots of talk on internet forums back then regarding the government's complete lack of communication.
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@klwthe3rd He's not right. Stop waiting. Russia isn't bouncing back.
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@roseeann2184 You love Russia but your love will die. You can still change sides. We won't forget those who backed our enemies.
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@Constantine-the-Great2000 They were Russian. Motorola was Russian. Igor Girkin is Russian. The Russian state tried to excuse the Russian troops by saying they were lost in exercises and crossed the border by accident, but years later awarded them medals for participating in the Donbas war.
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They cut back on the consumption of many items. The headlines are sensationalist, but the logic was sound.
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You made it your fight in 1994 by promising security in exchange for nukes.
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The F-16 and F-15 have active production lines and upgrade programs. Nations send their aircraft to get upgraded to new Blocks. The F-22 is a niche aircraft that nobody does work on. It's like comparing getting service from Honda and a custom built car. You can get service for your Honda because there's parts and trained mechanics.
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ALSO-RAN ! Air superiority doesn't mean anything when the threat is the ground.
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ALSO-RAN ! the A-10 is dead meat against an integrated air defense system. Having aircraft overhead doesn't mean anything because the A-10's nemesis is not enemy fighters, but ground units.
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@eno6712 Upload video for proof because everyone is looking for a real tape, then.
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@AspieTrips He's wrong because Russia is getting military aid from North Korea and Iran. That's like having to cheat at school by copying the special ed kids. Russia was taken seriously before 2022.
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Rip to the comments section but I'm built different
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A swarm with only "basic armor" will get shredded by autocannon rounds dispensing tungsten cubes.
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That bomb is carried by plane, they cannot fly heavy aircraft into Kherson due to anti air missiles.
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Russia could end the war today.
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Ukraine isn't "perfect" but they use tanks well and say they want allies to give them tanks.
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@malokegames But the Su-57 is not fully stealth. The IRST bubble ironically acts as a radar reflector.
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@matthewdice8567 There's literally footage. People made a meme with the guy flying out of the golf cart with his arms open as it explodes. And recently the golf carts were seen fighting alongside tanks and IFVs so they're not just transports for rear guard units, they're taking part in assaults.
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 @Antiteshmis Russia's GDP growth is entirely measured by Rosstat, the Russian state's own statistics department. There is no independent confirmation of their numbers.
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This is the West. We just flip the R and N letters and use their D as an A. Russian enough for govt work.
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@spicketspaghet7773 dude if a mission is too risky for a F-35 you won't send in an A-10 either. Even with a lower plane cost, losing the pilot is actually worse. A factory can pump out these mechanical animals. But training a capable pilot is hard.
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@layinlow77 "instead of having some system where it could be distributed." - That system requires keeping people working. So the problem is still the quarantine.
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@mrchrysler9736 "their drive-thru's are packed" - Fast food isn't the only kind of restaurant.
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@Revolutionary Communist "Restaurants are delivering food now." - A minority of them is. Most stuff is closed.
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Takes a college degree to break them, and a high school diploma to fix them.
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Do they? They coast off business enshittification, basically calculating that the average gun owner doesn't shoot enough to find problems in their purchases - so they can cut on QA costs.
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Why? They've been a regular unit in the National Guard for years, and have nothing in common with paramilitaries.
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Several are being shot down. Also they were used to attack ammo dumps and a command office building (empty) in Odessa. They're more of a cheap cruise missile than a tactical anti-artillery weapon.
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@Aiveq Pretty much anything that can cause serious injury. Even a car or a boat.
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I won't have to, because I can just send another fiver to the Ukrainian charities buying drones. The footage is gnarly.
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@ОлекЛис But the first attempt failed and the second attempt involved impact.
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He already did a video on that
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What's there to escalate? Russia blew its wad.
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@lightningfarron2824 where's the evidence?
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Viruses are dispersed by droplets and aerosols. If you are guarded against droplets you reduce viral load.
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@libertyforever4270 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24229526 "The median-fit factor of the homemade masks was one-half that of the surgical masks. Both masks significantly reduced the number of microorganisms expelled by volunteers, although the surgical mask was 3 times more effective in blocking transmission than the homemade mask. CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that a homemade mask should only be considered as a last resort to prevent droplet transmission from infected individuals, but it would be better than no protection." Reducing spread, even if only by one third, is reducing spread.
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@libertyforever4270 no, what's interesting is that you said it didn't work, you were proven wrong, and now you're trying to have the last word by saying "bUt MuH gOvErNmEnT". The government said that masks didn't work. Anyone with a brain knew they were hoarding the masks for themselves. If you're gonna change your opinion on whether or not masks work every time the government chances its official stance rather than by facts, then you're not a libertarian but a fucking idiot.
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Tell that to Israel.
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lmao so you create a hiring risk for young men as well.
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@nigelsmith7366 It's not strange at all. Same reason the Army doesn't operate cruisers and aircraft carriers. Combined arms will combine the different branches.
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@bennuredjedi They can do it now. By ending the Air Force and making it the US Army Air Force. But who'd want that? Maintenance and logistics of the A-10? Brother, that aircraft was meant to be retired in the 90s and spent 30 years on life-support. They're old. AV8B? More of those were lost in Desert Storm than A-10s. It's a Cold War aircraft. Stop. AC-130s? They can't even operate during the day because they're so vulnerable. The crew of the Spirit 03 paid the price for saying on station longer than they should have to protect the guys on the ground. You're not doing the military any favors by making ground support so risky.
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@bennuredjedi Vietnam was Vietnam. It's not Vietnam anymore. The Air National Guard retained the A-7s and with upgraded pods they could do what Vietnam-era A-7s couldn't. Vietnam was a question of technology not keeping up with jet performance. I think it's funny you mention the A-7 when it was one of the criticized fast jets that got the A-X program rolling. In fact, the proposed YA-7F would have afterburners and the ability to fly supersonic, but the program was killed to finance the A-10.
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@brentwilbur What selective ignorance? The negotiations (which were not signed agreements) happened prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Why would the US negotiate on behalf of nations that Moscow controlled?
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That's the thing, safe distance becomes relative to your orientation as you'd be safe a few miles upwind but downwind you could be affected 30-40 miles away.
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No nukes were used in Afghanistan or Chechnya.
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Suicide is tragic and affects countless families. Over the top paraphilia? Get a grip.
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Germany was bombed into rubble in WWII. They rebuilt. With outside help. We will help Ukraine rebuild. Not Russia.
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@katweasel "2. It is not about not catching Covid. 3 It is not about not Spreading Covid (hence the masks)" - Then there should be no requirement.
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The jokes aren't written with children in the room and it's easy to argue they were hurt. Now they're forever associated with the controversial ad. Imagine being 16 and being told that as a toddler you participated in an ad that made references to bondage. You don't know what it is today, but you will through the teens and adulthood.
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Language and racism makes that a complicated proposition.
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Terrorist?
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@BruceL33Roy source? lol I already know what you're gonna dig up but I'm still going to ask.
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Consider that if you also need to be going in and out of vehicles while wearing your equipment the chest rig is obviously easier to sit with rather than having pouches hanging off your ass. I'm a big fan of belts but they need to be paired with a ruck that won't interfere.
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Preemptive against what?
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They probably just saved it from 4chan. It was really common to have images force a fake thumbnail on the thread to bait you into opening the image in a new tab and JTK was in full view.
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They didn't put a gun in the F-4 because it was a naval interceptor meant to protect the carrier group. If it had to chase the enemy carrying anti ship missiles witha gun; it would have to be ditched at sea because the carrier would be in the bottom of the ocean.
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Okay? The US is allied with Portugal and JFK still forbid American weapons for European defense to be used in Africa for the colonial war. Having an alliance doesn't mean supporting all the bad things a country does.
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When you put "dating" between apostrophes it just sounds like hanging out.
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Bullshit, kids spent all days on their phones back then and drove parents insane with the phone bills.
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Soturian "then proceed to quote the one I already mentioned" - wait, where are the legal proceedings? I can only find copyright cases and something about a new UK law. Not any convictions on aiding terrorism. "companies are talking about handing over mod duties to the FBI" - that's not going to happen. Mod teams are absolutely massive, they work non-stop and for very low pay. The FBI doesn't have the budget to take over. Not to mention the FBI guys are so incompetent they accidentally exposed themselves as agitators on 8chan by taking screenshots of threads with the (you) marker on posts responding to FBI agents.
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 @TTKDMS a private American citizen can call Twitter anything he wants. People to this day still talk about Blackwater as if it didn't rename to Xe and Academi.
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The scooters/bikes I use have a "pause" button. To stop a ride you must photograph the vehicle in a parking spot so there's a pause button so that you can go into a store or something without paying a fine by stopping or getting jacked. I don't know what happenes if you hit the pause button if someone jacks your ride but I hope it's funny.
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Oh I've been saying this for ages but I'm told I'm an "extremist".
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Riddiculous argument. The fact that people can shoot at each other with weapons left behind by the Soviet Union doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for performance.
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These are F-35As, they don't have STOVL.
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Scrolled down to see if anyone mentioned it, it was the first thing that popped in my head.
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Guy wrote a book called "Democrat to Deplorable" and did the whole disenfranchised liberal thing. Becomes a masculinity coach and starts his own cult scam men's organization where you pay 99 dollars a month. Timcast regular. Goes on Sydney Watson and gets asked about his cvck article. He gets offended. People look it up and find he's into cvckoldry and defends it as an alpha male thing. People dig deeper and he's been fired from a job due to him writing about r@pe fantasies, he's done cam sex streams, etc. where he begs for money and admits to being "heteroflexible".
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These are Russians, so...
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@Humanaut. The point is that you can provide 2MJ of energy into fusion and get back 3MJ. That's the main takeway, the reaction is net positive in energy. How that 2MJ was provided wasn't efficient at all. The thing is, we don't have to use that specific inefficient apparatus for power generation.
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@patkelley4071 With 40% efficiency, you'd need 5MJ to power a 2MJ laser.
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@johnthepreceptor3575 If you have nothing to say simply don't post.
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 @MrFruttexiq789 People hate on those goobers but don't realize the irony of being the opposite face of the same coin.
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And those "some" either need to learn to read or take their meds. No money was sent, the military said "we sent X billion worth of equipment" and the government response was "no, you sent X minus 6 billion because those vehicles are old and worth less than new". No six billion were sent. The government just said the value of EQUIPMENT was labeled incorrectly. No money changed hands. So you go tell those "some" who are "saying" and tell them they need to go back to school. Also, this "performance" shot down aircraft and killed Russian pilots. Heavy blow to Russian aviation, which was needed at the frontline.
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I think he's joking about the change from Colorado in the original to Washington in the remake.
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The absolute irony of wearing the porcupine libertarian imagery while simping for the foot that's stepping on the spikes.
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Walzuuuuuuu not really. Hardness of the target deforms the bullet increasing impact area and reducing penetration. Also the bulletproof glass gets harder when compressed, so the backing plate allows that compression to happen. Without that backing plate of glass the strike face would let a bullet through because it wouldn't compress.
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@MrsZambezi Soap and water work at the chemical level by outright destroying the casing. If you've ever dropped dishwasher soap on your greasy pile of dishes you've seen how it works. A mask can grab droplets, but those are mostly ejected by coughing, sneezing and talking to someone's face - the virus is bad and scary because it's airborne. Most of the masks in current use do not filter aerosolized particles and even if they did, they are unsealed. Anyway, his argument wasn't that masks don't work. It was if you really thought there was a deadly virus in the air, you wouldn't even leave the home. Or if you did, you'd be wearing a full NBC suit. But somehow you didn't get it and went straight for the masks don't work argument, even if he didn't actually state that.
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Gepards seemed to do well.
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Russians rolled into Ukraine with tanks flying the Soviet flag. Guess both sides naturally fell into their roles.
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Not only would that lead to aircraft being shot down, a bridge can support and entire convoy of trucks. An aircraft can transport the equivalent of a big truck or a couple trucks depending on the aircraft. There's a limit to the tonnage. There's a reason we rely on shipping lanes and trucks/trains and reserve aircraft for priority cargo.
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Russia already sent the best equipment and troops. They're sending amateurs and T-62s.
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Didn't happen north of Kiev, didn't happen in Kharkiv, didn't happen after Ukraine ignored the referenda and continued to capture territory.
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Because the Army already has helicopters for independent air support and the Key West agreements prevent them from fielding combat fixed wing aircraft. They'd spend billions transferring aircraft which are worn and lacking parts. They're museum pieces kept in flight status.
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The video is nothing but a strawman. It falls under misleading information, stuff that's technically correct but it's used as a rhetoric sleight of hand rather than to disprove anything.
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@bigearl3867 Cheap drones and 3d printing is less of a "gamechanger" than 155mm shells. All the stuff you're seeing with drones is only possible because there's still a conventional land army using Cold War stuff and ammunition donations. For example, Ukraine got ATACMS as the PrSM starts to ramp up production. We don't have a use for ATACMS data as it is becoming a deprecated system.
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@TRUTHandLIGHT4809 That's not at all what's happening, and you're also dismissing how cooling will be required to deal with the problem.
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You're gonna have to name names brother.
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@jorgeillueca5260 You assume they are maneuvering and travelling at speeds not possible. Meanwhile it could be just optical illusion.
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@paulbellino5330 footage being real just means it wasn't tampered with. Real footage of a balloon is real. Great revelation...
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@MCCrleone354 Allowing a death to occur during their false imprisonment adventure.
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@justintyler4693 a young child is way more credible than a scumbag adult lmao
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@purefoldnz3070 he's a youtuber, you write his name on the search bar, probably with "Michael Jackson" next to his name so that the relevant results come in, you lower your mouse, click one of the videos, watch, don't forget to breathe or else you'll pass out, and if you need to go to the bathroom pause instead of pissing yourself. Did I explain everything so that you can do it alone without an adult in the room?
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@purefoldnz3070 I'm calling you a dumbass, but apparently that gets lost on you too. Amazing how the MJ haters love projecting sexual fetishes at anything.
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@717shred Polanski fucked a 13 year old.
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@discipleofdagon8195 Right. Danger close with a bomb is 300 meters. Danger close with the cannon is 30 meters. Even though the rotary cannons have dispersion, the small payload of each round means the damage is contained where the gun actually hits. Meanwhile bomb fragments have that pesky tendency of not being effective enough on the enemy and too effective on friendlies who thought they were outside the frag radius.
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But they did.
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 @thomaszhang3101 Moving the goalposts.
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They're not helping, they're selling. And demanding gold because Rubles are difficult to trade.
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Not at all. In fact before this happened, flu shots were losing market. Essentially only children and the elderly got it.
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@AO-xc8mz Standard Oil only had 70% of the market by 1906, and by the time it was broken up by anti-trust laws it only retained 64% of the market, with 147 competing companies in the field. 147 companies that Rockefeller couldn't kill even before he lost in court. The gilded age is actually a tale of massive corporate welfare and government enforced monopolies.
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A jammer could be working in the area completely unrelated to the occurrence, and I've heard of the sea surface thing being caused by a feeding of a certain species creatong bubbles on the surface.
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Automatic rifles were already prohibited in Canada.
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The truck moves before you can find where it was fired from. It can fire 6 times between reloads. It can be reloaded anywhere.
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I'm not paying attention to the visuals but if it's a comparison it's good practice to not directly call ouylt companies. Yes, you may know who they are, but that's based on your knowledge and not the presenter trying to single out anyone.
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They saw the F-117 Nighthawk. It was only revealed later.
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 @3bSneaky_ You're mixing money and objects that have been paid for. Struggling families can't pay their mortgage with used Abrams.
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 @3bSneaky_ I'm thinking. No, I don't think the bank accepts Abrams as payment.
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 @3bSneaky_ The car is your car. The Abrams isn't yours.
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Hell, if my son was facing prison for standing up for himself I'd let him have some beers.
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I think there's PzH 2000s are already there.
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Some oligarch owned a mall that had all the stores closevwhen Western businesses jumped ship, so he's trying to collect the insurance money.
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Print a press? It's gonna give before the receiver bends.
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Wrong. Assault weapon is the constructed term. Assault rifle is a category as valid as submachine gun, battle rifle, light machine gun, etc.
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Not really. This happened years ago but even one of the former directors for a gun control organization has admitted that their proposals wouldn't have stopped shootings. Most gun regulations are absolute nonsense that exist just to screw with people, and do zero to solve the problem. Look up the insanity of NFA laws and tell me that prevents crime.
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Noticed how the footage of drone drops on Merkava tanks in Gaza slowed down? Small drones are a solvable problem. It's just that drone vs jammer is a cat and mouse game and in Ukraine the drone happens to be winning. But you don't see the drones lost to EW.
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The L-band arrays are for IFF and EW. Due to the larger wavelength used you need a massive antenna to get proper angular resolution to see targets. So it can only be assumed the L-band is a transmitter/receiver rather than a search and track radar.
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North Korea, that famously wealthy nation.
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There's still NATO members with 7.62 as standard issue so who gives a shit. Apparently it's more of a suggestion than a requirement.
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 @TylerShacklefordDurden German citizens in the 1940s suffered much worse than Gaza. Dresden was like 25,000 fatalities in a couple of days.
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Doesn't even make sense. MAGA people will turn on a dime and support war if Trump wants it.
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Of course not. The US if anything is doing "enemy of my enemy" with the Taliban as they fight ISIS K.
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But they aren't. They provide security, training, etc and don't participate in combat. Getting a permit to be a PMC from the State Department is extremely difficult.
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Bro I swear, the other day you people were saying the CEO was a distraction from the drones. PICK ONE
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 @UnworthySubject Russia accepted the 1991 borders. Crimea is Ukraine.
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@Destination_Euphoria BS. Poroshenko was anti-Russia, Zelensky was a Russian speaker moderate. You're completely wrong. Zelensky wanted peace. Putin wanted war.
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@brendenlogue I believe that. I know of three people who had front sight blocks incorrectly installed which caused the weapons to be undergassed. I talked to an outright PSA shill who ended up admitting that one may need to fix one or two things out of the box and that he only used PSA for parts and built the rifles himself to skip the hassle of incorrect builds. He also admitted to having sent back two uppers for being off spec. I've probably come across a hundred people who never had any issues with PSA and I don't know about their success stories, but it's still uncomfortable to think that a company is essentially skipping QC and saving the money by assuming most shooters don't put enough rounds through their weapons to see a problem. And then I see people advocating for their rifles, or just the parts, as a way to save money and if something is off just activate the warranty. If everyone did that, they'd go out of business. The people paying for the cheap parts are the Americans who sadly are not educated enough about the weapon system to realize there might be problems. Unfortunately my cynicism just sees an exploitative business model where some bean counter came up with a formula to make money off people who might not know any better.
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@Milivoy84 At Red Flag they simulate a whole ass war. Not T-38s, the F-35 defeated F-16s and F-15s. "That's why some rather nasty surprises happened in some exercises like F22 losing multiple times from Typhoon or having some rather unfavourable win ratio vs Indian Su30 MKI" - So first you discount kill ratios from simulations, then come up with simulated kills against the F-22. Okay. "There are now confirmed reports that Russian S400 radars can detect and track stealth planes and that even Russian fighters can do it too" - I trust those as much as I trust their vaccine. "Su57" - there's... 11 of them. "first ever stealth plane was shot down. With 50 years old tech" - In a feat that was never replicated. Pure luck, skill and complacency of flight planners. Zoltan Dani said it himself, they lost the lock twice. "Several days later another one fell down in woodland around Tuzla in Bosnia" - And trying to find evidence for these claims is a rabbit hole that leads to the Earth's core. I've seen everything from claims that it was a B-2, and claims of 4 F-117 plus 2 B-2s shot down. Only 82-0806 was lost. Every other Nighthawk was seen operational. Mind that the wreckage of a MiG-29 was reported as a F-117 in some newspapers, which helped the confusion. "the F117 fleet stopped flying above Serbia" - The strikes went from March 24th to June. There's footage of F-117 strikes until May 1st. "And Su57 will be step above them" - There's 550 F-35s worldwide. Only 11 Su57s. "the world and environment in which F35 is required to "kick door" is becoming way to hostile for it" - If it's hostile to the F-35 it's deadly to any non-stealth aircraft. No more airplanes can take off with such a threat.
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It's not a troll army. It's people who've organically discovered the topic.
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@Sunny45553 But the propeller would wind up the net and get stuck.
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 @bagamut lmao it's all fake, Russia captured Kiyv!
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These businesses were committing manslaughter, if only there was a law that we could charge them with... We really need to write one that punishes people for killing others when they're negligent or indirectly kill someone by placing them in danger. If only someone wrote a law that made it illegal to cause harm to others...
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Not really. They weren't going to get retired all at once, only around 40 was the USAF request.
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If you drop dead there's no further medical intervention needed lol
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How's Belbek doing?
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@cucco1 "from China as well as they want to destabilize the West" - But China makes money selling to the West. If the West gets destabilized, China goes down too. "In the wars that Russia won there have been moments like this again and again yet Russia changed logistics and won in the end" - Because someone else was handling their logistics. They don't have America handling their logistics this time, and after 7 months you have seen that their supply issues are only getting worse and worse. They literally show no ability to learn, if you're going to claim they're gonna win this time then demonstrate their abilities. The fact of the matter is that even if they started to improve now, it's already too late as their armed forces are on the back foot and a significant force is trapped against a river. Iran and North Korea aren't America. Iran's drone demonstration even featured targets filled with explosives because the drones miss, so they detonate targets remotely to pretend everything works. "Full war burns fuels is also true for the opposition" - But it's Russia that has to feed an expeditionary force. Russia would burn through supplies just to keep Russians in Ukraine. Ukraine would burn through supplies to kill untrained Russians. Meaning that the supply burn for Russia just to sustain the line is already a complete waste, while Ukraine's burn rate is simply the cost of winning, which they'll pay gladly to finish off the threat for once and for all.
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 @Chaosoftheunicorns Not annexed.
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The AC-130 can't even fly during the Day. Spirit 03 was shot down and the entire crew died as a result.
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One went overboard and another crashed due to pilot disorientation. Not engine failure.
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 @atarkus8 they are difficult to repair because of lack of parts
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 @PyromaN93 the Soviet ruggedness is a myth. The MiG-27 damaged itself by firing the 30mm cannon.
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+Goo ogre child porn harmed children in its creation. Posting the code that allows people to encrypt files is free speech. Actually shooting someone harms people. Uploading the code for a 3d printed gun is free speech.
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It was the norm that younger generations became wealthier than their parents.
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The anti-Putin journalists are limited to confirming obituaries or social media posts. If your relatives are too old to use social media, you cannot be counted.
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@igory3789 No argument. I don't watch CNN. I watch the footage of the armored vehicles blowing up. Best use of my taxpayer money. I pay, I get to watch Russian military equipment blow up while drinking the morning coffee.
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Wipes can be good if done properly. In a shooter there's not as much of an "endgame" unless you want to go The Division style and embrace the bullet sponge way of scaling. When games are stuck in early access for years the wipes feel necessary at the start but scummy on the tail end.
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@londonberry2180 That kind of debunks conscription, though. If the conscripts won't be doing the shooting jobs, conscription won't train them for those other jobs either.
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@vonvomit5666 Lazy trash does not get weeded out.
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@wristsosloppy528 territorial problems with Japan, a country that doesn't have conscription and sees the military negatively...
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He's selling toothpaste to combat it apparently.
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 @DV-ou1yu Gaming grew as an industry, nowdays there's people buying CoD who didn't play Blops2 back in the day.
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Moderators accelarate the fission. Control rods stop it. In the Chernobyl RBMK design the water acted as coolant and helped control the reaction which leads to positive void coefficient as the water boils. The Zaporizhzhia NPP uses water as moderator so boiling causes the reaction to slow down with the negative void coefficient.
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@Arekinable "they are using the same meme or phrase, coordination exists" - but... that contradicts the very essence of a meme. A meme is a shared experience/information that exists in a culture/subculture. If you try to coordinate a meme it's a "forced meme" and typically it's garbage. "Second, If they just wanted to make a point they could have said literally anything else. They chose to engage with that meme." - So? It was clearly effective. Realistically you have one chance to garner someone's attention because they can easily ignore or even block you. Are you gonna post a multi tweet essay they're probably not even going to read - and even if they did, they'd be too stubborn to change their mind - or just deliver the one-hit KO? It's bullshit that people got suspended/banned. But I'd rather get banned by driving the nail home with one swing than waste my time longposting at people who won't care.
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@Arekinable trust me, my longposting makes War and Peace feel like light reading. You're not some snobby journalist who's gonna block me for having a different opinion, I can use gasp 240 characters or more.
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They're civilians. All men serve in Russia.
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Oryx is sent on a Special Diving Operation in the Azov sea to fish out helicopters. C'mon...
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Nice demoralization, botski
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@caseybrown4360 Powerful deduction. Are you intelligence for drone pilots? Because your reasoning is exactly how children get Hellfires dropped on them.
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@411bvRGiskard Losing a pilot is more "expensive" than the aircraft. If the aircraft is more expensive, but less vulnerable, it's actually cheaper in the long run. The A-10 also requires massive logistics support and foreign air bases. If you look at footage from Bagram airbase the A-10 hasn't been flown with full loads. They are lightly loaded. So yes, a turboprop aircraft can pull that type of duty. Turboprop aircraft are almost as fast as A-10s. Yes, A-10s are that slow. Loiter time on propeller aircraft is pretty high. I think the A-29 Super Tucano has 7 hours endurance. They're not as sitting ducks because their use case is the same as the A-10's - against forces that have next to no AA capabilities. And again, they're not that much "slower". The A-10 cruises at 330 knots while a turboprop can cruise at 300 knots.
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@coreyjewell1922 "So if it was too dark for the camera, chances are it’s too dark for the nv." - Not true. Ever wondered why film (and even youtubers) invest so much in lighting? Because low light filming is terrible. Camera sensors are NOT good at picking up low light conditions, cameras which perform well in low light are still somewhat expensive products, and security cameras often film in the IR spectrum (sometimes assisted by IR LEDs) to help the sensor as much as possible at picking up light.
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"this will help reduce deadly weapons in Canada" - by banning weapons that rarely get used in crimes? "But the data shows it will work and has worked in other countries" - No, it doesn't. Plenty of countries with strict gun laws have disgustingly high gun homicide rates.
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@leme5639 They've been cut off from a ton of western tech.
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@preludeh22a57 First, all armies/countries dehumanize the enemy. Babies stuck in bayonets (Germany) and babies ripped from incubators (Iraq). Second, the Russians call the Ukrainians worse things. And the most common name for Russian soldiers in the Ukrainian forces is "pidor". I'll let you google that one.
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@alexeyamosov664 He's right. I have been following the Mises Caucus debacle in the USA Libertarian Party and knew about the Kochs, Rothbard and Hans Hermann Hoppe lineage. The video filled in the gaps and structured the timeline for me, so I am now realizing how Libertarians became paleoconservative in a very "logical" progression by being exposed to the hypothesis that libertarians must oppose liberalism and ally with paleos (who hate libertarianism anyway). I was thinking about Kremlintarians but that's a slightly different thing, American libertarians who have stood against American imperialism to the point that they go "America bad" by default. Often they believe Russian talking points without even understanding that Russia is behind it. Many libertarians read Grey Zone by Max Blumenthal, who famously switched support for Assad in Syria after visiting Russia Today's 10 year gala.
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@markstrom3630 And? The UK has nukes. The US has nukes. France has nukes.
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@Bokicazver "Serbs made this rocket practically useless..." - By getting beat so bad Milosevic had to sign for peace?
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@markgilrosales6366 The microwave ovens didn't prevent Milosevic from tapping out.
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Most of them are Soviet built.
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So everyone involved takes a huge financial loss. Ain't that a kick in the taint?
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@argon7479 I thought it was the opposite, the better the results in standardized testing the more funding you get. And I guess standardized testing scores correlate to graduation. Or, the better funded schools are in higher income districts, and kids being born from families with higher incomes means they have a higher chance to graduate (not saying they're smarter... just that they graduate). Everyone needs a degree? Even if you're a plumber. Most jobs require education. Okay. Do you need a business degree to manage a corner store? Wage is a reflection of how much demand there is for a service and how many people are willing to do it. If there's a shortage of welders, welders get paid more. Doesn't matter if they have a mechanical engineering degree or just went to trade school. If there's a shortage of plumbers you'll have to pay more for one. It's not about education. I can guarantee there's people using their business, marketing and programming degrees on their current job who are living in worse conditions than people in the trades. If you increase the speed limit you'll lose more money due to increased injury and fatality rates. It's a trade off. You also make it cheaper for business to operate by taxing less. Raising taxes on the rich doesn't work. France tried that and they failed miserably because the ultra wealthy simply moved out of France or stopped paying themselves a wage for a few years. Raising taxes on the rich simply makes it costlier to do business, which is contrary to your stated goal. Appealing to the majority is a fallacy. Many times the majority doesn't understand the issues.
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The trigger safety isn't a safety by the way, it's a "drop safety". It prevents a dropped gun from having the trigger pull on itself through inertia.
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@annaredding Millions of people didn't have a choice and got it in late 2019-2020. If that was such a big issue, the fearmongering media would be reporting on it non-stop.
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@Rivenburg-xd5yf "YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE, WHAT YOU DONT HAVE A RIGHT TO IS ANONYMITY AFTERWARDS" - Yeah, you do. Wear a mask.
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If you're comitting a crime by performing an illegal citizen's arrest you can't shoot to protect the gun. Even thieves have the right to self-defense when they're not actively comitting a crime.
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@orzorzelski1142 Ukraine is fighting defensively while Russia has to cross no-man's-land (Ukraine minimizes casualties and maximizes Russian casualties). Russia does blanket shelling of areas before advance, which is ineffective when the enemy knows how you fight and thus baits you into hours long fire missions into areas you already abandoned. Firepower advantage on the Russian side is diminished by lower accuracy, low flexibility in said fire missions, unencrypted comms, shell hunger due to HIMARS destroying ammo depots. Like a defensive boxer, you wait for the other guy to throw a punch and you counter the opening. It doesn't matter how many punches are thrown. Not hitting doesn't score any points.
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 @medsed1133 Rounds are scored individually, not as a whole like Muay Thai
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@artemartemovich9621 "russophobic" lol the new SJWs have arrived
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@azurezerox8392 Exactly, and a gun being confiscated doesn't mean it was found in a crime scene. If they nab a guy with active warrants and find guns in the car, those go on the department social media posts too.
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You've been duped. You've been fooled into accepting a false narrative. The "restrictions in society" aren't a restriction on your freedoms. Your freedoms are intact. You've been fooled into thinking that you need to give freedom away for the sake of society when no such thing ever happened. You never had the freedom to endanger others with a moving vehicle. So you never lost any freedoms by obeying traffic laws. THINK for a second. THINK. In nobody's concept of freedom was vehicular manslaughter considered to be a right.
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@robert9ish "ultra conservative" - in the UK, so that's not saying much. He's an unprincipled asshole. There's no reason to defend him just because he made Shapiro run for the hills.
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@mikeg9277 Way to read something that wasn't actually written. Do you understand how markets work? When people are dirt poor, you open the market to foreign brands who can operate factories for miniscule wages. These low wages are still better than zero, so people end up pulling themselves out of poverty. You trying to read some kind of silly argument I never made is just deflection. "How about they gave you products for your money and pulled them out themselves?" - Because you need technical know how, factories, etc. Foreign investment. By that logic people from the rural rust belt, or Appalachia, or whatever could simply lay off the opiates and build a silicon fab. Simply construct huge buildings that require massive machinery, all the air filtration systems that remove dust from the air, the precision machines that etch billions of transistors into a square inch of silicon wafer. That doesn't come from thin air. "within your own country." - I'm not American. It's amazing, you get every single thing wrong.
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 @zorandimcevich6128 NATO wasn't attacking anyone in Ukraine
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 @zorandimcevich6128 Yanukovych was not kicked out, he fled the country
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@J_Madison "CIA/DOD numbers in said documents put losses at 7:1" - But they don't. They state Ukraine sustained at most 17k KIA, Russia at most 43k KIA. Plus 180k wounded.
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@Akkbar21 if protectionism doesn't work then China should have crumbled by now... By the way I also think protectionism doesn't work but I believe you play with the hand you are dealt. If others are using protectionism to hurt you and you sit there and take it like a chump chanting free market when the market isn't free...
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@okamisensei7270 how many new systems were released in the last 6 weeks?
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Right. But half the countries with those laws will also jail you if you say the Serbs did nothing wrong in the 90s.
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@susannehartl3067 "It will not voilate one section of the constitution, as it will not take away your right to own a weapon." - then why are poll taxes considered to infringe on someone's right to vote? Please try to learn about constitutional law before making statements about what violates or doesn't violate the constitution.
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A Wagner tank driver who surrendered said his training was two weeks.
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 @AnnedolfFrankler911 How is it self-defense to invade countries that haven't attacked you? How come Russia isn't defending itself in Finland?
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@Curse44 Live rounds used on Netherlands protesters yesterday. The f1nal solut1on is still a few years down the line.
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Because the program was expensive as it is? At the time they had the Nighthawk and B2 in service so they didn't need more than a new fighter.
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Ready or Not
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 @alastor8091 It's the usual govt incompetence.
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It wasn't defended as Russians are now targeting depots with rocket fuel for nuclear missiles Ukraine hasn't had since 1994.
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The other way around. You are lending the US govt the money it needs now, then the US govt pays back with interest. The biggest holder of US debt is the US itself.
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@tifoziPT Modern F-16s cost around 120-144 million, aircraft plus spare engine and pods. You're only getting 50 million F-16s from a scrapyard.
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@tifoziPT "The aircraft itself, and just the aircraft" - Which still needs pods or else it can't do most of its roles. "Previous versions of the F-16 went as low as 18 million just for the aircraft" - When? Back in 1992? "with an average of 30 million with more advanced blocks" - Fine. Try and get a 30 million F-16. See what you get for that money. "the "scrapyard" price of an old F-16 is between 6 and 8 million, de-militarized" - Nobody said anything about demilitarizing.
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@tifoziPT My point is that the F-35 already includes the avionics equivalent to the pods inside. The F-16 needs external equipment. So the cost of the F-35 "flyaway cost" gets you more than the F-16 flyaway cost. "1992 probably seems like a far away point to you" - It's not that it's far away. It's that a 1990s F-16 is extremely limited compared to today, and 1992 dollars are not 2020 dollars. If you got a 30 million dollar F-16 in 1992, its price in today's dollars would have been 55 million. $55M for a handicapped F-16 is not a good deal. "I'm not interested in buying a F-16" - It's a figure of speech. If you go try and find a ready to go F-16 for 30 million you'll only find airframes with good hours on them and in need of avionics upgrades. "And yes, yes you did" - No, I didn't. You don't understand the context. When fleets are too big to maintain excess airframes are sent to the scrapyard, and if an airframe is lost in an accident or whatnot it can be pulled out and reconditioned to replace the loss. If a nation wants to buy the used aircraft, they don't sell them the scrapped aircraft for 8 million. That would be ridiculous. They pay more and the aircraft is "de-de-militarized".
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@tifoziPT There's no circularity here. "not "best bang for buck", not "best deal", CHEAPEST" - You get zero buck and zero bang for a F-16 without pods. You need to get the goddamn pods even if it's just to track a drug running Cessna or boat. "many NATO countries still use the BASE F-16" - With how many avionics upgrades? "I might be stretching my good will here and assume something, but 55 million is less than 77 million" - Provided you can get the supply of older F-16s. "NOBODY argued that, NOBODY denied that" - Read this comments section for a taste, lol.
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@aidegrod "the probability of being shot down by MANPADS or anti-aircraft fire is almost the same as that of conventional attack aircraft" - Why? "the ratio of the combat load on the flight is much worse" - It can go up to a 18k lbs load. "the weapons more expensive, because of use more modern high-precision weapons" - Pretty much all weapons dropped from the air are modern high precision weapons. "which have to be used due to a very small payload capacity" - No, they don't have to be used because of payload capacity. B-1s and B-52s drop precision guided munitions. It's not because of payload capacity, it's because the weapons are being dropped NEAR FRIENDLIES or worse, near innocent civilians. Even the A-10 is the biggest fixed-wing user of APKWS, a conversion kit that makes unguided rockets precision guided weapons. "although the difference in accuracy of 5 m and less than 10 сm for air-to-ground missiles does not matter" - It does matter. An accuracy of 5m relies of perfect conditions, perfect flying, perfect target ID and perfect drop timing with a dumb weapon released through CCIP or CCRP. Your 5 meter accuracy doesn't mean anything when you're placing that 5 meter circle on the wrong building. It's almost like none of the people here know anything about the subject they're talking about. This is insane.
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Coping, seething, malding.
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@evilestmonkeey Correct. But also don't go around stopping random people at gunpoint or else they might defend themselves too.
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@evilestmonkeey Doesn't matter. There's two yokels with guns on the prowl for an excuse to be the hero. You think you're safe? Oh, we're going to have a talk? You're going to force me to have that talk at gunpoint? That's a crime, bub. Don't come with the intention to have a "talk" while giving me a legal excuse to go further than that. Yeah he was shot while dodging gunfire and attempting to disarm an aggressor. He did try to get out the line of fire - you can see him using the car as cover while a shot rings out. He only started attacking the driver after circling around the car. He'd already been shot at. You can clearly listen the gunshot in the video. Yeah, I'm start enough to not charge a man holding a shotgun. I'm going to do something that will neutralize the man holding the shotgun.
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@williamzk9083 Inertial systems are accurate but accumulate an error or "drift" so they compensate by updating through GPS. Inertial moving maps are also old technology (A-7 Corsair, for example) and a screen with a digital map is useful.
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Purchasing power parity means they actually spend 2/3rds of the US. The US is paying for American and Western European labor when it acquires weapons. Russia is paying for Russian labor which is cheaper.
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Oh you want regulated social media. Suddenly they're not private businesses anymore?
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That project fell through, only a few aircraft were acquired. The stated purpose is training other nations but it's obviously for SOCOM, which was covered by the Bronco against ISIS. The Bronco's return was short lived due to maintenance costs. The Army has washed their hands out of the A-10 issue and their official position is that they only need ordnance on target and don't care what delivered it.
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@dandare2586 No, congress will not authorize the USAF to retire it. It just doesn't get that much action anymore because they send the F-16 or Strike Eagles instead. So the USAF is stuck keeping an aircraft in inventory that they barely use.
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In 2021 Ukraine released live fire test footage of a Javelin obliterating through a cope cage. So in 2022 it was behind the times.
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I'm pretty sure real estate is one of the most corrupt businesses in NY. They'll never go after him for white collar crimes because of the amount of Democrat politicians he probably greased back in the day.
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@mikemartin5749 "You do not have the ability to comprehend that a person can be against vigilantism" - This wasn't vigilantism, dude shot people attacking him. "and also be against rioters and property damage. I am against property damage." - I mean, you're not when you're out here insisting that we shouldn't interfere with property destruction. "I sympathize with those that lost assets in the riot" - Sympathy doesn't solve the problem. "but our laws do not allow you to kill that person unless your life is in danger." - Kyle was in danger. Also, funny that we're pretending that the law actually matters. The felon who was carrying the Glock, has he been arrested for illegal possession and concealed carry? We're not living under laws, we're living under anarcho-tyranny. Everyone does whatever the fuck they want and the government is nowhere to be seen, but when the government has a gripe with you the hammer comes down. "but he fucking asked for it" - Tell it to a rape victim. "Damage and graffiti can be dealt with once the crowds are dispersed, which they always eventually are." - Just let them have their fill. Whoa. Big brained solution my dude. Just let them do everything they want until they get tired, fuck whoever loses their shit. "First he's a medic, then he has a "job" protecting property." - What? I'm not aware of any "job" but all that matters was him being attacked. "All a bullshit facade to go to the middle of a riot and try to play hero. " - What about the bullshit facade of pretending to be angry at the government and police to then only show up to steal and burn other people's shit?
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+Minenhle Nzimande 1) "First of all I live in South Africa. And I'm black." - you're still not giving an alternative version of the facts; 2) "Fast forward 25 years later black people want the land that they're were dispossed of" - so you went from denying that this is happening to CONFIRMING that it is happening. Kappa. 3) "Most agricultural land will be expropriated" - Again, thanks for confirming that land expropriations are real and not a conspiracy. 4) "It's not a racial matter. It's a welfare matter" - appropriating property is still theft. Communism is not the answer. 5) "Now providing people with that is a great step in improving the economic development of this country" - you won't be providing shit. You do realize Zimbabwe already attempted this exact same program and it turns out that if you expropriate land from the farmers and give the land to the people who aren't farmers, you can't produce food.
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The piers are still standing. The deck broke from massive upwards pressure.
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@liquidsnake6879 Leveraging Chinese human capital is a nightmare. So many rural people who can't transition to a high tech or services sector, and so many youths who'd rather be livestreamers than get a job. China is suffering a lot of the same problems the West has.
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@คนสวยปังมาก Russia couldn't even take Mykolaïv. They're gonna teleport to Odessa?
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@Safetytrousers "it never happened so it can't happen"
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@Safetytrousers and they've never said you shouldn't buy AMD either so I don't get your point. But nice of you to change the goalposts.
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@Safetytrousers nobody's saying anything about "not buying" a product. We're discussing how both companies will have issues. Yes, goalposts are involved. This is a "AMD has issues" vs "Intel has issues" and you switched into a "Intel has issues BUT nobody ever said don't buy it" which is not the topic at hand. Also, nobody says "don't buy AMD" either so it doesn't even make sense to say that.
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@Safetytrousers but that's not the point. OP said AMD has problems, and for those reasons he won't buy AMD. Then someone pointed out that Intel also has problems. You replied to that person.
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@Safetytrousers So, you understand that you replied to someone who was essentially saying "if you won't buy AMD because of issue X, then certainly you'd apply the same standard to Intel because of issue Y", right? You understand that saying "no tech youtuber says to not buy Intel" doesn't make sense as a response because nobody says to not buy AMD either, right? You understand that this isn't about recommendations from tech youtubers, but one customer being dissatisfied with AMD to the point of refusing to purchase their products but seemingly not applying the same standard to Intel, right?
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@СерхиоБускетс-ф7я Terminal velocity is not weapon velocity. It's the max velocity an object can achieve when free falling. Weapon velocity of a Khinzal is achieved by rocket boosting into thin atmosphere to reduce drag, and then fall on target before drag can slow the warhead down to subsonic. If you shoot down a weapon, the loss of control will lead to atmospheric drag and thus slow it down to the terminal velocity.
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@enlighteneddoggo5803 I'm a metric shill and you're right. People are ganging up on you and being completely unreasonable.
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@smirkypants the 1.5 trillion figure id the inflation adjusted cost of maintaining the aircraft operational until 2070. Not the development cost.
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@uegvdczuVF 1. Everything goes over budget. Not just stealth. 2. Same as above. 3. This happened because the F-22 was made to fight the Soviet Union and the US was fighting insurgents. The USSR didn't exist anymore so the need for F-22s was put into question. 4. The F-117 served the US well. The F-22 will be retired because it was cut short. 5. BS. The F-117 showcased outstanding capabilities and the F-22 dropped JDAMs where no other aircraft could go in Syria due to the defenses.
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And they had what? Bicycles? Because they left the tanks in Kharkiv.
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FrigginSweet if you have no stake in it why are you defending it? Seems like someone is way too invested and defensive of a bad show that supposedly we have no stakes on.
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@raysschoko That makes no sense. It's Russia fighting to the last man, forcing them forward against impenetrable defenses. The US armed forces would suffer a lot less casualties than the Ukrainians, uncle Putin is a coward and he would nuke the world if US troops arrived.
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It's the high ground. It's not the population that matters. It's the fact that Ka-52s won't be able to hide, the fact that recon drones will have better transmit range, the fact that Ukrainian fires will have the advantage.
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@eldorados_lost_searcher Yeah the problem with the "random pill" is that during the Cold War the soldiers were tested on without their consent. Experimental stuff is off limits. Especially if it doesn't prevent spread anyway.
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@wildhaggis6326 that's cool bro. Now put that camera on a plane and try to steer a contrast seeker missile in the pitch black of a moonless night from 10,000 feet in the air and 30 nautical miles ground distance.
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Was he truthful? He said a whole bunch of nonsense.
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@miriamweller812 They had one mobilization wave because they did the equivalent of Ukraine at once. Which is less efficient than just breaking them into multiple waves. You can't train an entire army at once. But break them into 10 batches, you can cycle them through.
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It's a duality because at the same time France protested every weekend for weeks in a row. The Netherlands was on fire yesterday and the police wounded two protesters with live fire. You have the biggest sheep in the world but also people willing to throw down like a good old fashioned soccer hooliganism event.
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@peytonalexander5300 Plenty of people did not address it. And the book was revealed like 6 years ago. The allegations have nothing to do with Epstein's crimes. It doesn't seem fooling because bringing it up would actually seem stranger. You know what's a terrible look? Bring up an unrelated crime and say you didn't do it. That would actually sound like an admission.
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@BH-21-00 Noted. So it's probably "pen and paper" like in the old days of "fly at X degrees at Y speed at distance Z from the target".
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@cocopud 5.56 only started having problems with terminal effectiveness when shot out of shorter barrels and with subpar bullet designs (M855). The firefights in Afghanistan were happening at outside rifleman range. The military was at fault for having such little organic fire support in a theater where the enemy purposefully sat outside 5.56 range because of how effective the 5.56 paired with a M4/M16 was. We've learned this lesson multiple times - we're not doing anything by issuing a caliber we already know most riflemen can't hit at. "decent modern body armour is resistant to it" - Modern body armor is resistant to all conventional ball ammo shot out of standard issue rifles, not just 5.56. That's why a new bullet design with overpressured loads was required to bust them. Humans are not IFVs or tanks. Ammo that can't bust plates will still break a femur into pieces and cripple a soldier running from cover to cover. Plus there's an issue that remains. If there's a near-peer threat that forces the US to use the plate-busting rifle, you can be damned sure that the enemy will outsmart the United States by removing the plates from their armor and just run around with fragmentation protection. The added mobility will make them perform better in combat with really no downside because the US can kill them wearing plates. Meanwhile the American soldier will be dealing with lower hit probability for no added benefit.
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@cocopud Exactly. All 5.56 replacements failed, until busting plates became a necessity. There's a use case for the new 6.8, there weren't for the previous attempts of extending the range of intermediate rifles. By the way, last time I checked, and I haven't checked in a while, the NGSW proposal is only for like 120,000-150,000 weapons I think. They're not actually changing calibers right now. They're probably going to issue the new rifle to quick reaction forces deploying overseas in danger of facing plates.
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Just tweet from the McDonald's wifi.
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I'd be proud if I had a child who could make those observations on the spot, ngl.
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@LitEmbers No, I say this because there was an investigation. I think we kinda know for sure. Although there was an intrusion on the electoral system the evidence points to just hackers snooping around the voter database, no changes were made and the election results were not in that database so they weren't tampered with. The investigation also shown that not all ads bought by Russians on social media were pro-Trump, and the amount of people exposed to them was too small to sway an election.
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They were on the defensive then. And in WWII they had US aid.
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It would actually be ironic if the shot is protecting them from the flu but they always get really bad colds every single year. I used to get sick a lot as a kid, for a few years I took the flu shot, one year I had a reaction and got really nasty 4 days of fever so I stopped taking them. My colds have always been mild ever since.
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@genobreaker1054 Minimum wage was created purposefully to "breed people out" of society by making them unable to live and raise children.
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"every country where guns were banned, dropped the amount of gun violence per capita" - What about Brazil and Mexico? Or even the UK? Gun crime rose after the handgun ban. You're lying.
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@zenaku666 Because cancers have many different types. You'd almost need to have a custom built virus for every patient due to how specific the needs would be. "Infect hosts and multiply lol" is a goal already coded into virus, that's not specific at all.
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+surrealnumber I think the point is that illegal immigration is illegal for no reason than we say that it should be. Let's face it, if Libertarians and AnCaps are fighting against taxation and the welfare state, how would illegals create a burden on a system that doesn't exist anymore? In our current reality, if it's easier to become a legal citizen it's also easier for the government to dip it's hand in their pockets and basically it becomes harder to work below minimum wage. It's the opposite of bank fraud, it's giving money into the system.
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Zero benefit in being left alone "this time". They always come back for more. In fact it only helps them to ease in future coercion.
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How are the Marines gonna fly it off a short deck carrier? The amphibious assault ship requires STOVL aircraft like the Harrier or F-35B as it has no catapult or arresting wires.
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On their US website HK said to pronounce as "Coke" because Americans trying to pronounce Koch would end up saying cock.
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Buk seems effective against drones, incoming cruise missiles, etc from what we've seen in Ukraine. They should be ahead of S-300 or S-400 batteries as a protective layer. Pantsir/Tor should be the last resort to protect them, but they seem to not be dependable. If an incoming missile is about to hit and nobody in the S-400 notices, it might be too late for the Pantsir/Tor to react.
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@callies8907 If one is willing to risk worse symptoms it's their choice. So again, what's the point?
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@callies8907 But it's bouncing around the vaccinated. It was already past the vaccine on day one because it only suppressed symptoms.
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@drk3758 so would a sawn off shotgun.
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@drk3758 The 100 round magazine would be harder to conceal than the gun itself. Plus a shotgun can have shells shoved into it without removing the magazine, and each shell contains multiple pellets so depending on the distance a single shot causes the same damage as 8 or 9 shots from a pistol.
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@ronarnett4811 You served in a military that wasn't the Russian one. The former paratrooper who defected from Russia after writing "Z O V", a document exposing his experience in the Russian army, stated that he barely had training the first time he signed a contract and he had hoped the military reforms had improved things when he decided to sign for a second contract. Tough chance - training is acomplished by taking staged photos and signing documents. Then everyone goes free for the rest of the day.
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@behroozkhaleghirad TASS reported that on the 28th Sept the first Mobiks arrived in theater.
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@obsidianstatue At this point you have to be pretending. The US overreacted to every piece of Soviet equipment. You know damn well what phenomenon he was referring to. Hitting a moving target with a missile is kind of the bare minimum for a missile. That's kind of what they have to do. AI? That's a buzzword. Back in the day those were just called algorithms and bombs with the brain power of a TI-84 were able to identify targets since what, the 90s? Yes, tanks and missiles are different. We were scared of tanks. Bombers. Fighters. Everything under the sun. And we have consistently been scared of boogeymen that never materialized.
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@obsidianstatue The US flew manned hypersonic aircraft in the 1960s. Yes, AI is a buzzword when it does nothing existing algorithms weren't already doing decades ago. How does an infrared sensor see anything? At hypersonic speeds the heating of the vehicle will blind an IR sensor. I didn't steer the conversation. I described what the other posted said. It's you who's steering it into the opposite direction as you realized your mistake.
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@agapp11able T-90 losses have been recorded much earlier than you think, bub.
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@myleshagar9722 I've never seen a "squad" of robots. I've seen Boston Dynamics videos. They do cool tricks, but still seem like a good sledgehammer hit will instantly disable them. Fleet of drones? What do you want to do? Cook them with so much microwave they cannot receive control inputs? Blind the optics with ebay lasers?
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@ambassador8524 Nice cop out.
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@mugetsuu23 Why would I be thankful of a nation that erases my freedoms then forces me to make a deal with the devil to get them back? Why should I be thankful of being threatened to lose my job? Why should I be thankful of being denied travel? They work? Then why are cases exploding in highly vaccinated countries? They save others? But people still spread! If you care about other people, stay home and never leave.
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@acex222 And coastal cities are generally... near the coast and have higher populational density than most of the country, so it doesn't matter that there's a lot of empty landmass?
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The Moe Szyslak Special
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Nah that's just the end of low interest rates causing a contraction. As other stated, there was overhiring.
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The Fukushima reactor sustained the tsunami, even with an insufficient sea wall. The "built on a tsunami prone area" talking point is overused because there's nothing wrong with the area itself.
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 @EpicgamerwinXD6669 Belgians are just Chocolate French.
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@jasonbott1339 "Wearing masks doesn't help unless you are coughing/sneezing" - that doesn't even make any sense because coughing will pressurize the insides of the mask and blow the "seal". Meanwhile inhaling will press the mask against the skin. "They are ineffective when not coupled with proper sanitation, hand washing, etc" - No shit. But you need to be doing that without a mask either. "Saying everyone needs to wear one is nonsense." - It's not notsense. The problem is that manufacturers are only now stepping up so we want masks in hospitals and clinics, that's what started the "masks won't protect you" narrative. Because they fucking do. That's why medical personnel needs them.
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Funding was secured in 2013, what are you talking about?
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Saltpeter that goes off like fireworks. Those are propellant grains and chunks of rocket fuel. Nitrates blow in a single blast, no secondaries.
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"Mr Z" was elected in 2019 as a pro-peace candidate, in fact criticized for being too pro-Russia back then. Russia spits in your face and kicks you in the groin if you try to be friends. About time you learned this is they way they have always acted through history.
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It's still done.
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It's important to remember that the USSR had important industry in Ukraine. Mykolaiv shipyards built the Moskva, a factory in Kharkiv built T-64s, T-80s and T-84s, they built the engines for the Mi-26 heavy lift helicopter and they even refurbished rockets for Russian nuclear missiles.
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USN1985dos This is cope. The DPR/LPR took massive casualties. The new army formations have poor equipment. They're Russians, not Donbabweans.
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+Amirhosein Herandy okay so China is "blockading" itself by taxing American goods? They seem to be doing just fine. What the enemy does to you in times of war is sink any ship heading to your shores and shoot down any plane trying to enter your airspace. Here the US is using tariffs to either discourage consumption of Chinese goods, and the goods that do come in contribute to government revenue. It's not the same as being starved for supplies and the things you need being destroyed during transport. Is it the way I'd want things to be? Hell no. But if everyone is taxing your products to promote their own industries so that you can't sell very well in foreign markets, and your own companies are fleeing to foreign countries so they can pay workers less, and then import into your own country because you have no/low tariffs then you're being duped.
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@usffan5775 an interview to push a narrative rather than investigate the truth
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None of this makes sense.
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They gained ground and then lost it last year. Germany almost reached Moscow in WW2.
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He looked at his phone before so maybe someone warned him the ban was incoming. He probably wanted to go out in a bang.
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Russia is falling apart.
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@alexdevcamp Political sci-fi thriller? Look up which countries contracted Palantir to provide the contact tracing services.
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This reminds me of the "Here's how Bernie can still win" crowd.
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@awesomecooly123 How was it "cherry picked"? I shouldn't need experts to discuss anything. I'm not an expert. I can do math. Give me the numbers, I can run them without expertise needed. No expert can break the laws of physics to whittling down an issue to be bare physics involved makes it impossible for the "experts" to try and cloud people's judgements. It's like solar roadways. I don't need an expert in PV panels and an expert in asphalt to debate. I can run the numbers and see it's a bad idea.
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They've done that to the Sevastopol military HQ twice.
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Not true. Service workers have to start with national language first, and then switch to Russian. It does not affect regular people or everyday conversations, only official business. Only the greeting needs to be in Ukrainian. Stop posting propaganda, Ruskie.
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 @jhwheuer not only does the DEA and Coast Guard perform joint ops with the local governments, the cartels also exist stateside.
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No, because lack of spare parts will prevent it. The company that made it went out of business two decades ago.
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I don't even know what that means. The lead does whatever you want, when the dies apply force to form the bullet, the lead acts like toothpaste. It just fills the void. Undersize? Pressing it makes it bulge out and get wider. Oversize? Pressing the lead will thin it out. Yugo M67 and 7.62x39 8m3 also feature voids so it's just a question of not inserting enough lead volume to fill it. It's by design, not accident.
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Not really. Even under ideal conditions a Marxist system would collapse. Without profit incentives nor private property the allocation of resources would be a nightmare.
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@ronburgandy1475 The majority of Russia's tank count accounts for scrap or poorly maintained units. Tanks rusting in the open air need weeks if not months to refurbish, and that assuming you have the spare parts.
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@ronburgandy1475 Okay, let's take half. Out of 10,000 how much is it going to cost to refurbish them? How many crews can be trained to use them?
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@ronburgandy1475 What facts? You point to an estimated number. That's not a fact until you do an inspection of all those vehicles. The proof is that the pictures show they are rusted after being stored in the open air.
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In Germany, you say? There's a really neat armband. Red and white. Some people will get it. Caused the Germany army a lot of trouble...
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@William Sands I would gladly die just to prove to the world that you people are the violent ones ahaha
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Until a drone with autonomous capabilities just slips inside the bunker when people/vehicles are exiting or entering. Sure, it's not as dramatic as a bunker buster. But one of those SOBs causing panic as it goes buzzing around until it "sees" the fuel tanker feeding the diesel generators is still a significant emotional event.
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@clausroquefort9545 Nobody does decent cage armor - it needs to be factory made (or done by very skilled hands) to work and it only works against one type of warhead. Hit a cage with a different shaped charge and it does nothing.
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@michaelholts1598 yeah I just mentioned the 2011 as a design workaround. Didn't know about skinny grips, though.
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They use Grad rockets with the warhead replaced by a leaflet dispenser.
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Russia broke the Minsk agreements before the ink dried. Not to mention the Budapest memorandum and the two treaties signed with independent Chechnya.
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Even communists disavow the Soviet Union. Even if you think communism is good, you could agree that giving Eastern Europe to them and the danger of them taking over Western Europe, Africa and Southern America would harm millions of people.
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And you get the tracks digging into the trench action.
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@mresturk9336 The problem is assuming they are in any way interested in Marxism. They want to sell us "socialism" and "communism" but not through a Lenin. The big companies, the media conglomerates and politicians stay at the top and they become the "Party". The only revolution they want is commodified. The "revolution" is voting through an app, buying t-shirts with slogans and bitching on twitter. If they wanted revolution they'd be telling everyone to stock up on guns, ammo and fertilizer. But they shill for gun control. Says a lot about the revolution they want to see.
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@TrueChell "The military industry," - the only customer is the state, so corrupt as all hell "private prisons" - ditto "the privatized health care system" - regulated to hell and back, private healthcare used to be pretty good but laws passed in the 1940s that turned healthcare benefits as untaxable income and then more expansions to subsidies in the 50s, 60s, etc absolutely tore into the free market aspect "the school system" - subsidized by federal loans Everything the state has its hands on increased in price. Healthcare, housing, education, etc. What the free market provides as pure consumer goods has either reduced in price or offered better quality for the same money.
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Another aspect is that now Russians will have to send some kind of EOD team to check for explosives in those large buildings, slowing them down even if the place is empty.
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 @sethturner5242 Providing basic necessities to millions in a country is expensive and labor-intensive. And we have pushed the envelope on efficiency compared to just 50 years ago.
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@adamlemoine42 There would have been less cancer surgeries if people were getting screened early. Guess whose fault was that.
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@thejquinn Sure. What are they blocking the streets with?
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Just the small issues with their extraction capabilities being powered by Western technology that's now under sanctions, the oil and gas fields progressively getting harder to extract as they obviously started with the easiest ones first, and how most of the world will refuse to offer insurance to Russian ships which will make transport expensive.
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@thilehoffer Then you're not paying attention.
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Innocentious Sure. But at what point is a mechanical engineer qualified to talk about gender (biology)?
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I just love no power steering and a stiff chassis that will transmit all the impact forces into my body so that my inheritors can just have the vehicle bent back into shape.
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@anngo4140 It's not even that. 35M is most likely labor cost plus materials. When the Russian MoD buys, they're paying for R&D, the development of all the facilities, and the wages of the workers even when they're not tasked with construction.
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@b.griffin317 Rifling isn't even that difficult, youtube has videos of people grinding rifling buttons and driving them through DOM tubing with hydraulic jacks. Corrosive ammo doesn't really matter. For most of the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th century you either had the choice of mercury based primers or corrosive primers for military ammo because those were the only ones that could the stockpiled and still work reliably. Since mercury primers weakened brass the vast majority of military forces picked corrosive. The salts are water soluble, take a water bottle or canteen and dump water into the internals. Nitrocellulose can literally be manufactured from cotton. No need to waste time on black powder.
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Both can be true.
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Rev up your VMs!
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If it works, it works.
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@PaulTheadra "if a large part of the population get sick, leave the workforce or disrupt their bottom line of gov/corps" - But the government is still advocating for widespread testing, which means people will be self-isolating anyway. No matter the way we slice it, sick or not the government is sending labor home.
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The Phantom didn't need guns.
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Are the 11 brigades enough firepower?
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Armies were larger in 1941 due to lower mechanization. Warfare now gives the advantage to specialized equipment. Would a force with T-34s stand a chance against Leopard 2s? Only by forcing crews to run out of ammo.
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Cope. Already confirmed by Russians on telegram.
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@Madmaxxxx1984 prove it's a Turkey, prove it's not worth the money and prove it leaves lots to be desired.
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@-007-2 The A-10 needs the loiter time and durability to make up for its poor performance.
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Put larger wheels in the rear axle so that the car is always rolling downhill.
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 @gugulethuzangwa8358 Libya was not ivaded. Arab League asked for intervention, the UN declared a no fly zone.
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The hacker known as 4chan.
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Two civilians killed because Russians store Mt. Helens sized volcanic amounts of ammo with no safety at all. Meanwhile Russia lobs anti-ship missiles at shopping malls.
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All of them would have to miss critical components. From a purely statistical change, working Javelins without any duds missing the engine/fuel/ammo/crew 5 times in a row would be like getting tails 5 times in a row when tossing a coin. It can happen, but it's a freak occurrence. The only person I've heard so far saying that was Scott Ritter, and he's a kid diddler, so...
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There might have been an editing mistake but they asked her to prove the weapon as clear, and she had not "proven" it clear UNTIL she looked down the bore and said "clear". So according to logic, she looked down the bore of a weapon which was not cleared as safe per the standards set. Of course that what she did was safe because the gun was indeed cleared before, but they did taught her to clear a weapon by looking down the bore. All it takes is distraction to override common sense and she might look down the bore of a loaded weapon.
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An increase of 4°C would be terrible. Mind that we're talking about potentially missing the 1.5°C limit we imposed on ourselves for 2100 (?).
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@LTVoyager I am sure it would be terrible. An average increase of 4ºC would mean in some places temperatures could rise as much as 15-20ºC on a hot summer day. Temperate regions could turn bone dry.
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@gavinl4388 The problem is that there's good research and bad research. I believed the "Right Sector snipers" story. When I actually checked the sources, Sergei Lavrov made it up.
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 @michaeld.uchiha9084 the F-35 has a gap in the nozzle for cold air to mix into the exhaust.
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But the Northern front will be a greater massacre than Vuhledar. And it wasn't necesary to pretend to coup the government to move assets.
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 @think_of_a_storyboard3635 if you watch ARGs/analogue horror you learn to expect them. I get startled anyway.
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There were no fortifications in Kiev and Russia still got beat there.
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What do you know? From what I'm seeing Russia's offensives are running out of steam.
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 @DementiaJoeGottaGo So places within a walking distance of 2014 lines are better than taking over supply lines inside Russia?
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The Kharkiv offensive sealed Luhansk's fate. Their defenses in the north cannot be supplied by rail anymore, the rail lines from the East do not connect all the way to the North and the northern rail lines out of Belgorod are under Ukrainian artillery range.
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@henrylicious Yes, but he's actually entertaining. After the defamation suit, Maddow should have been sued for false advertising.
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Yeah the ones both the US and Iran pointed to.
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@porscheoscar Bruh in the UK the double-jabbed make up 70% of the deaths even though the vaccination rate is 67%. "70-80% likely to have long haul covid." - What a crock of shit. So 70-80% of people who got it in 2020 are debilitated and we haven't heard a peep?
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Live in a pod. Eat the bugs. Drink the poo water. Own nothing and be happy.
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Lmao did you just blow over from California?
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@ZeNoNClipZ nice try, I have the Alex Jones apocalypse rated air filters.
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 @TojnamComplex is this boxing or a soap opera?
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@p4nnus If we both get our drone operators to call our positions at the same time, but I have the better optics, I will see you first and shoot first. Drones are great. The weapon operator still needs the ability to see for himself what the drone guy is watching.
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And it did. We're focused on Ukraine now.
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Even in the early days it was known that there's a difference between SEAD and DEAD. If you want a SAM site to be truly knocked offline you'd need to use bombs and rockets on the equipment, and if necessary use the gun too.
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@VoidSurfer9 "That our military has observed vehicles performing maneuvers at speeds unknown to man" - This never happened. They had radar contacts that reported these speeds. This type of behavior was not observed through the pod footage. Meanwhile you could read up on the declassified reports of SOLVED ufo/uap contacts. Mostly quadcopter drones operating without permission and balloons.
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Historically, Winter punished Russia in the Winter War with Finland and in Ukraine 2022.
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I think that figure is ignoring how much water we consume through food.
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Juan Bautista the statistics that come from the Cuban government?
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Alixundr >Communist party riding a bike with a stick named "socialist economic theory" >Communist puts the stick on the bike wheel spokes >"fucking free markets" There, a meme in text form
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Take your meds.
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@meoffmymeds1770 Cope.
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@kdemetter You've always been concerned? What measures did you take? "especially since you can be a carrier with knowing it." - This is true for many infectious diseases. Either way, the asymptomatic spread scare was created due to shoddy science and it's not the main driver of spread. Asymptomatic carriers have always been a very minor aspect of spread and that is true for this pandemic as well.
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Ukraine has existed since the 12th century. It's older than Moscow.
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@haraldhardrade7539 No, they were founded by the Rus who were essentially vikings. The Russians are the offspring of the Muscovia people after the Golden Horde collapsed and they took the name of the Rus for themselves. Kiev couldn't have been founded by Russians because Russians did not exist. The name "Ukraine" is older than the name "Russia".
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@johnharding4444 "Do you honestly think the USA Govenment spends more on health care than it does on the military." - Yes. Both the Medicare and Medicaid add up to over one trillion a year, which is more than the defense budget.
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@johnharding4444 It's not made up. The defense budget for 2020 was 690 billion. Medicaid got 458 billion and Medicare got 924 billion. Unfortunately for you, it's easy to check. "but the military budget of the government is the 2nd biggest expenditure" - This is pure sleight of hand. If my budget for rent is 400, my budget for food is 300, my budget for my car payment is 200 dollars and I spend 200 dollars on gas, food is the 2nd biggest expenditure but in total I dedicate more money to my car. You're either being intentionally misleading, or I'm actually embarrassed to have to explain to an adult that something being the second in numerical order it doesn't mean its total is greater than the sum of the items below in that table.
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 @cyan_oxy6734 Maybe Russia shouldn't have bit the hands of everyone that fed them. In life it pays to have friends. Russia is down to Iran, North Korea and Eritrea lol
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@darcassian6006 way to miss the point. The vast majority of things are sold for profit so the moral argument is completely useless. The point was that female sex toys are dismembered male body parts. And despite handling a dildo on a weekly basis for years it never fucking crossed his mind that both genders sexualize body parts, and it's typically not that convenient to have full-body sex toys just so that you can have moral superiority. Being a joke or not is irrelevant, he is aware of female """"""objectification"""""" of the male body but not consciously.
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@FranciscoFJM how is it grasping at straws to point out that one of the prominent games journalists vocal about how "disgusting" the bust was has double standards?
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But Witcher is developed and published by CD Projekt, Battlefield is published by EA. Having EA calling the shots is just like developing in America.
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There was also the Ghost Division, which moved around and changed their unit patches to make German observers report the wrong locations and movements.
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The bridge was used to haul massive convoys of military vehicles. Russia attacks to cause pain to civilians, Ukraine strikes to reduce enemy forces in the frontline.
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@5Andysalive "You can use it for rockets, why not for big planes." - rockets explode much more frequently than planes
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@Markle2k Holy crap what an unimaginative person you are. If we're in the year 5020, then everything that happened previously is human history. You created a fictional version of human history for all the events that took place from 2020 to 5019. In 5020, 5019 and everything before... is the past. "The casks are not going to be dropped down a "deep ass hole"." - I don't know who made you the manager of the disposal project, just out of a sudden you remotely stopped the existing geological burial sites with a youtube comment?
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 @ГеннадийШуплецов-р8п I hope Putin sends you to the front, then you'll see what dying for interests really is.
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 @Mountain-Man-3000 Fewer soldiers doesn't mean higher pay.
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And then Russians left Kherson. Tears are temporary, victory is eternal.
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@Casisking639 Thousands charging at MGs = HUMAN WAVE (a sea of people crashing like waves against the coast) Small groups in a creeping advance = MEAT wave (a wave of zombies you have to clear like in videogames, knowing you're playing to see how many waves you can clear and you eventually lose)
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@gideondejongh838 Plenty of countries have resources. A lot of them are poor. Most countries have fiat currencies, it's impossible to have a growing economy otherwise. China's economy is heavily tied to housing market speculation as it was one of the few forms of investing the govt allowed.
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The Army can't afford it. Aging aircraft from defunct manufacturers are an expensive bish to run. They're meant for air shows.
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@stardolphin2 Kyle Hill has a video on the self-sustaining nitrogen fusion hypothesis. The logic is in the math. With a high enough temperature it happens. We've never reached a 1/100th of that temperature inside a nuclear blast so we're safe.
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@prospectorpete3738 You get to cut off audio for 30 minutes every day, then.
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@taylorcarlson9650 in the aviation field there's Pierre Sprey, who in interviews is constantly credited as the designer of the A-10 and the F-16 when he was only a DoD analyst. He never bothers to correct anyone about it, though.
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And the Russians fled from the frontlines.
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Marie-Florence Prcs. de Montmorency-Laval Ukraine had already shelled and performed airstrikes in Russian territory. No nukes.
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@streeams exactly, and those with phone + tv + internet plans often have 500mb/1gb plans on their cellphone so they don't keep their data on the whole day.
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@cleodux I use SMS an I'm outside the US. Stop trying to peddle that BS narrative.
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Yeah, you do realize that neither the manufacturers, sellers nor the players want that to happen, right? Also, no law saying you can't paint real guns bright colours.
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There's a lag between economic woes and the frontline.
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@FrankCalisch Pathetic, you have to come up with unrelated subjects. You people are always like this.
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"they need to take out the Kiev Govt buildings, their command control and decision centers" - This was done the night of the start of the war. Their weapons are just garbage and miss or fail to detonate, or they hit but the command and control/people were in secure locations as they were tipped off of the attack. Russia already tried the C&C and decision centers. They failed. They have nothing else.
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@jipy1419 this "disappointment" wipes the floor with everything else in the air. 17:1 at Red Flag.
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It was designed to survive the conditions of Vietnam, where far too many A-1s were shot down. Taking hits is a bad idea in the age of missiles which split aircraft in half. You don't want to get hit at all.
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@Numtalegau TB2 is being used again.
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Tyler Slagel but you spat out the mouthwash, right? Water fluoridation is banned in some countries. I never drank fluoridated water and never had a cavity.
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@recklesssquirel5962 you mean like a Hudson H9?
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Peasants don't have radars.
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@hadiyahabib7990 the Urals are often considered the natural barrier between Europe and Asia, and only like 10% of the Russian landmass is located to the East of the mountain range.
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Russians are gonna rush Kiev again? Let's see them try.
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@henryklee680 I didn't say anything about weight. What were the conditions of the test video?
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My brother had the shot and he was sick for a day longer than me. How would you know you'd have been pretty bad?
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@rill9000 if we're calling out racist things then isn't "try that shit in Harlem" by itself a racist statement?
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@flx2525 state duma is adding language refering to those who refuse to fight during times of war to the laws
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But you pronounce English words in the French manner. Because of French loan words. Do you know why "Marine Corps" is pronounced "marine core" instead of "marine corpse"? Because "corps" is French. The word "segue" is pronounced "segway" because of Italian origin.
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They ordered their own soldiers to dig trenches in Chernobyl. It's cute that you think they care about their soldiers.
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That's the equivalent of running out of ammo in a 300 yard rifle fight, so you fix bayonet and run across an empty field with only a bladed weapon while the enemy still has bullets. Just because you ran out of missiles, the enemy will not be a gentleman and let you get close. He's just gonna sling a missile.
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 @kemodiv9431 Shahed drones can be dealt with through the use of Gepards and even cheaper AA.
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If you're emitting long wavelength radar at the US you'll get a cruise missile thrown at your radar installation before any aircraft takes off. Long wavelength radars are huge, difficult to move and vulnerable meaning they'll be one of the first priority targets.
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@flynnhaasch5681 No, I don't. That doesn't even make sense. I only said you resort to logical fallacies and deny that there's institutions tasked with surveillance of college students.
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We gave them security assurances in the Budapest Memorandum.
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@imgladnotu9527 I miss when congress was having hearings on rap music. I want to go back to those simpler times bros.
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@johns70 I'm not American. My perspective is that if you try to preserve military assets at all costs, the enemy will ignore them. Look at how any mention of the F-117 will bring the nationalist Serbs out to brag about bagging one, and how highly they praise the SAM crews for surviving the American SEAD operation. While they preserved their military in the NATO intervention, Milosevic tapped out and gave NATO what it asked for to begin with. The point of having a military is ensuring the executive and legislative power of the state inside its borders and thus its sovereignty. If your military hides and the enemy just keeps hitting you until you give up and concede, then what is the point of that military? If you can't defend your airports and air bases, then you can't defend your power plants. Your ports. Your oil and gas storage facilities. A dispersed doctrine makes no sense because none of your infrastructure is dispersed. While you're busy flying Gripens off stretches of highway, your enemy shut down your trade, your electric power, your economic activity, your heat and water. You devoted so much thought into packing your planes into hidden holes that you left your country's entire jugular exposed.
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There was no NATO doctrine for those minefields. They're 5x wider than standard and in many areas twice as dense. All the military theory devised to go through standard minefields will not work.
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Opposing communism is now fascism, got it.
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@jfacts49 Asking the purpose of the large withdrawal is a tactic to help determine if people are being conned or threatened. The IRS requires that withdrawal to be reported so it's them you need to worry about, not the bank.
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@phunkracy The trucks were made for National Guard and rear echelon units. It was controversial enough that the military had to order uparmoring kits for utility vehicles. The guys who did the gun trucks weren't fighting an enemy army. They were non-infantry guys who felt unsafe in a country where the insurgency could be anywhere.
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@phunkracy Again, the US had no "frontline" so any random person could whip out a weapon and start taking potshots at rear echelon units. Logistics and supply units felt unsafe. So they welded metal to their trucks. It wasn't a serious warfighting weapon. Guys. Felt. Unsafe. Non-combat troops. That's all.
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And what goals are being achieved exactly?
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You're worse than the silencer/suppressor people goddamn.
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Patriot is Shoigu's.
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The attack on Engels airbase forced strategic bombers to be relocated to a base further away, reducing the long range strikes.
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@oofyeetmcgee Demonetized videos run less ads (less monetization per view) and also LESS VIEWS because they So instead of getting a million views and (say) a dollar per 1000 views, you get 10,000 views and a dollar per 10,000 views due to reduced ads.
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 @docfarl The bombs aren't dropped nose to tail. A few seconds of separation would allow them to not be affected.
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 @9iht6ihgt43rzhijj two more weeks?
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Yes and they had to redesign the internals.
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Blackwater doesn't exist anymore.
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 @asavelakuse6865 What's that cope about? The point is the hypocrisy in forgetting that Russia used mercenaries.
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Liberalism back then is today called "libertarianism". Liberals in some countries are conservatives, because they didn't stop using the naming convention.
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 @sohamsuryawanshi118 it's THIS video 16:15
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I don't know if you're trolling because, some 50 year old dude is not going to chase down a deer with a spear, and a person with an arm injury or something can't bow hunt.
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@georgethompson3763 No, it's not the only way and it's the worse way to do it. I don't care about hunting, there's more important reasons to have firearms. If you actually read the Second Amendment there is no requirement to participate in a militia. If you actually look it up the American law actually acknowledges the existence of the militia apart from the national guard, simply being all able bodied men of fighting age. Besides that, multiple states have laws that codify the state militia as all able bodied men of fighting age. Your study is mostly useless. Semi-automatic rifles do not kill more people, handguns do. Mass shootings are a small percentage of gun homicides, the vast majority committed with handguns. Your link is also so poorly written it just says attacks with semi-autos lead to increased hit rates. It doesn't differentiate between the actual shots taken. It calls out semi-automatic rifles but did not differentiate between pistols and rifles in the numbers. So if I go on a mass shooting with a pump-action shotgun and a semi-auto rifle and actually get more kills than average with the pump-action, will the study chalk it up as a "semi-auto" victory? Or a pump-action shotgun and a semi-automatic handgun, the shotgun being much more deadly, will it get chalked up as a "semi-auto" victory so that the article calls out semi-auto rifles? This whole argument is just a waste of time - banning semi-autos would make the US one of the strictest countries in the world when it comes to guns and they have a right to keep and bear arms you're telling me we Europeans would have better gun laws than the US despite not having a right to guns? Jeez. If you look it up the homicide resorting to blunt weapons/tools/bare hands actually outnumbers the rifle homicide stats. And that one includes ALL rifles, semi-auto or not. You're using the emotional argument of "children's lives". There are many things that kill more children than firearms. You don't actually care about children, just removing guns. Again, I don't care about hunting. "As a compromise" - a compromise means you give something back. Gun owners already gave into so many laws, what do they get in return? "Again, as I said, I'm totally against confiscation" - which is bullshit. There's like 10 million AR15s in civilian hands, it's cheaper to manufacture than even an AK these days because of all the tooling purchased to fulfill military contracts already being paid off, it's cheaper than competing models so it sells. And there's millions more of other semi-auto rifles. So if you're not for confiscation and you allow grandfathering of ARs you're still accepting more than a century's worth of mass shootings happening with the available weapons without new ones being purchased.
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@georgethompson3763 better trained? You do realize that people in the National Guard, unless deployed, are expected to serve a weekend a month and two weeks per year, right? That doesn't give enough of a calendar year to train more because many people in the National Guard have day jobs. It's funny that you - incorrectly - refer to the National Guard as the only rightful militia and then don't even know how the fuck it even works. Not to mention that the NG obeys the state and the president so if people in the NG were to fight tyranny, they would have to defect and become "civilians".
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@georgethompson3763 "No, since most mass shootings are done with newly-bought weapons" - you do realize a mass shooter buying a gun off someone else is a "newly-bought weapon", right? "bought their weapons years ago and are responsible" - that's still millions of people who might get fired from their job or divorced or whatever. "Ban any sale of AR-15s" - you mean semi-auto rifles. Why the hard on for the AR-15? You're gonna ban AKs, Mini-14s, etc too right? "including private sales" - bruh if you don't confiscate semi-auto rifles how you're going to prevent people from selling them privately, then? "prevent people under 21 from buying a firearm" - No. No. No. If people aren't responsible enough to own a gun until 21, then they can't vote until they're 21 nor join the military. Rights are rights. "ban high capacity magazines" - it's a fucking box with a spring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw0ZGVbyfpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyYSqBA9BKw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGTriDDUpUk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KCuymRLMk how the fuck do you ban a box with a spring? Hell you can just take smaller magazines and weld them together: http://www.defensereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Higher_Capacity_32-Round_and_45-Round_SR-25_and-M14-M1A_7.62mm_Rifle_Magazines_Company_Shot.jpg http://www.defensereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Higher_Capacity_55-Round_and_75-Round_AR-15_5.56mm_Rifle_Magazines_Company_Shot.jpg http://photobucket.com/gallery/http://s983.photobucket.com/user/44Echo10/media/Gun%20Stuff/AR/AK%20style%20magazine/62dgbix_zpsf21e5b3f.jpg.html This implying anyone would even need to manufacture their own magazines, because there's millions upon millions of them and they're all unaccounted for. There' no paperwork on magazines. "make training mandatory" - it would be taken down by the supreme court like requiring a civics exam before voting. It's meant to disqualify lower class people from exercising their rights. "have a national registration and universal background check" - you're thinking three steps ahead aren't you. Canada eliminated their long gun registry in 2012 because it was proven that it was a useless drain in resources. The only purpose of a registry is not having to allow grandfathering, simply checking on a list who owns what and sending them a letter saying they have 90 days to turn them in or SWAT will knock down the front door. "create a national tax on firearm sales" - again, using a tax to restrict a right by making it more expensive might be struck down by the supreme court "reinstate the so-called assault weapon ban. That should curb the number of deaths over time. " - no, it fucking wouldn't. Mexico and Brazil have much stricter gun laws than you described and they have much higher murder rates. In fact, in Brazil murder rates have risen since their anti-gun laws were passed. The assault weapons ban was proven ineffective because most homicide is not committed with assault weapons and because many manufacturers simply changed their guns to comply with the AWB. You literally have no evidence that what you said is going to happen will actually happen, and the US is much closer to a Latin American country than a European one so you can count on criminals still having guns and killing each other. Nearly anything you say is either flat out unconstitutional, impractical, unrealistic, or actually doesn't even make any fucking sense.
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That's bad. When exporting, you want a low ruble so that you get paid MORE rubles. When the ruble increases in value, you get paid LESS.
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@lucianmuntean529 You don't understand basic economics. If you get paid 100 Rubles per barrel and now get paid 60 Rubles per barrel, you either pay workers less or you reduce hours/start layoffs.
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People don't know the difference between gunshots and fireworks. Demolition charges would have scattered detcord remains all over New York - none were ever found.
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No. DU is very mildly radioactive. The real danger is that it's a heavy metal. Which is highly toxic. There was a proposition to replace DU with tungsten in munitions. Turns out that the toxicity was the same.
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Average anti-nuclear response lol.
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Yes.
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@chris2kai12 There was no fan interaction. I suggest watching Glink's video "lonely fans". The problem is much worse than traditional adult video.
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@redtree8254 It's like comparing a hand grenade to a 2000lb bomb. Of course the bridge didn't go down by tossing a grenade at it.
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That's why they had to run across the river, right? They won so hard they had to retreat.
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@BbGun-lw5vi I suggest you watch the two videos by Razorfist here on youtube about MJ's innocence, then. Reserve judgement until you see the evidence for the other side.
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It is actually clear cut. Nearly all of the "open mind" stuff was either caused by Russia or falsified.
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@meandmetoo8436 to be fair, if it wasn't for the US lend-lease program the Soviet Union would not have been able to even transport troops to the front line. The US essentially "won" WW2 by making the Soviet Union into a monster the Germans could not defeat, by logistics alone.
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@yoloswaggins7121 "Ukraine couldn't use the nukes anyway" - they could but it would take massive investment
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I accurately defined socialism to a person defending the socialist Scandinavia meme. I was told I was wrong and to google it. I posted the google definition of socialism. Apparently I was still wrong because I had said governmental control rather than community control like google states. Even though the "community control" is established by the communist party (aka government) and the "community" of Scandinavia did not abolish private property. HMMMMMMM
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 @Blind_Hawk Is whataboutism legally mandated in Russia or something?
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You should try DLSS in your flight sim to know if you can see the text on MFDs/dials. Upscaling tech can cause text to be blurry which influences small text like cockpit instruments.
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It still exists in our hearts.
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Oliver Stone is an occasional guest on RT and personally interviewed Putin. He was also friends with Hugo Chavez. He loves anyone who hates the US.
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Civilians legally own weapons in many countries. By your logic, just target civilians based on that excuse.
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I like how the term "swatted" went full circle and now applies when the government does it.
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@ryancappo That's great. How many will die if we do that? No power plants, no water treatment, no tending of the crops.
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The Battle for Kiev ended with an organized retreat. Which was probably the only competent operation the Russians managed in that axis of advance.
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Israel has struck tunnels in the past. The problem is that they have to drop bombs in busy city streets and sometimes sealing in the tunnel with a blast causes the soil to shift and nearby buildings collapse.
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Reminds me of the movie The Sum of All Fears. A character had the car started by a bodyguard. After it was cleared, the bodyguard leaves and the man sits down and grabs a cigarette. The electric lighter was the trigger for the car bomb.
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@liquidsnake6879 Subsidizing the customer is subsidizing the company. Lowering the price means more potential buyers, and the company is still pocketing the difference.
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Exactly lol like if a pallet full of them fell of the back of a truck or something and all the criminals rushed to buy one.
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@phunkracy "Europeans" is a very broad category. Italians/Portuguese are like 5'7 in average, the Danish, German and Dutch are close to 6 foot in average. The PLA saw issues with their equipment because increased caloric intake and access to more meat allowed Chinese men to grow to their full potential and suddenly Army equipment was a size too small and they started to get cramped in their own vehicles. It only takes a small difference in the average size to throw off a lot of ergonomic measurements.
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Yes. Most of CAS is done by precision bombing, not gun runs.
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Having a Klebold and Harris moment at a music festival isn't resistance.
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"even to protect yourself you do not need an assault rifle" - What are your credentials in the firearms instruction world or self-defense?
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+Joe Mama yeah and I guess people shouldn't have guns either because elementary school kids have brought them to school. Punish those who cause harm.
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@I_Cunt_Spell You people get baited into using slurs easily
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They said they didn't want them, and he didn't really outline how it would be good.
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Bro the whole point was that getting the degree should get you the job. If companies put everyone on notice that they'll start to ignore college degrees in job applications and just hire any Joe off the street people will stop seeking degrees.
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@1ACL How? The genetic testing in the SF Bay Area shown that unspiked had a 45-55 split of resistant and non-resistant variants, while the spiked had a 78% prevalence of antibody resistant strains. The evolutionary advantage is on the side of variants that can evade antibodies, as non-resistant variants will have a harder time spreading worldwide.
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 @CC-gm4ch There's footage of Danish and Portuguese F-16s operating on taxiways with flowers and grass coming out the cracks in concrete.
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@TheBlockbuster1982 lmao compliance, sounds like Vaush saying Kyle should have surrendered to the mob
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Them upgrading body armor is the best case scenario. They'll either be more fatigued, or carrying less ammo. Easy. Your worry should be them dropping the armor and making use of their higher mobility.
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Shut the fuck up, Boomer. The newer generations aren't Fudds. Take a look at this Canadian gun owner and tell me he only wants hunting guns: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYZyJn1MbwCfecw436w5Oqg
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That's because that's what happens when you use bolt-cutter style snips to dig into gold.
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The S-400 is getting dabbed on in Ukraine.
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Are you really asking why won't they drink SEA water? With SALT?
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False. China used to have a much more positive/neutral stance towards the West.
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@XanarchistBlogspot Seems to me like you want the freedom to drive so you're making excuses. Some of us want the freedom to even get to the car door.
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@erynncollier8672 they'll enforce it selectively.
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@10lauset The domestic arms industry in China is actually pretty big because they manufacture most of the equipment. They produce a lot of Russian designs natively under license but they also design and build their own.
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@LKeet6 The comment was barely worth engaging with.
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Except that Russia's economy is dependent on oil and gas, and that infrastructure keeps getting drone striked. Russia's army is using donkeys and wounded men. Russia doesn't have two years let alone five.
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@leenunn6446 Where is Russia advancing fowards?
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Engineering Explained is the goat of white boards and colored markers.
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@dylanlinzer6734 How is it full blown r-word? Child labor laws were introduced when only 3% of children were working. They essentially banned the practice after almost nobody was making money off it, it's like bragging Hillary Clinton supported gay marriage - they only voiced their support when they were sure that was popular enough not to cost them anything. That's also not the point. This was about people worshipping smooth talking politicians. You'll nod in agreement when all you have is the speech written by writers who make a living out of preparing agreeable speeches. If you knew the FDR's National Recovery Administration was filled to the brim with corporate leaders and that he and his "experts" were destroying food to make sure prices stayed high you wouldn't nod in agreement. I don't care if you like FDR or not, nor am I trying to change your mind on FDR. I'm just saying you wouldn't nod in agreement to a speech. Just like you're probably not worshipping Biden right now. You aren't, are you? Then you already agree with what I wanted to say. That's all.
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In the middle of a war it's difficult to tell if you're shooting at specific units.
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Someone tell the yellow vests that they should just move. Why would they stay in France and complain? HMMMM....
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lmao I guess you had a better plane laying around?
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@josephkush1032 Not true, even Russian telegrams kept warning about a large force concentration near Bakhmut that was never used in the fight. And when Ukraine sent one of their elite units to help in Bakhmut, they went in to the flanks rather than the city itself.
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@josephkush1032 but they did that like 2 months before the city fell. It wasn't to cover a retreat, it was to prevent encirclement. Russia needs encirclements, Ukraine forces them to advance through the city. Which is always harder.
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Nobody ordered anything. It wasn't a retreat. It was a rout.
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"Midjourney" AI, apparently
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Combat veterans are a very diverse bunch. Some went to college, some became murderers and drug dealers. Taking part in combat is not a character defining trait.
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Attack helicopters can scan for targets and fire from behind terrain. Fixed wing like the A-10 needs to pop up, roll in and do a predictable straight line maneuver to get within firing parameters, roll away and then dive back down into terrain.
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 @shadmansudipto7287 Let's see you try to build a F-35 helmet that complies with govt/DoD standards for 10,000 lol
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@Hon2fun The mark up us because of stuff like finding a Chinese magnet in the product requires a change in supplier. When DoD requires a laundry list of tests, background checks, audits, regulations, standards compliance, etc everything costs 16x. By all means try to make a targeting pod with an aliexpress camera. It would make for a guaranteed 1 million views video on youtube. But no government in a developed country would buy it.
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@va5715 the manufacturers don't count. Iraq had Roland missiles and the Kari system for integrating anti air defenses. Does that mean the US fought France in Desert Storm? Did Iraq fight Germany because Iran had HK G3s?
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Except that duck and cover actually worked. People mere hundreds of yards away from the ground zero in Hiroshima survived because they were in cover.
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Oh no, they entered Bakhmut after 2 months. Waaa.
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@backbrunson2039 "At the very least, elected officials can be voted out." - the stars need to align to get rid of someone. "they'll vote to keep the insurance industry as de-regulated as possible" - the problem is regulation! The government gives these companies rights and protections they shouldn't have! Why should the government be awarding monopolies to companies that will charge $90.000 for 200 bucks worth of chemicals? "It's that our current system makes absolutely no sense" - agree, but the system the US has is essentially the worst of both worlds.
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@backbrunson2039 "eliminate the costly middlemen" - bruh this is a complete distraction. The problem is in the medical associations, Big Pharma, providers, the college system... You can take the middlemen all you want, but if you check the profit margins on insurance companies you'll see... it's not actually them extorting you. They're just extorting out of people what the medical field extorts out of them. Telling businesses how much percentage they need to use means nothing when the whole system is designed for regulations to increase costs, make doctors expensive to train and award companies exclusivity rights to drugs and treatments.
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Russia can't ultimately win. They're going to be a pariah state, if not actually break apart.
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But that's absolutely perfect. The only reason youtube is a juggernaut is the fact that nobody wants to leave and join the alternative. If youtube was a publisher they would have to force everyone out.
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 @asahearts1 Russia had infinite ammo. Not the US.
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Russia took months to capture small towns. March to the west? With millions of casualties, surely.
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 @esashaik1372 The US has more F-35s than China has J-20s.
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 @polymathpark except everyone does it - every political cycle the opposition digs up freeze frames of hands extending foward. There were Hillary salute pics being posted back in 2015-2016.
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That's not what happened. The US told Khrushchev that Castro was a madman and he agreed. The US agreed to also remove weapons from Turkey. The West was not going to put weapons in Ukraine.
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@benjamin ollis Sanity is defending genocide and torture?
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You people tried to cancel PewDiePie and he actually did stuff like use slurs, you think this is going to be a good use of your time?
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At least explain your stance. Because it just sounds you're defending the cops.
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I guess you've never been to Hong Kong.
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If the enemy has SAMs, it won't.
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Vending machines in shambles
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 @CordovaMage Outside the US it's not any better. Your hypothesis fails the basic test.
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They are significantly less professional than last year, and they still need North Korea and Iran to help out as their manufacturing can't outpace expenditure rates.
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We've been telling people how to prevent cancer for decades. Living a healthy life requires commitment and discipline. Not all environmental factors can be fully eliminated and your cells are constantly spinning that slot machine to see if they're gonna disobey apoptosis.
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Flight hours are similar to 5th gen, and newer stealth coatings aren't like the old ones. Stealth gets you where you need to be. An aircraft broadcasting its position is less effective at using EW and sensors.
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My theory is that they made it more dangerous for the meme. Of course they're not selling the kitchen made slop, they're putting preservatives in the mix. Geez.
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"If people don’t want to wait and have the money to get the operation elsewhere. Let them." - do they get a refund for all the taxes they paid into healthcare after choosing that option? Because paying into healthcare, not being able to get service in a timely manner, and then paying a second time is fucking bullshit.
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@immanueldarjean5050 please tell me how RINOs like McCain had a conscience.
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@immanueldarjean5050 so McCain stood up to a corrupt president by saying we needed to bomb Iran, getting money from the Saudis through donations to Arizona universities redirected to his foundation, arming ISIS...? His brain tumor deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The Northern offensive towards Kiev ended with a retreat, so the area is now under Ukrainian control.
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@steverodriguez2582 Can't ban something that can be built off parts.
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Equilibrium. The tectonic plates being pushed apart where magma rises are pushed into the mantle and "remelted". So there's a cycle.
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@NuEnque you can't code your own bank. I mean, a team of people could, but not legally. Starting your own bank is a massive endeavour. What I said was 100% true. When people started leaving Patreon due to their Sargon of Applebee's ban the alternatives were hit by payment processors dropping support. When Gab, Twitter alternative, was being pressured to ban a user for hate speech, Microsoft threatened with kicking them off their server. If you try to compete, you can be kicked off by your own host or simply prevented from being allowed to purchase hosting. I'm not saying what's gonna happen in theory. I'm stating facts about things that happened last year.
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What if you're just heating up the air that goes into the intake instead of the steel? No need to heat the outer sheet metal on the oven, just feed it hot air.
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@roninkraut6873 Doesn't matter. If you cooperate with the guy who pulled the shotgun, even if unplanned, you're still on the hook.
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@hiteshadhikari NATO promised not to create bases in East Germany. Promise kept.
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thulomanchay How? This is a fake system. The wheels are wrong, the lights on the back are wrong, the cables are wrong. And it says "INERT" on the side. It's a target to be used in training. Not a real piece.
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 @martstam2016 Saab didn't get enough sales to have a large source of airframes that can be spared.
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Lmao Russian negotiatons are "give up, give us all we want, nobody gets punished for war crimes".
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@brandonleeps Then how come it wasn't a problem in 2020?
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@PILLOCK4 If this is true, you will be able to show that rates reduced since last year.
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Ukraine used helicopters to strike fuel depots in Belgorod.
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Can't find a source for that. Care to share with the rest of the class?
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@CJ-kg7yq because you're 1) invoking God's name in vain and 2) asking him to damn something, damnation is pretty strong. It's strange but remember there's people who write G-d even in digital media because the word could be printed and desecrated. Go figure.
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The biggest significance is that the Kupiansk rail hub being cut off means that the Luhansk oblast is now under threat. Russia is now stuck at Kherson while Ukraine threatens another offensive somewhere else (Russians are reporting sightings of troop concentrations and can't tell where it's going to happen) and the defensive line near Severodonetsk will be starved of supplies. It's just bad news coming from all sides and Russia doesn't know what to do.
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Every time Ukraine advanced people shouted counter attack. Never happened.
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"more traditionally created vaccines" - That won't work. Traditional shots don't work on coronaviridae. Sorry. But you're simultaneously saying "the doctors will be forced to decide who should get treatment and who not" and "responsible scientist and doctor teams seem to run around with blinkers when it comes to that topic". You essentially know that "overflowing ICUs" are an artificial problem thanks to negligence. These people are KILLING the patience through negligence at best, through malice at worst. So you know this is all fake but you still try to defend the authorities by using the numbers.... they wanted those numbers...
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I believe they're going to defeat Russia. I'm not being conned. Mark my words. Bookmark this page if you have to. I will see Muscovia burn.
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It's a generic pirate patch. The FOG patch has the right arm pointing down with a MP7 in hand.
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The S-500 is not an air defense system but an ABM system. It's supposed to augment the A-135 system which protects Russia from ICBMs. Not aircraft.
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 @Packer910 the DU round is the API.
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@Chuck59ish So first you claim that they should use the C because of the extra fuel, now you say you can just refuel? Okay.
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@azure9809 feminists in this thread have stated they're for the draft. What gives?
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 @TurkeysGoGobble he's got zero sources so by default he's already lost.
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@hernandocortez6351 many of his stories were untrue. You just remember the few that were.
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@notawinemom8540 "1) There is no vaccine that is 100% effective. That has never existed" - Sure, but the efficacy is high up there to be considered worthwhile. This one doesn't clear the bar. "2) We can reach heard immunity with a certain percentage of the population being vaccinated" - That's not true because it's still transmitting and mutating. The herd is still spreading among them, then one day 6 months later the antibodies wear off and we're back to coughing on each other. "There's no guessing here" - Except there is, because they know they're losing effectiveness with variants and they're giving you more of the same product rather than a reformulated dose. "because these folks continue taking up all the ICU beds" - Then we need to stop telling people to go home and come back when they're critical so they can be stuck in a ventilator.
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If you send a camera to every workplace you'll also get hundreds of videos of workers complaining about it. War is considerably worse than working retail. Of course people will always want more support, more ammo, etc. American soldiers fighting against the Taliban complained if you sent a fast jet with 15 minutes on station instead of an A-10 which can loiter for hours. Imagine that! A jet! It's a miracle of logistics to be able to send a jet to Afghanistan but soldiers say "noooo 15 minutes isn't enough to take care of a guy in sandals". So imagine what Ukrainian soldiers who can't even call in a jet are saying.
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S-400s can't even defend themselves from ATACMS.
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Assault rifles are automatic - automatics were banned in the 80's. It's extremely hard to get one.
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@InternetTAB It's directly related to the subject at hand.
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HEAT rounds do not depend on kinetic energy, and a wider bore means more force applied to the projectile per unit of pressure.
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@yspear_ Link a single video of Ukrainians deploying MANPADS behind Russian lines before the breach.
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@Killdozer-do4mc The Vikhr missile has around 10-12km range. The Stinger 4.8 km. The most modern Stinger variant has a 7.6 km range but Ukraine probably didn't get that one. Either way, even the latest Stinger would require a man to take a 16kg system, arrive in the frontline, start sprinting for 2.4 kilometers, wait for the Ka-52 to pop out of the horizon to fire at incoming armored vehicles and then shoot. Obviously sprinting across trenches with over 20kg of equipment on your back while people shoot at you is NOT SERIOUS DOCTRINE for shooting down helicopters. They are not static. They are not games. But if men can just move 2.4 kilometers without getting shot at, they could just bypass the trenches, clear them, then let the armored vehicles through by taking out ATGM teams and artillery observers.
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Never been to Italy, but year 2000 public toilets were pretty bad compared to today. Gas stations are not the cesspits they used to be, either.
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The IKEA crap never failed me, to be fair. Hypocrisy was always acceptable.
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That was a volunteer who was driving supplies to the front, he said he had problems in the first months. Nowadays it's easier to find charities that send proof of their work.
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Russia mobilized all it's forces dude. In 2021 Shoigu said they had 130-something combat capable BTGs and they invaded with 120. They sent strategic rocket forces guys and sailors to the front. Only internal troops and border forces aren't on the chopping block.
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 @xKevmachinex there were predictions about nuclear false flag last summer too - it's all schizo fear mongering
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Germany was winning ground daily in WW2.
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@enotsnavdier6867 The Iraq war didn't kill a million. The civilian casualties produced due to the war were about 8,000. You're padding the statistics with the sectarian violence and terrorism that happened when the Ba'ath party decided to be sore losers and sow division among the Iraqi people. The US shouldn't be blamed for Iraqis killing Iraqis, and foreign fighters coming over to Iraq to kill people.
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@alexkozliayev9902 Gas and oil money? They're selling at a 35% discount to China. There's infrastructure that needs to be built to replace the European market. Several Western companies that contributed to resource extraction have left Russia, and the machinery used by Russian companies will eventually need parts that are dependent on global trade.
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@alexkozliayev9902 Not "years". You can skip maintenance for a few weeks. But after months, the machines start to break down if you keep using them without maintenance.
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@alexkozliayev9902 Months passed already, and several Russian industries have stalled. Yes, we'll keep supplying ourselves with the gas we critically need, while the rest of the industries we don't need will have to beg for scraps.
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@l3ddy I don't have to cope with anything, I'm not under sanctions and I don't depend on Russian gas. Those people, they will have to cope.
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@17nirmalya It's not about shoulders but physics. The more recoil a weapon has, the longer it takes to realign the sights. Lower recoil increases hit probability.
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@17nirmalya Reductio Ad Absurdum
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"Proper, accurate, and effective CAS cannot be done at jet fighter speed" - And yet, it is. The majority of CAS missions are performed by F-16s, F/A-18s, Strike Eagles, B-1s, etc. From 2006 to 2013, the A-10 only got 19% of CAS missions in Afghanistan. By 2014, it was only flying 11% of CAS missions. Seems to me that jet speed has nothing to do with performance. "You can’t always count on smart or laser guided weapons" - But we can, and we do. "We can make 1000 of these for the price of how many F-35’s" - You can't because Fairchild went out of business. Can't make new ones.
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If they contain hazardous materials, explosives or rocket fuel it can only be done in certain places with the proprer regulations.
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Their S-400s didn't do sh!t against that trainer aircraft full of explosives.
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 @johnfilmore7638 the B was the primary airframe. Since the CALF program days that it was a USMC bird the USAF agreed to buy a conventional take off version of. So it always starts with the B.
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Just read a report on Russian missiles. They are increasingly containing a mix of old Western and Soviet-era chips. The sanctions seem to have worked.
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Seethe and mald.
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Under a post saying the US can't simply kill Maduro because the world is watching, people say Maduro does not kill Guido because he's actually the good guy. Kappa.
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By the time they're all delivered, the F-22 is gone.
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>rebarrel and re-chamber all service rifles in the DOD inventory into SIG’s 6.8 ammo bid >using old stockpiled 5.56 for training because How do you use 5.56 for training after re-barreling all weapons in inventory?
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The Russian air force just lost three Su-34s in a day. Like fighterbomber says, eternal flight brothers...
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I don't think a convicted "pdf file" is a national treasure.
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I understand the limitations of air to air missiles but aircraft use the great circles to travel from point A to point B in the interest of time and fuel economy. They'd either come over the Arctic or from air bases in the Far East regions of Russia and "curve" over Alaska. Crossing the Pacific just to come from different directions would waste time and fuel, they'd split and go for their targets afterwards. Another quirk of early semi active radar homing missiles is that an aircraft painting a formation of bombers from a long distance would cause radar reflections from multiple bombers and act as rudimentary "chaff" against the primitive missiles, possibly causing them to miss an easy shot by flying into the gap of the "large mass" of bombers causing the signal reflections. Flying in formation increased survival against early SARH missiles.
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@danielelombardo8196 While you're thinking of memes others are thinking of the global economy, diplomacy, etc.
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Issuing 5.56 AP rounds as standard would be a nightmare. That's a lot of tungsten being tossed into the dirt. They want to use cheaper steel.
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@alpyre The trials were done by the corporations that made the product. Of course they worked. A whistleblower actually reported them to the FDA for tampering the results and nothing was done.
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@alpyre There's no classical that's accepted in most of the West. Both mRNA and viral vector are novel. They're brand new. They're not well practiced, in fact mRNA never made it into human trials. They only pushed through thanks to emergency use authorization.
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And they'd gave gotten way with it if it wasn't for the meddling 500m minefields.
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@bigstreetguns6619 I've seen the video of them tying a person to a cross and starting a fire. It's not that I want to see more, but that footage could have been filmed by literally anyone and the guy on the cross could have been a stuntman.
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He can't put the belt up because the WBC won't sanction a title fight with an unranked fighter.
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That's just media overhyping singular weapons. Avdiivka wasn't taken because of glide bombs. It was taken because the city was surrounded and the assaults were relentless as Russia prioritizes objectives over force preservation. Yeah the bombs were another pebble on Ukraine's shoe, but Russia also lost several aircraft pulling that stunt.
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@karlyo6937 it's bogus, they spliced two interviews together
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 @FreedomFox1 Arestovych is somewhat of a nutter.
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@EsotericResearcher777 That's just a fallacy. SEAD cannot whack a mole every threat on the ground. Not only are SAM crews aware that they need to turn their radars off to evade detection, modern SHORAD in the form of laser guideded/electro-optical SAMs are harder to detect due to their ability to shoot down low flying aircraft without the need for radar lock, and there's also the fact that MANPADS are essentially impossible to suppress. Any man with a tube on his back can pop from behind a tree or rock and put a firecracker on your tailpipe. SEAD flights cannot do anything about this.
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@tombrazy12hunnit Russia famously threw reserves in panic of losing a single inch of land. Russia has to convince the population they're winning, and the way to show it is land on maps. They lose land, they lose the war.
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@cornelkittell9926 Working well and working right are different things.
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@attilamarics3374 What they say and what they do is different. The guy who retreated from Kherson was removed from command.
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If I pay you to get a package across the border for 100k will you be that nonchalant too?
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Yeah, look at the weapons categorized as PDWs - personal defense weapons. The MP7 and P90, along with other submachine guns/machine pistols loaded with AP versions of pistol ammo.
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The fighter mafia was wrong.
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@doctorfloc Oh god. You either remembered wrong, or someone lied to you. I believe it was the latter. The F-4 Phantom was designed as a Navy interceptor. The whole raison d'etre of the aircraft was getting to Russian bombers before they got in range to fire an anti-ship missile. If you took the time to get to the enemy, circle around and line up for a gun kill, you would no longer have an aircraft carried to land back on. In Vietnam, USAF Phantoms were being used to escort slower strike packages and going in blind. The USAF had terrible situational awareness, which allowed the North Vietnamese to go around the border, come in from behind at high speed, do a pass and then run. Hit and run ambushes. The Phantoms weren't being claimed by dogfights. They were being claimed by not knowing where the MiGs were, getting attacked and watching the MiGs flee at high speed. A gun doesn't do anything when you're too slow to give chase. This didn't happen to Navy Phantoms, which had their own ships on their back with radars to give them situational awareness. Their kill ratio was 6.4 to 1 with MIGCAP Phantoms. No gun needed. Naval variants of the Phantom did not have guns added, and the gunpods were really only ever used for ground strafing. However, if you just look at MIGCAP USAF Phantoms, their kill ratio was 5.5 to 1. Being ready for a fight meant that Phantoms crushed the MiGs. After the Navy introduced TOPGUN training their MIGCAP Phantom kill ratio became 8.7 to 1. When the USAF finally got their act together and introduced Teaball to give pilots better situational awareness, the Phantom MIGCAP fighters claimed a humiliating 15 to 1 kill ratio. The Phantom is the world's largest distributors of MiG parts. So now you know. The Phantom didn't even need a gun to swat MiGs out of the sky.
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The pendulum always swings too far, most of the Gulf War critiques came from a person who was woefully misinformed about the subject. It was nowhere near as bad as people made it seem.
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Earth spins once every 24 hours. Kick a curveball into the goal and it will spin a hundred times in a few seconds.
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@naughtyue7284 except that a) criminals think unarmed police are a joke, there's videos of UK police that pretty much beg for the Benny Hill theme song and b) presence of armed police units in the UK has increased in the last decade. Armed police units were used pretty sparingly but now they doing patrols more often, getting called out more often, etc
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@samoldfield5220 INS loses accuracy based on time. If an artillery shell or rocket/missile is moving at supersonic or near supersonic speeds, it will spend only seconds inside jamming range. INS usually has a drift of 650 meters over one hour. Shells do not spend an hour inside jammer range. They come down at lighting fast speeds. In 2012 the US military actually found a way to reduce INS drift by two thirds.
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@Eddy_vaj What's so bad about being forced to do things against your will? Huh, a lot? Today it's masks, tomorrow it will be something else.
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@kevinkanter2537 the artillery shells from the stockpiles are very unstable, in fact they often exploded on their own in storage - there was a massive ammo dump explosion in 2013 due to this degradation
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It sounds dystopian because it is. No point in treating people as guilty until proven innocence.
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@dalecrocker3213 There is a point. Demoralization. They did this in Syria. Knowing that they couldn't flush out entrenched resistance they battered cities. Hitting both military but also civilian targets makes the cities unlivable, eventually enough people move out that it breaks the will on those inside the city.
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@andrewcarlton6196 Only some specific "MGC" or flash paper blank guns have that feature of blank rounds that look like live hollowpoint ammo. They can and are used in movies but in the US it's totally unnecessary.
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Hell March intensifies
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@jared.p240 Because it's a joke. And the more people get offended the funnier it is.
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@emtrac7898 You don't remember the Kavanaugh hearings?
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@emtrac7898 Then don't accuse people of making stuff up.
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Some businesses get the SOT and manufacture machine guns to rent. So they buy a Glock 17 and convert it because to get a Glock 18 from Glock you need to be a government agency.
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1.5 trillion over the entire service of the F-35, which means the cost is spread over several decades. The US burns a trillion on welfare a year easily.
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@Vares65 The US federal budget 2019 - pre pandemic to not spoil the numbers - had 1000 billion on social security, 644 billion on medicare and 409 billion on medicaid.
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Mind that the "laughing locals" had already at least two helicopter crashes that we know of because they were filmed. Everyone likes MacGyver repairs, until they're being done on your flight, your water supply, your MRIs, etc.
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@Robert Cowan if physx was as great as you think it is every game would have destructible environments, cloth ripping etc. Physx is implemented, but barely.
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+Robert Cowan yeah PhysX is barely implemented. The extent to which it is implemented makes it not much better than Havok except it's run through proprietary hardware. And the fact that it's run through x87 so that CPUs can't take that load off the GPU only proves out point: PhysX does not exist to improve games, it exists so that nvidia can wield it as an anti-AMD weapon.
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I can also purchase inconel bolts, epoxy them to my car hood, and claim my car has Space Shuttle technology implemented in it.
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@spinafex5729 This is cope. So a disease that was more prevalent than we knew, and had it circulating among us for months before it was detected, waited until we were rolling out the product to start doing damage?
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The bomb bay explanation makes no sense. It would have to be stuck open as the aircraft was on egress route. The fact is that stealth works through inverse square law, so if you reduce distance stealth stops working. The F-117 almost flew into the S-125 minimum engagement distance. It was a near point blank shot. Physics itself mandates that a stealth aircraft is detectable at extremely short ranges.
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@B-... the self-defense was unrelated to the crime. In the US a guy who was doing credit card fraud was raided. The cops didn't announce the raid and kicked in with no knock. Criminal started blasting. Though guilty of credit card fraud he was exonerated of the shooting because police looked like home invaders. Someone being a criminal doesn't make home invasion legal.
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Jack Bradford So? The supply chain has been severed. If you don't have people to harvest, package, ship, etc. you can't give it to the hungry.
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 @OGPatriot03 Like the fact that Russia had to use S-300s and Shaheds to compensate for the lack of missiles?
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Because Blitzkrieg never existed in German doctrine. It was a term created by English-speaking journalists, but the doctrine was conventional German military doctrine for maneuver warfare. The only novelty was combined arms because aviation unlocked a new dimension in the battlespace.
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Mind that Ben Shapiro also got popular going to universities and recording the Q&A.
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@skipnick You changed the subject.
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He was bound to be released anyway.
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@matchesburn The shotgun is an invalid comparison. The GAU-8 could barely penetrate M-47 tanks in the 1979 testing. It can trash the optics and tracks but the same can be done with a lighter gun.
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@matchesburn Most modern design fighters have between 120-150 rounds in the cannon, unlike the teen series from the past century. The F-35A having 185 is actually an outliner due to the GAU-22 being a high rof rotary instead of a single-barrel cannon.
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@matchesburn You don't know what a strawman is. I'm not considering anything equal. I'm stating that the 30x173mm gun, under perfect test conditions, is only suitable to deal enough damage to temporarily disable the tank. For that purpose, a smaller gun will do the same. Obviously, we're talking about the 20mm used in the Vulcan. Goddamn. "not do any actual damage" - This is a strawman. Not what I said. "they would load DU rounds" - They've been retired. "The pilot making the firing passes attacked at low altitude and used correspondingly low dive angles in order to simulate movement through a hostile air defense systen" - Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. In this case, a burst from a Shilka. "soft-kill and disabling of tanks isn't a thing" - It is a thing. It doesn't require a single cannon not found on any other aircraft.
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@matchesburn Can you please condense whatever you're trying to say? 1. You used a reductio ad absurdum by bringing up shotguns. I don't care if you're mad, if you're on the spectrum, or whatever. If you actually think that bringing up the fact that there's different shells with the same nominal caliber is an argument, you're done. Again, CONTEXT. 2. Again, most of the disabling power of the GAU-8 was through damage that could be repaired and put the tank back in action. The extra penetration power of the GAU-8 made very little contribution. 3. No, you learned to be a person who makes constant use of fallacies to get an argument through. The point is that tanks do use smoke to obscure their position from optically guided weapons. This makes aiming at specific vehicles or specific parts of a vehicle harder, which means that real world damage dealt will be even lower than tested. 4. "in order to simulate movement through a hostile air defense systen" - There's no simulation if you're not evading fire. Again, you can pretend to be the world boxing champion by dodging punches in front of your mirror. Doesn't mean much when a real punch is thrown at you. 5. Out of 93 impacts only 17 were perforations. 6. There's literally no hypocrisy, both sentences are compatible. 7. You didn't read. Only 277,000 rounds were 105/120mm. 35 million rounds were 30mm. 8. "the A-10 pilot was doing a gun run based on if it was an actual potential threat, you oligophrenic." - Pretending on your mind there is a potential threat isn't the same as having an actual threat. A real threat will force an aircraft to disengage from a run when the tracers start flying.
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The thing with blaming the Soviet Union is that it ended in 1991. We kept studying the rates of radiation-related disease for the following decades.
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Honestly dodging taxes and hiding money in tax havens is the most libertarian thing one could do.
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Babe wake up, new "can it run Crysis?" just dropped
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@rafaelcarvalho7727 the A-10 is a safe space CAS aircraft. 7 downed and 13 written off due to battle damage in 1991, had to be grounded because it couldn't handle air defenses.
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BigErn_Mccraken monopolies are essentially enforced by the government to prevent fair competition.
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People died in this show.
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You're not even supposed to enter a bank with a motorcycle helmet. It would be easy to frame Boots but security wouldn't let him walk around freely. Violence of action is necessary to enter a bank in costume.
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Thunderf00t's videos on Fukushima debunk the fearmongering campaign.
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This is done at Lidl stores. If you're opening you're going hard at stocking shelves before doors open, then 1h30-1h15 pause, when you come back you finish your shift as a cashier.
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Losing a war isn't genocide. Russia has engaged in genocide by declaring Ukrainian children Russian, not because of collateral damage.
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@engin3ar there's videos of 50-60 year old boxing coaches wrecking guys in their 20s to teach them a lesson when they're unruly.
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@engin3ar It's not an exception. Skill, experience and wisdom go a long way. Mirko Cro Cop retired at 45 so it's not uncommon for people to have fight in them until late in life. It's also worth nothing that boxers tend to do better in boxing than people who do kickboxing or MMA (no surprise there). Save for some kind of health problems, in a boxing match I'd put my money on either of the Klitschkos.
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The F-16 is a great fighter, and in Israeli hands performed the daring deep bombing raid of a nuclear facility. The F/A-18 has already shot down aircraft on the way to drop bombs. We live in the multirole age now.
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There's a video online of a coroner in Mexico (?) showing a real body of some cartel guy shot by a Black Talon.
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@tellyboy17 There's hundreds of videos of artillery landing directly on tanks and IFVs, or close enough to damage them critically and force the crew to get out the vehicle and run like hell. Ukrainians film it through their spotter drones and post online. Artillery hits if the artillerymen know what they're doing. This is a one shot one kill but like the video stated, Ukrainians are only getting a few rockets. They have to prioritize. And they're GPS guided so if the tank moves, forget it. Meanwhile barrages on moving armored columns have slaughtered armor at a fraction of the cost.
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Copium withdrawls are a mess.
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Then why was the Nordstream turbine outside of Russian territory?
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Money being accepted as a token of exchange doesn't mean it's not propped up. Even if we assume the state will always be able to back fiat currency, the value of the currency is propped up by economic activity. See the ruble, since early 2022 its value pretty much halved as a result of sanctions.
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He was 7km away from the city center.
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When the enemy shoots at you, you fire back. What's the issue?
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They declared a retreat lmao
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The problem for S-400s is that the brochure stats are optimistic. HARM will get it, cruise missiles will get it, glide bombs will get it and HIMARS firing Prsm will be able to drive forward and create a path where no semi-static defense can be emplaced. And the S-500 is an anti-ballistic missile system, not a S-400 upgrade.
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He's never blown the whistle. He just printed documents to show his gamer friends.
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Cotton and glycerin. If you have to ask what I mean, then you shouldn't even attempt doing it.
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Only B and C variants, during peacetime.
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+carolina cuchacovich if he's so smart why did he commit a felony and post video evidence?
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Shooting down a recon drone?
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You mean like when people thought McCain was the devil and a racist warmonger but now he's a war hero? Yeah I've seen that effect.
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The A-10 is almost as expensive as a fighter jet after all the upgrades.
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@wino99999 This is Vietnam era stuff. As of today the A-10 and 4th gen fighter jets use the same targeting pods to look at the ground. And doctrinally no pilot can perform weapons release during CAS without the JTAC/FAC on the ground authorizing. Because even A-10 pilots flying low and slow have struck friendlies after identifying them as enemies.
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+SmashStomp Inc that's why I said "throttle the Intel by giving it a 20 dollar downdraft cooler".
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Boost phase interception is only possible by being really close to the launch site.
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The guy in the back shot it, WWI style. When air combat started, they didn't have forward facing machine guns.
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The resources were looted by Russians. Notice how he oligarchs are not named things like "John Smith". It was criminal gangs and Yeltsin's friends who looted everything. Not westerners. Please. Have you actually lived your life thinking Russia was looted by Westerners and never wondered why oligarchs are mostly Russian nationals? Look into the Chubais public ownership of stocks project and the Yeltsin loans program. You'll notice that the two major instances of Soviet wealth being accumulated into the hands of a few did not involve the West.
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@belstar1128 That's purely academic. The core of a warhead is the most difficult part to produce. You need huge facilities to enrich fissile material, and physics PhDs to design the implosion core. A rocket? Ukraine actually refurbished Russia's rockets prior to 2014. They had the tech to repurpose the warheads by putting them on domestic weapons.
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 @scottwillie6389 the government was not overthrown, the Verkhovna Rada had a vote
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@moltonlava Next time just tell me to shut up, I'd actually respect that more.
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@Thomas-vd7ez Chief I'd rather trust nature on this one than the company with 2.3 billion payouts over medical fraud.
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@ReuelRamos "Modernly, with vaccines" - Had to sneak that one in there, didn't you? How is modernity different? For 99.99% of what you come in contact with, you develop immunity naturally. We don't vaccinate for every possible pathogen. "otherwise by killing millions by so called herd immunity" - As opposed to killing millions by just keeping this going on for longer. "Polio and smallpox can tell you that" - Funny thing about polio, the OPV allowed for vaccinated people to continue shedding a virus that was reactivated and could spread towards the nervous system and the IPV was found to have simian virus-40. That's what happens when you rush things. "we try to slowdown the rate of spreading" - We did that. We slowed it down. Obviously easing restrictions will bring the cases back up. So we go back under lockdown. We've already completed the original goal and now we're actually prolonging the suffering by making sure more fragile people get it. "When it was a common cold, it didn't seem like a big deal because the group immunity was already there" - No, it wasn't. You get the common cold precisely because it's caused by a multitude of different viruses for which herd immunity has not been achieved. "No ONE had yet this immunity thus the death count being so high" - Death count is high because excessive cycles are being used in the PCR test. Evidence suggests that the number of cycles is detecting remnants from the virus even in people who defeated the virus and are cured. If you die of diabetes, and you were in contact with the coof because of medical personnel or just other patients, you are added to the tally. This is by far the weirdest thing I've ever seen claimed about the outbreak - it's just like a cold but no herd immunity. Okay, but for that we should compare it to the number of people who die with the common cold virus on their body. "society through politics overall" - Society was a mistake, politics is the spawn of the devil. "not drinking and drinking" - That's a little hard. "I'm not necessarily against guns but I find it unnecessary to indiscriminately overflow society with them." - I don't think Luke is a gun guy either but one has to be seriously out of his mind to come to this channel and genuinely present bad faith arguments like these. What does "overflowing" with guns mean? From my point of view, the politics side of society, the one you praise to high heaven, wants us disarmed while they not only have private security but also wield the legal monopoly on force. All politics flows from the barrel of the gun like Mao supposedly said, and all law is backed by threat of violence. These are just the facts, and it doesn't require one to be a gun nut to accept the reality around them. If you think the false dichotomy is "no guns" and "overflowing with guns" instead of "relying on government" and "independence" you're looking at the problem from the peepee poopoo Republican vs Democrat rather than the actual underlying issue. "Private property has nothing to do with this discussion" - Of course it does. People are literally dying from not having access to your property. Capitalism kills a bajillion people every year. "unwilling to cooperate" - Your "cooperation" is enforced by armed thugs. "It's very convenient to mock the ones who have already passed away when it doesn't threat you because you are probably still young or healthier or 'stronger'. It has a name: Eugenia. " - This is your strawman, you have erected it (giggity). And if you want to call out eugenics then go complain about the pro-choice liberals or something, hell the conspiracy theories regarding the vaccine originate from Bill Gates himself saying we need to reduce the world population. Obviously it was decontextualized from any vaccination effort at the time, but it's your side that has literal eugenicists on your side. I'm simply for freedom.
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@pizzaman5169 How about you do me a solid and calculate the lifetime cost of the F-15 program, inflation adjusted?
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 @heavensanchor6055 the Kubrick movie makes it obvious how difficult it would be to fake.
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@tatsuroaran1635 Pretty much all arguments have been answered. You people just move the goalposts. It's easier to come up with BS than addressing it in detail.
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There's a lot of people he could have picked that up from. The shooting competitors have used this grip for a while now. Travis Haley, Chris Costa and the current instructors at Magpul Dynamics also use it. There have been former Marines who said their units were trained to use that grip during the 80's.
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@dimadima9693 They used the army in Donbas to stop Girkin and his band of FSB war criminals.
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Oh no, Eritreia's military industrial complex is gonna save Russia. It's Iran that's supplying Russia and little else from other allies, so essentially cheap Iranian drones get shot down by 150 dollar bursts from Gepards.
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How is it protectionism? Brands do it to improve their image. Tarnish their image by pointing out how they're wrecking countries' economies and tell people to stop buying from them. They'll stop. Free market wins again.
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It would be drone grenade bait.
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Sseth is a legit immunologist and he reviews games on youtube. Wouldn't be surprised.
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 @gtwarrior4221 Why? Oswald attempted to kill an army general prior to the JFK assassination and he acted alone.
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The purposeful mixup of a social media "follower" and literally following someone has to be the smartest troll attempt I've seen in months, 9/10
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@claymclaren5788 You do realize that most aircraft have diagnosis programs, right? In the majority of trials held countries did not find the Gripen cheaper or easier to maintain. In fact the Finnish trials found the F-16 was cheaper to fly, and in a Swiss parliamentary inquiry it was revealed Saab had lied about the CPH of the Gripen by a factor of almost a third. The Canadian forces have issues, and purchasing Gripens would not solve them.
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@zoejay How did Ukraine buy modern Russian equipment? They captured radars and EW equipment that Ukraine could not have acquired.
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They have no ability to carpet bomb, strategic bombers cannot enter Ukrainian airspace.
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The fact that I don't want the state to employ its armed agents against prostitutes doesn't mean I have to agree with the profession. I think people have the right to put whatever they want into their own bodies, I wouldn't advocate for other people to do it.
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Snipers do more surveillance and recon than killing. You assume things are like in videogames so you don't understand. Very nice to have all those facts handy, almost as if you spend your time spreading propaganda.
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@darkyassin At the risk of wasting my time just because you could be trolling, you should "mind" paying taxes into BS feel good programs. This really isn't about getting rid of guns, it's mostly just presenting a way out for guns that could potentially be uncared for and unsecured and thus get involved in accidents or get stolen. However politicians divert funding for this by convincing people like you that they're "taking guns off the street". They're lying to your face and making themselves look good for votes.
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@misterpibb108 "This is about Russian security" - So the nuclear armed nation, Russia, is afraid of a non-nuclear Ukraine. So afraid for their security... the Russians sacrificed their army. In fact losing the 1st Tanks Guard, the armored unit that defends Moscow...
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@AceDan-gc9po Most games don't make it mandatory. One game where finishing movies are crucial to gameplay is Doom but that's about slaying demons.
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The A-10 would be unbelievably expensive to produce today.
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"Russia is still attacking on several fronts" - trying to do what? Reach the Ukrainian's kill limit so that they stop fighting?
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I remember when Russia hit a bridge pier with a missile and claimed to have hit a barge.
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@sigmaputin6888 We don't live in Siberia like you, I'm wearing short sleeves right now, no heating on.
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Credit to the human wave argument because it's a fallacy but the Russian army is not the Soviet army - they are not ready for mobilization, they lack the equipment.
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The Marines are going back to an amphibious force for an island hopping campaign. They don't want tanks because they'll be fighting in a naval setting.
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You don't. It's like trying to extract fissile material out of depleted uranium. Too much chaff, not enough wheat. We have plants that produce heavy water so extracting 3 grams from a gajillion liters is not feasible.
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You can disable an IADS but still have individual SAMs spread out creating an opportunistic threat.
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I looked up Big St. James Island to find the Nick Mullen bit and this was the third result.
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 @ГеоргийМурзич Russian pilots have a much weaker SEAD doctrine. Do we have consistent ARM wreckage in Ukrainian terrain like AGM-88 HARM inside Russian-controlled terrain?
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It would make no sense. Instead of wasting time training Ukrainian pilots and maintenance crew on a dead aircraft, they can just focus on the F-16s.
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Reminds me of that tragedy...
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"Muh trillions" please look up what that actually entails.
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I bought two DDR2 800MHz 1GB sticks recently for a total of 4 GB for my 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo. Contain your orgasms.
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The decoys are painted on the ground rather than built into 3d structures.
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They seem unable to learn anything.
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A shoulder fired weapon having a 30% success rate, and a real world success rate meaning there's failures and user employment issues, means that a shoulder fired weapon carried by infantry can knock out million dollar vehicles at a rate of 3 munitions used per vehicle. That's extremely favorable. Improve our weapons? Just the infantry can knock out tanks with shoulder fired weapons. There's the missiles mounted on infantry fighting vehicles. There's the guns on main battle tanks. We're not even taking into account the aircraft and how they plink tanks with ease with laser guided bombs. What needs improvement? Infantry already chews up armor before it can even get to fight other armor. This is outstanding.
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Ukraine invaded annexed territories the day after the referenda. Ukraine doesn't care. Russia didn't bring it up either.
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Not the same. The Russian officials were found to be obstructing evidence and refusing to cooperate with WADA. As punishment the nation being covered by corrupt officials was banned for 4 years, later reduced to 2 after appeal in court. Did Americans pressure Russian officials into becoming liars and get caught on purpose?
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That facebook ad of a buffed Bernie Sanders must have changed a ton of minds.
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A small car didn't make much sense when gas was cheap, nowadays it doesn't make sense when any SUV or truck will crush it like a beer can in a collision. The Smart car was successful in Europe thanks to the higher gas prices, narrow streets, lack of parking space and having that frame that gives reasonable protection to the occupants.
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Russia bombed the hell out of the cities. Zaporizhzhia was hit recently, residential buildings demolished.
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@edl653 " Su-25 are surviving the battlefield in UKR by flying very low, something that the A-10 can do better than F-16 and other US aircraft." - They're surviving because they release rockets and run back home. They barely do any fighting. The A-10 would be the same. Arrive, pitch up, release rockets, turn back and head home. "the A-10 has much armor and redunancy that make it more survivable than manpads" - If a MANPADS shreds the A-10, you can maybe fly it back home. It's gonna be written off. Worse, it's probably going to be severely damaged and crash land. Armor and redundancy doesn't mean much when the aircraft is physically mangled. The armor is overstated, it's just to keep the aircraft flying long enough and the pilot alive enough to pick a place to ditch. One pilot died trying to land a damaged A-10 in Desert Storm. The aircraft's reputation killed him. Should have ditched it in a safe zone.
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@MMG-q1v I'm afraid you don't know how the sausage is made. You're adding a ton of people who aren't required to know about the scam. These secrets have been kept for years. You're telling me that the tobacco industry didn't keep things under wraps? Or DuPont? Or Enron? Theranos?
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You people just read from a script.
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@bicben Why would I be using a script? I'm not the one who can only say "NATO" and "[country]" and "muh whatabout". These people will hear about Russians forcing Ukrainian children to take school classes in Russian language, and these people will complain about NATO doing the same in Afghanistan even though it makes no sense.
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@lance5041 If the footage was debunked, we depend on the fallible eyes and memory of the pilots.
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Well a quadcopter drone in Ukraine was like two feet away from scoring a Ka-52 kill. A few hundred bucks worth of AliExpress parts zip tied to a warhead aren't gucci. Being low and slow will just egg the opposition on to build a FPV that's fast enough to ram a slow plane from the side.
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@John Balnis and Bernie got kicked out of a commune, didn't he?
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 @bilic8094 He's so well respected he never made it to General and now has to do livestreams to make a living.
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What did you understand differently? Thunder clearly strawmanned the points people bring up.
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Since they have less shells, they have to make them count.
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The structure is more G-limited than the human. Humans have cracked airframes.
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 @VelkePivo Dawg China and India have an active border dispute and their troops get into skirmishes in the mountains. This isn't "erudite", it's basic required knowledge to speak on the issue.
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@oldenglishforeveryone-robe8279 The US flew a manned hypersonic aircraft in 1959. That's 63 years ago.
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They have INS guidance and the GPS uplink is encrypted which makes it harder to spoof.
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@jimmyl7511 Cope. Literally one of the funniest memes of the war and forever the image of the Russian army.
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@jimmyl7511 The Russian army couldn't hold north of Kiev, they couldn't take Kharkiv, they couldn't hold Kherson. Considering that their track record has been losing the land they captured, how can you count those chickens before they hatch? In the same day the Chally was lost, Russia lost 9 tanks. You're declaring victory over a tank?
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If you didn't witness the murder you're playing a very dangerous game attempting a citizen's arrest.
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My grandmother waited two years. Obviously she wouldn't have afforded a 70k surgery if that was the option. But what's two weeks in Canada can be years in other places with free healthcare.
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@MrAce2000 Russia spent 6 months capturing farms.
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I don't want anything by the MSM. I just watch the combat footage. You people don't know the half of it.
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It means the arms market is shrinking. 1 billion in oil sales helps the oil market. Not weapons.
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Ukraine doesn't want foreigners unless they have specific specialization and combat experience.
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What success? It has cost them tens of thousands of men to take a town nobody heard of in 6 months.
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@jfangm Cubans are a fraction of the people we're talking about.
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@minthouse6338 That's not how it works. Aviation computers work on different architectures and code. If your facebook tab crashes no biggie. If an aircraft has a software or hardware crash in the air, oh boy. Same reason banks don't have their backend ran on Windows. We don't trust the commercial laptop with financial transactions, why should we trust it to handle a demanding flight regime?
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Musk is South African...
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@snapdragon9300 Trump was ready to shut down travel but was called a racist for it. I have my issues with Trump's handling of the situation but he was willing to be cautious about it at first, while the opposition screamed that we were fearmongering about the flu.
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@bobsmith-pc4zw Not the same thing. You can get a loan, use it to invest (or gamble) and you're on the hook for paying it back. You can mortgage your house to get a certain percentage of it's value and use that money to invest or start a business. What happened was naked short selling. If you borrow 10 bucks and I ask you to borrow those same bucks, there's 20 dollars of debt and only 10 dollars of money. I'm on the hook to pay you back and you're on the hook for paying it back.
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Hey op trickle down economics is not a real thing and democrat presidents like Woodrow Wilson and JFK used low tax rates to increase tax revenue.
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@will.roman-ros "Universal healthcare systems have experts in the field negotiate" - which is useless. If Big Pharma demands a price and the experts disagree, what happens? This happened in Portugal, the pharmaceutical company demanded over 90k per patient for a Hep C treatment and the government didn't agree with the price so they refused to buy. Obviously this caused a major shitstorm and the government was pressured into buying. The treatment was thus sold for an undisclosed amount. Do you think the price increased, or lowered? "Assuming no corruption of course" - which is a problem. Where do you go get experts in the field who are also not connected to the industry in any way? "That means even if pharma raises prices, the buyers still know what’s reasonable" - if it wasn't for the news saying that the government was refusing to overpay for treatments I would have never guessed the pharmaceutical companies could get away with charging almost 6 figures per person. The average person doesn't know the costs when he's not paying. "which I’d argue is more important than new medicine down the line" - but you're hovering right above the solution. What is forcing the medical field to be so cutting edge? If someone wanted to make money wouldn't it make sense to open a clinic with lower operating costs that would cover frequent but life-saving procedures which have existed for decades and are extremely well researched? And use mostly generic drugs? I'm pretty sure if anyone tried it the AMA would come crashing down on them for violations of some kind of regulation. You can't even lower the employment costs of doctors because there's no way that regulatory interests will ever tell colleges to drop the requirement for undergraduate years before entering med school.
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@thelazy0ne The end result can still be selected. Take natural bananas. They're full of seeds. You can cross banana tree species until the size and number is reduced. Sometimes it won't work. You destroy those plants and only allow the ones that get progressively smaller and fewer seeds until you finally have a species of banana trees with no seeds.
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Keep on honking in the free world
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@TheAverageJoe2014 that's false because Canada does have private clinics and they're contracted by the Canadian provincial governments to provide service to the public clients along with private users. But that's beside the point, countries like Germany and France benefit greatly from being manufacturers who sell to everyone else, at the expense of for example Southern European countries which have repeatedly stood at the edge of the fiscal cliff and required bailouts. Let's also not mention how Eastern Europe and the Balkans were very much ransacked by the big guys during the transition away from communism. Don't tell me how well it works in the countries that created artificial advantages for themselves at the expense of others. Show me how it works on the failing countries. Oh wait, it doesn't. Crash the French and Canadian economies for a fair comparison and then see what kind of healthcare system they'd be working with.
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@Friedrich okay, so the system doesn't work because it requires absolute compliance from the people and you only see that kind of order and discipline in certain countries. Big whoop, leave it be where people comply and stop trying to force it down everyone's throat if you're going to recognize it doesn't work.
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@Friedrich Medicare is not comparable to any other developed country. Medicare sets prices by law rather than contract and forces the private sector to charge the private customer a good chunk of the cost. Tell me in which other country people with private health insurance are forced to deal with price hikes because the government refuses to pay their bills in full.
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@Friedrich "Social Democracy would work in the US, because the US has high or even higher levels of compliance" - lmao the US is closer to undeveloped than central Europe, let alone Northern Europe. Look at Flint, Michigan. Look at San Francisco. Look at the rural areas falling to a meth epidemic. They literally have NASCAR, a sport born out of illegal bootleggers and almost nobody turned in their bump-stocks when they were declared illegal. Compliance my ass.
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@Friedrich "I am living in Germany and i pay less than 100 Dollars per month for my health insurance" - which means you don't have a Medicare system otherwise you'd be paying much higher prices. The private insurer would have to charge you for the money the government doesn't pay like in the American Medicare system.
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@Friedrich We're not talking about Sander's idea of Medicare. I am talking about the REAL Medicare that exists.
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@Friedrich 1. We have social democracy and 2. you literally said that it doesn't work because we're less disciplined, how the fuck is something that doesn't work gonna discipline us? "Except for the homelessness crisis"? Are you fucking kidding? San Francisco is closer to Rio De Janeiro or Caracas than Copenhagen or Helsinki. Flint, Michigan was under Democrat control during the whole ordeal. How are low taxes responsible for the fact that the government was corrupt as hell, and they're from the "let's increase taxes" party?
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They can't. The entire point was strongarming Ukraine into regime change. They need the next regime to be at least somewhat popular. If they go hard, they will have no loyalty from what's left of the military or the police. They will have to keep a permanent deployment to protect their own puppet state or else the populace would simply beat the stooges on the government buildings' steps while cops looked the other way.
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 @knowledgeispower3212 It's not even an insult, I hate the ADL too, but if people who were persecuted are called criminals and paranoid, that's just factual
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Then why do you need 30mm rounds? 20mm will do the job.
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And now the LDPR has almost ceased to exist. Russia killed them. The pro-Russian fighters and leaders are saying it. Igor "Strelkov" Girkin agrees, the Donbas lives with a lower quality of life thsn Russia. Which is no mean feat. Welcome to "Ruskyi Mir".
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Have Blue is 70s technology.
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@MardukTheSunGodInsideMe How do you know you're outside MANPADS range? You can be several miles away from the target when you release, but there could be a guy with a MANPADS also several miles away from the target. Right under you.
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@MardukTheSunGodInsideMe Why would the A-10 be carrying those?
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Shut it, Z-boy.
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If you go to another country you gave to follow the law even if you're not a citizen...
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It's been replaced. The A-10 does 11% of CAS missions.
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If countries are going on lockdown again, then something is not working.
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@captain-chair It's funny, so every time your lockdown fails, it's because of the rule breakers. So why did they come out of lockdown? It was because the data supported it, right? So how did the numbers drop if there were rule breakers?
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@captain-chair So if the majority did the right thing, how are rule breakers to blame if they didn't have an effect on the numbers? You're on the verge of realizing something.
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Libertarianism is the only ideology that actually cares about morals, and is based on the only objective standard of morality which is moral reciprocity. Reason is just obsessed with dumping unpopular hot takes.
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Except that there's multiple people in a squad and the targets aren't randomly distributed in the big sky, they're coming STRAIGHT AT YOU.
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Lmao how did the Soviets, Libya or Yugoslavia try to be good guys? Gaddafi straight up helped arm and train terrorists to attack the west. Yugoslavia collapsed due to the death of Tito and Serb dreams of dominance over the region.
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 @EEEEEEE354 Not true. The SA-2 and MiG-21 delivered to Vietnam were state of the art. They were even many times operated by Soviets because of how new those weapons were.
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@TuhljinTampergauge I'm not on the left and I'm not defending Saddam. Yes, I am stating that the US's case for going to war was extremely flimsy and a clear case of manufactured consent. If my grandmother had wheels she'd be a motorcycle. Yeah, IF things went smoothly. They never go. Vietnam was in itself a political debacle that should have been solved politically before the conflict got out of hand. The Diem government was not popular and rural areas were under strong communist influence. War is not popular, especially to the people on the receiving end of the bombs.
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@sthubbins4038 Do you get paid to post and if yes, can you hook me up with the gig?
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@William_E There's someone who made one with an AR15 trigger group.
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One rolled off the factory last year, oxygen was faulty, pilot became unconscious and it crashed. Brand new Flanker. Womp womp.
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Some don't care about losing their channel.
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But the F-35B is meant to be operated from FARPs. The US either uses allied airbases close to the area or aircraft carriers, meaning their fighters are not in America, they're always in range of the front. The bombers can come from America thanks to in flight refueling, though.
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@braidenbaker5588 "without censorship you would be seeing a lot of messed up shit" - you mean like historical documentaries and war songs that youtube keeps taking down?
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Sounds even more delusional than the initial premise.
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@Invizive wear corona chan mask, sunglasses and baseball cap
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@Invizive stick a pebble in your shoes that forces you to walk "wrong". Or alternatiely put something in your butt and don't let it fall out. You'll walk funny, guaranteed.
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 @WhimsicottFanatic as long as the balls don't touch
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War bad, thanks for the scorching hot take.
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The democrats are anti-free trade as well lmao
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Was the Hugh Mungus guy a psyop too? A person can't have a sense of humor?
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Not really how it works.
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@sasaasassasa1245 They need constraint because they need a future government to be frienly to Russia. Going all out ensures anti-Russia sentiment, meaning Russia shoots itself in the foot. Bragging about restraint when they desperately need to be seen as liberators is cope.
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Did you type NATO with the cyrillic N (H) as a joke?
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You can't hit the pilot through the armor and you can't reliably ignite the fuel in the tanks, but you can still hit other components. If you hit flight control surfaces, weapon pylons, an engine, targeting pods, etc the pilot will be likely to have to go back home instead of fighting you. Now if the A-10 hasn't seen you and your position isn't defended, you may not want to alert the pilot to the fact that you're there. But only a limited area is protected against 23mm. It was designed mostly against 14.5mm.
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Africa: plagued with conflict, filled to the brim with Cold War weapons, half the generals were educated in the Soviet Union
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@proudtitanicdenier4300 Call of Duty: Black Ops
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The explanation is that probably the invading force is using existing logistics to feed the population and prevent insurrection by giving them the bare minimum of normalcy - such as fast food chains. The enemy tanks are patrolling for people who step out of line, not the ones trying to eat.
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@theuprising2216 the fact that the tipping point occured in 2012 doesn't change the fact that PES was a legitimate competitor that forced FIFA to get better. Ever played the older FIFA games? PES was much more fluid.
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@majormoolah5056 It wasn't assymetry. Iraq had the Soviet concept of air defense (and some Western tech) and the US had the game plan to destroy Soviet defenses. It was a parity exchange, it just happens that the Soviet concept was proven wrong by the American concept.
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You can get compressor stalls in engines. The compressor and stator blades are airfoils and airflow can detach, resulting in a stall. That's why in older engines certain maneuvers or aggressive throttle movements could cause engines to stall. Nowadays the stator blades can move in angle of attack to prevent stall.
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@StevePlegge You said it doesn't happen in engines.
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Reminds me of that guy who went on Joe Rogan like two weeks ago and one of his friends was almost declared brain dead from the shanghai shivers in a NJ hospital but turns out he had a stroke and was dehydrated.
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@marceloorellana5726 False. Ukraine did it physically in 1917-1921. The reason they were one of the founding members of the Soviet Union was because even though they had to make peace with the Bolsheviks, they fought hard enough to secure themselves as a nation and were not absorbed into the Russian republic. Nothing on the rules says they must do it themselves. Portugal had British help against Spain. The US had French help against the British. Russia took their chances. Now their army is getting bloodied and Ukrainian artillery's reach encompasses beyond the Russian border. If Russia wasn't a nuclear power, at this point China, Japan and Finland would be claiming their disputed territories. The world isn't fair. Wear a cup.
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But it was Russia that started fighting...
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It wasn't just quantity. Allied equipment was flat out better in many aspects. Warfare existed prior to aircraft, and will continue to be conducted even when they're unavailable.
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Russia spent billions in shipping fresh water and building a desalination plant. Let's hope that by 2023 they won't have to worry about that.
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 @thaneofwhiterun3562 the Red Army once advanced all the way to Moscow. The army that lost then won (bigly) by advancing towards Berlin
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@Joshcodes808 For honesty's sake stop using the animal thing. Yes, it's an anti-parasitical drug for pets and cattle... but also humans. It's widely used in Africa because they have a lot of parasites. The only reason people are resorting to animal drugs is because it's nearly impossible to get a prescription.
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>"At that point we have to maybe consider that the government can be small in some ways- personal privacy, right to trial, etc and be powerful in other ways in regard to regulating monopoly and environment and industrial fallout." Yeah but that's like caging a gorilla, giving him giving steroids and hoping he won't rip you to shreds once you enter the cage. >"The problem is not large vs small it's corruption vs ethics" How is the problem not related to size when large and powerful is what attracts sociopaths and busybodies to the political life in the first place? How can you expect ethics to survive in a place where people make a living out of telling others how to live and juggling large sums of money coerced out of the taxpayer? >"truly representational democracy" Democracy is the tyranny of the 51%. I don't know you, why should your vote dictate the way I live? Why should my vote dictate how you live?
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@SaturnusDK some have estimated 1:2 because their combat medicine and medvac capabilities are worse. I think 100k WIA and 50k KIA makes sense - it's the whole invasion force minus LDPR militias and internal troops. That's why shadow mobilization, high pay contracts, volunteer battalions, PMCs were used to plug the gaps.
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@ElmerAwesome Yanukovych was the terror. He killed protesters and made a deal, throwing the police units who murdered protesters under the bus. That's why the security services stopped protecting Yanukovych.
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@cupofjotv8195 They had enough votes. It wasn't the article of impeachment you're thinking of that was cited.
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@Racer92 External financial support was what Putin promised to Yanukovych to change his mind.
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Yes, it's a slippery slope. Everyone should be allowed to say anything towards anyone. Picking and choosing who gets to say something will lead to the opposite happening to us one day.
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Garand himself thought it was a mistake.
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@LupusAries "The A-10 can stay on Station for hours, in a war like Afghanistan." - A turboprop has a ton of time on station. "due to the more limited payload of the F-16" - A-10s in Afghanistan were also payload limited by the sheer altitude of some airbases. You can see videos of A-10s taking off/in pre-flight at Bagram. It's almost 5,000 ft above sea level and the A-10 is severely lacking in thrust. They're not carrying everything plus the kitchen sink or else the pucker factor during rotation would be off the charts. "Citation needed" - Oh I got the full interview. Posting the link will probably see my comment filtered for spam so google "airforcemag article 0691horner". Title is "A Conversation With Chuck Horner" and dated June 1, 1991. "The Tornado GR. 1 lost 10 Aircraft, mainly due to it's mission profile" - Exactly. The Tornado had a much harder, near-suicidal mission that forced the West to reconsider low-level attacks as a way to evade defenses as a whole and the Tornado was forced to continue the war doing mid-level attacks. The Tornado suffering those losses doing an extremely difficult job was considered a paradigm shift. The A-10 proved itself incapable against a near-pear adversary and got a hero's welcome. That's propaganda for you. "aircraft with a riskier mission profile do get shot down more" - Okay, which proves that the A-10s mission profile is flawed and only works for COIN, where a turboprop aircraft would be better suited. "Except in Syria" - Exactly. >national interest The National Interest is a terrible outlet.
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Anti tank teams, artillery, minefields, drones, etc.
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You can't pull people on a snap of a finger. First, how many if those 1.4 bil are estimations and don't actually exist? Second, how many are peasants in the countryside with no training in heavy industry. Humans may be a resource, but they're not numbers in a computer you can shift around.
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More like, today you made this post. A bot made a hundred posts in the same day. Tomorrow maybe you'll just watch videos on the background and not post comments. A bot posted 100 comments anyway. So a few hundred thousand bots could output more traffic than billions of humans who use the internet normally (mostly watching/reading rather than posting).
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@nevisstkitts8264 The AH-64 does not use the same ammo as the A-10. The cartridge is smaller as the chain gun on the Apache doesn't have a breach and barrel strong enough for 30x173mm.
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@mauricio9564 Somalia was under administration of a socialist state before the government failed.
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@PikachooUpYou it's robbery if you get something in return. If I steal your TV and leave a thousand bucks behind I'd still get charged for the crime.
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If anything it gives him insight. He parted ways with Vice, he can't criticize media now?
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Corn hole games? Was Diddy somehow involved?
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 @QwertAsdfg-ih1ow Russia thought they were like the US and able to take Baghdad with 30k troops. Why did they send cops with riot shields into Kyiv?
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@starstray4326 You do realize that military units can be defeated and reformed, right? The 155th Naval Infantry has been reconstituted 8 times. By the 8th time you're reconstituting a unit, you lost the best guys.
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Schmeisser died before the AKM and he had retired to Germany. Also, Schmeisser had limited understanding of stamping with the StG dies being made by either Merz Werke or Hanel, don't remember, and it wouldn't make any sense anyway because the StG stamping was done to add strength to the garbage alloys Germany had access to. The AK stamping is relatively simple. It was the welded rails that kept failing. The type of stamping used in the AK had already been used on other Russian guns.
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The simulator is already used with people. These projector rooms have existed for years (especially because live fire training is expensive). They just repurposed the program for dogs.
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 @skip123davis Finland, Switzerland, Canada and Australia use F-18s as land based fighters.
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Your wishes will never be fulfilled. You will watch Russia's defeat.
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Why did Epstein get shwacked exactly in the way everyone predicted he would? They have many ways, they'd have realized they needed to tighten up their protocol after all the memes predicted his death weeks in advance.
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@abstractapproach634 There's other avenues to critique such as the timing, which matters more than the method. He was about to be extradited, which means McAfee had to consider that he might be placed on suicide watch in a US prison so he had to do it in Spain. And about the US being transparently dictatorial. I really don't have the brain power to explain it, but the US changing the head of state and the head of state not having concentrated power might make it technically not a dictatorship, the end result in kind of the same. There's an oligarchy within the oligarchy and they tend to get rid of people who become too much of a problem, and they can do it in obvious fashion while declaring it a suicide, and then the coroner dies. There's literally backdoors on hardware and software, they exploit mentally ill people by encouraging them to commit terrorist acts and then arresting them to "save" the day (and one wonders if they ever encouraged a real attack and then wiped away the evidence that they were the ones behind it) to justify their budgets and said backdoors, there's a constant barrage of misinformation and irrelevant information designed to keep people apathetic. There might not be a Putin, but the powers that be do whatever they want in the open and there's no consequences. The president's son can get caught trading women like they were Magic The Gathering cards but the real story is that he called Asian women "yellow".
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 @nio6297 Minsk was broken by the assault on Debaltseve and the second battle of Donetsk airport. Russia broke every treaty it ever was part of.
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 @hanstoet4616 Russia protected the Donbas? They genocided the men there. Milbloggers on the Russian side admit they conscripted the Donbas to death. Donbas is just a memory.
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The production render (with the tail) looks like a stealth A-7.
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They didn't say that. An old man fired into the air when he saw a Russian jet. That same jet was shot down by a SAM. The armed forces appreciated what the old man did and gave him an award for bravery and assisting the armed forces, not the shootdown. It was GARBAGE media like Daily Mail that picked the photo of the man receiving the award and said he had shot down the jet. One of the things that pisses the off the most is people who believe lies then calling others liars. You try to shame others as untrustworthy but you are the one who can't be trusted. You made a genuine mistake, okay. Let this be a lesson.
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Hint, hint: if your effectiveness is rolled back in a week like it happened in Kharkiv, it was stupid
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No. Atmospheric pressure is about 101kPa. That means space is approximately 0 kPa. Water pressure inside a column of fluid is aprox. one atmosphere for every 10 meters. So if you swim to 20 meters depth, you're exposed to twice the pressure differential a space suit has in space.
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 @warbrain1053 Light infantry today... isn't. Light infantry is famously more burdened than mechanized units because they can't just being all the stuff on wheels.
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It involved brutal fighting and even genocides. But a lot of that land has very low population density, so for many life didn't change. In fact some regions were so remote that scammers would travel there and say they were representatives of the Russian government so taxes would be collected by them. There's even the joke that somewhere in Siberia there's a man wondering who the current Tsar is.
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Pretty sure the Baltics are for it.
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@WayStedYou The Soviet Union left Afghanistan and then collapsed.
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@redbeard5939 No. It's not satire, it's just a reference. Many people prefer to stay anonymous online and use a pseudonym. For example the person who writes the blog Zero Hedge pens his articles under "Tyler Durden". It's a reference to Fight Club. It's not satire, the people behind the accounts want to be seen like those characters. The picture of Smedley Butler is another hint.
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Second amendment?
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@lucqq3792 It's disproportionate... because there's a disproportionate representation in that world.
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@lucqq3792 No, by my logic if you're disproportionately related to a contributing factor you will be over-represented.
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@lucqq3792 It does, you just want to play coy.
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They weren't defending themselves. They were killing innocents for ideology or profit. Instead of helping the Iraqi government they wanted to topple it and put the Ba'ath party in control or help Iran take over. Since when is putting VBIEDs in crowded places an act of defense?
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Leopold? Fortunately, Russians have not laid 5 minefields back to back in the skies. Can't drive in Ukraine without hitting one if you're grounded.
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 @ivan200804 "Himars get shot down" lmao so why do we still get videos of the tungsten rain shredding Russian equipment?
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@codiefitz3876 I don't think a Romanian is called "Gary" but stranger things have happened.
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 @MontajBlaze That's perfectly reasonable, though. It's like someone starting a fight, you don't want to get dragged into it.
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@cjspyker considering how poorly google does its job (youtube is hated by its own content creators, Google+ was an abortion, etc) but how engaged it is in the political field, I don't know if your comment is all that accurate.
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You can dominate the skies, and still get brought down by a guy with a tube-launched missile on his back. You can can for fighters in the air, but not an entire country for guys with a tube.
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@konstantinshev1320 Lose the pilots, you lose the air battle. Period.
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India wouldn't take that deal.
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@mikeyorkav4039 The US does not "give permission" to attack. That's not how the UN works.
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To be fair, if you start digging in an European country, you'll find bodies. We had a lot of wars. Sometimes we find the unexploded bombs too.
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It failed - couldn't secure the air bridge. Huge success would have been the IL-76s landing with more troops and Viktor Yanukovych to take over Kiev.
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@command_unit7792 lmao trash the houses, create thousands of refugees, eliminate the jobs making it hard to come back, then pretend you didn't do anything because you didn't touch the flag. Things like these make me more understanding of thought-crime, because anyone who uses that excuse for real actually deserves medieval forms of punishment.
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@jussim.konttinen4981 I understand that's the country total, I'm just saying "thousands" to estimate the count from a few days from a single city.
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@sanders555 Exactly, the lockdowns were the government replacing the batteries on the bird robots.
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@SenorJuan2023 We did protest the PATRIOT Act. You on the other hand seem to be delighted to sandbag us over a sick sense of revenge for something we're not at fault for.
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@SenorJuan2023 Moving the goalposts.
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"People have their cancer operations suspended because intensive care is full of unvaccinated covid patients" - Still pushing this narrative? "So the choice of not getting vaccinated is now affecting others people right of getting proper healthcare" - No. The state mismanaging resources and suspending diagnosis and surgeries last year caused that. "we witness a full on propaganda war against scientific facts" - No, we're watching a full on propaganda war from the government and news media.
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Why would the terms get worse? Russia gets to demand more severe terms by retaining the power to conquer Ukraine entirely. As time goes on, Russia has lost leverage. They have less tanks, less aircraft, less missiles than when they started. Their ability to threaten a worse fate is dwindling.
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@thefreik I remembered something: the Stalker games have the old sarcophagus that only covers the reactor and the building is still exposed. The new containment structure covers the iconic building. And the Russian gamers pissed off at the GSC devs was hilarious. They were posting online that they would pirate Stalker 2 to avoid paying, mod the Russian language into it, etc.
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@olorin1710 Off topic but I don't understand of all things why people bang on the mass transit system. Sure, it's a progressive policy. But I don't see the "liberalism".
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@olorin1710 Peer review is a joke, honestly. But yes, we should eliminate corporate welfare. I just think subsidies are corporate welfare in sheep's clothing. And I don't trust The Science™. The Science™ is fully corporatized and is full of special interests in itself. The Science™ tells you to build wind farms, develops the most advanced blades for the turbines to assure you they can squeeze 33% more energy from the wind but then 15 years later The Science™ seems to have forgot to tell you that the materials are not recyclable.
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@olorin1710 On a vacuum, that's correct. The problem is, peer reviewers essentially become the gatekeepers and it's an uphill battle to get past peer review when you challenge convention. Combined with "publish or perish" mindset this leads to practices that go against science, such as p-hacking. Not sure about the tesla technology thing.
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@olorin1710 On a vacuum, that's correct. The problem is, peer reviewers essentially become the gatekeepers and it's an uphill battle to get past peer review when you challenge convention. Combined with "publish or perish" mindset this leads to practices that go against science, such as p-hacking. Not sure about the tesla technology thing.
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That's because you paid no attention to world events until your grandson installed Facebook on your phone. ISIS-K was a known faction for almost a decade
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@jameseverett4976 There's a myriad of political beliefs in the spectrum between statist communism/socialism and anarcho-capitalism. Even the basic "pull yourself by the bootstraps and stop asking for welfare" social and economic conservative hates capitalism when he sees his nationally produced goods losing market to foreign imports and starts calling for regulations to stifle capitalism. On the other hand, Q and Antifa actually leave a lot more between them than socialism and anarcho-capitalism. There's a whole lot of room between those.
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 @Rimasta1 The missile failed.
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 @nexpro6118 This issue has been raised by online commentators for decades. The issue is, IRST and modern missiles still mean there's not much room for traditional dogfights.
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@maciek_k.cichon This dude has been copy pasting the MoD updates to youtube comments section for a year now. It's wild.
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From the Brent0331 livestream? Very educational interview.
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@nikoclesceri2267 If the demographics of a country were effed with through ethnic cleansing and forced relocation, should a country recognize your borders and then wait for the people they sent over there to replace the locals to eventually rebel? Seems like a scummy way to gain territory.
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@Liam1H "The US has the worst gun violence in the world" - That's not true. "By far and away the most mass shootings using Semi Auto weapons" - Because most weapons made after 1950 are semi-automatic. Mass shootings in other countries also typically involve semi-automatic weapons because they're legal in other countries too. Only certain places like the UK impose a ban on semi-auto centrefire, limiting civilians to semi-auto rimfire. Semi-auto weapons are the norm, not the exception. "then perhaps we've demonstrated that we, as a nation are not responsible enough for those kinds of weapons" - Because a pump action shotgun is so harmless, right?
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@obijuan3004 The second amendment was based on the English Bill of Rights of 1689. In the Federalist paper No. 46 James Madison argues that the militia would be used to keep the federal army in check. Alexander Hamilton published an essay in 1788 that the militia is the best possible security against a standing army. The slavery argument is nonsensical. Non-slave states attacking slave states to free states right after the US being formed would clearly go against the point of the Union. It's a retroactive fetishization of the civil war. "There is nothing about tyranny in the Constitution" - But the declaration of independence states: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. "The NRA is a gun manufacturer lobby" - And? I don't like the NRA. "you are a customer" - Yeah? Let's say you drive a Toyota. Do you want Toyota to go out of business? Companies make good products, I'd like to buy them. You think this is a revelation?
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@DrSQUIRRELBOY12 And in that call Nuland is saying that the Ukrainian opposition should take the deal and accept the PM office while Yanukovych stays as president. The US wanted to keep the Putin stooge in Ukraine to stabilize the situation.
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I am not ashamed nor did the TV tell me anything. I fully support Azov.
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That's a lie. Everyone in the USAF loves doing ground attack and support. Listen to any interview. You live in the information age, pilot podcasts are dime a dozen. Listen to them saying they love it.
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Equal capability inherently requires a Vietnam war mindset in the design. Technology has moved on so you're never going to get the same capabilities. Nobody else is building this type of aircraft. They're a dead end. There's no such thing as a new production run, as the manufacturer went out of business. Starting all over again probably means a higher flyaway cost than a F-35 for an aircraft that has one fifth of the capabilities.
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@breeeegs the joke went over your head
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Now think the other way around. What would happen if you were in need of an A-10, but a MANPADS just smacked it out of the air as it arrived? What would be the psychological effects of that?
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@chriserskine6879 If it's for their sake, why deny them personal choice? How do you know everyone is vaccinated without a passport?
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It isn't. There's a natural nuclear reactor and the waste has been there for almost 2 billion years.
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@Crono1973 the issue is, what kind of work are you expecting from a person making 1 dollar per hour? If you pay that poorly the only people you'll find working that job are people who won't do anything they are told, take excessive breaks and won't stop staring at their cellphone while on the clock. I saw this recurring problem on a fast food job that paid min wage, imagine paying less than that.
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 @FalconfromRF Ukraine isn't fighting for the West, 60% of Ukraine didn't like NATO according to polls before the war.
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The rail crossing was used the day after the attack. An unloaded train moving at a snail's pace. The fact is that they can't move heavy equipment, and can't operate at speed. It's easy to cross by rail moving people, but militarily speaking that rail is busted until they remove the heat affected steel and concrete.
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@IrishCarney Forget the gun inaccuracy, if anything it would help. The problem is that the A-10 would survive.
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 @blackberrythorns 300 launches, 7 hits. How much damage on those hits?
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That was the Skripal affair, the novichok poisonings. Not polonium.
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@hink5665 yes, it is immature to be outraged at the fact that the rich get away with not serving or get pushed into cushy Navy or Air Force jobs. It is sort of a tradition for the sons of royal family to serve in combat as a sign that the king will never send you to a war he wouldn't send his lineage to. But pointing it out is immature.
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@verdigo1482 but multirole aircraft are better at CAS than the A-10. And the F-35 isn't supposed to hover to stick around, it's strictly a way to land on short carriers like the Marines have. The A-10 barely gets any CAS missions issued to it since 2014, so how can you claim it will still be useful when it's job had been taken by the F-16, F-18, F-15 strike eagle, etc?
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@verdigo1482 "simulated fight the F-35 did against F-15s and F-18s and lost" - and yet it beat the shit out of everyone at Red Flag
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What's the psyop? She literally jokes that she's a psyop, actually nullifying the value at a psyop attempt by bringing attention to it.
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Xenophon supporting Assad in Syria because the US backed terrorists to get him out of power to build a pipeline from Qatar to Turkey. The US assassinates a bunch of people too. Why isn't the UN sanctioning the US for the use of drone strikes on non-combatants and the attack on MSF hospital?
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It's not WW3 when it's a single country getting ganged on.
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Star Wars ripped off the trench run scene from Squadron 663 and Dambusters, WWII movies.
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Why doesn't Russia give in to NATO demands instead of risking war? Why doesn't NATO give in to Russia?
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Walker The Texas Ranger from New Mexico Oblast here, I am also tired of sending American money billions. I ask deputies in Vashington AC/DC to stop chewing the snot and working with a point, after all not American public here? Very bad American money over there.
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You either have to buy land or find a good spot in BLM land where you can shoot.
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@BigSmitty1 I answered your question, why are you rolling your eyes?
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@BigSmitty1 No worries, have fun if you find a spot.
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And yet Russia couldn't prove that when they spoke at the UN.
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What compromises?
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And that's why libertarians aren't taken seriously.
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 @DarkForce2025 I only knew because my brother sent me a message about it.
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@БабайАлибабаев Stop lying about the serial numbers. The rockets were manufactured in the same factory and sent all over the Soviet Union. There's rockets in Idlib, Syria with serials close to Ukrainian rockets. Russia fired those. There's Belarusian rockets with serials close to Ukrainian rockets. You also cannot tell where the missile was fired from because ballistic missiles fall down. When the tail splits, it tumbles across the air. There's Tochka-Us fired from Belarus (North) that have the tail section West of the impact.
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 @gerardroth8838 There were no American military bases in Ukraine.
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@christinehomer2185 Minsk II was violated the day after it was signed. DPR forces invaded Debaltseve and defeated the Ukrainian army there.
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 @mxnbro3110 What hypocrisy? Many people were against the Iraq war, thus not hypocrisy? Which double standards?
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Bruh you need a source to tell you that the VVS isn't dominating the skies and controlling the ground warfare from above.
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Spiders Georg is an outlier who must not be counted.
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@phazemekaniks It has antiviral effects. It was also proposed for use against zika.
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@mikees9959 Funny, because heart conditions in Israel increased in some demographics by 80 to almost 90% in 2021 compared to the 2019-2020 average. If that was true, why didn't heart conditions go down?
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Creeping artillery barrages? We've already seen their barrels banana peel. Their weapons are exhausted and they can't get good barrel relining since 2014.
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@DennisMerwood-xk8wp Yeah, you have no argument.
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@DennisMerwood-xk8wp Masters of all trades are the new meta. The multirole is the workworse of modern air power.
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@isodoublet I didn't call you Russian. I described the kind of bias you're using. At least make an attempt to read. "The contrary "- So global conflict and millions of lives are at stake just to pull a trick on the US? That's insanity. "As long as the US continues to believe stealth is an unstoppable super weapon" - You're missing the entire point of deception warfare. The real strategy would be casting doubt on stealth so that the US is forced to compromise is designs to be more detectable and thus allow weaker nations to target them. Forcing the enemy to readjust all the time is much more disruptive than allowing them to have a defined and consistent strategy. Even if you can pull a trick out of nowhere, you're fighting a trained enemy. You'd want the enemy to not be well trained because they need to keep chasing changes you've provoked. And who casts doubt on stealth? Outlets like RT. I rest my case. "Strategically, it makes much more sense to hide that sort of capability." - No, it doesn't. It makes more sense to make your defenses seem impenetrable to deter strikes. Like you said, the US has more money. This means that in the end, the US will still win although at a great cost. "that's completely irrelevant and proves nothing" - It proves that Russian IADS were humiliated and they weren't there to gather intelligence but to score kills against F-35s. If it wasn't known the Syrian and Russian systems were linked, it wouldn't expose their lack of capabilities. "You don't know that." - Ask me how I know you've never watched Dr. Strangelove.
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@isodoublet "Just fire a missile anyway and put a powerful/smart enough radar head on it" - your comment three days ago. Power requires size.
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@kundeer7078 it's parody
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It wasn't x-ray film.
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@noticedruid4985 "rail guns are still susceptible to the curvature of the earth making accuracy alot harder" - Even artillery has to account for the curvature of the Earth and we still shoot it accurately anyway. The compensation can be calculated on the fly.
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Those metal fencing nets seem to help.
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More capable fighters? You mean ones that would have to get all those sensors crammed inside a pod and carry it in a pylon anyway? In the air you lose sight you lose the fight, so whoever can see the other first is the most capable fighter. All fighters carry a ton on instruments in board, sensor or EW pods carried externally, plus fuel tanks.
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You get all the exhaust "pulses" hitting the same turbine, which accelerates it faster.
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Billy Phillips One side is a low pressure turbine and another is a high pressure turbine, it's how we simplify calculations in steam turbines. It's the same shaft, but we partition them depending on their properties.
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Octavian Augustus >"Oil money is what is funding the terrorist groups." Oil and natural gas were always the reasons the US has funded terrorism. The guns and money were only a drop in the bucket? Of course. US allies in the Middle East love getting rid of competing sources of natural resources by promoting instability where they want it and funding fundamentalists who can oppress their way out of instability when they want to build pipelines and shit. It's the oil money - because of the Petrodollar. It's US intervention anyway. >"Mosques - funded by oil money - are expanding their influence throughout the world and are churning out mindless cannon fodder at alarming rates." Sorry, but a lot of the people who converged into Syria and Iraq were recruited by the internet. A lot of the guys doing the conversion work are not even credible among religious groups. Which is why ISIS is forcing their views onto the mosques of the cities they capture and kill dissidents. You can't pin this on mosques the same way you can't pin the Crusades on churches. >"We need to stop doing business" I agree. We shouldn't be doing business with people who violate human rights while condemning those who do the same things but won't sell us oil. I mostly agree with your message, but you're aiming more batteries at Islam than the US's foreign policy.
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Octavian Augustus >"the followers of Islam are guilty of mass murder and of supporting mass murder" Stopped reading.
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+Torgo >"countless studies" >doesn't mention a single one lel
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Would love to but people wait 15 years to become citizens... legal immigration to the US is extremely hard.
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They use a variable geometry twin scroll. It has to be 3D printed because the inside is too complex to mass produce.
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george harrison "works over here" - highly doubt it. Unless you live in an extremely small country, chances are there's over a million firearms in civilian hands in your country.
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george harrison You mean a country that isn't fighting a War on Drugs and doesn't have a border with Mexico isn't as violent? Colour me surprised! It doesn't work, by the way. Gun murders were dropping in Australia before Port Arthur, and after gun control was passed, they kept dropping... at almost the exact same rate! Absolutely nothing was accomplished. Some sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Australia#Research http://www.gunsandcrime.org/auresult.html But in that link above look at these images: http://www.gunsandcrime.org/homihisty.gif http://www.gunsandcrime.org/murder.gif It's almost like gun control changed nothing at all!
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+OverLordthe 1st that doesn't even make any sense. You people went too far with the fucking "LOLOLOL TRIGGERED? GO BACK TO YOUR SAFE SPACE" meme. People can disagree and have the maturity to watch something and not take it for face value without being accused of having their "feelings" hurt. You lot are just as childish as the SJWs.
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*****>"Psychological examinations would at the very least prevent some lunatics from getting a gun" No, it wouldn't. First of all, mentally ill people are more likely to be victims of violence than commit violence. Be careful when throwing around the word "lunatics". If a mental health professional does not know what they are looking for, they cannot simply "dig up your demons". If someone is visibly unbalanced, they're probably either homeless or being taken care of by relatives. >""Most mass shooters aren't even psychopaths." That's probably the dumbest sentence I've read all day. Congratulations!" How about you read up on psychopathy, rather than use the "colloquial" meaning. >"Fighting fire with fire. Don't see a problem with that. (That was sarcasm. You're an idiot.)" Controlled burns are used to cut off wildfires and explosives are used on oil fires. Fighting fire with fire is something that exists in real life and it's very effective. How am I the idiot? NO, our gun control doesn't work. Many European countries either passed gun control due to tax reasons or as a knee-jerk reaction to the "Years of Lead". Recently, criminals have been making a new "R9-ARMS Corp, USA" which is a pretty good homemade submachine gun with clearly fake markings as the gun officially doesn't exist and is most likely made in the Czech Republic. My mother has worked in some bad parts of town. Criminals leave their guns on their dashboard so people know the gangs are patrolling their turf. The main difference is that the US is attached to Mexico and has a tough policy on drugs. We have decriminalized drugs so while any criminal can get guns, they have little profits in killing.
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***** I also have to laugh at the fact you told me to sit down for talking about America, when you talk of Germany and Japan like you knew anything about those countries. I also like that you're telling other people about our gun control. We've implemented psychological evaluations. Well, here is a document about how the UK never implemented them: http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?ots591=0c54e3b3-1e9c-be1e-2c24-a6a8c7060233&lng=en&id=98795 The PDF claims that there are no resources to put UK gun owners through such a system (now imagine 100 million gun owners), no money, it requires full cooperation of the subject (ie he has to say the truth), the problem of accuracy (once enough people get through, one can train himself to say the "right answers"), etc. When it comes to assessing personality disorders, again the accuracy comes in. Violence is too much of a complex behaviour to be predicted through a checklist of factors.
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+Jan Schlossar how many AR-15 rifles have you fired?
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+Sean Garner and did they do something bad after pledging? Thanks for proving the point.
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Imagine you're a website designer. You have the means of production (a computer) but you also need to sell your labour. Imagine you do landscaping. You have the means of production (lawn mowers, shears, rakes, etc) but you also need to sell your labour. That bourgeois hack who knew nothing about economics wrote about capitalism but his writings are trapped in a 19th century time frame which became outdated in mere decades.
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MattLaRiv >"How does the website designer access the proper software and hardware in order to create a website? Do they sell their services online? Do they have to pay an ISP in order to access the internet? Does the landscaper own the land on which he or she labours? They have purchased tools that allow them to ply their trade but they are still at the mercy of other social actors to purchase their labour." And just like that you have shot yourself in the foot because that argument will always apply. Even if the workers own a factory, they don't own the roads they need to distribute their product. Even if they own every single piece of machinery inside the factory that would be meaningless because they'd still be at the mercy of the seamen who work in their ships to distribute product. You should have taken the defeat rather than enlarging the scope of the argument, which opened the door to me completely dismantling that 19th century poetic anger at people more successful than Marx ever was. >"Does the landscaper own the land on which he or she labours?" I had to address that because you're just reaching. The whole point of the landscaper is not owning the land. If he owned the land, he wouldn't get paid for the service. If your battle was defining that everyone who sells their labour needs to own the land, then landscapers are your Waterloo.
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shill for worker's self-management So forcing everyone to line the insurance companies' pockets under threat of a fine is "less" government intervention? I thought I made it pretty clear that there was more than one axis on the political spectrum. Look, this is probably not going to go down well, but during the inception of anarchist beliefs there was such a thing as libertarian-socialism. Not today - it has devolved into an oxymoron. The right-libertarian side and most of free-market theories are heavily based on Lysander Spooner's writings - capitalism is part of OG anarchy because it's a manifestation of individual rights. The only way to end capitalism is the use of unjustified aggression against individuals, which means a monopoly on violence which means the resurgence of a state-like entity.
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shill for worker's self-management >"TPP's a good example" Most libertarians and anarchists disagree with the TPP. Most trade agreements do not benefit the free market, they benefit the people who benefit from it, period. The "free trade" agreement in Europe destroyed what was left of the PIGS and forced them into economic crisis and austerity. It's not free market when a government is pretty much being bribed to force people to neglect their businesses in return for subsidies. >"One can make the argument that capitalism is unjustified aggression against others. No, direct action is a viable way of ending capitalism." If I sell yams I planted on my backyard that's capitalism. There is not a single shred of aggression used and I am totally justified in doing it. Funny, because the definition I know of "direct action" is a short duration strike meant to close in and destroy or disable a target. I understand you're speaking politically, but "direct action" is an euphemism for fucking shit up as quickly and violently as possible. >"What exactly are the "individual rights" that capitalism is supposedly a manifestation of?" You're the person flying the black and red flags, if anything you know anarchy's history better than I do. If you do not recognize individual rights, and you probably don't as a result of the particular flavour of anarchy you believe in, I cannot possibly change your mind on the subject any better than the actual anarchist writers who started the damned philosophy anyway. I'm not that smart and I'm not that eloquent. We're not going to have anarchy in our lifetime but if for some miraculous reason we do, I will have capitalism and access to it's perks until some nerds try to stop me. I want to see a bunch of people from my generation pretend they're battle hardened Soviets. >"Why does aggression immediately equal a monopoly on violence?" If you don't have a monopoly on violence then you get a shotgun blast to the chest from the first person you try to subjugate with your "aggression". >"An anarchist militia cannot function without the support of the people behind it" Pretty sure people have taken over power vacuums without popular support. If the anarchist militia has monopoly on violence, it works independently of the people because it can just gun the populace down. If it doesn't have, it's just a bunch of nerds with Che shirts getting beat up. >"Are you forgetting that the only way to enforce property rights is violence?" The only way to take away property is violence as well. You'd think that's the first time I heard that argument, there's a thousand more people who thought the same. >"And if someone has the clout, they can use their capital to amass an army of disadvantaged people in an anarcho-capitalist society with the promise of giving them privileges, and have them seize property from others or force others into coercive agreements" First, if that's plausible in an anarcho-capitalist world, it's also plausible in an anarcho-whatever world. You think I can't promise people goodies if they attack the ancoms, the anarcho-syndicalists and all the other communes? Second, that would be the perfect business opportunity for me as I could start a private security company that would defend your property from these equally implausible marauders. For a fee, I would make my contractors wear GoPros and send you the footage of your attackers biting more than they could chew. >"I was trying to be civil with you, but once you start implying that left-libertarianism is impossible" I didn't say it was impossible, I said that calling it libertarianism is an oxymoron because there's no complete access to liberty. Anti-capitalism is inherently authoritarian because it forces people into an economic theory they may not like, and last time I checked in anarchy it's not okay to force people into things they don't like without their consent. If you're going to leave people alone feel free to call it whatever you want, but if you're going to stop people from living the way they want there's no libertarianism involved.
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shill for worker's self-management >""Private ownership" does not constitute all we see in what is capitalism. If it did, that would mean that feudalism is capitalism."" Except that feudalism in Europe (don't know much about it outside Europe) originated in a time where markets collapsed, production was down so people could barely feed themselves, let alone trade, and property rights were shoddy at best since there was barely any bureaucracy or record keeping. Everything was derived from the divine right of kings and brute force, not trade, not wages, not property rights. >"If you took five seconds on the god damn Wikipedia article you'd find a whole host of non-violent examples." I was just saying, to me RPG will always mean Rocket Propelled Grenade and not Role Playing Game. Same thing here, when I see Direct Action I think about the military term, not the political term. It's just funny, and I pointed out that I was aware of the multiple definitions of Direct Action. >"I asked you which individual rights capitalism is supposedly a manifestation of, and you decided to take that as me saying that I don't believe in individual rights. So I ask again: What individual rights is capitalism supposedly a manifestation of?" I don't know, man, all I know is that within capitalism I can do what I want but in communism I can't because if I tried people would call me capitalist and try to kill me. Or have sit ins, which are annoying. >"it would have a monopoly on violence to some degree, but it would also be created in such a way that it destroys itself over time. A direct democracy is a good way to do that." 1. It has never destroyed itself, hence Stalinism and Maoism. 2. Direct democracy is fucking bullshit because what will you do if 51% of the country says they'd rather have Trump as president? Would you respect their decision and go home? >"right, in an era of mass media that would be very practical to do." All it takes is someone with a monopoly on violence, gun down every dissident and you can seize power with a militia during a period of statelessness. See: Somalia. >"When I'm talking about anarchist militias, these would be militias made of pro-anarchists during the transition period, not necessarily in an anarchist society." Then how do you perform counter-revolutionary duties? >"Thank god no one is proposing that anarchism be implemented straight away, so your point here goes against nothing I've already established. If all property is abolished, left-anarchism prevails." That's not the point. You told me that property can only be maintained by aggression, but my counter is that property can only be taken away by initiating aggression. Any victim is entitled to use aggression against the aggressor, which means that property isn't a feedback loop of aggression like you claim. >"Not really, no." Says you. All it takes is someone with enough guns and desperate people with the will to survive. Saying that you are living in left-anarchy will not deter attackers who don't believe in your system, nor will it erase the concept of stealing and murdering for gain. >"Where the fuck are you going to get the goodies to promise, if not from the anarcho-syndicalists? Why would they let you destroy their system? What? Why, if every resource someone needed was already available to them through participating in the anarchist system, would they suddenly turn away? There would be no reason for them to do that." Your mistake is assuming that humans stop when they meet their needs. You think unscrupulous and violent people are just normal people who haven't had their needs met? Well, I'm sure that we can go back to their childhoods and find patterns of abuse or other factors such as low level lead poisoning during brain development impairing their decision making, but the fact is that if I broke into a jail and gave the dangerous prisoners guns to join my gang, you wouldn't stop them by fulfilling their needs. Another mistake is assuming that you can produce enough locally for everyone. Imagine trying to feed a city like New York or Los Angeles during a period of transition. Backyard gardens wouldn't fill the void created by the lack of interstate commerce. >"And now you have a monopoly on violence inside anarchist society" No, I don't. If I had a monopoly on violence my services wouldn't need to exist.
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>"With anarcho-commnism, no one can have a monopoly on violence within the society. They might have the capacity to seize property from others, but people outside of an anarcho-communist society are, well, outside of it." Not only is the lack of in-fighting unrealistic, but the cop out that people outside an anarchist commune don't count is terrible. The equivalent would be me saying that feudalism or gangs of marauders are not part of the free market so I don't have to propose a solution to those issues. >"A state is specifically defined as "having a monopoly on legitimate use of force WITHIN it's borders. If the presence of the militia relies on volunteering from the communes they fight for what incentive would they have to turn against them? And if they have no way of surviving without the militias, and if the militias are made up of the people from these very communes, why the fuck would they suddenly kill people?" 1. It has happened, it's easy to turn people on each other. 2. If you can defend your commune from outsiders, that's because they're breaching your borders. Directing aggression towards "outsiders" doesn't mean you don't have a monopoly on violence. >"That just doesn't make sense. There is no incentive for anyone to act that way. Humans are egocentric, capitalism suppresses that egocentrism by allowing some to indulge and some to starve, whereas all forms of left-anarchism encourage egocentrism by giving everyone everything they need and allowing them to pursue whatever they want. Capitalism thrives off ego conflict and communism thrives off ego cooperation." The problem is that you can't provide everything people "need". You make the argument that people are egocentric but then ignore that people might want what is not available, and when you can't provide it for them they become disgruntled. >"Really, you seem to not understand how humans work. Let's say a farmer feeds me in exchange for protection, and I don't know how to farm. Why would I kill the farmer? That would be killing myself. It's the exact same situation. People don't do things for no reason. Thankfully, an anarcho-communist society would still have a glut of guns left over from capitalism, and people within the society would be able to protect themselves from the militias if they turned on the society for whatever reason, as absurd as that idea is. Humans always take the path of least resistance. Simple as that." You've just described anarcho-capitalism. You whine that we're different when your examples could be taken from any anarcho-capitalist's mouth. The only difference between anarcho communism and anarcho capitalism is that ancoms will shoot ancaps for participating in capitalism and ancaps won't interfere with communes. >""stop people from living the way they want there's no libertarianism involved." "Libertarianism (Latin: liber, "free") is a political philosophy that upholds liberty as its principal objective. Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and freedom of choice, emphasizing political freedom, voluntary association, and the primacy of individual judgment." The only way to ever have the potential of having liberty and freedom is to eliminate social class. If anything, right-"libertariansim" is the oxymoron here." Voluntary association - anarchocapitalism is literally called "voluntarism", because everything relies on consent. Ancom principles force people into a system without their consent, involuntarily.
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shill for worker's self-management >"Because your point is nonsensical, seeing that far worse things would be happening in capitalism. My argument here is that significantly fewer bad things would be happening in a left-anarchist society." It's not nonsensical, it's a cop out. It's a form of whataboutism that ever since the Soviet Union has been used to prop up America or the West as a strawman. The same exact type of fallacy can be used to deflect all problems in the West because "it's worse in Africa". I guess we can't talk about serious issues and the fact that the world is falling apart because the poor kids in Africa have it way worse. Just drop the "African Child" card on the table and you automatically win every argument. >"If the workers who control their workplace want it, it gets done. That's the whole point of worker's self management. And trust me, workers would want safety regulations." Exactly, it gets done. It's not a regulation, it's people making a business decision. If they figure "we can't waste time securing this because we're responsible for feeding the people and if we fail they starve" there's no regulation. In a market, at least there can be regulation without law because of insurances, liabilities, etc but also because the consumer will prefer a quality product. Without a market, people get whatever is available and the producers must keep producing whatever the costs or society collapses. >"It's quite stupid and childish of you to posit a system where people can project power outside of itself, but then denounce me for proposing the same thing." That's the thing. I can murder a dozen people right now, doesn't mean it's legal. I can do whatever I want until someone stops me, that's not a failing of the justice system or the government. Anarcho-capitalism "allows" something in the sense that things can simply exist, such as murderous people or people hungry for power. It doesn't make it right. However, you need a monopoly on power to implement anarcho communism and to maintain it. You pretended that you're only using force on outsiders, conveniently ignoring in-fighting, dispatching dissidents and the fact that if you're being invaded, you're using force inside the system, not outside it. >"What would stop that from happening? You're a god damn clown." Maybe the fact that printed circuit boards and silicon based processors are something most people can't build in their garage? Maybe the fact that you don't have access to all the raw materials and rare minerals being produced in China. >"but ultimately worthwhile" The road to hell is paved with good intentions. >"You could use resource requests to take the role of prices" That's called "debt". >"Like I said, this would all happen before anarchism can even be in place, and it's necessary." Of course it's necessarily, otherwise it won't work. Your excuse is literally saying that "it's not real anarchism" and conveniently placing anarchism right after the atrocities are committed. >"When we use the most general sense of imperialism, anything can be imperialism, so you've take the word and devalued it to the point that it's meaningless." So like fascism? We've come full circle.
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Mudcrab Currency doesn't need enforcement. It's either accepted or it's not. One of the worst things in the world is that governments and central banks print money not tied to a reliable currency (such as gold). The amount of gold in existence depends on the rate of extraction, and it's not easy to extract. The amount of money in existence depends solely on how much they printed, and printing money is much easier than extracting gold, which leads to inflation. Government enforced fiat currency is horrible. No, actually most people do not accept the fact they lost. Have you heard any thing politicians or talk show hosts say whenever their side is not in power? It's 4 to 8 years of whining. Look, voting is a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation because if you don't do it then you have no right to complain, and if you did vote then you don't have a right to complain either because you tacitly accepted the outcome by participating. Just like you are telling us right now, that people have to accept the loss. The fact is that you're left with a ruler which you didn't consent to, and things that go against people's consent are typically bad. In principle, they're pretty much wrong. >"It's pretty funny to me that the only people that preach anarchism as a valid form of government are people who live in capitalist societies" You have to be shitting me. Anarcho-capitalism is the fastest growing faction in anarchy because disgruntled right-wing people and libertarians discovered how deep the rabbit hole goes in just a few decades, while other factions of anarchy depend on impressionable teenagers reading Karl Marx. Anarchy is the truest extent of capitalism because it eliminates the rotten corporatism which uses force of law to benefit the wealthy and protect monopolies. >"The only people I ever hear extol the virtues of anarchism are young liberal arts majors who never had to work a day in their lives" I'm a mechanical engineering student, but nice try. I know anarchists who do everything from working retail to the medical field, from welders to police dispatchers.
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Fred Freddy >"Also if you tie your currency to silver or gold, you can't adjust your interest rate to cool a hot economy or stimulate a slow economy" Phony adjustments on the interest rate to simulate growth lead to speculative bubbles, though.
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+Prophet if you hit a jab it doesn't matter if you're going forward or backwards. It's a hit.
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Madra >"If my religion requires me to sacrifice a virgin to my god once every blood moon, you are restricting my freedom of religion by not allowing me to do so" No, you just go to jail for murder. Nobody stopped you until you committed a crime. By the same logic murder laws are a restriction on the second amendment because you can't just shoot people! Murder laws are anti-2A, more at eleven. >"There are exceptions to these rights no matter how you want to word it, you can't change the definition of a word to your own liking just because it conflicts with your views." No exceptions. If you're able to slander someone, that was because you had the freedom of speech to do it in the first place. There are no limits to rights, you just can't use them to justify criminal action. Rights are "you have the right to this, just don't hide behind me if you fuck it up". You're the one who's twisting the argument to fit your already established views. The concept that a right has "restrictions" if you convict someone of a crime is insane. If a right isn't an universal absolute, then what good is it for?
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Billy Phillips That's true, but I don't know how many twin scroll turbos are out there. I had no industry standard to compare them to, so I named a drawback. In this version, when the orange is closed off the red gets the optimal flow, but the orange side is literally dead weight. For better or worse, even the inefficient turbo for that rpm range is getting spooled in a normal twin scroll.
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robotguy Do you plan on building solar panels in your house? What TheWeakMinded said is right and people don't seem to get it. At this point, panels are not energy efficient enough to replace everything else but you can reduce your footprint. Individual action would cut down on energy expenditure and flow freely - but instead of acting on their own, these feeble minded people would rather poke the mammoth with sticks until it turns in their direction. Even if they manage to make it turn, it's not quick and efficient. It's just massive and unwieldy.
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+Kevin Haynes that is an absolutely incorrect assessment of fair journalism. Fair journalism would be reporting war crimes from both sides, for example, and not praising one side. That's called bias, which is the thing you're defending. Journalism also has fuck all to do with justice. Justice is for the justice system. Trial by media is one of the most abhorrent practices of modern journalism. Journalism isn't supposed to reflect values or make judgement between right or wrong.
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+Colonel Kill by the way, they're doing Gonzo style journalism which isn't supposed to be unbiased. That's actually the justification in this case.
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+Loopsrainforest normal journalism isn't supposed to offer you a perspective. Gonzo journalism is based on the journalists' perspectives but that's the exception, Vice pieces are really more aligned with the documentary style than actual investigative journalism. If you need perspective, don't ask a journalist, or at least in a perfect world you wouldn't.
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TheLordgibbon It's a somewhat racist and xenophobe country (see: Japanese actions during war, the fact that the foreign people who get Japanese nationality fit in a wikipedia page, etc). How is a ethnically homogenous country with a somewhat traditionalist culture and a racist past any different from a white majority country? chris dera But people are less violent than only 20 years ago, so why are cops feeling their job is so dangerous?
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chris dera That's false. For example, the homeless man who got shot from the back, John Crawford, the man who had a wrap around his hand, etc were all bad shoots. But if you're unarmed, you can still pose a danger. Look at what War Machine did to Christy Mack. If a person lashied like that on you, and a cop couldn't stop it before permanent brain damage occured, wouldn't you want the unarmed aggressor to be shot?
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badpanda84 >"While I agree that the gun culture and the 2nd amendenint is the reason for this" And you're wrong. Gun ownership is the highest in rural areas but most cop shootings are in urban areas where less people own guns. >"George Zimmeran got away with shooting an unarmed black teen" Who was only bruised on his knuckles while the shooter sustained injuries that suggested he was being truthful when he claimed he was in a "ground and punch" situation, forensics determined the shooting to be consistent with self-defense, etc. He would have "gotten away" if there had been no trial. But he did go to court, where he was cleared of the charges. Remember that he did go to prison and probably had his finances ruined due to legal costs. He was also stalked by the media and shot at. The justice system punished him despite being cleared of everything, and he was found guilty in the court of public opinion. He already got punished for a crime we couldn't find him guilty of.
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CGphotoOp Most cops are not gun nuts. The vast majority of cops doesn't fire their guns outside of mandatory range qualifications, often doesn't know state/local gun laws.
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chris dera Again, wrong. When people made an attempt to make biometric guns a thing, conservatives said that the police should be forced to use them too. Why? Because the pissbabies in the police unions would come up with a million excuses to why biometric guns suck, faster than a NRA board member could think of a single one. Many conservatives also backed people who shot cops entering houses without announcing themselves, and protested the shooting of John Crawford for merely holding a BB gun in a store after an anti-gun asshole SWATed him.
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+Jacob Almond purposefully wrong spellings of that word are a 4chan thing. Faget, Fagit, Fggt, etc.
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+Draven Hughes so you mean like the show Noir but less paid advertisement and less pretentious. (I don't hate Noir, I just think they wanted to swaggerjack Top Gear and failed)
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Big John I think they should just do drugs. It affects just you and not other people. >daytime television addictions With facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube, etc I struggle to find teenagers addicted to TV. Sure, let's watch this pre-set playlist of programs that only are on in strict time intervals and are constantly interrupted by commercials when there's freaking internet.
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One 6x pack and two 4x packs.
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RoGoH308 Marhea Elstow Actually, if the UK was a US state it would be the poorest if not for Mississippi.
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Krassz To the point of actually being in London for some time. Have you? Doesn't matter, I'm digressing. But really, what research is there to do? You guys have a GDP per capita of under 40k and yet your cost of living is ridiculous when we compare London to cities like Jackson, MS. For example, rent is almost 300% higher, groceries are 56% higher. Price per square meter in city centre? 1251% higher in London. The only redeeming factor is the average monthly income after taxes in London, which is 42% higher. But remember, you're paying out the ass for everything in London, even basic goods such as food and clothing. What about when compared to Birmingham, AL? Local purchasing power in London is 50.86% lower. Rent is 153% higher in London. Monthly pass? 500% higher in London. The kicker? Monthly disposable income is 7.25% lower in London. We're talking about Birmingham, Alabama. A freaking southern state.
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Peter Donnelly >London life is cheap as is the rest of the UK. What? Typically capitals/metropolitan cities are the most expensive places to live. I'm not comparing some "Farnworthshire" to "Bumfuck, Tennessee" because that's a useless exercise. I'm comparing state capitals/big cities to each other. >These places you mention are shit holes. I know. I compared London to big cities in poor states (i.e. shitholes) and London is worse off. >Food and clothing are not expensive at all I've been to London. It's fucking expensive. Look, this is how it compares to my city, Lisbon. http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Portugal&country2=United+Kingdom&city1=Lisbon&city2=London The only thing you guys have is the fact that a bigger percentage of the population makes a nice paycheck. But the American cities (again, shitholes) have salaries more comparable to London.
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Peter Donnelly I guess numbers work differently in the UK, then. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-57591/London-sixth-expensive-city-world.html http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jul/10/london-12th-most-expensive-city-expats http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-comes-top-in-study-of-the-worlds-most-expensive-cities-to-live-in-9042233.html Again, I've been there. It's expensive.
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Peter Donnelly HA! Compared to (say) Lisbon, everything is the same number expect it has a £ versus a €. A £5 mcdonald's menu is more expensive than 5€. Jebus, just read the links. Pretty much all restaurants, individual food items, average groceries shopping, etc is listed as more expensive in London than any other shithole I mentioned. Are you in denial or just pretending to be daft?
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Peter Donnelly Jesus fuck. I provided sources. You didn't. I have been there, it's more expensive. Fast food chains in London are more expensive than in Lisbon. Middle-ground restaurants in London are almost as expensive as high-end restaurants in Lisbon. All you're doing is saying "you're wrong" without ever providing any sort of evidence. Are you claiming that everyone and every number that testifies in favour of London being an expensive city is just a conspiracy?
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Peter Donnelly Dude, we're past that. I mentioned it like 4 comments ago and now you picked it up? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World Portugal is in the first world. Not lower 2nd. But fine. Portugal is 2nd world. That means that the UK is 3rd world. Have you not been paying attention? You guys are poor as hell and yet everything is more expensive than in other European cities.
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Peter Donnelly >"Portugal is a vastly poor country, yet you seem to have no concept of this." I have. "Vastly poor" means that we have VW Golfs instead of two SUVs like American families, most people have 30Mb/s optic fiber instead of the more expensive 100Mb/s, etc. We're not sub-Saharan Africa, even though we joke about it. It's a first world nation and you called it "lower 2nd world". You know what "second world" is? Emerging economies like Brasil. >"Portugal is poor as hell, it is a failure." It's not a "failure". This trend only started 30 years ago. I hate the Fascists, but we were extremely wealthy. The problem started when we replaced the Fascists with Communists and Socialists, and all of our wealth vanished. England only became a shithole "recently" too. We're a lesser industrialized nation where most people, despite earning less than the English, are able to live "comfortably". England is a more industrialized nation (even though your industry is going down the drain) but where the poor are extremely poor and the violent crime rates are horrible compared to the rest of Europe. Your university tuition fees are getting too expensive. Plus, if Scotland leaves the UK, you guys will take a big economic hit. >"Quit being so nationalistic, you can't see the trees through the branches." I'm not a nationalist. I love my homeland but I hate my country and what it has become. I take no pride in the accomplishments of people I never met and I don't hate people for being born in a different country - if you don't recall, I called my own country a shithole at least once in this discussion. But this whole thing started with me comparing London to Lisbon - it started with me comparing London with American cities and telling you that you can live more comfortably in those cities despite being regarded as shitholes in America. How am I nationalist if I'm telling you a country I'm not from is better than the UK? I was just using facts. I gave you the numbers. I linked you to sources. Yet you don't believe that the UK would be the second poorest state in the US.
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+Robot HandLove So we can fix it with votes (spoiler: we can't, but that's for another time) but it's also the center left and center right that create these problems? So we have to vote far-right or far-left? No. That's a terrible solution.
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Robot HandLove But your solution is still voting, just no for centrist parties. By exclusion of parts that means either the far right or the far left. I have an easier time trusting plain old greed than ideologues. They are more dangerous specially because they believe they stand for what's right, and the worst villain is the one that believes he's the hero. I don't believe in voting. It's a rigged system and participating only justifies it.
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Robot HandLove proportional representation. It doesn't work at all because it has been turned into a two party system that occasionally gets subverted by coalitions. It's always the center-right or the center-left that wins.
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Robot HandLove So when a center right party won the elections but the other parties stole the elections by coalition, which was not the will of the people as the people who voted for the far left did not vote for a center left victory, that's what the people want? Mind that I'm not saying the result wasn't fair - what I'm saying is that votes towards the Communist Party and the Left Bloc effectively counted towards the Socialist Party (center left) victory. How is that supposed to reflect the will of the people who did not vote for them to win? Coalitions are made by politicians against the will of the people and they do not represent what people want.
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Robot HandLove That's beside the point. I did vote at those elections, for the party that "won" because I predicted something like that would happen. And guess what, my vote didn't matter. I didn't consent to be governed by the coalition, and yet I am. My participation only serves to justify the process with a "you lost fair and square". But I'll humour you. Nobody is going to care or remember in 4 years. And even if that was the case, your defense is that the democratic process works by forcing you to wait 4 years? That's what we reward shitty politicians with, 4 years? What if the next prime minister sucks too? 8 consecutive years of sucky governments. That's a pretty bad deal right there. Okay, if people end up liking the coalition in the future, how does that justify their win today? Elections aren't retroactive. All those fuckers were flip flopping on the coalition issue before the elections, got buttmad for losing and did something the people did not vote in favour for. >"Right now where I am from a center right coalition is in power so it goes both ways." The point isn't the way it goes. I did vote for the center right but only because I predicted that they'd lose and I didn't want a left-wing coalition to win. If I had my way nobody would win. In fact, the right wing did the coalition thing to win the election before the last one. My point was that a vote for the Communist Party, supposedly cast by someone who identifies with Communist ideals, being used to boost the center-left is spitting in the face of communists.
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Robot HandLove So they have free reign to ruin the country for 4 years? Forget the coalition. Imagine Party X, lead by Adolf Hitler himself, won with 51% of the votes so he has the majority and doesn't need a coalition. What good is it to wait 4 years if that's enough to declare WWIII and have my country destroyed and invaded by the winners? According to you, this was justified simply because they won, and I have to suck it up because there's only elections every 4 years. >"_Just like how you are supposed to not vote for them again if they implement a policy you feel very strongly against._" Not vote for them again? I didn't vote for them the first time! Didn't do me much good at all! That's what I'm trying to tell you. The elections are a scam because my vote doesn't matter and even if it did, it would only be effective every 4 years. That's enough time to ruin a country, and you're trying to justify that with the option to vote them out when it's too late.
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Robot HandLove Nice strawman. Doesn't change the fact that you're telling me a political party should be free to ruin a country just because it takes 4 years to kick them out. You know what's good about Americans? They actually talk about impeachment. I mean, it's not that they do it on the regular or even have a righteous cause for an impeachment every time they mention it, but at least they believe they can change something in between elections. We just bend over and grab our ankles for 4 years.
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Robot HandLove And who cares? Because the Nazis changed the laws and made their totalitarian state legal! You're telling me that the solution is voting while claiming that whoever wins gets a free pass to do whatever they want and there's little to no legal recourse to change the outcome. You're a hypocrite.
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Robot HandLove The constitution can be amended and in many times is suspended/violated. For example, you have no right to privacy or freedom of speech even though chances are your constitution protects it. It's happening all over the world. Oh, so now whoever secures the monopoly on violence has the right to overturn democratic rule. Well, those are some consistent principles you've got. /sarcasm
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Robot HandLove Even slavery worked very well for some people. The slave masters. Your system working for you is hardly evidence of anything, just like a slave owner telling me slavery works very well is hardly evidence that such a system is righteous.
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The Immelmann you wouldn't want to perform near stall, though. Modern monoplanes designed for civilian operations can be made to be almost impossible to stall. Look at civilian STOL competitions, the planes take off with barely any speed. Plus with more modern technology like blown flaps you get a sink rate that won't quit, but not a stall.
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>"The government is made up of people like your neighbors." I don't know where you live but my neighbours don't get to ride around in brand new Mercedes paid for with money they extorted from the taxpayer.
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+Will W depends on how much weight you put on brands (and a little bit on what other people think of you). Of course I'd rather have the Aston, just not the costs associated with it.
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Will W First of all, if one has the ability to, a driving school would be a better investment than any mod. Squeezing every last bit of performance out of a shitty car is an underestimated skill. Second, people need to be honest with themselves and decide what they're looking for. Status symbol with a luxury interior and resale value? Yeah, not getting that one out of a modded car. But, and I'm spitballing here, 50% of the people who think like that are shitty drivers who'll never get the most out of the V8, V10 or V12 under the hood and are probably more interested in how much tail the car is going to get them. I have a friend who probably has 5k put into a car for the track. It's meant to be abused at the track, he doesn't care about depreciation and honestly the car can't go into negative value so he'll never lose that much if he does end up selling it. He was honest about what he wanted, it's definitely not a daily driver.
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Gnana Prakash those .28 totally change the knowledge you gain from this lesson...
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+Mockturtlesoup1 you have to consider that a peer enemy will be using helmet and a flak/kevlar vest holding the plates. Those don't stop rifle rounds in the first few hundred meters, but if you take a shot at the edge of your effective range for point targets, or within the effective range of area targets, your bullet loses energy and there will be a chance that a vest/helmet stops it.
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Forget freedom or speech for a second. If everything lectured in universities has to be constantly reviewed for triggers, doesn't that increase tuition costs for everyone?
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isolator86 I live in an European country. We don't have a War on Drugs. We don't share a border with Mexico. Just right there there's a huge discrepancy between the data.
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***** actually, it made it even easier for a woman to have sex, get pregnant, get custody and force the father to pay alimony or he goes to jail. Men can't reject parenthood. Women can.
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+Drake Koefoed the rates would absolutely go up because healthcare providers would be able to jack the government more than they already do to insurance companies. Providers overcharge for everything because they know insurance companies can cover the bill. Imagine their next client has access to the pockets of every single American alive. Unless your argument is a defense of government hospitals, government doctors and nurses, and government drug manufacturers - which is a valid argument - cutting out the middleman won't absolutely do anything in this case because the government has no leverage. Ultimately it falls flat because insurance companies, big pharma and hospital board members control the government and they would never allow the government to throw a wrench in their plans.
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+Tanudjanitor Gaming I customized Micheal's car, not the optimal solution but it kept respawning with the mods.
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+Gerben van Straaten The difference between surface areas of the average man and woman is only 0.3m^2. That's weight savings anyone would welcome but really nothing to write home about. The problem is, a woman is weaker than a man the same size , a smaller woman will be much weaker. Proportionally, she's lifting the same weight a small man would be lifting, except she's weaker than that small man. When we pit men against each other in "fair" competitive fights we make them weight-in in weight classes that are only a few pounds apart. A few kilograms of mass are enough to tip the scales in favour of the larger man. You're seriously implying that a small woman would do that great in a battlefield before guns were invented?
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Citrakite "Well designed" armor can't make up for the fact that it sits on shoulders. Rucksacks have shoulder straps to act as an anchor point, but the weight is meant to be distributed to the hip area. That's why most military and civilian rucksacks have hip pads that wrap around the torso.
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Citrakite Mail is easily cinched with a belt, what exactly is the method for plate armor, considering that's the subject of the discussion? There's also the fact that there's a "right" way to pack a rucksack in a way that puts it's center of gravity as close to the lower back/hip area as possible, and the top of the rucksack has the lighter items such as waterproof tarps and sleeping bags. Steel is steel. You can't put the least dense items on the top and the heavier ones at the hips. In the majority of NATO nations, as far as I know the doctrine is to drop the rucksacks when under fire. In case your unit is the attacking one, rucksacks are left at a RV point and not taken into an assault. That's why the webbing a soldier carries into the field should normally carry items necessary for 24h survival without the pack. You don't drop armor before a fight. >"the big travel pack of 50kg+ everyone bitches about padding or not" And that fucker is designed to be carried in a more efficient manner. Modern soldiers, specially light infantry that relies less of vehicles, carry more weight than previously because it wasn't possible to carry that much weight back in the Roman times. In fact, gear gets lighter but packs roughly stay the same. Why? Because as gear gets lighter that means soldiers can carry more. >"Sorry but it's not unrealistic or unreasonable that a woman could and would wear plate armor" You're correct. However, wearing it and fighting in it are very different things. >"Hema and other SCA events would seem to agree woman with a sword can kill a man with a sword same style, same training." As impressive it is, HEMA is a controlled and mostly "fair" environment. A fight to the death between a man and a woman wearing plate, with both of them fatigued from fighting will be far from a fair fight. Have you seen the video of the man vs woman in the military fighting with those padded staffs? The man just runs through the woman.
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Citrakite >"Fact remains plate armor is spread across the body to start with unlike a pack." Sure, you're not lifting the legs portion with your torso, but everything above the waist is being carried by the spine. The pack is designed to sit at the optimal spot and there's a proper way to wear them so that your spine doesn't crumple under the weight. It's better to have weight on the hips than spread over the torso. >"Combat pack (who weight is equal to armor weight) is not dropped" Assault packs are much smaller than rucksacks. Their carry capability is inferior and so is the attachment to the body. In vehicle-supported infantry and in modern "war on terror" settings things like assault packs are important but they're less relevant for foots soldiers with limited vehicle support in a state of total war, who need rucksacks to sustain themselves with food and shelter. You have to understand that a lot of modern developments were made to respond to conflicts which are not total war. >"Romans actually carry about the same load." What weights more, a kilo of steel or a kilo of feathers? >"it'd be lot more fair they you give credit for." Except real life isn't a videogame where you lose a stamina bar. Much worse things happen during real combat. A male and female knight who took a pounding before meeting each other in the battlefield have not sustained the same damage. >"Who ever fucks up first dies, male or female" That's the "technically" correct approach, but just like in a lot of fighting sports the technical counter-striker can be overwhelmed. A man delivering blows on a woman in a way that makes it impossible to take advantage of mistakes will never "fuck up". >"given we tend to naturally underestimate women i say it's unfair to the male and he;'s going to be shanked" That's actually ridiculous. You're telling me that in a world where women are a real threat in the battlefield, they'll still be underestimated? So there's actual theory and empirical evidence in the technique of sword wielding but knights would ignore the advantages of knowledge based tactics as soon as gender is introduced? A male knight would have gone through training with female knights as good as him and still not believe in their capabilities? And how would the enemy immediately identify the gender? Unless the enemy was of enough stature to be knowledgeable about every knight on the enemy side, he wouldn't know. >"Then it's skill speed and probably a bit of luck on who wins" And who's heavier. That's why we have weight classes in fighting sports. For an equal playing field the average woman knight would have to be the same size as the average men. It's hardly a victory for women when only the strongest and most athletic women are able to keep up with the average male knight with comparable training.
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Citrakite I appreciate you adding that info, it only took like 3 comments until you posted something I could verify for myself about plate armor. >"Combat load is still the same between armored fighter and modern one so point remains." >"Neither, they're the same mass, 1kg." The point is that a modern soldier is carrying more by both weight and volume. Things get lighter and smaller at the same time. Instead of soldiers carrying less weight and smaller loads, they carry big burdens and the same weight. For example, military rations had to be packed in metallic cans until the 1980's. Today they're packed in retort pouches which act like flexible, lightweight cans. >"you said they were both fatigued already. Nothing about damage done" I'll admit that I am having trouble expressing myself because these are concepts I have internalized without ever studying them formally. During a fight you can sustain blows that do not wound you but induce fatigue. For example, if we're in a boxing match you may have better cardio than me, but if I punch your diaphragm repeatedly you become tired. Try to wear armor and let someone hit you with a mallet. >"Now we're debating performance and endurance not actual ability or feasibility." I respectfully disagree on a lot of things mentioned right now, but I agree that we've strayed from what the original argument was about.
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Ian Loughney Which would be consistent with how folklore is spread by word of mouth - suddenly you have stories of vampires and werewolves because a once real story changed a little every time it was told. To the uneducated hearing legends about poison bullets, and then seeing a green-tipped bullet dropping people, it seems like it's actually made of poison because what the hell does he know about bullet design.
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How long ago was it? The current rates put the Euro at just 1.05 dollars.
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Pistons are not kept moving by inertia alone but also from other pistons' power strokes. The less mass a piston has, the less power it steals from another.
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Okay by no means am I defending Fox News but CNN, MSNBC, etc are terribad at presenting anything about gun control laws. I don't watch Fox News but I'd assume they're the kind of people who'd actually call in experts in firearms, while the rest just calls butthurt senators and astroturf activist managers.
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Mark Massingill >"both times yes, I needed the gun" Could you prove you did before the first time? Can you prove that you'd have died if not for the gun? >"Ignoring the law to get high is not." You're mixing points. You said that there's no need for marijuana. We don't ban something because we don't need it, we ban it because it's been systematically proven to be dangerous/violate the rights of people. >"Seems to me that if you don't want to go to prison, you obey the law" Yeah, go tell that to Rosa Parks. Or the European Jews in WWII.
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Mark Massingill Drinking and driving or drunk fights ending up in serious, potential fatal injury happens every single day. Alcohol is still legal. Just because someone uses drugs doesn't mean they endanger other people, the same way that drinking doesn't necessarily mean you become a danger. You took prescription medication. Even the softest pain medication will include warnings to not operate heavy machinery because of the dangers it poses to others. Prescription drugs are involved in more death than illegal drugs. By your logic, you shouldn't have the right to take legal drugs because you could have injured other people or used them to commit suicide? Guns? People might drink and carry guns, by your logic we should ban guns because of what people might do.
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E. Lectricity Okay, let me rephrase it. Switzerland is successful because they have money coming in from abroad, it just so happens to be there that people send their offshore money. If you want your country to be successful, accept more offshore money.
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"draft dodgers" you think the draft is still in place?
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If you let your kids play with firearms trusting an electronic gizmo won't save you from getting shot.
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herp derp Your conclusion is fundamentally wrong because in every altercation there are advantages such as speed, size, training in combat sports, weapons such as knives, etc. Guns do equalize the situation by making it about who's the quickest so there is only one factor and you can't possibly afford to lose on that one. I'm going to give you a knife for you to hide, and then give you 10 people who walk by an alley at separate times in a disarmed country. You could do anything you want to them, because chances are carrying a knife will also be illegal. Now I give you a gun, and another 10 people, but you're living in an area of the US where guns are extremely common and people have been shooting since they were kids. "Are you feeling lucky, punk?"
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herp derp >"every single other western country" You mean countries that are smaller than the US, don't have the US's history or culture, totally different societies, are highly homogenized and most of all, don't have all the problems that come with huge populations, higher populational density and greater number of metropolitan cities, aren't fighting a War on Drugs while physically attached to Mexico? Most Western countries never had high murder rates in the modern era, they have gun control but it wasn't passed to necessarily solve a violence problem. >"cause they're not fucking legal" Well, uh, guns are fucking legal in almost every country. Except places like China, most countries allow firearms ownership. In fact, gun ownership has been on the rise for over a decade in Australia, that paragon of draconian gun control. It is now higher than pre-1996 numbers.
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Quite the contrary. You cannot have a socialist country with open borders, socialism can be managed in a "closed system" in which you can more or less control who has the abilities and who has the needs. Open borders result in you having to deal with people's needs but not enough ability. Socialism requires a nationalist policy, "to each according to his need but only if they're from around here".
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Justin Pierce >"Did the working class control the means of production? No. Well damn. I can't see how national socialism equates to real socialism then." In most of the "real socialism" the people didn't own the means of production.
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TheWokenSpirit >"is the kkk Christian? by your logic, those are true Christians" They are. Don't underestimate my willingness to throw Christians under the bus if that means I can toss the Socialists with them.
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TheWokenSpirit Oh boy. There are several forms of social control of the means of production and I will give myself the liberty to judge some undemocratic processes as a form of "democratic control" when socialist theorists specifically called for those means to be utilized. This means that virtually every "socialism in name only" projects started as "democratic" when violent revolution was used to bring socialism (because socialist theorists called for it) or that a "true" democracy was in place (if the elections were rigged it's not my damned fault) and therefore the planned economy was in fact in the hands of the people. Even you would agree that a plumber would probably not do very well as an economy planner so that's where the several types of social control come in. I consider myself a reasonable man and I find these standards to be reasonable. I simply will not allow myself to be boxed into your own personal variant of anarcho-molotov-chomskianism, if we're debating socialism then the door is open to the several socialist theories. Anything else is cherry picking. On the flip side, you also cannot box me into corporate capitalism, in fact you know nothing about me and already strawmanned me. You can't go "not real socialism!" and then open yourself to a "not real capitalism!" retort. It would result into yet another childish debate on youtube. If you were being honest you wouldn't use that type of argument while limiting my argument to your own personal view of what true socialism is.
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TheWokenSpirit Again, not my fault anything has been "perverted". And I am sorry, but there is no way that 7 billion people can regulate distribution and exchange. Realistically, the "not true socialist" states were almost perfect implementations of socialist theory. Remember the point I made about anarcho-molotov-chomskianism? Yeah, I'm not particularly interested in hearing about a stateless society that is also magically ran by democracy (because that makes fucking sense) but also won't go the way of anarcho-syndicalism like it did in Spain. For all intents and purposes, it is socialism if it was put in power undemocratically by socialists (because socialism allows for that) or if the state planned economy can be controlled by the people through democratic suffrage. >"but there are many places in the Europe and america where it's working pretty damn well" Holy shit. So Venezuela, the USSR, etc are perversions of socialism despite implementing the theory almost perfectly, but European countries which are heavily corporatist and have some of the highest indexes of economic freedom (remember, property rights is the antithesis to the worker's ownership of the means of production) are the best example of socialism working well? >"you have yet to provide a reason in which modern capitalism is better than and capitalism that is regulated with socialism" So capitalism regulated by giving the workers ownership of the means of production and control over exchanges? That's not capitalism because it ends property rights, how can a system be capitalist and at the same time allow the seizure of property from the owners/investors/etc? How high are you?
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No Name I didn't flip around the causality. The reason we don't grow tails anymore is because we don't need them, period. The reason why our ancestors stopped growing tails in the first place is a completely different matter, and in that case the causation issue would surface. I'm not getting objections "en masse", it's a bunch of people caught in a crossfire. I got two notifications out of this.
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***** >"of course I "understood" it and by that I meant, I was able to correct you but that's due to me being somewhat educated on the topic" The point was that no education would be required. If you didn't get it, it wouldn't be my job to teach 7th grade biology, if you got it, you'd know what I meant. No Name >"The reason we don't grow tails is that those who did so died out, "period". See, that is how you simplify without falsifying the information." Which doesn't get my point across. Now the recipient of that message is wondering why the hell did the unfunny women die out. >"This was about your post" It could be about anything, you said I was getting objections en masse, I got two. People talking about it but not talking to me doesn't count as getting an objection. I'm not a victim of a mosh pit.
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No Name >"The unfunny women DIDN'T die out." So why the fuck would I use that on my analogy? >"You immediately got two more mentions after you claimed it's not about you" FROM THE SAME TWO PEOPLE. OH MY GOD I AM BURIED IN NOTIFICATIONS "Pitiful", an implication that you're the mature one and calling me inadequate? Sorry, this will be my cop out, I don't have time for internet "i am the adult in this situation" pseudo-intellectual diatribe.
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***** >"Unfunny women did not die out." Again, then why would I use that in my analogy? I mean, you're explaining to me the analogy I made, and you have the nerve to call my statements outrageously stupid (when I was clearly playing the part of someone who would be unnecessarily confused by an alternative analogy).
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No Name >"The one working hard to embarrass you... is you" This is me making those mocking child-like noises through the internet. This "I'm just trying to help you"/"stop hitting yourself" is ridiculous. I'm being "embarrassed"... by your standards, which means I couldn't give the least amount of fucks about that. I didn't tell anyone to infer that atrophy or whatever would suck the tailbones back into our spine and get passed down as genetic code, and trying to introduce the concept of dying out would have made things unnecessarily confusing for the layman. Not my fault if people got the wrong conclusion, they should have studied harder. Trying to outsmart everyone doesn't help at explaining things, at all. >"but to juxtapose unrelated concepts that display enough similarities so one can serve to explain the other" And usually it stops right there, because if you try to good deep on an analogy it almost always fails. The Rolex may be the Rolls Royce of cars, but it can't drive you to places.
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No Name >"I never said that I'm trying to help you" I meant the general style of argument. It's all the same particular type of holier than thou bullshit. >"i give even less fucks than you pretend to give while writing a small novel about how many fucks you don't give" This, exactly this. Any short paragraph looks like a novel in a phone or youtube's notification tab, by the way, but this kind of bullshit argument is the most infuriating thing ever. I said I didn't give a fuck about your opinion that I'm embarrassing myself. My sentiment is not yours to expand to the whole situation and pretend I'm being a hypocrite because I spend a total of 2 minutes hammering on a keyboard while claiming "not to give a fuck" in general - which again is something I didn't say.
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No Name The "u mad" argument, how original. Look, I could understand your point and what you were getting at. This, this is just you being stupid for no reason, despite reassuring me that you're a good guy. I said phone and the google notification tab. I covered both phone and browser. Maybe learn to read. I said I don't give a fuck about what you think of me, that doesn't mean I can't talk to you. Again, get the fuck outta here with that "I'm 14 years old but I'm soooo mature for my age" type of argument.
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No Name And to you "serious" discourse entails calling others an embarrassment?
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The chips that make those claims usually have multiple modes to switch from. To get more power and more fuel efficiency at the same time on an engine that was carefully designed without installing any hardware... it's baloney.
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No, it's just that socialists need to hide their own brand of xenophobia. On another instance Sanders claimed they didn't need more Hispanics coming in because of high unemployment among the ethnic group. Making it sound like he cares about them is a cheap trick. If it was a humanitarian aspect, he would make all immigration legal. But no, because Socialists can't have people coming in all the time and strain their government programs. Socialists want wealth redistribution/equality but only among their own. If outsiders come in, they reap the benefits without ever contributing. The Socialists can't have that or their pipe dreams fall apart even sooner than thought. Concerns over ilegals taking jobs away from the legals is still "they're taking our jobs away". Again, if all immigration was legalized everyone would be in equal footing and nobody would be working in slave conditions to get the job, but Bernie Sanders doesn't want unemployed people draining his precious programs so there has to be a limit on who can come in.
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Justin Bayley It's not a simplification. Trying to stop people from moving freely is an act of aggression. One can't be humanitarian while implying that "what's ours belongs to us and we can't share it with anyone else". There's also the issue that Sweden is a poor example of "socialism". They have very broad socialized programs but it's important to note that they were founded thanks to the wealth generated by businesses. When such programs started eating into that wealth Sweden has cut back on those programs. Even the Danish prime minister has made remarks about not liking Denmark to be described as socialist. Sanders and Cruz may not have the same goals with their opinions on immigration, but the principle is always the same. And the end result is the same.
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Justin Bayley It's still not democratic socialism. When you pool your resources (involuntarily) and you realize you can't share that pooled wealth with everyone who comes along you have to draw a line in the sand. That's why Bernie wants it to be rainbows and sunshine, but to even pretend that can work the US can't become the world's soup kitchen. It's for "us", but only "us". >"so how is it aggressive?" If any legal action is taken against someone who never committed aggression, that is a violation of their rights. Trying to stop a non-violent person from roaming the Earth is an act of aggression. >"And I can be humanitarian and have a border." All a border is good for is to violate the rights of people who cross the imaginary line. Or in case of communist countries, the ones trying to leave. If you don't feel the need to bring anyone who comes through to the Law, you don't need a border. >"I can promote human wellbeing without having to give my wallet and sharing my house with someone who does not have one." It's your property. But do you own your country? >"I'm unclear what principle and result you're referring to" Either way you look it's because a) employment (or lack thereof) and b) drain on programs. Wording those beliefs in a different way doesn't make them better. >"Bernie just wants those who are here now illegally to have a path to citizenship which is quite literally a sort of amnesty" But what about those trying to cross "illegally"? >"That's humanitarian because it protects those who would otherwise be marginalized, and exploited, and abused (which is happening and it's abhorrent) and thus promoting human welfare" Strong words considering that in most cases they're better off in the US. It also wouldn't promote human welfare because by making them legal they'd be in equal footing with unemployed Americans. Now they'd be unemployed unless they consented to the same levels of exploitation as before.
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Ronin Oxide PATRIOT Act, NDAA, PRISM, etc? You don't put the frog in boiling water, you put it in cold water and over the stove. People can tell when they're being oppressed, but they don't notice when the government slowly becomes tyrannical. >"I don't get why you Americans wouldn't want serial numbers and background checks on gun owners" Both of those things are required by federal law when you buy a gun. If you make one yourself it was never in a factory or in a gun store so obviously the laws can't possibly apply. And come on, you think a serial number does anything? You can file it off. Plus, even if you don't, and you kill some people? Can't tell the serial number from bullet wounds, so the serial numbers don't help at all!
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Peter Vaňušanik a comment so bad you had to make it twice. This is for a LAUNCH, not grandma's groceries run. Wonder why he tested it on a highway entrance rather than a parking lot? Because he was measuring 0-60 times. If you drop the clutch on an idling motor you won't be using peak torque/hp.
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+Álvaro Chena a lot of former special forces and people in the training industry claim it's not a good combat rifle. It's a fine civilian shooter but if you're in the middle of a carbine class and it goes down, it's a fucker to bring back. Not me saying this, but there's a Primary and Secondary podcast where former SOF, former military, current instructors, etc dismiss it as a subpar combat rifle.
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+jarvy251 it's fine because most soldiers who touched bullpups in service either never touched another military rifle in their lifetime or got the privilege of shooting someone else's rifle from another country in joint exercises so their bullpup was the weapon they used 99.99% of the time. No bias at all there.
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The Huey P Newton gun club also stood, armed, in front of government buildings. What seems to be the problem?
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@dimachapkove what the fuck does that mean? I was asked to prove that cops use unreasonable force all the time and I pointed to instances of cops shooting first and asking questions later. I didn't say shit about "real guns".
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+Mya Elbows Did a lot of shit against the Soviets in Afghanistan... and then against America. Palestinians got killed because some people launched rockets off their back yards and used civilians as their human shields. Those people are in power and Palestinians support them, not Israel which is the aggressor.
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Mya Elbows The point is that you can't assume people from a state will not see federal overreach as something "foreign". If the federal government kills civilians of a state to submit a militia - and they will, because against insurgent forces the US military causes collateral damage up the wazoo, people won't be happy. So yes, you will have a situation in which the locals are "Afghan" and the invaders are "Soviets".
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Mya Elbows I'm only talking about the military feasibility of a rebellion, not the "philosophical aspects". I don't know who gets killed for what evidence.
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Mya Elbows Neglect and sabotage (seriously, it's almost like they realized what they were doing and made it worse on purpose because nobody could be that incompetent) from their government aren't reasons for rebellion? There have been revolutions for less than that.
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Mya Elbows They contaminated it through neglect and became aware of it, after that point it became almost an act of sabotage. It's clear that the government did not care for the health of it's people and tacitly allowed it to continue by telling them it was fine. Sorry, that is more than enough to revolt. And by the way, there's no reason to be paranoid? We know that guys in their 20's working for the NSA share the nudes they find on the computers and phones they snoop into, as described by Snowden I believe. I've heard the "if you got nothing to hide" and "are you afraid they'll find your porn history?" excuses ever since I remembered, and turns out they not only spy on their own people but they actually do the ridiculous things only "paranoid" people should be afraid of? Have you been living under a rock for the past decade? NDAA, PATRIOT Act, civil asset forfeiture? Every week there are news coming out about all the ways the government is out to fuck you, far too many to accept it as just the "infallible" nature of government. There's a saying that goes: once is happenstance, twice is coincidence and the third time it's enemy action. I've seen evidence of hundreds of these situations and I can name at least 20 from the top of my head. That's way above three.
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Mya Elbows >"So your answer to negligence is not to enact better screening but to revolt with firearms?" "Better screening" the catch-all solution for severe issues. You know damned well that's not going to do anything. "Negligence" is a euphemism, the government was buying clean water for themselves. They claimed the water was safe to drink! That's not just "negligence".. >"I find it hard to believe you think an armed revolt against the government would solve anything" If it wasn't for one, I would be living in a fascist dictatorship. I have a lot to thank to armed revolts. >"All that would happen, as I stated earlier, is those people would die, and the government would go about their business." Not really, if those people died then for every one of them another 49 innocent civilians would die. That's the problem of fighting an insurrection, people don't like when they're the eggs that have to be cracked to make the omelette. >"this specific example is what i'm talking about" So you limit the scope of the argument to suppress the evidence that the government is working against you, and make it just about the Flint water crisis so you can cry strawman. Yours is a grand doctrine. I show you there's more than enough cumulative evidence to prove that the government is spiraling into tyranny, and you simply shrug it off as "off topic". Wow. >"with legislation" You mean the same legislation that allowed severe breaches of the constitution to happen? The same legislation that despite of the right to not self-incriminate, will put people in jail indefinitely if they do not de-encrypt their storage for the authorities?
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Mya Elbows What do you even mean by screening? >"Also you said the government was buying and drinking clean water during that crisis, you'd have to get a link because I'm not finding that source material." Documents obtained through FOIA show that they were buying water for government buildings. https://www.scribd.com/doc/297005752/DTMB-Facility-Notification >"And even if they were, as you said, we aren't living in a fascist dictatorship." What? I was talking about me, an European citizen, whose family lived under a fascist dictatorship before armed revolt brought down the regime. How you took my personal experience and made it about America I don't know. >"now you're saying we should grab our firearms and start marching with the MM" I never said that, but okay. >"white males" Ohhhh boy. Michigan is like 80% white according to their census. Get the racial narrative outta here.
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Mya Elbows >"I was talking about the District of Columbia contamination when i asked for source material." Literally what? >"Screening is regarding background checks, and like I said if that doesn't work then stiffen the punishment for negligence. Tell me, in western Europe, what happens when an elected official is negligent?" The past isn't a predictor of the future, typically people need to achieve power before becoming corrupt. Screening people before they enter office is ridiculous. We make them prime ministers or something. Why the hell do you think governmental corruption bothers me as much? It certainly isn't because I live in a place where we deal with it swiftly. >"How was I supposed to know you were European?" The point is that you mistook me for an American. I mean, country with a former fascist dictatorship? Most of them are either in Europe or South America. US => not in South America. >"If you're not for an armed revolt" I never said that either. >"They're white, middle class Americans, aka they have it pretty great." So you're ignorant of the levels of poverty white people have in your own country. Being born white is not necessarily an indicator of comfort. >"We're privileged, revolting now would be taking that for granted." ?????? .... ?????
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+Zedek Oh, look, it's another "leftist vs conservative" false dichotomy. As a non-conservative, your political views are just as bullshit. For example, I'm all for abortion but people on your side repeatedly call fetuses a parasite despite of the scientific fact that parasites must be of a different species than the host. I'm all for the environment, but your side pushed these bullshit energy saving light bulbs that almost everyone loathes and now the MIT has developed a way to make the incandescent bulbs more efficient - government action stiffed scientific progress. You can't point at me for having anti-gay opinions or anti-evolution opinions thus your argument falls flat. The "lefist bias" that reality supposedly has doesn't actually exist because if anything the more leftist we become the more contradictions begin to pop up - for instance, never seen anyone ask for a gay wedding cake at a Muslim-owned bakery because it would offend them to show their intolerance. Oh that's right, I've actually seen it being done, on a right-wing youtube channel. Conservatives will play the gay card if it embarrasses Muslims and leftists will ignore gay rights to defend Muslim communities. You're all hypocritical trash.
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Zedek Good thing I didn't imply you said something about all conservatives. My point was that your "reality has a liberal bias" point is complete bullshit. And my point was that many of the opposing viewpoints are ideological as well. Wait, what? You're the one who uses deflection as the main argument, you're the one whose defense is attacking the other side. I am comparable to a child, then what does that make you? You know, when someone claims "I've never seen" as opposed to "it never happened and that's a fact" it usually means that person is open to it happening, except it never reached enough notoriety to become mainstream. It's not fucking confirmation bias when I say that I've never seen it being done, it's just that the regressive left has nothing to gain from pointing out that ultra-religious people with no tolerance exist, unless they're Christians. It's also not a strawman. So I'm spewing irrelevant BS, but bringing up anti-gay beliefs in a thread where it wasn't the topic is somehow more relevant? The problem is that you doubled-down on the "joke" and made it real. I had no real reason to reply but your last reply was visible on the comments section.
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Zedek >"and that this somehow causes my argument to fall flat" Your retort to criticism is pointing out bad things about conservatives. A tu quoque argument doesn't work when someone else attacks your beliefs. You maintain that the comment wasn't meant to be taken literally, while behaving like the comment suited you to a T. Your defense of liberal beliefs was attacking conservative beliefs. Again, the shoe fits, it might have been a joke but you doubled down on it. I wasn't replying to the joke.
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How is it an American problem? Literally everyone else makes Black/White arguments to defend whatever... Statism, gun control, communism (usually first world rich teenagers who never lived under communism). Drawing a line in the sand is somehow worse than the crap rhetoric we get exposed to every day? Tell me where the grey is: "I'm not a racist, but...". You can bet that 95% of the sentences that start of like this are racist. There's no grey. "I'm for gender equality, but..." "I'm for gay rights, but..." Unless you're gonna introduce a different subject, the but implies you disagree with the concept you just claimed to agree. We get these undercover antis telling us they believe in gun rights but... Its a way to pretend to be one of us.
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Machinshin That's fallacious as hell. We got tons of political parties in Europe but except in places like the UK, it's a two party system. There's the communists, the hard right people, etc that almost nobody votes for and some fringe groups that only secure a couple of seats every election. Then there's two major parties or coalitions that end up winning 31% vs the runner-up's 28%. In my country, it's the Socialist Party and the Social Democrats. One is center-left and the other is center-right. They're almost on top of each other in the political spectrum, but since they're two major parties they bicker instead of working together. >"Imho one must often choose the middlepath in many matters for something good to happen" False Dilemma is a fallacy, but so is Argument to Moderation. If I say the sky is blue and you say it's red, compromising and agreeing that it's purple doesn't solve anything. Gun owners are used to "compromise", ie we had things taken from us without anything being given in return, but eery time a new proposed legislation comes we are told to meet them halfway and compromise. >"I think the main problem is that americans has been taught to choose side all the time." Again, this happens all over the world, and sometimes a side has to be chosen. In a subject that matters to me, staying on the fence is hardly going to do me any good. I may stay on the fence on things that don't matter to me at all, and I'm not going to talk about those often, am I? This gives the appearance that I chose sides on everything, when I only did it on like 10% of the subjects. The other 90% are simply not important enough for me to talk about. So if I care about gun rights, what do I get by staying in the middle ground other than tacitally accepting what the antis want?
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@thobraa Greyzone was founded by Max Blumenthal, who participated in the Russia Today 10 year anniversary gala in Moscow. He also formed a company registered as Active Measures LLC, "active measures" was the Soviet codename for misinformation.
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@thobraa kek just disprove the things I've said if you dare.
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@thobraa What thumbnail?
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@thobraa I did not upload the video so the thumbnail is not under my control.
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+Thomas The Tank Engine all of the books seem to show a rapid decline in poverty as capitalism spread over the world... wonder why that is...
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+Accelerationist you don't want companies to collaborate too much or you get what is a "cartel". If you have several brands selling you X for $5 to compete with each other, that's good. If they start collaborating and say "let's all charge $50 and not give them a choice" you'll have to pay the $50 if you want X because there's no competition.
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Those vents over the front wheel look like they're going to fling random crap on the road out of them.
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+Edgár Tóth Bernie Sanders, a career politician who despite his talk has consistently voted for wars/to fund wars, won't end the drone program and promises a lot of free crap he know the country can't afford (he has backpedaled on the "only the 1% will be taxed" promise). Pass.
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Edgár Tóth He's exactly the same as everyone else. I'd hate to see Clinton win because of her stance on guns, among all the other terrible things she's done in the past, but between her and Bernie I can't even decide. Socialism destroyed Venezuela. It was in the process of destroying Brazil before the impeachment. Yes, I called them crap because it's not free. In average Americans already work about 100 days for free every year just to pay taxes. These "free" things will need to be taxed which means that Americans will have to work even more for compensation that won't reach their hands. Working for no compensation used to be called "slavery".
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***** Equal pay would eliminate the cheaper labour from women, meaning that men would take their positions in the workforce and women would get sent back to the kitchen. Fascist political theorists actually argued this during the 1930's.
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***** "Equal pay is a fascist ideal? lol" >"Look at the role women played in fascist societies. Look at the role women played in communist societies" Unequal starting conditions don't arrive at equal results. In one of the cases women were undercutting male labour and therefore bosses would rather have the cheap labour. Let's just say that doesn't happen in a communist setting in the first place, so equal pay doesn't send women home.
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***** Excuse me, but are we arguing about the consistency of Fascism, in itself an extremely inconsistent and contradictory system? When implemented, Fascism enjoyed the power necessary to enforce their traditionalism. For example, in the beginning they didn't care for the lesbians but then went "oh wait, it's a bad thing after all".
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***** Are you being sarcastic? Because Norway has 1,320,000 guns, which translates to 31.3 guns per 100 people.
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***** Sure, Jan.
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***** Are you trolling or not? Because if you remember Norway had a mass shooting in 2011 with legal guns.
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***** The shooting? Of course not. The guns? The guns were legal. I'm not even sure what's the point, you said civilians can't have guns and now you're just saying what happened in 2011 "it wasn't legal".
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***** The guns were legal, he had licenses for them. He tried to obtain them illegally but the legal way was easier.
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+Adrian N. not throwing shade but unless you just happen to have a gym right next to you how would moving out of the city make it any easier? You'd have to spend more time driving to and from the gym, and honestly you'd be working the same hours.
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>Of course an assault rifle isn't optimal for both home defense and safety considering it may, or most likely will, penetrate walls and risk hitting loved ones or neighbors Actually, many 5.56 loads will reach the FBI minimum of 12" in ballistics gel and still break apart after a few sheets of drywall. Meanwhile, pistol and shotgun ammo that is considered suitable for self-defense will punch through more sheets. My thing with the blind is - they're not mentally handicapped. They will know if someone climbs on top of them and starts punching them in the face. In most self-defense shootings, NO SIGHTS ARE USED. The defendant can't see what he's aiming at because the attacker is so close that he/she can't bring the gun to eye level. In self-defense, you're so close that you're more likely to have to stick the gun into your opponent's body and pull the trigger without any aiming than take a 35 yard shot. Just the fact that criminals are aware that blind people can carry can possibly save a blind person from being a victim.
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>A smart thief would avoid making noise either way, making it harder for you to know where to shoot. How the hell is that a bad thing? The blind person wasn't hurt.
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>To shoot someone all you have to do is aim the gun You make it sound easy. If you haven't had experience you will miss. >In my opinion it takes a lot more guts to stab someone or hit them with something heavy and actually watch them suffer You have to watch people suffer with guns too. Why do you think there's soldiers coming back with PTSD? Even drone pilots get PTSD, and all they have to do is push a button from thousands of miles away. The kind of people who gun down a ton of people are sick, having to stab people isn't a problem for them.
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+drew anderson except the USA no country has more guns per people. It's not the only "modern" country to have that, it's the ONLY. In 2nd place is Yemen with 0.8 guns for every person.
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+qawamity/Escef by the way, Devid Hemenway, anti-gun researcher for the Harvard School of Public Health, admits that there are between 55 and 80 thousand defensive gun uses every year, and the NCVS cites 100,000/year. We're talking about surveys that were biased against gun owners and measure the rate of defensive gun usage differently to give us low-ball estimates.
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+Dan Wendelstein I know a few Swiss gun owners, and they're all... "fetishistic", as you describe it. " Therefore, only very few people feel like they have to resort to crime to make ends meet" but poverty doesn't cause crime. Honest people trying to make ends meet do not resort to violence. Violent crime, while we don't understand violence completely, stems from underdeveloped frontal lobes. Studies that looked into prison populations found out that there was a correlation between criminality and people growing up near lead contamination, which harmed their decision making abilities. Because violent criminals make bad decisions, they end up having to live near poor people, which creates a correlation between poverty and crime. "Conscripts and reservists get to take their rifles and ammo home with them, but once there, they will spent most of their time locked in a safe in the cupboard somewhere," I don't understand the point. The weapon is there for the taking and if someone is planning to get arrested or commit suicide after a massacre, they don't fear getting in trouble for taking the rifle out of the safe. It's the equivalent of saying "in switzerland they can have guns but you see, using those guns to kill is illegal" as if Americans are asking for the right to commit mass shootings.
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Matthew, a "successful" state plunders it's own people, it's law serves to benefit itself and the "rights" and "freedoms" they protect were taken away and sold back to us under the form of "privileges". The state monopoly on violence is not any different from a mob's territorial control. They fight outsiders so that they may not extort their subjects. The people did not "grant" him the means, the state did.
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the volksturm was armed by the state monopoly on violence. it was nowhere near being an independent force comprised of an armed populace. "The disarmament of civilians in the end helps protect them against soldiers, because soldiers won't see them as enemies, and therefore will try to keep them out of harm's way (international laws of war)." Your whole point depends on the enemy respecting the laws of war. Combat medics would be signaled and wouldn't carry weapons in theory so they wouldn't be targeted, but for example in Afghanistan medics carry weapons because the Taliban would shoot them anyway. Disarmament doesn't protect anyone, only in the la-la-land of political rhetoric.
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+doonglerules you do know that 5.56 NATO rifles can be fed civilian .223 Rem ammo, right?
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You buy them at the gun shop.
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Okay so a few months ago ReasonTV's viewership was bitching that Juggalos should be considered a gang by the feds because some Juggalos committed crimes and they're weed smoking hippies, but now you're trashing Nick for calling Bundy a federal land moocher? What about some consistency?
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P Mason Oh yeah, imaginary aggression from people who didn't do shit to you and who happen to listen to the same music as some other degenerates. Fuck me, everyone who listens to Marylin Manson is a mass shooter and everyone who goes to church is a murderous crusader. Funny how ReasonTV's viewership is quick to recite the NAP to justify the government's non-ownership of that land but forget about it when the feds use violence and coercion on people for being fans of clowns. It's not like libertarianism doesn't have individualism as one of it's core principles.
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P Mason now I'm asking: what are you talking about? I was talking about juggalos and you talked about aggression. If you replied to me without the intent to defend the FBI definition I don't really understand your comment.
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Pierre Sprey's knowledge on aviation stops about in the 1970's. Low frequency radars cannot achieve a firing solution so you're stuck with something that tells you stealth aircraft are up there, but you can't actually target them. At most you could use ground controllers to guide interceptors but you'd be sending them in "blind" while the stealth fighters would be aware of their interception and just fire missiles with inertial/GPS course correction that only turn on the active radar homing for the last dozen miles. The interceptor's RWR would only start screaming mere seconds before turning into a ball of fire. Not to mention that a big ass WW2 radar would make an extremely juicy target for anti-radiation missiles.
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Yeah, through electro-optical means, not by radar. Which is the only thing stealth is meant to protect against.
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+Kamel the safety violations are worth complaining about, though.
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spartacon5267 But Liam Neeson can influence the people who vote for politicians. I'm all for him acting as much as he wants, he can fire blank guns at people as much as he wants, but if he's making movies where he is a "good guy with a gun" and making a shitload of money off them maybe he shouldn't be so critical of guns.
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spartacon5267 You underestimate how much normal people fawn over celebrities. I mean, get Oprah and Beyonce to support something and you'll have the masses going after them like lemmings.
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Sko Bird >"But you just sound so emotional talking about this and trigger happy like, yeah cant wait to shoot someone when they enter my house!! wohoo" What do you want me to do with that information? Call it a Strawman fallacy? Tell you that you can't possibly figure out the tone of a conversation from text alone (I was thinking with incredulity, which you mistook for emotion)? Tell you that you're projecting your own mental issues onto other people? How is it desirable to shoot someone? Just for starters, the dead body and the blood stains will be a bitch to pay for the clean up, not to mention that you take a hit on the resale value of your property. Oh, there's also the fact that you may face legal issues, which even if you win it costs a lot of money. Stop assuming other people don't think.
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clear mist sometimes I get imported sodas from America and I wonder how much better they'd taste if they used sugar. Like, Dr Pepper would probably be amazing with sugar, but with corn syrup I find it really average.
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+FreakOUT591 that would imply Tears Morgan ever says anything based on a study.
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@unfortunateson5016 are the US troops in Iraq or Afghanistan defending the US?
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@Prox1015 the company keeps changing names to escape their bad reputation, the governments can do evil and the country doesn't change it's name. Shamelessly evil.
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The army didn't do shit, it was Washington.
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Nordic countries rank very high in the economic freedom index, social democracy eats away the profits but they make enough to cover the costs. They work despite social democracy, not because of it. Look at social democracy applied to any country that doesn't have the capitalist side to hold up it's weight, and you get huge financial crisis. >Zionism lel another instance where "it works" but if you are really nationalist about it. Sure.
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lol I'm running a dual core E8400 and GTS250, from 2008 as well, I think. Only switched the PSU because I was afraid my NOX was frying my 250.
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***** For soccer you need both explosiveness and endurance. By that logic alone, soccer has better athletes than all the sports mentioned.
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Tim Young You can by doing this. Do a plus sign and the name of the youtuber you want to reply to.
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Broreale Guns can't be tracked unless you put a GPS tracker on it. Mexican Federales gave the ATF thousands of confiscated guns and the ATF couldn't track most of them. It's no more traceable than a pizza. You can tell from the toppings which kind it is, but that's it.
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wobinidan False. The gun control recently passed in Switzerland was pushed on by the European Union. In a recent referendum the Swiss people opposed gun control. Also, they keep assault rifles, not just pistols. The ones with gull auto. They are allowed to keep them after service in semi-auto. Killers don't care about having to account for the bullets, they're going to commit a crime already! There is actually a "free weapons" class in Switzerland which isn't tightly regulated by the government.
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Keksgestalt >"weapons in switzerland are useless, the reloading mechanism has to be given for security reason to an official place.... " Please name the law on the books that says that, everything from internet info to testimony from actual Swiss people there is no such law.
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Keksgestalt >"guns are made for hunting, for hunters, official state hunters, the army and the police and security" What the fuck? Sounds like Nazi Germany. Give all the guns to state authorities or party associates, allow hunters to have some, then oppress all the unarmed. >"will finally cut bad peoples penis prolongation away and will save lifes." Fuck off. France is one of the European countries with the highest civilian gun ownership, right after Germany if I'm not mistaken. I guess by your logic the French have small penises? Criminals don't care. Look at Australia. Biker gangs were manufacturing Owen submachine guns. They made a jeweler make MAC-10 copies. They made Luty submachine guns. It's so easy to make them, they can't go away. >"freedom costs lifes or decreased-freedom." Those who give up liberty in exchange for security get neither.
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Keksgestalt I'm not from the US either. >"but you can see that the trigger where normally you reload is not there.... never!" What? That's only for CARRYING. They can own the weapon fully assembled. >"in germany the laws are even harder, you never see people with guns NEVER EVER except police, security, huntsmen or army" Nobody is talking about carrying, we're talking about OWNING guns. >"but we citisens have nothing to do with this" I'm not talking about military industry. Germany is the country in Europe where the numbers of guns in civilian hands is the highest. France is second and Italy is third. If I'm not mistaken, Finland and Switzerland have the highest rates. >"just look at the numbers they are a fact. and on facts you can't discuss, as they are fact, like the space sky is blue or grass is green." The fact is that if you plot a graph with gun ownership and gun homicide worldwide, the R^2 says you're wrong. http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/firearmhomicide2.jpg The facts say gun ownership doesn't correlate with higher gun murder.
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Keksgestalt >"military weaponry is forbidden to citizens in europe" In Germany you can own an AR15. You can hunt with one too, as long as you don't put more than two rounds in the magazine. You can also own an AR15 in Italy. In France you can own a Saiga and convert it back to AK form. A Glock is a weapon used by the military. It's legal in many European countries. The CZ-75 is a military weapon. In my country it's the basis for many competitive shooting weapons. In my country I could get a SPAS-12, which is rare in the US because they ended up getting the import banned. I could also get the Benelli M4 Super 90 in the M1014 form the US military has, which can't be imported into the US because of the "military" stock. >"what matters are the nations under the black line, and i am pretty sure that a lot of european nations are under this line" A lot of European nations prove you are wrong. Most countries with high gun control have high firearms deaths. The countries that bring the line into a negative R^2 are the European countries with high rates of firearm ownership but low gun murder. That's why the line matters - it's going DOWN (less murders the more guns you have) and not UP Can you even read a graph? Have you never studied statistics? >"but with a first world nation" You don't make the rules - plus, you can't compare the US to European countries when the US is way more comparable to Brazil or Mexico than Denmark, Italy or France. But just for you, first world nations: http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/03/guns-neither-increase-nor-decrease-crime-rate.html >"i bet that germany is close to this" You'd lose that bet. With 25,000,000 firearms in civilian hands, Germany is one of the most well-armed nations with 30.3 firearms per 100 people. It's the 4th country with the most guns (in number), and the 15th highest rate of gun ownership (guns/people) in the world.
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***** If you're against gun control, I'm helping you, bud. If you're for gun control, you're defeating your argument because you'd accept that Europe is just a small part of the world and everywhere else gun laws are just as strict yet gun murders are through the roof.
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I learned how to slam my shin to someone's temple for 22 a month, so I'll pass.
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william waddell Kidding, my point is that my kickboxing is sort of proven vs reasonably skilled opponents and I'd rather fall back to gross motor skills in times of stress rather than complex moves.
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william waddell I'd consider myself safer with a "handgun" I could shoot at a range for practice than a "bazooka" which I could never use until the time comes.
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william waddell The bazooka is something that is extremely deadly, but you can't exactly use on people you like. I can trade punches 6 days of the week and none of us get killed. Needless to say, I'm better at something I do almost every day than something I can't train with other people without killing them.
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JC545X39 >"If we would stop trying to impress the world and look good and justified" You guys haven't tried really hard. You do realize half of the world still thinks the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should have been ruled as illegal, right? The US doesn't look good or justified and that's exactly why these wars have to stop. People around the world aren't exactly happy about a Nobel peace prize recipient drone striking innocent children. >"just go and do what needs to be done and go home, we wouldn't have this problem" You can't. Once you get involved is like stepping into quicksand. You kill a few people. Then what? ISIS grows back or a new splinter group is formed. You guys were in Iraq for almost a decade and look at what happened. If you spend a month in there and leave, you really think it's going to change and you won't have to go back again? >"The rest of the world is always going to hate us or dislike us because they are jealous, so we might as well stop trying to gain their approval with out spineless ROE." Dude. Stop living under a rock. We don't hate the US. The problem is that you guys send your young, your future, to get their legs blown off in a country they shouldn't be in the first place. We DON'T hate the US. We hate the fact that for every terrorist you guys kill with drones, 49 innocent civilians have to die. We're not jealous. We don't care about your ROE because no matter what you will kill civilians - and every civilian you kill leaves a dozen relatives who will want to join ISIS to avenge their deaths
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JC545X39 I know what you mean. It's not going to work and it's definitely not a long term solution. Whatever you think you will "end" by going in and out will start happening the minute your boots leave that ground. >"Oh, and for the record, pretty much everybody here with half a backbone left and a couple of brain cells to rub together for friction just about died when they named that Joke a Nobel Peace Prize winner just for getting elected." I know. But the point is that you're missing the reasons people outside the US judge their military action abroad. It's not the ROEs. Independently of the ROE you will kill a shit ton of civilians. It's war, any country would shell innocent women and children. The point is, it's military action abroad. That's our problem. The way you do it is an argument for the hippies who actually care. Most people in Europe, etc have bigger problems in their lives. They can't bother to hate another country with the passion you describe. I just called you out because your speech seemed a little pathetic and borderline nationalist. It's like those people who think all of their detractors are "haters" and they're all like "hurr I love having haters". That's 7th grade shit. Boat >"Disenfranchised?" My god, you are just making up your own story now. No, the Free Syrian Army is not ISIS. I was talking about homegrown terrorists in US soil. You know, that thing that just a few posts ago was terrifying you? How you managed to go from homegrown terrorists to convincing yourself that I was talking about the FSA even though I never mentioned them will forever remain a mystery. >"their goal is to end western civilization and replace it with an Islamic caliphate." And until they try we have no reason to intervene. Let them try. >"Therefore, we do have a legitimate right to go into Iraq and clean up the garbage." Me saying that I'm going to cut your neck and shit down your throat does not give you the right to break into my house and kill me. I'd have to confront you with a knife for my threat to become credible. >"Assad would probably even love for us to go into Syria too if we have to." No, because Assad is on Putin's side. If the US enters Syria, Qatar will be able to complete their pipeline and Europe won't need Putin's natural gas. >"All my active, reserved, and even discharged friends all have said they'd more than happily go back to take these bastards out." Then why haven't they bought a plane ticket and gone? Oh wait, because it's better to send others. Look, I also know plenty of people in the military, not just in my country but also in the US. Basic is designed to give you morning wood for combat. Even if you're a POG. If you didn't get it, morning wood is caused by a filled bladder and not arousal. Those kids don't know what combat is, so obviously they're willing to take part in it. Even though 22 veterans kill themselves every day, which clearly shows how good it is to send people into foreign countries to fight. Heck, there's probably people willing to sell themsleves into slavery. If you think it's your patriotic duty, I don't think it's immoral to go. I think it's immoral for a GOVERNMENT to have some old people making deadly decisions, charging the taxpayer to do it and then sit on their comfortable chairs because they know they'll never have to fight that war. >"maybe even worse considering Dems and Repubs agree on attacking ISIS Maybe because Dems and Repubs are both shitstains. Do you think the Founding Fathers would have approved of the current state of affairs? Political parties controlling public opinion, foreign intervention? >"When ISIS does toss an airliner into a skyscraper or drops a dirty bomb in the middle of a shopping mall, I want you to think long and hard about your defending their sorry asses." You know that dirty bombs are ridiculously easy to clean, right? Thanks for proving you've been brainwashed into fearing something that can't kill more than a regular bomb. Wasn't the biggest bomb massacre in the US caused by a "patriot" in a militia? I won't think long about it. It was you guys who funded and trained the "moderate" rebels who would then become ISIS. It will be the US government with innocent blood on their hands. In fact, you're probably itching for that blood to be spilled because it would justify the invasion.
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SelectCircle Seriously, you think welterweights don't have walkaround weight they cut before the fight? Most people are not fighting in their natural weight because otherwise they'd be forced to fight with people who are heavier at the time of the fight.
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OneLove94 My brother is just a cm taller than me and has 4" reach advantage. He can spend months eating garbage and not doing anything (until two months ago he wasn't doing anything, not even running) and yet his torso looked like one of those ergonomic keyboards. I step out of line, my abs go away and I look soft. I can't fault him for being born with a body type that allows him to look lean even when his internal organs are covered in lard, or have a ludicrous reach for his height.
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epicOway My natural beard would be against military regs if I was in the military. In fact, even if I kept it neat and maintained it would prevent a seal on my gas mask in case of a NBC attack, effectively killing me by forcing my breathing through the gaps rather than through the seal.
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epicOway 1. Why would I, I already said I'm not military? 2. I get awful razor bumps every time I shave, again why would I do that to myself?. 3. You said it's not comparable but you told me to shave (ie suck it up) yet you complain about the regulations that affect you. By the way, skin conditions that prevent shaving are more common among black males than white males. There was actually a pizzeria that had a long court case after they got sued because they wanted their personnel to shave. And what about the Muslim? See, it's not that obvious who it is for.
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Alfred Abraham Weren't all the people on the board of that school black, though?
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Leo Scarpoli If there's a conspiracy, what do you think is more likely? Whites controlling haircuts, or the media telling you what to think, how to vote, etc.? You were told by the media about this situation and the ethnic background of the school board was left out. Right there you know two things 1) there's and angle to it and 2) they're making money out of viewer outrage. The media that told you about this has a motive to lie. While you're wasting your time stressing about peanuts, you've swallowed a narrative hook line and sinker and already accepted the dismissal for when the "angle" they tried to sell you was debunked. The blacks were controlled by the whites, then - forget everything and move onto the next controversy. That keeps you away from asking the real questions. The conspiracy sells you smaller conspiracies because we can't accept a flawless world. Have you watched The Matrix? People didn't want a flawless world, so they rebelled against the machines. They gave The Matrix flaws. But then people wanted choice. So they rebelled again. Now follow my train of thought - wouldn't it have been easier to have two layers in The Matrix (which was actually a fan theory after Reloaded came out), the average human being trapped in The Matrix while the redpills are simply transported to a higher level - but still inside The Matrix? Their desire for choice and freedom is kept while still trapped, but they're so distracted by the war they're fighting they don't bother question if they're really out.
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dc2008242 >"we have more housing than we have homeless people" I read that on your first comment and I didn't want to address that part. But if you insist, the fact is that just because something is vacant doesn't mean it's abandoned. Someone invested on that property, someone invested in the building. Whoever sold it first preferably wanted to make a profit out of the sale. Since the original owner that buyers and sellers try to make a profit out of the property. People who acquire property and rent it out are getting back the money they spent on acquiring the property. Yeah, the banks are evil, but we can't just steal their property and give it out to the public simply because it exists. Where do we draw the line? When does it stop being about the banks, and we add people who make 200k a year to the list? When do we add people making 100k a year to the list? Is every kind of property okay to "redistribute"? Because we can't say it's okay for housing and come up with a moral standard that says everything else can't be stolen.
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I understand that you asking it to be done just for the sake of it, but wouldn't nvidia cards already be able to do the phys-x stuff on their own with better results?
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ADY881 Yeah, good job pulling some words out of context so that I don't even know where I said that - then start splitting hairs. And as a pedestrian, street cars piss me the fuck off because they constantly block crosswalks. Good on you to bring up the "motorist" argument, but I'm someone who takes the subway 99% of the time.
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MrToradragon That's what I was getting at, 12 buses are not enough even for a small city. We have a pretty decent subway system with 3-6 cars depending on the line and weekday, which fits a ton of people and there's always one coming each 3-4 minutes. Yet it's not enough and many people depend on the bus system despite the fact that we're a city with just 600,000 people. >"Problem of wheels on asphalt is friction and resistance which is much lower in case of iron wheels and rails." Friction is actually necessary for the movement and braking of automobiles. I was involved in a tram crash one time, it was raining and the tram was empty so it could not brake (lower normal force with the ground means less friction) and it rammed the car I was in. In racing, they use spoilers and diffusers to increase downforce - this means a higher normal force and therefore more friction. The problem with friction losses are in the drivetrain, which limit the power you can put on the wheels. But friction between wheel and the environment is not lost, it's actually a good thing. It's what propels the vehicle further.
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MrToradragon Rolling resistance is mostly an issue when no torque is applied. This means it's more appropriate for minimizing losses when coasting. Coasting for long distances inside urban areas isn't that great, and in a slope allowing a tram to coast further would result in situations like that crash I talked about. In motor vehicles rolling resistance is not a factor because bearing losses in the drive train and slippage issues are much more important aspects of friction than rolling resistance. An internal combustion engine will always be running, so might as well apply that torque to the wheel rather than coast. Coasting on automobiles is used in slopes where gravity does the work so you're not losing anything from rolling resistance. I see no reason why coasting would be important on an electric automobile either.
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brushcreek42 Actually since posting that I have started to use buses for my commute because the subway is downhill from my workplace and there's a lack of crosswalks in the area. I hate buses, I just have learned to live with their drawbacks. As much as I hate getting stuck in traffic inside a bus, I was once stuck on streetcar because of an incorrectly parked car that stood in the way. I actually had it happen twice but the second time the driver literally rammed (okay, "bumped") the parked car off the road because it only stood a couple inches in our way. Fun times.
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+jdgator95 you think law enforcement doesn't make a profit? Look at the ATF engaging in cigarette smuggling as part of sting operations and keeping the profits. You think public transportation doesn't make a profit? Whoever gets awarded the contracts is profiting.
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caecandy "you could read the writings and theory" depends on who wrote it. If it's not science, I don't care for it.
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caecandy Oh. Hearing about pronouns and "privilege" in an argument rings so many alarm bells, I thought said theory was some ramblings on a tumblr page by someone without any scientific degree. Don't dilute actual science with SJW hogwash. It undermines the credibility and objectiveness of the study.
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"Some places were better in communist days" - not necessarily due to communism being better, but because communism itself left the country crippled and miserable for future generations. I'm also from Europe and many people say we had it better back when we had Fascism. Except it was a lie. Everyone was poorer, everyone was less educated and there's also the disadvantage that if you attempted to live freely the secret police would snatch you. Yes, banks went bankrupt, people lost their jobs etc but back then there was famine and illiteracy. Things are better now, but appear worse. Things were worse then, but nostalgia and the government propaganda made Fascism appealing. Same with communism. Like Putin said, if you don't miss the Soviet Union you have no heart, if you want the Soviet Union back you have no brain.
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+ITmage communism has no good sides.
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look, I hear the same things. But people working blue collar jobs are now able to afford plane tickets and cars. Back in the old days a lot of people working white collar jobs couldn't. What you're seeing is an effect of market economies, commodities produced in relatively competitive markets had their prices plummet and so we can literally buy phones which are pocket computers with cameras, but we're spending more on things like rent because real estate development is stagnating. But that's another topic. There's a problem with "literally everyone having a job" - most likely such jobs were unecessary/inefficient but because keeping people in line with the regime meant hiding the problems under the rug, they still existed. I can go to a construction site and create jobs on the spot - replace every shovel by a plastic spoon, and more people will be necessary to dig. However, was the construction site meant to construct something, or to create jobs? In my effort to create jobs I put a strain on society, the construction will cost more and take longer to build, and that cost will be passed on to society.
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+ITmage "So, i guess China is crippled country? Oh no... its worlds second economy..." The moment I mention the Great Leap Forward you'll switch gears and then claim that China was never in real communism, and that it's state capitalism or some shit. It's a superpower thanks to all the jobs that were outsourced to China. You claim communism is so great because everyone has jobs, look at the jobs they got! Slave sweat shop labour. Thankfully capitalism is pulling China out of the gutter, it's becoming a tech giant, people have more money, in fact standards of living improving has lead to many sweat shops being relocated to Pakistan or Bangladesh because Chinese labour is becoming too expensive. The good things from China are all due to the Communist-in-name-only ruling party opening itself to capitalism, and the bad things stem from government corruption and their authoritarian rule stealing their people's freedoms.
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Thomas Taylor "a day honoring women" - and he called out the lazy white feminists who have the privilege to skip work and "protest" by doing what they do best: not doing their job and expecting to have their demands catered to anyway.
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Save me the armchair psychology, you cannot possibly extrapolate issues with women from criticism to Western white feminism the same way you can't extrapolate that I'm against liberal ideals just because I think Antifa and their antics are fucking retarded.
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+Sam Hyde they probably ship from the factory with carry handles too, and putting an ACOG doesn't change the designation. Also, how can you get away with so many mass shootings, you madman?
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silent ghosts airsoft team which begs the question, if being shot at for real may cause PTSD, why is someone who covered wars doing this story in the first place. I've heard of reenactments and airsoft helping with PTSD, but there's no hard evidence resulting of clinical trials and I doubt he consulted a therapist before going.
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1. The problem is that even according to a conservative viewpoint, a "whore" is only damaging herself/her reputation. A man who sleeps around, according to most if not all society, has damaged all the women he's been with. Male sexuality is inherently seen as predatory and vile. The fact is: most men aren't getting laid causally on a consistent basis, and many men have never had casual sex. It's not a typical male perk because most men can't achieve that situation in the first place. 2. Competition. It's great. Not on a social level. You moved the goalposts of the argument by introducing your workplace analogy - to defend a ridiculous "us vs them" mentality that is poisoning normal, healthy relationships. 3. "This whole video has the attitude that women should be subservient" - despite saying that the word "No." is important? Do you even try? 4. "a women's job is to "civilize man". What a joke." >implying that women aren't what keeps men in place. If there were no women to impress or children to raise, no man would ever go to college and get a great job to impress women and provide a good childhood to his offspring. We'd be all wearing crocs, tan cargo shorts, huge "give me a dollar" beards, drinking beer, farting and watching the game all day.
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Brad Bisinger 1. Again, you're moving the goalposts. Female sexuality is never seen as vile and predatory. Never. Even the people who criticize women's sexuality don't see her as damaging to the men she has sex with. However, men are perverts, creeps and they defile what they touch. It has nothing to do with with aggression or lack of trying. Look at the tropes - even How I Met Your Mother, which actually does a great job of not evidently disrespecting the women Barney sleeps with despite seven seasons of him banging a ton of women. They are victims. They have daddy issues, etc. They're always victims. 2. "the video doesn't make that distinction" - And it wasn't necessary to make it unless you were purposefully trying to find things to be mad about. 3. "men often ARE oppressors of women" - I'm kinda new in this anti-feminism thing but debate me, I'm ready. How are you oppressing women?
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***** it's called greentexting and I use it to make quotations. Makes it easier to read than a block of text when addressing multiple points. I normally don't get bothered with people pathetically trying to call me out of the ">" (because they can't make up a single argument) but I noticed that every single one of you clowns calls it "meme arrows" because they saw it on 9fag or some other crappy website. If you're going to call me out after you've recognized the ">" at least call it the proper name.
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***** then don't call it "meme arrows" outside whatever cesspool of stolen content you picked up that name from. l jess what gender war? I don't see a gender war anywhere. I see a few people lobbying to get more government money and trying to stifle free speech to prevent their feminist racket from being criticized. The fact is that men in average would work less and study less if attracting the opposite gender wasn't an issue. http://econpapers.repec.org/article/ucpjhucap/v_3a2_3ai_3a4_3ay_3a2008_3ap_3a337-378.htm This is not gender warfare. Men want money. Why? Because it gives them the upper hand in the dating pool. 75% of women wouldn't date an unemployed man, only 21% would. http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2753-dating-unemployed-men-women.html Is it gender warfare for a woman to want a provider in case she decides to have children? No. It's pure logic. I am studying engineering. But if I cut all the expenses I could ever have in dating, marriage and raising children, I could just be working a blue collar job right out of highschool and I would be already making money and advancing my career - and I would have enough disposable income to do what I want. And just study engineering as a hobby. Buying some books and not having to spend time and money in college.
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l jess That wasn't exactly my point, because I'm not speaking from a "Men Going Their Own Way" point of view. If by chance someone finds me someone worth spending the rest of her life with, of course that I will overlook the costs of dating, marriage and raising a child. Even if statistically it can bite me in the ass, I would prefer to be economically stable to be able to provide or if needed to have enough savings to be a "stay at home dad" for a few years. But if in a hypothetical situation I had the option to shut down love and procreation at the brain level and never have second thoughts... I'd seriously consider it and drop out, have an adventure. I'm not even worried about "gold diggers". Dating these days is fundamentally broken and I'd rather meet new people on other terms.
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James Line You should tell the media then, stop this myth that we all want walled up borders.
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Ayanle Farah So it's for their own good, huh? Look, there is such a thing as a better life. Would you take a marginally higher wage to live in a country where journalists are executed and left hanging on street signs?
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Ayanle Farah Yeah, protect them from corporations... Look, we live in a world where unions will push for higher minimum wages and then make their workers exempt from minimum wage laws so that the have guaranteed jobs. The "protection" you're talking about breaks the first steps in the economical ladder. That's why people's first jobs are at age 21 and they're serving coffee at Starbucks with a college degree in their hand.
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Ayanle Farah >"I don't think it's fair that somebody works 40 hours a week and still can't afford rent or food for their children" The percentage of people working 40 hours on min wage is extremely low. You also have to take into account that almost half of min wage workers are teens and young adults who live in their parents' house and thus aren't the sole earner. >"I would be glad to skip the first steps in the "economical ladder"" That's a really ignorant thing to say. I assume that you're either a college student or have found labour easily because otherwise you wouldn't say such a thing. You realize that to get to, say, the third step of the economic ladder you need either training or experience. Preferably both. So, when you try to land your first job and they ask you for experience, where do you earn that experience? Working? But there are no lower paying jobs. The bottom two steps of the ladder are missing. This situation plagues Western nations and is the reason why people with college degrees are stuck in dead end jobs.
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Ayanle Farah >"Training to do what? Flipping hamburgers" The guy who's flipping burgers at your local join has a college degree. What now? Are you going to top what he has to offer? >"This conversation was never about requiring experience." Because you make the rules to suit your reality. You can't argue minimum wage if you're going to cherry pick factors to leave out. That's not a debate, that's one-sided propaganda. >"I'm not talking about young individual trying to climb a ladder at his dad's company." Guess what slick, nobody mentioned any of that. If all you can do is cherry pick what you don't want to talk about and Strawman the fuck out of this debate then I know you lost, and you know you lost even though I'm probably not going to hear you admit it. Climbing the economic ladder is now yuppies working for their dads. Fuck this shit.
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Ayanle Farah >"I don't think any restaurant would care for college degrees. Why not try to work with something related to your degree?" All things being equal, if you're paying the same you're going to chose the person most qualified. More than half of people with degrees in the US do not work in the field they studied. Personally college has become a scam but having a degree still pulls some weight and employees take that in consideration. There's people bartending and working as bouncers with degrees. >"I don't think there's much of a economical ladder for a single mother who works at Target" 48.2% of the 3 million people earning min wage are between 16 and 24. That number is only 2.3% of all the wage and salary workers in the US. You're talking about a demographic so small it becomes obvious you're blowing the problem out of proportion. >"I also think that said mother, who's working the hours, should be earning a living wage." Define livable wage. Every place in the world has it's own cost of living. Does this livable wage have to accompany every single fluctuation in cost of living or inflation? Do you realize that by making labour more expensive, prices of goods will increase accordingly therefore undermining the concept of livable wage?
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Ayanle Farah >"Yes, it should be more dynamic." It's a wild goose chase, but I guess "dynamic" makes for better politics. You still missed my point. There is no "standard" for livable wage. Location alone undermines the possibility of drawing up a number and apply it at a federal level. It wouldn't work even at state level. If we're calculating people's wages loosely based on their personal lives (such as adjusting for local cost of living) then it's just another form of welfare that we're forcing employers to pay. You're detaching the wage from the value of one's labour and turning it into charity.
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Ayanle Farah I know what you meant, my point was that there are too many factors to keep track of. It's not a wage at that point, it has so much oversight and control by the government it's welfare. Hence "wild goose chase" - a perpetual game of catching up. >"The minimum wage of $1.60 an hour in 1968 would be $10.90 today when adjusted for inflation according to the Bureau of Labor" And mid-60's to mid-70's was a period of great economic expansion (above 4% GDP growth, with 67 or 68 achieving 5% growth) while the last few years were kind of shitty. You're literally comparing a golden age to a post-crisis period. >"But not trying to do anything and staying with the status quo doesn't seem like an appealing alternative to me at all." So it's the "we gotta do something" fallacy all over again, fuck what's being actually done, or the rationale behind it, or the results. It's just doing that matters. My point is that the idea has to make sense, when we can't even define what the living wage even is! Challenging the status quo? Please, your hypothetical single mother working at Target is going to climb the corporate ladder (not the economic one) as a result of getting a few extra bucks/hour? How the hell will it challenge status quo? Millionaires who employ small numbers of workers are for minimum wage hikes - they pay their experienced and qualified workers more already so they don't get affected, while their competition that relied on minimum wage workers is forced to either cut personnel or raise prices which makes them lose market share. I'm not sure sure of what the store is because I'm not American, but they're like wholesalers and most of their workers are highly qualified because they need to operate forklifts, etc and they'd love to see the Walmarts and Targets dying. If anything it reinforces the status quo, it puts experience and qualifications on a pedestal, the older people keep their jobs by pricing the younger workers out of the line of work. >"You use a lot of loaded words such as charity and welfare. People are still putting in work since it's hourly pay." What for? It would actually be easier to just pay everyone a livable wage. Minimum wage jobs would be unpaid and every other job would get a pay cut - ie if a doctor is making 50 bucks an hour and the livable wage is 15, he now gets paid 35 because he's getting 15 from the government. That's what I'm getting at when calling it welfare. It's a system, and a government controlled one at that, rather than spontaneous trade relations between employer and employee. Your worldview is kind of simplistic, isn't it? If they're working 7 bucks worth of labour per hour and getting 10, those three extra bucks are charity. Just putting in the work doesn't automatically make every cent worth it. Example: I never got any money for doing chores but there's families that do that. Those kids get more money than their labour was worth - it's their allowance and whatnot. Making a bed, washing some dishes and putting the clothes on the drier can be considered "putting in the work" but the reward for it is greater than the value of the labour. Just because there was work involved doesn't mean every cent was deserved.
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***** Sanders will drive America into further trillions and trillions of debt, even the progressive/liberal side is saying his economic plan comes from Neverland.
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+Jay West I don't see how capitalism "requires" open borders. If the borders are controlled to verify who is getting in and limiting visas, people are prevented from entering willy nilly but the businesses can 1) use visas to coerce foreigners into working for less than nationals (corporations like Intel bring Indian engineers to work for them for half the price of an American one, and they can't complain or their visa expires and they're legally required to go back); 2) outsource labour. In theory a perfectly capitalist aka completely free market would happen in a place freedom of travel is least infringed on. But it's not strickly necessary. The problem with your argument is that it exposes socialism to the "socialism always runs out of other people's money" meme. Socialism can't work because everyone will try to get it and benefit from it without giving back? Why is that concept true to people coming in externally, but not true to the natives to that country? A lot of people will exploit the system and not give anything back internally. But somehow immigration will be the problem? I mean the whole point of socialism is dismantling profits and private property. If socialism works so great, it should be able to deal with an influx of people from all over the world. Socialists claim that their planning allocates resources better than capitalism. No matter how many come in everyone will have jobs, houses, etc. What gives? It is xenophobia. Because the "common sense" argument essentially defeats socialism at the theoretical level.
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Lonewolf6565 >"Superior technology means little when you can swarm it with thousands of lesser" Not applicable. China also has a large army so they are incapable of breaking down into guerrilla tactics. They're also fairly high tech and dependent on those technologies which are surpassed by the US's. It's sort of a game of extremes. If you want to defeat the US you have to give up electronic communications and go back to more outdated methods, keep radar anti-air weapons turn off or stealth bombers will fire radar-seeking missiles, etc. A swarm would be scary and prove costly to the US armed forces, but swarm tactics are very inefficient in this day and age. The only thing that could subvert US military capabilities is guerrilla tactics.
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***** Actually, he's right. The US can easily defeat a nation state. You can only fight the US when you aren't an organized military with bases and supply lines but a determined guerrilla that can be anywhere, fight anywhere, hide anywhere. A loss is a loss, but China would need to be successfully invaded by the US, what's left of their military to regroup and go underground, etc to fight in the same conditions as the Vietcong or the Taliban.
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How many libertarians supported the Bundy Ranch standoff? The homesteading principle, one of the basic theories of anarchy, was what gave Bundy a more legitimate ownership over the land than the gubment. The protesters were armed. Social anarchy? 90% of the libertarian literature was written by anarchists. Before you point your finger at them, realize that 90% of the population thinks of libertarians what you just described - racist gun tooting anti government terrorists that need to be shipped off to Somalia to enjoy lack of government.
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Kizone Kaprow Incorrect. It's targeted at libertarians but you don't even know what it's about.
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Kizone Kaprow So basically you are saying that libertarians are for less gun regulation so they can blast critters or something entirely pacifist. It's definitely not to remove the monopoly of force out of the hands of the government or anything.
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connor vinas 1) The consent of the governed is implied. You are born into the social contract, which you can't opt out from, and revoking your citizenship would bring many hardships for the average person. It's like being victim of a shotgun wedding to an abuser, please use your political theory to explain how that is justified. 2) I was talking about wars, I am sure most people in foreign countries didn't consent to the US's monopoly on force.
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Andrew Gooding So does that mean that the US is a terrorist state or not? According to your definition it is. I just want to hread you call the US "terrorist" or backpedal. I am satisfied with either answer.
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Gavlick Apthesycerski >"no its their actions are what makes them terrorists" No, it was making people scared. Because according to your definition, the militia didn't have to do shit as long as people were afraid, that was very beneficial to you. >"I mean who is actually afraid of gay, they may hate them but they aren't scared of them" Always heard hate was a manifestation of fear, turns out it isn't when it's politically suitable. >"And only stupid bigots are afraid of Mexicans" I thought you'd agree that half of Americans are bigots, apparently America is the best country in the world as long as you have to backpedal from previous statements. >"A bunch or anti federalist people in a "militia" that consisted of Timothy McVeigh at one point" You're really making him to be some sort of honorary member. I'm pretty sure it consisted on more than one person, and no I didn't "get what you mean" because when you claim that the militia consisted of Timothy McVeigh you're pretty much saying he was running the show. Again, if a Staples employee blows up a government building, is Staples a terrorist organization?
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HumanRights4Everyone So you read my critique of the social contract and misread the part where I compared it to a shotgun wedding to an abuser?
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+Lord Zephyros walmarts that still sell guns are gun stores. They're FFL owning, honest to god gun stores. With a wallmart attached. If your local gun store decided that it should become a grocery store too what's the issue? The gun sales still have to go through the FFL. Or you're one of those people who think guns should only be sold in seedy basement shops like in GTA IV?
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+Anal Prolapse In My Bum When I'm Filled With Cum By Onii-Chan And His Friends While I'm A Cumdump "irony" is the use of speech with a meaning opposite of the intended.
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If you need to be armed to provide help, maybe you shouldn't be there in the first place. But I digress. This isn't just what we might think, it's what they might think. Who's to say we're able to convince them it's not an occupation and it's not politically driven? Some aid workers were attacked because some people think our doctors and nurses are the ones to blame for Ebola. Many still believe in witch doctors. So no matter our opinions on it, not everyone will be happy over there.
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Okay. But doesn't that sound like we're going to resort to displays of force? Come on, people will feel there's an aggression and if they only "behave" when under an implied threat then let those countries' militaries oppress their own folks, no need to bring America into that kind of dirty work.
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Ike Evans If you need to protect yourself (in the context of international relationships) then you shouldn't be there. Whatever a government asks you that leads the people to be hostile, by accepting the invitation you are getting caught up in government-populace attrition. And if there's a danger of attack, then you can't claim we're in a position to help. Another issue is that of course it will be the taxpayer footing the bill.
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Ike Evans Thanks for misinterpreting my argument. Of course I support carry rights and the right to protect yourself. But does an intruder have the right to carry arms in (say) your home? Does he have the right to defend himself if you try to stop him? By going abroad, you're the outsider. You don't have the right to defend yourself in other's land. >"Because of the military, conflict will be less likely, not more" Except both contemporary and historical evidence say the opposite. You can't apply "good guy with a gun" logic to a situation of military intervention. Military intervention leads to conflict. The longer the US stayed in Afghanistan, the more people were willing to join the Taliban. Heck, Afghanistan asked for the Soviet Union to intervene and pacify the country. What happened? Rebellion. Then the US supported the Mujaheddin against the Soviets. More outside intervention - what did it lead to? Civil war. What did American and Pakistan intelligence do to stop it? Create the Taliban and send them to rule Afghanistan. Do you understand that for every action there is a reaction? By sending the military, even with the approval of local governments, you are automatically picking the government side, It just may happen that people don't like it. Even if conflict doesn't happen initially at one point the military will leave and then what? >"Meanwhile the doctors can get around to not only saving the lives of thousands of people in Africa" You can only be healed if you consent. Thanks to the bastards who spread around rumours that white people created Ebola and other beliefs stemming from religion or tribal traditions, more lives will be saved by allowing the people from Africa to provide security and everything else is needed to get the people who do consent to be treated away from those who don't. The more outsiders we send there, the more it becomes neo-colonialism and the harder it becomes for treatments to be administered. >"but also preventing a further outbreak that could pose a threat to our own national security later on" Or we could be sending American citizens to be unnecessarily killed or infected and start an actual outbreak on US soil. Didn't the origins of Libertarianism make it pretty clear that getting involved in other countries' bullshit is wrong and costly?
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Ike Evans >"First, we are not invading thses countries. We are there with the permission of the existing governments of those regions." 1. Like the locals give a damn. Would you enjoy the Chinese or the UN being all up in your shit at the invitation of the US government? 2. Again, their governments are not to be trusted and for all we know pre-deployment, it's possible for military presence to cause a rift between government and populace. Are you on the side of the people or the side of the government? 3. It will still be the US taxpayer footing the bill. >"Second, the military doesn't always lead to more violence, especially when the mission is peace keeping in nature. " Afghanistan and Iraq are really peaceful now. >"He said, "the military showed up and everyone stopped fighting."" Because the fighting had already started. If you arrive at a tense but peaceful situation with a foreign military force you release the tension into violence. The Balkan situation was a far cry from an African Ebola outbreak. >"My point is that after the invasion was complete, whatever measures of peace was attained was the result of the us military presence, no despite it" Except there wasn't real peace. Were insurgent/taliban activities suppressed during the invasions in the middle east? Sure. Did it cause the number of people willing to join to drop? No. Did it prevent them from simply rolling back and gaining the control they were losing? No. Which leads me to the next point: >"nothing is happening" Hindsight is 20/20. It could have just as well resulted in a shitstorm and for all we know the US might be using this as a bargain tool for African resources (not necessarily for the US but as favours for other countries) or strengthening America's foothold in the continent. What if it causes a shitstorm when the US leaves? Maybe not getting involved was the best option to begin with. >"We have our guys over there providing security for the doctors while they save lives" Africa has soldiers and guns, you know? Why does it have to be the Americans? If the doctors need protection, does it mean the doctors are wanted there? This neo-colonialism thing got old really fast.
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Ike Evans >"The US is not trying to colonize Africa." 1. Neo-colonialism has the prefix "neo" for a reason. Both France and the US are known offenders. 2. Tell that to the locals who the doctors need protection from. Doesn't matter if it's not true as long as enough people believe it. "Yes, we are footing the bill. But there are two things to keep in mind. 1) We are saving potentially thousands of lives." No such thing as a free lunch. How many will die from whatever the US demands as trade for the help? Can you prove that if someone else did exactly the same thing more people would die? If lives need saving, non-governmental agencies should run the show. I don't trust them more than the government, but the least involvement the better. >"2) The cost of sending troops (peacefully) over there will cost pennies on the dollar compared to the amount of money we have to spend if the outbreak crosses into our borders because we didn't deal with it in Africa." Like we had to deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam in Iraq. They might spread over. Fearmongering BS is BS. Sending Americans to become in contact with the disease sounds riskier than not getting involved at all. Higher cost on your own borders is morally superior to cheaper - but by intervening militarily.
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Ike Evans >"The US has really no meaningful trade interest with Africa. But even if it did, trade would only be good for Africa." Like I said, ease of deployment in Africa or trade with US allies (the US wouldn't get the resources, that would be too obvious) is a big deal. Southwestern Europe is dependent on African natural gas. And no, major powers exploiting corrupt governments is never good for Africa. Jesus, look at the historical evidence supporting what I just said. >"the military's mission is to protect doctors while they save lives" If doctors need protection, are they in the right place to begin with? Plenty of countries have military forces in addition to police. Why the US? What right do we have to perform acts of aggression/invasion in the name of the "greater good"? That's liberal BS.
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The cops who herd the sex offenders are to perform traffic duty, not the sex offenders. Obvious troll is obvious.
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In Syria, etc they're using StG44's from the former Yugoslavia with Serbian made 7.92x33 ammo. If they can get such an "outdated", specific ammunition that's only made by one factory, they certainly can get 5.56 NATO.
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S C 5.56 "NATO" as in the caliber, which is called 5.56 NATO, not 5.56 NATO as in the STANAG 4172 standard. You can manufacture it to the 5.56 case specs, ie it's not .223 Rem, and never be meant to be used by a NATO country.
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Larry Burke Technology isn't cheap and requires highly-skilled upkeep by engineers/technicians. It never gets sick or late but it does glitch break down. It's not always cheaper than manual labour. This "fix" you speak of is either trying to stop the tide with a fishing net or it involves legalized aggression.
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Vankai >"Defending everything your country does is supporting it.... i was 16 when 9/11 happened. I remember thinking it was odd Americans wanted to go after Saddam Hussein.. it made no sense.. yet they all did." The government lied. If today you ask Americans about Iraq, they'll say it was a mistake. Back then, they believed in the government. Your logic is like blaming Germans for the Holocaust. >"And i hope u dont think those crazed militias in the forest are the answer to your poblems? These were the same people that LOVED Bush and the Govt then. These were the same ones that supported troops going overseas, yet they suddenly spew all this anti Govt crap when Obama or whoever else they dont like is in power..." And remember when the left wing was itching to uncover Bush's skeletons in the closet, but look the other way now that one of their own is in power? Leftists actually celebrate Obama ordering the murder of an old, almost disabled former terrorist who was kept in hiding by Pakistani intelligence! It was a symbolic victory, and it involved Navy SEALs shooting at an unarmed old man.
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But can the government staple your lips shut before you enter? No. You are only punished after the fact, and if you cause damages. Yelling fire is not an exception yo the First Amendment. You can say it. But you can't use the 1A as a defense in court. Your false equivalence would be like claiming that you support the 2A but you're against murder. Nowhere in the 2A does it say you have the right to murder anyone, just like the 1A won't save you if you commit slander and you get sued.
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Daniel Uoeno Look, nobody said having rights wouldn't let assholes get away with being assholes. You can use freedom of speech to tell offensive jokes, which can be 100% offensive and 0% funny, but until it causes damages it's a right. Having the right to not be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures lets a lot of pedophiles get away with their actions, too. People misuse things they are legally entitled to have. Booze, cars, etc. Are you pointing the finger at drinking laws and the booze manufacturers for allowing people to misuse booze?
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James Sarvan >"Who says you need psychriatic help? But even if you do it's like 10 dollars a session so yeah.... I think my wallet could handle it." Physiotherapy! You know, usually bullets break bones and tear into flesh. Even if a hospital patches you up, if you don't heal properly you can permanently lose motor functions because the muscle tissue got mangled. >"You can get sick leave from a job for as long as you need too with 80% of your salery, so i'ts not that big of a deal, I'm sure I could survive on that." So you're forcing someone, who had no fault in the shooting, to pay for you to sit at home and do nothing. Doesn't sound fair. Also, I'm pretty sure every country has a limit on sick leave. Wanna get shot and see if you can heal faster than the money runs our? PROTIP: Don't. >"And if I would not have a job the goverment would pay for my appartment, food, clothes and all the medicine I need anyways." Okay, now you're making it sound like it's great to get shot, because I do want to have a paid house, food and clothing without having to work like everyone else. You'd be forcing everyone, from doctors to fast food workers to street sweepers to pay for you to do nothing while they contribute to society. >"You should never have to worry about that when you get injured." So if you're a reckless asshole who goes 200km/h with his car, you shouldn't have to worry about the consequences of your actions if you slam into a wall.
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James Sarvan >"Not an excuse to not know a word? Eh, yes it is? I guess you are a better english speaker than me then? That doesn't make me wrong in any way regarding my facts..." It means that you can't use it as an excuse because we are in equal footing. >"I have never seen a swedish beggar since you can get money from the state to be able to afford a place to live and the bare minimum necessitys. It is not a glamorous life, but better than the street. So why would you beg if you can always get help from the state if things went to shit?" So you're saying the government never fails and never makes mistakes? You're making the claim there's no Swedish beggars, you have the burden of proof. Just because you've never seen one it doesn't prove anything. >"In the US you can't even trust the fucking police... When even the police can beat you up or shoot you when you have done nothing wrong... Then you know it's bad." I'm not from the US - I don't trust the police ANYWHERE in the world. Ever seen shows like Banged Up Abroad? Corruption amongst the police forces exists everywhere and I would never gamble with any police force. I have a friend who lived in Boston, and the only time he was a victim of police brutality was when he went to a protest in Montreal, Canada.
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James Sarvan >"But I went to america for 2 weeks and saw more beggars than I have seen in my entire life, anywhere in europe" Come to Portugal, then. >"If you would live here and meet swedish police you would probably trust the police more" Why? They're an organized gang that enforces whatever the government wants.
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James Sarvan >"If you have a pretty nice goverment and very nice cops, then you have no reason to dislike them really" What good is a nice cop, if a nice cop will arrest me for laws nice governments make? If a corporation tried to make you pay for services you didn't use, they'd be assholes, but governments pass a law and if you don't pay your taxes, the nice cops will arrest you. All governments force you into a social contract you can't opt out of, give you a number when you are born, just like you were cattle. And they use that number as proof you are collateral so that the government can acquire debt, and you work to pay it off.
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James Sarvan No, that's what you call a society. Accepting state coercion and it's monopoly on force is nowhere near civilized, no matter how many times we lie to ourselves. What's different about the woods? You can live in peace if you "squat" on public land, but buy yourself a house so it becomes your private property and you aren't allowed the right to be left alone?
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James Sarvan And I bet that the peasants also thought the same of monarchy, or even feudalism. Ever were in History class wondering why people didn't just flee from the abuse and taxes they were subjected to? Same reason none of us haven't.
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King D I just pretty much said that it's impossible to run from state violence, and you seem to be implying that I'm defending the US, one of the most violent states on Earth? It doesn't bother me that you're dumb enough to have posted that comment, I'm just astonished that someone read it and agreed with it enough to give you a thumbs up.
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James Sarvan No, I didn't. Exposing the facts doesn't mean I support anything. Fact: the Nazi scientists were the first to link smoking to lung cancer. Does that mean I support Nazism? The king/feudal lord also kept the money to repair roads, give people "bread and circus", etc. And today you're still being fooled by the bread and circus (the promises of benefits). Feudal lords would literally own the windmill and charge you to use it. You're just like a peasant claiming that if not for the feudal lord, there would be no roads or windmills to make flour with. >"So what would you flee to? Dying alone in the woods?" Remember when you were in history class wondering why monarchies lasted more than a day when the peasants could unite and fight back/flee? Because of people like you.
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James Sarvan How is it a conspiracy theory? No conspiracy elements involved. Either you're resorting to buzzwords or you're using words that don't mean what you think they mean. >"Maybe it's the other way around. You wonder why we have problems in society. Maybe it's because of people like you that hate society and don't wanna help?" You're thrown in prison if you don't "help", and you get shot dead if you refuse. You have our "help" because we are forced to work for free a certain percentage of the month (which is usually called "slavery"), so how could you blame us for not helping when if we weren't, we'd be in prison or under ground?
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James Sarvan Try to stop paying taxes, and after they send their final notices try to defend yourself when the cops try to kidnap you. You'll see what society you live in.
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James Sarvan Why are you moving the goalposts? You seem to be implying that I have a misguided view of society, and I am inviting you to try tasting the leather of the jackboot of society when you don't play by it's rules. Not because you agree, but because you don't believe me.
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James Sarvan Sorry, but if you never signed a contract and you need to pay taxes, they're being collected without your consent. Usually, things without your consent are criminal activities. If you've accepted the conditions it's fine, but those conditions have applied to you before you were 18 and therefore able to sign a contract.
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By that logic a jet airliner's turbines could be driven by the compressed air alone, with minimal burning of fuel just to compensate for friction losses. Or a thermoelectric powerplant could skip the gas/coal burning and have the turbine run on water pressurized by the pump, rather than steam. On a "T,s" graph the more "area" under the transformations the more work it produces. An adiabatic expansion of compressed air at near outside temperature would produce almost no work at the turbine. The objective is that the turbine outputs more work than you input at the compressing stage, that's why you need hot exhaust gas. Basically, the compressor stage and turbine stage would cancel each other, which means it would be better to have a naturally aspirated engine in the first place.
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CJSchecter96 making a hybrid whose target audience is the people who like hybrids the least is a good way to piss off shareholders. That's why. For starters I doubt it would appeal to those who like NA engines, they'd sooner get a turbo than electric. A "car guy" who actually needs the low end torque is probably the same kind of person who wouldn't want the weight of batteries holding back his car.
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+pepelapiu2004 actually the studies that proved that were plagued with reverse causation. If you get shot, you were X times more likely that you had a gun, because the studies tracked people who got shot, not gun owners and waited for them to get shot (because statistically that doesn't happen). The opposite isn't true, owning a gun doesn't make you X time more likely to get shot. Another problem is that if you live in a bad area that means you're more likely to get shot, you're more likely to get a gun. Therefore buying a gun has no bearing on how likely you are to get shot, but your likelihood of getting shot might push you into buying a gun.
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+James Jones well a turbo does convert energy into mechanical work that would otherwise be wasted, that's efficiency right there. Higher intake pressures mean better atomization of the fuel particles and improves the burn characteristics of the fuel/air mixture, which means less unburnt fuel, thus a leaner mix can be used to extract the same power. That equals gas savings. This is all theoretical knowledge I got in college (mechanical engineering), but I'm scratching my head and all the engines best known for their gas mileage in the city are turbocharged diesels.
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CoffeeStained I'm going to bring an argument from your camp, which is the fact that armor isn't worn over a naked body. A hard hit would need either to pierce the armor or deform it to the point of caving in, otherwise the blow would still be spread over a large area.
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CoffeeStained No, it would be spread through the whole plate. You know, a strike can't really rip through matter at a molecular level, so unless the plate is pierced or dented the whole plate transmits the shock to whatever padding is underneath and then to the torso. >"the sternum is a relatively weak spot, and needs MORE protection." Then wouldn't logic dictate that during forging the armorer could leave that part thicker? I mean, that's the kind of thing that is controlled during manufacturing. >"cups in the breastplate added no benefit while adding considerable work to manufacture" Well, but that's not the point. The point is that this meme that "boob plate would be lethal to the wearer" is fucking bullshit. The first time I actually saw it people were saying that if you trip and fell the armor would pierce into the heart. Overly dramatic nonsense.
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CoffeeStained Wavy cans are not pressurized. Cans that are pressurized, like soda cans, don't need the reinforcement because the pressure itself strengthens the can. It's easier to dent a can from the side because if you try to dent from the top you're trying to counter the whole height of the can - when denting from the side there's only the thickness of the can to resist the force. Same principle as I-beams, you apply force to the tops and bottoms because the height of the web supports the load. From the sides, the web is too thin. Nevertheless a wavy side is harder to dent than a straight side, not just due to the structure itself but also due to work hardening (not applicable to hot forging). >"is in the prime location to damage the sternum by folding in on itself when hit" The same strike would dent or pierce a normal plate. Getting a plate to fold on itself requires a ton of force. >"It's riskier for this crease to hit the sternum than a flat plate to dent slightly inward." Yeah, a slight dent on a flat plate isn't equivalent to a crease to fold on itself, we're talking about a lot more force in the latter. Not to mention that the buckling and strapping itself would carry some of the loading, as the armor would pull itself apart on the ends by virtue of collapsing at the middle. There's also pretty deep creases in male muscle cuirass but I've never heard of people complaining about it.
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CoffeeStained Are you fucking kidding me? Deformation and rupture of materials is determined by the yield and ultimate strength. Stress is measured in the same unit as pressure. Since I use metric, I typically use MPa or N/mm^2. Even in a universe where physics were different and pressure wasn't related to stress, the fact is that the grooves are strong points and not weak points. >"Which REALLY supports the reason to not have a preexisting fold there in the first place." That's ridiculous. Whenever you release stress on metal it will not be stressed. Stressing it again has to start from the beginning, it doesn't create a "stepping stone". If you need 400 MPa to enter plastic deformation, the preexisting fold will not lower this limit. Now, I am speaking generally but there are indeed factors such as work hardening (the fold making the yield strength increase) or hysteresis (reduces yield strength as opposite stresses are applied). However these are cold forming processes and forging a plate is typically done when hot. Virtually everything you are saying is incorrect from an engineering standpoint. >"Structural physics tends to disagree with you." You mean the same field that for centuries used curved and domed shapes to better support loads? My point isn't that it's stronger, my point is that it's not the lethal weak spot people have made it to be. People talked out of their ass to react to boobplate, turns out they were full of shit. Move on.
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+WeirdestWolf because if there's a reason to have a smart gun, then it should be locked away.
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Let's break it down - if it has the RFID method, which is arguably the quickest, it's sensitive to hacking or even having the solenoid manipulated by a magnet which automatically makes it unsuitable to secure a gun. If it's a biometric scanner, it will be slowed down by cuts or dirt in the skin altering the fingerprints. It's not any more secure than a mechanical safety. It prevents unauthorized use but if I'm in a situation I actually need a gun, the situation has gone so wrong I might actually need an unauthorized person to access the gun for me and save me - while a code-base system can be transmitted easily, programming a new user into the gun isn't. It makes total sense that a lockbox not only serves as a much more secure system (unless the child plays with angle grinders or oxy torches a lot) but it also doesn't suffer from the pitfalls of biometric scanners being slow and requiring multiple attempts nor RFID's sensitivity to being hacked/jammed. The only possible situation where I would agree with a "smart gun" would be guns hidden under tables/inside cabinets with a magnet holding them in place. But then I would argue something like a Zore lock to be a superior choice, or that if you're leaving guns around the house you might as well just home-carry and maintain control over it at all times.
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The solenoid is a better option than electric motor driving the locking piece. Either way, it still relies on a mechanical safety - aka the thing we're all told not to rely on. This isn't about hacking someone's specific gun. Just the fact that if people start using smart guns, some tech-savvy people will start making money by selling criminals something that jams signals or overpowers the sensors with noise, aka an electronic gizmo that "creates a gun free zone"around you. Hacking your specific gun? That's far fetched. But the option to protect you from smart guns? If you could pay a few bucks for that technology wouldn't you wear it during robberies? "Biometrics is good enough on phones" well I don't consider them good enough so I never use my biometric lock, second they're a massive security breach and everyone using biometrics on their phones and laptops is being stupid. There have been fingerprint database leaks, it's been proven that hackers can steal fingerprints off high res photos, and for the civil-liberty-conscious people having a biometric phone lock means the authorities can easily enter your devices. But I digress. They're considered "good enough" because even if you need to call 911, having to try two or three times is no big deal. But if you need a gun and it goes "click" because the biometric scanner failed , you might not get another chance. "And what situation are you gonna be in where someone else needs to unlock their gun for you to use? And how likely is that to happen?" How likely is it going to be that I'll need a gun? Very unlikely. You're asking me to consider a worst case scenario, but then asking me to think a home invasion will go smoothly under controlled conditions. There won't be any blood or sweat, I will not get injured, etc. And by the way, there are several news stories of underage kids being able to retrieve parent's guns and win gunfights versus career criminals. So it's not that far fetched that an unauthorized user may need to use the gun. "then why go through the bother of harassing and sending death threats to the manufacturers?" And where the fuck have I defended the threats? Why are you asking me that question?
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There are kinder eggs in the United States. It's not FDA approved for consumption but it's not illegal to be in possession of them.
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phreak761 honestly it would be funny if the FDA wasn't such a fail. Either way, you can buy Kinder eggs in the US. And eat them.
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phreak761 There's a meme going around that Kinger eggs were banned to protect children, therefore guns should be. The premise isn't true.
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It makes sense, because people have grown tired of their antics and now they've gone full Trump rather than going moderate.
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Cory Mck Sorry for the anecdotal evidence, but I follow TheYankeeMarshal, who runs a gun-related channel whose claim to fame was the fact that the guy is a gun-owning liberal and doesn't spew the usual right wing rhetoric ("HURR KING OBUMMER CLOSES DOWN LEAD SMELTER TO CUT ACCESS TO BULLETS DURR" - that type of stuff). Due to the fact that Hillary is the Democrat candidate he's going to vote Trump. They're pretty bad on almost every issue (ie it's not just a "single issue vote"), so if it comes to the gun issue Trump is preferable to him than Hillary. Notice how you've changed the goalposts. "And how is it the lefts "fault" that people vote Trump?" became "if a person supports Trump, I find it hard to believe they were ever left" - you didn't ask about the left being converted, but you introduced it as part of the argument. Another issue is that a moderate Republican is still a moderate - you're probably speaking like if a moderate is someone perfectly on the center. If a moderate Republican with pretty much no horse in the race is exposed to the insanity that is played on TV, that person will be open to the "make America great again" rhetoric. I'm no Trump supporter, but I definitely agree with the notion that the left is alienating people. It sure as hell alienated me, I grew up pretty left-leaning but I cannot support the constant contradictions.
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Cory Mck >"If you vote for Trump because you agree on some particular issues than you aren't "left"" That's ridiculous. Both Hillary and Trump have horrendous track records, for him the score was tied so gun control was the decisive factor. It wasn't a matter of agreeing with Trump, it was a matter of being impossible to agree with both. Hillary isn't left either, because the Democrat party isn't left on a "true" political spectrum, it's a relative left. But then we're talking about someone who's atheist and openly anti-theist, pro-choice, thinks healthcare is a human right (ie doesn't subscribe to the positive/negative rights theory), etc which would make him a purely American Democrat, the "relative left". It's the convention that makes sense for America, last time I checked President Obama sat around halfway through the "right" side of the "true" spectrum. If you mean "left" as in someone whose political opinions are Rage Against The Machine lyrics, the argument stops making sense in America's political landscape. >"But if you support trumps ideas or support Trump in spite of them, you would not be left wing." But that's a No True Scotsman. If one is able to concilie his islamophobic policies with border security during war, accept that his anti-Mexican views are put in practice by Democrats as well (3.5 million deported during the current administration), etc that's half the arsenal the mainstream media throws at him. His plan to fix healthcare sounds better than Obamacare. It's not hard to agree with Trump. Almost no politician has a true principled approach, both Democrats and Republicans do not fight for what is right, they fight for what they want. From the standpoint that both sides lack principles, most of what Trump says he's going to do can and has been "translated" by the Democrats so they could apply it. Heck, they took a scheme to line the pockets of insurance companies and passed it off as a bleeding heart socialist healthcare program. That was true right-wing corporatism and they were able to make it look like it was leftist. >"How did I move the goalpost? I don't understand." It was about how the left was responsible for Trump's success, and then you made the argument about people switching from the left to Trump's side. Totally different things. >"Moderates normally exist between liberal and conservative, but that is a technicality. I said I don't believe anyone could be moderate and vote for Trump, but that is based on Trump, not the definition of moderate. Trump is very far right." But the definition of moderate is very important, because you're taking the absolute "centerpoint" definition of moderate when in real life moderates exist in a spectrum. A republican moderate will side with either (there are conservatives who will be voting Hillary, I have to congratulate her for the internet shilling her campaign has been doing) and there's nothing extraordinary about a moderate republican siding with a republican candidate. >"And lastly, I still don't see how liberals using facist is the reason that people don't realize Trump fits the definition. Many people are just willing to accept him regardless of his thought, actions, or history." Did you watch the video? Then don't claim Trump fits the definition. He wants 11 million hispanics deported - current administration deported 3.5 million. The current administration stood for more war, more imperialism, more warrantless spying, more loss of civil liberties, etc - if Trump fits the definition then everyone does, I mean, economic growth through warfare and expansionism was literally one of the fascist ideals. The Democrats that pretend to be for capitalism and the ones who claim they want to regulate it are in fact just people who are obeying their lobbyists and passing corporatist legislation - just like the Nazis helped out their industrial and banking friends while fucking over the businesses owned by people they didn't like. Calling everyone a fascist watered down the insult. Calling Trump a fascist when his beliefs are as American as apple pie just doesn't have any effect because people have stopped listening. It's like being called racist by BLM or sexist by a bunch of feminists - the vast majority of people already thinks they're out of their mind and will sympathize with the accused rather than with the accuser.
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Cory Mck >"It wasn't a no true Scotsman argument at all. Society has clearly defined what is considered socially and economically "left v right" wing policies & opinions. I never said 1 was right and the other was wrong." It is a no true scotsman. For example, like claiming that a true communist wouldn't vote Hillary. I bet you'll find tons of people, even from the anarchist spectrum, who will waste no time in telling you to vote Hillary solely so that Trump doesn't win. >"you first comment was about people switching from the left to Trump" Nope. "_It makes sense, because people have grown tired of their antics and now they've gone full Trump rather than going moderate._" You were the first to bring that one up. >"Why are you using the current administration as an argument? It doesn't relate to my comment." Because reality cannot be denied. Anything bad Trump has said, the "American left" has done it already. Heck, complain about the patron saint FDR for the Japanese internment camps, and sometimes they'll actually try to justify it. The cognitive dissonance is in all of us. It does relate to your comment because by your own standards those who voted for Obama or defend the current President are involved with political moves that are very Trump-like. By your own standards, people who voted for a Democrat candidate cannot be on the left because they've supported policies that Trump wants. >"how are his beliefs American?" Loud and obnoxious. Can't get more American than that. >"One of the more diverse modern countries in the world. Fighting for segregation." You mean like it did before Civil Rights became popular? >"And most importantly, address my comment or don't comment, I never made any of the arguments that you tried citing me for." I cited what I cited, if I didn't cite it then I didn't try to cite you for them. Try saying that three times fast.
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My post: "It makes sense, because people have grown tired of their antics and now they've gone full Trump rather than going moderate." Your post: "if a person supports Trump, I find it hard to believe they were ever left or even close to moderate." You were the one who brought it up first. Not me. I quoted myself to show you that I didn't mention it first. Either you wanted a cop out and it failed, or you genuinely need to learn how the commenting system works.
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Cory Mck So to you "moderate" = "leftist"? If you just wanted to excuse yourself you could just say it, no need to make up bullshit.
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Cory Mck Okay. Read the comments yourself, that way it's not me "accusing" you of anything or putting words on your mouth. Copy paste what we said if we need to, and tell me I was the one bringing up the "leftists voting for trump" argument first.
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+TheBod76 "so it is hard to adapt if precision matters" "unless you allways have the time to do the exact math or carry a calculator with you all the time" These two clauses are presented in a single phrase and you see nothing wrong with it? If precision matters, of course you use a calculator. You make precision calculations from the top of your head? Jesus Christ, every modern Windows computer comes with a scientific mode for the calculator and there's Ti-83/84 emulators for Android. If it's really such a chore to bring a calculator, are you really making the argument that a computer or cellphone are hard to find?
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Sorry, was that sarcasm? Because 3x30=90. It doesn't take a calculator. If you make precision calculations off your head, then they aren't being precise hence it's not a precision calculation. Of course that the ºC to K conversion is easy, the scale is the same but one is relative to the absolute zero. Same goes for Fahrenheit and Rankine. If I see that it's going to be 104ºF in Tucson, Arizona I know that's hot, I don't need a Celsius conversion. Now, if I need to design an A/C unit that is going to have to handle the Arizona summer, I'll bring a calculator because it's my job and I'm not going to do it from the top of my head. Your point is impossible to get, because you're simultaneously arguing for precision while wanting it to be achieved without precision tools. Basically in everyday situations a normal person can learn to use both scales if conversion is hard (if you're picking clothes for the day you don't need the exact temperature because it's going to fluctuate anyway), if you're a pilot/scientist/engineer/whatever you shouldn't be trying to do a precision job without resorting to the proper tools. A Ti-83 costs about 100 bucks on any electronics/office supplies store and a ton of people buy them for highschool and college so you should have your own by now. If you don't, so many people get them that you can find them cheap used. If computers or cellphones to emulate the Ti software are so rare where you live, I'm sorry that you live in the third world.
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"Honda didn't spend all the time, money, and effort designing, developing, and engineering these rather special cars for them to sit around" - no, they did it for profit, most likely. Even if for whatever reason they took a loss on this model, the marketing more than paid it off. ""Hen's teeth" are supposedly pretty-rare too, but I wouldn't pay $125k for one of those, either." - but it's not you who decides market value, the market does. I wouldn't pay for a car I wouldn't want even if I had the money for it, but someone somewhere has the money and the intent to buy it.
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+John Voltz that's not true at all, it's simply the market responding to supply and demand. Rich people aren't gatekeeping anything. A "worthless" Ferrari demanding 50k (I've actually looked it up and apparently some have been found for 25k but that's beside the point) is due to the fact that it's a Ferrari. You're complaining that they're junk and ugly, but you know they're a Ferrari and so would everyone else that would see you driving one down the street. If you're "poor" sports cars may be the wrong hobby, but a middle class person can buy a Ferrari. And the reason why is that people will let go a Ferrari for 25k because if and when something goes wrong it's going to cost another 25k to fix. In the end, anyone who's middle class and has half a brain will not buy a "cheap" Ferrari because they're expensive to maintain.
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revolutionday1 You do know that cars have very slim profit margins and they make profits in the service that cars require in their life span, right? A certain model not being profitable is no big deal. Look at all the wasted man-hours on those concept cars that never get produced. There's a higher purpose behind everything, even when you do it out of love for your own customer base. To deny it is to be naive. Sony also lost money on every PS3, and I think PS4, they made on the first batch. They lose money for the sake of establishing a customer base. Sony doesn't make consoles at a loss for the enthusiasts because enthusiasm doesn't pay the bills.
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revolutionday1 So far I've only said that cars have thin margins, brands take losses in the name of marketing, and that it's commonplace and a well known practice to let products out the door at a loss in the name of profits to be made somewhere else. If you're scoffing at facts, it's really not our of character considering you're crying about what people do to their private property. You can't redistribute motor vehicles, "Comrade".
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May I ask what the fuck is wrong with the cooling parts? If you take your car for an inspection every year and every time they find a leak you've been buying shitty car parts.
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joe skuse yes, you eliminate the people. If you solve the underlying violence problem, the people won't get into violent situations, and thus they won't be in the situation in the first place. Remember, guns haven't existed through most of mankind's existence but we've always killed each other. Eliminating the gun would still result in death, just not gun death. This of course, implying you can uninvent the gun. The British made the STEN out of spring and steel tubing, so simple the Danish manufactured STENs under the noses of Nazi invaders in a bicycle shop.
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@YDDES "there will be no blast, but only heat" - what exactly do you think a blast is? Did you watch the video? The nuke would create a searing crater that would act like a thruster, pushing the asteroid off course.
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@YDDES You're thinking of a shockwave, which is a product of the blast. If the blast is the shockwave then what do you call the explosive going off?
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"It's a result of economies of scale, advances in farming technology, and better delivery" So farms advancing to seek profit and delivery companies seeking profits improving has nothing to do with capitalism. Aight. "Certainly income disparity is at a 50 year high" Disparity means the difference is greater, not that people are poorer. "and today's poverty is way different to say 1930's depression era poverty." You're right, poverty was much worse the more you go back in time. We advanced even in that aspect, and according to you none of that can be attributed to capitalism, even though you pointed out advancements that clearly nobody would have bothered with if they weren't going to make a buck with them.
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+omar nasser I'm going to have to stop you right there because an extremely high percentage of terrorists in the middle east show signs of personality disturbances or mental illness that is not found on terrorist leaders. Terrorist leaders are often profiteers or people who seek political power, who take advantage of young men who are desperate and have nothing to live for. I'm not going to address Islamophobia because you know better than me how it is an issue in the US, but the vast majority of terrorists are not fighting for themselves or fighting for their country. Most times they're actually harming their own country or other Islamic countries, for the benefit of countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar, who fund religious extremists and these profiteers to advance their goals.
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Bob cares And there lies the problem of a two-dimensional political spectrum. Fascism is categorized as far-right due to it's anti-communism stance and it's social conservatism. However, and you can read up on all of this, in other areas fascism was completely schizophrenic and included anti-capitalist rhetoric. For example, in Germany the fascists accused the Jews of trying to spread communism, but also of being profiteers who exploited the country. They turned against Jewish businesses and banking. Industries were nationalized rather than privatized. Economically, the fascists put the "Socialism" in "National Socialism".
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Anon Reaper Except the fact that modern imperialism directly contradicts fascist expansionism. In fascism war and conquest is a method of economical gains that benefits the country. In modern imperialism the country is sunk into debt to serve interests, be it corporations or other countries (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc). I also resent the implication that fiscal conservatives have to be social conservatives, but if you ask me the racist conservatives have socialism in them - only it's limited to their own ethnic background. The rest get rugged individualism, that is if they don't get deported.
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Bob cares That doesn't even make any sense.
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+Iccanui so by your own standards Muhammad Ali didn't win all those fights because he was running.
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Iccanui >"This is not Conners normal style, he was gassed and looking for escape imho" Whenever there's a controversial decision people use this argument that if you step out of your normal style, you're losing. That argument is simply flat out wrong. If Conor was using his normal style he'd have lost. His normal style involves being a bigger man than his opponents, and Nate is 6'0. Your argument is like saying that an army that retreats to favorable position and causes heavy casualties to the the advancing enemy "lost" the battle. It's stupid to fight in unfavorable positions. >"he was done" Gassing is only a big thing because usually the one who gasses gets his ass beat. Gassing but still being able to stay ahead of the score cards is a feat, but it doesn't influence the decision in favour or against.
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Israel doesn't need the US, the US actually causes a bigger shitstorm in the Middle East by being present. US politicians say Israel is the only place with stability over there, truth is that they actually want Israel to be their "controlled chaos" to justify military presence and the rivers of money diverted into Israel's military industrial complex.
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I know right? People should fight at the weight they walk around, and whenever they want to move up or down they do it slowly and not in under a week.
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***** It's also stupid to cut and regain. It's a cheap trick but it also carries dangers. The only surefire way I can think of requires more than one weigh in, so that people actually make weight instead of becoming dry as a raisin.
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@ Aaron (mobile is a bitch to add replies to people with common names), I agree that it would be stupid. But the sports world has it's share of nutters everywhere. American football is a glaring example. People supergluing teeth, 70% of players go broke after retirement, mouthguard company getting a slap in the wrist because they made unsubstiated claims about their mouth guard preventing concussions. Armstrong was caught with steroids but nearly everyone in the cycling world is doing them. Bodybuilders getting calf implants because they can't grow muscle there. Fighters are also on steroids on so many different leagues. Pride basically pushed roids to it's fighter rooster. Fighters going back to hard sparring sessions right after losing by knockout. Taking painkillers when their body is begging them to stop. I'm not the kind of person who wants to "protect others from themselves" - they have the right to be stupid - but the UFC (and many other leagues/fighting sports) needs to control their fighters' stupidity or else the sport may be ruined for everyone because I'd bet at least 10% of fighters would show up to same day weighins dehydrated.
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Well, I'm not American so I don't know much about their football either but I came across a ton of info when researching concussions. Basically the concussion awareness exploded and everyone is after the gear that protects players (no gear is ever going to stop the brain from rattling when there's two 200lb guys sprinting at each other) which lead to this bs broscience related to gear, coaches sending concussed/injured players back into the game, athletic commissions trying to hide the facts about concussions, etc. In a perfect world the athletes and coaches would be educates in sports science. Promoters too. If the NFL is willing to chew up and spit out superstar athletes while widtholding the facts, I have no reason to believe coaches and promoters won't take a few risks just to get a payday - after all, the consequences of fighting with low cerebrospinal fluid may only appear a decade or two later so unless people drop dead on the mat I doubt they're going to lose their sleep over it. I have good coaches who always tell our team's fighters to not starve and never deprivate themselves of fluids, and they tell us that because they know some of us might do it. I'll be the first to say it, sometimes people get the superhero complex of fighting through adversity like it's a Rocky movie and I'm guilty of it too.
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I'll concede that point about them being different sports, but not that long ago Bermane Stiverne had to be hospitalized after boxing dehydrated. And a study found out 39% of MMA fighters are still dehydrated two hours before the fight, 11% seriously dehydrated. Gaining back weight doesn't necessarily mean the body is using those fluids for hydration. It's stupid, but people are doing it. Maybe same day weighins would solve it but my money is on more than one weigh in.
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The percentages were 2hr before the fight, not at weighin. This means that the weight regain doesn't necessarily rehydrate anyone. Being mildly dehydrated in any given day can be fixed - but it's serious if you're competing. This of course for day before weighins. Same day weigh ins would involve different kinds of stupidity. Maybe inducing bowel movements, I can guarantee they'll come up with something.
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Aaron >39% >small percentage Their bodies are soaking up water without even using it to rehydrate and unless they want to piss themselves after getting clocked in the fight there's no way they can rehydrate in two hours.
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Aaron "Results demonstrated that 39% of the MMA fighters presented with a Usg of >1.021 immediately before competition indicating significant or serious dehydration. The MMA fighters undergo significant dehydration and fluctuations in body mass (4.4% avg.) in the 24-hour period before competition. Urinary measures of hydration status indicate that a significant proportion of MMA fighters are not successfully rehydrating before competition and subsequently are competing in a dehydrated state." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23439336 Don't take other people's words and give them other meaning. In a competition, "slightly" dehydrated is serious. Those 39% have levels of dehydration which are "significant" or "serious", those were the words the study used - which makes it even worse considering we're talking about sports competition. The 11% are acutely dehydrated two hours before a fight, which is asking for kidney damage.
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An underage person carrying a gun? And on top of that, a person who starts whaling on some random guy on the street?
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***** Sure, but being an idiot doesn't mean you're being irresponsible. You can be an idiot with a car and not be deserving of losing your license, if as a result someone dies because of their own stupidity. Zimmerman made bad choices, sure. But it was Trayvon who got himself in that situation and Zim isn't responsible for that. We tried so hard to make him look like a danger, that now he has become one.
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***** So you mean that if Trayvon had a gun, he should have shot Zimmerman? It's not illegal to walk after someone. It's not illegal to walk with a gun if you have a carry permit valid in the state of Florida. It's not justifiable to kick the everlasting shit out of some guy who didn't do anything. Yeah, Zimmerman's choices affected the outcome. And if you park your car in a place and force someone to park somewhere else and that person dies when a tree falls on the car, your choice also affected the outcome. But you are not responsible for what other people do.
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***** we put him in there. Haven't you heard that if you tell a lie enough times it becomes true? We stalked him. We portrayed him as a baby killer. We forced the prosecution to enter a court case they didn't want because they know they'd lose. We destroyed his personal life and probably his finances. We kept stalking him and judging his every move. We made him dangerous. An applause for humanity and society in general, ladies and gentlemen.
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***** >"stalk" Trayvon Stalking is a form of harassment. You can't claim he did the same to Trayvon. It's not illegal to walk after someone. Or are you claiming that I have the right to shoot anyone who walks behind me? A ton of people walk behind me every day on the subway, am I right in thinking I am being stalked or "chased" by those people? Do I have the right to punch their faces in? >Trayvon who was doing nothing wrong or illegal Assault and battery are not legal. >just getting some skittles i.e. making a type of "lean" suggested by other people. He was going to get high. Look, the kid wasn't buying innocent skittles and he was a fucking creepy misogynistic pig for a 17 year old, wanted to get high, fight people, get in trouble, etc all things that were proven. I can get behind the getting high, it's his body and that dude was nearly a grown man. But codeine abuse fucks you up, despite people not talking about it. Some of the side-effects? Paranoia. Confusion. Distorted visual perceptions. He wasn't an angel and decided to beat the snot out of a man who had a CONCEALED weapon. Trayvon wasn't in fear. He was the aggressor.
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***** so the NRA would defend a thug that beats up people to feel like a man, gets high, is UNDER THE AGE OF LEGAL CARRY, etc? I don't think people who smoke weed should be denied a gun, but currently you can get in trouble for that - if the NRA had defended Trayvon, everyone would talk about Trayvon like they talk about a convicted felon. Nobody actually gives a fuck about Trayvon, they'd get a chance to claim that the NRA defends paranoid criminals and forget about Martin. You really want proof that nobody gives a shit about Martin? How many Trayvons are shot every year in Chicago? Nobody talked about them. And when someone actually talks about those killings, it's just a number. A statistic. A statistic people "suddenly" care about once white kids get shot in a suburban school.
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***** I might have missed the part in which Zimmerman was honored by the NRA and hired as a spokesperson.
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***** Exactly - he wasn't. You used a false dichotomy. And by the way, the shooting was perfectly legit. The prosecution did not want the case and only took it because of public outrage. Had Zimmerman been black, this would have never happened. >he's in jail for using a gun to murder people You might want to check those facts, buddy.
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>he's a child murderer 1. No. Murder is premeditated and with malicious intent. How could Zimmerman premeditate Martin's actions? And Martin was nearly a grown man. 2. That's not what he is in jail for, you daft. That was my point. Seriously, you claimed he was in jail for murdering a child. He didn't spend one day because of that because he was never convicted of such crime. He has been jailed for other reasons.
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Iammram "for no reason" Look, the B-29 won the war against Japan. It wasn't the nuke, it was the plane that delivered it. It was fast, large and it flew high. Japan didn't stand a chance. The bombing campaigns in Japan killed hundreds of thousands before the nukes did. To claim that the nukes were dropped with no reason when the tool that ended the war was used to kill just as many in vicious bombings of civilians with just some strategic important makes no sense.
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Boat >"I wouldn't say we lost the war in Iraq and we haven't really lost the war on terror in Afghanistan either." That's some A+ grade trolling. I also want to get a job as a government shill online, my dream is to get paid to shitpost as hard as you just did.
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Boat >"We didn't lose the war in Iraq. By all means, we won. The problem was that we pulled out a reserve troops before the Generals said we should, thanks to Obama's political eagerness to do so" If it required the US to stay there indefinitely then it was because the US didn't win. >"It's exactly what happened in Vietnam; but I'm sure you think we lost that war too." Saigon fell. I don't know what kind of BS revisionist history you've been reading, but if you pull out without accomplishing your objectives you lost. To quote Game of Thrones, it's perfectly possible to lose a war without losing a single battle. >"You are the product of years of miseducation and liberal indoctrination" >calling me a liberal And this is why you lost. You can't see past military victory so you're grasping at straws.
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Joseph Ballard "Have we forgotten that future conflicts between the US and nations equipped with similar technology would almost certainly result in a nuclear holocaust?" Russian/Chinese technology went head-to-head against American technology during the Cold War and there was no nuclear holocaust.
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Joseph Ballard So you're telling me that Vietnam or Korea were "cold" wars? During the Cold War several "hot" proxy wars were fought, in which both sides were armed by Americans or the Chinese/Russian. Remember, Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 and NATO didn't get dragged into a nuclear holocaust. If you think a F-35 shooting down a PAK-FA or vice versa automatically means nuclear war, you're not really looking at the past. Great, you posted a story that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I appreciate the understanding that nobody should have ever been trusted with nuclear weapons, but that event doesn't relate to American made gear going head to head with Russian/Chinese gear.
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emoninjamonke >"That sled trick won't save them from predator drones or apache longbows" The same predator drones that for every 50 victims they make, only get one insurgent? Great. Kill as many civilians as you'd like, because their families will join the rebellion. >"Also, I would like to see more than 100 american citizens who own a weapon that could kill any tank currently used by any miliatry around the globe" No need to kill tanks. But what kind of kill do you want? Because a mobility kill is achievable without any kind of weapon and just by using common items most adult American citizens can buy. >"If a black man tried to open carry in the same area, I guarantee you he would face charges or at least get taken to the station" Ever heard of the Huey P Newton gun club? They open carry guns all the time. And by the way, white gun owners had several protests over the arrest of a black open carrier in Michigan and the shooting of John Crawford III.
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The health inspection only makes sure you're not fucking up the day they show up. A restaurant managing one day of no fuck ups for every 3-4 months doesn't protect anyone.
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Lay off the Tom Clancy books.
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+LostJomper you can only have responsibilities if you have rights. If you have no rights, you're not responsible for anything.
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Turbos work at high rpm but have trouble spooling at low rpm. The ALS counters that. By putting the turbo further down the exhaust, you'd be sacrificing "normal" regimes where the ignition isn't delayed. The turbo would be efficient when you let off the throttle but lose efficiency when you put your foot down. That's backwards.
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Sandhu Sandhu Just my luck, I've only been in London 5 days and in that time frame I had a situation across the street that required the bobbies to come with MP5 submachine guns with EOTechs on top.
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Weird, I also thought about this when looking up twin turbo systems. Except it still wouldn't be feasible because one of the turbos was VGT, which in hindsight it ridiculously overkill and unnecessary.
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mrjamestheawsome the point is that people caught up to the fact that he reads from a script. stop being obtuse.
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+Jasraj Singh good list but "great media", really? You mean like MTV, E!, MSNBC, Fox News, Huffington Post, etc? Fox News is actually one of the least unbiased media outlets in America.
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***** Oh. Most of it is shit as well. I certainly wouldn't prefer to watch German or Turkish media or something oddly specific like that, but in American media there's clearly a trade-off. The good stuff is completely outnumbered by the trash. Let's just say, even the shitty American stuff has good production values. Even the "best" stuff from other countries looks cheap and that sort of makes it unwatchable.
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+delvis villanueva I can let people hate. But people using hate to bring change to society? Nope. I don't care if it's Sarah Silverman or the Neo Nazis. Having right to a wrong opinion doesn't meant the right to force that opinion on others.
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+The Crimson Fucker green tips are only effective versus the NATO plate test and at piercing soft armor/kevlar helmets. Now the modern M855A1 "bronze tip" is an excellent penetrator at fast speeds and it fragments better than green tips.
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But bronze tips are the new standard ammo... it's replacing M855, I don't know if they've burned through the whole stock or if they've stopped buying but right now it's M855A1 that the Army gets and the Marines will have to replace the Mk318 for A1 bronze tips as well. By the way NATO plate only refers to the test, it's not worn as armor. As armor it's not worth a shit, it's just a 3.5mm steel plate. NATO had requirements for a bullet that could penetrate it at 600 meters and SS109/M855 delivered. It's like when FN and HK were developing 5.7 and 4.6 ammunition NATO asked for a round that penetrated the CRISAT target at 200 meters. It's 1.6mm titanium and 20 layers of Kevlar, nobody in NATO wears that, it's meant to simulate Russian helmets I think.
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You're missing the point. Bronze tip is the new standard introduced in the early 2010's. Green tip was the standard. Green tip 62gr has shit armor penetration because it's slower than 55gr and the steel is mild. Literally nobody is running around with 3.5mm steel taped to their chest, and I'm pretty sure that Somali and Syrian fighters can get surplus Russian shit anyway (which they do). I'd assume it's more about Cold War steel helmets and vehicle panels. "NATO plate" and CRISAT are just tests and it has absolutely no bearing on who is shooting at who - it's just a standard so that bullets can be evaluated fairly. That's all there is to is. Issuing green tips would do nothing versus steel or ceramic armor plates, we've already issued them as standard. Americans made bronze M855A1 tip the standard. Brits already used SS109-style projectiles (steel penetrator and lead base) with a thicker jacket to prevent fragmentation, and they have switched to an all steel L31A1 EP. I don't know much about it but the EP is for Enhanced Penetration so logically I would assumed it's better than green tip. We've moved past green tip. That's all I was trying to say.
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You said they should issue green tips as standard...
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the500mphtortoise >"(ie you wouldn't use that argument to not provide an air force)" Debatable. Private airliner companies provide us with constantly flying jets. Baby steps. I know fully well that I'm not going to live in a perfectly just society because I'd never live that long. Not even this generation's children will be able to live free from being forced to pay for stuff they aren't using. >"government healthcare has the potential to reduce costs by being able to bargain down pharmaceutical companies" But the people in the government are there because they received campaign donations. Even if they didn't, they are often promised positions in the board of some company. If the guy bargaining with the pharmaceutical company is in debt to that company or is promised a job there, you're going to pay more than you would at market value. Look, the government is more than free to start up their own healthcare service and provide it to whoever wants it. Those people pay for it. Just like those who don't have netflix shouldn't have to be obligated to pay for netflix. Look, let's assume that nobody is the government was in bed with the company. In their eyes, they are not forced to make a profit because they can always steal our money from us. Why would you focus on quality or cost efficiency if you're buying something for someone else you don't care about, and you're not using your own money? The US government dug itself into 17 trillion of debt assuming you'd be there to pay for it. Why do you think healthcare would be any different?
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+detroitshadowlands >"the militia is a bunch of racist right-wingers!" >"wow they're not even enough of a racist right-winger group to engage in mass murder, ahaha such pussies!" 2016 political discourse.
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Jamie Holmes He'd still be able to kill me with a knife.
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Jamie Holmes You asked what if he didn't have a .50 cal (which is a ridiculous hyperbole, the weapons that fire it are too heavy, impossible to conceal, and every round is like 5-6 bucks a piece). I answered. So what if the criminals don't have guns? They're still able to steal, murder and rape. Imagining a magic world where they wouldn't smuggle illegal arms, convert blank firing guns to shoot live bullets or even make them from scratch, I'd still be outgunned vs any common criminal - and most likely outnumbered, because criminals often realize there is strength in numbers. We don't live in that magic world. The day the US bans guns anyone with the capability and knowledge use machining tools will make a fortune. And those who can't afford such crafted weapons will use hacksaws and follow more crude designs like the Luty submachine gun.
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Jamie Holmes Finland has like 45.7 guns per 100 people. It ranks 4th in the whole world for rate of gun ownership per people. Sweden is 31.6 out of 100 and Norway is 31.3 out of 100. Your argument would work if Japan was an extremely violent society. They'd be violent, but low gun crime because gun control prevented them from using them. The opposite happens. Japan is an extremely safe society, with very low rates on any crime, even rape. And even their metropolitan cities are safe, when in most countries big cities are hotbeds of crime. >"All the gun related killings are from people who stole/imported guns etc." Did you just say that gun control doesn't work because criminals will steal and import guns? >"[redacted] had to plan for years for his attack in Norway partly because of the merchandise he needed" Hello? He required massive amounts of fertilizer and other chemicals! Not just guns. He planned to smuggle guns into Norway but he, a complete psycho, had an easier time buying them legally. I actually have an interest in energetic materials and synthesis of explosives. I've read some court transcripts because I was interested in his process. Look, the Utoya shooter was borderline retarded. I'm sorry, but he wasn't a terrorist mastermind no matter how much he tries to convince himself of it. To say that he took years to complete his plan isn't saying much considering the dumb choices he made (at one point he was dealing with such a large booster he could have blown himself to bits, unfortunately he didn't make a mistake inside his own property and turned into dust before he killed anyone else) and the very obvious psychological problems that plagued him. >"No wonder America invended School shootings." Before Sandy Hook, Germany was the country that had the worst K-12 shootings. That was a huge low blow which was completely uncalled for, but good thing I'm not American.
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Jamie Holmes That's fine, but do you at least accept my premises? Scandinavia and Japan are relatively safe places with or without guns, so it doesn't matter how many or how little they have around. Go to an "unsafe" nation such as the Honduras or El Salvador, where legal guns aren't common, and gun crime is extremely high.
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Jamie Holmes Scandinavia is actually riding on the industrialization that came with liberal (European meaning) policies. In fact, today many employers in Sweden buy their employees private healthcare insurance to avoid having them go through the public system. It was never the "socialist" paradise that gave Scandinavia the wealth, the wealth came first or there would be nothing to redistribute. >"A nation that seems to think that adding more guns will create less shooting" Well, all of those shootings mostly happen in Gun Free Zones. I'm European, but in my country we got a police division that has their own cars and patrols school areas. It's more about petty crime than shootings, but there's always guns near the schools. If I wanted to commit a shooting in my country, I'd choose some place away from the schools for fear of getting stopped by those cops.
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>"we can't say he's shit" >literally just said it But you probably meant the media, right? looks over to TV playing 24/7 live coverage of every single tweet and spoken word that comes from Trump >"Hilary gor roasted for saying the truth" Might have been the only thing that wasn't a lie that came from her mouth, and we all know there's no good deed that goes unpunished.
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+Seth Ellison "capitalist education system"? It was government subsidies that drove up tuition costs. Products and services that obey the capitalist market forces usually have become better and cheaper in time. Everything that gets subsidized and tangled with the government becomes more expensive.
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Okay then. After they changed the definition, why did the number keep rising? Or did the definition of deportation change every year?
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Did you bet?
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+Shangori "trained professionals" how about that time the NYPD shot a bunch of people and missed the perp? Or when hunting down Dorner cops fired a ton of rounds into a vehicle that didn't match the description. The average cop is a greater threat to the public than the average gun owner.
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Shangori No, it's not a blind spot. Policemen are not professional gunslingers. They're professional government enforcement thugs. That's what they do for a living, not shoot guns. Your whole argument hangs on your definition of a police officer as a professional, but their profession is not shoot guns. Obviously, someone who is a gun person will be thousands of times more accurate than a cop who shoots 50 rounds a year for basic qualification. I can't be arsed to check the statistics that prove that private citizens are more accurate than cops, but compare the number of defensive gun usages per year (55-80 thousand is the lowest estimate by Hemenway, an anti-gun researcher) and the homicides committed (outside the home) by people with concealed carry permits. It's basic logic. If you're a cop and you fuck up, your peers will cover your ass, you get paid leave, union will provide lawyers, etc. If you're a private citizen and you fuck up, get ready to possibly lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in court and potentially spend time in jail. People have a vested interest is not fucking up.
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Shangori Yeah, nice argument, complete with evidence, etc. Cops are out there every day and getting involved (sometimes where they shouldn't, because they're not qualified to handle the situation), while normal people just want to get home to their families. It's extremely rare for people to seek danger or participate in vigilantism, despite what the media would like you to believe. http://crimeresearch.org/2015/02/cprc-in-fox-news-police-are-extremely-law-abiding-but-concealed-handgun-permit-holders-are-even-more-so/ http://gunwatch.blogspot.pt/2013/10/concealed-carry-permit-holders-are-one.html https://slowfacts.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/civilians-are-safer-than-police/ Some articles that have complied the information. Concealed carry permit holders are more law abiding than police, safer than police. You are the one with the blindspot.
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Shangori >"Wait, if you come with an argument without evidence" Because you refused to read it. Come on, I did not give you a conclusion from a study that never happened, I gave you a verifiable claim by the person who found it. Do I need to teach you how to use google? >"And it's great you finally show some evidence for your claims (blogs??)" Which point to their sources. Don't grill me when you used wikipedia - they point to primary sources too. Let's not play dumb here, secondary sources are fine. >"nation-wide numbers against state-wide (florida) numbers. That doesn't give a complete picture" Because the data on CCW is state level, not federal. Either way, they're presented in rates so they are comparable. Florida is a shit hole, by the way. >"I might as well compare nation-wide numbers against the numbers of the most thug-ridden city in america and then claim police are better than people with concealed handguns" Because gang members definitely get concealed carry permits. Nothing like leaving a paper trail about your activities on a freaking government office. >"They are, however, the ones who get shot more, and use guns to kill more." One, no source on the getting shot more; two, the states that have statistics on concealed carry permit holders clearly show they are not more likely to commit murder. If you mean they are more likely to use a gun in case they kill, I'll believe you - someone with a gun at home is also more likely to use it if that person ends up killing someone. But if people with concealed carry permits are less likely to kill, then what seems to be the problem? >"the differences between the united states and other western countries that severely restrict guns" You mean countries with no Mexican border, no War on Drugs and no industrial prison complex? Introduce those three factors into any country and you'll have murder rates skyrocket. You're also speaking of countries which are historically safe and have been before gun control was introduced. Point being: don't compare the US to "western" countries. Compare the US, which has a lot of shit holes, with countries that also have a lot of shit holes. Name a shit hole in Canada. Switzerland. Sweden. There aren't any. Even countries like France, Italy, Eastern Europe, etc do not have the sheer number of metropolitan cities that the US has. >"Even your own crimesearch shows the problem of your country:" Did I ever tell you I'm American? Then don't assume I am American. >"Basically, you're one of the worst of every developed nation in the world." Exactly. The United States is a shit hole. Or at least a collection of very large ones, so the US is more comparable to Mexico, etc. where gun violence is really high independently of gun control. And just so you won't miss it - I am no American. Never told you I was so I have no clue why you assuming I am. >"A great source for you to look through" I use gunpolicy.org all the time. You know why? Because it lists decently accurate gun ownership rates in Europe and proves that we are heavily armed yet don't kill each other all the time. There's nothing like someone claiming their country banned all guns and me telling them their country actually has millions of legal firearms in civilian hands. >"Compare it to some countries that have strict gun laws" Compare it to some countries that have strict gun laws but are underdeveloped. You cherry picked heavily civilized countries with strong economic safety nets, low poverty rates and more lenient policies on drugs. >"have restrictive gun-laws" In Switzerland there are classes of firearms that can be obtained without a license. Until recently private sales were completely unregulated and legal, now people have a time limit to send the bill of sale to the constabulary's gun registry. And of course, militia members get fully automatic assault rifles to keep, which they can use to shoot government-subsidized ammunition. >"American gun laws do not work. End of story. " Agree. American gun laws do nothing to remove guns from criminals, they're "make belief".
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+Rem ko it will be choppy as hell, but it runs on integrated graphics.
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DailyFrankPeter there is no stealth in space so you'll always announce where you are.
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BaseDeltaZero The problem is that if we're talking about technology advanced enough to have spaceship combat, a spaceship scanner would probably have enough computing power to complete a full 360º scan in just a few hours, maybe even minutes - computers can look at everywhere at once. In space, a few hours isn't enough to get away. If you detect something in your scan, you point your sensors in the general direction and take an iterative approach. You scan a smaller portion of space every time to get an updated position. The limiting aspect is resolution, and thus the range of the optical scan. But we'd need lightspeed weapons to hit, therefore lasers, therefore the range is how far we can collimate a laser beam without it losing effectiveness. So, a scan won't necessarily be pixel hunting as the spaceship will be within a few astronomic units, or whatever how far we can shoot a laser without it losing too much power.
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Gavin Jenkins >"merely dodging them with random movements is very effective" The problem is that by virtue of travelling at light speed, you can't possibly know a laser is coming at you until you've been hit.
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BaseDeltaZero >"it's already leaving with an hour's head start" At what, 2% lightspeed? You know which portion of the "sky" to scan so every scan you perform takes less time than the previous. >"If you have two ships battling in orbit" How would they even get close to orbit without getting detected and destroyed? Unless both ships warped right into opposite ends of a planet, the combat would start as soon as the furthest firing weapon was in range. >"The problem is that there are potentially a lot of 'somethings' that aren't actually relevant. So you'll end up having to scan everything." The Green Bank telescope could, in 2013, spot the Voyager 1 against the background in a second flat despite of the fact that it was 18 billion km away from Earth. That's current technology. If we're talking about battleships in space we're talking about a universe where sensors and computing power will make it even easier. >"Also, again, the system in question is for a spacesuit in boarding actions, not a spaceship" Make it the scale you want, there's no stealth in space. That's all I'm saying.
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ben borg We had mass shootings in Paris, silly. >"no one needs a gun apart from the police and the army." >"Why do you need a gun?" Because a cop is too heavy. Only cops can protect me with their guns thus I don't need them, but cops arrive in time to draw chalk lines and collect evidence. Not to save me.
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ben borg I'm not saying that, but I do believe people should buy guns if they want to. But I'm not saying that, you're using a strawman fallacy. >"This means that any potential terrorist like some 16 year old authistic" Autism doesn't correlate to violence (or mental illness in general, for that matter), and where has anyone said that 16 years old kids should be able to buy guns? Nowhere. You're like that people who ask "do you want 13 year olds to die from alcohol poisoning?" when anyone proposes lowering the drinking age to 18. You're just pulling the same strawmans everyone pulls from their ass when confronted. If your tactic is making shit up you've already lost. >"The answer is more regulation not more guns dumbass." Didn't work for alcohol, didn't work for drugs. Why will it work for guns?
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ben borg The shooter from Sandy Hook killed his own mother to gain access to firearms that were secured. Sure, he did have his own gun and used it to kill his mother, but he could have killed his own mother some other way. It was an unfortunate situation because the kid manipulated his mother and she was only trying to bond with her son by taking him to the range. You're wrong because alcohol is related to a) car crashes; b) arguments, which is a common source of homicides; and c) tearing families apart, which not only leads to youth criminality but also domestic violence and even partner homicide between couples. These are three reasons out of the top of my head for why alcohol influences more than just the individual. In fact, the reason mental illness doesn't correlate to violence is because substance abuse is factored out. If you ignore alcohol and drugs as a factor, then mentally ill people tend to be violent - mentally ill people are especially vulnerable to alcohol. My point was also that certain items can't be controlled. I mean, stills, plantations and RVs used to cook meth leave evidence behind and occasionally have fires/blow up so they end up getting caught, but a gun is just metal. Any machine shop in the country can manufacture guns, no need to bring anything from Mexico or deal with drug sniffing dogs. Metal is virtually untraceable. Again, even extreme cases of schizophrenia do not correlate with violence if you factor out substance abuse. Mix schizophrenia with alcohol or drugs and you get someone who can be unstable and become violent.
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ben borg The US is much bigger and it has much more open space you big doofus. Many places have a 40 minute wait time. Even if you have a 4 minute police response time, that's enough to do the crime and leave. The police will arrive in time to take notes and draw a chalk outline or put you in a bodybag.
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ben borg >"Urm robbers don't usaully kill their victims" Actually in the US some robbers started raping their victims because they'd feel embarrassed reporting the robbery. But either way, who said anything about a robbery? Criminals who want just to steal stuff break into your house during the day while you're at work and there's less neighbours. Many times home invaders attack people they know to have money, so they can ask for safe combinations or take them to their place of business to open safes while holding the family hostage. They're home invaders, they are a danger to anyone inside the house, not mere burglars. >"40 minute wait time where?" A ton of people live outside cities in the US. >"first needs to actually get in wothout waking up teh whole neighbourhood" It's better to just break in. If you're looking for stealing property it's better to plan a faster robbery that gets you out of the scene than spend more time in the area than you need, even if it's noisy. If you watch CCTV of robberies you often see them using crowbars on window frames. >"comes in needs to find the valuables at least 5 mins then needs to grab it and leave thats at least 15-20 mins." 5 minutes to find the valuables? So you mean that criminals, knowing that cops arrive in 4 minutes or whatever, simply walk around the house for 5 minutes? Anyone who takes that long is already in jail. The criminals who aren't in jail are the ones who haven't been caught yet, so clearly they are faster than the response time. And where do those 15-20 minutes come from? You can't count time before the actual entry. If it's a silent entry you can't predict you're going to be robbed, you're bullshitting by adding time. You enter a house, take the TV, console and laptop and get in a car.
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ben borg I never contradicted myself. You're the one equating home invasion with a burglary or a fast robbery. Of course a gun doesn't help during a burglary, if it's a burglary I'm not at home therefore I'm not in danger. >"The robbery happened while she was away shopping" That's called a burglary. It's not a robbery or home invasion. >"it proves my point smart thieves want valuables not TV's they want watches and diamond rings." Except jewelry is harder to get rid off because you need a buyer or get rid of it on flea markets or pawn shops, which are an easy way to get caught. A TV you can sell even to a poor family living next door and nobody would know, TVs are extremely common and harder to identify than specific jewelry. TVs are valuables. Used consoles are a huge market. Those burglars knew what they wanted and they wanted jewelry. But the majority of burglars aren't like that. Even most jewelry thieves prefer gold over diamonds because it's easier to move. >"not your fantasy where the robber smashes a window in broad daylight" Americans live in dumb paper thin houses, I'm talking about using the crowbar to pry the frame out of the wall, not smash the window. "Broad daylight" - yeah, but if it's the suburbs with fences or fence-height shrubs everywhere and everyone is at work then broad daylight is less risky than at night.
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@GandalfTheSilver I took it too far because I posted evidence that supports my claims. Kappa.
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@GandalfTheSilver lmao imagine crying about providing evidence being "cherry picking", lmao If you're getting triggered by quotes from articles you're the one emotional over genital mutilation, hold that L
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@GandalfTheSilver you didn't post any contradicting evidence. The argumentation wasn't fallacious. The only sad people here are the ones obsessed with cutting dicks off. Stop obsessing over cut off baby dicks.
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@lameduck1690 the cooler has a noctua fan between heatsinks so it's active. Either way both active and passive heat sinks need air flow. Only having an exhaust may push hot air out, but cold air must go in. A case with only exhaust will have negative pressure and pull air in from crevices, but the flow is severely restricted.
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Why would it shoot to the end of the table? A vacuum isn't a "vacuum cleaner", smoke will expand and try to fill the vacuum but it's not dramatic with just a small puff.
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+CrossHarry dude have you seen America's landscape?
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tootsie|troll® videogames or it's just the reality of what's been happening in the last decade?
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justletmeuseit But then you're using the term espionage incorrectly. >"_Espionage (colloquially, spying) is the obtaining of information considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information._" The way you talked about it at first it sounded like infiltrating the occupying force or bribing inside men into giving up secrets. Because that's what the word espionage implies.
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justletmeuseit lmao, you gave up because you were wrong. Spying is collecting secret information. Civilians attacking conventional forces isn't spying. You'll be wrong until the end of days but your ego won't allow you to admit it.
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CrossHarry You do realize that the US has several ammunition companies which pump out billions of rounds a year, right?
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+Ph4nt0m5u6 That's ridiculous. Many countries with professional armies have a National Guard. In the United States the National Guard was developed from the militia. For example, in the US there are constitutional limits on using federal troops against American citizens. That's why during civil unrest they typically call the National Guard.
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Ph4nt0m5u6 Look, without trying to generalize, those people are pretty much anti-gun. I'm an anarchist, and I have debated many people on the anarcho-communism/libertarian socialism side who have literally admitted that they'd need guns for revolution but they'd be seized afterwards. There would be no government and no gun laws, but people would have the guns taken away by someone, somehow. I actually have a friend who's on that side of anarchism and despite being a gun-nut and a supporter of all liberation movements from Ireland to Palestine, he doesn't believe in gun rights. They expect to take up arms despite not having any, and knowing how to use them despite never having touched one. I know that common people have acquired arms and rebelled, but that was "back when men were men" and the women and children were also "men", if you know what I mean. You look at the faces of the Kurdish freedom fighters and you know they're tough in ways that 17 year old boys complaining about capitalism in their iPads can't be.
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Entertainment is subjective. Recently WWE has both pulled off edge of the seat moments and borefests. If one is following the storylines, there's bad stories too. Personally, The Shield went for too long and The Authority is just too damn repetitive at this point. Kinda like the Edge and Vickie storyline went for too long years ago. It's just as possible to not be entertained by the moves. When I was a kid I couldn't watch boxing, I was expecting Mike Tyson style knockouts. A few years ago I couldn't watch kickboxing. And until recently I hated the ground game of MMA. Some things require understanding of the principles at work to enjoy them.
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***** I don't like using the "you don't get it" argument, but I couldn't watch MMA until I learned about BJJ and how the techniques were called, etc. Then it became entertaining because I knew what was happening. I couldn't watch boxing or kickboxing until I started playing the Fight Night games and practicing kickboxing myself.
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I'm white and I can confirm, most of the fighters have a trashy look. I do kickboxing in a martial arts gym owned by a university. I'm well aware that 90% of the other combat gyms are not located in such nice parts of town. Gyms are big, specially multi-sport gyms that have classes in the same schedules and need several rings. Fighting sports doesn't bring that much money so a lot of gyms are located where land is cheap - away from the nice, privileged parts of town. And yes, fighting sports have the tendency to attract bullies and douchebags, and while you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover douchebags do have a "uniform"/"dress code" which we all learn to identify and react to when you see the guy with a crew cut, gold chains and all-Adidas attire.
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the model for nuclear winter is based off the huge fires in Japanese towns. Cities made of concrete and brick will not burn down to the sane degree and throw that much dust up.
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"Sleepwalking" was also used on the Sleeping Dogs trailers.
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popeye697 more like raising a glass to all the little children he murdered and maimed with drones, keeping Gitmo open, signing into law more violations of privacy in the name of the War on Terror, while he turned Libya into a "shitshow" by having the French bomb Gaddafi on his behalf and sinking the country into a hotbed of terrorism and slave trade of African people, spying on European leaders, admitting to them having "tortured some folks" and being "good at killing people". Good reasons to raise your glass.
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gwl78 name that country, then. People always say that, but never the country they reside in so that nobody can look up how violent it is.
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It's not a muzzle-loader, it's a lever-action. They asked her to prove the weapon safe and she did say clear, the cut might be out of context but it did seem like they were asking her to make the weapon safe - not check for obstructions/perform maintenance. If you're "checking if it's safe" ie you don't know if it is, you probably should not look down the barrel after it's been deemed cleared. If you're only saying "clear" after looking down the bore... Yikes.
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+Pela G >"powerful" You mean 5.56 weapons, the same caliber that the US Army complained couldn't even stop malnourished Somalis? They're not powerful at all. Hunting weapons are typically more powerful.
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+heroesandcons09 as an anarchist, you're trash. Socialists always end up creating another state to subjugate the people, and if anarchy is meant to be wielded violently it must be against a violent state, not against people. No matter how much you disagree with these people, they're not taxing/stealing from people, they're not deporting people at the rate that Obama's administration has been, they're not bombing other countries overseas.
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+MV M >"They held out due to geographical advantage, the government knows every single crevice of this land." So with satellites over freaking desert the US armed forces were blind, but in a country that also has rocky formations that suited guerrilla operations in Afghanistan so well and forests (tough to see through tree tops) and is also many times larger, the US armed forces would simply know everything? Or worse, the insurgency wouldn't be able to just blend in with the crowd? I'm pretty sure it would.
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***** >"we have every single square mile of the us mapped, and mapped more than once" The map doesn't tell you where people are. Good job, here's a mountain, here's a river, here's some trees. >"we have military bases literally everywhere" Probably not good places to settle down an insurgency. Noted. >"satellite imagery in Afghanistan and other countries were not effective simply because of huge latency and very little practical knowledge of the geography and people" It didn't work there because reasons, but it would work in America because reasons. How the hell does geography and the locals mean that the satellite imagery can't be used to wipe out Middle Eastern insurgents, but it would most definitely bring and end to an American rebellion in 0.1 seconds? Because that's the implication, American militias have the technology disadvantage, but it doesn't matter that the US spent a decade in a war of attrition with insurgents who had about the same technology gap. >"nor does the average american and the world for that matter want or need a domestic conflict" What the average American wants is hardly a barometer for what is going to happen. Most people don't have a say in what happens and have actually developed chronic apathy. There's so much manufactured outrage over everything, most people don't actually act on their outrage. A civil war could be going on out there and they'd be watching the Kardashians.
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Daniel Iturrizaga if you are so afraid of knowledge, don't use the internet, don't watch TV. Sadly killing people is easy, and everyone knows how. We've been killing each other for thousands of years, you think you knowing how to make "k3wl" napalm is a bad thing? Well at least you won't make it accidentally. Fact is, information should be free. Otherwise it's censorship. Rather face the dangers of too much liberty than the safety of tyranny.
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How about not legitimizing the political process with participation? Participating means consent to the result, whatever it may be. Voting for the lesser evil is still evil.
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Shane XYZ The problem is, again, the voting system is broken and voting doesn't actually matter. You can participate in self-defense voting, but even assuming that the voting system was 100% honest, you'd have millions voting for Trump. Swimming against the current isn't that great, especially if you don't live in a swing state. I don't agree with Murray Rothbard's opinion that parents being required to feed and clothe their children is a positive right - that's called neglect and is usually considered child abuse. I also don't agree with a lot of Spooner's beliefs. The fact that they didn't believe that legitimizing the political system through voting is a thing is supposed to discourage me? It's the literal embodiment of the "consent of the governed". If you're here, and if you truly know Sander's record, you can't tell me that he is not the "lesser evil". My statement took nothing for granted, your analysis is spot on for a statement made in a vacuum but in the real world it's supported by more than just itself. You don't say vote for Sanders, you say that an economics junkie should have Sanders as his man. That makes zero sense considering his economics make zero sense.
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Jeff Gruber maybe if you're up shit creek without a paddle you just need a gun, but to us who live normal lives there's words that allow us to communicate about things we enjoy and you pretending that everyone is pretentious is just a useless effort of stroking your ego. Unless you actually told your "teachin' lady" the only letters you needed to know were U, S and A.
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Julia Kim Flagged for terrorism.
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You already left a comment two weeks ago.
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+SquadPoop You know that Christopher Dorner was against gun ownership and applauded Piers Morgan, right? Didn't stop him from killing a few people.
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SquadPoop You said people for gun control don't shoot people with guns. Christopher Dorner killed 4 and wounded 3 despite his beliefs.
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lel intel i9 9900k hitting 90°C under load
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@VENOM_kills "in a scenario where a precision strike such as this would be necessary, how are you going to deliver the "weapon" efficiently and secretly" - By dropping it from an aircraft from miles away? "Contradictory because it's trying to find a more "peaceful" way of killing people." - When the enemy uses civilians as human shields the answer is not killing civilians. This is not peaceful. This is meant for war. But war against those who want to wage it, not the innocent.
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DarthCipient Crime is usually measured in rates, which factor in population. Duh, if guns can be brought from elsewhere, then doesn't that prove that gun control is useless? Drugs come through the Mexican border. Canadians plant their crazy expensive weed strains and smuggle them into the US. Heroin comes from Afghanistan.
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DarthCipient The Monash University shooting happened after gun control. It's just never counted as a mass shooting because it didn't reach enough fatalities - but 7 people still got shot. Either way, same thing happened in New Zealand and they didn't follow suit with Australian levels of gun control. There's strong evidence that gun control did absolutely nothing in Australia. For example, in the state of New South Wales gun ownership actually increased after the gun control was passed. >"If America truly wants a system where any fucknut can get a gun, then they'll have to accept that frequent massacres come with the territory" Well, Australia did keep having massacres - with resort to arson. Considering that in the US the Happy Land club arson killed 87 people, even if you make guns disappear the frequency of attacks won't stop anytime soon.
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DarthCipient They are different countries, so of course frequencies will be different. The argument is, would gun control change those frequencies? We saw the supposed frequency change in Australia - but it was at the same time as New Zealand, which didn't pass gun control. And from another perspective, people resort to arson in Australia. If the argument was that the US is not Australia, yeah. If the argument is that gun control changes frequencies (we can't forget that US media glorifies these acts, which provokes copycats and thus mass shooters appear in "bursts" at a time) then it's a weak argument.
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ThE DuCk >"Patriots aren't anti-American" Well let me tell you, everything the US government stands for (assassination of children in countries the US is not at war with by drone, torture, civil asset forfeiture, PATRIOT Act, NDAA, PRISM) is anti-American to the core. But fuck patriotism, fuck nation-states, fuck borders. But these "patriots" are way more American than someone who sides with the government. >"sound more like domestic terrorist" They said the same thing about many people in the civil rights movement. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. The biggest terrorist is the US government. Running guns into Mexico so the cartels can murder people. Funding, arming and training South American cartels so they'd fight communism. Sponsoring terrorism everywhere. The US armed and trained the Afghan rebels for them to fight the Soviets, then they began fighting amongst themselves so the US and Pakistan intelligence created the Taliban. The US armed "moderate" rebels in Syria and now they're called ISIS. And you think gun owners are the terrorists?
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ThE DuCk Bad mouthing? All I said is true, does the truth offend you? This is TYT - this channel also exposes a lot of US hypocrisy and they're arguably bigger haters of the United States than me.
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Alex Unity Do you agree with what the government is doing? Then you have no business being offended at my statements. You do not carry the blame for what your country does. I've given up patriotism but look, being a patriot isn't agreeing with the government. I'm not on welfare, I'm in college. HitchensLivesAgain ToSlapStupid None of those countries are comparable to the US. The US is fighting a War on Drugs that feeds gangs the need to murder to obtain profits. Compare the US to a country like the US: Mexico. Right next to it, also fighting a War on Drugs, even got high obesity rates just like the US. Comparing the US to Australia is like comparing the Philippines to Japan.
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Alex Unity Okay stop misspelling my name, I'm not a Spaniard. Again, if you don't agree with the government's mistakes you have no issue being offended, but apparently you're compelled to defend actions you're willing to admit are wrong? Why? >"you are probably in college getting financial aide from my tax money" 1. I'm not. 2. You're probably from a State that takes more taxes from the Federal government than it gives back, since apparently it's okay to make assumptions about other people. >"America is not perfect but by far it is way better than Mexico" That's a bad argument, compare yourself to the kid with straight As, not the kid in the back eating white glue. >"the war on drugs has been over for almost two years so maybe you should update your information" Nope. Until decriminalization, drugs being illegal increase the violence and murder. Portugal decriminalized drugs and the number of addicts dropped 50% in 10 years, along with preventing HIV and Hep transmission from needle sharing. Prohibition only ended when booze became legal. Until then, gangsters were shooting up each other. >"ultimately i just dont understand why you would want to live in a country where you feel that the government is so bad." Because every government is bad. Every government uses the threat of force and kidnap to steal taxes. 90% of the governments have strict gun control laws that are arbitrary and deny it's citizens their basic right to self-defense. Remember learning history and you thought "why didn't just the peasants run away from the feudal lords?"? Well, there's your answer.
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Alex Unity >"i live in NY and heavy drugs are almost non existent, i remember growing up drug addicts were everywhere and now you dont see them unless you are trying to" That's because you are not looking. Remember that the people who do drugs now do not look like the drug addicts from decades past. Either way, whether you're looking for a gun or drugs you can find them anywhere by asking the right person. You can't tell me with a straight face people aren't doing crack or smack anymore. >"murders in NY have been the lowest since the 70s, the reason behind it is, JOBSSSSS, jobs" Homicide rates in the US fell since the 90's. It's not a NY thing. Unemployment is also freaking insane, specially among youths. >"you are an idiot who believes that guns are the cause of violence" YOU FUCKING IDIOT, I'VE BEEN DEFENDING GUNS ALL THIS TIME. >"marijuana is almost legal and even in NY they dont arrest you unless you have large amounts" Which isn't decriminalization.
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badpanda84 Being a garbage man is more dangerous than being a cop in the US. So don't come with that excuse that cops are paranoid. Also, name the last time Iceland had to fight Mexican cartels or gangs that exist because of the Mexican supply of drugs. You can't compare a country like the US to Iceland. The US literally borders a country where journalists, government officials and cops are either corrupt, or they get assassinated, and it's one of the main sources of profit for the people who cause that violence. Iceland is a freaking island.
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badpanda84 And how many cops get shot at by legally owned firearms? Either way, the job which has the biggest chance of being murdered is taxi driver/chauffeur, and it greatly outpaces cop murders. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/28/charted-the-20-deadliest-jobs-in-america/ Construction workers, miners, pilots and flight engineers, roofers, etc have a much higher chance of dying on the job than cops. If you're a cop you're more likely to die from traffic than a bullet wound. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126800395 So not only it is a relatively safer job than many others, the chances of dying in the line of duty from gunshot wound are lower than by car.
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badpanda84 When they're more likely to be killed by car? And gun homicide in the US dropped 49% since 1993, so why are cops not dropping their act either? http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/ You're not bringing any facts or logic, only your beliefs. We've established that they're wrong. No, the gun ownership in the US isn't to blame.
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badpanda84 Oh, boy, islands. Compare the US to similar countries, like Mexico or Brazil. Do you know what BOPE is? If you don't, then you don't know what police shootings are.
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Shkotay D But wait, supposedly most of Mexico's illegal guns are also from the US (and this has been proven to be false, most Mexican crime guns cannot be traced - the cartels get guns from the police and military and they put the blame on Americans) and the US-Mexico border is heavily patrolled. By your logic, Canada should have as much violence as the US because it's even easier to smuggle guns into Canada than Mexico. But it doesn't. Clearly, your country has cultural, social and economical reasons to have less gun crime. Compare Toronto to LA or Chicago. Compare one of your states to Alabama or Tennessee. You guys are wealthier and your poor do not have to kill each other to secure a corner where to sell drugs. You've defeated your own argument? Suicides in general fell! How does the lack of guns make people not want to tie a noose? "My neighbour surrendered his guns, I guess I won't inhale my car's fumes" - how the fuck does that work? And gun suicides were dropping since the 80's, way before the buyback. And by the way, even back in 2005 gun ownership was higher than before Port Arthur in New South Wales. Today, the government officials are blaming America for a resurface of gun culture in Australia. Reduction of suicides predated and had nothing to do with gun control, and they kept dropping even after gun ownership resurfaced.
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j Nemes the subject is that you don't need to outfight the enemy. The US outfought Vietnam but still failed it's strategic objective.
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+j Nemes [citation needed] By the way, that sounds like a strategic goal you'd set when you knew you couldn't win. It was still a political defeat.
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According to the Geneva convention illegal combatants are not signatory parties. The North Vietnamese used illegal combatants extensively.
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+neurotraveller >"Vaccinations are a form of Homeopathy" Except vaccinations result from the effect observed on people who worked with cows to not suffer from smallpox, as they had been exposed to the cow version of the disease, and gained immunity to the human version. So no, vaccination is not a form of homeopathy. It exposes you to the agent that causes a disease so your immune system can recognize them later on. Homeopathic logic implies you can get cured from lead poisoning by ingesting small amounts of lead (shoot yourself with small caliber bullets to develop immunity to larger caliber bullets, lol) which is fucking insane, you're only adding more of what's killing you into the mix - which is not the point of vaccines. Vaccines can only work on things your antibodies can destroy. But they go a step further and dilute the solution to the point it's physically impossible for molecules of the original compound to even be there.
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***** Have fun not being able to bully people on the streets because the 5' 100lb woman can put two in your chest before you lay a hand on her.
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>"lunch time" >implying you'd have the balls to do it during daylight
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***** >Implying you have the balls to face people on the terrain they have the advantage on
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+stephen degraaf he can drag me down to his level, the lower it gets the better. There's nothing like people showing their true colours by projecting murder fantasies at a parody of their own type of speech.
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+Abnormal Wrench it was a parody of your rhetorical devices. Glad you found them to be unfair. Feel free to apologize.
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***** I seem to have provoked a nervous breakdown. This is the problem with you people. Your scatterbrains are all over the place while the majority of the gun-rights people are focused on a common goal. That's why we win, and you will lose - then, now, forever. You can't argue for shit, I don't have enough insight into your day to day but you either clearly lack the intelligence to make a coherent argument or you've let hatred and bigotry cloud your judgement to the point you can't engage in a discussion without bringing up all the logical fallacies in the book. Now you've proven to be unstable, sending multiple comments 40 minutes apart like some sort of maniac. No gun person I've ever met would act like this, even online.
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I remember going to the countryside during vacations and seeing Lambo tractors everywhere.
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SheppardOfDeath if you're high, maybe. The NRA panders to a sizeable audience, they would never say that or they'd lose support while getting flak from both antis or moderates. It's perfectly legal to make binary explosive targets. It's illegal to put it on a fragmenting container or transporting it without a license. Not that terrorists care, but there's a lot of wild shit you can do inside private property. By the way, being allowed to possess something doesn't mean it has to be sold - you can only get tannerite before it's mixed. Grenades could be legal, only no arms manufacturer could (or would want to) sell it to you. None of my business if you lose an arm trying to make one. But if you do make one, it being illegal wouldn't have stopped you until governments can read your mind.
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deadpan237 Well, the Oklahoma city bomber and the Utoya shooter did more than just pressure cookers. Not being argumentative here, but if you want to terrorize civilians then a pressure cooker that fires off shrapnel everywhere is more than enough. It's not meant to flip over a LAV-3. But if you want to nearly level a building, then those two cowards are a prime example of how "more complex" explosives can be easily sourced compared to 155mm shells, which simply aren't laying around in the first world countries.
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The use of nuclear weapons, and by extent all the unecessary bombing of civilians, was wrong. The use of V1 and V2 against London was wrong. The firebombing of Dresden was wrong. The nuking of Japan was wrong.
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Levi Paladin So the use of V1 and V2 bombs against Londoners was righteous? I'm sorry, but I think I am qualified to judge that incinerating hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians is typically deemed unecessary just to get a few military targets within the city... because no qualification is necessary, we're talking about basic humanity here. If the Germans had dropped atom bombs in America everyone involved would have faced trial and been executed for war crimes. We just don't think of nuclear bombing of civilians as a war crime because history is written by the victor.
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Levi Paladin Nice cop out. You told me I was wrong but you can't be bothered to explain your reasoning. That's almost an admission of defeat. I read the arguments. Nuclear weaponry used on a city isn't a case of "collateral damage" because the whole purpose of nuking something is to wipe it off the Earth. And the leaflet drops occurred on several cities so the Japanese had no way of knowing their city was going to be nuked. You have not justified anything. Japan was absolutely crippled in terms of industrial capacity. The targets within Nagasaki and Hiroshima did not require the use of nuclear weapons to take out. The Japanese had very few artillery pieces capable of shooting down B-29s. Do you understand what a justification even is? You need to prove that the targets were vital for the defeat of Japan, that they could only be destroyed by nuclear weapons and that the human sacrifice was offset by the strategic goals. Right there your proposition fails, the human sacrifice greatly outweighed the strategic importance of the military targets since the US chose the cities based on the psychological impact of obliterating them and Japan wouldn't have been stopped due to the loss of their military targets alone. Not to mention that nuclear weapons were unecessary. Nuclear weaponry is indiscriminate in nature, you can't unleash it on civilians and say it's justified. Just like pulverizing Sarin or Anthrax on innocents.
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Back Up Only those convicted of war crimes. And the people who would have ordered the use of atomic weapons on American civilians, the members of the Luftwaffe high command which authorized the mission and the pilots themselves would have been convicted had they survived the war. Conversely, had Japan won the war for some miraculous reason, everyone from the brass right down to the crew members of the Enola Gay would have been executed for participating in what was clearly a war crime.
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Levi Paladin Emotional? I am being 100% logical. You're the emotional one, who thirsts for blood in revenge. You don't care about the facts, you just want death, death and more death. >"that you still didn't address my argument in" I just did, but clearly I am witnessing another failure of the school system because you can't read. >"the lives of soldiers on my side are more important than the civilians of my enemy" I hope your enemies have a shred of humanity and give you the mercy that you wouldn't give them. Because you're literally saying that if your enemy had people like you on their side, you would die despite being innocent.
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Back Up Purposeful killing of civilians or the use of weapons that cause unnecessary suffering are considered war crimes. >"And here you have demonstrated your lack of knowledge. Do you also believe that Japan was unjust in its initial assault on pearl harbor?" Relevancy?
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Back Up Except that the nuclear weapons were not necessary to destroy the military targets, to anyone with more than half a brain the use of a nuclear weapon within a city is purposeful mass murder of innocent civilians. >"Demonstrating your lack of supposed knowledge" Knowledge about what? You asked a very broad question and it wasn't clear what you wanted to hear. >"The fact that you asked about its relevancy further proves my point" Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, so you've proven nothing. We're literally talking about nuking innocent people and you want to grasp at straws and ask "gotcha" questions? I'm not obligated to deviate from the topic at hand, which is that innocent civilians have the right to not be massacred by nuclear fire.
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Back Up >"They were necessary to force an immediate surrender." You're making my point for me. You've abandoned the legitimate military target excuse. You just admitted that an illegitimate target was attacked for the purpose of mass murder - shock and awe. >"If your answers are based on what someone wants to hear, you clearly aren't knowledgeable about world war 2 at all." "What you want to hear" = exactly what the fuck are you asking because it was a bullshit question. How far do you want me to go back when talking about Pearl Harbor? Gunboat Diplomacy? I don't understand the context of the question itself. >"I doubt you even realize that the soviets were fighting Japan as well." Which was one of the reasons that forced the Japanese surrender. You're shooting yourself in the foot now. >"Except they don't. 'Rights' are a complete fabrication." So you've just undermined the whole concept of moral and law. Wow. Tell me, if rights are a fabrication, shouldn't that mean I should kill you right now because you've just admitted that you are a threat to me or others by not respecting rights? I mean, if you have no respect for my right to live, or if such a right doesn't exist, wouldn't I be justified in ending your life to prevent future damage? >"which saved both the lives of many US soldiers" So by implying that a land invasion was necessary you're admitting you don't know about the successful naval blockade and the fact that the Japanese aviation industry could never catch up to the B-29.
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biGGA Duarte I assume you're replying to me, but the US is a country made up of states that are supposed to have a federal level. The "federal EU" project is something they're trying to impinge on very different countries when we're not supposed to have it.
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If you're watching this video chances are you already have an OS.
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@g.hon.4645 The Taliban never fought the USSR. The Taliban were a bunch of "religious crusaders" who entered Afghanistan from the Pakistan border area and took advantage of the Afghan civil war after the Soviets left. When the Taliban appeared, the US continued to back the mujahedin Northern Alliance. In 2001 when the US invaded Afghanistan, the first SOF units who showed up fought side by side with Northern Alliance fighters against the Taliban.
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@nzuncovered1845 Who said anything about Syria? The conversation was about Afghanistan.
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@nzuncovered1845 We supported the Kurds. Now what? You're gonna lie and say the Taliban fought the USSR even though they weren't in Afghanistan at the time?
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Japan thought a quick decapitation strike would allow them to control the Pacific. That's how it started.
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@poiu477 "armored" ground attack aircraft have been brought down by MANPADS with 1kg warheads.
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The leaders of both texit and calexit have made numerous trips to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Yeah there's schizos who believe in the movement but it's not real, those organizations are lead by puppets.
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No, they were looking at the pod. Object was too distant for visual.
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Don't startle them and get a court order to deem them unfit to manage their own affairs.
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California has a ton of gun laws. Back in the Summer of Love one youtuber (former military) tried to kit up and join the National Guard to help but was arrested.
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It's like the 5th time a Russian military base gets blown up.
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The A-10 has already been replaced. Most CAS is performed by multirole fighters and the B-1 Lancer.
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@Drew Peacock So the facts are nonsense? Still in denial, I see.
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@sadwingsraging3044 You are a child.
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@Drew Peacock I've already linked you evidence of F-16s and F-18s performing low level CAS. You're denying reality.
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@sadwingsraging3044 You can't even insult someone without repeating yourself. My condolences for your missing brain hemisphere.
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@sadwingsraging3044 the F-4 G, J, N, S, K and M did not have guns.
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@Drew Peacock They've been "adequately" performing most of CAS missions since the early 2000s while the A-10 gets less and less.
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Russia can't even beat the Ukrainian air force.
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 @crombee8947 Bitcoin is too volatile.
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He's been constantly wrong since Feb 2022. He's a terrible analyst.
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YouTube doesn't have a monopoly.
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I thought we were confiscating yachts, why would we need to buy them?
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They tried in the Battle of Kasham. Look up what happened.
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Eating testosterone? You mean eating high fat?
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Radar uses active emissions and passive listening. Cameras just passively pick up light with a sensor. It's possible to flood a sensor but impossible to direct specific pixels to receive a color to simulate blur.
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@johndeaux8815 So how are they detecting cameras passively and bending light that goes into the sensor? If we leave cameras around facing mirrors, would they pick up the UFOs clearly? They'd detect the cameras but not the mirrors which are not electronic, so they wouldn't bend the light properly to cause blur.
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The wall of lead is typically radar guided.
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Not addressing security leaks is exactly how nuclear codes get out. By not addressing the small leak you're asking for the dam to break.
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@hansweissmann_xviii6754 No, you buy a better history book. You watched bad History Channel documentaries. I actually read the military reports on missile effectiveness.
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@abarratt8869 It's too hard to have multirole aircraft? Virtually every 4th gen fighter is multirole.
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@Gorilla_Jones Wild Weasels cannot protect close air support from SHORAD.
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@tSp289 The hover does not matter much for counter insurgency, and fixed wing COIN aircraft can pretty much take off from dirt roads. Either way, most helicopters are stationed in air bases with runways anyway.
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Yes, tell me about the dark web hitmen. Please record a video about you buying from those scammers, it will be hilarious.
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@loganinkosovo I don't listen to the Pentagon. I listen to common sense. I know it's the truth? Then send your money to those websites. Please. I know the ads are out there. Buy. Put your money where your mouth is.
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Both Ukraine and Russia have blown up Ukrainian bridges. The reasons Russia's attacks are terror is because they want civilian casualties to matter more than the damage. Ukraine just wants to limit supplies to troops.
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That's missing the point. As much as one would hate a fiat currency, there has to be permeability between crypto and fiat to remain useful in the real world. Pegging a crypto to USD protects against volatility in the crypto sphere, but keeping a foot on the crypto world allows you to beat inflation. If you take your stablecoins and exchange them to an unpegged coin when you see issues with the dollar, you retain your savings while everyone else holding the pegged coin is going to get wiped out. A buoy can help you not drown at sea but if you hold on to it for too long you can still die from hypothermia.
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 @oceanaxim It's hogwash. Conspiracy bait.
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Then the Soviets and the US made an agreement to remove nukes from Turkey and Cuba. If the Soviet Union could negotiate, then Russia has no excuse.
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Gerasimov is not seen as a contender for the top spot. You're probably thinking of Patrushev.
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Did you watch the video? They are watching, so people ENCRYPT messages so that they can't be read. This is an attack on encryption itself so that you can't hide.
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You can't actually trade it at that value. Nobody is going to buy rubles off you for that price.
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Over a thousand F-35s built means support and parts for decades to come.
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Did you miss the entire explanation on how it punishes small content creators?
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@moritamikamikara3879 Wagner actually can't even exist. PMCs are illegal in Russia. They are in a grey zone.
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1. But he was able to share it, just not in public. Whistleblowing can be done behind closed doors. 2. Snowden had the balls to reveal spying on telecommunications. If someone did have real evidence of aliens and a coverup, but wouldn't just YOLO it and flee the country, no balls. Either stand for what you believe in or stop wasting our time.
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How fired up would you be knowing that even years after the war, someone with a grudge will wire your car ignition to a bomb? Not worth fighting for the sake of a blogger.
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@jaredschultz7358 And how are a bunch of people following the war on their couch seeing a blogger as one of their own? They're not soldiers. They're content consumers.
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Taking over a quarter of a country that uses terrain as buffer is not a useful metric. May I remind you that Russia took over a bunch of territory they later abandoned? They're struggling bad because Russia has a larger stockpile of artillery and munitions, which allows them to enjoy a 10:1 advantage where they choose to push forward. The only way to solve it is counter-battery and continuing to hit ammo dumps to deny artillery advantage.
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"Anyone not living in the USA actually realizes that Trump is a joke megalomaniac and the worst president in the history of your country." - that's wrong. As someone outside the US, I think Obama is vastly worse. As bad a Trump has been, I applaud some things like his abort of the attack on Iran. Previous presidents like Bush, Bush Sr, Obama or Clinton would have bombed Iran.
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Half the missiles fired at Ukrainian airfields missed, check the satellite photos.
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A-10s are extremely vulnerable to air defenses. Something else would have to hit the convoy first, and the A-10s would only come later to mop up what's left.
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Death Star was an inside job. Look up the Dancing Ewoks.
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The movie is easily comprehensible.
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Kherson was abandoned by Russia a week ago. The footage is old and can be shared.
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If I think "you're wearing purple, you must be one of those fags" and shoot you, I go to jail. If I think the same, and you turn back and start beating me because you don't like how I looked at you, if you get shot it's not my fault. Did Zimmerman's actions lead to the shooting? Well, eveyrone's actions lead to something. Forgetting to turn off the coffee machine in Chile can kill someone in China. Call me stupid, but at least I understand how the law works. Zim deserved misdemeanor charges.
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If you fly low, the AGM-65 seeker can't pick p the target.
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@topmodelbaby100 Don't think about the household object. Your initial premise was that some weapons are okay to own and others are objectionable. So the blue car is okay, and the white coffee pot is okay. But the red car and the black coffee pot? Well now we have to start asking questions. Don't think about the household object, focus on why you're okay with some things and not with others. I'm pretty sure it's not legal to own bombs in Scandinavia. Guns are legal. So why are you using Reductio Ad Absurdum tactics? You mentioned Scandinavia. Now you're narrowing down to Denmark. Okay. I'm still going to point out that AR-15s are legal in other Scandinavian countries, Germany, Poland, France, etc. so I don't think it's particularly relevant to try and narrow down the area of interest.
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Not really.
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 @keithlillis7962 US pilots also called the F-4 the "lead sled". The F-4 is the world's biggest distributor of MiG parts.
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 @keithlillis7962 the F-4s were lost in high speed ambushes, not due to lack of guns. Stop repeating 20 year old History Channel fiction.
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@wantanamera Cartels.
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@mahadevovnl A child is more likely to die in the US from lighting strike than mass shooting. Amazing how you cover up massive violence which has claimed the lives of thousands by using the good old whataboutism.
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The other side is busy complaining about biolabs and combat mosquitos.
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I hate to lecture people, but all of those who were afraid of this happening had to stand their ground. Because so many left the country, now those who don't want to go to war are lacking in numbers and feel isolated. If 500,000 men started beating the snot out of Moscow police who'd be able to stop them?
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@trollmastermike52845 The problem is that others protecting their own shipping has twofold problems - everyone will be "protecting" shipping as they see fit (such as demanding massive fees or outright taking part in privateering) or just trade stopping altogether. You'll feel a lot more in your wallet once costs of goods rocket past inflation estimates and jobs get wiped out.
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Russia was hiding their manpower shortages with "ghost BTGs". Instead of 600-700 people they had ~40 people and artillery observers. With shelling they could stop Ukrainian probing attacks so it was impossible to determine where the weak defenses were. Somehow Ukraine found out, and thanks to the shortage of shells and drones, the attack either killed, captured or scared the artillery observers. This created a deadzone of several miles through which the AFU could push without artillery barrages. And then the defenses were so weak everyone on the Russian realized they'd be massacred so they dropped their weapons and ran.
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Budapest Memorandum. The US thought Ukraine's nukes were a security issue, so the US made it their war to begin with by guaranteeing security.
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@LondonSteveLee The teen series fighters had hundreds scrapped in accidents and dozens of pilots killed. The F-35 only had one loss of life incident so far, a couple crashes and a couple ground fires.
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@LondonSteveLee Okay. So the old teen series were known for having about 50 crashes and half a dozen pilots killed because we halved the first decade to 5 years. The F-35 still seems to beat them.
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Trillions spent in the US every single year. Nothing. 70 billion given to Ukraine, and they do something useful with it. Seems like they're better at using the money.
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There's a difference between forgiveness and being stupid. I can look over a dodgy past but a person has to come clean, if they come with the sob story about being cancelled by antifa and then immediately start charging 100 bucks to access a secret club we can't just look the other way.
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This, but unironically.
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"Peace loving" lol then encourages genocide You're a legit psychopath
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Buddy aircraft have limits.
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Way back then football had pretty weird rules and wasn't as different from rugby as it it today. For example the goal not having a cross beam on top, allowing yo to score by kicking at any height. Without looking it up I'd assume the sport of football only standardized the ruleset to the sport we have today after it already been in America.
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 @attilamarics3374 Reports by whom? Russia claims to have destroyed the Ukrainian air force three times over.
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Blitzkrieg is a term made up by the press. What people think a blitzkrieg is, is essentially maneuver warfare and combined arms. A thunder run is less conventional in the sense that you're still concentrating some force, but you use the breakthrough to gain temporary safety by going deep and thus evading enemy recon - your speed keeps you alive. That's why the attack is so risky, you may get bogged down, face too much resistance, get your lines of communication severed and trapped, etc. If you're just maneuvering in a conventional manner your advances are covered and you are more armed, better protected, etc but you also face the enemy frontline troops.
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The material isn't that special. It's an obvious choice. It's dense, and sectional density is important for penetration. It's hard, so it wouldn't deform as much as other materials. Tungsten cores are already used in armor piercing rounds of various calibers, from small arms to discarding fin sabots fired from tanks.
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Bobby Brady the EU is fascist but neo-liberal, not left wing.
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@positroll7870 justifying an expensive program because it saves an industry is just avoiding calling it what it is: a bailout.
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Iliyan but chemicals are increasing hermaphroditism in frogs...
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"Quickly"
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Cooling is relevant to volume, electronics that pump out heat have a limit to their operation and thus the aircraft must be capable of keeping temperatures lower than this limit. An external pod has little outside area to serve as cooling. An internal system could have the electronics cooled by the aircraft systsems or have the heat directed through an exchanger to preheat fuel before injection, etc.
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@alphaspartan It wasn't celebrated in Greece, just "tolerated". Either way stuff that happened hundreds of years or even two thousand years ago have nothing to do with the topic. The topic is MAPs. MAPs weren't a thing until the 2010s. Nobody called themselves MAPs. People with the same intentions had groups like NAMBLA. They didn't use the term "MAP".
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They used the "oppressed population" as human shields. They conscripted them in 2022 and used them in "recon by fire" aka let the enemy fire at you so we can spot their positions.
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Wasn't Gerasimov watching the Vostok 2022 exercises with Putin?
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You do realize that it was stated, clear as day, no ifs or buts, from the very start that it didn't prevent transmission, right? Initially the mask mandates would be dropped for those who had taken it but it was reversed in about a week. If you had become infected you'd still have transmitted it and infected your relatives. It was an "egotistical shot", it only protected YOU and YOU ALONE. This was reiterated multiple times in 2021.
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 @realfoggy You can literally track Forte on flightradar
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Ukraine is in the corner and Russia has the whole damn house. Russia can just leave and this is over. They have a billion corners to go into in their country. Stop repeating this nonsense.
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It wasn't a coup. The government voted to havd elections.
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There was no precision bombing in WW2 so you had to carpet entire cities in bombs to get the factories and rail hubs.
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@cozyojk571 It's extremely hard to land bombs on factories. It was WW2. Firebombing can definitely be used to destroy buildings. That was for example how the US crippled Japanese industry, it was easier to set fires and have those destroy the factories than trying to hit them directly.
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@cozyojk571 Right. But how else do you destroy factories, especially after large ones are dispersed across smaller plants?
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@coogrfan No, OP essentially said that the NFZ could not have been enforced over Serbia, even though it was. This is unrelated to Russia or Russian defense systems or NATO escalation. Please read. You're creating an argument over a really minor correction.
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@coogrfan This isn't about Russia. Serbia's defenses were very capable for the time and size of the country, and they even managed to survive US SEAD operations. Don't know what nukes have to do with NFZs enforced in the past, since this isn't about Russia.
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@coogrfan Did you read my comment? It's the third comment you have posted in reply to what I said. Yes, it's simple - a claim was made. I pointed out the claim isn't entirely accurate. That's all. I never said anything regarding the effort required or the capabilities, I didn't mention the Middle East (even though US and Israeli air forces have had to operate around defenses in Syria). OP said that the enforcement of a NFZ required the non-existence of defenses, and I simply stated that Serbian defenses remained operational. Serbia was and still isn't a nuclear armed power, so again I will ask you again to please read. This isn't about Russia, stop trying to argue with me about Russia.
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@PappyGunn I don't know how any of that is related to what I said.
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Got accused of being an NRA bot jfc they just shove their head in the sand
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There was no excution, the Russian soldiers faked a surrender to kill Ukrainians so they were dealt with accordingly.
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They used Shaheds and S-300s to make up for lack of missiles. Have you memoryholed that?
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Because it was.
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@will24655 it doesn't take SAS or Navy SEALs to wreck the lead vehicle to make them all stop, fire Javelins at whatever has a turret and optics on top, and then fire whatever unguided tube launched AT weapon at the rest. Or better, it doesn't take special operations for a drone to drop a spicy present on top of them.
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@wc3478 the Cheyenne was cancelled because it was delayed for so long Lockheed was still trying to figure out how to solve analog control problems by the time digital controls were getting introduced. Also LBJ had links to Bell helicopter. The courts determined the Cheyenne, A-10 and Harrier could coexist. So drop the conspiracy.
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To be fair, the US was working behind the scenes to lock Germany out of the stategic materials market.
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They've changed the types of missiles used. At this point they're using anti-ship missiles on ground targets. I swear, people are simpletons.
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@MatoVuc It means they're trying to save weapons. What's the point of saving expenditure rate if they have munitions to spare? You can fire anti-ship missiles from aircraft.
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@MatoVuc If you're using "simpler and cheaper" (and missing) it's because you can't afford to use your good stuff. Artillery and cruise missiles are different. A better analogy is using less cruise missiles of one type versus another, or less artillery of one type versus another. It's not a waste if you can afford it. If you can't afford it, the fact that you can't waste means you have to care about your targets. And now you're missing because you can't afford to properly equip your forces.
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@cattraknoff bullshit lol then why is the F-16 one of the best planes ever built?
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@Lonewolfmike you do realize short wings don't mean much when the fuselage provides lift as well, right?
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The US has the land mass and industrial capabilities to have black project aircraft and test them in remote areas.
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@@milannikioo916 They defended. And paid the full cost for their folly.
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Meanwhile Russia is selling out its daughters to China.
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@thepilotman5378 IRST, not FLIR
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The game handwaves that away with the recovery of the ACS module from the crashed satellite. Russia cracked the US security network. Price and Soap attempt to get the module in Cliffhanger.
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"The point is to stop a pandemic" - If that was the point you wouldn't have called people racist for noticing something was happening in Wuhan. You people insisted on not taking action. Then you brought on government mandates by the time it was too late to stop it. "why the fuck would you take on the added risk to yourself and your families" - Hold on, now I have to wear a mask at home? "Asian countries that were close to China, used masks from the get go of the outbreak and were able to control their numbers very well." - They also immediately started quarantines for travelers and contact tracing. You people said it was racist to think travelers could be carrying the virus. You people said it was the flu. You people said only doctors know how to wear masks correctly. And by the time it was too late, you people decided it was the goddamn plague. To hell with your blatant revisionism.
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The tank sights are already monitors, though. Gunner and commander have their own.
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 @mmaximk Which former officer? Name him.
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 @Reasonablyneutral ATACMS is guided by internal INS and GPS is only used to correct INS drift. The GPS constellation is open to everyone, even Russian pilots use Garmin GPS.
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"engaging artillery pieces" - Already being done with artillery and drone-dropped grenades. "The GAU-8 had kills on T62s and T-72s during the gulf war so I don't understand how you can spend 10 minutes arguing that it can't kill them now" - Pilots had to dump ammo on them and circle around until they saw fire. A missile and they exploded in one shot. Waste of ammo to strafe them. Su-25s are unable to loiter. They release rockets and turn back. The A-10 would suffer the same fate - rocket launching platform.
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@pyrioncelendil There's other systems like the IAI Harop.
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Even gaming channels were threatened with de-verification.
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Those soldiers are needed to protect Russia's massive borders. Also, if they're all busy in Ukraine that makes a coup in Russia so much easier.
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@andressolar517 Russia got slaughtered last Winter. Do you remember the footage of mangled dead Russians laying on their armored vehicles from February/March?
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Because terrorists talk on the phone and social media.
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What about the southern hemisphere?
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Yeah and you think his generals will nuke the Western cities where their own kids live? Even Putin complained about it in a speech, all the oligarchs put their kids in Western universities and buy them houses in London, NYC, etc. Maybe the button will work to get him a Diet Coke.
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Because whatever tried to carry bombs there would get shot down by S-300 or Buk.
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What the fuck is wrong with the people at Avis? I don't have twitter but someone better have @'ed them.
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Only the guns and ammo will be worth anything. Real life isn't a game where you'll find a trader where you click "sell" to trade gold. If nobody else needs gold, it's worthless.
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This is just strength gains, or purely neurological gains.
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The cheap CNC machine will most likely require restoration because it's probably clapped out hence the price, it's probably going to cost more to transport it and put it in your house than it cost to purchase, and in the end a huge amount of people simply has no space or way to have a CNC in their home.
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But why introduce that middle step?
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Meaningless metric. The size if the UK is irrelevant, what's relevant is how much it cost Russia for those gains.
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@imrekalman9044 Almost nothing.
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He didn't cancel elections. The Ukrainian constitution forbids him from forcing elections.
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 @londonberry2180 Yeah because Russia proper invaded, and said their soldiers got lost in exercises...
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That's extremely wrong, considering that a hundred early F-35s were upgraded to a newer Block variant. Decades ago, those hundreds of planes would be sent to the boneyard with just a few years of service.
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Was it actually him in the Audi R8? I heard it was just a doppelganger.
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Ben, mentally prepare yourself. Russia will be defeated again. There's no plan.
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Tons of ammo was found. It's just piles and piles of it.
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@rayf2127 How do you know police is coming?
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@scottfrazier8105 Doesn't matter if the people attacking Rittenhouse were choir boys. What matters is they attacked.
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@scottfrazier8105 I don't go off the media's take. I go off my desire to not be approached by gunmen on the street because I look like some criminal.
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Post the full quote.
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 @OddZodd But people being dumb is bad for business. Public schooling became a thing because illiterate peasants couldn't work in factories.
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@beastroll8777 bullshit. The German nuclear program was terribly slow due to the loss of Jewish scientists and their heavy water plant got destroyed by British and Norwegian commandos. Not to mention Germany was in an unwinnable position due to oil. They simply could not win due to logistics alone.
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@YorkerEli Ukraine is fighting for survival. Russia is just invading and losing.
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@morbidlisa292 I don't have a 4k camera on my phone
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Another person who doesn't understand math. There's 3 million refugees as of now. 13 billion means 4,333 dollars for each. How do you become a multimillionaire on 4 thousand dollars?
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First, there's linux users in the world. Second, this isn't about windows but the encryption of messages.
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That's just 50 more for the meat grinder. 50 people who can operate a defensive missile battery are worth their weight in gold because enemy attacks from the air can wipe out more than 50 infantrymen in a single pass. Those 50 people can prevent the meat grinder. Not to mention that 50 people in the front will not be able to win much of a war if an enemy can simply fly over your factories and power plants unopposed. What point is 50 extra people in the frontline if the enemy can win by simply erasing your entire economy and sending you back to the stone age?
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@simpslayer7839 We've seen Russian-built systems get demolished by Azerbaijan with drones and the Russian-operated defenses in Syria get penetrated by B-1Bs with standoff weapons. Whatever they have, I'm not sold on it.
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Trump commits the same crimes as Obama, Bush Jr, Clinton, Bush Sr: I sleep Trump removes protesters to take a photo: REAL SHIT?
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McNamara didn't do that, Army Ordnance did.
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Cope. The Mujahideen were backed to destabilize the Kabul government. This js stabilizing the Kiev government.
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 @TheRealBillBob But Russians complain that because of Ukrainian drone videos, they're using drones for grenade drops instead of recon. They fell for the psyops.
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@TheRealBillBob What translator?
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@1stIParkMyCar At this point it's on my bucket list to get 2AM subway in Chicago. There should be a travel agency promoting pilgrimage to notorious hate crime hoaxes.
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Twist rate is irrelevant. You'd need a twist rate so tight it would be threading rather than rifling to make it stable in tissue. Whenever it goes into tissue, it's already massively unstable.
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It was written by an insane man who blamed everyone else for his problems.
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Ironic considering that early Hk416s had issues with suppression and HK had to add a front vent on the gas block to bleed off excess pressure. Imagine being one of the MR556 owners who had to drill their gas block because you thought piston drive would solve suppressor woes.
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"Sink your own flagship and destroy your own airbase to win" - Sun Tzu
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I remember the early days of broadband, my country had no BF2 servers, so I played in an Italian server with 150-180 ms. It was a little rough but playable, I could even snipe decently. But when a UK server with 50-60 ms started to get populated in the afternoon, oh yeah that was awesome.
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People expected it to remain coherent with the first movie, this actively runs counter to it and undoes the original arc.
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@calholli "Getting that rifle up and running for $400 or less is such a huge savings that I don't mind needing to do a little extra work" - The issue is that those savings come from all the people who don't know any better. PSA is skipping QC and passing those savings down to you, because they know that in the firearms business there's a huge portion of sales that go to people that only shoot their stuff at the 4th of July BBQ or something like that. "If I could buy vehicles in parts kits like this, I would" - And that's exactly why you can't. Everyone would return their cars and the manufacturer would go out of business trying to keep everyone satisfied. PSA gets by on most customers not being knowledgeable enough to even understand they have a lemon or actually shoot enough to figure out it has flaws.
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@colby1398 "Military usually uses the cheapest shit they can get that meets spec" - Which is why PSA gets all the contracts. Oh wait. Also, the Marines - of all branches - went HK. Go figure that one out.
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@user-cq6km9vq2m "Anyone with any real gun knowledge knows that department /agency purchases are done by back channel buddy connections, and not outright bids" - That still doesn't answer the question of how many departments issue or approve PSA. I'm sorry, but are all the small town PDs in cahoots with Sig and S&W?
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@calholli Religious beliefs about what? You pointed to an example and your own example bought PSAs to use as essentially drop guns while he keeps the good stuff to himself. Don't lay this on me now. "PSA is BOOMING by the way, and it's not because their stuff doesn't work" - Sure. It's in spite of. "or just buy the anderson for cheap" - Why would I?
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@calholli What truth or evidence? You're asking me to spend money on a product I don't need. There's no truth or evidence on a hypothetical. I don't need to purchase that product. Believe what bad things? That I get what I pay for? It's you who's saying that's bad. And that's the problem with you people, you can't be content with what you have so you need to come to the internet to play this game where you claim that you got more than what you paid for, even though you freely admit that the company is essentially passing the savings down to you by skipping QC. He bought 25 rifles because it's gives him the minimum viable product for the money, while if he "invested" in high dollar items he'd have less available. However, they're still handout rifles by your own account. The definition of nothing to write home about. What feeling? I can link you pictures of a comparison between an Aero and Anderson lower. The Anderson is clearly a much rougher product. Verifiable, tangible evidence of differences in how the rifles are manufactured. I don't have 2500 dollar rifles. You're punching air. What lying eyes? You can clearly see or even feel with your fingers the difference between a low tier and a good budget rifle. You have a direct personal experience fixing what PSA doesn't bother to fix in their complete rifles. That's great. That's not an endorsement.
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@calholli At this point you have to be kidding me. If I run my finger over the inside of one of the pin holes, and I look at my finger tip and it's all cut, there's a burr in there. The manufacturer didn't care that the burr could interfere with how a pin works and shipped the part out the door. I'm not talking about "feel" as some kind of esoteric quality, I'm talking about actually putting my hands on a product and finding out that the manufacturer uses their mills like drunken monkeys without even needing calipers or gauges. I don't care how dented your truck is. There's difference between cosmetic damage, and the manufacturer pumping stuff out the door. A dented fender doesn't impact how well the vehicle runs, but the manufacturer having a misaligned engine mount and hammering it to fit is shameful. You insist on talking about cosmetic damage (that you caused, at least for the analogy pretend the dealer kicked your car body panels before selling it to you) but the insides are machined with the same carelessness too. I'm not looking at gaps in the doors, I'm looking at gaps in the exhaust and leaking coolant. Again, it's not about "fit and finish", it's "there's critical dimensions here that are not up to spec and you people don't care enough to reject this in a QC step".
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@calholli Okay. But you understand that after something is in violation of milspec, I can't trust the rest of the product to meet milspec. It's not my job to do QC for subpar products and then wait for a return. You might think you're smart for beating the market, but the fact is that even PSA shills will freely admit to have sent product back. If everyone did their due diligence with PSA, they'd have a rise in costs because dealing with returns is more expensive than QC. Nobody said anything about spending 5x the price. You people are a riot because you refuse to accept that a slight increase in price gets you "name brand" quality and accuse everyone of paying 5x for an AR.
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 @jtjames79 Secret aircraft are constantly exposed. The F-117 sightings were common, and the government just made it public anyway.
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If you want to protect property, then be on the actual right place. If you go around illegally performing citizen's arrests, you are liable for deaths that occur as a result of your crimes.
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@casematecardinal That's riddiculous. Aircraft are not sent to 1v1 fights, chasing down a F-35 without AMRAAMs still means a few F-35s with a couple of them left are close by.
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@Sophistry0001 when things suck equally at least there's consistency.
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@Ram-1231 most prisoners in Russia are not fit. They suffer from HIV, TB, etc.
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So we'll have to tank our economies, stop driving, stop eating meat, etc because people don't want geological repositories in their state? That's great. Not missing the forest for the trees at all.
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@DartJedi It's not about all or nothing, we're being told that our energetic needs make our standards of living unsustainable. While staring down the barrel of such an extremist, anti-human stance we should be clinging to our means of delivering clean power. But people raise a fuss. Do you not see the issue? Fast buck? One of the critiques of nuclear power is how long it takes to recoup the investment. The people who borderline call for a command economy, at least in the energy and transportation sector, actually raise this issue! The longer the half-life the safer it is. Obviously the cars wouldn't have nuclear reactors, they'd have batteries charged by the grid. The issue is, an EV charged by a grid that isn't green is still an offender against the net zero goals.
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By visual confirmed losses alone, Vuhledar cost a force larger than some European armies.
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The USAF isn't lacking jets that could be used for training. The A-10 is worn out and lacking spare parts. No point. Removing the gun would cause it to become tail heavy.
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@haplozetetic9519 Saying researchers are going to remove the danger is riddiculous. They clearly failed with the spike protein and refused to admit the mistake.
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@haplozetetic9519 What CCP? Who said anything about the CCP? I'm talking about our own Western, supposedly "democratic", governments and their institutions lying to us. Sure, not every individual or organization is evil. But most are complicit. They had the duty to speak truth to power and only a handful of times have they done it.
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>And do you honestly believe and want to argue that just because some king/warlord/politician quotes some theology, their motives are truly based on the theology? Quote the part where I said that. That's right, I didn't. If you really want to stand by what you just said, don't act like EVERYONE under the orders of totalitarian regimes were Atheists. >all you are doing is picking parts of history you like and dismissing others Except I didn't. GG.
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There's a pressing need - the Russian air force is limited in capabilities over Ukraine. The Su-57 would secure air superiority and help disable air defenses.
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@MrJturner74 can't wait for all the people painting wrong signs on roads or messing with sensors to cause them to stop or crash
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@MrJturner74 Convoy sounds good in the open highway, disaster in actual practice. The point of trucks is that they can get to the door of businesses and even drive into warehouses. So you can have thousands of them going back and forth in all directions at any given time. If you're running a snake of containers down the highway and they're all robots that follow the leader, you might as well just send the goods by train. When the human driver needs to stop for his mandated rest time, where does the convoy park? Most truck stops wouldn't be able to handle that many autonomous trucks parking at the same time.
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They'll train surviving direct hits from 155mm shells. They only get one chance.
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Not really. The UN is evil.
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They're upgraded to fight the global war on terrorism so their features are based around flying over the enemy with impunity. Without the targeting pods, it's worse than the Su-25.
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@JohnDoe-jh5yr tax cuts increase revenue. The problem is out of control spending.
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@JohnDoe-jh5yr because you're not reducing the amount paid. Which is larger, 1% of a million or 90% of 1000?
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@JohnDoe-jh5yr it's an example, and you refused to answer. If you tax at 25%, businesses with thin margins will go under, businesses with good margins will make less money, the taxes will be passed down to the consumer and buy less, weakening the economy. You're not taking 25% of a billion. The billion won't be there for you to take from.
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@enriquelaroche5370 The US used diplomacy with the USSR on the Cuba matters.
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@enriquelaroche5370 There's no war against Russian speakers. The war is against terrorists working for Russia.
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@enriquelaroche5370 Taiwan is the home of the Chinese government which was deposed by the communists. The Taiwanese were not foreign people who conquered the island. They were Chinese people who got kicked out of mainland China. They are not separatists, they were forced out.
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They can get through mine fields, it's just harder when people shoot at you. Remove their source of ammo.
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"You don't want a $150 million mach 2 airplane doing close ground support." - Actually, you do. The less time it takes to arrive on scene, the longer your troops live."armour plated" - heavy, useless against missiles.
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Wrong. They fought poinlessly for Kherson while the Eggman general convinced Putin to withdraw. If they wanted to save troops, they'd have sensed Kherson was a trap and fled. Instead, they moved troops from Kharkiv to defend Kherson, leading to their brothers in the North to get mowed down. The sunk cost fallacy now demanded fighting fo Kherson despite the Antonovsky bridge and Nova Khakovka attacks leading to supplies being constrained by ferry.
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The new wings were made by Boeing. They're entirely new production.
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@joshuabower61 You think it's cheaper to maintain older aircraft? Billions? There isn't a single production fighter aircraft that costs a billion. Even the F-22 at its highest price was around 300 million.
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@joshuabower61 The problem is that you frame the A-10 replacement in a way that doesn't actually make sense. The A-10 only performed 20% of CAS since the early 2000s, and 11% since 2014. This means that the vast majority of CAS is already performed by other airframes, and thus the A-10 replacement already commenced. Aircraft already in inventory can replace the A-10 with no added cost. The A-10 "replacement" is just A-10 retirement in the end of the day.
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@roseanneroseannadanna9651 Not true. There was a 900 million contract for around ~100 aircraft, and another 1.1 billion contract for another 100-something. And that's just for wings. That's a TERRIBLE deal. It's not also 282 aircraft that are getting them. It's around 200 plus spares.
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 @roseanneroseannadanna9651 The A-10 won't survive the first pass.
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@johngalt3969 No. It's not sturdy in a world where a single hit shreds aircraft to pieces. The updates do nothing to make it survivable or cheaper.
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@GarysBBQSupplies It's expensive to keep in service due to age, it was proven ineffective in Desert Storm, it cannot operate on the level of austerity an actual COIN aircraft can.
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@credit__devin It's not flawed because you're also not considering the costs beyond manufacturing. Old aircraft also require billions to keep them in flying condition. Stop blaming the USAF and puppets. Name any other country that's still building A-10 style aircraft. There's no successor to the hog because nobody in the world is interested in one. Otherwise they'd be making it.
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@pescatoralpursuit1726 That's funny, but doesn't make the A-10 any better.
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@joebenson528 But its "longevity" is built entirely on a 700+ fleet being reduced to around 200-something of them. And when parts ran out, new ones had to be made at a great cost. By your own logic you could have longevity in your PSA by simply replacing the parts that are giving you trouble. Even if you take a $500 PSA and spend $500 to keep it running longer, you'd still have saved $700. I don't even know what this comparison was meant to prove, because the A-10 is a $500 PSA that cost $1,700 to keep running, because you're too cheap to get a $1,200 AR. That's the best analogy for the A-10.
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That a lie lol
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@jtswhitewater4940 Russian vehicles and uniforms are seen in drone footage. Rebels are killing Russians? I guess the vodka must be good.
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Did you miss the entire video where he addressed that?
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@YamnayaSintash So you didn't watch the video. He literally brought receipts on how Russia was not antagonized. The victim mentality was a re-writing of the events to fit the new Putin regime. He didn't say "Russia bad". He quite literally went back to show Putin saying "West isn't bad" at the time those things happened.
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An anti tank gun can take it out. A panzerfaust can take it out. A RPG-7 can take it out. A wire guided missile can take it out. A command line of sight missile can take it out. Every single time this was said, the tank survived.
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Add payroll tax and VAT to those 250 a month though.
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Russia is fighting the only war it can. What if they conscript Muscovites? Are they going to shoot PPShs and drive T-34s?
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Kathy Sharp you do realize houses are good investments, and valuable car collections hold their value, right?
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@deltawhiskey6732 in retrospective it was more obvious the second time reading.
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>Nobody is talking about starting an (underground) gun factory Neither was I. > In a few years, it's believed that 3D printers will be dirt cheap Totally reasonable, nobody had printers in their home in the 70's. The thing I wanted to get at is that you don't even need to own the 3d printer. There's hackerspaces in where you just pay for the materials cost and print away. People can do this right now without having to invest in 3d printers.
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Russia is INVADING, mobilization is an admission they already lost.
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@CaptainBogroll Yes.
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@r200ti Ritter enjoys children too much. Ask him why he spent time in prison.
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There's meat waves caught on video. Squads with very few weapons, no mechanization to avoid drawing drones. Creeping advances to fighting positions and to dig further up.
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@gipgap4 so let's just let culture get worse and people still die from other weapons?
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Small nukes existed before 2000. Look up Davy Crockett.
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Not really. The F-15EX is simply a corporate welfare gift so that the Boeing St. Louis plant can stay open.
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The Buks and S-300s will be waiting for them. God I want to see those Russian pilots burn.
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@WarNoob755 How don't I understand? Most modern hollow points barely have any energy after exiting the back of a torso. They're typically found inside the clothes of the person shot or just a few feet away from the body. The statistical likelihood of hitting an innocent bystander with a through and through is negligible. You're vastly much more likely to simply miss, and hit a bystander with a full power bullet.
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@WarNoob755 Yes. Anything that puts people down is usually designed to make it through a vital organ even after an oblique shot or if it has to penetrate an outstretched arm before entering the torso. So if you shoot someone square in the chest, it exits out the back very often.
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@WarNoob755 I see what you're doing. You're trying to narrow the definition of overpenetration to the point where your original argument doesn't matter. If the majority of modern ammunition can't kill someone after going through a person and by your own definition doesn't "overpenetrate", then your original post is absolutely meaningless. You don't have to worry about overpenetration after all, so why the hell did you bring it up? Some of you people, I swear...
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@WarNoob755 The one you made up?
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@WarNoob755 Glad to know that everyone discussing overpenetration was lying, then.
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Do not google "Slobodan Milosevic at the ICTY"
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The F-22 was cancelled because of people like Secretary Gates, Rumsfeld and McCain. It was an absolute travesty.
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@mack-ut4ft The aircraft wasn't, but the project was. It was supposed to have been a 700 aircraft production run. The USAF begged for 300-something. In the end only around 180 were built when the program was shut down.
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 @koskok2965 Moving the goalposts. This was about casualty rates and now you want to talk money.
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Reddit moment. Also, false.
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It's not vigilantism if you only shoot people attacking you.
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@stevemickler452 Nope. The guy who had his bicep vaporized also brought a gun. Was he a vigilante? Kyle is on trial, not the police. Convicting Kyle will not help you against the police.
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@stevemickler452 No, you said you blamed them. Not that they were vigilantes. So now my question is, since so many progressives supported leftist vigilantism, how can you question progressives now?
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@stevemickler452 Then who are you to question progressivism? That was your initial comment.
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@stevemickler452 It's not Vietnam anymore. And your own sentence says you should have learned the lesson. Police went there with guns. They were prepared to use violence on you. The "idea" doesn't matter. Ghandi, aside from being a massive racist and a child abuser, was only able to do his thing because the British happen to have one ounce of humanity in them, even though they don't seem to most of the time. MLK was not the only one involved in civil rights and even he had armed guards. That non-violence stuff doesn't work outside of very strict conditions. Kyle wasn't protesting. He was cleaning grafitti and putting out fires. He had no "idea". The people with the "ideas" attacked him. The people with the "ideas" justified his decision to be armed, to be protected from the crowd that decided to be violent. You come here and blatantly contradict yourself. So the police could protect itself from you during non-violent protests, but a good samaritan can't protect himself from a violent protest. He wasn't there to break up the protest, arrest anyone or issue citations. He had every right to protect himself and you question "progressives" for admitting that Kyle was right.
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The allies had the sleeping giant, the US. Able to fight a two front war while manufacturing stuff for Britain and the Soviet Union. Basically the allies had the cheat code in WW2. Logistics and manufacturing output won WWII not will/determination.
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 @stevenhartley318 We have videos of failed Ukrainian attacks and videos of failed Russian attacks. Sorry, but Russia is doing exactly what people say they are doing.
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@tristanbackup2536 Uh, okay? They still work the same, they fly up, come down, explode on top. It's impossible to armor the top of the tank against a large tandem warhead so it doesn't matter if the current warhead can penetrate 15% more than older ones could. And T-72s have been upgraded too, the T-72B3M standard or whatever is from 2016. Also, first in first out. The old stock gets sent first. So Ukrainians are probably firing Javs from the 1990s and 2000s while the US keeps the modern ones in their own inventory.
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So Moscow betrayed Armenia to cozy up to Azerbaijan?
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Clearing mines is easy when nobody is shooting at you.
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 @Biggestmac27 from the inside, yeah
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 @seanmorgan8128 But there's been months of Russia coming to Ukrainians. It's Russia crossing no man's land and stepping on landmines.
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Nice novel. It's full of lies.
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You don't have to fly low since the 1990s. In fact it is not recommended. 7 A-10s/OA-10 were lost in Desert Storm.
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Yes, it has seen combat. It dropped JDAMs in Syria.
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Death rates are increasing from other reasons. Cancer and heart condition deaths are up. Diabetes also seems to be on the rise.
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What part of "you'll always be 8-12 months behind of new variants due to the time it takes to manufacture and distribute billions of doses worldwide" doesn't make sense?
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It's not terrorism. It's a sepcial denazifying operation.
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A RT presenter quit live on air in 2014. They can say they allow press freedom, then not hold their end of the bargain once the contract is signed.
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Why did they ask Belarus for ammo?
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@ViIgax I don't want to split hairs but there's a difference between a company being so afraid of the mob they'd rather throw you under the bus than face the crowd and tell them to grow up, and the police taking you to a room where you're handcuffed to a table and forced to apologize and admit everything you said was a mistake. The first is a consequence of hyper-connectivity and over-socialization that we need to address as social illnesses, the second is the CCP flexing its muscle because it can.
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He's probably forcing an accent to "fit in".
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Now I'm thinking of Downfall subtitles memes.
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Remember when everyone threw a fit about Alienware being unable to ship to California due to their systems not being rated for low power usage on idle?
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Did he explain why he was caught twice trying to look for young girls on nthe internet?
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@wecoolwecoolbounce5191 I am not actually a big MJ fan, I just saw a huge case of fake news ruining a person's life and those things affect a reasonable person. What am I denying? False accusations. There are good things to deny. I also deny the bullshit Flat Earth arguments, that's not a bad thing. The case against MJ is just as valid as FE.
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Okay. And the strategic rocket forces are going to use the nukes and end the world all because the Tsar can't let go? They'll sell the nukes to us in exchange for retirement.
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What value was added to the world when a central bank decides to print a few billion on a whim?
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@Jake-bt3fc You don't get what's "supposed", you get what the government gives. Energy is only a factor for proof of work.
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@Jake-bt3fc First of all, you clearly didn't even understand my post. I said there's alternatives to proof of work. Second, proof of work isn't "turning" anything into an "economy" - it's how trust is enforced by preventing people from manipulating the public ledger. You literally do not understand how crypto works. You cannot make a new currency without crypto. Your currency idea? Needs crypto technology.
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@Jake-bt3fc Then how do you prevent anyone from hijacking the currency, genius? I like the "pedantic" edit, you fundamentally misunderstood crypto and assumed the cryptography aspect creates wealth rather than the economy itself. Now you're trying to walk it back.
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Batteries don't have the power density to make killer robots.
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@Brejamlyn I've used condoms all my life and they never failed. People are using masks and still getting sick. I fail to see how the comparison is supposed to convince me.
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It was a Russian missile, same thing happened with Patriots and Scuds. The Patriot would destroy the rocket but the warhead would fall and detonate on the ground. The problem is that nobody wants to test the "defend every inch of NATO territory" claim so it's easier to say the missile was Ukrainian (and memoryhole the fact that two missiles were involved). But the logic tracks. If you are a getaway driver for a bank robbery you can be charged with murder even if you didn't touch a gun or saw the hostages.
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@madfinntech yeah don't worry about being priced out of a market because the market keeps rewarding excessive pricing.
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I completely agree. You can't take a society that has a big sense of property rights and monogamy and make them share their partners with strangers. But that wasn't the point of the video. The point is that it works on society with weak perception of property rights or that doesn't recognize ownership at all, where monogamy was never a thing anyone was taught and where every sexual partner knows each other.
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Cope.
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Oreo But then thieves could just turn off the phone to evade being found. A friend of a friend supposedly had Apple turn their phone on for them so it could be retrieved. I don't know for sure because I've never used Apple.
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The SCAR is still in use with some units, they being it out when they see a need for a 7.62 weapon.
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@RuskiVanka Not really. Ukraine exists because it fights for it. Your argument is like saying Portugal doesn't exist, it was always a part of Spain. The US doesn't exist, it was always a part of Britain. That's not how it works. Fighting for something ensures its existence. The fight may require centuries.
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@RuskiVanka The DPR forces broke Minsk II the day after it was signed.
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@RuskiVanka Ukraine created itself by fighting the Bolsheviks. The USSR did not create Ukraine. It simply couldn't defeat it decisively, so Ukraine was allowed to be one of the members of the union instead of becoming Russia.
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Some people have thick skin. I never get cut on the face, but I've been cut in the eyelids twice.
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@jlfox JRE is a free flow conversation format. If I say Zack Zachary from the Potlandia Bluehairs scored 36 touchdowns last season and you say 35 while we're having some beers nobody cares about that discrepancy. It's not a court case or a segment on a news channel.
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An F-16 with drop tanks wouldn't be able to chase down a F-35 until it got close enough.
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Like politicians speaking to rural populations LMAO
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It was estimated that the A-10 force would also get wrecked in that confrontation.
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Blow up two dozen ammo dumps. Can't fight without ammo.
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You're just attacking the man, not the arguments.
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@bobmateljan6986 They don't matter to you either. You're not capable of using them.
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@bobmateljan6986 Yeah, no arguments. Thanks for admitting your loss.
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I hope it ends soon - via Highway of Death 2.0.
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It's still solicitation of donations under false pretenses. Doesn't matter it wasn't stolen. It's still fraud.
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It's extremely unlikely they use nukes. It's game theory, if you pull the no-no weapon first everyone sees you as the threat.
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Can't wait to be cancelled over yearbook photos of me in greyface.
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The trunnion isn't "impacted" per se, it's being pushed to the rear. If your trunnion is getting impacted you have fucked up headspacing issues.
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@paulsmith7579 His previous credibility? He lied about the hundreds of Iraqis executed in 1991 and the bus loads of children in Abu Ghraib. Seymour Hersh is a liar. That's his credibility right there.
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 @kenfernanadez3110 He has to prove his claims first. Refuting is proving a negative.
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@hernandocortez6351 Awards he got don't erase his lies. A Pulitzer prize winner who wrote for Der Spiegel later admitted to making up the story. Awards don't make a person honest.
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@ian12346 that's a deflection.
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@stevemorales4098 that's not the point (flame suit on) did Ben Shapiro retract his statements or not? He said he did, what is the truth?
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treydarling "the existence of anesthesia completely debunks the pain argument" - if anesthesia is provided, you're admitting pain. But I accept the reasoning that it's done to appease the right. I just think it's stupid. It's an admission that there is pain. "don't see why you brought up genital mutilation." - if we don't even care about babies who are alive feeling pain, why would anesthesia be administered to a fetus?
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@ian12346 the part about not caring about live babies. Even if it was true, it is still a deflection. Like, I don't care much for dogs, does that mean I can't oppose kill shelters?
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@ian12346 "I think less babies is a good thing" - I am neutral on the issue but from the standpoint of the society we currently live in, it's unsustainable. A government based around taxation cannot keep up with a shrinking workforce and an increase in elderly.
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treydarling "the quasi pain sensation of a late term fetus is not = to that of a human with a developed brain/nervous system" - then anesthesia shouldn't be necessary "the use of anesthesia negates the pain argument as there wouldn't be pain.....because anesthesia is being used........duh." - but that's what I mean, it's a "trap". By taking corrective action you're admitting to a fault.
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@ian12346 I don't care about society either but society insists on picking my pockets...
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Austin isn't insignificant, a ton of companies settled there.
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And you and a thousand fans can listen to the same song hundreds of times spread over a year. Meanwhile you'll only listen to a 2 hour podcast once. Also, this is an exclusivity deal. If you're a huge artist who can draw a crowd, contact Spotify for an exclusivity deal. You just can't have your songs played on radio, other streamin services, a youtube VEVO channel, etc.
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You can smuggle them from other countries.
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Number is growing because we live longer, not because children are being born more often.
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Russia to Ukraine: "You don't exist, you are all mentally ill, you are a mistake of history, and you will be under our command" Putin, 2021. Nice victim blaming. You probably tell women to stop squirming and it will be over soon.
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Half if those billions are wages and providing the troops with goods and services. So stop lying. And second, time and time again we have seen quality defeat low cost. These low cost drones make war painful, but do nothing to prevent Ukrainian victory.
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The radio is usually on the aircraft. Pilots don't carry a Kenwood in their fight suit.
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Artillery needs spotting. The river provides some buffer because forward observers risk their lives trying to cross, incoming drones will be easier to take out.
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Now you only need the airplane to get close enough to the radar antenna for it to get returns off targets that small.
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 @BearMeOut CYMA airsoft used to be like 120 bucks.
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@criticalevent One more for you in the cheap seat, you have already been told the background of the video so it's not about the hospital. The thread started specifically by retelling the original context if the footage. Not the events since Oct 7. Try to keep up.
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@criticalevent Thousand dollar airsoft rifles are the absolute top end, using 6061 or even 7075 aluminum in AR clones. Kids get into airsoft with replicas with ABS plastic bodies or sometimes easily castable alloys (disparagingly called "pot metal").
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@RK-yu7mp Buddy you must be new to this. In the last few years tons of classified information was posted online because of gamers arguing about realism.
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@Krusesensei that tank was destroyed, they put several bursts through the track wheels where the armor is thinner.
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It would be even more cost effective to use turboprop COIN aircraft to deliver those gun runs.
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Still an improvement over Russia.
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And the F-117 was known. It was presumed to be called F-19 and to have a rounded shape. The aircraft was secret, but its existence was known because people in the desert saw the F-117s flying at night. Even Tom Clancy had a chapter about them in one of his books, where he assumed they'd be used to penetrate Soviet air space and shoot missiles at AWACS to blind their situational awareness. In real life it was a bomber, and while it was considered they didn't want to ever mount a missile on a F-117 and shoot it fearing that the rocket motor would burn off the stealth coating. If you look up "F-19" you'll find scale model kits from back then. The aircraft was secret but famous enough to have model kits and videogames made about it.
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@mrmister385 First, a grainy picture was shown in a press conference in 1988, and in April 1990 it was allowed to fly in daytime in full view of spectators. That was prior to the 1991 Gulf War. Anyway, the aircraft was known. It was called F-19 by the public, and an incorrect scale model was made. Tom Clancy called it the F-19A Ghostrider (nicknamed "Frisbee" by crews) in Red Storm Rising. Microprose released a flight sim called F-19 Stealth Fighter. The fact of the matter is that people had seen triangle aircraft at night. And the sightings inspired the Testors model aircraft, which sold 700,000 units. Almost a million people bought a scale model aircraft of the presumed Nighthawk. Seems pretty well known to me.
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>2. Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments and are both socially undesirable and illegal Source? >3. Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense. Because most uses of self-defense involve a criminal running away before a shot is fired.
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I don't like racing games that much.
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 @goonerboz6023 Why was Ritter in prison?
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 @warrensmith8161 You mean the 2000s Republican party. Things are just weird now. 2000s Republicans adopting a black kid for the clout? Yeah that feels appropriate.
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@drunkhulk4913 I was always completely incapable of learning to code but everything clicked into place at age 25.
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Are the NATO bases with us in the room right now?
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I was disgusted the video right from the start and didn't bother watching more than a few seconds. I got the whole point - "HUE HUE HUE BLACK PEOPLE OWNING GUNS? I BET YOU'RE SCARED NOW WHITE PEOPLE"
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Boy who cried wolf. That's a fair criticism but many were not keen on listening after the Iraq debacle.
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Don't make me think about the overdue super-eruption. There's a fault line in the ocean near where I live, the quake and tsunami would wreck the city, and the next quake is overdue. Fuck you Nat Geo and your alarmism, making me prep my bug-out-bag!
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Yeah and they had to leave Kyiv to improve their supplies. Then they left Kherson.
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@jaidsalgado that's because any right-winger who dares to touch the subject is branded an anti-semite. And even Democrats are not immune, Illan Omar was criticized for mentioning AIPAC.
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The term cyborg was overheard in Russian comms during the battle for Donetsk airport. As in, the assault was relentless, but the Ukrainians wouldn't budge, so it was like fighting cyborgs. It wasn't a term meant for offense, just incredulity. It was then the Ukrainians who adopted the term cyborg, and the motto "the men didn't give in, the concrete did".
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@codeinecowboy8607 Survival of the fittest also means those who do survive leave better offspring. If you hate Trumpers so much, you should be worried that they're voluntarily culling their weak. Just saying.
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Then look at the accounts from the Russian side. Russians complain that Ukrainian counter-battery injures their artillerymen. What good is artillery superiority, if when you shoot a shell there's one coming right at you? Air power superiority? Three aircraft were shot down over Kharkiv during the offensive, so the Russian air force learned their lesson and stopped sending more. Cost in casualties? They were shooting a fleeing army in the back. It was a safari.
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The problem is that the votes do not run society, they put professional liars on stage to continue the theater. Did the votes for Trump in 2016 change how the monopoly ran? No.
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@callmedeno Okay. You exposed corruption inside Amazon. But Amazon is still in control and doing exactly what they were doing anyway. So how did you make a difference?
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@callmedeno The corruption was laid to bare. The corrupt are still in charge, and half the population doesn't believe in the corruption anyway. All I'm hearing is that your reasoning ends up not mattering, so why are you asking me to consider it?
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They were "only" 7 billion, and the equipment was downgraded versus the good stuff. Most of it was Blackhawks, Humvees and MRAPs. Just the basics, no high tech armor.
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Well he's been out of the front for a few months.
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3d print the tools that assist the bending.
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Budapest Memorandum
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But you should generalize the British, it's extremely funny.
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@johnromberg What happens when police doesn't arrive, but it's just more of their friends with rope and duct tape? I'm not a career criminal, but I also don't want to die in the woods bleeding out of my rear end. The only way to sort things out is to see the opening and hope the draw is quick enough to Rittenhouse the low IQ goobers.
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@daikucoffee5316 "The point is that nobody needs such high capacity magazines for non war purposes." - how so? 50 Cent got shot 9 times and he's still around. If you get attacked by 3 people (and criminals use numbers to overwhelm victims) and you need 9 shots for each, what kind of magazine should you have? A 5 round one?
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Mensa wants to know your location.
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At a 220 million per aircraft cost? The F-35 costs 80 million.
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The warheads on the Buk missile are blast fragmentation, with "square" and "bowtie" fragments. The wreckage of the MH17 even shows that pattern on the skin. Those work more like a shotgun blast.
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@ragnarok7976 You want a honest answer? To me it's like flat earthers or alien UFO nutters. I don't care the questioning, it's how aggressively stupid people are when questioning stuff. I see an intellectual crack I have an irrational need to get a pry bar and bust it open.
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 @Bellysniffer A lot of history has multiple sources because different cultures put the same/similar stuff on record.
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Hearing protection? Reducing noise pollution?
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@blai5e730 Some weapons are still obnoxiously loud indoors even while wearing hearing protection. In many countries hunting is done with suppressors/moderators/mufflers to limit the nuisance. I don't see why the assumption is handguns, but even then being against suppressors is even more nonsensical. Handguns are the main type of firearm used in crime because they're concealable. A can in the end of the muzzle makes the pistol much longer, to the point it becomes difficult to pull it out from a concealable position and nearly impossible to shove into a pocket or glove box.
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MANPADS are anti aircraft weapons with sub kilogram payload. They wouldn't even dent a tank's armor.
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The AK was designed according to guidance that the right hand would charge the weapon like in a bolt action rifle. You weren't meant to reach under or over, that's a modern handling technique that addresses the preference to keep the firing hand on the weapon at all times.
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Wagner was always in Ukraine since 2014. The Ukrainian SBU took over a defunct PMC hiring application and got resumes of Wagner, Redut, etc mercs citing service in Donbas as references. There's even a movie loosely based on the Donbas war where Utkin's self-insert character appears in the end to join the heroes. Actual battle footage shows that Ukrainian defenders are forced to endure several waves of prisoners, and then the trained mercs show up to clean up when the defenders are already battered, exhausted and low on ammo. Why send the trained assault detachment against a fresh and well supplied defender with the advantageous position? The part about people analyzing statements while Russia dug in is insane. So talking heads are running the war effort? While Russia dug in, Ukraine was training assault brigades. Not analyzing statements.
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@markotisovic8233 It's nothing special but it proves Wagner was there... It's not a screw up, but a deliberate tactic. The original plan for Bakhmut was encircling the defenders. When the flanks were reinforced, direct assault was the only way. And direct assault always comes at the cost of lives. Wagner operated as stated, probably because they were the veteran Wagnerites. The prisoners under Wagner, those were meat. Confirmed by Ukrainians, captured Wagner, and Prigozhin himself (indirectly). Remember the recruitment drive speech? He said he needed assault infantry and to expect serious casualties.
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+nnamdi nnachetta that's like saying you can't raffle a Ford car because a Ford was used to slam into a crowd. What if it had been a different gun? There's millions of AR15s out there, it's an extremely common weapon. It's the media's pea brain that's seeing connections where there aren't any.
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That peace agreement required Ukraine to disband its military.
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The gas tube should fail before the barrel. If you help cool the gas tube you can induce damage to the barrel.
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>This is not a failure of the principle of regulation >rather a sign that the body in charge... But then if regulation actually worked then wouldn't it prevent the body in charge from fucking up? Wake up. Give yourself a slap in the face, rise with water and ask yourself: who writes the regulations? You're giving the government the right to regulate itself and whoever bribes them. >the average citizen is better of with, than without regulation Why? Don't you trust yourself?
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I wouldn't trust a prototype with my life. I'd wait until the design/concept is proven. The reason KSGs are hard to find is not because of the demand, it's because of most them have to be sent back. I'd love to see it work, but it's just not well built.
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In the same way that the US was right about Saddam's WMDs. You take something real and blow it out of proportion. Saddam had a stockpile of chemical weapons. Mostly abandoned, expired ones that were even leaking because they dated back to the Iraq-Iran war, and weren't part of a program to restart chemical weapons manufacturing. Jesus it's like this is the first information war for some of you people.
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Funny, China wants to take over Taiwan and Russia wants Ukraine.
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@Roger Smodher an invasion of Taiwan? Surely the Ukraine situation has showed the CCP that even victory would come at a great cost.
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@Roger Smodher The Russian arms industry took T-90s meant for India and sent them to Ukraine. Trusting their arms industry right now is like trusting an obvious ebay scammer.
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@JohnDoe-yq9ml Then why do they use foreign chips?
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@Roger Smodher "They're at war" - So? That's not an excuse. "If Russians can get the orders for the su-57" - But they can't. The project has been on the backburner for decades and nobody is lining up for it.
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Following orders of this kind is a moral failure.
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What American private militia? Stop smoking crack.
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Thorium.
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@brumomento8989 "you might have been a dumb fuck at 16 but the new gen isnt" - Every generation thinks this way. Everyone thinks they're smarter than they are when they're young. The fact is that I bet that if we posed real political questions at 16 year olds most of them would not understand them. For example, do you think the average 16 year old understands economics? If you ask 16 year olds about economics at least a quarter will say that the government should just print more money. And I say this as someone in his 20s who learned the most about politics from other 20 year olds. The issue is, a lot of what I learned comes from 16 year olds saying stupid shit and getting their ass handed to them by people who were in college learning about the topic.
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Public roads are full of potholes, public schools are detrimental to children. NASA spent years spinning their wheels with the SLS and got beat to the punch by SpaceX.
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There's also the great circles (aircraft take the shortest path by moving away from the equator) and the jet stream which changes how long flights take based on headwind vs tailwind. Wouldn't be possible on a flat model.
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Ironically Thunder is misinforming you by bringing up a strawman about cellulose (he he) while ignoring we made vaccines out of engineered adenovirus.
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Why let thunderf00t take the views too? The real scam would be starting a channel debunking your own kickstarter and getting that youtube money. (it's a joke, youtube pay is shit)
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Short range, depends on frequencies, all it takes is for someone to put receiver antennas on drones and triangulate the handheld jammer to sling a mortar round straight down his head.
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He's such a good journalist he reported on the leaks by looking at the photoshopped documents.
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@wilhallman2890 What does Robert Barnes know?
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Well, I watched the video a few minutes after upload, and there was a dislike already. It wasn't the first time I have seen people disliking MrColionNoir videos as soon as they are uploaded.
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Su-75 Femboy???
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Nah someone texted him he was about to get banned. He looks at the phone and then gets visibly shaken by the news, then he drops the Icke mention.
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Why did the Germans shell civilians to test a poison gas that gets into masks? Was there any foreshadowing that the civilians had masks at their disposal?
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@wastelandgirl__7791 okay, I am not asking for logic in the sense that "hurr that shield wouldn't stop machine gun fire in real life" I am just asking for stuff to happen in a coherent manner. I'm usually a dumb shit and pretty much accept everything movies throw at me until someone else points out the flaws, but this time even I saw that they were killing civilians just to tell us they were extra evil than to serve as an actual demonstration.
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@Comic Book Guy "defined in the dictionaries" - oh yes, because dictionaries are the ultimate authority in physics. "a camera, whether digital or chemical, or any device being able to detect or show the affects of humanly invisible EM radiation, doesn't = us seeing the invisible EM radiation" - that wasn't the argument. Nobody said that. You said that no EM radiation outside the visible spectrum could be considered light, which is false. "TV remotes don't flash purple or any colour" - again I just said it is interpreted as purple light. "the camera represents the invisible EM radiation with visible EM radiation." - now think long and hard about what you just said because that proves my entire point. "The dark objects/surroundings of night are not made light-grey by night vision cameras" - nobody claimed that. You're grasping at straws to disprove anything, even what was not said. "it seems that the ones who use "Dunning-Kruger" are the ones who've got nothing better than petty ad hominem." - it's not Ad Hominem my guy, you literally just fucking pretended to know better than someone else because you are not aware of a piece of knowledge required to understand his statement. "yet you seem to struggle with the fucking basic concept of INVISIBILITY" - the black hole isn't invisible. We can see the orange glow of the accretion disc. That's how we knew where it was in the first place. The problem is that you can't fucking see shit because of all the dust and clouds in the way and the lack of angular resolution. So they picked a band from the spectrum that could get through the matter.
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@Comic Book Guy I mean, you're as pedantic as the Comic Book Guy but at least he is knowledgeable about stuff. Dictionaries reflect culture because meaning if often defined by society - see, the example of "literally" now being used by people who don't actually mean something literally changing the dictionary definition. Tell me, when soldiers using night vision goggles and want to mark a position they crack some IR chemlights so why are they "chemical lights" if IR is not visible? And they use IR lasers to aim their rifles when the night vision googles do not allow them to look through the ironsights or scope, laser means "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation". Insects and shrimp can see UV radiation. Wouldn't that make UV a form of light as well? "The intellectually honest, unbiased person can tell that the guy was covering his ass" - if you're actually intellectually honest you would realize he was explaining it to normies. He was actually being honest because he corrected himself to let people know the light wasn't visible. Normies would assume the object is visible on a normal telescope that works with your eyeballs so he made sure people understood they picked a non-visible part of the spectrum. All EM is part of the same phenomenon. It just so happens that we can see part of its spectrum. X-rays, radio, UV, IR, Microwave, Gamma-rays and visible light are all EM. They're all part of the same phenomena with different wavelengths. They're all waves and its quantum are photons. What you see are photons hitting your eyes. An X-ray of your bones is photons hitting your body. Therefore they're all light. "that is BOUND to be taken as an attack upon the person's character and BOUND to be taken as an attack made to undermine the person's arguments" - you are insisting that EM radiation is not light because of your own lack of understanding of the topic and then pretend to know more than a scientist even though he technically didn't make any mistake. How is it an Ad Hominem to tell you that your own lack of expertise is clouding your judgement and making you see conspiracies where they don't exist? "you've seen a visual representation of its radio waves" - I understand what you're getting at. I do. But take for example the Sun. If you take a photo of it through the visible light spectrum is just a bright ball and you can't see anything. Have you ever seen eclipses or Venus crossings through those dark lenses? That's what the Sun looks like. A white ball. So most pictures of the Sun you have seen are photos taken through the X-ray spectrum, where you actually see the dark spots, the sections burning brighter and those arcs that look like flames. We color fill them with orange. But that image is true to life because it actually allows you to see what's going on the surface of the Sun without the image simply being washed out by the blinding white light emitted by it. We only did a similar thing to a black hole, figure out what it looks like in a spectrum that doesn't get washed out and color fill with the orange that we can see on visible light telescopes.
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Does a series 1 GoPro allow you to plonk tanks from 20 miles away at night? You're rarely allowed to see the true quality of targeting pods, what you're seeing is both distortion from the diffraction and absorption of IR in the atmosphere plus the layer of blur the military puts on the videos to hide their true capabilities. Your GoPro looks great when pointed at your face from a foot away when you're jumping off an aircraft. Point it at the ground and try to look for vehicles from the air. See how good that's gonna look.
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 @rsKayiira the scrap found in downed Iranian drones is worth more than 30k. The purposeful lowballing of their cost is a propaganda tool.
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 @abelincoln8885 The drone could be 10x higher than the cost you cite. 10k wouldn't cover the electronics alone.
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@mossydog2385 You don't need to operate from austere runways if your air space is defended. The Gripen was built under the assumption that Sweden would be by default overrun in terms of air power, so they'd wage guerrilla in the air. The American philosophy of fighter design is to simply overwhelm the enemy air force by shooting it down.
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Scott Ritter was in prison for p3dophilia and WMDs were found. American soldiers suffered neurological damage from nerve gas exposure when they found them. It's unfortunate Scott Ritter wasn't there to take the damage instead of them.
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Russia lost most of the firepower advantage when their ammo depots started blowing up.
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Then you never left the house?
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EMPs will not affect all devices equally. The smaller they are, the less of an "antenna" they have to receive the pulse.
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@steveperry3572 It won't mutate you because the grid in front of the glass is opaque to microwave radiation. You rarely see mutations. What you saw in photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were burns.
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@debbiedogs1 F off. They are the bad guy. They locked down Hubei province but allowed flights out of the country. They WANTED to spread it worldwide.
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"protect corporate businesses" - Buddy, a ton of mom and pop shops were affected. People lost everything and didn't get no insurance. Okay, even if it was a corporate business. The business doesn't get affected. They just relocate. But the jobs are gone. I'm not a redcoat for defending the right to protect what's yours.
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The British had the ALARM which deployed a parachute and waited for the radar to turn back on before firing a second rocket motor.
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The other side is complaining about combat mosquitos. Do you genuinely care about what they have to say?
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The Navy didn't need guns on their F-4 and wiped the floor with MiGs. Out of over a hundred kills by USAF F-4s only 12 were by gun.
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Why would NCOs sell weapons to the people who want to kill them? Why does Wagner need to buy weapons, has Russia run out of them?
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60% of the time, it works 9 times out of 10.
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@adammilosdubovsky6607 Nope. The AK is known for the reliability. Everything else is known for breaking down. Please look up Rimon 20. Soviets said "ah it's the Arabs that keep losing wars". Then the Soviets got spanked by the Israelis. Turns out, Soviets loved to claim others were inferior to them but when the rubber met the road they couldn't perform any better. Look at 2022. They're Russian. Not Egyptians or Syrians. And yet Russian equipment keeps breaking down. The Ukrainians even noticed how a lot of Western equipment breaks down less often. Ivan in T-55 gets smoked by FPV drone with RPOG-7 warhead. I'm not concerned.
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@rasmusjensen291 the USS Maine exploded due to a coal fire but claims that it had been blown up by the Spanish was one of the contributing factors to the Spanish-American war. The Gulf of Tonkin incident was also the cause for the US entering the Vietnam war. On August 2nd 1964 three North Vietnamese boats intercepted USS Maddox as it was penetrating into North Vietnamese waters, the Americans fired on the North Vietnamese and they retaliated with machine gun fire and torpedoes. On August 4th the USS Maddox reported being under attack due to radar signals caused by the bad weather. This second attack and the omission that the Americans had fired first on August 2nd were used as legal justification to enter the Vietnam war. The US also accused Iraq of keeping chemical weapon stockpiles even though they were complying with the UN. The US accused Saddam of supporting the 9/11 hijack even though there was no evidence. Dick Cheney and Colin Powell insisted that Iraq was using "mobile labs" to manufacture botulism and anthrax. After trailers that looked like mobile labs were discovered this seemed to vindicate the claims but both the UN and the Pentagon determines they were hydrogen generators for weather balloons.
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The Graveyard of Superpowers is overstated. The Mongols invaded, obviously couldn't control the tribal regions, but it didn't become their graveyard. The mountainous region works against the invader, but those are the lowest value lands. The Mongols rampaged through the main population centers.
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@HaiRune The other way around. At this point they should stop sperging about taking the vaccine but even with half the country vaccinated they're still pushing.
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The Raptor is more powerful in air to air (it's the dedicated air superiority fighter) but its avionics are less developed. There's like 12 Felons in existence. A sea of Lambos? Over 600 F-35s delivered. The Lambo can't get out of the driveway, the entire road is blocked with Volvos.
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If people came knocking on my door to ask about aliens while I'm working on secret aircraft projects I'd stonewall them. Security clearence doesn't give access to everthing, you still have a need to know basis to distribute information. Maybe if you have a security clearence and you work on a committee overseeing aquisitions for those projects they'll show some stuff. If you have a security clearence and start asking about aliens, you have no automatic right to have black projects disclosed to you.
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That just means that Western air power is so good, we shoot down enemy aircraft with our own aircraft before they get within range of our defenses.
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Get that ChatGPT garbage out of here.
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Russia would either have to go mad and launch the nukes, or throw every able bodied men at the front. Both cases would also kill Russia in the process.
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@WhiteWolf126 Nuclear codes are like padlocks. It prevents unauthorized access. If I simply take your locker out if the locker room and bring it home with me, the padlock is meaningless. I have physical access. I can use a bolt cutter and bust your padlock. I can cut a hole in the thin sheet metal. The padlock is only useful when everyone is watching me in public trying to rob your stuff. Ukraine with Soviet nukes could disassemble the safety mechanisms and replace them with new ones with Ukrainian codes.
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@Supreme-Emperor-Mittens so fuck him for trying? Yeah, run away now, and stop upvoting your own comments.
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 @Seb656 the battle of Somme had tens of thousands dead the first day
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Someone would notice and start removing the function that allows the drone to be connected.
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@rosyc9250 What's there to doubt? We knew of people who tested negative to board the plane in African countries, then tested positive after arrival in Europe.
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 @ddeandrade611 Russia always wants war. From Vladivostok to Lisbon is their motto.
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2022 taught us our socialized healthcare is gone when other nations bomb your hospitals. While we were developing social programs Americans were studying the blade, and now the hordes are at the gates and we need their help.
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This is a very weak take. The NLAW is a step between an unguided launcher like the LAW or AT4 and something more advanced. The Javelin has greater range and is a truly guided missile, while the NLAW's on board guidance is just used to predict the rough position of a moving vehicle. On a moving vehicle, the max effective range of the NLAW is only 400m.
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lmao
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@galacticupfan7386 Most of those interviews are about the people who joined literally on the first days. This was prior to the restrictions. Those who couldn't hack it were told to go home. Those who proved their worth were allowed to stay as they already had combat experience. I'm not saying there's no secret handshake and door knock method of getting in, but they hate wasting their time with random nobodies knowing that 90% of them will quit. People don't even know the language, how are they going to fight alongside TDF units?
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Navy F-4s never added guns.
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The MiG-31 is a better launch platform. Better speed and better radar. The R-37M performance would be wasted on a Felon. Like shooting a Phoenix missile from a Fokker triplane instead of a F-14.
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The Kurds, for one.
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@itsrass1378 if you make a video of yourself taking commercial smokeless powder, shoving it down a metal pipe and igniting it, it's not going to stay up long.
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That's excellent satire.
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Not necessarily, because the motor stopped burning at 3/4ths of the way there. After the motor burns out, the fins have to steer.
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USS Maine, Lusitania, Pearl Harbor...
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F-15s.
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Several.
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Sure, they deserve it. But do they have the right to demand it by force?
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 @Silver_Prussian they are injured by the Russian army using MLRS against cities.
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The most logical argument is that nobody would send 300.000 troops into an area they would nuke.
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@nikolaivasilev7371 This is just a collection of pre-2015 talking points. Most of them aged lile milk.
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@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 At 110 million a pop, it's a 5th gen fighter for 4th gen prices. You want any other jet fighter that isn't a retired airframe from another country? You're paying 110M or more.
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@nikolaivasilev7371 Doesn't matter. The stealth coating issue was difficult to isolate and replicate so a peacetime restriction on supersonic flight was issued. Doesn't affect the A model.
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The land bridge is about to be cut at Tokmak. Look at the map. The rail link is within range of tube artillery now. The three layers of defense are nothing without manpower. Russia already sent in reserves to prevent Ukraine from reaching the first line.
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@doringhaak8392 lmao I have to admit that was funny
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Mental health checks are a sham. The UK actually looked into it and decided it wouldn't work. Think about it - one of the countries that passed some of the most knee-jerk gun legislation in the world actually looked at mental checks from an objective standpoint and thought it would be wasteful and of very little use.
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It's like Pilates and more like Major ripping the turret of the mecha at the end of Ghost in The Shell. It's more about wondering what's the absolute physical maximum value of mass you could ask your body to lift for just two seconds and you'll get your next three days off to rest. Try to hold that weight for longer and it's gonna pull you down or fall on you. Like lifting a corner off a car to save a child under it type of stuff. Pilates you can just hold a pose for a minute.
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+DrinkTheCoffee fear the man who trained a kick 10,000 times, not the man who trained 10,000 kicks once. So what if you have multiple guns? With two or three you can already rack up a kill count. The deadliest mass shooting so far was at Utoya, Norway and only involved a Mini-14 and a pistol. 69 dead.
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Metal 3d printed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ZYKMBDm4M The others obviously required metal barrels/barrel liners because plastic barrels will burst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REGeDjuADXI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAvLdAXHZ-I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwb0xGut21Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eARrF5lt1A The limits are human ingenuity. Again, 3d printing is hardly necessary for homemade guns and non-state agents involved in conflicts have always managed to make firearms, even if it's just with drills and files. Chambering and rifling a barrel with 3d printed mandrels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ8-Z7fYIB8
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The Russians executed people in the streets. They were that bad.
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America is already crime ridden. If anything, absence of cops would embolden self-defense.
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To get a decent radioactive dose, you'd have been killed several times over from heavy metal toxicity. DU is not any more dangerous than tungsten carbide. And all armies use tungsten carbide.
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I'm completely against the concept of being fat and lazy, but there is no reason to hate people or even generalize a whole country. First because there's probably enough snobs in America to compensate for the fat people, secondly the BMI index is outdated and doesn't mean anything about health.
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@WALTERBROADDUS That's extremely common in aircraft.
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 @Mizuna752 the game engine wouldn't be related
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@Mizuna752 No, do you understand how it works? If an item is created in two games, it only needs a database to flag its existence in a person's inventory.
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Russia will literally do anything except spend money on improving their country.
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@monty58 I don't feel like a second class citizen for riding public transport. I feel like a second class citizen for having to take three different transports to get to places with no direct A to B route. I feel like a second class citizen for having to deal with inconsistent schedules and arriving at work late.
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@FNLNFNLN I live in a highly urbanized area - public transportation has been nothing but stress my whole work life. Getting my driver's license was one of the best things I've done and I regret failing the exam the first time I attempted at around 19 years old.
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Paul Sklar if I'm not mistaken the real life "paranormal event" was a table moving a few inches (easily explainable by involuntary movements) during the conjuring.
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Riots are about retirement age in France increasing. They had one of the lowest retirement ages in Europe.
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@caveman-zd5yv The economic problems predate the war. Lockdowns absolutely gutted our economies, the war gave everyone a safe scapegoat to pin the blame on. To say it's "due to the war" when prior there were almost 2 years of strained economic activity and massive governmental spending is pure dishonesty. If there was no war, European economies would still be dealing with ageing population. We can't sustain it. In my country the discussion on raising from 65 to 67 predates the war. France and a couple of other countries are the odd ones out - 62 was too young. Sorry, the previous generations enjoyed the fat of the land but now something has to give. Period.
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The ground is a greater threat to the A-10 than the air. Forget air superiority. The A-10 can't duke it out with ground targets because they shoot back. In 1991 the A-10 had to be pulled away from Iraqi Republican Guard units due to excessive losses. It's not the fighters that are the problem. It's the targets. The targets the A-10 is meant to kill can easily kill the A-10 first.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZtl4IkXkWk good primer from IvanTheTroll, one of the guys behind Deterrence Dispensed.
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The Su-57 is a prototype, end of discussion.
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The protests in favor are organized by factories and student organizations. You attend, or else...
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@bodiant5887 150 million. Half are women, half are elderly. Of the remaining numbers, there's obesity, alcoholism, drug use, HIV, TB, diabetes, etc.
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@KNNY_-sp6kq the giant corporations aren't paying enough because people are already complaining about the prices they pay at the giant corporation stores I guess we could tell people to drive to the closest farm and get the producef for a low price and the farmer gets more money by cutting out the middle man, but then truckers and retail workers will start protesting
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Actually revealed where? Also, are you confusing KIAs for casualties?
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There's a ram air turbine that can pop out and generate energy. Probably won't power everything, but if you're about to land you already stopped the pressurization a long time ago.
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 @OGPatriot03 Not the point. The Russians invaded with Soviet flags in their tanks so they're replying in kind by using German symbols on their T-72s.
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There's videos inside of cockpits where the displays were filmed (perhaps accidently) and the image these pods obtain is crisp.
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Russian (or Soviet) forces suffered just as much during winter. They also did that before the age of 70-80km ranged strikes with high precision.
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Turboprop planes are cheaper to operate but often not fast enough. And most do not have radar systems. Aircraft radars must draw power from a gearbox connected to the jet engine shaft (much like a car's alternator) so powerful jet engines are required. Turboprop engines are somewhat on the smaller size except for large cargo planes.
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How many died 2019 to 2021?
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@leongao5120 Nah. Even an off center hit would knock the object into tumbling, and the atmosphere would force it to slow down to terminal. A supersonic airplane diving will be hitting the ground at supersonic speed. A supersonic airplane struck by a missile can spin around, take several minutes for the airframe to reach the ground.
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What areas?
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Lending is part of the money creation, which is necessary as economies grow because the base money is not enough to cover all the assets that come into existence from human activity. The banks have you on the hook for paying back and if you don't, they take your assets to erase that debt.
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@pleasedont7439 Knees are not muscular.
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@NireFuster "that's to fuel their bodies" - If you're fueling the body, you don't gain fat. "sumo's fat is different to a regular obese person's body fat" - It's the exact same fat. The only difference is that exercise removes the fat layers over the organs, which is dangerous. A regular obese person can lose this fat and still be obese.
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@pleasedont7439 Strengthening your muscles helps with the load and eventually creates stronger tendons, but you know what's even better? Losing weight while getting stronger.
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This. American output would crash prices across the world so corn subsidies and ethanol production prevents oversupply.
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 @steven4315 25k is a lot of gas
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Scott Ritter is a clown. We haven't even started. Winter will be so much worse for the Russian troops.
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I don't want cops to be better trained though. I don't want well trained enemies.
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Not the point. He deleted the stuff youtube didn't want. And they took down the channel. Forget the rules. Forget the money. They took his channel down for NOTHING.
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How is he saving civilians by firing Iranian drones at them?
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Russia never wanted peace. They broke Minsk II and Budapest Memorandum.
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@kellymoses8566 Yeah and he was a bad candidate then. Hold old. So worshipping a guy because he ran for something is not a cult? People run for stuff all the time.
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It's not an escalation. Ukraine already had jets before. Russia used jets from the start. Where is the escalation when everyone is on the same level?
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Geothermal is nuclear. What do you think keeps the mantle warm?
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@jimboniface7202 It's not free, and if you claim that leaving the nuclear waste deep in the mantle is not having to deal with it, then you have to admit that nuclear power plant waste also doesn't have to be dealt with once we put it back.
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@bgwarior The robber is in the process of getting shot up by guards, police and actually just private citizens carrying their guns. Friendly reminder that Spetsnaz and elite air assault units were used as infantry (rookie mistake) with insufficient support and ended up surrounded and slaughtered by territorial defense forces and impromptu citizen militias.
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@bgwarior Then don't glorify the robber that's getting massacred due to his lack of planning.
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The M4 is great and the 5.56 is objectively the goldilocks zone for military service calibers.
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@Morrigi192 previously existing body armor stopped 5.56 so that's not even an argument.
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Obama: "We tortured some folks." Fauci: "It depends on what your definition of 'torture' is"
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Shadowban lmao anyway it's a drop in a bucket. I'd rather them cheat taxes than do the job they do - hollow out the economy for stock price increases.
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The military unironically spent more money on bringing the M-14 back than they would have just buying SCAR-Hs as DMR weapons.
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@gerri577 Patrick Lancaster is a propagandist involved with false flags.
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 @James-zh6nf It's not a simple request. If you understand what the point of citing other works is, you'll realize it's not useful for this type of content.
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@Cameron Pangborn I don't care that she does porn. Just like I don't care that a political organization kicked her out. The threat is contaminating the conservative side with progressive ideals. What's the point of conservatism if it's just progressivism driving the speed limit? How am I being authoritarian? I'm standing with TPUSA's right to free association, not calling for a ban on porn.
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@jimluebke3869 The Eastern provinces were drained out of Russia-friendly residents too. Either by offering passports and relocation, forced deportation or mobilization. The Donetsk and Luhansk regions were viciously depopulated through warfare - they used Russian-speaking Ukrainians as cannon fodder.
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Nobody asked them to.
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@glidercoach No.
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@yothythoty729 Fake. This was before the USSR collapse, it was about East Germany. There's still no foreign bases in former GDR territory.
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@philobetto5106 The labs were built by the Soviet Union. When the USSR collapsed, the US and Western Europe had to clean up Moscow's mess.
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@philobetto5106 No promises were made in the 90s.
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@cattreeoflife980 It wasn't an agreement. America didn't break it.
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@locojambo Russia doesn't "allow" anything. We don't need their opinion or consent.
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@cattreeoflife980 Firehose of falsehood vatnik, how much is Glavset paying you?
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So Russia sacrificed its professional army and tank force to deplete cheap AT weapons?
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@schrimpf Study what? It's a GPS guided rocket. Russia can't figure that out without copying?
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@Hereford1642 HIMARS have already been used in combat before Ukraine, and so have the rockets which the M270 also fires, so we already know it works.
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The Duran was started by Peter Lavelle, former Russia Insider and a RT contributor.
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Budapest Memorandum.
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Why don't have the jabbed to prove they are negative? How much is testing going to cost long term?
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@leroysnead4435 the A-4 Skyhawk doesn't have an afterburner.
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 @evolassunglasses4673 The Russian civilization is either dying in Ukraine or fleeing to the West. I see as many Russian refugees as Ukrainians at this point.
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September 2022 a Khinzal crashed in Russian territory, it had the exact same wreckage.
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@joshuapaul2022 You're afraid of looking it up. Stavropol 2022 Khinzal crash. Google it. Look at the eyelets in the warhead. Same one.
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@alexander1112000 Perhaps they added a second prompt to skip. What I clearly remember is a prompt upon starting the campaign. Maybe on a later playthrough with a legit copy I saw the second prompt before the mission itself. I saw a screenshot of the prompt and the question is "would you like the option to skip?" and the answers are "no, I won't be offended" and "yes, ask me later". So maybe the way they did it is update the game so that you can be asked twice, if you say no you don't get the skip, if you say yes you get asked a second time.
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Why do you people say "Elensky"? All you people got that from somewhere.
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@jkdbuck7670 Modern mercenaries are glorified mall guards compared to the golden age of contracting. They wish they could be under the UCMJ.
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@twmd Two wrongs don't make a right. Pointing one finger gets ten pointed at you. It's whataboutism.
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@Sorain1 The F-14 was in service with the Hornet, then the Hornet was in service with the Super Hornet, and now the F-35C will be in service with the Super Hornet until it gets replaced by the F/A-XX or the navalized NGAD. There's nothing specific about the Hornet or Super Hornet either, they're both multiroles.
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@dylanfarnum4121 Yoda also couldn't tell Palpatine was a Sith Lord. Just saying.
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Results may vary. I had a ton of people say they ran on mags fine, and there's videos of them running well. Seems a ton of people got issued beat to shit SAWs and mags so they didn't work, a whole generation after had better luck and now the word on the street is that it's fine.
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Watch Nerdcity's "Youtube's Biggest Lie". Everyone is getting hit by demonetization. So stop being so simplistic and stop glamorizing Soviet crimes.
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@pogo1140 Not really. An older aircraft has to use traditional methods, which means flying with energy retention in mind unless that energy has to be spent to either get out of a bad situation or score the kill. With modern aircraft, high AoA flying and HOBS allows the pilot to "cheat" and fight stupid because getting the kill right out of the gate is less risky than committing to a dance.
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@pogo1140 The F-16 is software limited on high AoA maneuvers. If both sides are using equivalent missiles, the aircraft with the superior nose pointing ability can use those missiles first. Like, someone posted something along the lines of a 1st gen jet could beat a F-35 in a dogfight. Bringing up a F-16 with helmet mounted queuing is skipping to 4.5 gen. That's not the discussion and you decided to jump into it.
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@pogo1140 Having a cueing system is still bound by gimbal limits unless you have lock on after launch. If you can pull high AoA without losing control of the aircraft, your AoA+gimbal limit gives you a very wide "field of view" to engage with. If two aircraft are engaging each other and one can pull high AoA and the other has to lock on after launch, that gives the aircraft with the highest AoA capabilities to shoot first and go defensive to prevent the missile from locking after doing a 180º.
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@jebise1126 not true - Ukraine is getting smart artillery rounds. We understand one-shot-one-kill beats dumping munitions into empty fields.
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Modern production F-16s cost around 100 million. You're not getting 20 million dollar F-16s unless you buy heavily used ones.
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@heinrichnitschke5485 What are the sources? Are they describing 1990's prices? The Royal Bahraini Air Force will be getting 16 F-16s for 1,12 bil which amounts to 70 mil per aircraft. Taiwan's F-16 deal including 66 aircraft and 75 engines amounted to 8 bil which is roughly 120 mil per aircraft + extra engine. Morocco wants to buy 25 F-16 Block 72s plus pods and weapons for 3.787 bil. If we subtract the cost of the 40 AIM-120s and 60 GBU-39s, that's around 31 million, leaving the cost of the F-16 plus pods and other equipment as 150 million. The upgrade of older F-16s to V will cost 42 million per aircraft. Slovakia will be getting a 2.91 billion aircraft for 14 Block 70/72s, 16 engines and an assortment of weapons. I'm straight up just adding up the cost of the weapons, ignoring that some are just guidance kits, so worst case scenario it's 41.6 million for 30 AIM-120s, 100 AIM-9Xs JDAM and Paveway kits plus 400 bombs. The F-16s plus pods, equipment and extra engine will be roughly 200 million. Let's take it back a good while - in 2009 the Block 50 sale to Turkey was a 797 million contract for 14 aircraft. That's 50 million per plane. It's perfectly reasonable that a decade later, a better capable F-16 costs 70-90 million per aircraft, with contracts reaching over 100 million because of spare parts and equipment. Do you think a modern F-16, with the capabilities you expect from a modern F-16, can be obtained for the prices of the previous variants? When you buy a F-16, you're not just buying the aircraft. You're buying the entire assortment of pods and extra equipment that act as force multipliers. Not to mention that the radar you get today is more advanced than the radars you got in the past. You need to buy all the bells and whistles that the F-35 already carries internally.
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@blacklabel6223 US Army uses metric. Not sure if during WW2 but they use it.
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The JSF was NEVER the replacement for the F-22. The F-35 is like the F-16, the F-22 is like the F-15. The single engine multirole and the twin engine air superiority fighter. The F-22 production was cut because it would replace the F-15, and the F-15 was good enough. The JSF was never sold as a F-15C replacement.
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@hippoace How much of those old tanks are usable? Most are rust buckets.
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That balloon was probably a million dollar plus. I had contacts in the admittedly small department doing high altitude atmospheric readings in my college campus. That stuff was expensive as hell.
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Please link that study. Because designing three different aircraft is extremely costly.
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Twice as many A-10s were shot down in 1991 compared to F-16s yet F-16s flew more CAS missions.
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The problem is that Mearsheimer has gone the "formerly respected expert becoming a nutcase" route many have picked since 2022.
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@JM64 A crew bailing > getting cooked inside.
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@JM64 That's great. How many American crews were taken out after bailing out from a damaged tank?
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This, but unironically.
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Oi m8 you got a loicense to watch videos about guns?
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So apparently the US, Germany, etc have no post-1900 industries.
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But the body also naturally processes damaged cells. There seems to be a safe threshold for radiation.
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The US spends trillions on itself, nothing changes. We send a few billion to Ukraine, they post the videos of burning Russian tanks for me to watch. Seems like a better investment.
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@jimlong813 If you have the same values as other people but not a shared culture you're still not gonna hit it off. You're just people talking past each other without caring about any of the subjects.
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@ToneyCrimson But it doesn't. That's not a logical conclusion because that's not what the data shows. Many countries beat last year's record of cases even though more than half the population was vaccinated. If you want to draw logical conclusions, base them on actual logic. Rather than dogma. It is true. Why do you think boosters are being introduced? We've had the stuff for over 6 months. It hasn't been eradicated. We haven't done it before. We can't do it. It has animal reservoirs which means it can come back at any time even if it runs out of human hosts.
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All Russian victories are Pyrrhic. If Russia declares war, what do they have? More 18 year old conscripts sent in 1960s gear?
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@hamzayusuf333 Very cryptic. I think the truth is pretty - Russia will lose.
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They already have Su-25s.
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rewt127 most countries don't have capacity bans except when hunting. Semi autos are legal in most places.
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@@phillipbanes5484 Yes. You're still not meant to jettison tanks until strictly necessary. A dogfight is already a dire situation. You already messed up.
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@saquist 4th gens with full internal fuel have limited range. They fly with bags. Couple of missiles? They need more for the BVR timeline.
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Heavy [citation needed] on that entire comment. Supermaneuverability is about retaining control after stall (loss of airflow over the wings). Thrust vectoring is not a requirement.
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They still got plenty of steam bub.
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@AsterixYZ Their professional army isn't alive. 300k replacements for 6k losses. Are you sure?
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@firebug3256 they won't. Uncle Sam will keep Colt around for DoD contracts and to give retired generals cushy jobs.
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@DocMitchell69 and they get those foreign contracts because that's how US foreign military aid works. We'll give you money and you buy from us. Just like the German government and the EU will never let HK go bankrupt even though they're up to their neck in debt.
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"Continuously", "2 to 4"
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Oh, okay then.
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How are they escalating? Patriots defend the cities Russia is attacking. Killing less civilians is deescalation.
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There's signs of shortages. They pulled ammo out of Belarus.
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5.56 was not found to be ineffective in Vietnam. The 30-50 meter engagement range meant that the 5.56 wounds were gruesome.
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"BIG GOVERNMENT WILL PROTECT THE CONSUMER!" And then his channel is filled with stuff about the NSA and the government supporting the Syrian rebels. Just wow.
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The VTOL was not a design compromise. The size and shape of the plane is determined by the internal bays, not the lift fan. It's also not minimal usefulness. The Harrier needs replacement and the Marines aren't gonna get longer aircraft carriers with steam catapults. The short take off and vertical landing is critical.
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 @JynxedKoma No such treaty was signed.
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 @MeepChangeling That's not how permission works.
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@navyreviewer It's important to also consider two issues - the Navy had the better Sidewinders as they correctly predicted before the war that the 9B wouldn't cut it and started developing an upgrade before Vietnam, and the USAF had better luck with the Sparrows because as the Ault report confirmed the Navy Sparrows were subjected to the harsher conditions of carrier service but with looser maintenance scheduling than USAF Sparrows.
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I have no reason to believe Yang, Fuckerberg can die in a ditch, and while I can respect Elon's accomplishments he's a little out there.
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@direwolf84 so? As soon as the first AI driver truck hits a person the bad PR and possible cries for legislation will give no option but to keep a human in the loop. Shit, the sign recognition software may be used to inject malicious code to either steal truck contents or flip the AI to hit people rather than avoid them. The kiosks have not done much at my local mcdonalds except move more people to the kitchen, there's still cashiers, kiosk orders in cash still need to be paid to humans. Instead of 3-4 people acting as cashiers and 3-4 as cooks, there's now 2-3 cashiers, 5-6 cooks and 2-3 people at the delivery counter. There's also increased demand due to Uber eats, without kiosks they wouldn't be able to handle the increased workload.
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@direwolf84 I'm not saying anyone cares, if you need to misunderstand my comments on purpose to make a point please reevaluate your message. Autonomous trucks will save a lot of money until the lawsuits over dead people or the losses from thieves start burning a hole in their pockets.
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@NiteEy3 yeah and would you rather work in a 1800s factory where you had to put your hands on dangerous machinery?
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@NiteEy3 because automation bad
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@NiteEy3 mine isn't, it's you who's complaining about machines
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You're on the internet, you don't need to talk like you're about to throw hands in a bar.
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@alexandrustefanmiron7723 A green Sahara will mean you'll have to abandon multiple cities and start building there. You think you can get a green Sahara and a livable LA or Las Vegas? Or Tucson? Congratulations, you're footing the bill for the relocation of millions of people. It's going to be trillions.
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@flipsvaldes8325 the AR is the best selling weapon since the late 2000s, that's like saying most traffic deaths involve Fords or something
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DEAD AIR
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What bill? The money one, or the blood one?
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Doesn't twitch save the VODs in the backend precisely because of such situations?
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There were WMDs in Iraq, though.
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If Putin was strong he wouldn't have made a deal. Caving in to demands isn't strength. Patrick Lancaster is also known for staging scenarios. Did you see his "IED attack" video that had a corpse with autopsy saw cuts on the skull?
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Same as Nordstream, several countries have evidence of who placed the bombs but nobody wants to come out and expose their underwater surveillance means. It's not what they saw, it's how saying what they saw will allow enemies to work in reverse and figure out the true capabilities.
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People like SerpentZA and LaoWhy86 lived in China for over a decade. The first hand experience of actually living in a place and seeing it deteriorate is not the same an expert gets by "being to China".
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The point if a layered defense system is that a missile that outranges AAA doesn't outrange SAMs.
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@danharold3087 There's no fault in my logic and I didn't say wind is more expensive than coal. Again, investment needs to be paid off. Yeah, the consumers will pay for it. So no reduction in energy bills.
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@danharold3087 It isn't, because people are paying for the investment. It's not free.
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@PeacefulPariah How are the investments being paid off?
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The issue is that fashion has the equivalent to the RTX 2080. RTX just launched, most games don't support it, and it tanks perforance. It would be a smarter choice to wait for revision versions of the 2080 or even the 3080 because by then RTX and DLSS will have more support. Being the first to get RTX when it gave you the least benefits is the perfect example of "ego has a cost".
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@bob marly oh yeah I understood that question more as doing geometric calculations (don't know the name of the concept in English) and the maths thing as solving calculus. The closest I can think of geometry calculations during flight is when you have your plane's relative position to ground radar, they give you the relative position of the enemy, and you calculate the vector for intercept.
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@arsic094 It was unprovoked. 2014 there was no conflict, then Russia moved a force covertly into Sevastopol naval base to take the peninsula of Crimea while sending Russian nationals like Igor Girkin and "Motorola" to start a faux separatist movement. Russia was the instigator from the start.
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@kindlingking It wasn't a civil war. Men like Igor Girkin and Arsen Pavlov ("Motorola") were sent by Russia to fake an uprising. Russian troops were fighting under the banner of "separatists" and when captured, the Russian government said they had gotten lost or were off-duty on vacations.
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 @grimsonforce7504 we already went over "peak child". Number of children isn't increasing since the 2000s.
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@Just Ori Then everyone deserves to fail? How do you support a society with more retirees than workers?
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 @fulanichild3138 No. It's because when your country is full of retirees who's gonna keep the lights and water on?
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 @MoniiChanTheUnicorn wealth hoarded loses value, that's why the rich invest
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@fulanichild3138 Well the self-checkout just offloads the labor to the customer.
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>Keep them covered you fucking idiots. On what assumption? Say what you want about feminism, say what you want about the idiocy of the protest, etc. But on what grounds should the government arrest someone for tits hanging out? Where do we draw the line on the slippery slope? A restaurant has the right to determine if they want or don't want breastfeeding.
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@exeexecutor Should we drop the nukes on Moscow, then?
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@Nerffle As a person who I guess falls on the """conservative"""-adjacent part of the spectrum, there aren't a lot of Putin supporters. It's just that a ton of people feel like they want to see the Biden administration lose. Remember when Bill Maher said that he hoped for a recession so that Trump looked bad? A lot of common people said "whoa you want me to suffer just so that you can get rid of orange man?". So now they want payback. There's very few people who know Putin outside of the shirtless bear-riding meme photos. The ones who legitinately look up to Putin are full blown schizos.
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Really?
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Air superiority requires contesting it. Russia isn't contesting the skies. They deploy aircraft within their territory, release weapons, and come back.
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That would work against him. It's not America down there. If you have a gun license it's like you have an "unfair advantage", the criminals have to have overpowering strength to be considered a threat to a gun owner in court.
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If you have to fight, would you rather have a gentleman's agreement about which lines will not be crossed, or just have a free for all? It's really easy to say the rules don't make sense until you wish they applied to you.
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@Wargutz666 You still spread if you take it. It's still going to be a superspreader event. If they don't want the hospitals clogged, they need to stop sending people home until they're critical and then hook them into a machine.
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mortuusequusphobia Your information is outdated. Get with the program. You guys have already admitted it doesn't make you immune or stop the spread. The justification to take it is reduced hospitalization now. You guys already lost, and even changed the definition of vaccine. Call a time out and go talk to your team because you need to follow their gameplan.
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@krisinsaigon Hundreds of thousands of people killed every year by endemic diseases and you never cared. Now we refuse treatment because there's a financial incentive for hospitals to only deal with critical cases and suddenly it's an issue.
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@krisinsaigon No argument, right? Ha ha.
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@krisinsaigon Yeah I got a fat ass. You're still wrong, though.
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The Third Army Corps? They're a poorly trained understrength division, which is now being sent to plug gaps instead of offensive operations as they can't do concentration of forces. Seems like there's no plan. Oh well!
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They seem to be doing well. Tons of footage of Russians and mobilized LDPR surrendering. And footage of those who didn't surrender turning into fertilizer as well.
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The Mujahideen didn't all become Taliban and the Taliban is not Al Qaeda. Good lord. Bin Laden was Saudi and so were most of the hijackers.
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There are no NATO soldiers and they didn't "appear". Since day 1 that volunteers were there.
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@passantNL Even into the late 90s there were requirements for visual ID due to rules of engagement. IFF only responds if it's a friendly or unknown, and there's a multitude of reasons why a friendly IFF could be reported as unknown. The MANPADS operators do typically have a IFF antenna, but they typically get to see the aircraft before it's inside MANPADS range.
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The GMLRS rockets fired by HIMARS do that. Sometimes they're fired at an angle and change direction. But doing this reduces range.
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12 Russian pilots paid the ultimate price.
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 @nicolaspeigne1429 Moscow wasn't defended lol they brought trucks full of sand to block the roads ahaahahah
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@nicolaspeigne1429 I am informed because I actually looked at the pictures and videos on the ground rather than watch podcasts.
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@nicolaspeigne1429 If there's a convoy heading to a capital city, and the capital city starts demolishing roads and stacking sandbags for their police and national guard, those are the defenses.
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@nicolaspeigne1429 Modern warfare means that mounting defenses and demolishing roads is just a fun time activity?
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There's no such thing as depleted uranium bombs. Depleted uranium is used as a penetrator core in armor piercing rounds. Countries either use depleted uranium or tungsten carbide. They're both equally toxic heavy metals. Russia uses tungsten carbine, the UK uses tungsten carbide, I bet that Serbian weapons use tungsten too. The US didn't take Kosovo from Serbia. Serbia was genociding Kosovars and the US stopped it. Years later they declared independence.
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Helps with the algorithm.
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Shy Incredible the government can't control the internet.
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JokersSerious okay, let's say you stopped Cody Wilson. Back when his website got taken down thousands of people downloaded and reposted the files. People have been doing this without Cody Wilson's help. He's playing the villain you want him to be while thousands of people all over the internet kept developing 3d printed guns without becoming famous. How do you stop it? You can't. Can't stop the signal.
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They literally rushed the test to comply with regulations. Ironic.
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@NewLeftToday The xenon poisoning issue was suppressed inside the Soviet Union. The technicians were not even supposed to know that what they were doing was dangerous. They were not ignoring regulations because they were doing something that nobody should know was bad.
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@NewLeftToday So not only they rushed the testing to comply with regulation, they also cut corners and ignored other regulations. So more regulation is your answer? It's either going to cause people to rush things to force compliance or going to be ignored, or both at the same time. How does regulation prevent that?
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@NewLeftToday The existence of regulations did not prevent Chernobyl which contradicts your initial post. That is all.
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@Anankin12 "there was no free market nor banks, because both hadn't been invented yet" - Banks existed in 2000 BC in Assyria, in Ancient China and India, in Ancient Greece and Rome...
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@bingbong6127 Iraq had more than MANPADS. Did you know that Apaches and F-117s were the first aircraft to go into Iraq? The F-117s because they were stealth, the Apache because they flew close to the ground and struck Iraqi bases near the border. Funny how everyone loves pointing out how the Serbs shot down a F-117 (still got bombed into submission) but then NATO only fought goat farmers without MANPADS. So how did Serbia do it, if they're just goat farmers with no air defense?
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@bingbong6127 And the F-117 was designed in the 70s. That's why it's flat faced rather than curved like the B-2. They had to use old computers which were not powerful enough to calculate curves.
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My favorite comments are the China shills going "muh xenophobia" because their handlers are convinced westerners are all "woke" and will not ask for facts and proper counter-arguments if they're accused of being racist.
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Meanwhile Putin begging Iran for drones.
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@Brewliciouscafe Meanwhile Russia advancing all the way to Moscow.
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@Brewliciouscafe And he's winning. Do you realize how utterly humiliating this is for Russia?
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 @arsenelupin9697 red herring
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Obviously the nuclear deterrent is more important, but as a thought experiment watch the Yes, Minister clip on nuclear deterrence.
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@DejectedCat the bomb causes more damage than the dirty materials.
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ISIS in Afghanistan. Right....
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There's a window in the spectrum. The surface of the Earth can't just emitt in that window.
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And they did - they were just too corroded to be used as weapons and the American troops who found them suffered neurological damage from the leakage.
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@janehrahan5116 There are. People fighting against an army that brought civilians to basements and alleys to execute them are clearly good guys and deserve our support.
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He was DEMOCRATICALLY voted out by the Verkhovna Rada after fleeing the country. If Yanukovych wants to challenge his dismissal in the courts, all he has to do is come back to Ukraine. He won't because he will face murder charges.
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Probably knife attacks. In a weird way the recent assassination of Shinzo Abe was motivated by a grude against a religious movement, albeit a Korean one.
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Living standards would be higher by having sweatshops?
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Can you get housed inside an ATACMS missile? It's quite cramped inside.
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But rented goods need replacements more often. Be it due to wear or customer expectations.
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@44R0Ndin Okay, then drones will just have safeties to detect jamming and switch off the radio to seek the last known target position, use image recognition to seek the target independently or use the microwave radiation as a beacon to home onto.
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@44R0Ndin But it doesn't. Shutting off radio comms is free, the accelerometers and gyros are used in the design already so they're also free. "Good enough" computer vision that runs at 60 frames per second is possible with commercial components worth 300 bucks. I guess the home-on-jam feature would be a little more expensive but not by much. If the radio is off the drone still completes the mission, just not under human control. And no, it's not a EMP. It's a disruption of comms. There's a reason why there are unjammable drones in the field. Simple commercial quadcopters can often be jammed through a signal that forces them to waste power and drain the battery for a forced landing. Some military designs are virtually invulnerable to jamming. The enemy spent 2k to destroy a decoy, and the other 2k is able to see the target after the jammer was destroyed. 4k to make a hit. Sounds great.
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@44R0Ndin 150 in parts? The Ukrainian FPV drones with a RPG-7 warhead have a 10 minute battery endurance, tons of issues with signal/visibility, and those cost 600. Regarding vision models, that's overthinking it. Sensor fuzed munitions have been a thing for a long while. There's no equivalent to a Stop sign. All you can do is make a metallic box the shape of a vehicle to get it to function.
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@Triplitz88 that's not true. The assembly lines were shut down. Rebuikding the factories would mean a >200 million dollar per unit cost. The F-35 is as low as 85 million per unit. It would make no sense building more F-22s.
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They suffered more casualties in two months than the US had in 20 years. They're doing terribly.
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@amutah8063 Okay. Russia is still doing terribly. The price they paid in blood for the territory gained will not be worth it.
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@geckoing everyone's mentioning the top comment which was about someone trying to call a number, and the phone apparently belonged to a child and the mother was really nervous about the random people calling. He may have privated to stop people from calling.
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>I think guns in the U.S. need to be regulated more to stop tragedies like Sandy Hook. Face it, illegal traffic and manufacture of guns can't ever be stopped. The only reason for gun control is controlling the people. >The paranoid ... being scared of your government is beyond pathetic. NDAA, PATRIOT act, etc?
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You upload at double speed. Viewers slow down to x0.5 speed to understand better. 5 minutes become 10 minutes of watch time.
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@nikozer00 You're not understanding. Yes, if you upload a 10 minute video people will watch the 10 minutes. That's ONE watch. If you upload a 5 minute video that has to be watched at half speed, you get 10 minutes of watch time. Youtube scores your video as if the 5 minutes are worth watching twice. So your 5 minute video is better than a 10 minute video according to youtube's algorithm.
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"The F16 and F35 are not well suited to this role" - The F-16 is the bespoke close air support aircraft of many nations. Aircraft like the Eurofighter, Rafale, etc are the same. "The A10 is the aircraft for the role." - Maybe in the 1970s but 1991 showed that they're too vulnerable.
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Bro when I was a kid soccer hoolingans would wreck towns and cities. They turned the streets into a war zone. It was like George Floyd riots.
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Nuclear winter was a scientific fraud pushed in the interest of peace.
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@bubsnicket Okay, the price drops because there's a flood of vehicles, but new/refurbished batteries cost more because there's more people trying to buy 10 year old EVs. I hear Teslas new batteries last longer and are easier to reprocess but that's still ignoring the "backlog". There's a case in my country of someone who was trying to get a new battery for his EV (a Renault?) from the manufacturer and it cost him 9k euro. He left the waiting list to look somewhere else. Big mistake. He got on the waiting list again, price had jumped to 21k euro.
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 @DennisMerwood-xk8wp Russians bragged about killing Bradleys before they were in Ukraine.
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 @themuckler8176 They desperately need it. A stealth aircraft would grant them.air superiority.
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 @julienckjm7430 Those were MiG-31s which have a much more powerful radar.
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@julienckjm7430 Not sure why my comment didn't post. Radar is bound by physics. Bigger radar and bigger engines (power) means better detection and tracking. Faster speeds means better missile performance. The Su-57 can't cheat physics. So no, you can't tell the radar isn't less.
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@keizser9558 Automatics are banned in the US since 1986 but I get what you mean.
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The universe is mostly vacuum with some pockets of gas orbiting solid matter or itself. The misconception is that vacuum sucks. It doesn't, it's areas of high pressure that either press against or flow into vacuum. What happens when you eliminate the source of pressure?
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@HiddenPalm Do you just spam that on every thread?
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@MultiTasker888 The gold currency thing is a schizo conspiracy theory. The Arab League asked for intervention to the UN. The UN gave NATO the mission to enforce a NFZ.
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@temujin1234 you're over here going "whatever" at a comedy song. If you didn't take it personally you wouldn't act like the video was trying to change your mind. Also, if you think the cult of personality around Barrack Obama is not at Trump's level, be advised that to this day people still claim his presidency was scandal free and refuse to acknowledge his death toll.
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@temujin1234 you didn't "talk politics", you acted as if someone had personally insulted you because they insulted politicians in this vídeo. Hence the "whatever" attitude and the deflection of the topic towards Donald Trump (even though Reason is a libertarian outlet and constantly disagrees with Trump). You could have closed the vídeo. You could have said it was not funny. You said "whatever" just like the people getting beat in an argument and refusing to change their minds. "People ignoring Obama's problems" - not ignorance. Ignorance can be fixed with knowledge. We're talking denialism. You can point to the evidence and people will call you a liar. And the biggest evidence is, Trump isn't much different from Obama but the things he does are now suddenly an issue when nobody made a peep when Obama did the same/similar.
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@temujin1234 you directed the comment at nobody. You're not talking to Trump supporters, you're saying "whatever" to Reason's mockery of the Democratic party. False equivalence? Trump's first drone strike was on the news. Obama's drone strikes were mostly announced through independent anti-war media. Perfect equivalence.
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@temujin1234 I mean if I were a mean person I'd point out how in the analogy you made Obama look like Jesus. My point is that Obama did the bad things Bush did and some of the bad things Trump did. Hardly a comparison between Jesus and Hitler. More like a comparison between Pinochet and Noriega. It's going to be Ron Paul, I just need to figure out a way to make the planets align.
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 @snky6995 how is that suspicious?
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You can yell in a theater. You're just liable for damages if you cause a stampede.
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5.56 was the right choice. Even Soviets agreed with the 5.45.
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False. Germans were defeated by poor logistics, Allied bombing raids and lend-lease.
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Can you give me your American citizenship please?
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Clothes were made to last instead of fast fashion and construction techniques and materials made larger houses cheaper.
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It's garbage.
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People exposed to SARS-1 and MERS had increased immunity against SARS-CoV-2. People who had SARS-1 were tested a decade later, even though they had no antibodies the T-cell immune response to SARS-1 was still there. Plus, we've been through this for enough time that you can find people who recovered a year ago.
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/watch?v=1CDHLBfKusU
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@wileyjdraws7594 It kinda does. God's clearly backing the West.
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Yeah just like after the first attack. Then Russia lost Kherson.
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@sisyphusvasilias3943 "not the CCP who is offering the real jobs and real economic opportunities" - that sounds like propaganda in the opposite direction.
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@redcapitalist Your profile picture and name don't inspire much confidence, but I'm simply pointing out that just because there's puppet-masters behind HK doesn't mean that the CCP is good and benevolent. Governments lie cheat and steal, why is the Chinese government being praised as the ones handing out opportunities? Shouldn't people live in a world where they can survive without government handouts? What is being sacrificed in order to have those handouts?
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@redcapitalist "well if your first premise is "Governments lie cheat and steal"" - prove the premise wrong.
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Imagine risking your life for an old KGB agent who thinks he's a tsar.
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That was Reagan who said it, and he was quoting a proverb. Reagan would have decked Trump.
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There's no new or updated versions. It's just the same aircraft with the electronics changed.
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Delta had already massively slashed an already weak effectiveness. Delta was what, 3-4 variants ahead of the shot?
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I'm pretty sure at one point there were people writing articles about how magwell grips were the best thing ever. The thumb over bore is not hype nor a fad - it has been around for decades and used by some of the best shooters. However if he was just talking about the AFG then that his personal opinion and everything's fine.
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Dude's all the way in India telling people to go to the battlefield. Lol
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They did that and were allowed to present evidence at the UN. The Russian UN spokesperson embarassed himself because they had nothing.
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@idontwantanewfuckinghandle Stop deflecting. The UN representative embarrassed himself.
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There's a Canadian instructor teaching Ukrainians who wears the Cpt. Price beard in the style of the MW reboot.
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@gavindy_Sv2 I find it sort of funny that Zeihan would have a glaring boomer moment and not notice how most people won't fork over 5 bucks for a patreon let alone 750. I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but it would be a major oversight for Zeihan's masterplan to center around a total misjudgement about internet monetization.
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@gavindy_Sv2 The data he'd use to come to the conclusion that the market is there. There isn't one. This was his line of work before the channel grew or he went on JRE.
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@highvoltageswitcher6256 Did you went on a rant simply because of the joke term "boomer moment"?
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@dankbreh9013 didn't work with WWII or Vietnam. Anyone not willing to fight will simply be called a coward and shamed for refusing to participate.
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There was a lot of terrorism in the early 1900s, in fact Wall Street has stone building faces still peppered with the holes made by fragments.
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 @atnfn Putin traded his friend Medvedchuck for several Azov guys. Seems like Putin doesn't mind setting them free. Or if they're that bad, Putin clearly only cares about his friends.
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Why? If you ask for one you get the other too. You don't get to pick and choose.
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Quantum radar doesn't exist.
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"Even the women and children too" - Anakin Skywalker
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@stupidburp That's a bad tactic. Firing from max range means low Pk, and the enemy knows the Typhoon is in firing range so he will react by going defensive. With the F-35 you show up, get inside high Pk range, shoot, enemy unaware, splash one.
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@nath9091 The Russian air force at least has fighting experience in real wars. The PLAAF? Total unknown. Maybe they're good, maybe they'd find the very first day of a real war that war is not like the exercises.
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The A-10 had to be pulled out of missions against the Iraqi Republican Guard in 1991 due to all the A-10s shot down and requiring battle damage repair. They're proven against subpar forces or minimally equipped insurgents, but any competent force is gonna bruise the A-10 fleet.
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@Captain_Fantasy "there are different types of radiation" - I mean, there are but you don't know what that actually means and you're just parroting an observation. "no one gets cancer from bananas" - precisely because your own body's radiation output is actually greater than the decay of potassium in a banana. If the fish in the Pacific with the record levels of radiation are actually less radioactive than bananas... "I never see any headlines about Fukushima" - then I suppose you just learned of all of this telepathically?
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But you weren't sold a war. Russia invaded. You had no say in the matter. No buy, no sell.
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@u2beuser714 if you want a boxing match, call the gym, call the sports commission, call a referee and get a scale for the weigh in. You show up to sucker punch an athlete, expect everyone to beat you and grab weapons.
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@jimbo5973 You're dead either way. Might as well take the chance to disarm the opponent.
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Ukraine has spec ops with experience fighting Russia. American spec ops are actually less experienced in this type of conflict. Too much risk in letting Americans get captured for no benefit. Ukrainian spec ops are willing to do whatever it takes.
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 @80krauser Which is why capacity was expanded with burn pits made with rail tracks.
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There's several. Conflict of intetest, cherry picking and making determinations based on bad premises.
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On top? Yeah 6 feet/1m can help. On the sides? Not enough space.
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 @CyberBeep_kenshi What a riddiculous claim. That was a brief, not exactly James Bond level of secrecy.
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The 400km range is limited by the horizon. Due to the earth's curvature and other phenomena, a quality weapons track at 400km is only possible against very high altitude targets.
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The train thing was due to the weapon having poor FOV. The train was only noticeable in hindsight, that's why it wasn't a war crime. Nobody intended for a train to be hit, it was off schedule.
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@matejmacek5784 "Starbaby" Pietrucha did a play by play here: watch?v=bZgtyqO6EN0 Argue until you're blue in the face. He even slowed down the video. Starts at 37 minutes. He knows what he's talking about. You don't. You sit in the sidelines and shout, like the fat drunk shouting at football players. What did the Serbs have in their brain? We found the mass graves. It's very easy to not murder people in cold blood. It's hard to control a rocket manually. Funny how US pilots controlling rocket-driven weapons in a black and white screen get more criticized than men who put on a JNA uniform and did horrible things to people within spitting distance.
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@Rasmajnoon Okay. And what if they don't make the progress you claim in those two weeks? You're gonna ask for two more?
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Kek Russian forces are routing en masse
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The US beat North Vietnam but the war was unpopular at home so when the North broke the peace terms the US just left.
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 @jagx234 Solving shit "here" doesn't come from the DoD budget.
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@BTinSF the fuel is JP-8, used in pretty much all vehicle engines in service in the US Army, heaters, stoves and generators. Even though it's "jet fuel" it's NATO standard fuel, because using one fuel for everything simplifies logistics.
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Russian shelling has decreased a lot.
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And then their leader said an AR fires if you close the bolt. I love Grandmaster Jay. He reminds me of Sam L. Jackson in "Basic".
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@yfelwulf "35,000 plus US dead in Vietnam agree 7.62x39 works. " - not really, because so many shot by 7.62x39 lived. In fact, in the 1989 Stockton shooting Patrick Purdy fired 106 rounds from his AK into schoolchildren and killed 5 while wounding 30. The medical examination of the wounds confirmed that the rifle bullets did damage similar to handgun rounds and that explained it's lack of lethality, even against children. There's a reason the Russians switched to 5.45 and made it more lethal than 7.62.
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How is it a step towards nuclear war? It's two more nations that are off limits. That means peace. 14 thousand were killed on BOTH SIDES. Three thousand Ukrainian servicemen. Five thousand separatists. Most deaths occurred in the first two years of fighting. Military forces killing each other isn't a genocide.
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 @stoptrudeau42 Speaking of boosters, 50% of Ukraine had not taken the first shot when the war started while Russia required the shot to ride the bus. Putin is a Branch Covidian. Worse than CNN.
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@denisdenisov7623 What does that have to do with anything? The amount of suffering Russians are going through, and will go through after the war is over, is like a curse.
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@sullathehutt7720 Yeah and they had 6 gorillion in reserves with 3 Boris Johnsons.
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@johnrhodes3350 But there were bodies which weren't laid out in the streets. There were execution sites in basements and behind buildings. And drones flying over while Russians were in town showed that there were dead bodies already on the ground during occupation, so they didn't shoot during the retreat.
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The wars in the middle east were reported on heavily - did you live under a rock?
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He told Sydney to F off because s superchat asked about an article he had written years ago. It was about him making his girlfriend have sex with other men. By trying to suppress the evidence people ended up finding out about his cam work where he put stuff up his back door.
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It was legal. Serbia was told to stop the genocide. They had a history of taking peacekeepers as hostages. We did what had to be done.
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@BarriosGroupie "AI says" isn't law. Also, you said the bombing was illegal. Now you're arguing certain targets were illegal. That's different. A target can be illegal to hit, but you claimed the intervention was illegal. It wasn't. We cowered and allowed Srebrenica to happen in 1995. It was shameful. In 1999 we weren't cowards.
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The Wagner nazis bagged a couple of them Kamovs.
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Antiradiation missiles are exclusively radar weapons. The AIM-9 isn't anti-radiation because it seeks IR, and explodes near the target which makes it glow even more. There's more radiation than before. Anti-radiation missiles are meant to shut down radars, killing the source of radiation.
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 @FirstLast-di5sr and funnily enough, the California and Texas independence movements are heavily supported by Moscow, with the political actors involved often travelling to Russia.
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If they change their mind all the time, why do we listen to them? If they change their minds all the time, why did the policies remain static? You're trying to call a time out. No. We can investigate. We should have done it the SECOND it hit our shores, and you want even more time. Why?
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@blockbusstar Oh, so now there's a consensus. They're not changing minds anymore? They know best. Okay. Then how come a complete dumbass like me has been right and vindicated this whole time simply through intuition and pattern recognition? The fire department doesn't show up and decide to put out the fire with jet fuel. I don't need to second-guess the fire department, we both agree on what needs to be done. They have a fire engine and I don't. If I had the means to fight a house fire by myself I'd do it. The fire department doesn't constantly get things wrong and then call me stupid for not agreeing with them. The fire department tries to save as much as they can, the "experts" destroyed lives.
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@blockbusstar "scientists change their minds based upon how strong the emerging evidence" - Okay, then why didn't the measures change in response? "usually when this happens there is consensus among all scientists that they indeed need to change their mind" - Okay. Where was this consensus when the measures were supposed to have changed? "Based upon your comments you don’t understand the principles of science?" - No, I understand them better than you. That's why I'm poking holes in your arguments and detecting contradictions. "well we might stop doing research in it’s totality" - Strawman argument. "And let’s dismiss every expert who has dedicated their lives on this topic" - If they're liars and refused to change their tune once the science was changing, they should be dismissed. And also be found liable for the lives they ruined for thinking they're hot sh!t and instead being wrong.
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@turkiedurkie4895 No reason can defeat the laws of thermodynamics. Yes some people have issues that make them less efficient at losing weight. But that only means they will take a little more time to see the same results as a person without the same condition.
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You wouldn't need it in the US either, tbh.
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Instead of hot MILFs in your area they should advertise for gamer girls in your area.
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 @Rellikan that's not a bad example though...
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@MbisonBalrog They weren't the same nation. Russians always saw Ukrainians as inferior and attempted to erase them multiple times.
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The Ruble can't be traded, and rocket volleys are reduced.
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Right, they sacrificied their own plane.
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The DU is not "highly radioactive". If you get poisoned by it, you die from the heavy metal poisoning. Not the radioactivity.
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[Insert Tucker Carlson interview that goes back to the year 863]
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Russian aviation did. 7 aircraft lost, 12 pilots dead.
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How do you know the radar saw the same objects? If there's radar glitches and you're sent to investigate, and you see a trash bag floating in the air, you're going to think the trash bag was the cause of the radar signals.
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@giantarcsfora9279 You should look into the declassified reports of SOLVED ufo cases. Yeah, they see ufos all the time. They report them all the time. And sometimes it's possible to pinpoint exactly what they were. You'd be surprised. But nobody likes being surprised by the truth. "radars all tracking the same objects at the same time" - I'm going to need proof of this. "Trash bags which accelerate from 0 to 50,000 miles per hour?" - Again, going to need proof of this. The acceleration values would be corroborated by sound recording (which is used in anti-submarine surveillance) and thermal imaging because anything going that fast is going to heat the air like a meteorite. So where is all the proof?
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"Other people unrelated to me did something once so I have the right to have it"
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Because the A-10 is being retired precisely due to lack of spare parts.
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@HeitorS.-dh2wl You're entitled to not care about people trying to re-write historical records.
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But the response would have been sufficient. Unfortunately the product was so bad it wears off in 3-4 months, but only the elderly and vulnerable needed it anyway. The drive to shut people out of society if they don't take it had 18 year olds with parents with connections cut in line while only the elderly and medical staff were supposed to get it. Assuming we had a product that worked right, our response was more than sufficient. Governments artificially driving demand gave everyone a sense of scarcity.
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@SnugglehPuppeh But it isn't his point. Or the point being made by any of the nutcases pontificating about this topic on TV. They're completely devoted to a solution that was constructed out of duct tape and spit. Their response to the product being underwhelming was giving more of it and saying that now even more need to take it. They bet on the wrong horse and say their only admission of failure was the jockey. Medical products couldn't end it, just like we can't end the common cold. In the end either Nature did it for us... or another lab did.
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@altrag and how much freedom does a person with little money have anywhere else?
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@altrag "You're a lot more free to change jobs if your healthcare isn't tied to a specific employer." - The freedom to change jobs is all about having skills in demand. If your "freedom" is just to make a horizontal move where you're paid the same and treated the same that's not saying much. Plus, the employment being tied to healthcare in America is a vestige of WW2 policy. The government is to blame for putting wage ceilings in place that promoted the use of benefits as a way to "pay" higher wages without breaking the law, and then making those benefits exempt from tax in a way that makes employers prefer to pay in benefits than actual money. "You're a lot more free to leave an abusive partner if you know there's a social net to help you while you try to get back on your feet." - Abusive partners are a problem over here too. Social safety net doesn't put a roof over your head. If you have nowhere to go the trap is the same.
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Trump only has cultists by his side now, and Trump would make it seem like giving Ukraine aid was his idea to begin with.
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Producing for yourself is capitalism, ba-bey.
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You need the magazine you can comfortably insert in the weapon and still wield it around effectively. What are you credentials in the world of gun defense? How many gunfights have you been in? Just watch videos of guns used in self-defense. 5 rounds isn't enough. You think it is because you were told it was. But you never investigated it. You don't know.
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@brandon-dr2pn "I just don't think it needs to be as big and the type of guns you can get" - Why do you think that? "What's wrong with just having a bolt action rifle or lever action rifle a hand gun or a shot gun." - Except for handguns, they're slow. During a fight you need to be fast. Imagine you had to fight but purposefully handicapped yourself by only punching one time every two seconds. Even less skilled boxers would kick your ass. Also, amazing how people always say handguns are fine for defense but they're much harder to control. Handguns fire much faster than bolt action rifles and because they're concealable, criminals love them. But get a rifle that fires as fast as a handgun and suddenly that's unacceptable.
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@brandon-dr2pn "For mag size it mostly for all the mass shootings" - We're not talking about mass shootings. You said they weren't needed for self-defense. "Ya that's still five shots he can get off but he have to keep reloading and maybe someone could stop him." - How many mass shootings have been stopped this way? Plus the shooter can just have a backup weapon to shoot whoever rushes him during a reload. "Plus from what you are saying it sounds like people are breaking into homes every night. That's why you need this trick out gun." - Irrelevant. Not only are you making shit up about what I said, nobody mentioned a "trick out gun" just common weapons, and finally it only takes ONE invasion for you to need a gun. Not multiple ones. How about you actually argue the point instead of changing the subject and personally insulting people?
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@brandon-dr2pn "mass shootings, self defense whatever you want to talk about" - No, no. You said 5 rounds is all one needs. Now you've justified the ban because of shootings. You're saying people might need more than 5 rounds but mass shootings caused the ban. "I think you don't need a 30 round clip to to protect your home." - Why? Why do you think that? You keep saying things but you have no expertise. No proof. "A 10 round clip would do just fine. That is enough bullets to stop anyone coming at you." - 50 cent got shot 9 times and he's still standing. What happens when three people attack? They know there's strength in numbers.
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The older the equipment the less chance there's training pipelines and running examples.
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The Russian population? Putin conscripted them. They're gone. The DPR and LPR forces are now staffed by Russian nationals mobilized from Russia to fight in Ukraine. Russians used them as meat shields.
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Copestory Legends calculated Ukrainian casualties from Russian munition expenditure. Nuff said.
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@briantarigan7685 No, that's not the best method. You do not estimate how many punches land based on how many are thrown, or how many darts hit the bullseye based on how many darts are thrown.
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@briantarigan7685 Oh and Bakhmut was won so hard that the guys who won it rushed towards Moscow and shot down Russian aircraft on their way there.
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Kyle was not called to assemble. You're the racist person by saying black people attack businesses. Black people have a grievance against a white kid killing his white attackers? What?
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How is that the best information? Russia is doing human wave assaults and driving armored vehicles into minefields. Defender's advantage - Russia has to cross no man's land, into Ukrainian sights.
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The clearing of Kharkiv threatens the supply lines to Severodonetsk. The entire defensive line for Luhansk is under jeopardy. This was a massive strategic win because it both threatens the Donbas it also massively demoralizes the troops stuck in Kherson.
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I mean it's a 2013 game.
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Filling in a hole in the road prevents you from ruining a suspension, but doesn't recover the structure. The entire span of that segment has to be removed and recast again with the pre-tensioners (concrete is weak in tension, it needs compressive devices to be cast in place). I assume that the holes are meant to allow Russians to leave, but make them scared of driving heavy equipment over the affected areas. A concrete patch with asphalt over will not bring back that span's strength.
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To be fair, Russian separatists did put on balaclavas and film fake execution videos pretending to be Ukrainians.
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Assuming a perfect boy-girl 50:50 split each couple raiaing one child will mean each generation will be half the size of the previous. A million quickly becones half a million, which quickly becomes 250k. 2.1 or bust.
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Well, police officers already murder us every day so it seems to me that they're the first group that should be looked into. Also, I heard that about 40% of them are domestic abusers?
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@blahorgaslisk7763 Yeah, it takes exposure over time. And every time you fire a gun you're exposed to a little lead dust from the primer, unless you shoot exclusive lead-free primers. Also, an animal killed by lead shot will have solid pieces which you can av.oid or spit out of you chew on one, but if you eat an animal that ingested lead it goes into your system.
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I use it unironically because police are not even required to protect and serve the people, they are the violent tool of the state, by signing up they're essentially pledging to enforce unjust laws, they are consistently caught abusing the people, etc. The only ones who need to reevaluate their lives are the thugs wearing the badge who need to decide where their allegiance lies.
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Budapest Memorandum, 1994.
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But the counterpoint is that it would be easier for hostile nations to get hold of that information.
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Spelling it "Lvov" is like the three fingers scene in inglorious basterds.
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@bodaciouschad Because only Ukrainian women can give birth to Ukrainians. Ukraine is fighting for survival, letting Russia kill the future mothers is handing them victory in a silver platter.
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Except that Saab constantly lost bids because the Gripen isn't cheaper to fly. Saab marketing has done a number on internet discourse.
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"gotta go far"
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Not really. Russia is pulling out the T-55s. Their numbers were cooked to scare other countries.
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Why would his debt be an issue if he's not in Russia to pay it? His debtors eat the loss.
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They're mobilized. They're civilians drafted into the war, not professional.
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@treeblinn Most states do not seize produce. In fact most governments have farm subsidies.
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@PredatoryQQmber If by survival you mean massacres, if by food for all of population you mean grain requisitions, if by elites you mean... elites, because they still exist. The biggest pillagers are Party officials and their officers. Curious, how being free means the freedom to not engage with people who hate you. Are you not free because I deny you access to my house? Funny you mention sexual assault. Look up Beria. Party officials knew to tell their daughters to never accept a ride from that man.
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+tripsaplenty that having a military style haircut doesn't make him a Nazi?
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 @toto-yf8tc Kosovo was an autonomous region within Yugoslavia. Also, Serbs took UN peacekeepers hostage.
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Missing entirely is a much more common occurence than through and throughs. 400 million guns if not more out there, almost a million estimated defensive gun uses, and despite a hostile media that would love to show how dangerous guns are... this story of a through and through never comes up in the news.
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Nah.
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There's some degree of range extension because tankers are big juicy targets that cannot go very far or else they leave the protection of the carrier group. With these they can go further with less risk.
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Buddy we have the footage them them fighting higher than kites.
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"How about STOP BEING A CRIMINAL" - Okay, and what if they make owning guns illegal? What if they make speech illegal? Sometimes the law is on the wrong side of morality.
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@napoleonblownapart8155 you don't even know what a strawman is. Strawman is misinterpreting what others said to defeat an argument that is easier to refute. I simply mentioned a couple of situations where you'll be outraged at being told to follow the law. You disagree with the law when it suits you, then tell others to follow it.
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@bassesatta9235 why do you claim that a pistol is enough? What are your credentials in the world of shooting? Also, do you realize that most gun murders use handguns?
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@sanjuansteve lmao
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@jakenasz3428 It's irrelevant because Russia offered to repair NS2 if Europe dropped sanctions. If Europe wanted to increase purchase of Russian gas, Nordstream 2 would be active. But it isn't, which means Europe is withdrawing.
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@drewgwins6073 Fauci tried to use a failed cancer drug for HIV. Not implying that you agree with it by association, but I'm just pointing out that the people at the top have done the same so don't call us dummies for doing the same. I'm even being charitable towards your position because in that example it failed pretty bad.
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@GARRY3754 He's openly threatening to end the world.
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Do Americans have a built in Fahrenheit sensor in their skin? If your thermometers and weather reports are all in Celsius, you WILL use Celsius. You have no choice unless you're acoustic to the point of whipping out your smartphone's calculator app every time to do the conversion.
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War would be worse if there weren't weapons that deter air power. I'll take a weapon that shreds an aircraft apart instead of letting it bomb civilians in my cities.
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They switched the types of missiles used.
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There is no panic lol They were mostly mobilized lol Artillery and aviation is working lol >>>YOU ARE HERE<<< We abandoned another position lol
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.30-06 is not much more powerful. Calibers optimized for hunting aren't necessarily better for combat.
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@MrZnarffy The .30-06 M2 ball load was 152 grains at 2,800 fps. 7.62x51 M80 ball is 147gr at 2,800 fps. Not much difference. Hunting isn't combat.
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@MrZnarffy A difference of 5 grains. Do you know how much that is? Yes, .30-06 beats 7.62 but by a hair. You said it was MUCH more powerful. That's at least 15-20% more. Not 1%.
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@davegallagher7710 Yes, we're being taken for a ride. Soldiers waiting for a vehicle to stop before firing at it? Unthinkable.
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@60sgalesburgerrfan >wind Hard cap on the number that can be built >solar Great but only during half the day >hydro Hard cap on the number that can be built, wrecks ecossystems >thermal Nuclear with extra steps. Radioactive decay heats up rock and we warm up water to spin a turbine.
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Very slow, it's missile bait in a defended airspace.
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He doesn't tell the truth. Did you not see the leaks?
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@junaidmuhammed5740 The weather punished Russia in February.
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@Conserpov They are not irrelevant. Severodonetsk has no rail coming from the East because it ends around Donetsk.
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@Bootsystem66 "said" c'mon bruh
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@dagger6467 "you dont retire an aircraft line you just upgraded" - The retirement will only begin in 2030 according to their schedule. So basically 2035.
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This is not how the law works. Only men in uniform or engaged in combat count as military personnel.
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How does it suck? It's against libertarian principles for the state to say "nah that contract needs maternity leave" and force a business to take that risk in employing women.
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No. Russia invaded with 150k, aided by PMCs and the DPR/LPR forces. Ukraine had around 250k. And Russia sent extra forces to replenish losses, they had troops from far east bases, sailors, strategic rocket forces, etc. so while Ukraine had to mobilize forces Russia had an army they could just draw from and send to Ukraine as needed. It was later that the Ukrainian army expanded to 500k-700k.
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 @abrakadavra3193 disease that pushes people with 3 comorbidities off the edge doesn't really affect the same demographics
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@sweetchiliheat7866 "muh both sides"
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@wannabeuk Commenting on others' work is work in itself. Whenever you see a documentary or movie that uses real news clips to paint a picture of what happened do you also scoff at the director?
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"Ruskiy Mir" in a nutshell.
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Meat wave, not human wave.
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They already recovered pieces from the sea. Bringing a balloon down slowly doesn't work. Canada tried it. After a thousand rounds of 20mm cannon fire from CF-18s, it crossed the Atlantic and got shot down by Russia. That's how bad your solution is. A BB? Try 20mm rounds. A thousand of them. Still didn't descend within reach.
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 @jairoherrera4040 Sweden already joined a unified air defense pact with Finland and Norway. Probably because they're still modernizing their fighter fleet.
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@a.j.9454 lel you want me to believe an American is seething about Bandera? Stay in St. Petersburg and don't leave the country when you get your draft notice. We don't want you.
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"lets say you saw someone in public reach into an old ladies purse and steal $100, the question becomes do your morally object to that? Do you say/do something? I think most people would take issue to that, change it to stealing cookies from a girl scout, whatever you like... This doesn't make a person a sheep" - You're using outright THEFT as your example. You correctly called out a logical fallacy and then you use the exact same type. "it makes them a reasonable member of society who cares about others around them" - This isn't about caring. You're giving too much credit to the mindset. They don't berate others because they actually care because they don't. It's low status people getting their rocks off. It's like being in a twitter mob but in real life. The propaganda literally tells people to be "heroes". They want that. "There is a large amount of our population who don't wear masks, and instead of reaching in and stealing money for the old ladies purse they are playing russian roulette with the lives of every single person" - This is false. The masks only decrease the velocity of particles coughed or sneezed, and capture some depending on mask efficiency (most masks people wear are extremely low efficiency). If we go back 10 months you'll see the infographs and 3d renders showing that without mask your sneeze particles can jump 20 feet or whatever and with a mask 6 feet (hence the distancing thing). You're still infecting people, but at a slower rate. Again, if you go back the narrative was that we were slowing the spread (people still get infected with masks and social distancing, just less at the same time) and not eliminating it. So no matter what you do, you're ALWAYS playing Russian roulette. The mask only loads a plastic bullet instead of a lead one. A contact shot will punch through a skull, but the bullet loses velocity quickly at a distance and becomes progressively less dangerous. "You're a monster. Literally mass murders" - Oh, you're too far gone. You're actually those people. "you will never know that number" - You will never know the number of people who starved because of the economies stalling, you will never know the number of people who died because they missed appointments or cancer treatments.
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The cannons weren't a decisive factor.
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The YF-23 and JSF programs are completely unrelated.
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@jericho1-4 Lockheed Martin won the ATF contract because the F-22 looked to be closer to "finished", being able to employ weapons at a stage where the prototype wasn't even required to. Meanwhile the weapons bay on the YF-23 was causing doubts due to the possibility of a jam. LM won the JSF program because the X-32 could not fly supersonic and use STOVL in the same configuration, the X-35 could. Also, the X-32 looked ugly which whether we like it or not influences decisions. As much criticism as one could direct at LM, at least the reasons why they won the contracts are crystal clear - they made the best prototypes. They put stuff in the real world, while Northrop and Boeing made promises on paper.
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@jericho1-4 Whatever. Lockmart is better at winning contracts. It's not a conspiracy. Others want to dream, but their dreams take more time and effort than estimated. Lockmart wants to sell. And golly gee they make the sale. The F-22 having no kills in an age where air combat largely did not happen until the Ukraine war isn't the argument you think it is. Neither the Su-57 or J-20 have kills against manned craft.
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@jericho1-4 The F-22 was deployed in Syria. It dropped bombs in combat. How is the F-22 a failure because the US is so powerful nobody wants to fight its armed forces? Yes, the Su-57 has been sitting idle - it's a bunch of prototypes. The J-20 gets as much action as the F-22. Excuse me, how many wars did the PLAAF fight in the last ten years for the J-20 to have combat deployments?
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Only a few. And there was military need. These are recruits.
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@chick930 Ukraine has little money but volunteer pay is Ukrainian military pay. Like 200 bucks per month. They're volunteers, not people fighting for money.
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@ForWater-m4s Russia just struck power transformers and dams to cause floods.
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But at what cost?
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What you said was right, though. The Benetton ads are effective, and while I disagree with the premise and would absolutely hate gun ownership becoming something like "reality TV" instead of being honest, unfortunately that's how the world works.
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Nothing? I wish all my life's problems could be sealed inside an abandoned Walmart.
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Just like HIMARS, right?
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Even if you account for it, the problem just gets worse and worse. Accounting for the problem just kicks the can down the road.
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 @soulsphere9242 Jesus Christ, 10%???
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Yes, the craters at Energodar show the shells are coming from Russian occupied territory. Did you see the Rosatom spokesperson trying to tell the IAEA inspectors that Ukrainian rockets look Russian because they do a 180 degree flip?
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Because the other 80% are either not combat capable or are requires to protect their massive borders?
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@anyariv Let's talk about logic. How could Jans Stoltenberg be involved in Vietnam at age 16? How could Norway use a P-8 aircraft which will not be delivered until late this year?
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@dandytv1510 A future invasion? Russia got bogged down 60km away from their own borders, you think China is going to cross the Pacific and still have troops alive to conduct a land invasion?
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1000 days of non-stop crying from you people whining that you can't eat the Bradleys.
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@getsideways7257 No, it doesn't just mean that. It also involves reduction of IR spectrum emissions, for example. No, it was not known since WWII. The way to reduce RCS through shaping was only discovered after a Russian scientist developed the mathematical model to estimate radar returns.
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@getsideways7257 The Horten was not stealth. This was a claim made post-WWII. Just looking at the engine placement shows that stealth was not a consideration.
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@getsideways7257 Have you seen FLIR footage of anything that isn't stealth? It creates a huge blob on the screen that's visible from as far as 60 miles away. ""Stealth" wasn't very successful in Horten 229" - Because they were not trying. "the Germans would have perfected it most likely" - This is just a myth. The Horten brothers designed flying wings. That's what they did. The shape of the aircraft was retroactively called stealth after the war but the claims are absolutely dubious. It was a high speed aircraft meant to deliver bombs. Stealth was never a consideration so it could have not been perfected. Especially since they did not have the equations for it. "I don't remember F-117 fighting Russians though?" - Nobody said they did. That's why you don't remember it. But Iraq and Serbia had Soviet-designed defenses that the F-117 penetrated.
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@getsideways7257 "There is some IR signature reduction, but not nearly as much as to warrant the "stealth" moniker" - That's because you don't understand what stealth means. If FLIR footage shows airliners from 60 miles away, but the F-22 requires to be within 30 miles , that's stealth. "there is no need for a name in the first place" - Sure. But stealth is shorter than "very low observable". "the thing had a noticeably smaller RCS than a typical fighter plane of the time" - Because the wings blend into the fuselage rather than creating a corner reflector, there's no tail, and the engines are recessed into the wing instead of having their own fairings and propellers sticking out. This is all due to how flying wings are designed. "And you'd call that "combat-proven"?" - They've been in combat. One has been shot down. That's combat. "The Russians that basically donated the formulas you mentioned above" - It wasn't a donation, it was published like academic research often is. "moderately reduced signature ones now" - This is a coping mechanism.
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@getsideways7257 This is delusion. Academic studies are published and accessed by other academics. It's not the US's fault the Russians foolishly thought that RCS calculations had no military purpose.
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@getsideways7257 I have no time to wrangle your ridiculous strawmen. If you have to lie about what others said that already proves my point. I'm also not from the US. Come back when you have actual arguments.
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@getsideways7257 You're conflating copying, stealing and just using publicly available academic research.
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@getsideways7257 I think you're confusing me for someone else. I've never said anything about those subjects and you need to ask the person you think you're talking to, not me. The Ho 229 could be detected at 80% of the range a Bf-109 could, according to the estimates with the mockup that was built for that documentary. Not very stealthy. Who said anything about forbidding anything? Again, you're confusing me for someone else. If there's no stealing then why did you send me replies accusing people of stealing? What does the wiretapping have anything to do with anything? I'm not American. Why are you asking me? Americans don't have privacy. PATRIOT Act. Very relevant to today's date.
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@getsideways7257 It's not convenience. A 40% RCS is meaningless when it can be detected at almost the same range. The radar band is meaningless. Half? 80%.
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@JarrydNielsenLMAO It's not that dangerous. Unpredictability has always been a part of life. Children aren't a tool. You give children tools. Children do not enlighten you. You enlighten children. I'm amazed at how you understood the exact opposite of what I meant.
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@JarrydNielsenLMAO Exactly. Fun fact, you can teach children how to filter those out from drinking water. But you won't. So you've already wallowed in your helplessness.
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@JarrydNielsenLMAO Biochar can be used to filter them out. The origin of the feed stock and the temperatures used during the pyrolysis change the kind of microplatics so it's possible to produce tandem filters that absorb different plastics in different stages. Steam activation of biochar also increases effectiveness.
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1 large boom causes more damage to a bridge than several smaller ones.
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Buddy the US flew missions with expected 50% losses and came back with 0 aircraft lost. The US purposefully goes into missions assuming the worst.
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They have school stabbings instead.
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They've made enough money off this to retire, what careers?
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No. Read the unified rules. Control is only factored in if the fighters have a tie in terms of aggression. And aggression is only factored if the fighters are tied in score from striking/grappling. Controlling the center is the secondary tie breaker to prevent a 10-10 round. It's so far down the hierarchy it's not common for a round to be decided that way. You can factor in those all you like for your personal judgement of a fight, but that is NOT how fights are scored under the MMA unified rules. Unless the scoring is different in Canada, the judges prioritize damage/striking/grappling to see who wins the round, and only use aggression to determine who wins if the points scoring is too close to call. And if both fighters are equal in aggression the judges use ring/cage control to break the tie.
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The XM8 was a underhanded move. It was never going to replace the M4 because H&K had won the contract for the OICW and there was an attempt to use the 5.56 rifle part of the OICW to get the M8 in service. As soon as Colt made some noise everyone realized that some officers were trying to press a new rifle into service without trials being conducted. It would have been literally illegal to do that. This time, the armed forces actually asked for it rather than it being slipped under the radar.
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Just stop repeating the lies. Der Spiegel reported that Hamburg in Germany was lying about the status of people in the ICU. They simply didn't verify status of 70% of people and labelled them "unknown". When publishing the data, they put them up as unspiked. If an entire region in Germany was lying, everyone's lying. Wake up.
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What a riddiculous strawman. The question being proposed is a person who lived a full life, who greatly surpassed the average lifespan, being asked if they're willing to ruin the world for their children and grandchildren just to have a slighter higher chance of surviving an extra year or two. It's not just economic issues. It's ruin. Dreams shattered. Careers down the drain. Deaths from despair.
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So the CIA and SAS are just able to walk into a Russian held area and truck several tons of explosives?
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To be fair, I always heard the term "shitlib" coming from the left. The right used to say "libtard", which is a very boomerish term.
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@TheOneKeeper their major corporations are being forced to hold debt to prop up the Russian state. Gazprom isn't profitable. Three banks already bailed out. When the war ends they'll have hundreds of thousands of unemployed men. It's gonna be worse than the 90s.
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The Russian army either leaves or gets the forever sleepy time.
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The A-X program was meant to replicate the A-1 Skyraider capabilities in Vietnam. Europe was a later concern.
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Yeah, let's ask the guy who continues to milk his military career about his unbiased and factual opinion.
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 @destroyerarmor "no one can defend against drones" Gepards eat drones for lunch.
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@melmorrison1400 No such thing happened. Cope about it.
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Effectiveness should be prioritized over morale. What would be the morale effects of troops in contact seeing the cavalry arrive just for it to get shot down? What's it gonna do to those men to see help coming, then see the help get swatted out of the sky like a bug?
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One of the craziest things is that the only stuff on Russia wikileaks only released was stuff Russian dissidents had already leaked. Almost like he was being played by the FSB.
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Not everyone has the chance to work in dozens of different countries, being abroad in the military is a good job most often than not. Bringing everyone home would be a bad thing. Military presence is required in many places, what would lots of people do without having the military taking the sick and wounded from islands to hospitals, without search & rescue, without airdrops, etc?
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@Talon771 False. This happened all over the world. It had nothing to do with defiance.
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Boy that aged well.
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Country music post 9/11 "muh truck muh freedom muh troops" Country music back then "I'm on the run from the law because I shot an officer and I regret my life choices"
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@janelane9281 funny, while the FUDDS in America rolled over and accepted the "sporting purpose" bullshit HK was one of the few companies to contest it.
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Why? The F-15 would be put in unecessary danger by getting inside of SAM range. The F-35 could drop a SDB on the radar. Done. It's off. No need to light up for anyone or use a missile.
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@Ihavethebiggestmbappe he loves Russian prisons
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No money was lost. The military simply wrote down a value higher than they should.
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You want to stop someone's liver, stomach and lungs under the assumption only the heart and brain are essential. You can't. There's no built in support or compassion, you can't hit pause on human activity and get surprised that non-essential stuff is actually critical to maintain the essential stuff.
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@eachday9538 A medically induced coma requires people to be awake to monitor you, feed you, etc. If you put everyone in a coma at the same time, who's there to make sure you're not dying? Who's there to keep making the food that goes into the tube? I have to seriously question those numbers. One would think the economy was running on fumes but kept afloat by government policy, and then the training wheels have to come off and now you're seeing the actual effects from the lockdown. All policies you enact in short term to avoid a collapse is just money you're taking from your future self. When the time comes to pay and as it turns out you've only delayed the inevitable, you're stuck with both the collapse and the debt.
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@eachday9538 Okay, how do essential workers manage to work without non-essentials? Essentials still need clothes, shoes, dry cleaning, to eat, etc. Either everyone's essential or nobody is. Farmers had to destroy produce because they had no workers to harvest, no workers to ship the product, and even if they had all that there were other issues such as non-essential factories being on hold and thus produce and meat not having plastic to wrap them. You think food is essential, but food requires a ton of non-essential things to come to your store. You think you can draw a line on what's essential and what's not. Your lockdown just became... tanking the entire entertainment industry I guess? Yeah screw those musicians and roadies and sound/lighting people. Everyone keeps working but them, because it's the only sector that others don't depend on. What does testing do except show you the cases that aren't serious? Good, you have a bigger number on the counter on TV. So what? That's not going to cure the ones in the hospital, but you'll be able to cause even more issues as entire chunks of the workforce are required to stay home and isolate due to contact. They test negative, go back to work, then someone tests positive again. Back to isolation. Now workplaces don't even have essentials. You've done absolutely nothing to protect the vulnerable, but you sure got to cause more pain and suffering.
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@eachday9538 Okay, that doesn't explain how the tool in the toolbox is going to be used properly. Australia is an island nation. The bug can't swim across the ocean, dawg.
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@eachday9538 Because the WHO recommended against travel restrictions and when this was brought up in the United States people were called racist? Nothing was squandered away, all you had was a delay of the inevitable. You knew Australia had to come in contact with it at some point. Or do they keep the country inside a bubble forever? Yeah, you got compliance rates high by threatening people with the loss of their jobs. Great. Not cowardly and scummy at all, go after people's livelihoods to get your way. The Harvey Weinstein method, I call it. Death rates are lowering across the board due to Omicron. We tried the spectrum. By pushing for more, you want the all. How are you paying for social supports when you essentially demolish the economy? I only brought up that sector because it would be the only one unaffected. So no lockdown except for musicians, and we don't destroy the economy so we can pay them? Sure. Most of the spread will still occur in households, it would be probably safer to attend concerts. No matter the way you slice it, you're always making grave mistakes trying to set policy.
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@eachday9538 If you can call that living...
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What you're saying is valid for all aircraft. Many European nations send their F-16 pilots to train with American fighter schools in T-38s. Most of us simply do not have enough money, facilities and training staff to keep their skills honed and we depend on the US to fully develop our pilots.
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@dylan2439 "the guy who complained schools are indoctrinating our youth" - Because they are, and always have been. Even the Pledge of Allegiance was indoctrination. "in the same breath said schools aren't teaching western judeochristian teachings, isn't a religious fascist?" - Please explain how complaining that schools don't teach values means one is a "religious fascist". I like the sleight of hand. You've shifted from calling him a fascist to a "religious fascist", where the word "fascist" is deprived of its meaning to simply carry a negative connotation.
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@dylan2439 "far-right" - Not related to teaching of religious values. "authoritarian ultranationalism" - Still not related to religion or schools. "dictatorial power" - The fact that school attendance is compulsive is more dictatorial than teaching religious values. "forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe" - Still don't see how this relates to Peterson, especially since he lives in 21st century Canada, I think. "Hit the nail on the head" - You missed, flattened your finger, fell with your face into the nail and then the hammer hit you in the back of the head. Should have learned how to use tools before attempting it, but clearly nobody raised your right.
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@dylan2439 Your original comment doesn't stand. You've still not managed to explain what fascist ideas JP promotes. After ridiculing the concept that the school system could ever indoctrinated children, I pointed to a very overt case of indoctrination in the school system that you ignored. Maybe the easy explanation is that you're wrong. Otherwise you wouldn't be trying to run away from the discussion. If he makes money off of controversy, have you thought about not creating controversy about him? Why willfully participate into the Streisand effect? Genuine question.
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@nemiw4429 Dust is a problem on any vehicle. Helicopters have to be used in the desert too, and normal gasoline/Diesel engines also suck in air and require filters.
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The A-7 was almost as armored as the A-10. The F-35 is incredibly redundant.
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@fafdus And how are small arms going to get within range of a F-35? Typically fences and security stops people from getting close to airfields. The A-10A was 13 million in the 90s. The A-10C with inflation added? It's about 50-60 million.
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@fafdus Why would it come that low?
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The movie director was a regular guest on RT. You know, a "source of information" and "news".
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@cyan_oxy6734 Nobody cares about Russia's fee-fees since the war started. Facebook also lifted their hate speech filter so that Ukrainians could use social media as ad hoc comms and plan stuff without the bots going "you're talking about game-ending prople so we'll shadowban your posts". Grow up.
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@goatman9499 G. Lira was left for dead because he ruined his lungs in a country where hospitals get bombed. He's Coach Red Pill, he had an internet name, so he deserves to be treated by his internet name and not his government name. He was a sex tourist and internet grifter.
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@PaulM745 That's a cope. The F-35 was sold because most buyers already had F-16s. Buying Gripens would be a step sideways at best, a step backwards in the case of more advanced F-16s. The F-35 is the natural progression. The fact of the matter is that the Gripen was objectively analyzed by several countries that rejected it. Saab's marketing has been cashing checks their design and manufacturing can't cash. The ease to maintain is purely theoretical since one of the Gripen buyers was South Africa, which had to ground half the fleet to save on costs, and low sales mean that as time goes on you'll have less and less parts while the F-16 and F-35 will enjoy a large adoption base to have ease of access to parts. The US, especially the USMC, also has FARP operations with small crews. There's just been less opportunities to do that when the US has so many air bases and carriers to fly from.
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 @ArielMajjhoo "hm actually your honor who smealt it dealt it"
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The point isn't the tax on the 60 bucks. It's how these companies are used to evade sanctions. It's just 20% here, a million changing hands there... put several of these companies together and you have a neat money laundering operation.
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 @Graine01 that makes no sense lol a drone can oversee an entire battle in Ukraine
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Cope
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 @jak199527 was it "extremely large" compared to outside the industry?
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@felixcrookston2237 Was it really that extremely large? Or we just have a spotlight on the issue while it happens outside Hollywood too?
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Want to hit people? Paused, aimed, semiautomatic fire. It's what they teach in the military. Automatic seems like the perfect solution because you're spraying the area, but 99.9% of the bullets missed. Imagine he sat there with a thousand rounds but only missed a third of the shots. That's 300 deaths.
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Define Western country. Because Germany had a couple of them in the 2000s, Norway had one at a youth camp, and Russia had two in like two years.
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@CreativeeLifestyle Okay, notice how you've shifted from "doesn't happen" to "okay it happens but it's less often"? Just be honest from the start. No, you can find the list by adding "mother jones" to the search because despite being a more left-leaning outlet they did not debase themselves by twisting definitions. They track mass shootings according to the correct definition of mass shooting, and there haven't been 100 school shootings in 20 years. There have been twelve. The US population is around 3.8 times the size of Germany, so a rough calculation is that if the US was the size of Germany, they'd have had 3.15 or roughly =~3 mass shootings at schools in the last twenty years.
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The A-10 has already been replace by other multiroles.
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Boards of executives probably didn't approve anything. Order was made to John Smith Electronics and they delivered. Turned out John Smith Electronics was owned by Russian assets. The boards never saw the name anywhere, it was in a shipping manifest in some warehouse.
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Missiles only leave trails when fired. Rocket motors burn in seconds. When the motor burns out, they enter an unpowered ballistic trajectory and dive down on the target. Since the motor isn't burning, no trail is left. HIMARS strikes with GMLRS rockets also don't show trails.
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Against dudes in sandals...
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@mementomori7825 removal from power either way. Doesn't matter if unaliving takes place.
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And they'll continue after. There's regulations on central bank money and the Nigerian prince is still emailing people to this day.
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The sons and daughters of the oligarchs live in the West.
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Nah, the EX will only be produced in a 80-something run. Enough for a stopgap, too few for expensive upgrades.
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@fwiffo By becoming fail-safe rather than fail-deadly. Old gen reactors will go out of control if you stop cooling them because the reactor will continue heating up. Newer gen reactors have the core stop working as it overheats. No matter how much greed and mismanagement you throw at it, overheating a new gen reactor is like cutting the fuel line on a gas engine. It chokes and stops working.
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@fwiffo I didn't say next gen. I said "newer" gen. The Fukushima reactors are pretty much ancient technology compared to reactors we have now. In fact, we're already decommissioning reactors newer than the Fukushima ones were.
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That was Disney's excuse to lock movie reviews at 86%.
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@Zetler That's all just lies lol
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The FDA has recalled plenty of stuff they approved.
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@cdro1257 you do realize F-15s are air superiority fighters and the F-35 are multirole, right? The F-15 is equivalent to the F-22. Large, twin engine fighters.
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Now imagine every story had the regional airport company culture consultants looking over it even though air travel was unrelated to the subject.
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 @Nico78Not The other way around. They hire the consultants when they want to write a story about a topic. If they don't want to write on that topic they won't hire the consultants.
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But it doesn't? Bakhmut was a failed encirclement that had to devolve to trenendously costly city fighting. It depleted the prisoner force used by Wagner. Ukraine isn't using a prisoner force due to excessive losses yet.
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MP7 with stock collapsed and foregrip deployed.
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Forget about good and bad. Who's still insisting on conflict after most of the region is starting to come around and prefer negotiations? Who's orchestrating massacres in their opponent's soil? Who's using proxy forces to ruin diplomacy gains?
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The SR-71 wasn't stealth, it just went full throttle whenever a radar-guided SAM was fired at it.
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60k ft isn't enough.
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He didn't cry foul you absolute brainlet. You didn't even listen what he said. Go sit in the corner.
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 @user-hl7uv1hn2y what does artillery have to do with SOF?
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HiPoint carbines are based. Many country kids were raised with HiPoint carbines and Maverick 88s.
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Lmao 80s equipment and Soviet doctrine. Truly the lastest and greatest, really novel stuff.
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These DTM guys are the same from the V.I.P.E.R.S. academy! Their shooting videos are comedy gold. Seriously, watch this /watch?v=o4KSRDXthqQ
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The US was involved but secretly. The US helped the UK manipulate the global markets to deny Germany strategic materials.
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Ground support is independent of speed. That's Vietnam era fuddlore.
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 @OGPatriot03 "tread on me, Putin"
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@jacksmith-mu3ee Moving the goalposts
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@tetraxis3011 That's a Wehraboo myth. The German tanks often broke down so quality wasn't that great. Either way, multiple wars have cemented the fact that quality curbstomps quantity. Often the "quantity" can't even see what hit it, precisely because it doesn't have the quality.
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What do you mean, "world"? Russia is in the bear trap, China is miffed about shipping being affected, a coalition clobbering a country that had it coming is not a world war.
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Tons of Russians are cheering. They don't want to fight and the quicker the defeat, the less chance they'll die.
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Do they have the finances to do that? If I'm shipwrecked the last thing I want to do is grab an anchor.
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No. They did the right thing by not going to war. However, they "deserted" their own people. There's still prople who don't want to fight but are isolated because the other draft dodgers ran away. So they're surrounded by "patriots".
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There's not that many Syrians. There's a lot of Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepalese, etc. but Syrians are almost unheard of.
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More like 8 years of clowing around with criminals and terrorists.
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Patriots could stop Pershing II warheads in the 90s.
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They have China and North Korea to worry about. They need a serious fighter, not a budget one. Also, the F-35B can take off from their carriers, the Gripen can't.
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Doesn't cause your eyes to adjust as much. If you use white light your pupils will close and then you stop being able to see when you turn off the light.
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There's no anti radiation missile for the F-35 weapons bay yet.
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Cheap but not consistent enough to run a grid.
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@Chris-ie9os If it can't run the grid it's not worth discussing. Everyone's free to buy their own. Meanwhile the juice the world runs on depends on running the grid.
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 @DuncanL7979 That was an out of context quote.
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Not happening. You will get nuclear and you will be happy.
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Iranians were asking for Su-35s in exchange for those drones.
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It's not a foundry's fault if distributors are ignorant about shell companies.
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@dcastro8492 But the high explosives are the same thing. If a high explosives manufacturer fills a warhead to fulfill a contract, and the warhead is then sold to a country they're not supposed to sell, it's not the explosives manufacturer that the arms company is skirting the rules.
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General Dynamics Griffin II won the MPF light tank competition.
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It's level III though
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@theiviachine That's level IIIA. These are the rifle-rated FRAS plates. From what I gathered it's not true level III because it's not rated for M80 ball, but it's rated against SS109 5.56 and 7.62x39. If the video gave you the impression that a IIIA vest would protect you from 7n6, that's because the plate rating was not clear at all. A person wearing pistol soft body armor will not be protected from 7n6. You need a rifle rated plate to stop 7n6.
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This is pure Lysenkoism.
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If my aunt had a pair of balls she'd be my uncle. "If they kept going" would mean having a supply of missiles. Coupd they afford to keep up? Israel would eventually have to say it's on and start to target launch sites and eventually Iranian industry so that they can ruin their economy before they ruin their own buying interceptor missiles.
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 @metricstormtrooper I say give them to the navy first, push them off the carrier deck to make artificial reefs.
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I never pushed for body positivity.
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Countries "rich" in natural resources often ended up subjugated through history. Development as a whole is a better predictor of success as a more developed country can purchase the resources it needs, while a country rich in natural resources often has to wh0re itself out to scrape by. Look at Russia being scammed by India, China, Iran and North Korea. Russia is rich in natural resources yet forced to sell at a discount while paying a huge markup for rusty North Korean shells and hundreds of thousands of $ for cheap Iranian drones.
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Because people having rights isn't a matter of "allowing". You don't ask the government to allow you to breathe, you don't ask the government to allow you to defend yourself. The government isn't everyone's paternal figure.
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Sorry, man. It's just preferable to secure peace permanently. Via force. Keep sending that infantry. You're now using donkeys. It's close. The light at the end of the tunnel.
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Care to explain how to make a recruitment ad that doesn't fall under the definition of propaganda?
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Literally everything said on this video is publicly available.
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It wasn't flying in a war zone, and Russia damaged their own fighter in the impact.
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@rosstrevor8303 Russia damaged their aircraft, and the US is flying drones there again.
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Ritter is a convicted pedophile and MacGregor has been on RussiaToday. He's a Russian asset.
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@gavinmillar Why do you think they're wealthy in the first place? From all the money they make off sidewalks.
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"There's plenty of socialism in the United States" - I must have slept through the revolution because I don't remember the workers gaining control over the means of production.
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Are you new here? Russian shills promoted his videos on the Austria military channel. It just so happened that in two years the Russian military degraded. Now you Russia fanboys don't like what he says. Shills also loved Preston Stewart. They always praise "real" and "neutral" journalists in their comments. Turns out real and neutral reporting only exists when Russia is praised.
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Nah, it's not "unfortunate" it's deliberate. They did the same in Syria. Those hundreds of thousands are misattributed to the US. Most of those deaths were from internal conflict, not US troops. It's not "bad intel" - it's deliberate destruction and terror tactics.
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@supermarno1980 There's trainers who got calls and messages from Ukrainian fighters who thanked them for the training. Prior to training they'd have 50% of their wounded die. Now they can save the lives of the wounded. The training worked.
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 @kevfit4333 The Taliban weren't the first. Chad used it against Libya in the Toyota War.
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Map hasn't moved in a month.
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@Vatu. They'll get it back when Russia leaves.
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 @honzo1078 Earth isn't flat. The S-400 range is for targets flying up high like airliners. The curvature of the Earth hides aircraft.
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If you want Ukraine to lose you are supporting them indirectly.
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Why?
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@larracis ex Navy SEALs have lied a lot. Chris Kyle lied. That youtuber Shawn Ryan lied about training Keanu Reeves and Taran Butler forced a DMCA complaint to remove the video filmed at his range.
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Russian media admits bridge will only be repaired in 2023.
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Putin tore his security to shreds by killing his own armed forces. He has nobody to blame but himself.
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And?
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@blue_ish4499 No, I'm asking, they got one MiG and they're using a missile. And? Is that going to win the war?
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@blue_ish4499 Targeting doesn't mean hitting. Again, so what? Is that going to help in the near future? Ukraine isn't using the air force to advance. So Russia will lose the ground war.
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@blue_ish4499 But Ukraine just struck an ammo depot. They don't need aircraft, other weapons like long range missiles and drones can do it.
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And?
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@kaizokujimbei143 The greening means nothing if I have to move to freaking Siberia. I want to live where I am right now. It's 90º F at 9 o'clock in the morning. I don't care how green it's gonna get if I'm gonna roast alive in the streets.
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Well the election happened. People who are mentally checking out from politics will all unsub at the same time.
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Why free college?
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@Aceshooting if upward mobility was achieved through college why are a worrying percentage of college graduates working jobs that have nothing to do with their degree? If the issue is upward mobility why not tax people less and let them use that money to secure their future? Why devalue a college degree by making it free, and thus pretty much force everyone to go to college even when they don't have the intellectual ability to do it? I've paid for my mistakes and fuck ups. I don't want to think about the money I sunk trying to pursue a degree, nor the loss of potential revenue if I had completed the degree and started working in the field, because that's straight up depressing. But I've paid my dues, and I don't think it's right for me to demand for me to take a free ride through college and fuck it all up like I did.
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@Aceshooting if there's a shortage of blue collar workers then free college is the last thing you want as it only pushes more people into the "everyone needs to go to college!" fallacy we've been told for years. I don't see how re-training solves anything. Half the people I got into college with did not finish. Inability to finish doesn't keep you out. If anything, you're advocating for stricter grade average barriers to make up for the "free" model.
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 @roadrunner6224 Words are pronounced differently based on which country they come from. Compare it to other French uses of Ch by the same speaker.
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@talideon NASA flew classified missions for the DoD with the space shuttle.
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I'm sorry, but I can't stand it when someone tries to argue for the use of children as a political tool. I'm pretty sure people here don't see Israel with good eyes, but even they can agree with me that brainwashing children isn't the way to solve a conflict.
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@Dawn Razor Why? Make it make sense. If it was a friendly gesture, they'd have bought the drones before. If they need them mid-war, it's because they don't have enough.
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@anceldesingano8687 It is special. Russia has a ton of drones. But they use commercial ones which have been hacked, military ones which can be jammed into crashing into the ground, and had to pull drones from their civil protection agency. Drones meant to serve as forest surveillance against fires are used in battle. Now that they have failed and lost a ton of drones, they're asking Iran for some. Which is good news for the Ukrainians, if you watch the Iranian drone demos they put explosives in the targets and detonate them to pretend they hit when they actually missed.
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The newer CoDs are based on Syria. Things were BAD over there. You surely heard of Wagner. And how their symbol became the sledgehammer. Regarding the Highway of Death - CoD devs used it as free advertising. Controversy sells. Highway of Death was NOT a war crime. They were Iraqi units who instead of surrendering tried to book it back to Iraq. That made the legal combatants. But Syria had places called "road of death" or "street if death". So CoD devs decided to use that but name it "highway" to evoke the Desert Storm event and get free publicity.
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 @cq4fun But they are. The artillery army is losing up to 30 tubes a day. What happens when the artillery army has to resort to rifles?
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@theepashmani6474 The Vatniks keep patting themselves in the back by not understanding an article about trench warfare.
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@jjohnston94 "every war"? You sure about that? When Trump got cozy with Kim Jong Un it was the left that told me he was a madman. Stop pretending your team is made up of saints.
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He made up that story.
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Womp womp
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That's the warhead. Seems the outside casing was destroyed on impact, so the warhead buried itself in the grass.
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@hoangdangphuc2009 Usually the main explosive charge is insensitive and requires a primary explosive to set it off. If the warhead went down without being armed, the explosive filler was not initiated.
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@hoangdangphuc2009 Insensitive munitions are a thing. A hole will not detonate explosives, but a pencil sized detonator can.
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@nair.127 If you were to sharpen a shovel, you'd do it on the sides and not the tip that goes first into the ground. The blade on a shovel wouldn't have a sharp edge but an edge, the kind of steel used wouldn't have the properties to hold the edge for long if you made it sharp like a sword.
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At this point I watched maybe 10 videos if Russians turning the muzzle on themselves or pulling the pin on a grenade and holding it next to their head. What does that say about them?
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Russians have been fighting Ukrainians for hundreds of years before Trump was born. Trump isn't God, he's not going to stop a dying empire nor a people fighting for liberation.
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@watersight689 Vermin Supreme
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The up and down thrust vectoring is what matters. The YF-23 had such rudder authority it rivals side to side thrust vectoring except at low speed. And slow speed post stall maneuvering is air show stuff, not air combat maneuvering.
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Reason why NK is a joke: Their leader is inexperienced and not very bright. Their elite class doesn't want to lose their power nor look like they failed their people. They're good right where they are and wouldn't let their own leader screw up. They photoshop their wargames pictures to seem more menacing.
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I've seen the satellite images. And the media did report on it.
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lmao
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 @uncouthboy8028 What's a 10-7 then?
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 @DADRB0B55 "point karate jabs" I don't think Sean throws those, it's boxing jabs.
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 @dewalddewet759 What rule needs to be changed?
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@AdamSmith-gs2dv So everyone should pull the trigger on their own head because you got an empty chamber? Not every kid born after the mother took thalidomide was born with malformations either.
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The USSR famously starved Ukraine and Kazakhstan by exporting their grain.
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Better than a master of one.
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One thing is certain. Warheads do not care for your political leanings when they arrive.
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Armenia made a bad gamble by being the aggressor in the 90s and being allied to Russia.
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@astronomydemon6312 You completely misunderstand crypto. You're looking at crypto from the investment lens which is the only side you have seen.
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@rhagos5562 I'm not a miner. Look at it the other way, people confident enough to make wrong statements are this defensive?
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@PropaneWP See what I mean? You don't like something, so you instantly bring up criminal use of crypto. Jeez, if only you know how much crime is facilitated by cash money.
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@itsyaboi7727 Hold on, so the people ranting about crypto definitely don't have their panties in a twist?
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@iProgramInCpp it's taken from a stealth address
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If it was designed as a hunting rifle why did the first prototypes enter military trials (where the composite barrel blew up and was eventually changed to a normal steel barrel)? Stop cucking out. "Civilian" firearms have always been designed based on military designs. The people have the right to military arms.
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@samuelheidelberg1234 I have no way to know what Stoner was thinking but he made a lightweight military rifle and Armalite submitted it to military trials, eventually got military contracts for a few nations, and even based his bolt design on the Johnson M1941 rifle (with Johnson's collaboration as well). To claim that the conception had nothing to with not passing the trials doesn't make sense because just the fact that they introduced the weapon to trials says that there was intent for it to be a service rifle. It was the AR15 that ended up selling on the commercial market before being adopted by the military. I don't see why we have to cuck ourselves. We deserve to have military arms. We should have full autos and RPGs. Anything the government has, we should have. We don't need to pussyfoot and claim we only want hunting weapons. I don't give a shit about hunting. I care about defending myself from bipedals, especially jackboot wearing ones.
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You can bring anything into a building by putting it inside a box, guitar case or gym bag.
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Active protection systems have a minimum activation speed of something like 70 m/s or else they'd go off due to nearby infantry throwing grenades or even birds flying.
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Why haven't they stopped?
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Lmao only countries like North Korea and Iran support Russia. Even China is neutral at the UN.
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@UnfollowYourDreams If you got that argument from Beau of the Fifth Column, you should stop listening to a man convicted of human trafficking.
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@UnfollowYourDreams They don't stand on their own. Thinking about them for 30 seconds is enough to debunk them. His bad reputation as an habitual liar, scammer and grifter is just the cherry on top. He didn't help refugees cross the border. He helped hotels get cheap labor while the "refugees" had their documents seized and ripped so they couldn't flee their working conditions. He didn't help people in need. He exploited them. Know the difference.
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@knottheory79220 The issue is that it's not strictly necessary to 3d print metal. In the FGC-9 the barrel is made from Chinese hydraulic pipe rifled using a 3d printed mandrel and electric current. The trunnion is three shaft collars. The bolt is two pieces of steel tubing with a crude weld joining them, epoxied to a 3d printed bolt "carrier" and a weld blob added to the bottom to create the cartridge pick up. It's caveman simple, if alibaba or metal suppliers carry the tubes and bar stock there's no need to print them.
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They don't have much else. Designing stuff from scratch takes time. Tsirkon missiles are Iskander missiles converted to launch from the air instead of land.
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Actually rifle rounds have no problem getting trough body armor. It's the ballistic plates that protect from rifles. Either way, back in WWII troops weren't issued body armor nor plates, at least in big numbers.
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@michaelhurn05 Someone laying face down can be armed. How do you know they are unarmed? Did you check? Will you die when you go to check their bodies and turns out they are armed? Or they rigged explosive vests? Someone laying face down can easily kill you. Real men don't hide behind legalese. They know the consequences of perfidy and will not whine and moan.
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They are fascists, though. Fit the definition to a t.
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How does that improve his case?
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Life is full of double standards. You punch a random someone, I might not interfere because I don't know the situation and I can put myself in danger. You punch one of my friends, I'm throwing hands. Double standards. There's people we don't like and people we like. Welcome to real life. Wear a cup, Nancy.
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So a handful of tanks are going to save the country?
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@Reddestlion89 Makes sense, similar to the opiate crisis in the US starting with over prescription of painkillers.
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 @allewis4008 inflation has hit bodycounts too
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Except that the Army allowed the project to continue for years so that Lockheed could fix the issues, and in the end they were still trying to figure out a mechanical solution to the control instability by the time aircraft were now starting to get digital control. It simply missed the boat.
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@atomicskull6405 The Cheyenne project was cancelled in 1972 and you're telling me a helicopter that first flew in 1967 and was adopted in 1970 managed to get the rigid rotor right. So tell me how the hell the USAF was responsible for the Cheyenne not going into production, and not Lockheed's own failure.
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For what? Illegally manufacturing a Short Barrel Weapon? He's now a criminal and his actions could lead to 10 years in jail because of his own stupidity. He's for gun control, but doesn't know the gun control laws already in place.
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It doesn't matter if it's totally ineffective or not. Cutting the barrel does not disable it and it's a CRIME without the proper paperwork with the ATF. And to legally destroy a firearm you need to take the receiver, the actual serialized part, and torch cut it into three pieces. You can't saw it in two, according to the law it's still a firearm. Cutting the barrel doesn't even count because it's not a serialized part.
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Russia is the monster. Putin always tells lies. Simple as. Pray all you want for Russia, God is not listening. God is clearly punishing Russia.
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Well if you let it slide now some day you can't get a job in healthcare because mommy said something naughty on the internet years ago and now you can't have a bank account to pay your tuition. It's private business they can do whatever they want.
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Time is not on Russia's side. They are losing money every day they need to support an invasion. Rotate fresh troops? Where are they going to get another 200k? The civilians will break and welcome the invader who made them live in misery?
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@Ghastly_Grinner There's no human shields if nobody's shooting in the first place.
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@Ghastly_Grinner They didn't "decide" anything, there's no cover except the cities. Are you also going to chastise the Russians for Stalingrad? You're still pretending that the bullet just appeared in mid air. Someone pulled the trigger. And you pretend they are innocent.
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It wasn't. Glad they're mostly gone.
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Many of the growing pains were due to an error building up in the internal clock which required restarts (and sometimes the system wasn't restarted) and a warhead meant for aircraft striking the spent tail from a rocket and allowing the live warhead to fall on target. Some Iraqi missiles were also rebuilt with a lighter structure to increase range, but they could break apart in mid air which caused the radar returns to act as chaff.
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20 dead children are negligible in the sea, or better, ocean of 12-18 year olds who are shot because of criminal activities/while committing criminal activities. Stop missing the forest for the trees. The US has massive problems but they keep throwing sand in our eyes so that we ignore them. >that is like fucking for virginity If guns are to violence what fucking is to virginity, why do governments arm their police forces, their armies and their security personnel? Your logic is dildos.
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Bro we already in demographic crisis, I don't want my taxes to go up.
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@PatTheBatmanFan Venus has an atmosphere with 96.5% CO2. Earth has 0.0407% CO2. Please enlighten us on how that's going to happen.
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@off6848 Doesn't matter what software you run on top, you're always bound to the operating system (capitalism). That's why communism always failed, you can try to manage your economy to go against capitalism but all you can do is bend the rules. But one day you will have to pay. You bend too far, it smacks you right in the face.
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It's easier to knock a wall down than punch a crater into soil.
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RFK deserves it.
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@Diogenerate When they started out they were a small group of tech enthusiasts, you were paying extra for the logo but they weren't in the business of mass producing pre-built desktops and trying to pass them off as custom work. Their cases were essentially the same as Lian Li ones, probably made in the same factory and then slightly modified to have the Alienware branding. Then with the Dell purchase they started to get their own chassis made, their own motherboards and if I remember correctly mystery brand power supply units but there was still some innovation with their own lighting system and wacky liquid cooling. Now it's just Dell on the insides with custom work pricetag. EDIT - I said Lian Li but someone else mentioned Chieftec and I think I made a mistake, it was probably those.
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They sure as hell brought security. Kyle is still alive, and two scumbags are not with us anymore. If he didn't have a gun they'd have hurt him. That's valid. Worst case scenario he'd have his skull cracked or left a vegetable after hitting the asphalt. You think people don't die or get severely injured?
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@amirbabfish Yeah. Attacking someone for being armed is illegal.
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"I AM THE HIGHWAY" - Chevy CEO (and Chris Cornell with Audioslave)
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@worsethanjoerogan8061 you do realize that departments which don't want a bad name go back and review an officer's track record, right?
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@PutXi_Whipped They are. They've replaced their missiles by S-300s and Iranian drones. This means they're reducing consumption.
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@comeforaride Russia throws men at defenses, Ukraine uses defensive positions to destroy the advances and retreats. A defensive war is easier to fight, and Russia willingly rushes forward.
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@B1sher Not true. The name Ukraine was around before the British empire. It wasn't the border between Poland and Russia, it was the border between Europe and the Caucasus, the middle eastern pirates in the Black sea, etc.
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@B1sher Whatever, it's still a lie that it was Russia's border. Russia barely existed at that point.
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@comeforaride Nice cope. How's Vuhledar going?
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Yeah. And if you train with cheap 55gr 223 which save on powder loads, you're not using the full power M193 55gr. This has always existed.
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@tomes3378 The A-10s long range weapons require it to fly high. The Russians put SAM batteries near the Belarus border which could shoot down Ukrainian aircraft in Ukrainian air space.
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@tomes3378 The convoy was north of Kiev.
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It has similar toxicity to tungsten carbide. All AP rounds are heavy metal, the DU scares people because they hear "uranium" and think of Chernobyl, but tungsten carbide... there's a reason we stopped using lead paint, leaded gasoline and mercury thermometers. Heavy metal is very toxic and difficult to remove from the body. So the concept of countries using DU being unethical and those that use tungsten are ethical simply doesn't pass the smell test.
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Israel fights easier opponents.
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Nobody is making them anymore.
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Kinzhal is a rocket, this is a cruise missile.
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There was no defeat. Taliban wouldn't move until the US was gone. Same as North Vietnam. Sign peace deal, move in after the US stops caring about the war. Afghanistan is littered with Taliban corpses. The Taliban now aren't the same Taliban that helped OBL. The US slaughtered them.
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ALSO-RAN ! The trillions is the total project cost until 2070. The airplane itself is extremely cheap at around 90 million per F-35A. Cheaper than a modern F-16.
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@andrewostrelczuk406 This is all being argued from the wrong perspective. Yes, new things have unforeseen costs. But so do old ones. There's not bringing the A-10 "up to date". What technology can you cram it with that will make a significant improvement? Power plant? What? No. You're not getting a new engine for it, I don't remember when but plans for new engines were scrapped or else you wouldn't get much needed upgrades. Thrust vectoring? Are you out of your mind? Dude, adding a new power plant would definitely require a redesign of the aircraft because a new engine with more thrust would probably increase fuel consumption enough for an entirely new fuel and engine management system to be added. The higher thrust would probably require redesigning the engine mounts and section of the fuselage. Thrust vectoring would DEFINITELY require the fuselage section to be redesigned because by vectoring the thrust... you're also changing the vector on the reaction force so the engine mount will suffer forces from angles that was never designed to handle. You make a bold assertion by accusing others of being armchair quarterbacks while you make a joke out of the aeronautical field. In 30 seconds I could think of severe issues with your upgrade proposal without even having to run any simulations or pick up a calculator. If aeronautical engineering was that easy any idiot could thrive in that field. Mind that the last A-10s to come out the assembly line did so in 1984. They're ageing. Airframes have limits. And you want to soup them up and add thrust vectoring for no discernible reason. "thank goodness we have had a few laying around so they could reverse Engineer it" - Reverse engineering it is literally more expensive than buying a new plane. "more swept back wings" - Why would you sweep the wings back if it's not going to reach transonic speeds? Are you goddamn serious?
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@andrewostrelczuk406 "Since then technology has been so slow to get moving forward" - Because technology was easy to progress when we had little of it so even handymen with no scientific background could invent things, and today technology is so complicated it takes teams of people with doctorates to figure out how to extract 2% more efficiency from solar panels? Or for example when it comes to semiconductors we're making microprocessors so dense that if we keep at this rate the processors will not actually work due to quantum effects causing electrons to skip across channels and corrupting the logic? "just how much Koolaid are you Guzzling?" - What about you? "you know that there is no such thing as Just in time Delivery" - I don't see how this relates to the F-35. "If you have 20 aircraft vs 2 and you have 30 pilots, a mandatory amount of training time to get filled and just one goes down for a maintenance issue there goes the weeks of training and planning" - And you expect old aircraft to be more forgivable in terms of maintenance? They're money pits. Only 60% of the A-10 fleet got the new wings because of how goddamn expensive it is to keep airworthy an aircraft that only gets 11% of CAS missions.
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Seriously? Higher velocity means faster expansion, therefore faster loss of energy, ergo less penetration. It would be mass what would affect penetration more. I like how you're saying "No" before even searching for tests done that confirm the findings of Dr. Roberts.
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It was. It broke the Russian army's spine.
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 @huntergatherer7796 the Javelins took out the rushing tanks. The M777s gave Russian artillerymen a taste of tungsten and steel.
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@huntergatherer7796 How would need to cope? It's Russians who got defeated by a dozen trucks.
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@axlpuff5017 "Biden is a weak candidate, his policies do not inspire passion in young people and he can barely string a coherent sentence together these days. He'll probably lose to Trump. But the only way to avoid another 4 years of Trump is sadly, to support Biden" - ahahahahahah
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@elcarto22 "Tell me, exactly what has your 'political purity' ever brought you in the lifetime you've been voting?" - The good times I've had dunking on people for being lemmings. "I've never found a single political candidate I've ever agreed with 100%, and never expect to." - So you're gonna vote for a guy you disagree with 99% simply because there's a guy you disagree 100% in power. Seems legit. "not because of what I personally want, but because of what the majority of the Democratic voters are willing to go along with" - Lemming. "I'm just pragmatist enough to see when playing your game gives zero results." - Your way is netting zero results by consistently electing "the lesser evil" and thus leaving us with a system where the only choice is evil. "I know which one gives the best overall chance for our future" - lmao. Did you see the video where Biden said that Bernie joined Trump? Dude's losing his fucking mind on camera. What future? "I'd rather that my future be decided by folks who actually use their brains" - your future is being decided by the evil you continue to vote into office. "As for my 'pop culture' reference, do folks like you ever post, other than to find things to bitch about in other people's posts?" - Just stop equating the downfall of the Democratic party as some kind of heroic struggle from Harry Potter, Star Wars, Stark Trek, Game of Thrones, any Disney or Marvel movie. Thank you. "You haven't actually answered a single thing I posted" - I did.
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I agree with the physics of the bridge collapse, but regarding the suicide attack it could be done. It's unethical, but in a warzone it's not difficult to find people who lost everything and no longer have the will to live.
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@wenmoon448 2 more weeks to capture Bakhmut
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There's the "I'm Good" song which uses the "I'm Blue" melody.
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Because it costs lives to keep said land. If you keep the land you give up men and resources. Stopping the fighting ends those costs, so you give up land. If you want to keep it, keep fighting. I guess they'll run out of donkeys too.
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Ammonium nitrate detonates. Seen in many industrial accidents.
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Nothing was solved. You're still flying a less suitable aircraft meant for pre-1973 theaters.
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He already did, you bot.
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Funny how you call it a 1000+ civilization and ignore that modern China isn't Mao's China, and Mao's China was not the KMT-lead Republic of China. How old is modern China? How many decades like Maoist China last?
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@pookz3067 The point being that Zeihan isn't saying the abstract concept of civilization won't end, but the very practical and physical concept of a ruling organization will.
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Azerbeijan saw the opening and attacked Armenia, which was supposed to be protected by Russian peacekeepers.
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The F-16, F-15 and F-18 already largely replaced the A-10. Only 11 percent of CAS missions since 2014 have been attributed to the A-10.
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@joethekinghawk7514 But Ukrainians are shooting down aircraft, and using artillery to destroy Russian artillery.
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@TheSurpremeLogician It's not murder. She believes Bucha was fake. I believe this was fake. She faked it, so she's still alive.
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Bruh if you want to go out with Queen at least pick "I Want it All". Crowd would go nuts.
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 @itsericzhou Bro there's literally pictures of F-22s intercepting Bears... why would you not even check Google Images before?
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 @spy_balloon Admitting what? The US is sending stuff that's beyond tested, combat proven, some of it about to retire.
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In Turkey to skip mandatory military service you have to show photographic evidence of bottoming. Gay tops are forced to serve but not bottoms. I don't think Turkey has common sense.
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Wouldn't work in already humid areas, just dry areas. You'd have to transport water into places where water is scarce due to the dry conditions. Plus, you'd be warming the air near the clouds, not space.
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Please, let's give them more. Russia buys launchers they can't use, impoverishing themselves in the process.
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It's not Russia who makes that determination.
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Seethe lol
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Beyond parody.
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@shoribrother Ancient cold war weapons. They're not sales, they're loans and free aid. The weapons have been bought and paid for decades ago so it's not a weapons sales event. It's just Russia losing against old Western equipment.
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@shoribrother The deals to replace old weapons which would need replacement in a few years anyway. So the deals happen now, but the deals that were supposed to happen in the next 5 yeas are lost.
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EDIT: Sorry wrong tag. How did the Soviets pay back Lend Lease? The UK was paying their debt off until 2006. Was Russia paying then? @igorpve
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Flying slow is bad and loitering is a deathwish in the modern battlefield. The A-10 is a massive jobs program. Boeing scored 2 BILLION just to make parts for the A-10.
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@grahamstrouse1165 And modern artillery can be picked off too.
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@bruceinoz8002 the US also developed aircraft, counter battery radar, long range precision guided rocket artillery, etc.
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Yet we don't perform TSA cavity searches on everyone, we don't use those machines that strip you into a naked smurf. Your point is that we should be invasive to everyone who gets on board. Also, I take public transportation every day, nobody is "screened". And if you noticed, more terrorist attacks affect buses and subways combined than airplanes.
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@karisvenner3892 If you have a belt of immobilized APCs in a 5km radius from base, at some point you will have nothing but soft skin vehicles and foot infantry to continue the fight.
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It can't take repeated hits from RPGs, not that a RPG is easy to use against aircraft anyway. They can survive a proximity fuse detonation from a MANPADS and limp home, but a direct hit rips the airframe and causes it to lose structural strength.
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The recycled air is filtered. And in many aircraft the compressor bleed air comes from different engines for cabin and cockpit. Pilots say when the engine ingests a bird you can tell which one by knowing if the smell is on the cabin or the cockpit.
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@derekmcmanus8615 "the individual soldier in 1940 did not possess a weapon capable of destroying a tank" - Yes, they did. Anti tank rifles were a thing.
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Whataboutism
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@KilgorSoS Fuel burns but it's extremely difficult to cause detonation.
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@Yambag Youtube requires you to show ID or a credit card now. I'm in my late 20s but didn't want to show Google my ID so I created a fake credit card for online purchases lol.
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@Yambag I have and my account dates back to around '07. Happened either a year or two ago.
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@Yambag I googled "youtube requiring age id" and there's several people corroborating my story. You're the liar here.
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@Yambag What do I have to gain by lying about it?
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@Yambag Or maybe you could google it and find out more people had to confirm their age? Maybe there's no legal requirement where you live? Maybe?
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What happens if the rail gets struck at the same time as the bridge?
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It was "reported" by whom? The MiG-31 is the best performer to score long range kills. Bigger engines and bigger radar.
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The injuries include concussions. How many boxers die from knockouts? It's a handful a year out of tens of thousands of matches (and hundreds of thousands of sparring sessions).
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@shubankersharma4013 "Would you support the US government if they allowed the KKK into their army?" - Yes. Not only can you be sure that there have been Nazi, KKK and even street gang members on the US army, if the US was being invaded there's no point in kicking out people you need to fight.
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All the peace deals are Russia's way of gathering strength to strike back. Budapest Memorandum, broken. Minsk II, broken the day after it was signed by the assault on Debaltseve. Zelensky tried to make peace. He was elected as a Russian-speaking moderate after people got tired of Poroshenko. He actually cancelled Ukrainian weapons programs and restricted the rules of engagement in Donbas. Ukrainian troops complained that they'd get shelled, and their own president was asking them to not shell the enemy back.
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It would hit the ocean trying to take off from a Marine amphibious assault ship.
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Pot calling the kettle black, much? You're judging the United States from a handful of comments posted on a YouTube video. You don't know if they are the same person or if they even are American.
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Laughing at how many of these deathtraps are getting wrecked is a non-stop source of comedy.
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And he shot at cops. If we believed twitter, we'd presume he'd have been killed in jail by his captors at the same time the CCTV "malfunctioned".
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@foxbodyblues6709 They can drive and shoot Russians fleeing by foot just fine. The pictures being shared privately from Kharkiv show a ton of Russians shot in the back. They should have accepted the terms of surrender.
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Lmao you're malding.
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They do on the ground reporting like Hasan does.
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You're missing the point. We're grabbing a huge punch and instead of concentrating the force in an area equivalent to your knuckles, we're spreading the same force on a much larger surface area, reducing the pressure it exerts on the body. A slug hits like a freight train because it concentrates it's whole power into it's surface area. Marciano's punch generated more ft lbs than a 9mm. But it was spread on a surface larger than a 9mm bullet, so he didn't turn people's brains into slush.
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It's just as cheap as buying newly built 4th gen fighters.
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@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 But railways are terrible for low population density. Rail has to network a lot of people to be feasible. Last mile is almost always road-bound motor vehicles, people can't have trail stations in front of every grocery store to haul goods. They'd have won by now if their stuff didn't keep failing.
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Yet Kharkiv was retaken with a tank thrust.
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@pickititllneverheal9016 Budapest Memorandum. Ukraine traded their nukes away for security. Want to owe them nothing? Give them nukes.
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@pickititllneverheal9016 Thought so. A deal is a deal, if we're not giving them back the nukes then we have the responsibility to help.
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@pickititllneverheal9016 I can assure you that if you looked over the years, that hundred mil has been spent already. It's like the Unicef situation or whatever. They said X amount of billion would solve world hunger to shame Elon Musk. He pressed them and they came back saying it would HELP solve hunger. Because they've had that money already. So no matter how much money you give them, it only "helps", even though they start off by saying that if you give them X money they'll solve it. How do you make people who want to do drugs get jobs and remain housed with that hundred mil? Intensive psychiatric therapy?
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Seethe.
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Bananas have radioactive potassium.
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@snaplemouton "epic has only been good towards devs" - didn't they put games on sale without the dev/publisher consent?
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@EnginAtik Works fine in foam and tape/fiberglass RC planes, but not on real aircraft. An airfoil shape is needed because pushing the air isn't enough, you need the "suction" on top of the wing.
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@muffzy They're trash.
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@Steve Mc Carron McCarthy was partially vindicated as he was looking for spies and lo and behold, there were Soviet spies. How did you think they got the A-bomb? "McCarthyism" nowadays usually refers to the Hollywood blacklist but McCarthy did not participate in those hearings.
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@LuiSharPei What kind of question is that? Why would you assume I defend those people? Also, it's "applies" not "applys".
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@sumerrose88 That doesn't even make sense. An entire country is millions of people. One person getting paid to do a job is corruptible. If you're getting paid by an American think tank I have to check your biases. It doesn't mean Americans can't be trusted.
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@831lance They aren't. They create fake news like the Putin Burger.
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In the 90s Mearsheimer said that Ukraine should keep their nukes to keep Russia at bay.
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Already been. Most CAS missions are given to F-16s, F-15s, F-18s, B1s, etc.
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Because they were easy to believe in. I believed in the molten steel. Until I was shown the original picture of firefighters looking at a white light. The picture was spread with an orange tint which looked like a foundry. It was just a white floodlight used for search purposes.
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@bahadir7677 It's "easy" being a separatist when Mother Russia is handing out money and equipment like candy. Try being a separatist when all Russia has are cheap airsoft vests and rusty AKs.
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@bahadir7677 Whatever. They're free to take Russia's offer of passports and go live in their motherland. They don't want to be governed by Ukraine, maybe they shouldn't live on Ukrainian land that Russia stole. Or, they just just get mad for 5 minutes, touch grass, and leave peacefully because letting water go under the bridge is preferable than trying to hitch your wagon to the losing side. Russia started the war, got humiliated, and you want to live under them? That's masochist. "Its military" lmao it's Russian military, not Crimean military. They'll cross the Kerch strait. You really think a Crimean military force would have the supply lines to fight for itself after Russia calls it quits?
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I'm considering a blueray drive to save stuff in physical media. After some hard drives going bad I learned that lesson.
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"It's just a question of what data is used to generate them" - yeah okay and the data comes from already existing frames rather than asking the game engine what's actually happening on screen.
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francis weir you have to realize that the price hike prevents shortages, while a price ceiling would allow miners to purchase even greater quantities of cards. Ironically, a less free market would shaft gamers by making mining even more profitable.
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 @WillyEckaslike Except the governments kept the public in the dark, because they feared backlash if the holocaust was used to justify the war.
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@spooner3452 didn't they ban wet markets multiple times and then let it happen again?
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SouthEast Dusty "hey let's not depend on China for critical stuff" "QuIt TrYiNg tO SeLL a WaR wItH ChInA"
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@jmccann6735 "captured on their weapons cameras" - the footage from those cameras doesn't show what was claimed
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@Bodhi594 "the Navy pilot saw this with his own Navy Pilot Eyes and Niel is saying he didn't see it" - Regarding the 80,000 feet thing
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@Zozo806 What Tyson was talking about was the drop from 80,000 feet to 50 feet. Not looking at an object 20,000 feet away.
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@Likeaworm the insurgency wasn't effective because of equipment. It was effective because it was an insurgency. You fill one of those big concrete sewer drains with fertilizer and cap it with copper sheet, it's gonna send a huge slug at high velocity capable of making a tank throw a thread. The tank is now immobile for as long as it takes to bring in a repair vehicle. The boys are out shooting at Americans? As soon as they call for air support there's some farmer dude looking at the runway who whips out his cell phone and tells the boys to skeddaddle. Toss the AKs in a cache and ride dirtbikes away from the area before helicopters or airplanes can arrive to look for them.
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@Angela-jc8bk there's reactor designs that render themselves safe even in the event of pump failure. Instead of the heat destroying the reactor shielding and releasing radioactive steam into the wind, a sacrificial plug is melted through and the contents of the reactor fall into a pool that neutralizes the reaction.
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@superherophysique1037 "If he released 21yrs of his tax returns...then it should exonerate him of any accusations of corruption" - no, it doesn't. If you release your tax returns it only allows people to check if you have discrepancies. It doesn't mean you're not committing fraud, omitting income, or straight up being corrupt. Corruption doesn't necessarily manifest itself on your tax returns. Like if you used your position in politics to get your son a cushy job that would be corruption but nothing about your tax returns would change. And your son's tax returns would look legit because he was given a job through which he gets legal money. No offense, but you honestly believe that simply having tax returns that look right automatically exonerates anyone?
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@superherophysique1037 "there is a lack of common sense here that believes someone is corrupt even after you release your tax returns." - what does that even mean? If you release your tax returns it simply means you're not hiding legal income to dodge taxes. If you have illicit income or any other sort of corruption, that doesn't show up on your tax returns. People don't file their tax returns with "I used my position of power to get my son a cushy job, please don't make this information public or I'm fucked". "Tax returns leave a paper trail leading to a crime." - You think drug dealers file their crimes with the tax returns? Jesus Christ, the tax returns thing is only regarding tax fraud and whatnot. If you commit a hit and run it doesn't show up on your tax returns. Conversely, you can be corrupt in politics but none of it showing up on your taxes. If you help a company make money through your position in politics, and in return that company invites you to perform a speech and they pay you 100,000 for the speech, that's legit income. It doesn't prove any crime because it's perfectly legal to get paid for the service. "It's hard to push corruption when someone is being transparent like that" - classic misdirection. Don't tell me you're falling for it. "so I say again...if he is willing to show his tax returns" - and I say again, are you fucking 12? For real, are you a literal child? Do you understand that "corruption" doesn't show up on your tax returns? "then shouldn't that exonerate him of any back door deals" - of course not!
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@superherophysique1037 "I mean you even quoted the very thing that you didnt even address....which was anything outside his taxes is baseless assumption" - it's not baseless assumption that his son got a cushy job that he isn't qualified for. That's a fact. "US intelligence agency" - why do you keep mentioning "intelligence agencies"? This isn't an intelligence matter but a justice one. "to look into Biden" - looking into someone requires political will to do so. Just because a government isn't willing to go after another government guy that is not evidence of innocence, if anything it just cements the fact that corruption exists at every level of government. ".so your whole paragraph is you just putting up the very thing I rebutted. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" - Nope, I am literally defeating every argument you have while you run in circles and use fallacies to shill for a shitbag. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@superherophysique1037 I can't even process the level of shilling one has to lower himself to. You practically said that releasing tax returns would exonerate someone from all crimes. I don't give a shit Joe Biden pays his taxes. I would actually respect him if he was committing tax fraud. But you can amass unexplained revenue as long as you don't report it, politicians have means to mask what they own so that they don't come under scrutiny. So what people get in trouble over unexplained revenue? The real corrupt guys use corruption to get explained revenue, like a book deal or getting paid heavy sums for speeches. "And to scoff that there is no corruption can show up on you tax returns?? Lol" - corruption doesn't show up in your tax returns. The act of being corrupt doesn't appear on a piece of paper. The revenue you get from corruption might, but someone in politics for literal decades knows how to keep tax returns clean.
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@JewTube001 But we easily create more than we consume.
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@tobene Economies aren't zero sum because human activity adds growth. Humans can take "nothing" and make it into something. Outcomes don't need a justification, you can't make poverty illegal.
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I said "obsolete" because that's what the case would make it look like, you could have a 1080 Ti in there and the thief probably wouldn't crack it open to check it nor try to find a niche market. Selling it to someone who specializes in electronic scrap is faster.
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Well, instead of a military industrial complex they have a military industrial simple. If you look at the guts of these kits, they were hand assembled and soldered. Like arduino kits people makeat home.
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@robert123ro Control codes are like a padlock on a locker. You can break the padlock and install your own.
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@takemetothemoon1089 "Neutral Ukraine" = Russia can invade when it pleases
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@bongbong6464 That wasn't the deal. It was about GERMANY.
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@bongbong6464 Serbia was genociding Kosovars. Their independence was declared 9 years after the war.
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@mykhailokravchenko4142 "Waa US is bad why am I not allowed to be worse?" Holy shit you people are psychotic.
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@konackt They would have control if they wanted to.
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@dan4461 nobody taunted Russia
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@takemetothemoon1089 There's lethal weapons on every border. It's how borders get protected. Cuba lost the nukes, we pulled ours from Turkey in exchange. Things can be negotiated.
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@bongbong6464 Russia came to kill the Donbas.
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Is Iran and North Korea not prolonging the war? How come Russia can get weapons instead of stopping when they run out, but not Ukraine?
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@Oli okay and what happens when we all spent our money? We won't be able to afford food. What happens to the farmer when he can't sell food? I'm massively oversimplifying the issue because obviously the money has to go SOMEWHERE but I'm only pointing out that the lives we save by restraining the climate shouldn't be thrown away by killing them with poverty. This has to be done intelligently, not haphazardly.
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That's what would actually lead to the destruction of Russia. There's no existential threat if they just go home.
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@EburdeyGordei4 So what? Why can't Russia allow it?
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You'd have to convert the open bolt to "linear hammer" or "striker fired". Essentially the back of the bolt has the firing pin or hits the firing pin, and there's clearance so that a main recoil spring can close the bolt. EDIT: I just remembered that a gunsmith made a Luty with an AR15 trigger grou to make it semi.
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The curve is more than flat. Cuomo is a murderer. The science from the CDC says only 6% of the deaths from the virus did not have other causes of death listed simultaneously. You're the one doubting reality. Lock yourself in the house. Never take your mask ever again. Enjoy your misery.
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It's a failure because they're on the verge of another frontline collapse. Capturing land doesn't mean anything if you give it away again.
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The Gripen requires components from a dozen different countries anyway so you'd be just as hosed.
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@mbogucki1 Okay. You can build an aircraft nose to tail, it's composite and steel/titanium/aluminum. But you still have to buy a lot of equipment. Comms are British/German/American. The controls, landing gear and refueling probe are British. The gun is German. The APU is French/American. If you pay Saab to license build the aircraft, you can build an empty shell. Plus the stuff Sweden makes alone like the radar, flight computer and EW. You don't build the Mauser BK-27 cannon. Mauser sells it to you. You don't build the valves and fuel nozzles. America sells those to you.
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Except that for example in Europe countries don't buy more coal or gas if their neighbors use nuclear. They just buy energy from the next door country. Why waste billions in plants and fuel imports when the nuclear reactor right there is just pumping out juice?
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@kwonj126 It's 10.000km2. Get it right.
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@rahn45 Tons of bullet holes in the bodies, though. Russians who didn't accept the terms of surrender were gunned down, shot in the back. They should have given up. Also, Russia didn't defend their northern rail lines? lol
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Everyone from Australian trolls, Russian scammers and North Korean government hack groups made money off it.
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Bet you complained about the bombing of Donbas for 8 years when it was Russia using Donetsk city as a firing platform for MLRS so that counter-battery hit civilians for propaganda. Literal Hamas tactics.
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@Im_Majik "There are no optical illusions about it." - Yes, there are. For example the rotation of one of the objects is glare reflected off a spinning mirror. A depot level FLIR technician made a video about the reflective surfaces that redirect the image inside the pod. "And these UAPs are doing things that would kill a human instantaneously" - No, they aren't. The only evidence for this are radar returns showing a massive drop in altitude which was not sensed by any other instruments. And funnily enough these strange returns started when the radar was upgraded. "government has invested millions of dollars in training for these pilots" - They trained them to fire missiles at aircraft and drop bombs on tanks, not be all-knowing observers. The military is more interested in a pilot knowing the difference between a T-72 and a BTR-60 than identifying grey blobs.
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@rrar rarr The issue is, have you seen the reports on IDENTIFIED flying objects? Because for every one of these events there are plenty of pilot reports of drones and balloons sighted during these flights. No, it's not more problem that there are aliens. Nothing about this says it's alien in nature.
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@rrar rarr "Then there are cases where they aren't" - Probably the same things as in the solved cases, but there's not enough evidence. "Did you see the 60 minutes segment that recently came out on ufos?" - Yes, and it just rehashed a lot of things that have been explained. "This shit is definitely not a duck" - But the footage is consistent with that. "or malfunctioning equipment" - Except that there's two ships where the mysterious signals started after radar upgrades, and stopped after a while. Now that's convenient. The Pentagon will come out and say it's a balloon and you're not going to believe it.
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@rrar rarr Then what's the point? You're not gonna get the moment of vindication.
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@rrar rarr "i also dont believe the official story about how covid came about" - The media complained about anyone who didn't believe the narrative and social media deleted posts that questioned it. Why is the MSM talking about this and why aren't people's posts being deleted for talking about UFOs? "i hope you're just as sketptical about outrageous things like string theory, multiverse, simulation theory and all the other stuff being thrown at us by scientists" - The hell does this mean? I don't have my feed clogged with people having a mass hallucination about physics. In fact I was recommended a video about why simulation theory is wrong the other day. But here are people freaking out about blurry pictures and easily explained footage.
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@rrar rarr "Maybe it's not being censored by the media because even they are in the dark about this stuff." - Just stop. Your argument is that the "real" narrative gets suppressed, then why are they not suppressing this one? Even if they were in the dark, they'd be told what to say. "Bob Lazar" - He has zero credibility. Sorry. He faked his credentials through his photo processing business and even got the name of the department wrong. His ID badge and pay stub sat Department of Naval Intelligence when they should say Office of Naval Intelligence. He got the element 115 from a piece about transuranic elements on Scientific American that came out 2 years before he mentioned it. "there's no such thing as mass hallucinations" - It's a figure of speech. You know what that is, right? "you're a nobody" - You're a nobody too, the hell is that supposed to mean?
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@lads.7715 "That FLIR "optical illusion" just happened to be tracking an object on Underwood's radar. Coincidence?" - Huh, no? The optical illusion is the glare rotating due to the internal mirror rotating. Not the object itself. "Those "faulty upgraded radars" tracking "optical illusions"" - Hold on. The faulty signals were the ones detecting objects dropping from 80,000 feet to 50 feet. This was NEVER captured by any imaging pod. The optical illusion was the rotation caused by internal mirrors, not the object being tracked. An optical effect can't be tracked. Please learn to read. "directly guide Fravor and his Wingwoman directly to the Tic Tac" - Footage of which contradicts Fravor's testimony. "but someone with Fravor's experience" - Fravor exposed himself on Lex Friedman. He keeps banging on about his experience but he doesn't even understand how the systems work.
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@lads.7715 Eyes fail you, especially with perspective tricks. If you start circling around a static object at high speed, without a good frame of reference you'll think you're dogfighting a ship. Fly too close to a balloon and your jet wash will burst it and cause it to disappear. Fravor did pull an Argument from Authority and tried to claim he understands his systems better than the people who analyzed the footage. His ego cannot let him admit the possibility that he is wrong. Of course the Pentagon looked into it. They're just not telling you. So you lose your mind and embarrass yourself.
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@rrar rarr Funny, I ain't heard of you.
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@lads.7715 "to imply that a Top Gun with 1000s of flight hours still can't tell if he's circling a static object or not" - And you're using pure appeal to authority. Skilled people make mistakes. Trained pilots have plunged aircraft into the ocean because they were disorientated. "experienced, trained eyewitnesses" - They're not "trained" for the abstract concept of UFO approach. They're trained to fire AMRAAMs, drop GBUs and land in carriers. Things that actually matter. Every year they have 400 days worth of training they need to cram into 250-260. They're not wasting time on your wild goose chase. You're ignoring all the experienced, trained pilots whose UFO/UAP reports were investigated and SOLVED. There are SOLVED cases that you people ignore. You keep banging on the "trained" line but funnily enough, an Air Force avionics systems technician who wished to remain anonymous did an interview with Mick West. He noticed West's video about unsharp mask, the thing that causes the white pixels around the black hot picture for contrast, he caught Fravor ""lying"". In an ops check you turn it on and off. Fravor nodded when the white pixels were described as cold air. Your boy is either poorly trained or lying and I don't know which is worse. He either knows what it is and refuses to correct it to push the UFO narrative, or he forgot which means he's not credible. He got caught in 4k.
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@lads.7715 "would I still rather be in a Hornet piloted by the likes of Mick West than Fravor?" - This is a complete non-argument because this isn't a discussion on who flies better. I would rather not be flown by either of them because at this point I can't trust Fravor. "House Speakers, Congressmen" - HAHAHAHAHA "for an impressive overview of the gimbal video and instrumentation" - I already watched that video. And I caught the uploader in a lie. He argues that friendly fire is not possible because of technology, ignoring that in modern air combat strict RoEs are enforced to prevent friendly fire.
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You can't even launch amateur rockets over a certain size without FAA authorization. Airspace will be cleared for launch.
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Very unique set of circumstances. Japan was ready to take heavy casualties as their strategy was simply "not lose" and just make the war too costly to fight Japan. After the bombs dropped, the Japanese high command didn't care and wanted to keep fighting. The Emperor had to cite the fact that the war was lost with the USSR joining the fight against them to convince the military to surrender. Ukraine is not on the back foot like Japan was.
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@linusa2996 A-10s techically fly under the radar. But they can't deploy smart weapons. To take coordinates from a targeting pod or lase a target, you need to fly in line of sight of the target. That means flying over the radar horizon.
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This conflict goes back 300 years and you think America provoked it?
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@ScienceDenier How? Because it would require time travel for that to be right.
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@ScienceDenier What does that have to do with Ukraine and Russia being in conflict before America existed?
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The BTGs around Kherson have their supply routes damaged.
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@jedidiah5131 Nope, they are using barges pushed by boats to deliver supplies. The bridge is structurally compromised. They've tapped those battalions. 50 T90s? Easy targets for 50 Javelins. Armor didn't work at first and artillery barrages were the back up plan, remember? 50 on the way? Hope they get nailed by HIMARS while travelling by rail lol
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You may not care about the costs. But you're paying them still. You can say you do not care for the loss of tanks and men. What happens when you need them and they're not there?
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+Most Serious Duelist or you can just a) make your own burger or b) buy it from someone who sells them illegally rather than at a chain restaurant, thereby nullifying the usefulness of the test.
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+Gottenhimfella "being fearful of their government is acute paranoia (which is a serious mental illness, and grounds for immediate surrender of any weapons" = that shitty kid who owns the toy and makes rules so he always wins and when we call him out on his bullshit he says "waaa I make the rules so I have to win"
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+Demetrio Orellana "you need to ignore the militia clause all together" you don't need to ignore it. A militia is necessary for the security of a free state. It's there. A free state, if about to crumble, should have it's own citizens serve as a final backstop to preserve it. But it says that it's the right of the people. It's you who is committing a fallacy by claiming that just because they justified their reasoning then the right is only applicable to that reasoning. "A well balanced breakfast being important for the start of a healthy day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed" - who has the right to food, the people or the breakfast? Are you saying that the justification restricts the right to food? People can't eat food outside of breakfast?
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+Crag_r actually the hard evidence disputes that conclusion because many studies have come forward finding no link between gun control measures and decline in gun crime. For example, in the UK gun crime rose after the handgun bans. Several studies looked at the impact of the Australian gun control on the crime trends and found that they were decreasing before the laws, and did not accelerate the rate of decrease after introduction so in essence they didn't do anything. University of Melbourne also did an economics study that basically said it was a waste of money to have the buyback because there were no measurable positive outcomes.
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Alan S cops carry guns, you claim they don't protect human life. Secret service and bodyguards carry guns, you claim they don't protect human life. Guns were used to end the Third Reich and thus the Holocaust and you claim they don't protect human life.
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+Silky Tp they denied the CDC from using taxpayer money to promote gun control/political activism, which was what they were doing. They pretty much made it their official goal. Sorry, but I don't trust people who claim to be doing science but then have a narrative already formulated and simply force the data to meet their hypothesis. Take a look at the Arthur Kellerman studies, and his methodology was used in many more junks science studies - jesus christ living in a rented house or living alone actually increased your chance of getting murdered more than owning a gun according to his studies.
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The thing is, the CDC can study guns (in fact they were ordered to do so by the Obama administration in 2013 - and it backfired because the findings did not support the narrative), they can't just advocate for gun control. Everyone else is free to study guns. There's privately funded research. The medical side refuses to acknowledge literature from criminology and sociology and sticks to medical literature on guns, which suffers from methodology problems. "make a recommendation" But that's exactly what they shouldn't do. This wasn't a CDC-funded study because it happened after the "ban" but a study came out claiming that great reductions in gun crime could be made with just three policies. They included microstamping and ballistic fingerprinting through fired cartridges. It's widely known that not only these laws are largely unenforceable/ineffective in the very few places they have been passed, but that the very mechanism they work through changes over time due to wear of parts during functioning, fouling/deposits, cleaning, etc. The study only "found" these recommendations to be effective because they love recommending stuff that allows unreasonable litigious action against gun manufacturers, forces them to change technology (smart guns), forces the government to adopt legislation that makes it harder to obtain gun parts (if everyone was able to just get a replacement firing pin it would render microstamping laws irrelevant), etc. - laws that would slowly undermine the markets.
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He's been out of the game for a decade, and nobody will tell him anything.
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But it was a catastrophe, and it was the concrete that really sealed the meltdown.
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Now the Taliban are complaining about their 9 to 5 jobs.
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That's wrong, and the A-10 has mostly been replaced by F-16s anyway.
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Putin has nothing lol and he's about to lose more
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No, they weren't. They used 330 Pumas.
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100 round magazines? First you're going to send me an AK47 100 rounder. Second, Holmes' C-Mag jammed. Personally I'd take the shotgun. Semi, pump, lever, heck even a double barrel. They're so easy to use and so much deadlier. Tactical advice given by Joe Biden.
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@davidmun1601 I know several people who took it as a prophylactic, and upped dose after being in contact with someone who tested positive. Personally, I was only taking Vitamin C, D, zinc and melatonin as prophylatic. Mostly because during the winter I kept waking up with a raspy throat and didn't want to get a cold and get sent home for suspicion of having the coof. Got the coof anyway. Lasted about a day.
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@davidmun1601 There's also been an increase in mortality in people aged 18-60 in Europe and several states in the US in 2021. Not covid related. I'm sure it's not IVM that's doing that.
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Asserting dominance.
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@ДмитрийЯвушкин look for r/noncredibledefense and "One of the biggest cope yet. Exploded right in their face". It shows a print screen of an article saying one of the vehicles is a MT-LB C so the vehicles are all Ukrainian. The photo on the ground shows it's a 9K114.
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@ДмитрийЯвушкин Cope. "O" marking is visible in at least two vehicles /watch?v=NrU3WQcnS-I Time to stop with the denial. Russia got blasted on that crossing.
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If you are being forced to use this, you don't have the tube and rocket artillery to properly soften the position. War is about resources and you always have a shortage of something. You aren't given the option. You're given this instead of proper fire support. Just like drones wouldn't be used if aircraft were in the sky picking off the enemy. That's how it works.
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What so these new generations do better?
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The M16 is still one of the best rifles ever made.
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@Crypto_Lan "until new advanced modern weapons were released" - how are they advanced or modern? In fact most western weapons use the Stoner bolt and Stoner short-stroke piston, derivatives of the AR-18.
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If you paid attention this wasn't about politics but about transparency and honesty.
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@elleb3478 What science?
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@luigimrlgaming9484 It didn't pop flares. It just failed to track. The pilot who took the shot made no mention of flares.
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The vast majority of them occurred before there was one available. But don't let the timeline get in the way of your narrative.
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@htown11465 Is this a joke? You're bringing up deaths that occurred before the stuff was available, that's completely unrelated to the topic. It makes a difference because that's what you're arguing. Did you forget what you were even trying to say? If you want to make an argument about the US's response, then sure it doesn't matter if it's before or after. But that wasn't the argument you were making. So yes, it makes all the difference.
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@htown11465 No, it doesn't. First of all, you're wrong with two different conditions. First, the variant going around now is different. Second, the first few waves wiped out a ton of vulnerable people. So right there you have two factors you're not controlling for. He's not ignoring anything. The passports and restrictions are not related to deaths, they're a measure to contain spread. So how can people be mandated to do something that doesn't contain the spread? Want to talk about deaths? Sure. Jimmy is ranting against the mandates. Here we also have a guy who's living under a government that's threatening to unperson people based on their plague rat status. But as it turns out, those who take the shot are plague rats too. They just won't die for 6-8 months. This is evidence that the narrative we were sold doesn't work. Are you afraid of dying? Please, for the love of God take it. That's not the argument. You want me to lose my home and my job because I won't do what you tell me? That's the argument we're having here.
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So all Ukraine needs to do is make it so that taking it over requires its destruction to call his bluff. Sounds like a strategical failure to me.
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@daniel_dumile Shaheds are weak in tactical use. You plop a GPS coordinate and let them buzz across a country. For tactical use, you want high speed and if possible terminal guidance through imaging or laser designator.
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 @djkinetic2020 Shaheds are made with aviation grade avionics, servomotors, engines, etc. which aren't the DIY production you imply.
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 @hyokkim7726 So the Ukrainian army is 10 million strong? Because losing more than 10% of a force hinders your ability to hold ground.
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@mladenmatosevic4591 Yeah, we can start one or two plants to manufacture 155mm shells without going into "war economy". We can defeat Russia without straining extremely hard. We're under strain because we spent tons of money keeping stuff afloat during the coof and now the chickens came home to roost.
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It's amusing how easily people joke about how people demanding accountability from its own government would get massacred. The Founding Fathers straight up killed the British and they're heroes for fighting the government over taxes, but climb over a fence because you want to know how your money is being spent and you deserve to get smoked...
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 @StrataVision We've attempted to resolve issues multiple times and they just bite our hand and spit in our face.
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That's marketing wank. That's like saying you have a light that makes you invisible. You CAN use a light to overwhelm an eye or camera, but everyone knows the light is turned on. You can't create a black hole.
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It's not a compromise. It's not a best of both worlds. It's a full rifle cartridge and it's a stout one. That's why the Sig ammo needs a steel base, a brass case head would rupture.
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@PoorCoyotee How did I miss the point? The AR-15 is actually still a superior platform to the NGSW offerings, and you are wrong in calling it a compromise when it's a full rifle caliber.
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@PoorCoyotee "How is not a compromise between the 5,56 and 7,62?" - Because it's more powerful than 7.62, look at videos of people firing the NGSW prototypes. The rifles kick like a mule. "every round is a compromise in some way" - Then why bring it up? When everything's a compromise, nothing is. Do you go around saying "that person has two eyes"? Most people have two eyes, it goes without saying.
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@PoorCoyotee Because they reduced case weight... And yes, power is very relevant. If recoil is harsher than intermediate, it's no longer intermediate because it gives away the advantage of fast recovery. 7.62x63 is not suitable and requires a longer action/magazine.
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So?
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And it didn't even cross their minds why they would need protection if they had the stuff.
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Huh, what? The US has used stealth aircraft against advanced air defenses, but not farmers and fishermen. It's cheaper to use F-16s for that.
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I'd love it if the investment meant I got a cut of the profits proportional to my contribution. But we see Kickstarters doing $200,000, which is good by their standards, but that's barely enough to pay a few researchers for a year of work. So the system would have to be pretty mainstream, and I can already see Apple having a million people donate $50 to fund R&D without having to take from their budget.
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Why would the US Army want an ancient aircraft that doesn't have enough spare parts?
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 @michaelpettersson4919 Because the Kuznetsov is technically a missile cruiser that carries aircraft rather than an aircraft carrier. Legalese mumbo jumbo.
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You need the big stick to talk softly. The problem with relying on nuclear is that you have no conventional capabilities. So it's all or nothing.
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@jontheb123 Then you're like Russia and threatening nukes every time a town you invaded gets liberated. At some point, someone will defeat you conventionally, cause your government to collapse, and whoever controls the nukes will trade them to your opponent in exchange for a peaceful retirement with no Nuremberg 2.0 trials.
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Twitch is garbage.
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EOTS on stealth fighters are incredibly important.
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Did you pay attention to the video? The policies enacted caused migrants to pile up.
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That doesn't make much sense, the Revolutionary war kicked off with the British trying to cut off the Mass. rebels from their own military supplies and although I haven't read the documents in years I do remember that gun ownership was about being ready to defend the state from the founding fathers' own writing. The concept that they came up with a bunch of quotes about liberty and addressing the concern of how would the newly formed states wage war to hide the true intent of maintaining guns in the hands of slave patrols... I mean it doesn't really make any sense considering that no country I know of put on their constitution that law enforcement and armored car drivers had the right to guns. The state simply gives gun rights to whomever they want, no need to put it on the constitution.
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Battle hardening is lost when the troops get KIA. Troops have to survive to get experience, and Russians tend to pull the pin on a grenade when things get tough out there.
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Why should it do Mach 2? What's the advantage of ruining your fuel economy and lighting up like a Christmas tree on IR?
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It's still an IR seeker, apparently.
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That pic is a few years old. Don't fall for it xD
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@deltasquared7777 there was no US backed Apartheid in Angola. The US even pressured Portugal because they were part of NATO and they could not use any NATO equipment to fight in Africa.
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@chrisos1053 Yeah I think the wording used in the video didn't make it clear the burn was from the gunshot rather than the metal.
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@D D if it has the exact same death rate why did New York monthly deaths shoot up? Why did Lombardi in Italy have several days with an average of 600 deaths per day when the normal average is between 200-300? If COVID 19 doesn't exist, then what killed those people? Lethal injection? Strangling?
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@bigdog8628 by that logic literally everyone else is a breeding ground for anything you haven't been vaccinated against. There's thousands of pathogens, we can't vaccinate against everything.
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@D D Read my comment again. Even if the deaths are being misreported, there are more deaths. This means that for your argument to be true, there have to be death squads killing people. Think. Think. Think for a second. If in a normal day between 200-300 people die, where do the extra 400-300 come from? If the deaths were misreported, then you'd only have 200-300 deaths every day. Like usual. Then why are extra people dying?
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@D D bro NYC monthly deaths surpassed September 2001.
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No need for hypersonics, just a launch from Belarus
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@Dazzxp Can't monitor everything all the time. Otherwise zero missiles would hit Ukraine.
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Anything burns in a turbine, the issue is how the injectors handle the fuel and the downstream effects of the combustion products.
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Palestine has been a grift since the start. Most of the Middle East doesn't actually care about Palestine.
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We all saw the S-400 burning in Crimea.
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@Jay...777 Mearsheimer is a loon, Scott Ritter is a p3d0, Patrick Lancaster desecrates dead bodies and moves them around to fake his reports, Chomsky is an "america bad" leftist, Oliver Stone is friends with Putin and was friends with Hugo Chavez, Russell Brand is a washed out celeb milking the Russian conspiracy train and Jimmy Dore is a comedian and former The Young Turks contributor.
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How will you maintain too much infrastructure? It's gonna be a nightmare.
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@fernbedek6302 Right. So China wasted money and their infrastructure will crumble. So they'll have debt and weak infrastructure. Boy, they sure solved their problem.
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@MarkoLomovic Suppression probably allowed a lot to be done. One damaged system seems little, but considering how much payload was dropped on target by letting the strike aircraft through it was probably worth it.
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@MarkoLomovic Then that's not SEAD, that's DEAD. Taking out a layer should not require attrition. Losses are expected, no plan ever survives contact with the enemy, etc etc etc but SEAD/DEAD is explicitly a method of avoiding attrition. Taking out a layer is worth it because you'll suffer the attrition during regular strike missions. We've had asymmetric warfare of SAMs vs Air since Vietnam. SAMs deny space, and SEAD/DEAD threat temporarily denies SAMs. If SAMs ensure survival by shutting off their radars, SEAD is doing its job by letting strike packages destroy whatever the SAM was protecting. We've seen those forces collide since Vietnam.
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@BoleDaPole The Taliban operated as an insurgency force. They were nearly wiped out, but more people can always be recruited. The weak Kabul government could not exert control over the tribal regions in Afghanistan. Meanwhile a direct war with Russia with nukes off the table would be comparatively easy. There's chains of command, supplies, etc.
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Morale boosters work both ways. Now imagine US troops witnessing an A-10 being shot down. Morale would collapse.
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@stefanstojiljkovic7028 you do realize that in the UK criminals rebarrel Baikal blank firing guns, right? You do realize there's the R9-Arms Corp, a machine pistol made in the Eastern Europe and sold to criminals, right?
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The Minsk accords were violated by DPR forces the day after they were signed. Stop carrying water for the liars and backstabbers running that criminal state.
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No F-117 were shot down after that incident. If stealth got exposed then why didn't they shoot down more?
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It's really their fault.
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Uhhh okay what about all the Israeli kids who saw Hamas jump the borders and attack their countrymen? They'll be 18 and serving in the IDF one day. Why do Palestinians have an in-built excuse to fight but Israelis have to take it on the chin and ask for seconds?
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Spetsnaz was shredded by ambushes. Spec ops are not frontline soldiers. Throw spec ops without backup, no rear security, no supply lines and no air support, and a nunch of 40 year old lawyers and 25 year old Aldi grocery baggers in dug up positions will just wipe them with mortars and machine guns. Look at Operation Red Wings - Navy SEALs took an operation that was meant for Marines, and they got overwhelmed. Russia suffered immense losses among the VDV, Naval Infantry, elite units with Guards designation, etc.
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@tomrogers4667 "where's the money going" shredding mobiks to pieces. The videos posted by Ukrainians are the best audit ever - you truly get to see what Western weapons do to cannon fodder.
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Adenovirus viral vector. Does the same as mRNA but instead of delivering mRNA to cells, it infects cells and hijacks them to produce spike.
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Yes Putin should surrender
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A guy with a drone can see the guy with binoculars.
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Ironically their demographics are bad enough there's not a lot of young to send.
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@wtice4632 Here's some proof: look up Scott Ritter's criminal record.
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@VideaVice25 The leaks claim Russia is taking heavier KIA, around 3 for every Ukrainian.
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They better put a lot if guards. They'll all turn into pink mist when the missile arrives. In fact, put all Russian troops guarding them.
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@kellynestegard5208 Why does Russia hate Ukraine so much?
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Their primary armament was missiles.
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@damianhoratiu2287 but they weren't designed to use it as a primary weapon, they were designed as missile platforms first. The F-8 is the last gunfighter because it was a plane caught in a transitional age.
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@Plsub-tt8gm It's not independent, and shell companies are used to bust sanctions.
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An explosion above water will do that too. There were no scorch marks under the bridge, and the guard rails were bent outwards suggesting an explosion above the road.
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@Maxeotl why don't they just cross the border, I thought Trudeau would welcome refugees with open arms?
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Relevance?
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@NuckChorris12345 Then you already agree. Even if 1 out of 100 people is spreading, that's spreading babey. That's mutating babey. Stop denying reality. If the effect wears off after 3-6 months, you're going to need to take boosters against the new variants. We've heard the slow the spread rhetoric a year and a half ago. It didn't work. STOP REPEATING THE SAME TALKING POINTS. God. It's like talking to a robot. You just repeat lines. For once in your life, THINK instead of repeating.
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@NuckChorris12345 The ultimate point is that you'll say anything to save face. You can't blame the US when the same is happening in other countries. It was always going to spread wildly. That's what the 14 days to stop the spread was. Everyone would get it. But we'd make sure people get hospitalized at different times. That's what we were told. Now you've moved the goalposts. Yes, and all you're doing is making sure it mutates the same, but kick the can down the road, which makes sure there will be resistant strains by the time your antibodies run out and you'll need another shot. THINK. For once in your life look at what you're saying, think, and realize that according to your own logic it's not going to work. And again, stop blaming the morons because IT'S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE ELSE.
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@NuckChorris12345 The point is that your solution is doing the same thing all over again, but people have a false sense of security now. Either way, the CDC is going to discontinue the PCR testing this December 31st or whatever so I guess we're just going to ignore it starting 2022. I'm so glad for all I've lost this year and a half.
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@TheConnorian the spam bots are getting crazy, we thought the "information war" was going to be hacking like in the movies - turns out it's just people with walls covered in phones.
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Did you know how the Los Zetas started?
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The A-29s purchased to provide CAS for SOCOM are cheaper.
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Aluminum isn't a rare earth mineral.
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Are they?
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That's not true. You realize that a significant part of the 2003 invasion had the support of Iraqi Kurdish forces in the Northern axis, and many were happy Saddam was gone, right?
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@ProletarianNuklearWarrior The Soviets started engaging in brutal tactics against the Afghans. Population actually decreased during the invasion. Meanwhile the US had restrictive ROE and troops complained they couldn't shoot back when terrorists were clearly targeting them.
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@ProletarianNuklearWarrior It wasn't as bad as the Soviets, and most of the Iraqi casualties were provoked by other Iraqis.
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@ProletarianNuklearWarrior It takes a special kind of delusion to accuse the US of killing hundreds of thousands, then admit that it was the fault of Iraqis but still trying to blame the US for it. Okay, the US was the catalyst. The Ba'ath party fanning the flames of sectarian violence wasn't a catalyst?
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Do you even know what a strawman is? Strawman is purposefully creating your own argument that is weaker than the opponent's and defeating it.
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We'll send more! Ahaha. Please, let them waste time hunting down HIMARS. A fool's errand while their army gets killed.
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They have Russian jets. Which is kind of tough when a) they're not great and b) they're fighting Russia so they can't buy parts to keep them flying
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What do you question about Ukraine? The denazification? Yeah that was a poor excuse.
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 @pogo1140 Planes weren't purchased because the USAF bought 700 (many criticized this amount as unjustifiable).
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@pogo1140 Still doesn't change the fact that Fairchild got the money for the A-10s they made. It's not the USAF's fault that there were so many A-10s that no more were needed to be purchased.
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How many southern gun channels went to Syria because they thought dead Russians was funny?
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Why? Who's gonna turn the keys and issue the codes?
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They'd need a nuke or a specific anti bunker bomb that could punch through meters of concrete and needs to be dropped from 10,000ft. Nuclear plants have their own SWAT teams.
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"Russia simply doesn't value this area enough to to put up a fight over it" - Big mistake. The supply line to Severodonetsk comes from the North, because the rail coming form the East does not connect fully. Russia losing the train hub at Kupiansk has threatened the entire Luhansk defensive line. That land was worth fighting for. Because Ukraine just made the fighting so much easier elsewhere by cutting off their supplies. Ukraine is surgically and methodically unravelling the Russian warfighting capability.
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The pilot had the choice to quit. Also according to Russian sources he's alive. You be the judge.
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@Marbo12f you mean like the F-16?
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*losing Learn English, brother.
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@Carthodon non-disclosure agreements don't superceede the law. That's why we call them "whistleblowers", typically they're blowing the whistle on something nefarious. Otherwise they're just disgruntled employers, leakers, hackers, etc.
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@Carthodon A system "we rely on those who have democratically elected to determine what should be revealed and what shouldn't be" - the vast majority of government is unelected. You only vote a few figureheads into power and most of them don't have enough clearance to even know what certain agencies are doing. "does a moderately good job of keeping things legal" - bruh the US government has consistently trampled on the constitution and human rights for decades, it's not even concerned with keeping anything legal
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@Carthodon "A system can be democratic even if you don't vote for every person in the bureaucracy." - That's not the point. The point is that those who determine what should be revealed are not democratically elected (and it wouldn't make sense if they were). An intelligence service has to be undemocratic by design. Those positions you can vote for, they cannot hold the intelligence agencies accountable. What are they gonna do? Have Congress hearings? "No, sir, I do not recall". "No, I don't think I've ever met that person". "That person has never worked for us". 50 years later a FOIA request ends up proving that everything was a lie, nobody cares. That's how it works, and in a sick sense it should be how it works. People say Trump is a Putin asset - if the democracy is so easily corruptible that foreign leaders can straight up get their men elected into the presidency, it wouldn't make sense to let the people elect anyone into office and then let that someone declassify things that other countries might want. "It is also a stretch to go from saying that the US government, with millions of people working for it, will at any point in time be doing something illegal" - millions of people who don't know anything about things that happen outside their area of responsibility. When CIA agents were involved in Southeast Asian drug trade during the Vietnam war to support local guerrillas, you think the people on the Department of Education were getting reports about how much drugs were loaded onto Air America planes? You think that the CDC was involved in the planning for the Bay of Pigs invasion? The excuse that there's millions of people working for the government doesn't hold up because the vast majority is oblivious to what's actually being done by intelligence agencies. "the system works fairly well" - Have you paid attention to the news... in the last 50 years? Because it's clearly not. "In contrast, a system with total transparency in an effort to remove illegality will mean that the intelligent services just can't work at all" - I don't know if you've been paying attention but American intelligence services are responsible for so much evil and so many things that blew back in America's face that it might actually be preferable to gut them. You do realize that it was because of intelligence services that the War on Terror started, right? You do realize that intelligence services, in an attempt to take down Al-Assad, ended up arming insurgents who turned out to be ISIS, right? After trillions of dollars spent on war, thousands of Americans dead, over a million dead, a little transparency would go a long way considering all the shit that the CIA pulled in the 20th century, and also the fact that THEY ARE LITERALLY SPYING ON EVERYONE.
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@Carthodon "Out of the billions that are spent and the thousands who work for these agencies, yeah it has worked pretty well." - So despite all of the death, misery, destruction and loss of civil rights, it works pretty well because the government also hires a bunch of useless bureaucrats to dilute the evil? "the President can launch an investigation by himself if he so chooses" - Investigate what? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPt-zXn05ac Their job is to lie, cheat and steal. You think they won't destroy evidence (or simply withhold it because nobody knows it exists)? You think that the CIA doesn't have a contingency plan for official investigations? "In the case of the Bay of Pigs President Kennedy was not only well aware of the plan but was the one who approved when it was finally launched and also withdrew the military support when he felt it was not worth it. It is a pretty clear example of democratically elected leaders having full control of the intelligence services" - you're shifting the goalposts. This was about the number of employees on government payroll. But funny how you mention Kennedy controlling the intelligence services. It was really fortunate for them that JFK took a bullet to the brain. What a stroke of luck for the CIA. "by your logic you would argue that the US should not have provided immense material support to the Soviet Union in order to fight the NAZI" - by my logic the US shouldn't have gotten involved in any foreign affairs like the Founding Fathers intended. Everyone should be minding their own business. If countries did that more, the conditions that lead to the Nazis taking over wouldn't have existed in the first place. War is a racket. "Similarly, when Kissinger pushed for the US to side with Mao Zedong's China over the Soviet Union, he was siding with an even more backwards country with a regime that was even more totalitarian." - uhhhh I don't know what's the point of saying this when essentially of all the people who know who Kissinger is, probably 80% see him as a criminal of the highest order and want him to burn in hell. "a moderate amount of illegality" - bruh that was so tone deaf it's actually masterful satire. That's like the subtitle for a Dr. Strangelove sequel.
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The problem is that you could use that to trap people. Bring a gun and pull it out to trigger the lockdown, then start throwing incendiary devices. Sounds far fetched, but Australia had a few "mass arson" events where a mass killer used fire in the 2000s.
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@callumwright7459 Having a large and growing but proportionally small community doesn't really contradict his remark. If a community is 1% of the population and then doubles in size (without adding people from outside sources), it's still 2%.
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@callumwright7459 But it is relevant. He said the UK has an anti-gun culture, and your response was saying there's a shooting community. It was your response that was kind of irrelevant, because he never said that there was no shooting community. He just said that culture as a whole isn't very fond of guns.
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@callumwright7459 That's not how I "chose" to read the situation, it's literally the only way to read the plain text. Objectively. There's no subjectivity here. "there is not, in fact most people, as is very often the case, have somewhat mixed feelings on the subject." - Then how come there's hardly any effort to undo the current laws? "an attempt to dissuade the larger, more pervasive myth that people in the UK hate, are scared of, are unable to own or are otherwise adverse to firearms" - But then again the proof is in the pudding. A very large number of people in the UK actually thinks guns are banned, and a very large percentage is unable to own them because they simply do not meet the requirements. "my point was that it is unfair to declare the British as a people, or the UK as a nation to be such, because it is simply not true." - But how is it not? If British society was tolerant of firearms, the laws would be different.
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@TheCihan4554 lmao who the fuck is worried about the Su-57?
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And couldn't help the frontline forces so Ukrainians got the upper hand over his Russian brothers. He can always try again next time.
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 @tingleblade4274 Not true. The Crimea operation began before Yanukovych was impeached.
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@artistryartistry7239 I just wanted to say your comment only promotes more division. Homicide between different ethnic groups is uncommon.
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When you're out of smart weapons, you do like the Russians and Ukrainians - fire rockets into the air and turn back. You can't loiter over surface to air missiles.
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@whiteboy62003 Be reasonable. Out of the military? Why would a person IN the military need a gun in the first place? When the government wants them to shoot they give them weapons and ammo, and then lock the guns up in the armory when they're done. Why would the military be awarded special rights? Why exactly do you think an AK should not be owned? 9mm max? You do realize that 9mm is a pistol caliber, right? It is too underpowered to bring down most game. 12 gauge shotguns (which are easy to get in the UK) are much more powerful and destructive than a 9mm. If anything, MOST homicides are committed with pistols. Putting a max limit on what can be owned makes no sense when criminals are happy to use small and concealable weapons and most legitimate uses of a weapon require more power.
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If it was an oopsie, that parking lot would have been leveled.
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@godfunk Okay, we have both footage of the rocket failing and the little crater that it made by impacting the ground. The cars in the parking lot burned down but glass wasn't shattered. Not a bomb. Burning rocket fuel.
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The uncrewed probes have pilot bodies in them?
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@T0tenkampf Mini storage is really profitable. Cheap to build and maintain, and the recurring cost model brings in a lot of money as it's another subscription that people won't notice until they have to start thinking about cutting costs. People will pay for storage for years, they maybe have to think about saving money, and they'll end up throwing away or selling the stuff they were paying to keep.
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Because they mostly just sit around buildings and drive people in car? They're like mall security.
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 @CoolClearWaterNM Not thanks to Russia? Curious.
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@n0vitski What natural ethnic identity? It's always been multi-ethnic. Courting those groups? They're essentially controlled opposition. They arrested the leaders of Russian ethnonationalists in the 2010s, you're just meant to be radicalized so you can grab a rifle and head to Ukraine to fight for Putin. At no point are you supposed to fight your people. You know how I focus about my people? By defeating those who have spent over a decade threatening to nuke my people.
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They'll arrive with what, 2 men left?
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Not exactly. The US Navy lost a ton of capabilities by retiring the F-14 that weren't fully covered by the Hornet. The US Navy wants a F-14D successor with 6th gen capabilities while the F-35 force replaces the F-18.
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@KAZVorpal 1. The legitimately elected government of Ukraine voted to remove Yanukovych from power. The Nazis lost the 2014 elections. 2. The Donbas region uprising was caused by Russian agents, who brought Russian weapons and money to run the conflict. 4. The Nazi party lost the 2014 elections. They did not respond with "brutal violence". 5000 separatists and 3000 Ukrainian military were killed. This puts them in equal footing in terms of violence. Tens of thousands of people were not killed. Again, 5000 separatists who were legitimate combatants, and 3000 Ukrainian military. You're trying to claim tens of thousands of civilians were killed, you're adding a zero. Genocide? Do me a favor: tell me how many people died in Donbas as a result of the conflict in 2021. If you don't know, then the number from 2020. Which I bet you don't know either.
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@KAZVorpal 1. First of all, at least get it right. They had the constitutional power to remove him from office because by fleeing the country, Yanukovych made himself unfit for duty. This allowed the parliament to not have to go through the impeachment procedure. Your boy lost his seat, dawg. He's a ballot stuffer and voter intimidator. He arrested his political enemies. Why are you simping for him? 2. Several regions heavily populated by ethnic Russians did not join the fighting. Being pissed at the government doesn't have anything to do with Russian weapons and servicemen being used to fight a hybrid war. If you're pissed at Joe Biden does that give you the right to just let the Mexican army into the US? No sane person would be FOR warring resolutions that eventually lead to almost 300 people unrelated to the conflict being killed by a Russian Buk launcher. 4. They lost the elections, dawg. The "population" were Russian soldiers that when caught, the Russian government claimed they had accidently crossed the border. They had a sham election where they lost on purpose just so you could lose an argument 8 years later on the internet? Nobody was attacked for wanting to secede. Armed forces of an enemy country and its sympathizers were attacked. Get it right. Russia is like an abusive husband for Ukraine leaving him in the 90s. The tally is correct according to UN numbers. Want to question it? Go there and prove it Don't just say "it's higher". Meet the burden of proof. Hint: you can't. Simp.
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Russia's HIV rates. Look it up. That is all.
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 @donovan4222 58k as of now
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Russian Hyperborea let's goooooo
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Except that trademark infringiment is illegal. Goods can get seized at the border, and if the country of origin cooperates the factory can get shut down. So either brands would have to enforce trademark infringement against themselves or just tell the authorities it's a legit manufacturer and the buyers of the legit brand would know. It's a nice conspiracy, but no. What does happen is manufacturers getting outsourcing contracts to make goods or just a specific part of a good, and they take the specs and produce extra so that counterfeits can be made. But brands will stop working with vendols stealing their designs.
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There's world class athletes who don't know anything about the topic. They just do what coaches tell them, and sometimes coaches are two decades behind the curve. Look at kneesovertoesguy - he looked into the cutting edge science regarding knee conditioning and his own coach at college prohibited him from doing his exercises.
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@victorsmiity2326 lmao not even doxxing is beneath you people
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That's a lie.
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Not really. War is a massive drain on resources, and wipes out entire generations of people. A nuclear physicist was killed in WWI so his research had to stop. Imagine no WWI. We could have split the atom for energy first during peacetime, and not for nukes. No WWII. No Cold War.
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They're not "securing a border" they are fighting a war. The US southern border scenario is rough but it is not a war.
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@juliuszkocinski7478 the airframes need to be thrown away, they're racking up too many hours.
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@rodgersericv "invalid reasons" you mean like the fact that volcanoes pump out more ash than all nuclear explosions combined but they only cause world temperatures to drop by half a degree?
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And the AK wasn't the problem. The problem is PKs delivering accurate fire.
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@pancake_ghosty This is misleading. "Blaming the cows" is just shorthand for the issue. The actual arguments are not based on the framing but on the facts of livestock production.
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Because again, pro-Russians did not expect that they'd have their men sent to fight for the grey zone. What will be your argument when reality sets in? You also denied reality before Kherson.
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@palacete Also untrue. The F-35 development program is not the 1.5-1.7 trillion cost. That's the cost of operating roughly 2000 airframes until the retirement.
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@mxnbro3110 More than before. Before HIMARS was used against command posts and ammo dumps. Russia moved those away, now Ukraine slams artillery pieces and air defense.
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@jackduggan2432 how is taxation not theft?
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Cope. Russian alt media and bloggers have confirmed it too.
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Alex Jones is a saint compared to Tate.
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Nice Russian talking points you have there. Russian analyst Atomic Cherry estimated 25k KIA and disabled Ukrainians as of August 8th. About 6 months of war. Even if they took 25k irrecoverable casualties in the last 4 months, that's still only a quarter of their original army out of action. Meanwhile Russia had the bulk of their professional army destroyed. The assistance has been paid for. Stockpiles were purchased years, if not decades ago. Javelins cannot shoot down airliners. You are ignorant.
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@AussieMaleTuber But that's not true. There's not a single mainstream source saying that 40% of weapons are missing. If that was true - how embarassing for Russia. They're being defeated by a military at 40% capacity. Official Russian statements are cope. Moskva is returning to port under its own power, remember? I scoff at that because Russian officials have lied since the start. Including about not invading Ukraine, just doing exercises.
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@ilsunnylo3562 I don't smoke or drink. Micro plastics are a major issue. They're potentially one of the reasons while test levels are dropping off, and so are sperm counts.
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That's fake. The chart that's going around has incorrect dates, SARS was 2002 and swine flu was 2009. Also, it doesn't say which elections they're talking about. If you count state and federal elections, every year is an election year.
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@HarryPainter That wouldn't make any sense, because at the time there was no reason for Warsaw Pact nations or Soviet republics to join NATO. That's like saying Putin is asking for no NATO bases in Siberia. Hold on, Siberia is Russian. Did he travel to the future and saw that Russia fractured?
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Russia just lost a S-300 and S-400 in a single day. This after a few S-300/400 losses over the past few weeks. If ATACMS and GMRLS can take out Russia's premier air defense, and even trainer aircraft loaded with explosives can fly almost a thousand kilometers deep into Russia, why bother keeping the facade?
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bug56 funny that you write NO PROFITS in caps when youtube doesn't make a profit either.
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They've been naughty and fishing in other countries' waters. One of their fishing boats already got sunk in South America for disobeying orders to leave.
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@igor_pavlovich I'm just pointing out that you're talking about a country that literally will not stop if you let them. It's not about the fishing, it's about how much they will abuse you if you do not counter their actions. We don't need to go to war. We need to be able to go war to remind them that they shouldn't try anything funny. Nobody wants to die. I also don't want my country to lay down its arms and just let other nations just walk up to the government buildings and say "I guess we're in charge now since you literally got invaded and aren't even reacting to it". You have to set lines in the sand and make it clear that there are consequences for those who cross it. That is the basis of nation states enforcing their own existence.
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@igor_pavlovich A fate worse than death.
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@igor_pavlovich Starving under communism is preferable to living as a bug under the CCP.
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You don't need a license to own a vehicle. Happens frequently when elderly people lose their license but they retain the car's title.
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 @tech8363-o6j Try commenting when you don't have 6 beers in your gut.
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@tech8363-o6j Some Americans have flown Russian jets. When the Cold War ended, the West kept a lot of their jets. The Russians didn't get ours.
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Cauldronposting is back on the menu, boys. Remind me, how many cauldrons did Russia close in this war?
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Russia is losing to that lol
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Afghanistan - Article 5 after 9/11 attacks Libya - No Fly Zone requested by the Arab League, approved by UN council, NATO was given the task and did not invade Serbia - NATO peacekeepers were taken hostage by Bosnian-Serbs, and stopping genocides is defensive
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@nd15music73 Britain only had to BTFO the Argies out of the islands. The US had to BTFO the Soviet backed North in their own country with strategic bombing campaigns. A little tougher nut to crack.
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@nd15music73 Even if Argentina was competent, they were stretched beyond their limit. Even Harriers could fight Argentine jets simply because they could not fly at high speeds or they'd run out of fuel at sea.
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@cedric3973 They started a year ago. Plenty of Americans have seen Ukrainians hanging around US airbases since last year.
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@josephjames259 A dozen? A hundred Leopards are being sent.
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Literally one of the cases shown was in South India, you commented without watching.
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I've posted multiple times but it doesn't work. Fuck youtube. EDIT: okay the post went through. It's no where the 50 cents are used. It's the fact that those 50 cents get the foot from the door and are used to justify they thousands they steal.
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So far we have reports from the coroners, which have not been released (AFAIK). That means I'm not believing what I'm being told until I have proof. If rounds from handguns are the same thing as rifle rounds, why does the military carry rifles? Handguns would be much lighter, the magazines are slimmer, etc. If handguns do the same damage to human tissue as rifle rounds, then why are assault weapons so dangerous?
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The researchers at Oak Ridge dismantled their reactor and there was no corrosion after roughly 5 years. That problrm was solved decades ago.
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And they were right. HIMARS stopped the Russian advances last summer by targeting the artillery food, Patriots saved Kiev, Storm Shadow has deleted command posts and ammo dumps outside HIMARS range.
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How's the experience better? Would you repeat frames to get higher FPS even if changes nothing? So why ask AI to dream frames between gameplay to trick you?
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@CarboKill "Supermodel" diet was mimosas and heroin. What you're describing is a normal people diet, not "supermodel" diet. I swear sometimes even with people who agree with us it's like we're talking past each other. WC_2 was referring to a specific look that has nothing to do with what you're talking about.
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@gd2234_ But you can't do bomb squad duties off internet pdfs. The point of getting government training courses are the certificates you get at the end.
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The Taliban also crashed the Blackhawks left there. Darwin awards for everyone.
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Source on that claim? If Russia is so confident they could show the radar track.
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I support invention in any way. But the fact is, someone must support production. >More government over-reach into your liberties That's kind of the opposite of a free market. >More money printed I support the gold standard. >make you work That's why the Unions are supposed to exist. >Monstanto The government is supposed to protect THE PEOPLE. As long as it protects the people and it doesn't offer protectionism on corporations, Monsanto couldn't ever operate in a monopoly.
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I agree that killing is out of necessity. If hogs are not killed, they spread pretty easily. Killing mothers and babies? They'd kill you for a spot on this Earth, and we're killing them to control their population and prevent damage to our resources. You're using an emotional argument to justify your beliefs and your agenda. In a factual sense it doesn't matter if they are younglins or females. Females will carry more babies and babies will grow.
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Russia was deploying HIV positive soldiers summer 2022. So basically Russia is a year ahead of Ukraine in terms of being in trouble.
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@joshuapaul2022 Sneed.
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@klaasvakie Okay. And these people on the frontlines, why do they keep being wrong? They've been telling you Russia is winning.
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 @JohnMountain There's statistical formulas, you'd be surprised how few people you'd need for 95% confidence interval. The data pool is more important than the number.
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@DIREWOLFx75 "The Russian Army initially planned to acquire 2,300 T-14s between 2015 and 2020.[11][12][13] By 2018, production and fiscal shortfalls delayed this to 2025,[14] before Russia announced the apparent cancellation of the main production run on 30 July 2018.[15] However, as of 2021, the Russian state-owned TASS media agency claimed the Armata had been expected to begin serial production in 2022, with delivery of a test batch of 100 to the 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division expected to begin in 2022.[16]" - The Armata was meant to be in mass production right now.
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@DIREWOLFx75 "you can buy a squadron of SAAB Gripen for the purchase price of each F-22." - And the Gripen isn't meant to win wars. It's meant to "Winter War" the Russians. Basically Sweden loses, but retains independence by using Gripens in a guerrilla war against the Russian air forces. The Gripen is something you get when you know you can't defeat the enemy. That someone was Pierre Sprey, who was a jazz music producer. He hadn't worked with the military for decades. The F-35 has fought with 2,000lb bombs against F-16s with no weapons.
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@DIREWOLFx75 What reality check? The Gripen has failed almost every evaluation it took part it.
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@DIREWOLFx75 You said it wasn't meant to be mass produced, I pulled the evidence to show the Russians claimed it would be, now you're pretending you didn't get BTFO. You got demolished son, try again. How can it proven to be mass produced if they're not mass producing it? Working by hand is what they're doing with Su-57s. The pictures of the facility show that there's no assembly line.
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If I defend my house with a musket, the internet will hail me as a hero. If I try to rob a bank with a musket, the internet will laugh at the CCTV footage of me getting taken out by the police.
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They even filmed empty ballots being counted as "Da" (yes). Come on.
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They're bringing T-55s now, where's the mass production?
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 @thebreadster1500 So the job of a lawyer is inherently immoral? Because they don't only get to defend the innocent.
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You're assuming criminals are smart. Or that they won't do things "just because". We're talking about violent people, perhaps under the influence of drugs. >You want an "Assault rifle" Nomenclature. Please educate yourself in firearms.
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Nah it seems that Ukraine pierces through the soft spots in the Russian defense and now their experienced and trained fighters are slaughtering the less trained Russian rear troops.
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@northitsera8600 Not true, dawg. First, you people said 1000-2000. Then I saw someone make up 3000. Now it's 6000. You people just multiply the number every day.
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You can still infect others if you take it.
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You can't replicate the Japanese society anywhere else. There's plenty of countries with restrictive gun laws that do extremely poorly. They're not Japan.
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Okay. You're gonna do 2000 Abrams? Are weekends good for you? The problem is that you think about outfitting one tank, and don't realize you have to extrapolate this solution.
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@andreiiasi But those millions were spent what? In the 1960s and 1970s? I need tanks, I need them now, we're gonna do what we can and hatches open it is. I'm not going to wait on a McGyvered solution people on youtube tell me is really easy.
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It's probably easier to get footage from Americans from the usual sources than contacting French sources for footage of their soldiers?
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Holy mother of false equivalences. Executing civilians and bombing residential areas to make cities unlivable is what makes Russia rotten. The US? Doesn't want sore losers to drag Americans through trials. Many American politicians want to rejoin the ICC and have pledged to do it when guarantees are given. Until then, American war criminals are prosecuted domestically.
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Long supply lines also means you have to go deep into enemy territory to get them.
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@steveosborne2297 Ammunition depots were struck, which means smaller craters can be explosives thrown around by the strike. Some missiles also have cluster munitions to spread the impact.
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There won't be a future conflict. The cost of rebuilding their military and the demographic effects of sending men to Ukraine severely hinder Russia's abilities for the next fight.
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@jerrybenavides2474 government doesn't give rights
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@jerrybenavides2474 you haven't read it. Nowhere in the Bill of Rights does it say the government gives you rights. Read them. The Bill of Rights is meant to PROHIBIT the government from infringing on them. For example, the First Amendment doesn't say you have the right to free speech. It says Congress should not regulate speech. The Second Amendment doesn't say the government gives you a right to own guns. It says your right - that existed before the government did - shall not be infringed. If you read any of the historical documents you could have read the founding fathers' thoughts on the matter, they didn't think the government gave the rights, they said the rights already existed.
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Jim Jefferies is a complete dumbass and listening to him actually kills brain cells. The complete opposite of education.
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The 88mm was a beast of a tank cannon, the Tiger crews were even instructed to not fire the gun if the muzzle break was damaged because the recoil would be excessive. This is a freaking joke. And kamikaze attacks were pure desperation too. If you can't do conventional air attacks in a war that made aircraft carriers the shining star of naval power, you're getting beat. Jesus Christ only this war could get the people who say kamikaze attacks were actually smart to come out of the woodwork.
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They breached several lines of defense. Also, work harder not smarter. Force your enemy to disperse and defeat the smaller agglomerations instead of the large force. Defeat in detail. Napoleon used it. "Oh you never beat my forces in well defended cities" boo hoo. Do you want to win or score points for style? I'd rather win. Why would I want a fair fight? I want the odds to be stacked in my favor.
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How is a license going to prevent divorce?
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There was no "fighting back". You don't even understand what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq had a civil war and terrorists fanned the flames. It was the US that changed their anti-insurgency tactics to get some of the insurgents to switch sides and fight against terror.
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Actually, it would. Requiring a license to vote is against the US constitution. You can't license a right.
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So they're poor and the US is wealthy. Got it.
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@delta_glider4362 Exactly, imagine being able to pick a leader.
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@reza221282 Damn, and yet we make more money than you. How could it be?
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They brought the hammer down. Footage was played everywhere. Eastern Ukraine lost the water supply system early in the war.
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Life is cheap as in life has less worth.
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The Soviet Union ended in 1991 and the region needed tons of aid and loans from the West. We kept tabs on the health effects of Chernobyl as not only it affected us but also because we had a vested interest in getting Ukraine to shut down the other Chernobyl reactors in exchange for more IMF loans. Because they needed the income from the energy exports they were forced to take loans from Russian banks... but I digress, the point is that they couldn't keep those secrets for too long.
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One of the countries in that group would be required to arrest that person if he showed up.
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They cancelled the next wave of mobilization. Meanwhile Russians have spent their profsssional armed forces (not just army) and conscripted 300k. More like, Russia sacrificed the war for a city, and then lost the city anyway.
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@keithknechtel7460 I don't listen to Washington DC. Just look at the events.
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No. The Javelin is a tool to remove a particular chess piece from the chessboard. It cannot replace tank rounds.
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You're right, looking at the last 30 years, lighting strikes are literally three times bigger killers than mass shootings. It's not such a big problem by itself. But I have to say that to the uninformed it's easy to be manipulated by the numbers of deaths that would have been prevented if there were people looking for the source of the motivations.
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Getting desperate there.
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There's telegram channels saying one of the first "turtle" tanks had a damaged traverse so it was modified like this instead of being sent back for repairs.
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It only affects things where other people have money on the line and want to make sure you're trustworthy. You can still live a life with bad credit, it's a crap life but you're arguably still free. A full social credit score can be used for full control.
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You're gonna beat the Russians into submission, Dan? Ukraine is accepting volunteers, I heard. Think you'll be in Moscow by Christmas?
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The 15 game changers that did change the game. The nation with the big scary tank army had them throw turrets into space. The nation with the big scary artillery had to put the ammo 80km away.
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This 6.8 round has absolutely nothing to do with the British round. It was comparable to a 7.62x39 in terms of energy.
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@aaronleverton4221 But the implication is that the British had it right the whole time when they didn't.
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@youcancallmecoop "I’m fine with my tax dollars going towards public health safety rather than corporate bailouts" - The testing equipment is made by corporations. The corporations are getting your tax dollars, not "public health".
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@youcancallmecoop No, it's not. It's making corporations richer. To ensure safety you'd need to test EVERYONE because the vaxxed still spread. You're purposefully allowing superspreaders while discriminating against people who don't want to play your silly game. So you just want corporations to be richer in the end.
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The ANA was filled with actual Taliban, people just in it for the paycheck, and people with genuine mental disabilities. The money for ammo and rations was pocketed. While the Iraqi army was woefully unprepared they eventually got organized and fought against ISIS's brutal urban warfare tactics. Syrian rebels just couldn't do anything about Russia pummeling cities into dust with air force.
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@olekscap4620 Russians bragged non stop about their manly army. Cope, seethe, etc. The Russians say "Kiev junta" or "Zelensky regime". Pot calling the kettle black.
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Even if you fitted railguns on the battleship it would still need to go inside the range of missile defenses and land-based aircraft to target the coast.
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@thejudgmentalcat You do realize that most of the people doing this are pro-Russia trolls who always call western people gay and trans, right? I know it's a joke. A joke at "our" expense, because they think they can shame us into abandoning support for Ukraine if they call us gay every day.
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I've read the discussions and it seems they're not Sfera helmets with titanium but "modern replicas" as that style of design has been used for riot police. The shape of the plates is different, the collectors say. It stops shrapnel but it will be terrible as a "bump" helmet.
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@chapagawa To shut down airspace the PLAAF would have to conduct extensive SEAD/DEAD operations. There would be dozens, if not hundreds of airframes and pilots lost.
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Because Ukraine shoots down aircraft.
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The F-35s payload is excellent. The STOVL variant exceeds the Harrier's performance greatly, which gives the USMC and allied nations with small deck carriers an extremely powerful platform. The Super Tomcat can't do triple the damage if it gets destroyed on the way in. I've never seen a shelf with Navy aircraft parts, maybe we do not shop at the same stores.
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It's always preferable to get a direct hit on aircraft, and air to air missiles usually have pre-fragmented warheads or continuous rod warheads to cause damage. Blast isn't good enough, so they use fragments to rip aircraft apart.
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@Dangling-Pointer The Soviets couldn't handle the goat herders.
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Can you name the engagements where F-15s were damaged in air to air combat and crash landed back home?
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How? The US didn't invade.
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@PrivateSi DU isn't a good dirty bomb. The heavy metal toxicity will kill you a million times faster than the radiological effects.
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@PrivateSi DU is terrible as a radiological danger. It has a very long half-life and it's 60% as radioactive as natural uranium. Its emissions are mostly alpha particles which have little penetration. Reactors and spent fuel storage are worse than DU precisely because they contain elements with half-lives of 100-10,000 years, meaning much less stable than uranium which has a 4.5 billion years half-life. Changing the topic to reactors is a red herring - DU is terrible for dirty bombs as the radiological danger is minimal in comparison to the acute and chronical toxicity effects from the heavy metal poisoning.
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@PrivateSi I replied to a comment about DU and dirty bombs. That's the topic at hand. I don't don't know why you're talking about energy production in a discussion about radiological weapons. That's what usually people call "fluff", going off on tangents, etc.
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@PrivateSi Flying a crop duster filled with mercury or driving a convoy of cars running leaded gasoline through a city isn't considered a "dirty bomb". You claimed American use of DU in munitions makes it a dirty bomb. It might be an ecologically damaging strike, and it may be as awful as Agent Orange. But it's not a "dirty bomb". The "force multiplier" is simply chemical toxicity. You could achieve the same with lead dust or by aerosolizing mercury during the blast. You inhale more radioactive stuff, with much shorter half lives, simply by smoking a cigarette. Are cigarettes a terror weapon?
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Except that Randy Weaver was cleared of the charges and the rapist at Waco could have been arrested by the local sheriff who knew Koresh's routine. In both cases the government decided to make a big spectacle and surprise, when you call jackbooted thugs to do your biding jackboot thuggery happens. That is tyranny.
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Yes you can blame air defense.
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Then how are Chechens uploading their videos of them magdumping into buildings?
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I bet y'all hypocrites don't want felons to get their gun rights restored too.
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+ReethCaldarson it is hypocritical because you don't get to pick and choose which rights are okay and which ones aren't. "Also - yes if the person is rehabilitated they should get ALL their rights back" - okay. I will await for the Democrat party to adopt felon gun rights restorations as part of their platform.
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+ReethCaldarson "Yes you do get to choose as long" --- within the context of the argument you don't. Rights are rights are rights. Want to change them? Different topic. "as long as it is not a basic human right and the majority votes for a change" - that's laughable. What is or isn't a human right totally depends on cultural factors. The majority can also vote to take away something you think is a basic human right. Your argument doesn't work because you don't have an objective definition for basic human rights and others don't have to respect your personal definition (try to convince places like China or Russia to adopt your definition of basic human rights), but also because democratic vote over people's rights won't necessarily end well. With that out of the way, do you believe in innocent until proven guilty? Do you believe that you have the right to own property, and your property should be protected from unreasonable searches and seizures according to due process? Congratulations, you believe guns are a basic human right. "And what makes you think my or the opinion of any commentator here is linked to the standpoint the democrats take? I'm not a democrat nor do their policies represent me in any way." --- why does that matter? Democrats are the biggest felon rights restoration advocates and thus would welcome the addition of one more right to add to the pile. Even people who don't support Democrats would surely support them in this endeavor.
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Not really. 80% of people get no symptoms. 99.76% recover. They'll pass down their genes.
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 @robcubed9557 I can do 5 clean pull ups, I don't think I could deadlift more than 35-40kg.
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The issue here is more about heat seekers. The F-22 has a cheek bay on both sides that opens to reveal the AIM-9X seeker. The F-35 carries them in the wings rather than inside a bay. The advantage here is that the bay can be closed with the missile outside so the lock can be obtained without needing lock on after launch.
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@MrCastodian But the people of Iran were attacking the Iranian government just a moment ago. The people fighting against outdated religious rules do not care for holy wars.
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@Nostalgiagate6392 Libya is irrelevant. Arab League asked for intervention. UN approved it.
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@shadowslayer9988 The Iranian government supports groups. The Iranian people? We can support them.
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@Nostalgiagate6392 And?
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Scott Ritter is a convicted child predator.
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The range of the S-400 is for high altitude targets. Earth's curvature hides stuff hundreds of miles away.
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@HD46409 But the original Wild Weasel mission is a Vietnam era doctrine. Now Wild Weasel starts firing HARM before entering the SAM effective range so that there's a HARM already coming down the moment the radar starts illuminating.
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Sim rounds is better in close quarters, MILES is better for open fields.
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I think they stopped flying the Blackhawks after crashing like two or three of them.
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Not how fights are scored. Strickland easily outscored DDP, and did more damage to boot. Some guys who got their faces beat edged out a decision on points. Strickland had both the points and the damage to easily get the W. Being the aggressor only counts as scoring criteria is the fighters are equal on stats. Read the rules.
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@redraptor9688 the DPR assaulted Debaltseve the day after Minsk II was signed
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Bro anything that gets intercepted over the Kárman line is NOT cheap. The German V2 program was more expensive than the Manhattan project.
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 @LauwersFreddy there's a metal grate that acts as heat dissipator for STOVL aircraft like the Harrier
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@einhalbesbrot Right. But if you can't do politics or sports or gaming and those topics are saturated anyway, you can go for a niche and taboo topic most people don't want to be associated with.
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@nunoalvarespereira87 Your comment was shadowbanned but has an upvote. Always check if you're shadowbanned before upvoting yourself.
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The number grows larger the more I scroll down.
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@petervandenengel1208 Stalin did not follow original Marxist theory and the MH17 was confirmed to have been shot down by the Buk launcher numbered 332 from the 53rd anti air missile brigade stationed in Kursk - a Russian military unit. The dings and bends in the metallic skirts match VKontakte social media pictures posted by Russian soldiers. Photos and video of the launcher, launch site and smoke trail confirm it was launched from the separatist side, plus the exact launch spot was confirmed by satellite picture of the scorch mark on the ground. Separatists also published videos of them cheering the shootdown, which were deleted (but archived) after it became public they had shot down a civilian airline.
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@mintedog "the democratic party would be centre-right" yeah when the democratic establishment is essentially calling for political violence and demanding people to be considered guilty until proven innocent there is nothing centrist about your leanings.
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@mintedog "unprecedented global peace present today" - simply because war became so expensive the big guys cannot afford to engage each other in open warfare - since the Cold War you've seen the rise of the proxy war and foreign meddling. I am thankful for the relative peace we live in today but we live in the days Saudi Arabia can just torture and kill a journalist with near impunity while committing war crimes on Yemen most people don't even know about with arms supplied by Europe, Canada and the US. A president can receive the Nobel Peace Prize while bombing 7 countries. "soaring standards of living" - but even the left claims wages aren't keeping up with inflation, what's up with that? "increasing personal freedoms in most parts of the world" - except that we're under more and more control from the megacorporations, we're being listened to at all times and the media can essentially block you from seeing content they don't want you to see in an instant, and even Google is working with the Chinese government
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Will you think of him as less of a soldier if he says no? Will you think of him as less of a human if he says yes?
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@leemartin7231 There's plenty of people who did it and it didn't feel right no matter how much you tell them it is. Plus, the people they killed were also fighting for their country. Do you think a person should expose their dark moments to the public simply because of an internet weirdo who thinks it's okay? A lot of people don't think it's okay. And the people who've been through war deserve the privacy rather than having to tell stories of killing for the enjoyment of others.
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I mean, they had WMDs, but they were mostly abandoned stock that was probably to degraded to use, and did not run afoul of the UN inspections like the government claimed.
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Did you watch the video? Honey will hide discount codes. You don't understand how it work, they essentially extort websites to hide the coupons so that you pay higher prices.
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That's diplomacy, bub. You mass the troops, the other side does something similar.
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Real talk, if you straight up swaged your own bullets would anyone realize you were even defying the law?
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@ldklldkl1713 Not really. Casting and plating lead bullets is pretty easy. Swaging requires a press and some dies but it's not complex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3dF5h9--EI video for the bullet casting and plating
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It can be an aggravating factor. Doing martial arts and using those skills doesn't automatically count as the use of a weapon. It's mostly about if the use of force was legal (self-defense) and how much force was used. A martial artist comitting assault/battery does not get bumped to assault with deadly weapon. But during sentencing the judge can cite that as an aggravating factor to give a harsher sentence. Someone getting a little roughed up by a martial artist is not that relevant, but in cases like Stu where the attack was so severe the bodily harm nearly sent him to the shadow realm this will be taken into account because Raja's training should have taught him the consequences and he still went ahead knowing how much damage he can cause.
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Use a money clip.
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Funnily enough I have to thank Pintrest because I was looking for a blog that had articles on how to machine an AR-15 upper from the raw forging and couldn't find it. Soneone put an image from that blog on Pintrest, and that image had a watermark and I managed to recover that website from the wayback machine.
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Science also gave us the radium girls and thalidomide. We create new problems sometimes, not just fix the existing ones.
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@Jason-me1bs The money savings in buying the Gripen are minimal.
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That doesn't make any sense, especially since the original redpiller was Curtis Yarvin aka Mencious Moldbug, a person who clearly enjoys making arguments for the high IQ crowd as a result of his Silicon Valley days.
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@statostheman Seems like you're trying to overanalyze everything to sell your NLP agenda. If you're crazy, it's NLP. If you're calm, it's NLP. You did a NLP course and now you see it everywhere. Yes, the wonders of where if you want to live in a society, people don't want you drunk or high 24/7. This isn't "capitalism", you think the Soviet Union also didn't crack down on anti-social behavior that tore the fabric of society? The prison industrial complex does not create law and order. Right there your conclusion fails due to a massively flawed premise. The prison industrial complex benefits from the US being crime-ridden. How do you make a profit from crime when the streets are safe? Okay, now go to California and try to implement those changes. See how that goes. And if you actually had read or listened to Curtis you wouldn't be saying things like "he'd call me a socialist" when he's in favor of massive state programs. You just have a pre-conceived notion and used it without even checking if it's correctly applied on the person you're talking about. Give them a home first. That's great. You have such a big market in California. Why aren't you there and making tons of money out of the California state budget by promising these revolutionary solutions? I'm being sarcastic in calling them revolutionary, by the way - they've been tried again and again. I just want to see you fail. I urge you to stop taking courses, you're like a stereotypical college freshman who takes a psychology class and now tries to psychoanalyze everyone. Nobody told you to listen to anyone. Jesus. Learn reading comprehension. God. The only "argument" is that you got challenged on NLP by being presented with the fact that many people do not fit the mold you created, and now you've confirmed that you just seen NLP everywhere. There's no mold. Just NLP boogeymen everywhere, in the walls, under the bed, under the skin, behind the fridge.
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@statostheman And I told you, simply, you shouldn't listen to Curtis Yarvin. I simply used him as an example of someone who doesn't behave the way you described. Once countered, you started claiming all types of behavior are NLP. You've massively changed the subject and strawmanned my point by making this about Yarvin and why should anyone listen to him, when it's completely meaningless to drive the point home. I never said you needed to be taught, I never recommended anyone's teachings. You're incapable of reading basic English, I assume the Finnish language also requires people to understand the context of what they're being told, so speaking English as a second language doesn't excuse you. If you're told, in Finnish, that someone who behaves like X is evidence that they don't behave like Y, I assume that if your retort is asking why listen to X that other Finn is just going to think you're crazy. But that's just me, I've never been to Finland.
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@statostheman I said that he didn't act the way you described. No, you need to comprehend. You took words to mean praise when I simply described the history behind him. You took praise to mean recommendation rather than a simple counter. This isn't double talk. This is you making stuff up in your own mind and now tried to backpedal. I'm not forcing anything. I described someone's history and behavior, which was counter to the way you described NLP, and you somehow forgot this was about NLP and thought you were getting a recommendation. That's more double-talky than anything presented here. I'm not saying you're incapable. I'm suggesting you're probably behaving like this on purpose.
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@statostheman Noticing that you're backpedaling and changing subjects as it suits you isn't a suppression technique. If anything, you're the one using techniques. I don't need to have the last word. I see something incorrect, I call it out. Say something not worth addressing, I won't reply. So far, you've been a pathological liar and I think it's beneficial to call it out so that anyone reading this can truly get how manipulative you are. You don't know what gaslighting is. You're just using a trendy buzzword. I didn't change the topic. You did. It's not that I'm always right, it's that you're always wrong. You claimed NLP techniques worked one way, then you claimed they worked the exact opposite. That just sounds like a lie. Or "gaslighting" as the trendy buzzword users call it.
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Element 115 was theorized about in science magazines before Bob Lazar started talking about it. He simply read scientific articles to sound smart.
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They ran out. They manufactured missiles. Then they wasted them.
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@Cameron Pangborn Who said anything about acting like a weirdo?
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@Cameron Pangborn If your argument is that nobody can decide what conservative values are, you might as well go the whole nine yards and adopt CRT and gender theory into your ideology. Who gets to decide what gender is? You're denouncing TPUSA's right to freedom of association. An organization is free to not want to associate with people in particular. Neocons are anti-porn? So paleo-cons are the pro-porn ones, then?
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@Cameron Pangborn Must be the third time I have to tell you, this isn't about purity. Nobody is demanding anyone to be pure. Just don't dive into the filth. The bar is extremely low and most people can clear it.
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@kraken5003 So the right becomes the left to win, and in the end... you got the left to win. Get me out of the heat because I'm done with you people.
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@JamesEvans-ow1wc You can't record and publish explicit scenes through biological means. It requires cameras and internet, which are not biological at all.
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@JamesEvans-ow1wc You can't even make an argument without slipping in strawmen. Literally nobody said that it's impossible to get erections. Also kinda sexist for implying only men have sex drives. Take that bigot. Hashtag cancelled. Pow. Porn is a shady business, it should stay in the shade. That is all.
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@kraken5003 It's not a stupid interpretation. You're welcoming progressivism as a way of countering... progressivism. You can scream until you're blue that you're not becoming the left, but they'll simply adopt more insane positions and brainwash kids to accept them. Then you'll be forced to cater to more insane people in order to have your big tent movement. Then one day will come that finally the left will adopt a position that you won't and the conservative movement you helped create will shun you for trying to gatekeep. You can copy their tactics when you have their institutional support, control of the media, etc. If you copy tactics but you don't have access to the same means you're wasting your time. The US Army copying the Vietcong wouldn't work. Your example proves you wrong. They can do whatever they want and face no consequences, you do anything even remotely similar and you're demonized. You can't copy their tactics when you have no institutional support. You're actually fighting them by naively thinking that you can play by the same rules when YOU are able to recognize that they don't play by the same rules as you. They're cheating at the game and the umpire is on their side.
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@JamesEvans-ow1wc No, you're strawmanning. Your comment 19 hours ago talked about erections. You're the one who implied that conversation. Don't try to play smart with people smarter than you. That's also not ad hominem, and it was clearly a satirical comment at your reply only addressing male arousal.
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@kraken5003 Your tactic is surrendering. Okay, then make it before trying to copy anything. You want to play on an even field before even bulldozing the hill. "culture will just move into their direction" - Then what's the point of being a conservative? If you see a "direction" then just be a progressive. "you will just stay a loser" - And I lost on my feet. While you score wins on your knees. See how far that will take you. "they don't get anywhere because they are not willing to fight" - BUDDY it's you who's advocating to lay down the arms and welcome the enemy with open arms.
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@Brooke B I understand that but there's probably more people in America who know about arm braces than about Alex Zedra or Tu Lam. It's such an inconsequential thing but it's still weird how there have to be marketing people and game design people running the show to appeal to gun enthusiasts and then they just allow the art department to use the wrong reference material.
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@aaronvarela89 And?
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@oliviahex4994 That's not true. There were offers to treat him for free in Italy and the US, but the government said they boy could not leave the hospital. They didn't deny to pay, they REFUSED to let him leave.
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The US had to ship canned food to save them from famine.
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That's an exaggeration. If given the choice I would rather not have a child with autism. That doesn't mean it's a plague worse than death. Come on now.
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Cope. The YouTube algorithm also deletes half my comments. Either you're spamming or you've been reported by other users for hate speech.
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No, they're low status people. That's why they cling to the system. They're worthless without it.
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If you move a camera while recording an object, that happens.
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@randywl8925 It's common for pilots to look at static objects without a frame of reference and thinking they are being followed. Same thing happens if you're driving down the road, almost static objects in the sky look like they're following you.
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 @jimjones9239 You can't merge in the age of all aspect seekers and HOBS shots. Merging is just a jousting match where both sides get hit.
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DU is a heavy metal. Every country uses either DU or tungsten alloys for penetrators. DU will kill from heavy metal poisoning before cancer can appear. So, fake news.
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That's like saying you kicked a soccer ball and sent it flying 200km/h. That's impressive, but not how you score a game of soccer. Russia's obsession with crippling civilian infrastructure is not preventing their army from being sliced and diced on the actual battle. Kiev's power infrastructure can be rebuilt. Russia's army can't.
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Uh, no. People hyperfocus on German tech but the Allies had proximity fuses, drones, better aircraft engines, better high altitude fighters and bombers, etc. Not to mention that they were also nowhere close to having something like the Manhattan Project. The fight was nowhere close. Germany started critically low on oil and their entire gameplan depended on capturing Soviet oil fields. Because they sabotaged the equipment before leaving, the Germans never managed to pump out oil before they got pushed back.
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Go tell that to Ukraine lol Seems like the best defense is having the will to fight, good allies and modern weapons systems.
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The Russians are getting ready for what? Sending more untrained troops into the meat grinder? Their supply dumps will keep getting hit. They'll have bodies but no ammo to fight with.
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@barnabyhands7723 you think an attacker cares about the park? The embassy is the target, not what's next door. Dangerous people will come from any place on Earth. Just because you have a "safe" neighbourhood doesn't mean unsafe people won't go there.
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Satellites cannot direct artillery. It would take too long to get updates.
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It's not a loophole. Machine guns are defined as weapons that repeat their firing cycle with a single trigger pull. When moving the crank you are creating multiple trigger pulls through the gearing mechanism.
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@StrakanDocrusReakal How is that terrifying? First of all, it has to be cranked by hand. Even if you go crazy with the gearing to make it spin faster, you're only requiring more torque from the human arm which has limits. You can't operate it by motor or else the button you use to activate the motor becomes the trigger and it's an automatic machine gun. Second, firing faster only makes the firing cycle more strenuous on the gun and you'll risk blowing the barrels from heat. Third, the faster it fires the more ammo it wastes. Fourth, a gatling isn't exactly a very portable weapon. If you're worried about drivebys with them, a gatling doesn't output more firepower than four guys with guns in a car. It's the opposite of terrifying. It's actually laughable how non-threatning the Gatling is considering that there's plenty of replicas and homebuilts used at reenactments and nobody ever used one in a crime.
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Bohemia makes VBS for the military. Uses the same engine.
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Bro the video literally explained that the case acts as INSULATOR which means more heat gets dumped out instead of conducted into the chamber.
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The XM8 program fell through because H&K and ATK got the contract for the OICW, but H&K tried to get the rifle part into service through the backdoor without an official trial. Of course that the XM8 got screwed over, the company making it tried to use sleight of hand to get it adopted.
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@shadowlord1418 Battle of Athens, 1946. There's also another high profile incident similar to it but I don't remember where and when.
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And who told you that they planted IEDs? The govenrment? The same people that are willing to spy on your internet, your phone calls and want to have the right to kill US citizens with drones without evidence or trial?
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 @leecrumble3921 the S500 is an anti-ballistic system, not an upgraded S400.
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@anderstermansen130 What? Ukraine is under invasion.
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Depleted uranium is more toxic due to being a heavy metal than radioactivity. On impact the DU turns into dust and it becones easily absorbed by humans in the area.
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@isaactippetts882 Look, Cmdr Fravor probably believed he saw something. But he already "ruined" his reputation and can't back down now. You can tell when Elizondo or whoever is bragging about the "UFO" having an aura of cold air on the FLIR footage. Fravor's poker face is probably of a man realizing what he's gotten himself into. On targeting pods, there's an option that can be turned on and off to create a contrast outline so that the pilot can better notice targets. So if you have a hot source, you'll have a "cold" outline so that the enemy tank or whatever pops out from the background and you can point your laser guided munitions at it. The UFO nutter Elizondo doesn't know that. So he thinks there's a cold aura around the object. There isn't. That's an option you can turn on and off. Favor either forgot how his targeting systems worked, or he realized what he had done. He was looking at the tailpipe of another jet in the distance. And now we can't just admit he was wrong. So when you say military people are talking about it, remember that military people are like you and me.
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@mihaiszilagyi9987 Putin. The US benefited nothing - NS1 was blocked by Russia, NS2 blocked by Germany. No reason to blow anything up. Meanwhile oligarchs had a reason to take out Putin and declare peace to keep profiting from gas. Blow up the pipelines, now the oligarchs must bow to Putin as they have nothing else but their leader.
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@mihaiszilagyi9987 Germany blocked NS2 by refusing to certify it. They did it on their own will, because they wanted Russia to give up on the war in exchange for opening NS2.
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@mihaiszilagyi9987 That's not how it works.
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@mihaiszilagyi9987 Ukraine in 2014? You mean when the US tried to keep Yanukovych in power but Ukrainians rejected the deal?
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It's a 6.5 in the game.
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It stays in a closed loop and is returned to the boiler again.
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Every country uses tungsten penetrators in munitions, which is just as toxic.
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Because the Marines can't reliably take over the role? Not all aircraft are suitable for carriers and carrier operations inherently limit the number of aircraft involved, while the USAF can deploy from land bases.
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@arueshalaetablebuildingsociety that's bullshit lol worst possible metric to judge an aircraft by. You can program burst lengths on most contemporary fighter aircraft so the round count of the F-35 doesn't matter that much. Not to mention 25mm autocannon ammo is available with electronic fuzes so it can airburst inside buildings or over trenches, so it's very likely that just as the gunsight makes automatic range correction by radar, every bullet leaving the barrel probably gets fed with a self-destruct timing and shred the enemy aircraft even in a near miss.
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There's no magic bullet. The position of the seats explains the trajectory.
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@naranciaisbestboi125 supposedly, the code would be redone by someone with experience, but he fired that someone because (from what I've heard) the changes required would make the code too complex for YandereDev to understand and continue developing on.
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They agreed to dillute their enriched uranium in past agreements.
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How does the speedtest know that?
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@otten5666 The thing is, how does the starlink server "know" it needs to ping back to speedtest instead of letting the client side respond? Do they just automatically pingback from speed test servers to BS their numbers?
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South Korea still exists, the US didn't intervene in the fall of South Vietnam due to domestic politics, and the US left Afghanistan to be ruled by the kids who grew up without fathers because the US troops culled their numbers.
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@nihluxler1890 We all know people had to walk uphill to school and back. Things were always harder in the old days. But that makes us soft today. It's no longer the old days.
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@jacqdanieles More likely it's a German military surplus parka. The flag comes sewn on and many don't remove it.
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It's not profitable at all to put renewables in the freaking forests and mountains.
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Have you seen the human wave attacks? It's inhumane, Russians are being mowed down.
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Does Australia have 300 fighter pilots without aircraft to fly? And hundreds of aircraft mechanics?
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@jaydensavage689 A person with "bad" beliefs doing a good thing is not on the same level as a person with "good" beliefs doing bad things. This isn't difficult to reconcile.
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Disco inferno means "I learn through suffering" but we get what you mean.
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AESA radar encrypts the emissions so that it looks like normal radio communications. RWR detects radar by sensing the specific characteristics of known radar emitters and understanding that the aircraft is being painted by radar. If the emissions keep changing, the RWR cannot know what is radar and what is TV or radio boradcasts.
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As mentioned in other comments, not all configurations are unshippable.
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@TheSjuris Says who?
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@yaboymike2274 11k dislikes and 8:1 like to dislike ratio at the time it was recorded. Bro he has committed way worse faux pas, I think this time it's your misreading the room.
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But almost nobody dies. In the US average age of death was like 78 and the people had 2.83 comorbidities in average. AKA a huge amount of people was already battling 3 health conditions before finally croaking. Maybe the figures have changed, point being is that the majority doesn't even notice they have it.
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@Brianchse The CDC confirmed that over 90% of those numbers were people who passed away with a positive test, not out of the infection itself. And there's news articles reporting on how the requirements to issue death certificates blaming the infection are being changed to be more strict. You could easily find this information but you didn't, your reaction was to explode at me and make me look like the bad guy. By the way the CDC will also discontinue the PCR test after 31 of December this year and require stricter tests to identify the infection.
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What happens when the drone uses a signal that your jammer doesn't have in its spectrum? There's footage of drones dropping grenades on jammers, using slant range to observe jammer locations and call in artillery to knock them offline, or people writing complaints that newer drones are slipping past their jamming efforts.
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@darenzy This is whataboutism. If you want to start a task force so we can arrest Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Obama, etc I'm all for it. But they got secret service around them, we'll need a lot of people willing to get shot to get them.
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@SillyGrandma99 I think it's funny you find the need to shotgun credentials at the wall. I find it funny that when someone smells something's funny, they're not able to interpret plain English. The rest of your comment reads like a bot or paid shill though, it doesn't even warrant a response.
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I mean Iraq spent like a decade openly breaking the 1991 ceasefire conditions.
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I know defamation suits are difficult to win but the fact is that it was a lie. There's an animal version you find at farm supply stores. He didn't take that and the media said he did. It's still a lie.
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They keep threatning nuclear war and doing missile tests over Japan. They have tons of artillery dialed in to hit Seoul, so even if they had no nukes they hold a sword over the neck of South Korea. And now they're helping Russia prolong the war against Ukraine. Sanctions would be lifted if for once they acted sane. If a prisoner who has been rightfully imprisoned for his crimes starts stabbing guards to escape, do you say that he wouldn't have had to stab anyone if he was allowed to be free?
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"We", mr Al-Saq?
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Nobody cares, Ukraine advances as expected.
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Russia got murdered in the Winter. Remember February? Columns of burned out vehicles and mangled bodies in the streets. I suggest watching those videos again. Winter killed Russia.
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Russia blew up a dam to flood the river. They're panicking and afraid of the incoming Ukrainian attack.
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Russia was stopped.
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"we have a disconnect on the social contract" - There's no social contract, that was just a lie people bought into and convinced themselves it was real. People can't be born into contracts.
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From a charitable point of view that's certainly a thing they could do, but a lot of those buildings are high rises which hinders mobility, and they'd need to hire caretakers to staff those cities. Which means changing the entire social welfare structure so they could afford a big retirement program for the nation.
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 @jamesalexander8872 Polen causes immune responses.
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@grimmlinn War planners worried about bomber/missile gap. War planners worried about MiG-25. Come on now... war planners are always worried. It's how they get funding.
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@grimmlinn A Shahed drone can't do much except follow GPS waypoints. A F-35 can bomb the Shahed factory into oblivion.
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@grimmlinn Well, but they can't, because F-35 factories are behind naval ships, air defenses and actual fighters. You know what also doesn't risk a pilot? Tomahawk missiles.
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@michaeldicker4839 Cherrypicking. Also, weren't we doubting the Chinese numbers a few months ago?
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@michaeldicker4839 Still cherrypicking. What about the countries that responded "well" but got hit hard anyway? You're attributing causality to things that involve a myriad of factors. Why does New Zealand have 13 times more deaths per mil than Vietnam? Did they respond 13 times worse? Japan has 10,3 deaths per mil and they tried their hardest to downplay the situation and keep the Olympics in the table.
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@michaeldicker4839 We didn't call it a hoax, we said "oh it's just the flu bro" and "no it'll never get here you're just being racist". And then they started treating it like the black plague for some reason.
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@michaeldicker4839 You didn't understand what I said. I never called you a racist. Read, read and read again.
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Cheerleaders usually get paid. It's a great gig, you do what you already believe in and no nothing except being a hype man.
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Funny, that's my response to gun grabbers too.
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But the decisions made by Ukrainian forces came from the top minds who were educated in Soviet tactics when they were young, and later in life were invited to American military academies to improve their knowledge base. The IT guys had to come up with release mechanisms for the bombs and sisable firmware that could allow the drones to be tracked, but they weren't making decisions.
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Totally believable, rebuilding factories in a warzone makes perfect sense when the enemy could just hit them and force constant rebuilding.
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Hell yeah dude.
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Tanks have no room inside, and BMPs are known to be death traps. At least if the driver runs over a landmine, you get flung into a ditch. Most civilian vehicles are not that great in off roading.
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@angrybirder9983 Are you kidding? The A-10 brrt meme is several years older than the money printer.
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Vectored thrust is meaningless in a missile fight. Pointing the vector away from the centerline costs energy, and losing energy means becoming missile bait.
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They didn't set out to do it, but took victory photos in front of the charred bodies anyway.
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They were supposed to be defensive missiles. Instead the US just put ships in place to launch the defensive missiles.
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Remember the NFAC? Toting guns isn't exclusive.
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 @poorman2457 The Taliban suspended drug production to hike up the prices.
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They speak Russian because they have Belarusian fighters with them. Russia mobilized the Russian speaking Ukrainians in captured territory, those got beyond decimated.
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@cstgraphpads2091 look up the no bid contracts for Halliburton.
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60k KIA, 90k irrecoverable losses. This includes injuries that prevent future service.
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The Kosovo issue was debated for years in the UN while Abkhazia and South Ossetia were like "lol we got Russian backing let's tear this place up".
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That's false. The satellite imagery experts labeled the wind farm. They made a distinction between the wind farm and the silos. Then leftist accounts of twitter picked it up and accused the experts of not noticing the wind farm label. Even though it was them who saw the wind farm first and labeled it to avoid confusion.
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They had tanks, artillery and a few Su-25s. The Russian army also accused Wagner of requesting so many shells the rest of the Russian army was suffering because of it.
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Iran signed a deal to comply to get assistance. Israel didn't.
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"what's the harm" oh so when I was a kid I was lectured about landfills and now they're cool
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+wwg_Marcus "if goals and accomplishments is "fakedeep pseduointellectualism" to you" - LEL you actually just said your shitty posts are goals and accomplishments? WEW LAD "type another 20 pages" - yeah, criticize me for giving you a fair chance at a debate. Don't write so much, I won't have to write long replies. ""what you do matters, not what recycled crap you parrot online"" - thanks, 1990's after school special. You are truly the first person to say such an enlightening thing. My point was how fucking insufferable it was to read you overthink a meme to try and twist it against its users.
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+wwg_Marcus I called your posts fakedeep. You replyed by saying: "if goals and accomplishments is "fakedeep pseduointellectualism" to you" - therefore calling your useless posting in here goals and accomplishments. It is you who is unable to follow and understand the logical thread of the conversation. "you still are obsessed over memes and youtube posts" - you're the ones upset about it. You looked like you had misunderstood the meme so I explained it to you. Then you started talking a bunch of shit as if the people who keep up with political drama in the entertainment world have nothing going on in their lives. "Only a NPC would think a meme...matters." - what kind of fucking bullshit is that? It is you who's trying to make a mountain out of a molehill while people are just having fun. And besides, memes have been a constant through humanity. It's the concept of a gene but applied to ideas. Self-replicating, mutating and evolving. In the grand scheme of things one can easily say memes don't matter but at the same time it is a legitimate form of communication that millions of people around the world can understand and add to their "vocabulary". Memes can change public perception and create biases. You can legitimately like Hummer trucks but feel self-conscious about buying one because of the meme that you're overcompensating for something. "You want to spend 20 pages debating memes" - you're the one debating them, I just offered an explanation. Next time I'll ignore the asshat trying to be sly about his intentions. "engage on actual sustance" - "do you not know how pathetic that is?" - brother, nothing of what you're saying has any substance nor is it useful. That's pathetic. "he thinks that online you tube posts are an accomplishment" - no, I specifically denied that. I know you're not a goddamn moron. You're worse, a fucking liar. I can forgive a person being stupid. But it's 100% your own doing to purposefully take things out of context and then use it as an insult. I called your posts fake deep, you said they weren't, they were goals and accomplishments. You fucking misspoke, understandable. But backpedaling and accusing me of being the one who said the things you said? Fuck off.
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+wwg_Marcus you're being childish. Write less, I reply less.
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Watch the whole thing. Honey is basically using mafia tactics. They walk up to businesses and say "hey, nice business you have here, it would be a shame if we offered everyone discount codes" and companies agree to cooperate with Honey to hide the codes. By using Honey you actually miss out on the best deals because they take the comission in exchange for not showing you the discount code.
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@Iceaxe0410 The problem is that they're pressuring everyone to take it. They don't want a control group. If there's long term effects, you won't have a baseline among the population to compare to.
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@Micks63 Okay, is the Tornado S winning the war? Like 12 HIMARS vehicles and a handful of M270/MARS punched the Russian army's teeth off. Meanwhile what is the Tornado S doing? Nothing. Probably just bombing orphanages and kindergartens.
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@thathandsomedevil0828 Very few. Routing the enemy is when you suffer the least casualties, while enjoying a turkey shoot. Mariupol will be liberated, but tragically it will be symbolic. The Russians ravaged it. Yeah, they were under siege. And resisted until they couldn't, saving their country.
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@thathandsomedevil0828 They released them. Putin released Azov to save his personal friend.
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@thathandsomedevil0828 Of course it makes sense. The proof is everywhere. The Azov guys were released in exchange for Medvedchuck and something like 50 Russian soldiers. Ukrainians got back about a hundred something Azov fighters out of the 200 captured in Azovstal. Denis Propenko or whatever his name is, is free again and in Turkey. The British guy... Aidan or Aslan? Also free.
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In Russian it's called "Shturma Brigada", the Russians use the same terminology. You think it's a scary name because it was translated to English, but in Russian and Ukrainian that's how they're called.
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Weren't those jets the ones disassembled and shipped as "parts"?
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 @robertbeisert3315 He lost his professional army in 2022 and is using conscripts. The militias don't exist anyone, the LPR and DPR are now staffed by Russian mobilized men.
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 @matthewrowe9903 9 Russian tanks were lost the same day
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 @Alex_Fahey The Soviet Union invaded Finland precisely because they were afraid Germany would create an additional front there.
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They clearly stopped it.
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@j.langer5949 By those babies being too expensive for authoritarian regimes to employ. How are we going to stop the T-14 Armata and Su-57 Felon??? Turns out that parade floats for corrupt dictators don't do well in shooting wars.
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Because they have to. Even if you shot someone in the street in plain view they'd say you are the "alleged shooter".
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@MrAmystic "burden of having a society" - wrong place to discuss that, "we live in a society" isn't considered an argument here "but when they do they should contribute a fair share to help make America better" - most taxes are paid by the wealthy already "taxes should go to help fund welfare project that would help all Americans: free health-care, free education, etc." - if you actually research you'll see that the more the American government spends on those things the more expensive and lower quality those services get. Using public money to write blank checks has ensured that healthcare and education costs rise exponentially while goods provided by the free market drop in price. "Instead of giving the richest of the richest tax breaks..." - because the purpose of a tax break is to increase tax revenue. If you tax more, the rich close down their business, take their money to tax havens, etc. and tax revenue plummets. If you tax less, there's a break even point where the low taxes promote the investment in supply and bring enough jobs to increase demand which improves the economy.
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Consider the following: you're allowed to change your shooting style depending on what you're trying to do. When you're trying to shoot for speed at targets 20 yards away with a rifle you don't need to apply all of the fundamentals at the same time for the sake of faster recoil recovery.
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Geneva Conventions don't apply to cops enforcing domestic law. That's why they can use chemical attacks (CS/tear gas). Or for that matter, same as the Hague conventions which banned expanding ammunition. In warfare they're considered inhumane, in domestic use they're considered a way to protect bystanders by slowing down the bullet before it exits the body.
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@jayc5373 the taxpayer
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@jayc5373 but you already paid for it, why does it matter if it's at the point of service?
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@jayc5373 it is on every context. How is it wrong?
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@jayc5373 "because the discussion was in the context of point of service" - that's like saying when you open your laptop to watch Netflix I can't talk about the subscription you pay because you're talking about the point of service. At no point of this thread was the point of service specified. You go to the doctor, who pays - you already did.
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@jayc5373 “your comment was absolutely useless to the discussion because we were discussing the logistics and who pays for it at point of service, I.e not the taxpayer.“ - yes, it is the taxpayer money “in a single payer system the private health service companies bill the government rather then an insurance company, I.e. who pays at point of service. So in THIS discussion the obvious fact that the taxpayer pays for it is irrelevant.“ - but the government's money is the taxpayer's money. Unless you have an amazing government that actually turns a profit, rather than running at a loss and forcing people to pay for it.
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@gordonbennet3753 I mean Russians bragged about MH17, Kramatorsk and the dam and then deleted the posts once they realized that they had messed up. Seems like a pattern. If we have receipts of someone bragging about crimes and then deleting the posts when the community gets angry that's beyond suspicious.
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@sapienssapiens35 because if things are so bad in your country you have to leave, it makes no sense to leave women and children behind. The travel may be dangerous but if you need assylum then clearly the travel is less dangerous than staying. Also it deprives the country of men to fight back. It surrenders the country to whatever evils they're fleeing from.
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@sapienssapiens35 "each individual case is different" - okay but if it's bad enough for a male to have to leave, I'm sure that even when judging per in individual cases the average woman is better off making the trip than staying. "The moral argument that 'they should stay and fight' is just more racist cretinous condescension" - how is it racist? Mind that I am not saying people should be stuck in their birthplace. I am saying that if my country was really bad I wouldn't leave my mother and grandmother behind while I enjoy freedom. But logically, if people more able to fight are trying to leave, you're essentially surrendering the country to the bad people who drove you out. With the women there. If anything, it's sexist of me to say that women will have a harder time fighting corruption and crime. But not racist. "Good luck fighting CIA sponsored ruthless deathsquads or criminals armed with grenades and machine guns as a fucking baker or a car mechanic." - hmmmmm didn't it take like 10 years for the entire US Army, Air Force and Marine Corps to subjugate farmers and goat herders in the Middle East? How is a baker or a car mechanic less able to fight? I'm sure they have farmers over there too, if that's the issue. Plus, didn't the Mexican Autodefensas essentially prove that it was possible for the people to rise up and fight, but the movement dwindled down as some groups ended up becoming cartels and the legit dudes trying to fight were declawed by the Mexican government who got pissy at them having "military-style rifles"? But I digress. If given guns and ammo and allowed to take friends how many criminals would we have to kill until you'd concede that point? Give me a number.
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Yeah interesting war crimes. Russian troops will face trial, eventually.
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That's because the UK is beyond c^cked. Pretty sure 7-8 years ago some British actress was in her kitchen preparing dinner, saw a peeping tom in her garden looking through the window, and pointed the kitchen knife at him while she got the phone. When the police arrived and she reported the situation the cops cut her off and warned her that she shouldn't have pointed the knife. The fact that your nation is deathly afraid of cutting utensils doesn't say anything about morals.
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Science has been wrong before. What you're asking for is giving "science" (read: interest groups) political supremacy. Want something? Just finance research that says what you want is supported by science. Then do it without care for the people's will.
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@tomp.8101 That was also the argument in the US. Then it wasn't. That was also the argument in the UK. Then it wasn't. Are you sure this time it's true and remains true?
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@liamwilson7549 "you’re facing the ledge" - You face a much greater ledge starting the engine on your car.
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You have no business complaining about the Kochs when you also have billionaires backing your doom and gloom propaganda.
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@mmavcanuck Almost everything we make "can" be recycled. The problem is making sure that recycling facilities will even touch a battery built today by the time it needs to retire. I remember when having two slots for graphics cards was the rage in the computer world, because you could just buy another as a cheap upgrade. Turned out that doing it didn't make any sense, you either bought two cards at once to flex or you just upgraded to a new gen card. Every freaking time these things happen.
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Fired into the sun. Someone get Elon and ask for a rocket.
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I don't know, I can't find much information, today my Google-fu is weak. Basically there's people who have claimed to have been taught about wiretapping by Morgan, while he stressed that he didn't know about anything. Then later, he claims that he knew that most papers had journalists doing wiretaps. My understanding is they want to bring him for questioning, not arrest. He doesn't want to go back because he knows he can get in trouble, this way he avoids being in court.
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lmao
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The war was done in a month, with relatively few civilian casualties considering that Saddam's personal army was wearing civilian clothes.
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 @itsez1129 but analyze the footage and it's a bird...
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 @jonaslowery837 "DEBOOONKED" lmao by whom?
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 @jonaslowery837 Do you have proof of this radar contact? No.
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@itsez1129 That's not what the official sources say.
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Enslave Russia.
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"longer barrel for the same size compensating for the mushy trigger" - How so? Higher velocity gets you flatter trajectory but a worse trigger negatively impacts where the bore is pointed at the time of firing.
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@ausmax1972 I don't know how range and target practice factors into this criticism because bad marksmanship is bad marksmanship no matter where it is happening. A consistently poor trigger pull is going to cause consistent deviation, but it's still going to deviate point of impact away from point of aim. The definition of effective fire in military doctrine sometimes changes. Sweden's way of dealing with 5.56 in Afghanistan was to train their combat troops with modified targets that only scored hits on the head and the centerline of the torso so that in real life they'd land more hits near the heart and spine by having to qualify on these more difficult targets. I don't know for how long they did this but they actually presented their development to the rest of NATO. So while the assumption is that you only need to hit close enough to keep people's heads down while you move or call in mortars, sometimes regular forces find themselves in situations where they actually need to know how to effectively drop people.
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Cars that sat for decades should get the fluids drained.
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>government shuts down economy >"free" market is inefficient
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@gfarrell80 Yeah but I didn't see you speak up then, so I only have the context of this interaction. In this particular case you're wrong, don't fault me for not being aware of every critique you've made in the past.
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The Apache faced top of the line Soviet defenses in 1991.
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Because Congress simply refuses to authorize retirement. Meanwhile most of the world has consolidated their forces around multiroles, and multiroles have proven themselves many times over.
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@Stein871 They have been hit with HIMARS fragments from both successful strikes and intercepted missiles. Anyone can keep fragments on a backpack and splay them out in a park bench. Notice how the inside of the building was not riddled with holes made by fragments.
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@RevolutionaryLoser that has to be grade A bullshit. So because a state penalizes someone that means the state was 100% right?
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@RevolutionaryLoser kinda, considering how the state's conviction of Dankula is a central part of your argument.
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So if I legally change my name to John Smith and kill 70 people in a mass shooting, making me the world's most deadly mass shooter, this extremely common name should be outlawed?
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Coal plants pump out more radiation than nuclear plants.
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@fpvllama3068 preferable to living next to a coal plant. Have you ever heard about how smoking actually makes you inhale radioactive isotopes that get stuck in your lungs and irradiate your cells? That's what it's like living next to a coal plant.
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@gogodaal7273 Stronger ruble = they get paid less per exports.
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Russia woild starve you just for a strip of land.
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No, Russia sent Igor Girkin and other FSB stooges to stage a fake civil war, then sent the Russian army.
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Without specifics this is meaningless. If the American ones are surplus, the military designed the minimum viable product that works. It's meant to be used by the military, not wow customers. If the Chinese ones are a commercial product, they're probably more refined although that means nothing in combat. Looking at ammo boxes and getting scared is like getting scared of the VDV because they jump through flaming hoops in demonstrations. Well, in real combat you shoot down their helicopters and shell their landing zone. The flaming hoops and ammo box fit and finnish won't win the fight.
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 @nevisstkitts8264 if you spend 30 seconds searching it on youtube you'll see F-16s doing off airfield in Taiwan.
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We already got confirmation from Russian sources that the frontlines broke and soldiers fled the advance.
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Russia is on survival mode my dude, the Russian rebels raided a town and civilians started looting and the local government started destroying documents in a burn pit. They're not wrapping anything up. They've blown through artillery barrels and are now using tanks as SPGs...
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This is cope. The Su-57 program died when India rejected it.
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@chadbernard2641 laugh all you want, just like the Armata it needs foreign investment to finish
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@chadbernard2641 They have prototypes. Big whoop. They build them slowly because of lack of money and they're prototypes, not mass produced.
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@chadbernard2641 I'm quaking in my boots. Lockheed Martin delivered the 600th F-35 last year. Let's settle that one in the air.
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@HANUMAN7454 Minsk II was broken by the DPR.
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I love those 80s and 90s movies.
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@PrimericanIdol No? They fly towards a fixed GPS coordinate. If there's an observer to direct new coordinates, then that's a job for artillery and not a 1000km flight.
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@mrnobody7882 how about you watch the Thunderf00t video on Fukushima before talking shit?
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The US military is having trouble recruiting because kids would rather work at McDonald's or Amazon. Meanwhile the Russians in the army often come from areas where there's no McDonald's, no Amazon warehouse, not even a farm to work in.
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 @MilkmanLocalist "I didn't make him cry. He made himself cry"
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@GRIGGINS1 "The rest is all under NDA" - it doesn't help that you use the same excuse as literally all the fake Navy SEAL stolen valor chuckefucks. "It's under NDA!" your MOS should be on your DD-214 which is accessible through FOIA. So you can't use the excuse of an NDA unless you're so super secret squirrel they actually purged your records.
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@GRIGGINS1 "Why is it that all civilians assume NDAs only apply to Special Forces and such" - because that's what fakers claim the most. "Mine had to do with special naval projects" - nobody asked about the projects, just your MOS. If it was combat or not combat. That was the only question asked. Yet you started mouthing off about NDAs, which is something that sets off every alarm. Anyone who knows your real identity can issue a FOIA and get your DD-214, that's how the fakers get exposed. You don't sign NDAs about which MOS you served under. So when being asked about having a combat MOS your NDAs don't matter worth a fuck. Mentioning them only makes people suspicious because only the fakers start talking about NDAs.
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@GRIGGINS1 no, YOU are just some guy on the internet trying to convince strangers how fucking super secret his time in the military was.
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You mean trying to ban handguns? Considering a Vz.58 rifle less dangerous than an AK? Allowing a 10 round ".50 Beowulf mag" for "handgun AR15s" that is in fact a 30 round 5.56 magazine but forcing rifle owners to pin their 5.56 magazine to 5 rounds? Canadian gun laws are unreasonable and idiotic. Not to mention the RCMP sometimes wakes up butthurt and starts claiming some rifles will be banned and sending letters to owners to demand their surrender.
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@Lilarkive there was one in August 10, another in July 22 this year. There was the Quebec city mosque shooting in January 2017. There's a wiki page for it, come on... Yes, it is unreasonable to consider an AK a prohibited weapon, which is difficult to own and nearly impossible to shoot because it's banned from most ranges, but allow Vz.58 on the non-restricted class. The weapons are very similar in power but the AK is simply more "known" as a "bad guy" weapon. I get it, itvs hard to explain to people who don't know anything about guns. But imagine the government banned red cars bevause they thought red cars are faster... Wouldn't that be unreasonable?
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Denazify yourself for your emperor Putin.
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"The Flaws Of Academic Statistics: The Null Ritual" by Luke Smith 5 years ago
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You don't need to print metal as long as steel tubes and bar stock is on sale on literally any supplier.
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Kickass 2 ripped off the Karate Kid 2 "girl cheats on main character" plot contrivance to nullify the first movie. Lazy as all hell.
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@shifty389 You're working on intel and you repeat the same claims as Telegram channels? Boy you must think I'm stupid.
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@nickcolwill8233 So you agree - veteran intelligence officers get their top secret info from public social media?
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The C had bombing capabilities snuck into it. The Israeli air force used F-15Cs and Ds to bomb the PLO headquarters.
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Firing 1000 rounds at a single vehicle is a waste. The redundancy systems won't do much against modern missiles, which can cut aircraft in half. The Ukrainians had Su-25s to handle the convoy - didn't use them. They knew it was suicide. The F-16 does more ground support than the A-10. The Ukrainians don't have the multiple types of weapons to make the A-10 effective. So in the end, they aren't worthwhile. A-10s aren't "cold war" in systems. They have modern cockpits like multirole aircraft.
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By the time that greening happens, you'll have refugees from Las Vegas, Tucson, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, etc knocking on your borders. Or maybe you live in a hot place and you'll be forced to abandon it to move to greener pastures. How about we don't green up Africa and stay where we are? It would save us trillions.
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Anything that reliably stops people comes out the back.
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He sent Berkut to torture and kill protesters. He then decided to throw the police under the bus so they stopped protecting him. It wasn't a coup. The government had a vote.
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There's no such thing as excess torque. You either have to sap engine power from the hot thrust to drive the fan or run the engine harder to get the torque to drive the fan. If excess torque existed, we could just hook up an extra generator to nuclear and gas power plants and just enjoy free electricity from that "extra torque".
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@tyharris9994 The one impact is the two bullets. You can't get the shotguns to fire without the impact happening first.
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Yeah they just get jobs in the boards of these companies.
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Yeah, it was Christians who gave women equality...
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They said it didn't transmit (aka we jammed its comms).
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He didn't say that, you're acting in bad faith.
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@556deltawolf It's "wasteful spending" today but if we didn't spend money Ukraine would still be fighting with former Soviet everything. We in America and Europe bought a bunch of stuff we didn't need so now we can pull it out of warehouses. If we didn't buy that stuff, then the VDV would not be an endangered species and would be headed to Lisbon right now.
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Pretty much all weapons are weapons of aggression. Do you want to arm the country with landmines and Javelins only? Tanks can be hull down in defensive positions or charging the enemy lines. Defense and attack are required, if you defend your homeland you are required to go on the attack at some point to retake lost territory.
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Did you know Russia has T-I-G-E-R-S?
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@thereccher8746 The argument that sex is necessary for mental health is extremely similar to what internet incel ideology talks about. If women start using that argument, the monkey's paw will give them something much worse.
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Totally legit. But we can't do shit about solar cycles or the natural orbital cycles of Earth. We can't pick and choose what environment we want to live in, millions of species went extinct before because of such changes. Protect the environment? Sure, I like breathing clean air. Reducing dependency of fossil fuel? Great! Pretending that we can solve global warming? We can't until we become a very advanced civilization.
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The fact that there's creeps around makes it ok.
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The issue is that the theocracy in Iran believes a prophecy in regards to Israel ceasing to exist. India and Pakistan have a territorial dispute. Not the same thing.
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Yeah because anti-capitalism will somehow keep people alive without using any oil.
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@festekj HIMARS are jammed and yet we see the 100,000 tungsten BBs ripping Russian supply trucks, anii-air and EW systems. You can't jam HIMARS. GPS weapons default to INS when jammed, which means they only lose a meter or two in accuracy. Barely any HIMARS are being announced? What's announced, aid packages or strikes? Strike footage is still coming out, and a recent aid package includes more HIMARS ammunition. They're not absent. Brian is lying to you. He's giving you an alternate reality which doesn't exist. He gets paid to shill for Russia. That's his job. That's why he's a washed up sex tourist.
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@psychohist It's not "easy" to clear minefields under any circumstance. Close air support doesn't do the trick. Artillery can stand back enough to the point air superiority is meaningless. Even air superiority doesn't guarantee close air support but that's beside the point. The Ukrainians are unable to penetrate the minefields because they are too dense and there's enough drone and artillery density to prevent a complex breach. In regards to Ka-52 helicopters, they can use the Vikhr missile because it outranges MANPADS. We don't have a lot of mobile mid-range air defense in the West so the Ka-52 happens to exploit a gap in capabilities (though the Ukrainians are adapting and have shot a couple down so far). You're attributing far too much importance to air superiority. If air defenses are in play, your air superiority doesn't give you freedom of movement.
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@festekj Bro. GPS won't work for moving targets either. I actually want to reach through the ethernet cable and get my hands around your neck Homer Simpson style because I can't believe you're wasting my time with such a nonsensical response. GPS for static targets. INS for static targets. Bam. Jamming isn't doing anything.
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@festekj The pentagon leaks showed 3-1 in Ukraine's favor. You saw a badly photoshopped document posted by Dumbass Deslutska, an American woman from New Jersey who sells exotic fish and pretends to be Russian online.
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@festekj If you call in a strike in a GPS position and keep jogging, you will be out of the target area by the time the munition arrives. Your GPS maps your whole trajectory. But the MUNITION is pre-loaded with a FIXED POINT in space and will travel to that location. It will not follow your jogging smartwatch or your phone. It goes towards a xx.xxxxx and yy.yyyyy coordinate. Jesus Christ you can't tell the difference between GPS strikes and your jogging map. There's no loitering drone or satellite uplink. Jamming doesn't prevent anything. Ukrainians find a target in a latitude and longitude and fire. The missile arrives within a couple of minutes. There's no drone. There's no satellite. It slams into whatever you called it in. That's why they strike ammo dumps (static) and parked vehicles (they're stopped and remain there at least for a while).
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The DF-17 with DF-ZF is a lot similar to the Pershing II. Pershing II reentry vehicles were used to cap Storm II test targets for Patriots in the late 90s.
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It would raise suspicion if the same company was hiring people from both sides. Rubin noticed the profile of one of the people involved mentioned "social justice" and he asked if it was the leftist kind. Set up a company to hire right wingers, set up another to hire shills on the left. Don't cross contaminate.
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Cope.
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@Mr.N0B0DY.3D 1. It's propaganda because it's acted and scripted and you can tell. 2. We don't know much about life there, but the fact that we don't know only helps my case. If life in NK is so walled off, why are people freely posting content for outsiders? Think a little. You yourself are saying that we don't know shit. So we now suddenly know shit? 2 + 2 dawg. It's 4. It's government approved. 3. It's not about people living okay but the propaganda itself. It's the second time you try to derail the argument like this. 4. The Soviet Union also had airports and power stations. They were also not free countries and they used propaganda to pretend they were better off than they were. 5. The difference is that you're allowed to make videos in South Africa. If South Africa heavily restricted outbound content and then suddenly you started posting videos, I'd assume you had government permission to release them. 6. We have not forced isolation, sanctions don't work like that. First you say North Korea has airports and power stations, now you claim they're cut off. They have the technology to post on tiktok. But not the freedom to do it. They're cut off because they want to control the dissemination of information. Both inbound and outbound. I don't need to trust any "developed nation" propaganda. I only need to look at NK - they had the absolute freedom to decide to come clean about everything, ask for help and sanctions relief, etc. What do they do? Build nukes and restrict information out of the country.
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@Mr.N0B0DY.3D No, the world didn't force them. The dictatorship did. They could become democratic any day and ask for help. Many countries would help them. But the fat boy and his generals make too much dough from being leaders of a broken country. Even China has told NK to stop acting to wild.
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It was Russian Major-General Valeriy Vasilyev who threatened to blow it up. They're the ones holing up in a nuclear power plant and using it as a bargaining chip.
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Wrong. There was no deal. And Bucha cancelled the talks.
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@itsokaytobeclownpilled5937 "from the top of my head" gee thanks for not including any real data on that argument
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@larafields3106 It was attacked by aircraft carrying air to ground weapons, not anti-shipping missiles or air-dropped torpedos. It was clearly an interdiction mission that was diverted when an unknown ship was sighted after a change of shift lead to the USS Liberty identification being lost in the battle management map.
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6.5 Grendel doesn't cut it.
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@Tman1776 Right - but "airborne" can also do air assault, like the insertion via helicopter at the start of the war. Sure, a few were downed by MANPADS but their fate was sealed by lack of reinforcements and supply lines.
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@theprogressivecynic2407 The Harop is an actual seeker-equipped munition. The Shahed is just following GPS coordinates. That's why they used it to hit power switches and transformers. Static targets that can be found on google earth.
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@Jo-Theory Because rice was 53% of the water consumption?
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Iran agreed to inspections and then started violating the agreements.
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Russian logistics were crippled by the Ukrainian seizure of the Kupiansk rail hub.
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Because people make videos about it. It's literally explained at the start.
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It wasn't even profit, people were afraid of the mob and deplatforming after Keffals got the DDoS protection services to drop Kiwifarms.
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After it ran out if missiles, the enemy ran out of air force.
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The span that was dropped was repaired in early 2023. The rail bridge was not worked on yet, or at least I haven't seen it yet.
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@JayMcKinsey How is he wrong? He clearly mentioned the rail bridge, not the road bridge.
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@JayMcKinsey I must have missed that part, only heard him talk about the rail.
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"you have a responsibility to protect others" - This is only valid if you are sick and know about it. "in his view wearing a mask and vaccinations does that" - His view is not just based on junk pop science which makes it wrong no matter the good intentions, even if he were right we can't restrict freedoms forever and force vaccinations against thousands of pathogens simply because of "others". Disease will continue existing even after humans go extinct.
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@pavecaesar5997 No, we are people with opinions, convictions and beliefs. The Russian side has paid trolls copy pasting the same things.
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@jakes658 Rent free.
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@jakes658 I didn't. I'm just pointing out that you people can't read a comment without mentioning Trump.
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The other issue is leaving behind UXO which kill and maim civilians years later. We focus on the "politically correct" submunitions that self-detonate or run out of battery, rather than dumb bomblets.
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But it requires the user to go into settings and allow unknown apps. They don't want to do this because scammers will share fake links and teach people to disable the phone safety features and install scam apps that steal the bank details. In an app store it's safer.
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In peacetime the F-35 wears radar reflectors to avoid collision. Think about it. What if German ATC sent a civilian airliner headed towards an "invisible" aircraft. Certainly that would be dangerous. When riding a bike at night you're recommended to wear white and red LED lights plus reflective clothing so that car headlights make you glow.
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@user-EmontE70 It's passive radar. It's really nothing new and the emitters would be the first thin targeted by Tomahawks to let F-35s through.
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Show me in the rulebook of capitalism where it says the end goal is to use ethnic minorities as slave labor.
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You're always spreading literal virsuses. They've existed for longer than humans have. Are you saying freedoms need to end because of viruses?
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The yokels committed the crime of an illegal citizen's arrest. Sorry bud, but they chose to be criminals and justify a victim's self-defense rights against them. They deserved to fear for their life.
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First, this dude is satirizing the kind of people who do this. Second, even if it were genuine it would be a goddamn spectacle. The poem is seen as purely self-serving.
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+offchance you do realize magazines are just boxes with springs, right? You can weld them together. There's 3d printing files. There's millions of magazines out there. You conveniently forgot that "well regulated" comes from the world "regular" and meant "in working order" rather than the modern meaning of regulation. You also forgot the shall not be infringed. You're suggesting a ton of infringements and calling people cucks - not at argument.
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@Volkstribun "Napoleon which has murdered his own family is seen a good guy" bitch where? Where in the world is Napoleon seen as a good guy?
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@Volkstribun statues of bad people exist all over the world. It's just Germany that is fucking retarded when it comes to its own past.
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@Volkstribun and Germany has had every chance to change it but they keep doubling down. Hollywood also made that fucking Minions thing in which they implied the minions work for the most evil person in the world and they followed Napoleon. So....
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A small number of Polish upgraded T-72s made Kharkiv and Kherson possible. The issue in Ukraine is they have a ton of resources spread very thin due to how big the frontline is. Not that much pressure is required to punch through when focusing it on a single point.
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And a month ago there was a short video of Wagner mercenaries with SS runes on their ballistic helmets.
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Shell Shock NAS3 was a "complicated" casing and they sold the cases cheaper than brass, at least when they came out.
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You don't understand strategic defeat by looking at maps. Strategic defeat means you can "win" the war militarily, but you lose everything you achieved. Like the US winning the Vietnam war by getting the North to sign a peace treaty, then losing strategically when the North broke the peace accords and took over South Vietnam.
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@jackyao9061 The US had to contain North Vietnam. They got North Vietnam to agree to stop. They signed the peace deal. So the US won. But then the North invaded and Saigon fell. Militarily, the US beat the North. The VC were decimated during Tet. But they lost the strategic objective. You're the one who's blind. The US was fighting with one hand tied behind their back and still beat the North into a bloody pulp. And like Russia, at one point the enemy refusing to stay down is enough to let it go and just accept strategic defeat. Russia can beat Ukraine into a bloody pulp. But Russia will leave. And once they turn their back, are they going to do anything when Ukraine gets up again?
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@The_Custos The US won. Vietnam signed the peace treaty. In Afghanistan the US also defeated the Taliban militarily. In both cases military victory did mot secure strategic victory because the enemy simply took over once the US left. That's STRATEGIC DEFEAT. The US was defeated STRATEGICALLY as they couldn't be defeated militarily. So both North Vietnam and the Taliban went back on the deals made knowing the US would not come back. You people are insane. The same thing is happening to Russia, but you believe Russia is immune to the same situation. Delusional. Russia will leave after winning. And then they will be STRATEGICALLY DEFEATED as just like the US their military wins did not secure their strategic goals. Please think. Please inform youself. Please read. Then think again. You're here denying that the North Vietnam agreed to peace in the Paris accords. Learn some history.
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@The_Custos Exactly, thanks for admitting you have nothing to say. No need to waste my time pinging me, there's better ways to get attention.
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@The_Custos Leaving a fight that isn't yours isn't a military loss. The US had troops stationed in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and they left because it wasn't their conflict anymore. The UK was also defeated in the Revolutionary War, they're still around. Germany lost two world wars, they're still around. Did you just claim that to be defeated, an organization or country has to cease to exist?
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@The_Custos Yes. Very simple. When you leave a bar because a fight breaks out inside, it doesn't mean you got beat. What would I have to accept? You're punching air. You're trying to fight a ghost, possibly the Ghost of Kiev, by bringing up unrelated things I'm not arguing for. Stop imagining enemies that don't exist in your head. They can't take it right now. They cannot keep it. The size of the occupying army is simply insufficient for the purpose.
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@The_Custos If my friend gets into trouble, refuses to learn how to handle his affairs, and had me fight his battles for years... at some point I have to realize this is a bad friend. Why am I bleeding in fights that end up not benefitting either of us? I know it's fiction. Thanks for explaining to me how I'm mocking you. Because the joke wouldn't make sense if it was real. The US also "turned" most of Afghanistan. The Taliban quickly "turned" those areas back as soon as the US turned their backs. Russia will turn their backs.
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@The_Custos You can bleed and still win. Ever seen a boxing match or a UFC fight? Stop acting insane. There's no backstabbing, first of all the Afghan government backstabbed the US for refusing to stand on its own footing. They stole all the money instead of building up their country. This is not a friend. This is someone who uses and manipulates others. Yes, all is fair in war. The US left Vietnam and Afghanistan because they were not longer at war. The complacency wasn't coming from the Americans. Yes, Russia isn't the US. It's losing a lot more equipment and men compared to the US. How are they going to have staying power when they're wrecking their military and economy for minimal gains and actively unifying Ukrainians against Russia? The US lost strategically. Russia will lose strategically. They may actually lose militarily. I'll save my good day wishes for the Russian fathers and mothers losing their sons.
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@The_Custos The Soviets won WWII because Germany was occupied and the nation rebuilt by the occupying nations. The bear can't take a long beating anymore. They're not pumping out kids like they were back then. Their economy can't make up for the lost materiel. You've been told already. There is military defeat and strategic defeat. You bring up American strategic defeats while denying the military victory, and then refuse to concede that Russia can suffer a strategic defeat despite YOU explaining how easy it is to suffer one. The Taliban did not strike when the US was weak. They started winning the country back when Americans had left. The last soldiers were not "driven out". They were simply covering for the people leaving, and left when there was nobody else they could bring.
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@The_Custos How is the US weak? Staying power? What does that mean? After 20 years of a useless and unpopular war, deals were made to end it. You wanted the US to stay there for more 20 years? My soldiers? What do you mean? They were not repelling attacks, they were not participants in the fight. So Russia is throwing a tantrum and destroying things because they can't win. Children. Thanks for admitting how infantile the Russian leadership is. Pressure on the Ukrainian forces? The pressure on the Russian forces has essentially gutted them for the next decade. Settlements they've taken, can they hold them?
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@The_Custos The US was fighting a professional army, the NVA, which was being supplied by the Soviets with high tech equipment. The "rice farmers" were massacred by the ARVN during the Tet Offensive, the VC were almost wiped out and had to be replaced by NVA regulars. South Vietnam killed so many VC in 1968 that they stopped being able to recruit in the villages.
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@The_Custos I can't believe I'm giving history lessons for free. The guerrillas - Mujaheddin - that fought the Soviets were later caught up in a civil war, and the Taliban was the organization that ended up putting the hammer down and fighting those guerrillas. They came from regions in Pakistan. They didn't have bio-weapons labs, they had bio-labs. Which exist all over the world. Amazing how Russia made these claims about bioweapons and then presented absolutely no evidence of weapons. It's the Iraq WMDs all over again.
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No. Gen Zaluzhniy said they needed 300 to knock out Russia. Stopping an offensive can be done without tanks, because the enemy exposes himself in no man's land. When you go in the offensive, you need heavy armor to punch the line and limit exposure.
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The S-500 is an anti-ballistic system, not an upgraded S-400.
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@zerge69 One already got shredded by HIMARS. If a 70-80km range rocket can take out the command vehicle, I'm not impressed.
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@goncaloferreira8543 it's literal fake news. The Russian opposition was wearing MultiCam uniforms with yellow tape and the bodies posted by Russia were wearing MM14 camo, winter uniform, with no tape.
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 @goncaloferreira8543 They stole Russian armored vehicles. Humvees are just Army jeeps. BTRs are useful. A few Humvees and a MaxxPro for a BTR is a worthy trade.
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@goncaloferreira8543 LMAO you pulled the dozens of KIA out of nowhere. They crossed the border and gave interviews to media while Russia was bragging about killing them. Even Russia messed up by showing photos of them "dead" inside Russia, then claiming that they killed them across the border (no way to recover the bodies for pictures). Considering that any losses they'd suffer are Russian anyway, it's all worth it.
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@toshoshi1551 How is he ignoring anything? Clinton's "balanced budget" was a disaster precisely because trying to limit debt for its own sake will lead to the private sector (you) suffering losses.
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It's a Coharie Arms CA-415, which is a HK416 clone.
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@HarryPhillipsMusic Russia got there. They were allowed to present evidence at the UN. They had nothing. Samples of natural diseases are still dangerous if you start lobbing missiles at coties. They're not weapons, but you'd still want a perimeter around the area to prevent battles or at least request Russian forces to send in their equivalent of CBRN teams to recover the samples safely.
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 @elizabethfrost4901 So hospitals are weapons development facilities because they need to collect strep samples from kids when they get sick?
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@IliyaOsnovikov Hello! Nuland actually wanted the Ukrainian opposition to take the deal and let Yanukovych stay as president!
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@yodaisgod2 How are Marines going to shoot it off their amphibious assault ships? They use AV8Bs and now F-35Bs for that. And USMC F/A-18s fly off Navy carriers. The A-10 can't follow Marines along.
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@yodaisgod2 Average A-10 fanboy intelligence
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+Dexxter if by "international cooperation" you mean meddling in international affairs, funding the dictators we like while forcing NATO to go to war with the dictators we don't like, serving our Saudi oil overlords, etc I actually think there should be less of that.
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Immanuel Kant Stop Won't Stop how does that relate to my comment?
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@tombreckinridge6218 No, it's not common sense. John McAfee famously said he wouldn't K himself and then did. He was imprisoned in Spain and about to be extradited to the US. He knew he was old and would never be free again if he was imprisoned in the US, so he decided to check out. He created a crypto called $WHACKED and said if something happened to him there would be a deadman switch to release information but nothing came of it. $WHACKED was a gift to his followers, wait for him to die and then sell due to interest, then let it crash.
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This has been going on for 5 years.
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 @YuriDSC Nice talking points. Everyone has a friend in Ukraine saying the same thing. Do you guys all know the same guy?
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Nobody asked Hungary to send troops to Ukraine. Hungary was also playing hardball with Sweden and Finland joining NATO.
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They all are, they just affect different demographics differently.
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The Cuomos are perfect examples of low status people. And university professors are even better. In a natural order, they'd be bullied and kept on the bottom. So they create an artificial order where they can bully people. Meanwhile in the real world Cuomo cries about being called Fredo. A high status man would just ignore it, the low status man needs to constantly prove himself.
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You are lying to yourself if you think this is normal. I've seen all sorts of debacles in Western militaries but nothing as appaling as this. They even lack socks.
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There's only 11 Su-57s in existence and over 500 F-35s produced. Even if they're 1:1 equivalent there's enough F-35s to destroy the existing Su-57s and still retain 489.
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Same as the Kherson offensive being fake too, right?
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Then why was a Russian officer sacked for claiming that their artillery was insufficient and under threat of counter battery?
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Even leafy greens will make you fat, you just won't be able to eat enough of them in one sitting. The point is that fat turning into fat is false. All extra callories make you fat, and carbs are easy to indulge on. Fats are harder to stomach, pun intended. Try to eat a large Waygu steak alone and the amount of fat will make you feel ill when your body tries to digest it. Meanwhile a large pizza washed down with coke? I can do that easy and not feel a thing, but the calories are insane.
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Kaiza in Australia they already make submachine guns out of metal... This changes nothing.
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 @qwertyqart Wrong. Putin said this goes back to the year 882.
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And yet, they need the VDV to help them. Their success is built off the backs of the Russian armed forces.
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HARMs can be fired in a ballistic trajectory to increase range. If the missiles are set to pre-briefed mode, you don't need to fly over enemy MANPADS.
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@paulsansonetti7410 "His price is way cheaper than what LNG will cost" - You forgot to add the cost in human lives. The gas is cheap, but it's paid for in blood. "their own country's continued existence should be a more primary concern for them" - Hm. Okay, Germany's existence... Russia... Remember when Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union? It's Germany's interest to not be subjugated by Russians again. Financing the Red Army is a threat to their existence.
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South Korea doesn't use Russian camo.
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@MA_KA_PA_TIE if Europe is so exposed then maybe they shouldn't be sending troops to fight other wars. I understand the concept, I'm just pointing out the logical flaw in it.
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The DetDisp designs are meant to be printed on PLA.
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Why is it fantasy?
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The 6.8 SPC is more powerful in terms of energy but it has worse recoil, worse trajectory and worse time to target which makes it suited for close range engagement but not really as a general purpose combat caliber. SOCOM stopped the 6.8 SPC field trials because of Afghanistan.
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@edgardevice Are you familiar with "the pause"? 15 years where the trend line remained horizontal.
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@edgardevice Both things can be true. Change happens though history. But in 15 years? That's small scale stuff and you insist this happens at a small scale. I like how you didn't address the argument and had to resort to some attempt at a nonsensical gotcha. I'll give you a hint. You have to demonstrate the pause didn't exist. That's how it works.
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It's Zelensky with a Z. Stop being a snowflake afraid of a letter.
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@marleyex2695 raping and stealing? Are we talking about the Arab slave trade in Africa, Mongol conquests, or something?
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Nuclear winter isn't real, especially in the Sahara. Sand would turn to glass. Nuclear winter was developed from the massive city fires in Japan, caused by wooden construction and stacks of coal used for domestic purposes. When Iraq set the Kuwait oil fires ablaze to cover their retreat, cooling effects were no observed except for the areas physically shaded by smoke.
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 @BaconSlayer69 But it passed trials. That's the point.
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Ukraine hasn't done such thing. A man with delusions of grandeur created Mozart PMC to offer training and medical evacuation as a paid service. He is considered a scammer and an attention seeker, because last I heard the Ukrainians stopped paying him.
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The flu kills more people because we're completely careless and don't even try to contain it. We're trying to contain this one. And yet it's inching forward.
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@Potatoshaneko But Russia built defenses pretty much across the entire front. You know, Germany also built the Atlantic Wall because they knew that an Allied landing was coming. They didn't need a warning for that. And neither did the Russians.
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Eric Andre labelled "California DNC", pulls out pistol labelled "decades of inefficient policies" and shoots Hannibal Buress labelled "LA". Eric Andre: "Why would capitalism do this?"
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Two collapses in the 20th century... that's endurance? Also WWI set the stage for the 1917 revolutions and the Soviet Afghan war combined with Chernobyl set the stage for the USSR breakup. You're talking about external invasions to deflect away from internal issues.
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The USA isn't trying to revive that past. Russia lays claim over their former empire/union.
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If I were in that line of work and saw my colleagues practicing dance routines I'd crash out.
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Yes. Which is why they have retreated from Kiev and Kherson. Russia needs to scale back the war to retain combat power.
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@rhodium1096 They took Hostomel, which was shelled and rendered useless until the withdrawal. This goes both ways. Russia has been unable to move the front by more than a few KMs since 2014. Sounds like an army with shortages to me.
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@rhodium1096 And those territories will change hands like Kharkiv. I look forward to your meltdown. Russia has a million man army and with their own military industrial complex yet they're unable to move the front more than 6km beyond Donetsk.
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@rhodium1096 And Ukraine couldn't take Kharkiv! Then they took it. And Ukraine couldn't take Kherson, Russia forever! Then they took it. They will take something. And I will enjoy your anguish.
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@rhodium1096 Kherson oblast, which is not Kherson city. The city was Russia forever. Now it's Ukrainian again.
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Great comment on combat psychology.
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The Block 15s went through MLU. The Block 15 MLUs are roughly equivalent to Block 50/52. It's impressive how little you know-it-alls seem to know about aircraft.
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The US government not only pays more than others on healthcare it also has to pay for other countries' defenses.
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Actually, only by 26%.
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Okay boomer.
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@WinterCharmVT getting stuff recoated is a gamble if that coating isn't ubiquitous. Try to get a "special sauce" coating redone 10 years after being used once and discontinued and no small shop does it because they don't want to deal with the environmental regulations associated with the chemicals used. It's happening to chrome right now. Even in firearms more and more manufacturers are opting for nitrided barrels because chroming is more regulated then it used to be.
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Banned open carry in CA as governor, and said that people don't need weapons of war.
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 @TheGesox MANPADS are very short range.
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Ukraine hit a Shahed manufacturing plant with an Aeroprakt light prop plane crammed with explosives. Basically a Cessna.
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People are willing to hold US debt because the US has the economy to pay. Russia doesn't.
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Because we promised Ukraine security in exchange for nukes. Want to back off the deal? Give Ukraine nukes. Then watch Moscow glow.
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If you talk about peace, it's because you love Putin's war. You want to steal TVs and claim the police are violent for trying to stop you.
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Canadians and the Swiss have different laws in place. They probably don't even prescribe the same drugs as in the US. Drugs that cost me 50€ probably cost $500 in the US because of their different laws. >Where are your solutions instead of just your complaints? If you helped me and other gun owners, we'd have a voice. But you insist on drowning us, while letting the big fat cats who are probably sitting on cures for AIDS since the treatments are more profitable.
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@uioplkhj "From" or "with"?
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Whataboutism. Also the Patriot incident forced issues to be fixed. Russia keeps having the same problems.
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The frame? That's already the registered part in the US.
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@charelpeffer52 yeah on rifles it's the receiver, in pistols it's the frame. So you can for example 3d print a frame, and buy the barrel/slide/trigger components online and have an pistol off the books.
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Socialism is when the workers own the means of production and profit is abolished. Public services are not socialism.
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Why were those bombs dropped? Almost like you forgot every wrongdoing.
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He was a meme before that. That's why you heard of Maduro eating there. Nobody would have reported on it otherwise.
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>no safe spaces >move on Isn't moving on a safe space, then?
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The invasion killed 8k people. The rest were killed by sectarian violence and "insurgents" (terrorists).
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@JohnRodriguesPhotographer Read the report. Energy management was precisely the issue. Just read it. The pilot specifically said that changing the software would waste less energy.
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>Do you realize how many governments do have gun laws? That's an Ad Populum and an Argument From Authority. Just because lots of people do it doesn't mean it's right. A lot of governments also carried out genocides. If everyone jumps off a cliff doesn't mean you should. Also, many other governments don't allow you to have free speech, due process, right to trial. A lot of governments placed CCTV everywhere and consider everyone to be guilty until proven innocent.
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@fearoffema Quality has a quantity of its own.
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Taiwan will just make the call that if they're about to lose, they'll just make the Chinese victory Pyrric beyond belief. Forget the US, before America could realize what was about to happen Taiwan would fire all cylinders and make as many Chinese parents lose their only sons as possible. The economic consequences of the one child policy when tens of thousands of males die would unironically topple the CCP.
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Taiwan will just make the call that if they're about to lose, they'll just make the Chinese victory Pyrric beyond belief. Forget the US, before America could realize what was about to happen Taiwan would fire all cylinders and make as many Chinese parents lose their only sons as possible. The economic consequences of the one child policy when tens of thousands of males die would unironically topple the CCP.
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Probably a very common occurence. In media we show spies just icing people with no hesitation or remorse because they got the Black Widow training but in real life it's just people hanging out and writing reports to their superiors.
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The Phantom did well in Israeli service...
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What made you respect Hinkle in the first place?
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Trough history, guns have been carved out of wood for single shot purposes (they'd crack after one or two shots). Criminals in jail have made them out of hardened paper.
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Oh, there's a video? Case closed, I guess.
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@@qtsssim Insurrection? At least an insurrection would require manpower to put down. Useless boffins are a much greater drag.
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The F-22 is an extremely limited aircraft in comparison. If that was done, we'd be now spending billions and billions to keep it up to date.
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@austinlowrance5943 The starting superiority was against 1990s Soviet Union. It ceased to exist in 1991. The F-22 is severely lacking in features. That's why it was estimated that retiring it and replacing it with an entirely new aircraft is more feasible than a fleet upgrade. It's not about competitors but the fact that it lacks features. The F-35 masks its exhaust. Yes, you would have to still need F-35s because the F-22 was only meant to replace F-15s. That's the High in the High/Low combo. You'd still need the Low aircraft. You can't escape that expenditure, the F-22 would not be a feasible Low aircraft. Upgrading the F-22 would not save any money. No, the F-22 can't be upgraded at leisure. It was designed prior to such considerations being adopted. It's a very difficult aircraft to upgrade upon. The F-35 is easier to upgrade and the NGAD will be even easier to upgrade than the F-35.
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"If I paid for 100 mbps, I should get 100 mbps" - Services like Netflix are ensuring that you're not gonna get 100mbps at peak hours because your local hub will have thousands of people streaming video.
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@abdullahal-ahmati5030 And airline companies overbook and gyms sell subscriptions to people who never show up. This is a fact of life. You don't want to pay the real price of what it costs to service you. You pay taxes to use the road, right? What would happen if everyone in your country decided to travel the same road? How dare the government charge your to build a road, and then everyone can't use it at the same time? How dare they "sell" you a road that they know is incapable of servicing the entire country?
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@abdullahal-ahmati5030 Nobody brought up race. Airline companies do charge extra for heavy luggage, though.
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@abdullahal-ahmati5030 "Netflix is literally the black people of internet traffic." - Okay redditor. "ISPs do charge extra for more data." - The issue here isn't data, but the fact that you're preventing "planes" from taking off. You can be extremely inconvenient while using very reasonable amounts of data. "Why should a byte of Netflix traffic cost more than a byte of other traffic?" - The issue is, a byte of Netflix, which isn't time-sensitive, shouldn't get ahead of people trying to play time-sensitive online games for example. And when your area is filled of people hogging bandwidth through Netflix, the service quality decays. "It would be like an airline saying your baggage is in a suitcase with the wrong branding, so it will cost 10% more. " - No, it's more like, you brought 300 suitcases and it's gonna take an extra hour to reshuffle the baggage because of load balancing inside the cargo bay, and everyone's pissed off that their plane isn't taking off and you say "excuse me, I paid for the extra luggage" as if your money pays for the inconvenience you're causing. No airliner would let you do that, that's how ludicrous this is.
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@abdullahal-ahmati5030 "If the airliner is selling space for 300 suitcases, then any delays are completely their fault" - No. You missed every warning to start loading your luggage, and then right when everyone's ready for takeoff you suddenly want to load your shit on the plane. "If I bought space for 300 suitcases from the plane, why does it matter if it is 300 kg of my clothes or 300 kg of my hygiene products. I paid for data. Why does it matter if that data is a netflix video packet or a video game packet?" - The video game packet is only a small suitcase. Netflix is a bunch of suitcases and even though everyone needs to take off in time, you want to delay everyone's data with your streaming. "They absolutely would." - No, they would not. You'd get delayed. "It's a service called "cargo planes"." - The "cargo plane" service is a fast lane. Want a cargo plane? Hire one. "Those boots sure are delicious, huh?" - Buddy you're out here simping for large internet corporations and you're calling me a bootlicker? I'm not defending ISPs. I am attacking people like you, who believed the corporate propaganda simply because they thought they were being anti-corporation. "What if people hog bandwidth through streaming?" - They don't get to bitch and moan when ISPs prioritize online videogames over Netflix stability. "Or what if they hog bandwidth by writing huge emails and sending it to 1000s of people?" - Most email servers limit attachment sizes and I don't think anyone complains if an email arrives a half-second later. "ISPs then should offer low-latency high-priority internet connections." - According to Net Neutrality, that's illegal. That would not be "neutral". "What does this mean?" - If you have a 500GB limit per month, and use up 10GB per day from 9PM to 10PM, you'll be more of a nuisance than someone who uses 10GB from 9AM to 11PM.
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@abdullahal-ahmati5030 "When I buy internet, I buy a certain connection speed." - When you pay taxes for your roads, you're not buying into a certainty you'll never get a traffic jam. "This argument is a pure con by a monopoly supported by lobbying to remove any regulations that still keep them in check." - I'm European. We have regulations. Internet performance dips during peak load times because, go figure, people blast 1080p and 4k content non-stop starting from 9PM till it's time to sleep. "No I won't if the ISP wasn't being greedy and selling much more bandwidth than their network could handle." - Okay, let's force ISPs to sell you the actual bandwidth they can guarantee you. Get ready for your blazing fast 1Mbps because the ISP has to divide their bandwidth by every household serviced by your local node. "A responsible ISP will factor in what percentage of users use their bandwidth at a certain time to calculate what speeds they offer." - And they most likely did that, and the only problem they had was torrenting. The issue was when video streaming took off and services started growing faster than infrastructure can get built. "You are completely missing the point. ISPs should not be allowed to discriminate against services" - Then why did you suggest it? "It would be like a road denying entry to BMW cars because Ford paid off the road owner." - Right now we're denying entry in certain roads to cars manufactured in 1996 and earlier. There's probably a diesel ban in the works. "If I am sending a letter through the post, why would it matter if my letter contains a political essay or a photograph" - Pretty sure corporations that deal with high volume of mail contract out special services to not overwhelm the normal mail carriers. Imagine if you couldn't send a letter because the local post office is stacked to the top with envelopes from a company that runs a mailing campaign. Even though envelope size might be the same, the aggressive mailing will occupy a larger volume and require more workload than an envelope with a photograph you send every day.
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@abdullahal-ahmati5030 "In China they implemented a policy where on certain days license plates that start with certain letters are banned from the road, which is exactly what throttling based on packet contents is like" - Having to wait a fraction of a second to let more time-sensitive packages get through before you isn't the same as getting blocked from Netflix on days ending with Y. "How did video streaming take off if ISPs hadn't oversold their capacity? If video streaming took off, that means people streamed video, which means ISPs could handle video streaming." - No shit, video streaming was easier to handle when only early adopters were doing it? "their bandwidth turned out to be a lie." - That's a way to look at it, but for the sake of consistency we'll need to abolish gyms, airlines and roads. The roads are a lie, the gyms are a lie, airlines are a lie. Nothing works if everyone decides to use it at the same time. "They are still allowed to offer services with different speeds and latencies. They just cannot throttle based on the contents of the data you are sending." - The fucking fast lane was the whole point of contention. People didn't want them. If you agree that fast lanes could be on offer, then you at least have to disagree with some of the NN slacktivists bitching about the issue. "But how does this analogy relate to byte packets? Unless you carry out Chinese-style packet inspection, all packets have mostly the same features. One packet does not emit more CO2 than another packet, and all packets fall within 200 bytes." - Engines made decades ago are less efficient and more pollutant, while the diesel compression requires a very lean mix to be introduced into the cylinder and causes atmospheric N2 and O2 to combine into NOx compounds. The molecule of fuel contains the same chemical energy no matter which engine you use, but those engines output more pollution for the same mechanical work put through the wheels. Either way, there's no China style packet inspection. My mobile carrier had a plan where I was given "unlimited"* data for certain apps. Then one day I get a text saying "oh yeah the regulatory agency told us that this free data shit is unfair and violates Net Neutrality so you're gonna pay up". They can zero-rate the apps but once you're through your data limit, you need to pay for extra data to use the zero-rated apps. It's fucking annoying. There was no China style inspection involved. "Netflix already pays huge amounts for their used bandwidth" - the issue is, services like Netflix are what's considered an "unreasonable" user. Check your contract. It probably has a reasonable use clause. They definitely had a special agreement with ISPs in place and they really disliked it, which is why internet companies started to lobby for NN. *about the "unlimited" data. It was actually 10-15GB. Never got anywhere close to the limit. But that was the reasonable use policy. "data centers closer to their customers" - Which can just as easily overwhelm the local network. It's a cold hard fact that things like online gaming experience deteriorate after 9PM because of peak load. Doesn't matter if the data Netflix sends isn't hogging the bandwidth on the Atlantic fiber cable, it's hogging the bandwidth near my access point.
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They sent the riot police at the same time the invasion started. Funnily enough the Ukrainian national guard just blew their trucks with rockets or missiles so there's photos and videos of a war zone where the invaders are piled up wearing riot helmets, shin guards and shields as if they were equipped for a protest.
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Secrets are released to the public through releases or FOIA requests after secrecy lapses. It was a very secret program.
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 @VitaliiKholmukhamedov he copy-pastes this comment everywhere - what a troll does
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 @Yowaiiiiiii Russia has their own nazi units, stop concern trolling.
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Ukraine was not a NATO member. Funny how there's NATO weapons on the Russian border in Finland but they won't invade. They only invade non-NATO nations.
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Exactly. Gen. Brown had to come out and state that the F-35 is the backbone of American air power.
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@citizen_or_civilian You're replying to the wrong person but the F-16 was the "lawn dart". The Harrier might have got it due to the high number of crashes in the first years but the F-16 had enough of a bad reputation that a movie was made about the wife of a pilot who got killed. Afterburn, with Laura Dern.
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It doesn't. Murder is already a violation of others' freedom. There is never at any point an argument to be made regarding the "freedom of murder", so trying to work your way backwards to make it seem violating freedoms is good because it protects us from murder is pure fantasy.
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@anuseth7613 If it's not going to end it, then what's the point?
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I like humiliating those beneath me. I like to watch them squirm and look for excuses.
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But Ukraine is advancing on the flanks. Russia was forced to fight through urban terrain which is costly and is now biting them in the ass.
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Thanks to Israeli, American, British and French meddling in the region.
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Did the people who got psyoped into taking an experimental prophylactic and now have heart problems also get the Herman Cain award? Oh, and roughing it out seems the best option, considering that you go on reddit and you can read nurses straight up mistreating people out of spite.
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Hope the bear is mad that one woman chose a murderer over him.
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Yeah, look at all the "truthful and correct" comments. People do love when pundits say Russia is winning and they think they're 100% correct.
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@Trener_Artem He's saying that retreating is Putin's masterstroke.
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Yeah instability south of the border was never the Soviet Union's doing or anything.
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@Matt.Willoughby A 15% coverage gap is pretty serious. Defenses exist to, guess what, defend. Once you can't defend an area, it will be used as opening for attack. Losing A-50s lead to long range drone attacks, long range artillery and HIMARS taking out Buks and Pantsirs lead to more S-300/400 losses. Russia depends on their oil and gas sales for income. The gap in defenses lead to drones taking out refinery towers. Nicked an artery. The clock has started. If Russia pulls back the defenses to protect their industry (stop the bleed) the F-16s come. If they keep defenses in the front to take out F-16s, fine. The attacks on oil and gas continue. Solve that problem.
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Technically SpaceX is a defense contractor.
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Speed is life.
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You are forgetting that not everyone lives with a police station 1 minute away. Many times it takes 4-5 minutes to reach a home. Some times 30 minutes. Sure, you say it's not scary because it never happened to you. And many times it's more than one person invading your home, and they already have weapons on their hands. You think you can fall back to the garage without getting cornered? Not everyone can, not all houses have the same layout.
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@greenghost6416 That's semantics. A cancer is like a parasite but made from your own cells. If you get exposed to the environmental factors that increase chances of cancer, but then improve your health and twenty years later a cancer is found, you are "healthy" but hosting a foreign body that's not truly foreign. Your cells are behaving as they should, it's the rogue cells which are no longer "you" that have a problem.
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The map colors in territory but there's no indication troops are in colored areas.
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@riksim4242 why would you pick a system dependent on GLONASS? Makes no freaking sense.
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Believe it or not, that's a thing.
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That's not how it works. There's such a thing as economies of scale. There's a guy who made a cheeseburger from scratch, it cost him a total of $1500.
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@thegammagamer3776 Yeah I think he had to get a cow for the meat and the milk. I don't remember where the cheeseburger story was from but there's a guy who did a chicken sandwich and it cost around the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URvWSsAgtJE Maybe I'm misremembering the headline and it was a chicken sandwich but I read cow in the article and the wires crossed in my brain. Because he did have to borrow a cow to milk. Either way, if you want to make a weapon from scratch you have these issues. Forging? You'll need a custom kiln to bring the steel to proper temperatures, a pretty heavy forging machines, forging dies, etc. Machining everything from stock would be the cheapest way to do a one-off firearm, but it takes time to operate a manual machine that competently. A CNC cabinet with the right size could cost 15-20 thousand for a quality one, used.
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The 1.7 trillion is the cost to acquire and operate the entire fleet until 2070. The unit cost is similar to the F-16.
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I don't like to be crass but what's gonna happen to them or their male relatives will be worse. Through history people have risen up against leaders just as bad or worse. I can't criticize them for choosing self-preservation. I can say "too little, too late".
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They didn't monitor the camps. Satellite imagery didn't exist then. You were only shown what Germans wanted you to see. Just like a restaurant is always cleaner when it's time for the inspection.
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 @ياسر-ت6ك1ق America is selling arms to Russia?
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@class.C Doesn't matter what is or isn't allowed, soldiers will do it. Your CO will not always be breathing down your neck, and he doesn't want to get murked so he'll give you plenty of time to head down to the nearest town and buy a cellphone. Ukrainians in Russian occupied zones where the Russian soldiers had their phones confiscated sold them phones for a little extra income.
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You give peace a chance, I'll give you covering fire when it doesn't work out.
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Glide bombs into a moving target?
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But the Frogfoot has been reduced to a ballistic rocket launcher. The "anti-everything" was solved with the F-16 and F/A-18. Not the 35. Even ignoring that, the A-10 is simply a slow sitting duck. With a F-16 you have a chance to "outrun" a SAM by depleting its energy. Using a Maverick requires climbing up, getting a visual on your targeting pod, and firing. The current use of Su-25 shows pilots are not willing to pop up and deploy guided weapons. Instead of arguing about "sortie rates" and "operational costs" they're slamming artillery and drone-dropped grenades on tanks. They don't need a tank-buster. They need true air support.
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@nekomakhea9440 Well, then please add the 2 billion spent on A-10 wings to the operational cost, because I think per hour costs should reflect the fact that ageing aircraft need expensive contracts to run. I think it's funny you claim to be talking about logistics while defending the "tank buster" concept (a tactic).
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@nekomakhea9440 CAS is a mission, not a platform. Also, I specifically referred to your "tankbusting" proposition, not CAS. "A dedicated platform can do a job cheaper than a jack of all trades" - But it's not cheap. It's stupid expensive to keep it in the air. It just doesn't get added to the CPFH. "extra capabilities cost money and maintenance" - This is an extremely poor argument, because the A-10s capabilities come from the fact that it uses many systems multiroles also use. The helmet mounted cueing system, the targeting pods, etc are added capabilities that cost money and maintenance. Without the capability upgrades, you'd have a A-10A. The A-10A is woefully inadequate compared to the C. "Even with the aging airframes, the A-10s are still way cheaper" - Because the costs are swept under the rug. Over the last 10 years Boeing was awarded two contracts valued at 1 billion each to manufacture wings. That's two billion, with a B. "USAF keeps flirting with the idea of bringing back propeller CAS, like a Super Tucano or similar, for the same reasons." - No. They had the OA-X program because a COIN aircraft for COIN was actually more productive than using the A-10 for COIN. But since the A-10 can't get retired the USAF will not purchase another aircraft that can't be used in a near-peer fight. "a supersonic airframe is swatting a fly with a sledgehammer, real militaries don't have unlimited budgets or maintenance manpower" - So basically the US is the only real military. Gotcha. The fact of the matter is that many nations have their "supersonic airframes" as their bespoke CAS platform. Dassault Rafales, F-16s, etc. The US and former Soviet states/clients are the exception with the A-10 and Su-25. Nobody else made equivalent aircraft. And this conflict has both sides proving how inadequate Su-25s are. "Germany lost because it was outproduced and outsupplied by the allies economic might" - Okay. You'd need to send the whole ~230-240 fleet in the USAF and Air National Guard to "outproduce" the VVs. "its too advanced for them to produce domestically" - Forget about domestic production - I think Arestovich said their military industry was targeted and almost taken out. "they have to fall back to using lower end platforms like attack helicopters and CAS and tube artillery for striking depos" - Striking a depot is not CAS. "That's why they have a mix of high and low end platforms, rather than all-or-nothing" - Okay but the "low end" aircraft are barely doing anything. They need the high end. Or else you're just sending pilots to keep doing ballistic rocket releases. They're not being helped by being given more of the same.
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@nekomakhea9440 There's no such thing as a CAS airframe. It can be performed by a MQ-9 drone, by a Cessna, by a B-52. "specialized platforms make sense" - They haven't made sense in decades. Package Q proves that it's a complete shitshow. And naval aviation imposes the limited deck space. "while disagreeing with the premise of the video that the A-10 is useless" - It would be, because it would be forced to just do lofting rocket releases. At that point just send them BAE Hawks or other cheap jet trainer and slap rocket pods on them.
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@batzing "Russia conducts hundreds of sorties a day" - With helicopters doing blind rocket fire because they can't fly over enemy positions. The "Russian way of war"? You mean getting your soldiers humiliated by being filmed dangling out of burned out IFVs, being unable to deal with just 8 HIMARS launchers in an entire country? Russia grinds itself for ground they'll give up.
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@batzing "You need to look up the NATO definition of air superiority. I think you are confusing it with air supremacy. Russia is currently meeting the definition of air superiority" - By the same token, so does Ukraine. Russia has air superiority over Russian territory. Ukraine has air superiority over Ukrainian territory. Neither side will penetrate each others' airspace.
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"test out a handfull of newer weapons" - We know the Javelin works (90s), we know Stingers work (Russia's foe from Afghanistan), we know StarStreak works (1980s). The HARMs we sent have a manufacturing date of 1991, which is just precious. We're sending 30-40 year old weapons we've already used in combat. The MLRS systems we sent are based on 1980s tech, with a 2005 guidance system. We've used HIMARS against Wagner mercenaries in Syria back in 2018. We slaughtered them and posted the video online if you want to watch. We don't need the tests, we've already ran the tests decades ago and we've drawn real blood in real battle. We don't need Ukraine to test anything. We're sending the weapons so that they can fulfill their original purpose.
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Does the crew plan to sleep with the fishes afterwards? Are all those men on board cognizant that they have no escape if they pull that trigger?
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@rklkify Now Private Konscriptovich drops his shotgun and a small spring breaks. Model is a Vanka 42069, which hasn't been made since the Brezhnev administration. Where do you send it for repairs? You start issuing shotguns, you either send what you have now (an absolute party mix) or you start a formal aquisition with trials, etc. so good luck getting those to the front within a year.
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 @lucaslucas4267 Russia is fighting Ukraine. If NATO showed up Russians would be rolled up like Iraq.
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 @blacktigerpaw1 Moving the goalposts.
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@blacktigerpaw1 There's an official treaty from like the late 1800s where the US provides official documentation in Spanish. So a Spanish speaker can pretty much request any form in Spanish take care of any business, and US govt. buildings will have them. Because of that legal agreement from way back.
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Lavrov looks more like him.
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Since 2014 they've been a walk's distance from Avdiivka.
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The "war strategy" of getting punched hard for months.
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Ukrainian HIMARS and Aliexpress drones slipped past S-400s. S-500s are anti-ICBM.
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@strategic4124 S-400s couldn't protect Engels. The Iranian drones are easily shot down by Gepards.
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@strategic4124 Yeah and Russia's army is being slaughtered in the battlefield. I guess Russia is busy trying to win a soccer game by how long they can hold a hand stand while Ukraine scores goals, but whatever,
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For RAM alone? No. Just replace it when you get a newer processor.
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@Stewart the regular infantry is dead and wounded - Russia is conscripting 300k to replace the losses
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@davesomeone4059 Russia is still supplying because the sanctions impoverished them. They need to sell or their economy is toast.
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@Stewart A feint where men died and equipment was lost...?
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@vjetar2822 But the referendum areas are being seized by Ukraine.
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@chrisquas4113 Putin is losing because his troops are getting encircled.
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@Stewart Reservists are conscripts. They're "mobilized", all men can be summoned.
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@user-vs9db4tj2g The referendum areas are already being recaptured by Ukraine. Nobody cares about the sham referenda, Ukraine just keeps rolling through.
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@CrystaliaV Russia set up volunteer battalions.
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@fighterx4133 Russia demolished infrastructure from day one. Eastern Ukraine has issues with water supply because Russia destroys everything.
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@vjetar2822 Cope.
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@ivanzhirkov2581 It's not a normal job. If there's a war with high intensity, the military can keep you in theater for longer. Look up stop loss. Many US troops got angry at the fact that they couldn't leave.
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@ivanzhirkov2581 Ukraine is capturing annexed territory.
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Yes there is a reason to retire it. It's absolutely a slog to keep airworthy, Boeing's re-winging program already cost 2 billion. It's not safe at all, as it's involved in many friendly fire incidents.
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You can be biased and still call out bias.
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>along with four years of military training Lie. The military training is part of the conscription military service. It is not required to own a firearm. >comprehensive background checks Adding the word comprehensive doesn't really mean anything. Switzerland used to have loose private sales, and along with a full automatic rifle their militia members were also allowed to keep 50 rounds of ammo. Yet they didn't went into mass shootings as a national past time.
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Armies are smaller today. Back then you needed more manpower because you had less cars/trucks, machines, no drones, etc.
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Shit I wouldn't be surprised if there's enough mods to recreate a Red Dawn campaign.
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Most combat casualties are produced by artillery/mortars/air support. Not rifle rounds.
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@jesseramseyz We're not talking about occupation, we're talking casualties.
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@AstroGremlinAmerican Ukraine already had a huge problem with UXO after 2014. They don't want to cause further issues for civilians.
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Same reason Ford made the Mustang for decades despite car tech progressing.
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@vladimirvojtaml But he's still right.
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They throw people off windows now.
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They're buying at a discount. They're scamming Russia, they're not charities.
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JDAMs can still be delivered by pop up method. Air defense ranges are also overstated. You can enter the range, release weapons, turn back and a missile will not get you. Or dive down and mask yourself with terrain.
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Damn 900 guys holding off 140,000.
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@Awaken2067833758 Afghan farmers had fighter jets?
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@TheFarnhem I don't watch CNN. How about you stop sipping the MacGregor and Scott Ritter kool aid?
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@Awaken2067833758 So you're admitting that your response had absolutely nothing to do with the topic, which was the requirement to have SAMs to contest air superiority?
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@Awaken2067833758 But that's unrelated to the topic. The claim was that a SAM network is necessary to protect the fighters. The US clearly is able to send in fighters alone and win. An integrated SAM network wouldn't have done anything against farmers either. You're literally just pretending not to get it so you can throw snide remarks.
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@Awaken2067833758 Why would attacks on civilian infrastructure be necessary to fly fighters? Also, this is moving the goalposts. Aircraft can carry cruise missiles too, meaning aircraft still have the capability to go alone. Serbs constantly brag about their air defense not being destroyed in 1999. So which is it? I thought the cruise missiles had to hit the defenses first.
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There was no barge, that's just standing waves.
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@filmjazz "Because the "problem" that voter ID requirements purport to solve is a myth (see link in my previous comment)." - where's the link? "The true motivation behind the people who argue for it is voter suppression, particularly voter suppression of the poor and minorities aka "people who tend to vote for Democrats."" - How does voting ID suppress the vote? "There's nothing that scares right-wingers more than making sure everyone in this country gets a fair chance to vote" - Go to any EU country, they issue voter ID alongside your normal ID. Not that I'm saying the EU is an example to follow or anything, but the concept that voter ID is a right-wing conspiracy to take votes away from minorities is solely an American paranoia. How does it take away a fair chance to vote?
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The state department tried to keep Yanukovych in power.
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How do they know someone is a criminal before they have seen the ink? Are you going to let the police strip search you for the paint? Innocent until proven guilty. >so who cares about rights. Then wouldn't you agree that using rubber buckshot/slugs and CS gas would be more effective?
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Norks be like: "hand me da meat hamma so I can torture John McCain's bawwr sack"
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The Eastern Ukrainians were genocided by Russia. They wiped out the population there.
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Why does it need it? Neither side is making great use of air assets due to mutual fear of SAMs. Russian aircraft resort to flying low, which gets them clapped out by MANPADS.
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@moigospodin4155 Oliver Stone, Putin's friend?
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@moigospodin4155 Move there lol your countrymen seem to disagree
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Power move.
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"ThE uS iS PaThEtIc" meanwhile Russia is bogged down less than a hundred miles from their border when they were supposed to take 7 days to reach the river Rhine, and China has to resort to antics like these or shooting into the air to seethe about Pelosi. First Raptor air to air kill bishes.
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It was kind of the other way around. Lockheed was not delivering results so the military intervened. The project got back on its rails once the threat of cancelled orders made Lockheed clean up their act. Multiroles rule the skies.
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@Princip666 Yes. They were fighting a much easier opponent and had access to a lot more military power.
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Conspiracy theorists said Ukraine was losing, though.
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@curiousnomadic fucking Net Neutrality is a sham. Net Neutrality is backed by the online giants who want to do to us what they claim ISPs will do. What a joke. Pass Net Neutrality or ISPs will censor you! Google then censors you and their lackeys use the excuse "private company". Of course! They don't like when a private company can block them, but Google wants that right.
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In the Netherlands police already wounded two protesters with live rounds. Media called it "warning shots" and there's video of a man with a gaping wound on his thigh while people press on it to stop the bleeding, so it's not rubber bullets.
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The F-35 also has stealth development since the F-117.
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@brandonmoki3364 the spooks don't profit? It goes into their budget. You self-finance, get the right to not have to disclose anything because "muh national security" and then still get black budget government money. It's the dream.
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@Trener_Artem Doesn't even seem formatted properly for an official document, and you can clearly see that it lacks a stamp. Anyone can sign a piece of paper. Faking a stamp at least takes time, and we know propagandists don't like to put too much effort into their job.
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Are Indian forces an extension of the Russian military industrial complex?
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@raggedcritical So the military isn't woke, just weary of regressive policies but we now live in a world where we twist words to suit whatever meaning we want to detatch woke from the "stay woke my brothers" conspiratorial thinking.
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@pauliussipavicius4658 "working" Ahahahahahahah Ahahah
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 @j.r.r.tolkien8724 What happened to Germany in WW2 wasn't genocide.
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@championknife The US didn't block RT, it was just cable/satellite companies which were going to drop RT from their service due to lack of views and when the war started they just stopped the feed ahead of concract cessation.
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China's child policy has doomed them economically. Food rationing will happen when we all become too old to farm, but no young people to grow our food.
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@tebbs94 General "I'll call China first" Milley?
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Not really. Pistols were often in very weak calibers like .25 and .32, while 9mm Luger was a service round. Even the Browning Hi Power has that name because it was a response to a French military request for a high power pistol. It was by the 1980s that it started to be considered weak because American police officers were used to .357 Mag revolvers. In terms of WWI tech, it was a powerful pistol round. Not today with the advances in metallurgy and locking breech designs.
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Because they are "fake" frames. You're effectively just playing with a form of smoothing, like those TVs that have an option to run at 60 fps instead of 30 and make movies look like soap operas. Alright. I'll take frame smoothing if it enhances the experience. But don't like to me and tell me I'm playing at 200 FPS. It's not real. It's smoothing.
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That's why they use the real steel trunnion from the parts kit.
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@FreedomsLife1776 No, the dimensions were changed. It's much thicker and the areas around the trunnions have reinforcement.
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Remember when the government was like "ahahah you're gonna fall in three days, we're pulling out" and was gonna let Ukraine fall? Was that part of the reverse 12D underwater backgammon to trick Putin into invading?
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@kimon2993 new reactor designs can use the nuclear waste but the technology was archived by the DoE.
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That's a made up scenario you created in your head. You were told certain things like the Yellowcake Uranium report were fake but you ignored it and let some nutter change the french fries to freedom fries in DC cafeterias.
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TV cameras were used to guide experimental bombs dropped from airplanes in WW2. So the tech was at least 14 years old.
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In the 07 Dust Test the M4 had 296 stoppages. The 08 Dust Test was flawed.
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News media (CNN, etc) have exemptions and can post more than normal accounts. Some like Funker350 don't care about demonetization and are willing to risk it. Others use throwaway accounts. If your youtube channel is your income you will never risk getting unnecessary strikes.
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@gardenjoy5223 Are they? Because delaying diagnostics, cancer treatments, etc doesn't save many people. Destroying jobs and making people go bankrupt isn't saving them either.
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@gardenjoy5223 There was no vaccine last year. In the next 5 years we will suffer mortality caused by the government delaying healthcare. The space that was left open were not covid wards. Now you people concern-troll about businesses after last year you told everyone that lives were more important than businesses? The government has not protected life. You are wrong. Get another excuse.
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@gardenjoy5223 But you are. Why would non-covid wards be deserted while people waited for delayed cancer treatments? Why would diagnosis, which is necessary for early intervention, be delayed? If you want to save people, you can't do this. If you want to save people, you can't drive them into poverty. Governments had two years to deal with this issue and they're still complaining about being overwhelmed. How is this possible unless they're more concerned with keeping this situation ongoing?
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+0imon "the bullet won't even spring" wow that's some great insight into how firearms work. Shortening the barrel is still a crime without a permit from the ATF.
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@ducky8075 still, you should be given a chance to edit the content yourself before you were not under the new rules when you uploaded it. Also, they're private sector but they made a deal with the government. They have limited liability for what is posted on the website because they're a platform. They're now trying to enforce editorial rights over the content which means they are treading into publisher. If they want to be a publisher they need to give up the legal protections.
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edgy electronic music plays while girl cancels download
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I certainly appreciate the thought that I have a greater chance of escaping injury from a crash. They're undesirable, but they do happen.
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@KarlDMarx By that logic you can't be concerned about fire safety, carbon monoxide, mold or radon concentration when buying a house. If cigarettes were made to be less cancerogenic, they'd be advertised as such. Save for the fact that they can't even be advertised anymore, it seems.
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 @KarlDMarx Strangely enough Volvo promotes the safety of their cars, but doesn't promote drunk driving.
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Get in the "who must go?" comments while you can.
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It does the same thing. It's still spike protein production by hijacking cells, it's just the method that's different.
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Different kinds of slaying going on.
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"anemic" - entry wound: https://i0.wp.com/cms.sofrep.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Gunshot-leg-1.png?w=920&ssl=1 Exit wound: https://i0.wp.com/cms.sofrep.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Gunshot-leg-4.png?w=822&ssl=1
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@ethimself5064 The issue isn't that the US had no business being there, my issue is that you're trying to claim it's okay to invade a country if you ask first.
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Ukraine is defending itself. Russis is attacking. It's inherently different.
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@a.brekkan4965 No, it's not the same because defensive and offensive operations are inherently different. The defender has an advantage. This is clearly seen in Bakhmut drone footage, where Russian forces are charging into positions already littered with bodies from the previous charge. The losses are insane when you go on the offensive with conscripts.
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@a.brekkan4965 But Ukraine has professional soldiers for offensives. And their amateurs have had months of training and combat to become pros. It's Russia that lost their professional soldiers and now has to resort to amateurs. For offensives. So yes, still different. Ukraine has the troops for offensives. Russia doesn't, and sends them to die anyway.
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@a.brekkan4965 But they aren't, as evidenced by Ukrainian combat capabilities. Russian OSINT estimated Ukrainian irrecoverable casualties and they're much lower than Russian. You read that. Where? I can read things too. Many are fabricated. Ukraine isn't suffering colossal losses because their retained combat effectiveness disproves it. Colossal losses hinder combat capability. Even a 20% loss reduces combat capability to a minimum.
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You're OD'ing on hopium.
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The attempts to replicate the stealth coating issue showed that it pretty much doesn't happen. They just put a restriction on supersonic flight during peacetime. Also, it doesn't affect the A variant which would be the one that would spend more time in supersonic anyway.
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@lyin4rmu Yeah. HIMARS had a 70km range on paper, Ukrainians used it to hit targets 85km behind the frontline. Read between the lines. American equipment is always downrated on paper. Only when an actual war starts does the actual performance reveal itself. That's reading between the lines. You should have learned by now. Decades of betting against American equipment. And it just performs.
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@wallingnaga6563 Pretty sure it fell in the middle of the road. Was Russia targeting the road?
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@ВячеславСкопюк So if it wasn't targeting the road and it fell on the road, how wasn't it shot down?
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@Tomb-Wraith people confuse private sales with FFL sales done at gun shows. If you want guns without background check it's better to meet a guy willing to sell off a trunk on some parking lot than going to a gun show that is probably crawling with cops and undercover ATF.
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It's worse than a howitzer.
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@hummmmmm8447 Less accuracy, less range and less barrel life means you're just exposing your own troops.
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@hummmmmm8447 And drones will expose them easily.
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Spirit 03 was brought down in Iraq by MANPADS.
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Putin is WEF lol
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They use Soviet stuff and Soviet tactics. Might as well use the placeholder. Call them RedFor, that's what the enemy is and the tactics were developed to counter.
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When politicians retire they get book deals and nobody reads them. It's not a failure. They were not paid for 16 million views. They were paid for ALL the work they have done for years, hence the billion view estimate. If you do me a favor and I can't pay for it, I just hire you to do a BS job. You'll be massively overpaid because you're being paid for stuff you did before.
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His best minds have either fled the country or been "silenced". Tyrants surround themselves with dumb yes men, if you try to outsmart Putin you are able to overpower him. If you're too smart for your own good, off a window you go.
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The democratically elected government was not overthrown.
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@LogicalReasons Removed by whom? The democratically elected parliament after the president went AWOL. He only fled for his life because he betrayed the security forces who killed in his name. They would be charged for their crimes while Yanukovych got away scot free in a peace deal. How is it the parliament or the protester's fault that the president's own security forces refused to protect him after they realized what he had done? That's not a coup. That's a coward who betrayed his only line of defense.
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Buyers lining up for tanks with no spare parts, no training and no ammo. If you buy a bunch of stolen iPhones and iMacs, you get busted trying to buy dozens of chargers.
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How is that an escalation? Has Russia not bombed Ukrainian airfields?
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The real cost is much higher, the engine alone was sold online for 9k.
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@BlackElf94 "possibly with 100-200hp car engines" - conversion of automotive engines into aviation engines is a very costly endeavor. There were several startups in the aviation space which tried to get cheap automotive motors to use as base for aviation engines, and ended up almost as expensive as just buying Lycoming engines.
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Of all the things Alex Jones have said, Pizzagate seems to be the realest. Come on, all these powerful people just happen to like art depicting child abuse? They just suggestively tied up real toddlers with duct tape? They removed the man-boy love symbol from their logo when it was reported there was similarity? Hollywood is full of rapists and pedos, why not the government too? UN officials have used their position of power to have sex with children from third world countries.
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It was a control law software test. It was part of developping the aircraft. A merge is suicidal - both pilots will fire their missiles and waste their aircraft in a jousting match.
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Reminds me of a video of a single shot 9mm AT4 trainer that was supposed to be used with a tracer round. In the comments someone asked "what's the purpose of owning such a thing?". It was a goddamn single shot 9mm inside a AT4 tube. Not exactly the weapon of choice of criminals and mass shooters.
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It was on the actual HK manual. In the original MP5s it was a workaround to avoid wear from what I've read, but it kept being recommended for both using the full power of the spring and to ease the insertion of a full magazine.
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Games look like crap but need 4x the power to run. And people say there's no alternative.
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@kellanaldous7092 To be fair, safe spaces and cancelling are part of education now. A presidential debate between people who were not put through the school system would probably be more productive.
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No, it's not safe. There's a reason in ancient times they were dumped in pig pens, not farm soil.
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It's the UK. Not like she had a better choice in weaponry.
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The thing is that the Shellshock Technologies company (that made the NAS3 case for 9mm) came out with a 5.56 case which allows boost in velocities with no pressure increase. So SIG is behind the curve.
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@ElectricityTaster Absolute coomer.
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@fl00fydragon "Those problems are the result of them not being a nation yet, for the EU to be fully functional it has to unite into a single nation so that their monetary and fiscal policies are one." - this has to be satire, right? "allowing yourself to be behind because it doesn't bring manufacturing jobs guarantees that you will be bleeding money to stay up to date" - how is this mutually exclusive? There's things we import from outside the EU while the poorer nations could be making the same shit. How does that force us to stay behind? "that's why you tax them and then circulate the money. The good thing about the EU is that they're open to actual left wing politics and even proposals for alternatives to capitalism." - taxes prevent money from being circulated. Either way, the EU was a neoliberal scam the whole time. Alternatives to capitalism? Shut up. This is anti-free-market corporatism. We are stuck with the bad parts of capitalism and none of the good ones.
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What?
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 @Soren015 When I mess up events between 2003-2009 that's not lying. When I tell stories to make myself look cool I am lying. I don't tell such stories.
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Electrodes have short ranges. However, there is a specially modified shotgun that fires the whole taser assembly.
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The US can keep paying debt in perpetuity. Only a catastrophic event could topple the US that bad, and such an event would bring down the world with it.
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Doesn't matter. People got mad at Liam Neeson for admitting to slight racism (more like profiling since he was looking for a criminal who matched a description) 40 years ago.
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@Kagashimin I don't need to cancel anyone. Bad actions should be punished. I guess there's a statute of limitations or something, and you can't be prosecuted for doing something that was legal when you did it (ex post facto law). Don't ask me to forget. I can look for a relationship just fine. Not that you need to know, but I do hang out with people my age instead of kids.
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@Kagashimin It's actually extremely relevant. You asked me something, and then claimed something. I gave direct responses. "Far more common" - they aren't. Maybe where you live they are. I simply do not see those relationships in the extended circle of my extended circle. Most age gaps seem to be within 5 years with grown ass people. Biggest one I saw was like 23/35 and it stayed at the flirting phase because the younger girl knew that it would be a mistake to get into that relationship. The biggest punishments often come from ourselves. Ever heard the story of how MMA fighter Sean Strickland kept asking "how old was she, Barry?" to Pat Barry and Rose Namajunas? He was 32 and she was 17 when they started dating but they knew each other since she was 14. She lost her fight that night and they attributed the loss to Sean's antics. If someone can bother you that much just by questioning the age, you're already beating yourself up. That's more punishment than I could deal.
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@Kagashimin "You seem to be forgetting such relationships were not uncommon not even a century ago" - And less than a century ago we also did lobotomies. "FYI, I live in Japan, where attitudes towards such things are much more lax" - Coming from the same country that had to introduce women-only train cars due to groping, maybe it's time to do some introspection. Stop trying to get inside kids' pants. Period.
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It makes perfect sense. Oligarchs kill Putin, make money off gas. No pipe, no money.
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The money paid for safety was returned tenfold in prosperity. Imagine that after WW2 the Americans didn't become the massive industry selling to the entire world to rebuild after the war.
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@OtjPlateo Yes, people should refuse to answer questions that are out of their wheelhouse.
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 @Audaylon Ok? Most of us at age 47 won't be modding for political streamers.
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Pentagon with a tonic accent and BBC is British... wow
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This is all pointless because to the left even if you have moderate right wing opinions you're already evil because you hate the poor, women, minorities, etc. The left does exactly what the shooter wanted - drive moderates into becoming the extremists they are already accused of being.
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"aren't accounting for thrust vectoring allowing tight turns" - Forget turns. The chances both sides would want to get close is very slim. "It has better avionics" - doubt.jpg "It has higher payload than 35" - 2,000lbs less than the 35... "The Soviets had super maneuverability in the 70s" - And it has no practical use in combat. Purposefully stalling yourself is a surefire way to eat a missile.
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@emericanchaos What does that even mean? They're still showing off super-maneuverability as if it mattered and you're pointing out they had it in the small window of time it mattered. Either way, even in a gunfight super-maneuverability would be a last resort maneuver where you already lost and you pulled a hail mary. In a 1vs1 it might work, but you stall yourself in a gunfight and a wingman will just shred the slowly moving plane in seconds.
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Wish Glock autosears were wild though.
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It was an invasion as Russia crossed borders they themselves recognized in the 90s. They were not protecting themselves. Ukraine was not joining NATO.
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There are no practical EMP weapons.
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@vibesanm "so it is not some kind of a redistribution program either" - It is. The lower classes start working sooner and die earlier. The rich start working later and live longer.
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@vibesanm "that’s the same with any kind of 401k, ira, private retirement plans etc." - The issue is that... you're taking money off workers who started at 16 and died at 65, and giving it to someone who only finished his PhD at age 30 and lived to his 90s. Not the same thing. "It is a guaranteed program, so something like 2008 happens, you won’t be left pennilessness" - It's not guaranteed according to the Supreme Court. "[some bullshit I'm not even gonna try to decipher]" - You would get more respect if you actually read what other people are saying instead of making shit up in your mind.
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@vibesanm It's not a word game, if the supreme court determined that it's not guaranteed and the dissenting opinion literally explained how the government being awarded the right to change the conditions of social security means that it's infringing against property rights then it's clear as fucking day. "what exactly did i make up?" - Everything you said that wasn't said by me. "lot of phds and doctors end up buying 2 houses or more and will get rental income when they retire." - Isn't that more of a reason why the system is superfluous and should be more limited in scope? "That is what makes ssn a good govt pension program instead of a welfare program" - It's a welfare program.
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@vibesanm "somewhat protects it from politicians cancelling it" - Yeah and the Fourth Amendment somewhat protects against unwarranted wiretapping. "reagan and bush have taken money from the ssn funds" - I am pretty sure that's a myth and no funds were ever taken. "it doesn't matter what supreme court said in a verdict in 1935" - It does matter. "people paid into it and they will get the benefits" - Says you. "Of course, you will hang on to a dumb technicality to show how smart you are." - It's not a dumb technicality. It's how things work. "So what do you suggest? Cancel ssn? cancel it for people making more than 75k ? people pay into it so that they will get pension later in life, up to like 3800$ or something, end of story, it is reasonably fair, if people make less but have been working for more years, guess what? they will get paid a higher percentage of the yearly charge they paid into ssn, than someone who worked for less time but made way more money. You gotta be really dumb to not get that, you think you are way smarter than you actually are." - Ironic, because you're the one writing a lot of words to end up saying nothing. "Food stamps is welfare, not social security" -You just admitted it was on your own comment!
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@vibesanm I looked it up before you even posted, and all the sources say the social security funds were never appropriated by the government. It's a popular hoax to claim that the government took funds and that shit spreads through chain emails since the 2000s. Just like there's a popular hoax that congress members are exempt from paying into social security and whatnot. Ya got played by modern folklore and now you'll do everything but admit but admit you were fooled. If the government has indeed reached into social security funds then at least provide the evidence for the claim. This isn't a purity test. It isn't protected. All it takes is a law to change how things work. "no goddamn thing is protected, not your life, not your right to vote, nothing." - That is correct. Do you think that is an axe murderer is about to swing on you the government arrives and say "nuh-uh, his life is protected"? If you jump off a cliff you think the government is gonna cushion your fall because you're "protected"? No. "So lets dismantle everything and live in a lawless, institution less society" - Nice strawman argument. "listening to alt right nutjobs." - Shut the fuck up. You're the nutjob calling everyone you dislike a fucking Nazi. Pathetic. "Regan and bush took funds from ssn" - Prove it. "and shows how much in absolute denial you are and how much so full of shit you are." - You posted no evidence. Fucking prove it. You can't. And you claim others are full of shit. https://www.fool.com/retirement/2018/05/20/did-congress-really-steal-from-social-security.aspx https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/aug/03/facebook-posts/did-george-w-bush-borrow-social-security-fund-war-/ You're full of shit, buddy. About time you admitted it.
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@vibesanm 1. Prove all of that. 2. It actually happened in 1960. It's funny how you think supreme court decisions are not relevant because of age. 3. The verdict is that you have no contractual right to Social Security. 4. "I don't think it's fair to call a program that you paid into and receive benefits as welfare" - But that's literally what welfare is.
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@vibesanm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemming_v._Nestor "Flemming v. Nestor, 363 U.S. 603 (1960), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the constitutionality of Section 1104 of the 1935 Social Security Act." - 1935 is the year of of the law. Yet again you've made it clear you don't understand anything about what you're talking about. "Why don't you prove all of the crap you said first?" - You've made the claims, you need to prove them. I named my sources, which I didn't even need to do because the burden of proof is all yours. "Sure, so social security is the same as food stamps." - Piss off. That's a strawman argument. Nobody said social security is like food stamps. This is like saying a Ford and a Ferrari are both cars and your reply is "Sure, so Fords are exactly the same as Ferraris". Fucking come up with better arguments. You got BTFO multiple times now.
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Russian diplomacy is attacking when the ink in the treaty dries.
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We saw the drone footage of the assaults. Nothing was debunked. 16k KIA according to Murz.
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The UAF takes the most casualties when forced to defend critical positions and Russia has artillery superiority. The major battle victories were done by playing smart rather than banging their heads against Russian defenses like Russians did against Ukraine.
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The other day it was on the news that a Spanish priest was going to leave the church because he fell in love for a novelist that writes satanist erotica. I just said we all died in 2012 and this is a simulation at the dinner table.
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@stephensdygert7600 "Acording to the economist, Richard Wolf" - No bias there at all lol "the Soviet Union was the fast growing economy in the history of the world from 1917-1950" - "Fastest growing" is a sleight of hand argument. If I go from 500 to a 1000 thousands in a day, and you go from 1 dollar to 10 dollars in a day, your wealth is growing faster than mine. Also, please notice the inherent contradiction in your argument. The Soviet Union was not marxist, but even if it wasn't you praise their efforts. Okay so are you defending marxism or the Soviet system? Sure, it's not so much a "contradiction" but an attempt to have the cake and eat it too. You want to distance marxism from the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union was good. Even though they were evil and kept the wealth in the 1%. But they were good! Just ignore the evil. Not marxist. But good! "They could never establish a consistent tax base in the conquerd countries." - Gee I wonder what they were doing to those countries.
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@stephensdygert7600 Nice deflection. The fact you have to even try to pull such BS means we both know you're wrong.
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@stephensdygert7600 More deflection. You're strawmanning. And embarassing yourself. Your friends say religion is opiate of the masses. They're the ones who have a problem with God, not me.
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@stephensdygert7600 Take your meds.
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The FSB most likely has Kompromat on them. Ritter already spent a couple of years in prison due to his... improper behavior.
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"Also the lack of any propaganda footage from this Ukrainian attack" - There's a ton of footage if you know where to look. There's an OPSEC order in place to avoid geolocation, which means the videos come out with several days of delay. "If i'm right" - Which hinges on your flawed assumption. The propaganda footage is coming. Therefore, it's not going as bad as you claim.
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In Kharkiv the Russians called fixed wing and helicopter support. Ukrainians with Stingers, Buks and Gepards were waiting for them.
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The Canadians and Danish purchased exactly that, the Diemaco-made Colt Automatic Rifle. The problem is that it's not a normal M16 but a heavy barrel rifle with a modified gas tube. The normal barrel profile of the M16 won't handle the heat, and the gas tube will burst to prevent damage to the barrel.
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>see "problems with f35">finds more bad propagandathanks boss
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@Angelo Stevens "Nothing will end child prostitution and abuse" - that's why I said it sarcastically.
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He won't. Xi already told him he couldn't.
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 @Swede1523 terrorist organizations never lie?
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At the edge of its range? Not as big of a deal as you think. That F-16 pilot dodged like 6 S-125s from close range. Now that's flying.
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@rajatdani619 Air defenses are never clear.
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Chicago.
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@NPC-oc9oo Yeah I would.
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Russia is now using the untrained military personnel. Literally any truthful account by former soldiers makes it clear even the trained personnel are trained "on paper" to save in costs.
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The mainstream media would consider all of you alt-right for subscribing to ReasonTV, libertarianism is alt-right and the term was created exactly to portray anyone who isn't a John McCain Republican as a Neo-nazi. It's like you people forgot the "teabagger" spiel
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Lmao cope
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Some people go above and beyond the job requirements.
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You're the one coping. Russia barely got Bakhmut. 9 months. A town that you could walk from the 2014 border to in a day. After all f this, what's Russia gameplan? Declare victory? Take Kramatorsk? It's gonna take 3 years at this rate.
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The standoff distance depends on the design of the shaped charge. Spaced armor is effective because it's based on a warhead being designed to detonate on impact and the warhead itself being the standoff. Spaced armor interferes with the superplastic jet by negating the correct standoff and disturbing its path. If you design a warhead to detonate a specific distance from the armor, you design the shaped charge to account for the spacing.
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Liar. Putin is the invader. The "no choice" argument is just like Hitler apologia.
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Criminal organizations have maintenance contracts with Raytheon or get access to spare parts?
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@dougdownunder5622 the reality of Russian losses in Bakhmut has arrived, but people refuse to see it
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Yeah and I'm in one of those 53 countries. We maybe sent a few APCs, helmets, vests and whatnot because we're broke. The majority of European nations have signed up to support Ukraine but don't have an army equipped enough to spare gear. The majority of aid comes from major countries like the US, Germany, France, UK, and other determined allies like Poland and the Baltics/Scandinavia. Out of those 53 countries there's maybe 12 doing the heavy lifting and the rest are sending thoughts and prayers. What's hilarious is that the Soviet stockpile was supposed to last until Russia took Lisbon, but Russia burned through it getting within walking distance of Donetsk. That stuff was meant to take on the entire European forces and the American reinforcements arriving through the Atlantic.
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@jakewellard1830 "Do you think the Spanish Flu is gone?" - the strain no longer exists
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Some of the early gun laws were passed precisely to disarm former slaves. You're implying they didn't need them, well many people didn't want them to have them. Is that crazy? What's crazy is trying to pretend you don't know that the vast majority of weapons manufactured in this century are semi-automatic, or that most countries allow ownership of semi-automatic weapons. That's certified lunacy.
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The Russian army adapting? They've had their air base in Syria struck in 2018 by cheap drones. Now they're being griefed by aliexpress drones in Ukraine. Iran's drone testing shows they miss and the targets are loaded with explosives for effect. They have the abilities to build something, but it's not "military grade" per se.
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Welcome to the new dose of "Russian Copium". Extra strength.
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@paulwalsh2344 it's not about planning, when competing for hosts variants that are less deadly win by spreading itself further
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Then we could just have smoothing interpolators like TVs on our PC monitors. If you truly didn't care you'd have asked for those a decade ago.
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Trickle down economics should not be called anything because it doesn't exist.
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@jameswilson7790 Not really. "Trickle down economics" as a concept only existed in a few books and articles written by people who wanted to smear a politician (who actually did an amazing job at shifting the tax burden away from the poor and into the higher classes). There was no economic theory named "trickle down" nor any economic theory that worked in the way trickle down works. It just became common parlance because several people pushed for the term's adoption. Yes, I'm aware one guy in Reagan's administration did use the term. He's not even an economist so he knew as much about economic theory as the average reporter.
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@jameswilson7790 "The theory was rebranded Reaganomics." - you can't "re-brand" if it wasn't branded as Trickle Down in the first place. There's still no real Trickle Down theory nor any other economic theory that works like trickle down. Trickle down was merely a slander thrown at a politician who actually improved the American economy decades before and ensured that the rich carried the burden of taxation. "Yet the Republicans continue to try and try again." - Both Woodrow Wilson and JFK argued for lower tax rates to be used to increase tax collection.
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I mean, was there anything really funny in his video? I have a pretty trashy taste in comedy, I'll laugh to anything that can be considered funnier than The Big Bang Theory. But the process of something being funny is related to your brain making connections, such in the case of satire, in which some truth is used. The link between reality has to exist. All I've seen was dumb shit happening on screen, apparently Heston is a murderer and the song actually rhymed. Not much else.
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Because McCauley Culkin is baby Hitler?
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@Kikuchiyo7 Can't pay teachers and feed the homeless with 30 year old Bradleys. All hail powerpointer Perun.
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Not really. Panic buying now means less sales in the future when everyone is stocked up. The Cold War surplus being sent was paid off ages ago.
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That was sort of done. Patients who tested positive in a general area were sent to the same hospital, which were full, while many hospitals and clinics remained empty because people were told to stay away. Travis Haley, a former Marine Recon and now firearms instructor, went on a podcast to talk about his experience with a VA hospital visit. He had an appointment and when he got to the hospital he saw the overflow tents so he assumed the place was packed. When he went in he had to argue with a security guard who told him to stay away because the place was full of patients. When he was finally allowed in after proving he had the appointment, he got inside and asked the nurses if they were overflowing and they didn't know why he was asking that, the place was empty. They were not being sent C19 patients and the perception was that the place was full and everyone needed to stay away.
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@Jeroen_Maes There were several breaches in the frontlines.
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Because the potential threat is ballistic missiles from Iran.
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"jews are targeted and massacred even in the US" - I fail to see how a boycott towards an ethnostate engaged in illegal occupation equals being massacred. "And boycotting a liberal democracy" - lmao the US government literally allied itself with dictators when it suited them so don't bring that "muh democracy" when the US worked to topple democracy and reinstate a monarch in Iran for exemple. Being a democracy isn't excuse to do fucked up shit. "and since its done only towards Israel, and not towards muslim dictatorships" - How many products do you buy from Arab countries? And by the way, I sure hope Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE get fucked as oil prices drop when fossil fuels fall out of favor and they suddenly won't be able to pay foreigners and use slave labor to do their work. But that's unrelated to the issue. "that stone women to death for speaking to men" - my dude unless you literally go over there and bring your own rifle to sort that shit out I'm not interested in hearing about that. So many of their own people are not interested in the Western concept of freedom and will die either to protect the status quo or just money. So what happens when our "liberal democracies" show up? We see ourselves forced to blow innocent people up and make the civilians believe even more in their ideologies. We've been sinking trillions of dollars into the Middle East and yet the US still had to negotiate with the Taliban to not attack pipelines because they still control rural areas. So if you want to liberate Afghan women you do it yourself rather than ask me to pay the bill for a meaningless war that's gonna kill more Afghan women anyway. And aforementioned oil producing countries don't give a shit about human rights and we're friendly towards them, so… the "Muslim country bad!" deflection is just that, whataboutism. Muslims spit in the face of Western ideals but they're honest about it and I'm not going to risk dying from an IED to change it. Israel pretends to be a developed country while subjugating a native population and holding a nuclear sword of Damocles over their neighbours so that they can perform their airstrikes without fear of retaliation.
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5.56 doesn't need 2500 fps to yaw, it needs it to rupture the jacket. The biggest problem with 5.56 was M855 which is inherently inconsistent. Mk 262 also features an empty bullet nose, and M855A1 was designed for consistent yaw with a steel tip for the best of both worlds.
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I'll purposefully pick the bigger idiot as many times as it takes for you to understand the system is flawed. We've been doing the opposite of "nothing" for decades and your premonition didn't come true. Stop trying to convince us with the same tired arguments we already know are false.
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Let's not downplay the internment camps. At least compare it to the actual American Russians who are having their restaurants vandalized or something.
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How do you improve a shitty place with old Humvees and Stryker armored vehicles?
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@overman2306 And then worse ones come into the picture. We've tried it before.
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@overman2306 Remove the drug dealer, another one shows up.
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@ericrogers5802 lmao an Eurasian hegemon based on fake concrete buildings that crumble and a vast rural area where people don't have indoor plumbing.
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It's for expansion. Vibrations are handled by balancing the blades, you use blades of equal weight on opposing sides to balance each other. Letting them loose would not balance the assembly because unequal weights would still cause the "wobble" that reduces bearing life and may cause the blades to scrape against the casing. So the balancing operating is done by figuring out which position of the assembly is the heaviest, and put a heavier blade on the opposite site to counter. Then keep doing it until there's no more "heavy" spots. Source: I have a relative who's an aircraft mechanic.
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Well a cooler summer would mean that electric equipment faults and lighters would make smaller fires, which get put out sooner. It's on the same level as claiming climate change causes murder because a rougher winter keeps people indoors and out of trouble, though.
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MacGregor has been wrong since day 1. I should believe him now because...?
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@enriquelaroche5370 I'm pretty sure the number of shells per day diminished.
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@enriquelaroche5370 You're just giving a name. I'm not going to read through hundreds of pages of google results.
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@enriquelaroche5370 You're using the 60k per day number which was outdated months ago. Shelling slowed down as evidenced by both front line units and the satellite fire monitoring systems.
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Most weapons Ukraine has are Soviet/Russian.
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@Ted Hubert Pagnanawon Crusio Yeah, and then the USMC authorized MARSOC to carry Glock 19s if they preferred.
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@HubertBarnes Dunno how many average Europeans you're talking to. The cost of living crisis is real, the 2020 spending spree has to be paid for with inflation. I barely use heating since installing double pane windows. But basic groceries and rent are through the roof.
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Figure of speech.
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 @S300V "Standoff" weapons can have 60-30 miles of range. That's going in.
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 @christophermalthe1818 Syria has S-300s and the B-1s with JASSMs got through. S-300s can't save you from the USAF.
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5:52 "CHINA DON'T CARE" (giant bombcast reference)
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Hasn't been done since Vietnam.
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The millions that fled Ukraine are women in children.
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How?
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Just yesterday a S-400 went poof in Crimea.
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@TF2enjoyer2008 A S-400 was hit south of Kherson last year.
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 @festekj The Duran are just anti-West schizos lol
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It's going to happen anyway so what difference does it make? It's me who doesn't understand. If you have to issue those recommendations it's about time to get in front of the TV cameras, live in front of the country, admit you were wrong and quit your job right on the spot. If I did this poor of a job I'd be fired. But apparently government institutions can get things consistently wrong.
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@ErikUden If you told people to take the shot to solve the problem and the problem isn't solved, you broke people's trust. You don't get to keep barking orders at people, you lose the job and bring in someone who still has credibility. That's how it works, and anyone with a shred of morality would think that their job was worth losing if it meant doing the right thing. Now I have to question, were they even thinking they were doing the right thing or were they straight up lying?
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@ErikUden Am I going to have to hunt down a video that hopefully hasn't been taking down yet compiling the promises that they've made? They did claim it would solve everything. They did claim it would give very high levels of resistant, in fact a certain fraud claimed that in real life the effectiveness was ever higher than in trials. Probabilities? My father, mother and brother got the shots and all of them got it. How's that for a probability? In my family, it had a 0% success rate so far. How about those probabilities? You're happy you took a high risk for something that didn't solve the problem, forcing you to in the future having to get something else again? What do you think were your chances of being hospitalized if you hadn't taken it? There's online calculators for that, you should probably check it out.
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 @themajesticspider-man6116 People register as republicans to vote for the primaries.
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Governments are at fault for not handling the fertilizer problem gradually but fertilizer run off was a problem that was known about since the 2000s. Science textbooks in middle school mentioned it. Stop namedropping the WEF.
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@rodneychristian9834 Who's getting rid of nitrogen?
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@rodneychristian9834 I know about the issue. The Netherlands has enjoyed a massive market of produce exports. I want you to look at the statistics, the Dutch are one of the world's leading exporters of agricultural goods. They're clearly overproducing in such a small country. They're only slightly larger than Belgium. Sri Lanka's ban was based on a silly organic farming theory by a loon. It has nothing to do with the topic.
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@rodneychristian9834 How does a country roughly the size of Belgium become the world's second agricultural exporter? Who is going to replace that shortage? Everyone else. Those who couldn't compete with the Netherlands. Now they have their opening. That food was mostly going to what, high income European countries? Nobody's taking food out of their mouths. Three thousand farmers? You can easily find three thousand farmers in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, etc.
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The hilarious "it's just 3%" partial mobilization posts where influencers were taking just a few bottles out of their piles of cosmetics or just a few fries out of the package.
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@pickeljarsforhillary102 it wasn't a moving of the goal posts because his point was that Germany could not have cloned the B-29. He was wrong in his assumptions, but the argument was about something that holds true even if he was wrong on the details.
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If there is probable cause you have the authorization to investigate a person. The whole purpose of marking a person is not needing to investigate that person. i.e. assuming people are criminals, which is totally unfair. What happened to the "innocent until proven guilty"?
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Why? There's literally no benefit.
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@I_0..0_I Not worth having a war over that. Seems like a net drain in resources.
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I suggest reading a translation of "Z O V", a Russian paratrooper's testimony of how bad the conditions were in the Russian army. Ten rounds? In Russia they take photos of themselves holding the rifles to prove they trained and then don't shoot any.
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That's just unreasonably conspiratorial, half my favorites and watch later playlists are taken down because of similar issues. It's not a weak excuse, them's the rules nowadays. Yes, we all wish we could go back to the wild west days when you had nitroglycerin tutorials and fresh Iraq war footage.
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M855A1 is the standard round. If you've fired M855 in service in the last few years, they were getting rid of old stock because I've heard of people using M855A1 in combat since 2011 when it was introduced.
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@JamesSmith-qs4hx You people don't deserve pardon. You should be exiled to Siberia.
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With ECM rifling you can rifle a barrel with a power supply, salt water and a bathtub.
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Nukes don't cauae tsunamis. We did sea tests.
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No. Dogfights happen with missiles too.
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"who are regularly called to take part in military drills" - They'll be sent to Ukraine.
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That was January 2021. Election was November 2020.
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@Chris-ie9os Wind is not reliable or clean.
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@Chris-ie9os If something can vary wildly between 80-20 percent that's precisely the point. That's a 60% gap that needs to be covered by something that's not wind.
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@Gumiho-34 Laugh all you want. Why don't you drive over there? I wouldn't. Any reasonable government would shut down the bridge and have actual engineers calculate if the section can be repaired or just ask for a new one to be installed. Not ask youtube commenters.
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But without the firepower.
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Territory is a function of what both sides can take and hold. Russia's attacks show they want the territory, the glacier pace of the line advances show what's happening to Russians in said attacks. They're not coming back.
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 @mandowarrior123 You "can". But in practice they'll find a reason.
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 @JerGoes Self defense is legal, but in theory. In practice you'll have to go to court and prove your innocence.
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@CaptainOsric "Reasonable force" is a farce. If someone attcks you, you have to use overwhelming force. Fighting is brutal. It's not pretty or clean cut. If you win a fight, the loser looks like he was held in a basement and tortured for his bank card PIN. I've fought with gloves and headgear. One time I got my nose rearranged and the eyes nearly swollen shut on a fight I lost narrowly by split decision. Two times I left my opponents with their faces bleeding and swollen and they were still standing in the end. If you do enough to stop an attacker it's NOT going to look "reasonable" to a judge and jury who never curled their fingers into a fist.
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There's lack of ammo and parts. The Soviet Union fell in 1991. So Soviet inheritance aircraft aren't exactly getting new parts from Russia.
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The Italian media seems to have broken the secret, there's Ukrainian forces receiving training in Italy too.
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@cornishhh The referendum was "fortified" plus the choices were independence according to the 1992 constitution or assimilation. Independence would be negative for them.
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Where's the authoritarianism?
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Seth Hultkrantz okay but my point was that 4chan did go after her already and it was a shitshow. However, gamergate did expose SJWs in gaming to be a DARPA related project and industry awards being used as insider trading for investors. But hardly anyone remembers it because of the shitstorm.
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@GRIGGINS1 You were proven right about self-fulfilling prophecies, nothing more. The F-22 program was shut down too early. That means that the only option is to kill it and retire it when the NGAD comes online because there's too few of them. If the intended F-22 order had been manufactured, or even a hundred or hundred and fifty less, there would be enough of a supply of F-22s to justify keeping it in service.
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@c0ldyloxproductions324 "Or watched any episodes of dogfights" - It's an edutainment show that oversimplifies things for a general audience. Please. "in some cases retreating isn’t an option" - Sacrificing millions of dollars worth of aircraft and a pilot is not an option either. "phantom pilots had to get close in" - Because of many external factors. "but didn’t have a gun" - This wasn't an issue. Phantoms without guns splashed MiGs all over Southeast Asia. Again, the gun story is edutainment exaggeration. If you look at the actual history you'll realize it wasn't the issue you were told it was. "Nvr isn’t the end all be all" - Who said anything about BVR? You can be WITHIN visual range but not want to get any closer for a guns kill. "close in maneuvering gun kills" - No. It will be a trade of highly effective missiles. If you keep getting closer you will not survive the missile exchange. "in fact old fashioned dogfighting will become more prevalent as stealth tech gets better" - No. The enemy will simply pull high AoA, fire a high G high off boresight IR missile and end you before you can get behind his tail. "eating a missile from a wingman is highly unlikely due to rules of combat the wingman holds fire while flight lead engages" - False. Wingmen create interlocking cones of fire to support each other. For someone who tells others to read on the history of dogfighting you're not even aware of basic tactics like the Thach Weave. "the f15s were still scoring gun kills al the way up into desert storm" - The last gun kills in air to air between fighters happened in the 80s. "u can say gun kill situations are too dangerous" - The missiles were much less dangerous than now. "Then how come by the end of the war nearly all phantoms navy or army either had an external gun pod" - This is false. First, the Army did not have Phantoms. Second, the Navy did not field any Phantom with internal cannons. The naval variants of the F-4 did not have cannons. Gun pods were mostly used for ground strafing because the targeting was not suitable for air to air and many flight leads did not allow their pilots to bring gun pods because the extra drag and weight penalty was not worth it. You can look at the Phantom kills record over Vietnam, the USAF scored around 6 kills with gun pods and 5 kills with the internal gun. Meanwhile missiles were used for 86 kills. The Navy got 40 kills without guns. "there was most definitely naval f4s armed with a Vulcan gun" - Not internal ones. Wikipedia lists the naval variants used by the US, you can look at them. The internal cannon required the use of a smaller radar and the Navy needed the larger radar to detect bombers capable of launching anti-ship missiles at longer ranges.
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@c0ldyloxproductions324 That has to be the worst response I ever got. The point wasn't guns or missiles, the point is that you DENY that wingmen can assist each other and I provided evidence that they do.
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@c0ldyloxproductions324 "u can’t always retreat" - When the alternative is dying trying to pull a stunt, you don't really have an option. You will not save any lives trying to force a guns kill. "how they are to conduct themselves in combat" - Two and four aircraft tactics are literally based on trying to split the enemy formation so that a wingman can take out pursuing aircraft, what the hell are you talking about? "wat u said that is clear proven wrong with historical combat events recounted by actual pilots and dogfights was based on historical recounts" - Not only are you aggressively misspelling almost every word, you're talking about history that happened before the modern times. "the events are very much real" - The events can be real but the stories twisted for entertainment. The Phantom gun story is a twisted narrative that doesn't represent the actual events. Phantoms weren't lost due to lack of guns, they were lost to high speed ambushes in which the Phantoms wouldn't have been able to get close enough to get a guns solution. "since u clearly don’t understand" - No, it's you who doesn't understand but you simply insult others and claim they don't understand.
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@c0ldyloxproductions324 "wat would happen when neither side can detect each other because stealth aircraft are fielded by both sides?" - Stealth aircraft are detected at close range. The F-117 shot down over Yugoslavia was close enough that it could give the SAM a lock from 8 miles out. 8 miles is too far away for a guns kill. "The only option left is to gain visual" - But visual can be anywhere from 5 miles to 10 miles depending on the size of the aircraft and the contrast. Not to mention that with IRST/EO capabilities you can get visual from beyond visual range. "and fight maneuvering fights" - The point is that the maneuvering fight is now based on trying to get a missile shot off while at the same time defending from incoming missiles. With all aspect IR missiles and the ability to shoot them at very high angles relative to the nose means that you don't need to keep aircraft pointed at each other. "the 3 major super powers all have stealth fighters america China and Russia" - Russia has 12 Su-57 and they're shoddily constructed. They're not a big threat.
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@hellothere1656 Capturing a stealth aircraft doesn't mean understanding the underlying principles. Even Russia has issues developing stealth and they invented the maths to calculate radar cross sections.
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Hitting dislike still counts as engagement.
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Nobody was getting sued over guns, it was the Little Bird helicopter and Humvee that triggered the lawsuits. And it was EA with their Battlefield series being sued. Activision made it political by getting involved when nobody was suing them, and making a statement.
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The CAS roles doesn't mean spending time in the danger zone. The A-10 minimizing friendly casualties? It's infamous for blue-on-blue.
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"Everything is a psyop" yeah I guess neckbeards harassing Scientology churches by flooding their fax machines with 10,000 pages of the n-word is a CIA psyop lol
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@Dan-ud8hz The New Deal prolonged the Depression. It was also very cronyist as FDR put business leaders in charge of government agencies tasked with the recovery. Trickle down doesn't exist.
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@Dan-ud8hz It's accurate. The graph leaves out a lot of information. You're using a facebook-tier meme to exploit correlation vs causation. Yes, I know of Smedley Butler. You're shotgunning arguments.
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@Dan-ud8hz I didn't branch off into anything. FDR was a massive retard who thought that destroying food would pull America out of a crisis. You then mentioned Reagan (unrelated) and the Business Plot (also unrelated to how good FDR's "SoCiAlIsM" was). "I'm sorry the graph isn't clear to you" - It is clear. That's the point. It's missing critical information. Also, namecalling. "You made claims you've yet to offer any proof for" - Ditto. "there's a lot of information overlaid on those graphs to be able to highlight someone who's sufficiently mathematically skilled to distinguish causation from correlation" - How does skill in mathematics extract historical context from a graph? "The graph has a lot more information compiled together than conservatives are typically presented with. " - Not a conservative. Also, namecalling.
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How do you "preview a war"?
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Yeah and China teams with with the US and gives Taiwan, Tibet, Hong Kong, etc independence. Imagine...
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Remember when Mr Wikipedia Knowledge managed to frustrate him so Finkleman decided to just start insulting him and mess up his name on purpose?
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@NN-bv9lq They're aware, this footage has been abailable for months.
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 @billinsf88 Shut off with no bombing, Gazprom pays penalty fees. Bombing, oops not your fault. Get it?
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@billinsf88 There's a penalty fee. Sign a contract saying you deliver X amount of gas, you need to deliver X.
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@billinsf88 You're now in denial. If you sign a contract to do something you think you can back out?
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Guns are always in the wrong hands. Do you know how much worse gun homicide and gun crime is in countries where criminals reign supreme despite tight gun control laws? When crime is the way of life, you don't care about a piece of paper saying you can't have a gun.
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@ritterbruder212 it's not cherrypicking. Safe countries are safe independently of gun laws. Unsafe countries are unsafe independently of gun laws.
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 @Adamfandango Taking stuff away was a thing before economics systems. Tribes fought each other over resources.
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Sounds optimistic. A ton of Chinese-Russiam cooperation never leaves the paper.
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@lucasthemycologist "Requires a shitload of energy to extract and refine the radioactive ore" - yeah and where do you get the stuff that goes into solar panels and batteries? Yeah you're gonna have to dig those out of the ground. "generates a bunch waste" - which can be put into concrete vaults underground away from fault lines.
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That makes no sense. The tank losses are a reflection of attrition in an advance. If Russia loses a thousand but gets bogged down that's worse than Ukraine losing a hundred but succeeding in their mission.
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@EzekielDeLaCroix Sure, but the USSR planned to actually make gains off those losses. If they lose tanks, but don't make gains. Uh oh, NATO is gonna counterpunch.
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You've just seen Russian forces essentially sit back and shell the urban centers rather than step on the obvious trap and go inside the meatgrinder.
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This guy spent most of his adult life in conflict zones. Are those problems gonna get solved by sending him to do what he does best in American soil?
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Both claims are true. The trenches were filmed by drone and the craters at Energodar prove Russia shelled the plant.
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They outsource to moderator farms, the big call center companies offer those services. This means that for example gun content you're screwed because cheap third world labour invites the situation where people who don't understand American gun laws or culture a lot of stuff is illegal or too dangerous to show on camera. One example is Taofladermaus, who has a freeway visible in his videos that's 5-6 miles away from the filming location and was being demonetized because reviewers probably thought his videos were endangering the cars in the background.
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CoD wasn't a Rambo sim. In fact most games (Medal of Honor included) had a lone player mow down hordes of enemies at the time and CoD broke convention by having the player fight alongside an army of NPCs.
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It proves they are lying. If they're lying, it means they are hiding something. The only think that would make sense hiding, is everything they're being accused of.
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Not true because ratg13 had to be made up to cover the tracks.
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But you don't have people like Al Capone making bank off illegal booze.
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Nobody cares about the nationality, people clearly see a guy win despite looking like he got hit by a truck and don't like it.
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@natthaphonhongcharoen "You probably want to be in visual range to support ground unit in time rather than staying 50 miles away and wait to use missile, both bomb and missile are slower than bullet!!" - What? Visual range is useless compared to targeting pods, and speed comparisons are nonsensical.
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@jonboyd9186 "Once it was fielded real world guess what was retrofitted on..." - And how many gun kills did it get? Oh right, the USAF got like 12 gun kills versus 100 missile kills. Big whoop. USN F-4s did not need guns to perform well.
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@theseekerofancienttruth3873 "Infantry will also make sure to hit the SAM Sites First, as part of Standard Tactics." - you don't need a "SAM site" to bring down an A-10. A self-propelled AAA or a shoulder launched missile can be a threat to A-10s, without it being necessary to have a "site" dedicated to those. If your plan is sending infantry against SAM threats, but your plan is also have the A-10 to protect infantry... seems like something's got to give.
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@Allan_aka_RocKITEman " F-4 Phantoms did NOT require guns...until #Vietnam. " - They didn't. US Navy didn't get guns for their F-4s and their pilots were deadly in the air.
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@Pilot16H "There is no need to replace the A-10." - Already has been. Since 2014 that most CAS missions are given to F-16s, Strike Eagles, F/A-18, B-1s, etc. "Though it can certainly be upgraded and/or an improved design created." - Costs as much as a new plane.
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@Goz86 Why? Multirole fighters are better than the A-10 at it's own job. It was considered outdated by the 1980s and took a beating in 1991.
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+Grime Grandad I would like to genuinely debate you on the AR15 topic. Rather than me saying why would one need one, I'd like you to name a few characteristics the AR15 has that make it dangerous/aren't present in other rifles. I'll do my best to explain to you why such characteristics are necessary/are present in many other rifles you don't know.
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@sqlevolicious That's not what the 2A says, and the Coast Guard isn't militia. The Dick Act of 1903 separate the unorganized militia (basically everyone) from the organized militia (National Guard). The Coast Guard are a branch of the military because they didn't want to get executed as spies if caught during the world wars.
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You can find those anywhere and doesn't require permanent damage. If a character gets caught and tortured but gets fingers chopped off, then if they get rescued later they'll have to have missing fingers for the rest of their story arc.
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Brazil might have some similarities with some African countries, but it's not comparable to the entire continent.
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They're not launching NLAWs. Did you not see Kharkiv and Kherson? Ukraine can defeat Russians with full combined arms assaults. That's not guerilla, that's full fledged maneuver warfare. In fact the Kharkiv offensive started very similarly with a flanking maneuver the Wehrmacht did against the Red Army.
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"society decided that fifty thousand traffic accident deaths a year is collateral damage" - So if they're gonna live with those deaths for the privilege of owning cars they should not demand of others to give up their rights. "difference between guns and sports cars is that the sports cars weren’t actually created to kill people" - And yet they kill just as many. Shouldn't that be indicative of a problem?
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"Do you have something in your gun safe that can stop your entire house being incinerated by a laser-guided two thousand pound bomb?" - Yes. The dozens of innocent people living in the same apartment building. I'll gladly eat a JDAM if the deaths of dozens of innocents convinces dozens of families to join the fight. Did you learn anything from Afghanistan? You push too hard, people fight back. They become the terrorists you wanted to wipe out.
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@Engel990 Drinking and driving is a threat to people. Owning a gun isn't.
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"I’ve spoken to plenty of hunters, my post isn’t open for debate." - aka you're unwilling to admit defeat
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@Verbally.autistic It's not invalid. All country leaders that have armed security in places where they don't allow people to protect themselves are hypocrites.
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@CoffeeMatt10 RWR does not warn of a missile shot if fired with the radar in track-while-scan mode. It only warns when the missile goes active, which is just a few miles away and seconds from impact.
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@tucopacifico Navy F-4s did not get guns.
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@tucopacifico that's like saying we're still in the Wild West because you saw someone wearing a cowboy hat. USAF Phantoms scored something like 90 percent of their kills with missiles, meaning that the age of the gunfighter was over. Navy Phantoms did not carry guns.
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@tucopacifico Killing someone with a gun doesn't make someone a gunfighter. Cops sometimes use their guns but that doesn't make them gunfighters. They aren't employed as gunfighters. They aren't trained as gunfighters. Plenty of private citizens use guns in self-defense every year but they're business owners, teachers, taxi drivers, lawyers, retirees, etc. not actual gunfighters.
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@tucopacifico Then I don't know what you're even trying to say. The F-8 deserves it's place in history for what it represents, and the afterthought of adding guns to the F-4 doesn't change that. The Navy didn't add guns to the Phantom either and most variants did not have the internal gun.
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@tucopacifico The G, J, K, M, N and S variants did not have internal guns. Pretty much only F-4E derivatives had the internal gun because it either interfered with nose radar or other equipment that had to be carried where the gun was. "When they got them and whether they were USAF or USN makes absolutely no difference," - It does make a difference, because an entire branch not adopting the internal gun means that it wasn't a critical need. "despite your semantics, the F4 gunned down enemy planes" - There's no semantics. The F-8 was the last gunfighter, because every platform that succeeded it was designed primarily to shoot down opponents with missiles. I don't know what you're trying to argue here. "go bother someone else" - You're the one bothering me.
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@tucopacifico "which was changed to missiles only, then changed in later variations" - But later versions did not have internal guns. "the last US fighter in service to gun down enemy planes was the F4" - Which is irrelevant to the topic. This doesn't contradict anything. "that must bother you a lot" - You're the one bothered because you're here trying to argue something that I don't even get the point of. Somehow you were so offended that the F-8 was the last fighter designed to use guns as primary armament. Everyone else carries the gun as a secondary weapon.
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@tucopacifico Why would it bother me? The F-4 is one of my favorite planes. It's you who has a problem.
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@panpluto13 How do you make a living without a job?
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@panpluto13 That's not making a living. That's just living. And it requires others to not just make a living for themselves, but have jobs that allow them to make that living for others that can't. You think you're smart, but you're dodging the question. Valuing lives over jobs is a false dichotomy that inherently betrays the constant need to fend off death in nature. We're always 3 minutes away from suffocating, 3 days away from dehydration and 30 days away from starvation. I've had the coof twice and I'm not dead. So again you must think you're really smart, but your false dichotomy ignores that average age at time of death "from" C19 is actually higher than the expected life span for women, and only slightly lower than a man's expected life span. I'll ask you now - how do you make a living when you're dead in three years because you missed your cancer screening while you still had time?
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@OfficialReckM8 don't need the codes if you only want to crack it open and take the spicy rock inside.
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BS, because then politicians would still need war to keep people employed. If war stopped, all the government owned factories would close down and people sent home.
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@jkk20 "the problem with private for proffit war consultants is obvious,big business is all about proffit." - so? "then without wars,these businesses have to put people out the door right????" - Yeah, that's what happens when a certain sector of a market contracts. "so no matter what side you look from. without war those businesses could not exist. " - and without war states would not exist. What's the point? "now look at it from a state owned industry, what is their first motive????" - bleed the taxpayer dry "to protect at all cost,so no chances of corruption since the business and industry is state owned." - BULLSHIT. State owned defense industries are corrupt to the core. State owned businesses are rotten with corruption because they have access to the state's coffers. Defense industries are particularly prone to corruption, because military hardware can fall apart and almost nobody cares. "it becomes the rule of the rich over everyone else" - it already is like that in every country "you are either part of the clique or are not." - same as with any government "but a state can be controlled or should be controlled by honnest people." - LOL "if all of that power was in the hand of the government and said government was noble/honest then there would be no need for wars" - first of all, that's unrealistic. Second, states only exist through war. Our borders were defined by war.
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Yes. That's how it works. You think Russia doesn't arm the enemies of America too?
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The F-111 was the biggest tank killer aircraft in Desert Storm. That tech worked.
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I don't see why. What's the purpose of calling your friends if you can deliver sucker punches out of nowhere?
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@ImNoBSING Yeah but the far-left opposes it for the wrong reasons, they don't actually care about bodily autonomy. I don't know what's even the point of saying that, you think that the far-left agreeing with one of my opinions it means I'll be ashamed to have it? No. If most want to serve, it's not necessary to make it mandatory. Training after conscription... You can't be ready for the boxing ring by showing up to a boxing gym for a couple of weeks. I wouldn't bet money on a boxer who only does remedial training so I don't get the logic of betting national defense on people who just got out of a refresher course. Unless we admit that national defense isn't that big of a concern... Peacekeeping missions? More like neo-colonialism.
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Russia is allied with Iran which is allied with Hezbollah. And Iran also backs the Houthi attacks on the Red Sea. The conflict isn't localized.
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How are they going to fly it off a short deck/helicopter carrier? The F-35B can replace Harriers. The Saab Gripen can't.
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Have they?
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@blaisemorris1301 They only had 2, and only had 3 for a few months. Why would 7 replace 3? The real answer? They need more coverage because they had to leave areas unprotected to shoot down aircraft.
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I had to take a break from kickboxing because of it. Doctors can't tell what's wrong unless I get it scanned, which I can't because "muh free healthcare". Best they can do is xray, which they think won't show the problem at all. I am getting better but I still get scares whenever I overload my knee.
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Not really.
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 @loumcast There was no coup, the government had a vote.
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@CrankCase08 They did. The democratically elected Yanukovych fled because he betrayed the security services who would face murder trials for the carnage during Maidan while he had immunity, and the democratically elected Verkhovna Rada voted that a fleeing president had to be removed from his seat.
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@youtubeuser206 There wasn't a coup and it wasn't American sponsored. The Americans asked the Ukrainians to just take the deal with Yanukovich to let him keep the presidency but take his offer of the PM seat.
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@CrankCase08 Because part of the deal with Yanukovich would involve inquiries into the violence in the protests. Maidan had no barely started. It started in late 2013. The deal was made in 21 February. That was when security forces left in the late afternoon. You have no right to talk about timings being mixed up when you claim that a protest that lasted from December through January and then most of February had barely started. Yanukovych was not forced to flee. He fled because he realized the police. There was no coup. Yankukovych left. The parliament simply voted. A government voting on something isn't a coup. It's the opposite of a coup.
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Nah, Trump is really clowning himself with the "nasty questions" and going too far with the war on the press. The media lies but Trump is too hung up on playing that game. It works on hardcore supporters but alienates everyone else. The "CHY-NAH" thing was a meme even before he won the election. There were youtube compilations of him saying CHY-NAH in 2016. So it's not about him being racist in front of white guys as well as asian women, he simply has been saying that since his campaign days.
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People can just change clothes if they go on a work trip to Saudi Arabia. Or just do a conference call and nobody can see what's below the waist. Actually we do have the power to enforce Western moral standards on others but we allow ourselves to be humiliated by theocracies. Middle Eastern countries had skirts and women in university before. Maybe it's time to have Mecca under a secular state. Just to see how they like it.
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There are videos (typically shot from above) of them spinning the turret.
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@nothanks3236 UI changes don't happen for everyone at the same time. I forgot the reason but I think it's because UI changes are annoying for the user and they don't want to feed the backlash. I also saw people say they lost the dislike counter several days ago but I could still see it yesterday.
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@Postal Mann HIV rates in Russia. That is all.
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Same reason he tried to kill a US Army officer, Edwin A. Walker. He missed, so many people don't know he wanted to assassinate people before. Since he expected to be caught or killed he left instructions to his wife on how to tell his story. He wanted to be a communist hero so he planned to kill a hard right Army officer, simple as.
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To quote Blade, "some mf'ers always want to skate uphill". Some people have to be pacified by force.
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But it's already great.
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 @keirangrant1607 The USMC is a branch of the military. Not private.
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How is this going to "escalate" the war?
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@pDdsqggcfg That's already been happening for a month.
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@Omenowl That's circular logic. Gold is valuable because we agree it's useful as a storage of value. Other than that the reason to accept gold in a transaction is the fact that in a working economy it's a resource which can be traded. When money is printed out of thin air (banks giving loans), you incur debt. The way you create that money "for real" is by working until you pay it off. If you create a business with that money, you've added to the economy. If your business fails and you still pay it off, you erase the debt. If you declare bankrupcy the bank loses. The economic activity which allows dollars to be printed is as tangible as our subjective valuing of gold.
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@Omenowl Which also means your economy can't grow due to deflation. Rapid economic growth would cause gold to be worth so much, people would rather keep it than invest, leaving the economy in shambles until the mining of hard to reach gold became profitable enough to increase the supply. Bad monetary policy is bad monetary policy. Crypto currency is electronic and is typically coded to curb inflation as it gets harder to mine. Electronical or physical doesn't automatically mean anything. Physical currency can be printed out of nowhere while an electronic crypto becomes impossible to mine as it reaches its limit.
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I'm European and it's politicized here. Introducing passports, QR codes and apps is political. France has had like 10 weekends of protests against this BS.
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I expect a meltdown. I expect the Russian shill's brains to melt and come out of their mouths and noses.
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@tfwmemedumpster Pharma guy raised prices he was charging to insurance companies, but he provided the product for free for those that needed it. Also, there was no reason why others couldn't make it, literally. Anyone could make it. At the time another company promised to make a competitor, don't remember if they ever introduced it to the market. The only reason nobody else made Daraprim was because it was a low margin product nobody wanted to make. Shkreli wanted R&D money so his plan was fleecing the insurance companies. Obviously this increases premiums but insurance companies are already getting fleeced by thousands of high margin drugs so it was a drop in the bucket. If anyone had died untreated the media would have had a field day. I think Vice news investigated the claim that he was providing the drug for free, and they admitted it was true. You want to know what Vice complained about? That people had to fill out a form to get it, and filling out forms is hard. You can look for the article, that's literally what they said. They couldn't find a reason to call him a liar and a cheat so they decided to bitch about the forms. TL;DR: While the guy did technically commit investor fraud he isn't the scumbag the media said he was. The big pharma companies are so much worse but the Pfizer sponsored media dedicated hours of airtime to him. Isn't that suspicious?
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@jaypeters5224 And yet they can't use it to win against Ukraine, but Ukraine receiving GPS guided HIMARS stalled the Russian offensive. Funny, Russia has all that equipment and can't do anything other than slowly inching forward, Ukraine is repeatedly hitting ammo depots and HQs.
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@No-timeforimbeciles The inept Ukrainians are just punching Russia's teeth in. If they're inept, how bad are the Russians at this?
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1) NATO "expansion" was basically forced by Eastern Europe trying to get protection from Russia after Transnistria and Chechnya. 2) Putin wrote (or had ghostwritten) an essay about what to do with Ukraine. 3) Even if the West pushed for the summer offensive, they actually thought it would succeed. Like the Germans saying "just go around the minefields" suggested they actually knew very little.
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The first major explosion reported was a bunch of Soviet rocket fuel for nukes. Ukraine no longer has the weapons which used that fuel, and in 2020 articles came out compliaining about the danger that was having all that fuel in storage. That location was extremely public, which means Russia kept that facility in the back pocket for whenever they suffered a major setback. Ukraine counterattacks at Bakhmut? Make a big bang to satisfy the domestic audience.
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@kyleganse6538 I read they were nukes too because of the radiation readings. People write a lot of nonsense, reading it means nothing. Russia has been unable to attack Western supplies for over a year - what happened to change that?
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It doesn't have to. If you want to use the drone as a weapon you'll have to fly into the defender's path.
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Except he endangered people with a failed attempt to kill a germ. Look up the AZT scandal. A cancer drug that was given up on due to being too dangerous, that he tried to bring back as an HIV drug.
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The creator of bitcoin didn't run with his 1 million bitcoin.
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@MarkCrimson Okay, and "others" have also ran off with plenty of dollars they earned through scams. Is the USD a scam? The people who dupe others are bad faith actors. They exist in money. They exist in sports. They exist in videogames. We don't blame the medium for the people who like to cheat and exploit. You called the creators hucksters, and now backed off to just admitting that yes there are scammers. But there's scammers everywhere. With money. With prepaid apple gift cards. Doesn't matter.
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@MarkCrimson What are "better protections"? People lose their livelihoods all the time. Cult behavior is everywhere. Does Nirvana's music suck because people deify Kurt Cobain to a nauseating degree?
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@MarkCrimson Having a conversation isn't harassment. You also insulted people on your opening comment, which is closer to harassment than a simple disagreement. You're engaging in dickish behavior and can't handle a normal conversation like an adult.
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Underrated comment.
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@A.B.5KRVw A) the fact that there's almost no fighting and settlements are captured within hours. Everyone is smiling in pictures and the videos show Ukrainians being welcomed by the elderly who are surprised to see Ukrainian forces so soon. If there were battles, people would be hiding. B) I've seen 6 in a single video. And I've seen a lot of videos. There's even one where they feed hot sauce to a Russian POW. C) Drowned APCs? The Ukrainians are driving the ones on the roads. I'm getting the information from everywhere. You only get it from Russian approved sources.
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It was the norm until the iPhone came out and things got more app based and centralized. Nowadays you have a twitter and IG page and they handle the data, back in the day you were paying hosting costs for your personal website.
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@ActionableFreedom Oh, but Russian weapons have Western components. French, American, many more. Are they attacking Ukraine? I'm sure they have Chinese components too. And now Iranian drones were found. Is Iran attacking Ukraine?
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@ActionableFreedom Waa waa. Russia has crossed the red lines. Strategic retreat? They did nothing but attack and we backed off. Stand their ground? How about retreating from Ukraine? Then they can stand THEIR ground. Bleak future? How so? They're gonna destroy the world because they can't handle losing?
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@ActionableFreedom The US influence is creeping up to their borders because what does Russia have to offer? Putin can sell the "I'm protecting you from US influence" spiel to Russians, but it's difficult to sell that to other nations. They'll just correctly guess they'll get Russian influence instead of US influence, and remain poor. Simply put, the US offers a better deal. And Russia could offer a better deal. But they don't even try. So no wonder they deal with North Korea, Iran and Syria. All great places! Right? Oh no, a military force that kills Ukrainians and shelled Ukrainian cities decided to live smack down in the middle of Donetsk. The FSB brought the war and somehow Ukraine has to take it when the separatists shell them and there can't be return fire. Yanukovich was ready to call for calm. Which meant betraying the Ukrainian security forces. That's why Yanukovich fled, he realized he wasn't safe in a country where the people who kept him safe realized they'd get charged for the murders Yanukovich ordered. He wanted the mafioso life, but he forgot the basic mafia rules. Good riddance. I wish his IL-76 had been shot down in the way to Hostomel. Yeah, they are acting rationally, just like a robber or murderer acts rationally. If they didn't, we'd put them in an asylum. They act rational, which means they're fit to stand trial for their crimes.
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Those work, though.
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Russia was defeated in Afghanistan and Chechnya.
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@mdtalhaahmed1582 Russia humiliates itself all the time.
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@janhaanstra2245 in the US people who are not liberal calling themselves "liberals" made it less of a badge of honor.
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The munitions are enhanced by the platform. Compare a Soviet RWR to the F-16 RWR situational awareness page. If you need to climb with a MiG-29 to release a bomb, your RWR will beep and give a very rough direction of the threat(s). Cockpit video from the Russian side simply shows multiple amber lights turning on when they climb, meaning the RWR is just saying "there's radar in all directions, good luck". Meanwhile the F-16 not only has a much finer direction of the threat it also gives you the kind of radar and assigns a threat ring to notify the pilot of which radars are more likely to start firing. If you need to drop a bomb, which platform would you take?
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@WALTERBROADDUS The USMC has F-35Cs that board US Navy ships but their main variant is the F-35B.
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@WALTERBROADDUS I didn't catch that.
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Why no mention of Scott Ritter's time in prison?
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Nothing. It's just extremely costly to make a radar decoy that truly acts like a radar. At that point the distraction is as much of a loss as a real radar, which can get taken out anyway by firing the HARMs in volleys.
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"I don't need college graduates" but then uses modern metallurgy and chemistry.
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@beastywvu4523 Small wing is meaningless because the fuselage is a lifting body too. The entire aircraft is a wing. Even the nose is a wing, the edges on the sides generate lift.
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@linusa2996 the Marines can't fly a C off a helicopter carrier
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@linusa2996 Okay? And all of those were dependent on the Navy carriers. The whole point of a Harrier replacement is something that can fly off helicopter carrier decks. How does flying F-35s reduce close air support? Did you also complain about the Harrier? Either way, partner nations without catapult carriers can now also replace the Harrier with a 5th gen fighter. How is this not more important than whatever wacky idea to make Marines dependent on the Navy catapult carriers?
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Look up the Canadian incident with a weather balloon in 1998. What you're proposing was attempted. It failed in an embarassing fashion.
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General Winter slaughtered Russians in Finland and Ukraine February 2022. General Winter isn't chosen by anyone.
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Iskander is a tactical ballistic missile. This is fired by rocket artillery.
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It wasn't a coup. Torment? Yes, the Russian criminals and LARPers sent to fight Ukraine, and their weapons, brought nothing but pain to ethnic Russians.
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Doesn't work. Canada tried that in 1998.
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@jerrymillerstein It doesn't work. Look up the 1998 balloon debacle in Canada. A thousand rounds and the balloon still crossed the Atlantic.
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@jerrymillerstein Who knows? We know. We all like to pretend to be smarter than the powers that be but it's necessary to just stop and admit lack of knowledge. They're still looking for the debris that landed over Canada, while the sea stuff was found quickly. You can't control the slow descent. Could have ended up in a lake anyway. Could have ended up in Russia like the 1998 weather balloon.
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@jerrymillerstein I misread the article and thought it was Russia. So by your own admission, it could have splashed in the Atlantic or North Sea because we'd have no control over the balloon, and the slow leak would have allowed it to fly halfway across the world. Thanks for helping the case - splashing it over continental tectonic plate at 50 foot depth is better than letting it sink into the rift in the middle of the ocean.
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@jerrymillerstein Over land it would crash and require digging. Over 50 feet of water? Rookie divers could have recovered it. It wasn't in the deep sea. Again, so by your own admission, the cannon wouldn't have worked because it wouldn't land where you wanted it to. Right?
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And the CDC said only around 4% of those are real COVID deaths.
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There's no stealth in space.
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@iamcamcam984 There isn't. You cannot block your emissions from the entire spectrum. You can only hide behind objects.
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They'd lose tons of money. Russian oligarchs pocket the money instead of producing and profiting.
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@Truenorth747 The numbers of people who went untested could change the final outcomes. The safety data might remain unchanged, but effectiveness isn't.
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@timtreefrog9646 "the high numbers in the Pfizer trials disguise the effects that these extra cases may have" - No, they don't. "Whether 170 or 170+477 (out of the 43,000 in participants) got COVID, the efficacy is still decent." - Are you out of your mind? "Using crude maths and 647 positive participants, this would take the efficacy down to 85%" - You're out of your mind. This is a joke, right? You have no clue how trials work, do you? The 43k people WERE NOT INFECTED to measure efficacy. This means that they DO NOT COUNT TOWARDS EFFECTIVENESS BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW IF THEY WERE EXPOSED. Think. Please, for the love of everything, THINK. The effectiveness data is relative risk reduction. This means that 8 vaccinated people getting it and 170 unvaccinated people getting it gives you the much touted 95% effectiveness. If we divide 470 by two and put 235 positive cases in the vaccinated group and another 235 positive cases in the unvaccinated... You get over 240 positive cases in the vaccinated group and 405 positive cases in the unvaccinated group. The relative risk reduction formula is (CER-EER)/CER which gives (405-240)/405 ~= roughly 40%. And I've placed half the unswabbed on the unvaccinated as a token of good faith. If all the unswabbed were in the vaccine group and they were meant to be positive... Oh boy...
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Eurofighters are a clusterfuck and Viggensvare outdated.
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We didn't fail. We caused our own "failure" by promoting lucrative contracts over actual medical emergency.
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 @KantiDono inflation is compensated for the gaming market growing. Back in the day only nerds played games. Then all the kids played games. Now everyone under 30 plays games.
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 @MultiClassof2010 If you account for inflation then account for the market growing. Back in the day gaming was niche, now kids who grew up gaming are in their 30s and still buying games.
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Bakhmut was declared to not be strategic months before it was in Russian hands. You told us once Bakhmut was captured it was smooth sailing from there, because of the roads and its purpose as a logistical hub. Instead, your brothers are still there.
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@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 And then did it happen? No. Seems like Russians got tricked.
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Or below. Even kings get deposed.
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But do you fear answering a poll honestly? That's the topic being discussed here.
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@ikercapi Are the military bases in with us in the room right now?
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The US spends trillions on US citizens. What's a few billion between friends?
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@Goulash45 Law enforcement is literally Joe Schmoes. It's just a job, they're not super humans. If anything, having police experience can "taint" a person because they may try to use powers of arrest they do not have as private citizens.
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@damnryn_ I'm against gun storage laws, and laws do not do anything about danger. But anyone who lets their gun get stolen from their vehicle essentially forfeited it. Call it a fine on their stupidity. Yes, it is gun control. There was a case in Canada where a man who fired warning shots at people firebombing his house spent 2 years in court battles because a prosecutor argued that because he was quick enough to defend himself, he was breaking safe storage laws. In some countries the safe storage laws are enforced by giving up your right to not be searched without a warrant - in the US it would mean giving up the 4th Amendment so that cops could check the safe. Yes, people should be made responsible for what they allow to happen with their guns.
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@twilightzone7824 If you change course that changes the direction of the velocity vector. That means you're not using the full velocity to close in on the target. Also, if you're flying at high supersonic speeds the heat generated will make the intrusion easier to detect. The US uses F-15s and F-22s for national air defense. The range on the F-35 is actually great because it carries so much internal fuel.
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The issue is that for example in the 70s the USAF purchased a hundred and something F-15As and retired them 5 years later to buy F-15Cs, with the As being given to the national guard. People think the C variant is how the F-15 started as. The F-35 openly entered the service unfinished and was allowed to have hundred and something early variants upgraded to Block 3. People don't remember or don't understand the trickery involved with previous aircraft. The F-35s major issue is honesty.
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No, it's because Ukraine is reporting ballistic and cruise missiles, drones and dual use SAMs. The sender isn't counting their spoiler shots. To the one on the receiving end, every shot counts. A S-300 is not a decoy when it causes damage when it falls.
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If Russia is fighting according to Sun Tzu, which is why they sent troops to get trapped in Kherson knowing that Ukraine would drop the bridges behind them, and then left their rail hub in Kupiansk exposed to the Kharkiv offensive. Russia is just mastering the art of war by consistently doing the stupid thing over and over again.
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@KuK137 Not at all. An Airbus 320 is a complex system, with each part having a deliberate purpose. You can't manufacture them by coincidence. Natural beings are created by random chance. Unless you have a twin, your parents can't have another child exactly like you due to the inherent randomized nature of genetics. However, despite the pieces being banged together at random, your brothers or sisters have a 98-99% chance of coming out as perfectly functional humans with no disabilities. Maybe their eyes are a little further apart than yours, their ears bigger or smaller, maybe their limb to torso ratio is slightly off. But you can't randomize aircraft pieces and shove them on an airplane. Like if the mounting holes for a screw are misaligned by a millimeter it's not going to even fit and the plane can't get off the ground.
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SERE instructor and then he changed to TACP.
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@wiannieuwoudt Yes: Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape.
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1. Europe also financed Russia with gas money. And everyone finances China, who then purchases Russian resources. Where are the protests? 2. The "oppression" wasn't done for funsies, it's a two-sided affair and Israel ended up on top. It's not Israel's fault they bootstrapped a nation and all others wanted to do was attack them.
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They probably questioned the narrative.
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Funny how the countries that rejected the Gripen did have a list of reasons why it didn't get picked. Gripen fans are like "dude, trust me".
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You can build guns for $7, no printer required. You'll make even more money than the 3d printer guy because you're not investing on anything and your product is more durable.
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There's oligarchs falling off windows and propagandists being blown up in Russia. The US hasn't had a good red vs blue fight in months, maybe over a year, and they usually are just Antifa vs Proud Boys having fist fights.
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@nameless7699 What delusion? Russia is building PMCs, they are literally becoming warlords, explosions and window jumps taking out people... Where do you see this happening in the US?
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Ukraine wasn't rich.
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Do you people copy paste this stuff?
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lol they're being used as cannon fodder, the republics are done
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@DARKSTAR-mn8ee DPR admits 10,000 losses. If we compare it to the US population, imagine if the US suffered 1.4 million casualties in a 4 month war. They're nearly done existing. The Russians showed up and enslaved them into a military force that's gonna leave the region dead and wounded.
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Why would aliens travel all the way here to mess with us rather than just take our lunch money and move to the next planet?
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We produce more than enough food to feed everyone, most famine is due to events that make it impossible to bring food to where it's needed. Food charity is so effective that it was at some points too effective and prolonged food insecurity by bankrupting local farmers. Cancer is rogue cells refusing to die. Killing them often kills healthy cells too. You have any bright ideas on how to solve that?
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+alastair ferguson if everyone did this we'd get arrested. Cutting a firearm barrel without a tax stamp is a felony.
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Because they can only retire A-10s with Congress approval.
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False. The AR15 design is a scaled down AR10. The patents prove it, Stoner made it to be lethal. Also, 5.56 will kill you, dead. It was made to be lighter because a war with the USSR would involve lots of armor, so soldiers could carry LAWs with them. Korea, USSR, Viet Cong, etc had no infrastructure to evac and treat all of their wounded. It would be pointless to make ammo that only wounds because not many would care for their wounded and just keep fighting.
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The Hill lol Meanwhile actual videos on the front show they are willing to fight.
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@MrBrianGenda again the point is that they are trained to visually identify enemy and friendly aircraft/ground vehicles, not unidentified phenomena.
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@VandalAudi Plenty of pilots reported unidentified flying objects. There were investigations. There are a few reports declassified through FOIA. What were the objects? Wheather balloons, balloons that suspend the flares that act as targets for Stinger missile training and drones flying without FAA registration. That's the point. The "trained observers" can't identify a lot of regular crap floating around the air. Nor should they have to. So the justification that the "trained observers" can't identify the UFO/UAP therefore it's unnatural/paranormal is BS. They're trained to observe what they need to, not trained observers of everything in the sky. That's all.
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@VandalAudi Yeah I'm confused in the crossfire. I agree within context, I just have started to really dislike the "trained observers" thing. Because there is such a thing as a forward air observer and they actually get training that other pilots don't get. And there is a great debate about the A-10 and how pilots in the A-10 are better observers, but ignoring that the A-10 pilot school has a lot of institutional knowledge from flying OA-10s that pilots in general do not get. The "arrow vs the indian" sort of deal.
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Forget the stigma. They oversold the capabilities of everything they made. What's even the selling point? I don't care if it"s flown by the Bad Guys, I care that it's another Big Cyka Sukhoi scam.
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In 2016 they had two shootings in Tel Aviv, and last year ISIS called for Arabs in Israel to start terror attacks.
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@LevisH21 he's the German crime boss Killa. When I saw his face I immediately knew it had to be a famous stuntman/martial arts guy but the prosthetics and fat suit made me not recognize him until I looked up the cast.
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@BudMasta "lol compared to any random game company in the top 10 they are saints." - They have literally employed paid shills in forums back in the 2000s and then used their tech to sabotage ATI/AMD performance (even tanking performance at their own detriment, as long as it tanked AMD the hardest).
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 @gaigefisher4047 By that logic you are using child labor too.
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 @livebackwards that Borz comic permanently damaged discourse. You're not trying to "improve society somewhat", you're just cridicizing a guy.
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@livebackwards Slacktivist cope
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@livebackwards Yeah we have dozens of people speaking out here. What are they accomplishing? Nothing. It's so easy even I can do it. Elon is a bellend. Oh so scary. Musk's internet police will beat me up now.
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It's not an escalation, Russia already used Iskanders and Tochka-Us in Ukraine.
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Have valves to bypass the faulty pump and drive the water with a spare? Have passive cooling systens?
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@zackwildman3410 Fukushima is mostly cleaned up. It didn't take 50,000 years. People don't want to come back because once they return the compensations are removed.
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@zackwildman3410 The Fukushima disaster was not like Chernobyl. Chernobyl actually had two explosions happen within the reactor, one of which blew the upper biological container. The rupture of the reactor and fires spread a large amount of materials. In Fukushima, the meltdown was contained but the generation of hydrogen caused gas explosions which blew the top of the buildings. They don't need a sarcophagus like Chernobyl.
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@zackwildman3410 I really don't know what's going to happen because so many people left and have already declared they'd rather move on and forget about returning (since the people left, so did most jobs and many homes were damaged by the tsunami itself). So I'm not really sure what options the government has because if the area is going to remain vacant they might not want to invest more money than they'd need.
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@zackwildman3410 The decommissioning of the plant was approved last year and it already started. They're pumping the water out and pulling the spent fuel.
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Yeah and they thought they were the guys parachuting in at the start.
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It's not terror tactics. No different from a Hellfire. In fact, less civilian casualties than those. America will lob the Flying Ginsu at people it wants dead. Slapchop them into oblivion.
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@StillRooney This. The "milbloggers" are the sports commentators of war for the couch warmonger. They started to say the team is losing, the coach is incompetent, the board of directors are all wearing golden parachutes and willing to destroy the whole thing. Suddenly people start asking questions.
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You also tell that to women? To stop fighting to get it over with quickly?
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@the_undead They are because access to information still gets through. Remember when people thought Trump killed Koi fish in Japan by overfeeding them? Shinzo Abe dumped the fish food first, then Trump dumped his, and media only showed Trump dumping the food to make it look like he was overfeeding the fish. The ones who looked it up knew the truth. Most people don't look it up. The Russian people were told it was a special military operation and Ukraine was the aggressor. In the first days media was prohibited from calling it "war". Russian forces had most of their phones confiscated, so there's a lot of footage of Russian vehicles and soldiers taken out, but almost no footage of Russians filming dead Ukrainians. This was a smart play.
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Seemed heavily defended to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzNC5p06H7U
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Making a simple subtraction is propaganda?
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The missiles are guided by INS and only connect to GPS to correct drift error. Russian weapons also use the GPS system and they have Garmin GPS on their military aircraft.
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The UFC drug policy is meaningless because they still have to abide by sanctioning bodies to legally hold events in the US and most of the first world. Pro wrestling isn't a real competitive sport so there's no federation or athletic comission overseeing the "fights". Unless they plan to do everything from Abu Dhabi from now on, their internal drug policy cannot save them from external oversight.
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Russians agree they lost one and another was damaged.
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I don't understand why you feel obliged to attack him.
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The US doesn't fight to take that many casualties. The US first bribes the refs and the judges, clocks your coach in the chin, kicks your cutman in the nuts, ties your shoelaces together, pulls your shorts, oblique kicks your knee and then elbows your nose. Then the bell rings and the boxing match starts.
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Libertarians don't win at the ballot box because in time most libertarians see the truth behind the voting system and the lie that is democracy and give up.
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What would be the purpose of reducing a population to ash?
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@statinskill Guess what, all warheads delivered by ICBM come in at hypersonic speeds. Your comment only proves OP's point. Their technology disadvantage forces them to focus on nuclear warfare as a security policy. They're North Korea with a slightly better budget.
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@iwaswrongabouteveryhthing And now the Russian space agency is in shambles, admitted by the Musk twitter nemesis Rogozin. Who got fired and then went into an active warzone, then had to have fragments pulled out of his buttcheeks.
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One who doesn't have access to a thermometer or weather reports in °F. If all the readouts say Celsius you use Celsius. If all road signs say kilometers instead of miles you use kilometers. You have no choice unless you do every single conversion on your head. The number in Celsius could be utterly meaningless to him. But he doesn't have the number in Fahrenheit so he can't use that unit.
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As opposed to the Ottoman empite taking over Byzantium?
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@danielch6662 thorium is literal waste from mining, it's something we have a huge supply of but almost no use for it
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Tin Watchman Fukushima survived the earthquake... the biggest irony is that the nuclear part was fine, it was the generators that got flooded
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@danielch6662 We managed an "oil future" for like 200 years.
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Seems very significant. B-1s were used against Syria. The defenses were near peer level (Russian S-400s) but the targets weren't. Near peer sells to lesser countries.
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"You dont need an AK to take down a shooter without killing people. In fact you dont want the AK in that scenario." - Why? "You want the single shot pistol or revolver" - I don't even know of any single shot pistols that aren't veterinary guns and what would be the point of a revolver that's single shot? The whole point of a revolving cylinder is having multiple shots on tap. Why machine a revolving cylinder with only one chamber? You may study history but the books sometimes don't have the full knowledge.
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@juretomic7898 the Kadyrov Tik Tok army was behind the separatist forces to make sure the liberation was going to happen the "easy way" or the "hard way".
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Maybe the criminals and terrorists know something you don't because compared to you, they're succeeding.
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It is very relevant.
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@ThursonJames Poe's Law.
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Christ that rounded fillet on top left a migthy thin web.
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@BrandonHerrera yeah and the bolt thrust force is applied on the lugs so I'm not worried, but it does look thin on the thumbnail.
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To be fair, the alternative is tungsten and the tungsten powder is just as bad. Every country uses tungsten carbide, the US has a ton of DU because it's essentially a byproduct of the nuclear power industry. They've stopped using DU on A-10s some years ago, though.
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Bosnians own us?
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 @ThatGuyKazz Burst limiters take care of that.
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The lockdowns were to flatten the curve. Area under the curve is the same (aka same number of people). Curve with high peak, ICU is swamped, people get no care. Curve with low peak but wide base, takes longer to get through but ICUs are not overwhelmed. You get it anyway. Just later. If you go back, you were told EVERYONE was going to get it. The chronic illness thing was brought up more than a year into the lockdown.
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German tanks were plagued with problems and fuel shortages. Also, Ukrainians were fighting for the Soviet Union. It's now obvious Russia needed them on their side.
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They don't have enough TOR to protect all batteries, and they don't have anything that can counter HIMARS.
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"So it will be easy for the Russian military to track them down and destroy all four of them" - They're much more mobile than anything else. Even if you track them, they're no longer where you've found them.
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 @API-Beast Russia's economy is not unaffected, they are using war economy to hide the fact that it was gutted with several sectors collapsing.
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@lajsin Well, the Russians on telegram are saying otherwise.
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There were a bunch of hot takes like German generals saying that they should just go around minefields instead of driving into them. Later a German general Dr. Freundling said that this is impossible in Ukraine as the minefield spans the frontline, but hot takes were indeed generated.
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Bin Laden was a self-aggrandizing nutjob.
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Forbes, that well respected aviation news outlet.
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@Internetbutthurt The well connected journo is David Axe, who is a know liar and a person OBSESSED with the F-35.
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Bruh when the Russian hostage rescue missions are known to lead to massive casualties you can't really say the reputation isn't deserved.
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I heard of Javelin shortages, not of 777 shortages.
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There's also daily videos of Stugna-Ps blasting tanks or BMPs.
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Who would buy a system they can't get training for or ammunition?
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@xchazz86 The US most likely has kill systems that actually destroy it if it gets lost, or trying to reverse engineer it will cause all the data to wipe itself off.
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@Petergriffinenjoyer-k8c The debt ceiling is an artificial limit that political parties use to haggle. Either the Republicans or Democrats need it raised depending on who's in control, so they'll try to get concessions to approve the raise.
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 @subjectc7505 Who said anything about Moscow? Already hedging your bets?
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@subjectc7505 So basically if Russia takes the L and leaves Ukraine you still claim victory because Moscow wasn't taken?
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@subjectc7505 Moscow is worthless, it's full of Muscovites. Nobody wants it.
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@petesjk Mixing is a hell of a bad idea. Now if you lose a Gripen pilot you can't take a F/A-18 pilot to replace him. If all the Gripens are stuck in maintenance the F/A-18 maintainers can't be called to help.
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I remember the tales about how entire threads had to be purged from Something Awful in the 2000s due to the talk about classified projects.
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Just like old people still say "Holland" in many languages.
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Vatnik delusion.
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@tomzamp8547 That has nothing to do with the war, though. That's the world shooting itself in the foot economically since 2020.
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Basically, you could take all the features of other rifles that have arguably outpaced KAC and make your perfect rifle, I'd wish you could cram the SR-15 bolt and gas system in it.
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 @ChIGuY-town22_ I'd rather pay with money than with blood.
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Doctrinal difference between SEAD and DEAD.
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@cantstandya157 Severely fallacious argument. Can't believe 73 people agree with such a disgusting, bad faith interpretation.
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Please don't. Tampons are meant for a tiny leak. Arteries flow like a faucet.
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Okay, do you have any data that contradicts his claims in this video?
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How? He was in Wisconsin all day, and was loaned the rifle in the state. What would be the federal charges?
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 @JoeSmith-sl9bq It's only idiotic if it was a secret. Everyone knew that Zaporizhzhia was the only option.
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 @monadsingleton9324 That barrage didn't stop the offensive. Are you sure?
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@gomahklawm4446 Numbers from Shoigu, lol opinion discarded
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You mean the FSB stooge Patriarch Kirill. You try and run a church in the US that blesses people if they kill Americans.
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Occupy was initially grassroots. One of the guys who organized it came forward saying that it was co-opted.
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@tkmonson I'm sorry but to follow the logical train of thought hosting is indeed needed. If your first response to social control is running away and rejecting society as society becomes increasingly networked, you're just proving my point. "Just go outside and talk to people" - This is an admission of defat. You've already exposed how social control on the web creates a paradigm where the Skinner box promotes the good opinions by allowing them an audience of millions, and forces the bad opinions to be spread by word of mouth. Right there you're proving my point for me, but you think you're arguing about "muh freeze peach" and don't even realize you're describing exactly how social media shapes society. "all you need is a server that runs a discussion forum program, no payment required" - Payment is indeed required. Server costs are a thing. And even if you run your own server you need a domain name registrar. But it doesn't matter. You've already ran towards the little forum, while society remains in the big social media platforms. The fact that your forum can be nuked at any time by servers or payment processing companies is just the cherry on top. "it's refusing to be bothered by things like downvotes, hostile replies, or bans" - Downvotes don't only have a psychological impact, but they hide content and prevent users from interacting on certain subreddits, etc. You can refuse to get bothered, but the feedback loop continues. All your rambling about free speech and muh private business shows you don't even understand what you're talking about. You want to talk about free speech and private business, we can do that somewhere else. We're talking about social control, and so far you've described exactly how society is controlled through social media while talking about something else.
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@tkmonson "A natural political solution" - This transcends politics. "Ending net neutrality would be the true social control, and we should prevent that at all costs. " - But that's not what Net Neutrality is. NN is simply ISPs not being able to promote and disincentivize the use of certain services. Net Neutrality is essentially, if I'm torrenting next door to you while you try to play online games, our ISP is prohibited by law from letting your data cut in front of mine even though your use of the internet is time sensitive and mine isn't. That's all it is. Somehow NN advocates (big tech) managed to fool normies into thinking it protects the consumer when in reality it just protects tech monopolies.
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@tkmonson This is not about what any of us wants. Social media is a Skinner box, period. Don't get stuck in the debate club mentality when that's not what's happening here.
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Remarks are one thing. Actions are another. As they say, words are cheap. If we took words at face value, then Ukrainians are also guilty of genocide over things they have said about Russia.
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No such thing happened. The majority of casualties in Iraq were caused by Iraqis
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@NetScalerTrainer How is it a lie? The Iraq Body Count Project estimated 7,299 civilian deaths from US actions in the 2003 war. Up until 2020 they estimated 185,000 to 200,000 deaths. 33% were execution after abduction, suicide bombs 14%, vehicle bombs 9% and roadside bombs 5%. Obviously, the US wasn't doing this. Most casualties in Iraq were from Iraqis themselves leaving bombs in civilian areas or executing people.
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@NetScalerTrainer Not because of America - because of an insurgency created by the Ba'ath party loyalists and Iranian militias. And the actions weren't imperial - the US literally built and funded their government and armed forces and left. Then they partially folded against ISIS and required assistance to fight back.
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Saltpeter depots that throw off burning chunks of rocket fuel and artillery warheads that look like fireworks in the night sky. Sure thing, Joeski from Florida Oblast.
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"they did not create the constitution at all with regard to minorities" didn't they actually put a law on the books that said that importation of slaves had to end within 20 years as a compromise to get support from slave owners in creating the united states? aka they foresaw the abolition but could not put it in place without pissing off powerful people?
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If it pissed them off, why no response to Sweden or Finland. Also, would not Russian invasions in the past piss everyone else off, making them consider NATO membership?
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800 dollar phone vs 15 dollar headset.
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Complete lie, a fabrication by book writers with an axe to grind. The USAF was actually criticized for buying too many A-10s.
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Bubba-tier.
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BRICS isn't a military alliance. India and China is literally fighting border skirmishes with sticks.
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Exactly. End taxation.
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The problem is that money rarely changes and if you try to change the picture you're trying to print then you'll make a note that will look funny to people. If you try to make a 3d printer refuse to print a gun not only will you need to always keep feeding it the new models of guns people are designing for 3D printers, but you will also have to deal with people changing the models slightly so that they're no longer the same as the prohibited design. Finally, the software on the printer can be easily hacked and people actually make their own 3d printers by buying the motors and hooking them up to microcontrollers running open-source software. The government and manufacturers can't do anything about people buying the components for 3d printers and running their own custom software.
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What failures? The F-4 was ambushed while escorting bombing runs, not the aircraft's fault. When Phantoms went hunting for MiGs they wrecked the NV air force to bits.
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Terrorists had this tech simce the 2010s. Stop.
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@mattsapero1896 You said that they had the capability now. They've had for over a decade. Since the beginning of the US that terrorists had access to firearms. They can get firearms right now. How many terrorists have you seen using firearms in America? Just because something is easily available, doesn't mean terrorists are using it every day in America.
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@mattsapero1896 Okay, but drone dropped bombs were used in the ISIS conflict. Venezuelan president Maduro and one Iraqi PM have survived drone assassination attempts. They're not more vulnerable now. They've already been attacked.
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The US has not sent a single aircraft carrier, fighter jet or bomb to Ukraine. The US wins wars with naval and air power.
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It's probably stock music from the editing software. The bassy music for example was used by a lot of channels.
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@mehrshadvr4 "socialism wasn't a bad thing until the cold war" - it was pretty bad when Trostky and Lenin killed peasants (even communists and anarchists) simply for not adhering to their socialist ideals.
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@mehrshadvr4 Nice whataboutism. You claimed Socialism wasn't bad until the cold war. Nope, the socialists started off by both killing Tsarists AND OTHER LEFTISTS. At one point the two brain cells remaining in your skull cavity should synapse and realize that socialists killing LEFTIST, aka people on YOUR SIDE, simply for opposing tyranny is a bad thing. I didn't praise Pinochet, you're simply trying to use the logical fallacy to get away from having to reevaluate your beliefs.
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@mehrshadvr4 "in Europe people elect socialist all the time" - no, they don't. Name one country in Europe that has elected a party that abolished profit and put the means of production in the hands of the workers. "That's why people in Europe think Americans are dumb" - the vast majority of people in Europe have enough on their plate and don't think about that type of stuff that often. Only pseudo-intellectuals riding on high horses think that. Every day I meet people clearly below 100 IQ and no different from the "dumb American" stereotype. You're only speaking from your own ignorance and lack of experience. "You have been program to think socialism or socialist leader always ends up like USSR." - it's not a "program", you ignoramus. Socialism is the ABOLITION OF PROFIT (aka the end of capitalism) and the social ownership of the means of production. No bosses or factory/business owners. If you want a socialist system, you need to give control of the state to the communist party. If you do not follow the socialist principles, you're not a socialist. Yes, there are parties that call themselves Socialist Party but they're often center-left (in fact they're center right economically because they are for capitalism, and ACTUAL SOCIALISTS AND COMMUNISTS call them center right parties).
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@mehrshadvr4 "Being a socialist doesn't mean you'll make the economy socialist" - Then why break your own principles? "just like how a Capitalist doesn't make every single thing privet" - that's a false equivalence. You can defend a market-based economy and a welfare state at the same time. But you cannot be for free market economies while defending the abolition of capitalism. That's contradictory. "Abolish of profit is how state run their programs" - Ahahaha that has to be the best sleight of hand I've ever seen in an internet argument. No. Abolition of profit is literally arresting anyone attempting to be a "business owner" and trying to take for himself the ownership of something that should be communal. It has fuck all to do with state programs. If you're not willing to line up factory owners against the wall and gun them down for betraying the socialist cause, then you're not abolishing shit. "Every rational person knows a mix economy is the best" - the worst of both worlds. The privatization of profits and the socialization of costs. Socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor. You attempt to get the benefits of the free market and ruin it all with overburdening taxation and bureaucracy. "Also no, the Europe doesn't have center right as leftist" - YOU CAN LITERALLY SEE THEM ON THE CENTER RIGHT IN POLITICAL COMPASSES "That's why they pass free trades, ACA as "socialist healthcare"" - did you just fucking say ACA was free trade? When it banned inter state competition and forced the elimination of plans that didn't meet up to the standards? It was a massive restriction on the market designed to benefit the industry. Not a free trade bill.
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@mehrshadvr4 "lol you are still talking about cold war bs again" - It's the literal definition of socialism. Educate yourself. I won't explain it again. "then Venezuela is not socialist then since it's has privet businesses according to you" - Is that your gotcha moment? It only shows how bad it is for the economy if you start nationalizing industries. So much for your mixed economy model. "all socialized means the hospital and doctors work for the government with no profit" - but there is a profit - it gets the money it needs every year, and it grows over time. "As we have seen here , healthcare doesn't work when it's for profit entirely" - Why? "a rational person knows a mix system works the best" - You are mixing conclusions and premises. You have no argument. Stop making claims without evidence or at least a coherent basis for your conclusion. "Profit seeking is good on consumer goods but profit seeking on essential things like healthcare, education and utilities , will leave many people behind without government control." - why? "ACA is actually a healthcare plan from heritage foundation" - lmao and you expected those fuckers to do something right?
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Global warming will cause an ice age. The melting of the ice caps will release cold water into the Gulf Stream, which carries an enormous amount of heat trough the planet. Basically, there's no way to run away from ice ages.
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They're forced to offer masdive discounts.
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DU is only mildly radioactive. The fact that it's a heavy metal is much more dangerous to humans. There was a proposal to replace DU penetrators in munitions with tungsten, turns out that on impact the tungsten turns to dust and it's as cancerogenic as DU.
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Buks are taken out by long range artillery and HIMARS as their lower range requires them to be closer to the front. Pantsirs can certainly do the job, but we have seen Russian crews themselves recording the Pantsir screen to show how they have a Storm Shadow locked but the lock keeps dropping so they can't shoot it down. So eventually something will slip through. The ATACMS seems able to come down at high enough speed to bypass Buks and Pantsirs.
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Small revolvers are either hard-recoiling, heavy-trigger rimfire or those NAA derringers. While they're fine to a seasoned shooter they're bad starting points.
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Abrams tank. No "h".
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It's literally the opposite. You actually get protection and the money you spend is on your own defense and readiness. Meanwhile the CSTO (Russia's NATO) is the successor to the Warsaw Pact - the defensive alliance in which members attack each other.
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@ricardocantoral7672 Right. When the US invaded Iraq a ton of NATO countries refused to do it. They spat on the Don's face. What happened? They changed french fries to liberty fries in some restaurant or whatever. Some mafia boss.
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A garage doesn't win a war. You can blow up a thousand garages, doesn't mean anything when Russian soldiers are getting defeated on the ground.
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Yeah, he had stopped doing the gun content. That's the point.
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 @user-tz9jh6pv2j nanometers are a marketing number. Every brand measures the thickness of the traces however they want.
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Russia is a hero for starving third world countries?
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Nazis to Jews: "you could just come out hands up" Soviets to anti-fascist militias and resistance fighters: "you could just come out hands up" Yeah we've heard that one before.
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@jimpeschke3435 the Oak Ridge experiment lasted 5 years
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@iHaveTheDocuments That's not the point. I can say anything I want. I can say Xi is the best leader. But I have to pay my bills and work a job. The CCP wires me 100k bucks. I can quit my job and just do the videos I was already doing. Do you not get how that is a massive reward? Making your hobby into something profitable enough to quit working?
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@oopomopoo The US civilian improsoned was CoachRedPill, an infamous sex tourist who went to Ukraine to marry. He was basically an expat and he was advicating for Russia in a country at war. If you were found to be talking with Al Qaeda recruiters in the 2000s we'd send you to Gitmo.
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The 2015 report isn't valid because it was still a test airframe with old software. Jesus Christ would it kill to pay a little attention?
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@david834 Yes it is a software problem because the SOFTWARE CONTROLS THE AIRCRAFT. Read the report. Look at the pilot's own words. He asked for software improvements to address turning abilities.
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Russians put theirs once they were told they were invading Ukraine which had Javelins. Israelis put theirs when they were about to fight an enemy known to use quadcopters to drop bombs.
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Heavy offensive? Another Vuhledar?
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Russia can't even beat Ukraine armed with our surplus.
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Air Force
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@ConstantineJoseph There's no balance. They're losing the good tanks too, so there's absolutely no conservation going on. It doesn't make sense, unless Russia is desperate. Low cost? All the tanks were paid off decades ago. It shouldn't make a difference if it's a T-55, T-62, T-72 or T-80. The fact that they're bringing the T-55s means they're climbing down the totem pole as the vast majority of the storage tanks are garbage. Expendable? The crews are precious. Treating the tank as expendable will resort to progressively less trained tankers. The Russian military was supposed to be able to put conscripts in a modern tank. The fact that they can't already spells out the reality of the situation - Russia was defeated, they're just insisting on prolonging the suffering.
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Nicholas Connor as much as I joke about Obama being similar to GW Bush, in terms of policies republicans had reasons to hate Obama. The guns issue, the ACA is against right-wing economics, etc.
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Seemed pretty good when the F-117s bombed Baghdad and ground crews started firing into the air in panic because they couldn't tell where the planes were.
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"You can get covid more then once" - Yes, because of variants. However many I know who had it more than once felt that it became weaker the second time because they were already primed for the previous variant "You always want a backup in case your main safety precaution fails" - This isn't a backup, it's a tool for control. Erase the passport BS, and then we can talk about backups. Until then, this is 100% political.
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@skymningforelsket1302 There's no infinitely broad antibodies, same reason a person can get the cold every year.
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Ukraine could push Russia to the Kamchata peninsula and you'd still do this.
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@rodh2168 The origin of Russian VTOL was the Yak-38 which has nothing to do with the F-35B. The Yak-141 had the three bearing swivel nozzle which was taken from the Convair Model 200, and no lift fan. Yes, the narrator said it had a lift fan. He was wrong. The Soviets never developed a lift fan.
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Luty also had a booklet PDF on ammo on his website. Could probably be outdated due to laws changing but at the time he provided a way to make .380 Auto and .38 revolver shells.
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McCarthy was right.
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>WELL REGULATED MILITIA For the record, you dig yourself on that hole. The basis of English language is not up for discussion. Despite your interpretation of the 2ndA, the justification clause is NOT more important than the operative clause. That's the first point. The second point, is that the operative clause states that it's the right of the PEOPLE, not militia. Third, the "scared cats" have been carrying guns everywhere, except gun free zones - where shootings happen.
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I hope this is satire. It's not a "better" or "worse" problem, it's that you can't just mix both when they were designed for one standard. Also, the inch is defined by the metric system. Imperial is just metric with a conversion applied to it.
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The US has not declared war on Russia, or vice versa.
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@TM-sm5qy An Ukrainian called "Enrique"? Bot.
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Not related at all. Maui doesn't get weapons shipped to them if Ukraine doesn't.
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@Shackofcinnamon "back account"
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There seems to have been an advance party reaching Lysychansk but they have not retaken it. They're waiting for the regular units to make progress before entering it.
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They're using the combat capable fraction of the military. You think sending nurses, parade units, border guards, supply clerks, drivers, cooks, etc to the front line is going to fix anything?
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Of course you'd have to overlook facts like Jewish people were a minority and that the Nazis did hide the plans was to exterminate their race.
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More or less. Most journalism is reporting, not random stuff but either news coming from agencies that break stories, or simply retelling what was revealed in press releases, interviewing people, etc. Investigative journalism is when a journalist actually starts an in-depth analysis to find something closer to the "truth". A journalist will tell you a bridge fell, an investigative journalist will find out the construction company gave money to the mayor.
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@allenstanley3418 Nah it's an old martial arts bullshido fuddlore. If you got pressed you said you did martial arts so they shouldn't mess with you. When people then said "okay let's fight" you replied "I can't, my fists are registered as weapons and I'll go to jail". There's no such registry.
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 @davidparsons2391 the wife murdered her husband and made it look like an accident
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@davidparsons2391 Irrelevant. It wasn't an accident but a chance to get away with murder.
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@davidparsons2391 She was also a Democratic Party donor so it's essentially impossible she listened to Trump's advice. She also tried to claim she didn't know the dosage. Perfectly good medicine can kill if the dosage is wrong so it's 100% her fault.
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@davidparsons2391 "I don't care" says person invested in the narrative
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Respect for what? committing a felony by shortening the barrel?
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Blackwater does not exist. Not as Academi. Not as Xe. It does not exist, the entire thing closed shop and got bought by Constellis. Blackwater was providing armed security to infastructure and diplomats/executives. They were not assault troops or acomplishing military objectives. They were paid guards in dangerous countries. Yes, they did get into shootings - hence why they were hired in the first place.
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@AngeloBarovierSD LMAO hellfires were the biggest recruiter for insurgents, for every one killed 49 innocent bystanders paid the price. Go on, use Hellfires on US soil.
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@PicaPauDiablo1 Cuba literally went through revolution against the Batista regime. Great example...
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@markjackson7467 250 sorties of firing rockets into the air lol Running out of airframe hours for nothing
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@pnduarte4696 they have the MiG-29MU2 still flying it. Only Ukraine built it, they couldn't have received from any other country.
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Next driver will be Ivan Ivanovich Ivanovsky.
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@TheJBerg the funny thing is that most HK556 owners had trouble suppressing theirs, mitigating the issue involves drilling a front vent in the gas block which means you get a little flash coming out the front from that hole in low light, and correct me if I'm wrong but the first model with a suppressed setting on the gas block was the A5.
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No. This is SARS CoV 2. The 19 is simply for the year 2019. The number two only means it's the second with the naming convention and doesn't imply mutation because the source has not been traced but it's not from a previous human infection as SARS was contained.
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They can chew gum and walk, but not at the same time.
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@HackersSun They're pretty garbage, though. There's been billions spent on industrial plants that aren't even properly operational. Want carbon capture? Fast growing plants could be harvested and pyrolised. You get wood gas which can be used for energy, and the charcoal is trapped carbon. Bury it in soil to fertilize it. Repeat. You always capture more carbon than you release, you just have to use the charcoal as fertilizer rather than fuel.
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The lost a dozen aircraft doing this lol
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"Americas track record of "air combat", killing 800,000 civilians in less than a year" - Please stop lying. You're lying about civilian deaths by a factor of 100. You're taking the number of people killed in sectarian violence and Al Qaeda terrorism and claiming they were killed by American bombs.
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@TheArcticFoxxo There more things I disagree with but of course that I'm going to single out the part that's an outright false accusation.
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@TheArcticFoxxo You claimed almost a million dead from American air strikes.
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@yfelwulf It didn't happen. GREY ZONE, the telegram associated with Wagner, said it was fake.
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The fact that you quoted the ruble value shoots down all your credibility.
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You got on trains and busses to visit China. Someone working and living on city A has fewer reasons to visit city B.
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Tell Putin to keep nukes off the table and we'll tell the Ukrainians to step aside. You think the 1991 Gulf War was a curb stomp? You have seen nothing yet.
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@britishrocklovingyank3491 "We are going to spend a trillion dollars for something that isn't going to fight the wars it is supposed to fight." - Wtf no more wars? I love the F-35 even more now.
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Drones can't win battles yet. You still need the infantry to do their job, and infantry needs their metal boxes.
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@tellyboy17 But other systems aren't obsolete. Just like infantry wasn't rendered obsolete by the machine gun. No matter what the enemy has, you still need that metal box on wheels or tracks to get you within firing range of the enemy position. That makes them by definition not obsolete, as they still have a role and can't be replaced. Drones are targets too. Thousands are downed per month.
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@tellyboy17 But drones are targets. They get shot down or brought down with EW. Without the metal boxes, you catch a FPV drone directly to your meat and bones. I'd rather take it on the steel protecting me.
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@cerbervladimirvk1534 So companies got the 53rd missile brigade stationed in Kursk to bring a Buk launcher to the separatist region, for profit? You want to sell me a conspiracy, I'm all ears. But give me the red yarn to connect the dots, otherwise those are just excuses. The order was given by Ukraine? But the separatists posted on Vkontakte bragging about the shootdown, before news broke that it was a civilian airliner. They didn't hush the investigation. The Russian military members are being tried in-absentia in the Hague. There was no data to be corrected. The fragments are consistent with missiles used in Buks, a Buk was seen in the region, the place where it was fired from left a scorch mark in the field, the launcher was filmed being hauled by truck. The dents in metal sheeting confirm it was the launcher numbered 322.
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@evbbjones7 Exactly. Suddenly what others do is part of your private life. So now to keep a handle on your private life you have to police what others do in their private lives. Get it now? I'm not the father of his wife but do you think he's the only individual doing this? Let's provide some context - HE started his own grift about being a manly man, conning people out of their money. HE made his deviant lifestyle public and wrapped us into it by trying to be a leader in online communities. HE was the one who acted like a toddler to Sydney when all she did was read a superchat. What illicit material? Oh, you're going to state you don't care for the umpteenth time that you don't care, even though you already openly admitted that you do as long as it hurts your family?
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@evbbjones7 lmao the only rage bait was the 5 dollar superchat that killed his grift. Victim mentality? Like accusing people of posting revenge porn and starting a war room? Publicly tagging Glenn Beck over this BS? I think it's funny you're talking about children when the topic is obviously adult in nature. I guess Goldman meant little girls literally. I asked a specific question. What illicit material? By definition illicit means against the law. Who's talking about illegal material? I'm not playing dumb, I am asking you which part was illegal.
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@evbbjones7 You do realize sons and daughters become adults, right? They don't stay children forever. You don't even know what a strawman is. How is it a rule or custom that the material is illicit? Pornography is culturally accepted and the footage was voluntarily posted online. While a taboo subject, almost nobody actually judges anyone for watching it. So again, how is the material illicit?
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 @Mallchad It's not "shady", they were aware that the linux boot was the gate to piracy. When the sales stopped, people started looking for pre-patch PS3s so they could pirate gsmes.
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@Mallchad You can do what you like, including not getting the update. Or you could try to crack the new updated PS3s security.
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@TheGreatAmphibian You don't let them find the target. You find the target, and order the drone to meet it. Freaking grandmas in villages in Finland warned of Soviet bombing runs by calling the city on the only landline available in the village. A computerized system with eyes, ears everywhere will see and hear drones coming.
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Is that the sound you make when the Devydovchina happens?
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They got arrested lol
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The lines of defense are there to protect hubs like Tokmak and Melitopol. Building newer defenses in less time way behind where they should be does nothing. It's like hiding from an anaconda inside a cage that leaves your head on the outside. The neck is precisely what's gonns get choked out.
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@martinsmith9054 They don't have to. If the rail supplies get shelled, Russians run out of supplies.
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@martinsmith9054 Things you've probably said after the Kherson retreat.
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@martinsmith9054 It's not about men. A few "potholes" on Antonovsky bridge was enough for Russia to give the city of Kherson, and everything to the north. Put 300 million men in the front. With a rail supply cut, they starve. Dig trenches for 100 miles. Without supplies the trenches are just filled in and rolled over. Russians did not break when Kherson was attacked. They broke when supply lines were reduced to ferries.
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@martinsmith9054 Seems ATACMS are in order, at one point or the other the Kerch bridge will be dropped again.
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The craters in Energodar show Russia is shelling the land adjacent to the power plant. Also, the Rosatom representative claimed rockets do a 180º before landing, hence they look like they came from Russia. Does this sound reasonable?
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Cope and seethe.
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They don't love you back.
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You know how hard it is to pull footage? Privacy protection laws also mean that often even if you manage to get the footage released, you can't post it publicly. A lot of "spicy" footage online is filmed off a screen by phone, because the file of the recording is not supposed to leave the room.
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@joshuasisson6816 Scientists know. You just don't hear the "scientists" on TV talk about it.
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The Germans had gyros on their V2 rockets so yes, they had been invented by then.
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@juliering3646 You say that, but you'd be the first one to cry if you were turned down by any business for any other reason.
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 @donaldhobson8873 Frostbite is not a problem where I live, why do I have to increase my chances of heatstroke? Wear gloves.
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The PSL is more of an oversized Kalashnikov design.
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Russia was left alone, and look at what they did.
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Any CAS mission requires orders from a JTAC/FAC, that's literally part of the doctrine. The pilot cannot deploy weapons without ground controllers, period. Be it F-16 or F-15E.
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@brucewayneissober6915 It's Russia in some crayon drawings posted in a Kremlin fridge. The guns on the ground have final say, and it's Ukrainian guns doing the job right.
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I'm pretty sure gun rights are in jeopardy if you keep opening your mouth. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and ask you to read my comment again. If you still don't get it, then I'm afraid your level of illiteracy will only be used against us.
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As an European, you have no idea what freedom is. Banning guns is never reasonable.
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F-16.
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It's the bridge supplying the resources to the Russian military. The East to South rail cannot be used by Russia because it's within range of Ukrainian artillery, so they have to supply their forces through Crimea.
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Which is why a carrier strike group has several ships capable of anti-submarine warfare.
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"Dear passengers, if you look towards your left you'll see a cliff - that's China's demographics."
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@normanbreau295 http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/bsf-osb.nsf/vwapj/Redish-Sarra-Schabas-2006-ENG.pdf/%24FILE/Redish-Sarra-Schabas-2006-ENG.pdf 15% of bankrupcies of people over 55 in Canada are due to medical reasons
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@prettyevil6662000 I'm from Portugal and our healthcare is shit. We're currently facing the double-whammy of the possibility of a maternity shutdown in the capital and strikes by the nurses.
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@Solaxe You understand that's worse, right? If the fool can outsmart the world leaders, it means the leaders are even worse.
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Just get knox gelatin powder and check the back alleys behind clothing stores for mannequins they tossed out.
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Watch your mouth, my boy Tito still got shooters out there.
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@Mohamoud Hassen the "technology" will force us to abuse poorer countries for their resources. Hey I hear Afghanistan has huge rare earth mineral deposits.
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The Syrian war was where we saw drones being used originally.
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Sir, this is a Wendy's.
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@nameredacted1242 You can't import them because they were manufactured in Russia. Did you forget the sanctions?
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@tonywilson4713 The A-10 is vulnerable due to essentially being a 1960s design born into a 1970s-present world. There are other close support aircraft that prioritize keeping the aircraft safe over expecting it to get hit. "check what's happened when its been up against planes like F16s in open air combat trials" - I want to kick people in the nuts over this. You're referring to a 2015 article by David Axe that was picked up and quoted ad nauseam by other outlets without doing the basic legwork. Axe wrote an article based on a leaked report he misunderstood. He didn't read it properly. For six years that I've had to explain to other people that just because they read something on the internet doesn't make it true. If you had read the report, you'd have learned it was a software control laws test, not "open air combat trials". I swear people make up more details on this story every time it's told because this is the first time I see someone refer to the test as a "open air combat trial". The F-35 in question was AF-02 and it was loaded with limited software. If you read the report, the pilot asks for software fixes. Please, for the love of everything, READ the sources instead of relying on glorified bloggers acting as journalists. "look for the Pierre Sprey and Chip Berke discussion" - Watched it the day it came out. "What Pierre Sprey goes into is what happens when an F35 is located and then engaged" - Pierre Sprey had retired from the aviation industry decades prior. I'm sorry, but what he thought he knew was woefully outdated. "that has nothing to do with combat" - But it has everything to do with the performance claims being made.
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The US had hypersonic manned aircraft in the 1960s. Just started developing it? They had hypersonic missile prototypes achieving the rated speeds in 2004.
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@aztech101la "slow down" if it slowed down then still most people getting infected would not be wearing masks because it would spread faster. If it spreads more among mask wearers then it's spreading faster.
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 @MrMrmoore2013 What do you mean hopefully? Don't sign a contract, it's your choice.
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 @EngineerMFB Africa's population is increasing due to people living longer. Birth rates are dropping in Africa too.
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 @juriteller3688 Many African countries that used to be 7 kids per woman decades ago are now at below 5 per woman.
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 @Крайвус Kyiv is attacked by drones and missiles, Russia doesn't dare fly their aerospace forces over the capital.
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 @SuperPopopirat The truth of a NATO stronghold in Ukraine? Was Hitler hiding in the dark side of the moon too? How many Boris Johnsons were captured?
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Funny, where are the 1-3 and 5-10 numbers? Because most of those countries have strict gun laws.
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Relevance?
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3d printing is a bad way to build housing. Most of the homeless are mentally ill and addicted to substances, policies that focus on housing fail because a homeless person rarely can be housed. First you have to fix their addiction or mental illness, then they'll get a house.
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The average Ukrainian soldier has one less Mi-8 firing rockets at him.
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If they make you wait until you're dead that's essentially a denial.
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@merkridge8780 https://www.dn.pt/pais/interior/atraso-em-colonoscopias-colocam-em-causa-vidas-de-doentes---europacolon--9656754.html delays in colonoscopies that should be scheduled within 3 weeks are being pushed to an average of 5 months, which contributes to 4 thousand deaths every year from colon cancer. So if you're in my country and get blood on your stool... find a way to get diagnosed somewhere else because if you wait for the public system the cancer is going to progress. And this is just one area where the public healthcare system is ripping us off.
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 @wpjohn91 You make a claim, you provide the evidence. Otherwise it's useless. You made the claim, why you asking others?
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@wpjohn91 Again, what did you say? What do you want to be taken seriously? Until you decide, nothing can be believed. Decide. This is your game, you should know how to play it. We're not playing your game, Ivan.
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Putin's army is already occupying Belarus. They didn't need to buy, just ask kindly.
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@jamesgo2014 that's not even whataboutism, it's just make-stuff-up-ism. Name any instance where America forced people to vote at gunpoint, annexed territory and then threatened to use nukes.
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Prices are lower there, but they're not paid Canadian wages.
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Prices are lower there, but they're not paid Canadian wages.
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One guy did one. Now try a 2000 unit sized fleet and just 1000 for foreign orders to start with.
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@LolTollhurst But Saab said they could upgrade Cs to Es, so Cs will have to be cannibalized to keep their promise. Time and time again Saab's marketing dept. wrote checks their engineering couldn't cash.
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Putin is WEF.
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 @CarlosConsorcioCastellanoPerez It's not weird. The war is being fought with Cold War surplus. Except for the munitions, everything was paid for decades ago.
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0:31 shows you what it is, it's pretty obvious
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@AK-tx1vg I guess it's endemic to Russia simps
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@ilovethisworld3059 And? Not an excuse. All he had to do was step away.
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It's a story.
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@bluerock4456 It's not. The story makes no sense and it's not plausible for Norway to use an aircraft they could not have used at the time.
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@@jimmywrong8693 Seborreitic Dermatitis? My barber recommended a Schwarzkopf shampoo from their pro-line, it's like 3x more expensive than H&S but I only need to use it 2-3 times a week.
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+movie guy the third the guns were assembled from parts and the ammunition was smuggled from Bosnia. Nothing to do with Czech Republic. Breivik of Norway tried to buy them in the Czech Republic but they don't sell to foreigners.
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+Julien nl tell that to the Brazilians, Mexicans, etc that their gun control means fewer killed. El Salvador, Honduras, etc. A lot worse than the US in gun homicide, restrictive gun laws and very few guns around. All in the hands of criminals, mostly.
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But hospitals were getting money from the government by reporting hospitalizations and deaths.
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It was released by their military.
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There will be no end to the conflict without security guarantees. Russia will break the treaty before the ink dries. It happened in Minsk I. Russia invaded Debaltseve right after signging a ceasefire.
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@HTW_EDITZ "No one has said it stops transmission" - But they did.
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@sheiladikshit5110 I don't know why you're shotgunning unrelated subjects at the wall but your question does not make sense. Is loss of privacy a global conspiracy? It seems most countries are passing laws that further violate privacy, undermine cryptography, know-your-customer laws, the controversial IRS audit thing in America. Is this happening or not? I hope you answer yes. If you answered that yes, you recognize many governments are moving against privacy, are you claiming that it's a global conspiracy?
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 @Mmmmm-i8t if you notice, the Hong Kong company was the Chinese knife maker selling "Japanese" knives. The joke flew over your head.
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@Edmar_Thorn the problem with homelessness is a combination of substance abuse, mental illness, zoning laws, building codes, etc. We always had the potential to eliminate homelessness, ever heard of bricks? You can stack bricks and make houses, it's gonna be faster than waiting for one to print. The problem is that you can't just build houses in the middle of Central Park, or you can't just buy an empty lot and start building without permits, and even if you try to do everything the legit way and then build your house by hand you'll violate all sort of codes. Building a house the true legit way costs so much money that materials science isn't the limiting factor.
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No offense but this is sheer Vatnik propaganda. Germany and Japan were destroyed and rebuilt. The Russian manpower losses are much more severe - recent videos show meat waves with no heavy armor just assaulting defending positions. If you think Ukraine is suffering now, imagine what will happen when in 8 years Russia invades again. Rip the bandaid off now.
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@Jay-bf8yp Russian demographics are worse than Ukrainian. They're not insulated. Their size? Most of their land mass is in Asia.
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@NACAM42 considering how Boeing decided to risk millions of passenger's lives with their 737 MAX stunt and their hiring of 9 dollars per hour engineers, a sarcastic quip about Boeing not thinking about things is actually pretty dark humor
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No, they use 5.45, and 5.8.
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 @philipcoffman4372 This was confirmed by whom?
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 @Tigadee00 AWACS is more of a "map" in the corner of your screen, nose radar in a fighter is the hand moving the mouse so you can put the crosshair on the enemy.
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It's not that deep.
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@Chino_White The only person doing such is you. I'm commenting on your "work" (if you can call it that) because it's wrong.
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Then care about Honey colluding with websites to hide codes.
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Okay. Why do climate models rely heavily on changing temperature records? Why are most alarmists using a model that is known to be wrong? The average person can't think, so let us think for them. Yeah okay.
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you can't refute facts so you resort to insults - thanjs for admitting you're wrong.
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None of that has anything to do with the fact that the Nazi government was financially inept and cheated the books like the Chinese government does today.
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That's just a souped up Harrier. Would not be relevant for the 21st century.
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Theoretically possible considering that lab tests determines that airborne particles can last 3 hours, but you'd sooner win the lottery than inhale enough of a viral load through the window.
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@vn3353 Artillery advantage doesn't mean anything. Empty fields in Ukraine are cratered like the Moon surface because Russian artillerymen used their "superiority" to blanket entire grid squares no matter their value.
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Chuck Norris is repping Glock, too
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Bruh Russia's population is half of that and there's hints that their population stats are cooked up. Most Russians are in the city and content to live their city lifestyle and the ones living in the countryside don't care about who the current Tsar is.
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 @rsKayiira the IFVs and tanks are what keep Russian initiative going. Ukraine can't get a plan in motion because they have to defend the non-stop assaults.
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It's an idea, but not an ideology.
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The AIM-9X seeker is extremely hard to fool. The missile just failed, it happens. The 9X sees a thermal image. It can see the difference between a shape with wings and tail and cockpit and just glowing orbs that aren't aircraft shaped.
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Which is nullified by Russia themselves trading Azov for Medvedchuk. A hundred Azov for his friend. Lmao.
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You're missing the A
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They're not plane sized. They're missile sized, receive radar energy, spit it back out to make themselves look like a plane by modulating the signal response.
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It has excellent range.
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Nothing reasonable about demanding hundreds of thousands to lose their jobs.
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@antediluvianatheist5262 Russia is losing its army. Whenever they abandon land in panic, they get slaughtered. Routing an enemy is a great way to produce casualties without taking them as well.
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@Lomnjac007 if they lost 15k why do they need 300k?
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@Theranthrope Have you ever wondered why they remain remote tribes instead of exploring the world? Raising a child on zero dollars is "free" because it consumes everything else you could accomplish. The problem here is that everyone wants birth rates to increase, but nobody wants to be a remote tribe. So children cost money. Because we invented currency. Which allows us to have penicillin, lightbulbs and airliners.
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@Galfeo There's also examples of A-10's that got hit and crashed, and one example of a pilot who died trying to land his damaged A-10. He should have ditched it near the base instead of trying to land that wreck but the A-10s reputation killed him.
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@PabloTBrave First, the Wagner troops will obey the MoD. So who's to say they're going with Prigozhin? Second, Russia has kept a contingent in Belarus since last year. Why? To keep Ukrainian forces there. If an invasion through the northern axis were to happen, they'd have done it before.
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What a joke. They were never a NATO force. The "endless funding" was a pittance considering most of their equipment was still Soviet in origin. You're using eight years as a measure of time when effort is usually in a sane measuremdnt like man hours. A month in combat easily has more man hours than several years, because Bakhmut clearly does not have 8 years worth of man hours put into it. It's a town reduced to rubble. It was a temporary roadblock to reinforce the Kramatorsk line behind, but ended up stalling Russians there.
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@austinlevi3452 They were not NATO. The cities were not "fortified", otherwise Russian shelling wouldn't be so catastrophic.
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Is this a joke? The .280 British was an anemic cartridge. The 6.8 is a screamer. The recoil is stout and the case is 51mm sort of like the 7.62 NATO round. It's made to bust plates.
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Having more artillery doesn't mean you land more hits. Shells on empty fields produce zero casualties.
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 @hiteshadhikari It's also against international law to steal territory. Russia steals your car but then demands a full tank of gas.
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You just missed the Steam sale, Activision had the originals and remakes with a significant price cut.
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Did you listen to the final minutes of the video?
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@FaustoPego So thanks for admitting that you were wrong and did so out of willful ignorance, which is less excusable than just ignorance.
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@haozhang6247 You're changing the subject. They have economic ties with China. Okay so there's a reason not to speak up against China. Aren't Saudi Arabia and the UAE engaging in genocide in Yemen? Doesn't Qatar have slavery? The joke is that you can't have a discussion without pointing fingers. When debating China's innocence, you bring up the US's guilt.
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@ciditan1615 "I think it is no harm and not difficult to watch some vlog about China by expat on YT" - And how do I know how to trust? If they say anything negative they may be asked to leave the country and have their visa revoked. You see the issue? Aren't these expats breaking the law by posting on Western social media? Aren't they evading content blocks through VPNs? "How a country that is so "badass" is developing its economy so fast" - By doing a deal with the Devil. And the Devil always comes back to pay. Impending demographic collapse and housing crisis. "How the investor get payback ?" - I don't know what case you're talking about. You're asking me how to commit financial crimes? I think the point of a financial crime is that the transaction doesn't even make sense, and someone runs off with the money. "And the investor are all private company." - So what? Tons of private dealings have public money involved. How is this a smoking gun? "your media will never say it" - You keep saying "your media", but I don't watch media. Might be projection. "So you people remain in your little bubble" - And you're outside a bubble? "What a pathetic." - Not more pathetic than defending a government.
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@ciditan1615 I could do a daily vlog in any country and make it look good. Nothing needs to be staged. I just need to go to the right places and point the camera in the right directions. "No one will be arrsted for critisize Chinese government." - I simply do not trust your word. "that is a trick to remind you the suviet union CCCP" - But nobody calls it CCCP here. People in English speaking countries call it USSR. In most Latin speaking countries it's URSS. The vast majority of people hasn't seen the Cyrillic spelling. It's a nice theory, but it doesn't even work.
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@ciditan1615 Trusting anything you see is absurd. Ever seen a movie? It's all fake. I have seen many Chinese vlogs. You know who is probably the most famous expat vlogger? Serpentza. You're saying you trust everything you see and everyone who speaks. As if people with a camera cannot be biased. As if people who speak cannot lie. That's pathetic. Not having healthy distrust of people who lie for profit.
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@questworldmatrix "Although I can admire the thinking of other countries bring bought off" - It's not thinking, they literally get bought off. Have you noticed how many countries receive US "foreign aid" so they'll play nice with Israel? Countries with a track record of doing whatever gets them the most money and also of human rights abuses aren't exactly the unbiased observers one would think they are. "you're being invited to go, and you're going to play the "I would go to Xinjiang, but I took an arrow to the knee" card? It's not East Berlin, dude. " - Arrow to the knee? You're almost a decade late with that reference. I am being invited to a place that has a track record of being rough on dissidents. I will not do something as stupid as going to a place where my safety cannot be guaranteed simply because a random internet person told me that actually China is a very free country and they pinky promise nothing's going to happen. You know, back when East Berlin was a thing some people would have said that it was a great place and worth visiting. It would have been wise not to trust them then.
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Carissa Wu "they actually invited the BBC to Xinjiang" - And a cartel boss can also invite you to a particular location in Central/South America at a time he specifies. You won't find any drugs. He picked the place. He picked the time. Do you honestly not see a problem there? Do you think that being invited to a random spot in Siberia during the Cold War would disprove the existence of Gulags? Do you think you'll see human rights abuses in the Pyongyang tours? No. "She is an Ughyur girl living in Xinjiang" - Who do I believe? The people who have to sneak coded messages out? Or the person in China openly using YouTube even though they're not supposed to? Hmmmm. "just because another country has close economic ties to China does not mean they will just blindly follow whatever China says" - Yes but it does mean they have a motive to lie or at least parrot propaganda. Why would they come out swinging against China? Why would they care? They have their own people to take care of, why would they care about the Uyghurs especially when doing so would jeopardize their relations? "By that logic, China has extremely close economic ties to the US" - That's not logical at all. The US and China are competitors. Smaller nations cannot compete. "Israel has close economic relations with China but then US pressures them to act against China all the time" - Hold on. So you're saying the opposite doesn't happen? That Arab countries with economic ties to the US can't be pressured by China? You just debunked your own argument by simply flipping the script. "A lot of the countries that China invited are neutral such as Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia" - They're not "neutral" at all, their close proximity to the South China Sea means they can't rock the boat.
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8-9 months would be a "short" war in the grand scheme of things.
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It's not for no reason. The G36 reached the planned end of life. It was a stopgap to arm Germany after reunification with the DDR.
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And each launch silo needs 2-3 impacts to be disabled.
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15-18 tanks defeated the Russian army in Kharkiv
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@frankdamsy9715 Cost per flight hour is a flawed metric because the purchase of A-10s, upgrading of A-10s, maintenance of A-10s past their prime (older aircraft cost more to upkeep), the fact that man hours have to be diverted into A-10s, etc are all opportunity costs that had to be incurred. In the end, you could easily afford more than enough F-16 flight hours if the A-10 budget had not gone down the drain. Boeing scored two 1 billion contracts to make wings for the A-10. 2 billion is a lot of flight hours.
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That's not Russia's nuclear doctrine.
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 @reasontruthandlogic They did turn off the tap. Problem is, doing that would force them to pay penalties for refusal to deliver.
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Tupac alive in Serbia.
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It's not two games. It's the same game lol
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The assembly lines were shut down. Rebuilding them would make unit cost of the F22 ruse above 200 million. F35 is already as low as 85 million.
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It only takes 28 gallons.
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Companies use footage of their workers as "stock footage" for ads, I've seen peopls I know in ads. The reason Temu is paying is because they need people to advertise their stuff. Just sign up for a talent agency and do ads at that point, you'll end up making more than 50 bucks.
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But that absolutely screws over generational wealth. Billionaires will leave at least 500 million, middle class like us gets a pittance. Inheritance tax is absolutely evil and the trick is pointing to billionaires and pretending it's a punitive action. We don't feel satisfied about extra government funding, we just want to see the rich lose. But they still win. We're the ones losing everything.
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Because it's >40 years old. Aircraft aren't built like classic cars. They have to take off, which means being light. That means the materials bend and fatigue due to forces.
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No. Ukraine used tank offensives to break through in Kharkiv. It's not a symmetrical struggle, because Russia is defending an entire line, Ukraine has to punch through with concentrated mass. There's your asymmetry. Russia, learning? They're still committing the same mistakes they did in February. The asymmetric nature also has required Ukraine to take in unnecessary casualties when they are forced to stand and bang. If they had more means at their disposal, they'd suffer less. Less losses, less time necessary to lick wounds, more time causing successive frontline collapses.
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The same Victoria Nuland who wanted to keep Yanukovich in power as it was US State Dept strategy to keep Ukraine stable and appease Russia?
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Because they'd have to send those assets back into Ukraine. Remember the pictures of burned out armored convoys in Ukrainian towns and cities? Starting an invasion from scratch is hard.
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Russuan government starving their own people to buy weapons from the West. We should give Ukraine even more. Bankrupt Russia. Ukraine gets rich off the sales.
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A 21 year old man in Maryland was murdered by police coming for his guns. Apparently according to you he's still alive because nobody's coming. The NRA is controlled opposition. They strategically let gun control pass so that US companies make more money. What is a "common sense" background check? You heard it from somewhere or you actually know what it entails?
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 @h8GW the inlet screens are just for take off and landing
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@philsurtees that would be the British, actually.
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How would they know without strip searching me? That requires probable cause. If there is enough evidence to consider me a person of interest, the DNA gun is redundant as it proves nothing new - they already know who I am. Plus, if being shot is enough probable cause, how long until people will carry out their revenges by incriminating others with paint? Or simply missing, the damn thing isn't a ballistics prodigy.
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It's not excuses, it's reality. You go out there to move supplies, nobody knows if they're civilian or military. The hammer is looking for a nail, don't go out looking like a nail.
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 @admiralspire Receivers for ARs and AKs can be printed. Slides for pistols are still a problem. That's why most printed handguns are revolvers.
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Forget the gun. Does nothing other weapons can't do. The pilot is the only thing that matters as A-10 pilots are taught in the A-10 school how to do CAS. You can shove them in a different plane.
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Airplanes existed before tanks. "Up-armored" APCs are still vulnerable to many weapons.
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@cosmocosmandoo9074 that's still acceleration. Any change to velocity is acceleration.
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8:15 Tim addresses it.
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@aberba I'll wish all the good, but when those who hate me come knocking love will not be enough.
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Smartphones are used in war. They're bought and sold like drones and Baofeng radios are.
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How are they 10% of the industry when 99% of guns will never be involved in crime?
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Zeihan has mentioned it a lot. The problem is the sheer cost of bringing the mining equipment there and then hauling ore into the nearest port. Afghanistan is too mountainous and isolated so despite having incredible mineral wealth, it's so expensive to dig it out and export that it makes sense to leave it alone.
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@c123bthunderpig Look for "Where in the World: Split Rock, and Afghan Minerals", that's the title of the video where he mentions it. But he has said it on other podcasts, it's just difficult to look for.
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Russia had no cause. Their actions are comic book villain tier and are just a continuation of an imperial project that started before the US existed.
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@michellelewis3063 Yes, and you refuse to see the Muscovite for the liar and crybully that he is. Russia's "causes" are summed up by "waaa why does everyone want to join a defensive alliance after I invaded them waaaa no fair".
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@michellelewis3063 My views are my own. I listen to no governments or narratives, I look at the facts. You don't know history. The promise not to go East was based on EASTERN GERMANY. The Warsaw Pact was not dissolved in 1989. That was German reunification. David Hasselhoff? Yeah. Learn your history. NATO didn't march. Several countries asked for protection from their drunken, belligerent neighbor. What missile systems? Could you name them? There was a major reason for Pearl Harbor - the US pacific fleet was a threat to Japanese imperial ambitions so they figured that knocking the US out of the war before they could even join would pay dividends.
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@michellelewis3063 The drums of war are Russian. We will silence them.
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Combat footage may not have been approved for release so it was leaked. Video may be compressed multiple times as it circles through private channels before becoming public.
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@mikewaterfield3599 Didn't Marines A-6s do the first pass with Mk20 Rockeyes, though?
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Yeah, because about 4 years ago the tubes decided to crack down on videos showing manufacturing and modifications. You can show the item, even how it works, but you can't do an instructional video.
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Ahahah Big Serge is a copium addict. Ukraine showed Brigade level maneuver warfare in 2014. Some of their officers graduated from Soviet institutions, and as part of the GWOT received education in American military academies.
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@KrunoslavStifter The Minsk agreements were used to lower Ukraine's guard and have the DPR attack. Nice try, though. They are losing? The "allied forces" were routed and forced to abandon the northern rail lines supplying the top half of the eastern front. Bad leadership? Didn't the Russians already replace commanders due to the repeated failures? The Russians were already leaving Izyum? Then how come there's plenty of dead bodies, plenty of equipment left behind, all the collaborators either fled in a panic or were arrested by Ukrainian forces, etc? They simply retreated? Okay. So their plan was offering Severodonetsk to Ukraine on a silver platter? Because the rail from the east doesn't connect to the frontline and supplies will have to be delivered by truck. Got destroyed by artillery? But if Russians left, who was spotting? Artillery needs forward observers, you claim they already had left. Air strikes? But Ukraine sent advance parties with air defense, two fixed wing aircraft were shot down and one helicopter was also destroyed. Aviation also needs scouts/forward air control, but you claim they left. The Wagner group is recruiting from prisons because they're all getting killed. Blowing up a dam is a war crime, by the way. It floods civilian areas. Russia is doing well? Ukraine's army gets larger in time. Russia is recruiting convicts.
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You can't infer "intent" from someone driving 20 mins away from home to go to the place his father lives and his friends work at. Even if he had zero relationships there you can't infer intent. People have freedom to travel and can go anywhere they want.
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No glory. Only death.
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He's got 5-10 years tops.
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Soon? Two weeks?
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 @Victor-ns6pj Russia is flying airliners with atrocious lack of regard for safety. Passenger rail doesn't place the demand of 60 ton main battle tanks on the tracks.
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@royalbirb275 well, typically stamping dies need to be made of tough and hard material so they don't wear out quickly from stamping steel non-stop. If you're only gonna stamp a couple of parts, I've seen testing done where 3d printed dies could bend 3mm steel for a few hundred times before failure.
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@chadbernard2641 he Saudis hide in ditches and behind rocks while Houthis run up to them and gun them down like it's national sport. Whatever the Saudis say can be ignored because of their cowardice and incompetence.
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The Javelins changed the game. Slaughtered Russian tanks. HIMARS changed the game. It forced artillery ammo to be placed 80km away from the artillery. The pattern is clearly seen. Russia's tendons are being cut one by one.
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There's a big reason - company that made it doesn't exist anymore, parts are running out.
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They keep changing the materials.
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How do you avoid forewarning an attack when countries monitor each others' nuclear readiness stance?
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Probably not because he's active duty.
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"that person can shoot and kill Kyle and for it to be self defense" - No, they can't. Those people would be part of the same mob as Rosenbaum. "They aren’t a single entity" - Doesn't matter, they were acting as such and in "defense" of the aggressor, therefore making them also aggressors. If they don't want to be a single entity, they cannot be part of a hivemind. You don't have to "prove" anything, the victim fears for their life because he's being attacked by people "defending" the aggressor. It's all part of a force continuum, not individual instances of fights that reset and make everything a clean slate a picosecond after the aggressor touches the ground.
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The West uses knots, feet, nautical miles. Former Soviet countries and China use metric in aviation, but in the West aviation comes from the naval community (due to the need for navigators, transoceanic flight was the biggest feat for pioneers). While the UK uses metric, UK aviators still learn naval units.
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 @brightonboka3013 why warn of an attack you are planning?
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What?
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Fundraising has been happening since day one. Meanwhile Fighterbomber and other Russian telegram accounts had to crowdfund Garmin GPS and Baofeng radios for the Russian pilots.
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Germany alone is pumping out more 155mm artillery rounds than the US.
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Ukraine is one of ours. Putin should have stayed in his backwater country.
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 @antonychipman3088 So Gibraltar is apartheid? Britain and Spain claim it.
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>Guns kill people I've never seen any jump up and shoot by itself. Just like I've never seen a car drive itself into a crowd. Do you think Ford kills people? Or is it the drunk driver?
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@nevadascaredme7436 it appeared in The Matrix because it was a reference to Total Recall.
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@gambrydew2059 Who cares?
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A true democracy is still tyranny of the 51%.
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Disarming France? They were already getting rid of them. Who'd buy something that requires French support to operate? Does Macron provide parts and training to anyone who shows a receipt?
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@kiddhkane Where is the proof? Where are the terrorists and poverty stricken states carrying their fancy new weapons?
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Not really. It's all available online.
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Mosin-Nagant is "Mau-Zhan Nah-gant"
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 @JohnSmith-fo5cx You better believe the bank is EMP hardened precisely so they'll hound you about it in the post-apocalypse.
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They got back in 3-4 days more than Russia can take in a month. Ukraine just made the war mathematically unwinnable. Call it 1.6%. Russia bleeds for Ukrainian ground. Ukraine demonstrates they can undo months of effort and thousands of Russian deaths. They make it look easy and sends the message to the Russian soldiers - "you will die for ground that we'll recover in a day".
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Stealth pilot technology, again ahead of the West.
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Those numbers are manipulated. Not only are some sources counting from January, when most had not gotten it, they're also counting asymptomatic cases as "hospitalizations" if people are hospitalized over something else. Look up "our most relevant metric is losing meaning", you'll find the article stating that half the hospitalizations had no symptoms.
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Yes, just with greater losses.
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They are losing.
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Van Der Leyen is legendary in her incompetence as Germany's defense minister. If you had a good memory, you'd remember she's the boob who tried to sue a weapons manufacturer to get a new service rifle at the manufacturer's expense. The courts sided with Heckler & Koch as the G36 rifle was not faulty. Additionally, she said "officers". The Ukrainian army did not have that many officers. So she was clearly making a mistake because as usual she's a result of failing upwards in politics.
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But several units sent by Russia to stop the incursion were already attrited or surrendered.
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They bet on the defenses precisely because Russia can't do that. They already have they reinforcements reacting to contact across the entire front. This is the proverbial chickens coming home to roost.
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Middle eastern doctors? I don't know.
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What's a 0.0003 infection rate?
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There's an exception for wrestling.
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@dughallhalliday1713 Defense Politics Asia is not neutral.
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@yoooyoyooo Almost nobody on the Ukrainian side is fighting for money, considering that you'd make more money just working at a McDonald's.
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@MilanTukidid It's not true to the meaning. Foreign nationals in Ukraine receive Ukrainian papers and are put under the command of the Ukrainian military, making them legitimate combatants. They don't fight for money, because the pay is atrocious. You'd be better off just making minimum wage in a Central European country or the US. How else you'd call them? The name that has always been used - volunteers. In the Spanish civil war, what do you call the foreign nationals: volunteers or mercenaries? Answer truthfully.
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@yoooyoyooo It's full of sense.
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@MilanTukidid They're not mercenaries. They're under command of the Ukrainian military, and not getting paid wages higher than the soldiers of the same rank. Are French Foreign Legionnaires mercenaries? Wagner doesn't operate in the same way. They're a private company. The fact that the Russian state provides citizenship to foreign workers for a company doesn't change the fact that they are contracted for a higher pay than soldiers get in Russia. Pay is HIGHLY relevant because it is one of the ways to determine mercenary status. People who volunteer for a war (like the Spanish civil war) are not mercenaries.
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The multiple pictures don't have the resolution to show the symbol in detail.
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 @thirien59 Okay? According to Col MacGregor it ended in April 2022. That's when Ukraine would collapse. Losing for 3 years isn't a collapse.
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kek Russia is gloating about progressively smaller towns.
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The USSR should have surrendered to the Nazis, then. They used American trucks, American ammo, American gunpower to load their domestic production ammo, American aviation fuel to keep their aircraft running, American canned food to prevent starvation. Maybe Moscow will learn what its like to be on the other side of lend lease. It's decades overdue compared to Ukraine.
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The witnesses in the ship claim they were hit by projectile weapons, not limpet mines.
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But you could do the same with any other aircraft. If Ukraine had no Su-25s to spare and sacrifice to demolish that convoy, why would they sacrifice an A-10?
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If your enemy is attriting itself, it's a good idea. It doesn't matter how much you bench if we can all see you getting whooped in the ring.
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@Jeroen_Maes How so? I see Russians all the time, Ukrainians are constantly filming them with drones.
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According to game theory, yes. If you do not call the bluff, nuclear war becomes a when not "if". If you keep calling the bluff every time, you make sure it doesn't happen.
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it's not, considering the A-10 had largely been replaced by multirole fighters already
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"Who can break me out of jail wins $1,000,000" Oh wait that's the plot of the movie SWAT with Samuel Jackson and Colin Farrell.
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@valcaron Just recently hackers stole Nvidia certificates to conceal malware. As the old saying goes locks are only a delaying tactic. Never rely on a single layer of security if you're dealing with determined attackers.
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How many of them were trained, though? How many of them had guns? This proves nothing. This was a sick experiment. A terrible, disgusting joke of a "test". What if a teacher kept his/her head cool and stuck a pencil trough the shooter's eye socket? Or if a teacher that does martial arts disarmed the shooter and shot him pointblank (blanks kill at close range)?
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@MFx88 Israel already proved the herd immunity didn't work.
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@MFx88 No, you check your facts. They have 80% of adults double-dosed, still broke last year's record of daily new transmissions. No herd immunity, 3rd dose on the way. Didn't work. Check your facts.
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@MFx88 You're using total numbers. Adult populations, please. Many countries are still holding off on minors so they cannot be counted.
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"now"
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It was ended. Germany blocked it. Meanwhile, NS1 was hit in totality while the attack in NS2 left one pipeline operational. Hm. How convenient for Russia.
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I mean Iran did attack US bases in Iraq.
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Wouldn't have made a lick of difference. It had a bad rollout with inconsistent performance, some people had several seconds of input lag while others had a "satisfactory" performance. Paying for the games instead of being true streaming also hindered the service because people would have to buy a game twice.
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 @dmitryletov8138 20 years to pacify after quickly winning the war. The US wins the war easily, but loses the peace.
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On the other hand, a ton of people who complained about the treatment of Muslims by America are weirdly dismissive of the Chinese treatment of Muslims. Of course it's all a game to them. Doesn't mean it's not being played.
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He probably uses a blocklist and somehow someone put you on the list.
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@petitben5240 I bet you don't even pay taxes, stop whining
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But why don't the state with lax gun laws have high murder rate, then? It's not the guns that create the violence. That's the whole point. https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/chicago-gun-trace-report-2017-454016983.html according to my quick google search "nearly" 60% (fifty-something percent, then?) of guns used for crime in Chicago come from out of state... Fifty-something percent... that means almost half of the guns come from Illinois anyway.
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@iplaygames8090 The Ukrainians have a huge campaign to tell Russian soldiers to set up their surrender. If you wait until the moment a drone is diving on you, yeah that's too late. Should have scheduled a surrender yesterday with the Ukrainians. You can't surrender to mortar rounds or artillery either. It's understood you should surrender before it falls on your position.
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@kennethmcneil3478 Real life. Watch any video of his from months ago. He's saying Ukrainian frontlines would collapse. But that happened to Russia.
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A made up story with no sources. How is that integrity?
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No, he isn't. Much like his drunk video after the Kharkiv offensive, man's running damage control. The videos don't lie. Russian attacks are doomed to catastrophe and their success comes from wearing down the defenders and depleting their ammunition.
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Isn't there an actual study that found most vegans give up on their diet?
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Europe doesn't need Russian energy to exist. Supporting Ukraine means securing our survival. If we give up, we all crumble to nuclear blackmail.
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@kojomensah7474 Exacting water from the air is not efficient in a dry climate.
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That's not true. Many single role aircraft have been splashed by multiroles.
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Probably semi auto, not an assault rifle.
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 @h3w45 Triggered by the Z letter? His name is Zelensky, snowflake.
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 @nuttbag6658 Nobody in politics gives one either. Why vote at all, then?
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My favorite moment was when Napolitano realized McGregor said something that didn't make sense and asked him to clarify, and McGregor started getting angry.
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They countersignal anything the western establishment says. When Obama was in office RT promoted libertarians like Vesse Jentura and Adam Kokesh. When Trump got elected they brought in those kooky economists who say China is great because of communism.
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 @smoothoperator2008s Copium
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China went from poverty to global player in a few decades thanks to Western investment. Then China tries to convince you western investment doesn't work. Lmao
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 @geektechpow4537 What beginning? There were major ATACMS strikes just a month or so ago.
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 @dtg474 It can't even deal with slow flying Cessna-style aircraft packed with explosives.
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@geektechpow4537 Three more Pantsirs destroyed since your post. Russian air defense can't catch a break.
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Growth is the natural state of things. It's like plants. They grow and spread. It takes a catastrophe like a disease/parasite or wildfire to curb growth.
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@gagaape Pointing fingers at Amazon is nonsensical. People also hate how dropshipping has ruined online shopping. I don't go on Amazon to buy garbage in the few times I have resorted to buying from Amazon.
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 @Elegant-Capybara China and Russia sow division in the west with propaganda, let me play the world's smallest violin for China's unity.
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geezusispan and they don't have the impact they used to have.
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Moni Toni the F117 was tracked due to an open bomb bay door.
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@Nike-nm8jc There are instances of Van Riper attempting to metagame by knowing ahead of time the only places where amphibious landings could be performed. The problem is that most people assume these exercises are like a game of laser tag. We put Red vs Blue and see who wins. But the more important aspects of these exercises are: when you start taking casualties, can you send the medics and blood bags in time; or if a Navy ship has their computers go down in the middle of combat, can you get the IT experts to fix it under fire? In the end of the report the game's outcome was Red team actually accomplishing many of its goals (retaining political control of the country being the main one) and Blue team failing some of its goals. Van Riper seems to have blown a lid and demanded some kind of pat in the back for achieving a huge Pyrrhic victory against Team America, while all the US Navy did was say "You know we enjoyed having you around to run Red team but this circus is costing the taxpayer millions of dollars per day so we better restart and get proper data about our new concepts". The exercise isn't based around "can you win under this circumstances?" but more around "war is getting more complex and now we have computers to help, can we make sure this all works under stress or is it going to be a catastrophe?".
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Old radars cannot give you a missile lock. All they'll be able to do is watch the planes bombing their country with impunity. Plus, if you're emitting radar a missile that locks into your emissions can be launched. Don't sign up to man those radars, because you'll be the first to die.
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@FuriousImp Scott Ritter is a convicted p3d0phile.
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@demos113 The alternative is already deployed. F-16s and F-15Es perform more CAS than the A-10.
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The 2.5 million includes internal troops and border guards. They can't send every riot-suppresser, cook, office clerk and chauffeur into combat.
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Yeah advertising the D-Day is a big no-no. You don't want the opposition to know what happened by the time the payload arrives on target.
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@TimPool.BeanieCivilWarlord I think it's now possible to get diagnosis via indirect means.
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Except that Puerto Rico isn't the US government in exile, the US and Mexico resolved their dispute a long time ago and the US hasn't been funding "Larger Texas" separatist republics to carve up Mexican land, and it was Russia who fired Grad rocket artillery into the city center of Mariupol from their land 8 years ago. Russia's complaints, as always, are projection - they accuse us of doing what they've always done.
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And that population is only women and elderly because Putin conscripted the men. That population is effectively gone. Russia used them as meat.
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Doesn't the US Army use km?
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Many European cities have problems with housing and many countries have problems with youth unemployment.
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@davidwestwater8925 Yes, they did. Called it a Lawn Dart. A movie was made about the story of a pilot's widow suing General Dynamics, "Afterburn".
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@jullienricot930 The F-35 is essentially a F-16 on steroids.
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@jullienricot930 There's footage here on youtube of a F/A-18 pilot training against a Su-30 and being able to reverse on him. It's all about knowing your machine. If you allowed the opponent to get in your 4-6 you've already committed a huge mistake. I don't remember the exact number but about 80% of pilots shot down were not aware of the enemy presence. Getting struck from behind is the quintessential way to get merc'd in the air. Even the Red Baron knew this. Never get into a fight you can lose. Always strike from behind. Keep the sun in your back so the enemy can't see you coming. Meanwhile at Red Flag the F-35 scores 17:1 kill ratios. It's just that good.
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@robertsmith4681 There's also an old video of him saying that instead of threatening its neighbors Russia should develop itself and become friendly so that other countries want to join them. He most likely did a "deal with the devil" and now acts as an ultranationalist for money.
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@ktm8848 S-300s have a ground attack mode. Depleting AD? That means not enough missiles to saturate a target. Plus, the Shaheds weren't just bait but they were hitting power transformers.
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@ktm8848 But Ukrainians aren't Russia's own people. They love killing Ukrainians and celebrate bombing of civilians.
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If she's like Rayveness I'd accept the burden of investigating that evidence.
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Russians.
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The fake bodies of the Russian pilots were a nice touch. The fake crying families are being set up at the moment.
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That's lying with stats 101. They started the count in mid January, when most people did not have the shots.
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Games are stagnant. In part thanks to UE5.
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@DaimondMen Iraq had Soviet SAMs, French Roland SAMs, MIM-23 Hawk batteries they captured in Kuwait and the French IADS system called Kari ("Irak" backwards).
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@antoniohagopian213 Pantsir, Tor-M2 and S-300 systems have been confirmed to have been destroyed by HARM in Ukraine.
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@2000rayc Iraq had an extensive SAM network.
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@2000rayc They had either Strelas or Iglas. Either way, how the hell is a Stinger going to do more work than Buks, S-125s, Rolands, MIM-23 Hawks, etc? Stingers are very limited in range and altitude.
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@fabianpillay860 Russia's loss will lead you to drug addiction.
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Someone was an early disliker. Anti.gun people subscribe to you now?
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Ad Hominem. You have to prove it's a lie, not call the person a liar.
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@VenomSapphire Which stories were fabricated?
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@ThatWhichSleeps It's not about "surviving with less". It's that when you're focused on survival and wasting all your time and money on staying alive, your weapons manufacturing and nuclear arsenal maintenance die off.
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They attacked Israel twice in 2016.
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But they aren't. Stop listening to Russian cope. They're encircling settlements instead of direct assaults. Choke the Russians out, they'll leave.
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So shouldn't more people flood bitchute to dillute it?
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I'm not even concerned with the depth, how the hell didn't he rip his starfish with such a freaking blunt nose?
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Ukraine is an "invading" country too. It's part of the "finding out" phase of FAFO.
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@Puggalug You're trusting the NYT giving you their opinion, which frankly is garbage. You don't have to trust PV. They just show you what people say on camera. Trust those people.
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@Puggalug But it's been proven. You don't need to listen to the people on PV, you just need to listen to the people they recorded. Are you saying people working for those companies are propagating disinformation?
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@scottwillie6389 Again, Ukraine lagging behind isn't a secret. You're comparing Ukraine, which was under strong Russian influence until 2014, not holding up to countries which had decades worth of advantage. No, "Westernizing" didn't ruin Russia. Russian oligarchs told you that lie and they laughed all the way to the bank. Where's the Russian oligarch called "John Smith" or "Derek Brown"? Russians with connections bought the nationalized industries for pennies on the dollar. They stole from the Russian people, and created the lie that the West stole from them. The perfect heist.
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@francisvantuyle I sincerely doubt a C-17 ever took off from a carrier. The C-130 is a legendary plane. The A-10 would need to be designed for catapult take off and arrested hook landing. It would fare ever worse off a USMC ship. They're even smaller. There's a reason F-35Bs use the short take off and vertical landing.
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It's okay to pass the time but I stopped caring like 10 seasons ago. Best episode for me is when they have to surgically remove a live RPG-7 warhead that speared a guy but failed to detonate.
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Nonsense. Human wave attacks are imposible. Meat waves are precisely a way to exploit the existence of drones and artillery, by creating small groupings that won't draw the big guns.
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It's the VDV that's doing what Wagner couldn't.
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Russia invaded, not the US.
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Blackhawk is the UH-60.
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+Pussy Destroyer you should have donated to the GOA, because the NRA have proven they will roll over and accept gun control.
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Ah yes, the "evidence" composed of M16s, FALs and missiles already found in Syria that were sold to Syria. Nothing like selling weapons to a country that was already a dumping ground to Western weapons when we backed the "moderate rebels". What is supply and demand?
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@harrisonhonda3745 No NLAW or Starstreak was seen in Syria. They don't show numbers, they show purposefully fuzzy phone footage.
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A-10s and AC-130s have been shot down without enemy air power. The AC-130 story is pretty sad. They're not meant to fly during the day because of how easy they are to target. Marines on the ground needed support as the day was about to break and the crew made the decision to stay and continue supporting them, despite the danger. A MANPADS was fired at it, destroying it. None survived.
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@slowlydying6967 glad to help!
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But they aren't Hindu nationalists.
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Concern trolling.
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What goal was achieved by getting Russian fighters split in two and have their corpses eaten by wild pigs?
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@insAneTunA Stop spamming, he mentioned the use of shredded composite as filler.
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From Optimus Prime to Liberty Prime.
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 @tetraxis3011 Taiwan was part if the republic of China. But never of the People's Republic of China. The PRC conquered mainland China but not Taiwan.
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Russians confirmed it.
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Scott Ritter, the twice caught nonce who served two years for trying to contact minors online?
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Supermaneuverability is meaningless. It's post-stall maneuvering. You never stall an aircraft in combat unless the only other option is dying.
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But you see the problem, if you tax oil too much you make renewable more expensive because we need oil to get to the minerals that make the electrical components and to run the factories making the solar panels.
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+Bridger Peres the car transponder failing is a minor annoyance if I'm late to an appointment. A gun failing when you need it is just not acceptable.
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Rape doesn't involve clothing. Forcible rape occurs from a need of power, not sex. For all I care, GZ could have been a racist POS, it's not illegal. I would have agreed on charging him with misdemeanor "reckless endangerment" because that's what he did. But the shooting was legit. His profiling of Trayvon did not actually lead to the shooting in a direct way. Trayvon's violent behavior did.
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I don't want to take this to the extreme but we're literally facing an enemy that wants us to be on a lower tier of society. This more than justifies going all the way, very few people would agree and that's ufortunate - but morally speaking I have more than the right to see my enemy as an existencial threat. People can't go and say "the army fighting for my rights is making too much noise with their guns and artillery!".
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Efficiency is a thing in physics.
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Not if the rail line is under fire control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Anything coming in gets struck by 155mm.
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@STGN01 "they were designing for a war against the Russians, who had the numerical superiority" - And technology beats numbers. Quality has a quality of its own.
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@STGN01 Nice try at changing the subject. The German superweapon programs were last ditch efforts and did not have higher quality. How about you read some books? Look into 73 Easting, and how two Bradleys came face to face with thirteen T-72 tanks in defensive positions. They managed to take out 5 tanks on their own before help arrived. Quality beats quantity. A large number of main battle tanks got their asses handed to them by two IFVs. How's the quantity argument gonna hold up when your MBTs are wiped out like that, and the enemy MBTs haven't even arrived yet?
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@STGN01 German "quality" was absolute garbage considering how much they lost due to breakdowns. They were making stuff out of crap steel and crashed B-17s at that point. The US didn't get its ass handed to it. The US tried to build a nation in a region that doesn't want a nation built. Most of the territory where we say Afghanistan is doesn't care about Kabul, and frankly the people in charge of Kabul barely cared about their country anyway. Militarily, the US won the vast majority of engagements. The win condition was for the government to stand tall without training wheels, and when the US left we discovered their troops weren't even getting fed or issued ammunition because all the money went towards someone's pockets. Are you seriously arguing that the US should have used more men rather than technology? We'd have thousands more dead, and the result would have been exactly the same - the Taliban have more sway with tribes than the Kabul government did. Technology made sure less Americans died trying to build a state that couldn't sustain itself. Enemies that avoid fighting on the US's terms. You mean like the Serbs? Sure, their military forces tried the "we fight on our own terms" tactic to preserve their fighting force, and the US just proceeded to bomb them until Milosevic yielded. What good is a mostly intact fighting force, if military power can just force you to concede? That's quality. I'm seriously suggesting that crap in quantity isn't going to do jack shit against good vehicles with well trained crews. You're missing the point, the Bradleys shouldn't have got the drop on the T-72s. They were scouting and got surprised by thirteen tanks, the T-72s should have had the drop on them and they were in defensive positions. MBTs. In defensive positions. More than 6 to 1 numerical superiority. Surprised enemy. All the advantages and quality still beat them. That's the point.
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It's a fallacy to consider that something is not a problem simply because there are bigger problems.
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Gell-Mann Amnesia.
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They'd have to weaken their naval aviation in Kaliningrad, St. Petersburn and Murmansk. They're free to do it, but they're gutting their defense.
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@matejmacek5784 Soviet officers in the Atlantic coast? They'd get stuck in Hamburg just like in the Tom Clancy novel. Also, nice cope. Turning off radars is the Supression in SEAD. Turning off the radars trades the strategic objective for SAM survival, and survival of SAMs is irrelevant if the strategic goals they are defending get hit.
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Mucho texto. So Yanukovych's violence doesn't count, but the Maidan protests do?
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Whenever you call yourself the responsible adult in the argument, you aren't.
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@stevyd The derision is calling people children. If that's what passes for wit these days, we're doomed.
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They lost 300 billion due to foreign reserves being seized.
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@HOTSHTMAN53 "they have massive stockpiles of weapons, equipment and vehicles that they can take from storage, dust off" - They're rust buckets and cannibalized for parts. Refurbishing storage vehicles is still expensive.
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@HOTSHTMAN53 You got a video showing a real HIMARS being struck?
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It was also a massive Russian psyops to get Europe hooked on natural gas. People were worried because they were constantly reminded they had to be worried.
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Semantics. The dollars they're asking for are real.
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@uknwarrior7980 Nothing to laugh about. During Severodonetsk the videos from Zelensky showed him visibly shaken and he was much more panicked in his requests for aid. In Bakhmut, he even visited the town.
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Logical fallacies aren't illogical. That's why they're fallacies, they obey logical structure at a surface level. - Planets aren't made of cheese. - I am not made of cheese. - Therefore I am a planet. The conclusion actually follows the premises, but I am comitting a fallacy.
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 @ColdPotato Not true. The official claim is that 300k were mobilized. To be 10x the Ukrainians, mobilization would have to be 2.1 million.
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Mailing live virus samples seems like asking for trouble.
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@osanders969 I would just assume that clinic to lab shipping has some sort of regulations and precautions a person might not have at home. You can print instructions on how to get water out of a boot on the sole and people will still have issues following them. From my quick google search on the CDC website it says you have to be certified to ship biohazardous materials.
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@PalleRasmussen there was a surender narrative for the population and for the military. The military didn't give a fig about a city being wiped out, the US had done it before. The military wanted to continue the war despite the Emperor.
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@PalleRasmussen I read perfectly. You claim terror bombing worked. I said it didn't because the military wanted to keep fighting and they may have had to disobey direct imperial orders. It was the futility of the fight that convinced most of the military to stop and accept the orders.
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Mariupol, where surrounded Azov and 36th Marines inflicted 50% casualties on the Russian forces? And then Putin ordered the republics to release Azov in exchange for his personal friend?
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They have opposition parties. We advocate for peace - on the victim's terms. Not the terms of the murderer.
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Because often such deals have to be made public to be approved by the legislature.
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Don't they win all the lawsuits? It's been a long time since I looked it up, they lost one lawsuit in like 2008 or 2009 and ever since they beat all the MSM outlets in court.
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You're joking, right? The former Soviet apparatchik ignored the West and kept making decisions as if Russia was still a socialist republic. Yeltsin and his gang used the loans for shares schemes to secure the election and make their friends rich. The West did not buy out Russia for cheap. Russians stole from the Russian people and sold it to themselves for cheap. How many Western oligarchs and siloviki? This is the power of Putin's propaganda. His friends prostituted the country and told you the West did it.
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@kulbir18 They keep their wealth. It's not ours. It's theirs. They kept it. They stole it. Not us. So Russians stole from their own country, and you're mad at us? All the things you said, you need to say about Russians. Say again how Russian daughters and sisters sold their flesh... because of RUSSIANS like you just admitted it. Edit your post, so that it reflects the truth. You're mad at RUSSIANS who betrayed your country, who rule over you, laugh at you and say we did it. You see a robber with gun in hand and blood on the floor of a house he just robbed, and you're mad at the pawn shop that accepted the TV. Then you let the robber bark orders at you and tell you to die for his gas profits. Yes, Julian Assange. Totally related to the topic. The topic is that you accused us of robbing you... then you admit you robbed yourself. But still you blame us. You want cooperation? Cooperate with us first. The people who robbed you have names and addresses. Want to set things straight?
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@03056932 What investigative journalism? Fanfiction posted on Substack?
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@lamwen03 NS1 wasn't the trump card, NS2 was.
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"It's about the kid" the kid was birthed from her... even if the DNA belongs to someone else they are biologically linked. They share an immune system, her breast milk is tuned for the baby's needs.
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Cope lmao
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It's dead because it's initial rollout was a disaster and SOCOM dropped it because of the longer ranges of Afghanistan where the difference between 6.8 and 5.56 was negligible. Wrong chamber drawings were made SAAMI, wrong mouth angle and throat on the spec meant ammo had to be made with tamer loads to prevent overpressure so performance wasn't as good as originally intended. SPC II chamber is improved but still features a mistake in the drawings regarding the mouth angle, thought it allows the use of "full power" 6.8 SPC. You have other chamber designs out there that allow for pretty crazy loads by further reducing pressure. It's great if you want to use hollow points and hunt in states where 5.56 is not allowed for the purpose. There's ways to get a lot of performance out of it. But it's not really a military caliber.
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Russian artillery is extremely inaccurate. Ukrainian artillery hits the artillery guns and artillerymen. Also, Bayraktar TB2 is working again. Dropping bombs on Russki artillery. The video is awesome, you can see one artillerymen dies instantly, and another starts crawling away from the crater with his arms because his legs don't work.
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He is but I think it's unintentional. He tried to make a break in the entertainment industry, he probably adopted an "overacting" tick.
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You think you're on level terms with China? China had nuclear power plants leaking and almost nobody gaf but Japan had to release tritium water from Fukushima and the Chinese wagged their finger. Speaking of banks collapsing, didn't a couple collapse in China as well? And I can't assume Russian banks are doing too well.
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You should listen to people from the Baltics. Sometimes they sound like they hate Russia more than the Polish.
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@eze8970 Seems about right. If anything, the same guidance system could be used and a soft launch + propeller drone could be packaged into a tube to fit the same launcher. A bit like the switchblade.
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Money doesn't sit in banks, because inflation essentially reduced the value of stored money.
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@SirIsaacClarke Yeah, that and stocks, investments and other assets.
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Without children, we'll just run out of resources to handle future issues.
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@Jay_Kay666 If you want to boil down the cessation of human activity to economics, sure.
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This is fearmongering. Funny Mustache Man had a plan for a greater Germany based on the shrinking markets problem. Putin wants a buffer state and secure his borders and access to the Black Sea. The goals are completely different so you can't use 1939 as a comparison. In addition, Germany's annexations allowed them to deflate the economic bubble caused by their social programs and militarization. Meanwhile Russia's military modernization was cut short due to decreasing oil prices in the 2010s, and this conflict has ripped a gash in their soft underbelly. They'll need to heal before they can even think about invading any country again.
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@Acid31337 Again, this is fearmongering. How is it easy to conquer European countries, when Ukraine alone already severely damaged Russian's combat capable units? The VDV was severely bloodied, the 4th Guards Tank Division is losing T-80s, four generals killed along with a couple of colonels, multiple Spetsnaz confirmed dead by the Ukrainians recovering 2018-issued AS VAL rifles from the corpses... This is a complete mess. The alleged 200 thousand troops deployed aren't enough to occupy Ukraine. Plus, the next few countries in line are LITERALLY NATO MEMBERS and the existence of NATO is precisely to trigger a multinational defense of the nation under attack. Forget about "risk" of WW3, if you attack NATO members you declare WW3.
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@HaloDude557 Drugs don't matter that much when a 5.56 tears everything apart inside the chest. The issue is, M855 suffers from fleet yaw at close range.
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@ricksanchez9669 Most hunting is done with rifle calibers, though. Always remember that rifle JHPs and soft points will cause added tearing that handgun rounds won't.
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@HaloDude557 Let me rephrase. M855 is one of the rounds that suffers the most from the effects fleet yaw.
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@HaloDude557 For you. Either way it doesn't matter. Despite the rollout being a mess that killed it, 6.8 SPC was designed to have very little sensitivity to fleet yaw. M855A1 was designed to be insensitive to fleet yaw. We know that M855 has huge performance inconsistencies compared to M193 and M855A1. I don't have to convince you, the people who made the decisions already were convinced and the real world results seem to support their decision.
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@HaloDude557 I don't care. The claim has been proven. I owe you nothing and the more you latch onto me the less I'm interested in spoon feeding you.
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@HaloDude557 You're being evasive about your disbelief.
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@Eric Nunya 14.5 is good enough, especially at close range. The issue is that the angle at which the bullet enters. Zero degrees? Zips straight through. Three degrees? The bullet damn near explodes. M855A1 fixes this by having a one inch neck and then near-instant fragmentation independently of angle.
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@Eric Nunya Not true either, because one of the goals of M855A1 was not deviating from the ballistic drop compensation reticles on ACOGs. The early batches had signs of overpressure, and there's rumors that this was due to primers. The issue has been resolved. At this point you're denying reality. There's actual published scientific studies investigating the fleet yaw issue. If velocity were the issue, the USMC would not have developed Mk318. If velocity were the issue, the problem wouldn't be so apparent at close range, where the bullet strikes at the highest velocity of its trajectory. If velocity were the issue, then 6.8 SPC wouldn't have been brought up as a potential replacement due to the fact that it's slower. Another hint, the reason 6.8 SPC was 6.8 was because it was one of the calibers least affected by fleet yaw. Go figure.
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@Eric Nunya I don't need to post links stating that the sun rises in the East every day. It's not my fault you're not aware of basic facts and public knowledge that's been available for almost 15 years. You have also provided no links proving that the issue with M855 was due to velocity (especially since the M16A4 did not solve it) so I don't even understand why you're suddenly asking for sources.
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@Eric Nunya "The powder burns faster and creates more pressure" - It also means less velocity gain down the barrel. You know who loads .223 with fast powder? Tula. Their velocities are actually lower. Higher peak pressure, but also falls down quicker which results in lower total work done by the gasses. The "area under the curve", if you've ever taken calculus. "meaning its terminal effects are not yaw dependant" - So like I said, it eliminates the fleet yaw issue from M855. Thanks for proving my point. "This is a quote from an authoritative source" - I probably have read it anyway. It should probably also state that it's meant to match the BDC on sights. I'm right, and your source backs me up. They said that the terminal effects are more consistent. This is due to fleet yaw making M855 inconsistent. Not velocity.
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"There is no crime in San Fran Bay"
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Jet fighters can't stop people in the street and ask for papers. Jet fighters can't stop people from distributing fliers or putting up posters. Jet fighters can't break up secret 2AM meetings. Jet fighters can't arrive in a black car in the middle of the night to bust down your door and send you to a gulag. All a jet fighter can do is level an entire block. Meanwhile Abrams tanks actually were stopped from deploying to Afghanistan after a point because they're useless against an insurgency. Tanks are meant to breach through heavily fortified lines. If you're fighting an enemy that is everywhere, has no lines and no fortifications, the tank is just a flex. Ultimately, to control you the state needs street level operatives made of flesh and bone.
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So just put everyone in prison. Nobody can be trusted. Not with cooking your food, or buying propane tanks, or driving cars. Arrest everyone.
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@mannyverse6158 the driver's license is only for driving in public. You can own all the cars you want inside public property. Also, the driver's license doesn't detect if you're crazy. Guns also have purposes that are positive and outweigh the negatives. What's the positive of a car? Ohhhh your feet hurt walking? People should die because your feet hurt? It's "convenient"? This is how you sound. As soon as things you like get threatened you people whip out the excuse that it's different because you really need them. The things you like always have positives but you don't extend that courtesy to others.
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@mannyverse6158 "they didn't choose to have a gun, they had to." - That's actually more worrying because forcing military service might make people angry. Conscripts have gone on massacres all over the world. "they get mental evaluations in the army" - lmao and you think that matters? In the UK they did a study to see if asking for mental evaluations could be implemented on gun licenses and the Parliament wrote a report saying no because mental illness doesn't correlate to violence, mental evaluations can't actually diagnose most mental illnesses if the mentally ill are willing to lie, and they admitted that the mentally ill could just ask other gun owners for the type of questions asked and they would learn the "correct" answers. "I would much rather be in a room with a 19 year old israeli soldier with a machine gun than a 60 year old american with a pistol for this reason." - I would rather talk to the 60 year old about guns and have a good time than face a man forced to be trained to kill by his government. "Getting tested and mental evaluations is extremely important." - No, it isn't. Like I said above the UK of all places studied it and ended up concluding that it doesn't make a lick of difference. "How do you feel safe knowing there are guys with guns out there with no training?" - extremely safe. Also, from the river to the sea Palestine will be free.
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@mannyverse6158 "You need a license to get a gun in the UK, and if you want a shotgun you need a good reason." - Not my problem. You said mental health checks are extremely important and not even the UK agrees. Just accept that you were wrong and move on. "You realize the only country that has similar gun laws to the states is like somalia right?" - Irrelevant. "And no, nobody in israel shoots up malls and schools cause they are forced to go to the army for a few years. " - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Natan-Zada
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 @Jack-4v NOT. TRUE. There were talks between envoys but Putin and Zelensky never talked directly which meant no deal existed.
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 @Jack-4v the US funded the rebuilding of Europe... and US manufacturing was untouched during WW2. That meant MASSIVE profits. The American prosperity was built off the wreckage of Europe.
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Hitler was fighting against American aid. Soviet airplanes drank American aviation fuel, Soviet soldiers were driven to the front in American trucks, the Soviet oil industry was built by Americans (where the Koch family got their money), Soviet ammo burned American gunpowder and even Soviet rifles fired American ammo shipped to the USSR. And Soviet logistics trains were pulled by American locomotives. And Soviets were saved from starvation thanks to American canned food. That's what Hitler was fighting against.
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No. Dude clearly has ADHD and hypefocuses on stuff that he learned 5 min ago. Remember his rescue pod for the cave? Ridiculous.
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Property taxes and inheritance taxes are evil. A person can't even keep what he worked for his whole life.
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There's a difference between white vs black and various shades of semitic people.
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Theranos was promising a battery of tests off a single drop of blood. This is like soap being a molecule which binds to both oily substances and water so it washes away non-water solluble substsnces from your clothes. Sounds crazy in theory, but it works.
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No argument, just repeating your mantra.
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Cope.
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@joethekinghawk7514 "one day or else...!" And Ukraine still advances
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"Kyle Rittenhouse believed all the lies that 'Q' and trump spread about BLM" - He went there to clean up the city. It was indeed a mess. He was assaulted for putting out a fire. What lies did he exactly believe. "crossing more than one state line with a gun" - He didn't cross more than a state line and the rifle was loaned by a Wisconsinite. "The truth is a $15 min wage" - Inflation would make those 15 dollars the new 7 dollars. "free college" - degrees are already worthless, more people with degrees only leads to more cashiers and baristas with degrees "at least my government works for me and the working class." - AHAHAHAHAHAAH "look at what the EU is doing" - Falling apart?
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To be fair, a submachine gun is easily replaced by a carbine.
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The average person doesn't have 100k to blow on a Ferrari.
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@zkljaja yeah I'm not building shit here in Europe. Not gonna pass inspection or even if it does insurance will tell me to go fuck myself. Fuel is like 3x more expensive here. Plus I'm not even into car sims. I'm into flying 80 million dollar jet fighters. Simulator is the only option.
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Armenia was attacked because they were the aggressors in the 90s. And the Armenian diaspora guilt trips the West a lot because we have concerns with the genocide and Turkey's refusal to recognize it. But both Azerbaijan and Armenia are hateful towards each other and it's difficult to see Armenia as a pure victim when they ethnically cleansed Nagorno-Karabagh.
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Russia has funded right wing parties across Europe.
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Strong currency means they get paid less on exports. China and India are exploiting Russia by demanding discounts. They're not a charity. They don't give out money for free.
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@snipexd4964 What were the lies and what made him despicable?
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@spacechannelfiver For what it is, it has excellent range and weapons payload. You cannot get a STOVL aircraft better than the F-35B. The F-35B is such an overmatch for the Harrier it's not even funny.
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Doubt it.
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The USA enjoyed the economic prosperity of Europe for decades. Europe on a war footing will affect economies worldwide.
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Prosecution of war crimes has to wait for the war to end, so until Russians leave the state can't be wasting resources.
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The Army Laboratories tested this, it's the same.
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@storytimedavidcollins2897 First of all, that's wrong. The original design was 1/14 because that was the .224" barrel blank availability at the time. That was the barely stable twist rate. With the economies of scale, it was no longer necessary to depend on commercial availability and 1/12 barrels were manufactured to fully stabilize 55gr. One in twelve is not the "barely stable" twist rate. There's no verifiable evidence that 1/12 twist rates deal more damage, and it wouldn't make sense because upon entering tissue, no bullet is stable. The stability is completely out of the window and there's no "more" or "less" stable. It's critically unstable due to tissue being a thousand times denser than air.
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@storytimedavidcollins2897 Shooting Russians in the 1981 sandbox, and purposefully misspelling the names from everyone you mentioned. Yeah.
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@0Leonx0 Are you a literal child? Intent matters. If you try to steal money from a bank, but in your escape you drop the money in front of an orphanage, you're not a charitable person. You're saying "so if the money ended up in an orphanage, doesn't that mean the robber was a good person?" - no, because the intent was to steal from himself. Exposing the truth means you're telling the truth because the truth matters. Publishing documents to show off to friends without caring about what they say isn't telling the truth. Because you never intended to people to know about it. You wanted it to be a secret among friends.
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Because it's an admission that they don't want peace. They have to bet all the chips because the "muh peace" argument won't fly. The only way to have peace will be to defeat the self-admitted warmonger.
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@kell7195 And what happens when the other 5/6ths are deployed? China, Japan and Finland just take what they want from undefended areas?
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@kell7195 Russia is pivotal to China's survival = this war is going to well China will get to use Russia as a vassal state. Being enslaved to the Chinese is a fate too grim, shame Russia couldn't handle this peacefully.
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@MoobuSunderbane you mean the drones that kill 49 innocent people for every insurgent? Yeah let's make 49 families angry at the government.
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It wouldn't make that much sense unless they're deep undercover. Russia fought attempts at establishing Islamic emirates in Chechnya and Syria. Their MoD also claims the Ukrainians learned how to make "technicals" from ISIS, as a way to scare Russians into thinking Ukrainians are terrorists.
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@popajoekiller Bruh the Nordic influence extended to the Black Sea as Nordic peoples set up the Kievan Rus. The name Volodymir/Vladimir comes from the first pagan king to convert to Christianity.
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To be fair, violence works when you have a backstop. When you have media, corporations and people in the government to support your cause you can be violent all you want, history will be written from your perspective. Contrast that with the violence at the capitol. A lot less if it, the target was justifiable rather than indiscriminate, and still they're the bad guys and we need censorship and PATRIOT Act 2.0 to stop them.
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@911truthfarmer "went to a country with socialized medicine" - but went to a private clinic and paid for his own surgery. It wouldn't matter if he went to fucking Somalia or North Korea, he looked for the best place to get surgery for his hernia - and it happened to be a private clinic where they charge for their services.
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@pyotrkropotkin406 what are you trying to imply here? The accusation is that Rand Paul took advantage of the Canadian system, isn't it? He paid out of pocket. Therefore he did not take advantage of the Canadian taxpayer. He went to a hospital that charges for their services. He was charged because he is not a Canadian citizen and he did not get his appointment through the Canadian system. It's a hospital. It's private. It charges for their services. So what are you trying to imply here?
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@pyotrkropotkin406 "You tried to make it sound like they were outside the Canadian system" - but they were. The clinic sees patients through the Canadian system (they are contracted by the government to see those patients) and by themselves as a private entity. Rand didn't sneak into the backdoor into the Canadian system. "I'm telling you that is how their system works" - but how the system works in irrelevant because Rand was never admitted through that system. "This clinic is not outside their socialized medical system" - oh my god, yes it is. So because Boeing is contracted by the US DoD to make airframes and wings for aging military aircraft, if I want to start an airliner and try to buy a 737 MAX (lol) am I going through the Department of Defense system? If a construction company is contracted by the government to build roads, hospitals, schools, etc and I contract that same company to make me a house, am I getting the house through the public system? This is starting to sound like the "you didn't build that!" type of argument regarding private businesses. So they're private, but because government exists, they're not really private. What the fuck? "Canadians get to use their clinic for free just like everything else there." - yeah. Because the PRIVATE clinic has a deal with the government where they send the bill to the government and get a huge fucking payday in exchange for seeing patients from the public system. It's good for the private business because they get a bunch of guaranteed income for the year and it's good for the state because they get a bulk discount. It's still a private clinic and Rand paid for his shit. Goddamn.
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@pyotrkropotkin406 no, you seem to have difficulties understanding it. The clinic Rand went to is CONTRACTED by the government. If you go to their website they literally explain how to use their services through the public system and simply through them as a private entity. It's not a "foreigners have to pay" deal. You can go there as a Canadian and pay out of pocket if you don't want to deal with the public system. For you to get treated there for "free" you need to go through the public system, you are told you need hernia surgery and then the government sends you their way with the documentation. You can't just show up there. I AM NOT CONFUSING ANYTHING WITH THE BRITISH SYSTEM. LITERALLY NOTHING I HAVE SAID COULD MAKE YOU BELIEVE THAT.
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@pyotrkropotkin406 Amy, please provide evidence that Rand did not pay. Prove it. Fucking prove it or admit to be a goddamn liar. Prove. It.
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@pyotrkropotkin406 1. Amy did you post the evidence? So you admit to lie, then? 2. I didn't confuse anything. I said what their website states. They are totally private. You are a liar. I sm not confusing the systems. It's not stupid to have money and pay directly, what's stupid is the state charging people who are willing to pay and don't use public healthcare. Stop lying, Amy.
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@pyotrkropotkin406 1. I am not confused. The clinic is described as private in both wikipedia and their iwn website, which includes instructions on how to be treated there both through the Canadian system and outside it. It is not a public facility as you will not get an appointment there, you have to have an appointment through the public Canadian system and then be referred to them for treatment. I did not confuse anything. Your mentions to the French and British systems were pure red herrings. I never said anything related to those systems. I simply read the CLINIC'S OWN WEBPAGE AND THEIR INSTRUCTIONS TO GET TREATED THERE. 2. You still haven't posted the evidence which means you accepted being called a liar. You made a claim, refused to prove it. You're a liar, Amy. You can't argue and you can't tell the truth - so you lie and hope others read and believe your lies.
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@pyotrkropotkin406 "they are apart of the public system of healthcare in Canada." - when a construction company is contracted to build roads, schools, courthouses, etc are they part of the public system? Answer the question. "I'm telling you that they are still part of. the public healthcare system. Something you keep trying to deny" - if they are privately owned, and they get contracted by the government to perform services, how does that make them part of the public system? Is Lockheed-Martin a public company? Raytheon? They are paid by governments to make weapons. Pretty much all their sales are to governments. Does that make them public or private? Answer the question so we can expose your double-standards. "think that their privately owned status is unusual in the Canadian system" - I never said anything was usual or unusual. Stop lying. "yet it is still classed as a public system due to how they receive most of their money" - Again, the Military Industrial Complex makes most of its money through government sales. That's where they get most of their money. Does that make them public? It's not uncommon for government buildings to have private security, a service purchased from private companies. Does that mean private security companies are public? Governments often contract certain services such as garbage collection and waste disposal to private companies, does that make them public? "In England" - nobody gives a fuck about England, I didn't say anything about England and this isn't about England. Stop bringing up red herrings. You have still not provided evidence that Rand Paul did not pay anything for the service and his treatment was paid by the Canadian taxpayer. Are you still insisting on your lie?
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@pyotrkropotkin406 You obviously don't understand how the English language works, because you're still talking about healthcare systems around the world when that's not the subject. Also, have you brought up evidence that Rand Paul did not pay? Or have you accepted your condition as a pathological liar?
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Okay but nvidia doesn't charge me 500 bucks every 3-4 years so I can continue to see with my eyes.
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That's not a "cause". There has to be a will to fight before asking if fighting is okay. And it wasn't a sham. Welcome to democracy and decentralized powers. Ask 10 government representatives for an opinion and you get 15. You never know what the right hand is doing when you look at the left either, a diplomat isn't going to call the Oval Office every time they're asked a question. However when they parrot the official stance can't predict what the president or Congress think when they see the news.
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Artillery and mortars.
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G forces bend airframes before they make pilots pass out. What exactly do you think happens to the engine mounts or weapon pylons when you pull 9 Gs? Everything gets 9x heavier. Put an AI pilot without G limiters, it will rip everything apart.
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@StarboyXL9 underrated comment
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@inVINSONable1 "Detectable range" against radar. A MANPADS can still do the revenge shoot-down. MANPADS will have warning, it's called "having eyes and ears". They're on the hunt for small drones, you think they can't find an A-10 in the sky? You mean CCRP. With CCIP you have to be above the target and dive to put the pipper on target. The use of the Maverick requires popping up. It's like lying on the road and trying to look for coins in the sidewalk. If you're low, the Maverick seeker can't see anything but tree tops. You have to climb and expose yourself to SAMs. Mountains? Ukraine is very flat. You can't do that in Ukraine. Modern seekers have flare rejection algorithms and Doppler filtering allows chaff to be ignored. Jammers simply activate the Home-on-Jam seeker mode. If you call in Wild Weasel, SAMs will shut down and refuse to provide a radar signature to SEAD aircraft. When the A-10 comes they'll turn on and fire. Very basic SAM tactics, in use since Vietnam. The claim that no opposition has defeated this tactic is laughable considered that Iraqis sort of did it, and Serbian air defense units became famous for their "guerrilla" tactics.
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They'd just deny you not on the basis of money but they have no experts on that surgery you need, or the surgery is experimental, or the wait times will be so long you'll go nuts anyway. Healthcare is like being a mechanic with the car running. Only a select few can cut into a body and fix it without making it worse. Making it "free" doesn't change the fact that we don't have infinite resources.
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@APW554 Both Milley (I know he's not a fan favorite) and two gentlemen who went on War on The Rocks to explain aid packages explained the issue. You have to account for what you have (unaccounted ATACMS missiles were found because they're spread out across multiple bases around the world), figure out what the pressing needs are, make plans, develop the training syllabus, order the refurbishment and repair of necessary equipment, train the crews, load the stuff on ships and trains, etc etc etc. When the invasion started, MANPADS and AT weapons were the focus because that was the most pressing need. If the government unlocks X amount of dollars in aid, you don't give them 1 F-16 and 10 tanks. You give them 5000 missiles which require an afternoon of training. After the aircraft and tank threats are minimized, then you send 100 tanks with the Y amount of dollars. Then when Z dollars of funding are unlocked you think about F-16s.
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Why? A single nuke launched means the entire nuclear triad is fired at Russia.
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Pure concern trolling. If anything, the war has denied those recruiters the easy prey.
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There wasn't. The X-35 competitor was the X-32 and everyone knew it was a dog.
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@ericsmith5648 Your body isn't killing either if you took the shot and you're still infectious. If you're infectious, you're not getting rid of it. I know it's not 100% effective, stop strawmanning. All you people are strawmanning. It's not reducing the effectiveness of the spread. Look at Israel. No, we won't be done with this because people are still spreading, variants are still occurring, and as soon as the antibodies wear off WE'RE BACK TO SQUARE ONE.
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She was right and McCain was embarrassingly wrong. You think it's the only time you enjoyed McCain. Well, I guess you should have never actually enjoyed him, to rest assured that he was a bad guy all his life. It's actually pathetic to see an old man so wrong, so out of touch he can't understand why he's wrong, try to "verbally spank" someone. Absolutely embarrassing to nobody except the bully laughing at the people who think 2+2=4 because he thinks it's 5.
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@konquer247 If you isolate yourself from the network, you're blind.
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You can't buy the government issued ones unless someone swipes one for you.
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Why would Iran fight? Why would North Korea fight? In fact NK would benefit tremendously from a weakened China.
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@festekj So? If you depend on Russia and China, them being weakened means they'll be forced to deal with you in more favorable terms. They would align, how? Why is in NK's interest to fall trying to defend Russia or China? Why would Iran fall trying to defend them? They'd say "not my problem", and then deal with whatever remains.
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 @dangerxbadger2300 Motte and bailey fallacy and Israel isn't even an ethnostate since Arab Jews exist.
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 @tylerdakid8394 nah there's tons of pro-Hamas people in the right. It's like saying nobody on the right would support Russia or Iran. Uh, buddy... they do.
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Bruh I talked to a Polish guy on /k/ he got a carry license simply because he's a sports shooter.
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@mareczek00713 It was a 9mm Walther PPQ I think... His sport was IPSC. "Guns aren't allowed but there are different licences" - then you just said they are allowed... "His license basically says "You're allowed to carry non loaded sport rifles in a concealed manner"" - Maybe he was breaking the law, but he posted pictures of his carry gun in his inside the waistband holster. Also, if the boog happens nobody cares about the law, and having a gun at home and no carry license is already better than having none.
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@yolkiandeji7649 They never loaded the full load of Phoenixes for operational use. They typically took 2 Phoenixes, 2 Sparrows and 2 Sidewinders so that they didn't have to dump anything.
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@davidmalkowski7850 Bringback weight limits are always a waste. In civilian aviation, sometimes aircraft have to dump fuel or circle around burning it before landing.
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@Tomyironmane "without the kinda inconvenient collateral damage you get from 500lbs of BLAM" - Yes, that's why they made 250lb SDBs and APKWS guidance kits for the 2.75" rockets. The gun should be a weapon of last resort for the fixed wing aircraft, which has to put itself in much greater danger than a rotary wing asset to use it. "a lot of ROE the pencil pushers put in mean you have to have visual ID on targets, which is gunfight range" - You do know that aircraft carry pods, right? You have a gimbaled and stabilized video feed that lets you see things from miles away, so visual ID can be obtained from beyond what the human eye is capable of. Meanwhile A-10 pilots using visual ID strafed British and American troops because even at "gunfight range" they easily confuse friendlies for foes. That's why in close air support the attack is directed by the ground units, because pilots inevitably screw up even within visual range. EDIT: Either way, the use case for the USMC makes it clear that the F-35B will have to be directing its attention at much more critical targets. By taking care of those targets endangering troops, they'll be able to better self-protect against enemies that are too close for explosives. It makes no sense to be focusing on the close combat while you need to be covering a coastal assault. The USMC has rotary wing assets that could get closer and do that job if the F-35 is maintaining air superiority and destroying AAA threats to rotary wing.
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@Laocoon283 If my grandmother had wheels could I call her a scooter? Just look at the facts, most of the NRA's budget is spent on MORE fundraising so by definition they're wasting your money in pursuit of more money. Wayne LaPierre spends thousands on fine clothing and expensive vacations on the NRA's dime, using the gun rights organization as his personal checkbook to pay for his lavish lifestyle. They changed the way that voting board members worked so that the people eligible to join the board have to be cleared by the nominations committee, which is controlled by LaPierre. It's mathematically impossible to get enough names on the ballot to achieve a majority in the NRA board.
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Which is why Barnes keeps proving himself to have double digit IQ.
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+RinsvindMage but armed forces can control their training and keep fresh recruits arriving to replenish the losses, while the factory making the autoloaders is bottlenecked by their assembly line. You'd have to contract other company to make it, and wait for their factory to be up and running. You're right that human losses are worse than material losses, but not all material losses are irrelevant.
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And when NGOs divert a ton of money to DAs and bail organizations that let people off the hook for their mischief.
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That's a reasonable assumption. However note that back then we still had to fly spy planes to take high altitude photos because satellite surveillance was in its infancy. Nowadays Russia can say they're totally winning in Ukraine, but we can purchase satellite photos showing they burned through tanks and artillery like crazy. Even then you have delusional Westerners who don't believe the satellite imagery and think Russia is having a great time in Ukraine. Back then you couldn't just show all the bad stuff Soviets were doing. And many people especially in lesser developed countries were thinking "the land and factory owners are treating us like slaves, let's give these rebels a chance" and the abstract threat of communism failing was not as relevant as their real life working conditions. You could say "bro trust me, we don't have pictures but the Soviets put dissidents in labor camps and work them to the bone" and they'd be like "bruh that's just Monday for me" and pick up an AK.
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Trillions spent on America. Every single year. Nothing gets solved. A few billion is a drop in the bucket.
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Plenty of countries have better gun laws than the UK and no school shootings either. Funny how that works.
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@iamperplexed4695 And even if they did, it's fine to use "live" or "hot" to refer to a condition of a weapon. People do use colloquial speech, even in the military.
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This war clearly shows Russia is not competent enough to carry out those psyops.
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The parents were putting their own children on those flights. They remembered the terror from the Tet Offensive, in which the VC attacked civilians working for the government and the families of South Vietnamese service members.
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"It is classed as a bomber not a fighter" - it has the F designation..."Its skills as a fighter are terrible" - The Red Flag kill records state otherwise."The power nor the wing size are not there to compensate for it." - It's a powerful engine, it will have less drag carrying weapons internally, and the body generates lift which means you can't simply calculate the wing area like it was the 1950s.
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You cannot defend yourself all the time, but 95% of the time is better than the 0% the police gives you. >If somebody wants to kill you, it won't matter that you own a rifle. They will kill you. That is your argument? How does that prove that he doesn't need something? Because if he doesn't have one, you just said he will die anyway.
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By that logic the USAF should try and have an infantry even better than the Army. When all's said and done you're paying taxes for two armies and two air forces. It's the end it's us pounding sand.
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So they "took out" biolabs? They purposefully spread what's inside, that's what you're claiming? Taiwan would be a bloodbath. The PLA hasn't fought a comventional war since 1979, where Vietnam embarassed them. How are they planning an amphibious landing against anti-ship missiles? Thanks to one child policy, a lot of only sons will end up in the bottom of the strait.
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NATO said Ukraine would win the war before they could finish the paperwork. But keep coping.
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I'm pretty sure Russia is. They aimed the weapons. They fired them.
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@timothylancaster7098 Was he genuine when he stole a dead body in Feb 2022?
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@kg356 hope that's your response the next time there's a shooting by some sad loser.
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Russia has been trying to subjugate Ukraine for hundreds of years. This predates modern politics.
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lol not being pro-Putin while posting pro-Putin talking points. If Russia didn't want NATO to expand it should stop treating former Soviet states like battered exes.
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@TrueNeutral It is pro-Putin because it's the lens that justifies this BS. I'm sorry, I'm supposed to ignore how the separatist movement was co-opted by Putin and several leaders have been silenced and pushed aside? I didn't repeat any of that BS so don't accuse me of buying into a narrative. Everyone has reasons for the things they do. Doesn't mean they get to do it.
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The F-16s won't come from America.
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lol they're getting 42 retired F-16s that will be replaced by F-35s. Everything?
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Russia shelled the reactor.
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The F-22 is an Air Force aircraft and they needed the Navy to do it. You can't always have a ground base within range if the target, requiring carrier aircraft to do it.
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But the FA was added by Fudds. There was no reason found to add them, but Army officers thought "oh crap you could push the charging handle on older rifles we need to add something to make soldiers feel confident". Sure, the "old theory" that the FA isn't needed is like 5 minutes older than the theory stating it needs it. Big whoop.
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Drugs are illegal at federal level, nationwide. They still find their way into the streets. Drugs and illegals come trough the borders every day. Why couldn't gangs just buy guns from cartels? They deal directly with arms dealers, they have APCs, full autos and MANPADS. >pro-genocide What a logical fallacy. Are you sure you know what a logical debate is?
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So they should just die because of bad decisions? Also, why a revolver? Why a hunting rifle? Are you an expert in guns? In self-defense? Post your credentials or your advice needs to be ignored.
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@businessreport "But, you can’t hunt big game with a shotgun" - Not with that attitude. "If you think you need a handgun, a revolver is enough for whatever you’ve got going on" - Why? What are your credentials? "Six bullets (for example) is plenty to take out that rapist or mugger." - Why? You keep saying things, but you don't prove them. Example: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/georgia-mom-shoots-home-intruder-face-article-1.1234400 five shots to the face and neck wasn't enough to stop a home invader, who fortunately changed his mind and decided to flee. He could have just as easily decided to simply kill the woman as his final act instead of running away. There's multitudes of examples of home invasions involving multiple assailants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdA_5r_Gu-A and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_MRVnR6KI8 for exmaple, there's many more videos like this. 50 Cent got shot 9 times and he's still alive. Now, considering that attacks require multiple shots to bring down, and they often choose to attack in packs to increase their odds, how can you come here and make suggestions when you have: a) no evidence? b) absolutely no credentials that give you any authority on the subject of self defense? "I know you think you need to protect your family, you don’t." - Fuck you. "But if you do (consider moving)" - Criminals know how to drive too. "you can take the bad guys out from a mile away with your hunting rifle" - Most hunting rifles are not capable of mile long shots. There's also almost no mile-long sight lines near residential areas unless you live in a deserted area and you can't justify a mile long shot. "If they are invading your home, there’s nothing better than a shotgun and the revolver tucked in your pants. You know I’m right." - I know you're not because you're unable to prove it. "These weapons are perfect instruments." - If they are perfect instruments then why have shotguns been phased out off any offensive or defensive use except as breaching tools or a way to deliver less-than-lethal rounds, being relegated to sports shooting where traditionalism, the rules and laws keep them relevant? "They all are made to do one thing and they are perfect for the job. No bells and whistles. Nothing extra." - What job? Getting close enough to an animal that doesn't even know you're there and then delivering a payload that is not optimized for human attackers? "If you can’t protect your family or yourself with these weapons, then you are just a big pussy" - Prove it. "Nobody wants to hurt your family!" - And yet, families get hurt once in a while. It never happens, until it finally does.
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@businessreport "I think the real reason you are upset is that you have built up this fantasy in which you are some action hero." - An action hero can use any weapon because the plot demands that he wins. I don't have a script to ensure victory so I need a little advantage. "If you really need something else you have to prove why." - That's not how it works. That's not how a fair system works. The same way you need to be proven guilty rather than you proving yourself innocent, it's not us who have to prove why we need something, it's the anti-gun ban-happy schmucks who need to prove that something shouldn't be owned.
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Funny, because one of the most successful military jets ever is the master of all trades F-16. Seems like common sense isn't that sensible.
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@alfaeco15 The F-16 development was a mess. It actually killed people in the early days. And it started as a lightweight fighter program that got bloated. But turned out great.
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@leongao5120 Baumgartener jumped from 71k feet and spent 3 minutes 43 seconds in free fall. 3 minutes is plenty of time for something to slow down. Remember, the faster you go, the more drag you suffer. And drag increases as the atmosphere gets thicker.
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So you missed the part where Russian soil had already been attacked after the allies authrized it to fight off the Kharkiv offensive?
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Most of their toxicity is from the fact that impacts cause part of the uranium to turn to dust, and uranium is a heavy metal. So basically it's like an indoor shooting range without ventilation (air full of lead dust).
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The Soviets enjoyed Lend-Lease and American/British bombing of German factories. Maybe we roll back and do it again, but this time America doesn't give any support and German factories are allowed to work unmolested. Let's see how that goes.
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@robo__cop8154 The economy grew but they can't even reline their artillery barrels. They're wearing out. They can't manufacture Su-75s or T-14 Armatas.
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Because men getting scammed by a grifter is kind of important? Because we need to discourage these people from trying to gain a foothold in our communities?
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"Russia just took Severodonetsk!" loses Kharkiv and Kherson Memory of a goldfish.
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 @unusedsub3003 "Mossad" lol Israel refuses to assist Ukraine. Just admit you hate Jews and let it go.
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Vietnam literally won by INVADING South Vietnam. If all North Vietnam had done was defend, South Vietnam and North Vietna would be like Korea today or agreed for reunification in a mutually benefitting way. Afghanistan tried to defend and lost to the ATTACKING Taliban. Maoist China attacked the Republic forces and forced them to flee to Taiwan.
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How does an uparmored humvee or MRAP get turned into a missile? Most of the "weaponry" left behind were vehicles that were more expensive to bring back than just buy new.
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It's not a lie.
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If you put the three rounds in someone's face, they'll be suppressed. Permanently.
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The irony is that this was most likely a "test" made by anti-gun people. They are usually ignorant about what they are dealing with, I wouldn't doubt that whoever was the sick bastard who thought of this probably didn't know that blank firing guns have killed people before or that a teacher paranoid about a school shooting could have brought a gun into school illegally. I wouldn't say "fuck this country", I'd say "fuck the people in charge".
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When the prop trainers crashed into the Shahed factory was that 4:1 advantage there?
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@anonymoususername1091 if there's no gravity then how does density know where "down" is?
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Russia is losing ground in other places. There's tons of videos of dead Russians and captured Russians. Oh no, Ukraine lost a tank in the advance. The Russians waved the white flag.
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@islandwills2778 There's no evidence of hundreds of tanks lost. There's a few IFVs, a few APCs, a few tanks. Ukraine has captured quite a few, even recaptured Ukrainian vehicles that were being used by Russia. Russia takes ground? They're getting pounded. Did you see the video of the guy filming his pontoon crossing and then suddenly everyone around him is dead or injured, and he's filming himself with blown eardrums? That's what's coming. All over the front.
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Nuke waves are science fiction. We tested nukes underwater. It doesn't happen.
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Fidel Max Well, it's true because I've seen the videos.
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 @dalecrocker3213 What changed?
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@dalecrocker3213 Fire codes are like your little padlock you use in your gym locker room. They protect your stuff while you're in the gym. If you abandon it, anyone can pry or grind the locker to get your stuff.
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More like, Ukraine scored more goals in 1 minute than Russia could score in three games.
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He didn't delay, he was bribed into signing a deal with Russia that would nullify the EU deal.
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@Zeitgeist_Dron It's a pretty big "detail" that a president went against the wishes of his voter block for personal profit and then murdered protesters. Nothing awkward about a rich actor with his own production company owning property in America. How many Russian oligarchs have high rise apartments and mansions in Paris, Los Angeles, New York, London, etc?. Bit awkward. I thought the west was evil, but any Russian who comes across some money wants to live with us.
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 @DarkForce2025 Verizon is used by milions, this service had a thousand messages per day in the entire world. They knew perfectly well what they were doing.
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@workout.matter790 because sanctions never lead to war, right? Let's cripple the Russian economy until they see no option but to lash out, real peaceful solution there.
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@healer81 war doesn't make money. Spending taxpayer dollars to create craters only lines the pockets of those making the bombs. Everyone else loses.
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@Fifthcaptain the EU will outlast the US? Euroskepticism is probably at an all-time high and many countries are openly defying the EU.
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@workout.matter790 "Literally the function of sanctions is to put pressure on a country to avert a war." Which politician told you that? lmao Sanctions are literally a preparatory stage for war by using a virtual blockade to deny the enemy resources before the fight even starts. Empirical evidence suggests they don't actually work most of the time. Consider the following: Russia was already under US sanctions. They still ran their ops on social media. Oh we're gonna sanction them even more? That's sure to stop them.
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@workout.matter790 the US did fight the USSR in proxy wars. And doesn't Iran fund terrorism according to the government, meaning that despite sanctions they're willing to finance the enemies of the USA? "If their oligarchs stop making money?" - lmao that's the problem. They'll always make money. It's the lower classes that will suffer. American gun owners loved to buy Russian AKs. After the sanctions hit, now the AKs are being sold to areas in active warzones. Rather than putting holes in paper now those rifles are putting holes in people while Putin's friends keep making money. Thanks Obama.
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@workout.matter790 Japan. "Congratulations for educating us on the proxy wars" - so basically you are denying that antagonizing Iran has not lead to US enemies being benefited, antagonizing North Korea has not lead to US enemies being benefited, antagonizing Russia has not lead to US enemies being benefited? War and therefore the deaths of US servicemen have been directly caused by the US foreign policy, but apparently it doesn't count because you're thankful for my lesson. Hell US foreign policy lead to 9/11, basically the opening salvo of the Afghanistan war. "AK-47's have never been sold to anyone other than the Americans" - nice strawman. Russians were happy to make money off Americans but the denial of that profit has sent rational agents in a global market to seek the demand for their supply. But apparently mentioning the administration under which the sanctions happened will send you into a fit of laughter so I won't name any more presidents. "God I love embarrassing people's arguments to shit." - lmao how? I proved all your points wrong and even called you out for the use of logical fallacies. You can't disprove the arguments so you laugh from incredulity and misrepresent what I said. You're an embarrassment to yourself.
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@healer81 you said war was less painful than losing money, but you're gonna lose money either way...
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"there is a lot of uncommonality in the three subtypes" - but the commonality that does exist streamlines a lot."trying to use such a common airframe has compromised the operational envelope of all three subtypes." - it hasn't.
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Buying 30 is a very small force, you're basically overinflating all training and msintenance/repair costs because you have billions split between just 30 aircraft. The more of each you buy the more you save. The more different things you buy, the more money you bleed trying to maintain them all.
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It's not even the Pentagon doing it. Basically the videos were leaked, and the Pentagon was asked for an official response: "the videos are real". People assume this means aliens are real, but no. All it means is that the footage is genuine. Then people go "waaaa we need to investigate" and the Pentagon is like "yes, we will start a comittee that tries to solve these cold cases". They like to know if the objects are untethered balloons or unlicensed drones, so investigations are welcome. But people think the Pentagon is going X Files over this.
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@koczisek The War of the Worlds panic was an exaggeration, and those who did panic were worried about war or natural disaster as they had not heard the entire broadcast and thus missed the martians part.
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The paint moved overnight?
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 @butwhole4186 And yet they're involved in more deaths. Curious.
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There's ITAR regulations on weapons trade. Plus he was trafficking more than guns.
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The MIC is saving lives in this case. The more weapons, the less Ukrainians die. And Russians too.
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Ritter can't get near schools for a reason.
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@37Dionysos Julian Assange is a strange fellow but I guess that's the born in a cult thing. Ritter was caught twice. He was given a chance at redemption.
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@37Dionysos It's very relevant considering that Russia, since the Soviet times, used sexual blackmail to manipulate Westerners. It's very likely Russia trapped Ritter and has footage he doesn't want to get leaked.
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@37Dionysos Assange's case never went to trial, did it? I don't need to do homework - the man went to prison. Has he denied his guilt? Prigozhin is also begging for ammo.
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The angle has to do with the angle of the gas port itself. With the higher velocity of the 5.45 cartridge, the hole drilled at an angle caused the shape of the gas port inside the barrel to act like a cheese grater and shear a piece of the bullet. So they changed to 90º holes and gas blocks. If I'm not mistaken, Romania made AKs with 45º gas blocks, but the hole itself is 90º.
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Increased Ruble value is bad for them - that means less Rubles per barrel of oil they sell. The oil & gas prices increased, but they're forced to sell at a discount. They're not backing Ruble with gold. There's not enough gold reserves to back any currency.
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@ananousous He isn't a dentist. He's just some guy who uses his money to influence policy so that his preferred dental treatment gets government contracts.
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@DantesInferno96 I'm not defending the chip, I am explaining how the chip is a real possibility because it's not meant to go through the needle hole. It's not a conspiracy because in the reddit AMA Bill Gates said he wanted a digital certificate for the vaccination.
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Russia already tried to killZelensky multiple times.
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The Bradley is great. In 73 Easting two lowly Bradleys came across thirteen T-72s with defensive position advantage. Thinly armored and lightly armed, caught by surprise, the two Bradleys destroyed 5 T-72s on their own before help arrived. Name a IFV that was expected to face such odds and destroy so many main battle tanks.
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More like, Turkey thinks it can do anything it wants and see no repercussions. When they demanded the Patriot tech transfer and obviously were denied, they acquired the Russian S-400 system. As expected they got booted from the F-35 program. The watermelon seller thinks he can have it all and piss everyone off, then acts offended when his actions have consequences.
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@texdawg8980 High in the sky is safe when all the opposition has are AKs and maybe a PK. RPG-7 rockets self-detonate at around 900 yards.
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The afterburner liner is cooled by bypass air, yes. There's a channel called AgentJayZ and he has a video on afterburners.
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Okay. So instead of sending an expensive jet, you send another expensive jet in its place that can be detected much sooner. You're going to have to explain how a burning 100 million dollar wreck is cheaper than just letting the F-35 do its mission.
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You got mixed up. He insulted Georgians. Then the video played to demonstrate how he has a shady past. It wasn't played with the intent to say the video was about Georgians.
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The elected government was not overthrown.
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@ltmund It was violent because the Russian-trained Berkut unit cracked down on protesters hard to demoralize them while Yanukovych passed laws to restrict free speech.
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@tomfennings8384 It wasn't violent and it was by democracy. The democratically elected government showed up to the Verkhovna Rada and voted to remove the president from power due to his escape to Russia.
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@ltmund There were violent protests. The removal of Yanukovych happened by vote. What happened in the streets was violent. Yanukovych's removal was bureaucratic. Why does anyone discuss anything? Today I turned on the TV, they were talking about Ukraine. Why?
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But that's the problem of socialized healthcare that minds the waste of taxpayer money - "death panels". The person, or panel, who makes the decision to let someone die because the treatment won't save them is exactly what most right-wingers criticize about socialized healthcare: the resources have to be rationed. And sometimes doctors make mistakes which makes such a solution a PR nightmare.
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Cutting off suply sure is important. Russia can't do it. If they could, they'd have done it early in the war.
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They don't have to accept anything they don't want. They shared the AI report and simply hid the things it said about Russia.
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@spartanrh83 I mean, he could pardon Assange and extradite him to face the charges and have his day in court.
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The Netherlands didn't destroy agriculture. Other countries reduced overconsumption of fertilizer over time so they could meet obligations, the Netherlands did nothing to address the issue and kept overproducing for export.
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It's not "resilience" to hide in Pakistan. The issue is that "Afghan resilience" wasn't willing to fight for the Kabul administration, but the "Iranian resilience" isn't willing to fight for a theocracy.
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@hanifarroisimukhlis5989 The reason it was hard was because they needed a very specific outcome in a specific patient. If you were just doing whatever got you closer to your research goals, it's not that hard.
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@tomk3732 The problem is that a ton of conscripts and former kontrakniki had no training.
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@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 the LPR and DPR suffered catastrophic casualties. Their experience went up in smoke.
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@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 the leaked document with mistakes due to the fact that it was written by a Russian?
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They literally made the FC-31 which is extremely similar to the F-35. The difference is that they use two smaller engines because they can't make a single engine as powerful as the Pratt & Whitney F-135.
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@visusdeiveri Healthy food is not expensive. Food marketed as healthy is expensive.
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@visusdeiveri Yes it is your mindset, because in the real world healthy food is just food and it's cheap.
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@francibalanci5617 Doesn't matter how much ammo you have at home. What matters is how much ammo you have in your pocket. I just cut a hole in your pocket. Now run back to where you left it. You completely misread the situation. The offensive was declared to pull troops into Kherson in the North/West bank and reserves in the South/East bank. This eased the situation in Donbas. Then it started. You didn't hear about it. You only heard about the front line collapse. Announcing the offensive in advance pulled troops to get trapped and have their supplies cut off. The more troops, the more supplies they consume.
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@alexanderryazanov9435 It's Putin's personal fault the war started.
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The ruble value is manipulated. Also meaningless for this conversation.
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This is a cope. If a law had to be passed, it wasn't voluntary. It was coernced. It's like saying I pay my taxes out of free will. If I had a choice in the matter I wouldn't, but if I try to dodge them men with guns will come knocking.
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@unclefrankindia What do you mean "won't stop"? Their army has been crippled. They expended a large stock of munitions. It'll take a decade if not more for them to recover.
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@nadiahope1175 That's just big talk from a little man. They have issues delivering their supplies to any place that's a hundred km from their rail network, how would they get past the Carpathian mountains? The chokepoint between Belarus and Kaliningrad is a natural bottleneck on an advance from either side.
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Two reasons: people get bad experiences with real doctors, and there's still a stigma about doctors prescribing pills and not fixing the issue. Obviously the solution is getting a second opinion because doctors don't work the same and they often find things others missed.
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 @ValleyMansonOfficial I can't believe this is I found out about the transition.
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@peterstafford4426 Explain how preventing people from entering countries, or even leaving, is not living in fear. Explain how threatening people's jobs and taking away their entertainment is not living in fear. Mask mandates were a step towards what we have now. What do you call this?
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John Dennis generally but they made a name for themselves when they were counterculture. In fact many of them would be centrist today, look at Jerry Seinfeld - he said he didn't perform at colleges due to pc culture or whatever and the loonies responded by accusing Seinfeld of never being funny in the first place. Dave Chapelle caught some flak for doing a transsexual joke.
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But you need to cede territory to fight defensively. Refusing to cede just means you give up defensive advantage by being baited into fighting offensively. Ukrainian tactics are now small offensives that quickly switch to defense.
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Why did Iran help Oct 7? You do realize Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis are Iranian clients right?
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Ammo is being made.
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@Depl0rable10 Except that if mechanics only fixed the actual ICE engine they wouldn't make any money. They take care of your brakes, suspension, steering, your AC, the electric wiring, etc. There's so much stuff that goes wrong in ICE vehicles, and most times it's not the actual engine. A mechanic will probably replace more wiper motors in his career than ICE engines.
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@p3u3g3poultree7 "We all know how common colds and other infectious diseases are passed along so I am grateful for society being told to wash their hands" - But you do realize that living in a sterile world will both make you vulnerable to disease, but also cause the idle immune system to attack you.
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Bad Cattitude actually the modern ammo does it. You just can't get it on stores, they're pretty expensive per bullet. The M855 still fragments but it's inconsistent as hell. If it hits with a slight angle of AoA (around 3 degrees) it goes off like a grenade. If it hits with no AoA it passes through without tumbling. Now the M855A1, they realized they made a mistake with M855 and the design is meant for consistent fragmentation independent of angle of attack. But again it's not readily available, you can only get it at scalper's prices.
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@shyviking What does that even mean? Western countries openly publish the data in regards to population collapse, hence the use of migration to stop the "bleeding".
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@aurockscastillo5460 Well, in the day time the road was full of Russian bodies. It wasa massacre.
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"That's the secret Cap, I'm always thinking of hacking"
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Johnathan Johnson Spanish Flu is estimated to had had a fatality rate of roughly 3%.
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They already had cruise missiles.
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@scadian9 The more the bots get paid, the less ammunition the Russian soldiers get
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You can't set off a thermonuclear warhead without a normal fission primary, and you can't have a fission weapons program without advertising your activity to any intelligence agency in the world. The information behind the fission program is ironically more readily available. So this security through obscurity argument doesn't even make sense. There would be literally no harm done to the world by releasing the information regarding the filler.
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It doesn't even make sense, much less to a libertarian.
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@oldeenglish64 It was still filmed in Murmansk. You can hear Russians. Are you claiming Ukraine is invading Russia from the North?
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How do you know that? Every year people die from opportunistic infections that deliver the final blow.
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@skyam2677 So this stuff has a survival rate of over 99 percent and you know ten people who died?
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@skyam2677 You're making my point for me. To know 1 person per 100 who died, you'd have to know 1000 who had it in total to know those 10 fatalities. The problem is, the survival rate is higher than 99 percent. So the only way this is possible is that you know a disproportionate amount of older people with comorbidities. In 2019 my father knew of 3 people around his age who died from cardiovascular disease. Point being, once you get to an age you're bound to know multiple people who died from common causes of death every year. This year you have an opportunistic infection that's taking over everything else, including the flu. But you wouldn't have put two and two together from all the people who die of pneumonia or flu. My grandfather died of pneumonia. I know damned well that was only the knockout blow. If he had died this year rather than 10 years ago, it would have been the coof.
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@timeactor Exactly. 15 years from now we'll have documentaries explaining how we totally bungled the data and couldn't suppress a novel viral infection because of a horrible signal to noise ratio.
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@LedPESRule yeah but the problem is that the scientific community can say we are overstating livestock GHG emissions but the powers that be don't give a fuck, you need to be eating bugs or going vegan, live in a pod, give up personal vehicles to save the climate. Most plastic in the ocean comes from industrial fishing nets and Asian but oh no, you gotta stop using straws and plastic bags. The real culprits tell you climate change is a big deal and then invest in oil companies while refusing to promote liquid fuel molten salt reactors which are much safer than conventional water reactors.
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The F-16 went into Iraq and Serbia. And Israeli did Operation Opera with F-16s.
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Imagine bragging about this. Sad!
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@TimBitts649 The US had drones since WW2 and used them in the Pacific. The drone was a Tu-141 I think. Look it up. It has no pilot, it flew over the enemy, took photos and parachuted back inside friendly territory
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@TimBitts649 First you said drones didn't exist, now you want to talk about wal mart drones. Have you ever bombed a Russian air base from 400 miles away with the walmart drone? No. Ukrainians have converted recon drones into long range strike weapons. You 0 : Ukraine 1. Russians can't copy anything. Their industry is toast. They're grounding aircraft and sidelining train cars because they can't get bearings. They can't manufacture so many weapons they need to buy them from Iran. China was just recently barred from importing the high end American chip manufacturing tech. More important than making the product, is making the machines that make the product. Turns out the world depends on machines made in Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands and the US. These countries can destroy your industry if they all agree that it's necessary to do so.
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There's a lot of T-72 exported to other countries, so they were probably cannibalized for parts. Selling the parts to other countries would be a good source of income.
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The leaks from Mossad that the Iranians got and sent to a Turkish website? lol
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@shuffman8094 Only the exact number of foreign troops in country and the issue with air defense munitions was not public. Everything else could be found in the open. Judge Napolitano has been a disappointment because he invites loonies. However, it's always funny when the Judge finds inconsistencies in the pro-Russia shills and asks the right question. Colonel MacGregor once got so flabbergasted he was about to get caught he must have shit his pants. Thank god webcams do not pick up smell.
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@cornpopsrazor5375 What narrative? They're not having their ass kicked. Russia can't move 50 km past Donetsk, how can they get to Poland?
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@marcoscunha511 What was the lie?
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@UltraMAGAKing2024 Says the bot.
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@henryg3313 The bio stuff was SOVIET and the US had to come in and pay for researchers to keep working to prevent them from finding work in Iraq, Iran or North Korea. Like everything else, the Soviet Union shat the bed and the US had to clean it up.
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@stevetilbrook3402 In the part that said it was classified and not supposed to be seen by foreigners. It's written on every page.
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@Nameeejz You're attributing guilt by association without even showing there is an association. He's defending Chevron because he's saying things that might benefit the oil companies. What? I also say things that people on the far left say sometimes, doesn't make me a communist.
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@Nameeejz By that logic I can also take something a vegetarian/vegan said and correlate it to Hitler. That's how insane that logic is.
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Logarithmic, but linear on the human timescale.
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Cow emissions are fed back to plants. The emissions come from the digestion of what they eat, and the harvesting of plant matter for feed requires those emissions to be pulled back from the atmosphere.
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Because a load of Big Bang Theory rejects assumed a big brained nerd would hate sports like they do.
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I'm sure they cooked. Finishing your homework 5 min before the teacher walks into class always works out.
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As long as you do the conversion of an existing lawnmower with a reclaimed engine and recycled batteries.
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@lastjob2011 Look into the Moderna history. Former scientists say it was run like an investment firm. Secrecy, employee abuse, too many projects at once. They actually settled for vaccines because they wanted to use mRNA technology for other purposes and couldn't make it work.
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 @manoloorz One of the best ATGMs in Ukraine is the Ukrainian-made Stugna.
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@octowuss1888 Again, replacing from the reserves is pulling aircraft from somewhere else. Reserves need overhauls, because machinery in a storage state is not ready for duty. A one-off attack. Want to risk it? Ask for lodging at Saki air base and put your body where your mouth is. Security will increase? Thanks Russia! That's less security at the front. More Russians KIA because of the resources pulled into Crimea. Hypersonics aren't raining down. Thanks for admitting you have no idea what you're talking about.
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@octowuss1888 Russia suffering trivial failures on a consistent basis. Ukraine could wipe out entire BTGs and you people would still say "tis but a scratch". "the Ukies just lost 2000 soldiers at Soledar" - Not even the Russian MoD is claiming that. If your propaganda numbers are higher than the Russian MoD ones, it's time to lay off the krokodil. Why not join the Donbabwe forces? Your brothers are dying! Wager and Kadyrov tiktok armies behind them, forcing them to the front! Help them!
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@markupton1417 False. The Soviet Union depended on American lend lease. The US also won Desert Storm.
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They can't even prevent a slow Alibaba drone attack on their own Black Sea fleet HQ.
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@briant5685 Don't change the subject. You claim they have the best defenses and they aren't working.
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That makes no sense. The capital is never left undefended. Those resources would never be sent to the South or East, so they were not taken away. It was just a waste of fuel, vehicles and lives. Mariupol was not easy at all.
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Their profession is using force on behalf of a state. All law is backed by violence.
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@pimar5654 Violence is their first resort because threat of violence is still a use of violence. Who would follow the law if everyone knew cops couldn't land a hand on you? The state holds the monopoly on violence, making it a violent institution. It's a brutal system under a thin veneer of civility.
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@pimar5654 Don't "whatever" me like a teenage son. You're telling cops only make sure people follow the law, but then won't answer when I ask you how would they accomplish that if they were not allowed to use violence. Next time just say "oh you're right".
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@Dr.AntonioAguilar That's like the bomber survival study where they catalogued where the planes got hit. What matters is where the planes that never made it back got hit. You're missing all the people who never got hospitalized.
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How are A-10s going to take off from short deck carriers? There's a reason Marines got Harriers and then F-35Bs. They need short take off and vertical landing.
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Leaking classified intel isn't protected by free speech. Assange also played a dangerous game by siding with Russia.
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No gains in a month.
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Thanks for the input, usa3526.
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 @ferrous3262 Gaijin picks a side, they just won't name it.
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 @evolvedape3341 That's why it's an algorithm. It doesn't have lines in the sand, it analyzes. And it can mess up.
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@lunaokittens9574 The pilot is not at fault, I actually think that pilots warned that the landing zone would be dangerous because training missions were done with chain link fences but the real mission would have a solid wall. They simply acknowledged the risks and did what was asked from them.
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They're actually cancelling the next round of mobilization because they have enough Ukrainian volunteers. So they're only taking foreigners if they served as NCOs because that's the thing that takes longer to train.
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@gringopapi6985 They will refuse people without military experience, and if you do have they'll say they'll call you back and they won't. Foreign volunteers are more trouble than they're worth.
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@Postal Mann well there's like 20k foreign volunteers and the separatists already suffered more KIA than that, so... how thoughtful of the Russian proxies to eliminate themselves from the gene pool.
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Apffffft. Not only that analogy is invalid and doesn't address my poit at all, those are plainly negative things. Is sex has bad as killing children? Why is it assumed that everyone has to marry, that everyone is going to have children and that children will be sexualized? Holy shit.
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It needs to be, as a warning. GaaS is hell.
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 @CJ-gt2qi "he profiled Trayvon" you say that like it means something, so you just start throwing hands if you feel someone giving you the side eye?
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@Khalid_Looby the tanks will roll through Moscow alright...
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How is the EU jealous? India profits, Russia has to bow to India. We don't being seeing Russia subjugated in the world stage.
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Everyone has a plan to dogfight until they get an AMRAAM through their canopy.
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@undeadblizzard "Fascism end game is genocides" - Portugal was under a fascist dictator and there were no genocides. "If Fascist get the Left they will come for you" - Don't threaten me with a good time.
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@undeadblizzard I think it's you who doesn't know that the left even is. I've interacted with more leftists than you'll probably ever know, so I have a good sense of what they stand for. Oh, you're against censorship? Convince the others. Oh, you don't mind Christians? Convince the others. The left can't exist without authority. Again, since you're the only good guy on the left, maybe try and convince the millions of bad leftists. What oppression thing? You do understand that the left blames Christians for their influence on US politics, right? If you want to talk oppression, we should talk about religious repression in the Soviet Union. "If they deem you an enemy to their ideology you will be purge with the other undesirables" - Again, don't threaten me with a good time. "Also the Gulag were prisons like we have now. Some people in the Gulags were murderers, thieves, and rapist who would have been in jail regardless." - Yes, and also political dissidents. "Direct democracy means we vote on policy not politicians." - Yes, and my point is that policy isn't right just because the majority believes it. What do you think happens to the minority when the majority has power? "We don't have to wait on politicians." - From the standpoint of a representative democracy, especially a constitutional republic, that's actually a terrible thing. When everyone can vote on anything and things start moving too fast to deal with, you get the French Revolution. How many people do you think your direct democracy will behead until people realize that maybe having a buffer between discussing policy and actually putting into practice is needed? "Fascism does always leads to genocide. It is a matter of time" - You keep repeating this. So if Portugal were to be fascists for an extra year, they'd have started the genocide? Against whom? "They might give the murderer a slap on the wrist" - Beria didn't even get a slap in the wrist. You think gulags are good? How about having serial rapists and murderers in the government? That's the left for you. "They might make their work to death in labor camp." - You mean like communists did?
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The $200 tax stamp? It's a pain in the rear, but compared to what 200 bucks were worth in 1934 I think it's not the most serious issue. And don't forget the even more serious issue of politicians secretly adding post-1986 machine guns to the registry so that they are worth pre-1986. I think that the $200 were easier to swallow if the ATF had enough employees taking care of the stamps and their laws actually made sense.
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Extremely unpopular with the youth.
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Because Ukraine's cheap anti-IFV weapons now work against tanks. This is going to be hell.
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MW3 was straight up plagiarizing its own series, one Osprey goes down and the rotor blades start chewing up the ground, which is extremely similar to the Mi-28 going down in Pripyat in CoD4.
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Jayne Eyre that's optimistic as hell. Considering that cereal manufacturers paid for the promotion of breakfast as the most important meal of the day (science doesn't support it), I really have no doubts about how low corporations will go to promote their product.
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@gortt7611 fuck renewables. We want NUCULEAR
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They only have parade T-34s. They even had to purchase them from abroad, because domestic T-34s are inoperable.
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@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ The Russian military is beyond damaged. For any practical matters, the Russian military is a drained force that cannot reconstitute itself. Many "modern" pieces of hardware are revamped Soviet designs.
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Except that quality has curbstomped cost savings. Quality means the ability to drop bombs on factories and power plants. There's no mass production in a country that got struck by quality.
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A 12 ga slug is about 2400 ft lbs at the muzzle. Rocky Marciano threw a 925 ft lbs punch. So basically it would be like taking a punch 2.4 times stronger than Marciano and having it spread on an area that is roughly 10x12 inches.
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The implication would be that the title happened because they hired Walmart security without any vetting.
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Cope, botski.
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@extremecat9863 Those dastardly Republicans have been causing the 4th and 5th lockdowns in Europe?
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@Josh Smith Promoting the destruction of the middle class isn't promoting health and safety.
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@NeilMortimer So that's a long winded way to say this is going to go on forever.
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@Josh Smith Don't change the subject. Address the topic at hand.
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@NeilMortimer "we might even see a mutation that literally wipes out mankind" - Impossible. Not only would a deadlier variant reduce transmission, we'd be talking about an unprecedented extinction event. We're more likely to have Yellowstone explode and then a huge meteor hit us right after. "There's no particular reason that wouldn't happen" - There's a myriad of reasons why, such as the fact that many are naturally immune, that you'd need a multitude of one in a quadrillion mutations to occur all in a specific order. You're more likely to win the lottery every week for a hundred years straight. "I wonder how high the stakes have to be raised before everyone would pull their heads out of their asses and get vaccinated" - But you can still carry it because it doesn't make you immune, which means mutations and new variants will keep happening. You can't snuff it out until the transmission chain ends, which mean enough people in the world being naturally immune and impossible to infect. This isn't achieved by a vaccine that reduces symptoms.
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@Josh Smith You're denying the economic damage to participate in political bickering. The only clown here is you simping for politicians. And no, that wasn't the subject.
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The video being real doesn't mean they weren't debunked. The video being real just means it was captured by an aircraft. Doesn't prove what it was.
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@Nice Response "China isn't as greedy" they literally use labour camps, they're trying to take over Asia and Africa as we speak with debt traps, and they commit ethnic cleansing on the Chinese minorities that resist the Han supremacy.
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@tradingwizard562 Yes.
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A few years ago it made the news that a rural area in decline had a deal in which if you built a house to be your primary residence, the land was free.
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Heat. There's no stealth in space.
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Mitt Romney was all about stripping us of our rights so that he could please the elite and take the "weapons of war that are on the streets" off the peasants' hands.
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@carlosproano840 There is no hammer. Simply put Russia has nothing left except nuclear blackmail. Trying to use it would be suicide so realistically they will suffer a major defeat.
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@alexb.1372 "socialism aims to protect societies" - AHAHAHAAH
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@Moonlight.Melon.Mounter "if capitalism is so great how come socialist policies are used in crisis?" - You mean the cure that is worse than the disease? The measures are just patchwork that will further the debt you will be forced to bear by virtue of being tax cattle. The public is being bribed with its own money and you think that's a good solution...
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@Gmonkeystar "in a socialized system, since profit is not a factor, more hospitals are built" - That's just false. Building a hospital costs money. Staffing it costs money. Governments have a budget and there's only so far they can stretch it. A socialized system doesn't give you more hospitals unless the country has a greater tax revenue per capita and is able to squeeze more expenditures. If you have a socialized system, but the country is not doing that well, forget it. "socialist policy (safety net)" - Socialism requires capitalism to be abolished. Social safety nets aren't socialism.
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Trump is responsible for Warp Speed.
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Hope they feel the danger. I hope they know how close death is, but they survive. I hope they return home and the mental anguish torments them forever. I hope they tell Russian children to never join the military.
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To be fair, the image is no longer suitable for the purpose, but people don't want it banned because "ah ah funny inside joke". If anything a lookalike could be hired to take a similar photo in a non-nude context and that way the homage to the tradition remains, but you get an image that doesn't cause conflict with people trying to ban it/overuse it out of spite for the opposite side.
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@alexflayz3600 in volunteer armies they take people with no experience under contract. There's no issue with not knowing, they teach.
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Suing over what? In the US you have free speech, which makes it hard to sue over libel or slander.
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Among the victims in Bucha were volunteers for the territorial defense forces. How was Bucha committed by Ukrainians, if the victims were pro-Ukraine and even had pictures of themselves manning checkpoints to monitor Russian advances?
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@robertsteele474 It's not reported by Western news so it didn't happen? Amazing, now you're suddenly very trusting of Western news. You know what you also see in "unofficial" official Russian sources? Russians force civilians to wear armbands. It doesn't mean "pro-Russia", it's a disgusting tactic to blur lines between civilians and military. Patrick Lancaster's editor must have let it slip because he posted an interview with a civilian who said Russians told her to wear the armband. RT also aired something similar. It wasn't edited or cut, you still see it.
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222 out of 239 years at war, the US has been. You're scared of perpetual war ignoring that the state already made that nightmare a reality.
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The Germans have one where the frag sleeve is unscrewed from the grenade. Since the requirement is for it to be "switchable" I'll be surprised by whatever solution they come up with. Maybe flipping a switch disengages some latches and when you toss the grenade the fragmenting sleeve breaks apart and falls off the grenade body.
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Drill bits shatter if you look at them wrong, I don't think an air drop would fare better than careful pilot holing, lubrication and centering humans do while drilling stuff in the shop.
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Improved fuel chemistry and geometry, better aerodynamics, more efficient control algorithms.
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"Xaxaxaxa Kherson Russia forever, where offensive?" - you, 2022
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@martinschulze5399 How am I emotionally triggered? You're the one posting that question every day online for 15 rubles a pop.
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@nikolayyelesin3150 "All it's gonna do is give our propaganda the biggest trump card in history" - How? Russian media already claims we're sending 20.000 special forces into Ukraine and how we helped them develop viruses that target Russian DNA.
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@konstantins7165 If they don't have travel passports, then what's the problem? Almost nobody will be affected by your own logic.
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@nikolayyelesin3150 Not even true. I've tried to convince many people. It's impossible. Bucha was fake, 100 HIMARS have been destroyed, Azov was abusing women at Azovstal (why?), the boxcutter incident, etc. It's "easy to debunk", but people will not believe the debunking, they'll call you stupid, they'll joke and say "to work for Bellingcat". And forget the TV channels at this point - telegram is a major source of propaganda. They don't need confirmation. Have you looked at what these people say? The online space says similar things to TV propaganda, but makes it more credible.
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@alexev1795 And so what? The oligarchs have travel passports. The sons and daughters of oligarchs have passports. They are supportive of Putin, even if passively. The people who visit the EU and don't support the government are not doing anything. We're allowing them to live double lives. Why should we allow it?
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@SuperAndrey152 Roman Abramovich may lose his Portuguese citizenship because he could have faked his Sephardic ancestry.
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@JT-ct2bn Doesn't matter. Now that those who couldn't flee Russia and are forced to serve are brought by train into Moscow so they can be deployed to Ukraine, they'll repeat 1917.
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@joshmeijer4140 Can we see them?
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Hitler was voted as a representative of the people in a legit democratic election. When a government is elected you don't vote every day until they are kicked out. Also, implying smart people are voting on those hacks that keep winning the elections.
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@twilightstar9973 Right. Kharkiv wasn't a battle, it was a massacre. The photos of the roads filled with disembodied limbs and torsos split open due to Ukrainian shelling of roads used for retreat pretty much beat all the gore you could find in 2000s internet. Kherson was just smart. Why fight, when your enemy can just give you what you want? Read Sun Tzu. The greatest victory is when you win without even fighting. Russia concentrated their forces elsewhere lol like in Vuhledar, where they got massacred as well. Bakhmut's strategic importance required Kharkiv oblast. There was an intent to use a northern and southern axis to pincer around Ukrainian defenses in the Donbas. The retreat from Kharkiv reduced the need for Bakhmut. Stomping ground? If Bakhmut took 9 months, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk will take two years.
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Everything is CIA? Meds. Take them. The "losses" are openly being mocked by pro-Russian telegram channels. The nothingburger proved how porous the 10 billion ruble defenses were. It proved how Russia is not secure with the majority of its forces committed to Ukraine. Russian outlets cannot publish things that damage the credibility of the state until a good narrative is spun. They also delayed the admission that the Moskva was damaged.
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 @imperator692 It's still trespassing. I'm not saying it's a big deal, but just because something is happening doesn't mean journalists can do whatever they want to get the story.
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@SomeoneGreenPlane There's an explicit allowance in a curfew. If it's illegal to enter Area 51, for example, they won't allow journalists to enter to record people trying to go in. Or if there's someone driving a car on an airport runway or something the news channel helicopter isn't allowed to enter the restricted airspace.
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White doesn't mean Christian. He was wearing neo-pagan symbols.
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This is because many in the Ukrainian army are Russian speakers, and when mobilized men reached the front they spoke Ukrainian - leading to Russians thinking they were Poles. This is just a mistake stemming from ignorance.
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Doesn't matter, for the purposes of the trial the case would have to be confirmed by both test and symptoms. So right there they skewed the results.
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Because whenever something in the air is unidentified it becomes by definition a UFO. When we identify it it's no longer a UFO.
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The Dnipro isn't a barrier because Ukraine has the right bank of the river in Zaporizhzhia. EDIT: I see you brought it up yourself. Taking Kherson eases pressure off Mykolaiv and Odessa, thus allowing an easier push in the East.
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Russia go home! What are you doing in Canada and the Atlantic?
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The war mongers are in Moscow.
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"supported by airlifted paratroopers" - in that staged Mi-26 footage? Ahahaha. "ground attack aircraft and artillery" - Russian fighters are complaining that artillery and aviation isn't working. I don't blame them, after losing a Ka-52, Su-25 and Su-34 the Russian air force did the reasonable thing and stopped sending pilots to die.
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@zenituragaming5043 You got no argument. Go back to gaming.
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@stoutyyyy Do you take the flu shot every year? Don't lie.
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"the f35 will not be flown in missions unless air superiority has been achieved or otherwise the enemies can somehow shoot it down and steal its technology" - didn't the israelis already flex their F-35s in Syrian airspace?
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@jesusfigueroa7420 The Russian bulldog is being kicked to death in a dirty alley.
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 @joshuapaul2022 Who's lining up to buy Russian? Turkey was pretty salty when in the Russian arms expo Altay claimed to be selling more S-400s to them.
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Their aircraft carrier had to be escorted by tugboat, their Black Fleet flagship was in such a poor state it lacked defenses the moment it was struck.
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They are failing.
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Russia is advancing backwards.
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Putin begs Iran for drones lol
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@zhugeliang3905 Then why are they begging?
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@zhugeliang3905 How are they not begging if a president has to go to Iran to buy drones? They can't purchase through fax or phone?
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@zhugeliang3905 I guess they can't buy because Israel struck the manufacturing facility.
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That's beyond petty. If children are dying, that's a billion times more important than politics.
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Multirole aircraft have become the masters of the skies for decades.
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@joaquinlechen8611 How are the details about your personal life a defense of Cuties? Either it was never as bad, and you're a useful idiot, or you're actually admitting your own offspring was exploited. The two hour runtime is probably made up for the tapes of the hundreds of children who auditioned for the roles.
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@donaldhysa4836 "The truth is pilots would be best qualified to study these cause they are the biggest expert of aircraft" - Huhhhhhh. No? Maybe test pilots because they're usually aeronautical/mechanical engineers, but the majority of pilots is not an expert in aerial phenomena or "aircraft" in general.
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@eat_ze_bugs Nobody's saying the Pentagon doesn't have scientists, the issue is that they're not the ones being interviewed. They're probably not allowed to be anyway.
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@donaldhysa4836 "They fly the most advanced flying machines built by men" - They're also normal people. "They know what the most advanced flying machines built by man are capable off" - No, they aren't. In fact, I'm reminded of the tale of the first pilots that were allowed to see the SR-71. When the select few took a glimpse at the blackbird one of them turned and said "See, I told you aliens were real!". One of the pilots of the most advanced flying machines didn't believe the SR-71 was man-made at first. "you or some random youtuber dont get to just waltz in and call them idiots" - But I am not. You're the one holding them to an impossible standard.
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You don't drink sea water. Are you out of your mind?
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Buddy you're defending something that was made for the wild strain. Delta being more contagious is a good thing.
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@ivanmontalco5082 wow this comments section really loves moms... it's either a collective fetish or everyone's been programmed to say the same shit
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@manchesterblue2007 what is the difference? I can listen to someone. It's cool. But then I'm gonna ask for evidence. I can listen, and then totally disregard what has been said. If you're asking us to BELIEVE in what we listened, then... that's asking to believe.
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@manchesterblue2007 how does that matter to the issue...? You're literally arguing me over semantics and now you've switched the theme. Nothing of what you have written has absolutely anything to do with the argument.
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@HANUMAN7454 Makes perfect sense. The only nonsense is the copeaganda from Puccia.
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@SD78 Glad to see more people giving the reality check to the copium huffers.
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It's both virtue signaling but also preventing Russia from replenishing their munitions spent on the conflict.
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@Dank_Nuggetz No, military ID doesn't bypass any federal or state laws. In fact, retired military personnel found out that they were having delays on their background checks because the government added them to watchlists after they returned from deployments overseas.
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You're now aware that the US securing air supremacy is the exception rather than the rule. If both sides have their air assets denied, they can operate without superiority.
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 @evananthony1395 Which genus was wiped out in Iraq?
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 @thefuryritchie The Donbas was occupied by Russia. Russian forces fired Grad rocket artillery from the Donbas which was replied to with counterbattery fire.
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@slyfox3333 Those ethnic minorities were conscripted by Russia. If you cared about Russian ethnic minorities in Ukraine, you should have begged Putin to not sign the law authorizing the annexation of the regions which allowed for mobilization and thus the mass casualties in that population.
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Why? The leak makes Ukrainian victory look like within reach.
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@Gwenhwyfar7 "they have better technology than regular people or any other government" - Not true considering how many countries buy American equipment.
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@patrickoneill1341 But the thermal footage doesn't corroborate the supersonic/diving into water story.
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@pennyhardaway7491 "No military is going to waste $100k+ missiles downing some cheap commercial Chinese drone" - If that commercial drone can cause millions in damage, yes you will.
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@pennyhardaway7491 The claim was that the missile wouldn't be fired, not that it couldn't. If it could, it would. Now don't change the subject. S-400s loaded with the 9M96 missile are meant to be used against UAVs.
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The B-52s up to the G variant were all retired.
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@justsmiless203 "don't cry when someone does it to repubs" - I won't cry when a group of people attacking someone get a healthy dose of self-defense. " conspiracy to commit murder ?" - How is it a conspiracy? How do you conspire for a stranger to attack you?
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@aaronhagel9796 Nobody said anything about Fox or OAN. You want to tell us something?
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Taiwan was formed by fleeing Chinese Nationalists. Catalonia is part of Spain. Taiwan was not part of the PRC.
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They don't have our best interests at heart. They were willing to cooperate with the Chinese government in censoring their web search, do you think that is having the Chinese people's interests at heart? They have proven themselves to be willing to betray the user for profit in China, you think they won't do it here? Also major corporations get hacked.
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Russia keeps threatning nukes. They've been at it for a decade.
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Get North Korea to denuclearize by firing their stockpile into CA.
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The problem is this is a fantasy. Suppression stops working once the wild weasels go away, and small threats like MANPADS can't be suppressed. The close only means troops are in close contact with the enemy. I'm 99% sure a B-52 once provided CAS via JDAM across a border.
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Anonymous User hope you like mass incarceration and ticket quotas, because the government heard you asking for keeping you safe so they gave us tons of traffic stops.
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+John Smith that thing sorta blew over because the government retook control and forced the autodefensas to become part of the police and give up their "military style" rifles, they'd only be allowed to use weaponry for civilians according to Mexican law. Some autodefensas ended up becoming cartels themselves so they could sustain their operations.
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They only need to be trained in making things go boom and land back home with a functioning aircraft. They'll be fine.
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@Idelacio Yeah but tank silhouettes are easy to see on the screen. No need to understand the optics. Anything more complicated than that and it's the guys on the ground who feed the targets to the pilot.
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Anywhere - geographic location Any place - mountains, flat desert, urban It's somewhat redundant but it basically means we'll do the job in any country, and we'll deal with any situation
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@SclountDraxxer okay, but the moment they do anything people start calling them terrorists and saying on twitter that the president needs to drone strike them. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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@SclountDraxxer "Grievances with government policy have proper channels....none of them being gun related." - and what happens when the channels are blocked off or biased against the people? You think the Black Panthers never thought of asking the government to step in when police was harassing and beating their people? "such as a president not leaving office or something" - and it has happened. Athens, Georgia in 1946. The Ludlow Massacre. Or even the countless police no-knock raids. There are many instances where one can't simply go through the proper channels and must fire at government troops in self-defense or else you die.
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You can just drop a bomb with the F-35 instead of having to dive into target and give your life for the Emperor.
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They're not resupplying with arms - they're pulling 60s and 50s equipment out of storage.
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Replacing Big Oil by whoever manufactures what comes next. Sweet.
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Like an ex husband beating his ex wife for having a new boyfriend lmao
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Dude makes a video to answer a question that he gets asked on a daily basis, and starts the video off by saying he doesn't recommend coming to Ukraine, and you reply like you got offended at a job offer.
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The missiles are already paid for. Why would they need cheaper weapons if they were not running out?
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 @oliverlaw02 the brain drain and sanctions ensure this doesn't happen
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You're right. What do you know? Building a new slow and vulnerable aircraft makes no sense.
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Cope. Hitching yourself to the loser side.
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lmao so a project that costs trillions will be paid off by cutting... billions?
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Look for the Khinzal crash from 2022. Inside Russia, so it wasn't an Ukrainian set up. Exact same warhead Klitschko was holding. On the ground. Inside Russia. Embarassing.
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Apart from the non-chromed chamber the Vietnam era M16s were pretty good. Most of the "improvements" were just fixes because of other changes.
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@chromaticturtle8657 Because of external factors. If you change the barrel length, ammunition, etc you're changing operation conditions to a point that goes beyond the original design. Every weapon with decades of service gets improved upon.
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@chromaticturtle8657 The G36 didn't malfunction. Pencil barrels were known for shifting POI when heated up. Relieving the stresses to the point this effect is mitigated is a relatively recent development.
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 @YorkerEli kek and yet HIMARS forced the Kherson retreat by potholing Antonovsky bridge.
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@YorkerEli They had crossed by then. The bridge didn't need to be blown up, the structural damage was enough to reduce supplies.
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Yep. Anyone remember the Dragon Skin debacle, where the media portrayed the military as cheap fucks who didn't want to buy American soldiers the best armor and banned soldiers from using personally purchased Dragon Skin? Pictures surfaced of generals wearing Dragon Skin while their protection detail were wearing the normal vests. Wow, if generals wear them they must be pretty good. Well, all those generals were certified retards thinking spending more money would give them more protection, turns out that the manufacturer was in trouble for lying to the Air Force about NIJ certification they had not received and the vests did not survive military testing.
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Says the guy who wants manned missions to Mars.
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Since the rotor was all-composite, they probably used a "radar transparent" external skin and internal geometry that disperses and deflects radar energy. Plus radar absorbent materials and coatings.
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Metal printing has a ton of downsides that can't be dealt with outside of an industrial setting. People are 3d printing CNCs that use EDM and ECM and the tech is improving faster than metal 3d printing. If you 3d print a CNC mill, the forces involved twist and bend the machine so it's a nightmare to get them to cut steel with a fluted rotary cutter. But with ECM or EDM you use electricity to cut and there's no contact, so the CNC isn't stressed by cutting forces.
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That's not how it works. There's always a percentage of the population which is naturally immune and doesn't get affected. Those people will pass down their immunity genetically because it was always part of their genetic code. Immunity you gained through exposure does not get passed down genetically because it doesn't alter your code. So if anything the "problem" will live and outbreed.
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As Preston said, if it doesn't matter why change?
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>defending the 'right' of a nut bar You got it wrong. I don't know any pro gun person that wants crazy people to have weapons. >tools of war I'm sorry, I missed the part where you could buy an AC-130 Spectre and truckloads of RPGs over the counter. Rifles, shotguns and handguns were used by civilians before they were adopted as military weapons. The military, when it comes to firearms, uses civilian grade material, occasionally with full auto added.
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So more Ukrainians will have to go down fighting for Russia to lose the upper hand. You saw the guys in crutches, right?
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@hutsongamble5086 It's Billion with a B. The US federal budget for a year is lile 4.7 T, no way 70 B fit in there. And where is the money going? Look at the map. That's what the money is doing.
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@hutsongamble5086 It's Billion with a B. The US federal budget for a year is like 4.7 T, no way 70 B fit in there. And where is the money going? Look at the map. That's what the money is doing.
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 @timbreitkopf9613 stealth aircraft hide the engine intakes. The Ho 229 had massive engine intakes exposed right at the front.
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 @deusvultpictures6550 That doesn't make any sense. Ukrainians speaking Russian only aids them in blending with the crowd.
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 @jaybelle1909 Not true. Mariupol remembered the rocket attacks coming from Russian soil.
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People inside the Manhattan project literally shared nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union. Not very good at keeping secrets...
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"I was a Russian chaos agent and all I got was this tshirt"
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Didn't happen. Ru false flag as usual.
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The fishing license is to deal with the inherent scarcity of resources. Gives the wildlife management resources to maintain the habitat. Not comparable at all.
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And they stash even more when taxes are high.
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@orueom7720 lmao you think it's justified for a country to go against their own principles just because of a war? Even during war principles are important. If you're going to set things aside as "pettiness" or "minutiae" that's running full speed towards the slippery slope of moral decay.
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@MrDCrosswell there were like three crashes in a span of a month in Russia/Ukraine which is the sane number as the F-35 had in 15 years.
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"Russian prisoners that come back often claim the same tortures occur to them" - yeah like that released Russian POW who did an interview with Russian TV and said he was starved. Dude was fat. The Ukrainian POWs traded for his batch came back looking like skeletons. They had actually been starved. The dude gorged down on Ukrainian prison food and went on TV flapping his chubby cheeks saying he had been mistreated.
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@blucantrell2 How does a missile tie people's hands?
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@blucantrell2 Nah, it was either a decommissioned Russian missile brought back to service or a Ukrainian missile that belonged to the DPR/LPR forces.
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@jeffheyer7783 "if we had tried containing it to begin with" - Closing the borders was suggested but this was called racist.
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The government does something where they essentially make an order for one million rounds or something like that so that it can be tested. There's all sorts of under the table deals, too. You can lose a contract but make a deal to get another contract. For example Northrop Grumman lost the YF-23 bid to the YF-22, but they make F-35 parts for Lockheed. Boeing lost the X-32 to the X-35, but they get the contract to refurbish the A-10. It's all about politics - aka representatives telling their voter base that they're securing jobs by spreading the manufacturing around the US - and also being able to keep companies in the US just in case they're needed in the future.
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Okay. What's the ulterior motive into dropping MOPs in a mountain and leaving?
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If you make a mistake on a date, the weapon isn't unaccounted for, it's a clerical error.
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For what? To get pointlessly close to the enemy? Marines on the ground need to to haul back and load more JDAMs, they don't want you to dick around with the gunpod.
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Khyber pass guns are not made for full power ammunition, they use their own crummy propellant.
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Waan't that one for the Boeing X-32 and Lockheed-Martin X-35?
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@TheSimonvdp because the Shah was a UK/US puppet, come on...
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Still quoting Pierre Sprey?
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The US couldn't defeat the Taliban.
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@viperlabs7735 The A-10 carries more payload than the AH-64 to make up for those shortcomings.
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This doesn't even feel satirical, there's people like this.
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@templar-yu5ve You get called a bot because your Pentium 3 brain doesn't understand other issues aren't financed by the military budget. All you do is whine about a non-issue over and over and over again and then get flabbergasted at being called a bot.
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@weekiely1233 Most are human error because we minimized hardware faults first. Neglecting the hardware because human error is the main cause is how you start having non-human caused accidents because the hardware was faulty. So yes, you're looking at a selected pool of data and ignoring the data that was culled. Choice of materials or poor assembly is also a hardware error. A sub pilot dying because his sub was poorly constructed isn't a sub pilot error. A sub pilot crashing a perfectly good sub into the Titanic and damaging it is.
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Russia can leave whenever they want to
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Carbon fiber isn't radar absorbing.
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Sounds like fanfiction.
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Sounds like fanfiction.
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The Iranians send weapons to Houthis. Viktor only paid off military people to let him steal Soviet weapons. If anything, Viktor Bout saved Ukraine because he stole Russia's weapons.
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That's riddiculous. These videos are watched on the toilet so no diapers involved.
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Aliexpress airsoft gear.
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How would Russians know? These things are launched from a long range and don't have eyes on the ground to direct the impacts.
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Other military forces do not disclose it, while in the US things like FOIA requests can get footage declassified.
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@johnforkan1492 USS Liberty
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 @Iamabot4708 Thanks for the input, Amir.
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@TheJessfletcher17 So he posts facts about Russia's mighty snail pace and you come up with the "sleep at night" comeback? Dude, you're the one simping for pidorasha to be able to sleep at night.
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It's not one of their reasons. They'd keep attacking anyway.
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 @nunopereira6092 You missed the joke. Mustangs plow into crowds at car meets, it's tradition.
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 @tossacointoyourwitcherOriginal If Serbia had to pay every cent they owe for what they've done, they have to keep paying for the next 100 years.
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@tossacointoyourwitcherOriginal No, the logic is: we pay, but we deduct what you owe. Oh, the payment is insufficient? Don't engage in genocide. And don't take our soldiers hostage.
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@tossacointoyourwitcherOriginal Engaging in genocide: war crime. Stopping it: not a war crime.
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@richardthomas598 Sure, I remember the yellowcake and the "evidence will be mushroom clouds". Looinrims was talking about the chemical weapons they were confirmed to have while the nukes were purely speculative.
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He isn't American so he can't be a traitor to the US.
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Consequences will never be the same.
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A humiliating defeat? Wagner soaked up Russia's supplies. After failing to encircle the city, Ukrainians baited Russians into city fighting. Taking a defended city has an unreasonable level of casualties due to the entrenched defender having the advantage. Ukraine used Bakhmut to pin the entire Russian army by having Prigozhin demand shells for months.
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@permaveg Unlimited resources? Never heard of that cheat code.
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@leomullins You take flak when you're a criminal, a fraud, a murderer, etc. Is OJ Simpson innocent simply because people criticized him?
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@AlliniumRider Zelensky was a billionaire before he was elected, he owned his own studio and production company. His shows were even syndicated in Russian television.
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@annettkaufhold8133 How about this evidence? Why did Patrick Lancaster use a body stolen after autopsy in a staged attack scene? In Feb 2022 Patrick Lancaster showed a burned out car with a skeleton inside. The skull had a straight saw cut, indicated it had been autopsied by a coroner. Why did Lancaster steal a dead body?
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The Russian checks must be bouncing.
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@simonhodges6084 You think Russia doesn't want all issues to be reported on? Look up Operation INFEKTION. Russia wants all matters to be discussed.
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If police had to make a profit they'd be forced to hire nicer, competent people or else people would stop paying. But since the police always gets funded through taxes they'll never stop hiring power-tripping bullies. And let's just say that I'd rather be treated by someone who needs me alive to get paid than some asshole who gets paid with tax money no matter what happens.
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Angela Merkel sold out the Ukrainians for cheap Russian gas. And Minsk treaties were broken by Russian in the Battle for Debaltsve and the Second Battle for Donetsk Airport.
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@baldieman64 That's not due to firearms but the fact that the top ranking murder cities in the US are closer to Mexican or Brazilian cities than the rest of America. Remove those high crime spots from the equation and most of the US does not have outstanding violence in the vast majority of >250,000 metropolitan areas (and there's a ton of them, like 200).
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@baldieman64 There's been an increase in the past two years in Montana. The rate was 3.20 in 2018.
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@larrypelrine1799 We're not "back". This is totally different, it shares the numerical designation but otherwise it has nothing to do with the British developments.
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@salvadorallende448 "Russia has not invested even a tenth of its army in Ukraine" - They have invested most of their combat capable troops. According to Shoigu they had 170 BTGs in 2021. Russia deployed 120 BTGs. "He is only fulfilling his own interests and plans" - So that's why the war had three phases already? They keep switching their interests and plans according to their failures.
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The F-35 is great my guy, what are you on about? The F-35 will cost over a trillion once you figure ARMAMENT, REPAIRS, PARTS, MAINTENANCE, REFUELING, ETC for almost 60 years with a fleet around 2000 planes large. Any other aircraft will cost a trillion by having the sum of all operatong costs for decades.
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@cturdo They're now shelling Tokmak, which is the rail hub for the entire south. That's progress.
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People said plenty of things. Most weren't listening. Courtney Love straight up said to women who want to get in the industry, never accept an invite by Weinstein. Family Guy had a gag with Stewie screaming that he had escaped from Kevin Spacey's basement. The hints were all there. Just like Diddy.
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lmao he said such stupid shit before... this one.... this one was really good and I'm enjoying the faux outrage.
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All water we use returns to the water cycle. I don't think we shoot a lot of it into space.
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@arandomfox999 I know they use fucky measurements (like including rainwater) but that water is "lost" until the cycle repeats. Basically if we say a trillion tons of fresh water are "produced" every year, and our water demand climbs to 1.5 trillion, we'll need to desalinate half a trillion tons of sea water to make up for it. The water isn't irreversibly lost, but we'll need to pull extra.
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Call the draft office.
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Well I wouldn't exactlycall them people...
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@sportenapfeltorten2095 It's from the fake trailer people made as a joke, holy crap don't even start my dude
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@sportenapfeltorten2095 It's a reference to the /tv/ memes where fake lines are made up for the movie. Same stuff as Baneposting after Dark Knight Rises and the fake Sam Raimi Spiderman scripts/behind the scenes.
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The RF MoD made the decision to let their men get slaughtered, captured and routed with their pants down with massive loss of equipment?
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The original A-X program recommended turboprops precisely because jet engines were considered sub-optimal for the speed ranges the aircraft was meant to operate at. However as the program went forward turbofans bridged the gap and instead of higher performance, the twin turbofans were used to carry more payload and armor. But initially the A-X proposals were turboprop.
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Who cares about patents? Many businesses don't file them because they want to keep tech a secret.
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Games have barely improved in years. But the raw horsepower to run them quadrupled. We have the brute force to do this, but it's being wasted.
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 @robjob9052 Hit by burning debris, had three diesel generators.
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@elbuggo Ablative shielding "burns up". Look up Nighthawkinlight's video on Starlite and intumescent materials. Look up that short video of a ceramic heatshield cube being taken out of a forge and touched by hand while it's still glowing orange.
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@robjob9052 There was a fire in Iran where a concrete core building with a steel shell had a fire, the steel collapsed and the concrete center remained standing. Diesel generators are a factor because tons of fuel = heat = buckling and softening of the steel. Everyone mentions it. It wasn't memory holed. The building did not collapse as rapidly as possible. You can see the small roofed section on top collapse first while the walls stand. The building started falling from the inside, you only saw the thin outside shell collapse. That small roofed section (I think it's the top of the elevator shaft) falling first is the only clue about how long the building took to fall that can be seen from the outside.
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@harmless6813 No amount of vaccination rate is going to work if you can still get infected and spread it.
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The videos and photos show otherwise. Tons of KIA. The Ukrainians had a turkey shoot.
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@carnazza2 Yes, keep lying to yourself. Those Hollywood actors won't be showing up in Russia.
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If you start handing out money for healthcare and college prices will increase to accommodate the free money. The same problems that cause airplanes to become more expensive than they should be when a government is buying them, also apply to other markets.
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He's wrong. Ukraine used tank offensives in Kharkiv.
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You can't. Socialism involves the prohibition of capitalism.
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Because they're enemies of everyone. They also attacked the UK, France, etc in the past.
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Russia's artillery/long range strike superiority and better ability to conduct maneuver warfare is the greatest threat. They barely do any CAS as their aircraft are hesitant to go on risky missions over Ukraine. They prefer to strike from long range, hitting arms and fuel depots.
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The A-10s best weapon is the AGM-65 Maverick missile. Love it or hate it, the A-10's existence hinges on the guided missile. Without it, ut would have been canned in the 80s.
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A lot of the evidence is weak. For example inequality is a complete red herring since the most violent periods in human history were the most equal.
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Lmao nice cope. Getting the vinegar strokes from civilians being forced to use candles and ignoring the Russian army being slaughtered.
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There's no meaningful peace with Russia. They are waiting for peacs to build up their forces and attack again. They didn't get stomped in 2014-2015 so they tried again. They get stomped now, you get peace.
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@bret9741 Most aircraft made in the recent decades only have 120-150 rounds. Gripen, Eurofighter, Rafale, MiG-29, Su-27 all have 150 round or less. The ballistic computer does what used to take hundreds of rounds to accomplish by landing hits accurately rather than needing multiple passes to get good hits. With Small Diameter Bombs and APKWS rockets you don't need the gun except for the very niche instance where enemies are at grenade throwing distance of friendlies. Everything else gets firecrackers dropped on their heads because lining up a gun run is literally slower than just firing a couple of rockets from 6 miles away.
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@bret9741 Shifting the goalposts are we? Now it's about cost. Like Slipknot once said, dig your own grave and fill your mouth with all the money you will save. While you're worrying about cost of weapons, you're advocating to launch a woefully inadequate aircraft that's extremely vulnerable, have it spend a precious minute circling around to line up a gun run when it could have just launched the attack from several miles out, then dive straight at the ground in a pathetically predictable flight path that makes the aircraft vulnerable to even manually aimed AAA. How much you're going to spend on replacement aircraft, SAR missions to go get the pilot and benefits for the family in case he digs the aircraft straight into the ground? Your analogies aren't valid. Boom booms are the primary way to kill ground targets. The gun has a niche application hence the reduced round count in most fighters and even the A-10 is the biggest fixed-wing user of APKWS. By your logic it shouldn't need it. But it's a gamechanger.
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@erikliubakka6514 "They didn't ban guns based on cosmetics? They banned based on RPM" - okay, what RPM did they pick as the limit, then? "magazine capacity" - magazines are just boxes with springs. You can weld multiple magazines together, or even 3d print them.
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@sykessaul123 "Being able to fire multiple rounds in quick succession has no valid use in any country not embroiled in a civil war" - but shotguns fire multiple projectiles. "Small calibre, small magazine handguns and semi-auto rifles used for actual sporting reasons should also be allowed but only in secure lockups in shooting centres" - you do realize that criminals could then just steal an excavator or bulldozer from a construction site and burst through the secure lockups at night, right? In the US criminals have robbed gun stores by bursting through walls. Concentrating the guns makes them a juicy target.
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 @LongTran-em6hc That was the third one, in Belarus.
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They weren't.
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@infcap5348 That doesn't even make sense. You're a literal bot, you can't even think and just reply off a script.
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He'll yeah BRÖTHER preach! Sent from Tapatalk for iPhone
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They're being attacked by combat mosquitos, black and Polish mercenaries, and being victims of American-ISIS tactics.
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I mean, yeah - it only took them concentrating their fires to outnumber Ukraine 10 to 1. A blind monkey could win with that advantage.
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Their navies are not that powerful.
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@harrybuttery2447 I'm not talking about pirates. China claims a large area of sea as their own. Without a powerful navy to tell everyone to behave, countries will start claiming more water than they should, they're going to deny passage in straits, etc. International affairs are ironic anarchistic in nature, there's no higher body to enforce the rules. Unless someone puts the fist down and says the rules agreed upon shall be followed. For example right now Turkey will not allow warships to exit or leave the Black Sea. This could happen all over the world. And to civilian ships.
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By watching the video and not contributing to the game, I am costing money to a Russian company.
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US Marines still use "Ooh-rah!". US Army uses "Hoah!".
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Thank you Simon from New Orleans Oblast. By reading this I am truly demoralized.
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Dude, do you have issues? You got "insulted" by a post that wasn't offensive at all. Now you're defending some Keyboard Commando about to drop some serious shizznit about his PMC experience, how his mall security team got access to full auto G36Cs and armored golf carts. I posted a pro-gun comment, he said I was anti-gun. I don't think his Mall Ninja credentials confirm anything about his literacy. Also, I'm not in the US and I'm not armed at all.
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@AWACS100 you can cash out the chips, though In microtransactions often you get stuff like 5 bucks for 5000 points but everything costs either 3000 or 6000 points. So you either have 2000 left over and buy more so you can get a 3000 item or you have to buy 10 bucks from the start to get a 6000 point item
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The Taliban were hosting the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. Iraq attacked US allies Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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@yellowgreen5229 I am better than Putin. I was actually against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and although we did go in we didn't intend to conquer the countries.
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@yellowgreen5229 But we didn't. Iraqis did it to themselves. The Ba'ath party started sowing sectarian division and Iran started funding militias. The hundreds of thousands were not killed by Western troops but Iraqis.
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What about the spread of Influenza and the common cold? You're gonna wear the mask forever.
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Except the "reservists" are already in Ukraine (turning into fertilizer). They're the BARS units. These aren't "reservists", they're just men. All men in Russia serve. After which they only serve again if mobilized.
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They rewarded families with bags of Cheetos, now they will receive dirt?
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I don't think the Taiwanese are fleeing to China on rafts.
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There's declassified reports of solved UAP cases. It's very boring stuff, unlicensed drones and target balloons for Stinger missile training. Better quality will increase the range at which UAP never become UAPs because they'll be identified through the footage, while things that will appear blurry on 4k footage due to distance will continue to be UAPs.
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But it doesn't protect you. If anything, they'll get sick and not notice thanks to suppressed symptoms.
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You've read something that most likely manipulated truths and misinterpreted facts.
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@michaelkemel9711 99.9% will not call an armed guard's bluff. Some dude getting in trouble because his armed security job didn't actually allow him to pull his gun isn't gonna take the 15 bullets out of my chest.
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@JohnBrowningsGhost Bimetal jacket bullets do. But you can usually pay for a new barrel with the savings alone.
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@robertwilson214 Skill issue. Maybe North Korea could have a bigger military if they opened up... oh wait the ruling dinasty would lose power if they gave up on isolationism.
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Their leadership is using leashes as punishment against their men for rescuing the wounded. You love the Russian army so much, VOLUNTEER for them.
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In many countries it's illegal to deny Srebrenica as well. Some countries passed Holocaust specific laws but others passed generic laws that include all genocide.
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 @a.m.armstrong8354 lmao did you forget Desert Storm? The US took AirLand battle doctrine developed during the Cold War and tested it against a surrogate.
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Sure. And Russia's 5-6 million USD cruise missiles are taken out by 20-40k ageing MANPADS.
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People paying into overpriced day one DLC, supporting early access to the point it's more profitable to delay a game than finishing it, making publishers richer through microtransactions than from actual sales, etc are punishing gamers as a whole by supporting these anti-consumer practices.
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 @OzzyBloke How is it the exact opposite of reality?
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Polling shows most Ukrainians want the territory to be reclaimed. They might not like the war, but they want to fight for what's theirs.
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"When exactly has anyone seen birds flying faster than the speed of sound?" - Do you have any evidence the object in the video broke the speed of sound?
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"they did recommend" - Recommendation isn't mandate. Correct. "mass gatherings that exceeded 500 people, which was later adjusted to 50 people" - That's not social distancing, that's prohibition of mass gatherings. Correct. All you have is the schools one. But honestly, I don't care you got one right when you had to blatantly LIE about the other two. None of us are opposed to being recommended to wear masks. We're opposed to mandates. Now the CDC director is saying the masks help against the flu and common cold. We'll be under mask mandate for the rest of our lives because people like you didn't speak up.
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@Mastario Recommendation is not a mandate. Jimmy was correct. No, mass gatherings are mass gatherings. Social distancing is the forced/mandatory closure of all businesses that do not have the space to keep customers apart (aka small businesses). Ever seen the stickers they put on the floor when you're in line at the grocery store? When those stop being recommendations and become law, that's a social distancing standard. Where I live we had a period where people could walk their dogs, but only one person was allowed and you could not talk to other dog walkers. That's a social distancing standard. If companies are mandated by the government to do remote work against their will, that's a social distancing standard. The critics have boxes full of ammo and they've been firing for two years. We're riddled with bullets. You can try to limit their supply of ammo, or you can start spitting lead back. Your choice.
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@Mastario "Social distancing is any measure that requires you to distance yourself from people" - That's just pointlessly broad. Social distancing is the bulk of measures meant to keep people apart when they must be together. Putting a cap on events that place too many people in the same venue, even if social distancing is observed, is not social distancing. You can have 50k people at an event and have social distancing. You just need a lot of free space. "why the hell lie" - Sorry, but businesses that could not have customers without breaking social distancing rules were closed. That's not a lie, it happened to many businesses around me.
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@lilchinesekidchen how is capitalism related to this? You think the USSR didn't have trials for new weapons?
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@ZivineYT the desert is a big sponge that captures water and carries it to where impermeable rock gets to the surface.
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 @redaerf2b414 It's not about the pool but ratios. Having a bigger population doesn't save you because that just means the demographics collapse is even worse.
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@redaerf2b414 That doesn't make any sense. Do you actually read comments or just read a script? Russia has demographic issues before the war already, the point is that you can't say "we have more people". Yes, but that also means more senior citizens that your young workers can't support. That's demographic collapse. China has 1.4 billion according to their data, but they're going to have a demographic problem too. It doesn't matter how many people you have.
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@redaerf2b414 We're talking about Russia and Ukraine. It's an issue because that's the conversation topic. Are you trying to change the topic? You want to talk about Europe? I don't think many European countries are at war right now.
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Dennis Wilson McNamara's maths weren't correct either, as North Vietnamese leaders admitted they were close to the breaking point when the Paris accords were signed. Basically the war being unpopular at home handed them the W, if public opinion did not matter they'd have lost through being attrited.
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Typhoon is 4th gen.
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Wayne LaPierre now has the ability to sell guns from the NRA museum and pocket the money. If you have to donate to the NRA at least make sure it's going to the NRA-ILA and not the organization as a whole or else Wayne will just blow the money on fuel for the private jet.
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+Thatguy WhoDoesThings he pretty much "smuggled" the guns into the hotel over 4 days inside travel bags according to the official story. How is carrying travel bags in a hotel "suspicious"?
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+RageXBlade which speaks volumes about how little guns are a problem because in 2009 and 2011 accidental firearms deaths hit 100 year lows, ie ever since they started counting. And it wasn't by rate. It was by raw number. ie despite the US having millions and millions more people than in the early 1900's, there's less gun accidents.
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The MiG-29 was divested a long time ago. Only K variants (naval, which is ironic since the Russian carrier is in dry-dock) and training squadron MiG-29s remain. Vectored thrust is also a joke.
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Sammy Gunz
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He's embarassed himself with so many wrong predictions, he must have a humiliation fetish. Or the Kremlin checks keep clearing.
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The speed would be a non-issue because currently at high altitude the B and C variants will have certain parts of the aircraft overheat and damage the coating if you go supersonic. The Pentagon threw their hands in the air and won't pay for a new coating to be developed. VTOL did not sacrifice anything. The shape of the airplane is driven by the bomb bays, eliminating the VTOL variant would not have made for a sleeker F-35 unless you sacrificed weapons carrying. I also don't see how you'd get better stealth. We're either at the second or third coat upgrade since the F-22 and if LM finances the development themselves we may get a new better coat. The shape of the aircraft was designed by computers more advanced than we previously used. So I don't know much much more stealth you could get in there without sacrificing other fighter aspects.
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The Ruble "bounced" thanks to artificial government manupulation and Russian importers having an excess of Dollars they can't use due to many products being blocked.
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@andrewdoesyt7787 Only around 700 were made. Not "thousands". And they are not all sent into combat at the same time.
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The problem is that the ones who took it are also circulating. It reduces symptoms. It doesn't prevent transmission. The people who told you it was essential were speaking out of the both sides of their mouth. Hence the contradictions with them saying that people who took it still need to social distance and wear a mask. We still remember that, right?
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@tomk3732 "Russia did not need foreign currency to make 100k T-34!" - They needed Lend Lease
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@Darren4352 Moving the goalposts. The A-10's speed has nothing to do with anything. The A-10 has not been under threat of fire in decades. The wing refresh doesn't make it deadly, it makes it fly without the wings ripping off mid-air. It was literally so old that 2 billion were spent in rebuilding wings just so it wouldn't run past structural limits and break off in flight.
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@monty2654 The A-10 was designed to take serious damage from 14.5mm AA and occasional 23mm cannon fire. The 14.5mm AA was the most common threat in Vietnam against the Skyraider. A Tunguska ripping 30mm from nose to tail would shred the A-10. The F-35 is literally designed with independent hydraulics so it's even more redundant than the A-10. True CAS is a fallacy. There's no such thing as true CAS. All CAS is true CAS.
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@monty2654 The A-10 was purpose built against lackluster air defenses. It could absorb damage back in the good old days. With modern SHORAD that just splits aircraft in half, the A-10 cannot absorb punishment. A continuous rod warhead can physically slice an aircraft in half. Front half of an A-10 physically split from the rear half, it's not flying. It's not absorbing the damage. It stops being an aircraft and becomes a falling wreckage.
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 @attilaedem101 But we kind of did, though. I don't remember if USAID was implicated but back then people found links to DARPA and whatnot.
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 @mikes989 The Russian PR worked wonders on you. Go back to watching convicted smecks offender Scott Ritter or "MAGA communist" Jackson Hinkle.
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Stop the nonsense. The eggs were put on the F-15 basket. The F-35 was never meant to replace the F-15C as the primary air superiority fighter. When F-22 production was cut, the F-15C was deemed sufficient for air superiority work and airspace defense. You people are making up a narrative in your heads that never existed. The US went F-15C -> F-22 -> back to F-15C.
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What is the BS?
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@tru_spartan_117 First of all, the vaccinated have been forced to wear masks indoors for months. So the claim that vaccinated workers would be able to be maskless doesn't even make sense. Second, if the employer is maintaining health standards, why are they exposing their workers to maskless guests? Seems like a breach in the standards. Third, there's nothing contrarian about pointing out that the "stars" get to show their face and "the help" has to be masked. Even at a conceptual level it makes sense, the workers are not famous and nobody cares about them so they don't need to show up on pictures. However, it flies in the face of the supposed health measures. You can't call people "contrarian" when you're clearly just defending the psychopathic behavior of the elites. You're the real contrarian here, and it's you who needs to touch grass instead of simping for AOC. She's not gonna see this, bro.
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Was the 9/11 hijacking a taste of war to help with cultural memory of the foreign intervention in the Middle East?
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"low and slow like an A-10" - Why do you need that? "Not maneuverable enough" - Turns on a dime in airshows, though. Plus, pointing the nose and getting a shot off is more important than turn rates nowadays. "It's not good enough, to replace the out of production F-22" - Because the F-22 is an air superiority fighter, the High in the Hi/Lo mix. It should have replaced the F-15, but not enough were produced. It will be replaced by a 6th gen project. "The reasons behind this, are clearly classified" - Huhhhhhh being able to replace the Harrier and giving smaller nations with smaller carriers the ability to launch something as overpowered as a F-35 is classified?
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@scottjackson5173 No, you have no idea. You scream to others to get an education because you know you don't know enough to explain. Deflection is the only tool. F-16s fly more CAS than the A-10. B-52s and B-1s perform CAS. Again, why do you need to go low and slow? If you know so much, you'd be able to explain it.
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@scottjackson5173 The advantages of close air support? But all those aircraft perform close air support, so they have no "advantage" over the other, only different characteristics. From "my" point of view, which is the correct one from the historical perspective and thus not "mine" because I'm only dealing with the facts and not injecting my personal opinion, the reason to build the A-10 was based on technological limitations and the Army's own issues in Vietnam. It wasn't even supposed to have been a turbofan-equipped aircraft, as the A-X project initially favored the turboprop. The A-7 was a stellar CAS aircraft but there were complaints about time on station and how dependent the pilot is on ground controllers (which is funny because without ground controllers authorizing targets A-10 pilots end up targeting friendlies). The Army also wanted an helicopter escort aircraft and the A-7 was too slow. So the USAF came up with the A-X program for Vietnam, and the aircraft ended up outdated the day it rolled out the factory. All the usefulness you get from an A-10 comes from cramming it full of the advanced avionics you'd find on modern multiroles, defeating the core concept of the aircraft itself. If you can't understand the difference between an Apache and fixed-wing CAS you have no business telling people they're wrong. The Apache originates from the failure of the Cheyenne, which had USAF and Army chiefs of staff meet and decide that USAF takes CAS, Army can get helicopters for organic fire support. The courts determined there was no overlap between the Cheyenne, Harrier and A-10 so the USAF, USMC and Army were free to pursue their projects freely. They do different things. They have different capabilities. If the Apache was the same as the A-10, it wouldn't have been approved due to overlap. Trying to argue that the reasons for building different aircraft are the same is a losing proposition. The AC-130 doesn't fly "low and slow", it orbits around. It also uses state of the art sensors, precision guided munitions and avionics rather than the simplistic, no tech, "low and slow" flying. The fact that you claim an aircraft that's different from the A-10 can do CAS proves that the A-10 isn't the end-all be-all of CAS.
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@scottjackson5173 Exactly. You have no arguments. It's me who's doing the talking, but it has no impact. You think inside the narrow Pierre Sprey box while the world moved on. The A-10 is flying but not doing anything. It's been replaced. B-52s, B-1s, F-16s, Strike Eagles, F/A-18s are doing CAS. And the A-10 gets less and less missions. A waste of money. Glad it's awesome. We're all paying for an aircraft the USAF won't use.
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@scottjackson5173 Again, no arguments only insults. Thank you. Thank you so much. The more you sperg out the more it shows everyone reading this that you have no arguments and have resorted to temper tantrums. The A-10s mission has already been taken over by F-16s, F/A-18s, Strike Eagles, B-1s and even B-52s. You must have missed the memo. The A-10 is not special or unique. When in 1991 F-16 fast FAC aircraft were fired on by AAA they dived onto the batteries and dropped 500lb bombs. It was the most effective tactic and Iraqi AAA fired became more sporadic due to the fear of the multirole. The only thing that's full of holes are your half baked theories.
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@scottjackson5173 This isn't about the problems with the F-35. I asked you about CAS and you're unable to give any explanation. You're just another Reformer or Pierre Sprey acolyte. Dumb people who don't understand anything lied to you, and you parrot their opinions without thinking. I wish I was on the DOD payroll. Seems like a comfy job. I just like to dunk on people who don't know anything and pretend to be experts.
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@scottjackson5173 What troll? I gave you the truth and facts. You stuck your head in the sand and left your ass out, communicating for you. The record of the A-10 is getting shot down at twice the rate of the F-16 despite the F-16 doing more missions. The record of the A-10 is getting a mission that was supposed to be easy for it, and losing as many as the Tornado did in absolute suicidal runs.
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@scottjackson5173 There was a project to replace the A-10 with the OA-X, but of course that the A-10 cultists never cared about cost. They just wanted the A-10. "It's easy to add a bomb rack, a machine gun, or a rocket launcher to something with wings" - I'm unsure of what this means. Just because it has wings, doesn't mean it can do the job. "Low and slow allows for the pinpoint delivery of ordinance" - Modern aircraft can deliver that from tens of thousands of feet away. In fact, munitions dropped in close air support require release authority from the FAC/JTAC because even aircraft flying "low and slow" not being guided by eyes on the ground have committed serious friendly fire incidents. A-10 is behind the most USAF friendly fire casualties and killing of civilians by manned aircraft. By the way, the A-10 makes use of pinpoint precision rockets - the APKWS. It's the biggest fixed-wing user of laser guided rockets. Just saying. "It also makes the close supporting aircraft vulnerable to ground fire" - As evidenced by how many A-10s were lost and damaged in 1991. "It's smaller, slower" - If the OA-X program put the A-29 Super Tucano in service, that bad boy is only 20 knots slower than the A-10. Stays up in the air for longer, has amazing range, very low fuel costs and can take off from much more austere bases than the A-10 which means it can take off closer to the action therefore arriving sooner. "far more vulnerable to ground fire" - Well, first of all, one of your "low and slow" friends, Mr. Mike Pietrucha, already obliterated that argument for me. I happen to disagree with him, and I find some of his writing disingenuous. However, the man has the data to back him up. For a counter-insurgency, COIN aircraft are the best. The small turboprops are more difficult to target and their lower signature makes them more suitable to fight underequipped foes. This was tested at Green Flag exercises. If you want to debate that, take it up with the ANA - they haven't lost a single Super Tucano and neither has Colombia in their fight against the FARC and ELN. Either way, helicopters are even more vulnerable. You can take that up with the Army too so they can get rid of their attack helicopters. "It's also a tiny single engine turboprop" - The A-X program that originated the A-10 was supposed to be a turboprop. "How many high performance aircraft can you lose? How much does a Tornado cost? F-16? F-15?" - This is a question that you insist on being answered on your terms but I will answer on my terms. How many 2020/2021 produced aircraft can you lose? Cram a Tornado full of modern tech, how much is it gonna cost when it goes down? A modern Block 70/72 F-16? They cost 120-144 million aircraft+spare engine+pods. The Qatar deal on 36 Strike Eagles was 6.2 billion, which is 172 per aircraft. The number thrown around years before was 4 billion, which probably means the aircraft itself 111 million and the rest if the pods, spares, maintenance support, etc. If your plan is to lose "low performance" aircraft, which are expensive as all hell to begin with, you've already lost. Especially because the PILOT is the most precious cargo. Aircraft is a problem you can throw money and materials at if there's an active production line. You can't simply give more money to the air force flight academies and somehow get a revolving door of expendable pilots to replace the ones captured and killed. So your master plan of sending """"cheap"""" 100 million dollar aircraft to get shot down and end up with no pilots is rubbish. Please think about the consequences of your genius ideas. "Soldiers love their ass-saving Warthog!" - Appeal to Popularity is just a fallacy. Of course that the Warthog is more psychologically engaging. It's an emotional argument at best.
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You won't notice you're the frog being boiled because they only turned up the heat slowly. You won't feel it. In fact, these people are waiting for you to die. They'll turn the heat up again. Your kids won't feel it. They'll wait for them to die. They'll turn the heat up again. Your grandkids won't feel it. When they pass, your great-grandkids won't even remember you could own a gun. How many British and Australian gun owners welcomed the new restrictions? They got the rug pulled from under them.
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Earlier spin-scan reticles "thickened" the section of the reticle that was blacked out as it approached the center so that the input created by an IR source would be proportional to the angle off. As the target approached and thus the input signal increased in amplitude there was automatic gain control that would make it less sensitive. The spin-scan was later replaced by conical scan which deflected the IR source by a few degrees off center and projected it into the chopped reticle. Instead of trying to keep the IR source in the center now the seeker would attempt to maintain a consistent angle by measuring the frequency at which the target appeared and disappeared from view as it crossed the "blacked out" sections. If the target had an angle off, it's signal would draw an off center circle around the reticle and thus create an inconsistent frequency as close to the center the target would appear and disappear quickly while as it moved away from the center it would take longer to appear and disappear due to the increased diameter. So if the seeker was designed to deflect the image by 5° and the target was at the center, it's projection would draw a "cone" with a 5° point and a centered circle, meaning consistent freqency and no input to the guidance control.
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Russians 10 months ago: "How is Ukraine winning when they lose all this territory?" Russians now: "It's not about territory."
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Russian gains which will eventually be rolled back?
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@kommandokodiak6025 Bradleys will do the trick.
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A fully militarized Germany had factories, railways, airfields, etc actual objectives you could attack to wear down their capacity to win until you close down on their capital and their leadership takes the cyanide or lead pill. The Taliban has nothing you can go after. Your enemy is nobody and everyone. Every time you strike, your actions anger the population and drive them to fight you. You kill the leaders, someone else takes their place.
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Cope, ruski
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Ad Hominem.
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@leekane6681 Austrian painter used "creative economics" to pull money out of nowhere, stole the gold reserves of countries he invaded to cover up the hole, then printed occupation money that could not be used inside Germany to export inflation to the occupied territories. If you need to raid and pillage to support the economy you didn't do a great thing lmao
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Typically documentaries about Nazis show stuff they actually did. The fantasy weapons and wacky developments they did are actually portrayed cheerfully.
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In the video a shot rings out before the physical altercation.
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@hiyorisarugaki1830 But before the man got out of his car, there's already someone pointing a gun at armed robbery. You can see him take cover by using the car itself, a shot is heard, then the driver exits the car as armed robbery circles around, and THEN the fighting starts.
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Full auto weapons were banned in 1986. Stop spreading misconceptions.
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Would they? They like to use that 700,000 number, but that's not really the number of people who were prevented from buying a weapon - it includes false positives and delays. Criminals don't get BG checks when stealing guns or buying them from other criminals. Am I against background checks? No, against federal laws regarding universal background checks. A private sale within state lines with my legally owned property isn't the feds' business, it's the state's.
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So you could care less? So you care at least a little?
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"If the 2020 election was stolen so was the 2000" - ...and?
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I loved their ballistics episode 2-3 years ago, gonna check it out
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I do question mandated seatbelts, but that's beside the point. We know that being vaccinated does not eliminate transmission. This means that it does not matter. It's stuck with us no matter if you take 90 boosters.
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 @ouwebrood497 You can't rehabilitate those who don't want to be rehabilitated.
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 @redaderoua8816 Wealth inequality doesn't cause violence. The most violent periods in human history were also the most egalitarian.
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@redaderoua8816 Stefan Molyneux, probably a decade ago, made a video on how black women were more likely to use physical discipline on children, and tied it to physical abuse leading to crime. One can more easily argue that physical abuse in single mother households is a better predictor of criminality than poverty. The point here is that you can twist yourself into a pretzel trying to point to a single environmental factor behind criminality to justify any political crusade you like. Banging on poverty poverty povery is simply a way to sell your goals to people who wouldn't agree with you otherwise.
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@PettyBlue1 people coming outside the EU would apply for visas. You can't take long vacations unless you have some kind of shell company giving you work contracts to justify a work visa.
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No, he's wrong. He claims that without air superiority, tanks can't breach through lines and it's WWI all over again. However, Ukrainians breached the lines in Kharkiv with tanks. And they forced the Kherson retreat with tanks.
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"it simply reduces the range wich you need to be in for a lock on." - which means non-stealth aircraft will be dead before they get within range"youre not invisible to less accurate radar that doesnt grant weapon lock on. wich means the enemy WILL know youre there and send fighters up there to get close and get a weapon lock" - and they'll be dead before getting within range."if you turn on your own radar everyone knows youre there" - they encrypt the radar signal so that it looks like background radiation. The plane knows which signals it is sending and thus can tell when they bounce back, but the receiving aircraft will not know it's being beamed because it can't tell which signals are radar and which signals are worldwide communications.
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@istvanglock7445 "what does the average patient know about modern medicine?" - what does the average car buyer know about mechanical engineering? What does the average gamer know about computer science? Even if you show a car to an engineer he simply will not start calculating the stresses and analyzing the electronics to figure out if the car us reliable. And even most gaming turbonerds can only read the specs the manufacturer puts on the label, not actually look at the chip and board design to figure out if the new computer parts or the next console is going to be powerful. So people ask around, they read reviews, they try to see if there's complaints on the internet, there's sources like the better business bureau, etc. Also, is Glock your real surname? That's badass.
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Illegal wiretaps. Apparently there is a warrant out for him.
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lol
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And nothing came of it. Meanwhile a lab with prior leaks in China had their staff get sick. Thanks for doing Xi's bidding, comrade.
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@JordanWallace-nb4id Both sides have artillery and air superiority has nothing to do with artillery.
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Tanks have fought without air superiority for most of history.
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@JordanWallace-nb4id And? The ammo depots are 100km away from the frontline because they kept blowing up.
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@JordanWallace-nb4id No ammo, no advantage.
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@familyfive05 he told you to look at the numbers PROPORTIONALLY. A country with more people will get more cases.
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On twitter the full video had the drone confirm enemy presence.
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That's fucked up right there. If you're wondering, then try it. Plenty of willing people out there. But I shit you not, if you have a gun pointed at your head you won't enjoy it. There's a difference between going to McDonald's and buying a Big Mac and me coming to your house, point a gun and force feed you burger after burger until your stomach bursts. >kinky sex Newsflash: I've never been raped and I've never raped anyone in such situations. It's different when you're with someone you love.
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There's video of guys using AKs and shotguns against drones and the AKs seem to hit more. Without specialty ammo, the shot has very low range.
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babuvangu7220 9/11 was predicted but intelligence agencies did not share with each other. It was in the post-9/11 world that garbage reports like the Iraqi purchase of yellowcake were treated seriously, when before they weren't.
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Maybe they fear porch pirates too.
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Bruh and people have the right to voice their opinion and tell Rogan he's wrong
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@JohnCSmith-lp1qr John Smith from Texas Oblast.
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@JohnCSmith-lp1qr Doesn't matter, you speak like you're posting from St. Petersburg.
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@JohnCSmith-lp1qr More like "superpower suicide by stepping full force on the bear trap". Remember Afghanistan? Still around. The Soviet Union? Not anymore.
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Restricting sales on gun shows would affect 1% of the gun crime, as that's the rough percentage of the guns used in crimes that come from gun shows. In the real world, it would affect less than one percent since criminals would find another way to get guns, such as straw purchases.
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Iran?
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@DavidRichardson153 you're wrong about CAS. Not only did the F-16 provide more CAS than the A-10 in Desert Storm, there's footage of F-16s and FA-1/8s providing CAS in combat here on youtube. CAS doesn't mean you have to take ground fire. It just means that you're dropping ordnance close to your troops. Not that the plane is close to the ground. The 30mm cannon is a relic of the old days, it hasn't been able to punch through MBT armor since the mid 70's meaning that any 20mm or 25mm cannon in service can do the same job. The F-35 isn't the exception either, as the Harrier and the AC-130 have the GAU-12 25mm cannon. The F35's GAU-22 is a modern revision of it.
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@DavidRichardson153 that doesn't really "explain" anything away. If there's USAF A-10s available, why are carrier borne aircraft being called in? On the other hand, even if the Navy lacks other attack aircraft it still doesn't undermine the fact that the F/A-18 is taking A-10 missions. It proves it is capable. The Harrier was showing its age by Desert Storm? The A-10 was showing its age by Desert Storm! 6 of them got brought down. Almost 30 years ago we realized that the A-10 was treading dangerous waters. "In urban areas, the F-16 needs more room to maneuver around to line up its weapons" - what? "the F-16 usually uses missiles, rockets, or bombs, which also have explosive radii - not good for collateral damage control" - the A-10's payload is essentially bombs, missiles and rockets. It's main weapon in 1991 was the AGM-62 Maverick. "The A-10 has a much smaller turning radius" - the F-35 can turn very tight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaHlWow6Yc4 "something no supersonic fighter can do." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELo1NRMHuR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5amEQpxHSSc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoVGz9xai1M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beNOyZHVjEg at this point I'm gonna have to ask, who the hell has been telling you these things that are demonstrably false? "only the A-10's cannon actually fires one of the (currently) best anti-armor shell: a depleted-uranium core." - which is not used due to the bad optics in spreading an aerosol of depleted uranium dust. Amazing how you bring up collateral damage and then ignore the massive heavy metal poisoning of civilians that lead to the discontinuation of the DU round. It leads to birth defects. "The A-10 is not going away anytime soon" - it's already receiving less and less CAS missions. The USAF will begrudgingly keep it in inventory, but is not going to ask it to do much. "their radar systems' signals can give them away to SEAD" - my dude, what do you think allows AAA to track and accurately hit fast moving jets? Radar. "but once their radars are switched on, they might as well light a flare above them." - same as AAA "Replacing the A-10 with the F-35, though, is incredibly foolish." - it's like you're not willing to listen, it's already been replaced for the most part. What you're saying is foolish already happened 5 years ago.
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@DavidRichardson153 "Has the F-35 already been doing what the A-10 can do?" - not even the A-10 has been doing what the A-10 can do. Comparable multirole fighters have taken over the A-10's job. It only stands to reason an even better multirole fighter is gonna do it even better. "Do you not know that the F-35 was promised to be in full service by 2010" - most operational milestones were achieved by 2013. Compared to the clusterfuck that is military aircraft development that was pretty acceptable. "it couldn't even fly in adverse weather because its avionics would shut down and restart as lightning and thunder went around it?" - do you keep track of how often other aircraft have to be grounded because of issues? Just this year 75% of C-130s had to be grounded. The B-1B also had to be grounded due to parachute issues. T-6 trainers were grounded due to hypoxia and the same happened to 28 A-10s. In 2014 86 F-16Ds had to be grounded. Not to point fingers at others, but Germany can't even maintain the minimum training standards because most of the Eurofighters are grounded. "Its entire development process has been a scam" - every government program is a scam. That has fuck-all to do with the aircraft design. "The DOD would have to pay Lockheed for every single one of these fixes." - lol that's the government for you. "Name another plane that has had a development process like this" - considering that aircraft development used to straight up KILL pilots in the old days, and that a lot of the problems of the F-35 stem from the fact that it's inherently more complex, I'd say the F-105 and F-111 were proportionally just as bad as the F-35. Mind that the Eurofighter has also been in a politically-generated boondoggle as well. "they're even looking to just expand the F-22 into the attack role as well" - who's "they"? The F-22 isn't as good as air to ground and nobody is going to rebuild the manufacturing line. It's gonna be a 220 million per plane job to reactivate the F-22 program. You can expand it into the attack role but that doesn't mitigate the fact that the US eventually will need to replace the aging F-15 and F-16 and there's not enough F-22s for the job. "The F-35 just screams of being a massive scam" - if any other aircraft procurement was put under the microscope like the F-35 it would sound like a scam. Not only are we living in the information age which means you can't get as much details on the issues other older planes had, we're also living in a world of clickbait and deliberate propaganda. Let's not forget that some of the F-35's biggest critics are tabloids and outlets like Russia Today. "Sounds good in theory for building trust between allies, but it allowed Lockheed to use other nations' economies to pressure the US to keep the contract going." - Again, mind that the Eurofighter Typhoon did the same thing - fuselage is built in Germany, one wing is built in Britain and the other in Italy. I wouldn't say it allowed Lockheed to use other nations to pressure the US, because the US got the most subcontractors working on the F-35. It's simply a jobs program so that on a multinational project one nation doesn't get all the money. "I am not going to see the F-35 as anything other than a scam, so if it's going to be serving on the frontlines, it better be a miracle plane," - everyone who flew it says that it is. Who says that it isn't? Russian state-ran media, lunatics like Pierre Sprey, """journalists""" (which as we all know are extremely reliable) and people who never flew it.
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@whitestratman3158 Get off the man's case. There's armories full of real guns for use in Hollywood. Oh, you have a video? Ian McCollum from Forgotten Weapons has probably a hundred videos of him going to movie armories to get access to stuff you don't find often in the civilian market.
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@marcogenovesi8570 Semi-auto pistols need the same exact significant mod - a barrel change. It's double-action revolvers that don't need changes.
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@whitestratman3158 That's one video of one individual showing one pistol (I skipped around, didn't watch the full 11 minutes). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnOUrRTf6jg Here's a video with WALLS FULL OF REAL GUNS that all belong to a single movie armory company. EDIT: Holy crap man you posted that same link that disproves your previous claim that movie guns only fire 8mm blanks!
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Nah it's just coordinated by NGOs and social media influencers using protests for clout.
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The daytime would increase on the opposite side...
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The Tet Offensive broke the Viet Cong. The US and ARVN slaughtered them to the point they nearly stopped existing and North Vietnam had to send NVA regulars to become VC. Russia's modern tech is 80s junk barely upgraded to modern standards and their intelligence saud Ukraine would welcome the Russian army with open arms in February 2022.
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They've been near the suburbs for like two weeks. What do you mean "right now"?
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The F-35A can carry 2k lbs more than the A-10. Everyone forgets the billions it costs to keep the A-10 flying. They've had airframe rebuild programs and now re-winging contracts. They're extremely old.
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Russia can have peace whenever they want. They can just go home.
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@thr0waway Okay. Let's compare Putin to Putin. The day after Minsk II was signed, he ordered his DPR minions to assault Ukrainian army positions. Any deal you make with the Russians has to be made under the belief that deals restrict the Tsar, and the Tsar cannot have his authority threatened.
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@prunabluepepper Russia bombed NS. Why would they leave one NS2 pipeline undamaged? Hint hint it's to tell Germany they can get gas if they back off their case. If the US had done it, they'd destroy NS2 and not NS1.
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That's how I think they're doing it. Pre-segmented, you flip the switch, toss, and the segments spring out and come off the main grenade body as it flies through the air.
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Of course. I'm just saying, you'll be really unhappy because if we want to make it black and white, then there's almost no natural products available anywhere. You'll have to grow most of the stuff.
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The Boeing contract for the new A-10 wings was 2 billion.
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@TheSkunkyMonk Not really, when they were built the cost was for the entire aircraft, and more than 700 of them. Now there's only 200-something.
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America spends trillions on itself. 53 billion is a drop in the bucket. Also, you might look into other countries getting foreign aid every year. We bribe countries to play nice, essentially.
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Because wealthier Western European nations are associated with higher quality goods/services so the German surgeons would be the best and Ukrainian doctors wouldn't be trusted, also there's the "vampiristic" fable of bleeding the poor to feed the rich, stealing organs and selling them to Westerners makes us look evil and the Ukrainians like pawns who don't even get the organs for themselves. Also not-very-subtle hint at voodoo Nazi science.
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Which means there's no reason to ever try and make more money. Yeah, there's homeless people. We dumped a bunch of tax money into that problem already. Didn't work.
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@maksimmatkun9227 Here's what's understood: Russia has suffered at least 50,000 KIA and 100,000 WIA due to their poor combat medicine (Belarus data shows they suffered 1:1.6 KIA:WIA ratios in the Kiev advance). This means their professional military was torn to shreds. Their professional units that are still combat effective are trapped in Kherson and lacking supplies. They cannot advance or retreat across the Dnipr. The rest is manned by LDPR militia, reservist/volunteer battalions and PMCs. You are watching the slow motion collapse of the Russian armed forces.
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@maksimmatkun9227 It's not overexaggerated if we look at the ground. The frontline collapses are due to lack of manpower. How can they lack manpower after shadow mobilization? Tons of KIAs and WIAs.
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@pieterveenders9793 That's what I said. I was explaining why it shouldn't happen. I understand that through text you can't tell the intent but I was contradicting a post regarding civilian sales in the US.
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@airborne22away Doesn't matter who owns it, HK has to be registered as a company in Germany and many of their weapons were patented in Germany.
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Ukraine has 700,000 soldiers with only 20,000 foreign volunteers.
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@HoustonTexasAMG Has. Russian OSINT sources calculated Ukrainian losses and they're minimal for how brutal the war has been. Even the LPR volunteer "Murz" stated that Ukraine has the advantage of preserving lives while they throw theirs away. They also cancelled an upcoming mobilization wave because they have the troops they need. So they don't have less than 700.000.
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So Russia gives NATO exactly what it wants by getting Russian soldiers killed, losing tankd and expending their munitions. Smart move.
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There was a PLA soldier in the 90s who went one man army after his wife died during a forced abortion. Unfortunately he also targeted civilians but he was a tough SOB in a direct firefight, they had to advance on him with ballistic shields to corner him into an alley while a sniper took him out.
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 angelabronckhurst6849 the air support was Russian, not Wagner. Wagner used surface to air missiles.
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People say "high rate of speed" and "high rate of acceleration" as if they're not using language to botch the entire concept of first and second order derivatives.
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Half the comments I get replies on are hidden. I can read the comment on my inbox but if I check the thread they're gone.
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 @seditt5146 Have you considered they were reloading the missile tubes?
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Literally on screen.
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 @chriskeene241 His record is pretty bad if you look at stuff in the last 20 years.
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Hearsh's narrative reads like a bad Tom Clancy novel.
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@tonys32948376 Oh yeah, those 80 year olds with comorbidies that loooove the e-cigs.
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If the use of a nuclear weapon now is irrational, and he does it anyway, that means you're inherently dealing with someone who's going to nuke you eventually.
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@Teeurbo If it's Iranian territory isn't even more legal than if it were Syrian territory. They aren't spies. They're Quds force. They're not diplomats. They are war assets. It's a perfectly legal strike. The Vienna convention prohibits Syria from striking foreign embassies inside Syria. Not third parties.
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Nordstream was also Russia. NS1 was losing them money. NS2 was blocked by Germany. Then suddenly the "bad' pipeline is destroyed while the "good" pipeline has one pipe damaged and one untouched. And Russia immediately says they'll bring NS2 online in a week if sanctions are lifted. Why would Ukraine help Russia?
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As we have seen, the large army doesn't mean much. It's not that large considering the Western forces would be combined. The US is not on the other side of the world. They're in Japan. They're in Europe.
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Now they are planning to use the thermal energy from radioactive decay through Stirling engines in the future.
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@Madonnalitta1 "In short, there will not be enough food to feed everyone." - No, production will just be decentralized since other countries will remain competitive.
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@jgw9990 Why do you have to go to Eastern Europe?
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Intel pretty much only hires H1B visas these days.
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China decided to not try and win anything this year. They closed their cities. They sacrificed their economy for covid zero.
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The trees and rocks are your body armor. But seriously you have a limited weight "budget" and carrying armor means less water or food to make up for it. The plan is not getting in a fight and if you do get in a fight to break contact.
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It's not complicated at all. Either way, Russia does not want to give peace a chance. They don't want to save lives, they want to take more. If you want peace, you must give up something. If you want to fight for that thing, suit yourself.
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@MrLasso15 When facts are lies and the person who spouted those "facts" doesn't believe in them... what does that tell you?
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@stevenm732 Pretty sure his model predicted Sweden would have like 3-5 times more fatalities than they did.
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"Why would a woman ask for dickpics? For pleasure? Think, Mason. It's for blackmail. Never forget this." - Viktor Reznov
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@piccalillipit9211 His classmates are not clever. The Chinese can learn foreign languages and AI will provide translation. There's zero point in learning Mandarin right now because China no longer needs Mandarin-speaking foreigners.
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 @festekj Max Blumenthal switched sides on the Syrian civil war after being paid off by Moscow.
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How? What's methodical about using a shadow arm of the GRU to hire prisoners and use them as suicide squads? And then capturing a single town/small city. If Bakhmut was a Californian city it would be the 100th most populous. Imagine if the US invaded Mexico and a year and a half later not only it struggled to capture Chihuahua, American rebels fighting for Mexicans were invading El Paso.
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Jeffrey Sachs helped cover up the leak at Wuhan and Douglas Macgregor predicted Ukraine's total collapse in April 2022. You should learn to notice anti western shills when you listen to them speak.
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I always understood FTW to mean For The Win and one time I received a warning in a game chat for using it because decades ago people meant F The World.
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They used to put stuff on metal cans but they probably switched to save weight. The US designed their own bags, the Russians just picked what already existed.
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Fanatical nationalism? Half of Americans hate America and the othet half hates the government.
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@brushylake4606 Guns were a thing of the past. The "muh guns" narrative was pushed by a lot of documentaries but if you look at the statistics the Phantom with missiles only was excellent.
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@brushylake4606 The F-35 can carry 2000lbs more than a Warthog, and it doesn't taje punishment at all because unlike the Warthog it doesn't have such a pathetic performance that it needs to fly inside AAA range.
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I'm sorry but the thought of becoming the "kooky martial arts guy" is funny. I gave up kickboxing in 2020. The gyms being closed on a whim with almost no warning and no idea when they'd reopen was beyond unreasonable, and federations setting up international competitions right after restrictions eased up made me realize that many gyms obviously trained illegally and had an advantage over those who followed the rules, and countries had unfair advantages/disadvantages based on how strict their social distancing was.
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The helicopters that pitch up and fire rockets without guidance, or the artillery that takes hours to respond to calls for fire?
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I'm sure there's pictures of those 14 aircraft. Because I only saw a struck Russian Mi-8.
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That's not true, that's just the Hollywood "bully narrative". Oh the kid gets abused at home so he bullies others. No, some people are just mean. People who don't like gays aren't gay themselves. They were just raised to not like gay people.
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If you're that low, people in the ground will fill the air with lead and eventually score a hit. In Vietnam many jets were downed because they were forced to fly low due to SAM threat, and ground fire took them out. F-18s can so the CAS mission while self-escorting so sending the A-10s is redundant.
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Saddam killed almost as many Iraqis as the "instability". The Body Count Project estimates 230k fatalities in 2003-2011 while Saddam's repression claimed 190k lives. The stability was almost as deadly as the instability.
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Nixon wanted North Vietnam to sign a peace deal. What did he do to convince them? Operation Linebacker II. Not words. Bombs.
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The Iranians sell to the Houthis. Viktor has no stockpiles like he did back in the day.
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To be fair, the average civilian isn't being sent to investigate strange contacts off the coast. The reason it's the military is because they're the ones equipped to see it. The 2017 Chile ufo footage was an airliner. People see aircraft flying, nothing strange. The Chile coast guard or navy or whatever has a helicopter with a FLIR pod, and they see an infrared signal but beyond visual range? UFO.
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@bjorntorlarsson It was done in a couple of days because Ukraine was in political turmoil, inherited the Soviet military corruption, and Russia controlled Sevastopol already.
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It was America that was afraid of Ukrainian nukes getting lost. America got involved.
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TZD is inevitable
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@unoitisim "but NEVER did they make fake cut scenes swapping Ryden and Snake." - Okay, they just selectively shown footage of Snake fighting Fortune in a room inside Big Shell and him sneaking through Arsenal Gear. We can argue until we're blue in the face about TLOU2 going further to preserve the lie, but the intention was the same.
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That was Cold War era reasoning by scientists to dissuade nuclear escalation. Japanese cities in the 1940s were built with a lot of wood. Modern fire codes and building materials ensure that such firestorms wouldn't happen. Anyway, the Iraqi army set something like 800 oil fires when retreating from Kuwait, creating huge pillars of black smoke. Cooling effects were negligible.
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Grossman is a terrible source. I mean, that fact is probably true, I just wouldn't source him or his books.
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To be fair that cut out is what allows the dust cover to close, and the curve from the end mill is what pushes the detent. It just doubles as a FA like in H&K rifles.
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@totesbotes4660 Yeah because Ukraine uses defense to wear down Russia and the Russians mobilized extra personnel plus prisoners. They had to grind down the Russians to prepare for a new offensive.
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@killerkirby366 shouldn't communists then be helping those who suffer? Oh wait they either just like to talk about violent revolution or beg for votes so they can receive the fat government paychecks. Most suffering in the world is caused by factors like warfare, natural disasters, disease, etc. not necessarily lack of money. It should also be possible for people to freely live without money or even within their own communes if they volunteered for it, but thanks to the government you can't use public land like people used to do with homesteading. If you have nothing, you're fucked because you're not allowed to start from nothing. The communists should be pooling their money together to buy up land and form their own communism. But they won't put their money where their mouth is.
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Not really. Russia's momentum is based on PFI - poor fugging infantry.
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They don't love you back. Putin already apologized twice to Israel.
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 @pogo1140 Speaking of hot and thin air, the A-10s had to take off with light loadouts from Bagram or else it wouldn't clear the base perimeter fence.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Third time is enemy action.
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@averagejoe9040 That's not the point. If you have 10 megajoule in hydrogen or in batteries, the energy is the same. When we calculate the heat energy recovered from the reaction we already took the oxygen's share into account.
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Lol real life is CNN
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 @coffeebean_tamer Better judged by 12 than carried by 6.
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Nobody's jealous of a fake degree worth nothing without anyone pulling some strings to get you a job.
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That's why he's buying from Iran.
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@spacextsl7446 The US isn't running out of weapons, they buy whatever is good enough. Russia running out of their stuff and resorting to Iran is pathetic.
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We didn't have good relationship with Russia.
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An assault on Kiev would accomplish all the demands. They sent the VDV, Spetsnaz and even riot control teams to Kiev in the first night.
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@OakInch They did. Hence the Hostomel assault, which was delayed by territorial defense and ended up damaging the airfield in the fighting.
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@JC-to5by You keep believing that.
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Ritter the pedo or MacGregor the Russia Today asset?
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Why? Because they can't do anything but throw temper tantrums?
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@helenadkins3002 The West didn't cry when bullets started flying they way, they just pressed on and kept going. Russia meanwhile bitches and moans about sanctions and weapons deliveries. If they're so strong, they should shut up and take it.
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I'd lose my shit if someone went up to George Soros back in 2014 "Sir there's a major controversy arising in America!" "VAT?" "Some skank got plowed by 5 dudes and gamers are mad at the media." "FUNDZ IT!"
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SA-2s destroying hundreds of expensive jets had nothing to do with the rifle used.
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They ordered a regroup? Why are there tons of equipment left behind?
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There's a ton of stuff the government can't say because adversaries are listening too... why is it troubling that the govt won't do foreign spies' jobs for them?
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The US has no jurisdiction. Netflix are the ones distributing in the US. Everyone else is out of reach from the courts.
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The countries that actually evaluate their options don't think the Gripen is cheaper. Only online commenters think it is.
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@LackofFaithify All those numbers are nonsense. I've been reading those numbers for years. In actual evaluations, the Gripen never comes out as massively cheaper. It's a wash. In the 1992 Finnish eval the Gripen C wasn't even the cheapest option per hour (the F-16 was) or in lifetime costs. In a 2012 Swiss parliamentary discussion about the Gripen, it was revealed Saab had advertised a 10,000 franc CFH but it turned out it was actually over 24,000 franc (about 26k USD). Different countries measure costs differently so often a country rates their CPH by including everything from staff salaries to airfield maintenance along with depot level maintenance, while another figure may be the cost of taking an airplane for a spin (cost of fuel, lubricant, a few conscripts to turn a few screws and replace a couple of parts in the hangar).
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Reloading components also ran out during the 2012-2013 panic buying.
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Russians went to war for Putin's bank account.
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Pretty much all energy is subsidized.
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@bogdanbogdanovich140 Sure. But decentralization inherently means the energy is consumed locally rather than sold to the grid.
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"Super old anti air" yeah a 60s SAM shot down 70s tech. In 1999 Have Blue was 22 years old, and the SAM that claimed it around the mid 30s. Always mind how a narrative is presented.
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I'm an innocent person. I will attack a person threatning me with a shotgun, just not with fists.
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@FoulMouthActual But I am innocent. Anyone pulling guns on me is automatically a criminal. There's no liar here but you. What a childish response.
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People risked their lives on rafts to leave Cuba. People get shot at if they try to cross from North to Souty Korea. Iran needs a paramilitary force to keep their theocracy in power as the youth gets more liberal/progressive. Do these countries seem like they're doing well? Russia has no debt, because who'd trust them to pay back? Unemployment is low because many workers they needed are rotting in Ukrainian soil.
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Hypersonic only works when it follows design conditions. Once shot down, terminal velocity is handled by atmospheric drag.
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Russia is paying a heavy cost for that ground.
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Russia invaded Crimea and ran a phoney referendum just like Kherson. Kherson was "officially" Russian. Ukraine invaded. They're the bad guy? Nobody cares. Most of the world recognizes Crimea occupied, not as part of Russia.
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So I care about people's safety, that's less than you? I cared about the 200 people who burned to death in Brazil early this year. If a mass killer wants to he can trap dozens or hundreds in an enclosed space and throw molotov cocktails. I care about people being able to be in their college campus and not get raped. You only care about people not getting shot. People are 3x more likely to be struck by lightning than killed in a mass shooting - when do we ban lighting?
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There was going to be a land invasion later. The proponents of air power argued that an air campaign could start something like two weeks earlier. So the outcome was guaranteed, the delay tactics were nullified so it was time for negotiations.
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Missiles need to pull 60 Gs because the faster you go, the more angular acceleration you need to keep up with a maneuvering target. Fire at a subsonic aircraft pulling 9Gs, if you're at Mach 4 you're not going to hit by pulling 9Gs. You're gonna miss by a mile.
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It's not deflection. When the issues were fixed, the USAF increased their kill rate to 14:1.
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Exactly. Don't even notice they're sick, go to work and spread it everywhere.
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@David Ilea "And there's nothing wrong with political violence" - there's nothing wrong with justified violence when the reasons happen to be political. But when you unjustifiably use violent means and then justify it with politics you have a bad moral reason to do it. There's a big difference between revolutions and just fucking people up with a bike lock because you disagree. Also, how is WWI and WWII political violence? The reasons for the disputes weren't "we have to change their government because their political opinions are wrong", if anything many American politicians loved German fascism. The disagreement wasn't politics, it was countries taking military action against each other.
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Then why did they start this only after the war? I have NEVER seen tires on aircraft and I've been a huge aviation nerd since a child.
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It's a lie. It was a few thousand people who agreed on doing something about gun violence. They never agreed to criminalizing gun owners with the BS UBG's that would turn millions of guns illegal just because they have no paper trail. Even the ACLU was against the bill.
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Mao erased a lot of that history in the great leap foward.
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I think what he meant was that differences between pistol calibers are negligible. Human tissue won't care how much foot pounds it go hit with, and it doesn't care if the bullet creates a cavity a few mm's wider. Is the 10mm a world apart from 9mm? Yes. But in a race around the world, Corolla vs a Ferrari I wouldn't expect the Ferrari to finish before it started, light speed style.
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>to up close and personal? yea, maybe for most people The vast majority gunfights occur at less than 21ft away, and most of those occur at only 7ft away. In fact, 2/3 of self-defense shootings occur at such close distances the shooter can't extend the arm to use the sights.
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@jimsinnovations2737 sharing the results means nothing because you can't tell if they've been faked. Unless they commit some kind of mistake that outs their forging.
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@NeoCreo1 But how many companies have ruined their reputation after years of profiting off their dishonesty? The top guys pull the cord on their golden parachute and start new companies.
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@NeoCreo1 remember back when the economy crashed a decade ago because the biggest credit ratings agencies essentially committed fraud by rating mortgage backed securities as AAA? If they can do it, smaller companies auditing tech businesses can certainly try to get away with it too.
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@NeoCreo1 Which is why I mentioned the fact that the big three (they're literally called The Big Three) credit rating agencies defrauded the American public and rated subprime mortgages as AAA. If something as important as the entire economy can take a hit because ratings agencies are willing to scam investors, I'm not gonna put my blind faith on tech auditing companies either.
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"Could have been worse" is a cope. You've just made your hypothesis impossible to falsify because we can't retest and change the variables. How do you know it would have been worse? Maybe all those who were going to go critical anyway, and excess cases wouldn't have lead to excess deaths, just sniffles.
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What's a "super A-10"?
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The only evidence for the F35 losses are AI slop and an old picture of a crash site. The supposed captured pilot is Chilean.
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You're completely unreasonable, if not totally insane and lacking the most basic reading comprehension skills. You had the chance to drop this peacefully. I assumed you made a mistake, making one myself. Out of ignorance, because I did not watch the video. Seriously, you could have just asked for an apology 10 comments ago and dropped it. You're the one coming on to the internet and antagonizing people. Stop looking for confrontation and drop the Ad Hominem arguments.
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Silencer is a correct term.
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@tarn1135 "the more crap you strap on the exterior of the plane the less stealthy it becomes" by the time the F-35 gets stuff strapped to the outside, SEAD/DEAD already made that concern a non-issue.
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The thing is that there would be a lot of non-hostile posting of pro-vegetable posts.
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 @OzzyBloke The US specifically passed laws to make Iraqi oil unprofitable. The Russians, Chinese and Frwnch did take Iraqi oil though.
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@HairEEck France went "papers please" over the coof, that's not freedom
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@HairEEck No offense, but I don't care about "standard of living" when cops are asking for papers on outdoor tables. I simply can't call that "living" to begin with.
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@HairEEck It wasn't justifiable.
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@obbyfus Did this video attract a different audience than usual?
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@HairEEck First, the science - actual science, not TV science - did not justify such measures. They were pure coercion for the sake of getting people to comply. Second, even if it did, it still wouldn't be justifiable. I genuinely don't get how come people come here and argue for free software and no spying, etc and then advocate for the adoption of a rushed government platform, contact tracing software that was admittedly used for non-pandemic reasons and limiting access to public spaces.
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@HairEEck If you're not for contact tracing or tracking apps, then why defend another form of control? At least those apps, which didn't work properly as we expected, had the good intention of seeking the infection as it spread to single out those who were likely to be infected. "Papers, please" is the equivalent of presumption of guilt in a legal system. First of all, I specifically mentioned outdoor seating. You know why? You're not likely to contaminate others in outdoors settings. In many countries outdoor seating were exempt from having to show papers. Second, taking the stuff only suppressed symptoms. You could still spread. By having a green pass that unlocked the key to the city, people actually had the freedom to contaminate others completely unchecked. Third, you are moving the goalposts. This changed from a society based on control and forcing people to participate in a shoddy database system that was rushed (and eventually cracked as shown by the Adolph Hitler health passes people successfully made as a joke) to you wanting a paper about lockdowns, which wasn't the topic. At least admit to being disingenuous.
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I do remember the G36 nothingburger. "I'll get a new standard issue rifle, and make H&K pay for it!"
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@hollyshmit9956 funny, people bitch and moan about police brutality but then want them to enact revenge.
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Philip Freeman if you're actually a former cop and you're that violent then surely we should start talking about how many violent psychopaths apparently are fit for duty. Police is law enforcement. Not judge jury and executioner.
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Philip Freeman that's the problem. What if you got the wrong person? You shot an innocent man in cold blood and your defense was that he was a "rabid dog". And a lot of cops on active duty think like you. They are the liability, they are the rabid dogs. "then they deserve to die at the hands of the state" - the state cannot be trusted. There's too many wrongful executions and way too many people exonerated from death row by DNA evidence or whatnot.
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Philip Freeman you sound perfectly balanced and totally don't make me think of cops as psychopathic murderers.
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@SoulScream1984 the fact is that they've never been used. So either they were never missing, or were recovered by agencies posing as terrorist buyers.
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There's nothing that defends freedom of speech like complaining. It's part of being free. It's the reason freedom of speech is a thing, so that you have a voice to complain. Maybe when Fox News starts calling on sewing lips shut you can say they are restricting the First Amendment, but until then don't talk about what you don't understand. Sorry to burst your bubble but news networks are all owned by the same people and all the other networks are as much of hypocrites as Fox News.
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Others can license patented technology.
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Massive lol yeah let's go on vacations to authoritarian states to gain sympathy for their government who doesn't care about their own people
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@Bottleofwater-n5y "a hit dog will holler"
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@Bottleofwater-n5y you deleted your comment, seems like you understood
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Based.
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The weapons were paid for 30 years ago and it costs more to dispose of them.
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It's only "difficult" because Congress made it impossible. The OA-X program proves that the military was willing to acquire a cheap solution but without an A-10 retirement they will not spend money on aircraft that won't be used against peer threats.
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Footage is downgraded. There was a trade show where they had a TV linked to a F-35 flying near Las Vegas and the footage looked like someone was standing in a hotel rooftop with binoculars.
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What does that have to do with the air force?
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Because media is garbage and depends on clicks and views. Welcome to the real world. Wear a cup.
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Think about it for a second. Look at a road. What do you see? Cars and trucks moving, never stopping. If there's no traffic jam you can have trucks lined up in a huge convoy. Now think of a boat doing a short hop. You need an hour to load. An hour to cross round trip. An hour to unload. And you don't have boats lined up bumper to bumper. You have maybe three, four boats. Roads are like email on the internet. Boats are like regular mail.
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"Muh BRICS" yeah and China is totally friendly with India, right?
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Scott Horton? He's been at it for years.
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The F35 sensors are supposed to detect missile launches even if you fire an IR missile. So to go from there to a system that can track the heat signature of an incoming missile isn't far fetched.
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@sotirmilivojevic6233 The US isn't threatening to nuke the world for losing an invasion.
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@sotirmilivojevic6233 Grim Reaper said Russia was going to annihilate Ukraine. Not America. Explain.
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@mr.pointman1930 Not sure what argument that even is. Here people are saying that Russia is crazy and will nuke the world, but then claim the US is the threat.
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He is almost correct because the AK as we know it was only adopted in 1959. The AK-47 was the name of a prototype and was never adopted. The Russians adopted a milled receiver "AK" (not 47) because they couldn't get the stamping receiver right. In the late 1950's the AK as we know it was adopted as the "AKM".
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@junkersintutus4282 you missed the reference, there's a phrase "the eternal Anglo" to make light of the fact that the British have fucked everything up for everyone else for ages. He flipped it around as "the eternal US" because this time it's the US that has been perceived as fucking everything up for everyone else.
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Except that general leading the red team was caught cheating by having the simulation run with small ships fitted with missiles too heavy for them.
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@Miratesus a jury rigged HARM isn't as effective as a fully integrated sensor.
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You missed every point, and I suspect out of malice. Bad faith arguments is all you have.
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First of all, there's a multitude of AK specs. Second, tolerance stacking does exist in the AR parts world.
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@trimetrodon Mearsheimer also said Putin was too smart to invade.
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The reputation of an auction house depends on it. If they didn't authenticate how could they deal with the liability of selling counterfeits?
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You laugh because it's not your nation. That smile would be swiped clean off if it were you.
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The Treaty of Versailles crap is pop history designed to make the rise of the NASDAP digestible. Versailles was actually extremely forgiving compared to what Germany wanted to impose had it won. Here's the give and take - we gave to Russia and they bit the hand that fed them. Literally, the US sent food aid to Russia in the 1990s. Now it's time to take, with interest.
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 @Joesolo13 Old Patriots were tested against hypersonic gliding Pershing II warheads. Like 25 years ago.
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A lot of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and lung cancer is preventable. Where's the mandates to deal with those people who take resources away from the community?
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To be fair (because I am charitable to a fault) that's exactly what Russia does. They love doing the "X is on our side!" schtick to purposefully fan the flames of disssent.
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@abduldajewl You do realize that the fed injects those billions into the financial sector, right? An overvalued Wall Street does not mean you don't owe your wealth.
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They also had Rovsgardia and SOBR special forces.
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@randyindvik1171 They were armed. But not trained to use heavy weapons. So they left behind the artillery and ammo for Ukraine to use. Oh well.
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Based.
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That's just the UK and Germany. Also why use facebook anyway?
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@Raven_12345 he made it the f up
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All governments can kill whomever they want, legalities be damned.
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>some people do it to feed their family Those should steal food. Not sell drugs and murder people. >Barrett M50 No such thing. Barrett doesn't make any M50. >TV makes kids do bad things, it's possible Influence? Sometimes. Cause? No. >Scope+FyrPower= sniper rifle Many sniper's rifles use .308, which is a regular power rifle round. The Mk12 SPR even uses 5.56, which is one of the weakest rifle rounds. And firepower is more related to volume of fire and fire superiority. Not actual power.
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You don't know what a strawman is. "Nobody complains about traffic lights" because you have the choice not to drive. What happens when you can't work or buy food without taking it? You have no choice. Additionally, you are hurling a 1-2 ton metal object at high speed into incoming traffic. Anyone reasonable would make the equivalence with firing a gun at marathon runners. Sure, you might miss the runners and crowd, but everyone can see you are committing an act that directly endangers others. Simply breathing in and out is not the same as hurling vehicles at other people or firing guns at crowds. Pathogens have always existed and will keep existing. We don't blame anyone except the few who are indeed caught trying to intentionally spread them. And yet, you DO hear people complain about traffic lights taking too long. So just saying "nobody complains" is already a falsehood. They might not advocate for removing them, but people do complain. So you're wrong right there.
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@jaydy71 "But I don't complain about them existing" - Thanks for repeating what I just said. "because in general they work towards making traffic safer" - They actually don't. They actually promote paying less attention to traffic because the lights tell you what to do. They promote ease of traffic flow by timing it, but not safety. Testing done on locations that removed traffic signage showed that without traffic rules people focus on self-preservation rather than obeying rules, and thus they're safer drivers. "I don't think many sane people at either side of the political divide would really push towards abolishing them in the name of "freedom"" - Because it has nothing to do with freedom. That's why it's such a flawed analogy. "they argued against Schwarzenegger's "screw your freedoms"" - Which is valid. "implying that he was making a case that the government should enforce vaccines" - If Arnie doesn't want freedom then why would he be against state mandates? "That is a verbatim strawman argument" - Again, then what freedom is he arguing against if he actually is for freedom like you claim?
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@jaydy71 But it doesn't. All those "responsibilities" relate to things that were never your freedoms in the first place. Nobody ever had freedom to harm others. It doesn't even make sense. You bought the narrative, hook line and sinker. You've already internalized that you gave up freedom and that it's reasonable to give it up. That's just word trickery, you never gave up freedoms by not hurting others. "Now it means getting vaccinated to help protect you from doing harrm" 1. You're not doing harm by not being unvaccinated. There's a multitude of contagious diseases for which there are no vaccines and we don't hold anyone responsible for spreading them unless they are caught intentionally spreading it. 2. The vaccine does not prevent you from spreading. By your own twisted logic, you're still causing harm even vaccinated. Never leave the house again if you're really committed to this moral standard. "It's not a big ask" - Yes, it is. "And again he wasn't arguing in favor of government enforcement" - Pretty sure government enforces red lights. If you're saying "screw your freedoms" this means government enforcement. Stop excusing him. How can someone be screwed out of his freedoms without government enforcement? If it's still up to personal choice, why is he bringing up traffic laws? If he's saying we shouldn't have freedoms, is this the "it's voluntary until the voluntary phase is over"? Yes, apparently it is hard to get people to understand what's being said. If he's on the side of freedom and personal choice, then he completely bugled it up by saying the exact opposite of what he meant to say.
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@jaydy71 "This stuff isn't even controversial anymore" - And again, if you're blowing smoke in people's faces, even before we get to the health effects it's a nuisance. You have the choice not to smoke, and we used to have smoking/non smoking areas. Exhaling pathogens is part of human function. They got in when you took your first breath and they'll still be coming out the day you take your last. Breathing is not a nuisance unless I'm doing it right in your face. Hurling 1-2 ton vehicles at other people at considerable speeds is not the same as breathing. Or eating at a restaurant. Or going to a show. Or travelling to another country. "if there's a group of people large enough unwilling to take responsibility with vaccination" - WHAT RESPONSABILITY? You can still get it and transmit! Your own experts, your science has admitted it won't stop transmission. "vaccines are the best bet" - How? They don't do what they were supposed to. "they do reduce transmission as viral loads reduce much more quickly in infected vaccinated people"- COPE. Transmission is still possible. "It's just unclear to what degree exactly it reduces transmission in the delta variant specifically" - It's spreading in Israel despite high vaccination rates. It didn't work. Better luck next time. Can't wait for big pharma to make another 60 billion in revenue from the next year's revised formula. "Especially for people that can't get vaccinated." - THEY CAN STILL GET IT FROM THOSE WHO GOT VACCINATED. COME ON. THINK. "There's of course the alternative to simply accept Corona viruses as a new fact of life and hope for the best" - Oh, you better. Name a coronavirus with animal reservoirs we've managed to eradicate. Remember, the generic code shows it was hosted by bats and possibly pangolins. "then my response would also be "screw your freedoms, dickhead"" - Exactly. And you can be mad about it for the rest of your life. "I think that was clearly the crux of the governator's rant there" - The thing is that if you meet me in the elevator you're just some guy. Not a propagandist spreading an anti-freedom message from his mansion while we are under the thumb of a sanitary dictatorship. "But I guess his marriage infidelity years ago is somehow relevant to these guys" - It's always relevant when a man with questionable character starts to make character judgements.
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 @vickomen333 "Yugoslavia" you mean Serbia, which was fighting the rest of Yugoslavia.
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 @donflamingo795 Russia knows nothing. They're losing against surplus.
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 @damjanmuskinja9227 That didn't happen.
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@damjanmuskinja9227 Yes. The responsible were caught (Berkut) but there was no way to tie a shooter to the events.
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Tons of videos are published regarding Russia's defeats. You're just afraid to look.
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Getting shot down.
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Minsk II was broken by DPR forces assaulting Debaltseve. That's right, the DPR planned to use a ceasefire agreement to help them attack and capture territory.
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Depending on the severity of the crimes the bail should be a life-changing amount of money so that the person has an incentive not to flee. The alternative is remaining in custody until trial to prevent flight. I understand the inequality argument but the answer is not cheap bail. It's everyone staying locked up if the crimes are deemed serious enough.
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@uoislame That's the thing, you're not supposed to be "free". Yes, innocent until proven guilty, but to prove someone guilty they have to show up to court. On minor crimes you're simply summoned to court and they trust you'll show up, on more serious offenses you're remanded. And you don't "pay" to be released on bail, you essentially leave a deposit. You are returned the bail money, I watched the Kyle acquittal live and the judge mentioned that the bail would be returned. That's how bail bonds work, if you don't have the money for the full amount of the bail you can pay 10-15% of the amount and the bail bondsman pays the rest. When your trial is done then the bail bondman collects his money back and keeps the whole thing as a fee. The states which have abolished cash bail essentially use a points scoring system to decide if you are released, if you're placed under house arrest or just remanded. It's essentially only about inequality, because you don't get "freedom" with the abolishment of cash bail. They simply throw you in jail until the trial. Or they release people who shouldn't be released, like this guy.
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They cost about the same, and there's less of them. Meanwhile F-16s are incredibly common.
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They already had Su-25s for that. The Soviets (and thus Ukrainians and Russians) already had their tankbuster too. The Su-25 even looks a little like the YA-9 which competed with the YA-10 for the role in the US. The Su-25 could have been sent there. It wasn't. They knew it would be suicide.
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@Ksozey We have a proven instance of it happening on a missile dud, and an allegation. Why would Sweden have production blueprints?
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@NomastiAfricanWarlord "masks are indeed effective, and every medical expert agrees that it is" - huh, I'm pretty sure the medical experts told us they weren't months ago. Look, I was on the side of masks because I recognized it as a ploy to get masks in the hands of healthcare professionals. It was still a fucking lie, and they tanked their credibility so nobody cares about what the experts say anymore. When the streets were empty and entry to grocery stores was so limited you had a 10 yard radius around with nobody else the mask made sense. Even with the 2-3 meter/6 feet social distancing you're breathing others' particles. There's too many people in public transport and stores. The masks aren't sealed. The only thing they do is contain the largest particles sneezed or coughed out, and nobody dares coughing in public. When you breathe out, the air bypasses the mask. When you breathe in, air bypasses the mask. You're breathing others' airborne particles and there's nothing that homemade/surgical masks can do about it. Plus, after being inconvenienced for so long people can't be bothered to use the mask safely. They're touching the masks and their faces. So the contagion is still going on.
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@jynxed66six54 "the corona virus is known to have carriers who dont have an actual illness" - But these people will breathe out the particles in aerosolized form. If they were sick, the mask would at least stop the droplets from coughing and sneezing. But breathing in and out normally, air will simply go through the path of least resistance.
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Javelins and Stingers, weapons meant to target the IR signatures of military vehicles, are being used to slaughter Eastern Ukranian civilians? Could you please turn down the insanity a little?
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This is an absolute cope. We shouldn't be evil to keep others from being evil. Becoming a monster to fight monsters makes no sense, because now others can claim they need to be evil to prevent the US from getting involved.
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@NoMoeMistaNiceGuy It's still a ridiculous point. The US Navy would essentially decimate any force trying to erase the US before it set foot on its soil. Those that would manage to get through would be stopped by the USAF, USMC and Army. Even if this evil supoerpower managed to defeat the entire armed forces... they'd still have an armed populace to control. Trying to make the US stop existing would require wiping out the entire land.
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@NoMoeMistaNiceGuy First of all, that's a fairytale view of WWII. Germany started the conflict due to their government spending creating a bubble, the military conflict and the seizing of assets from foreign banks helped mask the impending economic crash. They were totally unprepared for the war, as evidenced by their chronic oil shortages. Their plan was seizing oil fields from the Soviet Union. The sabotage from the crews as they evacuated the region meant that the Germans were eventually repelled from the oil fields before they could restore the extraction capabilities. There was no way Americans would be speaking German, because simply put Germany lacked the capability to do so. Another aspect is that WWII only happened because of WWI. No WWI, no WWII. So in the end, you're trying to say we need violent foreign policy to make up for our own mistakes when we used violent foreign policy. It's absolutely ridiculous. So we need to be killing people in Yemen to prevent the Saudis from dealing with China? Have you thought that maybe Chinese people also think they're the ones who need to be running the markets to prevent the US from waging these conflicts? China and Russia would take part? Fine. We have been driven into trillion dollar wars. Let them fight. Let them bankrupt themselves. According to the 2010 VA statistic our veterans at one point were committing an average of 22 suicides a day. Many of them were from older generations from before the Afghanistan and 2003 Iraq conflicts but the point still stands. How about they suffer this time? If they want to put their own soldiers through this, let them. Russia and China suffer from many internal issues, some of which are talk about, others that are kept under wraps. We have our own internal issues. And you want to add wars to that? No. It's killing us. If they want to take their internal issues and throw war on top of that, it's their own suicide.
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Ukraine took more villages in a week than Russia took in a month. They're folding.
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 @Watchyourselvez Factories need western parts. Relying on Chinese and Indian parts for heavy industry works in short term, but the machines still give out.
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@osanebiuche7476 I'm sure the new fleet is new. Just like those new tanks in 2023 that were photographed in 2019 in the same place, under the same tarp. Plus, didn't a new Su-30 plummet into the ground after the oxygen failed and caused hypoxia to the pilots last year? I'd trust a brand new Sukhoi as much as a Ford Mustang near a crowd.
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One restaurant did that if I remember right. More people talked about how riddiculous it was than it was actually done. France was against the invasion for the same reason the US suppressed the information on the WMDs that were found. They pointed to the US, France and Germany as the suppliers during the Iran-Iraq war.
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 @LlamaKingGaming Not really. They reached market saturation. Anyone who is interested in the product already backed it.
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The forces that break the aircraft apart are coming from two sources - the weight of the aircraft being pulled against the lift, and the aircraft departing from controlled flight creating a scenario where the aircraft or parts of it are acting as an air brake which imparts a force on the structure. The pilot is not being subjected to these forces until the cockpit ruptures and exposes the pilot. After that, if the seat was designed to pull the helmet and limbs into a safe position, the pilot is falling like a rock and stays together. If you could stick the arm out of an airliner you would certainly suffer a flailing injury, but if you curl into a cannonball and skydive off a cargo ramp you're good.
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@CheekoLFreako Exactly.
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People were terrorized by Russia using Hamas tactics and firing Grads from inside cities. Most civilians were hurt by unexploded shells and abandoned landmines, not attacks.
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@Commie 1776 I take you have an unbiased opinion, Mr. Commie 1776.
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@jonbbaca5580 "Did we ever see those jet fighters used again in that war?" - Yes, they were. "We just don't need a huge fleet of super high tech, supersonic fighter jets anymore" - Because the needs of future defense hinge on the Iraq war?
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@jonbbaca5580 It's more expensive to keep old aircraft flying than developing new ones. Not only you have physical limits on the improvements because you're strapping things to an aircraft it was never designed to carry, the airframes themselves have a limit on flight hours/flight cycles. Every time you pull on the stick, there's bending and torsion moments applied. Every landing stresses the components that the landing gear is bolted on, and even the wings get stressed because of inertia. If you go past the limit you risk the aircraft snapping mid-air.
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@jonbbaca5580 "But we have several very successful jet fighter designs we could keep manufacturing" - It's more expensive. A new F-16 contract is upwards of 100 million per plane because of all the bells and whistles you have to buy just to keep it a strong "4.5 gen" aircraft. If you don't buy all the avionics upgrades and pods you're limited. "I just still haven't seen the need or payoff" - It murders everything in the air, rookie pilots wiped out experienced F-15 and F-16 pilots at Red Flag. They can't see it until it's too late. The pilot has unprecedented situational awareness. And it will do the job of multiple aircraft. The need? Retiring older aircraft. The payoff? Having the privilege of enjoying near total air superiority until something better comes along. And I'm not holding my breath for the Su-57. "wouldn't it have been smarter to spread that money around and develop several cheaper, purpose built designs" - No. Everyone's multirole now. It makes very little sense to deal with the logistical nightmares of the past. For example, the F-117 that got shot down by Serbians only had missiles fired at it because there was no EW or SEAD support. It took at least 3 types of planes to do a job. Only one went in, so the SAM crews felt confident in firing missiles without reprisal. In the Package Q Strike during Desert Storm this was also apparent, as by the time the F-15Cs and F-16s approached the target the F-4s had to leave due to low fuel, leaving the attack aircraft and escorts with no SEAD support. When the attack was finished and the F-16s were turning back, they had MiG-29s coming for them. At that point the F-16s had no F-15C cover. Fortunately the Iraqi MiGs fled once they met resistance from the F-16s, but this shows the problem. You have three different aircraft with different fuel tanks, different fuel consumption rates and different weapons load and you have to coordinate their flights to make sure they're all on target for the entire duration of the attack. If instead of multirole F-16s, single-role attack aircraft were carrying the bombs, they might have been unable to face the MiGs head on and got shot down. "Just seems like a money pit at this point" - Every government program is a money pit. When it comes to aircraft I just turn off my brain and enjoy. I can't be mad at everything.
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@jonbbaca5580 It actually hasn't been a failure. It does what a conventional airplane can't do, and it does what most helicopters can't do. The Harrier is loved despite all those killed in initial service. The Osprey has had a much better safety record than initially.
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They haven't even tried to contest air superiority. Air superiority is a tide turning event, you give the enemy no quarter by flying over his strategic targets and dropping bombs. Russian bombers are not flying over Kiev or Lviv.
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@gabrielseth5142 Which is irrelevant. That's the opposite of air superiority.
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@gabrielseth5142 It's not an interesting opinion. Air superiority is the relative freedom of fight without concern about enemy air forces. When you're flying over your own territory while defending from an attacker, you're not in a superior position. You're avoiding overextending because you know the enemy will punish you for flying over their airspace.
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@gabrielseth5142 How? It's literally bog standard. Afraid of flying, need to do it well within your territory to take potshots - you're not superior. It's the definition. Flat out boring opinion that doesn't deviate an inch from doctrine.
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Which is silly because the baby chairs are made to look like bucket seats due to the necessity to strap the baby in it, and gaming chairs are unfortunately based on bucket seats.
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@leviotten Plenty of people native to the region, North Canada, Alaska, Finland, etc.
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@leviotten Antarctica isn't in the Arctic. There's humans who've lived there for tens of thousands of years, Antarctica is only accessible by sailing while modern Russia and America were connected by the Bering land bridge.
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@@maxi4093 No currency is infallible. The point is that who in their right mind would use a currency that could be manipulated by China or whatever? It's like being disappointed at police, so you ask the local extortion racket if you can pay them for protection.
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@@maxi4093 China literally "stole" products like masks when the pandemic started.
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@coltoncrain4261 The problem isn't working against war. The problem is thinking that if war breaks out, warning the enemy is the best course of action.
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It was withdrawn from attacks on Britain due to excessive losses.
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@ondrejdobrota7344 If it was an "insane Wunderwaffe" low repair and output rate wouldn't have mattered. But it got easily swatted out of the sky, so those factors did matter.
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@ondrejdobrota7344 Deny it all you want, you're simping for the German propaganda of "wunderwaffen" when it was systematically brought down by the Allies. No further questions.
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North Vietnam had a centrally controlled army, in fact the huge losses the VC suffered due to the Tet Offensive meant that the NVA ended up replacing the guerrillas with conventional soldiers.
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@Bob-jn8gt Ever heard of Khe Sanh? That battle was almost 6 months of the USMC, US Army and ARVN facing the People's Army of Vietnam. The concept that the entire war was fought by men in black pajamas and straw hats is fiction.
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@itsAmeOFP 1st comment - You don't give it time. It burns through potential hosts before it can change. 2nd comment - By delaying the spread you created the conditions for the infectious agent to change. Not every mutation is beneficial. By widening the timeline you have created the conditions for natural selection to breed a strain that collected mutations beneficial for itself while less infectious strains become unable to jump from host to host. If it happened all at once, the different mutations would not have had natural selection and all the diverging strains would be similar enough to make people immune. With a naturally selected strain you increase the chance that immunity won't work because this new strain benefits from infecting people who were immune to the previous strain already, and thus it changed enough to evade. Think of a cancer. It's also playing by the rules of natural selection. Your immune system is primed to take out misbehaving cells. But a misbehaving cell that keeps itself hidden from the immune system will last longer and keep reproducing. So the cancer grows and the body is not primed to fight it because all that mass comes from cells that have adapted to stay undetected.
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@itsAmeOFP "I don’t think actual time passed makes much of a difference" - But it does. If everyone was fighting off the infection at the same time it would burn itself out. Now that there's people who have been infected and recovered, we allowed it free reign to potentially recycle hosts as a new strain. "it’s the number of replications that increase the likelihood of a mutation" - Sure. But if the same mutations happen over a longer period of time you're always ensuring a pool of hosts to draw from. "Every additional host increases the chance of a mutated pathogen capable of circumventing antibodies/vaccines/etc, and/or increased contagiousness/lethality/long term damage" - But it's preferable for it to starve itself of available hosts. "you could have a scenario where any individual in the set of infected people could be the host of a mutated strain capable of circumventing antibodies" - But everything's going down at the same time. Now we're stuck in a loop where we'll stay in lockdown due to a new strain, then during lockdown the new strain gains a foothold, we have to go into lockdown again to control that one, rinse and repeat. Welcome to our new normal.
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Igor Girkin has confirmed Ukraine has limited air superiority in some areas of the frontline and has conducted air strikes on rear areas, first with jets and then with helicopters.
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@andrewpienaar4522 And they'll orderly withdrawal from Zaporizhzhia. The offensive also failed in Kherson. But you will hear the reason why Zaporizhzhia had to be abandoned. Can't wait to see Shoigu's next highschool theater play.
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@andrewpienaar4522 Did it end?
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Budapest Memorandum. The US pledged support to Ukraine if it were invaded.
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The F-35A and B structure is not reinforced for arrested recovery carrier landings so they're unaffected by the C variant.
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@TrampMachine IFFs can reliably identify friend, but never reliabily tell you who is a foe. A malfunctioning antenna or even IFF turned off will not guarantee you won't shoot a friendly.
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I hate ignorance as much as I hate those who want to deny others their constitutional rights. People have a right to be religious and to worship whatever they want.
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Seems like they're gonna get European standards of living while Russia continues their decline.
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We're always on the backfoot right now. Who makes the peace talks between citizens and agents of the state? The US couldn't create a state in Afghanistan.
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Go there. Try to catch a fart bomb with your hands.
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 @GEE-rr7xv Seymour Hearsh made several mistakes in his made up story (like Jans Stoltenberg being an American agent since he was 16).
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The pipeline was stopped from functioning by Germany. They refused to let it open.
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The amount of times you typed "trail" instead of "trial" makes me want to punch a wall.
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@Jchasser Understandable, have a nice day.
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But resets happened frequently. It's only been in the last couple of years that it has become viable to earn in game.
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Back then people had more pronounced "base martial arts". Nowadays you can sign up for MMA gyms where you train basically kickboxing with some Muay Thai, and no Gi BJJ with some wrestling. It's a true hybrid art. Back then most people had a base art and a secondary skill. Lyoto Machida throws straight punches more like karate than boxing, but he uses hooks which sort of makes it look like he's kickboxing. EDIT: it's also worth mentioning that karate has knees, there's footage of 80s and 90s karate tournaments - bareknuckle, no headgear - and people get dropped with knees from the clinch.
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Usually the math is done by civil engineers and they have to break the bad news to architects and ask them to rework something. Architecture is mostly about picking design/visual style, materials, the human accessibility aspect, natural lighting/energy efficiency, etc.
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He wasn't talking about combat bows from the medieval era, he was talking about the bows from pre-historic times.
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Nope. Many cold war boomers are Republicans.
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@klown463 How is it my problem that Iraq didn't have their MANPADS ready?
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@klown463 And the US planned for Iraq to be a major threat, which is why the war was so lopsided. Russia had their war plans leaked, including the rough date of invasion, of course Ukrainians had MANPADS at the ready.
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@MrMuzzEdit The situation in East Ukraine is an absolute humanitarian crisis as Russia destroyed all the infrastructure. People are drinking out of rain collection and puddles. Your people? You hate them. You're putting them through hell.
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No airplanes yet.
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@silverletter4551 It's everyone's problem, actual agreements were signed over this
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Then start acting like it and pretending there's going to be herd immunity.
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So the guys who used the F-117 to great effect thought "nah this stealth stuff doesn't work... let's buy another stealth aircraft". Plus low altitude flight undoes a lot of stealth - closer range means radars can pick up the faint returns, it means the flight path can be tracked by reports of audible flights, and thermal sensors will pick up the aircraft at low altitude while high altitude flying would cause all the IR emissions to get fully absorbed by the atmosphere.
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The body is a wing.
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300 years of bad blood between them. Putin won't take a deal (looks weak) and Ukraine will hold Kursk hostage to get everything back including Crimea. Also note that Russia broke the Minsk accords with the Battle of Debaltseve and the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport. Knowing that Russia will break a treaty before the ink dries makes it difficult for Ukraine to accept anything other than the 1991 borders.
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Because if they put another grip you'd complain that you'd have to change it.
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No, they tried to use the afterburner fuel injectors to flood the engine. On a second pass it looks like they crashed.
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One thing you forgot to mention - war prisoners were a good source of slaves back then. Tribe leaders were not forced to capture other people, they knew that their enemies could be merchandise. 500 years ago and war was already extremely profitable. Slavery is closely tied to race, but the number one reason was greed.
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Biggest cope. Producing military equipment doesn't rely just on raw materials and energy but many branches of technology.
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They try to land the bombs inside the hatch.
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Russia isn't using Soviet defense in depth. They're using the "NO PANIC! LOOK AT THE MAP WE DIDN'T LOSE TERRITORY" defense which wastes manpower instead of ablating Ukraine's fighting force.
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@kenrik2105 In Iraq the US famously gave the trench line one last chance to surrender, they didn't, so the Americans brought armored bulldozers and buried the Iraqis alive. Either way if you actually read the manuals/doctrines most of it was written to fight the Soviet Union. Not the third world. Obviously that most troops wouldn't have done it for real but if you get training from the NATO manuals you are Blue Team and you can guess what Red Team stands for.
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And there's microplastics in human placentas. Sorry but a once in a lifetime event that hurts a few plants is not even in my top 1000 issues with the world.
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Then the code needs approval. Then the systems need to be brought out of the frontline to have their systems replaced and re-checked.
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@chh4516 lol
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@soonerfrac4611 How does the A-10 do its job? By ripping the stuff from the speedy boys and bolting it to the A-10. Seriously, take an A-10A as it rolled off the factory. It's antiquated garbage. The A-10s today have MFDs and even a F-16 flight stick for HOTAS control. The only issue is that fast jet pilots are required to focus on more demanding skills while A-10 pilots have the majority of their training dedicated to CAS. But that's an issue with how multiroles are issued to squadrons and their tasks split up. Same happened with the F-4G being retired for the F-16CJ. The reality is that 4Gs were flown by Wild Weasels, 16CJs were flown by a mix of prior Wild Weasels and multirole pilots.
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The large craters are where the munitions used to be. The photos before the strike show the boxes in huge piles.
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 @1nONLY_DRock from what I gather it's multiple Hummers cut and stitched together with chassis welding.
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No, he's right. Anti-gun cucks are the slow ones. And it's "more effective" or "greater effect" not "more affect".
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Nope, they'll end the conflict sooner.
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 @HouseholdDog Reached the first line, gained localized artillery superiority, and reached the high ground near Tokmak. Kherson 2.0.
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Research & Development of decade old vehicles? Lay off the Vodka.
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Simp.
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Look at Ukrainian fields. Empty land is cratered like the moon. Russia shells to delete grid squares.
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US, Desert Storm 1991.
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 @TimiTamminen Most modern rap does not deal with complex truths. You have to go way back for that.
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@Salami_Hunter It is a black and white situation, because any real company would have an ethics oversight and shut down the idea. It seems without any sort of restraint the mrbeast team is gonna end up recreating the Japanese gameshow with the naked dude.
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@Gstyle1 There's still T-62s being taken out in frontline combat. Two just a couple of weeks ago.
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@Gstyle1 Pretty sure a Russian military unit is being reformed with T-62s as a MBT. Also, the "Donbas rebels" are being staffed with Russian mobilized men.
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@heybimo It's important to consider that 9mm was limited by bullet design technology, and flawed assumptions about the wounding mechanisms that caused efficient stops. The focus on large temporary cavities, "hydrostatic shock", etc were nice in theory, but in the real world they didn't pan out. So for the time being, beeg boolit was the answer.
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Waa waa. Whole bunch of crying on the internet. Get a job.
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Forgive me for this but... ÙwÚ notices bulge
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That's not residential areas, that's rubble. Russia always used residential areas to fight.
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@burgesskab It's not a matter of belief, there's enough photographic and video evidence posted by Russians themselves. Russia isn't retaliating. Russia is a criminal trying to hit back a homeowner who caught him. That's not retaliation, retaliation implies some kind of tit for tat, being a dirty criminal and receiving righteous punishment only has one honorable way out: laying there and taking it. Trying to fight back is like resisting arrest - another crime on top on the pile.
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@burgesskab Of course it's real, unless Russian pages are faking their war for domestic consumption.
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They are losing important cities that defend Lysychansk-Severodonetsk. You say it's only about Kharkiv but the whole Luhansk oblast will fall as a result of the offensive.
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They also used Johnny Depp's face on a WWII memorial poster. I think someone is having fun at their graphic design job.
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@NickTQ101 But that's not how protecting the strategic depth works.
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@shastasilverchairsg The Standford prison experiment was ran horribly, Zimbardo may have encouraged the guards to misbehave and one of the participants faked a psychological breakdown to be released early so he could study for a test.
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@paulthomas963 That's all good, but surely these people understand that one day it could be them for any random reason or a false accusation.
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You're joking, right? Suppressors are becoming more and more common. "Subsonic applications" lmao
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By the way if you ever heard of rumors of Chechens in Afghanistan that's because the FSB cynically took advantage of 9/11 to whitewash the Chechen wars. Even though Uzbek and Tajik volunteers were indeed found in Afghanistan the Russian state intelligence fed BS to the West to pin it on Chechens.
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@mikeries8549 and awesome.
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Problem is when people use guns to restrict your mind and your sex. Back in the 60's, my country was a dictatorship. You'd probably get arrested and fined for making out with a girl on the street. You'd probably get imprisoned if it was two guys kissing.
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 @galvinstanley3235 Jamming cannot predict what a radar will do. Unless time travel becomes real, a jammer will always be behind what the radar is doing.
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@joehorton5067 "people will spend money according to their income" - the issue is that if you're on the bottom, most of your income is spent on essentials like food, housing, car/gas if you need one to get to work, electricity, water, etc. and those are fixed expenditures you can't simply "not spend on" unless you want them to live in abject conditions. "Someone making $60,000 doesn't buy a $500,000 home" - That's an absurd example, as 60k a year is not ever near the bottom. "Someone earning $40,000 a year doesn't rent a penthouse." - Even more absurd. How about a realistic example where someone making the federal min wage has to blow a huge chunk of their paycheck on a small apartment rent and bills alone? "Likewise, you don't go to a restaurant where the tab is going to be a.couple of hundred bucks." - Every example you give is more and more out of touch with reality. You're using high/high-middle-class expenditures and contrasting them to lower-middle-class wages. How about you pick a city, check rents for apartments outside the city center and then contrast that shit to the federal minimum wage? You wouldn't even go to restaurants, period.
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@joehorton5067 "Bigger houses have a bigger tax burden on them" - You don't want that, it stands to reason that a bigger house involves more materials, more people involved, etc so a bigger house is better at stimulating the economy. Why burden things that create more jobs? "The more fuel you buy (trucking), the bigger the tab" - That puts a tax on transportation, and transportation is necessary for moving products around. The tax will be passed down to the consumer. So not only are the poor more affected by a price hike due to sales tax, they'll also get stuck with the bill for all the sales tax paid by businesses in the entire supply chain. "That leaves more goods (fuel and electricity) on the market." - The thing is, the poor don't exactly go around buying 500 gallons of gas. Especially overpriced gas. So to them it doesn't really matter that truckers are making less trips. "which leaves more materials for lower priced car production" - This is borderline surreal. Car manufacturers are not suffering the huge dilemma of separating materials between affordable cars and higher end. Profits on car manufacturing are razor thin already and forcing them to take an even greater hit by scaling back the higher end models is inherently nonsensical. "A man who buys $35 dollar jeans for work isn't paying the same tax amount as a man buying $1000 suits to work in." - Tons of people making 60-70k wear 35 dollar jeans. You still don't understand and you refuse to understand. If you're living paycheck to paycheck you don't care that the middle class is being taxed at the same effective rate because they have lavish spending habits. You care about the price hike on the products you buy with the little that's left after you burned through most of your wages on housing and bills. "That increased tax burden pushes demand down for materials used in higher priced goods" - THAT ISN'T A PROBLEM. YOU'RE TRYING TO SOLVE A PROBLEM THAT DOESN'T EXIST. "lowers the price for their use in lower priced goods. " - A million dollar house doesn't use the same materials as a 150k house. There's no competition for resources apart from concrete, gravel and wood framing. You're not gonna put the expensive luxury tiles and countertops on a more affordable home.
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@rekeshali I might be misunderstanding. Wouldn't replying "or true" essentially mean "yeah it's viable but it's not true"?
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Been hearing that one for 9 months, Ivan. Russia didn't use nukes in Afghanistan or Chechnya. Fact.
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Is the 22% peak efficiency? Because I can see how a fixed panel will not operate at peak efficiency during all hours of daylight.
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@cliffordschaffer5289 Again, it's unidentified to the official channels. You have no way of knowing what they know if the people who know aren't cleared to talk about it.
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You have no idea how many programs cost trillions. The F-35 was the first to be judged by this metric. Nobody ever estimated the cost of fielding >2000 airframes for 60 years.
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Rubber dinghy rapids, bro.
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>Very relevant point you made there. Not. Just claiming that it wasn't doesn't make you right. I explained my point and it' stands strong as it's a perfect analogy. The internet has been used for many evils yet I did not support PIPA/SOPA/CISPA whatever. The internet did not exist when the First Amendment was written, but back then Europe had repeating rifles since the 1680s, the first machine gun was created in 1718 and in 1777 the first rapid fire musket design emerged.
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No. The F-15C would do that. Twin engine air superiority fighter. The high in the high/low mix. The F-35 is a low plane, like the F-16.
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Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. Spend a few decades voting for the lesser of two evils and you'll end up with the things you initially voted against.
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That was Serbia.
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Sub-80 million flyaway cost. Around 110 million for the B or C variants, give or take. That's 4th gen price, but 5th gen performance. The Swiss recently evaluated their options and figured the F-35 was cheaper in the long run.
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The constant recoil only works for fully automatic weapons. In semi-auto, which is going to be its operating mode 99.9% of the time, it doesn't make much difference.
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The Ka-50 looked better. The Ka-52 looks terrible.
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They already won the war. Russia is a criminal on drugs with a bullet lodged in the heart. The cops already dealt the fatal blow, but Russia is still swining the knife due to adrenaline.
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In many places it was mandated even outside. Locally my outdoors mandate only expired last week. I didn't wear it anyways but that's beside the point.
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The republic of China existed before Maoist China. A better example would be Washington DC.
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Why?
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They don't create immunity anyway, so it's a moot point. They protect the vulnerable (supposedly). We did that. Within months. You essentially can't avoid it, I had it and it was an afternoon if fever and was fine the next day. I wish I could get that every year instead of the cold.
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@GnomesRox Of course not. I also had no choice, first time I got it was in early 2020. Back when the WHO was still in denial. My only option was downing some pills and waking up the next morning to go to work. Second time I got it from someone who is vaccinated. My experience was the experience of the vast majority of people. Remember, most don't even have symptoms. Most symptomatic cases are only minor disease. They've avoided it? Doubt. Everyone's getting it. Maybe they just don't know they had it. When I caught Omicron I thought I had just slept wrong until I was told that I had contact with said positive case. Long covid is a sleight of hand. The NIH considers anxiety and depression as long covid symptoms. There's a huge number of people claiming long covid who can't prove they have ever been infected. The demographic group that claims long covid the most isn't part of the groups most affected by the disease.
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@GnomesRox Funny, 80% of people not knowing they have it unless they test it while in the time window where they pop positive is somehow a conspiracy. You obviously have no argument if you have to resort to such ridiculousness. Stop embarrassing yourself. You're the one who thinks it's impossible to have it without knowing. Despite the logic behind massive testing is precisely knowing who has it despite no symptoms. How did the virus cause depression? Describe the medical mechanism. Wouldn't the isolation and the daily death trackers be a larger source of depression than viral infection?
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Ukraine has Su-25s. They used them where they could. Any area the A-10 could operate on, Su-25s were there. As far as I know, both sides have lost Su-25s. Desert Storm involved a complex SEAD/DEAD operation plus aggressive Fast FAC F-16s diving on AAA to bomb them as they couldn't ve suppressed by HARM.
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Not a forever war. Russia doesn't have the materiel to keep going and their economy depends on oil and gas which keeps getting drone striked.
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Good ingredients, just a bad mixing ratio and a little raw in the middle. The car chase in the ice is pure product placement as both Aston Martin and Jaguar were in the same conglomerate, and using the speed racer's hood as a surfboard to escape feels unearned and thus a jump the shark moment. The Korea and Cuba segments are great, it's the ice hotel thing where everything falls apart.
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 @dattatrayalimaye2756 "if you hate nazis they'll tell you Ukrainians are nazis. If you hate jews they'll tell you Ukrainians are jews" - Timothy Snyder
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 @stevenobrien557 do Saudis have to wear suits or do the white robes suffice?
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It doesn't "cause" a deadlier strain to develop but it increases the chance that if there's a mutation that makes it deadlier, it becomes the strain that gets spread around. Hence the contrast between civilians spreading the flu, where the mild cases were being spread around while the serious ones were in isolation, and the military where mild cases stayed in the war while the severe cases were sent back to spread the most virulent strain. So in a case of civil war or something, it's likely that the people who just have the sniffles will continue fighting or providing aid in the combat zone while the deadlier strain is carried by people being evacuated (the sickness made them too ill to keep fighting), who then spread it in refugee camps, to the doctors, etc.
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@paulmayer8782 Sorry, but the maths is needed. To develop a product you need to be aware of its function. This means design constraints. Unless they're paying engineers to do "youtube science projects" where people just cobble things together not knowing if they'll even work.
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But it was Russia that lost their meatshield (Wagner). Last remnants of weapons? Not a single western fighter has been sent. Only a few dozen Leos have been sent and a few dozen Abrams will be sent.
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@myview5840 Russia limited civilian casualties in Bucha? Hell, a former Wagner merc just admitted to executing civilians today. It's been all over the news.
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@command_unit7792 The Soviet Union is not Russia. Russia doesn't have he demographics for a 10 million man army. Or the economy.
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@Jay...777 Kiev was of no use. Snake Island was of no use. Moskva was of no use. Kharkiv was of no use. Kherson was of no use. Getting kind of repetitive.
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They don't want "war heroes" rising through the ranks.
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Mercouris is a disgraced lawyer who got disbarred over blatant fraud. Why should his voice matter?
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 @riskinhos Please refrain from talking about what you don't know. If you took a F-16's control software and hindered its rudder authority, it would suffer in performance.
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@riskinhos F-35 pilots have said they won simulated engagements, and afterwards the other pilots asked them why they went to the bomb range before landing. The F-35 pilots said they were carrying bombs in the internal bay during the whole fight.
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 @major__kong Devolving into a close range fight is like a soldier attaching a bayonet to his rifle and rushing towards the enemy. Sure, technically it can happen. It's just suicidal.
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 @casematecardinal Modernizing 4th gen doesn't work because there's airframe life limits, and a new 4th gen costs as much as a F-35.
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@major__kong If you run out of missiles, you turn back and let your wingmen take the shot. You don't run like a headless chicken towards enemy missiles.
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@REgamesplayer It was a control laws test. This was announced before the actual test took place. The report also goes into detail on how the control laws need to be fixed.
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@@JimCarner AIM-120 courtesy of the F-35 you didn't see.
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@@JimCarner Thrust vectoring and supercruise ability isn't required for air superiority, you're making stuff up now.
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@ROVNE2 "it killed MILLIONS of your allies" - that's a tall order. The StG arrived pretty late in the war and there was a very limited supply of magazines and ammo. Many of the rifles produced never made it into the front lines.
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@ROVNE2 The point is wrong and based on false assumptions.
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@cyberft By that logic many countries have only proved they had no hydro dam failures yet. The potential cost of a massive flood hasn't been proved away.
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@cyberft So 171,000 people can die in a dam failure but because it cost 500 million it's all fine and dandy.
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Prove it.
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I remember reading a scathing Stalinist critique of anarcho-syndicalists in Spain that boiled down to "they just became the new capitalists!"
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Yet the F-16 is the master of all trades, so your quote is wrong. The F/A-18 also already proved itself by shooting down enemy aircraft and bombing their target in the same mission.
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@scottstevenson6093 Easy to cause "zero deaths" when you can just beat down people to subjugate them and shooting them with low pressure grenades which can blind or crack a jaw but rarely kills.
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Is this a joke? The Wuhan strain was the worst of all.
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12:25 he had actually attempted it but it didn't land
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@nirbanjyotidas5828 Breadtube - youtube community of leftists, named after The Conquest of Bread by Kroptkin. Lolcow - as the name implies, a cow is a person you can "milk" for lols. They spend a lot of time online and their life is either a disaster or they keep getting in trouble for their antics, and people can watch from the sidelines like a real life Truman Show
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Hindsight is 20/20. Let's face it, even today the procedure is considered barbaric because of the way it is done. If people only talked about the side effects and how it was prescribed way too often it would be on the level of other medical mistakes.
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@quisqueyanguy120 Once a missile is off the rail, it doesn't care which generation of fighter shot it. Especially when it's 4.5 gen vs 4th gen.
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@asherwiggin6456 First shot is based on first look. The Ukrainian tactic (which Russians quickly adapted to) was to bait a Russian fighter into shooting and try to escape, knowing the Russian would easily chase him down and kill him. However, as the Russian pilot gabe chase, there would be a Ukrainian wingman flying low that would spring up from below and shoot at the Russian. A trap. Elephant in a hallway. The vast majority of pilots show down in air combat did not know they were targeted until it was too late. This is the prime example. Doesn't matter the Ukranian fighters are less modern, doesn't matter their missiles don't have "first shoot" capability". First shoot is based on the wingman seeing the chase aircraft while the chasing aircraft is focused on shooting down the bait aircraft. In Vietnam the NV pilots countered then Phantom by waiting for them to be escorting bombers at slow speed, fly around them and strike from behind at high speed. Doesn't matter the Phantom was superior, they got trapped. Then Phantom pilots responded by flying in bomber formation. When NV pilots expected to target Phantoms escorting bombers, turned out it was a full flight if Phantoms looking for a fight. That's another trap.
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@WxWaterFire And nobody called out outright falsehoods. I'm not taking advice from people who say the sky is purple.
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Russia engaged in genocide in Afghanistan. What do you mean soft?
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@515coldfire Look at population charts. Russia's actions in Afghanistan were outright disgusting as they employed terror to try to subdue the tribes. Protecting the government doesn't mean reprisals. That's Nazi tactics.
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@515coldfire Yeah, Putin must know his day is coming. He has pissed off the oligarchs and the military.
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Cope, botski.
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@smithfrederick2 how can you vote progressive democrat and simultaneously support a system that ignores what democrats want in terms of labour laws? Isn't it an admission that the "living wage", free healthcare, etc etc etc has to be built on the backs of cheap migrant labourers?
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Railway was weakened by the all night long oil fire that happened last year.
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Not true plus the Ka-52 outranges MANPADS with the Vikhr missiles.
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@paullangford5326 It doesn't protect others. Transmission isn't prevented.
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@paullangford5326 No argument, you have to skip to insults. Your own side has already agreed with me that it doesn't prevent transmission, I guess you missed the memo.
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@paullangford5326 So you're denying that vaccinated people still have to wear masks? If I'm the fool, then why do I have to be the one explaining to you the current narrative? You're still stuck in December 2020/January 2021 I'm afraid.
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@paullangford5326 Explain what? That the vaccine isn't working? Hence why they still need masks?
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@paullangford5326 Learn what? That the vaccinated are still contagious? Because masks protect others and not the individual?
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@paullangford5326 Cope. Your side already said it doesn't. Why would the vaccinated need to be protected if the vaccine worked?
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@paullangford5326 But transmission is still possible even if you get the shot. Mutations will happen no matter what. Are you now admitting it doesn't work? You can't keep up with yourself.
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Mind that naval drones are beating faulty radars and CIWS systems. The videos filmed by Russians showing the last moments before impacts show the seamen using every available shooting weapon on the deck, including AKs. The drones aren't evading the 30mm gatling loaded with API and HE. They're evading men shooting "anemic" rifle rounds.
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 @pierluigidipietro8097 "AI" why is AI needed? Buzzword.
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@pierluigidipietro8097 We've had computer vision algorithms since the 90s. The pucks in BLU-108 cluster munitions had it. Real time AI is computationally expensive.
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@spacecadet35 "The F117 was more stealthy than the F35" - source on that please
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Peace makes more money than war. Booming businesses create more wealth than booming craters.
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So they're children? They're babies throwing temper tantrums? They began the war, they suffer the consequences of war. You hit others, you get hit.
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No, it didn't. There's no scorch marks on the underside, but the guard rails were bent outwards on top of the span. Meaning the explosion happened above the asphalt.
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Exactly. Tyrants need to face the consequences.
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AK-74.
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 @josephserrano3311 Russia feels privileged to fly their nuclear bombers in Canadian and American airspace. Next time we shoot them down, deal?
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Beauty queen? The one that will run dirty as hell as long as you lube it? Nope. Ever heard of the Filthy 14? Reached 40,000 rounds, only replacements were springs that wore out and when the bolt lugs broke. If AR15s are beauty queens, then AKs are inaccurate as hell, Glocks blow up and Heckler & Koch products are forged with the hammer of Thor itself for Teutonic Operators. Meanwhile, .45 ACP will send a man flying 12 feet into the air while 9mm creates wounds comparable to BB guns.
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What's the point of libertarianism if we're just going to let authoritarian governments steamroll us over?
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Implying the military wouldn't pay 25 dollars per gallon for biodiesel made from algae. Oil is finite? Hold my 700 billion dollar yearly budget.
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Most likely. After surface ships are taken out, it would be possible for aircraft to drop homing torpedoes.
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There's hundreds of HIMARS in service. If the US thinks Ukraine needs more, they'll just send some from existing stock and wait for them to be produced to have a replacement.
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What he's probably referencing are the intelligence reports. He can't say "we had Agent XYZ in contact with people in the Chinese health department and they thought it came from the lab". Saying too much about the reports could help other nations try to figure out where intelligence leaks are coming from.
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If the fuse fails.
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@Argentvs The development of stealth aircraft have greatly mitigated this problem. The F-35 has directional datalink that allows them to penetrate enemy airspace and feed information to friendlies without the communications being noticed by receivers nearby.
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@n-steam You can't just "break" the encryption. The timeline to break modern encryption is much longer than completing a mission.
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@Argentvs It's hard, but they've done it. GPS can be cut and the aircraft run off INS.
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Middle income trap. You can't just lift people out of poverty when you are still bridging the gap between poor people jobs. Now China is trying to convince kids who want to become college students to go into trades.
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@CortezBumf these vegetables are processed to hell and back, jimbo.
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@theboss-wy4cn the person you replied to did not say anything about climate change, so you're using a strawman argument.
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@theboss-wy4cn It wasn't evident in the comment presented, and it is a strawman argument because it reduces the disagreement to climate change denialism.
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Also, is Edward Snowden getting his draft papers?
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This is about storing energy. Renewables can't be throttled up and down to match demand.
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Actually, behaving like violent lunatics because of a sport happens a lot more often in Europe. People like you are the reason that the outside world thinks that Europe is filled with snobs.
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lol no. It would be extremely expensive for the return. If you're gonna open your wallet it might as well be for something that's gonna last until 2070, not an interim solution.
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They're not credible as we can see from how easily they get debunked, the videos are crap, there's no radar data anywhere. Just stop. You lost. Get better material.
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You've been saying that since March and despite not having their trained soldiers Ukraine already defeated Russia in Kharkiv and Kherson.
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@FUG_GOOGL Proper medical gear will help because if you physically hold more pressure against the wound than the arteries can pump, fluid will not flow. Pressure differential is what causes fluid to move.
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@FUG_GOOGL But they're not. You stick a tampon there, you have to then pack it in with more gauze. Just use gauze from the start. The problem with "better than nothing" is that if you truly have nothing, you'll have to rip an undershirt and use the fabric to pack the wound. If you have the tampon, you think it's a neat trick, shove it there, and then bleed out because the tampon does nothing by itself. It's a false sense of security. It's actually worse than nothing.
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@FUG_GOOGL The expansion is minimal. /watch?v=Brfeu2f-LFY This video shows a working model of what bleeding does. The tampon is pushed aside and the fluid just comes out. Gauze is actually made to pack the wound. Plain gauze with no hemostatic agent is actually cheaper than tampons because each gauze roll includes more material than tampons. Please just use gauze.
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 @MrBobDobaline that's incorrect and a bad argument anyway. Russia's borders are massive, and only the Chinese are a threat. We don't want Russia's land. China is intetested, though.
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Maybe stop ventilating people? The disease affects your hemoglobin and the blood vessel cells. Pumping extra air into the lung doesn't put more oxygen in the blood, it just stretches your lungs and damages the tissue. We learned this last year and hospitals are still killing people. Ventilation was supposed to have been changed for O2, even India built a ton of DIY oxygen generators to deal with the shortage of medicinal O2 bottles.
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@royalchoicetravelltd You're wrong, or you didn't "study" hard enough. Needless war indeed. Putin concern trolls about dead Russians in Donbass while he was the one using them as human shields for 8 years. Innocent civilians, like the ones in the MH17 shot down by 322 launcher from the 53rd anti air missile brigade. Which Russia brought out of the separatist region to hide the evidence. Yes, the documentary by Oliver Stone, the American who makes a point to love all antagonists. A friend of Hugo Chavez, even. I'm sure he's unbiased.
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They're so good Russian milbloggers said Wagner is done unless they can recruit another 30k prisoners.
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@dmitriyfolomeev5020 So you don't care about the opinion of people who actually care and want to win the war. Ignore them at your own peril. Please listen to the dreamers and propagandists - they'll lead you to the fate you deserve. Please. You'll do the world a favor by following them blindly.
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Beau of the Fifth Column is a human trafficker, by the way. Also, "fifth column" - learn what that means.
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Virtually all of these organizations are involved with extorsion, human trafficking, homicide, etc. Your local street dealer doesn't need a ghost app.
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That's not true. Youtuber The Chopping Block did extensive testing to find which videos would get demonetized and mentioning guns, shooting guns, etc would trigger the algorithm. Even his intro, which includes a gunshot sound and a 3d model of a bullet flying, would trigger the algorithm.
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Refreshing after decades of bloodthirsty warmongers pretending they have class.
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How is it an escalation? Russia has been bombing Ukraine.
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@ИмияФамилья lmao as opposed to your sources
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Did you give them the weapons to do it?
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Okay and S-400 ate sh!t already in this conflict.
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@WhyNotTruth You risk dying every time you get into a car or cross the street.
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@Svoorhout85 I don't think I could make it to Madagascar before the man in Brazil coughs.
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No, pistol ammo AP bans are based on material rather than performance. There's non-AP 9mm which penetrates 3A armor because it's not made of banned materials.
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Asmongold is being paid by Big Soda
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You mean the organization that so far has had two confirmed fed informants in their leadership? Why would they fight, they both work for the government.
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@CruelandCold I'm responding to Starbuck.
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@ImperiumLibertas You can expect to send stuff made to [REDACTED] the Soviet Army and it will [REDACTED] the Russian army. Does money work? Ehhhhhh. Does anti-Soviet stuff work on Russians? It very much does.
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MacGregor has done interviews for RT, and last year he predicted a defeat of Ukraine in April 2022.
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@peteriscurious I don't care who he is. He thinks Russia should be allied with the US against China. This is a delusional proposition some people hold onto. He can be as patriotic as he wants - he just keeps embarrassing himself in his attempts to glorify Russia.
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@searose6192 Wikipedia states 13,000 people were killed on both sides. In total. So how have been 14k civilians alone been killed? How much military deaths, then?
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The weld saved him. If it had been a pristine tube the pressure build up would have created a pipe bomb. When the area around the weld gave out it vented the pressure instead of splintering the tube.
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The A-10 has already been replaced by F-16s, 18s, 15Es and even the B-1. The A-10 only got 20% of CAS missions since 2004, only 11% since 2014.
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@himeshthungaturthi3215 China is using a social score system which they use to judge how "good" of a Chinese citizen you are, they are trying to perform ethnic cleansing on Uyghurs, etc. They're a totalitarian state and Google is willing to help them for profit.
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Who cares? The Donbas was a net drain on the Ukrainian economy. The Soviet-era industry is in decline, the workers are ageing, and the forced conscription into the LPR/DPR eliminated the able-bodied men. Not to mention that the infrastructure is gone. Look at all the mineral resources Afghanistan has - all worthless and nobody bothers digging them out.
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No, he banned pro-Russian parties and news outlets. It's a crime to be a traitor.
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Yo but I hear 50 watt American Eliminator is what the special forces use, it's all over the Halo games.
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Considering runways can get repaired in 1-2 days, a lot.
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@jasonr6342 >nuclear kills everyone on the planet >dozens of reactors running for decades :thinking emoji:
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@jasonr6342 yeah it's not like we haven't come up with passive safeties in the last few decades or anything.
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@dwayneasher6765 It's a joke that if you talk about certain government activities they kill you. Gary Webb exposed the government's role in the drug trade and his death was ruled a suicide. But he had two gunshot wounds.
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Rolling is used a lot by non-Western armed forces. In Russian videos you see them rolling before getting up from the prone position so that the enemy can't just wait for you to get up and pull the trigger.
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@aykaykalash Because it's beside the point?
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When the US was in Afghanistan everyone talked about US incompetence and corruption, and not the Taliban losses.
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You think we're not divided already?
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Harriers are Cold War relics. Not survivable in the modern day.
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It was supposed to be what you'd find if you glitched out of the real world. Offices are real spaces, but you'd get the sense it's not real. The room seems real, the smells seem real, the buzzing of the lights seems real. But the place is nonsensical. It's almost like something that doesn't fully understand human spaces tried to create a space that would seem familiar but you can tell something is wrong. Like AI images adding random numbers of fingers to hands. Then it dawns on you the place has no exit so unless you glitch back to the real world you're just gonna run out of water. The final sentence delivers the gut punch by suggesting that if you hear something it also heard you. So now you're left wondering if you'd rather spend the next few days accepting your fate and wondering about those who'll notice you missing, or go out quickly but in panic and pain. It's really a great short story because it combines three fears: the uncanny valley of stuff that seems man made on the surface but it's a mimic, the sadness of being unable to even explain what happened to you and the pain your relatives would get from the lack of closure, and finally the straightforward terror of coming to a violent end that's not up to your choice.
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@fishlivesmatter NATO doesn't make a fuss about being attacked, it just attacks back.
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 @sidritqafzezi3958 Elon is with Putin.
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If criminals had all the guns the problem would be much worse.
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I'm pretty sure what you said applies to the majority, but a minority in over a million people is still a dangerous number. Like the Ft Hood shooting guy, I know he was a nutter, but he was turned into shooting his own comrades. Not everyone is an American loving patriot. I mean, Gen McChrystal proved he was a traitor when he went to TV to claim how 5.56 is so much powerful than anything else (it isn't).
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This. If Mercedes made a bomb proof car, people would complain about the price. Nobody would think "what a great deal, I'll drive it until 2070!".
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Yeah, that's how it works for all the other health conditions too.
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The maneuver was calculated to be around 1.5 Gs and the max is 2.5 Gs so it was possible. Big trucks are trucks. Big aircraft are still nimble enough to fly.
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@ricardocantoral7672 You could have just fought for Russia in the battlefield rather than the comments.
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From "Seven Days to River Rhine" to "Need to Beg Iran to Capture Donbas".
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@_PatrickO you don't "pay" for tax cuts. Also it has been demonstrated countless times that reducing tax rates increases tax revenue.
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What?
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@eugenetswong It's extremely important to keep Navy SEALs within context. They were deployed at a pretty high tempo, which involved giving them missions where a high tier unit isn't necessary. They also often had regular infantry forming a security cordon around their operation. Their land warfare capabilities are also regarded as weaker because they're Navy. The point being that SEALs are meant to be frogmen, and their historical role is underwater demolition. In Vietnam their role was expanded to include land warfare. But the type of mission being discussed here is more suitable to CAG ("Delta Force") and even then they'd need CIA assistance.
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That's a very specific pleading. The missile wreckage is in the hands of Ukrainian authorities. An independent investigation needs the independent investigators to trust Ukraine that the missile wreckage wasn't replaced by Russian ones. Right there you have satisfied your need to keep doubt, and thus exonerate Russia.
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All bridges were hit.
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@shithead4767 "But just because of your mundane lives it doesn't mean that I should be a impacting me or my family." - Yeah, it shouldn't. Complain to whoever made you dependent on Russia.
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So why do you go around saying it? Can't the CIA delete your comment? Why wouldn't youtube turn up the algorithm to give him even more fans? If what you said was true, you alredy lost.
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@peterbonucci9661 Black and white fallacy. 1990s cars had better fuel economy and emissions control than 70s cars, and 2000s cars already had parking sensors.
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@peterbonucci9661 We're not talking about giving up processors in cars. We're talking about how self-driving modes and tracking increase the demand for chips beyond what was commonplace 20 years ago.
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@SunriseLAW They haven't. If they had, they wouldn't blur the hell out of the video. Russian weapons are also maintenance hogs - they just seem to not survive long enough to need it.
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Right. But human output can never match bot output. The majority of internet users are not content creators. Which means that even with an extra 1 billion internet users, a hundred thousand bots can easily flood your feed compared to just people occasionally posting their vacation photos.
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Then how come is it failing so badly?
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In SWAT 4 you just held the angle yourself while telling your team to restrain him.
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They took your freedoms and used it as a reward. You can reframe it any way you want it, but it was not worth it.
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I call it the "Harvey Weinstein method".
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Syria has S-300s and Russian S-400s there. Vietnamese S-75s were child's play compared to that.
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@ekoz Do you people always have excuses?
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That's more or less what Marx wrote. Most of what Marxism became happened after he was 6 ft under.
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How is it flawed? Renewables aren't even economically feasible and require tax credits/subsidies to be worth adopting. They require too much area for the power they produce and their output cannot be controlled requiring secondary installations for energy storage. Nothing about this is flawed.
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"Glorious battery" lol you mean strikes on playgrounds and pedestrian bridges. Even then, the wild goose chase after a Patriot kill while Putin's army is defeated is par for the course for an authoritarian regime - losing sight of the big picture.
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 @M167A1 It is if the methods by which it was manufactured are deprecated.
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There's no actual logic behind the invasion. Any reason you could put forward has been undermined by the fact that the international response actually put Russia in a worse position. I will belittle the motives because as usual the Russian state's own paranoia just created self-fulfilling prophecies.
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@mikef7707 So the ruin of a country is more important than actual strategic goals?
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Why?
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Glock? Heckler & Koch? FN Herstal? Sig Sauer? Sig just got the Army contract for the new M17 service pistol and it's a plastic frame gun.
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@alexincobra7379 The NLAW has a MASSIVE warhead. 30mm HEI is a firecracker.
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@VladimirStevanoviclennon33 The brilliant analysis of Douglas MacGregor was that Ukraine was on the verge of losing in April 2022. He's whispering sweet sweet lies into your ear to make you feel warm and fuzzy, but reality will come crashing down. Jeffrey Sachs thinks that it's possible to become carbon neutral without nuclear (wrong), that the 2019 virus originated in the US, he's pro-China, etc. Many of his opinions range from conspiracy theory to carrying water for foreign powers for no discernible reason.
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@sumbigdumkunt Cope.
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Georgia isn't in the EU.
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@comfortablynumb9342 Sniper rifles have less range than artillery and mortars. Too close for comfort.
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@comfortablynumb9342 They are effective, and used by Ukrainians. Because if they get killed (and they do, it's war) it's unthinkable for Russians to find an American. You're changing the argument. Nobody said snipers weren't effective. The problem is, snipers hunt each other. And it's too close to the frontline. So Americans don't do it.
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You can bust up a M4 by firing that much before the ammo can cook off. Forget the barrel obstructions, at that point you were comitted to destroying the rifle either way by torture testing it and you'd end up finding a point of failure so it doesn't matter if it's the ammo or something else.
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@paulcunnane4 Russians are posting on telegram - their AKs are rusted to scrap
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Russia antagonized the West by attacking our allies and then wishing we'd freeze.
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They had a better Sidewinder than the USAF. But their Sparrows were poorly maintained until the reports came in and started to address the issue.
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I don't think the caravan moved on when they got clapped by air support in Syria.
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@ayrnovem9028 Russian sources claim 30 killed, Wagner commanders admit 15. Dogs bark, at least 15 dead in the caravan. Want to try again? I'm sure the US armed forces are willing to give it another try.
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@jamesjefferies3762 the Taliban are having talks with Russia to enact a trade deal. They grow the opium, which Russia needs so they can produce the copium.
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DCS is not a stealth simulation. Stealth aircraft will detect each other before visual range because stealth degrades as it gets closer to the radar source. Plus IRST.
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Let me check my crystal ball. The ban would be circumvented by redesigning weapons with rate reducers like in the Stechkin or Skorpion machine pistols, where the reciprocating slide/bolt hits a spring-loaded weight and get stuck on a catch. After the weight is kicked down and is returned by the spring to it's original position it hits a lever releasing the catch and allowing the slide/bolt to fly forward and resume operation after a quick pause. Eventually a mass shooter would use a rate-reducer equipped weapon in a massacre and we'd have this conversation all over again. The funny thing is, air guns (and sometimes airsoft!) are typically regulated by muzzle energy in many countries. They probably don't want air rifle snipers committing terrorism acts, considering that making a silencer for an air gun is much easier than for a firearm.
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Yes it would. Russia and Ukraine have fought each other for centuries. Trump is just one man.
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Because fishing and hunting licenses exist to control the depletion of resources and raise money for wildlife management.
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The G36 wasn't bad. The government tried to scam HK into paying for a new rifle.
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In informal terms, "nitrogen" is used to refer to the water soluble nitrates, not the element nitrogen or the gas N2. Same with explosives manufacturing, people refer to the "nitrogen" as the nitrate contents in the precursor chemicals.
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More like, the mayor from the next town other starts a fire in your home. It doesn't spread. You take matches and a can of gas, and you set fire to a single mother's home. And you say "I'm a big man, look at me getting vengeance on the mayor!" while laughing in her face as she cries.
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@reuvenpolonskiy2544 This is a very weird comment. Nobody talked about hypnosis. Hitler was elected with around 33% of popular support, and the circumstances around the March 5th elections were they gained 43% of the vote were very suspect. So no, people didn't choose this. Even those who voted for the party didn't choose this. You don't see humans, just targets.
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 @Vahagraphy Pre-1930 history? So we give the African colonies back to European powers?
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Tbh the police are gonna take 5 min to arrive. Getting footage of an event can be critical. If I was about to get murdered calling the cops won't do shit, but if you film the killer's face...
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The problem is, Assad's skill in country management is... asking Russia for help?
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Asking blue collar workers to learn a white collar skill is definitely elitist. When AI learns coding and machines become capable of programming themselves you'll get told to learn quantum physics so we can make more powerful computers. Is that not elitist?
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The famous war vehicle obsessed liberal media.
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 @DennisMerwood-xk8wp F-35s didn't cost 1.7 trillion, you're spreading fake news.
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 @athank3509 The Battle of Karbala isn't the reason for the Iraq-Iran war. There's a difference between going into the entire history of a region and explaining the reason behind an event.
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 @dinozorman they have 10 minutes of flight time, the warhead is like 80% hollow. It's thin steel gauge in an aerodynamic cone with an empty cavity for the HEAT jet to form.
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@quizcanners "Literally browsing your own library."/"GeForce gives you instant install time for the game" - then it's not your library.
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@quizcanners If you had access to storage and then used your Steam account to download the game to it you'd have a point. But the fact that it's available instantly it means they're distributing games as a service. Even though the purchase is tied to Steam. It's like asking a third party streaming service to let you stream movies and shows for free because you bought the DVDs and box sets.
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Yes. The A-10 has largely been replaced by multirole fighters and the B-1. It's outdated and other platforms perform more CAS missions.
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@jeffnelson2197 And in 2018 the USAF only sent 12 A-10s to Afghanistan. What do you mean by taking a hit? A F-16 has landed with half a wing missing after a mid-air collision, and an Israeli F-15 lost almost an entire wing in a collision too and managed to land. This is due to body lift. The F-35 has even more body lift. It also has each main control surface working on their own independent hydraulic system, meaning it can't be bled out of hydraulics. Meanwhile A-10s were splashed pretty good in 1991. The F-35 doesn't get hit in the first place. The A-10 has a titanium bathtub so that the pilot can survive long enough to eject when the rest gets shredded by 23mm/30mm AA guns. "It just isn’t “sexy” and the Air Force wants new sexy planes not flying tanks" - This is reformist nonsense. You're parroting a lie made up of whole cloth decades ago to sell books. You can stop now. Those books aren't selling. "show the world what “new multi roll modern aircraft” can do" - Most of the world uses multiroles for close air support. Almost no country runs A-10 style aircraft. Only Russia has the Su-25, and they won't even dare using it close to Ukrainian forces. The world uses F-16s, Rafales, etc for CAS when they're wealthy, light attack aircraft when they're not as wealthy.
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 @Steril707 This war has been 300 years in the making. Russians didn't need the US to act like Russians, that's just what they do.
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It's not exactly WWIII when most Russian allies have refused to help, and Russian pundits are threatning Kazakhstan.
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There's housings you can buy and put your own tubes in, which makes it closer to 4,000 if you buy used tubes. There's also straight up fake ones for LARPing at airsoft games.
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@nf1 One of Ukraine's cards are the attacks on oil/gas. Look at Russia's economy chart, fossil fuel is their bread and butter. Russia can try to keep the land but it's in Ukraine's interest to keep driving stakes into Russia's economy. Life isn't fair but when life gives you lemons you make lemonade.
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+Yansky let me preface this by saying I'm pro-choice. You can't really weasel out by saying "it's controversial". You can't say those who are against abortion need to say they'd take the child. That's like saying that if you're against burglary then you have to stand guard for people's houses. I'm for abortion but I can't fault people for being against something they see is wrong, and thinking something is wrong doesn't mean you have to step in and make it right. Now for the part I'm more knowledgeable about, can you actually talk about these guns "capable" of mass murder? Can you explain to me what makes them dangerous? Or are you just parroting words?
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Cope.
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You're allowed to swear online.
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@1donniekak the deal was no NATO forces in East Germany while the USSR existed.
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@cybervigilante Minsk II was broken the day after it was signed by DPR forces assaulting Debaltseve and forcing the Ukrainian army out. The slaughter was brought on by Russia.
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The third shot tagged JFK when he was already reacting to his wound, which is why the trajectory seems off.
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@skylem5373 Jammers are not more powerful than radar emitters. Jammers only work from a long distance, up close radars "burn through" jamming.
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You probably said the same thing before your boys got slaughtered in Kharkiv and pushed back at Kherson. It's going to be fun to see the tanks shred mobik meat.
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Declare victory and then what? Just sustain the bombing?
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@4reptar207 And where is the manipulation? Who is questioning themselves? I'm not doing what the doctor did. You're stating that there's an unknown scary number of people with long term health issues after infection. Not only is there an issue with mental illness being used as one of the symptoms of long covid (and mental illness as a result of the lockdowns and surviving a disease that had a death counter on TV 24/7), but there's also studies showing that there's people who claim long covid without having ever been infected. There's a difference between being face to face to a real person suffering from real symptoms and denying what they're going through to their face, and just looking at the numbers and facts and making a judgement call. I can't tell you who is genuinely suffering long term effects and who are these people who show up complaining even though they can't come up with evidence they were infected. There's a difference in noticing that the shot can cause heart issues, and having millions of people with anxiety and depression and just writing them down as people who are suffering with mental health issues because of the viral infection rather than the conditions around them. That's a complete joke.
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The fighting in Donbass started because Russia sent operatives and weapons to Ukraine. Remember MH17? The Buk launcher numbered 332 belonging to the 53rd anti air missile brigade stationed in Kursk was used in separatist territory to murder 298 innocent people. Ukraine would be peaceful if Russia didn't cause war.
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Yeap, the problem is we can't apply that concept to cities. Far too many cars per area to juice them up off roof solar.
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Most cars are targeted through normal optical equipment or IR, not radar. No point in making stealth to make a car impossible to see from 50km away when normal curvature of the Earth will actually block line of sight.
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But the nerve agents refered to as "novichok" are from Soviet/Russian manufacture. It's their weapons program, not British. Antidotes exist for nerve agents because we know how they act.
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One of them went on a mass shooting in Denver.
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The 400km range is on a target flying at 20km. With a 5km (around 15k feet) altitude, range is degraded.
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Escalate how? There's been indiscriminate bombing of civilians, summary executions, forced relocations, false flags, torture, etc. Russia has already made this conflict an absolute hell. There's no escalation.
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Yes you can. GSP did it.
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The Ukrainians came back reinforced and retook the airfield. This was proven by the social media picture taken in the night of the 24th. Nevertheless, the objective was securing the land bridge for IL-76 transports. That was a failure.
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"Socialism is helping people out when needed" - that's charity.
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The NVA was broken by the time they signed the peace deal. They waited and re-invaded while the US was in turmoil because of watergate.
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That's false. The Yak-141 used smaller jet engines instead of the lift fan. The three-bearing swivel nozzle is also from the Convair Model 200.
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@pogo1140 A bunch of men in jeeps armed with .50 cals and incendiary ammo gave the Luftwaffe hell in Africa. This isn't unique to drones. If you perform raids behind enemy lines you can hit less defended but critical pieces of the puzzle. You could wipe out the drone command and control. You could wipe out the fuel and ammo trucks. You could drive to the enemy capital and kill the president and his entire chief of staff. If you can do it and have the opportunity, go for it.
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Uwe Boll moment
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Were hundreds killed? The only source are the Gaza authorities.
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The USN already asked to halt Super Hornet production last year as they think it's a waste to purchase aircraft that will become obsolete by 2050.
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Waaa waaa. Russian girls losing many husbands and boyfriends too.
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@QuintarFarenor lol
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@xKapnKrunch There's enough humidity in the air to make drinkable water. We usually allow it to condense and rain to fill our aquifers. The big problem is that we usually get this water for "free". If you want to take that water out of the air, you need to expend energy. And the drier the climate, the more energy you'll need to extract it. Running a dehumidifier is not the solution no matter how efficient you make it.
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Yes, but irrelevant because you're taking water that already exists.
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@themigratingcoconut562 incredibly short sighted. MANPADS will be unseen by SEAD, and even radar SAMs can turn off their radars to protect themselves. And nowadays electro-optical/thermal tracking allows a SAM to hit aircraft with passive sensors alone.
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 @Orxbane virgin "has beef with everyone" anti-racist vs chad "genuine friend" bigot.
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The whole West is like this now.
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 @phil4818 Do not change the subject. Immigration is not related to the war.
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Wishes don't come true.
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 @oniemployee3437 Name one instance of that happening in tye last 20 years and Webb doesn't count.
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@theeuphioanswer770 Trump proposed cuts to CDC funding and they were rejected by Congress. So the CDC was not actually defunded like some are claiming.
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The third army is an understrength division. It's an actual joke.
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 @SomeCanine One of the biggest gaming successes in the millenial audience was Minecraft. Some of the biggest successes in the Zoomer audience were Fortnite, Fall Guys and Among Us.
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@SomeCanine Then explain why The Order 1886 was a flop.
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 @lolidemon3163 fun fact the density relative to water is called "specfic gravity". Divide the density of a material by the density of water.
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The UK doesn't even have an AWB. Since rimfire semiautomatics are legal with a FAC, you can get a M&P-15 22 or a Ruger 10/22 and put all the evil features you want. They have banned handguns, and yet Piers tries to convince everyone handguns are the Holy Grail of self-defense. The reason he doesn't go back to the UK is because he is involved in an illegal wiretap scandal.
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Oh no Russia moved 2km towards Bakhmut. After losing like 12.000 km2 in a month.
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Sometimes rich people doing things due to ego and spite align with what's right.
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Not really. The Ukrainian SOF already has experience conducting operations in Crimea. They successfully "stole" the aircraft that belonged to Ukraine after Russia took over Crimea. Their sabotage unit also infiltrated Crimea once, but were discovered and had to fight their way out of the island, killing a Vympel operator.
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@Dave-ks9fi the issue is that this thing spread after the Chinese New Year and I'm not saying this is true everywhere... but many Chinese restaurants closed for Chinese New Year.
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@CrowDawg11 Stingers have a 8km range while the Vikhr missile has a 10-12km range. Russia purposefully kept helicopters below Buk radar horizon but far away from Stingers. A F-16 can easily smoke Ka-52s from long range, without getting near the frontline.
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@CrowDawg11 It will stay with the troops, which means that when the defensive lines are fixed the troops will have to walk into the line of fire. The Stinger, like most MANPADS, is a "get off me" weapon. You get a revenge shot on the aircraft that's strafing your friendlies. It's not an offensive tool. Russians don't do a lot of gun runs, they pitch up the aircraft and launch rockets into the air, to let them fall like small scale MLRS. That keeps them safe from MANPADS. The Ka-52 doesn't get within Stinger range.
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That still doesn't address the issue - what do you gain from enforcing a NFZ over Ukraine? If anything, letting more low flying Russian aircraft fall to shoulder launched weapons continues to drain their resources and morale without risk.
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@krushnaji4940 The men and vehicles lost had more strategic value than a point on the map. The problem with territory is that you can be easily forced to give it back. See, northern offensive.
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Can't predict something suppressed by the CCP.
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No Malice The shot is supposed to stay inside the muscle tissue. If it goes inside the blood stream it will enter organs that should not have the active components get inside. Aspirating and looking for blood is a way to make sure it's not hitting a blood vessel. However the practice has fallen out of favor, and many people administering the stuff are rushing it and probably undertrained. The major side effects are probably being caused by the spike proteins being replicated inside organs that got infected through the bloodstream. If someone gives 100 shots a day, and messes up two or three, that might not look too bad but if everyone around the country is doing this, there's a great potential for bad side effects.
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It was Ukraine's dam, they don't care about destroying Ukraine.
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C&C Red Alert Soviet March.
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@ambercombs5346 The labs were built by Russian during the Soviet Union. Look up all the lab leaks they had.
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@redfox5966 Russians shot down MH17 and posed in front of the wreckage. That's why the Dutch are sending aid. They want payback.
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@cj1745 Actually, missiles meant to knock down aircraft are telephone poles. Usually air to air missiles have some altitude, and speed, because they're launched from aircraft. Surface to air missiles start from the ground and zero speed, so they need a large rocket booster. They also can miss the target by a few meters, so they need to carry a large warhead to make sure a near miss can still knock down the aircraft.
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Most of the world doesn't care. Only 14 year olds with a holier than thou attitude laugh at other countries. I'm pretty sure the rest of the world has bills to pay and children too feed and can't be arsed to think about America.
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I've seen people with Yuri Bezmenov profile pics going "waaa the war is a distraction" my brother in christ you were already demoralized by KGB/FSB psyops
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@Neko_Medic Reminder: MMA fighters train under those sets of rules, people who don't train can't rely on "breaking the rules" to win a fight. Like Bas Ruten once said "who do you think is going to kick you in the nuts harder, the guy who trains or the guy who doesn't?".
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 @TheHuskyK9 If given the choice to fight 5 random men from the general population or 5 low level combat sports athletes, you'll pick the first. Don't even try it.
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@Zack-vi7is Amateur fights is how pros get started. By definition. There's people in the amateur scene who simply started too late in life, or had kids and had to work full time and couldn't go pro, etc. People get mauled in amateur fights too, it's not a hugging contest.
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@Zack-vi7is Alex Pereira worked at a tire shop in Brazil. He's now the LHW champ in the UFC. MMA fighters are plumbers, roofers, electricians, cashiers, Uber drivers, etc. because fighting doesn't pay the bills. Conor McGregor was on unemployment benefits after being an apprentice electrician or whatever.
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@Zack-vi7is Amateur fights are scheduled by coaches. Untrained people getting into the ring just costs the promotion money. You pretend to know how this works but you clearly haven't been close to the amateur scene, the gyms have group chats to arrange fights. Most coaches will not let you fight if you are not consistent with your training.
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And then 25 bot replies to that comment.
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Russia is moving backwards. Tons of surrendering troops.
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@Cram Butcher Okay. What concept? The US Army in WWI was already doing the "you're gonna get one round so choose it wisely" thing so the machine gun round (30-06) was used on rifles.
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They aren't. It's the F-22 that will get a replacement.
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Russia couldn't even take Odessa when they had mobility and surprise.
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Russia is forced to fight offensively. Not one step back style, they are forced to fight for every inch of land instead of baiting Ukraind into overextending.
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It's a territorial victory like Severodonetsk. What happened after that? The Russian armywas spent and called for operational pause. Russia wasting its forces on territorial victories ends up with Ukraine countering.
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@martiananomaly Then it should be about personal choice. Thanks for proving my point and admitting your original comment was wrong.
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What does Ja Rule have to say about this?
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@bingbong6127 Not true. The casualty figures are online. Even in 2019 (after Maidan and before 2022) the opinion about independency in the Donbas was split. About the same percentage wanted independence from Ukraine as the ones who wanted from Russia, and about the same percentage wanted autonomy inside Ukraine as the ones who wanted autonomy inside Russia. The Azov battalion were stationed in Mariupol because they were recognized as the defenders of Mariupol. People not under the spell of Russian propaganda loved them for saving them from Russian invasion. They were even all Russian speakers when they formed.
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@lanxy2398 A civil war is by definition not against Russia. Either way, Russian troops entered Ukraine so it wasn't even a civil war. Russia invaded covertly.
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@themetalone7739 "Jihadists, for example, cannot be reasoned with" - But they can reason with others. And when you bomb those others, they gain arguments to persuade people to join them. Interventionism sounds nice - doesn't work either. It has a terrible track record.
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@v.5442 The Armenians also claimed they destroyed 50 Azerbaijani tanks in the first days of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. How did that end up?
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@StrangerHappened "Russia is only using up to 15% of its combatants" - It's all they have. Out of 170 combat capable BTGs (Shoigu, 2021) the Russians sent 120 to Ukraine. Over half. The rest are border guards, national guard, conscripts, administrative personnel, etc. Russia does not have 1.1m combatants.
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@StrangerHappened Okay. And yet they're sending in the Third Army Corps, which is a disgrace.
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@StrangerHappened There is. Inform yourself.
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Tucanos are meant to fight Taliban and cartels. Not soldiers with AA cannons and missiles.
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 @RockLeeOfTheMounties it should be
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@chrisbingley In the Falklands conflict the Sea Harrier was used for carrier defense. The RAF Harriers were not. The AV8B in US service is more in like with the RAF Harriers than the Sea Harrier, as the Sea Harrier had the radar. The AV8B has an electro-optic system and forward looking infrared device in the nose rather than radar.
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@gamer_eliaz9519 SARS CoV 2 doesn't need droplets, it can transmit through aerosol. Droplets fall to the ground, aerosols are carried through the air. I'm not worried about getting the flu. I get sick for a couple days and my system obliterates that shit. I've never been exposed to this one and I don't want to be fighting for my life strapped to a respirator because of people like you downplaying this situation.
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Can we see it?
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No. They're outside the military.
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@madamehussein From your own source: "Whereas the Iranian Army defends Iranian borders and maintains internal order, according to the Iranian constitution, the Revolutionary Guard is intended to protect the country's Islamic republic political system.[7]" "Although the IRGC operated independently of the regular armed forces, it was often considered to be a military force in its own right due to its important role in Iranian defense. The IRGC consists of ground, naval, and aviation troops, which parallel the structure of the regular military. Unique to the Pasdaran, however, has been controlling of Iran's strategic missile and rocket forces."
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Oh no, a harder to use rifle with less ammunition.
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Now drive these rockets to the front with FPV RPG-7s flying around. When they all go off, it's certainly going to do something to everyone around them.
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@andersgrassman6583 Yeah and in a wargame that A-hole general also sank the US fleet. In real life? Operation Praying Mantis. Losing wargames wins wars. There's a reason China created their own BluFor. They have a military unit trained to use American tactics and they crush the PLA in exercises. Because China realized that winning wargames for prestige only makes your troops weak. They need to be defeated in training to become stronger. People who actually do this for a living want to lose war games. Online commenters pretend that losing in training is bad.
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There's a difference between a couple of weeks of firing at the range and doing movements in the woods, and actually sitting down people in a classroom to teach them to use advanced weapons. Most joint training is more about promoting cooperation and helping countries understand how to integrate better, but in the end it's the equivalent of summer camp. The training we're talking about is the equivalent of a university degree.
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Cope harder Vatnik.
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If there was a secondary explosion like the other comments said, they were armed.
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 @ljubomirkocic6811 like Joan Jett said, I don't give a damn about my bad reputation.
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"I drank from plastic left in the hot sun, I fought the law and the law won!"
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 @johnclaffey7218 Moving goalposts. Admit you were wrong.
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@johnclaffey7218 There's a ton of dust from lift off. Explain your issue with the landline. The telemetry isn't important and even if they had it, you wouldn't believe it. I could fake telemetry data right now in Microsoft Excel. Technology went backwards several times in history, have you noticed that ancient Egyptians and Romans built great architectural works and the technology seemed "lost", with humans not bothering with such feats for like a thousand years? If Von Braun thought it was impossible, why did the build the Saturn V for NASA? In fact, he thought about projects for a Mars mission and wrote a sci-fi book about it.
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@freddyd1783 That A-10 cost to build is completely outdated. It's a 15-18 million dollar aircraft, but in 1970-1980 dollars. Adjust for inflation, please.
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Against the odds? Separatists in the Donbas have already complained about lack of support since BTGs were pulled to the south.
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@henrybn14ar I've been hearing that for 6 months. How many sunk ships and obliterated air bases is it going to take? Russia was on good terms because their puppet Yanukovych was in power. He had protesters killed and dissidents arrested. The EU didn't do anything. Yanukovych pretended he was going to sign a deal with the EU and then rejected it at the last minute to deal with Russia. This is Putin's power game. And Ukrainians have had enough of him.
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You need stealth for defense too.
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Doesn't believe the government! Unless it's Russia!
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@jkabrams341 Bin Laden was funded by daddy's money and his merry band of troublemakers were drawn to conflict like war junkies. Afghanistan was just a place to fight in, and according to Bin Laden himself he was offended that the US military was defending Saudi Arabia from Saddam. Why not blame Saudi Arabia? After all they looked at the 4th or 5th largest army in the world and decided to ask the US for help instead of some trust fund kid's private militia. What do the Mujahideen have to do with that, apart from the fact that Bin Laden was technically on their side the prior decade?
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@nuclearcatbaby1131 depends how "giving" them the data was worded. If you give something to the university, they're then free to sell it. Just like websites asking to gather your information - they only want it so they can sell it.
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Support for Russia would mean support for independence movements (Donetsk/Luhansk). That's bad for China.
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And we also have overhead ISR drones and don't send out armored vehicles without support so we don't face the problem those screens are supposed to solve.
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 @yellowtunes2756 How is it evil to seize a strategic asset? Russians don't seem angry enough to do anything about it. Moaning on social media is not boots on the ground.
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The beginning? The beginning was a pseudo parade, with Russian national guard driving into Kiev in their police trucks and wearing riot helmets and shields.
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@kellywills5852 They didn't beat anything, they just stopped testing and blaming people coming from overseas.
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Would you be recruited into an organization that gets you arrested over nothing? What does the average person think? The people who stand against Israel can't even tell East from West. If they're wrong about that, certainly they can be wrong about a whole lot else.
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@pauldroop No. The value is being created. Melvin Capital desperately needs to buy the stocks back and not enough are selling. So they're more valuable.
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In this case, it is that simple.
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This is horseshit. The milspec is the Colt TDP. Which is why FN pays royalties. Yeah, it's made by the lowest bidder. The bidder which can offer the requested levels of quality for the lowest price. And they are contractually obligated to provide rifles that meet spec. In the comercial market? The military doesn't check the rifles. How do you know it's milspec? You can't exactly perform all the verification at home and even if you could here's no contractual obligation to provide you a rifle that meets any spec at all. If you have proof of a brand using their own technical data package that beats the Colt TDP in tolerancing, feel free to share.
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You do realize that the Marines simply adopted the M27 to replace the M16s/M4s, right?
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@jont2576 "600b warchest" pretty sure 300b are seized and as soon as a legalese reason is found, it will be used for Ukraine's reconstruction.
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 @woodrowcall3158 it's a pro-Russian talking point
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A lot of it was. You could beat it with a hammer to fix it, but it was dainty in the sense that it broke down often.
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To drive the invader out of their land, and destroy enough of their forces so that they can't rearm and come back a decade later.
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The US had manned hypersonic aircraft since the 60s.
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@50_Pence How can you call other people bots when all you people spam the Oliver Stone comment? Oliver Stone is friends with Putin, was a friend of Hugo Chavez.
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 @garylong4440 How is it illogical?
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The F-35 is more like a F-16. The F-4 was a naval interceptor, the F-15 an air superiority fighter. The Starfighter debacle was due to German weather, maintenance by conscripts who got out of service before being experienced, and the attempt to use a high speed fighter as a low level tactical aircraft before technology allowed such hijinks.
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 @ince55ant Based, Operation Nazi Human Shield. Two birds, one stone.
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 @julymagnus493 Nah it's when Putin might actually be a trillionaire considering how many assets he indirectly owns in his gas station country ran by a circle of robber barons.
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 @Walrus286 The drone strikes happened for months. He either had a sudden change of heart or he lied.
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@Nathan-ry3yu You can't duck during combat. Vertical landing is a very complex process that can't be rushed.
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How? They're achieving massive success.
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@testy462 It also means rushing towards incoming fightets because bombers often bring fighter escorts.
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@VangelisKontogeorgakos you keep talking about "dogfights" when interceptors are meant to score kills from head on
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"A well balanced breakfast being necessary to the start of a healthy day, the right of the people to keep and eat foo shall not be infringed" - tell me, who has the right to food: the breakfast or the people? Rhode Island's 1842 constitution: "The liberty of the press being essential to the security of freedom in a state, any person may publish his sentiments on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty" - Who has freedom to publish? Any person? Or the press? Is free speech restricted to the press here? Come on. Take a shot. Say what I want to hear.
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Many gun owners hate the NRA for being a scam.
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@user-Dim-V Doesn't matter if you dig by hand or with a machine, it kicks up dust that can take time to settle. So if there's a machine digging but there's 100 men doing other things in the base camp, they're breathing dust. The specialists take care to not disturb the soil that was turned over by Liquidators.
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Because of precedent? They've been blowing up Russian airbases since last year.
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People who took it are still spreading. It's gonna keep lasting until they actually accept reality and stop doubling down.
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Iraq was not laid to ruins. It was a quick war. Russians in a single city kill more civilians than the US killed in the entirety of Iraq.
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@daminc 150,000 to 200,000 violent deaths - 33% of them from executions after abduction, 14% suicide bombs, 9% car bombs and 5% roadside bombs. The US wasn't doing that. Iraqis were.
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@99ron30 The "catastrophic damage" caused by the US was patched up by rebuilding the country. How foolish that venture was is another topic. Russia just keeps sending more missiles.
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Because the algorithm that detects songs looks for repeatable patterns. Gunfire doesn't have a consistent patent. Plus things like a boxer hitting pads or fireworks could trigger the system and cause a bunch of shutdowns.
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Because it would still have to fit the magazine well and the cutout for the magazine clearance in the upper. You'd get a stubbier round with less velocity.
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@AHappyCub If you want cheaper, just stick with 5.56 and don't make any changes. Bigger mag means having to ditch the weapon itself. The upper and lower are forged and milled to the correct dimensions, if you change these dimensions you can't use existing rifles for the rechambering. It would also probably take a different buffer to accommodate the longer travel.
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This is a misnomer. Reservists (BARS) have been in the war since 2022. Mobilized men are not "reservists" except under the assertion that all men in Russia are reservists. Also, men who were able to obtain a waiver to not be conscripted may still be mobilized to fight in a war. A reservist who never did active duty? Hm. In the US technically every man has to register with selective service. If they are called up, we call that a draft. Russia is essentially under draft but due to the conscript/mobilized distinction people pretend that it's all peaches and creamville over there.
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If someone would nuke the world over losing a war, they're unhinged and would do it anyway.
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Because the PRC is the presumed aggressor, and invading is almost always harder than defending.
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@Bonez0r Changing your username doesn't mean anything when the account is the same. Even if you switch accounts you still tied it to an email, and to watch age restricted videos you'll need to tie an ID or credit card to that account.
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There's nothing wrong with calling someone under 25 a "girl".
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Cheaper than 4th gen fighters.
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The systems have not changed the dispersion of the gun or the level of penetration. They just make the pilot's job easier.
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@nevisstkitts8264 The C update was in the 2000s.
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The Tet Offensive was a massive failure. The VC were nearly wiped out and required replacement by the NVA.
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@travis8229 no the Tet Offensive started with a surprise attack that caught South Vietnam and the US off guard which allowed them to cause tremendous damage but as soon as the defending forces got their footing the offensive was liquidated. In the end it was a surprise attack that achieved initial success but ended in a very costly defeat. The VC acomplished no strategic goals while being nearly eliminated by the US and ARVN. There's a reason North Vietnam signed the peace deal.
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JOHN JOHN most of the development was done before the pandemic
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 @marishiten5944 People can like doing a job right and getting paid at the same time. I sure as hell love getting paid. But I do feel good when the job was well done.
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The other way around. Russia is in a hurry. Nobody is coming from the West. They are the ones coming from the East. They're Germany. They're overextending. Ukraine is the Soviet Union.
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Radium paint, discontinued a long time ago.
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Crater? I hardly knew her!
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@PsyF-F-N-I granate is French for grenade.
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@johngalt6838 If the mandates are from corporations and not the government, the corporations that required employees to take it are on the hook. Unless the company was under state or federal mandate.
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@johngalt6838 The whole point of a lawsuit is getting something done when there isn't a law to be enforced. If an employer tells an employee to walk into an unshielded reactor core in a nuclear power plant I don't think there's a law specific to that.
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@johngalt6838 Okay, what's on the books about someone getting injured or killed? I'm sure there's gotta be something about that.
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You do realize youtube is going the same way, right? Silicon Valley is incestuous. What's your favourite youtube channel? What if he/she gets banned? Waaahhhh
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After mobilization one of the complaints was that many Ukrainians had returned to service with only Soviet-style training so their performance was hindered. While "Western training" doesn't beat experience, it is helpful. Especially combat first aid training. Western volunteers doing instruction classes have reported that Western first aid practices massively increase chance of survival. Might not seem much, but the thought that getting hit won't be a death sentence helps men complete the objective.
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@cruise_missile8387 "Easily verifiable" yeah through pro-Russian telegram videos showing always the same "Ukrainian" recruiter who walks like he has a stick up his behind. And always wearing a balaclava too.
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The anti-separatist war aka anti-Putin's proxy forces wars. The Russian invasion started in 2014. They even killed 298 people who were flying on MH17.
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The ocean is reflecting solar light?
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It's important for people to not back down: people gave up on Gillette for a reason. If playing identity politics in favor of "white people" or "the troops" brings people back then it will only feed the argument that the people complaining are snowflakes.
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Apparently you can't read? The logistics failure happened. Winning a war doesn't erase mistakes. We can analyze them as we please.
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@TheRacy Reaching an arbitrary line doesn't undo the equipment that was left stranded due to breakdowns and fuel shortages. If you're securing a country, but have to steal food, you didn't bring supplies. Now stop wasting everyone's time.
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Their SAMs have been hit by ATACMS and modified S-200 missiles.
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@captaindak5119 Oh, they've been called out. I'm sure there's evidence to back it. Buddy, a drunkard will call you out to a fight in a nigh out outside the bar. Do you care about what such people say and think?
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We do. We just separate them by order of importance. And our spectrum is deviated. Socialized healthcare isn't necessarily a "left" way of doing things. Here in Portugal the right wing isn't so crazy about cutting expenses (until the FMI had to intervene). Our right wing voted against gay rights. That's because they are socially conservative. I am conservative in the matters of the constitution - and ours prevents discrimination based on sexual orientation. That's why it seems contradictory.
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They already said they won't want it.
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Ukraine had nukes and gave them up in exchange for security. It was the threat of invasion that made them say that.
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@Armed-Forever That's not true. Ukraine gave up their nukes in the 90s in exchange for security assurances. When Russia amassed at the border Ukraine saw how the deal was useless and they needed the nukes after all.
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@qudhnter92 Doesn't matter. If you stop paying the fees in a storage room locker, the stuff inside becomes property of the business. Stop maxing excuses, Ukraine had them in their possession and made a good trade - give up nukes for security. Turns out, they didn't have security. So obviously they wanted the means to deter invasion.
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 @vorosjanos77 modern weapons crushed the Soviet/Russian "genius" tine and time again.
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 @nordic5490 Not because of fuel, most likely because of plastics and synthetic fibers.
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@cinghialemannaro76 Lyman was a rout. It was a killing field.
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Chinese artillery shows up on counterbattery radar just like Russian artillery. Return to sender works independently of nationality.
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@ezekielbrockmann114 Doesn't matter how many shells China produces when artillerymen can't regrow limbs.
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You can't buy an A-10. Company went out of business. So they're literally priceless.
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I can't wait either but I'm not interested in the early access. I'm sick of DCS modules selling off of hype and getting stuck in early access for years.
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@powderandpaint14 It happened in the Philippines with Dengvaxia.
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Plenty of them on Russia's side. Look at Rusich.
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Should be closer to 2:1 because so many wounded died in trenches or inside vehicles, and survival rates drop off when the wounded are stuck in these places that delay their evacuation to a place where they receive treatment.
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@ardijanuar2036 98% of industrial diamonds are lab grown, not mined. Synthetic diamonds are used in abrasives, drill bits, disc cutters for angle grinders, etc. If you ever had your teeth drilled into at the dentist, most likely a diamond tipped drill was used. Zero ethical concerns.
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There are many former military and military age men conducting spotting behind enemy lines. Even assassination. Several appointed mayors and police chiefs collaborating with Russian occupation were car bombed or killed during home invasions.
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@NoNonsense_01 Formalize American defeat after the North Vietnam suffered unsustainable casualties? Just like typical commies, peace was a way for treacherous reds to rebuild and attack again. Had the war not been unpopular at home, the US would break the NVA just like it broke the VC. Saigon was conquered because the US wasn't fighting, just getting people out by helicopter.
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@NoNonsense_01 They're not humiliating terms. Consider the following: our good nature thought we were slaughtering the enemy so bad, we were protesting for the war to end. How is it humiliation for the civilian control over the military to ask for the killing to stop, while the enemy uses military control of civilians to cause the death of their own countrymen? What for? We didn't need Afghanistan. We didn't need Vietnam. The people who needed those countries suffered greatly at the hands of their leadership. Vietnam could be as developed as South Korea right now. Imagine that.
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@paulbaumer8210 NATO production of 155mm can cover needs because naval and air power debilitates the enemy before boots on the ground, requiring less artillery. If you want to mess with NATO, you're going to first be hit with Tomahawks, B-2s, F-35s, etc. and not 155mm.
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Even the Western dystopia requires the tech overlords to twist themselves into pretzels and say the dumbest things imaginable to justify what they've done (such as the Patreon CEO coming out and justifying Sargon's ban on "MOB rule"), and Carl "Applebee's Suit" Benjamin is doing fine with the Lotus Eaters. If you think China is not a thousand times worse, you're giving them too much credit. Pun intended.
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Hackintosh or a new Mac?
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Explain money laundering. You people never do.
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@zaku-san4060 it's not phosphorus but magnesium metal shavings mixed with birdshot, and a hole in the shot cup. The metal shavings ignite with the gun powder and follow the path "cut" through the air by birdshot to prevent the metal powder from just stopping mid air.
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"War has changed..."
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Russia obtained plot armor from the crashed satellite. The encryption codes they recovered allowed them to crack American security. The briefing screen clearly shows Alaska and California being invaded. Mind that Russian forces are free to sail the Atlantic. They wouldn't have to invade NATO nations to get access to the East Coast. They'd only need to hide the force composition, and the fact that the invasion was only detected when Russian troops were already right on top of the coastline hints at the fact that they were somehow masking their numbers from Europe too.
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If they just moved the assets, it would be easier and faster. 7 aircraft shot down, 12 pilots dead. That's a significant degradation of Russia's air power in a single day.
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40 jets in two weeks?
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@trumanhw Keep buying them. Russians will starve with their government trying to buy the flood of weapons.
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No they wouldn't. They'd see the cost and drop it like a hot potato.
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Because FMJ just keeps on chugging while in the real world JHPs are usually found a few feet away from the perp. The issue is that when you design something not to exit, now you're shooting some dude with his arms in front (because he's holding a gun or something) and the bullet has to go through skin, arm muscle, skin, clothes, skin again, pectoral muscle, rib and now the heart or artery wall - which is a pretty tough and chewy material. The bullet probably got stopped by the rib and if it did go through, it probably stopped short of the heart. With just a few extra inches you prevent what happened in the FBI Miami shootout where a guy with a bullet an inch from his heart kept fighting.
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@hallelbimpong1901 How is it copium? There was evidence of insurgents dressed as Iraqi police that wasn't allowed to be introduced into the court.
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 @BS-jw7nf That's not shocking at all. All defenses are statistic. Even Floyd Mayweather got hit with punches. He still defended enough to win.
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Every American getting 50 billion? Or every American getting 50,000/330 = 151,51 dollars? You want 150 bucks? Do a double shift at McDonald's lol
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 @megalamanooblol Saddam had the Russian GBAD minus S-300s. Gulf War 1 was the wake up call for Russia and China, they realized the US could dismantle air defenses.
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The railway had two empty trains roll at 5 km/h for the cameras. Same was done with Antonovsky bridge. It's all cope.
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@MaN2Mega The train tracks were bent and the bridge span was sagging due to the heat. The bomb didn't destroy the train tracks - the massive fires did.
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 @jsimmons9969 Seems to me you have the stones to take the shot. Why aren't Russian pilots like you?
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@dianapennepacker6854 The S-400 can on paper track and engage a target at roughly 400 km away without over-the-horizon. It just has to be a big target flying at high altitude. They have a BIG missile for those long range shots.
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@jfridy because he met a private seller. Private sellers exist everywhere, not just at gun shows. If you go to a gun show and approach the counter of a gun store, they're still an extension of their FFL and they would be violating federal law if they didn't do a background check. However, private sales are an intrastate matter and the state decides the rules. There's no "gun show loophole" because you can conduct a private sale at a Waffle House parking lot, no gun show needed. If anything, gun shows have police presence so it's the worst place to conduct an illegal transaction.
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@unassumingaccount395 "many gun shows still don't do background checks." - any gun store represented at the gun show is still forced to abide by FFL rules and this must perform background checks. The only people who don't need to perform background checks are private sellers who only need to follow state laws on private sales. There's no "protective shield" against the law at a gun show.
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what evidence do you have on the contrary?
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@unassumingaccount395 "And many major gun shows are privately run and therefore are under special exemptions from background checks" - dude by that logic the business that owns a gun store is privately run and thus are under special exemptions from background checks. All gun stores are exempt from background checks, then. That doesn't make any sense. "states don't have strict laws on private gun selling." - and it's the state's right to set their private sales law how they want. Many states prohibit private sales and force everyone to go through a FFL. It should be up to the state how to deal with intrastate matters. The federal government only gets involved when the gun crosses state lines.
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@unassumingaccount395 at this point you're purposefully misunderstanding everything. All background checks are done through the federal records. As an anarchist you support the Swiss model where they outline several nationalities of immigrants who cannot own guns? Oof.
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And the people making money off it live in St. Petersburg, Moscow, London, NYC, etc.
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@ekesandras1481 You misclicked your reply.
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Actually you do cancel elections, it's based on constitutionality. In the Ukrainian constitution the emergency conditions set by martial law makes suspension of elections the default. If a massive hurricane, earthquake or volcano eruption happened days before the US election don't you think states declaring a state of emergency would suspend the electoral process? I'm not sure of what the US constitution says on that matter, but nearly every democracy has provisions to put things on hold if conditions do not allow it. They didn't imprison political opponents, they imprisoned TRAITORS who helped the Russian invasion. Treason exists in the US too. Look up what the penalty is. The "church leaders" belonged to the Moscow church which is a FSB operation. That church declared that people who die fighting against Ukraine will go to heaven. Try to become an Imam and recruit fundamentalists people to wear s-vests in the US, see how that goes. I dare you. Give it a try.
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@joeo2533 Why waste a 100,000 dollar rocket (that the US only makes 9,600 per year even if they give them all for free) when a 10,000 guided shell can do it?
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@joeo2533 The bridge is critical to resupply Kherson, a region they're advancing into. To whack a few guys that close to the front, there's no point.
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@paulcrottie4394 An intelligent person wouldn't pass laws because of some dude who took a pistol from a mountie, dressed like a cop and used arson to kill like half of his victims.
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@paulcrottie4394 What alternate plan? Are you going to demand changes to solve EVERY. SINGLE. PROBLEM that is going to happen? Life isn't perfect. You can't prevent anything. Stop demanding solutions to solve things that are statistical anomalies.
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@paulcrottie4394 Thanks Hulk Hogan, very cool.
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You don't use thrust vectoring to outmaneuver missiles. The missile goes fast enough that the tighter you turn the less adjustment the missile needs to slam into you.
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@RacerX888 The problem is that - turn radius. Only at the very last second would a missile use turn radius. All the way up to impact the missile figures the X, Y, Z coordinate of the predicted intercept path and flies as straight as possible towards there. Trying to do flips in the air is like the sword tricks against Indiana Jones, who pulls the revolved. Thrust vectoring? Okay, you're killing air speed. Direct impact, airframe torn to pieces.
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Say what you want about Hideo Kojima, but the man is a visionary. He predicted the modern internet in MGS2 and now the self-sustaining war economy.
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@ryckak Were you in NYC when the planes hit the towers?
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It's not kicked down the road. The debt going to zero would require the private sector to have its assets stripped. Clinton's balanced budget? It dented the economy.
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@gcod3d161 "especially if things are made to have a short lifetime and be unrepairable/ not modular because capitalist companies will make more money that way" - There is a reason for it. Most technology develops fast enough that a new model comes out every year, and the consumer demands it. Outside of things like DRM and proprietary software, most of the fragility and unrepairable nature are a result of market demands. If the market demanded modular phones that could last a decade, companies would provide. Can 10 year old phones in mint condition even run modern apps? But no, the market demands thin phones with big screens, and at "acceptable" prices. If a company came out with a phone that they guaranteed would last 6 years and was twice the thickness for twice the cost of a model of the same range, people would riot. "at least the workers making those decisions would be the same people that have to deal with the repercussions of their harmful business decisions in their local environment, making that kind of corruption less viable" - Far too optimistic. What repercussions?
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Oliver Stone is just a propagandist on the opposite side.
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@voloshingalina3248 It's not that I disagree with Oliver Stone, because I agree with some things he says. But he's literally been to RT. He's interviewed Putin. He praised Hugo Chavez. He's not an unbiased observer. He actually said Russia could be the most advanced country on Earth to explain why he chose to take Sputnik V.
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@voloshingalina3248 The truth encompasses many things. You can take only things that are true and tell lies with it. For example, Oliver Stone has not told you how Putin interfered with the separatist movements. Has he told you that one of the original leaders of the separatist movement was told to step aside and be quiet while a puppet (former Ponzi scheme runner) was put in charge? Mr. Stone will tell you how Ukraine is being played by the West, but will not tell you that Ukrainians are also being played by Russia. If you think this is only about missiles you have a very skewed perspective on this matter. Also, Ukraine's bid to join NATO was not welcomed, and the US ignored Zelensky's pleas to station THAAD defenses on Ukrainian soil. So not only your story doesn't match reality, the missiles weren't even offensive. They were meant to shoot down incoming missiles. The "15k" includes, last time I checked, 5500 casualties on Ukraine's side. At least be honest.
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@voloshingalina3248 They didn't "have to" take a legitimate movement, subvert it and fill it with criminals. Advisors? We're talking about a political movement being taken over by Putin's goons. They aren't advisors. They're puppets put in place to foment the conflict. Oh, so things that don't align with your story is all "manipulation". You're deciding who's telling the truth, by falling for the propaganda of a filmmaker who is friends with dictators.
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@voloshingalina3248 You complain about propaganda but you're the one who openly praised propaganda.
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I've seen one video where the vehicle "survives" but starts cooking, and another where the missile strikes before arming distance and burns down. Afterwards a crew member being interviewed stated they had to be given a new tank to keep fighting even though the damage was just the rocket motor burning on top of the turret.
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The Saab Gripen is basically a "how to lose a war slower" so that the threat of a Winter War style result was enough to deter invasion. The Gripen is a tacit admission that you can't go head to head with the opponent so you have to resort to guerrilla in the air. The F-35 is meant to knock the doors down. It can go head to head with another nation's air force from halfway across the world. Remote deployment here doesn't mean "we have to hide from an overpowering enemy". It means "we'll use the enemy's own roads as our airbase just in case we don't have a friendly nation nearby that will let us use theirs".
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Why did the terrorists drive towards Russian soldiers?
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A HARM fired at a Patriot radar to defend himself from friendly fire? Hell of a story I was not aware of, thanks!
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@Stevo! I hate Ben Shapiro and I think they did him dirty. Real education? Sorry, but going after Ben's embarrassing writing and opinions doesn't take an education. It's just ripe for the picking.
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@Deathreaper782 lmao they're not concerned. They created the plates that drove the Americans to come up with new weapons to combat their existence. If for whatever reason Russian troops or even forces outfitted with Russian gear ever clash with Americans, they'll simply stop wearing the redundant plates and enjoy the freedom of movement.
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G Lee soldiers also used revolvers, shotguns, bolt action rifles and muskets for war. Are all those weapons of war?
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dub2459 and how many did the Oklahoma city bomber kill?
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@jayray7230 did you just use "ladyboy" as an insult in an argument about a movie made about a man who was beat up because he admitted to crossdressing?
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@jayray7230 no, you're not being anti-nazi, you are being transphobic.
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@jayray7230 I'm glad you've picked up how childish your comment was, my job here is done.
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@zanitzeuken I don't trust collectives with nukes either. Just the fact that they exist violates our natural rights as their effects cannot be contained within private property.
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Yes but as with everything else they can't copy it right the first time. Trump was goofy and even funny at times, and we quickly moved on. Meanwhile just a few years ago everyone was carrying water for China, now their every move gets scrutinized.
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Because the F-16 is a huge export success story, while the Gripen is considered a sales underperformer. There's not enough of them made.
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That was the A-50 Mainstay, not the Su-57.
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Imagine being proud of turning Ukraine into rubble. Nutters, all of you.
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And how much will detonate in the retaliation?
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What for? Ukraine is beating Russians on the ground. By the time their air defenses are depleted, Russia will be depleted of men.
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Most likely the assumption that it wold be easier.
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The Marines recently did.
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Well good thing those were restricted in 1934 and banned in 1986.
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"I can't afford therapy" dumps thousands of dollars on rifles and ammo
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Yeah and the Communist Romanian government exposed union leaders to x-ray machines as retaliation for coal miners' strikes.
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Wasn't a random target. It was a convoy. Targeting enemy supplies is basic warfare.
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>It is about taking the NRA's own political speech and stuffing it back down their throats And calling dead people murderers and take advantage of the recent killings to give a boost to your career. So classy and funny,
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Great comment. Gen. Schwarzkopf also rejected plans to rush Baghdad and depose Saddam due to concerns with angering the Arab allies for destabilizing the region.
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+Claudia Maher there's an estimated 8 million AR15s in the country. Good luck finding all of them.
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And don't forget, the same cops crying that they don't want to face a 19 year old with an AR15 despite outnumbering him 4-to-1.
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Russia doesn't have mass anymore, and artillery/cluster munitions deal with mass just fine.
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What would air support do? You people are a cargo cult.
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Not true. Yanukovych was elected as a pro-EU candidate. Putin put sanctions on Ukraine. Protests were met with overwhelming police force (the bullets pulled from the bodies were 12ga steel slugs only the police had, made to puncture engine blocks). The US was in favor of letting Yanukovych in power to keep Ukraine stable. This was the Nuland phonecall where Yats gets the PM seat in exchange for Yanukovych keeping the presidency. Police who had murdered and tortured protesters under Yanukovych's orders realized he'd get immunity while they would be prosecuted. Ukraine's corrupt security forces refused to protect the president in protest. Yanukovych fled the country. With an absent president the Verkhovna Rada voted to impeach him. That's not a coup. A parliament having a vote is not a coup.
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@Slider93 all those sales had to happen anyway. Old stocks get scrapped and replaced.
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Love it when faces are blurred but belt shows Russian naval insignia.
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The conflict is being "ignored" because NK is recognized as Azerbaijan. We can't do much about a country taking control of their own land. However, the US has been doing joint training with Armenia proper.
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Why does the "global south" exclude Australia? Russia is the biggest country in the "global north".
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Bolton is absolutely based on Russia. Go back and watch the RT segment where Bolton goes live and goes off dropping truth nukes and the anchor has zero answer to Bolton. All timer bit.
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ONE TANK I DON'T KNOW WHY IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER HOW HARD YOU DRIVE I DESIGNED THIS RIDE TO EXPLODE IN DUE TIME
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All you know about the F-35 comes from articles written about journalists who do not understand aircraft, let alone military aircraft.
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"Guys in caves with no shoes build these" - No, they don't. If you look at the Izhmash factory tour by Larry you'll see a room with probably 1-2 million dollars in forging equipment.
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@MadMetalShop You didn't hand build them. The trunnions and bolts were forged in expensive machines paid for by the Soviet state. Yeah, the Khyber Pass guns are notorious for requiring hand-loaded ammunition that is purposefully weak. Look at the ammo they're manufacturing, it looks like they're loading the cartridges with weed. That's how nasty the powder they're using is. If you fire a real factory round in one of those babies it's game over.
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@MadMetalShop It's not a strawman. You said they're built in caves. Sure, you can bend a flat in a cave. Actually make the damned thing? No. "The ak is an extremely simple weapon to make" - I have the blueprints on my computer. It's not simple at all. How do you make the 3mm helical pitch in the trunnion locking lugs in a cave? (visual example of the feature I'm talking about: https://www.akfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=237810) "Do you know why you don't have to actually make the parts? Because the world market is literally flooded with them." - It used to be. Parts kits were dirt cheap compared to now. But the issue still stands, you can't claim the AK is a simple weapon when you rely on factory parts. The receiver is simple. Big whoop. One would hope it would be, to limit the complex operations to the trunnion. "How much you be willing to pay for this receiver after all the R and D?" - The point isn't paying for a finished product. It's proving that it can be done. And it has been done: https://youtu.be/0_gjwGNkVX8?t=27 Brandon just so happened to find issues because he was talking to someone he thought was Ivan who gave him a 4 month old file that didn't have the final revisions, inch rails instead of metric and from what I've gathered his print seemed to have underextrusion issues. Do it right and it works. Do it wrong and it craps out on you.
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Really activates the almonds.
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It's a "bad" idea in the sense that it is affected by internet latency and while Google has the money to issue refunds, if anyone else tried it they'd go bankrupt and all the games would be useless after people paid for them.
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@aznguymetal "I want everybody pay fair share of taxes and raise them to rich or poor" - okay, that gives the government a higher budget but it's not going to keep the stores open. "Amazon didn't pay dime of tax, but except for sales tax" - but that's the point. If Amazon does more business that means more sales tax going into the state's coffers. The only bad thing is how tax breaks are distributed unevenly and not all businesses are allowed to flourish.
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Look up Serpentza and his videos on child stabbings. There's a little known phenomenon of people who specifically attack children in China. They didn't reach any solution. China's "solutions" are a bad thing. You wouldn't want to live there.
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@D Adams which one LMAO
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@jjsmallpiece9234 It's still doing the job "well", but it's old. Aircraft have limits. Past a certain number of flight hours, they need expensive overhauls. Or else they may break apart mid-air. Not everything has to be the latest tech. But it needs to be in flying condition. A-10s are running out of parts and remaining hours in the airframes, despite the wings being remanufactured by Boeing.
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They're literally gearing up for a Pacific island hopping campaign and defeating Russian plates. 5.56 wasn't a problem. Not giving organic long range weaponry to troops was a problem.
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 @theeternalsuperstar3773 Novorossiya doesn't exist. They conscripted the men and used them as cannon fodder. Recently deceased Murz said as such.
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The kids in China didn't die because the attacker was just bent on going for their ears or something. He was just in it for wounding, not killing. Had he actually tried to kill them children, we'd see a massive death toll. Tell me in my face you'd like to have your children attacked by a madman in their school with a knife. Unless you tell me that it's worthless to say it's an improvement to let our children at the mercy of a madman who might want to wound, might want to kill.
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Do you also say "the France" or "the Germany"?
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No, it doesn't make sense. He wanted to pretend to be a good guy and now gets to be the bad guy because he's already got the votes. It is the same situation. No, stop saying you've "learned". You people have learned NOTHING. You're the one being disingenuous.
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Not what he said.
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Air to air missiles reach peak velocity when the motor is burning, and immediately start losing velocity when the motor is burnt out.
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What the fuck I didn't even know it was Tucker Carlson in the shoulder thing that goes up clip.
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 @LawIV The North Vietnamese later admitted they were getting beat. They were saved by US public opinion.
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How do you know?
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Nobody is asking for American children. Just weapons. We'll fight and we'll die, we're not asking of the Americans to lose a single life. But we need weapons.
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If it's rain proof, I seriously doubt it would go trough. If you're wearing enough layers, even if not waterproof I doubt this thing has enough oomph to go all the way, no matter how fluid it is.
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@Rascalbeans Because gay guys will have a gay guy who's been passed around, but straight guys are less likely to take a woman who's for the streets. Different dating market, so the conditions change.
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The world's known uranium deposits have increased by 25% in the last 10 years. This is falling for the same old fallacy of "we only have 30 years of oil". We kept discovering more/known reserves became profitable. Uranium is almost as common as tin or zinc in the Earth's crust. Fuel reprocessing would also extend our supply. Then we'd also have thorium.
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@editthemadparts1913 but from what I understood those weren't coin tosses, right?
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You've been saying this for 6 months.
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If you have the stomach, listen to "Hunting Warhead" - a podcast with six episodes about a criminal investigation on a dark web site administrator. It explains where it all ends up.
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That's not what crypto is. That's what people think crypto is. All value is subjective. We do create value out of "nothing". Even gold can be completely useless in certain circumstances.
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@PropaneWP Okay, what is "printing" here? Shitcoins? Tether printing coins that aren't actually backed by purchases? Or the mining itself? No, it fundamentally make scams a way of scamming people. Scams exist with all currencies in the world, you learn to avoid them. The regular currency will become crypto. Governments tracking every transaction? The ability to code money to lose value over time to promote consumption when the economy isn't doing too well? Crypto is far too useful, to the point that governments will use it for nefarious purposes. I'm not kidding, look it up. There's central banks considering having their monetary system run on crypto. It's not going to happen tomorrow or next year, but check back in a few decades.
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@PropaneWP No. People who want to get rich quick revolve around speculation and trading. Usefulness would be further ahead if it wasn't for the extreme volatility brought in by the people who'd rather gamble. NFTs could have uses such as digital contracts. Right now the only uses getting exposure are buying and selling jpegs. So you say NFTs are all about scamming the next sucker. When that's not the only thing the tech could do.
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Gonna have to ask you how you believe a missile fired from 0 ft altitude can reach 65,000 ft but a missile fired from 40-50,000 ft can't.
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@afcgeo882 I know they're different missiles. Don't use name-calling or else your comment gets shadowbanned. The point is that a missile fired from 40,000ft at high subsonic speeds will have a MASSIVE energy advantage over a telephone pole SAM that starts from 0 height and 0 speed. The Chinese balloon shot down in 2023 was flying at roughly 60-65,000ft and was shot down by an AIM-9X fired from 58,000ft. The AIM-9X is tiny compared to a SAM, and smaller than a R-77 or R-27 missile.
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The "jack of all trades" clowns arrived in full force. Someone tell the F-16 it can't be so good at dogfighting that's used as the stand in for the MiG-29 in aggressor squadrons and it can't be so good at bombing to be used for Operation Opera.
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Yes, and this whole thing started because I said Obama would be considered right wing in my country. Even our Socialist party leaders turn into the right during elections/while in power to appeal to the mainstream, and are very left when they're the opposition. Truth is, only the leftist bloc and the Communist party are consistently far left.
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Some airliners have saved money by purchasing non-certified aircraft parts. The Concorde crash at takeoff was caused by a DC-10 dropping debris into the runway. The cause for the DC-10s problem was a non-certified wear strip used in repairs.
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Talks broke down due to Bucha.
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It should be constant because the point of real time raytracing is that at any moment a gunshot or explosion can add a new light source that needs to be calculated.
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@larrycable1948 And? Tank operation is a higher skilled job than being a conscript, and it's a perishable skill.
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@bluenami7520 "Capitalism is a system whereby profit dictates what happens." - destroying the crops gives absolutely no profit. It's a net loss.
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@bluenami7520 ""if you worked your butt off to become a top surgeon, would you be content to live in a small apartment and work for cheap?" I would." - You say that, but you wouldn't.
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@bluenami7520 "Hope for a profit is the only reason the crop exists. Farmers don't plant for the good of humanity, but to make profit." - Literally irrelevant. We're talking about the destruction of crops and you're blaming it on capitalism. Stay on topic or just tap out.
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@bluenami7520 "I'd be embarrassed to live extravagantly." - Who cares about extravagance? You wouldn't do surgeon work for a low wage. I had jobs I'd have stayed in if they paid more. But I will not put more effort and stress into something that doesn't offer a return. I've made horizontal moves where I ended up working less for more money. I have a limited time on this life so I'm getting the bang for the buck, or in this case the buck for the bang.
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@bluenami7520 Nobody's losing or winning. You're talking about irrelevant shit. Your claim was that the destruction was caused by profit, and you backed up the claim by saying that the creation was caused by profit. "The whole reason the crop exists is predicated on profit, which makes it an example of capitalism, whether it's dumped or not is irrelevant." - And then literally making it illegal to do business is not an example of capitalism. Which is why the dumping is irrelevant. "if there is no profit in harvesting, then the crop is dumped. Profit determines what happens (capitalism) and not the social good (socialism)." - Take a step back. In market socialism doing things at a loss still punishes the system and cannot be sustained for long. In a socialist country that's actually "state capitalism" the social good does not supersede trying to keep the economy on track. FDR, which by the way I'm not using as an example of socialism before you open your mouth with a tired excuse, destroyed food "for the social good". That happened. A government that "cared" about social good did what you're complaining about. Because FDR and his cronies were such fucking retards that they confused cause and effect and attempted to end the crisis by increasing prices. This meant destroying produce. While people were starving.
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@bluenami7520 "No, I wouldn't do it for a low wage" - Then it's settled.
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In many FPS games hits are calculated locally too. It's player position that is affected by latency.
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If the tank had an export variant, it was already used as source of spares.
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@dylanwight5764 your argument relies on Australia and the US being similar, and that healthcare systems scale linearly. You're using snuck premises there as well. "the USA already has a greater per-capita staff & infrastructure ratio" - but is the government going to take over all the private infrastructure and nationalize it? Or gonna have to pay for it/build state-owned facilities to match the private offering? "market regulations on insurance companies in order to reduce the price gouging" - and that's a problem of those who argue against Ben Shapiro - if you tried to say that to his face he'd disarm your argument: not only are price ceilings horribly inefficient, you have the cause completely wrong. Of course that insurance companies take as much as they can, but they're getting price-gouged by care providers in the first place. Even if you put price controls of hospitals and clinics then Big Pharma and all the medical equipment manufacturers would still be able to charge whatever they want. You'd have to end up nationalizing EVERYTHING related to healthcare, not just implement a universal healthcare system. Suddenly your simple solution turned a lot more complex.
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Do not compare me to Cathy Newman. You claimed that treating pain is what you do when you have no answer. There's people who feel PAIN in limbs they NO LONGER HAVE, it's not like you can just amputate the offending body part. What is the answer to someone having a nerve sending pain signals? You have to treat the symptom. So if you don't want to treat the symptom, just the cause, and the cause often can't be treated, you're essentially pain management shouldn't exist. It's actually pretty easy to infer from your comment, which is why I gave you the chance and asked for clarification. Cathy Newman was trying to entrap Jordan Peterson. I am giving you the chance of backpedaling on an ignorant remark.
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Fine. I want the entire Russian army to be outfitted with just this. It's a great weapon. I wish I could snap my fingers to trade every Russian tank, IFV, helicopter, fighter and bomber for these. Don't mock!!!
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@vonvonvonvonvonvonvonvonvo7009 It is. I took what you said at face value. Don't mock!
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You can't really do that. You can, but you don't want to get caught.
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You mean like when any brown kid above 16 was considered a "fighting age male"? If your enemy arms civilians for you to step on the trap and kill civilians, simply hold that L. Ever heard someone who deployed in the GWOT complain about RoEs? You have to roll with that punch.
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 @rhodium-maiden what could they find on the moon you can't find with a telescope?
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I don't know anyone that conceal carries an assault rifle. Specially because they are 15,000 a piece (full auto regulated since 1986) and I wouldn't trust 15k to sit on an evidence room. Also because you'd need a trench coat to conceal it. There are other sources that say his AR15 jammed, and he had to use a handgun and a shotgun. As you can see, there's hardly any consistency. In the recent shooting the perp apparently left the AR15 in the trunk of his car, while others claim it was used.
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@villehookeneriksson3473 "the medicare for all bernie is for wants to give all the care veterans need" - Bernie Sanders was in charge of the VA and he was terrible at managing it
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And now Europe will try to reduce Russian imports, effectively doing the same thing.
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That's literally the story of all people who emigrated to the new hot expat destination. I heard the same thing from people who worked in Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, etc.
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They can take off from smaller bases closer to the action, less maintenance, acceptable speed and long loiter time because it doesn't guzzle like a turbofan engine.
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 @SuperRobinjames probably because TV is produced by people who have no clue and cut a conversation out of context.
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@SuperRobinjames So? It still lacked specifics.
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I mean the Ukrainians have massive kill compilations if you want to check where the money is going. I've seen like 6 videos of Russian soldiers offing themselves after being wounded so far.
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Yeah I want 5.56 Magnum.
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@Daniel-dx2zu Gee, then maybe the climate activists should have demanded nuclear 20 years ago. After nearly two decades of refusing, it's too late! Amazing!
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Biden delayed the withdrawal, Trump had set the date for May. I know politics is politics and Trump was BS'ing too but I am sick of seeing people crediting Biden.
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I love when Russia shills have /pol/ names, go back to /chug/ and fantasize about these Ukrainian loses you imagined between hits on your crack pipe.
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It's not a problem at all. The "problem" is that anti-nuclear activists refuse all the solutions for waste, so we have a "problem".
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@sundancechief6158 There's photos and video everywhere.
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Aliexpress started as a business to business sales platform, and only ventured into business to customer sales later.
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Exactly. Russia sent Girkin to start the war. Should have left it alone, Putin.
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@ShadowMKII It has less range than the alternatives.
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The tanks are offensive. Men running across fields will take casualties even with artillery giving them cover. Men in IFVs following the big cats will make the ground shake.
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But as 73 Easting showed, Bradleys can take out T-72. Fixed wing aircraft are more vulnerable than rotary wing.
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The fuck does that mean?
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It was a tongue in cheek remark, not a takedown.
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lmao
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You want things disposed of properly and no greed? You'll have to pay out of your pocket. Regulations and good wages are exactly why companies go abroad to supply you with the things you want at a good price.
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The Russian military is in Ukraine. The only ones left to defend Moscow were police and Chechens.
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Do you want to start an international incident by rescuing the people of NK? Buddy if you have a plan count me in, I'll save the last bullet for myself though.
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@Ken_N There's no sitting down. The guys at the top of NK know they're done for if they ever change. They'd rather use the hermit kingdom as a leverage for economic gain. You want us to take action but when confronted you switch gears to "electing real leaders" - there's no such thing and your vote doesn't matter, you should have realized that by now - which is the epitome of slacktivism. You call for action but the furthest you're willing to go is casting a ballot to some liar who's going to ignore his campaign promises until he can fool the electorate into giving him a second term or get replaced by the next liar. You chastise people and then when pressed you give the same lazy solutions as everyone else. Also, I didn't mention war anywhere.
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The US stopped the Shuttle program and the SLS was a clustertruck so it was just easier to pay them to put stuff in orbit. Also, having a rocket program doesn't mean everything else is stellar.
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@easternrebel1061 If you have physical access to the warhead and the technical expertise, you can simply reassemble it with a new arming mechanism with your own codes. Nukes aren't some kind of esoteric entities we can't fathom, they're made of discrete components and each has a function. Designing a nuclear weapon from scratch is a daunting task that needs people with PhDs to get involved, but if you are in custody of foreign nukes you can disarm them and bypass the securities. In this case, for the purpose of installing your own. There are weirdly interesting safeties in some warhead designs, one is a chain inside a hollow core that prevents the compression of the fissile material. When you arm the nuke, along other electronic safeties being disabled, a drum starts rotating and winds the chain out of the core. If you have your own electronics to set off the EBW detonators and a new motor to rotate that drum, you now have a nuke you can control. That's just an example because I don't think anyone else but the British used the chain safety but I could be wrong.
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Bronk has been shilling the Gripen non stop. But the fact is that Sweden could not be counted on as a supplier if you needed to use the Gripen for real. When a war breaks out, you want the guys acriss the ocean, unmolested, to be sending you the stuff because they built a thousand units.
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Because that money "created" out of thin air represents goods and services. The excess supply of money has to be curbed through taxation to "destroy" it and take it out of circulation.
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@bungeebones Don't ask me. I didn't create the theory. I'm just explaining it.
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That is true. Russia had to dip into their Navy sailors and troops from the strategic rocket forces to make up for the losses. They're even pulling airborne troops from Syria. Now that the situation is dire they'll need to send people to also plug the gaps they created in their manpower that's not in Ukraine. I assume the guys piled up in Belarus just to keep Ukrainians busy also want to go home.
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@rovethewolf9717 It's not a matter of superiority. Congress simply refuses to authorize the USAF to retire it. There's no "bet". The USAF sends F-16s and F-15Es to do CAS. Even B-1s and B-52s.
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@rovethewolf9717 A F-15E is not focused on air superiority considering it was designed to replace the F-4s and F-111s in service. Neither are the F-16s, and they're do-everything workhorses that spent the last 20 years delivering bombs. Even if they were, it still doesn't change the fact that they do more CAS than the A-10. Yes, B-1Bs and B-52s do perform Close Air Support. Funny that you call the B-1 a high altitude bomber when one of it's most important design requirements was high subsonic low altitude speed. Yes, of course Congress controls the budget. My point is that the A-10 isn't kept in service because of superiority. It's kept in service because Congress refuses to retire it.
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Ah yes. When you can't secure the skies and use air superiority to minimize your losses on the ground, that's just "another war doctrine". I'm sure the guys on the ground appreciate the different "war doctrine" where the air force could save their bacon but won't.
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@lowenhartw.4253 Okay. This video is about the air force. What you don't understand? Artillery is winning the war, but there's probably a lot of artillerymen dead or missing limbs because the air force isn't doing their job.
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@lowenhartw.4253 People are used to the US way of using air power, because everyone dreams of using it. Everyone wants aircraft to do the hard work and not put troops in danger. Iraq and Serbia has true air defenses. Other units are losing men to accomplish those tasks. They need to step into range of the enemy to do work, which means that eventually they get killed or wounded. And equipment gets destroyed too. Meanwhile an aircraft could do that without losses. The Russian airforce not doing those tasks is getting men killed. Little losses? Every day you can see the video of them getting struck.
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@ddjohnson9717 Not really. Banning drugs has only created a massive market for them, and ensuring people will go to greath lengths to cross the border with them. You could airdrop crates of machine guns in the streets of Seoul or Tokyo and you wouldn't see shootings because people wouldn't go crazy simply from having guns. If you actually wanted to make a point you'd bring up how the Japanese and Korean keep stabbing each other because they want to kill but have no guns. But that's not happening. They're not stabbing each other to death everywhere. So you can't say lack of guns makes them peaceful with all weapon types.
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@ddjohnson9717 But I didn't. Some of the countries with the highest gun violence have extremely strict gun laws. Mexico has very strict laws and they had authentic bloodbaths during the height of the cartel wars. El Salvador and Honduras have very low gun ownership rates but some of the highest gun homicide in the world. Brazil is also extremely violent with guns, and they had strict gun laws for the last 20 years. Their current president tried to loosen them but the supreme court shut it down. "They absolutely are" - They're not. Japan has extremely low homicide rates. "War on drugs in USA is not a thing US government really wanted to do, and that's why it has failed" - That's ridiculous. The war on drugs is absolutely massive. It's an entire law enforcement industry and a major source of convictions in the justice system. "If China can do it, the only reason US would fail is simply due to the government is not pushing the ban hard enough." - So your argument is we should be like China. Hard no.
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@captainchaos6812 a "kill" only means the plane was shot down, not that anyone actually died
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 @brianhowe1982 Russia violated agreements, not the West.
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Many resources are hard to extact and are in remote areas. You could actually end up losing money trying to extract Russia's wealth. Same problem as Afghanistan. Tons of valuable stuff under the rock. But costs more to take out than you'd get back selling it.
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@Grathew That's one of the worst bad faith interpretations I've ever seen. Nobody said it's better for the pilot to die. Argue against what was said, not what you imagine was said. It's better to not get shot down in the first place, and the A-10 is incredibly easy to bring down. Yes, CSAR will always be necessary. The problem is that sending aircraft that are easy to shoot down is a false economy considering how much you'll actually lose. What doctrinal or technological changes? The A-10 is limited in thrust and speed which means it cannot get itself out of trouble, and it faces weapons that were designed to bring down helicopters - a much harder target to hit considering how well they can use terrain masking. The only doctrine left is retirement, the only technological change is ground defenses becoming even better now that they have to deal with suicide drones. And my point is that the "merit" of the airframe is useless if pilots are too optimistic about their capabilities. There needs to be a reality check.
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@Grathew "says nothing about why or how the A-10 is going to get shot down over another aircraft" - Because it's own design makes it vulnerable. It's important to remember that the original goal of the A-X program predates modern defense systems. It's a thrust-limited aircraft and it never got engine upgrades because the avionics were a higher priority. It cannot get out of trouble as easily as other aircraft. "phycological affects of the A-10" - Now reverse it. What are the psychological effects of A-10s being shot down? It negatively affects your troops while giving a huge morale boost to the enemy. That's a two way road argument. I find effectiveness more important than focusing on psychological effects because of how easily they're reversed. "You need to be able to evade and that's where the turning circle matters in addition to speed." - The problem is that evading AAA makes you vulnerable to a missile and evading a missile gets you in the path of AAA. The problem with the A-10 is that the ways to counter air power essentially layer themselves to catch these lower performance aircraft. Focusing on tighter turn radius when modern processing power simply tells the missile or gun turret "oh, here's turning in a X foot circle, therefore make place Y the intercept path so they'll meet" is a flawed thought process. "That's about half to a third of any other aircraft we currently have" - But air combat isn't a pure turn circle match. That's why energy is so important. You could have a 1 foot turning circle and it wouldn't matter. Other aircraft may have a wider turn circle, but when they point their nose to place X the missile has to create a much wider angle offset on the intercept path because it's trying to catch up. Then point to place Y, suddenly the missile cannot expend the energy to turn to the new intercept path without drag losses completely tanking its residual energy. A tight turn radius is a last resort to attempt to get outside the limits of the missile flight envelope, but we're talking such short ranges that in comparison to the A-10 the missile is almost going straight and gets to the aircraft with minimal maneuvering. "Most anti-helicopter weapons are either ManPAD missiles or human guided AAA" - Not just that. Optical track. Laser beamriding. Anti-helicopter weapons are pretty well developed because they're such a squirrely target. Human AAA and MANPADS are just the extra threats to deal with, because the more threats the greater the chance that a pilot will make a mistake from being overwhelmed. "the radar SPAAGs should be dealt with ARMs during the SEAD phase" - Ahah. No. ARMs will be spent on the major defenses to clear a path for important strikes. Dedicating SEAD flights to cover for CAS is insanity. Not only does it subtract from important missions, it will be a waste because radar crews know they have to shut down radars during the SEAD phase. Having SEAD in the air does nothing when crews only need to wait for A-10s to get close, open up, shoot down, shut the radar off and move. The SEAD flight will not be able to stop a close range attack on the A-10, only react to it and retaliate if they find the source. And again sensors that operate with IR or electro-optical systems are good enough for SHORAD without emitting a signal that can be homed on. "low speed" - Low speed and altitude hinders Maverick range. "I don't understand the whole "Suicide Drone" thing" - As we have seen in recent conflicts, there's drones that drop ordnance and drones that carry an explosive payload and dive onto the intended target. They're not missiles because they do not fly like a missile, they loiter over the battlespace like an aircraft. My point is that these weapons are smaller in dimensions than traditional aircraft, they're often built with some degree of stealth features, they're not ultra fast or have powerful engines so they have lower IR emissions. They're harder to detect and thus stop. This has forced defenses to become better. If defenses are being upgraded and developed to target these small, almost-stealth threats what hope does an A-10 have? In fact, they can almost certainly shoot down a Maverick coming from long range due to the velocity drop off.
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@Grathew Focusing on the psychological aspect is the wrong way to do things, and the way to survive AA ambushes is not being at the impact point in the first place. The A-10 is not all we have because other airframes have already taken over the job. Hell, if we're talking psychological effects, even Apaches showing up and B-1s doing shows of force already send people running through the hills. Cruise missiles spend most of their flight at supersonic or high subsonic speeds, hence the cruise part. Loitering munitions are not cruise missiles. I don't see the point of bringing up the semantics, call it a whistle if you want to, the fact is that they're hard to detect and SHORAD is being tuned up to defend itself from these little bastards. Anything that can bring those down can bring down "psychological" CAS. And in turn allow that two way street I mentioned. It will be our side losing morale when they call for help, and the help gets swatted out of the sky.
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Russia throws reserves at the line of contact like mad. Fortifications mean nothing without people inside, and those who were meant to man the fortifications are being sent into desperate counter attacks.
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 @Aikano9 Okay but why is it a dichotomy?
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 @MingusDewfus Buying stuff to be bait and switched because there's workarounds just rewards the behaviour
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@fKek-yy8tz "Trust the plan. Z"
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It wasn't a perfect argument, lmao. It was a verbal beatdown. A deserved one, but it was low class as hell. That wasn't an argument about anything, that was a career-ender. If you think journalism would improve by making every interview a bloodbath, you're sadly mistaken. To begin with, there's the danger of creating an escalation to see which channel can get the toughest interviews and further political division. Second, it would discourage people from agreeing to do interviews. With so much alternative media and the ability to livestream, personalities can get softer interviews or just connect directly to the audience. Anyone who goes into an interview gets eviscerated? Just broadcast yourself, unchallenged.
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@Hrafnskald Name these American diplomats driving around in supply trucks. Honestly I'd expect them to be in SUVs.
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The issue is that Russian officials are now quoting the AI report (after hiding shat the report said about them). Thanks AI, you really helped a lot.
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@Dimetropteryx Watchdog organizations also should not make matters worse. By essentially giving carte blanche to Russia, they opened the door for more civilian casualties. If your way of helping actually harms people, don't try to help.
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And then the head of Roscosmos had to get in twitter fights with Elon Musk because his company lost business.
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 @jwbartle BRO they straight up made up an OSHA rule, the vast majority of people affected did NOT need it. Come on! Were you living under a rock?
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No.
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@hendrikvanleeuwen9110 The number of mobilizations is disingenuous. Russia mobilized a ton of men at once without the facilities or instructors to process them. Remember the cling wrap teepees and the men being dumped into what looked like empty airfields after their bus ride? Ukraine mobilized in waves to avoid that.
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@hendrikvanleeuwen9110 Do you miss points for a living? I does matter because the entire argument was "One single Russian mobilization already called up more men than several waves of Ukrainian mobilizations". Ukraine is limited by how many it can train, so it splits men by waves so they can go one after another. Russia called a bunch of people at the same time, and couldn't train them. The true reservists were the BARS units. These are just former conscripts.
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@hendrikvanleeuwen9110 The Army was only 300,000 active duty prior to February 2022. The "million standing army" includes strategic rocket forces, Navy, logistical support, etc. Ukraine had to do drafts independently of losses. They did one draft to train who they could train. Then another. Then another. It's like trying to bake 100 loaves on bread in a single oven. They have to wait their turn. Doesn't matter how many times I drop a loaf of bread on the ground. I still need to bake more.
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No point in issuing a hand cannon.
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Not when they're hauling external tanks and missiles/bombs with fins under their wings.
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Because the manufacturing is expensive too. It's 2021 and it uses old manufacturing techniques. And except for PTR they have to be imported.
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Whatever. Many of us won't play AI slop.
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"Regulated" just means "regular", not the modern meaning which changed over time.
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It's enough to keep hitting artillery. At some point the final straw breaks the camel's back.
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That would wreck the US economy as you know, world trade is secured by US commitments.
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@Charles37400 The issue is that your idea essentially requires someone who wants to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights needs to give up their 4th Amendment rights.
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 @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas >North Korea >Rolling Thunder Something here isn't right...
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That's utterly ridiculous. It challenges both logic and the supreme court decisions on common use weapons and the difference between purely offensive weapons and defensive weapons.
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It's difficult to turn tidal motion into something that can spin a generator. Minutephysics here on youtube had a video about it, I think.
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Returns are still reduced independently of angle, and another aspect of stealth is IR reduction. There's no "close combat support maneuvers". The maneuvers are just a reflection of what you want to do. You can provide CAS while flying straight. You can provide CAS while orbiting in a circle overhead.
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@V_for_Vovin Why wouldn't they? Because it would be poointless. What's there to demonstrate. We have no evidence, so there's no "demonstration". My logic is that the Su-57 is a prototype masquerading as a production aircraft, they're special snowflake aircraft that really can't be doing combat ops like that.
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@5tre55full The logic is that the F-15 has a record of over a hundred kills and no losses to enemy aircraft. And that the Su-57 kills are myth designed to fool the fanboys. That's logic.
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@AVlad-eg3ds To test aircraft, you can just do... tests. There's no footage of a Su-57 launching a R-37M, why would it have a combat launch? There's footage of US aircraft doing test launches of new weapons, even if both the weapon and aircraft are old, simply because it's the first time a weapon was used on that aircraft and testing is required to ensure there's no separation issues (due to fluid dynamics, weapons can get "sucked" into the aircraft and slam into it, causing damage). Your argument is that a WORSE aircraft for the R-37M launch is being used... just for kicks? It's a war, you want effectiveness over trying to do trickshots. Why would the Su-57 be in the air, and with a weapon that it is worse at using? There's very few combat Su-57s. Considering how many were built and how many have to be sidelined for maintenance, there's very few chances to have Su-57s in the air.
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a @davoodoo8042 1) The military is essentially what legitimizes a government. A government without military (and there are a few in the world) is at the mercy of others. 2) Denial of sovereignty. 3) Recognition that ethnic Russians can just carve up a foreign country for themselves. 4) Sure. Except for number 4, all of those demands essentially mean "you don't exist, you do what I tell you, and I'll come beat you whenever you don't let my people encroach into your territory". This is tyranny by proxy, and direct tyranny if you refuse to comply.
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@davoodoo8042 What a ridiculous excuse. Is South Korea demilitarized? No, there's a DMZ between North and South. Imagine Kim asked for a demilitarized South Korea. Everyone would tell him to go pound sand. 1) If they didn't ask it in Georgia, they have to stop asking for it now. 2) If I get robbed I am installing an alarm. Sounds fair. So Ukraine can get invaded but not ask for protection? The demand for "neutrality" is a demand to remain weak and unable to ask for more than missiles and finger wagging. 3) I'm not touching Yugoslavia with a 10ft pole. Instead of saying two wrongs make a "who cares?" recognize the insanity of the premise. Also, the UK is Russia here. Ukraine is the US and it's fighting back.
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@davoodoo8042 1. Georgia isn't demilitarized. 2. I'm failing to show what? The will to join a mutual defense agreement is based on protection. What is there to demonstrate? Being invaded is precisely how a country becomes fearful and considers the need for stronger protections. There's no speculation. Based on nothing? Someone who has their house broken into will invest in security. Period. You want the robber to threaten victims to not get new locks? Nonsense. 3. Ukraine cut themselves off from Crimea after it was seized by the Russian military, and a referendum asked the population if they wanted independence according to the 1992 constitution or be part of Russia. Independence would lead them to be a failed state so they were essentially coerced. There's also evidence of widespread fraud. I don't see what the point of bringing this up is. Severing one's limb is terrible. But if you have to do it to save yourself after that limb got crushed, it's understandable. You're being extremely one-sided by picking apart everything Ukraine did, and refusing to acknowledge Russian wrongdoings. Want to check the facts? How about the facts regarding the forced displacements during the Soviet times, which were meant to stop an Ukrainian identity from becoming counter-revolutionary? Purposeful ethnic displacement was a tool of the Soviets that has now been used by the Russian Federation. All this conflict is based on Soviets using Russian people to undermine Ukrainian people in the past, now being taken advantage by post-Soviet governments to go back on their recognition of Ukraine's borders.
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@jetli740 Why?
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@m.a4491 Are there giant mountains in Ukraine? Flying high makes a drone easy to see on radar. It doesn't habe to cover Kiev. It just has to stand in front of flight paths. After several drones go down, Russia programs new flight paths. This allows Ukraine to funnel the drones into defensive weapons.
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 @VLADIMIR007ISH And a KGB officer is better?
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 @seashellguy9416 Desert Storm is the exception, not the rule.
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@coderentity2079 Wars are bad for manufacturers who rely on lean manufacturing. Peacetime allows for long lead times and efficiency, thus making the best margins. Wartime forces you to buy square footage to expand the factory floor, machines, and hire people. That costs money.
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 @JustAvoidNothinghere There was no alternative. No secret was revealed.
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 @planb1635 The US wanted to keep Yanukovych in power in 2014. At no point did the US want a war in Ukraine.
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@jacquesstrapp3219 MICLICS have a 100m charge, the minefields are 500m deep. MICLICS also blow a huge cloud into the air, meaning a single lane through a minefield would create 5 "SHOOT ME" mushroom clouds. Take your own advice.
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 @hyokkim7726 Not true. Azov was formed by Russian speakers, and they defended Russian speakers in Mariupol when they were attacked by the proxy forces 8 years ago.
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 @etienne8110 the "cheap" Russian gas was always a bribe to make us close our eyes to their wrongdoings.
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@stinyg lmao the "sheperds and peasants" (the Taliban were more akin to gangbangers, they wanted to live the thug life horseback riding and shooting guns and now complain about having to run a country) waited for the US to leave. The equivalent of the US just kicking Chicago out of the country, giving gang members seats in the city government and make them do paperwork instead of smoking weed and playing videogames between drug sales, then claim street thugs defeated the US army.
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 @solenbreen7483 Putin had Crimea and neutrality. Most of Ukraine was against NATO membership. Zelensky only proposed NATO membership when it seemed like Russian aggression was inevitable.
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@clifflegrand4848 Tank barrels cannot be fired like artillery, their service life is much lower. Ukraine is fighting off Russia with scraps. They'll have whatever they can take. Russia is supposed to be the world's number 2 army.
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@griggorpi8751 Weeks prior to invasion? You mean when Russian forces were building up around Ukraine for months? They refused the deal because of Bucha. Boris Johnson only said that they shouldn't trust a deal with Russia. Fun fact, he was right. Russia signed two treaties with Chechnya in the 90s. What happened? Russia broke the treaties to come back and finish the job.
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@jacquesstrapp3219 Pantsirs have been eating sh!t, though. Shilkas are near useless, the lead computing system is a nightmare.
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@jacquesstrapp3219 No offense. But when you were in Iraq you didn't have the Russians pelting you with artillery, Ka-52s and FPV drones.
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@VLADIMIR007ISH The former KGB officer has his main TV propagandist keep his gay son in London away from the war.
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@jacquesstrapp3219 Shilkas have a terrible fire control system, look it up. Shilkas are barely used in the Russo-Ukraine war.
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@clifflegrand4848 Russia is receiving aid from Iran and North Korea.
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She didn't.
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All embassies are points of entry for spies. Countries can send things secretly inside diplomatic bags. And working at an embassy is a cover. So most likely he was the one in charge of the actual spies.
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@lithunoisan They say Yuga Labs comes from a character named Yuga in a 3ds Zelda game. But it's clear they had references they wanted to make, and looked up excuses that would give them plausible deniability. They worked backwards.
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@Ma Ba Why? By protecting Eastern Europe?
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Journalists in Mexico get killed for uncovering stuff. Not really the same kind of journalism.
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@willnill7946 Are they?
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@ColinTherac117 They wouldn't have been correct because it was a bold faced lie from the beginning. They false flagged a Polish attack on Germans in the border. They used German prisoners and killed them to pretend the Poles did it. That's not a correct thing to do.
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Noise is generated when you amplify a signal. You could filter it out, but that would attenuate the image going into your eyes. The noise is worth it to get the most light amplification.
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Pearl Harbor happened because the Japanese Imperial Navy needed control of the Pacific and knocking out the US fleet was the quick win they needed. There's no analogous situation here.
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They have some weapons and need others. The UK doesn't only use British weapons, Germany doesn't only field German weapons. They have some missiles. They need others. They have some artillery. They need others. This is an opportunity for other countries because if Ukraine wins, Ukraine will be able to build more weapons to repay the help.
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Not true. The Patriot was made to shoot down aircraft, which is why in the 90s it failed against Scud missiles. The PAC-3 missle added the hit to kill warhead which is more effective than the PAC-2 blastf frag.
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Along with 49 innocent civilians.
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 @chrishamlin5863 You're painting a rosy picture. The VC entered cities during the Tet Offensive and started assassinating the relatives of ARVN service members, a literal act of terror.
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They didn't. Which is why you know it's a lie.
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The empty ERA blocks were real. They had the "egg carton" spacers but no explosives. Units got the order to invade after thinking they were on exercise, so they didn't have live explosives on the bags. Also, we have video published by Russian forces of them enacting physical punishment on deserters and refuseniks, plus mothers and wives of soldiers complaining about torture at the hands of Chechen barrier troops. Is all of Russian speaking internet an Ukrainian psyop?
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80% reserves full, troll
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@marcinciurko8149 Gas prices are falling.
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The robbers casing houses asking why the police is there patrolling lol you people invade neighbors then ask why the US is there to protect them
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@187Rajah Fighting forces lose combat effectiveness after losing 20% of their force. With 500.000 KIA, for the Ukrainian army to stay in the fight they'd need to have 25 million soldiers.
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It's selectively enforced. He's there to give the "badass" movie speech so he can call it what it is.
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@wolfdreams1545 Yeah, Russia writes peace deals and then always comes back with force. So I don't understand why people refuse to understand that Ukraine has to beat Russia so bad the country breaks apart. It's the only way to survive. Also, they also "forced them into submission" by paying off the Kadyrov family to switch sides. I wonder how many 18 year old Russian soldiers the Kadyrovs decapitated back then.
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@artistphilb Russia is supplying their army with progressively more antiquated equipment. The West isn't "running out of shells" anymore because we're securing deals to get South Korean ammo and bringing production plants online. We'll send our reserves once we become able to backfill the expenditure.
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@artistphilb 20,000 shells fired into dirt accomplishes nothing. Their tank production? Can't keep up with the loss rate. That's why they're pulling T-62s and T-55s from storage. This isn't doctrine. They're refurbishing 800 T-62s (over three years) which means the T-62s weren't ready. For a doctrine to exist, the materiél has to be there. It wasn't. They're having their factories refurbish the tanks because they're doing something they didn't prepare for. The older ones are being destroyed at the frontline. The Javelins destroyed Russian tanks. They did their job. Now Ukrainians are strapping RPG-7 warheads to drones. They'll take out T-55s just fine.
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Nah. Mearsheimer is a fool.
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@themcrib7920 You're misinterpreting what the piece of paper is. They didn't say you have those rights. What they said was that you ALWAYS had those rights, and they were putting it on paper so they would be recognized by the government. That's why it's a "God given" right. It's a natural right.
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@themcrib7920 No, it doesn't.
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@themcrib7920 Do you even understand what a natural right is? Natural rights extend to man-made creations. "You have no right to own a car, or a house. You have the privilege." - Ahahah. Shut the fuck up. "I'm not inherently anti-gun, I just don't understand the argument against regulations/strict gun laws because it's a "right"." - I don't even care if you're anti-gun, you straight up said people don't have the right to own property. We can go down the rabbit hole about most regulations not making any sense (from a crime perspective) and strict gun laws not doing shit considering that many countries with strict gun laws are fucking war zones, but you're sitting here telling me that I can work for a paycheck, which is time of my life I will never get back, use that paycheck to buy a house, and then you come along and say I have no right to own a house? The fuck you're gonna do, evict me? Steal literal years off my limited time on Earth?
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Are you out of your goddamn mind? If others give up their guns don't give up yours! Why would you voluntarily give up your tactical advantage?
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@entropicgirl8648 Why Sweden? If anything you're in greater danger in Sweden than in any place in rural America or the average European country.
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@entropicgirl8648 now I'm not saying it's wrong to shoot a charging bear, because they fuck people up. But people really shouldn't slip up when they're in bear country in the first place. Please don't shoot bears. They're beautiful animals. You made it clear that you want guns to protect yourself from people, now you claim only animal defense is legitimate. I dunno, maybe the BBC is too right-wing for you.
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"yes, john people are 'forced' to work somewhere" - that doesn't mean you're entitled to get paid. If you can only generate 7 bucks of revenue per hour to a business don't expect to be paid 15 dollars. Since the dawn of times every living thing has been forced to work for a living. This will not change independently of what system you choose. If all the commies actually wanted to get shit done they'd all be in communes proving that communism works and not being forced to work for anyone. How many people actually have the balls to try and live in their utopia? A few thousands? Like, one or two million TOPS in all of the developed world?
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Ukraine's economy will be revived through a Marshall plan. Russia is cut off from many technologies necessary for an economy.
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@mactan_sc doesn't make a difference, people lost their money
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@Andyatl2002 having a video saying you hate GT doesn't mean you're trying to ruin his life.
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Trucks still limit exposure because you can take precautions whenever shipping out and receiving goods, construction sites are off-limits for most people anyway.
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The only missile it could employ would be the AGM-122 Sidearm, which is no longer in inventory.
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The European continent rebuilding from WWII made the US very wealthy. NATO ensuring that the US had a stockpile of weapons across an ocean served as a deterrent against Warsaw Pact invasion. Now you want the roles reversed and somehow Europe to turn back time and invest in military stockpiles instead of economic prosperity.
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Are you by chance making a reference to the 5.7 Spitfire? It all came back full circle and 5.7x28mm is just the wheel reinvented.
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M855A1 was a bespoke custom bullet. Three part, three-metallic case construction seems easier.
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"Why can't we be bad, the US was bad" do you realize how psychotic this line of reasoning sounds? So because serial killers exist you want to try their activities?
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They're better financed? They're sending men in Chinese golf carts, T-55s, and if you look at the glide kits they are clearly hand assembled and soldered. This is Germany "last stand" tier smekalka.
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How many people with unimpeachible credentials ruined it all? People who became a laughing stock had one thing in common - they weren't a laughing stock before whatever they did.
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HK belonged to BAE Systems at the time. Germans fixed the SA80. But Germany didn't.
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@EarthChampion_TophBeifong the government spies on everyone. This was proven by Snowden and WikiLeaks.
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A significant portion of Ukraine was already under separatist control. Also, Ukrainian forces use depth for defense, allowing Russia to capture hard to defend terrain while holding tough positions.
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@vangelisskia214 That's completely unrelated to what I said. You made an argument based on landmass, which as I pointed out, is fallacious. 2,000 surrendered? Only 298,000 to go! Scott Ritter is a kid diddler. Look it up.
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Most of the "money" isn't even money, just old equipment. It's described as a dollar figure but they're not getting pallets full of cash, they're receiving stuff made to fight the Soviet Union.
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@Givelasagna Wrong. I never cared about pats. I care about the fact that Russia wants all the land from Lisbon to Vladivostok. If they're gonna hold the world hostage with nukes, it's our moral duty to arm a country that won't trigger MAD. Russia is behind many agitators like "MAGA communism" and BLM facebook pages from the 2014 Ferguson riots, their links to Iran suggest Oct 7 was a distraction from Ukraine using Hamas as a sacrificial pawn, they paid the Taliban a bounty for KIA Americans, etc.
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GoPros do not capture better footage and do not see the thermal spectrum.
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@lauramurman2642 They have good cameras. Take any camera you want and try to look at tanks from 20 miles away. At night. You're not going to see anything. The jet fighters can.
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Edge of Darkness, episode six
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Fun fact, he also killed two people in a car crash.
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@matthewbittenbender9191 you're essentially torpedoed your credibility with the tired "they're racist but not racist" argument.
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@matthewbittenbender9191 you have no actual argument. You accuse people of being racist because you maintain that the consequences of their beliefs are racist. You cannot say why or even confirm that what you say is true in practice.
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Geothermal is just nuclear with extra steps. What do you think keeps the Earth's mante warm?
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How many mines in Iraq?
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Value is subjective, nothing has it.
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@cryptowalk1387 imminent domain is wrong too. Stop deflecting.
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@festuspendaasino2010 "government said" and that makes it true?
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How did they ruin the NATO narrative?
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"They have the S-500 which sees stealth" - it doesn't.
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 @treegatorvet Fund the Gripens? Okay, Ukraine will wait several years for them. Saab can't manufacture enough.
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Not the Russian ones, otherwise they wouldn't need to steal.
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Sure, a Marine F/A-18 could be recording it.
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@Evanz111 To follow up on what's already been said, there's games like GTA that when they get re-released sometimes are lacking songs due to licenses expiring, and Driver San Francisco can't be purchased anymore for allegedly the same reason.
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They confiscated grain in Ukraine to pay for imported Western machinery. When you throw millions of lives away it's not hard.
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It takes years.
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The Dassault Mirage IIIV prototypes were able to perform vertical take off and supersonic, but the project was cancelled beforevthey could do both in the same flight.
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Thorium fuel is recovered from normal mining operations. Trucks and trains can be electrically powered.
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@willybee3056 You know what I meant. If things are transported in an electric train or truck you can't exactly claim the nuclear fuel requires fossil fuel to be transported. And having a powered cable for the train or batteries for the truck is much less damaging to the environment than batteries to power huge cities and industry.
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@willybee3056 "people assume, just because it is nuclear, there is no pollution or carbon associated with it" - and the same thing with solar and wind. The point is, solar and wind generate a lot less power. So sure, a nuclear plant will have impact because everything you build has an impact. But you'll get so much power out of it that it evens out.
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@willybee3056 "the last I heard was 250k yrs, before it was not a bio hazard" - the longer an isotope lasts the less radioactive it is. Thorium reactors can burn up the nuclear waste from older reactors and reduce the storage requirements.
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@willybee3056 if you have an hour to spare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6mhw-CNxaE
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Took them several months to repair the damage from the first strike.
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The throat wound is an exit wound.
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@BigNickDigger801 BS. The entry wound is on the back and the exit would is the throat - it's an exit would because the bullet is yawing by that point. It wasn't covered with a tracheotomy, at the hospital the exit would was not seen due to the emergency tracheotomy. In the autopsy the unseen exit would was found. If the throat wound is an entry wound without an exit wound, then where it the exit wound for the entry wound in the upper back? There's two entry wounds without exit wounds? Sounds confusing. It's more reasonable that one is the entry and the other is the exit.
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A lot of their ammo was blown up by HIMARS
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@nemiw4429 Another thing that happens in war: losing. You said they have endless ammo - they don't. Destruction happens in war, now they don't. They're already using 2022 produced ammo.
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@nemiw4429 I'm an expert by actually doing fucking research.
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Electro optical systems give you visual beyond visual range. These were even installed in F-4s and made famous with the F-14. No need to merge to see stuff from far away.
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@crhu319 Ukraine has spent an entire war recovering busted stuff and repairing it to use in the battlefield. Half of their tank force is probably captured at this point.
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How did they pound the advancing enemy when they left the ammo and weapons behind?
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@catadoxas There weren't multiple lines of defense, everyone ran away. How could those lines of defense be there, if Ukraine just pummeled through them?
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Sub hunting is a thing too, so they shouldn't get too cocky.
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The military was competent. The political side wasn't.
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@ian111 How is it competent? Oligarchs are rushing to align themselves with private military corporations, actual warlords are fighting for the scraps. The figures by Igor Korashenkov belong in the realm of Sasquatch sightings and UFOs. The Americans aren't into Ukraine. This is Russia's Afghanistan. And Russia already had an Afghanistan. Last time Moscow went into Afghanistan, the Union collapsed.
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And Russian oligarchs have mansions and downtown high rise apartments in France, the UK, the US, Italy, Greece, etc...
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@ocelot8611 the claim is being made by the Chinese so they have the burden of proof. Not the doubters.
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DAYMAN! AH-ah-AH! FIGHTER OF THE NIGHTMAN! AH-ah-AH!
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ICBMs. The ICBM ensures MAD because each rocket has multiple independent warheads. Which is why the moment ICBM launches are detected, the opposing nation has to make the decision to launch theirs because you cannot ensure you survive the volley.
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@st4849 Because as I said, if an ICBM launch is detected, the opposing country will launch theirs immediately. They will not wait for the warheads to land to check if they're nuclear or not, they will retaliate with nukes. There's a reason why nations disclose when they are doing test launches. Either way, the ICBM system would cost billions per launch. Using a conventional warhead would be a waste, since you're shooting things into space (expensive) for them to come back down.
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Syria.
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They did run out of missiles, they purchased Shaheds to attack Ukraine and let the factories catch up.
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I guess you don't own a signed photo of Ryan Gosling either. It's from Carnik Con (Dugan Ashley).
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Also look at the replication crisis and the "p-value ritual"/"p-value hacking".
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"Diplomacy" with Russia is just giving them whatever they want. They're rational human beings - they'll take whatever they can. You give an inch, they take a mile. The way to be diplomatic is a solid punch square in the face when you see them reach for the mile, and you say "we let you keep the inch, you only take the inch". That's diplomacy.
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@SubvertTheState The iron curtain included countries which weren't the USSR. You're ignoring how countries like Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, etc were not part of the USSR.
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Not that comical when you realize all he did was bribe people to steal Russian weapons. Look at the movie Lord of War. That's what he did. He wasn't dangerous. All he did was wave money in front of military men to take their weapons. He wasn't a scary agent.
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Dude laid it out simply. If you fire a rocket engine all that flame and gas comes out the nozzle. With the lasers the pellet is fired so fast, the "flame and gasses" can't move out of the way fast enough due to inertia. When you press down on a can of deodorant or hair spray it gets cold due to the gasses expanding. The back of your refrigerator is hot, the AC system has a heat exchanger and fan outside, after your turbocharger or supercharger you have an intercooler. Compressing gasses heats them, which is the opposite. When you fire the pellet, the fact that it is "burning" faster than the byproducts can get away (due to inertia) means that you're "compressing" the pellet and thus getting more heat than you put in it from the laser.
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The moment those ships were discovered, they'd be sunk. Tens of thousands of KIA within the first hour.
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It isn't. The US didn't invade.
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They can trust the Yuan at their own peril.
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@liveinsea1 The US didn't claim it was terrorism. The Democratic party did.
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@liveinsea1 There's a difference between "welcoming" a break in and trying to use domestic terrorism to suppress political dissent. "Can you imagine that the protestors fly a Chinese or Russian flag in the capital Hill and would US government be ok with that?" - I've seen an ISIS flag made of buttplugs instead of Arab script in a pride parade and Spongebob memes at gun control rallies. Nobody cares.
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@liveinsea1 You're missing an important piece of the puzzle which is the fact that the Chinese government started to make concessions on trade. So Trump had a reason to praise Xi. But of course, their government never actually intended to come to a mutual agreement with the US, they were just stalling in a time of emergency and then backtracked as soon as they were in the clear. "Biden banned using Chinese virus" - lol "He talks about China in his speech all the time" - He can barely speak. "How can he keep telling the American people China is a threat and at the same time expect to lower the Asian hate crime?" - Why would anyone be stupid enough to attack people over here because of what a government is doing over there? Why would people be so stupid they attack anyone who is Asian even if they're not ethnically Chinese? You think these people can be reasoned with?
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@liveinsea1 I'm not sure I get the timeline here. There was a serious consideration regarding genetic factors having an effect on mortality rates. When it became obvious there was something going on in China, we were told we were racists for caring about it. They said it was just the flu. Trump suggested shutting down the borders and was called a racist over it. I'm sure you remember that when Hubei province was put under lockdown, they allowed flights out. Now, the spread had left China months before that, but it is clear that their government decided that if they were going to suffer, the whole world was going to suffer with them. They did that on purpose.
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@liveinsea1 That's how respiratory viral infections work. I'm not saying it should have been contained. It's that they didn't even try - in fact, they made it look like they were trying to infect the world by allowing flights out of Hubei province while they locked it down from the rest of China. You say it doesn't matter. Okay. But they sealed off Hubei from the rest of the country. Even if it didn't matter, it sure seemed they were afraid and trying to contain it. If they allow people to leave to foreign countries, while being afraid and trying to contain it inside their own country, what's the explanation for this? Even if it didn't matter. If they thought that it could be contained and purposefully allowed people to leave to foreign countries, it means they were trying to do the opposite of containing. Which is spreading.
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@liveinsea1 You're just making stuff up. The public opinion against China started turning around years ago. I don't see what your timeline is meant to imply. You're just feeding propaganda. Most countries also converted spaces and built tent sites to deal with patients. Doctors were moved across Europe and America to places of need. Why are you giving me those numbers? To brag?
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@liveinsea1 If I don't have to believe, why bother saying it? I already knew that side of the story. The US market was obviously expecting the federal reserve to turn the printers on. What conclusion? Some people said some things? The elephant in the room is that the ruling class benefitted immensely from the lockdowns. And I actually believe they did their best to not let this crisis go to waste. So the concept that somehow it's a coincidence that they downplayed the virus and then made massive gains in terms of government power and restructuring the economy is completely ridiculous.
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@liveinsea1 They put the same measures in place at the same time the Chinese government did. In fact, they did it early because China was aware of the virus in 2019 but suppressed the information.
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@liveinsea1 You're just deflecting and pointing fingers. What do you want? Welding people into their own homes? Always remember that when you point one finger ten point back at you. Do you think covid is a big issue? I don't. But if you think it's a big issue, then the CPC should face consequences for suppressing the doctors calling out the signs there was a new bug on the loose and then allowing flights to leave a locked down area. You better think like me and say covid isn't a big issue. Because if you think it is, you have to agree there should be hell to pay for what the CPC did to the world. If you don't, you're a coward. So you better agree with me and say covid isn't a big deal.
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 @stefanpavlov6370 so what's the point of having Putin in charge if there's internal issues? I thought the point was not having the usual problems with democracy.
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Good luck. And who's gonna handle the new currency and how would other members trust it to not be cheated through it?
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I'm 29. There's no soft way to drop the R-word, it's just used in one way. It's surprising to me so many have a parallel interpretation.
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@johnnykrauze crypto has a public ledger, how do you launder money that is publicly transfered for everyone to see?
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@randomusername5242 Forward of the hilt is also roughly near the center. There's also the practice of half swording where it's actually safe to hold the blade forward of the hilt to help maneuver the blade. So no matter what, the sword is still easy to raise above you so that you can do the downward slice. The recoil typically forces the weapon in the direction where it meets less resistance due to how the human torso is covered. Since there's a peak in the shoulders where the front side and the back side meet, the back has a slight curve towards the front while the pectoral region has a ramp-like surface. If you hang yourself upside down and shoot a rifle, the recoil won't push the weapon up. Same with pistols, the recoil points up because of hands holding the grip beneath both the bore axis and the slide travel. If you hold a pistol upside down and fire with the pinky finger, recoil will make the barrel point down rather than up. There's no physical mechanism that causes a rifle to recoil other than straight back, the upwards recoil is a function of biomechanics. And rifles like the AR mitigated this effect by keeping the recoil in line with the shoulder rather than have the weapon recoil in line with the face and cause a stronger pitch up moment. By making the weapon lighter at the front, you get better control. Weighing it down at the front only makes the weapon harder to handle without addressing the fact that recoil is still going into the shoulder, and your own shoulder is causing the weapon to pitch up, and now you have to control more weight up front. Changing your grip and stance can minimize this pitch up moment and focus the recoil to come at you straight back without adding any weight.
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@paulbarclay4114 Iraq was not stable. Saddam had to murd3r from 110,000 to 190,000 people to maintain his regime. Basically in a decade Saddam alone caused almost as much fatalities as the war and insurgency did the decade after 2003. A regime which needs bloodbaths to prevent rebellion is not stable.
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@paulbarclay4114 Syria was destroyed because when people started demanding freedom and protesting in the streets, Bashar Al-Assad released extremists from prison to false flag the protesters as terrorists. Al-Assad doesn't care that he rules over rubble as long as he's the ruler. The men he released later became ISIS.
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@paulbarclay4114 That's not accurate as that number was based on an interview study that could not be replicated. There's ZERO scientific backing for that number which media and propagandists repeat.
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The more money spent on security the less money spent on American goods and services. Is Russia gonna replace Europe as trade partner?
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It was a Russian missile, Amnesty International said it. All the serial numbers come from the same manufacturer in the Soviet Union. There's missiles in Syria, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, etc with similar numbers. Civilians are ordered by Russians to wear white armbands. This was seen in a Russian propaganda interview in Mariupol, the civilians said they are told to do it.
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But in India the best simply score high in the exams and get cushy govt-sponsored jobs. The GATE exams or whatever.
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Which is something that was predicted to happen 96 hours after they crossed the border. It's been ten days. Yeah you finished the marathon, but everyone saw you eat dirt when you tripped in the first ten yards.
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@spideylover4105 It does. If you have poor logistics you have poor logistics.
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That doesn't make any sense. On what planet does Ukraine do anything for first strike?
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@wassollderscheiss33 Even if the US launched from Ukraine, submarines would retaliate.
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@wassollderscheiss33 "Baltics, Alaska and Ukraine simultaneously. And yes, there are Russian SSBNs. But only three of them are on patrol at any given time" - How does Ukraine upset the balance? Why not Turkey? "The US is undermining exactly that by trying to bring Ukraine into Nato" - How? "From my perspective the US is the aggressor" - Your perspective is wrong. The US has been diplomatic, Russia has engaged in mass murder. "Russia is fighting for their freedom" - Their freedom to invade their neighbors whenever they feel like.
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@wassollderscheiss33 This is circular logic. If anything is going to tip the scales it's a reliable anti-missile defense system. You're just repeating Russia's paranoid schizophrenia and finding a geographical reason for it, and even then it's wrong. There's nuclear forces equidistant to Turkey so missile flight time is irrelevant - it would be the same. And Ukraine has no advantage over the central Russian nuclear forces. So you can stop upvoting your own comments. Your opinion is wrong, and you better start appreciating it because it makes things easier. I don't present hate for Russia - I present a pushback against your unfounded claims. Your arguments are flawed and they're easy to poke holes into. This isn't cancel culture. Stop. I know the Russians have started this propaganda of trying to fool people into believing they're being cancelled, but they aren't.
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I got a 3.50€ pair of flip flops from a physical store in 2019, still not worn out.
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@joshsGators this is often not mentioned but unless there's corruption or shady business involved, most match ups seek to have a minimum skill and experience level. So normally you face a guy with the same weight and reasonably close skill level. If a world champ faces a 0-0 guy then weight stops mattering again.
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How is it hype and nonsense? The report involved a test airframe woth old software. The original claim was disproven. Want to make another claim? Burden of proof is on you, not the channel.
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@Lucas-hb1uq the "victim" was fighting someone the knife guy doesn't actually care about. Like Zeihan said, Gazans are just pawns in a game. Iran likes Hamas doing their bidding, but doesn't actually like them. They're fall guys.
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Missile could already be falling. The terminal phase of a ballistic missile is almost vertical from an observer in the receiving end. Alternatively, the missile being knocked off balance could make it fall as it lost control authority, but terminal velocity due to drag makes it fall at a set speed.
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Not what happened.
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@darenm617 It's not so much the fact that it's the FOAB, it's that you said it would be a war crime to use it. But the US used the MOAB, it's perfectly legitimate.
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@JB-lp9xr No, those were cruise missiles. The FOAB is a HUGE weapon that can't be launched from a distance, it has to be flown with big bombers over the target. Russia would just get their bombers shot down.
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Not according to the intel leak.
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@maryginger4877 So you say you know the ratio, then come back and say it's impossible to know the ratio.
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@maryginger4877 Big picture generalities: Russia expends artillery gratuitously. Russia's tactics are based on Soviet tactics, which had "scientific" metrics. On an area of "X" by "Y" meters you expend "N" number of shells for "T" time. The enemy will be considered suppressed and you attack with "A" number of assault teams. Well, the problem is that this means the opponent can bait artillery to waste time and shells into positions, or even the area can be abandoned but Russia will shell the empty sector for hours. Hence the shell hunger. Another factor, overuse of artillery causes the barrels and recoil mechanisms to wear out. Which explains why Russia is pulling progressively older guns and using shells they stockpilled of a caliber that they weren't using before. The "daft numbers" are based on actual battles or surveillance, you're looking at factors that actually don't mean anything. You can have more horsepower than anyone else and still lose all the races.
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@LordOceanus I specifically feed the bots because the more money wasted on online trolls the less bullets Russian soldiers have.
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@urbanimage I disagree that the US should have gone full throttle on neo-colonialism. We gave them enough materiel and money, if they had no interest in building a successful state it's better to just let it go. It's like letting an addict friend sleep in your couch and he keeps stealing stuff. At some point you kick him out no matter how much you wish he'd improve.
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@LordOceanus Electricity costs? Real people write the posts. It's hilarious how inefficient they are.
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@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus "The smartest way to win a war is to never fight a single battle and still get what you want." - The dumbest way to win a war is getting beat on every single battle and then waiting until your enemy is tired of killing you.
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@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus "it's an upgrade from before the war, so, ya, I'd call it a victory" - It's not an "upgrade" because you suffered the effects of the war anyway. War bad, so let's have a war, suffer the consequences, and then declare victory by somehow... avoiding the consequences of a war???
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So Peskov said the crew was missing because...?
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@benjamin ollis Nobody gets shot. In fact, there's footage of Ukrainian men beating up the draft officers, they end up going away.
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Why? Shouldn't you want your side to behave? Or do you have an interest in your side playing dirty?
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there used to be connections between mafias and unions. Mafias entered "labour racketeering" schemes under the guise of being unions. There was also funny businesses like the mafia bribing unions so that they were tipped off when valuable shipments were coming into the docks so the mafias could steal it.
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Yeah and if he was taking aimed shots he would have potentially killed 1 person for every 1 or 2 shots. But with bumpfire, 99% of the rounds hit the pavement.
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+nathan ouellette if you don't need to be accurate then just pulling the trigger very fast without caring for a proper sight picture will make you almost as fast as a real automatic anyway.
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@ChoCoMoCo69 Yeah and India has lost fighters to Pakistan. Is the Pakistan air force better than the USAF? No.
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aviato287 x yeah it is. The government taxes vices to fund itself. The only problem I see is that taxes on weed would encourage growing even more and illegal trade would steal customers from legal dispensaries.
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John "Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran" McCain
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Youtube blocked my posts for like three days this week. It's them.
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But the leaks show Ukraine is killing 3 Russians per fallen Ukrainian. Russia is being attrited, not Ukraine.
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@martinsavage6838 Russia can't fly over the airspace they own, needs to use Iranian drones.
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@martinsavage6838 Very busy spamming unguided rockets and running away.
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How? It denies people rights until they comply.
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@TheCromesd Notice how you changed the subject. I hope you lose everything you don't have a right to. You'll come back crying.
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@TheCromesd You started going off about rights. Are you slow? It's not subtle at all when people do that. They have a weak argument so they start going off about something else. Meanwhile the erosion of our freedoms continues while people like you go "nuh uh, it's not happening". You're going to give me some BS about how the Chinese social credit system is just about loans and ignore the real issue.
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@TheCromesd Learn to read, you're accusing me of saying things I didn't say. LMFAO. Funny, you've been here for several posts and you've been unable to present the actual argument. Guess I was wrong, turns out you think the Chinese social credit system is bad and intrusive. Okay. Why do you want it here?
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No, they don't. They bleed money every single day they spend doing this nonsense. The longer this takes the weaker as a nation they become. They'll end up as a vassal state to China if they insist on wasting the little money they have. They have the GDP of a small European nation.
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No IL-76 = fail
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Sean Romero where's the proof he raped anyone?
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@truhawaii5957 definitely? Prove it.
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@honeypower Jimmy Saville had the media on his side to cover up his deeds. Jackson had the media on his ass, trying to expose all the details of his life. HMMMMMMM 🤔
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@GhostLyricist they didn't find child porn. It was a tabloid that claimed it but they made it up, the police never found child porn.
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I think those have the 105mm gun instead of the 120mm one.
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They already have. It's a punch drunk boxer still swinging instead of going down.
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The thunderstorm thing was due to the on board inert gas generator. This has happened to other aircraft I believe.
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@MREWOKONE If he doesn't want to die why didn't he quit?
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@NikolaiMihailov1 I like how you describe exactly what I said in different words and pretended you were refuting what I said.
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@north_borne The past 4 years includes 2020, which was a joke release date from way back. Even SC critics would say you were being too harsh if you predicted a 2020 release. Instead of a release, the gracious overlords won't nickle and dime backers as hard. Omegalul
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The NRA is a joke. They spend the vast majority of the donations money on... more fundraising. They donate to republicans mostly, people who already have reasonably pro-gun voter bases and a couple of democrats (there's a couple of them that depend on rural votes) so it's not doing that much. The way to elect people for the board is totally corrupt. It is very likely that a grassroots movement to elect Adam Kraut, a pro gun lawyer, to the NRA board actually won but got cheated out, and the vote can't be audited. The only organization inside that actually does something is the NRA-ILA but so many times they put their name on the plaintiffs, do almost nothing while other organizations grind to win the court case, and they show up last minute to take the credit.
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Oh yeah let's get Iran in the mix, Israel might start supporting Ukraine with IAI Harop drones. They shredded the Russian-built Armenian air defenses in the 2020 war.
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Recent tank footage from Ukraine shows one of their tanks under ATGM fire as it clears a trench, and two missiles fired by the Russians missed. Given that 12 missiles is a lot, and there's the occasional miss too, there should be plenty of opportunity for infantry and IFVs to start suppressing the ATGM teams.
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Tulsi Gabbard wants to end sanctions and regime change because she wants to help her friends Assad and Putin. When the drone strike hit civilians in Afghanistan, she went on TV to say "we need to fight them over there so they don't come here". She's all for war and spilling blood. Just not the blood of the dictators she likes.
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Mutiny.
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What pentagon papers?
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@Sapphire867 if he's so good at medicine why did he bungle up the AZT situation or try and lie about the Thai HIV vaccine trials?
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How is it a slippery slope fallacy when we just slid down it? 15 days turned to digital certificates to go to a restaurant.
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Those numbers are padded. Most of them are gang shootings.
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"Private doctors, private providers, public funding" - so privatized profits, socialized costs. The worst of both worlds.
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There was also an underground Owen SMG factory that was busted in 2004. And in the early 2010s a jeweler was using his skills to make Mac-10 clones for the biker gangs.
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Putin looks at a binder full of compromising photos of American politicians and asks his GRU operatives "Wow, you entrapped all of these American politicians with our honeypots?" and they're like "N-no, we simply followed them after they called Epstein on the phone..."
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No. The F-35 uses extensive body lift design in the airframe. The entire fuselage is a wing already so wing loading calculations don't reflect its true capability. However, increasing wing area creates a drag penalty.
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 @samo6083 If a country has defensive measures overwhelmed, they go after the enemy's offensive capabilities.
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 @Sub0x-x40 Iron Dome is meant to be used against cheap rockets. Not MRBMs or ICBMs.
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The panic is warranted.
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I too buy things so that I can destroy them. Just kidding, if the worry is strip mining or toxic dumps it's extremely easy for such actions to just affect the land neighboring it so whoever wants to do that is either going to face hundreds of lawsuits or buy so much land to act as a buffer it actually ends up unprofitable.
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I live in the EU. You're wasting your money buying organic. The existence of rules does not mean they are followed.
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Now consider the infantryman's ASVAB score. If they could decide ground warfare they wouldn't be infantrymen.
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It's called a loss leader. They're cutting out middlemen and taking advantage of subsidized shipping to then still lose money on sales so they get you addicted to it. One day they'll raise prices to 25€ and you'll say "I'll just buy local" but the stores went out of business.
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She wasn't Russian. She was a warmonger who called for death and destruction. She didn't promote Russia. She promoted war crimes. She took selfies in Mariupol. It's you who's not thinking. It's not terrorism. It's a special denazifying operation.
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@Tim_the_Enchanter I mean, the gender studies thing is totally believable. Depending on how much they get paid over there (which should be much less than in the US), the money for those programs can hire an army of university faculty. Whenever the US govt feels it's time for a regime change those uni professors are meant to rile up students so they can have a movement, and movement turns to revolution.
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@bubbathedm If they have that much tech, they don't need to come close to satisfy their curiosity.
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@skydragon23101979 The US solved it diplomatically by agreeing to remove missiles from Turkey. Was an invasion necessary?
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@alxhiding They have not been on great terms. Russians attempted genocide multiple times on Ukrainians.
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@ProtossOP The government wasn't overthrown. The government showed up to parliament and had a vote to strip the president of power due to his absence.
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@skydragon23101979 What negotiation could the US do? "Sorry Ukraine but you are a dog and Russia has you by the leash, we can't treat you with the respect a real country deserves".
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@FearlessP4P1 How could Russia fear attack if they have nukes?
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@skydragon23101979 The Maidan revolution only happened because Yanukovych murdered protesters and passed laws against free speech. Had he just ignored the small protests people would move on. A verbal promise that NATO wouldn't expand to East Germany. That promise was kept. To this day only West Germany has international bases.
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. ?? . Mans just said cops should kill 50% of the people they encounter.
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The US medical industry is over regulated, the regulations protect the companies. That's why something that costs 2 dollars to produce is sold to hospitals for $700.
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Or, the contrast tracker algorithm was acting up. Targeting pods are not infallible.
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Overpopulation is not coming from out of control births, but longer average lifespans.
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@conductingintomfoolery9163 No. Average lifespan has mostly levelled off in the developed world (in some countries it actually dipped by six months to a year). In Africa? Births per couple are decreasing, but they used to have 25-28 average lifespans a few decades ago due to child mortality, wars and famine/disease. Africa is not birthing more children - they're just hanging around longer.
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@conductingintomfoolery9163 Mozambique had a 34 (male) average lifespan in 1950. Angola had 34.7 (male). Yemen 28.1 (male). Liberia 32.6 (both sexes). Guinea 33.1 (both). In just 40-50 years many countries hitting the 60 mark means that people born 70 years ago are alive when statistically they wouldn't be at the time they were conceived. This is a MASSIVE increase in population. Your sink will overflow no matter how open the tap is if you plug the drain.
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6.8 SPC is a dead end because it's constrained by the 5.56 OAL. Even with the Six8 which had the magwell designed for 6.8, it was made to be issued with the 90gr ATK/Federal ammo. Which had a rifle Gold Dot bullet. Light for caliber hollowpoints are not really the infantry friendly rounds.
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@erik100mark It also doesn't need to be a heavy bullet with a rainbow trajectory. A 110-125gr bullet is roughly twice the weight of a 62gr meaning that infantry is carrying less rounds. Meanwhile the Russians switched from 7.62x39 to 5.45x39 because soldiers' hit probability increased. Less rounds and more misses? Dodgy as hell. The requirements involved armor penetration so it couldn't fit the 5.56 magwell.
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Pilots have actually said that once they had F-22s on visual, they had trouble getting weapons lock.
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lol
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Yeah and Xi already told Putin he can't use nukes. If he does, we start going after military targets.
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@boblol1465 they "lifted" people out of poverty... when we sent our factories over there. They didn't generate the wealth out of thin air via sheer innovation. They took the jobs we wanted to cut costs on. Simple as.
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A tool in a toolbox just stays there. This tool drains mechanics and pilots from other aircraft, and it costs money to upkeep even if they don't fly, and more if they are flown to maintain pilot proficiency.
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 @Ruhrpottpatriot look up "GLOC". Ground Lines of Communication is the military term for the routes that connect units to supply base.
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@bozo5632 But they were banking on tactical victory, and the strategic victory only fell of their lap by sheer luck. They never planned to get massacred so hard that bleeding heart Americans would feel bad for them.
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@bozo5632 You're the epitome of the meme "haters will see you teleport and say you can't afford a car". Yeah, Ukraine didn't get anything out of Kharkiv and Kherson. They just got land they wanted back and showed Western partners they could be trusted with more weapons. Next year Ukraine could be waving goodbye at Russian troops being ferried out of Crimea and you'll still be saying they didn't get anything out of it.
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The real deterrence was nuclear. Non-nuclear nations with MiG-29s were invaded.
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The issue is that Activision didn't have to give money back to the US military. They created a game they wanted to make, and even made a US general a villain.
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 @GG_1318 Yeah and Transnistria and South Ossetia/Abkhazia too. What a coincidence that so many Soviet countries had Russian-backed breakaway regions. What are the odds?
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@clivedoe9674 Reacting to cheat powers is like learning to react to 540 tornado kicks when you're about to fight prime Mike Tyson. You're not gonna get a Taekwondo kick to the face, don't bother.
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Pretty sure their lithography is Dutch.
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This is bait.
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Most of Russia has no military importance. Is Putin gonna let Ukraine take all the empty land and let his cities and military bases get cut off from each other?
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Schmeisser was not involved with the AK design.
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Considering how a certain doctor was promoting the failed cancer drug AZT back then, I can't blame them.
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The stronger economy lol stop looking at exchange rates.
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But twitch could terminate the contract even without the witness. It would be a civil matter rather than criminal prosecution so they could use the messages to end the contract and not pay squat.
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Anyone who'd start nuclear war over a Patriot is already unhinged enough to start it over anything else.
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the US has been at war on-and-off during the 90's and non-stop since 2001.
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The US assassinated a "top general" (also a leader of Quds force) who was behind attacks on US servicemen. It's war. He had American blood on his hands, he just never pulled the triggers. He got whacked. What goes around comes around, my guy. Stop crying for people who decided to live by the sword. When you decide to make a living out of this shadow war stuff, you accept the consequences.
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@goblue2155 China has had mass killings with knives.
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@tylerissla7139 The Marines? Which is why they needed the F-35B as a Harrier replacement in the first place?
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@vanguardian2864 you're the one calling out the people raising the issue...
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@Thecontrodude proversial this might come as a shock, but rape in videogames is fake as well
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No. It has to do with the fact the barrel roll causes the aircraft in question to point its velocity vector in a very wide arc within the span of a few seconds. Missiles in a lead pursuit are not trying to get to where the aircraft is, they're trying to get to where the aircraft will be. So the barrel roll creates a situation where the aircraft will create several fictional "future positions" and the missile has to re-calculate new control inputs to resume the collision course. Combine this with older seekers, less efficient control guidance laws, and the target aircraft dumping flares, and it's possible that the missile either starts to run out of kinetic energy to maneuver or picks up the track of a flare where it predicted the aircraft would be. Modern guidance laws are more efficient as an aircraft doing a barrel roll will be "seen" by the missile as actually not moving too much so the missile "thinks" it's not worth wasting energy trying to compensate for the roll.
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Yes, it had a higher rate of losses per sortie and had to have other aircraft sent in its place to do its job. It's a bad tradeoff if your flying tank turns out to be worse at its job than the multiroles.
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@Gearparadummies The data is skewed when the A-10 was allowed to curbstomp the lesser trained and equipped Iraqi Army units (right after a prolonged conflict with Iran) but had to be pulled away from Iraqi National Guard units due to the excessive losses it faced when flying over troops more capable of fighting back. Meanwhile Fast FAC F-16s were allowed to fly under the imposed limit that was placed on other F-16s (and eventually A-10s too), and armed with cluster bombs and dumb bombs they suppressed AAA by diving on them and doing CCIP releases. The A-10 would have been shredded trying to do that.
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@Gearparadummies Oh, the A-10 wasn't designed to face anyone able to shoot it down. Great. The A-10 had standoff weapons THEN. Time will not tell anything, because even the USAF asked to get 42 of them retired for FY2022. They're not going to send it in the first place, they're trying to divest from the A-10. Why would they risk it in near-peer? Time will tell... time already told. Almost 30 years ago.
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@Gearparadummies That's a lie. The GAO actually criticized them for buying too many A-10s. Over 700 of them. The government actually got pissed at the USAF for buying an unjustified amount of them. Someone "who knows more than you" also decided that it was unwise to suspend international travel when reports of a virus came from China. Someone "who knows more than you" also decided that it was a good thing to print trillions of dollars to prop up the stock market by keeping the stock prices high while businesses were paralyzed and people were out of a job. If you're going to talk about things that aren't good indicators, the people "who know more than you" certainly fit the bill. They've been constantly ruining our lives.
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@attiepollard7847 Being on the backfoot is a secondary criteria to break ties. Scoring with strikes/grappling and doing damage is the priority. Once a round has a clear winner based on striking/damage, being on the backfoot counts for absolutely nothing. Untrained people can walk forward and windmill. It actually takes skill to fight off the backfoot. If all you do is walk into fists from a defensive fighter, we call that losing a fight.
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Yes, you have the right to decide for yourself. But if you really mean that you want to consume everything natural, then you won't have a lot of choice.
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Get Judge Judy on the case.
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They work, and they sell. Nothing like drone footage of invaders dying to seal a deal. Business is booming.
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@Justin_Cider That's because the US leapfrogs technology. Many times the "fancy high tech" and "fancy higher tech" are just in different stages of deployment so there's more trained men and supplies for a well established variant. Newer stuff may not be suited. On the other hand, the US sent Apaches and F-117s first into Iraq. They didn't send older attack aircraft like A-7s. They sent the high tech stuff to allow the others to survive.
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@EC-dz4bq An air burst is more efficient as a bomb (conventional or otherwise) and a ground burst is worse for civilians. Stuff in the air dissipates easily. The solution to pollution is dillution, it's the dose that makes the poison, etc. A ground burst will lift material, irradiate it, then scatter it downwind. The fallout is much, much worse.
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 @briansowell6582 "today's megaton weapons" but most deployable warheads top out at 475 kiloton.
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It will also kill optimization so you'll keep needing larger GPU dies and higher costs just to keep up. You'll need more raw power to get acceptable "real" frames to generate decent frames out of.
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Russia used the full army already.
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@jackowen2789 They have legally annexed Ukraine. That means that mobilized men are still inside Russia, from the Russian law standpoint.
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@OscarZheng50 Doesn't matter. Seeing him touch down and report his safety is more important.
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Russia said Kherson was Russian forever.
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But if you take it, you're still contagious. You don't improve public health.
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@abc-eq9so how many Afghan shepherds did you fight?
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@abc-eq9so You caught them without their RPGs though.
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@abc-eq9so Oh I mean, the SEALs got killed by all of them being inside a helicopter that got hit with a RPG, you threw hands with some random guys who weren't even armed. Still seems the SEALs were tougher than you. Plus they were fighting abroad, you have home field advantage.
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Too bad, air space is contested anyway. Enemy gets a vote.
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@shido8597 Ti
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12 Russian pilots didn't get the memo. They killed Wagner troops and Wagner air defenses shot down their aircraft, killing them.
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There was no QR codes or tracking apps. Also nobody cares. By mistake, my brother enrolled into college with my vaccination card and missed his tetanus booster because I had mine. Nobody checked, he just uploaded the document from the scanner and they accepted without reading that MY name was on it. There's a huge different and it should be easy to see it.
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The US military is unironically researching EVs and biofuels, not only because they see an issue with energy dependence but also have determined climate change to hinder their operational effectiveness.
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A Sukhoi pilot reported the A-50 goong down.
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 @Mac-ku3xu Any time anyone blames Putin, just say "Western media". Never fails.
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 @salicia4800 Not true. FSB agents and Russian nationals made up the LPR and DPR forces initially.
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@TheRussificator You're a traitor and you have helped your cause go to waste. Russia conscripted your people and sent them ahead of Russian troops to soak up the bullets and shells. If you wanted to be Russian, you could have crossed the border. You tried to carve out land to betray your people, and Russia took everything away.
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The grid was back up after a few hours.
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The curve has been flattened 3 times now.
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@captain-chair Because as soon as you open the numbers rise up. You do realize that the initial purpose of flattening the curve was accepting that we'd all get infected, we just wanted to not get it all at the same time, right? You people obsessed with explaining how it worked last year. This means we deal with the rise now, we open back up, and those of us who haven't got it will eventually get it too. But we took care of the first wave, so we're fine. So how come the goal is now not having any cases at all? We're going to be stuck in a sine wave at this point.
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Remember the Reddit AMA where Gates's solution to digital certificates was essentially peddling a digital certificate project his NGO was already involved with? Even if he doesn't stand to gain anything all his solutions have the subtlety of Musk proposing his articulating submarine but without twitter feuds.
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Anything that can shoot down F-35s will make it hopeless for any other aircraft in the air. I don't get the argument, so we should be flying aircraft that are easier to detect and track? How does that make sense?
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You really going to bring up bubbles when the Chinese government is tied to an insane housing market?
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Thousands of tanks? May we see them?
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Israel existed a long time ago, it was the Kingdom of Judea
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@Fatkiller22 Israel just approved third shots and may decide on 4th shots in December. Apparently, you still have to worry.
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@AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH-y5f According to the numbers, take them for what they're worth, in the US alone there's at least 130 million people who got it. How many people are crippled by lung or kidney damage?
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How would it be intentional?
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That's a financial score, not a social score.
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Can't carry training over to the next life.
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That's not net neutrality. Net neutrality is just a requirement that all traffic has to be handled the same. The issue is that people blasting torrents and Netflix all day should not be treated like gamers, who for example only have to send position updates and their information is more time sensitive.
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They don't have T-64s. The T-64s were built in Ukraine, and deemed too expensive to build an entire army with them. So the T-72s was developed as a cost-cutting alternative. Russia has the means to produce and refurbish the T-72, while the T-64 facilities are stuck in Ukraine so they lost access to those after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The T-62s? Those have been used as main battle tanks. There's video evidence of their use and destruction.
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They're a large country in terms of land. Most of it is empty.
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That's a lie. The USAF loves CAS and did it for the whole GWOT without the Army ever pressuring them to.
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@isodoubIet Look at the double speak. If this conflict is existencial, the peace deal is simply temporary.
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@isodoubIet But Ukraine wants to join NATO because they see Russia as an existential threat. There's NATO members who don't want Ukraine in and it would be against the rules anyway.
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@isodoubIet Sure. My point remains. If Ukraine is going to forever remain a thorn on Russia's side, any peace deal is just a lie we tell ourselves to sleep at night. Someday the conflict will reignite. Postponing the conflict will waste lives too. I'm 100% sure the US is going to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, but by your own admission Ukraine's existence is always bother Russia, and by your own admission Russia will irrationally keep going forward no matter the losses. My question to you is, if you truly believe the arguments you put forward, why not cheer for one of the nations to cease to exist? Then the problem is no more. It stops here. If your argument is pragmatic and about minimizing suffering, then might as well rip the bandaid now.
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 @AncestorEmpire1 Your "Ukrainian family" are probably watching Russian tv 24/7 since 2014.
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 @Foche_T._Schitt How did Ukraine provoke a war?
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Unless they're well trained, determined and well equipped. The Iraqi Republican Guard stood their ground and punched the A-10 straight in the mouth. The A-10 was then sent on missions against the Iraqi Army because they had lower morale and worse equipment.
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Don't bring Red Herrings onto this. But you're right, though - but gun rights aren't just a Right Wing thing, as even the ACLU was against the bill. I'm not against women's rights. I don't like abortion but I understand the need for them and that people will get them even if illegal.
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insert Big Shaq rap gun sounds
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@yourdadsof1325 "most people dislike trump" - it was like 70 million vs 68 million in the popular vote, almost an even split if most people dislike trump they're not voting
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@Kyomiibrown That's not in any way relevant. Could be a million missing votes, that would still be 71 vs 68 million voters. The claim that most people dislike Trump but there's still an almost even split across the nation simply doesn't make sense.
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@andersandersen6295 That's not true. Payload is massive (thus costly) and you need to spend energy to de-orbit them. Rods from the Gods is a Sci-Fi concept weapon, nothing more.
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If they wanted a first strike, ICBMs work just fine. Hypersonic this, balloon that... ICBM warheads already come down at hypersonic speeds. Stop with the buzzwords and hype weapons.
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@winstonsyme7672 The weapons coming from China would take like 15 minutes to arrive, while the balloon would take days to set up. The CCP does not have enough nukes or silos for a first strike yet, and even if they could, the US Navy submarine fleet could destroy Chinese and Russian silos at the same time on a first strike. This without even getting the Air Force involved. You simply cannot comprehend that the US's second strike capabilities ensure that first strikes are meaningless even if success was achieved. Which China could not due to insufficient numbers.
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@andersandersen6295 Terrible oversimplification. You get more bang for your buck from conventional weapons than from kinetic orbital bombardment.
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That's a very strange hypothesis. The bio-leninism explanation seems more convincing. Because if anything, hundreds of years of death penalty would have suppressed those genetic traits from the European populace. The biggest SJWs in the US would be descendants from Italians and Greeks due to said Muslim raiders and Russians due to the Mongol occupation.
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 @lavrentivs9891 The turrets are flying high.
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It's a replica of a system used in a real event. It's not just a movie themed review of a generic M-14.
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"Gas has to go" isn't an excuse to dismiss criticism. If all you're doing is making it commercial, that's not a breakthrough. Breakthrough implies some barrier was broken down. If you walk through an open door you don't have a breakthrough.
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Nobody said Wagner was good. We just got front row seat to see two bad guys going at each other. Whoever loses, we win.
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@familhagaudir8561 "Pointing it at someone is. Which didn't happen untill Arbrey attacked them." - False. The first shot was fired before the attack.
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@familhagaudir8561 "The two guys accused for shooting Arbery in self-defense" - They opened fire first, though. In the 36 second video posted on liveleak you hear the first shot at 20 seconds.
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@diomedes7971 "they had more right of being there then Arbery, their home was down the street." - Your home being down the street doesn't give you the right to act extra-judiciously. By the McMichael's own words recorded on the police report, they weren't in hot pursuit of a crime they had witnessed, Greg just saw a man he had reached for his waistband once. "He ran over a hundred feet to their park vehicle" - And you think they were parked there for a picnic? The police report itself reveals that they were on the chase with the two trucks and attempted to box Arbery in multiple times. Arbery didn't run to a parked truck. He pushed through an ambush he had attempted to shake off already. "Arbery wasn't ambushed by these guys" - The police report spells out that they were using the vehicles to box him in. "Arbery was a grown man and is fully responsible for his actions" - And so are the McMichaels. Now they're facing the consequences for trying to play cop. Which could have killed an innocent man rather than the actual trespasser. "No weapon was pointed at him" - A shot was fired at him before the confrontation became physical. "he was a safe distance away" - And the armed men denied this distance by chasing him. Read the police report where the police flat out recognized that Arbery did what you required of him but the armed men did not let go. "That if they were out for his blood would have dropped him dozens of feet before he reached them" - This is completely ignorant. If armed men are chasing you, do you second guess their intentions? What reason do you have to believe they won't kill you later? "Senior was also on the phone with police when Arbery initiated his assault." - What does this even mean? If you get attacked by a group of people do you assume that they're on the phone with cops or calling more of their boys for the fight? Calling the police does not give any legitimacy to the confrontation.
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@diomedes7971 "because a intelligent person runs 100+ feet in open ground to rush a gun holder" - He was moving forward, then you see him notice that he is going to be fired upon, he starts zig-zagging to dodge the incoming gunshot, takes cover behind the vehicle, you hear a shot ring out, then you see that the driver left the vehicle and Arbery is running across the hood of the car to meet him. He had already been chased and attempted to leave like you required of him. His last resort was pushing through the ambush (as evidenced by the first shot, it was the option that bought him a few extra seconds of life). It doesn't matter what is smart or isn't. It was the option available at the time after exhausting the other ones. "as in running directly at two men open carrying" - Read the police report. They had been chasing Arbery and attempting to curt him off. The McMichaels used the vehicle's superior speed versus human locomotion to get ahead and corner Arbery. You can describe it any way you want, but even if you use superior speed to get ahead of your prey and create a barrier, that's still a chase. "He wasn't cornered, the McMichael's were not actively pursuing at that moment." - They were just actively running a two vehicle intercept. "while refusing to communicate what so ever with them" - He didn't have to communicate. "Then proceeded to felony assault a armed person." - Which is self-defense.
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You can still spread after taking the shot. So no violations of freedom are occurring by refusing it. I make a conscious decision to expose myself to risk. You cannot force me to take a risk against my will. There's people who don't like driving. There's people who don't like alcohol.
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@00the00virus00 name one example of this happening
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@00the00virus00 It's not a fallacy to ask someone to back up their claims dummy. You probably meant someone was SUED for defamation and had to pay damaged. Criminally liable for anti-semitism? Where's the law?
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@00the00virus00 name the law against hate speech
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I'm glad I don't even know what this is referencing and I'm not gonna look it up because my blood pressure is already rising.
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@joeymedina7115 It's easier to recover it in the Atlantic than in the Alaskan coast.
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Stop watching porn, it has rotted your brain.
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Wrong. In the last few weeks, they have retaken 10,000 km2. This is more than Russia has taken in three months.
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@octaviacoquus8857 The US explicitly sets up the military to fight the multifront scenario. Considering we're not even fighting the European front, China only has us in a single front.
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@StonedSpagooter Does that mean they'll stop retreating soon?
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@StonedSpagooter There's no locals anymore. Russian mobilized men are now staffing the LPR and DPR forces. Funnily enough, Russian nationals complain that LPR and DPR leaders mistreat them. Might be karma. They don't retreat. They send in reserves to the line of contact and avoid retreating at all costs. They fight for every inch because retreating means the map changes color, and the map not changing is the only thing that lets them tell the Russian population that the Ukrainians have failed.
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Forget air to air. It can't survive a fight with the ground. That's the problem. The air space will be contested by fighters but the ground units themselves.
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Pretty sure Europeans had guns before America was discovered.
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Also it was the Europeans that introduced firearms to the Japanese as well. To make it up to you, when the Japanese subjugated China we helped you fight them off. You're welcome.
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@malikrug5687 "Russia has food, energy and weapons to defend itself" - The food and energy is in Russia. They're invading Ukraine. The videos of reservists show their weapons are rusted into scrap.
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Yeah why wouldn't someone be obsessed about a massive fraud perpetrated on the people, that is interlinked to a systemic unpersoning of the non-compliant? Stop thinking, stop asking questions, boring, the many need to silence the few, etc.
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The point isn't paying. It's discouraging consumption. If India can't profit off laundering Russian resources they'll stop trading.
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Do you not realize how restrictions on fluids work? A mountain is pretty big, but now imagine you had to push the entire Earth's atmosphere through a valley. It would be a workout. Trying to force your average lung displacement through a mask will either a) require huge amounts of effort or b) pull air through all the unsealed spaces, bypassing the mask.
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It's the 20th time they threatened nukes/changed doctrine/put nuclear forces on high alert...
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Can Russia afford a conflict that's bleeding them by the billions every day it goes on?
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@KaCing818 "people barely smuggle guns into countries with strict gun laws" - that is so false, though. The UK has a huge problem with smuggled guns. In Australia the criminals have their own gun factories.
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Were they in the tic tac encounter?
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Holy crap, someone actually did that?
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This reads like panic settling in. Yeah this is already won, PLEASE stop supporting Ukraine. N-not that we n-need t-that, baka! We're strong! But PLEASE make Ukraine weaker, kthxbai.
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@juliantheapostate8295 The Duran? Alexander Mercouris is a disbarred fraud who switched law practice for appearences on Russian TV outlets. The Duran is owned by Peter Lavelle, a RT employee. Edited by Sergey Gladysh per his LinkdIn, and Sergey is KSORS (Coordination Council of Russian Compatriots). Come oooooonnn, do I need to say it?
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Slugs have worked on hogs for decades before 300 blk came out.
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The Browning needs to be mounted in a vehicle. This can be carried by a person.
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Zelensky has already humiliated Russia, attacked Russian soil, etc. Russia will not do anything except take it.
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@susettemclachlan8765 What does that have anything to do with the argument? Russia was attacked, Putin won't respond. You think he'll nuke the West? That's where the oligarchs and their children live. The Donbas is in Russian hands, but start slicing the tendons in the wrist and the whole hand will let go. Another gesture of good will.
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They ran from Kiev. You cannot beseige a city when all probing attacks to the West to cut it off from the highways got defeated.
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Crime has already been attacked.
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@morewi All internet access is probably monitored inside the White House, and someone wrote a memo to warn the parents or maybe a tutor (if they have those at the WH) to talk to him about it, "anonymous sources inside the White House" blabbed about it. So basically they could have just made it up and it would have sounded plausible anyway.
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Ahead of what? The files are all over the internet, and websites only started restricting their sharing in 2018, almost 6 years after Cody started this.
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My father as a 17 year old kid was stopped at the border while my grandparents and uncle took a one day vacation out of the country. The justification was that at the time boys close to their 18th birthday were not allowed to leave the country due to draft dodging concerns. He was not forced into anything. Read the fine print. In case of war, you may be prevented from leaving your country. Look into it, footballers who left their country of origin in their teens and come back for a match are sometimes stopped from leaving because they're in their 20s and missed their mandatory service.
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 @pnptcn Manning didn't "expose" classified information. Manning stole the information and sent it willy nilly.
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Yes. Reusing and recycling panels is great. Compared to buying new panels you paid "0" in carbon emissions. There's a video of guys in Ukraine (unrelated to the war, it was maybe 5-6 years ago) who bought broken photovoltaic cells, soldered them together, and epoxied them to a glass window. The recycled panels generated maybe 70% of a perfect condition, new one.
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No argument, just schizobabble. Is this how you use your free time?
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@jamesvalpuesta7495 EDIT: no worries.
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>Medicine ... capitalism was not a contributing factor to any of those. If overnight medicine stopped making money, how many people do you think would keep practicing and producing drugs?
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Mind that FDA compliance costs are a huge barrier to competition. Many countries promote generic competitors.
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@darren2658 "People just want reasonable social programs. Adequate food, shelter, education, healthcare." - So... basically everything provided to people?
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 @don2deliver he also went around filming already autopsied corpses propped up to stage fake battle zones in Ukraine back in 2022. Dude "creates" the news, he's not a journalist.
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And vatniks do krokodil.
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The Quarterpounder knows his place. Drama channel or not, at least it's honest work.
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@mountedpatrolman How so? What is the sham?
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You've been saying the "get rid of the old stuff before the new" line since the start of this catastrophe, and the new stuff is still nowhere to be seen. If anything, they're scrapping the bottom of the barrel. The new stuff? It either doesn't exist or it's too valuable to put in combat.
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@derecksimpson6964 We've reduced spread. It bounced back up. It's coming in waves. And animals have been found to carry it too. How do you eliminate it? A year of people welded inside their homes? Even China didn't eliminate it, they just started blaming other countries for bringing it back in.
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@THEGREATAFFILIATOR Why would anyone volunteer for Russia? Iran is currently trying to prevent a revolution so they're the least likely to get involved.
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@Naprolom177 Not true. The only invasion was Afghanistan due to Article 5 and the US being attacked first.
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So everything passes with 100% of the votes, right?
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undefinedfreck2054 you do realize that chan-style BBS have topic boards, right? What you think 4chan is like is probably based off /b/, /pol/ and /r9k/. It's like saying reddit is full of people who only care about Marvel movies after going to subreddits for Marvel fans.
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@ottoscheffler You can't turn energy from a solar power into jet fuel or chemicals for industrial applications (like natural gas is used). Not everything can be "battery powered". Maybe one day a machine that assembles atoms can create whatever you want by plugging it into a wall outlet, but so far we can't make fertilizer out of charged batteries.
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Nobody bought the Caesars. That's BS from a "French lawyer" on twitter.
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@solarwind907 Yeah, and every year there's like 200,000 deaths from medical malpractice. I advise you to look into how little harm is necessary to occur to get a medication pulled.
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@solarwind907 In 45 million administrations, the swine flu shot caused 362 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome. That's how little it took to suspend the campaign. Good enough for you?
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Or he never bothered to run through the California application system or get in trouble for brandishing a live firearm.
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"most decent well made games take 10 years Before they are ever even announced" - not true. "Honestly the only people complaining are those who have no idea how game dev works" - lol you people must be handed a guidebook on how to shill for this unfinished game, always claiming we don't understand game development. Well, do you?
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AH loved the "honorary Aryans". And he considered the Polish to be subh*man.
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So instead of getting a breathing room and targeting the enemy, they're going to waste munitions on civilians? Why?
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There was no MAD policy back then. There were only three working nukes on Earth and the fourth would take months to produce. Now there's thousands and one is all it takes to set them all off.
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Saab marketing at it again.
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300 BLK has its uses but it's garbage as a main infantry round. I'm sorry but why does everyone bring up Blackout? It's 5.56 necked up to 30-cal. It's fat and slow. Literally a step backwards.
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lel they literally have gopro footage of themselves busting Russian tanks and you want to downplay it to flintlocks.
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The issue is that the low velocity of the 40mm makes it harder to use as an airburst weapon. There was also a lighter piezoelectric fuze for the 40mm that allowed you to increase the explosive payload without changing the weight of the round that never got introduced.
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@puellamservumaddominum6180 "Iraq still had planes at the end of gulf war" - and most of them turned tail and ran from the actual fight
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@puellamservumaddominum6180 They can choose to turn tail and survive, or stay and die. The day one strike is a decapitating blow. Anyone who stays to fight may have no runway to land on even if they win the air duel, and no command to tell them what to do even if they make it back.
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@puellamservumaddominum6180 "if you fight crap nations like you usually do" - I'm not American. Also, personal insults are an admission you lost. "if you are just bombing Afghanistan or Iraq or Syria why do you need a F35?" - F-22s were used in Syria to drop JDAMs because they were the only ones that could get close enough safely. Israel also used the F-35 to get close enough without stepping inside engagement range of the air defenses. "F 16 since can carry much more ordinance" - the more ordnance the greater the weight and drag, meaning less time on station
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@puellamservumaddominum6180 "your statement that a f 35 can spend more time on station is simply nonsense." - I never said that. Please read. I said that pilots in the GWOT could not carry the payload of a strike mission because they needed to stay up in the air waiting to get called in. So there's no real need to take more payload than needed as it weighs the aircraft down and adds drag. If you want to call out other people's statements, make sure they actually STATED them. You're reading with the intent to reply, not with the intent to understand. So you fly off the handle with a short temper, and end up making mistakes. "F22 was the only plane that could fly over Syria?" - That was not what I said. Every logical fallacy you use is further admission of your defeat. You can't argue from an honest perspective so you need to twist everything in your favor. "F35 is wasted in that type of conflict" - This is simply subjective. "a f 16 would be a better plane in somewhere like Afghanistan or Syria or Libya" - But a F-16 isn't?
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@puellamservumaddominum6180 I don't know what's so hard to understand. In Desert Storm some F-16s were loaded with so much ordnance for their strike missions that their wings were scrapped due to the equivalent flight hours put into the airframe. That's how much payload the F-16 can get saddled with. If you take off and all you're expecting is maybe drop two JDAMs, you don't need to load the F-16 as if it was going to do a bomb run into downtown Baghdad. What mission redundancy? Pretty much the only mission they've been doing in Afghanistan is close air support, and in case a strike mission is called in on a training camp they do not load up for an alternative missions. CAS F-16 flights are not loaded for strike missions and strike F-16s are not planning on doing CAS unless they somehow return with excess ordnance and happen to be close by. The redundancy is on all the F-16s, Strike Eagles, F/A-18s that could be in the air at the time. BDA is performed by the strike flight and like you said, an extra aircraft will be loaded for redundancy purposes. But that's CONTRARY to your plan of loading a single F-16 with double the payload. No. You bring the extra ordnance on the other F-16s. So a F-35 is not suffering any disadvantage because the flight of F-35s will carry the ordnance, not a singular aircraft.
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@puellamservumaddominum6180 That's not what he said. Why does his opinion bear any weight? He's just a politician.
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@puellamservumaddominum6180 I looked at the articles and you're taking things out of context. They want cheaper aircraft to fill in the gaps. That was the "failure". Not the F-35 itself, but how it doesn't give the USAF the numbers it needs. But their own reasoning is suspect. The reason to boost the number of aircraft is the same reason to have tools like the F-35. They're not qualified at all. They're stooges. Please don't pretend a government bureaucrat is ever qualified for anything. We both know they're political appointees, it's not about what you know it's who you know. I looked at his record. He has a law degree and worked in that field.
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But Ben didn't strawman them. He explained how the market would react to the information that there's a long term outcome of the house losing all value.
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@adapienkowska2605 So the poor enjoyed a dirt cheap house for a few years. They lost the house knowing there was a time limit on it. The people aren't discardable. They saved money living in a house that was known that at some point would be condemned. If rising sea levels were delayed, they'd actually strike big by getting a cheap house that lasts for longer than predicted.
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@johnmakinta2591 Last Winter bit Russia pretty bad.
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@briancarno8837 The videos and photos show that the Russians are leaving the artillery behind. Plus the LDPR and Rosgvardia troops are poorly trained with heavy weapons.
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@chrismiles6010 Air lifting is an incredibly poor way to reinforce anything. There's no long convoy, that's just a staged propaganda shoot.
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Did he die?
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He likes to taunt. He posted a picture that was geolocated and the building was immediately struck. He then posted a picture posing in front of a partially caved in wall.
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But why be one sided? Why isn't the Army brass considered whiny for trying to cutthe UASF out of the business by establishing their own air forces?
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@MagikarpMan that doesn't even make sense. He's asking why they're using the body of a normal magazine instead of simply one made to hold 5 rounds. Now, he predicted the correct answer. Buying ammo has zero to do with the topic.
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They've been gaining ground for three months now.
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 @malaikankosi3092 But he's wrong. It's not about numbers. For example Russia's genocide accusation is based on... kidnapping children and forcibly teaching them to be Russian citizens.
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No actual arguments, just EU bad.
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Cope. Ukraine has suffered under Russian rule before the US even existed.
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@brianmatthews4323 Who are you?
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They're not holding the Donbas.
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@jensb6522 Ukraine is taking Russian territory and making it theirs.
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MiGs crash if you look at them wrong. Did you miss the big headlines in the 2000s? MiG-29s kept getting grounded in Russia due to constant crashes. Indian pilots probably have MiGs as the leading cause of death.
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"I promise I won't get Steve a gun for Christmas." "Merry Wednesday, son!"
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@atomicskull6405 That's not true at all. First, the chiefs of staff had a meeting and agreed to not step on each others' toes. Second, Congress actually determined that the Cheyenne, A-10 and Harrier (yes, the Harrier was involved in this mess too and you people never mention it) were all different enough that each branch was free to pursue their projects. Just stop spreading this lie. The Cheyenne died due to having a multitude of issues that required years to fix.
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@katrinapaton5283 "the Grippen is around 60 million US" - Uh, no. That's for the cheap, completely outdated Grippen. A modern Grippen costs way more. Look up the Brazilian deal. It's more than 100 million per aircraft.
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@atomicskull6405 You'll have to find "The Warthog and the Close Air Support Debate" by Douglas E. Campbell because that's the source for the meeting between chiefs of staff in 1966.
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@katrinapaton5283 It's a 5.44 billion deal for 36, meaning that I'm already assuming roughly 100 million for the aircraft and 50 million/unit for the rest of the deal.
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@katrinapaton5283 My assumptions are driven from the cost of similar 4th gen fighters like the Rafale and Block 70/72 F-16s. Your assumption is a very optimistic 40% discount on premium 4.5 gen performance - which is frankly unreasonable - combined with an insane and unheard of 90 million/unit value for the technology transfer. The numbers are beyond clear. The Gripen cannot be that cheap, and a country is not going to increase their purchase order costs by almost 200% just for the tech.
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@katrinapaton5283 The National Interest is a garbage website. My point with the Rafale and F-16 is looking at contracts and figuring out where I can place the Gripen. When something sounds too good to be true, it isn't. I'm not using the Rafale as a starting point. I'm doing a comparative analysis. If the Gripen was that capable and as cheap as Saab claims, it would be winning contracts left and right. The claim that it's the cheapest to run is also somewhat misleading. Supposedly, the Gripen should be cheaper to build than the F-35. Now we know that it isn't. So how is it more expensive to build the thing as a unit, but when getting spares to maintain it the parts will be cheaper? The Gripen E is simply "too little, too late" materialized.
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Dang I'd roll with the "Havana" callsign no problem.
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You'll still be backtracked by the cyber police if you're not careful. Consequences will never be the same.
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@Gstyle1 It already changed. It struck multiple HQs and ammo dumps.
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@Nick-wh4jt Then go volunteer to guard a Russian supply depot in Ukraine. Put your money where your mouth is.
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Artillery prevents a "cauldron" if it outranges the opposition.
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Pretty sure the debt always gets paid, otherwise more couldn't be issued.
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@AreWeThereYet-2025 The other way around. If you can't pay your debts, nobody will lend you a dollar. The fact that the US has a strong economy means that nobody minds holding US debt. If you have zero debt as a country, that's because you're so broke nobody trusts you to pay back. It never goes down because debt is a numerical representation of the money the US owes to itself. Corporate profits? Your 401k? That's the debt. If you want the government to run at a surplus, the money has to come from the private sector. Money is issued (budget) and money is destroyed (taxes). So debt is really the money you're being allowed to keep. If the US owed money to other central banks, it promised a fixed exchange rate for commodities such as gold, or it borrowed in foreign currencies, you'd be right in being concerned. But the US doesn't. It owes the money to itself.
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@AreWeThereYet-2025 Who's "they"? It's not my philosophy. It's just reality. Why are there poor people? Because wealth has to be created, and money removed from circulation by taxation. That means that you need to work for money, and things cost money. If you don't work, you become poor. If you work but cost of living makes up most of your earnings, you become poor. If you invest all your money in bitcoin and then it crashes, you become poor. You can be poor with a gold standard or poor with fiat currency. To print enough to make everyone a millionaire, the government then has to rebalance the equation by taking out money out of circulation (taxation).
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The horizon is spinning, camera has internal mirror to "derotate" the spinning. This causes horizon to appear stable, but the smear (like astigmatism) spins. The pilots are not used to these smears.
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The detonation of ammo usually confirms for sure they're real.
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No, it isn't. IFF is one of the major problems in warfare.
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That's what's called a death spiral. Instead of addressing the issues you create the conditions to ensure future losses.
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A car can be made at home if you have a garage.
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It's Russisn soldiers shoving pipes in each others' rear ends.
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Russia has a self-centered interest in a pro-Russia Ukraine. They're not sparing civilians out of kindness, they're doing it out of desperation.
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Terminal contrarianism.
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Putin trying to play good guy. He wants dialog because he wants to use a pause to build up his forces.
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@martinaakervik The Russians certainly wanted it. They also used the peace negotiations for Minsk II to assault a city while everyone had their guard down.
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@martinaakervik No. He asked when he was going to be invited. Which is quite the egotistical thing to say. NATO already has a quasi-dictator to worry about, why invite an actual autocrat into the mix?
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@martinaakervik People lived in peace. Then Russia came.
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I saw a video of an Italian woman hunting hogs with a semi-auto shotgun. She put multiple shots on a charging hog and despite being wounded he kept coming. She had to grab the empty shotgun and beat the hog in the head to get him to collapse. They're tough.
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They aren't weapons components. They are components which have industrial applications too.
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@DrewLSsix makes as much sense as the machines hooking up our conscious to a simulation so they get a pass
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Yeah. Ivan has a video on the AR magazine on his gunstreamer profile since his YT channel got taken down and incarbonite has a video on an extension to a 10 rounder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pY1h-fChgk
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The F-16 did it.
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@Ken-no5ip I'm agreeing with you
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@360lootgoon3 nice deflection, appealing to the casual nature of youtube as an excuse to say wrong things. Yeah, things suit you when you have an agenda? Who would know?
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@360lootgoon3 the place does not matter when your argument is centered around using one definition of gambling to prove EA fits a different definition. By the colloquial definition Kinder Eggs are also gambling, which means you're actually defending EA's point.
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Yes. It just can't be a NFA item. Make sure you check your local laws because some states require a permit or serial number even on homemade guns.
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No government justifies the war. The Ukrainian people do. They want revenge and their land back. You can dislike the war all you want, you will not stop them from fighting. The German government, with all due respect, does not have to choose because they have no choice in the matter. It's not their fight. If they want to cut support and indirectly kill Ukrainians by financing Putin's war, that's on their conscience. But Ukraine will still win.
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The Second Battle of Fallujah took 6 weeks and roughly 700 casualties. The city also has three times the population of pre-war Bakhmut. Bakhmut was not fortified for 8 years, it was a speedbump to delay the Russians and fortify Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
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Russia is big, but it's mostly empty.
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The fallacy is that the neighboring city forced that town to be located there. The US forced this situation by ensuring Russia kept their nukes while Ukraine had to give up theirs. Ukrainians cannot physically remove their landmass and take it somewhere not close to Russia, so they have an existencial threat next door and the US promised them to back them. The US forced that town to stand in the flood plain. The US knew the flood came after Georgia, Moldova, etc before.
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@jamesrowlands8971 Yes, and the modern production seems to have the most QC issues. Russia turns empty fields into the moon surface, we know. We've seen the pictures. How is this relevant?
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@jamesrowlands8971 Nobody said she's a Russian asset. She never said anything about 150,000 KIA. She said 100,000. Since your brain cannot comprehend the number fifty thousand nor a whopping 50% difference, I can only assume you're several standard deviations below average.
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Yeah, it's the name of his book. San Fransicko. Sicko, from sick. It's a pun.
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Therapies are also blocked outside the US.
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@CarlosAM1 I haven't heard of any research that untangled the mess that was the bat/pangolin origin and traced the animals that spread it. We've managed to trace back the origins last time this happened. Maybe because the animals were caged and were disposed of when they realized the oopsie? Instead of being in the wild. Also the location had been warned that there was a leak danger in the years before. Hmmmm.
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The problem is that the cauldron is exhausting Russia. It's a bet to see who can keep his hand in the stove, but Russia is covered in gasoline.
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Shutting down a radar to avoid HARMs isn't an achievment. Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses is meant to do that. If air defense wants to survive, they can. They'll just be allowing soldiers and high ranking officers to die instead.
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The Ukrainians already had the Su-25. They had the "plus" in that situation. They didn't use it because they knew it was suicide.
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Arms manufacturers do not get richer. They get contracts to replace old stuff. Instead of getting paid in 2025 or 2028 they get paid now - but the money they get is the same.
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+Jnc1 "All the expertise is in China" - there are dozens of fabs in the US, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, etc. There's a few fabs in Germany, one in Ireland, one in Israel. How the fuck is "all" of expertise concentrated in China? Also, even if it were, do you think it would be smart to keep all the expertise in a country that is on the brink of achieving 1984 on all it's citizens? The country that just made the head of the interpol disappear? "Only intel is not using Chinese fabs at present" - false. TMSC has fabs in Taiwan. Fujitsu uses Japanese fabs. Samsung is using Vietnamese and South Korean fabs along with the Chinese ones. Sony uses Japan. LG uses South Korea. Global Foundries uses USA, Germany, Emirates and Singapore. Toshiba uses Japan. "Each fab factory costs $5 billion that doesn’t just happen" - and yet there's several dozen fabs open outside of China already. "Europe and USA removed their capacity a decade ago it will not come back" - ahahah what?
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@granudisimo "the aerosol particles don't shed the virus" - Jesus. Shed the virus THROUGH aerosolized particles. Better? "by brething out humidity particles that are the same size in everybody's breath" - They're not stopped by the surgical masks, and cloth masks only stop them by 60% when they're multilayered and use different types of fabric to achieve both mechanical and electrostatic filtering. Any unsealed opening compromises the mask. "since the same laws of physics applies to everybody's lungs and the Earth's atmosphere" - Huh, no. Particle size varies greatly. Hence why some diseases are considered airborne and others aren't. "that proves that breathing droplets from asymptomatic carriers are intrinsically smaller than those breathed by the symptomatic ones. " - Your argument is completely out of whack. Nobody said asymptomatic carriers eject smaller droplets. Both symptomatic and asymptomatic carriers are exhaling aerosols which are the particles that get suspended in the air for a while, will follow the path of least resistance are not filtered through most of the masks being worn. Droplets are ejected at high velocity by coughing and sneezing, they drop out of the air quickly rather than remain suspended and they'll get arrested by even the homemade cloth masks with some splashback. If you're "breathing" out droplets, you're straight up spitting everywhere.
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But they don't. Iran gave them intelligence too. They are making up excuses.
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@k53847 Operating below Soviet radar worked in the 1960s when ground clutter was hard to filter. There's a reason Soviets/present day Russia designed radars to help SAMs shoot down American aircraft trying to operate below Soviet radar.
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Malding lol
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But the US "lost" by... leaving as stated they would in a peace deal. The Taliban didn't chase the US out of the country. The US said "we're out, now be nice to each other". And the Taliban came crawling out from their holes as if they won a battle. The Mujahideen against the Soviets were way more ballsy.
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@russianslipperagent2689 A lot of equipment either cost more to ship back than just buy new, and a whole lot more belonged to the ANA. Sure, it was American in origin, but the ANA was the organization that had their stuff jacked. They couldn't pick up everyone because the ANA forces collapsed faster than the US could recover those people. Do you understand the world around you? If a doctor tries to save you from cancer but fails, that doesn't mean the cancer made the doctor run away. The US was out of the war, left, then tried to recover people who would be in danger if found by the Taliban and failed. Why are you trying to turn it into a man bites dog story when everything makes perfect sense the way things are?
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All Putin had to do was leave it alone. It seems that those who support Russia always come to regret it. They're all used and spat back out.
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Air support is occasionally used. Most assaults indeed use artillery. But there are secondary lines, protection holes, and overwatch positions. The barrage ends before the assault. That's when defenders know they're coming.
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NATO advanced to Finland, which had adamantly remained neutral during the Cold War. They don't seem worried, even removed defenses from the border.
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@Jimboken1 Er... so Russia is fundamentally prone to being bamboozled because they can only focus in one situation at a time? If NATO is such a big deal why is Russia weakening their defenses near a new NATO border?
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It's not an oversight, the A-10 began as a A-1 Skyraider replacement for COIN where only 14.5mm and occasional 23mm guns were the threat. The project requirements eventually changed but since it had never been expected to operate inside air defenses the low flying would protect it from Shilkas and the tail would mask the engines while flying over MANPADS. Integrated air defenses came after the A-10 had already been designed.
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TB2s ended up getting shot down, but they brought hell on the invaders. Money well spent.
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Kalashnikovs are not KISS. In fact it took years for the Russians to get stamped receivers right. Also, be it technical drawings, CAD models or CNC tool paths nearly everything comes from a "damn computer".
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What we're doing? The fudge does that even mean?
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I recently read that the latest Osprey crash was due to the crew ignoring three magnetic particle detector warnings. The gearbox was fighting for dear life and the pilot could have saved it by diverting and landing after the second warning.
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The space wasn't empty. It was filled to the brim with weapons, ammo and armored vehicles. The Russians fled in panic. Lose 10.000 in the offensive? Where are the bodies?
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Name one firearm that won't kill a human. Trick question, once a bear was killed with a .22 short revolver (right behind the ear). That's possibly one of the weakest calibers available. Now, name me objects never designed to kill people but end up being part of their death anyway? Trick question, you'll be here all day.
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Like if you ever got your AR500 plates in the mail and had to ask mommy to rub cream all over your chaffing from wearing them in the airsoft field. Subscribe to Daddy Garand if you ever had to ask your airsoft bros to do the same to your groin after wearing your drop leg straps real high like Chris Costa told you to on that DVD you pirated.
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@andyhysi7533 You can't work your ass off for money without freedom. So why do I have to listen to him mouthing off about my freedoms?
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@Liam.keenlyside "less guns, less crimes done with guns " - so a crime is committed with illegally obtained guns, so we're going to reduce them by banning the legal guns from legal gun owners who almost never commit crimes?
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"Most Canadian gun owners are either hunters or sport shooters, none of the banned guns interfere with those." - How delusional do you have to be? Look up this Canadian gun channel called Arm & Gun. Look at his collection. Plenty of Canadian gun owners own rifles affected by the law.
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@ericmanget4280 "The less murder tools in circulation the better as far as I'm concerned." - Then start off by chopping your hands, we can't have any strangling deaths around here.
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@Liam.keenlyside "look at the UK and australia. Both introduced heavy firearm regulations and both saw a drop in homicides." - Actually the UK homicide rose for a few years, and Australia was on a decline BEFORE the new gun laws. "Not every criminal has access to market of illegal firearms, so less access to firearms, the less people use them" - Tell that to Mexico or Brazil. "killing someone with a gun and killing with a knife are two very different things" - Tell that to the victims. "Next firearms are made to kill" - I would hope so. Last thing I would want would be for the gun to actually tickle my assailant instead of causing enough harm (or the mere threat of harm) to stop the threat.
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@ericmanget4280 I don't know if you understand history but plenty of countries lost wars. There used to be a lot of wars in Europe. A holocaust didn't happen in every single one as a consequence. I don't understand your point. So because the economy is in shambles, people will comply with mass murder? If you haven't noticed, the world economy is in shambles because of the lockdown. My point is simply that between losing their job or complying with the state, most people will say "meh" and follow orders because it doesn't concern them. You really think everyone who is financially dependent on the state is gonna refuse orders?
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@filmandfirearms That's not how it works. First, the Wagner structure cannot be compared with an army. A regular 11B would never be treated like Wagner. When Russian soldiers are treated like Wagner they get a smartphone and record videos asking the wives and mothers associations to write formal complaints about their commanders to the prosecutor's office. Russia is corrupt, but the squeaky wheels sometimes get the grease. Wagnerites get a bullet. The prisoners are used as recon by fire (aka bait), supply mules, etc. We're not talking about officer corps. A "private" in Wagner is above a prisoner. And even Progozhin himself commented about the "roosters" and how prison hierarchy itself has untouchables.
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Utterly meaningless. Didn't Trump also hire a speech writer that had worked for Obama?
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22 replies only 2 visible. YouTube, go home you're drunk.
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 @taylorc2542 let's not exaggerate.
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@TheSoundsage The power of that explosion really didn't leave anything unscathed. Every single one needs an overhaul just to make sure they don't snap in mid-air when the pilot puts Gs.
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@alexp8495 Did you use your alt accounts to upvote yourself?
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@anthonytwohill9726 That has nothing to do with the comment.
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@TheCruxy If you die with your property under my custody and don't leave a will specifying what should be done with it, the property rights transfer to me. You gave me something and then died. How are you going to claim property rights after you stopped existing?
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@junkjackcriteria That's like saying you have the keys to the locker. Okay. Anyone can use bolt cutters on the padlock or drive out the hinge pins. You're calling me a fool when you don't know that mechanical objects can be disassembled. Nice joke.
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@spartanx9293 Launch codes are as irrelevant as a padlock on a locker. The codes disarm the safety features. If you want, you can just disassemble the warhead and remove the safeties, and store the nuke live. Or you can just install your own safety system with the codes you want. You have to think of a nuke as one of those "safe" guns that need to be unlocked electronically or with biometrics. If you disassemble the gun and remove the safety lock, it will work when you reassemble it. It prevents unauthorized access when you're in possession of the gun, but if it gets stolen anyone with tools will be able to make it work again.
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@junkjackcriteria I didn't say anything about blowing any lock, curious how you need to make up lies about me to win in this conversation.
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@junkjackcriteria If you leave a place of work or stop going to a gym but leave the padlock on the locker, what do they do? Yeah, it's a metaphor. You don't know how metaphors work. You also said "blow the lock" and now proved yourself wrong by quoting my sentence where I never used the word "blow". Thanks for proving to everyone you're a liar. Cope.
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@junkjackcriteria If you leave a place of work or stop going to a gym but leave the padlock on the locker, what do they do? Yeah, it's a metaphor. You don't know how metaphors work. You also said "blow the lock" and now proved yourself wrong by quoting my sentence where I never used the word "blow". Thanks for proving to everyone you're a liar. Cope.
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@leighalaughlin4056 The key just prevents unauthorized launches. If you lose control of the nukes, it's like if someone steals your gun safe. Yes, you have the keys to the safe, but if someone just took it and has infinite time to get it open, they will.
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@arimoff The Ukrainian government didn't overthrow itself, think a little. The Rada was not dissolved, the parliament voted on stripping the president of his duties (his own party also voted in favor of it). If the US govt. decided to impeach the president and call for snap elections would the US government be overthrown? No, it's still the same government.
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@arimoff "Soviet scientists" doesn't necessarily mean "Russian scientists". Did Ukraine not have universities? No PhDs?
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Russia has one of the lowest church attendance rates and male sexual assault is incredibly common in the Russian military (Dedvoschina). They also have one of the highest HIV rates and abortion rates in Europe.
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Weird how you people are all about "muh losses" in an advance into lightly defended territory but Russia bangs the head against the wall for months and I don't hear a peep.
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It's Russia that is disappearing. 300k to replace 150k.
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Why do you think people should be forced to use weapons made in 1890 to defend themselves? Semi-automatic is the standard since the early 1900s. Have you even seen self-defense videos? Do you know how guns work?
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To avoid confusion let's just call it Xitter.
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@lwo7736 "it's not mandatory anywhere I'm aware of..." - So we're just going to ignore all the vectors that are being proposed to coerce people into taking it? You people always play this game, I keep seeing you people advocating to make it mandatory and then turn around and say it's not mandatory anywhere I'm aware of, dot dot dot.
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+atombrain111 doesn't fucking matter, 99% of the people assume they play videogames for a living. Even though the job is virtually identical to writing articles and making youtube videos about makeup or celebrity gossip or whatever topic you fancy the fact is that most people aren't aware of that. Hey, astronaut is a dream job as well, most people assume it's Top Gun on steroids when it's actually being a top scientist working on a lab.
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I support open carry and armed demonstrations by people protesting against gun control, though. Don't undermine other causes just to dunk on the left.
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Not a game changer. The game didn't change. HIMARS changed the game as it took an army and broke its back. Russia had an army that actually seemed equivalent to western ones before HIMARS. Once it arrived, the Russians went from multi-pronged onslaughts to slow creeping advances built on poor little infantry going forward repeatedly until the defenders can't hold it anymore.
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@omnium2607 How is it wrong? What do you define as the game having changed?
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The problem is that you'd need to come up with a system that tracks the missile before it shows up on the CIWS engagement radar. At terminal velocity mossiles striking at over Mach 2 really only show up on the radar for a moment, giving a tiny window to react. Then the issue is, even if the bullet impacts disable the warhead, the supersonic debris falling on a city can still cause damage.
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And what? Let the whole world know they're murderers and according to game theory, it's better for all to attack them now and destroy them before they destroy someone else?
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Apparently Russians are abandoning positions in the Eastern side and Ukraine is doing crossings on the south.
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 @leifiseland1218 The price is worth it.
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 @andersmalmgren6528 You can burn through EW because an aircraft's EW emitters will never overpower emitters which do not have weight concerns.
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 @ghostviggen If you're buying Saabs in the year of Our Lord 2023 you're expecting the enemy to not shoot back. You get stealth if you worry about shots coming your way.
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 @debrajroy5170 It's not a steal when people take a deal to escape the trials
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The problem is those refusing to understand and intentionally confusing others.
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@merafirewing6591 And an airplane can fly with a missing seat.
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@X9xredgkoa The only ones coping are the ones who lost a bunch of Alligators to a 1996 missile ahahaha
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@ntf5211 How about that Ka-52 hitting the Russian MT-LB?
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@sosig6445 So it's an engineering feat. Not an outstandingly tough aircraft. See how it pays to just say the truth?
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@vaskedagame880 Humans are designed to have limbs. A snake living without limbs isn't impressive. Because it evolved to not need them. Aircraft from WWII landed shot full of holes, even with entire sections of skin blown off. The very first helicopters had no fuselage. They were just structures of tubes with a person exposed to the open air. Awe of what? You want awe? The F-15 has an example of landing with an entire wing missing, and a F-16 has an example of landing with half a wing missing. Aircraft need two, typically. Not 1.5. Not 1. The Ka-52 has two rotors. Fly with just one. Then I'll be in awe.
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@vaskedagame880 But the wing is critical. The F-15 cannot sustain itself on a single wing. It was skilled flying from the pilot and thrust that allowed him to balance the lift and land. The aircraft could have not kept flying and landed somewhere else, it was an emergency. If an aircraft lands without engine power, that doesn't mean the engines aren't critical. Without engines, aircraft can't take off. The reason the F-15 being recovered was remarkable is precisely because it shouldn't be possible. There was no redundancy. The aircraft was on the razor's edge of spinning out of control. The problem is that you're seeing a fallacy where there is none. Surviving without an appendix or wisdom teeth isn't impressive, because we know those are body parts that can be removed.
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@vaskedagame880 But that's not the point you are making. The rotors on a helicopter work like wings. Instead of using forward velocity to drive air over the airfoil, they spin the airfoil around to generate lift. Then you either need to use counter-rotating rotors or a tail rotor to counteract the fact that a rotor alone will cause yaw. The tail on a helicopter is there to prevent loss of control. If you pick counter-rotating rotors, you no longer need the tail rotor. If an aircraft has wings and thrusters to remain airborne like some kind of sci-fi craft, then getting hit in a wing but using thrusters to remain airborne isn't impressive. If you only have wings, then losing half of one is serious. Russophobia is a made up term by crybullies. They invade, kill and torture and then have the gall to say others are -phobic. Like a steet gang that cries racism when people ask for police to protect them from the shootings and drugs.
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In Chechnya they literally paid the Kadyrov clan to switch sides. Ramzan Kadyrov probably still has VHS or Hi8 tapes of him doing awful things to Russuan conscripts back in the day. Russia couldn't win so they paid off rebels to betray the other guys.
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Do you get deduction of the taxes you paid since you're paying for your own healthcare?
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No, it wasn't. The building was burned from the inside, and the fragments placed on a bench. Look at the bridge impacts - the guard rails are riddled with holes. The walls inside the building are not riddled with holes. Russian targets were hit with HIMARS and have left tons of fragments behind. Anyone can pick them up and drive them around in a backpack to lay near a burned out building and claim it was a HIMARS hit.
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It almost doesn't matter. The side where a scope is mounted isn't very important on a pistol, which is meant to be shot away from the body with one hand or just in a 90 degree angle with your chest when using two hands. Having the pistol centered, being right-handed doesn't hinder you if you're right-eye dominant. A person can either be lefty or right-handed to use the scope because it's left eye dominance what could possibly make it harder. Plus, it's sci fi.
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In Mongolia they think the guy who got his face caved in won?
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People fake stuff online for no gain. It's just something people do. General mischief.
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It doesn't work. It seems to work but only if you look at safe countries. Look at unsafe countries and gun control doesn't work. Maybe if we took a few Cartels from Mexico and put them in Munich and took a few favela gangs from Rio and put them in Berlin you'd see gun violence skyrocket.
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The USA shares way more with South American countries. And Brazilian and Mexican gun laws are stricter than most European countries.
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@rastiga9196 Someone go tell those people, then. They're clearly breaking procedure.
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ISIS was mostly in Syria and Iraq. Not Libya.
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And the rapist said the dress made him do it.
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 @j.k.1239 Which is worthless when imported labor is low skill meanwhile a former Soviet republic at least had Soviet higher education in place before the 90s.
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Optimist to the bitter end, eh?
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@nandocanu3967 Almost nobody heard of Fort Detrick, though. Too bad.
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@nandocanu3967 And then again, nobody cares. Maybe you should ask your CCP overlords to buy ads about it to spread your conspiracy.
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@interyanan5562 The trails linger for hours because at those altitudes there's very little wind.
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I don't know what's funnier - if after getting nabbed by security the college praised them for the activism or acted offended because they didn't mean "college" when they indoctrinated kids into fighting the "system".
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@markscouler2534 It's always okay to use whoever you want, it's the actions that count. We could also disband them and send you instead.
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Seems easier to make. A normal cartridge is actually a difficult production process that we've mastered after doing it for over a century, but it's not for the faint of heart or the smooth brained. A flat sheet of brass is punched and cupped, the cup is drawn and ironed in several stages, with annealing and washing stages in between because working the metal actually hardens it and it's necessary to soften it up. Then in the end you have a thick base and thin walls, with the brass done with the cold working at the right spot to give the base the necessary strength. An automated lathe cuts the extractor groove and the mouth of the case is annealed so that the front of the case is soft while the base retains the hardness. With this new case, you run steel bar stock through the automated lathe, shove a brass tube in the base, then press an aluminum washer to lock them together. Done.
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@Alen725 I didn't overcomplicate. Brass case manufacturing is complex and you can watch videos on youtube of how many steps it takes to draw a cup into a finished cartridge. Making brass tubes is easy. Steel case ammo has been used by many armies and it's actually cheaper than brass. The locking seems simple enough, it's a washer. It's not an assumption. By your logic modular products are "harder" to manufacture even though modularity greatly improves manufacturing abilities.
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Made in the Soviet Union and Russia won't sell them parts.
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@max_galingumas9409 Not the entire thing. If you make all the parts for a car except the engines, you have a nice modern art piece but not a car.
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@orionide4032 That's a beyond insane comment to post. Yeah, the Russian fleet is actually using ships built in Ukraine, which means they couldn't be able to rebuild them. Just like Ukraine can't rebuild things that require Russian corporations/factories.
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One battery interlinks with the Hawk, NASAMS and IRIS-T systems they already have.
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 @dankoz6340 considering the F-16 has done more CAS than the A-10, we already replaced the A-10. It's just not official.
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@dankoz6340 Sorry, but they did fly alone when the situation required. For example F/A-18s were the first combat jet in US service to fly to a strike mission and shoot down an enemy aircraft on the way in. There's many instances of aircraft having to fly alone due to necessity, from F-105s to F-4s. I'd suggest you look up Package Q. F-16s were supposed to have F-15C escorts and F-4G SEAD. The problem when you mix different engines, different fuel tanks and different drag profiles is that the SEAD and air escorts ran out of fuel and had to turn back, leaving the F-16s to fly by themselves. The A-10 flying with SEAD would require the SEAD aircraft to somehow mimic the A-10 in terms of endurance, speed, etc. Otherwise the SEAD aircraft will have to leave early. SHORAD doesn't make SEAD obsolete. It makes aircraft like the A-10 obsolete. SEAD can ignore a lot of the short range solutions found in SHORAD as they and the strikes they protect can just fly above and fast to escape those short range weapons. But if your aircraft is flying low and slow, SEAD can't react in time.
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@dankoz6340 The A-10 as a platform was meant to be retired starting in the mid 90s. It has received a 30 year grace period thanks to Congress. As a platform, it's worn, it's tired, and it needs to go.
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The problem is that a multirole can SEAD for itself. If you're already flying the A-10 with a fast jet, you can bolt the missiles and bombs to it and just keep the A-10 home. You're thinking of range as a 1vs1 fight. The enemy can be anywhere, and while you aim at troops several kilometers from you, someone with a MANPADS can be less than a km behind you.
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3000 black Armatas of Allah Putin
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They have been gaining ground for a while, just in small increments.
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Their military potential is shot. They cannibalized training units to plug losses. Their air power is getting attrited every time they use it for real. They're pulling 1960s vehicles from storage.
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The media's fascination with the AR made it a popular weapon of choice, it is proven that copycatting and "contagion" exists in mass shootings. If they did the same with the AK, mass shooters would look for AKs.
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@frostnotm5282 a lot of CO2 comes from steel production, and steel has been around for over 100 years.
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If your designs are that good make them yourself and beat the competition.
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Here comes the Ru MoD cope update. Imagine being so poor you have to be in the 50 rouble army.
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@tradeprosper5002 It's still a ten percent increase of Pfeizer's yearly revenue from a single product.
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Air power is a force multiplier. But it can't hold ground. Eventually aircraft need to land to rearm and refuel, and then stop operations for maintenance. They also get shot down.
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Plenty of places did that and it didn't work. If you toss out every test tube that doesn't conform to your hypothesis, who really cares about what you have to say?
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@Pyasa.shaitan "look at American sanctions on South America" - This is ridiculous. Amazing how the people who blame capitalism complain about being shut out of capitalist trade. "If you think hardwork will turn you into a billionaire" - This is a strawman argument. "Meanwhile two backward countries like Russia and china got rich & productive in less time than USA and Japan" - Yes and after the first minute mile was achieved, more people managed to do it. You always do things faster when someone else laid the blueprint. Also, the Soviet Union's grain requisitions was their way of financing their purchase of foreign made machines so they could get rich and productive.
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@Pyasa.shaitan Who said anything about billionaires? I never defended multi-billionaires. You're punching air. See how you changed subject to liberation of women? Free education? Industrialists came up with that one. Make the government pay for the training of future factory workers. Inequality was not abolished anywhere on this planet.
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@Pyasa.shaitan Don't know what those countries have to do with anything but thanks for admitting it.
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If I recall correctly Clinton did get asked for authorization to take him out in Sudan but he denied it due to the collateral.
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@supahman20 there's way more smokers than rock climbers
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@411bvRGiskard Nope. These pristine hangar queens went in to face the music and came out dancing, while A-10s had to be grounded because the Iraqi Republican Guard was too hot to handle. A-10s would be stationed in the same place fighters are. The USAF isn't going to send mechanics, pilots and piles of ordnance into the middle of the brush. Bringing A-10s across water is the worst case scenario for it.
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And Stuka pilots (same as IL-2 pilots) massively overstated their own importance by overclaiming tank kills. It got so ridiculous they often claimed to have killed more tanks than were present in battle.
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I have to laugh at the fact that we live in a world where Sterling and Sessler are the kind of people who have to issue statements about the morality of doxxing someone. Remember when games journalism was about games?
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And yet they keep getting caught even though they could just reveal themselves to us and cut to the chase and we wouldn't be able to do anything about it.
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@divoulos5758 Russia bombed the runways in the first day of the war. So what? Half the missiles missed, craters can be filled.
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@ShiftyKen08 Why are you mentioning California? You're changing the subject. Damn, so the real situation proved you wrong, you had to bring up a totally different recall election to prove a point?
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One S-400 taken out today.
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Pretty sure blinding lasers are covered in a convention. You can use lasers to designate but not as anti-personnel.
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@jamesmaher1989 Russian talking points. The war was not settled as the leaders from both countries had not met, they just sent envoys for negotiations. And Russia demanded that Ukraine had to disband their army. If I break into your house and negotiate my exit, if one of my demands is that you have to handcuff yourself to your radiator then you know my plan is to come back. Then the mass graves were found. You Russia shills never mention the true reason why the peace deal was never made formal for both sides to agree. Everyone saw how Russia soldiers acted.
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They have loitering missiles for air defense.
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 @Roblovesbushcraft What situation? Russia resorting to human wave attacks and driving armor into minefields?
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@SashaArsic Yes. A criminal walking up to a gas station for a robbery is cause for us to discuss how to take him out. The criminal threatening to shoot the gas station employees would drive people into hysteria.
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Russia took 6 months to take a small town, Ukraine cleared 10.000 square kilometers in a week in the Kharkiv offensive.
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Neither Vietnam or Afghanistan were about terrorizing civilians wity air power. In fact Op Linebacker II and aerial mining of ports brought North Vietnam to the peace talks in 1972.
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@salsa564 Why would I want to travel?
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Damn and despite that Russia can't beat them.
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 @harleyquinn8202 didn't they build a mega church glorifying Stalin?
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@harleyquinn8202 It's the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces and leaked photos showed mosaics of Stalin, Putin, Shoygu, etc.
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Okay. Now go to Ukraine and accept those surrenders. After they shoot at you, you're going to tell me you're going to risk your life and pat them down for weapons or explosives? You'll be throwing your life away trusting them.
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@davyjones3371 A smart man plugs people who already broke your trust. A not so smart man gets killed by hidden weapons or explosives.
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+Gordon Goodman lmao by that logic let's award the gold medal to the person doing steroids and shame the clean competitors for not doing PEDs too.
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@nicholasconder4703 American pilots on other aircraft don't have the same issue.
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The State Department would probably activate some clause to seize the important stuff if Elon keeps acting up.
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Yeah their job is probably stay there and serve as propaganda. Probably keeps them and their family out of labour camps. The chef is someone who probably was allowed to go to China and receive training so he could cook for tourists and the 1%, the hosts are probably picked for their looks, etc.
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@oohhboy-funhouse in 2003 the US skipped the opening air campaign. In fact Saddam had planned for a 1991 style weeks long air campaign to soften his defenses before boots hit the ground, but Americans did what everyone least expected and rushed forward.
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Why was Ritter in prison, by the way?
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The US never used a PMC as a military branch. Even Air America was flying planes for the CIA, not seizing villages and towns in Vietnam. And for that matter, Chinese PMCs also act as security and nothing more. If there's anything to point a finger at, it's how they have a fishing fleet composed of ships that can act as military vessels as a weird naval militia.
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@AnonIllumi One can't make claims about what there is no evidence of. I also have no knowledge of planets made of cheese, until evidence is presented they don't exist.
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@AnonIllumi That "one example" has 60 Venezuelans and two Americans. Spear Operations Group was founded by a Hungarian-Israeli and they were used for assassinations. In neither of the examples were they meant to do frontline military combat nor was the US government involved. Wagner has tanks and combat aircraft. Neither of those had them.
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And it gets shot down so easily it has to do those rocket volleys from safety and turn back before getting close to the frontline. I can't think of anything more demoralizing than hearing combat chatter in the radio and being forced to tuck tail and run when my troops need me, but the airframe and pilot is more precious than the infantrymen.
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@havable This is such a blatant logical fallacy it should be on the wikipedia article as an example.
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"Quick question how many of you teach your kids to cover thier mouth and nose when they cough and sneeze?" - Quick question, then why are we all forced to wear the mask even when not infected? I'm not sneezing. I'm not coughing. We didn't spend our day with hand in front of nose.
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@mcflynnsreturn You're deflecting. Did you walk around with your hand covering your face all day before? Did Pasteur tell you that holding your hand in front of your face all day was the way to go? All you people can do is offer simplistic arguments, get absolutely demolished, then you resort to insults and deflection. You've dropped your initial argument already. Insults and deflection just means I've won.
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@mrkatmandroog It was definitely a surprise attack. The leaflets that are often talked about were always dropped in multiple cities so nobody could predict which city would get attacked next and set up defenses.
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@dkupke what matters is what he believes, so when he says he no longer believes something it doesn't count?
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@dkupke You cracked open his skull to check? Look by that standard we should never accept any recanting or disavowing.
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"it was released because there are people already spending more than that" - and somehow it doesn't cross your mind that that's actually WORSE because it implies those motherfuckers think the content in their unfinished game is worth that much
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 @spring9603 Russian skies do not make missiles stop working. If a SAM with sufficient range nails you, you're going down.
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 @spring9603 70km is "close" to the target if the SAM's range is greater than 70km.
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German industrialists allowed this to happen. Their view is that we should jeopardize our defense and get in bed with the enemy, so I would suggest they start viewing things from a different perspective.
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@justicefreedom1158 Are you using several accounts to spam?
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@TheBanana93 No, it wasn't. I criticized the war, and the critique of the war was very well represented by the media. In the early days if you were against the war you were a terrorist sympathizer because people were still seeing red after 9/11, but feelings subsided. Obama was elected partly because of the promise to end the wars and close Gitmo. Trump also hinted that he was against the wars when he began his "twitter campaign" in 2015. People criticized movies like Zero Dark Thirty and American Sniper.
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Just off the flight from Ukraine.
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If the M1 plant had shut down, the government would have spent billions reopening it, getting a hold of the former employees to re-hire them, etc. to reopen it when foreign contracts rolled in just a few years later. That "scandal" was a massive cost-cutting measure but people miss the forest for the trees. Have you heard of the F-15EX? Only 88 will be built. People are pretty excited about it. But they're only being produced because Boeing's military sector did not have enough orders to keep the St. Louis plant open.
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@helene420 Doesn't help to say "both things are bad" when a kid soon to be a man is in trouble for something the government does with impunity.
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@chihuahua3892 the "military industrial complex" Eisenhowser warned about is today a tenth of the size it was. We did it, Reddit. We effectively put the pillow over the MIC since the Korean War. We did Eisenhower proud. Now you people are whining about the MIC?
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 @DannyBowen25 once copy pasted or forwarded it can't be proof of anything. It's been tampered with.
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 @ExessiveGK Dude trying to make money off merch is clearly untrustworthy. Should be pushing Honey or Established Titles like honest youtubers.
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@Keyh Right and that means the text has been tampered with. He could have said Taylor Swift was flying the drones. He can say literally anything if he has control over the text. It's like a recorded phonecall where you can hear cuts between words. Can't be trusted, could be an edit.
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Because the objects are like 10 miles away. Bring the fanciest 4k camera you have, it won't even see the object.
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@freshPrinceOfBelfairs You do realize that people with ill intent sometimes kill indiscriminately, right?
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Most of the Russian population lives in Moscow and St. Petersburg. There's labor shortages because delivering food through apps in the cold is preferable to factory work for the urbanites. They won't even work to manufacture shells, they'll somehow want to fight?
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They're not going to be used against drones and the Iranian drones are not that cheap. People have looked at the individual components and figured they cost a lot more.
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>dont thread on me flag >wants government to punish people for a non-crime
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@Gr8WhytBuffelo24 >can't greentext right
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Do they? Most journalism today is dogshit. In fact, the more leftist a publication is, the more it looks like it was written by an 8 year old.
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Two to the chest, face gets the rest.
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 @patrikstrandquist1875 Saab can't. So they won't. Did he also explain why there was a Gripen bribery scandal? The low sales must have been hurting their pockets.
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edca poik It's already in service.
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"not stealth at all" - Already used in strikes by Israelis without being shot down by Russian defenses.
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edca poik I think my response got deleted... Either way it can go supersonic and hypoxia issues plague all aircraft in service.
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@WeeWRomero The X-32 development was a mess.
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@xPreatorianx1 "if you joke around too much you'll eventually believe the joke" - wat
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Brother. Watch the war footage. The Russia you trained for doesn't exist. Now they are riding Chinese golf carts into battle, putting a dozen soldiers on top of tanks due to shortage of IFVs, and firing North Korean ammo. The clean up after their attacks looks more like a snuff film than actual war. You can see the whites of their eyes in some of the videos, before the feed cuts off. You can see the moment where the drone didn't finish them off, so they have to do it to themselves. You should watch the reality, because it is shocking. You have been duped by Cold War propaganda - they'd have used the East Germans, Poles and Czechoslovaks to soften you up before the Soviets would get to you. Now that Russians have to use themselves as meat, their Fulda Gap strategy doesn't work.
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@dreamhunter2973 The operational cost is not extremely cheap. It's almost as high as the F-35.
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Neither side has the materiel to make it global. Russia is using donkeys ffs. Either way it's arguably a world war because of Myanmar, India-China border dispute, Armenia and Iran vs Turkey and Azerbaijan, Israel, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria... it's all connected.
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The F-22 wasn't produced in enough numbers to even replace the F-15...
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@djdsf That's not true. The F-22 was killed because congress said there was no justification for building more F-22s. It had nothing to do with the F-35 but the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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@lukeneill1568 The war was essentially unwinnable for Germany's side. They'd never be done with the Soviets.
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@HauntingSpectre Does the Minsk accord actually ban Ukraine from joining NATO? From what I'm reading it's mostly about Ukraine retaining the border but giving the separatist regions autonomy.
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@HauntingSpectre That's a lot of words to not point me to where in the Minsk agreements (which fell apart anyway) it says Ukraine can't join NATO.
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There's no treatment plants before the river water goes into the tap?
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He'll ya borther. Can't wait for my son to join the US Army so he can fight for Israel our greatest Ally. Till Van Hallen!
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@mpk6664 privatized prison does not shape society into accepting a police state.
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@JohnSmith-nj9qo but people won't accept the harsh sentencing unless they believe drugs are evil.
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@jamesegsmith medical mistakes kill more people every year than gunshots...
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@jamesegsmith my point is, right now the pharmaceutical industry and the medical providers are not only scamming the American people out of their money, but their negligence is also killing people. I think it's pretty shameful that they kill more people than all gangs combined. Secondly, there's so many harmful chemicals that are sold for cheap. One reason heroin is still used in the US was because the pharmaceutical companies would influence doctors to over-prescribe their opioids and your insurance would cover for it. Medical "heroin" was cheap and legal. But then doctors were forced to scale back and now people hooked on opioids had to resort to street drugs because their doctor cut them off from the source of legal drugs. Making heroin cheap and legal wouldn't convince people to do it. Doctors handing opioids out like candy forced them to do it no matter the price.
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@wayneburton8168 "The countries doing well against Covid are the ones following science" - Can we get some numbers?
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They were given improper care protocols and were forced to helplessly watch people die. That does a number on anyone.
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The problem is that instead of dispersed capabilities, they neatly placed their assets in a location where we can simply lock them into a basement. A neat thing strike pilots do is put the laser right "behind" the blast doors where concrete meets the rock face. Bomb plows through concrete and skips off rock.
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 @canesvenatici4259 there are two Russian movies, Brat and Brat 2. Brat Z would be a sequel made today because Russia has to be Z everything.
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There's dirt poor countries that produce things which are always in demand. China and India making a fortune off the backs of Russians is only adding insult to injury. Two countries plundering Russia, and Putin is supposed to roll over like a dog.
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D G socialist republics exist...
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D G but it is. Republics do not need to be democratic. Republic simply means that matters of governance are considered a public rather than private matter. The North Korean government is a public institution rather than a private one.
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D G Saying it's false doesn't make it so. Kim Jong-Un is not the sole proprietor of the entire North Korea. Although he calls the shots, he is not the all encompassing power figure (which is why keeping the elites happy is such a priority, because the privileged class in North Korea could sweep the power under him if they wanted to). Again, nothing about corruption or totalitarian one-party rule conflicts with the definition of a republic. One-party republics were and still are a thing. Although in theory the military holds the monopoly on force, it is still under control of the state. If the generals decided they had enough of Jong-Un they would certainly implement a military dictatorship but until they decide to become the ones calling the shots, they not calling the shots. Just like the US military could in theory rebel against the US government, just because they hold that power doesn't make the US a military dictatorship.
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D G it's not contrarian nonsense. You said a country (doesn't even matter that it was North Korea) was not a republic by definition - it is a socialist state. But there's nothing in the definition of republic that states it can't be socialist. That is all. You haven't proven shit. You have called NK a "socialist state" and now a "military dictatorship" (ironically South Korea WAS a military dictatorship twice in the 20th century but North Korea wasn't). That's not proof. That's just you saying words. And a very bad day to you sir. Thanks for tapping out. Saves me the trouble of contradicting your BS posts with facts.
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@user-mh2om6ss1z funny maymay, but still doesn't change the fact that you chucklefucks have almost every single time put a bloodthirsty tyrant in power.
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@lottabee "Because there's a difference between socialism/communism and authoritarianism." - socialism and communism are inherently authoritarian because you need to repress any attempt to create capitalism.
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I mean, it is but probably not the reasons he think it is. California invested massively into renewables but they simply do not have the means to do energy storage. They have to pay other states to take their excess power, and can't save it for when they need it. So they're scrambling to hold the grid together with regulations instead of planning an actual reasonable transition towards renewables. Which is a form of energy you can't control the output of.
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That's a ridiculous theory.
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What? Literally nobody in charge looks at official statements for clues. They look at actions. Televised speeches are for the people at home with nothing better to do.
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Bruh it's Russia that got bogged down in a grinder of a trench warfare fight, and Ukraine danced around the map to capture terrain easy peasy. Russia is essentially depopulating itself to capture terrain that Ukraine runs through in a week.
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Cope, Ivan. Devastated Ukraine looks no different from Russian towns, and they're doing too.
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+the bunker parodie not only it opens a video to be mass flagged, youtube's algorithm could make the video not show up as recommended or even outright take it down automatically until a content review is performed. On the other hand, although Germany supposedly allows the swastika in educational contexts educational channels like Forgotten Weapons have discovered their video will be banned in Germany if they show the swastika on a Nazi German flag.
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@Wheely_Dan "seeing as a national healthcare system isn’t slavery" 1. That's not the point at all so I don't see why that Red Herring is necessary. 2. A national healthcare system still needs to pay for itself and it's consumption of resources through taxation, which means forcing people to work for free. Jesus did not require resources. "And my question still stands" - not really. Jesus had magical abilities.
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@Wheely_Dan If you get taxed, say, 30% of your income then you perform 30% of your labour for free.
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@6789uiop oh I'm sorry, I didn't know Jesus calling for people to do things voluntarily was the same as having a state enforcing their will onto people
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@6789uiop let's make it simple. Jesus was not a socialist, the bible doesn't tell it because the concept had not been invented and for all I know the bible could be a bunch of hogwash. People wake up in the morgue once in a while, if a guy 2000 years ago went into a coma for 3 days it doesn't mean he was the son of God. And if God sent his son to preach socialism then why a) doesn't he use his powers to make socialism happen? or b) why the fuck did actual socialists oppress religious people and try to make people atheist? Shit doesn't make sense.
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@6789uiop in which page does the bible name socialism? Where did I say I hated Jesus? Why do you think the Bible's teachings are true? Why not the Torah, or the Koran?
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@auntiedoodles6898 The food is harvested with Western tech. The gas and oil is extracted and delivered with Western tech. The manufacturing capabilities are based on Western manufacturing tech. Did you ever wonder why a turbine for Nordstream was stuck in Canada? If Russia is self-sufficient, why is their heavy industry all based on what Westerners sell them?
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GPS jamming. Which doesn't make sense but roll with it.
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No he isn't...
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@timwhiting6721 No. November 29, 2023. He's gone.
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@charlytaylor1748 "ask some of the guys who sit back and watch their investment stocks rise in value" - apart from insider trading, they could have easily lost it all in those gambles
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@ThreeDaysOfDan yeah of course it isn't gambling by the legal definition, but "gamble" is anything you take a risk on. Like for example: "Crossing the street here? With the poor visibility it's a gamble."
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Politics. Racism is the real virus, remember that one?
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That comment lacks perspective. The more time spent on repairs, the less up time you have. Motor races are scheduled. Enemy attacks aren't.
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You'd be hard pressed to find anyone here who supports sending money or weapons to Arab states. When you're trying to "own" people by showcasing hypocrisy (still stuck in 2016?) make sure you actually can get someone caught in the hypocrisy rather than just whip out unrelated topics. Because you're countersignaling, I have no option but to assume you're trying to smokescreen the issue. Why are you trying to distract from the blatant grooming? Come up with an actual excuse.
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If anything, the torso target gives green tip a greater chance to shine. Unfortunately the M855 fleet yaw issue is totally dependent on random chance, so I've never seen someone film a gel test of a M855 failure. The only one I've seen was a photo on a published study.
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If you run against a wall the wall will stop you even though the wall is stationary.
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Nice cope. The "small" area coverage protects population and infrastructure instead of empty fields. Not all land mass has the same value. And if Russians focus on the Patriot while they lose the actual war, we gave them the biggest wild goose chase of the 21st century. Just like Hiler's attacks of London allowing the RAF to compose thenselves and beat the Germans.
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There was no overthrow. Yanukovych passed laws against free speech and limiting the right to protest, then had hired thugs and police beat down protesters. People rose up in defiance of the new laws, police started shooting steel slugs meant to disable engine blocks into crowds. The Berkut special unit (Russian-trained) was also suspected of using snipers to target both police and protesters to escalate the violence and get Kiev under martial law. After all of this, Yanukovych feared prosecution so he fled to Mother Russia. His own party disavowed him, and the parliament voted to officially remove him from power. He wasn't overthrown. He fled because he was a coward who didn't want to face the charges for the deaths. And fled to the country he was truly loyal to.
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@barnabashastings Thanks for clearing it up.
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@iraqafghanistanmarine6905 in the Fighter Pilot Podcast the interview with two F-4 pilots really dispels that myth. They liked the idea of having a gun, but the weight in the nose negatively affected flight performance and required the use of a smaller radar - and then they barely got to use it because most kills were achieved by missile anyway.
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It's already filled to the brim with upgrades. Doesn't matter, it's still outdated. The B-52 is a much larger airframe which gives more allowance for changes.
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@rodrigogoncalves6165 That's now how real life works. Most military does not advance at the pace of technology due to the fact that projects can take years to complete, they prioritize reliability/dependability over having the latest specs, secure supply chains, testing and certification, and then it might take a year or two to introduce the upgrade to the entire fleet. So right there the "pace" of technology is not an argument because the military works at its own pace. On the other hand, this isn't a circuitry or technology problem but a physics problem. What we're asking of the B-52 is essentially what it has been doing since inception. Meanwhile the A-10 was designed for a world that does not exist anymore. Upgrade it all you want, it doesn't fix the underlying issues. You can't get a Ferrari out of a Fiero with a body kit. I'm not sure how the A-10 is going to help against swarms considering that the same job can be accomplished by other fighters, and it's not a navalized aircraft.
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@rodrigogoncalves6165 I can't believe I have to simplify this even further. The B-52 has remained in inventory because it has characteristics the B-2 and B-1 do not have, and there's no suitable replacement or value in creating a dedicated replacement that's going to be replaced by next gen bombers anyway. The new missions just require it to do what it has always done. The A-10 needs to be faster. It can't do it. It needs to be less vulnerable. It can't do that. You have to make changes that require an entirely new aircraft. The B-52 just keeps trucking. The sturdy construction dates back to the 1980s, and even then it came off the factory with structural flaws that had to be fixed after it had already been adopted.
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No. Troop carrying wasn't designed into it.
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Iraq had WMDs and Assad did use chemical weapons.
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This is observer bias. The A-10 can only wipe out enemy forces when they're unable to shoot back.
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The Russian MoD is staffed with fools, Prigozhin "tells it like it is" and gets results. So he's relatable in a sense.
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"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
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@TheComedyButchers what is, then?
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Santiago Bron a tax cut is simply the government stealing less money. It's not exactly a bribe to let one keep what is theirs.
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I judge people based on their adherence to principles. People who discard their principles the moment the excrement hits the rotary air displacer never had any principles at all and will justify any crime or atrocity with their excuses.
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"They make up the vast majority of those receiving the services. Civilians may not see the benefit of the military the same way they do first responders but that is because they have never been to these hostile nations." - BRUH that's exactly the point, why the fuck are we in hostile nations? The US doesn't benefit from having people overseas. So far it has only created more terrorism.
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@ammarhaziq919 The 300k mobilization was a last minute measure to fill the manpower gaps. Many were sent to the front and killed within a week of mobilization starting, to the point Ukrainian and Russian social media started calling it "morgue-ilization". The preparation for the counter-offensive is the electronic mobilization. Which skips the legal requirement to physically present the notification to a citizen.
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Minsk 2 was not implemented because the DPR forces attacked Debaltseve.
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They had massive exposed engine intakes on the front.
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Just 4 made a difference.
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@shootingbricks8554 Not always. Sometimes they are given kill boxes where they're cleared to fire at targets of opportunity. Mistakes have happened with either friendlies entering kill boxes by mistake or forward air controllers giving an all clear with wrong reference points. In 1991 one F-16 acting as FAC gave A-10s an all clear to attack as there were no friendlies within 6 miles of a burning tank, but the A-10s were probably looking at other burning tank and hit British friendlies. Also in 1991 the forward observers called in for an attack on an Iraqi vehicle, the A-10 strafed their observation post instead of the vehicle.
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The defenses are just a way to delay and line up the enemy for ATGMs and artillery. Russian telegrams actually criticized how poorly built the defenses were. They're hard to cross because they are under fire. But the construction was awarded to civilian contractors rather than military engineers.
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@andrewpease3688 What's the point of solid defenses when they're built on the wrong side of a slope? The Telegram post by Rusich (who are rabid haters of Ukrainians) has detailed explanations of defenses that make no sense. What's the point of a fortified shooting position if you're looking at dirt? The enemy will use the slope as terrain masking and get close enough to shoot at you inside your defenses. You know how in the Normandy landing scenes in videogames and movies the Germans have bunkers with slits facing the beaches so they can shoot? You build those on elevation and facing the beach. Not on low ground and facing a rock wall. It's an extreme example but just trying to make a point. A thick steel door. Okay. That's good anti-theft stuff. Not really what's gonna save people from artillery, FPV drones, etc.
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The problem is that you cannot create competition. Gab is a twitter competitor and they were threatened with getting kicked out of their servers if they did not ban a person. Credit card companies can also sever ties, crippling businesses that do not obey the narrative. I think AT&T should have the right to deny you a phone line. But they shouldn't have the right to deny you an alternative.
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Does it work in Brazil? No, criminals make their firearms at home. Despite having 20x less guns, Brazil has much more gun murder.
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@jhedrich Russian MoD announced a complete withdrawal from Kharkiv Oblast.
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How are they dominating? They're sending human wave attacks. They're not holding back, they're constantly running out of ammo and need to stop to replenish supplies. The craters in Energodar confirm Russia is shelling the plant as a false flag.
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They won't be used for that. And those drones are upwards of 100k. 20k USD doesn't even cover the components.
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@beefsuprem0241 Shooting down 4-5 million dollar missiles, and also integrating with the system as a whole. Force multiplier.
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Late stage? We're just getting started.
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Ukraine lost plenty of territory in the north. Russians gave it back. The Soviet Union also lost territory in WW2. Germany gave it back.
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Funny how the recent events have caused people to recontextualize WW2 as a race war against The Eternal German.
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@hanSolo508 It's funny because I used to think people like Curtis Yarvin were nuts for saying it, but now I see they have a point. You think the anti-German sentiment wasn't propaganda too?
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@jorgea.coronado4389 So does alcohol and nobody bats an eye.
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Ah mommy you’re too tight For me! learn the consequences of fighting a War on Drugs and the drugs winning.
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@streeterville773 lmao "this guys are definitely pervs but all the others? Nope taje your meds" "all your claims are true and verifiable? Take your meds"
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@wedgeantilles8575 Proving. Not "proofing". Looking at what facts? Claim victory, enemy has massive losses, then they miraculously win.
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You see, if you're not on the cool kids' club using an unsecured email gets you in trouble. Meanwhile politicians leak secrets all the time because they're too stupid to use a computer.
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@purpleslog A minor that lied about her age and signed up for an online meetup service. I don't like prostitution but honestly you people actually make me feel you deserve to get trapped just like Wilson got just to get a taste of how justice works.
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"I didn't know it was about being aroused" Who said such a thing? "as opposed to their snatch and ass" I think the point is that breasts are relatively benign unless they lactate. They're not primary sexual characteristics. Basically, anything that can be fitted with a condom or secretes some sort of fluid that might transmit desieses. I wouldn't be offended by a waiter bringing soup with the tits out. I would fear getting ball sweat or snatch juice from a crotchless male/female waiter.
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On economics, it's Yeltsin that deserves the blame. He wouldn't enforce the required reforms to align the economy which allowed Soviet-era politicians to continue to apply their antiquated policies and going money printer go BRRRR as a way to solve their problems. And most importantly, he sold off nationalized industry for peanuts in a fraudulent privatization scheme.
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Finding it is a PITA but with the PW 100-229 (I think that's the model) there's been one F-15 airfame loss from Class A mishap and zero F-16 losses from Class A mishaps.
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No. A plane suffered a collision.
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@eddiedehkordi4639 From where I'm standing, a pilot successfully defended his home country. Did Erich Hartmann ever get shot down by Soviets?
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 @waveslizz726 Don't change the subject.
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 @mzk-1337 there's tons of antisemitic comments here
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@ЕвгенийПершин-е1ь Nobody listens to Russia because they lied too many times. For example MH17. Russia said it was a Ukrainian Su-25 (ground attack aircraft) that shot it down, that a Ukrainian Buk missile shot it down, that it was a CIA bomb inside the plane, that the plane was loaded with corpses, etc. When the IAEA was inspecting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and noticed the rocket bodies stuck on the ground pointed at Russia's side, the Russian atomic energy representative tried to convince them the rockets spin 180° before hitting the ground. At some point people stop listening.
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 @JD-tn5lz You do realize we have the footage of the attacks at Vuhledar, right? There's no 40 tanks.
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@chistudentnels People entering others' houses get ventilated. People brandishing guns get ventilated.
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And then immediately retire it after billions spent because they're 30 years past the expiration date. They're old. Aircraft can't fly forever unless you Ship of Theseus them.
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400 HIMARS destroyed, 1 USS George Bush, 3 Zelenskys and 1 Boris Johnson.
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Caps Lock is cruise control for cool.
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They never cared about that. That's just justification for the people - make them fear external threat to consolidate power.
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I've also seen "then vs today" pictures of the land taken by Russia from Finland, a church bombed during WW2 is still in the same state nearly 80 years later.
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They really can't. Air defense and the European theater are not under the same area of responsability. Same as the Pacific, Africa or the Middle East. The US has separate command and control for those regions.
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Attention divided with the fall of Libya, Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS.
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They weren't proven wrong, though. The Phantom got 90% of kills by missile.
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@mikes989 The deaths in Odessa were caused by a pro-Russia activist firing an AK at Ukrainians before a football game. The figthing ended in tragedy because the police was suspiciously told to stand down when the Russian gunned down the crowd.
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But Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo would easily argue that cheating and piracy would go out of control, defeating the purpose of the console versus buying any other media system.
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And that makes bullets tickle, right? No, it's still a potential weapon in case the owner decides to use it in that way, and the owner only has to unlock the safe, take the gun to the range, buy ammo for practice and pull off a Terminator on everyone around hm. Yet it doesn't happen.
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@javier14966 Technology Connections debunked the lightbulb cartel myth. They agreed to have a limited lifespan to maximize light output and energy efficiency. The alternative was lightbulbs that consumed too much energy and barely lit the room.
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 @majkatrojedjece6585 that old lightbulb is awful. Dim as hell.
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He won't be so lucky next time.
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Not really. If you look at Desert Storm figures alone, the A-10 did around 8,000 sorties and six were shot down, while F-16s did 12,000 sorties I think with only three shot down.
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@prosvet123 Russia is fighting with Russian troops. The US isn't.
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Almost nobody sits on a dragon's hoard because money loses value to inflation. Almost all rich people's "wealth" is tied to investments, and is contingent in others seeing their investments as valuable. It's like boogie "losing" 750k, he never lost that money, his crypto was at one point evaluated as being worth 750k but he never had that money so it could be his to lose.
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@chemicalfrankie1030 All I'm hearing is that energy costs would be 10x cheaper if we started banning activities that don't matter.
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You can visually identify beyond visual range thanks to electro-optical systems.
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@nicolaeionescu6538 Can't jam the visual spectrum.
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A billion is enough to pay the wages of maybe like 100,000 people. In a country with over a billion. That's significant, but chump change in the grand scheme of things.
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Your comment is still here.
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Trump told the Germans to stop buying Russian gas. Some friend...
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Fuck they're gonna have to put a Dream mask on Payday 3.
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If they want to do good, they have weapons and know the addresses of the people oppressing us. Until they stop following orders... road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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@Moskal91 No. They denied the existence of bioweapons. If you look at the Russian delegation in the UN even they have recanted and accepted that Ukraine just had normal biolabs with dangerous pathogens (which every biolab has) and didn't gather any evidence of bioweapons. Even the Russian government admits it, but then lies to you with fake news.
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@Moskal91 I don't watch the news. Got any more fallacious arguments to compensate for the fact that you have nothing worth saying?
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Pratt & Whitney developed the swivelling nozzle back in the '60s for the Convair Model 200. They didn't even need to see the idea because the idea came from American research in the first place.
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 @aradwolf8480 It wasn't a miracle, Saudis can't fight. There's videos of them hiding behind rocks in mountains while Houthis run up up them and start popping them almost execution style.
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That's the most likely. Germany won't even surplus flecktarn camo, don't expect them to ever sell the parts kits to the civilian market.
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Those soldiers aren't going home, they're going to the next human wave attack against Bakhmut.
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That's crazy. Last I checked he was posting about a [1940'S EVENT] denialist but the comments were full of fanboys saying he didn't debunk anything and was just smearing the dude.
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 @regionalangel 1. It isn't. 2. Giving a group of people that power is nonsensical. It's a Mexican standoff of people calling each other out for -isms.
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I sure as hell wouldn't drink water from a dehumidifier but knowing how people are, I'd put warning labels over my shit too. Use your filter because I'm not responsible for a shitty installation killing people with legionella.
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They're meant to pull the pins when surrendering.
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Each Switchblade system includes the firing unit and multiple drones.
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The vaccinated still have to wear masks.
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Not true. Stop listening to propaganda.
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@That-guy-there1 Because puberty makes boys look like men. You wanted to know why, the reason is that simple. Leo DiCaprio is weird for not dating women under 25 but it's legal. James Charles is weird because he essentially admitted the same, he sees 21-22 as the limit for men. Still legal. But when it comes to stopping puberty... the age has to be lower.
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 @ElCringetrollOne that's a cop out. Criminals have used fancy equipment to target regular joes.
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Kasparov is anti-Putin.
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The point of denying resources to Ukraine was remaining a top seller of fossil fuels to Europe. Now Europe is trying to become independent of Russian fossil fuels. Their oligarchs suffered tremedous losses as much of their wealth was in the West, and we seized their money and assets.
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@cdubsoptional7849 They keep a worthless, destroyed Ukraine and lose the income from the fossil fuels. India and China are bending Russia over a barrel, pun intended, by demanding 20-30% discounts on the fossil fuel sales. They're driving Russia into poverty and Putin has no choice but to take it and sell more volume to make up for lost revenue.
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"another country is marching wanted to defeat you" - they are DEFENDING their homeland that Russia invaded! And in the US you can openly support the Taliban or Iran.
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Guess you found your new religion.
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Lmao I'm looking forward to the Dragon being bled dry trying to hold that place.
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@ivanoranrof9577 Source on the jamming thing?
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@TheRowlandstone73 "yet he thinks aircraft carriers these days can't discern whether the objects hovering over them are fucking drones or not" - Not through radar.
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Not true. How would Marines even fly A-10s off amphibious assault ships? They had the Harrier and now the F-35B.
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+Adam K aren't you being the racist for implying that people living in non-white neighbourhoods (non-whites) are too dangerous to own guns while people who live in white neighbourhoods (whites) don't create as much danger when armed?
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@jlucmonag5712 Grads are manually aimed, take time to set up, they rock like a boat when firing so the rockets land wherever, and take 20 minutes to reload. Not to mention that the HIMARS has double the range. In the time it takes to stop a BM-21 and start the process to aim it at the intended target, an HIMARS can just drive to a position, stop, fire, and move out. The rocket pods also take 5 minutes to reload. Given an infinite supply of rockets, a single HIMARS could destroy an infinite amount of Grads by simply staying out of range, firing, and moving. It would only have to stop due to maintenance.
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 @dizzyduck4935 So? The answer is to ruin your own life by going down for murder?
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 @KyoushaPumpItUp If F-16 pilots can handle it, why would the F-35 with superior SA have a higher workload? Forget AI. 80s and 90s tech was able to pull it off.
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And your parents compared going to a party to jumping off a cliff. It's not a direct analogy or even a comparison, it's just the point that other people don't know what's best for us. >cars have laws I can buy and drive one in my property without licensing or registration. Just like guns. >seat belt Stop the "hurr durr oppression" argument. Plus, seat belt laws are stupid and Germany has unrestricted autobahns. >friggin gun Friggin hammer. Friggin knife. Friggin fertilizer.
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@nayyarrashid4661 Irrelevant. Those weapons are manufactured whether there's a war or not. The point is that a country is not secure if it depends on foreign adversaries for all the auxiliary materials.
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Just stood there boxing and outstruck his opponent, yes. That's a main criteria to award rounds.
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If you're in that situation, it doesn't matter - the enemy is well within kill range.
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 @andrewrogers3067 Russian abortion rates due to Soviet system were not capitalism's fault.
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Antibody levels do wear off. They have a half-life period that essentially puts you at a very low level at 6-8 months after your second shot. So it does wear off.
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@onemirrorseesitsself Even Moderna has admitted it now. Some people always want to skate uphill. It's not only "seniors" who "didn't get the spacing". It's everyone. They're just doing boosters for the vulnerable because there's not enough stock to go around.
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There's not enough LNG ships to handle that surplus. China also needs energy.
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How's Lyman?
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@crusher8017 Good luck getting the extra barrel from the armory. Not all AR variants have the forward assist by the way. They're less common now as newer weapons are added to inventory and the older ones retired but the US Air Force had uppers without them. If you talk to USAF personnel that served in the 2010s some of them will tell you they were issued the old GAU uppers.
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@crusher8017 What does the Forward Assist have to do with this conversation? Easily swappable barrels are a non factor, FA isn't actually needed if you think about it.
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Nobody wants to take over Russia. It's full of Russians, which drives down the real estate value. Their military is weaker. They lost most of the repairable Soviet stockpiles, and their professional military had to be replaced by convicts and mobilized men.
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@BertoxolusThePuzzled You cannot in good faith promote house ownership as an investment in a discussion about affordable housing. Home ownership is a good investment precisely because the scarcity drives prices up.
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@BertoxolusThePuzzled You're giving financial advice, which isn't the point. This is about affordable housing. If you get that 50k trailer home but the people here in this thread get what they want, your trailer home will be 25k and you get stuck holding the bag. Trying to promote homeownership as an investment as one of the benefits of affordable housing is contradictory.
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If the logos were not IR reflective, they can't be seen at night. Ever seen non IR treated camouflage under night vision? Especially desert camouflage? You look like you're wearing a white pijama. The blobs of dye that are supposed to make you hard to see vanish, because the entire uniform reflects the same "color".
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US drones have been hacked. Seems like keeping a human in the loop still has its advantages.
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 @Quarckster Ted Kaczynski also known as the Unabomber. The internet calls him Uncle Ted. Recently died in prison.
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Those neighbors are harming the nation. Anti-war Russians are saving their own nation.
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The missiles are connected via plugs. Usually called "umbilical".
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You don't understand. I can't drive over the speed limit, yet we don't punish those who have cars who can go over the speed limit. You can't punch people to death, yet your tendons aren't cut at birth to prevent you from making a fist. No law against crime has ever punished the general populace. Is your day hindered because you can't sell drugs? Because you can't run over people on your way to work? How are those laws punishing you right now?
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They don't make stuff people can't afford. Prices of consumer goods have been falling for decades. College isn't "made". It's a service and the government's policies increased its cost by trying to reduce it, while not compensating with an increase in supply.
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@tushargaddi6640 Last time I checked you're not forced to get a degree, there's cheap cars everywhere and if housing is too high where you live maybe look in another area. Debt isn't an inherently bad thing. Increase the supply? Okay. Even more useless degrees. Already half of college graduates work in jobs they didn't need the degree for. But sure, let's increase the supply. Don't ask me. Ask the government to make it easier to get higher education establishments accredited rather than gatekeeping. If you're paying through taxes, it's not free. It's the same as debt, you're paying in installments.
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@tushargaddi6640 The issue is that you started off with a pseudo-intellectual take and now you just seem angry that you're not getting free stuff. The government doesn't make the vast majority of products. So the concept that the state simply altered the deal falls flat on its face right off the bat. It's nonsense. Most people live paycheck to paycheck, independently of economic status. The people who make more money, simply spend more money. This is just careful application of statistics to create a narrative. You missed the point. There is virtually no difference between being chained to debt or to taxation. If you think missing a payment to the bank will end you, try to stop paying taxes. War production. Okay, I didn't know that if you get an engineering degree and end up working at a canning or bottling factory, that's war production. I didn't know that getting a medical degree and working at a clinic was war production. Okay, you have the option of college - pick a degree that makes financial sense, and those "good jobs" will pay your tuition debt easily. A degree is worth it if you plan to work a job that literally requires it. If you take a degree in feminist dance therapy and end up working as a bartender... You just took on negative wealth for a job that didn't require it. I know about Smedley Butler. I'm not defending wars, I just dislike seeing people who apparently forgot their lifestyle requires the consumption of materials and others' labor and complain that there is a cost to it.
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@tushargaddi6640 The top income brackets pay 75% of the taxes in the US. I'm not defending bailouts. Stick to the topic. Minimum wage was literally put in place by eugenicists to erase the poor from society. I've worked jobs that were mentally and physically taxing. You know what also is taxing? Living off nature. If you weren't playing this game you'd be hunting wooly mammoths and picking berries. I don't care about welfare abuse. It's stolen money anyway, the more people steal from thieves the better. You have no idea how much money a state costs to run, do you? Let's assume a 700 billion military budget. 1 to 10% of that is 7 to 70 billion. The Department of Education spent 204 billion in FY2020. Medicare and Medicaid had a combined total of around 1.300 billion. Social Security is around 1.100 billion. 70 billion won't cover what you're asking, let alone 7. In fact, you could eliminate the DoD entirely and still not get enough money to cover what you're asking for.
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Wasn't the antisemitism thing a slander started by communist unions when they had a dispute? The rest I agree with, though.
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False. Congressmen have kept the A-10 on life support since the 1990s.
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That's not what happened. Congress is the sole government agency keeping the A-10 in service by refusing to authorize the retirement.
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They actually look like the Hind A with the special ed flat diamond canopy rather than the bubbly canopies of later models. They must have started production of the props following images they had of early Hind models and the helicopters retroactively look worse because as time passed more people recognize the Hind by the bubble canopy.
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They turn in the vest because it was issued. If they ask to wear a personal item and buy their own, it's theirs.
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The US didn't stop any gas. Germany refused to certify NS1 and Russia halted deliveries on NS1.
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@jhpfdijtuiweruot Usually an internet provider needs to lay cable, which can be a very expensive process. To the point that there's small town ISPs who rent out the 4G signal from nearby towers just to get better internet than dial-up or the weakest possible broadband. With Starlink, they have managed to provide high speeds to places where it's not available or it's simply unaffordable.
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@jhpfdijtuiweruot Depending where you live, Starlink can be cheaper and much faster. "All the other companies" are often not using towers but cable. Getting 4G from towers often requires repeaters in very rural areas because each tower has a range limit.
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@jhpfdijtuiweruot I have no idea if they use towers, I've never seen a starlink ground station. What I know is that towers have limited range and you cannot get Starlink like service from non-Starlink. Magic invisible satellites have provided internet for like 20 years. It sucked. Starlink satellites are actually visible. People who take night sky photography actually complain about Starlink ruining long exposure shots.
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@jhpfdijtuiweruot how you crammed SJWs into this topic is anyone's guess, but I assume it's related to lack of meds
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"so they can free up 300k already in service and ready to fight soldiers" - Just stop. Russia already did that. They tried to play it cool and pretending everything was fine. There's no "300k already in service". They already got sent into Ukraine. Now the mobilized are also going to Ukraine.
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Says who? I'd put money on a F-35 anyway. The report was debunked. It was an experimental test airframe loaded with outdated control software. A F-16 today still flies like a F-16 from 2015. A F-35 today is much more capable than a 2015 F-35. It's not a sluggish airplane.
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 @paulhare662 planes slaughtered Taliban without breaking a sweat, but that's not here nor there.
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I agree, it's a stupid war. We need Ukraine to deliver a knockout blow and end this.
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40k wouldn't even cover a pair of ring laser gyros.
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Alpha emitters are blocked by clothing and skin. Once alpha emitters are inside the body they can penetrate the cells!
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Billions spent on homelessness in the US, nothing gets done. Billions sent to Ukraine, they destroy a major military threat. Maybe the homeless should make themselves useful like the Ukrainians.
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@andreivaldez2929 What's replacing it?
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Yeah you had to go to the train tracks to find discarded magazines.
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So not only are you simping for totalitarian thugs, you're forgetting the Yellow Vests protests.
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Serbs and Croats are African?
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Ukraine isn't bombing "outgroups" they're fighting foreign invaders. The separatists in 2014 were Russians and FSB agents.
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You could say he was embarRICEd...
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Jim Caviezel.
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How would the homeless use armored cars and artillery shells?
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@jimmyc974 That didn't happen. Only 21 deaths occurred in 2021, and less than 100 deaths for most of the 2010s. Only 2014 and 2015 had over a thousand deaths, and most were combatants. Most civilian deaths were from landmines or unexploded ordnance.
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"The Russians, DPR and LPR have almost secured this" - Not really. Ukraine can reach as far as Crimea, meaning that whatever Russia wants, it needs a 200km buffer around it. Securing the Donbas means conquering most of Ukraine or else they cannot avoid attacks.
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A lot of professions do not involve direct competition, and when they do the individuals are hardly to blame.
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@sockpastarock7082 You don't perform "extremely well" by being blessed with geographical and demographic advantages and a sudden 180º in narrative to give you an off ramp. An outlier that cannot be replicated anywhere else is easily understood - we can't do what they did because we're not them.
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@sockpastarock7082 Nobody said "perfectly". You can't even imperfectly replicate their results. Which aren't phenomenal. They were dealt a lucky hand. There's no strawman. Understanding the factors of NZ? They're NZ. Nobody else is NZ. And their results aren't phenomenal, just expected. What's effective? Huge natural barriers and putting your country inside a bubble. We replicated those factors to the best of our ability, and it didn't work. We can't put a bubble on Spain and a bubble on Germany and a bubble on France. We replicated them by probably 80-90% in Europe. That's better than 0%. We couldn't replicate the results. We aimed to do what they did. Didn't work. Being proactive aligned with what I wanted. But I was called a racist for it. So you can take your proactivity and [REDACTED] on those people who called me racist. Sideways. Do not point the finger at me, and you do not assume things about me. I've had enough of you people, who conveniently forgot how early 2020 went down. The data shows that they were in a naturally priviledged position. You're looking at petri dishes and trying to toss out the ones where the hypothesis wasn't confirmed. Maybe consider that one of the petri dishes was tampered with rather than assume that your experiment was a success. That's real science. Controlling for variables. You want to take raw data and take conclusions from it. Pure "correlation equals causation". That's not science.
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@sockpastarock7082 "This makes it easier for them to effectively implement lockdowns on international travel because they only need to primarily secure a few distinct airports and sea ports rather than an entire border as well" - This only matters if we're unironically declaring that the pandemic exploded because people in continents such as Europe and Asia got infected and kept crossing borders. Even if people crossed borders, they still had to abide by social distancing rules, curfews and stay at home orders. "if you are willing to present this as a significant factor to their performance then you must concede that, fundamentally, lockdowns are highly effective in this capacity" - No. Because your argument implies the scenario I described above. Not only we'd need a large amount of people immigrating illegally for whatever reason, finding housing/lodging despite most hotels being forced to close, we also need them to then somehow get to population centers and then start breaking the rules to infect others. "you present a false comparison with other measures which were not implemented as proactively or as effectively" - If you can do it "effectively" in NZ but ineffectively in other countries that's not a scientific problem. "had large demonstrations of civil disobedience inline with right wing propoganda about the virus being a hoax" - Did you miss the part where doctors and "experts" said that BLM protests would not cause greater spread of the virus? Do not make this about politics, this is the point where I suggest you take your own advice. You must think people don't have a memory. Also, you seem to think I'm American. Those "right wing" protests didn't happen in most countries where your policies failed. "it is not evidence that fire extinguishers are not effective" - If fire extinguishers fail 99% of the time, pointing to one case where it worked doesn't mean everything's fine. Back to the drawing board, you need to redesign the fire extinguisher because they're failing the real life application.
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@sockpastarock7082 Yes, it does. You pinned the transmission rate on uncontrolled immigration. This makes no sense. Stopping international travel eliminates the source of spread. Lockdowns cannot control spread and have a tremendous toll on quality of life, health and the economy. We now know that stopping international spread was impossible since the stuff was in Europe and South America in late 2019.
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@sockpastarock7082 Not having a source of spread prevents spread. Lockdown when the source is already within the community is folly.
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You wouldn't use MANPADS against a stealth fighter.
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 @imeakpan I really isn't, shill.
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@brostoevsky22 Russians would use their neural networks against me, Americans would use their neutal networks to defend me. "Buh buh but the double standard" one side would kill me if given the chance. Yes, I want to win in a conflict against Russia after they made it clear I'd be next after Ukraine.
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 @seancidy6008 Ukraine got a security guarantee from the US and Russia in 1994.
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Do you have a death wish? When the stuff gets inside your cells to produce the protein, it forces the immune system to seek the hijacked cells and use lymphocytes to destroy them. We know the stuff doesn't all stay in the shoulder and it ends up on other organs (like ovaries, which is why some women had heavy periods after the shot). If it ends up in your heart, your immune system will start attacking the heart cells.
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Only 8 thousand. That's not enough
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Excuse me? My people were enslaved and colonized by people from Africa. We beat them back. It took us seven centuries to get our entire land back. Don't make up excuses because I don't either.
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@tyme5514 It's an excuse. Russia was also an imperialist and colonial force. You're just happy it didn't happy to you, which is plain hypocrisy. When you make such "preferences" you deserve exactly what the empire is planning to do.
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@tyme5514 Russia backed the communists who helped keep African countries down. Libya is a success story surrounded by failures. Thanks to Marxist-Leninists backed by Russia and Maoists backed by China.
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El-ahrairah Yang is a neo-libertarian?
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El-ahrairah that's not libertarianism. Sorry, but his ideas require the use of state force which goes against libertarianism. Also, I'm pretty sure that Milton Friedman did not advocate for a UBI but a negative tax rate but I could be misremembering.
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El-ahrairah That's not UBI. Without looking it up I am still pretty sure it was a negative income tax. It was not universal and it was not basic income. Friedman's idea is simply to get some free market traction is an inherently "unfree" government project. Yang's UBI is not a libertarian idea, it's an inherently anti-libertarian and progressive idea - the usage of taxation as a wealth-redistribution mechanism and the transformation of the state into a primary "caregiver" by giving people a basic income is anti-libertarian. It differs from an auth-leftist ideal of fully state controlled services but it is still a progressive idea. "a focus on personal wealth as a solution to all problems, is clearly a libertarian concept." - then you misunderstand libertarianism. Libertarianism is not about wealth. It's about rejecting the legitimacy of the state, the boiling down of state agency a simply the use of violence through armed enforcers (police, federal agencies, military) and how the government infringes on people's rights by injecting itself into voluntary transactions. Libertarian comes from "Liber", latin for "free". "Right, this is why libertarianism is a bit of a joke right?" - yeah, it's a joke. Because people have essentially been raised in an environment where they are taught that the government is good and justified in everything it does. And somehow, we have been convinced that government agency is benevolent even though ALL government is enforced at gunpoint.
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Insert "never learn Mandarin" 4chan copypasta. I actually suggest you look it up and read it.
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 @DCresident123 Azov changed their logos. Ever heard of that? Bot.
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@ckdub1888 That's just ChatGPT. It spits out garbage and if you confront it, it apologizes. ChatGPT doesn't think. It just assigns values to words. If you ask how many Rs in "strawberry" it says two. If you ask how many Rs in S T R A W B E R R Y it says three. Because of how spelling it out assigns different numerical values.
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The wild west wasn't the "wild west". Unless you use Hollywood movies as research references.
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Ukrainian missiles depleted, Russian men depleted. You don't win the war by making Ukraine run out of SAMs when they're making you run out of men first.
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What a weird metric. If he had a real job he'd have been fired. He only had "success" by thriving on something you can't take away. Easy test - James Gunn getting fired by Disney. Was he "cancelled"?
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@guillermoelnino They wouldn't surrender. Zelensky can't. 85% of his own people want revenge, they want the Russian army to be broken and Crimea retaken.
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@eca3101 yeah I just got to that part of the video 😂 how the hell did that happen?
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The orders were not legitimate.
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Afghanistan is a country most Afghans don't care much for, their tribal culture being more important than whoever holds office in Kabul. Kabul cannot control those tribal regions. Iraq had the Sunni/Shia split exploited by the Ba'ath Party loyalists and Iran backed militias. Tons of men without jobs fought for money, and most people on the top were fine with making Iraq unstable and cause hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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@argentsoultheautist All weapons have been used in war, you're going to have to be more specific. Also you can own ARs in Cali, you just have to do silly mods to them.
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NATO has not yet sent a single western tank or jet or naval asset yet you people claim we're running out of weapons. We sent Cold War stocks and former Soviet weapons. M113s and GWOT MRAPs. The only weapons we could run out are Javelins and Stingers which aren't a problem.
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@antonyjh1234 I know who he is. He is a war criminal who steals dead bodies to stage scenes. I know more than you.
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They have the Soviet A-10 aka the Su-25 and yet they use small commercial drones instead. What does that tell you?
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@hansreichhardtsohn4522 Wait, but didn't Assange deny Russian involvement in the e-mails?
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The Houthis are being spared because the Democrats need a demographic to vote.
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 @tbe0116 The radar data wasn't released and the FLIR videos don't match the claims.
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@blahblah49000 There's no evidence of radar track that matches the FLIR footage. If you're going to have corroborating evidence mentioned, you have to present it. We have heard of a radar track showing an instantaneous drop from 70-80 thousand feet to sea level. But that wasn't captured on FLIR. We can't put those things together.
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Didn't you hear the recorded conversations with people working at J&J? Kids should not take it.
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@sdrawkcabUK I don't know that much about Australia so I'll talk about what I know. For whatever reason, airsoft is banned. There's a 15 min video of a guy from the Liberal party grilling some government dork over why exactly airsoft is banned, it's not banned, but you can't import, so it's banned, it's a complete flustercluck. Australians say "fine we can't play airsoft so we'll play with these gel balls". Government bans the gel blasters. I think there's still a state where its not banned but the details are irrelevant. Not content with controlling real guns, which is beside the point right now, they also have to come after toy guns. And when people find an alternative, the Australian government (or at least state governments) gets absolutely assblasted that people DARED to have fun with gun-looking toys. Now I'm obviously into airsoft so this doesn't resonate with most people but one or two years ago they also wanted to ban cash transactions over 10,000 Australian dollars. Whatever, this doesn't affect most people. But that's the thing. It doesn't affect most people. So next time they'll ban 5,000 dollar transactions. By that time people are less reliant on cash so most people aren't affected. This goes on and on. Meanwhile the real white collar criminals are swindling MILLIONS through electronic means while Joe Public won't even get a 6 pack of beer without having the transaction logged by the bank. Sorry for the rant but even my surface level knowledge of Australia allows me to see the same hysterical over-reaction to everything. It's a thousand-pronged attack on every freedom a citizen can have but it starts off with things that don't affect most people, like toy guns or large cash transactions.
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@olzt100 How are earplugs not relatable to vaccines? The military makes soldiers do things, negative consequences happen. Bullets and bombs are the nature of the beast. Being forced to whiff toxic fumes from burn pits isn't. Nobody's complaining about vaccines? Huuuuhhhh there was plenty of complaining about forced vaccination with vaccines that had not yet received approval from the FDA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax_Vaccine_Immunization_Program "So again, is it smart to injure your military?" - The amount of people who injure their backs and knees in the military should invalidate this question. Whether it is smart or not doesn't matter, they do it anyway.
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@olzt100 Buddy if you know there's people who are allergic to peanuts you don't force people to eat peanut butter under threat of losing their job through medical discharge.
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@olzt100 My point is that in the military you can't refuse to get vaccinated. You don't know if you're allergic until you get it, and the whole point was that the military was getting troops vaccinated with something before FDA approval. I have no idea if anyone will be mandated to take this vaccine, but there's already talks of ticket sales to concerts and travel being restricted with people who have been vaccinated. Essentially not mandating it, but making it almost required to live a normal life. I had a surgery a few months ago. I had the choice to not do it, but I would be risking losing a body part. I didn't want to risk losing it. This vaccine gives me absolutely no benefit. I'm not gonna lose my life or limb to this coof - and either way I'm probably naturally immune because I've had long unprotected exposures to people who tested positive. I have a relative over 80 years old and with several preexisting conditions and he fugging tanked it. Barely even noticed he was sick. Excuse me but I'm not gonna risk a 0.01% chance of a negative side effect when I have a 0.00000000000001% chance of getting killed by this sh1t.
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Russian pilots have less hours per year than what is considered the limit to be proficient.
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@jacksmith-mu3ee Because you can repair stuff with common parts. It's not uncommon in the car world for different models to use the same parts. For example while the Smart ForTwo was designed from scratch, the Smart ForFour was based on the Mitsubishi Colt chassis.
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Violence does solve violence - use enough of it to stop the person bringing the violence and peace will come.
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@pw2487 It's incredibly easy - which is why Russian simps talk tough online but in real life the Russians are fleeing their country to avoid the war.
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@jimmehjiimmeehh9748 And there were 4.5 million libertarian votes in 2016. Which means that libertarians went to vote en-masse for the two parties. Your argument that the LP was the spoiler vote in 2020 doesn't make any sense.
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CSGO doesn't give you money for skins. Third party gambling sites do that.
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It didn't. It turned sideways which is a common occurence with rifle bullets.
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Seymour Hersh has been lying for the past 30 years. Making up war crimes in Desert Storm and inventing abuse scenarios that never happened for Abu Ghraib.
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@vasilijevukadinovic6843 So now you trust the newspapers? What size are the families? Just parents and children? Do cousins count?
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Belarus can't activate the nuke.
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How did your car handle the weight of your massive brass cojones?
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Jack Northrop. The Horten Ho 229 could never be stealth with those exposed engines.
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@ROGER2095 the RBMK reactors kept being used with some added safeties, Chernobyl's engineering could have survived if it wasn't for plain old Soviet incompetence. The plant was operational even though it was behind on safety testing. Obviously the plant manager wanted the tests to be rushed because everything is based on lying to higher ups. They screwed around with power generation before the tests because it was the end of the month and factories needed to fill quotas. The inherent danger of the design was theorized by scientists but the paper suppressed by Soviet censorship. So when the Xenon poisioned reactor was about to stall they pulled out as many of the control rods as possible to surge the power back up, and doing so triggered the positive void coefficient as the water turned to steam. The scramming procedure forced the graphite to go through the part of the reactor that was going out of control before the boron neutron absorber control rod could tame the reaction.
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The F-16 does more CAS than the A-10. The A-10 suffered a huge setback in 1991 with 7 A-10s and OA-10s lost. It's vulnerable and only renained relevant by cramming it with the avionics multiroles already have, meaning everything it can do is also based on the capabilities of other aircraft. It's not "compromised". The other variants have no dead weight, more fuel and a slightly larger weapons bay. Rotary with and fixed wing have very different flight evelopes.
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misarthim 6 It shouldn't be reconsidered, the potential to launch fixed wing aircraft from LHA carriers is a great force multiplier.
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misarthim 6 Again, if fixed wing close air support can only be launched off decks by catapults you're doing the opposite of force multiplying, you're dividing at that point. STOVL allows take off from short decks in helicopter carriers. Without STOVL there's no way to square that circle.
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@dobianuli2742 Almost nobody was being killed in Donbas, most casualties were from forgotten landmines and shells that impacted the dirt without detonating.
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@dobianuli2742 It's not dramatist. The cheap gas was contingent on looking the other way while Russia invaded. Germany is a sovereign state. Cope about it, Ivan. See you on the next drone compilation.
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@lmblueline4470 cheers, I'll drink to that
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More like "Oceanfront Property"
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So if the kid misbehaves in a thousand different ways, a good way of raising him or her is making them afraid of a thousand things by associating it to pain.
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Projection.
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"How is this going to affect LeBron's legacy?"
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@battleburger Not only did nearly every government representative discourage it (it's even technically illegal) the definition of mercenary requires him to be paid more than a regular soldier. Russia does offer lucrative mercenary contracts to foreigners. In Ukraine, foreigners sign a contract with the Ukrainian military and are treated as Ukrainians earning the same pay. Much like France has a foreign legion which is NOT a mercenary force.
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"Controlling the number of doctors in our communities according to rules of supply and demand is probably the wrong way to handle access to health care." - The other way around. Supply and demand would solve the issue. The attempt to limit the supply side and increase profits by manipulating the market in unnatural ways is what lead to the modern issues with healthcare in America.
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They're trying to phase them out because there's a lack of parts. It's an ancient aircraft. The manufacturer doesn't exist anymore. Helicopters can hover behind objects for safety. A-10s need to expose themselves to attack.
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The satellite pictures of Russian artillery are available for everyone to see, they fire more but the majority hits empty fields.
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The Badman because it had concrete support, and concrete resists the temperature better than steel. It can still fall like it happened in Teheran, but it's better protected.
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 @MartinWillett there was a Cold War
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Cody Wilson's kind of printer is worth 2.5k USD used. 5k new.
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God clearly hates them. God is awarding Ukraine the victories it needs to obliterate Tucker and MacGregor's paychecks. God is clearly on a mission to smite Russia.
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@ichraumauf5532 I'll be honest, it wore me down in 2020. In 2021? It gives me energy. They wanted a war? Big mistake.
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No. Powering the entire planet is a tremendously complex ordeal. It's not buttering a toast.
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@antoinedoinell Obama "pulled the trigger" by ordering several drone strikes (and before someone mentions it Trump has ordered too, shut up). A gun store sells you a gun, there's a 99.99% chance that gun won't ever kill anyone. You sell weapons to warring nations, don't get surprised they use them.
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@BARelement "Acts as if every president didn't sell the Saudis till Obama" - except that the argument was about getting Nobel Peace Prizes. Not every President gets one.
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@BARelement the thread started with the topic of the Nobel peace prize. Read again.
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@BARelement what the hell does slavery have to do with this thread?
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Cope. "Ancient" radar systems are meant for early warning detection and not weapons grade tracking, and thus use bands that are less affected by stealth but do nothing to help you shoot them down. If Syrian defenses are locking Israeli F-35s how come none has been brought down?
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 @Dac_DT_MKD The problem is that they break down so often, Russia had dozens sitting in repair sites waiting for parts when Ukraine retook Kharkiv.
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 @Dac_DT_MKD Most of them don't work. Out of thousands in storage, only a few hundred will be refurbished. Most don't work.
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 @heikos4264 100km would hide the helicopter behind radar horizon. Earth is curved.
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What?
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I've seen bread prices in Russia advertised with microcredit alternatives.
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Now Luhansk is threatened because of the loss of Kharkiv. No Kupiansk rail hub, Severodonetsk is threatened. It's a major victory. Luhansk will fall as a result of this offensive.
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Stop repeating the same old cope. It was a special op, which means the numbers were right. They're using the power they can. They cannot deploy more due to bottlenecks in manpower and logistics.
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@trevorcrook5753 But that "reserve" is necessary. They can't pull it out from where they are. They can't up the tempo, there's no way they can get those troops, there's no way they can deliver to them enough supplies. This isn't a computer game where you can just click and put everyone in the front.
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Despite strong economic links and culture, Hong Kong had to be subdued by force.
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They probably expected it to be a replica or unloaded.
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"Western media" you mean schizo websites complaining about "da joos" and satanists that happen to be based in Western countries
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@ronaldcross The USAF F-35A model costs around 78 million dollars. I don't see how pricetag makes an aircraft less capable, but it's not 400M.
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@hunter35474 "there were probably multiple MiGs that got away" - You can't make that assertion. You have no facts to back it up any more than I could reply by simply saying "probably not" and moving on. The earlier Phantom losses occurred when USAF Phantoms flying in blind with no radar coverage were flying at a slower pace to escort bombers and fell into ambushes where Vietnamese MiGs came around the border and did high speed passes for a hit and run attack. The MiGs got away not because of lack of guns, but because there was no chance for the F-4s to accelerate and catch up to them. Let alone get a gun kill. Not to mention that the gun kill is much more difficult to score, and airplanes carried multiple missiles. Even though failure rates were abysmal, a second missile would do a lot more than maneuvering for a gun kill. Either way, early missile failure rates were not just caused by their unreliability, but also because pilots were firing missiles outside of proper launch parameters and ground crews were mishandling the weapons. After extra training for the pilots and ground crews, the issues were not fully resolved but were greatly minimized. Phantoms flying combat patrols and looking for MiGs instead of escorting other aircraft had a good kill ratio. The gun wasn't that big of a deal. "where a gun would've given an easy kill" - Guns are not easy kills. In fact there were squadron leaders who did not authorize their pilots to fly with gun pods because they knew they did not have enough training to put them to good use. "the fact that the next generation of fighters (The Teen Series)" - Two of them are multirole fighters and thus may have to use the gun for ground strafing. One of the use of gun pods on the F-4 was actually the USMC fitting one under the belly and two under the wings to let loose on the ground. Not for air to air combat. "they DID learn their lesson" - Okay, which lesson was that? You're attributing a mostly false narrative as the reason for a decision to be made when there are more logical reasons behind that decision. While aerial gunnery is an important part of pilot training it's generally assumed that in the real world if you get into a gun fight you and your wingmen already made a series of bad decisions to let the situation get to that point. Especially with high off bore axis missiles being a thing.
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@somewhereelse1235 A country with manpower issues would have double the troops? "putting down any protest against the Ukrainian war with brutal switfness." - Their riot troops showed up with riot shields. Territorial defense showed up with guns and rocket launchers.
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Live Action Role Play
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If you want 20-20kHz of bandwidth (human hearing range), you need a sampling rate twice of the max frequency. He's a dummy thinking that humans can hear over 20kHz, especially since we lose hearing range over time (and why in the 2000s ringtone companies marketed "teens only" tones for cellphones).
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The hammer The sickle Morty, turned myself into a pickle.
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The A-10 has been mostly replaced by the other aircraft you mentioned.
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@saquist That's the biggest joke. The USAF is essentially stuck with an aircraft they have flown less and less and being forced to retire multiroles to keep an aircraft that was supposed to be retired in 1993. The A-10 is not cheap. It was an 18.8M dollar aircraft in 1972's dollars. I'll let you figure the rest out. They didn't order any more because the company that made it went out of business almost 20 years ago. There's no more. The last A-10 to come out of the assembly line did so in 1984.
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You mean that after months of people postponing their medical appointments, staff being fired, and the flu season hitting there's been a rush to the hospitals? What a surprise.
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If they see a masked guy who is't breaking into cars, it's probably him.
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@seenbot_ The whole point of a vaccine is making people unable to spread, if they're still able to spread everyone getting the vaccine makes no sense.
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Ruble is not backed by gold, the oil business is currently on the rise due to price hikes but they're selling at a discount, they don't have the infrastructure to sell to Asia to replace the European market, they need to build pipelines. You've been fooled by all the tricks of an autocratic gas station country. Meanwhile their central bank accepts a 14-17% decrease in GDP this year.
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@robshepherd3782 the US attacks infrastructure when going in to create an opening for advancing troops. Makes the war quick and less painful than a prolongued fight around the city (look at Mariupol). Russia is striking infrastructure while they retreat, they are not attacking to help their troops or to end the war, they are purposefully trying to punish Ukrainian civilians.
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@robshepherd3782 Syria, Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, the separatist republics, etc.
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@Mike Reyes they recovered something like 50% of the territory lost.
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Look up ARGs like Cicada, people plan deep.
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I don't know the dates and names but there's a battle from the US-Mexico war where an American officer is tasked with recapturing a town but due to no experience with urban fighting they marched through the main street and got ambushed. They fell back and had to ask the local militia to assist them. They kept away from the streets, advanced through house to house fighting, and knocked holes into the adobe walls to create flanking paths. Those urban warfare skills will be very important to preserve lives.
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The US relied on helicopters a lot more than Russia does.
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No. It's extremely expensive to keep flying, the deception of sweeping billion dollar contracts to rebuild entire structural components to keep aging aircraft airworthy has fooled people into thinking we have anything to gain from upgrades or research. It was originally set to be retired in the 90s, we squeezed all the juice we could. Boneyard. Now.
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Vatnik delusion
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A test with these drones showed they fly overhead and detonate the warhead to send shrapnel downwards into the target. The airfield could have been attacked but the damage being hundreds of tiny holes in the fuselage, which won't show on satellite.
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 @henrikmunch8609 Understanding chess is way more impressive than winning. We've had chess engines win at chess before, who cares?
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There's stupid people following everyone.
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I think you'd find you land on the parasite list.
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The issue is that even if the weapons were diverted, that may have been a case of military units stealing from each other rather than selling. Which is why the investigators did not find those weapons in the black market.
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@prw56 In that case, them showing up somewhere else is the true indicator. So far most "evidence" is fabricated by groups like Thief, running a fake deepweb weapon store with photos grabbed from twitter. If anything, goods flow from where they're abundant to where they're scarce. Ukraine needs weapons, there's not many who would pay more.
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 @classicgalactica5879 The Phantom scored like 90 kills out if 100 by missile.
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@sg4250 Why was a Su-35 in Italy?
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@pogo1140 But that's not true. Phantoms on MIGCAP were trading 3:1 at the start of the war. The 1:1 ratio includes ALL fixed wing aircraft. So obviously the side that was flying bombers and strike aircraft was losing to defensive fighters. Aircraft that couldn't shoot back or were heavily limited in the ability to shoot back sandbagged the ratio.
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The problem is that electro-optical tracking doesn't attract HARMs.
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@jjr1728 You're really gonna mock a man's height when Putin wears heels?
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@filmandfirearms The Ukrainian T-64 was considered too costly for the Soviet Union, which began the T-72 program to cut costs. The T-72 is a cost-cutting T-64 and the T-90 is an upgraded T-72. The Ukrainian T-64s with thermals give T-72s a run for their money. T-62s? Those are garbage.
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Refurbushment, training and logistics have to be figured out.
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But we did. We had the vulnerable with a first dose extremely quick. Then we decided to use them as a social credit score for everyone above 11 years old.
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Because there's a ton of weapons unable to penetrate T-72s and T-80s, that now can be used against T-62s.
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They're being fired in pre-programmed mode. The missiles get close to the known position of the radar by themselves, which makes detection easier. The only limit on range are the fact that they have to shoot from relatively low altitude rather than a neat straight line supersonic flight at high altitude to boost the missile further.
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The thing is that piracy is decentralized. Some people rip, others seed, others host the searchable index for magnet links, etc. And apart from some exceptions almost nobody makes money off it. This guy created a business he advertised...
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@cyan_oxy6734 Akiko Takakura survived the Hiroshima bombing only 300 meters from Ground Zero.
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The Su-75 is a plywood mock up. How the fudge is AI going to help?
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Not true lmao
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@pedroferrr1412 No, what are you smoking?
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@DLWELD How is the West being drained of military hardware? The West kept most of its tanks, aircraft, naval vessels, etc.
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@unveiledeyes6558 "the ruble and euro" - the ruble is artificially propped up. Also, a strong ruble weakens the gains from exports.
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@unveiledeyes6558 "It is an SMO, not invasion. This is a very different and important distinction." - How? They've called three phases so far, none of them seem different from an invasion or war. "Was that a purposeful display and deception on the part of the Russians." - Tell the families of the fallen that they died for a deception. Tell them. Tell them that Putin hates the Russian people so much he sends them to get slaughtered in a deception.
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@Princip666 Slapping a metal plate still puts weight on the damaged concrete.
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Okay yeah but... how do you prevent someone bent on causing harm from going through with his plan?
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The funny thing is that the couple working on it were both engineers if I remember correctly. We don't have just soydevs, we have soygineers.
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They have a lot of sponsorship from Iran, North Korea, China, etc.
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 @sanisidrocr Collateral Murder was a hitjob.
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@nekoinekoi2015 Invasion. You don't need to declare war for a country to enter state of emergency.
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@SevenSixTwo2012 This is where it gets tricky because of physics. There's bands of the EM spectrum which are less susceptible to "stealth". They're used in over-the-horizon radar. There's Doppler clutter reduction. Basically, you can detect objects you're tuned to look for, but detection doesn't mean you can target it. Many defense radars are not tuned for these bands because they'd be useless without the accuracy to lock on. These less-accurate readings are used by air defense systems to know a threat is incoming, and scramble fighters or have defenses ready to take it out. There's also probably Doppler clutter rejection so that the radars aren't actually picking up millions of birds as they're pretty slow compared to incoming missiles or jets. When it comes to mobile vehicles like the Shilka, Tunguska, Pantsir, Tor, SA-8 Osa, etc they're not meant for that level of air space defense.
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 @deltaboogaloo633 the topic was changing the terms of service. In the global picture nothing changes, but the topic of the conversation was old games.
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@BeUnadulterated You can control the outcome by just throwing all the test subjects with the "bad" virus into the incinerator and only keep the "good" ones. Either way, if you take something from nature that's not optimized for human spread and you get infected, you're asking for lighting to strike twice for mutations to then cause you to become infectious to other humans. Most zoonotic jumps terminate that virus as it can't jump to the same species as the host.
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@gfunk62 Oh yeah that's fucked up because apparently euthanasia is not legal in the UK, but the state can still force you to die. What kind of bullshit is that?
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@tomaszwota1465 I could also jump off a building. I won't do that. It goes against my interests. Just saying X country could do Y is absolutely useless. Putin could - but actually he "can't". You're just now noticing he won't destroy the country he wants as buffer?
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I think everyone fell for the troll.
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@scoutlee3406 what? The video?
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@spicylemonade Yeah but Tate didn't say the virus was literally cured and went away. He said "Putin cured the virus" in a tongue in cheek way, it stopped mattering. I mean we have a saying that goes "out of sight, out of mind" which is precisely about this phenomenon, when you're not aware of something it's like it doesn't exist even though it does.
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"I would say that they could need a stronger engine (preferably are 2)" - then you misunderstand the F-35. The F-15 and F-16 are the high-low pair. The F-15 is the twin engine air superiority fighter, while the F-16 is the single engine multirole. The F-22 and F-35 are also a high-low pair. F-22 is the twin engine high, the F-35 is the single engine low.
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declan h but Obama is allowed to use it, so he definitely did. Maybe before he was 25 years old but I am sure he did.
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 @someirishguy1662 Population growth is being driven by lifespan increases in developing countries. Not an increase in children.
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@Amaling The problem isn't growth. We can't even achieve replenishment. Stable population is NOT growth. We can't even achieve the 2.1 average fertility rate requirement for stability. Forget growth, nobody is asking for growth.
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"Said to have delivered" and I don't believe it until I see them.
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@throeawae2130 Thanks for yet again proving you have nothing to offer but name calling.
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@throeawae2130 He told you everything you needed to know. Asking for a direct link to source is downright pedantic when you can simply look it up yourself and make up your own damned mind. Are you interested? You don't need a link because you'll find what you need. Requesting a fully formatted citation is just trying to win on a technicality. You wouldn't read it if you were provided one.
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 @throeawae2130 He gave you exactly what you needed but doing legwork apparently is consdered bootlicking these days.
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@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz Why?
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Hamas simps are annoying as hell.
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Ruski bot, whataboutism as usual.
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@Albertkallal That dude has a terminal case of "F-35 critic-itis". You can rub the facts in his face and he'll weasel out.
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@pogo1140 More simulator time is better for any aircraft. Even if you can afford to fly more with a 4th gen aircraft, pilots should be getting more sim time for that 4th gen aircraft to augment skills. Aggressor squadrons would not increase the average of F-35 operational costs.
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gets paid by Russia "yeah aw shucks I'm gonna pretend Russia didn't start the war and claim you are trying to start one" Awfully convinient.
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@TrangleC There's plenty of videos of men being caught in the open and in the exchange of fire the plate seems to be catching most of the rounds. If the artillery rain stops, and the drone operator is telling me the incoming wave is getting near, I don't want to put rounds in some guy wearing a plate for him to toss a grenade into my hole.
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In the US the law is very permissive of parody. As long as you're making fun of a public figure it's fine.
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I vent my frustrations online by dreaming up about Chinese spies and defectors to Havana under presidential orders 🤡
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@jefftaborda7663 A coup over what? He's one of the most popular leaders and he's fulfilling his promise of liberating Ukraine. The coup you should be worried about is meant for Putin. People are starting to fall out of windows...
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@StevenTheAristolianNerd steel lvl 3 stops 308 It's 5.56 shot from longer barrels that punches through at close range
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@StevenTheAristolianNerd It's not about powder. Steel armor gets defeated with velocity. 308 is like 2800 fps and 5.56 out of a 20 inch barrel is 3200 fps.
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Mick West has the entire explanation in his channel.
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They literally send troops abroad for training. They've been talking about training them for months.
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How to use a EMP without it looking like a ICBM strike and triggering a response?
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@Finesser-94 The Russian military is an exercise in graft and corruption, which is why Shoigu and Gerasimov stayed on top for so long. Speaking for the military would have them cheer for the 500th HIMARS loss.
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If Russia kept their promise not to invade, their army wouldn't have been destroyed.
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Dead tanks (and tankers) from Javelins, destroyed artillery pieces (and artillerymen) from 777, ammo dumps blown into space by HIMARS. Randy Marsh saying he didn't hear no bell as trained crews lose life and limb to Western weapons. And I get to see it on twitter while sipping the morning coffee.
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He outright said he was in an interview.
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Air supremacy only means the enemy air force has checked out of the war. If you fly over 20k ft you have God's Eye view over everything on the ground. You can drop laser guided munitions with impunity. What's the point of having MANPADS if the aircraft over 20k ft in the air can just bring a country back to the stone age by delivering bombs to factories and power plants?
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@a5cent People in the West are like that. Everyone says "I'm not paid enough to care". And they're right. The alarm boxes deter theft. If someone tries to pick them open, hopefully the security guard sees on camera. If the thief manages to do it without getting caught... dude was determined and experienced enough. Write it off as a loss, 99% of thieves are not that skilled or determined, they go for easier targets.
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@ashscott6068 Not sure why your comment is hidden but that's 100% true. There's diminishing returns from increased security, when just a little investment will deter most theft and "keep people honest". Trying to stop determined shoplifters just increases costs and makes shopping less convenient to customers as more people get stopped at the exit or cashiers struggle with security boxes and alarm tags.
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@ICaImI "Bombing their own people" and yet casualty figures are minuscule. Most casualties were the result of unexploded ordnance and landmines laying around in the conflict area. Russia used Hamas-tier tactics by firing Grad rockets from civilian areas and letting the Ukrainian response fall on the precious Russian speakers they were supposedly saving. Did you read about the 2015 Mariupol rocket attack? Russia fired Grads from within Russian territory into an Ukrainian city. The Russians were the ones bombing their "own" people.
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@ICaImI Did you see the quotes? Russians claim they are their own people. They're Ukrainians and Russia doesn't care about them. They'll say they're Russians, but fire rockets at them. There's a reason why Azov was stationed in Mariupol, they became known as the defenders of the city when Russia invaded. The quotation marks are usually added to convey irony. Is this the first comment you've read online?
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@VladK-1 He's getting ride alongs with the Russian army, how is he independent? Also, Lancaster is a war criminal who desecrates bodies to stage scenes for his videos. He is untrustworthy. Look at his video of the roadside attack on a civilian car. The body shown had a straight cut on the skull. That body had been stolen from a coroner or mortuary after autopsy. The skull was sawed open to get to the brain.
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The chickens are on the verge of civil war.
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No, it doesn't. It says right there, the right of the people not the right of the militia. There's a similar clause in the constitution of Rhode Island from the 1800s, which said something like "a free press being something something the people should have the right to publish their sentiments, being responsible for their speech". The first part is just arguing why the right is important. Then it gives the right to the people as a whole. Not the press.
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It's just like that saying "when you're in power I ask for freedom because it's according to my principles, when I'm in power I deny you freedom because it's according to my principles". When Michael Moore was just some lib punching up at the conservative establishment he was all like "fight the power!", now he's punching down at us peasants now that he's at the top.
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I've seen it screenshotted from an original post from 2021. Seemed to be one of the pre-invasion border tussles.
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Russia could leave today if they wanted.
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+Arsenal Pro Audio "they are the primary weapon of choice for school shootings due to high yield and high capacity" any rifle with detachable magazine can have a "high capacity" magazine made for it. The reason AR15s are so used is because the media glamorized them. Also what the fuck is the yield of a firearm? This isn't a nuclear weapon.
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Ground blocks radio signals. You'd need an aerial drone to retransmit controls and video feed.
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Truck commercials.
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josephv565 And setting fire to your house/business for the insurance money is sane? Tons of people do it.
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Right but MLU upgrades bring it to the 2000s standard.
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They whitewashed the massive support the US gave them, and how many of the millions lost were thanks to Soviet incompetence.
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They lost most of the Black Sea fleet so it's pointless now.
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The corrosive salts are water soluble. Hose it down, dunk it on a plastic tub, fire up your hexamine tablets and drip a canteen cup of hot water, whatever. Then clean as you'd clean a regular rifle.
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Because fighting causes supplies to dwindle faster. People can cut one meal a day and just complain. People being underfed and getting shot at? They'll surrender.
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"It means it does not follow the normal supply-demand rules" - why? "prices can skyrocket and you have no choice but to pay because the alternative is death." - or the alternative is a cheaper healthcare provider. But thanks to regulation that protects big businesses you can't chose lower prices and force competition to lower everyone's prices. "Healthcare HAS TO be price regulated." - price controls ironically raise prices. This is a well known paradox, such as price controlled rent leading to lower availability of housing and thus increasing the prices.
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@ptviwatcher "if you increase a price then demand should lower. That does not happen in healthcare" - but it does, people put off going to the doctor when they should get something checked because they're afraid of the costs "The best example: Martin Shkreli increased his drug price over 5000% and the only adjustment in demand were people doomed to die..." - but he provided the drug for free to those who needed it and his upcharge was directed at insurance companies. And if you paid attention to the story there were alternative drugs that doctors could prescribe but were not allowed to, plus another company stepped up to make a cheaper alternative. Martin Shkreli's story not only exposed the exploitative anti-capitalist action of government-controlled monopoly but also shown him not to be the villain the media made him out to be.
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@ptviwatcher "prices go up, people either pay up or don't go to the doctor" - that disproves the part about demanding being inelastic. "Bernie wants to get rid of the middle man (make insurers obsolete)" - but that's the most retarded thing ever. Insurers' prices are a reflection of how much healthcare providers are charging. The middle man is hardly the problem here. "By the way, it's working in most European countries...." - I am European... It's "working", I guess... The American system also "works". All I know is that wait times are deadly and even my min wage job offers private healthcare benefits.
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On paper. There's too few of them to support combat operations, while F-16s are one of the most common fighters out there.
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@ck933 The sharps isn't rounded from what I can see in pictures, it has angled cuts in the edge facing away from the locking lug.
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@ck933 But it doesn't. Rounded corners avoid stress concentration areas. It has asymmetric lugs from what I've seen, but that's a different mechanical effect.
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@ck933 Doesn't have the same mechanical effect. I'm not looking at the product description, I'm looking at the physical shape - it's not any more "rounded" than a normal AR bolt lug. They can type anything they want on the product description, but it still fits a normal barrel extension, right? I mean, I do have a degree in mechanical engineering but that's absolutely unrelated. I'm looking at a picture of a Relia-bolt and a normal bolt. The lugs have the same fillet where they meet the round edge of the bolt face. Even the normal AR bolt has a slight roundedness, it's just very minor. Nobody needs to go to college to tell shapes apart. Why does someone need an engineering degree to tell apart a c^nt hair of a fillet with an abrupt change and an actual rounded bolt lug. Is this it? I'm the last sane person in the world in 2021? Sharps Relia-bolt has the same lug cross section as normal AR bolt, fits normal barrel extension. How is the mechanical effect "the same" as a product that DOESN'T fit normal extension lugs? Can you look at a picture for me? Instead of arguing about product descriptions? Create a new tab, search for a front facing picture of the Sharps Relia-Bolt. Create a new tab, search for a front facing picture of a normal AR bolt. Tell me the fillet at the base of the lug is different.
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 @DennisMerwood-xk8wp Can we see them?
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S-500 is a nuclear missile intercept system. Not something to shoot down airplanes with.
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@dieseldog5779 The only anti-aircraft missiles in the S-500 are the same as the missiles on the S-300 and S-400. The only differing tech in the S-500 is the ability to track and shoot anti-ballistic missiles.
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@stephenvanwoert2447 Save their lives? The road out of Lyman is littered with Russian corpses.
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"It didn't happen", "It was staged" and now "it happened but they deserved it". I think next week you'll agree with us, then?
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@WSY01 Russia does not have more material and troops. A lot of their stockpile is too aged to use. The troops are a disaster. Have you seen the third army corps? It's a disgrace.
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 @robderich8533 It is. Photos from the road bridge show the rail bridge stands taller.
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 @N17C1 It would make zero sense, because the tank crews would be trained on the wrong tank.
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Ironic that Ukraine is using hundreds of Russian tanks to kill Russians.
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 @kiragoe he said he no longer supports Dems, not that he supports Trump
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 @jonny-b4954 Nobody is talking about voting Trump, this is about the Dem party losing supporters
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There was basis, and many doctors admitted they did not push forward because they were afraid to defend "Trump medicine".
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@Kazekoge101 What propaganda?
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@kendallcuddles Epstein lawyer, has called for the lowering of the age of consent, etc.
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@kendallcuddles I already posted.
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@kendallcuddles My post 2 weeks ago on this same thread.
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@kendallcuddles Because you're just wasting my time.
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Layered air defense couldn't protect Moscow, Engels or itself. S-400 radars and command posts have been struck by HIMARS.
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@RoninTF2011 What do you mean proper army?
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@EEDIR-DK "Hybrid" is difficult to pin down, but assymetric isn't a huge part. For example, using civilians in Crimea as human shields to prevent a shootout with the Ukrainian military may by assymetric, but the real hybrid part is how the troops carried no identification insignia and Moscow insisted they were locals. Then government buildings were seized and Crimean representatives asked for Russia to intervine after the job was already done. Hybrid is using PMCs, and when asked about it saying "what do you mean? PMCs are illegal in our country". Hybrid is attacking, waiting for the counter, and because nobody is paying attention claim you were attacked first. It's starting offensives in the same week ISIL took Mosul. It's coming out with 6 different conspiracy theories that blame MH17 on Ukraine or the West. Espionage, deception, etc always happened. But we later got to see what happened when we fell for it. Hybrid warfare is having us still disagreeing about events that took place 8 years ago.
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There's a reason the lines are where they are. The lines further back will give Ukraine the ability to strike the rear. The lines were built to protect the strategic depth. Once you give the enemy ability to strike your strategic depth it doesn't matter.
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Because you dump it into one place, it stays concentrated. Dump it at sea, it gets thoroughly mixed and diluted.
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@hernerweisenberg7052 "Could it be that you mistake the utopian ideas of socialism and communism for what criminal totalitarian regimes did under the pretense of being "socialist"?" - Not even getting into the TIK stuff because his position is contrived, but that's bullshit. They were criminal totalitarians! It was only a "pretense"! Get the fuck out.
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"hypersonic missiles have proven deadly in their conflict with Ukraine" - There's been like three Khinzal hits and one crash.
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@John-hu9qg Okay, so they haven't been "proven deadly". With sparing use it's too early to tell.
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@WinstonSmith22 Are they?
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@WinstonSmith22 Protecting diplomats is a thing. You do realize that the US has Marines in Moscow, right? They're the force protecting the embassy.
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@WinstonSmith22 For training.
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/// ⚠️⚠️⚠️ POLICE ASSAULT IS IN PROGRESS ⚠️⚠️⚠️ ///
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It's not any easier to obtain because F-16 were manufactured in greater numbers by an order of magnitude.
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You're welcome to bring out the Russian sources.
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@jomellon Oh, nice moving of goalposts. Turns out you weren't actually worried about the sources, now it's "reality".
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@chrisb4009 You're trying to force a distinction between the issues. You can't do that. It's not how it works. You can't pick and choose. You get the bad with the good. Do they work? Inconclusive at best. Mask mandates do not typically have a rating requirement and people either use reusable cloth masks or use disposable surgical masks incorrectly. Spread does not correlate to introduction of mask mandates or compliancy rates so even if you bring up studies that say they work (and ignore the ones that say it doesn't) it's impossible to see those studies translated to actual results in the real world. So in the end, the definition of "working" is compromised by the intended use-case. Regarding your second point, you're trying to dodge your own premises. By your own account, the mask is only effective at suppressing spread from symptomatic cases, and even then a cough or a sneeze will create a positive pressure area that will push the mask away from one's face unless they're using a higher grade of PPE, which almost nobody does. Forcing asymptomatic people to be wearing a mask that only works against symptoms they don't have is the equivalent of of forcing everyone to wear a diaper even when they don't have diarrhea. The incubation period? Your own argument is that masks reduce spread in the post-incubation phase. We started with masks and now we have police using live rounds against protesters in the Netherlands. Do not come here and talk about small impositions. They all stack on top of one another. Asymptomatic spread is not a driver of cases. We've known this for about a year. Can you please stop pretending it's March 2020? It's really tiring.
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@chrisb4009 Okay. How are the macro studies standing up to something called "reality"? Because cases evidently do not respect mandates or compliance rates. What elephant in the room? Why would governments do things that make no sense? There's thousands of years of history where you would need to ask that question. Governments making bad decisions and doubling down on them? Must be a day that ends with "y".
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@roycavitt4544 Afraid of what?
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The Army wants none of it. Imagine the costs.
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DU shells are not in use anymore and have been replaced by high explosive. The 30mm DU round can't punch through tanks since the late 1970s so using it against foot soldiers and light-skinned vehicles makes no sense.
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Because people didn't understand Net Neutrality. This is about encryption.
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@themanwhospeaks8010 people were running around like headless chickens about NN like it would end the internet if we ended government regulation. This is about intrusive government regulation. More in line with SOPA and PIPA protests, which did succeed in holding back the laws.
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 @decentralizeddemocracy8335 meh they already shwacked Dugin's daughter and Vladlen Tatarsky. Nobody cares.
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 @andreahighsides7756 the West?
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But he shows Russian propaganda...
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China built the J-20 knowing it would re-engine them, and the F-35 will have an engine upgrade down the line. It's just the reality of the aircraft business, might as well have airframes to re-engine than no airframes at all.
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Such excellent credentials, the US had to bail out their country during WW2. Mariupol was the definition of a Pyrrhic victory. Instead of fighting smart, Russia allowed itself to get bogged down and waste time and lives in a surrounded town. Mariupol, much like Kiev and Severodonetsk, ensured Russian strategic loss by throwing away much needed manpower and resources at short term tactical victories. And the same is happening right now at Bakhmut.
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@pedrob3953 Nice black and white fallacy.
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@GreenDriveIndia Yes. A petrol tank has unmixed fuel. Fuel needs to be mixed with air to burn. So you have a bunch of liquid not touching air, the surface of the liquid, and the fumes mixed with air.
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 @jerryinmon2731 How many cars burn due to people dropping cigarettes in the seats? You can't use accidents that are unrelated to the ICE to portray such cars as a fire hazard.
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@jerryinmon2731 Seriously doubt fuel system fires are more common than accidents.
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@theylied1776 most later versions of the F-4 actually didn't have the cannon because they were either naval versions or the space meant for the cannon was used for other equipment.
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@eattherich1793 The explanation in the video is correct. The issue here is the logarithmic rate and how functions can be approached with local linearizations. Both sides will keep talking past each other until this is explained in a way we laymen can understand.
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@eattherich1793 Only a small portion have net negative emissions. The amount of denialists is irrelevant if people pollute the same.
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@eattherich1793 Heard that one before. The average person can support what the experts say, and still want to do whatever they want.
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300 BLK was not promising anything. It was always a good subsonic suppressor host for ARs. Not a service caliber.
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"they are still only using about 15-20% of their military" - Yes, I'm sure they will send their office clerks and cooks to the front. When they use 100% then the real fighting starts...
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China and India are demanding massive discounts. They're not charities, they'll want to exploit Russia for their own profit. The infrastructure is also mostly tied to the West, so billions will have to be spent on new pipelines.
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+The Rageaholic "That 14 year old kid firing on agents and dying because of it" lol as if he dropped dead from the act of shooting the gun. He was KILLED by the government. The people inside the property were acting in self-defense. The agents' conduct was abhorrent. And you're pinning the blame on guns.
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+Dan Lamont you're right, the psychopaths who lied, manipulated and killed should own all the weapons.
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@grubbybum3614 anyone in the EU who will not reap the benefits of the military industrial complex
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They "admitted" it after covering it up for over a month. They weren't the first to let the world know. The whistleblowers they punished were.
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@Jumptownwore the latter wing commanders did not make a profit due to Roberts going overbudget and he also had to be set aside from Freelancer due to his mismanagement.
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There's a difference between capturing oil fields (ISIS being a recent example) and maybe doing repairs, and actually surveying areas, getting drilling and extraction rights, moving in foreign experts, etc.
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@joshuapaul2022 Okay. Russian Major General Popov was relieved of command for admitting they lost localized artillery superiority. Ukraine is taking the high ground near Tokmak. Much like Antonovsky bridge was the catalyst for the Kherson retreat. The objective wasn't the territory. It was the Russian army. Ukraine's offensive tactics removed an important Russian capability (artillery) and the push was focused not on territorial gains but getting closer to choking out supplies.
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@joshuapaul2022 They don't need to be in Tokmak. They just need to lob shells at incoming rail supplies. According to WaPo they have numerical advantage in artillery. Paper numbers and real life aren't always the same. Russia had the advantage the whole time - why do they keep retreating? They had the advantage in Kiev. In Kharkiv. In Kherson. They keep losing. Muh gamechanger wunderwaffe glide bombs. What do they do that Iskanders and Tochkas weren't already doing? Astonishing rate? Then why does Ukrainian artillery claim around 30 Russian artillery pieces every day?
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@joshuapaul2022 Yes, just like Kiev, Kharkiv, Kherson, etc. all delusions.
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OH, MAYBE BECAUSE IT WAS A MARATHON IN THE FIRST PLACE. Seriously.
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With MLU, though.
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Look at photos of Ukrainian fields. Russia used saturation shelling, absolutely bombarding empty fields. Ukraine doesn't have the shells to do this so they try to fire at point targets rather than area targets.
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The F-4 didn't need a gun. 90% of its kills were by missile.
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A negotiation means both parties have the leverage to negotiate. The means to bleed Russia dry is leverage. Without arms, Ukraine cannot negotiate. Only fold.
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It's cheaper to clean a rifle at the end of the day than blast blanks for 8 hours x number of soldiers. Blanks will make the rifle dirty anyway.
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 @TheSilvantor by the end of 2024? Mark it on your phone's calendar and bookmark this link
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jaybone23 it should, but the algorithm doesn't care and youtube sides with corporations rather than the content creator.
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@WinstonSmithGPT You know a narrative that will never crumble? Scott Ritter being caught twice trying to entice minors online.
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@PropheSteve If that man is so right, how couldn't he avoid jail?
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What do you mean without casualty rates? It's one of the most shot down airframes in the conflict.
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@LuvBorderCollies You live in a world without anti-ship missiles? Iron clad ships no longer exist because modern weapons sink them just the same.
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The F-19 was assumed to be the F-117 before public reveal.
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Another Z-boy
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Some American sites, especially smaller news sites, are inaccessible in the EU. Most likely they cannot guarantee compliance with EU law and just said "fuck it".
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@matthabir4837 Afraid of spelling a Z, snowflake?
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@matthabir4837 Keep checking in. One day you won't.
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@matthabir4837 You'll get your answer the day you stop checking in out of embarrassment. I've already caused someone to have a mental breakdown over Kharkiv last year. Want to be the one for 2023?
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@matthabir4837 You up voted your own comment. Answer is the same: when you're too embarassed to check in, you'll know.
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@matthabir4837 Keep checking. The more you do this the funnier it will be. Even funnier than the Kremlin roof burning from an Aliexpress drone.
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@matthabir4837 So Russia was defeated a long time ago when they started sending cruise missiles into residential buildings. Thanks for admitting reality. Russia is over. Russia offering anything to Poland? They can't get to Kiev, how are they going to get to Poland? Go to Vuhledar, meet the fate of your countrymen.
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@matthabir4837 I see you are forcibly pulling population from the Zaporizhzhia region. Same thing happened last year.
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@matthabir4837 How Wagner going?
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@matthabir4837 Eternal dirt naps for Wagnerites.
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@matthabir4837 You upvote your own comment, lol. How's Bakhmut?
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@matthabir4837 Terrorism LMAO terrorism is when fighter jets get shot down in combat? Terrorism is when the unstoppable hypersonic missile gets slapped out of the sky?
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@matthabir4837 It's Zelensky with a Z, snowflake. Don't let a letter trigger you.
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@matthabir4837 Russians have started to loot stores in Shebekino.
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@matthabir4837 Oh, I thought you were gone.
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@matthabir4837 So you claimed the offensive wouldn't happen, aren't you embarrassed enough?
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@matthabir4837 Tell that to the Ossetians.
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@matthabir4837 Take your meds.
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@matthabir4837 it's Zelensky, snowflake. Triggered by a Z.
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@matthabir4837 I'm not the one spamming emojis.
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@matthabir4837 It's Zelensky with a Z. How many trigger warnings do you need, SJW?
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@matthabir4837 How am I quiet? I just reply to comments. It's you who seems quiet about the reports on the Russian artillery extinction event. War bloggers are noticing.
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@matthabir4837 Murz has complained of artillery being struck by Excalibur and HIMARS.
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@matthabir4837 /grey_zone/19883 "In addition to the Genichesk bridge, the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck the Chongar bridge, which also leads to the territory of Crimea, with Storm Shadow missiles from Su-24 bombers. The Chongar checkpoint is currently closed, with passage through the Armyansk and Perekop checkpoints. The enemy is tediously and casually making an attempt to cut off the grouping of troops and disrupt its logistics, as was the case at Kherson. Blow after blow. For a long time. For months, the one hit the bridges, which patched and hoped for hovered crossings, but when the defense of the front broke, everyone remembers how everything fell apart in a matter of days. It is also recalled how the blochers responsible for the microwave on the bomber told that aviation to destroy bridges is equivalent to stabbing an elephant with a sewing needle." Kherson. Ring any bells?
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@matthabir4837 Where's Major Tom(ov)? Ground control to Major Tom.
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@matthabir4837 your notifications are broken, or maybe you just have poor internet in your Russophile backwater
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@matthabir4837 Yet Russia is losing to them.
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@matthabir4837 How's Pskov?
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@matthabir4837 How's Verbove?
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@matthabir4837 Better than Surovikin's fate.
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@matthabir4837 Where the accountability? We don't know where he is.
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@matthabir4837 Russia lost 9 tanks the same day.
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@matthabir4837 Wrong week to be posting that after the hits on Sevastopol and drone attacks at sea. After a S-400 was targeted, no less.
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@matthabir4837 Not enough.
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@matthabir4837 The mental illness is progressing. Been hearing about this Polish land grab for over a year now. Any day now. Maybe JFK will come back to life and show up in Dallas too.
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@matthabir4837 Two airbases got cooked, now the Russians at Avdiivka got cooked.
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Tons of people took that advice and now the trades are not paying out like they used to.
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What is the "free world"? Also, violent crime rates are difficult to compare because some countries overinflate with their metrics, for example the UK has more violent crime.
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The police are not doing their job. Can we get a refund?
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 @ouijabored000 Metokur, SomeOrdinaryGamers, etc reported on it but it didn't get as much views as Elsagate.
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Cope.
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It's the most commonly purchased rifle in the US due to economies of scale. Of course that shooters will pick what's commonly available.
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There's thousands still in storage.
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 @together4Hiscause If Russia was so afraid of NATO, why didbthe Pskov base have no air defense to handle the Ukrainian drones? Russia has been close to NATO for decades.
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@JoeRogan-DaveSmith2028 1. There was no coup if the government showed up to the Verkhovna Rada and voted. The legitinaye government was not overthrown, they saw the president went AWOL and voted for snap elections. 2. Irrelevant. Crimea did not declare independence from Ukraine. It was seized by Russian troops and a referendum held at gunpoint. Certainly you saw the 2022 referenda in Ukraine with empty ballots being tallied as "Yes", right?
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@JoeRogan-DaveSmith2028 Biden doesn't matter. The wheels are in motion. This conflict has been going on before the United States existed. You're a lot less important than you think. The world keeps spinning. Force peace terms? How are you going to force those?
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Children were not in school, only teacher meetings were targeted by the fake attack.
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Oh to be poked in the rear end by trident-wielding red devils while japanese kanji I can't read and audience reaction facecams pop up around me.
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@fagreed3938 Russian air force soldiers? Nice source. They're liars.
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@popebiscuit3443 Why slow down? Whenever they advance the Russians retreat into roads that are under Ukrainian fire control. Cause massive casualties. Wait until the Russians reach a new defensive position. Encircle it. Russians retreat. Dish out the punishment. Let them fix on the next position. Encircle them. Let them retreat. Fire for effect.
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@sigmasix3719 Winter punished Russia in Ukraine. Remember all the columns of destroyed Russian vehicles?
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@imoneixusa9742 They don't have 800,000. Sorry, it's all for show.
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@christophmahler The "allied" losses were massive. Ukrainians happy and simging, filming the Highways of Death. Come back to reality.
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Reason isn't really the best for "that kind" of topical news. I'm all for calling out the tone deaf takes that Reason occasionally puts out but criticizing their timing is frankly missing the point.
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You buy the story that a determined individual suddenly changed personality and quit? It smells like a sheepdip.
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No. The USA saved the Soviet Union. Stalin would have effed it up on his own.
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So glad you're not living in a free country either, tired of all the people bitching.
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And the guy fighting to win a MMA title got his face pummeled. Sometimes you have to work smarter not harder. The ability to block fists with your face does not score points in MMA.
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Why?
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The US recognizes one China, but is strategically ambiguous by having diplomatic relations with both.
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You're gonna house people inside military vehicles? The US isn't sending 55 billion in cash, they're sending a dollar value of 55 billion of Cold War vehicles. Stuff that got purchased decades ago.
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The Harrier was woefully outdated and the losses in Desert Storm kind of raised the issue with fielding an aircraft that paints the entire side of the fuselage with the exhaust plume.
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Okay? But the 3d image could have any color.
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Buybacks are feel good policies. Only people who want to get rid of guns would take up the offer, which means grannies selling the late husband's guns for a fraction of what they'd be worth on auction.
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They used to upload a 1 minute teaser saying the segment was too spicy so watch outside YT. In this case it was just easier to beep, I guess.
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Then why not repeat frames? By repeating frames you can turn 30 fps into 60. No nvidia tech needed.
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That was like cold cuts in a boxing gym. Hamfisted.
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Houses were small because it was expensive to build. If you tried to go larger you'd have to increase all the load bearing reinforcements. Thanks to modern materials and construction you can make walls and ceiling struts cover a wider area for no added cost. Building literally takes less materials and effort than it did back then. We didn't just make computers faster and phones mobile in the last 70 years. We improved tons of things to be better and cheaper.
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Not really related to the topic.
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Russia hit everything in the 24th of February. They did the shock and awe thing of launching massive volleys of cruise and ballistic missiles. They didn't want to save anything.
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There is. Collapse in Luhansk will lead to collapse in Donetsk, which will tell the Russians in Kherson there's no hope for them.
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 @Ghastly_Grinner the Ghost of Kiev was made up by the internet. The Ukrainian air force said he wasn't real but represented the spirit of the pilots
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@Ghastly_Grinner Russia started with 200k and 50k DPR/LPR. Then Russia used regular troops to make up for losses. Then Russia mobilized 300k. It's estimated Russia has used 500 to 700 thousand troops.
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So there's a public military that spends trillions of dollars and a public police force that shoots innocent people and gets paid leave. Is that considered "working"?
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"Waaaaa you have to parrot Russian propaganda to be balanced waaaaaaaa!"
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@leronbenari226 The VDV didn't do their job. The reinforcements did it for them.
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"I'll keep my mother's last name!" "So your grandfather's?"
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No. There were missile smoke trails in the air and radar missiles hit the fuselage.
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@ARCSTREAMS So it was Russia's plan to get VDV, Spetsnaz, Rovsgardia and OMON/SOBR units slaughtered as a diversion tactic? The capital is never left undefended. The tactic didn't work. They'd stay there no matter what.
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@slowmo7500 They never went shorter than 10.3" because it was based on the shortest length that it was still possible to mount a KAC suppressor without hitting the bayonet lug on the gas block. Diemaco/Colt Canada made 10" barrels and installed front sight blocks without bayonet lugs to remove the interference.
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Not really. They only enough to backfill losses.
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B1 BATTLEDROID That's great. Losing metal in exchange for gaining their territory back is good. Russia is losing meat. Very tragic.
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B1 BATTLEDROID Yeah, I do. Russia loses hundreds of tanks battering their skull against a concrete wall. Ukraine loses a few tanks recovering huge amounts of land.
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They desperately need to do that. They want a future government to be friendly to Russia, which they can't do if the infastructure is gone and the people are pissed off. This is like bragging you do not steal from the cash register because you're afraid of getting fired. You're not doing it out of virtue, you're just afraid of the consequences.
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They post videos of themselves appealing to civilians and politicians. They make it clear they're not refusing to fight, they just want supplies and not being used in suicide missions.
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 @electricaviationchannelvid7863 Col MacGregor is a disgraced old man clinging to relevance. All his predictions turned out wrong.
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Russia offered to repair NS2 in exchange for sanctions relief.
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 @duman5596 Doesn't matter. It's internationally recognized as illegally annexed. Also, Russia flies bombers near American air space. How are they playing victim?
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When the Moscow theater siege was handled by deploying fent from the air vents as a knockout gas, but not telling first responders to bring the OD drugs to revive the hostages.
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There's a joke that if a plane full of people travelling to a furry convention goes down, the government will have critical software failures the next week. In government and defense the software/cybersecurity people are disproportionately furries compared to gen pop.
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Pretty much all GPS guided weapons have INS backup. A weapon coming in at supersonic speed will only spenda second inside jammer range, causing minimal drift.
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@pawala7 "your current administration" - don't you mean every single administration?
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@JeantheSecond I seem to remember that child labour rates in the US were about 3% by the time it was made illegal. It was a non-issue by the time government intervened.
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Which doesn't even make sense considering that Saddam's master plan was to attack Israel to cause the Arab side of the coalition to turn against the west. The US had to force the Israelis to stand down and just take the Scud attacks or else Saddam wpuld get away with everything.
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They already have Su-25s.
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Full scale invasion is silly. You don't need to capture vast amounts of land when you can easily cripple a country's economy.
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@miroseyy Israel has 80% of adults vaccinated and their case peak this year surpassed last year.
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@thehellofajumper ""Wrong" is a moral stance." - No shit. "The measure is pragmatic." - Pragmatic my ass. The lower classes are also the ones who are targeted the most by crime, so if anything they need to defend themselves the most. If your ideal of pragmatism is denying people's rights simply because you don't like them, you're morally bankrupt as a person. "The other pragmatic solution would be to have less disenfranchised people suppose but that would hurt someones bottom line." - But poverty doesn't create violence. It's the old correlation that never had any causation. It's the easy excuse. The fact is that criminals end up in poverty, but the poor don't turn into criminals. You can throw all the money you want into welfare that it won't change the people predisposed to criminal activity.
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@thehellofajumper "Poverty isnt an excuse but the root cause" - That is false. It's not a root cause. The most violent periods in humanity were roughly egalitarian, when all you had was the pelt covering your skin and the food on your stomach. "poverty -> existencial angst -> (drug dependency" - Not all poor people do drugs and not all people who do drugs become addicts. "Crime (gotta eat/ gotta shoot up)" - The necessity to eat doesn't cause people to commit murder or rape. If you need to eat, at most you'd shoplift food.
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@betsybabf748 "unnecessary items being too expensive for those who haven't earned enough to pay for them is "discrimination"" - It is. If something is 100 dollars, but you artificially make it 150 you create a barrier. Anyone in the middle class can easily make up for the price difference, but someone struggling will have to reconsider. People have been killed while waiting for their gun permit to arrive. Is it reasonable to force someone to wait for the next paycheck? Also, if something was supposed to be 100 dollars and you have those 100 dollars, you EARNED it. You know who didn't earn "it"? The government pricing people out of the market.
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No, they're not. Semi-automatic firearms are the vast majority of firearms produced since probably the 1940s-1950s. Banning semi-automatics would mean forcing people to go back almost a century. There's almost no use of automatic weapons in mass shootings, in fact the most common weapon is the handgun.
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@Пень1Бук1 Patrick took part in a false flag where an autopsied corpse was placed in a burned vehicle. Lancaster is a war criminal at this point for disecrating a corpse, most likely of a civilian.
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 @digitalronin7787 which atrocities?
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Use nitter. Allows you to read twitter without an account.
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Dealing directly with China? Someone post the "never learn Mandarin" copypasta.
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@pakane24 Well, you shouldn't be buying from "dropshippers" anyway and you can look into the known effect of online shopping getting worse and worse as you are losing the consistency of brands to "dropshipping". Instead of John starting John Brand and gaining a reputation, where he finds a good supplier and earning your trust that he's bringing you a decent product, while taking the losses whenever a supplier scams him, you're directly buying from a business which you don't know if it's actually trying to make a good product or just pumping out trash, going out of business and restarting under a different name. When John isn't building a brand and is simply holding inventory so that Amazon can do prime shipping, he's not doing much for you. Dealing directly with China, you're going in raw. No protection. Until you establish a repertoire with a supplier you have no idea what they're about. Because in China you can make more money just closing your business and starting under a different name than being consistent and grinding your way up.
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They did the Russian Roulette series. Funny, all you Russian bots were born yesterday.
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 @Caffeine_Addict_2020 Testing agencies will hound you with randomized tests. If he popped the day of the fight but not on previous samples then we don't truly know what happened.
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Mobilization would cause the Russian government to collapse.
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@kennethmcneil3478 I wrote a reply but it seems to have been deleted.
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@alskywell If you didn't get my reply, essentially mobilization will cause discontent among the population that's tuning out of TV because they're stick of the war.
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Even a primitive pump action is a complex system. The shell lift, the system that locks the bolt and prevents you from pumping until the firing pin drops (or you hit the slide release), etc require little parts with decent precision.
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Can't land on a USMC helicopter carrier deck, can't be catapult launched off a Navy boat.
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Same thing Boyd said to Navy TOPGUN fighters about their F-4. He really embarrassed himself.
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Tons of personal belongings ended up on the ground, steel wasn't molten.
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@tsartomato The entire argument falls apart once you recognize that there were no black swan events, just normal things considering the circumstances.
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@oilcitynews1133 Duck and cover actually worked. We even had real world evidence when in 2012 that meteor burst in the air. A school teacher in Russia told students to duck and cover when she saw the burst. She was showered with glass from the shockwave but the students were unharmed.
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North of Kiev is absolutely mined to high heaven. It would be the best thing Wagner could do for Ukraine, get a bunch of experienced troops bound to wheelchairs.
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Railways are repaired quickly. The crater is filled in, the twisted rail cut off, then new rail sections laid in place and welded to the rest of the track.
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That's a terrible argument. You can google (heh) "nothing to hide argument" and read up on multiple rebuttals of that bs argument.
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Ironic, considering that Seuss was one of the OG cancellers.
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@MegaSpideyman But he wanted others to kill people. He wanted others to invade. Don't try to pretend he was a good person. He wanted war and death and wanted others to do it for him. Seuss was a horrible human being and he'd be part of the outrage mob today. You shouldn't defend him because he'd be calling you a Nazi.
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@MegaSpideyman What he did during his lifetime.
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@MegaSpideyman It's in the name itself, but does it matter? Seuss wanted to see blood as long as it wasn't his. Horrible human being. It shouldn't matter what someone's position on a war is, those who don't want to fight it shouldn't be forced into it and shouldn't be called Nazis for it. Seuss would call you a Nazi. Stop defending him.
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@MegaSpideyman Because he was a leftist and an OG canceller. That's why he called people Nazis, because that's what leftists do.
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 @danielmlinar4892 damn and still Russia can't advance faster than a snail.
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You pay youtube but youtube doesn't pay the creators. You heard of the Adpocalypse, right? Youtubers could make a living off youtube prior to 2017, when mainstream media ran a smear campaign against youtube and they lost sponsors/ads. Now youtube forces content creators to rely on sponsors and patreon donations as they keep most of the money to themselves.
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The F-35 has a lot of tech more advanced than the F-22, which due to being a more dated program it still flues 80s and 90s tech. The F-22 was not produced in sufficient numbers so upgrades are avoided. Plus, we're moving to 6th gen so it's okay to export 5th gen.
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They'll waste money trying to seek perfection while the US sticks with good enough.
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Breaking Bad is awesome.
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@baalzebub5000 Again missing the point. The problem isn't the lack of an apology. The problem is the memoryholing of what happened.
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Concern trolling
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Russia can stop it any day now.
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The US housing market catastrophe was caused by a political drive to make more Americans homeowners as a way to improve the economy, and banks "outsmarted" the system by packaging risky loans as mortgage backed securities with AAA rating. The American housing market was indeed safe until the US govt. forced riskier loans to be issued and banks decided to make lemonade out of lemons. There wasn't a bet to lose. It was fraud, pure and simple.
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That's why weight classes exist...
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Many chemical weapons degrade on contact with the humidity in the air. They have very low permanence to allow areas to be shelled, and then friendly troops walk over the area without protection. Russian shills often point to the fact that in Syria doctors would touch gas attack victims without protection, so it didn't happen. By the time medical air arrived, the chemical weapons had been neutralized.
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Damn they're fighting Russia with no weapons.
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The same way that the rich get no benefit from earning a UBI, the poorer will be disproportionately affected by having to pay an additional VAT. Simply making it "equal" doesn't make it progressive.
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@ask___368 if qanon was a threat they wouldn't even mention it. It's like the NRA, the left screeches about the NRA to drum up support for a controlled opposition group.
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@sabersz Physical cash has no greater value than the digital number.
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@rem9466 None. Same as fiat currency. The idea behind crypto is a decentralized currency. It's not about getting rich. Scams are coming to a head every single day. Scams have been around longer than most active currencies in the world right now. And will continue to exist even after an hypothetical future collapse. Crypto will not be killed by scams the same way that the dollar doesn't get killed by scams, even though every single day the Nigerian prince email or the tech support scam is carried out in USD.
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>I really don't understand this obsession with guns I don't understand the obsession with gun-grabbing. >many innocent lives get ruined Which happens in every country, everywhere, in any way. If you're going to ignore everything that happens and just point at situations where guns are involved, you've already lost. >there are so many accidents 5x more likely to drown, 5x more likely to burn, 17x more likely to be poisoned, 68x more likely to die in a car crash, 17x more to fall and die.
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South Park's skit was iconic, probably more people saw the parody than the real video.
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Taiwan isn't a part of China. It's the remnant of China. They are the Republic of China, which had to flee due to Mao's rise to power. They are a country in exile from their homeland in an island across the strait. The PRC took over their land. Ukraine wasn't part of Soviet Russia. They were part of the Soviet UNION. It as the Ukraine SSR. They were a separate republic from Russia.
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Youtube became profitable a couple of years ago. It was ran at a loss before.
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I fucking got a camgirls ad banner while scrolling through my recommended tab. This website is a mess.
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@sharwama992 Oliver Stone is friends with Putin
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"from that, how does it come to point where president had to evacuate?" - The president made a deal to end the protests. Problem is, the police would take the blame for murders while the president gets away with everything. So the police stood down and stepped away from protecting the president, in a country where many would beat him up on sight.
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Yeah but the US didn't have to ask the Soviets to make aircraft parts because we couldn't figure out how to work titanium.
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A grenade droped by drone, possibly VOG-3. They're unreactive due to shock and cold.
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We know of his motivation for the Edwin A. Walker attempt. Extrapolate from there.
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Because the A-10 has for the past two decades been set up for counter insurgency. The advantages it has over the Su-25 are the avionics - but using the targeting systems means having to pop up to get line of sight to the target. This is not feasible in an area full of air defense. The A-10 is agile, but not fast.
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DPR is staffed by Russian mobilized men. Russian volunteer Murz said that the republics were scrapping the bottom of the barrel a year ago.
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@zakcat5175 no domestic abuse? He fucking filmed it.
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@DennisMerwood-xk8wp in one year the US government spends 4x the cost of the entire F-35 program until 2070. The F-35 is a drop in the bucket.
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 @vdotme Again, there was no reason for it. The US was fighting the GWOT and Russia/China seemed to be liberalizing. When tensions rose it made more sense to get something new.
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Not the same coin. Blackwater was a security company. They babysat CEOs and infrastructure. Wagner has tanks and aviation and assaults cities. Blackwater never did that.
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"Combat experienced" where? Syria?
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They defeated Russian Rovsgardia and SOBR units there. The winter didn't favor Russia in Ukraine 2022 or Finland in the 1940s. Winter has crippled Russia when they were the invaders. The Chechens cry when they face combat. They are used to threaten Russian units who want to retreat.
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It's a >1000km frontline with half a million men in each side. Mark Serbu can't keep up.
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>My own feeling is that weapons can be banned when there is a compelling interest by the Government which overrides the right of self defense in that particular case Well your feelings are not the law of the land.
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Why would the A-10 force anything when Ukraine already has Su-25s?
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So Russia just left the rail hub? They depended on it for supplies from the North. Now the entire Eastern front is under threat, and with it falls the Souther front too. The Russian "sympathizers" are sabotage units and artillery spotters. Collaborators, who had locals shot.
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And all he wants is to make sure the compromise is enforced. If I compromise and give you half my cookie, then you eat my half too, what happens? What's the point of compromise if you just tricked me to get the whole thing?
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There were WMDs but the information was suppressed because they weren't domestic WMDs, but the Iran-Iraq war chemical weapons that would be traced back to the US/France/Germany.
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They had everything to gain. Their gas business was toast, Europe wanted to ditch them. They essentially jeopardized nothing.
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Do not diss Bukhanka-chan.
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That reminds me of the graphic artists who made pro-Z posters with Johnny Depp's face, used WW2 photos of American soldiers, did a recruitment ad with Sasha Grey's face photoshopped into a female Russian officer, and made a poster for the Russian Navy featuring a US aircraft carrier.
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@peterwilson4865 Seems like the discourse is confusing on purpose. I'd never guess that everyone having access to medicare means abolishing an entire sector and nationalizing it.
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@JM-nt5ex "systems with no private insurance are better at getting costs down" - Healthcare costs correlate to median income in a country, though. European countries with higher incomes have higher healthcare expenditure. Off the top of my head, European countries with higher income also tend to have private systems. I think. "Single payer systems that keep private insurance do not lower costs or raise quality" - The thing is, here you don't pay for private insurance for "quality". You do it because the wait times are lower. The private system has no need to compete on quality because they'd spend too much money for almost no gain in customers. "I also understand how most Americans freak out when they hear "nationalize", our educational system sucks at everything except propagandizing." - I'm not American. I am using the term nationalization for a reason, because it's what it is. I seriously doubt that American schoolteachers spend their day ranting against nationalization, but I've never been through the American system so I wouldn't know.
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@JM-nt5ex So what do the teachers unions have to say about that? "This would also be allowed in the proposed singlepayer systems in the US, I suppose I should have used the word "insurance" instead of "healthcare"" - Let me rephrase it. People pay for private insurance, so that they can go to private clinics/hospitals for free/reduced rates. "Healthcare is much more expensive in the US than any other country" - That wasn't the argument, but US median income is also higher. Healthcare expenditure in the US is actually very close to the line if you plot healthcare costs and median income. The US isn't an outlier. "The US is the only first world nation currently without universal coverage" - Again, the language seems to be designed to be confusing. I've literally never said anything that could be contradicted by that. I will rephrase it. I don't know of a single higher income European country than bans private healthcare. Maybe there is one, but I've not heard about it. So when you draw the conclusion that having private systems does not lower healthcare costs, you have to take into account that healthcare costs are higher in wealthier countries, and wealthier countries have those systems. So the conclusion that is drawn is not valid in any way shape or form. What you said has zero to do with how this correlation is inherently invalid.
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@JM-nt5ex Okay, so can we agree that it's misleading to pad nationalization of a private sector into the expansion of medicare to all? "nobody is against supplementary insurance" - This contradicts what I was told earlier. "healthcare costs are drastically higher in the US than any other first world nation" - If you plot the numbers, it follows the line. "I'm also aware the whole "waiting in line for urgent treatment" thing is a myth" - It isn't. I did wait for hours in excruciating pain just last August (so the pandemic wasn't flooding the system). I love when you Americans pretend to know more than me, a person who actually lives on the other side of the pond. The argument wasn't about the wait times, though. M4A is a misleading name because if it was accurate it would be just an expansion of medicare for all and nothing more.
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@highlightrelz897 "is entirely funded by the billionaire class" - lol I've heard that one before. "the opportunity cost of investing in private care is that those funds aren’t going to the public system" - Pretty sure they get taxed to pay for the public system as well.
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@highlightrelz897 "a speculation capital gains tax on the top 1%" - Yes. And my point is that the top 1% (by the way, the one percent includes sub-millionaire people) will just do whatever gets them taxed the least. In France CEOs withheld their own salaries for years to avoid paying income tax. If you press a balloon in the middle the air goes to the sides. "That isn’t to say you won’t see an increase in income taxes." - Thanks for the warning. "it’s available to everyone, like the military" - I don't remember the last time I had to call in an airstrike but I'm glad it's been made available.
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@OfficialCANVAS Payroll is a massive chunk of military spending.
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Drones have slight stealth shaping, and they can fly outside S-400 reach. The S-400 capabilities do not match the brochure.
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 @Crabman_87 The F-15 has split throttles. You can set different power levels, in afterburner too.
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It's important to consider the following, Coca Cola in Russia is operated by a company that the parent Coca Cola only has a 23% stake on. So Coca Cola can divest from Russia and still have Coca Cola on the shelves there. The deal with Mickey D's is a little more complex but essentially the parent company ensures that the supply chain is as localized as possible, so franchise owners can resort to using the same suppliers.
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There's a difference between a license to operate machinery in public, and a license to exist. Also, I can let my livense lapse. I can't suck the juice out of my body.
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That's all network television. You can get away with free speech if you are just entertainment, so everyone claims to be entertainment when in court.
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Attackers in America are often lone wolves, this is international terror.
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@Codreanu110 I don't think it's unintentional or ironic.
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@MrSmotrelkin I think my reply got omitted. Convinient. I can talk about this without my posts getting deleted but it seems if I get into specifics it gets sent to the shadow realm.
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 @efimc1714 Russian media accidentally released the victory articles on the third day.
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I don't want to break Russians. I just want to break their military and their country. They can live happily or in squalor for all I care, I just need them in their place and not threatening others.
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Korea is selling the K2 to Poland and Germany will have a new tank design.
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@jonathanedwardgibson do me a favor and post the number of civilian casualties from the Donbass region from 2016-2021.
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@sisyphusvasilias3943 Russia started the Donbass conflict. Remember when a Russian Buk launcher took down MH17? Russia armed and supported the separatist movement to carve out territory from Ukraine.
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@9godspeed Venezuela is already known as one of Russia's allies.
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@jjjiljjjj It's pretty different. Look at satellite photos of Baghdad in April 2003 and most of it is intact. Meanwhile Russia just spams rocket artillery aka "grid square removers".
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@awddfg We didn't ignore. In fact regarding Georgia the VP Dick Cheney wanted Bush to intervene but he refused because it would be extremely damaging to start a war, plus he was close to ending his second term.
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@ibrahimmekonnen8259 In Vietnam the US was providing aid to the nation of South Vietnam, while North Vietnam was being backed by the USSR. South Vietnam could not stand on its own so the US had to get involved. Why would the US get sanctioned? They weren't trying to capture North Vietnam for themselves.
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@ibrahimmekonnen8259 The My Lai massacre was stopped by an American Army pilot. He told his crew to open fire on the American soldiers if they did not stop killing civilians. Has Putin told his soldiers to stop killing?
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@Silver_Prussian I've read that argument last year. We now have CCTV footage and cellphone recordings of indiscriminate firing on civilians. There's witnesses. There's people who were brought to basements or alleys to be lined up and shot. Right after it happened there was also a quadcopter drone scouting the area that filmed Russian vehicles and troops hanging around the building where it's possible to see a blue smock on the ground behind a fence, in the same place a man wearing a blue smock was executed. There's a million explanations you can come up with. But the war crimes by Russian soldiers is the one that ties up everything.
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@georgehh2574 in Kharkiv the Ukrainians "knew" enemy aircraft were coming by attacking positions and provoking Russian forces into calling in air support. Once Russian aerospace forces flew towards the area they were called into, Ukrainian ambushes clapped them out of the sky, and Russian air support stopped responding to calls.
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How many losses in a week?
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@aniksamiurrahman6365 What happened to the A-50, Sergei?
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@Supernautiloid I think it's a little disingenuous to claim foreign countries are sovereign but then say the US needs to go back to the Paris accords.
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@Supernautiloid There is an inconsistency. You can't say the US should abide by international accords but then say China has the right to not enter them. It's still better than saying that genocide is okay because they have a different culture, but only barely.
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@Supernautiloid You can't use authoritarian force to compel me to obey international accords, then. I'm clearly making a reference to Biden's answer. I'm going to be generous and assume you're just gaming this discussion, rather than actually being that ignorant.
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@Supernautiloid If the US has to obey international accords, then so do its people.
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@Supernautiloid So that a country can obey an international accord, the country passes laws that control behavior of the collective. And the individual is punished. I can't believe I have to explain this.
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@Supernautiloid You said authoritarian force is wrong. The question you've asked is useless, because no matter my answer the law is enforced through authoritarian force. So why should the US follow the Paris Accords if you're against actually enforcing the damn thing?
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@Supernautiloid "Not all forms of force are unjust or immoral" - Then why is it moral to use force against American citizens but not China? "ALL laws are forms of individual punishment" - When someone commits murder do we all go to jail? No. They're not collective punishment, by default making them individual punishment. "it's own citizens following it's own laws" - You and I don't pick the laws. Don't give me that crap. Do we want to go down this road and start finding which laws you don't like? Because I'll have you say you love authoritarian force being used against people that don't deserve it. "I am AGAINST using force to compel OTHER countries to follow the agreement since we have no right to dictate what other countries do" - And you don't have the right to dictate to me what to do either. That's beside the point, but I'm glad you're leaving that out in the open. Oh look at me, I'm so moral because arbitrary lines drawn in a map stop me from using force against others, but I'll use force on my own people. Jesus, read your own posts. Either way, the accords are essentially undemocratic. We didn't vote on the content of those accords. Don't even try to BS me. It's not your law, it's not my law. It's not ours. It's an international agreement, done by a select few elites out of each country. Should we comb through the list of international agreements until we find one you don't agree with? Because I'll force you to say you love it. You tell me the muddy water is coffee, I will have to see you drink it. Without making a funny face.
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@Supernautiloid Jesus Christ you people love making discussions harder to respond to. You didn't explain anything and in fact just contradicted yourself. You can't control me in my own home? Then exit the Paris accords. It makes no sense to argue that you can't control other people, but then defend an international agreement. The accords will punish people individually because states will have to create laws to deal with people preventing the goals from being met. And individuals do get punished through collective punishment. If an entire class is held in a classroom during recess as a form of collective punishment, the individual student is still being punished. You've just exposed yourself as someone willing to be obtuse and then end up being wrong anyway. Well done. Okay. Name the laws that go against your moral compass. Oh, so I have the right to vote against your personal liberties? You're just defending a system that chips away at our personal liberties. The contents of the Paris accords were not voted on by the people. People could have voted for Biden for a myriad reasons that were unrelated to the Paris accords but that's lumped into the deal anyway. Okay. Then start. Find out what? Your logic is that the Paris accords are righteous because they were voted on. My challenge is to have you name all the international agreements you don't like, and you come here to talk about them but you're forced to say it's okay for authoritarian force to be used against the people.
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And yet, sales are through the roof.
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Remember when you people said the same about Kherson?
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@Connor_Roush "Ukraine should have taken Kherson by now" - you last year. How many more humiliations will you endure?
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@Connor_Roush How is that related to you just being humiliated over and over again?
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@Connor_Roush They convincingly retook Kharkiv and Kherson. They convincingly destroyed elite units in Vuhledar. How much convincing you need? Just watch.
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@Connor_Roush That's 1/8th of the yearly defense budget. The US has spent trillions to counter Russia over the decades. The Ukrainians shredded their army for 100 bil. That's cheap.
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@Connor_Roush Ukraine deserved to be invaded? No. Now Russia pays the price.
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The Russian air force, just like many former Soviet countries' air forces, was not set up to penetrate and disable enemy air forces. They're just larger than Ukraine's air force. But the pilots have low hours of training, aircraft lack parts, they have small quantities of anti-radar missiles, and a significant lack of precision weapons. The US not only has guided bombs but also glide bombs which extend the range from which they can be dropped - this helps disable air defenses.
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No, things come at a cost. They want to pay the price, let them. Nothing's ever free.
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@thehunt8r Ah yes, the "neutrality" where Ukraine is just a vassal state to Russia. Now Russia will have to become China's vassal state. What goes around really does come around.
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@hellothere5154 They don't own those goods. They belong to Ukraine. Nobody is getting to Russia.
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@olivergarcia2304 Russian telegram admitted the loss, plane crashed, pilot allegedly survived.
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It's extremely humanitarian to arm a nation fighting off murderers who came from abroad.
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A 50% increase in homicide in a small town is just 2 homicides instead of 1, while a 50% increase in homicide in Chicago is actually pretty concerning. Pure percentages are often meaningless within context.
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@HarkyOfficial Funny, because the WHO and most western countries outright refused to be careful and decided to pretend nothing was going on.
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@Kyle Jones "Even the most hardcore right wingers in Canada wouldn't dream of running on that" - you mean that the right wing is different countries has different opinions? Oh woooooow
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@Theforkellfam "you cannot predict that the government will “ruin healthcare” or manage it “inefficiently”" - yeah we can. Look at how the Postal Service is managed.
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How is Rogan a chess player, comedians tell jokes on his show and he doesn't understand them.
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William Miller Dodging taxes is great and everyone should do it.
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William Miller I don't know what any of that means. Stay safe, don't pay taxes.
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This is less than a consolation prize. Ukraine is still militarized, still lead by the not-sees, and it's getting NATO assistance. The Russian Armed Forces suffered significant losses, which they many not recover from within a decade, in their march to Kiev. If he didn't care, he abused his men by throwing them to the meat grinder and every soldier deserves to know how he'll be treated so that next time he may re-think the direction in which the guns are pointed. Hundreds of suspected assassinations attempts against officers occurred among American troops in Vietnam. Just saying.
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Not really, conservatism is very different here in Europe.
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@nikpatel007 But UK conservatives are cucks more similar to Clintonite Democrats than Republicans. Also, apartheid regimes were wrong but they were receiving a lot of support because the liberation movements were Marxist-Leninist or Maoist in nature. So it's more complex than people simply supporting South Africa and Rhodesia because "ahahah racism good".
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Oh no, a guy who clearly acted in legitimate se-defense and committed no crime walked free. The injustice! We need to imprison people because of our feelings rather than actual law!
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Valid for a COIN conflict where you have free reign over the air. You can't do gun runs when there's Buks and MANPADS around.
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Using Afghan corruption as an example of US corruption is a low blow.
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@scorptech9041 Whataboutism.
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@truxton1000 Russians never had a point. They made up fake news. They brought down comms towers to end Ukrainian broadcasts and set up their own Russian TV channels to feed the Ukrainian population disinformation. They claimed Kiev was coming to kill them, which was totally false. Even then, they had to send Igor Girkin - a FSB agent - to start the fake civil war. Russia just sent Russian soldiers. It was all fake. They created the war out of whole cloth. The goal was achieved? The war hasn't ended. They achieved the goal in Kharkiv and Kherson city, and Ukraine snatched the goal right back. They will retake the East and then take out the Kerch bridge once more, forcing the Russian army into a siege they can't win.
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How is it legitimate?
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Some has theorized that a week long offensive like this was only possible by siphoning the fuel off the captured vehicles. Literally using the abandoned loot as supply lines.
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@moseszero3281 They seized Krupiansk and other rail lines are within range of artillery fire. The rail lines coming from the east do not go into Sivierodonetsk, meaning they'll have to haul everything by truck beyond where the eastern rail going to Luhansk ends.
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But we're getting the videos of Russian soldiers offing themselves during battle. That's beyond miserable.
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The problem is that "Buratino" could cause confusion.
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The CSTO seems uninterested in the war. Khazakstan won't even recognize the separatist republics. Areas under control can still be shelled until it becomes unfeasible to control. Tactical nukes are not "polite" nukes. The use of one means toothpaste that will not go back into the tube. Even the countries willing to deal with Russia will be forced to ostracize them.
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@xxxchcxxx8905 The rest of the world would to come to terms with the fact that Russia has decided to become a rogue nation and can't be trusted with their arsenal of nukes. Obviously everyone would think about game theory and now it would be preferable to decapitate Russia first rather than let them recompose themselves and threaten others with nukes. Realistically, the rest of the world would be pressured to starve Russia out and hope they don't launch more nukes.
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Ukraine didn't empty the prisons.
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Assad released extremists from prison to create chaos during Arab Spring. A lot of displacement in Syria was caused by Syrian and Russian bombing of cities. The Russian method is also seen in Ukraine.
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China doesn't want to be involved. Supporting Luhansk and Donetsk would mean accepting Taiwan and Xinjiang independence movements. Also, the Chinese forces have no experience in war, the last war they had was against Vietnam where they pulled back to avoid getting encircled by Vietnamese forces returning from Cambodia.
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Consoles have safeties that monitor the hardware and software, this prevents piracy of games and changes to the console that could skip the anti-piracy features. Hackers try to poke and pry into how the console works to see if they can trick the safeties. For example, the signed code - consoles will check if software has the correct signature before running. In one console the devs of a game forgot to erase signature keys so people managed a small hack of the console by pretending that their software was that game. So the console accepted any software as valid thinking it was that legitimate game.
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I think it was TheYankeeMarshal who said this in a live chat, Snoop's 180º turn might be him just doing community service to get off some charges. Because "we have to brainwash people" with daily anti-gun messages like Eric Holder said.
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Heavy tanks were used in Kharkiv and Kherson. Air superiority is preferable, but not required. The air space is funnily enough not being contested. Russia also doesn't dare contesting it due to density of SAM and MANPADS present.
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There's no such thing as a tank in the sky due to gravity. Aircraft are as light as possible.
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T-64 is a Ukrainian tank.
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@a.m.armstrong8354 the vast majority of strikes against ISIS were by the Western coalition, Russia focused on protecting Assad which meant diverting attention to rebel groups. Gerasimov, Surovikin, etc. are political appointees.
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The missile campaigned to freeze Ukrainians failed thanks to western defense. Cope harder.
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+CLureCo him fucking up his hands is exactly why he doesn't throw power shots
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@MusikCassette The what now? Turbine engines already have a shaft connected to an alternator to power the electric systems.
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@MusikCassette How do you generate electricity if the aircraft is electric powered? Aircraft have RAT - Ram Air Turbines - if the power goes out, but deploying them increases drag to get the turbine to spin.
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 @nomenestomen3452 More like, it would take time and money to rate an aircraft for nuclear delivery when the F-35 comes like that from factory. Anti-Americanism is so funny.
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@alexfischer2527 "no business is being put out of business by being forced to pay their employees although they're not working" - because they budgeted for the costs in the first place. If you add that requirement without warning, suddenly there's an extra expense that wasn't budgeted for. "Never understood why that's so important for you guys. Quite an anarchist concept if you think about it." - Because anarchy is great.
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@ZephyrFate Anarchy is the purest form of capitalist economy.
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@ZephyrFate It makes complete sense. Free market capitalism is the only system that can exist under anarchy, any other system is an aggression against anarchy and an imposition of a new system. The Republic of Cospaia existed under anarchy for almost 400 years and they were capitalists, tobacco growers.
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@jayzenitram9621 and labour unions were against minimum wage because they knew that a legal minimum would allow companies to all pay the legally mandated minimum and refuse to pay more.
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@expertizer Never happened. Go back to 2014-2015 and push your Sputnik/RT talking points in a timeline where we took them seriously.
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So Russia got more military bases on their borders. Seems more complicated than you make it seem.
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The hell does that even mean?
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What the hell does that mean? Russia has had trouble with 30 year old American weapons.
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There could be a chance but the core in a nuclear weapon needs to be simmetrically imploded in a matter of milliseconds. The shock of the initial explosion will probably toss the other nukes away.
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Syria would make more sense, but it just kicked off.
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@ChuckBeefOG "The only reason it is utilized is price" - not really. Pretty much every lesson learned after big conflicts is that firepower wins battles and carrying lighter ammo not only increases the amount you can carry, it also increases marksmanship. When the Air Force was testing the AR15 they found that the percentage of people who qualified Expert went through the roof compared to the M14. The fact that it's cheaper is only the cherry on top.
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@0zone247 because the old one doesn't meet the criteria. It was made to fit the AR magwell, which limits performance. The new one isn't constrained by the AR magwell so you can give it more case behind the bullet, make it faster.
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J I mean, within the context of terminal ballistics I didn't think I need to mention that. No, I didn't mean it in the sense of bullets tumbling in the air.
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@abc4781 Except that 6.8 SPC doesn't meet the criteria. You can't fit the bullet they want and make it go at the speed they want from the limits of the AR magwell.
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@greggreed3840 "the 6.8 SPCll vastly out performs the 5.56 in penetration" - What? How so? Which loading, which bullet, which target are we talking about? "trajectory is the same as the .308." - Not really. "With the 6.8 SPCll you're pushing a .277 110gr bullet at 2800 fps. I think you need to go study some physics." - Not really, out of a 16 inch barrel you get 2500-2560 fps with a 110gr. "If you want less recoil then drop to a 90 gr pill at over 3200fps." - not even an 85gr will get you that. And by the time you drop to 85gr you gave up so much sectional density your ballistic efficiency takes a hit. "As far as tumbling for the 5.56 that went away when they went to heavier bullets and faster twist rates" - that's not true. Modern 5.56 is made to tumble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBdVGJT5ezY "The reason Stoner went with the 1-12 twist" - the reason Stoner went with the 1/14 twist was because at the time the available barrel blanks for the .224 bullet were rifled with twists for very light varmint-hunting rounds. It's obvious with the historical context in mind, .224 was used to hunt critters and not to be used with heavy-for-caliber bullets meant for military service, so nobody made barrel blanks meant for heavier bullets. "was to achieve the destabilization of the bullet so it would tumble on impact" - That's false. All spitzer pointed bullets with some form or rear weight bias will tumble, eventually. If given a large enough target, even 7.62x39mm M43 ball will tumble (it just so happens that against human targets it tumbles after it already went through the person). 7.62 NATO tumbles. The rifling twist of a firearm CANNOT stabilize bullets in tissue. The twist rate would have to be so fast it would look like threading. "Faster twist, heavier bullet no tumble." - That's not true. M855 still tumbles and frags like crazy - but it depends on the angle of attack of the bullet at the moment of impact. M855A1 was made so that it can tumble and fragment independently of the angle at which it hits. Again, another video on the modern 62gr M855A1 tumbling and fragmenting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clZwnSQnfH8
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@alinmeleandra3175 "There is the option to change to powder content inside the casing. You can obtain the same virtual kinetic energy for a heavier bullet in a "smaller" casing, by increasing the effectiveness of the powder itself" - No such thing as a free lunch. Trying to overpressure ammunition just to keep the lower makes no fucking sense. "As far as I know, the M4 direct impingement system loses a lot of gas in order to re-cycle the bolt" - that's almost negligible. Most of the powder has burned by the time the bullet crosses the gas block (unless you're running a sbr) and pressure leakage is constrained by the diameter of the gas port. Switching the 14.5" for 16" barrels would probably yield more feet per second than changing the gas system. "On the other hand, a bigger caliber bullet (not sure if 6.8 has this advantage) , does not really need to transfer all its energy to a target "to drop it"." - I'm sorry but that extra 0,053" of bullet diameter doesn't matter much. You either clip the central nervous system or your don't. If you don't score a CNS hit, you either hit the heart or you don't. And then it's the rest of the vitals and finally the remaining non-vital tissue. If you're not hitting somewhere that will instantly remove a person's ability to fight, you depend on the damage done to the organs and tissue to make a stoppage. This doesn't depend as much on caliber as one would think. The speed of the round, how early it upsets in tissue, if it fragments or not, etc are very important. "I am quite sure you do not want to be hit by an AK round" - I don't want to be hit by ANY round. But gun to the head, I have no choice but to get shot, I'd rather take a M43 7.62x39mm than a 5.56 M193 or M855A1. The M43 is known for making pass-through wounds that look like pistol wounds to coroners. M193 and M855A1 will tumble, come apart and turn tissue into shreds. "A bigger bullet, creates a bigger hole," - again, we're talking about a 0,053 inch difference between 6.8 and 5.56. Less than one eighteenth of an inch. "also cavity it leave behind it, tends to be bigger" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u5Uk0ae4p4 this is the cavity from a non-fragmenting 5.56 round impacting 20% ballistics get at 2800 fps. It damned near split the gelatin block in two. Now, I am sure you can get a 6.8 to tumble. The only thing I'm saying is, 5.56 is both faster and lighter which allows for a faster upset of the projectile when it impacts tissue. And it's lighter, has better trajectory, etc so the benefits for using 5.56 outshine the very moderate improvement in ballistic performance.
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@samuelmorales2344 "The AR is a longer range automatic rifle" - people using M4s as automatic rifles proved to be a disaster. "while the M16 will get the 6.8mm" - on the first sentence of your post you said the 6.8mm is necessary to enhance penetration against body armor. If you stick 6.8mm on an AR you don't get a good armor penetrator because of the lower velocity. You're constrained by the magwell dimensions. The M193 flew off the muzzle of a 20 inch barrel at something like 3200 fps. If you're gonna carry a 20" musket might as well NOT use a M16 as the base and bring in an AR-10 design with the 6.8 AP bullet and make it fly at crazy speeds instead of being limited by the magwell. "Tumbling rounds or fragmenting rounds do not work against body armor." - that's false. ALL spitzer pointed bullets tumble, it's just a matter of how soon.
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@billy56081 I believe you. How compressed is that loading, though? I'm looking at load data right now and to get 2800-2900 fps out of a 20 inch barrel you need compressed loads. And assuming you're only losing 50-150 fps by chopping down 7.5 inches of barrel... You still need to deal with the fact that the gold dot is a lead core bullet that's going to have to be replaced by an EPR design that is low in metal toxicity so that it can be fired in American ranges without being closed due to environmental regulations and also take into account the longer tracer projectiles. You're starting off from a near max charge according to load data, compressing the fuck out of the powder and then sticking an elongated bullet in that case? If anyone fucks up at the factory - remember, the first M855A1 batches were overpressured as well - that case is a hand grenade.
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@donovanb4739 weird question, because ping pong balls weigh grams while each train carriage can weigh-in at 20-30 tons. A better comparison would be a 14 pound bowling ball versus a 10 pound bowling ball.
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@billy56081 that's the problem. It's like saying you can get 500hp out of Car XYZ by telling me I can go to the XYZ forums. Of course that enthusiasts can fine tune performance out of something that doesn't have it from factory. The military will be using factory ammo, not some tinkerer's home loads.
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@billy56081 what part of military rounds requiring the ability to load LONGER bullets in them to make up for steel core or tracer rounds didn't you get?
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@billy56081 like I said, what happens to the internal volume of a case when you load a longer bullet? You're deflecting because you know I'm right. Grow the fuck up.
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@flabySPARTAN228 I know, I'm just replying to the people talking about doing a caliber conversion on existing rifles.
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@smith8399 To be fair there's nothing wrong with a 6.8 AR, especially for those who can't hunt with 5.56. But as a service caliber, there's no advantage on slapping a larger caliber into a 5.56 weapon. It's preferable to change rifle and caliber at the same time than half-assing.
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Depends. The Taliban were known to suppress poppy plantations, but this may have been due to them trying to control the supply. The plantations really flourished when they were driven back.
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@lukelewis9165 What a riddiculous argument. The M16A4 isn't bad, it's a good weapon. It was adopted in 1997? So what? Not a good look? According to whom? Who's judging the looks? Simon Cowell? Is there an obligation in changing rifles every 20 years? No. Either way, there's been the changes with M4s and then the M27 IAR so the USMC was modernizing for the past 20 years. The military budget also goes towards things that actually work such as an air force capable of flying over enemy countries.
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@lukelewis9165 It's not an issue. The "old stock" the US has are usable weapons. Russia is doing the equivalent of bringing back M2 and M3 carbines. Different generation of weapon, different caliber. It's deep storage, not old stock.
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I think this war is teaching China a lesson: stick to the parades - you're not solving anything militarily.
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@apierrakeas9577 adequately funding the government is like continuing to support a company you don't like. If a company fucks you over you stop doing business with them, right? The government can fuck you over and since it can "adequately fund" itself through law, it cannot be influenced by the "customer", the people.
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@workout.matter790 "They aren't, and they won't" - nice convincing argument you got there. "Not only that the US has more political, economic, and military leverage over every country in the world." - which is meaningless if you don't have enough money to pay for a war. "There are already plenty of countries who support a VAT system." - Yeah and it's absolute bullshit when I look at a receipt and the print out tells me how much cheaper my bill would be without those fucking garbage taxes. Those taxes limit my consumption. If I consume less, the economy slows down.
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@workout.matter790 "You made the argument that people will leave the country in droves if we implement a VAT" - No, I didn't. You're mixing two separate events in your brain. "Or they'll jump to Europe who WAIT! THEY ALREADY HAVE A VAT! LOLOLOL." - this wasn't about VAT, you introduced VAT as an argument later. They already sell products in Europe where VAT exists. It wouldn't make that much difference to move to Europe as long as there was a host country trying to attract business with low tax rates like Ireland did to recover from the crisis. Sell in Europe with VAT, sell in America with VAT. What matters is escaping the high taxes. "In California, the highest taxed state in the country, do you see any of the tech companies leaving?" - don't they get a shit ton of subsidies, though? "Furthermore how is Amazon going to get a better deal than their existing 0% tax based on $3-billion in profit, and $6 EPS?" - it's not a matter of a better deal, just a "not as bad" deal. "Christ, if you're going to make a claim, prove it." - pretty sure the supertax on the rich in France failed miserably because of all the subterfuges involving withholding income or officially moving to other countries.
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@workout.matter790 ""'What happens if the billion dollar corporations supporting such a system collapse, or move to a different jurisdiction? Suddenly we won't have the money propping up society." Busted." - that's not related to VAT. You're either confused or outright lying to save face at this point. "Uhhhhhh, this is literally on Andrew Yang's campaign site which I'll cite here: "With a VAT of half the European level, we can pay for Universal Basic Income for all American adults of $1,000 per month.". If you didn't know Yang's policy, why are you even arguing here?" - but that wasn't the original point of the argument. If you want my critique of Yang's magic VAT there's the issue that VAT would increase the cost of goods and thus reduce consumption. Not to mention there's states with sales tax already. "Who doesn't get tons of subsidies in heavily industrialized nations?" - my point is that tech companies would get shafted in low tax states. So it doesn't matter that everyone gets tons of subsidies, my point is that California must be the state where it's more profitable to have a tech business. Or do you think they're staying in California because of sheer goodwill? "and how is Amazon going to get a better deal " - it's not about a better deal. If we give them a bad deal they will seek a less bad one. "You're comparing an outrageous 75% personal income tax to a VAT?" - I am not. And you're being seriously dishonest right now.
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They're not losing the regions if they can make Russian forces flee to the East.
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 @dingus6317 You would have let Saddam take Saudi oil fields lol imagine the last 30 years at the gas pump if you were in charge
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No, it wouldn't. Ukraine already struck fuel depots and air bases in Russia. Nobody cares.
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He didn't talk about the election. He made disparaging comments that honestly applied to Hillary as well, and then complimented her even though he later said she was a bad option as well. I don't give a goddamn rat's ass about Casey's politics but he fucked up by making the video a total shillfest.
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Putin hired nazis to kill Ukrainians. Look at Wagner, Rusich, etc.
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@Gauntlet_Videos Well, for what I want to happen to come true, a lot of people on the side that I don't want to win have to run out of their free trial of life. Dehumanization is a perfectly normal mental trick, but that's reserved for men in balaclavas and dressed in green. Coach Red Pill does not need to be dehumanized. He was a lolcow. He was known online for years before the war started. This is just the end of his character arc.
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 @sidharthcs2110 so does the Smart car
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@Yamato980 The M in T-72M is "modernized". Monkey model was the go-to excuse whenever Soviet made equipment failed in satellite/client states.
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- Was outdated by the time it was introduced - Took way longer to develop than it should, detachable mag Garand prototypes existed - Competed against the FAL in trials, but because it had a good chance of losing they started rigging the trials to make the M-14 come out on top - The new gas system required ao much precision that manufacturers could not hold the tolerances in a mass production settings. Many rifles delivered to the military were off spec due to the rush to get it in service.
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It's not terror. It's just tying up the loose ends.
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The war will be over sooner.
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@goldfinga786able It's been a year and Russia, instead of taking the L, is depopulating itself. Burning things faster makes the flame go out sooner. Explosions are the fastest combustions.
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I thought the gas was cut.
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Doesn't matter if they're easy to find. If his job requires a security clearance he can't risk losing it on a technicality.
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CARLOS!
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The pledge of alleigeance was written by a socialist and has nothing to do with the Founding Fathers.
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@dreadfulbodyguard7288 It's not good will. It's exploitation of Russia. We want you to steal from them the profits they would have earned elsewhere. It's just going to bankrupt them.
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@Sour Grapes he has a boston accent lmao
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@mypartyisprivate8693 War is terrible for the economy. It's the Keynesian broken windows fallacy, if you go around breaking windows you might make the glass salesman some money but that money means everyone had to spend less on other things to pay for damage.
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Again the Russian knows that nuclear terrorism is his only cry.
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Aesthetically, it's on point.
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Nothing? It's an antique meant for past wars. The Stuka and Sturmovik were more myth than reality. The Stuka is plagued by unrealistic kill claims and it was seen as outpaced by 1942. The Sturmovik also suffers from unrealistic kill claims and it did poorly in Finland. The Skyraider losses were pretty unsustainable. Not just due to MiGs but anti air as a whole. Being tough means nothing because tough aircraft go down. None of them are tough hitting the ground.
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I keep forgetting about the Doc and Mahrti pilot and the "you gotta lick my balls Mahrti" line always hits me like a ton of bricks.
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@dfgiuy22 Your "hope" is that whoever gets the order is as senile as Putin and would rather destroy the world rather than just pick up a phone and tell the West he's going to surrender the nukes in exchange for immunity. Live a good life for the rest of your days, or die with Putin. Make your call.
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+Ascendor81 nice footage. Doesn't make it worth buying.
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"It could very well mean that they still have a large stockpile and they are not interested in cutting into it yet." - COPE "There is no evidence of Ukraine using the HARM against Russia." - There's plenty of evidence, it was literally posted by the Russians before anyone ever announced the delivery.
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Exactly. Stolen. The Mexican government is so corrupt that they bribe government officials to sell/look the other way while they steal firearms. They have anti-air missiles and full autos. They're not buying those legally.
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Russia has over 40 BTGs in the south. It was Ukraine who forced Russia to pull down to the south.
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@darkquaesar2460 They're not even able to move towards Mykolaiv, you want them to reach Odessa? By what, December 2023? They've amassed tanks. Another few volleys of HIMARS and they'll run out of fuel just like in late February, Javs and NLAWs will pick them off. Is this a joke?
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@darkquaesar2460 Put it on the calendar and come back to me.
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@darkquaesar2460 No, they aren't.
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@mathieul4303 Then it doesn't matter. Rights are not for the good days. They're for the bad days. It's precisely in times of crisis that rights get overlooked and thus trampled. If there's nobody left, we might get the answer why the universe is so quiet. But, it's extremely difficult for SARS CoV 2 to eliminate mankind considering that 80% of people seem to be unaffected/only mildly sick.
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Source: Fabián Escalante, former head of Cuban intelligence Truly an unbiased source
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Outnumbered in artillery, but Russia blasts holes in empty fields while Ukraine hits steel.
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@maryginger4877 Russia depends on rail even more, and Ukraine can shut down Russian rail for 12-24 hours by blowing the tracks any time they want.
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You're also gonna pay for the aircraft and the crews for those 3 carriers?
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Autonomous guidance would punch through the jamming.
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There's still countries that didn't switch from 7.62 yet.
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According to you Ukraine essentially suffered 80% casualty rate in Lisichansk. Why would Ukrainians wear white arm bands? To stop Russian troops from shooting them. Didn't work.
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Damn Ukraine's army was destroyed so Russia is punching air right now. And losing.
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The "strongest" military is sending human waves. It's a slaughter.
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I'm being told I can't drive a car unless I fork over tens of thousands for an EV, I have to pay higher taxes, eat fake meat, and can't criticize China's careless attitude or else I'm a racist. Not a lot of anti-car, pro-taxation, vegan and anti-racist people on the right.
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It's actually weaker.
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@sheilaolfieway1885 The A-10 has already been replaced. Most CAS missions are performed by F-16s, F-18s, Strike Eagles and B-1s.
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@sheilaolfieway1885 The article says that the aircraft will remain airworthy, not that it will keep getting missions. The A-10 has already been replaced, the USAF simply wastes money keeping it airworthy because they're forced to.
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So the defense industrial complex hired the guy who tried to whack a US Army general but missed? Dude was a devout commie, tried to game-end an anti-communist big shot, then set his sights on the US President.
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@RayManiac90 No, they're not. They're actually contradicting what we know. You trust science? Science is just a process. You trust the process? Okay, what do you know about the science on the topic? How many studies have you read? The greater good is always used to justify atrocities. Come up with a better argument. You're okay with gunning down people if they refuse?
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They have glaciers.
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Am I? I had not seen the video, therefore I preferred to keep the options open than trust someone who says "He learn it from X!". If you had the confirmation, GREAT! But no need to insult me because I committed the hideous crime of not watching MrColinNoir being taught thumb over bore. Also, keep track of when these replies have been posted, because there's been some cross posting and that creates confusion.
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Ukraine didn't get through integration with Europe like Poland did, and was stuck with the costs of Chernobyl.
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It makes perfect sense. The defensive stance burned trough Russian offensive potential. Now, do you fight through the densest concentration of enemy forces? Or do you attack the weak spots? When the opponent raises his guard to protect the head, you strike the body.
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Advance? With what? The photos and videos of Russian advances show massacres.
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All thermonuclear designs use a plutonium core fission bomb to start the fusion reaction.
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It wasn't even meant to supercruise. It's also not an air superiority fighter.
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The reason they don't want to fight is that both the LPR and DPR were bloodied as used as meat shields by Russia. They want to stop and don't want to go outside their regions because they know they'll be forced to advance into Ukrainian defenses to get killed, and then the Russian forces perform the real assault. They're kidnapping men off the street in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions to fight. Natural resources require investment to extract. That investment can go all up in smoke with a single volley from a long range rocket attack or suicide drone. Who's going to invest?
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@docinparadise "They are not a backwater country with no technology." - The Donbabwe and Luganda republics are. Russia also lost a ton of drilling tech because of the Western companies that have left. "Oil and gas companies drill ANYWHERE if there’s money involved." - Not where it's hard to extract. If a conflict is too hot, they won't invest. "Everything you build can be blown up no matter where you are" - Oh yes, please. Tell me how many Saudi or Kuwaiti oil fields were blown up this year? How many Venezuelan oil fields?
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@ShunTachibana Unless you can prove the particle accelarators created this hellworld, I'd say their safety record is pretty good.
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 @aov6563 There's a Russian film reviewer who posted his Red Dawn 1984 review and he sarcastically called the American rebels "elves". Orcs vs elves is based on fantasy settings.
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I'm not a botanist, but aren't there perennial trees in Russia??
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@harriemeeuwis978 Russian source Atomic Cherry estimated 25k dead and disabled by August 8. Add 10k if you want over the last 4 months. Maybe 35k KIA and maimed. I care deeply - which is why I want the people who caused that suffering to meet their fate in the battlefield.
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But dogfighting will just lead to a jousting match where both aircraft claim each other due to all aspect missiles. Trying to get into close range for a dogfight will be a waste of an airframe and potentially pilot.
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Evaluating 40 year old hardware? Come on...
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Nothing has intrinsic value.
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@iantaylor9455 This is nonsense. You have no way of predict the chaos of a hit. Just a meter of drift would cause the building to suffer differently. The hot fireball lasts a fraction of a second. Thermal conductivity to destroy pathogens inside what's probably cryogenic storage would be insufficient. Manually removing the storage vials and placing them inside a commonly available pressure cooker for 15 minutes would be better than 10,000 degrees C for a tenth of a second. Stop using children's logic.
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@iantaylor9455 Imagine being this passive agressive over being called out for thinking real life is even more cartoonish than Mission Impossible 2. Lmao
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@iantaylor9455 I'm "throwing shit" for explaining that tossing bombs at facilities does not sterilize them? It's not an insult. Thinking that bombs cause fire and fire sterilizes is literal children's logic. If you feel insulted, that's on you.
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@iantaylor9455 Perhaps because nobody would go over there, so nobody gets infected even if it leaks.
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@wisewigga7129 They were actually famous about 10 years ago, but they deleted their old videos. They were called V.I.P.E.R.S. Academy and even appeared on the news.
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Was Russia at war with the US in Vietnam?
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Chile released UAP footage from a naval helicopter. It was years ago, and Mick West and his contributors at metabunk solved it.
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They tried to kill Zelenski last year.
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I spoke English with a British accent because of school but immediately lost it due to movies and videogames.
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It's not limited by the pilot.
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Truly libertarian is mailing pipe-[REDACTED] to your elected officials' offices from your shed in the woods, not peepee poopoo impeachment procedures.
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The damage isn't easily fixed. The attack punched through and cut the steel rebar.
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@gerilac86 Again, they bombed infrastructure because Serbs wanted to preserve their forces for their little genocides. The military fighting off an invader? No, it's to use against civilians. American pilots who have talked about their experience said what happened, they got called to bomb the military but they ran away, so they moved to the next target in line. Even getting told off by their superior officers because they kept dropping bombs on facilities that already had been bombed instead of causing more destruction to the country. The Yugo army's combat capabilities were missing in action. If they wanted to fight they'd get a fight, but their role was oppressing unarmed people and combating organizations like the KLA. We could have won militarily, if the Serbs showed up to the fight.
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Says the guy who spams Russian MoD updates.
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Elon isn't about free speech, Twitter censored people for questioning the past (and lies) of one of his friends. Elon's politics are "please stop fighting, I need to make money off authoritarian regimes.
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Bruh there was a F-35 in BF2.
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At this point, their system is more feudal than Soviet.
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@natemaster200 the problem is that Sargon "I'm a r*pe victim and a quarter black" of Applebees can't tell when he's out of his depth so he went on to ruin his reputation and serve as an easy punching bag to any aspiring "breadtuber".
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They have been seen in Melitopol.
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When the requirements change out of a sudden how is that fair? I hope you face an ultimatum so that you get to see how it feels when it's about you being forced into sonething you don't want.
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Kyle also doesn't know what farms look like.
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"The “SJW” liberals whose worlds revolve around political identity are actually the more moderate liberals (like those in the media) who have the luxury of focusing on superficial shit" - then explain that bullshit at the DSA meeting where people were constantly having points of contention about privilege
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They don't have half the range.
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@威克 The DF-17 is just a modern Pershing II missile.
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Nope.
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I know he's insufferable but please watch Thunderf00t's videos on Fukushima. This is fear mongering.
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That had a positive impact of tumblr.
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Do you call a "turntable" a "tee-urn-tee-able"?
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Fun thing is, AI computer generated images are easily detected by AI.
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Satellite (and aircraft) spy cameras are works of art. FLIR pods are for warfare.
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Except that Wagner has always been a Russian military asset, with offices and training grounds inside Russian military bases.
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@BATOGames Not really. The F-22 is still flying with 1990s tech.
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@Uryendel How is it an excuse? An aircraft had to essentially give up its energy and become a sitting duck to get the F-22 in its sights, and if you look at the video the F-22 still manages to evade. Cost 3 times more? Look up prices. "on ww2 radar technology," - What's your obsession with WW2 radar? It can't guide weapons. Great. You have a radar that shows you incoming F-35s and there's nothing you can do about it except watch. You also forget that WW2 radars are larger, less mobile, and everyone knows where they are. So they'll be the first things being hit. Remember Desert Storm? Radars and control centers are the first things hit, then once defenses are blind the onslaught begins. "the design of the F35 only help against one type of radar" - The type of radar that's actually useful to guide weapons.
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The point is that the "elsewhere" completely missed the shell companies used to send the components where they were legally not allowed to sell to.
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Did you see how Russia celebrated Bakhmut?
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They demolished the bridges on the way out. They have no intention of coming back, new bridge spans would have to be manufactured from scratch.
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Europe kind of decided that after WWII that stuff wouldn't happen again.
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Natural selection is the first point, not the second. Collective immunity would be the point at which those who are immune serve as a barrier to transmission because they can't get infected and transmit to the non-immune. That's not natural selection but a function of statistics where many people who'd be weak at fighting the virus are spared because of living among an immune population.
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@thecanadiankiwibirb4512 lots of labs that make a killing from doing millions of tests?
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You're 20 years late on that bud, can we take care of the issues that are urgent now?
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@laashedden1675 dude my point is that we have a very serious issue now and you want to bitch and moan about things that happened two decades ago. Whopeti doo, do the goddamn victory dance. I did mine years ago, but there was no crisis at the time. Can you hold off for a few months?
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@laashedden1675 Tracking apps and QR codes, people being fired from jobs without even getting unemployment benefits, universities denying student enrollment. I do see a two-tiered society as a crisis because just like the PATRIOT Act it will always inch forward. Maybe when the PATRIOT Act was being passed there were people also debating about it and the conversation was shut down by people like you. Ever wondered that?
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@laashedden1675 "trakking apps and QR codes are our own personal responsibility to beware of" - I'm sorry, what? "Not following an employers guidelines has always been a reason for termination" - The mandate will come from the government through OSHA. "While we do have a two-tier society, it was ABSOLUTELY conservatives (NOT me) who designed and passed the patriot act." - Jesus Christ, so you're willing to sandbag now as some kind of revenge? "When liberals challenged the surveillance aspect of it" - It passed the House with 145 democrat yeas and 62 democrat nays. It passed the Senate with a single nay by a democrat. "Any idea why the gun collector guys are proud of receiving their “concealed carry” permits when it costs $, is a violation of second amendment AND is voluntarily adding themselves to a govt list of gun owners?" - Almost nobody is "proud" of it, they just do it either to get exempted from background checks in their state or to get reciprocity in other states.
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Coping and seething.
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"I as a German would likely not be sitting in a democratic and wealthy country right now, if it were not for the support of the U.S." - Was that support after the US deliberately targeted your civilians and cities?
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The novel coronavirus wasn't caused by factory farming but wild capturing of animals which are sold live in unsanitary markets. That's where the viruses jump from animal to animal species.
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 @sleepyjoe7518 you people say "anglo saksi!" like people say "da joos!"
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Cope. They razed cities to the ground. It's not lack of will, it's the sheer beatdown they took that handicapped their military capabilities.
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@JustAnotherAccount8 the Taliban pre Afghan war had diplomatic relations with the US, even though the US backed the Northern Alliance. It was only for a short period in the Afghan war that Taliban and ISIS were aligned, they turned on each other quickly.
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I mean after 3 years of war Russia is in no shape to fight the US. Iraq probably had a better chance.
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@Apfeljunge666 good thing we're in the 5th effing wave at this point
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Russia struck infrastructure since the start, but Starlink brought comms back.
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This is only partially correct. Identifying Russian v Ukrainian forces from the air is too difficult and requires precise coordination, meaning that the chances for friendly fire from air support is very likely. On the other hand, Ukrainian defenses knowing that most aircraft in the air are Russian means they can shoot without hesitation. This has actually lead to some friendly fire, but it exposes how Russia can't get by on hesitation. Russia's relatively small stockpile of PGMs lead to them not comitting enough of them, which makes pinpoint strikes difficult as they need to do dumb drops. A steady advance over a country should need air support. In this case, the invading force stands to lose more by resorting to air power.
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Not the same in any way.
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@MrBalrogos 6.5 Creemoor does around 2600 with a 142gr out of a 20 inch barrel. The 6.8 proposed by SIG does 2950 with a 140gr from a 16" barrel.
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Russia lost 7 aircraft and 12 pilots in the ordeal. Maybe they were the suckers for not getting the memo.
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Why do we need to test? We already know they work.
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Ukraine fought in the desert?
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No, it creates the pretext for the Russian people to finally think that Putin is not a strongman at all.
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@TietCanhVit You're still using the same excuses? Highly vaxx'd countries have their ICUs filled with vaxx'd patients. Want to prevent staff from being burdened by coof cases? Actually treat the disease rather than let people get critical and then administer antivirals by the time the body is dying from the damage and there's almost no virus left.
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It's still a testbed. Fusion is 10 years away. Like it's been for 40 years.
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Next time Israel has an incentive to go ham. If an opponent intends to show your defenses can be overwhelmed at that point game theory dictates that Israel should attack Iranian infrastructure to deny them power, factories, etc to bring their economy to a halt. The F-35 is no joke.
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Rheinmetall is producing more shells than the US right now.
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I don't think a bunch of MRAPs and M113s are being trebuched into Israel.
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The debt is what created the cars and houses... before a car or house was built money had to be printed to match the market value of those objects. Banks issue currency to pay for those things to be built and thus exist.
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Trump said to take it. It was a good vaccine, the best vaccine.
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Forget the research, look at the poor results.
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The vaccinated spread it too.
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Any industrialized country has "chemical" weapons. If you destroy Sarin stockpiles, you can still get chlorine.
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@jackhawthorn4799 I agree, it's just that "chemical weapon" is pretty broad and everyone assumes nerve agent.
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The original script on the remake had China as the invader. They changed it to NK.
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 @chaosgamer016_5 Russia loves painting all rebels as terrorists. Conservatives in onine spaces tend to back Assad.
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Russia stores most of their aircraft in the open. The Saki airbase attack in Crimea was also highly successful because the aircraft are parked in the open. The Su-57 that was destroyed by drone was also in the open. It's a fighter, not nuclear bomber.
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Not comparable to the tide pod thing, also that was blown out of proportion.
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 @luxie8097 Countries who have beef with the US are typically aligned with countries that support their divestment from US currency? Stop the effin presses!
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It's a nice schizo theory, but humans are too good at creating wealth. A gold standard would lead to massive deflation, so Khadaffi would be another "based r-word" who'd crash several African nations with his cryptobro tier understanding of economics. Yeah I said it, the gold standard people are the 1970-2000s version of cryptobros. You can't base a currency on gold and expect it to keep up with modern economic output.
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kamrudkd If gold is the money, then it's still inelastic compared to wealth creation.
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A growth of 0.6% is abysmal. 0.06% is downright catastrophic.
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 @zsmith4853 Canada joined a military alliance with China in 2013.
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@pja6476 They were already several countries, it was a union of republics. Sure, they all were controlled by Moscow, but it wasn't a single country splitting. It would be very unlikely because the Soviet military controlled the nukes. So what if the republics wanted to nuke each other? It was still Soviet generals in control of the bases and with the launch codes. There's a reason that despite all the rumors about the black market nukes, not a single one has been purchased by terrorists.
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@pja6476 What advantage? Trading them off is the best advantage they can get. The factions? Let them fight for who owns the most houses without indoor plumbing. You have sons and daughters living in Paris, London, LA, New York... why fight for rural backwaters?
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@RicoImp3 A slim possibility of survival? Survival rates are extremely high. 3 to 5 weeks? We've been doing this for a year and a half. Why 3 to 5 weeks from now?
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@andrewmeiklem5098 You have no arguments, you just parrot propaganda and beat people over the head. You can't even explain why you say the things you say.
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@mastercommander4535 If you think that exhaling pathogens is equivalent to hurling a 2 ton vehicle at other people, you're going to have to hold your breath.
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@RicoImp3 Are you going to demand those 1 million lives to be avenged? Or do you just pretend to care so you can beat people over with your personal politics?
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Did he get banned before and came back? I watched one of the Darkhorse clips two days ago.
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@whosyourdaddy5719 The carriers are on their backyard because of shipping lanes. If FONOPS stop, the entire economy has to suffer until alternatives are established. You sure you want to do that right now?
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@nataliesmylove7488 Supertankers are vulnerable targets and other countries are deploying/developing air to air missiles that are not meant to engage fighters but instead bring down tankers/AWACS aircraft from long range.
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That's great but knocking down all the old houses would make getting an affordable home even harder.
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The military industrial complex was roughly 25% of the American GDP at the time of Eisenhower's farewell address. It is now roughly 2%. His warning was received. You can stop concern trolling now.
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@lykos89 "You don't put yourself in the path of violence" - So don't live in poor areas? Don't walk at night? Don't go to gas stations or convenience stores? Don't go to the bus station? Don't go on that underpass? "equipped with the capacity to commit violence" - I'm always equipped with that capacity. Doesn't mean I want to.
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 @l.w.paradis2108 "be hired as armed guards of property during civil unrest" - there was no hiring process.
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@l.w.paradis2108 "why do you think Rittenhouse was indicted?" - This is an extremely funny question. Nobody wanted to actually prosecute Zimmerman until public pressure forced it. While you create a strawman you ignore that prosecution isn't purely objective. Sometimes you want to make an example out of someone. Sometimes you may not want to ruin your statistics with a failure to convict someone but public pressure forces you to. "I suggest you find out when self-defense legally applies." - I've said this about 5 times now. Bernie Goetz bought a gun, brought it illegally into NYC, carried it illegally in NYC, and walked on the homicide charges because it was self-defense. He served 8 months over the gun. But self-defense still applied.
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@l.w.paradis2108 "In the first altercation, R used his firearm recklessly. After that, he cannot assert self-defense" - Did you write that law? Buddy, you're looking for the thinnest straw to grasp. No, you won't get your magic obscure loophole that automatically grants you victory. "he cannot assert self-defense when others who saw what he did attempted to disarm hi" - Watch. "the prosecution's legal theory is solid" - Solid as pudding. "Obvious you did no research." - Obviously you have no argument. If you have nothing to say, don't post at all. If you want to be right you have to work for it.
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@l.w.paradis2108 I never called anyone any names.
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@l.w.paradis2108 I'm sorry you don't know that a theory of a case isn't the law. Zimmerman's prosecution was also a complete clustertruck and his defense failed to dismiss the charges.
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@l.w.paradis2108 "A theory of the case is not "law" but it must be based on the law" - You can base whatever you want on the law, and still be wrong. Otherwise there would be no "not guilty" verdicts. "It would have already been dismissed" - Zimmerman's case was not dismissed either. He walked. "and reason to believe that the FACTS show the law(s) was (were) violated by the accused" - Again, we only have to look at Zimmerman's case. He wasn't supposed to be charged. He had to be due to public pressure. "This is just sad." - Says the person who thinks charges not being dismissed equals conviction.
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@l.w.paradis2108 "A "not guilty" verdict doesn't mean the prosecutor was "wrong." It means he failed to prove his case." - Same thing. If you can't prove something you're considered wrong by default. Come back an prove it, and you'll be right. "If there were no way to prove the case, then it shouldn't be brought." - There was no way to prove second degree murder in Zimmerman's case either, and they still pressed on. And lost.
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Groove Crusader Nothing he said was a falsehood but okay.
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@SeaJay_Oceans Would cost as much as a new plane.
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@NateDogMXtv The vote was done under illegal military occupation. The international observers were fringe people like far-right members of European extremist parties. Doesn't count. Let's remove all the troops and Russian immigrants since 2014 then hold the vote again.
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Gas isn't similar at all because pistol powder burns faster.
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It had to be missile. The Canadians spent a thousand rounds trying to shoot down a balloon with the guns on CF-18s in 1998. The RAF then gave it a go and failed too.
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Novichok-grade copium.
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lmao Russia lost all dignity in a war they started
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@godkingemperor9782 Nobody cares. Ukraine can just take the area. Russia can't even take Mykolaiv, how are they going to take Odessa?
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Hospitalization rates are low. Oh no, such a large impact, 95% of them sleeping it off at home and 4% having their stay last under a day or two. Your brother received improper care for profit. I'm unvaxxed. I had mild symptoms for a day. My brother is vaxxed. He was sick for three days. Here's the comeback, your anecdote is countered by thousands of anecdotes. Even the worst strain didn't send 10% of people to the hospital. Most people didn't even notice they had it.
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Rufus, AKA the Demon Core, was meant to the the third drop over Japan and thus it had a low safety margin. It was safely handled by hand until people got cocky and violating safety procedures. They're not little reactors. Pu-239 is an alpha emitter with a 24,000 year half life. If they were little reactors they'd get poisoned after a short while with fission products and have to get disassembled and reprocessed too frequently to make a nuclear arsenal impractical to maintain.
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@avibhagan He mentioned an Alta-class minesweeper, which was not at BALTOPS 22. He detailed a remote detonation method that doesn't make sense because the first Norwegian P-8 did not enter service until 2023. How do you investigate? How does one prove a negative? Investigations have to make sense. That's why the police requires something called "probable cause". Denmark claims to have 26 photos of the Russian vessel that did it. Donald Trump isn't the president anymore and thus has no access to any information. He's just saying what he thinks sounds good to his audience.
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That's like giving someone without cancer chemo and then saying chemo worked. Yeah if a country has less of a problem, you can introduce any measure and say it was fixed. There's been plenty of action in the US. And it always put the burden on the legal gun owner while criminals did whatever they wanted.
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@chriswright3448 If the argument is that we need to punish the innocent because everyone is innocent before their first crime, then apply that logic to everything else.
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He got the Dimitry from Dimitry Utkin, the actual guy who started the group before it became "corporate".
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>We live in a democracy FALSE. The US is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. > In fact, the poles show most people think something ought to be done FALSE. Most people support the 2ndA and most think that new laws won't solve anything. Most people also agree that a new AWB will not be effective.
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The F-16 is absolutely configured for the role. Many nations have F-16s as their primary CAS delivery aircraft. Strike Eagle pilots dedicated themselves to learning the art of the gun run, and so far none of them has been taken out with a rifle. In fact, most of the bells and whistles in the A-10 that allow it to do CAS are straight up similar to the F-16.
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lol no. Can't defeat physics. If radio waves are bounced away from the receiver antenna you can't pick it up.
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Lives will not be lost once the killers are wiped out. Weapons tend to help with that. Kissinger already walked back his claims, by the way.
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Assuming the opening of the rocket is 125m under the water line the water pressure would be roughly equivalent to 12 atm, adding the atmosphere you get 13. Total engine pressure for the Sea Dragon was designed to be 20 atm.
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Over 600 F-35s delivered.
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There's no Russians there anymore... :)
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It wasn't good news. NATO's argument was that Ukraine will win before they could process the application. Things are bad... very bad. For you, that is. I'm on Ukraine's side.
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The USD has even greater use in the black and grey markets.
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Ukraine concentrated force in Kharkiv. Russians complained about their line being breached with a 15 tank "fist".
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I've noticed that whenever I post a comment about a spicy subject I end up writing a keyword that turns a whole parahraph red. But I can post the comment and others can read it. I tried looking up this "comment turning red" feature and nobody seems to know about it or report it.
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@rayven1749 good luck getting parts if the E/F become the standard
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Good relations with the country that carved up their land 11 years ago?
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@youtubebane7036 A coup is not a war or war declaration. There was also no coup. The government showed up to work and had a vote. The Odessa deaths were linked to a full blown street fight where Russians fired an AK at a crowd and threw molotov cocktails into a crowd from the top of the building that caught fire. The people of Donbas were killed by Russia. The forced conscription nearly depleted the region of men.
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@youtubebane7036 Doesn't matter. A vote isn't a coup. Many European countries have voted to dissolve governments over the decades. Yanukovych betrayed the security services and was going to get a peace deal while letting the crooked cops and his Berkut boys take the fall for murder and aggravated assault. Yanukovych's life was not in danger, the police (pro-Russians) simply saw that they would go to prison and decided to let everyone know they wouldn't protect Yanukovych. Yanukovych wanted to live the mafioso life but forgot a basic rule of mafia life - you never cross the people you depend on for protection. No, Odessa was started by Russians shooting firearms at Ukrainians (under the protection of pro-Russia police chiefs) and culminated with pro-Russian rioters throwing molotov cocktails from the roof of the trade union house into the pro-Ukraine rioters in the street. The fire resulted from the clashes and the deaths from the police refusing to stop the fighting and ignoring the emergency calls. The Minsk II accords were broken by the DPR the day after they were signed. Russia never intended to honor Minsk. NATO didn't expand East. Eastern countries afraid of Russian invasion to "protect Russian speakers" such as in Moldova in the 90s asked to join a security alliance that protects them from Russian aggression. Mexico and Canada aren't afraid of the US. In fact Mexico has a relatively weak military because they are protected by the US.
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Some people say water is wet. Others say water can't be wet as it is the wetting substance itself. But nobody ever picks the middle. Political opinions exist on a spectrum, ads that can't even afford to run on broadcast TV are just objectively inferior.
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+JoLayne Skoglund handguns are semi-automatic. I mean, revolvers aren't, but they fire just as fast. Even in the UK semi-auto shotguns (which are very destructive at close range) are hunting weapons and legal. You claim to support the right to own guns, then at least research about guns before using your "gun rights supporter" status to support gun policy. The vast majority of countries allow semi-automatic weapons. A lot of hunting weapons are semi-auto. Can you actually name a feature of an AR-15 you can't get from a hunting weapon?
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 @TomDrez You're surprised newer systems work better? Really?
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@LoisoPondohva The crew is provided air through a filtration system. I don't know where the intakes are, but if you heat up the air going inside the tank, surely you you can make the interior temperature rise without having to heat the entire tank. Would the crew be able to seal the air and be forced to fight on stale air? The physics and common sense work both ways. We don't light a fire outside the oven.
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The US was able to develop their titanium welding techniques to manufacture the SR-71 rather than fall behind technologically.
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 @billberg1264 if the accountant is matching dollars to goods they are aware of inventory.
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They've known for months.
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I don't think you understand how this works. The car running isn't a piece of incriminating evidence you can DEBOONK and solve the case. It was a reason for suspicion and all was cleared, at this point it doesn't matter that it was to keep the AC running or because he loves pollution, what matters is that he looked and acted suspiciously until the situation was cleared up.
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You can't donate weapons to people in need.
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@shawnfoogle920 Weapons going to Ukraine couldn't help people in need. They can't live inside a rocket or eat artillery shells.
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You're gonna close the borders with HIMARS, big guy? You're gonna massace civilians? Border security has nothing to do with advanced wepons.
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Combat first aid needs to be more widespread but Russia lost artillery superiority in the areas where Ukraine is fighting. Major Gen. Popov was relieved of command for complaining about the loss of artillery advantage.
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That's speculation. You're making assumptions you can't prove. Circumstancial evidence is definite proof that ties you to a crime. Say, a bullet on a victim matches the rifling on your gun - I cannot prove you shot the gun. A witness saw you enter the victim's house, heard a gunshot and a scream, saw you leave - it's not proof you fired the shot. But the circumstancial evidence proves your gun was used, and you were seen at the murder scene. That's circumstancial evidence. Fingerprints and other forensic evidence are circumstancial.
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 @Planktonamor the Irish are completely for it.
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 @northstar1060 That's not evidence.
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@northstar1060 That's not circumstantial evidence. If you are filmed leaving a scene where a murder occurred, that's circumstantial evidence. It doesn't prove you killed anyone, but puts you in the scene. It has to do with circumstances. Nobody was filmed doing this attack.
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The even simpler solution is defeating the 300k amateurs after the 150k professional soldiers Russia had were burned through.
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@chiraccorona2 Oh, the "reports". Several of them by people like David Axe, who have no understanding of what they report on.
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@AixlaachenPax1801 So what? The F-35 hasn't served as many years but there's also more of them. The F-16 has a much worse safety record, losing a shocking amount in the first decade of service, and everyone loves it. The Harrier had like 26 crashes in the first decade of service in the USMC, and today it's considered legendary. A British F-35 takes a dive and suddenly everyone loses their minds.
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@JMurph2015 the containment vessel isn't a skyscraper though. Earthquakes aren't an Ice Age style crack that comically rips through objects. It's just a large shake. Tall buildings will be whiplashed because of how motion is transferred to the foundations and then makes the lower floors move and pull the floors above, then stop moving and the higher floors are still swinging. This causes cracks in concrete because it will see non-compessive loads. We fight this with foundations that minimize shaking, bracing that supports the load across floors, and dampers that minimize movement in the top floors. The containment vessel is more like a bunker.
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Wrong. Nuland wanted to keep Yanukovych. The deal was Yanukovych keeps presidency but Yats gets the PM seat as compromise to end the protests. Police who murdered protesters refused to protect Yanukovych which made him flee.
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Accept it. Aircraft are flown by software. Refuse to believe in reality all you want, even your airline pilots are flying through software.
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@mSparks43 But they change drag characteristics of a maneuver. Read the report. The pilot himself wrote that the software was causing energy loss due to limiters. The more restrictive the software is, the more time an aircraft requires to pull a maneuver. The more time spent at high AoA, the more work done by drag and thus more energy loss. The software in a well designed airframe, if loaded with restrictive limiters for a testing and evaluation flight, will cause it to fly like a brick.
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You're not trying to brag about being working class to secure votes.
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>mansplaining You're not real. You're a parody. >socially responsible government Trudeau sold weapons to the Saudis.
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@smallstudiodesign "Not sure what Trudeau & Saudis have to do with anything" - Proof of lack of social responsibility. "like USA — business is business" - Whataboutism. You claimed that your government is socially responsible, and when faced with the facts you say "business is business". Just admit that you exaggerated and move on. "EVERY POLITICIAN IN EVERY COUNTRY DOES" - Whataboutism. You say "I am perfect, I am good" and then you aren't, you're lying. I don't care others aren't perfect.
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@InservioLetum came here to post that, funniest line in the movie
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It literally wouldn't make sense. Putting a fat bullet on a small casing is not going to cut it.
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"Spoons" is a term for how much energy these people have, as far as I know.
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To be fair they were British, the pilots were just in a revolutionary war mindset.
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Wait for Germany to refuse to certify Nordstream 2 and Russia to shut off Nordstream 1.
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Any sales made now are sales that won't be made in a few years. Countries are panic buying, once they get their fill they will just stick with that equipment for decades to come.
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@RobertFromEarth Okay. Ammunition stocked today will be stored for years. Explosives and propellant can last a long time, and then sent back to be refurbished instead of new stuff being purchased. Growing their military capacity? Buying new tanks to replace old tanks. Buying new jets to replace old jets. If the war didn't happen, maybe they'd wait another 5 years. Now they place the orders now, and won't have to buy in the future. If you go grocery shopping for the whole week today, you won't go this Sunday. So your local grocery store gets your money today, but won't get it next Sunday. Huge profits are made when you purchase today, and then Sunday. But Sunday you won't need groceries because they last a few days.
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"if you have enough of the specs you can build it" - If the pieces in the specs had to be built through processes nobody uses anymore... Why would you want to build it?
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 @Chuck_Hooks AGM-88 needs altitude and speed for standoff. A-10s are too weak in the engine department.
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@Chuck_Hooks Using brains? Okay, remember middle school physics: what gives projectiles range? Altitude, speed and angle of throw/firing. Assuming angle to be the same, the A-10 is bad at gaining speed and altitude. Standoff weapons hate being released at slow speeds.
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 @DennisMerwood-xk8wp What comes out of your mouth? I agree.
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@RobotHau5 Did you read the comment? Specific agents may be actually good people unaware of the entire organization, or have somehow deluded themselves into thinking it's for the greater good. An analyst looking at satellite pictures trying to find ISIS training camps isn't a bad person. A CIA contractor doing security for a diplomat isn't a bad person. The organization behind them backs tons of bad people. Like Pompeo said, they lie, cheat and steal.
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There's a difference between "knowing" who did it and having enough evidence to bring it to the DA.
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@sybo59 if he was fucked and he knew it, and if suicide was a possibility... Why was suicide watch procedure broken?
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Cope
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lmao pow status doesn't expire as soon as the war ends
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@neiloflongbeck5705 That contradicts what you said earlier, all I needed to hear.
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@neiloflongbeck5705 first you say after the war they're no longer protected and now you say that the host country has a duty to repatriate prisoners of war as soon as possible.
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@neiloflongbeck5705 "the former POWs would no longer have POW status" - but you still have to treat them like POWs and you're obligated to return them as soon as possible. GG. By the way Article 5 of Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War states: "The present Convention shall apply to the persons referred to in Article 4 [ Link ] from the time they fall into the power of the enemy and until their final release and repatriation." So until you release and repatriate your POWs, they're still considered POWs. "The Geneva Conventions only apply in times of war and in the immediate aftermath in regards to their repatriation. This is not a contradiction." - Yes it is, because you have stated that it is legal to torture POWs once the war ends. But then you contradicted yourself by stating that the host nation has a duty to repatriate them as soon as possible, and the torture would conflict with that duty. Besides, you happen to be wrong and POW status remains until you are released and repatriated. If the hostilities end but you are not released, you are still a prisoner of war.
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@neiloflongbeck5705 huh, nice catch. Still, the POWs are POWs until release and Article 75 of the Part IV of the 1929 conventions states they need to be repatriated as soon as possible. If they were no longer POWs, there would be no duty to repatriate. Torture still not legal.
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Russia isn't smiling. Their industry needs Western components. Europe can buy energy. Russia devastated Ukraine. That's what they've done for centuries. They want to do this to Ukrainians, even their literary heroes say it.
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 @brickbuilder-fh7yt that's unfortunate
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@Rakaziel not really, the US infrastructure is too spread out and rural areas are impossible to control.
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They have, many train cars were retired as a result. There's no licensed manufacture lol they just slapped a sticker.
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That's not accurate. The police did not tell them to arrest them, because citizen powers of arrest are a complete crapshoot. They confronted a suspect who died as a result of the confrontation, and if the courts find that they performed an illegal citizen's arrest that essentially makes them guilty of murder. Just like if someone dies of a heart attack when you rob a bank, you're pinned for that death.
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@BF-I-II-V-V-III-VII "Felony murder" doesn't require the intent to kill. If you commit a crime and someone dies as a result, there's transfer of intent so you can be charged for a death even if it was accidental, and it receivers the same punishment as murder. For it to be manslaughter they'd have to plead to aggravated assault so that the death merges with the assault charge and thus becomes unintentional. Because they tried self-defense, it now requires the citizen's arrest to be legal. And illegal citizen's arrest bumps the death to murder because it now was a death caused as a result of a crime. What the police said is essentially non-binding. They'll easily wash their hands off that. The older guy being a former cop is precisely why this case is so bad, he should have known he was going to get in trouble if something happened.
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It's an American cause because America didn't want Ukraine's nukes to become a problem.
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 @StardustTM_ You do realize you can just open a new browser or log off to see that you're shadowbanned, right?
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 @RocketshipsToNowhere How is it a comment sorting issue?
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God I fucking hate the "X is not perfect" statement, it's like a refusal to acknowledge faults.
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Bob Lazar lied. Everything he talked about was either public knowledge (such as element 115 or handprint scanners) or fiction.
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They got spent and the products delivered. The transactions happened, they just didn't get the paper records properly digitized.
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They were in the process of shutting down, which means they'd have to be certified to continue running. Probably get inspected, more spare parts made, etc. Expect them to have to shut down for a couple years anyway.
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@hootsmin Completely insane. There's no profits to be had. The stuff sent to Ukraine was old so contracts to replace them would happen in the next couple decades, and the boost in procurement is a one time thing triggered by the start of the war. If anything the sooner the war ends the more we profit.
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The wars are won. The politics are lost.
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@hootsmin Nope. Stockpiles exist precisely so that you can use stock that doesn't require immediate replacement. Stockpiles eventually age and need to be disposed of, either by dismantling or by using in training. You need to understand that from a psychological aspect, you need to consider stockpiles as munitions that are already "spent". You either fire them in war, in training exercises or you have to destroy them and truly waste them. The money is gone and you'll have to pay again to replace them. A short confrontation would increase orders without massive expenses. A long war increases expenses without the added orders to make up for it.
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Doesn't matter. There's 14 of them, while therexs 170 or so flying F-22s and a thousand F-35s. The Su-57 loses on numbers alone.
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The rail bridge was damaged. The fires burned so long large stretches of rail expanded and buckled. High temperatures affect rebar and also the concrete bonding strength to steel.
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Evacuation orders extending too far and having no plans for returning people isn't the same thing as "Da comrade, you are bio-robot now, shovel this core graphite into the pit".
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American planes only flew over North Vietnam because a defensive war in South Vietnam is fighting with the hands tied behind one's back. At some point logistics had to be targeted.
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Not only are they covering a huge frontline and two dangerous borders (Belarus and Transnistria), many of the tanks they have are Soviet and even Russian in origin. Sourcing parts for those is not really easy.
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@Ghastly_Grinner Only about 270 tanks destroyed out of 450. Ukraine only attacked Russian positions on open ground during a few weeks of the Kharkiv offensive. For the vast majority of the war, it's Russia crossing No Man's Land.
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@Ghastly_Grinner How was it a trap? The pictures show dead Russians spread across the roads.
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Did they ever intend to respect it? They had their enrichment facility damaged by the Stuxnet computer virus, so they had a few years where they couldn't progress.
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@chandelier6811 It's easy to be humble when you're winning. It's easy to comply with treaties when your enemies busted your enrichment facilities. Just saying.
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@tobias..6688 He's not anti-war, he's just anti dems and neocons.
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There's already a Harrier II.
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@Chuck_Hooks To get 50 miles out of a SDB, you have to lob them at high speed and high altitude. The A-10 can't do it.
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@whatdoesntkillyoumakesyous6707 "That depends on the range of detection and the radar horizon for the s300/400" - But there's Buks, Osas, Pantsirs, Strelas, Iglas... it's a nightmare for the A-10. There's SAMs big and small covering each other, not just S-300/400.
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>caring about a powerful person who doesn't give a shit about you because she's a woman That's gonna be a cringe from me, dawg
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If you want peace prepare for war. It only takes a good look at eastern Europe today to see the cost of downplaying the existence of aggressors.
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@SamS-uv2ql But it's not a source, he said where he saw it. That's not a source. If I read something on Wikipedia, and tell you to look at the Wikipedia page, that's not a source. The source is listed at the bottom. Try to keep up.
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@SamS-uv2ql That's not how it works. A source is the originator of information. Wikipedia simply aggregates it. No, you can't source wikipedia because wikipedia prohibits original research. Wikipedia can't be the source of anything, there has to be a prior body of work. Source? By definition it's the origin.
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@jamestimlin856 Nice catchphrase, but no. The NGAD and F/A-XX are different platforms from the JSF.
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@tmsmqwx That has nothing to do with the NGAD or F/A-XX.
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+rockn roll don't try to correct me if I'm right. Only in the UK, Australia, etc where gun laws are somewhat extreme do they restrict semi-autos, and in the UK semi-auto rimfires are legal. Germany allows semi-auto rifles. Switzerland. Czech Republic. France. Portugal. Come on.
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+Mads Hvelplund you're using incorrect data which overemphasizes the number of mass shootings by reporting any shooting. Mass shootings means more than 4 people killed, hence the term "mass". By the correct standards there's been 3 in 2017. And Orwell's Hood has a point, population density and the number of cities have a huge influence because that's where crime happens. Simply solving for population differences doesn't give you any bearing on how the population is distributed.
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+Victor Ramirez because it hardly ever makes local news, let alone national. The NCVS statistics accept an estimate of 100,000 defensive gun uses, and it's a low-ball estimate. There's subreddits that track local news for defensive gun uses, the /dgu has 7 of them that were reported in the last couple of days (20/21 Oct). You never heard of them. It's estimated that the vast majority don't involve the gun being fired so they're underreported because no crime happened, ie they wouldn't even figure on the /dgu subreddit because no police report was filed and the news weren't alerted to any shooting.
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+TheZHpredator that's the thing, from 2009 to 2015 Norway actually had 0.197 mass shootings per million people (roughly 1/5=.2) while in the same period the US had 0.078 per million people. That's the difference being a huge country with 320 million people makes, they have more mass shootings but it's distributed through a much larger population, and if you control for population it shows that mass shootings are statistical anomalies heavily influenced by population size. And it's not cherry picking a country with a very high profile mass shooting because in the same time period Finland, Switzerland, Slovakia, Belgium, France and Austria also had rates of mass shooting per million people higher than the US.
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You don't want to compare, because France had had more mass shooting deaths in 2015 than the US during the entire Obama administration. You're not understanding. Switzerland has a very armed populace and is actually an example of guns not increasing crime because despite the abundance of weapons, gun crime and homicide is only marginally higher than places like the UK. The problem is, when you have less population than the US, a single mass shooting makes you have a greater rate of mass shootings. Example, Norway had one and that's already 1/5 million people. The US had 25 in the same time period, but their population is 64 times higher, that's 25/320 million.
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You can't say you care about deaths not statistics, when the fact is that without statistics you can't comprehend death. And France did have more deaths than the US in raw numbers, not adjusted for population. So all in all, you don't care about deaths, you just care about propaganda. 1. Why do you people always use carrying as an argument? Most gun owners in the US don't carry. If you want to become a mass shooter you don't get a carry permit, you just take the gun and break the law. 2. Uncontrolled private sales were actually perfectly legal in Switzerland before the pussies in the European Union forced them to change the law. Now the written contract must be sent to the cantonal weapon registry.
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+Sam Hayard then please inform the Australians because they keep bragging about not having mass shootings but in Monash, just a few years after the new gun laws, 7 people were shot. At least ask for consistency. "you've actually had 1516 mass shootings in since Jan 1st 2013" no, that's a lie because I've actually looked at the tracker in the past and it was a clusterfuck, they're counting shootings with events that involved just 3 people wounded 0 killed, gang fights, one guy defending himself from attackers (they were caught including something about a taxi or limo driver who used a gun in self-defense as a mass shooting a couple of years ago), etc.
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Oh my god could you have a shred of intellectual honesty? If Australia had a few shootings before gun control, and a few shootings afterwards, then clearly gun control didn't do shit, did it? The "Australian argument" stands on the "fact" that gun control was passed and shootings ended. If you want to preserve the actual definition of mass shooting rather than the made up one, then the US does not have shootings 9 out of 10 days. "even if it halves the amount of deaths by gun violence" gun violence HALVED since 1993 and guns are flying off the shelves. Clearly showing that the guns aren't the factor. "then surely that's worth at least ALLOWING an informed discussion into the idea?" We allow the discussion all the time, it's the media that won't allow it. They only show their side of the story and when they do show ours, they edit the footage. "There's too much old, white money behind it" Laughable. Women and minorities are the fastest growing demographics in American gun ownership, young people are actually more rabid gun rights advocates because old people only care about their hunting rifles and their clay pigeons. "Super weird to watch from an outside perspective" that's weird, because I am European and I stand against gun control and I stand against the EU stealing our sovereignty and trying to dictate how our gun laws should be. In fact I have been thinking about sending my support to the Swiss equivalent of the NRA even though I am not Swiss, because they're one of the last bastions when it comes to gun rights.
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"After Australia introduced their gun regulations, gun crime, mass shooting and gun-related death dropped dramatically" And it had been dropping for several years prior, not to mention that many countries also had a drop in the 90's. "The fact that there was a single shooting" No, there's been several. I just used Monash as an example because it was the first after Port Arthur. And if we're only counting "wounded" I can't even find you a number because without deaths, it won't figure as a massacre and I can't find it. "The fact that there was a single shooting years later is simply an application of Murphy's law, the same way an anti-bacterial spray kills 99.9% of germs" Yeah killing 99% in a petri dish with millions of bacteria isn't on the same level as like 10 shootings before gun control, 6 shootings after or whatever (I'm just using example numbers here). You couldn't even assume a 40% decrease from that because mass shootings are events over time, statistical aberrations, and not a defined bacterial count you can see a definite change on. That argument is so unbelievably dishonest that it borders on "desperate reaching". "Secondly, if you did your research properly you'd understand that crime in general had dropped significantly between 1993 and 2010, and not just in America" I have just mentioned that earlier, and you will use that argument to excuse America's drop in violence while attributing the drop in violence in Australia to the gun reforms. Slick. It's also funny that you come up with other factors (literally only the lead one is correct, the bunch are a crock of shit - same with the "crack epidemic" argument) to explain the US's drop but attribute Australia's solely to gun control. "Also what's wrong with 'halving' gun crime, and then halving it again?" because you provide the conclusion that gun control, in America specifically, will cause that "halving" without a single premise to back it up (or any solution to the 300 million gun already in civilian hands, mostly unregistered, that are completely impervious to future gun control unless voluntary registered - good luck, the NY SAFE act had a compliance rate of 4% last time I checked). Even if you have "Australia arguments" or "UK arguments" or even "Japan arguments" to defend your position on gun control but those instances are not applicable to the US at any rate so you can't promise me that halving you claim. "I like the way you took the term literally as well" > proceeds to tell me it wasn't in the literal sense > "nationalist white men" > proceeds to admit that he was using old and WHITE in the literal sense. So you're saying white nationalists are using the NRA to pay Black people like MrColionNoir to tell minorities to arm themselves and fight the racist assholes like Sarah Silverman who "parody" the NRA by implying that minorities are too dangerous to own guns? Not to mention that gun control in the US started with the purpose of disarming freed black men? Boy those Klansmen must be wearing Kevlar robes if they want to face armed blacks. Jesus Christ just admit you said something stupid rather than dancing around the "it was not literal"/"by the way I truly meant that the NRA is a bunch of white supremacists". I also like the way you mock my statements with your smug sense of superiority when you're demonstrably wrong on almost every thing you said.
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@kaizokujimbei143 I want my kind to proliferate. Not dinner plate sized mosquitos. I don't want to live in the Cambric period. I want to live now, when shaved apes rule the freaking world and think about ruling every rock from here to Proxima Centaury. Stop shilling your ancient dinosaur BS.
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You can make a country run on fumes as long as everyone believes the charade. It's going to take several months of wages being withheld for people to refuse to work because many will work with no pay believing the next month they'll be paid in full. When the products stop coming out of factories and drivers refuse to deliver what is on warehouses, that's when chaos happens.
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I'm not going to war against my own country. China is a hostile nation. I'm not afraid of prison, I'm afraid that this showdown ends up going kinetic.
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Making California an uninhabitable wasteland is not the downside you think it is.
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If we take it far enough, it's technically possible. It would take an insane man to attempt the most cursed fabrication techniques possible, due to the fact that AKs are meant to be manufactured with million dollar forging presses and the forged parts milled out to finished dimensions.
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@leogaskell3138 The enemy doesn't identify itself for your convinience. If something is unidentified it means there's no way to verify if it's friendly. Which is exactly what happens when you see the enemy.
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The rocket engines have to be checked for cracks.
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Pretty much. 6-4 months is how long the effects last for most people.
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He did gave ride-alomgs with private military contractors in Iraq. There's an article from 2004 I believe he wrote for GQ.
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Russian companies "aren't in Russia anymore" because they just relocate offices and create shell companies.
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Does the Brandon Herrera hair gel cause autism? And if I already have it, will it cure me?
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Fucking hilarious how the left anarchists actually believe Teen Vogue is recruiting people for their cause... No, that major corporation is repackaging that ideology and selling it you.
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If you value peace over war goals, you do that. Turns out Putin is the warmonger.
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@OlaphFlakers2344 They didn't benefit, NS1 was blocked by Russia to hold gas as hostage and NS2 was blocked by Germany. It was also owned by multiple parties, not Russia.
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How did NATO mind control Putin into ordering the attack?
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lol Russia will just take it as usual
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@redarmysoja okay, but we're not talking about liberals.
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@Tanks-In-Space If the Soviet Union was winning why did it need Lend Lease?
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@jamesrowlands8971 What does that even mean? Copying concepts is not the issue. Copying entire systems is a greater indicator of technological gap (the first IR missile in the Soviet Union had parts compatible with the Sidewinder because it was a complete clone). Russia however is now slapping their names on things built by others.
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The spikes in cases in some countries prove her right.
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It would have been even more practical to take aimed shots and claim a life with each trigger pull, rather than 99.999% of the rounds hitting walls and pavement.
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Same was said about the electric car.
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They'd get shot down. The jets flying over Ukraine seem to hug the ground to avoid radar, and the bombers seem to deploy mostly standoff missiles and tutn back to not enter too deeply into threat rings.
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The USMC benefited greatly. They had a legendary but somewhat medioce attack jet, and got an overpowered 5th gen fighter.
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Until 2014, they refurbished some of theirs in... Ukraine.
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@samy7013 I am against the Israel regime and terrorism masquerading as liberation.
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Problems in academia are an entire can of worms on its own.
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@crosstraffic187 Harvard is not a person. Harvard is not smart. It has a few smart people. That doesn't mean every single person in there is competent.
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@crosstraffic187 I guess you never heard of the Harvard admissions scandal. You're begging the question. You pose that the people at Harvard doing the study are experts on China rather than just being college students, and ask if a bunch of college students using flawed methodology are really getting beat by someone who spent years on China. The answer is obviously yes. You should look into how academia works because it's not the prestigious search for knowledge you think it is. My girlfriend had a research position in a microbiology department and it was a complete mess. It's just a bunch of 20 year olds doing research for a lazy department head to get credit and recognition. They agree with the poll because the Chinese government allows people to use VPNs to defend the Chinese government. Why would China have a firewall on their internet to prevent use of Western social media if they allowed everyone to post? Think for a second. You're taking the word of someone who is lying because he is allowed by his own government to come here and lie over someone who got kicked ut for saying the truth.
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@crosstraffic187 You must not be familiar with polls. Worse than ascribing infallible competency to people who happen to be tasked with a paper by an organization that happens to be a prestigious university, you're now pretending polls are sacred truth. Polls have huge issues with the methodology to collect data. Harvard isn't a person. Again, you're saying that everything that comes out of Harvard is absolutely perfect, even though there's a huge issue with repeatability issues. Many fields of academia have suffered a huge setback when it was discovered that most of their studies couldn't be replicated. Sorry. Bad studies exist. It's a lot more frequent than you think. That's why science is built on multiple people across the world studying the same subject and confirming the findings. Eventually, sometimes science is proven wrong and turns out all the researchers were missing something and were looking at their results the wrong way. So again - your argument hinges on Harvard being infallible, which it isn't, that everyone employed by Harvard is a well respected researcher, when they aren't because a lot of college kids are doing the grunt work, and that polls are flawless. Remember the polling data saying that Hillary had a 98% chance of winning in 2016? You may think that everyone will fall for this, but a lot of people won't. It's pure argument from authority, and hinges on people having blind faith on academia when most people by now understand that academia is a complicated world.
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@philgooddr.7850 There's one type of engine used both by the F-15 and F-16 that has had a couple engine losses leading to loss of the aircraft on the F-15 while the F-16 has none. Twin engine reliability is overstated, especially since catastrophic engine failure on a fighter will most likely take out both and the same time.
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@philgooddr.7850 "that is why since the Starfighter widow maker massacre, the Luftwaffe ONLY flies twins" - This is a highly fallacious argument. The West German Luftwaffe was a relatively recent organization, many pilots were not trained to the level required to fly such a demanding aircraft, the ground crews were conscripts with high turnover, the weather is poor in that region of Europe, and landings were done at high speed on a high throttle setting. It was a risky aircraft to fly that sacrificed a lot for high performance. Later in its service the issue became structural faults. The problems with the Starfighter were not the engine, and even if the issue was the engine a single aircraft having problems should not make an organization recoil in fear and adopt knee-jerk measures. "The f35 is too fat for it" - You don't know what you're talking about. "Note all recent Migs and Sukhoi’s are twins" - Because Russia has problems with engine thrust, reliability and durability. And in the 2000s they still had to ground them due to crashes anyway. "The F35 has one engine because of its VTOL version" - And because it's a F-16 replacement, which is a single engine aircraft. "but this is no feature at all" - Wrong.
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@philgooddr.7850 Yeah and what one country specified because of a bad experience they had decades ago isn't an argument. It's their personal, highly subjective, opnion. "your “inexperience reason” does not stand" - Then how come other countries had better safety track records? "have very good and meticulous engine specialists" - Engineers aren't the kind of people who are "conscripted" into the job. A 18-19 year old kid who'll only do the job for however long the conscription service is not an engineer. An engineer isn't made in 1-2 years. "the Phantom 2 and F104 were fitted with same GE engine but have there very dissimilar safety records" - The Phantom was not as demanding to fly and it's not as much of a hotrod.
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@ashyclaret That collateral comes from intelligence failures and targets knowing that they are being watched so acompanying themselves with humans shields - forcing the US to resort to the "plus" system where targets are ranked by importance by how many civilian casualties they're prepared to accept to kill that target. If the US killed targets with unguided rocket artillery... "collateral" wouldn't even be the word to use.
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 @paulbryant8403 can we abort them?
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You're obessed with that man.
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@johnlenin830 They refused the agreement because Bucha showed what would happen if they accepted Russia's conditions.
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AR15 dot com on youtube has a video called "7n6 for the bourgeois" where they test 6.5's yaw in gel.
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You literally have H&K in your name. You know which nation the engineers who started H&K worked for, right? Here's a clue, they worked for Mauser during WWII.
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But that's a fact. The state can only enforce law through violence. After you call the police, you have no control over the situation. Maybe you want things to deescalate, but the person you called the cops on for whatever reason decides to start attacking the cops. You need to be aware of the possibilities.
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This was true for only a few decades lmao it was a trend a few generations went through. Outside the US nobody left home at 18.
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@nougat4416 I can punch the neighbour in the face and he leaves me alone. The government sends in jack booted thugs with rifles if I try to resist.
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The first man-made nuclear reactor was a stack of graphite bricks in a sort of basement under the stands of a sports field in the University of Chicago. Honestly, I believe it. The core had no shielding or cooling, it was just half a watt.
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So not believing all the lies about Russian hooker piss, the gorilla channel or the 8hrs a day makes one an apologist?
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The Ruble is propped up
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Russia uses Donetsk as a launch platform for rocket artillery, of course Ukraine his back. Troops and materials are making their way to the front just fine. Most Russian artillery hits empty fields. This can be seen in satellite. Entire grid squares with no buildings or trenches turned into the moon surface. A waste of shells. Now Russians are filming videos begging for more artillery at Bakhmut. They wasted it all.
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Because a S-300 knocked a Russian cruise missile off the sky?
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Because a S-300 knocked a Russian cruise missile off the sky?
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@shdmd2118 If the bullet hit a terrorist and exploded his suicide vest, you don't need forgiveness. Ukraine wasn't shooting rockets at random. They brought down a Russian missile with a large warhead. The crater was too large for a SAM. Russian missiles with a thousand km range exist, and Belarus is only 80km away.
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@shdmd2118 By Russian missile.
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@Echo81Whiskey The F-22 is not on the same category of the F-35. The enemy gets a vote? Typically they get Tomahawked on the ground. Let's just say, we like to stuff the ballot on our favor.
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@ChristopherFodor The rail isn't the problem. A tunnel and bridge were targeted. To rebuild rail over a bridge, you have to repair the bridge. To rebuild rail in a tunnel that had a fire... buddy both rebar and concrete lose strength in fires, you couldn't pay me to go into that tunnel to repair it.
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You say they have no personnel. In a few months, you will continue to see Russian defeats. That is a fact. You will tell yourself Ukraine has no personnel. Yet Russia will keep losing.
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Jotaro Kujo you do realize that he is armed to the teeth? Right? Why would anyone want to get killed by him?
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But it isn't. Homelessness is easily solved among those who want to be housed. Most long term homelessness is related to drugs and mental illness. Buying a home doesn't solve homelessness. Putting a homeless person in a concrete building won't magically make him able to sober up and keep a job.
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@Manic.miner2077 It is a very real issue. But the reintegration to society is at the high 90 percentual points.
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@sandbox8717 I've never said those things so that's a strawman. Yes, Intel got stuck with 14nm. Yes, I did answer everything. Read again then describe exactly what I didn't answer, then.
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@sandbox8717 "intel cpus r good" - Only delusional people think this. "They're just overpriced, that's all" - Literally what I said and you called me "poor" because of it. Even though I run Intel.
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@sandbox8717 "no u didn't u just repeated over and over amd cpus r cheaper, nothing more" - I literally never said this. You can Ctlr + F and look for it. I didn't.
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The problem is that such attacks would be covered by SEAD. The medium and short range defenses have the option: eat a HARM missile trying to destroy the incoming munitions, or shut down and let the HARMs fall harmlessly and let the munitions pass through.
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Thorium. We pretty much dig it out looking for other minerals anyway.
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 @loudnoises8197 that's just simple vector calculus
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South Vietnam had a very unpopular regime which ensured many in the countryside joined or supported the Vietcong. The Ukrainian people so far trust their president and armed forces. Americans were shown on TV the war was a dismal failure when the North Vietnamese were on the ropes and had a great deal of their forces wiped out. Americans are being shown Ukrainian successes today.
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@baer0083 yeah gun laws deserve to be mocked on their own, I don't need an excuse
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@tomlobos2871 I'm going to try to be brief. The A-10 was made to be a A-1 Skyraider replacement. Like Lionel Mandrake posted, it was originally meant for Vietnam. The A-7 was an excellent CAS aircraft but too fast to escort helicopters, and too fuel hungry to stay on station. The A-X program was even originally a turboprop engine aircraft because turbojets were inefficient at low speed, and halfway through the program the requirements were changed and turbofan engines allowed them to be reasonably fuel efficient at low speeds. In the Fulda Gap, the A-10 pilots would be estimated to be all dead or captured by two weeks. They were merely a delaying action, not expected to survive the onslaught. In a war against insurgents, the A-10 does fine. In a full scale war, you want the F-16. One pass, haul ass. There's no loiter time. You drop hate on target, turn back to base to bolt more under your wings and take off again. The Su-25 is forced to perform the "cowardly" role of firing unguided rockets from friendly territory and turning back. Their losses are proving exactly the opposite of what you think. They're easily shot down, and aircraft are complex enough that it's preferable to strip them of usable parts than trying to repair damaged aircraft. "Add A-10" so an airframe that's been flown beyond the original retirement timeline, has lack of parts because the company that made it went out of business two decades ago, and is even slower than the Su-25 is going to be an "addition"? I think it would be a subtraction. The A-10 as a bomb truck? It's extremely slow and thrust limited. It's not very survivable because a modern missile can slice it in half, negating all the fancy shmancy armor. When the nose is physically detached from the tail, it doesn't matter how much armor the pilot or the engines have. Fighter jets are survivable by kinetically outrunning the threat. You can't loiter in Ukraine. You arrive, fire rockets into the air, turn back or else you die. You have 30 seconds to get in and out or else a missile gets you.
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@tomlobos2871 "UA needs numbers as well, any airframe that is available, modernised" - The A-10 is lacking in parts because the company that made it went out of business two decades ago. Half the fleet is still up for wing renewal under Boeing contract since 2019. "reasonable strike capabilities" - The A-10 is at most a battlefield interdiction aircraft, not a strike one. "airframe itself is second here" - But it's not. Airframe shapes capabilities. And the A-10 is hindered by its morphology. "we see that in use as a main asset on both sides" - With unnecessary losses. They don't use Su-25s because they're good, they use them because that's what they have. "if you're offered a western ground attacker, would you say no and prefer not having it?" - If the aircraft is even slower than the Su-25, they can keep it. Furthermore, the lack of spares and the fact that the USAF has divested from the A-10 really make it unable to survive the high op tempo.
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Tell me that you would hold your fire and accept to be killed by another act of perfidy if someone else in the crowd had a hidden weapon or an explosive rigged to blow. You can tell me that, but I won't believe. You'll put your life above all, and it's not a war crime to be reasonable and then have your trust broken. The laws of war aren't meant to be exploited by a smartass enemy who will constantly surrender, attack, surrender, attack and use your reasonable ways against you. One man doomed his platoon by resetting the surrender back into a combat zone.
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He was geolocated 7 km away from the center.
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Russia is smashing their skulls against their wall at Bakhmut. The cracks on the wall aren't as noteworthy as someone with the brain leaking out.
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No, it doesn't. Russia has lost the war. Ukraine still has to win.
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 @danburke6568 Ukraine is withdrawing in Kursk.
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But it doesn't make sense. The CE 399 trajectory shows there was a shooter in the book repository who scored a hit.
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@linusa2996 This doesn't change the fact that if you're inside high Pk range, dodging isn't really feasible. Kinetically defeating missiles is what happens outside motor range.
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@linusa2996 20 seconds of burn at Mach Jesus is farther than the eye can see. Most shootdowns happen with the pilot unaware he's being targeted, that's just how it is.
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@linusa2996 A change in the turn rate simply means a new predictive impact point is calculated and the missile adjusts accordingly. The motor is still burning and it's only getting closer to the aircraft, which desperate maneuver will save it now? 6 changes of direction? In 12 seconds? So assuming generously that each change in direction was only 90º instead of 180º, you had the aircraft pull 45 deg/second turn rates. The EM diagram for the F-16 suggests it maxes out at 20 deg/second. Sorry, but that's simply not feasible and I'm already being very generous by assuming the aircraft only has to turn perpendicular to its previous flight path, rather than actually pull a U-turn.
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@linusa2996 Nobody's talking about terminal phase. We're talking about slinging high Pk shots.
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What he's saying is that Russians are normal people who Ukraine would have no quarrel with. But because Russian leadership wants an empire that spans its entire sphere of influence, Ukrainians and Russians are forced to fight for hundreds of years.
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You're a child complaining that other children are eating candy and demanding week long time-outs.
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@andersjjensen But it's vulnerable in the ground attack mission. People focus on air to air, but you need protection from the ground itself. Ground units will not just lay there and take it, they will fire back at aircraft.
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It was absolutely necessary. Aircraft are not classic cars you can keep on the road with a change of oil and new tires. They suffer microscopic damage every hour they spend in the air, and when reaching the end of their life they will require more and more maintenance to keep problems at bay. If you think automobiles can be money pits, you've never had to foot the bill for the operation of an ageing aircraft. It doesn't matter what other countries have stealth, because having stealth is not about others having stealth. You want to have it because it makes your aircraft hard to target. Why would you want to be easy to target? The Harrier, like any aircraft, in unsuited for eternal service. Unless you have pristine airframes in your pocket you just found and are willing to share, you're asking for museum pieces to keep getting worn down while live humans who cost millions to train have to get inside them as they slowly but surely break themselves apart.
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@luxemier You're right that whales will be whales, but people decided to pay 2x of what a AAA game is worth for an early access precisely so that the dev could finish the game without nickle and diming the backers. After promising the Super Mega package they made the Super Mega Ultimate Edition package. It's underhanded.
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@peznino1 If you're qualified, you're threatened to be stripped of your qualifications if you look into it and make a fuss. Funny.
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Funny, because more countries are adopting it. The UK adopted an AR-10 as their designated marksman rifle and the Kiwis got a LMT.
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How? Multiroles are beating specialized aircraft at their own game.
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I Coroa Where do these notes come from? Who has the legitimate claim to the resources? These "desert island full of coconuts" analogies are not very realistic.
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@coolioso808 "Capitalism isn't some force that existed before humans were around" - Buddy, the tiger needs to consume a surplus of energy, the caloric intake after a hunt has to be greater than the energy expended. That's profit right there. Even plants need "profit". "Maybe they were before the industrial revolution, but for years now, science and math based algorithms" - Okay now that's just a cope. You want life to be managed by "science" and "algorithms"?
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I Coroa Money is simply a token of exchange. Yes, it has no intrinsic value (really, nothing has intrinsic value if you go deep enough) because it's important that money can't be used for anything other than exchange, or else the use case would be eating into your ability to do trade. You are not required to have money to have shelter, at least until the government introduced property tax. I wish folks like you would just admit they support outright slavery. You do not have a birthright claim to what others have produced. Yes, Mother Earth exists, and you'd be hard pressed to survive off Mother Earth considering how detached we are from natural order. You think working for a wage is bad? Mother Earth is a cruel mistress who enslaved you to hunger, the cold, etc. and it's you who has to work to take from Mother Earth what you need to survive the hardship it put you through. So don't give me crap about you'd rather live off Mother Earth because you'd perish within the week.
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@coolioso808 Science is simply an observational method to understand the world around us. Human algorithms can never be natural. Basic survival always means earning more than you're losing. It's all profit the way down. The point at which you're not profiting from activity, you start the process of dying. Your scientific and algorithmic resource distribution would be bound to make massive mistakes, like they always have. You people want to place all your eggs in one basket and you'll kill hundreds of millions with your hubris.
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I Coroa "Living in tropical climate with food forest is EASY and FREE" - And you're paying for internet to come tell me that? Just go live your life. "Stupid man thinks he must live in harsh climate not designed for him" - Buddy I happen to live close to the tropics but my ancestors come from central Europe. There's harsh climate there. People wore pelts.
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@coolioso808 "You have an unfortunately flawed understanding of how science and mathematics work. A resource-based economy that is monitored and informed by science" - Buddy, archeologists and biologists have been fooled by fossils because they couldn't tell which side of the animal had legs and which side had spikes on the vertebrae. Science is a process of elimination, and it can be wrong because we drove ourselves into being wrong through false assumptions. "would not be present because the incentives are different" - Nonsense. The incentives are always present. "In a resource-based economy, it is designed to meet all people's needs first and foremost without labor-for-income or slavery." - This is a huge contradiction. If people's needs are met without the requirement of labor, where do the resources come from? Hence you inevitably will need to impose slavery to keep the machine ticking. "you think it would kill millions of people when the expressed purpose is to provide all humans with basic needs" - Because it has been tried. The use of force to keep the system in charge killed millions. The ignorance of the central planners left many without resources and killed million. "Let's use the proven scientific process to figure it out." - This is a joke, right? The scientific process created stuff that doesn't work. The scientific process created stuff that ended up being harmful. You somehow think that science's sh!t don't stink and that no mistakes are made. The process is proven. The results aren't. "yes, of course, in a resource-based economy some mistakes will be made" - And like Lord Farquaard from Shrek said, some of you may die but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. "no NEED for politicians" - Hold on. So who gets to be in charge of resources? Who enforces is?
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I Coroa You're still here instead of living in nature.
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@coolioso808 "Of course science is a process. That's why I literally said, we should use the "scientific process" for resource management." - So your process will be wrong and inevitably proven wrong. Thanks for admitting it. "Sure incentives are always present." - Thanks for admitting it. "what would be the incentive" - Clearly you don't understand humans. Tons of crime is committed without the purpose of meeting any needs. "I just suggest it is not a requirement of living" - And like Bill DeBlasio said the voluntary period has expired. It starts with a suggestion, then it becomes mandatory. "Who is in charge of the resources? Basically Mother Nature. As she has always been." - So you have no enforcement and everything's ripe for the taking. I give it two weeks before everything's on fire. "which removes most of the corrupting factors" - This has to be a joke. "public database that then uses scientific and mathematical algorithms (not rocket science) to determine what resources to best use" - Tell me you don't understand science and algorithms without telling me you don't understand science and algorithms. Are you out of your mind? "You and I could access this just like we go onto an online custom T-shirt store and browse for options" - But the t-shirt store charges money. They handle their resources by getting our resources in exchange. If nobody was paying and just putting orders the shop would have no idea how to prioritize the resources. "defeatist attitude" - And you have a la-la-la-land attitude. Who's going to solve things? Science! Who's going to make decisions? Computers! It's just like an online store.
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I Coroa Nice cope. I haven't seen any of you people use guns for anything in... decades? To be fair I wasn't expecting eco-terrorists kicking off the civil war in my apocalypse bingo card, but if that's the way we go right on brother.
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@coolioso808 Christ please stop posting novels. "This not MY process, this is the scientific process" - Don't deny responsibility now. "many positive, collaborative, healthy incentives" - Unsubstanciated. "In a more egalitarian system, there would be much less influence and reasons to commit crime" - This is disproven by history. Human living was much more violent back when it was more egalitarian. "not everything's ripe for the taking, all resources are inventoried" - And who enforces it? "An efficient system would have the resources available to produce a product, like a t-shirt, as locally available as possible, and able to use advanced automated machines, like 3D printers, to produce most items on demand" - And how would you know how much filament is needed for the 3d printer? "Again, in the US alone, 40% of all food is wasted" - That's even more insane. So now you're going to predict demand 6 months in advance?
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@coolioso808 The scientific process also surgically removed the vocal cords from beagles to study the effects of sand flies. The best tool gets misused all the time. You do know that animals have a limit to those groups, right? Do not make an appeal to nature by bringing up the other primates, because we do not live in nature anymore. Who are these scientists? Who gave them the power? Are scientists armed? Can they get fired? Buddy, the printer "knowing" more filament is needed doesn't do shit when there's 3 tons of filament in goddamn Alaska and zero filament in Florida because your fancy algorithm couldn't predict which place would need it and which place was overstocked. No, you can't predict it. The time lag between planting a crop and the produce being sent to shelves makes it nearly impossible. You can't go run to the farm, plant a tree and get more fruit in the next day. By the time you know there is a shortage, you're already several months too late to correct it. And if you correct it, you might actually overproduce because demand could drop in the next few months. This is the problem with you people. You think a sensor going off in a 3d printer will somehow make a factory in China get an extra filament roll on a ship that's going to dock near your city in 5 minutes. You are completely oblivious to all the gears that need to mesh together and turn to keep the world running, and you think this can be fixed with a sensor.
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@coolioso808 "Sensors detecting when resource refills are needed isn't impossible by any stretch" - Sure. The issue is that the sensor detects what you need now, but many things require months to create. Okay, you could localize production. But it would be insane to localize chip manufacturing everywhere. We have fabs in Taiwan, China, Europe, the US, Israel. Those are the big ones. Every country having their own fab would be wasteful in its own way. It's all redundant manufacturing.
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How would a person have an opinion that spans multiple sides? Split personality?
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@DeltaCain13 Insulation PREVENTS the heat from reaching the barrel.
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@Imagination Wonders And? Fukushima had an old reactor design and even then it sustained the earthquake and the tsunami despite the insufficient sea wall. What drove the Daichi plant into meltdown was the fact that the cooling system was shut down as part of procedure and couldn't be restarted.
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@Dasper12 Nobody's saying anything about special classes. You're quite literally defending cutting a check awarded to rich people and excusing it with... "equality". That's Justin Trudeau answer.
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@Dasper12 Don't upvote yourself. It's not a special case against class. Distributing UBI in itself is a special case based on class because nobody ever pretends they just want UBI for UBI's sake. They propose the solution because they think there's a class of people who needs it. The cope is then arguing that there's no need to check who gets it or not to trigger the "don't even think about it, dude" part of people's brains. All in all, UBI is not coming from a place of equality. Taxing money and redistributing it isn't equality. The discriminating laws thing is a massive logical fallacy and honestly it's a severe enough one it should be taken as an admission of loss. The libertarian answer is being libertarian. Not being soft authoritarian. You don't protect liberty with government schemes. UBI is in itself collusion and a crony agreement between the capitalist class. Think about it. If you get UBI you will spend more on certain consumer goods but many products and services will not have their sales doubled because people have no use for two of them. You won't pay two phone subscriptions or fill your car with twice the gas, if gas still hasn't been banned at that point, it's just an example. There's your inequality right there. A massive transfer of wealth to sectors that benefit from repeated consumption.
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@Dasper12 Someone just decided to check up on a 3 week old thread and upvote the """"libertarian"""" virtue signaling for UBI. "The government has the right to tax" - Not an argument. The government also says the police are not required to protect you. Just because it's the law doesn't mean it's right or even consistent. "So libertarian answer is being Libertarian as in Individualism; not anarchist." - This doesn't even make sense. What's the individualist part about a literal welfare state? "Any laws that can be applied with ubiquity to all individuals equally is the most libertarian answer" - No? A law saying that the president had the right to sleep with everyone's wife is equal. But it's not libertarian. Violating rights equally isn't libertarian. "Any consumable good or service will always have the potential to be purchased exponentially more than a static product" - So how do you address the inherent inequality without creating an unequal UBI law? "someone will have significantly more transactions for gas, electricity, restaurants, etc than, say, vacuums or a laptop" - So? You don't cook twice the food on the stove. You don't leave twice the lights on. You don't eat for two at restaurants. But you might buy twice the amount of shirts, a laptop every year instead of once every two years, etc. Your utility companies will be paying a tax, and that money will be injected into other sectors. It's completely unfair. "replace tax credits and bureaucratic and costly social programs." - Yeah, you're not getting rid of those so this is all moot.
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@Dasper12 You're just saying things unrelated to the topic. Make sense of what? You want the state to use the force of guns and jackboots to steal, and call yourself libertarian. That's what needs to be explained, not quoting unrelated Thomas Sowell works.
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@caydcrow5161 Yes. And the Ukrainian officials already explained: they will win, but at the cost of lives. They are asking for equipment because they don't want their soldiers to get killed.
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The AC-130 is mostly limited to attacking at night because of how easy it is to target it with manually aimed AAA, which is common enough in insurgency use to be a threat. Even in Afghanistan they authorize more daytime flights but there's still danger because the Taliban would try to put AAA on top of mountains to get extra range and get harassing fire on them, thankfully not effective fire. By no means is it an invalid idea, but these gunships are somewhat vulnerable and the ability to pylon turn and fire sideways doesn't bring much to the table especially at a smaller size. With cheap counter insurgency aircraft like the Super Tucano and weapons like the APKWS it's possible to fire rocket volleys while flying forward from miles away and have the rockets guided to target by a lasing pod on the aircraft itself, or lased by a MQ-9 UAV. You get the same effect as a gun burst on the ground but without having to do the pylon turn and fire sideways.
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And that happens when the A-10 gets shot down? Now the fear is imposed on the troops that were meant to be protected by it.
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Yeah and crossing a strait in 20 minutes vs 1h plus loading and unloading.
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@Trigger Happy! yeah I did the "interpretative" translation instead of literal but the literal also works.
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Marines can't fly it off carriers. They have F-35Bs for a reason.
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Calls it the Special Military Operation ahahahah imagine being this goober
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Ukraine has a greater incentive to hit. It's not the boxer who throws more punches who wins. It's the one who lands more.
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It's modern folklore or an urban legend. Someone came up with a concept and now everyone can use it for their personal projects, be it films, stories or games. Similar to slenderman.
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We do. Russian milbloggers confirmed it.
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And Chernobyl blew up because factories had to pull an all nighter to meet quotas, leading to xenon poisoning of the reactor.
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I think he meant that "arms" then are the equivalent to "small arms" today. Nuclear devices are not small arms.
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Sigma male mindset
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You look at the Russians out of fuel and asking for directions, the trenches dug in Chernobyl, the cages welded on top of tanks, the 1.5 million missing winter uniforms and the rusty AKs and tell me this was planned.
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And it was stopped. There's no need to physically damage the pipeline when Germany blocked its certification.
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The Capitol security who fired should have been disarmed and left alone with protestors.
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@Frunze91 They can't use the gas lines as leverage anymore. Could have been an attempt to tank stocks, a threat to the new pipeline from the north, or a way to avoid having to respect contract agreements.
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He bought bitcoin when it was worth much less.
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Dude moved to Texas with the crew and it's 99% private land out there so he doesn't want to lose access to their range. Sad but true.
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More of a cloud service really, there was no "console".
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@crispychaos6768 it's not about variants but the fact that antibodies wear off. That's why they're boosting with the same shot. If it was about variants they'd change the formula.
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@bluelion203 You're going to have to post the date the counting started. Because I've seen sources that started in count in January, meaning that they were counting the cases and deaths before most people had it. Meanwhile Israel is proving you wrong. Also, the media previously apologized for inflating the Texas numbers. Must be a coincidence, right?
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H Z Those worked. This one doesn't.
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H Z Agree. Obese people? Should have lost weight. HIV? Should have worn a rubber.
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@SamSalsa411 they price things at a level that allows them to make money off each product. Which is exactly why they stopped the civilian manufacturing recently, if they can't price their rifles lower it's preferable to just get paid 50 million to make X number of rifles and not worry about the AR market.
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>they are obviously Putting "obviously" in front of a statement doesn't make you right, Dr Carl Lightman of the internet that knows what other people are feeling. >being ignorant puts you on the evil side If this is about the media then it's all evil. The networks are all owned by the same restrict circle of people. Crying about Fox News is useless.
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@Rosiestoned I don't understand why you're changing the subject. You want to talk about slave labor, make sure it won't be necessary to produce batteries and solar panels. Sustainability is profitable. Okay. Can you actually guarantee any sustainability and that we won't have to rebuilt everything after 5 years due to changes in technology that embarrass us for being complete morons and investing too early in unproductive tech? Sustainable economy. Okay. Can you guarantee things won't have to be rebuilt and reconfigured? Because if we build things and tear them down, that's not sustainability. How many millions of tons of CO2 are your projects going to require? Probably a lot. If we have to do everything all over again because we plunged head-first into bad technology, we've essentially done more damage to the environment. While you set your sights on the ultra rich, you forget that they promote these changes and it's gonna be us suffering. They won't lose their lunch or champagne. It's us who are going to lose. They'll be eating pancakes made with real eggs, real flour, real milk, etc. It's us who'll be eating things made out of insects. Because of your grandiose plans.
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Exactly.
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@_gungrave_6802 They've slowed down artillery and transport to Kherson.
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So Russia gets to have a nuclear arsenal to threaten Ukraine with but the few weapons given by the US (most Ukrainian weapons in 2022 are still Soviet) scares Russia?
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Not really. There was a clear divide between success and failure. The meat wave is supposed to "fail" and then a future wave will succeed.
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When you have to ride on metal skin vehicles or sit on frozen ground you'll have a miserable experience. The pad makes things less bad.
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Well you can tell who doesn't agree with the war because they play dumb and say "I don't follow politics" or "I don't watch the news".
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 @TenebrusI07 Mechanical triggers are useful as a safety feature, though.
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 @marlenehod commercial aircraft dump fuel when they're coming in to land with excess weight, this is a drop in the bucket
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That would have been a good question in 1989 or something. Hell, if you asked me in 2012 I'd give you an answer about laws I'd find acceptable. The problem is that we have a situation where "you given an inch and they take a mile", or "you lend them a finger and they rip off the arm". There's several languages with similar expressions. Realistically, we are in the middle ground. But the anti-gun side wants even more. And in a few years they'll pretend there are no gun laws and ask for more, pretending we need a new middle ground. This is not sustainable.
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Ours work.
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Russian MoD said they did it.
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@poopyjoe4016 that's fine, devoid of external factors. But what happens when the same government playing butt buddies with the foreign investors has policies that discourage internal development? All that foreign money developing the property and making it more valuable prices people out of their own neighborhoods. I don't mind being priced out of a zone but for fuck's sake make the market dynamic enough to let me move somewhere else! When there's people being told they're gonna have to move and there's rotting buildings that never got developed because the owner is waiting for that sweet sweet foreign money... it pisses me the fuck off. They reap all the benefits of the free market while we're fucked by the government.
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Subcompact 9mms are comfortable to carry but suck to fight with.
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Protip - the Daily Mail is right when they publish something I agree with. Non-negotiable.
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He did not fall. He jumped head first.
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@belindakennedy5828 Now what happens when they invade in the winter? Massacred in Finland. Massacred in Ukraine.
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@TT-wu5zq Hitting soft targets and leaving is the war of the flea. Highly effective, even Russian Spetsnaz did that to Ukraine since 2014. It was what inspired Ukrainians to adopt quadcopter drones.
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@domdomdom720 Oh give me a break. Intervention for what? It was a FSB op. They even denied those were Russian troops. Trying to retroactively legitimize a clandestine op is hilarious.
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@jackthemoldavian5589 No. The Soviet Union asked for NATO not to chase the Warsaw Pact towards the new border between the former East German and Polish territory. This promise was kept - to this day the former East Germany has no NATO bases. Russia always wanted to attack Ukraine - it's been their pet project for centuries. Read Russian social media. They fully believe they need to wipe them off the map. Ukraine staying neutral? That's codeword for weak Ukraine. No friends Ukraine. Easy to invade Ukraine. Try to convince your neighbor to remain "neutral" - he cannot buy locks for his doors or install an alarm. See how well he takes that suggestion. Donetsk and Luhansk were genocided by Russia. They mobilized the men and forced them to be human shields for the Russian army. Very democratic of Russia. Turn their land into a warzone, make people flee for 8 years.
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The Flanker series of flight sims was originally about an invasion of Crimea. The Eagle Dynamics team eventually made DCS and now the map is about the Caucasus and Crimea is no longer modelled.
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Bravo Putin! Destroyer of Russia, doom of the Federation! I wonder if Muscovites will hate him more than Gorbachev.
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 @peterstone9316 He has used dead bodies to stage scenes. More than shooting from the hip, he invents scenarios. War criminal.
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China doesn't want to. Supporting the separatism of the LPR and DPR means also letting Xinjiang and Taiwan go.
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They secured the airport because there was no point in forcing them out after the Ukrainians shelled the runway.
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@Keiranful The militia was quickly reinforced, and you can't land transports under mortar fire. Even a fragmentation mortar would turn a jet-fuel laden aircraft into a funeral pyre. So your argument is backwards. The initial objective was failed because the defenses were not suppressed enough to land, and later the runway was cratered so even the reinforcement of the initial VDV forces could not accomplish the ultimate goal.
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The article that was penned by Marinus? Wonder why he doesn't use his real name. The grand deception is a tale for children. They have undeveloped object permanence. Someone should have told Marinus (alledgedly Van Riper but I can't confirm) that there's limits to how many can be deployed on a particular front, the logistical issues with supplying them and the fact that the capital is never left undefended. The air bridge to Hostomel proves it was not a deception. The airborne divisions lying dead in their burned out IFVs prove it wasn't a deception. The IL-76 aircraft forced to divert to Belarus when the runway was cratered by artillery fire prove it wasn't a deception. The 4th Guards Tank army and the 64th motor rifle brigade prove it wasn't a deception. Marinus seems incompetent. You don't lose entire elite forces and prestigious units in a deception. That's very real.
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Because cities typically tend to look down onto country folk even though they rely on oil and farming and truckers to keep cities alive.
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@ihavenojawandimustscream4681 "All laws are just." - lel
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Starlite.
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Go through Russian mandates. QR code to ride the bus.
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But every generation tended to be wealthier than their parents. Millennials were the first gen to be worse off than their parents. It's like you people enjoy missing the point. We're not comparing 20 year olds to 60 year olds. We're comparing 20 year olds to 20 year olds 40 years ago, and projecting how well off they'll be in 10 years and comparing to 30 year olds 30 years ago.
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And they'd fall on Belgorod.
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Russia provoked the war. Ukrainians died in the streets for the privilege of joining the EU, gunned down by the Russian-trained units working under Yanukovych's orders. They're our brothers.
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@honeybee8856 How is NATO a threat? Why isn't Russia an imminent threat to the Baltics, Ukraine, Georgia, Finland, etc? Or Kazakhstan, the Russian talking heads made small threats of invasion on TV. There was no such promise. First, it was with the Soviet Union. Second, it was regarding the POLISH border with East Germany. Not the Soviet border in modern Belarus. Oh, so a robber warns you that he's going to kill you. That doesn't make it legal. He's still an evil man. And when the police arrives, they'll open fire on him.
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The American Stingers were already broken down by the 2000s. If I'm not mistaken Germany also sent MANPADS from the East Germany days and they were mostly unusable.
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Yes, they do. Thanks to the war in Ukraine you can watch footage of sewer slides from Russian soldiers. The guns don't jump.
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Desert Tech is ran by a cult that is involved in child abuse and welfare fraud.
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Ah yes and then the citizens said the Russians executed their relatives on the way out just for fun.
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They wouldn't leave Kiev anyway. It was a stupid tactic. I guess their military planners are just stupid for not realizing the capital is never left undefended.
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It absolutely is your problem, you told them to give up their nukes!
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Don't let me discourage you from playing, but it's not just some game from years ago. The connections are there. If you still want to play don't feel guilty about it, but I think it's legitimate to raise the issue.
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That's cope lol you'd keep streaming.
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Yeah because that fat missile is so good at maneuvering and chasing down targets down in the ground clutter.
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Most of the God Emperor stuff was literally a meme that stayed within the internet. This isn't fresh, this isn't new, this isn't a response, this just seems stuff that was done two thousand years ago. This would look exactly the same even if Trump had never ran in 2016.
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Great practice with food. Absolutely atrocious behavior when talking about people. You're defending taking your countrymen and putting them in death traps so that your crews get KIA? Then you'll put untrained mobiks on the good stuff? Jesus...
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The worst of both worlds.
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It's a brit acronym equivalent to "unsuitable for gen pop" aka people who need to be kept in isolation for their own safety inside the prison system.
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 @maynarddaguio1093 but Russia is being pushed back
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 @Politik_Wirtschaft_Extratalk They're demolishing entire towns.
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 @cinemoriahFPV Ukraine had to pull back to ready their forces. Also, the south of Ukraine was taken because traitors prevented bridges from being blown.
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Russia's fight is proportional to what they can muster. Shell the incoming forces? The spotters are KIA/captured/retreat which means no accurate targeting on moving forces. Ammo supplies affected by HIMARS. Counter-battery is giving their artillerymen hell. If you actually look at the roads out of Izium and Lyman, the scenario you are describing is what Ukraine is doing to Russia. You should look it up. Not while you're eating, though.
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Life is cheap, not living. Did you watch the video and how they talked about people ignoring others in danger?
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@jeffbock2793 There's no 62 year olds in footage of Ukrainian troops, there's 62 year olds in LDPR troops.
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@Bokicazver Fake news. They're not conscripting women. Stop reading Russian propaganda.
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"Russia can rotate its forces" - Russian telegram channels are complaining that Russians can't rotate out, while Ukrainians can.
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Except that most of the capabilities of the F-35 were already present in planes like the F-16. They just got updated sensors, a stealth shape, and three different airframes were designed to essentially allow the same plane to serve under three different branches.
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 @primary2630 yeah they said "deplorables" but we know what it implies
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@nicknamenick9448 More like, Russia can't stop invading neighbors so they want protection.
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treydarling "higher population means a higher tax pool" - it also becomes progressively harder to manage the system and prevent inefficiencies and waste
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The US won in Iraq halfway across the world. Russia can't even seize Kiev from their own backyard.
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@Phenixtri "other more valuable Russian forces do their their own thing relatively unimpeded in such a scenario" - Their best forces are trapped in Kherson and already fist fighting each other due to disagreements, supplies and distrust about units contemplating surrender.
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@yellowtunes2756 "Russia already destroyed Ukranian navy" - Which is meaningless because the country with no navy sunk the Moskva. "sending rockets to them from the safe distance" - Which are increasingly being shot down, and in the future will lose effectiveness once NASAMS and IRIS-T arrive. "Because Syria is in ok state right now and no-one is afraid of Finland" - Then why were the defenses near Finland? "Russian aviation was bombing both Ukranian offensives" - False. They got two airplanes and an helicopter shot down and the VKS told the army to get bent because they're not cannon fodder. "Kherson one was completely destroyed" - They're still advancing. "Kharkiv one won, but with heavy losses" - How? The advance was too fast to have losses. A unit that takes losses doesn't advance. And Russians were fleeing, which meant no spotters for artillery or aviation.
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Russia started by inserting themselves into a 360 degree ambush, right in the heart of a country that hates them. Then they readjusted by throwing men at defensive positions. If Ukraine had more casualties, Russia would have won handily.
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Rebecca Brown he went to the private system, not the public
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Rebecca Brown still, he was treated under the private system and not covered by the Canadian government
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Rebecca Brown it cost something, what the government paid. My point is that the Canadian government didn't pay for Rand Paul's expenses, he paid them out of pocket.
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Rebecca Brown it is a private clinic. They just bill the government for patients from the public system.
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@jameshughes5722 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouldice_Hernia_Centre "Shouldice Hernia Centre is a private hospital in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada." "Shouldice was founded in 1945 by Dr. Earle Shouldice.[1][2] While private hospitals are not allowed under Ontario's Private Hospitals Act,[2] Shouldice is one of seven private hospitals in the province grandfathered under the Act.[2] The hospital has been continuously family run from its inception, but is partially publicly funded.[3]"
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@DrScott666 "Sounds like to me, Dr. Paul could have seen an American colleague, but instead chose Canada's EXCELLENT healthcare system." - he didn't go through the healthcare system, he went to a private hospital, was seen by an expert in the field who works in private practice, paid for his own bill and came back.
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@DrScott666 "It's publicly funded" - but it is still a private hospital. They receive most of their funding in exchange for accepting public system patients but the rest of the funding comes from the privatized system. I used to have military health insurance and I had the choice of going to military clinics or private clinics. They were private. I paid as much as if I had gone to the public system because the military paid to have that deal with the private clinics. But it was still a private clinic. Even though public funds were used to pay for that care, they were private entities receiving a payment for services.
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@desmondbrown5508 Medicare works by undercharging private providers - by law - and the difference has to be made up by overcharging the private consumers. If you implement medicare for all, you lose the source of revenue that pays for the big chunk of the costs of Medicare. "So what's you're point?" - *your, possessive. You're means "you are" "The point of public healthcare isn't to make public the hospitals. It's to make public the coverage." - at this point I am questioning either my sanity, or the state of English teaching in schools. "Yes, he paid for it himself" - then the conversation is done. He went to a private clinic, paid for the procedure himself. That's how he wants it to be. The real hypocrisy would be getting dual citizenship in Canada or the UK and go there for free treatment when he doesn't pay taxes there. "but the point is that it's cheaper at those hospitals than it is in America (as all healthcare is) because they have the support of the public infrastructure" - No. The clinic is private and they periodically renegotiate what they charge the government to see public system users. They are not public infrastructure and they don't get "support". They charge the government for a service. Just like the government pays PRIVATE companies to build roads or schools. "So that's still the results of the public single payer system at work" - Holy fuck. By that logic literally anything you can get from private business is the government's work. Why even have capitalism, in the end the government does everything. "hence why he got better deals in Canada than America." - HE DIDN'T GET A BETTER DEAL. HE NEEDED SURGERY FOR A HERNIA AND HE PICKED A CLINIC THAT HAS THE BEST PROCEDURE TO DEAL WITH HERNIAS. THEY DEVELOPED THEIR OWN PROCEDURE AND PROMISE BETTER RESULTS WITH FASTER RECOVERY AFTER THE SURGERY. IT WASN'T ABOUT THE DEAL, HE PICKED THE BEST RESULTS - THAT WERE DEVELOPED BY A CLINIC THAT HAS BEEN AROUND BEFORE THE CURRENT MODEL OF PUBLIC HEALTHCARE SYSTEM WAS EVEN INTRODUCED. It wasn't that Canada offered a better deal than the Americans. It's just that a Canadian private clinic developed a better procedure than anyone else.
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Scream came out almost 30 years ago and it was a deconstruction of the slasher genre, which was stagnant.
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Well that S-70 needed a Su-57 to shoot it down when it lost control. There will aways be a human in the loop.
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Does a law have to be repealed as a whole?
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@stephensmith1687 I'm sure that assistance dogs would get a grace period and a new law immediately drafted to deal with that. Even with the gun bans in Canada and New Zealand they gave people a two year amnesty.
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You mean Shoigu.
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F-22 on a carrier?
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@Gamerguy826 the G36 is fine, Germany just asked for a pencil barrel for weight reason and realized that heat causes the barrel harmonics to change as internal stresses are released.
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True. They can even be lased by the launching aircraft if it is carrying a targeting pod, or lased by a friendly aircraft (buddy lasing).
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@satouhikou1103 Nope. The law agrees with me.
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It sounds like a large object falling. You really trying to identify weapons by the sound air makes when pushed out of the way?
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@Otyrr Again, objects sound based on the speed of the air whistling past them. You can't identify objects like that. We have the video of the rocket failing. It's over. You were wrong.
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@gomahklawm4446 Software can't beat physics. Also, Israel already flew F-35s close to Russian defenses in Syria. The F-22 dropped bombs there too.
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@davidrydl7292 Shooting down a F-117 doesn't win the war when it just keeps pummeling a country into dust and forces the signature of the Kumanovo agreement ;) The better flashlight will illuminate normal aircraft better. So you'll still need stealth. If stealth was useless, why did Israel pick a stealth aircraft to add their own electronics, and not a normal aircraft? Thanks for admitting that stealth works and is the new standard.
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"Multiple cities are defunding police" - Not because of private property damage but because cops managed to get enough bad optics to fulfill what was the plan all along - end a union-protected job position that any high schooler with above room temperature IQ could get. Which was extremely lucky because the bad optics caused by the riots made many people actually call for more police brutality. So it's a blessing that cops are dumb enough to keep getting caught on camera committing atrocities and being absolute retards otherwise people would be siding with law enforcement. "And they did it in a very similar way to how this country was founded." - There would have been a lot more loyalists shooting rebels if that were the case. "Again you don't have to agree with that change but you'd be lying to yourselves if you didn't acknowledge they got more done in a couple weeks than peaceful progun protesters have accomplished in decades." - That's a completely flawed reasoning. Gun rights advocacy is a very tricky situation because the only people interested in this shit are gun owners themselves and the gun industry. Meanwhile the "changes" being done now have a lot of backing. A dumb white dude with a high and tight haircut being able to hold a position of authority and make a career out of it even though he only has a HS diploma is an inconvenience. Replacing such positions by college graduates creates a hard barrier to entry. Most of the changes in gun rights advocacy in recent history don't come from protesting but by defeating gun grabbers in the courts. The comparison can't be made. If we started destroying shit people would go on about how we're terrorists and need to get drone striked because we have no backing. When you have backing, you can literally burn black-owned businesses and kill a black man over a TV and the government fulfills your demands. You think if we kill a person over a TV we'll get the NFA repealed? Think for a second.
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Not plugged to a big corporation? So you get the minerals from a mom & pop mining operation, your electric components from a small artisan chip factory, etc? How exactly do you think panels get made?
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The S-500 adds anti-ICBM capabilities. It's not a "better" anti aircraft system, it's a more broad defensive system.
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It's basically free. Britain paid back lend lease in 2006. The war ended in 1945. At that point the inflation meant the US was taking back the payments based on a legal agreement, because there was no profit at all.
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It basically took all the planets aligning for Fukushima to happen. An outdated reactor protected by an insufficient sea wall survived a one in a million tsunami - and it only had problems because procedure mandated a cooling shutdown and they couldn't start it back up. So yeah nature can throw the hardest shot at 1950s nuclear tech and it still stands.
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Nothing fishy. This was a slow march. You were caught by surprise, many of us have bern into this and spreading the word for a decade plus. It only looks like a conspiracy because you just noticed now.
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 @geofflepper3207 Late 1800s? It was the Ottoman Empire then.
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@kimwelch4652 What does that have to do with "bombing civilians" as a tactic?
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The US did not back the people who did 9/11 to fight the USSR. The US backed extremists to destabilize the Middle East. The support for the Mujahideen would not have lead to blowback had the CIA not purposefully backed people they wanted to use as assets in the future. The US was neutral on Ho Chi Minh at first. There was no reason to back French colonialism but also no reason to lock horns with France.
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It's not a democratic vote until refugees return and Russian soldiers leave. A vote cannot happen with a missing population and Russian soldiers in the streets.
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Conservapedia doesn't control a huge portion of cellphones nor the major websites.
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There's videos all over the internet of the fireworks.
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I don't see how that makes any sense. From a ballistics perspective 7.62x39 is outranged by 5.56. This new 6.8 outranges 5.56.
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Claim to be waiting for the summer. Fail. Claim to be waiting for the winter. Fail. Claim to be waiting for the summer.
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Media doesn't understand war. Big whoop.
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Saab would have them ready by what? 2030?
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@markjohnson1933 By the time Saab could fulfill the orders, they could have simply paved new runways.
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The Slovenian T-55s are upgraded with systems that bring it to 1990s standard.
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Being bought and paid for doesn't mean anything when it soaks up resources in the form of pilots and maintainers that the USAF desperately needs for other aircraft. The Pentagon sent plenty of money to friends with the A-10. Two billion for the re-winging programs.
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@twiztidsidfreak13 Inflation isn't caused by "raising prices", the prices rose because the value of the dollar fell.
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The video just said regulations caused this...
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Because you can't assume all of them will make it to the target.
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@marshalljulie3676 The generals get intel from US satellites. Valery and friends aren't being contacted by the CIA. They see Russians on the drone footage, they start laying fires. The war is being fought with a huge front and tons of small DJI drones. The US can't be directing orders at every soldier.
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@cobsterdalobster3022 Nobody said that, you're arguing against a strawman.
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@KasperYakolev-j1h Yes. But the utility of phones is just too important. Many units use signal and whatsapp to coordinate.
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No. It's Russia. They always tried to genocide Ukrainians for centuries.
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The F-22 isn't a scam, nobody has given it a proper war to fight in.
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It's Ukrainians. Keep coping and seething.
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@divyavichar From India and you hitched your wagon to the losing side because you're still mad at the West for backing Pakistan during the Cold War. We're not shivering from cold, it's a really mild Winter. You don't live here, we're not fighting each other or suffering from low temperatures. You've been fooled by Russian propaganda.
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But they can't. Using nukes would make them a global pariah even if they survived. Which they wouldn't. That's the reason. They can't. Pure and simply. Everyone else in the world would witness it and attack. When someone becomes unhinged and a threat, game theory states you take out the threat or else you're next. At that point even China and North Korea would probably send their nukes.
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@JosefK2275 No, they're not. There's still countries willing to trade with them. They're mostly impoverished and undeveloped countries, but still. The image of a strong country will crumble if they have to throw a temper tantrum and nuke other countries because they lost a war. This isn't an existencial threat. They'll just lose and continue to be Russia, albeit more of a hermit kingdom than before. The purpose of nukes is deterrence. The US only used nukes in Japan because nobody else had them, and as a way to flex on the Soviet Union. After the Soviet Union got theirs through spying, the use of nukes is the big no-no.
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@JosefK2275 You concern troll about "thousands of lives" and ignore that fundamentally you want Ukraine to forgive and shake hands with the people responsible for those thousands of deaths. Infrastructure can be rebuilt. It's evil to forgive evil. It's evil to let murderers off the hook. Putin cannot be taken seriously. 2008 he says Crimea is Ukrainian. 2014 he seizes it. Provoked? How? The US didn't care about the 2013 Canada agreement to have joint training with China's PLA. Obama didn't invade Canada. Trump didn't invade Canada. And Biden didn't invade Canada although by 2019/2020 that treaty was under the microscope as public opinion turned against China. Missile shields are great, everyone should have them.
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Yes, the drone strikes that killed an ungodly amount of innocent civilians for every insurgent killed. I'm sure the public will love to see their child killed because a whole block was levelled just to get one guy.
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@phuntshodorji3903 That doesn't say production is able to meet demand. They could be finished hulls built years ago and simply outfitted for final delivery. They could be damaged and repaired tanks.
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@phuntshodorji3903 Video claims are useless. I'm so used to BS videos and photos. They even have workers turning wrenches of the wrong side so it looks like they're bolting/unbolting stuff but they're just looking busy. There's pictures of production lines where the same tank under the same tarp has not moved since 2019.
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@JohnMoran he also takes Russia's side in Syria amd Skripal affair.
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@johnwilburn "It takes incredible skill and metal working capabilities to make springs or barrels." someone should tell these days, then: Magazine spring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3elIJqdnMkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJVhueHe1ww&t=135s Rifled barrel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ8-Z7fYIB8 "they also have steel frame rails precisely molded into them" - he just pinned it to his 3d printed Glock frame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW971lit5Rk @ 1:40 and it already clocked 600 rounds through it. Ye of little faith.
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@NGMonocrom I replied to a comment saying "It takes incredible skill and metal working capabilities to make springs or barrels" and I posted evidence to the contrary. Your reply to me: "Anyone can bend a long enough piece of metal at home." - that means you agree with me so I fail to understand why you would need to reply. "But how about long term? I seriously doubt it'll perform reliably for any length of time." - why does it need to be long-term? It only needs to work once to prove a point. 50 people died in New Zealand and each magazine only needed to be used ONCE to cause all that mayhem. Gun control is sold to us as a way of preventing these events where each weapon and magazine are only used for a few minutes and the damage is done. They can't be prevented now. So it doesn't matter you can't use them long term. Make extras, replace as they fail. Ordinary springs do not last forever either. Weapons have scheduled maintenance cycles and parts should be replaced before breakage/failure and this means springs and other wear items like gas rings or extractors.
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@NGMonocrom "Anyone can bend any piece of metal" - again, you are agreeing with me. "sustained, long-term shooting" - irrelevant. You only need to use a magazine once in a massacre, therefore invalidating gun control by giving anyone the tools to make the necessary items at home. Now I want to know who the fuck is upvoting your posts 2 minutes after you posted. Perhaps it's you.
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The F-35 is excellent. Please stop reading tabloid articles.
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@fredrickjoseph6545 the allies were enemies of germany
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@WoWisdeadtome Lie. There was never such an agreement.
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@AkiRa22084 There was no coup. The president fled the country after betraying the security forces.
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I say we go for the middle ground and put the cocaine back in Coke.
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How much did you spend on the electric vehicle? I can't save money if I have to spend money.
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The tree grew out of a sapling when the water level was lower?
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@floki8892 Probably not, but the local park authority says that if tourists damage it the branches grow slower because of the water temperature.
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@callmeJAF you can't bring back the F-14, everything was scrapped to prevent Iran from obtaining replacement parts.
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@callmeJAF but the entire assembly lines will have to be reconstructed, the molds and tooling remade, etc. The sheer cost of trying to remake it is higher than just designing a newer, better plane that also won't create the risk of certain information leaking and allowing Iran to rebuild their fleet.
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The Scotland Yard is the FBI, I think. The MI5 would be the NSA. Tons of three letter agencies in the US.
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They retreated from Kiev because Russian dead bodies littered the streets. Now they fled and got shot in the back.
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Useless expenditure, Canada needs to sort itself out politically.
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Whataboutism, also the cold probably eliminates the homeless so Putin only has to shovel the bodies into the local dump.
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@AverageAlien Hold up this guy's an alien, get him!
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@jessicatriplev9802 "Is a random youtuber a better authority on the subject than the PhD scientists working for the Military?" - Were they interviewed?
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It's also illegal to sell drugs, that's why nobody does it.
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 @fegeleindux3471 20% of output? Okay, but never forget Pareto's rule.
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@gummysteve The opposition was not silenced.
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 @iller3 they kind of cornered thenselves
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That's the point: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xKlfd6PiJKk the pressure bearing parts are unregistered, you only need the plastic parts to serve as the receiver/frame because legally those are the registered parts.
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@bryanw4582 don't the new ones have a photosensor to register the flash?
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"you can basically slap modern electronics onto those old aircrafts as well" - but they're still a vulnerable aircraft that won't see the F-35 while being easy prey
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@JizzyDipper yeah, I know how phasing works. I suppose you're talking about how an array can use phase cancellation to direct a beam. What about it?
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Shawn Michael are you gonna have a fucking tower mounted on your house?
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@pluto8404 1. Why would a standing wave form inside the body? 2. Why would a standing wave change the wavelenght of the radiation? By your logic its actually more likely for the frequency to shift towards visible light rather than jumping the visible spectrum and going towards UV or xrays. So unless people start glowing spontaneously after 5G installation, I am pretty sure you don't need to worry about your DNA.
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@pluto8404 I hope you got the AC on, because apparently sitting on a warm room is gonna break the water molecules. Jesus Christ do we fart oxygen and hydrogen when the water molecules break while we stand in the heat? You should probably get your scientific research published because you're onto something nobody else knows.
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@pluto8404 I'm not stretching anything, your ideas make no goddamn sense. Taking a magnifying glass simply gathers energy from a certain area and concentrates it over a focal point. That's why the magnifying glass "casts a shadow" underneath. The energy is already being bombarded all over your body but you can take it and there's no "standing wave". You have to physically displace the thermal energy into a focal point for it to cause damage. So why would non-ionizing radiation all over your body be concentrated into a "focal point"? Why would it form a "standing wave"? Why would a standing wave cause a thermal runaway? "-Is this enough to break up a DNA strand? I dont know. " - YOU DON'T KNOW, exactly. "-Is it theoretically possible? Yes." - you have a fucked up definition of what theoretically possible is. You actually have to lay out the theory and prove with maths that 5G is gonna cook your DNA. Not just say "it's possible". Where's the theoretical part? Your calculations? By that logic I can say it's theoretically possible for a pink elephant to fall on your head right now. Where is the science behind it? Don't care. I'll just post it on youtube and say it's possible!
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Shawn Michael you have no argument so you resort to insults, thanks for admitting defeat.
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@pluto8404 1. You made the claim, the burden of evidence is on you. 2. The maths to prove it are easy. The Einstein-Plank equation gives that E =hf, just multiply the frequency of 5G for the Planck constant. Ionization of water requires 12.621 eV from what I researched, bu let's just assume the energy of UV radiation as a threshold for biological damage, 3.9 eV. The lower frequency of 5G is 28 GHz, using the E = hf equation and converting the value in joule for electronvolt it gives me 1.16 x 10^-4 eV. That's 0.000116 eV. 3. "Microwaves are tuned to interact with water molecules" - to heat it up! Not cause chemical changes to the molecule! Jesus!
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@JizzyDipper okay, but increasing wattage does not actually change the energy carried by the radiation meaning that while power is greater, each individual particle does not get more energy so it can ionize molecules.
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@JizzyDipper just say it outright instead of using weasel words. What is the "wrong" frequency? By bandwidth do you mean the max simultaneous data transfer rate or did you confuse it with wavelength? Say what you mean and stop wasting time.
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That was an old video. The train car in the T-55 video had the manufacturing date of 2022. So it was new.
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 @Belkan88 Look up Rimon 20. Soviets always blamed Arab incompetence. Then they get slaughtered.
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 @isn0t42 False. The US left Afghanistan as part of the peace deal. It was the ANA which was unable to fight.
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Because America in the late 1960s is more technically competent than authoritarian regimes that get by on copying Western tech.
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Which Iranian ally is being attacked in Hawaii?
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@Ganjor420 But the analogy doesn't work. Canada isn't afraid of the US invading. Mexico isn't afraid of the US invading (their military is quite under-equipped). You have these nations getting along. Meanwhile the US has friends around the world, and they're often close to nations hostile to them. Of course it makes sense the US is there to protect them. If Iran was close to Hawaii, they wouldn't be there to protect Hawaiians. They'd be there to hurt Hawaiians.
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@nicbarrax76 no it means it becomes impossible to reach everyone. Stop playing dumb.
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Poor Russians are the victims, they say. They were the ones who invaded. Ukraine never attacked Russia prior to their invasion.
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Shut up, Fudd. No deer ever hurt me.
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 @babecat2000 There's none, Russian trolls invented it.
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The war ends today if Russia leaves.
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@jacqdanieles comment deleted... "not one step back" was about abandoning defensive positions
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That would be ridiculous because Russia just wasted a ton of material, weapons and manpower in Ukraine so they're definitely not in shape to be sent to freaking Mongolia and fight some more.
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@Xero1of1 So you're aware that Russia just blew their load and is unable to conduct offensive operations against a major power for the next decade, right?
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God is clearly punishing Russia.
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Reentry at high speed causes massive heating.
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Ukrainian crews have more combat experience than 18-19 year old Americans.
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Huh, we had swine flu in 2009?
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@GG-kt2uk It was a pandemic. If you look it up it's literally called the "2009 swine flu pandemic".
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Don't be a sore loser.
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You shop like a millionaire? Millionaires get entire shops closed for themselves. They don't buy plastic trinkets. Also, implying that there aren't millionaires running privacy OS on their personal phones. And Temu's ad is "shop like a BILLIONAIRE". Already downgraded? How much longer unti "shop like middle class"?
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Who else had helicopters?
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Love the "everything I hate is reddit" mentality when the painter is peak redditbrain trying to mimic the popular genre of the day
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They're perfectly legal, neither the US or Russia signed any treaty.
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@GodhandPlusOne It's not illegal to acquire a game before release. The store selling it isn't "illegal" but the distributor/publisher will probably threaten to pull games from the shelves and sue for breach of contract. If a store clerk is straight up stealing from a store then it will depend on you state/country's definition of reception of stolen goods.
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"Were they dramatic or even catastrophic? Clear NO!" - Clearly yes. They attempted to plug the manpower gaps by sending combat instructors. Which means they'll have a shortage when it comes time to train more men. "Whose country has the most battle hardened and experienced fighting force in the world as of now? Exactly, Russia (Ukraine coming 2nd)." - Ukraine has hundreds of thousands of army and territorial defense. Russia has 150k troops who have been through 7 months of pounding and are starting to break. Their battle hardened troops? They're in Kherson with their backs against the river and dwindling supplies. Their most experienced fighting forces? Six feet under. Everyone else? Green. Zero experience. "wouldn't survive 24 hours on a battlefield like Ukraine" - This is valid for all the Russian soldiers who have never seen a war. Fun fact, it seems that internet searches for how to leave the army are increasing in Russia.
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Why? Biofuels would produce the most waste heat.
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The nuclear deal had an expiry date anyway.
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It's not an all rounder. It's an air superiority platfrom that can drop JDAMs. Also the claim that nobody wanted the F-35 is blatantly false because many countries needed a Harrier replacement. The F-35B can take off from short deck carriers which allows nations to project fixed wing air power without investing in massive catapult carriers. The F-22 never had a naval variant produced, let alone a STOVL one that could give these countries a new Harrier.
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People can postpone the purchase of a car. Groceries are immediate. So the question becomes, how long until issues like transportation make a lack of vehicle purchases (or purchase of lower quality vehicles) create a dent in other sectors of the economy.
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@revolverswitch longer loiter time and lower fuel consumption.
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fuck the US government, but the old saying says if you want peace prepare for war
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The point of having an army is not having to make concessions. If you have an army but they can't do anything about the fact that enemy air power is flying overhead, that's just called losing. I also like the doublespeak. People claim the Ukrainian military is using civilians as human shields. But when NATO does the bombing instead of Russia, they're the ones using the population as hostages.
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WRONG. The USAF ordered 750 of the damned things, and GAO slammed the USAF for buying so many A-10s with no justification for such a high number of aircraft of the type. Liars accused the USAF of loving the A-10 too much, then liars switched their tune to say the USAF hated it from the beginning.
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They don't have kids. They take the diapers and sell them with a 30% discount. For them it's pure profit and the buyers save on their costs.
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Mialisus lolno. Norinco is banned from import after they got caught supplying weapons to gangs, so they're rare. Most AKs in the civilian market are Serbian/Yugoslavian, Russian before the sanctions, Romanian, Polish, Bulgarian, etc. Egyptian and East German are pretty sought after too.
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Mialisus Zastavas have 1.5mm thick receivers instead of 1mm and a trunnion bulge like seen on RPKs. It was meant to make the gun more rigid so it could fire rifle grenades, if I remember correctly. Maybe enough time has passed that other countries can sell Norincos to the US, because a Type 56 was 1000-1100 in 2011 and that was expensive for an AK back then. That was like converted Saiga money. And yes, there were Russian sanctions in 2014 because of the Ukraine situation, which affected Saigas (Izhmash). In 2017 the treasury department added the Veprs (Molot) to the ban list.
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Yeah, 1% of them. Whoopeti-doo.
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mike hokitch hokitch unfathomly based
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Because it's impossible to move aircraft without satellites seeing it. In fact the US was moving B2s as a distraction and used different ones to strike.
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An S-400 was already destroyed and a S-500 radar in Crimea was taken out.
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I exclude the sites that annoy me and search results become even more irrelevant.
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Bakhmut is a concrete trench. Russia is forced to assault defenses at cost to engage the defenders.
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Corporate lobbying exists because the state whores itself out for money. If the state wasn't inherently corrupt lobbying wouldn't be effective.
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@Viking Raider The government doesn't provide security. If you get mugged, can you sue the state for not protecting you? No. That right there should tell you that you're the one responsible for your own security. "One can say that the corporations use the government as a weapon." - Seems to me the government is the problem even under your reasoning. "giving the corporation's a bigger weapon to use against regular people and small businesses is not the best idea." - How did you read my anti-government comment and think I'm a big-government Bernie apologist? Goddamn.
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They tried that in France. Ironically people like Gerard Depardieu got Russian citizenship to evade taxes. CEOs withheld their own salary temporarily to deny the French government tax Euros.
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LMAO slow and methodical as they clearly rush for objectives. Russia fights like an addict gambles, we remember the mad rush for Kiyv where riot cops arrived before the troops did and met Ukrainian National Guard. They had batons and riot shields, and the Ukrainians had actual weapons of war. We remember Bakhmut, Vuhledar and Avdiivka where the name of the game was pushing forward at any cost.
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Not true, but cope.
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@deiterwakes1907 those are also the hallmarks of any long running criminal operation If they decided to run their business like a mafia to be able to last longer that's not indication any agency is involved
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@deiterwakes1907 What else can they do except look the other way? Why would they want to give the hackers more publicity? They know they can't do anything and no matter how much money they sink into anti-cheats, hackers simply create new ones to evade them. Trying to fight them overtly would only expose their defeat by making more people aware of these cheats and downloading them, and them trying to throw money at a problem that in essence cannot be solved. Looking the other way is the winning move when you can't win the game. I'm not saying that intelligence agencies don't operate like criminals. I'm just saying that aimbot hacks being an intelligence op makes no sense.
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 @seantrentham9979 Mark that on the calender and bookmark this page. Post a year from now and we'll see.
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@CiGambino "Almost zero" okay but if you dropped a million revolvers in the middle of the street and told me only one was loaded, I still wouldn't play Russian roulette. You really should look at the data coming from Israel and the UK. Taking an almost zero risk for zero gain makes no sense. The effectiveness is pathetic.
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@CiGambino Again, the real world deployment shows that there's no gain for certain age groups, and the gains are minimal for the age groups in which it works. There's a reason Israel might have to go into lockdown again.
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@CiGambino Public Health England's technical briefing number 20 says otherwise. 47K cases with 408 deaths for two doses. 151K cases with no doses, 256 deaths. By your own logic, this is the only metric that matters. You've lost. Israel is showing extremely poor effectiveness and is introducing restrictions. They might have to go under lockdown as the attack rate for the double dosed is roughly the same or in some cases higher than no doses. With respect, you're wrong.
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@CiGambino The attack rate is similar for double-dosed and no dose. Only the the age group 70+ and above are showing moderate effectiveness, with the 60-69 age group showing negative effectiveness. The 20-29 group shows 3 percent effectiveness. Womp womp.
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@CiGambino What are the researchers saying? What part of the tale am I missing? This isn't perfect being the enemy of good. Your own narrative requires perfection. We already had the good. You promised the perfect. We don't have it. Now nothing changed. No, I didn't expect anything to be perfect. I just didn't expect such a debacle. The point of your narrative was doing it for the community. It's not working. It works at a personal level. It protects YOU by reducing the severity of what happens to YOU. It doesn't protect others. That would be the perfect. We don't have perfect. I already had the good. So give up.
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@CiGambino You're changing the subject. You really got beat so bad you had to flip the conversation around? The ICUs are full because there's no prevention or early treatment being done. Overwhelmed with whom? Data from other countries is already showing that the majority hospitalized have the double dose. Yeah, they "work". In very specific age ranges (3% efficacy in my age group per the Israeli data, which is PITIFUL) and only at reducing symptoms, not transmission or preventing mutations. They NEED to work perfectly by your own standards. If they don't, it makes everything WORSE by generating resistant strains. Jesus. The verdict isn't out. Look at the Israeli and UK data. Specifically Public Health England's Technical Briefing 20 from 6th August 2021. The double-dosed group has HIGHER FATALITY than the zero dose group despite having LOWER cases as a whole. There's talk of a third dose because antibody levels plummet after 3-6 months. It's not the best tool, because it DOESN'T work except at saving the older age groups, which is 70 and above because 60-69 actually has NEGATIVE efficacy according to the Israeli numbers. In fact, it's a terrible tool because of the potential that resistant strains are being generated.
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@CiGambino I guess you understand the message better when delivered by a celebrity: /watch?v=qNLgBh-S5Ik 1. "I countered explaining that were all in this together" - Not with a solution that only works for yourself, and might actually endanger others. 2. You're calling me a liar because you didn't look at the report I told you about. You're just in denial. 3. Israel is putting restrictions back into place. They'll probably lockdown again. 4. You don't care about truth, you care about what you're being fed. Maybe it tastes good, I've never tried it. 5. You're the one dealing in absolutes, pal. That's why I'm suggesting doing this the smart way, while you have the hammer and see everything as a nail.
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@CiGambino Oh, it's not conclusive. So after a year and a half of listening to non-conclusive reports you want to pick and choose. The CDC director Rochelle Walensky pretty much admitted that what I'm saying is right and you're wrong. Mask up, bucko. No, you haven't provided anything rational because it all hinges on what you hope is true, not what the actual authorities are saying. You can agree to disagree with reality what you want. But you can't disagree with the CDC's call to reinstate mask mandates that proves me right. You're the one not interested in having a good faith discussion. You reject reality and replace it with your own.
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@CiGambino Red Herring. You ran out of arguments so you bring up Onnit and Joe Rogan, which I never discussed. It's also an Ad Hominem. Two fallacies in one post.
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@CiGambino I never questioned your opinion on Onnit. I don't advocate for it or consume it. I looked at the science, it seems like Onnit overstates the benefits and remains unproven. So what?
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@CiGambino Yeah but when given a link it opens on the browser, the button that acts as "swipe" is almost imperceptible. 1. You can find information that isn't about chickens from established sources - not Vanden Bossche, by the way. Nitpicking the detail that humans and poultry are different is strange. 2. Yeah there's a trend line but you can see dots all over the place. With a high enough population carrying up to 27 days at the same levels of the dirty unvaccinated, yeah man we ain't winning the fight. 3. That data is coming from the US, which is only recording hospitalizations. I'd like to see international data. 4. Sure, I don't know who said otherwise. 5. Emergence? Too late. We need to check for spread. Like shown India has low vaccination rates and China's Sinovac appears to be less effective, as expected. Telling the X million Americans who haven taken it to take it when there's almost 2 billion hosting the thing... Buddy... 6. Again, if the argument is "slow down the spread"... we tried that. Didn't work. Even with slower spread it hangs around and peaks later. And to answer the question, you'll gladly give you the honor to pull my plug if I come down with the coof. 7. CFR for 12-30 averages closer to 0.028%, not .10% per CDC data. Additionally, Israel saw an increase in acute coronary syndrome and cardiac arrest in the younger age groups compared to the 2019 and 2020 average. A very small percentage compared with the number of vaccinated of course, but risks have to be weighed. Again, per CDC data ages 0-17 had more deaths than the flu, but less than half than the ones by pneumonia. A mass campaign targeting the youth, even with very low chances of side effects, is gonna affect more people than the ones we lost. Same reason the British didn't fire AAA at incoming V2s over London.
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The money train ends when Russia leaves.
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@DJHeroMasta yeah ignore the fact that pc gamers are gonna be priced out of gaming if this keeps going... If nvidia keeps at it see you all on PS5.
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+88oscuro the problem is that by the time it trickes down prices already got jacked up. Yeah you gotta start somewhere. Start when it actually makes sense.
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They'd have to race the Poles or else they get there first.
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@mensch1066 It's not copy pasted, I see people acting one way I'm going to call it out. When cops see a crime and yell "stop!" is it a copy paste? Or a reasonable action?
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@OleDiaBole Russia bulldozed a Wagner cemetery. That's how far they're willing to go. You think that if you fall in Ukrainian soil, they'll be in a hurry to bring you to Russia proper? The longer you remain "AWOL" the longer they can delay benefits to your family.
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Norinco was trying to sell missiles to LA gangs, but turned out to be a sting operation. Have fun trying to convince a judge to overturn the ban, or even get support from the community where many still do the "law abiding citizen" shtick. People who are all for law and order typically do not want to defend arming gangs.
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11:04 nooooo his name is Denis Pushilin, the "Dushilin" is a pun by swapping the letters xD
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Because he used to be one?
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Stop the "only the USA" crap. Sightings and conspiracies exist all over the world. You'd need to start looking in foreign languages to notice.
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He exploited the simulation itself. It was a complete debacle. Basically the game started out of nowhere with the OpFor swarm attack in position to fire, while BluFor had the defenses shut down as they were locking into civilian aircraft and ships nearby. Basically a suckerpunch.
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The M14 could not be produced at the rates demanded by the troop surge in Vietnam. Out of three companies initially contracted all were delivering insufficient numbers than stipulated, and with too many defective units. McNamara did what was necessary - get someone who could produce a rifle to meet the demand. And the M16 fit the bill.
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They most likely burn in the atmosphere.
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Russia has 6000 nukes. They don't have a knife, they have a katana.
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@zengjanezhu Castro wanted to use the nukes on the US and Khrushchev actually agreed it was a bad idea to have nukes in Cuba.
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@placeofvalue Here's the simplest analogy: Russia not only has the nukes, they also have the habit of invading countries. They're the ones making others sleep with them at gunpoint.
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@placeofvalue Whataboutism. Stick to the topic.
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@JohnMoran Yes. His past achievments are worth nothing in this particular story. A Der Spiegel journalist has admitted to faking stories. Big sports legends were caught using steroids. Even the mighty fall.
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@TheRetenor This isn't Ebola. And by the way Ebola outbreaks were easier to contain precisely because of how serious the symptoms are. SARS 1 was deadlier, and the outbreak was contained.
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@fallagainstmorellet The law of large numbers has nothing to do with the topic.
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Tanks are still useful for direct firr support.
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Jay Santos care to explain how Stalin's ethnic displacements and plan to move the Jews to Siberia is consistent with Socialism?
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How is it frustrating? Those videos are complete nothingburger. Those videos weren't the only data. Okay. But the supposed "data" they can't show doesn't correlate to the videos. Confused people and iffy radar operation. It happens. All those three things reported DIFFERENT phenomenon.
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@haloadic2424 The military doesn't like airplanes crashing into objects. Pilots are seeing objects. They investigate to prevent accidents and figure out what's wrong with pilots and their training. Example, commercial pilots reported mysterious sightings. It was Starlink. Many pilots were trained before Starlink was launched into space. So people panic. It was nothing. But we had to investigate, and now we will tell young pilot trainees that at night they'll see Starlink. And they won't freak out when they fly at night. There's declassified UAP investigations. It's usually un-tethered balloons or drones violating FAA guidelines.
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That billion gets burned easily financing other dud games.
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@hahnpham Oh they want to get massacred in Bucha/Irpin again?
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Mass shootings happened before videogames were popular. It's like going postal. There is a reason that was a trend for a hot minute. Media has applied pressure on the contagion effect. Not videogames.
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How would Ukrainians do it without access to the dam?
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Because to Russia Ukraine isn't a war, it's a conflict like Syria. It happens "over there". Milbloggers are a window to the frontlines that allow the interested to follow current events. Milbloggers are invested in how the army is doing, and they're realizing the Russian armed forces are plagued with issues. And started to talk about it because they saw how bad things were. They're telling the interested demographic that the Russian army can't fight a conventional war and thus the entire state apparatus of the Russian Federation is useless. These "true believers" boost the tacit consent for Putin's rule. If Putin can't even protect Russia from NATO, then why does the public allow him to rob the population blind in exchange for security from external threats?
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 @WillDa713 If you want peace, prepare for war.
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The 90s were caused by Putin's circle. All those dudes stole everything that wasn't nailed down and now pretend to be a source of stability.
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civilization_cultural_victory.mp4
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The F-15EX was just a ploy to keep the Boeing St. Louis plant open.
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The US does not make use of carpet bombing as it's extremely inefficient and risks the air assets.
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Luty also published a booklet on this. The primer and powder can be sourced from blank ammunition where available. If you can't get it, nailgun blanks serve the same purpose.
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They have. They sent HIMARS. HIMARS fired GMLRS rocket artillery at S-400s. So Lockheed Martin proved the US can beat the S-400.
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Horrible crimes comitted against civilians? Russians are cheering for those in Ukraine.
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China brokering a deal only possible by Ukraine resisting in the battlefield and decrying the shipment of weapons that made it possible "escalation" is beyond disingenuous.
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Frankly I don't think they're smart enough for that. The lab was warned about the leak possibility two years earlier. Just like concrete that crumbles, rebar you can bend by hand, and escalators that swallow people, you get what you pay for when you offshore to China and forget to put someone in charge of quality control.
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 @hewhoshallnotbenamed5168 the economies are a mess because of lockdowns. We're not bleeding anything. No inspection, near or far, puts Ukraine on the same level as Russia.
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@OrcBro They can endure for all I care. What matters is their troops get defeated.
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@yagsipcc287 Several countries dropped MIR
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@yagsipcc287 "value only get better. Before the war it was around 140-150rubbles to a dollar it is now around the 60ish mark it goes up and down a bit" - that's bad for export less rubles per oil barrel
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Eh eh "bottom"
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 @looinrims No market stability until Russia becomes docile. They will never be trusted as a gas supplier so Europe will still need to use alternate sources.
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 @mbp1652 "sheet dipped" it's sheep dipped, tell your supervisor to not redeem the English classes.
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@exiledskunk5046 economic system is just man-made law on a piece of paper, it can even be argued effects are the same, but applied to different sectors
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Benefit of playing with home field advantage.
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@RupertBundem the Vietcong were defeated during the Tet Offensive. North Vietnam sent PAVN regulars to reconstitute VC numbers. Like Russia did to the LPR and DPR - use Russian men to mask the LPR and DPR losses.
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It was a suicide mission. It was known A-10 pilots would not survive past 2 weeks and their mission was to delay Soviet forces to let the American ships cross the Atlantic and land in Europe.
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@Sulullta Meanwhile, 200 VDV presumed dead from HIMARS. I thought all the western supplies were destroyed - must have been only in social media.
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Russia basically hinted that Azov guys detained in the DPR/LPR would get a show trial and execution (Russia proper has a moratorium on the death penalty). But then after Putin traded them for Medvedchuk and a few other Russian soldiers, many hardliners complained about betrayal. If they release more then the pro-war faction will whine about how the people in charge are spitting in the face of Russians.
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@Nicholas Rodriguez Cool story.
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@Nicholas Rodriguez You're right. I've changed my comment to reflect my change of mind. 308 sucks? Cool story bro.
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@joannesavage3709 They did that on day one. They started with a massive volley of ballistic and cruise missiles to cripple infrastructure.
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Fuck off plenty of places without 5G are going through it.
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One bomber with less payload does more damage on target than 30 bombers that get shot down in the way in.
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@sidpierce1 The B1 or B2 have not been operational in future theaters of combat. Fighting the last war fallacy.
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@sidpierce1 Uh... the B-21 is made for future conflicts. That's why it's relevant. It's like the F-35. It carries less missiles internally. However, you need less missiles to do the job if your aircraft is all around better at hiding and at seeing others.
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@arthurborlet They wouldn't be "encircled" if they stopped invading countries.
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@paulisfat8077 Zoonotic jumps happen on their own. Often the virus can't infect the host and dies. Some times it can infect the host and enter the cells, but it doesn't become contagious so the person becomes sick but won't infect others. Over time, eventually a natural virus from an animal will jump to a human but also be adapted to become infectious among humans. So yeah, things can happen on their own, but it's always a lottery. Do it inside a lab and you're bound to get surefire results. Instead of natural selection you have artificial selection steering it.
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Emma could probably slaughter Mobiks for sport at this point.
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Many of the tanks captured in the Kharkiv offensive lacked engines.
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@hg2560 The USAF requested the retirement of 42 airframes for FY2022.
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@BeKindToBirds "You don't care about factual reality, all you care about is moving the goalposts to be correct" - YOU moved the goalposts. "The cannon is incredibly precise" - Rotary cannons are inherently less precise than single barrel. "35 IN TWENTY YEARS because it has been used so incredibly much" - It provided 20% of CAS since 2001, 11% since 2014. "compare it's rate of accuracy and precision to other fire support like artillery and tanks" - How is that relevant? Meanwhile, the A-10 is the biggest fixed wing user or APKWS. A precision guided weapon. Also used by the Apache. Of course that a laser guided APKWS has more precision than the gun, or artillery. "Literally find me any CAS aircraft in the world with a record of 10 friendly fire kills in 140,000+ close air support missions in places like afghanistan and iraq" - Funny. Because CAS would have been much harder to perform in WW2. Afghanistan and Iraq are a walk in the park, they have better technology. "45 mistakes out of 140,000 missions" - That's more mistakes, while other aircraft are doing more missions.
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@BeKindToBirds "while changing your argument to "it's less precise than a single barrel"" - I didn't change the argument. You're sitting here praising the rotary cannon to high heaven. I simply stated that a single fixed barrel cannon is actually more precise. "incredibly accurate" - Again, accuracy alone does not matter for the purpose you're referring to. Accuracy is hitting what you intend to hit. Precision is each hit being group together with previous ones. A highly accurate platform can still be throwing rounds off target. Because accuracy is the group being centered on where you intend to hit. "get in and get dirty" - Which is an outdated form of doing CAS. Every day you people should pray to the Lord above thanking him that the insurgents never figured out that they should have tried to score a massive psychological win over the US by downing A-10s. "Why don't you run for congress" - But Congress is filled with senile, geriatric fools who don't know anything about what they talk about. Which is exactly why they love the A-10.
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@BeKindToBirds Exactly. No argument. Thanks for admitting it.
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@BeKindToBirds And by making your argument you mean getting things blatantly wrong? I bet you didn't look for a single article reporting on how Congress saved theA-10 for the billionth time.
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He's put the full weight behind the war. They're using S-300 anti-air missiles as ground attack missiles because they can't keep up with the expenditure of cruise and ballistic missiles. They're sending men to the front without armor or helmets.
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Because the elite has ways. In NYC they made it easier for the rich by driving the poor and criminals away into the suburbs. They also make donations to the police forces. The "aristocracy" will always be able to run away from crime.
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No.
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I mean cops went over to the 'burbs to pepper ball people standing on their own porch for "breaking curfew" while cities burned during the Summer of Floyd. They also had no issue shutting down businesses and arresting priests during the coof.
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Two batteries were decoys.
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You do understand that there's a difference between captured frames and interpolated frames, right? Your TV's motion smoothing feature creates frames which were never captured by the camera.
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Not true. They are Ukrainian fighters abd given Ukrainian documents.
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Well, aircraft were less of a focus on both the Soviet Union and Russia. So after squandering a lot of land forces supplies, they're now using the air assets because they're less dependable.
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Earl Lee True that. Except that if the Soviets realized that 5.56 was better than 7.62x39, and then actual studies confirmed that their new caliber outperformed 5.45, you can't exactly call it a stupid decision.
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Blatantly untrue. Many on the right started looking into masks as a means of self-protection when the government said they didn't work. Then the relevant government agencies, which allowed unchecked spread in the first place, pretended it could be contained and eliminated choice by issuing mandates. That is politics.
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 @ChristopherFodor >asks question >is given example as an answer >"well I don't care about that example"
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@keithmoore5306 If you open the gates to cause a flood you admit you did it. Blow up the dam, you claim the other side did it.
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@Ghostrider1970DD Why, because of my photo? No, that's just a surplus helmet I have for collection.
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The people. The militia exists by keeping citizens armed.
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There's no CAP. There's no Hellfires. There's no fog of war. They have what they have. The A-10 would get shot down used like you propose.
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What if a malfunction causes that signal to be broadcast during combat?
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@errorcode1133 A signal stored in memory is like saving GPS coordinates in a phone and then losing it. Apple won't be able to recover that.
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That territory had the rail hubs connecting to Severodonetsk. If Russia wasn't trying to defend the territory, they exposed themselves.
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Not really, it's just that Arizona state representatives have a stake in keeping it in service. The A-10s only did 20% of CAS from the early 2000s onward, only 11% of CAS since the mid-2010s. The F-16 was doing 33% of CAS.
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@elmohead why would they want apartments in a building that they know is crumbling?
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@elmohead But if they're getting bribed to certify it... something has to be up.
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@elmohead But again, if I'm being bribed to certify that apartment... I'm fearful that I will lose it when the building collapses.
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@elmohead Tell that to the people who died in the south Florida condo collapse. Engineers had warned that structural damage was imminent for years and nothing was done.
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All Tomcats were purposefully dismantled and the avionics destroyed to make sure no parts got sold to Iran. Even the museum pieces had stuff removed to prevent theft.
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@maximus3178 Are you out of your mind? They're going to receive Bradleys. Those babies wrecked the Iraqis in 1991.
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I mean if I published Australian government secrets and I was in a country that had an extradition treaty with Australia, they'd get their paws on me too.
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It was missing the front section. There were similar finds of AGM-88 HARM wreckages in Russia-occupied Ukraine.
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False. In dogfight training humans overstress aircraft sometimes. The human is fine, the aircraft is grounded until an inspection determines it's safe to fly. A human can pull hard enough on a stick to scrap an aircraft and not think twice about it. At most a human can black out, the metal bends and composite cracks.
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Drones absolutely can cover the distance. A prop motor and a high fuel fraction allows you to get insane ranges. Mind that a lot of aircraft ranges basically assume the furthest point you can go and still return to the origin point with enough fuel to cover a failed landed attempt and retry. Kamikaze drones aren't planning on ever coming back.
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the M203 has a 40mm HEDP round which has a HEAT front section and a grenade-shaped HE rear section.
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@mister_bush No idea. The body of the grenade seems bigger when it's rifle-launched, and the 40mm HEDP has to share explosive force between the fragmentation sleeve and the shaped charge so it should be weaker.
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 @GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket The existing aircraft belong in museums. Jesus they've been flying for too long.
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 @ometec If drones are inoperable, then the pilot won't be able to use the A-10 either. It relies on radio and electronics.
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@joshuabanner3675 The A-10 is crammed full of expensive avionics. You got it backwards. The A-10 airframe is ridiculously expensive because it's old and thus constantly requiring maintenance or else it beeaks apart mid air.
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@gonagona9943 Russia dominates the air but is too cowardly to fly over Ukraine?
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The Heat DVD stays on during sex.
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They forced the change in Maverick's jacket. They had the power over Hollywood before Biden.
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The Lockheed P-38 Lighting and the English Electric Lightning are the "first" lightning.
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Because we think it's funny.
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They captured a ton of equipment.
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Which ones?
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@Xiefux They had hundreds of thousands protesting these last few weeks. The issue is that people are "reasonable" and assume showing up and standing up will make a government back down.
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I'd hate to live there.
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It's the country bombing cities into rubble, putting people through "filtration camps", throwing people into mass graves.
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@FerroEquus-262 Not true. The Fukushima reactor, despite being outdated, survived the tsunami. Safety protocol required shutting off the pumps and they could not restart it. The failure wasn't the nuclear power, it was electrical.
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@playnochat it's a misconception that the tsunami damaged the core. The tsunami was easily survivable even with an inadequate sea wall. The problem was that all the equipment necessary to restart the pumps was in a flooded basement, and the pumps were shut down to obey safety protocol.
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Russia's army is now using donkeys for transport. Putin will sign whatever.
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Who is "they"? Where does the money come from?
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@lonelydriver6154 How do I get in contact with this "Google"? Are you an advertiser? Because otherwise you can't get a bank account or venmo or whatever to send money to. How does one get in contact with mods? I've contacted YouTube regarding my account. All you get are emails from a nameless, faceless person. You don't know who they are. They're probably not even the same person if you get emails in a later date.
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@09jadeen what a lie lol VDV, spetsnaz, naval infantry, etc all fought hard and died and you say they didn't fight at all Pro-Russia people are very disrespectful of their own soldiers
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"I came here to chew ass" - Dick Kickem
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I did a college project on the 1911 blueprints by converting them to 3D CAD blueprints, replicating all the individual cuts. It's an absolute goddamn bitch to machine. It speaks volumes about JMB's genius, to be honest.
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@Laotzu.Goldbug the caveat being that there's anything from rifle to pistol and even black powder bullets around the .5 inch mark. The reason why people talk about "6.5 and 6.8 mm bullets" is because of the selection of high performing rifle bullets.
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@PugilistCactus "5.57 isn't any good against the nations we will be fighting soon." - but why?
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@ostiariusalpha I still think this is a fool's errand. If you make individual armor plates irrelevant by creating a round that punches through them... are we to expect the enemy to keep wearing them in the interest of fairness or something?
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@ostiariusalpha "but if you can keep your enemy from using composite armor in the first place, you're already ahead of the game" - But that's the problem. The enemy simply being able to ditch their plates is actually beneficial to them because they'll either be able to carry more firepower for the same weight, or carry the same firepower with the added mobility. On the other hand, using a caliber that can be stopped by the enemy armor forces them to use their Gucci plates - which will punish their shoulders, backs and knees. "That keeps them vulnerable to all those M4 carbines you still have in inventory." - the problem is that American doctrine is too slow to change. It's gonna take what, 5-6 years for the generals to approve the reissuing of 5.56 weapons to infantry units? The enemy will not give a fuck and stop wearing the plates day one.
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@ostiariusalpha How is it a death sentence? If American projectiles go through the plate, you're in severe risk of getting killed whether you're wearing it or not. Not wearing it increases your chances of survival because you have better mobility, and all your comrades are also fighting with less fatigue on their bodies. I wouldn't wear it if I'm gonna get it in the chest. I'd rather get a shot straight through than have all the shards of plate sucked into my lungs by a smashed up bullet. "And reissuing is very rapid actually, we busted out the M14s in the arsenal in a matter of weeks" - mind that issuing "some" M14's is not the same as reversing the 5.56-to-6.8 process. The better analogy is how much time it took for the US to finally adopt armor that fits the GWOT, and replace the armor designed to keep you alive against 24/7 showering of Russian/Chinese artillery and close air support.
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@Dan-xt7sv The media only became pro-war recently, relatively speaking.
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It's just the shape of a part. If you bust a connecting rod you buy a new one and replace it. You don't weld them back together.
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@robertholbert3564 Seems like a bet he knew nobody would take. An unauthorized combat maneuver in regulated airspace would revoke the pilot licenses of the men/women involved. Do you think aircraft are like a Fast & Furious movie where anyone can challenge each other for a race and a geek changes the street lights to clear an avenue? Even planned stunts have resulted in crashes that killed the attendance at air shows. You think air combat is something that you can just do and not get in trouble with the law?
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@Hobypyrocom 14,000 people died on BOTH sides.
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@Hobypyrocom I've checked the data. Only 3,404 civilians died (most of them in 2014-2015). The 14k deaths includes almost 5,000 dead Ukrainian military and 6,000 separatist fighters. Stop lying.
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@Hobypyrocom I'm sorry, where did you find your data? Russian telegram channels? You want documents from others but won't provide yours. You made the claim first, the burden of proof is on you.
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Each mechanic will be trained in one type of tank and assigned to the units that use them.
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If you want to bang about "horrors" you have to be factual. If you have to lie about nuclear war to make it sound scary, you lose credibility.
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Taxes and higher import tariffs.
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@toneth353 There's limits to gun depression. Sometimes using the vehicle as a weapon is the only way. In Iraq they formed a defensive line with a large trench. The US gave the Iraqis ample chance to surrender then came in with armored bulldozers fitted with RPG cages and buried the enemy soldiers in the sand. It's not pretty, but trying to use guns and explosives to clear the trench would be just as violent and expose coalition troops to greater danger. So if the vehicle can be used to crush or bury an opponent who refuses to surrender, it will be.
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@toneth353 I watched the video and the interview. They spent the ammunition because there were more enemies in the area than expected. It's not sadism. Once over the trench, they cannot depress the gun. They only had one shot left and needed it in case they had to fire back at someone else. So tracks it is. I'd drop bomb on the wounded to score a hit on the two health soldiers carrying the stretcher. I don't care. If it were me having the country invaded, I have to continue to add numbers to my count, because the faster I get numbers the sooner they leave my land. Why should I show mercy and spare two fully combat capable soldiers? Next day they could kill my friends, or execute civilians like in Bucha. I'm dropping. The wounded guy doesn't deserve it? Life's unfair. Wear a cup. Bad timing. Should have stayed home.
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No, they aren't.
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The IMF has no means to actually validate Russia's numbers.
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No, Russia is fighting just Ukraine.
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The F-22 is being retired early because the program was shut down prematurely, making long term upgrades less viable.
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Same goes for Russian soldiers.
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Carlson lost his employer like a billion dollars. Gibson... well Norm Macdonald had a great joke about that.
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At one point all the Katyushas (Stalin's Organ) were American trucks - Studebakers.
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Most modern reciprocating charging handles are not in one-piece with the bolt. The robustness argument works with the AK where the charging handle is literally forged into the bolt body.
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@nathansongsnob7335 when you stick your hand in water does it feel dry? Why do things get wet? Because they have water. When you feel something is wet you're feeling the water.
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They can't be slimmer. The weapons payload and fuel is what makes the F-35 so good. Slimming it down makesit weaker and shorter range.
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@MARKSMAN108 ok coomer
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No. The S-125 is radar guided.
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Meh that clock is based on the fee fees of "scientists" with political biases.
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>the pleasures of the many So surviving an attack where the police takes 20 min to arrive is a pleasure? >I promise you will see a line of people in Walmart to spank the child lashing out in isle 3. Cause all it takes is a good whoopin for a kid to learn to fall in line. Do you know why the murder rate dropped in the last decades? Because the Baby Boomers got too old to be criminals. They got spanked a whole lot more than today's criminals. If rights are taken away they never return, BTW.
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The defensive line has been breached.
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Insert the XKCD comic where data overlaid on a map is just a population heatmap.
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The manual was purposefully written so that even a Century Arms alcoholic monkey can't mess it up. It's over 100 pages of detailed step-by-step instructions.
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Try to trade 100 rubles for a dollar. Nobody will honor that exchange rate. Rubles pretty much have to be spent in Russia, so anyone doing the exchange will demand around 200 per dollar.
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It's already been upgraded with modern avionics. Standoff weapons benefit from altitude and speed. The A-10 struggles to go over 15k feet and over 300 knots.
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 @uflux The 70 year old B-52s aren't flying. B-52s started getting retired in the 60s and 70s. B-52Gs were destroyed after the fall of the Soviet Union. Only B-52Hs remain.
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@uflux What heavy weapons load? A F-35 could deploy more payload because of safety. Meanwhile non stealth aircraft pitch up, fire two rocket pods and turn back to run away and fly home. That's dismal. An F-35 could drop JDAMs or SDBs.
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@AoiFlame02 my point is that you can't sue people for making true statements. Which was the question brought up on this thread.
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@thenetgamer2 "There is no known evidence to support Zoe's case that isn't hearsay" - and do you have any evidence that disproves them? That's the sort of shit you people need to worry about before going to court. She's got no evidence? Tough shit, you need to prove that she's guilty and she doesn't need to prove she's innocent. Without having a way to prove her guilty beyond reasonable doubt she'll simply cry on the stand about GamerGate meanies harassing her and the jury won't fucking side with you unless you have the smoking gun. Notice that we're the ones claiming we want a fair justice system, we can't be asking the courts to railroad people simply because "we all know she's a bitch" or "she obviously lied".
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@thenetgamer2 "I cannot change someone who isn't willing to think outside his box" - is this what you think the legal system should be? People trying to think outside the box to fuck over each other when the direct methods don't work? "Will there have to be an investigation? No shit, there will be" - what are the charges, then? "you're literally straw-manning;" - I am literally not. I am taking everything you say and explaining you why that doesn't work. A strawman is when you make someone else's point for them and easily defeat it. "I'm done" - because you know you're fucking wrong but you can't fucking admit it. You're spitballing, throwing the buttered toast at the wall and see if it sticks. You said we have to think outside the box... Please, realize how fucked up that is. That's exactly what people like Zoe Quinn do. Don't you realize that she knew she couldn't fuck with Alec directly or at least through the legal system, so she ruined him with an "outside the box" method. Holy shit mang if your disqualification for a conversation is bringing up an analogy of someone who allegedly committed suicide you're seriously lacking in brain power. Learn to juggle topics at the same time. Analogies. They exist. They work. Suck it up.
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@thenetgamer2 dude so far I'm the only person actually explaining how you can't charge people for MURDER willy-nilly. "You're points are irrelevant to me" - *your "might make sense to you with your logic" - and the logic of any prosecutor or judge "I see that an investigation is needed" - you keep repeating this but you can't even name the charges. What is the accusation? What is going to be investigated? You keep alluding to a pie in the sky but you can't even tell how that shit is gonna get baked let alone put up there. And that's the problem. I understand the anger. I understand the frustration. But slander and libel are extremely hard to prove in court, and someone killing themselves over non-libelous/non-slandering claims isn't a crime.
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@Zretgul_timerunner If that was replying to the comment I'm thinking off, all of those have more gun regulations than the US. Switzerland requires a license to own firearms and bans hollow point ammunition unless you hunt. Russia is extremely strict about handguns, and there's magazine restrictions - although many get around it because of sports shooting exemptions so enforcement is lax. Sweden, Norway, Finland all have European style gun regulations, just less restrictive than most. Serbia is kind of a free for all because who gives a shit about the law when there's actual war stockpiles on the black market? Malta only allows you to get the good stuff with a collector's license if I remember the Forgotten Weapons video correctly.
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@axigon6904 But they had time to babysit a camera crew. Like it or not, you could not leave them alone.
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@politicaltroll8920 make an exception for one, you make an exception for all
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@hahaimabitch1 You're free to buy a ticket and travel to conflict zones. But you can't go into these wards. Very different.
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@Roller_Ghoster we heard that one last year, didn't work
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@Plodding Dream science also offered massive mistakes, you seem to forget that
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@Roller_Ghoster You really love bringing up magnetism. Either way, I'm not scared of household chemicals - still won't drink them. Strawman argument.
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@Roller_Ghoster 95% effective at suppressing symptoms two weeks after the second shot. Meanwhile in the real world, effectiveness rates are dropping to the 50s and 40s based on age group and variant. Data from Israel suggests it's highly effective in people in their 70s and above, but it drops off with age. Also, it fades pretty quickly. Buddy they're gonna require a third shot down the line. If it was 90% effective it wouldn't need it.
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@axigon6904 If anything, the camera crew has less rights. The last people I'd want in an infectious disease ward would be media. But apparently the hospital board of directors is more concerned in media exposure than safety or who has the right to enter the wards.
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@Roller_Ghoster Okay. So why are people being barred from businesses or jobs for not wanting to get the prophylactic treatment?
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@Roller_Ghoster It doesn't make any sense. So a symptomatic vaccinated person can freely spread, but an unvaccinated who isn't even infected is barred from entry. Chances of being hospitalized are a personal choice. Why should someone be barred? Should someone who made the choice to not go under chemo also be barred from entering a business? It's not a vaccine considering it's only a symptom suppressor. Those who are vaccinated do not have a head start. They were not exposed to the virus. Neither the mRNA or adenovirus vaccines expose people to the virus. You don't even understand the technology being used. What about those who WERE exposed to the virus for real? Shouldn't they get a pass? How do you get herd immunity if it's still spreading an mutating?
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The "dangerous" Russian was a pussycat. All he did was wave money in front of Russian officers to steal weapons. He stole from Russia. It's hilarious.
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The guys at Deterrence Dispensed don't recommend it. PLA is fine, PLA+ is better. Zytel if you're feeling fancy.
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A Sukhoi pilot said he saw the A-50 going down "like a candle". Peskov admitted the crew is "missing".
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Well the duo, unlike Rittenhouse, stepped into vigilantism. Rittenhouse was trying to get away, and people though he was a criminal and had to stop him. Turned out that trying to stop him was a bad idea. The "vigilantes" in the city met a quick and final fate, the "vigilantes" in the suburbs go to prison.
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The main issue is temperature and weight. A bunker buster has an extremely heavy casing which hinders rocket performance. High speed missiles use thermal conductivity and ablation to deal with heat, not hardness.
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 @sanityshorror Russia invaded in 2014 making any vote null and void. From 2014-2022 many Ukrainians left the Eastern zones.
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Time is running out? Why?
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The F-4 Phantom did most kills by missile. Over 100 kills and only 12 by gun.
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@That_Montage_Nerd Yes it did, the F-4E variant introduced the 20mm cannon.
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@That_Montage_Nerd also "tango" isn't even used in aviation
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@That_Montage_Nerd "there were major complaints from pilots that used the early variants of the F-4 for its lack of cannon" - there's a channel here on youtube that has the Fighter Pilot Podcast. Go to the episode about the F-4 Phantom. The pilots said that although the gun could be useful, unfortunately the necessity to fit the gun forced the newer models to have a smaller radar and the extra weight negatively affected the handling of the plane. And in the end the kills achieved by the gun were a minority as roughly 90% of the kills were by missile.
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 @DelijeSerbia Russia is bringing T-55s to the fight. Dog. The US could give hundreds of Abrams if it was necessary, it would only take time to remove the uranium armor.
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The average shotgun spread is 1" per yard. Unless you're shooting at 16 yards you won't see that much of a "wide" shot radius.
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@clintonmorgan9068 No, it's because the US actually studied nuclear detonation survival by interviewing the Japanese who made it out alive from Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
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Why would it happen?
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They went full force in February and got kicked in the teeth.
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@xiaogangdasha I answered the question. And women can drive now in Saudi Arabia, right?
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It's cheaper to develop games for local hardware than building the infrastructure for streamed games as 100% of the market. It's just physics.
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@artruisjoew5473 "The shots are fired defensively, after the fight had broke out." - False. In the 36 second video you can hear a shot at 20 seconds in, one at 25 and another at 29. The shot fired at 20 seconds was fired BEFORE the fight broke out.
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@artruisjoew5473 "you can see the burglar run past the car then turn 90 degree to the left" - By this time a shot had already been fired. 20 seconds in. Then he turns left and the fight starts. "this is considered to be the initiation of the fight, the shot was heard after that." - Nope, that was the second shot. And the initiation of the fight was the chase by armed men in two vehicles attempting to perform an illegal arrest and thus making themselves the criminals in the situation.
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To be fair, in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict slow ass drones gave anti-air missiles hell.
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You don't understand what low status means.
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@joelmiddaugh8229 Low status is derived from projection of inferiority towards the self. It involves seeking offense in what is not offensive, obsession with proving that inferior groups are not inferior as a way to cope about their own inferiority, the need for an aggressive confrontation from outside elements to justify their views on the world, thirst for power as a way to compensate for their low personal power. Status is completely unrelated to class. So many in the upper classes today are absolute low status males who'd have gotten their ass handed to them in a primitive society.
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The genius killed his own army.
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Schizoid paranoia. Russia has troops on Alaska's doorstep too.
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It's not a MMO. Why do free2play games without persistent worlds still call themselves MMO?
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And?
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There's a receiver inside the receiver that recoils to the rear while the second round fires.
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The dummies would cost as much as the real thing. The propulsion and guidance is more expensive than explosives.
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@shawn6561 "Who are you going to replace the establishment with? People that do not have a clue what they are doing? The hell is that going to solve? Not a damn thing." - If the people in charge are too incompetent, they're less capable of going after you. Do you want an efficient and intelligent government in charge of oppressing you? No. I want politicians dumb and cops fat.
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If stores don't price gouge, profiteers will just purchase high volume at the regular price and then do the price gouge themselves. Plus the extra income to the store may help them get enough money to order more goods to restock at inflated prices. If they sell at regular prices they might not be able to compete with other stores due to lack of finances.
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@Rampant16 The airframes are okay because they were found to be defective from factory and had a strengthening fix applied to them a long time ago. The wings are what was going to break first so Boeing manufactured new ones for the A-10.
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 @pietrayday9915 12 pilots died in this nonsense, but sure it was all a ruse.
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@kanej7572 Mind that the government is made up of thousands of departments. Just because the govt people coming forward say it's not explained, doesn't mean there's no departments that have the solution but it's still classified. There's been a few UAP investigations declassified. It's really mundane stuff. But even when an unlicensed drone violates FAA guidelines and it gets reported as a UAP, the government doesn't automatically come out and say it. The conclusion is still classified by default.
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@UFOtalk98 What faulty cameras?
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@hydra70 Aight. Everything is heat. Even the water is heat. What's the angle here?
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Bob Lazar worked at a print shop.
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@tplyons5459 Damn everyone seems to have worked with Bob in Los Alamos but nobody is willing to corroborate his stories.
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You ate radioactive isotopes in your corn flakes due to the amount of atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons that went on during the Cold War. Not Fukushima. You got a greater dose from the potassium in the banana, though.
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They'll see each other through other means such as early warning radar and AWACS. And they wouldn't have a dogfight, first one to shoot the missile would have a 99% chance of kill.
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Nope, they have the free world backing them. We defeated the Soviet Union, we'll break the neo-Soviets too.
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"We don't have guns and we barely have gun violence" - And do you think that if we air dropped crates of guns on the street people would go insane and start killing each other? It's not the guns. Also, most European gun owners don't talk about it. There's more than you think but because owning a gun is weird they tend to not tell others they don't trust.
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Okay but half of it is lies and the other half misrepresentation.
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@raaid85 No, truth is universal. And Dave Smith is lying. The Minsk accords were broken when Russia told their minions, their slaves, to attack Ukrainian forces in Debaltseve the day after they were signed. Russia sees accords as weakness, you never obey your enemy. So they ordered the attack when Ukraine had its guard down.
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@gabbisss They didn't retreat immediately. They tried to hold onto every town to stabilize the line. We have both the visual confirmation of reinforcements, the videos taken from the Russian side of battles for towns, and the videos of cheering Russians speeding in the back of trucks after surviving a battle. There was a ton of fighting.
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An amazing man wouldn't have been caught trying to seduce minors online TWICE.
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A helicopter would beat this any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
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The issue is that cutting edge goes a long way. Between a drone and a 5th gen aircraft flying overhead, I'd rather than the 5th gen just slapping my enemy back to the stone age.
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@calegrenillo-weaver4574 do you spend all your paycheck and save absolutely nothing every month? No? Congratulations, you believe in one consrervative policy.
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Then make guns out of the scrap.
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@chubascov. those are what are commonly called "transferable" machine guns. No more can be added to the registry save for very exceptional circumstances. New machine guns can be made but they are known as "dealer samples" and they're non-transferable. A dealer can only sell it to another dealer or government agency.
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The people in the areas recovered by Ukraine cheer the Ukrainians as liberators. And the place is full of mass graves and torture cells.
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I mean, I saw a year and a half of Gaza sympathy bait pieces and dehumanization of Jews/Israelis. It's kind of fair.
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@Siempre1978 Meanwhile, your personal hero Alexei Milchakov was seen in a video.
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Of course. But unfortunately for Russia, enough of Ukraine has been destroyed that at this point they're a broken country either way. Might as well bleed Russia like a stuck pig. What happens when Putin's best stop getting paid a decent salary as a result if this nonsense, and the fathers and mothers of the secondary army realize what he did?
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@johnnyfiveo Doesn't matter. Even with no live rounds on set, blanks are "live" enough to hurt actors and if they catch a speck of burning powder in their eye the production halts while they recover. So there is a requirement to purposefully aim blanks away from other actors. Ever seen the briefcase scene in Collateral? The robbers were added digitally. Tom Cruise filmed the scene alone with a green screen in that alley. No live rounds on set, they still wouldn't risk that injury.
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@emdee_lucky Not really.
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Yet Norm was pissing himself crying whenever Destiny made a good point.
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Except that the loss of Kharkiv will reduce them to 2014 borders at the very least in the Donbas, and they may lose Crimea. If not, at least the water access. So Russia threw it all away for nothing.
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S-300 and Buk goes WOOOSHHH
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@Nordska There's no point in introducing a law when you have to deal with murderers, thieves and scammers. Go ask that Ponzi scheme manager at the head of the DPR why he can't be trusted.
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@annarock8966 Exactly, no argument.
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An exchange would handle the withdrawl.
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There could be explosives daisy-chained or the ambush location pre-sighted for mortar fire.
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 @PikkuKani brother read the thread, there was ONE person cracking Denuvo and they quit. So it did stop pirates because pirates in general can't crack the protection.
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Use before:[year] in your search terms. Like "black ops before:2013" and you'll get Blops content up to 2012.
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If you have to compare things you don't like to child sexual abuse, you know your opinion is garbage.
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@kcottone I can't believe I have to explain this, but children do not get killed in movies.
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Fuck taxes.
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Because everyone knew who benefited. NS2 was blocked by Germany's suspension of approval, and Russia was blocking NS1 which was going to incur fines for refusing to deliver on a contract. Germany could suspend NS2 without breaching the contract while Russia could not. So they destroyed NS1 and damaged NS2, then said they'd offer to repair NS2 free of charge in return for sanctions relief. Who benefits? When a fire happens in a business that is losing money and the insurance payout is large, who is the first suspect?
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Just tap the screen to jump ahead holy crap
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Now imagine you told your friend to bet his life savings on a meme coin and you promised to back him if he lost. Ukraine was told they'd be secure if they gave up their nukes. You took your friend's rent money by pressuring him.
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@scratchy996 But ammo is expended in the US. The M855A1 EPR was developed to be lead free precisely so that they could use ranges in the US without having to shut them down due to pollution.
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A secret project designed to mass murder civilians had a dark aftermath? Shocked, I am.
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Cope. Russian artillery is wasted on empty fields, and Russians in Bakhmut are begging for shells. HIMARS destroyed their ammo.
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It's not a restriction. I want Jim Carrey to say all the stupid shit he wants so that I have an even greater excuse to not go and see his movies. And complaining is also protected by the first amendment.
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Making proper AKs requires a massive investment that would take decades to pay off, and force them to sell at a higher price point than most are willing to pay.
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@RunawayYe To be fair, it's not about raising prices - it's about letting prices go back to normal. By subsidizing water you promote waste of water that others need. It's not different from food. If you have a banana shortage due to actual issues with the agriculture such as drought or destructive storms, you'll most likely have an apple and orange shortage too. The point is, you don't want the markets near the farms to have cheap fruit while the places that can't farm as much food get nothing. Food is transported differently so the analogy is hard to apply, but if everyone is aware that water consumption has a cost, they will use less instead of wasting it locally and not letting it flow into the places suffering from lack of water.
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@RunawayYe This is the humane point of view. The state is trying to go against reality and forcing people into a worse situation.
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Since when does Russia do more modern and better? They are decades behind.
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Billions of USD worth of Rubles. Crimea was a net drain on Russia's economy due to how hard it was to maintain.
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@ivanfreely6366 The UK is cutting infantry numbers as well. Doesn't mean much. Either way, they had a 138 "commitment" and have a 48 aircraft order. They'll still probably increase the Lighting II fleet size to load two carriers with them. I expect another order to be placed in the future.
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@danielsmokesmids Well, they certainly had the right to take away people's livelihoods. Gun to the head, would you rather they take jobs away or the ability to get your dick wet for a couple months? Hey, maybe we've all been doing our jobs wrong, but I don't tongue kiss customers at work. Why should working people be punished while apps promote contagion?
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@andreamitchell4758 "did nazi that coming"
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@wind_runner6836 Typically when cutting something and the friction heats up the material or blade, there's coolants splashed on the blade.
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You're not taking one or two well aimed shots. You'll send several shots at an obscured target. Maybe you move. Someone on the other side gets up and runs. You shoot. Miss. Adjust. Shoot. Miss. Adjust. Shoot. Hit. Guy falls down. You plug him three more times to make sure you didn't just hit the plate. Then you move. Another multiple shots at an obscured target. Repeat. Fast follow ups are imporant.
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@williamalexander9485 In Kharkiv Russians were surrounded several times and tried to fight to the very end.
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Germany invested in silly projects while the US had proximity fuzes, drones, a working nuclear project, etc. The US had the most advanced weaponry.
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They don't. They got a few weeks of training, if that, and got clipped before even meeting an Ukrainian. They never got to know anyone on the opposite side.
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"Russophobia"? Why would I be afraid of a Moskal? sigma male grindset song plays
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America doesn't have the ethnic issue. White Americans are British, German, Irish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Danish, Norwegian, even Russian and Ukrainian, etc etc etc so there is no need to fight a war to preserve an ethnic group. The US is also a natural fortress with Alaska and Mexico being natural chokepoints, the flyover states being a safe haven even if an enemy force could occupy the East and West coast.
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Copium overdose.
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That number was never confirmed, it was based on rubbish studies.
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lol no
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It wasn't a glitch. The raid was practiced in a compound with fences to simulate the walls, so the rotor wash passed through the links. In the real raid the solid wall caused the rotor wash to get sucked back and create a vortex ring. The pilots were aware of the issue and pointed it out but it was decided to do it anyway.
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Turbocharging does put physical horsepower into the engine, though. This is more like knocking you out for 5 minutes and putting the car on self-driving mode so that the manufacturer can tell you they cut your commute by 5 minutes.
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Most gun homicide is committed with handguns, not rifles.
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"state sponsor of terror" - you do realize that most of the terror groups Iran supports are also supported by the US, right? Only Hamas and Hezbollah go against US interests. Either way, the US sponsors more terror than Iran could ever have. Nicaraguan Contras, Kosovo Liberation Army, Mujahedin-e-Khalq, al-Nusra front, ISIL and Al-Qaeda have been supported and/or funded by the US.
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@BrianMcKinny "we should just pull out of the region and let Iran push everyone around under threat of violence" - the US is pushing everyone around under the threat of violence. So is Israel. "let's allow them to become a nuclear power!" - who allowed the US to become a nuclear power? Who allowed Israel to become a nuclear power? That is never questioned... Also, if Israel and Iran both have nuclear capabilities they enter MAD. Mutually Assured Destruction was what prevented the USSR and the USA from fighting each other directly. Logically if only Iran had nukes they'd have a strike advantage... and if only Israel has nukes then it means they enjoy a strike advantage as they can leverage their nuclear threat to strike with impunity. Look it up, it's on the leaked Clinton emails. The reason the US government doesn't want a nuclear Iran is solely because MAD would enforce peace and not allow Israel to make strikes at will against Lebanon or Syria. "After all, they've only fired upon or bombed and destroyed four of our ally's oil tankers in the last month" - The US KILLED 290 INNOCENT CIVILIANS in the shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655. "a $158 million dollar drone of ours while it was flying and operating in international airspace" - if Iran was flying a drone just a few miles off American airspace what do you think American defenses would do? "Just imagine what a bunch of psychotic Shiite Muslim Mullahs would do with nuclear-tipped inter-continental ballistic missiles, in a region where they're surrounded by Sunni-led countries of Iraq" - you do realize Iraq is controlled by two Shia factions, one of which is allied with Iran, right? At this point you're exposing how unaware you are, Iraq has a slight Shia majority and they voted for two Shia parties. Shia groups trained in Iran were one of the forces responsible for driving ISIS out of Iraq and are now acting as the militia inside Iraq. "Do you honestly think that if Iran had even a SINGLE nuclear weapon that they wouldn't use it - IMMEDIATELY?" - why would they? If you actually try to explain that you'll see how silly that proposition is. "And most likely, against Israel. Then, where would that lead us? Hmm?? Perhaps, it might lead us to... Dare I say it? WAR WITH IRAN???" - but why? You're treating an attack on Israel resulting in the US being pulled into war as an axiom. But not really, the US can simply stay out. You're trying to defend American imperialism by implying that if America isn't imperial it will have to become imperial. That doesn't make any sense. "while you're still looking back at the past, trying to blame America" - dude, what? So the US isn't at fault no matter what they do, but everything Iran will be held against them. Okay. "Iran will have no compunction whatsoever with launching Armageddon the first chance they get." - 1. Why? 2. If they will launch Armageddon the first chance they get, why haven't they launched a full scale invasion of Israel to trigger the Samson option? Israel will disperse nukes all over the Arab world is threatened as part of their nuclear deterrence. If Iran is more interested in suicidal nuclear warfare than survival, they could just trigger it RIGHT NOW with a conventional attack on Israel. "Because, like it or not, a belligerent nuclear-armed Iran IS YOUR problem, just like they're mine, and everyone else's problem in the Western world." - why? I'm not kidding, I want detailed explanations of your BS because you're throwing statements out there and expecting me to believe without evidence. "And wouldn't it be nice if our supposed allies in Europe, particularly France and Germany would recognize our sanctions against Iran and stop doing business with the mullahs that props up their murderous regime? The duplicitous nature of their continued business dealings with Iran undermines our position, and only prolongs the pain of the current situation we currently are enduring." - "murderous regimes" I'm gonna remind you of the civilian casualties in Iraq over a was based on LIES by the neocon warmongers. I'm going to remind you of the Bush, Obama and even Trump air strikes which killed countless civilians. Second, European nations have the right to their sovereignty. If you want to tell Europeans what to do then fucking invade and gain control of the population. If you're not willing to do that then shut up and let nations do what they think is best. "If France and Germany would stop the flow of money to Iran, we could bring Iran to the negotiating table much quicker." - and if the US hadn't put the Shah in power this wouldn't be a worry right now. But yeah, let's blame France and Germany for a problem the US created.
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That's not necessarily true. Modern testing requires defeating the autoglass barrier and the two sheet steel panel barrier.
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@HaloDude557 Someone doesn't cease to be a threat just because you might have to shoot through your own window to prevent a carjacking.
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@HaloDude557 You have no duty to retreat if the retreat would cause you injury. If you can get shot while driving away, you do not have a duty to drive away. Also, this is not my problem because one should simply not live in duty to retreat states. You try and explain to my family that I had to die because the law says the window is a magical forcefield.
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@HaloDude557 Absolutely irrelevant. If turning your back to the aggressor creates a situation where you can get shot in the back, there's no duty to retreat. Again, assuming there's duty to retreat. Some states allow the victim to stand their ground. It's justifiable. Is there a legitimate threat? That's all it takes. Unless there's political pressure to charge you, the case is closed right there.
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@HaloDude557 No, your comments are irrelevant. You're understanding the process backwards. It's the state that has to prove you committed a crime. If you shoot someone who was a threat to your life on a state that doesn't have duty to retreat, what crime have you committed? Start from there. If you're going by "need", you're trying to engage in a process where people are guilty until proven innocent. If we're going by "need", most times you don't "need" to resist against an assailant. Imagine if you had to prove that an armed assailant attacking you was a threat... Imagine if the state could say that a gun to your head doesn't prove you were going to die. How can I make it more clear to you that if we go by your logic, most self-defense would be deemed illegal? You're doing the same thing as anti-gunners. Why do you need a gun? That's the backwards way of looking at it. It's not you who has to justify why you "need" a gun. You have a legal right to own them. Start from there. Otherwise it would be like in some countries, where to prove that you're in danger of being assassinated to justify getting a carry license, you need to have an attempt on your life first. Obviously this doesn't help if you die on the first try. Driving away, unless you have a bullet-resistant headrest, can end up with a bullet in the base of your skull. You don't know what "circumstantial" is so don't use five dollar words to wow me. "Fear of bodily injury or dead needs to be reasonable and justified" - Typically an assailant with a weapon does that for you already. "Being scared someone might shoot you in the back at 200 yards" - Not even a Tesla can launch that fast, and I don't have a Tesla. You really gonna argue a car can do 200 yards from a standstill in the quarter second it takes to pull a trigger? "through a vehicle body moving 60+ mph" - Your car does 0-60 in a quarter second? You could get in contact with the Guinness World Records.
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@HaloDude557 Even George Zimmerman wasn't meant to go to court. He only got the murder charge due to public pressure. For you to go to court, the DA needs to think he has a case. If it's clear cut self-defense, the DA isn't going to waste his time. He wants convictions. And if you read your comment, it does make it seem you're saying even a cop has to prove his innocence in court. No, he doesn't. If there's a sketchy OIS, or you've been involved in an unusual amount of OIS, there will be an internal investigation but that's it. Most officers don't go to court over a shooting.
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@Joan-xy5wm There was an interview, and people who I trust with translating said the crew member being interviewed was talking about how they suffered a concussion from the hit and received a new tank to keep going. I wouldn't want to be inside a tank while recovering from a concussion...
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@KyleReeseCel2029 Everything is classified as weapon lol the London Metro police had a FAQ on their website saying the only self defense weapon you can carry is a grape whistle. Monkey's paw? Clearly intended to be a weapon. Tactical pen? Clearly intended to be a weapon. Stabby cat ear keychains? Clearly a disguised brass knuckle.
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If it's free why am I still paying for it out of my paycheck?
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@johnwallace5284 Then why did Azerbaijan attack Armenia despite the Russian peacekeepers, why did Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan start shooting each other across the border, and why did Kazakhstan move closer to China? Everyone tasted the blood on the water.
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Crack open a book, there were reasons why they did that.
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It's not very important because ATACMS will be replaced by PrSM.
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It's IR imaging. That stuff is meant to spot tanks from 20 miles away. A tank can look like sh*t and you still know it's a tank. You put a laser spot on it and drop the payload to make it stop existing.
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The roof of the turret has thin armor. The thick armor is on the front.
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Did you watch the video? More than 300 million per plane.
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Yeah but the aerosolized water droplets will simply follow the air around the mask. The mask arrests sneezing and coughing, and if you're sick you shouldn't be in public anyway. If you're concerned about people breathing out without symptoms, the mask isn't doing anything.
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The F-15 always had high performance. The A-10 is woefully outdated.
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That's not true. The community voted for STRETCH GOALS. Which Roberts promised wouldn't compromise the release date and that could be added after release. Also, it was only 8% of the community that voted. Around 21 thousand votes when the community was over 250 thousand backers.
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Because it sounds like an embellishment of the real story. Nobody cares about Joji growing out of Filthy Frank. The problem is, he's now trying to retroactively change when he's started his change. Almost as if trying to salvage the unsalvageable.
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Thanks for the FUD, Ivan.
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Anyone who doesn't support a racist, classist measure to prevent the underpriviledged from owning guns.
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@gregorybrew427 after slaves were freed the first gun control laws were passed to prevent free black men from owning guns. A licensing system requires one to pay fees, pass tests, take days off work, etc. This means guns in the hands of the rich people, and not in the hands of the working people.
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"The favela doesn't produce guns" - and yet half of the guns confiscated by Brazilian police seem to have been made in garage shops.
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Because you can't just take a performance metric and decide it's the main area of focus. Modern armor uses a ceramic strike face that acts as a sacrificial layer by being hard enough to deform a bullet and the cracking of the ceramic itself absorbing large portion of the energy. Then the backing face captures the fragments.
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@aaronbest747 Because the carbon fiber is better at stiffness, while Kevlar is better at deforming to absorb impact.
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@aaronbest747 Most rifle rated plates are not steel. Most steel plate manufacturers don't bother with NIJ rating. They're rifle target companies who rebranded as armor companies to make money. Steel plates are sadly a scam. Carbon fiber not being flexible isn't a pro. The bullet and ceramic fragments would punch holes in the carbon fiber. The CF plate would remain stiff, but we don't mind the plate being forced to deform. NIJ rated plates do not allow internal bleeding or broken bones. They are tested on clay to measure backface deformation.
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@aaronbest747 No, you do your research. M193 rounds can punch through AR500 steel. They don't get NIJ rating. They just sell target plates as armor.
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@aaronbest747 There's no AR500 steel plate with NIJ level 3 rating, to my knowledge. AR500 companies don't bother getting NIJ ratings.
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@aaronbest747 How have I been proven wrong? There's lists of NIJ rated plates. You cannot find an AR500 NIJ rated plate.
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PragerU has been the laughing stock of the left for years. Now it has become a joke in the eyes of the right. Good job.
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Thanks ChatGPT
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@vargasrafael15 okay, but she got more votes after campaigning in a system that is all about the electoral college. If the election was based on popular vote alone across all states both Trump and Hillary would have used different strategies meaning that there's no way to know if Hillary would have won in such a system.
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@vargasrafael15 if he's saying NOW then I'd believe it because a lot of shit has happened since 2016. Maybe before the Kavanaugh allegations though, I don't even know if that pushed people back onto the left due to outrage at conservatives or if it exposed the left's tactics even more.
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Elon has DoD contracts, come on...
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These rocket tails are missing the tip - they're tail sections from a cluster warhead that separated in flight.
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@metaleuman There's footage of the tails sticking in the ground - /watch?v=CtgTM5kmPsY example footage of tail sections piledriving into the ground
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@zrexx4832 "No country uses a fully private system" - the US isn't fully private. The US govt simply offloads most of the costs of medicare to the private sector through legal mandate, and the private sector offloads it to the customer.
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Russia just had drone strikes on refineries and a port, they're having a field day putting out fires.
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Russia did it. Why would the US blow up.a pipeline the Russians were shutting off?
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They'll switch sides in the US too. During the Obama years they backed the Tea Party and libertarians. After Trump they started bringing in people like Wolff, economist who says China is successful because of socialism, and Stone, the filmmaker who was friends with Hugo Chavez.
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He's an instructor. Plus rent must be quite low in a war zone.
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That's just trying to get a good metric out of two bad ones.
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+Home Wall and without guns too. Kinda makes the people the common denominator.
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Russian sources are constantly reporting on sightings of troop concentrations in Zaporizhzhia. Igor Girkin ("Strelkov") has been warning for a long time that Ukraine could attack Melitopol.
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It would be fucking hilarious to be pushing for doctors to get paid less, you'd get a million blue checkmarks on twitter crying about they're in the frontlines fighting against the virus.
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Not really on the same category. The ATAMCS turns a rocket artillery system into a short range ballistic system. It's like if you had a vehicle that could be a Grad or a Tochka-U. Storm Shadow requires air launch so you need your multirole fighters to do the job. Keeping a large air force during peacetime is expensive, HIMARS don't leave the ground so you don't have that worry of a 60 million dollar jet crashing in a city.
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China had rolling lockdowns on a city by city basis. From the outside it looks like they're business as usual but they stagger which parts of the country have ground to a halt, instead of stopping the entire country at once.
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@collintaylor5702 It is. To say you have a claim on my earnings, is to say you have a claim on my labor. To say you have a claim on my labor, is to say I am your slave. We're working a percentage of our days for money we will never see, days we cannot get back.
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@patriciahoke4722 What conspiracy theory? What kidney and liver damage?
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@YellowKing1986 "US military would recognize a drone with no problem" - except the ones they don't want you to know about.
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@johnedward8352 do you think all pilots are given flash cards to recognize projects they're not even supposed to know about?
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@johnedward8352 last year either Sikorsky or Pratt & Whitney forgot to put one of their RCS measuring models in the hangar and accidentally exposed a hypersonic aircraft project on Google Earth despite of the fact that these people know when satellites pass overhead. Sometimes you can't keep things hidden, other times you allow just a little to be uncovered.
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@YellowKing1986 "They don’t want you to know about it? So why did they just told you about it?" - they didn't say shit. If they were to open up they'd just release the model number, top speed, max altitude, etc. All they said is that they're unidentified. AKA they know exactly what it is but won't identify them.
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They already said they don't want them.
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That's a Strawman argument. And FOR THE LOVE OF JEBUS H. SOMETHING, ASSAULT RIFLES ARE HEAVILY RESTRICTED BY THE ATF. For the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, nobody carries AR15s around. And by the way, there is no released proof that the AR15 the shooter stole was used.
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How were we lied about stealth?
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@briantaylor8197 Who said what? I don't think the average person understands radar physics so it's perfectly reasonable that someone trying to translate it for the general audience messed up. For the purpose, the F-117 was invisible to radar as Iraqi forces could not tell what was dropping bombs on them and fired into the air with manual AA out of desperation. If you use the F-117 correctly, it's "invisible". If you allow defenses to deploy trial and error tactics until they get inside engagement range, yeah you're doing it wrong. It's also important to consider that the radar failed to lock twice, and the first missile fired lost the lock and missed the F-117. And the pilot wasn't aware he was being fired on nor did the aircraft have counter-measures. That's how good the technology was, the missile stopped seeing an aircraft that was just cruising around. After the mission planners got humbled, tactics were changed and the F-117 resumed dropping bombs on Serbia. Guess it became "invisible" again.
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By that logic, you use aircraft that are less likely to get hit. Simple as.
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@Icspiders247 Why? Fast fliers do CAS all the time.
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No. The point is that there's two salesmen. Your sale is locked to one salesman. Then when you check out the other salesman asks if you would like for him to see if there's discounts. When you say yes he uses the discount code to override the first salesman. So the guy who deserved the comission gets shafted. There was no double discount anywhere. One guy was just sitting near the checkout with the intent to scalp the comission by talking to you about discounts. The problem here is that the honest salesman can't give you discounts. And often the cheating salesman can't give discounts either, he'll just ask you if you want to check so that he can sign into the system and ring your purchase as his sale. Without you noticing.
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 @jehandesains8674 Without mines you don't stand still for others to shoot at you. Kharkiv showed what happens when 15 tanks show up to the frontlines and punch a hole.
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The minefields weren't too OP. The minefields were 5x the length any breaching doctrine or mine clearing equipment was made to handle.
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@jehandesains8674 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive.
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What do bribes have to do with anything?
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Cospaia.
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It's a calling card.
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Would you trust the concrete that got shocked by a blast but "appears" undamaged? Don't drive a 60 ton main battle tank over that span. But hey, you can trust the Russian government instead.
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They started with the B because the CALF project was always intended to be a USMC aircraft that would then be modified for Air Force use and the USAF would buy it as a way to cut development costs down. The Navy was the last branch to join the project.
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>corporation commits everything from fraud to homicide through negligence >"we need another law to prevent them from committing these crimes!"
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Buddy there was an Islamic caliphate where I live today. If we're gonna settle grudges by turning back the clock far enough, then I could justify European armies invading the Middle East and North Africa and then force the locals to convert to Christianity or require them to pay a tax to practice Islamic faith. Because they did that to us.
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@elestromusicgamesfun1101 Russia already gave up areas around its borders. Nevertheless, a negotiation isn't a must. Ukrainians can keep destroying the Russian army inside their own borders, if they don't want to leave they can stay there and get shelled/starved.
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Cope.
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Does the F-16 do too much? Does the Rafale do too much? Frequent sorties? Buddy Russia has crashed like 3 jets in the past week. Our enemies cannot beat our maintenance. It's their airplanes which are held together by spit and duct tape.
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@mephInc arguing about generations is a boomer thing.
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How does money laundering work, smart guy?
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@TranscenGopher That's not how discussions work. Either prove your point or forfeit.
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@TranscenGopher So you just make up BS. Thanks for admitting it.
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@TranscenGopher Do you wake up and just think of the Big Guy? Is he living in your head rent-free?
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@TranscenGopher The ones where you can't explain how the supposed money laundering is happening?
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@TranscenGopher You didn't attempt anything. You're just here to deliver talking points like a script prompt.
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@TranscenGopher Thanks for admitting it. Hope the weather is nice in St. Petersburg.
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Lightweight AR-10 simply makes more sense.
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@JohnRodriguesPhotographer The F-4 Phantom scored 90% of its kills with missiles. You were sold a narrative.
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@rrp54q95 Being fast requires a lot of sacrifices. Dedicated interceptors went the way of the dodo when nuclear bombers were replaced by ICBMs.
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The Lancet is a drone that is used against individual vehicles or clusters of troops. Not strategic.
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@markscouler2534 Something doesn't need to be weaponized to be nasty. Inagine that - all the diseases we want to find cures for and keep secured inside facilities are things you don't want to get.
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@Zuluknob If the coof was a bioweapon, it was terrible. I had it twice and survived.
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@Zuluknob I'm sure the numbers weren't fudged. Impressive how the government can't be trusted, but you will use their numbers when it benefits you. Also, you're already walking back your initial argument. That's all I needed.
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@Zuluknob Oh, so it's back to being a weapon. Changing the argument again... If the effectiveness of a weapon was entirely based on governmental-self sabotage, it's not a weapon. It's just a feint. The economic damage hit all sides, meaning the effectiveness can't even be relied on. Even taking this argument at face value, it's a terrible weapon and not worth the effort put into it, considering there's just natural diseases that could have done the same.
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@Zuluknob I can't because youtube is deleting your comments. But you said that it was not ready, it was a leak of a disease that wasn't final.
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Money is simply a token of exchange. If money is the wrong thing, so is everything it represents.
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Literally how?
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But that's the problem. The gaming industry knows that to make more money you simply nickle and dime your customer rather than making good products. Look at gaming companies driving their franchises into the ground. Who cares if the game sucks and sells less if you can manipulate the consumer to pay more?
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It's still a testbed. If it does work another one will be built for power. The current fusion tests last 10-12 seconds. The next one should work for hours I think.
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So you were getting almost 32 dollars per hour, inflation adjusted. Everyone forgets Gen X but in many ways they're worse than boomers. It's magic how Gen Xers evaded criticism.
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That's not even true. It wasn't a CIA official, it April Glaspie - the ambassador in Iraq. You're kicking off this story with a lie, bringing up the CIA to increase the shadiness of the tale. But there was no cloak and dagger, it was the ambassador. It's all in the clear. You can't "assume" things. Putin assumed the Ukrainian army would stand down. Look at what happened. Dictators always going around assuming things. Conveniently always in their favor.
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Steel expands less than brass. You're not helping it "expand correctly", you're reducing the friction you get from the extra fouling that settles in the chamber walls due to the steel case. However, you do want some friction between case and chamber wall. At the moment of firing, brass will press against the chamber walls which reduces load on the bolt lugs. Is the bolt rifle compromised a great deal? Probably not. But I wouldn't do this for 5 minutes. A quality rifle should not have trouble extracting steel. The issue is being tuned for hotter brass ammo, thus making it undergassed.
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@Buran01 "close combat always happens" - not when one side can wipe out an air force without being detected.
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@antonioklaic4839 post evidence of Russian bribery and hacking.
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@antonioklaic4839 Hillary is not the election. Also serves her right. Slandering Biden? You saw the photos of his son with the crack pipe in mouth? It was not slander, it was all true. You can post? But you don't. You claim Russians hacked the election results and then refuse to prove it. You claim Trump gets paid and then refuse to prove it. You just lie and hope nobody notices it.
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Which officials? Names.
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That's a very original and independed thought, you definitely didn't learn that talking point from CNN.
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@ivanivkovic573 All of them. As it turns out, the US fights a lot of countries that buy Russian garbage.
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Flint was not caused by improper treatment but the pipes themselves. Anyway, this was addressed in the video. It's such an edge case you KNOW the name of Flint.
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More like, separatists used civilians as human shields and the response to separatist shelling wounded and killed civilians. Ukraine wasn't selling the regions for fun, they were fighting a war against an insurgent style enemy that uses cities as firing positions. If you look at videos armed men are knocking on doors and elderly people are being told how to vote. Clearly, people need to be "persuaded" to join the side that's putting them in danger.
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The Germans loved the "honorary Aryans" because of their shared hatred for the same ethnic group. And all you people saying Poland is based... the Polish were the only foreigners Germany didn't accept in their foreign volunteer units. They hated the Polish.
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"Instead the engineers at Nasa" - no, tradesmen employed by private sector entities contracted to make parts.
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@nathandrake5544 If you have to ask, it's because that's clearly not what I said.
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RT was losing contracts due to poor viewership. Most cable/satellite simply dropped them ahead of time because they were going to drop them anyway.
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Thugs don't follow gun laws. Most of them buy from other criminals or ask a relative/friend to buy them one.
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@moosesnWoop The reservists exist to become the real army. They should have real army gear.
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 @marin_real_estate_photography It would be, if Saab's marketing wasn't writing checks that their designers and manufacturers can't cash. There's too few Gripens to spare.
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 @zhop951 Well they're certainly not doing it.
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Did you forget what happened last time?
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"When we were on the ground in Iraq hearing an A-10 overhead was a wonderful feeling" - Exactly. It's not about facts and logic. It's about feelings. The A-10 should have been retired in the 90s, no matter how many got their feelings hurt.
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@rooh5825 Exactly, no argument.
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Probably negative money. He has to buy equipment to sustain himself and his team mates.
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@deltaphaseplutonium-ho8nh take your meds
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There's no soft way of saying retrograde. There's a hard way of saying ninja.
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This is 300 year old beef Russia has against Ukraine. The US didn't even exist.
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A week ago I spent what probably totaled to a few hours trying to convince internet know-it-alls that just because they know a guy whose brother-in-law works in a machine shop, that doesn't mean that they actually understand how difficult reverse engineering a production cycle actually is. So because we couldn't be arsed to spend billions trying to figure out a modern manufacturing process for the Rocketdyne F1 that automatically means we never actually managed to get them to work. Flat Earthers and moon hoaxers win in their minds again.
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How is it a strong supply line if they need to reduce it?
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@ranjunk But they don't. That's why the Russian military is unable to advance in Kherson. In fact it's retreating. And I repeaty question - if the supply lines are strained and people being removed, how is it strong?
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What will the pro Russian people say when they watch the widely available videos of Ukrainians celebrating next to Russisn corpses? The Russians look like bums, the Ukrainians happy.
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@TheUtuber999 It's not meant to go to court, it's meant to make the doctor refuse to sign.
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@apostle100 Seethe.
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@apostle100 Global trade as it exists right now is essentially enforced by the US and allies. If there's a threat to US naval power, whoever wields that threat becomes the de facto ruler of the seas. You don't understand... if US ships are sitting ducks, things don't need to go kinetic. The only option is to submit rather than get the Navy wiped out in a foolish last stand. An 8 year old would understand that a large bully in the playground can beat him up, so it's best to not start a fight.
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@apostle100 So for nukes to offer deterrence they need to be used? A weapon can deter an enemy without being used, by virtue of nations not being totally suicidal. If Russia or China have global sea domination, all the US can do is take a bow and leave the podium. Not fight and lose all its Navy in a pointless last stand. Stealth aircraft have offered a major deterrent to hostile nations because they know that US air power can cripple them. They never had to be used for strikes against China or Russia. "Russia and China do not need to control global trade for US ships to be vulnerable to hypersonic weapons" - Talk about missing the point. US ships being vulnerable to hypersonic weapons automatically awards Russia or China the control of global trade because they just became the world dominant sea power. You read it completely backwards. "US could control global trade and yet its ships are still vulnerable to hypersonic missiles" - If a weapon has outpaced your Navy and essentially made it obsolete, you have no control of global trade. "nothing but a straw man because there is no war" - But that's my point. The scales being tipped doesn't lead to war, it just leads to a country having an undisputable trump card. Instead of conflict, the trump card grants you the biggest leverage in the negotiation table. "Who said anything about starting fights" - You're the one requiring things to be kinetic for a weapon to tip the scales of power. "if you're in a state where a lot of people conceal carry and most people don’t - guess what.....the people who don’t carry would be sitting ducks to those who conceal carry (or those who open carry for that matter) in the event the armed turned against the unarmed" - The issue is that people in the street to not have disputes with everyone they see. In the global stage, everyone has their own interests and competing for the same thing. For a good comparison, there's one person who open carries (everyone knows about their weapon) and the local stores only sell one of each item per day. So whenever the person who open carries shows up, people just let him take what he wants and wait for another day instead of fighting him. Without the gun ever leaving the holster, this guy controls the entire town. "There is no war" - Yes. And still, the US has a huge naval presence to enforce its interests. Having a warring force out at sea is a form of diplomacy even when no shots are being fired.
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Medical errors?
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@petem6755 Muzzle velocity is comparable, the amount of ammo is driven by the size of the feed system, fewer but accurate hits are just as good as spraying at higher rof.
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@Hornet135 It's not a question of lower RPM being more accurate. A rotary cannon has moving barrels and the spinning on the barrel cluster itself flexes the mount. So the difference is 1700 rpm where the majority of the rounds land on the vehicle versus 3900 rpm where 50% of the rounds hit the dirt due to the nature of rotaries.
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@Hornet135 I have no figures on the dispersion in milliradians, but footage of gun runs show the impacts clustered pretty tightly.
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@treydunn8497 dude you're making a blatant pro-corporate sales pitch... And your response is calling me a hypocrite?
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@treydunn8497 you're not defending the game. You literally told us to ignore the issues we have with the company selling the product. You told us to "calm down" and "stop freaking out". That's a pro-corporate sales pitch. You're telling us to buy the game anyway. Just keep consuming. Yeah, I'm a "hypocrite". You still haven't pointed out an example of hypocrisy from my part. GG.
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Fiberglass is good material. Since carbon fiber can block signal you need sections of aircraft built with fiberglass to put comms and radar antennas.
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And replaced it by the HK 416.
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Buying from the internet means a FFL delivery. That means background check. Guns shows have FFL dealers that perform background checks. He was lying about the statistics, and he also failed to mention the statistic that less than 1% of guns used in crime were bought in a gun show. Most are stolen, bought from another criminal or bought by a straw purchaser.
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@JoaoSoares-rs6ec My mistake, I saw a comment by someone called João but his surname was Pacheco.
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@Fadamor Fact: 7 A-10s were shot down and 4 F-16s were shot down http://rjlee.org/air/ds-aaloss/ The F-16s flew 13,500 sorties while the A-10 flew around 8000.
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@barnmaddo But that's not true. This all stems from a big misunderstanding - the USAF grew out of the USAAF so during the Cold War most of the Air Force's "manual" had been written by the Army. In the late 40s and 50s bombing accuracy wasn't that great so essentially deep strike/interdiction missions were considered to be the most helpful to the infantry on the ground while posing the least risk to troops. Following the Army's own doctrine, the USAF prioritized aircraft designs that would be the best at completing the hardest mission and assume that such aircraft would be sufficient for the easier ones. So they settled for high altitude, high speed aircraft that could deal with the deep strike missions. These aircraft were not well suited for close air support, contrary to doctrine. In the late 60s the USAF, by their own initiative, studied the Army's satisfaction with close air support and found that while it was considered satisfactory, many Army higher ups weren't calling for close air support and prioritized armed helicopters. The USAF then started the A-X project, which resulted in the A-10, precisely because they wanted to do CAS. And in the late 70s the Air Force was accused of buying too many A-10s. This whole "Air Force doesn't like CAS" narrative is all revisionist nonsense that takes the facts out of context.
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Law Dorherty That's a nice story. There's also one of a F-16 diving at supersonic speeds and pulling up, when the sound hit the ground the enemies scattered because they thought bombs were dropping. If we're going to praise a weapon's system that scares away people when you know they are going to be targeting you again two weeks later, we're doing something very wrong.
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@Planesrifter It is an exceptional aircraft. It does warrant decommissioning. Exactly how many "modern" aircraft do you think we've decommissioned? We keep producing new ones to bring the older ones out of circulation. A-10s haven't been manufactured since 1984. A higher caliber cannon makes no sense. The A-10 stayed relevant due to the lower collateral damage from gun rounds. If you want to engage AA and tanks precision guided missiles and bombs are already a great investment. Other aircraft? There's no point trying to make the A-10 into a multirole. Railguns have massive power consumption. You'll only see them mounted on nuclear-powered ships. Speed helps because speed is life. Forget aiming, the A-10s biggest problem is SURVIVING a modern battlefield.
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@Planesrifter "How many do I think could have continued on with upgraded systems and advancements and still had a viable place?" - You don't understand. You constantly load and unload metal or composites, fatigue starts to set in. You fly too many hours, things break apart mid air. Look at Japan Airlines Flight 123. An incorrect repair on the rear pressure bulkhead created a structure that after calculation, was found to have lasted 10,000 pressurization cycles. On its 12,318th flight after incorrect repair, the stress crack ruptured, breaking hydraulic fluid lines and ejecting the vertical stabilizer. 520 people died, only 4 survived. You can't simply upgrade - planes will break apart in flight if they're not retired. Old F-16s go to the boneyard. Old F-15s go to the boneyard. It's easier to buy a new than just rebuild entire sections. "My primary point is that due to the A-10's unique design elements to incorporate a gun like it does, it would be an existing airframe with a notable compatibility for testing airborne railgun tech" - But why? The mass of the gun and batteries would be so high it probably wouldn't even take off. "I'm sure you know that the power burst for firing a railgun comes from a capacitor array discharge. This array simply takes time to recharge, and could be pre-charged for the first shot to be ready before takeoff, with external generators, perhaps mounted on hard points" - Huhhhh. So we're carrying extra fuel for these generators, huh? The A-10 engines are notorious for being underpowered, in Afghanistan the altitude limits the takeoff weight. And if you mount bigger engines, it'll guzzle more fuel. "Airborne versions may only have a shot ready every minute" - We have missiles and rockets that can fire as fast as you can change targets on the MFD screen. "But what if you're not IN a battlefield, but BVR (Is that the term? I forget. Beyond visual range?) and lining up a shot without hostiles knowing you're there? Yes I know missiles and (some) guided bombs can engage from those distances too, but the railgun would be SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper per shot, and likely harder to trace the origin of" - Who cares if it's cheaper? A a million dollar stealth glide bomb destroying several dozens of millions of dollars worth of equipment and killing the trained crews that operate it is extremely cheap. No need to pinch pennies by using impractical weapons in impractical aircraft doing impractical roles. With the projected range of naval railguns, they might as well just fire directly from sea and the payload dives on target at Mach 5. No need to load the gun on an airplane. "desire to see the A-10 improved and revamped to better fulfill its role" - It's role barely exists anymore. It's not being used for the original role, it's not being used for the secondary role picked for it, it's doing COIN. No need for a railgun to do COIN.
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@Planesrifter "I meant new production models" - Completely impractical. "Re-producing an existing product would only require retooling costs, not the millions or billions of RnD costs for an entirely new design and airframe" - No.... The world has changed. First of all, you're not going to be making the old airframe. You need to use modern processes and materials. Remaking old designs is often a complete waste of money because you need to remake things the way they were done decades ago, and we do a lot of things differently. You will have to RnD a entirely new airframe and plan an entire production line. We can't hit a stop button on a clock and keep the old machines and old machinists and welders. "And in comparison to missiles, tanks are surprisingly cheap. Guided bombs can (emphasis on can) cost upwards of 10x that of a modern tank." - What? A Maverick missile's supposed unit cost is 110k. The unit cost of a T-72 is two million. "Yes but how many missiles and bombs do they carry? And what are the mobility limitations of them?" - An A-10 can comfortably carry 4x Mavericks and several pods of rockets. The guided rocket conversion kits can be fitted on the 19-shot pods. Mobility limitations? Less than batteries and generators. "What if the entire airframe is ripped apart by the first shot due to an unforeseen caveat, and you spent billions on the new aircraft?" - Sounds like someone not only skipped the engineering phase that would predict at which point things start to rip apart, and then skipped the static ground tests that would show anything that the math and physics wouldn't by ripping apart a carbon fiber test bed shaped like a section of the fuselage of the airplane, rather than the actual airplane. You're the one who wants to spit out metal out of an aircraft at Mach Jesus and now you're worried about things ripping apart? "Mountainous regions would block almost all naval rounds unless dropped straight down" - I'm sure there's a problem here. The whole point of naval-fired rounds is firing at an arc. If you thought the rail gun was a direct fire weapon primarily, here's the scoop - one of the payload options for the railgun is theorized to be a shell filled with tungsten cubes. The shell self-separates before impact and unleashes thousands of high velocity projectiles with very high density that can destroy aircraft not stored in concrete bunkers and may even penetrate through the tops of tanks. "Not to mention the flight time still exists" - The projectile will literally arrive before a plane can take off on short notice. "a LOT of atmosphere in the way, and ballistic coeffiecients exist for a reason." - Yeah. That's why the shot is fired upwards to fly the most time in thinner atmosphere, and then drops down because even though there's a ballistic coefficient you don't lose speed when you have gravity assisting you. You shoot upwards at Mach 7, the projectile falls down at Mach 5. "An aircraft would not have to worry about terrain at all, and the target would be significantly closer, reducing the chance to miss." - I mean, aircraft do have to worry about terrain, considering that you don't want to crash into terrain, and that you can also use terrain to prevent being shot down. And terrain can obscure targets too, which is why lofting bombs is pretty cool. If you know a target's position you can pull the stick back, drop a bomb and it flies forward over the mountain and hits the target without you exposing yourself. Being closer increases the chances of being shot down, and a rail gun shot would require pointing the aircraft at the target and flying in a straight path. The lower chance to miss only happens when you greatly increase your chances of becoming a sitting duck. "I'm studying mechanical engineering with a focus in ballistics and weaponry" - A word to the wise here, focus on manufacturing. If you think half a century old manufacturing can be reactivated with the snap of a finger you're being too optimistic.
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Because people were told to stay home, so they got worse and had to be taken to the hospital by the time they were critical. The death rate was not 4%. That was CFR. We assumed a high death rate because we truly didn't know how many were infected. Hospitals were filled up by design. I refuse to understand that, because it's a lie. And you're a dangerous person because you've already exposed yourself a bloodthirsty tyrant. You tell this stuff publicly, and you expect me to take you seriously? After openly declaring I should die, you're a threat to my existence. How credible does the threat need to be before people have to act preemptively to prevent being wiped out by people like you?
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Zoom into blurry pixels, you see blurry pixels.
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Obvious troll is obvious.
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Nothing more anti-free market than convoluted rules to allow destruction of others' property.
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Fred Garvin The problem is that the F-22 had to replace the F-15C fleet. It can't. The numbers are enough for your scenario, but in terms of inventory they needed more than what they have.
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Fred Garvin Okay, that's still not changing the fact that the primary 5th gen fighter cannot replace the 4 and 4.5 gen F-15, meaning that it's going to have to be replaced by the NGAD.
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@tomsawyerpiper9412 I think the point is that nobody cared about "representation" until a certain type of people convinced minorities they desperately needed it.
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They didn't assassinate a president because the shooter had tried to kill a former US Army general too. He was a Soviet fanboy.
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When NATO was formed Europe was still recovering from WW2 lol
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He didn't say the disinfectant thing.
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It replicates on everyone. Even your side admitted it. Sit down.
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The West gave Iran their nuclear program. After the revolution Teheran agreed to keep it peaceful. If they break the agreement the West has the right to take it away. Simple as.
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@88heiling You're punching air right now. Argue against my actual argument rather than your own imagination.
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@drproton85 I didn't say anything about sending troops. You're here trying to offer some kind of plausible reason to not care, and frankly gave an embarrassing one. Just say you don't care. Be a man. Trying to come up with excuses to not be criticized is just virtue signaling. The rest of your comment is directed at someone else. I don't even know what you're talking about.
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This is ridiculous. The F-35 would always be needed because the F-22/23 would be the F-15 replacement but the whole point of having an expensive and overpowered air superiority fighter is that you also purchase a good number of cheaper multiroles to handle. So the F-23 would still be paired with a F-35. The A-10 is already being replaced by F-16s and Strike Eagles.
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Which is why the A-29 Super Tucano was supposed to be adopted for low threat environment but the A-10 was not canceled soon enough.
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US manned aircraft would wipe the floor in Ukraine if they were allowed to intervene, what the hell are you on about?
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McCarthy was right and was unfairly smeared.
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media in need of clicks will parrot any nutjob "This is a psyop" Was the octopus that predicted world cup results also a psyop?
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You've provided no counter arguments, just insults.
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Uh the market keeps buying singleplayer and broken games lol
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@comradericefarmerhao2269 It wasn't a myth in Korea, and meat wave isn't human wave. Human wave is using mass to trade short term casualties for long term success, meat wave is overwhelming defenses with constant assaults.
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The thing is that while a pilot has to fly alone, maintenance crews can have "supervisors"...
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Before it happened, Iraq was predicted to be Bush Sr's Vietnam and people expected a drawn out boondoggle. Now with 20/20 hindsight everyone says the outcome was obvious. The issue isn't the technological divide. It's that US tech was designed specifically to cope with the technological advantages the Soviets had. Those who purchased Soviet equipment picked scissors, so the US made the deliberate choice to pick rock.
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HIMARS is operated by Ukrainians.
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@jackbradley3388 But 90% of the comments are literally "I am John Smithovski from Texas Oblast, homeless, the veterans, border, Ukraine should negotiate, should have respected Minsk agreements, stop the war". It's literally a script. Do us a favor, pretend to support Ukraine and start replying to people who want to end the aid. See how many respond. And those who do reply, see how many actually form coherent thoughts instead of just repeating the same thing.
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It's not planned obsolecence if there is no intent to cause failure. "It doesn't have to last past X years" doesn't mean "make it fail after X years". Because if you take care of your stuff, it will last well beyond X. It's just that the average consumer has no idea what he's doing. Making small batches of bomb proof cars for a minority of gearheads would not be profitable even with a price premium.
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Scott, that's one of the big mistakes people make which is not using flashlights to achieve positive ID. Or just turn on the lights. Also, military forces have had that problem and developed signs and countersigns. You have the advantage of knowing your family's voices so you don't even need to set up the countersign, can just scream a question and listen for the answers to know where everyone is and go after the person(s) not answering.
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MrJahka if you wanted my property, should have broken in while I was at work. Break in with me in the house, I can't assume it's property crime. It's not a matter of being targeted for assassination, it's the risk created by a criminal.
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scottthewaterwarrior can't climb out the window on my building. An educated guess that you're in the bedroom. Footsteps. Plenty of factor will give away your position.
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@Wustenfuchs109 It was estimated it could be detected at 80% of the range of a Bf-109. It didn't make a difference.
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@bocahdongo7769 It wasn't forgotten for 20 years. The USAF translated Ufimtsev's paper in 1971. The CIA authorized Skunk Works to read it in 1974.
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@pilotmanpaul There's ton of non-crimean footage. The Crimea one seems to be mostly Msta self-propelled guns, but in Kharkiv they captured tanks, IFVs, tons of ammo.
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"RF had already withdrawn most of it's forces and only left screening forces. Which is why so few battles were fought and so few RF casualties and POW were sustained (almost none)." - There's footage of tons of POWs and KIAs. It was a turkey shoot.
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What have you done for your country apart from whining?
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And I had not watched the video. Simple as that.
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@flashpointfps7619 The F-35 has been used in combat, just not in air to air. And it can dogfight. The claims that it couldn't stem from a 2015 report on a test aircraft that had software limiters that prevented it from being maneuvered too hard.
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@mendonesiac How is it bizarre? In August pfizer-biontech got an extension on the emergency use authorization. If it were approved, why did it need an extension to the EUA? Additionally, the DoD is now being sued over the mandate because they can only mandate the approved shot, and pfizer-biontech is still under EUA so the DoD can only mandate cominarty. Even then, the FDA approval was fast tracked and now they are asking for 75 years to deliver the paperwork of the approval. How can something be approved in less than a year but a review of the paperwork takes 75 years? That is bizarre. The headscratcher here is that Pfizer pulled a bait and switch and you missed the story because it was clear that the approval was meant for a shot that won't be available for a year or more. And now that shot will be outdated thanks to the new variants.
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They're also supplying Russia.
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@hagestad Buddy the joke flew over your head.
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@hagestad The joke was about pubic hair... not fighting...
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Yeah China and India exploiting Russia. Guess they're now the colonists.
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@Nehas949 With the discounts they're getting, it's plunder.
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@RS-ls7mm 12% are starving because of logistical reasons, not lack of space. Most famines are caused by natural disaster, draught or warring factions preventing food from reaching its destination...
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@AtheistEve Peace talks = forgiveness to murderers and rapists.
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But those are short-ranged cartridges with a rainbow trajectory. They were replaced by smaller caliber precisely because they were inferior. This is treading on full rifle power. This isn't going back to basics. This blows 7.92x33 out of the water and eats 7.62x39 for breakfast.
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The biggest irony: having to take the vax to see Matrix 4. (yeah I assume you'll be allowed to do a test to enter the theater, it's just a joke)
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Russian artillery is cratering farms and empty fields.
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Yeah just call people who don't care about you and beg for them to recognize your rights. Also, it's moot point. Mute is when someone can't speak.
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The US govt spends more on healthcare per capita than most countries. The military isn't taking money away from healthcare.
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Ukrainians seem to have filmed their own air defense with FPV drones and photoshopped a Lancet UI to troll Russian telegram pages. Shaheds are GPS guided, they cannot receive input from spotter drones.
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I straight up pictured this DJ character as someone who wears a cowboy hat and brown leather vest. With his orthopedic boot over the jeans.
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Russia has threatened nuclear war like 30 times in the past 20 years.
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The F-35 can defend itself. It can turn. It can climb. It can run. You're just parroting the late Pierre Sprey and Russia Today articles. The RAM issues are rare and only happened in the B and C variant.
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No counter argument. Cope
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Nice copium, you comment even got deleted. Only takes me 2 minutes to look at the turkey shoot that Russia is sending their men into. Catastrophic demographic collapse awaits.
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Yeah, and how is it any better outside the US? Dank got in literal legal trouble over the saluting pug video. Can you conceptualize that?
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 @DarknessProphet Do you carry a satellite with you every day? Cameras in phones are tiny.
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@denofpigs2575 And from miles away, you see the outline of a tank. They teach you to identify tanks from their blurry outlines. Basically any object you haven't seen before is difficult to identify in FLIR.
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South Vietnam lost against North Vietnam. Congratulations to North which fought their own brothers to defeat them in the name of communism, now they have a stock market and McDonald's. The US was out of the war when North Vietnam broke the Paris Accords.
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"If you read the study quite a few started volunteering for charity which they could not do under welfare rules." - which kinda introduces the idea that UBI will lead to someone somewhere profiting off unpaid wages if the state is subsidizing people's income. Start a charity, you and a few friends get jobs as directors of something, use the volunteer's labour and pocket a huge chunk of donations as "operational expenses". You'd be surprised at how much charities spend on their own directors.
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"If they save money on something they are not going to care that someone is profiting from that. It is called being rational." - no, it isn't. My point was that the UBI is like Walmart signing up people for welfare. It's a subsidy you're giving to corporations. "Also Finland monitors how charity use their money quite a lot so no that is not possible. It would be reclassified as for profit" - it's not "for profit" if the only money you spend on yourself is operational costs. There's legal ways to do whatever it needs to be done.
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@killcat1971 the point is that even you have criticized materialism, meaning that there are obviously people in this world who do not need materialism to feel whole and will accept the neetbux.
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@MegaPaddz travel and tourism create a lot less emissions than cattle raising. Unless you get the NEETs to go vegan people not going on vacation will not affect emissions that much.
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@MegaPaddz "Shutting down air travel/transport and diesel powered sea travel/transport worldwide would have a huge effect on carbon emissions." - there's a big difference between shutting everything down and just ending vacations. Also, shutting everything down would make several countries collapse because they're not self-sufficient and need the road and sea transport to get supplies. "We also have to factor in global dimming caused by all the aircraft which is keeping the earths temps about 2 degrees Celsius colder than they actually would be without con trails blocking the sun" - isn't... isn't that actually a positive effect because it counters the effect of greenhouse gasses? "buying of products which are imported" - you're underestimating how much imports are needed. We import not only finished products but partially completed products and raw materials. Countries import and export machinery that allows a country to manufacture a product even though they do not manufacture the machinery themselves. Even a ban on imported finished products would be devastating, but actually trying to shut down transport would destroy living standards and send everyone into poverty because wealth generation will go back to pre-1800's levels.
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"They are already subsiding businesses so if what you say happens, that profit is another benefit of UBI" ???????????????? for fuck's sake you're literally stating that corporations not having to pay good wages to attract employees is a positive effect of UBI?????? Oh my god don't you see that you're playing right into the hands of the ultra rich? "So it's still the rational thing to do. Profit isn't a negative side effect. It's a positive side effects." - It's not rational at all! It's completely irrational to allow someone to steal and gain from it! Profits earned illegitimately are a negative side effect! "The only problem with fake charities is that they take money that should go to real charities. But this isn't money earmarked for that." - I'm not even talking about fake charities. Very real charities have to pay their own staff. And the bigger a charity is the more work it involves to run it, so typically that is the rationalization of directors of large charities paying themselves good salaries. The issue is, at least charities dealing with volunteers are limited by the fact that people don't have unlimited time and they have to earn a living somehow. If volunteering increases simply because people have nothing to do you're essentially devaluing labour because those who benefit from it are not paying what they owe. If UBI was a thing charities should be forced to hire people with real contracts to try and limit the number of people they can use as labour.
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@killcat1971 "but how many?" - many. Especially if there's zero effort required. "Most people want more from life then a UBI will supply" - the problem is that even even working for minimum wage involves work, so people naturally figure that if they're working might as well do some extra effort and climb the ladder. If you're ensuring people they're gonna be set for life there's no sunk cost. "When you are deaing with something as broadbased as the UBI you have to look at the population as a whole" - yeah, and the population as a whole doesn't paint a pretty picture. There's more than enough people willing to cheat the government and get benefits. If there isn't even any cheating involved, oh boy.
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@killcat1971 "if there is no "system" to cheat you save on compliance costs" - but you lose on the fact that nobody feels the shame of being dishonest "there is a very generous social welfare system, and we still only have ~4% unemployment" - or maybe, it's a very productive country/society and the wealth generated allows for a generous welfare system. If the factories were going bankrupt, the banks failed and the services industry slowed down suddenly there would be no way to afford that welfare system. "some women would be likely to stop working and be stay at home moms, but this could actually raise wages (fewer workers willing to work for so little)" - but I thought that people wouldn't feel whole staying at home? Wouldn't the woman go back to work to provide a better life for her child because according to your logic we all strive for it?
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@killcat1971 "The kind of people that care about "honest work" aren't likely to stop working due to a UBI" - I never said anything about honest work. Cheating the government is, go figure, a crime. Many people who cheat the government are absolutely shameless and have no problems being dishonest on any aspects of their lives. Other people would rather work hard not because of valuing honest work but because they're not willing to tell a huge lie nor commit an infraction. "When you look at most welfare systems they spend a LOT of money on compliance" - the money you save on compliance will be offset by the extra UBI you'll be paying. "And employers take advantage of that" - how? "I've seen people suggest that there should be no welfare state and no minimum wage, can you imagine what that would look like?" - yes, I can. If jobs paid so little it was preferable to move to the countryside and grow your own food, employers wouldn't be able to attract any workers and businesses would be forced to either pay worthwhile wages or perish.
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are you playing dumb just for the argument's sake? Why should Finnish business be supported if it doesn't want to support itself? Hell, forget about Finish businesses. All businesses will be affected by this, even foreign businesses. The state is PAYING for the wages that corporations should be paying. Why not transition into communism, then? If the state is paying. Might as well expropriate the businesses. Why should be profits be privatized and costs socialized? I mean, corporations cheat the system by forcing the state to pay what they're not willing to pay and you applaud it??? You're actually applauding the Walmart model of not paying enough and singing up people for welfare? Making EVERYONE pay what they're not willing to pay and pocketing the money for themselves? You think this is good? You think this is sustainable? "There are no any evidence that volunteerism devalue the value of labor." - 1. There is no evidence because we're talking about a system that has never been implemented in a true scale. 2. It's basic economics. If people are willing to labour for free it decreases the value of labour. It doesn't take evidence to realize that if I start giving away computers the companies charging 600 dollars for a computer will not be able to compete because I devalued computers as a commodity. The same thing that happens to products also happens to labour.
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IT'S NOT INDIRECT. IT'S BUSINESS SHIFTING THEIR COST OF OPERATION TO THE GOVERNMENT. JESUS CHRIST, PEOPLE. IS THIS REAL LIFE? IT'S LITERAL CORPORATE WELFARE, USING STATE MONEY TO SUPPORT BUSINESSES. "And no that's not basic economics. That's not how demand and supply works. Which is very studied and proven. Your systement contradicts thousands of published peer review papers." - no, it doesn't. It literally obeys supply and demand. Are you saying that according to supply and demand, if I give away computers for 0 dollars then will 600 dollar computers be worth 800? No. If you start giving something away for free, it reduces value. "If people work for free then the supply of workers decrease and prices for paid labour goes up." - for that people will have to refuse to work for free, aka the initial conditions have changed. If people are working for free, it devalues labour. Once the conditions change by the previously unpaid labourers demanding wages, price of labour will go up. With price of labour going up, more people will be willing to work meaning that labour will devalue back to roughly the starting position. It is a cycle. But taking a snapshot in time where people are giving away free labour, labour is devalued. If then the supply of labour decreases then yes you may see a severe hike in the value of labour - but your argument hinged on people being willing to work even when there are no wages involved, essentially killing the normal cycle I just mentioned if what you said was true.
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@killcat1971 "But so what? you'd (hopefully) end up with a system where everyone was covered for the basics and if you were willing to work you could live fairly well on even a minimum wage job, as stated it would also cover maternity leave and students, veterans, the mentally ill etc." - then why not just implement communism? You're just a few steps removed. Because it seems to be a clusterfuck in terms of morality. On one hand you have capitalism assuming all interactions without government intervention are voluntary and it's immoral to force unwanted relationships/contracts with "society", on the other hand you have communism which despite my disagreement has created a morality that attempts to be internally consistent and justifies it's existence. With your system... it's madness. Seems like there's no method or logic, just people clicking buttons and adjusting sliders like real like is just a game of SimCity where you don't care about law or fairness or morality. People are just mindless drones with a specific set of wants and needs and the government just gives it to keep people happy. Forget principles, only objectives and how to complete them. Say what you want about communism... but at least there's a purpose, there's principle. I don't want to live in this hellhole where we get the problems of communism AND the problems of megacorporations trying to get us to consume. The only justification being utilitarian arguments. "where would they get the land?" - people could get together and purchase land that has completely devalued so it's cheap. Does it sound like a commune? It does. I wholeheartedly support communes as long as they're voluntary.
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"In Finland. Yes. They require evidence." - I literally do not know what the hell you're talking about or why you keep talking about Finland. I'm talking about the world in general. "Yes it's indirectly. They pay this to citizens not to corporations. No one wants to give corporations UBI." - You can refuse to see the facts. But if we have a friend, and I owe you 10 Euro, and I say I do not have money but our friend can pay my debt and he gives you the 10 Euro, you can call it "indirect" but I essentially took money from him and gave it to you. Sure, I didn't touch the money directly but I still benefited from his money because now I don't owe you money. If we do that with corporations, that is corporate welfare. Deny it. You can try. But the state covering for costs that businesses should be FORCED to pay and then the rich pocket the money they earned through this practice. It's a fucking joke. Privatized profits, socialized costs. Businesses become leeches. "And no if computers are given away that doesn't bring down the price of computers." - yes, it does. If everyone gets a computer for free this steals sales from competitors. If competitors have product on the shelves that they can't move the prices go down. Since better computer components are released almost every year, a computer that doesn't get sold will eventually have to compete with better models. Keeping product that doesn't sell in storage costs money. Have you ever seen any supermarket running deals on products that might be nearing their best before date? They typically cost less. Why? Because things that do not get bought are lower value. "And we are discussing labor here not computers. There is a limited demand for computers" - and there is no limited demand for labour? "Work on the other hand is not something that buyers get enough of." - then why does unemployment exist? Clearly there's a limiting factor for employment so there's no infinite demand for labour. "If they get some workers for free that doesn't mean that they wouldn't hire the rest of the workforce." - if I can get free workers to make all my products why would I waste money on hiring anyone else? Especially if hiring more people and making more product would lead to... saturation? "The number of available paid jobs are set by the central bank" - the what now? "Also when you hire someone on welfare you do get subsidies from the government. So how is what you describe different from what's already happening?" - well, it is different because I would hope it is a temporary measure to get people OFF the welfare. A permanent UBI? it would turn the human race into cattle. With the added criticism of being corporate welfare. Here's an interesting take on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuRuFj5c0bE
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@killcat1971 "Can you actually point me to an area with decent farm land hat's that cheap? Anyone who'd be in a better position to leave town than work is unlikely to have much money." - again, there's small plots of land, people can pool resources, etc it doesn't need to be "farm land" as long as there's no zoning laws bullshit people can grow food on home gardens - it's gonna grow on any appropriate soil. Also, there's plenty of wealthy leftists, ask them to contribute. And I am just saying, but for example in the US you used to be able to homestead public land but that was outlawed in the 1970's so that's a government putting a barrier on self-sufficiency, not capitalism. "As to Communism the issue with it is that it states that everyone is equal" - I'm not going to focus on that idealistic side of communist theory, according to the core tenants of communism the needy will be taken care of and the workers will keep the full profits of their labour, which would fulfill the stated goal of UBI. In theory it's going to allow for inequality, you just wouldn't be able to use property to achieve it. You'd have to work for it, not manage or hire people. "and then creates a hierarchy with the "party" on top" - not to sound like a communist, but communism is a stateless society. The communist party leading a country is socialism. That's why the USSR was lead by Communist parties, but the countries were Socialist republics. Minor nitpick, but my point is that communism ties the value of commodities to labour. I disagree with the labour theory of value because it only works if you add social necessity or "socially necessary labour", which is basically just Supply and Demand with added steps. But at least there's an economic theory behind it. Morality, even. It's important to realize that whoever pays the money that is used to give people UBI (the ultra rich, the mega corporations) will become The Party. They will have 100% of control over society. "The reason I prefer a UBI over Communism is it allows individuals free choice" - it really won't. UBI will be used to control the population. It's basically an allowance that you will have to spend on corporations so that they can profit and grow so that they can be taxed and you get your UBI again. What's going to happen when people are given UBI but they realize there's a big advantage in not consuming and simply saving the money? "In short Communism has never worker, democratic socialism (like Norway) does" - Norway isn't democratic socialism. It's a capitalist country with welfare. It works on a highly productive country with strong industries, meanwhile the same system is implemented in the PIGS and they're always in the brink of collapse. And plus, the same pitfalls of communism will affect UBI. One of the reasons the Soviet Union had so many problems was that people preferred to save their money than consuming, the ruble was more valuable than the goods produced by the Soviet Union. This means that industries could not sustain themselves and generate the wealth required to pay people's wages, this almost brought down the Soviet Union several times. Like I said before, if the economy depends on people spending their UBI but they realize that it's better to save money the economy will stagnate and there will be no taxable profits to distribute as UBI. "I don't know what your situation is but what would being able to get $1000/month do for you" - it would be about the same I'm gonna make once I graduate college later this year, and about double than I made working my ass off full time without a degree.
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@M A "And what if that money would barely make you able to afford food and rent for 10 square meter room?" - how does that differ from "first world" poverty? If you're not going to change the human condition what's the point of UBI? I thought the point was preventing exactly that situation. "I doubt anyone is arguing UBI so high that it would start competing with actual work salaries" - a lot of jobs pay low enough that sitting on your ass for a little less money sounds attractive.
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@killcat1971 well higher min wage would have screwed me over - the economic crisis meant that nobody would risk giving me a job and I was out handing in resumes daily. As soon as the economy got better I got hired right on the first application I sent. A higher min wage would have delayed my employment, during which time I'd be getting paid 0€.
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@killcat1971 but in the actual cases where the father is MIA you'd basically need an allowance for each kid. Maybe with some sort of function that diminished returns, because if you gave the same set amount for every kid economies of scale kick in and it becomes a welfare scam.
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@AltCTRLF8 you do not know how many people have hundreds of Steam games on backlog, do you?
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but we're talking about a Finnish experiment as a small scale reproduction of the concept in itself and we started debating the concept. "Well, in Finland..." let me stop you right there. The rest of the world isn't Finland.
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"By that reasoning public schools are corporations shifting their costs to the government" - but public schools are owned and controlled by the state. Do you want Walmart and Amazon to become state-owned enterprises? That's a different argument. My point is that people get jobs so they can afford to live, giving people welfare means employees are not longer trying to attract people who need to make a living, but people looking to get extra allowance. This lowers the costs of employment and shifts that burden into the UBI system. "But that's still an indirect subsidy." - it's indirect through semantics alone. If a corporation spends less money on employment costs the benefits are pretty direct. If a bank has debt and the government bails out the bank by paying their debt, you can call it indirect all you want but you still gave welfare to a bank.
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@Tuatara1989 >"we need UBI or else people will live in poverty!" >"ahahah you think you'll be a deadbeat when we get UBI? YOU'LL BE FUCKING POOR HAHAHA!" "why don't they work less hours than they do now?" - because employment isn't a thing that you sign up for to be busy during the day, having a job means serving a need. There are some jobs you get to pick hours in part time but the vast majority of people are needed to man their station. The employer is not looking to have people who'll only show up for half a day and go home.
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@asdrt6405 it was a small scale study. Try it on a few million people and see how it goes.
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The Taliban didn't fight in Afghanistan against the USSR. They fought the Mujahideen in the civil war.
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That peace treaty required the Ukrainian army to be disbanded. The robber agrees to leave if you remove the locks on your door.
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@ultimaterecoil1136 slavery is the ultimate form of force. People living in freedom does not require force because it is the natural state of man. Force is required to make him a slave. Also, slavery was ended in multiple countries without having to fight a war over it and Abraham Lincoln's only objective at the start of the war was keeping the Union together, not free the slaves.
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@ultimaterecoil1136 it's almost like I have explained multiple times on this thread already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle You are 10000% entitled to the use of violence against FORCE, because you are not FORCING anyone. Anyone who attacks you has consented to retaliation therefore no force is involved.
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Jack Northrop. His work was more advanced than the Hortens.
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@stevehartwell1861 Yes he did. The footage cuts with a huge aircraft in view. The drone was in international airspace and had the right to keep the transponder off. Should we sink the Russian ships stealing grain with the transponder off too?
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That's what the video explains too but doesn't make it explicit enough - companies have the choice to partner with Honey and suppress coupon codes in exchange for letting them keep the affiliate link. Honey would be easily blacklisted if they didn't present a favorable alterntive - hiding coupons from customers which saves companies money.
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 @Jake12220 "muh both sides" the people of Ukraine overwhelmingly answer polls with the intent to remove the invader from their land. Whoever is in power is irrelevant.
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angizoink what conspiracy theory? All the articles describe him as the pro-gun survivor.
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So you want to discuss the current war or the entire historical background? Hey man, the US has fought wars against Canada, the UK and Germany. Now they're allies. We're gonna bring that up when talking about Ukrainian aid?
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Look, what would happen in guns were banned? Only criminals would have them. What happened when alcohol was banned? Criminals made a living out of it. What has the War on Drugs achieved? Kids are still getting all the drugs they want, and cartels have gotten rich and powerful. Criminalizing drugs is a way to solve economical problems and force people into low paying jobs. In my country drugs were decriminalized (still illegal) ten years ago and abuse dropped 50% in this decade.
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The F-35 doesn't replace the F-15. It's a single engine multirole like the F-16. The twin engine air superiority fighter? F-22.
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Amazing how I've been reading this comment for the past 15 years. It's always the same spiel.
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At point blank range, after attempting lock three times, and the first missile lost track. They never managed to do it again, and the F-117 bombed Serbia into submission.
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Gripen fanboys plague the internet. In fact F-35 hate was extremely common online, thanks to "experts" like Pierre Sprey. In regards to aggressive marketing, Saab and BAE systems have been caught in bribery scandals.
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It's like weathering the cold because the rest of your classmates said your jacket looked "gay". We mocked them so hard they stopped using them.
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Wrong. Armenia cried for Russia to help but was ignored. They're cozy with the west because Russia failed them.
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It would require multiple cameras per cashier to make sure every serial is caught on tape. Even then it would totally come down to the cashier's technique when counting the bills, I "fan" the money from one hand to another which would obscure serials from a ceiling camera depending on the bill orientation.
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PMCs are not allowed to use heavy artillery or air support.
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The deflection at the end is always the cherry on top, you people follow the script to a fault.
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>75 years >they claim it's legal to point a gun at someone (it isn't), that forcible sexual favors are legal (they aren't) and that we legalized anal rape. Well if the guy got 75 years I don't think anyone can "literally, legally sodomize you". They should be mocking the stupid laws, not their own intelligence.
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200 HIMARS isn't necessary, that's a lot of launchers that would have no rocket packs to fire.
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How do you know they are Al Qaeda? The government told you? The same people that passed the NDAA, PATRIOT act, had the NSA spying people's phonecalls? Same people that are killing innocents and children with drone strikes? Goddamn it, by charging Snowden with espionage they're basically admitting you are their enemy.
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Most Ukrainian hardware is former Soviet in nature.
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 @chaserseven2886 He's a one man show but the content is mostly pre-made assets.
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@aylio3745 Nobody's asking that.
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@joeclaridy Kinda? The rifle is mostly sealed if kept on safe, and something getting inside if on firing position is a known point of failure. On the other hand, the AK has a pretty good carrier to bolt weight ratio and it's usually overgassed so it can power through stuff others can't.
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No.
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Exactly.
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@ericmcquisten Yeah, because a Spitfire would be garbage in a modern dogfight too. Context matters. If something can't hold up its own except under exercise conditions, it's not worthwhile to pursue such capabilities. What do you mean low enough to get a lock? An AMRAAM would be fired from tens of miles out. The lock isn't the limiting factor, it's the motor of the missile. With speed and altitude, range of a high Pk missile shot against an A-10 is actually greater than against a fighter. You can't "avoid" an eye in the sky that can see you from 60 nautical miles away. Hugging the terrain does nothing when the radar is coming from above and Doppler filtering removes the ground clutter. Chaff is a tool of desperation because as it hits the air, it slows down and allows radar to instantly tell that it's chaff rather than a speeding aircraft. Tight turns don't matter when the missile simply knows you'll be at position x,y,z when you finish your turn, and head towards that position.
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@ericmcquisten And the A-10 is a Vietnam era aircraft built for an age that doesn't exist. Holding up fine in exercises meant to give the A-10 a chance isn't a good indicator. Create an exercise where the fighter has freedom to engage the A-10 in any condition it wants. Some missiles are heat seeking indeed. But the AMRAAM is there. Modern heat seekers do not work like Vietnam era seekers. The AIM-9X can see the actual aircraft with a thermal camera, it won't be fooled by the ground. Look down shoot down has existed for decades. Low flying does not protect aircraft anymore. How would the A-10 pilot know the bearing of the missile? He'd get a RWR warning a few seconds before impact. Missiles don't make use of turning radius as if they had pure pursuit control logic. They simply measure your movement and predict where you'll be. If you turn right, the missile simply calculates where your turn will put you, and flies straight for impact. I'm not talking about drones. Fighter aircraft have their own radars. Every fighter is an eye on the sky, sweeping for easy pickings. Aircraft have radar. Radar isn't just a ground technology. Yes, air to air missiles use Doppler filtering. Sophistication? Your cellphone is more sophisticated than the Apollo era computers. Missiles are crammed full of sophistication. Why do you still believe it's the 1960s?
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The guy who can't prove he has a degree and made mistakes in his forgery of the document that supposedly proves he worked for the govt?
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Thanks, ChatGPT. Now explain how Russia's industry is so rotten they are refurbishing T-62s due to limited T-90M production, and using donkeys.
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@SpreadGuts There's no harassment. Donetsk is Ukrainian. Winters are mild in Europe. Russians think it's like Siberia.
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@WllKiedSnake There's people in the world who I'd kick out of an event my organization was hosting even if they went there as private citizens.
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@WllKiedSnake Nothing wrong with losing people who'll do nothing but bring you problems later down the line. I'm not being judgmental, I'm simply seeing the writing on the wall.
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@WllKiedSnake Literally nobody is talking about thought crimes. It's not judgement. If you wear who you are on your sleeve and give everyone a fair warning of what you do, that's just bright colors on a reptile. I don't judge the reptile. I just see that they wear bright colors so I don't touch them because in nature that often means poison. Before they've done what? She's already done it.
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Doesn't seem too safe.
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They literally do this with nuclear bombers in America and Canada and we don't shoot them down. Maybe their best interests includes us engaging those Bear bombers kinetically.
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False. Russian troops crossed the border first.
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@cliffordnelson8454 I'm not even clucking that link because it's either RT propaganda or that lunatic Pierre Sprey.
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Russian cruise missile, Ukrainian interceptor.
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World Wars involve the whole world (WW2 was fought in Africa and Asia as well). This is just everyone dunking on Russia.
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Bruh
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So you're going to have babies just to spend time at home while getting paid for it?
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@mouthpiece200 If an opponent has good anti air they'll bust tanks easily too.
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Anyone who could be galvanized was already at that point.
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@petercollingwood522 Present an actual argument.
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Look for "Smersh SVD".
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@robertjenkins6132 You're spending a lot of words to say something that doesn't contradict what I said. Give control of economic policy to a toddler and everything will break apart. The reason money supply needs to increase in a "real economy" is precisely the same reason why Russia needing to reform and Soviet-era nonsense peddlers saying "DON'T CARE, SOVIET ECONOMICS TO THE RESCUE" will wreck the economy. The Soviet economy was collapsing before the breakup.
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@konstantinkelekhsaev302 Crashing oil prices and difficulties in chip manufacturing in the 70s.
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Bald is a sex tourist. Come on...
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There were no tanks at Jan 6, and police opened the doors.
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It links to other Western batteries sent. It's a force multiplier.
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All nutters. Take your Russia First nonsense elsewhere.
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>Need large magazine machine guns? Machine guns were banned in 1986. Large capacity magazines are often either unreliable or too heavy/bulky. The standard capacity is much better. >i think your safe The USSR also spent a lot on defense. Their people weren't safe against their own government.
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@j.f.fisher5318 The problem is that the dramatic stories are not true so people don't believe them. I remember the claims made 20 years ago.
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Name the polling companies.
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You say "we" but you have a really poor command of the English language. You type like someone who speaks English as a second language.
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 @chico9805 How's it going for Russia?
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The thing is that a person can easily check a 4 minute video instead of waiting for months for an awards show.
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@philcorris5899 If Russia isn't hurting economically, why do they beg for sanctions relief? Russia makes their arms but so does Ukraine. Most of the Russian population doesn't want their sons to die in Ukraine.
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@kennethmcneil3478 Proof is real life. If Russia doesn't mind the sanctions, why do they resort to blackmail?
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@philcorris5899 How can Russia outwait the Europeans? Their army is unravelling right now, their best troops are trapped in Kherson with no way out, Ukraine succeeded even before external help arrived. Europe isn't that cold. Yes joke.
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Nothing is hidden. You can buy high res satellite pictures or even watch the drone footage. You simply can't hide events of this scale.
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Passive arrays isn't "passive". It's still an active emitter.
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Wow, the enforcers of state violence are diverse. Truly the leftist ideal.
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Wow the enforcers of state violence are diverse. Truly a leftist ideal.
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@shawnm8232 It's understandable for young people to want to take a shot at big youtubers. As a person becomes older and wiser, it just looks like a waste of time. Because there's nothing wrong with making a video correcting someone, but there has to be substance. Just making a drama video at that point in life makes it seem like he's got nothing else going on for him.
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NATO can't dictate geographical or climatic conditions. Nothing wrong with slow combat if it suits you.
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I don't get how this can get thumbs down. The fact is that for that gun to be effective, the police has to have the right to tell people to strip off their clothes so that the UV light can reach the paint mark. How would you like to be treated like a criminal and have the police taking your fingerprints and doing DNA tests on you without probable cause?
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So nobody loses wars because command is always informed. Buddy inform the command all you want, them knowing something doesn't mean they have the means to address it.
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That's not true at all. Most rocket motors in air to air missiles only have a few seconds of burn time. After they burn out, the missile can't gain any more energy. This means that if you turn, the missile will have to steer towards a new predictive impact point. This wastes energy. If you turn again, now the missile has been going in the wrong direction all along! It must steer towards a newer predictive impact point. Energy defeat of a missile is much simpler than maneuvering.
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@taraswertelecki3786 "Many"? There's the Meteor, and there could be a couple more but I don't remember. The Phoenix was designed to take out slow bombers flying in a straight line. Now you're correctly using the no escape zone. The issue is, in air combat you fire before the no escape zone because you want to force a defensive posture with a reasonably high Pk shot. Waiting to reach no escape zone means flying straight into a high Pk missile.
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FDR already did it.
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Nah, Ivan simply doesn't tolerate mouthbreathing retards. In fact he accepted an improvement on the FCG-9 ejector which is going to be present on the next release with the HK-style charging handle I believe.
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Other way around. Patriots worked against missiles but had very specific modes of failure wich have been fixed. It was Iranian drones that slipped into Saudi defenses against more modern Patriots.
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Reports of fearless Ukrainian soldiers are probably due to ceramic armor plates. There's a video of Russian troops with a captured Ukrainian plate, shooting it with steel core rifle ammo and being surprised that it worked.
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@panzervalkyrie9299 Covering up increased panic. If they were transparent it would cool heads.
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@grumpyfinn Only true for the B and C variants and even then it only happens at very high altitude. The fact that the A variant doesn't have this problem means it's not the F-35 that is the problem.
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@randomguy9777 Freak scenario. Happened only a handful of times at very high altitudes and after testing they couldn't replicate the problem to see what caused it.
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Caseless ammo is a thing. Not very popular due to it being fragile.
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They won't. These are for ballistic missiles.
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1. If airplanes weren't profitable, would anyone besides amateurs build them? 2. Thomas Edison was a bloodhound when it comes to money. He fucked over Tesla because his inventions made it impossible to charge people for their electric consumption and he was against alternated current. 3. Freud was probably high. His theories are also outdated. >We would most definitely continue practicing and developing drugs for the sake of bettering mankind. Keep telling that to yourself.
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@greg7656 funny how the science is changing in the direction that makes more money
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@greg7656 Oh so science caused this? Yes, we can't forget about the g@in of funct1on research that probably created this scenario.
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@ConnorJaneu youtube accepted to be the public square in exchange for not being liable for copyright infringenent.
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@fpxy00 copy pasta army
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To target a missile it needs to be detected. The thing is, it was detected at 8 miles away and the lock failed twice. 8 miles is almost point blank range.
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@joshdustman9928 "try shooting something other than birdshot, asshole!"
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 @iforgiveyou274 Same warhead shape as the crashed Khinzal from last year.
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Minsk was broken by the Russians by starting the battle for Dabaltseve and the Second Battle for Donetsk Airport.
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Center of mass will be changed, though.
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@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 most military equipment prioritizes stability and efficiency so the chips and code base are "out of date" compared to consumer electronics. But consumer electronics has to harvest your data, run bloated websites and check the weather, etc so the military can spend the time and moneu optimizing the code.
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If you run at a wall, the wall is 0km/h but stops you.
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The DAS in the F-35 can see in excess of 15km. The footage is publicly available, it can't be denied.
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"Nothing about this system prevents law-abiding citizens from obtaining a gun" - Psychologists could be encouraged to make people fail evaluations. - The course can be made impossible to pass - The locker requirements can be made unreasonable by demanding safes too large to fit a house, too heavy for the majority of homes to be built to handle them, etc and the police being able to randomly enter your house without a warrant is a violation of your rights so yes that part does prevent people from obtaining a gun because it demands from them to give up a basic natural right.
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It would be nearly impossible to hide the source of the shells. The first dud or captured position would leave the telltale manufacturer identifying marks intact.
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@grmpEqweer ""How DARE those people accuse ME of being a racist. I am just FINE with the blacks, as long as they stay in their place, of course...I'm no racist!"" - literally nobody said that "But can we just ignore hate crimes? No." - who is saying to ignore them?
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@kathydb613 "If you, as a white person, can't separate yourself from a racist that's out to hurt other people, I feel bad for you. You must have an incredibly low IQ" - so after two decades of being taught racism is bad, growing up being told we have to look past race, we're all the same, we want equality, etc we look at the media and we're seeing people telling us we're all to blame, we're privileged, we're not doing enough, we're hateful, etc... Is it me who can't separate myself from a racist or the fact that I am getting called a racist no matter what I think? Stop trying to shift the blame for the self and the identity after society as a whole completely failed in the matters of achieving understanding and peace between races.
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@JZ's BFF the F-117 was an incredibly crude design necessitated by weaker computing power in the 70s.
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"libertarian societies have never existed" - Cospaia existed for almost 400 years and was more prosperous than comparable Italian provinces.
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@Ksquizzles09 "and if they did they would have been crushed out of existence long ago" - But they weren't crushed.
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The Russian military is bled dry. That's why they're sending the mobiks. We're afraid of nukes and thus use our weapons as escalation - when Russia hits hard we give Ukraine more tools. That sends the message that we're reacting to Russia rather than escalating the conflict.
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+Eric Stamps you're essentially proving my point. Also I didn't talk about CSI stuff being used in trials, did I? I just admitted that there's the possibility of ballistic matching being able to paint a picture of what a gun has been up to, but even then ballistic matching is highly subjective and not an exact science. Markings left by a gun change upon wear.
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All 20 of them?
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The Maginot line worked in the sense that it forced the enemy to go around.
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> However there is overwhelming evidence that explains how marriage is primarily based on an optimal arrangement for the sake of child development I do not oppose that view. But I don't think marriage is an effective tool to promote the security and development of children either. And even if we enforce child support laws, we're mostly making sure men go to prison than actually raise their children.
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7.62 doesn't go through body armor either.
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@kaysekaze That's the thing. You remember how in the Simpsons they helped Krusty get a law redirecting airliner traffic passed through congress by tacking it onto another law giving aid to orphans? The ceasefire was included in the humanitarian lines resolution. If you want to vote no on the law about air traffic you have to be the guy voting against aid for orphans. That's politics for you.
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10.000 km2. Get it right.
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But it isn't. This would be like if the Confederacy had won, and the Union went into exile in Hawaii. The Confederacy holds no legitimacy over territory they never took from the Union.
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 Viper-ms9eg They did? I guess I didn't get my Russian passport in the mail.
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That's false. The Star Wars program had very limited effect on the Soviet economy.
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If they had been discharged, they'd go underground. By absorbing them, they forced the leadership to self-purge as they could not do politics and be part of the military at the same time. And when they quit Azov to go into politics, they lost the elections.
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If one person went to prison it was a war crime. Or are you saying he's innocent?
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@KainsAddiction Haters of what? Illegal naked short sellers? 140% bro. They were on the hook for more stocks than actually existed in the market. We're the haters? We're just playing the game.
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@KainsAddiction "don't pretend you're doing anything different than the people you despise" - It's different because it's symmetrically opposed. This is the reverse uno card. A lot of the people are not in here for the money. People invested 200 bucks, I saw people say they put up 2000 bucks, and they don't care if they lose. It's not about the money.
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@KainsAddiction "The people who just put in 200 or 1000 are being used as tools" - We're all being used as tools. Some had the balls to hold the line.
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Forget success. We're talking about who gets to ride a bus, enter a restaurant, etc. I don't want to be rich, I want to not be treated like an animal.
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@miniman2132 You people promised the second coming of Christ to the masses, and now that you have to walk back the claims you're mad that the people don't "understand".
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Linkin Park
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Nothing's been dragged. Ukraine gave up nukes for security. The US, UK and France gave their word.
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@redjaypictures4528 With a top speed of 1.6 Mach it's hardly sluggish, especially considering it will be flying without external weapons or fuel tanks.
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@redjaypictures4528 Can they achieve those speeds while carrying a combat load and fuel bags?
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That's why they set a 100 mile radius for safety. They didn't know the effects of fallout in the long term because the weapons had not existed for long enough to study it.
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You can't throw food and oil at a county to defeat it militarily. Russia is resorting to older and older vehicles. Soldiers can't load up on cakes. They need ammo, radios, armor plates.
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Lmao 29 and already an old man screaming at clouds. Keep voting for schizos, both sides in America support Ukraine.
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What would be the point? The US is reactive to the rest of the world as others try to take their place. You have to take the belt from the champ.
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@MrLense the Yak 141 three swivel bearing is based on a Convair design from the 60s.
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@ok-gs5ly Harriers can do VIFF'ing. But VIFF and Cobras are mostly useless. They kill your speed and make you an easy target.
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@klardfarkus3891 They did. That's why they retreated from Kiev, then Kherson. They started with massive offensives from multiple directions to spending 9 months to take a single town. Sounds like they ran out of supplies to fight like they used to.
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 @rdsox09 Forget the sources. Just name a video here on youtube showing more than 15 Su-57s in the same place at once. If they have 74, surely they have done an "elephant walk" in a runway.
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@rdsox09 Youtube isn't a source, it's a video hosting website. Anyone can film the aircraft. Where are they?
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That's the point...? The film gets ruined instantly when exposed. There's no long lasting effects to observe, the film is already stained.
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@Reth_Hard What did I not understand? OP stated that the film doesn't live to see long-term effects... yes, but it is RUINED instantly. The long term doesn't matter, it's ruined short term.
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If you have one of these, you are the source of ammo.
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Because rolling over a bridge takes 5 minutes. Preparing for river crossing requires prep time for armor. If you have to stand close to a river for an hour to change into amphibious mode you're getting pelted by artillery. And a lot of supply vehicles aren't amphibious.
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They do. They literally filmed themselves firing AGM-88 HARM missiles, and American missile mounted on a pylon to work with the Soviet MiG-29 and Su-27.
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Bill Ruger was also an elitist that didn't bother coming up with the BX-25 because God forbid you need more than 10 rounds. Things change. And by the way, handguns would be an NFA item if it wasn't for the NRA.
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No, look at what's happening. The Russians flooded the area with troops, and Ukraine shut the door behind them. Bombed out bridges. Pontoons get hit. Did you see the Russian soldier with the desperate face? Filming his own pontoon crossing the moment Ukrainian artillery shelled his position? His shocked face. Hand over blown eardrum. Pan around, all you see are the torn bodies of the dead and the wounded. That's what happens to anyone trying to reinforce Kherson. Divine punishment delivered by steel and tungsten and supersonic speed, a special delivery to mangle Russian flesh.
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 @phunkracy The Soviet Union had just collapsed and the Chinese breakthrough in economy capacity happened in the 2000s.
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@VantaSilver216 if you have reasons to want it small then you're not very pro- either.
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@VantaSilver216 it's not black and white, if there's pro government and anti government in a spectrum and you're past centrist... Libertarians/minarchists still hold anti-government beliefs.
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Because instead of getting together and defeating the system, they fled. How many are inside Russia but don't have the money to flee? Now they don't have as many people who agree with them. They can't fight now. They're also a security risk.
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So you want a light fighter as interceptor? How are Gripens better?
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Surrender? But they're winning.
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Profit means that someone needed something enough to buy it. Meanwhile non-capitalist systems had chronic issues with shortages and overproduction of unnecessary things because without profit it was nearly impossible to calculate what was needed. Also, producing what is needed creates pollution anyway.
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They can't import because there's an assault weapons import ban. They can't make them in the US because the design is partially owned by the German government.
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One of them might be enough to protect yourself from one determined individual hopped on drugs. The other allows you to protect yourself from him and his buddy with the crowbar.
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 @xxxlonewolf49 Air support is a way to deliver fires. Fire is agnostic.
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 @TheLumberjack1987 Using aircraft to strike artillery puts pilots and airframe in SAM range too...
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 @xxxlonewolf49 The effects are the same. If I detect an enemy massing up and I call an equivalent fire, it shouldn't matter if aircraft or artillery delivered it.
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 @alek9195 There were instances in this war where Ukraine achieved localized air superiority.
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@xxxlonewolf49 Nobody said they are the same. They just accomplish the same objective. Targeting is irrelevant, and the munitions/effects on target is determined by payload. For example, an air dropped cluster munition can have its effects mimicked by several artillery shells of cluster munition. How it's called is irrelevant. You're getting bogged down in the details. Accuracy is determined by the weapon itself, artillery can be guided. Or if you're firing unguided shells, you can use your known shot dispersion to call for a number of shells so that the % that lands on target is equivalent to air dropped munitions. Available use is precisely the type of factor that would force you to use artillery in a situation where air support is not available. Again, range means that aerial strikes can be conducted at strategic depth (although they require more planning and risk so they're less common), but there's a bubble where you'll have both kinds of fire overlapping. You're confusing "use" in a tactical sense and "use" in a very literal meaning, as in operating the weapon. Air support can replace artillery and artillery can replace air support, the context of the situation of what determines what's doable or isn't.
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You don't understand. If you encrypt messages they can be seen, but they're ENCRYPTED so they can't be read. They want to make cryptography itself illegal.
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@youruncle2 If encryption was that easily defeated we'd know about it. We'd have hackers busting into the systems of every bank, government, etc. as the entire concept of security crumbled into nothing.
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@youruncle2 You don't understand encryption, full stop. Even if you create a type of encryption that doesn't mean you can solve it. Encryption is essentially a maths problem. Government's can't break maths and somehow make the problem easier to solve.
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Bakhmut is useless if Ukraine is just going to hook around Severodonetsk lmao
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Stop excusing murder, you maniac.
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@electricspeedkiller8950 the Mi-24 suffers from being too much of a gunship to be a good attack helicopter and too much of an attack helicopter to be a good transport. Basically the Soviet/Russian doctrine was to just not use the troop transport ability of the Mi-24 and use them as escorts for Mi-8s carrying troops. Later Russia developed the Mi-28 Havoc and Ka-52 Alligator which are conventional attack helicopters because the troop transport function is a waste of resources.
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>promotes nuclear >"fossil fuel industry" You people make me sick with all the ignorance you display.
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@korbindallis the Cheyenne was not killed by interservice rivalry, the case went to court and it was determined that the Cheyenne, A-10 and Harrier were not redundant.
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@msnpassjan2004 Unsuitable for carrier ops.
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@korbindallis Do you understand how that relates to the topic or am I going to have to explain that also?
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@korbindallis That doesn't make any sense. Both the agreements between chiefs of staff and the court case determine that there was no objection to an Army purchase of Cheyennes. How would have it worked for the Air Force? No, it wouldn't have done the job of the A-10 because they're extremely different airframes. The Cheyenne was rejected more likely due to Bell lobbying, especially since Lyndon Johnson had ties to them.
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@LuvBorderCollies The Army generals acted like children, the USAF gave their all to resolve their differences but Army kept pushing them away and trying to become self-reliant. Literally every historical detail shows the USAF bending over backwards to satisfy the Army, but somehow a few people who wrote a few books with a slanted narrative managed to make people believe the exact opposite happened.
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It's Russia vs Ukraine and access to western surplus stores. In no universe is Russia fighting 20 countries.
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 @sanskar9679 Bucha was the most reported but mass graves and torture sites were found in other towns and cities.
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Russia demolishes entire cities. Meanwhile overhead pictures of Baghdad show the US left most of the city intact during the invasion.
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@sanskar9679 A UN investigation of what?
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@sanskar9679 Pretty sure the UN can't enter Russian occupied towns.
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 @martins4555 They did look good.
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Because not only is the USAF heavily invested in mud moving, especially in the last twenty years, all those branches know that the Army can't fly A-10s due to the Key West agreement. And Marines want something that can fly off carriers.
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@frank832 What grand scheme? Becoming a vassal state to China and India?
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Ten times more equipment, half of it is rust and the other half stripped of parts.
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We won't suffer. Your troops will.
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They're not assault rifles. And if you wanted to go deeper on the subject, there's zero difference between an assault rifle and a normal rifle if we ignore the select fire capability. It's a tube that contains an explosion and shoots hot metal out one side. In a normal rifle you have to release the trigger, in an assault rifle if you flick a switch you can just press the trigger once and shoot multiple times. So in the end, they're still exploiting your reaction to the term "assault rifle" to get rid of weapons.
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@kellsAC1 Canada already had a 5 round limit on magazines so that is a moot point. Also, there's non "assault" weapons which have the exact same capabilities as assault weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHSwsCoXgkg The definition of an assault weapon is based on "cosmetic"/"external" features rather then internal mechanism.
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They're sending T-55s into battle.
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+Collin being pro-American is all about recognizing the fucks who are sending Americans to die. Defending these tyrants is anti-American.
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Look up Don Alejo Garza Tamez.
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Because they hit several tons of ammo. The US Army has a handbook on how to fight Russian forces, and one of their points is that their supply depots are unsafe and can be obliterated in a single hit. The Russians put that hell near civilian areas. No wonder people were killed, they put massive amounts of explosives and propellant in unsafe storage.
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@whatsmolly5741 I don't care what Zelensky said. I saw the explosion and that was obviously a munitions depot. Russia operates that rocket. They ran an article saying they delayed the retirement before the war. Ukraine has showed the tail sections of Tochka-Us fired from Belarus. And now they sent them to the separatist republics. They stopped talking about Kramatorsk because even more atrocities happened. The Russian state media already said that the target location was given by US spy satellite. Why would a spy satellite be giving information on civilian targets? The humanitarian aid depot with uniformed men and ammo crates inside? I think I saw those telegram screenshots.
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@whatsmolly5741 I'm delusional but Russian media says American spy satellites stop in mid air.
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"Muh nukes" after 9 months of this (and a decade of saber rattling) I am so sick of hearing about the Russian nukes. Either shit or get off the pot.
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They'd probably mishandle that money. Check out how much they get every year.
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The hell does that mean? The geosynchronous orbit is like 36,000 km away from Earth, you can't detect thermal signatures from that far away. The satellites that could in theory track heat signatures only take a snapshot every 12 minutes so you'd need people spending entire days trying to analize just 12 minute gaps to have any worthwhile intelligence.
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The British naval Harriers had the Sea Fox radar and they were fighting Mirages at the edge of their range. The Argentinians could not come into the fight and turn in afterburner because they needed the fuel to return to base on continental South America. The Harriers were fighting with "home turf" advantage in the middle of the sea. In land it would have been different. The USMC Harriers are closer to the RAF Harriers - which were used as close air support aircraft in the Falklands unlike the Sea Harriers. The AV8B II has a electro-optical targeting system in the nose, where a radar would be.
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Russia failed in the winter.
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@ramonjr.deluna9584 Remember Afghanistan? Remember the first Chechen War? Remember the Battle of Tsushima? Russia has been beat. Remember Kiev? Russia lost in winter.
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@mathewpoole3589 "basic survival needs will not be able to easily comprehend how 1 hour of their time is a worth while price for access to some electricity" - you did not just mention "basic survival needs" and then act like 1 hour of labour is no biggie, did you? Yeah, in a survival situation I'm gonna waste time and energy powering a few lights at the cost of greater food and water consumption.
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@mathewpoole3589 "Shelter, drinkable water, and food in that order, are the important factors for survival, and if 1 hour of labour can make it easier then yes it is a worth while expenditure." - I don't see how pedal electricity is going to improve any of those things. "The 1 hour can be done at any time of the day, be it morning, noon or night. But I guess that's too hard for you the fathom." - it isn't. The problem is that if you have to perform agricultural work all day or bring water by foot you are not going to want to sit down a pedal for ANY amount of time at any time of day. "Also electronics are much easier to ship not to mention store." - the electronics need to be made in an industrial area and shipped to remote areas. Fuel can be found on any town. "Why must they be hand cranked, cause you know human power and all that?" - holy shit man a hand-cranked tool with a direct purpose is vastly more useful than a pedal generator. "There go these people have limited access to fuel, or no access what so ever as its no viable to ship it into them." - yes but you have to reconcile the fact that those people are also remote enough that they do not have the electronics to make use of the little electric power this contraption could give them.
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@mathewpoole3589 "Electronics that you buy in the Us, England or even Australia are not made wholly there." - exactly, because there are reliable supply lines. You're speaking of areas without reliable supply lines. "If 1 hour on a bike can help to improve my quality of living." - again I want to stress you're speaking of areas that don't even have access to fuel. I'm not sure anything electronic is going to improve quality of living. "Compared to hours of wondering around, picking up wood and dried plant material" - which will provide light and warmth. Fucking electric room heaters are rated above 1000W and you want 270W pedaling to make a difference... And if you're in a warm country trying to power an A/C... Forget it. "All the while risking getting bitten by snakes, spiders or preditors, not to mention frostbite in winter." - a risk you're gonna have to take when going out for food or water anyway. "If I'm isolated it can be shipped in just like how the water pumps are, just like how water purifiers are," - the big difference is that water pumps and water purifiers have direct applications. The pedal is only useful to charge phones/laptops and power electric lights, which are things the locals are not in desperate need of if their situation is so dire. It wouldn't be enough to power a lathe that could be used to make replacement parts or something that's actually productive because if people are in situations so bad they can't get fuel I am sure being productive and securing self-sustenance will be more important than small comforts like electric lighting when we humans had light before electricity. "and just like how solar panels are (keep in mind not all areas are suitable for solar)." - an area unsuitable for solar can be suitable for wind. "You've not made one argument that has counted anything I've said." - yes, I have made plenty. "Human power is readily available" - it's also extremely weak and inefficient. You're taking plants, or animals fed on plants and processing them through the human digestive system to harness energy that the human will then transmit to a machine. You're losing efficiency at every step of the way. If human power was such a big fucking deal we'd all be using it. "How are electronics sent around the world and delivered to distant locations." - the same way fuel is. So if you can send electronics, you can send fuel as well. So why the fuck would you be sending a billionaire's scam contraption that can barely keep the lights on?
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@mathewpoole3589 "logistically think" don't you mean think logically? Because it doesn't take logistics to realize that if you can't power REAL tools that multiply human labour you're not doing much to advance that society.
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@mathewpoole3589 "As in being able to see things from beginning-middle-end." - you're the one insisting people who can't get fuel can get electronics so I am seriously doubting your abilities in that department. "you struggle to see how the pieces fit." - I could say the same thing yourself. The pedals can only power trinkets. You're seriously suggesting trading an hour of labour (that could be useful elsewhere) to power electric lights and not much more. "You have your predetermined results" - it's not predetermined results. How the fuck is 270 watts of human power gonna help you plow the fields or drill wells? There's actual people doing actual work by designing farming machinery that can compete with industry-made but expensive machines around internal combustion engines which can be modified to run on wood gas or other biofuels. You're not gonna fucking Flintstone a combine harvester into working condition. "you'll take the steps that suit your agenda" - my dude you're the one defending an either delusional billionaire or a con-man. You have the agenda here.
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Interesting. Maybe that seat is picked by so many people vs the others that the springs have lost strength over the years?
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Doesn't matter, Kathy Griffin has behaved in ways that warranted a ban. Why the double standard?
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@FloKorp86 that's like saying if I kill a person I don't have to go to jail because I didn't kill as many as Ted Bundy. It doesn't matter what the exposure or reach is. You could have one follower and if you break the rules, you will get banned. Fly under the radar? You think that a bunch of right wing people didn't click the report button? The topic was talked about extensively.
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Actually the whole world argues about this periodically. What do you think happened in Norway after the Utoya massacre? What do you think happened in 2010 after that mass shooting in the UK? Speaking about civilization, doesn't your country have a city that is the European champion in rape?
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Marines can't fly them off short deck carriers, Army can't afford to spend billions to adopt aircraft that will need to be retired immediately. They're over 40 years old.
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@ggccghg I'm sure the CCP elites are seen in good eyes. Hell, they even pressure athletes to become their mistresses. I'm sure a 18-19 year old soldier will fight for 60-70 year old Party members and their concubines.
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@DONNALANDS Chernobyl mutations are a pop culture thing. And it's estimated that only 4,000 out of the 5 million people living in the area died of cancers resulting from the disaster.
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@DONNALANDS "there are better ways to boil water" - Do you have a clean one? Because apparently even using the Sun to boil water requires gas plants to start burning fossil fuel whenever the salt gets dangerously cold.
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@DONNALANDS How do you power the microwave? Thermal energy is just nuclear with extra steps. Why do you think the Earth's hot enough? Radioactive decay. Pumping a working fluid into the Earth's crust or a nuclear reactor is essentially the same thing. Iceland has actually found a correlation between geothermal and cancer but it's a single study so the science is not settled. What does silica have to do with anything? Your microwave CONSUMES energy, it doesn't generate it. What does salt water matter? A conductor doesn't generate energy, otherwise the electrical wire in your house would power your appliances, rather than the grid.
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@edennis8578 Justice for what? They stole land, they killed 298 people in the MH17 when they gave the 332 marked Buk launcher to the separatists. Belonged to the 53rd anti air missile brigade, Kursk.
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@thomastruong8382 The peace was stopped by the separatist thugs.
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That's wrong. Thin metal casings transfer heat to the barrel. Thick polymer cases will absorb the heat. The handles on your pots and pans are brass or plastic? Plastic is an insulator.
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Seems like the pilots are forgetting their SERE courses, then.Single engine reliability is pretty good today.
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@NagromMit1 Statistically speaking, it doesn't matter. https://www.safety.af.mil/Portals/71/documents/Aviation/Engine%20Statistics/USAF%20Twin%20Engine.pdf?ver=2019-12-05-121310-513 https://www.safety.af.mil/Portals/71/documents/Aviation/Engine%20Statistics/USAF%20Single%20Engine.pdf?ver=2019-12-05-121311-920 The F-15 fitted with the F100-229 has a cummulative rate of 0.61 class A mishaps per 100k hours, while the F-16 fitted with the same engine has had zero class A mishaps. Even though the engine is the same, the two engine aircraft is less reliable than the single engine one. The conclusion that single-engine aircraft are inherently less reliable can't be drawn from modern engines.
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But there are around 170 F-22s in flying condition compared to a thousand F-35 and counting.
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+Scotty Rotten if you read any study showing that (I think it was Arthur Kellerman who started that shit) you'll see that they're completely ruined by reverse causation. Even Kellerman was accused of releasing truncated data rather than the raw data, and when he caved in he admitted that it wasn't 43 times like he claimed but 3.4/3.8 times or something like that. Massive backpedaling. All the studies done that show that "fact" are based on the same methodology.
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The separatists. They killed and kidnapped Georgian police/soldiers.
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@MrJdsenior there's a photo of a Russian KIA who has a bullet hole in the plate carrier, and there's blood around the hole... and the plate pocket is full, so whatever they put there was not armor
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@MrJdsenior Even the Russian stuff is ceramic. Check the channel Oxide for Russian armor tests. The thing is... he probably bought the armor plates from someone that was stealing them from the army.
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@nautyseilor6402 If your TV is in my house, it's mine now. Launch codes? Remove the safeties and install your own.
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@George-ur8ow How does helping a country violate a treaty?
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@philipuwumarogie9796 Mexico isn't asking China for equipment because the US hasn't been threatening to invade for years.
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@knowledge3563 This comment is copypasted everywhere. Most Iraqi deaths were caused by Iraqis. Not America's fault the first thing they did when Saddam was gone was go down the path of sectarian violence.
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The rail hub at Kupiansk, a very important logistics artery for Russian forces in the East.
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@Evan Tchernine the issue is that every S400 battery will be saturated with HARM missiles, glide bombs, decoy drones, cruise missiles, EW aircraft jamming the radars, etc and at one point the defenses will be overwhelmed and start letting missiles and bombs through.
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Well, it won't because the war utterly broke them. They're sending men in golf carts and motorcycles now.
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Gun violence halved since the 90's.
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What position of strength?
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There are no NATO soldiers in Ukraine.
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This is cope. None of this is affected by BRICS. Production is down. Retail purchases are down. Small and medium businesses can't get loans. 40-60% inflation in the market sectors that depend on imports. How are the BRICS involved in this? Where's their database where BRICS have all their factories and credit cards in Russia but off the books so nobody notices? Gas is less than 2 per gallon, but their wages are much lower. Fresh bread. You'll find that on any store in the West. Vodka? Is this a new economic measurement? They'll drink to forget this dark period, more like. Fancy technology is just accessories? How do you extract oil and gas without technology?
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This joke took more effort than the suicide cover story.
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@adriaanluijk3562 A coup where the parliament got together and voted for snap elections. This has happened in Italy like 7 times since the 70s. Do we call them a coup government too?
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@steinarjonsson_ "The separatists weren't targeting civilians, they were fighting back against the Ukrainian military that was sent there to exterminate them" - I'm sorry, you dress in military garb, wield a rifle, and fight a government, what exactly do you expect the government to do?
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Good Vibes "Yesterday's Resolution was not signed by the Serbs, any of the BRICS countries, Africa and the Arab countries" - I'm noticing a pattern here...
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@brokenking5044 there was melted aluminum.
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Undisputed, undefeated, never lost a round.
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Look up "Who says dumb shells can't kill tanks?", a pdf of an article by a US officer. Artillery does work.
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 @itsallminor6133 There's no benefits with an alliance with Russia, and if Ukrainians laid down their arms they'd be killed anyway. We saw what happened in Bucha.
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A 400 dollar drone is a DJI. You're no attacking infrastructure with those.
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 @AmericanDivaa if the video is old use the "before:YYYY" trick by using the year. I once couldn't find an old documentary on YT but using "before:2013" I found it in less than 5 minutes.
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All B-52s prior the H variant have been retired after the Cold War.
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What are you implying?
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@GeoRyukaiser What truth?
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Russian MREs use commercial components packaged into a box, while Western MREs either mix commercial components with purpose made meal packs or have all the components purpose made to be MREs.
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 @redknight6077 dead hand device. It goes off even if you let go.
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 @tutorialbiz those homes are often remote as hell, it's for retirees cuz you can't hold a job there
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 @aylmer666 MacGregor claimed Ukraine would lose March-April 2022. He's a liar.
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Nothing amazing about having access to half of a country's borders and separatist enclaves.
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@81sertoma Please, Russia has Nazis in Wagner. Nazis are a hammer and both sides are using them as tools.
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The reservists are just civilian men who need to be called up, given weapons and uniforms, etc. Russia can't outfit 2 million reservists...
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How would that do anything? We'd have more skin cancer.
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@aibel99 Makes perfect sense. They have no air force, no navy, no strategic capability to supply the logistics for an invasion. But they can get into the heads of angry people and convince them to do harm.
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 @Gidi66 Which essentially means that their "values" boil down to scam each other as much as possible before it goes bust.
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@estoy3300 Did you specifically go to a broadcast show and tell you weed smoking stories to look cool to the younger voters so you can get elected to the highest office in the country? Your youtube comment would get a pass. Hardly anyone will read it and you're not seeking glory. You're confusing inconsequential small talk and political campaigning.
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@JP-re3bc you can't beat physics. If the radio waves bounce off the stealth shape and do not come back it can't be detected.
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When aerial gunnery is harder than firing a missile within parameters kind of devalues your point. Putting a gun on a fighter does nothing when pilots aren't sufficiently trained to use it.
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@shannonkohl68 However, Phantom pilots were sufficiently trained to score over a hundred missile kills in Vietnam. There were like 6 gunpod kills and 5 kills with the E variant nose gun. Or the other way around. Missiles won.
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@Nick-wh4jt So? The UK paid off their lend-lease debt. The debt is purposefully paid off over many decades to hurt those countries the least.
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@calegrenillo-weaver4574 you didn't learn vaccine science in highschool. You don't even learn organic chemistry in highschool. Stop lying.
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@calegrenillo-weaver4574 okay, how did you calculate dosage or study the development of antibodies before you even had gone through college classes on biology or chemistry?
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@matthewware8973 The reason for the comparison was because the context was water usage. A lot of rice is farmed on flooded fields.
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Remember when nationalist Chinese started burning H&M products? After the Uyghur slavery concerns some clothing brands stopped buying cotton from Xinjiang province. Western brands may not be saints, but when push comes to shove they are aware of PR nightmares and switch suppliers. Dare your friends to find the most unethical component in the xbox and start a campaign for it to get changed. Microsoft will most likely do something.
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@Dubanx The F-22 dropped bombs in Syria. At this stage it makes no sense to not give multirole abilities to fighters.
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Tons of suppressors in use in Ukraine.
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Making an anti-war movie by provoking an actual war is kind of crossing the line.
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>micro Okay and you can't power cities and industry with that. You can't create free energy. If you put enough micro generators along a river to power a large city and factories, you have essentially did the same thing a dam does.
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Coal mines also produce long term pollution.
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Current service members seem to support US foreign policy while jaded retired vets want isolationism.
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@whynot-tk1uz Ukraine has domestic Neptune missiles and already used Harpoon missiles.
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@BosphorusFloods YBS is a Yazidi militia. By saying "straight to" this means he went from serving in the YBS under threat of Turkish drones and immediately went to Ukraine.
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@dscott_ There's also another body involved in that matter. It's inherently nonsensical to appeal to abortion as an argument because the divide lies in one side saying that there are TWO PEOPLE involved in that situation, while the opposite side claims there's only one. There's no incongruity between the belief that you have a choice while also believing that abortion inherently denies someone choice.
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With an electrode going around the magnet you can get a reasonably consistent coat all around. If you grind the coat away you need to make it even all around which means a precision jig that allows you to rotate the workpiece and fix a grinding tool with some kind of fine adjustment.
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 @petehowett2854 is the world bank just repeating Russian data or have they done an audit of Russia's economy?
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Bruh Brazil is known for the gay and trans scene. Their traditional culture is bordeline strippers in floats during Mardi Gras.
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You can't just land it. The thing has the world's most powerful blowtorch sticking out the back and a fan that really shouldn't ingest hot air or debris. A small stretch of highway is flat, reasonably smooth and won't have a lot of debris beyond little bolts that fell off cars and empty cans tossed out of windows. In the middle of a wooded area or rough terrain? Not worth the risk.
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Figure of speech. People say "it's a steal" or "I'm losing money" to make a sale. No money is taken from anywhere.
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They fly "low and smart" but also accomplish very little. American air power means flying over the enemy with impunity, picking targets at will and dishing out punishment. Ukrainians are desperately using unguided rockets in ballistic arcs.
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Just saying, but if a bad guy sees the gun and fears it, you'd be in more trouble for shooting a person in the back than admitting you didn't use the gun. >If you show your weapon and do not use it. You will be hammered, confiscation and loss of your right to posses arms. Can the possibility of collateral damage be a suitable defense?
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 @woodrowcall3158 That's on Russia. We can't exactly make it a better place to live.
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 @ashfield1425 Refugees would still exist because people would flee occupied areas and Ukraine would be impoverished.
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@woodrowcall3158 There would be refugees. People fled the zones ruled by Russians.
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 @lazyman7505 Funnily enough Russia had their nuclear-carrying missiles refurbished in Ukraine prior to 2014. Not bad for a country that destroyed its own MIC.
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It's hard seltzer.
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It's not the F-35s fault the opponents are incompetent. If anything, Syria had Russian-built defenses and even a Russian-manned S-400 system. Pakistan used Chinese fighters and defenses against Indian Rafales. Iranian air defenses were compromised by air strikes and drone ambushes prior to the F-35s going in. And Russian air defenses constantly fail to intercept drones and even shoot down civilian airliners.
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Homeless people get billions in aid.
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The trans pride flag AHAHAHAH who do you think you're fooling Ivan?
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Not true. The first hypersonic use was Khinzal, which is exclusively air launched. It needs speed and altitude to reach hypersonic, which the submarine does not have.
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@Tod_oMal Yes, so? That's not proof it was used, nor proof it was used before Khinzal.
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@TK-nc3ou I see replies on the bathroom stall graffiti too. Replying to that requires whipping out a marker pen while taking a dump so if anything writings on stalls are more important than your comment.
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They have air power.
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reform-revolution It's not used for the same reason, awakening is a very generalist metaphor. For example the Anbar Awakening during the Iraqi war. Were Iraqis "woke" for halting the warlord infighting and focusing on helping the United States root out the insurgency?
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@illarionbykov7401 So you corrected Malice knowing damned well he didn't need correction just to be Uncle Ted levels of pedantic?
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@illarionbykov7401 He wasn't wrong by your own admission. You understand what people mean by flying cars. Flying cars do not exist. When configured to be air worthy, they're aircraft. Even ignoring the objections such as practicality or cost, they're just a combination of automobile and aircraft with the problems associated with trying to both combine different vehicle types but also the fact that aircraft are extremely impractical. I know that predictions are constrained by not predicting the correct path technology was going to take. But the imagining of the flying car was more about verticality than flight. We knew heavier-than-air flight was possible. Combining an aircraft with an automobile was quite literally a step backwards. Recognizing that life is not like the Jetsons isn't being pedantic. Finding an example of limited production oddities that do not represent at all what was being predicted and using it as an example is being pedantic. You're the one being pedantic, why are you accusing me of being Ted?
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@illarionbykov7401 The examples of flying cars you presented are just aircraft. They're unconventional aircraft, but they're still aircraft. They function as aircraft, are registered as aircraft, etc. They also need reconfiguration and cannot perform both duties seamlessly. It's an aircraft that can be configured to function as a car and vice versa. But it's not a flying car and it's not a driving airplane. It's two different things at two different times.
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Used to be SERE instructor and now is JTAC I think?
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All I'm saying is, the more it costs to make the better it is for everyone involved except the taxpayer. Lockheed Martin gets paid and politicians get reelected at our expense. The F-16 is an excellent fighter that claimed it's fame for being an excellent jack of all trades. It's affordable to many countries which can field F-16s and use them to defend their airspace and for bombing without having to acquire dedicated ground attack aircraft. Nobody complains about it being a jack of all trades. It will absolutely do anything the F-16 does, it's pretty much a F-16 on steroids. And considering that the F-16 is a better CAS plane than the A-10 itself... Does not do anything better than currently existent aircraft? Then how come the F-35 absolutely wipes the floor with the F-15 and F-16 in the Red Flag exercises? How come is it able to do the Harrier's job better than the Harrier itself and without suffering any losses?
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LaRouche schizo theories about coups. Yawn.
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That was the Eurocopter Tiger.
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@Wiegraf And most of them are rust buckets. It costs a ton of money to keep tanks in fighting shape.
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@lainswrld1654 You could say the same about the USSR in 1991. It had been around for longer than many people. Then it was no more.
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Motte and bailey fallacy.
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@-JustHuman- "88% in favor of growing the game" - but that's a lie. People voted for stretch goals. Stretch goals are cherries on top. Roberts himself said that the base game would be the priority, that the stretch goals wouldn't expand the scope of the game and that stretch goals could be completed after release. Again, stretch goals are cherries on top. Not the base game.
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@-JustHuman- ""extra features and development milestones." That means the game will be bigger." - nope. Extra features are exactly that. Extra. "No I your misunderstanding that" - I didn't. Robert's own words "the more funds we can raise in the pre-launch phase, the more we can invest in additional content (more ships, characters etc.) and perhaps more importantly we can apply greater number of resources to the various tasks to ensure we deliver the full functionality sooner rather than later." "There has been some concern about “feature creep” with the additional stretch goals. You should all know that we carefully consider the goals we announce." "we don’t commit to adding features that would hold up the game’s ability to go “live” in a fully functional state. Also remember that this is not like a typical retail boxed product — there is no rule that all features and content have to come online at the same time" Roberts clearly said that there would be no feature creep. The money would be used for content and to make the game release sooner than faster. He also said that stretch goals would be added after release. This means the game's scope doesn't expand, the game is released anyway but the extra content from stretch goals would be released afterwards. "Do you have a link on that, because I haven't seen that anywhere ?, or are you just making it up" - https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/13284-Letter-From-The-Chairman-20-Million
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@-JustHuman- "HOW would that ever be something they could make AFTER the game ?" - remember when Mass Effect Andromeda shipped with placeholder animations that were later replaced by patching? Either way the mocap is done in parallel. The developers working on the game are not the people shooting the scenes. You can film the mocap, develop the game, and you add the mocap to the game during development without needing delays. "no mention of stretch goals through" - read again. The more funds they raise, the sooner you get the game. "It's miles apart from what you said" - no, it isn't. "Also remember that this is not like a typical retail boxed product — there is no rule that all features and content have to come online at the same time" - features can be added after release "we don’t commit to adding features that would hold up the game’s ability to go “live” in a fully functional state." - stretch goals will not add delays "There has been some concern about “feature creep” with the additional stretch goals. You should all know that we carefully consider the goals we announce." - again, Roberts claims that there won't be scope creep. So when the community voted, they were ensured that their vote wouldn't lead to delays, no scope creep and that the priority was releasing the game first. The claim that the community voted to expand the scope of the game holds no water because that's not what they were told.
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@Dumb-Comment depends on what you consider a scam. Do I think Chris Roberts genuinely wants to make the game but simply can't manage a project? Yes. So I can't call it a scam as in a scheme to steal money. Do I think it made Chris Roberts a lot of money from gamers' hopes and they'll probably be disappointed? Yeah, I would consider that a "scam" in the colloquial sense.
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 @ARKSH_22 False. Azov was cops and football hooligans.
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Cheap as a missile? We have those. They're called missiles.
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Because it requires a nuclear weapon?
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Klitschko filmed a video with the wreckage. There's also a piece of missile that fell near a bus stop that looks exactly like a Khinzal fairing.
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@Rick_Sanchez_C137_ The A-10s were made until 1984 and except for the ones made in in the last year of the production run, they had fuselage defects that lead to early stress fractures and required a structural upgrade. The airframes are still in use because some of them had entire sections replaced.
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@zlpatriot11 The A-10 was supposed to have been retired in the 90s. Saying they "want to replace it for the more costly F-35" is a very misleading way to put it.
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Then how can aircraft fly through clouds?
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@mookiestewart3776 Taiwan contained it by thinking the opposite of "we're all gonna be fine".
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A naval war won't use land war supplies.
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@randyhavard6084 Okay. And Taiwan will reply in kind, causing crippling damage to China. If it gets to a shooting war Taiwan's main priority is to make sure that China goes down with them, and cause irrecoverable damage. There would be no landing. Too much hassle, too much death. Just kneecap the country.
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@gamersrepublic6920 the range is only that high because you're injured by the fragments, not the actual blast size.
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To be fair, in the Cold War they had the Polish and the Ukrainians on their side.
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It was called Viper because of Battlestar Galactica. Not 10 years ago. Also many aircraft have a nickname. Thunderbolt II is the "Warthog". The Strike Eagle is the "Mudhen". The Super Hornet is the "Rhino". No name change occurs. The manufacturer gives them an official name for the brochure. The pilots call it whatever they want.
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No, if you fail an invasion you lose.
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The F-35s are pretty cheap. Assange was kind of a nutter. His claim to fame was the collateral murder video, which was guncam footage of an Apache providing support to ground forces which were being ambushed. The men with cameras were filming men with RPGs and AKs who were firing on a convoy, so they were probably filming insurgent propaganda. Assange made it look like they were innocent journalists. He also refrained from publishing stuff that made Russia look bad and once retweeted the Russian UK embassy's tweet on Skripal.
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@derekwarner6898 That's missing the point. Now Russia has to spend money buying foreign cars, while the domestic industry suffers. Money that before didn't need to go to cars is being used on cars, and money people used to be paid by working at the car factory isn't coming. All the ways around the sanctions dorce Russia to spend more, essentially money that gets sucked into a black hole. All that extra money could be used on weapons.
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@jcboyle82 And what exactly does "oversight" actually mean? Give me a good faith interpretation, because I can only come up with pessimistic ones.
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@jcboyle82 "a committee where people who have knowledge of these technologies could have access to any algorithm or UX changes and user testing they partake in" - I don't see how that is any better. Where is this committee coming from? What are their directives? I don't think it's similar to the FCC at all.
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@jcboyle82 The FCC doesn't have committees inside broadcasting corporations censoring stuff. If they step out of line and violate FCC rules, they get fined.
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@jcboyle82 How do you think it works? The FCC doesn't jump in front of the camera to make sure nobody sees the wardrobe malfunction. They get complaints filed to them and they issue fines in case of violation.
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@jcboyle82 You're completely changing the meaning of words. First you said a committee with insider access to UX or algorithms. These are people making decisions on the inside, before they happen. You're comparing it with an enforcement agency that doesn't need access to the insides of cable networks, they investigate and issue fines after violations happen. The FCC is like normal police, your committee (or the whistleblower's) is Minority Report.
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@jcboyle82 If this is how the world is, then why are you (or the whistleblower) asking for change? I mean, you already have the world you want. It's already the way it is, right? That's what you just told me. You've stopped arguing and just declared victory and tossed insults my way. That's simply you being defeated. Have a nice one.
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@harmless6813 Yeah, and we've seen that what's published "on paper" is purposefully nerfed to not demonstrate the true abilities. In the Antonovsky bridge the Ukrainians used GMLRS volleys where a rocket punched a hole in the top surface of the road, the second rocket flew into the hole and exploded inside the box girder to blast the bottom surface too. If hits can be stacked on top of each other like that, you know they had like a 80-90% chance of landing within a meter sized hole. Same as the rockets having 70km range, like a week after the HIMARS strikes began, they launched a strike with an estimated 85km range. The published range "on paper" is the original contract requirement, the real range has been improved over years of testing and development.
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That's the problem, the other things they are guilty of. If someone dies as a result of your crime, you will be held liable for that death. The shotgun was grabbed. Yes. In a maneuver that was a reaction to the McMichael's confrontation. If you instigated a confrontation, brought the weapon to the scene, fail to retain it in a way that leads to a struggle for the gun... You're in big trouble.
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"but at that point you can just develop new AP rounds for already existing munitions" - That's not how it works. The demand for tungsten to manufacture AP cores for all that ammo would go through the roof and replete the strategic reserves. The only option is a round with greater momentum that doesn't have to use exotic cores.
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 @johnbennett980 And the nice suit is hiding a monster underneath. Kind of proving Zelensky's point. The fine suits are hypocritical.
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@igorgrbaslijev8593 The 70000 casualties are a claim which the source of which was a Shoigu statement to TASS. Use a better source, please.
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@igorgrbaslijev8593 Did they?
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The F-35 has a 25mm cannon and they are not "gunfighters" because the gun is either a last resort or a strafing weapon for close air support. The F-4 was originally an interceptor so no need for a gun when used as intended.
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He also stated that Ukraine would collapse April 2022. He lied.
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This is approaching cargo cult mentality. If both sides can deny air, they can fight without air superiority.
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@r2com641 Israel has other tiers of missile defense. Israel itself only uses Iron Dome against the lower tiered threats. How is this American ego? Israel itself has better missiles for actual defense against military threats. If what you're saying is true, why isn't the entire country just defended by Iron Dome? Why do they have other anti-missile systems?
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@ThomasBestonso-zr4ko it came back with half the plane missing because it has to run the gauntlet to do its job. Everyone agrees not getting hit in the first place is better than purposefully trying to get hit.
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This is meant to kill machines. Lay off the drugs.
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So you get twice the lies?
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Copy pasted comment.
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If you read what the Russian milbloggers are posting, it's not a failure. They're already saying it's going to be another Kherson.
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@ggergger8584 Just like Kherson was Russia forever, then after months of fighting they left in about a week.
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"Muh nooks, muh nooks" thanks, demoralization agent. Russia has spent decades threatning nukes. 4 oblasts? They lost the main city in one and don't control the capital in another.
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This may have happened but from what I understand all "offline cracks" involved some kind of hacking and just listening for the server commmunications isn't enough. But I may be wrong.
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Why would the weapons go to Syria? Russia arms Syria already.
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@nightdipper5178 Complete schizo theory. So instead of following supply and demand, weapons are being smuggled by Russians into Syria and into the hands of pro-Assad forces... who are allied with Russia... and will kill Russian servicemen????
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@Rabbi Shlomo Shekelbergstein >threatened Again towing the line.
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Hitler was fighting against the Ukrainians too. The Soviet Union was bigger than just Russia.
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@kuunoooo7293 The US wasn't fighting North Vietnam when they broke the Paris Accords. The NVA was utterly broken from having to fight South Vietnam and the US, so peace was negotiated. After political turmoil in the US, North Vietnam invaded the South. During the fall of Saigon, the US was flying people out of Vietnam but they weren't trying to fight the North again.
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@jg3000 It's not that they don't "like" it. It's that they literally have no choice. Just like the Su-57 program fell apart when India pulled out, the MiG-35 needed foreign buyers. Russia's arms exports allowed them to put their own weapons into production. They only bought a few because they needed the foreign sales to manufacture more.
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How was Georgia demilitarized? They're not neutral - they force Russians that flee to sign a document saying that Russia is at fault. Georgia hates Russia for what they've done, they're not neutral.
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Many pro-Ukraine people left the East in 2014, and Russian citizens moved in.
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@letsdothisshiat1162 "having no fly zones wouldnt have started a war, if anything it would of reduced the number of civilian casualties" - how do you propose enforcing a No Fly Zone without shooting down aircraft?
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@tonygilder7912 the constitution does give that right and having worn a uniform and a gun does not make you a constitutional law expert.
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Tony Gilder it's not a matter of hate you fucking Boomer. No, it does not make you an expert. I have talked to many servicemen online who were perfectly willing to spread their asscheeks and take a shit on the constitution despite the oath they took. The absolute best is the fucking Navy who spent all his time inside a submarine and shot an M16 maybe twice in his whole life thinks "assault weapons" need to be banned. So no, serving in the military doesn't teach constitutional law. The whole point of respecting the military is because it's supposed to be a thankless job. If you served so that your opinions are more valid than others (even when they're blatantly incorrect) then you're not performing a thankless job, you can talk all you want about patriotism and serving the country but if you do that, you served for yourself and nobody else. Pure self-interest. If you want to come here and boast about your selflessness about serving, then stop pretending to be a higher class of citizen. This isn't Sparta or Starship Troopers. And again, this isn't about hate. You're literally defending a pledge written by a fucking socialists. Socialists hate America. Forcing people to chant that fucking thing is anti-American.
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Tony Gilder "freedom ain"t free" yeah I pay for my shit too, I'd be outta my mind if I got up and said I can't use my stuff because it wasn't free. Go sleep in your fucking lawn because that bed of yours cost money and you obviously can't enjoy things that have been bought and paid for.
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@jlpowell51 Momentum? Russia honestly looks like the 1986 Miami FBI shooting perp, a fatal bullet wound an inch from the heart but still able to come at the FBI officers and fire at them. You'd give the "momentum" score to the bank robber, even though he's carrying a time limit on his life, simply because he's moving forward.
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@classicgalactica5879 I'm sure the US Navy still has theoretical knowledge of stealth "just in case" as they could face J-20s. Or Su-57s, if we wanted to have a laugh.
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@coolieee It's like a 5 dollar coffee. I can afford something that costs 5 dollars. But for coffee it's difficult to justify. If there's two games at 35 I might pick them both. But if the two games are 70 each I'll just pick the one I'll like the most and wait for sales to get the other one. The price I pay is the same. But the value I get in return is different.
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Mexico's defense is ensured by the US. Why would they need China when the West is trying to build factories in Mexico to bring manufacturing out of CCP grasp?
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@jasongrundy1717 And China is very cozy with places taken over by the ideology. They probably sell the harvested organs to them. They don't care.
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Lisa Simpson did.
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The F-16 and A-10 mostly carry the same weapons, but the A-10 wouldn't be able to use them without getting shot down. The A-10 would have to put itself in the way of incoming damage. The F-16 hits without getting hit.
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They seem to have crashed two Blackhawks already. Compared to Mi-8s there's just less pilots and mechanics to keep them air worthy.
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It would be easier to just infect a person and send them in an all expenses paid vacation.
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Imagine if the US had lost several aircraft and ships in Iraq, advanced a few km per month and kept saying they were kicking Iraq's ass. The US would be the world's laughing stock.
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The Harrier was a dead end design.
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Why would Germany and Russia be allies? The Netherlands and Australia are not exactly happy about MH17.
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The F-22 was not designed with those capabilities in mind. In fact it has weaker sensor and linking capabilities.
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@GStream585 Yes, Ukrainians are so good they invaded Russia, dressed as Russians, filmed themselves and posted the videos in Russian pages. In fact, they're already inside the Kremlin.
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Who cares? They're being flanked.
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The enemy is running through Russia's guts. Trained Ukrainian combat infantry versus internal guards, supply clerks, drivers and cooks. That's not a trap. It's a turkey shoot.
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@beluga7270 They don't need reserves when they're just massacring untrained bullet sponges. Meanwhile, Russians are worried about the Kupyansk railway juntion.
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+Ryder Lee the guns will not be cheaper though. Stolen guns are always cheaper because it only cost you effort to steal one so you can sell it for 300 bucks, now with the Ghost Gunner you'll have to go around and shop for parts. Anyone wanting to make a profit will have to charge above street price for these guns. So what if they're "untraceable"? First of all, they try to eliminate the serial numbers off guns, and when the gun is recovered it's "traced" back to the last legal owner who probably reported it stolen anyway. What does it matter if it's "traceable" if it's going to be traced to someone else anyway? A trace isn't a GPS beacon, it's just looking at previous owners and checking if it was involved in crimes. If they catch you with an unserialized firearm that fires bullets that match bullets fired in robberies and murders you're fucked even if there's no serial number.
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It's only illegal to publicly expose secret evidence. He can talk, he just can't talk about secrets outside closed door hearings.
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"Nobody should be forced to use xhamster" - John McAfee (rip)
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No, he was a SERE instructor and then became a JTAC I believe.
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The elected government voted to remove Yanukovych from power since he was MIA. He left the country and couldn't fulfill his duties. Funny how you people always talk about the "elected government" but not how the parliament (the elected government) voted to remove a criminal from office.
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Russia cannot handle huge losses anymore. It's not the 1940s. It's 2022 and Russia is staring at a demographic problem.
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@tradingwizard562 That's not a good overlap test, that was him putting a transparency layer to trick the brain into seeing what's not there. The proportions and shadows are wrong.
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What drives me crazy is that you don't see how this will be used against you. Surveillance was sold to us as a way to prevent terror, turns out it was mass unwarranted wiretapping.
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No, they aren't, lol. Check out actual Russians providing the insights, their country is being thrown into unemployment and poverty.
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How so?
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@MONARCH1985 Oh you mean the acquisition order being reduced? Okay I get it.
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The US lost Iraq 1991 and 2003? Also the objective in Korea was to defend South Korea which was acomplished.
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Worst psyop ever. The Brits save the day and a US general betrays his own country, plus the CIA is implicated in false flag events.
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@hidden_matrixgaming Look at all the deals? What about them? I'll see? No. Burden of proof is on you.
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@hidden_matrixgaming Representatives from Saab will always come up with excuses to make themselves look better. A Lockheed representative will always say the F-35 is better. You'll call that bias in that case, but not in Saab's case.
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 @Silver_Prussian Out in front would stall the jet. He came from behind, dumped the fuel, overtook the drone from above.
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@nokopanda4642 "ThEy ArEn'T CoMpEtEnT" okay but just running the show requires competency. This reasoning is self defeating because if they were incompetent, the show wouldn't even happen.
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It's just nuclear with extra steps. The Earth's mantle is heated by nuclear decay.
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It's just nuclear with extra steps. The Earth's mantle is heated by nuclear decay.
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@Noktirnal exactly.
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Putin is a threat to the entire free world.
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Defeating Russia inside that country does not require a nuclear exchange according to Russia's own nuclear doctrine.
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@kazedcat independently of the use of a bullet, there are practical limits to bullet velocities. Around 4,000 feet per second you start to ruin the barrels way too fast.
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Macgregor has been consistently wrong about Russian victory and Ritter is a p3d0.
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@Mungo Jerrymungo the maneuver was possible. The Pilots 4 Truth are dumbasses who ignore all documented instances of planes that survived being pushed past their design limits.
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The Donbass suffered under Russian-backed rule, what a surprise. What would have happened with terrorists and scammers in charge?
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This round is too big for the AR.
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@adamdepasacreta3137 This isn't 6.8 SPC. This round is bigger than SPC and 7.62x39.
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Simple - it didn't pull any of those moves. Funny how all the footage shows a slow object but the supposed maneuver was only caught by a faulty radar.
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Yes because there's no such thing as mechanical failsafes or electronics hardening.
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This is cope. Doesn't matter what kind of doctrine one has, convoys should not be breaking down and running out of fuel like this.
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 @A_TAYLOR06 Avdiivka has forced many Russian women to spread their legs, then.
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@TevanBalian You don't understand the point. You're asking for deterministic results in a chaotic world. If you kill JFK, you have "recreated" the event. It wasn't difficult at all. The problem here is that there's a difference between taking the same number of swings to clear a golf course, and getting all your swings to land the ball exactly where a previous player did. Oswald didn't plan to miss the first shot, wound JFK and Connelly with the second, then finish with a third shot to JFK's head. Each shot was decided by timing, the bullet, the quantity of powder inside the casing, etc. If we make very realistic target dummies and keep them static to then take a rifle in a test stand and place a bullet in the right location, we may replicate the second shot. If we put a moving target on a rail and shooters try to nail JFK, they're able to hit JFK. However replicating the EXACT. SAME. BULLET. PATH. is nearly impossible. If Oswald missed the three shots, and a game was made about the failed attempt, you also wouldn't see 1000/1000 scores of people trying to miss in the exact same way.
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@TevanBalian You're still not understanding. The perfect score is a deterministic outcome of a chaotic event. If you miss by an inch you lose points in game. If you miss by an inch in real life, JFK is still dead. I'm sure that with a cheat program the shot could be recreated.
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They speak Ukrainian and Russian when greeting the civilians.
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There's not enough Gripens, A-10s lack parts. It's easier to just pave a runway.
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You can't run across a field with a Javelin on your back and take over a city or town. Stingers were declared obsolete by the US and a replacement will be picked.
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@yugiyami8642 lmao who are they gonna buy from? China? Russia?
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Wrong. Close simply means the proximity of troops in contact.
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@elstevobevo I'm pretty sure that the meaning of CAS always meant proximity to friendly troops. Otherwise any form of ground attack not performed by bombers had to be close air support due to the way bombs were dropped and the close range required for .50 caliber to be effective.
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@startrekmike There's no aggressive push. The A-10 was meant to be retired in the 1990s. Congress keeps the aircraft in life support where it soaks up resources needed elsewhere. You see it as an aggressive push because you don't understand how insane the A-10 life extension has been for decades.
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@monty2654 You're mad because you don't understand the topic. The majority of CAS is performed by fast movers. The A-10 is a fallacy, it's not the main CAS aircraft anymore. Hasn't been in over 20 years.
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@startrekmike What's bizarre is the undeserved fanboyism the A-10 gets. Maybe you're just seeing a reaction to that?
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@monty2654 How is the B-52 related to the topic? You get your information from watching Youtube videos? Have you maybe thought that your perspective is skewed because there's more videos of cinematic aircraft? Because F-16s perform more CAS than the A-10. Congress keeps blocking the retirement because there's jobs involved where the A-10 is stationed. Simple. Are you actually arguing Congress knows their stuff? That's insane.
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@elstevobevo The definition never morphed. Pierre Sprey was never a designer. He was a defense analyst and consulted for the A-X program in its infancy, but he never worked for Fairchild aviation. He never designed any aircraft and the proximity is only related to the lack of precision guidance. Again, close air support never meant that the aircraft needs to be close. Aircraft used to need to be close to the target or else the bomb would fall hundreds of yards away from the intended target.
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@monty2654 The B-52 has qualities that are still useful and the supposed replacements were not built in enough numbers. The A-10 has qualities that were useful in 1960, and most of its job is performed by multirole aircraft. Being part of a military branch doesn't mean much. Just the other day I came across someone who had been in the Army and had to be explained how the trigger mechanism in the M16/M4 works, and stopped responding to me out of embarrassment. Plenty of people think they're experts on things they never learned. Another thing: members of congress are also not on the young side, so their knowledge can be severely out of date. The argument is not about other aircraft. This is about the A-10 being a money issue like everything else. There's representatives with vested interest in it. Just like Bernie Sanders was pro-F-35 because of the jobs it would bring to Vermont. YouTube videos on history. And what do these videos on history have to say that outweighs primary sources and actual documents?
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@monty2654 You don't want to linger on any area that has combat capable enemies. The A-10 is essentially only useful against groups of enemies that can be easily dealt with by drones. They didn't put interest on the A-10, they wanted a turboprop. SOCOM got a turboprop. That's not an A-10.
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@monty2654 "That was the whole point of dedicated CAS platforms in the first place" - First, the original "dedicated CAS" aircraft in the Air Force was the A-7. It was a fast mover. The A-X program was put in motion because despite being an excellent bombing aircraft it was not suitable for Vietnam. The A-10 was birthed from a war where it was feasible to linger around troops in contact. If it has been used in the Fulda Gap scenario, it was understood that the A-10 pilots would be massacred. The only mental gymnastics here is trying to twist oneself into a pretzel to explain how the A-10 is going to survive in close contact with the enemy after the embarrassing losses of Desert Storm.
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Can't hold political stances while in uniform.
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Eric Van That's for nerve gas, though. Chlorine, phosgene, etc. affect the lungs.
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The original DD didn't get shut down. They're still running and selling the Ghost Gunner cnc machines.
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They're ineffective for military purposes. They're like V1s in WWII. Killed Londoners. But the Allies won the war.
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How will your life be impacted when America has no allies and global shipping is halted? Your entire way of life is based on the security of NATO and chokepoints like the Suez Canal and the Taiwan Strait. What do you think happens to all the guys with jobs in the trades when Iran and the Houthis close the Red Sea and China takes Taiwan? You think you'll live like a king saving a few cents on Ukraine when all the tools and materials stop coming and the jobs are gone?
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@TheStoryUp they won't start rolling until you are in place and wearing the seatbelt, so...
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F-16s were used in Operation Opera.
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So they killed 12 pilots? They could have warned them not to take off.
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It's a Bukhanka, or "bread" van. Almost looks like a VW camper and it's iconic because in the beginning of the war you saw armored columns and rocket launcher vehicles rolling down the street and between them cute vans were riding along.
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Hello Mike, weird name for a Russian. But many neo-nazi hooligans in Ukraine were former Russian citizens who fled the hard right purge in the early 2010s when Putin co-opted the ultranationalists and arrested the leaders. Even that was Russia's fault.
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@PeepoLa I know you're saying this just to get under the other guy's skin but North Vietnam was beat decisively in the majority of engagements, and eventually signed the peace treaty. Then the Watergate scandal and unpopularity of the war made the government weary of fighting again, so when North Vietnam broke the peace treaty the US did not help South Vietnam.
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The judge is probably thinking "I worked hard and overcame my circumstances, you expect me to feel sorry and have you drag me down you just because we look similar?"
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Not true. The legitimate government held a vote at the Verkhovna Rada.
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Screeching "muh nooks" would be the ultimate cope.
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@lonebikeroftheapocalypse9527 Takes them less time to create a new bot account than manually reporting. Machines are better than us at this, all we can do is wait for yt to get off their ass.
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 @SebastianHaban the M193, M855, M855A1, Mk 262 and Mk 318 ammunition for 5.56 and some European M80 ammunition for 7.62 deform on impact. Yet those are used and not considered war crimes.
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GMLRS is rated for 70km range but Ukraine made a HIMARS strike 85km from the frontline. The performance is often higher than the brochure. Why spill the secrets and let the enemy plan ahead?
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@huskypup3489 This happened last year when government police backed down. So exactly how is government going to solve that problem? You didn't disprove anarchy, you just proved that there's issues political systems can't solve.
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@huskypup3489 Tough titties. They stood down anyway. Government is supposed to work, and it doesn't. Big surprise.
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"Man from USA" lmao obvious bot
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In the late 90s Patriots shot down Storm II targets. Storm IIs were missiles with discarded Pershing II reentry vehicles on top, to simulate a maneuverable hypersonic target. "Dated" 20 year old PAC-2 Patriots could shoot down these test targets in 1995-1997.
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Drones will see the ramps being constructed hours in advance and real artillery will fire on them.
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>You cannot own tanks and rocket propelled grenade launchers Yes you can. Registered with the ATF. Ever watched FPSRussia? He's an American guy from the state of Georgia with a fetish for ATF paperwork. You can own tanks and RPGs.
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@M167A1 Doesn't matter how they feel, foreign volunteers have been fighting over there since 2014.
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@SoloRenegade So you're going to waste money refurbishing an aircraft that is too aged to fly? Airframes have limits. After a point they either need to be rebuilt or scrapped as they become unsafe to fly. Put them in reserve, refurbish them... now you need to rebuild them anyway! What was the point? Aircraft are not cars or tanks. Every hour in the air, every take off and landing cycle, it leaves a microscopic defect in the structure. After thousands of hours, they're unsafe.
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@SoloRenegade They don't deteriorate in the desert. They deteriorate by being flown. Take an aircraft that was flown until the end of life, put in in the desert, when you come back for it it's still at the end of life. You don't understand. The A-10 has flown 30 years past its original retirement date. When parts wear out you replace them. Sure. The airframe itself is a part. It's a structure. If you're going to rebuild the entire thing, you're buying a new aircraft. Yeah, they got new wings. A total waste of money because everyone knew this would happen. A car's monocoque chassis lasts millions and millions of miles without appreciable wear as long as it doesn't crash or rust. Aircraft are built to be lightweight so they flex and strain with flight hours, depressurization and landing/take off cycles. Your Cessna's never exceed speed is what, 170 knots? Make it pull 7-8 Gs at 280 knots like an A-10 and see what happens.
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The PPE isn't specifically for viral transmission. Studies on influenza on healthcare workers are inconclusive on the mask wearing.
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During the 2000s there were releases of a free game called Kuma War which featured straight from the headlines recreations of battles going down in Iraq. Just saying it's not an original thing.
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Meds.
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That's great but losing radars is often worse than losing the launchers.
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The caravan moves on, to the tune of three Russian banks needing bailout. You will live through the 1990s again, Ivan...
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Kherson is both the oblast and the city. The Ukrainian government already said they will not assault the city due to the losses it would cause.
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@Hereford1642 They will just like they took north of Kiev and the Snake Island.
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The thing is, almost no fighters achieve their "max speed". On an intercept they're either incoming or running away. If they're incoming, their own speed benefits your missile launches. If they're on the run, mission acomplished.
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The Titanic movie is indeed not real. It's a creation by James Cameron.
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@schrodinger3467 No need to proofread, I said what I said. This video is fiction. The Titanic movie by James Cameron is fiction (albeit based on a real event). There's no real Titanic here. There's just video. And you're trying to make a statement about the real Titanic when no real Titanic was seen or talked about. This is just video.
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@schrodinger3467 You don't get to pick and choose when analogies end. The video was faked. Period.
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If you want station time, the Super Tucano can remain airborne for 7 hours.
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@michaeltrumble1070 And the crew of Spirit 03 is the example why it can't do it during the day. Time of day aside, having C-130s to do the job of a light turboprop attacker is beyond unreasonable.
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That's not true. The USAF and Army joint chiefs of staff had meetings about it and agreed to not step on each others' toes. Congress also determined that the Cheyenne, A-10 and Harrier (USMC) were all different enough to not be redundant and each of the services was free to purpose their projects. The USAF didn't lobby at all. The Cheyenne was a project that was suffering so many delays, Lockheed was still just figuring out a mechanical solution for their stability problems by the time other aircraft were introducing reliable digital controls. If anything, the fact that Lyndon Johnson had been president during the delays and he had connections with Bell played a greater part in the cancellation than the USAF.
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Russians are the sacrificial lambs of Putin.
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@Mr_MikeB "Russians can jam GPS" maybe they should, another ammo dump blew up yesterday.
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"your so called armed citizens have done little to prevent this" - after years of getting called terrorists for simply standing around with guns you want them to feel motivated to show up? "See how those armed individuals stormed government buildings during the pandemic (which is still happening), it wasnt violent but it was none the less trying to intimidate, through the carrying of weapons. Thats okay to you?" - Yes. Government puts people in house arrest, people take the fight to the government. Not the local electronics store or barber shop. "were the so called innocent armed civilians carrying the weapons in self defense?!" - Yes.
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They've deployed one of a kind tanks in Ukraine. That's not the issue. If the Su-57 gets shot down it will be an embarassment.
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Same reason why Bezos bought Washington Post.
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There is no shaking hands. Russians have tried to exterminate Ukrainians for centuries. That's not Western propaganda.
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@adadigirolamo1073 Which studies? Because Gripen lost a ton of bids. MiG-21s aren't enough. Countries prefer to have a smaller amount of more powerful fighters than hundreds of rudimentary ones. The war in Ukraine shows that Western aircraft are mostly safe without Sweden's philosophy. Look at the satellite pictures of post-strike craters in Ukrainian air bases. Russian missiles land with less precision than American strikes on air bases 30 years ago.
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@disgustedluigi Bruh I'm European and almost everyone I know from my generation is buying a house. The only people renting are the ones who have no need/means to buy. For example my grandmother would not get a loan to buy a house in the city so she rents. But she also owns a home in the countryside anyway.
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The "Tempest" is just the nickname, the programme is called Future Combat Air System. So no, "Tempest" is not good. There's a programme name.
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Body armor lol
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The problem is that between the words of Pompeo and extremist Islamists I don't know who to trust the least. They also claim to not be helping Russia as Ukrainians capture the wreckages of Shaheed drones.
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@dirckthedork-knight1201 What wartime propaganda? The Russian news article outright saying they'll bring back 800 T-62s?
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Prigozhin only became a threat because he failed.
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Bro the Russians are fielding T-62s and transporting bombs on those open top rail cars used for mining ore. They're not holding anything back, there's no counter escalation. They are removing train cars from service because they can't replace bearings and you want to believe they'll come out with the improved gear? Either way, all the gear in the world means nothing when they can't use it. And we still see lone tanks or IFVs falling into ambushes or driving over minefields.
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@jamesevans886 So far they didn't need anything else? They lost far more modern equipment in the early war. It's not about need. It's desperation.
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@jamesevans886 Sorry but the Russian army has like 5 or 6 echelons. They have the vaporware T-14 Armata, the modern T-90M, the modernish T-80 which is operated by a few units, the more numerous T-72s, etc. The T-62 isn't an echelon. It was available because Russia had a refurbishing program to send to Syria. The Russian army was never meant to use T-62s, because the main gun doesn't even use the same shells as the rest of the army. Tank on tank combat is rare. And who sees who first is important. The older a tank is, usually the less capable the optics are. The economic calculation is worthless. 250k? You can't arrive in Russia and ask for a new T-62 for 250k. They're not in production anymore. They're tanks that sat on depots for decades and got refurbished. To Russia, each tank hull is priceless. Each tank that gets knocked out and doesn't get recovered for repairs is something Russia won't get back. They'd probably pay 2 million per tank if you had a boneyard full of T-62s. Russian Naval Infantry was in heavy battles in Southern Ukraine. The VDV suffered heavy losses pushing out of Hostomel airport into Hostomel town and Irpin. They were also at Kherson and now were sent to Bakhmut/Soledar. Russia took equipment out of the Finnish border. They're not afraid, they need the equipment to fight Ukraine. Also from Kaliningrad. Kaliningrad is surrounded by NATO, yet Russians pulled equipment from there to help in Ukraine. Putin was never a master spy. He was an office clerk who found himself in the right position at the right time.
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@jamesevans886 I don't care which official terms they have. If they have 4 or 5 different levels of tank generation in active service that's their problem. Optics are EXTREMELY important because who sees first shoots first. You can't buy brand new T-55s because they haven't been produced in decades. All that exist are old hulls.
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This is true. However, the sentiment expressed by Jake is correct. If you inhale enough DU to suffer radiation effects, you're already going to suffer heavy metal poisoning. So in the end DU armor is not any more dangerous than tungsten carbide armor, which is also poisonous and carcinogenic.
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Gripens are just as expensive as F-35s.
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@antispindr8613 it's confirmed by Russian sources
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@antispindr8613 Either people on the ground, reporters or the Russian MoD.
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@antispindr8613 youtube won't let me reply look up osint accounts, I'm tired of editing my comment
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@antispindr8613 No, half of my comments get deleted anyway because I might have been reported by someone who got mad, so the algorithm treats me as if I'm on probation or something.
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@antispindr8613 Anything that has strong language (not necessarily swearing) or describes violence (such as retelling of combat conditions). Longer comments also seem to increase chance of deletion. Short sentences seem to reduce.
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Cope lmao
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@robfut9954 You're just playing dumb. I know you're not. There's millions of dangerous pathogens in the world. You will keep breathing them out, forever. You're welcome to change your mind. Because if you decide that breathing out is a violation of others' rights, I want to see you held accountable for it for the rest of your life.
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You're right, it can be amended. Then amend it. You people always claim it can be amended to excuse bans but never actually bother with trying to amend it first. Amend it, if it's so easy.
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And attacking others secures self-defence how?
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@mouradmhm3244 Ukraine considered joining NATO in the 2000s but major NATO nations refused. Russia attacked Ukraine because of Putin. That's it. He's the one who believed he was the mastermind fooling the West, that he was another great Russian leader, he was the one who needed a final heroic act to put his name in history. When Ukraine was thinking of joining NATO, Medvedev said that they were free to pick alliances and Putin said Crimea was Ukraine. Russia sees NATO as an enemy, but Russia really loved NATO money. Why did they build a pipeline towards Germany if Germany is NATO? Why did Tucker try to get Putin to say NATO provoked him, and Putin essentially said NATO doesn't matter? In 2014, Russia attacked Ukraine because after Russia embargoed Ukrainian goods as leverage, the people got out into the streets and demanded EU membership. That's why they attacked. It wasn't NATO. It was the fact that Ukraine would follow other Eastern European nations and detach from Russia. Canada actually signed a military cooperation treaty with China in 2012/2013. Nobody cared.
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@mortemtyrannus8813 I was told the Tor network can't handle live video.
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Peace? After Bucha? After Izyum? You want peace with murderers and let them take territory too? The Soviet Union received massive aid from America in WWII. Also, they had Ukrainians fighting for them back then.
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You still infect others if you take it.
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@lesliepolk2039 You have no argument, thanks for tapping out.
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@andreasklette6356 Still, many mistakes such as the ships named not being involved in BALTOPS and the Norwegian forces not having the P-8 available when the operation was planned.
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I find a Tesla-killer to be way more plausible than hydrogen.
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And the pilots are confident they can jump out before defenses stretching for hundreds of miles take him out?
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You're not a pilot, you're a Glavset agent.
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@joshuaalistair3193 So you're indeed a traitor. MacGregor claimed that Ukraine was finished March 2022. Why do you claim his skills now in 2023 are somehow more reliable than in 73 Easting. There were scientists working for America in the Manhattan Project who later fed the secrets to the Soviet Union. You think you can't become an agent for a foreign power AFTER you've served your country?
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Yeah, the circunstances have changed. Russians are now using donkeys. They're on the ropes.
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Mantis Nomo being within cycling distance means nothing because the internet doesn't move in straight lines. But in principle alone it should not buffer because YT has a shit ton of servers all over, I'm in Europe and it doesn't buffer. Doesn't netflix have their own speedtest to detect throttling? Try an alternative.
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Remember that legal machine guns were only used twice in criminal activities since 1934. That statistically makes the owners of those guns some of the most law abiding people in the US.
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@jakecostanza802 Not necessarily. If you're lucky with the area you're on you could go dumpster diving for tools and produce something that cost you zero in tools and materials. Spending is often a necessary investment, but it's not required by definition.
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Because Russian followers would have noticed the Ukrainians were behind it.
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It's Zelensky. It has a Z. Triggered snowflake. Afraid of a letter.
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The guy only called in the swatting because people "just doing their jobs" tend to plug innocent people. Just saying.
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@FacTi0n How is it an ignorant response? I'm stating a fact - people do swatting raids because it sends the police after people. Not EMTs or fire department. I don't care about the millions of police interactions because they're not being judged by the situations that could be handled by any random joe. Just like if you release a drug and you have millions of doses administered without problems, it doesn't take many severe adverse effects before the FDA has to start enquiries on the safety profile of that drug to see if they need to revise their recommendations. Oh no, the cool cops didn't write you a ticket. Doesn't make me worry less.
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@dcrose001 It's not. The XM250 is the one.
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@kikomefoxy5966 How many children have I killed? 0. I'm morally in the clear.
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It's not the "only" measure. It's the one that can act faster.
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It's deep in the politisperging iceberg, I've seen it discussed a lot. Also how a ton of white supremacists end up with latinas.
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@stvk99 Vice was a hipster magazine owned by Gavin McInnes. When Vice became like this, Blackwater no longer existed.
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@cattledog901 You do realize the point, don't you? I never made any equivalence. Your brain did. You're imagining things, please get checked. I said I would not want to get hit by a rock in the face. That's a factual statement. I would not. Not wanting to endure discomfort doesn't make a weapon effective. That's not how combat prowess is judged. Ukrainian troops would pray that all Russia had was this garbage. They'd love it and thank God that this is all that Russia could conjure up.
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Gamma and X-rays are electromagnetic, stuff like Alpha, Beta and neutrons are particles.
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MANPADS are very limited in range and warhead. Apaches flew into Iraq in 1991 against telephone pole SAMs with greater range, greater speed, and massive warheads.
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Okay but they're doing a piss poor job considering that Ukraine will keep receiving more weapons.
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It's 7.62x54R
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 @trumpdrago517 Iran has been training and arming militias in Iraq and orchestrating the attacks on the Red Sea. Iran's entire shtick is asymmetric warfare.
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VISA the card? Well, the cards are handled by private banks who choose their own requirements. The requirements to buy a gun are handled by federal and state laws which need to respect the constitution.
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Why would the Army spend billions transfering an aircraft to their branch when the aircraft are old and lacking parts?
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 @FLMKane the F-16 did 3x the CAS the A-10 was doing in the later half of the GWOT. That's not failing duties.
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@dougmate2378 "Why not?" - It's a dead end design nearing its ultimate retirement age. The A-10 was meant to be retired in the 90s and spent 30 years in lift support. It's aged out, the company that made it went out of business two decades ago, there's lack of parts. It's like asking "why not have an entire taxi fleet of 1967 Mustangs?". Yeah, classic muscle cars are cool. But a car with no manufacturer support? The Army spending a decade changing the entire A-10 infrastructure from the USAF to Army and then immediately have to retire it because the parts and airframes are toast would be a waste of billions. That's why. "It's reputation for CAS, the gun" - So? Reputation is often based in fantasy rather than fact, and the gun isn't doing anything other guns aren't. "The army was trying to get them in the last 15 years when the AF tried to kill off the A10." - Didn't happen. That's a lie spread online. "The A10 just got a new wing also." - The '67 Mustang just got a new suspension. Jesus you're gonna lose so much money on that taxi business.
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@dougmate2378 Yeah, and? Fairchild doesn't exist. Bought by M7 Aerospace, which was then bought by Elbit. Elbit doesn't make A-10s. The A-10 has already been replaced. F-16s provide triple the CAS, with the Strike Eagle also filling in the gap. Nobody is making replacements for A-10s. Russia isn't making a Su-25 replacement. Nobody is making these aircraft. It's a dead end.
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Trump told Germany to stop buying Russian oil. They laughed. Germany was Russia's girl all along.
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 @yaser62412 Saudi Arabia is a major supporter of Wahhabism.
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@GabrielEddy What a load of manure. So I guess the CCP is stuck in the 1800s? Also, Vietnam/Afghanistan/Iraq were not genocides. In Iraq most civilian casualties were due to sectarian violence, not American military action.
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The pandemic started in late 2019, it was global by then.
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@markportnoy6290 It did nothing because as I had mentioned, the spread was global by late 2019. So it was futile. The opposition response was to deny and deflect, so even if Trump's ineffective response was something that didn't pan out, the opposition wanted to purposefully spread it. Were test kits available in mass by then? Again, the opposition also claimed it was just the flu, and then reversed their position when they found a way to hurt Trump. How have I been gaslit? I paid attention. I saw how YOUR SIDE (Trump's opposition) wanted to spread it. You now concern-troll about initial response as if you weren't holding the exact opposite opinions, and as if you aren't the gaslighter-in-chief. You can stop punching air. You confuse me for a Trump supporter. I'm not. I simply paid attention and don't have the memory of a goldfish. So I have seen your entire gameplan. And I applaud it. We can still be gentlemen in a game where backstabbing and kicking people in the nuts is fair game. But don't try to deny you have a knife in your hand and a steel toed boot in your foot. That's just embarrassing.
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@markportnoy6290 Hold on. So there were cases, we just didn't know about them, but because they're not counted it wasn't a pandemic? I don't think the definition of a pandemic should be defined by our awareness of it. The black plague was not a pandemic until people realized what it was? You're the one using rhetoric. It wasn't a pandemic because we didn't declare it. I can only scoff at that. Yes, people said it was the flu. I can't post images but there's compilations of news articles about it. We learned from the deadliness before it even "left" China (it already had but we didn't know). We knew it had a 3% CFR. Adult? That's the narrative now! All this testing is clogging up the systems with cases that don't need attention. Funny, the increased testing due to Christmas and NYE is the cause for this debacle, but not the Feb/March increase in 2020? Was mass testing even available in Feb 2020? Yes, I remember that in mid 2020. But early 2020 it wasn't him. It was the opposition. You were called a racist if you thought it was deadlier than the flu. Oh, things are X but they can definitely be Y. Is that how I get a government job? Just say whatever and follow up by admitting things can change? Guys, unemployment will drop! Unless it increases, don't hold it against me if the situation changes! Guys, I can assure you Afghanistan is stable! Unless the Taliban take over the government, again things change. I could read the article. I don't need to, though. You are maybe angered by those 7 statements. That's fine. I'm angered by a million different statements. You only care about Trump Trump Trump. Trump is the only thing on your mind, and you want me to believe you actually care about the virus? So no, I don't care what Vox has to say. I probably already know about 5 or 6 of those statements. I don't need to focus on Trump because I don't care about him. If we hold Trump responsible for what he did (and only that, no ridiculous reasons like no mask mandate - Biden just said it should be up to the states did he not? And only put the mandate on federal buildings?) can you then agree to let us hold everyone else responsible? Or are you so faithful to Trump's opposition you want them to be protected at all costs?
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@whylife5339 "thursand American die every year because of mass shootings." - source?
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@Dan-yf2df Alexander Mercouris is just coping
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Yet the F-8 scored a lot less kills.
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Russia was pushed into defending itself? Delusional.
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How do we know who put them there? And when? And is there confirmation it's actually mined or just one or two for the tale?
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@willowsband1 how is medical knowledge being outdated invalidate an immutable concept? You have the right to own property, you have the right to be innocent until proven guilty and you have the right to have your property protected against unwarranted search or seizure. Unless the ideas of self-ownership extending to property and having a fair legal system are somehow outdated to you, you can try again and come up with a better argument.
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Can you actually point out to "which Science" was rejected? The question is rhetorical, you were told what the science rather than shown where it came from. And when people started to notice the inconsistencies, you were told the Science had changed. Isn't that nice?
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@davidradtke160 the issue is that they spent money on division, not on the behalf of anyone. They paid for pro-Sanders ads and ran pages meant to turn the left more extreme, etc. So there's a diference between a political contribution to Trump and trying to fan the flames of a civil war.
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A lot of places that don't allow guns also prohibit the less lethal ones. Places that outlaw guns hate guns as a whole, not just the fact that they're lethal. Notable exception being eastern Europe, particularly Russia, where obtaining a legal handgun is incredibly hard but as a compromise they manufacture "trauma guns" which shoot rubber balls, pepper spray, etc.
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Video was recorded at night but uploaded at 9 AM.
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But now figure in the opportunity costs involved. Engineers and scientists devoted to keeping old aircraft in the air could be actually helping the economy of Iran. Instead they're stuck on vanity projects.
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You don't waste anything except the metal sleeve that needs to somehow fall off. Both the concussion and frag settings will expend the entire explosive payload.
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More and more Russian territory going back to Ukraine. Peskov says he doesn't know where the borders are.
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They were founded by neo nazis but were integrated into the national guard. It's most likely the neo nazis died in the fighting, with the remaining being recruits who joined after the cleanup.
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It's a goddamn buffer. Even pistols have dual, nested springs to help tame the violence of the cycle. Heckler & Koch designed combat pistols to be tortured with a steady diet of 185gr +P .45 per SOCOM requirements and the buffer did the trick. Somehow it's unreliable inside of a rifle instead of a pistol slide?
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@17nirmalya Again - extremely reliable guns have used dual springs as a way to buffer the impact of recoiling mass. Real life combat weapons that have been tested vs highschool maths.
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They have nerds too, you know?
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Yoo lazerpig reference.
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@catocall7323 A Russian officer was sacked for blowing the whistle on the fact that their counterbattery can't handle Ukrainian artillery. Russian guns have been suffering 20-30 losses on a daily basis for almost two months.
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They turned on the large hadron collider and everything went to shid.
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Ok schizo
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They attempted to seize an airport near Kiev to deploy troops into the capital right in the first night but the Ukrainians hit it during the fighting which means they had to do the trip by land. Had they secured that landing strip, they'd have taken Kiev in the first day.
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So his response is to lower the level even further?
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Domestic Abrams have to get the DU armor removed and fitted with the export armor.
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Russia's economy depends on those exports. Watch Maxim Katz's video on the bad news for Russian exports and how China can't replace the EU.
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@ivonnikolova503 Labels don't cut it. Intermediaries have to purchase below price cap or risk an uninsured oil spill. They blend the oil with 50% from a different source and it becomes non-Russian. To us it doesn't matter - Russia is forced to sell at a pittance, or sell clandestinely and piss off the first country they spill into.
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Not really. The Gerat prototypes are the real ancestor.
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@kingsquid Automatics were banned in 1986.
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The ships travelled at light speed? Why would the weapons be delivered in a port?
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@jim Oneill State of the art Javelins from the 90s. You have a point - old American stuff is more high tech than modern Russian stuff.
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@Shakspier the USSR was mauled in Finland and suffered great casualties in February this year in Ukraine. The "Russia STRONK in winter" is a meme.
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For 500 aircraft already produced the F-35 sounds like the worst grift ever. Meanwhile, the F-22 can't fill the shoes it was made to fit because orders were cut leaving the F-15 with the hot potato of air superiority.
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If a team refuses to show up to a game, the other wins by forfeit.
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"permitting gun software" bruh since when do governments PERMIT software? You can find anything online.
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+steve n "plans for illegal guns" you do realize there's plans for machine guns (illegal to manufacture) all over the internet, right? Way before 3d printers became a consumer item.
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+steve n "And yes it is illegal to post those plans, that's what a judge just ruled that's how our gov works" LMAO the plans have been online for over 5 years. It's all over the internet, it's not illegal.
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+Tsinat Gebreselassie an assault weapon is just a weapon with certain features like a pistol grip and a flash hider on the muzzle. It's not any more deadly than any other weapon.
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In college I learned CAD and honestly it's so easy I could teach 12 year olds to use it.
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>So if you hit a person in the head I said heart. You don't aim for the head. >they wont feel it for half a minute? I've met a police officer who had been shot right trough his nose and had the bullet lodge itself on the spine. He remained conscious until he got to the hospital and he only felt the pain after the surgery. >will you need ten rounds for each guy Some people have taken 9 shots before going down. Also, you're assuming that every shot will hit.
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@derekhenschel3191 there was a proposal for replacement with the Super Tucano but as the War on Terror winds down they gave up. Now they're simply keeping the A-10 until it's scheduled for retirement and giving CAS missions to multirole jets.
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Not necessarily. Some hospitals would have all the covid cases sent to their covid unit, so they were flooded, while many hospitals had wards with nobody in them. They weren't "shut down", they'd just delay you unless you needed urgent care. I had an appointment cancelled when they introduced the delays. The system texted me three times about the cancellation because the system expects a rescheduling. But they weren't going to reschedule.
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Can do you a speedtest and check your ping? Are you able to join servers with lower ping or does the game have matchmaking?
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@nicekidwhodoesntdobadstuff5602 Very strange. Do you have a firewall running on your PC or a wifi router? Have you tried playing with the ethernet connected directly to make sure it's not your wifi?
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@nicekidwhodoesntdobadstuff5602 Just out of curiosity, could you disable firewall and try again? If it doesn't work, try the forums for the online game. They may know how to help.
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Hmmmm yes Russia has not been torn to shreds in Vuhledar and Adiivka. Silly MSM in reality Russia has not suffered catastrophic losses we can watch on the internet for entertainment. Definitely do not look for the videos of Russians gunned down lile dogs in their trenches.
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@Paco Loco The majority is weak.
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Whataboutism, favorite of Russian apologists.
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@Matthiasrj But people who took it can still get infected. And transmit. This means it will mutate either way. You cannot stop with faulty shots. This is actually creating the same exact effect as the antibiotic resistant strains. The people who took it are serving as hosts to resistant strains. Come on. THINK.
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Wouldn't you need to knead it again to mix the salt?
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90%? False. 87% of the guns that the ATF could track were indeed from the US. How many of them were tracked? 6,000. But the batch was 29,000 firearms. The ATF wasn't able to track those because SURPRISE, those guns weren't from the US and were not legitimate - therefore untraceable. So it was 5 thousand and something firearms from the US in a batch of 29,000. They run a billion dollar business, they can afford to buy in bulk from arms dealers.
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Used F-15s? Flying around with nukes? I'd feel safer if they were new ones.
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@TheManofthecross plus Stalin purged a lot of them.
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@donttellmymisses1581 Ukraine has ethnic Russians in their ranks. Ethnicity isn't a factor. It's Putin-worship vs freedom. Givi claimed Donbas should be independent from Ukraine and Russia, FSB shot a RPO Shmel at his office.
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Combined arms doesn't mean you combine EVERY armament. You can do combined arms with artillery, armor (modern cavalry) and infantry.
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@icipher6730 because physically smaller countries have less room in their national parks, wild camping is illegal/discouraged in many places, people trust the government to provide emergency response, etc.
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T-62s are not doing very well.
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@chriscormac231 "he showed everyone the utter depravity those who seek war want to inflict upon the world and broke the back of the south as an example" - that's exactly how a movie villain justifies his evil in a monologue
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@gaborrajnai6213 Actually it's just a few hundreds. Airworthiness matters.
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@alispeed5095 You can't see that from St. Petersburg. Say hello to your Glavset handler for me.
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No, they didn't. They signed a peace treaty and invaded South Vietnam 3 years after the US left.
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@Sacto43 I saw it. Some dude confirming things he knows nothing about, then deleted the post. Happens in Ukraine too, during the Kharkiv offensive some Brosint accounts "confirmed" the Ukrainians were assaulting Donetsk airport and Lysychansk.
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 @zaidtayeh4888 Jackson Hinkle's Russian girlfriend pulls his strings. Dude's compromised.
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Trump said that because he wanted the isolationist arc. He didn't say that as courtesy. He said that to get the ball rolling.
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In other movies heroes survive through sheer plot armor and stormtrooper aim. At least the suit creates a set of rules and doesn't break them often (slashes and stabs seem to work against some suits but not others).
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As the other commenter said, letting Russia come up with a story before the video is released means that they don't know what we know, so have to come up with a narrative "blind".
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The US has troops in Moscow. It's the embassy security detail.
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Flint public infrastructure was dealt with, now it's private pipes that have issues I'm afraid.
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@j.calvert3361 Russian milbloggers have spent the entire war lying to themselves.
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What evidence? Look for it. It's all over the internet. Tons of pictures and video of Russian vehicles abandoned in a hurry.
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@drumming-and-discipline By September 10th, Oryx had verified over 300 losses for Russia, with around 220 being captures.
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@drumming-and-discipline It's massive, and it's been 6 days. It's estimated that the 4th Tank Guards lost the majority of their tanks.
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It's delusional to think that gun owners worship guns as objects that magically keep crime away. Weather you choose to carry or not, it's delusional that *not* carrying somehow makes you win at life, be a better person or live longer.
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Then stealth aircraft will be the only ones in the air. Everything else is too vulnerable.
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@mikethered12 That's already used in conjunction with stealth attacks.
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Because it's sea water? Do you know what happens when salt water is dumped in farm fields?
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@rhumandlove393 That, but unironically.
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@Rakonjack "idea of that long range missile against the fighter jet is to place your adversary into defensive, thus keeping him away from the battlefield" - That's great. But he already dropped the bombs on target. "it was reported and confirmed that R-37 was effective with confirmed kill at the range of 200km" - Who confirmed that kill? Yes, there's reports that the missile has scored kills. But not how many. We know many are fired, but not how many kills. That means Ukrainian pilots are turning back to spoil the long range shots. "F-16 wouldn’t make any difference with the war" - It would control the frontline and stay out of R-37 effective range. "most expensive jet, F-35" - But The F-35 and F-16 have similar prices. "weapon makers will explode with profit" - There's no profit. If you give out your old car to a friend, the car manufacturer makes no profit.
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The theory is that one day the cpu will be outdated and you may struggle to reach 60 fps on more intensive games. So which cpu do you buy? But we have seen that testing low resolutions and measuring 200-300fps averages doesn't actually predict the future.
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It can work when given to someone who is infected, plasma with antibodies from a person who survived can be transfused to help fight the progression of the disease. But it's still being tested for COVID-19. It won't actually create immunity, or the immunity created will be very short lived, the body needs to learn how to produce its antibodies and for that it has to come in contact with the virus.
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Natural resources don't mean anything without extraction, which is the west's expertise. How many African countries are wealthy in resources but still poorer than the poorest European nations?
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@jojoeljefe0001 Sure thing, Ivan
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So they're babies who can't handle a loss?
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@SassoSkorzeny Damn that's some impressive cope. Vintage bottle?
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The A-10 is extremely hard to maintain - there's few parts available. The company that made it went out of business two decades ago.
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No, it means replacing working class law enforcement for college graduates and social workers. I'll leave you to figure out the political implications of such actions.
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 @electrictroy2010 Not a violation of a law to arrest a spy giving up locations.
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I thought the reinforcements are for the flanks, not to stand in the city centre.
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Because reloading is a "whatever" activity (and even then some have had problems with YT), when you start doing things from scratch it gets sketchy. Plus, the big issue is stuffing that stuff down a pipe. If you're just making black powder, could be for fireworks or rockets. Stuff them down a pipe, that's trouble.
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@riccochet704 With factory components. If you have access to those, you can't be stopped. It's the DIY stuff that gets you in trouble.
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@riccochet704 Nobody cares. If you can legally buy factory components, you're good. Legal gun owners can buy them in their countries. Precision load development is meaningless, terrorists and teenagers won't do it. When you DIY components, you're teaching people how to make explosives. In this case, a pipebomb.
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@chico9805 factual mandates from corrupt governments don't matter they do what they want
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@behroozkhaleghirad have you seen the mobilization videos? There's no training, troops are told to buy their own medical aid kits because there's not enough, barracks have no beds.
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Armenia was attacked by Azerbaijan and Russia didn't defend them, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan started shooting each other across the border. The CSTO is falling apart.
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@behroozkhaleghirad Staying alive isn't a "creature comfort". You show up to war unprepared, you get clapped.
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@behroozkhaleghirad And that's why they lose.
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The Apache was one of the first aircraft to go into Iraq. It didn't have the benefit of a full SEAD camapign, they had to go in low and destroy radars.
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@spacecadet35 Modern block F-16s cost over 100 million. And A-10s haven't been produced since 1984, the company that made them went out of business. They also required TWO contracts for a billion each so that Boeing could remake the wings. Just the wings for the damned thing cost two billion for a whole fleet. I'm confident than the A-10C cost per unit if produced "a couple of years ago" with all the modern avionics would be north of 50 million for aircraft.
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Because people like you made it unsafe for girls. Now you're scared to attack them. Good.
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Wrong. High compliance did not affect anything. Most countries lifted restrictions within a few months of eachother. Why would they be mad at the side that enforced their will instead of the side that was nearly powerless? Why would they be mad at the side that sacrifices liberty as policy (Reason is libertarian)?
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Money was an issue for Russia and China. Mind that the Soviet economy collapsed. It's been 50 years - Russia lost tons of industrial capacity and highly technical brains, China copied most of what they made. My dude, Russia is a backwater. They can't produce the T-14 Armata and Su-57 in usable numbers. They're using 1960s tanks. They're welding naval AA guns to MT-LBs.
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@stuartannetts300 Everything gets replaced by newer stuff whether you use it or not.
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It will flood the Russian side. That would kill more Russian troops than Ukrainians.
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That was said about the T-62s too. Then they were used as main battle tanks.
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 @gerardomartinez9992 The US was in Afghanistan for 21 years and in 19 of those it was murdering the opposition.
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@stevebassett9755 "the net effect.. is increased violence." - and yet violence dropped by 50 percent in the US since 1994.
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How is it common sense to hand everything on a silver platter? Hope we don't share a foxhole when eventually we all get forced to fight WWIII over this crap. You'll honestly prefer to run towards the Chinese lines.
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Wait until they realize that IDE hard drives had pins in the back so you could set them to "master" and "slave".
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@jefferytownsend7787 How will they weed themselves out? If anything, it will make their population stronger because their offspring will come from people who don't get sick from it.
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@tensemurm5924 The millions of people affected by it were sacrificed for profit. You can read the actual scientific studies that show the mechanisms of the infection and how they damage the body by triggering inflammatory response, cell death pathways and directly affecting the hemoglobin. If you understood, you'd have realized the sham.
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@tensemurm5924 There's no contradiction. Nice strawman, an admission of loss. One strike and you're out. You're done. Pravin T Goud,1,2 David Bai,3 and Husam M Abu-Soud, A Multiple-Hit Hypothesis Involving Reactive Oxygen Species and Myeloperoxidase Explains Clinical Deterioration and Fatality in COVID-19, Int J Biol Sci. 2021; 17(1): 62–72. Paari Dominicabc, Javaria Ahmada, Ruchi Bhandarid, Sibile Parduee, Juan Solorzanoa, Keerthish Jaisingha, Megan Watts, Steven R.Bailey, A. Wayne Orrbcef, Christopher G., Kevilbcef Gopi, K.Kolluruce, Decreased availability of nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide is a hallmark of COVID-19, Redox Biology Volume 43, July 2021, 101982 Mitsuhiro Yokoyama, Ken-ichi Hirata, Endothelial nitric oxide synthase uncoupling: Is it a physiological mechanism of endothelium-dependent relaxation in cerebral artery?, Cardiovascular Research, Volume 73, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 8–9 Martin L. Pall, The NO/ONOO-Cycle as the Central Cause of Heart Failure, Int J Mol Sci. 2013 Nov; 14(11): 22274–22330. Wanyi Fang, Jingrui Jiang, Lei Su, Tong Shu, Huan Liu, Shenghan Lai, Reza A. Ghiladi, and Jun Wanga, The role of NO in COVID-19 and potential therapeutic strategies, Free Radic Biol Med. 2021 Feb 1; 163: 153–162. Maria Grazia Signorello, Silvia Ravera, and Giuliana Leoncinia, Lectin-induced oxidative stress in human platelets, Redox Biol. 2020 May; 32: 101456. Eli Gilad, Salvatore Cuzzocrea, Basilia Zingarelli, Andrew L.Salzman, Csaba Szabó, Melatonin is a scavenger of peroxynitrite, Life Sciences Volume 60, Issue 10, 31 January 1997, Pages PL169-PL174 Yadi Zhou, Yuan Hou, Jiayu Shen, Reena Mehra, Asha Kallianpur, Daniel A. Culver, Michaela U. Gack, Samar Farha, Joe Zein, Suzy Comhair, Claudio Fiocchi, Thaddeus Stappenbeck, Timothy Chan, Charis Eng, Jae U. Jung, Lara Jehi, Serpil Erzurum, Feixiong Cheng, A network medicine approach to investigation and population-based validation of disease manifestations and drug repurposing for COVID-19, 10.1371/ journal.pbio.3000970
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@tensemurm5924 You're the Scientist who so far hasn't brought up any science. I'm the only one not chatting shite. You are.
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@tensemurm5924 You tried to trap me with your BS gotcha. I gave you the information. You're welcome to draw your conclusions. You bragged about your scientific background but you can't be bothered to do any digging. I agree with the scientific consensus. You agree with what the TV says. Those are not the same. And if you used your scientific background you'd have realized it by now. So yes, you're the one chatting shite because you've been parroting people who have demonstrated to be wrong all along and who ignore the actual science.
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In a city of a million people maybe one dies per week. The odds are low so people end up learning how to live with it.
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The fact that she has a thin, bony build makes her look like a male adolescent.
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He has a unique way to pronounce a lot of words. Such as saying Roo-siya instead of Ruh-shia when referring to the country.
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It's part of the WSB slang.
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That's because it's not true.
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You do realize that 1. they could literally make shit up and you wouldn't be able to tell if it was real? 2. they can't release that information because it violated patient confidentiality.
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@nunyabusyness5608 but even if they released names what would you do? If the death records are falsified the only thing you'd be able to do is prove that there's not enough cremations/burials being done.
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"Why not just wait for the front door replacement?" - Because it will never come. The M4 is so good, that if the replacement is judged based on how much money it's gonna cost to replace, it will stay in service until plasma rifles become a thing. So they said "we need a new weapon, not a replacement", got it, and then said it was gonna replace the M4 without having to justify why they're paying twice the money for a rifle that is only 5-10% better than the M4.
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I'd recommend watching reloading videos here on youtube. There's everything from people casting lead bullets to electroplating lead with copper, from progressive presses to people making homemade pneumatic contraptions to swage FMJ rounds. Only thing I haven't seen is anyone drawing their own brass casings but they're so widely available there's no point. You can't ban bullets. All the components are fairly straightforward and there's already a ton of information and tooling available.
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Just like Finland and Ukraine Feb-March.
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@AboxofMonsters that has literally nothing to do with his point.
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@Mae-nr7wr we shouldn't be punished for not adopting the "silver bullet" if the best it can do is "better than nothing"
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So repeater antennas could spoof the location.
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You're misunderstanding. They haven't faced a large regular army since 1945. But they have waged war and bullied other nations.
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All guns are untraceable until they're sitting in evidence lockers.
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@donaldconklin5537 the quote as Diamond Doggo wrote appears on a meme of a drawing of a person's hand giving Skorpion machine pistols to crabs. He was referencing the surreal meme, not the original quote.
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Also nobody included the last page of the report where the pilot flying the F-35 said he believed the software behind controls could be "let loose" and allow him to turn the F-35 harder. Basically asking to turn off the steering assist because he believes the prototype is ready to drift around corners.
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I'm going to leave a flat piece of paper 10 miles away from you, laying with the thin edge facing you, and ask you to see it with a set of binoculars.
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@kristaan They didn't lose the original video tapes, they were reused because the tapes were of a specific kind. The footage was recorded in multiple formats, so it was not important to keep it on those tapes. The BBC also wrote over the tapes containing the early episodes of Dr Who, I guess it's a conspiracy too?
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@muhhtayoo4892 Whatever you say, Hamas
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You had everything from one group seeing another group as Nazi collaborators and one group seeing another group as the descendants of foreign invaders from centuries ago. Not exactly the same as the US.
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Lower range than the F-35.
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@noxiteprova8878 I didn't vote for them, why are you blaming the loser for losing?
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Again lying about the weather conditions. It can fly in rain, there was just a moratorium on peacetime flights inside thunderstorms.
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Typical whataboutism.
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UN forces teaming up like in Korea would be gold, Russia would be pushed past the Urals
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@vladimirnikolskiy Hitler had to fight through the Ukrainians first. Germany was spent when they were about to reach Moscow.
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@ozymandiasultor9480 Just a few more months, Zisters!
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@enjek5654 Are you the science? Like Tony Science?
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@enjek5654 Do you have anything other than sea lioning?
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@goblin6587 John, at least until recently, has always recommended taking the vaccine. If something changed I'm unaware. John was one of the people most worried about this when it came out, back when the entire media and health agencies were in denial. Your accusations are just a desperate attempt to deflect.
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@enjek5654 "been developing medical devices for just over 20 years" - This is not worth anything. An engineering teacher once used an example of a massive failure in medical engineering to pass an important lesson to us, a manufacturer of hip replacement prosthetics had to issue a recall due to insane rates of rejection. They messed up the surface roughness of the titanium, which made it harder for the human tissue to accept the implant. Just like the Tacoma Bridge or Hyatt Regency are a source of humility for those in the civil engineering field, you need to be humble. If you haven't failed, you will. Better people than you have. People who thought they couldn't fail killed people. Now the thought burrows itself in the brain like a parasite. There's a medical device company out there that has an engineer running his mouth online, who thinks his expertise in "devices" matters.
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People will do the pullout method combined with ancient remedies (spermicide/decreasing sperm mobility) and checking for ovulation.
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The Su-25 though has a nuance. Moscow had more influence beyond the iron curtain than the Lockheed bribery department had in the First World. Many countries bought the Su-25 because they were Warsaw Pact/Soviet Union, and you bought what Moscow told you to buy.
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The only reliable EMP is a high altitude nuke.
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The Atomic Clock is Cold War peacenik propaganda. They once set it closer to midnight not because of troop movements or tangible intelligence about nuclear forces, but over something Trump said. It's purely based on feelings rather than actual military analysis.
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Less. A jet only retrieves enough energy from the hot exhaust to drive the compressor blades, then sends the rest to the rear for thrust. A turboprop slaps an extra turbine section to collect more energy, and uses it to drive the prop. By the time the exhaust exits the turbine, it's colder than on a turbojet. And then the prop wash also mixes the exhaust with colder air.
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The A-10 can't be produced either. The company that made it went out of business.
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It's not impeccable.
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@Vladviking Nope. He has used anonymous sources for dubious reporting, and has walked back on his claims as well.
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@Vladviking Are the glowies in the room with us right now?
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@Vladviking Yes, thanks for admitting that Sy Hersh has the same credibility as CNN. I hope you now don't believe him.
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@Jerkzilla I'm European and that is a pretty bad take. Most of the people who want to sacrifice individual rights for "community" are city people who have no actual community.
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@conorcleary2100 Then you have no argument, you're just sharing your personal story. "January to may there has be 168 mass shootings" - That is false. You're pulling numbers from a source that purposefully ignores the definition of mass shooting. There's only been one mass shooting in 2020 so far.
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@conorcleary2100 There's no "magic" number, there's a definition and if someone is misusing it they're exploiting your emotional reaction. Two criminals shooting each other over a drug deal won't even make the news in many countries but according to one dipshit online it's a mass shooting. And in people's minds it's the same thing as someone entering a school and gunning down children. We've seen BB gun and knife incidents being mistakenly inserted into that database, we've seen a case of self-defense, a cop having a negligent discharge and two separate shootings between two gangs that happened in the same day and were condensed into one event count as "school shootings" so you can stop using sources which even liberal-leaning publications have called dishonest.
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@ABESAALE 6 months ago when Russians were dying en masse, and civilians filmed convoys of burning vehicles with dead Russian bodies scattered through the streets?
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@ABESAALE How is that a counter argument? 6 months ago the Russians were getting pasted.
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@ABESAALE Winter was a game changer - Russia got slaughtered last winter.
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@9996741699 Your disagreement doesn't mean shit. Creating a firearm doesn't require a 4473.
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>"consisting of the strong, that will take from you everything you have, and that is not limited to possessions." You mean like a government?
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We test stuff on mice. In fact this whole ordeal started due to humanized mice.
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I could sense those trailers years ago were 100% "bullshots". Thanks.
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Did they think about that when they armed North Vietnam? No.
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Precision bombing with drones? Does this pilot have millions of dollars burning a hole in his pocket? A drone is fine when fighting an unprepared or less capable foe.
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@marcv2648 because I do. Russia tried to use gas as an economic weapon against me. They said I would freeze to death. Now I want karma to hit them back. They will feel the blowback of making me their enemy.
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@marcv2648 Russia wanted to use the gas as a leverage but it wasn't working. So they shot the hostage.
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@marcv2648 Great. India makes a profit and bends Russia over a barrel.
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If they get a raise, cost of doing businesses raises, which either forces hours to be cut or prices to increase to reflect that. The system is fragile, you can't just pull levers and push buttons without regards for the consequences.
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 @mcprice3640 You don't get a benefit. Watch the video again, but pay attention this time.
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 @Dvinyard69 it's predatory to install something in someone's computer that takes money from others.
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No. Humvees and MRAPs would not be very useful.
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 @luckpeddler Subtle replica? Getting bogged down in Basra a year after the war started was not a thing in 1991.
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Flame Fusion places with death penalty don't have lower crime rates. Also, you're asking for people to think about consequences, when it is known that criminals have worse judgement than the average citizen.
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"lolbertarian thinks you can just appease dictators, more at 11"
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2 year old bot account
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@AKlover The name-calling already shows the lack of intellect you're displaying. Yes, drones do not have pilots. They're also typically slow and carry light payloads. Structural limits are a big deal. What happens when you pull 9Gs with several 2000lb bombs on your pylons? As it stands, there's no drone in service that can match the F-35. The F-35 is not "reduced" to anything. It's the backbone of the USAF's air power, said Gen. Brown.
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They have extremely low church attendance. Mind the USSR was atheist. While religion never died off, most people don't care.
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Manscaped is less of a scam than Ridge. I got the wallet and key organizer clones off aliexpress. Manscaped is overpriced, Ridge is MASSIVELY overpriced.
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I hope someone treats your home like his backyard. You'll ve the first one to cry and call the police.
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 @michaelfrank2266 If there are tanks which can just jump over the mines, then tanks that roll over them are outdated.
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Suk Jung Kok?
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There was a Nighthawk official reveal event too.
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@Dinops907 First public display was April 21, 1990 at the Nellis AFB.
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Rollo_Tomasi I'm not well versed in pod footage recordings but isn't the quality degrading a result of aircraft still carrying around magnetic tape? I believe the F-15 still uses magnetic tape and pilots say they'd like a transition to digital but they understand that they'd rather allocate the budget to other upgrades.
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But hackers need crypto for randomware attacks.
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It isn't.
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If you truly believe that exhaling kills people, there's a certain action you can stop right now. I'll assume your lack of response means it worked.
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@nikeboy995 Maybe you should read what I wrote again and try to understand it. I told you to hold your breath. If you do it for too long, you pass out.
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RF needs to grow balls and accept no nukes. We'll be done with them in two weeks.
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Gun violence is a violence issue. It's not about the guns. We deal in absolutes because one side has consistently asked for more restrictions and it's never enough. The restrictions just pile up. We have to draw a line in the sand and say "You've asked for all this shit, now you claim it doesn't work and you want MORE? No!" or else the extreme side that wants a total gun ban wins by virtue of banning a little more every time they succeed.
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There's subsonic rounds but the suppressor is mostly to reduce the blast and flash when indoors.
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 @The13thRonin doesn't matter - if women are going the men follow.
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@Jim Richards not really. They all share so much between them it's just different variants of the same plane.
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Republican Man Bad. Still doesn't change how we do engineer viruses. Both Sputnik and Jansen were engineered adenoviruses.
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F-35s carrying external weapons are less detectable than normal aircraft carrying external weapons.
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@XJon2011 So Russia is succeeding by making more Ukrainians side with the nah-tzees? The Ukrainian landscape now has millions of inhabitants who hate Russia with a passion. Hurting Ukraine will create more nah-tzees. If they wanted to denazify Ukraine.... they should have left it alone.
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Murder also requires malice and premeditation. You can't premeditate an attack, and it's not malicious to use force against people in a fight. Your final sentence clearly shows you have no clue about the legal system. There's plenty of ways one can ne at fault for his/her own fear, and still be allowed to use lethal force.
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@sikaifu5509 The weapons charge was dropped. If a robber retreats from the household and the homeowner gives chase and attacks him, the robber is authorized to use the minimal force necessary to escape. Kyle isn't a robber. If you end up starting a fight, but you do your due diligence to escape and the fight resumes, you can resort to self-defense.
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@pinheadluke3136 Many "who live there" fled. Many "who live there" are no longer among the living. Many "who live there" are Russians who moved in 2014-present and have no historical ties to the region.
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What is being referenced in the comment about his grandfather being in the "369th"?
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King of what, Victory Day parade?
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Russia has a supply of housing built during communism. The price to pay for such amneties was millions of dead.
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 @kentershackle1329 if your orders are to kill my family, I'd gameend you while you're in the toilet. And I'd sleep like a baby afterwards.
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They were labeled in maps, they weren't "discovered". They found nothing, though. Russia was allowed to present evidence at the UN and they embarassed themselves.
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@jonathanolson772 How is scarcity a moot point when a non-scarce coin that can be issued at will is completely worthless? I'm not even mentioning Bitcoin at this point.
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@jonathanolson772 Again, that is correct but it changes nothing. Scarcity is a requirement for a coin, but if people are dumping worthless trash in a landfill we can't exactly call it "scarce" when nobody even bothers to pick it up.
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@jonathanolson772 Trash is not scarce because you can get as much of it as you want right now.
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No. Only a few kilos of fissile materials with long half lives unlike the short lived fission byproducts. People have touched the cores of nuclear weapons with bare hands. It's fine as long as you don't breathe dust.
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Not any better than Su-25s, which have suffered losses on both sides.
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@heybabycometobutthead Su-25s use everything from the 30mm cannon to guided missiles.
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@lnomolas3427 A-10s are not any more survivable. Desert Storm showed how many pointless losses using the A-10 entails.
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Nah they need that fat steel core to put the smackdown on a ceramic plate even at short distances. They paid for the whole 80k psi, they'll use the whole 80k psi.
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Doesn't help against HEAT, it just hides weak spots. That's why they use metal plate rather than chain link fencing.
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@МихаилВарламов-ж5ъ The fragmentation is minimal, in fact improvised frag sleeves were made for PG-7V warheads. HEAT forms a jet. That jet impacts metal. The metal cracks open and forms even more fragments on the other side.
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Still clicked and commented which helps the algorithm.
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Changing thumbnails is a way to game the algorithm.
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And have a backup ground to ground function.
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""Pantsir"s, "Tor"s - they are the ones, that will shoot at incoming ordinance" - And what happens when there are HARMs in the air? If they try to shoot incoming ordnance, they become the target.
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@MI1T So while you shoot at HARMs, the other ordnance makes it through.
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The F-117 has no radar to turn on in the first place.
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Fred Kumar there's actually a case for arguing that more NATO spending would decrease war profiteering. The US presence and indirect subsidizing of Europe's defense lines the pockets of the military industrial complex. If Europe starts spending more but internally (not sending money to American companies as revenge for Trump bossing them around) we'll either get pissy and refuse to increase taxes or we'll increase taxes to create a little more welfare: more troops and state owned arms manufacturers. That won't necessarily lead to war.
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If I'm not mistaken most of them are French, British and German, no? British arms companies would be punished for Brexit and the rest of Europe would be up in arms if they were told they'd have to pay France and Germany for military equipment. I'm actually betting that the money is going to more troops and domestically produced equipment.
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I remember how the molotov cocktails were thrown from the roof of that building. And people escaping were aided by Ukrainians who took the street barriers and laid them on the side of the building to use as ladders.
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Because he owns a media production company.
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If you want to go deeper, Russian blood (I'd say "Soviet" to include more of the peoples who fought on the Red Army who wouldn't want to be called Russian) wouldn't have done anything without the US's industrial capability and Germany's chronic logistical problems. The US was mostly untouched so its industrial output carried the Allies on its back - both Stalin and Zhukov admitted that Lend-Lease was critical. And Germany had such problems with oil shortages and logistical chain issues that the war was unwinnable for their side and the outcome was decided on the day the conflict started. Reducing the Eastern front to a bloody sacrifice also discounts the Soviet use of Deep Battle doctrine and some masterful tactical decisions such as Zhukov predicting the German assault on Kursk and placing the defenses in the right spots. On the other hand by the time the bombs were dropped Germany had already been defeated. This was about the war in the Pacific. It wasn't who did more to win in Europe but how we delineate the conflict to have ended with Japan's surrender.
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@wineberryred Or, they won't offer charging and will keep rent the same while the ones that offer charging will hike their prices.
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@BonanzaPilot I remember when oil barrel prices increased due to the wars. I guess they've been doing it wrong.
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We only have to look at crowdfunding to realize that's not true either. So much garbage and cash grabs have been made by teams who had it all without publishers breathing down their neck.
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Ukrainians are home while Russia is an expeditionary force. It's much harder to keep soldiers fighting abroad as you have to push beyond your borders.
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@chocomalk 1. There was no coup. 2. There was no Western backing. The US wanted to keep Yanukovych in power. 3. The separatists were Russian citizens anyway, they couldn't vote in Ukrainian matters.
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@chocomalk No argument. Thanks for admitting I'm right.
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@lolgg3707 Things don't last forever. When weapons start to wear out that's a good opportunity to switch to something modern because maintaining old weapons gets more expensive as you need to get spare parts made to order.
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If you get a degree you'll have negative wealth. That's your debt. You need to start paying it off. If your small town needs help, who exactly is living there who can afford to pay you enough for you to settle that debt? Unless there's a really cheap business opportunity that requires the knowledge of a degree (which you can get for essentially "free" because almost every book is online) you can't just get The Degree™, built The Factory™ and give the people The Jobs™.
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The other way around. A manufacturer complained about the Russian government requiring an older BMP variant even though it was more expensive. Money is "cheap". It wouldn't matter if the Armata was the same cost, if the electronics required more lead time due to sanctions.
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@lacdirk Even when the power is out, chest feeezers are very efficient so if you don't open the door frequently you can keep stuff there under the freezing point for a long time. Similar to how in the old days people would collect ice and snow during the winter and put it on a hut covered in straw. It would act as a refrigerator for the summer.
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@lacdirk If you were living in the Mediterranean or Northern Africa, sure. Transporting ice was for the wealthy. If ice was abundant for half the year where you lived, some mud, straw and a hole in the ground was not something for the wealthy. It was literally free as you'd have the building materials nearby and a lot of physical labor was done when it was impossible to farm due to the season.
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The Russian withdrawls are a massacre. Footage from the roads heading out of the cities they abandon are full of corpses and limbs.
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That's a full blown lie. The US secured the German defeat by secretly manipulating the international markets to deny Germany strategic materials.
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Well but youtube doesn't pay content creators. How about you tell youtube your money should be paying for the content creators? Before the adpocalypse the AdSense revenue was enough for people to quit their jobs and do YT full time. Now they need Patreon and sponsorships.
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Argument from incredulity is not a valid reasoning.
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What if pre-rendered clouds were used?
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@eyesus8165 Well it just came out that one of the VFX used in the video came from a 90s CD-ROM for royalty free assets.
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@eyesus8165 Mick West and SomeOrdinaryGamers have covered it.
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How did the CIA install him? He defeated Poroshenko in the elections.
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They've set fires and explosives in munitions plants. It's more effective.
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Sports are regulated by athletic comissions/federations. When in a country you have to abide by their state's rules. In some countries there's no sanctioning body for MMA so the UFC acts as the sports comission there, but if there's an already existing body that country's rules supercede everything else.
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Nothing can compare just like dinosaurs don't exist anymore. Evolutionary dead end. Has anyone else made a modern A-10? No. Has Russia made a Su-25 replacement? No.
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Someone being likely to have been done something doesn't matter to the case. Same reason the video of Kyle talking while the CVS was being looted was not admissible into court. It doesn't matter. It's a different situation.
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@АртемАртем-л4э Name these experts.
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Russia has used everything short of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. How is this escalation? If you slap me and I slap you, that's tit for tat. Escalation would be whipping out a knife.
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Vice reported from the Russian ocupied areas. Patrick Lancaster is a disgusting war criminal who steals bodies fdom morgues to stage scenes.
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Ukraine is winning, though.
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Not really. A handful of HIMARS delivered a huge sucker punch to quantity.
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@kuunoooo7293 Misspoke.
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Lol your taxpayer dollars are being used against Russians and you can only watch.
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The "coup" was carried out by the democratically elected parliament and the far right lost the elections. The 14 thousand deaths occured in both sides. They were not "ethnic Russians", they were Ukrainian military and volunteers and separatists. Those people died in a conflict, I'm sure you know people die fighting wars. You claim 14k Russians were killed while hiding the fact thousands were Ukrainian military.
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@Sig509 While technically correct, cheaters have been called "hackers" for over 20 years because they're using hacking software. And it differentiates from other kinds of cheating like glitch abuse.
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 @IIMiikexDII Yeah and a "hack" is often getting results through shoddy means (hence life hacks). So the "hacker" wasn't even a term that referred to skill, but someone creating workarounds.
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@thedude5449 we've seen the videos of Russians who are old men with cancer, and most recently the dudes who are already in crutches being forced to get back out and fight. All you "muh Ukraine" people have the blinders on Russia having the most inhuman way of fighting wars we've ever seen caught in 4k.
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How is it a bad thing to profit out of an attempt to ruin your life?
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Aren't the quadros coming with RTX?
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Incidental. That's like saying that Hitler had Jewish heritage. Doesn't change one bit what happened, doesn't justify it and doesn't even make sense. Those people were killed by political reasons, not "in the name of Atheism". The fact that those leaders touted Atheism is a pure Red Herring - and doesn't imply that everyone under their orders were in fact atheists.
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NATO sent older models because most countries have defunded the military for 30 years. So they don't have a way of sending the newer stuff without disarming themselves.
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@Arguseyed_ It's Ukraine versus Russia. The 32 countries are sending a handful of tanks and IFVs. They're playing the long game? How? They lost the best equipment and best soldiers. Depleting NATO? NATO has not yet sent a single aircraft or naval vessel. Yeah, China is the real threat. That's why showing how Russia will lose to a drip feed of Western equipment is so important. China will understand the level of curbstomping the West is capable of when it wants to.
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Honestly, back in 2016 the dems pushed reps to Russia. Refusing to acknowledge that Hillary was unpopular and blaming the election on Russia made the "deplorables" feel like Russia couldn't be that bad if the Clintons hate them. Ever seen that meme of the libertarians and communists playing tug of war and then monopoly man grabs the rope on the communist side and a nazi grabs on the libertarian side? It's like that. Politics makes for strange bedfellows.
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@marko1263 Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff are incompetent commies. People will accuse me of being a Bolsonaro fanboy but that's not it, the Gripen choice makes sense once you realize the Partido Trabalhista (Labour Party) will consistently make the worst decisions for their country.
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@1989TS.. If a person from Austin Texas knows that a no-fly zone means a F-16 shooting down a Su-30, they will say no. If a person from Paris France thinks that a no-fly zone is just a UN request and Russia stops flying or else they'll be called a naughty boy, they'll say yes. It's not about geography but perception of how this works.
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PAC-2 missiles have a blast frag warhead. Patriots can be loaded with a mix of missiles to deal with different target types.
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Next time Joe is gonna ask his local farm supplier to not offend your sensibilities.
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@terrorswrath6806 Yeah I'm embarrassed for your jealousy of Rogan's wealth. Just stop listening, I don't even listen to the podcast and you don't hear me complain. It's not for me.
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Plenty of people weren't. It was just a regiment in the national guard at that point. Marines were also captured along with Azov, and Russia calls them Azov too.
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Attacking would be political suicide, people are TIRED of the wars. Save the world headaches? Taking down the Iraqi government and attacking Syria lead to the strengthening of the Islamic State. Attacking Libya lead to it becoming infested with terrorists and human traffickers, the people responsible for the refugee crisis. Destroying countries creates MORE headaches.
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As another commenter explained, the production of ethanol discards 90% of the vegetable material, which is used as nutrient dense feed for animals. The "brewing" process strips the sugars that get turned into alcohol, but leaving most of the protein content.
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I think it was on the History Channel, there's a series of documentaries about weapons that changed the world. I am 99% sure it's History Channel. Either way they're comparing the Mills bomb to the Stielhandgranate and the presenter botches it up and says the Mills bomb (with the thicc iron case) was made to be effective in enclosed spaces while the thin cased Stielhandgranate was more effective in the open.
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@CougarRidgeFarm SAPI is not the same as ESAPI. Which isn't the same as XSAPI, but nobody wears those anyway. You're wrong. The guy running Hoplite wouldn't risk his neck selling ESAPIs considering he's running for governor.
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@megaconda07 What? So you're required to wear plates but only infantry gets issued?
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"How am I paying for everyone else's bandwidth in a NN system? If I don't use streaming or other intensive services then I pay for a lower kbps." - There's still plans with kbps? (I realize some people live in underserviced zones, it's a joke) You are paying for everyone else's bandwidth. The ISP is not charging you for those "kbps" or "mbps", the ISP is charging you a rate they think makes them enough money to maintain their business and still be able to pocket something for themselves. Their service is tiered but whatever they charge for the lowest tier is based on a function of how many people actually want this tier and how much are they willing to pay for it. "You imply through your images that trivial entertainment like porn, cartoons and a Christmas Story are a less worthy usage of bandwidth than posting on 4chan or sharing your linguistics paper" - But that's not the point. Video streaming, especially done in very optimized fashion, requires more bandwidth. Posting on 4chan requires almost nothing. It's not moralism, it's the fact that I'm being a "good neighbor" and everyone else is being a "bad neighbor" by hogging bandwidth. "which is an entirely subjective evaluation that neither you nor, and more to the point, ISPs have any right to make" - Truckers pay higher toll taxes in many countries. I'm pretty sure that size and weight of a vehicle is an objective evaluation. And the state or private entity that manages the road has the right to judge the cost of using the road based on the class of vehicle. "I don't care what other people use their bandwidth for, I'm going to be making my purchasing decisions based on my own usage, not anyone else's." - But that's actually the problem. When I need to turn around in a fast paced video game that only needs to phone to the server with updates in position and game state to get that guy who's about to shoot me, I have thousands of people on Netflix who are trying to get their packets around me who are negatively impacting my ability to have my shot accurately recorded by the server. Everyone is thinking for themselves, and ignoring how they're being a nuisance to other users. And they won't even realize it because their show isn't time-sensitive and it buffers ahead.
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Wrong. The peace talks as usual are Russia's stalling tactics. Russia has broken every peace treaty so far.
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>adults The day children are considered mentally fit to drive, have jobs, drink, smoke, become soldiers, etc maybe society will decide they can consent to sex. Until then, no, children can't consent. >species Are you the Dog Whisperer to know when animals consent to sex? Because unless you are, you're abusing an animal.
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The MBT isn't over. Russia is just suffering from strict adherence to doctrine with no junior officer initiative, which means recon by fire and walking into ambushes. Their non-mobilized "peacetime" military has personnel shortages, probably exacerbated by corruption because there's probably bribery going on to have "ghost contracts" where officers claim they have X soldiers who never show up. Without infantry screening, armor falls into ambushes. This was true in WWI, in WWII, in the 1970s, etc. Every time tanks fell victim to anti-tank weaponry, and yet they survived.
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The Ronson thing is a myth. The fires stopped when the ammunition storage was changed, and the Sherman became one of the best WW2 tanks in terms of crew survivability.
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@triadwarfare but the audiophile business is selling absolute whale oil. The bike business at least can have their advancements measured at the scale.
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@haroldrobinson5205 but it's gonna get an xobx release... That's why I mentioned exclusives. "I've seen games that look better on console" - With the same draw distance?
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 @thefallenfaith1986 sensible chuckle
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@dominicgunderson "your average person isn't going underground" - average people went "underground" - aka any street corner - to buy weed.
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 @Will9c "muh printing money" Russia printed a trillion rubles or whatever at the start of the war, and China is fudging numbers all the time...
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Being part of NATO means being under the nuclear protection of the UK, France, US. Without nukes, NATO countries can be nuked.
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Missing the forest for the trees. What happened to that million?
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@nathanmckenzie904 "if we cut taxes a company would use that money to hire or raise salaries" - but that's the oversimplified description of a process, if a company has more money but no higher need for productivity putting the money directly on the company will lead to losses. But if the money is invested not only does the state get back the capital gains tax from it, but that investment stimulates businesses. The growth of the economy can then result in higher demand for the product you make and thus you may actually have to hire more people. Instead of thinking of singular companies as a closed system one has to think about all the extra money in the economy and what companies and people will do with it.
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@nathanmckenzie904 the way something is sold has to do with how many people are able to comprehend complex concepts. Most people simply cannot dedicate their time to learning multiple subjects.
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We have cruise missiles, glide bombs, anti-radiation missiles, decoys, etc. Cheap ground based anti aircraft systems are just target practice.
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@briantaylor8197 The sensor fusion in the 35 in unrivaled and no 4th gen has the same abilities. The F-20 was a sales failure precisely because the countries that were interested wanted the more capable F-16, but couldn't get it until export restrictions were lifted. The A-10 is outdated and should have been retired in the 1990s as originally planned.
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@briantaylor8197 They didn't sell plenty of Tigersharks, only three were built. Stop making stuff up.
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@MK-oz2lf "trust gun mamufacturers" - the fuck you talking about? They make gun, we learn if its goid gun, we buy gun. We don't trust anything.
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@Xpistos510 tanks didn't do shit in Afghanistan.
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@Xpistos510 bullshit. The "background check" would affect law abiding citizens because it would regulate private transfers. Mag capacity bans do make a difference.
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that's not the point at all. Laws are what we use to justify the use of state force to bring people to justice. If you advocate for a law that uses force against a person who isn't doing any harm that's pretty foul. Certain crimes are harmful, other crimes are victimless.
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why? Because you're refusing to think? You have free speech. You could use free speech for libel, slander or even to spread propaganda that gets people killed. We punish you when you commit crimes with your speech, but we don't make speech illegal. We have many household chemicals that are poison. But we only punish you if you put them in someone's food. We don't make ownership of chemicals illegal. The question at hand here is that people should not be punished for the mere act of owning weapons, but you people are comparing it to murder and pretending we don't want a law against murder.
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But multirole aircraft have already proven themselves to be masters of all trades. It's not a superiority fighter. Fancy electronic garbage is useless, and yet the main tank killing weapon on the A-10 is the AGM-65 Maverick. Two engine reliability doesn't mean much because if one engine goes out, typically it takes out the second engine too. The Air Force is trying to retire the A-10 for years.
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@Mark-kj4xd Larry isn't fat anymore.
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In 1981 Pope John Paul II was struck by gunfire in an attempt on his life at the Vatican City. Does't matter where in the world you are. There's always a way to get one into an event.
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After the USSR fell he went on to bring down other targets. Was it is pure greed? Or was it another economic hit ordered by someone? We only have wild speculation, but I'm not gonna forgive some dude for killing my enemy and then turning the gun on me.
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Can't buy homes with artillery shells.
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The Simpsons didn't earn their reputation on edgyness alone, though. It had legitimately funny jokes and great stories in their prime. Simpsons were never good? Okay, that's a hot take. Simpsons were the equivalent of Newgrounds? Now that's just unfair characterization.
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Finland joining NATO did not cause a strong response. If NATO was a big deal for Russia, they wouldn't be pulling S-300s from their Russo-Finnish border to use in Ukraine. 2014 is incorrectly described as a coup, but the government was in session and voted for early elections. The fact that the president fled to avoid the consequences of his crimes is immaterial, the government not fall and get replaced.
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@papasmurf9146 They Finnish crossed the red line. Ukraine wasn't joining NATO. Instead of "learning from the past" you could also do something called "realize people lie". Another important thing is "people obscuring their motives lie about them" and "authoritarian governments lie all the time".
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@papasmurf9146 So Ukraine didn't cross the red line. Now what? Russia has made noises about nuking everyone. Should we treat those as real threats? I only need to know what motivates people to defeat them. I understand the Russian narrative. It's a purely paranoid schizophrenic inversion of reality. It's literal evil but in a clumsy, almost funny fashion. They have a propagandist dressed as a Bond villain on TV rile up the population. We can consider Russia. They're the neighbor who is off his meds and the reason we keep a shotgun under the bed. Just in case.
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And this affected almost all aircraft with ejection seats, not just F-35s.
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>as soon as the image is created it will exist for eternity But how is that any worse than the idea/concept? I could give guns to criminals, or I could give them schematics to make them - it has the same end results. People would still think about the woman in a sexual way and anyone with half decent skills on PS could make the image. >banning PSing people in sexual acts That's a slippery slope. If we ban everything that is offensive we'll end up with no freedom of thought.
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That's not how it works, though. Russia holding onto terrain requires them to pressure Ukraine with advances to retain initiative. Russia's land grab has a MASSIVE cost. To stop paying that cost they need to give back something.
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Replacing their losses? In this economy?
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@greyfox78569 That's worse. If the things they lost are outdated, then they won't be replaced. They just lost that capability permanently.
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Syria and Iraq were pretty recent and they do have/had air forces.
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@Tobbizareta The Austrian staff was predicting a massive encirclement of Ukrainian troops in Donetsk.
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@Random-nf7qb The ferries get hit. The Chornovbaikava airfield has been hit like 35 times at this point, so anything delivered by helicopter will get shelled. Russia should be using the ferries and helicopters to pull troops out. Since they're sending Kadyrovites to harass refuseniks, the Russians are indeed trapped. By their own leaders.
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@Tobbizareta I'm not blaming anyone. I, without any military experience, knew right then and there that the encirclement wouldn't happen. I'm not saying I'm smart. I'm saying that I saw the Russian army for what it really was, not what everyone thought it was.
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The issue is that cartridges have to respect the external dimensions or else they won't fit the chamber. So the only option would be thinning out the case mouth. I can see damage to the case occuring during loading or violent feeding in a machine gun due to the weakening of the case.
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TenSquare falsified scores in their audits to make schools look worse and in need of rescuing. It was a complete scam, forget about "results".
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Nope. Russia claims it, because they're the sorest losers on the planet.
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They can't be replaced in a day. They have to pull them from other naval aviation bases like Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg and Murmansk. This means weakening their naval aviation elsewhere to plug holes. So the replacements are still needed.
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Ah yes the NWO. The US, Britain, Australia and Poland.
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Tell that to the F-16
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The funni
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Imagine if a mass shooter went on to a place full of Mexicans to kill people and Trump appeared on TV wearing a sombrero like Jacinta wore the hijab.
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Russia is the artillery army. Let's have an MMA fight with Mike Tyson, but his hands are handcuffed. You take away the opponent's biggest strength, you're golden.
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That would help if they weren't grinding themselves. The footage is out there.
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@ciaranthayer6628 Some people may see killing the unborn as barbaric. Just saying.
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@username40000 it's not like we should just ignore it but Ben did sort of ask to leave those things in the past Okay, this was done once. Next time little Ben writes a book is he going to get asked about his previously disavowed beliefs again? And the time after that? Is he gonna get to 60 years old and still get the same questions?
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Riley D Why are they wrong?
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@ciaranthayer6628 The problem is that people don't see abortion as a bad act that may be necessary to prevent cases like mentioned, abortion has been painted as "healthcare" and people will do anything to dehumanize the fetus including calling it a "parasite" (which is biologically incorrect) or a "clump of cells" to defend their unfettered access to the procedure. No different from cutting hair or nails. People in the middle are caught in the crossfire, but unfortunately while one side may be full of barbarians (who are later forced to disavow their views) the other is being inexplicably evil. I've heard the theory that fetus tissue is extremely valuable for the pharma industry, whatever the reason people have been acting crazy.
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Not true. I criticized the US. Liar.
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@jasoneves140 You could round up all American billionaires, pass a law that introduces a 100% inheritance tax, shoot them all in the head and collect their funds, and you still wouldn't have enough money to cover the federal budget for a single year.
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@jasoneves140 You learned the word bootlicker today or what? You know what are the effects of the bailout on banks, right? OVERVALUED STOCK PRICES. Giving bailouts to the financial sector causes inflation in that sector. If you print money but then give it towards goods and services, then goods and services become MORE expensive because of the devaluing of the dollar. God, you people don't even think before posting.
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@jasoneves140 Did you also learn the word simp today? Dude them buying the stocks back is the preferable outcome because it keeps inflation within the financial sector. It's fake money being used to buy fake things. If you use that money outside the financial sector YOU'RE FUCKING WITH EVERYONE'S MONEY. You can ask a fucking KEYNESIAN economist and he'll tell you the same fucking thing, it doesn't take a libertarian to understand Cantillon effects.
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@discowolf25 Are you asking that because of my profile picture? That's just a surplus helmet I have. I'm not even American.
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@toto-yf8tc Are you missing the point? In Zaporizhzhia the defensive line is enforced by artillery. Trying to go on the offensive with large concentrations of force makes them vulnerable. So now that Ukraine is spreading out the forces and doing smaller assaults, they don't need a large concentration of men. But Russia still needs manpower concentrated, or else a repeat of Kharkiv happens.
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Russia always attacks civilians. Nothing new.
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No, everything explodes.
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Mick West proves that nobody is above question. Pilots are not gods.
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Vanity megaprojects aren't really feasible nowadays. Technologically, we can do it. Are we going to spend resources doing it in the middle of nowhere? Ehhhh... It's like the Egyptian pyramids. We can build them today. Nobody does. The Bass Pro Shop one isn't made of stone blocks if you were thinking of mentioning that one.
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Russia did invade a country at their doorstep. So what?
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I don't know, why did he give Jack Dorsey a platform? Why does he give pot smoking comedians a platform? Why does he give astronomers and physicists a platform? Why does anything happen?
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>m16 Those cost upwards of $15,000 because they were banned in 1986. Nobody carries that kind of valuable item on the streets.
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Once that's done it proves nothing. Why show us the email after admitting it was tampered with?
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Why would they irradiate their own land? It's Russia who is ok with demolishing everything in Ukraine and making it unlivable.
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The Donbas became Donbabwe.
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Ah yes, the telegram channels
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It has a higher cost and more difficult maintenance than dedicated COIN aircraft. It also needs a more prepared field than the alternatives, which can take off from even more austere locations.
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@electricdonut8592 on paper it seems less capable than the most recent Patriots.
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Armenia moved towards the West because Russia was humiliated and the CSTO fell apart.
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 @currawong60911368 The CSTO is a joke.
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A nuclear artillery shell has a blast radius of about 500 yards. That would maybe take out 30-40 soldiers in the frontline.
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People really get their pp hard quoting Russian MoD daily reports on youtube comments.
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Armor is currently winning the arms race. Modern armor requires a core that won't fit the 5.56.
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There is no such agreement. The leader was not installed, it was voted by the Ukrainian people. Separatists get shelled because they fired shells at Ukraine. They're Hamas tier criminals, most are dead at this point.
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@mikeronni1 Yeah, it wasn't a coup. The government was reunited in the parliament and voted for early elections. Happens frequently in Europe. By your logic the UK, Italy, Portugal, etc had several coups in the last few decades.
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@mikeronni1 Emojis, because you're not paid to think. Glad you respond, the more you get paid to post the less bullets your countrymen have in their rifles.
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 @callmefleet the situation is almost the same because Iran is the only country the US sold F-14 Tomcats to and they needed Tom Cruise to steal one.
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They fired at civilians.
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@Տիգրան-ժ1է it's not - Russia is using S-300 missiles because of the lack of ground attack missiles
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@kingshoota3454 Schools were closed. Russia also turned pre-schools into bases.
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Are the Vietnamese insane? The Taliban insane?
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@henrybn14ar Negotiations simply delay the next assault.
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You're not for the protection of the 2A, then. You're asking for the 20th step in the ladder that leads to banning guns.
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3 more months? How many Russians are you willing to sacrifice?
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@pulaski1 The A-10 has already been replaced for the most part.
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A modified blackhawk. It had to carry half a dozen guys in the back.
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Air superiority means the ability to conduct air operations with little concern for enemy air forces. It doesn't mean superiority over the ground forces. Air superiority was quickly achieved in Iraq and Serbia, but ground threats were still active.
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Russia violates airspace all the time. It's a probing of defenses, even Portugal has had to intercept Tupolev bombers.
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You're welcome to file a criminal complaint.
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China closed their own cities. Their economy suffered greatly.
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Trying to appease Russia is like "trying to negotiate with Hitler"... this concept that the Russian state is somehow composed of straight shooters who never double-cross anyone is not realistic.
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Light aircraft aren't carrying 2000lbs bombs.
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Europe is not Siberia.
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That's fine. Ukraine doesn't have to cross the narrow corridor until all the meat is tenderized with HIMARS. It's not easy to defend territory when all your stuff blows up every day.
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@shanerooney7288 By your logic Target opening a new location is "undermining Walmart's economic security". Russia is the ultimate crybully.
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@shanerooney7288 The territory of the former East Germany still doesn't have foreign bases on it, only German military bases. So NATO kept its promise to a country that doesn't even exist anymore.
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@shanerooney7288 You're the one ignoring context. Why would they be making agreements about the Warsaw Pact and Soviet republics joining NATO? Think about it for a second.
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@Lucky-Sevens7777 They're purely volunteers, though. There's nothing wrong with going to another country and pledging to fight for them. Some countries will revoke your citizenship if you do that or actually arrest you if you come back, but people are free to travel and go out of their own volition. In the US, people with green cards volunteer for the US military to get a shot at earning citizenship. "They're over there" okay, tons of people are everywhere. There's black people in Japan, whites in Africa, and Slavs in South America. So what?
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@Lucky-Sevens7777 For themselves. For delusions of grandeur. For mental health reasons. For a sense of duty. I know someone who clearly went to Ukraine to die, because he didn't want his terminal illness to get him first. I'm dull, naive and unintelligent because I stated the facts? I'm dull because I recognize the historical phenomenon of people volunteering to fight? Remember how Germans formed a volunteer force to fight in Franco's Spain? Remember how Americans did the same but to fight for the opposing side (mostly)? Remember how both France and Spain have foreign legions? Remember how many foreigners volunteered to fight against ISIS by joining the Kurds? Remember how many foreigners volunteered for ISIS? Are you going to claim those things never happened? I'm naive for stating that immigrants in America serve in the armed forces and fight in wars alongside American-born soldiers?
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@Lucky-Sevens7777 How? For stating facts?
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The countries still using cluster weapons claim their new designs have less than 1% dud rate, and the duds make themselves inert after X number of hours.
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Not really. The Phantom was a naval interceptor from the start. A gun would be useless because an anti-ship missile could sink the carrier before the Phantom could do a gun intercept. In addition to that, the Navy Phantom never got guns installed because they weren't needed and even the F-8 The Last Gunfighter only scored 4 kills out of 19 with guns.
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The Petro might be, the Dollar not so much.
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The issue is tying those actions to a deliberate and systematic campaign. Meanwhile the removal of children to be raised as Russian is 100% a smoking gun evidence of intent to erase Ukrainians.
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Not delivered yet. Russia has Armatas, Ukraine doesn't have Abrams.
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Advance towards what? Even more control? Where's the finish line on this treadmill you want to step on? After you implement this you'll have entire generations born into total government control. You'll be able to convince them to pass even more restrictions because they never knew freedom.
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TWO GULF WARS!
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I've seen bodies split apart and corpses charred into coal black. I've never seen a ties up person executed on the side of the road.
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@1KosovoJeSrbija1 I don't have only one source. Maybe your sources who have been saying that Russians are winning all this time are wrong? Maybe they lied to you?
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Energy dump theories were disproven in the 80s and 90s. Bullets designed for energy dump was precisely what lead to the abysmal track record 9mm used to have.
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>so why do you need a gun that fires that fast anyways Show other guns firing as fast. Show two of those shotgun speed loaders topping off a tube in 4 seconds. Show en-bloc clips being reloaded in a second. Show pump-action rifles (pretty fast). Show those liveleak videos of people being shot several times and still keep running. Then ask them if they want people with physical disabilities or senior citizens defending themselves with bolt actions they can't operate.
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@bradleyaustin883 it happened before
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The JSF was always meant to be a "rolling release" unlike other programs. In the old days new fighter programs would straight up kill people and take years to solve the kinks. You just didn't have the internet back then. There's 550 F35s built, not manufactured? What do you mean?
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@andyskyfall3891 That's being naive. So out of all the slavic and nordic symbols they picked, they picked all the ones used by Germany? What are the odds?
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@andyskyfall3891 How am I obsessed with Nazis? I simply don't feel the need to suppress uncomfortable truths. Where is all this Slavic paganism coming from, and why do they have decals of Stepan Bandera on tshirts and cars in political rallies? Can we find some census information on how this paganism stuff got so popular over the last decade, because it's more common to see people displaying those instead of Orthodox symbols?
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@andyskyfall3891 You mean the Wolfsangel.
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@andyskyfall3891 Oh, they denied it. So they did the "Source: Trust me bro".
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@andyskyfall3891 Sure. And the Wagner PMC has a commander who has SS tattoos, and they're bankrolled by a Jewish businessman too. Mossad hired Otto Skorzeny, a former SS officer. The real world doesn't have nearly drawn lines.
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Damn and just like that the SS style executions are washed away clean from Russia's hands.
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India has Hindu nationalists, the US doesn't.
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@HSMak That's not how studies work. Previous studies wouldn't say anything about vitamin D's role in a body infected with the novel corona virus. If there's a cheap, safe alternative to an experimental vaccine you put the money on that study, if it confirms that vitamin D works then it's not a waste. Get out of here with these half baked excuses.
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@HSMak First of all, you're twisting the argument. This isn't about cures. Second, why are vaccines needed? They're not a cure either. Third, the use of mockery and strawman arguments is an admission of loss. It's the equivalent of panicking and tapping out once someone gets your back and puts and arm around your neck. If all your argument resorts to insulting others and using logical fallacies to make them look bad, you've just embarrassed yourself in front of an audience. Thanks for the verbal sparring. You quit. You lose.
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@HSMak Uh, this vaccine doesn't actually make you immune, it just suppresses symptoms. Meaning that people who are vaccinated are still spreading. You come here pretending to know everything but you haven't read a single paper on the subject. The trials conducted measured the vaccine effectiveness by measuring symptoms, and people have been infected post-vaccination. Multiple of the vaccines are also having issues with side effects on the elderly, or straight up not working on the elderly. Meaning that the people more vulnerable to the disease may not get the protection they need, while vaccinating the rest of the population will not protect them.
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@HSMak The immune response is supposed to be primed to fight off infection, thus making a person immune. If that's not the case then how can you explain the eradication of polio or measles? We'd still have polio and measles transmitting from person to person.
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He didn't run up to a truck. They placed a truck in his way after attempting to cut him off earlier.
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The blank firing adapter has a steel rod that goes into the barrel. If you attempt to fire a live round it will get your attention.
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@kingp1n817 Syria was absolutely a priority for Russia. They just can't do anything about it. Most wars don't end like this because Syria's armed forces were gutted, and their IRGC and Hezbollah allies have already been fighting Israel so they couldn't support the SAA. It was a rotten structure that only needed a kick to break down.
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He's right anyway.
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@deepseashark5951 The Western ideology of forcing women to wear Burqas?
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 @DallasRabot cashless in Y2K?
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Who's trying to cancel Zoe Quinn? There's a difference between asking for a fair assessment of her claims and if found to be false put in motion the procedures to make her liable for the consequences, and trying to "cancel" soneone.
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"Why are we so tired of our actual reality" - you mean like when cavemen made cave paintings and watched fire crackle? - you mean like when the ancients looked at stars and told tales? - you mean like when people were entertained by bards and plays? - you mean like when people went to the opera? - you mean like books? - or even modern Hollywood?
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So if you own a junkyard should you be required to have a driver's license even though you're not gonna drive the cars anywhere?
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Telemetry could be trying to phone home but have no line of sight to any receiver or repeater. That can also happen when you're not at high altitude.
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@mikes989 But 3/4ths of the world aren't joining war criminal gangs. We're not talking about fighting "in some way", I meant a shooting war. Russia is currently exploiting and killing the nations they send mercenaries to, they're now stealing gold in Africa.
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@ignoramus4340 And his ideas killed people. Now he suffers the blowback. Might even have been a Russian oligarch who lost money due to the war. Can't go after Putin, go after the ideas man.
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@kochendorfer6433 You wouldn't fight your way out of a wet paper bag, let alone a shooting war against "the West".
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@mikes989 lol Russians are brought in by corrupt governments.
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@Heinrich Hertz And killing Ukrainians solves that how?
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I was just looking up videos on VT fuzes yesterday. What a coincidence.
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@jhpjhun It was kind of astronomical. You had to see the writing on the wall when all the prices burst at the seams and the companies started saying "ah dude, the war..." as their excuse when the sanctions hadn't even really kicked off.
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 @AndrewBurbo-zw6pf because the free energy absorbed allows us to stop building more and more coal and gas thermal power stations.
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@VsevolodSidorenko PayPal is known for blocking/restricting accounts belonging to activists/human rights organizations out of nowhere, and in some communities for banning accounts if they think that what you're doing is gun related. Like airsoft/cosplay. They wanted to implement a 2500 USD fine if you were caught spreading disinformation. One thing is getting banned from twitter, another is gobbling 2.5k from your bank account. They backtracked on that. On the business end, many small businesses are screwed over by chargeback frauds.
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Preventing WW3 by supporting saber rattling, clashes, instability. Seems to me we're closer to WW3 than ever before.
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@AlexP-jz9sg "Eastern expansion" is just an excuse, countries join because they know they need protection. The 2014 "coup" was just the president fleeing and his own party disavowing him, and Victoria Nuland wasn't a puppet master. There was no crackdown on "Eastern Ukrainians" it was a conflict against Russian-armed and lead rebellions. Right Sector lost the 2014 elections. Follow the timeline? 2014. Russia invades and arms separatists to carve up Ukraine. That's the timeline. The Minsk Agreements were violated by DPR forces assaulting Debaltseve the day after they were signed.
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Did you see the footage? The buildings are demolished. Nobody lives there.
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That violent looters will see from a mile away. Yeah, it's rubbish if you want to stash drugs, hide a dead body or become the next Bin Laden. It will be perfectly fine, it's just a plan B anyway. It's unrealistic to expect that he will have to wait out the Apocalypse in there, it's even more unrealistic that someone will take his ranch. It's just ludicrous to assume looters will have Navy SEALs and spy satellites in their disposal searching every inch of his land.
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What the fuck are you on about? It's fucking semantics. There's places where bathrooms say "boys" and "girls", does that mean adults aren't allowed in? You're making it seem like it's some kind of hateful thing to say to someone. Oh, no, people thinking I'm younger than I actually am, first world problems! Is the term "girlfriend" offensive to people over 30? We all have to call them wives by that point?
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@Demonslayer20111 so you're receiving information from "forums" and not looking into it first hand. You're not doing research, you're trusting some guy who for all we know, could have been paid by NordVPN to say they're not storing data. Also, your "research" hinges on NordVPN having security not good enough to resist whitehat hackers. This means that blackhats will have access to information NordVPN claims they aren't storing. So you can trust NordVPN, but you can't trust them with your information because it's easily stolen.
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@Demonslayer20111 even if they don't technically "store" anything all your data goes through them. What you're saying is like having a computer with a fresh windows install and saying you are immune to hackers because you're only using Microsoft Edge to browse the web and don't save anything on the drive. Your computer actually downloads the data and saves it temporarily so the browser can access the data and display it to you. If you have a hacker intruding on your computer he can see everything you do even if all the temporary data is wiped after you're done. So if you count on a VPN to be hackable so you can verify it's not storing or selling your data, you can count on hackers being able to read everything that goes through the VPN and essentially make it useless. "Nothing is totally secure" - saying that nothing is secure is very different from essentially saying that you depend on VPNs being so permeable any white hat can tell what they're doing. There's a big difference between a company that has teams of skilled hackers spend 5 years to find a breach, and a business that sells its service as a security measure being so security averse that they let anyone hack into it.
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@fluffybunny7089 "Hacking a VPN gives an attacker access to the same amount of information an ISP would have" - that's scary enough for me, considering that one of the selling points of VPNs is being able to hide your activity from even your ISP.
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@fluffybunny7089 "the hackers would have a hard time matching your internet information with your personal information" - isn't the fact that it's easy to match internet information with personal information the whole point of getting a VPN?
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It's virtually impossible to differentiate between "unhindered" and "limping back to base". An aircraft can be shredded and losing fluids but you won't see it on a handheld camera.
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And it shouldn't involve real people, like Shadman did to Keemstar's daughter or that actress from Logan. That's straight up harassment.
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@Commie 1776 "we must live and act according to the laws of the world in which we currently live." - not really.
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 @newcreationinchrist1423 Mai Lai was a long time ago. Since the 2000s he's been publishing garbage.
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 @Croatian_Sensation The reporter is well known for lying about other stories involving the US military and overusing anonymous sources.
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 @johnperic6860 Mai Lai was a long time ago. A German Pulitzer prize winner was caught faking stories. Why bring that up and not his recent lies?
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@Scorpion-my3dv Look him up. Abu Ghraib. Highway of Death. He made accusations without proof regarding what happened.
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@wor53lg50 Let's bring up the past! Sy Hersh LIED about Highway of Death. He LIED about Abu Ghraib. He has LIED for thirty years, so let's bring up his past.
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@jamesrowlands8971 They accidently published an article about Ukraine joining thre greater Russia. They used the same general plan as in Czechoslovakia, dropthe VDV to seize airports, surround government buildings and take control of the government. The pictures of OMON forces in riot gear are freely available. They expected only angry crowds. Turns out they faced a real army and paid the ultimate price for Putin's hubris.
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"this time"? It always is. Only guy ever deplatformed by anti-sjws was James Gunn and he got rehired anyway.
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@azrael3030 lel obscure calibers are more likely to sit on the shelves than 45
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A convicted sex offender and a former RT contributor.
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Nice whataboutism. This video wasn't about the US being perfect. Whenever it is pointed out how evil communists are they're quick to deflect and blame others.
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Patrick Lancaster is just lying. Remember in February 2022 when he used a stolen body to create a fake battle scene? The skull had a straight saw cut, which was obviously done during an autopsy. Why was Lancaster stealing corpses to create fake news?
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@lorenze22 Russian forces aren't the only ones in the fight. The PMCs and conscripts from the L/DPR are also boosting the numbers.
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@aquilaFUN "Close" means you are targeting enemy forces engaged with friendlies. Not that the aircraft is close to the ground. You could perform close air support from orbit if you wanted to, it's just not practical.
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Scott Ritter has been wrong the whole time, and he is also a child predator.
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@edward9674 Regular ceramic tiles against bullets? Sure, it can work when overbuilt enough to compensate for material selection. Against the HEAT missile warheads or AP projectiles fired by autocannons? It needs to be engineered for the purpose.
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I don't want to dogpile as others have already said enough... but c'mon man. I don't like Kraut but he exposed CoachRedPill pretty well, he's a scammer and his whole CPR persona about making videos for when his children grow up so he can teach them to be men when he's not around... Never made sense. He's a clout chaser. Also, notice how so many of these people are essentially sex tourists. Patrick Lancaster, the guy from New Atlas, etc go to less fortunate countries to find wives. How convenient for them.
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@G.N.F462 He made "red pill" content, he said it was for young men and he was making videos for his children if he was no longer alive to raise them as they became men. But that was clearly BS because he talked about topics and internet drama that would become irrelevant years later.
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Nonsense. Ukraine wouldn't commit those troops to Donbas. The capital is never left undefended, and there's practical limits to how many can be deployed in the region. If you're right, the Russian military planners are beyond stupid. They had to come from the special ed class in the military academy. So if Vladivostok is invaded, these geniuses would send all troops around Moscow across the country to leave it undefended?
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The Gripen E is as expensive. Even the Gripen C was more expensive to operate than the F-16 despite much lower performance. You think Sweden won't cut you off? First, Sweden's Gripen exports have to be cleared by everyone making the parts. That means Britain, Germany, US, etc. Second, if Sweden doesn't agree with your fight you're not gonna get parts and replacement units. So you have to be aligned with Sweden as well.
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Antibiotic resistance isn't a myth, it's Darwinism. Selective breeding.
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Aviation? 4 aircraft shot down in a day.
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So you'll ruin the lives of millions of young people because you're afraid of a 0.5% chance of dying. If you were 75 or over, then sure. At that point it's like 2-4% chance of dying.
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Five divisions with no tanks, no IFVs, no air support, no AT weapons, etc. Do they plan on using GTA cheats to pop the materiél out of thin air? Or are they going to Naruto run into US bases like the storm Area 51 plan?
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More Plates More Dates is probably the better guest for that.
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@187Rajah Ukraine is on the Xth wave of conscription, the separatists are kidnapping men off the streets.
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That's not what happened. The Taliban remained in hiding until the US left.
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Guys in trucks with guns performing citizens' arrests willy-nilly is an afront to society. You can have good intentions and still break the law. If this situation happened to you, and you shot the guys in the truck, you'd be off the hook in the grounds of self-defense.
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@magiceightballspot You don't even know what a strawman is. It doesn't matter what you do or don't do. There's two people playing wannabe cop and on the lookout for suspects. You happen to match the description that day. You don't go around burglarizing, too bad there's two armed guys on pursuit because they don't know what you did or didn't do. Society won't favor the vigilante when they start killing innocent people when they make a mistake. There's a reason who vigilantism is looked down upon. There's a difference between a vigilante that goes after the guilty when law won't and delivers justice through technically unlawful means, and a vigilante who's looking for excuses to shoot people independently of their guilt or innocence. But still, the first kind vigilante still goes to prison despite popular support. Folk heroes are often criminals in the eyes of the law. I feel safer amongst thieves. I can handle thieves. Vigilantes are a powder keg.
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@cynicallydepressed1 you do realize that the movie was set during WWI, right? Not WWII.
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The Soviet Union couldn't end the insurgency in Afghanistan and China had to put a million people in re-education camps to stamp out independence thoughts in Xinjiang.
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 @Rockethead293 Police/detectives can testify about what you said, or you can testify under oath in court. But stuff you said on a TV interview is very weak. People can go on TV and lie.
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@Rockethead293 So? Not worth much in court.
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 @vladimirfromukraine419 What push? It can't use the avionics, it can't loiter. It could only maybe lob JDAMs, which other aircraft can do.
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@rjames3981 False. The democratically elected government of Ukraine voted to relinquish the president's powers, because he fled the country. Why did he flee the country? He was about to wash his hands clean off the deaths of protesters and was going to allow the security forces to take the fall. So they realized Yanukovych had double crossed them, and refused to protect him. Tip for the wannabe dictators - if you betray your own security forces, they'll either come for you or stop protecting you from those who want to come after you. If you kill protesters, get ready to face the consequences.
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The USSR also had T-34s, IS-2s, KV-2s, Matildas, etc.
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@destroydapacka Here comes the cope. I didn't mention Lend Lease, I just said that the Soviet Union also had plenty of vehicle models to deal with.
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Those turrets are powered by ship hydraulics. The Humvee is gonna win easily.
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Leaning towards what you think rather than just being a contrarian. We don't actually have to have a stance on all subjects.
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 @Shrimpspiration It wasn't about bases, Castro wanted control over nuclear missiles. Even Krushchev saw that Castro could not be trusted with nukes.
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AR-style rifles are built in Russia and China.
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Cope. Russia was involved in Vietnam. Did the USSR declare war on the US?
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Russia claimed they'd hit HIMARS and every other weapon in transit. So far they haven't had any luck.
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 @stefansikora5183 coal plants in average kill more people in one year than Chernobyl and Fukushima combined.
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Remember brutality of Serbs. Took Dutch peacekeepers hostage and threatened to kill them with artillery if they weren't allowed to do Srebrenica.
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@radobibic1010 Shut up or we'll do it again.
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@radobibic1010 We put down aggressors. You have the gall to massacre civilians and then call others aggressors.
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@emZee1994 A limited resource. Every day people go to work and produce wealth. How can a limited resource keep up? We've outproduced gold for over a century.
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@KaloyanKasabov the Russian disinformation campaign is spreading the rumor that Poland wants revenge for Bandera and will invade Western Ukraine.
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@jimwantsjustice3465 he's being sarcastic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic
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@Ivan_StandWithUkraine You said Russia didn't exist until 1991. Not only it was false, because the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire existed before the USSR, it didn't even make sense because Russia did not stop existing even when it was part of the USSR. During the USSR, even though it was one of 15 countries it was not 1/15th of the USSR. It had the majority of territory and population.
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@Ivan_StandWithUkraine The point wasn't the missiles, it was you claiming that Russia didn't exist. It did. Now you're grasping at straws by pretending that different political systems means a country doesn't exist (by that logic France didn't exist until the Republic was formed). Also, if the design bureau was Russian I'd call the missiles Russian even if the program lead wasn't. NASA was American even if Von Braun wasn't.
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@Ivan_StandWithUkraine My point is that you call people ignorant but then say things like "Russia didn't exist" when it did. I know all about your kind of people. You obsess over this type of mistake for so long you end up creating your own mistakes.
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Common Serb L.
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NATO has actual air forces, artillery would never get in range.
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@raztubes Horses are a pain to keep, ICE vehicles can be literally put in storage for decades and as long as you took precautions such as draining fluids they do fine. Try to not feed or water a horse for a month.
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@ElementZephyr Hydrogen is garbage. If kept as a gas, it has terrible energy density. If kept as a liquid, it requires unreasonably thick and insulated tanks and you have no choice but to let it boil off gradually.
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@raztubes What do you mean free cars? It costs money to keep the offspring too. If you sell them for money, then you're just a horse breeder. You don't even need the car to drive to your job anymore, because you have a new job! I know the horse analogy thing. Problem is, this time it's different. We're putting the cart before the horse, pun not intended. We're having EVs promoted to us and ICE discouraged when the infrastructure isn't there yet.
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How's the F-35 gonna be obsolete?
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 @williamrutter3619 the US flew over Vietnam (USSR defenses), Iraq, Serbia, etc.
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@williamrutter3619 Ritter is a predator, MacGregor embarassingly predicted Ukrainian defeat in April/March 2022, Brian Beltric made an entire video claiming that Russian MLRS are superior to HIMARS - then HIMARS proceeded to break the spine of the Russian army. You got the whole cope squad as your source.
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@williamrutter3619 "our experience of old soviet anti aircraft systems is exactly that, old" - B-1Bs with standoff weapons slipped past Syrian S-300 and Russian S-400s. Ukrainian MiGs and Sukhois with AGM-88s have destroyed Russian air defense. Heads of state always notify these visits, they don't ask for permission. Shooting down an aircraft carrying politicians is an act of war.
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Not missing anything, that is correct. They're usually designed so that can be fired while folded but that's simply so that you can fire in an emergency, such as while leaving a vehicle, and not causing a stoppage by blocking the brass with the stock or something.
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The guy in the suit was a pro-wrestler as well. Would explain the antics.
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El Bottoo Yes, China is the bad guy here.
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@GojosMiddleFinger how would you feel if 9/11 only happened because someone was "selling" information nobody bought?
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@Leoluvesadmira The Phantom scored 86 kills by missile in USAF service, and the Navy never added guns to their Phantoms.
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@Magneto_502 And again, what makes you think that you'll be able to get close to an aircraft with defenses so good it's invulnerable to missiles? If aircraft start carrying airborne lasers and defenses get better, why would you think the laser wouldn't simply take out an aircraft trying to use the gun?
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@Magneto_502 "At that point it's going to be laser dog fighting" - How can you "dogfight" when the lasers themselves prevent you from getting near? You can't "dogfight" a laser gimbal that simply turns back and burns a hole in your aircraft. The same thing that makes active defenses against missiles effective is the same thing that ends dogfights forever. You can't have one. You'll just die.
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@Leoluvesadmira "the IR seeker still needs to be able to see the target" - And the IR seeker can not only go off boresight and see targets almost 70-90º to your flight vector, modern missiles are starting to get built-in with the capability to have sensor fusion dictate a target to them or even the pilot's helmet mark a target, come off the rail, turn into the target, then turn on the seeker. Yes, the seeker needs to be able to see the target. And now you can make the missile go to where it needs to be, and then "open its eye" to see the target. And the IR seeker is effective at essentially double-digits on the number of miles. So who'd want to get close anyway? "the same holds true for a radar seeker" - Okay. Not only are radars capable of having a very wide cone of scanning, you also have RWR, you also are linked to your wingmen's radars and also receiving information from AWACS. So even though you have some limits (and sensor fusion is starting to address them) you're very unlikely to not just be able to mark a target and fire. "I need to turn or pull some maneuver to see him" - The problem is that you need to understand that fundamentally everything has changed. That "maneuver" is pulling high AoA and firing. That's it. The F-35 is usually compared to the Hornet in nose authority, which means you can point it really well. And this now matters more than being able to turn like in the old days. What used to take several minutes of dancing around to position yourself for a missile shot is now done in seconds. Everyone can just shoot at each other and the missiles are deadlier than ever. So who would want to get close?
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"SMO" lol you Muscovite, Putin isn't hearing you, you can say "war".
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Not at all. Can't cheat physics. A gun that recoils harder isn't a problem with "comfort". The problem is that lower recoil correlates to greater hit probability, and faster recovery for the next shot. You can be as comfortable as you want, but your shooting performance is worse. There's a reason power factor exists in shooting competitions. Lower recoil gives the shooter a performance advantage.
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My brother signed up for college with my vaccination card by mistake before the pandemic. He had missed his tetanus shot because my shot was marked there and he thought he had it. Nobody checked. The wrong name was on the card. They didn't give a damn.
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They boost at altitude and dive on target. They don't retain speed in a cruise, they dash.
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Thinking that Fast and Furious is a good movie isn't hypocrisy, it's being 12 years old.
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@AppleGameification okay but that was the reason they were asked "how late is late-term" and they decided to give them the answer they wanted on a silver platter and admit post-birth abortion...
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@vogonjelc Hey the drugs that prevent hospitalization are pretty cheap. They should have factored those in instead of just following the playbook.
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@vogonjelc I don't see what communism has anything to do with this. Cheap medicine is made by capitalists. Expensive medicine is being bought by government while the cheap is banned. This isn't capitalism, it's a prohibition on free trade.
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Win the war.
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They put the flag up. Where are the missiles?
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@davidcollishaw2771 The usual cope. Just like Russia destroys drones before they leave the production line, and publishes videos of them missing four trucks to say they destroyed HIMARS. CIA won't publish it. FSB will?
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@wolfswinkel8906 False. Ukraine does not have nuclear weapons.
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@mikepierre8209 Russia chose violence in 2014.
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He was a blowhard who tried to convince TOPGUN instructors with kills over Vietnam that Phantoms can't keep up with MiGs.
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Because the media told you that everyone online is Q. You used to call people "conspiracy theorists" but the media told you about Q so now you always mention Q, even if the subject has anything to do with the conspiracy theory that the intelligence community was secretly arresting the deep state.
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And what is that supposed to mean? >drug deals gone bad That's not an "interpersonal-conflict", it's crime. If your point is separating "stranger crime" then we can all agree that the US is actually much safer than the stats say, because most murder victims are related to those "interpersonal conflicts" involving illicit trade. So let's stop trying to ban guns. I'm simply using your own logic, since you're more likely to have your ass whooped by your own wife than shot by a carjacker.
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Russia knows the way out.
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@febinjohn2030 If you look at gun crime rates by year and cover the years you literally cannot tell in the graph when the handgun ban was introduced. Not just that, but handgun crime rose after the handgun ban.
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No, it's a radar reflector inside a balloon.
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That's a load bearing book shelf, good lord.
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@vincentsnow8436 Funny, because anyone who worried about the second and third order effects was accused of being self-centered.
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For Earth? There is none. What matters is preserving the biome as much as possible because we don't have millions of years for new plants and animals to be adapted.
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@duce7999 You're the biggest worshipper of all. You do not question the authority. You believe that the government's interest is public safety when they gladly sell you to get killed or maimed for profit. Your opinion is that licking the boot will grant you a pet status instead of cattle status.
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@Gearparadummies No, it's an ABM system meant to augment the A-135. It's an updated S-300VM and fires the 77N6 missiles which seem a development of the 9M82M and 9M83 missiles. Absolute telephone poles, meant to intercept incoming ICBMs.
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 @airon89toyota If a S-500 were used we'd see the debris all over - the 77N6 missiles used by the S-500 are MASSIVE.
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 @Silver_Prussian "he was hated for he spoke the truth"
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 @Dero_milsurp the person in the video agreed that it's a lifestyle choice too.
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But then you're just paying for healthcare twice. Great. That defeats the entire purpose.
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@freddymarcel-marcum6831 If private healthcare can be had for 15 euros a month why is there a universal healthcare system? It's so cheap even someone on welfare can afford it.
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@freddymarcel-marcum6831 Still doesn't answer my question. The real answer would be that most likely the private sector is subsidized by the taxpayer meaning that providers have lower operational costs, which allows insurance companies to charge very little. In the US the medicare/medicaid recipients are subsidized by the private insurance customers. But of course, being able to see the nuance requires a little more effort than saying "muh rights".
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@freddymarcel-marcum6831 The police are some of the biggest violators of human rights. They're not gonna get rid of burglars, they're gonna show up too late and take notes in case I need to file an insurance claim. I'm the one who has to face the burglar. I will gladly pay for a fire brigade to put out a housefire, but I can deal with the yard. "I'm not a math surgeon, all I know is is that it fuckin' works over there" - But like... you realize that if what I said was true... then taxpayers are paying for the private system in Europe. How is that fair? That the rich are getting private healthcare for pennies while the poor need to deal with the public system? Is that "working"? "nobody in Europe is talking about going to the American healthcare system, ok?" - That's a strawman argument. I never said anything positive about the American system.
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@freddymarcel-marcum6831 Oh wow you managed to combine the most insufferable parts of leftism and right-wing. The love for the state programs and being a cop bootlicker.
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How doesn't it make sense? After taking Bakhmut the Russian army would have options. Right now, they don't. They either assault Bakhmut, or suffer debacles like in Vuhledar. Ukraine could pull out of Bakhmut. But then Russia could recover. Remember how after Severodonetsk they needed an operational pause? Well, now they're in need of a pause. But they have to keep fighting. From Ukraine's perspective, Russia is falling on its own sword at Bakhmut so it's worth to hold it instead of fighting elsewhere.
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The same could be said for rape victims. You're okay with people being injured, raped or burnt to death, as long as firearms are not involved. Most rape victims survive, only a few commit suicide. And apparently you're okay with mad people stabbing kids as long as they're only wounded. Doesn't their SAFETY mean nothing to you?
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@joeterzio7175 Other players had the choice to reject the rules.
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Denuclearization was a literal Russian psyops to get Europe hooked on their natural gas. Namecalling is a natural reaction to people who sold off our prosperity.
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 @Tarcisio_x The real Russian army couldn't even take Odessa. They're gonna reach transgender land with a rag tag army and convicts?
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 @jong.7944 "on track" means they aren't doing that yet
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There's no militia allies. Russian nationals were conscripted into the DPR and LPR. The Donbas men were slaughtered by Russia's recon by fire tactics.
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@mor4y Did you post links? Links now get comments sent to spam jail and need to be manually approved.
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@mor4y Cool info, thanks for the detail.
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Yes, it is. The image is being stabilized by mirror rotation, which causes the horizon to be stabilized but the "object" (lens smudge) to rotate.
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@egroegny But the NVA did have conventional fights against the US. Great, you reinvented the Stosstruppen from WWI. Creating defensive lines do nothing when Russia is content to just let the clock run out and keep the territory they have.
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 @Milesobrian Napolitano is an internet streamer, not a source
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Marx, Lenin and Stalin were hilariously wrong. War steals money from a country and turns it into craters. Huge sums of money that go up in smoke. Tell me all about the capitalists in Ukraine happy that their stores and factories got bombed out. All the capitalists in Russia wondering if they'll have to close down if their workers are called for mobilization.
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@Kongongongg The military is what, maybe 1-3% of the economy? For defense corporations to profit, everyone else has to get paid less or taxed more. The war doesn't save economy. It damages the economy. Lend-lease was a very forgiving deal and the US didn't profit.
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The mob heard a gunshot and assumed Kyle fired first so they wanted to perform a citizen's arrest. Kyle smoked a couple of them even though the mob had reasonable suspicion he was a murderer.
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Their losses are crippling. It's Russia. Not the economic powerhouse that is the US.
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A tube, a solid rod with a bead of solder keeping it fixed inside, and the tube itself is inside shaft collars and bolted in place.
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Taking the default position that the government owns your body unless you petition to be considered self-owned is not the answer.
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Okay Pierre Sprey.
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Based Zeihan enjoyer.
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They already tried
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"And how the hell the Trump's wall could stop this, btw? China is a bit across the pacific pond, not underneath Texas." - you do realize that diseases hop through less developed countries where there's less resources to contain the infection, right? The disease hit Iran, and from Iran went on to multiple middle eastern countries. It only takes a South American returning from Italy to place the infection underneath Texas in a matter of days. "airplanes still fly back and forth all over the world, and the people who have legitimate rights to be in the US might bring the disease into the country. Bypassing the Wall." - and if suspected to have been right in the middle of outbreaks those people ought to be quarantined.
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@noeasyanswer9224 and people moving freely makes that worse.
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@ChevTecGroup "nicely" just say you want no ROEs and go
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@4X10S Like, you do understand that SAMs are area denial? You don't have to run into MG fire. Ever heard of reverse slope defense? Sometimes MG fire runs into you. In this case, it was a low Pk shot. Dodging low Pk shots is the BREAD AND BUTTER of aviation. If you can't do that, you should have flunked out of the academy.
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There's a physical limit on the rocket production so unless there's a ramp up, priority targets need to be hit first. Take out command and ammo, guns will eventually fall silent. Conventional artillery like M777s can win artillery duels. They need more of those, and counter battery radars. Return to sender.
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Because the UK, France and the US promised Ukraine security in exchange for them giving up their nukes in 1994. They were also a NATO candidate in the 2000s and a EU candidate in 2014. It's defense. Russia attacked, NATO is backing the defending side.
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"Here in America" buddy the entire world is still dealing with it. Why are you singling out Americans?
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Not anymore.
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Strong central responses are the epitome of the cure being worse than the disease.
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@Zidana123 "Corona-chan isn't human" - Irrelevant. The fact is that the more centralized the decision making is, the more information is omitted or lost in translation, the more the people at the top can ignore the needs of us little guys, and on top of having a worse response that doesn't suit the needs of the people on the ground, the same strong response will outlive the crisis and expand its powers even when it is not needed. Stop thinking emotionally for once.
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I like almond milk but apparently it messes up the bee populations.
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@FalconWing1813 It's already been replaced. The F-16 does 3x the CAS the A-10 does.
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@FalconWing1813 "if I'm going to get shot at by a tank ,I'd much rather be in a dual engine A-10, than a F-16. Lol lol" - But the F-16 won't get shot at in the first place because it can destroy the target from much higher and further away.
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Are they? I find it hard to believe that a AWB will have a huge popularity. It did not stop crime at all, it was just a feel good law that banned cosmetic features. At this moment there are people writing and contacting their representatives to oppose a potential ban. Guns have become too popular.
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Patrick Lancaster, the man who disrespects corpses by stealing them from morgues after autopsy and then puts them in cars?
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@patrickelamm2890 I don't care how you see it, he's a liar and the profits from his lies.
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Making a new design is easier than going back to an older one. Nothing BS about that.
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@OakInch A few got hit. Okay. It means they can be hit again. Ukrainian supply points have been hit for months. They're at a disadvantage. Meanwhile Russia secures victory with artillery superiority. Now ask yourself - if Ukraine can hold on to dear life despite their disadvantage and Russia wins with the advantage, what happens when the advantage is nullified? They don't need to blame anything on the Russians, they already do enough for enough blame to go around. Yeah, Russia is inflicting damage. The point is that Ukraine is directing their damage at the ability to deal damage. You need ammo to inflict damage. So Ukraine destroys the ammo. It's simple. They're running low on supplies, and still holding on. Meanwhile Russia has to inch forward slowly despite their advantage. Their advantage is getting hit. Please think. There's also mutiny videos from the DPR/LPR forces who don't want to fight outside of Donbas.
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When Iran helped Hamas do Oct 7 what was the UN's opinion on it?
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@halbgefressen9768 No offense, that might work in Germoney, but not everywhere. I've had jobs where people put sick leave and vacations back to back, even though that's not allowed. I've missed college exams because I asked someone to come in early and cover the last 30 min of my shift, and that person came in 30 min late. The concept that people will work harder by just being given more leeway doesn't work where a strong work ethic is part of the culture.
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What's there to be skeptical of? The Patriot was tested to shoot down incoming Pershing II warheads on the 90s.
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@miket591 Footage doesn't matter. You tell me you're going to calmly act like a small town police officer and just check the others for weapons. Put yourself in their position - the situation reset into a combat situation, anyone could have a hidden weapon or explosives to kill you. Tell me that you're going to risk your life and accept being killed for trusting people who already broke your trust.
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@My-Opinion-Doesnt-Matter the volumetric efficiency is calculated through a theoretical volume. One liter is always one liter, but a forced induction one liter engine will theoretically behave like a larger NA engine.
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The issue is even if a bot is writing, they have to build the accounts with a following. That's the hardpoint limit.
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@3d1e00 The faster you go, the greater your IR emissions. IR comes into play because IR Search & Track is a thing. There's also the fuel. Stealth aircraft want to keep the fuel internal and not have to carry external bags. The faster you go the more fuel is wasted, and thus your range is reduced.
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 @staceytullos2406 well Steven doesn't listen to Cumtown...
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Russian birth rates are propped by the minorities like Muslims...
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@mitchellcouchman1444 I'm not saying it's a concern, I'm saying that Slavic Russians have worse birth rates than the minorities. Orthodoxy isn't doing anything for birth rates.
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@jamesricker3997 that's the worst defense you could come up with. Yeah, your local store still sells ammo. The issue is, your local store has to deal with so much bullshit they have no option but to be scummy fucks, which drives customers anyway. So the local store is on shaky legs already. Your NRA rant is literally meaningless because they've already publicly shot themselves in the foot. Should have tried saying that in 2012, not after literally everyone read about Wayne's spending habits. And you end it by calling magazines "clips". Bravo.
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You strategically stopped reading before the word "hype" came up. Curious.
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They can't be hacked when using custom firmware. They can get the command signal overwhelmed by jamming, which forces the drone to land. However this is also dependent on the frequencies being used/jammed.
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Naturally immune gang rise up.
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That's what I've said about propaganda posters and murals using Johnny Depp as a WW2 veteran and American aircraft carriers. It's easy for someone working in media to just say they don't know anything about the military and just pulled pictures from yandex, make it silly so that it's sabotaged but also low key.
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"Nato + usa" what does that even mean???
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The F-35 isn't subsonic.
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 @_marlene KF was usable through Tor.
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Peace? With a knife to the neck? We know what Rusnyas do to Ukrainians who surrender.
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 @dangerousthoughts.1591 the cost of doing business raised through the roof. They're paying more in utilities, rent, materials/product, etc. They haven't pocketed the difference.
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@PrgressiveHouse a) It is scary because it means that the more people get it, the more people need to be hospitalized, which means that a lot of people won't have the care they need to survive. b) Some people have additional health problems. You know obesity and diabetes isn't exactly unheard of in the US, right?
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@praetor47 Okay, by the 0.2% death rate in the 17-29 age range we can estimate that if 10 million people in that group get it, 20k will die. Seems to me that killing 20k young people is selfish as fuck too.
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@PrgressiveHouse "seemed to be more concerned about that age aspect" - Because it is a concerning aspect after hearing the narrative that young people are not affected. "I'm not from the US btw." - Most other places have already braced for impact so the conversation is US-centric.
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@PrgressiveHouse I didn't. Don't put words in my mouth. The first time? Then you're not listening. Look at all the people saying that we should only quarantine the elderly.
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@PrgressiveHouse What I said: "[the age aspect is concerning] after hearing the narrative that young people are not affected." MEANING: If you have been told that it's only an old person's disease, the fact that younger people are hospitalized is concerning. What you think I said: "I did not think young people were affected." MEANING: I, personally, did not believe that young people were affected until I saw the statistics. You can see that both things are wildly different, right? "but that is not because they think younger people are not affected, but because they think younger, healthy people dont die from it" - That's absolutely retarded. If young people are affected then their contagion will still overstress the healthcare system, there would be not enough resources to keep people alive, and many will die as a result. "They just dont die from it" - See above. Anyone who thinks that we should let it run rampant on the "young" (more like everyone under 55) because it doesn't "kill" is absolutely retarded because the hospitalizations mean that people are in danger of dying without care. If too many people get it at the same time, we can't save them and mortality rates will hike.
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@PrgressiveHouse "young people dont overstress" - Then you're contradicting the data you've already accepted in previous posts.
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The first stage of the trigger pull activates a system that stabilizes the entire aircraft.
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Is France beholden to the US or UK after they got liberated by the Allies?
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So why haven't Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Iran, etc been overthrown?
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.276 was actually the American cartridge that the Garand should have used in the first place but the existing 30-06 stockpile forced John Garand to change the rifle.
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Russians are fleeing to the West to avoid Putin's war LMAO
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@martythemartian99 "I simply think multi role aircraft are to expensive and riddled with problems that take too much time and money to fix" - F-16s and F/A-18s are some of the most successful fighters in service and they're multiroles. The F-15 is an excellent strike platform built on an air superiority airframe. "Multi role was easier back in the days of the propeller" - Why? "More modern multi role aircraft are less capable than specialized aircraft" - But they are more capable. That's why specialized aircraft are on the way out.
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Are you going to make the Russians reap the whirlwind, Fred? Or is it just talk?
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@fredflintstome6532 The point is that I want you to apply your morality in a consistent fashion. Without consistent principles, you actually have no moral compass. I don't care if you enjoy committing atrocities as long as someone "kicks off" the atrocities first. Stop making excuses. Just admit that it's what you want all along, and you conveniently have an excuse. It's not irrelevant. The Russians put their rather naive theory into operation. It's not irrelevant. They're giving you the excuse you need to commit the atrocity. That's all you need. I'm not going to jog on. It's you who's going to jog and run away from the tough questions.
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Most "NATO tactics" don't have anything to do with insurgents. In fact, counter-insurgency caught the US with its pants down and a lot of stuff had to be learned on the fly. The manuals weren't re-written for fighting the Taliban. They're still a manual on how to fight the Reds.
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@10000words1 So regular bombs/missiles that were never rated for hypersonic release have to get dropped by that aircraft, which also leads to aircraft-ordnance separation issues.
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Not true.
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They scored what, two strikes and failed a hundred?
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Antisemitism lol
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+Jared Bourgeois generic drugs are only sold after patents expire. In the US 88% of prescriptions are for generics. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_drug#cite_note-gphaonline_2011-9)
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Stalin actually lived in Vienna for some time.
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The F-4 didn't need a gun because it's job was defending the fleet and getting in gun range gave the opponent the time the sink the ship you're going to need to land on later. It was pressed into a fighter and even multirole job that it wasn't designed for, and still succeeded at it. The Navy didn't use internal-gun armed variants, and the USAF scored about 90 percent of their kills with missile.
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@rosaeruber225 my parents always told me "if everyone jumped off a cliff would you follow?"
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@davysanders4922 What's the problem of his handling? He asked a few dumb questions and called the virus intelligent, that's the extent of his failings.
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@alien1162 Uh, sweaty, liberals rehabilitated Bush. And John Bomb Iran McCain.
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@loneskankster2242 "I watched a woman in Trump flag get shot in the neck" - So we're the ones getting killed by govt goons. "I watched Trump supporters beat a man to death." - No, you didn't.
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@pipedreamteam4184 That according to the CDC essentially only 6% of them actually died of COVID?
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There are no mil dots therefore the scope is to be zeroed at a single distance. Doesn't matter where the reticle is as long as it's centered and it doesn't obscure the target.
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There were plenty of non whites in the VA protest.
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Lives will be saved when Russia stops and leaves.
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By definition payroll costs aren't profits.
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RUSI also claimed the Russia broke 256 encryption. Bunch of nonsense.
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He scams people 99 bucks a month to teach them to be men. They deserve to know who their mentor really is.
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@mikeymotorsykey Nobody cares about his sexuality you shill, people care about being lied to.
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.460 Rowland exists, you peasant.
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@unrelatedpopcornfire9823 Colin wasn't cancelled. People just said he was annoying.
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@unrelatedpopcornfire9823 He was a mediocre player anyway, and a boycott isn't cancelling. Boycotts existed before. Reality is that the "cancellers" don't want boycotts, they demand change even when they're not the consumer.
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@unrelatedpopcornfire9823 That's still not cancelling. Want an example of cancelling? James Gunn. There, I'm actually better at arguing from your position than you are.
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@unrelatedpopcornfire9823 I'm not delusional. A person like James Gunn was actually cancelled because people who do not consume Disney products went after him for being a sex pest. Burning Nike stuff? Who cares? Colin made more money off the outrage than if he had remained a nobody.
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@unrelatedpopcornfire9823 They didn't cancel him. He was a mediocre player who was about to get cut and decided to make a PR move. All the whining from sports fans couldn't get him cancelled. Meanwhile I've essentially offered you a good argument on a silver platter and you're tripling down on your bad argument. James Gunn did get fired as a result of outrage from people who don't watch Disney.
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Another demoralization bot... keep getting your rubles
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@DIREWOLFx75 If such a simulator were made, why would it include any of the real data instead of just aproximations?
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There's more of them than before. Grab the mop, there's more cleaning to do.
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The US fought a drone war for two decades in Afghanistan.
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@jingbot1071 It's so obvious and you didn't remember it before posting... Says more about you than me.
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@jingbot1071 No, what's your point? Your point seems to be that because drones are good at being cost effective at withering away an army (with massive vehicles full of fuel and ammunition, plus identification marks) they're also good at controlling a populace. But what happened was that kills by drone caused so much collateral, more people joined the insurgency.
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Large drones cost the same as an aircraft. Womp womp.
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@Seriouspatt It's terrible analysis. It's typical pro-Russia copes.
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Yes, unfortunately we distributed the territory between ourselves without caring for the populations that already lived there. The fact that some borders were drawn with a ruler says it all.
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The Javelin has a tandem warhead. The first shaped charge is a spoiler shot to breach through ERA, it's the second and bigger shaped charge that scores the kill.
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@iplaygames8090 Ukraine is in a war for survival, Russia is the aggressor. It's perfectly understandable that the scrappy underdog is using suboptimal weaponry, while it's laughably embarrassing to see the invading army lose so much equipment they need to recruit an entirely new army and issue them garbage.
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@iplaygames8090 Still smaller than Russia, and much less capable. For example Ukraine has Soviet era MiG-29s with some upgrades (only ONE aircraft with a modern upgrade before the war) firing semi-active radar homing missiles while Russia has modernized aircraft with active radar homing missiles with greater range. The short range tactical ballistic missile used by Ukraine is the Tochka-U, while Russia uses the Iskander. Ukraine is limited to S-300s, Russia has S-400s. Ukraine's main battle tank is the T-64, while Russia has T-72s, T-80s and T-90s.
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People disagreeing with something = "triggered" I love the mangling of language and loss of meaning. Words just mean anything you want now.
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If they can drive into cover they stay. If they're immobilized they get out and run to cover.
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The blades on a turbine need to be light enough to be pushed by air. Airliners are powered by jet fuel rather than tailwind.
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The situation in Donbass was entirely manufactured. Ukrainian oligarchs used the Ukrainian vs Russian language as a wedge issue for political theater, then Russia used the fake culture war to insert FSB agents. The inorganic "Russian spring" failed in Odessa, Kharkiv, etc and happened to work in Luhansk and Donetsk. But like Igor Girkin said, nobody wanted to fight until he got there and started forming militias.
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@profileone5655 No. The conflict in Donbas began when FSB agent Igor Girkin arrived on scene and attempted to astroturf a rebellion. He said it himself - nobody actually wanted to fight. Ukraine was not building an ethno-state. A bunch of protesters had been murdered, Yanukovich signed a deal with the opposition, cops feared they'd be prosecuted for the murders while Yanukovich kept the presidency, so they stepped aside. Yanukovich now feared that without protection, any angry mob or vindictive person could try to take him out. So he fled and the Verkhovna Rada voted to remove him from the presidency. That's when Russia sent in the operatives to stage a fake rebellion. There was no ethnostate, there was nothing. Just a vacant presidency and a date set for new elections. Russia didn't left them. Russia sent both the real army and PMCs like Wagner to fight in Ukraine. This was confirmed by both VKontakte pictures posted by Russian troops and captured Russians who were detained in Ukraine. They didn't "stand their ground". They were about to get slaughtered. Strelkov isn't "cheap". He was involved in so many Russian covert actions his bio reads like a Bond villain henchman. He didn't have locals. He had Russians. Motorola was Russian too.
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They weren't invisible. In 2014 journalists found that US soldiers who came in contact with the WMDs were suffering long term health effects but the government silenced. If the news got out Al Qaeda would start searching for the chemical warheads in Iraq for theselves.
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Backwards motion is due to skull and brain matter being ejected forward in the pink mist. Bullet enters skull from behind, but it is tiny and penetrates rather than push, so little momentum is transfered into the head. Upon exit, human tissue is projected forward, requiring a "recoil" reaction from the object to conserve momentum. Much like a gun moves toward the shooter after firing.
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No. There could be people afraid to die who are still Z. There could be FSB agents. And it's perfect for Putin. He gets rid of refuseniks and keeps loyal troops. Want to deliver a blow to Putin? Force them to fight. They'll frag officers and surrender to the AFU.
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@CassidyCope you think the police will waste manpower following you all day?
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Stop watching CNN.
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I don't think anyone *really* wants to shoot anyone. Just be ready to it.
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Calories is vs calories out is a natural form of profit. You eat, you gain weight, no laws of physics are broken.
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@salec7592 But that's a ridiculous example. Profit is natural. Period. Now you want to talk zero-sum. Well, you can't eat all the food in the world alone, and if you have any sort of forward thinking you'll replenish your food source.
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Criminals don't need gun licenses. They buy guns because they are criminals and they don't obey the law. Most guns used in crime are illegal. Plus, it was in Brazil. There's plenty of illegal guns yet civilian ownership of firearms is very restricted.
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@patriciusvunkempen102 You're allowed to have calculators in most maths subjects in schools because they do not solve the problem for you. In college the only math classes that didn't allow calculators in exams were Calculus II and III because it's more about proofs and the calculations are simple, they just don't want you to bring solved exercises. Give a random 40 year old officer a calculator and tell him to guide artillery. The ability to calculate large numbers fast does not compensate for maths knowledge.
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@MatoVuc It's not hard. It's impossible when you don't know what to do. So you always need people who know what to do to be around, you can't give that job to a random nobody who never trained in it.
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They're being used.
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@marcostorres606 No, they didn't.
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He was a scam artist.
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Copium overdose
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@defectiveindustries You wouldn't bring the companies to court. In this case it's the government that settles this types of cases, and possibly you could take action against employers if you were forced to take it to keep your job. The point of the "you may be entitled compensation" ads isn't that they'd somehow change the world or bring justice, it's just that lawyers would see an opportunity to make money no matter where it comes from.
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lol uses the Nazi argument, opinion discarded Next time try not to flag yourself as a pro-Russia stooge
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Almost no countries have air superiority fighters. They're incredibly expensive. So many opt for multiroles.
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Youtube puts this on the home page.
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"Did someone say Russia? The Russians are involved! Nicki's fans are Russian bots!"
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Not true. The USAF did polling with Army troops about CAS and while they said they were satisfied with Air Force support in terms of quality, they wondered why it couldn't be called more often (quantity). That's when the USAF realized there was a conspiracy by the rotary wing faction to push officers into not requesting CAS so that helicopters could provide air support and sideline the USAF. Out of their own volition, the USAF started the A-X program to address the criticisms of the A-7.
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 @love2win Why? It's Putin who has an obsession with Gaddafi's demise. He's the one who believes the Color Revolution theory that the west tried to coup him with the 2012 protests.
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 @baneofbanes all attackers were clones of Boris Johnson.
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There's no freedom in living on your knees.
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>Well have you ever broken into a house where someone is pointing a 12-gauge at you ready to fire? I've also never done meth, coke or PCP. I wouldn't trust my judgement if I had. >As far as multiple assailants, there is nothing in my house valuable enough for a group of people to want to steal You keep telling that to yourself. Many break-ins are committed by groups because guess what - it's easier than doing it alone.
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MacGregor has been embarassingly wrong for a year now. Why start watching? I already knew he was wrong a year ago.
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Being racist doesn't get you high of your own farts.
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Others have stated that they didn't comission the movie to be made, they simply picked it up for distribution.
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Not really. The F-35 is a fighter just like the F-16 is a fighter. The F-22 has great kinematic capabilities but it's not insane at all. It's heavily limited in capabilities and there's no hope of getting upgrades.
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@TheBigChad Yes, it is a fighter. Most air to air kills in recent history were not a result of dogfights so you're purposefully restricting the scope of the argument to present a false argument. You'll never see a pilot WILLINGLY get into a real deal dogfight because of how dangerous they are. Not only are you risking millions of dollars of aircraft, the pilot himself is also a major asset and getting shot down denies a nation all the training they gave him. Escorted by an actual fighter? Where is the proof of this claim? Also, F-16s are fighters and historically they have also received fighter escort from F-15Cs during missions.
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This level of concern trolling is really something. Ending things diplomatically? Diplomacy delivered by rocket and cruise missile?
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@imrekalman9044 I didn't use words out of context. You're using the tactic of blaming the victim for resisting.
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>I've seen kevlar stop a 556 round. Aluminium foil will stop a 556 if you shoot it from miles way. >guys in t-shirts getting shot That's either because they were too close for M855 to properly fragment in Somalia, or too far away for the 5.56 to have enough velocity in Afghanistan. In the very open areas of Afghanistan it's not the place to use a caliber designed to be used at less than 300m.
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@evan14343 I volunteer to get a 147gr 9mm dropped on me from the top of the Empire State Building while only wearing a normal baseball hat. I don't want to bruise my scalp.
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They were either wrong or straight up being paid by Russia.
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How is it in Germany's interest to get chained to a hostile and unreliable provider?
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The irony is that without kids economies all over the world will stumble as people age and our productive demographic shrinks, thus making sure we won't have the prosperity to fix the issues.
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Almost no wars had air supremacy. Only situations like intervention in the Balkans allowed for it.
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@charlygriffin2828 Air superiority is the ability to conduct air operations with minimal regard for the enemy air force. Russia fires missiles from inside its own borders, drops glide bombs 70km away from the front and does rocket volleys with Mi-8s and Su-25 before running back towards safety. Air superiority is more like the US in Iraq, where American aircraft flew over Iraq despite them having fighters and air defenses. Air superiority is the enemy basically lacking an air force.
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Because hundreds of F-15s and F-18s were built. The USAF said in the early 2000s they would need at least ~330 F-22s for sustainment reasons but the order was capped at 189. The Eagle and Hornet have the numbers for sustainment, the F-22 was intentionally crippled.
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@joeclaridy Enrichment facilities is the most complicated part of proliferation. This could be a decades long setback if the PhDs and engineers responsible for the plant were inside when it was struck. It would also have to be located in a new site that would be easier to attack as the "secret" facility in the impenetrable mountain collapsed.
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That happened to me at 16 though - after I got my hands stuck in a helicopter rescue winch and the bandages didn't let me "aim". Then I never stopped sitting down. It just got ingrained as a habit.
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@jaanikaapa6925 How's a >90% defense rate a weakness?
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Ironically the "influencers" in the west hate US equipment. Pierre Sprey went on RT to criticize the F-35. Col James Burton wrote Pentagon Wars and a movie was made where the Bradley was supposedly a terrible vehicle.
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@Xanlet "Are you saying redistribution of wealth through taxes isn't socialism" - Literally no definition of socialism mentions taxes. "as long as the actual ownership remains private? " - Private ownership needs to be banned under socialism.
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@Xanlet "You seem incapable of comprehending the socialization of certain aspects of a society within the framework of a capitalist market system" - and you seem incapable of comprehending that this isn't socialism and doesn't even respect the core ideals of socialism. "If someone is in favor of socializing healthcare, are they not a socialist?" - No, they're a bleeding heart "liberal" (American definition). I used to be one in the 2000s too. "Your definition of socialism as being absolute ownership by the government or it's not socialism is myopic" - It's not myopic, it's literally what the definition entails. Even the right wing parties in Europe are not in favor of completely privatizing the public healthcare system. Are they socialists? Socialism is a right-wing movement now? "If the means of production are taxed at 100%, is it not effectively government ownership?" - You call people myopic and then come up with that absurd hypothetical. What is taxed at 100%? Income? Profit? If the end goal of the 100% tax rate is to create a debt to justify the appropriation of private ownership to the state sure you can call that socialism because the end goal is expropriation, if the taxes are just meant to skim off the top after every capitalist has got their cut then it depends entirely on who's taxing. Is it a civic nationalist government doing it? Is it a white nationalist government doing it? Or is it a socialist government?
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Actually they tested this on fighter pilots. They could see a frame with an enemy fighter aircaft among >200 blank frames.
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China isn't the West
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It's not meant to cover the chest, it's meant to cover the vitals.
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The US wanted to depose Assad while Russia backed him. Nobody wants a direct war between them so that's why there's no real intervention.
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Russians can't be trusted to boil water, what else is new? They literally had to push the reactor to its limits to get it to burst.
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@barbaralatham3037 J&J is not inactivated. It's a real virus, genetically reengineered to instead of replicating itself, generating spike protein when it infects a cell.
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@barbaralatham3037 Doesn't matter. It still has all the side effects caused by your body becoming a spike protein factory, and it's still a form of gene therapy. If you look into adenovirus viral vectors they're used for gene therapy. It's just a different way of delivering the same thing. There might be a slight advantage due to the fact that you're not potentially delivering the PEG through the blood brain barrier, but on the other hand the viral vector itself still comes with its own side effects.
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Fit for military service during peacetime is not the same as fit for duty in wartime. I think that during the Iraq war the US opened up recruitment to 39 years of age as the upper limit for some MOS. In many countries during peacetime after 25 they'll tell you to GTFO of the recruitment office unless you have a college degree.
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@randomdude2832 I don't even understand what you're getting at. Ukraine used an euphemism or surrender, who cares? Russia LIED about the NATO generals. Like you said, they'd be in a Russian POW camp.
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 @e1nkor155 Ru-shills gleefully praised Preston's channel grow when he was reporting Russian advances but now that they realized he's just reporting and not shilling they're angry.
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The problem is tank kill claims being higher than the actual number of tanks that were present at the battle. Can't even those out.
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S-300s would easily shoot them down.
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If anything, the pandemic taught me tons of people sure love the smell of their own farts.
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And it was ended. Germany refused to certify NS2, meaning the pipeline was dead.
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Do their bananas have seeds? Humans have manipulated the genetics of all food since we started agriculture. True organic foods taste horribly. We used genetic selection to have things like seedless bananas you buy at the supermarket.
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@VivAtreyu History Legends is a total Russian shill, come on he uploaded a meltdown video when the Kharkiv offensive happened. Dude was drinking HEAVILY because the Russian front collapsed. Who does that?
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Were the pilots traitors? Because this "ruse" killed 12 of them. They killed Wagner troops by bombing the convoy, which shot them down in response. They died just to expose traitors?
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I'm sorry, but are you American? Owning a firearm is a constitutional right. It's a mean of self-preservation, self-reliance and self-protection. Not a pleasure. That happens in other countries where they are to be kept in ranges. Evidence? You want me to prove that people in retiring age are not murdering people? Search "crime rate drop baby boomers" for more info. >And the rights never returned is a very vague statement. Name one instance where it happened without some kind of intervention.
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It's released? Send the review copies, let's see critics tear it apart.
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In fact the GAO slammed the USAF for buying over 700 A-10s without justification for why they needed that many of them. The claim that the USAF didn't want them doesn't even pass the smell test considering they were criticized for spending too much of them.
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@biggieb8900 But it's also "slow" and it mostly gets you in your later years. Basically we can extend your life with treatment to the point that if we do eradicate cancer, you're gonna get old enough to get all the other health issues that are responsible for the majority of deaths - like cardiovascular disease.
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I mean we should strive for quality of life. We shouldn't be extending lifespans for 20 freaking years or else they're gonna raise retirement age to 80.
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@h.plovecat4307 "any same person who has served doesn't WANT a war" - perhaps 90% of them, sure. But give the other 10% an outlet where they won't feel bad about being judged by society, and they'll admit they loved it. Hey, any sane person would not step into a ring and get their brains turned to slushy over time. But plenty of people love it. It's not "insanity" because you are aware of what certain things entail, it's simply an addiction and feeding it makes you feel good. War =/= genocide. If anything, sanctions are great population erasers. Just because some guy on the internet misses the days of trading shots across valleys or punching in coordinates to see enemy positions get barraged with mortar fire doesn't mean they want to end a population.
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Absolute cringe and doomerpilled.
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So if they attack without saying, get slaughtered and immediately turn back, there's no offensive? Because they didn't say it? Why would they say anything? To let Ukraine be ready?
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What is there to improve? You can't turn air into water, only pull humidity. You cannot breach through this barrier. You cannot get higher than 100% efficiency.
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So anyone with a M1A or AR-10 could have done the same? Take your meds.
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The same US intelligence that confirmed WMD program in Iraq.
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@toucanodd2889 You do realize that there were other ways to give the guy money without being a member right? This channel has 231k subscribers. 1000 members, you say. That means if this channel was hosting Goldman instead of Tim, one in every two hundred and thirty one subscribers would have been fleeced. Just some perspective. 1 in 231.
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But the North of Ukraine was set up with defenses last year. As soon as the Russians retreated the Ukrainians mined that region to annihilate anything coming through.
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@manumanitas161 What a ridiculous metric. The Afghan government is not the US or the USSR. You can't judge the USSR's performance from the fact that the government lasted longer. If anything, the USSR collapsed in part due to the expense of the war, and the Chernobyl cleanup. The US pulled out of Afghanistan and is now helping Ukraine. Did the USSR have the ability to do something like that after leaving Afghanistan?
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@manumanitas161 About the subject. Afghanistan is Afghanistan. The USSR had to leave an unwinnable mess, and you claim they won because the state held on for a few years. Delusional. Meanwhile the USSR stopped existing.
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@manumanitas161 They did better? They actually attempted population cleansing in the tribal regions. They're more effective at indiscriminate murder than the US? Okay. Having one 9/11 attack is preferable to being Russian anyway.
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@tomfuelery2905 If they didn't fight at Bakhmut, cities behind it would be shelled and then fought for. War has a multitude of objectives, many unrelated and some even contradictory. Protecting civilian settlements not just for the sake of providing safety to the populace but also reducing internal displacement and the number of people without homes to return to may not be flashy. But focusing on flashy goals while giving up the rest of the country is not going to achieve long term success.
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The Avenger was saved for IFV and trucks. Tanks in Iraq? Maverick. The missile blew them up in one shot. Losing an airplane also means losing an Ukrainian pilot. Why would we send "aid" that kills pilots?
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He also made them.
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Lipstick on a pig doesn't solve anything.
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 @project4200 A youtuber called Original MCW did a video about this 4 years ago.
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@markbryant4641 Economical moves like losing so many modern tanks they need to bring back T-55s? Economical moves like wasting the lives of VDV as if they were prisoner battalions? They'll take the fortress. What good is a fortress after losing the men? A fortress without men is nothing. You can walk up to it and get inside. They'll win Avdiivka like they won Bakhmut - depleting their own armed forces and stalling out. They worked defensively? How? What was the defense when they walked into buildings and Ukrainians just detonated the demolition charges in the basements? They had to advance, walk into fire and explosives every inch of the way. That was amazing? They quickly took Bakhmut? They not only took MONTHS to take it, they also needed VDV to save them constantly. We're getting embarrassed? We have lost zero soldiers while Russia's army is becoming more and more like a third world force.
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@markbryant4641 That's a cope. From the start it was talked about how Bakhmut would fall, but leaving the city would threaten the Kupiansk–Svatove–Kreminna line so Bakhmut was chosen as the place to bleed Russia's forces. The extremely pro-Ukraine mass media is staffed by journalists who can't tell tanks apart from self-propelled artillery. The "disaster" wiped out significant Wagner forces and sent them into a rebellion. Things went wrong? No, things went very right. Wagner had to be wiped out in a city. Bakhmut was the best place for it. Survikin ground a lot of Russian meat. And you think the Russian men saw the enemy? Refurbishing 800 T-62 tanks over 3 years per the factory's own statements. That's lower than the loss rate. Before the invasion, Russians also claimed they'd build 100 Armatas per year. Before the invasion, the planet of pink ponies promised all the goodies they could dream of. The doorway to Ukraine. Has Russia walked through? "We" lol Russia has a plan? Throw meat at the grinder? Fire missiles at power plants and transformers? The entire population of addicts and elderly?
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@Mr12ob DI isn't a problem. Barrett made the REC 7 with short stroke piston and it wasn't picked up either.
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@goldenspeedguyyt3633 Q has been arrested? I want some of what you're smoking.
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Sorry, we're gonna take Russia's opinion seriously? What is Russia gonna do, invade again? Once the funds stop flowing, Russia will have Afghanistan on steroids. In Kherson the Russian soldiers knew they were not supposed to walk the streets alone because locals would stab them. They checked under their cars before staring them because the Ukrainians went IRA on their asses and mayors/police chiefs kept getting clapped by VBIED. The people are PISSED.
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It was a strategic master stroke. Seizure of the northern rail lines undoes the Russian defenses.
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In the first months of the war drone footage of Ukrainians targeting artillery was all over the internet. They could target them just fine. There was just too much artillery for Ukrainian counterbattery to deal with.
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I heard through the grapevine that if the full dose was given at once the side effects were massive. So they space out the two shots to minimize the immune response.
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"Why are they showing us bogus videos and claiming UAP?" - They're releasing footage as they normally do with stuff that gets declassified, and the official channels are not cleared to tell whatever the conclusions are so it remains an unexplained phenomenon.
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Okay. But most heat is wasted. If we could have a perfect world, the power stroke would suck all the heat during the expansion of gasses and the exhaust would fly out at ambient temperature.
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@joshuapawlak2649 Just like Russia had the tank advantage. Advantages can be squandered. One only needs to look at satellite pictures to notice Russia dumped its artillery advantage into empty fields. Russian artillery advantage exists to make up for how much ammo they need to spend to score a hit.
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They couldn't counter the counter in Kharkiv. TZD.
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@noperoni08 But their good equipment has a problem - it's not enough. And so what they bring the good equipment? A Stugna and Javelin will blow a T-90M just as easy as a T-55. Ukraine was gearing up for the offensive. Russia was sending their elite infantry into ambushes at Vuhledar.
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Edgar Valencia fuck off with the poverty argument. Violent people have poor decision making skills which makes them end up living among the poor, and makes it seem like poor people are violent. That's an incorrect assumption. Does the US have social and economic problems that lead to violence? Yes. Does poverty create crime? No.
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Germany recently made it legal to hunt with AR-15s.
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It's full of holes, though. Please strap yourself into a T-90 and try to cross.
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People straight up got psyop'ed into blind rage.
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@Unstable_constant It's not. There's been Russian restaurants attacked in Portland.
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FBI was in charge of European stay-behind operations in case of Russian invasion?
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That means having to carry a separate powerplant which is dead weight during level flight.
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They haven't managed to do that so far. Every time Ukrainians advance people online say it's a trap. Never happened.
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@stupidregistration F-16s did fine against MiG-29s.
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@jaypeedesuyo662 I'm talking about the MiG-29s shot down in the Kosovo War. Thanks for admitting you don't know history.
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Paul Horn Very brave! Forcing Putin to steal the bread from the mouths of Russians to keep buying Western weapons! At this rate, Ukraine will be rich and Russia will go bankrupt trying to buy weapons they can't use.
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@172ndairwing4 Pure reformist nonsense. The A-10 was a jobs program for Arizona and Boeing scored a two billion contract to make wings. Keeping an aircraft past its prime in life support and bleeding money was not the affordable and effective weapon that made politicians and weapons manufacturers angry. Weapons manufacturers will take every billion you want to spend keeping museum pieces flying. "Waaaaa my old aircraft is as good as a new one for cheaper!" yes it is, Congressman, as long as we use flawed methodology to report on those costs and ignore the opportunity costs being caused by manpower being diverted away into a dead end platform.
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@sebastianb.3978 Not really, it's flavored seltzer water with alcohol content. Not my thing, but I guess people who don't enjoy other types of alcohol can get buzzed off it.
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No. It's a contrast aid. It's a setting on the pod.
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What? The F-15 is a large air superiority fighter while the MiG-29 is a lightweight fighter. They don't even belong to the same category. The MiG-21s in North Vietnamese use were mostly used with great success by ambushing bomb-carrying Phantoms part of strike packages.
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@captainsledge7554 F-4s were definitely used as bombers. You can easily look up pictures of bomb-carrying Phantoms. You can even see pictures of Phantoms performing close air support with gunpods or rockets.
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@captainsledge7554 "Especially once top gun was introduced to navy F4s." - The USAF didn't have Top Gun and their 1972-1973 kill ratio was higher than the Navy's. "And they didnt arm the planes at first with guns until later G models" - It was the E model. "and wild weasels" - The G wild weasel variant does not have a gun because it was replaced by the AN/APR-47 MAWS. "That's when the engagements turned around big time for the air force" - No, that's correlation not meaning causation. The USAF started counter-ambushing MiGs by pretending to be strike packages. And in 1972 the big boost to the kill ratio was the introduction of Teaball. The internal gun was used for 6 kills. Meanwhile the Phantom in USAF service scored over 80 kills with missiles. The Navy Phantoms did not have guns and scored about 40 kills. "They were not air superiority fighters" - I'm sorry, then what was the F-X program about? The F-15 was always designed for air superiority. "F15s were used for bombing they are multirole strike fighters" - That's the F-15E.
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@captainsledge7554 The C only had limited air to ground capabilities and the Israelis were essentially the only ones to use it. The F-22 can also drop JDAMs and did it in Syria, doesn't make it a multirole. It was developed for air superiority. "So it's still same class as the mig 29" - It's not in the same "size" class. Using the outdated terms the F-15 is more of a heavy fighter like the Su-27 while the MiG-29 is a light fighter like the F-16. "is superior in alot of ways because mikoyan focused on maneuverability more than anything else" - And testing with East German MiG-29s showed that although the aircraft had capabilities, it was difficult for the pilot to operate in the middle of a fight. Focusing on maneuverability? They should have focused on reliable engines. "But the navy, as I said in that first sentence u corrected where it says navy f4 top gun.. had higher ratios" - For the early part of the war, because again the Navy had ships with radars giving them situational awareness. the USAF Phantoms had to cross areas where there was no radar coverage, and MiGs could go around the border to come from behind.
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It's going to get significantly more expensive once you abandon the plastic realm.
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What if the stun grenades created a fire? Meth lab and TNT?
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@marie-leemartin259 "Don’t tell me it’s for self-defense, if no one have guns, who do you want to protect yourself from?" - people bigger than me, people with baseball bats, people with tire irons, people with knives, people with brass knuckles, people who are simply CRIMINALS and got guns ILLEGALLY. Canada has a shitload of guns. You should be scared.
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@mattthew9559 "Self defense is not necessary if there is nobody with guns." - yeah because you'll outlaw bodybuilding to prevent men from becoming stronger, you'll ban knives, bats, any solid object that can be used as a weapon by an aggressor. "Hunting, well I think we don’t need an ar15 to hunt a deer." - what is your expertise in weapon design to make that claim? In many places you can't even hunt deer with AR15s because they are too weak.
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Population is naturally COLLAPSING. Things will get worse. We're not even at sustainment level.
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The entire payload goes off independently of setting. No idea how they will implement the "flipping a switch", the fragmentation casing might be a series of segments held on by latches and when you select concussion they come apart during flight.
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Most of the West underfunds the military.
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Spirit 02 and its crew met their demise for staying too long over a battlefield. The AC-130 is not fit for combat with near pear adversaries.
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Radar cannot break physics. If radar is absorbed and deflected away from you, you cannot sense reflections that your receiver never gets back.
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@jcottrill1691 the F-35 flies with radar reflectors during peacetime for two reasons: the first being safety, you want to advertise your presence to the ground controllers, the second being secrecy. Precisely because there will always be people trying to obtain information, even if for benign reasons, the F-35 is flown with artificially increased RCS to prevent anyone from knowing it's true RCS and establishing a pattern that allows tactics to be developed. Plus, the guys who allegedly tracked the F-35 knew it's flight path because of it's appearance at an air show. Big whoop. Not exactly the conditions a SAM operator will face in combat. "no invisible airplanes" - it's not invisible. It just uses the laws of physics to prevent radar from bouncing back to the receiver.
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@psymantronic1528 The US is attacking Russia? They mind controlled Putin into invading? Defending the ethnic Russians? They conscripted them and essentially genocided them through meatgrinders.
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Ffs I confused Shazam with Kazaam and was about to ask how could someone have decades of MMA experience in 1996 lmao
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The ethanol process creates cattle feed as a byproduct. It's not a waste.
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The picture mostly shows surface damage. What it doesn't show is the 6 A-10s that were lost in 1991 and F-16s had to go in their place. Those didn't get shot up.
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It doesn't screw Apple over. Every car has its performance and weight goals, alongside fuel efficiency and emissions. Phone batteries are phone batteries.
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@ObiWanCannabi It's not crazy. All the devices I have that were purchased in recent years have USB-C. So clearly every one of them can use USB-C no problem. Try to brake a Hummer with Smart car brakes.
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@arcanondrum6543 They didn't fail. The government asks for something and then gets cold feet. Also, funny how you now have to resort to unrelated claims when people shot down your arguments.
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@arcanondrum6543 What videogame? Also, no I won't go away. You go.
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But it wasn't. It didn't provoke terror, it cut a supply line.
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@trashfire9641 the Founding Fathers fired musket balls at British troops, I guess Britain gets the right to occupy America.
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Nah, there's a ton of "can't tell me nothing" types who back dictators because they think dictators agree with them or they secretly would like to be dictators. A lot of people are even content with being part of the enforcers or intelligentsia as long as the dictatorship matches their values. Precisely because they can afford independent thought when the state would approve of what they think.
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@RlsIII-uz1kl "muh dialog" when people scream talking points for 3 years it's hard. Bots keep saying the Ukrainians govt was installed by the US in 2014, hoping Americans don't notice Poroshenko lost to Zelensky in 2019.
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 @yellowtunes2756 Voting over the internet? Lol
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 @xNONExTHExLESS >commiek1ller >whines about Zelensky Boy, he's dismantling the commie forces while you stand behind the keyboard
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@Ziegfried82 If the concessions are being reported accurately, Putin is already showing that he's backing off on his demands.
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MSM disn't claim it, Russians did.
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Last year people in Belgorod complained about smell, Ukrainians shipped Russian KIAs to Russia through train but the Russian army left the bodies to rot in unrefrigerated trains. There's probably so many instances of misplaced bodies to hide casualties or to collect salaries of soldiers as if they were alive.
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The US spends more on welfare in 2-3 years than the entire F-35 program will cost until 2070.
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Was he a stabilizing force by supplying the IRA with weapons, explosives and training camps?
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Almost none. Please look into Thunderf00t's videos on Fukushima.
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@wl9275 "Russia's wealth comes from its mining sector and its agriculture"/"So perhaps I could have said the war is about resources, and oil and gas are Russia's most significant resiorces" - Their extraction industry depends on Western expertise and technology.
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@padredemishijos12 Huh, okay? The best scientists and mathematicians were often on Western payroll. Russia is a grift, intelligent people are a threat to the oligarchs. The best engineers in the world? Then how come they import Czech tractors and slap Russian brands on them? Russia unified NATO and the US. High Ruble means that they get paid less on exports.
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@asher_2789 Sun only works for half the day, energy depends on latitude, requires a lot of space. Wind whacks birds, and depleting wind energy causes change to climate/erosion patterns, etc. Renewables are not a silver bullet. You'd still need something like nuclear to provide at least part of the base load.
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@0IIIIII So? Argument from popularity is a fallacy, not a valid reason. Like your parents told you, if all your friends jumped out of a bridge that's no reason to follow. If anything, you're making more on an argument to go live in those places, and allow the United States to be different. You've proven nothing.
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Can't fly off a short deck carrier. The F-35B and Harrier can fly off an amphibious assault ship.
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ShariaFreeUK Because they didn't want to get caught? Still doesn't change that it's behaving exactly how a novel virus would.
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ShariaFreeUK Plenty. You just didn't hear about it. Last year when this mess started I actually talked to someone who got the 2009 swine flu as a teenager, he was going to go pro as a tennis player but his career was shot down by the permanent lung damage he suffered. Nobody was talking about it, so in most people's minds it didn't happen. "highly modified to cause maximum damage" - Maximum damage, but leaves 80% of people unaffected? "We do not yet know just how bad this pandemic will get" - The pandemic going on endemic is fine. It's the passports, contact tracing and QR code scanning apps that I'm afraid of.
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@Genesis23OPB The John Wick movies are not filmed with blank guns. It's CGI.
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F-16s have been shot down by Soviet SAMs.
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@sergarlantyrell7847 Because the aircraft in the air were patrolling for attacks against the airbase. If they had attacked the SAMs the aircraft would know the target was the enrichment facility and go there.
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@sergarlantyrell7847 Yes, that's right. That was the reason for the time limit. I guess the attack on the defenses would tell the fighters to look in the trench because they were travelling west when looking for targets, rather than south.
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ARs were sent to Ukraine as foreign aid. But that was before they reorganized.
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My only exposure to the original series was reruns so I never got a feel for the overarching patterns but there is some logic to an original series tackling more complex topics and then settling into a more "consistent" show for the "turn my brain off in front of the TV" crowd.
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@fargonianproductions2767 define "more secure" and "thorough". Also, no. Several Democratic leaders have already stated they want to take away guns. The cat's out of the bag. Stop making excuses and giving us the centrist talking point we know the Democratic party will not settle for.
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/watch?v=wLrxSgkqJQc Watch it and weep. Charging handle of the right side. Cartridge is too big to be 5.56. Skeleton stock. Saiga per-conversion handguard. Cop doesn't seem to wear gloves. This stinks to high heaven.
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@AnnaLuchia No. Arterial blood pressure would ignore the tampon. You have to pack the wound to the point that an artery cannot flow outward at a rate that threatens the injured person.
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The M16 was not built to handle continuous suppressive fire. Colt sold "automatic rifle" variants of the M16 but they have modifications to allow them to function properly.
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The road out of Lyman is littered with Russian corpses. The victory isn't political - Ukraine lets Russians retreat and then slaughters them as they flee.
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 @Dinker27 Now what happens if the 501st shows up? It's on sight?
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The Chechens don't fight. Kadyrov hilariously made a video for social media where he was almost bursting in tears, and convinced Putin to pull Chechens from the front. The Donetsk and Luhansk militias do not exist anymore. They're staffed by Russian mobilized men.
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There are fabs in the US.
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You didn't say anything about this. You made out of proportion, generalist comments. By virtue of being such a tool for foreign interests, you are an unwitting Putin supporter.
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I saw an instrument that only an Orwellian-style police would use. How will it be used lawfully? It requires an unlawful search of a person's skin before that person is even a suspect. It also gives way to false positives and corrupt officers incriminating people.
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Bro you asked to get dogpiled on. Since when is airborne the air force? The 101st and 82nd, are those air force units? They're army.
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It's hard but honest work.
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@a15thcenturysuitofgothicarmor The cartels are flying to Afghanistan now?
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You can. The Russian vessel with a mini-sub was detected in the area.
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Making the host visibly ill is even worse for the virus. The virus that wins natural selection is the one that the host is not affected by.
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@DMSJagXK Chances of surviving are not good? Post the numbers. It should be over 99 percent survival rate.
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Research memetic warfare.
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Not really. Putin benefits the most. Oligarchs could take him out and declare peace in exchange for the juicy gas profits. With the pipeline gone, oligarchs have no option but to support Putin to get them out of the hole.
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@m____w____6981 they had everything to gain since blocking delivery means penalty fees
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@zani1106 Recent history (2022) shows Russia getting slaughtered in Winter.
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@myronplatte8354 If they're not in a hurry to take territory, why are they doing frontal assaults on Bakhmut? They tried to encircle the city and Ukraine reinforced the flanks to stop the capture of the city. So they were forced to do what they didn't want to do, attack the city itself. That means they want territory at all costs.
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@Aleph-alpha That's why the comparison is made in Bq... to normalize the discharge in the same units of measurement... It doesn't matter what the water touched. Homeopathy isn't real. What matters is what's DILLUTED into the water. If you're a scientist, you should be familiar with concepts such as units of measurement and radioactive isotopes.
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Do the Portuguese and Spanish people burn flags from Arab countries because of the Muslim invasions?
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@FRIPPE_THE_GREAT Flying an A-10 at low altitude is a waste of its capabilities. It needs to get a good look from above and pick off targets with the targeting pod/laser designator or by using the seekers on Maverick missiles. Flying low would mean doing blind rocket volleys like the Su-25, which they don't need.
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@lvirag8401 You're just parroting talking points. How are breakthroughs rare when they're at near parity, if not overtaking, unvaccinated cases?
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@lvirag8401 You have not cited any sources so you have no business asking for anything. Either way, just look at other countries.
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@lvirag8401 You're the one with no receipts. Thanks for playing, bucko. I got the receipts. Covid-19 vaccine surveillance report - week 36 by Public Health England. Page 20. Roughly 98% of the UK population has antibodies either through infection or vaccination. With around 52M people above the age of 18 in the UK, that's an estimated 1M adults with no antibodies. Table 4. Over a 4 week period 113,846 unvaccinated people had Covid-19 cases. That's 11% of the unvaccinated population. With the report essentially confirming a 99.5% recovery rate, every week 30k people move from the unvaccinated to the naturally immune. The unvaccinated are an ever shrinking target. Wrap your head around those numbers.
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 dihvocfoscocudvyvdd8101 If I paid for something it's not free. Let's just be honest.
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I mean, I really need that information so that I don't make a bomb on accident...!
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They do hate the US.
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@BIOHAZARDCURE Well, in the sense that a HK P7 and an AR-15 operate in almost the same manner.
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It will replace the A-10. The A-10 has already been replaced by the F-16 and F-15E. The F-35 will replace the F-16 which means inheriting the A-10s job.
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The terrorist in Christchurch has changed the world. Like it or not but he planned to get a reaction and got it. It worked.
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The Mujahideen were taken to training camps abroad, with some instances of Western advisors running training courses inside Afghanistan. It's not like we just dropped cases of the stuff.
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Still got bashed, though.
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Of all the nonsense he's said this is what pisses you off?
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Because they can. As procesing power and AI capabilities increase they say "huh, might as well keep tabs on everyone just in case one in a million people decides to become a jihadist". And then terror attacks happen anyway because terrorists are told to not keep their phones with them.
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@mg659er Without curvature on earth you can't have day/night cycles.
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@peachion2 "we have never reached herd immunity without a vaccine" - And yet Europeans had immunity against diseases that killed uncontacted natives before vaccines.
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@MicMc539 "NeUtRaLiTy FoR aUsTrAlIA"
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 @anthonyhovens7488 But airbursts are done to maximize shockwave. The thermal radiation eventually gets absorbed by the atmosphere, but the shockwave keeps going for several miles.
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They released very small numbers and only people who had military experience. Also, Ukraine is all hands on deck because they're being invaded. Russia isn't.
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@littlegreenman2014 Luhansk and Donetsk already mobilized themselves into oblivion. Strelkov and Murz already stated that the regions were wiped clean of men, the only ones surviving are in hiding.
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@littlegreenman2014 He doesn't say those words, because he likes to say things in a roundabout way. Like now he calls Ukraine "partners" sarcastically and refers to the Kremlin as the planet of pink ponies. He has complained about the low quality of conscripts. Murz is more graphic in his descriptions, he says the mobilized include the sickly, the mentally ill, and people still recovering from old wounds.
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They'll say it was a false flag, probably.
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Could have been purchased from the West through sanctions busting or from a government willing to export, which marks them in English for the international market.
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Spaceboy Digital Businesses contribute to society, there's generic pharmaceutical companies that make cheap meds, waste disposal companies that receive the trash so that it doesn't accumulate in cities, etc.
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In 2022, Russia lost almost 1500 tanks.
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 @Soriyies Many of those benefits are basically mandated by law in other countries. In those countries they're having similar economic issues.
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@S.M.E.A.C The population also increased meaning that gun ownership rates are down, and the types available are not very suitable. There's no propaganda, the Australian government banned a Turkish shotgun because it was a lever action configured in the shape of a pump action. Come on.
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lol
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The satellite pictures showed that the spots hit had huge piles of munitions stacked right outside the magazines. The half ton of explosives was already there. I do believe it was hit by missile, though.
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Because the aircraft is spinning, and the lenses are spinning inside the pod to stabilize the footage. The smear is created by the lenses, so that object appears to spin. The rest of the image does not.
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That's straight up propaganda. Police officers rarely come under rifle fire, as they are difficult to conceal.
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@j.j.9511 "I find it hard to sympathize with white people as a whole after what they've done to the world and Africa" - funny you mention that, because the Arabs also fucked that continent pretty hard
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Yep. And they left Kiyv because of that. Then Kheson because of that.
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For a warhead the diameter of a RPG it would take more than 1 meter of spacing.
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@momopirou3107 But slat armor does not serve the same purpose. Slat armor is made to cause a short circuit in the warhead cone and shred the main charge containing the copper cone. Slat armor is not made to pre-detonate a PG-7V. It's made to destroy the fuzing system and preferably damage the explosive section enough so that if the self-destruct timer goes off the explosive is detonated but there's no jet formation. Slat armor is called statistical armor, if the fuzing impacts the slat it will detonate properly and the HEAT round will function. But there's a 90% or so chance the warhead will slip the fuze between the slats and the cage then destroys the warhead behind it before the fuze can touch the skin of the vehicle. Cage armor is designed to offer minimal chance for the fuze to hit it, as it has to impact the slats dead on.
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Yeah but a lot of Catholics aren't really fond of this pope.
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What would be the point of noticing?
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"As far as I understand" that's not very far, then...
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@Nick46289 Prime example of BS. Ukraine's mobilization is based on the limit of troops they can train and equip at once, so they do smaller waves to use the capacity they have. Russia conscripted hundreds of thousands at once, independently if they had the equipment or facilities (they didn't). You take a factor you know is different between two countries but do not explain why they are different. It's like trying to use crime rates between countries that do not have the same legal definitions.
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@zemm9003 You have exposed circuits in your computer's motherboard. Shorts can happen with screws falling behind a mobo.
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@Tagohala It's not corruption. The pen was developed privately. Russians bought it too.
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@declaringpond2276 Because jamming makes you miss, because speed allows you to react faster, stealth makes it harder to shoot down.
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@anthonyloveanthonylove2159 They're extremely noisy. If they were stealth, they'd fly higher.
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@MartinMaarva That's great but we're witnessing the results of spending 60x less. You have to resort to prisoners to capture a single town while American weapons rain steel and tungsten on you.
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@MartinMaarva Where the Taliban got slaughtered and the survivors had to hide in Pakistan for decades? Yeah.
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@VileCAESARB The US was already working behind the scenes to manipulate the world market to prevent Germany from accessing critical resources. The claim that the US was cowering at home when in fact it was already playing the chess moves to save Europe is pretty ungrateful.
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The Duran is not balanced lmao it's ran by a full blown Russia shill.
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There's plenty of aircraft caoable of shredding BMPs with their gun. The point is, what does the A-10 actually bring to the table?
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@brandonlevy8680 It's pretty sluggish when you load it with full ordnance (they couldn't take off from Bagram airfield with a full load: thin air = couldn't gain enough speed). Survivability is not getting hit in the first place. The A-10 was survivable when 14.5mm AA was the most common threat. Now missiles split aircraft in half. No surviving that. Those short crappy runways will need fuel, weapons and maintainers. So the A-10s will be based with all the other aircraft with proper bases and big runways because there's no point in endangering maintenance personnel by keeping them in remote airfields.
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@artruisjoew5473 1. You can't loiter over a hostile that wants to swat you out of the sky. 2. You don't want to do strafing over enemies with the capability to punch back. Strike Eagle pilots learned how to strafe at night during the GWOT. You know what's risky? Trying to fly over hostiles with MANPADS and AAA. 3. Other aircraft also have IFF equipment.
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@ShivamJha00 I dusted off Rainbow Six 3 this winter. Why wouldn't I play a decade+ old game? Some aged well, some didn't.
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It's soft A (sounds like "guh") versus rolling the R off the tongue. That's why people call it hard.
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@Zoom15000 Because in many situations it's """acceptable""" to drop the N-word. The reason there's a "hard R" is that using it is either a major faux pas or had the full intent of a racial slur.
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One aircraft was shotdown (A-50) and the Ilyushin was damaged by frag, there was a mayday call reporting dead and injured among the crew.
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Their plan was to cross a border full of Russians?
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@jeanniemaycrawford4466 Funny how you say that people don't care about brown people, but Yugoslavia had NATO defend Albanian Muslims from Serb nationalists. "We'd have ceasefire" - LIE. The DPR forces backstabbed Ukraine by signing a ceasefire, then assaulting Debaltseve the day after. Those people cannot be trusted, they lie, and they want the war and killing to continue. They are paid by Russia to keep the conflict running. You claim there would be a ceasefire but this is clearly a lie, you just want Ukraine to stop firing and allow the separatist forces to continue attacking.
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@jeanniemaycrawford4466 This conversation is not about any crimes. It's about the Russian invasion. Russia also acted aggressively in Georgia and said it was humanitarian. So what? You're conveniently ignoring past events.
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So you're bringing a whole social, economical, demographics issues and blaming it on guns? Japan has a tremendous amount of social control.
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@robertthomas5906 Weird comparison. If you want to silence a defector and he has a 17% chance of making it, you really might not get another shot at him. If a taser fails there's usually a backup officer ready to use lead to stop an attack.
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War crimes denial lul
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Okay, look at the Russian information - they're claiming the armed forces left Izyum due to threat of encirclement.
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They never went "all in" on the F-35. The argument was ALWAYS to let the F-15C remain as the primary air superiority fighter. The F-35 was NEVER sold as an air superiority fighter. It's the low in the high/low mix. Like the F-16 is to the F-15.
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The problem is that anyone with a RPG now has a huge target to shoot at.
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lol yeah you'll pay for gas with blood instead of money. How about you pay with your blood i stead of demanding Ukraine to die for you,
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So we should coddle the baby throwing a tantrum?
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@joaoomega6627 When Cuba got NUCLEAR MISSILES the US and Soviet Union solved the issue diplomatically. Do not call me dumb. Before the breakdown of the Warsaw Pact, the border with Russia still had Warsaw pact countries around them.
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@sj-du2yo The variable height fuze upgrade on American warheads already caused Russia to lose counter-strike ability.
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They do cross the blood brain barrier. Let's hope they don't unfold and become prions.
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They said they'd use nukes to protect annexed areas. Then Ukraine invaded those areas after the fake referenda. They said nukes would fly if Kerch bridge was attacked. Then they didn't.
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Shredded to bits at the bottom of the ocean.
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We have to get a PhD in economics, get famous for our books, get a position at the Mises Institute or something. Meanwhile they can sit at home and tweetm
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They have people acting as "resistance" behind enemy lines who report locations, the US also uses satellite images and communications surveillance. There's electronic warfare aircraft flying close to the Ukrainian border to spy on enemy movements.
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False. The USAF was criticized for buying TOO MANY A-10s. The Army wouldn't be able to afford to maintain such an old aircraft.
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@DE-ke2rf Well, the GAO (who Reformers love) accused the USAF of buying over 700 airframes. Did you need 700 airframes to protect you from tanks, big guy? The USMC bought F-35Bs. Nobody is developing dedicated CAS replacement. Russia isn't. China isn't. Europe isn't. Nobody is making A-10 style aircraft anymore.
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Zelensky wanted peace.
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@biomorphic Now Russia attacked a German consulate. Prepare for Leopard 2.
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Eventually it will stop triggering the growth response.
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No, it isn't. The Yak 141 used the three bearing swivel nozzle from the Convair Model 200.
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So from what I understand the 3.5 headphone jack has 5 pins, 1 ground 2 input and 2 output which are cut off if headphones are inserted so it's connected in series... But are the aux in jacks also straight up connected in series? And the audio signals mix just fine if for example one is playing a game while listening to a podcast on the cellphone?
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@BjorckBengt Mikahil from California Oblast
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 @VikingTeddy because the term was MEAT WAVE and people both accidently and purposefully have been discussing human waves.
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There's natural sunlight coming from behind the camera, it's most likely a normal warehouse or factory building being used. If anything, either the depot had not been found yet or Ukraine purposely left it alone because they knew the defenses were weak and they could capture it.
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@lkb9527 nothing to hide is a terrible argument. It doesn't matter how long the arm is because you're always online, always within reach.
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@lkb9527 why don't you email some chinese hackers your online banking/credit card details and tell them they can try anything but you're out of their reach :)
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Jason Rasmussen he didn't say you were an asshole, he was talking about the example of not smiling enough
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No, Russia should bleed more.
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@WalterWiperi And what is better? Dying for freedom? Or bleeding for a rich man who will never pay you for your sacrifice?
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@WalterWiperi This is nonsense. Doesn't matter who is the president of Ukraine, people who want Ukraine to exist and not get bullied will fight. Zelensky doesn't matter. Meanwhile, the Russian people have no business being in Ukraine. What does it matter to them? Ukraine negotiated peace. Russia does not want peace. When Ukraine asked for the separatists to stop fighting, Russia said it wasn't their problem. They send money and weapons to keep the fight going and refuse to talk, tell Ukraine to talk to the separatists. Well, the separatists obey Russia. All you have is a hit piece on Zelensky... but he doesn't matter. He's just one man. What matters are the millions of people who are being denied a home by Russian aggression. And every day Putin or Lavrov beg to be taken seriously by the West. They say the West is irrelevant and they don't need them, but then turn around and act like puppies saying everyone hates Russia, poor weak Russia, it's us versus the world because the world is so mean...
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@WalterWiperi The government tyranny of a state fighting back after Russia put weapons and criminals inside its borders. Illegitimate coup? The democratically elected parliament relieved the president of his duties after he fled the country. Eight years... In the years prior to the war less than 20 people had died on average per year in the conflict. They were not told what language they could speak. Ukraine told Russia that Russia propaganda would have to be spoken in Ukrainian. Russian speakers in Ukraine could speak Russian with each other. Russian media in Ukraine had to speak Ukrainian. Big difference. Almost every country has language laws to promote their national language or else all the TV shows and music become English because of America. There was negotiation. The separatists ignored it. They get paid to fight and kill, they fight and kill. All on Russia's behalf. The DPR forces planned to assault Debaltseve the day after signing Minsk II. You can't deal with these people. They'll plan to stab you in the back before the ink is even dry. Nobody cares about festivals. Ukrainians are not fighting for festivals. They're fighting for a homeland. There's no negotiation possible because Russia has broken almost every negotiation they've been a part of. The only way they listen is by force. The DPR and LPR could have my sympathy, but they've decided to be a conglomeration of criminals, murderers, terrorists on the Kremlin payroll. Pushilin even looks like the criminal he is. Seriously. He looks like a movie villain. There's a reason Ukrainian cities are being destroyed. Putin wills it. It's fine. Ukraine loses the city. Russia loses its future. How will Russia's demographics recover after sending their boys to die? Occupation comes at a cost. Make sure the hole you're trying to fill with blood doesn't lead to the sea.
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@Stup1d0zz That makes no sense. Britain entered the war because Poland was the red line and Germany crossed it. The Polish government in exile was located in Britain. Japan also needed to knock the US off the Pacific Ocean and Japan v USSR were foes. There would be no reason to piss off the Soviets and have them interfere in the Pacific.
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As opposed to Russia (former Soviet Union) backing coups and revolutionaries.
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@GeraltofRivia22 Putin would send you to die in a pointless war and your death would be filmed by Ukrainian drone operators to be cheered by redidtors. Putin would give you the most humiliating fate possible and not think twice.
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Don't share this, you'll be mocked. The numbers are clearly photoshopped. The real leaks show Russia is taking way more casualties.
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They could, unless you encrypted them. Now they're after encryption too.
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What woosh? I agree - he is stupid and childish. But let him have his 50's crisis. Is he relevant for politics? No. My point is why are we caring about his life choices? He can be contrarian all he wants because eventually he'll get his ass bit.
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Because it's a defensive initiative?
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I can't find any reference to nuclear ATACMS existing in service. Only unitary warheads and cluster.
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Hitching your wagon to the losing side is a nice cope.
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Oh, but it has worked. You just need to see the pieces falling into place.
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Does Eric Weinstein run his own surveillance radar or something?
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@Sridarsh Elizondo is NOT serious.
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It's very maneuverable. You were told it isn't by barely literate bloggers who can't read a report.
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The detonator is not on the nose. That's a piezo electric generator that feeds into the detonator. The explosion needs to come from behind the warhead to focus the penetrator liner. The anti-RPG cages often disarm the warhead even in case of impact, because the aerodynamic cone gets crushed between the cage bars and shorts the circuit.
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Everyone hates the French-Canadians though.
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Drones don't have the performance or payload capacity.
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It's better than everything else we have, the Gripen is too expensive and not capable enough, a modernized F-15 is just as expensive as a F-35. Its range is better than other fighters with external tanks, the armament is satisfactory with internal only.
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The balloon was in US airspace. The drone was not in Russian airspace.
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@daroniussubdeviant3869 it's still not proof that terror bombing works because several Japanese towns got conventionally burned to the ground before.
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I owned an Apple product. A pink iPod that was handed down to me and the previous owner bought it used for 13 bucks at the local used tech/videogame store.
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Mind that M230 30mm allows the round to carry large HE payload, while a .50 caliber machine gun will require direct hits or very, very near misses to have effects on target.
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@ipoml3804 Mods introduce things that the developer never planned for. A game can't be judged for game-breaking mods.
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You do realize that stealth was essentially developed from a publicly published paper that the USSR officials didn't think was important enough to keep top secret, right? The way it works can't be kept a secret. They just need to hide the secret sauce.
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The manufacturer is Lockheed Martin.
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Meat waves are not a myth Human waves is the Western misconception upon hearing meat wave
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The US first tested its air breathing hypersonic in 2004.
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Russia's demographics are way worse than the Soviet Union. They don't have that many people.
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Cope lol
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They merged because otherwise they'd go bust lol the companies didn't team up with their rivals because they're evil, they did it because the market is shrinking and dozens of companies can't stay afloat.
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Not true. Most Western air defense were short range IR seeking MANPADS. Su-57s would be able to fly over them with impunity.
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@1SCme To deal with Iranian drones.
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@dealtime2774 Academi doesn't exist anymore.
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The democratically elected president ordered protesters to be killed and fled the country fearing prosecution. It wasn't a coup. He fled to not face the consequences of his actions.
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 @pogo1140 They had the A-7. The YA-7F Strikefighter program was canceled because the A-7 lost the flyoff against a YA-10.
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This is riddiculous. In Afghanistan there was a civil war after the Soviet retreat. You people always forget that part of history.
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@checkpoint3260 You're saying the Mujahedeen are the Taliban? The Taliban were sent by Pakistan's ISI to suppress the Mujahedeen fighters engaging in civil war.
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@KrysHome so because I pointed out some guy is straight up forgiving businesses for taking his money and lying I've been abused... Thanks Dr. Phil. Also, stop upvoting yourself.
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@KrysHome nice Ad Hominem. It's an admission that you have no counterargument. Thanks for attributing me the win.
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@KrysHome how am I delusional? All you have are Ad Hominem attacks and self-upvoting.
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@KrysHome this is a 3 week old thread, either the OP is popping in to check on the conversation or you've been upvoting yourself. How fucking SAD do you have to be?
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@crabbytemptations1771 Please stop. There's been decades of alt-historians trying to weave this fiction. If they had delayed, they'd still lose. The US carried the Soviet Union and the UK on their backs. Even without entering the war, the US would ensure German loss. War is indeed about maths. Without logistics, you lose.
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Projection. It's Russia who sends wave after wave into artillery kill zones.
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The cheap drones will be brought down with everything from AKs to Gepards to MANPADS.
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@Weirdomanification But we want them to shelter terrorist groups. We need training camps for those heading to Xingjiang.
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Visual confirmation shows Russia has more losses.
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You cannot run an economy on gold.
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@putitback4789 When the economy was several times smaller.
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On a private plane sure, but in airliners you can crawl into the fuel tank.
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@amiesparkle00 The chance for long term effects of infection is only halved by taking the shot. Either way it's a personal choice so that's moving the goalposts.
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"It's absurd to claim that a respiratory disease spreads as readily when fully open than when closed" - It's not absurd. People kept gathering at grocery stores and lines. So while the avenues for contagion were reduced, we were mostly corralled into the same one.
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Germany's opposition is simply their MO. They've tried to delay everything.
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The leaked ministry of finance document about payments to families amounted to around 50k KIA as of June. Those do not include the proxies or Wagner. With a 1:2 KIA/WIA rate thanks to their shoddy combat medicine and medevac that's about 150k casualties, which makes sense. Shadow mobilization, conscription of Donbas civilians, volunteer battalions, the gutting of other units inside Russia, etc made up for the losses but still left gaps, such as Kharkiv.
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You're missing the point. Laws against murder, drinking and driving, etc exist to PUNISH those who do it and are caught. Those laws don't punish those who are about to do it, those who don't do it, and those who aren't caught. Laws aren't preventions. Creating laws to prevent gun crime won't work, because they will only punish those who already did it. But the problem is that law abiding citizens are also punished.
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>"waaa I can criticise whoever I want" >"if you criticize me you're just triggered"
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How does it make sense? The vaccination should have broken the chains of transmission and generated the fabled herd immunity.
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Dead invaders. Worth every penny.
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He admitted to have "suppressed" his "bisexual urges".
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@blugaledoh2669 Russia executed civilians in Ukraine simply because of their estimated level of nationalism. A man in Ukraine had the nickname "Bandera" because the locals teased him for being from West Ukraine. When Russians arrived, they presumed he was called "Bandera" due to nationalism and killed him. It was just an inside joke among friends.
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@blugaledoh2669 It's easily verifiable. Several Russian soldiers quit the army and gave interviews where they admitted to everything. They have the cellphones of the victims and everything.
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It amounts to more land than Russia can capture in three months.
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Give me a source, I found 13k dead from both sides.
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 @TheStealthEcho NATO did not take Iraq. It was just the US, UK, Australia and Poland.
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Neither the Yak-38 or Yak-141 had a forward lift fan. They used smaller jet engines pointed downwards. The F-35's lift fan solution is unique.
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Sadly the A-10 can't outsmart bullet either, which is why most tank kills were scored with Maverick missiles and they couldn't get close to armored columns without getting shot up.
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The "real military" is either dead or trapped in Kherson. If Russia still had a real military, they wouldn't need 300,000 men to replace 150,000.
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Right, just hoping we freeze and threatning us with nukes.
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@DaleGribbleMD Don't deflect, nobody said it was Russia who had to keep us warm. They hoped we'd freeze. God gave us a mild winter and a polar vortex that stayed inside Russia's borders. Hilarious.
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The bear is 11 months in a 3 day operation.
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@qjtvaddict Bro are you seriously displaying your Stockholm syndrome here? You're like the character in a movie that keeps saying they shouldn't have fought back against the terrorists and everything would be over. This ends whenever you want it to end.
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@piotrd.4850 the Ukrainian air defense is not manned by conscripts but by people with technical backgrounds (such as engineering degrees). Ukraine also has a domestic arms capability and can refurbish missiles. This means that a lot of the Soviet baggage was discarded.
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Looking at the big picture? Purchasing power parity puts Russia at 220 billion USD in defense spending. A third of the US. Nota tenth.
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I was obsessed with those after effects packages as a kid lol Only did very light VFX work as an amateur but I learned the basics of video editing which was a skill I ended up using in adulthood
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It can't use them at speed.
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They're 380, 22 actually has higher pressure due to smaller diameter. You're only limited by your imagination. Look up electrochemical machining. You can 3D print a mandrel, wrap it in copper wire and run salt water to "machine" the rifle and chamber on a steel tube. Print the gun but modify the file to accept your steel barrel (learning CAD isn't difficult).
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Embassies are just military HQs when you fill them with generals. It's not a freaking schoolyard game where you can do time outs. Get out of here with that childish interpretation of the rules.
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I love how you people insist on not seeing the truth. What was the point of the air assault on Hostomel in the first night? Why did Russian media accidently release that article celebrating victory? It was meant to be a quick special operation. It turned into a war. This assessment is visible to anyone except those refusing to look.
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The negotiations were over after Bucha.
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 @jessefletcher2365 There was no mutual agreement. After what Russians did north of Kiev a line had been crossed.
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@cinnamon-skateboarding5987 Cali has a ton of renewables already. This is clearly them lacking energy storage solutions because Cali has sold excess power to Arizona.
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Crystal Ball is a stripper's name.
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@Kefuddle Russian air defense is extremely effective, but couldn't protect the Antonovsky bridge, the Sevastopol Naval HQ which got hit twice, the Saki air base or even Engels. Huh. Tanks are vulnerable, but 15-18 tanks in Kharkiv caused panic among Russian troops. The conflict isn't even about who can lob most shells. It's about who can lob effective shells. Look at pictures of Ukrainian fields from above. Looks like the moon surface. Russian artillery spammed entire fields with artillery and dug a bunch of worthless craters. Significant tonnage wasted shooting at nothing. Russian's haven't had the artillery advantage since HIMARS started blowing up every ammo depot within 70km. Russian artillery is held back by supplies being stuck far away from the front.
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They spend more Rubles on defense, less money to support their forces on the ground.
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The rail line was never repaired, just used as is. The road bridge was repaired.
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 @N1rOx Ukraine invading their neighbors? They were invaded first dawg.
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The fact that they did it for free before doesn't excuse receiving the reward later.
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@N1rOx Read what? How Crimea was seized by unidentified troops (later awarded a medal by the Russian state) and then FSB operative Igor Girkin started the Donbas war?
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@Wargasm54 The eastern "expansion" was in 1989 when GERMANY reunified. NATO agreed not to build up on Poland's border and create a new face-off at the iron curtain. NATO could NOT expand into the Warsaw Pact. The promise made in 1989 in regards to Germany was kept to today. The Bundeswehr inherited the East German army bases but NATO is stationed in the former West Germany.
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@jeremiahblake3949 not when the "defense" is used as an offensive tool to secure access to resources in foreign lands or even secure the transportation routes. That's not free market, that's imperialism.
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RPG means "Ruchnoy Protivotankovyy Granatomot" which means "handheld antitank grenade launcher". Rocket propelled grenade is an English designation to retroactively match "RPG".
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If you have to compare wind to coal to make it look favorable, you've already lost.
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@RadarLocked >crap >wipes the floor with any aircraft at Red Flag Stop listening to Russia Today and cooky jazz music producers like Pierre Spey.
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The US did find weapons. Several US servicemen suffered neurological damage from being exposed to nerve agents - but their health issues were covered up for about a decade.
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There's a higher chance of Russia fracturing.
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@hazie The issue is that we might get bamboozled. The enemy says "oh you can kill us through plates? fine we'll just wear soft vests" and they'll be running around with 5.45/5.8 ammo while US troops are burdened by heavy armor and 6.8 rounds. This sounds too silly but the big bad threat are Russian plates and you can't assume they're not playing games.
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 @yam2050 the gold backed idea was a disaster in the making.
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Because it's indirect fire, the sound flies in a straight line to you, but the shell has to climb and then dive.
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Those fly close to the sea and pop up for final attack. People would have seen them at the beach.
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@user-th1iz9ur1u Doxxing with two Xs is the spelling that was used in the 2000s.
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@steveot The US has a professional military.
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Dude stole a ton of stuff from Soviet armories, he's the reason Russia is missing half of its equipment.
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@l.w.paradis2108 Okay, do you know stuff? Because the agreement was about East Germany.
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The agreement was to not expand into EAST GERMANY. That promise was kept, by the way. German international bases are on former West German territory, while only German army bases exist in former East Germany territory. Ask yourself - when Gorbachev was in power, the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union still existed. East Germany was the only one switching sides. Why would they have an agreement to not include Warsaw Pact and Soviet countries in NATO? It makes as much sense as an agreement to not let Turkey, a NATO member, into the Soviet Union.
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He built an Asian palace.
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The Taliban thing was from Medal of Honor, not CoD. CoD wanted to avoid the real world connections.
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>That's your opinion. HK is superior Also an opinion.
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Who gets ratio'd on youtube? Almost every video published has a positive like rate. Only scams, youtube rewinds and trailers for bad videogames get bombed with dislikes.
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@Derek_T You're right. Everyone's different. That's why something different will come up, and other people will feel worse than you. Nature will not just stop after we're done. Are we going to have to take these extreme measures and take experimental stuff every couple of years? I'll take a "sicker than I ever been" with a novel bug if that's the cost of freedom.
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Okay. And what about the people spraying alcohol in their groceries and wearing the mask alone in their car? They got it too. They died too. Funny af? Not sorry?
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On MSPaint just paint a red dot on each tank and then write a program to count red dots. It's quicker than setting up an AI.
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What capabilities? Everything the A-10 does is based on multirole avionics. They even replaced the original joystick grip for the F-16 grip.
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@pkt1213 You can only loiter over permissible skies. Great for Afghanistan. Terrible for a war where the enemy can actually fire missiles at it.
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@ScytheNoire "Socialism is what saved America after the Great Depression" - false, in fact the New Deal made the depression last longer than it did "You also sound like quite the racist, how dare black kids go to the same school as white children" - you literally lack reading comprehension. He said that Kennedy had to use force because of the democrats blocking him
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@Tombee2 socialism is the same as communism but with a state. In socialism private property is abolished and the control is put in the hands of the communist party. Unions aren't inherently socialist, it's workers using negotiation powers by holding all the cards in their hand. Capitalism also doesn't defend the abolition of public facilities, it's an economic system not a totalitarian regime.
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@Tombee2 that's not the definition of socialism. In any corporation people work together for a common goal and that doesn't make them socialist. Having power over someone (withholding production capacity, which threatens business) and using it as leverage in a negotiation is pretty capitalist. "Not to mention socialism in an umbrella term" - yeah but the umbrella isn't far reaching enough to say that people getting together is socialism, or that me sharing my food is socialism, etc. Socialism may be an umbrella term but it is very well defined and you can't shove anything underneath it. "Using communism an extreme left wing idea isnt fair for the term socialism because it can be pro-market" 1) it is VERY fair, look up the history of socialism; 2) pro-market socialism is still anti-capitalist "Also capitalism isnt the best direction as seen through the industrial ear" - the industrial era made people have enough power to demand the vote, abolish child labour, etc. Before the industrial era you had no choice. "we need a mix of both socialistic practices as well as capitalism" - that makes no sense. Socialist practices contradict capitalism and vice-versa. The abolition of private property is against capitalism, even if the system is based on market-socialism. And if you allow capitalism within a socialist system people will undermine the system. "If we have pure capitalsim then the rich will rule over the poor" - the rich ruling over the poor exists in literally every system. Even in anarchism, the lack of a governing system, the rich will have more choice and control over those who have less. "if we have communism greedy government officials will rule" - communism is supposed to be stateless
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How do you know how many were fired?
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No. 1. Honey is proposing to find discounts. They are a salesman walking up to you. It just so happens they do it once and it applies to all future purchases. But they were the ones who approached you to scalp sales. 2. This is even exacerbated when there are no coupon codes and the extension still tries to get you to click. Again, they walked up to you. Even when there are no discounts. 3. User didn't choose to make Honey their salesman on every store. The entire process is happening outside a regular user's view. It was just a coupon finder, which is what the user wants. 4. User is not getting a better deal as businesses cooperating with Honey can suppress codes.
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@MightyRude they're already using wheelbarrows as combat ambulances... there's a picture of a field medical station with a wheelbarrow that has the bottom coated in blood from transporting casualties.
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1. It's not flawed. 2. It's not about the presentation. 3. It is an attack on cultural sensibilities by shaming people. 4. It is an attack on individual rights because it attempts to deny choice. 5. It's not paranoia when it's actually happening. 6. Literally nobody is stopping you from doing that if you want it, we don't need to know where you draw the line. 7. You already called him paranoid once. You prefer to call names than make a proper argument.
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@biggieb8900 Yes but it's only the core concepts and the basic math. Anyone who takes a photography course will understand optics by intuition even though they might not understand the math.
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 @JoshEmerson0421 Anyone could look up deployment stories on google.
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"especially the incentives (often outright bribes) that get doled out to these companies" - Good luck avoiding that. The advertising and review embargos ensure that gaming journalism has to stay on good terms with publishers.
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They needed a second attempt at the Chechen war. The dark web pictures were pulled off google. Just pike dark web hitmen, it's a scam. Buy all those weapons, see how it goes.
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That works on radar cameras depending where you live. I know people who sent letters disputing the calibration of the radar and the fine was thrown out.
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@kanyeeast8450 but the US's VTOL jet is in the hands of the Marines and the further away it has to fly from the less it can stay on station. Meanwhile the Army could use it as fire support since the Air Force accepted that rotary aircraft with fixed wings and forward propulsion did not break the Key West agreement.
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They've essentially left it ambiguous enough. Big companies are comfortable with settlements, they know they can outspend most people who aren't millionaires. You and I know that it's obviously about JP, but in court it would be extremely difficult to prove they were targeting him. At most they'll push for settlement, avoid having to issue a public apology, and agree to discontinue the issue. The damage has been done.
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@Shahvez-jr1nn holy mother of red herring, you read the word "map" and you immediately started coping about a refusal to redraw the maps on your own or just learn to live with the current lines.
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 @Jeff55369 You can carry external missiles on 5th gen.
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@Jeff55369 the 4th gen will eventually become more expensive to operate. Older aircraft aren't the 1990s Toyota that refuses to stop. Eventually they become relics, with maintenace crew retiring, parts out of production, etc. The USAF brought back the Bronco to operate during Op Inherent Resolve. It was shelved after one year due to the unreasonable expenses of maintaining an old aircraft.
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 @GrimGatsby GTA RP is not high fidelity lol
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NecraBriseis Martin Shkreli provided the drug for free if people couldn't afford it. He increased the price he charged to fund medical research, but it would be mostly the insurance companies covering that cost. Also, a few months after that another company bought the rights to sell the drug and sold it at a massive discount.
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@MrAnonymousRandom You don't need a 30mm to disrupt the mobility of armored vehicles.
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"the Russians have already figured out how to shoot it down, for only a fraction of the cost of the F-35." - then why haven't they used that in Syria?
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They already have a tank buster, the Su-25. Such types of aircraft are extremely vulnerable and are forced to shoot unguided rockets. The A-10 wouldn't be able to circle around to use the gun or targeting pods.
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@espacesX They already have Su-25s.
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@espacesX Combat at Mach 2 is unheard of.
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That happened before he was elected.
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@dragonstormdipro1013 Completely unrelated. A rifle is light engineering, if you have the mills, lathes, etc you can pump out incredibly high quality rifles if your machinists are skilled. Most pieces on a rifle you can pick up with two fingers. Can you pick up a tank turret with one arm?
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 @dwarow2508 The Sten was known to be unreliable.
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The world's business is everyone's business. You would not be able to maintain your lifestyle if the US Navy was not ensuring the freedom of the seas.
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@hk-in8cg Sure, we shouldn't have to engage in war. But it seems like there's a list of countries that think that they deserve more than their fill - the "this is not our business" line ignores how many want to make it our business.
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The SkyWarden program is to give support to spec ops in places like Africa where USAF/USN can't respond in time. It's not an A-10 replacement.
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Not really. The main Coalition force entered through Basra province. 280 miles to Bagdad. Belarus border is 140 miles to Kiev. 21 days / 2 = 10.5 days. Behind schedule.
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Russia losing to a country getting issued non-operational stuff is worse.
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Piers is a goddamn whack. The UK banned handguns outright, yet assault weapons are allowed - you can convert a 10/22 or buy a M&P-15/22. Why does Piers consider handguns the ultimate self-defense weapon if more people are killed by blunt objects than semi auto rifles (which includes "assault weapons")?
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Who's saying it was intentional? You know what was intentional? The institute was warned their lab had safety issues abd could leak years prior. They did nothing.
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@r.s.w.k4569 You totally misunderstand aircraft service. They stagger each other. Older F-16s are retired as they run up the airframe hours. Fresher F-16s stay in service. If F-16s remain flying until 2040, that means that in the future they will be replaced by F-35s, which will fly until 2070. That's 30 years of service for that batch of F-35s.
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The C variant isn't STOVL...
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 @drvoodoo3073 Tulsi's job is to be a Russia shill first, a US govt representative second. Why would Tulsi distrust the IAEA?
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 @drvoodoo3073 being an Army veteran doesn't mean being a good person, how many left the Army and became criminals?
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China already asked for the negotiations instead of escalation. Even China is fed up with this bull.
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He's making progress by using "disposable" troops and asking for ammo meant for other units.
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lol it's Russia who's the bigger bully making threats and saying Ukraine does not exist. Nations are forged in times like these, and the only way out is through.
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@daniellarson3068 You do realize that if you "eat the rich" your economy is gone, right? You would have to borrow a lot more because you nuked the economy. Future generations? You'd have ruined the country. Forget about tax savings. The rich do not have the resources to run the US government. And in trying to extract the value, you have to lose economic capacity.
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@soulrajesh1 Tell Putin that nukes are off the table and we'll send our soldiers. You don't even imagine how rabid Western soldiers would get for a chance to defeat Russia inside Ukraine.
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@soulrajesh1 Russia didn't chop HItler's Army. The Soviets did. Which means Ukrainians too.
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Plenty of conservatives have said the McMichaels are murderers. In fact twitter conservatives went so far as to become absolute cringelords by insisting that they all checked out construction sites because real men like construction. But more importantly, former NRA spokesperson Colion Noir was one of the first to defend Arbery.
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@_Wai_Wai_ They changed their story after being put in the spotlight by state sponsored media... Hmmm... The Greyzone editor Max Blumenthal has become a grifter and will deny any atrocity for money.
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He deleted the content. And how is Vice not doing the same thing as he is with their documentaries? Also, ITAR is about transfer of data (blueprints, design documents, manufacturing plans, etc) that enables the manufacture of weapons overseas to bypass arms import/export restrictions. Saying "3d printing guns is cool" does not violate ITAR.
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Accuracy is delivered via a simple electronic kit. Yes it even looks soldered by hand. People can make guided drones at home. Getting an electronic chip to know where the bomb is by knowing where it isn't isn't a dark magic.
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@Hath.0 Often they do. The "good guys" are able to reflect on what they are doing abd be honest, while "bad guys" will enter a stage of denial and lose because of it. Being a bad guy is a race against the clock. You will eventually piss off enough people and lose enough friends that the only ones around you are incompetent yes men.
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Lot's of FSB/SVR bots here.
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Droplets fall with gravity so they have limited reach, aerosolized particles can be carried by a breeze and greatly extend the range.
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@SevenCostanza I misread the question, sorry. Not all infectious agents can be carried by aerosols. Cutoff for the particle size is 5 microns according to Wikipedia.
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That's a lot of "what ifs" brought on by absolute conjecture. The drone swarm could be defeated and the Marines still have air cover. What then?
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By that logic Russia sent AKs around the world to kill Westerners.
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 @romankolar1438 that's all of tech - during the cheap money era they overstaffed tech companies. Anyway if twitter had too many engineers no need to go abroad.
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@LifeEnjoyer-jo6yb So because he's a businessman he's king? He wants to use American soil, American infrastructure, get American contracts and American tax cuts... but won't hire Americans? He could go live in China or India. But he won't.
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Russians reported on it. Now cope. The Snake Island guys lost comms. They were all presumed dead until the Russians showed them. Typically if people are in combat and you never heard them again, you presume they went down fighting or else they'd find a way to send a message.
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Then the combined team can do the job and leave the A-10 home. Not all SAM threats can be suppressed by Wild Weasel. Only radar SAMs generate the emissions.
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Dude I remember a liberation of an island, Jean Claude Van Damme spin kicking a knife into a guy's chest, Arnie ripping a door off a Smart car and Ronda Rousey getting a fake tattoo. I don't know how the MIC relates to that.
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Yeah man let me start this campfire in my office. The desk probably burns nice, hand me my axe.
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To be fair this is being reported on uncritically this side of the Atlantic as well.
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Reactors are built to handle a plane crash. They have like 2 meters thick concrete domes over them.
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@themonkeyspaw7359 you'd be paying a huge unit cost for a small production run because you're paying for the factory, the whole tooling and training dozens of line assemblers to this "new" airframe they'll only be working on for a few months. Once a production line is closed down it's atupid expensive to start a new one.
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RC213V >lemon Pierre Sprey detected. Go back to producing jazz records old man.
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@TheTrueAdept complete hogwash. The A-10 was the USAF's baby and it was them who pushed for the program because they thought they'd lose CAS to the Air Mobility supremacists. This myth that the USAF never wanted it is a lie.
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@reelogic2341 in 1991 the F-111 killed more tanks than the A-10.
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@TheTrueAdept This is completely wrong and you're complicit with the spread of misinformation that comes out of the "military reformers" circles. Stop listening to crazy old people who were trying to sell books. The Fighter Mafia's biggest success was pushing the F-16 project forward, which ended up being a multirole rather than a pure lightweight fighter. Big whoop. The previous chief of staff was an A-10 driver himself. According to your logic he'd never make it up the chain because he was a dirty CAS pilot.
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"Point deer, make horse"
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The optics are rotating to keep the footage stabilized.
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But they're playing it smart. They are grinding the south while taking territory in the east. They've both spoiled the referendum in Kherson but are also going after the separatists who served as the casus belli for the whole thing. I think that they understand that they'll get a huge psychological victory by taking out the LPR and DPR while the Russian army is trapped in Kherson. The Russian people may actually go to the streets and demand the end of the war if the LPR and DPR capitulate, because then the troops in Kherson will die for nothing.
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And they're losing against Ukraine.
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The Patriots in the Gulf were doing ABM duty despite being anti-aircraft. There were a few problems with the warhead and the computer clock which were fixed. Meanwhile you also study enemy air defense so you can defeat it, not to copy it.
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@bekahgand That's a private sale. The federal government has no jurisdiction over private intrastate commerce, only the state government has, so it's a matter of choice for each state government to handle those purchases. There's no peer nations. The US is a very unique case. If you want "peers" in terms of violence... they're much worse and guns are very strictly controlled.
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@bekahgand Nobody said anything about videogames. Map out where gun violence happens in the US and those places are closer to Caracas, Rio de Janeiro or Mexico City than London, Paris or Copenhagen.
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@bekahgand But the problem isn't similarities, it's the differences. Chicago isn't Rome. Europe doesn't have a huge land border with Mexico.
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@dominicgunderson Because it's fucking appalling that a company would think their unreleased game has content worth 27k. Of course that people lost their shit, because until the bundle nobody stopped to think about how much crack Roberts must have smoked before setting the prices of spaceships.
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@TheDude50447 Electro-optical systems are a thing and the F-35 comes stock with one of the most advanced. We use telescopes, binoculars, etc on land and sea because our eyes are limited. We put them on airplanes and suddenly everyone thinks it's still the 60s.
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What leak?
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>Confiscate them all You'd have to ban all chemical precursors to make blackpowder, safety matches, brass tubing, drill presses, hammers, files, lathes, milling machines, etc so that people don't make guns themselves. >society filled with paranoid, homicidal, genocidal people Holy shit, are you even for real? Are you taking weird medication or something? And if you aren't, you should.
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They do have a choice. A king is nothing without his army. You come to my country to enforce your king's rules you have a quarrel with me. Don't play innocent.
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@joeloporto5210 The "special military operation" was seize the capital. That's a special operation. If they had pulled it off, it would have gone in the history books as the most ambitious special operation.
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@konfuchie357 "they achieved all the objectives of the first stage with a loss of only 600 civilian casualties" - How many military losses? "had some unexpected losses but that is war" - And war, like everything else, requires the juice to be worth the squeeze. "1300 killed Russian troops in a month" - Keep believing official MoD numbers. "That's the size of Great Britain" - You people love this comparison, as if we're too dumb to understand scale. "Ukraine will be denacified." - Ukraine will only become more Nazi as a result of the invasion.
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@konfuchie357 That question doesn't even make sense. Nobody said Putin was irrational here. It was a big mistake as the losses have jeopardized their defense capabilities. I don't "understand" Russians because I can see consequences?
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@joeloporto5210 How is NATO expansion prevented? Is Russia going to invade again if Ukraine tries to join?
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@joeloporto5210 Yeah, and countries walk back on agreements all the time.
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The Pantsir systems can also use electro-optical tracking to shoot.
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Except that multiroles dominate in the aircraft world.
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@robertodelier9999 how do you grow crops without water or sun?
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A dude worth 570 million will never be miserable in jail.
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Untrained men who will get even more substandard equipment.
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Hopefully it wouldn't show up on radar at all, because aiming radar at a road and not even using doppler filtering means the entire screen will be flooded by clutter.
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That depends entirely on many factors. There's been many production batches of F-16 and different Block upgrades. It depends on flight hours logged per aircraft, a larger airforce may log less hours per aircraft while a small force probably flew their airframes until the wheels fell off. If you have a force with a hundred F-16s, an upgrade may make sense thanks to economies of scale. If you have 30, it may be cheaper to just buy 30 F-35s. Aircraft pricing is very counter-intuitive because people always assume doing X is cheaper than Y but that's not a given.
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There's tons of charities, the government steals money off our paychecks. Why isn't that problem solved, then? So much private and public money thrown at the issue, how would a different system improve on that?
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It's not WW3. Only one country is on one side.
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The Odessa fire was started by molotovs thrown from inside the building. You can see on video the moment someone throws a flaming object at a closed window by mistake and starts a fire inside.
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They had to ask Iran for drones because Orlan-10s are sensitive to EW.
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They're breaching lines and taking the high ground to get the recon advantage and nullify the attack helicopters.
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How do you feel about guzzling Russian propaganda straight from the tap?
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@matthabir4837 Flat earthers are the ones claiming Russia is right and the West destroyed the pipelines.
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 @sainterasmus4545 the problem is that Desert Tech has a lot of issues, they can barely make their rifles civilian ready so them getting a military contract is a debacle ready to happen
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"no losses" tons of POWs and dead
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@mikemorrison270 don't ask questions, just take vaccine and get excited for ext vaccine
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The cartridge is the best part, though.
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You got Bosnia and Serbia confused, Botski.
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@owen-trombone 1. North Korea was nearly defeated until China intervened. The South Korean territory was still a net positive, the Chinese losses prevented Mao from invading Taiwan, and Mao's son perishing in the conflict prevented a Mao dynasty. 2. North Vietnam accepted the peace conditions and then waited for a couple of years to invade again. At that point the political turmoil caused by Watergate made intervention a political faux pas.
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@owen-trombone 3. Iraq was defeated twice under Saddam and under new leadership Iraq was an allied nation in the fight against ISIS. How is that a loss? 4. The Taliban like North Vietnam signed a treaty and broke it once the US left. The Taliban defeated the ANA, not the US.
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@jaybosher6144 sex workers
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"Stay away from 3d printed guns" - No. "You might as well lern how to stamp sheet metal parts" - You're not staping parts at home. Bending flats? Sure. Stamping? You ain't getting that type of press inside a home. "By this time, you should have enough money to buy yourself a lathe, a mill" - How do you get those on the 6th floor of an Asian/European apartment building?
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The Coperan.
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She's not a "loved one" she was also a warmonger and war crimes denier.
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Not really?
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@outlawfly664 They aren't. Air power is absolutely decisive in modern warfare, Ukraine shows what happens when neither side has air superiority focus.
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@outlawfly664 Air superiority is defined by the ability to conduct air operations without strong enemy air power resistance. By definition you NEED air power to use air power. If you haven't noticed. It's not obsolete in any way. Air power beats air defenses. Remember in 2018 when B-1 bombers used standoff weapons in Syria? The S-300s couldn't stop them. Ukraine showed that without air power, you are forced into a painful exchange in artillery fires.
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@outlawfly664 "they are not as cost effective any longer (an important issue)" - They are extremely cost effective. Air power can hit the rear areas of enemies, cripple their logistics, take out command and control, etc. Doing that with ground forces only is extremely costly because you'll lose men and materiel doing those missions. "The unit prices are overwhelmingly large" - Extremely cheap compared to the men and vehicles you lose on a ground war. "and are vulnerable to most modern air defense systems" - The other way around. Defense systems are destroyed with aerial SEAD campaigns. Which is why the US gave Ukraine HARMs. 90s HARMs, by the way. The next generation HARM will have an even better seeker and longer range. "you also need airbases or aircraft carriers to operate them which are very vulnerable to modern accurate missile attack (ballistic and cruise missiles)" - The craters seen in satellite imagery show that half the missile strikes on Ukrainian air bases missed the runway. Runway attacks are also temporary, there's a reason purpose built anti-runway weapons often deployed AP mines to threaten the engineering works to repair the surface. "Hence why i see why Iran isn't investing heavily in modernizing its fleet even though Russia offers them their su-35 series, or China offers them J-10s etc." - Maybe that's just because Iran doesn't want to go bankrupt. Is Iran the smartest country in the world? Because you're just admitting that Russians and the Chinese see a future in aircraft. But Iran doesn't. Are you saying Iran is the wisest country or just use Iran as your example for everything?
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If you don't care then we could just run a program to repeat frames. No need to buy a video card.
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The French resistance accomplished very little. Not only were many groups former criminals or politically motivated goons amassing weapons for future conflicts, those willing to do real work were often scared to do anything due to reprisals so they waited for British agents to give them the green light. Want a real resistance? Wendell Fertig's leadership in the Philippines against the Japanese.
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It's always evolving. That's what viruses do. You're already letting it turn into a social credit score. Piece of paper? Tracking apps and QR codes. Lucky you that your country is using paper.
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@diegesis6791 I didn't assume you were a foreigner, you lunatic. In my country we are given a physical card but we're supposed to switch to the government app. So I simply said I'm glad that in your country you can just use the card. "viruses mutate but only evolve if they overcome our immune system" - What a bunch of BS. Evolution is simply genetic changes creating something different. It doesn't have to overcome the immune system, in fact things can evolve to become weaker. Evolution doesn't mean something getting better, in fact in some cases evolution creates things that are worse. Like the animals that have teeth that don't stop growing and eventually curl back into the skull if they don't break off. "that's what they're trying to prevent with the vaccine" - But it only prevents hospitalization. If that's what they were trying, they need to try again. "I don't mind a social credit score as long as it's only for the vaccine" - Yeah and have you thought that maybe things start that way? To get us used to them?
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@diegesis6791 I'm the one "losing it" but you're the one offended at someone saying they live in a different country than you. Projection at its finest. "is a virus that is more adapted to its environment so right now for our situation’s sake evolution means adapting better" - Which means becoming less deadly so that it can transmit further without being detected. The problem is solving itself. "So trust me when I say vaccine doesn’t only prevent hospitalization -or don’t trust me. Natural selection." - You're not "trustworthy" compared to the authorities that have admitted you're still transmissible. So as it stands, it's only something that protects you, not others. Especially since someone visibly sick will be isolated, while someone with suppressed symptoms will be going out and about infecting everyone. You also don't understand how natural selection works. It's amazing how you people don't even understand the concepts you talk about. You people act like eugenicists, but then forget that eugenics was even supposed to do.
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@diegesis6791 You're the one challenging convention here. You're the one who needs to publish the article stating the vaccinated to not spread.
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@LaikaTheG None of that changes what I said. People like to swing their peen around and claim they caused significant emotional events, but to the people on the receiving end it probably didn't make the top 5 of the day.
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@sometoastxd Air defense is always active when any Ivan or Yuri can swing around a 14.5mm or Igla and ruin your day. No massive amount of electronic warfare can help you with the fact that the ground guys are much closer to you than your support is. Electronic warfare isn't going to jump in front of you to take a bullet.
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@linusa2996 So what? What matters is that the tanks died. If they got killed at night, they don't fight the next day. You don't need to hang around if you do the job right in the first place.
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@linusa2996 And BDA isn't iffy when done visually during combat?
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@mikeswingle8218 If 60% of the public is gonna croak from any opportunistic infection, something went really wrong with society.
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@DrOstentorious The trash replies are mostly true, sorry man but you publicly defended a person in an area he absolutely cannot be defended. What did you expect?
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Sure. Is it going to work? No. Russia still gave up Kherson. The infrastructure attacks are not delaying the inevitable.
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@springbloom5940 Don't know what's that supposed to mean. Russia has attempted to break Ukraine's will and they keep getting pushed out of Ukrainian land. Now they're setting up defenses for Crimea. Hell of a 3 day special operation.
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Bottom line: the population of the fake statelets is either dying or living in poverty, and Russia cannot afford to assimilate them like they did to Crimea.
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"then we would have the same demand shocks that we had to economy" - tough to prove.
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@TheJustina102085 No, I am telling you that a small and poor nation can have F-16s. Ukraine can too.
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@TheJustina102085 Training started a year ago.
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Parachutes are a way to recover drones so you can skip the complex landing in an unmanned system. It was a recon drone, so it wasn't a mass attack.~ Just think a little harder.
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"UH OH, SISTERS"
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No, I'm not working together with the people who shot Duncan Lemp during his sleep.
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@discomikeyboy2012 Extremely convenient that Russian intervention in Ukraine actually sent pro-Ukraine Ukrainians towards the Western part of the country - not only ensuring that future elections would be skewed towards the pro-EU and pro-NATO side, but also making sure that conflict between government forces and separatist forces would mostly harm ethnic Russians as the people who identify as Ukrainians fled. Isn't that what we'd call selective pressure? The Baltic states aren't using their military against ethnic Russians because there hasn't been a separatist movement and sub-consequent Russian intervention to carve up their countries. If they had done that, they'd be fighting.
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@Ed Bait Dragonskin was awful and the company that made it actually commited fraud by selling armor that was not NIJ rated to the military.
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@drewwreds6934 Chicago wasn't the size it was today and the liftings were done pieacemeal.
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 @RageQuitSon is this the whataboutism that came up during Vaush's tax folder debacle?
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@clikclikboom123 lmao
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I'm sure Vaush would somehow outmaneuver Styx but he definitely wouldn't explain anything worthwhile.
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@awatt It is if we're discussing guns.
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But it isn't.
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Because none have been made in decades, so they'd have to be re-engineered from scratch to adapt them to modern factories and processes. It contributes by supporting forces that won't get jets, helicopters or artillery support otherwise.
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Kasparov is against Putin and pro-Ukraine.
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@LastOne155 What do you mean the Western ways? Gravity doesn't work differently in the East. Particle physics don't work differently in the East. The sun shines during the day in the East. Many things are true and independent of perspective. Yes, what you're saying is a cope. Russia failed at its objectives, and so save face tells itself those were never the real objectives. I'm not saying you support Russia. I'm saying you're buying into their narrative. Russia is not unhinged. But it is fallible. Russia may have reasons to do things. But it can be unreasonable. One can be rational. And still commit baffling mistakes. If you take rational decisions based on flawed data and untested assumptions, you look no better.
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@LastOne155 The tying up resources line doesn't make any sense. The territorial defense units and the mobilization ensured that the Southeast would still be defended by a sufficient number of army units. Basically, the feint was completely worthless as it didn't save the Southeast from the slugfest we've seen. Secret plan? It was painfully obvious. The shock and awe of the initial strike was meant to decapitate the political and military command and control, and an air bridge to Hostomel was supposed to have been available right in the opening hours. Thanks to misses and dud rates, the Ukrainian military actually managed to stay alive and react, and the territorial defense unit that came face to face with the VDV at Hostomel managed to repel their attack until the Russians reinforced, by which point the airfield was too damaged to be useful. It's completely transparent to anyone paying attention to what was actually being attempted in the first night. I think it's amazing how you people operate. You believe in the Kiev Feint because Russians use deception in their warfare, but then act like they're brutally honest in their assessments. That's weird and cynical. Russia is not Western, but their first night showed an attempt to mimic the shock and awe of American opening salvos.
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@LastOne155 The point is that gains and losses are measurable. The Russian military crippled itself with that tactic. That's not the "Russian way of war", that's called a "mistake". Mistakes are understandable. Having tactics that cause as much losses as a mistake but bring no measurable gain is just insanity.
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Nvidia literally makes the hardware to do AI computing. They put the AI hardware on video cards. This is AI. Watch Nvidia's conference, they said "AI" like 30 times. Algorithms is stuff like checkerboard rendering. This isn't it.
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@H.G.Halberd "with less gun deaths violent deaths would go down too" - But the Honduras and El Salvador had miniscule gun ownership rates and obscene gun homicide rates. The argument that "less guns means less gun deaths" fails the simple logical test - by distilling gun ownership to the worst members of society, you've ensured that the most violent, hardened criminals are the only ones who have them. And worst of all, almost nobody can legally defend themselves. Now people say "oh but this is only valid on third world sh!tholes" but let's face it, a lot of gun violence in America happens in places that aren't that much different from Rio, Ciudad Juarez or Caracas.
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@Stephan__1988 That's not consolation for those who lost a loved one. Also, most people's guns have never killed anyone.
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@Knightlyfrog firearms used to be completely hand-fitted with no regard for tolerancing. It will blow up if you get it wrong. Just don't get it wrong. Tolerancing comes into play when you're trying to make parts that are interchangeable and you're supposed to finish the parts without even needing to have the host guns to make sure they fit.
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@sithwolf8017 Where did he get the money?
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@sithwolf8017 How would he know who to bribe? I've never talked to anyone but nameless, faceless people through email while dealing with YouTube.
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They didn't hold back. They shot missiles at the capital and levelled Mariupol. Citizens to join? They took citizens into alleys and basements and shot them.
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@jaksmith6465 "Why would Germans need to incorporate their old guns into their prototypes ?" - Why would they overcomplicate with the StG 44 if they were able to just take the Garand system? Or the real question, why would the Soviets need help copying the Garand? Why would Soviets need Germans to incorporate a Garand system into their prototype? "Saying the AK is not like the STG therefore Germans didnt make it, is some seriously weak ass thinking." - But it isn't, because it essentially removes the Germans from the equation. If there was evidence that the weapon was based on the German design, you could make the claim Germans were involved but it can't be proven. Okay, we'd never know but at least it's an hypothesis. The fact that the weapon is essentially different makes the presence of the Germans unnecessary to explain its existence. "The AR15 is nothing like an M1Garand So should we assume that is Russian too ?" - But we know the AR-15's history. And we know that Jim Sullivan and other engineers assisted in its design because it was a reworking of the AR-10, an American weapon from an American designer we knew to be employed at Armalite. So there was no Russian presence required for the AR-15.
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Ukraine captured in a week what Russia captured in a month.
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@leodefine86 Yeah and Russia brags about capturing Pisky for the 8th freaking time. Meanwhile the Kupyansk railway junction is gonna be under AFU reach. Have fun.
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@bvnshee6749 I mean getting no tail in a culture that allows polygamy is what drives men to blow themselves up, not go on the internet and say everything's fine.
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@AbeTweakin the left seemed awfully quiet during the Obama years and they also excuse Soviet brutality. Just saying, not to get all centrist, bjt the left doesn't care about injustice, they care about the right upholding injustice. Anyone else does it, they show up with excuses.
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Safety precaution - there is a system that pumps inert gas into the fuel tanks to prevent fires. There's a fear that the one in a million lighting strike will cause an explosion. The piping has cracks so until further notice there's restrictions.
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There was an actual war in Georgia in 2008.
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 @JosephTobin1 Iran got BTFOd here my man
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They're scams like the hitman websites. You only know the dark web from watching TV dramas.
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@peteredimo9420 in his mind
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@phantom8926 Yes? Without double-jeopardy, the state could simply put you through trial again and again until they got the result they wanted. Or just try and bankrupt you with lawyer fees.
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@alxfonso4924 What does that have to do with the topic? The point is that double-jeopardy secures that save for mistrial or whatever, the state can't simply call a mulligan and keep sending you to trial until they get a guilty verdict.
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@LeviKerrison They did it as vanity projects. Instead of actually improving the living conditions they wasted resources on heated pools. Fun fact, there was one built near a library and the humidity from the hot water started to ruin the books and they had to complain.
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@andreafalconiero9089 Ukraine captured the T-80s from the 1st Guards Tank Army. The Ukrainian 93rd Mechanized fought the premier tank unit Russia had and beat them so hard in Kharkiv they abandoned tanks. Now the 93rd uses Russian tanks to hunt the Russian soldiers. Ukraine also received updated T-72s from Poland and the T-55s are no longer T-55s. They have upgrades that bring them to 1990s standard - 105mm NATO gun, ERA, laser sensors and automatic smoke deployment, more powerful engine.
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@falcoperegrinus82 There's a low amount of blimps still operational due to the prohibitive cost of helium.
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I didn't show up late to work, I had a "temporal disability".
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Conscripts are called twice a year in Russia. They're not "building up" 135,000 additional troops - some conscripts will end their obligations and be replenished by fresh recruits.
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@TheMarineGamerIGGHQ "Logistical support doesn't require much brain. Just money" uuuhhhhhhhhhh.... what? No brains just money is piss poor logistics because you'll keep buying the wrong things. Logistical support requires a lot of brains.
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@TheMarineGamerIGGHQ stop strawmanning. You literally claimed that logistics doesn't take brains when it's one of the most crucial aspects of strategy so you have no right to claim anyone else is coming off a desperate.
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@TheMarineGamerIGGHQ my dude you're so buttmad arguing with Americans you had to resort to calling logistics something that can be done with money and no brain. I think that it's important for outsiders to point out when you're lashing out rather than actually debating the point at hand.
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@TheMarineGamerIGGHQ no, you didn't. You pointed out that logistics can be solved with money and no brains as a way to mock Americans.
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@TheMarineGamerIGGHQ amazing lol you're the one making wrong assumptions about people's nationalities and it's me who has to change his behaviour.
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 @reubensandwich9249 we trust CNN now?
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They'd just claim the psychiatrist is working for the government.
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Putin said the collapse of the union was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century. Their tanks still fly Soviet banners into battle.
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That's not true.
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@Siveth-ff3jy "MUH RUSSIA REEEEEE"
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No, it isn't. The awful person who claimed that ran a scam in which he was pumping out studies with CDC money. He was one of the people responsible for the republican bill that banned giving money to studies that promote gun control. When he was asked for the data he refused to share. When he finally caved in and released the truncated data he also admitted the chances are lower. His study is flawed as it is plagued with reverse causation, he didn't prove guns at home get you killed, he proved that getting killed by a gun was associated with keeping a gun at home. He only proved what we know, that people living in dangerous areas might want to keep a gun.
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Not really. If anything, more production capacity will be devoted to the new ammo.
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"there even are socialists who are okay with the right to own property" - then they're not socialists and should seek a different ideology "by mixing all the socialists together under the evil imagery" - it's only fair, considering how all the socialists who seized control put murderers in power for some reason
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>against a line of submarines 60 miles off shore Why would they fight against submarines? They're on water. >nuclear missiles Why would a tyrant want a country with no people to rule and poisoned by fallout? Only like 25% of the Marines would take part on going against gun owners, and let's not even mention that Oathkeepers around the country would probably shoot that minority before they left the base. The point of an armed populace is that nobody with a brain wants to fight them.
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 @nathanielchieffallo4273 Peer review isn't the silver bullet you think it is.
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@nathanielchieffallo4273 Well, we have undeniable evidence that lying scientists passed through peer review. The problem isn't who is or isn't lying. It's the claim that lies are stopped by peer review. They aren't.
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They're made with most of the structure being fiberglass, they're smaller than a manned plane, and they essentially have a motorcycle engine which puts out limited IR. They're difficult to detect, and when you detect them they're difficult to track. There's a reason everyone in the arms business is chasing the anti-drone market, conventional anti air isn't extremely effective.
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You say that as if "wazzaaaap?" and "mah wife" weren't huge back in the day.
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 @thebaldidiot You're the one who said "Israel attacks Gaza" rather than say "Hamas attacks Israel".
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@jimhunter5797 you mean the same government that struggles with rice farmers and goat hearders?
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@jimhunter5797 exactly. It's too much data to analyze. It has come out that the NRA PRISM overloads them with false positives and allows terrorists to slip through.
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Making guns is legal.
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Harvesting 1 component from one machine means you lose that machine for every component sourced. Buying 100 components off the shelf gives you a lot of missiles. Russia disabling their economy by stripping components out of all their industries to make weapons is a perfectly acceptable outcome.
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You'd rather them send Tigers or Panthers?
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Russia started it by invading in 2014.
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Tuning fork effect when the bolt slams into the barrel and the vibrations reach the flash hider.
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"It's generally accepted as ok to print money as long as its termed Quantitive Easing and its distributed through banks" - Of course it's been generally accepted. Doesn't make it right.
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@danielallan8061 Mediazona is an absolute lower bound. They look for obituaries and social media posts. The guy I watched get droned just now is lying in the mud. Nameless. It might take months for his death to be confirmed and his family to post the obituary.
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@Salty_Balls They're looking for CONFIRMATION in obituaries or social media posts. If your family doesn't use social media and you die, Mediazona can't count you. 257k isn't "European media", it's a Turkish rag quoting a fake Mossad document.
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He didn't say anything about the working class.
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The victim mentality is hilarious.
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@ilovethisworld3059 places not under Kremlin control
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Germany, Japan, Italy, France and the UK are better places to live than Russia. How exactly was it fatal to them to be allied with the US?
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Hey remember when you guys tried to have a war against the whole world, twice? Back to back World War champs, baby.
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The US was assisting South Vietnam, also Vietnam invaded Cambodia, Iraq was rebuilt and helped when ISIS came, Afghanistan was given a democratic government thrown away by corruption, the Serbs were comitting genocide in Kosovo, Syria and Libya have/had madmen leaders who show no mercy to their own people.
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If you want to shoot steel get something tuned for steel. Depending on the conditions steel case rifle ammo can have insufficient port pressure, that's a result of the cost cutting measures. If you want to shoot improper spec ammo, you have to make sure you're tuned for the "improper spec". So yes, something tuned for brass deserves the brass.
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Uncharted waters? But Soviets sent weapons to North Vietnam.
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 @Le_Dislike_Button how is a defensive missile going to be used against you? Do you tend to fly at suprsonic speeds through the air?
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@healthymealthy775 the leak states Ukraine suffered 17k KIA while Russia suffered 43k KIA and 180k wounded. If you saw anything else, it was photoshopped. You can see the font isn't consistent or aligned properly.
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@healthymealthy775 Literally go back to where you saw it and read again. You'll see the pixels and bad font usage.
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Pulled an Ace Combat 7 on them. Imagine being the guy who had to report this to Putin.
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They're old and vulnerable to defenses. Most of the damage they dealt was to less competent Iraqi army units who prefered to run away over fighting. The Iraqi Republican Guard was better equipped and loyal to Saddam so they shot down a handful of A-10s. The US stopped sending them in missions against those units. Against Russia, even if the front line is full of demoralized mobiks, behind them there's motivated army units willing to fire missiles at airplanes. Ukraine already has a Warthog anyway - it's called Su-25 Frogfoot.
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In America there's the term "glown***ers" which means CIA or an undercover federal agent.
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 @kthec1298 They have only escalated with tantrum attacks on civilians.
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@kthec1298 Nope. There were almost no deaths from 2016-2021. And most casualties were from accidents with mines and UXO, not shelling.
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@SB-jg1ph lmao what a cope, Biden is openly betraying you and you say it's for your own good
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The SAA lost its best fighters and has a severe competency problem. There's also an issue with corruption and finances as their troops were getting shafted on pay and food rations.
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The court can't bring the sailors back to life...
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Registries don't mean shit. If he had taken a registered weapon, the only point at which it would matter would be when he's already in custody and the weapon introduced into the evidence locker. A number and a name in a computer doesn't do anything.
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They're having a prolonged peak right now. It's not making the bell curve.
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Anyone still using the M14 should have their commanding officer put through court martial, those things started getting replaced years ago. The DMR conversion of M14s was an absolutely clustertruck and cost more than just buying new 7. 62 rifles.
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@budisutanto5987 I know it was replaced as the main rifle, my point is that even as a DMR it was officially replaced years ago. There were factory-standard M14s in service but there was a push to actually field it as a DMR because the whole point of bringing 7.62 rifles was extending the range. This means the standard M14 wouldn't cut it, and the military revisited the whole M21 ordeal with the EBR program. Not only did they mount it on a chassis that needed a proper torque spec and could not be disassembled in the field or else the accuracy went out the window - and many armorers were not warned of this issue so the first thing they did when the weapons were shipped to them was disassemble them and clean them - they also issued the cheapest scope they could find and meet criteria. I also heard that the scope reticle was doped for a 7.62 round that was no longer in inventory but this is he said she said insider information I could never independently verify. This whole insanity that anyone with a memory longer than a goldfish would have predicted ended up costing more than just buying new 7.62 rifles to issue as DMRs.
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@budisutanto5987 The reason was that enemy forces quickly realized that they couldn't fight Americans within 500 yards, so they started using PKs which fire 7.62x54R rather than x39 like the AK does. 7.62 gets defeated by body armor too at range. Bullpups are getting phased out. The French replaced their FA-MAS by a HK 416 and the New Zealanders got a LMT-made AR to replace the AUG.
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@budisutanto5987 What? That doesn't make any sense. Level I? Bullpups came in DECADES ago, during the Cold War even.
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@budisutanto5987 it's not in service that I know of, it's also built by a company that is associated with a cult under suspicion of child abuse and welfare fraud.
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@budisutanto5987 I have heard good things of the RDB but I'm sure you'll find the chances of a Kel-tec firearm entering service are pretty low.
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Russia does not have more manpower. Ukraine is conscripting men. The influx of new recruits guarantees that Russia cannot outnumber Ukraine unless they declare mobilization.
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Their own people admit 10-15% are believers.
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@gulbones5687 Andrey Dyachenko
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@Facts don't care about your Feelings how is it stick to point out the obvious? Nearly every country on earth with a social security system has a problem where population is ageing.
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@thomasgerber1472 So two insurgencies, a fight against Georgia where they had no strategic depth to bleed the Russians like Ukraine and they had a few thousand combat infantry deployed in the GWOT, and a war where FSB/PMCs/spec ops learned to fight while many in the regular army remained clueless. Veterans of the Donbass war at the start of the invasion were driving around in cars and shouting at the Russian army that their columns were easily shelled by Grads and they had to disperse and hide.
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Post Avdiivka waste heap.
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@SathminChamindu Russia lost more in the Avdiivka offensive than Ukraine did in the entire Zaporizhzhia offensive.
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+Coda Mission except that the accessory is only meant to give you shouldering abilities. The basis behind bump firing is letting the gun recoil, which you can't do with a stock in a fixed position if you're shouldering the weapon. The "fire rate" is inherent to the gun itself. All the bump stock does is provide enough clearance for the gun to reciprocate with the stock remains fixed in your shoulder/cheek. Your way of interpreting it bans all semi-automatic firearms (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V05qvyXAu8 even pistols) because the ability to match automatic fire is inherent to the operating cycle. All a semi-automatic does is use a disconnector to interrupt the automatic function, and the cycle is typically faster than a human finger releasing the trigger - by "bumping" a gun you're just resetting the disconnector as fast as possible to allow the sear to release the hammer/striker.
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So Russia wastes their only strategy trying to destroy one Patriot while their army loses on the battlefield. We'll jus send a new one. A wild goose chase while Russian men become am endangered species.
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 @danielallan8061 Ukraine is covering a huge frontline and the border with Belarus and Transnitsia. They need more men than the fighting requires.
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No, you'd set up a defense prior to attack.
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+Roe so you wanted Conor, someone who was always in danger of gassing out, to throw more power shots? Jesus Christ you people never complain about Mayweather's love taps, it's hit and not get hit, but when Conor is scoring he's doing it wrong because he didn't fuck up Mayweather's face.
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Would you rather dive 50 feet and collect the pieces, or have to dig across Montana?
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@brookcodyprice Forensic data recovery is pretty good. If you want to hide something from the authorities, you'd be better off writing the disc several times over than trying to destroy it physically.
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Ironically Azeris are in good terms with Israel and Armenia is in good terms with Iran. Religion is kind of an afterthought. Azerbaijan has Azeris living in northern Iran and have a desire to seize land from them. Iran has then a common enemy with Armenia.
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@pccalcio "without heat plums" - You can see the heat plume on video. "rotating on themselves" - That's the gimbaled optics rotating to maintain track. "goin through multiple mediums, air and water, seamlessly without displacing water" - This is not on video.
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@pccalcio I have. Both Thunderf00t and Mick West have debunked the claims.
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@pccalcio Mick West has shown how the plume ends up looking like a glare at distance. Mind that years ago his site Metabunk was able to identify the Chilean UFO as a commercial flight that was 60 miles away.
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@skepsisrollins1711 We can't crack open the brains of the eyewitnesses to get their footage from the Eyeball Mark 1 Mod 0. The best we have is the footage captured by the pods. It is explained by basic geometry. If you had an argument, you'd make the calculations and explain why. You can't debunk the debunking so you resort to attacking people's credibility. Again, if these people had no credibility, you'd be able to disprove them in minutes. Nobody ever does this. Meanwhile, eyewitness testimony is known to be unreliable. I'll trust the recorded footage over people, sorry.
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@pccalcio No, I trust geometry and elementary school maths. Again, notice how you went straight for the Strawman Argument. You're just admitting you have no other argument. Or you simply never made it through elementary school. Pick your poison. Fighter pilot commander David Fravor already exposed himself for having a huge ego and thinking he's infallible. I trust the calculations over a person who gets angry when questioned and also can't understand the elementary school geometry.
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@pccalcio There's no champion here, only maths. Debunk the calculations. "as if he could give a more trustworty testimony" - There's no testimony, only calculations. Debunk them if you can. "rather than a first-hand encounter of a fighter pilot commander" - Who when questioned about West's analysis, he started huffing and puffing instead of debunking the calculations. He was a fighter pilot, he should understand elementary school maths. "and of the entire radar and sensors crew" - Do we have that radar data publicly released? "Then you resort to high school bullying." - You're the one bullying everyone who doubts the story. You have no standing here. Still waiting on those calculations.
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@pccalcio "an entire squadron" - Of which only two have come forward in interviews to give their testimony, correct me if I'm wrong. "and then reviewed video footage and radar footage" - By the way the radar data was obtained right after a radar upgrade. The 0.78 second drop from 80,000 feet to 50 feet would also create a massive sonic boom and thermal signature (space shuttles entered the atmosphere at mach 26 and they burned through heat shield tiles in the process) that was not detected by any other sensors. Radar glitches would explain it. Additionally the phenomenon entering water at high speed would have created massive cavitation that would be detected by a submarine that was nearby. "here you talk about a dude who's a debunker for a living, that based his debunk on the interpretation of a video" - Because it's what we have available. If you had no video, you'd dismiss eyewitnesses as unreliable. You've seen footage, now they might have a point. What happens when the footage is explainable? Back to square one. "without training" - Yes, the massive amounts of training it takes to draw a few triangles to prove a point about perspective.
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@pccalcio "tens of testimonies have been registered." - Only four people were involved in Fravor's flight. I need those other two's description of the events. "after resetting the radar" - Resetting doesn't make errors go away by magic. "A possible radar malfunctions has been therefore ticked off." - No. There's multiple errors that do not go away with a reset. "you have military officials talking on TV to urge a more in depth investigation, you just don't want to look at it as information" - Again, the Chilean military was unable to identify a UFO that Mick West and the people at Metabunk were able to identify as an airliner 60 miles away. Military officers don't know what they don't know. "do you really want to compare the training of a debunker" - No, I'm mocking the fact that an elementary school kid can understand the principles involved. I'm not comparing, I'm mocking. Because frankly it's embarrassing. "with the training a fighter pilot has to go through" - They're not trained to know what they don't know. Again, UFO footage has been solved by nerds on the internet that the military couldn't solve. Being trained to fly against other aircraft doesn't make someone an expert at identifying things they've never seen. "so in a trial, a direct testimony has no value, right" - You do realize that the more we understand about the topic the less eyewitness testimony is considered credible, right? You've seen the test where witnesses asked about the velocity of a car that rammed another at 30 mph said they witnessed a 60 mph car crash simply by changing the phrasing of the question, right? Simple words can make people misremember their memories. "I'm having fun XD" - No I'm having fun because it's amazing how you still haven't debunked elementary school math, a former fighter pilot embarrassed himself because he can't debunk elementary school math so his only response is getting angry on Lex Friendman's podcast, you think that pilots are superhumans and they're trained to identify every single object or phenomena and that eyewitness testimony hasn't been scientifically tested to have massive problems with how reliable it is. The more this goes on the more it shows you're afraid of checking the calculations. Mick West's math is available for anyone to debunk and you're all unable to fight him with actual evidence so you have to engage with strawmen, Ad Hominem and Appeal to Authority fallacies. I'm the one having fun because it shows how many people are afraid of numbers.
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Putin can't back out. All the hardliners and Russin nationalists Putin riled up to get support for the war will turn against him.
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@upyall many moved onto the libertarian party, which went to shit after Gary Johnson's campaign after he picked a non-libertarian running mate, started agreeing with non-libertarian ideals and made himself look like an idiot with the Aleppo gaffe. I'd assume many died, because that shit started more than a decade ago and plenty of them were old people. In the end a lot of us became full blown anarchists and reject politics entirely.
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 @chasemurphy2 so to secure a future for Europeans he decided to wipe out West Slavs to make room for Germans...
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 @reredrumuoy Is Julius Ceasar hated today? He genocided millions but nobody cares. Time heals all wounds as they say. The same will happen to other historical figures.
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>Sandy Hook where the weapons were acquired legally >killing own mother >legal Protip: don't use the words "sensible" or "common sense" before "control" or "laws". We're used to insane laws being called that. Anders Breivik, The Columbine shooters and John Holmes: all of them made explosives. Being illegal is not a hurdle. Passing laws using mass shootings (a small fraction of gun violence) will not affect most of gun murders and will only become a hurdle to law abiding citizens.
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Problem is, McCarthy was right.
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My rock that repels tigers is working because there's no tigers around me.
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@sam4weapons It's essentially the fallacy of attributing an effect to a cause. Same thing is said about Australia. The thing is, both Australia and New Zealand had some shootings in the 90s. They sort of stopped at the same time. But Australia passed gun laws in 1997, while New Zealand only reacted after Christchurch. So the claim that Australian laws were the driving factor would require New Zealand to keep having shootings in the late 90s and 2000s. If a mass shooter wanted to go on a rampage, he could still use a shotgun certificate to get a powerful weapon. Maybe even modify the magazine tube to hold more shells. So it's difficult to attribute a cause to the new laws.
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It just involved banging a jet against it.
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It would be quickly found out. A dud left on the field or a cellphone picture would betray the origin the second it entered Ukraine.
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Thanks, where did you get your psychology degree?
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He has in a video he did with idubbbz.
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Because of bias, if a wall works a border patrol agent will say it doesn't because he fears his job position disappearing, if it doesn't work he could probably say it does just for the extra funding.
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@ant3352 then it's seems to be that the thing that's actually working is the manpower, not the wall itself.
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It's not a civil war. It's genocide. Russia has attempted to eliminate Ukrainians several times through centuries. They've bombed civilians since day 1.
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 @Marvin-dg8vj It's not about friends, it's about mutual enemies.
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Imagine I posted the .gif of Indiana Jones pulling his gun on the guy trying to knife fight.
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@david126691 You said it was a low cost measure and that they did the heavy lifting. Do you understand how that is contradicted? PMCs were expensive to employ, and did almost nothing to contribute to the military aspect of the conflict.
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Fake news lmao.
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They're advertising the capability to do 4x multiplier. It's misleading.
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How did the market emitt radar energy for the HARM to lock into?
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@thedragon133 Not when they yaw and travel sideways.
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"Nobody really cares unless it makes them uncomfortable." - Don't make it uncomfortable by robbing me of half a million dollars I can't get back because insurance won't cover riots. That happened to someone. Or a man dies trying to stop a TV from being stolen. That happened to someone. "It’s unfortunate that the government needs to see the populace boil over before they realize things need to change" - But that's not what happens. Change is wanted, but can't be justified, until a riot becomes the crisis that can't go to waste. You actually think the government serves the people?
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Should the US have lost the Revolutionary War just because the French were helping them to fight the British?
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How did they break the encryption, then?
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The word "allegations" has a new meaning. Like, I'm not beating the autism allegations. I'm not beating the poor allegations.
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False. Countries will not draft on expeditionary missions. Only in invasion.
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@Jordan-lr4bi Germany only started WWII as a consequence of WWI, which was in itself provoked by belligerent empires. You can't use war to justify ending situations that were started by warfare.
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@svampebob007 "I can't even imagine being so angry at the government that I'd be willing to go out in the street and fight for justice" - God I wish that were me. Look into the people who were forced to stay in quarantine hotels due to travel restrictions, and the government-hired security guards raped women and girls in the rooms. Look into the authorities in Australia that executed shelter dogs so that families wouldn't come pick them up. Sorry for forcing the pill down your throat. But we need angry people.
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Using the NRA as an argument doesn't invalidate anyone's personal beliefs, a lot of gun owners do not support the NRA, even though they need the numbers to help gun rights. Mate...
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Dunning Kruger life was always horrible. Wages have nothing to do with it.
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Kherson was not a rapid advance.
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@colinsanders9397 That's "funny", I was just replaying GTA IV and on the radio news you hear about fake dollar bills coming from Asia. In one mission you end up helping a boat bring in the counterfeit bills, but it's actually Koreans doing it.
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Bro we already saw the mobilized men KIA a week after mobilization was announced. They're not hiding for a surprise. They've already been filmed getting beat by their own superiors, or stuck inside holes in the ground as punishment.
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@jamesduncan6729 Ukraine is being invaded. Russia burned through their professional military and needs reservists.
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@SovereignTroll There were no graphite tips. There were CONTROL rods and MODERATOR rods. The graphite was the moderator. It wasn't a "tip". It was a core part of the design. "Graphite tips" were the HBO show's way of explaining it to the layman.
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The underlying tech is what bitcoin and ethereum are built on. The problem is that it takes time and luck to make money off established coins. So people create coins to scam. There isn't a freaking "project", there's coins meant to be used as actual coins and can be used as such, and coins that are made for rug pulling and have no utility at all.
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@Pengochan "gobbled up" - this is Russia's own fault by driving so many former Soviet states away.
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 @Siempre1978 No HIMARS have been destroyed and they drive close to the frontline. The Patriot will be in the heart of Ukraine, protected by Buks, S-300s, MIM-23 Hawks, IRIS-T and NASAMS.
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Obsessed.
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 @artair70 The mutiny between quotation marks, as if they didn't kill the guy responsible.
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Irrigation water was blocked by Ukraine years ago, it was only unblocked by Russia last year.
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Hello? They have to strip search you to find the tags in the skin. Or are you going to use the same sweater for a couple of weeks after the riots?
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@Spyegle Here's shooting competitions in France: /watch?v=mGRmfyCUM44 /watch?v=IoQWyd85uY8 Don't even try to lecture me.
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How the fudge does CEO v floor sweeper wage disparity drive gun violence? Oh let me guess this was "proven" by the same academics who say owning a gun makes people a brazillion times more likely to die.
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Hospital staff: "I don't recall saying good luck"
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If someone starts running at me and I lift my foot, it's like I kicked them in the face even though I didn't move an inch.
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The issue is that now the course can be made too expensive or hard to complete. In Japan that's how they do it, they require commitment to participate in classes and tests during the week days, so that the average Japanese salaryman who barely takes days off due to cultural reasons isn't even going to bother attempting to enroll the classes.
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And when the YangGang stuff got exposed suddenly I saw the rate of memes being created about Andrew Yang drop... Everyone is doing it.
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@pash9956 was there a point to the reply?
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They never intended to make anything stealth, they just liked flying wing designs.
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I defend both freedoms because prohibition isn't the way out. But ask people who want drugs legalized how would they feel about legalizing ALL weapons? Both sides are tremendously picky.
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Yeah, videos of Russians running.
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If the cardboard can be assembled on launch, then operatives can drive around in a van with flat cardboard without raising suspicion.
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A magician always distracts you so he can perform the trick. Are you off your rocker? Constantly teasing an offensive for months masked the start.
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So Russia is a backwards country with 120 years of delay compared to the West?
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It really doesn't. You misunderstand the political and logistical issues for providing training and equipment. From the outside looking in, you arrive at the wrong conclusion.
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@Volfur2251 Engines costing more is kind of offset by Unreal 5 becoming the standard. Fewer studios are making in-house engines.
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@tetraxis3011 You need weapons integration for that. Didn't Chile gun down one of those "civilian militia's navy" with the cannon? They were illegally fishing inside their national waters, naval cannon 1 : fishing vessel that on paper belongs to the PLAN 0.
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There's so much footage it's insane.
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How would they source weapons? With so many being caught by border patrol, weapons and explosives wold be found.
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@angelmarauder5647 A weapon to rob a convenience store? Easy to find. Weapons to outfit a fighting force? Incredibly difficult. There's a reason Polish resistance made their own submachine guns in WW2, and the chuckleheads who went into Venezuela in like 2019 or 2020 brought in ARs rather than trying to source them locally.
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Russia's air defense inside Russia and Belarus can reach inside Ukrainian airspace. It's preferable to have them waste resources trying to shoot down cheap drones then trying to fight on Russia's terms.
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@mhappy01 The siren was ineffective and eventually removed. Troops were startled at first but once the whaling becomes a common occurrence you forget about it.
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How is it a sitting duck? It splashes 4th gen aircraft at a 17 to 1 ratio. Without many missiles? They carry 4 AMRAAMs in the B and C variant, 6 in the F-35A. A flight of 4 F-35As can wipe out 24 enemy fighters in one sortie.
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@texasranger24 Your argument makes no sense. Why would the enemy get that close before taking a shot? He's literally walking into the wolf's den and signing his own death warrant by doing that. Few missiles? Do you think a single enemy pilot wants to dodge 6 AMRAAMs? I don't think they'd win. It would be a draw because of the AIM-9X. Anything the MiG, Sukohi or Eurofighter do, they eat a missile. They may as well take out the F-35, but they will always eat a missile. The F-35 can pull high AoA and take the high off boresight shot no problem, meaning that there's no aircraft in the world that can escape. Not to mention that real life isn't a 1:1 jousting match. An invading force could take out a few F-35s from that starting position, but the rest would start shooting missiles at the confirmed hostiles. There's hundreds of F-35s manufactured and delivered. Who has an air force large enough to deal with that?
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Yeah, because he is black then he obviously fears that the white man is coming for him. We don't need your sort of people here. Fine, even if it's not needed doesn't mean people shouldn't have it. More people are killed by hammers than rifles. It has been deemed to be unconstitutional to ban an entire class of weapons before.
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Why would they need the Harrier? They already have Su-25s.
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Force moves mass. Strength training increases the force recuited out of muscle tissue without increasing mass. I can bench 1.5x my own weight, which means I can move more mass than I have.
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Probably the stuff about the legal age of marriage debunk he did.
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In Portuguese (spoken in Brazil) calling the Gi a "kimono" was extremely common.
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The common sense of "waaa neon green rods waaaa magic rays"?
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@vvcwwc The dragon's teeth did nothing. Russia just mined the entire frontline with several minefields of depth. Basically no country on Earth had devised a strategy against 5 minefields of depth, MICLIC charges can only clear 100-120 meters and the minefields were 500 meters deep. And unlike German generals said, Ukrainians couldn't "go around". Let's have a computer simulation and re-run the Zaporizhzhia offensive, but with zero mines. The Russian lines would have collapsed on contact as Ukrainian armor would reach the trenchlines with almost no losses. The Russian defense was based on mines. The Ka-52s, the artillery, the ATGMs, all relied on armor getting bogged in minefields.
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 @vvcwwc Gracious youtube shadow banned my comment. Dragon's teeth did NOTHING. It was 100% the landmines that stopped the offensive.
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@capitolmobrecords8720 Just breathing of an infected person will put particles in the air. Not disinfecting every single surface you see isn't an "unclean" practice.
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s bright "775 people dead so far, hardly a pandemic" - You do understand that the number grows, right? March 11 there were 38 deaths. March 15 there was 68 deaths. March 17 there were 114. There might be 700 people dead so far, but at point you might be getting 700 dead per day. 10 days ago it was killing less than 700 people a day worldwide. It's killing more than 2000 people per day now.
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@dwaynecoy1871 "Why in the world would these people go to such great lengths to lie to everyone and cause trouble for millions of people if they know it's not true?" - Because the biggest threat of the virus is collapsing the healthcare systems, and thus they need masks for medical personnel. They can deal with more people getting infected down the line, but they can't deal with doctors dying or being knocked out of commission for weeks. "For someone infected with a respiratory virus, wearing a simple surgical mask can help prevent spreading the virus to others, but for healthy people," - People don't know they're infected until symptoms start. You don't actually know if you're "healthy". "but for healthy people, wearing a mask has limited effectiveness" - So it has some effectiveness.
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s bright "The rate of growth has been anemic" - That's how it always appears at the start. And give it two weeks.
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s bright It's not gonna be. The number grows. After all you've seen in Italy, Spain, etc you expect a much larger country to have less problems than them?
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s bright Nobody in the world has a health system that can handle a bad outbreak. New York alone already has 200 deaths. You can't expect shit.
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@capitolmobrecords8720 because the context was the general population being dismissive it wasn't clear you were going back to the origin rather than the spreaders.
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Russia has internal passports.
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Probably got a first class ticket to Aberdeen.
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The Sky Warsen is not meant for modern combat. It's something you fly in Africa to overwatch SOCOM guys and not let them fall into ambushes like that famous one.
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@mrp9498 Can't negotiate with mass murderers and terrorists.
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No, it didn't.
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The only way to stop is for Putin to get the Qaddafi treatment. That will only happen after Ukraine gets all the aid it needs.
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@denism8494 In cases of spying, intelligence agencies have ways around the legal system. For example after 9/11 suspicion of terrorism essentially stripped you away of legal rights.
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@Grastiars1 that was sleight of hand. People used the discretionary spending pie chart to claim defense spending was the biggest slice, but that's just discretionary spending.
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The thing is, the green energies also get subsidies. Geothermal can't be done anywhere because it requires specific geological conditions, wind whacks birds to death, solar obviously doesn't work at night and is weak during winters/at high latitudes. We can't just build dams willy nilly because of the ecological impact of changing the hydrogeology of entire areas. Fossil fuels need to have their subsidies cut but if there's any hope to make things green I don't think you can remove it from nuclear or the green alternatives as they get more research and development.
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Seems like a cope to me.
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"Most wars are won through attrition" - More like, attrition is the end result of a losing war.
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 @gerraldoobrim1018 Why don't you go? Russia is hiring.
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Side characters getting their arc while the main plot stalls so that the writers can come up with a finale that wraps up this season.
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The Chechens do the weird thing where they force prisoners to apologize. The three people shot on video they excused it saying they were artillery officers who targeted civilians, however there's a lot more peoe bleeding or wearing bandages on the floor in the seconds prior.
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Why are you asking people to prove a negative?
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Satellites can provide imagery outside drone range and movements, thermal and synthetic aperture radar.
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 @yjk1037 Atmospheric drag. Also, ballistic missiles come down at near vertical. They hit an apex and fall down.
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@LTS 69 Zelenski has only been president since 2019. It's you who's been living under a rock.
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New ones are being developed. It just costs money and the industry has conglomerated. The F-16 is not better than the JSF. Drone swarms would get shredded by autocannon. Cold war Gepards are splashing drones left and right in Ukraine.
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@harmless6813 But there are. Look up the therapies used in people hospitalized. They make money.
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It's an import. Similar to how the XD was originally a HS2000 from Croatia.
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Not if the convoy has any air defense.
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The moon landing was observed by the USSR, why would they cover for the US's lie?
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Which commander was that?
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Most of their equipment is Soviet/Russian. NATO equipment is actually lower in numbers. Even the tanks they got from Poland aren't "Western", they're upgraded T-72s from the Soviet era. And they'll get T-55s upgraded to 1990s technology from either Slovakia or Slovenia, I don't remember.
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It's not imaginary. It's just difficult to see. Russia greatly increased their presence in the West of the Denipr. Just announcing the offensive already caused a reaction.
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I know this is the fault of who wrote the information for the sponsor slot, but how is warthunder a MMO? It's not any more "massive" than a Battlefield server, there's no persistent world, it's only instanced combat, etc.
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It's easier to contain energy than mass. Who would habe thought?
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@dustinjones8887 The Greyzone is RT affiliated and Scott Ritter is a pedo.
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@joemoody7440 Russia never upheld Minsk 2, they ordered their DPR minions to attack the day after it was signed.
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@joemoody7440 the bear got savaged
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I did care. Many did. That's why there were always medical and religious exemptions, and in some states even philosophical exemptions. We had no QR codes or tracking apps. It wasn't the same. And you're at best naive for pretending the same, or worse case scenario you're a sniveling liar twisting the facts for political gains. What do you have to gain with QR codes and apps on our phones? I don't need to travel to "certain countries" to make a living. But people need jobs to make a living and you want them to be denied. Also, the military is a bad example. You voluntarily sign away your rights. And as a consequence, I remember there was a controversy with an anthrax vaccine.
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It's been reported on many outlets. There's videos of the local police stations having the jails converted to detention centers and interrogation facilities. The local civilians complain of the torture or their relatives disappearing.
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All nukes are locked by permissible action links. Only the Russian strategic forces high ranking generals would have the means to authorize their use, and they'd have a garrison defending the warheads. It would be in their interest to use them as a bargaining chip with the West. Even if the nukes were seized by force with newly formed armies, it would take a couple years to reassemble them with new safeties and codes.
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@Cheeseypoofs85 well, not even those are safe. That's why if you want to hack people in the US, you rent servers in Russia or something.
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Sky is an Australian channel...
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So you're asking the masses in Ukraine to sacrifice their lives for your comfort? Yes, keep guzzling that RuZZian gas. It's not your blood that you have to pay with.
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Map from a month ago and today show barely any change. You have to squint to see it.
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Oh no, the 25th charge on Bakhmut. Surely it will work this time.
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Doesn't cut it.
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I did have a girlfriend at one point who wanted to get into the feds as investigator and had some interest in counter-terrorism. I actually managed to bore her with all my "acoustic" knowledge about domestic and international terror.
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They were found. Several US soldiers suffered neurological damage from being exposed to the nerve gas in low doses.
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 @bigboyman5743 look up "wagner wave" or "uno dos tres wagner"
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Brother the soil in the strait is soft as hell. That spot is compromised.
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It's not a trillion dollars. Stop lying.
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@lampini I don't have to show proof of flu shot.
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@lampini Also, another difference: the flu shot is different every year because they're trying to predict the most common strains. This is just a faulty product.
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@lampini No, it's just going to restart antibody production because of fading immunity. It's like taking last year's flu shot. It might work or it might not depending on which strains are active. You're simply gambling. They didn't start the process from scratch, it would be an ordeal compared to just getting approval for a second/third shot.
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@lampini No, they're not. You're gonna get what's sitting on the shelves. Same as Pfeizer, they got the Cominarty or whatever but the biontech is still getting an extension so people will keep getting those until they run out.
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@morrnmanderson7376 The difference is that Gill Bates has not been too involved in Microsoft in years, but he finances and spearheads a ton of organizations that work directly with "the product". If you want to know more about Windows, talk to Microsft software engineer.
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How does it endanger the lives of others? You can still spread. In fact, you're less likely to notice so you'll endanger even more. But thanks for admitting you compare this to the criminal justice system. You see people as criminals.
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As much as I hate journalists the Ukraine war is documented by non-journalists with a good track record and expertise.
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@john_hunter_ I never mentioned news sources.
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@john_hunter_ Not how it works. If you publish on the internet, the internet is the medium. But you're not media. If you post information, you're not news. News is often described as the 5 Ws, who, what, when, where, why. Sometimes the "how". And it deals in current events. Some information has to be published after long term analysis.
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It's a small band of insane terrorists (because they thrive by imposing terror) while Azov was a politicized unit where the Ukrainian government just folded them into the national guard so that political leaders were forced to quit if they wanted to be part of elections. The far right party lost.
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 @John-hu9qg No HIMARS has been lost.
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@shlug I was talking about the Stinger because it's a glaring example of the latest and greatest being also outdated. If all I have is a Pentium 4, that's my latest and greatest. Simply because I bought nothing new.
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@jonnekallu1627 the first weapons sent only take a day or two to train. The weapons being sent right now required months of training.
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What irony?
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That's just a coping mechanism. People have brought up the fact that the video was uploaded to Vimeo in 2014 and described as an artist's render of a hypothetical MH370 "abduction" scenario.
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@BHarris25 okay, what if the white people in the US government decided they liked Hitler?
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@BHarris25 we defeated Nazi Germany thanks to the racists who created the internment camps and the war criminals who incinerated civilians. Not the good people who actually fought. But I'm glad that me pointing out the fucked up reality of the world got derailed.
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Your President 1. There's a definite case of a war crime being committed when a US soldier guarding the Salina, Utah POW camp manned a machine gun and let it rip on POWs while they were sleeping so your claim that there wasn't a single war criminal in the US is demonstrably false. 2. "We had to firebomb Germany to win- their industry was so strong" - that's absolutely ridiculous because the Third Reich fought until the end and the massacre of civilians did nothing to accelerate the end of the war. 3. "There was no choice but to bomb the shit out of em" - there was a choice, which is why the decision to target civilians was made. That decision ended up not mattering and only increased civilian casualties with no purpose as the war didn't end sooner as a result. 4. "but it wasn't a war crime" - protip: it's a war crime even when you think it's justified. 5. "Our refusal to bomb NK and NV were the reason we lost the Korean and Vietnam wars" - BRUH the US dropped 7 million tons of bombs in Vietnam, dispersed Agent Orange to reduce foliage cover and even made use of cloud seeding in an attempt to enhance the effects of the monsoon over Vietnamese infrastructure. You can't make the fucking claim that NV wasn't bombed enough when literally anyone who ever glanced at Vietnam war history knows about the extended aerial bombardment campaign dubbed Operation Rolling Thunder. Jesus man, would it kill to open up a book before making uninformed posts online?
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Your President did you just say you have a degree in US history and somehow ignore the massive aerial bombardment in Vietnam? Call your university and demand a refund.
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Not really. Failures already happened. Even if you get back on track, the failure happened, we've all seen it, and we can analyze it.
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Burning game changers? Like the HIMARS buckbroke your army and forced you to resort to prisoner batallions and meat waves?
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@jaythomas3224 You can't jam INS. And yes, I heard of HIMARS. In fact, seen it. The videos are unmistakable, the 100,000 tungsten BBs create a cone of destruction that is awe inspiring.
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 @Typexviiib Ukraine and Georgia were supposed to join a NATO ascension program in the 2000s. But it was walked back because it pissed Russia off.
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Does it work the other way around?
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Zelensky means nothing. The men and women will keep fighting. Zelensky could surrender a thousand times, the Ukrainian guns will keep firing at Russians.
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Because the point of having a nuclear arsenal is deterrence. What's the point of having a secret biological WMD if by the time you inject it into someone and buy them a plane ticket, the warheads are already glassing your nation?
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@eternalobi lmao as if they simply didn't stop counting cases
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@xchazz86 What? The point of a nuclear arsenal is deterrence. You don't use deterrence. You use nuclear weapons. If you don't have a nuclear arsenal, this means a nuclear power can take military action against you without fear of retaliation. If you have a secret bioweapon program, all it does it allow you to deliver a strike beyond the grave after your nation ceased to exist. You want to avoid this from happening in the first place, so you openly advertise your weapons of mass destruction to make sure nobody attacks.
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@xchazz86 "not all wmds are the same" - But the topic is nukes. If you want to have a secret bioweapon program, have at it. You still need an overt deterrence policy. Having a bioweapon program is completely irrelevant to this discussion because you can have it, but still get glassed without a credible retaliatory strike policy.
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@eternalobi "China stopped wearing mask" - So have a ton of people in the West, despite what mask mandates say. Also, Asian countries have a culture of wearing a mask even when not strictly necessary. "Mother fuckers got locked into their homes and cant get out" - And viruses still spread between people locked inside. So what?
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@xchazz86 How am I offended? I'm not dictating anything. You said covid is more effective than nukes. But covid wouldn't prevent China from getting nuked. Nukes do. So China needs them for self-protection. This isn't me dictating anything, this is me telling you that your original comment is kind of wrong.
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@xchazz86 Topic is about nukes. The point of a nuclear arsenal is deterrence. You're saying that a covert bio weapons program is far more effective. It's not effective because just the fact that it is covert - I mean, it wasn't because the US funded g@in of funct1on research overseas after it was banned in the US - means that it can't serve as deterrence. By definition it can't be more effective because the effectiveness of a nuclear arsenal is making everyone know that you'll glass them in case you're attacked.
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@delanovanraalte3646 Ukraine flipped the script on Russia. They attack and hold to then force Russia to go on the attack. Ukraine is using aggressive defense, moving forward to bait attacks.
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@luigimrlgaming9484 But it's Russia that has the supply line issue. Ukraine has their own entire country behind them. Russia depends on the Kerch bridge, the two bridges linking Crimea, and the rail to the East of Donetsk. Ukraine also shoots cluster munitions at retreating Russians.
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What's the easiest way for that to happen? Voids in the fuel or the fuel grain cracking. Essentially the same mechanism of failure they mentioned.
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He already had it.
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@joeyenochs9469 The CDC estimates that like 130 million Americans already got exposed or whatever. And even for those who got exposed to it at the start, they had 80% chance of not even having symptoms.
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Not double-think if you look into why that happens over there.
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They've been countering anti-air since Have Blue.
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Cope
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Panama Papers was 2016, Pandora Papers was 2021. Panama Papers were published before Z-man got into politics.
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Okay, but his army is depleted. 50 KIA, many wounded, and the best units are trapped in Kherson against the river.
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@oddvardmyrnes9040 A recording describing the events where the guy with experience in politics ends up in politics and the former boxer becomes a mayor. Whoa. Next time you'll record me back in 2023 saying that the democrats will replace Biden with Kamala, and therefore proving I control the democratic partym
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@nicholasvanlierde2546 There was no coup. There was a protest against police brutality and anti-free speech laws. Yanukovych pledged to make a deal with the opposition and give the prime minister position to the opposition party. The security forces comitting crimes against their own people realized Yanukovych had betrayerld them and the opposition would prosecute the riot police. So they defected and refused to protect him. There was NEVER a coup. The president simply fled the country because his own security were criminals who feared facing justice for their brutality.
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 @QuinnArgo "waaa if there was no state then I could just steal because I don't recognize property" well the problem is that this sounds great until someone bigger than you wants your stuff
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 @Fyttiana I presume you have asked your employer about running costs before coming here and saying you're getting fleeced?
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 @era_s Should your offspring be helped by your wealth or should we force them to start from scratch?
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 @Remo_Jenkins Russia violated Minsk with the Battle for Debaltseve and the Second Battle for Donetsk Airport. Russia broke Minsk before the ink was dry.
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Eastern Europe being an extension of Yugoslavia is a wild concept.
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Speech should be free. Now Russians get that propaganda, but we can't see what they're saying. We've changed nothing, except now we have even more trouble debunking the lies.
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@bradleyriles3889 No, I didn't. But nice change of subject, a fallacy to hide your lack of argument.
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Because he's describing events along a timeline. You can transpose the present tense to the past so you can have a new frame of reference. This is done in documentaries too. Ever heard a WW2 documentary narrator say something like "Hitler's generals are concerned..."? Pretty sure they're not even around anymore.
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 @dylanberto9387 I nearly passed out from reading "100 crates of 7.62x39". Whoa mamma that's a lot of range trips.
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Russia openly admits they are fighting the Ukrainian people.
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 @Galomortalbr not Blue's fault that Red Air hasn't upgraded their Soviet era stuff
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@nanakhreis6934 Whataboutism, favorite argument of Soviets and Putin apologists.
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@sivrahc of course they're powerful, radiation loses power according to the inverse square law. For it to be able to reach long distances, it has to have enough power that it is dangerous to stand in front of the emitter at very close range. But the power dissipates quickly.
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That doesn't justify invasion. Now Russia's special operation is failing and their army is broken.
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@gbladewarrior6884 "I'd say it failed epically in its original intent." - Why?
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@gbladewarrior6884 "it's cost spiralled out of control" - Welcome to every government program, ever. "Its production was spread to many States so it wont get cancelled." - That's a failure of the political system, not the actual plane.
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@dudedog884 That's like saying mall guards do police work because they're "policing" the thieves and shoplifters, even though they have no real arrest powers.
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They are rockets, not air breathing jets that can just circle around.
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To paraphrase Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction, I don't need Ukraine to tell me how good my weapons are. We built that stuff to fight Soviets, we tested them decades ago. We know they work. That's why we're sending them. To kill Muscovites.
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But they're now asking for tanks. Now that the initial offensive is over and now they need to fight to recapture Donbass, they want tanks.
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@josephmeador1529 No, it's because they need more than just BMPs/BMDs. The USMC no longer uses tanks because it wants to shift to the Pacific, and if it needs tanks they'll ask the Army to cover for them. I know about 73 Easting. That's not proof that the tank is dead, that's proof of the superiority of technology and proper training. I don't know if you've seen the video people have been talking about lately, from Syria, where a tank climbs on an embankment, fires a round, scuttles back down and a missile passes over it. A properly trained tank crew can fire a round at a Bradley before the TOW missile hits. The problem is that Russia will attempt to secure as much gains as possible before they can declare "victory". At some point, they still stop throwing equipment and men at Ukraine. This is unfortunate, but Ukraine needs to deny the land bridge to Crimea and regain access to the Azov sea otherwise they'll end the war in a much more fragile position.
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@josephmeador1529 You can't wage war on Soviet Russia armed with Panzerfausts. That's at best a delaying tactic. A $30,000 NLAW won't slap an army back to the 2014 borders. The Soviets had T-34s. You're trying to suggest they'd be marching into Berlin by foot and RPG-1 in hand.
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 @kaneru8593 Sticks the dumbbells in his pants.
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@omarwilliams6729 there's no special forces, only Russian incompetence.
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@gumelini1 Taiwan is the home of the government of China. Taiwan isn't separatist, they're the ones who fled Maoism.
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@gumelini1 What a riddiculous argument. They fled Maoism, that's the reason for them to be there. There's Russian and Ukrainian people who fled communism, and now their descendants live in Canada or the United States. Doesn't mean they have to go back. It just means there was a reason to flee.
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@omarwilliams6729 lol okay you believe everything is special forces. Stay under your bed, special forces will attack your town!
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@gumelini1 That's a ridiculous argument. So if John beats you up, and then Nick beats you up after John leaves, it's okay to get beat up by Nick because James left.
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@gumelini1 It's not a double standard. Taiwan, the Republic of China, existed before the People's Republic of China. The government of Taiwan is the government of China.
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@gumelini1 Donbas and Crimea are like Maoist China. They're treacherous. The original government was the KMT, of which Taiwan is the descendant. There's no double-standard. Taiwan existed before the PRC. Taiwan in the government that ruled China. The CCP are the cowards who refused to fight Japan and then allowed the KMT to suffer the losses.
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Does that mean Russia will be winning soon?
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 @xfactorb25222 China famously gave out loans at a loss.
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@peterfireflylund Not the point. The claim that Western countries use the debt trap is backwards. China is more open to lending at a loss, while the West frontloads the demands and gets concessions from the countries they deal with to get more confidence in the loan being paid back.
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Cope. Ukraine is doing all sorts of attacks, like targeting refineries, Shahed factories, air bases etc. Out of all the things that help the war effort, why would this be it? Russia loses 10x more people every day in the frontline than in this singular attack.
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It only worked with the F-14 and the AWG-9 radar. The AIM-120D gets close enough
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davros0007 black powder is not considered a firearm.
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So you can't make a shotgun to fit within the "pistol" configuration (like AR or AK "pistols") and to prevent people from using things like flare guns to shoot real shells. Saying the handguns need to be rifled essentially means criminals who get caught sourcing their weapons from stores by buying flare guns or steel pipe can get convicted just by possession.
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TWO! MORE! WEEKS!
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What does that even mean?
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Name the crime. What's the charge?
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@Ghastly_Grinner That would lead to the destruction of the Russian army. North of Kiev was where the swampy terrain bogged down the Russian army. And their wounded faced a death certain because wounded Russians had to be pulled through Ukrainian land and cross back to Belarus.
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@Ghastly_Grinner More men would just have resulted in a greater debacle. "Cutting Kiev from NATO" also means getting ambushed. Get yourself between the hammer and the anvil, you get crushed.
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They'll just switch to cheaper weapons instead of wasting Javs.
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@brendankevinsmith none of the links you posted mentioned dumping the coolant. The coolant was not messed with. The positive void coefficient made the reaction accelarate with boiling water and the insertion of the control rods forced the graphite to displace water which increased reactivity beyond proper parameters. No coolant was "dumped".
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"He murdered a man with a skateboard" - It's not murder. You cannot premediate a self-defense scenario, and a self-defense scenario is not considered a malicious homicide. "he shot another person in the arm that survived" - He was shot because he faked a surrender and while Kyle hesitated he reached for a Glock. "assault rifle" - It wasn't an assault rifle. "An AR-15" - The most produced rifle in the United States in the last decade, extremely common. "skateboard vs AR-15" is not a self defense argument" - Yes it is. It doesn't matter what weapon the attacker chose, the victim has the right to even the odds. "defending himself from a black man with a skateboard?" - An attacker with a blunt force trauma weapon. "What he did was wrong" - No. "cowardly" - Cowards are the people who rushed like vultures to assault him when he went down. "and illegal" - It was legal.
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@yawlright Then you disagree with how law works. You're entitled to your wrong opinions.
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A close detonation of an artillery shell would acomplish the same.
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Steel cased isn't shit. Russian weapons are most likely to be designed to fire it. AR15s can fire it.
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@nikkiramsey4466 "What if China stop supplying face mask, ibuprofen, hand sanitizers, gloves etc. Over 70% of things you have in your house is made in China including the phone in your hand and Laptop" - more of a reason to cut off now before that 70 climbs to 100%.
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The US spends 1.5 trillion in medicare and medicaid.
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@Viscous Shear Please, do design an inertia recoil operated system for 9mm. We wanna see it.
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But the store employees can't hear every conversation, you can set up with another person and then walk up to the trunk of your car to sell the AR15.
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Those armored vehicles need refurbishment. There's a reason Russia is using T-62s - newer models take longer to produce parts for.
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1. Russia is the aggressor and claimed they were winning. Clearly they weren't. Ukraine is under invasion so state of emergency is normal. 2. Ukraine destroyed the Russian army, or at least the functional and combat capable part. They wouldn't need to call reservists if they still had a functional army. 3. Ukrainians are defending their homeland. They're not cannon fodder for a politician. They're fighting for the right to exist. 4. Ukrainians are also not cannon fodder by definition, they were on the defensive for most of the war. Russia threw men at Ukrainian defenses. They died. 5. Russians have no legitimate reason to fight Ukraine. They're fighting for Putin and his oligarchs. They were not under threat from Ukraine.
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@yootoobnz8109 They're turbojet engines.
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The "... the aristocrats!" is the punch line.
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But like mentioned in the video, you eat way more grams of carbs than of fat.
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@propkid it kinda is
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HARMs will not lock onto defenses that use IR or electro optical seekers. You can sweep an area with HARMs, send in the A-10s and they get shot down anyway.
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It's a brief meant to keep officers up to speed, with a lot of information that's found in the open. It's not 007 level secrets.
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What happens when Russia suffers its next defeat? You'll still come here blabbing?
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Remember the Bundy standoff?
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@collectedcurios How does it prove your point? People arrived armed from all over the country to keep the government in check. Though there was no policy change the standoff did happen.
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The vote was for stretch goals that could be delivered after release. And Roberts said more money would mean faster development. That's what people voted for.
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The Bayraktar TB2 is flying again. Not really man portable.
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@Seth90 Yes it is. In just a few days, TB2s already destroyed 26 million worth of equipment in tanks, IFV and artillery. They are still useful now. Russian air defense? "What air defense doing?"
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Seven Harriers were lost in Desert Storm due to the exhaust "painting" the sides of the aircraft with heat and giving a huge IR beacon for SAMs. Rugged means nothing after direct impact from a missile.
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Meds. Now.
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 @crevis12 No empathy for criminals. TZD.
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@jlove8445 There's no world war dawg. In world wars everyone is fighting all over the planet and countries are armed to the teeth. Russia is down to T-62s.
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So that's what all the hoopla abput the Nintendo Switch about.
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@jenniferclark9842 imagine the twitch chat
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Russia attacks civilians no matter what. The bridge was a mevessary target to stop the ressupply of troops.
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@Garycarlyle What Russia has isn't making massive gains. It stands to reason that if Ukraine can hold the line, giving them the stuff will lead to another offensive. Remember Kharkiv?
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The Duran is not neutral.
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Iraq did have WMDs, but this was not reported because they were Iran-Iraq war stockpiles which could be traced back to the US and France.
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Sorry man I live a couple miles from the sea and there's days that are absolutely unbearable without AC. Especially at night, it's impossible to fall asleep with the heat. But we don't have to blast it all day long, that's for sure.
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We also watched Ford accuse Kavanaugh. How did that one go?
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@marceybuford1685 wait, what? They defended Micheal from the bloodsucking parents trying to earn a meal ticket off a famous artist. Now that they are GROWN they're rethinking?
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@marceybuford1685 watch Razorfist's two videos on Micheal Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pnoQqlygQs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yTTEwBLfUQ Yeah HBO is gaining something, you think corporations do things for free?
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@OGPatriot03 Russia carved a puffer fish and decided to swallow the viscera. They took an impoverished and destroyed land that's going to cost them dearly to rebuild.
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@YukubianBud The painter? He just stole the gold reserves from the countries he invaded and then exported the inflation to occupied regions by printing invasion Deutshemarks which could not be used inside Germany.
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@johanlassen6448 But the F-16 has thousands produced. There's always a country with some old models that could get a contract for a refurbish and upgrade. The scenario here is more akin to the Hornet vs Legacy Hornet. You want to keep a "Legacy" Gripen C/D supported when Saab wants to move on to the Gripen E/F. In a world where Boeing wants to sell Block 3 Super Hornets, and sell upgrades for Super Hornets, you can't really come up to them and say "hey guys now develop an upgrade package for my Legacy Hornets". The Saab Gripen is low production. I see the problem now, you think I am talking about the F-16.
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@johanlassen6448 Yeah for whatever reason YT never @s the OP when replying to a thread. It's been this way for years.
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Russian weapons are not 10x cheaper. At most they're 75-60% cheaper.
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Thinking that you can help the economy or stop migrants with SURPLUS MATERIEL SITTING IN THE DESERT is precisely the type of stuff that benefits Russia. Weaponizing ignorance.
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>I don't think democracy works I don't either. The US is a Constitutional Republic. >I would argue that you have to pass a basic social politics course to be able to vote The idea makes me vomit. The lower classes would not be as able to afford the course nor have time to study and show up to class. >brakes on a car are a bad idea because sometimes they fail These brakes never work. Oh, look at Detroit! The city that unions built! Bankrupt.
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When quantum radar comes out (donxt hold your breath) the F-16s will be prohibited from flying into combat. Stealth becomes the price of admission.
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 @JoePlip People have the freedom to be wrong. We have the freedom to correct them.
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Views count for money (youtube sells ad space) which means a bad count could be treated as fraud. Likes only count for engagement so there's less scrutiny.
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@jaymike3302 One man is angry at his life being ruined, and Heard simps grasp at the last remaining straw.
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CIA: "He can't keep getting away with it!"
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This, but the other way around. Seymour is the senile boomer trying to relive the "America bad" era from Cold War politics.
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The DPR violated Minsk II by assaulting Debaltseve. It's Russia pumping volunteers through Wagner and Redut.
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@valyshknee4203 The US figured out how to mount RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles on 9K37 Buk launchers. It was based on an old Polish project to mount RIM-7 on the Kub launcher. NATO doesn't have a lot of ground air defense, but naval forces have a ton of air defense. So old naval missiles attached to a Soviet-era ground launcher allow the West to provide ammunition to reload Soviet systems.
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How often does youtube purge inactive accounts? Lots of old channels have subs who probably haven't logged in for a year or two.
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 @anyakosta364 Biden broke the rules by delaying the withdrawl...
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Ironically the terrorists where probably Donbas troops and the movie implies the SBU intends to make the attack worse.
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The problem is the jet. It's not in production so a foreign country would have to pay for it to be finished.
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SubtoPolecat324 What difference does it make? They're not in charge.
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@alvaro701 Just read again.
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The US was pulling out of Ukraine while the UK was championing for support. The US was saying Abrams was off the table and out of nowhere the UK said Challys would be sent.
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 @WewasAtamans North Koreans know what k-pop is, South Korea runs psyops by distributing SK media in the North through smuggling.
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Each city they lose cost the Russians countless lives. Not to mention the vehicles. Reminder, the Soviet Union lost city after city until the Germans were in the outskirts of Moscow. Who won that one?
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Another nuke threat? After 9 months it'sa little stale.
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Did Pride own the rights? If you buy a Shrek DVD that doesn't give you the right to the song All Star by Smash Mouth.
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S-500 is an ABM system, not anti-aircraft.
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But the issue is that if you look back at 2014, there were protests across Ukraine in the pro-Russian regions that eventually subsided. Russia sent money, weapons and Russians to act as officers and create an artificial separatist movement in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The Ukraine government wasn't "stopping" them, they were fighting the equivalent of green berets. People who infiltrate enemy countries and start using locals to fight a clandestine war. They take down radio towers and broadcast Russian media to keep them under control.
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@CharlesLumia They don't want to split. It's an astroturfed movement created by Russian and Ukrainian gangsters. Look at the DPR leader, he was a Ponzi scheme scammer before becoming a "politician". They're just paid to keep the conflict going. If foreigners couldn't help, the movement wouldn't exist.
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You're tired of conflict? Then why settle for a frozen conflict? Why allow Russia to rebuild and start more conflicts? The motives of the US Govt? The US was ready for Kiev to fall in three days. I expect my kid to also know that some people can't be reasoned with. I will most likely not have children, but if I had I'd teach him what I know - kickboxing and Brazilian jiu jitsu.
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@outdoorbyrd4507 "2nd time with the vaccine was 100% BETTER" - You also had natural immunity from the first time. You can't compare the second and the first infection.
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@euvon "but your symptoms will be reduced" - That's a personal choice. "their ignorance and obsession with “freedom.”" - In some countries people will have to use apps to enter businesses. Even though most of the population is vaccinated. Do you think this will go away? You say people are obsessed with freedom, perhaps it's because you have not considered that once you lose it, you can't get it back. 20 years after 9/11 and we still have our phone calls monitored. Temporary measures easily become permanent.
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@alfieshepherd6522 Yes, it does. Spike protein antibodies isn't the same as "teaching" the immune system. It's more like writing a cheat sheet before the test. Sometimes you get a passing grade, but in the end you learned nothing.
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@alfieshepherd6522 You spelled disease wrong. Either way, yes you're wrong about the one that matters and right about the ones we're not talking about. I took those already. We're talking about the new one. That's not working, by the way. Get in line for the 4th and 5th booster. I've clearly shown to possess more knowledge, because you didn't even know these were different. Sit down.
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@alfieshepherd6522 You're just deflecting from the fact that you were wrong and I noticed. You don't need to bring other people into the mix. I'm not pretending I know better than others. I'm just stating the cold hard fact that you like to pretend you're smart and lecturing others by explaining vaccines like a 6 year old. But you don't even know the difference. You're the narcissist. You're the one prancing around and talking to people as if they were children. But you were wrong.
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The A-10 is too slow.
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@gottagowork "We didn't throw "Covid parties because fake news"." - We also had parties where cops were shot at when they arrived to break it up. You're talking to an European too. I know what went on. My next door neighbours had dinner parties every friday and saturday. I went out too. "They will be facing hardship ahead" - Been hearing that for a year and a half. Meanwhile look at the UK - N antibodies have flatlined. "Any signs of inflation yet?" - Yeah, the Euro can't buy what it could in 2019. Some products have had 15-20% increase. It's easy to miss them.
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What does an Attorney General know about aerospace?
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@TheBLGL Freedom Fries was done by like one restaurant and a comittee leader managed to change the name in the government cafeterias because he had the power to do it. Freedom Fries was a nothingburger, pun intended, that got out of hand. Public opinion thought it was riddiculous.
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 @comradeconrad3636 the Dark Age is a myth by Ancient Greece fanboys, and religion did not suppress scientific progress.
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@wokeaf1337 It was called Dark Ages because of biased historians. This is known to be historical fact. Meanwhile, during the Dark Ages monks were the primary pushers of science because they had the highest literacy rates.
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@Jean-ClaudeGodDamn Ukraine existed before Russia did.
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@xntumrfo9ivrnwf Okay, so they picked the Black Sun, wolfsangel and swastika as their symbols. Why are they picking all the symbols that were "stolen" already? If they were wearing toothbrush mustaches you'd be saying they're big Charlie Chaplin fans.
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Seems like the worst type of channel to try and influence, because historical facts are kind of difficult to twist into a modern narrative. But entice someone into posting rants filmed in their truck about how Joe Biden is ruining America by sending billions to Ukraine, and you can get a few thousand goobers to cheer and ask for more. Basically you're too sophisticated lol need to grow the beard and buy a Ford 150.
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@shibawarrior17 The Gaza war is being conducted against an enemy that purposefully puts civilians in the line of fire. Nothing in the Geneva conventions says "UwU you must give up and lose a battle whenever the enemy goes in their time out place".
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@lbh6090 The point is that in certain places if you're hospitalized for something, and you get tested and flagged as positive, you'll be added to count of people hospitalized with the infection. Even though it could be a broken leg that brought you in.
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The obvious ones would be corruption, police coverage/response time/rule of law, strength of institutions, etc.
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He's not pro-CO2 so that means nothing.
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Did you see Irving outright stating it was real? It's around the halfway point of this video.
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If there's no legal right to self-defense when you're comitting the crime, you have no choice. You can let the guy take the gun and legally use it on you, or use it and do time behind bars. Your call.
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Russia has no alternative? Too bad. Russia is falling on its sword.
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@GaBeeLuv Was Russia protecting itself when it invaded Hungary or Czechoslovakia? Was Russia protecting itself in Afghanistan? Was Russia protecting itself in Lithuania in 1991? Transnistria? Ossetia? Chechnya? When FSB Ryazan sugar was used to justify intervention, was Russia protecting itself? Vietnam? Vietnam kicked China's ass. In fact, the Sino-Vietnam conflict actually made US-Vietnam relations improve. Where was the US attacking Russia through Georgia, when most of Georgia's combat troops were in Afghanistan?
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Did he say that before or after he had produce destroyed to artificially keep food prices high during the great depression?
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@iplaygames8090 "some advances" you can watch the footage, they're literally throwing themselves at the Ukrainian defenses to wear them out, make them run out of ammo, force them to expose firing positions. Yeah, if you literally don't care about casualties you can advance.
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@iplaygames8090 They overran half the country because Ukraine traded land for time. The USSR was also overran at the start of Op Barbarossa. Spoiler alert, the side being aided by the US clawed back the territory and won.
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Russia is dependent on North Korean and Iranian handouts.
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Doesn't take any balls to be a propagandist from home.
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Good think Ukraine has been attacking AA for weeks.
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@PromoVisionNZ But Ukraine is specifically going after Russian AA. It's not attrition. It's methodical stalking and hunting.
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 @novembertango1298 Explain how is it pro American to reward the man heading a state that spent like 15 years threatening to nuke us?
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There can't be a happy medium because socialism requires the abolition of capitalism. Social welfare isn't socialism.
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Complete BS that they let the original cut get corroded beyond repair.
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Not really. They called quits in Afghanistan and Chechnya before 100k.
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@desdicadodog8452 In Chechnya they lost the first time. Political pressures? They have those now too.
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And what replaces the T-55s and MT-LBs?
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Not when they're working for weapons programs.
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DPA the clown lmao
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 @edgarbm6407 Wasn't that the Azerbaijani president?
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In Russia, if you are locked up you're forced to fight anyway. No choice.
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@George-2115 Russia withdrew their signature after invading Ukraine, and India and China have not signed it. The US does not have right to commit war crimes. That's not how it works.
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Tulsi acted like a peacenik on Syria but when the US sent that Hellfire into a van full of kids during the Afghanistan withdrawal Tulsi went on Fox to excuse it based on "we have to fight them over there instead of here". Tulsi's opinion "evolves" based on the adversary being a client state of Russia.
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@Trevor21230 "Takes awhile, though." - so does wine or anything that requires long ageing periods. Or even new semiconductor architectures. It's only a matter of, if you need to release now, you should have started 5 years ago. Many industries do that.
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Those tales were made up by people like Dugin.
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 @santoriniblue8413 1000 troops is nothing for the US, they probably have more stationed in Germany.
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@daviddoran3673 Everything they say is a lie.
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@johnbest6987 Cope lol they're Ukrainians.
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 @ac1455 why wouod the explosives be placed months before the war?
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A "massacre" that claimed less than 20 lives a year, and half the casualties were from people accidently touching unexploded ordnance.
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China recognizes Ukrainian sovereignty. China has no interest in acknowledging anything that could give precedent to Xinjiang and Taiwanese independence, like Russia backing the LPR and DPR. China will not arm Russia, and they have most likely told Putin that they will turn on Russia if they use nukes. Nobody wants to upset the status quo. Don't rock the boat. Never rock the boat near the Chinese.
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And they are joining the EU.
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@MrHafidm Then why did they approve the application?
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@poland5606 how is the F-35 useless? And the A variant is almost as cheap as a modern produced F-16.
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Lawyer can't spell "lawyer" right.
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"The columns that support the wind mills can be made from stone" - Too heavy. There's a reason skyscrapers aren't made of stone. "These should be designed by governments" - Governments are inherently garbage at producing anything.
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@daguard411 "The devices aren't meant to be portable," - Actually, they are. They have to be shipped to location and assembled. "so weight doesn't matter" - Weight of any construction does matter. Please don't try to argue against basic engineering. "The final line of your comment is only true when it is allowed to happen." - Governments allow themselves to allow it to happen. Since when does the government ask you permission?
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@daguard411 "Well, they don't have to be portable all of the time." - But they have to be portable when being built at factories, transported and assembled, which are critical phases of a final product's lifetime. You can't just think of the finished product, you have to think of every single step. For example the auxiliary solid rockets for the Space Shuttle were supposed to have a larger diameter because that's what the designers figured was the optimal size. But they were made smaller because they had to fit through a tunnel when transported by train. You have to think of the whole picture and how things fit together, not think of the static object. "As for governments asking all of us for permission, I think those are called elections." - Sure. After you give "permission" through voting, is the government going to ask you for input on how to design wind turbines. No, you'll have a few years of them doing whatever they want and then when those years are up your choice will be to let a party you hate win or vote again for the people you gave "permission" to all those years ago. If voting did anything they'd have made it illegal. Stop fooling yourself and thinking you're given importance and power of decision for filling out a ballot.
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Non sequitur
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@martinhnetynka8252 They were originally meant to be retired in the early 90s. They got a second wind at counter insurgency but they're not meant for war anymore. The upgrades are just situational awareness/avionics/weapons. The upgrades do nothing about the fact that it is a vulnerable aircraft. The originals were designed for Vietnam where manually aimed 14.5mm AA was the most common threat. If a F-15 can provide CAP, it can drop the bombs too. Leave the A-10 home.
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Supplies have to be brought in. Who cares how safe your house is if I can shoot anyone trying to deliver you food?
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Depends if the opponent is trying to hit you or trying to degrade your AA.
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So you're thinking exactly like your enemy. Why the fuck aren't you in Gitmo right now? You're eactly like them!
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In many countries there's conscription service. The US has a full volunteer armed forces. Unless there's a draft.
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@AntonioSousa-ms3cf LMAO production of ICE engines has not stopped. Engineering Explained has a video for people like you, ICE still has a future and even when electric personal automobilies become the norm there will still be ICE-powered remote generators, naval vessels, light aircraft, airliners, etc.
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@AntonioSousa-ms3cf "O motor de combustão interna é mais potente do que o motor elétrico." - Nunca disse isso. Vai inventar para outro lado. Se é a mentir que achas que vais a algum lado estás enganado. "hoje motores elétricos são utilizados em submarinos nucleares" - Exacto. Energia nuclear. Bem eu queria ter um desses meninos debaixo do capô mas aposto que aí já te queixavas. Já agora, para teres noção, a porcaria dos submarinos a diesel também tinham baterias. Achavas que um motor que respira ar funciona debaixo de água? "aviões" - Okay, carrega essas meninas do submarino nuclear dentro do avião mais passageiros e carga. Quando fores a aterrar fodes o trem todo. Quando consomes combustível numa viagem chegas ao destino com menos peso. Portanto se um avião for a aterrar com excesso de peso ou fazem um fuel dump ou têm de manter um holding pattern até consumir peso suficiente. Se o teu "combustível" for baterias ou vais sempre aterrar em excesso de peso ou tens de limitar carga e passageiros.
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@AntonioSousa-ms3cf "os submarinos chamam-se de nucleares pelo poder de destruição" - Falso. A União Soviética produziu submarinos diesel com armamento nuclear.
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 @Kansika What? Not only did Putin not fix anything, he also allowed the West to profit immensely.
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Every country runs a deficit my guy. Austerity may be necessary if you have to pay off loans but it hamstrings your economic development.
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They expended a large amount of Iskanders.
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Insulin could be cheap but legislation monopolized the market.
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@cloroxusthestainlessone4324 Buenos Aires is in Argentina.
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@cloroxusthestainlessone4324 Yeah I did have to go back and watch the clip and they didn't have the borders drawn so it kinda looked like Brazil anyway.
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Except that they breach frontlines, surrounder cities, squeeze the defenders and give them a sole road to escape, they shell it when the Russians retreat. Roads out of towns in Kharkiv looked like someone had placed a bomb in a a butcher shop after the Ukrainians let loose with arty.
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But Vietnam did throw in the towel. North Vietnam were the invaders. South Vietnam was invaded. Moscow managed to fool the public into thinking the US was losing to North Vietnam when it wasn't.
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Yet politicians constantly cut burger production. The F-22 burger was supposed to have over 700 buns and patties made. But politiciajs cut the contract to just around 180 burgers. Hmmm.
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They have a café/snack bar, usually.
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6.8 SPC is not known for range, in fact it was developed to address the urban combat in Somalia and dropped from SOCOM use in Afghanistan.
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Can we see them? What are the tail numbers?
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@LakeVibe365 Putin has been walking himself into corners and claiming he's cornered. Ffs how can you scream about "muh NATO" when you invade all your neighbors?
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I ordered my hot sauce an hour ago.
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Just like Severodonetsk fell! Then you lost Kharkiv and Kherson! Rope-a-dope.
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Yeah try going for Kiev again, for the rest of the VDV to die
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@matthewphillips3926 Supposedly he ratted out other collaborators in exchange for being allowed to stay under house arrest.
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Funny, crypto stores a ledger with all transfers but you can't point to the Ukrainian or DNC accounts. You just repeat fake news with no proof, even though crypto scams are the easiest to investigate. Connect the dots.
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That doesn't make any sense. Paratroopers or cargo never go into airspace that's still defended. If it doesn't "waste" itself on F-35s, the F-35s will simply drop bombs on it. The US faced SAMs in Vietnam and Iraq. Syria doesn't have handheld rockets. They have S-300s.
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@stephendoherty8291 The VDV are paratroopers, they did air assaults instead of airborne insertions. Airlifting out of Crimea is extremely dangerous. Crimea was under control of Ukraine for decades, so special forces know how to get in and out. They've done raids there after 2014, in one they were caught and had to shoot their way out. Trying to airlift them under SAM coverage is suicide.
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Absolutely feasible. Imagine ATACMS, F-16s and DPCIM artillery were available to interdict the 40 mile convoy. Ukraine was drip fed aid too little too late, even when everyone knows violence of action and Shock & Awe causes a cascade failure in a military structure.
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No, 59 dead and 500 injured. How many of them trampled? They specifically said they wouldn't release that information right now.
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You're not supposed to stand and watch a grenade go off because you may be within range of the fragments. They're trained to toss and go down into cover to protect themselves.
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@sticky59 30% of it's troops because that's all it can muster.
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Funny, because nations that depend on extracting resources are typically not self-sufficient. Even Russian oil extraction has a significant percentage that depends on Western companies and machines doing the work.
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@turinthalion8784 I don't see how that disproves what I've said. Russia being self-sufficient is pure, refined optimism.
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Except you don't need to be told. If you ever went to a beach with cliffs nearby you could compare the view at different heights by yourself.
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@mats66 Like you mentioned darkness. That has nothing to do with the fundraiser. Would it be better if done in daylight?
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Geothermal is nuclear. For fuck's sake where do you think the heat comes from? Radioactive decay.
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@jjk087 you TWAT, geothermal is a shitty energy source. Can't be used except in certain areas and you're essentially fracking the region.
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@blackpearl1-477 "only using earth's internal heat alone and not using the nuclear decay" - my friend, where do you think the internal heat comes from...?
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@blackpearl1-477 okay, and do you know where that heat comes from? Radioactive decay. That is all.
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Isn't the "autonomous" zone running out of food, making demands to the government (lol), and literally being patrolled by some rapper's gang?
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Millions are old and unable to reproduce. Millions are not ethnic Russians but Kazakhs, Tuva, Ingush, Buryats, Tajiks, etc etc etc.
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Adding to the comments above, the combat footage filmed by Houthis makes their enemies look bad. They cower in ditches and behind rocks while lone Houthi rebels charge uphill and gun them down at point blank range. They abandon entire columns of armored vehicles when ambushed. It's not very inspiring.
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The problem is that a bird is much smaller than an aircraft, so the inverse square law is working against you. By the time you get a contact at 350 kts heading your way, you should probably start running. There's already a glide bomb about to fall on your radar site.
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If it's a domestic Ukrainian drone the West has its hands "clean".
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@PrograError everyone is trying to make stealth aircraft
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@MrMorvana the F-117 was retired because it was old.
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The 25mm gun is almost as capable as the 30mm gun in the A-10. The A-10 also should be used with guided bombs, missiles and rockets.
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@MrMorvana Low frequency radar was already used by older radars and early warning radars. It doesn't matter. This was a known issue.
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@hericobailas6258 you pay for the pavement flattening and the windshield dragster, then.
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@starcraftnewbie the point is that except for the younger generations everyone is used to the "I got mine" attitude. You can't think about anyone else because you're only worried about your own survival.
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@bigbiggie3642 nah communism is take what you can for yourself no matter how many people get hurt, snitch on your neighbours, etc. Capitalism is not wasting the airliner's time because it's your time.
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@UC0bJbTxtnF8SO5ot-o4i9MQ "Communism is never about your especially yourself but our " - yeah that's why the Chernobyl plant supervisor lied and said the plant had passed all safety tests when it hadn't, he was thinking of the good of the people and not his promotion. When people snitched to the KGB they were thinking of others, not themselves. No sir.
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You really think anyone's gonna give up the West for Russia?
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@toddsmart3423 "Financial system is built on trust" - and you'd rather trust Russia, who has broken the Budapest memorandum, Minsk II, said they were just in military exercises and wouldn't invade? You talk about trust but then defend the biggest liars.
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It doesn't make sense. A reduction in transmissibility is just that. It reduces the number of people who get it at the same time, but it doesn't protect others. If you wear a mask, and stand next to someone wearing a mask, at one point the aerosolized particles will be breathed in. It is a big deal. School children have dubious pros and all the cons. I would not want my children to be part of a trial run in a new product.
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@seanwhitehall4652 So the solution is giving people bullet proof vests and tell them to dodge machine gun fire all day?
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 @ХанГрад-ж1л the Soviet Union tracked Apollo, Ivan.
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 @ЯБезымянный-о5ф So how did Russia drop a parachute bomb in Ukraine?
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@ЯБезымянный-о5ф The parachute lines up the bomb, then the rocket fires. Western anti-runway bombs do the same. Planes can't fly over Ukraine's air defenses. So how did a bomber fly deep into Ukraine?
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@ЯБезымянный-о5ф Nope, it was a Khinzal warhead. The missile was shredded by the shootdown, with the warhead surviving with a large penetration. Look up Stavropol 2022 Khinzal crash. I'm only saying...
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Is this a joke? It's called a sample size.
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@mrrselfdestruction1077 It's a huge sample. You're at a factory and you're in charge of manufacturing a product. How many do you pull out of a batch for destructive testing? It has to be a small sample or your profits go out the window. How many cars of a particular model do you think are rammed at the concrete barrier for safety testing?
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@mrrselfdestruction1077 Nothing is ever the same. That's why quality control exists. Depending on the process and the type of product you're making, it might be completely unprofitable to verify each product, so you take samples. And you know there's a statistical significance in that sample. Why is it adequate for the UK? The UK has around 68 million people. So by your standards 451 thousand is enough. To which I say, that's hardly anyone compared to the US population. It's 1/7th of a percent. Do you have actual hard data to justify why 500 thousand is statistically significant? Because statistics get manipulated in the way you decide to gather the data, but the numbers part is hard science. Or are you just throwing numbers out there, just like you determined 96k is statistically significant for the UK without a single calculation explaining why? Yes, the US has different cultures. Have you actually read the poll and figured out if the organizers spread their polling data across regions to compensate for that? Or are you just spitballing?
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@mrrselfdestruction1077 Yeah, but you need to "base it off" statistical theory. You're just spitballing numbers. We don't deal with spitballing. As with the aforementioned example, you don't spitball the number of samples you take from a batch. Too many, you're wasting money. Too few, you lose confidence in the statistical relevancy of your samples. I'm not asking you what "you think". I'm asking you what statistical theory says you should think instead. Me trying to explain it won't do any good, I want you to go through the process yourself. Knowledge is just one tab away. I'm just going to post the results. For a confidence level of 95% and a population of 320 million a sample size of 96k gives you a margin of error of 0.31%. That's nothing. If you increase it to 451k you get 0.14%. So you almost quintupled the amount of work you have to do, to halve the margin of error. Which was essentially nothing to begin with. I'd recommend learning about the subject because me telling you that you're wrong isn't going to work. I just want people to stop posting things like "96k isn't enough" even though it clearly is. It's a huge sample.
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The other way around. Bullets push tissue aside which means wounds partially close. ER surgeons and coroners constantly say they cannot identify caliber from wounds due to all the variables involved, they need to recover a projectile. At most they can tell low velocity vs high velocity (handgun vs rifle) impacts. Additionally, the explosive fragmentation of 5.56 leaves shards of copper jacket and lead confetti in the body. A solid bullet tumbling will cause an apparent explosive wound due to be tissue mass ejected. Watermelons wrapped in fiberglass shot by Carcanos look exactly to the real life after effects of the hit recorded on film.
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@kobeh6185 "would not likely leave jacket material" - Ballistic testing of 5.56 at close range basically leaves fragments ranging from chunks to fine pebbles, you can essentially get different mesh sizes of screen and group the fragments by size. Small fragments instantly lose inertia, often moving only one inch to the sides or up or down inside the tissue. They come to a dead stop from drag inside high water content tissue. The 6.5 fragments were found inside the limo and impacted the windshield from back to front so either something stopped a bullet on the way to target and by coincidence 5.56 fragments disappeared without a trace, or they had to come from JFK's head.
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@kobeh6185 The "reasonable doubt" goes out the window when there' ZERO evidence of a 5.56 being involved. The 6.5 explanation doesn't require additional evidence. The 5.56 explanation does.
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I wouldn't be surprised in the case is actually simpler to manufacture. Drawing the full length of a cartridge to have a thick case head and a thin case wall requires multiple stages in a press, with annealing and washing cycles to deal with the work hardening of the material. Now you start with a thin brass tube, press it into a steel cup, punch an aluminum washer to fix everything in place.
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@jakefarronmerlin7963 A bluff to have helicopters shot down, columns of armored vehicles burned and troops caught in a 360 degree shooting range?
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 @marcogenovesi8570 That's the US Marine Corps.
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@DaleDixieMafia "Tldr Colts only contribution to the rifle was the forward assist" - but that's not true, though. After the design was sold to Colt, they kept playing around with the design. They did the long-stroke piston with the Colt Model 703, much later they did the Type C SCAR in short-stroke, they did the 605 carbines and the 607 "submachine gun", they did the 609/610/629/649 "commando" versions, etc. They even did a line of automatic rifle/light support weapon versions and the Colt 9mm SMG. At one point the shortcomings of the commando versions forced the military to accept it as a "submachine gun" even though it doesn't fire a pistol round, so the XM4 project began as a way of combining the old XM177s with the M16A2. Not only was the M4 design a product of Colt's R&D, it is itself a derivative work from previous Colt R&D. The claim that Colt did nothing but add a forward assist is false, and pretty much unrelated to the topic considering that the M4 came into the picture much later than the early days of AR-15 adoption trials.
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So you're saying Russia will end the world because they can't handle a loss?
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@shootingbricks8554 Kind of the other way around. Effectiveness of the booster is said to be 10-14 weeks, so getting one per year only gives you a short lived protection. You could make the deliberate decision to get it expecting the winter peak, but nothing guarantees you won't get it during spring. So if you're just going to get one a year, you might as well not jump into the carousel. Either way, until the Omicron specific shot comes out, all boosters are woefully outdated because they're meant for the Wuhan variant from 2019.
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 @layedbackthomas It's not just a matter of regulation. It's cultural.
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We don't know if the camera had proper optical zoom instead of digital zoom.
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"hurr, for the chillenz" Great, you've abandoned your faith in humanity and the sense of preservation of your species. You're either playing cool on the internet or actually depressed, and let me tell you that none of those things lead people to great places. I have a working brain that can be used to help people that I couldn't help physically. Give that a try sometime.
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The older the ammo they use, the less effective they'd be even at that.
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Since Harambe got clipped we have been living in that.
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@madhouse9330 Chinese PMCs have a bad reputation. They're bouncers, they've never been to war.
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When Russia came to Bucha they spilled blood of innocent people. These weapons? They're ending the bloodshed. Many mothers are thankful.
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But the MiG-31 is the better platform for it.
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It's not unlawful. If Russia wanted to not be surrounded by NATO they should have stopped invading their neighbors. Putin isn't going to win. Just accept it now.
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It's not spending, it's equipment gathering dust. And Russia is losing.
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@kenjisasuke7705 "a saturation attack of supersonic/hypersonic, manoeuvrable missiles" - Almost everything in this sentence is contradictory. Maneuverable hypersonic is very generous, they'll have very wide turn radiuses at those speeds. Hypersonics are too expensive to saturate with.
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+Jan van der Burg why? Criminals don't have cars? They can't do crime in whatever neighbourhood they want and then flee?
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That should be the Third Army Corps.
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@azmtkdzv But Russian TV commentators have stated Russia should use nuclear weapons.
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Where are the counterattacks? Ritter is also a convicted nonce. Stop listening to him.
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The capture of Severodonetsk lead to the Kharkiv massacre. Russia taking territory has lead them to losing territory faster.
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Russia released Azov in exchange for one of Putin's friends. Those who died to "destroy" Azov under Putin's orders had their lives thrown away by the Bunker Tsar himself.
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 @scorcher117 Jonathan ARYAN Jafari moment
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Has he apologized for constantly missing the deadline on when Ukraine would collapse?
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@klaasvakie Yes, he does. He wants an audience, he has to be correct. If all he says are Russian propaganda delusions, he can stop having his minions beg for more viewers on other peoples' comment sections.
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Who?
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But mass shooters aren't the normal criminals. They are pussies and they give up as soon as someone resists. Often they even pull the trigger on themselves as soon as they see that someone else is armed. They choose their targets because they're unarmed. If schools have firearms inside, there will be less mass shooters willing to shoot there.
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@fish5671 Yeah but they'll give them decades to pay back. The UK kept paying their WWII loans into the 1980s if I'm not misremembering.
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@fish5671 That doesn't help the fight at all.
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There's tons of footage of dead and captured Russians. That's a very good sign.
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Stingers are for aircraft, though.
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@paul9874 It's a waste. A RPG7 would obliterate a truck. A Stinger warhead is made for fragmentation, not penetration.
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The funniest thing was - he asked when he was going to be invited to join. The answer was that there's a process to apply and there were several countries waiting in line, they wouldn't get a seat at a table simply for existing.
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You're confused about the meaning of focus.
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@wessd The problem here is that optical focus means nothing when the sensor has a very low resolution. It's gonna be blurry any way. For practical purposes, both the bird and water can be resolved acceptably in equal fashion.
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"Code only has to be written once, and you can scale it up infinitely, at no cost" - So... how much software have you coded?
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@ysz10000 my girlfriend works as a programmer, and work is never done. There's no final version. Difference between product and service. Even software sold as a product is constantly updated.
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@ysz10000 and we replaced many manual tasks in the old old economy. It protected humans from very dangerous work, it protected children (child labor was already in decline when it was officially banned by law). We can't complain about cashiers and warehouse workers being treated like farm animals and denied bathroom breaks and then complain that we need manual labor to keep these people employed. For example, CNC machining hasn't completely killed manual machining and even CNC machinery needs skilled operators to oversee the production.
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@ysz10000 "distribute the gains from machinery fairly" - how so?
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@ysz10000 Which is a scam. The extra taxes on companies will be passed down to consumers, companies that can't remain competitive with the extra taxes will move overseas, and the VAT will also affect your purchasing power. All the money you'll get through UBI, you'll be paying it back with the increased cost of goods. Even if it works out like Yang claims. It's still a scam. For example, with an extra thousand bucks you won't be eating double. You won't be driving twice as long to work. You won't get two netflix accounts and you won't be acquiring two internet or phone services. But people will do things like buy more pairs of shoes, more clothes, drink more Starbucks, order more things from Amazon, etc. UBI will steal money from *all businesses*, even the ones that won't get extra demand, but give it back to corporations that benefit from consumerism.
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Right, so let's get shackled to the insane Wolf Warrior Diplomacy and obsession with Taiwan, the mismanagement of having a huge sector of the economy based around a housing market Ponzi scheme and welding people in their own homes. Please.
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Have your neighbors heard anything or called the police? Have you told your teachers at school? The problem with shooters who obtained their guns legally was that usually they were known to be unstable - but rarely reported as such on the NICS check. In my country, not a lot of people have guns in the house in cities. Husbands and wives kill each other with knives or brutal beat-downs. Crimes of passion are not stopped with gun control. More women with guns - less violent husbands.
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 @RichelieuUnlimited surplus ammo is often the same standard. If you get sirplus M80 ball, it should perform like modern M80 ball.
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Yeah you see a lot of supplies are delivered by civilian cars and trucks. The multi-ton military trucks suffered like 1000 losses in the first year.
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The targets were lightly defended because of the grueling task of eliminating defenses. Desert Storm is the prime example of being so good you make hard things look easy. It was not only required of the Coalition to use cruise missiles extensively, but also stealth aircraft and low flying helicopters to take out radars and silence command posts. Then came the drones to be used as bait and get the defenses that had the radars turned off to starm beaming the decoys thinking they were aircraft. Then the EW coverage which allowed aircraft to step in and continue peeling away the layers of defense by degrading the accuracy of the radar returns. Even after the radar SAMs were suppressed, AAA wasn't. Harriers had trouble with heat seeking SAMs. Low flying Tornados were vulnerable to airfield defenses when they attempted low lever runway bombing. Most aircraft were given a 12,000 ft safety level they were not meant to fly under due to existing Iraq defenses. One of the exceptions were A-10 for a certain period and Fast FAC F-16s, which suppressed AAA by diving on it and dropping unguided bombs or cluster munitions. All of this was extremely hard. It was a challenging operation. But it was conducted so well the enemy had no option but to run. And you type on a keyboard how easy it was. Because you don't see the work required.
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@SergeantAradir The major difference is that you need multiple additions to that "light infantry" in "some foxholes". You want a good analogue, you'll need bunkers too, AT mines, pre-sighted artillery, ATGMs, ambush sites with shoulder fired rocket launchers and AT guns ready to take out vehicles as they roll in, plus the enemy having tanks and IFVs of their own. There's no ground radar to detect tanks like aircraft are detected, so I guess the enemy has forward observers and drones to provide early warning and correction to artillery. Your enemy has an entire spectrum of weapons dedicated solely to swat aircraft out of the air. And you want to compare this to just light infantry and foxholes. If you plan your tank advance poorly, you won't roll in with ease. You'll need to do everything in your power to fight every one of those individual weapons before the tanks can even roll in. You have to kill observers. Take out drones. Find the ambushes. Evade the mine fields. Use your artillery/cruise missiles to take out the artillery. You need a well oiled machine to "roll in with ease" through those defenses. Russian attacks missed. What else is new? They got the Aliexpress version of Desert Storm. Do you think that if the US was blue team and Ukraine red team, that moving defenses around would have made the US say "aw shucks" and give up? No, they'd continue with SEAD. The Iraqis started defensive moves after the initial attacks blew their defenses apart. To the point that most US aircraft were not allowed to fly under 10k-12k feet due to the threat their defenses still posed. Even when SAMs were suppressed, AAA wasn't. It has to be suppressed "manually".
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@SergeantAradir You said it was easy, so now you've conceded and admitted it was hard. "Precision bombardment" I just said that AAA had to be suppressed with dumb bombs, pilots had to dive and put the CCIP pipper on them and dodge the tracers.
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@SergeantAradir Unrelated but there's a funny article about how everyone who Muhammad Ali defeated was a bum/was on a losing streak. Why am I reminded of that article? Because being on top has a cost, training hard has a cost, good planning has a cost. When you step into a ring and knock someone unconscious with one punch, everyone in the audience says it was easy. Had the US not overprepared for that fight, it would have been seen as an upset. Look at Russia, they got half the world saying they are bums because they prepared for the wrong operation. Even though they inch forward and Ukraine suffers unsustainable casualties. The US could have won in Iraq through superiority alone, and still come out as the laughing stock of the world.
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The Great Depression was caused by government interference.
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It failed. No air bridge = fail.
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@jrd33 Wrong. Russians are fighting, but Ukrainians don't take the bait. They go around and threaten encirclement. When the forces cannot fight any longer they take the only road out, and Ukraine shells their escape. The Russian artillery needs ammo and spotters. Ukraine takes out spotters, shoots down observer drones, and has destroyed ammo dumps.
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It's real. They were photographed in Melitopol.
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@haruruben They're not flying it because of value, but because they have it. It's desperation. They are using it properly. That's the problem. They know better and know the Su-25 (or the A-10) can't survive. So they're releasing unguided rockets and go back home while men die under them.
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@lohphat "Libertarians say that taxation is like theft because it takes property from the unwilling. What they ignore, time and time again, is the crucial role of democratic consent" - when was the last time there was a democratic referendum regarding taxes? Also, democratic consent is a joke. 9 out of 10 people consent to a gang rape. You don't get to consent for me and I don't get to consent for you. "Taxes are not arbitrary impositions decreed by a faceless government" - they pretty much are. Financial policy is too complex for populist rhetoric and is mostly done behind closed doors. Not only are the hordes of unelected bureaucrats a literal manifestation of a "faceless government" but the taxation is pretty much arbitrary as the politicians in power make decisions based not with infinite wisdom but with personal biases, ideological and political constraints, etc. "Rather, taxes are the dues we pay in exchange for membership in a society and access to all the services it offers." - How do I revoke my membership? How can I cancel those services? In order for a membership or service to make sense I need to be able to withdraw my money. When dealing with an organization or provider my ability to sever my ties is the only form of leverage I have. "If you believe the price is too high, you’re free to renounce your membership and leave the club. What you’re not free to do is to refuse to pay, but demand that you still be allowed to sit in the club and use its facilities" - BULLSHIT. The equivalent would be a private club demanding that you pay even if you don't set foot inside the club. "Nor are you free, if the club doesn’t offer this option, to decide that you only use some of its services – only the swimming pool, say, but not the sauna or the tennis courts – and should therefore have the right to pay a prorated membership fee." - that's fucking ridiculous because there's many health clubs that have pricing systems where you only pay for what you use. Somehow several tiers of a service is a pie in the sky ordeal to the stupid mutherfucker who wrote this article. "If you don’t want to pay, if you dislike its terms, you can leave that society" - No, you can't. The government is making it harder for you to renounce citizenship by increasing the fees and demanding more bureaucracy such as requiring you to have citizenship in another country before you're allowed to renounce yours. The private club is now holding you hostage, demanding money and saying that you can't leave until you prove that you have bought a membership into another club. THIS IS A CRIME. "But you are not free to unilaterally demand that society rewrite its terms to favor your particular preferences." - you're not free to unilaterally demand that society rewrite its terms to favor your particular preferences. I'm gonna live in your house and eat your food. You're not free to demand me to leave. Respect your property? That's just your personal preference. "As centuries of history show, the natural state of an unregulated economy is not free competition, but stifled and constrained competition" - BULLSHIT LOL WE HAD CENTURIES OF MONARCHY AND NO FREEDOM AT ALL AND AS REGULATION INCREASES COMPETITION IS MORE AND MORE STIFLED. All major media companies are owned by like 6 groups. Facebook owns Whatsapp and Instagram. Patreon had competitors killed with the help of PayPal and MasterCard. Look at how Amazon is taking over. We're living in the age where there's less competition and everything is being owned by the same people but PLEASE tell me how regulation is good and doesn't stifle competition at all. "Large, established powers, if given the chance, will do everything they can to suppress competition" - such as buying off government officials or blackmailing them with all the revenue and jobs they control. OH MY GOD THIS GUY IS AN ABSOLUTE MORON: "industry groups may take a hand in designing regulations that make it all but impossible for new players to enter the field" then later "To maintain the preferable state of a free market, we need structure and regulation from the government" MOTHERFUCKER ADMITS THAT INDUSTRY WRITES REGULATION AND THEN CLAIMS REGULATION IS THE ANSWER "Outright intimidation, fraud and violence are often used against those who refuse to play along. Even the staunchly libertarian Cato Institute admits this:" - the article he links too and quotes out of context. The article linked is about how corporations use the government as a tool to squash competition and Adam Lee twists it into making you think the Cato institute is pro-government regulation. "In my experience, most libertarians concede that some regulation is needed, but argue that they should only be taxed for services that benefit them directly. This is like demanding that businesses sell their goods to you for exactly what it cost to make them and no more" - this is garbage. It's not equivalent at all. The price of a service is set at the equilibrium point between where a customer is willing to pay and where a company is willing to sacrifice their margins. If you demand for a cheaper service and the business can't do it or else they can't make money, you either stop consuming or you keep paying. If you're only taxed for the benefits you claimed, you pay fair and square for the cost of those services. " Just like any business, the government is entitled to “turn a profit”" - BU LL SH IT most governments run on a deficit, they spend every little red cent and then some. They contract debt by running on a deficit which then they try to pay off years later with the growth of the economy. Governments turning a profit? What? "Just as with a business, these proceeds can be reinvested" - this guy is fucking delusional. Money isn't "reinvested" by the government. It's all spent. Spending on infrastructure are "overhead" costs. When a company saves money and invests it, they're essentially starting "new" business by expanding their capacity or even buying new facilities. Countries don't save money to start more countries. This guy is purposefully conflating the concept of profits with revenue. When a business gets its revenue it """"""reinvests"""""" that money into raw materials, tooling, payroll, etc. but that's not "reinvestment" that's simply paying for the overhead costs. Those costs eat into your margins and thus reduce your profits. Your profits is what you actually take and keep in a war chest or redistribute towards shareholders as dividend, etc. You can then REINVEST into the business by hiring more personnel, buying more machines or even opening a new facility. And no, building roads and hospitals isn't reinvestment, that's the overhead because you have paying customers who you can't serve and thus you must bear the costs of doing business. Investment means you want to get something out of it, but you won't get something if the people already paid. "If taxes are spent unwisely or wasted, the answer is to elect better politicians" - JUST VOTE HARDER, PEASANT TL;DR - the guy who wrote that argument is a total moron and I've defeated all of his arguments
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Cope. The Russian army was shredded and now they're using civilians and prisoners as cannon fodder.
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Russia inches forward to capture positions. Ukraine wants to drive around positions and use movement to get around the Russian forces, either getting them to surrender or engulfing them to starve them out of ammo.
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The issue is that Blackwater was hired to do a job and they did it poorly. Wagner exists as an arm of the Russian government. They receive Russian government fake IDs. They are flown around by Russian military aircraft. They have offices and training camps inside of military bases. This isn't how mercenaries work.
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>"Kherson is Russia" >leaves >refuses to elaborate
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That's a cheap jab. Apart from the sensor and microchips most components on a camera can be produced locally.
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It's the G36 piston. Which is in itself inspired by the AR-18 piston.
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Control does not factor into a decision unless Aggression is equal for both fighters and Aggression does not factor into a decision unless both fighters are tied in score. Sean outstriking DDP in a round automatically wins the round no matter what make believe rules you read. It's the Ultimate Fighting Championship, not the Ultimate Pacing Championship or the Ultimate Control Championship. Walking forward isn't fighting. If the guy walking backwards lands more shots than you going forward, he's beating you.
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@uwotmatte7577 "That judge saw some magical circunstancial evidence and still signed a warrant?" - Confidential informants have caused BS warrants to be written. Judges trust the information and sign it, but the way the information was obtained might not be trustworthy.
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I mean it kind of makes them look foolish. Not all publicity is good publicity.
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But Ukraine purposefully used the videos for psyop. By releasing so much drone drop footage they taunted the Russians into converting recon quadcopters into attack drones, which degraded Russian artillery effectiveness. There's a lot of complaints on telegram from Russian soldiers who are losing artillery spotting to drones being sent to drop nades and ending up shot at or taken down with EW.
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The absolute state of Ru shills.
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@secretname4190 if you want a pragmatic answer, it's easier to get funding for a historical/conflict anime than live action or 3d/western cartoon. There's animes about the history of tanks and service rifles. There's animes about the modern Japanese army going into a fantasy setting. You can get a lot of niche topics covered in eastern 2D.
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What a joke. Russians just want to quit their contracts and get over with it. Many have rescinded contracts despite the harassment and humiliation. They've ran through the able bodied men in the DPR and LPR - they're recruiting old men and the ill. Wagner is accepting criminals. Their mercenaries don't even ask for military service anymore - it used to be a requirement. There's nothing coming. Russians are setting fires to recruitment offices. They don't want to go.
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 @jacobburns3515 because Musk tweeted it while in a K-hole? The Dems have been battling Trump since 2015, you'd think they have released the evidence?
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 @aidan11162 You can when they land or take off. There are demo footage clips of satellite photos stitched into video of civilian airports showing airliners taxiing and landing/taking off
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@sandshark2 "So a billionaire can save their income in stocks" - That means paying taxes. Both on the income side, and on the purchase of the stocks. Stocks aren't a shell game for money. "thanks to the sheer amount of money they use in stocks, it doesnt all crash. And no taxes needing paid." - But they did pay. There's the income tax, and the sales tax on stocks. You can't hide income from the IRS with stocks, that's what Newtonia is trying to tell you and you keep missing the point.
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They already have Su-25s. Bery dangerous to fly, they have to pitch up and lob rockets from afar.
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That's why IRIS-T, NASAMS, Patriot were sent and the Sea Sparrow mod for the Buk is being developed. Also, Merkel lied to save face. Both the assault on Debaltseve and the second battle of Donetsk airport clearly showed Russia used Minsk to attack when Ukraine had the pants down. Merkel trying to pretend the plan was always to delay the fight to rearm Ukraine is her trying to clear her name when everyone knew Russia never stopped the fighting.
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@loganknezovich8394 Russia has been losing almost 30 artillery pieces per day during the offensive...
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@peetasmith4403 I also heard the collapse of Ukrainian resistance would happen last year. You people are a doomsday cult constantly changing the date.
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Shoot the hostage in the knee. Wait, wrong scenario.
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Only 10k were sent.
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The referendum was held at gunpoint. Literally one of the points that disqualify the results of a referendum in the eyes of international observers is the presence of a foreign army intimidating the voting populace.
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Will Smith (Russian flag): "You can't even defeat Afghanistan" Robot (US Flag): "Can you?"
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War is devastating, who knew?
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20 hours later... they weren't in favorable positions. The Ukrainian forces weren't destroyed. Artillery wasn't working.
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 @zkf5448 Russia will arrest you for your opinions. If you need a way out, you take it.
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Because it sucks? Heavier than 5.56, worse trajectory.
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@devildog1989 A pill flying at 2950 doesn't have a similar trajectory to a pill flying at 2550. Kinetic energy is inherently a misleading metric. 7.63x39 is superior to 5.45x39 in that aspect. However, soldiers can carry more 5.45 and they hit more than with 5.45. The enemy won't pull out a calculator and check how much energy they got hit with. The only difference is that they have a higher chance of not getting hit if you're using 7.62. It's not just "literally" swapping parts. That's what you do to a rifle at home. In the military? That's not happening. The logistical troubles with conversion are not worth it. What happens is, the oldest rifles are retired and the ones who still have life in them are either put into storage or given to the National Guard/other countries as foreign aid. They're not going to rebarrel rifles that are only going to last another year in service.
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@devildog1989 The prices drop with mass manufacture. The 6.8 SPCII has existed for 20 years, and it sucked for all of them. If you're hunting with hollowpoints it's actually great, but as a military caliber it was evaluated by SOCOM and dropped. There's no such thing as bolt and barrel swaps. Unfortunately I don't remember when, must have been in a Q&A, but Ian McCollum has delivered one of the best explanations about how conversions can have almost everything go wrong. You won't save billions. First of all, it's a worse cartridge than 5.56. Second, it's going to go wrong. Even the M21 program was a failure. The Mk14 EBR was another shitshow. This obsession with "saving money" by trying to polish turds has not saved any money at all. Gold Dot is by Speer. Either way, the 77gr SMK on Mk262 has a G7 = .185 if you want to chase BCs, you won't beat that with a 90gr 6.8. The issue with the BC argument is that high BC bullets for 6.8 are naturally heavier or too long to fit the AR magazine format. Heavy bullets is going 7.62x39 after trying 5.45 - experience tells us it's a mistake and a step backwards. You gain BC, but you lose in velocity which means it's still arcing more than 5.56. You could do a light for caliber load, but that's to increase short range performance without gaining 400+ yard performance. Okay, M855A1 already did that. 6.8 SPC is completely irrelevant in terms of a military load, which is why official adoption only came from the DEA and gate guards in Middle Eastern oil states. If you want to shoot a guy driving a VBIED before he can get close to an oil sheik, a 6.8 hollow point does the trick.
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@Doppe1ganger "Because they can" - That's not an explanation. "pure free market capitalism allows the big guy to unfairly stomp on the little guy" - Our current situation allows that. "It allows for politics to be bribed" - No, that's our current situation. In a free market economy there's no politicians to bribe because the market is free from political interference. Bribing politicians wouldn't do anything. "What do you mean "why do it?" Stupid question." - No, it's not stupid because it's a logical hole in your theory.
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@Doppe1ganger Your entire argument is that free markets punish the little guy. But we see monopolies punishing the little guy with regulation. If what you said was true, the monopolies would open the market. But they restrict competition. So you're lying. "What do you mean "our curent situation allows that"" - Our current situation crushes competition and politicians are bribed. Are you denying this? "Why would there not be politicians in a free market economy?" - No politicians controlling the markets. Please learn to read. "If it's beneficial for the big dog to create a political system to enact policies for them, why would free market economics not do that?" - Because then the market isn't free. Duh? "A perfect slave. " - lol
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That's actually rare, though. Developers often can't finish games due to strict deadlines, but between a game going gold and actually being available to players there's a time period that is used to create extra content to offset the cost of development. There may be extra monetization plans and even writing for those extras before principal development actually starts but it's extremely rare that the DLC "finishes" the game. It's mostly stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor and even be a total "spin off" from the main story and playing through it doesn't in any way make the experience more complete. For example I got the complete edition of Homefront: The Revolution on sale and while the base game is a Ubisoft open world checkbox the two story DLCs are more like longer linear missions that in no way affect the main game. I don't think anyone cares about spoilers, so in one of the DLC the story that was already finished gets an epilogue where the main character dies roasted inside a missile silo while flipping the bird at two Norks. To me the story ended with the original game and I would have never bought the DLC, I ended up with them because of the aforementioned sale. Things like Shark Cards in GTA and the player packs from FIFA are way more egregious than forgettable DLC that isn't in any way necessary to make the original game worthwhile. I do think the old style expansion packs are superior. though.
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@robot5626 Historylegends is a clown. You heard Ukrainians took heavy losses. I saw the Russian heavy losses. Tons of footage of the captured and the dead. They're waving the white flag and collapsing.
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@gracewnell6464 There's videos of tons of Russian equipment being captured by Ukrainians, and the surrendered Russian troops being tied up. It's going very well.
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@nattygsbord The Gripen is Saab's own little marketing scam. The Brazilians are paying more per Gripen than the cost of a F-35. Wing loading is misleading, because the F-35's body is a wing. The F-35 has an excellent thrust to weight ratio. The issue is that it carries a lot of fuel. So a 50% full tank means the F-35 is being compared to aircraft that should be carrying fuel bags. The Gripen has shorter range and less capabilities. A naval Rafale first tranche costs over 200 million per aircraft, with following tranches being 150 million.
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 @frankstallone3864 which process? I was under the impression Taiwan can make them with lower nm.
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 @frankstallone3864 which process? I was under the impression Taiwan can make them with lower nm.
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@frankstallone3864 That's the thing - more crap chips for low demand applications aren't as important as the high end chips we critically need. Whenever there's shortage of computer parts and prices rise, typically it's Taiwan that's the bottleneck. Because only specific manufacturers make the components that go into the stuff all the computer brands, cellphone brands, etc make.
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If it's like getting shot by paintball, it hurts but it doesn't stop anyone. Otherwise paintballs would be used for self-defense. Actual rubber slugs and rubber buckshot have more capability of stopping someone than merely annoying them.
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Taxing generational wealth is a net gain for the ultra rich because it breaks up family businesses. They lose money, but squash the competition.
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 @YorkerEli The West has not sent a single Western fighter yet, only a handful of tanks, and Desert Storm era Bradleys. How are we depleted?
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@YorkerEli We have stockpiles and factories.
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@caelestemundus5178 WWII did not have modern anti-ship missiles. Did you watch the first months of the war, how Ukraine used a Tochka-U (which isn't even an anti-ship missile) to target a Russian supply ship?
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@jacqdanieles the Russian shills say "allies" or "allied forces" because they're composed of Russian military, separatist militia, reservist volunteer battalions, etc.
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@garretteickelberg9097 But Big Tech censorship still exists. C'mon.
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@casval-pj5tb I'm not comparing war to a wall. You're incompetent for doing incompetent things. If your hardware survives, that doesn't detract from your incompetence. It just means your equipment is idiot-proof. Now, if your equipment is idiot-proof I wonder what that makes you if you have an accident with it and don't damage it.
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@AndRei-yc3ti Technically speaking, Kherson had two breakthroughs. Not an actual battle for Kherson city, but the surrounding areas were battled for.
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@AndRei-yc3ti Rusich has said the defenses are useless. Those guys are hateful anti-Ukrainian extremists. If they're saying the defenses are useless... I'd listen.
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@AndRei-yc3ti The IMF is simply reporting Rosstat numbers. The IMF has no means to investigate what's going on inside the Russian economy.
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@AndRei-yc3ti It was enough to force the retreat.
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I read somewhere the naval mount is 1.5 tons total.
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The Tsar Bomba was 57 megaton. Most warheads in ground and naval launch use by the US top off at around 475 kiloton. You're not gonna get a greater chance of fire from nukes smaller than we already detonated before.
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People complain about TikTok daily. Nobody has called out TikTok? It gets called out so often I'm actually kind of tired of hearing about it. YouTube was called out by that ginger guy. YouTube took down a ton of accounts and disabled comments on videos that seem to feature children. The author "denounced" it by getting the girls to do the same shit? Brilliant cinematography? Press X to doubt. I don't think she's the next Kubrick. Also, calling people virgins lol
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It's fighting one country with ancient hand me down gear.
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There was a huge landing gear found in the grass, possibly debris from a Il-76. Anyway, Russians admitted the losd.
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@kw4961 Not if they miss.
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@id10t98 My dude the man's out of office and you're still letting him live in your head, rent free. Stop pretending you're a revolutionary, you elected an old racist white guy to replace the other white guy.
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@ActivateMission2ThisTimeline What racist crap? You're the one programmed to cry "racism", even if it's a white person calling out a white person for being an old racist. Legacy media? Legacy media simps for Biden and erase his past doings.
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Reporting on temperatures is garbage but summers are getting riddiculous. I remember higher temps as a kid, for a few days. Now we're experiencing summer-spanning drought seasons. It's riddiculous how hot it's getting.
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Norincos are known for having good receivers. People who build National Match M14s swear by them. 9-Hole Reviews got Norinco parts to build his M21 clone if I remember correctly.
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Because the youtube algorithm detected you're watching political content. Anti gun videos get concealed carry insurance and gun safe ads while pro gun videos get anti gun ads.
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@liesdamnlies3372 what about the coil effect on sweat glands?
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At that point, you're running the game so well you can just do it natively.
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@johnmaccallum7935 Completely unrelated. People keep ascribing meaning to things that don't mean what they think.
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@johnmaccallum7935 Radars can't beat physics. How long has it been since the last "dogfight"? And 80% of shootdowns occur when the pilot being fired on did not realize he had an enemy in the area.
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@johnmaccallum7935 How are you planning to have hypersonic dogfights? I don't remember the name of the report but supersonic combat logged in the entire Vietnam war was measured in minutes. Combat at Mach 2 was measured in seconds. Oh, 6th gen will be higher performance than 5th gen? What a dramatic twist. Would never see that coming.
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@johnmaccallum7935 If all you can do is appeal to an (unproven) authority without an actual argument, then you have nothing to offer. The Fighter Mafia lost out in the end, by the way.
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@johnmaccallum7935 But not in the way you portray it. Speed is a function of how soon you can be at point XYZ and how far you can loft munitions. But you're focused on dogfighting, which can't be done at high supersonic and when it does begin at supersonic speeds it goes to subsonic very quickly. All you can say is "you're wrong" without actually confronting how you want contradicting design parameters.
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@WeeWRomero There's only 12 Su-57 made...
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@WeeWRomero Do you know how to stop being an annoying child?
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Air superiority just means the air force can conduct operations with minimal opposition from the defending air forces. It doesn't mean total and absolute control of the air.
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@skoll_2024 Except for very lopsided combat, things are always going to randomly fall from the sky. A country can have air superiority and still allow for daring incursions, cruise missiles or long range artillery to fall. Look at the helicopter raid on Belgorod. As long as the planning and timing is right, you can have the air superiority and air assets can still manage to fly through the gaps. You can be merc'd by air assets without your own air force being able to do a thing about it because superiority doesn't imply omnipresence.
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Then give us the REAL version of the events, then.
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Okay. What happens next time they need troops, and the people fighting start wondering if they're the "feint" and their goal is fake? Would you give your life for a feint? Most people wouldn't.
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@junkjackcriteria They don't because they said so. They played it cool when Finland joined.
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@junkjackcriteria And then nothing happened and Russian state media said Putin didn't care.
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I just toss them in a mini-sized trash bin with a scented plastic bag.
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@canceroushumor460 Australian SAS has entered the chat
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Dragon's teeth are useless. Ukraine just waits for Russians to roll over mines, then shoots artillery with mine dispensing rounds behind then to trap the retreat. Then shell the boxed in survivors. That's how it went in the Vuhledar massacre. By the way, Wagner's losses were the meat shield. They wore it down in a single town. Another battle like that, the conventional Russian army crumbles. They can't stomach so many losses. It's not WWII with millions of men in both sides. Armies are smaller and couples have less kids today.
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@AliothAncalagon "at least they did something" - doing "something" doesn't deflect criticism
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Surviving winter is easier than surviving cold winter. The hate for vatniks keeps me warm.
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Okay. You do the reengineering of the gun mount, ammo drum and the feed chute.
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There's people without a technical background and no formal training who can do impressive things.
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That's fair. He can stay home if we're paying him to do nothing, though.
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And they're beating each other senseless in their borders. Because they agreed to not bring guns to their border dispute. Otherwise they'd be massacring each other by the hundreds. India and China are geopolitical enemies, BRICS is a loose economic trading block. Just like we can buy Russian oil but give weapons to Ukraine to destroy Russia. Business is business. Killing is killing.
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@smyers820gm WWIII means the world. One country getting dunked on by dozens of countries isn't a "world war".
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@smyers820gm Not every nation, but it involved China, Japan, the Koreas, Philippines, the Soviet Union, Africa, the US, Canada, Great Britain and most of continental Europe. Basically only South America was spared, and even then Brazil sent fighter pilots. So it was truly a world war.
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Cope.
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@andrewmorgan5950 Russia claims (take that for what you will) that Ukraine entered Belgorod and stole/sabotaged military vehicles. So according to Russia, they've already been invaded.
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No world peace when you reward the war.
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@PutXi_Whipped Wiped out people with 3-4 co-morbidities? Is that supposed to impress me? It wasn't from an American lab because Shi Zhengli had to go back and make up the ratg13 virus to make it look natural. Why would the Chinese be covering their tracks if the virus was American made?
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@raidermaxx2324 Yes. Material will turn into unstable isotopes, and as they return to a stable element they will emit radiation over time.
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Geothermal is essentially just tapping into the radioactive decay of isotopes in the Earth's crust. It's nuclear with extra steps.
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@johnfrost1814 Even the F-15C technically has air to ground features and the Israelis have used it on strike missions to drop bombs. The F-16 is a truly "do everything" aircraft. It's not "just" a light plane. The A-10 barely gets missions. It's there because Congress refuses to allow the retirement.
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@choppergunner8650 Apart from how media reports on it, what exactly makes you feel the F-35 is not a good jet? They didn't do anything that the F-16 and F/A-18 didn't already have. It is very maneuverable, and it is fast. F-35 pilots say that in dry thrust the F-16 has to use afterburner to keep up. If other aircraft have to use afterburner to keep up with a F-35 in dry thrust, that means it's a rocket. Internal cannons? Under which use case do you think the B and C will need them? The B will not waste time trying to use the gun, it will be flying back to get more payload and come back and drop it - because it's going to be delivering the equivalent of artillery for the USMC. The C trying to go for guns is just going to allow the incoming aircraft to get close enough for an anti-ship missile shot. What good is a cannon when the carrier is sinking and now you can't land? Glued to the F-35's butt? And how is that going to happen? That is Hollywood. Air combat isn't what you see in the movies. 80% of air combat is shooting unaware opponents. That's the reality, who sees the enemy first typically gets to shoot first. The F-35 is not only a mini-AWACS but also is one of the hardest aircraft to "see".
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@johnfrost1814 Okay. My point is that even the "not a pound for air to ground" F-15 ended up having multirole features. And sure, there's a dedicated multirole variant. But that's only a point in favor for multiroles. Its multipurpose has nothing to do with being light or heavy, it's simply the fighter built in larger numbers so it gets to do the most missions. The Mirage and Eurofighter are "heavier" than the JAS 39 Gripen. They're all multiroles, thought. The A-10 was better suited against insurgents and nearly worthless in a near-peer engagement - Iraq taught the USAF a lesson in 1991 and forced Gen. Chuck Horner to pull the A-10 back.
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Ukraine also has orthodox christians fighting the Russians...
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Nice cope. NATO servants? Remember when most of NATO disagreed with the Iraq war? So the US went in with Brits, Aussies and a few Polish special forces. Muh existencial crisis. All they have to do is go home. We don't want their backwater country or their people. No, the war would not have been over. Ukrainians would be killing Russians in the streets of Kiev. I always heard of 22 suicides a day in the US armed forces veterans. I bet the Ukrainians would make the Russians do 50.
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"they wouldn't have to bring ammo, they could just use NATO's ammo as they conquer each country" - and each country conveniently leaves spiked ammunition that will explode and kill the shooter when they sense that they're about to be overrun.
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@stevyd Calling things right-wing talking points is not a rational reply. A rational reply would offer the correct explanation. But nice of you to spam the same comment everywhere.
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The NSA does not have the computing power to OCR scan every image on Discord or the Chans.
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BRO HOW IS THE PICTURE ANY SMOOTHER? By that logic we could just repeat frames 3 times. Bam 80 FPS out of 20. You still have the input lag but hey you got 80 fps.
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I just think he's saying that he's not trying to do the historical side of things.
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Nobody said Wagner was good. Wagner firing SAMs at Russian air force was good. Hope the pilots felt the fuel splash around them and ignite as they crashed.
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 @Drybones195 And Russia wouldn't have done the same? They arrested people for holding blank sheets of paper in protests.
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 @sboinkthelegday3892 People incarcerated in the US have comitted crimes. The US has high crime rates.
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@erythreas34 The thing is that they wanted character progress in PvE. So you can't let people unplug the internet, turn on the hacks, grind, turn them off and then switch to online. Obviously the underlying reason is profit. But they can't "just make it offline" without making PvE a glorified practice mode. It's also supposed to have coop. Obviously I don't condone buying the 250 dollar DLC (plus tax). But if they did it the simple way people would whine too.
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"It's not to protect the person wearing it it's for the people around them" - When you cough or sneeze you create a high pressure zone inside the mask. What happens? The mask is pushed off your face. When you inhale, what happens? The air is sucked in faster than it can move through the restriction, creates a low pressure zone. What happens? The mask contracts and hugs your face.
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@bballjulien You didn't understand what I have written. You just think it looks similar to something else so you've access the pre-planned argument and type it without paying attention Pressure differentials exist even in the atmosphere where there's no restrictions. The doctors thing isn't even relevant to this discussion. Please read again, understand what's being said and then you may respond.
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@bballjulien I said, blowing creates a positive pressure zone, which presses against the mask. Inhaling creates a low pressure zone, which sucks the mask in. How that is related to doctors beats me.
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@bballjulien We're not talking about surgeries. Again, you read something you think was an argument you already seen, and you had a ready-made counter argument. Within context, the response makes no sense.
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@bballjulien No, it isn't because during a surgery you're not using the mask to stop viral aerosol transmission. I had a surgery last year. I had to get tested because if I were to be put under surgery while positive, they'd have to do it in a different room and wearing different equipment.
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@bballjulien No, it's not complicated. Surgical masks were not made to stop viral transmission. I had a surgery last year, and had to get tested. If the surgical masks were that good, why did they bother testing me?
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@bballjulien But the mask is being advertised as stopping aerosolized, asymptomatic spread. By your logic all we need is spit guards in front of cashiers and don't talk to strangers. Nevertheless, if you forcefully blow air out of your mouth through a sneeze or cough the mask will be blown away from the face, expanding the gaps through which the droplets can escape. If you're another person, inhaling will suck the mask into your face preventing you from contacting the infectious particles. So the mask works better at protecting you than protecting others.
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@bballjulien This blow out says more about you than me.
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We spent what, almost 20 years calling Sarah Jessica Parker that?
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@gordonramsey6364 "socialism is working just fine in Canada" - Canada isn't socialist. "They have coronavirus under control," - But other countries don't have it under control. All systems fail if they get hit like Italy or Spain did.
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@KingstonHawke "There’s no great argument against considering health care a human right" - Yes, there is. It's a right that can only exist by violating others' rights.
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@KingstonHawke I work for a wage. A part of my wages is deducted. I can't refuse to pay. How does this not violate my rights?
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@KingstonHawke "So, the police are slaves?" - supreme court says you're not entitled to police protection
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Yeah but you can't be forced to take an experimental one, that's messed up considering all the Cold War era testing the military did on troops. And I don't know a single soul who had Cominarty or whatever was the "truly approved" one called.
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@stingingmetal9648 Russia isn't doing the upgrades.
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Jet propulsion did not exist in WWI. Figures that Russia employs the learning impaired for bot duty.
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He takes everyone to a pawn shop and sells them? Is this on the upcoming episode of Pawn Stars?
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One is nosecone, other is warhead. Look at pictures of the crashed Khinzal from last year. It has a warhead inside, looks exactly like this.
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On paper? Yes. In practice? Anyone with a pulse and degree.
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@louistournas120 Why are you asking me?
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@DaGodFadder69 I don't see how that case is related. She wasn't the only one to sue. But she was the only one to get 3rd degree burns on 6% of her skin and require skin grafts.
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@ahmed85021 his logic is sound. He would have paid 70% tax on those two extra million dollars so he said fuck that, might as well scale back and "fly under the radar".
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Shard 308 wealth taxes are bullshit because anyone sensing the incoming taxes could just start buying assets that could be moved to other countries. If I had 100 million dollars I'd buy 90 million dollars worth of yatches and sail them to Russia to sell them to oligarchs or something. Try to get the Russians to freeze my accounts.
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@mrchrysler9736 very few people paid that high of a tax rate and the 50's was when the US was an industrial powerhouse while the rest of the world was broke and bombed to shit.
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@cloud218 he's not part of the problem, he is acting rationally. You would do exactly the same if you saw that your extra effort was going to waste.
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@ahmed85021 murder isn't the same as trying to keep your money. Murder is a crime. Protecting your property from legalized theft is almost a moral imperative.
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Shard 308 "Theres an actual group called The Patriotic Millionaires who WANT higher taxes on themselves" - take that shit with a grain of salt. There's the CEO of a wholesale chain who is propped up as some kind of hero for wanting a higher minimum wage but as a wholesaler he has less staff on stores and they're typically qualified so they're paid higher than min wage already, what he actually wants is to kill the retailer business and force people to go to his stores. So there's plenty of ulterior motives, especially if they want taxes on income. They might have so much wealth income is irrelevant, but would prevent more people from becoming millionaires and thus threaten their businesses.
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They'll be willing to k¹ll for a Dodge Charger at 29% APR.
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@dvgsun Communism was worse than most people realize.
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@Beamshipcaptain shut up. Obama was elected to close Gitmo, end the spying, end the wars. He kept doing all the bad things Bush did and managed to make it worse. I do not get the cult of personality around him and he definitely did not obey the will of the people.
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@dvgsun Communism was even worse. No the problem isn't idiots in government but even if it was then communism is doomed because it seems only idiots reach power in such a system. Like shit attracts flies. But even with a perfect ruler or even in utopian stateless communism the system cannot work.
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@dvgsun I wish they had gulag'ed you, then. Tons of innocent people suffering when you could have taken their place. Capitalism exists since before the human race and will keep existing beyond our extinction.
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@dvgsun I just used your own logic against you, so apparently you need to see one.
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What deep analysis? All they do is recite Russian propaganda.
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That makes no sense because the AIM-9X doesn't see bands of radiation like old seekers, it sees in thermal imaging. There's footage of a 9X being fired at a QF-4 target drone and it can clearly see the wings and even cockpit canopy glass. Instead of chasing heat exhaust the 9X is made to try and slam into the fuselage to ensure the kill.
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The defense industry is a massive fucking scam, though. Look at the F-35, an amazing plane that suffered boondoggle after boondoggle because politicians want to treat it like their personal jobs creation program.
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Blaming reddit when it's all over IG and was discussed to death on /k/ is peak irony.
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Back then there weren't that many attachments for 1913 rails.
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Houthis are attacking unrelated ships. Ukraine was invaded. It's self defense. Russia is at war. Innocent ships headed to Europe are not at war.
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nope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po7sX-rKuQs
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Fraver has been caught either lying or not understanding how his targeting systems worked. It's hilarious how you people bring up Fraver/Fravor/whatever still thinking he isn't a perfect trap card. You bring him up, I already know you haven't seen his claims being demolished.
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Helmets work well, though. There's documented occurrences of helmets not even rated to stop rifle rounds protect the wearer from a rifle round. People really overstate the energy from pistol rounds. The energy of a 9mm is essentially a moderately trained boxer's punch. Even .44 Mag doesn't beat Rocky Marciano's 950 ft lbf punch. Plus at the point where the energy would really cause damage the helmet itself is dislodged and the straps tensioned, which is going to diminish the actual head or spine injury. There's a reason hard helmets are a thing in construction sites - they work.
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He addressed it right after, it's like you stopped listening.
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So Russia can gather their Buryats, their Chechens and Belarusian soldiers of fortune and pay them small fortunes to go to the front as mercenaries, but westerners fighting for freedom who joined Ukraine officially and get Ukrainian papers and get paid a pittance equal to the average Ukrainian soldier are the problem here.
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Tony P but then you're just bastardizing the definition of automatic. Automatic has a definition for a reason - the cycle is completed and resumed without assistance, entering a loop until input is removed or ammunition is expended. By "bumping" a firearm you're assisting the trigger mechanism by making your input intermittent. Look at Gatling guns. You can crank one faster than 350 RPM. The issue is, they use camming action to act like several straight-pull bolt action rifles at once. You're calling for the ban of what essentially is a bolt-action rifle due to a "soft limit" on the rate of fire, when the law should be about "hard limits" that are based on actual definitions. A shotgun shell fits multiple pellets. You can easily get more than 350 projectiles downrange in a minute with a shotgun.
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The fight is also happening in Israel/Lebanon and Yemen/Red Sea. And we're praying it doesn't reach Taiwan and South Korea.
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One guy posted on reddit that his psych interview for his license in the Netherlands and it was awful. It's a humiliation ritual rather than an actual psych eval.
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The fact that there's no Fahrenheit readouts anywhere. You're forced to drive a car with a tachometer in km/h. You're asked the speed. Will you answer in mph or just read what the thing says? 37°C could be utterly meaningless to him. He thought it was hot, and he read 37 in the readout or weather report. Since he had no number in °F he had to use Celsius. Even though he doesn't understand it beyond "it was hot".
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Highest integrity? Then why was he prowling for minors?
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 @ExploderMaster18 how is it a psyop?
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@realnapster1522 Israel flew F-35s over Iran. The US struck targets in Syria protected by Syrian S-300 and Russian S-400s with B-1s.
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@conservativeguitarsingerjs7937 they became criminals by attempting an illegal citizen's arrest, thus allowing the use of self-defense.
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@conservativeguitarsingerjs7937 They were not at anyone's house. Some yokels decided to go around stopping people at gunpoint. Yes, if an aggressor is attacked in self-defense and is being disarmed, he has no moral justification to use the weapon. Legally speaking the aggressor should allow himself to be disarmed. However they probably won't, and if they kill the victim they're charged with murder.
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@conservativeguitarsingerjs7937 Nobody said anything about Floyd, why are your bringing up irrelevant situations to the argument?
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@conservativeguitarsingerjs7937 No, I already had that belief.
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@conservativeguitarsingerjs7937 It is totally irrelevant. In what way does that trial influence this situation? How am I left wing?
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@conservativeguitarsingerjs7937 No, it's not obviously wrong. They became the attackers, they became the criminals. They gave up their claim to self-defense. The bad person is the person criminally using coercion to perform illegal arrests.
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The receiver recoils inside the outside "shell". In the burst setting the trigger linkage is allowed to stay in engagement as the receiver travels reward and chambers a second round. On semi and auto fire modes the receiver returns to the front before the next shot can fire so only one round per sequence.
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It's just Ukraine with 30-40 year old hand me downs from European storage lmao
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@krazykris9396 work is mandatory everywhere by that logic, you starve to death if you open and close your mouth to eat. That's work, energy spent over time.
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Population is growing because we live longer, not because we have more children.
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>MENSA a club for people with very high IQs has its lowest limit at 130 I know, I know a guy that used to be a member at MENSA and back then it was around 150. I didn't know it dropped to 130. >Oh, and there are very few people in the world with IQs over 200. Conveniently I put 200 as the upper limit because I didn't want to stretch myself beyond what I know.
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There's no wonder weapons. Only normal weapons. Our weapons just look crazy advanced to Russians.
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There's spies who remained undetected for decades too.
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Lmao the secondaries could be heard from nearby cities
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Except that Russia allowed Ukraine to go so far, supply lines were cut. Letting someone inside your house and then offering them your neck to let them strangle you is not a sound tactical choice.
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 @bagamut Yes if you lose? By that logic Operation Barbarossa was a victory because the Germans got to Moscow!
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 @bencarter1666 Russia required others to pay for its defense in WWII.
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The pipeline was stopped. The US had nothing to gain by attacking a pipeline that was not being used.
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It doesn't explain anything. In the US it's a total scandal for weapons to have minor issues (F-35). A ton of money is spent on testing and evaluation. In Russia their crap fails a large percentage of the time. They make weapons for parades, when they actually use them missiles fall off the aircraft and crash in a field instead of starting the rocket burn. Happened to a Khinzal.
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How did Ukrainians smuggle explosives into a dam the Russians controlled?
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Most serious side effects happen in the second shot. If it was lack of aspiration, you'd see equal distribution. Obviously injecting it into the bloodstream makes it worse. But it's bad even if administered correctly.
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Keeping the Stoner gas system on a weapon that's gonna be used for suppression makes it look hella retarded though. Look up the Colt Automatic Rifle.
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Because an investigation is required to determine if the shooting was unjust. Jesus people have complained about textbook perfect shoots. Like the one in which a girl was stabbing the other to death and people were like "🤨 was shooting her really necessary?".
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It's important to consider that WW2 wage ceilings mandated by the government caused employers to offer benefits as a way to pay "more". Eventually the government also passed legislation that made healthcare benefits tax-free. There's almost no consumer choice.
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@vksasdgaming9472 B-52s aren't manufactured anymore, we just fly the old ones until the wheels fall off.
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@matsv201 The "new" version of the F-15 is a Boeing jobs program and only 80 airframes will be purchased. Versus more than 2000 F-35s. Nothingburger. The Navy already requested to stop buying Super Hornets because they claim they will be useless in 30 years. It's not cheaper to use rare variants of 4th gen fighters. The F-15EX operating costs is roughly the same as the F-35. F-35s still have benefits. Detection isn't targeting. No issue has been solved.
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The Black Sea fleet is a source of missile strikes and a blockading force. Prior to Moskva being sank, it was the primary air defense for the rest of the fleet. This is like asking how does it matter that you're losing your Queen, Rooks, Knights and Bishops if all it takes is a pawn to check the King. Well, try to play chess with only pawns on your board.
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There wasn't a Western collapse. The US left as agreed in the peace deal and the Kabul government collapsed.
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There's a bunch of sightings outside the US but since you don't find them in the English language it just goes under the radar. Like, people from other countries make copycats of English-speaking channels and straight up steal content, but localized for their language. And it can take years for it to be noticed. That's how much of an iceberg non-English language internet is.
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@pepelapiu2004 I don't see how urban planners have anything to do with the fact that hydro is dialed. The usage of a bypass may be a waste, but it's a waste that was going to happen no matter what. If there's an unforeseen excess of water, trying to harness it is the least of your worries. This is the definition of overthinking, if water gets to a spillway the dam was over capacity and there's no point in trying to argue about it. The plant can be dialed in and while you can't stop a river, you can predict how much water you're going to get from the rain and the glacier meltwater and how much of it you're going to store for a dry summer. Hydro is profitable because unlike nuclear it can be spun up to full power in 60-90 seconds. So in many grids the nuclear covers the baseload with cheap energy that is sold in advance, while hydro sells the profitable "quick spin up" energy during the demand periods that can't be fully predicted. It's more profitable to sell expensive power in times of need than having a constant load from the miners.
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@pepelapiu2004 What big picture? I didn't say anything about how dams work, I told you how they work right now. I never said anything about bitcoin. Stop creating enemies in your mind, it's not good for you. I don't care what Elon Musk is doing. He also dated Grimes and named his kid a weird name. Again, you're firing on all directions and punching air. You said hydroelectric can't be dialed. All I did was tell you it can. Now you're angry and talking about Elon Musk. Why?
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@pepelapiu2004 "while basically wasting potential energy production for the rest of the year with flood gates and overflow valves letting out excess unuseable water" - But this happens where? Most dams I know of have the opposite problem - they have to carefully manage how the water gets used or else a drought can severely affect energy production and the regions downstream in the dry months. I know bitcoiners chase cheap power. The issue here is arguing that companies operating the dams would want to devalue their energy when they have a greater incentive to store it and then sell at higher cost when the grid demand increases.
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Nope. Wrong decision as usual.
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@markderham9949 The Vulcan is the 20mm cannon in use in the F-16, F-15, F/A-18, etc by the way.
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@markderham9949 Yeah the rest is correct.
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Who's "we", Ivan?
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Whataboutism. Why do you defend this?
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Ever heard of Boondocks?
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Not to countersignal but our drug problem did come back somewhat due to the lockdowns. It's not bad like the 90s, but we were set back.
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Yeah. Because the US didn't invade, Russia did.
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@colincampbell767 if in ten days you haven't obliterated all logistics and command & control giving your ground forces an absolute turkey shoot, you don't deserve the F-35
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@melgibsonaftertwobeers6119 lmao Q is a shittier LARP than I thought...
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 @christianlasala7603 "if"
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@christianlasala7603 How have they failed? The Javelin and NLAW stopped the tank onslaught, M777 provided accurate fire and 155mm compatibility, HIMARS broke the back of the Russian army. The Russian army today is a wreck compared to February 2022.
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Countries used to bullpups have switched back to conventional rifles. Not sure about the better platform claim.
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 @kodacv1612 Are those neutral guys reporting on the emptying of Russian bases? If not, they're not neutral.
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The MiG-35 was cancelled because there were no foreign sales.
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Brigadier Gen. Christian Freuding from the German Army seems to be dialed in because he dissented from that useless advice and said that after 9 months of mining you can't go around.
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inyrui if you're not left, then at least don't use their tactics. Yes, there's men who hate men. And the more they show hatred for men the greater the likelihood of them getting exposed for being sexual predators or pedos.
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 inyrui "this isn't a war bro we are all Americans" - that might have meant something to you but I'm not really getting the point here. I'm not even American anyway.
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The money won't cause a collapse. A collapse will make the money worthless. Big difference.
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Because the black market jet trafficking is such a thriving business.
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@csanadbarczy9153 They clearly have shown they deserve them. You don't deserve the standard of living you enjoy, though. We should put you in Siberia.
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@Windband1 The Greyzone was created by Max Blumenthal, an anti-Assad reporter who turned pro-Assad once the RT checks started coming it. He's also been to the RT gala in Moscow and been invited as a speaker. Blumenthal was the registered contact in the business records of a company called Active Measures Media LLC. "Active Measures" are the name for Soviet/Russian intelligence meddling.
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Light vehicles can cross it, there's a single lane still open.
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@EoinFromIreland Navy SEAL trainer isn't a good thing.
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>being hunted by people willing to have a gun fight w/ you. I'm sorry, but if someone breaks into your house knowing you are there, they're in for a ride. Gunfight? They might have knives or blunt objects. >Many people get through life without a single gun in their home They do. But anything from 700,000 to 2 million people use their guns in self-defense every year.
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@andresfelipeod6819 The classification of the alt-right as neoliberalist has to be a joke. The alt-right is explicitly against liberalism. The alt-right was not even in embryo in 2003 and libertarians were against the war. Ask Ron Paul.
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The US outproduced the world because everyone else was getting bombed to pieces.
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 @jackal25301 Pretty sure it was Turkey buying the most oil out of ISIS controlled fields
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@Nick-ce6lt That's our word. But you can say "clam digga".
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 @baniSaqer They were Russian speakers from Kharkiv. Metalist FC ultras.
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@piisfun Brass is a lot more inert than plastics. Microplastics end up in the food and water, kill your testosterone. I'm not joking. I avoid plastic bottles and I've stopped heating food in plastic containers. There are no "food safe" plastics.
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 @kyle-ld2gh what does chain of custody have to do with Russia? Stop talking past each other.
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It was funny the first time it was used.
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This, but unironically.
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@LeanderMr "the Soviet Union had a very large heavy industry before and during the war and the ressources to sustain it" - The Holodomor literally happened because the Soviet Union had to increase grain exports to be able to pay for all the imported machines. They did not have heavy industry. They purchased it from abroad with the blood of their own citizens. A common tankie talking point was that Stalin took a stagnant and a backwater of a Russian empire and industrialized it. Even though they twist the story into a positive thing and pretend the West didn't help, at least even evil Marxist-Leninists will say that the Soviet Union had to build the industry, not that they simply inherited it.
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@LeanderMr "the Soviets made huge effort to develop a large heavy industry during the late 1920s and 1930s" - BY PURCHASING IT FROM AMERICANS AND HIRING AMERICANS TO DESIGN THEIR FACTORY FLOORS. LIKE I SAID EARLIER. "also the holodomor happened in 1932-33, it really does not sound like you are aware of that in your comment?" - I am. It's you who's not aware of what I said. I clearly said that it was the US that built the Soviet industry through shell companies - that means PRE-WAR. Why would shell companies be necessary during lend lease?
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 @franciscobermejo1779 They're gonna take Crimea like Kherson. Russians will cross the strait and go home.
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I would assume that if you call security they will have someone manning the cameras and who will instantly figure out which vehicle that suspect used. I mean they kind of have to be watching out for these things so they can testify in case of a robbery.
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They're not down to three. They had MLRS, the Soviet style - spray and pray rockets. With HIMARS a single rocket does the job.
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@irahoppe3632 the well known democracies of Iraq and Afghanistan....
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@irahoppe3632 That's not what I said. Read the thread from the top.
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@ypw510 It was a really weird time. The Navy had foreseen the issues with Sidewinders and had their upgraded variants perform better than USAF ones. However, their Sparrows had the maintenance neglected so carrier landings and exposure to sea spray on the deck caused a lot of duds while the USAF had better luck. If the Navy had taken better care of Sparrows and the USAF had used Navy Sidewinders, the Phantom would have never earned the infamy it did.
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But the US resoundingly defeated the Taliban. It just signed a peace deal and left. Like said in this documentary, they are capable of just going back again. Can the Taliban survive another culling?
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@inamulkara The US didn't accept an unconditional withdrawal. The Taliban broke the conditions. The Taliban's control isn't solidified. And Afghanistan is not at peace. Not only there's a spat with Pakistan (former Taliban supporters) there's also the terror attacks by ISIS-K. Ironically, the US had given indirect support to the Taliban by conducting air strikes against ISIS-K.
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@keatonwastaken Russia purposefully strikes refugee convoys as policy. They did it in Syria and Ukraine. And such convoys can't be mistaken by military ones because the civilians are driving their soccer mom vans instead of several ton trucks.
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@D_an_ To me, the brass tax is the death by a thousand papercuts. If he's hiring legitimately awful people and covering for them, but ALSO the content is fake, the charities are fake and they technically violated some rules on how to conduct sweepstakes then the entire thing is not worth redemption. People can say focus on the serious crimes but youtubers have apologized for their sex scandals and kept on trucking. In MrBeast's case even if he apologizes and the fanbase forgives him, there's no actual reason to remain a fan.
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@DanielHilz Wrong. There's liability. People can volunteer for dangerous things, you're still liable. If you mandate it for work, then it was an injury on the job. Pay up.
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@DanielHilz Nobody is forced to turn on a faulty machine either. When it happens and someone gets hurt, the employer is liable.
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@DanielHilz You can't sue for enforcing a mandate, you can sue for damages for following the mandate. You can't sue the manufacturers because by law they are immune from liability. Businesses mandating it aren't. Big Pharma is using you - or business owners, if you're not one - as a human shield. We only got one shot at the King, but I'm willing to see all the King's pawns slayed as a consequence for doing his bidding.
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Schools are already filmed with cameras and they mostly operate like prisons anyway.
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This isn't SPC.
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@Actually, Movies Prove it. Let's see the numbers.
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@Opeandaway China has a three child policy now because they're hurling down a demographics collapse. They also have a massive disparity between men and women because of the aborted girls. You make a deal with the devil, it always comes back to collect.
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It would slow down due to something called drag. After you hit an aerodynamic object and knock it off course, it becomes an air brake. It's like a bullet being forced to go sideways. You went from a bullet to something with the ballistic coefficient of a brick.
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@Goorood Tons of Russian officials and collaborators have been killed by car bomb. Russian troops in Kherson say they are treated like British in Indian colonies, and locals reject the rubles.
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Thanks to the looters and rioters, bootlickers will defend cops cracking skulls.
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0.8 of a trillion is a massive cost, but check which percentage goes into training, wages and benefits vs purchases. Also mind that currently Europe is gearing up for military manufacturing because they let it atrophy with the US essentially bankrolling a huge chunk of defense for foreign countries.
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 @b-17gflyingfortress6 Satellite photos are seen by humans. AI ia good to scan large areas, because that's too many photos to look at. Air bases are always where you expect them to be.
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The Iron Dome is a cheap short range system meant to take out the cheapest rockets fired by Hamas. Also, deploying decoys is hardly new. Russian Iskanders did that in Ukraine and it was a secret feature we didn't know about until Feb 2022. Pretty much all MIRV warheads for nukes featured "penetration aids" (lol) in the form of decoy warheads and chaff to confuse radar and optical tracking.
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So just like real wars?
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Just because one religious group has no originally you don't get to concern troll, pipe the hell down.
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But Russians are advancing and wearing themselves down. Ukraine is using their defenses.
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I don't think his story is kid friendly.
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It was different because that was supply troops who could be ambushed anywhere in the country as Afghanistan/Iraq had no frontlines. This was made for frontline assault. If Americans were doing this the public outcry would be savage and we'd have Congressional hearings about this.
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@Charles-k9g5y You're severely misunderstanding what I said. I said that if what we're seeing of the Russian army happened to American soldiers, we'd be seeing rioting in the streets.
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Basically this was what all the bloom in late 2000s videogames was trying to achieve, but it was just garbage.
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@bbenny9033 "we are already hitting high vax rates" - Bruh it confers 2 months immunity then it's done, antibodies that help against hospitalization wear off in 6-8 months. Even CNN has reported on it. You really think that after almost two years, something made against the wild strain will work against Delta and future variants? Keep dreaming.
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@bbenny9033 BS. First of all, with 70% the transmission chains would be broken everywhere. The spread would stall because there would be not enough people to serve as hosts, and many social distancing and mask mandates are still up. Wrong. Not only does the genetic makeup of SF Bay area infections show that it's the double-dosed that are 78% carrying an antibody-resistant strain, you cannot have a fully dosed population at any time. Distribution does not allow it. How do you produce that many doses and administer them all at the same time? A vaccination campaign will always last for months, so by your own standards you'll never accomplish what you want.
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1. Bakhmut was a speedbump in the Kramatorsk-Sloviansk defensive line. If Russia takes Bakhmut, the next step will be an even worse uphill battle for Russia. 2. Bakhmut is uninhabitable at this point. Retreating would expose more civilians so it's preferable to fight there than evacuating a larger city. 3. Russia is bleeding itself in Bakhmut. If Russia is willing to get their army destroyed there, why try to fight anywhere else? 4. Finally, Bakhmut was strategically important when Russia held Izyum as it allowed them to do the pincer maneuvers to encircle Ukranian forces. But the Kharkiv offensive made that impossible.
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@gotdayum97 The F-22 doesn't have it because there's too few units to do an upgrade. There was a proposal to put the F-35 avionics in F-22s to give it the edge with the electro-optical tracker and distributed aperture system. But it's too expensive per unit.
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Russia.
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 @VVV85650 25 wounded, though
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 @cdeford the video from the inside shows she sat back in the crowd, close to the stage
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@cdeford They were holding the event at the café. She delivers the statue, walks back into the crowd, they tell her to sit at the front, she sits like 4 meters away from Vladlen. While Vladlen puts the bust back in a box and starts answering questions from the crowd the bomb goes off.
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@cdeford Of course it doesn't acquit her. But she seemed unconcerned about what was happening, and was even laughing with the rest of the crowd. The woman on video had to be a great actress, top notch spycraft to not fumble in a high stress moment.
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Iraq had to of the line Soviet equipment in 1991. So what?
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Where was the LAPD when the North Hollywood bank robbers entered the bank? Huh? Huh? Where was the NYPD when in 1993 the Al Qaeda organization put a truck bomb in the underground parking of the WTC? Huh? Huh?
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Can't stay 2 hours over missiles. It would get shot down in less than two minutes. You get one pass then they haul ass.
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Ceramic isn't defeated like steel. The 20" barrel trick only works against AR500 plates and whatnot.
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@Dominik189 I don't see how that's relevant. Hitting someone in combat is rare, hitting them in the plate 6 times is nonsense. Plus I've seen a picture of a tested plate that shows that the ceramic in the Russian plates is divided in tiles so that even if a tile shatters, you'll need to hit the same tile again to defeat it which is extremely hard at 300-400 yards. Unfortunately this video is like 10 years old so all the new tests done by youtubers seem to have buried it, but there was a company that showed off their ceramic plate taking like 30 shots before failing. It was 32 if I'm not mistaken.
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@arnel-hp6ig it is still infinitely easier to restore a revolver to working condition than fixing a tank. A historical revolver is extremely desirable while a tank is a bitch to own, so the market is not willing to pay a million for it.
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fireson23 stop. The 25mm APEX is better than 30mm. Even the F-16 is better at CAS than the A-10. It can turn and defeat 4th gen fighters, it wipes the floor with other planes in exercises.
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@eimsbush05 the Donbas isn't the major contributor to GDP, in fact it was heavily subsidized by the government before annexation.
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S-300 supplies are finite and the Patriot links to NASAMS.
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You also fail to mention that the defense of Bakhmut was what got Progozhin and Wagner out of the way, and also spared cities that would have been fought over if Bakhmut had been abandoned. Russia got absolutely nothing out of Bakhmut after it was portrayed as the key to unlock further advances. The supply hub, remember?
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@LondonSteveLee The F-35 is more affordable than 4th gen aircraft. It has a ludicrous combat range on internal tank only. 4 AMRAAMs is plenty. It has performance for days. The F-35 doesn't need satellite communication. It uses a more developed network system than Link16.
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@LondonSteveLee "you think on day two of open conflict with China or Russia there will be a single GPS or communications satellite left in the sky?" - Aircraft use precise INS. Within range of the DAS+EOTS there's very little drift. So you can tag GPS coordinates using the aircraft and those coordinates are read by the INS without requiring GPS satellites. "Laser-guided iron bombs usually requiring a lump of flesh on the ground or a drone to guide them to target!" - Self-lasing has been a thing for decades. "Something a pair of $100,000 drones can deliver." - Not without getting shot down.
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@LondonSteveLee "Saudi shot down practically nothing!" - And you expect everyone to be Saudis? "Military air defence systems are designed to deal with conventional aircraft" - Not true. Modern SHORAD is not only set up to target incoming cruise missiles but also glide bombs. "rely completely on satellites" - Not true. Even GPS guided bombs have INS backup. "The west needs to design a simple fast to produce mach 3+ plane" - Why? Going that fast is lighting up a "I'M HERE" sign and burning fuel like there's no tomorrow. "have a thousands of them instead of 100 F-35s" - The F-35 program is 1700 airframes strong, 1500 if they end up cutting back on purchases. Over 625 delivered worldwide. "Active tracking is so last century - your target can see you and it coming from your radar emissions being used to paint the target" - Not true. Low probability of intercept radar makes use of all the background energy that's being blasted across the sky to make emissions difficult to filter. Also, the F-35 can use cues other than radar to obtain lock. "While your emissions are screaming "I'M OVER HERE!!"" - They won't. Not only can the F-35 fire a weapon at a target being painted by some other radar somewhere else, it also has alternate means of detection. And additionally LPI radar is a thing now and RWR is now behind the curve. "A Typhoon or Rafale for instance will automatically immediately mark the radar source" - Not gonna work if the source is an AWACS outside missile range or a bait F-35. Or if the DAS/EOTS is used to obtain the track. "meanwhilte you’re still flying towards him and his missile trying to paint the target for AMRAAM mid-course guidance!" - Not true. Not only are you ignorant of basic procedures like using the full extent of your radar limits to continue a track without flying towards incoming missiles, you also forget that the F-35 can use another aircraft's radar to provide the AMRAAM mid course updates. And failing that, the missile will go pitbull. "You are not going to defeat a modern IR missile fired under 30Kms – it will kill you" - The F-35 also has IR missiles. What the actual hell are you talking about? "Active seeking is pointless/The US should have pursued Pheonix" - The hell? The Phoenix has an active seeker for terminal guidance. "AMRAAM is a joke - you are not going to get a kill with AMRAAM unless you are fighting novice jockeys flying planes from the 90s!" - Novice F-35 pilots wipe the floor with experienced F-15/F-16 pilots in exercises. "I mean, having to guide a missile within the kill zone of the enemy! What year is this again? " - Again, the hell are you talking about?
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@LondonSteveLee Escaping from missiles doesn't make sense. The SR-71 did it because it flew at extremely high speeds DURING operations. Going from a 0.82 Mach cruise to Mach 3 will take several minutes of acceleration. If you were relying on Mach 3 to escape the missile, the Mach 4 missile already hit you before you got past Mach 1.3. "modern systems can distinguish where radar emissions arrived to each sensor within a few nanoseconds – by triangulating that data it can calculate where it came from" - The problem isn't triangulating where something comes from. It's knowing it's there at all. The skies are constantly being beamed with energy from all directions and because there are limits to receiver antennas and processing power, it's more difficult for a RWR to notice there's an extra signal in the sky than it is for the emitter to hop frequencies in an encrypted pattern. "can shoot down a (not exactly stealthy) AWAC painting it from 200+ KMs away" - Okay. And how do you get within 200 km of an AWACS without a flight of F-35s meeting you? "The reality is F-35 cannot sneak up and deliver an AMRAAM outside the kill-zone of an IR missile without being detected" - It does it on the regular at Red Flag. "unless you fire at point black range most modern aircraft and pilots will escape an AMRAAM" - Not if they're unaware. And we know that in air combat most kills are scored against the unaware. "You’re now in the same airspace as cheaper conventional “proper” fighters" - They're not cheaper. "hinders both production volumes and availability" - With 700 F-35s delivered, there's almost as many F-35s as there are Eurofighters and Rafales combined. "the same reason F-22 is obsolete" - The F-35 is not built to the same standards as the F-22. Over a hundred Block II F-35s have been converted to Block III. The issue with the F-22 was recognized and addressed to make the F-35 more flexible.
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Hydro dams affect the environment and geothermal is just nuclear. What do you think keeps the mantle hot? Nuclear decay.
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They have two access points in China, another in Russia.
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Why would the US target Russian troops?
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Making a dancer perform with no bathroom breaks until they shit in a see-through outfit is exactly what comes to mind when thinking of girlbossing.
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That money was not to Ukraine you schizo
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"Can't I code anymore?" "Of course you can!" "Well, I couldn't before!"
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Outside the city they were digging the asphalt out of the roads and stacking sandbags to make defensive positions.
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Considering how much drone footage of Russian deaths I've watched, they're probably undercounted.
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Those are different budgets and departments. You can walk and chew gum at the same time, right?
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This talking point again?
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Victim blaming. Want to stop the loss of life? Russia retreats immediately. They won't. Killing the killers will stop the loss of life.
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They are given tanks and automatic grenade launchers. If you think documents are dangerous, you should have seen the toys they can play with if they pick a combat MOS.
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@Doitallgp term limits will just encourage revolving doors. There is no escape.
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@Doitallgp it's the same thing, you just look at different faces.
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@Doitallgp "It’s the people who are in Congress long term who make deals with special interest groups" - The special interest groups don't care about who's in Congress. Whoever you put there, they'll move in and make deals. Look, just to get elected, you already had to make deals in the first place. Winning campaigns costs money. "The revolving door would remove the consolidation of power" - No, it wouldn't. The face would change and so would the name, but the lobbies representing that seat would be the same.
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He's worth mentioning because the early magazine content by VICE was influenced by him too. VICE had things on print you cannot say today.
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This only makes it worse. Imagine succeeding at a decapitating strike, and then you still get your men killed in this mess.
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@srddnrsmn7320 Inspiration for what? To be marched to soak up bullets while the Russian army stands back? Murz took his own life after he was threatened for speaking the truth. Fighting for the separatists since 2014, he saw Russia destroy what he fought for. Was it worth it?
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If you are invaded, your country will probably also stop you from leaving as a fighting age male. Look into the fine print. Even the US counts every 18-45 year old male as part of the militia, and you may be mobilized in case your state governor declares it.
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 @katharinapeters6710 Could be a hundred parties. In multiple party systems we also have Russia-friendly politicians in the left and right.
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@VolkerHett aren't the mirror arrays annoying death rays that cook birds?
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The only thing worse than a cop is a smart cop. I prefer not to handicap myself.
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@Yodalemos Why? Cops are fighting us. Why would you want them to be smart? I want them to be easily outwitted.
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Nope. The mass graves were found.
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You can tune an AR to be reliable with steel that's not overgassed with brass.
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Bomb truck applies to guided munitions. F-16s and B-1s have pulled bomb truck duty. The upgrades are just barely keeping the A-10 relevant, should have been retired in the 90s.
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@benpurcell4935 The A-10 also sacrifices a lot to carry heavy payload. It's a severely thrust limited aircraft, to the point it had to take off with a light load from locations like Bagram airbase. At 5k feet ASL the air is thin enough that if you tried to take off with an A-10 with full load, you'd hit the perimeter fence.
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World of Guns.
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Exactly. We shouldn't pass laws banning Nazism, communism, Pastafarianism or flat earthers. We shouldn't resort to censorship.
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 @reclaimatorerebus6531 they won't be used on drones, this is due to the potential threat of Iranian missiles
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The 3D printer community already cam up with multiple ways to work around the printer limitations. Everyone is still thinking about the Liberator but that's old news.
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@mr.j7444 How was he to know cops were on the way? Could be a lie.
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 @OzzyBloke a sortie includes just taking off and landing. Useless metric. Combat sorties matter way more.
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@RoguellVoid To destroy planes from AIM-120 range? You need it. You could power a missile defense laser by just using shaft power from the jet engine, because you expect the missile to get close.
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@sickthotsonmymind2299 Highly Enriched Uranium is over 20%, which is not weapons grade.
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Who told you that? That's just wrong, waste is not a problem. It's entirely a manufactured controversy.
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@Messa1980 Col MacGregor has been predicting a Ukrainian collapse for months. He's consistently wrong.
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The radioactive isotopes are inside the person. If they all get buried close by, the bodies decompose and the ground water will carry the radioactive contamination. However, visiting a person in a hospital will not lead to contamination.
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@toddf2348 "What stops predators from prostituting young people?" - Not the state. Remember when Jeffy E. was convicted and his sentence allowed him to spend 16 hours per day out of prison?
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lel the problem is that good luck getting to that last line
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@robertj1777 It's not too dangerous to move. They could be moved right now. The issue us that the Yucca Mountain project was not completed so there's nowhere to go.
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@winterh46334 They're not financially viable because nuclear can't throttle so they sell power ahead of time for cheap, while gas plants can fire up to meet the grid needs and thus demands a higher price.
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@davidgeary490 You'll need nuke plants to make the hydrogen. First you need reverse osmosis to desalinate water or else you create chlorine in the electrolysis process. These power intensive processes are well suited for nuclear.
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Serbia was comitting genocide and trying to play coy by hiding their military assets to avoid destruction. With no way to stop Milosevic the alternate targets had to be hit.
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This ritual isn't necessary on other magazines, so you could hardly call it user error. They're also not 100 years old because they don't follow the original 1911 single stack pattern.
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One side has a rocket system that protects civilians, the other fires rockets from civilian areas and builds tunnels and bunkers under busy streets to ensure that Israeli bombs kill civilians. I have no love for Israeli's security apartheid or the settlements but the disparity of casualties is easily explained. Just like Russia placed Grad rocket launchers next to supermarkets in Donetsk and fired at Ukrainian positions since 2014 to make sure counter-battery fire would land in the city and create the narrative of "Ukraine bombing their own people for 8 years".
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Their trained soldiers are either pushing daisies, missing limbs or trapped in Kherson.
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Even if you killed everyone in the fortune 500 and stole their money, the profits of the US's top 400 companies and all the money spent on superbowl ads, you still wouldn't have enough money to cover the debt that the US creates every year. People would still be poor, and getting even poorer because of the government.
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@therisj if we teach a bunch of people woodworking they might actually build their own cabins in the woods and live debt-free. But that would be too much work... and the government banned homesteading as well.
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Shaped charges often have suboptimal standoff due to size and weight constraints, to the point that increases in standoff can actually improve penetration. From the top, 6 feet/1m is actually enough to help. From the sides? No. It hides weak spots. But the penetration is sufficient if it lands on a weak spot.
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It's not about felt recoil. It's about hit probability. Go tell both the American and Russian armies that they shouldn't be shooting firearms. They've studied this subject long and hard. The less recoil, the more hits.
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@oskargrabnar2869 No. Uniformed soldiers. They had been dead long enough that their eyes were missing, and some were beneath the rubble as they died during fighting.
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The issue is that it's the other way around. The side that had population killed off will have children with stronger immune systems because both parents survived it. So in the end their offspring is in a better position to stay inside the gene pool while the other side might actually be more vulnerable.
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@KrunoslavStifter Still seething at a rumor started by a gamer a year later.
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They either take the hit because they don't care (The Sun) or they release content that promotes the channel in between releases that show combat footage.
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@caroselloshow5615 "im not talking about banning guns for defense Im talking about banning those weapons that are clearly not for defense" - clearly? Why? Could you explain why you feel certain weapons are not for defense? I want to hear your opinion, what YOU think.
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@caroselloshow5615 "It’s ridiculous to vote and support a government and at the same time fear it because it could become a tiranny." - Well, when Trump got elected people were running around saying Hitler was just elected. I find it funny that conservatives/pro-gun people are told they're crazy for thinking a tyrant could be elected, but then the Democrats said Bush Jr was Hitler, McCain was a racist warmonger (which was true, but now they say he was a hero), Mitt Romney was just like Hitler, Trump is just like Hitler, etc.
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@caroselloshow5615 "children were able to buy an assault rifle" - well, no. Children cannot buy any type of firearm and assault rifles are banned in the US. "where even a scheduled criminal was able to buy weapons and simply because there was no control and no regulation on it" - but there is control and regulation. When you purchase a weapon at the gun store you are forced to perform a background check and you are ran through several lists. If you are a criminal you get flagged and the gun cannot be sold. Sometimes people were technically on lists but were not put on the computerized system. Happened with a guy who was in the Air Force and got discharged but his discharge was never filed into the system. The regulation existed, but it wasn't enforced. "Because they are educated on how to use a gun and its safety issues." - the vast majority of gun homicide in the US happens from criminals killing each other. It's not a matter of education or safety because criminals get their guns illegally and accidental deaths are actually low in the US. Safety isn't the issue because a killer can understand gun safety and still gun down people because he wants to kill, he wants to be "unsafe". Japan is a different case altogether. They're pretty polite, respectful people and they have high degrees of social control. You could airdrop crates of weapons into Japan and people wouldn't start shooting each other. Even the most violent Yakuza gangs, which are perfectly willing to beat people up or cut fingers off, are restrained in the use of firearms because they see themselves as respectable businessmen who don't want unnecessary police attention. Yakuza gangs are involved in arms trafficking, but they rarely use them.
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@caroselloshow5615 "clearly not for defense" - okay but why are they not for defense and why is that so clear? I want to understand your thought process. "the AR 15 that was specifically created for the military." - sure, but muskets were also made for the military, revolvers were also made for the military, shotguns were also made for the military (in fact their use in the trenches in WWI was so effective that the Germans petitioned to consider it a war crime). All kinds of weapons were made for the military and civilians used them too. "Im pretty sure that a semi automatic rifle like this is not used for defense" - but could you explain why? You are saying things as if they were obvious while trying to avoid an explanation. You do understand that there's a divide, right? In my mind, the AR-15 is the perfect self-defense weapon. But you think it has characteristics that make it different from other weapons and I want to know what you think about semi-automatic rifles. I mean, I am concerned that a mass murderer can get a van or a truck. I am concerned that a mass murderer could throw molotov cocktails into a crowded bar. I am concerned about pressure cooker bombs duct taped to propane tanks. But I can't live all my life concerned about what other people do with the dangerous tools we are allowed to own. 2 - So by being neutral I am confirming anything? If you want a confirmation, I am an anarchist for moral reasons and I don't vote. I don't trust politicians and I don't believe in imposing my will on other people through ballots. But that's beside the point. This isn't about me. And this isn't about who is the most hypocrite. My point is that everyone loves democracy when they win, and everything gets mad when they lose. A big percentage of the country and even anti-gun people believe a tyrant sits in office in the United States right now. This isn't about who is the biggest hypocrite here, but the fact that EVERYONE believes that a tyrant can be elected otherwise they wouldn't complain about losing. Of course, it should be logical that people would assume that maybe a popularity contest shouldn't determine who rules over them but people cling to the ideology because they hope they win next time. 3/4 - "own a gun" owning and buying are very different things. You can theoretically own a gun if for example your parents allow it to have it, aka it's under their possession. "The parkland shooter legally bought an assault rifle at 17" - false. He is 19 years old. "the orlando pulse shooter was listed in the fbi list" - the problem is that anyone can be put on those lists. There's a politician in the United States who always has trouble getting in on airplanes because someone put him on a list and it's difficult to be removed. Those lists do not obey due process, you can't remove people's rights without actually going to a court and by following the law proving that person is guilty. "especially if you buy them online" - if you buy guns online they are shipped to a gun store and you have to pass the background check there. Since the 1960's you can't get a gun shipped to you directly. 5 - I said gun homicide not gun deaths. But if you want to talk about suicide not only the US has similar suicide rates to other countries, but gun safety would not prevent suicides because the person using the gun doesn't intent to be safe in the first place. The argument that "other countries teach gun safety so their gun crime/homicide/suicide is lower" doesn't make much sense. "but pushing the police to do its job" - but that has lead to the War on Drugs, which is responsible for the street price of drugs to rise and make gangs more profitable. The police is already too powerful in the US and they've actually made the situation worse by escalating street violence. "Why nobody pro gun talk about gang violence" - we actually talk a lot about it. Without gang violence, the US would be extremely peaceful and proof that gun ownership does not cause crime. Criminals cause crime. "here are more guns than people in this country and at the same time the highest gun violence not only in the developed world but in the entire world" - false. Gun violence is worse in Mexico, Brazil, Honduras, El Salvador, etc. In fact, if you plot gun ownership and gun homicide rates by country, you will see that despite the number of guns the US isn't even at the top. "crime index in the usa is similar to most of developed countries" - compare with other metrics. The US has over 30 thousand gangs which means 9.8 gangs per 100,000 people. All of Europe has 0.674 gangs per 100,000 people. This means that despite crime indexes being the same, Europe mostly has individual criminals doing petty crime while the US has gangs in open warfare (which hit a pretty bloody height in 1994). The nature of crime isn't the same.
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Tell that to the protesters in Iran, after the rigged elections. If anyone ever deserves to be stripped of rights are convicted felons who committed horrific crimes. What you are saying is that anyone that is suspected of taking part in a riot can be searched without a warrant, and convicted based on an unlawful search. That's not right, even for a criminal. Anyway, this system denies the rights to people who might not have been at the riot. Or does the police know exactly who to search?
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6.5 won't be the standard.
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@ColinTherac117 There's only 20,000 foreign volunteers in Ukraine, and they're a minority because the Ukrainians have 700,000 of their own in the field. The Polish troops narrative comes from Russians listening to Ukrainian radio chatter and assuming it's Polish because they believed Ukrainian sounded more like Russian.
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There's no sites. It's a truck. It can go anywhere.
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Terminal contrarianism.
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IvanTheTroll12 already confirmed you can make his Glock frame on a 300 dollar printer with a 90 dollar spool of Zytel.
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@josephsolowyk7697 Does every other country try to assassinate you with nerve gas and end up leaving the poison in public for innocent bystanders to pick it up?
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In the US if you get medically cleared after an ejection, it's only the second one that is the career ender.
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Does your phone camera detect enemy tanks at night from 20 miles away?
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@VeeraBun "I had moral convictions but then I decided to genocide people based on ethnicity" - people without a spine
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Of course. Tim Cook would never do an iPhone reveal where he'd say Android phones are better.
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More like, don't believe the hype, the HK416 doesn't offer that much over a M4.
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Not when the USAF is bleeding money into a dead-end aircraft that takes away from the rest of the fleet. Congress' obsession with the A-10 has forced the USAF to retire F-16s in its place over the years. On paper it seems cheaper to operate, but so far it has required countless upgrades to the avionics to remain relevant (the A-10A pilots essentially had to use the video feed from Maverick missiles as their targeting pod back in the day) and even the massive re-winging program that cost 2 billion.
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@nuanil I'm not sure what that number is supposed to contradict. The F-35 has not cost a trillion yet. That's the total cost of operation until retirement. The money won't be spent until the 2070s. No other aircraft had that type of calculation done to it.
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Because they use S-300s and Iranian drones to make up for the shortage.
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Because they use S-300s and Iranian drones to make up for the shortage.
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It was the FSB. They doctored a fake Ukrainian military document and the woman was seen in social media photos hanging out with DPR people.
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@jonathanjacob5453 Nice deflection. Thanks for admitting I'm right.
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@evesapple there's no evidence and the father of the first accuser was recorded saying he was planning to swindle Micheal all along. C'mon I would doubt too if it wasn't for the fact that the man was squeaky clean on the sex department.
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Which is a very small percentage of usable land and thus limits solar/wind even more.
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@yann5489 "The point isn't that we need 100% renewable now" - but then it's like hiring a person with disabilities and giving them a simple job so that they feel good about themselves. I'm all for it, but at least let's admit the... limitations. If we're going to put solar and wind in a corner and let them do their own thing we can't be wasting time on coming up with the true energy source that's gonna power the backbone of every country. "most of wind turbines are put on fields where there is no ecosystem" - even if that's true taking energy away from the winds causes damages to ecosystems "downwind". This means less wind which can affect natural erosion and birds but also higher temperatures in the regions affected. Of course the differences studied are pretty small. But if we start building more and more at one point the effects on the environment will be observable.
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@prodac I already read the link. That's why I replied, the CDC still issued a recommendation to limit cycles January 20th which the link does not address. "You seem to forget that letting the virus run rampant is causing the mutations due to high infection rates" - Non sequitur. High infection rates with a virus that gives you a cold is not a problem. Low infection rates with something more dangerous that's kept under control with boosters just allows it to stew for a loooong, long time until Darwinism strikes back. The seriousness of an infection selects it out of the gene pool. With a shot that doesn't make you immune, it brings it back. "Reducing the number of infections" - You're not, and even if you were it still doesn't solve the problem. "you lower the chance of mutations" - Until the antibodies wear off. Can't wait to line up for the 76th booster shot because you people had the brilliant idea of trying to use a non immunizing shot that only reduces symptoms as a way to eradicate a disease. Now instead of spending a week in bed, people will be coughing up the stuff in public because they feel alright. "Simple logic." - No. It's actually quite convoluted because it actually requires you to ignore recent CDC statements, and also ignore the fact that this BS jumped from animals to humans, so there's always the possibility of animal reservoirs. Have fun trying to get rid of it
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@prodac You're changing the subject. You can't even stick to the topic.
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@jordanliu9747 why is he attached to the past?
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You're just a Russkie bot.
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Secured their economy? Uhhhhhh okay.
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@the_bonebreaker7588 Their view is what, that money grows on trees? There's a reason Ukraine wasn't already exporting gas, and securing water to the separatist regions was peanuts. Now they lost massively.
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@the_bonebreaker7588 I'm at a loss here. The sanctions could be in effect for the next 50 years. Are we going to have to wait until then to figure out the juice wasn't worth the squeeze? Considering that the Russian stock market has been closed for 3 weeks... It can't be good.
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@terjeoseberg990 Then it's pointless. When you stop giving out boosters and the immunity finally wears off, transmission will be back to normal and we do this all over again.
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If you lost count to how many people you saw offing themselves after being wounded by a Ukrainian drone, hit that like button.
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 @1999tenorio If the roll was meant to get to a stand up position, he was still getting lit up thus ensuring unanswered strikes as he planted himself to rise.
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 @sclay757 the intelligent defense of the downwards fetus guard, where you block punches with the back of your head.
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@cipherP9 He wasn't moving to stand up. He was getting head hunted for sport, his body was rolling away as a reflex defense against the threat, then when the ref calls it off he plants his hands on the ground. If the ref didn't intervene, he wouldn't have gotten up.
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 @chrismurray1558 he only tried to get up after the ref called it off - he has the starched arms while getting hit, he only plants his limbs after Sean stops hitting.
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@cipherP9 Ref has to see, decide on whether to make the call, then actually get in the way to wave it off. Human reaction time is what, 220-250 milliseconds? Add another half second to cover the distance with a hop and raise the arms. Basically, the fight was over 3/4ths of a second before we got to the point where Aljo could have done something. The ref can't read minds, if you want to do something you have to do something. Not wait for the 20th unanswered shot and hope the ref can see the cunning plan.
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@cipherP9 Attempting to return to one's feet with stiff arms and a concussed look won't convince a ref. Protect yourself at all times.
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Available? Sure. Combat capable? No.
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That's not even good criticism. Polymer AR lowers suck ass because most manufacturers want to retain the functionality of collapsible stocks and the nice looks of the original Stoner design. The GWACS lower was fine, but it locked you to the M16-style rifle fixed stock and most people don't like that. Hobbyist 3d printing gun manufacturers don't have the same concern as profit-driven gun manufacturers that need to make a product people want and are willing to pay. What matters is having gun. If you can 3d print, you have gun.
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The tanks were abandoned in Kharkiv.
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More people in the ATF should be like Rick Vasquez.
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There's a military outpost in that deep space comms station. The large antennas can't keep up with satellites but that military HQ does.
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Russia has not dropped the nukes despite a massive defeat in Kharkiv, having their territory taken or Moscow struck by drones. Why would that be the final solution?
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Nothing, but Russia would waste a ton of munitions. Essentially the Patriot would become a decoy that would protect Ukraine by forcing Russia to stop attacking stuff that actually matters and eventually lose the war on the ground.
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I think that when you drive past 90km/h you're just burning fuel to get to the destination faster.
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But they do. People post pictures and videos of their guns with tape over the serial number, and for over a decade I've seen these "journalist tries to get list of concealed carry permits so he can publish them ZOMG111!1!1!!!!!" stories. The NRA sticker on the truck, 5.11 pants, Oakley sunglasses and tshirt design somewhat related to guns or the military is just lack of self-awareness.
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@lukasfontana7589 Which is why Surovikhin was sidelined and Gerasimov is sending Russian men to their deaths in Vuhledar. Putin doesn't want to protect his troops. He wants results.
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@GaBeeLuv "Putin always listen to his generals" - Is that why Surovikhin is no longer the overall theater commander?
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"work place democracy" - How do you enforce that?
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@kingezhsepo Doesn't have to destroy it. Things can be damaged without being destroyed.
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You don't get the chance to use firepower if you have no stealth. How can you get overwhelmed? You dictate how and when engagements happen. Stealth is used precisely because of the ground threat. Losing GPS wouldn't even make the F-35 break a sweat, it would still feed all of its information to command and control while internally knowing its position through INS. Short term there's not much drift on INS and you can reset your coordinates every time you land at the base.
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Even soldiers use the public audience to pressure higher ups. Complaints to the proper chain of command would get ignored.
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@awakeandwatching953 Russia has pulled defenses from Kaliningrad, the Far East, from the Finnish border, etc. They have sent everything. Russia is pretty much banking on nukes being their only proper defense against invasion because their army is a wreck. They're rebuilding the 1st Guards Tank Army with T-62s and already pulling T-55s out of storage.
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@rahn45 The civilians in Bucha did not have time. Russians still lead them to alleys and basements to execute them.
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Putin has nothing else.
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Pure hopium. What sanctions? After India pulled out, there's no chance it gets produced.
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They're making a ton of money by selling more. They're having to sell a higher volume to make up for the fact that they earn less.
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@1969nitsuga Europe transfers to an account in their banks, which makes the exchange for rubles. When the ruble value increases facing the dollar, it means that instead of getting paid more they get paid less. Say the dollar is trading for 100 rubles, and oil prices are 100 dollars per barrel. That means one barrel of oil is sold for 10,000 rubles (100x100). If the ruble increases and trades 50 to one dollar, and oil price stays at 100 dollars per barrel, now you only get 50x100 = 5,000 rubles. If your employees in this gas company get paid a thousand rubles per month (for simplicity's sake), selling an oil barrel with the old ruble would allow you to employ ten people that month. If the ruble value increases against the dollar like in the example, now each oil barrel only lets you employ 5 people instead of 10. Do you understand now? Having a strong ruble helps imports and hurts exports. When many goods now can't be imported and you still depend on exports to finance your country, the strong ruble actually means you get paid less when selling the same volume. Russia cannot work under the gold standard. There's not enough gold in the world to back the economy. You fell for a stupid piece of news designed to fool people, for a couple of months Russia had a ruble/gold trade scheme and then stopped. Stop trying to make the gold standard happen. We have more material value laying around in the world than there is gold.
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@1969nitsuga It was an example, am I talking to someone who doesn't understand examples? Russia is definitely having problems. A strong ruble means little when other nations are selling to you, because they know they can't take their rubles elsewhere. So in the end, you're still dependent on exports. They have not prepared. Half of their preparations was sitting outside of Russia, and it got seized as part of the sanctions. That's being poorly prepared. Their operational manufacturing infrastructure depends on machines and components imported from the West. They don't control China. China is buying at a massive discount. China is exploiting them. You're welcome to trade your life savings for rubles and put the literal money where your mouth is.
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Cringe Quora commentators shat on it like they were paid to. I remember Pavel's rants.
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@JohnnyAmerique That doesn't address the argument. Are you saying they'll stop here or not?
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It is, actually. France, the UK and the US promised Ukraine security in exchange for nukes. Budapest Memorandum, 1994.
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 @andrewemery4272 Stop swallowing Soviet/Russian propaganda.
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Changing road signs was used by the Czech Republic. It's a historical tactic against Russian troops who are not familiar with the Socialist Republics they were sent to.
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Stop carrying water for the administration. Trump has no carrot and no stick. By ragequitting Ukraine just figures Europe will be a better mediator and Russia figures Trump is too weak to make a deal that would punish them for re-invading. If you want peace you can't settle for "concept of a peace" - war will start again. Reminder, Russia promised to respect Ukrainian borders in 1994, and signed two peace treaties with independent Chechnya. They broke those agreements. Exactly how can you claim both sides don't want peace when Ukrainians know Russia ALWAYS breaks treaties?
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They created a subsidiary in Florida that went nowhere because "Russian money REEEEE" of course they want to lobby
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lel Steiner's counter attack was the Third Army Corps, which was instantly disbanded and split to hold the line against the Ukrainian offensive.
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It's irrelevant. If you have air superiority but no proper targeting systems and PGMs (like Russia), tanks will breach through your lines. In Ukraine neither side has air superiority over the contested area, and yet tanks breach through lines. It's not that important, it changes nothing.
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Dead Russian soldiers, because their artillery support went up in smoke.
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Genghis Khan680 lmao neo-nazis have always supported the Arabs on this issue. Remember that there are nazis and sympathisers in non-white countries (South America, Slavic countries are white but considered subhuman by Germany, etc). White nazis still don't want to share a country with non-whites they typically support Palestinians due to their common goals.
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@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus The claim that the USAF doesn't like to work for the Army is a myth propagated by reformers. In fact the USAF uncovered through soldier polling that the rotary wing supremacists in the Army were instructing officers to call in less USAF CAS to let helicopters take over.
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They weren't destroyed. Russian military media as usual published a fake video of them missing 4 trucks in a parking lot, and then cutting to farmland with no buildings around. You'd have to be on crack to believe their video.
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 @JAnx01 how rigid a receiver is, lockup consistency, etc absolutely influences accuracy.
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 @mitchyoung93 Gas is expensive because of long term consequences of lockdowns and environmental policy. Not the war.
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 @dragonstormdipro1013 Housing market crisis and subprime mortgage loans being packed as AAA rated investment assets.
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How did capitalism create the problem? Unless you want to replace the purple for green on your flag it's impossible to blame the economic system for the aftermath of keeping people alive.
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@allgarfieldsarebeautiful5792 even in the absence of profit, transforming materials or producing energy requires the creation of byproducts. Economics doesn't magically change the laws of chemistry. "The “aftermath” of keeping people alive isn’t a constant that would happen under every system" - It happens under literally any system. Unless the system has the objective of eliminate human population you can't really get away for it. "I don’t have to be anti civilization to recognize the horrors of industrial farming under capitalism" - There's no industrial farming in anti-capitalist systems?
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It's not a matter of suggesting other things, he just stated that it's a tax. Tariffs are literally import/export taxes.
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You expected thermometers to have a °F readout in Eastern Europe? He's forced to get temperature in Celsius so he has to use Celsius. If he's driving a car over there and ask him the speed on the tachometer, he's gonna use km/h instead of mph, and when he's filling the tank he'll use liters instead of galons. Simply because he has no choice.
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Luty also had a PDF on his website about how to make expedient ammo.
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How long can be the determination be kept up for? Basically, you have one chance before the retaliation comes.
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A lot of modern equipment is just upgraded 50 year old designs. Things plateau.
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@thesearchforterrestrialint7795 Ground drones by virtue of a curved earth lose signal easily, drone swarms are easy pickings for airburst autocannons or DEW.
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@thesearchforterrestrialint7795 It really doesn't matter when 60 cent shotgun shells swat legged or flying combat drones. Those widgets off a production line can't beat a 100 year old production line - ammo. Nobody chose to employ trench warfare. Trenches were the static defenses in the Ukrainian flat lands while the conflict was frozen. At the start of the war Russia clearly chose maneuver warfare, but ambushes and the support elements carrying ammo and fuel being taken out forced the fighting to become static and positional. I have proof of the actual shape of the Earth because not only was my father a military aircraft crewman who had to understand navigation and did a lot of naval work due to maritime patrols, I also did horizon experiments by looking at ships from different altitudes at the coastline. Everything from artillery tables to shipborne gun calculators has to take into account the curvature and rotation of the Earth. In fact when the Falklands war kicked off, a British ship crew forgot to flip the mechanical gun calculator when crossing the Equator, so when they got close to Argentinian positions they were entirely missing their shots since the calculations were being done for the Northern hemisphere.
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 @fintan9218 No, the main problem isn't greed. Man made forests have many problems.
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 @prosandcons-fl2cc Most of the land used for crops would not be forest but natural grazing fields for wild bison.
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Anyone who has access to a market where they can trade gold will surely have access to BTC.
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Patriots are defensive missiles.
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George Bush.
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 @chrisjackson1215 You call this getting their S together?
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Hogs don't have a lot of eyesight, so if you shoot one they'll scatter, and there's a chance one might run at you. Not a fun thing to happen, and you'll want a semi auto.
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Yeah, and the videos of those advances show they're sending men to cross no man's land without regards for casualties.
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Yes. Perfect logic. Everything reset into a combat zone and there could be weapons or explosives among the soldiers.
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Because the USSR and PRC were on their side. Same reason the US defended South Vietnam but didn't invade the North.
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@SETHthegodofchaos "espacially when you already have lots of money." - huhhhh most devs are people living on a salary, not independently wealthy.
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@mumenrider862 The doppler shift in radiation proves that celestial bodies are moving apart from each other. Like a car moving has a higher pitch when approaching and a deeper rumble when moving away. Instead of understanding the reasons why people say the things they do, you refuse to look into anything and act incredulous when the information is brought to you. Instead of listening for the car and realizing it is approaching you, you decide to stand in the road and question where the driver wants to go.
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+Terje Oseberg https://fee.org/articles/how-the-federal-government-created-the-subprime-mortgage-crisis/
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+Aereto well, cough syrup has codeine now and that stuff fucks you up too.
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+Victor Von Doom saying "triggered" in the year of our Lord 2018? Opinion discarded lmao
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+Victor Von Doom how is it hyperbolic? The expression "triggered" comes from internet professional victims who had (real or fake) panic attacks during internet arguments because the topic was too strong for them, essentially shutting down debate and running away from differing opinions. Having myriads of comments is exactly the opposite because it's people flocking to confrontation like moths to a flame.
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+MarginalSC regulation protects monopolies, though. Regulations target the little guys while the megacorporations use their money and power to skirt the obstacles.
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+Victor Von Doom if your argument is equating salty comments with literally losing one's goddamn mind over words on the internet you are doing something on the level of name-calling.
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+Victor Von Doom how is this about literal definition? People are itching for confrontation and will openly engage people online, how is that being "triggered"? Triggered doesn't mean you disagree. For fuck's sake I can say something retarded like the earth is flat and I'll get a hundred comments telling me why I am wrong. Does that mean they are triggered? No.
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@markmcmanus86 "Whoa stop saying the Nazis are bad people or someone will set fire to the Reichstag!"
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They took baxk the country, it was Kabul's responsability to hold together but they were too corrupt and weak.
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@Lubet0TheGreat Pretty sure they already used thermobarics. They can't use nukes, it's completely irresponsible. The rest of the world would shun them.
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@ashfield1425 They openly advertise what they have.
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@ashfield1425 Volumes can be estimated from contracts, revenue, power consumption, etc. There's rooms full of people calculating how much X or Y is being produced by looking at trucks full of raw materials arriving on factories.
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Russia is literally on a timer which is why they're pushing forward at all costs. Their oil infrastructure is being hit, all the buyers are demanding discounts, they're drawing from their wealth fund to pay the war.
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"In a public system, the people have bargaining power over the industry." - no, they don't. The industry names their price. If the government isn't willing to pay the industry is happy to not provide anything. Then people get angry for neglecting them and the government needs to come crawling back to the negotiating table.
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Except he has done the opposite.
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To be fair the ozone layer recovered because we banned CFC. As an upside, you can now use body spray as a flamethrower because it uses butane instead of those gasses.
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I mean he's the ultimate grifter, he knows a thing or two about evading rent.
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Yeah, doesn't clear the homicide charges though.
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@gypsyshot5225 And two people get a Darwin award by sending their own ass to prison over this BS.
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@skullospice Bump stocks don't make a gun bigger. They increase the ammo consumption rate which means your supply will be strained.
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@skullospice Nobody's saying they should be banned. You said they're useful but they aren't. That is all.
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@Nicholas Rodriguez I don't know someone who owns one, I listened to a review that included Maj. Weston Amaya's thoughts on the matter. Former SF. That's the person you're calling a kid.
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They are just using the argument against them. How many comments have you seen that start with "Here in the UK guns are completely banned and I feel safer..." etc etc etc? Probably you haven't, because your prejudiced mind is here to insult Americans.
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Huh, the band aid is used to keep the wound closed (so that it doesn't get pulled apart) and to promote a moist healing environment. However, excess moisture or not re-dressing the covering when it's caked in drainage is actually bad for you. If your skin is for example turning white around the wound, REMOVE the band aid and let it "breathe". Infection is prevented through the bleeding itself, by washing with water/saline and by letting a scab for over it. And by the immune system, while we're at it. But the band aid itself doesn't prevent infection. If you put a band aid before washing you're actually promoting the infection by letting the debris stay inside.
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@pouletbaconcarbonneau5879 But it doesn't. It's the cleaning of debris that prevents the infection. Covering it up with a bandaid only prevents the wound from being split apart and keeps it moist. It's not meant to do anything against infection.
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But it was Russia that was bombing Belgorod with their own failed missiles on an almost nightly basis a couple months ago.
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Air defense has been taking a pouding, though. Buks and Pantsirs are on the Ukrainian's sh1tlist for the past few weeks.
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The way certain countries are behaving kind of retroactively justified that. Turns out if you're not thumbing the scales everyone starts invading and blocking shipping lanes. I kinda need those open or else I can't afford stuff.
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Nice cope.
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They have replaced it. F-16s, Strike Eagles, etc do the A-10s job. It's just Congress that insists on keeping it in the air.
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@michaelmancini5773 Yes, it has. As of 2014 the F-16 provides 33 percent of CAS, while the A-10 only does 11 percent. Loitering time doesn't matter. A single bomb drop turns people into pink mist, and those that survive run away. Typically as soon as something explodes the insurgents scatter. That's why the Carl Gustav was adopted as a counter to long range PK fire, to give infantry the chance to make things go boom close enough for them to pack up and leave. The A-10 is heavily limited in payload capacity in Afghanistan because of the altitude. Look at the footage of A-10s in Bagram. They carry very little payload or else they hit the fence trying to take off at 5,000ft where the air is thinner. Even if there were no issues with altitude, there's no point in maxing out carrying capacity when you're going to have to bring it all back again. The 30mm hasn't been able to destroy tanks since the 70s. For someone who tells others to get a clue, you didn't even look up the 1979 test that determined that the 30mm could barely penetrate M47 tanks. And by the way, the DU round has been discontinued so the A-10 has to use lower penetration HE rounds. Also, most CAS in the modern theaters do not involve tanks. So why would tank killing be necessary?
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@michaelmancini5773 It sounds credible because it is credible. Your fellow Marines calling in CAS probably enjoyed getting F/A-18s as much as A-10s, as I've talked to more than a few and they loved the Hornet. Desert Storm had the A-10 pulled out of attacks against the Republican Guard, and the F-16 was sent in its place. Seems to me that the A-10 couldn't handle the heat and there are in fact substitutes. The Republican Guard gave the A-10 a concussion and bloody nose, it had to run with its tail between its legs and be fed lesser trained and less equipped Iraqi Army forces. 6 losses in 8,000 sorties while the F-16 had 3 losses in almost 13,000. For perspective, the Tornado suffered 7 losses in Desert Storm and this was considered such a failure that doctrinal changes had to be introduced, and the missions the Tornado were tasked with were much more dangerous than the ones the A-10 did.
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@michaelmancini5773 The depleted uranium was discontinued years ago. The last time it was used it was probably in 2015 and they were supposed to be scrapped in 2018.
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@garymcjerry Most of the wear and tear on a car can be addressed by swappable parts. The battery pack issue should not be as complicated as it is, nor made even worse by making the battery part of the load-bearing chassis structure as it has been proposed.
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If you want to evade AA send in a jet that drops bombs from 10k ft to begin with.
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Tell youtube to pay the content creators. You're paying youtube, but they run the hosting. The content creators have to make a living. Back in the good old days before demonetization and the adpocalypses creators didn't need to do as many ads and promos. Just saying. It's not the creator's fault you're paying money to youtube.
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@ErikGeurts It doesn't matter that it's not because of you. They're underpaid and need outside income. You paid for youtube premium, so youtube won't show you ads. It doesn't matter to them that you've paid for youtube. I think you misunderstood the deal. Youtube never claimed that they'd protect you from creators inserting their own ads, if you don't like it take it up with them for having mislead you.
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@ErikGeurts I actually doubt it. Then why are creators not punished? Google controls the platform.
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"You didn't mention Odessa massacre" - you mean a street battle where an AK was fired into a crowd of nationalists? A massacre is unopposed. It was a battle.
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@johnwebber750 lmao the biolabs take your meds, schizo
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@monkeymonkeymonkeymonkey Paintball tanks, steel pipe and marbles it is.
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They weren't defending anything. They were just killing. They killed so many Iraqis, they were monsters. Kidnappings, torture, murder, bomb attacks in crowded markets. How does that "defend" Iraq or push the Americans out?
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That smart strategy fell apart. They've cemented popular support for the current government and ensured a government friendly to Russia will not have the loyalty of the military or police. To guarantee compliance, they will have to essentially replace these people entirely (not just keep some garrisons), while also somehow paying them off for their troubles, because as we've learned from Iraq the jobless fighters from the disbanded Iraqi army became insurgents.
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You can watch the footage they post online. Lots of dead vatniks.
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"""Black""" activist said the CIA is great? Lmao the same people responsible for the crack epidemic?
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At least find a design that uses a metal tube as barrel liner.
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Pilots can take more Gs than airframes. How many times have you heard of fighter pilots overstressing their aircraft?
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@mis6106 Always with the emojis...
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It's already good at wiping out aggressor squadrons out of the sky. 17 to 1 at Red Flag.
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Name any other suitable Harrier replacement.
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Not true. The minigun is powered which makes it a machine gun. You're confusing it for the hand-cranked Gatling gun from the 1800s. If you use a motor to power the crank it becomes a machine gun too.
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The video isn't a video lecture for restauranteurs, it's an infotainment piece for average people. And the profit equation doesn't change in Europe, labor is expensive so having a dedicated pastry chef or pulling someone aside to make deserts is not feasible on a business with low profit margins.
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That's not true. The Army is allowed to perform air support with rotary wing assets.
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@markgonczy8293 The simple PMC was Russia's ticket to avoiding "real" army casualties. Now the real army hates the PMC for taking all their ammo and requesting VDV assistance every time they got in trouble. Remember when the "simple PMC" was beating Ukraine so bad in Soledar they had to cry and beg for VDV to save them, then they declared Soledar to have been captured by Wagner and the Russian MoD immediately said they were lying? Yeah.
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They reload the expended casings.
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"Why everyone says failed Hostomel operation when they actually captured it with small losses" - Because the air bridge failed. "And they stayed in airport until in May" - Yeah, staying in place holding a useless position isn't a victory. Without planes landing in the airport to deliver troops and supplies, it's useless land.
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They are not attacking Poland, they shot down a Russian missile that crashed in Poland.
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 @Fierysaint1 Why would more than 20-24 be sent?
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 @marcv2648 It's not money, it's metal. You can't pay groceries with Humvee doors or Bradley tracks.
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No, they won't. Thorium is virtually unlimited.
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What's the "conspiracy"? Because a lot of them are true.
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The average PLA grunt isn't any better than the average Army grunt. I would say they're probably much worse.
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@someguy5444 So they're on equal footing, then. The PLA grunt is also someone who just learned to shoot last year.
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@someguy5444 War isn't decided by gunfighting. Look at Ukraine, it's artillery doing most of the work. The point is, it's not discounting any threat. It's recognizing that a rifleman doesn't get specialized training. The conscripts spend 99% of their time not touching their weapon.
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@selelawani832 "They would actually detect and take out the platforms carrying the HARM" - No. S-300 and S-400 cannot extend their range that far. Even Turkey has complained about the S-400 range. "The HARM sensors would even make their detection earlier." - Complete lie.
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C Carr "Your tax dollars pay for the roads we drive on and the school and parks that our kids play at" - the roads are full of potholes and schools are garbage. "Your tax dollars also pay for the military, firemen and police" - the military has spent trillions of dollars in the Middle East for nothing and the police murder innocent citizens
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Copium.
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The data didn't change, they just finally had to admit the data said what it said. Politicians aren't changing their opinions because of data, but because of political reasons.
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 @funki4896 No matter the language? How about Mandarin?
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@merryweather4988 "the duran" LOL
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Since the source is BBC and Mediazona, I guess they're counting social media and obituaries.
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Not the same type of weapons. Is Lebanon conducting massive tank and IFV assaults, covered by dense Soviet style artillery saturation?
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It could damage optics and viewports, forcing the crew to open the hatches and put their heads outside the tank to see.
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HK themselves prefer Americans say Coke rather than accidentally saying cock half the time.
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There is a sugar alcohol that I'm not going to name (not that it can't be found in two minutes of searching) that can be used to react with sulfuric acid (car batteries/drain cleaner) and potassium nitrate (fertilizer, stump remover, etc). It will create an explosive somewhat "similar" to PETN, the main composition of Semtex. In the London bombings terrorists used an explosive made with acetone, sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide (oxigenated water). All easy to obtain.
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Imagine an autocannon shredding them all into pieces with airburst rounds.
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The rail line was damaged last year and only the road sections were repaired.
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The US isn't bankrupting itself oh my god
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@AkiRa22084 "Europe is falling apart from wokeness" Been hearing this for years. Russia's downfall is visible and happening at fast pace. I'm putting my money on Russia going down first.
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@CantoniaCustoms No need to overthrow a government. The Serbian president already said that Crimea is Ukraine. You know, because Putin had the bright idea of saying that what he's doing to Ukraine is as legitimate as Kosovo. That's the ultimate letdown. By the way, Maidan doesn't really fit the definition of a coup. The legitimate government had a vote in the Verkhovna Rada. Voting to dissolve the government and have snap elections is common in Europe.
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@AkiRa22084 Why does that matter? Putin said Kosovo is okay. Now Serbia has lost any reason to be friendly to Russia because Russia has nothing to offer. Maidan wasn't a coup - there's video of the Verkhovna Rada vote. Your relatives can be against it all they want, but the elected representatives voted to dissolve the government and have elections.
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@AkiRa22084 "Russians treat their allies well" - They literally pulled the Russian peacekeeping forces out of Armenia when Azerbaijan attacked.
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most of the government's budget goes towards benefits
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lol that's a cope
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Almost 20 years in the Middle East, tho.
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@ohayosumodayton1226 You can't fight them like an army. They're not an army. That's the point of the insurgency. I suggest googling Wendell Fertig. He took command of resistance groups and even criminal gangs in the Philippines and gave the Japanese hell. The Japanese were brutal. You think that if the Japanese fought the Philippines resistance the way they fought against US troops they wouldn't have won? They would. They were better manned, better equipped, better trained. In a head to head fight it would have been a massacre. But they couldn't fight head to head. That would be stupid. As an insurgency, you always pick the time and place for the battle. When the colonies bitchslapped King George, I'm 99% sure the UK was the biggest Empire in the world at the time. "the world can't stomach fighting an entire people and civilian casualties anymore." - uh, you should look up civilian casualties of war in the Middle East the last 20 years. The world can stomach a lot, especially since most people aren't even paying attention. You think anyone gives a shit about what the Saudis are doing to Yemen? Most people don't even know there's a war there.
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@SC4RRiGAN The Russian people can see whatever delusions they want. Those who know the truth are running away.
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@RahulPncl Syria was attacked by Russia. It was Assad who killed his own people with the help of Putin.
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 @PowerOfTheAsian Gambling is strongly defined, that's precisely why lootboxes or trading card games are not gambling.
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@okeyjohn779 There was no bombing. The building was burned. Looks exactly like a storage shed fire.
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@okeyjohn779 They were prisoners, they couldn't escape. This technology called "locks". Russia always calls for UN investigations as a delay tactic. Same as Bucha. The investigations were carried out and the Russian demands ignored.
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@okeyjohn779 Who said anything about being locked in the beds? If the fire is started inside, some people will die from the smoke before the body starts burning.
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 @mckendrick7672 they absolutely did
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But Saab never sold many Gripens while F-16s sold like hot cakes. The Gripen's support requirements being lower is undone by the fact that there's less support available. Saab is focusing on E/F models as C/D models age. What about spare parts? Is Saab going to open a factory just for legacy Gripens?
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Zero.
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@SThrillz but "every time" people have nothing to say, I did say something.
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@SThrillz No, it's an affirmation of fact.
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@harrykaant It's not a lie. If you kill for profit, that's a violation of others' rights. Not for capitalism. Capitalism would be better off without you. If you kill to maintain communism, you're killing for communism.
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You're so wrong it's almost laughable. Russia had zero convenience in adopting 5.45, but they did it anyway because of increased hit ratios. You hit more, you kill more. While you brag about how much recoil you're handling the enemy can put multiple rounds on target and end you. Are you here to prove how much of a man you are, or to win?
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@Retarior "Russian had actuaely some serious doubts about adopting 5,45" - But they did anyway. 7.62 is in limited service and only for barrier penetration. "Hit ratios, yeah right... only in perfect conditions though" - Perfect conditions is exactly what is necessary to use full rifle calibers. Known distance, known wind, known running speed, perfect posture, etc. In the field achieving hits with larger calibers is terribly difficult which is exactly why intermediate calibers became a thing. "larger caliber doesnt require you to land so many shots to a man hyped on adrenallin to take him down" - The vast majority of shots will not hit any targets at all in combat. 99.99% of shots fired are misses. Trying to save on shots that are statistically unlikely screws you over because of the thousands of rounds you'll need to send into the dirt for every kill. "Its predicted miraculous effects were never safely confirmed" - Except they have. "Its 50:50" - So they have been at least partially confirmed by your own admission, directly contradicting your statement before. Either way, the 50:50 nature of 5.56 comes from M855 and M855 alone. The inconsistent performance only has a weak bullet design to blame. If not for M855, you'd never hear about 5.56 complaints. "You just have to man up to learn how to handle new caliber" - This is not about manning up. This is about the amount of rounds carried into combat. This is about how fast aim can be readjusted in combat. While you brag about how much of a man you are, your enemy is outgunning you and able to put two rounds on target before you're even done recovering from the recoil. You can't fight physics. "Even the 5,45x39 has more juice" - What a joke. It's around 1,300 joule while 5.56 M855A1 carries around 1,800 joule. "more power behing heavier projectile too" - The heavier 5.45 AP round is 57gr. Both M855 and M855A1 are 62gr. Not to mention Mk 262 which is 77gr. 5.45 is both weaker and lighter. "The 6,8x46 Rem. Spc" - It was literally dropped by SOCOM because it was not performing well in Afghanistan. 6.8 SPC is dead. "or even better 6,5x39 Grendel" - Unsuitable for military use. Shoulder angle, less case taper than 7.62 and lack of internal volume to handle tracer rounds or steel cores automatically disqualify it from military service.
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@Retarior "You are full of it :-D , but, what ever makes you sleep better at night man :-)" - No argument. That's admission of defeat. "The 5,56x45 has been observed as to having insuffitcient effect on living mass, period" - Google "kenosha arm". Tell me that's insufficient effect on living mass. "It cant even properly down a Buck on many occasions" - Apples to trains, 5.56 is meant to be shot at thin-skinned two legged animals. Also, people have dropped bucks with 5.7 and .22LR. Seems like a "you" problem. "I really dont know in what world you live in" - In the real one. Where 5.56 has been studied to hell and back and nothing else is good enough to replace it with. "so everything that has been droped by the army is proof that its not doing well right? How naive :-D" - If you think people who kill people for a living and were testing a whole new caliber for themselves because they are allowed to just dropped 6.8 SPC for no reason you're the naive one. 6.8 SPC's military adoption is essentially limited to short range guard duty with light-for-caliber Speer Gold Dot hollow points. "I dont have such issues handling recoil" - Nobody cares. "[video of short range firing]" - Okay. Now show them taking shots at people running full sprint from 400 meters away. "According to your description, I should have been blind and unable to hit anything." - Strawman argument. More admissions of defeat. "Its really not that bigger difference as you are trying to imply, that is just hillarious." - Big enough difference that the Russian army figured out 5.45 hit rates were superior. "Then use .22Lr" - Again a strawman argument. 22LR has insufficient speed and mass. It doesn't have the flat trajectory of 5.56, it doesn't beat the wind like 62gr bullets and the bullet has no terminal effects if it has to punch through kevlar, sheet steel or auto glass. If you knew what you were talking about you wouldn't make this ridiculous argument. "The 5,45x39 is really more stable" - I don't even understand what you mean by stable. What stability are you referring to? Fleet yaw? "As if 5,56 had enough internal volume, you are shooting your own foot with that argument" - It fits steel core/penetrator rounds (M855/M855A1) and tracer rounds. So it has the internal volume. Grendel prioritizes accuracy over reliability and military bullets, switching lead for steel either means longer bullet which conflicts with internal capacity, or lighter bullet which means light-for-caliber ballistics. That's shooting your own foot. Take a cartridge that was designed for one thing and then make it worse. "weight" - heavier than 5.45, which you claim to be superior. "TKO index" - TKO index is a joke. By the TKO index, if you touch the ice in a glacier you die instantly. It's very slow, but the sheer mass will impact you with a huge TKO factor. "The 5,56x45 is a crap round" - Repeating things doesn't make you right.
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@Retarior 1. An arm that nearly got ripped off by 5.56. Yes, I've seen other injuries. Heads split open like melons. X-ray of a femur obliterated by 5.56. Gunshots are ugly. First you say 5.56 doesn't do anything to meat. Now you say it's ugly but anything is ugly. You've conceded the point. 2. Then what is the point? Again, you are wrong. The elongation of the 222 cartridge was performed for MILITARY trials. It was made for people, not critters. When Stoner and others managed to make their 222 cartridge penetrate HELMETS (not many foxes wear helmets in the wild) there were overpressure concerns and Remington solved them. They renamed their 222 Special cartridge 223 Remington because there were other 222 cartridges competing in the MILITARY trials. 3. "Russian army never officialy dropped the usage of 7,62x39" - But in practice, they are a 5.45 force. So who cares about what's official? "You know that the 5,45 has more chubby casing right?" - The bullet is lighter and comes out the barrel slower. "Yet the fact that it travells with a slightly slover speed makes it more steady ;-)" - Provide source. "creates less counter-force during flight" - The bullet is also lighter which means it has less inertia against the drag. "why they are abandoning them now, that armour has advanced so much within last 20 years" - Countering armor is a silly proposal. If you counter armor, enemy stops wearing it. Now you're the one carrying heavier weapons, heavier ammo and heavier armor while your enemy runs circles around you without tiring. Russia is developing armor, but not fielding calibers to defeat it. It's a trap. Just like Reagan's Star Wars. 4. I didn't avoid anything. Stop lying. You're showing short range engagements where you can fire as fast as you want and still be accurate. But in real life it's miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss and finally hit. Then your opponent trips and falls. Then hit, hit, hit to make sure you're not hitting armor plates. And to do that, the lighter the recoil the easier it will be. If the same SA58 was chambered in 5.56, it would recoil even less which means doing the same firing drills with the same accuracy, but at a longer range. Firing a 7.62 at a distance you could kill someone with a thrown spear doesn't prove anything. That's why in Russian and even American trials, 7.62 is almost equal to 5.45 in hit probability up close, but 5.45 vastly increases hit probability from 300m and beyond. 5. Provide an actual argument. You're saying a lot of things and none of them address what's been said. Grendel has less case taper than 7.62 NATO which is a problem for reliability, and so is the shoulder angle. Right there you can see, it was a cartridge designed for civilian paper shooters. The usage of military ammo requires being able to use steel (even the future 6.8 projectile will use EPR construction, like M80A1 and M855A1) and steel is not as dense as lead, which means longer bullet. Tracer rounds have the burning compound at the rear, which is less dense than steel even and thus makes the bullet even longer. This robs case capacity that doesn't allow the use of the most ballistically efficient bullets in Grendel. 6. At 300 meters 7.62x39 is doing 1600-1500 fps depending on ammo while 5.56 is still above 2000 fps. "That destabilizes the bullet during the flight" - Wrong. In fact 5.56 is stable from 300m onwards (https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a530895.pdf page number 42 of the report, page 54 on pdf reader) and only starts to destabilize at 600m. "I never had much issues to just slide sights a bit higher" - This is ridiculous. You don't get to "slide" sights when you need to take a snap shot at a target that thinks "I'm up, they see me, I'm down". He'll be in cover and safe by the time you set the sights. Not to mention it would require accurate distance judgement every time. Flatter trajectories increase hit rates. Nobody cares who you are or what you did. You're just one person. You only think of yourself. But you need to think about the people next to you. 7. They're not "prototypes". They're fully developed. They had their chance, they blew it.
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@Retarior Fine. 120gr Sierra HPBT MatchKing, 27 grains of powder, 2490 fps that's 1650 ft.lbs = 2237 J. 110 gr case + 120 gr bullet + 27 gr powder, that's 257 gr or 16.65 grams for the entire cartridge not counting the primer. 134.35 joule per gram of ammo carried. Cartridge weight for M855 is around 12 grams. At 2950 fps that's 1635 joule at the muzzle. 136.25 joule per gram of ammo carried. There's no such thing as free lunch. All that extra energy is just going into the dirt 99.99% of the shots fired. And you're carrying less of it. And missing more. The army with 5.56 will still have a couple mag's worth of ammo and your army on 6.5 will have run out. It will be a massacre.
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@Retarior You have been proven wrong multiple times. We're not just talking about differences of opinion, you outright posted incorrect things that were either lies or just ignorance. Now that you got called out, you have to go away. Typical. Is it me who's crying? Then why is it you running to the corner to cry on?
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@Retarior a) I have proven you wrong with numbers alone. b) you said 5.56 had lighter bullets than 5.45, now you're pretending you didn't say it. 1. And how many of those records are from people missing their shot? Plenty of people also think .30 Carbine can't penetrate a coat because they fired in a panic. 2. There's no mass manufactured bullets with those effects, which means they might as well not exist, and their construction makes them worse for military use. 3. This has been proven before you were even born. Your "proof"? VHS quality video of people blasting targets at spitting range. 4. I never claimed it was flawless. Another strawman, another admission of defeat. 5. Not an argument. "armies are not doing arget shooting." - Target shooting is where big calibers win. Known distance, perfect posture, wind vanes, pearl white spray painted targets. "but from 100m onwards it sucks" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeNR4YDbwR0 M855A1 at reduced velocity equivalent to 215 meters "You do relaize, that you still cary only certain number of spare magazines and not more right?" - And you carry less magazines with 7.62 NATO. For example to carry 7.62 NATO you need 9 magazines of 20 rounds to carry the same number that 6 magazines of 30 do. "The only thing it affects is the weight of those magazines." - False. Cartridge weight for 7.62 NATO is 392 gr, while 5.56 is 190gr. "And nobody spoke about the need to shoot more rounds." - Again, armies will shoot 20 to 50 THOUSAND rounds per casualty they inflict. You ALWAYS need to shoot more rounds. "Easy, when 7,62 you need just 1 hit in place where you need 2-3 from 5,56... so? Whats the point?" - No. You will need to fire several hundred, if not thousands, of rounds before you hit a man in combat. If war was one shot one kill, there would be no veterans because everyone would die. The vast majority of rounds goes into the dirt. While you pray for a one hit, there's 5.56 flying over your head. Let's see you aim a careful shot with a 5.56 flying at you. "when you usuaely hit anyone with 7,62 the energy transfer is significantly higher" - If you use civilian expanding bullets. 7.62x39 is known for being awful at energy transfer. In the 1989 Stockton shooting 35 people were wounded by 124gr 7.62x39, and 30 survived. https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a233190.pdf Medical analysis of 7.62x39 non-expanding bullets shows it makes handgun-like wounds. "5,56 caliber has been surpased at close range by 4,6x30 or 5,7 calibers" - Absolutely false. 5.7 is anemic compared to rifle rounds. "in this short reportage from 2007" - Instead of a short report, here's 15 minutes of Chuck Pressburg, former Ranger and Delta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sh1gNW4yeI "Im able to down a wild boar in a run over 100kg of weight with army surplus 7,62x39" - Exactly. How many 100kg humans are running around in combat? Boars have thick hides and are better suited to deep penetrating rounds. That deep penetrating round does handgun damage to humans. "I really dont have to use specialized hunting round... and when I do" - The military can't do that. You're resorting to civilian arguments to talk about combat.
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Pretty much any aircraft contract includes engine spares in the delivery.
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@BertoxolusThePuzzled Russia hasn't been modernizing anything. The T-14 Armata is vaporware. These are storage tanks. They aren't replaced. They've been sitting in fields for decades.
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@BertoxolusThePuzzled The pincer around Bakhmut failed and the city had to be taken street by street.
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Lives are being saved by slowing down artillery.
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@Cypher84X Their better tech is not enough. They rely on numbers. What advantage to they get from thinning themselves out?
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Gold can't back an economy, this is 19th century tier.
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@insAneTunA Stop the spam. Separating the resin from the fibers would be a superior method as they could be reused in less stressed components in other uses, while shredding composite to use as filler is simply sweeping under the rug.
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@MeanBeanComedy that's why he said forced, aka not free market
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 @antarcticalol1031 "waaa waaa war with Russia" buddy Russians got merked in the Battle of Kasham, what did they do about it? Nothing.
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Russia required QR codes to ride the bus, while Ukraine had the lowest vaxx-ing rate in Europe. Putin is a Branch Covidian. Ukrainians distrusted the vax. lul
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Doesn't matter, the A-10 allows rudimentary ground units to contest the airspace. Doesn't matter how many fighters you have to protect the A-10 if the A-10's biggest predator are the ground units themselves.
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@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas Having air superiority does not save the A-10. Six of them went down in Iraq despite American air superiority.
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@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas Around 8000. For reference, F-16s flew 12,000 sorties with half the losses.
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mercury_stuck_in_1984 hehe the hale hortler number
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Iran supported the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah. The IRGC attacked Israel.
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@Sembazuru this ignores factors like covid actual getting to people first and causing them to stay isolated during the flu season or even people being tested for covid and not the flu even though they could be carrying both It makes no sense that masks kill the flu, but not covid
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@Sembazuru "I was saying that masks reduce the transmission of all kinds of respiratory ailments" - So how come it worked for the flu but not the new bug in town? "flu infection rates is something that is tracked and reported publicly" - Actually it is estimated with statistical models because it's impossible to track due to multiple factors that make it extremely hard to collect accurate numbers. And the statistical models fail during pandemic years. Studies done after the 2009 H1N1 found that for ages 65+ the number of hospitalizations due to influenza were underestimated by a factor of 5.2.
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Please watch the videos on Fukushima by Thunderf00t here on youtube. He is an expert unlike the journalists.
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The US spends more on medicare and medicaid than it spends on the military and foreign aid.
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Let them fight
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It's not lesser in comparison. If you seize power by force and then act incompetently your incompetence is not excused. You imposed it on everyone. For incompetence to be excused you have to admit fault, step aside and let others fix your mistakes. If you beat down those pointing out the mistakes and asking for change, you're at that point being deliberate in the harm you cause.
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@wrongthinker843 The hell does that mean? You do know about Yuri Bezmenov, right? From green activists protesting against nuclear energy to conspiracy theories about HIV being man-made in a US lab, Russia was behind it. For decades. I haven't been criticizing my own nation and countrymen based on schizo conspiracies Moscow decided to push. Scapegoat of the day? It's been going on for DECADES.
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Weird ruse where they kill pilots and crewmen.
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@yyyooly The difference is inconsequential. Socialism is just the communist party taking over the state. Communism is a stateless system. Socialists believe in the exact same thing as communists, apart from believing the state is necessary.
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Ruble is not physically backed, that's a fairy tale. 85% of the world is what, 120 countries you can't even point to in a map?
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@slimhope1 There's not enough physical mineral/fossil deposits to back a currency. Modern economies have generated wealth beyond what's trapped in the ground. You can't back a currency with something that burns into an orange flame on everyone's home or gets turned into car exhaust fumes. The whole point of a gold backed currency in the old days is that outside of jewelry gold was really mostly useful to store value. You can't store value on gas if you need to burn it or turn it into fertilizer in the chemical industry. European countries are not paying in Rubles. They're paying in Euro to a bank account that makes the exchange, as the contracts stipulate the currency and Russia can't change them on a whim. Seven countries are not 85%. There's 195 countries. You can't point them all on a map without studying beforehand, it's just not feasible.
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@garethmartin6522 In other words, you people are allergic to actual information and treat everything as a one-up contest.
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He's looking good for a corpse
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@feedyourmind6713 That has nothing to do with jamming.
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Argh, the officer faking the recoil with the paintballs. Grr.
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@jltg34 I think it's funny people are saying things like "the US has a hypercapitalist culture" when right now in Russia microcredit loan sharks are offering high interest loans to the men who are summoned to serve in the military so they can buy the equipment their own army does not provide. Knowing that if they get KIA in combat the family gets a payday and thus able to pay the debt. Want hypercapitalism? Don't look at old men in suits gambling with billions. Look at those willing to chew on the corpses of their fellow man for a quick buck.
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@jltg34 I'm not handwaving anything. I'm straight up saying that some of you people look at morally questionable issues and cry that the sky is falling, when truly despicable things happen. You can't say a 90 dB party is loud while 120 dB gunshots are being fired in the house next door. The point isn't that house parties don't keep people up at night. They do. The problem is saying that 90 decibel is louder than 120. It isn't. That's just a fact. Not handwaving. Everyone wants CEO heads to roll, nobody is willing to do anything. Spare me the LARP. We've had plenty of chances to kick things off, nobody does anything. Or when someone does anything, the same people who called for it are suddenly very concerned.
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Pretty much all new PMs say that. Theresa May was also asked that question.
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bimmebeau The A-10 is a flawed aircraft meant for Vietnam that had to be brute forced into a different role. Armor is losing relevancy as missiles simply slice aircraft in half instead of worrying about how well armored each half is, it's not cheap to buy as the original A-10 is severely outdated so a modern A-10C should be 50-60 million a piece, and it's tough to maintain as evidenced by the billion dollar Boeing contracts to make parts for it. Most of the anti-armor kills came from Maverick missile, which other aircraft also carry. It refuses to die because Arizona representatives make money off it. It would be near useless in Ukraine.
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There's a natural nuclear reactor that operated unattended 2 billion years ago and it's still there. Nature managed it just fine.
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- No license to own. - I can make "illegal" modifications as long as I don't take it out in public. - I can buy without background checks. - I can sell to other people even across state lines.
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How would air superiority solve the issue? Wars can be fought without air, as we often seen between poorer countries or between two former Soviet states with dense air defenses. Air power would not protect tanks from ambushes. Only proper tactics could.
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 @schutzanzug4518 The footage from 2018 shows Wagner had tanks.
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The warmongers are in Moscow. Russia is not the victim.
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They aren't using lightspeed motorbikes and Boston Whalers with 1 ton anti-ship missiles. Van Riper cheated.
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At that point you've deluded yourself into thinking you're outsmarting everyone or straight up accepted your fate and stopped caring. Maxwell's last years were spent worrying about his collapsing empire because he stole pension funds to keep the businesses afloat. He was probably not even thinking of the spying stuff at that point.
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@charliecharliewhiskey9403 I think people overstate the future generations argument. A civilization advanced enough to drill into a geological deposit will know what radioactivity is.
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Surface area is similar (some of the wing becomes recessed) but only from above. The area you are interested in to reduce drag is measured from the front. Either way, the issue with supersonic flight is that you need a swept back wing to delay the onset of shock waves, which increase drag independently of frontal area. A wing optimized for this flight regime will have a very high stall speed and thus be extremely difficult to land. Variable geometry allows the aircraft to slow down and remain airborne.
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We know it's you, John McCain. I hope Hell is burning you to a crisp.
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@lapamful it's the brain tumor pressing on the right spot. But the love for warfare and spilled blood stayed the same.
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@bhough410 "What benefit is there to "knocking China down a rung?"" - for example the fact that corporations getting involved with China has lead to freedom of speech in the US being threatened by corporate control.
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There's British planes flying over the Black Sea too.
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@sanders2850 Always amazing how you people explain how it works, but you DON'T even know how it works. J&J uses an adenovirus as delivery mechanism while Moderna and Pfeizer use mRNA encased in lipids to enter the cell. It's not a weakened strain. Stop explaining things when you DON'T KNOW.
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@nomanor7987 Operation Barbarossa was an invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany. Russia is the invader.
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But Ukrainians love Bradleys. They now see the BMPs as death traps.
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@evzenvarga9707 he literally begged for Israeli help in the final days lol you people project "basedness" to any figure but they're just human and they'll not be thinking of online schizos when the enemy is at the gates
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 @marcv2648 There's a good reason. Without weapons, you'd live like in the 1900s. Global trade is secured by naval power
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 @JudgeDillon Anyone not at war with the US will track F-35s. Any country at war with the US will have their radars Tomahawked at Zero Hour.
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Gun control doesn't do shit. Gun crime in the UK rose after gun control. Brazil and Mexico are almost warzones in certain areas and yet they have strict gun control laws. Gun control is just letters on a piece of paper saying you can't have a gun. Criminals don't care about the law.
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More loyalty to "king and country" than ethnicity.
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Thermite isn't that effective. If you look at rail welding it requires a mold to constrain the heat, while thermite burning in the open loses a lot of its energy to the surrounding air and doesn't melt through metal as impressively as most think. They're useful to disable abandoned vehicles but not as an attack weapon.
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They have troops but limited gear. We'll see a Kharkiv level knockout.
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The A-10 has already been largely replaced by the F-16, F/A-18, Strike Eagle, etc.
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 @shaun7142 the IMF also has no means to audit the Russian economy so they need to republish Rosstat's numbers.
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Outwit? Jim Carrey is so irrelevant today that he needed to stir up shit to have anyone talk about him. In my opinion people can do whatever they want for comedy, but mocking a dead person, using recent tragedies as a leg to stand on and continuing his childish act on Twitter isn't something I'd expect from someone who's over 50. Why would anyone watch news agencies, you mean. Fox isn't even the worst of the bunch, they all lie for profit.
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Well, unfortunately Saab also messed that up. The Gripen C/Ds and E/Fs are like the Hornet and Super Hornet. Two different aircraft with similar design. The older Gripens cannot be rebuilt into newer ones. I mean, they can, but most of the parts are factory new and not much is cannibalized.
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But they don't ban the manufacturing of such weapons because the government and the elites with their private security (private armies) need such weapons.
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@EfrainRiveraJunior they need the weapons too. How do you think they control the populace or keep people off their gated communities or private islands? All government is based on force. Be it a government by politics or by oligarchy. The fact that they can profit off the taxes is just a bonus. Without their monopoly on weapons people could just start rolling the guillotines to the square.
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@EfrainRiveraJunior when was the last time you saw a cop with a double-barrel shotgun defending the parliament? I mean, that argument doesn't even make sense, if you were in the government why wouldn't you want to have the most efficient weapons? But that's not neither here or there, even if for some reason you didn't want the police and security to have high-end weapons you would still need to face the fact that if given sub-par weapons the cops could be overwhelmed by criminals or even a disgruntled populace.
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Those weird people who claim that what we think about NK is all American propaganda.
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@TuhljinTampergauge Not all things are genetic. For example cleft lip is 20-50% genetic and the remaining environmental factors. You can be genetically fine, but pregnancy smoking or obesity leading to development issues.
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- Slavoj Žižek
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Their tanks are still blowing up, and Western tech seems to be kicking ass.
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Several countries have abandoned bullpups. It was forward thinking in the 1970s.
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@univeropa3363 They didn't "put a guy in place", they picked one of the terrorists.
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@NKVD_Enjoyer they just bribed the terrorists
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It happens in Arab countries, India and the Balkans. Celebratory gunfire is extremely common across multiple cultures.
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BBC and Meduza are only counting official obituaries and social media posts. If your family has no social media, or your body is still in Ukraine, you won't be counted.
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@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz F-15s and F-16s have landed with wings ripped near the root. Lifting bodies are a magical thing.
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@echodelta2172 keyword is "former" so he could have been deployed in 1991 when 7 A-10s were shot down and 13 written off as losses due to battle damage and had to be pulled out of missions against the Iraqi Republican Guard.
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MacGregor has been wrong since day one.
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>what if the guard is on the wrong place? Well, that doesn't cause more shootings than NOT having a guard. Seriously?
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@raymondjames57 Meanwhile in 1991 Gen. Chuck Horner had to pull them back away from the Iraqi National Guard because as it turns out if a trained and equipped force sees A-10s coming, they splash them out of the sky.
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@raymondjames57 Not really. The first hot war the A-10 faced, it was humiliated by Saddam's finest and had to spent the rest of the conflict strafing the poorly trained and equipped Iraq Army units (which had been decimated during the Iraq-Iran war). So no, not "literally everything" can have that statement applied to considering that the F-16 was sent in the A-10s place to deliver cans of whoop-ass.
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@raymondjames57 What do you mean playing stupid? You expect to always face illiterate peasants?
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Unfathomably based.
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They are running combat cams. You can find combat cam from even the 2014-2015 height of the conflict. It's not more important than security, it's a record keeping instrument that runs in parallel with military activity.
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Yet the F-35 is an export sales success story. The B variant has allowed nations to use their helicopter carriers to field a 5th gen fighter force. It's the cheapest upgrade one could ever ask for as any nation who replaces their Harriers or buys them while already having a helicopter carrier suddenly turns into a 5th gen naval power. No-one, nobody but the USA, has the power to sell you an item that upgrades your naval status like the F-35B.
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It should burn before apogee (you can't turn the missile 180 at full speed) and it falls ballistically with maneuvering capabilities.
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You can't keep upgrading, at some point the airframe runs out of hours. There's nothing to learn if you don't have an aircraft industry.
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America hasn't even sent a single fighter, tank or navy vessel. How can America be bled dry of weapons?
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Not in Germany or Austria. Portugal is dragging their feet. Greece has a mandate for the elderly. Haven't heard about France lately.
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Whataboutism.
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But that's nonsense. The ground water would just make its way back to sea.
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@kimberlys8422 google is cooperating with China. A literal dystopian regime currently performing the ethnic cleansing of the Uhygurs - a Muslim minority in China.
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Mechanization and battlefield first aid have drastically reduced fatality rates.
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Russia depends on North Korea and Iran...
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Then why did they need the app tracking data rather than just get the cell tower triangulation?
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@jonfoster5828 That's a long-winded way of admitting that tracking phones have legal and practical roadblocks, so we should still fear invasions of privacy rather than dismiss them like you did. Thanks for proving my point. If cops are lazy, all I need to do is not make their job easy.
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If Russia isn't suffering that many casualties, why are they unable to move forward? If there's no fierce resistance, you can move forward.
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 @Chaosoftheunicorns the fact that Russia hasn't shown pictures of an intact Su-27 is highly suspicious to me.
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Gee it's almost like Russians blew their load with the Iranian drones and the West started donating air defenses. Bombs on Kiev? Good luck. I hope they try. I want to see charred corpses of the VKS after they try to drop bombs inside S-300 range.
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@RuffProfesional "assault rifles" were not legal in New Zealand nor are they currently legal in the US so why bring them up?
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A single country being dunked on isn't a world war.
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 @pugmahone9439 Because Bakhmut is a prime position to slaughter Russians. When they do leave Bakhmut they'll have to restart the process in the next town over.
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@PiousFem6 "if everyone had their own handmade gun people would be dying left and right" - there's more guns than people in America and you're more likely to die from lighting strike than in a mass shooting. I don't think people are dying left and right.
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@PiousFem6 clearly you've never been told about the Ring of Fire gun makers. "I had a friend in high school that tried to make a gun and blew off 3 of his fingers" - And there's people who blew their fingers with fireworks. Homemade fireworks is a hobby enjoyed by many and people aren't dying left and right because of it.
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@PiousFem6 They're not.
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You absolutely need armor against drones, because they can drop grenades.
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@R1200Jedi I agree with the OP that it's great not to be exposed 24/7 to the American culture war, but at the same time foreigners bitching about America is a stupid trend that needs to end. 99% of us living outside America do not think about about it. Only the 1% of noodleheads allow an entire country to live in their head rent-free. Please do not judge all of us because of a few assholes.
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There's so few of them left, do they even have a say?
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The better Russian military using T-55s, unarmored offroad utility vehicles imported from China, etc?
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If I remember that case the slasher was going for ears and noses for some reason. If he was actually trying to pigstick people... Children are frail... Come on...
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No he's been doing videos pandering to China for years.
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@olesams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNuwgbxQe-M
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@olesams If it's all a ploy to reach the untapped market in Spain and Latin America, yes.
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@olesams Honest question. Why would you film videos of your trips to China and learn enough Mandarin to use it in such videos, that you then post on Weibo? Come up with a reasonable explanation for that.
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@olesams You asked a question and I answered. He has been doing videos for Chinese social media for a while. That's all. Okay, so in the end up agreeing with me without having to provide the proof you initially wanted. What was an outlandish claim is now agreeable and beyond obvious. Most bilingual people don't pick Mandarin. There are utilitarian reasons to learn Mandarin, but you trying to portray it as some random choice after you already admitted it's pandering makes no sense. Not only did I back up what I said, you already admitted you agree with me and he has been pandering to China. Read your own post. You agree with me. That's it. You're the one talking smack for pretending this is a debate and then in the end agreeing with me and explaining why you agree.
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"Law and order" is about punishing the perps, not an entire demographic group for wrongthink.
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Based.
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All the evidence is published openly. A new tab is too much work?
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@acidbot666 I don't know how looking at bank activity in Russia has the same source as chemical weapons, but okay.
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@acidbot666 You're still free to look at the sources and you haven't, all you've done is complain. How about less bitching and more reading?
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"If no one has been murdered in your town since 1981, but you still feel you need all those guns for protection" that's like saying "if you haven't been bit by bugs then why do you wear bug repellent?" Maybe the bug repellent has something to do with the fact I haven't been bit???
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Even without tritium the implosion plutonium cores still work, no need to go back to the gun barrel design.
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@gregmattson2238 I understand that and have made that argument myself. However, this is because of dial-a-yield. The primary plutonium core is purposefully made as a low yield weapon, then tritium boosts the fission. If Russia had ran out of tritium, they could reform the plutonium core to be a pure fission weapon and give it a larger payload. Maybe 10 kt. If Russia had no tritium refills in the last 5 years and got caught with the pants down we have a chance, if they foresaw the problem a decade ago and had some cores reformed to be pure plutonium implosion, they're back in the game.
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That's why the government doesn't arm the military and police, right? Oh, wait!
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@taraswertelecki3786 The nuclear winter hypothesis was based on the fires burning in WW2 Japanese cities. Because so many of their houses used wood, the smoke column filled the atmosphere with those particles that reached high atmosphere and could block the sun if more cities were burned like that. If you detonate a nuke on a modern city it would flatten a lot of concrete but the rubble wouldn't be burning.
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@klardfarkus3891 The fact that they managed to do it doesn't negate that they are famous for their rocket mishaps.
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@taraswertelecki3786 The air burst puts less particles in the atmosphere. Yes, the fireball will radiate heat. And then the fireball stops. So the only fires that can sustain themselves are the fires that generate enough heat to burn the rest of the fuel. No, that doesn't support the concept of nuclear winter because you cannot determine that those dust storms could have been caused by nuclear weapons. You need a causal link.
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The New Atlas said HIMARS was a nothingburger months ago lol he's a doofus
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Non-nuclear high yield blasts were not achieved with bombs but by packing mountains of explosive. Look into "Sailor Hat test" for example.
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@klesh13xd14 I do understand. One side had to rely on extremists for self-protection once, and now tries to bury it. The other side has nutcases willing to do things for money, and the Russian state is willing to pay to get things done. It's not sunshine and rainbows in the real world.
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@klesh13xd14 This is insanity. The Portuguese and Spanish history is also identical up to a point. Does Portugal somehow have to be absorbed back into Spain? Ukraine fought a war against the Bolsheviks and their defeat had the consequence of being absorbed into the USSR. So yes, that's being a hostage of the USSR and not ridiculous. I want a gold toilet but that's not happening. Who cares what Putin wants? He's just a man. We need the world to bow down to what a man wants or doesn't want? Oh, don't forget the common history. He's willing to kill Russia's sons, and Ukraine's sons for that matter, just to have his way? Your explanation for the war actually makes Putin look like an insane and narcissistic dictator, while the geopolitical explanation makes much more sense. You're making this war about sentimentality. Capture half the country? There's not enough troops deployed to hold ground.
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There's a ton of programs. Billions are spent on the homeless. No change. A few billions sent to Ukraine, and I get to see the footage. Seems a better use of my money.
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 @FrankSmith-ht5sl But that's not true. You know we can just look up stuff, right? Russia fights for every inch, they send reserves to hold the line instead of retreating.
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Already been. Most CAS missions are given to F-16s, F-15s, F-18s, B1s, etc.
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@philipcoffman4372 Russians used anti-air missiles in INS/GPS mode to strike ground targets and Shaheds to make up for the missile shortage. When you have to throw rocks to make up for lack of bullets, you're running out.
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 @Hardcore6166 the agreement was that NATO would not move into East Germany. Stop lying.
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 @CaptainOsric Someone check this man's hard drive.
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The Hill just platforms all the concern-trolls and anti-establishment voices who decided to be against Ukraine on a whim.
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I mean, it is. The point of free speech isn't to protect what people want to hear, it's to protect the unpopular speech.
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@Purfunxion Then you don't have free speech. I know it's not comfortable, but if there are laws against hate speech then anything can be added to the list of hate speech.
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@Purfunxion What does that have to do with anything? The laws can be changed. Threats and prosecution are already illegal and not part of free speech.
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ISIS did a drone drop on a tank hatch way back in the 2010s.
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Public school teachers diddle kids at a higher rate than Catholic priests, by the way.
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The Chechens cried when they saw real combat. They're special police/attack dogs. Their experience is at beating down civilians.
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Then give back the nukes. They gave up their Soviet arsenal in exchange for protection. It's the US's business since the Budapest Memorandum.
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Nordstream 2 was only damaged, NS1 was destroyed. Right after the attack Russia said they could repair NS2 in exchange for sanctions relief.
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Russia fires missiles at residential buildings just because. Israel is being forced to target an enemy who tunneled under civilians to use them as shields.
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And the three bearing swivel nozzle comes from the Pratt & Whitney designs for the Convair Model 200.
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@marpintado No, we weren't talking about that. Funny how you suddenly are now adding caveats.
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There's no exponential growth model of capitalism.
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How does that change anything? Missiles have a 15-20 minute travel time to anywhere in the world, they fly into the edge of space and then come down. Putting them on the border only makes them easy to destroy with conventional weapons.
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It's a joke about those plastic boxes FEMA has.
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200 IQ
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The last two years had massive crisis due to the lockdowns. It will be the same.
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@orlock20 is this comment bugged? I didn't mention any trillions...
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@SpaceCadetLaC If it was my mom, I'd straight up "take care of it" myself and face the legal consequences. Just because it's my mom it doesn't mean I want the legal system to be changed to more easily get innocent people in prison. I'd rather do time as a guilty man for the assault, at least that would be justice.
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.280 Brit was an anemic round. This goes back into full power territory.
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 @perryblanco1446 The missile was destroyed, this is just a warhead.
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 @slavak9123 It's built the exact same. Look at the pictures of the Khinzal which crashed in Russia last year. It has a suppository looking warhead. Same as this. It's inside the missile casing.
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 @perryblanco1446 It's not moss, it fell of grass which got ripped and embedded. Like clothing fibers in a hollow point bullet.
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@paulmobleyscience Fukushima didn't show anything. The plant easily survived the tsunami, even though it had an inadequate sea wall. The problem was that the cooling system could not be restarted because all of the generators and electric panels were down in the basements below the water level. "There is no answer for the waste" - Yes, there is. The Finns are about to start their geological storage program.
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More like "The constitution is great, we should stop spending taxes on the military and let Russia have their warm water port. I love the bill of right, and it's my right to leave the NATO alliance".
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That's not what Occam's razor says. The explanation with less assumptions: Russia killed POWs and covered it up. The explanation with the most mental gymnastics: Ukraine did it because reasons, it used one of the longest range and most accurate weapons to do it for no reason when regular artillery would have sufficed, etc.
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It's already been paid for decades ago. The equipment was gathering dust.
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Nah do it during the riots for added realism.
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@jayellis6774 If you pay for a house renovation and the construction team crashes their van into my house, it's still their responsibility even though you paid them to come.
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@dustinhoffmann6241 Bohemia Interactive, the makers or ArmA, sell VBS as a simulation for the military. It's not commercially available and back in the day it was nearly impossible to pirate as the simulator required a specific USB drive with a key to be plugged into the computer. It's much more expensive than the game but the functionalities are tailor made for the military and teaching needs.
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He scored a perfect 300 his first time bowling
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Exactly. I don't care either. When war comes to a country, suddenly "racism" stops mattering.
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"The mere fact that serbs shot F117" - in a freak situation that could never be replicated again...
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There's like 14 Su-57 and a thousand F-35s.
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Lay off the krokodil.
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Why not a cable bill of rights? Why not a radio bill of rights?
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Japan greatly benefitted from a focus on quality. Chinese engine development was plagued with issues that are only being solved now.
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@@markaspen Great marketing - 12 HIMARS lifted the Russian army above its head, and made it fall down on its knee to break Russia's spine like Bane did to Batman. 12 vehicles with rockets in the back stopped the world's second army. Best marketing in the world.
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Why would you choose to be slower?
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@bryanbishop2377 That's not a response. Why would you chose to be more vulnerable and less able to get out of harm's way?
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Actual scientists can be misguided. Carl Sagan was an actual scientist but he advocated for the Nuclear Winter hypothesis. The 1991 Gulf War essentially debunked it as the massive oil fires did not cause a global effect and dissipated much sooner than the hypothesis claimed.
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@Ownage4lif31 It was well advertised when it came out, it's just not a big... "cultural impact" movie.
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AgentJayZ here on youtube
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 @yarsaz4347 Russians are settling in Ukraine, such as in Mariupol.
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There won't be unused explosive, it will go off.
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I totally agree that increasing the amount was a stupid decision, but what is the arbitrary limit between consumer and drug dealer? I don't know much about marijuana, what's 50 plants? 6 months supply, a year?
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@Jvk1166z I've seen the claim that Ukrainians are aware and they have a firmware patch that disables tracking
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Can't get around the 26" OAL if you're doing a 9mm.
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@ВикторФирсов-е9ф The cleaning operations involved digging up the topsoil and burying it under "clean" soil. Allegedly Russian troops dug trenches, which turned a safe area into a hotspot. Chernobyl isn't as dangerous as it was thanks to the work of Liquidators. But digging around uncovers what's been buried for our own safety.
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@maybeasinner8007 The radiation if you walk around is not serious. But many isotopes like Strontium 90 and Caesium 137 have a 30 year half-life and it's been almost 40 years, so those have little under half the radiation compared to 1986. It's still serious. The reason you can walk around the exclusion zone is because the soil was turned over to bury most of the fallout, and rain washed down the rest. But if you dig, you kick up dust. That's why it's said you don't pet the Chernobyl animals, they may have dug around and got dust in their fur.
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Russia stopped firing them to save up.
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@bologna3048 godspeed, weeb warrior
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@war8036 "We didn't say we wanted Kiev, we just sent men to die on the way there" - You get how that was worse, right? All those men were killed by Russian officials... who won't even dare say what they wanted. So they died for nothing.
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@war8036 "just like NATOs theory of invulnerability" - Russia is welcome to promise no nukes and try to defeat NATO. Let's go.
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@danielallan8061 No nukes. That's cheating, bub. Their combat readiness? They threw men unprepared into the roads in Ukraine, for them to get ambushed by AT weapons.
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@war8036 We believed the only way to stop a Soviet offensive would be nukes. The USSR's power came from the perception of their power.
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@war8036 and Russian officers fought a real war before? Becuase Ukraine seems to show they don't know what they're doing.
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@war8036 Okay, but it seems they've never done it before. That's my point. Swallow what up? Much of the territory was in separatist hands already, or in the hands of traitors who left the door open for the invasion. And they had to sacrifice thousands of men. Plus, tons of Russian officers already died. Swallow territory - die in it. Great officer work.
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SPOOOOON GAAAAAAAANG
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Even outside of NATO most countries don't train for dispersed operations.
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Three out of four of those countries have their sovereignty contested by civil war and Iraq has Iranian-backed politicians in power. They're really not that sovereign.
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Cut off from where?
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@gophermaster I don't have to prove claims I don't make. I gain nothing from claiming any job I had. Harris is trying to get votes off her student-worker cred. In that case yes, you have to prove the claim.
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 @Kuksha51 There was no genocide. Only 21 people died in 2021.
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Redacted has been wrong enough times for you to realize that what they say is nonsense.
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As an European I have to say... based.
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Coping is bringing up a pyrrhic victory to try an argue that an attacker forced into street to street fighting took less casualties than the defenders.
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Here comes the Storm Z reject squad.
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But the Pantsir protects the S-400 from getting swarmed. Like the saying goes, if it bleeds... we can kill it.
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@C. Caner Telimenli so in the end it won't matter how good the equippment is, if operators are just going to neglect their duties.
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@gavinsaint2224 if it gets people to shut up I'll dig the hole in the yard myself
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Can an iPhone see a Russian T90 scratch that a T-55, from 30 kilometers away at night and put a laser spot on it so that you can score a direct hit with a 500lb bomb? iPhones are great at taking pretty pictures. They're not gonna help at tracking ducks.
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Well, water is nearly flat within a few miles and you can see any object sticking out. Over ground, there could be surprises.
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Because EU countries can just block the service on their end. In the EU we can't access many American news websites (especially smaller/local news) because they can't be bothered to abide by the EU regulations as they have almost no readers here. Twitter loses more from ending their service in Europe because we have twice the population of the US when combined.
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@victoriassecretisluv The EU isn't regulating free speech in the USA. Elon Musk is free to shut down twitter in the EU and only have US free speech. But this would cost him money, so he applies the same rules to both. Same as car brands obeying California emissions laws even though they may be lax in other states. I remember something about car manufacturers complaining about that in an open letter to Trump.
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21 days to reach Bagdad from Basra province. Basra to Bagdad is 280 miles. Kiev to Belarus border is 140 miles. The US conducted that operation from halfway across the globe. Russia is conducting this operation from their doorstep.
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@TP-ie3hj Kiev should have been seized today at the latest to keep pace.
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This isn't about caring for others because you can still spread. If anything, if you don't take it you get tested, stay home and minimize exposure for others. If you take it, you'll be spreading without even noticing.
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@brasilianloser If you track money invested into education vs student testing scores there's actually no return on investment. Sad but true. Also, schooling is literally designed to make people stop asking questions and obey authority. If you look at what's going on in schools you'd realize what's causing the lack of common sense.
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 @Just_A_Random_Desk they all are
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Biolabs, NATO mercenaries, and combat mosquitos. There's the Russian perspective in a nutshell.
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"How can he support free market capitalism and in the same breath turn around and say the government is not allowed to bulk purchase medical care for people" - because that's not a free market? "Before car manufacturing was shipped overseas, car companies were heavily regulated but were still the leading industries economically" - Dude, what? Foreign manufacturers started crushing the American car industry before it was shipped overseas. "you shouldn't want your pharma manufacturers selling you poison" - But they do and the FDA allows it.
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I don't think it's a matter of wanting to talk about technology, it's about earning validation about their path. Me? I started linux through a knoppix live CD because my XP install got absolutely borked by a corrupted drive and I needed to recover documents. Now give me dopamine through social media.
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In aviation altitude is expressed in feet even in countries that use metric.
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Uh, no. That's how you get massive perversions of justice. People on death row have been exonerated. If we can find innocent people "guilty" in a trial imagine how many would be incarcerated by "common sense".
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CCCCRAAAAAWLIING headshot IN MY SKIIIIIIINNNN knife kill THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEEEAAAALLLL defusing bomb
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Why would he take the car to the doctor's office if it's in the same property he lives on? He had to drive on public roads unless he's just driving around the parking lot for funsies.
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I'm pretty sure the DU is the highest penetration API round for the 30x173mm, so if it was useless on ancient tanks nothing else would be good.
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"the Ukrainians wouldn't be asking for it so fervently if it didn't make much difference" - Because it would drag more countries into the war. The way to make a difference is by making the shelling stop. The no fly zone isn't going to change that. "the US has the wild weasels to sort them out" - That would require shooting at defenses inside Russian or Belarusian territory.
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Well let me tell you, I've never met anyone who thinks shooting at another person is comfortable. It's still a psychological baggage. >Alot of people aren't comfortable with getting someone's blood on them Usually the people with murderous intentions aren't that kind of people. I mean, more people are bludgeoned to death by blunt objects than shot by rifles.
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The fact that it's old is precisely why it drains so many resources to keep flying. It hasn't paid for itself, in 2010-2019 the US government paid Boeing 1 billion for new wings, and then signed another 1 billion dollar contract for more. Aircraft do not like to fly past their safe limit.
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SOCOM tested it and found that the 6.5 gave shooters twice the hit probability, increased effective range by 50% and had a third of wind drift. All with lower recoil. Guess all the SOCOM shooters in the test are in that 5%.
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@AKlover "This has been known for most of a century. U.S. mil is just A late adopter." - Most of the early adopted 6.5 were much less energetic (only 6.5x55 Swedish comes close) than 6.5 Creedmoor and many loaded with round nose bullets so they were not looking for long range performance with those ones. Hindsight is 20/20. Plus, the US made the purposeful decision to use a caliber better suited for indirect machine gun fire with the .30-06 even though Ordnance was aware that calibers between .25 and .27 were better for individual rifles than .30. When 7.62x51 was developed the goal was to try and make the performance as similar as possible to .30-06. We're talking about a different use case because SOCOM's designated marksmen aren't required to use WWI machine gun doctrine.
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@wranglerspace3658 who?
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jon pork you're straight up reaching for the race card after the hypocrisy is revealed
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@DeZHDSocial you used the word "racist" three times but offered no actual facts or evidence
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@sledgecorp Funny, even Time magazine ran an article about how fraud was made easier... I mean the "election was fortified".
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"Stock white people" are like Jared Leto, Orlando Bloom, Luke Evans and Matt Bomer, those are white guys I'd put on stock photos and clone and they all look kinda like each other. I wouldn't put CPG on any ads nor clone him, lol.
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They've been using this before the patents were filed.
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If mixed with fresh water and you are eating fish for their water content.
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@MCWaffles2003-1 Parks may not have food but they're also not congregating hundreds of people all breathing the same indoor air.
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@Aebarman It is bad. It only takes a few seconds to think where the money comes from and where it goes to.
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Ballistic missiles dive on the target at something like Mach 3. Nobody will take a photo, it won't show up on security camera. The US gave Ukraine anti-radar missiles. The way to protect yourself from those missiles is shutting radars down.
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What? The US has been involved in wars for profit since the early 1900s.
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@shanus11 the poll was about stretch goals, the community was not directly asked if they wanted a mid-2020 release.
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Dave Grossman is one of those punisher skull dudes.
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@RpVane I've listened to his lectures. I don't care for his way of thinking because his entire theory is based on dubious sources and he claims people have the best sex after taking a human life. Dude's a nutter.
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Pripyat is safe to walk around but not return.
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 @jamescarter3196 I'm okay with living near a nuclear plant. Hell, you can dig under my basement and put the waste there.
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It's not funny. Russian hybrid war doctrine was essentially put in full force. For example some Russian offensives in the Donbas were matched with the ISIL takeover of Mosul and the release of the James Foley decapitation video, which kept the media busy. The time lag was on Russia's side, which made everything confusing. While the US state department had the satellite pictures to prove the Russian army invaded Ukraine in 2014, nobody wanted to pay attention because the US's credibility was in the toilet after 13 years of GWOT and a decade in Iraq.
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Buying a Sig Romeo or Holosun is one thing, buying 700.000 of them is another.
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The S-400 can't even protect Crimea.
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Pilots were given primary and secondary targets. Because Milosevic cared more about preserving his fighting force and had the military equipent concealed and moved to avoid a fight the pilots skipped to the secondary targets. If the Serbs wanted to fight we would have given them a fight but since they wanted to play games we played games too.
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It's not stealth. Stop this sales pitch.
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Every time something happens people say the timing is suspicious. There's not a single period in time without controversy. You just have recency bias towards what's happening right now.
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Their domestic missiles, drones and loitering munitions obviously have no manual controls as they lack pilots. Seems weird to trust missiles to not suffer from EW and then fear that electronic shielding is insufficient.
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Kickstarter would shut it down.
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@prunabluepepper They're still reporting on Iran - specifically every time a protester is sentenced to death.
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"A rising minimum wage creates jobs in the long term" - if I lift you up in the air, and then you pull me, we both start flying.
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Yea, because so many buyers will pay millions for a system they can't use or get rockets for. Think before posting, or get sober. Get back to your antics at your family's Christmas dinner.
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NATO aircraft have clowned on "the good stuff". If anything we should make sure a NATO aircraft destroys a S-400 and then ask Russia if they'd like to offer Erdogan a buyback.
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@AnarexicSumo It's not "incendiary" because the fuel is burnt in the air and adds to the explosion. On the other hand, normsl explosives can set fires anyway. Incendiary ammo and tracers also exist, and they can set fires.
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@letsbehonest4221 Okay, call me when they're on the tenth iteration or something. The first nine will probably need the progress.
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There are aprox. 2,8 million firearms in civilian hands in Sweden, 31.62 firearms per 100 people and roughly 9 gun owners for every 100 citizens. Also, I'm pretty sure I met a Swedish guy that was trying to enter a process to have full autos, quoting his military background and attendance in a special gun club for more restricted items. Or maybe he was Norwegian. Doesn't matter, most of what I know about guns in Sweden is from Stieg Larson's novels.
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@chaosomnium6566 it's not a "net positive" in the same way you can't physically pull yourself up by your own bootstraps
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@Yae-Miko216 What do you mean by "prosperity"? Whatever that is, we don't want it if thatxs what you're having.
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@chaosomnium6566 No, it's not a net positive. And you cannot physically pull yourself up, your pulling creates a reaction force on the straps but your weight is still pressing the boots down. No matter how strong you are, all you'll achieve is rip the straps off because you do not have a proper reaction force like you would if you were pulling yourself through a pulley. It's like trying to use a magnet to pull your car forward. More worrying than you thinking such free energy is possible, is someone else upvoting your comment even though it would fail middle school physics. They are related because it's a physics analogy to the economic principle. Taking from the economy to give someone else is not a net positive, it is at least a net balance. Breaking windows to give jobs to glass makers might be a positive for them, but you can't say it's a net negative because it takes money away from other jobs.
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@chaosomnium6566 Calling it nonsense doesn't make it nonsense. You just needed a cop out because you have no argument. I understand basic economics, you don't. That's why you think breaking windows improves the economy. I never pretended to be an expert on it. You do.
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@chaosomnium6566 No, you never had an argument in the first place. You have been done for a long time, you just insist in stretching it out. Also, don't forget you said it was physically possible for a person to fly by pulling on their own feet.
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Detection doesn't mean much without targeting. Detecting aircraft which wear radar reflectors during peacetime precisely to stop people from trying to collect data on stealth means nothing.
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Doesn't like 20% of Twitter shares belong to Saudis? Of course they take too long banning ISIS accounts.
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@cropathfinder "Most people". Personally I can tell the difference up to 120-140 fps. In your studies I'd get dragged down by the low end of the bell curve so the average would end up as 90 even though the sample includes people who can notice more. Meanwhile studies done on air force pilots show they could see flickers of enemy aircraft in the middle of blank footage at 240 fps.
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Insurgency just means an armed struggle against the government or occupier, a partisan is a behind enemy lines fighter working for the benefit of the armed forces of his country. That's why Eastern Europeans fighting against Nazi Germany after they already advanced deeper towards Moscow were/are called "partisans".
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Not really. By no means am I saying that dowscaling is easy, but if you move up to 338 there's no guarantees you'll learn the lessons that allow you to quickly move towards 50.
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@puzzled012 Were they? Russia is on the run.
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The seige of Mariupol was a frontal assault. Ukraine will not take Kherson head on.
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The Sherman was quite good.
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@imanadult7432 This is borderline delusional. Even movies have the character archetype of the skinny girl mocking others. People hate those who do that. You'd have to live under a rock to believe thin people get the pass.
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@Apollo890 it was a parody of the Trayvon Martin case, so it was pretty topical even then
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Traidor lol vai viver para as terras do Putin.
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Cope.
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@flamingflesh5976 It's just neat. Like having a birthmark the shape of a heart or being able to do the split.
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Oh no, Russians will get old tanks. And only paid a few thousand lives for them.
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 @pizzarollking4397 the printing of money requires taxes - it creates an adjustable demand for USD which compensates for the introduction of currency.
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@billytessio6326 for example not being charged for female needs when you're male. It was YEARS ago so I don't remember the details but there was some cost analysis after obamacare that figured that males were essentially being charged for OB/GYN even though they would never fucking need it. Before the legal mandates the private insurance wouldn't charge men for it but I think that was prohibited after the bill was passed. Either because selective coverage was eliminated or because of equality, I don't really remember.
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The product doesn't kill people, people kill people.
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It's a good trade with that much flat ground. With cheaper AT weapons you need to get closer, and put yourself at risk.
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Bro Gen X is too old for tik tok.
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Because they were writing the software for the aircraft and needed to perform tests and gather data? How exactly do you think stuff gets done?
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They tried. Some defenses were moved at the last minute so it was assumed it was mostly destroyed.
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Kinda don't try to play cop?
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They essentially create no wealth without it. How would Bezos make a killing on Amazon without international shipping?
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"Energy dump" is a flawed theory from the 80s/early 90s projectile design, and was responsible for 9mm failing to stop people. The majority of the energy is used to dislodge tissue radially, which springs back into position after the bullet passes through. This energy is wasted as it causes no injury to the target unlike rifle rounds.
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If it had to haul the external tanks to get near the F-35, it would be too slow to catch up. If it jettisoned the tanks too early, it would run out of fuel before getting close.
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So basically make new A-10s. It's gonna cost more than a F-35 because of economies of scale. Replacing the gun would be neat, but you'd have to replace it with ballast. The airplane center if gravity can't be shifted back.
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"Don't worry guys the invisible hand of the market will give us THE FASTEST response to a crisis possible. NOTHING but PRICE can allocate resources to an area that desperately needs them fast enough." - This, but unironically. Many alcoholic beverage manufacturers are pulling their bottled products off the truck and distilling them to sell alcohol to medical facilities. Right now, disinfectant alcohol is much more profitable than booze. "take government action to command production and distribution to best serve the people" - government action is dictated by a bunch of bureaucrats who can't get complete and accurate information and don't have the processing power to make decisions off it even if it was complete and accurate
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Then why did they perform an air assault at Hostomel to capture an airfield? They wanted a direct air bridge to Kiev.
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Those 150 million people include the elderly, children, cripples, people suffering from tuberculosis (weirdly common in Russia), etc.
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Exploding a biolab doesn't neutralize whatever is held inside.
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School shootings aren't domestic terrorism because there's no political goals in the vast majority of cases. Domestic terrorism is a very specific use of violence. If you put a bomb next to a Planned Parenhood and wound two people with the explosion, that's right wing domestic terrorism. If you enter a school and gun down 30 kids, that's not domestic terrorism. This is a textbook case of manipulating truth into something misleading. Most people fear random violence, not targeted political attacks.
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And yet multirole aircraft are extremely successful.
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 @Adam-vg5yz Now videos of villages instead of cities.
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Fukushima easily survived the earthquake and tsunami. It was the electrical part that got flooded and safety procedures to turn the cooling off caused a situation where it couldn't be restarted.
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Bruh the Apaches flew into Iraq before the SEAD campaign in 1991.
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@kubadanecki8573 The Apaches went in to destroy radar installations. They specifically flew in the conditions you asked for and now you're trying to come up with excuses.
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@jmutevedzi3708 Iraq had the 4th or 5th biggest army in the world at the time, and equipped with Soviet and Western equipment.
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"the more general the requirements the more compromises have to be made, so you end up with something that does not do anything well" - the F-16 is a multirole that has done everything from deep ground strikes against nuclear power plants to being so maneuverable the US uses them as surrogates for the MiG-29 in training. The F-16 does everything well. The F-35 is an F-16 on steroids.
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@brendo7363 You're arguing that a tiny fraction of the GDP is somehow keeping the middle class down. In an economy worth TRILLIONS you're arguing over 30 year old missiles in storage because they technically have a price tag attached.
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Ukrainian soldiers add rap music and Yakety Sax to their videos. It's fine.
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You do realize that metal fragments can be made really fine, right? Either way the batch that did have foreign matter that was found in Japan was rejected so nobody got injected with it, but still. If you wanted to you could easily make the metal fine enough.
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@russjen5012 That isn't the point. You tried to imply metal fragments cannot be delivered through a needle. They can. You were wrong about a detail, just take the L. We're not born omniscient, I can't know everything about every topic either. It's perfectly understandable if you don't know something. What's not understandable is then trying to deflect by pointing out other things unrelated to the argument. Metallic particles can be extremely fine. Shooting a firearm in enclosed spaces without ventilation is dangerous long term because it releases extremely fine lead dust particles that stay in the air. Now you know. Also, they did release apps to confirm status and QR codes. So in the end they did spend endless resources, and got the tracking through cellphone. Unrelated to the metal particle argument, but they did do exactly what you described. Just saying.
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What does he know?
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Cope. The UK is a relatively small country and most of the territory given up was a defensive necessity. Why die defending indefensible flat land?
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@Itsovergiveup Who's "we"? Am I going to see you in some vertically filmed video in the next few days?
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Gecko45 representing? lol
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Heat conductivity will pass more heat towards the barrel. You want lower conductivity to use the case as thermal sink.
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@QoraxAudio That's not true, in fact True Velocity posted thermal video evidence that their polymer cases eject more heat out of the gun precisely because of their lower thermal conductivity.
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+1994CPK during 9/11 people expected a ransom, not a suicide attack. If you bring out box cutters and a fake bomb on the plane people will beat the shit out of you because they know that they should fight for their lives and not wait to be released.
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Why? Blackwater was disbanded ages ago.
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The Frogfoot can use PGMs. They're mostly loaded with dumb munitions because the Ruskies either load them on higher performance aircraft or they flat out couldn't afford a large stockpile of them pre-war.
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@PlugInRides The Su-25 employed laser-guided weapons in Afghanistan in the 80s and laser-guided/optically tracked bombs in the Chechen wars. I don't care how "advanced" the A-10C is. You claimed the Su-25 doesn't employ guided munitions. Without any distinction between base model or upgrades.
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Tulsi Gabbard has ties to Hindu nationalists (the ones backing Modi's party in India) so her stance is more opportunistic than hatred towards America. India has ties to Russia and a belief they can leverage them against China, and Gabbard served in the military so she respects American military strength.
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And anyone who wants to keep it is brainless. (re-working of the Putin quote about USSR)
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You have a choice not to drive, to not use credit or to not leave the country. The NSA thing just proves our point, not yours. You people accepted the loss of freedoms in order to take down the big bad terrorists, and didn't listen to us.
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There's situations where I can't get a decent cup of coffee, and the latte drinks in the milk aisle have dairy which might not sit well at certain times of day. That's it. They taste like they'd make my pee burn into the porcelain and honestly that's how they should be.
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Someone tell the Israelis.
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@bruceparr1678 There's Russian S-400s covering Syria.
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@bruceparr1678 Russia has already had to apologize twice to Israel in this conflict lmao. Okay, so politics beats S-400. Good to know.
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@A_Nice_Guy. So at the same time they're backed up by the most powerful alliance (backup means nothing if you can't fight), but at the same time they're getting garbage. Do you see how that contradicts your argument?
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@A_Nice_Guy. Okay. They seem to have used the M113, HIMARS, Stinger and HARM properly.
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@A_Nice_Guy. Amazing how the HIMARS found time to utterly break the spine of the Russian army last summer between the civilian killings.
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He logicall protected it because it brought jobs to Arizona. It was all about money and votes.
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Unrelated. Since the population already is used to having the flu circulate every year there's always an inherent immunity. When everyone got stuck at home the genetic diversity of the flu went down in unprecedented fashion. Entire strains got wiped out due to the changed human behavior. Since the rona is novel, the measures that knocked down the flu several pegs did not erradicate it. However kids are getting RSV at the same time because they did not have a normal exposure as kids and now got it all when they entered school. So we can't attribute protection to the mask because kids have to wear them at schools.
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What happens when you rely on something too much? You grow dependent on it. You stop improving yourself. When you're so sure on always betting on mass artillery, you'll do hours long fire missions on empty grid squares. Because Ukrainians are former Soviets. They read your manuals. They know how you fight. And they know how to make you punch air.
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The body would have been found while clearing the area. The 10 day gap debunks the timeline given.
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He didn't blow any whistle, he was just showing documents online to impress his friends.
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They lost against Japan, Poland, the Mongols, the Chechens, etc.
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@drinkycrow2623 They had defender's advantage and Lend Lease. Now Ukraine has defender's advantage and Lend Lease. You keep forgetting - Russia is Germany this time.
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Look up why he spent time in prison.
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What do you mean? At this point it's Russia that has to surrender.
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Even if you switch search engine you're still tracked by Chrome. Even if you switch to another browser Android itself is compromised. Your answer is basically either discard your privacy or refuse to use phones... we as consumers can't demand for a better product?
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Every victory has been Pyrrhic for Russia so far.
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The impact sites had munitions stacked up in piles. Whatever set them off didn't need to create the crater.
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@danialyousaf6456 the heavier the mass of a bullet typically the more dangerous it is
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@danialyousaf6456 What? Flat faced rounds actually help at barrier penetration and the heavier something is typically the deeper it goes because of momentum.
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@andrejs2708 Your shadowbanned comment has one upvote. Caught upvoting yourself in 4K ahahah.
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@yipman9021 Because of lend lease, you cannot knock Ukraine off the board by targeting artillery. Target Russia's artillery, and you knock them off the game. It will be over.
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Amazing how all you people use different numbers. Most of the Ukrainian Army was in the East, Kiev was mostly Territorial defense. Despite having no navy Ukraine has destroyed two ships, and they're hitting fuel depots in Russia too.
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@MarvinWestmaas "Thank god for President Biden" - AHAHAHAHA you can't complain about cult followers when you thank a deity for delivering you Biden. Let's wait 4-6 months and you come back here to tell us you're still thanking God for him. "international laughing stock" - Peer pressure only works on the weak. The hyenas laugh because they would rather point and laugh than mind their own business. "being respected by the rest of the world" - Respected? Like when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were flattened? When NATO bombings killed civilians in the Balkans? When Bush Sr called for the Kurds to rise up and then left them out to die at the hands of Saddam forces? Is that the "respectable" US you want? That's not respect, that's hatred and fear. You want the old US back. You'll have it.
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@MarvinWestmaas Oh so you just pretend to be religious online. How's that going for you?
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@MarvinWestmaas I mean, if you're literally thanking God for a politician, you're just as bad as the people you criticize. If you do it as an atheist... then you're worshipping politicians...
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@MarvinWestmaas You don't worship science. You claim to worship science, but you probably never even read a scientific paper. You cannot worship a method. It's simply something you say to make yourself sound cool, and I don't know if it's actually worse that people claim to worship something they know they cannot worship just for fun or if they're actually so cross-wired that they've replaced an internal need for spirituality. "Because of that it should be easy to see why I would rather see Biden as president" - Oh, really? Was Biden scientific when he called black people superpredators? Or when he called for the slaughter of Serb people? "said wearing a mask is stupid" - So did Fauci. The difference was that he was lying to you. Is that what your worship? Lies? "asked actual scientists if they would consider injecting bleech" - No, he didn't. He asked if there was something that could kill the virus like a disinfectant. He didn't mention bleach. He asked if SOMETHING could work like disinfectant does. "I have no hope for you" - I don't need your hope. I just need you to sit back and enjoy what you worship.
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 Fidel Max The footage was released.
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Considering how Gachimuchi and Catalina Video are popular memes, I think people would find it even funnier and triple down on its use.
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Not really. Look at Mexico or Brazil. Tons of gun murder but it's very difficult to own guns. It's actually easier to own guns in the UK.
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Their military equipment has been proven inferior in real combat. Apparently they make excellent shaving razors though, I've heard people lamenting how they might lose those imports.
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@joshuaturcotte6724 Thanks, take care.
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@penskepc2374 The F-22 wasn't available for purchase before the F-35 was matured. Now the factories are just impossible to rebuild so they can't be purchased even if the US allowed it. The F-35 at least uses 2000s and some 2010s tech, and was made to be easily upgradeable. The F-22 is fixed to 90s tech for the most part.
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@penskepc2374 It was the most advanced jet. You can't buy it over the F-35 because the factory doesn't exist anymore.
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@penskepc2374 Yes. There wasn't an option to buy it. Then the production was shut down. The F-35 is more recent and more advanced than the F-22, which cannot lase targets for example.
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Above ground nuclear tests are banned.
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The real question is, is the McBoris going to have the McRib?
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Nuland was willing to sell out the Ukrainian opposition to keep Yanukovych in power back in 2014.
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That's cute, you think you won't be affected by gun control.
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The car is a sacrificial shell for the occupant. You know what happened to people inside those "though" cars? The impact was transfered to them and they died.
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No. The CALF program was always meant to be a STOVL aircraft for the Marines and the USAF would buy a conventional takeoff variant. Then the Navy scrapped its own fighter project and decided to join, eventually becoming the JSF program.
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@xureality But aren't you supposed to source your own motor? Or are full kits available?
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@xureality If we're going prosumer there's a company that makes 1200 dollar FFB stick bases. I've seen maybe two posters on DCS forums claim they have one. You need to make a 100-150 dollar product and mass market appeal which means selling to absolute dumbasses, not prosumers. Now it's a whole different ball game.
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@TechnoGeek18023 Iran was also progressing towards secularization before the revolution, and today students still fight for the secularization of the state.
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The coup wasn't violent. The demcratically elected government showed up to parliament and voted the president out.
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We'll never know. Maybe it could have been plagued with even more problems and ended up more expensive due to redesigns.
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@yukiko6137 You don't have an "incentive to lie" and you can check the losses yourself. Confirmation doesn't come from some guy who said he was there. You can go now to the compilation of losses and tally them yourself.
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Jesus there's people who recover lead from such sources for bullets and despite working in their home shop they have enough safety to not get their lead levels that high.
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 @4cymusic785 lol
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@DukeNukemForever2001Returns No, it's not. The reason "why" is completely irrelevant, could be because your own country blocked the services, could be because the company is trying to herd people into country-specific versions against consumers' wishes to use the version they're used to, the company's web services being attacked which could make you unable to operate the system for a day or more. It's completely immaterial what the underlying reason is, the fact of the matter is that 1. it can be done and 2. there's a myriad of reasons why it could happen. There's no point about obsession over what the reason is, the point is that you don't want to be stuck holding the bag and should seek to have control over the software you use. Do you have any argument in favor of using Microsoft or are you just doing this to remind us there's a war going on? I follow the war reporting and defense related news closely, I don't need a reminder when we're just talking about personal computers and the downsides of software as a service.
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>So they shouldn't listen to economic advisers? what? Do you speak English? This is what I meant: "they have advisers, but who cares about what they say if politicians accept money to pass bills that protect monopolies instead of the people, etc?" I.E. nobody gives a fuck about what's best for the country as long as they're getting paid. >you want the companies to run the government? Nope. Just less government. More government is putting a giant, inefficient company in charge.
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@flamingwizard14636 Security isn't a matter of just running certified software. You have no business mocking my background when you say shit like that.
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Jack Smith What does this have to do with Zeihan? You're trying to claim that actually children in cities are working and in the countryside they're going to school.
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The House Un-American Activities Committee is not related to McCarthy even though people assume he lead it.
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It's not disappearing.
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And yesterday a breakthrough was reported.
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+CrucialBunny for real, it's that easy? Just claim someone else's identity?
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Also, half the people hospitalized didn't have the coof. They were hospitalized for something else and were forced to take a test.
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Enfield was a nationalized armory and the first iteration of the SA80 they built was garbage. The Brits had to pay H&K (then owned by BAE Systems) to fix it.
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@Valorius 1. You won't have the ability to operate the M1 effectively in Pacific islands. 2. Which also means the "heavy armor" force opposing will also be operating in terrible conditions if they actually deploy. 3. Abrams can't swim. If the enemy has armor waiting for you, you won't be able to use it until you've already landed the troops.
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In the early days Russia struck hangars in Ukrainian bases. Ukrainians took aerial photos of the craters and printed large covering tarps with the pictures so that they could rebuild the hangars but satellite photos would still see craters. If you kept up with the war, you'd have noticed by now that Ukrainians have outsmarted the Russians.
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"constitution nut" as if caring about your rights is deserving of insult
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@pinecone1208 An S-400 was taken out in Crimea by a S-125 rebuilt for surface-to-surface attacks almost two years ago and you're hyping up the S-300. Brother...
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Soviet era rocket fuel. It was public knowledge those stores were there, with even news articles complaining about the danger of that fuel being stored without plans to decomission it. Russia knew about those depots and hit them to cause big bangs to satisfy the ultranationalists after 4 aircraft were shot down inside Russia.
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 @zorgalop Weren't contractors killed? Or am I thinking of a different attack?
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Poland did the same in the 90s. In a time when proliferation was a hot button issue, they said they get a nuke program if not introduced into NATO.
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@johnalogue9832 "I can't imagine anyone would prefer to have 3 F-35s supporting them to 6 A-10s." - Anyone who understands the topic would. The F-35 is gonna get to me faster and have an easier time getting a good picture of the battlespace.
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Kissinger has changed his mind and Chomsky is a genocide denier.
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@Windband1 How is it a troll to report the facts? Kissinger did change his mind, and Chomsky is just an America hater.
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@johno8001 Europe
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@johno8001 Come to what peaceful terms? Putin doesn't think Ukraine exists. And many Russians agree that Ukrainians are just mislead Russians. Read their literature, watch their TV shows. This is an existential conflict, just like American colonies rebelled against the crown, Ireland resisted British rule or Portugal fought for centuries to be free from Spain.
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@josephpiskac2781 the supersonic issue happens only at high altitudes and the Pentagon concluded there's no point in spending money on it. The F-35 has received 2 or 3 coat upgrades so it might be possible that it gets fixed down the line if Lockheed Martin offers it.
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That says a lot about the state of psychology today. None of those people should be in any position of authority, no wonder the world is going to shit.
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That's how bad everywhere else is.
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The IMF has no means to investigate Russia's internal economic situation so they just reported Rosstat figures. Their "prediction" is entirely based on what the Russian government said.
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@lunachu8691 But they can be called for military service until 27 I think. So pretty much a PhD?
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Remember the American host of RT who quit live because she was tired of lying on behalf of Russia? Yeah, fair opinion...
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@frosty848 What if instead you consume NO propaganda sources? You actually think that by lying to yourself twice the lies cancel themselves out? You think you're gonna figure out "the truth" that way? All you're doing is wanting to watch RT and pretend you're a researcher.
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Taiwan is not a place declaring independence from within. They are the previous Chinese government (Republic of China) and they had to flee the mainland and seek refugee on that island. They existed before Maoist China.
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 @gideondejongh838 So exposing issues with corruption is "not behaving"?
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@QuizmasterLaw Why are you using the Russian smiley?
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And Russia is competitive? Their cars have no airbags and their weapons are based on Western imports through shell companies which are being discovered.
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All of that is meaningless to the case. There's no "need" to bear arms, there's a "right". The Army has extensive training and accreditation? Do not make me laugh. Stop watching movies. You're not accredited for anything, and training time is scarce.
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Because of the game footage, it's recorded on ultrawide.
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@bodiandras Who says the ones on the ground won't have hidden weapons or explosives?
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@bodiandras Nobody is pretending anyone is an angel. If you friend comes out with a gun I don't trust you, your surrender is null and void, you are a combatant and right now I presume you are armed or have explosives rigged to kill me. I'm not saying I'm an angel. I'm saying that I do what it takes to survive.
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The child-free thing started decades ago, it's a niche brand of copium that has nothing to do with the economy. Those people are like "argh my career, children hold me back". We're like "what career lol?"
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More like to the last Russian. The Bakhmut advances show Russians advancing along the piles of bodies from previous failed offensives.
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They had to resort to Iranian drones. Funny how that works. The 300 bil weren't "investments" lmao
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It's not "trendy", it's how everything works now. EMP will fry everything else.
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@JGalt-em4xu Sound, but no images. You believe a random comment saying 11 were killed with no evidence?
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@Игорьсуздальский What does CNN have anything to do with anything? US veterans from WWII formed biker gangs because they couldn't adjust to civilian life. You can't give a man the ultimate freedom of life or death, making him live according to the laws of the wild, and expect him to come back and sit in his cage to be shouted at by people who never risked their lives.
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@keveydaking "America has more cases than anyone in the world" - They have 320 million people.
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@BOULDERPUNCHER9000 It is when the US is literally 5.3 times larger in population numbers. By proportion, Italy would have 530,000 cases.
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He was getting hit by demonetization, ended up suffering from MS. He's getting treatment as the fans donated to his GFM.
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@feargalkearney1329 Yeah, you can arrest them after the crime has been committed. That's gonna make a big fucking difference, 30 years for murder and an additional 3 years over the magazine..
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No, it isn't. Due to the interpretation of a coup d'grace being you don't shoot after you move past an enemy, you can do security shoots after people go down. After you clear the area and check on them you can't put them down. People inside enemy lines or no man's land fall in a grey area as they're not under your custody but you have eyeballs on them, something which wasn't easy to have when the Conventions were written.
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Rippingthosecheeks Hey Carrie Chapman Catt: “White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.” Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton: “I do not want to see a negro man walk to the polls and vote on who should handle my tax money, while I myself cannot vote at all.”
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 @orzorzelski1142 Easy when it wasn't your family in Bucha, isn't it?
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Been hearing that since March 2022.
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Because the USAF will need to retire F-22s in one day and the Navy wants a F-14-like performer with more range than the F/A-18? Which are reasons totally unrelated to the F-35?
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@linusa2996 The F-14 was one of the most expensive aircraft to fly, so I doubt that.
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Russian propagandists. Napolitano has disappointed me immensely. He used to be a champion of freedom, now he platforms mouthpieces for tyranny. The New Atlas and Duran are ran by absolute clowns. Look at their claims over time. Have they apologized for being massively wrong?
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1. They don't have "thousands". 2. They still need refurbishing and overhauls. It doesn't free up modern equipment, it robs time and resources from the modern equipment. 3. If you don't "need a full on MBT" but drive what is identified as a MBT into a battle you will be targeted as if you were a "full on MBT". There's a multitude of reasons why you wouldn't send them. The reason why they're doing it simple - they have no choice.
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I double dog dare them. Ours actually work.
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@ChR1St0p4eR MacGregor us a liar who reads Russian cope as his sources. Circular argument.
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@ChR1St0p4eR Russian bombers will be shot down by S-300 and Buks. At this point, I hope the Russians bring the bombers. I want to see the Russian air force go down in flames and read your cope afterwards.
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No. Reckless endangerment or creating insecure environment should have the charges. Zimmerman was acquitted of 2nd Degree Manslaughter.
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@lochnesswes1 Explain how a gas that widens the absorption band for thermal energy does not increase temperatures.
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@lochnesswes1 16% of a 1% of Sarin gas in the atmosphere would kill you.
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Yeah.
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@mikeholme1388 The raid didn't happen. It's Russia lying as usual.
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The volunteers for Russia are surrendering in droves. Even GREY ZONE, the Wagner associated telegram, said there was no commando raid.
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The sentence was just. The kid was attacked by foul people and they paid the price.
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The other side continuously presents their side. They captured Pisky 9 times, Bakhmut 8 and Soledar 6, they destroyed 40 of the 24 HIMARS sent, 4 Bradleys before they arrived, the Ukrainian Air Force was destroyed 3x over, more TB-2s than Baykar ever made for all countries that bought it, they're fighting Polish and African-American mercenaries, and not to mention the combat mosquitos. So you see why you get "one side". The other just produces garbage. You're free to check what they're saying because it is funny.
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@zadeify9596 Patrick Lancaster is a full blown Russia shill and a criminal.
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@zadeify9596 Look up the faked roadside attack in the days prior to the war. A skeleton inside the car had a straight cut in the skull. That body was taken from a morgue and the skull sawed open during autopsy. That kind of injury isn't possible with explosives or bullets. He either stole a dead body to prop it inside a car, or paid a coroner/mortician to get the body which is a crime in any developed nation. And he rides around with the Russian army. He also rode around with the mercenaries who used the boxcutter to torture that Ukrainian POW.
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To be fair, the issue with fertilizer is real. The problem is that the governments like in the Netherlands delayed their response and now put all the burden on farmers. The updates in farming methods to become less intensive needed to be gradual.
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What lmao Ukrainians hate Kirill. He blessed sinners who die fighting in Ukraine.
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So you can say anything and claim that you don't need to justify yourself to anyone, but he can't complain about something you said? Freedom of speech. But just for you. I have the perfect solution. If you don't ever want to be contradicted, don't write anything on the internet.
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@theheavyartillery545 Read my comment again and this time read with the intent to understand, rather than the intent to respond.
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@theheavyartillery545 Yeah, use emojis and keep thinking that 50 cal bullets kill by whizzing past people.
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@theheavyartillery545 I'm not shitting on anyone. It was claimed that the impact from 50 would kill people through the plate. This is the mythical BS people spout about 50. It's not magic. It doesn't have magical properties.
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@PORRRIDGE_GUN No argument.
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@Gurgleschlortz Here's a video of 7.62 NATO failing to knock over a person with one foot in the air: /watch?v=o5f1Fo4r4_I skip to 5:34. I mean this with no ill will - if you try to argue with me and then tell me something that's demonstrably false, I'm biting and not letting go. That guy took one to the plate. With one foot in the air. Barely flinched. You said it would knock a person off their feet. It's not true.
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@nikosmosxos5856 It's not scorched earth - the vehicles are running or still in repairable state. The electrical and water facility were the usual smol pp strikes after Russian forces had crossed the border. Imponent rage, needs to strike civilians.
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@buffalobill1415 Not true. The talks were rendered irrelevant after the mass graves were found out.
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@deven6518 That doesn't even make any sense. Nothing was solved, Russia russified Ukraine but that was temporary. Is India British just because it was under British control once?
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Hope isn't gonna save them.
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Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
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Defensive systens have to be in cities because Russia targets civilians. Moscow also put Pantsirs on rooftops. Where's your criticism of that?
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@electriceyeswatching right to bear arms? Reagan banned open carry in California, signed the machine gun ban, Bush Sr signed the 1989 import ban, Bush Jr signed the 2005 barrel import ban. Trump had bump stocks reclassified as machine guns even after the ATF had already ruled that they did not change the mechanism of semi auto weapons. What exactly
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They don't want them. They already have Su-25s.
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@nickvdb9196 "always deploy alongside their respective regular french army troops" - For real? I thought the french foreign legion got a lot more deployments to a lot more places where sending the regular french units would be a political faux-pas.
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Ukrainians can pose as Russians. Chinese have trouble posing as Mexicans. Unless they're really tanned.
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 @grahamstrouse1165 small drones have a very short lifespan in Ukraine. If the next conflict has better anti-drone capabilities they'll be toast.
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Yeah and Nazi Germany could do that because they saved a lot of money paying arms manufacturers in debt bills they had no intention of paying, and when the walls were closing in Hitler was forced to use conquest to pay the bills. Nazis created an economic bubble. They were fucking retarded.
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@keto3883 What you're saying doesn't even make sense, please write with better grammar. Doesn't change the fact that Germany was forced into the war too soon (it was mathematically impossible to win because Germany didn't have enough oil), they were economically retarded, drove the economy into a bubble so serious it would bankrupt the country back to Wiemar levels, they did things like taking the money for the Volkswagen but none of the people who completed the payments received their cars because they used the money and factory to make military vehicles, and the only thing that prevented the bankruptcy was stealing from the Austrian, Czech and Polish banks.
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@keto3883 "there so many assumptions needed for a calculation in the first place" - You can just look at the end result - Germany had chronic oil shortages. The battle plan was for the Nazis to take over oil fields to be able to continue the war. They failed, because the Soviets sabotaged the equipment and Germany did not hold the territory long enough to get a single barrel of oil. "maybe my history lesson was wrong but it worked pretty well for the germans" - Actually the Germans lost so many infantry troops to attrition that they had to take troops from non-combat roles and put them in infantry while drafting more men for the non-combat jobs. Meanwhile the Soviets were getting fresh replacements of men thanks to American trucks. Lend-Lease, babey. "you can t know if more preperation would have worked better or not." - You can't because Nazis are economically retarded and were forced into starting the war to be able to pay off debt. "assuming the goal was war after they start building weapons makes no sense ..... sure sure." - Your English is just hard to understand because of run on sentences. The point is that the German government racked impressible debt with their massive government spending. The end goal of the rearmament is completely irrelevant. Nazi Germany was just some guy who got into so much debt he had to steal from his neighbor to stay afloat.
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It would cost you more to replicate than buying from the store, and you can't outsell Coca Cola without beating their brand recognition.
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@lordgarion514 Become a multimillionaire how? Pepsi also has brand recognition, and it caters to people who don't like Coke. I don't know if you have tasted budget brand colas, but they taste like gummies. They can't compete on flavor and price at the same time, so they sacrifice flavor and sell it for cheaper to remain competitive. Coca Cola has economy of scale on their side. You don't. So unless you get a contract to be a grocery store/supermarket/gas station/whatever brand drink, you're not well positioned to become a millionaire by manufacturing coke. Especially if you're copying the exact recipe.
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That doesn't make any sense considering that during peacetime people pay more attention to the accounting while in war the conflict itself draws more attention than numbers.
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@kronop8884 There's several levels of maintenance. There's parts you can replace by unscrewing a few bolts and plugging the connectors. But there's also stuff like disassembling a turbofan engine to get to a compressor stage and replace the blades. And what happens to the part you unplugged? Someone has to look over it an fix it so it can be used again when another one of those goes bad or reaches their limit of hours of operation. Yeah an engine swap might be easy. But you have to have engines available for swaps. And that means there's a depot where you have highly skilled technicians looking over your swapped engines to bring them back to operational status. Basically people take the Gripen land-rearm-refuel-and-turn-around routine and compare it to a flight line F-16 being babied by a crew because it's being operated in a theater where it's not under attack.
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UFC isn't owned by a person. Dana sold it.
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What did a crowd of criminals think was going to happen by chasing and assaulting a kid?
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The Allies were on the offensive and the Russians are retreating. If you want a reason for it not to be hypocrisy the Allies won, Russia is losing so they're punishing civilians as revenge. Small peen syndrome.
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That's fine on a vacuum but MrBeast will use lawfare to try and suppress.
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So you don't care about warrantless spying and don't care that you don't own the content you produce. Why exactly should we even take those arguments seriously?
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@Jimmy_The_Goat You already accepted the spying, so you have no option but important information being spied on. You also missed the point. If you've already given up the pub picture you'll end up having to give up a lot more. This type of mindset in the past is what lead us down this path, and people for whatever reason think embracing it is better than fighting.
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@Jimmy_The_Goat "You're delusional if you think you can change anything" - You're delusional if you think apathy isn't going to lead us further into the abyss. "they'll just send a SWAT team" - Good. A judge will have to look at evidence and sign off on it. There's no enough SWAT teams to handle everyone, and at one point their numbers will start to dwindle once it becomes common for the first guy in the stack to catch hot metal. "If you truly care for privacy all that much you should go into politics and change the governmnet" - LMAO. You don't change the government, the government changes you. "If I wish something to remain private, I don't upload it. Boom problem solved!" - So the internet is only for things that are for the public domain. Why did we allow online banking to become a thing, then?
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@Jimmy_The_Goat "I said that you're delusional if you think puny consumer activism" - I never advocated for any CONSOOMER activism.
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@Jimmy_The_Goat No, me telling the people who say "who cares lol" that they're stupid and consenting to their loss of freedoms is not activism, it's simply me being the guy who was right all along and all the stupid people will remember me and realize they were indeed wrong.
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@johnroberts9922 The kill potential of the NASAMS comes from the fact that the radar and launcher can be placed so far apart that the pilot on the receiving end can't use the RWR to defend.
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@gaborrajnai6213 Solid fuel boosters are used by almost all missiles. Gliding to target is what every missile does. Even the Meteor uses solid fuel, but with an air intake instead of using pre-mixed oxidizer. They can maneuver in the terminal phase by having a long sustain phase. Give any missile a powerful boost phase, or sustain phase, and they all maneuver well in the terminal. All it takes is speed and/or altitude.
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@Raivo_K A-10 flight hours numbers are artificially lowered by not counting the 2 billion contract for Boeing to remake the wings and other contracts for rare spare parts. The company that made A-10 closed in 2003.
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An asymmetric load gives you less obstruction to the view from the station your pod is mounted to.
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McCain was just fighting to keep jobs in Arizona. The A-10 wouldn't survive in Ukraine. The Su-25 is armored. Neither the MiG-29 or Su-27 are true multiroles, the MiG-35 was a failure and Ukraine only had one upgraded Su-27 to a good enough standard to perform CAS. The enemy ran when they wore tunics and sandals. The USAF had to pull away from the Iraqi Republican Guard because they had the correct reaction to A-10s: shoot them down.
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@user-DrJoe-Future The second Iraq war was peculiar because Saddam's defensive strategy was meant to avoid the pitfalls of the first Gulf War. Which was a mistake in its own way, but shows that it wasn't a repeat of the 1991 Desert Storm campaign where air defenses had to be softened for several weeks before A-10s could fly. The effectiveness of the A-10 was cut short in 1991. It was effective against Iraq Army units, but the Republican Guard seemed more willing to stand and shoot back at the A-10s which caused the USAF to avoid flying A-10s against them. It wouldn't survive Ukraine because the density of MANPADS, drone surveillance, SHORAD like the Pantsir, etc make things a lot more complicated. We know how the Su-25s are unable to do their job properly due to the abundance of threats. The A-10 was designed for Vietnam. The main threat consideration was manually aimed 14.5mm AA and occasional 23mm AA threats. It doesn't have SAM avoidance capabilities, it has a tail geometry that hides the engine exhaust from first gen MANPADS. A telephone-pole SAM would spear the A-10. It was an A-1 Skyraider replacement. Compared to today, that's permissible. Even the Afghans tried to bait AC-130s into flying near mountains so that they could use 14.5mm from mountain tops, but failed. An A-10 killed its pilot while returning from a mission in the first Gulf War, because the false sense of security of the flying tank lead to the pilot trying to crash land it rather than eject and just ditch the damaged airframe. The landing attempt took his life. The F-16 in Desert Storm had 3 losses over 12,000 sorties. The A-10 had 6 losses over 8,000 sorties, and had to be pulled back to prevent more. Taking ground is irrelevant, A-10s can't take ground either.
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@user-DrJoe-Future Categorically false. You're trying to re-write history. The A-X program started during the Vietnam era to replace the A-1 Skyraider. It was initially meant to be a prop plane. Only after the design was underway did the mission change. It's not a 40mm cannon so you're wrong there too. Aircraft do not hold ground. Ground units do. Ukrainians have CAS in the form of Su-25s and Su-24s. A-10s would do any better. Even with CAS you have to fight trench by trench. Aircraft do not give soldiers massive jumping abilities.
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@user-DrJoe-Future And the 30mm doesn't do a better job at disabling tanks because it has a very low chance of penetration. External damage for a mission kill can be accomplished by 20mm. Point being, the YA-10 flew while the US was still engaged in Vietnam.
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@user-DrJoe-Future They didn't design the YA-10 five minutes before it flew, did they? The work was being done for years. The A-10 had an overestimation of kills as observers jotted down "A-10" when they couldn't confirm the cause, and the F-111 destroyed even more tanks. The DU ammo was actually retired and scheduled for disposal, but temporarily brought back to fight ISIS. The DU 30mm is "politically incorrect" to use. It doesn't destroy "known tanks". The 1979 test made it clear that most 30mm rounds can't penetrate tanks reliably, only bust tracks and optics to deliver a mission kill. And that was against M47 tanks. "But the tank may not just sit there while you are plinking 20mm rounds into it" - Funny because the 1979 test was exactly that - an A-10 plinking at stationary tanks. "It is risky with a 20mm" - It is risky with the A-10. Strafing runs are ALWAYS risky. "The USAF wants to get rid of the A10 to use that money" - It's not just a matter of wanting, it has to be. It's too old and lacking parts. The USAF would probably PAY that money to retire it. "Historically, the Air Force has not been enthusiastic supporting the CAS mission." - They've done almost nobody but CAS for 20 years. "Thus the A10 is the first system to go." - Because it's the one 30 years overdue for retirement and also the one that had it's job done by other aircraft for decades. "The F16 and F22 will go later into retirement to fund the F-35 and other weapons. " - WRONG. The F-22 was the F-15 replacement but people like you killed it. The F-22 and F-15 programs will be retired and replaced by the NGAD, not the F-35. You're so wrong it's not even funny. "SOCOM purchased its own CAS plane knowing the Air Force was fighting to retire the A10." - WRONG. They purchased a turboprop because it's cheap and agile. The USAF had also assisted SOCOM by bringing back Broncos for CAS but they had to be retired again due to age. It had nothing to do with the A-10 but the fact that cheap COIN aircraft are perfect to support special operations in nations with poor infrastructure. So again, you're so wrong it's stunning. "It is called the AT-802U Sky Warden planes, built by L3 Harris Technologies and Air Tractor. It is a prop plane that looks like a crop duster that they will use for close air support or "overwatch."" - They also purchased Super Tucanos and AT-6Bs prior to that. It was the Light Attack Program.
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About the same cost versus Iskander.
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The flechettes don't explode when picked up. The issue with cluster munitions is that they can kill people years later.
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Drones mean everything from a small FPV with a 100g explosive, to Global Hawk size monsters. You can't tell damage from the word "drone".
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700 jets weren't in Germany. A deployment can't have the entire fleet overseas.
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@bumponalog7164 It's not pedantic. WWI created the whole "war is futile" sentiment because of how many thousands of people got wiped out in trench assaults. Even if you got to the enemy trench, you could be bounced back. In Ukraine if you make it to the enemy trench, you're in position to clear it methodically.
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@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Sure. But tanks back then were pretty slow. Hardly the battle taxis we see today.
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That, but unironically. The US spends 600-700 billion a year to fight Russia amd China every year. For 200 billion Ukraine broke the Russian army. They're bringing out the T-55s out of storage and using North Korean ammo. They're done. They did the job for a fraction of the price. Best return on investment on any government project you could have had.
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@thomasa5619 The 1989 import restrictions and the 1994 AWB. They weren't MP5 specific but HK had big plans for the American market and the American government cost them millions. Since then both American import restrictions and German export restrictions make it extremely hard for HK to release anything that isn't civilian-oriented in the American market.
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The plant survived the tsunami even with an insuficient sea wall. The problem was that the electric systems were put in the basement which meant everything flooded and cooling couldn't be restarted. I think this has to be reiterated. The location was perfectly fine.
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The USSR had nukes and they broke apart.
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Amazing how it took months of recovery from the Kherson retreat to whip out that joke again.
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They'll be towed into Poland my dude.
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The specs are the advertising brochure. Wikipedia can't test weapons to verify the truth. S-300s and S-400s failed to protect Engels air force base, Sevastopol naval base, etc.
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Doesn't matter how it ends, we've already seen enough to take conclusions.
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@leftenanalim It is possible. You ran out of fuel? You ran out of food? Your tires blew out? We've all seen it.
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"Da" means "Yes" in Russian. She was counting "Yes" votes.
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AV8Bs suffered some losses in Desert Storm. Not a good omen.
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What are the side effects of water? Now check the side effects of those anti-depressants. The problem isn't just the mentally ill, the problem is the PERFECTLY sane people taking them too because doctors will prescribe them to anyone? Do you go to sleep at night, do you wake up in the morning? Do you feel cold? Do you feel warm? Better take these mood altering drugs instead of being a normal teenager!
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@dalecrocker3213 forget the land route, it's under artillery range
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Armchair Copelord: "Ukrainians are going to be encircled" Armchair Copelord two days later: "I'm going to leave twitter forever"
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Thanks youtube for the shadowbanning of my comment. With a high ROF and explosive-incendiary rounds, you can't deliver a non-lethal blow.
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Wrong. Ukraine showed the papers they pulled from corpses. Many mobilized were killed a week after they were introduced into the army. They started sending men to the front with some staying back for training.
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@PhilippSeven Russia has done everything from using reservists to instructors, to troops pulled from the Far East, Syria, etc. prisoner battalions, mercenaries, so Ukraine defeated a lot of people but there's more always coming. The entire group of Russian troops isn't static.
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@migo2444 What good is sovereignty is when you have to sell yourself at a discount to India and China?
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Some electronics that generate non-ionizating radiation create small amounts of ionizating radiation. Radar operators and maintainers were found to have an increased chance of cancer due to the generation of UV, X-ray, Gamma, etc. by electronics which are not shielded 100% of the time.
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The problem is that they'll use the Cypriot accounts to handle the money.
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If wikipedia is to be believed the last CH-53E came off the assembly line in 1980. Good god replace those at once before one splits apart in flight...
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@hoosiered471 hmm okay guess they're wrong. But there's other factors, for example the National Guard announced they were experimenting with 3d printed parts to keep helicopters in service because Sikorsky would not manufacture those parts, only for newer variants.
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@totalermist "Neither wind nor solar and especially nuclear are a one size-fits-all solution since those don't exist." - but nuclear fits into the existing system we have. A big ass power source connected to the grid that can have its output managed according to demand. Solar and wind are the ones that don't fit the mold because their power output cannot be regulated and thus require secondary stations storing the energy. "nowhere did I make the case that a country can be powered by installing solar panels on rooftops alone" - but rooftop solar panels are a cool off grid solution, when connected to the grid you barely make any money back from the excess production as you can only generate enough for your own needs. It's a neat novelty and the tax credits/subsidies make it attractive as it breaks even in about 10 years but covering a city in solar panels doesn't make sense. It's an individual choice to make, not a solution.
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@ep5acg "The worst accident scenario at a coal plant is more in line with what we would trust a private company or government to manage" - coal plants pump out radioactivity like crazy - somehow we can trust private corporations with coal even though they burn material brought from the depths of the Earth contaminated with radioactive isotopes, but can't be trusted with nuclear power which is one of the most regulated industries in the world...
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@ep5acg how is it specious? "You are using non-accident scenario nuclear power plants as your point of reference, yet you are replying to a comment about accident scenarios. Strange thing to do." - a non-accident with a coal plant causes unseen, nearly impossible to quantify damage. Unseen, nearly impossible to quantify damage can only be caused by a nuclear power plant in case of a disaster. Coal plants do in their normal operation what a nuclear disaster does.
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@ep5acg "A coal plant is incapable of creating a disaster like Chernobyl" - CO2 emissions apparently caused a disaster that is requiring the states to spend billions in fixing the damage we caused to the environment If rising waters will displace millions, the heat will affect our crops and kill us with tropical diseases carried by mosquitoes... that's just as bad as the India-Pakistan war.
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@ep5acg "fact is today our options are not "more boiling water nuclear plants" or "coal" as you are trying so hard to make it out to be" - I'm not "trying" it to be. Just saying that if you don't want to burn fossil fuel, renewable energy won't save us. If you don't want nuclear, you're gonna need to burn fossil fuel.
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They are livable. The cities were rebuilt.
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They couldn't stop it, so it clearly surprised them.
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The issue is, the US wrote the book on how to suppress AA.
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Just operating the battleship for years without any purpose would cost more than the airstrikes.
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 @JamesSmith-ix5jd and what competition does a sanctioned Russia offer?
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Maybe put someone else in power who doesn't launch rockets from your homes to use you as human shields. Just an idea.
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Just post the Alex Jones rant vs Piers Morgan.
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@freezee7547 Additional jet engines are 20th century. That's the way it was done in the past. Jet engines are not very thrust efficient at low speeds. If you want to double the mass of gas used for thrust, you only need to double the energy input. If you want to double the speed of the jet exhaust, you need to quadruple the energy input - because velocity is squared in the kinetic energy equation. This means that jet engines are most efficient at cruise when velocity. When you have an hovering aircraft (moving slow) the jets are dumping supersonic airflow to keep it in the air, and so the energy use is very inefficient. A fan moves a larger amount of air mass with less energy, so you get great thrust with minimal fuel consumption because it's being driven by the turbine stage of the main engine.
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@freezee7547 "how about the reliable and maintenance when they are the keys for those in aviation?" - Jet engines are more maintenance intensive than a shaft and fan. "Or find the mechanics every time in war zone" - They'll be at the base waiting for the aircraft?
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Because that's not how markets work. If the phone has a demand so high they can't produce enough, the market with respond with price hikes. If a manufacturer withholds supply (like Samsung with DDR4 or, allegedly, Nvidia with the 10-series) the markey has no option but increase the price. If they maintain the price, the stocks will be cleared.
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@schapman235 You will exhale pathogens until your last breath. By your logic, you will never be free because you're always putting people at risk. Never leave the house again.
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lol you people have been increasingly desperate
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@unnamedsoldier5446 I agree, Patrick needs to stop lying.
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Vehicles in direct contact with and ocean's supply of water can deal with meltdowns much better than air-cooled ones. Also a ships can malfunction in the middle of the ocean and still be rescued. An airplane that dies mid-air will splatter the nuclear reactor into the ground.
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@happydemon3038 that's why i said "malfunction" and not "lose power" because losing power is one thing and losing authority over the plane is another. "landing in bodies of water" - can still lead to the plane breaking apart, and planes often fly over land "with a ruptured hull." - a sunk ship would have a dead man switch that triggered a core shutdown, or the crew's last actions before drowning could be ensuring the core will not enter a meltdown in case of the damage prevents cooling. An airplane falling out of the sky will drive the core into the ground and break through the shielding.
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@bruceparr1678 The F-117 went where no F-15 would ever go. The F-15 has such a record precisely because it's well covered and aircraft like the F-117 went in first to disable radars. It's all about how you use the aircraft, and the F-117 that got shot down was being used poorly and forced the USAF to change tactics. Didn't the Saudis lose a F-15 to an air-to-air missile jury rigged to be fired from the back of a truck? By your logic the F-15 is a failure for getting shot down by Houthis.
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Gee, we got ourselves a Saab sales rep.
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The Type 1 was the variant that failed in production. Type 2 and Type 3 AK-47s were manufactured in series and issued to troops before being replaced by the AKM in the 1950s.
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Haven't you seen what they do to the crops? They'll bust the fences in no time. You'd have to put a full on Berlin wall fence that not only goes up but also goes down into the ground so that they won't dig under it. You get a fence for your backyard. When your property has several acres it stops being cost effective to put fences you'll have to replace all the time.
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Boyd never designed anything.
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@RighteousUncle And you realize that there's this thing called "anti-radiation missiles" which lock onto air defenses, right? Of course there's no 1v1s. That's precisely why F-22s win. A flight of Su-57s can get jumped by a superior number of F-22s.
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"Biden actually has experience" - Yeah, and his past is not really good. "they've said recently they want to move things forward in a bipartisan manner" - aka they'll sandbag until 2022 and blame inaction on Republicans.
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It was venting out of the tube before the blast hit the head. If backblast hits an object, it gets redirected and it injures the shooter from the back. He was injured from the front and side.
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@30035XD No. That's just not how fluids work. That's not the mouth of the barrel. They already reviewed the footage and the fragments, why are you trying to double down?
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@30035XD What legal reasons? If anything, a breakage in the rocket motor puts them more at fault than backpressure. Rocket failure puts the blame on them, backpressure is just an accident which can't be pinned on anyone. It was also a rocket and not a true RPG boost charge. Rockets are fired upwards, and they don't explode because of the ground. A ballistics gel mannequin would get pushed by the rocket, rather than create backpressure. A mannequin is lighter than planet Earth.
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@kylehayes6432 Saudi Arabia doesn't work with others. Others work for Saudi Arabia. They have the oil and it's a seller's market.
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@Dr_Hoops_McCann the US didn't sit back. The US hit Japan with embargos and sanctions while sending vital military aid to the Soviets.
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If you have cancer and doctors give you 6 months to live and you survive 9, you're doing better than expected.
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jej now I'm reminded of the flat earthers who pitched 30k to buy a ring laser gyro and it detected the Earth was spinning 15 degrees per hour
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To put one actor into the dirt, you'll sacrifice thousands of ethnic Russians?
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Did you know he's also a big fan of children? Look at his conviction.
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 @nicolev2028 What's the nuance?
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@HoloScope Sorry but the Federal Reserve is indeed issuing currency. A huge percentage, it was 20-25% or something, of the money in circulation was "printed" in the last year.
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 @joshuapaul2022 Military experience is a joke. Men just spend a year in the barracks.
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@jayklink851 IR is absorbed by the atmosphere so there's a severe range limitation in IRST.
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@JeremyRight-zi4yp "reasonable" not in the sense that "a reasonable person" would agree with it, reasonable in the sense that one can use it as a "rational" justification for a local conflict. The excuse doesn't need to be believable, it just needs to exist.
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@JeremyRight-zi4yp That's the idealistic vision. You don't need to have a winning argument, you just need to have one. Invading Ukraine to threaten their political independence (strongarming Zelensky out of power) is clearly against the UN charter. The "special mission" to stop a genocide of people who identify as Russians is self-defense. And in this case no false flag was needed, because there's been an ongoing conflict between separatists and the government forces.
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They absolutely invaded the West Coast. The loading briefing clearly shows Alaska and California being invaded.
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Would you rather snuff it out by denying it hosts or allowing it to run rampant so that it can become seasonal?
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@LaughingMan44 You assume that we'll gain lifetime immunity. In my country one of the recovered cases was a 17 year old who ended up in critical condition. It's survivable, but still putting young people in the hospital. If we let it run rampant, we'll have millions of active cases and even a small chance of complications means a collapsed healthcare system. "This way you don't end up having a collapsed economy as well as hospitals." - Think about how many people above 50 have tumors, heart conditions, diabetes, etc who'll have to be removed from the workforce and cared for. You're gonna collapse the economy either way. How many nurses and doctors would have to be diverted to care for the people at risk in isolation? How many millions of man hours are gonna be lost with all the decontamination procedures that will have to be performed for months if not over a year until the cases subside? This assuming the virus doesn't mutate and starts spreading around again and we have to put everyone in isolation again. Are those people gonna get locked in air tight containers for the rest of their lives?
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"sacrifices being the master of one thing" - How so? "If you look at the F-14D, the F-15E, the Su-30MK" - All of those are "high" in the high-low mix (If we consider the F-14 to be the "high" to the legacy Hornet's "low"). The F-35 is equivalent to the low aircraft, such as the F-16.
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Views are money for youtube so they need to verify the views and real and not bots. Likes and dislikes don't matter so they go through instantly.
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They bumped. Feed cuts right as they crash.
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17:1 at Red Flag, though
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What choice does he have?
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Kill invaders. You can watch new videos every day. It's the most transparent use of taxpayer dollars you'll ever get.
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@jono2233 They aren't. It's a Russian troll who photoshops pieces of paper into photos found online.
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There's no such thing as a closed system in the universe. Just the other day I saw footage of a prison thug who took a guard hostage. The system was forced open. His brain ended up plastered in a pillar behind him. Bullies are tough around victims but are the quickest to fold when met with overwhelming force.
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Taliban means "student" and they were not "freedom fighters" but a group that intended to impose their religious beliefs.
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If a ship was close enough for gun use, the defending military would dedicate missiles to take out that threat.
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 @randy804 Case in point lol
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"When thousands of bad engineers we refused to fail for cash return to China, we will see how it will transform itself"
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Real facts: Russia is creating volunteer armies to make up for their losses. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel, accepting ageing men and prisoners.
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Not the same types and quantities necessary. Delivering a few weapons to the Middle East jeopardizes a ton of aid to Ukraine. Same thing as investing, gotta spend money to make money.
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camencowogh8333 missile AIR DEFENSE, why are you posting news of attacks?
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camencowogh8333 The joke is that the Russian air defense had the day off. Your ghoulish response is about attack. So yes, defense had the day off. You know who wins? The one who's defense still works. 20 punches in the guard, nothing - one punch clean on the jaw: lights out.
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He pushed his own spike protein juice shot and several districts had QR codes to ride public transport. He's not fighting against NWO. Just for his own profit.
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@DAndyLord "Under total mob. Ru would absolutely defeat Ukraine." - It wouldn't. Total mobilization doesn't work anymore because the entire Soviet doctrine was abandoned. The best troops, the instructors, the best equipment, etc has been destroyed in Ukraine. The large stores of surplus equipment were either sold online (ironically to the West) or are rotting in humid basements. All they'd have left is poorly trained conscripts and maybe some AKs. They need a competent officer and NCO corps, the training facilities, the skeleton crews with contract soldiers ready to absorb conscripts to boost manpower, etc. They tried to form the Third Army Corps and they already crumbled like a wet paper bag. The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, all the way up to Twentieth Army Corps will arrive in the same sorry state and get dabbed on.
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What smears? The truth?
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Yes, because a comment in a YouTube video is going to spark a riot. Seriously, having the comments section open does not harm anyone in any way, therefore it's protected by free speech.
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"Ukraine on Fire" was directed by Oliver Stone, an occasional RT guest, friend of the late Hugo Chavez, and has interviewed Putin personally.
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@Milk Guzzler a lot of brains have left, people who waited until now to run clearly have little foresight
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@Milk Guzzler Yeah it's a dilemma. We want both the brain drain and also the instability inside Russia at the same time.
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If you were in a hospital and were in poor condition, or needed to be plugged to machines, moving in a rushed evacuation could make you worse or damage the machine you needed. When the Ukraine war began one of the gofundmes I donated to was a child who was plugged to a machine (which looked like it was Soviet, very 80s) and had to evacuate the country but during the travel the machine broke.
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@elephantsmemory3142 I mean pointing guns at people to demand money is anti American but I guess that ship sailed with the Whiskey rebellion.
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Nobody's scared of Russia, they're scared of nukes. If we could impose a moratorium on the physics of nuclear fission, you'd see the Iraq 1991 playbook be used that very night. Stealth and cruise missiles. SEAD and EW. Once defenses are depleted or suppressed to a satisfactory level, start targeting command and control, supply lines, move ahead to factories and power plants.
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Tons of people more outraged at a Vogue cover than at Kalibr missiles fired at cities.
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@GodsAutobiography "thinking about others" if you're thinking about others why not take the costs of paid leave out of your pocket? Suddenly you won't be thinking of others no more...
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And the mini governments would fare better than the separatist regions?
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That's not scoring criteria, though. It's a fight, not a kata competition. You don't get style points. Clocking your opponent does.
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So they're just being paid? Or being mind controlled? It's all Elon Musk robots under rubber skin?
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Define winning.
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Nkoreanspy lol then go live there
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Because of nukes. If it wasn't for nukes, several countries would go head to head.
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Mixing stuff into the polymer can actually weaken it in some aspects.
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@paulrobbins4879 It works in a way that isn't suitable for the home gamer. The metal 3d printers especially use powdered metal, which due to the heat involved needs to be kept in an inert atmosphere or else it can catch fire.
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Born to shit, forced to wipe.
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@northroad1 This is not true. Troops showed satisfaction with USAF CAS in the 20th century, the USAF investigation determined it was Army officers who refused to call in CAS more frequently because of their grand plans of replacing the Air Force with rotary wing aircraft.
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@northroad1 Andrew Krepinevich’s 1986 book “The Army and Vietnam” explains the internal conflict between the regular Army and the airmobile supremacists better than I could. Additionally, in 1966 the USAF Chief of Staff directed a study on CAS and found out that Army troops were satisfied with USAF CAS, but they were being excluded from the CAS role by the Army brass. Quote: "Meanwhile, U.S. Army advisors were working to develop ARVN airborne helicopter assault tactics, using equipment of two U.S. Army companies which had arrived in Vietnam in late 1961. Almost at once a problem arose over fixed wing/air-ground coordination. According to directives issued by the newly organized U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (USMACV), all helicopter operations into areas where enemy opposition was expected were required to have fixed-wing tactical air cover. U.S. Army corps advisors who controlled helicopter usage, however, tended to ignore the requirement. In April 1962, during a visit to South Vietnam, General LeMay learned that Army advisors were not calling for fixed-wing air support, that only about 10 percent of ARVN heliborne operations were accompanied by VNAF aircraft, and that the Air Support Operations center at Ton Son Nhut frequently were not informed of such operations. Concerned about this situation, LeMay subsequently obtained permission to assign air liaison officers (ALO’s) to all ARVN corps and division headquarters and USAF forward air controllers to augment VNAF liaison squadrons…," “The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia 1961-1973” (Office of Air Force History, 1977)
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Because the PC used market is mostly dead when it comes to retail stores. How can he sell a PC Big Chungus to GameStop when he already registered the key with Steam?
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Nope, they're attacking to cut Tokmak. Much like Antonovsky bridge getting potholed caused the entire northern region of Kherson to be abandoned, cutting the rail supply will force the Russian army to either retreat or run out of ammo.
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No, they are happy to have starved out the defenses at Sieverodonetsk. The territory that Russia had to grind themselves for will fall relatively quickly now that there's no direct rail connection for supplies.
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The F-35 actually flies.
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I think Fukuyama deserves an apology, tbh.
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Everyone's up in arms about a cluster munition being used on a train station in Ukraine. Delete an entire city? Oh well...
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Area 51/Groom Lake was where they kept recovered/stolen/bought MiG aircraft. Now we know the program was called Constant Peg but the US didn't want the Soviets to know they had a fleet of Soviet aircraft and American pilots and mechanics trained to fly and maintain them. They brought pilots into Groom Lake to fly against MiGs in secret, then those pilots would teach the rest of their squadron. Now the information is talked about openly, but nobody cares that Area 51 was where the military was conducting mock air battles away from prying eyes.
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@robertpirsig5011 Nazis intended to wipe out entire populations to make room for Germanic people. The Allies sought to stop them. And the Allies caused massive casualties among German civilians to beat them. If all you have to do is look at actions, then the Allies are as evil as the Axis.
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It's not equal at all. Ukraine did nothing to Russia while the Japanese empire was massacring civilians and forcing women into slavery.
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Yeah, lots of clickbait regarding this issue.
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Actually they're very different. Russia had soldiers lost asking for directions and food to Ukrainian locals because the war started without proper warning.
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@System.out.println you don't need a license to own a car
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@TheSolarWolf the law is the state's justification for force (those presumed innocent are not supposed to be kidnapped by men with badges or have their property stolen - probable cause and warrants are what turn those actions into arrests and searches/seizures). Murder, theft, fraud, etc things that harm other people need to be enforced because people who commit those things consented to the state's use of force. A law against a "crime" which is completely victimless is no law at all, for the "guilty" are in fact innocent and it is not justifiable for the state to use its force against the people.
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Depends on how many people you concentrate and how much cover there is. If there's hundreds of people in the target area and no cover, most would at least be wounded by fragments and require medical attention.
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@Echo_Charlie The issue is that the whole point of MAD is that even if you take out your enemy before he can respond... he'll just strike from beyond the grave.
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Good thing we made electric eyes which see better than humans.
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@CBDguitar You keep calling people weak and gullible but you have no facts. You only have insults. Here's a tip: you have no argument. When someone has no argument RUN.
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@CBDguitar The weak and gullibles that actually pay attention to the news? Matt Taibbi has schooled all the Russiagate stooges.
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@CBDguitar Sure. How is that related? Maddow used the same defense, I believe. Stossel sued a factchecker due to his posts being erased from social media and in court they also used the defense that it's just opinion and not an actual fact check.
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@CBDguitar And what does that have to do with anything?
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The difference is, buying the games did not somehow allow the US to continue the wars.
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@SUMOWRIGLEYBEATS Because the investors are Russian oligarchs (aka the informal government), because the company is sanctions busting by having access to western banking (Russia is supposed to be cut off). Of course that they're not reliant on a videogame. But their sanctions busting is reliant on Russian companies pretending to be from Cyprus, Georgia, etc. The money is whatever can be laundered through companies with access to Western banking. Sell a million dollars worth of games, put 20 million through the Western accounts.
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Because Ukraine doesn't have the metal and the ammo to deal with the onslaught.
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@Alex Pittman 1. Most of those buildings were concrete and steel, concrete supports the steel during high temps. 2. Confirm it was steel.
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 @S300V China is communist in name only.
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Without established alternatives, the price of fuel will simply rise to make up for the loss of subsidies.
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ATACMS are not nuclear and even Krushchev recognized that Castro could not be trusted with nukes.
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So much this.
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The former leader of Roscosmos (recently fired) stated they have rockets built but unable to launch due to lack of imported parts. Just saying. Now the Sovier stuff, half of it was exposed to snow and rain. It's rust. The protected stuff also serves as a source of spare parts. Not all can be reactivated.
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@danglyreprap4206 I've never seen a camping section outdoors.
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@BGTom I'm so glad not to be a Russian sent to die on a "double feint" my leaders never thought would succeed.
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I did not support Zimmerman, but I supported the shooting and his acquittal to felony charges (he should have been pinned with misdemeanor charges, though). I wear hoodies. That's irrelevant. Trayvon Martin consented to the fight. Prior to his bullet wound, his only bruising was on his fists. If you want to use the rape analogy, the recipient undressed him/herself and asked another person to have sex. Don't want to get fucked with consent? Don't explicitly ask people to fuck you.
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@cortholiopezorama8879 The biggest irony is that the spree killer was taken out by a female officer.
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@stevenwilson5556 Ukraine receives night vision and thermal devices through donations. They use it but don't show it off. Recently a short video was released of Ukrainian SOF filming themselves near the plate indicating Energodar city limits. They're using NV to infiltrate Russian territory.
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The rate of fire is inherent to the semi-auto gun. It's the lifting or not lifting of the finger that seals the deal, not the rate. One could manufacture and automatic that is slow and fires at 200 RPM while one can use a light trigger mod to fire 300-400 RPM on any firearm without even bumping it.
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Two more weeks?
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The Soviet Union was crippled by their inability to compete with Western chip manufacturing and a dip in oil prices. Also, Chernobyl was extremely expensive to clean up. SDI was just the nudge that pushed the rotting structure down.
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 @soggycracker5934 Shotguns are even lower pressure than .45. Low pressure on a wider area means more force.
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Thank you Tariq NaSneed for the best IRL sh1tpost.
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@evobsm2328 Bradleys are showering infantry with HE, not getting instagibbed by APFSDS. Funny how it works, right? There's been a tank kill with TOW recently, probably a Bradley. Never get into a knife fight. Use the gun. Mines are a constant on the battlefield. Tanks aren't. Mine resistance is extremely important, especially since so many videos show that it's mines that stop convoys, and then artillery and drones work the targets. Not tanks. A 600 dollar FPV drone is more common than a 3 million dollar tank.
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@evobsm2328 Turned out the Bradley just tore up the outside of the T-90M, and the migthy Rasha T-90M couldn't instagib the Bradley.
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@kiparis777 They didn't recruit prisoners. They offered a few prisoners who had experience in the Donbas war an early release if they signed up. Prisoners were not allowed to join the military. It was basically former military personnel who happened to have been convicted of crimes but were eligible for parole.
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@RenanMendes-zd8hj This reads like a Murz post from late 2022. The LPR and DPR were conscripting guys still recovering from the wounds sustained while fighting Ukraine and taking people out of mental asylums. Russia had 60 year olds with diabetes summoned because of the Soviet paperwork saying they were fit. Ukraine couldn't mobilize 400k during the offensive. Not even the NATO training facilities could churn out so many.
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Japanese. He fought in Pride which was a Japanese MMA promotion and he married a local there and had a few kids.
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Yes, it does matter what you measure it by. Because there's countries with way more gun violence once you control for per capita numbers.
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@nowthatscrazy El Salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Eswatini, Venezuela, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico. Colombia, South Africa, Panama, Philippines, Barbados, Costa Rica, Paraguay and Uruguay.
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@gviehmann Seeker is on for tracking. You perhaps meant the warhead.
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Because it wasn't a "shooting war".
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@StPiter111 And yet you force them to fight and die
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Better have it and not need it than needing it and not having it. Also the last gun kill was decades ago and the F-4 scored most kills with missile anyway.
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Lots of criminals.
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The problem is that both sides have a large collection of debris so showing them wouldn't even prove anything. Russians dragged GMLRS fragments to the Olenivka prison that burned down to "frame" Ukraine for the assassination of POWs.
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@the13xiii52 "Russians make weapons in quantity." - There's like 40 Armatas and 14 Su-57s...
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Your skepticism is warranted. The source for that figure is about 20 years old and the person behind it isn't exactly an authority on the matter.
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"Hey USA there's no Article 5 invoked so we won't invade Iraq" "Bunch of terror-loving pansies!" "Hey USA you convinced these people to surrender their nukes in exchange for protection" "Nuh uh you hurt my feelings 20 years ago so basically I can walk back on any promise I made"
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Putin was picked by Yeltsin and his cronies.
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@lettucesalad3560 I also want to rise against the people stealing my country but if I do it I get called an "insurrectionist".
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@lettucesalad3560 Name your country, then. Let's see how many thieves you've managed to rise against.
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@lettucesalad3560 LOL so you think Trump was the biggest thief? What have you done about Mitch McConnell? What about Pelosi? What about Gov. Newsom? What about Michael Bloomberg? Bezos? You've done nothing. You voted against a president in a country that allows you to do it. In Russia the votes are rigged. Putin owns even the opposition parties. The "real" opposition faces corruption charges and goes to prison. Your votes for them get "lost". Remember Yanukovych? The pro-Russia president in Ukraine? Look at 2004 - he won the Ukrainian elections. Through ballot stuffing and voter intimidation. That's how Russia rolls. But they didn't control the Ukrainian supreme court. In Russia? Putin controls everything. You can't vote him out. You talk a big game but you've done nothing to the American oligarch class. They steal from you, and you think voting against a clown and putting another clown in charge changes anything. You've done NOTHING. They still have their billions.
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@lettucesalad3560 No, just the ones stealing from you like Russian oligarchs steal from Russia. You got up one day, got your "I voted" sticker in a free country and pretend to be some kind of revolutionary. Next time try doing it in Russia instead of bragging about your slacktivism behind a keyboard.
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The CEO of nvidia came to the US via uncle. Not H1B. Google and Microsoft are getting worse. Ever since Windows XP it went downhill.
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H1B workers are not the best in their field. Those are O-1 visas.
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The US was winning in Vietnam but commie propaganda convinced the public South Vietnam was a lost cause.
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The inside source who claimed Jans Stoltenberg was CIA since he was 16?
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@SomeOne-tk3su If the source can't be pointed to, there's no source.
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Often liquid nitrogen is used to make WW2 bombs less sensitive for disposal. But in this case the liquid would have still triggered the float and they'd still need to cut a hole in the casing without touching the foil.
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Tankers are simply a fact of life and will always be necessary. The A6M range thing is possibly very misleading. It could not do that range at the same speed, climb to the same altitude, and carry the same weapons. A modern fighter can carry a greater payload than a B-17.
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Upgrading with what? S-400s have been defeated by ATACMS.
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@NzTings You really asking about Avdiivka after the Russians got massacred and it was all caught in 4k?
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@NzTings Putting your fingers in your ear and going la-la-la. Russia got slaughtered, maybe worse than in Vuhledar. Why are you cheering for the death of your brothers?
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@NzTings Encircled by corpses.
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@reee_4067 You shouldn't have your spec ops glowies planning attacks within striking range and claim innocence.
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 @estherV4N3V9 Ukrainians didn't attack Russia and they're not a proxy.
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The tactic of not moving for a whole month.
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It's not a constraint, though.
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In the 1986 Miami FBI shootout a bank robber received a fatal wound. He was shot through the arm and into the ribcage, the bullet stopping before the heart. But because the bullet did not have the energy to pierce the heart, he continued in the fight and shooting back at the officers. It's like that. An enemy can remain dangerous even after it has been defeated due to the time lag it takes for reality to come crashing down.
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Certainly there's no freedom of speech under Hamas rule either.
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Not the same. Russia gave up a lot defending the first line. They won't have the same resources for the next ones.
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spim randsley "that is wrong" - just saying something is wrong (you actually didn't) doesn't make it wrong- Your post: "Last month you said there's no evidence. Now you say there's no evidence besides what they've found so far. Your excuses are just wishful thinking playing catchup with reality... always one deranged step behind." - you made no mention about anything being wrong and yet you claim that you did.
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spim randsley what mistake? You haven't pointed out any mistake. "I did in fact say you were wrong" - you didn't. You're hiding behind weasel words. You have no argument so you grasp at straws. You're unwilling to be intellectually honest. You'll cling on anything that justifies your personal opinions and world view. I have no horse in this race. If Trump goes down, he goes. Sun will keep shining and the grass will keep growing. But the fact that people like you are so personally invested in the Trump Derrangement Syndrome is hilarious as fuck.
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spim randsley lel you're the one who comes in here "waaaa they'll get t-trump, you'll see" and you claim I am emotionally bound to anything? I'm not wasting your time. I asked, is there anything left except Cohen's testimony? After 2 years and an estimated 30 million (the 40 million claim was debunked, apparently)? Is this the best they got?
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@sleezerbarbarossa6080 Why will Russia prevail? With all those dead men, the federation will crumble.
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Mercenaries fight for profit and are not part of the armed forces. Volunteers in Ukraine get contracted into the Ukrainian military and receive Ukrainian papers, and their pay is lower than working at McDonald's.
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Lmao stand with Russia, you'll fall just like them.
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 RudyR-k3f Argument from Authority fallacy
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The Manhattan Project required a secret city to be built, a huge enrichment facility and a whole hydroelectrical dam to power the thing. His point is that without a huge investment the thing won't pay for itself
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Belka moment.
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Liberate them how? Wagner HQ hit. Lysychansk hit. Barracks near Nova Kakhovka hit. The collaborators are dying from car bombs. How can you liberate the Donbas when the military bases in Donbas are demolished by rocket?
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This is a fallacy. You're comparing wind to fossil fuel rather than comparing it to other renewable sources.
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Can you buy a house for the same price of a phone?
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Their tank park is exposed to snow and rain, it's also a source of parts for export customers so stuff got pulled out of there in the last 30 years with only the hull remaining.
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@БПК-с6л Sounds like I can look at a freaking picture and clearly see that the vehicle hulls are covered in snow or brown rust. You do realize that you can just look at pictures of their tank parks, right?
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@БПК-с6л The satellite pictures have been available for years.
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If the halt is caused by blown tires and fuel shortages, that's not doctrine.
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@mididoctors It took from March 20 to April 9 to capture Bagdad, and they entered from Basra province - Basra is 280 miles from Bagdad. The Ukraine/Belarus border to Kiev is 140 miles. Not to mention the US was conducting the operation from halfway across the globe, while Russia is doing it from their own doorstep.
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Whataboutism.
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@MyWatchIsEnded Google "Greg Wong national guard"
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 @truthmonster3290 Not true.
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@truthmonster3290 Your post was shadowbanned so I don't even know what it said. But I guess it wasn't true.
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@JohnMarinescu-q7h Canada signed a pact with China in 2013. The US didn't invade.
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@kamalkamalino2201 "they are not betrayers" - and yet they betray everyone they deal with sooner or later. Deal with them and one day you'll either get cheated so hard you'll go bankrupt or you're going to end up in so much debt they will own your country.
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@itsapittie That's not a serious solution. It would take so much time to transfer the pilots, mechanics and schools to the Army, by the time the transfer was complete the A-10 would be forced into retirement.
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They were never 1:1. If I remember right the F-14 was almost 40 hours of maintenance for every hour of flight.
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Mafias buy businesses, use real money in bribes, etc. Do you think they pay off chiefs of police or customs agencies with crypto?
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This was talked about in my year's history book. It's sometimes mentioned on TV programs.
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By flying like a madman, popping out to fire a Maverick and dive back down before you start to see tracers.
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"Been a LIBERTARIAN and for open borders = wanting to let in everyone WHO IS INVITED ." That makes no sense, because people don't own the country, only their property. They may not invite or block access to any part of the country that isn't owned by them.
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+Indie Media Eastcost still. Denial of freedom of travel is an infringement on individual rights and you're basically saying we need to infringe rights to protect rights. Look, it doesn't matter to me if you're a stakeholder in Apple so you need government protectionism to defend their patent trolling, you can't punish Samsung because you'd earn money on Apple. Same deal, if you're a property owner your decisions matter inside your property but not one inch outside of it. The whole fucking point of libertarianism is that it doesn't fucking matter what values your neighbour holds, he can't do anything about it.
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The issue is that we don't need to study the Armata. There's so few of them, we could just allocate a bunch of laser guided bombs and a strike fighter squadron to hunt them down. Don't need to reverse engineer a tank to know that a 1000lb PGM is going to obliterate it.
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@441meatloaf We live in the master of all trades age. The most successful contemporary fighter design is arguably the F-16, which is so good at dogfighting it plays the role of the MiG-29 in adversarial training, is the workhorse of close air support and has done deep strike missions in Desert Storm or for example Operation Opera.
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@441meatloaf "you dont see any F18s going strafing runs" - But they do strafing runs. "its always the A10" - Not always. As of 2014 the A-10 only did around 11% of CAS missions. Even Strike Eagle pilots set up simulators so they could spend months training night time gun runs, which was a maneuver thought to be suicidal but they eventually developed the technique to the point pilots said they used it on a daily basis in the real conflict.
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@441meatloaf Doesn't change the fact that fighters are usually built as multiroles. Many countries do have one aircraft that does everything. For example, countries have F-16s to patrol their skies and provide CAS during NATO deployments.
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@jghall00 "Also, new tech is always more expensive..why would it be any different for vehicles?" - It shouldn't be different. But like everything else, I guess I have no incentive to be an early adopter.
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But also a record in new daily cases. Oh they "expected" this stuff not to work? Get back to the drawing board and try again.
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@daviddickey9832 The F-15 upgrades piggy back off all the sales of modern F-15s. If the F-22 program had continued an upgrade program would be cheaper and if the F-15 didn't get export sales they wouldn't have an upgrade program.
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@MrFlatage There's no "mechanical" fighter aircraft anymore. Go bark up some other tree. Also, by the way, even back in the "mechanical" aircraft days the first variants were quickly made obsolete. The first F-15s delivered to the Air Force served for about 5 years and then they were pushed to the Air National Guard, because that's how it went with "mechanical" aircraft. The first units were quickly made obsolete and new ones had to be purchased. What proven fact history? That you don't believe in software? That's the only history being denied here. What facts? The facts that you deny?
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@MrFlatage At no point did that video address the yoke or stick.
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@MrFlatage Yes, they do. The F-35 software is named in blocks, it's currently flying on Block 4 software. What facts? You posted a video about hydraulic systems in a discussion about the control stick. How did I change my claims? I did not make it up, look at any cockpit that isn't a glass cockpit and you will see steam gauges.
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@MrFlatage You didn't prove anything wrong. You're just saying nonsense and insulting me. You have no "proof" of anything you say.
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@MrFlatage Okay. Call Boeing right now.
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@MrFlatage The Cessna is not a F-35 or airliner. I said, go up to a modern airliner. Clearly, you can't read. Since when does Boeing manufacture Cessnas?
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@MrFlatage We were talking about modern fighters such as the F-35.
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+benjamin whitaker mastercard also has DEBIT cards you fucking brainlet.
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 @wesc6755 What's weird is reading all the "where's Witch?" comments on every vlog. Relax, little guy. If you get it, posting comments won't make people come any faster.
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@wesc6755 If your comment gets shadowbanned but has an upvote, I'll be able to tell you have yourself a like. Just a heads up. I'm not the one spamming comments sections to ask about the woman.
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@wesc6755 For weeks I keep seeing these requests in the comments. It may have been the only time, but it's still weird to see people chanting for an update from Jake, who doesn't control when another person posts. If you want updates, you can just follow those people directly. You'll get it, directly on your phone the moment it gets uploaded. It's easier than asking a third party to reupload that message.
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Blackwater just drove CEOs and diplomats around.
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@helwrecht1637 But the difference is that Portugal decriminalized drugs (they're still illegal) as part of a campaign to reduce the number of addicts and curb HIV/Hep transmission.
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@Kededian The symbol is a trident. Navy SEALs also wear a trident.
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@pamelapiszczek8226 To learn, you have to survive.
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1. Ballistic missiles are diving on terminal. 2. Atmospheric drag after being knocked off course.
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@buttyug 7.62 NATO would be a huge loss in performance, might as well stick to 5.56 and enjoy the ammo carrying capacity.
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@buttyug That's only slightly better than 7.62x39 ballistics. That's a ton of flash and weight to carry for intermediate rifle performance. Better than AK is not a tough hurdle to clear. You want to be better not just in ballistics but also recoil, low flash, weight, etc. 6.8X51 at least justifies its weight and recoil by blowing 7.62x39 NATO out of the water. Even a 2600 fps 7.62 NATO is a compromise. I'd rather have 5.56, almost no recoil and nearly double the ammo. Either give me power and performance, or give me ease of shooting and ammo for days. Trying to sit on the fence just gets you the worst of both worlds and none of the advantages.
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@buttyug Ultimately, I do think 6mm ARC with EPR style steel core and the Sig steel case technology to up the pressures would have been better than going full power. But the machine gun is driving this boat. The point isn't just doing things 5.56 can't. It's that it's still a neutered 7.62 NATO. We have 16" barrel 7.62 NATO rifles and we don't want that, much less neutering it.
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He won the elections in 2019.
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@accesscrimea No approval doesn't mean it's not used. I am in contact with someone in Japan, doctors are allowed to give a prescription. It's not approved, but many other drugs are also prescribed without approval for off label use. Hence off label use.
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@accesscrimea Not true. You're conflating the approval of a drug when it enters market to off label use.
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@PlasticGangsta The numbers from public health england say otherwise.
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So we had to tolerate Saudi Arabia's BS for decades and take their side (which means being against Iran) and now we're the problem?
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Nah it's these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po7sX-rKuQs https://gunstreamer.com/watch/freeman-039-s-glock-3d-printed-g17-frame-release-trailer_ZO6FRcDzlImML6q.html
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 @user2C47 because there are instances where you may need to use more power to get yourself of a dangerous situation.
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@user2C47 I borked my reply. What I meant is that there's situations where you might need to break the speed limit. A momentary requirement to break the rules wouldn't get triggered by a GPS system or checkpoint.
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D O W N L O A D I N G R O O T K I T
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@capella95 uhhhh correcting a mistake? I don't think so nerd B)
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@hughgrection3052 Why is that gun worth 3k? Because the cartels got them all for 300-500 or even free.99 by swiping it off a police armory. 3k is the price thanks to scarcity. Cartels created the scarcity by controlling the flow of the illicit trade. They ditched the gun because they were scared? Now they pay it off, plus interest. That's how you make money. Murder weapons aren't always ditched after use. That's why ballistic fingerprinting is often used to piece together who's doing hits as the same murder gun gets repeated use over the years. A "hitman worth is salt" is just some guy who's given up on morals for money. Again, they're not specially trained ninjas like in the movies. They're just some guy who went down the wrong path in life and now they do bad stuff for a living. The simple rules are: cartels have cornered the market, so you come to them if you're in need of a piece. They don't sell you the whole cow, they sell you the milk. What's wrong with a warehouse? There's cartel videos of them rolling up to warehouses and merc'ing everyone inside. I don't know the context of those videos, but clearly illicit things happen in those warehouses. You can store drugs in warehouses. You can store stolen cars in warehouses and keep them there to strip the parts and move them out inconspicuously. Why is a warehouse a movie thing? The cartels don't rent for themselves, they rent OUT to others. They OWN the guns. Just like the Yakuza. The Yakuza don't let you own or carry a gun when you work for them, they like to stay in control and not give their street thugs guns because it only makes things messy. You didn't understand what he was saying. They don't go to the warehouse. THEY OWN THE WAREHOUSE. They have the guns, and rent out to those who need it. Cartels don't care if the hitmen are busted, because they easily traffic guns. Oh, they're going to squeal? Do you know what happens to people who squeal? Either way, who cares? If anyone squeals, someone in the police will just tip them off and the warehouse will be empty next morning. Everyone's on the take. Mexican police driving right up and busting the warehouse? Do you remember when El Chapo's son was raided by the Mexican Marines and the cartels surrounded the entire town? They had to release Ovidio because the cartels had the Marines overwhelmed. What cover story do I need? Either one of the cops warns me and we hide the stuff, or they will not even bother showing up because they know that if they arrest me, the entire town will be surrounded by cars with welded steel plates and .50 cal M2s in the back. Local cops don't want none of that smoke.
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@hughgrection3052 Why are cartels still active if all the kingpins are in jail?
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@hughgrection3052 I literally googled cartel gun warehouse and got multiple hits for news regarding gun warehouses operated by cartels with dozens of guns inside.
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@hughgrection3052 Takes me long to reply because some people actually work for a living. I can't be slacking off with the phone in my hand all day, props if you got the cushy job that lets you reply to youtube comments all day. You said gun rentals are not real because gun warehouses don't exist. We've established that they do. What's exactly your problem? I can't book a flight to Mexico and ask if the warehouses that got busted were the rental ones, and the 23 year old intern writing the articles doesn't know either. Your argument is based on incredulity and we now determined that some aspects of the story are credible? Can I prove the story is absolutely true? No. Did we prove that some of your concerns were addressed? Yes. They do have warehouses with guns on them. Isn't that enough? I know it won't, but I don't care. Gun warehouses exist so rest assured some of your doubts have been taken care of.
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@hughgrection3052 Okay. The facts you doubted checked out. The "industry" he saw is different from the industry you're used to. Again, things work different when you go around the world. The guy misspoke with the "charger". Big deal, he was thinking of the Spanish for "carregador". People are rushing to his defense because you're calling him a liar over nothing. Your incredulity has been resolved. His story now sounds credible. It's a good thing to be skeptical. But you're going too far by doubting things simply because they're different from your "industry".
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Meanwhile you can't read a Russian post without them mentioning ass or dicks.
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Information so critical you didn't even bother listing.
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And the West isn't putting up with their shit despite looking the other way for 30 years.
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You have a suicide vest that's gonna kill everyone is they lay a finger on you, and you use it to kick the ass of everyone around you. They get together and form a group with the same capability to get back at you, and now you're under threat?
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These people are not 2001 Republicans, they actually criticize the MIC for starting wars and having Pride parade floats. Yeah, BAE Systems, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have participated in Pride parades.
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Why would Russia buy tanks they can't get parts or ammo for?
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It's not money and profit. Engines run at below max efficiency to minimize emissions. That was the reason for the Volkswagen scandal, to test emissions the engine runs below efficiency, but in road driving it starts to run leaner to save fuel at the cost of more NOx.
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Did they lose?
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@NaZelensky But did they lose?
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@williambowling8211 The riot thing was explained in the video.
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PR people get directives on what to do. Ever seen Russian recruitment posters? The PR people sneak Sasha Grey, Johnny Depp and Billy Harrington into the posters because they hate the job lol
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@andrew_owens7680 "why pick one that is stained with the stench of the mob" - Nobody has no stench.
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That's a reach.
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@muzzybeat By protest? Making their voices heard? That's what everyone means by it whenever it's used politically. You're just selectively analyzing it that way because it's got to do with orange man.
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@muzzybeat Really isn't, when most cases of "strong" speech really never go past the peaceful negotiation. Even seen a protest? The slogans get heated.
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Well, Russia has been threatning the west with nukes for 15 years, and they are comitting horrible crimes against a nation we said would help in case of invasion. Better?
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@essn6807 It's not pointless as others have said, but it also creates leverage. Imagine you managed to get your family to flee the country. But you can't join them because of the arrest warrants. You'll make a deal.
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Lmao copium.
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@hapman His friends worked at said business and he was there with his friends. When a volunteer goes to Syria or whatever to provide aid do you also say "none of your business"? Doctors without borders? You're essentially saying that unless someone is specifically hired for a job they can't do anything to help anyone.
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@hapman "if he had EMT training or first aid training that wasn’t his job to administer help to random people he doesn’t know" - This is a complete fabrication from poisoning minds. You do realize that many countries are starting to place emergency defibrillators in public locations and providing the training classes for people who are not EMTs to use them, right? They even have some now that are made so that anyone can follow the voice instructions. It's not a random person's job to help people they don't know. People still help anyway. "the doctors without boarders people and the other examples you brought up don’t end up killing sombody" - What a ridiculous argument. Kyle wouldn't have killed anyone if he were not attacked. Your point is that Kyle deserved the beating for going there. Before he had to use his weapon. By the same logic, you defend Doctors Without Borders getting brutalized by warring factions because it was none of their business. Also, there are known instances of medical personnel who were not combatants being forced to pick up arms and fight because a faction did not recognize their rights as medics. "My whole point is this could’ve been avoided had kyle just minded his own business" - Why didn't the protesters mind their own business? "putting out fires that weren’t burning anything of his" - The city suffered tens of millions of dollars in damage. So the protesters should have made that gas station go up in flames?
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@hapman "Citizens arrest is dumb" - Kyle did not attempt to arrest anyone. "People should just stay clear of situations that don’t involve them" - You honestly should be forced to go through what the Kenosha residents went through that night. What happens when you're trapped inside your house and people are setting fires outside, and you claim nobody should try and save you. You'd change your tune really quick.
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Stealth is a requirement. You will be targeted and hit. Reducing the opportunities to be targeted ensures survival. Everyone else is a flying beacon asking to be missile bait.
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And because people think this is good reasoning, I have to carry the sword and knowing how to use it because their F'ed up kids will attack me as a result of their abusive upbringing.
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Air superiority but still they can't prosecute. They launch air dropped missiles from Belarus/Russian airspace or hug the ground and use rocket lofting.
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 @aurockscastillo5460 No, the Plywood Marshall is Girkin's term. Girkin hates Prigozhin.
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 @aurockscastillo5460 the 2% economic growth is based on Rosstat... the Russian government's statistics office... there's no unbiased observer capable of determining the real number
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Harriers have the fatal flaw if blowing hot exhaust into the side of the aircraft so it becomes a huge IR magnet for heat seeking SAMs. The coalition lost 6 or 7 Harriers against SA-8s I think in Desert Storm. It's a really limited aircraft. Great for the Cold War. Very weak in the modern age.
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@minimax9452 Western bloggers and companies can't force more Russians to the front to keep the war going. Warlords can. There's a difference between a journalist reporting on fires, and setting fires to collect insurance money.
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@julienicolazzo5145 The Delta is spreading through the vaccinated. It lives on everyone.
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@julienicolazzo5145 Nazi.
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@donniebrookings3695 I don't want to be around anyone who took it and is now harboring the resistant strains lol.
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@julienicolazzo5145 Die from something with a 99.9 survival rate?
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@Meeces55 Many countries still have subpar identity systems where you'd easily fake their ID, and even in the case of digital ID you'd be able to pay off someone to get you an ID of a recently deceased person. I understand the concerns but at the same time we had to come up with ways to anonymously post so that dissidents and whistleblowers could get the message out in authoritarian countries, now we'll throw it all away and tie our online activity to our real ID...
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>Secondly, tits are gonna lose their affect on men. OH SHIT, BECAUSE TITS AREN'T ALL OVER THE TV ALREADY OR EVEN EASILY FOUND ON INTERNET PORN!
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Accepting losses is a false economy. A crew cooking inside a T-72 is money and time pissed away. A poorly trained crew means they'll lose the tank before it even reaches combat.
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"swarm of drones scanning the sky with IR cameras" - and which country has this swarm surveillance capability and how long can the drones stay in the air until the batteries/fuel are drained?
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@bagamut South Vietnam was an ally. Libya No Fly Zone was approved by the UN after request by the Arab League. "Yugoslavia" means Serbia and their genocidal behavior that was going to flood Europe with refugees.
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@negativeindustrial Without nukes, how are our lives at risk?
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Russia gave crap to the middle east they needed to invade Ukraine. They shot themselves in the foot.
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@Trener_Artem But Russia mobilized too. Their army is goat herders, brick layers, wrench turners. Normal people sent to assault a wall of supersonic metal.
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@Jason "That if you help big business it magically trickles down to everyone else?" - That's pure and simply a strawman fallacy. Trickle down is a smear targeted at Andrew Melon, who worked for the Woodrow Wilson administration. His tax plan actually put the burden of taxation on the WEALTHY and eased the burden on the middle class. Helping big business is just plain old corruption, not a legitimate economic plan, and both sides do it to help their lobbyist friends.
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@ericacannon5832 Government money is just paper without an economy to back it up. You got the order of events completely backwards. If we got stranded on a desert island, my first action wouldn't be grinding rocks into coin shape to "print" money I could use to pay you to go gather coconuts or fish for me. We'd need to accumulate resources and have actual wealth before we'd consider engaging in trade. Then at one point replace barter by tokens. "Government prints money" is a completely useless statement because all that paper (or digits in a computer) is worthless without us creating value. And as we've seen with bitcoin and monero, you can use money that has not been minted by any government.
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This might just be me being out of the loop, but in Europe nobody talks about that treatment.
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@pokerone6489 Literally every military has far right people in it. When your country is invaded, you'll ignore who's fighting on your behalf. I want to see you call for your armed forces to be disbanded over 900-2000 people when the cruise missiles are falling on your grandma's house.
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@militaristaustrian Russia did not have liberal politics in the 1990s. It has former Soviet apparatchiks resisting the reforms while Yeltsin's gang bought national industries from pennies on the dollar. Russian stole from Russia and blamed it on "liberalism".
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And then the S400 eats a HARM as soon as it turns on.
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Israel flew an F-35 over Iran, leading to their head of air defense getting fired.
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+Fuck Google+ you mean like communism abused the slave labourers in the gulags to keep the country running, and since communism doesn't fucking work they kept putting more people in gulags? Capitalism is free trade. All you people have to do is not buy this shit, but clearly people want shit and thus ask for shit.
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Yes but but sling loading is inherently more dangerous and complex. When doing back and forth trips to resupply the rigging system and the more careful flying would cause delays.
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The problem is that a decision to make the shots less painful for infants - who shouldn't be getting this particular shot anyway - when given under normal conditions has no bearing on what's being done. It seems anyone with a pulse was giving them out, and they were rushing. I don't like to gamble and we know an improperly administration can F you up.
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When a German talks about WWII I have to distrust him and actually think Germany won. We all know historical records change when people speak.
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But as we've seen, the vaccine won't help. Cases rise, lockdowns commence again.
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Kids are greeting the Ukrainian soldiers with Ukrainian flags. The local population doesn't want the Russians back.
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The coalition stopped when they faced resistance and split forces to continue deep advances unopposed. Iraqi forces set themselves in defensive rings but the coalition refused to take the bait and simply pressed forward towards the political centers of gravity. Had the US/UK/AUS/Poland engaged in heavy city fighting to capture each city, they'd have taken massive losses. But the coalition fought smart. Russia is incapable of doing so.
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SC is in alpha. If it has been released it's time to hit the storefronts and get reviewed for what it is.
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@marktucker7454 No other plane can do what the A10 does - maybe that's an indication that it's a dead end?
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It's like if I hit a neighbor's car while parking some unrelated person from a different street decided to set fire to my house because I didn't mow the lawn. Yeah I messed up parking my car but the other guy wasn't even taking revenge on my poor driving. None of the reasons people say the US "caused" 9/11 match OBL's stated reason for the attacks.
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The same S-400 systems that failed to protect Moscow and air bases in Russia? The same ones that had one of their radars visited hy HIMARS in Kherson?
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Most US fighters were designed before people had PCs at home. The benefit of hindsight is a factor here. The US is also introducing modular software, the problem is that there's aircraft from the 1970s still loading data from magnetic tape.
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momentinpassing "And if you believe they "lost" the plans for the Apollo missions" - They did. NASA subcontracted many companies to make the rockets, the companies no longer exist, many design changes were made by hand and the skilled workers responsible it have died.
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momentinpassing Dunno what that means. If you think you can reverse engineer a bunch of rockets that have rusted why don't you volunteer to do it? And prove NASA wrong?
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momentinpassing What simple truths? You speak of some grand truth and yet you refuse to say anything about what you believe in. You just insult people for not believing the same bullshit as you.
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@crashpal what the fuck is the point of that response? I am aware that it is terrorism. It has already been described as a terrorist attack by the authorities. What are they supposed to say? "The mosque terrorism"? "Mosque shooting" or "Christchurch shooting" rolls off easier. Same reason they didn't say "Boston marathon terrorism" and said it was a bombing. What do we call 9/11? "Nine Eleven" or "September Eleven" in some countries. We don't call it "plane terrorism" or "New York terrorism". We use whatever term is easiest to say and is more recognizable.
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It delivered JDAMs in Syria.
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God is clearly on Ukraine's side. Stop begging for His help.
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@als3275 All I know is Russians are getting punished.
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 @anklebender5138 I know PhDs who have used ChatGPT just to see how it does in their field.
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There's plenty of footage of Ukrainians rolling tanks to the trenchlines and firing the gun at close range, either vaporizing or concussing the Russian mobiks. There's even video of a Ukrainian tank digging into a trench with the tracks to grind the defenders.
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Because the focus was firepower at the fireteam level while the conventional wisdom was machine gun at the squad level. Rifle platoon still got a weapons squad with two MG teams to give them medium machine gun capabilities. When this was decided it made a lot more sense. The 5.56 belt fed was technically not a "belt fed MG" but a "belt fed automatic weapon" and the user was an automatic rifleman, not a machine gunner.
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@creepysmilingcarl9742 bro what?
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We need hydrogen to replace things like natural gas, and it's a prospective alternative fuel for things like airplanes. Battery powered airplanes don't have much range.
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>"your sorry ass point of view back" There.
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Squib powder is most likely nitrocellulose or even a nitrocellulose+nitroglycerin mix. It already has oxidizer.
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And?
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Sure, what happens when one day you can't buy it? I've been learning and studying everything from CNC operation to industrial automation. What have you been doing to preserve the gun you bought when you need it fixed but you're not allowed to buy replacement parts?
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They're making AK "shotguns" with paradox rifling so that you can shoot with a shotgun license before moving onto the rifle license.
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They probably wouldn't, because Tsarbucks was a visual gag in the Simpsons when they went to the Ukrainian district to meet the Ukrainian mafia.
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@ZMCFERON More like sperging courtesy of an out of touch old man who decided to waste everyone's time with his ludicrous demands.
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Projection.
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Russian telegram admitted the loss.
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The fighter mafia hated the F-15 and lobbied for the lightweight fighter program.
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By that logic the Soviet losses in the Eastern Front were fake because they kept moving forward.
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Hell the fact that an agenda is being pushed will only make me doubt even more.
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+Jeremy Parsons and those flare guns typically have a lip inside that prevents a real shell from being inserted and detonated inside them because the plastic will explode in your hand. The 12 gauge flares do not have the same dimensions as common shot-shells. Ironically Aguila makes those mini-shot shells and I think they fit in the plastic flare guns. Don't try to fire it unless you really hate your hand, though.
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@keirangrant1607 Paradigms change. In the 50s very high speed interceptors were required to reach nuclear bombers before they could drop. When the ICBM made the gravity-drop bomber less feasible, aircraft no longer required a design that was focused on straight line speed. Your logic ignores how you can't be locked to outdated realities of combat.
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 @brunneng38 People will look at technological improvements and call it a conspiracy...
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@keirangrant1607 Proven to work against what? Update how? What we have isn't enough for China.
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 @jintsuubest9331 You'd completely shift the center of mass of the aircraft by replacing the gun. You would need to move the engines forward.
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War mongerers are in Moscow. The war ends when they retreat.
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@josephvandyck5469 That's oversimplified. The G36 is suitable for combat, but not being ran as an automatic weapon. Thin profile barrel always had the issue of rising temperatures revealing internal stresses in the metal and leading to point of impact shift. This could be solved with a thicker barrel, which weighs more. Modern stress relieving procssses allow thin profile barrels to suffer less. A G36 made with a barrel, such as Tommy Built's clones, doesn't have these issues.
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Not even close. And the Russians started firing an AK intro a crowd that day.
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Peace will come when the warmongers stop breathing. They're Russian. Ukraine is taking care of them.
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Ordnance Lab videos show thermite isn't as effective as people think.
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@optimal8155 Don't trust him around children though. The man has been caught twice.
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The West defeats enemy aircraft in the air. When our aircraft destroy enemy aircraft, few come close enough to our air space. Russians also shoot down their own aircraft.
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@jeremypaton4300 considering how asset forfeiture is used against the little people even when no crimes are comitted I'm hesitant to chalk that one up as a win, even if it was used against one of the guilty fat cats.
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@godzilla101188 I'm pretty sure the data rate of the leak makes it impossible to be a hack. My money is still on Seth Rich being the leak, hence his murder and offer of reward by wikileaks.
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Country at war can't save an old guy with health issues from pulmonary disease. Maybe Russia should stop attacking.
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Their munitions manufacturing plant in Ukraine was captured by separatists in 2014, so when they started a new one in 2016-2017 they didn't focus on 7.62x39 or commercial exports. I've seen a press release stating they will do exports of multiple calibers starting this year but it remains to be seen.
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Why?
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@patrickradcliffe3837 "you spent more then a trillion dollars on this weapons system" - That's not true. The trillion dollars is a projected cost of the entire fleet until retirement.
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@patrickradcliffe3837 That's government work for you. Either way the 500 cap makes no sense considering that the USAF will surpass 300 next year, and that's just in F-35As. Even the most drastic cut proposed was 800 units, but a more "realistic" proposal is 1,050 units.
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@patrickradcliffe3837 The US at the time was not involved in any conflict that would require the F-22.
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@patrickradcliffe3837 Why? The F-35 falls completely in line with modern needs.
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@jeromedavies2408 The point of hypersonics is covering as much middle ground as fast as possible for naval use. A conventional missile will need some kind of assisted guidance from an aircraft to keep up to date information on target position or else the ship might completely flee outside of on board sensor ranges. This means that carrier groups could deploy their own aircraft to destroy the targeting aircraft or just pressure them into fleeing. Satellite only gives you a few minutes of coverage above the target. Launching a hypersonic allows the missile to get close enough to the ship to turn on its own sensors and slow down to conventional supersonic for terminal phase maneuvering.
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Hey Connor mind coming back?
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Russia could get the support of 30 countries if they were a nicer country. All they do is invade and threaten nuclear war so they asked for this.
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@Cheesus-Sliced Trump attempted to have the travel ban. And like it or not, religious gatherings are protected under the first amendment.
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@TheVSFDawg Yeah I've seen reply chains with over 30 comments of bots.
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No, it is boring to have history retold. The more you comprehend a subject the less you want to be lectured on it.
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He continued the wars, the border wasn't any more secure than today and massive scenarios without rule of law happened under his watch.
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Why? They film tiktoks and cry when under real combat.
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It's logical. The spring activates the propellant charge like a firearm striking a primer, and the propellant burning uses the tube and spigot as a cylinder and piston combo to build up pressure.
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The F-22's operational costs come from the fact that too few were purchased. This is a problem of the government's own making. 10 "disposable" drones will be disposed of alright. Lack of performance and systems will get them shredded by anti air before they get close.
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Not true. They're destroying defenses and performing probing attacks.
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@ZantetsukenGilgamesh "How are you going to make out who the shooter is in a surprise attack" - it's typically the guy where the noise and flashes are coming from. "Do you really think the shooter is going to wait for you to identify him, take your gun out of your holster," - it takes 1 second to draw a gun. Some guy is firing on a crowd, you think he's "allowing" anyone to do anything? He'll probably get shot before he even realizes there's armed resistance. "cock the gun back" - why would the gun be unloaded? "remove the safety" - modern guns don't require safeties. If you carry an older style of gun the safety is flicked off during the draw stroke so it's always ready to fire. "Even with conceiled carry, and proper training, odds of you hitting innocent bystanders is very high" - because the possibility of collateral is worse than the certainty of multiple fatalities. Okay.
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@SuperWardy85 there have been multiple shootings in the UK since the last ban. Australia had even more. They had Monash in 2002, and there was a mass shooting that left 7 dead last year. There have also been a few in the 2000's and 2010's.
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No, it wasn't. The OA-X program was designed for Vietnam where 14.5mm was considered the most serious threat due to 23mm not being common enough. It was then repurposed to fight tanks where it would have a suicidal mission and the entire West German contingent of A-10s would be lost in a matter of days due to Shilkas and MANPADS. Mind that in 1991 seven A-10 were lost and Gen Chuck Horner pulled them off from the Iraqi Republican Guard because as it turns out, if you send the A-10 against skilled and well-equipped units the A-10 is extremely vulnerable. Again, the environment is much more hostile to aircraft than it was in the 1980s. Now you have to fend off Tunguskas and Pantsirs. The short range missiles are guided by laser beamriding or electro-optical trackers so you can't jam their radars or use flares. It's not disingenuous if you consider the facts.
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Satellite pictures show Russia's fire superiority is used to pockmark empty fields. Russian, and Soviet, artillery doctrine is built around the use of fire superiority to make up for lack of accuracy and proper target designation. So mass is used in place of accuracy, as the sheer density of fire suppresses and destroys the target. But it's not the Cold War anymore. We don't have millions of men in the frontline. We have half a dozen dudes manning a trench and they either dig in the bunker or abandon their position. Firing thousands of shells at a treeline does nothing if the soldiers just left the position and return after the barrage is over. Russia is also using D30 howitzers, that's how badly their artillery is doing right now. Watch Covert Cabal's video on Russian artillery.
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You can still be a celebrity and a felon. Hollywood actually has replica guns they hand out to actors with felonies so they can do action scenes.
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The government showing up to parliament and voting to have early elections isn't a coup.
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@LordRykard9376 They are but that's irrelevant. You can't call something a coup when the government stayed intact.
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No, it's Russia's centuries old wish to subdue Ukraine.
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>a DNA gun will just prove you were at the place and identify you as a Person Of Interest. This is grounds for an arrest How will they prove you were at a certain place before they strip searched you? It's a Catch 22, to be able to see the paint there has to be probable cause already. Without grounds for an arrest, no paint will be seen.
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@SultanMapping And Assad's enemies are composed of terrorists and foreigners supplied by the Pentagon and CIA to bring down the government and allow the construction of a natural gas pipeline that will feed Europe and reduce dependence on Russian energy. In a fight between two bad sides, I won't support either.
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Not if the competition is worse.
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It was because of Hellfire missile shots which targeted civilians, sometimes including a double tap meant to strike the people trying to rescue survivors or recover bodies.
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@criticalcommenter Because they're not Reaper or Predator drones that fire Hellfire missiles. They're more like cruise missiles but with an electric propeller instead of a jet engine.
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@coryascott you're not entitled to police services. Supreme Court determines the police has no duty to protect you.
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@mochithepooh5368 "Government is different, they don't need to make any profit." - yeah government services consistently run in the red. If you want to know more about government managed healthcare, take a look at government managed postal service. It's a clusterfuck.
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@nougat4416 "What incentivises the government to ensure its population is fit and healthy? Did you really just ask that question?" - yeah considering that governments have the historical habit of murdering their own people it's pretty necessary to ask that question
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@mochithepooh5368 "Tough luck dude, you should have paid me 300$ when in Canada, the same insulin it only cost you 30$." - in a free market it would be legal to just import insulin from Canada. The government ensures that the prices are too high.
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@nougat4416 "A fit and healthy working population isnt of use to the government?" - not really. Politicians are making money in the next 10-15 years and then they retire. They don't care about the consequences 30-40 years down the line.
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@mochithepooh5368 "Because government give back your money in other form. Infrastructure, education, security(cops, fire fighter, and the military), etc." - but they're not giving it back. And most of the money spent on security is used to OPPRESS the citizens. Cops are shitty and they should be able to get fired by a population who doesn't feel secure. The military wasted trillions of dollars in the Middle East for no benefit to the US population. It's highway robbery and you know it. They're not giving anything back.
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@mochithepooh5368 "Running postal service is different than running healthcare insurance." - if you can't even deliver letters you can't do brain surgery
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@mochithepooh5368 "Why you need to import it" - because of the government
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@mochithepooh5368 "Rather than building thousand of small boats, we combined our resource to make one gigantic boat" - hey remember when the Titanic hit an iceberg? Sometimes you don't keep all your eggs in the same basket. "The hospital, the doctors, etc. Is still being run by private entity." - so the costs are socialized, and the profits privatized. Thanks, the worse of both worlds.
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How do you know the trajectory if lockdowns worked?
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Using a small tactical nuke would have consequences. I'd like to remind you that the UK and France are nuclear armed nations.
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Lukaku's First Touch Following a ship and boarding it is malice. There's a difference between killing someone in self defense and following a criminal home to choke him during his sleep.
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@sventice Molnupiravir has shown mutagenic effects in animal cell cultures. So, there's that.
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You're a paid Western shill like those exposed by LaoWhy86 and SerpentZA.
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There's some reports Iran completely overstated the performance capabilities of their drones.
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I mean, codenames are pretty esoteric. During the cold war the British came up with a purposely nonsense code because they couldn't resist giving projects names that referenced the subject/purpose which lead to Soviets easily guessing what they were.
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A lot of Americans have Germanic/Nordic heritage.
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@nazimronnie7731 Yeah, keep simping for Putin as he profits off the food shortage.
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Russia up to their usual lies.
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We're persistence hunters. We have better cardio and we have more efficient running biomechanics. We didn't survive by fighting monkeys, we survived by chasing larger animals until they gassed out. You find that often survival strategies don't always reward the fittest, just who gamed the meta. There's fish which survived millions of years simply because they lay tends of thousands of eggs. They're bad at surviving on their own, but as a collective they keep on trucking by spamming a ton of offspring. Humans gamed the meta by chasing animals which sprint away from sprinters like cheetahs. We don't need massive strength, just numbers and persistence.
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@bennytn5518 It's not circular reasoning.
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Sunk cost fallacy
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Usually I am all for criticising Apple because consumers need to realize it's a garbage brand and they need to have higher standards. But if they made a smaller version people would bitch about gendered products.
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The last go around the US saved the USSR. This time the US is against the neo-Soviets.
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@clandestinereactionary1842 none if them are whining because the Marines that saw the reality of war already quit. You're mostly still young, and when we're young we're stupid and we enjoy war because it allows us to prove ourselves.
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Drones cannot contest air superiority, therefore aircraft flying without fear of drones can achieve supremacy.
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Russia has nukes. There's no reasons to worry when you can wipe America and Europe off the map.
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There is another way to explain it. We're all facing population collapse. Birth rates are dropping even in Africa. We hit the peak number of children in the 2000s, population in the world is not growing via reproduction but by ageing - third world countries are seeing massive increases in average lifespan. Rampant immigration is a desperate stopgap measure because they KNOW that integrated immigrants have similar birth rates to us. They're trying to keep the ball rolling for a few more decades, then maybe WW3 starts or something.
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Yeah but Bushmaster won the court case over the M4 tradmark in 2005. It's incredibly hard to enforce trademarks in videogames. It was political because EA/Dice were being sued over the Battlefield series, not Activision.
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Unthinkable. By that logic we could declare a referendum in Moscow and we already know the results, we'll nuke Russia if they don't give up. Nobody can allow such a precedent because it threatens the entire world.
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Drones are just as a mindless killer as guns - they aren't. I'm sorry, but admitting that drones are demonic, sentient beings opens to the "guns are evil" argument. Look, an ad for the military doesn't incite people to kill. In fact, they probably try to tone down stuff so that the icky parts of war are left out. Otherwise only sociopaths would enlist. Videogames and movies have more violence in them than recruitment ads.
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The Cheyenne was stopped by itself. It was plagued with control issues which made it dangerous to fly.
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 @marcv2648 You didn't send 100 bil, you sent equipment that was written off as 100 bil in value. But your parents paid for that equipment decades ago and it would cost you more to dismantle it.
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Yet stealthy cruise missiles have arrived at Sevastopol.
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@soheil527 There were also tons of reports that US troops were fighting Chechen volunteers in the mountains of Afghanistan. Whenever US troops met fierce resistance and skilled fighters they presumed Chechens were present. This phenomenom was investigated, and almost no Chechens ever traveled to Afghanistan to fight - it was entirely mythology with a helping hand from the FSB corroborating fake reports to help plant the seed of distrust.
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"Chaos is a ladder" - Littlefinger
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Russia has resorted to using drones from their civil protection services. You know, the ones for fire surveillance?
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Company that made them hasn't existed in two decades, the factory that made them stopped A-10 production in 1984.
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Those pilots were debunked by a USAF crew chief. He actually knows how the pods work and called out Fravor for not "remembering" (aka lying) about the contrast setting.
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You "ahaha the Normandy landing fizzled out" "ahahah the Azerbaijani offensive on Nagorno-Karabakh already fizzled out"
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This shit is terrible. Inagine playing online and the ball goes through your player in a clear glitch so that your opponent gains posession, because the game needs to give your opponent a chance.
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This doesn't make any sense. The titanium bath tub only exists because in an A-10 the pilot is a gunfire magnet. When flying in a plane that doesn't get hit in the first place you don't need one.
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He was going to lose control of Wagner with the new MoD contract. This was his last resort and he got what he wanted.
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@mrvk39 He was about to get sidelined entirely. If the Russian government doesn't go back on their word and assassinate him inside Belarus, he bought his own survival with this stunt.
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 @theredboneking "are said" by nutcases on TV. We've had nuclear tests at sea. Nothing happened.
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 @theredboneking "men in a cave" Bin Laden was a civil engineer from a billionaire Saudi family. He only lived in caves when he had to hide.
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Chernobyl was built with a lackluster biological shield to save money. Anerican reactors can handle a plane being hijacked and crashed into the concrete dome.
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@antediluvianatheist5262 "You don't get to tax people in your house." - You get to, if you have a roommate paying rent. "if you write '10 dollars' and borrow it off yourself, who do you owe it to?" - But those 10 dollars are absolutely worthless unless everyone else thinks it's worth something.
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Defend? They conscripted them and used them as meatshields. The mother eats its children.
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MarkThisWayAfter The point is that it's much harder to fight those who have no worries in their life except train. At one point you gotta meet those who did quit their day job.
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@diddywahdiddy975 Referenda held at gunpoint aren't recognized but nice try. We also saw the empty ballots being counted as "yes" votes.
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As far as I'm concerned if things don't glow green it's not even real science.
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Their border is secure? They keep having Ukrainian intelligence go in and wreck their stuff behind enemy lines.
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Russians are used as cannon fodder for Putin. The professional Russian army was destroyed. Reservists will meet them soon.
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Just make your home out of thermos so it can't burn down.
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The MiG-31 is an upgraded MiG-25. The Su-27 and MiG-29 aircraft in Ukrainian use are more modern. The AIM-54 Phoenix missile wasn't that great at shooting down fighters at the edge if its range. Ukraine has NATO AWACS aircraft circling around and tipping them off about anything that's in the air. You think this MiG-31 is that useful? A long range missile shot needs to be fired from high altitude to minimize drag. At high altitude a fighter exposes itself to Ukrainian SAMs.
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@clutteredchicagogarage2720 I think I have seen it, an article by David Axe. Honestly, I don't like the guy very much because he also posted the 2015 F-35 flight test report and wrote an article about how the F-35 can't dogfight. But he totally misunderstood what the document said.
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That was still a failure. The objective was landing IL-76s. They couldn't. That's a failure.
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Trump doesn't understand this is a 300 year old conflict. Even if the war stopped, did you see what happened to Daria Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky? Ukraine has a list. And explosions would go off in Russia until Ukrainians felt justice had been done. Ever seen the movie Munich?
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@nrabinov It became the US's business when the US defeated Japan. If the US can defeat Japan and then become allies, the country that was saved by the US should show a little gratitude. But how could I forget? The coward Mao hid while the Chinese Nationalists bled for their homeland.
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And that's the problem. You're laughing at "Americans" because of a satirical skit, but won't say a peep about real political decisions. He doesn't just forget names, he forgot who the first lady's husband is.
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@Soken50 Ah yes "Number Of Instances China Had Workplace Accidents in The Last 12 Months" by OSHA et al.
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The US had drones to handle the problem of people disappearing like ghosts. You can't disappear when you glow white on thermal camera.
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@Bug-sg1li lmao what propaganda? If you listen to their media it seems there's 4 mass shootings a day and they're putting immigrants in death camps.
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Everything is about money. In every single country.
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@Bug-sg1li Oh yes, that Hollywood that makes America look so great with non-stop movies about serial killers, bank robbers, gangsters, mafias. I really liked Serpico, State of Play, Vice, The Departed, Black Mass, Zodiac, Lakeview Terrace, etc they all made America look like such a great place to live in. Also love all the music, the rap scene and it's non-stop talk of how every guy in the crew is packing and ready to kill in a moment's notice, makes one feel so safe. What immigrants thought =/= the propaganda you claim makes America look great. Doesn't have shit to do with the argument at hand.
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The long term damage is caused by no treatment. A panicked reaction. Boo hoo. If the people in charge are panicking they can quit. Supposedly we put them in charge to prevent exactly that, if they're no better than the madness of crowds they don't deserve the job. And you betray your true colors at the end. Eugenicists to the bitter end, the whole lot of you.
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"How can burning forests to produce electricity be cleaner than natural gas." - Forests are part of a cycle (as long as you replant) and natural gas is essentially plants that got trapped millions of years ago and didn't fully decompose. When burning a forest you're adding CO2 that gets absorbed by the newer trees, when you burn natural gas you're adding CO2 that didn't exist before to the atmosphere. The thing is, I don't trust the fuel suppliers' promises that the replanting is being done properly. A lot of things can go wrong and we should be planting more, not cutting down.
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But this addresses that criticism. If you come to America and say "Europe does it better" you're still not pointing out the actual flaws in the system, or providing the full context in how the solutions will piss off a ton of people.
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@scottgreeff7043 "when told of the solutions" - There's no "solutions", or at least implementable ones. The only thing people are told of are the pie in the sky goals. Not the actual practical consequences. "they been lead to believe that anything that improves their lives is socialism" - One could easily state the same about your opinions. You want to take a sledgehammer and rework how the entire system works to bruteforce your solutions and think you're not coming off as the aggressor. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Saying it's going to improve someone's life doesn't mean it will. "socialism is the same as communism and is bad" - What an odd take. From the perspective of the average person there's no difference between socialism or communism, the only difference is the existence or absence of the state. If I don't like communism, I sure as hell will not like socialism. Because that's actually enforced by the state, while under communism I could do whatever I wanted. "when the comparisons between america and europe are made they are pointing out the flaws" - Yes, but you conveniently do not address the opposing viewpoint. Have you considered that the flaws are made up in other ways? Such as 1:48 where consumption and indirect tax make up a large percentage of pretax income for people on the lower tax brackets. You want to give an earful to Americans about the flaws in their system, but you're not willing to show how they'll foot the bill for the alternative.
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@scottgreeff7043 Proven fact? You've never tried. You can't prove something without running the experiment. You have no way to prove that you can achieve the better healthcare and standards of living. "that is the viewpoint of americans as they have been brainwashed by right wing propaganda and completely wrong understanding on what those two things are" - No. This isn't propaganda, this is the literal definition. "you try try claim the higher tax is a flaw" - It is. If you're simply paying through other means, all you've done was shift money from column A to column B. "most that have the actual experience of living under that system will tell you that the tax is well worth it as the benefits far exceed the cost of the tax." - But they don't. The cost of the tax is precisely what the benefits cost. There's no infinite money trick. Your argument is inherently nonsensical. How can you claim that Europeans have the better house? Government has shitty negotiation ability. This happened in my country. The government got absolutely reamed by Big Pharma because they threatened not to pay as leverage. Well, if you don't pay, you don't give people the treatment. So the people protested. The government was forced to come crawling back to the negotiation table. Who had the leverage then? Insulin in the US is controlled by government legislation, which artificially keeps it high. Billionaires bribe the government in Europe too. Every year someone is investigated for it. Comparison to slavery is a fallacy. Stick to the argument. Now who's using the right wing propaganda definition of socialism? You.
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@scottgreeff7043 It's not an objective comparison. It's not an attempt, it's reality.
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@scottgreeff7043 The prices are not low. Governments pay out the ass to Big Pharma. You don't see the bill, but the government still dishes out 100k to treat one person.
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@scottgreeff7043 I'm not denying anything. You're the one in denial by promising a plug and play solution. Exactly. Government protects the monopoly. So how is that a healthcare problem rather than a patent problem?
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@scottgreeff7043 That's not what I said. You're not arguing for a better system, you're asking to copy paste an existing system and grafting it into another, and hope duct tape and spit holds it together. You want to sell a narrative in which a copy paste job will not lead to a complete mess. Spoiler alert, it always does. Want the US to be Europe? Make it Europe first. If you're not willing to go all the way you're not willing to go anywhere at all.
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@scottgreeff7043 If a law literally says that only the monopolistic corporation can do something, they're protecting the monopoly. It's not a healthcare problem, it's a law problem. If a truck full of medication crashes in the middle of the highway, that's a supply chain issue, a transportation issue, etc. Not a healthcare issue. By that logic everything is a healthcare issue. Lack of tissue paper? Healthcare issue. No bedsheets? Healthcare issue. No disinfectant? Healthcare issue. Much higher? By how much?
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@scottgreeff7043 "a healthcare issue as it affects healthcare" - Everything affects everything. The problem with your way of thinking is that you can just twist any event you want into becoming an issue you want to give attention too. "thats a law issue not a racism issue" - But the truck didn't crash because of healthcare. The law was passed because of racism. That's the difference. "most of the world uses not being better" - Most of the world? Is the US really in the bottom 85 out of 170 countries or whatever? Is that what you're claiming?
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@scottgreeff7043 "and the government allowing them" - thanks for agreeing with me
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Sandy Hook has happened before FPSRussia. 0/10, not even mad.
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Yes. Vulkan allows developers to use the card anyway they want. You can have each card do half of the screen, or even have one render the center of the screen so that the other does the edges, the HUD, the minimap, etc.
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It's ineffective. It gives Putin a release valve for "refuseniks". Now his forces will be more loyal. We want to seal the pressure cooker and force the anti war people to panic. We need to fight Putin, not go on vacations to the West and tweet about how bad Putin is.
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@System.out.println that's ridiculous. Laws exist to punish those who break them. Even if we can't find every murderer, those we do find deserve punishment. Owning a gun and not hurting anyone shouldn't get a person in trouble. Criminals hurt people which means we already have ways to punish them.
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Melted steel is better than scorched meat. I'll gladly trade steel if my enemy loses something more important.
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@altergreenhorn lol we all know this isn't true. They already used reservists, they were the BARS units. These are mobiks.
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@iangreenhalgh9280 A year of service doing fuck all. Everyone knows the conscription in Russia is a wasted year. Ukraine has the capacity to train their own troops. We just expanded it. Why would we want to leave resources untapped? Ukraine can generate troops, we want them to have even more. We want them to win. Simple as.
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@iangreenhalgh9280 Love how your comment is shadowbanned. Try using less "strong" words. Conscripts could not legally be used in Georgia, Syria or CAR. So returning those people with 1 year experience in cleaning toilets and getting beat up to military service doesn't gift them military experience. The war veterans already have been fighting for Wagner, Redut, etc.
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The usual "everything is CIA" schizo cope from Russians.
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@richardcontinijr9661 Point us towards the court records, then.
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Cameras are cheap now. Most armor design dates back to the cold war.
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>bigger country >most gun deaths that occur are deaths that would happen anyway (criminals killing criminal rivals) Gun crime has been low in the UK, so it's hard to compare the US vs the UK, but the fact is that are more gun crimes this last decade than before the bans. The only limiting factor in gun crime in the UK is the supply of illegal ammunition.
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@bbb462cid It's literally a step back.
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@maxk4471 "m14 modifications today are kidna part of the best marksman rifles" - ahahaha
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@simplymadness8849 It doesn't use the "same" action. The gas system was changed and the tolerances required to manufacture it could not be held by the three factories contracted to make M14s for military service. There's a paper that's unfortunately impossible to find but people who've seen it reported that the military investigated the quality of M14s in service and a good percentage of them had issues because they were too difficult to make at mass manufacturing rates.
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@guyderagisch4964 It came out of retirement because the people in charge are absolute brainlets. It cost more to re-field the M14 than just buying new 7.62 rifles.
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@tbr2109 the M14 accurization process is extremely expensive and many go as far as completely replacing the receiver for ones with different lugs.
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@cbwelch4 "Talk to someone who actually carried an M-14 in combat and they have love for the gun almost invariably." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GZxKWAfwQM&feature=youtu.be&t=8465
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@DarkKatzy013 "it found its place in the military" - thanks to corruption and the fact that the government consistently makes the wrong choices for reasons that only make sense to mad men.
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The economy was bad before all of this. Blame your government, not Ukraine.
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@allencameron4741 No, they aren't. Getting old weapons out of storage isn't gonna affect the economy.
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@allencameron4741 Fuel prices were high before due to limited refining capacity after so many shut down during lockdowns. Mind that the oil barrel price has dropped since the beginning of the war.
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Navy and Air Force. The Army is not involved in this.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with an IED, you're just used to the negative connotation. Both sides in the Ukraine war have disassembled factory weapons and used the explosives in improvised devices.
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Funny because Russians think they're superior and Ukrainians are just country bumpkins.
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@S41GON lmao nobody wants Russia. Like the Finnish say, they don't want the land they lost after the Winter war because it's full of Russians. If Russia is so smart, why did they invade Ukraine and ruin what they had?
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Less than 20 tanks broke the line in Kharkiv.
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@aldosigmann419 The source is Russian telegram channels where the military was crying about the tanks advancing.
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@aldosigmann419 Not rumors. The offensive happened. Kharkiv was lost to the Russians. Call it a rumor all you want, the photos of the outcome show it pretty clear - the Russians were slaughtered. I've never seen so much meat on the ground. Looked like someone had dressed the meat in camo uniforms in a butcher shop.
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@aldosigmann419 10 months later, still seething about the Ghost of Kiev. We will see glorious footage of Russians being routed by armor. Russians also have mismatched tanks. Who cares. You're willing to be Putin's serf, how are you any better?
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False. Bridge was repaired early this year.
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@jesseterrell2109 It was "functional", not repaired. The evidence of rail was literally posted the day after. An empty train rolling over the damaged section at snail's pace. The actual repairs were completed in 2023 because they were extra bridge spans from the initial construction left over and they were placed on the explosion site. The rail bridge segment was never actually filmed or photographed under repair to the best of my knowledge, they simply limited weight load and speed over the damaged section. YOLO. If he dies, he dies like Ivan Drago said. I wouldn't ride the train, but that's just me.
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@lynw1623 you're inside a bubble and no better than Trump fans inside their own bubble. The vast majority of people are more complex than you give them credit for and don't obsess over orange man.
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Noiseless Sounds Only right-wing sources mock Trudeau for playing dress up or calling himself a feminist while selling arms to Saudi Arabia? Or admiring China's politics? Only right wing sources mock Merkel for not being able to point at Berlin in a world map? You think anti-EU sentiment is exclusively right-wing? Many leftist hate being under German rule. Only right wing people mock Uncle Xi for getting triggered at Winnie the Pooh memes?
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Fascism can be democratically elected.
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Possibly cause the explosive to melt or just burn depending on the composition used.
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A Rússia mal consegue avançar para além das fronteiras.
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 @danielallan8061 it was 15-16k KIA, the 40k were total casualties including wounded. The 15k came from Murz, on the Russian side. He was threatened for posting and he took his own life
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Your first mistake is thinking that the NRA is about gun rights rather than making money.
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"What was great about that time was that people had the ability to make a living on a single income" - You mean before civil rights and when women wee expected to stay at home? If you like the old days so much you might want to check why it was possible for the white man to buy a house on a single income.
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Russian missiles that hit playgrounds and pedestrian bridges.
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You do realize that machine guns had been banned a decade prior to this robbery, right?
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 @felisconcolori came here to post this lmao the greatest rate of snitches per capita.
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"The cooperative business model is an exemple of socialism that works" - but it doesn't. The cooperative business model is simply a different way to handle the internal management of a company. They exist under capitalist systems and play by capitalism's rules. Using a cooperative model is voluntary from the part of the owners and the workers voluntarily enter contracts with such companies. And the most successful cooperatives are known for bending the rules on worker ownership. Mondragon for example purchased a retailer chain and "inherited" the workers but did not give them partial ownership even though the company is under a cooperative. "Also, the stockmarket is full of socialist, they buy stocks to be part of this group called shareholders." - it's publicly traded but privately owned. "That is group ownership of the means of productions" - but they don't actually own the means of production. Are you just playing dumb for comedic purposes or is that an actual defense of socialism?
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@etiennesauve3386 I don't see how that affects the discussion one way or the other. Cooperatives are still not an example of socialism, and the US isn't the freest market economy. None of those statements should be controversial.
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They're a private company so they have the right to terminate your account in the game called Life for breaking their TOS.
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@nottoday3817 You don't undestand anything. Azerbaijan also "stalled" for three days in the Nagorno-Karabah war. Armenia posted videos of them clowning on Azerbaijan. They lost like 50 tanks in one day. And then they won.
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@bevturner1694 Are they declining or not? They are. The problem is already solving itself so I don't want to hear anti-natalist propaganda.
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@zuiop9993 That's textbook lying with statistics. The US isn't "shifting" to wind so China spending more doesn't mean shifting. The US isn't "shifting" to solar so them spending more on PV (probably less in per capita basis) doesn't mean shifting. Like you said, they're still building coal power plants so they're not shifting anything. They're simply expanding their capacity.
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How would aliens know what radar we use?
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@chillout1109 We most definitely can find habitable planets. We look for stars and calculate their habitable zone.
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They're not using the drones to chase a problem, they're using them to solve problems. That's the difference in attitudes, the ones who say "just do X" and the people who do.
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They wanted to junk the A-10 because it reached retirement age. The Cheyenne program started in the same year the Johnson-McConnell agreement happened. The B-1 is an excellent support aircraft - they didn't promote it, they USED it. Online critics mock the USAF behind a keyboard, the USAF drops payload in combat. Helicopters have agility advantages fixed wing aircraft don't have.
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@eliteecho9383 The B-1 doesn't perform the role like the A-10 so the fuel consumption is less of a factor. It's not a "replacement", the A-10 was replaced by a multitude of aircraft. The B-52, F-16, F-15E and B-1. Each with its own strengths and drawbacks. The Army isn't going to take 40 year old aircraft and spend 10 years setting up their own logistics. The Marines can't fly A-10s off short deck carriers do they don't care.
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@basketofdeplorables4253 Most energy delivered by a bullet is wasted. Only a small fraction of a bullet's frontal area crushes tissue, the rest of the energy is used to push tissue aside. At handgun power levels, the tissue pushed aside springs back into place with no injury.
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@vlogfriendsutopia Not really. By enlarging the caliber you actually waste more area at the cost of recoil, lower capacity, etc. Knowing that one is more accurate and faster with the smaller caliber, you get more effective working area on target, sooner.
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@vlogfriendsutopia "if 45 ACP does between 1.5 to 2 times the damage of 9mm" - It doesn't. "you can shoot it as quickly and accurately because you've trained with it" - If you can shoot larger calibers that well, you can shoot 9mm like it's .22LR. Why would you become such a good shooter with a larger caliber but then somehow not be able to use 9mm proficiently? "Since we've established that it does in fact do at least 1.5x damage" - But we didn't. "In my personal experience, most people I know who are proficient with handguns can fire two 45s faster than 3 9mms" - And why is that? Why are they so slow with 9mm?
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@vlogfriendsutopia First of all, you're calculating a cylinder volume when we all damn well know that only a fraction of the frontal surface area is used to crush tissue. Most of that "volume" is not wound volume and the tissue will spring back without injury. Second, you're using the diameter calculated from petal to petal. If anything, you should be using an average diameter because you didn't subtract the volume in the gaps between petals. Your calculations are inherently invalid because you're overstating the effects of expansion by calculating a much larger area, and also ignoring the inherent inefficiency of bullets at crushing tissue. Your wound cavity figures are wrong and even if they were correct, they don't translate to reality. I'd ask you to fix your numbers just for the mental exercise, because even if you got them right it would still not be as accurate as simply filling the cavity with fluid and pouring it back out to measure the actual cavity volume rather than assume a 100% crush efficiency and no springback.
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@vlogfriendsutopia If the measurements are inherently flawed, the conclusion is not valid.
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@vlogfriendsutopia The conclusion isn't valid because it still hinges on the bullet using 100% of its frontal area surface to crush tissue. We know most of the frontal surface is wasted by redirecting tissue rather than crushing. I didn't "request" the average diameter. I told you that even if you used it, the logic is still flawed because neither bullet can use the full frontal surface area. Coroners and surgeons pretty much agree that unless they can recover the bullet and measure it, they can't tell which caliber made which wound. You can use all the maths you want, but they don't reflect the real world.
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@vlogfriendsutopia I do trust published studies that confirm that most of the frontal surface area is wasted pushing tissue aside. Wadcutter projectiles use more frontal area. What's why they're "wadcutters". They're known for making it easier to score on paper targets because they cut a cleaner hole rather than a star shaped rip. How many people are carrying them? Deer aren't people. Look at rifle ammunition made for deer, it's often made to stop after 25-26" of penetration in gel. .32ACP fails the FBI requirements with most ammo. If anything, .32 Super Carry is meant to be similar to 9mm. But .32 ACP was meant for older technology pistols and a world where our average stature was lower. There was also no abundance of cars and windshields for cover in the urban environment. Though a sales failure, the Colt Monitor in 30-06 was advertised to law enforcement agencies to be used against criminals on wheels as the thick gauge metal on cars helped protect occupants against small calibers. Though cars are of lighter construction these days, they're still a tough barrier for .32 ACP. Your except confirms that expanding ammunition crushes more tissue, not that it crushes the full frontal area worth of tissue.
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@vlogfriendsutopia "unexpanded projectiles crush a path the size of the base of the projectile" - Then almost an inch of diameter of area generating a crush cavity should make holes that let you see daylight through the torso, and chest seals should be worthless at saving people considering the volume in that cavity. I've only seen daylight from gunshot wounds in hands and feet. Unexpanded projectiles are known for "icepick" wounds smaller than the caliber. "Deer and human are actually much more similar than you think; deer and humans are actually in the same class of animal in terms of hunting" - And yet bullets meant for hunting and tactical applications are different. Curious. "deer die faster from a full pass through, thus requiring the deeper penetration that you see" - This directly contradicts your assertion. Self-defense handgun ammunition and tactical loads for rifle ammunition are also meant for torso passthroughs - but shallower penetration than deer. Are you saying that deer and humans are not similar? Curious. "I actually have carried Wadcutters before" - That's great. Almost nobody does it. "actually proves the point that projectile size does make a difference" - Cool of you to ignore that I clarified that a .30 Super Carry, if it performs like it does on paper, is a .32 projectile that should perform almost on par with 9mm despite the projectile diameter difference. .32 ACP, despite being of the same diameter as .30 Super Carry, simply performs worse because nowadays we expect to have to shoot into people who are larger, more muscular, and ingest more stimulants such as sugar and caffeine. This means having to potentially shoot through the heart or even into the spine to stop someone. "all handgun rounds do NOT perform the same" - There's a difference between "performing the same" and advertising 50% improvements.
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@craigstapleton1943 the objective truth is that Russia invades, murders, rapes and pillages. That's just historical fact.
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@llamagon1882 He is wrong on appeasing Russia, trying to convice you there was a NATO deal, etc.
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@parabellum2674 NATO said that the process to join will take longer than Ukraine winning the war. They didn't reject Ukraine, it's just that NATO ascension takes several years even on a fast track program. Either way, Ukraine will retake Crimea now. Once that bridge gets hit again Russian forces will have to give it up just like a few potholes in Antonovsky bridge forced them to give up Kherson city.
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@parabellum2674 That's just copium because you know that they'll be accepted as soon as he conflict ends. No, it would prevent conflict. Same reason Russia has not invaded the Baltics.
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@parabellum2674 Okay, but Ukraine would reply in kind. Russia wouldn't have the western backing so every hit would affect them more than it would the Ukrainians. Manpower alone isn't enough. Ukraine mobilized men it could push through the training pipeline. Russia mobilized a bunch at once. More than they could train, even. Which is why many are still receiving training now. It's like eating several meals a day versus eating one big meal. You're trying to make a big distinction when it's meaningless. Russia dumped men in bases in derelict state or even empty fields. They conscripted more than they could actually process into the training program. If Russia does another round, it's either going to be smaller, or again they'll have to place men in waiting for months until training is available. Another aspect is that the Belarusian military is being used to train Russians. Many Russian instructors were KIA/WIA in the early war. Anyway, if Russia wants to prolong the conflict, Ukraine can just do the same to them. At that point, the rest of the world won't blame Ukraine when they start systematically targeting Russian industry to collapse their economy while defended by Western AA.
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I'm not American. Strickland won.
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The Air Force purchased 700 of them and the GAO actually slammed them for buying too many airframes without a reasonable justification. The claim that they didn't want the A-10 when they purchased TOO MANY of them simply doesn't pass the smell test. Congress just wants the A-10 to milk money. A replacement doesn't make money.
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In WWII the US used tech. Proximity fuzes and nukes.
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@Mr Smith Seethe. Cope. Mald.
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@anti1training Why would I want to attach it to a phone case?
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The footage. The pods see things our eyes can't.
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@ultimatepaine6401 I don't see how that's meant to address my point. From the perspective of the very far left, liberalism is still in favour of capitalism and to them any system that doesn't oppose capitalism is fascism. Ask the true believers at antifa and they'll tell you that liberals get the bullet too. My point is that fascism is a really specific political system and trying to throw around the word fascism is just dumb.
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Why is it common sense? And why is it public health when it essentially only protects those who take it?
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"Lisbon to Vladivostok"
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So that's where the T-62s were going.
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"for once"
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They aren't losing. Russia is using donkeys ffs.
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@UVGardener "I was imprisoned in the United States for refusing to bow to "Ghod or Jesus"." - please provide evidence for your claims, thank you.
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Who is this expert engineer? If he is who I think he is, he's already been countered.
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@xoferwalken Mick West does not have to be an expert in ATFLIR. He has already proven with demonstrations that the effect shown is mirror rotation.
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@xoferwalken Equipment specialists have backed Mick West.
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@Jacmac1 And Mick West did a response video: /watch?v=FG49Tpb_los Chris Lehto noticed the flaw in Dave Falch's argument. And even in Dave Falch's videos the commenters are pointing out how his footage proves Mick West right.
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@Alie01 several countries train for F-16 highway operation. The F-16 is as common as a Ford in the military aviation world, the Gripen was made in lower numbers and the C/D variants are not compatible with E/F variants.
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@guillaumegagnon7049 No offense, but I pray the backend for that QR app is destroyed by a disaster or gets hacked by a good Samaritan.
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@Bernddd where? I want to see this price-controlled universal basic income project working because not even Yang has mentioned it.
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Thank you for being honest and sharing the real story.
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@mariuszj3826 How does boosting against the 2019 Wuhan strain do anything against a late 2021 strain?
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@makasete30 But ask yourself - highly effective at what? My mother is boosted. She still got sick. The only difference is in symptoms. This makes it clear it's not working the way you think it is, but you call it effective even when it should be called for what it is - INEFFECTIVE, but potentially live saving for those at very high risk. By logic alone you wouldn't take a 2019 flu shot in 2022. You have to actually think about the mechanism that's actually at play and not what you're trying to convince us.
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You strike a Hamas convoy, you shave off weeks if not months off the conflict. Therefore minimizing civilian suffering. They can continue to be observed. And that's all you'll do when the vehicles enter a town. Now your high value targets can enter buildings, tunnels, or just mix into the crowd making the collateral worse. Remember when the US had a shot on Osama Bin Laden in Sudan back in the 1990s but the strike was called off? Imagine being the guy who had OBL on his drone feed. Before 2001.
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 @ryanroberts1738 Bro Nixon bombed North Vietnam into submission. The war ended. Then a couple years later NV invaded the South again after the US had already withdrawn from the conflict.
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 @CaptainOsric She's carrying a weapon because of people like you.
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Bruh the DPR and LPR are cannon fodder. Wagner is accepting criminals and people without military service. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel. LPR volunteer Murz has admitted that Ukrainians kill them when they advance and then retreat. The separatists die and need to be replaced with newbies, Ukrainians preserve their experienced troops. Igor "Strelkov" Girgin, one of the original DPR leaders and one of the FSB officers in charge of the Crimea operation in 2014, has also shared similar conclusions.
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How is it deceiving?
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1. NATO needs to be disbanded for fuck's sake. 2. The free market is what sustains the "safety net". How do you used taxes to fund something when everything's shut down? You can't tax.
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Convicted secks offender Scott Ritter (who married a Soviet while he was doing weapons inspections there).
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@sirchriswitlessjesuitpuppe5804 👈🤡
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@Bryan-Hensley sorry but the other guy is right. Lead shielding would just cause Bremsstrahlung radiation to be emitted.
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Not breaking encryption. If encryption had been broken, we'd have known about it.
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 @TheGreyBee Look at the knee joints. It would never be considered "good enough" if it were mechanical.
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@TheGreyBee I had an effed up right knee by 25. And there's plenty of wrestlers, BJJ and MMA fighters with messed up knees by their 30s-40s. Cars have replaceable parts. So they're not built to last forever, you just purchase new ones. Meanwhile, humans were never meant to just go down to the human parts store and buy new stuff. They need to last.
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But the F-16 is one of the most succesful aircraft ever and it is a multirole.
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But quality has consistently slapped quantity in the peepee.
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Russia has deployed their forces. What, you think desk officers, supply clerks, drivers, cooks, nurses, those female units that look pretty in parades but I don't even know what they do, etc are frontline material?
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First, you're implying I am trying to discredit you. Second, you're using your achievements as... a threat? Whatever you hypothetically have or have not done doesn't matter to me, and strongly implying you're a big shot is nothing but a Red Herring. Third, you're also assuming things about me without even knowing me. Fourth, even if you are some kind of big shot, using it to support arguments (irrelevant to your line of work, by the way) is called an Argument from Authority. Also, Ad Hominem.
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Because they know they won't get punished by voting for gun laws. If they start losing elections and realize it's the gun issue that's costing them, they'll let go. But because Democrat gun owners keep voting for Democratic party politicians, they do the surprise pikachu face when they turn out to be anti-gun.
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One glance at the comments posted by your account and your agenda becomes clear.
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Not air force terminology. F-16, for example.
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A trillion has not been spent. Stop quoting RT propaganda.
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How much solar energy leaves Earth? The total incoming isn't as relative as the difference between incoming and outgoing.
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Japan had a mass killing a couple of years ago, stabbing and arson.
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That's what Russian propagandists want you to think. Why would RT keep running segments on trying to make Americans realize it's a bad plane? Why do they have a Russian documentary with a Russian aviation expert trying to "help" Americans realize it's a mistake with a bad English voice-over?They're shitting themselves in fear.
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How was he to know the police was coming? You can call your friends and act like it's the police on the other end.
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@williamnicholson8133 Not if they pointed weapons first.
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@michaelfranciotti3900 There's nothing to assume. Including if they're telling the truth. People waving guns in my face will automatically be considered threats and liars. I'm not assuming they're calling friends, I assume they intend to do harm as their weapons and attitude display. Therefore I cannot assume that waiting will save my life. "Seeing as Aubrey wasn't armed, it sounds like you were defending his choice to physically resist with his bare hands." - Again with the so what you're saying is tactics. You argue like that annoying woman.
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 @DatDirtyDog You can't change terms of service like that. There's many famous cases like Star Citizen where your terms of service are based on your join date.
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@DatDirtyDog Doesn't matter. They can implement all the changes. Enforcing them in a court of law is different.
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Abrams fixed the fuel issue, there's repair depots in Europe because Poland has purchased some and the US deploys to Europe, and there's a ton of old tanks to serve as donors.
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Because the point of surrounding territory with cannons is taking it. If you can't do anything, that either says you're incompetent, or the cannons are not firing.
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@zazapachuliaisbetterthanjo6254 the dream of globalism caused the conflicts, but okay
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@zazapachuliaisbetterthanjo6254 without globalism there would be no colonies
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@zazapachuliaisbetterthanjo6254 lmao most of the world's problems can be traced to globalism but you sit here and claim that globalism solved them. That's the point.
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How are they going to capture it? Rush Kiev again?
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Wait, the CNN also scripts everything and manipulates the facts, but they're not master manipulators as well?
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You have no arguments so you resort to snark. That's why it's an "echo chamber" - your side is forced to defend this filth.
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@1001001a extremist camps like the ones in Xinjiang?
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They said it would take 2 years, then 4, then Chris Roberts "absolved" himself and stopped talking about releases.
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@christian-gu5oq so people can kill people by proxy by claiming they have a gun.
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@mrskunk4732 That's not enough. Texts about a gun don't actually mean there's a gun.
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@mrskunk4732 Guess I should call the cops on you for making bombs, and they don't even investigate if you're building bombs. That's what you're defending. Not no proof. No investigation at all. Just capital punishment on the spot.
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@mrskunk4732 "there was reason to believe he had a gun" - Belief someone has a gun isn't justification for a shoot. If he was out of line, stop defending his actions. "Guess if there is no evidence you wouldn't believe a rape victim right?" - Huh, there needs to be an investigation. What you're defending is believing someone is a rapist and gunning him down on the spot without making sure he actually did anything.
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It isn't. Nuclear waste is made into an issue to prolong political bickering.
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Afghanistan has trillions in untapped resources. Nobody wants them. It costs more to dig them out and process them than they're worth.
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Not the enemy. Innocent civilians.
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@Flashblade that's a fucking lie. It was a deliberate choice that made no actual difference in the outcome in the war.
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Not how it works. A crash landing is a belly flop into grass. A collision is jumping off a second story building and landing on an anti parking bollard.
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@cubiczirconiabeard5366 Because we don't have cameras in their bases? They could show video of their intact fighter. Why won't they?
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@Simobunjevac the F-117 was essentially shot at point blank range. Stealth uses the inverse square law, radar reflections are very weak at a distance. Get the radar closer, you'll get returns.
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The wreckage of Russian missiles has been found in Poland.
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The A-10 has no radar to look for ships.
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Most of the electronics inside the Gripen are made in the UK, US, Germany, etc.
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The F-35 is demonstrably competent, please stop reading Forbes articles by known brainlet David Axe.
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Plenty of people have, with those maps showing how demographics voted by state.
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@Egganopolis82 I'm not talking about districts.
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@Egganopolis82 >votes by state >"districts" ?????
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@Egganopolis82 I'm not sure what your point even is at this point but people did say the electoral college was racist. In fact, pretty much everything has been called racist at this point so I don't understand why question it.
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@Egganopolis82 hate to break it to you, but that doesn't mater. It has been said. I don't read the Atlantic. But they probably wrote it. You've gone from nobody said it to few people said it and those who said it don't matter. You've already given up your original argument and that's what matters.
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@Conserpov we understand the Russian military has lied about everything so far
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So you're using some "documentary" (like those with the aliens lol) as proof? Dumbed down television bullshit. Slicing ice is useless as a test. The human error is very important (dude was not a trained sword fighter, he hits totally different spots). Also, they forgot that the swords would go dull and that bones exist in the human body. European swords and katanas were not used for the same purpose. Their philosophy of use was different and so was the armor they had to defeat.
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Ursula van der Lyen is the European commission president. They quote her as a gynecologist as a way to take a jab at her and make her sound like she's not qualified for the job.
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That sort of jamming just acts as a beacon for a missile to switch to home on jam. All the current talk about jamming really makes it look like it's subtle and not meant to alert the opponent to the fact that he's being jammed, but instead make it look like there's more contacts and/or they're coming from a slightly different direction/speed/distance.
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How is Europe going dark? There's still hydro, solar, and not all countries buy Russian gas.
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The US had to bail out the Soviets with trucks, train locomotives, canned food, aviation fuel, aircraft, ammo, smokeless powder and steel?
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You think that because you've been fooled. What did you study? The Russian blockade on Ukrainian goods when Yanukovych tried to make the deal with the EU to fulfill his campaign promise? The use of FSB assets like Igor Girkin to create a fake civil war in the Donbas? The Russian use of Grad MLRS from populated areas so that Ukrainian counter-battery fire landed on civilians, essentially using Hamas-tier tactics to terrorize East Ukrainians and pit them against their own government?
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@tidepoolclipper8657 Look around. There's no "true CAS aircraft". Nobody is making them. It's a dead breed.
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@tidepoolclipper8657 Again, nobody is focusing on that. Even the propeller aircraft are COIN and not true replacements. Dedicated CAS aircraft have no advantages over regular attack aircraft, and even those are losing to multiroles.
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Beterbiev v Bivol was a banger and I quite enjoyed seeing Haney get clocked by Garcia. But only my training partners even follow the sport.
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Why? It's going to weigh the enemy down. It's either going to fatigue them, or force them to carry less ammo. Easy fight.
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Subsidies in education drive costs even further.
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To be fair two guys missed
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In real combat, Ukraine has destroyed a S-400.
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@alejandrofrade325 As someone living in the "other nations" the problem is exactly the same. Government pays for X, we get X. Does maybe the X not cover ambulances where you live? Tough luck. It's not apocalyptic but we're really not living the high life.
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Geothermal is just nuclear with extra steps.
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@giovannifoulmouth7205 by saying I am wrong that makes you wrong, because radioactive decay is the source of heat for geothermal and that's a fact. Also, geothermal may be "abundant" but there's limitations on which places are profitable to drill, it depends on pumps so you need to make sure the electric grid is fed by renewables or else they cause as much pollution as simply using the fossil fuel power station to provide the energy, and it causes seismic events, can cause the soil to rise or sink, etc. Geothermal is abundant because radioactive elements are abundant. Currently the element that contributes the most to the Earth's internal heat is thorium. It's three times more abundant than uranium and almost as abundant as lead.
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Our priority is destroying those using gas as a weapon against us.
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Everyone's a new user at some point. You either gotta be willing to learn or develop an attitude. Seems like you're inclined towards the latter.
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@thepardigon178 most of the boomer comments are positive but accept my tactical withdrawal.
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@engin3ar Bullied? It's Russia that constantly bullies its neighbors. NATO on the border can't do anything against Russian nukes. Russia is reacting? Against a non-NATO country?
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@engin3ar That's not bullying. NATO isn't expanding onto Russia. Russia's neighbors are afraid of Russia and need protection, so they ask for it. NATO having nuclear powers doesn't mean they wouldn't be destroyed in an invasion. A neutral Ukraine is inherently a Russia vassal state. To be truly neutral, Ukraine should have the power to make its own decisions without influence from either side. This means either being militarized to the point that they would be able to equal the Russian military, or having their own deterrence capabilities. So war it is. And now Russia will be humiliated. The West asked, and Russia obeys. They do what they're told.
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@tm7517 it isn't a waste. People fled mainstream media and went into the internet because it was the wild west. We enjoyed freedom and now the same forces that corrupted msm are corrupting the internet. To you it's a whining session about twitter. In reality it's us witnessing the internet becoming like tv, while some people like you assure us there's no need to worry. Maybe you just clicked on a Joe Rogan video because you were bored so maybe you won't care, but what happens when Joe Rogan gets deplatformed for saying the wrong thing? Are you gonna whine? Or just be content with watching CNN on youtube?
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@tm7517 "There was never freedom in newspapers." - there used to be, a long time ago but there was freedom. "There was never freedom in Facebook or twitter or YouTube." - you weren't here for the early days on YouTube, then. I was, and it was glorious. "All of these industries and companies from the start curate the content that they show." - there's a big difference between enforcing real copyright strikes, banning totally illegal content, taking porn off the website, etc and outright unpersoning people for wrongthink.
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There won't be riots. Most people stand with Ukraine.
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@ryanairbrennttt4914 "freedom isn't free" - yeah and the last time the cost was the blood of the (British) government's troops. If a goverment tries to take away your freedom... You know the price.
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The point is that by fixing the problem less people suffer from drug addiction and require the use of the government service.
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@justintopping5614 It's America's problem. Budapest Memorandum - Ukraine gave up the nukes, we assure them territorial integrity.
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Let me get this straight. So small warheads in RPG-22s can penetrate Russian tanks, but two tandem warheads, one of which being 120mm, can't? Let me laugh. Scott Ritter is a child diddler. He spent two years in prison. Nice that you get your information from a ped0phile. Patrick Lancaster is a long time grifter selling footage to RT.
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Nobody hears about this, but Breivik inspired two copycats in Europe and they failed. We made him "the anti-hero we deserved, but not who we needed right now". His face was plastered everywhere, with the long hair, with the shaved hair, with the silly douchebag beard. And we give 24 hours of coverage to these shootings as if nothing else happened that day.
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Neither can shrug off missiles. They limp back to base and get sidelined for repair.
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@SoloRenegade An SA-2 has a 430 lb warhead. Sorry, I do not believe a 430 lb BOMB going off in the wing of a A-10 would have left an airframe. Total disintegration would have been observed.
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@SoloRenegade No, you didn't. If you get shot, taken to the ER, get the surgery, then remain in a coma for 6 months, you didn't shrug it off.
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 @lepermessiyah5823 the F-15 can use targeting pods as a makeshift IRST. The F-22 can't bolt pods outside without sacrificing its RCS reduction.
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Different context. In this case price went up due to high demand. If AR-15s were banned even the trashiest ARs would increase in price without becoming better. But a better rifle will be worth more.
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Jolez _ the nuclear energy doesn't go straight to the wheels - it's converted into electric and sent to motors, which can be throttled.
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Samir Shrestha the hydrogen car will need to use electric motors at the wheels too. We don't call them electrics either.
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@fen4battle1920 Still no argument.
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@yakub3962 "Russia is winning" monument level of cope, Kremlinbot
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@KrunoslavStifter How did he lose the plot? Famously brain dead Ursula? She lost the melty melt lawsuit against H&K. We'll get a new rifle and Mexico H&K will pay for it. lol. 100k officers? Ukraine never had that many. FTX thing. Sure. Mf'er stole investor money to buy property in the Bahamas. Crypto has public ledgers. If you want to make an accusation, you're welcome to post the evidence. What mountain of evidence? May I see it? Willing participant? You refuse to look at the Russian losses.
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Russia claimed. As usual, they lied.
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@yoda9256 You type that here, but you'd walk home with him.
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I find it interesting that you have a bunch of .40 rounds as background of your channel, you got a link to IV88888, and yet you've been making some pretty anti-gun comments lately.
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The military industrial complex is smaller by an order of magnitude than during Eisenhower's time. He would be quite happy to see how far the MIC has been curbed.
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The federal budget is what? 4.5 trillion? Defense is 0.6-0.7 trillion. There's plenty of money to go around.
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 @theill3stgoblinking693 Boo hoo. Easy to talk when you got ARs. Little girl had to step up with a melee weapon.
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It is ineffective when you take into account the materiél losses. Though the men may be cheap, future meatwaves will have less tanks, less IFVs and less artillery support.
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@skm1091 I understand that. The current meta is acquiring tubing that's already bored through with an ID smaller than the lands. Then with an undersized rod you ECM to final ID. You don't have the issue of the drill bit walking out of center.
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Communism is economics/politics. Atheism is rejecting theology. Thanks for playing, but game over.
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@SteveGillham conspiracy theory lmao the guy can fondle children on camera and you'll call it conspiracy theory
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@SteveGillham https://duckduckgo.com/?q=creepy+joe+biden
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@SteveGillham Nice of you to upvote your own comment. I have to provide a link to the sites? Why? I already provided the evidence. It was your job to point out the evidence has been manipulated. "These theories started on 4chan" - What theory? The pictures exist. There's no theory. "you picked it up and believe it true" - No, I simply saw the pictures myself. Years ago. I didn't need to pick anything up.
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@SteveGillham "the pictures where cropped and mislabeled to give false narrative" - show the originals, then. "Each example I can give you the real back story to the image, instead of the fake narrative that was put out to smear." - then why didn't you?
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@SteveGillham You need to back up your claims. I'm being manipulated? Worst case scenario and I'm wrong, I simply didn't trust powerful people. All is well. What if you're being manipulated? Worst case scenario, if you're wrong, you're defending criminals and disgusting monsters. So, simply not trusting politicians is the safest bet. "I don't like Biden, yet I don't spread fake rumours about him." - you've defended him multiple times by claiming the images have been doctored and bringing irrelevant narratives to the table. You don't like Biden, but you defend him. You don't spread fake rumors, but you run your own narratives without evidence. So which is it? Also, "rumours" is British English. Foreign interference? Ahahaha.
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@SteveGillham "You think there is no harm in you spreading these rumours, well there is. It's has major affects on society, just imagine if lots of people on the internet started saying you were having sexy with sheep, and then you lose your job over it even though it was completely false." - If there were pictures of me fondling sheep then I guess people would be suspicious. "If the stories were true Biden would be locked up" - That's ridiculous. First of all, you can't say that because lack of conviction doesn't imply that the crime hasn't been committed. There's people who obviously committed crimes but walked because of connections, jury intimidation, technicalities, etc. Second, there's an entire history of rich and powerful people not getting in trouble for crimes. Considering how obvious it is that what you're saying can't be a real litmus test, you're at this point 100% shilling for Biden because of the levels of denial necessary to say such ridiculous things. "If you believe it true then report Biden to the police as it's your duty to protect children" - and tell them what? That Creepy Uncle Joe likes children jumping on his lap? That's not an actionable complaint.
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@SteveGillham I already backed them up. It was you who made the claim that the evidence was fake, and then refused to back it up.
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@SteveGillham that I have backed up and you failed to disprove the evidence. Did Joe not touch those women?
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@blugaledoh2669 " In June, they admitted to losing 100 to 200 Ukrainian every day" - That was the battle of Severodonetsk. Pro-Russian sources love to extrapolate the Severodonetsk numbers. But that's a LIE. There was no 6 months of that many casualties per day.
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@ahsokatano5798 People who know better than me looked at the Russian casualties being flown back to Russian hospitals and said there was a distinct lack of certain types of injuries. That means many WIA are either left behind or receiving improper care so they become KIA.
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@scottmitchell2757 Fair point. How many countries with public healthcare also decreased the number of ICU beds and delayed treatments and diagnostics during this mess? And they also used the "we have to save our public healthcare system!" to put all the nonsense restrictions into place.
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@scottmitchell2757 Same as government owned stuff. We also didn't allow early treatments or cheap drugs. We had no compassion, care or common sense either. The healthcare system for whatever reason decided to shoot its own foot off - with a 12 gauge - just for the sake of keeping the charade.
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Ukrainians will pay it back in 2060 lol. Lend lease is extremely generous.
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@tombombadil8709 The hell does that mean, T-62 weren't present at the start???
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It's something to brag about because the youth feels disenfranchised. Saying you worked a dead end job while studying, then get to the presidency is an inspiration for those who are struggling to get through their education and fearing the state of the job market.
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Source: Ru MoD
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Property taxes also dig through athletes' savings after they retire.
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I heard the disinterest in the world cup in Germany is so high, the economy will actually be boosted by the productivity that won't be lost on game days.
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Nazi Germany reached the outskirts of Moscow. Who won WWII?
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@dirckthedork-knight1201 Of course, otherwise the tires would be square! HA!
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 @medz3398 The child would be alive if they stopped letting comically evil people use them as fodder
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The USAF did have the OA-X program. It's simply too little, too late.
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@Rocketsong That's absolutely the wrong move. The B variant is critical because it both gives the USMC 5th gen capabilities from short deck carriers, it also allows other nations to get Harrier replacements and thus fly them off carriers without ramp/catapult.
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Not really the same. Multiple jurisdictions changed voting laws, so multiple lawsuits had to be issued. Even the Time article on how the election was "fortified" explained it.
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@bigoshify there are some episodes where Benson is fooled by lying victims. The show has a lot of fame for being pro-woman so when it happens it's pretty jarring. I don't think these instances are rare because of politics (although the show would definitely get canceled if they portrayed victims as liars) but simply because a lying accuser is a "wildcard" type of episode. You want protagonists solving crimes more than going down wild goose chases.
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@ernimuja6991 Last I checked the fighting is occurring in the suburbs, the Russian troops won't advance until the big convoy arrives. So right now they're mostly tossing artillery shells at each other. There isn't much air activity because from what I understand, Russia is hesitant about friendly fire. A ton of Russian and Ukranian ground vehicles are modernized variants of Cold War Soviet equipment and comms are tricky, the Russians seem to be relying on CB radio and cellphones so it would be difficult to call in close air support without them bombing themselves by mistake. The war isn't very well hidden. We've seen footage of drones attacking convoys, Ukrainians firing Stingers, Javelins and RPG-29s at Russian vehicles (there's a MANPADS helicopter kill on video), and Russian forces rolling into towns when the Ukrainian forces retreated. I've also seen some guy who tried to molotov Russian vehicles and got shot, the body of some guy who probably took an autocannon round to the head and had no face anymore, videos of convoys with bodies burnt to a crisp. The stuff's not hidden at all.
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There's an extremely sensitive spam filter. The uploader needs to check his channel management tab and approve them.
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Some people like to use the stubby grip as a consistent reference point, but also possibly take the hand off the grip and use it as a barricade stop. There's also the method of stopping a sling from flopping around by looping the sling around the front grip to make it shorter (like this /watch?v=m7dWm1nzioo).
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Because you need to fly a big and slow aircraft that can push it off the cargo ramp over the target.
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Take your meds.
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Doesn't matter if you take it or not, it still spreads and mutates.
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There was no connection hub. It was Putin's way or the high way.
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Because you can't build drones anyone after all your intelligent engineers fled the mobilization 😂
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@cob5471 Type that again but with proper English this time. Won't change the fact you're literally bragging that the Iranians beat you at engineering.
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Facebook is DARPA LifeLog.
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Hardware will be more powerful but the engine will be ancient. A lot of old games don't necessarily run that well because the extra power isn't used.
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They have to be air-dropped by heavy bomber which means a S-300 or Buk could take it out.
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The problem is that it's difficult to convey how exciting jet combat is. Look up videos of people using flight sims to explain the F-pole maneuver. There's people in the comments saying they thought jet combat was boring because they weren't aware of the tactics.
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No, it doesn't. Even the F-14 had electro optical systems that gave you visual on something beyond human visual range.
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@harleymitchelly5542 No, I didn't move the goalposts. His point is indeed replicability. He's trying to claim that even if the repairs are figured out in a right to repair world, only the few will be able to do it. Not true. Once someone figures it out and publishes the results, it becomes replicable everywhere. No, it doesn't harm my point. It proves that technically skilled people exist and they are trained for it. Not a problem. Yes, hacking or jailbreaking is specialized knowledge. And after a person or group does it, it becomes commonplace. It's not irrelevant. In a right to repair world, there would be no legal hassle. I mentioned hacking or jailbreaking, which is done in a world without right to repair. I have not ceded anything. Jet engines are an analogy. Do you know what an analogy is? Do you? Please do not try to play coy. Grow up. Yes, not everyone can debug a car to clear the errors. That's why car mechanics exist. Your argument is already countered by the reality we live in. Mechanics existed in the 1950s, they existed in the 2000s and they will continue to exist for as long car continue to be a thing.
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The AK isn't much older than most rifles, it's not simpler and its ruggedness is exaggerated.
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They later confirmed it. Probably they denied it because it was supposed to be a secret but the US confirmed it.
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@civiprepper What "our own perspectives"? Doctrine? Waste manpower and materiel? That's doctrine? Control of Kiev would be the best position to negotiate a new government. Why go there? Because the current government is hostile.
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@civiprepper Democracy is sidestepped all the time. It wasn't supposed to be extremely violent. It was supposed to end before anyone had realized what happened. I don't care about "values", I look at the numbers. The losses sustained have given the Russian armed forces a limp that's going to take a decade plus to heal. It doesn't matter what state media says when you have lost tanks and IFVs and expended a great amount of ammunition.
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@matthewc3942 No, I am not glad that a rushed product is being sold as something that should be mandatory.
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Looters give bootlickers reasons to love violent police. You wouldn't believe the amount of comments I've seen from people who support police violence precisely because of the riots.
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Only true when you're Russia and you can't SEAD. The US dabbed on air defense systems.
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@Silver_Prussian Damn so Russia is the odd one out, still trying to use violence.
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Ritter is a child predator.
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I supported Obama because of his promises to end the war, stop the spying, close Gitmo. When he quickly revealed to just be Bush 2.0 I discovered that there were people interested in liberty just like liberals in the early 2000s used to be. The Tea Party movement allowed me to research more about economics and libertarianism while I watched it become co-opted and get run into the dirt.
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But they did. Imagine coming here and displaying your ignorance about Vice.
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@amolyesh I support what I believe in. I don't need a daddy like Putin simps.
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Once stealth is broken, normal planes won't be able to take off.
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@natureblank1401 Boxers hit your head when you keep your hands down? And they hit your liver when you keep your hands up? Hitting where the defense is weak is somehow an excuse now? If you had perfect real time intel and recon where the enemy is weak and where he is strong you'd win a war in days. Knowing where to advance is part of the art of war. Those who work smart can beat those who work harder.
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How did they produce casualties while fleeing and leaving all their weapons behind? Conserving forces? They're getting slaughtered in Ukraine. Russia is effectively demilitarizing itself.
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Bombs don't do SEAD. Only DEAD. If you're laying hate on a SAM site, it's because it's already suppressed and you just want to trash the radar, generators, launchers, command trailer and make the trained crew go into forever sleepy time.
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@djjazzyjeff1232 Different subject entirely. They got a ton of surplus gear that only had refurbishment and shipping costs. Defending a border should be done with handcuffs. Ukrainians defending their country (not border) is done with missiles.
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"plant listening devices" - They'll search the place from top to bottom. "If you think it was funny or support this in any way, youre trash" - It is funny. Yes, I support the people having their voices heard. The government spies on you, let the Russians leak Pelosi and Biden's secrets for all I care. "This was treason and they should've been shot." - Then do it yourself. Coward.
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@spencerquimby4726 Please provide evidence an officer died. Also capitol police are literally the guard dogs of a bunch of murderers, thieves and r*apists. C'mon man.
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And back then, people didn't. Witold Pilecki volunteered to be caught, sent to Auschwitz, escaped and when the Polish resistance reported to the British and American intelligence what he had seen they decided to keep it under wraps because they thought it would make people less interested in fighting the war.
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That's suicide.
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They don't seem to be misusing it. Ironically, it's foreigners scamming private donations.
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Lmao
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Hypersonics maneuvering also can't maneuver too hard or else their outrageous velocity will cause hundreds of G's to be pulled and shred the entire structure.
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Probably. It's where the sensors would be.
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@CharlesUrban It isn't.
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@philperry4699 Blatantly false. If anything, the USAF killed it's own baby for the sake of introducing the A-10 into inventory. The A-7 was the superior CAS aircraft with excellent survivability in Vietnam, but was pushed aside and denied an upgraded variant so that the USAF could get embarrassed by the Iraqis in 1991.
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@Series-ux3yc the US changed to lead free ammunition with the M855A1.
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Is it? 12 pilots died from Wagner surface to air missiles.
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Nearly everyone close to him confirms he was straight.
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The government had to remove fuel subsidies due to a IMF deal for refinancing, but the IMF recommended adjusting the prices slowly and having an information campaign to make sure people were aware of the fuel subsidy issues. The government didn't do that. They just jacked prices on fuel, which greatly affected an economy where cheap fuel is a commodity that makes access to water and food possible for many. The government is at fault for giving people a reason to protest. Then an al-Qaeda attack killed 47 protesters on the Houthi's side so the conflict escalated. It's the government's own fault that they got ousted. If you can't handle the stinger you don't take a swing at the hornet's nest.
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Hoax.
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Then go fight with them. Tells us how much winning was worth after a drone dropped grenade took your arm. No dent! Don't expect Putin to pay you a pension after you gave your body for him. Winning.
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@BlitzOfTheReich I don't care how un-genuine the relationship is. They are Red Team and use Red Team equipment. I don't care how much they seethe at the fact that they have to be together. But the fact is that Russia sold to China. Now China can produce their own stuff but they still have large quantities of Russian-origin hardware. This was bound to happen, war or no war. Russia would never get close to the anglosphere.
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>We should lose our gun rights Oh, boy, here we go. You're making the same argument as the pro-gun people. Personal accountability, real parenting, etc. Maybe it wouldn't be such a leap to stop thinking guns are the scape goat. By court cases alone nearly a million people use a gun to save themselves every year. In the vast majority of those instances the situation is defused and no shot is fired. If that isn't being an adult, then I don't know what is.
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The whole point of not having to use them is making sure your enemy won't even try using theirs. What happens when your enemy is confident they can shoot all your warheads down? Suddenly they're not afraid and they're willing to attack you. So you have to make sure that even if they have defenses, enough warheads will make it through the defenses.
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@weeguy52 But the point isn't just dropping 100 in one area. You have to drop them on your opponent's remaining arsenal to disable their second strike capability. Hence mobile platforms and dummy silos, each side is targeting each others' weapons. They're not supposed to be left to rot. They're actually refurbished and decommissioned according to schedule, which is another reason to have more than you need. You always need to consider that you'll have nuclear weapons out of action so you need to have enough to do the job and enough to be pulled out and taken care of.
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As opposed to perfectly safe chemical factories or tankers/oil rigs.
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@qwerty6574 Are you?
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@qwerty6574 I didn't say fossil fuels on their own. But we have all kinds of dangerous things that can get hit during a war. A dam break has killed more people than Chernobyl.
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@zjanez2868 The altitudes of Afghanistan rob a lot of performance from the A-10 because of the thin air. It's far from hyper specialized for it.
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@ycplum7062 A-10s carried very light loads in Afghanistan. First, no point burning extra fuel to bring back most of the payload back anyway. Second, taking off from air bases like Bagram at almost 5,000ft means the A-10 is going to hit the fence trying to take off with a full load. Thinner air means less thrust.
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There was actually a case where people working on top secret projects started talking about it on FARK on an old thread that nobody paid attention to.
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You can't use a springboard with no legs. We all saw that Bakhmut was the equivalent of chainsawing one's legs off.
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Anything in the air returns radar. Even stealth objects get detected at close range. And Russian stealth is several decades behind.
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Sprey is an oldhead stuck in the 1950s and who hasn't been near the aviation industry for decades. Next time I want someone's opinion on jazz records I'll ask him.
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 @stevebriggs9399 Why did the US decide to profit off European prosperity after the WW2 rebuilding?
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If you fly at Mach 2.1 you'll have a huge heat signature. High speed with stealth aircraft is not that important.
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Why? Ukraine gas Su-25s. Why would they be forced to react to the A-10, but not the already existing tank buster?
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@kirgan1000 They're flying low, pitching up and releasing rockets. Essentially the same thing Russia is doing. Both sides cannot use those assets to their full extent as they fear flying near/over the enemy.
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@rmeinhofer Victoria Nuland? A que mandou a União Europeia para o caralho porque os EUA queriam que o Yanukovych ficasse com o poder? O Putin activou a missão na Crimeia e os falsos separatistas do FSB antes que algum Nazi tivesse atacado alguém.
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@SickPrid3 A lot of young people watched Chernobyl the series.
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All the critical F-14 parts were scrapped to make sure Iran can't get to them.
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The "something else" does not represent me and if they got into power they'd be just as corrupt.
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@zuldo8577 To even get to the position where you can become a politician you get corrupted. It's pretty simple. Look at AOC and how in a matter of two weeks she changed her mind on settlements in Palestinian land.
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First manmade object in space was the V2 rocket. First manmade object that went to space and never came back was a borehole plug in an underground nuclear test. It got shot up into the air and estimated to have reached escape velocity.
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Russia pays for this.
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 @lettheflamestakeover It's the Kremlin???
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I'd rather die full of bullet holes looking at the Afghan mountains than live in a Papers, Please hellhole. I'll live a day like a lion, you'll spend the rest of your life as a worm mooching off a government. Like a pet eating from the master's hand.
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@anthonybrett You're the coward. You're the one begging for violence to be used against me. But you won't come to my house to enforce your rules. You need to beg to men stronger than you to come and deal with me. Men who have access to budgets that go from the millions to billions every year. You call others keyboard warriors but you're the one typing at the keyboard, wishing for violence. Others want to step outside the lounge room, you beg to stay in it.
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Background checks already exist. The bill they wanted to pass would criminalize gun owners. I'm pro-military as someone can be, but being in the military doesn't make anyone "manly" automatically, nor does a few weeks of basic training turn a person into a responsible and highly trained gun owner. It's a right. Not a privilege.
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MiG-21s were shot down like it was a sport during the Cold War, you're seriously worried about them now? Sending the F-35 wouldn't be a risk, it would be a turkey shoot.
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@windmaster118 Laying low would make him less likely to be targeted by the mob. Now that people are talking about him again, they can try something.
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From where? The panic of an assault weapons ban was enough to draw 9mm off the shelves, I'd imagine a SHTF would do it in seconds. The fact that it's common means that everyone wants it. Sure, you'll be able to use other people's ammo, but how often are you planning to come across dead people with their belongings still with them? Never count on ammo you don't have.
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@technocrat4613 Do you have an actual point? Yes, the B-52 is old but there's no aircraft to replace it and no point in designing a new one. Meanwhile the A-10 doesn't even get most of CAS missions because other aircraft have replaced it. Structural replacements are expensive, which is why the re-winging program cost almost a billion for the first run and another billion for the second run.
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There won't be a future counterpart of the A-10. Nobody is building dedicated CAS aircraft. Wealthy countries use multiroles, less wealthy countries use light attack aircraft.
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Beaverish Buck Teeth She wasn't a knockout but she wasn't "ass" either.
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 @Nagato292 A 50 bomber raid in Kiev would result in 50 burning wrecks near the Chernobyl power plant. You really want to test a joint force of S-300s, Buks, NASAMs and Patriot?
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"state backed crypto probably won't be created" - It probably will, but for nefarious reasons. "Since noone can then pay for anything with them, they are DONE." - Okay. Legally speaking you cannot pay for anything with drugs. You'd be surprised at the amount of things you could buy with coke. "Main problem with cryptocurrencies is they simply have no source of value" - Nothing has source of value. "They are not made of anything precious, and they have no state backing." - Baseball cards also aren't made of anything precious or have state backing. People will pay a pretty penny for the rare ones.
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@siwiecministro1994 The black market is a perfect example because it outright nullifies any claim that banning something will make it impossible to use. People who do drugs see drugs as valuable. People who want to move money outside the system see crypto as valuable. And will do quite a lot to get it. Collectors are a good example. Something is in demand. People will pay for it. Just like the state sets the currency as the way to pay taxes, society can set crypto as the way to move money outside the system.
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Russia tricked Ukraine by depleting their missile stocks. Amazing how Russia has all these fancy tricks, but then can't make an attack while the Patriot is vulnerable.
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Sure. That's why Sweden will convert the waste intro a glass or ceramic-like material so it can't be water soluble, encased in sealed tubes of corrosion-resistant zirconium alloy, stuck inside cast iron shelves which then are sealed into thick copper tubes. Those bad boys will go deep down into the Earth.
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Their veteran pool is shrinking because of losses.
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North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam. North Korea invaded South Korea.
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Even Krushchev eventually agreed that missiles in Cuba was a mistake because Castro wanted launch authority. They are the bad guys. They have been oppressing Ukraine for centuries.
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@kmg474 In the 90s Mearsheimer said Ukraine should keep the nukes. In 2014 he said Putin is too smart to invade Ukraine. Mearsheimer's mind is easily broken by bringing up his inconsistent past.
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@kmg474 What does a political scientist know about genocide? He hasn't done a headcount. He hasn't verified the legitimacy of strikes. All he can do is look at one after the fact, after reliable sources confirm the numbers.
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 @kmg474 In WW2 we dropped 250 and 500 lbs bombs in residential areas by the hundreds.
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 @sunnysoto1084 When you're going to argue war is wonderful and you can magically wage it without hitting civilians, you're on the delusional side.
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@sunnysoto1084 People who have fooled themselves into thinking that it's possible to play whack-a-mole with terrorists hiding behind civilians and coming out smelling like roses.
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That doesn't make any sense. Germany was defeated first.
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@akinchanmaity7807 Ask Japan. Japan was Hiroshima'd several times with conventional firebombs. They didn't want to surrender.
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It's not. The Oak Ridge experiment ran for years.
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@dschledermann It's per 1000 TWh. 11,700 deaths caused by respiratory illness? I'll believe it.
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carol Lund their designs have been published for a long time. Their website was blocked but the files were downloaded, reshared, improved, etc.
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"tonight it will be legal for you to make your own gun" - that's how they started the report, literally word for word. I'm sorry that you can't see this for the sorry ass piece of propaganda it is but they're literally trying to pretend that "HURR DURR TONITE WE HAVE DOWNLOADABLE DEATH" when the fact is that this shit has been spread over all corners of the internet in 2013 and now that government officials have petitioned for the site to be blocked they are pretending these heroes in office are the only thing preventing 12 year old Timmy from massacring 50 people with a single shot piece of shit handgun. They have reported on this before. They probably hoped people forgot about it, and they probably did. Half the comments here are acting like this is a "time is ticking" situation when the clock hit midnight years ago. Sorry, but you have no business defending these lies.
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That's false. Russia never submitted the application for NATO membership.
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@Digger-Nick "Some random dude could buy a whole case AT ANY POINT IN TIME WHENEVER THEY WANT." - But "at any point" there would be a resupply a few days later and just driving for a while would bring you to a store that still had it in stock because our hypothetical hoarder was satisfied/hadn't hit that store yet.
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No, it doesn't make perfect sense. If you think your freedom is the same as flinging 1-2 ton vehicles at innocent drivers, you're welcome to never leave the house ever again.
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@magic8269 "Screw your freedoms is a rational mindset when talking about road safety" - No, it isn't. You never had the freedom to commit vehicular manslaughter. If you think it's a rational mindset, then you at some point had to consider vehicular manslaughter to be a right everyone is entitled to. That's irrational. I'd go as far as calling it mental illness. "Is it justified in x specific context" - The context being nonsensical restrictions to freedom based on shady science? It seems to me you're losing track of the actual context. "Getting triggered by the phrase itself is emotional and immature." - Getting triggered by criticism is emotional and immature.
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@magic8269 "See the similarity?" - There is none. Again, your point of view REQUIRES you to have thought that you ever had the right to commit vehicular manslaughter, and you gave up that right. That is called being unhinged. "Freedom in this context is just adhering to the dictionary definition of physically being able to" - Nope. It's about liberties. You know it is. "things like speeding also apply here" - I'm a fan of the autobahn model.
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@thinkhector The founding fathers did not invent democracy, and other British colonies are now democracies so that argument doesn't even work. Either way, this isn't about "accomplishments" but a quote regarding a moral judgement. He had no moral high horse. The painting of Keynes as some kind of anti-capitalist is laughable at best. Leftists criticized him for being a capitalist. So no matter what the quote doesn't work.
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"True neutral": ignores artillery losses in Russia and how a general was sacked for sounding the alarm. We have enough 155mm to defeat Russia because Ukraine is going after the guns and MLRS.
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So 31 Abrams vs 20 Armatas? What would even be the point?
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Even Putin dismissed Tucker's NATO theory to his face.
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+EmmaWhispers yeah but he lived in his mother's house. He didn't break in. He killed his mother to get the keys to the safe. Unless the dude is sharing a home with a psychopath or he leaves guns outside a safe, he didn't prevent shit. The chances of his house being robbed and his safe broken into are infinitesimal. Not to mention he committed a crime by shortening his rifle barrel under 16".
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They get guns from Mexican police and army. They import hand grenades from Korea. If you can't control the flow of drugs you can't control the flow of guns.
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I would advise not trusting the porn industry either. They're the same kind of fuckers and they're conglomerating fast. Most of the "tube" sites are owned by only two competing companies that own their own spiderweb.
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@hamzatariq5073 Nazis did not have a cross symbol. That was a German symbol prior to Nazi Germany.
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The claim that the Nordstream pipeline attack was carried out by the US comes from a journalist who spent the last three decades lying about the US military, has no sources, made several mistakes and has quoted Scott Ritter (a Russian asset and convicted p*dophile) in interviews.
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@silverbladeTE Russian telegram is complaining that there's no artillery response. The Rovsgardia can't use heavy weapons.
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The S-300s were at some point meant to be replaced by S-350s, a more modern variant made to boost defenses without replacing everything with S-400s. If there's S-300 tubes close to expiring, it's preferable to fire those instead of sending them to get recycled.
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You're not forced into poverty, you just made bad choices in life.
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The MiGs themselves are in a state of disrepair. No good sending those death traps.
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@robertrussell5856 I'm on mobile so it's difficult to confirm source but I think I read yesterday they were put on hold from flying in 2017. Also, do the Ukrainians still control usable airfields or are they going to operate them off highways?
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@robertrussell5856 The results if I google MiG-24 are of Su-24s. MiG is short for Mikoyan-Gurevich and Su is short for Sukhoi, they're manufacturer's names and not just designations.
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@robertrussell5856 That's not how it works. The search engine guessed I had made a mistake and presented me the correct results. Without a search engine I'd be stuck on a wild goose chase looking for a MiG-24 that doesn't exist. Your excuse is centered around the fact that modern tech can sometimes compensate for human error.
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@emberfist8347 The plastic handguards have vent holes in the top and bottom, and the aluminum rails are most often perforated. It has to count as air cooled, if it was fired in a vacuum it would overheat quickly due to not having air acting as coolant fluid.
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@sladehelicoptersgaming3148 "Though the fighting generally subsided after the ceasefire came into effect at 0:00 EET on 15 February, skirmishes and shelling continued in several parts of the conflict zone.[49] Shelling and fighting at Debaltseve continued, as DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko said that the ceasefire did not apply to that area.[50] In the south of Donetsk Oblast, fighting between DPR forces and members of the Azov Battalion continued in villages near Mariupol.[50][51] By 16 February, Minsk II seemed on the verge of collapse.[52][53] Separatists continued a heavy assault on Debaltseve. Both sides said that they would not withdraw heavy weaponry as specified by the agreement whilst fighting in Debaltseve was ongoing.[54] Reuters described the ceasefire as "stillborn" in Debaltseve.[55] Ukrainian forces were forced to retreat from Debaltseve on 18 February, leaving separatist forces in control of the city.[56] In the week after the fall of Debaltseve to pro-Russian forces, fighting in the conflict zone abated.[57] DPR and LPR forces began to withdraw artillery from the front lines as specified by Minsk II on 24 February, and Ukraine did so on 26 February. Ukraine reported that it had suffered no casualties during 24–26 February, something that had not occurred since early January 2015.[57][58]" This is from the wiki page on Minsk accords
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@GusOfTheDorks The large explosive clearing of mines has a problem - everyone sees the massive smoke puff from tens of miles away. Unless you feint multiple explosive breachings at the same timeto divide the attention of artillery, your position gets hosed with shells.
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@gyanprovu9962 The Red Army was nothing without US lend lease.
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@gyanprovu9962 The reply was just cope. They depended on American trucks and train equipment.
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Hamas hides among civilians, Russia lobs missiles at residential buildings with no military presence.
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@The1980Philip It's good to think critically and thus confirm if stories are true, but a little bit of critical thinking would also let one know that people just forget about names.
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@The1980Philip No, you didn't. You have an opinion. There's no way to validate that opinion as fact. Nobody mentioned any conspiracies, this is about standard of evidence. What you did was like saying we've disproved the MLK assassination conspiracy, so we disproved the JFK conspiracy too. Forget conspiracies, proving milk is white doesn't prove water is white simply because they're both liquids.
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@The1980Philip How is it a false analogy? You're using two different things to somehow cross reference proof from one event to another. How is it moving of the goalposts? That doesn't even make any sense. "gigantic conspiracies are difficult to pull off" - Difficult doesn't mean impossible, so you've already conceded that it's not proof. I also question the "gigantic" part because you seem to be blowing one thing out of proportion while also making another seem way larger than it should be. There's a logical train here but it's fallen off the rails. The null hypothesis doesn't apply here. The null hypothesis is a method of verifying statistical significance by essentially challenging a correlation with the possibility that the correlation could be just down to luck, and measuring the probability of this happening. I can't stress how important this is, you're the person essentially calling for censorship because of what others say, but you're here mouthing off about the null hypothesis when you don't know anything about significance testing, how a n=2 sample size is absolutely ridiculous, how and why the "null ritual" became a problem, p-hacking, and how blind significance testing contributed to the replication crisis. Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house...
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How so? The F-22 has Sidewinder specific cheek bays.
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@markxfarmer6830 How would a flick of a switch affect the F-35? It doesn't take external control inputs.
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I've been linked to this video through a mirror link: https://lbry.tv/@RedPillPhilosophy:4/undercover-nurse-elmhurst:f
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Because 6.8 SPC was designed after M855 failed in the close quarters of Mogadishu. 6.8 SPC was tested by SOCOM in Afghanistan and they dropped it. It's a short range cartridge.
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"If this was a war crime, all strategic bombings of cities were a war crime" - They were.
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 @user-ll7lf9pg1t Funny how the "fake economy" puts countries in a stronger position, and all the countries with "real" economies want to develop and get their fake economies too.
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 @compositeur8455 China has a low birth rate and low immigration.
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@raphaelgulbenkian6941 Russia had pretty strong interest.
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@kimyoung2748 NordStream 2 was stopped by Germany blocking the certification. No need to blow NS1. Which wasn't the pipeline Biden referenced. Your "evidence", by your own logic, exonerates Biden.
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@stubkar They did turn it off. Problem is, there's contracts.
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It's over.
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@humanbeing8400 Radioactive isotopes have a half-life. The most dangerous isotopes are gone within 3 weeks.
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Russian aircraft are either firing from Russian/Belarusian airspace and turning back, or absolutely hugging the weeds. They need to go low due to existing SAM threat.
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@kameronjones7139 When Vietnam got SA-2s, more US aircraft started getting shot down by AAA. What you're doing here is like saying Vietnam has no SAM threat, look at the US aircraft shot down by AAA! That's the point. The SAMs forced the US pilots to fly low, and take their chances with AAA. In Ukraine the SAMs are forcing Russian pilots to stay low, and take their chances with MANPADS. You don't need to fly low to deliver unguided bombs. You fly high, dive to a lower altitude, release and pull back. Flying high keeps you out of MANPADS and AAA range, and saves fuel because there's less air resistance in thin air. If you're flying across a country while hugging the weeds, it's because you're afraid of SAMs. It makes no sense to hug the ground when you could just fly at a thousand feet, or even five thousand feet and drop to a thousand feet when you reach the target area.
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@kameronjones7139 No, it's you who did not read. Let's say an attack run lasts 30 seconds to one minute. Why would you fly for an hour, ingress and egress, at low level? You only need to be at low level to drop the ordnance. Are they dropping bombs for an hour? Explain. Explain right now the thought process. Why would you need to fly low when returning home when you do not have bombs? You do not have guided or unguided bombs. You won't drop more. You don't need to fly low because you will not drop a bomb. Why are you wasting fuel and risking hitting power lines by flying low?
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@kameronjones7139 There's plenty of footage of jets flying close to the ground to evade defenses while not on attack runs.
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@kameronjones7139 No, just flying. People hold their cellphone out and see aircraft zipping past.
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No. If anything that would be unconstitutional for creating a two-class system where military personnel has more rights than citizens.
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Constant recoil helps with full auto fire by delivering a constant push rather than the weapon rattling in your hands and throwing off your aim. In semi-auto you can adjust your firing cadence to always realign the sights so as long as your weapon isn't overgassed and the bolt is slamming back, there won't be a difference.
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I mean the moment the US sat back and showed weakness in its World Police stance, Russia invaded, China started looking at Taiwan, Houthis tried to blockade the Red Sea and Hamas attacked Israel. Seems to me the US was indeed preventing wars and showing weakess got all the bullies in the world to step up.
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Those coal plants still depend on Australian coal?
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@m. a. They're not going to free anyone.
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@m. a. You're the one coping my dude, hoping to be freed by China.
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@m. a. I won't because I'll remain free until the day I die. You'll surrender to the first tyrant that comes your way.
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@m. a. You're the one virtue signaling! Begging for Daddy Xi to bring you freedom. I'm not a good person and I'll admit it. You pretend to be one to simp for tyrants. That's virtue signaling. Bye felicia.
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 @leehotspur9679 It's sort of the other way around. The commodification of drones and commercial access to parts revolutionized the use of drones in warfare.
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@davidlillecrapp2960 It's not on par. Canada has lower guns per capita than Finland and Switzerland. The US sits at a comfortable >100 firearms per 100 people without a good estimate because millions are sold every year. Distant second place is Yemen with 80 guns per 100. However I'm sure you can find a multitude of countries with higher numbers of guns with even lower gun crime than Canada.
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"Vax on, vax off" - Mr. Faucyagi, Kung Flu Kid (2022)
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@juzores1 Bradleys geolocated in Robotyne
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"how many of these people that are selling illegal firearms are people who just went to place with relaxed gun laws and purchased them legally there, then sold them illegally elsewhere?" - That's only a concern in the US because they don't have registries. The Canadians don't register the unregulated long guns, but the restricted classes and handguns are registered and if you sell them to other people you'll be committing a crime. "if gun manufacturers and store merchants were to put a limit on how many could be purchased at a given time" - Ignoring the issue I brought up earlier, illicit arms dealers would just bribe people to buy guns for them to bypass the limit.
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Don't send tax dollars then, send all the junk gathering dust in warehouses. Your government will toss it overboard in the ocean to make coral reefs anyway.
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@Hans if America is the country of individualism then why should we adopt "nation-level collectivism"? If America is the country of individualism why there's so many collectivist policies in place? If America was actually about the individual, there would be no immigration issues. But America isn't about the individual, and the current conditions imposed on the US REQUIRE you to think about your own country first rather than wasting time with other countries' problems and having to coddle every person who doesn't like the conditions in their homeland with a new one.
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@Hans this isn't a competition to see who has the most collectivism. If an American citizen is forced to sponsor Israel's apartheid and Saudi Arabia's war crimes in Yemen then the individual clearly can go fuck himself. "The US is the most individualistic country on earth and history" - History. Past. "There would be no immigration issues if America would be a collectivist" - if you're forced to baby allied countries and forced to destroy others and the INDIVIDUAL is forced into paying into the COLLECTIVE not just at state and federal level but at GLOBAL level as well then collectivism is going to destroy a nation. So the collectivist mob demands money to be spent on bombs that destroy countries and your solution is even more collectivism. Yes, let's create more poor and homeless and then become so collective we will help those poor and homeless and the expense of the American citizen. That will definitely help when it comes to immigration issues.
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@patrickflying17 They ended up using almost none of the Garand production line. So that was a lie too.
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@pdworld2418 People used to post Moot is a F-word daily on 4chan. If you don't have the skin of mid-2000s Moot just stick to Big Tech.
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That doesn't make any sense. The Viet Cong refused to recognize South Vietnam and would never "surrender" because they were a goddamn commie "liberation front". It would be like the British getting the Irish government to surrender but the IRA is still around to fuck shit up.
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Hello Glavset
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Russian air force is deadlocked by air defense and Russian artillery has declined since their superiority days.
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Not the first time Ireland had a riot over potatoes.
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Those are not taken into account unless the fighters are tied in the stats. If you walk forward all round but eat shots, the other guy wins via scoring. That's the rules.
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@russianpatriot2022 Russia on the defensive by colonizing the Far East and attempting Africa too.
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@comradesoviet The mobiks are doing frontline assaults. Which tend to go terribly bad.
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BalkanBeast so you want to only be ready for the previous war?
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@Night60700 the F-22 dropped bombs in Syria.
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@Night60700 https://youtu.be/2rq031jUiRQ
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RC213V 3 F-16s were lost and 7 A-10s/OA-10 were lost. The missile was the primary tank killer, the problem is everone likes the gun, but it's significantly more dangerous to use it and it's less effective. There's a pilot interview from around Desert Storm where they say that the Maverick cracks the tank in one shot while after a gun run they have to look at the target to see if it caught fire. But the interviewer asks which weapon they like the most and they say gun. Even though it's not as effective.
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RC213V http://rjlee.org/air/ds-aaloss/ there's 3 F-16 losses and 4 damaged. If we count the battle damaged ones then the A-10 suffered... 20.
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RC213V Well, for that comparison we have the Tornado, which was given suicidal missions compared to the A-10, and suffered similar losses - with some going as far as claiming the Tornado did poorly even though it flew extremely dangerous missions at low level in the first days of the conflict. It's honestly amazing. The A-10 was spared from the hardest missions after getting a bruised eye and sent to turkey shoots against undertrained troops, gets a hero's welcome. The most effective aircraft against insurgencies are dedicated COIN aircraft. Turboprop ones, even. The F-35 can go supersonic. The recent hubhub only affects B and C variants flying supersonic at high altitude. B and C variants have a limit on how long they can maintain supersonic flight at certain altitudes. To my knowledge the A variant isn't limited. The F-35 can carry external stores, I don't know what kind of showdown you're expecting but multiple F-35s in the air all capable of shooting 4 missiles each makes for a formidable anti-air force. The A variant can fit 3 AMRAAMs in each bay for a total of 6. The F-35 can fly in the rain. You're confusing an initial restriction from flying under thunderstorms because the F-35 had not yet been fitted with an on board inert gas generator. After it had been fitted and passed environmental testing, the restriction was lifted for 5 years until an issue with the onboard gas generator was found. This only affects the A variant and the restriction will be lifted once the issue with the gas generator is resolved. Can't turn? Check out the air show footage. The F-35 is not an air superiority fighter nor an interceptor. It's the F-16 to the F-15. The F-15C maintains its role as the interceptor since not enough F-22s were produced to replace it. This is a critical concept to understand and you're accusing the F-35 of being unable to fill shoes it was never meant to wear. "critical air-frame issues" - that's rich considering that A-10s, except the ones delivered 1983-1984, also had structural issues. "the supersonic limitation problems (they have just accepted it)" - It will be fixed, but it's going to be resolved with another change in coating. No point in having it pinned in the job board, doesn't mean it's not going to get resolved.
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RC213V If you're intercepting from the back you've already lost. Also, how many multirole fighters can do mach 2 wearing bags and external ordnance? "3 dimensional, thrust vectoring, for maneuverability, and dogfights" - those will do amazingly well at turning tail and running after flight lead gets an AMRAAM straight through the nose cone.
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RC213V Like I said, the government doesn't see fit to spend the money developing a new coating. It will be applied if a new thing comes up. The F-35 coating has already received upgrades. "So 2 of the 3 variants cant go supersonic" - This is borderline lying. They have limits on HOW LONG they can go supersonic AT HIGH ALTITUDE. I don't care if you're sleepy, or you've been drinking, or you're distracted with something else. If you keep carefully stepping around words to create a narrative that is false, I have no option but to start assuming you are a liar. Do you want to be a liar? Or are you going to start paying attention? "Whys the F22 the most maneuverable, and the best dog fighter and air superiority fighter we have" - Because it's the F-15 replacement, and the F-15 was designed for pure air superiority. "When german civilian radar makers can track the F35 across europe" - You do realize that in peacetime stealth aircraft wear radar reflectors to make themselves visible to air traffic controllers and also to prevent enemies from analyzing their true RCS, right? Why give up the goods to anyone who's watching? Also, if the radar isn't enough for a firing solution, all it can do is watch as the F-35 moves around your territory with impunity and bombs all your defenses to hell. Knowing that the F-35 is in the air doesn't do anything. Unless you can shoot weapons at it, all you can do is watch a screen while your comrades die. "The fact that USAF we are upgrading F15s, to the F15x for dogfights and air superiority to plug that gaping F35 hole" - The F-22 was the F-15 replacement. The F-35 is a multirole and thus replaces the F-16s job. But because people like you claimed the F-22 was useless and too expensive, the F-22 project was canceled. Now F-15s have to fill the F-22 hole. Careful. Again I will ask you to speak the truth or else I'll have to accuse you of something I don't to accuse you off. I'm treating you with respect. If you can't respect me enough to avoid using falsehoods, I'll have no option. "the huge cost overruns and flaws make the F-35 look increasingly like the world's most expensive lemon." - The F-35 is literaly cheaper than the F-16. Look at F-16 purchase contracts. The cost of a single aircraft plus all the pods that actually give it worthwhile capabilities is over 100 million. The F-22, if production was restarted, would cost 220 million. "you have now sunk to claiming all the warthog kills were not the most elite units, as if that matters!" - It matters that the Iraqi Republican Guard tore into the A-10 so hard that the air force had to keep them safe and baby it by giving them the regular army units which were much less capable. Sorry. If a plane can't be used against a trained force that proves something's wrong with it, and that does matter. "they got 900 tanks" - Most of them by Maverick missile, which multiroles can carry. And the F-111 got 1500. "If you think the loss of 7 aircraft, and 20 damaged(A10 is made to absorb it)" - I don't think you get the picture. There were many more damaged A-10s, the list is of coalition losses. Many more A-10s received damage without loss of the plane. The fact is that the A-10 had its losses limited by handling it with kid gloves. Had it been forced to go in for real for the total of the war there would have been more. Also, you're really missing the big issue. The Air Force made its decision after losing two in one day and having 14 receiving damage repairs on the ramp. If you're losing planes, and the ones that come back are sitting getting repaired at one point the fleet will not be mission capable.
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RC213V All your links claim the issue only exists at extremely high altitudes. And like described, the Pentagon isn't paying for the fix but as soon as a new coating is developed it will be applied. The F-35 already changed coating twice, and it's coating was an improvement over the F-22's in the first place. "As i agree with the USAF that the A10s be kept for the foreseeable future." - And by extension you agree with the USAF not giving them CAS missions, instead issuing them to mudhens and vipers. Fair deal. The boomers with nostalgia goggles are placated, and the USAF pours millions into keeping A-10s in service for no reason other than keeping oldheads happy. "yes 80% of tank kills used maverick(never said they were not)" - But the important aspect is that other aircraft can fire Mavericks so the tank killing potential of the A-10 came from something that wasn't exclusive to the airframe. "But the 2000 other vehicles, and 1200 artillery pieces were mostly gun" - Wouldn't take a 30mm GAU-8 to destroy those. Hey, the first night of Desert Storm low flying Apaches wrecked all sorts of shit by firing the cannon at everything that was around the radar dishes they popped with missiles. So there's nothing exclusive to the A-10. "in the 6 day war when israel destroyed egypts air force on the ground, people did not say, it wasn't a huge feat or was a big part of winning the war, and didn't drastically change the strategic situation in the mid east, because they were easy kills, of planes on the ground, who thinks like that" - I don't even know where you're trying to go with this. If Israel got wrecked by a trained force, it would shatter some kind of ideal about them being a big military power. If you try to start a bar fight, and someone who knows boxing knocks you out, everyone will think you're a joke if you wake up and start beating a smaller guy who isn't trained. "I don't think the F22 is too expensive, or a waste of money" - You would have if you were born a generation earlier. And if you were born two generations earlier, you'd think the F-16 was a waste too, full of failures, a lawn dart, etc. Or the Harrier. "The F22 handles the best because it replaced the F15?" - Are you mocking me? The F-22 was designed to meet the parameters of the F-15. The F-35 wasn't. It was designed for other use cases and roles. So it doesn't perform like the F-22. Just like the F-16 doesn't perform like the F-15. "They are not going to replace the stealth coating at this time, lmao" - Aircraft go under maintenance all the time. As soon as a new coating is tested and approved, F-35s in need of refurbishing will get it rebaked into their skin instead of the old one. "The plane overflying europe did not have stealth coating?" - Are you mocking me? UNLESS CLASSIFIED AS SECRET, FLYING STEALTH AIRCRAFT IS DANGEROUS BECAUSE THEY WON'T BE SEEN BY AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS AND POTENTIALLY CAUSE DISASTERS. STEALTH AIRCRAFT WEAR RE-FLE-CTORS TO MAKE IT SAFE AND ALSO TO PRESERVE SECRECY OF THEIR TRUE RCS. I never said they had no stealth coating, you smartass. http://www.f-16.net/forum/download/file.php?id=17770&mode=view http://www.f-16.net/forum/download/file.php?id=10657&sid=411af222e10c18d60ec144671bf7660a&mode=view here's a picture of a F-22 wearing a radar reflector. "Your telling me the Russian S400 in syria does not pick them up all the time, with its range and complexity, but a german civilian radar does?" - Because the F-35 will not wear the radar reflector in a combat mission. I'm starting to think you have trouble reading. Also, the radar vendor is trying to sell its radar. You believe their claims? "When in 2018 the syrians claim to have downed an IAF F35 with a S200" - This didn't happen. Like the second F-117 or the B-2 that was supposedly shot down by Serbians. It's all lies. The damaged F-35 happened two weeks before and it landed, and there's no source for the bird strike happening at 30k feet high. "Of course the F16 is cheaper per unit. Ones 4th generation, the other is 5th gen." - Composite, titanium, aluminum and steel do not care what 4th or 5th gen is. They cost the same. You're paying highly specialized technicians to operate high tech factories, to forge aircraft-grade metal alloys, to lay carbon fiber weave in vacuum bags and stick them in big ovens. If you want a F-16, you're paying for an aircraft. Aircraft cost a lot to make. But if you want the F-16 to actually be useful, you'll be paying 30-40 million dollars for targeting pods and other avionics. The F-35 comes with this already in the plane. "Its a 1970s design with old technology" - Do you want a 1970s F-16? Can't fly at night, can't fire radar guided weapons, can't fire air to ground missiles, etc. "How do 180 or so F22s,replace close to 500 F15s." - People like you said it was expensive and useless so they canceled the project.
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RC213V Read your own sources "The deficiency, first reported by Defense News in 2019, means that at extremely high altitudes" "this deficiency was first discovered in November 2011 after a pair of F-35s sustained “bubbling [and] blistering” of its stealth coating after flying at speeds of Mach 1.3 and Mach 1.4 near their maximum service ceiling of 50,000 feet." Two of your sources admit the problem only exists at very high altitude.
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@babylegs5049 "having purpose built fighters with specific roles in mind are more effective in combat" - But why?
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@UC09RNKy7QXboWk90HY0C4ug Unfortunately this article in particular seems to contradict others, most of which use Defense News as the source and note that the problem exists at high altitude. Meta-defense dot fr also sources Defense News, which claims the problem with supersonic flight exists "at extremely high altitudes". Seems to me that you're cherry picking articles from places that all use the same source, but conveniently forget to mention that their own source states that the issue is at high altitude. If your MO is taking advantage of bottom of the barrel "journalists" (defense bloggers, more like) that can't even read their sources properly you should present this evidence to someone who's not paying attention. Maybe they'll buy it. I'm not denying anything. "The JPO didn't rate is as level 1 because its no big deal." - It is a big deal but we'll live with it. We'll burn that bridge when we get there. In the old days new airplanes would straight up KILL pilots while the bugs were being ironed out. This is minor compared to the old days, when you didn't have the information at your fingertips.
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@UC09RNKy7QXboWk90HY0C4ug "current superhornets can do supersonic interceptions" - How long until the super hornet is retired? We have that long to come up with a new coating. Seems good.
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@fairhall001 so garbage incineration and sweeping the problem under the rug. Road wear is alreasy terrible, if there's fiberglass in the air while I'm driving down the highway I swear wind advocates deserve something I cannot post here due to terms of service.
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@fairhall001 The German model of dumping fibers inside a wear material?
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Some countries have not resisted in any significant manner. And the countries seeing significant resistance are bringing in serious government enforcement.
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Modern armor requires a heavy core.
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The MP5 had a grenade launcher in HL1 so they most likely wanted to keep the function while updating the visuals for a more modern weapon.
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It's necessary to pick at details when propaganda is reliant on people not understanding the subject. Some would also say that correcting the details about firearms is just being nitpicky - but it's necessary when someone is trying to influence gun policy based on nonsense.
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@duanebailey6253 Bin Laden was never in power in Afghanistan.
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@duanebailey6253 Al Qaeda was not in power. In fact, Bin Laden left Afghanistan after the fighting and lived in Sudan, and only returned in 1996. How was Bin Laden the leader of Afghanistan when he didn't even live there? Ukraine was not overthrown by neo-nazis. Yanukovych had protesters beat up and passed laws against free speech. People who weren't even in favor of the protests became angry and decided to join. Yanukovych realized he would be prosecuted for his crimes, so he fled the country. His own party disavowed him, and the democratically elected parliament voted on a resolution to relieve him from his position because he fled. Neo nazis? Coup? The president just fled. The existing government voted to terminate his presidency.
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@duanebailey6253 I'm not confusing anything. Al Qaeda was not the Taliban. The Taliban were never puppets of Al Qaeda, they were guests in Afghanistan because the Afghan people were in debt to Bin Laden for volunteering to fight against the Soviet Union.
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He might have been unimportant, but it set the pattern. Pro-war Russians are being slowly but surely having their names crossed from a list. In their own homeland, where they should be safe. How would that feel? To know there's nowhere to run or hide.
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It's not absurd. It was talked about a month in advance. Stopped dead in their tracks? They're still moving forward. The New Atlas is a pro-Russia cope-monger. Ukraine is succeeding without the resources. Russian forces are exhausted, underfed, and not getting paid. We're hearing about it every day. You cite Russian propaganda. You are suspect.
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@victorzvyagintsev1325 Not how it works. That would require an aircraft to the on the ground to detect a radar signal pointed at the ground. If fired from above, the missile would seek the ground clutter sending reflections upwards.
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Lying about what?
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"This machine is my argument against those who believe owning guns will protect them from the US government" - The Taliban is my argument against those who believe million dollar weapons win wars. "An assault rifle isn't going to hack it." - It will against jack booted thugs. You don't win wars of oppression by flattening cities. You win by kicking and beating people in the streets. You win by preventing protests. You win by making sure people can't have secret meetings. You win wars of oppression by sending men made of meat and bone to enforce your will. Why does China send Han Chinese to take over Tibet, Mongolia or Uyghur land? China could slaughter them with nuclear fire and carpet bombing. But they send men and arrest the opposition. Not machines. "It's a lot easier and cheaper to vote." - Voting doesn't change anything. Remember when people voted for Obama to reverse the Bush policies? Then doubled-down on them? Voting is useless.
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Pete is never wrong Turban clad wannabes took on the US government. Black pajama clad wannabes took on the US government.
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 @SergeyMilitaryRankings Here's one of your country's problems - you just had another ship sunk.
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@Marie Tsuki Equipment "reserves" has two meanings. There's stuff in storage WE DON'T USE AT ALL and need to be dismantled. There's the reserves of ammunition which exist to have enough for training and emergencies. We didn't empty the equipment reserves, and the ammo reserves will be replenished by increased production.
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@Marie Tsuki Did you read my comment?
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Because one would assume robinhood simply issues you a referral link, which doesn't indicate sponsorship.
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Good. Let them dishearten you. The Russians are not on top of the situation. The daily reports should be troubling. The Russians are collapsing. The tide is turning.
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Finally, I won't have to chuck quarters out the window to hit cars of people I don't like.
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Nice whataboutism. You're just admitting China is evil by claiming we deal with the same evil too.
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@b.t.9385 You're not allowed to respond to criticism by saying others have the same fault. That's just you admitting that you're at fault, but you simply don't want to take the blame.
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One of the former mods backed up the logs when they were ordered to scrub the Discord.
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One of the former mods archived the logs when they got the order to scrub the Discord.
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"Sarcastic gamer dot com!"
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@CrystalRose1111 Have you ever been in a physical fight? An unarmed "civilian" (cops are civilians too, civilian or military status has nothing to do with physical ability) can beat up an armed opponent if he refuses to reach for the weapon. I can send you a video of my kickboxing fights, hell I can send you a video of me losing by split decision and getting my nose busted. I've been in fights, I think I know more about fighting than you do.
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@GoharioFTW It's not an execution is a person is taken out under extreme circumstances in the defense of self or others. There's a reason why countries without the death penalty still issue handguns to officers. It's not a sentence - it's a life saving measure. If you disagree with that, then argue for cops to be completely disarmed. Maybe when you get beat up or stabbed they'll threaten to whistle really loud to deter your attacker.
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@GoharioFTW Strawman argument.
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Could be worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DK-zGLK6GQ
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@direwolf6234 If it gets you to shut up, yes.
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@wahwahweewa It wasn't a dogfighting trial. It was a control laws software test. You can go back and see power points refering to it as a CLAWS test and not a dogfight trial.
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A 300 year debt means the yearly paymemts are pennies lol
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@the_famous_reply_guy Would still result in increased bone density and tendon strength. Plus you're supposed to train antagonist muscles. Not only do antagonist movements are used on the side opposite of your punch, you get the benefit of being stronger in the "stiffening" phase.
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@THEGREATAFFILIATOR No, Putin's own paranoid schizophrenia created a self-fulfilling prophecy. By attacking, Putin created the monster that did not exist before. Now Russia will pay for his sin.
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It's not sensible to reward bullies.
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Not really. In 1991 they were pulled back from the Iraqi Republican Guard due to losses and F-16s were sent in its place. The only reason it's not retired is because congress won't allow it.
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@rooh5825 False. It is not retired because Congress won't allow it. Forget the F-35, the F-16 and F-15 Strike Eagle already do the A-10s job. I don't see how green camo in a desert backing made it any easier for FLIR or ground radar. The A-10 scored most of its armor kills by slinging missiles from far away. Without the Maverick, A-10 losses would have been riddiculous.
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@rooh5825 "The A-10 is not retired because the Army and Marines both fight the Air Force at the highest levels" - And so they recruited Congressmen to do the job. It would be more honorable to hire actual hitmen. "perfectly functional platform" - It's not perfectly functional when it has to fly on entirely new wings. It would be falling apart if it wasn't being kept in life support. "a lower cost" - Just the wings cost more than replacing it with Super Tucanos. "this is the real thing, actual combat" - The thing the A-10 barely sees?
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Russia just lost a S-300 and S-400 in a single day.
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Premature babies exist. Also, abortion primarily benefits men as it allows them to have sex without consequences. The pro-life side is filled with mothers who used to be pro-choice but after giving birth completely changed their stance as they can no longer support it after creating life.
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Your understanding is wrong. The Patriot was tested against hypersonic glide reentry vehicles (a Pershing II warhead) in the late 90s.
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@rick6672 Because of initial bugs, use of anti-aircraft interceptors against missiles and bad performance from Saudi and Emirate operators. You didn't hear about all the successes.
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Studies done after 2003 did not find that level of mortality. Most likely the Saddam government pressured interviwed subjects to report deaths that did not happen.
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 @nudgeunit Experience is the worst teacher. First you fail the test, then you get the lecture. Failing a test is fine in a classroom, but in a war...
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@MM22966 The thing is that the workers are basically slaves. They show up, chop trees (massive deforestation in Russia due to NK logging), and return. It's like they never left NK. War changes a man. You'll get cut off from your unit. Your CO will get clipped. You'll have to fend for yourself, gun in hand, in the wild. For a few days or weeks you won't be a slave. They can't return.
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Objectively? An anti America nutter who can't get an outlet to publish his fanfiction is trying to convince people hos claim to fame 50 years ago lends credibility to his prose.
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Maneuver like a sidewinder? Sounds fake.
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Cope.
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Yes, and pilots figured out that the "several targets hit in one pass" also meant that the A-10 would be hit several times in that single pass. So they started relying on the Maverick and saving the gun for less important targets. Iron Hand cannot handle the mobile SAMs following the armored columns. There won't be enough HARMs in the air to support a CAS tasking.
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@advancedomega Russia will simply leave. They simply left Kharkiv. They simply left Kherson city. Look the bully in the eye and beat him senseless. He'll back off.
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@advancedomega In Putin's perspective, the US didn't even need to show up and he still got beat. Bakhmut has been close to falling for 6 months. You think this is a threat? Russia died at Bakhmut. The depopulation through conscription and human wave attacks will seal Russia's fate.
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@advancedomega If they don't want Ukrainian land, they can leave. Retreat is permanent, if Russia can't advance.
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Putin defeated by a clown
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Most of the "cost" isn't monetary but weapons that were purchased years ago. The war was paid by your parents, maybe, and even then they would have paid even if the vehicles were tossed into the sea to make coral reefs.
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@nivkorah683 The Republican Guard in Iraq was well equipped and determined, and their training was superior to most forces in the region. They managed to preserve many combat units so them avoiding destruction in battle was what allowed Saddam to put down the rebellions. When Saddam changed tactics and had his most determined loyalists dressed as civilians and holed up in cities to create a meatgrinder for the coalition, they skipped the cities and kept moving towards Baghdad to bypass the defensive rings. I think we do pretty well. We can face the enemy twice and even though he gains experience to throw us curveballs we manage to succeed.
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Hold on, aren't hybrids worse for the environment?
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@somethingsomeone5440 But the footprint is the big issue, because it takes years to "pay it off". I'm not sure off the top of my head, Engineering Explained made a video where he estimated that an EV "pays" for its footprint in 4 years. I'd rather just bite the bullet and go full EV with a bigger battery and accept that I'll have to dedicate an extra day to plan a road trip, than essentially buy a normal car with also electric motor and battery pack to add to the cost of production.
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They're literally not to blame, though. Stop hitting it raw, people.
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A-10s are much more vulnerable than helicopters. Of course F-16s could do the A-10s job while taking fewer losses. You're only making multiroles look good.
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When cops do things like these it validates the people resisting.
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@wanderingandroid And now this cop ran his gun and there may be people who might want to join the game too. Do you see the issue?
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 @zootaxy7589 they already have it, it's called "evidence".
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It is. It's a ship of Theseus with all the parts replacements and rebuilds, and the company that made it went down two decades ago. It's beyond done.
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 @user-op8fg3ny3j Osama's family was extremely wealthy. There is no evidence he ever needed CIA money.
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@doomsdaybooty1072 What physics are being transcended?
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@doomsdaybooty1072 Never heard of any Navy physicist talk about this. Anecdotes from witnesses are kind of inherently flawed. That's why UAP reports that get solved are usually just mundane objects seen from a very different perspective. Where's the instant acceleration? The only verifiable data regarding that was from a radar seeing a contact from very high altitude that dropped and then got picked up at near sea level, with no other sensor recording an object doing that stunt. It's the radar that's right and everyone else and every other sensor wrong? Or is the radar the "minority report", so to speak?
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This video was probably recorded a week ago and set to release on schedule.
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Because the sums of money are larger.
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From what I understand I think that if you win an appeal you'll get away from one of the sentences but you'll still be stuck in jail serving the other remaining sentences.
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But the Pentagon has multiple declassified investigations into UAPs. They usually find out it's balloons or unlicensed drones breaking FAA rules.
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That is what we call fighting the last war. You make the weapons for the future, not for the past.
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They were attacked, their convoy was bombed by Russian aviation.
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@C17NRYL3D the police should be private. If a cop shoots an unarmed man because he's a trigger happy idiot the city fires the entire force and picks a competitor. With government police, cops murder US citizens and get paid leave.
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@chadsimmons4496 "govt is the people's representatives" - they don't represent you.
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@chadsimmons4496 "But the constitution says otherwise." - the constitution also says the government can't search you without a warrant. But the US govt violates it by wiretapping everyone. The government wipes its ass with the constitution so it doesn't matter what it says. Sorry to burst your bubble. Welcome to real life. Wear a cup. "There is a reason you pay more" - stop assuming things.
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@chadsimmons4496 either state your case and stop wasting my time. You've already assumed I am American when I am not, and now you're insinuating I support people I don't. Pretending you know me is not an argument.
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Merriam-Webster also changed the definition of "sexual preference" to offensive slur after Amy Barrett used that term. I don't think that overnight millions of people forced the dictionary's hand by starting to use the term as a slur.
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He said 1948.
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@selwynrenard You have no argument.
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@eugenemorozov If you relocate an ethnic group out of a certain area that's ethnic cleansing, ya doof. "There was no genocide - it's a western propaganda" - There was genocide, denial is Russian propaganda. "UK, which is a capitalist country, committed genocide in Burma and India, so what?" - That so what seems to me like a thinly veiled admission that you don't care that communists are murderous scum. I'm not British nor did I ever defend the actions of the British. "Who does remember that now?" - That was literally Hitler's argument. "Who remembers the Armenians?" "USA started from genocide of native indians" - But almost nobody denies that happened, while Soviet genocide deniers are extremely common. "So if you compare atrocities committed by capitalist UK and USA societies - they're much worse." - Not by much. The tally of people killed by socialist states in the 20th century alone is almost half of the number of people killed by all governments in the same time period.
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@eugenemorozov "There were some bad things" - You already contradicted "Soviet Union was doing well" in your first argument. So I think my job is done. "Also, all the nations that joined USSR (e.g. baltic states) had significantly growing population" - Nice Nazi tactic. The Nazis also claim that the Jewish population growth disproves the holocaust. Either way, census records from for example Ukraine do prove that there's a missing 3-4 million people. Even though population grew, it did not grow as fast as expected because deaths were so high. Stalin had the heads of the census board arrested and the following census the numbers were forged. "which is now severely declining" - Population is declining all over the West too. Birth rates were higher back then. They're lower now. It doesn't mean we're murdering people, it means we're not having as many babies.
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The MIC was also bigger and had a lot more spending allocated to it back in the Eisenhower days.
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@gauthamsuresh3226 so take away the guns and the situation happens with machetes or molotov cocktails. Have you ever seen Hotel Rwanda?
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OSINT. The pictures and videos that come out can be geolocated.
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@TheMuricanMerc You're not going to "turn radius" your way out of a modern missile. Proportional guidance is a bish.
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It's strategic. Russia just lost the rail supply lines from the north.
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Air dominance won't do anything to protect A-10s. The biggest threat to the A-10 comes from the ground. The Russian ground forces would easily clap it out of the sky. Just like the Russians limited Su-25 operations in Ukraine to when they had the enemy already encircled, because they knew that if they sent Su-25s out to duke it out with Ukraine they'd suffer losses.
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The US didn't nuke Soviet Russia over weapons in Vietnam.
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Bruh the vast majority of Bateman posts are purposefully unhinged stuff like stealing money from churches or throwing car batteries into the ocean to recharge the eels.
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Don't bother. TM 31-210 Improvised Munition Handbook. That is the real deal, meant for military use.
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 @GunSperg there's almost as many videos of shotguns and rifles succeeding in the anti-drone role.
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And Norm starts screaming Ad Homs.
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At the time they voted Democrat.
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@wtfjesus8251 How many times did you have English lessons? At least say something that makes sense.
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>militia groups stand no chance against nukes or drones, and the military has both. Then tell me how did the Taliban manage to fight those things for a decade. Tell me how can a drone take off if the runways are captured or sabotaged. Tell me how many rockets can a drone carry before needing to re-arm, etc. Superior technology doesn't mean instant win.
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If you mix it with fresh water and eat fish. Wikipedia (take that for what you will) states that fatality rates of castaways increase when they consume sea water. So it should not be consumed straight.
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It's already been replaced by the Strike Eagle and F-16. Since 2014 that the F-16 does 33% of CAS while the A-10 does 11%. And the B-1B is a CAS powerhouse. The USAF knew what they were saying, and McCain was ignorant. He had the mic bully skills, but I wish a panel of troops was there to tell McCain they saw combat and the B-1B was there to save them. While McCain did not see combat in Iraq/Afghanistan and was blinded by his Vietnam bias. He was also defending Arizona jobs the A-10 brings in, it was McCain's job to shill for the A-10 and wow the audience. If you care about the facts, the USAF was right. Just not focused on being a WWE mic hog.
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@Hans Hanson he was referencing Fast anf Furious, where the ATF under Obama's administration tried to make a sting operation by letting cartels buy guns with no problem because they've be able to track them. Then they lost track of the guns.
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@jerrywhidby. If we lost energy in that process we'd never have progressed past the steam age because it would have cost us more energy to dig coal and drill oil than the energy it would take to run a factory. In this process you're not taking energy that's been created already and refining it. You're literally heating up plastic until it's destroyed.
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@AndRei-yc3ti Changing the subject? And can you prove this?
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@AndRei-yc3ti Okay, so you admit Russia lies. Thank you. Russia is lying. Ukraine didn't make up the Ghost of Kiev. It was Russia that claimed that all of Ukraine's air force was destroyed. Then when Ukrainians saw a MiG-29 in Ukrainian colors flying, the rumor started that a pilot managed to take off before the missile strikes and started fighting alone. Then a gamer (from India or whatever) made a DCS video in tribute to the pilot which fooled older people who aren't used to seeing realistic flight sims. The Ukrainian air force said the story wasn't real. And to this day, you people are still OBSESSED with a rumor that was started by Russia and then later a gamer outside Ukraine. You people either can't read or have bad memories, now you're all fighting a demon inside your heads. Punching air like lunatics in an asylum.
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In June they had the battle for Sievrodonetsk. You're using one of the bloodiest battles to establish a baseline.
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The longer the half life the SAFER it is. You can touch uranium with your bare hands. It's short lived isotopes like Cesium 137 that kill quickly.
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How many trillions of gallons in the Pacific Ocean?
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@pak47man That adage is a rule of thumb we created because we literally cannot get scientific evidence either way. The radionuclides in the food chain were within safe levels. The runoff isn't pure nuclear waste. It's nuclear waste already diluted in water. A slow release allows dilution to a point that even fish near the coast of Japan were safe to eat. If anything, you should be more concerned about mercury levels in your fish.
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Great if you want to stop radio and cellphone communication. Someone had to produce that "free" energy you're harvesting from the waves.
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The A-10 was survivable, not anymore. Now a single hit from a missile slices aircraft in half and AAA puts so much steel in the air the entire airframe is structurally compromised. There are no rumors. The A-10 was scheduled to have been retired in the 1990s, in 1993 if I believe. It's service life has been artificially extended since. There's no rumors, only the cold hard truth. All this time the aircraft has been on borrowed time. How do you measure the impact on morale on both sides when an A-10 gets shot down?
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@Justme-ie5fb Don't change the subject. What do you do when thirty percent of the country can't go to work, isn't spending money thus reducing earnings in many sectors, and won't get into universities to output higher skilled labor?
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But it is low cost. At 79 million a piece, it's cheaper than modern block F-16s that can go for 120-140 million depending on contract.
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 @Station6 Films don't say they are real. At most they say "inspired by real events" but they are still fiction.
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@tinyknott The 2008 financial crisis was partly caused by credit rating agencies being pressured to dish out AAA ratings to the subprime mortgage bundles. If rating agencies did their job, the banks would go elsewhere and they'd lose income. If the rating or safety agency is privatized to this degree, then the whole thing needs to be privatized and the agency go bankrupt once they're caught in a controversy, making their rating look useless at best. If an agency can get private money and not lose its reputation or monopoly, there's a perverse incentive in the market.
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@SynterraSteen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XZ_jxBh-4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRa6t_e7dgI
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Because of his writings.
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@bansheep1 FAB drops cost a dozen Sukhois in Avdiivka. Glide bombs require altitude which exposes aircraft to SAMs. The momentum is slower than snail's pace. If a snail started to go West from Donetsk in Feb 2022 it would be reaching the Polish border by now.
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@bansheep1 Yet Russia spent 314 armored vehicles to capture a small town with 1,400 inhabitants before the war. Russia is getting torn to shreds by an army with no equipment, little ammo and not many experienced soldiers.
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@gcolombelli "print a crappy plastic gun that needs to be taken apart and reassembled after firing a single shot" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKlfd6P the OP of the video has fired 600 rounds so far
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The issue is now setting up a program to upgrade a thousand vehicles.
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A figurehead?
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You don't need a long action and a long barrel to get the performance.
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@secrityforcemarine If you don't give it the added pressure, velocities drop.
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@secrityforcemarine Not at all. 6.5 Creedmoor gets ~2700 fps with a 143gr bullet out of a ~28 inch barrel. This gets 2800 out of a 13 inch barrel. You more more FPS, almost the same bullet weight, with half the barrel length. There is a great difference.
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@secrityforcemarine So is it the bullet or the cartridge? Because even if the bullet had worse ballistics, it would still come out with more energy. The fact that it has good ballistics is why civilian 277 Fury beats Creedmoor. Military 6.8 is even hotter. SOCOM already uses 6.5 Creedmoor. In 7.62x51 NATO weapons that got converted. Anything that shoots 7.62 NATO can be converted to this, so it doesn't matter.
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@secrityforcemarine No point is being missed. The new round outperforms existing rounds. Any change is going to be costly no matter what it is, so might as well go big on performance.
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@secrityforcemarine The civilian Fury ammo has a 25% increase in performance over Creedmoor, the military ammo is even hotter. You can't mod existing weapons for a low price. The results aren't nearly the same.
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@secrityforcemarine You're not talking to a wall, you're talking to someone dealing with the facts. Any change in weapon will cost billions, so might as well go big. 6.5 CM needs a 24" barrel to get even close to Fury performance out of 16".
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@secrityforcemarine Doesn't matter, still loses to civilian Sig Fury. The mil load would only make it worse for CM.
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@secrityforcemarine Glad we have people who can't even spell "glad" question everything. I'm sure you ask the real questions.
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@secrityforcemarine Your point that large hunting cartridges which require 20" barrels are better than modern military tech?
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@secrityforcemarine Okay, so you have even lower performance than advertised. Anything else?
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@secrityforcemarine If you've done the research, surely you're making billions off government contracts by selling them hunting weapons.
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@secrityforcemarine You're here too claiming you're better at researching than the military.
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AA didn't kill the Aliexpress drone that bombed the Sevatopol HQ.
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@hisevilness_com So Crimea, which has AA batteries and ships with AA missiles sailing nearby, had no AA.
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@hisevilness_com Pantsir booster rocket sections have washed up to the Crimean shores. They are active in the area. There's also videos of AA engaging drones with interceptor missiles. So the claim that there's no defenses is a lie.
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@hisevilness_com 20 km with the missiles and a couple km with the guns. The drone also had to come from somewhere. It didn't appear out of thin air.
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The Moskva did not convince you. Kharkiv did not convince you. Operation Spiderweb did not convince you. You'll always whine that you're not convinced. That's a humiliation ritual.
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@epoxy1710 armies are smaller today
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The bridge can'yt be used and supplies are carried by ferry.
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Europe has absorbed the refugees, built munitions plants, etc. And to quote Homer Simpson's brain money can be exchanged for goods and services.
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That's not true. Post the evidence so it can be debunked.
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Ukrainians are using RPGs zip tied to drones on 90% of these losses. Not NATO weapons.
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If the situation changes it will probably be because of an economic crisis. Do you trust the system when it runs out of money, factories and officrs are closing and people aren't working?
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Kek this same old cope every time Ukraine pushes the front.
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@lukasralys6096 " the reality is that all these game dev's are not optimizing their games " - and this is the perfect excuse to keep ignoring optimization
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They were S-125 (SA-3) and 2K12 Kub (SA-6). These are the later systems, the SA-2 is the S-75 Dvina which was used in Vietnam.
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The F-35 is one of the longest range fighters in service.
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Yes. Once knocked off course the atmospheric drag takes over. Mach 4 works when it falls for a few seconds and hits the ground before drag can slow it down further. Let the atmosphere slow you down for a couple minutes in free fall, all that speed will be gone.
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@thecentralintelligenceagen9963 THE AEROGAVIN Funny thing is that the reformers claim the F-16 and A-10 are their creations even though they're crammed full of electronics that they claimed were detrimental.
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If you reduce the guns in one country criminals will go elsewhere. In case you didn't know, drugs and illegal immigrants come from Mexico all the time. Why wouldn't they sell drugs to gangs? In Mexico the cartels have machine guns and anti-air rockets.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po7sX-rKuQs
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Walmart forces you to take in information anyway.
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Okay but we engineered adenoviruses to work as a vaccine. Jansen and Sputnik. They get inside your body and instead of hijacking your cells to make more virus (as natural viruses would do) they instead make your cells produce spike protein. We've done it.
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@Kokangalang if you look at the facts the crisis was politicized in the US to get Trump out of office. January 20th, the day he left, the cycle threshold for PCR testing was lowered and two positive tests were necessary to confirm an asymptomatic case. The only idiots are people wearing three masks after getting the vaccine.
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@skenzyme81 There's a difference between forming a club and anyone being able to join that club, and meet in secret. And being a country with an army, a uniform, bases, roads, railways, factories, power plants, etc. A country has pressure points. A group of people hiding in plain sight doesn't. They were the mole in the game of whack-a-mole, giving Americans teens and young adults live targets to shoot at to get free college and Dodge Chargers at 29% APR.
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My first thought too.
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Ian Flynn pretty sure the IRA would be NRA enthusiasts (considering how they got weapons from the US).
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Ian Flynn true about semtex and anti air missiles, but Libya didn't manufacture Armalites. The AR-15s and AR-18s were smuggled by Irish mafias from America.
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It doesn't have anywhere near the same stats. It comes out the muzzle at almost a thousand fps faster~and has almost the double max pressure.
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Russians have already posted pictures of the bomblets. They were ATACMS.
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By 2024 (January 2025 would be the transition) Russia's armed forces will be more depleted and Trump won't be able to undo lend lease.
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>their If you're going to insult me at least do it directly. If you go by anti-gun stats, from 1987-1990 there were a quarter million gun defensive uses (1 for every 320 gun owner, assuming 80 million, ONLY COUNTING INSTANCES OF GUNSHOTS FIRED) compared to 46k murders in the same period. By pro-gun estimates, 2.5 million defensive uses PER YEAR. The most accepted stat is 700k per YEAR, in which most no gunshots are fired at the attacker. That's 1/142,85 assuming 100M gun owners. >fantasies
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1. Russia is the aggressor. 2. At this point it's Russia that insists on continuing the war. They have pursued continuation by acquiring Iranian and North Korean weapons rather than admit they failed. 3. Russia used Belarus to invade so they involved third parties first. 4. Sending men is a bigger step than matériel.
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@postpunkfunk8009 You had from January 2017 to January 5th 2021 to do something. You could have showed up a day earlier.
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Meanwhile Ukrainians asked for tanks, and used them in offensives.
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If steel case is off spec, it's off spec. Stoner designed the rifle for the original gas tube length, with the original ammo. Not for cheap ammo.
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@theshootingbench9116 That's not true. Should a "tier one" weapon be able to handle anything from squib loads to Project Eldest Son loads? Should it be able to run corroded ammo? How is it a manufacturer's responsibility to overgas their own systems so it works on cheaply loaded ammo with the wrong pressure curve? Hey, instead of a 12 position gas block, how about the ammo manufacturer increases the price by 1 cpr and loads it right? Who are you to bring up milspecs when you're the one insisting on shooting off spec ammo on high dollar firearms?
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It's almost like those bases are there precisely because a few countries couldn't behave and insisted on exporting their totalitarian ideology by force, and now they're trying to come back with a vengeance. Huh.
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"The ones who refuse to enforce unjust laws" - And get fired over it so they're not cops no more.
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I also have a brain and despite not being the most selfless person around I like to contribute to society with more than the work of my muscle. Have fun in a world without hydraulics, engines or electricity. I'd rather try to conserve the most knowledge for the future.
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Suppressors reduce hearing damage. In many European countries they are sold upon showing a license, in Finland (if I'm not mistaken) they are sold over the counter to anyone. "Silencers" are not used by criminals. The gunshots are most times still above 120dB, even with the inherently subsonic .45 ACP. That's still loud. They do reduce noise pollution and prevent you and your neighbors from having ears ringing in case you shoot in self-defense.
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@juanca2807 "No one will go against people buying 5 or 10 graphics cards sporadically" - If in the year 2021 and almost 2022 you still believe that laws will never be misused, at this point you either have your head in the sand or you're acting in bad faith. The PATRIOT Act was also supposed to only be used against terrorists, but as it turns out all communications in the US pass through NSA filters.
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@juanca2807 Nothing is more permanent than a temporary government solution.
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@JCo295 How is he a bot? The fact that people don't automatically respect their opposing candidate simply because the Republican party is cooked is as American as it gets. In Russia maybe you will have to vote Putin no matter what you believe in, but in America that's not a thing.
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@valghyna7668 High Ruble means they get paid less on exports.
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@PredatoryQQmber The world's biggest manufacturing hub is bending Russia over a barrel. Their economy ain't doing too good either, they're not a charity. They're exploiting Russia by demanding massive discounts.
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@bboness713 Not without nukes, which is the big no-no. How did people in sandals and turbans resist US occupation for 20 years? They're defeating the giant country because the giant country is mostly unpopulated, with the vast majority living in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The giant country's military shoved the money down their pockets instead of spending it where needed. The giant country is giant, and thus can't commit too much military force to Ukraine without leaving the rest of the country unmanned. They have claimed territory in the past that many countries would enjoy retaking. The giant country's military is fighting for a measly paycheck, the smaller country is fighting for survival. Hypersonics are a meme. Their hypersonic missile launched in the conflict is a Iskander missile launched from the air in a fighter jet rather than a stationary ground launcher vehicle, so it can go faster. Meanwhile the US was flying manned hypersonic aircraft in the 60s. The reason it didn't end in 5 minutes is because using their only trump card would mean destruction of Russia. A loose cannon with nukes and the willing to use it upsets the balance of MAD. Anyone who shows the willingness to use nukes must be destroyed immediately to prevent them from using them again. That's how the world works.
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@_Epsilon_ The Su-57 doesn't carry the R-37 missile.
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They'd have to pull troops from elsewhere making the Donbas easier for Ukraine, and risking them getting a large troop concentration trapped in Crimea if the Kerch bridge were to be attacked again.
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Mental evaluations don't work. Even the UK looked into it and their parliamentary office of science and technology essentially concluded that there would be no benefits and they wouldn't be able to afford it. It is controversial because places like the USSR diagnosed their political enemies and mentally ill. Just diagnose everyone as mentally ill and you banned guns without passing a gun ban.
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@davidb2206 In WWII the Germans weren't divided between East and West Germany and East Germans managed to infiltrate West Germany. You're like the second person I encounter trying to make this nonsense point. A German can't just go to France and pretend to be French. A Vietnamese person sympathetic to the communist regime can take a trip to a city and stash a few weapons. Also, funny how everyone is so focused on what was essentially a massive terrorist attack. The Tet Offensive was a massive military failure that happened to result in a political victory by demoralizing the US public. You're just going to bring up examples of bad stuff no matter how unconnected they are.
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The bigger the gun the less they're used in homicide. Most people killed in firearms homicide were shot by handguns. It's popular with EVERYONE. It's one of the most widely produced weapons. If you want an equivalent but with a different configuration, you'll be paying more for less quality. They can be had for as little as 450 dollars when the prices are low, and some have managed to build ultra-budget variants with 260 dollars by ordering iffy Chinese made parts and taking advantage of sales. How is an AR going to "draw attention" when it's the most common rifle manufactured and sold in the past two decades?
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David Lomax Hillary's emails are a lot more politically relevant than a campaign funding violation.
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What happens to American troops when they see an A-10 go down? Then they will be in fear. You forget psychological effects go both ways.
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@W1ckedRcL A continuous rod warhead can split an aircraft in half. It's not the 1960s anymore. You're thinking of small arms. Buddy, 20 years fighting guys in sandals spoiled you.
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Lootaloo.
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@shaneblack8082 lmao
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Rumor is that Poland sends 2A4s but Germany will send 2A6s.
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That's not a dogfight. You waste the missiles' energy, not yours.
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@electric_crickets I comment a lot because I'm based and my opinions are correct and cool. If you know who I can get in contact with so I can get paid, shoot me a message.
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So SOCOM required a reciprocating charging handle, and their own boys didn't want it? Yeah, sounds about right for a govt organization.
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Okay, but the deficit is like you collect 1.4 trillion and spend 1.5 trillion, your deficit is 100 billion. Now imagine you are at war, and spend 80 billion in deficit by February. The rest of the year is going to cost you even more. You're blowing through the budget quick.
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Bakhmut stood longer than Stalingrad at this point.
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@WPSent You really need to read the report. The pilot said that the software governing the flight parameters was hesitating and taking too long to change AoA, which caused the F-35 to bleed off too much airspeed when attempting maneuvers. He literally wrote in the report that the recommended fix would be removing the restrictions on the control laws.
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@WPSent Stick to the F-22? Man... The Advanced Tactical Fighter was a program to come up with the F-15's successor. It was extremely expensive and the government couldn't justify an overpowered air superiority fighter after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Just like the F-15 itself, it was an expensive and overpowered aircraft that couldn't be purchased in the amounts needed to cover the entire need for fighters, so a lightweight fighter was designed to fill the gap - the F-16. The Joint Strike Fighter program was the junction of several programs to make an aircraft for the USAF, Marines and Navy and it would replace the F-16, Harrier, F/A-18, etc. It was never meant to replace the F-22 because its replacement will be another expensive, overpowered aircraft that can't be purchased in enough numbers - and the F-35 will be its companion. The F-22 isn't exactly in a good place and it will need replacement. Too few were produced, reactivating the production line would be extremely costly, and at this point it would need massive upgrades to keep up with the F-35 and its technology. It's extremely good at what it does so it probably won't get major updates, it will just coast of its capabilities until retirement.
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@WPSent It doesn't? I think it does. The F-35 parts commonality does save costs even though it's lower than initially expected. About 30 percent parts commonality in the A and B variant, and almost 40 percent on the C. It's cheaper than three separate planes, and even cheaper than multiple airplanes for all the roles it covers. You're going to have to explain why an airframe that does everything means what you say it means. Speed is limited in the B and C variants due to the coating and that issue will have to be resolved later. The F-35A does 1.6 Mach, and unlike other fighters it won't get the drag penalty of external weapons. All the other fighters will be speed and G limited while carrying weapons and fuel bags. If you buy 2,600 F-22s, how much more do you think you'll be spending on the total cost of the program? It's going to be a lot more than 1.5 trillion.
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@WPSent Software does help. The F-35 has excellent alpha abilities. In an age where pointing your nose matters more than turn circles, the F-35 is good to go. The report was literally made after flying a testbed aircraft - not an actual production aircraft - with severely restrictive software. This isn't about software solving problems, this is about software that was literally hindering the aircraft. Removing the restrictions massively improved the performance.
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@WPSent So even though we're saving money by getting parts commonality, this is bad because each branch has a different inventory? The point is reducing costs, not shipping USAF parts to the USN. You order part C but it gets made by the same people who make the B and A part, so you don't need to keep three different suppliers on contract with three different workforces, three different health plans and three different workplace insurances. "The F-35 needs to be a stealthy air superiority fighter, a strike craft, and a VTOL capable craft. Those really don't mix well in my opinion" - Your opinion? You're going to have to actually justify that, I don't know who you are. And even if you had credentials, I'd still want to hear what analysis brought you to that conclusion because authority alone doesn't make opinions right. "And the F-35A is slow at 1.6. Hell the F-18 is still faster" - With weapons and fuel bags? Most airplane statistics are measured with airplanes in clean configuration. The F-35 has the option of flying clean even when armed. "The other 800 billion or so could go cover operational costs" - But that's not how it works. You'd need to pay for an extensive upgrade package to stick all the F-35 avionics on the F-22. The F-22 has no ISRT or DAS. It can't self-lase for bomb drops. The money you'd save would all be spent on trying to make the F-22 into a F-35.
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@WPSent It sounds cool in concept, but you go tell the USAF that money they spent out of their budget is going to go to the Navy or vice-versa. The point is reducing costs and logistical issues, not mixing and matching parts from different services. I cannot find a single shred of evidence to back the notion that the JSF had a program requirement for parts to be traded among services. Guess what, you're not sending USAF carbine parts to the Army or Marines even though they share the M16/M4 design on their weapons. They have separate inventories. Yes, you are saving massive amounts of money. Like I said you don't have to pay three different companies to maintain three different production lines who have their own business expenses. "Justify what exactly?" - You're making claims that you seemingly want to pretend are just a given. I want you to explain those claims. "As for the F-18 v F-35, taking a closer look" - That's not a closer look. Was Mach 1.8 measured clean or with weapons and bags? That's what I asked. You have to limit the aircraft to the performance it can achieve in a real mission, not at an air show. "this is a whole lot of money spent on a Generation 5 "meh" plane" - It's an amazing plane. It's a dream in air to ground and it wipes the floor with 4th gen aircraft. You say it's meh, while everyone who's ever flown it and spoken publicly about it describes it as a game-changer. "versus just either spending some of that on a plane we've already done the work on" - We haven't done the work on it. Its development was stalled because not enough F-22s were made to replace the F-15 so it made no sense to. We'd have to do all the work that was put on the JSF program into the F-22.
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Funny, because Trump called out Germany's dependence on Russian gas and everyone laughed at him.
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@picklejuice4638 Yeah and what happens when nobody uses the anonymous social media? It's like shouting in the park, technically you still have free speech by being allowed to make speeches but almost nobody will listen to the crazy guy ranting.
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@zacheryeckard3051 I trust science. Nepotism and backroom deals isn't science.
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Love to see that you people have nothing better to do than go online harassing people.
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Can you imagine the debates between Alex Jones and Marianne Williamson?
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@kostashliopoulos9293 The initial strikes show intent to decapitate the government and military command, but the misses and dud rates left a lot of targets intact.
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Russia does nothing but terrorist attacks.
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 @RyanSchliessmann-hd2nn Same reason Dresden wasn't. It's war, dawg.
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@GhostWatcher2024 It's not hindered by the multiple branches thing. Most of the bumps in the F-35 development were unrelated to that.
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"Also if you put a small tax on stock market profiteers, it would more than pay for medi-care for all." - You got the numbers for that?
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@lilartay If you're arresting the police, forget the law.
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@XanderFenikkusu Okay. What if the shooter is never caught but you get the rest of the gang? Or what if all the robbers were wearing clothes they disposed off before fleeing so the shooter will not be identified and none of them will admit to the shooting? They all do time for the robbery but nobody does time for the murder and the case gets dropped due to lack of evidence?
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 @yutub561 plastic and fiberglass are not on the same level.
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 @Jimboslice1776 Chomsky is a known genocide denialist lol
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@ratulxy International law does not considers former conscripts as soldiers. You are a civilian once you leave service. And unless war mobilization calls for you to return, you are a civilian for the rest of your life.
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@tawahachee A government building full of FSB agents.
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Russians fly nuclear bombers near American airspace. Are you saying we should shoot them down? Say it. I want you to say we should shoot them.
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Their pleasure seems to end after meeting 155mm shells.
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And get through metal detectors!
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How is it a testing ground when we're sending the old stuff? We know it works. We've already used it against Soviet garbage decades ago.
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@rifffatkins7704 they got 3 MW from 2.something MW laser energy output. But the input for the lasers was hundreds of MW. They're extremely inefficient lab grade lasers, a power plant would be more efficient.
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Yeah and a thousand women and their children were bombed by Russia. Nice sob story, Ukraine has hundreds more and you're complaining that you want to pay for more slaughter.
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Brian Berletic resides in Thailand. Patrick Lancaster and Gonzalo Lira went to Eastern Ukraine to find wives. If Berletic has a significant other in Thailand, it fits the profile of expats seeking companionship abroad. One of the Duran chaps is a disbarred lawyer in the UK. A source of discontent.
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"Two more weeks"
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 @alizaidi2893 whataboutism
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It's amazing, the truth can stare you in the face and you still resort to pre-programmed responses.
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@greenkrickett5664 You do realize that people get convicted off circumstantial evidence, right? Don't use tv show lawyer talk.
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@greenkrickett5664 What do you mean? It's absolutely correct to convict off of circumstantial evidence. Many crimes to not leave direct evidence, so the case has to be built entirely on circumstantial evidence. You do realize that a lot of people freed were freed because of circumstantial evidence, right? And a lot of falsely imprisoned people were convicted through direct evidence, right? In fact, there are people who were convicted off of direct evidence and their innocence was proven because of circumstantial evidence. Cannot be proven? Wait. You don't even know what circumstantial evidence is.
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@greenkrickett5664 I don't know why you've changed the topic, all I know is that you don't understand what circumstantial evidence is. "If you can't prove your case without actual evidence you should not even try" - Circumstantial evidence is actual evidence. Fingerprints, DNA, etc. That's why I said people have been exonerated based on circumstantial evidence. If DNA is used to prove someone wasn't at the scene, that's circumstantial evidence. "if someone is seen running from a crime scene then they MUST of been the one to do the crime." - And direct evidence is someone testifying that they saw the person committing the crime. Witness testimony has been found to be unreliable.
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Maybe.
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Is common sense progress or yearning for days gone by? Left and right are just a way to describe what you think the problems and answers are.
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But output will be disconnected from input. The input lag you feel is based on the game's input polling, simulating the scene, rendering the camera's view and then presenting that image on the screen. If the game is taking your input but the output is "faked" that means you'll only get feedback from your input when you're presented with a "real" frame.
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The Kane & Lynch multiplayer had a functionality like that, you could betray the rest of the crew to get a bigger payday.
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It has lower ground pressure than some IFVs. More weight but wider and longer tracks.
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The pictures are real, though. Nvidia did a conference about their computing cores to handle light reflections, and they input the conditions in the moon - the simulations are exactly like the real pictures.
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So 40,000 Ukrainians are beating Russia into a pulp in Kherson and routing them in Kharkiv?
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Fun fact, it was Russia, France and China who took Iraq's oil. The US passed laws to make US companies lose money if they tried to bid for contracts in Iraq, so the countries that criticized the US invasion were the ones who took the oil.
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@gort8203 It didn't bugger up the design. This is just a made up "factoid" that people parrot.
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@gort8203 "The F-35 airframe would likely be more efficient it didn’t include compromises for the VTOL role." - How? Actually explain and substantiate your claim. I want to hear how you came to this conclusion.
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@gort8203 That's not how it works. You made the claim, you back it up. You cannot ask me to prove a negative. I first need to know what you think the VTOL requirements did, for me to be able to counter the argument. I'll be the better man and bite. The structural arrangements for the lift fan are inconsequential because not only is the A variant lighter as a result of not needing those specific structural arrangements and actually carrying the damned thing, but the A and C variant also benefit from a slightly larger weapons bay and greater fuel capacity. The A and C variants are like an athlete training with a weighted vest. Take the vest off, and you've increased the performance. That's not a reduction in potential. It's an increase. Again, me responding to your challenge is completely inconsequential. You admitted defeat by making a claim and requiring others do disprove it. I simply chose to take the high ground.
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@gort8203 Exactly. Someone confronted you and you complain. You should be complaining about your stubbornness and your lack of knowledge on the topics you INSIST on pretending to be an expert on. Not about the people calling you out on your BS. Calling out BS is healthy. It keeps people in check. Apparently you don't enjoy being checked. Sure, I don't get to decide how it works. Over 2000 years of theory of logic and rhetoric do. And it's the claimant that shares the burden of the evidence. Don't point the finger at me. Go tell the courts you should have the right to accuse anyone of anything and not have to provide evidence. They get to decide how it works. Point the finger at them. "A bigger weapons bay and fuel tank may improve payload and range but does not make the airframe more efficient" - Prove that the airframe is not efficient. "is based on the airplane structure being larger and heavier than than it would needed if not for the VTOL gear" - FALSE. The VTOL fan does not make the structure larger. In fact the X-35 prototype was smaller and capable of STOVL. The structure is a result of avionics and weapons capacity. If you remove the B variant from the F-35 line up, you cannot reduce the sizes of the A or C variant without suffering from the loss of capacity in the weapons bay, and obviously range reduction due to lower fuel capacity. Therefore, the lift fan does not create a size disadvantage, because the F-35 cannot be made smaller even if the B variant was eliminated. The structure is not heavier as evidenced by the fact that the A model had weight reduction. The C variant requires structural strength due to the demands of carrier operations. "It's an intuitively rational notion that I can accept" - But if you are rational and accept that reducing the size of the F-35A or C would cripple it, you cannot claim that the B variant is responsible. It's cause and effect. "it's not my job to prove it to you" - It is if you make claims about it. "You can prove it's not true if you possess real documented evidence" - Not really because it's proving a negative. There's no documented evidence of a smaller F-35A because such aircraft was never developed. There was a smaller JSF. The X-35. Which had the B variant STOVL capabilities. The size was augmented to increase its combat capabilities. Either way, I can point to the logical train of thought that absolves the B variant from wrongdoing, but asking for documented evidence that CANNOT exist, and even if it did, COULD NOT be published due to secrecy, to prove a negative is a massive faux pas. Those who make the claim have to prove it. Otherwise I can claim the universe's largest planet is made of pudding and not prove it. It's you who has to analyze every single planet.
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@gort8203 Buddy. When you make claims and when questioned you tell others to go pound sand, that's confrontation. Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house. Oh, but I am stubborn. Nothing wrong with stubbornness. The problem is that you would rather complain about being questioned rather than have some self-awareness and realize what caused others to question you. The opinions are not unsubstantiated. The X-35 was smaller than the F-35. Fact. Not even an opinion. And it's more than substantiated. Again, wrong. Maybe a nice cup of "stop talking about what you don't understand" would do you nicely too. Go away now. Run.
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@gort8203 It's not a ramble, it's just scathing criticism. Perhaps you've lived through life with people handling you with kid gloves. I don't care if you're not interested. It's here for other people to read this and think twice about parroting what people say on the internet.
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@gort8203 The proof has been presented. You cannot change the A variant without sacrificing fuel or weapons. The B variant sacrifices fuel and weapons to fit the VTOL. Therefore it's the B variant that sacrifices capabilities to keep the VTOL, not the A. Again, what can you do to the aerodynamics of the F-35 without reducing the internal fuel volume or the weapons bay? They call it the Fat Amy because derogatory names are a thing. The F-4 was also called a lead sled. Did you ever heard about the BUFF or the SLUF? However, if you look at the frontal cross section the F-35C is not any fatter than the F/A-18E. The name is just a funny joke, not a factual statement about aerodynamics. The pilots actually praise how the F-35 flies.
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@gort8203 "if you didn't need the space and structure for the VTOL equipment the airplane could have been smaller/lighter/more slippery" - Again, making it smaller reduces range and weapons capacity. "I have read more than once" - Okay, and who wrote it? Because there's plenty of hack frauds who made a career out of complaining about the F-35. "Imagine a version of the Harrier with the rotatable nozzles and other equipment necessary for VTOL stripped out of it [...] it would still be a slower and less efficient airplane" - I mean, it would have performance in line with what other attack aircraft had. It wasn't a multirole fighter in USMC/RAF service, essentially only the Sea Harrier was expected to perform air to air fleet defense and their main strength was being so far away from enemy air bases that even supersonic fighters could not light their afterburner otherwise they'd have no fuel left to make the trip back. So they had an advantage even against technically higher performance aircraft by playing on home turf. Either way, the Harrier was designed much earlier than the F-35 and you don't see the issues with the STOVL design. Frankly, the Harrier flies like a Cold War attacker. The F-35B flies like a fighter. "it could have been an even better airplane" - But how? Making it "better" according to 1960s metrics by kneecapping range and weapons capacity is not my idea of a good trade off. "and available in greater numbers" - The reason the F-35 went over 600 units delivered is precisely thanks to the STOVL variant. It gives allied countries with shorter carriers 5th gen capability. By giving up the B variant, the product would not have been such a success.
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Europe doesn't have a massive stockpile, and their industry can't just start mass production. The US does have a stockpile so even if American companies can't turn on a dime either the US has stuff gathering dust precisely to defeat Russia in an European land war stuck in depots.
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@sherrysnyder4195 We don't use that word anymore, it's "African-American" now.
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Get that published in a scientific paper, then. We can't do anything about evidence.
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The point is to demoralize. While it has no effect on the decisions of the Polish state, those who want Ukraine to win can feel like there's a wrench in the plans. Same as "sanctions don't work", "Russia is wealthier than before the war", "only the hypocrite West backs Ukraine, most of the world backs Russia", "offensive has failed" and "better sue for peace". They say those things to try and put the thumb on the scales. It's psychological warfare.
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>Probable cause for stopping a car, etc And I disagree with that, but outside the car is a different story. I mean, even if they stop the car they can't strip search you without reason. >it is for tagging whoever looks like the instigator of a fight, etc etc What you just said is called "actual police work". If more police did it, there would be no need for the paint. Even after what you just said, the paint would only be seen after arrest.
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You need to go behind enemy lines to do that. Every Ivan and Vladimir with a MANPADS would be salivating to bag an A-10 kill.
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He's a convicted sex offender and there's no nuance. He claims Russian tanks can survive 5 Javelin hits when there's blatant footage of them getting obliterated by a single hit.
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@crackert5263 that's not semi-automatic. The term "automatic" is synonymous with "autoloader" aka a firearm that operates by itself to load the following shot. A double-action revolver still uses manual action to spin to rotate the cylinder.
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@bartilliak what I said above. There's examples of auto-loading revolvers like the Webley–Fosbery, but the majority of revolvers are not semi-automatic as they still require a manual rotation of the cylinder to load the following shot.
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@johncrum3208 when people are talking about cars and someone knows the differences between the different types of automatic transmissions do you also accuse them of masturbating with car magazines or do you save the accusations of sexual deviancy to the topic of guns? Because if so that seems to be more about you projecting inadequacies.
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Because of the Alcohol?
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@kaneidareyue7715 Russia has violated almost every airspace in Europe with their military aircraft, including even Portuguese airspace. On the other edge of Europe. I guess they deserve an invasion.
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No, it doesn't speak for itself because it will continue happening until people are used to it. If they're not willing to speak, they're not willing to act. And if they don't act, they're condoning it.
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@fubaralakbar6800 Don't know what you're trying to drag me down into but if you think this "speaks for itself" when the slippery slope has become a greased cliff you're sticking your head in the sand.
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It was attempted but the German courts couldn't make a distinction between a finished game and an alpha. The legal system has not caught up to the early access model. They also use the "pledge" trickery to mask a purchase that somehow is a donation but you pay sales tax on it.
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If the explosion happens underground you won't see the full force in the surface...
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"The IR is not dampened as far as I can see!!" - Get glasses. The F-35 has cold air exhaust around the nozzle to lower its IR signature."you cant jam 30mm cannon shells" - I mean, considering that modern aerial gunnery uses rangefinding to accurately give the pilot lead computation, it might be possible."That 'high manoeuvrability' part of the demonstration was a stripped down version I expect" - Almost all aerobatics are performed with clean configurations. Even if the F-35 was a stripped down version, its 4th gen competitors will be flying with weapons and fuel bags under the wings. They won't be able to perform aerobatics in a real fight."high wing loading" - In the F-35, the body is also a wing. You can't say it has high wing loading when most of the airframe produces lift, not just the wing.
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Not true. NATO did not expand into East Germany. That was the deal. Poland? That was Warsaw Pact. Why would we promise Moscow that we wouldn't let Warsaw Pact countries (which they controlled) in? Either way the Poles got Yeltsin drunk and got him to say it was okay to join.
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@KennethJohnson-st1uv Igor Girkin himself admitted he had the Crimean government at gunpoint and ordered them to request assistance from Moscow. The entire Crimea/Donbas affair was a spec ops and intelligence operation, they paid people to join protests, people like Girkin and Motorola were RUSSIAN CITIZENS leading so-called separatists. Russia created the problem by attacking Ukraine first. They created the problem by taking down TV towers and broadcasting Russian media full of lies about Ukraine.
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The HARM seeker would get more information than the pilot does from RWR. The slow speed wold still limit the HARM. And the only ARM it could comcievably fire without modifications would be the AGM-122 Sidearm which is no longer in inventory. The unguided rocket volleys at least keep the aircraft safe. Laser or optical PGMs require an aircraft to orbit the target to acquire or lase, exposing it.
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@NorthernPrincessProductions Let's just say I wouldn't want to be MANPADS bait no matter how well a Maverick can handle a Pantsir.
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@NorthernPrincessProductions Not if you can stand outside MANPADS range, unlike the A-10.
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@NorthernPrincessProductions At that point just loft release JDAMs. How is a HARM (small, fast, ballistic trajectory) easy to engage but a fat A-10 trying to fire short range missiles isn't?
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It's 100% right. All the state has is force. All law is backed by force. If you call the cops, consider that violence will be used to deal with the situation, and how much violence will be out if your control.
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Most Phantom kills were by missile.
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Can you people stop suggesting Soviet Union style control for 5 minutes?
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If he's a real journalist, why did he accuse Jans Stoltenberg of being a US asset when he was 16 years old?
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No, alt-right is anything that falls under the right but isn't mainstream Republican. It's a catch-all term. Now they laser-focused it on neo-nazis and white supremacists so that people associate everything that's not bipartisan-friendly Republicanism with Neo Nazis. Say, you don't agree with John McCain or Mitt Romney (the "good" kind of republican who passed state healthcare and assault weapons bans)? You're alt-right. You don't trust CNN? You're an alt-right troll. And by association, a Nazi.
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"Being seen last and shooting first in the sky doesn't mean so much when you're pinned down in a firefight under a boulder." - it matters if the airplanes supposed to cover you out of that boulder are dancing around in the sky because they're too busy dodging SAMs. The fact is that the A-10 only did 11 percent of CAS since 2014. It's already been replaced for the most part.
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You literally can.
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Can't dislike someone for making money, but the dude has spat quite some BS and passed it off as "knowledge". When AR15.com confronted him after his arguments for birdshot in home defense, he used Dick Cheney's hunting accident as proof of bird shot lethality.
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Russia is growing? How? Their economy is in tatters and their military industry can't keep up. They're refurbishing T-62s and the thermal sights are garbage without Thales components that got cut off by sanctions.
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Or when you abuse codeine, which is known to be associated with physical aggression and paranoia. Irrelevant - we're not supposed to behave like shaved monkeys and beat the shit out of anyone just because of suspicion. People walk behind me, even at night, when I'm returning home. Other people live in the area, they fucking have to go through the same path as me. I don't turn around and beat the snot out of them.
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@kimgaugemusic Those jobs are a massive grift that enable homelessness instead of solving it. You might as well just use the 25 billion to give people shovels, dig holes and fill them back up. Bam, that's a job.
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@sosig6445 It's quite literally sourced if you look at the wikipedia page where the Iraq Body Count project is mentioned, but please keep coping.
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That's Portuguese, though.
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Exactly. Any game developed to require more power than local hardware has available will cost too much and take too long to develop.
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You're far more controversial for doubting the spike than the moon landing.
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The issues were most likely due to large IEDs, often made out of artillery shells. I can see how a RPG hit could glance off or the copper jet punching through areas where the occupants were not seated.
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Bruce Gordon I believe has his story about the use of F-106s to intercept nuclear bombers. If their missiles failed to hit the bombers, they were supposed to complete the intercept at all costs, and this meant that they would have to use their own wing to clip the tail of the bomber, forcing it to lose control, and eject. Their fear was that not only the bomber's tailgunner would hit them, clipping the tail would potentially allow the crew to arm the bomb and have it detonate by altitude sensor. So even though the textbook way of doing things suggested they'd survive, they knew that if the missiles failed their only hope was to climb to high altitude, and perform a supersonic dive into the middle of the airplane - where the bomb bay was. Triggering the explosives by supersonic impact would in theory cause a fizzle rather than a true nuclear detonation.
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@taelorpickel2830 How is that a cope? Remove the mines, let's see how well the Russian army fights. It doesn't matter if the Soviets or the Russian made those mines. The argument was about the Russian army's fighting prowess. They held against the offensive not because they were better at fighting, but because the landmines were laid in 5x the length breaching equipment was supposed to handle.
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@taelorpickel2830 But they released zero troops. Kiev was defended by northern command troops and territorial defense, along with foreign volunteers. Nobody had to be pulled out from the East or South to defend Kiev. In fact, there was no time to pull a large amount of troops from the East, or their equipment. Russia did say it. Not only did Putin threaten to take Kiev in two weeks years earlier, there were also articles set to automatically release three days after the start of the war cheering the victory. Additionally, this was the Czechoslovakia plan. If you remember your history, Warsaw Pact forces captured an airport near Prague so they could deploy transport aircraft there with airborne troops. That was the exact plan with Hostomel, but once the runways were cratered by artillery the transport aircraft had to land in Belarus.
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@taelorpickel2830 Award the medals to the factory workers and sappers, then. But don't come here bragging about your army when every time they leave their safety bubble they get wrecked.
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@milangacik-repcik1224 Ah, so you acted as a lapdog to the Moskal socialismus and was never hurt. Many in your own country weren't as lucky. You want to live under Moscow rule, move to Russia.
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The war ends tomorrow. Russia only has to pull out.
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If 85% of the population is 50% people in retirement age, that's not great.
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Click on "do not recommend this channel"
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Not really. Egalitarian societies used to be extremely violent and we're reaching unprecedented levels of peace despite inequality. Inequality does not make honest people violent.
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@Jone952 when everyone was equally dirt poor and communities couldn't be larger than a dead animal could feed. If another pack of humans tried to steal your prey, people would fight.
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@Jone952 Nope. If one group had 1 meal and another group had a hundred million meals, there would be no reason to fight. When there's only one meal and both groups have an equal chance to get it, violence ensues.
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@Jone952 you're strawmanning by inverting causality.
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@hillsane9262 "other people can get sick especially if you do not wear a mask" - But they should be protected. And who said anything about masks? "non-covid cases being delayed care or denied care due to hospitals being overwhelmed has lead to further injury and even death" - Can we get the numbers on that? "The areas with bad covid due to low vaccination rates and also low masking rates had tons of kids getting sick" - The same areas that had weeks worth of cases reported in a single day to make them look bad? "the immunocompromised cannot be vaccinated" - The immunocompromised existed before the pandemic. They've always been exposed to all the stuff we don't get vaccinated for. Shouldn't it be them taking the extra step to protect themselves rather than hold the entire society hostage?
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He already did a video on the Cheyenne. And no, the Air Force did not throw a fit they simply discovered through studies on CAS that the air mobility supremacists in the Army were starting to push the Air Force out of their mission. Both the USAF and Army Chiefs of Staff had a meeting and the USAF agreed to not get in the way of rotary wing purchases.
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 @sergejadam8860 They had trouble crossing the ocean.
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@Rouge55 9/11 was a response to the US defending Saudi Arabia, which Bin Laden considered haram. Saudi Arabia wanted American protection, who was Bin Laden to say what a country can or can't do?
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 @subjectc7505 Would you shoot it down over land? No.
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 @Triple_J.1 Cold objects still reflect IR - from the hot sun. The balloon was probably a huge IR beacon. Also, solar panels heat up because they have to absorb light to work.
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You're gonna be hassling all the farmers in Europe and chopping down their shotgun barrels? "Just do X!" people forget that having a single source streamlines everything. Imagine having 40 different models of shotgun serving in the frontlines, in different states of care/disrepair, some of which were made by a manufacturer that went out of business.
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Including Putin and his Sputnik V and QR codes.
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Not even. There's an embargo on certain kinds of goods but the blockade was a Cold War thing.
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 @durshurrikun150 this didn't happen, they just had tons of people quit and kept those who were for real
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No no no the current theory is that the US cannot default on its debt (because it controls the currency) so you pay for everything through debt. The economy will have to keep on growing indefinitely or else the currency becomes worthless, though.
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I also remember the 300 instructors and NATO generals in Azovstal. Why is it always 300 people?
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There's credible news everywhere. MSM isn't reporting. There's advertisements of success everywhere. You're just sticking the head in the sand. Russian frontlines are collapsing.
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They reap billions while the people suffer from the economic drain of loss of productivity, criminality, etc. I'd rather have the billions than the "profit".
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He paid the settlement because he was pressured by Sony.
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Bunkers are several tons of concrete walls and floors with a lot of volume inside. Consider that at least half the heat will escape through the hole on the ground you just punched. Even if you have enough fuel, at least at some point the people inside would find the heat spot on the wall or roof, and use fire extinguishing systems to cool that spot which would buy them time for the fuel to be consumed.
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Then people will take down their videos and say you lied.
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Something something death of millions is a statistic, said Joseph Stalin.
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@user80014 Explaining what? That you still host and transmit even if you take it? Therefore the mutations still happen unrestrained?
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@user80014 Read what? That what he is describing is also happening in the people who took it?
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@user80014 FACT: Irrelevant. You're transmitting, it mutates. You've already accepted defeat by your own logic. Act accordingly. FACT: Irrelevant. You're now using personal benefits when your argument is the collective. You've already admitted that from a collective standpoint, it doesn't matter. FACT: Most people are unaffected anyway. Provide perspective. FACT: Israel is most likely going to go under lockdown. Ages 20-29 only have 3 percent effectiveness. FACT: Nobody's talking about impenetrable firewalls. Strawmanning is an admission of defeat.
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@user80014 Don't need it.
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Sure. But what about the people living in already hot countries? They won't get any greener.
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Weapons contractors can't force Russia to keep fighting. Only Russians with influence could force the fight to keep going for profit. Weapons contractors can only ride the wave and do nothing when it ends.
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They are joining the EU and will join NATO when the war is over.
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It doesn't matter if you use adblock. Google tracks you all over and sells the information anyway. Even if you block ads you are still useful to them because it tracks consumer habits.
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The 1989 Cleveland Elementary/Stockton shooter used a 7.62x39 rifle against children, most survived. Singling out 5.56 is just a matter of perception.
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Depends. For example videogames stores are relatively small and haveno carts so they're displayed in the open. But large chain supermarket stores which sell videogames keep them behind the glass along with the expensive beard trimmers and massagers as people would just hide those items and walk.
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Most of the weapons are decades old and tested. We know they work. We've used them before.
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That's such a cop out, though. You can make a lot of things entertaining.
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Keeping Latin America at bay? Do you mean militarily or in terms of immigration?
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Facts.
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 @evgeniya7853 One American soldier defected to Russia and fought for them, then gave interviews. Do you feel foolish?
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Lavrov is a liar.
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They've been dominating? Watch the footage. The Russian assault teams are walking over the previous assault team lying in the dirt. They're using off road mobility vehicles (look like golf cars). They're dominating if you play by HoI4 rules and painting a map is what wins. But they're taking measly area at the cost of men.
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@independentthinker315 "you need to find your safe space" - same to you. Why did you come to a libertarian channel if you wanted to cheerlead for a politician?
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Wrong, it's Russia who breaks treaties.
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It has everything to do with us. Budapest Memorandum. We promised security.
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It's a civilian grade rifle, though.
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@steinbauge4591 If the USSR didn't have physical access to them, they didn't control it. Let's say you have a locker in the dressing room at your gym. I steal the locker and take it home. Are you in control of the stuff inside? No. I am. I have an angle grinder.
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@OxanaX3203 It is believed by evil people. Reasonable people know it always existed. When you fight for your existence, you exist. And Ukrainians fought for Ukraine before the USSR was a thing. There's documents from centuries ago proving that Ukraine existed before Moscow. Cope.
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@MountaindewM In most of the US there's literally no laws regarding bullpup conversions. There's people making bullpup Glock frames for 3d printing. There's no license needed to make a gun for personal use, in some states they have to be registered but that's in annoying states.
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Ukraine got closer to Tokmak. Getting within range of the jugular is more important than painting a map.
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@b12n23 The successful tactical retreat was an outcome that handed Ukraine victory on a silver platter. Kharkiv was undermanned to avoid giving up Kherson. Then Kharkiv was attacked. And looking at a losing fighting, Russians gave up Kherson. They gave up Kharkiv to not give up Kherson. They gave up Kherson. Let this sink in.
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@b12n23 They didn't burn through. Most of the captured materiel ended up being in unrepairable condition. Some of the captured tanks were on repair depots without parts. Some were missing engines. The photos show open engine bays with nothing in them.
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Russia isn't surrounded. If they want to be worried, the border with China should be a greater concern. Minsk II was broken by DPR forces, the Russian minions.
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@quartermaster1976 Russia defended themselves? How? By asking China not to join NATO? By asking the Arctic not to join NATO? The majority of Russia's borders does not touch western countries so by definition they cannot be surrounded by NATO. They have Belarus, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, etc. So how did they defend themselves? By attacking Kazakhstan? Are they NATO minions? How have they been pushed together? Xi already told Putin to wrap it up and not use nukes. China recognizes Ukraine's 1991 borders per their agreement in the 90s. Taiwan isn't a stunt. They KMT fled China. What more do they want?
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@quartermaster1976 Learn to comprehend what people said. Russia is the aggressor.
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@quartermaster1976 Donetsk and Luhansk. All you Russian shills don't even know about the topic.
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@quartermaster1976 That has nothing to do with the fact that you want to be a know-it-all and yet you can't even name the Oblasts. Donbas is the Eastern Ukraine area, Donetsk is the oblast controlled by separatists. Donbas and Luhansk is like saying "the United States and California".
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@quartermaster1976 No argument. Thanks for proving me right.
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He's right.
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These aircraft remained grounded as they couldn't get the Martin Baker ejection seats, the Australian Hornets were used up.
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@Augustus_Imperator It's not humiliation to force the guilty party to pay for damages. Oh, I'm sorry, when people sue each other for damages is that "humiliation" or justice? Their projected GDP is terrible and it includes all the military production. Actually producing goods and services has the same contribution to GDP as producing military equipment. However, the first will actually create more growth while the latter will just end up burning in Ukraine. China is sitting this one out, Iran is dealing with internal issues, and their nuclear arsenal would be used against the children of oligarchs and generals who live in London, NYC, Paris, etc.
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This isn't SPC.
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How much would you pay to not breathe coal. Imagine if we never had nuclear. How many coal plants would we have built to compensate?
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Any satellite from anyone can be used for recon.
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+Cooper Huttley he does care about his firearm - the lower receiver is the serialized part, the actual "firearm". He can buy a barrel and gas tube for cheap, online, and order it to his door because only the lower is the firearm. If he didn't care, he would have torch cut the lower per ATF guidelines. His actions in the video did not result in the destruction of a firearm (it would still work, just not cycle), just the manufacture of a SBR which is illegal.
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Putin wasn't satisfied. Zelensky walked back the desire to join NATO if it prevented the invasion.
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@michaelthompson8990 enumerate some of the lies.
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Adam Ragusea did a video on teflon. Use of teflon is not toxic, the factories that make them are.
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Russian speaking Ukrainians are telling Ukraine where the Russian ammo dumps are.
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There is a physical limit to efficiency. I think solar pannels max out at 30% right now and the theoretical physical limit is around 40% efficiency.
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@uncletiggermclaren7592 It's not about the driving. It's about taking the literal risk to splatter against the Earth just to feel a few minutes of thrill on the descent. People defy death for their own entertainment. Pulling a trigger seems boring in comparison.
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@uncletiggermclaren7592 Read that again and think about what you posted. Defying the death of reason means fighting FOR reason, not against it.
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It's literally about distribution. If the charges were about production they'd have been dismissed in 30 seconds.
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@hawaiian529 Putin is one man. Russia has hundred-something million people. They could easily defeat Putin, the mob could tear him apart. There's hundreds of thousands, most likely over a million in the police forces and national guard who could just step aside and let the people give the leader the Gaddafi treatment. They're all to blame.
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@juliusfucik4011 The "couple" held democratic elections, and 2019 had another election where a democratic transfer of power happened. Or do you think Zelensky has been in power since 2014? He won the election as the opposition (against Poroshenko) in 2019. You should be embarassed.
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 @reubensandwich9249 Which is according to their constitution. Do you think the sitting government should decide to hold anti-constitutional elections?
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Did the US nuke Afghanistan? No.
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"it's ok to stand with the police as an institution" - It really isn't. "The way things are going law and order still protects small government advocates and generally people on the right" - They'll literally shoot you in your sleep.
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Except they're getting the old stuff.
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"I need 50 cal ammo!" gets AT4
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 @smokedbeefandcheese4144 That doesn't come from the military budget.
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 @dragonemperorsy2515 Nobody has to lower their living standard. Do you eat surplus Abrams?
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@dragonemperorsy2515 The munitions are peanuts. Sure, sanctions may have hurt us, but it's better to rip the bandaid out. Would you buy water, gas and electricity from a provider that kept threatening to come to your house and beat you? Spending a week in the dark is rough, but worth it to find another provider.
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Not AKs, PKs.
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This is a complete fallacy. You want to downplay the issues with wind energy by bringing up fossil fuel, by pretending fossils are the only energy source we can use. What this says is that we should fix some issues before investing more in wind, or just accept that it's an avenue we may leave on the backburner as we invest in better renewables. But no, you people just say "ignore the issues because the alternative is fossil". This is a cult.
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@richardgould-blueraven Look at it from the outside. If all the solutions have problems, cutting out the solutions with the most problems reduces the number of problems we have to deal with. Doubling down does not help us in any way. But somehow, people will defend wind simply because it's not fossil... But the point is that maybe we should rethink what we're doing and become more effective at replacing fossils - not insist on flawed solutions by saying that we should ignore the issues.
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 @mrthompsonjt Did you predict a large scale offensive in a frozen conflict?
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@athsumerius6865 The real joke is that the biggest threat from rising sea levels is infiltration of salt water into the fresh water table. We lose coastline from erosion faster than the seas could ever climb.
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@kennethgenz4784 If you buy a 100,000 dollar car that breaks down 20 miles away from the dealership you got the proverbial pickle. But under normal circumstances you use the car, sell it for 70k, next owner sells it for 50k, next owner sells it for 30k, next thing you know it will be on Facebook marketplace or whatever for 500 bucks. The million dollar house would sell for 900k, then 800k, then 700k. Each successive owner losing little value. The fact is, people are buying million dollar houses next to the beaches. Powerful people. Knowledgeable people. Aquaman won't get that house for decades to come.
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@doyouliketypos Nobody will buy a car that doesn't work. Now remember that every broken down car was a working vehicle at some point. People will buy property they can't develop or keep. Again, cars. Unless you're purposefully buying a car to restore it (which requires the model to be in demand) or a rare specimen, you take a financial loss on every car purchase. As soon as you drive a new car off the lot, it devalues by several thousand. Whenever you buy a phone, the model you buy will depreciate. You just figure that your usage of the phone is valued higher. If a house is gone, but you lived in it for 10 years for cheap, all the money you saved put you ahead of other people living a life similar to yours but paying "real" prices on their rent/mortgage. You're going on a rant about real estate developers which is a totally different topic. Yeah, I agree we should re-write the entire thing to promote actual low income housing rather than luxury units. That's irrelevant to the point.
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@iseedeadpeople6667 People build paper thin houses with a reinforced shelter. They treat tornadoes like a certainty. You can try to rationalize any way you want it, but we build on disaster prone areas. The uncertainty is actually worse. You can lose your investment in a year or 50 years. But you'll be rightly f*cked if you lose your home in one year. At least certainty that you'll have a few decades... that's a better guarantee that anyone else will offer in this life.
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@manny022 how the hell are polymer case rounds going to kill less civilians?
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@manny022 Dude. 6.8 proposals had to respect the Army's choice of projectile, which is steel core. The polymer is in the CASING.
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@Salidin111 apparently Taofladermaus was in contact with a YouTube rep and he was told that he would have to film his videos that involve guns in a shooting range. He does a ton of shotgun slug tests and films on private property. I do not think that rule is official but that's the level of bullshit YT reps are willing to bring up when gun-related youtubers start asking questions.
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@Jonathan50 lmao Israel doesn't need them in Israel. They need US soldiers invading the rest of the Middle East.
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@brandonbrown6922 how do you "remove the middleman" if they're just replacing the cow for their own production facilities?
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@brandonbrown6922 that's beside the point, you said the middle man was taken out but you inserted a new one
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How us it both a fraud and useful?
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@BiigiieCheeese It doesn't require anything. You can get a crypto currency which is pegged. You can get crypto that isn't. You're taking the actions and choices of a few and applying it to the entire concept.
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No true. Neither Putin nor Zelensky had talked directly which meant the Turkey talks were handled by mediators. There was no deal ready at that point. All Boris said was that you can't trust a Russian deal. Then the Bucha graves were found. That's what derailed the peace process.
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 @Jason-TheChad-Muska_circa1995 Careful because of reverse causality. It's not that voter ID ensures red victory, red victory ensures they won't give up voter ID.
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Was it? Can we see the pictures?
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There's no actual red button. The generals have to issue the order and the men in the firing stations need to obey.
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 @noconsent Grocery stores are retail, not the meat industry. If they take a loss in meat, they make up somewhere else. Which is exactly what the other poster said.
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Irresponsible? How? Are people going to kidnap women because they saw it on an ad? Are straight men and gay women going to think more about sex with women than they do now, causing them to become rapists? It's the fact that it was political satire? Sick? Hardly. What other people do in their privacy and their kinks aren't for you to judge.
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@tracyvictoria3869 "you can't control people's mind especially MILLIONS of people who are currently overwhelmed by mental illnesses. that's just naive thinking" - but you can control the 400-500 million guns already in the United States?
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It failed? Ukraine captured 500 square km there.
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@tdbn4599 Cope. They said even before it started that Kherson would not be taken by direct assault to avoid casualties. "Look at how many casualties they suffered" - the Russian side overstates them. "sending wave after wave of attacks" - Which they didn't do, even Russian telegram is saying that they are doing a creeping offensive where they slowly advance and fortify positions.
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It's an alpha emitter which is dangerous if you breathe/ingest the dust. Problem is, it's a heavy metal like lead and mercury. The poisoning will get you before radiation does. Same goes for tungsten in armor.
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@viceralman8450 Wrong. It's both a heavy metal and a carcinogen. Metal augmented charges used in low collateral bombs use tungsten dust and are controversial because if a person near the blast survives they get the heavy metal embedded into their body.
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@ads401- NS2 was blocked by Germany. There was no need to attack NS2. Plus, it was NS1 that got destroyed, with NS2 being 50% disabled. By your own logic, Biden never spoke about NS1 so the US is innocent.
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The second Battle of Saratoga in 1777 is considered the turning point in the American revolutionary war, because a British general was cornered and surrendered near Saratoga, New York, which lead to the king of France sending aid to the revolution as it was an opportunity to get back at Britain.
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The Ukrainians built the defenses north of Kiev last year, after the Russian retreat. An attempt to retry Feb 2022 will end up with even greater losses. It's an ambush sector up there.
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 @henlohenlo689 It's hard to win a defamation suit in the US. In the UK it's much easier.
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Bruh neither AMD or Nvidia are at fault for a retarded partner card design.
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 @Kian139 Price regulation is terrible. Rent control is a prime example of how the housing market went down the drain by trying to improve it.
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And the A-10 got killed. The USAF is forced to keep dragging it around but it gets less and less missions.
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 @timstapleman Of course you love war - you're pro-Russia.
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"Russia is only using up to 15% of its total number of combatants in the military (1.1 million)" - Most are not combat troops.
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The experts contradict the findings to reassure you that you still need their product. Funny. "If" one lives through. Okay, below what age, I think it's 65 or 70, you have the same chances of surviving as a flu. Do you ever say the words "if you live through the flu"? No. Good, there should be hesitancy. Almost everyone who really needs it got it right in the first few months it was available. This stuff is CAUSING medical conditions on people who didn't have them. Didn't have an underlying condition before? Roll the dice and you may get one.
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@JPEight Per capita doesn't tell the full story. If two countries with the same exact population have them distributed geographically in a different manner, you can get wildly different per capita numbers. Per capita is a very useful tool but there's ways to lie with it.
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@JPEight They're not saying that Sweden is more similar to the UK, they're saying that Sweden has differences between them and the surrounding countries. You're just strawmanning. 25 to 15 might not seem much, but it's nearly double the population density. That alone accounts for your 5-7 times difference being reduced to little over 2.5-3.5 times. If we go down the list of mitigating factors we'll end up seeing almost no difference.
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 @yakovbrod9992 bots are human. Like in Chernobyl "bio-robots" cleaned up the radioactive material, the Russian government pays humans to be bots.
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@richardarceo6167 "If you think that the A10 is obsolete then that would include all attack helicopters also?" - Attack helicopters use terrain masking because they can hover in and out of cover. Aircraft like the Apache have sensors above the rotor so that they can target, pop out, fire, duck back into cover. The A-10 has to expose itself during the entire attack. You can't take a beating these days. A missile will cut the aircraft in half. An aircraft that can take that beating has to be extremely heavy.
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6 months of fighting for a worthless cause with diminishing supplies...
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 @sasakihayse4535 Russia? Ahahah you should look it up, they're very "multiethnic".
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It's not terror.
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That's the point, though. They'll say it's inconvenient to have your phone in hand while waiting in line, you'll be able to wave through a door and enter. They'll say it's more convenient.
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@anti1training If nobody agrees with this, then why is it happening all over the developed world?
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Back then things weren't as "sanitized" and you could easily get the parts kits (the receiver has to be destroyed before import) that include the full auto parts. They could have done the conversion after they were returned.
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No. It's an individual right. Situations where an entire community hates you and bullies you is exactly why individual rights are a thing.
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Modern HARM variants save the last known position.
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@hayden8491 I thought this was common knowledge. Apparently only /k/ knows about it?
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@AndrewDutton-Topper that's chemical warfare, you're lucky they didn't take you to The Hague
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If you do pyrolysis you can actually recover wood gas along with the charcoal. That means you can lock in carbon in the charcoal but still have (CO2 releasing) "biofuel". That way you can actually power something instead of just dumping CO2. The problem is how you're going to have to manage this to not deplete the soils.
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@Peizxcv Use of nukes cannot go unanswered or else nuclear blackmail becomes practice. Why wouldn't North Korea demand control of the South?
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I checked the facts. Russians are lying. As usual.
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We had the ability to work titanium. And when we faced problems we used our own science to solve the issues with titanium welds. The SR-71 was also never used to bomb civilians.
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"Kids are going to be abused!" "Reeee a 17 year old kid shouldn't shoot Rosenbaum!"
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Why?
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@mattsmith1137 But they won't. Not soon or later - Russia is spent and is now a madman swinging a knife with a bullet lodged in the heart. Still dangerous, but the wound is fatal. Let him swing at air.
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MANDPADS aren't used against armor.
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F-16s and F-15Es provide close air support, though.
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Have you consider how many have escaped the law because they knew they wouldn't be shot? I'm sorry, but if I were a criminal I'd live in the UK and just keep fit enough to run.
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Borovik? Is that Polish or Russian?
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Biden talked with Trump before approving strikes in Russia and he agreed.
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It was a cluster munition attack. They shredded targets from munition depots, helicopters, an air defense system and personnel. Everything was hit. Plus there's photos of the bomblets.
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The separatists ignored the Minsk agreements. When Zelensky tried to talk directly to their handlers (Russia) they said it wasn't their problem. A last minute interception? That's why they staged exercises in Belarus for a few weeks?
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@belstar1128 Some countries have loosened up restrictions. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, etc you can get sports shooting licenses that allow you to shoot stuff that was previously banned in the past in IPSC/3-gun. There's youtube channels of gun owners in Sweden, Finland, France, etc and you can get cool stuff there too, the problem is that everything's expensive.
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@Venus03 "PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION AND GUN CONTROL" - POST Technical Report 87, November 1996.
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"if he & others followed early on, could have prevented the need for vaccines"/"they are who got us to the point of vaccines" - I'm going to have to ask you to stop. The point of the masks wasn't eradicating spread. It was limiting spread. Go back to March 2020. Everyone was going to get it. Just not at the same time. That was the narrative. Hence flattening the curve. Do you remember how people would explain the curve to you 50 times a day? It was unbearable. The area under the curve is the same. It's just spread out longer. We had like 3 curves flattened by the time the shots were made available. Nobody "got us" to any point. The point was set. Did you know that serological tests show that there's blood in Italian blood banks that was drawn in late 2019 that had antibodies for the stuff? We had months where we weren't wearing any masks and it was spreading. Then the authorities said masks didn't work. That's another month or whatever. So you can't blame Clapton.
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@Poochipup False. SARS 1 was a MUCH WORSE disease which like Ebola allows the sick to be quarantined and the spread to be contained. SARS CoV 2 on the other hand has very mild symptoms for a big percentage of people who come down with it. The data says you're wrong. It was already over the world in late 2019. Masks didn't stop it. 320 people in an apartment block became infected because fecal matter was sucked out of a faulty sewage system. If tiny particles can get into a ventilation system and infect people in their own homes you think masks stop it? By April 2003 only 3,300 people had been infected by SARS. The spread was much slower. It's you who doesn't know history.
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@Poochipup It was stopped due to it being a more serious disease with lower contagion. It was stopped because it was noticed early. SARS CoV 2 was already all over the world by the time authorities were still denying human to human transmission. It's you who needs to get real. If it was even more infectious than SARS CoV 2 then how come the Chinese authorities had reported 30 thousand cases a month into this BS, while the first SARS got 10x less infections? If Asians knew how to control disease, then how come China had to lock Hubei province and in the hotspots weld people into their homes? Have empty streets pressure washed with disinfectant? Clearly they couldn't pull off the same tactics as SARS. They were much more desperate. Desperation isn't an indication of knowing what you're doing. They took lockdowns and quarantines so seriously, they allowed flights out of Hubei province despite closing it off from the rest of the country. Seems like the CCP wanted the precious liberties of infecting the world. Clapton's short sightedness? But the Chinese also vaccinate. By your logic they're Asian and they know how to defeat SARS. How come they failed? They need the vaccine. You're contradicting yourself. You don't want to hear more because you know you've been defeated and you've embarrassed yourself with contradictions.
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I'm glad you are against human rights.
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@travelfreak2 He was only chased out because the pro-Yanukovych security forces realized they'd be charged with murder of protesters and Yanukovych would get immunity. When the security services refused to protect Yanukovych he suddenly remembered he needed protection. It was his fault he had to flee.
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@ajaykumarsingh702 "According to official data" you mean Russian official data?
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I'm sure the Army is going to spend billions to accept an aircraft with a thousand hours or so left before it snaps mid air.
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Don't try to imagine too hard, the smoke will trigger the fire alarms. When pixels are averaged during compression, the dark areas from an engraving will blend together, following the L shaped path. Put four L shapes in a radial pattern and what does it look like?
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They're already at both sides of the Dnipro. In a place called Zaporizhzhia.
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The F/A-18 is in service with the Navy... Bruh.
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 @fanta4897 Russians lost a dozen aircraft in two weeks doing this stunt. Outside of effective range means outside of glide range.
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The UK paid back their WWII debt in 2006. They'll be given a long time to repay.
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No trap. Russians got slaughtered. Seems like God has chosen Ukraine.
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@darthmercur3067 Take your meds.
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@darthmercur3067 Meds. Take them.
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@darthmercur3067 You're spamming and obsessed with Trump.
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The problem is, we haven't even put Man beyond the Moon yet and we've already put lots of thought on how to survive landings in places like Mars. You can't just discover FTL travel prior to taking a few laps around your own planet's orbit.
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The problem is that you can't keep an entire country under drone coverage. Flying hundreds of drones every hour of the day, every day, for 20 years and firing a 130,000 dollar Hellfire every time troops come into contact is not sustainable. Sometimes troops will have to wait for assets to come their way, and sitting around twirling their thumbs under fire is not always possible.
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They're not checks, it's equipment.
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Skiddibidiby dum-burumbi.
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Just like women should be responsible for "asking for it", right? Well, women should have 15 rounds of hollow point bullets on tap and dump them in the assailant's chest.
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The US government? It's the media and a few nutters.
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@octowuss1888 "everything I've read" stop reading Russian news made to reassure Russians
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But as birth rates raduce, we'll always have more older people around.
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You're the ones being misleading. You're trying to make a comparison that cannot be made due to the inherent differences in population and strains. Numbers now come from a population that had the most vulnerable culled in several waves, and with a strain that is milder. You can't attribute the differences to a single factor.
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"Health Care is a moral obligation in the western world" - Not when the moral obligation is to steal from my paycheck. That's immoral.
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Delusional take. Not only it is not "new technology" as its been around for almost 20 years, Russia is desperate to the point of pulling T-62s and T-55s out of reserves. Basically Russia won't have much to fight a future war, so why save the Su-57? Its time should be now.
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This. For those not in the know, China has spammed a lot of pro-CCP rhetoric into the internet but where they call themselves "CPC" so that if you google CPC you end up in their disinfo websites. They go around claiming "CCP" is a hateful term made up by Westerners to invoke the CCCP (Soviet Union). However, most people who don't speak Russian probably don't know that USSR in Cyrillic is CCCP (C = S, P = R, Union = "Soyuz") so that conspiracy wouldn't even work.
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@SaInTDEmYSe Assuming that there's an average of 3 people per family, giving us a number of 106 million families, a single F-35A worth 85 million dollars would give each American family a whopping... 80 cents.
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@SaInTDEmYSe That's not the point. The entire F-35 fleet will be built up over decades, not in a single year. For every F-35 that the US gave up, only 80 cents would be awarded to each family. Total defense spending doesn't go towards the F-35. The US spends more on its people per year than the entire F-35 program during it's entire life. Check out the 2019 federal budget and do the math, Socrates.
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@SaInTDEmYSe There's plenty of hospitals. The US spends 600 bil on Medicare and 400 bil on Medicaid. Or the other way around, can't remember which is which. You came to a video you know you were not interested in and started complaining about how money is being spent on things you don't like. Imagine being this mad.
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@SaInTDEmYSe imagine clicking a video you know you'll disagree with, cry in the comments, get told, and then somehow try to recover by claiming others are crying. Go burn down your local Target or something.
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@SaInTDEmYSe I don't need to hoard, I have the knowledge in my brain.
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Because a T-62 allows you to use even cheaper AT weapons. It's not the same. It's just worse. And obe extra life at risk if it gets penetrated and the ammo set off.
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They're using Chinese golf carts, motorbikes and trucks covered in chain link fencing to do assaults. Seems to me the sanctions did cripple their military as Russia is looking more like Mad Max these days.
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So insurers get to charge less to people shedding the stuff onto others? So private venues should be able to risk the people inside their venue by having untested people shed onto others? Nothing about this is sound. This is a mess. Pharma companies delivered half baked goods and charged BILLIONS for it. Tell them to F off and make something that actually works. Then we can have that conversation.
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@justinshin2279 You embody what everyone hates about libs. So basically we have a world where healthy people who have a low likelihood of having complications pay more insurance than the obese who took a shot that's going to wear off in 6-8 months and are going to be much more costly for the next three decades, where a venue owner can demand an experimental treatment not to mitigate actual risk but just liability because he doesn't give less of a damn if he's hosting superspreader events (but he won't just make people sign a waiver), and products made by people who I quote "are not our friends" should be imposed on people by threatening their free travel, their job, etc.
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@justinshin2279 "if it were up to me" - It's not up to you. We're working off what we have, not what you want. "I think their right to do so is plainly enshrined in the Constitution" - And venue owners should also be allowed to not discriminate for the same reasons. "For instance, I have to purchase a ticket to see a football game." - This is a ridiculous example and you know it. "I have to be SCUBA certified to go on a dive" - If you go on a dive without knowing how, you die. If you go into a venue you have a lower than 100% chance of being exposed, if exposed a lower than 100% chance of getting infected, and if infected a greater than 80% chance of not even feeling symptoms. The venue owner cannot ensure safety through vaccination. The logic simply does not support your case, unless this is about a circular exercise in ass covering. "By the way, some venues are only allowing UNvaccinated people to enter" - This clearly falls outside of the mandates and those businesses are exposing themselves to fines or closures. "it's perfectly lawful" - Only in the states that have decided to stop giving a damn. As it stands, plenty of business are ignoring the mandates but if we lose, they go down. So you better pray we win.
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@justinshin2279 This argument is about mandates, not healthcare. "I support any policy that allows insurers to charge me less for making choices that are less risky" - Even when backed by dogsh!t science? "For the insurer, the choice is simply between a person who chooses to get the vaccine and a person who does not." - Not until they start charging for everything else. "then you should support insurers being able to charge them accordingly" - No, because those people were either fooled or coerced into taking it. If insurance companies are coercing it... they can charge themselves. And the money comes back to us. "Comparing SCUBA requirements to vaccination status is not really the point" - Yes, it is. You're not asked for a driver's license to ride the bumper cars at the fair or to do some laps on a go kart. "the courts would rule in favor of businesses" - Sure, we just don't have time for courts. Things are happening now.
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@justinshin2279 "I am engaging in risky behaviors" - Not taking a shot is not risky. Look up the long term survival rates for myocarditis. "If it means requiring either vaccination or more frequent testing, I am okay with it."/" If it means forcing everyone to get vaccinated against their will, I oppose it strongly" - The hell is this wishy-washy bs? You're okay with "requiring" it but not people being forcibly jabbed? What's the difference? The former is insidiously evil, the latter is cartoonishly evil. At least being cartoonishly evil will set off the alarms and get people to start fighting, when it's insidious people at the top can treat you like cattle with a smile, the police will say "hey I'm just doing my job", and if you do anything about it you'll be called crazy. "I can tell you that businesses are not generally enforcing the mandate" - But saying the law doesn't matter because everyone is ignoring it is not enough. The actual text of the law needs to be erased and the people responsible for it need to face consequences for governmental overreach. "It's performative" - Don't care. Punitive action is necessary for even trying. Treating overreach with kid gloves because it resulted in "lol jk!" just opens the door for real overreach that won't be fought because people are already pacified by all the times it didn't amount to anything and there was no need to fight back. "when there is a public safety concern" - There's always a public safety concern. "many gun ranges go out of their way to do more than the standard check" - The hell does that mean? The gun store either performs the NICS check or the state-specific variant they're mandated to perform by state legislature. There's no way to do "more" than the standard, and the standard is all there is. With a few states having standards different from the federal one. "But the range could be liable if it was determined they did not take obvious steps to ensure dangerous people did not fire weapons at the range." - I don't know why I have to explain this, but comparing high velocity metal to a bug most people don't know they have it unless tested is simply not sane.
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@justinshin2279 1. Meanwhile in the real world, cardiac complications nearly doubled in Israel compared to the 2019-2020 average, due to a mass campaign that was not worth the trouble because it affected people who were not likely to get complications from the disease. 2. You're being wishy-washy, not pragmatic. There is no nuance in using unchecked corporate power to sidestep the issue of unchecked government power. Privatizing the means of control is not pragmatism. It's a fundamentally anti-human stance and you need to own up to it. 3. I am entitled to say that the people responsible for restrictive regulations need to suffer punitive action. If I screw up on my job, I can get fired. I care about what's happening in the real world - real politicians are using real political power irresponsibly and you're saying it's not really happening because people this time have chosen not to comply. Even though at least 60% are complying, but that's just a tiny little detail. Do you have a single argument that isn't running interference for these people? 4. That's whataboutism. For twenty years I've spoken against a multitude of issues and you don't get to shame me just because you're Johnny come lately and didn't see me do it. Meanwhile, you have a paradigm shift that's going to affect regular people even more than the War on Terror did, and your concern is "dude weed lmao". We already congratulated drugs for winning the war on drugs. You say things aren't an issue if people don't comply, seems to me drug laws are something people have no issue with non-compliance so I don't need to press that further. This is going to affect even more people than the war on drugs, essentially unpersoning them without trial or conviction. If you thought plea deals were rough, that is worse. 5. Florida is a partial point of contact state where FDLE is responsible for the check even though they use the FBI NICS system. From what I understand other states can place a NICS flag on you, and FDLE cannot do anything about it so there's non-prohibited persons failing checks in Florida. Your acquaintance may need to check the conditions for his discharge, what state it happened in, etc to get it cleared out.
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An assault weapon is a normal weapon with black plastic furniture or evil terorrist/communist wood stocks. Yeah, "recreational shooting" weapons will kill anyone dead. It's not up to you to choose for other people what kind of weapons they can fire.
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@Badatallthis Stuff "The spare parts? Really? The US Military is incapable of repairing a tractor?" - You'd be surprised. "Using the same tools they use to do maintenance on OTHER immense physical machinery?" - You do realize it's not like jacking your Ford Pinto, right? You can't use M1 Abrams tooling on farming equipment.
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Big flex on merc'ing people while in negotiations. Reminds me of the Japanese saying the US can't build a second nuke and they get the memo that Nagasaki got glassed.
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@zednopercent8994 MMOs are live services by design but optimally the meat and potatoes should be there from day one. From level 1 to endgame. When the MMO is successful the money goes toward expanding that endgame beyond the original scope. Now with these "live services" we're kind of waiting on a promise of support and we might not get much.
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In the last 20 years people were gushing about the never ending growth of China. Don't try to retroactively change the mainstream opinion now.
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Russia's abortion rate is pretty high.
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The titanium tub is only so that the pilot can pull the ejection handle. If the aircraft is ripped from nose to tail with Shilka/Tunguska/Pantsir cannon fire the tub protects the pilot from getting KIA by a cannon round, but it's not a lucky charm that defies aerodynamics and loss of power.
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@36w3s.talbot4 The damage on her aircraft was on the tail. She did fly her Hog to base and land. Lieutenant Patrick Olson flew to base and got killed trying to land the damaged A-10. Everyone remembers Kim Campbell. Everyone forgets Patrick Olson. People praise the A-10 because Campbell lived but never say a peep about Olson.
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Whataboutism.
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It's not even her fault.
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The IMF does the due dilligence to ensure you can pay back. If China is gonna lend money willy nilly they're just gonna collapse lol imagine lending a ton of money to countries which are unreliable or could have coups replacing the government that contractedthe debt. Have fun trying to squeeze money out of them.
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@faikerdogan2802 "But with such an easy fix like getting a couple jabs the society as a whole can prevent a shit ton" - In Israel the "easy fix" was 4 jabs, and even then the numbers were most likely going down because they went over the peak and the curve was bound to collapse at some point. The couple jabs didn't allow society as a whole to get out of this.
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@ofdrumsandchords "If you vaccine only 50 or 60% of a population, you run the risk of seeing the emergence of variants resistant to the vaccine" - First, due to logistics you'll always have a great percentage of the population that doesn't have the up to date vaccine as it is distributed to the elderly and vulnerable first, then emergency services and medical staff, etc. so by your own logic you cannot get rid of that risk. Second, the genetic testing in the SF Bay Area shows that the vaccinated are overwhelmingly carrying antibody resistant strains while the unvaccinated have approximately a 45-55 split. If anything, the vaccinated are a reservoir for prior strains while the vaccinated are the selective breeding ground for resistant strains.
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@ofdrumsandchords Again, I just told you that the unvaccinated have a greater incidence of older strains, while the vaccinated are spreading the new strains with antibody resistance.
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 @faikerdogan2802 Portugal has hit 1300 new daily cases sooner than they expected. They're essentially in for a rude awakening.
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@ofdrumsandchords What?
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@faikerdogan2802 No, they aren't. They're behind Israel. What's happening in Portugal started in Israel months ago. It's you who's fooling yourself. Their cases are already rising, and it's going to happen in the winter.
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@faikerdogan2802 Israel had a peak during the summer. It's not normal for a working vaccine to let cases rise. If it worked, there would be no rise. Thanks for admitting it doesn't work. They're not doing much better than 2020. To do way better you have to do better than yourself, not better than other countries with different conditions.
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@faikerdogan2802 Yeah, you got no argument so all you have is jokes and emojis. Your data is outdated and includes people who were in the ICU before the vaccine was distributed. The doctors and experts are constantly going on TV "baffled" that the measures are not working. They're the flat earthers who fell for the religious dogma and now were caught blindsided. More restrictions Christmas! Portugal is distributing the third shot now! Worked so well, they need an extra dose!
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@faikerdogan2802 Define science class. The last science class called "science" I had 5/5 in middle school. The last science subject I had in highschool was geology and I had 17/20. If we count computer science as a science, I had 18/20 in a programming class in college. Before that it was a class on composites engineering the year prior to my programming class, I had 16/20. All the experts aren't advocating it. Only the ones with a voice. Doctors who go against the government guidelines may get their license suspended where I live. I mean, that's just an argument from authority. I already got you "on tape" saying that cases will rise in the winter, aka an admission that goes against what your precious experts are saying. They're still whispering in your ear that everything will be okay, even though you already told me you know it's not true. So why are you appealing to the experts? The ones who denied that there was human to human transmission? The ones who then admitted there was human to human transmission but said it wasn't airborne?
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Minsk was broken by DPR forces.
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The .50 cal is anti-aircraft? Good luck bringing down a Cessna with it. It's an anti-material rifle, so I guess you could call it anti-aircraft as long as it's grounded and not moving.
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Enthusiasm for what? I'm not enthusiastic at all. You want WW3? Two sides preparing for WW3 is exactly how you light the powder keg.
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@ricardorodriguez-mi2zv They started WW3 by blowing their wad, showing off their issues with logistical support outside of the range of their rail network, their hesitancy to exploit air superiority against a country that currently has no air force, and letting us all know their tanks are not as resilient as we thought?
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Did non-capitalist countries have big animal agriculture?
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You can't fit the 6.8 cartridge on an AR-15 pattern rifle. It's too long.
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@jsthecanuck6804 Yeah they could make the gun bigger but they'd have to chop it and re-weld lengthening pieces. Imagine trying to stick a truck engine into a Smart car. Just the labor involved would deny the advantage of doing a caliber conversion because all the main parts would need replacement.
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@Leif1963 the A-10 is a dicey situation because it's largely a meme, and I don't mean in the sense of funny internet pictures but the original meaning of meme - the idea equivalent of a gene that can propagate itself and become shared culture. During Vietnam the best damn CAS aircraft was the A-7, is could drop payload accurately and since it could move fast, it was less vulnerable to SAMs and AAA. However, the Army was very unhappy with the situation because they wanted the USAF to provide cover for helicopters, which were extremely vulnerable. In need of funding, the USAF accepted the program to adopt a new CAS aircraft that could fly slow enough to cover for helicopters and they started to evaluate the YA-9 and YA-10. When the YA-10 flew against the A-7, not only was the YA-10 not carrying the gun which gave it extra performance but the USAF also told A-7 pilots not to use the bombing computer so they could sandbag the results. The A-7 was clearly the better platform but the USAF accepted defeat and adopted the airplane the Army wanted. Even though it betrayed the speed is life mantra. The A-10 is known for the titanium bathtub, the engines being spaced apart so that if one is hit by a shoulder launched IR missile the other survives, etc. But the fact is that in 1991 the USAF found the number of A-10 losses and battle damaged airframes unacceptable and pulled it from missions against the Iraqi National Guard, only using them against the less capable Iraq army forces. Even in interviews of the time you can hear pilots say that the AGM-65 Maverick was an instant kill shot on tanks but the gun wasn't, and after a gun run they needed to look back and wait to see if the tank started burning or not. I'm writing a freaking essay over here. My point is that a lot of the civilian enthusiasts completely misunderstand CAS. Close Air Support doesn't mean going low and slow. It only means the ordnance will be dropped close to friendlies. People have ragged on more modern aircraft because you need to go low and slow to see the targets but the fact is that one dude who's multitasking to keep the plane flying still needs to have controllers on the ground. Even low and slow you don't see the battlefield clearly, and when the ground controllers aren't doing their job the A-10 pilots have fired on friendlies. So, the vast majority of CAS missions have already been taken over by other planes. F-16, F/A-18, F-15 Eagle, even B1s. Since 2014 that the A-10 only got about 11% of CAS missions. The A-10 has already been replaced, and we had a better CAS aircraft before it was even adopted. But it's easy to sell the story that a corrupt government and/or military is trying to phase out a beloved aircraft in favor of a shitty modern gizmo. Even though a good aircraft like the A-7 had its spot stolen by an inferior A-10 thanks to corruption.
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@Leif1963 I purposefully refrained from mentioning the military. The fact is that it's very difficult to try and contradict someone who saw with their own eyes the A-10 performing a gun run to save their life. What the A-10 has going for it is the fact that the pilots have excellent focused training and can do things like being forward observers better than people who had to learn that role but also 5 different roles in their multirole plane, this expertise would have to be drawn from A-10 school to the F-16 and F-35 school but this can't happen until the A-10 is retired.
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@ep6727 yeah people making a decision last minute, what's up with that?
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@Giby86 "they test them for their efficacy" - Yes. And the efficacy is measured on the person only, not the community. "people who cannot get vaccinated and that rely on the people around them to be protected" - But they can't rely on them, because those who got it can still spread. So they will never be protected. Sorry. "That's how vaccines work, and this was no exception" - Yes it was, to the point the definition of vaccine even had to change.
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The F-4 was made without a cannon because if you wasted time getting into guns firing position, the Soviets would have already sunk the carrier you're supposed to land on. In essence, it did not need it because if it did, it had already failed its job and the aircraft would have to be ditched into the ocean. The USAF losses against MiGs were a result of terrible situational awareness leading to slow flying F-4s escorting strike packages getting struck by hit and run attacks where having a gun wouldn't have made a lick of difference because the Americans could not speed up and catch up the fleeing MiGs. These ambushes were partially countered with MIGCAP and in 1972 fully countered with Teaball. Navy F-4s had situational awareness provided by ships and thus had a good kill ratio from flying more offensive missions with no easy way to flank around them. https://www.historynet.com/great-kill-ratio-debate.htm The F-4 swatted plenty of MiGs over Vietnam, 90 percent by missile.
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@steffennilsen2132 And the Navy flew F-4 Phantoms with no guns too.
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 @Thunder_playz_331 they're way more expensive than 30k, there's way too many high cost components inside recovered Iranian drones
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Russia is being terrible with deliveries. Both India and Turkey have complained that they're still waiting on deliveries of prior contracts.
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@charlessevigny Doesn't matter. They were in possession of them and the agreement was that they'd give them up in exchange for security.
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@charlessevigny I'm going to try again. If you put an ad out saying you lost your phone and you'll give a hundred dollars reward, and I find the phone, even though I don't have the code to unlock the phone if I give it to you I'm kind of expecting the hundred dollars. You said you'd do something for X, and then you went back on your deal. The keys don't matter. The core and explosive lensing are the difficult parts to build as you need physicists and nuclear engineers to not only acquire fissile materials but also figure out how to achieve criticality. The mechanism that prevents triggering the weapon can be disassembled and replaced by a new one. It's like a locker room cabinet. If you abandon it with your padlock there, someone may use bolt cutters to get your padlock out and then use your cabinet with their own lock. Finland and Sweden will not remain neutral. If NATO is such an existencial threat to Russia, maybe they should stop encouraging countries to join. People will not die, because Russia can only bully non-NATO countries.
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Monetize the haters. I'd actually respect it.
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Three different aircraft programs would have been a nightmare.
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The military logic is impeccable. Truly NATO's way of war. Claw the eyes out. Slit their tendons. Trip their feet. HQs hit. Ammo dumps hit. Rail transports hit. Bridges hit. Radars hit. Air defenses hit. Today there was an onslaught, Russians are pulling out aircraft from Crimea. Take away their air support. Meanwhile Russia doesn't know what to do. They can't even react.
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Sacco and Vanzetti absolutely did it, the claim that they were scapegoats is a long running leftist cope.
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The Avro Arrow would be obsolete by the date it entered service.
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Please join them, how great will advance be when you lose an arm or a leg to a drone? You'll be sobbing and crying on the ground bleeding out, but telling yourself it was worth it for the "advance".
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Still patting yourself in the back for misreading an article about trench fighting in Bakhmut?
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Materials and construction techniques made building houses cheaper. It's not just computers that got faster, you know? Houses increased in size because one load bearing structure can hold a wider ceiling above without issues while in the past you needed to increase the number of support walls and thus require more material and man hours.
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+Pete Baumgartner have you seen how poor their accuracy is, though?
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@kindlingking nah they literally film videos complaining about the state of the frontlines and address Putin as if he's being mislead by his advisors. In some cases it's actual belief in a righteous leader who can fire his minions for their blunders and fix everything, and just pretending for the cameras to not get in trouble - after all, they're "protecting" Putin from the corrupt officials so they're helping the government rather than criticize it.
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Russia has lost plenty of aircraft.
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@ghilliem.g.5824 How is it reasonable to have police fire at you unprompted? They had already injured the cult leader with gunfire, that's significant.
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@ghilliem.g.5824 It wasn't a standoff, the authorities rolled up and with the will to kill. What's the point of a dog killing fireteam if you're not about to breach? Owning arms is legal. They invited the ATF to search them, they refused. They wanted a big show. They planned for violence. They weren't scared, which is why they invited the ATF. They became scared when the authorities surrounded them and started shooting.
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The main reason you can't use diesel in a jet engine is that when you climb the low temperature will cause the fluid to thicken. Jet fuel has agents mixed in that allow it to work in most conditions. The Su-25 is an attacker aircraft usually flown at low altitude so he got away with it.
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@fuzz.. Yes, but people say similar things happened to EXCUSE it.
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@fuzz.. What part of Pho-King Soup's comment triggered Shery Awan?
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@janvanhof1469 It wasn't a fight. It was a car coming up to an intersection and slowed down.
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@walkfromwalkstreet The bombing of Yugoslavia was a sad event but the fact is that defenses prioritized their survival over defense of the country, so the bombing of infrastructure had to be carried out to pressure the leadership. If anything, it's much more forgiving than Russian tactics. The highway of death was an attack on a military column. Unless an enemy army has surrendered, it's legitimate to prosecute the target to deny the enemy warfighting capabilities.
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@fuzz.. There's writing down memories on a journal/diary, and these people posting the same damn comments everywhere. Look at other threads. It's not memories. It's arguments.
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@walkfromwalkstreet What false news? The situation is not the same at all. Two sides are engaged in conflict and Ukrainian troops are dying for their country. And Ukraine has sacrificed its own infrastructure to halt Russian advance. Meanwhile the Yugoslav forces did use Albanians as human shields. If you want to talk about evacuation corridors, you have to first mention the terms and conditions. Baghdad? There's April 2003 satellite photos showing most of the city still standing, unlike what Russians did. The bombings on Baghdad were directed at Iraqi leadership, Republican Guard targets and radar defenses. And The Ukrainians, who Putin said are brotherly people, are being gunned down like dogs. That tells more about the people you're defending than the Americans.
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@fuzz.. Nobody's talking about ignoring, it's about how people are employing argumentative tactics. Do not pretend this is just an innocent conversation.
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@fuzz.. There aren't "two sides". If I'm talking about Soviet atrocities people who go "but the Nazis!" are trying to excuse it and if I'm talking about Nazi atrocities people who go "but the Soviets!" are trying to excuse it. It's not a two side thing. We're not trying to meet in the middle to agree on an allowable amount of atrocity so both sides can be happy. There's people trying to excuse war crimes, full stop, trying to abuse good faith. I don't care how the world gets viewed, there's gunning down civilians and holding fire. They should have held their fire. Full stop.
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To the Israel haters, the 25k do not matter. They're just pawns. Have you not noticed? Putin sends meat, Hamas sends meat, these leaders do not care and will subject their own people to unimaginable horrors to get a "win". The knights, rooks, bishops, etc matter but not the pawns. They exist to get traded. Realize this. Iran also spent money in the attack.
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Why should people be protected from themselves? As long as the property is large enough to contain the explosion it doesn't affect anyone else. Also, the state has approved buildings that were literal death traps anyway, so what is even the point?
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One battery that links to the NASAMS and IRIS-T already in theater. Force multiplier.
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How the hell was proven true? This is the clear tactic of weaving a lie through facts. They don't seem to give a shit about the labs. You really think this war is over WMDs? Makes about as much sense as the Iraq lies.
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Not at all. Aircraft have accidents. The F-35 is actually safe.
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5.56 is ballisticly superior to 6.8 constrained by the AR magwell. It would be a step backwards.
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Problem isn't the fuel, it's how complex the first stage has to be to launch heavy payloads.
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The NGAD is the F-15/F-22 replacement and unrelated to the F-35.
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Countries picked sides when America called for Article 5. Countries picked sides when America fought for independence.
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@johnc2438 you should buy crypto with the hope that it's a token of exchange that can't get messed with by the state. If you buy it to make money, you're just the reason why a good thing is now awful.
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Nah, we call it invasion. Only a country with no balls needs to pussyfoot around it.
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You also only see things Western media wants to show. Remember 2020 and the things you were not allowed to say? Well, halfway 2021 it became okay to say them. Thinking RT is propaganda so it needs to be banned, while CNN/MSNBC/Fox cam broadcast freely is nonsensical.
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Unless original antigenic sin prevents you from getting full natural immunity. Check out how in the UK antibodies against the spike protein increased, but antibodies against the nucleocapsid seemed to have flatlined.
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The AC-130 is known for being extremely vulnerable. One got downed in Iraq because they stayed overhead supporting Marines even though they were not meant to fly during daytime. An entire crew killed because they couldn't provide support to the men on the ground safely.
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MS Flight sim attracks people who enjoy the process of performing airliner duty or take leisure flights around landmarks or even their own house. The riddiculous storage requirements and map streaming tech are there to satisfy that need.
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Want to say that again?
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Yeah we've been in a massive crisis since 2022. These people have bombs falling on their heads. Sorry but I kind of tune out when your biggest problem is inflation.
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You only know half the stuff about the US because the FBI and CIA declassify tons of stuff. Meanwhile after 2011-2013 Russia even closed the WW2 archives to Western historians. We can't look at WW2 history from the Soviet side because... Russian citizens protested a rigged election and Putin blamed the West.
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@klobiforpresident2254 Paul Allen is trying to sell his.
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These ain't bangers. The "concussion" is actually meant to burst your blood vessels and paralyze you. The trade off is lower lethal blast radius for added safety by throwing less objects at high velocity that can injure or kill people you didn't intend to.
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Putin gambled that Trump would pressure Ukraine to stop fighting.
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@Stup1d0zz It's not about the US becoming more involved. It's about the massive Gazprom layoffs, the sovereign wealth fund and gold reserves being plundered. Trump only needs to dangle the lifeline and ask Putin if he wants to pull out or sink.
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1. Optics give an advantage to any rifle. 2. You want the enemy to be forced to wear that armor rather than just be lightweight when new bullets make it pointless. 5. Dominating the short range already puts the enemy at a disadvantage as now you can use all sorts of crew served weapons and fire support. You don't want to force short range fights because now you're prevented from using weapons with a significant danger radius. 6. You don't get to pick loadouts lol
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 @mycarrysun If it's such a big deal, an earth shattering revelation, you do it anyway. If running to a different country is too inconvenient, then it's not worth showing.
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@robotx4242 If it's not worth ruining his life over, it's not really important.
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They have swastikas, wolfsangels and black suns. Are you going to assume three symbols have all these multiple meanings?
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@MrVancityeagle you gotta fill me in on this, I thought the Kochs were old news. I knew they used to fund conservative/libertarian think tanks but haven't they scaled back? Did they start betting on another "horse"?
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Two more weeks, Zisters!
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What happens if you stop posting that demoralization campaign?
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@lockk132 What does it matter if they have more nukes, if half will explode in the silo?
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@ca_yashagarwal8138 We're providing military support to Ukraine. Where's rhe full force? All bark and no bite. Weak.
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And when they repair again, does Russia grow those missiles on trees?
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The S in "hundreds" is carrying a lot of weight when they never broke the 200 per year mark.
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The army "grew" because it had to replace deaths and equipment losses.
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@xp7575 The problem is that assuming a more modern architecture would come up to deal with it was more feasible than assuming that today opening a Google Chrome tab would instantly soak up 1.5 Gb RAM and nobody bats an eye. They made the choice back when the memory savings was worth it.
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Scrappy underdog vs the "second best army in the world".
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Even without S-300/400s there's still Buks, Osas, Pantsirs, Iglas, Strelas, etc.
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@butterwaffeln In Iraq the US performed a very complex fight night operation involving stealth, decoys, cruise missiles, SEAD, jammers, etc. Does Ukraine have a bunch of Tomahawks, Prowlers/Growlers, F-117s, etc?
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@butterwaffeln Highway of hell was caused by USMC A-6 intruders. They flew over the convoy and dropped Mk 20 Rockeyes. Each bomb contains 247 bomblets.
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Nah it took 10 years to make something that made 6.8 worthwhile.
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Yeah, peace and cooperation would be great. Such a shame Russia doesn't understand any language that isn't violence.
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14,000 killed on both sides. Russia invaded in 2014.
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"Virus gets starved of hosts and dies off." - But it won't. People still have to go get groceries, there's still people working deliveries, etc. "Money will be made again let us live through this first." - But that's the problem. How do people live through out of work? Money will be made again? I don't know if you noticed but if people lose their livelihood they no longer have money to restart their businesses.
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 @TheGrindcorps Yet they always come back.
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@dmdale3598 Afghanistan didn't have strategic targets. It was just used to avoid having to call in aircraft every single time.
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@danielkurtovic9099 You know what you "have in mind"? A general lack of knowledge, because mosquitos don't go extinct in the winter. Stop with the bug analogies, what matters is that HIMARS will keep doing its job during the winter. Hope those on the receiving end enjoy it, and I hope they don't expire instantly. I hope they feel it for hours.
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Your wishes are late.
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That was the origin of the OA-X program. Never came to fruition but SOCOM purchased a total of two Super Tucanos and T-6 Texans if I'm not mistaken. They also temporarily brought back the Bronco for a year but maintaining it was too expensive.
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 @user-po8wc5ql4m It's not against western AT tech. It's against quadcopter drones.
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Russia takes in about 1 million foreigners per year.
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Minsk was broken by Russia. The attack on Debaltseve happened right after the treaty was signed.
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A derailment can be fixed. This was a tunnel on fire. Do you know what kind of inferno a tunnel fire is?
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@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 Concrete is damaged by heat and rebar loses adhesion to concrete under high temperatures. You have to dig out the damaged structure and recast new concrete.
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@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 Dude., The heat came from the MASSIVE FIRE of the fuel cars in the train. Doesn't have to collapse. After it's damaged it has to be repaired. Unless you want to be on the hook for the fatalities once disaster happens.
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When law becomes tyranny, rebellion becomes duty.
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Or the defenses calculated which missiles would impact important structures and prioritized them, so the missiles that "missed" their target or were programmed based on faulty intel had less interceptors assigned to them.
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Literally every day.
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No. It's just not worth the time and money investment to lay out thousands of parts, try to do all the iterative steps to figure out which manufacturing process works the best, and repeat that process for every single part when you can just create a modern design that uses less parts and is manufactured through modern processes and with modern materials. If you're willing to pay for it, you can hire a team of engineers and they'll be able to do this useless job. But it's going to cost you millions.
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No. It's fake news. Women are only taken in as volunteers.
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AI is made by human hands.
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+Timi Kärkkäinen nearly 61% of Steam users play at 1080p. Only 1.33% play in 4k and only around 4% play in 1440p.
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The 93rd Mechanized destroyed the 1st Guards Tank Army. The defenders of Moscow. Ukrainian tankers gained experience, they gave hell to Russians.
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Simple - by debunking the counter-evidence, they're exposed as liars, which revalidates the initial evidence. It's not confusing. It's simple and straightforward.
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They're fake numbers because you can clearly tell the numbers and letters are janky from the photoshop. The real leaked papers show higher Russian casualties.
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America has ballistic and cruise missiles.
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Being made official was the way to bring accountability. When they were external, they were loose cannons that needed to be brought to heel. When they're forced to standardize under a military, that's bad too.
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Killed are called "Cargo 200" and wounded "Cargo 300". That may be it.
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After the first shot, it's weapons free.
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That's nonsense. Not only the spread is high enough to not have been eliminated by lockdowns - even though a lot of flu strains were eliminated - it's already been found on other animals.
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No matter how unhinged I get I will never draw a loved one getting DP'd. It's actually impressive how demented this is.
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It seems like they have a lower budget. Having a cheap program that "competes" with a more prominent one to soak up views is the definition of a discount version. When Family Guy came out many said it was just the "discount version of The Simpsons".
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@Chris-ie9os This is wrong. Politics forced the nuclear industry to adopt more dangerous reactor designs that were suitable for military uses, while suppressing research into safer reactor designs. When the documentation on the Oak Ridge experiments with molten salt were "rediscovered" the DoE started getting questions about it and repeatedly said they were looking into it without ever doing anything. Now China and India will move forward with next gen reactor designs because politics dragged its feet.
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@Chris-ie9os Huh... They've been developed. They can't be built because you can't just build a new design without DoE approval and they purposefully dragged their feet despite being asked about it in Congressional hearings on an almost yearly basis. Like I said, China and India are moving forward with their projects. Meanwhile Trump said he'd have the DoE look into it back in 2017 or 2018. Don't know how that's going.
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Well, Russia is sending guys into battle in golf carts. Things aren't looking up for them.
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The Ukrainians had Su-25s. If that mission had any chance of success, they'd have the Su-25. It would be suicide, so they used artillery and drones.
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@kyh6767 an AR-15 is in my opinion better. A shotgun will blow holes through walls and the spread of the pellets might cause collateral damage. A rifle is easier to shoot and the 223/5.56 caliber is low recoil while the shotgun is pretty punishing especially to smaller men and women. A rifle can be operated one-handed if you need to open a door or pull a child out of the way, while a shotgun is very difficult to operate one-handed.
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Ultras in Italy were caught trying to sell anti-ship missiles. That's how wild it can get. There's a photo of police displaying the missile after seizure, it was like 7 feet long.
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Scott Ritter is a kid diddler.
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History Legends is biased, though.
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@daxtertalon4 What does "he studies tactics and history" mean? There's tons of people who study. A lot of them are bad at it. He doesn't follow mainstream media. So? And non-mainstream media is better? You just essentially explained that he is biased. He's doing what, reading fake alternative media because he's biased against mainstream media. That's a bias in itself.
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@codybassett112 schools are explicitely there because bosses needed moderately educated factory workers and made the government pay for Prussian model education. Getting up and sitting down according to a bell and having to ask someone if you can take a piss is nothing more than training people for 19th century factory work.
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Pandemonium Doom North Korea does not lack pride...
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You're part of the problem. You look at spreadsheets and whine about real people and real pain as "reductive" to distance yourself from the harm you help cause.
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It was reported on extensively. Did you live under a rock or were you born yesterday?
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There's already a license. It's called Second Amendment, emitted in 1789 and it never expires.
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@RickBoat Uh, Yes.
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Inside Russia. The Ukrainian SBU is known for inserting agents into Rusdian territory who go around posing as Russian citizens.
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Donbas cannot be independent, it's an empoverished war zone populated by elderly people and Russian criminals. They depended on Russian funding (70% of the DPR state budget was paid by Russia) and people driving to West Ukraine and collecting government pensions. It's not self-sufficient and will need billions in aid to be rebuilt.
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The person who wrote Pentagon Wars is a madman who thinks everyone is an idiot but him. The film is largely based on his biased account and it's just that - comedy. In fact the Bradley is an amazing vehicle and Burton's ideas were flawed.
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@jakegarrett8109 I don't use my free speech to walk into locations and call everyone a "cunt". Keeping it an inside joke is much funnier than referencing an assassination outright.
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@HoloScope The people at the top already pay the most taxes. The people at the top are DNC donors too. Stop believing the fairy tale that they're for the little gun.
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@HoloScope What they claim is a lie, so why would you spread it? How much are they "supposed" to be paying?
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Because it was being tested and developed. They weren't proving anything, they were developing the aircraft and gathering data.
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@ReubenModeXXX since Mass Effect 3 that "entitled" is no longer an argument. It's a dismissive line to defend corporations and shame the consumer.
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Because jet fighters are not piloted remotely. Drones are hacked typically by spoofing GPS and telling the drone that it is landing in friendly territory. A pilot inside the aircraft that controls the aircraft will not land simply because the control logic tells him to.
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@Anonymous Bosch Who cares? You think they have the means to do anything?
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@Anonymous Bosch Their allies are going to do what? Last time terrorists wanted to attack one of those dumb cartoon things to offend them, Texans shot them. Start fires? Americans are already doing that. America didn't flee the Taliban, because the Taliban are not at war with America. They were at war with Kabul, and Kabul thought it was better to embezzle American taxpayer money than fight back. America left as part of the peace deal.
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Yeah you just send the cops to arrest people over tweets while they ignore rape gangs.
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Remember when Elon Musk was asked about the low number of immigrants in SpaceX and his response was that they do defense contracts, which means having to get security clearences for foreigners to make sure they're not spying on the US military? Woke isn't "not hating minorities". It's when you need to perfomatively "not hate minorities" so hard you throw your brain out the window and imply xenophobia out of ignorance on a subject.
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@BlakeBigfoot and how is that relevant? Okay, people who are 90-99% anti censorship want everyone to be allowed on the internet platforms. Big fucking difference, mate. Totally changed the conversation.
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@BlakeBigfoot "that's a fallacy." - were you going to elaborate or do you just shout fallacy whenever you hear a different opinion? "People on the right are FAR more pro-censorship than ANY leftist" - my dude I'm not the kind of idiot who ask for sources for things that can't be proven by any reasonable metric but the claim that the left is not pro censorship is going to need some serious fucking citations behind it. I've had this discussion multiple times and the left essentially argues that to uphold leftist values reactionary speech has to be curtailed. You're just going to do the "not real leftists" thing and weasel away. I get this same shit on the guns and "personal vs private property" debates, from my own sampling done both in real life and on the internet leftists in general and even anarchist-left people are very anti-gun because widespread gun ownership would allow reactionary action. I don't even know how would a stateless society enforce gun control, but it puts a smile on my face whenever the "but muh real leftists are pro gun" people show up to the comments section. "Just because they toot the "anti-censorship" horn doesn't mean their actual beliefs and actions line up" - wow if you want to line up beliefs and actions the left has absolutely no ground to stand on considering almost every system started by the left ended up as "MUH NOT REAL SOCIALISM". "it usually is an indicator of someone who doesn't even know what censorship is. " - oh wow now I'm fucking interested, I wanna hear your definition of censorship.
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@BlakeBigfoot by using insults you admit to have lost, thanks for playing.
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@BlakeBigfoot so you refuse to even indicate which fallacy was used , give up and resort to insults, call me a "literal fascist" even though I hate fascism and upvote your own comment? "Real" leftists, everyone.
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@BlakeBigfoot "You hate a concept of fascism that doesn't exist" - my family was born into fascism. We know what fascism is. You have never lived under it. "while inadvertently being an actual fascist" - proof? "just because your ideas aren't popular doesn't mean I upvote my comments. It just means your ideas aren't popular." - I clicked the notification for your comment and less than a minute after posting you already had an upvote. Your deflection of the subject to my opinions is a strong indication that I hit a nerve.
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@BlakeBigfoot "the entire claim was a fallacy so what specifics do you want me to give?" - every fallacy can be described. You haven't been able to even describe what kind of fallacy it was. I'm not even asking for the specific name of the fallacy, just what kind of logical fault was triggered. Hell, if anything your argument in itself was fallacious because you deflected the conversation into irrelevant semantics. Like a person who doesn't wish for people to be deplatformed cannot be considered anti-censorship because he also holds the belief that (for example) he is against child porn being posted on the internet. So in an argument about deplatforming a person can't be said to hold a certain position because of opinions that are completely irrelevant and don't even matter to the topic at hand.
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@RogueReplicant Radioactive pellets would betray the origin.
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The DoD wants to do 6.8x51 conversions on M240s. Those won't be replaced.
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+ARKEF1E lol what does that article prove? That gun laws don't stop criminals from smuggling weapons? There's 850 million guns in worldwide circulation. You think that if state lines don't stop criminals, borders will? Drugs come through the border all the time. You think guns will be stopped?
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Theranos was peddling something that didn't work at all, with this they're most likely just contracting the services of normal labs in bulk to get cheaper prices. Would still like to see it independently tested, though.
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@fredwerza3478 That quote was by a guy who stole it from The Godfather movies. He made it up.
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@fredwerza3478 Whatever you want to believe.
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Falcon BMS is more accurate in some aspects (I heard DCS has more accurate ground handling physics but the systems are more faithfully replicated in BMS).
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The fresh water would end up getting dumped back into the ocean after use.
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@stupidburp "Light armor" is dead weight. You want to not get hit in the first place. The F-35 is extremely redundant with it's independent hydraulic systems ensuring you can't bleed it out.
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@stupidburp The trick is having aircraft that don't get battle damage in the first place. The A-10 gets battle damage because it was designed to be a vulnerable, underpowered aircraft that can't stay out of trouble. Why are they most effective at low altitude? I want to hear the reasoning. The F-35 is not stuck at high altitude or long range standoff. It's like a F-16 on steroids. The Marines would get shredded and stuck with no air support if they had an A-10 equivalent. Five Harriers and 7 A-10/OA-10 were lost in Desert Storm. The F-35 already has damage mitigation. Remember how a F-15 managed to land after a collision where a wing was clipped two feet away from the root? The F-35 has even more body lift. And the control surfaces have their own independent hydraulic systems which make it even more redundant than the A-10.
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Considering that you get very minimal gains from them while essentially giving the enemy amazing recruitment material they're worse than useless - they're detrimental. Also, explain how freedom somehow ended up in the ME.
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@Ben-Rogue bro the homeless are safe, I keep seeing them giving themselves vaccinations
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Yet Putin told Carlson it's not about NATO, it's history that goes back to the 800s. Not the 1800s, the 19th century. The 9th century. There's no nukes in the border. Are you from the year 1962? The nukes in Turkey were removed in exchange to end the Cuban missile crisis. This is Red Storm Rising. The Clancy novel that predicted a lot.
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They're wasting missiles. Their cruise missiles are being shot down, and they're using S-300 anti air missiles for ground attack. This is desperation. Yes, Russia does misdirection. They've been trying to pretend they can win the war. That's the misdirection.
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@tuckeraar but he has a wife! (who is a doctor, by the way)
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Did you see his review of rap songs? Do you actually think he is able to enjoy a party?
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@AscendedSaiyan3 it's easy to run on 100% renewables when you don't have to power anything that consumes real power. That's my point. You can't overuse hydro because of the damage to the hydrography/ecosystem, you can't overuse wind as it whacks birds to death and does take energy from the wind which means areas downwind will suffer unusual climate as they get less wind. Solar's great for deserted areas between the tropics because of the better sunlight and the fact that you're building on less habitable land. But looking at previously green hills covered with the dull blue and grey of solar panels is depressing.
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@AscendedSaiyan3 " That is the WORST argument in the world. You are using an argument that makes zero sense." - How? If a city is 100% green energy but only consumes (pulling the number out of my ass) 100 MW, how does that mean you'll be able to power an industrial sector that consumes 1000 MW? "The U.K. AND Germany have already reached that point" - false, Germany is dependent on brown coal.
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@AscendedSaiyan3 "It's not like highly explosive jet fuel is kept in a gigantic metal tank (that spans the wings) called a fuselage or anything!" - the fuselage is made out of composites and aluminum. The actual fuel tanks are lightweight. Hydrogen requires a heavy duty tank to be pressurized in, plus insulation.
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@AscendedSaiyan3 the aluminum is THIN skin. Hydrogen requires THICK pressure tanks. "Also, do you believe these commercial plane fuselages aren't pressurized? Think about it." - THEY ARE PRESSURIZED AT ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE, HYDROGEN TANKS REQUIRE PRESSURE TO TURN HYDROGEN GAS INTO LIQUID
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The brace is made from rubber and needs an "empty" void that touches the arm. That's why most have a "fork" that surrounds the forearm on two sides or have a "blade" that's thin enough to touch the side of the arm.
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Lmao always serious losses. And yet they're stil fighting while Russians build defenses because they fear the next attack.
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College doesn't teach you the secret sauce. You really think companies are sending their corporate secrets to universities?
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So Americans are being paid to record this videos to weaken America? Does that even make sense? Why does every comments section have a nonsense conspiracy posted nowadays?
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Western countries are willing to work with Muslim nations, Hindu nationalists are a roadblock.
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Worry about yourself.
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But the theory is that Jeffrey knealt forward because he didn't have room to actually hang. So there wasn't much bodyweight on the neck. Comparing the collarbone to a critical structure like the vertebrae is nonsense. A pilot ejecting from a jet fighter can generate 20-25 Gs of accelaration. That's the vertebrae compressing with a force 20-25 of your upper body weight. That's a lot more than 15 pounds. It's not healthy to eject, but it doesn't snap the spine.
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@Dead_L4st I don't follow any economist in particular. I don't see how that is an argument over the fact that doctors are not economists. If anything, doctors have a huge bias because the single payer healthcare system would only increase their customer base and thus revenues. Like the Affordable Care Act was a ploy by the insurance companies behind establishment democrats to reach the wallets of more Americans. "Because as our healthcare is today, we still pay billions of dollars into it." - and making sure even more is paid through taxes is not gonna lower prices. "And yet a study that was funded by the Koch brothers, of all people" - so you admit that there's bias? "While Europe has higher taxes than us, it's because they have more social programs than we do." - then why not move to Europe and all the Europeans who think America is better can trade with you?
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@dylanwight5764 taxation is forcing a person to work for free for a certain percentage of the month. You can argue until you're blue in the face that taxation brings many benefits - but it's still based on the threat of force and it treats you like the fruits of your labour don't belong to you.
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@AmineSamus that's funny because I literally heard Brits defending the sad state of the NHS because of immigrants. Imagine, the people paying into the system and receiving poorer services because (in their own words) the "UK was treating every foreigner who didn't pay into the system". NHS turned people into racists.
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@biocapsule7311 You call my argument is weak but you result to insults, circular reasoning and strawmanning my point about doctors.
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@biocapsule7311 "thinking you can accuse others of logical fallacy" - look, your best argument is "we live in a society". The foundation of your argument is self-justifying. How am I in the wrong for calling out the problem in justifying things based on "society"? "when challenged, you collapsed" - yeah, asking for better, non fallacious arguments = collapsing. "taxation is the payment of collective cost of services rendered for living in a 'community', in a 'society" - and extortion money is the payment of collective cost of services rendered by your local mob boss for living inside their turf. You can define it as whatever you want with pretty words but it doesn't change the nature. For a collective cost to be billed to anyone, there has to be a collective contract. Living in any "community" or "society", like an homeowners association, or a country club, or whatever requires a voluntary sign up. This "society" automatically joins anyone born in it (being born into a contract is simply not possible because children cannot consent). "If you don't like it, you can cease living in one and for go all the benefit" - Wrong. It's not possible to do that. "If you receive a service but refuse to pay and the server call the cops" - I am not receiving a service. "By your logic, anything you have to pay for, forces you to "work for free"" - Wrong. Anything I pay for I CHOSE TO PAY for it and I MUST RECEIVE the service or else whoever I gave my money to can be nailed for fraud. The government gets away with not providing any service to me but also removing my choice. There's a big difference between me signing a contract that stipulates that I pay for cable and internet service, and you just sitting around in your house not using any of those services and never having signed a contract but the cable company sending armed thugs to force you to pay for a service you don't use. It's weird, I have explained this very well but you keep confusing VOLUNTARY CONTRACT with being forced into an arrangement where you must pay despite never agreeing to anything and independently if you're using the service or not. "Taxation is something very old" - and how old something is doesn't justify it. In fact through history taxation was essentially free labour because most people did not have wealth and thus had to pay taxes to their lords through free labour.
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@dylanwight5764 "we decided to retain it as mandatory because of the great benefits it was bringing among our civil services" 1. What people decided back then shouldn't be forced on the people of today. 2. The "benefits" argument can be used to justify anything.
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@caiarcosbotias1710 "then you should be an anarchist" - 5000 points for guessing "In pretty much the same way you have to stop when you see a red light at the street (to not hurt anyone besides you) it can be justified than it is mandatory for the continued existence of the nation for you to be taxed" - that's nonsense. When I stop at a red light I am obeying the rules of whoever owns the road. Even if we ignore who owns the road and makes the rules, you can argue that my reckless behaviour should be punished because I am threatening the lives of those on the road. Withholding my money does not actively harm anyone, unlike running red lights. "In any of the two situations presented above, lf you were completely alone it wouldn't matter." - not really. Whoever owns the road can enforce the rules independently of the conditions. Even if I were alone, if the rules say do not run red lights the authorities would have a case against me.
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@caiarcosbotias1710 "The laws that work on the road are not there simply because an entity owns the street itself. They are there to ensure a correct use by part of all the "clients"." - in most cases, the one who wants correct use by the clients is also the owner. The correct use is defined by conduct and not just the damage you cause. It could be argued that running a red light in the middle of nowhere is a victimless action but the fact is that people are not omniscient. Anyone could jump out of nowhere and try to cross the street the moment you run that red light. While the purpose is ensuring safety (and reducing maintenance costs, downtime, accident cleanups, etc) it is the owner who both makes the rules and ensures they are enforced. "some money that you have legitimately earned must go to the State, in order for it to sustain the infrastructure, services, etc... that most people use everyday, including yourself" - I am not arguing that people shouldn't pay for anything. I am arguing that taxation is the wrong way to do it. A person who doesn't use roads shouldn't be forced to pay for the wear and tear I cause to it. "Actively avoiding paying your own taxes can be more harmful than the case presented above, since it deteriorates the quality of things like law-enforcement, public healthcare, public services... and thus endangers the people who use them" - I am pretty sure that actively T-boning a car or running over a person because you ran a red light is more harmful than... doing "nothing". "If you are alone, as I specified in the case before, there are no authorities than can punish you." - Irrelevant. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, it still makes a noise. If you commit a crime and nobody was there to witness it, congratulations for getting away with it but you still committed a crime.
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@caiarcosbotias1710 "I specified that you are completely alone" - Which is irrelevant because 1. I am not omniscient and thus unable to trust the information I was given if I was driving the car and 2) the rules are based on conduct and not damage. "I don't understand this; the laws of conduct are designed in order to reduce the damage you can cause" - yes, which is why you get punished even if no damage was caused. "Strictly following the "conduct" you could run over someone who crossed the street in red simply because you are arriving late at work. [...] Prioritizing conduct over a quantitative measure of damage is like building the house starting from the roof. " - We're not talking about the morality of following conduct or not. Also, if you can stop but keep driving into a pedestrian, even if the pedestrian was in the wrong, you're probably gonna go down for vehicular manslaughter. The driver is only considered not liable in situations where stopping was impossible, or even more dangerous. "In a perfect world, that would be ideal. Sadly, the truth is that for a functioning state to work it must work beyond it" - but that's the thing, this started off as an argument about the morality of the state. Now you're accepting that in a perfect world what the state is doing is immoral, but it must be done for practical reasons. I'm not arguing that, that's a topic for another day. I'm not arguing about the practicality so I'm willing to give you that point when it comes to this subject. But that admission that "in a perfect world" you'd consider what the state does is wrong is all I was looking for. "Let's say I'm rich and thus never have to use public health. ¿Does that mean that the Nation should not take some of my money to make sure that the poor doesn't die on the streets?" - No. Not only is nobody else entitled to that money, there is no justification for bullying people into giving up their money and there's no guarantee that the bullies will serve the population's interests. Look at the Communists. They claimed to be for the people, for the workers. Then as soon as they got to power, they enslaved the people and fed them scraps. Millions died. "Don't get me wrong, my point is not based on ethics, but on math. If half the population is dying on the streets and a few keep the resources that could help the others, the overall eficiency of the system is horrible." - You're talking about a "system" that can't even keep half the population alive but it's somehow the rich people's fault that the system is inefficient? The system should have been abandoned in the first place. "not punishing the first legitimates tax evasion on a collective level" - ... I fail to see the bad part about that. My point is that you're using inaction as basis for guilt. If I pass by a burning building and hear screams from the inside, I won't go to jail for refusing to jump into the fire. "Thus, commiting a "crime" with no victims and no further damage to the system as a whole doesn't matter" "Again, the law is build on the idea of calculating consequences, not on some total, complete and omnipotent ideal or principle." - ... no, that is completely wrong. Law based on consequence is completely subjective and detached from morality. Most legal systems are based on "principle", Natural Law, legal positivism, etc. For example: Martin Shkreli was convicted of securities fraud. In the end nobody actually lost money and some of his investors actually turned a profit. It didn't matter, he still committed fraud. It's a matter of principle.
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You couldn't be more of a smug prick, could you?
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Javelins have one factory to cast the warhead which is a bottleneck. Javelins were made to stop a Rusdian tank rush. Do we need a stockpile of them? Not anymore. The US has 155mm, it just can't draw from a strategic stockpile.
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Sure. Russia leaves all Ukrainian territory as defined in 1991, they surrender war criminals, return the 2.5 million Ukrainian refugees, and pay for the reparations. Then peace will be achieved.
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 @nickmagrick7702 What a way to type a lot but say nothing
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Basically what the right says about the trans stuff is almost the same as what the left says about conversion therapy. Doesn't really work, but you can do a lot of harm to people by psyop'ing them.
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Remember, no Chechen.
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Russia lost the war before it began lol
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The A-10 cannon hasn't been able to penetrate tanks since the 1970's.
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@planpitz4190 it's not used anymore in A-10 rounds, it turns into dust and the heavy metal inhalation causes birth defects on civilians. They use high explosive rounds now. Also, even the DU rounds couldn't punch through. Tanks got too thick in terms of armor.
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Bias.
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@GroovyVideo2 What truth? The attacks on the Patriot system were constructed by phoneys like the man who thought the fireball was hundreds of yards in diameter so the missile missed by hundreds of yards. Man's can't even get a sense of scale. Complete incompetence.
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Thorium reactors can "burn" waste from older nuclear plants and shorten the decay of said waste.
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@marklouieadame Their soldiers are valued? They lost a bunch. Bodies all over the road out of Lyman.
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@freesokol_7933 Steiner's counterattack lol
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@antediluvianatheist5262 how did they lose a thousand? The Russians were encircled, it was a killing field
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@teceffect9826 The jets are shot down.
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@galaxyrider9599 They retreated through a road under fire control by the Ukrainians. They got slaughtered trying to leave.
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@galaxyrider9599 Real life.
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Imma keep it real with ya chief but 280 Brit was ass. The velocity figures you normally see were measured with 24 inch barrels, the later loadings souped up the power at the cost of increased recoil (went from a little under twice the recoil of M855 to over 2.6 times, about 40% more recoil than 7.62x39 which the Russians replaced for 5.45 because they realized less recoil = better hit probability), it's essentially 7.62x39 with a more efficient bullet, ammo weight is over 70% higher than M855 and the final nail in the coffin was the fact that it had poor accuracy with steel core bullets (and this would have meant replacing 280 Brit in the 80s when the steel cone was added to NATO standard ammunition). Meanwhile during SOCOM testing 6.5 Creedmoor actually beats 7.62 NATO in hit probability, effective range, less wind drift and lower recoil.
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@ste887 It would still be a heavy caliber with too much recoil to really be the "intermediate" loading. It would have probably ended up with something like 5.56x45 being developed again, or the pairing of squad automatic weapons and designated marksmen rifles in 280 British with that 4.85mm caliber made for the early SA80 prototypes for most riflemen.
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@maxjohnson1758 cell phone and internet went down early in the war - Elon Musk donated starlink
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@donveto4317 millions weren't killed Those numbers include islamic terrorism and sectarian violent, not US action
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+Tommy Maroney you don't need a test or license to own a car (what the fuck is even a "dangerous car"?), just to drive it in public. Most people don't carry rifles outside the home. If you keep a car on your property you don't need a license, you can legally teach kids to drive, etc. My parents taught me to drive in private roads.
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 @nerdomania24 There's not gonna be a draft....
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 @AllTheFasteners We can be equally rich and invest in totally different things.
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 @Maoistan necessary means it's is required as a precondition.
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Years ago they said the 6.8 round would have the EPR construction (M855A1). Not sure what they're doing now.
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Didn't seem to be a golden goose.
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@tetchuma Didn't seem to be a stepping stone either. It was meant for one thing and one thing only which means it lost its purpose when the legal landscape changed, cost a ton of money, and had to be dropped.
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Yeah, according to the map Russia is losing in days what they had to fight for months to obtain.
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A racist still has his right to live. Someone who calls for the death of his opponents doesn't.
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Dr. Roberts said that during testing .357 Sig is nearly identical in penetration and expansion trough heavy clothing, automotive steel panels, automobile windshield glass, interior wall segments, exterior wall segments, and plywood.
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lel meanwhile Russia is forcing the DPR and LPR men to die for their pointless war of expansionist gains.
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@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517 Those people now know that Russia is the real enemy, for Russia killed them.
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Hell no. Also, do you realize that the second mosque attacked had one of the people return fire?
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@tacticalcenter8658 It was. Chernobyl contributed to the end of the USSR, that's how bad it was. America has 99 problems more pressing than the train derailment. Stop letting tiktok fearmongers rot your brain.
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Rail can be operational 99% of the time, but if the train cars transporting heavy equipment are hit, that's a major blow.
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 @digital2701361 He would say that for no reason, remember the Thai cave rescue where he accused a diver of the same thing?
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You're not an English speaker.
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Radar also "flows" around the circular surface and return back. The F-22 and F-35 noses have angles on the sides to break up this flow.
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Currently under occupation by Disneyland, gotta wait for the UN resolution.
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 @Mortablunt If Putin is sealed in his bunker and the bottles are taken away from Medvedev we'll go. We'll just bring F-35s, B-2s, B-1s, Apaches, etc. is that okay?
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@Mortablunt S-300s didn't feast in Syria. The B-1s did their job.
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Plenty of countries had mask mandates too. You're tossing out data points that don't fit your hypothesis. Get the confirmation that correlation implies causation.
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Youtube defending free speech? That'd be a first.
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What was he saying?
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@Silver_Prussian it was a target
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@jonathanlivingstonseagull3378 if they didn't intend to, then they wasted resources and lives. VDV air assaults, special forces and the OMON troops armed with riot gear. Killed holding their shields. Supposed to pacify civilians, met territorial defense with real guns and real bullets.
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@VikramRaaj9999 They didn't remove the president, he fled the country because he didn't want to get prosecuted for the deaths of protesters. The parliament had a vote to relieve him of his duties since he was missing.
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@jonathanlivingstonseagull3378 They wouldn't interfere anyway. What's worse? Getting defeated on the road to Kiev? Or having such an idiotic tactic you lose men and vehicles on a fake offensive that doesn't change anything? It didn't "work" because the exact same thing would be achieved by doing nothing. The capital is never left undefended.
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The story gave Russia plot armor by giving them the encryption codes in that satellite which allowed them to invade undetected.
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Someone's projecting.
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Some analysts seem to think their drone designs are subcontracted to Chinese engineering firms.
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@pite9 They're guilty of the death. If you kidnap someone and the victim resists, you don't get to shoot them. If a death occurs when you are comitting a crime, you can be held liable for the death even if you didn't pull the trigger. If you're a kidnapper and a victim reaches for the gun, you don't fire. It's that simple. You ask God for forgiveness and whatever happens next happens.
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@pite9 It's an example. The point is that if you commit a crime you can't expect to use self-defense unless you retreat to "reset" who's the victim and aggressor.
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The US left while the Kabul regime was unfit to exist. The Taliban did not have the balls to fight the US, they honored the peace deal while US forces were in place to keep it.
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@KasperYakolev-j1h pretty much you people: "America bad! Why can't Russia be even worse?"
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You're right, no nuclear testing was ever done in the Soviet Union.
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@3nertia injection molds is something you order custom made for your model as you designed the aesthetic. The actual stuff that does the work is based on different suppliers. For example, in Xbox 360s there was a way to jailbreak and run pirate games that was based on a specific DVD drive, and Microsoft switched the supplier halfway through the production run. While the outer plastic shell for a console is something you design and order to your specifications, an optical drive can be purchased from a different OEM.
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@MrHellknightimp The Crimean constitution not aligning with the Ukrainian constitution was always an issue. However, Crimea did not rejoin Russia. There was a covert operation to flood Crimea with Russian troops and surround Ukrainian military bases, then have a referendum post facto. So there was an invasion. What happened later is fruit of the poisoned apple.
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@JewTube001 he did want this. He specifically stated he wanted the left to come after guns so that the right felt cornered. Seems far fetched but he was planning on his attack having worldwide repercussions and he wanted to fan the flames of the gun control debate to radicalize both sides.
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No, our parties fall within a spectrum. It's calculated A party can be (just examples) be very pro abortion and "somewhat" pro war against Iran, but see foreign policy as very important and abortion as a very unimportant issue. We use those algorithms to figure out if a party is Right or Left wing. And Obama is considered right wing here, btw.
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"who uses an algorithm for that?" We use algorithms for everything. You're probably thinking it means something else. >that has no real practical purpose It has. It helps us determine which parties agree on the same things and attribute the same importance. >being an atheist is considered Left wing in the US You don't know shit about the US, then. >you just made that one up Nope. The most leftist thing he's done is related to healthcare, and here the right wing is not opposed to it.
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Right. We've been doing that since the 2000s.
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Frontal assaults are suicide. Ukraine has an interest in degrading Russian fighting abilities while preserving the lives of their experienced troops. Stop dooming. The US is not going to freeze, they give the most support.
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@g1i2o3p4a5s Time does not favor the Russians. The clock is ticking for them. Rumor has it that the Third Army Corps was already broken up to plug up the holes in the frontline. They can't even form new units to win the fight, they're on the back foot.
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That's not the point, there had been some "polls" that claimed 74% of the NRA supported universal background checks and what not. They were using phoney stats to make us look divided.
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D E A D A I R
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The flag oligarch is profiting immensely.
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 @1nhof Why would they warn of their own attack?
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S-125 Neva, you mean?
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It's not a genocide, and equivalent fighting forces are rare. The Allies also caused more German civilian deaths than the US and UK suffered.
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They think they're military training grounds.
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The F-16 and F-18 use the exact same gun. A M61 Vulcan.
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@AgentKenshin ammo is priced like $GME stocks these days...
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But they just betrayed the last 3 years of "Biden/Zelensky is the warmonger, Putin wants peace" bs. Now wanting the war to continue is reasonable? I better not see any more Russian shills and bots.
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Post Kiyv Post Snake Island Post Moskva Post Kharkiv Post Kherson
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Time to forget what you've learned, Diane. Russia is getting defeated.
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They don't need to know. The sillouette of a T-72 shows up really well on FLIR, it's really hard to mess up.
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Tin Watchman Because the armed forces ban extremist ideologies. It would take a state of emergency to change policy.
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Because we can't just build hydro everywhere and disrupt the hydrographic basin of every country.
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@bush_wookie_9606 the A-10 barely got through Desert Storm, you think it would do well in the next "big" war?
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@bush_wookie_9606 The A-10 is not firing THE armor piercing round because DU equals bad. Plus the DU round hasn't been able to pen MBT since the late 70s so who gives a shit. The A-10's main tank killer weapon is the Maverick missile and the gun is mostly relevant to strafe people made of meat and bone too close to friendlies to drop a bomb on them. 20mm high explosive should work fine at shredding humans. 25mm APEX should be even better. If you need stealth you can't do CAS either because the battlespace will be too dangerous to send CAS aircraft. The moment you hang shit on the F-35s wings you already kicked in the doors, blew all the radars to hell, dropped bombs on runways to make sure nobody can take off, and anyone who dares turning the air defenses is gonna deepthroat a HARM. The F-35s can hang a F-16 under the wing if it wants to, at that point. Loiter time doesn't mean much when a. any scenario that allows the A-10 to operate allows tankers to refuel F-35s b. the F-35 can get to the action faster and drop munitions more accurately which means it can do its job in less time c. the whole goddamn point of multiroles is that you don't need to wait on a particular kind of aircraft. If a F-35 runs out of ammo or fuel, it can just call another nearby F-35 that was doing an aerial patrol to keep going and finish the job. Or a nearby F-15E. Or nearby F-16, F/A-18, etc. If the only thing that can replace the other A-10 is another A-10 then why are more than 80 percent of CAS missions done by non-A-10 aircraft?
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@bush_wookie_9606 Regarding survivability, we know that an F-15 has landed with only one wing and about two feet of the other wing left attached at the root. A F-16 has also landed with half a wing after a collision, and the pilot was a novice if I'm not mistaken. This is thanks to body lift. We know that the F-35 employs even more body lift than those planes. So it's safe to say, the F-35 can probably fly after getting a wing ripped off, at least after losing half a wing. That's about as much as you can rip off from an A-10 and remain in control. The A-10 has a dual redundant hydraulic system. The F-35 actually has isolated hydraulic systems so if you shoot one off, you're only bleeding that one. An A-10 can still have the two hydraulic systems shot off and bled out. The gun is cheaper but it's also harder to employ. It may take a minute and a half for a bomb to fall from the bay, but maneuvering into a firing position can take finesse. We're now fitting laser guided rockets to helicopter rocket pods. This may just be theorycrafting, but wouldn't it be feasible to fit a F-35 with rocket pods in the wings - make the pods stealthy or not, who cares if you're performing low level CAS there's probably no air defenses around - allow the F-35 to fire the rockets from further away and at higher altitude than a gun, allow the dive to be shallower and less dangerous, and improve accuracy even over the 30mm because you're literally pinpointing the target with the laser that the rockets can maneuver into? A whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh and you get nearly the same effects on target as a 30mm gun run. 2.75 rocket and the guidance kit, probably cheaper than a bomb and already in use with helicopters.
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@toofless4541 It's not an argument against the A-10, just a little what-if to demonstrate that the gun has alternatives when it comes to the niche job of targeting troops too close to friendlies to drop a bomb.
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If it was set to concussion they'd be coming home in coffins too. Concussion grenades are not stun grenades. They're made to kill, but with a smaller range.
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@garretttobin7451 So basically an insignificant amount? 10,000 Russians died in like a week of human wave attacks.
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Dude looks way over 30.
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They've done deep strikes since Day 1. They burned through their missile stockpile and became more gun shy to let production catch up.
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By that logic the US would never fight Russian tanks because it would mean nuclear war. But it fought Russian tanks in Iraq. No nuclear exchange. Huh. It's almost like Russian or Chinese designs might get sold to hostile nations.
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Oliver Stone is a literal Putin shill, though. He's been on RT multiple times.
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Yeah it is. AR-15s were sold in various forms. In the pre-ban years that's what an AR-15 looked like, now it's considered "retro".
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 @asriellian the eyebrow will raise and the eggs will be measured
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So? They have no reason to fight together. China restrains NK, and India and China are always involved in border skirmishes.
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Nope. It was cancelled because it was troubled with issues. It took years for Lockheed to figure out a solution to its control problems, to the point that their solution was outdated. The Cheyenne development hell made it obsolete before it could serve.
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Not that fast. Some medication can be negotiated, some can't. Portugal for example had a controversy in the early 2010s because the company making a Hep C treatment wanted 90k per person. No negotiation. Government said no, people started protesting. Government had to crawl back to the negotiating table. Now Big Pharma knows they have no option but buy or else people will get mad. The contract was for an undisclosed value. Now do you think Pharma was kind and lowered the price? Or increased even more knowing the government had no option? You can only negotiate when you have leverage. The government has none.
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@@tron6121 No, that just means a difference in education and access to information.
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@MrMeow-iq7kq Working 8 hours with a mask is a chore. I can feel myself getting stupid in the last 1-2 hours. Luckily I do a lot of cardio so I can handle it but customers can't help but pull their masks down when they get to the register. We allow people to wear face-shields instead of masks because of this.
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@Al_Pollock I thought it was Russian annexed territory? Thanks for admitting it's all Ukrainian land.
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@Al_Pollock So you're saying depleted uranium has been used in Russia and nothing happened?
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@Chuck68ify Russia also uses DU. Tungsten penetrators are as toxic as DU anyway, so no nation on Earth is innocent.
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@Chuck68ify Ukraine existed before Russia. The Kievan Rus had Kiev when Moscow was still a swamp.
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It's the average host of any network. They don't have to be professional because they are a "panel". Pretty much every network uses "panels" to get away with saying things they can't during actual news.
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Because Russia wanted to use the remaining pipeline to keep selling gas.
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@jameslawrence3666 In the early 2000s college students writing a paper proved it was possible to order the components to manufacture a bioweapon virus. It's possible.
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+caerk maybe because there's 300 million of the fucking things? Where are you getting the money to buy them back? Borrow from China?
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The particular jump was caused by unsanitary markets were live animals share the space. If the animals were butchered before being displayed and there was better conditions in the market this wouldn't be a thing.
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Create a rip through the space-time continuum.
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Red Effect has blindspots and people have called him out on it.
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It all depends on what you think will yield the best results. Rip the bandaid off and make sure those coffins arrive in Moscow and St Petersburg at once, or let them trickle in and allow the population to get accustomed to losses.
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Switch your home to your workplace, and you're not claiming it's a crime but they're trying to take ownership of the company.
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@thuglifeinc4894 Cominarty was. Is it available already?
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@chimp_gaming. That's because Facebook tier conspiracies are never convincing. The conspiracy theorists trying to investigate the event don't say there were fakes or hired actors, instead it was a deal gone wrong or an assassination attempt on the Saudi crown prince. However the use of incendiary bullets against the large tanks in the nearby airfield seem to indicate the shooter planned to do it because the sparks can be used to measure bullet drop. His guns weren't used by people hiring him under false pretenses, he planned to target the crowd.
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Because the US profits from the post WW2 status quo. Also, false dichotomy.
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If anything, the footage from Afghanistan shows that as long as you resist, not even a government with a 700 billion dollar a year defense budget can keep you down.
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Meanwhile Putin kidnaps Ukrainian men to fight Ukraine, gives them two days of training.
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What I meant was that slavery was always economical. People just found a way to justify it with race. It's easier to convince yourself you're a Christ-loving "good guy" if the only people you hurt are some weird creatures from a continent everyone once thought to be the end of the world.
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Losing a twitter account is not as bad as Russian prison.
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@rogermccarty783 The massive resignation story is internet BS, as much as it would be poetic justice there's just no evidence.
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L.GH. Djoetma Obama was good? He just continued Bush's policies.
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P E A C E K E E P E R
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@cocopud No worries, glad to help.
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No. Just lack of memory in 60s computers meant dates were stored with the last digits. So 2000 became 1900. Computers running software that had not been patched for Y2K had problems due to records being introduced as if they happened in 1900.
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waffenschmiedin x has a video on machining a revolver frame it's a pain in the nuts, there's a reason companies like Ruger perfected precision casting applied to firearms
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Sean Hovan Cody Wilson uses a model that costs 2.5k used 5k new. Not 100k.
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2 : 184 is the exact same as 1 : 92. Why would you even post that ratio? You always reduce ratios to the lowest divisible denominator for ease of understanding. You made that up on the spot.
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There's no such thing as taking a beating when a single missile can slice aircraft in half.
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So it's their fault some other publication published that stuff? Why not complain to their editors?
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Putin doesn't have 5 years.
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Okay, let's add millionaires all over the world. That would buy you what? One, two years? The "rich" don't have nearly enough wealth to be redistributed by everyone. On the other hand, if you killed all of those rich people and took their assets, while at the same time stealing the value of the Fortune 500, the whole world would crumble because you wouldn't get services, products and the EMPLOYMENT they create.
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Well we have to deal with the waste of everything you use, but you never cared. It's just nuclear that gets you to complain.
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@MrLarryBaude Nuclear energy also doesn't produce waste during energy production, it produces waste when fuel is spent. This kind of problem is created by many aspects of human action. Nuclear waste is ironically one of the easiest to handle because it can be turned into a glass/ceramic object that doesn't dissolve, doesn't release dust, etc.
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+slarti bartfast he still manufactured a SBR and the receiver needs to be torch cut into three pieces if I'm not mistaken. Sawing it won't cut it, pun intended.
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The F-15 can't be 29M in 2020. A F-16V block 70/72 is over 100 million dollars (F-16 plus spare engine and targeting pods ranges from 125-140 million). Those are contracts from the mid 2010s. Most likely 29M is an inflation adjusted cost of the original F-15C which lacked a lot of features. The F-15EX has a ton of strike and electronic warfare packages which increase capabilities and woupd be considered advanced alien tech back when the F-15C was new.
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You do realize that "no homo" is a self-aware joke, right?
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@GIR177 "Most guys who use "No homo" usually aren't specifically saying it looking for a laugh anyway" - yeah, they are. "just to make a harmless compliment or innuendo into something more awkward than it really is" - no, it's to say things like "you can give your bro a blowjob but you have to say no homo after you swallow"
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@GIR177 this is what I love about you people, you write your comment from the angle that you almost want to help men but you fundamentally misunderstand men and when called out on it you act hateful towards them. Just fucking hate men. Please. Do your thing, our feelings aren't hurt and we don't need your fake help to develop our sexuality.
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@ravs6726 I don't blindly follow anything. I was fooled by Russian propagnda. I lost friends because they believe all the RT, Tim Pool nonsense. I listened to Russians themselves say "from Lisbon to Vladivostok". I don't need to follow - I just need to pay attention.
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They're not credible. Black is a paid shill. MacGregor was proven wrong. Ritter is a CP enthusiast.
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 @lemony_leony Dare to test it?
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Proven to work in trials that don't mirror reality. Cases are exploding.
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@ShadowxxPanda False, there's not enough unvaccinated to justify the outbreaks in the UK, Singapore, Israel and Gibraltar. Your data is wrong. You're using the stats that are from January to June in the US which were before most people had it.
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If you give up freedom for money, you end up with neither.
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@MamaMOB I don't even know why you're sending this reply to me. The conversation made it look like Sydney knew more than she did, so Goldman panicked. That's all. I don't care about who's discussing weird kinks and I don't want to find out how they do it. The issue is that he thought that she was going to bring up stuff from 2019, which he couldn't have just excused as a regret. That's the issue.
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The blockade would damage China's economy too. Along with the rest of the world.
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For 4 years the administration was mocked and insulted. I don't care about Trump, and I'm not pearl-clutching about people saying nasty things about him, but don't come here and pearl-clutch about the nasty things I say about people I don't like. Don't even try. A comedian can go on late night shows and claim Trump's mouth is Putin's c*ck-holster. I have the right to be an asshole for 4-8 years after that. The existing laws are garbage and shouldn't even exist. And don't forget, it was you people who forced me to be this way. I was willing to be reasonable but not anymore.
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The Dambuster Raids in WWII resulted in similar damage (top part) and the mechanism used was... depth charges that skipped until hitting the dam wall and sinking to the bottom. Explosions at the very bottom caused the top to collapse.
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People choose to get nose rings. You can't pick your race.
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The white glow is a contrast aid. A USAF crew chief (they are certified to seat on the cockpit and use the systems) confirmed that there's a setting on the targeting pod to activate and deactivate that "glow" outline.
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Her house looked like shit.
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If all the road signs around you are in km will you use miles? If all the thermometers are in °C you use °C. You literally have no choice unless you use some kind of mnemonic to do the conversion in your head.
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Aircraft used to be faster but the age of the interceptor ended with the ICBM.
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@mr.negativenancy5751 Everywhere. He cited Chas Freeman, said Ukraine was another "Brzezinski trick" and that we're "making new monsters" like in Afghanistan. That is the "America bad" stance. Happy?
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@theangrycheeto Saab manufactured too few Gripens. There's no discussion because they essentially don't exist. They're either getting scrapped, just recently manufactured E variants that nobody will give up or countries depend on a very small number of them for defense. Brazil has a Gripen contract, and Lula just had to be "persuaded" to go back on his statement that both sides were at fault for the war. Dude obviously has some alleigance to Putin, he'd never give up Gripens even if they had a hundred of them.
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The CSTO collapsed when Russia pulled out peacekeepers when Armenia was attacked by Azerbaijan and Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan started shooting at each other.
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@obama-bin_laden Yes, really. Nobody seriously counts on the CSTO for anything.
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Belarus could not dismantle a nuke and rig it with new control systems in the timeframe.
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@Hereford1642 It's a massive advantage because it's a mobile system, so you could try to find it when it's reloading. That gives you a 5 minute window to find a green truck in a large country. Good luck.
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Ritter hasn't said anything worthwhile since the start. Rember the "it takes 5 Javelins to take out a Russian tank"? Yeah...
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It's not a repackaging. The mechanism is totally different. In fact, it can be much worse because while effective at disrupting the replication of the virus... it may also disrupt the replication of the cells of the host.
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@presleymeck White chairs, which had chair shapes. His chair was different and had the soft malleable nature of a pillow.
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@WSmith_1984 What does social democracy have to do with socialism/communism?
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@Cadowyn It still has the same working principle. It just uses adenovirus as delivery mechanism, still forces cells to produce spike proteins.
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Well he got his education from TYT so...
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For fuck's sake a lot of people who want to dunk on the Dems don't want Pence as president either... There's a running joke that he's the insurance policy to discourage dens from assassinating Trump.
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It does seem to discriminate. It doesn't want to enter my body no matter how many times I've been exposed to the sick and I always test clean. Seems like that pathetic little bug doesn't want none of this smoke.
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They're not replacing it. They're going to replace the F-22 in the 2030s. Multiple-branch aircraft have been a thing for decades. It is working out. It's just you who doesn't remember how bad things used to be. Do you know how many F-15As only served for 5 years in the Air Force because of the C/D models? You probably never even heard of this. Buy F-15As now, buy F-15Cs later. Send the As to the Air National Guard. In the good old days, this was swept under the rug. Now all eyes are on the F-35.
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@minxbade Literally nobody's reporting on it. Must be the top sekrit intel you get.
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@ifell3 just tell the bear to attack the other guys
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Because that business model only works as internet bloodsports. Everyone involved only stands to lose so you can't get high quality debaters. Plus there's too much focus on "clips", a lot of debaters get their popularity from short segments of the full debate that reach a wider audience. So invariably it degenerates into people chasing clout and steering the conversation to become "clipable".
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@glennmitchell9107 Forget about the revenue. Even if we ignore the money aspect, the thing that drives money is also what gives reach. Even channels that make all their money from outside sources have to play the algorithm game or else they get no exposure. A good example is the Joe Rogan Experience, the clips - and there's a ton of fascinating ones - were what got people to tune in to two/three hour conversations. I don't know if they're all still up there but one thing that made them pop was the feeling that you were going to either hear an amazing tale, hear about an event/topic from an expert, hear something that challenges your world views and make you consider that you've been wrong all along, or just stuff that involved a celebrity or person of interest. Debaters talking over a topic doesn't pop out as much. And to be honest, I don't care about conversations between opposing groups. The divide is too wide, people are using two sets of the same language and talking past each other, and it's only meant for people to cheer for their own side. I already know what side I'm on, so what's in it for me, the audience? Clown on the other side when they lose, and make excuses for the group on my side when they lose?
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Well, not Hello Kitty but a Russian company had a funding drive to collect money for equipment for the soldiers - they bought camouflage backpacks from the commercial market. They were Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) backpacks, videogame merchandise.
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The message isn't good. The "cool consumer things" are paying wages. Putting food in kids' mouths and a roof over their head. You give up the "cool consumer things", you're not taking money and putting it elsewhere. Those people are out of a job. Now instead of earning a living by giving you products you can buy, those people now need you to give up money (for nothing) while you get no freedom and no better life for those in poverty. Because you took away people's jobs. Under socialism the government would just demand you to do the job at the lowest price possible. After all, they need to give to the poor. Instead of extracting "EXCESS" (not access) revenue, there would be no revenue. The government needs a job done, it has to get done, and you get a nominal reward for your time rather than an actual transaction.
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@burningphoneix Because it was shot down by a S-300.
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@jawisher the design is different. That's why it took 12 years to get the final version into the hands of soldiers.
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But Russia already found out French deployments in Ukraine two years ago. Where are the nukes?
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@icebolt0864 If I was going to be knocked on the floor by a security guard and escorted off the premises for not wearing a hat, I would be a little miffed.
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Again, you're not understanding plain English. You're still supporting something that doesn't implement registration, it implements a pseudo registration that forces everyone into being a criminal for owning guns. At least understand the measures you're supporting. A registry with the NRA? I wouldn't trust them with such vital information. Understand that if a UBG check was implemented, I could rat on you to the police and it would be enough probable cause to get a warrant.
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@nomayor1 That's an insane conclusion. The obvious answer is that the S-400 could be used to gather data on the F-35. Meanwhile the Israelis have flown F-35s close to Russian defenses.
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Oh no, death threats against a man with 6000 nukes. So scary!
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The US wanted to pull out of Ukraine and let them fall, it was the UK that lead the aid effort.
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@Lucifer0007 Self-defense isn't escalation. Shooting a 100,000 dollar missile at a million dollar tank is the opposite of escalation. It's slapping someone chasing you down with an axe. Like, are you a criminal? Do you invade people's homes and get mad at them defending themselves? You're the guy who escalates. When the day comes that you get caught in your night time activities by someone with a firearm... that's not gonna be escalation. You escalated. And for that you're gonna get a closed casket, criminal.
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Russian systems are ATACMS victims.
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 @DankBirdGang52 Do you have an actual argument or do you want to challenge the Body Count Project numbers?
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Criminals already have guns, antifa don't have the balls to actually go through with a revolution. Fudd Republicans don't need excuses to fight for gun control, they already do.
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@smitty6480 If you're too dangerous to own a gun, you're too dangerous to walk the streets. Look at this shitty logic: we think this person's gonna commit crimes again, but we're gonna let him out under the promise he won't get a legal gun. So we know he's dangerous, but it's okay to let him steal a gun or buy a black market one? Thinking that legal, federally licensed gun shops are the only avenue a convict has to commit gun crime is silly. One guy is too dangerous to be trusted with a gun, but you're gonna let him touch your food working the grill at a restaurant? One guy is too dangerous to be trusted with a gun, but he's gonna be trusted to drive a car on his delivery job? One guy is too dangerous to be trusted with a gun, but he can go to hardware stores and get all he needs to make a bomb? If one is too dangerous to own a gun, let him stay in prison because I don't want him out and killing someone with a knife. If one has truly paid his debt to society and been rehabilitated, he should have his rights back.
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 @JorgeLopez-qj8pu Miners really shouldn't be endangered, rescuing them after a shaft collapses is an ordeal and a half.
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@Squad23jta Of course the OP is correct. My point is that infantry screening isn't as helpful as it was in WW2, because a guy with a Javelin can still acquire and shoot beyond the reach of a rifleman. Hell, Javelins have been used on people during the GWOT simply because it was able to reach farther than bullets.
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@Squad23jta "What matters is that the flanking screens are far out enough that they can engage and hunt down anybody that shoots. Also that the screen pushes the enemy out of engagement range by simple closing down any potential ambush sites." - But that just gives the defender the alternative which is now ambush the infantry looking for ambushes, as they're far away enough that armor can't protect them. There's no good solution here, the infantry screen needs to be used in tandem with expensive active defense systems that can mitigate the long range top attack missiles like the Javelin, and infantry screens for ambushes with shorter range weapons. "Also sticking to the road like glue kills the tanks ability to maneuver and use terrain and buildings as cover" - Because of the muddy season. If they didn't stick to roads, they'd all get bogged down.
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@Jaster832 But the tank is a balanced compromise in mobility and firepower. Static tanks can be used in a pinch, especially if the hull is concealed, but used in this manner they'd be vulnerable to top-attack missiles and drones. The tank is valuable in breaking through defenses and being mobile fire support, if you just park them outside cities that's asking for spicy presents to get dropped on them. There's a reason Russia is using artillery/rockets from a distance to attack the cities.
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Because katanas were meant for quick slashing and not much else. By the way, that is not an effective way of disabling an opponent.
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@ASh-xx9rw his grandfather moved to Israel. It would make sense a recently created country would avoid paying pensions to people who didn't need them.
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That's not how it works.
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@user-pq4by2rq9y No. The USAF got the new crew survival weapon in the past 2 years or something, they asked for an AR with removable barrel.
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One year of medicare plus medicaid is more expensive than the F-35 fleet operating costs for most of its service life.
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Availability is almost 70%. You're falling for propaganda.
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@LupusAries In a war, the big overhaul maintenance of a fighter will always depend on one place. You'll fly them with the maintenance you can give them, and if one needs an overhaul you set it aside for spare parts.
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Saudi pilots had to be hand held by American advisors.
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PTP120122 they're going under in the same sense that Colt has been going under probably 4 or 5 times by now. Germany will simply get an EU country to buy HK products to bail them out.
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@therealjohnsmith4811 but DI gas systems are more sensitive to port pressure.
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PTP120122 but then again, they're Germany's colt. The German government, or even the EU will bail them out simply to keep then in Europe. I'm not sure if that's the reason for it, but look at how there's F-16s flying with GE engines and others have Pratt & Whitney engines. Northrop lost with the YF-23 but got contracted to make parts for the F-35, Boeing lost with the X-32 but got contracts for A-10 wings. From the government's standpoint it's preferable to keep multiple companies around just in case. Same thing with HK. If it goes away Europe gets stuck with what, FNH? Not a lot of big names.
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So we have a guy who likes guns, owns guns, has gunshot residue in his hands, and someone has been shot. He won't let you get inside his house to check his gun collection and match the bullets to the one recovered in the body, so Occam's Razor says he didn't do it? It was just celebratory gunfire from a 4th of July BBQ falling down.
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Sig is mostly USA now.
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Bullshit. Apparently Margaret Thatcher didn't lead Britain into a fight with the Argies, Boudica never fought the Romans, etc.
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Stop spreading propaganda. The Russians are using the NPP as a shield and Ukraine is trying to hit the military positions around the plant. They're not shooting at the reactors.
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/watch?v=bXsiHHp9rU4 /watch?v=8x3lOZ4yX6Y What are they going to do now? Ban everything?
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@johnladuke6475 The F-35B serves on the exact same type of ships the Harrier does.
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@originalkk882 A high subsonic aircraft is at a kinematic disadvantage.
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@Degsie1975 Would you use a Harrier that's way past it's airframe limits?
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@Degsie1975 What Ukraine has shown is that stealth is the price of admission. If you don't have stealth, you don't fight. You lob weapons from far away and run back to base. If Ukrainians had F-35s, you'd see insane levels of CAS being deployed while MANPADS can't do anything. MANPADS pick off those flying low to evade radar. When you can fly high and not be targeted by radar, you can fly outside the visual range of MANPADS operators.
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@Degsie1975 Even old MANPADS are deadly to the Harrier because the hot engine exhaust paints the entire rear end of the fuselage with thermal energy. While other aircraft leave an exhaust plume for missiles to seek, the Harrier makes itself a huge IR beacon and a cheap old MANPADS just looking for the hot source will directly impact the fuselage. MANPADS have small warheads to them seeking the exhaust plume, missing, and detonating by proximity fuze basically take out aircraft by forcing them to limp back to base with fragments in the tail and get sidelined until they can be repaired. A Harrier has the troublesome position of taking a direct impact, which even with a small warhead can compromise the structural integrity of the airframe.
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 @Xeonophon Armies were larger in WW2, invalid argument.
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@Snow-Willow honestly with all the bullshit surrounding tumblr... I'll only leave when it closes down. It's not as cancerous as reddit because you either block the people you don't like or learn to live with them. I have rivalries that have lasted almost 6 years and it's fucking hilarious to have those people around.
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"China has bankrupted most western countries without fighting any war" - they stopped their own industry which means they weren't making much money until they gave order to resume manufacturing, and if others are bankrupt they can't buy Chinese either. If their plan was crashing the global economy, they're gonna suffer more than if they had been defeated in a real war.
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If Putin wants a win over peace, then he wants war. Anyone could have told you that in 2022 but Ukraine was hamstrung under the flawed assumption Putin could be reasoned with. According to yourself, he's driven by hunger and not reason.
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@tiaandeswardt7741 Yes. My point is that Russia has superior firepower. If they had inferior firepower, Ukraine would be on the offensive.
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@matsv201 Okay. If Ukraine had superior firepower, they'd have their own front. That's my point.
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@tiaandeswardt7741 Look for the earlier comments. Someone says cities are being encircled. Then someone says cities can't be surrounded if the defender are superior firepower. They're using their superior firepower effectively. That's their problem. All they have is superior firepower.
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@b.griffin317 "proper metal grain structues that can only be made in forges by people with specialist skills and equipment" - yeah... no. There's literally hundreds of examples in both history and just the internet itself of people making guns without forges or specialized equipment. Why the fuck would you need a forge? Forging is only suitable for mass production.
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@randelmcmillin6957 They don't have 10,000 tanks. And they don't need to be stopped. Just like Kharkiv, they only need to punch a small hole in the front. Then the Ukrainian army rushes in and starts slaughtering the poorly trained and poorly equipped rear units.
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@randelmcmillin6957 If your comment is shadowbanned and it has an upvote, I can tell you're upvoting yourself. Shame. They control land, and so what? It will be returned like the good will gestures at Kharkiv and Kherson. Ukraine has no tanks or ammunition? Damn and they're still kicking ass? Ukraine doesn't even take GWOT veterans, I do not meet the requirements. There's also no mercenaries in active fighting on Ukraine's side.
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Socialism is when the government does stuff. I don't agree with regulating the internet but that argument is fucking stupid.
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This isn't related to the UFC. The UFC is just one of many fight promoting events, it just happens to be the biggest one and most famous. The promoter for this event seems to be "Combate Global" from the logos that appear on screen.
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Actually the brass serves as a heat conductor and passes the heat to the chamber wall while the plastic case serves as an insulator. The heat sink problem exists with caseless ammo.
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@donreisinger5739 for some reason I can't find it anymore but there used to be a pretty long talk video here on youtube where a presenter was showcasing True Velocity's polymer hybrid case design and had infrared video of a gun firing polymer cases remaining a little bit cooler than the gun firing brass. There's problems with polymer or hybrid ammo but the heatsink effect isn't one. That's a problem for caseless ammo.
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@SansSentiments It wasn't. It wasn't a normal impeachment process, the president actually fled. You can't include the occupied areas if they're voting under gunpoint of Russian forces.
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Turkey does not allow military ships into the Black Sea due to the conflict.
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@JackJack-pr6mv So?
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Electric quadcopters are "copters" and the fixed wing with piston engine are "mopeds" because they make the small motorbike sound.
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@pietrotettamanti7239 20 year olds who served but did nothing worthwhile. Conscripts did even less. Read the "Z O V" document by a former Russian paratrooper who defected. He says even contract soldiers get no training, he had to bother his superiors to let his unit to go the range.
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Unfortunately, we need all draft dodgers inside Russia. By letting them flee, those who have no money or passports will be beat up by police and sent to the front. If 500.000 draft dodgers arrived in Moscow to confront the police, they'd take over the city.
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The Russians have ground themselves down to the point of using golf carts and motorbikes.
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 @cold6488 Budapest Memorandum.
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 @woodrowcall3158 How is the money laundered?
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@phillipfranco55 using the pod requires flying within sight of the enemy. On an A-10 you have to hug the ground. If you can see them, they can see you. And if they can see you, you don't want to be flying something that slow.
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"went right back into the economy" - and what a fool you are, you ask for money in your pocket and applaud when it goes "back" into the economy.
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@Gwazi Obama has the blood of thousands on his hands. Can Iran drone strike him?
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ideology you can ignore or having half of your family blown to bits?
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I learned both manual and CNC machining in college.
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Why don't you go over there as a peacekeeper? I heard they need security guarantees. If those who support Ukraine must serve, those who support a ceasefire must also face the consequences of what peace entails - a contingent of "tripwire" peacekeepers whose purpose is to get rolled over if the fighting starts.
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@Liam1H "Semi automatic weapons were developed strictly for the purpose of putting put a lot of lead in the enemies direction" - This isn't even true, because the military was very stringent about ammo expenditure. When the first magazine fed weapons were introduced, they had magazine cut off systems and soldiers were meant to single feed each round. You were only to disable the magazine cutoff in an emergency or when allowed by your officer. Only machine guns were meant to "put a lot of lead" in the air, while soldiers with individual rifles were supposed to be disciplined marksmen.
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In the land of the blind who has one eye is king.
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But it isn't.
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People can still demand a better product from corporations. If they want to sell our information then they have to attract customers and to do that their service has to be good. Doesn't duckduckgo merely use Yahoo results? I thought the point of duckduckgo was privacy.
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@ilovecoffee7623 "they are doing pretty good given that they dominate the market" - same could be said about CNN in the late 90's. "it is unrealistic to expect that a privately owned website company would be neutral and unbiased instead of pursuing its own interests like everybody else" - well, duh. And the consumer keeps them in check. Look at the consumer response to Ghostbusters 2016, the Star Wars franchise, Battlefield V, etc. If your pursuit of your own interests conflicts with the interests of the consumers you get slapped by the market. "The only thing Google cares regarding its users is to collect data about their search patterns so they can use that info for advertizing purposes." - you should look up how many different ways Google was a contractor for the Pentagon and intelligence agencies.
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@ilovecoffee7623 I'm not talking about value. I am saying that if in the late 90's I told you some random Swedish guy could draw a bigger audience than CNN you'd have thought I was insane. Right now it seems impossible for people to ever leave YouTube. Just like it probably seemed impossible to leave MySpace at one point. "trasnsparency is the key" - and google holds all the cards. The more they assure us that they're not spying the more I think they are lying to be because Google has been caught lying multiple times about the data they store and to this day they are still using "dark patterns" to keep tabs on you even after you asked for them to stop. "would ease their fears and hysteria" - too late. Have you noticed how YouTube runs their business? People need Patreon, sponsorships and merch sales to get a return on their channel because YouTube is pretty much taking the ad revenue for itself at this point - the review process to get monetization is so long people get most of the views on a video before it receives monetization status. The false copyright striking and reporting is rampant, the strikes system does not give you time to correct what you are doing, you could receive 3 strikes in a row from videos you uploaded a year ago in the same afternoon. They just recently deleted all the annotations which means that tons of videos that needed the annotations to update/correct information will stay up. This place is terrible for content creators and the only reason people aren't leaving in a mass exodus is the fact that YouTube is a "homepage" for videos so that's where the audience is.
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@ilovecoffee7623 the problem is that they may have actually tanked their chances of making money off YouTube by pissing off the content creators who actually draw an audience, the same audience that can't stand the corporate bullshit that they showcased on Rewind. >"the general population is at large liberal oriented" The YouTube community isn't the "general population" and this is a huge problem. The general population watches fail videos and looks up tutorials, music videos, whatever and then go do something else. In fact they can spend hours on youtube but not even leave a marker of engagement. The freaking "formula" for the past 2-3 years has been 10-13 min videos that "normies", so to speak, won't have the patience to watch. Why? Because a content creator proving to the algorithm that he creates content that engages people for that long is a pretty good marking of quality but at the same time it's difficult to peddle 15 minute videos about the history of LED printers or some other hyperfocused topic to the general population. >"they do not want to see what they consider to be ''hateful'' content, so YouTube is acting on that" And they're massively failing at that. Not only have they actually hit left-oriented channels too, but apolitical channels as well. Unless YouTube is planning to make all their money from music videos and makeup tutorials, driving off a massive community is completely unprofitable. >"anti-Bulgarian videos" I wasn't even aware there was such a "side" of YouTube. >"don't even get the started of Wikipedia" I have heard of some controversies, are you talking about editing wars where people kept taking down information?
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Their survival isn't threatened. They can just leave and the war ends.
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@roguewarrior7217 So? It's still Ukraine fighting. In every war foreign allies helped. So it's Ukraine vs Russia.
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 @forty27 By Oliver Stone, friend of Hugo Chavez and Putin, and whose son worked for Russia Today.
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There was no coup, the governmeng was in session in 2014.
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Are they good at dodging drone dropped grenades?
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Actually, the Second Amendment is updated in that sense. The militia is supposed to be "well regulated" - and back then, the word was used in it's purest form - it derives from "regular". A "regular militia" would be equipped to fight a "regular" army. It's hard to convince soccer moms of this, but it's what the 2ndA says.
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Trump told Germany to stop buying Russian gas. That's a bad spy.
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Can't even kill GMLRS rockets or aliexpress drones.
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Think about that comment if one day you get attacked and sodomized. The reason women are the majority of rape victims is because men rarely report rape. Rape makes everyone a victim, and you wouldn't enjoy it. You're basically asking "What's wrong with taking a shit in someone's face? What's wrong with stabbing people?"
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The F-35 is in service in multiple countries and has over 600 delivered. There's only 16 Su-57s produced, two crashed, and you have never heard of the rocky development because there's no transparency in Russia while Western media profits from reporting on the F-35 as a failure.
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No they didn't.
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If they got the barrels from the same place that's making them for the government, it's cheaper to pull a barrel out of the production line than create a separate production line to make commercial barrels. To be fair "commercial" barrels are more common now that other brands got into the game and they have no reason to manufacture those profiles.
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@JohnCBobcat I'm not talking about Rem/Bushmaster but the AR market in general. Because of your last sentence.
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Shot down by a Buk missile fired from the separatist region. The launcher was identified as the one marked 332 and belonged to the 53rd anti air missile battalion, in Kursk. It was filmed being carried by truck out of the scene and shipped to Russia to hide the evidence.
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Canada confiscated legal rifles, the QBZ-95 in .223 Remington. They respected the law and for arbitrary reasons they decided that they could be modified into full auto (like any firearm can be converted, even the 1903 Springfield bolt action had a conversion to fire in automatic .30 Carbine). Instead of letting the people keep their rifles and ban the import, they were confiscated.
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Almost every time a delivery is announced we find out they started training ahead of time.
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No extra money was sent. Actually learn to read.
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The Founding Fathers didn't even imagine the internet. Will you give away your freedom of speech, since you were never intended to enjoy it online?
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Your soldiers are crying on telegram... begging for Putin to do something about the HIMARS. Can't you read their posts? I wish you could hear their screams.
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@sithticklefingers7255 Name the last gun kill on another aircraft that wasn't a helicopter. And date.
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@jimtaylor294 Vietnam proved the opposite. The "Last Gunfighter", the F-8 Crusader, scored 19 kills and only 4 with gun. The Phantom scored over a hundred missile kills in both USAF and USN service and almost no gun kills. Only a handfull.
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@jimtaylor294 Many flight leaders prohibited their Phantom pilots in the squadron from fitting gunpods. They didn't have lead computing gunsights and pilots were not trained in aerial gunnery anyway. "as real air combat rarely if ever plays out how theorists - that seldom have any actual hands on experiance of the topic" - As opposed to real pilots, who haven't scored gun kills on jet aircraft in decades. Most pilots in active duty these days were probably not even born when the last jet vs jet gun kill happened.
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A lot of times they eject precisely because they have no control. Those who retained control over a crashing aircraft often have to sacrifice themselves to keep the aircraft headed away from sensitive areas.
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@errorcode1133 Buddy the military loves keeping everything under wraps. Remember the discord leaks that mostly included stuff you'd find online? Top secret. What were they hiding? Nothing, you could find that info on twitter. Thinking there's a conspiracy simply because the military isn't providing you a 1 hour powerpoint is dangerously closed to mental illness.
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Ukraine made huge gains, didn't run out of anything, and barely lost anything since the enemy ran away or surrendered.
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Paul Price Did Ross Kemp get interviews with Putin and occasional invitations to be interviewed at RT? Genuine question.
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Paul Price I'm not dismissing a source, a documentary isn't really a source. The person making the documentary goes to the sources.
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+Jesus Gonzalez why do you welcome 1984 with open arms?
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 @dailycash9777 Finished 5 rounds, 4 of which he got outplayed.
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The Russian media had online articles on a timer to declare victory and posted them by accident.
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The US spends more on medicaid and medicare than the military. The military isn't taking away money from healthcare.
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@xPaulxDx99 But opposing the credit score is in itself a mainstream thing. Any time the social credit score is brought up people flood in saying it's the same as the credit score. It's a punchline in jokes in TV shows.
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Dude with the Wagner PMC profile pic suddenly not as hard now that he knows the CIA are onto him
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Unfair comparison. They're both scummy for different reasons.
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How so? It's cheaper than 4th gen jets, absolutely curbstomps everything else. Rookie F-35 pilots can score kills on veteran F-16 pilots.
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@michaelwhite3615 Are you just here to spam the same old and tired reformist talking point? If so, you are the ultimate Pierre Sprey fanboy. Take a look at Ukraine and see what happens when you say "ahhh to expensive". Well, the cheap stuff gets shot down. Either spend the money, or don't have an air force. Trying to cheap out is deadly.
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@michaelwhite3615 I'm not the one spamming all the "waaah waah" cope from 2015.
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@michaelwhite3615 Your 2015 talking points.
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@michaelwhite3615 It's also not my fault you post wrong opinions that need to get fact checked. Does National Interest send you a check?
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@michaelwhite3615 Okay. And a perfect example why some issues should not be decided by the uniformed voter. You don't get to decide anything. The people you elect know that they will be sinking their own air force is they stop buying F-35s. So don't flatter yourself. Your freedom of choice ends where the freedom of choice of our military leaders (who want F-35s) begins.
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@hectorzero8545 No. The leak shows 43k Russian fatalities and 17k Ukrainian fatalities. The 10:1 artillery advantage doesn't matter when your accuracy is poor, your intelligence has several hours of delay, and your ammo dumps got blown up by HIMARS. Russians don't just sit back. Watch the videos. You don't, because they show reality. And you're scared of being confronted with reality. The combat footage clearly shows that Russia is advancing, not sitting back. The superior firepower needs scouts and artillery forward observers. If Ukrainian defenders do not fire, their positions remain hidden. So the Russian strategy of using artillery still requires Russian men to cross no-man's-land where they're attacked, and then engage Ukrainian positions to get them to fire and show themselves to observers/drones. If Russia sits back, Ukraine sits back and Russia sees nothing but trees and rubble. Ukrainians need to fire for the flash and smoke to betray their location. And for Ukrainians to fire, Russia has to attack. Watch the videos. Specifically Vuhledar. It's a massacre. They are advancing slowly because their advances get bogged down by landmines and mortar fire. They can't preserve manpower. They simply cannot. They turn empty fields into the moon surface. Shelling empty land gets them nothing. When they show up to mop up, that's when they get massacred. Rinse and repeat. Russia does not have JDAMs, stop saying things that don't make sense. They're showing off glide bombs. A JDAM is a guidance kit that corrects free-fall gravity bombs with GPS/INS.
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@kishanchali8752 Update the script, bot. Russian forces have complained that counterbattery is absent. Russian artillery losses have increased for the past few months. Russia is using T-55s as SPGs due to ammo and barrel issues in their tube artillery. A 10:1 advantage is on paper. In real life, it's the steel that matters.
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But New York was pretty bad from the 70s into the 80s. NYC has somewhat "cleaned up".
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The whole context is that she was reading superchats.
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@stevem437 Because she was reading out loud. She wouldn't have thought not to ask it until after she had read the superchat.
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@aaronpaul9188 Their space program has been gutted since the 2014 sanctions. Rogozin admitted it.
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Two Russian S-300s destroyed recently, video was released yesterday.
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Not what Poland said. They said they had no old weapons to give and they're buying new weapons for rearmament. They didn't say they wanted to pull support, they just said that the "surplus" was gone.
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James Registe he directed the comment at someone with the hammer and sickle on the American flag. Jury's out if that's because he thinks communism is the answer, or if he thinks the USA is the new USSR.
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@comrademcsalty7676 "we-we-we're only gwonna whurt the biwwionaires!" starts lining up the lower middle class against the wall
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I'll apply the Pareto principle on that one. For every trucker making 200k there's 5 making 100k and 10 making 80k.
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Russian MoD claimed they did the strikes.
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@nancyross7935 Most people don't get the annual flu vaccine. It's not an anti-vaxx thing, most people just don't see the point. Yeah, children get the required shots. And most often don't get any more than the required. It's not fear. It's not political. I'm European. We aren't Trump cultists. If you think we all line up for the annual flu vaccine you're sorely mistaken. Most people don't bother.
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@nancyross7935 Yeah, we get sick. It happens. Most of us don't go to the doctor with the flu, though. We just tank it and push through. I guess we're built different.
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The imperfection would cause the push to actually knock the hinged part out of alignment and cause unwanted rotation.
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The VC were essentially wiped out. North Vietnam had to send NVA soldiers to South Vietnam to act as Viet Cong to mask the failure of the Tet Offensive. Much like the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics had their forces wiped out and Russia sent Russian men to reconstruct their forces. Communism is genocide.
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My favorite episode of The Format Wars.
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So it's his fault? People die in gang shootings or fights in front of clubs when we're not at war either.
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Those 4th gen would get shredded by the still active air defenses. If you want to kick doors down, stealth goes first to destroy the radars.
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Russians confirmed itm
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Said the man who got help from France to fight the British
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The defenses took months to build. Also the Soviet tactic was true defense in depth where Germany was forced to fight through "ablative" lines which gave way and retreated behind the next lines. By the time Germans pushed through several lines, they met the "true" defensive line with the best troops. Meanwhile Ukraine pushed the greyzone before even getting near the lines and Russia was throwing their reserves because losing territory = bad news and you can't have bad news in Russia. They did exactly the opposite of what they should have.
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Keep huffing that copium, bot.
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Mostly true. The Navy noticed issues wth Sidewinders and requested an upgrade before the conflict. The USAF started Vietnam with poorly performing Sidewinders and had to request an upgrade to play catch up. On the other hand, Navy Sparrow missiles got banged hard during carrier landings and were exposed to salt water mist for months at a time. Many aircraft never had their Sparrows removed from the pylon for maintenance which lead to failures. USAF Sparrows weren't handled as roughly and were usually fired at higher altitudes so there was less ground clutter to confuse the seeker. So the Navy was smarter with their Sidewinders but neglected their Sparrows, the USAF started off with the infamous AIM-4s and the weaker Sidewinders. Both branches had to adapt after reports brought these issues to surface.
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Ukraine has already liberated area annexed by the referenda. Nobody cares. They are being routed because the roads are a killing field.
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Literally every plane has many moving parts.
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@Doppe1ganger Why are people beating each other down in the streets?
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What did I miss?
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Can you give me a map of "military" areas available in the region? I'm really curious.
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@soylentgreenb so you declare your own neighborhood a military zone?
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Advanced jets made in the cold war. Eh eh.
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I'd rather die in a shootout over my stuff than be put on a facility built solely so I could die away from the regular hospital.
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15-18 tanks punched the frontlines in Kharkiv and enabled the Ukrainians to fold the Russians like laundry.
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@brettvogel8418 Right. They weren't steamrolled by tanks, the tanked punched the defensive line and then the follow through rolled in behind the tanks to exploit it. But the tanks punched through.
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He just appeared on video yesterday.
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If they saw it coming, why didn't they stop it?
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@ericroland4956 And after those 5 we have 5000 that do work.
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@kaloyanrosenov2123 But they also don't know how to fight, so the Russians will have to die anyway.
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GPS munitions are actually INS guided munitions with GPS correction. Trying to jam the GPS just makes the munition fall back to INS mode. Some may be small enough that the loss in accuracy causes a miss, others are big enough that you can't escape the splash damage. Also the GLSDBs spend more time inside the jammer bubble because they glide, ATACMS spends maybe 1-2 seconds inside the jammer radius. That's not enough time for INS drift.
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Most of the people close to a nuke detonation are killed by pressure wave, debris or the fires. Yeah, the irradiation would be fatal to most of the people near the explosion... But a big percentage of them gets killed instantly by other means. It's like when the media reported that Fallujah has more birth defects than Hiroshima due to the white phosphorus/DU munitions that were deployed in the war. I mean I'm glad they're reporting on it but to me that comparison is useless. Most of the people who would carry birth defects to their offspring in Hiroshima got killed instantly, while people living in aerosolized hazardous materials lived to have kids.
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I mean he "tied it all together" by bringing up guns, which was pretty unrelated, and the pink haired stuff could be used against Joe as if he allowed his hosts to disparage the teens that survived shootings or some shit. Don't get me wrong it would have been amazing to hear Eddue Bravo go all "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" but he was derailing into other topics.
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Sicko. It's a pun.
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India and China offshoring to Russia just means wages are low enough that they're in the same position China used to be decades ago.
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This. Healthcare insurances are simply passing the buck. They're overcharging because they're getting fleeced as well.
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If your war depends on artillery superiority, 4 trucks blowing up your ammo is not gonna end up well.
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No such rule exists.
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Whole different animal. The pickup guzzles fuel instead of putting that energetic demand on the grid. Internal combustion has it's own efficiency regulations.
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@mushroom032 No. Not all energy is the same. That's why when there's a power outage you can still run a gas/diesel generator.
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Burning down your house will kill a spider, but that's still a stupid way to kill it. Just whack it with a shoe.
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@Princip666 Sad that my comment got shadow banned. Scott Ritter knows nothing.
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@v.d6809 Yeah, it's stalled. Your guys are biased too. I watched a video by defense politics asia weeks ago, he literally started the video with some kind of roleplay and pretending the video watcher is a commander. Absolute clown show.
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@Princip666 Russian artillerymen are now the target. Look at the recent Bayraktar footage, bombing an artillery piece. One artilleryman stopped moving. The other had to crawl on his arms. He's coming back to Russia with no legs. Russia artillery only hits hard when the artillerymen still have hands and feet attached. Now they won't. Enjoy the show.
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@v.d6809 Accurate info from a guy who's playing a simulation game on his videos. Yawn.
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And yet, the F-16 is one of the world's most successful aircraft despite being a multirole. The one-size-fits-all model is proven in the combat aviation world. They split it into three variants due to different requirements. The Navy needs a heavy duty steam catapult-ready landing gear while USAF and USMC don't, and they also need folding wings the Air Force has no use for. The Marines need short take offs and vertical landing due to their short carriers, neither the Air Force or the Navy need it. You're confusing different operational requirements that are external to he abilities of the aircraft. The USMC, USAF and USN F-35s will all do the same things. They weren't split because the aircraft can't do everything. Just because the Air Force uses runways, the Marines short carriers and the Navy longer carriers with steam catapults.
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They could try. At that point more mass shootings in recruitment offices would happen.
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Keep telling yourself that.
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Better trained oppressors is not a thing worth bragging about.
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It wasn't a mistake. Guns were a distraction. Most Phantom kills were by missile.
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YouTube doesn't have a monopoly, literally anyone can make a website.
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Never seen ceramic or glass leak.
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Because liberals have stolen the word liberal. Liberal used to be someone whose opinions are formed with logic and reasoning, not prejudice. Someone who believes in freedom and less government. Now it means people who want more government and less freedom. Here in Europe we don't use the word "libertarian", because we still call ourselves "liberals". American "libruls" have deturped the meaning of liberal like misandrists have deturped "feminism".
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First unit in was "safari", a SBU unit. Not Azov.
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@lenney872 Sorry, did you perform DNA tests on those people to figure out they were all "ethnic Russians"? Why would Americans make themselves look bad? There's a few instances of bad people who during a war committed heinous acts. There was a group of US troops who left the base, killed a family and comitted SA on a young girl. Who benefited from that? Nobody. War brings out the worst in people.
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They're refurbishing 800 T-62s. This is not a joke.
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@jupiterjunk Amazing. Nobody is actually able to state why multiroles can't excel at their job.
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@zeromodulus1679 if anything, the best use for hypersonics is against naval targets such as aircraft carriers, as the faster travel allows it to close the distance before the ship moves away too much from the target area
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@zeromodulus1679 The problem is that an aircraft carrier or ship with long range anti-air missiles can easily destroy whatever you use to track it. The long range anti-ship missile should be able to arrive on the expected location and turn on its own sensors. Because if it relies on an aircraft to track ships, the aircraft can be taken out. This is doable up to a certain distance, where a ship will only move a few miles off the place you last tracked it. At very long ranges the missile would have to look in a very wide area as the ship could be anywhere. Make the missile hypersonic, and it can get to the expected target area much faster, slow down to supersonic and turn on its own seeker.
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Anything trying to target the Patriot will have to fly through countless layers of defense. And cope, botski. Your boss tells you to post this because Russia is BEGGING for the war to stop. It hurts them. It will hurt more. Tell your boss your posts don't work, and that each Ruble he pays you is one less bullet in the magazine of your fellow Russian man.
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There's not much to it. Just get stuff you're gonna need, canned food, dried beans and rice, don't forget water and hygiene. Imagine you're gonna take a month long vacation in a remote place and you won't be able to get to the grocery store. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSgotSS222c Other than that you might need batteries and powerbanks just in case power goes out for a few days and you need to keep a cellphone or radio alive.
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Of course the F-35 isn't a F-15 peer. You're comparing the low to the high in the high/low mix. Small single engine multirole: F-16, F-35. Large twin engine air superiority fighter: F-15, F-22
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The panic attacks will return. Your army is dying and fleeing. Time to wake up and smell the coffee, Olga.
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They retired all B-52s up to the what, G variant (?) when the Cold War ended. There were no old variants of F-22 to send to the boneyard to let the "youngest" keep flying.
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Because games will become less optimized. If you can just fake the framerate they'll keep pushing games harder to run. And you'll be paying very real dollars to upgrade cards.
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@leetshots because mobilization is unpopular Prigozhin openly admitted to recruiting prisoners
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Okay. But we use F-16s to mimic agile fighters (aggressor squadrons use it as MiG-29s) and to perform deep strike missions (Operation Opera). Where are the dedicated aircraft? Multiroles have replaced them.
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PGMs can be deployed the same fashion.
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@Argentvs They're not useless. GPS delivery is incredibly common because for a FAC it's so much easier to punch in coordinates for the pilot. Targets have to be static for dumb drops too. When you want to drop on moving small units, you bracket them. Most people don't run hundreds of meters back and forth in a battle. Not only they'd get tired quickly, they're also often taking cover and may spend minutes to hours in positions to avoid getting shot. To deliver a GPS munition you pick their average position or put one bomb "short" and one bomb "long" and the blast radius will take care of them even if they move. Laser designation can be done by FAC on the ground or drones. Unguided ammo gives you all the problems of GPS munitions without the accuracy and precision. If you "identify on the fly", the enemy already saw you.
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Airbases get repaired.
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The Ju-87 lost effectiveness halfway through WWII. Both Ju-87 and IL-2 kill counts are massively inflated as never performed as well as they're claimed to have.
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One side is lying.
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@goblin6587 You think calling me a name you learned from MSM or reddit insults me? You have nothing else to offer except the insults you've been programmed to use.
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@goblin6587 I'd rather be the NPC than a player character doing the bad morality run.
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Ford keeps selling cars branded "Ford" even though Henry Ford didn't design them.
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@shanejones3599 Kalashnikov is a brand, actually. Kalashnikov Concern makes the majority of small arms for the Russian military. But either way, "Kalashnikov" in terms of the official Russian designation is still a reference to Kalashnikov's design team. If you look at the AK-46 design Mikahil's rifle was actually different from the 47 prototype. During the trials the military made suggestions to change the design and while Mikhail Kalashnikov initially opposed it he allowed Aleksandr Zaitsev to make the changes. So it is somewhat of a branding effort, he was lead designer of his team but not responsible for all of the work. The same thing happens with other weapons, we typically call ARs "AR" even though they're not made by Armalite.
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Guess what - flying isn't construction work.
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Putting it that way, it just sounds like the problem is swept under the rug. The social "service" is keeping them out of sight, out of mind.
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@marcuslang6153 Every outlet in the industry? Do these outlets have access to detailed information from within the halls of air force chiefs of staff? I don't trust a writer for an "outlet" over actual engineers, planners, accountants, etc who know the TRUE numbers rather than the marketing wank.
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@marcuslang6153 The customers aren't disappointed but they're also not doing a lot of fighting.
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@david-468 winning is a PR stunt when Ukraine does it
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@david-468 You not only take the Russian numbers, you multiply them by two.
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Right. But in most countries people are trying to move to existing economic centers which don't exactly have a surplus of empty lots. In China, they're building in the periphery of existing cities because according to the growth numbers, those construction projects would end up in the middle of expanding economic zones. Because of the risk, in Canada (and most countries) construction is done where the demand is (or will be according to high confidence projects). In China, a lot of construction was done expecting demand to be there much later down the line due to inevitable growth.
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There were remnants of the truck. The front axle was thrown 100 meters forward and stuck to the undamaged section of the deck.
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Bro Hasan vs Sam Hyde at the Wrestlemania would go hard. Book it, Vince.
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If you had sent a few HIMARS and ATACMS to shred that 60 mile convoy, you'd have cheaply stopped the war. The more you wait the more you pay.
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"the F-35 was a massive failure of a government program which is why we should have a government program for maternity leave" - do you see the irony?
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 @rubicon3416 MacGregor is so real he screamed about impending Ukrainian collapse in 2022... then nothing.
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 @darwel007 Probably because of the same reason Zeihan charges 700 bucks to attend his speaking engagements while MacGregor goes on Andrew Napolitano's youtube show.
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@darwel007 I don't care if you buy it or not. Zeihan makes big bucks with his expertise, MacGregor is humiliating himself on camera for pennies for over a year.
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@TheRealWinser "You don't have a right to a specific weapon and that is true even in the USA." - actually, you do. California just lost the magazine capacity ban because a judge deemed it unconstitutional. The handgun ban in Chicago was deemed unconstitutional. The problem with those laws is that someone has to be caught and go to court to challenge them but once they get to the Supreme Court they're typically struct down.
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@minarulkarim743 "you see in a country where everyone has guns, the robber will expect you to have gun" - if the robber expects you to have a gun why would he attack you? Does he have a death wish?
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@TheRealWinser "SCOTUS says otherwise" - you mean the same SCOTUS that is getting stacked with conservatives?
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@tophemuffin nice strawman you got there
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Not true. The invasion of Iraq was much cleaner. Syria was Russia's doing.
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South Vietnamese people were indigenous.
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 @peterohanraha-hanrahan5097 Sweden can't make them. Is Saab gonna build a new plant within the next 12 months?
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 @Beef8Cake these are from the used lot LMAO
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 @chillxxx241 the F-16s were not American, why are you demanding payment
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 @rambleon2838 The F-35 has a great safety record.
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 @allysonand So?
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@Ylfven that's not true - Gripen C/D per hour flight cost was higher than the F-16 in the Finnish trials. The Swiss government also saw the Saab numbers as bogus. The F-16 flight cost per hour is 2/3rds of the F-35. Gripen E flight costs have to be on par with F-16 Block 70/72 or higher.
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 @marknicholson2281 They are in shambles my guy. They're using Chinese golf carts in assaults. The Russian 2024 military is a death cult at this point. It's mad max over there.
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@Slavic_Goblin Glide bombs were dropped outside Ukraine for over a year. I'm sure Kiyv Post reported on it then. Saying it is happening "now" is propaganda as it intends to convey improvement. There isn't. Belgorod was bombed multiple times because the shoddy guidance kits fell off and the live bomb just dropped into cities.
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@nebulaone908 A house and a country isn't comparable. Walls in your house give you privacy and prevent inhabitants from being exposed to the elements. Your house doesn't exactly provide a livelihood so there isn't a line of people trying to get in by any means necessary.
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It's a win because now the rail lines from the North are threatened. Another Russian position will become indefensible as supplies are strained.
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Because then you have to pick a steel alloy that can be formed from the start when the sheet is punched through a die to form a puck and a cup. This means soft steel that doesn't behave like brass inside the chamber, but can't handle the high pressures. If you're just forming the case head out of a better steel, and attaching it to brass, you get the benefit of brass sealing against chamber walls but you also have a reinforced case head that won't fail under pressure.
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It's not Russia's best general. Winter defeated the Soviets in Finland. Winter defeated the Russians in Ukraine this Feb 2022.
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And what could Fox News do? Fox News doesn't control what gets investigated. If everyone says "it's not real, we won't investigate" Fox News says "it's real guys!" will only convince Fox News watchers. Parler can't investigate the President's son. You're saying "oh Instagram can't verify the Xinjiang concentration camps, it's a bunch of nothing". Is that a real argument?
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Why are you coping? Yes, if one side is retreating the other can make the choice not to chase to avoid casualties. Nobody knows why? We all know why. They're undersupplied and tired from fighting for months with no rotation.
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@draw4kicks law of conservation of mass, all the methane released from cattle had to be converted to CO2 in the atmosphere and fixed by plants in a cycle.
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Today even getting fucked in the bum by some rapper and releasing the video means something.
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Right. But for example in Kharkiv when Russians holed up in towns to stabilize the frontline, the Ukrainians pressured them to leave and pre-sighted the escape routes. When they left the town Ukrainians let loose with the guns, resulting in the photos of roads littered with body parts seen in the aftermath. Instead of trying to flatten the town, they got the enemy in the relative open.
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They didn't but you seethe anyway.
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No, it's not safe to assume that. We'd see that from space. You can't hide the factories and airframes for a thousand aircraft.
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 @probus6678 Moving the goalposts.
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The Kosovars were being genocided by Serbs. We gave them plenty of warning but they kidnapped OUR troops and held them as hostages. We should have destroyed their army instead of negotiating with them. Our cowardice lead to mass killings and rape. There is no "russian population". It's Ukrainian territory with Russian speakers. The Russian speakers welcomed Ukrainian soldiers. Luhansk and Donetsk are Ukrainian. The separatists are Russian agents and stooges. Igor Girkin is a Russian FSB agent, not a Ukrainian.
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The Red Crescent is used in Arab countries.
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@tmdarby I know Canadians. They do see guns as part of freedom and masculinity.
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@tmdarby Maybe they just know better and hide their true feelings among people they don't trust to not get into trouble. Maybe one day they'll figure out there's not the minority.
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@tmdarby I'm on the position of knowing, you're in the position of ignoring. I know some people. You don't. Clearly, you're the one who knows less. Here's a taste of what goes on in Canada: /watch?v=Qc_-iODo41E
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@tmdarby It's you who's telling yourself what you need to hear. You're in denial. What I say is verifiable. You're coping.
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@tmdarby Exactly, what I think doesn't matter. Reality does. You can live wherever you want, and still be oblivious about what's going on around you.
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I'm not taking the third option. Rittenhousing them. Option one is getting shot in the back, option two might lead to them bringing out the rope and duct tape.
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That's a baffling metric. Neither of us knows why the budget was cut. What was the budget even for? If the budget had upgrade programs and refurbishing, well those aren't going to be used if the missiles were spent in a conflict.
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McGregor has been wrong at every step of the way. What credibility does he have?
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A note not being threatful or forceful just makes it look like some "smart guy" figured out a way to allege it wasn't a robbery if caught. Maybe deal with the type of person who still thinks bank robberies are worth it for a while and you'll realize there's no stretch.
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@matthewstephens6502 You've clearly never read enough "man attempts bank robbery with...." news to realize that not even the world's most active imagination can predict what bank robbers are going to try next.
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@repit5014 China did close Hubei province while allowing flights out. Say what you want, but they knew it was dangerous to their country and said "fuck it let's spread it worldwide".
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@Sajuek That's not how you do things. You don't compare a cancer free control group subject to a cancer patient to see if a drug works. You compare the same patient before and after.
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@ts757arse the "revolver" has to be a rifle with a barrel length minimum and a grip extension.
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@AeneasGemini No, the data doesn't support it. You just claim it does because it's expedient. Gun crime rose after the bans.
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@Sajuek number of metropolitan cities per capita in the US is huge.
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@Sajuek because you already live in one?
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@FatalPies the M14 is a pretty crappy weapon, but Abrams and Apaches didn't solve Afghanistan.
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@FeatherSword446 still saved his ass pulling the blaster on Grievous.
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@SP-lw7mr Learn from what? Automatics were banned by the Hughes Amendment in the 80s in the US.
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@FatalPies It's the graveyard of empires for a reason. You can't govern those who refuse to be governed. And we could learn from them in that aspect.
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@ts757arse I watch English Shooting sometimes so I know what goes on. The issue is that those require a FAC so most people have an easier time getting a shotgun certificate.
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@ts757arse "Regardless, the system is there to stop people with the attitude of "I just want a gun"" - Which are exactly the people I trust. Not the weirdos so obsessed they subject themselves to the ritual. "I didn't find the speed a problem as I wanted to learn how to use different weapons and so on" - This is the definition of cope. "so if you go "I want a gun, any gun" well you may be happy with a shotgun" - Not sure what's the point of this.
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@elias_xp95 Nobody has a right to shoot any children. What you're describing is a crime.
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@ts757arse Oh, you want people to be trained? But that makes them more dangerous. Oh and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology did their own study and admitted that mental health vetting doesn't work. Mental illness doesn't correlate with violence and the people who are dangerous would simply lie to pass the vetting. Plus there wouldn't be enough psychologists and money to afford putting all licensees through the process. I'm not the weirdo. I'm chill. You're the one defending your own government treating you like a criminal. Personal attacks? I'm not attacking anyone. I only said I watch a youtuber so you'd quit talking about the types of guns allowed. Clearly I should have just allowed to keep you ranting about how much freedom you have.
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@ts757arse Suicide rates are pretty consistent across a lot of the big western countries. Like I said I read the POST's own report on it and they admitted it wouldn't work so it was never introduced into the process. I'm not judging from the armchair, I simply looked up the facts and turns out the UK's own government laid it out pretty well. The vast majority of people don't know anything. What does it matter if they're quite happy? I mean, why are you on this channel anyway? If things are fine the way they are, why is there a podcast dedicated to complaining about the state of the UK? How is it obvious in the stats? If you plot gun ownership and gun homicide by country there's no correlation. I don't agree with the way America does it either, so you're just strawmanning. America is wrong too. No, it's not different, it's just wrong. The whole point behind Britain's gun control was 1920s fears about WWII veterans staging a coup that mirrored the Russian revolution. It's just a sign your government hates you and wants you weak. I don't care about the uproar or legalizing anything. I'm just exposing your rationalizations. If it was about target shooting you wouldn't need a gun, you can shoot targets through other means. It's about the gun, but you can't admit it to yourself. I didn't say I wanted you to shut up about UK laws, I wanted you to get off my case about what kinds of weapons you want to brag about. You people always assume you're talking to people who think guns are banned and love going on and on about all the guns you can have. I always find it amusing when people mention .50 BMG as if the number of people with those rifles isn't miniscule and the number of ranges that authorize that kind of shooting is high enough to matter. I'm not American. If you were done with nonsense you wouldn't get a loicense lmao.
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@elias_xp95 Except it doesn't, because regulation and gun violence doesn't correlate. That's the facts. Your love for gun control? Feelings.
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@elias_xp95 It's not cherry picking. Australian gun crime was already on the downward trend since the late 60s. Japan never had much gun crime. Most of Europe passed gun control as a way to collect taxes or a response to situations like danger of revolution because the gun crime was never a big of a deal. This is like giving a drug to someone whose cancer is already in remission and claiming your drug cures cancer. No, I'm not American. The problem with your argument is that by that logic, crime should be higher outside of Chicago. The fact that it isn't proves it's not the guns, it's the society. Society outside of Chicago is peaceful and has no problems with guns despite having open access to them. But most regulation does stop law abiding citizens. It's a cultural engineering tool that discourages most law abiding citizens from even attempting to go through the process, and make those who do look like weirdos in the eyes of society. Not to mention that most countries with regulation do have some kind of ban in place, so your argument makes no sense. Like in some countries people have .38 Super or 9x21mm handguns because they can't own 9x19mm. By your own logic the restrictions would make sure no bans are needed, but they put nonsensical bans in place anyway. You ask for one you need to take the combo deal. You don't get to demand only rational regulations. In the US gun crime is punished, I don't even know what you mean with that line of reasoning that gun control is necessary to punish criminals.
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AT mines are the ones halting the advance. Not Anti-Personnel (though they are present).
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The AC-130 is even more handicapped than the A-10. The Spirit 03 crew was killed in its entirety by a single Iraqi MANPADS.
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@TheLimeIsALie No AC-130 was shot down since because any MANPADS left in Afghanistan ran out of battery and coolant gas before 2001. A "combat zone" where you're firing at guys with AKs is as much of a combat zone as helicopter hog hunting in Texas. The hogs won't be able to fight back, dude.
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Are you for real? Funding drives are not new.
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Old machinima were a pain in the ass to make. Now you can pull game assets and animate faces? Easy.
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Russia is hiring.
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"the beginning of freedom, when we are in a world without scarcity, and no jobs" - how can there be no scarcity and no jobs? If nobody is doing their job, everything is scarce because nobody is producing anything. "The A.I. is our salvation" - fuck the AI
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They aren't sent money. They're sent old stockpiles of gear that are presumed to be valued at X dollars, and the media reports it as "Ukraine receving X dollars worth of aid". But they're not, it's like trying to "evaluate" your car's worth with the price as it came off the lot two decades ago.
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@DaleGribbleMD They didn't invest into FTX. FTX volunteered to handle crypto donations to Ukraine. All in all, they received 60 million USD worth of crypto from private individuals across the globe. Not governments, just personal donations. It was never "laundered" anywhere. The FTX debacle is being investigated and SBF stole money, but we know he took it and used it to buy property for example. It's completely unrelated to the private donations Ukraine got.
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M Jankovic Novak was a stunt. His charity organization is involved with the WEF.
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It does make a huge difference because a ton of navigation, big engineering challenges, etc is based on the curvature of the Earth. If flat earth becomes so widespread that we start doing things under the assumption that the Earth is flat we will lose GPS navigation, star navigation (because the firmament proves flat earth wrong), long bridges, etc. It's as much of a problem as everyone starting to believe in homeopathy. We will go back in time as a civilization if we allow this shit to spread.
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@katyushatman5187 They said that in Bakhmut, close range fighting was brutal to the point of small arms and shovels being the weapons used. Obviously, across the entire war, ALL weapons are used. But when face to face, men use melee weapons if they're more accessible than the rifle. You people took the text out of context, and cut the part about small arms. Because you are Rusky propagandists.
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@macilowiecki9158 Any satellite picture of Ukrainian fields show vast empty landscapes pockmarked with craters. Russians were shooting at nothing. There's also the constant begging for ammo.
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Not gonna spill my blood to fight for people who marched to take away my rights and called me a terrorist or a child murderer.
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How could you forget "I'm gonna snatch every mothafuckin birthday"?
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Russia controls areas that were supported by Kiev subsidies. Their GDP was declining because of ageing population.
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@PracticalTacticalFedeli What does that mean? Americans have forgotten ammo and guns in their bags or pockets when walking into airports. People forget stuff.
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@ootdega No? It's not about concealed carry. The point is that Americans have walked into airports with gun stuff they didn't remember they had on. It's an honest mistake.
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@chadsimmons4496 "what better way to corrupt, than to stop a popular leader from reigning too long" - lmao because a person reigning for too long definitely means he won't have influence over people with a cult of personality nor use his power to change the system in his favour...
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@chadsimmons4496 either way fuck that FDR guy for putting people in camps based on ethnicity.
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If there's multiple cruise missiles in the air, they will launch whatever they can spare. It's common procedure to fire two SAMs at maneuvering targets. Remember the F-117 shootdown in Serbia? Radar officer made the correct call to send two because the first missile lost the track and couldn't find the F-117, so the pilot saw the "dead" missile zip right in front of him. It was the second missile that got him.
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They also have expansion relief cuts. Back in the day if steel rail was set cold and then during the summer the temperature raised past a certain point, the rails would expand and with nowhere to go they'd start bending hemselves. So we now have a small space between rail segments so they can expand and contract freely.
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LMAO INSURGENCIES DO NOT HAVE RADARS Against insurgencies the US used A-10s and Apaches, not F-22s.
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 @DennisMerwood-xk8wp then how come Russia can't defeat Soviet technology in Ukraine?
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 @nero2179 Even Prigozhin said the "muh Donbas" was a lie dawg there's data on the conflict and most civilian casualties were accidents with mines and UXO
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 @nero2179 Putin wanted the war to start and continue. He can pull his men out any time.
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9:48 what the hell was that?
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@laredobenjamin7438 But you need to manufacture and maintain a facility. Meanwhile a warehouse full of batteries only needs the appropriate connections to the grid and maintenance is a breeze by disconnecting sectors and replacing the faulty racks without having to take the whole thing out of comission.
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The Germans said that. They didn't realize the entire frontline is mined. To avoid them, they'd have to go through Poland and Belarus.
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Tests are typically announced, and the trajectory is tracked. Basically, we'll know Kim is gonna shoot his rocket over Japan and it lands in the Pacific.
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@k4yser They were created. They get FSB fake IDs to travel around the world and hitch rides on Russian air force transport aircraft. They're not "hired", they were created by Russian glowies to do glowie things while appearing to be a private corporation on paper. If they were hired, the US could simply give money to Ukraine to hire them for a higher price.
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 @SaintFacetious Bruh the Armata is vaporware. They need foreign contracts to built them, and nobody wants it.
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@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire they can't afford to lose pilots
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@Dockhead so people only skip bail in the movies?
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@Dockhead This isn't about the bail itself. Flight risk is usually mentioned regarding bail so I used that to point out people do evade the law.
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Small drones would run out of battery before they'd run out of canned food and water inside.
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No, I won't trust you. Mankind will survive either way because we lived through higher temperatures in the past, we'll just have to accept another standard of living. But the loss of biodiversity will happen either way if we make stupid choices. So if we're not saving anything, we might as well accept the climate change and go live in a slightly warmer Siberia to flee rising water and insects.
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@that.schamp What would I want? Strike Eagle. You cannot depend on anyone because nobody else can protect you from MANPADS. It's just a puff of smoke from the ground and you're out. Nobody else can suppress it, nobody else can somehow get between you and the missile going after you. You have to use your power and speed to deny missiles the kinetic energy.
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@Matt-mt2vi Even if the misses are only scaring the pilots off, they're doing their job. A MANPADS isn't a primary weapon to whittle down an air force, it's a "get off me" weapon. And because of it, Su-25s are shooting unguided rockets in ballistic arcs.
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@Matt-mt2vi The F-15EX is a Boeing jobs program, or else they need to shut down the St. Louis plant. It makes no sense to buy more than needed. F-15s will be retired and numbers will decrease, then the F-15 and F-22 will start scaling back once NGAD is online. The F-15EX is as costly to operate as the F-35. The Strike Eagle is better than the A-10 at CAS. Having a WSO is a massive help. The A-10 is the airframe with the most friendly fire in operation. Strike Eagle pilots do gun runs. At night. Please do not disparage pilots like that. PGMs are more precise than guns. Psychology is fickle. I have talked to many JTAC/FAC. I have heard Strike Eagles, Hornets and Harriers were their favorites as much as the A-10. The A-10 is not everyone's favorite, it seems an equal split. If you can call artillery, why would you need the A-10. Other A-10 can be pelted with gunfire or another MANPADS. My brother in Christ Ukrainians wrecked Russian CAS by sending advance parties that slipped past the frontline. Whenever Russian forces came into contact and called in air support, Ukrainians shot down the jets/helicopters. They had Buks, MANPADS and Gepard AA. Flying over hostile territory isn't a videogame. You got the location of the MANPADS? Suit yourself. AA is firing from another location. You turn to the AA? The Buk hits you. SHORAD is designed to make life hell for A-10s and Su-25s. They're not viable anymore.
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@Matt-mt2vi How do you shoot aircraft at 10,000ft AGL with small arms? Pushing the idea? It's no an idea. Strike Eagles have been doing CAS for almost two decades. The issue is Boeing. 80 airframes keep people employed. The F-15EX cost of operation is artificially lowered because the F-35 has the EW packages and targeting systems as internal parts, and the 15EX has them unbolted and sent to separate depots for maintenance. Your evidence is also anecdotal. Is that a joke? The Su-25 has been doing a shameful job of firing rockets into the air and tucking tail and running. If anything, the Ka-52 seems to be doing more work, and even that one is taking a pounding. Su-25s and HIMARS? What? Ground attack systems are simple? What? Your problem is that your idea of replacing the A-10 is getting the A-10 2.0. It's not. Things change. We don't use SR-71s anymore, we don't use A-5 Vigilantes anymore, etc. The replacement is multirole. There's really only one A-10 equivalent, the Su-25. The MiG-27 was a garbage fire. Everyone else either has the money to use multiroles for CAS, or are forced to use light attack/trainer jets. If the A-10 truly needed replacement, you'd see more countries buying aircraft for that job.
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Kherson didn't fail. There was another breakthrough yesterday. Russian troops are getting close to being cut off in two and isolated.
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I think the large volume of air inside the bellows going into the smaller PC case make it very effective at achieving positive pressure. You can't fill up a balloon with a box fan but you can with a hand pump. This works more like a pump than a fan.
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Iraq in 1991 had a large army and a robust defense system, along with an air force.
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@mjmj4707 Before Desert Storm happened, people were saying that Iraq was going to be Bush Sr.'s Vietnam. It's now that everyone discounts how powerful Iraq really was. In hindsight it gets called a "small country" when it had one of the largest armies in the world at the time.
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You pay extra for the privilege.
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Because that place was mostly empty. It's really far south.
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Ruh-roh!
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@skuzlebut82 we're not talking ICBMs here. They're medium-range ballistic missiles. They don't fly as high. If you could put enough ass on that rocket to make it go as high as an ICBM... you'd be building an ICBM, not a medium-range one.
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@skuzlebut82 "If it was more efficient to launch a rocket horizontal to the ground" - but it's not launched horizontally. In the hypothetical "efficient" trajectory it's still going 300 km above the sea level. It looks like it's been fired horizontally but that's because of the scale of the graph.
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The Kriss doesn't negate recoil, it just changes the direction of the gun's jolt. So the drone would still be pushed off balance.
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That's a very dismissive way of looking at the argument. It's not about "making a bunch of money". If something is unprofitable, it's not done at a commercial scale because it requires the input of more value than it can generate. It's like trying to live off a caloric deficit forever. At one point the organism can't take it anymore, you can't tell it "problems are always solved". You need to get that man a sandwich, pronto.
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@gripp9k Okay. But the problem is that they're in the business of making money not helping the environment. If they're not making money, it's preferable to go out of business. Everyone says they're cool with things costing more, but as costs increase people just do things less. That's natural. If ticket sales decline, they'll either close down or get massive bailouts from the government. The point being, if you care about the environment you should cut to the chase and say you want them out of business. At least that's a more respectable position, because I know damned well they're going to get a massive bailout. It is dismissive. You're trying to remove profit out of the equation by trying to pretend that you can run a system at a deficit. You can't. Who lied and who said what is totally irrelevant, that's a whole different discussion. We're not talking about who's bad or good here, we're talking about running a company that can't make money. That is being dismissive. If it's really killing us, nip it in the bud instead of settling for a point something percent dilution of renewable fuels. This is ridiculous. If something is killing you then you demand for it to stop. Not to take miniscule baby steps. Like I said, it would actually be more respectable if you were calling for the entire industry to be over.
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@gripp9k You are dismissing the reality of running a business. You're just saying "I don't care about money, just solve it" and okay, it might not matter to you but it matters as a way of measuring how useful a human activity is. Those days have not passed. Do you run your household budget at a deficit? I hope not. Okay, you've been lied to. So what? You're still not going anywhere if you go bankrupt. Oh tech becomes cheaper? Seems like you're defeating your own argument. You seem to just be pissed off at the world. By all means be pissed off, but don't go on thinking silly catchphrases and political activism can change reality. Even now you're trying to walk back and say things will become profitable later, after trying to convince me profit doesn't matter. Okay bud.
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@gripp9k Not really. I actually suggest you look into the history of taxes before going around claiming that they're meant to pay for pet projects. Because that was never the intent behind taxes and if that's what they're for now, they should be abolished for straying too far from the original goal.
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@gripp9k Yeah, you do need to understand the history of taxes. The reason you don't understand history is precisely why you think taxes are for corporations to make bank off silly projects that don't work.
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@gripp9k This isn't stopping climate change. Want to reduce CO2 emissions? Then use the taxes for nuclear. "Oh no nuclear is unprofitable, nuclear gets subsidies" and so do all your alternatives, except nuclear actually works and an abundance of energy means you actually make the silly projects cheaper to run. Forestry Service takes care of the land that belongs to the nation. Plenty of tax money is already used for environmental and energy research. Governments are very concerned with energy.
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@gripp9k Yeah. Want the alternatives? They come with an energy cost because they're inefficient to produce. So in the end the alternatives are just energy storage for excess nuclear.
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@gripp9k Everything is incredibly expensive but you want to use tax money for it. Nuclear provides plentiful energy and your complaint is... too expensive. Buddy. That's true for all your alternatives. You can't "use both" without a source of disposable energy that makes up for inefficiencies. Tidal would mean construction all over shorelines. Wind is terrible. Geothermic is nuclear... what do you think keeps the mantle hot? Nuclear decay. Solar is fine but it only works half the day and requires a lot more area than a power plant. No, they won't all become "more efficient and cheaper". Solar is starting to hit the limits of physics in lab grade PV cells. We can double the amount of wind farms we have right now, but past that number efficiency will actually start to decrease as we rob too much energy from the moving air. Geothermic and tidal are still just ways to spin turbines. Any efficiency gains you get on those, will also net efficiency gains on the turbines spun by nuclear generated steam. So most of these pie in the sky "alternatives" are just scams that will damage the environment and give us shitty energy. "But sleeping on everything else is how we're here in the first place" - But that's false. We didn't "sleep" on anything. The technology just wasn't possible. It's like the electric car and the story about how the big oil magnates bought the patents and buried it. Even today we needed massive improvements to make EVs viable, and they still kinda suck in certain aspects. So no, we couldn't have Teslas in the 1970s and we couldn't have 2021 solar PV cells in the 1990s. The only reason there's a concern with catastrophic failures on nuclear plants is how they have a fail-deadly design where leaving them alone will cause a meltdown. Modern designs are fail-safe and literally cannot melt down. The vacating the area for a thousand years is also somewhat misleading. While not all areas around Fukushima are 100% safe to return due to readings above 15 mSv (max allowable exposure for nuclear plant workers is 20 mSv), many areas are now safe 10 years later.
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Skilled fighters exist everywhere. But mobiks with two weeks training or prisoners don't have those skills.
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Because the US asked guarantees for cases of intervention. Imagine if Serb sore losers had the ability to drag US servicemen through the courts.
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Hey, I was the schizo noticing something was happening in China and telling everyone to start prepping like two months before the Great TP Rush of 2020. Happens to all of us.
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@AkiraNakamoto Give them another 20 years.
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+Im.a.tea.addict people who actually understand how the economy works are are aware of historical facts: "supply side economics promotes economic growth" people who don't know shit about anything and just repeat what late night comedians tell them: "lmao tax cuts never work"
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+Bruce Banner lmao Ford just wants to blame their problems on someone else.
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Haven't nearly all allies said it's okay to fight on Russian territory?
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@@noir-13 Okay. J&J and the Russians modified an adenovirus to make their vaccines. Since we can modify viruses over here, and the Chinese labs do the same as us, then they can modify viruses too, right?
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@Stackali because typically when something is rare you try to preserve it because you might not come across one again. I'm buying a few Microsoft Sidewinder FFB2 joysticks online for cheap because they're pretty much the only "good" force feedback stick for flight sims and there's people buying them for the purpose of taking them apart. I wanted to buy two to take them apart and double the force of the stick by using two pairs of motors - but now that I scored one I want to buy another and not make the modifications. They're almost historical artifacts of 2000's gaming and I don't want to ruin them.
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Thank you Gangster88232, very cool.
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Billions spent on homelessness. The issue isn't solved by spending money. There's mental, cultural and "pharmacologic" reasons for homelessness you can't fight by waving dollar bills.
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You can. Air power isn't a cheat code. Most air forces do not have the power of the USAF (or even US Navy).
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Ukrainians started the F-16 pipeline in mid 2022. It's 2024 and the F-16s are still not there. It will be long.
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I will forever dunk of people who claim the Serpa is a good quality holster.
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@845835 well, it's a closed system that cannot be user serviceable, there's no way to perform maintenance so you'll only know it's gonna fail after it fails. The lock is prone to get jammed with little rocks if you have to fall or get tackled onto the ground. But the worst part is that Blackhawk should have revised the latch, if the shooter goes for the draw and applies pressure the wrong way the gun will lock itself. The way to get it out is ease up and operate the latch again but under stress people will simply press harder on the latch in an angle that will jam their finger inside the trigger guard when the gun pops out. There's a hilarious video where G&A has a promo for Serpa holsters where two shills say the design is perfectly safe but when they show the draw one of the guys nearly shoots himself in the thigh because his finger slammed into the trigger guard after the draw. Within context, it's a product of its time and for years was the option for many people but as time went on Blackhawk should have modernized the design rather than refusing to admit the product could be better. Obviously this topic causes huge arguments online to I referenced it when you mentioned arguments about holsters.
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I don't even remember the videogames, for me it was airsoft - there was a replica of this model and almost every outlet did a review on it.
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If you finish a marathon are you also copying the ancient Greek soldier?
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And neither had a lift fan.
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God is cleary judging Russia, and punishing Russian citizens.
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It was a Stratasys Objet 500, it is in fact a 3d printer.
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They kept probing attacks moving west to try and cut off Kiev.
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Well, the Allies attacked German infrastructure. And German civilians were in the way. Should we have just let Eastern Europe get wiped out and do nothing? Did you think that argument was a big own?
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I'm also not comfortable obeying the orders of low IQ goobers riding around in trucks with shotguns trained on me.
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@skul288 They were dumb enough to get themselves sent to prison over a criminal. Plenty of ways to plug people legally, and they threw it all away for the thrill of the chase.
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Can't loiter in a real war. It's one pass and haul ass.
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@whogavehimafork "If the Air Force expected enemies in the air during a ground attack operation they would send fighters alongside the A-10s to defend them" - You do realize how many ground attack operations are carried out by fighters, right?
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@robertg.2111 Most tank kills performed by A-10s were done through Maverick missiles and bombs, not the gun. So any aircraft that can use missiles and bombs can perform the same role.
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@kungfoochicken08 It was an illegal arrest.
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J. Bar Only if they witnessed the crime. They didn't. They committed a crime and killed their victim. They're going down for murder.
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MrAmmanas Better to take an L in a gun fight than the D in prison because you're an ex-cop.
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@kungfoochicken08 "Glad this piece of shit "jogger" is dead" - No, they didn't. The ex-cop recognized him from a prior altercation. "He matched the description of the burglar reported on the 911 call" - Not enough to perform a citizen's arrest. "Let's be honest here, there's a significant chance he did it" - I don't care. It doesn't change the fact that it was an illegal shooting. "He was arrested for bringing a gun to a high school basketball game and then violates probation by shoplifting. Are we really supposed to believe he was "jogging" in a neighborhood 30 minutes from his house?" - Doesn't matter. A former cop who should have known better decided to become a criminal by performing a citizen's arrest without the legal backing. His victim fought back and he killed the victim for resisting. Now he's an ex cop in jail. Womp womp.
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The F-35 is too expensive - even though it costs less than many 4th gen fighters at 85 million - but the US should have produced more 150 million dollar F-22s. Logic.
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@jonathanmatthews4774 the Sidewinder weighs in at 85 kg, I was to see this absolute unit of a lad who's tasked with carrying the Sidewinder on his shoulder. You want to keep things real? Anything dangerous to the F-35 is LETHAL versus anything else. If MANPADS are a threat to the F-35, then a non-stealthy exhaust aircraft is doomed.
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@bandit8436 there was an AR trigger system that used the hammer as a secondary sear, which would catch on a notch milled into the bolt and allow for closed semi and open FA for the old Colt LMGs - I think HK planned to use it on the M27 but that plan was scrapped.
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13R^D Shawn (aka Sean Palmisano) is a chode. He got the 17 to malfunctionby using steel cased ammo, I am sure he did not get issued steel case in the service. He also lied about training Keanu Reeves and backstabbed Taran Butler, which shows he's just another "brovet" trying to milk his former military status for fame and money.
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13R^D you deleted your reply. Did you notice that the video got taken down because of Sean Palmisano's lies?
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Depends on the spectrum. Infrared is definitely absobred by water vapor. Some thermal imaging sensors have a very limted range because eventually water blocks IR. But you can get more expensive sensors (typically supercooled) which see on the sprectrum that doesn't get absorbed and thus get more range. The cheap thermal monocle you get on Amazon for your night hunting trip has a few kilometers of range. The thermal sensor on a F-35 fighter jet can see a missile being launched from 800km away.
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@hagopbulbulian6642 Actually it's 800 miles for suborbital rockets.
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@hagopbulbulian6642 If it's a rocket blasting off, I believe it can be seen from afar.
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The defensive network is worthless without people. Because of the ego of Putin and his military generals, they can't lose territory in the "security zone". It's preferable for Ukraine to fight in the security zone. Winning there means that Russia is forced to throw reserves at the line of contact to avoid the loss of territory. Fight the reserves in the "security zone", by the time you get to the defensive line it will be lacking in manpower. Defenses last 5 minutes if nobody is shooting back.
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@marktsvetanov6038 No need to push when you can starve them out.
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Depends on the sport and even the position one plays. An entire NFL team can't be built like linemen. If the weight training regimen to maintain a certain size gets in the way of other goals, it should be relegated to injury prevention and other benefits instead of hypertrophy.
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China is willing to maintain the status quo with Taiwan. One country, two systems is preferable to war.
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@yomomz3921 But they don't. Their history is mostly not rocking the boat. They don't have people to spare. They're staring down the barrel of population collapse, they abolished the one child policy and replaced it by the two child policy, to only then introduce the three child policy just a few years later because they've realized there's not enough kids. In fact, most of the hypothetical PLA invasion would be only sons dues to the previous one child policy. In China, the son is tasked with taking care of his elderly parents. If China sends them in a suicide mission, many people in their 40s-50s will lose their minds as the male offspring are their retirement plan. This would actually divide China because you'd see patriotism go up in smoke as soon as people realize that saber rattling is going to send their kids to the grave.
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@iwanagohome326 My soul doesn't need saving because I'm not a Russia simp.
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@abdulimraan2706 Hello Glavset.
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@mariaadelecagna3540 He has lied. Look it up.
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@DW-ts5ki He lied. Look up all his claims which have been debunked. He even admitted to some.
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@thanhdodeur8296 income inequality doesn't cause violence.
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@Glenburrows "In England we just don't have many guns, it works." - dude you guys had LESS gun crime than before the gun bans
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@Glenburrows dude you guys had LESS gun crime than before the gun bans
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@radosaworman7628 Because ZSU-23s can't be everywhere at the same time, while aircraft can fly to point A or B when needed.
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 @nothingnew8292 NATO does exercises all over Europe.
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 @marcusott2973 They don't use compressed nitrogen coolant? Whaaaat...
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Robin Hood stole from the taxman.
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This is insanity. No fighter in those conditions could "bug out". A multirole fighter coming in support of troops will be carrying fuel and bombs, which reduce performance anyway.
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@GREENWARRI0R Read the thread. OP is claiming that it's the fan channels doing it, not Hasan. So where is Hasan streaming if not for the public?
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@goncaloferreira8543 No intelligence source said anything about the shovels. It was a descriptor of close combat which you people (Russia shills) took up and ran with. And Russia did have problems with missile stockpiles, which is why they stopped volleys to rebuild their stocks and using S-300s and Shaheds to compensate.
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@dylanherzig2841 The result was taking the territory. Nothing else, nothing more. How do you grind a defender who is holed up in his positions? You're the one being ground in the advance. The defender will fight off the waves until the position is unsustainable and then fall back. The attacker has to expose himself.
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@obsidianjane4413 Trying to fool yourself into believing that there's other reasons for storage being emptied is a coping mechanism. We all know these vehicles are used for frontline assaults, artillery towing, etc and they're vulnerable which leads to losses.
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The AC130 is very vulnerable. A hit from a MANPADS killed a whole crew in 2003.
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@blessphemy The definition of air superiority is the ability to plan and conduct air operations with little regard for enemy air forces. The Ka-52 didn't get "free aim". A couple were shot down right after the videos were released. That's how life works. Sometimes you peek out of your fox hole and shoot at the enemy. Sometimes you peek out and catch a round. That's not superiority or inferiority. That's just combat.
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Hence the SDB with reduced collateral 250lb warhead and the APKWS rocket conversion kit.
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There's broadcast laws. I get the point but it takes a lot of 'splaining to convince the governing bodies to let you shown peen and balls on broadcast TV. Especially in a country that even censors porn.
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 @Notyouraveragename Gen Z didn't have a choice, HP was already popular when they were toddlers.
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Iron Dome is severely limited, it's designed to counter the massed rocket attacks and not ballistic missiles. Israel uses other missile systems to protect themselves from ballistic missiles which are not Iron Dome.
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@somethingsomethingsomethingdar which means that while you have antibodies for the spike protein your immune system isn't actually primed as your T-cells haven't responded to the virus. People who had SARS in '02 had no antibodies a decade later but their T-cells were still primed.
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@Xiph1980 This doesn't address anything that was being talked about. Please remain on topic. This was about the differences between types of vaccine technology.
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Well the Russian navy had the advantage in the Black Sea and they still lost the Moskva.
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Not what was said.
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"The Emperor's New (Bohemian) Groove"
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You mean nukes. The only reliable way of delivering EMP is high altitude nuclear explosion.
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Huh, the other way around. I assume both are watching, but either way I'd rather have the Chinese watch because they can't do anything, while the US government can easily have me arrested. If anything, I expect Uncle Xi to air drop a few "care packages" when the Catalina wine mixer pops off.
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No, we don't. And we'd have to ruin a lot of land by implementing that much renewable.
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@ninjaa99ninjaa63 When? Two more weeks?
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 Super JLK If you watch the liveleak video the first shot happens at 20 seconds while Arbery is running around the car.
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Oh, but they've already lined the streets of Kiev. They were an expo of burned out Russian vehicles. If you were hoping for something else, you will never be happy.
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I mean, they did end up in the CIA, but today even they want girlboss neurodivergent Latina bisexuals so I guess the Mossad took care of their legacy.
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In the UK where there are licensing requirements they investigated the possibility of psych evaluations. Their conclusion was that it wouldn't weed out those willing to lie and eventually enough people who passed evaluations would talk about their experience and allow others to game the system.
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He always did that, not just recently.
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@prawny12009 No idea why your comment seems to be hidden, but yeah it's always a gamble. The Chinese "informal economy" is pretty large so I don't even know if they care enough to force that kind of vulnerability since those computers will never be used on critical applications. Their ability to scheme against us is only rivaled by their ability to not care.
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Did you bring up James Woods because he's a conservative twitter guy who's kinda "cancelled" from the acting world? It wouldn't be as funny because he's not a raging anti-gunner, but it would still be amusing that a guy who claims to have a 187 IQ or whatever can't check if a gun is live before playing around on set.
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@JnEricsonx First, Alec Baldwin was never a stranger to vitriol. You reap what you sow. Second, if you're also not mistaken you're not supposed to fire blanks at actors either. Actors usually don't wear eye protection and thus they're supposed to aim away from other actors and camera perspective fixes it. Third, if you're also not mistaken you don't point the gun at the cinematographer. What part of the script required Alec to shoot at the cinematographer? Fourth, my point is that James Woods claims to be a genius so him having a stupid accident would still make him look foolish - there just wouldn't be irony in the gun politics stance.
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@kekwayblaze3176 Bosses are only doing it due to OSHA pressure.
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They won't do it for free, they'll take a cut. Even assuming that those countries aren't caught and won't get sanctioned themselves, it would still limit the supply and create costly expenses.
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UAPs have always been acknowledged. Hence the term.
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 @kerbalairforce8802 Politicians are just men in suits. They have zero power to enforce their will. It's soldiers who do the dirty work.
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"You'll be praising in a year's time" - this line has been uttered since 2015
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Russia is using anti-ship missiles Kh-22 converted for land use (Kh-31?) and S-300s in land attack mode.
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@joelau2383 So you're admitting I am right. They did find chemical weapons (weapons of mass destruction) that did not go against the UN policies regarding the dismantling of the existing chemical weapons program.
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@joelau2383 White phosphorus is used for the incendiary and blocking effect, not chemical effects. Just like depleted uranium and tungsten are extremely poisonous heavy metals, they are used for being dense penetrators and not for chemical purposes. Nitroglycerin also causes headaches due to its vasodilator properties, doesn't make it a chemical weapon. The US kickstarted the Iraq chemical weapons program to support their war against Iran. The fact that the weapons were legally imported doesn't mean anything about how powerful they were, it just means that there was a period of time where the Saddam government was being sponsored by the US.
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@joelau2383 "white phosphorus is not chemical weapon under CWC ban list only if it's toxicity is not used to harm anybody" - Thanks for repeating exactly what I just said. WP is used for its incendiary purposes and the fact that it creates a blocking smoke screen that works even in the IR spectrum. "There are more than enough news photo showing them using white phosphorus in urban city and harm civilians as chemical weapon" - How is this related to the fact that shells containing chemical weapons were found in Iraq?
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@joelau2383 I had already explained that WP is used for its tactical effects and not chemical effects. I don't understand why you're trying to turn this around into the specifics of a use case of WP being banned, because that has nothing to do with the original argument. They weren't small or weak. They were simply not stockpiled, and the storage conditions rendered them inoperable. They were WMDs, but not considered an illegal stockpile of them and thus Iraq was not hiding them from UN inspectors.
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@joelau2383 Again, I still don't see how WP is related to this. They didn't find WP cannisters. They found chemical warheads. Yes, I know tear gas is a chemical weapon. They didn't find tear gas. They found sarin. I'm not defending the US. If you paid attention, you'd have read that multiple times I have stated that the WMDs found in Iraq were not running afoul of the UN guidelines. But you're not paying attention, you're not thinking. You're the one embarrassing yourself, because what I said retroactively nullifies the reason for the Iraq war. I was probably against the Iraq war before you were. You're the one sitting here implying that Saddam only had tear gas. That's embarrassing.
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@StrazdasLT HOOOOOONK
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@k3nny111 You don't put others at risk. It only affects you. First of all, apply your own standards to yourself. You're not innocent. You probably spread a flu or cold some time in your life. That chain of spread probably killed someone vulnerable. If you truly believe you're guilty of homicide, act accordingly and sentence yourself. Yes, people are the only ones to suffer from their own decision. You still get it. You still spread. You just suppress your own symptoms. You're the one who still refuses to see that the narrative changed. Your own overlords, the people who think for you and tell you what to say, already admitted it doesn't stop the spread. You should listen to them if you don't want to listen to me. Forget about me. Stop parroting the lie told a year ago. Update your talking points. Watch some mainstream news. Listen to the experts. They'll tell you what I just told you.
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@ismaellara4007 Yes, we believe that Ukraine is defending their home. If NATO was involved, you'd see things like the Highway of Death. Soldiers who don't stop fighting and try to regroup would have their vehicle columns bombarded by aircraft with armor-penetrating and incendiary bombs.
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Why? China's thrust will be completely suicidal. Did you see what happened to the Moskva? Taiwan is filled to the brim with anti-ship missiles. Taiwan's entire defense policy is that if they must lose, then the PRC loses too from sheer losses. The troop transports will sink, leaving tens of thousands of PLA soldiers to drown in their steel coffin.
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Well youtube stopped paying good money and content creators still need to make a living. There's nobody to blame except youtube.
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@Czeckie It boggles the mind how Manning and Assange got clout off Collateral Murder, a video where an Apache gunner correctly identified the threat and shot the "innocent journalists" filming the wartime equivalent of snuff during an ambush targeting US servicemen. The AKs and RPGs found on scene meant nothing.
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They wouldn't be able to afford to stress all their airframes and engines 400 hours per year. Remember, their engines typically have half the service life of a Western made one.
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@yoloyolo3003 Being an ex soldier doesn't automatically mean anything, and "studying" for youtube videos isn't that authoritative. You could have a PhD in Russian tactics and if you told me that blown tires are normal I'll still think you're too high off your own supply.
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Russia is losing to Ukrainians and our surplus. Cope and seethe, pidor.
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Yak 141 does not have lift fan and the three bearing swivel nozzle was inspired by the Convair Model 200 anyway.
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They're going to be EU members, the EU foots most of the bill. The bear cub has been beaten senseless.
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Well good thing combat isn't decided by looks.
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"My dad taught me a few things too"
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That creates consideration, when you add consideration to a sweepstakes it becomes a lottery. For the love of what's sacred please stop trying to outsmart the feds, these regulations exist PRECISELY because using a prize to stimulate sales of a product is extremely easy to turn into a scam.
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@kaioiamo1503 Calm down.
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Well, if the ATACMS aren't a massive blue balls, they'll be another curveball.
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Lmao so he's a nazi because wants protection. The people who want then police to kick down doors and take guns away are closer to Nazis but I think the comparison is a bit strong. Paying the same rate still means you PAY MORE the more you make. That's maths.
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Your shtick gets funnier by the day.
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Switch to thorium, then.
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@november6259 It does need a thick head. Without it, the explosive warhead would squash on impact and go flying everywhere before detonation. I don't know any Khinzal brand of cars. Look for Stavropol Khinzal crash.
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@WllKiedSnake It's called a "comparison".
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They didn't have a plan to blow the dam. Just sluice gates. A plan which is irrelevant now because Russians are already across the river so making a crossing harder does not help Ukraine.
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This is only a short clip, they probably talked about something totally different the rest of the show.
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"This isn't a catwalk!" Chris Costa: 😶
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@BoJack-pp8fn And do you realize that I can laugh at one thing and not the other?
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@PistonHonda87 You don't know how percentages work oh my god it's clear you people never went to school.
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@Vladviking NATO didn't invade Iraq or Syria. Libya was a no fly zone requested by the Arab League and sanctioned by the UN.
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@Vladviking It's not a NATO operation just because there's nations involved in it. Is the Ukrainian war a CSTO operation?
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@Vladviking The UN has China and Russia in the security council.
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People don't believe in being forced to do things against their will. I'm sure you'll be happy when employers start mandating more things out of you.
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The empire will keep giving preferential treatment to minorities because it makes the majority mad and promotes division between ethnic groups. It's an effective divide and conquer tactic.
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>If you did get hit by the DNA gun you would most likely refuse to be scanned. That, in most cases, should give the police a reason to bring the suspect in for questioning. No, that is not how it works. The police does not have the right to assume my guilt. If I refuse to be searched it's because I have rights, not because I am guilty. If the police can do that in the UK and I'm completely underestimating your police state, then: /watch?v=PQKSQBJ58rY .. State."
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@info0 Hydrogen is just less energy efficient. Combustion with hydrogen has so many problems that hydrogen fuel cells powering electric motors is the only way. It's just electric but with more waste.
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 @rustinpeace770 the joke is that they wouldn't be able to make a reliable electric car.
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That didn't happen. Kosovo was an autonomous administration within Yugoslavia. Serbia couldn't behave. We had to force Milosevic's hand.
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tyjghjghhh real police are pigs and "law abiding organizations" are some of the biggest criminals in the world.
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@pdpgb Nah, there were lines for high-demand goods even if you could afford it. We associate the bread line with extreme poverty but the reason the expression caught on and became culturally relevant was because there were queue lines even during the good times. When Mikhail Gorbachev wanted to curb alcoholism the state put restrictions on sale of hard liquor and the time of day you could purchase it so lines formed for alcohol as well, not just food. Waiting in line happened even for books. Lines formed at the stores because the government fixed the prices (hiding inflation). People who produced food independently were able to sell it at local markets but there the prices were higher due to inflation, so it was always preferable to get your groceries at the store with regulated prices. Even during the good times, when there's no famine at all, it was preferable to take your chance at waiting in line as you'd spend less money on food and this normalized a behavior that you'd only see in times of crisis. The poor allocation of resources causing some areas to have extra stock while others had shortages, plus corruption at the distributor level diverting products towards the "grey market", had the compounding effect of people travelling farther to go to stores. This "extends" the cultural memory of standing in line for food because it happened even when people weren't facing extreme poverty. "But I don't see any problem with the concept in general. Sure it's better if they don't have to wait in line too long but we're giving food to hungry people." - The problem isn't "you have to wait for food". That's not the critique. It's how poorly managed production was in the Soviet Union. It's not a bad thing to have charity in times of hardship, the problem is when the hardship was caused by the state's own incompetence and now your survival depends on charity.
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There's not doing too well in terms of fuel, runways and the ability to conduct SEAD. Russia has S-300 and S-400 SAM sites capable of shooting down fighters. With a no-fly zone the enforcer aircraft could slip inside Ukrainian airspace, shoot down violators and go back. An Ukrainian-operated aircraft is always in danger of having the enemy shoot it down in the air or ground through missile strike.
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The outdoors anywhere in the world if you're not a coward.
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@jamestabi2032 They are showing. The internet is full of pictures and video.
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@dzonthego Doctored footage? How did you tell?
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@kennethmcneil3478 You let Russian corporate media do your thinking for you.
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Strategically important because the rail hub leads to Severodonetsk. Russia pulling out means that Ukraine has the initiative to cause another collapse in Luhansk. And if Luhansk collapses, so does Donetsk.
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The Soviet Union lost in Afghanistan and Russia lost in Chechnya.
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Always has been, everywhere.
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 @FloppyFroggyX Reciting lines at a play doesn't make you a child prodigy. But the movie character was timid and didn't say much.
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Or because their intended use is indoors and they never thought about a use case where they would need the range?
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@tasjan9190 Plenty of people also crossed the Atlantic on steam boat. We have airliners now. Just because things were done in inconvenient ways in the past doesn't mean you have to inconvenience yourself today. The people who cleared rooms with 20" barrel rifles did not have a choice. People buying their own equipment do.
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@tasjan9190 So people buy short rifles for the intended use of home defense where they will only fire at close range to look cool. What they should do is instead copy guns issued to Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't know, seems to me that copying issued guns that might not be useful in your home is more about looking cool than buying short rifles. Fun fact, the dusting off of the M14s cost more money than just adopting new 7.62 NATO rifles. Just pointing out the idiocy of whoever was in charge of that blunder. The SF guys ditched the 16 because they already had 5.56 weapons and saw no need to keep it, bucko. I'm not sure what the SF in Afghanistan has to do with civilians and home defense my bucko but I think trying to copy them is about looking cool despite one's actual needs. Bucko.
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@tasjan9190 Whoa whoa whoa you started accusing people of buying things to look cool and now you're advocating for GWOT LARP.
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@tasjan9190 You called BS on people getting short rifles for short range fights. That's the trend you observed. GWOT is "Global War on Terrorism". It's the well-established term for the conflicts that have happened in the past few decades without trying them to a specific country like Iraq or Afghanistan. Almost nobody seriously uses 7.5" ARs. Most people get 11.5 and above. Who the hell convinced whom? Brands make more money sticking with the same barrel lengths and profiles. Shorter lengths require different production lines due to the incompatibility of the hardware that supports said lengths. The money you'd theoretically save by making more barrels out of the same bar stock you lose to the the different profiles, handguards, gas blocks, etc. Basically your opinion hinges on you having zero experience in management. 3x MSRP? AR parts got cheaper with time, not more expensive. And you're clearing corners in Fallujah and shooting across hills in Afghanistan. Oh wait. You're not. You're also on the internet promoting your own tacticool ideas.
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@randomuser5443 Manning deliberately stored files in a CD disguised as a Taylor Swift album. You leave a room with military computers with a terabyte drive in your pocket, people will ask questions.
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No. The UK paid back lend lease. In 2006. Extremely generous terms.
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Shut the fuck up. Your go-to argument is calling other people pedophiles because they disagree with you so you can shut down the discussion. Accusing people of wanting to pervert children's innocence shows a complete lack of spine from your part.
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I heard of it so much, it was too much for a single lifetime. I was subscribed to a lot of gun channels that reviewed it, and also a lot of airsoft channels... there was an airsoft replica of this model so I got a ton of reviews for the replica on my feed too.
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No. The Russians faked a video by splicing two different videos. And they even showed a miss.
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Gripen doesn't have enough produced numbers.
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@o.s.s.fitnessandgrappling1052 You didn't just oversimplify it, you've managed to twist it into something that's essentially fraud. It's not theft. Nobody's stealing your money. Now you're openly mocking people for being right. Sorry man, glorifying ignorance is cool and all but you've actually gone overboard because it's not funny, it's actually sad.
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@LordTiberius52 you're completely lying about the vote. The community voted for stretch goals, which Robert promised wouldn't affect the scope of the game and could be added after release.
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Peskov said he doesn't know.
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It's just a symptom of concussion.
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The drone program in Yemen started before Saudi intervention.
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Russia is just consolidating the former Wagner to keep the Africa stuff.
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A megaproject like that would be visible from space. Ever seen prison/camp escape movies? One of the challenges with digging a hole out is hiding all the dirt. If a hole sized for a man to crawl through creates enough dirt for prison guards to notice, the rock and rubble piles would be seen on Google Earth.
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@Dunning.Kruger lmao you got dragged and you're crying "fallacy"
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@lolazal1 that's not the topic at hand
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@lolazal1 No, he just said that we can't just take the actions of the people off Cuba at face value. You brought up M4A as a reason why people aren't beaten into submission. Well, if you go to Cuba and get a cellphone card to get internet access, people will warn you to not look up certain political stuff because the internet is monitored. I wouldn't trust that government, even though they may provide public services.
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Sightings occur all over the world, the US is the only country that occasionally declassified information.
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The issue is that by using the T-55 you gave your enemy a huge freebie because now he can use much cheaper weapons to wreck your offensives.
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American pilots are trained to use the Longbow mast radar to hide behind terrain or buuldings.
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If they used their air power, Ukraine would be littered in Russian scrap.
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@Unknown124k Could have? Then why didn't they?
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If you look at the "hunting rifles" they were PUMP ACTION shotguns and semiautos such as the M1 Carbine in .30. It's not a hunting rifle, it was made for warfare. It is almost like the predecessor to the AR, it was an intermediate cartridge semi auto rifle fed from a box mag, and the M2 version had full auto. It was WWII's AR15.
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The gangs make machine guns in Australia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH76VoI_hsw
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@Technotopia You don't want to be slow.
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@PugilistCactus the F-14s were sold to the Shah before the revolution and they were not nuclear. The Iran-Contra affair was an attempt to negotiate the release of hostages by selling weapons and spare parts. They were mostly things like anti-tank missiles, not nuclear in nature.
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I'm 99% sure Donald Duck wears a sailor uniform because he served in the US Navy in Disney cartoons made during the war.
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One side is clearly better than the other. Would you rather tell a story about a pilot who didn't exist, or be pointing at pixels in a video to claim that corpses are moving and the massacres are fake?
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@timhaley3459 White lies are better than red blood.
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tell that to the F-16
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Lord of War, 2005
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If you need a VPN, there's a lockdown.
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Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, etc.
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China, Iran and North Norea are supplying Russia, by the way.
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AKs are expensive to produce when you're not a state-backed factory using machines paid for decades ago. Modern manufacturing has made the AK somewhat of a relic. Hence the attempt to use cast trunnions and bolts to drive costs down.
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 @UniqueBreakfastTaco lmao Russian shills blurred the bodies at Snake Island once they realized the belt buckles had Russian naval insignia.
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@16m49x3 Using Russia to fight is that they're kind of like a drunk 250 lb man at the local bar. Every haymaker lands like a truck, but there's zero fight IQ so you bob and weave your way to his chin.
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@swindlesmccoop Not directly related to attention span but I know people who were part of labs that ran clinical trials while in college and knew how fucky they usually are. I explained to them how the trials for the uhhhhhhhh """product""" were fudged and honest to God it's like seeing an android reboot. Reddit and twitter deboonkers have turned smart people into brainlets.
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You mean that you just missed everything? Yeah, keep your uninformed opinions to you, bud. >TM - "Get off of me" I can say that to anyone 6ft away from me. If Zim attacked first, where is the evidence of that strike on Trayvon's body?
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Cope. Russians are malding about the loss.
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Why 300 BLK? It's 5.56 necked up to 30 cal. It's another short and fat round, a step back in technology to the 7.92x33 Kurz days.
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Ukraine existed before Russia did...
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 @janis.lauva. Just like Balaklyia and Izyum were encirclements, right?
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That's an endurance lift, not a strength lift. Strength is measured by your 1RM or "one rep max". Your ability for muscles to delay the onset of fatigue and do more reps does not mean you can recruit more peak strength.
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By slamming the underside of their aircraft? I could do that drunk.
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@DavidSmith-wp2zb So Russia damaged an aircraft they needed, to accomplishing absolutely nothing because the US will just send another drone. That's ineffective. If you bang your head against the wall to knock it down, and someone rebuilds it the next day, you gave yourself a concussion for nothing.
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@GwynBleys You don't need codes if you just disassemble the safety mechanisms and install your own. If someone dies and leaves you a house but forgot to hand you the keys, you can replace the locks.
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Due to the Cold War there's a long running relationship between Russia and India so the US supported Pakistan. Now India has beef with China. You can see how the West is caught in the middle.
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They're not transparent at all. Still waiting to see them show the 2016 build of SQ42 that Tyler Witkin said was playable from start to finish.
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That's like saying a swiss army knife is your last resort knife. By the time you have to resort to a tiny blade, you're already losing the fight.
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@StrangerHappened But there is. Russia needs those right now. Where are they?
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 @СерхиоБускетс-ф7я Any day now, Vanya.
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It's not cover because satellites and ISR aircraft saw everything. Plus 7 aircraft were downed.
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They'd rather melt them. They won't even sell flecktarn camo fatigues anymore.
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Exactly what are they doing that is evil? Edgy atheists and puritanical religious people are just as annoying as each other.
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They burned through equipment in the "shadow mobilization" phase. And nobody bothered to ramp up acquisitions.
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 @protorhinocerator142 He's complaining because he knows it's suicide and they'll suffer a humiliating defeat, at the cost of Belarusian lives due to Putin's gamble.
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@sharpienate yes, an abhorrent anomaly is an apt description.
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@freezeryder "get a job quit depending on the government" - you see, the government made a lot of jobs literally ILLEGAL... so you see the problem, right?
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@philguer4802 How do people who live on the street even get the checks?
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@tyranosurasmax "you need to listen to more music" I don't want to. Jokes aside, 20 years ago I didn't have the internet. So forgive me for being 13 years old and not having the money to buy a new record every week like Mr. Music Professional over here. Back then you listened to what the TV or radio influenced you to listen, ir you discovered through word of mouth. And if your friends were all normies like you they wouldn't have the deep cuts and niche stuff.
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"Russia is slowly moving across the field" - And now moving backwards fast. "to conserve Ukraine" - They're bombing nuclear power plants and dams.
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It is Russia. Just read on what happened.
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SHOIGU! GERASIMOV! WHERE IS THE AMMUNITION?
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Depends. A ton of information trapped on forums or personal websites is incredibly difficult to find. Back in the day google was so good I didn't even need bookmarks, I just remembered exact sentences in the page and typed them on search, google would find the page.
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@mrfish9876 Have you heard of Sputnik or J&J vaccines? Unless you believe they were frauds and filled with saline, they were actually engineered adenoviruses. So we can engineer an adenovirus to infect your cells and instead of producing more virus, they produce spike protein. We can do that. Mankind can engineer those babies. Want papers? Look up whatever J&J published. Or the Russian virology research center.
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You've already accepted the narrative of our masters. So because we're noticing that Big Pharma made a bad product, we're anti-vaxxers. Because we're noticing the passports, QR codes and tracking apps, we're anti-vaxxers. Because we're noticing that our jobs are being threatened, we're anti-vaxxers. Stop being their lapdog.
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One of the situations mentioned involved the Biden administration...
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Doesn't matter. Pro-Russian telegram has been screaming about the issues for a while and they're either told to change their tune or get accused of being Western agents. The Russian brass refuses to acknowledge the problems so they cannot be fixed.
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It got destroyed? Can we see it?
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@MAX-de8fe I thought it was a funny joke.
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Can you explain how your paycheck wasn't stolen from the people by your own logic, Mr 0331?
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The educated were the first to flee Russia last year. Weapons engineer was not a prestigious occupation since the 90s so their arms designers are pushing 50-55 and not enough junior engineers are working as apprentices under them. Not to mention they are cut off from so much technology, they're sidelining train cars due to bearings wearing out. Tech intel? The country is hollowed out.
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Patrick Lancaster is a shill. Video footage? Okay. He also had video footage of a supposed IED attack where the skull of one of the victims had straight cuts made during autopsy, aka he or his producers stole a dead body from a morgue or coroner's office and placed it inside a burned out car to pretend an IED killed a civilian. He lies about what he shows you. He moves corpses around. Why would you trust him?
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It's not a new way of computing or rendering. It's essentially interpolation smoothing.
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Hydroelectric is very environmentally damaging. We can't keep building more because of the interference with water life. They have to build chutes for fish to migrate upstream and lay eggs.
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Cope. The Alligator got shot down by even the Stugna-P anti tank missile.
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"Russophobia" ah yes the term made up by Russian propagandists to refer to anyone who criticizes them.
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The SCAR program was a mess (such as requesting in the design a reciprocating charging handle that the users didn't care much for) and what we figured out was that minor gains for high cost didn't make sense in the 5.56 weapon, the 7.62 was nice enough to keep. Caliber and rifle have to be new. A new rifle in 5.56 won't beat the M4, a new caliber in the M4 will not beat 5.56. This is not the SCAR program. It's a leap ahead.
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@DaveSmith-cp5kj I said what I thought about the SCAR program and why a 5.56 rifle would not cut it. We can reductio ad absurdum all day long but that's not what I was replying to.
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There's a significant proportion of Chinese living in rural locations. Only the priviledged live in the future, so nothing different from the West. And did China do this, or did a group of people do it? It's like thanking America for using an iPhone. Does the US government run Apple? Does the average American contribute to Apple? So why would you thank all of America for Steve Jobs or all of China for Deepseek?
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Russia spent billions shipping fresh water and investing in desalination. Gaining control of the canal was a big deal because Russia eased some pressure off.
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Billions of dollars in profit. NO REFUNDS!
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The A-10 is reliant on pods too. Whenever A-10 pilots rely on visual alone they hit friendlies. There's a reason that CAS doctrine assigns weapons release authority to the JTAC on the ground. When a pilot flies over, the JTAC holds him by his hand to guide him, and A-10s are not exempt from the rules.
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@pilotmanpaul It was most of the equipment they had. EW and counter-battery radar was found, the warehouse for a special forces group was found, massive amounts of vehicles and ammo was recovered. Those units helped in the recent breakthrough? I can assure you, they're not there. I saw them. Their bodies. It's on internet. Those people are not in fighting condition because so many were captured, wounded and KIA.
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@jondonnelly3 sli? Already outdated now it's nvidia link or whatever.
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@RangerStrike Yes. Once all of those stopped getting paid, you'd see things actually start to work.
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It's actually extremely expensive for the job it does.
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@snacks1184 waa waa Ukraine already attacked Russia, world is still here
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@Essy311 Because gatekeeping is good, actually. And inside jokes are a good way to spot the new guy.
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Close Air Support means ordnance is falling near friendly troops in close contact with the enemy. Not that the aircraft is close.
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@Boxagami you do realize that the terms are not above the law, right? Also, if you support Google you should know they are building a censored search engine for China, they are complicit in mass surveillance. They are willing to sell information not just to third parties but also evil governments. China is currently trying to wipe out the Uyghur minority. Google is complicit with Orwellianism and genocide.
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Russians aren't even an ethnic group, they have Chechens, Ingush, Georgians, Armenians, Tatars, Buryats, Tuvan, etc.
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@flawedobserver4057 rockets carry their own oxidizer. Same reason why a gun can be fired underwater, it contains both the fuel and oxidizer inside the powder.
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Now I want to hear the harrowing story of Randy Gottlieb, Confessions of a Former Crack Addict.
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Patrick Lancaster has used a body stolen after autopsy to fake an attack scene. He's a shill. Scott Ritter and Col. Douglas McGreggor have been consistently been proven wrong.
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@theangrycanuck8331 Yeah, he's a propagandist. Did you forget the video where he shows the supposed victim of an explosive attack, where the skull of the dead person was clearly cut with a doctor's cutting tool? He stole a body after autopsy and propped it inside a burned out car to fake his reporting.
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@ernstwiltmann3918 Weird you'd use Alex Jones in your example. Wouldn't he be saying the war is fake? Nevertheless, my source are the people you mentioned themselves. There's a great thing about people who enjoy the spotlight - they never stop talking. So you have plenty of source material. They're the source.
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@ernstwiltmann3918 Now admit you simp for war criminals who defile dead bodies for propaganda.
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And that's why you lose. You'll stay home and act like criminals have more rights than you, and allow the conviction of people who were in legitimate danger. One day you will not leave the house because you know everywhere is dangerous, and anyone who still has a pair will be in jail because his attackers are victims. The "medic" the protesters had was pointing a Glock at Kyle. So they were armed. It would be a good precedent. Because if Kyle gets convicted you might as well toss the guns into a molten steel puddle. Just give them up. You think victim blaming is good, well you will be blamed if you ever have to use them. So you have no business owning them.
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Europe has MIC. Saab, Rheinmetal, Leonardo, Dassault, etc.
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Firebombings were devastating in Japan due to wooden construction.
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Tbh the way he spends his money is feeding many families.
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Actually they hate it, and that's why they run so much propaganda begging Americans to stop trusting it. They're completely afraid.
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Maybe he just talks to people. Russian hacking is a widespread phenomenom, denying it is just pure fanboyism. Also, *coerced. It would help your case to not be the stereotypical pro Russian stooge with a lack of education.
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Tanks have more than one crewman inside. And it's policy to destroy tanks instead of letting them get captured.
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But the ATGM has greater range than most MANPADS. You mean some kind of SHORAD vehicle.
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@ГеоргийМурзич It's not that they're ineffective. Range limits are a problem with "MAN Portable" missiles. We've seen helicopters supposedly protected by DIRCM go down from MANPADS. The problem is you have to shoot them up close.
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 @monarchtherapsidsinostran9125 Yes the Vikhr has 10-12km range.
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@kilianklaiber6367 But that's not true. The A-10 flies low and slow at very low speed relative to other jets. The helicopter has the advantage of maneuverability so at least it can use terrain masking. The A-10 can terrain mask during ingress and egress, but during an attack run it has to expose itself.
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@OGPatriot03 >MrStalin >Don't Tread On Me flag You're a waste of rubles
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@jamesmassey2089 I did. Nothing comes up.
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Darwin is survival of the fittest. Culling the weak makes the species strong. Nature is extremely cruel and does not protect the weak. That joke doesn't even work because the real Darwin award is protecting people so much, we all become vulnerable as a result and go extinct.
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 @mariahcarey9470 What do you mean? Russia invaded. War isn't worth anything but Russia brought it to them.
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The C/Ds will be taken apart to cannibalize parts and components for the E.
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@AlexRMcColl Originally, the Legacy Gripens would be rebuilt as Gripen Es. Then as it turned out, much like the Legacy Hornet and the Super Hornet, they're actually different aircraft and can't be upgraded directly. However, it was reported that parts from the Legacy Gripens would be taken out and used on the new pure-built Gripens when compatible. I didn't know the plan changed again.
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The pain inflicted on civilians will not hinder the soldiers. If anything, the soldiers will be motivated to ease the pain. I'll let your mind wander and picture what hell the Ukrainian soldiers want to unleash on invaders.
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The innocent Ba'ath party loyalists, the innocent "terrorist for pay" groups or the innocent Iranian militias?
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@thedoc3722 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Owners_of_America#GOA_victories When David Olofson's AR with some M16 parts went full auto in a gun range the GOA was the only organization that actually helped his defense.
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Multiple issues: the actual Russian military was defeated conventionally, it had to be rebuilt with mobilized men and mercenarirs. Air superiority can be achieved despite air defenses, the US has done it multiple times - air superiority is only predicated on enemy aircraft, no ground based defenses. Artillery parity and superiority also acomplishes the same. Ukraine has had multiple victories in battles against Russia despite artillery inferiority. With the recent tactic of targeting Russian artillery, Ukraine has been neutralizing Russia's fire support. The US has done more SEAD/DEAD than Israelis. And they do it with American weapons.
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So they switched to attrition, but then attrited their own forces with frontal assaults...?
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 @danielallan8061 predict everything, at some point you'll get things right. If you're wrong 10 times but eventually get one, you can't let the other 10 slide.
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@brian2440 okay but people will bitch about the waste that remains dangerous for 10,000, they'll bitch about the waste that remains dangerous for 100 years...
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Populational growth is being driven by increasing average life expectancies. Birth rates are dropping worldwide, even in Africa.
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It was an ambush. It wouldn't matter if they were Navy SEALs lead by Chuck Norris.
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Neither side has the ability to.
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@richardgrimbleby7853 It is better in terms of modern upgrades but it's slower. Speed is life.
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@jeremysmith4620 You're just regurgitating the same old talking points. They were not trying to cause the Apocalypse or a fight. The weapons were legal. If your issue is cults holding people against their will, the ATF is not in charge of those situations. The mortal danger was created by the feds. Sure, the marriage of children should have been made illegal. Where were the Texas lawmakers to prevent that?
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@jeremysmith4620 Repeating the word "cult" does not invalidate the fact that they were wronged here. They were not starting the apocalypse. They weren't looking for a fight. The outside world did come to destroy them. Law enforcement ironically fulfilled their loony prophecy. Never fulfill prophecies. It always ends poorly. The ATF killed the children. Investigate the abuse? Nah. Just go Moscow Theater on them. Kill the bad guys, kill the good guys, let God sort them out. They didn't participate in an apocalypse. The ATF had no business investigating child abuse. Call CPS. A bank robber getting shot started the violence. If police surrounds a bank and starts shooting at people trying to make a deposit, they're the bad guys. Simple as. It's not illegal to be a religious nut. It's not illegal to hoard weapons. Society's laws? Which laws were broken? Texas lawmakers had DECADES to make the marriages illegal before they happened. Why wasn't your precious society speaking against it? Local law enforcement should have stepped in? And do what? What would be the charges, Mr. Laws? I'm giving dozens of people the benefit of the doubt. You're the one hyperfocused on one man with so much rage, you'll burn dozens of people with him.
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Was the second infection worse?
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@User-uk6rk Yes, and people who are infected are supposed to isolate. If you get the shot, you also become contagious when infected.
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Still doesn't change the fact that it's literally impossible to have all workers and all workplaces connected. The public transportation solution happens in centralized and densely populated areas, but not in more rural areas.
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There were WMDs in Iraq. US troops that found them became ill from neurological damage from exposure to Sarin.
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Pierre Sprey was a Russia Today disinfo agent.
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 @communism-is-tits more people with cameras on their phones means more videos. Especially since the cameras have worse optical quality than proper movie/TV standards.
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@iprovedthem5527 You're not smiling at tragedy, you're smiling at the feeling of being smart on the internet. At least make sure you understand the critiques being leveled at you.
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@iprovedthem5527 If you're trying trying to sound smart then why did you twist yourself into a pretzel trying to make that argument work? Nobody accused you of smiling at tragedy, get off the high horse and take the L for temporarily forgetting how to interpret a basic sentence. I engaged with the argument. You admitted that despite the restrictions it still happened a few months ago. The critique made sense. You just don't want it to make sense because you can't be arsed. I don't think you should be. This isn't important.
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@iprovedthem5527 It's comprehensible, but as usual the Brits have been outpaced by everyone else - even when it comes to their own language. Access to weaponry isn't restricted to people who mean harm. Those who mean harm do not care for words on paper, and law is mere words on paper.
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@michaelshattuck2949 I don't understand what game of telephone we've been playing. The biolabs thing was a SUPER SEKRIT military operation and the war was just a cover. I've also seen people argue that the war is a cover for Putin to shut down a human trafficking operation. If Putin started a war over WMDs, he'd have straight up said it rather than reach for the de-nazification excuse. So the existence of the labs - which was known to anyone who did any amount of research as there's plenty of public information - doesn't confirm that the SUPER SEKRIT war to end NATO WMD programs is real. Yes, it's propaganda. There's western glowies monitoring alt media mentions of the biolabs, and they noticed the increase when the Chinese foreign ministry mentioned them. Also, the existence of Azov was also publicized to a great extent. Do I have access to more information than the average person or does everyone have the memory of a goldfish?
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What the police said is essentially non-binding. People are still responsible for their own actions.
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@lyntoncampbell1425 They did it. They tried to copy Shock & Awe and failed.
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The UK is not a democracy, it is a constitutional monarchy with a parliament.
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Iran corroborated the intel.
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1.7 trillion HASN'T been spent. That's the cost of building, maintaining, flying, repairing and crewing a >2000 sized fleet of F-35s until retirement in the 2070s. There's almost 50 years to go until that money is spent. Half a century. There you go repeating disinformation.
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@cylontoaster7660 It's not about deciding based on an ad. I got some Marshall headphones. Yeah the brand that makes the guitar amps. They were on a massive discount which put them on the same bracket as the equivalent JBL ones. The marketing worked on me. I used to play guitar, I like the square design of the ear cups, and people think of rock music when they see the Marshall logo. That's cool. Now if Marshall rebranded to this 2020s slop I'd get the JBL ones. Not because an ad changed my mind but because the brand is no longer cool. The entire marketing industry has spent decades getting consumers to identify with brands. It wasn't enough to promote a product to generate sales, they had to go further and make us think we represent the brand and the brand represents us. But this is a double edged sword. Now they run the risk of trying to appeal to a type of person you don't want to be or be associated with.
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Okay but Russia doesn't have large victories or little victories. This "little victory" undid 3 months of progress from the Russians. In about a week. How is Russia planning to win when their miniscule victories are overshadowed by the "little victories" of Ukraine?
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The problem with deflation is that money will be worth more in the future, so you're losing by borrowing. With deflation, say goodbye to pay raises as companies effectively are raising you by paying you the same. Consumption goes down, tons of businesses won't handle it.
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The Germans are taking village after village, making their way towards Moscow.
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Light attack aircraft or turboprops would be even cheaper. The A-10 required 2x 1 billion dollar re-winging programs. For a ~200 plane fleet plus spares it's almost 10 million dollars per A-10 just to keep in airworthy. For 10 million you can get a Super Tucano that is 10x cheaper to operate.
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The NLAW simplifies the firing process but it's limited due to these "simpliclfications". The Javelin does more and uses more complex tracking to do it.
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@nicolashippolitomota9493 Yes. 2km range moving or static vs 400 meter range against moving targets. Can lock onto people if needed. Can be used in direct mode versus helicopters while an unguided NLAW hit is possible but very difficult.
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Schools are large buildings. Often each classroom can fit 30 students. With a cafeteria, gym and auditorium the space can fit thounsands of people.
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Cope harder.
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There was no Mossad leak. That was published in a Turkish website with no proof.
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It's not aggression if your ex marries someone else.
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@Olegstuff21986 The mobilized will be slaughtered
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Once purchasing power parity is taken into account, their military budget is around 220 billion a year. That doesn't include their mercenaries and national guard.
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No, they don't. They state the Russian armed forces sustained 220k casualties.
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It's one of the few ways you can invest money in China, and due to the female-male imbalance the women are picky enough to require potential mates to be home owners. This created an inflated demand for housing. If women suddenly decided men had to know how to do a handstand to date them, you'd see every gym offer a handstand class. That's how the world works.
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Taking a hit? Surely there's pictures of the wrecked system, right? And did they hit the radar or a launcher? The launchers can be 10km away from the command module.
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Educated in what? Moscow University of Shilling?
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Look up the Brazilian contract for the Gripen - over 200 million per aircraft.
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I am from Europe... You don't want our system. Oh yeah a study funded by the Koch brothers, the "George Soros of the left". The study definitely isn't biased towards the profit of healthcare corporations, then.
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Afghanistan was an exercise of nation building where very few outside the cities even want that nation to exist. The guys with AKs were consistently losing fights. The issue is that they don't need to win, they just need to not lose. If Afghanistan was America and the people living there were American, the Taliban would not be able to operate. The people are Afghan, and not all want Americans there.
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@chungalunga9815 That only reinforces my point. It's possible to control cities somewhat, but the mountains make it hard to hold political control over the whole territory. Same thing happened with the Mongols, they massacred the Afghans in larger population centers but those who fled to the mountains survived. The people living in these regions don't even see Afghanistan as a nation and have no reason to want to fight for Afghanistan as a nation.
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Outdated MiGs survived the Russian air defense.
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 @DennisMerwood-xk8wp The Russian S-400 operators really got it. And by "it" I mean the 100,000 tungsten BBs from a HIMARS strike. Their bodies must have looked like ground beef.
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Scrap metal and cannon fodder.
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They can't relax. It's the wait before the fight that eats you up.
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Russia trips on its own shoelaces.
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@koekiejam18 The issue is, large exercises have been done before, everyone says the sky is falling... nothing happens. I only knew something was up when it was revealed they had brought the mobile blood banks.
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@thegoldengoat2560 Exactly. Should have neen retired in 1993 as it was meant to.
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 @L3onOfKings the claim was that there were no explanations. You're moving the goalpost.
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@Anon1gh3 Because NASA switched to Russian rockets and the Shuttle which is not meant for long range mission, and the Shuttle got canned too. Since the SLS program was full of delays and cost overruns, Obama said the US did not have the capability to do Saturn V style missions.
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Shoigu and Egghead announced retreat from Kherson.
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@vii7031 It was an air launched Iskander. It's hypersonic in the technical sense that it reaches mach 5 during flight but it's not an air breathing hypersonic.
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Is Shakespeare running for office in 2024?
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 @Mootkins they bragged about how quickly they transitioned to Lumberyard... because Lumberyard is in itself a fork of CryEngine 3.
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Javelins stopped the tank onslaught. Bayraktar punished the stalled convoys while air defense was down. HIMARS obliterated ammo dumps, forcing Russians to drive 80km to get shells for their artillery pieces.
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But the US spends more on welfare than the military.
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A guy uses 21 dollars to mail order one of the cheapest rifles around because he's broke, attempts to assassinate US Army officer Edwin A. Walker, then uses the same rifle to take out the president? The CIA couldn't pay him? Or issue a better rifle? Did the CIA also want to kill Walker? Or did they hire Oswald and told him to keep using the Carcano?
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Chris Lehto did a poor job.
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 @dmitriyalaasniy8442 Azov switched logo to three slashes or three daggers.
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None of those details prove anything. The same is true for many nations that are not Norway.
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The other way around. There's a ton of 3-5 min "infomercial" videos that don't gain traction. The banter and characters keep viewers engaged, which in turn gets the video promoted by the algorithm while the truncated information videos are only watched by people who searched for them.
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There is proof all over, look up "FIFA scripting". It was the game where it's easier to notice it because if the replays.
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Remember when ATACMS shredded a base full of Ka-52s? It was last year so probably a little hazy. What did the billions of "briwns" (call them colored, why don't you?) think about that? This paper target can turn your air power to swiss cheese with the push of a button. What do they think about that?
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The Army cannot operate the A-10 per the Key West accords, plus why would the branch suddenly take on the responsibility to build runways, schools, train pilots and mechanics for an aircraft that hasn't been produced since 1984?
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@gregparrott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_West_Agreement#Consequences There's really not much else to it. The branches have an agreement in place to not step on each others' toes. An example that is brought up frequently is the Cheyenne, A-10 and Harrier, which could potentially be considered redundant. The government hearings determined that each had unique capabilities and was different enough that the Army, Air Force and Marines could proceed with their projects. But they're willing to handle CAS. They have pretty much not done much else other than CAS for the past 20 years. The troops will also probably want a bottle of jack and two strippers included in the air support, but that's not happening. It's an ageing platform that should have been replaced in 1993 as originally intended. It cost around two billion just to make new wings to keep them in the air. That money would have paid for new aircraft. The issue isn't just changing the accords. Helicopter training isn't fixed wing training. But sure, the Army has fixed wing training schools too because they operate transport and recon aircraft. The problem is, you need an A-10 school. You need pilots who know the A-10 inside and out, not transport aircraft. You need all the institutional knowledge to be dismantled in the Air Force structure and reassemble it in the Army. You need the supply of weapons that are in USAF inventory that now have to be delivered to the Army. Manuals. Those will pretty much have to be re-written too. Mechanics. Again another personnel that will need to be trained, and you can't just pull mechanics from somewhere else and expect them to know how to be proficient at fixing a new aircraft they've never worked on. You'll need Air Force mechanics to teach them all about the A-10. By the time this process is finished, the A-10 will be even older and less capable.
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One would assume the security room has camera feeds from the outside to look for getaway vehicles.
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They had time.
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It didn't happen.
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Nope. Duck and cover was known to be a life saving measure thanks to interviews with Japanese survivors. People who instinctively ducked and cover survived a nuke dropped right above them while Japanese people who stood to look at the flash died.
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We'll wear sweaters.
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 @BeagleBob-zw7wg aspirin isn't homeopathic you absolute weapon
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Well minus one of each since last night.
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@kjeremiahamoss Based on what?
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@kjeremiahamoss Oh I thought you were using "based" in another sense.
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@NPC-oc9oo The US at least faked the reasons to go to Iraq. And Libya was at the request of Arab nations with a UN approval.
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@NPC-oc9oo They love money. Who cares about what they think when they've sold their souls? OP also mentioned how Saudi Arabia is brutalizing Yemen.
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I'd rather pay in money than in blood.
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I've seen enough footage of Russian soldiers being hit with artillery shells. One wouldn't kill hundreds of people.
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Huh I wonder if the low water levels have to do with our burning of fossil fuel.
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Define true home buyers. The speculators biting the dust is still a massive economic loss. You can't just wash your hands out of it. You needed that money in the economy, and it will be gone.
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I just pretend I'm in a Fast & Furious movie with all the gear shifting going on.
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They were used as human shields by Russian forces. Russia killed them.
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Why would Mexico ask China to help them against the US?
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@Jinxx9081 Most illegal migration into the US is through visa overstays. The H1B visa is basically a fast track through legal migration which in the end has the same problems as illegal migration. Legal migration taking time inherently puts a damper on effects by spreading them across time. You rush a bunch of people in, you get suppressed wages and poor integration.
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The role is already fullfilled by F-16s and F-15E Strike Eagles.
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@MrKKUT1984 No need for protection when you're harder to shoot down. Fuel efficiency... yeah it's more fuel efficient because it's slow as hell. They don't have the GAU-8 and so what?
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 @sibiryak5747 Russia.
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Mags are supposed to be interchangeable since the military has a stockpile of it. FN does not get to decide which mags are incorrect.
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SDBs too big, APKWS insufficient. There is such a thing as too picky. And what does the A-10 have in between?
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That's splitting hairs. If you look at any other fighter aircraft the numbers will be the same. But they just use "operational" and "non-operational". On the F-35 you have fully operational, partially operational and non-operational. That splits the operational numbers into two categories, making it look bad.
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@COIcultist Apparently (anyone feel free to fact check me on this) but California pays Arizona to take their excess solar energy while Arizona simply stops producing solar. California looks good on paper pretending they're offsetting carbon emissions and the neighboring states get free money. One of the reasons solar is so bad at satisfying energy needs is that peak production and peak load do not align, and nothing short of a miracle will make batteries feasible to store the excess energy. Electrolysis is inefficient but nobody cares about inefficiency when you're using power nobody wants. You think 1/3rd of the product, or even 8/9ths is wasteful? We go through much more wasteful processes. I have my gripes with hydrogen but this ain't it chief.
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There was internet in the 80s and 90s, only nerds used it though.
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Their reflexes were also for Soviet tanks, Soviet artillery, Soviet everything. They have learned all sorts of Western weapons. Why not jets?
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Anyone with access to google could have told you Russia's 5th gen was a farce. 12 built, 2 crashed. You don't buy 5th gen to go against 5th gen, you buy 5th gen to win against 4th gen. Never get into a fair fight. You want to trade plane for plane or just win before the enemy knows you're there?
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It was supposed to be stored in Yucca Mountain but the project got defunded.
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By the time you could have found every firearm, lots of phasers and laser blasters would be flowing in the streets.
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We also called the Boston Bombers the Boston Bombers.
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How is it caused by other men?
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You're gonna shoot Mexicans with HIMARS you sick man?
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See you down at Arizona Bay.
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 @chebichevinovichskic Russia lost 7 aircraft and 12 pilots to Wagner air defense. This was indeed devastating.
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@johne.osmaniii7217 "I must have you inform the 1.2 million chinese that you may yet have to engage in warfare, that your Marine Corps has no tanks, ... I’m sure they will cordially acknowledge your defeat, ... and subsequent deaths, ..." - nice fanfic you wrote there. Too bad it's all a fantasy.
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Is 23% peak efficiency? I could see how a fixed angle panel would have an 8% efficiency through the entire day (daylight).
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The day the annexations were ratified Ukraine invaded "Russian" territory and retook it.
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They don't need to come near the frontline.
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@janis.lauva. You don't understand aircraft. They can drop bombs from tens of miles away.
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+Warriors Fan93 if you're in a position overseeing a crowd of 20,000 and you don't care about accuracy (59 dead, how many from trampling rather than gunfire?), a belt loop will do just fine.
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+Collin Graves haven't you been reading the thread? "This" device you're referring to does absolutely nothing except provide a comfortable shooting position. If you want to simulate automatic fire, the capability belongs to the semi-automatic firearm and it's recoil forces resetting the trigger for you. The most powerful military in the world struggled against goat farmers in Afghanistan. The American terrain is even more appropriate for guerrilla warfare. Not to mention that half of the military would desert on the spot and prefer to fight in the rebellion.
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+IVORY123100 RPGs are legal, if registered with the ATF as destructive devices. Grenade launchers are also legal. Automatics can spray bullets? So can shotguns. The stock doesn't make the weapon automatic. it merely provides a comfortable shooting position. People were bump firing for years before they made these stocks.
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+Jason Armstrong if that's your argument YouTube wasn't around during the First Amendment's writing so stop using your free speech online. Jesus Christ the Puckle Gun was impratical but was invented like 70 years before the 2ndA. You really think that some of the founding fathers like Benjamin Franklin, who were inventors themselves, wouldn't have foreseen rapid fire? Back then inventors and gunsmiths from all over America and Europe were trying to achieve rapid fire.
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+socc69 two wrongs don't make a right. Short barrel shotguns being on the NFA was going to be challenged in the Supreme Court but the guy (ironically a bank robber) was killed before he could show up in court. The 2ndA by SCOTUS definition is supposed to apply to weapons in common use at the time for lawful purposes and there's a serious case for Short Barrel Shotguns having legal purposes - in Canada you can have 14" barrels if I'm not mistaken - and besides that also having Militia purposes. However, I don't think anyone else has tried to challenge it since so it's been in the books for decades for no reason. We put silencers on cars not to modify the car, but to prevent sound pollution. Silencers on guns do not "modify" them per se, just make the report safer to human ears.
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+IVORY123100 back then people fought the British with personally owned cannons and warships. Every gunsmith and inventor out there was trying to get rich with devices that allowed rapid fire, they knew that at one point automatic fire would come. There's no logic in bringing up nukes. Though they are fitted with safety features, nukes as a concept are always one electronic glitch away from reaching critical mass. A gun, even as an abstract concept, needs to be loaded and "cocked" for it to go off accidentally even if there are no safeties, or in cases of inertial firing pins a slam is required to set off the primer. And in case of accident, it only kills someone if they're in the line of fire. Nukes level entire cities. If not for the numerous redundancies and fail-safes they would always be a short circuit or the processing chip hitting a bug away from killing thousands in a flash. A gun, even if faulty or poorly designed, requires you to operate the damned thing and then use it improperly.
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Z lost in Afghanistan. Let's make this another Afghanistan.
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@marilynlucas5128 Least schizo Russian supporter.
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Israel actually refused to support Ukraine because they're friendly with Russia. They only supported Ukraine because Russia supports Iran and Hamas.
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 @Mcgee833 It was because Russia is friends with Iran which backs Hamas which attacked Israeli civilians in a gruesome attack.
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How is it a civic duty? It doesn't protect others because you still spread. For the young risks are high enough that there's no benefit. Fever? People are getting heart damage. You can't cure that with advil.
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@adamn389 I don't think I got the notification, or maybe my reply got deleted. You can't comply your way out of this. Want to go back to normal? Just do it.
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But they aren't.
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Are they gonna tell Elon the cybertruck was a bad idea?
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@fordwrc2006 What values? That's just veneer.
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@fordwrc2006 How? They have drugs, they have abortion, they have HIV, they have cam girls, they have IG models, they have low church attendance. They're just like the West, but we pretend they're the land of chastity and Orthodox faith. In terms of values, they are no different from us.
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I was actually expecting him to turn around the coffee shop example and say "if a lockdown forces the coffee shop out of business your stocks are now worth jack because there's no such thing as inherent value".
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@jnorth9431 the institutions that help the homeless don't have pasteurization facilities.
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Vasilijan Nikolovski The second you start claiming that the needy should be drinking spoiled milk you sound like a moron.
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@dougs78records64 so your democratic socialist system wouldn't shut down anything at all during the pandemic. I'm glad we're all in agreement that the government enforced quarantine is the problem.
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How is it the future of gaming? It's inferior by any metric.
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@rikk319 You skipped a step there. It started to refer to all sorts of conspiracies from "the Man". Ever seen the movie Crash? Ludacris's character is a representation of that archetype. He even claimed the size on bus windows were a conspiracy. So for a long time you'd spit out unhinged takes and end with "stay woke, my brothers/sisters". The right only "co-opted" it after the term was dragged through the mud by legitimately insane people and possibly foreign bots. Same with SJW. Unhinged people on tumblr used that term. After it became associated with the utter insanity of 2010-2014 tumblr everyone stopped using it and just said the right made it up. It was not what happened.
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Israel is not a NATO member.
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The original Star Wars used the plot from 633 Squadron and The Dam Busters.
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Nationalization is a horrible idea but the entire game is rigged. You try to compete? You're taken off the Apple and Google Play store. Now only the tech literate are able to install those apps. People keep using them? Hosting services remove them from their servers. You try to find a new server? Your money isn't good anymore, payment processors will refuse to do the transfer to host your service. You create your own payment processor? The banks will refuse to transfer money through it.
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Things in the 90s aren't given as much importance as ancient history, the middle ages, the world wars, etc.
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 @stefpix You use summary execution wrong. Terms have meanings, and you misuse them for rhetoric. You are not honest.
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@siroj4249 I like that you read "we" and somehow thought that I was talking about a particular country, and then tried to contradict me by reinforcing my point.
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@EliteprosoldierMW3 Regarding the statement: "it is better to be overly careful than to be careless" - it can be argued that the response caused such widespread and profound results that more people may actually die as a result of the lockdowns and shutdowns than from the disease itself.
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Don't. Russia essentially genocided them with forced mobilization. They were bullet sponges for Wagner and the Kadyrovites. That region's only hope is reconciliation with Kiev.
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Most weapons sent to Ukraine are old stock.
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If you don't pay your bills you're flagged as less trustworthy. Literally 1984.
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The pink mist comes from the front. Bullet came in from behind and caused the tissue mass to be ejected out the front. A shot from the front would have caused a pink mist towards the rear.
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It's aging. You can't make airplanes fly forever. The company that made them no longer exists. Boeing already had to remanufacture new wings to keep them flying. You can't keep pushing roo hard.
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Monty Python's Black Knight also never admitted defeat.
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Then what is the Boberg?
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@vlad.the.impaler. Over her shoulder, bottom left corner of Luke's facecam.
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There's not enough precious metals in the world to back an economy. Please stop believing propaganda made for schizos.
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The thing is that most of the current shooters follow the pseudo-commando archetype. They're "warriors" using their strength on innocent victims as a form of "revenge" against society. The massacre being interrupted is a huge blow to the ego because they cannot accept defeat, hence the high chance if them turning the gun on themselves and ending it as soon as they meet resistance. The thought process was correct, the script wasn't. He should have leaned on how embarassing it's going to be, not how deadly.
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The Russians also call Ukrainians pigs. It's a slavic thing.
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They should. Russian leadership is in denial. Maybe they shouldn't. You're right. Glad the Russian leadership keeps lying to itself and refuses to hear the pleas of those getting crushed in the field.
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Jack Teixeira had a top secret clearence and he mishandled documentation.
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The F-117 had no means to detect AWACS and it even retracted the comms antennas when over enemy territory. The engineers were also skeptical about firing a missile because the rocket burn would scorch the RAM coating.
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I wish Al Gore invented Internet 2 instead of scamming African people.
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Because they'd have to admit they don't want peace. Sorry, I know some people have thick skulls, but most will understand when Russia says "thanks for helping us in the name of peace, but we never wanted peace, we just wanted help". How will all the fifth columnists go on and on about wanting the war to end after Putin outright states that until he gets Gaddafi'd the war won't end?
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Opportunities to deescalate? Yanukovych banned free speech, the free press, freedom of assembly, paid thugs to beat up protesters, had riot police shoot steel slugs meant to disable vehicles at crowds, then had the Russian-trained Berkut special unit snipe at protesters. How is this deescalation? His own party disavowed him. He fled the country fearing prosecution. The parliament voted to remove him from power since he abandoned his duties. So much for a "coup". Slaughter in Donbass? 18 people died in total in 2021. That's not a slaughter. It's a mild conflict with ceasefire violations. The Minsk Agreements were broken the day after they were signed by DPR forces when they launched an assault on Debaltseve.
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America thinks a handful of blue on blue are noteworthy events, with wikipedia pages for each. In Russia, it's just another Tuesday.
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Thirty kilometers, though...?
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They can't fly forever, stress their airframe for too many years and they'll break apart mid air.
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@DublinDapper the people who move, and I know several cases, are most often engineers, medical workers, teachers or researchers. It's not doom and gloom, it's just that all the people "looking for a better life" have no reason to go to the US. The common man, born and raised in a welfare state, has no reason to look for a better life in the US considering that the entry level jobs are actually worse and although the pay is higher, you give up all the government benefits the Eurocuck countries give you and rent eats up most of your wages. There's a reason why the people coming to the US are from shithole countries. Because life is actually pretty bad where they used to live. Also, that's a misuse of averages. You're not the average, because the average is based on the collective. You're one person. Averages deal with everyone in the sample pool.
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Whataboutism
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 @userchannel6237 Why? They have no buffer around Kaliningrad and around Finland.
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 @Globalscanningeyes The Russians are facing Cold War MANPADS.
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Most Europeans have no idea what's going on in America outside of Xitter and nightly news. Most Americans also have garbage opinions about Europe.
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@Revi0908 You can literally just watch footage of Ukrainian soldiers speaking Russian. Nobody cares about the language thing. It was Russia who took down TV towers and forced Donbas to watch Russian propaganda TV. Russia took the territories, killed the people through conscription, and now repopulates with Tuvans, Buryats, people from the Caucasus, etc. Donbas suffered discrimination by Russian authorities - used as meat shields.
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They're sending Russian mobilized men to staff the DPR and LPR units.
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 @chuckmarius323 But the riot started before the game
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>if you go to the range multiple times a week you should be able to do this What does range time have to do with people taking multiple gunshot wounds and keep going? You do realize that even if you nail someone right in the heart they still have 3 seconds of usable blood pressure, which is enough to cause serious harm. >People who feel the need to have 30 rounds either suck You mean like the para rescue, navy seals?
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Yeah the agency that censors the internet, fights for multicultural Russia and hunts down nazis. 🤔 Really different world we'd have.
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 @petrairene Fly by wire is safer. Airliners use fly by wire.
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@petrairene Actually, they do. Why do you think the 737 MAX nosedived without the pilots wanting it to?
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@kenrik2105 Because Russia pulled prisoners to rush defenses to both fatigue Ukrainians and force them to expose their defensive positions.
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@kenrik2105 Wagner was not "content" with anything. The artillery strikes were courtesy of the Russian MoD. Wagner's job in Bakhmut was to die. It was them who were thrown into the grinder. The city was not fortified for 8 years, as most fortifications were just buildings. It was indeed a formidable obstacle. Ukraine used it to deplete Wagner knowing that before attacking the Russian army they had to eliminate the meat shield protecting them.
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That's a fabrication. Wing loading cannot be calculated on the F-35 because the fuselage is shaped to generate body lift. The whole body of the plane is a wing. I don't think there's published statistics on the body lift of the F-35 so you can't calculate wing loading.
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@mxbadboy263 tracking may require added clearance around the panels. A fixed panel with added coverage with maybe a winter and summer setting in the mounts that only needs to be changed twice a year would give you almost the same benefits for less cost.
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@donbrutcher4501 With the area being the same. You can't have tracking panels close to each other without them bumping into each other, so each panel occupies a certain % more area than the actual area they occupy when still. Put the panels in a row without gaps, and you increase useful area.
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All totalitarian states can be easily overthrown. They just take steps to make sure they aren't. The people who burned alive were part of a massive street battle (which began when a Russian protester fired an AK at a crowd) where both sides were throwing molotov cocktails. The Russians are in peril? Putin killed them. The Russians in Ukraine are beat into unconsciousness, handcuffed, and sent to the front to be bullet sponges.
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@australien6611 Trees are planted all the time. It's not feasible. Trees dying naturally will release the CO2 they trapped. The seas are more efficient at trapping CO2, but the hotter they get the less they trap.
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@@LucMtl1 There's no overpopulation.
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@@LucMtl1 Nobody is unsettled. We just know that the number of children isn't increasing. Populational growth isn't driven by reproduction but ageing. Several ethnic groups are way below replacement rates and will face demographic collapse.
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SpaceX
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Over principles.
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Because you still share systems, many parts, it simplifies the training of pilots and ground crews etc
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It's not a scam, though - it's a necessity. If loans had to be backed 1:1 to deposits either you'd need to wait for people to pay their debts to withdraw your money, or the economy would grind down to a halt.
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@nothingnothing1799 SCOTUS has refused to hear a few gun cases
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 @DollyRanch Who does Wiki quote as a source, by the way?
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@Hybris51129 Ah yes so if Russia threatens me with poverty, I should give them my money.
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@Lawrance_of_Albania "my common sense says that future radars will be upgraded" - Can't upgrade physics. Radiation emissions weaken with distance by the inverse square law. Only a fraction of the radar energy hits the plane. An even smaller fraction bounces back into the receiver. If a radar has a small cross section, at one point you get so little radiation back it's ignored as noise.
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Because of the way the US works with the different states, it's entirely possible they are exploiting a loophole or have picked a license with the lowest possible requirements.
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@trutwhut6550 People rushed to make photoshops of 9/11 right after it happened. One of the famous ones was a photo of a tourist visiting the roof of the tower with a plane incoming from behind, and posted online as the supposed last picture taken in WTC.
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>everyone has guns Maybe their Mafia does, but even they like using bladed weapons.
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@Jan_Strzelecki We know what works. We just don't know which outdated process was used to manufacture what outdated part, and figuring it out is a useless endeavor considering we can just use modern designs, modern processes and modern materials rather than doing mind-numbing work for no justifiable reason.
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The real corruption is legal and the more taxes collected, the more money the government will siphon into the pockets of the rich.
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The F-35 is cheaper than most 4.5 Gen fighters out there, and it's a much better aircraft. MANPADS have such short range that stealth is impossible.
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Little Boy hadn't been born yet. VE day was in May and the Trinity test was in July.
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Almost no Abrams were lost. You're citing the ones sent back for REPAIRS.
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@bigdaddywatt So basically almost no Abrams lost, war won in 43 days, then a few more lost to guerrilla ambushes. If the Iraqi lesson was losing the war in a month in a half, I wish the same for Russia.
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Lacking the A, boy.
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@Max_Mustermann so why didn't you call it a hack? If you're so sure of what happened, why don't you describe the details?
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Sorry, but that's the usual copout. I've seen a lot of people go as far as concern-troll by saying that the sooner Ukraine surrenders the less lives are lost. Yeah, they want less people to die, by just opening the gates to the "liberation force". I know it's a good thing to see the kindness in others, but here you have to be cynical. For example the Portuguese Communist Party has stated they're against war, but when the secretary-general was asked if Ukraine was being invaded he refused to answer and insisted on calling it a conflict. Obviously only a true nutter wants war. People say they wish there was no conflict, but refuse to condemn Russia.
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Links get flagged as spam and removed.
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@PrezVeto No, there would be no secrecy with automotive paint. The real secret is that glitter was originally shavings from precision cut rings the government purchased for the Manhattan Project. Workers swept up the shavings and put them in bags to sell as Christmas decorations. A lot of precision cutting is used in DoD contracts so those machines are used to this day, and glitter companies are obligated to not disclose what they're doing.
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Their numbers of "liquidated" are always overblown.
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@ChR1St0p4eR "slow and methodical" more like Russia dies for every meter of terrain, Ukraine pulls back and repeats
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@ChR1St0p4eR The internet was severed. Elon Musk donated Starlink.
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@ChR1St0p4eR "Bakhmut outskirts are flattened" - So? "60,000 RF artillery daily aren't landing in the ocean" - Those are two month old numbers, shelling has slowed down due to ammo depot strikes. "If just 1-out-of-1000 hit a soldier that's 60 AFU dead daily" - Ukraine just shared a video - one single shell landed right next to a group of 7-8 Russian soldiers. Looked like a strike at the bowling alley. So Russia fires 1000 shells to kill one Ukrainian, Ukraine fires a shell and kills multiple Russians. Quality has a quantity of its own. "RF is "probably" averaging 1 kill per 100 rounds. That's 600 daily" - lol not even Severodonetsk caused that many KIA daily. "That's not even addressing RPG, tank battles, and rifle engagement." - Meanwhile 200 VDV killed. No RPG. No tank battle. No rifle engagement. Just dying because their HQ was hit out of nowhere. Dying on their break. Dying on their sleep. Russia has to fight hard to kill Ukrainians. Ukraine kills Russians behind enemy lines as they enjoy peace - with the push of a button.
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@ChR1St0p4eR "oh that's right, Russia doesn't have military satellites." - You can't read. Russki propagandist, how about you get remedial classes? The point is that RUSSIA DESTROYED COMMUNICATIONS. YOU LIED. The destruction is what lead to the donation of StarLink. Thus they still have comms in many areas. "StarLink was subsidized by U.S. taxes." - What does that have to do with anything? It doesn't matter who subsidized it, what matters is that Russians are destroying a country and starlink is helping. "Russia doesn't have military-grade hackers but they can hack a U.S. election -- but not a satellite." - Again, what does that have to do with anything? You claimed Russia doesn't destroy infrastructure. They did. Because Ukraine was without communications in many parts of the country, Elon Musk donated StarLink. Now you claim that they have comms because Russia didn't destroy the infrastructure. You lie, Russki. They're capable of hacking StarLink? They don't seem to be doing it.
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@ChR1St0p4eR Yeah, I'm done with your lies. Come get your rubles, Z boy. The more you get paid to troll, the less money Russia has to pay for ammo. Keep replying, bot.
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@ChR1St0p4eR If you're not a bot, why do you ask like you're getting paid?
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@ChR1St0p4eR Yeah, you defend Russia as if your life depended on it. You're not removing any nonsense, only bots agree with you. You want reality, but do nothing but lie.
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Yeah because Iron Dome isn't meant to shoot down birds, just things travelling at Mach something.
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Basically it can do everything the A-10 can do except act as SAM bait.
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DU is legal.
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All critics will be challenged to a boxing match.
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There were multiple reasons. Participating on 9/11 was one due to a fake report of Al Qaeda and Saddam's regime having meetings. Another was a continuation of the nerve gas program. The discredited intel report on acquisition of yellowcake uranium was another.
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Cope harder.
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1. We are TOLD the fatalities were over 500. 2. A fire will kill people just fine. Falling rocket, rocket fuel shatters and spreads everywhere, cars set on fire. Without a single blast, many can be killed by deflagration alone.
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The dog population is not known for having deformities. Some species of trees do.
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@tajjej3649 It's easier to repair a structure than to reverse engineer an electronic part.
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@tajjej3649 So the answer is firing off thousands of cruise missiles at every abandoned airframe? That would mean spending even MORE money. What's the point of calling quits on a war if you're going to threaten even more strikes?
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@tajjej3649 Taking out a structure often involves using gravity against it by weakening the support, or penetrating hardened structures and letting blast overpressure enhance the warhead effects. A cruise missile versus parked vehicles would obliterate the ones near the blast, but flip over and ding the ones at the edges, and leave disabled vehicles good enough so serve as parts donors in the middle. There's a photo of a MiG-23 that flew over Syria during the conflict that was assembled from three donor aircraft so it's not unthinkable that someone would try to frankenstein aircraft. At some point it would make more sense to drop napalm because at least the temperatures would eventually degrade electronic boards, solder, insulating materials, etc. It's easier to weld holes in metal than reengineer the circuitry.
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They don't believe it because Russian footage is low quality and has jump cuts. Maybe they would be believed if they stopped using 2000s webcam quality and splicing the footage.
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lol you can see the old men in Russian ranks, and their Aliexpress special goggles.
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Barra Barra by Rachid Taha
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 @NicholasWolfwood-md7vm muh nato on borders
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So we should have give the grandson of a rapist the death sentence even though he has no fault on what his grandfather did? Also, a rapist actively harms you. The NRA failed to protect gun rights (which is something the police does all the time because they can't be everywhere at the same time and we don't hate them for that) at a time they were more of a sporting association than a real gun rights advocacy group.
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Uhhh I was under the impression anything you did on 3ds max had to be rendered beforehand because it would be too much to handle in real time.
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You're supposed to dose it yourself. He never told people to go to the local farm supply store either. Only Pfeizer is FDA approved (where I live I cannot get Pfeizer or Moderna because it's considered unsafe for my demographic, only J&J) and the FDA is in cahoots with Pfeizer. Don't care if it's approved if people who leave the FDA get cushy jobs at Pfeizer. To any sane person the level of corruption should automatically disqualify the approval process until an independent third party audits the process.
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@TK-en2hq the issue right now is that Russia uses their comvict units under Wagner to soak up Ukrainian ammo and force the defenders to expose their positions. So Russia is helping a lot by using men as disposable resources, the downside is that defenders report that they're giving the Russians hell but they do not stop coming.
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@igors1234 That's like saying everyone in Africa is rich because they have diamond mines. Having fuel reserves doesn't mean you're extrating a surplus, having fuel doesn't mean heating boilers are working, and boilers working doesn't mean the steam is being piped into buildings without issues.
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@igors1234 Again, you can produce. But what if you can't get the product to where it is needed? The Soviet Union produced grain, but needed to export it to finance their industry, which lead to food shortages. By your logic a food producer can't have famine, but the Soviet Union did. And again, pipes are bursting and the water freezing in several cities and towns in Russia, the infrastructure is in need of repairs and a lot of people who could fix those issues were forced to go into Ukraine.
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Scott Ritter is a kid diddler. Does he list his two year stint in prison along with his USMC and UN credentials?
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(sorry if it doubleposts) When it comes to Americans, the 120mm M830 had a flat nose design, but the replacement M830A1 has an aerodynamic cone.
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@artiz32000 The F-35 is better or equal to fighters of the same role. "Senate" is the home for people who profit out of silly things like culture wars and guess what, the F-35 is part of a culture war. 2/3 are not out of order. 70% are mission capable and 30% are full mission capable. A thousand of the damned things have been manufactured by now, the F-35 fleet by itself is larger than most of the world's air forces.
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 @anonisnoone6125 RE: what happened to 4chan? 2016 election
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@SuperDeadzombeh Can, may, perhaps, ifs, buts. Is there a workable counter? Perhaps. Is it going to be so costly and ad hoc that it won't even be worth deploying? The "passive radar" idea that's being thrown around sounds like a complete joke, extremely easy to interfere with.
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@jujenho What recent radar developments? Stealth lost charisma? If radar improved, stealth is a minimum requirement - the airspace became too deadly for ordinary aircraft.
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@jujenho VHF/UHF radars are larger and easier to target. Stealth aircraft take thermal emissions into account, again normal aircraft are more vulnerable to anti-stealth tech than stealth ones. Even in the F-117 shootdown one of the missiles broke lock on its own.
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@Lupi33z What's CRP's explanation? Because he's been proven wrong.
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By that logic the Soviet Union lost WWII against Germany. Because of Lend-Lease.
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You missed the important part where 76% of crimes are committed by individuals waiting trial, on parole or let out early from prison sentence. Of course, if you're a convicted felon you can't be a gun owner. The majority of crime is committed by a small percentage of the population, or do you think that everybody is a criminal? >More guns=more death That doesn't explain deaths caused by disease, suicide, accidents... How do guns influence deaths in general? Brazil has 20x less guns than US.
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False dilemma fallacy.
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You're moving the goal posts. You claimed there was no confiscation. There was. You're basically a liar now, or just terribly misinformed. I'm sorry, but that's the point in trying to convince anyone after you've proven you're either dishonest or not even willing to research about the topic you're debating?
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@manwiththeredface7821 Lira thinks Bradleys are jeeps.
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Google bought them in 2006. The entire youtube golden era you remember happened under google.
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@kingkoi6542 What? They protested the 2004 election which was fraudulent.
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@marycanfield8654 "obiden is a warmonger who pushed Russia!" - How was Russia pushed? The labs that the USSR built, and the US had to keep funding to prevent biologists from working for Iran or North Korea?
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No, they didn't. It was brainrot for decades. Often pro-Russian brainrot.
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The only theory blaming the US is full of lies and mistakes.
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@guyver4002 It's not gibberish, it's solid logic. It doesn't matter who said it, but it's polite to attribute quotes. Well, intelligent arguments do apply to current real world issues. If your logic is that we need to be stupid to get on with the program because it's the "real world"... I don't know what to say. How does it work both ways? You receiving mean words on your inbox isn't the same as having your job threatened. This is a debate. You just call things gibberish because you can't actually respond.
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@guyver4002 Okay, isn't 1.5 years of house arrest and job losses bullying and coercion? Let's go deep on the timeline of the events. "Is getting a fine for not wearing a seatbelt while driving bullying then?" - If the cop is riding a motorcycle, yes.
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B-52s up to the G variant were retired. None of the B-52s flying are originals.
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Not really. If they wanted a justified killing they should have been at the scene. If you go around on your truck looking for suspects and stop someone and you get shot because that person ain't having it, that person will have a legitimate claim for self-defense and your killing will be justified. So don't do it.
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Switzerland isn't in the EU.
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 @kureed79 What do the Serbs have to do with anything? Also the dude who commanded the S-125 battery is ethnically an Hungarian.
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The Fukushima reactor sustained the earthquake and tsunami just fine. But the backup generators and switchboards were put on the basement... Had they been relocated uphill where they wouldn't have flooded, nobody would have heard of Fukushima today.
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No. Why would it even be? NATO doesn't have this kind of doctrine.
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The wires were crossed on the story. Supposedly solid fuel chunks were used as fuel tablets. Liquid fuel rockets (which are stored empty and only fueled prior to use) could have been tested for leaks by filling them with water.
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 @lettheflamestakeover7374 You saw people's age through video?
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Because the US (and France, UK, etc) promised security in exchange for Ukraine giving up their nukes.
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There was a M4A1+ program, it didn't go anywhere because the bolts would not be compatible with the M16.
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But that's a weak comparison. When there's a car accident you don't see the vultures trying to hover around the bodies for political clout. When there's a mass shooting they appear and try to push their politics while the iron is hot.
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@daha9546 Oh, you don't care about that. How gracious.
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@professionalpussypetter2929 Yes, it is hypocrisy.
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He kicks ass in videos. Ukrainian HIMARS crews kick ass in a real war.
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@Moes1n How is it copium? There's people actually fighting, and you're praising a dude for sitting in his bedroom.
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@Moes1n And a guy in his bedroom making videos about how one side is totally owning the other because their military industrial complex is better than the other military industrial complex is the hero?
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@Moes1n How is it apples and oranges? Brian is kicking ass (without getting so much as dirt on his feet) inside his room making videos. Ukrainians are kicking ass in a real war.
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Neocons are people on the right who are less traditionalist and more globalist than palocons. They exist and they're a problem.
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No, they're hitting civilian infrastructure because Russia cannot win in the battlefield.
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@WojciechP915 Still needs trunnions, barrels and bolts which are not legal in Europe because the receiver isn't conmsidered the gun, the pressure bearing parts are.
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@ashleyzheng2244 the problem is what happens to all those men whose job is fighting when the job is done and the money runs out. Will you send them on a new mission somewhere else? They might just get bored and become the new "ISIS" by capturing the country you paid them to secure and forcing you to send in the military to drive them out.
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@ashleyzheng2244 the problem is that you'll get mostly criminals or people with nothing to live for. A few adrenaline junkies, but you'll mostly get rapists and deadbeat dads trying to avoid paying child support, people who don't matter if they get killed. In the context of a professional army it might sound normal to leave a family behind - but in the case of a no guarantees, you know you'll be dropped on the shit creek without a paddle, absolutely no standards or even trust between fighters one would have to be insane to join with a family that depends on him. Without military backing, who prevents your mercenaries from getting encircled? Who provides medical? Who's there to prevent the hired guns from simply being hired by a better price? Who's there to confirm that the pilots are actually doing their job and not just dropping hail maries and turn back so that they lower their exposure to enemy fire, sacrificing the guys on the ground to protect his own ass? What about fuel and resupply? Who repairs vehicles? How do they even set up some form of law enforcement with the locals to keep populations in check while they fight? At one point it becomes cheaper to just use the military you already have than trying to set up an entire logistical chain to keep hired guns functioning as well as a proper military and also wasting time and money making sure the hired guns don't fuck off to do something else. Who gives a damn about 40k when you can just capture the poppy fields and make money off the heroin trade?
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Borderline delusional.
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The attacks on the Russian military invading the Donbas you mean.
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+historical-oracle you did not mention that the inuit have developed a liver that allows them to process their diet.
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It's true, I was there. I was the round in the chamber.
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Guess you missed the whole segment about Gustav Schwarzenegger.
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@kycklingsallad2414 Then why did you confuse his father for mr silly moustache man in your original post?
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1) The fact is that while different airframes distribute the capabilities, the costs and logistical issues of single role airframes are just not sustainable. On a carrier the more airframes, the more maintainers and parts are required. When volume is at a premium, the loss in capabilities will affect everything but the largest carriers. 2) Regarding the Harrier, it was built for ground attack - its engine and nozzle arrangement, the airframe, etc were optimized for the STOVL mission and developing an advanced fighter like that on Cold War technology hit too many hurdles. Today, you can get STOVL and 5th gen performance with only moderate sacrifices made. We aren't limited by the Harrier anymore, we don't make Harriers into fighters - we take a fighter and make it do what the Harrier did.
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It's still struggling.
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>I am unsure exactly what your question about collateral damage being a suitable defense? "You drew a gun and didn't use it, you will be hammered, your guns confiscated and lose your right to own firearms" Defense: "I saw someone running in the back" The process is obviously oversimplified, but if prosecution tries to get someone for brandishing isn't what you just said a suitable defense?
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@damgful "I dont mind it." - But you weren't talking about you. You were talking about gay people having to watch straight scenes. "Why does it have to go your way? Why is your opinion more valid than mine? Genuine question." - You were the one complaining about gay people having to watch straight scenes. Now you're not complaining?
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@stevejohnson6593 it would just be Dems and Republicans scrambling to form coalitions to get over 50%. More parties means less chance of one getting a majority of seats, so to get anything done the smaller parties would cut a deal with the Dems or GOP.
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Wait, which units have the USP?
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@BakeNastie I literally never heard of that. Not only most pictures show heavy use of Glocks since the 2010s by the units that are allowed to choose, the Marines are known for having insisted on the Colt M45 debacle.
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Speaking of bullets, they cost cents and can be fired really fast. Wouldn't that mean that infantry has had it?
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But that SCOTUS decision has nothing to do with all the other restrictions.
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250,000 is the aggregate of ALL medical mistakes (like diagnosing a disease wrong).
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250,000 is the aggregate of ALL medical mistakes (like diagnosing a disease wrong).
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I saw a tourist in my country, probably American but I can't assure you, wearing a shirt that said "science will win" and had Pfizer's logo on it. Like, why are you in holiday in a foreign country in the middle of a pandemic, weird guy?
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@jupitercyclops6521 No offense, but Pfizer seems to be more popular in the US and the slogan "the science will win" is more of an American phenomenon due to how the Republican party is portrayed as being "anti-science". Forgive me for noticing the odd person out. This guy can afford a vacation, because he's a bugman who can work at home. I'm not working white white collar jobs, but most people in my circle do. They kept working from home and getting paid as usual. I know people who took vacations during this period despite the restrictions. It wasn't one of us because he was in tourist getup. Cargo shorts, those wallets that are suspended by a cord around the neck, walking around town with a camping backpack, and his family was with him in similar vacation attire. Sorry I didn't paint the whole picture, but a lot of tourists stick out like a sore thumb.
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Because it makes no sense to use heavy and slow rounds when you need to hit people running full sprint into cover from 300-500 meters away.
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Edge of Darkness, episode six "Fusion"
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@attilakiss5400 Yet they're in war economy mode. They've stripped military defenses from Kaliningrad and the Finnish border.
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They didn't "sit", they attempted to cut off the city but defenses kept clashing on their probing attacks.
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@Redsauce101 You people are a funny bunch. When Covert Cabal mentions aircraft, the cope brigade says Russia doesn't depend on air power as much as the West. When I point out that there were attempts to encircle Kiev you people come out from the woodwork and use the lack of aircraft as evidence.
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Russia is sending 300k to replace 150k troops. That means they most likely suffered 50 thousand KIA and 100 thousand wounded. Russia was killed. Not Ukraine.
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If it goes from an insult that gets tossed around occasionally to people writing articles about how midwits ruined the world, there's credit in becoming the trendsetter that got it to catch on.
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@ad2181 I don't think any country's education system teaches photography unless they specifically pick photography as an elective class. Everyone takes optical focus for granted, even if technically they learned optics in 7th grade physics.
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All missiles have a Pk, there's no workaround except firing in ripples.
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A strong ruble means they get paid less. A weak currency means you get more of it on exports. Also, they're being forced to sell at a massive discount. They're giving up their commodities. India and China are profiting by stealing the bread out of Russian mouths and Putin allowed it.
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Any radar that make stealth obsolete, will work even better against non-stealth aircraft.
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@kartikeyatiwari2502 the only Chechens fighting are the brave volunteers fighting for Ukraine. Kadyrovites are a shameful bunch. Their only use is serving as blocking detachments to prevent desertions, because when they are sent into real fights they cry. Kadyrovites are not an army. They're a bullying force.
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@kartikeyatiwari2502 The T-80s left behind prove that the 1st guards tank army was there.
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Because it's a fabrication.
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But then Russia would lose the Ukraine war. That was Progozhin's play. He bet Putin would negotiate instead of risking giving Ukrainians victory.
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He's done videos on the leaks.
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They took back more land in 3-4 days than Russia could take in a month. They took back more land in a week than Russia could take in 3 months. Mathematically, Russia cannot win the war. A 3-4 day offensive can undo months of Russian gains. There was tons of armor, Ukraine captured it. There was air support, but Ukraine shot it down.
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@Angelum_Band I pay my bills with the joy of watching Russian tanks pop their turrets off.
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@kennethmcneil3478 Real journalists on the RT payroll?
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Lmao they'd be empty husks at that point. They'd put a self-destruct system if that was the case. Incredible.
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Because you can't punch through 500 meters of minefields when your clearing charges have 120 meters.
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Why? The US didn't invade Ukraine.
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 @Socrates21stCentury If they were not afraid, why not strike directly?
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There's hundreds of interviews and testimonies like that from Russian soldiers. Everyone is bound to have a bad day in bad events like wars. You think the Russian soldiers lined up in formation visited by the tungsten rain were happy? Nah, they were lined up and shot with a guided missile as the gunman.
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"satellites don't work in the woods" - they make sat-phones you can take with you and work anywhere as long as you can connect to a satellite, you pay a few hundred dollars and you can make a call if you're lost in the woods, desert, ocean, etc. Didn't Eddie Bravo watch Narcos?
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 @Triple_J.1 Better, the F-35 pilot can use his targeting pod and see threats the guys on the ground can't see.
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I did my own research. I saw something strange happening in Wuhan. I was told not to worry about it and to hug people in Chinatown or else I was a racist. So I don't worry about it.
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@JazzfireflyNZ Can't wait to kill as many of your Gulag shock troops as possible.
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leonard sanchez "honestly can't be that stressful" - I don't mean to be rude but that's because you never owned a house. Things like electrical, plumbing and AC tend to crap themselves out at the worst possible times and I don't even want to imagine the costs involved. If you keep anything at that home, you should invest in security so that at least someone responds in case of burglary. Property taxes are a bitch. There's guys from sports who make millions, retire, then get shocked at how much money the houses they bought are burning. If you want the house to be ready to be used at a moment's notice (for vacations, lending to a friend, etc) you need to have a cleaning service go there frequently. Anything from storm damage to a car wrecking itself into your property can be a surprise that you have no time to deal with. Multiply this for several houses. Personally, if I had to lead a company and also deal with all that bullshit it would be a nightmare.
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Okay, but that's the thing: you can go the pharmaceutical route, or you can work on your problems. I know from personal experience how crushed one feels when doctors can't help (in their defense they didn't try to give me pills either). But making the pain go away required me to look for answers, discover my weaknesses, and building back my injured joint. I based my recovery on scientific literarure. That's modern medicine. Just not the kind that makes money.
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This was a verbal agreement with a country that doesn't exist anymore, and it was about Eastern Germany. That was the 80s. This is now.
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First, those were the Soviets meaning that Russia could use the other nations for their benefit (resources, manpower). Second, they literally averted a famine thanks to American canned food. Third, the Germans were also being bombed by Allies.
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Alex Atasi the elephant's foot is inside a specific room. You can walk around Chernobyl just fine, but the elephants foot is core material that melted and solidified.
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@firdaus125 He's right. A person is more likely to be killed by lighting strike than die in a mass shooting.
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You're talking about a few billion. When the rubber meets the road we'll probably chalk up the cost of this war to be in the trillions.
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@PierreMiniggio Everyone loses. The ones profiting will be losing elsewhere.
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I didn't know Cenk used to be a republican lol
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But it isn't. They're 100% wrong.
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@thehorsecockexpress1068 Ukraine doesn't want foreign volunteers.
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@Bubo-Scandiacus-Hoot They either got in early or have extensive experience. The volunteers were worse than useless and Ukraine asked them to go home. Only around 20k remain, and they're not taking more. Save for exceptions.
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Thousands of Ukrainians living abroad cane back to fight, only women/children/elderly are allowed to flee the country.
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He does speeches and presentations at events.
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70% of the surface, but it's salt water. Hydrogen production requires dessalination, which in itself requires energy and produces brine which then has to be dilluted.
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Then we should end the war. Open the floodgates and send Ukraine all the aid they need.
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So Russia is losing to a country with no military equipment?
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That's bullshit by the way. The "doctor's office whiteboard" thing that is being spread around has the wrong dates and doesn't specify which elections they're talking about. If we assume all state and federal elections are kosher, then every year is an election year.
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Gladio had stockpiles of military weapons to be used in case of invasion. Maidan protesters had stones.
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And it got a whopping 6 kills out of over a hundred missile kills by USAF F-4s during Vietnam, negatively impacted flight performance and forced the use of a smaller radar. Meanwhile the Navy never adopted internal guns. Hmmmm. Also, the F-4 was a naval interceptor and it definitely did not need a gun because you want the interceptor to meet the attacker and fire a missile at range. You won't have the time for the getting into gun position nonsense or else the carrier you're supposed to protect will eat a few anti-ship missiles.
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@apiece_ And exactly how does that counter anything I have said?
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The F-35's electro-optical system allows it to put eyeballs on target from beyond visual range.
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Cope. Then why did the US strike the mountain and leave? How did they take the oil with airplanes? Why was Iran bragging about their nuclear program?
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NATO does not have nukes. There's NATO members who have nukes. The UK, France and the US have them. Portugal doesn't. Spain doesn't. Poland doesn't.
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War isn't a spectator sport, dude. The offensive happens when it happens, the military considerations outweigh the people "waiting".
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But without no-name towns that act as fortresses for months every 5 miles
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Germans also made the Soviets asvance backwards towards Moscow. Reached the outskirts. How did it end for them?
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That's not true, stop spreading the 29% number, it only exposes you as uninformed.
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It's sheer thrust. Soviet/Russian designs would be able to pull the same stunts but their engines would melt the turbine blades trying to deliver that much power.
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@kmodo93 LERX or leading edge root extensions. In the post stall, certain surfaces create a vortex that sticks to the wing and allows some control authority even though you shouldn't have it.
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Because that train station is located where modern day Kazakhstan is. It was part of the Soviet Union back then.
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The F-117 was angular and planar because computers then did not have the CPU power to caculate the radar equations on complex curved shapes. The F-117 isn't better, it was limited by technology at the time.
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The load bearing Bradleys were really holding everything together.
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"Flipped"?
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@puirYorick "The brass prefer sexy supersonic air dominance platforms" - yeah which is why the brass killed the B-52, C-130, C-5, etc. lol "you need to do your OWN critical thinking" - this is rich considering how most people in this argument hinge on BRRRT memes and emotional arguments about the A-10 without actually thinking about the subject. Multirole aircraft don't exist, F-35 bad. Low and slow, F-35 bad. Stealth doesn't work, F-35 bad. Everyone is a Lockheed shill, F-35 bad. Even though the facts show that multirole aircraft are more capable at CAS, people insist on the A-10 meme because of a prolonged requirement to operate in a counter-insurgence theater.
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@johnnyregs2378 "its much safer and usually more effective to let the 30mm sing than to drop a bomb." - tell that to the Brits who had an A-10 do a gun run on them lol
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@musman9853 exactly, it is widely known that the F-16 did CAS better than the A-10 in 1991 but people refuse to accept it.
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@ernstraedecker6174 Seasonality.
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Because Democrat presidents show willingness to recognize the court while Republican presidents backtrack. Welcome to democracy.
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@morrgash The "absolute edge of technology" was simply tech developed to fight Soviet equipment. Can't fault a country for picking rock after seeing everyone pick scissors. I also like the "advanced technology" argument as if everyone was using the absolute best. Not really. You had a ton of decades old gear in service then.
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@morrgash The usual "monkey model" cope. Well, the Soviet/Russian best doesn't seem to work that well in Russian hands either, does it? Speaking of advanced tech, the Iraqis had French missile defenses working alongside Soviet built ones. Curious how manning Western equipment still didn't help.
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You cannot nullify physics. All the anti-stealth shills who praised China and Russia for not wasting money on useless stealth have come to terms with the fact that even they realized stealth won't be beat.
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At least in Battlefield there's mechanics to repair the tank 😁
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An 85 year old schizo published something on Substack. Wow.
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No, it's a jobs program because otherwise Boeing would have to close the St. Louis plant. Look at procurement numbers. The USAF has 144 but proposed cutting to 80. The Navy asked for Super Hornet production to stop and it's lawmakers and lobbyists that want it to continue. The Corvette comparison makes no sense. The F-15EX is a very expensive 4.5 gen with twin engines. Its operational costs are on par with the F-35. It's a Corvette too!
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@ddfwaj the B-52 is an aircraft where maintaining it in the air is more feasible than designing a replacement because there's no point in having a strategic bomber like it anymore. The A-10 has already been replaced for the most part as most CAS missions go to to Strike Eagles, F-16s, F/A-18s, B-1s, etc. The Harrier II is essentially an 80s aircraft and "only" ended production in 2003. The Bronco was reactivated to provide CAS in Iraq and Syria in 2015 but the Air Force cited the excessive overhead as a reason the comeback wasn't permanent. A newer aircraft is cheaper to fuel and maintain. Thanks, I plagiarized the name from an aviation blog lol.
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It makes them look bad.
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Okay, can you show another signature to compare?
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Until someone finally slaps an electro-optical tracker on a 50 cal and starts to shoot them down just just a few dollars worth of ammo.
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Combat isn't hunting. One round doesn't do the job, because most round go into the dirt to force the enemy's head down while you move. The winner of a fight was usually determined by who could bring more firepower to the table. If the enemy can fire at your position all day, you won't be able to aim that single shot.
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@longrider42 In Vietnam the US forces adopted 5.56 precisely because of how effective it was in the jungle... Range? The foliage prevented you from seeing past 30-50 yards.
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Yes. Honduras and El Salvador have some of the world's highest gun homicide rates despite pathetically low gun ownership rates. Mexico and Brazil have pretty high gun murder rates, and they have strict gun control. If you plot gun ownership with gun homicide by country, you actually get a negative slope. Does this mean that more guns less crime? No. But it means that less guns doesn't equal less crime.
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There's different delivery timelines. Of what Ukraine was supposed to have now, they had 98% a few days ago.
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@juliandebreuil879 It's not public. A few months ago it was said it would take a year. There's been a photo "leaked" of an Ukrainian soldier posing next to what seems to be a lineup of Abrams which suggests they are being trained and it could take a few more months rather than next year.
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@blugaledoh2669 look for the leaked document from the Russian ministry of finance. The payouts for KIA seems to amount to 361.4 billion rubles, equivalent to around 48k.
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@SerferTJ Then why did they recommend not shutting down flights from affected areas, why did they delay the announcement of the pandemic, why did they delay the announcement that there was airborne community spread? If this was about not infecting people, they'd have acted faster.
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How? He was sharing the leaks with kids. He just wanted to look cool.
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Typical Ru-shill vatnik projection. Putin is his god-king so he assumes Zelensky is the ultimate controller of Ukraine's fate. He does not understand that if Zelensky was replaced tomorrow, Ukraine would still fight.
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It's a tube and a hammer. It's not some grandiose design. If he didn't make it someone else would.
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Because almost nobody standardized around bullpups so you're the odd one out if you get one. I'm not big into bullpups but from what I understand the hassle free solution is the Tavor, and I've heard from people I trust that those typically do not make it through classes. That's just what I've heard because there's people who swear by them.
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Yeah they're characters. Solovyev loves his Italian villa, the Mercedes car and has a gay/bi son who's a fashion model living in London.
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@seanlarabee6300 Can't fly a Hog off a short deck carrier. You're getting Harrier or F-35B. You're not picking Harrier, that's for sure.
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@pogo1140 If the Marines are calling in F-35Bs, radars aren't an issue by that point. There's going to be helicopters delivering supplies and bringing back casualties.
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Elastic defense? Do you read any correspondence put out by Russians themselves? They bleed for every inch of territory, nothing elastic about their defense. Ukraine moves, Russia throws the VDV at them. Since people only have the war maps to keep tabs on the conflict, the Russuan government depends on the map not changing to convince their people they are winning.
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You take the old part out and insert the new one? Just like we do to cars today?
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"unregulated" good joke. Most profiteers have lobbied for the regulations that protect them.
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@gregoryadams9025 https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/6/18655820/ford-gm-toyota-automakers-trump-lower-emissions-standards-letter-california this is a more or less recent example, but in this case automakers wanted more regulations because they could cut costs by making a model compliant with all sets of rules. All the regulations on healthcare protect Big Pharma and the hospitals/clinics. You can charge big bucks and kill the competition. Could you imagine if you tried to open your own clinic? The amount of bureaucracy you'd have to go through? Most of it is obviously sold as safety measures but all it does is allow hospitals to charge you fifty bucks for tissues to blow your nose. Look at the Daraprim situation, when Turing Pharmaceuticals hiked the price many doctors knew they could replace Daraprim with a combination of two drugs. But most didn't risk giving it to patients despite being cheap as fuck, even though both drugs were tested and considered safe by the FDA they were never approved to be used together as treatment. And since nobody wanted to spend money going through FDA approved trials to make sure you could give the drug combo legally, people had to go through Martin Shkreli's program that would give the drug for free for a few months until a competitor decided to bite the bullet and manufacture a competitor.
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A Reaper drone is extremely incapable in payload and flight performance. Mobile anti-air needs aerial cover to survive. Look at Serbia. Their air defense brigades performed very well for a country their size. But what happens when you have no fighter cover? Enemy aircraft simply avoid, jam and suppress anti-air, and go for power plants, factories, rails and bridges. What good is anti-air when your country is brought back to the stone age? The US shown the world in 1991 and in 1999 that without air power, ground defenses are sitting ducks. Nobody does long range bombing? Someone please tell the Americans. The B-1Bs launched standoff weapons at the facilities in Syria. Difficult to shoot down a missile? Well, there's a reason everyone is investing on anti-missile and anti-drone tech.
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North Vietnam attacked South Vietnam. Did any of you people open a history book? Did you think Saigon fell on its own?
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@TBFSJjunior "Nuclear is to expensive and is almost impossible to finance without the government doing it" - bro you're going to love to hear about how oil is subsidized, trillion dollar wars were fought over it and how solar and batteries depend on rare earth minerals which we might to go war over as well.
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@BrosBrothersLP "Mainly freaking waste" - I mean, I am sure you could find a spot in the whole of freaking Australia where there's almost no rain, no tectonic activity, non-permeable soil and build a thick ass concrete bunker "we germans" - the ones busting down hundred year old villages because they're dependent on brown coal?
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He's not a scientist, he's a nurse. Undercounting is possible is less developed countries, but I really don't know how you could die from C19 in a country like the US and it not being flagged. They're looking at every death with a fine tooth comb, even testing corpses that were involved in shootings and car accidents for C19.
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The homeless could make themselves useful and go defend Ukraine. They want to shoot drugs and crap on the streets of LA and SF instead. Why should they get paid?
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No argument, just dismissal. "Libertarian dribble" is what you get when you can't come up with something substantial.
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The Army has already stated they don't care if the ordnance is dropped by B-52 or carrier pigeon. The A-10 is a Congressional drama they no longer want to be part of.
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Waste disposal is no big deal. Finland and Sweden are moving forward with geological disposal. Newer reactors can consume most spent fuel we keep. There's actually a naturally occuring nuclear reactor that stopped 2 billion years ago, it only moved a couple of meters since and doesn't leech materials through water. Nature babysat it just fine.
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Not that off the wall. CoD4 is based of the 1990s craziness like the Nazbol party. Without an obvious alternative for improvement, many extremists gravitate towards a synthesis of hard right politics with a longing for the greatness of the Soviet Union. There's a famous "inside of you there are two wolves" meme which is a Russian man with a fresh chest tattoo of Nicholas II and Stalin on opposite sides.
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No. He said that tanks can't help, it's WWI. Well, tanks were introduced to break the stalemate. In Kharkiv the Ukrainians showed that tank offensives breach through lines. Musk is oblivious about history and current happenings.
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@sonnyday6830 If you read the tweet, it was.
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@LittleNemoGaming "Literally every study" - amazing, every study says it and you can't even link one "Even Ben Shapiro quotes the stat" - LMAO if Ben Shapiro says it then I'm even more inclined to doubt it
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@LittleNemoGaming I don't have the burden of proof. You've made the claim. It's not your job to educate that's fine, but claims made without evidence hold no weight. "and actually Shapiro quoted 5%" - uhhhh, what about it? Why should I care about little Ben?
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Almost everyone except the former Eastern Bloc uses feet for altitude in aviation and nautical miles for navigation.
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@astonishproductions4162 Yes, I saw that, but you also have a link to "Property, definition 3".
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Armored vehicles are sealed and the air filtered. The Cold War forced designers to have NBC/CBRN protection.
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Yes.
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They had Su-25s since the beginning. It's the Soviet A-10. They had it, and knew better. They understood it would be suicide.
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@@chadtheboris The people going "acktwually it's funny and it makes sense" fit the description better.
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So is your right to free speech. How many times have you really, really used it as a political tool to fight oppression? Yet without it, you would not be able to voice that opinion of yours.
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Already tried, sucked in Afghanistan and SOCOM went back to 5.56. Any round that fits the M4 won't bust Russian plates.
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Aviation uses feet for altitude, knots for airspeed and NM for distance. Even in countries with the metric system. Although Russia and China do go against the grain here.
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Turkey and Greece are side characters in the NATO show. China and India are central players in BRICS.
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@selah71 "Cohan told Congress back in 2018 that Trump would not accept a peaceful transfer of power if he lost. He was right." - Did the civil war happen overnight? I must have missed it.
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@billkilpatrick3465 "This is what Trump has done to the GOP. This is why so many lifelong Republicans voted for Biden." - Then how did Trump get more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016? If all these Republicans switched sides where did the extra votes come from?
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@Lynne Hughes Funny you talk about cults while defending Romney, a literal mormon.
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@ablabla880 "That the Democrats managed to pull it off without a Trace" - There's no trace to leave. If a local campaign manager gets voter rolls and fills ballots with people who haven't voted in the last few elections, they'll be indistinguishable from "real" votes. It's impossible to verify unless you manage to confirm signatures. And that's exactly why it was done that way. You don't rob a bank and leave your prints everywhere. You wear gloves. "I hate to break it to you but then they are so powerful that it is futile to resist." - What does this mean? "People who think differently and follow science" - What science? Didn't Fauci say it was safe to vote? "I strongly assume you are a white Male." - Why does that matter? "Because only a fraction of Black and Latino Voters voted Trump." - But increased in 2020 versus 2016. "Correct me if I am wrong of course." - I didn't vote for Trump so you have no basis for your assertion. "You seem to be bright so you know as well as I, that Minorities in the US have a much higher birthrate. So do the math." - What math? What does this mean? "except now they are RHINOS" - It's Republican In Name Only. I don't see where the H comes from. "Remember Charlottesville? So you will have to live with the fact that you are clinging on to an old white Nationalist." - What does that mean? You're leaving a lot of gaps in your logic. What are you actually saying by this? What does Charlottesville have to do with clinging to anyone. I'm also not clinging to anyone. You think everyone is a Trump supporter. I'm not. You're punching air right now with all that anger. "have worked and paid my Taxes in the US for the last 10 years" - Why should I care you paid your taxes? "I think I have earned the Right to speak my mind about things." - Then why did you claim you were a proud German? You identify yourself as German. Why bring that up? "I have not served in your military" - So what? Nobody says you should have. "But I have served in the German Army as Mountain Hunter." - Why does that matter? "I volunteered for service in Afghanistan after 09" - So you signed up for a war you had the hindsight to know was a lie? If you had volunteered after 2001 that would have been understandable, but 2009? People voted for Obama in 2008 to end the wars. "As Trump inspired Mobs get more and more aggressive" - The biggest mobs we've seen were not on Trump's side. "As I have to ask myself, if I want to let my kid grow up in this inviroment" - Don't worry the environment is heating up everywhere. You're still going to have to explain what you meant with your other comment. What about minorities and birth rates?
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Moskva sunk lmao
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That Scud analysis has been questioned.
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@USER351 Again, the claim that no Scuds were shot down came from a very dubious source who changed his arguments multiple times and relied on false assumptions. You don't get to accept one kill. You get to work from the 90% intercept rate and then criticize how many of those intercepts were not good enough.
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@USER351 Yes, it was. The guy who was the source for that claim was a complete fraud who tried to use TV tapes to make claims about the Patriot, not understanding that the frame rate of tape recording would not capture the high closure speed of missiles. Then when he was contradicted, he started claiming that the Patriot fireball was 100 meters wide (the size of a nuke) to claim that the Patriot interceptors missed by hundreds of meters. That was a complete and total lie. He massively overstated the size of the explosion to make it seem like the missiles couldn't get anywhere near the object.
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@USER351 But there's photographic evidence of Scuds shot down. Even the Israelis, the biggest source of critique for the Scuds, said there were Scuds shot down by Patriot.
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@USER351 lol absolute cope.
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@USER351 Scuds were shot down by Israelis, they were only disappointed with the fact that falling debris still caused damages. But broken windows is better than dead people.
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A mathematician, an accountant and a surveyor that did polls apply for the same job. The interviewer asked all of them "How much is 2 + 2?". The mathematician said "4". The accountant said "Four, plus tax". The surveyor got up, shut the door, moved his chair closer and asked "How much do you want it to be?".
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Or, the libertarian channel is followed by libertarians that hate the state? Or people who believe in free speech?
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@pm71241 Free speech means that governments can't start arresting you and charging you with crimes for speaking your mind, such as inciting a riot. What was the requirement? It has to be a clear and credible actionable threat, right?
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@pm71241 Try to do that shit in real life and whoever's talking to you will straight up kick you in the nuts. I just described what is considered a threat. There was no incitement, no violence, and the parliament is not democratic - it's a criminal organization. Stop simping for governments. Okay, you want consequences? Sure. Ask for consequences. See where you'll end up after begging for consequences.
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All the early B-52s were retired. B-52Gs were destroyed to comply with START after the fall of the Soviet Union and only B-52Hs remain.
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>"Hold on, CNN said..." >Checks Snopes >literally just DEBOONKS all day
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Nuke Ireland if I were Scottish I wouldn't claim that guy, even.
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They've stalled so much that they capture more land in 4 days than Russia does in a month.
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@notwoke9001 Several sources, all of which are in Russia.
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Just like Antonovsky bridge. Up and running for the cameras. Russian lies.
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Can we get source on the massive civilian casualties every day?
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@CloneDAnon Patrick Lancaster was caught hanging around with the box cutter war criminal and faking battle scenes with bodies stolen from morgues.
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@HamSandwich277 Guilt by association fallacy. Do you have an actual argument? Why didn't you address the Trudeau gun ban?
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@HamSandwich277 What's the point of winning seats when you're going to get the same things as you get when you lose?
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@HamSandwich277 I didn't say anything about immigration. And a far-right idea is actually deporting immigrants. Reducing immigration by half seems a compromise.
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@HamSandwich277 "since it was never within the realm of possibility that the PPC would win the election" - You seem obsessed. I'm a non-Canadian asking you about the conservative alternative and you haven't stopped ranting since. "how many seats that would spoil for them and/or hand to the Liberals" - How do the elections work in Canada where it's possible to cost other parties several seats without gaining a single one? "You wanted immigration cut in half so you pissed your vote away" - I'm not Canadian. "now as a result you're going to get probably double immigration" - And again I ask you, would the conservative party "maintain" immigration?
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@HamSandwich277 How does a small percentage spoilage cost 25 seats, that's what I'm asking. Wouldn't they have to win those 25 seats?
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@HamSandwich277 You didn't explain it properly. You made it seem like 5% equals 25 seats. Not that each seat had an independent vote.
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@HamSandwich277 Duh. In a parliamentary system the seats are distributed according to the proportion of the votes. Because it's impossible to divide a seat, you could cost ONE seat without earning one yourself, but no more than that. After that you'd earn one seat with your proportion of the vote.
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@GunFunZS instead of explaining just link them this video lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHAO8oxwioU
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@Balibaliadashi But like, Ukraine robbed Russia of their endless meat by getting Prigozhin blacklisted of prison recruitment, they got the Patriot air defense, they got a few months of training with Western equipment... Things aren't building up for a stalemate. I'm sensing a bigger beatdown than last year.
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@milutinke While a bridge is under repair the military is starved out. A few potholes in Antonovsky bridge forced Russians to leave Kherson.
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@td6460 If the deal you're giving me is "showers" vs "Russian defeat" I will slam the Russian defeat button 10/10 times. You really think you can threaten me with a shower?
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>Because evolution shows that civilization like that is inferior to ours You know that evolution also takes into account certain things like "acts of God", right? A volcano or a meteorite can wipe out a species that is strong and well adapted and that could form a complex society given time. Just because humans thrived, doesn't mean we're all that great. We have no claws, no fangs and we don't have a thick hide. We're fragile and managed to survive by "lifehacking".
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@irisdogma8174 my dude people die from accidents all the time.
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@Fact Checker All of that happens on normal days. Just issue the warning that nobody's gonna get rescued. Name a single person who has demanded a rescue from scuba diving since the lockdown started.
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@irisdogma8174 Yes.
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Countries who bet on stuff "cheap enough to lose" got curbstomped and lost the stuff. The cost ended up being much greater.
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@chahineyalla4838 When was the last time a F-117, B-2, F-22 or F-35 were sabotaged? Sure, their capabilities won't matter. But intelligence and proper base security protocols will.
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But others are throwing their money.
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You could already grab pictures of places you aren't in Google Images.
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@ressljs For the record the X-35 was slimmer and STOVL capable. The F-35 is wider due to volume for avionics and more importantly fuel and weapons carrying capacity. The F-35 looking stubby is due to the natural evolution of the project, not STOVL requirements. Regarding speed, many aircraft have legendary top speeds only reached at specific altitudes, without much fuel and absolutely no weapons. So those aircraft never reached their top speeds in combat. When the rubber meets the road, pilots say that a F-16 has to punch in afterburner to keep up with a F-35 in dry thrust. Not bad for a stubby aircraft. Regarding the concurrency, that's actually an advantage. Remember the F-15? The USAF received hundreds of A variant F-15s. After just 5 years of service, the USAF sent those to the Air National Guard as they started taking in F-15C deliveries. This was a common occurrence. Aircraft manufacturers "finished" an aircraft, sold that early variant, then only really "completed" the design with a more modern variant. That's needlessly expensive. Meanwhile a hundred F-35s Block II have been converted to Block III. Aircraft that would have to be retired, sent to the national guard or sold to allied countries for a discount could be reused to become more advanced. It looks an expensive way of doing business, as long as you ignore that in the good old days the US taxpayer paid for hundreds of aircraft that would only serve for 5 years in the USAF.
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Just don't use BetterHelp lol
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How about the realistic display of gunfire in Kickass? He is on 2. If he opposes guns so much maybe he shouldn't have taken the contract to the sequel of a movie that didn't have the cartoonish "BANG!" signs on revolvers and rockets.
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 @Iamabot4708 Trump won't get elected, and if he did he'd say arming Ukraine was is idea to begin with (2017).
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@jonesbbq307 "we can live without cryptos but we cannot live without banks" - If traditional banks are necessary to live, so is crypto for the reasons Space Meter mentioned. You can't make the argument that we can't live without banks, in a world where you can get your account shut down because "reasons". Getting your account closed is essentially "killing" you, then.
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@jonesbbq307 Okay, still doesn't change the fact that a world where banks are necessary, crypto is too.
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+steve n you can make a bomb without metal
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@YOILIKEWEED It's not scary that a topic is verboten?
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They haven't performed badly. This is the painful phase, you have to bite down on the mouthguard, step forward and start swinging. We saw the same in Kherson. We saw the same in the 2020 Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict. Azeris lost a bunch of tanks, Armenians mocked them online... then fhe Azeris broke through. Suddenly nobody was laughing.
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@OtherM112594 And the Azeris still lost 50 fucking tanks in a humiliating offensive. Which then turned out not to be humiliating after all.
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Russia has no business in Ukraine.
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@mypillowguy445 Bill would move in too, no?
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@vaguelymodest6239 "they’re being dominated" - Satellite photos show that Russia is pulling S-300 SAM batteries out of Syria. For a country that's being dominated, they seem to be doing well. Sinking the Black Sea fleet flagship, obliterating an air base, striking HQs and barracks of Wagner and the VDV, conducting destruction of enemy air defenses, etc.
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Consider the following: Ukrainian troops at a low level are NATO trained but commanders aren't which makes unit coordination harder and limits the size of offensive actions. This lead to early attempts to use massed assaults to get bogged down. Ukraine switched to smaller unit tactics, which are slower and methodical to limit the losses seen in the early attempts. You're judging the alternate method for not working like the first method (which was stopped in its tracks). In the meantime, Russia is an artillery army. Their victories mostly came from relentless pummeling of Ukrainian positions. Ukraine made the deliberate effort to take out Russian artillery tubes, to the point a Russian Major General was relieved of command for admitting they lost artillery superiority at a local level. Russia is also losing the high ground near Tokmak, whoch means future Ukrainian operations will focus on choking out Russian rail supply. How is Russia losing artillery and getting their supply line threatened a clear Russian success? Food for thought.
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Trumptards of the left? Wouldn't the Hillary fanboys or Russiagaters be the Trumpers?
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 @islandwills2778 The WMDs were found. Also, that was 12 years after Desert Storm.
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100,000 drones just flew over my house!
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308 is a full rifle cartridge.
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I also heard the A-7 was kneecapped versus the YA-10 flyoff because the YA-7F money could be used to purchase A-10s instead.
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@JSFGuy The YA-7F never entered production. The last variant was the E and the USAF gave their airframes to the air national guard. The choice was upgrading the A-7 or buying A-10s and the USAF preferred to get the A-10s and ditch the A-7s. The YA-7F would have been the ultimate version as the fuselage would have been lengthened and an afterburner installed.
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@pogo1140 I think it's funny this was somewhat addressed in the movie Stealth. When they use dispensables they say "releasing chaff and flares" (or "chaffing flares" although that sounds dumb).
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"The Ukraine" 🤔
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@aaronmiller5709 It's not.
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More expensive and less capable
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 @anthonymitchell8893 the attack was in Moscow, not Kyiv.
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 @a13xdunlop NordStream 2 was stopped - Germany blocked approval Russia needed to blow NS1 to escape the fees for breach of contract.
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@kevlarandchrome There wasn't a military invasion in this Februrary or anything.
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And we don't make interceptors anymore. The Avro Arrow would be retired and replaced by US built fighters.
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@chrisfaircloth2599 you're moving goalposts but okay. You can only vote someone out when there's overwhelming popular hatred for the guy. In most cases even horrible politicians are not hated by the average public, which doesn't pay attention, and many times they have people who vote for them because of the party. Millions of Americans hate Sen. Feinstein from California but for decades she reined supreme because there's no way a Republican would replace her seat. Hell, even Trump, he is absolutely hated and Democrats could easily vote him out in 2020 but they have nobody viable and they keep getting associated with the far left.
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But security could have known.
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Cope, botski.
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So the Russians shot one of their own planes down to interrupt the fundraiser?
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@mcal27 Russian milbloggers confirmed it.
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Expensive to launch, an explosion in the air is more dangerous than just dumping it in a landfill.
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Some jeweler in Australia was making MAC-10 clones for $10,000 a piece. Biker gangs dealing drugs can afford that.
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@GloomSkullCandy haliburton is an infrastructure and fossil fuel contractor, not military contractor. God it's been so long people actually forget Dick Cheney's company got contracts to BUILD stuff in the middle east, not bomb it.
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 @andrewb138 The American defense sector contracted to a tenth of the size compared to Eisenhower's time. So by Eisenhower's own opinion we dismantled the MIC.
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 @Angus.MacGyver Dude with the PMC Wagner profile pic complaining about war and distabilization...
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An invasion of Taiwan would be a massacre. It's impossible to concentrate forces for the landing without telegraphing the moves months in advance. The PLA has no experience since the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese war where they declared victory and turned back to avoid getting cut off by a pincer movement from troops returning from Cambodia. Attempting the biggest troop landing since Overlord would go as well as VDV being dropped without support.
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I'm thrilled to know about the high quality sources. What else am I going to learn now?
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How was the A-10 designed against the Mujahideen if it was essentially designed to fight North Vietnam? Why would people in the 60s and 70s be aware of 2001? The A-10 was designed for an all out fight, but rendered immediately obsolete by air defenses. Taking a hit? From what? A fast firing 30mm which can shred it from nose to tail? Or a continuous rod warhead capable of slicing it in half?
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@hereiam2005 The A-10 was designed to be used like the Skyraider, which was used against North Vietnam. They did shoot back, considering that roughly 200 Skyraiders were lost. There's also a case of a pilot who died trying to land his damaged A-10 when he should have punched out rather than try and save the aircraft. It's pointless.
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Real world "cash" is also a number in a computer, as there's not enough physical cash to represent all existing money.
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@RobertA-hq3vz They're not working hard enough. My point was that your argument was just a platitude, and you're aware the USD isn't unlike crypto - it's just government backed. That's it. Maybe one day the government-backed currency will be crypto. What will be your argument then? People also gamble with real currency trading. Does that mean that currency is bad? The people gambling with crypto are bad actors who ruined a good thing. Why is the medium of exchange at fault and not the people seeking quick profits?
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As opposed to the hundreds of atmospheric nuclear tests that didn't destroy the atmosphere?
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@yungextras4572 How many people died in 15 minutes in Chernobyl?
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They have Su-25s. They don't need a slower aircraft that's just going to get pilots killed.
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@tellyboy17 You'd rather assault with no armor? Suit yourself.
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@tellyboy17 They aren't cope cages when used against things they actually work. Small grenades can have their effect disrupted by the overhead cage/netting. The cope cage is the Russian design made of angle iron. It makes no sense as it is neither netting or caging against small drones, nor is it proper slat against RPG warheads. That's why it was a "cope". They'd have to face Javelins head to head and they made thick steel coverings as token protection.
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@tellyboy17 "cheap drone doing its job" - no drone can do a tank's job for cheap
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@tellyboy17 Kharkiv happened with 13 tanks busting through the line. If you paid attention to what's happening in Ukraine, you'd have seen tanks doing good work. You only look at the tank kills, so your perception is warped. Ukraine asked for armor. They know what they're doing. Lack of armor doesn't work. Let's see you go into a battle with no armor.
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@tellyboy17 No, we can agree that you're free to go to Ukraine, doesn't matter which side, and show how your armor-less force is going to win.
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 @nameless7699 SAS and Norwegian resistance blew the heavy water plant, and Germany didn't stop their nuclear program. They were effectively crippled, but didn't stop it.
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Current meta isn't fastest speed (like in steel) but high enough speed and big ass core. A heavy core smacks the plate. A light and fast core won't be as good.
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@matthiuskoenig3378 People online love to argue. Russian supporters constantly check the Oryx catalogue because they love pointing out duplicates. The open source nature of Oryx means that anyone can question his figures. Much like open source software can be read by anyone and flaws pointed out. You'd think nobody would spend their free time reading code that isn't theirs, but people do that. And they correct Oryx.
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@funfactor4528 The F-22 at the time was essentially the most powerful air superiority fighter and it was full of classified technology. The A-10 was purposefully built without high performance metrics, so it literally wouldn't matter if one got captured.
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It was a private venture by a former pilot, with no government backing.
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@mitchl.7276 The Israeli coast is in the Mideterranean.
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The hundred dollar a month club, the abusive behavior in his articles, the spree killer in Denver and now the million dollar scam within the DC school system. There's even more.
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We already knew that was true for 80% of the people last year.
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The Su-57 fits the bill. It's been in development hell while the F-35 surpassed 600 units.
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If you're not posting, you can't be. The whole point of a bot is to have an active account. If you're logged off, you're inactive.
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 @maikumei the UK left the EU when it didn't get what it wanted, that's a pretty big detail to miss
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@GodGuy8 Eyewitnesses are terrible. Most people never heard an explosion in their lives. The "thousands" of engineers are mostly people who don't use their degree and hold other jobs like real estate agent. Classic demolitions look very different. Sequenced explosions. Sounds like a cannon firing multiple bursts. There were WMDs in Iraq. Many US soldiers suffered neurological damage from being exposed to them.
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@GodGuy8 Yes. And to steal and repurpose a quote eyewitnesses are the worst type of evidence after we try everything else. Eyewitness accounts are known to be unreliable because a) people lie and b) people misremember events. That's why eyewitnesses can be cross examined. Unfortunately the video doesn't seem to be on youtube but there's an old TV show experiment where people were exposed to a car crash they weren't expecting, and by being asked the question "at which speed did the cars collide" and "crash", those who were asked "crash" said numbers 10-20 mph faster than those who were asked "collide". A simple word is enough to make people remember the event differently. Eyewitnesses are not worthless. But they are suspect. If an eyewitness claimed you committed a murder, certainly you'd defend your innocence. Does that mean you think eyewitnesses are worthless? Be honest. Most people have not heard a real explosion in real life. People who were there on 9/11 were panicking. You can't just say "they heard explosions, smoking gun proof!"
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@GodGuy8 Not really. You can see the building comes down in phases, it comes from the inside, and it's only when the outside face collapses that you see it fall. There isn't a strong case. Look at actual demolitions.
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@GodGuy8 Perfect demolitions are phased. You can see the sequence.
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Ballistic missiles that cover the 1400km of distance are always expensive. They essentially reach the edge of space.
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That's called SHORAD or short range air defense. Often some older vehicles have to stop to fire because the commands they issue to missiles are based on relative position. Anyway the strike started when A-6 Intruders from the Marine Corps saw the convoy and dropped cluster bombs on it. Basically every Mk20 Rockeye bomb has more than 200 bomblets inside, and they have fragmentation, armor piercing and incendiary effects. So the first attack probably disabled or even scared off the crews of any anti air vehicle.
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If I may play Devil's Advocate, I don't need to get my pants wet with lady parts juice or some guy's balls sweat.
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That's the point. What's the use of building walls when you can just keep people stuck in a mental prison?
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@bernibeckmann9753 Medical trials aren't done by kitchen-sinking it. They isolate variables. And in studies where it wasn't designed to fail, it had decent effectiveness.
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They're starting recruiting in Moscow, Ivan.
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@militaristaustrian Sure, "Austrian". Tell you what Boris, why aren't you helping your brothers in the Donbas? Russia betrays all the useful idiots who work for them.
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How is it hypocrisy? Many people who fought for Iraq are not terrorists. People who fought for Syria's government are not considered terrorists even though they're considered our enemies.
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@Blackfracolin1 Tony Blair was never my prime minister, I'm not British.
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@1mcg1 They said in "Swedish news" - they're the ultimate authority? Russia never respected any law. They already bombed millions of civilians.
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He was intense but stiff on Speed. Weirdly enough he fit the Matrix really well. "Whoa." From what I remember Street Kings draws a better performance that one would assume, and John Wick was tailor made for him - it's more about the actor doing his own stunts than showing impressive range.
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>it is used to narrow down the number of people they have to bring in So let go people who aren't tagged. Good riddance. >got mixed in with a crowd/ mob and the police were to start chasing Exactly - a mob. The gun depends on the accuracy of the officer, crosswinds and the thickness of the rioter's jacket. It can easily tag a rioter they weren't intending to chase, or even land in a totally different street.
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@@first-and-last the US actually cut off aid under the Trump admin
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Cope.
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Same as it ever was. Almost as if trenches existed for a reason.
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@Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ They were still using Soviet guns/ammo and rockets, which have dubious accuracy. This is all besides the point. Russia caused more deaths in the Donbas than Ukraine. The argument they're protecting anyone is completely insane.
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@blue_diamond_gem Cope.
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@Feffdc the Slovakian T-55s have upgraded armor, engine, gun, have lase sensors to detect anti tank missiles and automatic smoke deployment. They're on par with the older T-72s Russia has.
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@Feffdc The 105mm gun can use modernized ammo that is almost as good as NATO 120mm.
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@memg5742 1. Nobody should have been there, they were there anyway. Playing the "if" game is no good. 2. He worked there and his father also apparently has a house there. 3. If you were in a dangerous place it's morally wrong to be armed? 4. How did he play vigilante? He was attacked. He wasn't arresting or threatening anyone. 5. Victim blaming. It's always the victim's fault the victim was in the wrong place. We automatically absolve them. 6. The people who are dead weren't worth much alive. He shouldn't pay a heavy price. Just look at Rosenbaum's list of crimes.
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@memg5742 Doesn't matter. He was indeed in immediate danger. You people hated police officers last year. You can go with a gun anywhere where carry isn't prohibited. Doesn't matter if it's not his job. It's also not my job to drink beer, I'll crack open a cold one occasionally. Kyle didn't appoint himself law enforcement. He wasn't a vigilante, he wasn't aggressive towards the protestors. It's not a first amendment right to attack someone. Kyle didn't shoot the protestors. He shot people attacking him. You can't use first amendment as a defense. It wasn't wrong for Kyle to be there either. It wasn't an assault rifle. His actions had consequences - two criminals are no longer a threat to the community. Read their rap sheets.
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@happyaxolotl3736 If someone was exposing p3dos but made the decision to attack an armed person, that makes them a noble person who decided to throw away their nobility to become an attacker.
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@memg5742 If you don't hate police, you're not paying attention. It wasn't an assault rifle. If you want to use specifics for shock value, I'm going to nitpick the specifics. An assault rifle is an intermediate caliber rife with a detachable magazine that can switch between semi-automatic and automatic fire modes. Since the Hughes Amendment to the 1986 Firearms Owners Protection Act (signed into law by Reagan, no less) that automatic weapons cannot be purchased by civilians. If Kyle couldn't have an automatic weapon, he didn't have an assault rifle. Don't want me to beat you over the head with details about guns? Don't open the door to scrutiny. Vigilantism: "Taking the law into one's own hands and attempting to effect justice according to one's own understanding of right and wrong" - a protection service isn't vigilantism. A security guard is not law enforcement. Kyle was not taking the law into his own hands as he was not arresting or issuing citations. He wasn't attempting to effect justice as he was not doing anything other than putting out fires and scrubbing graffiti. That's not "justice". It's not LE's job to protect people and property. Supreme Court already ruled that they have no duty to protect. Protesters that didn't attack people were not shot. So how is that related? "Kyle showing up with an AR-15 style weapon (that’s not an assault rifle? what are you calling it?)" - As seen above, assault rifle is a specific category of weapon. Don't get surprised and ask if that's not an assault rifle. Ask yourself who told you about the term "assault rifle" and what you were told it was. "assault rifle-style weapon" - Now it's your turn. In detail, explain to me what assault style rifle even is. And what you're trying to say. Don't give me the buzzword, just spell it out what you think is wrong about the AR and it being used.
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They still have a massive chip on their shoulder regarding the UK due to the Crimean war. They still see the UK as the empire that stole their thunder even though modern Britain is nothing like it was in the 1800s.
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@kevinkonig3892 The "Hitler was a vegetarian" is more often used as a joke to mock bad arguments than to make vegans look bad, jesus.
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HIMARS changed the face of the war. Russian artillery was well fed and supplies. HIMARS starved it, now ammo dumps have to be 80km away.
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The rail is damaged by heat so they can't use cars loaded to full weight and they slow down when crossing the affected area.
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@askwhy2030 do you have proof he was a criminal?
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Butler was a good person but shortsighted.
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That's the beauty of it. Nazi Germany said the US was dysfunctional, currupt, etc. Then the US obliterated Nazi Germany and rebuilt the country. Every enemy the US had pointed to its dysfunction. Then the US hammered it. Then they became allies.
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How is it irritating that an ignorant harpy got corrected by the Zodiac killer?
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@themightykabool If the people trying to have a "discussion" insist on lying to fool the public, they need to be corrected.
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 @audie-cashstack-uk4881 look up "history of space photos of Earth" and there's ones from before composites
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Drones aren't the end all be all. It took months for Russian air defense to be degraded to the point Bayraktar TB-2s can be flown again. Most of the small quadcopters aren't fighting, just observing and correcting artillery.
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Then you missed the part when he argued against the NYPD stop and frisk because the arrest data proved the NYPD did not have probable cause.
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@mario167100 tbh I wasn't happy with the way he portrayed it because stop & frisk was one of the catalysts for my distrust of government and police. He spent too long defending the practice before actually stepping on the unconstitutionality of the NYPD's actions.
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No. They wouldn't be more maneuverable because the structure wouldn't handle it. Humans can over-G the aircraft they ride on.
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There are ways to rip audio from youtube videos. I use an app that's not on the app store but there are browser-based video to mp3 converters.
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@fleabag631 but they all require feed which means we need plant growth to compensate for that.
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@fleabag631 "Yes, which takes CO2, not CH4, from the atmosphere" - But methane is converted into CO2. Remember - law of conservation of mass. Everything that comes out the animal had to get inside it first.
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@KathiWildo Putin's stooges are castrating capturing Ukrainian soldiers. It's baffling that they would do it, film it, and also release it online, but the only reasonable conclusion is that now that Kherson is cut off, Putin's shock troopers want the Ukrainians mad. And by making Ukrainians mad, the Russians at Kherson will be afraid of getting captured and having them same done to them. Your dear leader, the freedom loving Putin, the European in culture Putin, wants his men to fight to the death at Kherson. And he's telling his minions to commit war crimes in Ukraine to enrage his own enemy.
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@KathiWildo Stop listening to Russian shills.
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@ARUNMANOJ86 Russia isn't retaliating. They're just bullying others as usual.
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You can ruin a recording by causing electrons to flip in the solid state storage, but pumping that much energy would ruin the electronics in a radius of several miles. And the footage wouldn't be blurry, just corrupted.
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@dughallhalliday1713 the US has SEAD/DEAD doctrine to handle SAMs. The batteries are saturated with cruise missiles, drone decoys, jamming, glide bombs and HARMs. Same as in Iraq 1991.
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"I don't understand how a smaller volume of fire can be better at suppression" - If the fire is more accurate, it will be better at suppressing. Turns out that unless the bullets are falling really close to the enemy, they won't keep their heads down.
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@theephemeralglade1935 "it is only effective while it lasts and THAT IT HAS SUFFICIENT INTENSITY" - Accuracy increases intensity by better saturating an area. "You are just answering my question with your opinion." - There's an actual chart with the average distance of a bullet impact to target that causes a reaction. The 50 BMG wins by a large margin, 5.56 is a little underwhelming.
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Dude had a face for radio, you think we'd have tons of posts of him looking ripped and travelling?
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@rca6576 Let me guess, you read that in an article.
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@rca6576 Funny, ever since this started everyone on the internet claims to work in healthcare.
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We've been blasting messages into space waiting for a response for decades.
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Basically when one is flexing too hard the others tell him to chill.
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"Voluntold". So Russia was offering high paying contracts for just 6 months of fighting. Only a few thousand showed up and they had to go to prisons. Now that Russia says "okay no more juicy contracts, you're coming in by government order and you get paid the base wages" the people are volunteering? They're big dummies, should have volunteered a month ago and they'd at least have some cash.
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I don't think the failure was understood yet, or at least it remainds unpublished. The X model "sees" the thermal image like a camera, and it can see the shape of an aircraft or flare. It shouldn't be distracted by the flare.
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You don't need the Fed to peg a value to USD. In the Soviet Union because of their command economy they had issues figuring out market prices so they based their prices on foreign values. Essentially pegging values just from observation, without needing the permission of fireign markets. There's latin American and African countries that peg their own currencies to USD too.
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The American trucks were more important than those 13,000 tanks.
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The ones that Russians embarassed themselves about at the UN? They were allowed to present evidence and came up with nothingburger. The labs were Soviet. The Soviet Union went broke. The US had to open the purse and pay for all the mess the Soviets created and couldn't clean up.
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We have seen meatwaves. They were called meat waves by Ukrainians. It's social media pundits who talk about human waves.
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"doesn’t use the PCC standard Glock mags" - Aesthetics > functionality. Mags that angle back look bad on PCCs. Kidding aside, making mags is how many companies stay in business after the first runs are sold and sales dry up. If I'm investing in a new ecosystem I'd rather keep that company alive than give more money to Gaston.
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The irony is that there's no fucking trash bins in London! When I went there I had to carry my trash on my backpack because there was no place to dispose of it anywhere! I heard it was a remnant from the troubles, there was the danger of bombs being placed in them.
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@mrrobotnica The A-10 suffered a huge setback in Desert Storm. Chuck Horner pulled them out of the fight against the Iraqi national guard due to the losses and number of damaged aircraft.
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@johnwinkler5361 The idea wasn't dumb considering that even in Desert Storm the F-16 was called in to do the A-10s job, and as of 2014 F-16s performed 33% of CAS missions while the A-10 performed 11%.
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@johnwinkler5361 I didn't get a notification for this comment. What are the benefits of using the A-10?
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@dmac7128 It wasn't intended, until the A-16 idea was actually proposed and tested. But it failed because they had the genius idea of retaining the 30mm gun so a gunpod that shook itself loose from the pylon threw a wrench in the works. Either way that was the USAF's fault for having 1993 as the original A-10 retirement year and then only coming up with an alternative at the last minute. Original intention doesn't matter, because if the F-16 respected the original intentions behind it the world would have treated the F-16 like it did the F-20 Tigershark.
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Karhy Griffin still deserved the ban. Why was she protected? Why the double standards? Refusing to ask questions/dismisding the facts is just being complicit.
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The mobilized are cannon fodder.
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We should really strive for the opinion of the future: it's butchery and we've lied to people for easy money. We will look back in shame.
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They ran into the bullets and grenades of defenders for 10 months. Okay.
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@CatVsBobcat those 14% are all they can muster - the rest are national guard, admin and office clerks, border guards, etc
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@warmachine676 And Israel is Israeli soil, which the Quds force has been attacking.
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@paulmelonas7263 1. Ukraine dropped bridges and pontoons. Russians decided to walk or commandeer civilian cars because heavy equipment couldn't be used. 2. Ukraine has their own tank industry, they get some support from other former USSR/Warsaw Pact countries, and if you capture enough broken tanks you get enough spares to get a tank that is repaired.
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@paulmelonas7263 it's Zelensky, stop being triggered at the Z. Snowflake.
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@paulmelonas7263 The areas behind the Russian front lines were filled of rear areas with vehicle depots and ammunition dumps which were abandoned. The forces they brought up were propaganda for the cameras. Ukraine does have a tank industry. They need everything they can. Building hulls, turrets and barrels from scratch is difficult. Repairing broken down tanks is comparatively simpler. The train loads of tanks will be manned by guys who barely know how to use them. And a load of tanks that arrived in Donetsk a week or two ago was shelled immediately on arrival. LOL!
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@paulmelonas7263 Abraham Lincoln also said to not believe 80% of the quotes on the internet. I'll leave you with this: Russia had its professional army shredded. Now Russia is prolonging its death. Russia should negotiate to go back to 1991 borders.
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@paulmelonas7263 You will cackle - like a madman once you find out your were wrong.
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Or he got information mixed up. You never got something confused with another when it suited your narrative? When Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (US version) came out I pointed out to some friends David Fincher had also used Trent Reznor's music in Lost Highway. Well, Lost Highway is a movie by David Lynch.
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Then a Strela or Igla brings it down.
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Ignoring the facts and science? Like the science that explains exactly how the infection kills and how to treat it, but doctors are not addressing it? Or the facts that show that their measures have all failed so far?
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 @galacticverse7694 Those videos aren't even a one hundreth of the massacres Russian forces are subjected to.
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@der-Dritte Not "actual war". Dudes take potshots at you with rifles left by the British Empire 100 years ago and you call in a F/A-18 to drop a 1000lb JDAM on their sniper's nest.
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@Katojana No, 4k isn't in the budget. Here's a good video demonstrating the image quality: https://youtu.be/C7d7h1_uZe8?t=65 Since the pods themselves have optical zoom, increasing resolution is not worthwhile since cooled IR staring arrays are much more expensive than your normal CCD camera sensor.
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@earlward6374 That doesn't excuse a bad shoot. It was a bad shoot. You can't instigate a confrontation and then claim self-defense.
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@newlife2343 "He wouldn’t stop to talk." - He didn't have to. "If I was innocent I would stop to talk," - If you were innocent would you allow random nobodies to play law enforcement? You know how many criminals have pretended to be cops just to get people to stop and not resist? "Hell if you are innocent and being chased by men with guns why not call the fucking cops!" - Yeah they'll arrive just in time! "Instead he runs at then violently, attacks him and attempts to steal the gun." - That's what you do when attacked by criminals.
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@erketyrettile4734 That's not an issue. There's a timetable on the weather, and only one place to attack. The Germans didn't need a D-Day trailer to realize they needed an Atlantic Wall. They just saw the obvious.
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@erketyrettile4734 The trailer was freaking meaningless. It affected nothing.
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777s changed the game as they allowed Ukraine to have accurate fires and get 155mm shells supplied. HIMARS killed supplies and commanding officers. Russia is winning? They're being folded like laundry.
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 @Nasser-bp6qf Cap. There's tons of programmers on youtube showing how optimization has not peaked. Software got worse as computers got better.
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 @lexxisful that's called EW and more planes have it
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The S-400 ate sh!t in Ukraine so we're not impressed. The S-500 is anti-ICBM.
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>or are aware there's a gun in the house most home intruders will stick around? If you're on drugs, it's not such a stupid thing to do when you think about it. Guess what, lots of criminals get high before committing such high profile crimes because in enhances them.
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@alopam It was a Russian warhead. It didnxt match S-300 150kg warhead craters, but it matched 400kg Russian warheads.
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Drones didn't render anything obsolete.
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It was mentioned in the video, your point is?
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We saw it. It was Bucha. That's what losing looks like. Massacres in every city and town.
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It's complicated. Mind that there's both hard-right and hard-left sympathies for Russia (who are pretty much 5th columnists). Many don't want Germany to be responsible for another world war. Others are completely pacified as a result of decades of WW2 war guilt and divestment from the military after 1991. If I'm not mistaken according to polls Germany ranks low on the percentage of people who say yes if asked if they'd fight for their country.
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Treason is based. It was how America started. The stated reason for secession was literally evil but I find it hilarious that people try to use certain words as slurs as if they didn't apply to the Founding Fathers.
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@ricardocantoral7672 Literally nobody is pushing Russia back. All Russia has to do is go home. Nobody's gonna push all the way to Moscow (although it would be 100% deserved). Instead, Putin is trying to press forward for meaningless gains and genociding his own population.
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@overtblowfish4439 How are they clearly losing? Russia is now resorting to human wave attacks. It's a slaughter out there.
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Why? If MiGs can't survive the threat environment how would the A-10s handle the heat?
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>builds stealth aircraft >doesn't use it because it could be detected by radar Israel practically flaunted the F-35 by flying over Beirut and Iran.
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 @korana6308 >truth an liberty >calls an aggressive war and oppression "SMO" lul you're for the same truth and liberty Stalin and Mao defended
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People who say this never set the example.
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@johnjackson9767 based and tedpilled
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Because nobody of a sane mind is gonna risk their lives over it. What makes more sense? The girl is protecting the other girl and the predator is trying to use the bladed weapons to get off scot free? Or a random passerby saw weapons being carried and decided to film from up close rather than from a distance?
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@crusader_wolf1104 I know it's difficult. That's why everyone has to be on board. The crabs in the bucket will always pull others down. The problem isn't orchestrating a mutiny - it's getting everyone on board. If your comrades would rather see you lying on the fields than home protecting yourself and your family, are they true comrades? Sorry for the cringe movie reference but that's exactly what Morpheus told Neo: anyone who isn't ready is dependent on the system and will fight for its existence. The guys around you are Agents. I'm supposed to feel bad for them?
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Except that several studies have found that the 1997 NFA did not have any effect and was in fact a huge waste of money. The guns surrendered in the buyback have already been replaced in the last 20 years judging from the weapon imports numbers, gun violence was decreasing since the late 60's and there was even a school shooting in Monash University in 2002 which throws a wrench in the argument that the 1997 NFA "worked".
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Can't fake the Russian wives associations.
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Russia won't last that long. Forget the MIC. At this point the Ukrainians are running on sheer hatred alone. And if by some miracle Russia stays in the game until 2025 (taking office) Trump can negotiate whatever he wants, the Ukrainians would never stop. And the UK and Poland would make up for the Trump blackmail.
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cevaiom it's funny, because by calling me an idiot you're only exposing your own ignorance. Ron Paul himself said anarchy was a good thing.
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@ponraul1221 if that's directed at me, I seriously don't get where you're coming from because it takes a clear head to take the deep dive into libertarian theory. On the other hand, one must be under heavy sedation to think that libertarianism can work with a state.
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cevaiom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoSFarMaBsI ahahaha seems like I was correct and you are the idiot and the LIAR.
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cevaiom Dr. Paul provided you the context you dishonest little shit - he quickly stated that he was not for violent uprising, but then started talking about anarchism. He said it's a great idea. He said the invididual should be allowed to opt out of government. You're using his preemptive disavowment of violence or anarchism that uses force and twisting his words to make it seem like he said something else. He said he's not for violent anarchists, but that anarchism is a great idea, he has friends who are anarchists, and there's groups of people who want to voluntarily opt out of government. You're still a liar and you haven't apologized for your lies and insults.
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@UC9jeLMDovQslZkEbfYr-zPg I didn't say that that Ron Paul himself is an anarchist. I just made the argument that he recognizes the anarchist ideal but chose to work through political action. The "peaceful" part is because he knows there could be less stable people who'd take his statement as a codeword to kick off the boogaloo and because he doesn't want to associate with "anarchist" groups who simply break McDonald's windows and set cop cars on fire. You can't take the statement "I think anarchy is a great idea" and then go "nooooo he meant the peaceful part".
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@UC9jeLMDovQslZkEbfYr-zPg also abortion will have to be a dilemma solved by technology. The balance between right to life and the right to evict someone out of your property (even the body) should exist and I hope we reach a point we can take fetuses and grow them in artificial wombs for adoption.
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cevaiom "The clip is out of context" - how so? "The real problem is you don't like what the constitution has to say" - you're pulling this shit out of your ass. What the fuck are you even talking about? "No politician has ever been as consistent as this man and you government freaks" - you're delusional. Take your fucking meds.
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@ponraul1221 "You just skipped the important second half of his statement where he focuses on personal responsibility." - because it doesn't contradict anything I said. "Again, claiming he supports anarchy based on this statement is really stretching and misrepresenting what he means, which is that he supports personal responsibility" - holy shit you can't admit Ron Paul ever entertained the idea of anarchism so you're resorting to focus on everything else Paul said except what matters. Taking responsibility for yourself contradicts the leftist definition of anarchy so obviously Dr. Paul needs to add caveats. Just like he needs to say that you shouldn't go out and shoot government officials just because you want to be left alone. If he said "I think car racing is wonderful but people should drive responsibly and not infringe on others' rights" you'd be here telling me Ron Paul doesn't like racing, just driving responsibly. "You’re also putting words into my mouth claiming I said “noooo he meant the peaceful part.”" - YOU'RE LITERALLY DOING IT RIGHT NOW, NOOOO HE DOESN'T SAY ANARCHY IS A GOOD IDEA HE'S SAYING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IS A GOOD IDEA holy shit man "This is all ignoring the fact you are claiming he supports anarchy" - I didn't say that, I said he thinks anarchy is a great idea You know what Paul also said in that same video clip? That socialists getting together and voluntarily living in socialism would be permissible and a good thing to have in a libertarian society. But that doesn't make him a socialist. I mean, in the video you have a perfect example of someone capable of entertaining thoughts without agreeing with them and you STILL don't get that Ron Paul is friendly to ideologies that aren't his own.
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cevaiom you're completely delusional and you're imagining things. Dr. Paul was asked about his opinion on anarchy and you're telling me he deflected the question?
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@ponraul1221 ”I think I know that doesn’t make me a socialist. I also am very sympathetic to anarchists and share many values with them, and I think I know I’m not an anarchist. ” - so essentially you are now saying what I've been saying across multiple posts. I'm glad that you've essentially refused to read and had to make the connection by yourself. ”I’m still arguing about your original main comment” - Joke - Q: you know the difference between a libertarian and an anarchist? A: about six months Hopefully it's clear as mud because it couldn't get any clearer than my first post. ”When someone says something is a good thing or a great idea I think it’s logical to conclude that they support it; but apparently you don’t. In fact I think it’s quite impossible to consciously not support something if you think it’s good thing or a great idea.” - so after saying that, what do you think about Dr. Paul saying he thinks anarchy is a great idea? I want you to expand on that. ”if someone says they support anarchy and turned thousands (maybe millions) of people into anarchists (like you have claimed Ron Paul does/did) I think it’s reasonable and logical to conclude that they are an anarchist” - that makes no fucking sense lol Ron Paul turned people into anarchists because many libertarians caught a glimpse of reality and saw how libertarianism was sabotaged. If you have the best man and you send him out to play the game and you see the referees screwing him over you'll become dissatisfied. I'm going to play it from the other side. Would you disagree that Bernie Sander's campaign sabotage (and him selling out and kissing the Clinton ring) took many Democratic Socialists and made them turn to Communism because they realized that Democratic Socialists will always be sabotaged by liberals? But if you ask Sanders about Communism he'll start mumbling about Scandinavia. He won't even dare to say he thinks Communism is a great idea but I have no fucking doubt a lot of the Antifa chucklefucks are butthurt Berniebros. The fact that you can't even concieve how a person's actions might create introspection and lead his followers to dwelve deeper into the theory and realize they were too optimistic makes your response sound childish. You'd rather ignore REAL human responses to events and pretend the world is linear just for the sake of clicking Post Comment instead of thinking about the subject and having an actual conversation.
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@ponraul1221 "but it isn't true for the vast majority of people getting into libertarianism" - because it's a joke. If you found it funny it's because you see why my original comment has validity. Most of the people I've been with in the journey into libertarianism simply got more and more fed up. Ron Paul was sabotaged, Gary Johnson turned out to be an absolute buffoon. "Dr. Paul never said he thinks anarchy is a great idea" - Except that he did. "he said the idea of anarchists peacefully exercising personal responsibility is great" - Again, if Ron Paul said car racing was great, but you shouldn't be street racing near schools or behaving recklessly, being a threat to people, you'd be here saying he never said racing was great, it's all the personal responsibility he thinks is great. "isn't an argument and pure condescension" - you're the condescending one. You literally went "nah this thing totally doesn't happen" when it does. "that doesn't make them have the responsibility of that outcome" - I simply stated that Rand Paul has the uphill battle of trying to appeal to normies but also the people who supported his father. When people saw how the political process screwed with Ron Paul you don't mellow out and drive towards the center, you get outraged and become even more against the government. You trying to make this about "responsibility" has fuck all to do with the initial statement - Ron Paul was a major influence to many people and Rand doesn't want to carry the torch. Which is fine, but like I said is an uphill battle. "Your argument is akin to a kindergarten teacher who taught Einstein to add 2+2=4 claiming she was the reason he came up with the General Theory of Relativity." - no, my argument is more akin to seeing your kindergarten teacher getting absolutely screwed over by the school board over some bullshit and you vow to homeschool your kids because of what you've witnessed. "I put the responsibility upon communists advocating communism" - but if those people had never been Bernie supporters, and never got to witness how the DNC screwed him over and still managed to make him bend the knee, they could have been basic-bitch liberals. Again, I'm not pinning Bernie with the bill for the burnt cars and broken windows. Just stating cause-and-effect. "you're the one ignoring REAL human responses to events and pretend the world is linear" - except I'm the one using nuance while you flat out say "that doesn't happen lol" but okay
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@FloofersFX "US made NATO to fight the communist threat, that threat is long gone" - There's still threats. Have you checked the news lately? "I'm guessing Yemen is a peacekeeping operation too right" - Tell Iran to knock it off. I'm not happy about Yemen either, but your alternative is trying to convince the Saudis that Iran gaining a foothold in Yemen is okay. The war in Yemen stops when Iran stops fueling it.
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@AlexCats I don't care what Clinton thought. It was asked by the Arab League. The UN obliged. You can't back a modern economy on gold. There's not enough gold to support the value we generate.
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Peace is far more lucrative. You have the minimal staff and floor space, and you get the largest profit margins per unit. In war, all the money the gubmint gives you goes towards more factory/machines and personnel you'll have to train and then lay off. Peace is a good hustle, war forces you to actually work.
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@mauchkimberly How is it divisive? If anything it's pleading for unity, for people to rise up.
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@tidepoolclipper8657 Not really. The government always comes in clutch to save it.
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@JacobStein1960 You're just misinformed. 20th century warfare had a ton of stalemates that forced static fighting until a breakthrough was achieved. You want high mobility warfare in an age where force concentration can be spotted with a $600 consumer drone.
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@JacobStein1960 There's several explanations from the defenses being on the move while turned off, them being afraid of shooting down friendly aircraft (happened in the 2008 Georgia invasion), and the power generators having insufficient fuel along with the rest of the convoys.
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@Stychinsky Craters in Enerhodar city and the Rosatom spokesperson prove it was Russia shelling the plant. He tried to convince the IAEA that Ukrainian rockets do a 180 degree flip before landing.
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The Arrow wouldn't have made sense after the introduction of ICBMs.
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Yeah but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Not for long, at this rate.
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@zzaretube BS. NATO joined the GWOT. In fact Spain and the UK suffered bombings as a response to their participation.
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@phunkracy And Western aircraft also have those ballistic computers.
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@phunkracy Military classification is meaningless. The massive room sized computers from the 1950s were used for ballistic calculations, you have more power in your laptop today. People use phone apps to get the ballistic calculations for long range rifle shooting.
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You can still transmit to them. So you're actually creating a false sense of safety.
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@nitrojunki4249 phone usage during flight is banned by the FCC, not FAA.
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Why did Ritter spend time in prison for?
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Not under noses - everyone was talking about a retreat two weeks ago, it was the Russian shills who helped with the fog in the public sphere. A Russian can't drop a cigarette in Kherson without all the NATO ISR knowing it.
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Because Blackwater doesn't exist.
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Exactly. Anyone who's been playing this game for a while has seen the moves. First it was internet claims that the biolabs were struck by the first cruise missiles (which would cause leaks and erase evidence), then American deboonkers started tracking mentions of biolabs on alt media. Russia and China decided to press on the claims after DC already knew this would be the next card being played.
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The distinction is meaningless. Tanks can be used to defend and the "defensive" arms Ukraine received can be used for attack.
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Most drones do not have 40 years of stress and strain in their airframes.
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@HKim0072 Someone tell John Hoehn and William Courtney that American F-16s landed in Ukrainian air bases during joint training.
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@Wen6543 If F-16s are too delicate, why have they been flown in Ukraine during joint exercises?
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@hb1338 You can literally see the satellite pictures of the craters, half of their missiles MISSED the airfields. And airfield repairs take a day or two.
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Rich S so basically what Bane did to Metropolis in the movie?
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Also, what the hell is a Glock 9? Glock doesn't offer no configuration with that number.
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Russians believe Ukrainians are too incompetent to fight back so anything they do is actually Americans/Brits.
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That's false.
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They've been probably been training already. Nobody knew the US had sent AGM-88 HARM until Russians took photos of the debris near blown up radars.
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Very different. You sign up for the NG. They're calling "inactive reservists".
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People who took it are contagious too. Wear a mask, I hear it works.
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Base security? How many 18 year olds with backpacks have been used in this war?
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@superduperfreakyDj if I use a bike to make deliveries, and then ride it back home, I am using the bike for both money and personal use. It is schrodinger's property.
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Don't know if it's this one: Sohrab Lutchmedial, who was a cardiologist at the New Brunswick Heart Centre. His ethnicity was Indian but he worked in Canada.
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The reservists had to come in to replace guys who aren't walking among us anymore...
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 @-Zevin- Is it a disaster? Seems similar to Kherson. First Russians claim to be winning... then it's every man for himself as they run away with Ukrainians hot on their tails.
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Yeah governments killed a quarter of a billion in the 20th century alone. Obviously the virus with 99.something survival rate and kills mostly people with three simultaneous co-morbidities is more important than that.
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The NRO donated two space telescopes to NASA, which were meant for a cancelled spy program. There's also reason to believe the Hubble used a 2.4 meter main mirror because 2.4m mirrors had been manufactured before for spy satellites.
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If Russia has the advantage in firepower, that results in the frontline moving. Because they can't, either shelling is reduced due to strained supplies, or the firepower is wasted by misses.
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Not true.
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@steve-real Some JAG oxygen thief also thought that open tip match bullets were banned hollow points. Sometimes those people care more about the high profile cases than reality.
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@SecuR0M Milo and Nick have 100% fostered the worst audience possible for their niches. They never had a chance at "big tent" right wing politics. Sargon's audience, as he constantly crashed and burned his projects, is arguably better than Tim Pool's. Though Sargon benefits from having more True Brexit Geezers in his audience instead of American "I read it on facebook" schizos.
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@rossn646 You're literally drinking and eating plenty of poisons as a consequence of modern life, but we generate just gazillions of watts off of nuclear power and two meltdowns are enough to make you scared. Oh no we lost a few hundred square kms over a century, meanwhile you lose thousands every year to mining, deforestation, etc.
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"Equipment we don't have" AHAAHAH there's boneyards with thousands of armored vehicles, Ukraine isn't getting a fraction of what the US has to spare.
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Kharkiv oblast was recaptured after 15-18 tanks broke the Russian lines.
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@austinpowersfasjer It wasn't a "tactical blunder". It was reality. Troops were needed in Kherson which meant thinning out Kharkiv. If they kept Kharkiv reinforced, they'd lose Kherson. Call it a blunder, they had no choice. It's been 5 months, and Russia is down to using human waves. They went from a very dubious army, to outright inhumane behavior.
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@austinpowersfasjer 1 Leopard doesn't have to take out 50 T-72s. It only has to show up with violence and make the ground shake. While the IFVs and infantry rush in right behind. Put this show of force where the frontline is thin, and the mobiks will scatter like cockroaches.
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Yes, that's what they do. They've always done that. That's nature. And it has been that way before we existed.
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@LupusAries "Missiles can fail to hit as the most recent US kill has shown, both Niner-X Sidewinders failed to hit and a third shot with the AMRAAM was needed." - The missile failed because of flares - which it should have rejected, but that's another argument and there's theories why that happened. The radar guided missile didn't. So in the end, the problem was still solved by the missile. "Imagine that being a Fulcrum that tries to fight it out instead of running" - If the AMRAAM missed, having a gun wouldn't have determined the outcome.
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@LupusAries "How so?" - Any plans on a gun that fires backwards? If your argument hinges on the defending aircraft reversing on the attacker due to both IR and radar missiles failing, I think that the fight was already lost. "And it's another case of the situation being perfect for the US fighter, it had the iniative" - I don't have the real statistic with me but I'm pretty sure it's widely known that most aircraft shot down were unaware they were being attacked, so having the initiative is the goal to score the kill. "Yes the missile should reject the flares, but then whole point of Flares is to confuse missile" - You're making my argument for me, yeah no shit the IR missile missed, it was fooled with countermeasures intended to fool it. The problem is that the 9X should have an imaging sensor capable of determining that a flare doesn't look like an aircraft. Even pseudo-imager seekers had some degree of flare rejection. So yeah, we're paying for tech that should work but it isn't. "You can't expect countermeasure designers to sit around with twiddling their thumbs doing nothing...." - The problem is, the seeker was outwitted by something that probably did not have the amount of design you seem to be implying. Look at footage seen by the 9X seeker. It can see the fuselage, the wings, etc. If your job is designing a canister that burns how exactly are you going to make it look like an aircraft? https://youtu.be/myuZUxS3Uww?t=243 This stuff was available in the 90s, if a hockey puck can determine what kind of SAM site it's looking at its outline against the ground clutter how exactly can we fool an AIM-9X with a burning tube? Raytheon better come up with a good excuse.
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@chuckcrunch1 then what is it about?
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@chuckcrunch1 Then why were guns mentioned?
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The UK isn't Europe.
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@rn7371 not all AR-15s are semi-automatic because there are single shot uppers. Yeah, it is a nitpick.
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@stephentoth6003 in what way does Israel being an ally benefit the US? Most of the instability in the Middle East was either created by American/British/French intervention or Israeli actions. Saudi Arabia is a huge sponsor of terrorism but they are a US ally and have even cooperated with Israelis from time to time.
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@stephentoth6003 of course it's not a coincidence! "Of course the US wants Isreal as an ally" - why? "Who gave them Nuclear weapons?" - not the US. In fact Eisenhower and Kennedy pressured Israel about the plant they were building and wanted an inspection of the facility to make sure it wasn't a reactor. "are you aaserting that the Middle East would be a n ocean of tranquility without the Western powers there?" - not really. I am saying that nobody would care about those conflicts just like nobody cares about conflicts going on around the world.
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@stephentoth6003 the US is self-sufficient in oil nowadays. I believe the US doesn't need any of them as allies. "Have you ever seen a massive movements of death to Americans in Isreal ever?" - you do realize that Arab people actually respected the US before all the foreign intervention, right?
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It didn't work "somewhat". It failed terribly. There were no manageable peaks, just peaks. Thinking that only Omicron changed the game is silly.
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"PROPERLY fitted mask" - Nobody's doing that. It's glorified socks with massive gaps. "you really should just listen to those who have a background in hard science" - If a background in hard science makes a person ignore reality while praising the virtues of lab results, I will not listen to that person. Intercepting 60% of particles fired through a tube into a multi-layer mask with different materials to exploit both mechanical and electric charge filtering while the cloth itself is wrapped around the tube and held in place tightly with a rubber band sounds impressive. It's not real. The real mask is made from a single material, it's single layer, has a cute print in the front because it's more fashion accessory than PPE, it's one-size-fits-all so it doesn't actually probably fit anyone's face, it gets tossed into the back pocket of the owner's jeans and it is handled several times a day. It's probably been washed 10 times since last March.
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"I believe the receivers could even use radar emissions from the enemy to find an aircraft" - Not only is it standard procedure to turn the radar off to minimize detection, but modern radars also scramble their emissions to mask themselves as background radiation. There's TV, radio, etc waves that receivers filter out.
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Because 6.8 constrained by the AR lower receiver size is too slow. They want a larger cartridge to drive the bullet fast enough.
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That doesn't make it okay to involve children. Plus, shouldn't we be more evolved?
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@calenhoover1124 "why do you think expanding to internet is going to make them somehow totalitarian?" - because it's removing another avenue of free communication
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@calenhoover1124 The rules of economics haven't changed in thousands of years but sure let's pretend a lecture being 40 years old makes it irrelevant. "your argument still falls flat in the face of hundreds of years of democratic and civil advance in the U.S." - How has there been any democratic advance? Ever since the beginning the power is less and less in the hands of the electorate. "The United States ranks at the top in housing...." - You're doing the same as the CCP paid shills. Who cares that there's a tyrannical government and power and there's no freedom? The rankings say the economy is great! The fact that you can amass greater wealth in the US doesn't mean that the US is democratic. "Do you really believe that one of the most powerful countries on earth that has an incredible economic winning streak is going to risk flip flopping to a tyranny" - The Empire always comes home. That question required a pinch of self-awareness. Power corrupts. This is like a Roman scoffing at the thought of the Roman Empire ever crumbling down. Tyranny isn't throwing the power away. It's the way to maintain it during times of crisis. "i've provided quotes from peer reviewed studies" - You didn't, but that's fine. "to exemplify to you that the U.S has no motive for your claims" - But you aren't even able to question the fact that the US government is growing in power and unable to stop. ""More Power" isnt a motive either because the senators and even the president themselves are subject to any laws they write or pass" - 1) this wasn't true until the 90s and caused a huge stir in the 80s 2) it's us the little people who need things like encrypted communications to prevent spying from the government, not politicians 3) they can staff the agencies with partisan hacks 4) in cases like these they are sort of exempt because they can prohibit companies from providing us end-to-end encryption while they contract a security company to provide them encryption services for "national security". "Let me know when that happens and we can talk" - Okay. Do you think the military, secret service, everyone who receives classified emails, etc is gonna be forced to work without encryption? "Please provide some proof or arguments that arent a 40 year old ted talk." - That was only about how government action doesn't improve the country, wealth generation does. Government action may actually do the opposite of what it attempts to do. Like rent control being responsible for rents increasing.
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@calenhoover1124 Nice strawman argument. Now go on and use democracy to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
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@calenhoover1124 All your arguments are "trust the plan bro" and "it doesn't work because people don't want it". Oh, and you brought up some irrelevant shit about the US economy, as if that's gonna matter to the topic of government control. "posting 40 year old lectures that are philosophical in nature" - Which contained hard facts about the blowback of government central planning. This was a response to ONE claim you've made about government doing things for the people and you're still butthurt about it. "not grasping the basics of democracy" - I have, to the point I explained to you it's downfalls. "like the fact that democracy doesnt mean you get what you want all the time" - We're not talking about what I want. We're talking about governments turning tyrannical. You're completely fucking dishonest, my guy.
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To be honest, the Tea Party was the perfect magnet to attract wierdos. Can we please dismiss the Tea Party now? No matter how much of a libertarian I am, it has been poisoned by corporations who pretend to be interested in a free market, but just want to have less safety regulations and more lobbying power. The Tea Party is like Feminism. The principles are true and noble, but there's so many whackjobs assisociated with the movement...
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Well, they tried. But the landmines stopped them in their tracks.
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That's because you haven't heard of the tea boys.
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There is at least two photos of separate shootdowns.
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@outsidethebox1876 What do you mean tell it to the Ukrainians, it crashed inside Russia.
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Nobody made a decision. The panic was set in before anyone in high command knew what was happening.
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Going straight up means less distance inside thick atmosphere. At an angle the rocket spends more time under drag.
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 @danielc9967 What narrative? If he was wearing a Hulk Hogan shirt would that be a narrative too? The Hulkamaniac did it, BROTHER!
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If suddenly everyone is wearing yellow pants I'll wonder what memo I missed.
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@ChR1St0p4eR Russia pulled troops from elsewhere, had reservist and volunteer battalions, hired PMCs and then started recruiting prisoners. Russia had "shadow mobilization" for months.
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They did run out of missiles, which is why they stopped firing them to let manufacturing catch up. It's like you forgot the Shahed and S-300 season, where cruise and ballistic missile attacks slowed down or even stopped and cheaper/plentiful weapons were used in their place.
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Ukraine has the same convention in traffic signs as the rest of Europe since the 1990s. Russia has a mix of universal STOP signs and square signs saying СТОП. The latter are older ones.
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So if Trump had not disbanded, we'd get an Obama-style response? Aka no lockdowns?
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Dr. Bas Ackwards I know, I just want to get them to say it.
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@bro26mohw half the original parts were swapped anyway so it wouldn't matter how old the original rifle was - if they were buying new weapons they'd have bought SR-25s from Knight's.
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@helmeteye they have fought states on restrictive gun laws, though.
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W Winterheart google it. They're against red flag laws, how states like Cali use mental health as a way to disarm people, etc. They were even against universal background checks in 2013.
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@OllieGrigg You mean what the Ba'ath party and Iran did to Iraq, what the Taliban did to Afghanistan, and what Russia did to Syria. That coward Assad had to call the brutes to help him slaughter his own people, now the brutes struggle against people who can fight back.
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Stop being a schizo. By that logic the air force is also developing the NGAD air superiority fighter... to shoot down civilian Cessnas? "Hurr durr the wars from the past ended so there's no point in developing anything" by that logic we should still be using coal and steam power. Why try new things?
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@monberg1000 And if my aunt had a pair of balls she'd be my uncle.
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No honor amongst thieves means that thieves will rob each other. Hence the "amongst" part.
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@MichelleHell If the left is anti-imperialist, I can't wait to see the pedals they're going to ask people to use to power the factories because they can't access the resources required for green energy.
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@drkastenbrot "putting solar panels in the desert destroys what exactly?" - If you're going to cover an untouched area with man-made machines, you're by definition destroying the environment there. That's why constructions like dams, airports, wind turbines, solar farms, etc have to have environmental impact studies done before the project starts, to make sure that you're not going to cause more damage. At least you could use the same efforts to plant trees that stop desertification.
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@ilovefunnyamv2nd "most dont want one within a thousand miles of where they live" - Imagine if nobody wanted to live within a thousand miles of a truck or SUV, which is much more likely to kill them than nuclear. Imagine if nobody wanted to live within a thousand miles of a coal plant, which also has to scrub its emissions due to the fact that it spits radioactive particles into the air. People have the right to be stupid and not be able to do risk analysis. But they're still stupid.
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@CPSPD You mean police pushed barriers aside and a bunch of people got a free tour while Baked Alaska was looking for documents to steal?
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@MichelleHell I didn't mention congress once. If I address a comment to "the left", rest assured that I'm not talking about congress. I also find it extremely funny that you assume what I know and don't know, and also that you assume where I'm from. I'm European. Our center-left parties are right wing too. Our left parties are pretty much by definition centrists, because they only serve as opposition and they're not calling for the abolition of the neoliberal capitalist system, just more welfare. Do not lecture me when your assumptions betray your ignorance.
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@ilovefunnyamv2nd Oh, you assume I want to change hearts and minds. I just like to call people stupid.
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The shape is the worst part because of the huge intakes in nthe front.
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Even then to legally destroy a rifle it needs to be torch cut into three. Sawing it in half isn't sufficient because they consider it too easy to reweld.
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Oh no, Ukraine will have to use an extra 200 RPG-7 or RKG-3 grenades...
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Grendel won't cut it.
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@SmkAslt I figure because 6.5 Creedmore was tested as a DMR cartridge and even that's not going far. Grendel is a compromise caliber that fits the AR. What the military is looking for won't fit the AR. Why did you link me to 6.8 SPC? 6.8 SPC might be a fine civilian hunting caliber when you can use hollow points and live in a state where 5.56 can't be used on deer, or even a checkpoint guard short range rifle, but it's a garbage military round. SOCOM issued it, thought it was garbage in Afghanistan and dropped it in favor of 5.56. So why is 6.8 SPC even in this conversation? Again, it's another compromise caliber that fits the AR. They're not looking for anything that fits the AR.
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@SmkAslt No, 6.8 SPC is not the new military round. You're the one confused. I'm talking about 6.5 Creedmore because 1. the military tested it for DMR purposes and 2. because it isn't an AR-15 platform cartridge. This new cartridge isn't an AR-15 platform cartridge. It won't fit. 6.8 isn't a middle ground. It's damned near full rifle power. Of course the video isn't about Creedmore. You said Grendel. I said, buddy not even Creedmore is good enough and you think Grendel is gonna cut it? I already read that, years ago. You're not the first to look into the topic. You're the one with no clue what you're talking about if you think 6.8 SPC is the new cartridge.
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@SmkAslt This video isn't about 6.8 SPC. Please pay attention. Read.
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Automated CNC lathe (could be home built) gets fed an aluminium rod and spits out case heads. An automated machine cuts sections of steel tubing that goes through ironing dies to give it proper diameter and wall thickness. Pieces go into a nickel plating bath to prevent galvanic corrosion. Press them together and you got something like the NAS3 casings. Bullets can be steel core (probably pressed into plastic rather than lead to reduce dependency on the metal) and steel jacketed with copper plating. Gun powder is nitrocellulose, can be made from cotton. Primers... Those are gonna be corrosive. I don't think mercury fulminate or lead azide will be easily manufactured in a garage. But corrosive primers can. I once made one when I was a kid and tested it with a hammer, ears rang for two days.
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 @szolanek Bookmark this page and put it on your calendar. I want to see what you have to say then.
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Well the Patriot defense system can shoot down hypersonic missiles so that's a thing natzhees couldn't achieve.
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Not really. Everyone figured out a long time ago less recoil = more hits. Even the Russians realized 5.45 was superior to 7.62 because soldiers scored more hits.
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@cornelkittell9926 What a specific special pleading. Russia has advanced, but also forced to cross no man's land. That means driving into mines and rushing towards machine guns. Ukraine mobilizes men as training resources become available. Russia recruited a ton of men at once, and had to leave many in empty fields or abandoned bases. Ukraine trains few several times, Russia called up a bunch at once, then had to delay training.
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Care to explain the ISIS flag at a pride parade a few years ago?
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Russia suffered more KIA in 8 months than the US did in 20 years. The cost of bringing the vehicles left behind was higher than the value, so Afghanistan kept them. How is it a humiliation to be wealthy enough to do that?
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MiG-15 Fagot
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The people facing them also cry about combat mosquitos and genetically engineered supersoldiers on drugs. What they say is worthless.
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It's an excellent multitool. Take a F-16, feed it steroids, give it the ears of a bat and the eyes of a falcon.
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@falkenlaser People aren't mad at Goldman because of politics, they're mad at him because he's a liar, he can't handle the heat and he charges his followers 99 bucks a month selling them a promise of manliness when he can't be a man. He's a con artist and a fake.
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@pavmik1 You misunderstood the scoring criteria. Aggression only matters when the scoring is too close to call. From the moment a fighter outstrikes the other he's ahead in score and aggression is ignored in the round score. It's a tie breaker.
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You can outperform the market, you can make educated predictions and be right most of the time without insider information. Don't expect 41% returns in a year, though.
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@duncanbennett2898 That's an outright falsehood. The rotary wing supremacists in the Army instructed their officers to call USAF support less often. The birth of the A-10 was the USAF chief of staff discovering through studies that Army troops were satisfied with USAF support, but wondered why they weren't called more often.
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Can't buy houses by paying them in Humvees and MRAPs.
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Not really. When you sneeze into the armpit it splashes to the sides. You minimize the spread, but particles will go airborne.
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You heard? Where?
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I'll jump on the solar bandwagon once it surpasses 50% efficiency. If the technology improves in the next 10 years I can't wait to see all the people lining up to replace their obsolete pannels before the installation even paid for itself.
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Sweden had less government oversight over film which meant that if you wanted to see titties you'd bring in "Swedish movies". Anyway plenty of states in the US didn't even criminalize bestiality until the 2000s/2010s. Washington state is famous for it, it's where Mr Hands did the notorious stunt that got him game-ended.
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@knudskoubo1090 Not really. If you think you are being encircled when you aren't, you're giving the enemy exactly what he wants. Your enemy wants to shoot you in the back while you're running, not when you're entrenched and firing back.
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@Casutama people voting for the lesser evil will always put evil in office. Call it the puritan stance, but someone who can appeal to an audience and only did things that slightly inconvenienced his following is more deserving of a shot than the person who mistreated his own voter base but gets votes by default.
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@MatchesMalone1183 Bernie's voting record is irrelevant because while he once defended the gun industry by supporting an anti-liability law, he got criticized for it in 2016 and has since admitted he would work to reverse the situation. You think that if people accuse him of not being as progressive as AOC he won't fulfill their wishes? I'll say, at least that is how a politician should act. But it sorta invalidates his voting record as an argument if he is willing to change his stance whenever the lefft criticizes him.
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Jamming doesn't seem to work, they keep getting blasted by HIMARS.
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Meh, after 9 months it gets tiring to hear that.
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Oh, you did? So convenient you can't prove a negative.
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@urbanmusicchannel the F-16 proved itself better at CAS than the A-10 in 1991. Despite being a multirole.
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"Poke them with NATO" A consequence for Russia's wars. It was young students who got a new president. Not America. In fact the state dept wanted Yanukovych to stay and keep his promise to hand the prime minister position to the opposition. It was the crowd who said no to those terms, they were murdered by Yanukovych and did not trust him.
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The wreckage photos were published. If I make a fist while stopped and you run face first into my hand, you'll get punched. Your velocity works in my favor.
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It's not done. They filmed the opposing lane.
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+young prodigy but he still needs a new gas tube, a gas block and to drill a new gas port in the barrel before it becomes semi-auto again.
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Russian investors pool money to finance game, devs get paid in Cyprus, investors use Cypriot banks to collect and evade sanctions.
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@LardoAG If you invest in Company X and Company X is paid by Company Y, then the dividends of Company X go to you. Doesn't matter if Company Y doesn't like you and doesn't want to pay you - once the money goes to X, X has to pay back the investors. Games don't have publishers at the start a lot of times, especially with new studios. They require investor capital to start, make a game, and if the game is interesting a publisher picks it up.
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@gattonero2915 Please rationalize a mad rush to Kiev, attempts to cut the city off in the West by heading towards the highway, the Hostomel air assault and the vans with riot police with "Russian doctrine". Unless Russia really does live in an alternate universe I don't see how "doctrine" covers the use of troops in riot gear getting killed.
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@gattonero2915 It's not a side objective if the failure of said objective had to change the entire way the operation was conducted. Sure, you don't fail the mission if you fail a side objective. It's still a failure of the side objective. You claim that failing a side objective is just a difference in doctrine. No. It's not doctrine. It's failure. I have no false messiah. I'm here just to watch Russia lose. You have a false messiah. And he will fail. The USA did not "fail" after capturing Baghdad. You have a severe misunderstanding of the history behind the post-2003 events in Iraq. Iraq was defeated. It was done, and the army disbanded. You also repeat the "feint" claim. There are limits on transportation and how much you can squeeze forces into a deployment area. The capital is never left undefended, so the troops would be fixed anyway and wouldn't be brought to the East. It's literal children's logic to think hundreds of thousands of active and reserve units would all congregate to the East like ants.
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@gattonero2915 How does that explain anything about Russian doctrine? The fighting in Iraq was not "Iraq vs Coalition". It was a converging mess of foreign terrorists and Ba'ath party loyalists who decided to fan the flames of sectarian conflict. Most of the deaths in Iraq resulted from terror attacks and Iraqis killing each other. Fake balloon truck? What? The doctrine is that Russia can step on as many rakes as it can in this conflict and can never admit a mistake. It was a feint, bro. Winning at Kiev was just the cherry on top, which is why so many men and equipment were put at risk in such an insane move. You don't throw lives away for a cherry. "Eradicating Azov" = cope. Snake Island was a couple of weeks after Lysychansk. And they were driven away by explosions.
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The SCOTUS shut down the OSHA requirement.
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Not sure if bait
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@phoenixjones7191 Sorry but they're directly contradicting each other. The amount of stock he would need to sell would reflect on the amount and number of people he could gift to.
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@StandItAll Okay, when does it stop? At which point will people stop asking for the "giving back"? How much does Bozo need to write on a check to get people to shut up? You'll always come back with inflammatory language like "r*pe" to ask for more, I don't even like Jeffy boy and I absolutely distrust the Amazon empire but the man got rich from people giving him money for a product/service. If you had a problem with that you should have complained that people were buying from Amazon, not now that Jeff's got the money.
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To be fair this whole thing started because Armenia expanded into Azeri territory outside the Nagorno-Karabah region, and Azerbaijan recovered that territory in the 2020 war.
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When they're no longer operational, they're unable to sustain orbit and burn in the atmosphere.
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Rail can be repaired within 12-24 hours. The fact that rail is so important is why armies generally have engineer corps capable of cutting the damaged section, fill the craters and reweld new tracks. Even today Ukraine and Russia bomb rails to get temporary relief to pull off a maneuver, otherwise they'd keep wasting fortunes in missiles to just hit tracks that get repaired quick.
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@avisting Hitting a bridge? It took the US 873 raids to bring down the Thanh Hóa Bridge in Vietnam. Bombing tech was better in the 1965-1972 compared to WWII and yet it took the deployment of recently developed laser-guided bombs to really wreck it.
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@avisting I assume this has to do with bombing accuracy?
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"some of the most advanced weapons" - Stingers considered outdated in 2020, Javelins from the 90s and AGM-88 HARMs with a 1991 manufacturing date.
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Lockheed Martin made a point to have a weapons release test even though it was not required, while the 23 had a questionable and unproven weapon bay.
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@dumdumbinks274 sorry, tagged you by mistake
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@The Legacy "the F-4 was designed without an internal gun, as it was thought that subsonic dogfighting would be impossible" - No. The F-4 Phantom was designed for fleet defense. The way to do it is to go FAST, meet the threat head on and fire missiles at beyond visual range. If you had to come around and circle for a guns solution, you've already allowed the enemy to fire anti-ship missiles. Against the carrier you needed to land back on. The gun was dead weight for this purpose. "basically had the helpless F-4's dead-to-rights" - Because due to gaps in radar coverage, F-4s accompanying strike packages were vulnerable to MiGs coming around the border and doing high speed passes in ambushes that could not be reversed because the F-4s were flying slower to keep up with the strike aircraft. F-4s that participated in MIGCAP missions and went around looking for enemies had a satisfactory kill ratio. The Navy F-4s, which were not in a position to get ambushed and had radar coverage provided by the ships behind them, also had no issue going toe to toe with the MiGs. "at extreme risk of the F-35's weaknesses in dogfighting" - Pilots compare it to the F/A-18. There's footage of a pilot fighting Su-30s with the Hornet in training exercises and he did well. "the F-35 will be a flying target, forcing the F-15 (and the vastly superior F-22 [...] to take over" - This makes no sense. The F-15 and F-22 are air superiority platforms. They're the expensive, overpowered, premier air to air platform. The F-35 is the cheap companion multirole that fills the gap left by the fact that there's not enough F-15s or F-22s to handle everything else. "ever since the F-22 was adapted to carry air-to-ground weapons, there is really no reason why the F-35 is needed at all" - This is completely incorrect. The F-22 has very limited ground attack capabilities. The F-35 is needed to fill all the gaps.
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The bottom line is that Russia failed to protect them so they moved West. It was Russia's fault.
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@mladenmatosevic4591 Nope. Armenia was drawing huge Zs on mountain sides and flying Iranian flags in the streets because they thought they were being backed. Then when Azeris attacked and Russia backed the F off, Armenia moved west.
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Michael Kofman speaks Russian and Ukrainian, I believe.
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@jackiecooper9439 Yeah they're in favor of hurdles, sure.
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@jackiecooper9439 I sincerely hope you're a paid shill. If you do this for free, you are truly lost. You've created a hellworld and forced us to live in it.
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@jackiecooper9439 You support tyranny for your convenience. You acknowledge and simp for corruption. QR codes are a hellworld. You've created a world where we're slaves with barcodes.
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@jackiecooper9439 Being under constant surveillance isn't bureaucracy. I'm not American.
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@jackiecooper9439 They know I keep podcasts or clips running in the background for long periods of time, and if they're tracking my location they know my commute from work to home. I've never provided ID not even to get past the age filter, I used a temporary credit card for online purchases.
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That short barrel rifle looks like it's from the US? If it was, it would be already illegal there without a tax stamp and the ATF having the owner's fingerprints on file.
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HANK! HANK! DON'T ABBREVIATE CIVIL PROTECTION!
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They do help. Better EW, better situational awareness, better radars, better weapons. HARM missiles force SAM operators to shut down radars as they home in on the radar emissions.
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@fascitern250 Stealth can't be everywhere at all times. F-16s replaced the F-4G as the SEAD aircraft and flew over defenses.
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The AIM-9X isn't a traditional heat seeker. It sees a picture like a camera, it can see the difference between an airplane with wings and other irelevant heat sources. It's more like the Javelin missile which locks onto the image of a tank rather than pure heat. But with aircraft.
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If your bank has a service to create fake credit cards for online purchases you can use those as verification because youtube accepts cards as ID but doesn't filter out fake ones.
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Wagner is not good at assaults. They just have more men to spend. Bakhmut isn't the main defensive line, Kramatorsk is an even bigger stronghold. Capturing Bakhmut would be a piece of cake compared to what would be next.
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Donetsk is intact.
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You do realize they financed and trained half the communist uprisings, with the other half being backed by Maoist China, right?
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This was said about every weapon sent so far.
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Progress at the cost of depleting the force is not the winning move. Remember Severodonetsk? A victory like that bled Russia so hard they called an operational pause.
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@iitzkryy9599 Yes. But Kharkiv and Kherson aren't. Ukraine traded a city (or two if you want to count Lysychansk) to liberate the district around Kharkiv city (which also removed one of the pincers threatening to encircle Donbas) and the north bank of Kherson. While you touch yourself thinking about a single city, Ukraine will recover an oblast.
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The popular vote is a meaningless metric because each state has delegates that vote on behalf of their state. If the rules changed, you'd have a point.
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Hasan looks like the kind of guy who suggests that the group should split up, and when people start getting taken out one by one by the murderer he will scream that it was never his idea.
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>unnecessary gun related death So you mean you don't really care if you get stabbed, hit with a blunt object or raped as long as it's not a "gun death".
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What did they do?
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@Dubya-i3v BS. The narrative was that it was necessary to prevent community spread. Hence the lockdowns being tied to rates. Even shills like you know this. The rolling average of fatalities per week in the UK is actually 10x higher than same time last year.
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@Ira_Rosenberg Then all mandates are invalid. Where did school administrators get their medical training? Where did border authorities get their medical training?
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@rogerstarkey5390 This is ridiculous. First of all, the Moderna candidates were sent to Ralph Baric in the University of North Carolina in December 12, 2019. When did distribution start? There was almost a year lag between development, testing, approval and the announcement that they'd be distributed. When you actually produce it, it takes months to get enough stock to distribute it among the elderly, the vulnerable, etc. So when you developed for strain A, you're already on D. You ALWAYS have insufficient shots. Sorry, it's a fact of life. If it reduces severe illness and death, then take it! Why do you want me to be out of a job, to be unable to travel, etc? Why do you care if I die? I promise if it's the coof, I won't go to the hospital. What's so hard to understand? It's you who doesn't understand the logistics!
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But we've made viruses... both the Sputnik and Jansen vaccines were engineered adenoviruses.
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They don't. There's no worker's ownership of the means of production.
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@GeoFry3 Under communism there's no state and ownership is defined differently. You can own personal objects but not "property" such as a house or a factory. If you vacate a house it becomes public because you can't own it.
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@GeoFry3 Like, do you want to use definitions or not? Cuba isn't communist, China is nominally a socialist state and the Soviet Union's full name was: USSR. Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics. Because if we're playing fast and loose with definitions and nothing matters at all then everything is socialism and when everything is something, nothing is. You gotta understand something. Communism is stateless. Socialism is a state taken over by communists, who take charge and in theory attempt to lead the country into transition to a stateless society. When communists take over capitalism is prohibited. Capitalism is not prohibited in the US (albeit regulated) so logic states that the US does not have the mutually exclusive condition of being a socialist state. "Still basically describing the US military" - No. There's an hierarchical order that is literally divided by class (officers vs enlisted). The US government owns all the property and means of production within the military.
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That's a false dilemma fallacy. Instead of recognizing the issues and shifting priorities, you defend wind under the excuse that it's better than fossil fuels, even though there's more than fossil.
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It's not cheap at all. It's only "cheap" because millions of government rifles were pulled out of storage in the Eastern Bloc or manufactured on decades old plants already paid by the state.
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@maszk9743 Attrition against Russia works wonders when they're pulling out T-55 tanks and D-1 howitzers out of storage. Turns out Russia is vulnerable to attrition just like everyone else thanks to corruption.
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@worldgoneawry8906 To steal a saying from the IRA, the big guy has to be lucky every single time. The little guy only needs to be lucky once. This isn't martial arts. The US had Vietnam and Afghanistan, the USSR had Finland and Afghanistan, Britain had the US and Afghanistan. It's actually pretty common for the little guy to break a bigger nation, even if it's just a matter of waiting for the internal issues to compound and eventually they have to let go. By the way, in BJJ there's a category where everyone can apply no matter the weight. The big guys have the advantage, but it's a martial art where the skill level actually makes up for it.
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@worldgoneawry8906 They lost, but they have their own political party, they managed to negotiate a quota for their police force, and got a ton of prisoners released. Even though they didn't achieve total victory, they got the larger guy to suffer enough to meet at the negotiating table and give them concessions. A 700 Sterling pound van filled with fertilizer caused 1.2 billion in damage. See how you moved from martial arts to the "streets"? Your analogy had a flaw so you retreat to a better position. Well, there's footage of BJJ and Judo being used is the streets and working. Should you use it to protect your wallet? No. But if you know you're about to die? Might as well. "has benefited from the fact that they are not going for a killshot" - Because they can't. Russia's win condition is strongarming regime change. If the regime is unpopular due to the killshot, they wasted all their effort. This is just an excuse. Russia chose their win condition. They knew what shortcomings it entailed.
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@worldgoneawry8906 The average untrained person cannot smash a skull. The average untrained person has no clue how to defend from BJJ. You're doing the "I'm immune to BJJ" stuff causals do. You're trying to pretend the average 18-19 year old Russian conscript (say what you want, I think it's obvious conscripts were sent ahead of the main force) is a Spetsnaz veteran, and the average mugger is an elite striker with MMA training and thus the ability to handle wrestlers and BJJ. This is so far removed from reality it means nothing. That 18 year old kid was told to invade a country at 4-5 AM and he wants to go home, the people he's fighting are fighting for the right to have a home. Don't you see where the bloodthirsty street killer stomping skulls narrative falls apart? "I bet you think movies like "Atomic Blonde" are totally realistic" - Atomic Blonde is utterly unenjoyable because every stuntman is selling the hits but Charlize Theron can't put any weight on her choreography. But enough about movies. I bet you think the US won Vietnam because of "body count".
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@worldgoneawry8906 No. I'm using analogies. Professional soldiers with experience can perform better under pressure. A random mugger who never had anyone resist? He might actually enter in fight or flight. And even if he is committed to a fight, the motor skills under stress are pretty bad without training. Even if the mugger is experienced in fighting and thus doesn't stress out, just being exposed to an unknown martial art (like wrestling, Judo or BJJ) can throw people off balance. This mugger isn't going to break a skull. You'd need the equivalent of an experienced professional soldier. The soldier is using a gun, rocket/missile launcher, mortar, etc. this isn't about soldiers getting hand-to-hand training. "Like in the UFC when a guy is all tangled and the other guy lifts him up and then slams into the ground" - It takes some skill to do that, because you have to resist the submission. It might not be apparent, but the person doing the slam is actively trying to break the lock. "You seem to think BJJ is God." - It isn't, most people just don't know any counters to it. A good boxer can starch any untrained fighter, but everyone knows what fists can do. With BJJ, you can have things done to you that you never thought were possible. Such as the slam thing, if you're untrained you can easily just force the BJJ practitioner to leg go and grab the legs instead.
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@worldgoneawry8906 "surrendered the fight to play by their stronger enemies rules" - Yes, but the stronger enemy was demoralized and couldn't keep the fighting going. The small guy doesn't need to win, it just needs to not lose. You talk a lot about the big guys, but the British Empire went down the drain. How many countries have a holiday celebrating independence from them? Ukraine going to the table under the same conditions as the IRA would mean they keep Ukraine and the government they want, Russia stays in Crimea/Donetsk/Luhansk, people who are pro-Ukraine and imprisoned over terrorism/sedition have to be released, they have to have a pro-Ukraine political party and police forces in those areas need to have a percentage of pro-Ukraine people on staff. So essentially Russia gains absolutely nothing new. They fought a war to put more pro-Ukraine people in the separatist regions? The IRA had no hope of winning. They still earned massive concessions to promote their side on UK's turf. Like I said - all it takes is not losing.
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Bro it's still the 30th of March in GMT
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Cope.
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@26point2madness just remember to import a British car and drive it for half of the year to prevent your body from becoming assymetric.
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The US pays its debts every year. Otherwise nobody would get treasury bonds.
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@mam0lechinookclan607 It's sustainable because it keeps getting paid. And those who hold debt like getting paid. The US takes in more debt because it expands to cover the wealth. When you try to pay off that debt you have to take that money from the private sector, impoverishing the country.
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That's just reverse protectionism. Local lower quality goods are worse for the economy than just importing better stuff.
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They are viewing things outside of the visible spectrum that normal cameras can't see, and from dozens of miles away. Also, the military always blurs footage to mask their true capability. Remember when Trump tweeted a cellphone photo of satellite imagery? It was not blurred, so it exposed the US satellite capabilities - the photo was crisp enough to see individual steps and hand rails in the stairs outside a military prefab.
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"why do you call the antonov airport air asault failed?" - Because they didn't secure the air bridge. "The 45th brigade took the airport on february 24 and waited for 3 days for the 31th to arrive." - They fled out of the airport, which was confirmed by Ukrainian soldiers taking pictures inside the airport after the attack but before the Russian reinforcements arrived. "check the last video on RSOTM chanel" - yeah lol just check out these disgusting war criminals and murderers, they're unbiased
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@jakemocci3953 Russian artillery has massively decreased since June. Ammo, barrel life, counter battery, etc are all creating problems for Russian artillery. Remember how Severodonetsk was characterized by relentless Russian shelling? Now Soledar and Bakhmut were characterized by small groups rushing forward to dig positions and bring ammo. Ukraine received by guns? Russia adapted by using tactics that require the use of mortars.
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@wilfdarr Fully loaded F-16s have a better kill ratio than fully loaded MiG-29s.
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Bro this war has shown Su-25s are dead meat. The A-10 is even slower. One fire run from the A-10 would cost an airframe and a pilot because a single missile would end that sortie quickly.
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The Russian military was destroyed by Ukraine and you think they can handle NATO?
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@tank_company9138 Ukraine isn't NATO. They don't have the stealth fighter jets, the tanks, the aircraft carriers, the cruise missiles, the submarines NATO has at its disposal. The tanks they did get were former Soviet that will be replaced by modern designs in the donor countries. So Ukraine isn't a frontline, it's an appetizer. Russia invading Ukraine, what cowardly way of fighting. Now the coward bear stepped full force in the bear trap. Russia will probably break apart into multiple independent republics and we'll take their nukes for safe keeping. We should have done that in 1991. We're not hiding behind Ukraine. It's Russia that hides behind nukes. Tell Putin to strike the deal and nukes are off, we'll tell Ukraine to step aside. We'll probably finish like Iraq in Desert Storm. One month to reach Moscow, only 150 KIA on our side. Our stuff is tested. We dropped HIMARS rockets on Wagner boys in Syria back in 2018. The Russians tasted the steel rain before, so we knew it would work.
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@tank_company9138 What does that mean? If it's indirect, that means that NATO is intact and Russia's military is destroyed. If NATO joined the war, Russia would be done for. The history of Russia and Ukraine? Kiev was a thriving city when Moscow was still a swamp.
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Nuclear power submarines. Not nukes.
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She didn't necessarily flip, she flip flops. She was called an Assad apologist for being against the Syrian war. But then went on Fox or whatever to make excuses for the drone strike that killed a van full of kids in Afghanistan.
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The infection kills by inflammatory response and oxidative stress. Ask your doctor about those and he'll probably be able to recommend ways to stay safe if you do get it.
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Russians are trapped in Kherson. Instead of assaulting head on, they're forcing them to run out of ammo.
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And a lot of that information and education is based on conspiracy theory, a lot of it created or boosted by Moscow. Crack cocaine, HIV, etc.
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Riding on the Humvee on the turret position is also inspired by the Delta Force: Black Hawk Down sequence in the streets of Mogadishu.
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It makes a difference. The Ukrainians just cut the rail lines from the North meaning that the Luhansk oblast is now under threat.
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@russjen5012 So, 16 million people had it in a country with almost 70 million?
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They died because of other Iraqis. Sectarian violence was the prime killer, not the war.
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@Sammich4839 Sectarian violence wouldn't have started without the Ba'ath party losers promoting it as a way to get back at the US.
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@Isometrix116 if anyone wanted to murder you, the state wouldn't do shit until you were dead. Gassing up a car, having a job or buying candy are all interactions that did not require government, yet people believe that if you remove it from the equation everything devolves into chaos.
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They're not allowed to ship them to Yucca Mountain otherwise they would have.
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The biggest danger is gone in two weeks, especially if the blast is an airburst. Your worries will be finding/treating non-contaminated water and dealing with contaminated soil to allow food production to restart. Always remember, the more radiation an element emitts, the less time it lasts due to decay.
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A government showing up to parliament and voting to strip an AWOL president of his powers isn't a coup. They just had snap elections due to a fleeing president.
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The Taliban was not very keen on poppy farms. Poppy plantations increased during US occupation.
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No, they paused because lines have stabilized since the last major offensive and Russia got to defensive lines. The Kherson retreat was not like Kharkiv, Ukrainians didn't have to fight for the city. If anything, it's Russia that is losing tons of men at Bakhmut and Ukraine is allowing them to spend manpower instead of advancing.
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Because it's a hybrid of CryEngine 3, Amazon Lumberyard (a fork of CryEngine in itself) and custom code. It's a niche solution of spaghetti code that nobody else in the industry is familiar with, and even Amazon has given up on Lumberyard. It's got more red flags than a May Day parade.
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If Canada was flying their CF-18s over US soil and dropping bombs on Americans would you not fire rockets at them?
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@DimaShitov123 more expensive and fewer of them, more reliant on accurate satellite and aircraft recon.
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@DimaShitov123 It's not "maybe" more expensive. It's always cheaper to manufacture a less capable missile. Hypersonics require special materials and design, more hardened components, etc. Planes do need intelligence. But if you can afford an airforce, you can afford intelligence. If you can afford an air force, you can afford good satellites. You're trying to have an airforce on a shoestring budget but the weapons are expensive and need the same support as an air force.
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Switchblade 300s have a firecracker warhead which is meant for low collateral, Switchblade 600s have a Javelin warhead. One is too small, the other too big.
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If the attrition favors Russia, why are they the ones resorting to Chinese golf carts and motorbikes?
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@mdmaxson ahahah dude you seem to love nvidia, do you own stock?
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They already levelled towns, stop with the cope.
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@londo0 The US troops killed around 7,000 civilians directly. If you want to use the 100,000 number, you have to include indirect consequences of the war like sectarian violence, insurgency and suicide bombings.
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Russia isn't recovering. Their industry is grinding to a halt because they need western components.
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Then why didn't they declare surrender after the firebombings?
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 @Ynot72-x6o the little tyrant will not press the button. He didn't do it to save his ass during the Wagner heresy.
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Truly the most oppressed minority.
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All of those things are clearly interfering with others. You're using hypothetical future infringements on others' rights to infringe someone's rights in the present.
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@AlwaysAC "he preformed a coup de grâce on an unarmed wounded man, even on a battle field that would be a war crime." - it's only a war crime if you lose. The firebombing of German and Japanese cities was clearly criminal. The use of nuclear weapons against civilians was beyond criminal. The laws of war are enforced selectively. Either way, for example using chemical weapons or hollow points in war is a crime. But the police can use tear gas and hollow points against civilians. And there's reasonable reasons why. A coup de grace being a war crime means fuck all when you're not at war.
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@MikeDaner2630 mind that the event you're mentioning required the revision of UK fire codes and government buildings (including a hospital) were found to have the same dangerous construction. According to the government, everything was above board. Until people died.
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Stingers have been used against cruise missiles. Cruise missiles are unmanned jet planes.
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Why target a defector who was still trying to get more intel on Russia instead of a British citizen?
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"what is the appropriate use for controlled substances?" That is circular reasoning. You're already justifying them needing an appropriate use by claiming they're controlled. "But outside of those circumstances, they are more likely to cause dramatic short and long term harm" legal prescription drugs are literally responsible for more addiction and overdoses than illegal drugs. So within those circumstances they're actually more likely to cause harm. You ever saw "do not operate heavy machinery" in a drug's label? You are now aware that an alarming number of Americans pop those pills like candy on a daily basis and you share the road with them. Cars are "heavy machinery". And now you know. [skip] "you are not just playing Russian roulette with yourself, but with everyone else as well" look I'm going to explain it to you one more time. You want 1) drugs to be controlled because 2) someone might take them and 3) that someone might endanger someone else. Number 3) is a crime. Doing something about the person tossing firecrackers into people's hands is the same as arresting a drunk driver or a high drivers. However, you also want to criminalize lighting firecrackers without harming nobody, and getting drunk at a bar/home without harming nobody - not just that, but you want the sale of firecrackers and liquor banned as well. You want to make several non-victimizing behaviours into a crime because POSSIBLY, those actions could MAYBE result in a crime. Hi, we're libertarians. Maybe you've confused us for liberals or tradnats or something, but this is probably not the place for you because we don't want our beliefs getting banned because people like you pop a vessel in their brain when confronted with our way of thinking.
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 @grospipo20 like you'd see anything from 35,000 ft.
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Running a scam on them is like the heist of the century.
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@samsun01 pretty sure that at 70 taking a run is gonna burn up a whole lot more of your quota, not to mention all the wear and tear from living a normal life.
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But the F-15EX costs almost as much as a F-35A.
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@bingbong6127 Russia already went over US numbers months ago.
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@KVarghese49 Stop giving yourself 2 upvotes, bot.
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"Those are some good Javelin missiles" "I don't need you to tell me how good my missiles are" ------------------------------ "Did you see a sign up front that said "dead Russian storage"?"
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And how many of those expert mathematicians are just using their degrees to get jobs in the West?
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>"workers of the world unite!" >workers don't do shit except ask for more government You people would be taken a lot more seriously if you actually lived according to your principles rather than constantly asking for government handouts.
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Hydrogen requires energy to separate water into H2 and O2. Hydrogen isn't an energy source, but a fuel.
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Yeah. Now the problem is, who decides the intelligence floor? You've just created a way to ban guns without technically banning them. There's people who are doctors or who have PhDs in physics or mathematics that would do something stupid with a gun if given one, so intelligence would be a poor metric as there are multiple types of intelligence.
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Anyone who is vulnerable is free to protect themselves. Before 2020 you never did anything to protect the vulnerable.
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@Lairdesangfroid "as a result a guaranteed portion of vulnerable people would die each year of it" - And we accept it as part of life. We can't lockdown or live in bubbles forever. "even if they did the responsible thing and got vaccinated themselves" - What? So what's the point? "You're going to get forced by the free market" - How is it the "free" market if the mandates come from the government? "just bite the bullet and get it over with" - You're really invested in this, aren't you? "the averse reactions could all fit in the back of 1 ambulance" - 12,000 deaths reported in the US alone.
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Bro they threaten every non-NATO country around them and they've issued around 20 nuclear threats to NATO itself since ~2012.
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 @TheCrapOnYourStrapOn Russia flattened Ukraine Day 1. Did you miss the MASSIVE missile onslaught? It was Shock & Awe over there. Russia blew their wad.
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@TheCrapOnYourStrapOn Because of 1. defenses 2. repairs and 3. weapons cost money. Taking out internet is extremely hard. It was literally designed for the military to launch nukes in case HQs were struck. Even the Coalition had trouble disabling Saddam's comms network in 1991. It would cost billions of dollars to try and disable the internet in Ukraine, and repairs would bring it back online eventually. I swear you people seem to not know anything about any subject at all.
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@TheCrapOnYourStrapOn Russia already attempted to destroy power plants. The problem is that repairs are quick enough, as you cannot out enough payload to permanently take out a power station. If out of every 10 missiles used 9 are shot down, and it takes 10 missiles to entirely take out a power plant, you just expended 100 very very expensive missiles on a single target. Ukraine has Patriots now but due to aid delays there's issues with relocating them back and forth. If you don't remember, Russia lost a dozen Sukhois in a couple of weeks because Ukraine moved a Patriot battery forward. So Ukraine had to sacrifice defense recently to take out fighter-bombers. Ukraine also had the S-300s back then, Ukraine's supply of Soviet-era stuff is decreasing as they expend ammunition. The amounts in storage in other Eastern European nations aren't infinite.
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@Lady Joker So what? It creates an avenue in which you can upload illegal content under the guise of legality. If I can't tell if it's legal or illegal from the video, it's more than justifiable to ban it to be on the safe side. If you want that content there's other places.
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And out of 300 million firearms owned by 80~100 million people, existing in 44% of households aren't killing anyone every year. If guns are exclusively for killing, they have a massive failure rate then, Also, how many people die every year on the roads when talking on the cell phone, texting, checking their email on the smartphone or playing around with the GPS? They can bring it on, I've been doing this for months now.
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This dead body is kicking Russia's teeth in. Have you seen the human wave attacks? Russia is fighting WWI in 2023.
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Try to sell 97 rubles for a dollar. Nobody will buy them off you
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@jsmoncrief Journalists can't protect a leaker who posted the stuff publicly. There's a difference between journalists having confidential sources, and a kid posting stuff online to impress his underage gaming friends. Journalists can't protect him.
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That economic forecast is based on Rosstat data. It's literal Russian state propaganda and the IMF has no means to investigate.
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None? The point of a dirty bomb is to cause an area to be closed off until cleanup crews can secure the area. Enrichment does not contribute to the effect.
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 @webdev8284 "Democracy is government for the people by the people... but the people are regarded" - wise aging Mutahar
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Artillery barrages, line charges and mine clearing vehicles.
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You can buy commercial satellite pictures to look at parked aircraft. Intelligence is now open to the public.
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@patrickbering1988 In 2020 Lavrov said Russia would sell helicopters to Mexico. Why the double standard?
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Modern missiles would just shred the aircraft in half.
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I have. I've seen about 10 Stugna-P hits since last Saturday, probably 4-5 IFVs destroyed from air dropped munitions and a few more tanks and IFVs destroyed by artillery.
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@Crazylalalalala Doesn't matter which weapon is used, but either way AT weapons are better used for ambushes. If the tanks are trying to cross a river 10 miles away, you don't send infantry to run ten miles with a rocket on their backs. You send a drone to sight the target and make it rain on them. Yes, the footage is new. I don't know what to compare it with, it's black and white footage with the missile flying towards the crosshairs. You see a bright dot hovering and then a large explosion. The shapes of the vehicles and the background/foreground is different each time but it's a really zoomed in view of an armored vehicle popping off.
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I know people were told they were Marvel heroes for wearing the mask last year, but refusing to participate in security theater does not make someone uncaring. Some of us cared. We were called nutjobs. And then we watched the people in charge do everything they could to let it spread and kill the vulnerable. Now it turns out all the BS they peddled was based on junk science. Instead if blaming them, you blame us for being tired of nonsense.
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@captain-chair The people who told me I was a racist for noticing something was going on in Wuhan. The people who told me to go hug people in Chinatown. You know who they are.
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*6mm caseless
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>In 1900 Better say like the 80's and 70's. I don't know when we started checking ID's in my country but when I was born people would sell booze to kids to bring to their parents. I think it might have happened in the 90's. Even if you go back to the 60's, there were plenty of big cities back then. My point isn't that nothing should be regulated, it's that legislation doesn't stop anyone and legislation isn't the only think that keeps us from turning apeshit on each other.
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The issue is, the merge is one of those game theory situations where neither party should want to do it. With high AoA maneuvers and HOBS, it's preferable to kill at the merge than letting the fight go on and get killed. That's not dogfighting. That's just jousting.
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This.
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@eugger3011 Yes, I can name a few. The 1942 Stabilization Act mandated wage ceilings to combat deflation, since the shipping of troops overseas increased the demand for labour and thus wages. But benefits like healthcare were not considered income so employers started using healthcare benefits as a way to compensate for the fact that they wouldn't offer higher wages. In 1954 the Congress approved tax code revision officially excluded employer provided healthcare from taxation. In 1965 and 1966 Medicare and Medicaid were implemented, and their payments to healthcare providers are set by law rather than negotiation which means they underpay providers, who then pass off the costs to the consumer. So you have a system were the tax code discriminates against wage increases by taxing employers but benefits higher benefits, this lead to the American patient being detached from the insurance or healthcare market because employers simply prefer to pay through untaxable means, and then the government combated the fact that it created a system where only employed people can have healthcare by making sure that those who were not covered got coverage by underpaying and then sending the bill to those who are paying for their policy.
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@eugger3011 “the reason government regulations are put in place is to prevent consumers from being ripped off“ - I'm sorry but now naive does one have to be to think this? Regulation is written by lobbyists to benefit the businesses they represent.
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@eugger3011 "All of the examples that you stated weren't bad government regulation, they were half-baked government regulation." - so it doesn't count because reasons. Okay. "A wage increase with a loophole is better than no wage increase at all." - are you out of your mind? Wage increases were BANNED by law in many occupations because the US govt sent off people to die. And then created an unequal situation where wages were taxed but healthcare insurance benefits weren't, which benefited employers. The measures literally threw the people under the bus while giving employers a benefit and you think this is a good thing? It's one of the reasons US healthcare is totally fucked and you're defending it. "Medicare and Medicaid that's partially paid for by the government is better than insurance that you fully pay for" - MY DUDE PLEASE READ READ READ READ WHAT THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T PAY, THE PEOPLE END UP PAYING THROUGH INCREASED HEALTHCARE COSTS "And the example of employer insurance being exempt from the tax code is an example of deregulation, as they're no longer regulated by tax" - No, because wages were still being taxed. The US govt literally passed a REGULATION that stated they wouldn't tax healthcare benefits. If there was deregulation then the government would allow the employer to choose to give you an untaxed wage increase. Forcing employers to pick a specific form of payment to get the best bang for their buck is a regulation in itself. For fuck's sake, the government literally BANNED you getting paid more but you call this deregulation. "but how was the public worse off with these programs?" - I'd be repeating myself but these programs created bad market incentives that took away choice and increased costs. "Corporate lobbyists want deregulation, not regulation" - then why do they write regulation for politicians to pass? Look at copyright law, Mickey Mouse should be inthe public domain but Disney keeps changing the law. "They want to be able to do whatever they want, so why would they want more regulation for themselves?" - because de-regulation allows for competition. If you tweak regulations, you can make the letter of the law essentially ban new companies from competing with you. This is widely known.
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@eugger3011 "My original argument was that the free market doesn't work for healthcare" - why? "And you might be right on the specific examples that you stated, but in general government regulation does not rip off the consumer." - but it does. Most of consumer goods, which are moderately regulated, have dropped in price over the last few decades. Education, healthcare, housing, etc high regulated markets have rised several times above inflation. Hell, the government regulation passed to promote home ownership forced banks to issue riskier loans, one of the reasons for the housing crisis. "I don't get how corporations would want regulation if they're being negatively impacted" - if you make a product that complies with the regulation but your competitors don't, you essentially got a huge head start. "An automobile manufacturer won't support regulation that bans cars that don't match up with safety standards because it'll be more expensive to make cars." - read 'em and weep: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/6/18655820/ford-gm-toyota-automakers-trump-lower-emissions-standards-letter-california 17 automobile manufacturers asked Trump to back off deregulation because it's cheaper for them to have all their products obey the same standards. Deregulating too much would actually cost them money. "Public healthcare that's free actually reinvigorates competition into the market" - no, it doesn't. Because it's "free", aka the government takes your money, there's less competition. They already have your money. There's no incentive to offer a better service. "I don't see this as bad government regulation." - you only learned about 7 hours ago that many times government regulation makes things worse for the consumer, and somehow what you think is good or bad regulation matters.... You're still working under the naive assumption that government = good.
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@MaryRoseLaughing Bad Religion?
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@PHeMoX the S&M community was pissed at the books misrepresenting them so you can't use S&M people to defend the book.
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Star Citizen of the gun world.
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@secondamendment8773 Star Citizen is a videogame that was crowdfunded in 2012 and originally slated for 2014 release. Backers are constantly strung along and told that the game is just months away from release. In 2017 or something they stopped giving deadlines.
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You didn't pay attention. Honey contacts businesses and colludes with them to hide the codes. By downloading money you helpthe seller save money while you pay full price more often.
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I've unsubbed from a few simply because my feed was getting hammered by constant uploads, or they changed the direction of the channel and I lost interest. If they don't spam the feed I probably won't unsub.
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No, it's not. All it takes is a flaw on a 3d printed part to lose an airframe or possibly a pilot. You need tons of testing and validation. It's not the same thing as printing a new door handle for your beater car. If aerospace engineering was easy anyone would do it.
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 @asdf3568 The Russians used Minsk II to attack Debaltseve the day after it was signed. The only thing Putin's signature is worth for is getting a chance to blow hos brains out.
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@asdf3568 If Serbia didn't want the bombs they should have left it alone. And Putin himself used it to buy time - the thirty seconds it took to distract everyone from an incoming attack.
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You clicked.
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"Everyone knows this" except the majority of the userbase, apparently. Tinder is the best known app, meaning it was flooded with users and it incentivizes even more people to follow.
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When the cops are busy dealing with that nonsense, you can do actual crime.
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They paid the Taliban to merc US troops in Afghanistan.
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Russia obliges because they have no choice. Russia has been defeated, they're just in denial.
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Boris Johnson was on thin ice since the office party scandals. This was predictable and not shocking at all.
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Ukrainians praise the Bradley because they have survived strikes which in a BMP would have been a death sentence. Also worth noting Ukraine did the FOV RPG-7 months before Russia started thinking of doing the same so consider the disparity in damage dealt vs received.
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@zykom1 The Bradley isn't meant to survive. The crew is. What Ukrainians said was that when their Bradleys were taken out, they managed to survive. They knew that if the same attack had happened on a Soviet vehicle they'd have been killed.
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Because if both sides kept everything secret they would be suspicious of each other trying to amass nuclear forces for a first strike. So treaties were signed to prevent accidental escalation.
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And then get sued because someone got E Coli.
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@arx3516 EU countries getting along doesn't mean shit when people see Brussels as a loss of sovereignty.
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Swine flu was simply not as transmissible. I didn't know anyone who had swine flu. Everyone I know caught SARS CoV-2 and most likely multiple times. You could not contain it. Studies done on flu contagion inside hospitals also show the simple surgical face masks have no effect, it would have to be N95 for everyone. We could not have handled. By the time we knew it was around it was already too late. Couldn't be contained. Australia is an island nation and by virtue of living in the Southern Hemisphere their seasons don't work like ours. While we had our peaks in transmission and mortality, they had summer which helps curb transmission. And when they had their winter, we had slower transmission in the Northern Hemisphere. Australia's "success" is due to geography. Nature itself stood in the way of the virus.
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There is a female to male trans athlete in wrestling that wants to compete in the male division but is not allowed. Basically dominates females in the sport because of the hormone treatment.
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@Philemaphobia "revolution"?
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We called that added safety factor the "shit-your-pants coefficient".
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@ghost307 the bombs didn't delay the program
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Because "everyone" gets their talking points from media rather than thinking. Appealing to the knowledge of the "everyone" is a bad move when the public is pretty ignorant.
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@springbloom5940 Almost everything they've done proves they are, and they are going somewhere. Not willingly, but by force.
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The issue is that if a F-16 somehow managed to survive and close the distance it wouldn't be the airframe but the technology dictating the terms of the fight.
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The federal government of where? Because YT is international and plenty of governments would have seen that as firearms and ammunition.
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@forceablepizza764 Doesn't matter where you're a citizen. Doesn't matter that it's not a firearm in the US. YT doesn't have to take anything into account, their rules are their rules. Again, the legal definition of "ammunition" in the US doesn't matter, you fire projectiles out of a pipe with a combustible propellant, that's ammunition in most of the world. What you're defining as ammunition is called a "fixed cartridge" and firearms have existed for longer than fixed cartridges have. So clearly, ammunition predates the technology that allows you to press a bullet into a casing. Technically, he made a pipebomb so the argument is moot.
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@forceablepizza764 How would a US citizen know that? They don't have to. They just have to read the YT guidelines, as confusing as they are. He can't fight, because unfortunately years ago mainstream media wrote hitpieces about YT and people like Royal Nonesuch had to stop making firearms. Even Mark Serbu had a few videos taken down. His AK50 videos show design process and explain how some parts are manufactured, but nothing that resembles an AK50 build guide. Royal Nonesuch and Mark Serbu had nothing to do with Japan, and they had issues before the assassination. So it wasn't heat from Japan. IvanTheTroll also had his account taken down due to the detailed instructions on how to finish his 3d printed designs. Nothing to do with Japan. You can hit at weapons construction, but too many details gets you in trouble.
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@forceablepizza764 No problem, we all get heated in these trying times.
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@brianbob7514 They just bailed out three banks. Their military companies are forced to take on debt so that the government can hide their massive spending.
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Nah 12% feels right. People will typically not be rude about it but they do the bumping your shoulder and whispering "that's a man".
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take your meds
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There's too much text to reply to everything but the counters are useless. Bokeh is confirmed, the hot/cold stuff is related to emissivity, the "other sensors" are conviniently not available, etc etc etc. I could take a more serious look but I'm on mobile, the counters are pathetic attempts at staying relevant and Mick West has handled everything thrown at him.
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@Astrologon Several videos were made regarding the derotation mechanism trying to prove Mick West wrong, then actual USAF maintenance personnel and the patents themselves confirmed what he was saying. The reality is that people will twist themselves into pretzels trying to counter Mick West but the man goes back to basics. His system is just paying dividends while others try to get into the weeds and end up looking foolish. The "critics" usually just recycle the material. I had to stop paying attention at some point, if there's new arguments they can be checked out but people in comments are still trying to argue points that Mick already addressed. Ad Hominem is saying someone can't be trusted because of who they are, attacking the person rather than the argument. I just resorted to plain old namecalling. That's not a fallacy or argumentative tactic, that's just me calling it like it is. People aren't presenting the evidence of UFOs. People are trying to argue against the actual freaking patents filed by the company and the people who disassemble the targeting pods for a living. I'd call that pathetic. Forget the UFOs, people are online trying to convince me the sky is purple. We can debate the UFOs, but still trying to double down on lies is just insanity.
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They're feeling the squeeze of the coof policies for the past 3 years. The war is pretty tame in comparison.
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@emylily8266 No, I only think it's dystopian because there's a movement to artificially drive people out of business and make them unable to raise cattle, while you can be sure that politicians and billionaires will keep eating steak. Please stop doing their job for them. At least if you're going to spread propaganda make sure they pay you first.
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@stoppit9 The fact that the image is in use in popular culture is kind of relevant to that particular discussion.
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The forces he was supposed to drop the bomb on that day had a breather to acomplish their mission. Trying to expend Patriot missiles while Ukrainian troops advance will at one point have Ukrainian forces outside the airbase they took off from.
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That's like saying they wouldn't make the F-22 and F-35 because they'd rather make inferior fighters to force the US to buy more.
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Each bot needs to gain a following. Having a million bots with a follower each and the followers won't even repost the disinfo is worthless. Build a page to 50k follwers and half of them repost the outrage, it spreads.
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Most murders occur from gangland warfare. So if you are not a gangbanger, you're already statistically less likely to be killed in a firefight. A big part of murder victims have been in "the system". If you haven't got serious offenses on your criminal record, you're already even safer. Are you afraid of mass shootings? In the last 30 years lightning strikes killed 3 times more than mass shootings. If you live your life in fear, you're paranoid.
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The right to ride around in trucks and stopping people has nothing to do with property rights.
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@duceposting1831 But the crew inside doesn't die.
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@thiagorodrigues5211 The Vietnamese destroyed US planes with SAMs. The Soviet fighters got a clubbing, there's a reason the F-4 Phantom is called the "World's Biggest Distributor of MiG Parts".
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@duceposting1831 And yet they praise the Bradley. Why would they do that?
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@duceposting1831 Armor thickness and material doesn't trump design. We have the videos of crews exiting taken out Bradleys. They are good vehicles. Period. The men driving them say the BMPs are death traps in comparison. They know this war. You just post about it and say it's all the same after driving neither.
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 @flyingcucumber I've argued with Germans online and they're just like everyone else.
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 @ja_u the only renewable without "roadblocks" is solar. Both geothermal and hydro are limited by geography.
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@ja_u Wind turbines are just sucky compared to solar. Huge spinning bullshit versus panels that just sit around. Plus there is a limit to how many can be built. You're taking energy from the wind. Put a panel next to another, they won't affect each other unless you build one tall enough to cast a shadow. Wind turbines by necessity "rob" power from turbines built "downwind".
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@thevictoryoverhimself7298 Wrong. The A-10 was designed for Vietnam, then forced into being an anti-armor interdiction aircraft, which would have sacrificed the lives of dozens of pilots so that the US could cross the Atlantic with reinforcements.
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@getstuffed2391 he's right, since 2014 that the A-10 only gets 11% of CAS missions. It's already been replaced for the most part.
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@Stimpy&Ren if you need to take small arms fire to acomplish a job, you've already lost. Also, the F-35 uses body lift which means like the F-16 and F-15 it can probably lose most of a wing and still fly, and it's electronic bus commanding independent hydraulic systems means it's even more resilient than the A-10 dual hydraulic sustem. But again, there's no need to get in small arms fire range to drop payload because pods see better than the human eye.
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@getstuffed2391 "laser guidance doesn't work above clouds" - the solution you claim to not be effective is needed for the A-10 too. The friendly fire incident when the A-10 fired on British troops happened because the A-10 did not have a ground controller directing the pilot so he opened fire on what "seemed" to be enemies. If your allies are pinned down you want to be able to designate targets or else the A-10 will fire on you too.
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@Stimpy&Ren "You need to fly low over a hostile area" - the A-10 improvements over the years say otherwise, considering it was outfitted with weaponry and pods that allowed to stay further away from threats. The weapon the A-10 used to be a tank killer in 1991 was the AGM-65 Maverick as the gun was not reliably killing tanks in one pass and trying to get close was dangerous to the aircraft. "I doubt that every sniper will be taken out with a 80 000 dollar missile." - If you need an A-10 gun run to deal with a sniper you've already committed to massive waste of dollars. A carl gustav, 50 cal machine gun or even a couple of 7.62 machine gun will either make the sniper deader than the Dodo or make him seriously rethink his life choices.
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@Stimpy&Ren Doesn't look like you know much about aviation other than clips. Ask yourself what matters more, saving the troops or giving a good air show? I'd rather have better aircraft with better technology and better weapons arriving sooner and that actually prioritize saving people over giving an air show, than being seen or making anyone cheer. It's combat, not a freaking parade.
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@Stimpy&Ren "The F-35 cannot survive on a combat field" - Why? "Stealth loses its meaning when you deal with ground troops that shoot on visual ques" - How many F-15s and F/A-18s shot down by ground troops with gunfire? "Against fighters and long range SAMs" - SAMs are literally the biggest threat against aircraft. In Vietnam the American pilots had good kill ratios in air to air but suffered massive losses from SAMs. The 1973 Arab-Israeli war also proved that an integrated air defense is deadly to aircraft. "not when dealing with direct fire." - Why would be F-35 get within range of direct fire? Also, the F-35 has body lift which mitigates damage to wings, and hydraulics are independent and controlled by electronic bus so that the system won't get bled dry if you hit it. It seems to be even more survivable than current aircraft.
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@UpRoaryus Seemed to have a susceptibility to food, look at that gut 0:37
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it's a government program so it escapes the logic of econ 101 nobody is willing to pay, because the money was taken from taxpayers - this balloons costs governments want more and more money to be spent so that the money goes to the factories on their state
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Russia collided a 30 million USD jet. The US fired a 400,000 USD missile.
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But Ukraine has like 12 HIMARS vehicles. It's not the bulk of the aid.
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@fistbumpbros The FBI did no such thing. The national crime victimization survey instead shows that there are at least 100k defensive gun usages per year, and the study is biased against it.
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@tanvirzahir9687 The second amendment doesn't "allow" murder the same way that the first amendment doesn't allow libel or slander.
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@fistbumpbros Facts: I don't care.
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The F-35 is more affordable than 4th gen aircraft.
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There's video of it being destroyed? Where?
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Drones have limits. Ukraine is being bombarded by artillery, which is where they're mostly disadvantaged. I heard a 10:1 disadvantage. They need HIMARS urgently because the range and speed means they can shoot at artillery without getting shot back. Drones can't get there in time.
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Not really an advantage in this case.
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MichXJdad the issue is that good cops voluntarily signed up to enforce unjust laws so even "good" cops made a conscious decision to step into the septic tank. In a political movement, you literally have no authority unlike a cop. You can't exactly file a report on your fellow people. As long as someone is willing to spend money it's possible to drown out the original intent of the movement.
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@morenitomoreno1282 "Ron as a history with racism" - you mean because of that newsletter that Ron did not control over and an tweet of a cartoon that was deleted as soon as people pointed out the racist meaning?
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"Waaa we weren't warned enough" the US specified concert halls and large gatherings. Iran also gave a warning. Did they withhold information? Is Iran suspect?
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Heard the same about Bakhmut.
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Ships float. Aircraft fall from the sky. Big difference.
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There's no conspiracy among witnesses. Eyewitness testimony is laughably unreliable, with studies showing that people misremember speeds just by asking an estimate for the "car accident" and "car crash". Say "crash" and people add 10-20 mph in their brain. When you can't identify something, your brain fills the blanks. That's why the pile of clothes looks like a monster when you open your eyes in the middle of the night.
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@whocares7078 "science doesn't lie" - Phillips Morris agrees
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They're using tanks from the 60s and 70s. Modernized, sure. But still.
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@jamesabergas5320 Crimea happened two days before Yanukovych was impeached. The government was not couped. It assembled in the Verkhovna Rada and voted to impeach the fleeing president. Yanukovuch fled because he betrayed his security service and they refused to protect him as retaliation.
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Usually harder lead has higher antimony content - which is lower on the periodic table than lead, so it's a hair less dense than pure lead.
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The A-10s genesis was the A-X program, which started as a single engine turboprop for counter insurgency and helicopter escort.
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@seandalton1709 No, it wasn't the Hurricane. It was meant to be an A-1 Skyraider replacement, because tank busting was not a priority in Vietnam. So the early sketches for A-X prototypes were single engine, not twin engine.
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@seandalton1709 Because 4 years into the program they decided to look into turbofan engines as the technology developed and the focus wasn't Vietnam anymore.
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@commiesquid4620 The Soviet people were staring down the barrel of collapse. The wars, a byproduct of the Soviet times. Authoritarianism, a byproduct of the Soviet times. Poverty, a byproduct of the Soviet times. The poverty was coming. All Gorbachev did was try to steer a ship that was sinking. And Yeltsin inflicted far more damage for the benefit of the elites. Yeltsin put a bomb in the cargo hold and let the water flood in even more.
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@tellyboy17 There's video of a BMP-1 running over a cone, it actually jumps into the air.
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 @MarceloSantos-hi7gn Shut. Up. The F-117 had a PUBLIC reveal event where people could see it in an air base in broad daylight in the early 90s. The shootdown happened in 99.
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Brother. Gaddafi keep an all-female guard as a sex thing. He's not disparaging guards for being female, he's bringing attention to the fact that he was like a villain in a James Bond movie.
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 @kaydog890 Apple is the opposite of cheap.
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Lol let's apply inflation to old crashes, that's gonna be fun.
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Carrying modern weapons means a radar, and back then aircraft only had a small ranging radar in a bump in the nose above the intake for the gun sight lead compensation. Modern missiles are also a little big heavy. So you need a stronger engine and bigger wings for the extra weight. But that also means you need more fuel. Which is extra weight. Now you need to make the structure stronger. When you're done updating the F-86 to modern combat, you have a totally different aircraft that's expensive. Also, training pilots is difficult. If you're building cheap aircraft to have a larger force, that means inherently having to accept more pilot candidates. That's great for those who have dreams of flying, but it means lower quality pilots.
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Ukraine is militarizing. Russia's army is being destroyed. The West is consolidating and we're more united than we were in the past.
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You can't get accuracy from full auto fire from a semi-automatic rifle (the military keeps their rifles on semi, it's the machine gunners that let it rip) especially when the barrel heats up, if you're bumping it with a bump-stock the rifle isn't stable so you're throwing wild shots. For all intents and purposes he misssed 99.99% of the shots so he had no accuracy at all. Also, you can bump without a stock without it being at the hip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqzS9b1Msyk
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And Lt. Patrick Olson? Does he deserve to be ignored?
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Crying about it on the internet doesn't do anything.
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Yeah, got into an argument about that and the pro-wall people eventually came full-circle and supported the Berlin "antifascist" wall put up by literal commies and manned by state sponsored murderers specially trained to not hesitate.
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Su-25s have also been shot down frequently by both sides.
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Could be a small unit doing recon and diversion, the guy who started the rumor on twitter said his source is not confirming it.
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Silence, globalist.
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@genmo343 "Don’t have medical bankruptcies like Americans" - bullshit. I remember reading on a Canadian website assisting people who wanted to declare bankrupcy and I think 10-14% of their bankrupcies are healthcare related.
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@Howling-Mad-Murdock "your income tax would go up, but not by anything like the amount you have to pay for medical insurance" - it would be worse, like he said all the costs associated with the private system would simply go into the government bureaucracy sinkhole.
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@Howling-Mad-Murdock "your system"/"we pay a fraction what you do" - I'm not American. "there are no shareholders involved every penny goes on costs" - and the costs involve thousands of public servants playing Solitaire on their computer all day "I get everything free at the point of use" - you already paid up front "You should consider where you get your information about costs from and whether they have a vested interest" - by that same logic, doesn't your government have a vested interest in keeping you in the dark?
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@Howling-Mad-Murdock "The figures for how efficient the nhs is are freely available" - yeah I'm sure the government figures were never cooked, just like a decade ago the home office was exposed cooking up the crime numbers to protect tourism revenue. Forgive the nitpicking but I here it goes In 1955/6 health spending was 11.2% of the public services budget. In 2015/16 it was 29.7%.[53] This equates to an average rise in spending over the full 60-year period of about 4% a year once inflation has been taken into account. Under the Blair government spending levels increased by around 6% a year on average. Since 2010 spending growth has been constrained to just over 1% a year.[53] Many minor procedures may no longer be available from 2019 and the real reason may be to cut costs.[54] Since 2010, there has been a cap of 1% on pay rises for staff continuing in the same role. Unions representing doctors, dentists, nurses and other health professionals have called on the government to end the cap on health service pay, claiming the cap is damaging the health service and damaging patient care.[56] The Guardian has said that GPs face excessive workloads throughout Britain and that this puts the GP's health and that of their patients at risk.[61] The Royal College of Physicians did a survey of doctors in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Two-thirds of doctors surveyed maintained patient safety had deteriorated during the year to 2018, 80% feared they would be unable to provide safe patient care in the coming year while 84% felt increased pressure on the NHS was demoralising the workforce. The NHS is underresourced compared to health provisions in other developed nations. A King’s Fund study of OECD data from 21 nations, revealed that the NHS has among the lowest numbers of doctors, nurses and hospital beds per capita in the western world.[65] Nurses within the NHS maintain that patient care is compromised by the shortage of nurses and the lack of experienced nurses with the necessary qualifications.[66] Social care will cost more in future according to research by Liverpool University, University College London, and others and higher investment are needed. Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard of the Royal College of GPs said, “It’s a great testament to medical research, and the NHS, that we are living longer – but we need to ensure that our patients are living longer with a good quality of life. For this to happen we need a properly funded, properly staffed health and social care sector with general practice, hospitals and social care all working together – and all communicating well with each other, in the best interests of delivering safe care to all our patients.”[109] There's a point to all this. You can give me the numbers but it seems to me that it's inefficient as hell. If costs increase 4 percent by year and the NHS had to get its funding cut to keep the cost rise at 1 percent... You're trying to bleed into a hole that leads to the ocean. It's gonna keep costing more and it's already understaffed so if it was actually working properly cost increases would be even worse. And you're trying to tell me it's well managed. I don't think so. If costs almost tripled within 50-60 years what do you think is gonna happen in 2070 and the UK's NHS costs 60 percent of the budget? ”If you’re not American, why defend a system whose sole reason to exist is profit?” - 1. because I'm not. 2. Everything requires profit. Even you require profit, animals require profit. Imagine if you spent more money getting to work than you were getting paid. You'd be losing money. Animals need to eat more nutrients from the animal they kill than they spent chasing prey or else eventually they get malnourished. Even plants require profit.
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With equal training, troops firing low recoil rounds will be deadlier due to increased hit probability and increased carrying capacity.
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The ability to leverage EW aircraft and SEAD/DEAD campaigns against defenses would allow flight over MANPADS range. Even in situations where the US failed to dismantle air defense they still created enough breathing room to continue bombing missions.
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I wouldn't mind the UBG check system in the country I live, it would be so much better. But in the US it's a state issue. It's an overreach of federal powers. Unless a private sale crosses state lines, it's not the federal government's business to tell me what to do with my property. Plus, in the US you already have background checks. The issue is that it was proven that to work, UBG checks would need registration. Without registration, people could still sell guns without asking for one.
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I've been to London in 2011. It was a dump back then and it only got worse.
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They wouldn't have sent F-22s if the mission wasn't too dangerous for other aircraft.
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It's not about testing. Pistol rounds cannot have steel cores. AK pistols and people having big mouths lead to it becoming pistol ammo.
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@GamePath Okay. People used the legal definition of "pistol" to have "AK pistols", now you can't come around and tell the government "no fair!". It gets fired out of pistols, that gave the government the opening to consider it pistol ammo. The time to fight it is long gone, and fortunately when it was about to happen to M855 people complained enough to stop it. It's too late to complain now.
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Try it yourself. Nothing like verifying it with your own eyes.
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Yes. They won't recruit from them because it's the deal with the devil - protect the regime and you stay safe from war. The moment the regime sends them to die they're gonna step aside and let it fall.
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@enriquelaroche5370 Ukraine is more militarized and "nazified" than ever before. Ukraine will join NATO when the war ends. Crimea hinges on the Kherch bridge, if Ukraine blasts it for good Russia has to give it up or else the "island" becomes a POW camp for Russian troops.
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@r200ti Damn Ukraine ran out of tricks in Feb and still clowning the Russians.
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@londonberry2180 It was repaired in a day or two.
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"Permanent"
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That was an ARG. The story was about an underwater research facility.
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How is it bizzare? Pretty much every investigation on the issue finds that motherhood, through paid leave and often exiting the workforce entirely, is obe of the main hurdles for women.
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They're already on both banks of the river up north, in Zaporizhzhia.
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@auregamer5 lmao this guy thinks it's impossible to track productivity if a person needs to switch stations.
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@qalette this is a very misleading argument. By the 1920s most Left SR and anarchist groups that had uprisings against Bolshevik rule had either been defeated or suffered political repression at the hands of the Cheka. Additionally, the Yakuts, the Armenians, the Islamists in Turkestan and Georgians staged rebellions through the 1920s. In the 1940s the Lithuanians, Estonians and Chechens also rebelled. After WWI Lithuania, Latvia, Belraus Ukraine and Estonia also had uprisings against the USSR.
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@OVOD.net yeah the actual left anarchists who wanted to see Marx's vision coming through just wanted their own kingdom. Sure. And by the way, you can't complain about kingdoms when handing control to the Russians accomplishes the same thing except more ethnic discrimination.
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And not just that, at least what you described is a "process". In Russia it's "anything goes", there's apparently no rules. People who haven't been in the armed forces in over 20-30 years are getting sent the mobilization notices. People who dodged the mandatory conscription service because of insufficient health are still elegible for mobilization in case it's declared. Such "ready reserves" were already deployed by Russia, they're often referred to as "BARS" (I think BARS-13 or -16 was actually in Lyman) so they've tried to use those reservists and it didn't work that well.
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The problem is assuming the person printing these cares about terminology.
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@mvansumeren4313 The price of a new car, EV or ICE, covers the cost of 20 cents per mile difference for several years.
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Mercenaries are voluntary, they sign a contract and may breach it if they want out.
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The civilian infrastructure had been targeted before. The plan to attack the grid was cooked up before the bridge attack. We can't be playing basketball and you threaten to shoot my family if I score. Ukraine is planning to win a war and thus they targeted the supply lines. Trying to come aroud and say Ukraine received "fair warning" is outright demonic.
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And yet you people have to come here. It wouldn't be necessary to convince anyone if it were true.
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 @roydriskill8342 Small town cops vs OMON lol And did the Uvalde shooter try to run to Canada?
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@luckyluke1503 Just like Putin didn't think we'd sanction Russia as hard as we did, Erdogan didn't expect us to be cold blooded enough to kick them out. We also denied them turbine engines for their helicopters so it's not just about F-35.
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@luckyluke1503 No, they didn't. Yale School of Management did a study on Russian sanctions. Just from looking at credit card activity in the retail space, their economy is dying. Manufacturing is down. They're selling their fossil fuels at a massive discount.
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Seriously, a mass shooter will go after defenseless schoolchildren. What difference does it make? It doesn't. You could bring a bolt action rifle and still manage to harm a lot of people. Tightly packed children? No need for a Saiga.
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In Israel some demographics saw a 80 to 90 percent increase of heart conditions vs the 2019-2020 average. Tiny numbers my ass. You'll be saying tiny numbers until it happens to you. You're advocating for many to suffer, and for what?
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@MD-xz2tv The difference between me and you is that I don't go around outright admitting I'll kill a person through mandate. Jesus Christ...
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@SwordFighterPKN No. The last guy will have an eye remaining. Nevertheless, your answer is just roll over and take it?
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@SwordFighterPKN So you're letting your kids get murdered and your wife get a train run on her when the Ruskies get to your town?
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How does one get 10% of a weapon? Do they cut them up with angle grinders?
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@davivieira00 Bombing in Ukraine would have lead to a lot of aircraft losses. No SEAD.
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@rhodium1096 the Coalition entered through Basra province. They didn't drop troops in Bagdad airport.
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@rhodium1096 5000 US deaths in 5 years? The DPR/LNR/RuAF lost that in three months.
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Right. Black market buyers for weapons they can't train, reload or repair without the US helping. If terrorists call Lockheed Martin they can buy GMLRS rockets?
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@hiramesensei3112 exactly. People are too dense to understand that. I can criticize a business without requesting government intervention. Plus, twitter is protected from alternatives by corrupting the free market. It's not a free market if alternatives like Gab are threatened to get kicked off servers.
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Oh, the blatantly pro-Russia outlets have a different point of view? Maybe they can volunteer to go to the ground. Front line. It's a better point of view, let them prove to the world how easy the fight is for Russia.
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It's important to remember that there's a lot of English speakers outside the "anglosphere" that side with Russia, who probably help the views a lot.
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@randomdude2832 Go back to Kharkiv. Russia lost like 7 planes and helicopters trying to provide air support to their troops, then stopped responding to calls for support. There's more than strategic SAMs. There's mobile platforms like the Buk, Osa, even a couple captured Pantsirs. A combo of Buks, Gepards and Stingers sprung the trap in Kharkiv and shot down the aircraft coming into the scene. There's videos of the Russian soldiers in Bakhmut begging for artillery support.
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@randomdude2832 In one or two days. lol, still seething about the Ghost of Kiev 11 months later. Obsessed. They're not using drones with impunity. Truck mounted machine guns and Gepards take them out. They don't use jets and helicopters in combat extensively. They're almost unseen, only doing long distance unguided rocket volleys.
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Copium.
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In many places of the world people do not have unlimited calls/texts. If I used texts like a chat I'd burn through my monthly limit fast.
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@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz "just vote for the least shitty one and go ask for what you want" - this is exactly what people have done and it doesn't work
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@GhostSal They're not "putting pressure", the cold hard fact is that in the UK the NHS cost 11% of the budget. In the 2010s it climbed to 29%. It's on the way to be a third of the budget and that's unsustainable. So you look at the British healthcare under strain and think "it's a conspiracy!" but no. It just costs money. People don't want other govt services to be cut. People don't want to pay higher taxes. Something has to give.
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@GhostSal I had to look it up again. It was 29% of the public services budget, not the total budget. "In 1955/56 health spending was 11.2% of the public services budget. In 2015/16 it was 29.7%.[52] This equates to an average rise in spending over the full 60-year period of about 4% a year once inflation has been taken into account." [wikipedia] Although the percentage of the total budget isn't as dramatic, the rise is the same.
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@GhostSal Okay, but that doesn't change what I said. From the initial setup until now, the NHS cost nearly tripled in relation to what the British government paid for services. Forget about America. My point is that the NHS either suffers cuts, or costs spiral out of control. It's not about the UK or the US being worse. It's just that costs increase. That's unsustainable long term, either the government has to collect more revenue or the service has to compromise.
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@GhostSal But it's not "intentional", they simply can't afford to drive up the budget. Do you want to pay more? Because that's the alternative to the service being cut to what the state can pay.
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I'm European and it sickens me to see everyone convincing themselves everything is fine. Gun rights are non-negotiable.
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Fuck off. Almost every country in the world allows semi-autos. You're telling me the US, which has a right to keep and bear arms, would get one of the most restrictive gun legislation in the world?
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Gun stores are licensed FFL dealers, they are required by law to perform background checks. Criminals and mentally ill can't buy guns in gun stores.
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@sergeybobkov9354 after what the Red Army did during WWII, I'm not sure that'll solve the problem.
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@mokhtar_One_u_Key The Stinger wasn't ultra-sophisticated. It was a really mediocre weapon that Russians defeated by installing diverting plates on the turbine exhaust nozzles of their helicopters.
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It's sensible when there's no parts and the airframes are close to needing major overhauls.
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Casinos are regulated. None of these videogames want to face the scrutiny of a gambling comission.
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They're standing because it's easy to prop up a state. However, they wouldn't be pulling T-55s if they had an economy to pump out T-90Ms.
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What boondoggle? All military projects are over budget and behind schedule. You just had the privilege of getting instant updates about every tiny issue through the internet, while in the old days new aircraft straight up KILLED pilots. The aircraft itself is fine. The project is a mess but so are all government projects.
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@ViolentCabbage-ym7ko Russia hasn't crumbled because of Iran and North Korea.
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@andrewscott8892 They're giving away their reserves, always a good sign.
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Those "coerced into fighting" had a golden opportunity after Desert Storm because popular revolts against Saddam happened. Those men "coerced into fighting" chose to brutally repress Iraqis demanding freedom rather than join them.
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It's all still state run or owned by personal friends of the head of state.
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First, BRICs has been talked about for decades. Second, genocides are biased towards the West achieving naval power and then industrialization. Peoples from all over the world genocided each other locally and regionally, and empires existed prior to the rise of the west. Ever heard of the Mongols? If the Aztecs or Mayans developed navies and better weaponry first do you think they'd be sunshine and rainbows? Heck, look at what Japan did to other Asian countries. Pointing the finger at the West as if it wasn't just a matter of technological gains rather than a geography baser motality is intellectually disingenuous. Third, a country is more than its government but the country doesn't control foreign policy - the government does. What the average Russian thinks doesn't matter, what Putin thinks is what matters. Same for China - big country, small elite in the party control what China says and does inside BRICS. Portugal, Spain, Italy, the Balkans etc were victims of Islamic expansion. Do they get a club to cry about it? Fun fact, the caliphate presence in the Iberian peninsula actually lasted longer than the Potuguese empire.
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Common Serb L. NATO wouldn't have intervened if it wasn't for the genocide.
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There's a limit on ammo - the production is costly. Hitting the ammo before it's distributed across the front pays for itself. Now depots will have to be placed further away. Supply gets streched. When Russian artillery has to ration their shots, you hit them with your conventional artillery.
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Funny because Israel doesn't suppport Ukraine. All the "muh zog" people got smacked across the face by reality.
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@andallthatcouldhavebeen...9175 How is it a cope? Misleading journalists are misleading, deal with it. You can clearly see that the question about weapons was asked to the Amnesty International woman, and the 30% stuff was asked to a person who runs a NGO that doesn't handle weapons. It's an editing trick.
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They're literally on -30/-50% sale until the 6th
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@sburns2421 Mexico doesn't have any reason to do that. Also, Canada signed a military cooperation pact with China in 2013. The US was cool with it.
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@sburns2421 Hypotheticals have to be anchored in logic. Countries next to Russia are afraid of invasion. Mexico isn't afraid of the US invading. In fact they underspend on their military because they enjoy the protection of living next to the US. Before you present a hypothetical, it has to make sense. The US doesn't antagonize Mexico in a military sense, just political differences. So Mexico would be acting irrationally by seeking such a partnership. Additionally, I provided a REAL WORLD example that completely obliterates your hypothetical. So my bases are covered.
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@sburns2421 Not really. The US was willing to keep Yanukovych in power (Victoria Nuland's phonecall is about the opposition agreeing to end the protests in exchange for Yanukovych letting the opposition have the PM seat). Europe was willing to play ball, even bringing Russia into the economic fold with the pipelines. It's not a proxy war. Otherwise every war is a proxy war. You know what lacks credibility? Saying that having allies means you're a proxy. Two countries are going head to head and the actual proxies (the separatist republics) were pretty much wiped out. Now they're staffed with Russian men.
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Obsessed.
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Amazing how they came up with "counter-NATO tactics" in 2022... after being in a cold war against NATO since the mid 20th century.
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+vsGoliath katanas are one of the worst swords to pick, and even if you chose a proper sword you'd need to spend years of mastering it to be any good at it, and all that work would go to waste because some untrained dumbfuck could skill easily kill you with a polearm.
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@yes_head No, it's related to representatives having jobs ties to the A-10 in their districts. The "boys on the ground" is just the excuse, as with everything else the real reason is money.
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It's a misconception that the pilot is that much of a limiting factor. What happens when you pull 12Gs with a 2000lb bomb? That's a lot of load for even an unmanned aircraft. In fact, pilots have overstressed their wings. The structure was the limit, not the pilot.
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If the lights go out who's going to take your gold? The world will be ruled by bullets, beans and bandages while you're trying to offload your metal.
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Funny, the investigation claimed it was carrying a OFAB-100-120 bomb. I've seen references to it being a Russian bomb, but no dates so I don't know if Ukraine could have inherited it after the Soviet Union dissolved.
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This is as OG youtube as spamming soundboards in Ventrillo/TeamSpeak or rapping a McDonald's order.
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They don't want it. It's a death trap.
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Command centers have been hit.
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To be fair, the VC were nearly wiped out after the Tet Offensive. North Vietnam had to send NVA regulars to replace the VC.
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@MsPinkwolf This is a terrible line of reasoning. The priority is to protect those who could be harmed by it. If you say "hmmm but a million got it and it was safe for them" you're going to give it to a million more and harm however many people. Then give it to another million and harm even more people. How many are you willing to harm?
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@MsPinkwolf "If your employer only wants vaccinated people then change jobs. Thats nothing to do with the government." - The government just said they will use OSHA regulations to force businesses to force employees to get it.
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@annetteprice "being socially shunned, losing their jobs" - So you're outright defending a two-tiered society, huh?
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@Magnulus76 If 1 in 5 millennials are LGBT then nobody could find a partner lmao
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@MsPinkwolf You have nothing but bad faith arguments. The number is driven by the vulnerable, who should have a choice to get the shot to reduce their mortality rate. For the non-vulnerable, trying to force them to take something against their rational interest is morally bankrupt. What good are you doing by forcing those who aren't going to die to suffer?
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Bernie Sanders was like "tax the millionaires" then "tax the billionaires" because he made some good money. His economic ideas are "we have too many kind of deodorant" not understanding that the deodorant companies employ people. Reduce the options, people have kids to feed. Actually listen to Bernie over the years and figure out how he's not the same as others.
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@Shorty15c4007 MOOOORE POWEEEEER
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A lesser known benefit is that it also creates primary extractor. The bolt moving slightly back while turning to unlock also allows the jolt of the carrier to help break the case free from the chamber.
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Psychopaths love assaulting smaller people if they don't see a cop around. If anything, the state protects these psychos because in anarchy they'd all have been filled in with lead.
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The "majority Russian" people in Kharkiv welcomed the Ukrainian military. The Russian military treated them harshly. They are Russian but don't like Russia. You are pro-Russia because you copy the pro-Russian talking points. Serbia was conducting ethnic cleansing. Obviously the region of Kosovo wanted to break away.
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Both settings are lethal. The concussion is meant to kill, not stun.
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@sherrysnyder4195 That only proves Russia is the warmonger. Zelensky was willing to compromise but Putin wanted everything.
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@redfox5966 A "buffer" that can always be invaded from the East whenever the horde wants to rape and pillage.
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@JessePinkmanv That's not the point. The enforcers are allowed to fly because they're there to protect the area assigned. Violators of no-fly zones are presumably there to conduct combat operations. It's like the police shooting at criminals, supposedly people shouldn't be shooting guns in the street but sometimes it's necessary to stop others from doing it.
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Housing for example is suffering from greatly increased demand with a severely choked supply. That's not "inflation". That's just real estate demanding a massive premium.
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@Draxynnic Housing costs are part of Chinese capital flight, countryside exodus, "digital nomads", etc. and not inflation. It's not that your money buys less house. Houses are pure and simply worth more than your money.
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@Draxynnic But the issue is that you're talking about a capital asset (real estate) and increase in value of a capital asset is called appreciation. Inflation is measured with a broad price index. A single product or service being subject to supply and demand would knock inflation calculations out of whack. Imagine if we tried to calculate inflation based on price gouging of hand sanitizer in 2020. Inflation will increase prices of housing by increasing the nominal value of property, cost of materials, etc. but housing crisis are not inflation. It's simply us all trying to live relatively close to civilization so we can have jobs and schools rather than live in the middle of nowhere in those small towns that give away free land if you move there.
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@Draxynnic But housing is counted towards some inflation metrics. It's just weighed down by other goods not inflating as much.
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@Draxynnic And most of that inflationary pressure came from the 2020 world event which wrecked supply chains and made goods on hand extremely valuable while laying down huge uncertainty for future restocking. Which is why monetary policy is focused on subdued demand to prevent a spiraling of raising costs. Sadly, we can't count on the next ship to come deliver more housing to our shores. We have to tear down the old stuff and build new. Takes longer than stocking shelves.
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@Draxynnic True. But again, the population was moving towards population centers. If you just want housing, there's worthless land all over the country. You just don't want to move there because you'll have no emergency services, no schools, no jobs. There's physical limits to how much housing we can cram into a place without knocking down entire blocks and building from scratch. The switch to remote work could have alleviated some pressure but many corporations are still clinging to the office and requesting 1-2 days of office work for supposedly "remote" jobs.
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Putin also wants his own people to take his experimental juice. Sputnik V? Remember that? Russia had QR codes to enter public transportation. What now? Where's your defense of Russian medical experiments?
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So a few hundred people had it happen to them, Russia can do it to thousands.
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 @klardfarkus3891 the reactors at Fukushima survived a worst case natural disaster. The problem was not the reactor design.
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Air supremacy would mean the destruction of the entire Russian aerospace forces. Kind of a tall order.
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@matthewmosier8439 to produce green H2 you either need fresh water (a precious resource) or desalination. Desalination is an energy intensive process which also generates brine which has to be returned to the sea causing as least disturbance to salt concentration possible.
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@Gatitasecsii Tesla is still around.
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It isn't, but cope.
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@89ji76 First, if that was true then Israel and Singapore wouldn't have had their case spikes recently. Second, even if it's less you're still excusing exposing people as long as they get it from the vaccinated. You're admitting it's not about health because you defend sweeping the numbers under the rug by not testing.
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 @Simboiss "studying the attacks" you mean photoshopping a flood light to look orange to allege there was molten steel in the debris?
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In other countries police aren't as fond of dynamic entries and if they have to do them, it's usually after the hostage negotiator has failed. However if it became a trend to have hostages killed they'd eventually start acting like American police as a way to prevent deaths.
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All American GPS guided weapons default to inertial navigation in case of jamming.
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Russia was disrupting their own sales to hurt Europe.
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@peterwest323 But they haven't changed the formula, right? If you get a booster it's still for the 2019 Wuhan strain. We're several strains ahead.
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+dopex2xdeath that's ridiculous. I criticize the shit out of the police but you have to realize that they deal with criminals every day and you're pointing a tube at them. You're only giving them a fraction of a second to make the decision. If you point a tube at me I'm not going to sit around trying to find out what it is, I'm going to assume you're trying to murder me.
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 @abhisekhkumar4948 NATO was already on Russia's doorstep. Additionally Finland and Sweden joined, turning the Baltic Sea into NATO Lake.
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@user-le4th2xw9g There's footage of V marked Tochka launchers in Belarus.
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@user-le4th2xw9g When faced with the minimal contradiction you people shotgun your excuses. I know about Donetsk. The vast majority of casualties happened in the first couple of years of the war.
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@user-le4th2xw9g When you post multiple comments instead of just accepting what I said, those are excuses. Don't read from a script. There's also 9M79-1 missiles being fired from separatist/Russian controlled regions.
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@user-le4th2xw9g Numbers that "match" aren't evidence of anything. If missile 123 goes to Armenia, missile 124 goes to Belarus and missile 125 goes to Ukraine, numbers mean nothing unless we have shipping manifests. Your argument is that Ukrainian forces should stand in the open and get shot like dogs? The Red Army hid in "peaceful homes" during WW2 as well.
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Wouldn't that be the radar coolant? Non-rocket assist takeoff boosters in aviation are usually water+methanol mixes as the mist of water injection causes evaporative cooling, increasing engine performance. You wouldn't want to drink the methanol.
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But DDP is the one who looks like he had a conversation with Strickland's father.
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I got to this news from a pro-gun website and pro-gun people are ANGRY. This was most likely done by anti-gun people, not the pro-gun side. This was extremely retarded. I am pro-gun - I don't even want people shooting up places with blanks, let alone real guns. You are extremely prejudiced. You're a bigot and you know NOTHING about pro-gun people. All of us think this was a terrible mistake as PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED BY BLANK GUNS before.
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@TheMasterhomaster This is easily countered by just not buying friggin' eggs. Let the price gougers hold the bag and take the fat L. You'd have a point about inelastic goods if this was healthcare or something, but it's just eggs. If everyone stopped buying eggs for a week, the prices would go through the floor. I saw this happen with ammo 2020-2022. People would not stop buying. Empty shelves every day make sure prices stay high.
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One of the accounts that posted the video was Rusich. Alexei Milchakov, the founder, was fighting in Ukraine since 2014 on Russia's side. He thinks there's a benefit to posting them. You can try to use all your logic and deduction, but that dude has been fighting for Russia and you haven't. What you think is less important than what the people who posted it think.
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@浅野旅団 He posted the video. I didn't say he was the man in the video. Little liar.
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@cornelkittell9926 No. He is Russian. Not a rebel, he is a Russian-born who was VDV. Russia sent Russians to pretend to be rebels in 2014-2015. And many times used Wagner as cover.
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@cornelkittell9926 The technicalities don't matter. I was just explaining that a person reposted the video (might have been a still according to the other comment, I saw a screenshot rather than go on telegram). That person wants Russia to win, so the notion that Russia only loses by posting the video is irrelevant. Russians will continue to get caught doing and celebrating acts of hatred that damage Russia's image. They don't care.
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@cornelkittell9926 Russia is "willing to negotiate" by keeping the lands they claim and Ukraine being denied the chance to rebuild the military for a future invasion. Just like 2014. Freeze the lines, prepare for new invasion years later.
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@cornelkittell9926 Seems like one former Wagnerite who requested asylum in Sweden said he's able to identify the perpetrator. Oh well...
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They weren't recruits. They were people with military skills in need. Russia is recruiting from prisons.
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Russia lost WW2 because Germany reached the outskirts of Moscow 😂😂😂 definitely Prigozhin's Internet Research Agency logic 😂😂😂
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I tought the same, with a central balloon that would be doughnut shaped. I think the issue is that the launch would burst the balloons and all that helium is expensive.
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@baronvonlimbourgh1716 do you really want to bring up that argument? How old is wind energy? Sails. Windmills. Hell, wind powered cooling in desert regions.
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It's not a cluster munition.
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@anfrex3342 They can end it - by running home.
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@Dragoncam13 I don't see how that proves that most people in prison are peaceful political prisoners.
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It's mid-infrared. It uses more sensitive, cryogenically cooled sensors for the extra range.
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@YouGenom Yeah the long infrared is the stuff you can get, it's common enough people get monoculars or even weapon sights to dispatch invasive species at night. Medium infrared is considered dual-use technology, so imports and sales are stricter because it could be used for military purposes.
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Reality cares. Troops firing lower recoil rounds are more accurate than troops firing higher recoil rounds. You might not "care", but you will be facing a force that will be slotting your friends left and right and carry almost twice the ammunition.
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In the real world, several countries which held trials did not think the Gripen beat everyone. Saab's brochures paint a pretty picture, but in real life they always come up short.
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@robertpaulson8790 Gun crime in Australia was decreasing from the 1970s. Comparing to the US is also a very flawed metric. You can't prove a cancer drug works by administering it to people who don't have cancer. You have to give it to a cancer patient and monitor the results. And as it stands, several countries with violent gun crime did not have their problems solved by gun control. It's akin to a drug trial where some people get better, others die. You have to establish the correlation. Not give a drug to a guy in your trials, and then point to a random guy in the street and say he has cancer, so the drug works. On the other hand, New Zealand seemed to be roughly similar to Australia in mass shootings, despite no kneejerk gun control laws until after Christchurch.
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Cope.
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>In the three seconds most people dont even have the strength to carry on they are just trying to stay alive No, that's what happens after the ~3 seconds. Before they're up, the blood pressure is sufficient to keep a person going at you and stabbing you. Most people don't even feel gunshots until half a minute later, 3 seconds isn't enough to know you're fighting for your life. >are you going to face multiple enemies Check out home invasion videos. Criminals work together often.
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Russia educated the military and political class in Africa. Did you miss the e tire part of Cold War history where the Soviets brought in African students to give them officer and political training courses so they could spread global communism? Africa loves Russia because anyone above a certain age and who has power there was a Soviet asset for revolution. Think.
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His name is Coach Red Pill. He doesn't get to use his name. He's an internet clown, he uses his clown name.
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Kasparov is pro-Ukraine.
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The government was not overthrown.
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 @AnnoNymus Russia's economy is opaque. The only numbers we have come from Rosstat.
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@BozaCukuranovic3223 Funny, Americans say Putin's interview was for domestic consumption and Russians say it was for Westerners. Nobody is satisfied with senile grandpa's nonsense. Tucker pressed on to get talking points for his Western audience and Putin dismissed it.
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The EU attempted to use economic ties to dissuade war with Russia. You can see how they're pretty mad at them. There's also several EU member states with a bone to pick with Russia. They're not being thrown at the angry bear. They're seeing the bear stick his foot in the trap and loading the shotgun with the bear slugs.
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@Laenthal Whatever cope let's you sleep at night. Many millions of dollars worth of equipment have been brought down by our surplus meaning that Russia will not be able to conduct an offensive for another decade, and Chinese lockdowns are preventing them from benefitting.
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@Laenthal "Openly available information"? Okay. Awash with money by selling at a discount. The tragedy of countries that depend on extraction of resources and nothing else. That's barreling down the path into becoming a vassal state. Record high internal spending because they've been cut off from the outside. Okay. I wouldn't want to become dependent on China especially now that they're shooting themselves in the foot by keeping their own citizens in house arrest.
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@aydanangus "Assault weapons" can't be imported. You'd have to do like AK importers do and destroy the receivers, rebuild them on US receivers and use the correct number of US-made parts.
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@staywoke4memes the serial spitter is waiting outside mcdonald's in this case.
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Someone's giving you bad deals, in fact a lot of the property values rising in cities is tied to the land it sits on, not the building. The building can be torn down, it's the land in the city that's worth the big bucks.
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@HiwasseeRiver The war is dragging on because Russia is just digging further into the stockpiles of Soviet tech and throwing meat at the problem. It's riddiculous but they refuse to cut their losses and quit.
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They aren't. You can't just go AWOL and keep it a secret. It would be impossible to hide the funerals. Close relatives would talk.
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@HabitualButtonPusher Yeah why do you want to be an unseen ghost instead of a jousting knight anyone can see from a hundred miles out? Stealth is needed for defense. Anyone broadcasting their location with radar returns is only making their life harder.
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Because the reserve was already in Ukraine. The BARS units are what they are called. If I'm not mistaken the BARS 13 and 16 were encircled in the Kharkiv offensive, this was discussed in Russian telegram because propagandists claimed that only Donbas mobilized were there. But the Russian combat reserves were also there.
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I see you don't understand anything.
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Marines can't fly it off short deck carriers. They can fly F-35Bs though.
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9-hole reviews has a pretty good video on what it takes to accurize a M14 to dmr/M21 standard. The process costs more than just purchasing a modern 7.62 rifle.
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Is it? I'd say it's because you don't make enough to be worth taxing. If you were truly successful the IRS would be hounding you.
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Why do you think meteors burn when they come down?
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+Ze Rubenator nobody is accusing nvidia of criminal behaviour. We're not saying they must be legally punished. We're not saying people have a moral right to play high end games. It's like EA and lootboxes. Nobody forces anyone to buy lootboxes so I disagree with laws against microtransactions. But they're ruining gaming. Saying that nobody is forced to buy is a legal defense. It doesn't excuse their predatory tactics. What nvidia is doing is perfectly legal, I agree. But I'm not saying they are criminals. I don't see why you're complaining, do you have nvidia stocks or something? Because a market refusing to buy at that price would mean cheaper cards for you too.
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If they landed, why have Russian sources confirmed an aircraft is missing? Peskov said there were no dead, only missing. Ghost plane?
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He kept the money for almost a decade, that's fraud.
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Gardening tools anyone has on their shed. If she had an AR in 5.56mm maybe you would have a point.
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@MrHat. Science has been manipulated by governments and corporations time and time again. Someone's gotta write the checks to pay for the science and it's either the government or the private sector.
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@MrHat. Yeah, good thing you ALWAYS read where the funding comes from. You do, don't you? Universities get grants from government and private funding for research too. Rule number one of business, never use your own money when some other sucker can pay for it. Between paying for teaching staff, administrative staff and the college sports racket you think there's enough tuition money to finance science?
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It was a fire.
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@Average_Slav Your comment disregards supply/logistics issues, crew skill, and kill chain. A 100% accurate shell means nothing if the crew can only send the shot 30 minutes after the target left.
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@Average_Slav Okay. Russian artillery losses simply override whatever your point was.
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Russia, as part of the Soviet Union, did not get what they wanted in Afghanistan. The first time the Federation went into Chechnya, they didn't get what they wanted. Numbers do not win wars, because all we have to do is produce more ammunition. China has a lot to lose. The Russian debacle was a wakeup call.
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But this allows them to get worse. You're paying real money for the computer to guess how the frames work. If the GPUs got better they'd calculate the frames for real with no guessing.
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@daniellabbe916 Complain about what? None of them have S-400s. Turkey got one, still waiting for the total delivery because Russia and producing advanced military equipment is like pulling teeth. Russian missiles hit their mark? Outhouses, playgrounds and pedestrian bridges? The thing about war is, you don't start them just to see weapons in action. You have to buy them before the action starts. Turkey bought the S-400. Now they're stuck with it.
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@daniellabbe916 lmao nice cope. Russia does have kill quotas (10k for Wagner mercenaries who kill a foreign legionnaire), Russia does target residential areas.
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As opposed to them getting paid billions to keep museum pieces airworthy.
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How us the F-35 a failure?
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@void-2b Their reputation is unfounded. In Desert Storm six of them were lost and the USAF was forced to pull them away from Iraqi National Guard units.
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Those conscious people usually get lube, properly sized tubing and most of all - they accept the process. You can take drops of water on your forehead all day if you're sitting there on your own will. But if I keep you detained against your will and shackled those drops - I'd break you, eventually.
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The last Russian will be gone first.
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Because nobody believes him. They gave Chechnya peace, them bombed themselves with FSB false flags and invaded again. A peace deal with Russia is worthless. Russia accepted Crimea as Ukraine in 1991 and promised not to invade in 1994 in exchange for Ukraine's nukes.
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They're down to Iranian drones and prisoners. I think they're in a bad state.
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@Hans the high employment rate of women in Germany is maintained by low quality jobs and temp work. Another factor is that many men have jobs in the industrial sector, which crashed harder than the services sector. So if you need a services job you'll still hire a woman qualified for it rather than a man who has to be retrained.
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@GodsAutobiography the reasons why one would leave are irrelevant. Just like a bank doesn't care why would you not be able to repay a loan. What matters is the loss. But there's several reasons like being unable to afford babysitters or lack of kindergartens. A mother might stay at home out of necessity, why go to work if the money goes towards paying someone else to raise your child, etc.
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@Hans nice deflection. The point is how misuse of statistics can be used to portray the German government in a good light. If female unemployment is buried under "mini jobs" then we don't get a clear picture of how maternity leave affects employment. "the unemployment rate would be higher in Germany due to man not being employed in service sector, which isn't the case" - male unemployment is higher than female unemployment in Germany "The industrial base of Germany is also much stronger than in America" - irrelevant, this isn't a comparison. Again, you're deflecting. Male-dominated field lost >200,000 jobs while a female-dominated one gained almost 50,000. We could look into college graduations and check if women are also more successful in academia. There's a myriad of factors why women could be affected by paid maternity leave but the effects are buried under other conditions that punish men harder than maternity leave punishes women.
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@Hans you keep comparing the US which is a sign of deflection. You're not willing to discuss what happened in petri dish X so you compare to petri dish Y, even though that dish is a different experiment with different conditions. I also didn't say high female employment is due to male unemployment. I said there are factors why unemployment since the last economic crisis has affected the genders differently.
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Well in 2004 they had the Orange Revolution against Yanukovych and his election fraud. And in 2003 Russia started a territorial dispute in the Kerch strait.
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"Only 40 countries" that's a big deal. It just means most of the world is too poor to afford sanctions. And no, it won't depend on elections.
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That's a lie, though. The rocket tails stuck on the ground are evidence of dispensed cluster munitions from Grad or Smerch rockets. Basic weapons recognition would have told you that. But you probably didn't even look at the pictures of the strikes, have you? You speak with a lot of confidence for someone who doesn't understand anything about the topic.
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That's a lie. There was no budgetary issue, the USAF used the A-7F upgrade program budget to buy the A-10 instead. They didn't take the Army's money, no money would be given to the Army, the USAF just used their own money. Just stop lying. And the GAO slammed the USAF for buying 700 A-10s saying there was no reason for such an excessive purchase. Turns out they loved the A-10 too much back then, that was the criticism. Now they hated it all along. All people do is criticize.
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Let's see infantry against an Apache with Longbow radar.
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@almitrahopkins1873 So? You can't hit an Apache that can lob missiles from behind hills and hit you without your Stinger seeker ever being able to see the heat signature.
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It's because the N word can be used in two forms: one ending with the soft A, the other ending with the hard R. The mental disability one is only used in one variant so there's no need to specify if it's soft or hard.
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@Viperzka https://youtu.be/ySGGzXnFhe8 RE: Teddy's critique on that techno-utopia mindset. RE: Invasion by death robots - your comment just seems to defend the need for a superstate in charge of their own death robots under the justification of national defense. Spoiler alert: that's not better at all.
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@Viperzka "It seems to be conflating technology with capitalism and extolling ther idea that whatever is natural is good." - Nope. "Technology offers the ability to alter reality." - It really doesn't. If anything, it allows you to alter your perception of reality, which leads to the self-propagating mechanism. "there is no way I'm giving up my technology" - Nobody's asking you to. We're just saying that they will be your downfall.
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"Yes, the game isnt "released" yet, you know why? Because it's an MMO. " - SQ42 is not an MMO. "people now PRAISE Hello Games for continuing to work and improve upon No Mans Sky" - because Hello Games could have simply closed down and flee from the damage they caused. They continued to work without asking for thousands of dollars in ships. Hello Games was praised for owning up to their mistake and FIXING the game. That deserves praise in a world where being dishonest and hide from the consequences would simply be easier. "They had the decency to admit it wasnt ready, which Hello Games did NOT have." - if they had any decency they'd have focused on finishing the game rather than selling ships. "FULLY ACKNOWLEDGES the customer that its an ALPHA GAME" - under the promise of a finished game. I'm sorry, but you can't get away with selling shitty unfinished games by simply saying it's alpha. You could make money simply making alphas for games that will never be released with the disclaimer that's in alpha.
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@FromMyBrain The problem is that the battlefield is riddled with 600 dollar guided missiles. In the age of the drone, nobody sane wants to ride in a T-55. Any drone pilot wants another notch on his belt so you'll be a FPV magnet.
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The concept is sound because the proposal is energy storage, aka doing something with the energy you're getting "for free" out of intermittent renewable but may need later. Obviously losses are undesirable, but the alternatives are either unplugging those generators or paying a neighboring country to take it (California has paid Arizona to take their excess energy), then you'll need to pay to import energy or fire up gas plants while your renewables are down. While reducing losses are a big deal, high capacity, low construction and operational costs are much more important. If it costs 50 billion for a 99% efficient battery bank which can store a week's worth of energy, and 1 billion to build a dam that's 60% efficient but can handle a month's worth of energy.... at that point the 40% losses are kind of meaningless because the alternative is 100% loss without storage. In reality the pumped water dam can be 70-85% efficient so it's not even that bad.
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And they know their country will be ravaged if they use them. Even if there was no response to a nuclear attack, the prevailing winds carrying fallout back into Moscow and the explosions killing ethnic Russians would completely delegitimize the state.
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Effect so negligible, they're already coping and seething and faking videos to claim they took them out.
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@morwickchesterham3875 Changing the subject is an admission you lost. We're talking about HIMARS.
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Showing up with 7 tons under your wings to a field full of guys with MANPADS is a deathwish.
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@GulNadar Not unless you simply fly too high and too fast for MANPADS to catch up. The issue with MANPADS is that they have the be man-portable, as the name implies. This means a lackluster rocket motor. You said the A-10 has 11 pylons and load capacity of 7260 kg. What's the point of bringing up that performance metric if you're not going to use that much weight?
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@GulNadar " ignores the rest of its ordinance abilities" - The ordnance isn't specific to the A-10, so something else can be used instead. The A-10 isn't bringing much to the table. "Also 25k feet up and fast doesn’t exactly make for quality close air support." - The word "close" refers to troops being in close contact with the enemy, not the aircraft having to be physically close. Doesn't matter is a bomb drops from 2,500 feet or 25k feet. It only matters that it lands where it's supposed to be.
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Luty made the ammo too.
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Someone really likes disliking every video as soon as it's posted.
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@ViciousOne For them to fall of a window, the person pushing must have a reason to push. Does the assassin want to die in a nuclear war? Putin may be willing to bring down the world with him, but every single lackey can't be.
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Those 8 years were not spent fighting the Iraq army, they were spent pacifying the insurgency.
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@elloowu6293 Trump asked doctors IF there was something that could kill the virus in a minute after injection, LIKE disinfectant does. He never said people should do anything.
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@elloowu6293 You've retracted your original statement so my work here is done. Also, can I get the numbers on the Trump supporters who did it?
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 @aceofswords1725 We tried being allies with Russia. We even had Hollywood movies of US and Russian militaries/police forces cooperating after the Cold War.
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We're gonna need independent chip manufacturing.
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I used to train kickboxing with a former FFL dude. He was never treated as expendable. The FFL is no longer the place for criminals to get a fresh identity.
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 @mladenmatosevic4591 I wonder what non-event you are mentioning.
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 @mitchyoung93 Prices are high because of 2020, not Russia. We are paying back the trillions of mismanagement brought upon by the shutdown.
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@fordwrc2006 Is everything a "no u" to you people? What does "American women" even mean here, are you claiming that women of Dutch, Irish, British, Italian, German, Latin American or African heritage automatically become genetically similar by virtue of having being birthed in America?
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@fordwrc2006 No I'm curious, because I made a point about Slavic women and you then mentioned American women. The problem is that slavs are an ethnic group while Americans aren't.
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 @pirbird14 You're a shill.
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 @scarlettdamante4945 It was common in the US too. There's even old movies where characters go into a hardware store and one complains about the made in Japan stuff.
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Cope and seethe.
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Those missiles were produced for national defense. It is a good thing that air forces don't have to shoot down enemies every day.
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 @EvLSpectre the sturdy frame is 40 years old, running out of flight hours
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 @TheStig_TG The Cheyenne had issues that took almost a decade to fix.
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Facebook isn't going to arrest me because I follow meme pages on Instagram.
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Russia shelled civilian areas. I guess the separatists were living in this delusion in which they could shell civilians without anyone shelling them back. They sowed the wind, now they reap the whirlwind.
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Yes, innocents being killed = justice. How did those people ever hurt you?
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Why would they be governed by Moscow? Russia killed the Donbas. They kidnap men to fight, destroy the water supply.
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He's intelligent? Then how come he's leading his country to absolute ruin? He could have waited for EU/NATO infighting to make things worse for the west, instead he invaded and caused the west to unite under a single cause.
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"they haven't used 90% of there military yet" - Yeah when they send all the railroad troops, cooks, office clerks, nurses, etc to the front they'll win. "Ukraine is the one who has less than 2,500 tanks left" - Ukraine uses tanks effectively. Russia drives tanks into mines and Javelins. "starting October 1st women will be drafted and sent to battle" - Fake news. Women are only accepted as volunteers.
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@lllPlatinumlll then the argument isn't about the bombing but just doing things that make your enemy act irrationally.
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Guns are cool by themselves while the figurines are a sad 3d replica of a 2d character which is in itself a sad 2d replica of what a woman is supposed to look like. Hope this helps!
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@cpiff100 Yeah and you can cope and seethe about it. Present your factual data to claim Russia can hold off NATO in a conventional war.
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@MrFlatage P-15 Termit, an almost 6000lbs missile.
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@peterscott5215 >reddit >Russian I see that CNN must have laid off writers too.
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@EcchiRevenge let's fire off a 6000lbs... sorry, 5700lbs missile off a Boston Whaler to simulate Iranian naval capabilities.
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@peterscott5215 The CNN mention deals with the rampant obsession with Russia and Russian trolls.
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lol
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@MatoVuc Afghanistan was self-defense due to 9/11 and Iraq had violated the 1991 peace terms but Clinton didn't want to prosecute during his term.
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@MatoVuc Defend themselves from what?
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@bjornabrahamsson4213 that's fine because the algorithm has determined that the way to keep you watching is to feed you those recommendations. But YT won't promote it to anyone who isn't laser-focused on those channels. That's a problem because it limits growth and kills any new channels without thousands of viewers.
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@yacined4190 That's infrastructure protection. Blackwater never directly fought Iraqi Army units to capture them.
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Filtered.
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This is completely false. China was a more moderate and open country in 2008, with many outsiders seeing it as a land of opportunity.
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@mikepo8271 "it may gets weaker, but unfortunately, this time is more virulent..." - more infectious usually carries the caveat of also being weaker
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That's just how frontlines move, no need to ascribe some grand plan to movement.
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They've been told. And clearly they believe.
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Terrorism is the use of violence and terror to gain political leverage. You need to say you did it to show you have strength. If you just do random attacks with no revindication the people you are attacking cannot give you what you want.
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 @alexorehowski3387 If you give reason to believe defenses will fail, Israel will go after the launch platforms.
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I think it was an hyperbole. He's saying that anything is too much for him.
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Darn, meant "discarding sabot", not discarding fins.
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Russia is getting exploited by India and China, Ukraine will get aid to rebuild. Germany and Japan were destroyed to a much greater degree than Ukraine has been.
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Trees have issues growing during droughts.
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>certain jobs they CANNOT do them without a car "They are exceptions, like military and police. They should need a permit." >the main use of cars is transportation "And yet they are a greater public health issue than weapons." >alot of people would live with ban on cars that go over 100MPH And they're probably also okay with AWBs, because they want a nanny state. Don't use "common sense" bans - they want that. Threaten illogical car bans, because the bans proposed are just as illogical.
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Mike Lopez If you tell me to shoot a gun that rarely explodes when fired, I'm not putting my hands on it. Preexisting conditions lmao. Okay so half the population doesn't need to take it because they have some kind of preexisting condition.
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Mike Lopez Okay, risk factors. I'm at a low risk, in fact I am possibly naturally immune because I've been exposed to multiple people who tested positive and never got sick. Why would I risk anything for no benefit? The fact is that a gun rarely explodes by itself. A known example was the 40 caliber Glocks, which had a problematic initial run and became famous for their unsupported chamber causing the cartridge cases to bulge and rupture while the explosion inside was going on, damaging the gun. Normally a well designed gun does not have these problems, and Glock had to fix the problem. I have no problem trusting a well manufactured design with a good track record. I won't trust certain manufacturers. And if you give me one of those early Glock models in .40sw I'm not going to shoot it despite the relative low risk. You're giving me a gun you openly admit might have the same problems as the .40sw Glocks and has absolutely no track record. I'm going to decline.
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Mike Lopez If I'm immune and I can't get positive, how can I pass it onto others? Viruses take hold of your cells and inject their information to hijack them into virus factories. If you're contagious, you're not immune because your immune system can't respond to the invasion. If the virus can't take hold, the body destroys it. Can't get spread.
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@Mediiiicc Yes and no. Navy improved their score with TOPGUN and better crew training to avoid damaging the missiles while handling them - which contributed to reliability issues in early missiles - but a major factor was that the Navy fighters always had radar coverage from the ship radars behind them. The USAF had huge blindspots and flew into ambushes constantly. One of the issues was F-4s escorting slower strike packages, the enemy MiGs would come around through the border and deal a high speed attack from behind, and the F-4 escorts couldn't accelerate to meet the fleeing MiGs. The USAF slightly improved their kill ratio by flying combat air patrols meant to destroy MiGs. What really made the jump was Teaball. An intelligence and radar station program that fed USAF pilots situational awareness. Phantoms in MIGCAP missions after Teaball had a 14 to 1 kill ratio if I remember correctly.
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Women won't be drafted. Stop reading Russian propaganda.
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The drones exploded so there's no camera feed. One drone caused a hole in the hull, the follow up entered the hull and detonated inside. If not sunk, half the ship has to be flooded and limping across the sea to meet rescue.
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@dragonstormdipro1013 Those casualty rates happened at Sieverodonetsk. It was the bloodiest battle of this phase of the war. Not only has Russia declared an operational pause (suspiciously after their ammo dumps got obliterated) but the Ukrainians let go of Lysichansk with a lot less casualties to the Bahkmut line.
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The A-10 is aging. Can't go on forever.
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@StPiter111 Ukrainians retreat to safety. Russians advance into bullets. That's how much human life is worth to Putin. Ukrainians fight for their nation. Russians fight for oligarchs.
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@StPiter111 If they fight for Russia, why are they outside Russia?
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@StPiter111 A worker inside the Zaporizhzhia NPP just posted a video recorded secretly of military supplies stockpiled inside the plant. Russians are not protecting anyone. They don't care about the land. They're going to contaminate Eastern Europe. Please do not try to make any excuses. Today, 18th of August 2022, Russia was proven to be a terrorist state.
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 @G-Lew the whataboutism doesn't work on you, but it works on the people you are defending.
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The US government burns money and never solves anything domestically. The money is sent to a foreign war, and I get to see tanks burning. Seems like a better use of my dollars.
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Bro the most motivated fighters for Ukraine are literal fascists. Surprisingly enough, they're the good guys.
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@isodoublet You do realize that wavelength has an influence on the beam angular resolution, right? That means that at some distance, you'll have enough uncertainty about the detected aircraft that launching a missile at it can cause you to miss entirely.
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Cope. Castro wanted to use the nukes and Khruschev eventually came around to agreeing he was a loose cannon. The US and the USSR solved it with diplomacy. Russia just starts killing
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@enekoalvarez1401 It's not the same. Cuba having missiles that Castro wanted under his control was a nuclear threat. Ukraine in NATO just means they're well defended.
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But that's not socialism. Socialism is the worker's ownership of the means of production.
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Take your meds.
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Those platforms have a fighting chance. The A-10 is hopeless. The B-52 is in a unique position. It was meant to be replaced by it didn't pan out. The fall of the Soviet Union delayed the need for a suitable replacement. It's also large enough that upgrades have room inside the airframe. Nobody talks about retiring the B-52 because it's a non-issue. The A-10 being unable to fly into a contested environment makes it unfeasible. Air superiority cannot protect the A-10. The A-10 is vulnerable even after air defense systems are degraded, it doesn't get impunity. The operational cost of the A-10 is artificially hidden because billions have been spent to keep it able to fly. It's an extremely dated airframe that had entire chunks rebuilt as the structure physically wore out with use. Loiter time of drones and turboprops is comparable to A-10s if not greater. Getting low is a requirement from the 1960s. A-10 pilots ID'ing targets for themselves have made plenty of mistakes. There's a reason it's the ground controllers who give the call to start the attacks, not pilots. They need hand-holding from ground forces to pick off the right targets. When left alone, they easily target friendlies by mistake. Taliban fighters hit by F-16s probably don't hate to see them overhead because they either died or never saw what hit them. What's worse? Seeing a slow aircraft coming and giving you time to escape, or seeing your friends vaporized without you knowing any aircraft was even there? The latter seems like absolute terror. But that's just me. It wasn't retired because Congress asked for a new aircraft to replace it, while the USAF couldn't convince them that multiroles had already replaced it. It's simply Congress refusing to move on from the 1960s.
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I agree because the influencers/reviewers make sakes and Honey just freeloads. But Honey makes up for it by charging a lower rate on comissions and offering retailers to hide coupons so that in the end the companies are dissuaded from blacklisting Honey. That's the three pronged attack.
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Capitalism has nothing to do with it. Look at how much environmental damage the Soviet Union caused. Capitalism or no capitalism, dumping stuff in lakes just takes less effort.
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 @exodia9012 They already figured it out.
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@ericp1139 The Russian defensive effort has clearly begun, they throw reserves at the line of contact rather than saving them for the main defensive line. If Russia continues like this they'll have no soldiers to man the defensive line.
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The Su-57 with panel gaps and exposed screws. 16 made, 2 crashed.
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People are shooting their mouth about weapons which don't exist. Ever seen a Tsirkon? I haven't. The Chinese DF-ZF? It's a glide reentry vehicle, not air breathing. Ironically, the US makes public their trials with scramjet hypersonics and admits failures.
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@piggy201 Yes, citizens have the right to fire at law enforcement. Several courts have determined that it's legal.
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@piggy201 They didn't want to come out because the authorities fired first. The authorities actually were engaged in criminal acts at the time of the siege, so had Koresh survived he'd probably have been cleared by the courts thanks to all the evidence in his favor.
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@piggy201 Critical evidence that would help determine who fired first went missing. Convenient. Yeah, there's legal precedent. Randy Weaver for example was cleared of the murder charges and only served time for weapons-related offenses. There's multiple cases in the last decade of people firing on no-knock raiders and getting off thanks to self-defense. Yeah, they could have surrendered. But people are stubborn and will not surrender to people who brought the aggression to them first. The authorities also didn't ease up the siege. Imprisoned over what? If the ATF wasn't going to find illegal weapons, they'd be cleared of all charges. Wacky religious beliefs are not a legal offense. Complain all you want, it's irrelevant to the argument. Compliance? Look up Daniel Shaver. Look at what complying with power-drunk officers gets you. Lawful demands? The authorities had to act lawful first.
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@piggy201 They didn't step on the front law, they fired on an unarmed Koresh.
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That's not a problem in the sense that it's a manufactured problem. Yucca mountain was the supposed burial site. It appears in one of the American Godzilla movies, even.
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Poe's law.
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@davidmajor1508 If you falsely imprison someone, you cannot shoot someone if they reach for your gun. The McMichaels literally did what the prosecution falsely accused Kyle of doing. They sought confrontation and comitted a crime, thereby forfeiting their right to claim self-defense.
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@gilianrampart8514 Trying to take someone's gun is self-defense if you're facing a criminal. False imprisonment is a crime.
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@viktorgabriel2554 And what happens when there's no police, just duct tape and rope?
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The difference is that you can stop buying Nintendo, but you can't vote your way out of CCP rule.
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Running those machines costs money. I'm not sure General Dynamics or Lockheed Martin are gonna just let people drop by and print stuff on their million dollar machine.
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 @avroarchitect1793 15 years ago there were ceramic armor plates that could sustain 60 hits of AK fire.
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I've been donating whenever I can.
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Amazing moment when the vocalist had a sudden religious awakening due to his son's health issues, disavowed his songs, started a solo project and used his old youtube account... exposing him as a sockpuppet by having 15 year old comments under his new project's name where he's arguing Oomph! is better than Rammstein.
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Moral reciprocity is literally an objective form of morality and a hard counter to relativism.
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@jessicatorretto159 You do need to cut enough to get a statistically significant sample.
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It would make the hosts severely ill and thus be extremely noticeable, making it easier to stop the spread.
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That would lead to faster wear or fractures. Dimensional or geometric errors would lead to stoppages.
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@commandoslayer I heard that hospital was where all the Kremlin big wigs and oligarchs are treated. It's reasonable that a former Soviet leader was on the same hospital.
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How is it the Russian game? Russia's demographics and equipment stockpiles simply do not allow for it. Bookmark this link, I want to see your response when the next frontline collapse happens, Mr I Don't Care.
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Anarcho-tyranny. No good deed goes unpunished.
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@stevenobrien557 I mean, it is. If your point is that one guy is a liar, your girl has to be a paragon of truth. If they're both liars pick some other defining characteristic other than honesty.
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And if I recall correctly, even infantry attacks and AT mines claimed more German tanks than IL-2s.
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"I'm good with workers control over production, but I like democracy." - democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting what's for dinner.
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 @willw8011 The museum and boneyard F-14s had stuff ripped out from them to prevent stuff from being taken and sent to Iran. They're pretty much an empty shell.
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@andyhughes1776 Metallic 3d printing is extremely expensive and difficult. There's a difference making ornaments and things that actually need precision and toughness.
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@andyhughes1776 By cannibalizing their fleet. There's barely any Tomcats flying.
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Rape isn't about sex, it's about power. You could literally have two women, one dressed like a slut and a very conservative one, the rapist will attack the easiest victim, not the one dressing slutty. Also, it might get him off more to rape a more conservatively dressed woman. Straight rapists have raped men just for the hell of it.
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Tell the Ossetians they were rotated lol
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@OzzyBloke The picture where their numbers were much lower than previous pictures?
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Apple famously resisted FBI requests.
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@matejzizanovic7959 But you have to pick. Capitalism cannot exist within socialism, and socialism within capitalism is just voluntary cooperation. In socialism, you cannot be a boss or own a factory. If the system allows that, then it's not socialism.
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@matejzizanovic7959 But it is black and white. You know when leftists say "not real communism/socialism"? That's precisely why. If you allow people to own things privately, and accumulate capital from it, that's not socialism. If you can be a business owner and be a boss, according to socialism you're exploiting your worker's labor. It's not a matter of reality being binary, but definitions being binary. If socialism demands the abolition of private property, it needs to be abolished. Not say "we'll be socialists but we'll allow people to live within capitalists" because then why bother. If we define -1 to be a negative number, we can't say "maybe it's positive today, we'll allow it".
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@matejzizanovic7959 Your English is fine.
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This sounds like a rabid Democrat trying to false-flag being a Republican to make them look bad.
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No ability to fire weapons systems? You just witnessed one of the most destructive devices on Earth - the walking Vuvuzela.
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No it was designed so that you could carry a LAW on your back to vibe check a BTR and still carry more ammo than a Soviet trooper thanks to the weight savings.
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@slimpickins09er87 The caliber change program began before the rifle change program, and it had to do with studies on firepower and projected needs in a Cold War gone hot scenario. Which means having to deal with Soviet armor. Yes, opposing forces tend to follow if they see you use something to your advantage. Stealth is great, so Russia and China are doing it too.
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A NATO attack means nuclear war. Saving T-72s for an attack that will never come is peak paranoid schizophrenic behavior.
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What do you mean 2-3 years? https://youtu.be/0_gjwGNkVX8?t=37
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+John Garrison how does an episode of anything speak for millions of people loosely connected by an ideology but have wildly different ideals?
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To make up for it, HIV rates are lower.
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Extreme stupdidity needs extremist arguments. I have no time for people who love "MAH FREEDUMZ!" but conviniently make up excuses to take it away from anyone they find suspicious.
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King!
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Maybe on /b/. Most links I see are to youtube or articles.
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There were three shots. Also, the two yokels committed a crime by trying to perform an illegal arrest. Now they'll go down for murder. Womp womp.
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@WarRabb1t No, it wasn't. The inbreds did not witness the alleged burglary and had no positive ID of the suspect. The former cop recognized Arbery from a prior altercation that had zero to do with the burglaries. This means that they did not have legal standing for a citizen's arrest, thus making them criminals. Having a description is not enough to perform an arrest because a citizen's arrest cannot be done for investigative purposes. You can say womp womp, but your boys are in jail right now. And they're going to prison after the trial. So again, womp womp.
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 @JAnx01 Only applies to lobbying. Having an NGO or media group doesn't make it a foreign agent in the US. Look at how much foreign stuff goes on in America but FARA is rarely enforced.
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+M T if he is so responsible why did he violate the law by shortening a barrel? Without ATF approval it's illegal to saw off a barrel. Why are you applauding a felony caught on video?
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Sorry man but even though I hated the Russiagate crap the only Russian-made thing I'd like to have are AKs.
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Seethe.
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@poupee9564 I guess we found ourselves a Branch Covidian.
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@samaten1386 "now we have government officials giving credit to the footage" - Because unlike the fakes, the footage is real. And mind, they simply said the footage is real. They didn't say what it was.
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@samaten1386 "why are they being "so open" about the UFO phenomena in this moment and not in the past?" - I'm not entirely familiar with the historical precedent. When footage of UFOs (or UAPs) was obtained through legitimate means did the government ever deny the footage was real? Because most of the UFO denial from the government was them covering up for secret aircraft or early warning systems that detected nuclear tests in the Soviet Union through high altitude listening pods. "do you believe this is the first footage of this kind ever being leaked?" - From the US? I'm unsure, but Chile did release footage of an unexplained flying object in 2017. It was the one that "pooped" black clouds. When the internet got to the footage, they determined it was an airliner being picked up by thermal camera. Lining up the footage with the position of the Navy helicopter that took it made the phenomenon line up with an airliner that was flying 60 miles away, flying into the Pacific Ocean.
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Source: Shoigu
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It was significant because it created a dilemma. The options are reinforce the Belgorod region and lose Donbas, or stay in Donbas and leave an open road for Ukraine to just take Russian territory at will.
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@attilakiss6679 You do realize that Ukraine can't press on the 4x time compression like in videogames to see the result of their strategies, right?
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China already told them to not use nukes.
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@joeo2533 So a handful of MiGs from former Warsaw Pact countries turned into hundreds?
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If the Russians learned that in WW2 why did they do it in Chechnya?
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Then after the merge the laser is used to dazzle the optics/pilot. Seems like a bad idea to get close.
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He said Ukraine was about to collapse in April last year. What truth is that?
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@concernedcitizen7385 Mearsheimer said Putin was too smart to invade Ukraine.
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@jitblues It was? What do you mean? They were still fighting. No amount of propping up can save a collapsing army.
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@concernedcitizen7385 Explain to me how Ukraine could invade Russia. Is Russia that weak?
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@eugenearbenin9560 That's not what he said. He said it was going to collapse, and it was a lost cause. If he knew NATO assistance would save Ukraine, why didn't he say that? MacGregor keeps making statements about pro-Russia scenarios. They keep getting proven wrong. What about switching it up a bit and expanding on some pro-Ukrainian scenarios? Maybe he'll get something right.
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@concernedcitizen7385 There was no coup. Since 2014 many men had time to serve a contract and leave.
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@davidschupbach2113 I'm not missing the point. There's a ton of things individuals have done that can't be done at scale. It's hard to convey in a small number of words, but things that work in a vacuum many times don't work outside those conditions. Such as, how would power and wavelengths interact with such a surface? Would it even hold to high subsonic speeds? Would it work if the aircraft had to fly in arctic conditions? Or over Kuwait? There's a reason there's people being paid the big bucks to say that rotating the bolts by 25º will reduce the radar returns. That's right, the insides of the F-35 were modified because they could get less radar returns from changing the orientation in which bolts were pointed when fastening pieces together. These are highly complex subjects that require time and money to research, and an 18 wheeler that beats speed traps isn't gonna drop bombs on Kim Jong Il's palace.
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They said Iraq would be Bush Sr's Vietnam. Then people said Iraq was just a third rate army after Desert Storm. If the US defeated Iran you'd be the first to forget how much you hyped their capabilities, and whine that the US only attacks poor nations with no ability to defend themselves.
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 @dzigayu4944 yeah typically the 6th The Eastern Orthodox church has Christmas in January too
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@CodaMission Very few Tucanos and AT-6Bs were acquired. They're mostly to train, rather than fight.
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Only 12 Su-57s in existence. Meanwhile the F-35 has 600.
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Maybe because a tree doesn't exactly react to pain by moving. A fragment only a few mm's wide won't chop down a tree, but if it hit you, you'd be on the ground.
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They're in the Emirates. Bisping kept the eye thing a secret so he could fight in any country where a medical exam requires both eyes.
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The Javelin racked up quite a few kills. Many mothers will not hug their sons again because they made the mistake of becoming tankers.
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@sotirmilivojevic6233 Every villain is the hero of their own story. I'd rather not be remembered than get paid to be a murderer and thief, get used to it, and come back to my homeland to continue to cause harm to my own community.
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Good thing Deterrence Dispensed already released the files to make barrels at home.
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And they would get to the West how?
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@austindouglas730 "It’s your choice on how you’d spend the money, not the government’s" - communism isn't about dictating how you spend your money. In fact Soviet Russia nearly collapsed multiple times because their products were so shoddy people saved the money and not spending, leading to stagnation. "The deep-red state of Alaska shares its oil profits with all of its residents" - between 1000-2000 dollars per year. Not every area is fortunate to be blessed with black gold, and the push for green energy and - I hope - thorium will make energy so cheap oil prices will collapse.
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@batboy3746 you mean like Bernie backed the bombing of Yugoslavia or the F-35 project? Must be fake.
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I had this for a couple of weeks, but youtube UI changes aren't simultaneous across the userbase.
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@ranchdressin-d3b Makes sense, the rendering pipeline would have to be built from the ground up to support the two different views.
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Lancets are a waste against individuals. We're talking about quadcopter with RPG warhead stuff.
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@Tintan435 he said that during Severodonetsk
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If costs go down why would taxes go up?
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@TheBigGSN5 what are the other costs?
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@TheBigGSN5 but if those costs went down, then taxes shouldn't need to go up...
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The gear in Kaliningrad isn't gonna turn the tide. The 2022 army with real soldiers couldn't take the capital. It's 2024 and Russia's army is full of conscripts, convicts and immigrants.
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Electronic trigger rifles have existed and some people have made DIY electronic triggers from airsoft gearboxes that activate a real gun's trigger. You're confusing adding an electric motor to a manual crank gatling.
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@JohnDobak They wouldn't be able to tell the trigger was electronic. I like how that you're essentially admitting you are wrong, so you try to play off people's fears of being dragged into a lengthy and expensive court battle they know they can win - just at a great personal cost.
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Novichok means "newcomer/newbie".
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The problem is that final assembly has to trust everyone's 3d printed to be calibrated. 3d printers aren't magic, they need the user to fine tune his settings. Rough surfaces cause parasitic drag and reduce the efficiency. I made 3d printed stands for my grandmother's TV as the original ones got lost during moving, despite my measurements being accurate the dimensions were slightly oversized (had to force the mounting stud into the socket) and the surface was very rough. Good enough for a TV stand, tossed into the reject pile if aviation grade is required. It's just faster to soak fiberglass in epoxy and lay it over a foam core.
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Wagner isn't officially the army.
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The drones do not cost 20k. The components alone are worth more than that.
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@benghazi4216 No. The debris have been catalogued. There's components that are 7k each. The cost should be closer to 100k, it's impossible to manufacture them for 20k. Nevertheless, Shaheds are brought down by Gepards and AK fire if needed. These are for 4-5 million USD missiles.
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@benghazi4216 Iran buys the components from Europe, the US, Japan, etc. Doesn't matter how much 20k USD is worth in Iran, they have to pay someone to smuggle Texas Instruments products to them. So the engine alone is 10k? Not doing yourself any favors. It also uses 500 USD HS-1005SGT servos, 5800 USD ADIS16488BMLZ, $1800 MTi-100, two AD9361 for 500 bucks a pop and AD-FMCOMMS5-EBZ evaluation board is around 1500 USD. This doesn't include smuggling costs, the actual materials to build the airframe or the warhead. Then add labor costs to it.
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@gypsyshot5225 None of this would have happened if two low IQ dummies didn't try to perform an illegal citizen's arrest.
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@gypsyshot5225 They were not protecting anything. They were giving chase to a suspect. They're low IQ because one of the guys was a former cop, he should have known that it would have been better to not intervene and simply observe and report. You seem to not understand: if Arbery was armed and he was quicker on the draw, he'd get away with killing the McMichaels. You want a real world example? Go around and stop unidentified people on the street. You might find a guy who's not effing around, and he's probably not even going to get charged for smoking you.
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They don't save you money. Because businesses lose money, Honey is essentially using mafia tactics to get businesses on their side. Honey will hide coupon codes and you think you got the best deal when you didn't. You lose money.
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That would be true, if it used the same weights as .40 S&W. .357 Sig uses basically the same weights as 9x19. >I also did my own test Which is funny, because you have no results to show for it. Also, even if you had, it would still be backyard science and there's a lot of variables that could have fudged your results. >faster smaller projectile=better penatration Then why does .308 penetrate more than .223?
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The material in the cone liner does not melt. The HEAT jet remains solid through the entire process, which is why it penetrates instead of just splashing.
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The people who didn't want to fight often fight off the commissars or shouted at them until they left. Meanwhile Russian commissars in Donbas beat up the men until they lose consciousness, handcuff them and drive them to the front.
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I have to agree. There's a comedian who in a podcast proposed an alternate version of the Matrix where the machines enslave humanity by purposefully making themselves cute and taking advantage of our empathy. And the joke is that Neo is a sociopath who commits heinous acts with no remorse and thus he can fight the machines.
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But the F-117 was known to exist and there were multiple sightings of "black triangle" aircraft. Despite the coverup (like flying an A-7 squadron to conceal the F-117 flights) people were still aware there was a stealth "fighter" in inventory.
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@yeet6806 you're still paying for it
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The GOP created the variant that came from India?
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@mkahn1031 those examples do take away valuable time and resources from other people who need them
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@The_Desert_Tiger Population grew in the meantime. So it's a lower rate.
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He doesn't have to acknowledge anything. If you fight off a bacterial pneumonia with antibiotics do you have to specify that you took human antibiotics and not fish antibiotics? People are only getting the horse stuff because doctors are refusing to prescribe it, and even those who get prescriptions are being rejected at pharmacies. This entire situation was created by the powers that be, not Joe.
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@tonynguyen7495 I know a ton of people who took the horse stuff because they couldn't get prescriptions. DISCLAIMER: Don't do it. Get a prescription. But they're fine, there's a ton of resources to figure out the dosage.
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The A-10 has already been largely replaced by the F-16, F-18 and F-15 strike eagle.
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@snuffeldjuret They're not over-hyping it, the technology is being denied. There's a compilation of the DoE being asked about molten salt reactors almost every year and them saying "we're looking into it". When the people in charge drag their feet and gatekeep and the people hyping them have no power to make things real, how do you expect results?
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@snuffeldjuret And outside the US, India and China are looking into it.
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@para_magnus2200 How was it better? 140gr at 2,500 fps? Jeez.
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"Go play in traffic" lol
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Mental health is already part of the background check system. And it was reinforced in 2012 after Aurora. But these people are always under investigation and surveillance and the authorities never use the system already in place to stop them.
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The "coup" that was just a president fleeing to Mother Russia, his own party disavowing him, and parliament voting to relieve him of his duties since he just left?
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Also the biolabs did not have bioweapons. Even the Russian representative in the UN said they destroyed samples that could be used in weapons. Could. Cope.
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That's not how it works. There's no such thing as "equal footing" when US doctrine is sending decoys, HARMs and cruise missiles at radars. Look up the first night of Desert Storm. Target drones were sent flying to bait SAM crews, cruise missiles fired at radars and HQs, Apaches flew close to the ground to sneak up on Iraqi bases and take out their radars. Then the F-117 flew over the chaos. If you're trusting multiple angles of radar source (which isn't reliable anyway) then first consider that radar sources will have a time limit on them until a missile hits them.
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Everyone has a lot to lose because if Star Citizen fails it can kill the crowdfunding of future games. If it succeeds, it proves that the model of outrageous macrotransactions and perpetual early access works.
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@Jolis_Parsec Taking Taiwan? A lot of only sons will be on the bottom of the strait. That one child policy really biting them in the ass.
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Russia is getting military aid from Iran and North Korea, why can't they surrender?
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@DebasedAnon What do you mean no cards? Gazprom is gonna have massive layoffs. CPI increased 21% in one year. Banks forced to support military production with unsecured loans. Interest rates are absurdly high. Stick a fork in it. It's done.
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 @originalmix2546 The geographical border between Europe and Asia is usually considered to be the Ural mountains. Ukraine is on our side of the Urals.
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Oh, I definitely agree on the pills, they have become so legitimized in the developed world it's got out of control. I definitely don't like people doing heroine, meth etc but drugs should at least be safer and offer a way out to those that chose the path - not send them to prison and make them nearly incapable of ever getting cleaned up.
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 @danielrios6396 Where's the proof?
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Bro I'm in Europe and the same happens here. You have problems with some guy for decades and nothing happens. Then one day there's an argument and someone pulls out a shotgun. Only after there's an homicide does anyone care. Then TV crews go to the area and all the witnesses say "yeah this has been going on for years and now someone's dead, oh well". Justice is slow. Ped0s and domestic abusers sometimes get suspended sentences and go home free. Sometimes someone knows someone in local government and gets a court ruling reversed, so you have to go to a higher court to settle a dumb land dispute.
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Oh and we don't talk to the police too. If you self-incriminate Euro cops won't ignore it. The reason you don't talk to police is because you don't want to give them any reason for arresting you. Arrests are good, even in Europe. Shows they're doing their job. Shows they need funding. If there's no crime politicians start taking the money to fund something else.
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@MR2car They're corrupt too. I mean, police officer is a career for "bad boys" not fine upstanding people. There was a story a couple of years ago, this involves people with only a couple of degrees of separation from me so I won't provide details, but there was a crime ring that involved a guy in a kickboxing team and his cop friends. They were drug dealing, gun running, extorting, etc. A few years before that the department that handled guns and explosives in a police department was helping offload explosives and detonators from the legal market (demolitions, mining, etc) to the black market. A few months ago someone was filming a police arrest (obviously white cops arresting a black guy) and one of the cops straight up slaps the phone out of the woman's hand. And his body language almost made it seem he was about to beat her up. Obviously, it's worse in places ran by cartels. But compared to the US? It's about the same. The only difference is that they shoot less here because they actually get in trouble. Even over justified shootings.
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No, bashing them for using them near civilians. The US loves cluster bombs, but they're dropped on military targets. Like air bases.
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@zenithplyrzreg6405 WWI didn't have a drone operator telling you where the enemies are. WWI was men going over the wire, getting chewed up, infiltrating trenches. This war has IFVs rushing in, dumping troops out the back, then trench clearing looks more like modern CQB fighting rather than WWI bayonets, pistols and clubs.
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"On multiple occasions" probably means during the Sievrodonetsk battle, which was one of the bloodiest. That was a month ago.
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1. The USSR kept control of territory Germany annexed. Europe fought WW2 to liberate those countries. Then Moscow says "nah the communist party is in charge"? The USSR essentially undid the sacrifice of millions. 2. After communism Russia was still involved in Transnistria, Chechnya and South Ossetia.
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50 Shades of FDE. I never got a final answer on that but the running theory is that they never comitted to matching the different polymer formulas and aluminum anodizing because it's too difficult, even though old marketing photos show the SCARs with consistent colors. If you look it up you'll probably find photos where they're all "light sand" colored instead of brown, gold and tan.
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Okay but the FTC is not gonna put out the fires. It's like asking the FBI to change school curriculums.
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We are training them wrong, on purpose.
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But Taiwan is not a breakaway state. They were the recognized government of China which lost the civil war to Maoist forces. They fled to Taiwan. They didn't steal Taiwan from China. Transnistria, South Ossetia, Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk were taken by force. It would be like the Revolutionaries in America defeating the British colonial forces and after them leaving to Britain George Washington said "even though we didn't beat you in British soil the Isles belong to us because you left".
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Name the process that would remove 3 grams of tritium from massive amounts of water. Can't be chemically separated and there's not enough density difference to use centrifuges. You're accusing them of being cheap, let's hear the expensive methods.
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Because the loan is in stocks rather than monetary value. If it was based on monetary value it would just be a normal loan. The lender wants the stocks back because he is in a long term investment. It doesn't have to be a one-sided deal either. The short seller may take advantage of a dip in prices to buy back what he owes when it's low, and the stock price rises from there. He already has the stocks he needs to give back to the lender so any rise in price does not affect him, meanwhile if the stock prices are high when the loan is due the lender ends up "making" money by getting stocks at a higher value than they used to be, should he wish to sell right then.
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@colderwar "what we called the place here up until the war" - speak for yourself. I knew better and never called it "the Ukraine" out of respect. They do not accept foreign volunteers without combat experience. If you want to call it The Ukraine so much, then you can wear the Russia uniform. They are that desperate and will take you.
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@johno1544 "economic warfare" aka sanctioning a country massacring hundreds of thousands of civilians in China?
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@berserkasaurusrex4233 The Uganda? The Uruguay?
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@berserkasaurusrex4233 Already backpedalling. Thanks for admitting defeat. The Ugandans because we also say The British, The Americans, are you out of your mind? You're only digging yourself deeper.
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@colderwar Exactly. Meanwhile Russian PMCs hire foreigners, they even hand out Russian citizenship ))))))
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The firebombings achieved similar effects, and didn't.
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@Laneous14 Everyone with any access to power is a PDF file over there. When the Taliban were kicked out of certain regions, it would be the government forces that got into the Bacha Bazi. There was one green beret who beat up some police chief or ANA officer over it and had the charges dropped.
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@seanharricharan9191 you're guessing. The articles were all about anti-Trump bias and not AMD stock prices.
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@seanharricharan9191 google search results are not constant over time. You think I haven't seen the changes myself? Seriously, you're speaking about what you don't understand.
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@ravitejaknts there are many examples that defy the SEO explanation. Please stop trying to defend a major international corporation that is taking over the world.
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@ravitejaknts "How can one Company manipulates millions of search results" - lmao you've sunk your credibility. They don't have to manipulate millions of searches.
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 @ravitejaknts The "authority sites" are all owned by corporations. Corporations that want to control information.
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+HumanNumber 2198348021 the smaller sites could just wipe their hands clean and say they're not publishers but a public forum, meaning they're not liable.
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There's countries that are only now switching from 7.62 to 5.56. They're not gonna change again any time soon.
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@brothermine2292 It's not the fact that the candy is only one day. It's that the candy is given every two days, and the day after eating it I'm stuck on the toilet. The tasty candy is good, but eating it comes with gastrointestinal consequences. No heating in winter, but massive energetic consumption during summer. I'd reject the free candy (no heater in winter) to avoid paying the price in the porcelain throne (blasting AC day and night in summer).
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With enough area, you can produce as much as you want. You're just paying a premium $$$ for area.
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@rjaymurphy Didn't a Der Spiegel Pulitzer prize winner admit he faked his story? And didn't Lance Armstrong use PEDs? Great people have fallen. Why didn't you mention how Seymour Butts here disgraced himself by siding with Russia in the Syrian gas attacks and the Skripal affair?
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So you're saying it is... "concrete evidence"?
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+7charlierox >"HURR DURR EVERYONE WILL GET GUNS EVEN DEPRESSED KIDS" >"lol I don't know any 12 year olds with the equipment"
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Because it was never made to or meant to. Sure, MiG-29s were never made to fire HARMs either so an adapter was built, but the employment is suboptimal and at least the MiG-29 has the performance. The faster you go, the more range the HARM gets. The A-10 is a slow aircraft. It's actually sillier to bolt HARMs to an A-10. It's an exercise in futility.
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"is going to be stupid enough to flash the OK hand sign knowing that if it got out it would make him look bad" - The point is that 99% of people DON'T KNOW it's going to make them look bad.
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 @alexchr380 If you directed the Earth to rotate around Jupiter instead, I would say it's impossible to understand what you are trying to do.
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When you pay in cash the store doesn't actually "collect" that revenue until after the money leaves the store safe and is deposited in the bank through a valuables handling service. From the time you pay until it's in the bank that value is not usable by the company to purchase stock, for example. Which means there will always be a lag between the moment of purchase and the money becoming available. For you, the consumer, the money leaves the wallet instantly. But to anyone managing the store it doesn't arrive instantly.
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They've been pretty accurate.
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The "if you have nothing to hide..." argument is severely flawed. How do you know if what you do will be ordinary and legal in the future? If today's surveillance was available decades ago, homosexuality would have been severely punished. You can deny your right to privacy all you want. Join those Big Brother reality shows or something. But don't deny others their basic rights.
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Except that Russians did lose multiple times more men than the US did in Iraq in Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and Inherent Resolve. The Ukrainkan leaflets were not kidding. The difference between a threat and a promise.
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@yeahright4659 Russia isn't fighting NATO. Trust me, if they were they'd be receiving the hammering of the century.
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@alejandrovallejo4330 They should be liable. If I tell you, as your boss, to unplug a machine and there's an issue with the machine not being grounded and you get shocked, I'm liable for the damages you suffer because I should have made sure the machine was safe before telling you to touch it.
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@fraserfir19 Tough titties. If it can't be proven, and you were healthy before the shot, the default position should be that the damage was a result of the mandate. If businesses don't want to risk being liable it, they shouldn't mandate it.
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@alejandrovallejo4330 That's not how it works. First, they have not been widely tested because they've essentially did their best to eliminate the control group. Safe in the overwhelming majority of cases still means payout when it goes wrong. Sure, they don't need to determine safety. Then just need to pay when it isn't. Many people are not known to be medically incapable of taking it until they take it.
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To be honest, on video a silenced gun sounds as loud as an unsuppressed gun anyway. YouTube is shit to notice sound differences.
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The "we weren't fighting a real war cope". Russia already went for the high value targets.
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The problem is that we'll also have more powerful hardware, AI assisted development and upscaling, etc. so we'll have no need to run things in the cloud. More bandwidth doesn't fix latency either, the only way to fix it is running multiple copies of the game with AI predicted button presses and then only show the "correct" guesses to the player.
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@the_forbinproject2777 The hell does that mean? First, his opinions are biased. Second, he won't find support because his arguments are out of touch with reality. Third, why would it upset anyone on Ukraine's side? He's just being wrong about special forces and resistance movements, it has nothing to do with Ukraine.
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In that case the guidance kits exist in lesser quantities than the bombs.
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@kaleido6551 Still obessed over the Ghost of Kiev after 6 months. This kind of anger has to be the result of mental illness.
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@kaleido6551 The sinking of the Moskva is a very real failure worth bringing up. You're still seething about the Ghost of Kiev. You should be seething about the Moskva. Your boys drowned in that ship. Your government killed them. Be mad at that. Not the Ghost of Kiev. The real enemy is sending you to die.
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We also remember what happened to the nation fighting against US aid.
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@dominatorandwhocaresanyway9617 if a misfortune happens anywhere on the world bankrupcy is always looming over your head. For example in Canada 15% of bankrupcies are medically relared (read it on a bankrupcy website, don't remember which).
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The other way around. 5.56 was bad against a insurgency that used harassing fire from outside 5.56 range and forced you to wait for fire support. In all out war the caliber matters less.
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Ukraine captured in a week more land than Russia captures in a month.
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But it's not censored. You can freely look up their TV. The pro-Ukraine side even translates Russian TV so you can witness yourself how unhinged they are.
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@titytitmk2738 "France replaced the FAMAS because it was a 50 year old rifle." - Irrelevant. Why do people keep bringing this up? Nobody claimed the FAMAS was replaced because of any reason in particular. France issued bullpups, but didn't pick a newer bullpup to replace it. "They went with the HK 416 for political reasons. The EU is trying to standardise military equipment throughout member nations in order to facilitate an EU Army." - Again, irrelevant. HK could have made a bullpup. The EU army could have a bullpup. Doesn't this say something about bullpups? "New Zealand replaced their bullpups because they were old." - Again, irrelevant. They could have replaced them for newer bullpups. "As New Zealand is a small nation with a small military it went with what was already available and cheap instead of trying to make their own or go for a more expensive rifle." - The LMT is an expensive rifle. The fact that they're a small military is what allowed them to do this move. The US wouldn't be able to justify the cost of buying such an expensive rifle. "Neither dropped bullpups because they are bad guns." - Nobody claimed they were bad guns. The point is that two of the nations that adopted bullpups abandoned the concept.
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@titytitmk2738 "No British soldier (or any other soldier that has used them) says they are bad." - Okay I promise you there's at least ONE who says they are bad. Just like there's a minority of around 3-5% US servicemen who consider the M4 a bad rifle. "British SF units use an M4 clone for a variety of reasons, but none of those reasons are due to the L85 being bad." - Royal Marines apparently also went Diemaco. "So, on an operation if British SF units used the L85A2 or A3, it would immediately give them away as British soldiers" - You do realize that a L119 carbine is easily identified as being British, right? "Using an M4 or an M4 clone means they could be from any western nation." - Except that only a few Western nations issue Diemacos/Colt Canada rifles, and the SF configurations are easily identified as British because of the specific barrel, stock, gas block, etc. Especially the new rifle with the integral rail on the upper. No other nation I know of issues that particular variant. "SF forces need to travel light." - All forces need to travel light. The more foot on a soldier's back the lower his performance in combat.
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@titytitmk2738 I was wrong, it was only the 43 Commando Fleet Protection Group that switched the SA80 for the Diemaco C8. "Do you think the average insurgent or other opponent the SAS would be going against would have the chance to take a detailed look at their guns?" - Then it wouldn't matter if they were using SA80s. Plus, the problem is someone getting killed or a rifle being lost. Since the early 2000s that insurgents take video and photos of the dead and gear left behind. Someone would be able to identify them. Also, why would there be a problem in insurgents knowing they're fighting the SAS? The issue would be the subversive action wing or whatever they're called now, where the secrecy involved would be much greater because if caught or identified, their actions could actually trigger new wars. And if those people ever go into a mission, they'll probably take Chinese AK clones so that the government can pretend they were just soldiers of fortune carrying smuggled weapons. "The SAS, SBS and SRR use M4 clones because to 99% of people they would look like any other NATO SF unit. They would not be immediately identifiable as British SF." - In the 2000s, they would. Photo and video available of SAS fighting in the GWOT clearly shows they're British due to DPM pattern smocks and pants, plus British web gear. Nowadays most special operations seem to have converged to multicam or derivatives with similar looking plate carriers like JPCs and LBT 6094s, but for decades the British gear was easily identifiable. They also commonly wore the green DPM smock combined with the desert DPM pants, which is a striking combo. "moderate to long range patrols would use vehicles and not be walked" - They'll have fun in mountainous areas where vehicles can't go into.
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@leowilly29 "you can leave if you want" like Brexit? Lmao
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I don't follow the Doc. There's just no way twitch would have paid out the rest of the contract with such an easy way out.
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@JStack They have a media storm all the time, it's quickly forgotten. Now they have a media storm anyway. Lose-lose.
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>you can literally just drive into them with a gun what's the point? People get into the US illegally all the time. From Mexico. The same place where cartels have fully automatic weapons and anti-air rockets. Making it nationwide would be useless. This implying that it wouldn't be possible to manufacture guns in US soil - because there's metric tons of tooling that would be thrown away by arms manufacturers. Or not even that - do it like in Brazil: silver solder, sheet metal, drill and files.
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 @YorkerEli Aircraft are shot down. Ships are sunk.
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Aluxxz Okay there's three activities (which can be found in other games), there's grouping with other people listed twice for whatever reason, visiting/exploring is also mentioned twice. Great game. I'll stick to finished games, though.
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@waynzignordics Withdrawl prevents targeting of the enemy. Can't produce casualties. The air force is getting hammered. 3 aircraft shot down in Kharkiv, they stopped coming. 4 aircraft shot down today. They may have learned their lesson.
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If BMW sold you a car saying you'd always get the newer engine installed, then they refused to upgrade your engine, that would be a legitimate complaint.
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@Sanctus-Susanin How is that logical? By the way, 1996 expired ATACMS shredded the Alligators. Endangered species now. Instead of destroying themselves with words, Russia destroys itself with actions.
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Can't make money if banks don't allow it. That was what spurred the change.
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It's not a scam at the individual level but it is one at the government level. Also, do your calculations include any subsidies? Would you still get the 30% interest on investment if you had to pay the real market price for panels and installation?
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You'd still need to cool the electrical components.
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@ERIK-457 The problem is that many people get hung up on this efficiency number regarding how an electric motor converts electricity to movement, however efficiency of a battery is degraded as temperature increases. The fuel of a tank also powers all the electronics, including the computers, sights and elements like the radars in active protection systems. The battery bank won't just have to be responsible for movement but also power somewhat demanding electronics. The energy density of fuel is just too important to give up. The crew also needs fresh air. So in the end it's impossible to run on an hermetically sealed tank except for a short while.
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Due to emissivity differences flying a thermal camera drone over a minefield after a hot day will make them glow. Much faster than a roomba.
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@Exoc3tBOOM They straight up do not do what they were designed to do. They made it so that the spike protein wouldn't come off the cell walls. They effed it up! It still detaches from the cell walls and ends up everywhere else in the body. It literally does not do one of the things it was designed for. What else did they mess up?
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You have to be kidding. It's not just "separation" but the hinderance it causes to human activity. "Separating" from others meant that many businesses tanked. And thus the jobs with them. It meant ruining people's careers. It mean ruining schooling and education. Yes, the government and politics are to blame. The only way to get over it is to say you're over it. Really? Two years into it, and with the stuff becoming endemic, you want to social distance? Suck it up? With all that comes with it? Poverty? Suicides? Suck it up?
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"I watched 50,000 dollars being wasted in the blink of an eye... and the world just fucking watched."
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@juancorzo5081 But the US was still involved in wars, specifically even lying to Trump about the number of troops in Syria. Why didn't they come forward during Obama? Why didn't they come forward during Trump? Why did they wait until the Biden admin?
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@conservativeguitarsingerjs7937 You just said in your comment that they'd be charged with a felony for the approach but not murder... the problem is that such a felony will make the murder charge a slam dunk.
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@conservativeguitarsingerjs7937 "you guys always defend actual rapist in the act" - Strawman argument. You're out. "Even if technically they had to be a felony and the guy wasn’t technically committing a felony" - So we're right. Give it up. "he was obviously an evil piece of shit and they were obviously the good guys" - Doesn't matter. You don't get to kill people because they're bad, and good people committing crimes still need to face the consequences like all of us.
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@conservativeguitarsingerjs7937 "so you think it should be a felony to arrest people who are absolutely committing crimes" - It is a crime to perform an illegal arrest. "that thief who has a history of violence" - It doesn't matter who it is. Justice should be blind, remember? You don't get to partake in false imprisonment simply because you have a hunch some guy is a POS. "You know you are supporting the bad guys because of their skin color alone" - False. My white ass will open fire on a bunch of armed assailants trying to kidnap me. No matter their skin color. "Even if you could legally make the case" - And we can. "why do you think in any sense morally these guys were the bad ones" - They are because they should know better, they have no powers of arrest and trying to perform an illegal arrest is a criminal act. "definitely attack them" - In self-defense.
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@conservativeguitarsingerjs7937 "You do get to kill people when they attack you" - Not if you're committing a crime! A home invader can't claim self-defense if attacked by the residents. "why do you defend Jacob Blake?" - Who's Jacob Blake? "Doesn’t sound much like a strawman anymore does it?" - It does because that's exactly what a strawman is - pretending people said things they never said. "you claiming that I said you can kill people for being bad people" - But I didn't. You were using "bad" and "good" as ways to let people off criminal charges. "They killed him for charging him while they had firearms" - And they were the aggressors. "They killed him in self defense" - Not when they're committing a crime. "Even if they weren’t legally allowed to make the arrest" - Which makes them criminals. "do you think the criminal Animal knew that he only commit a misdemeanor and it wasn’t a felony so they couldn’t make a citizens arrest?" - Completely irrelevant to the facts at hand. There was a crime committed and the criminals killed someone as a result. "They killed him for attacking them. What were they supposed to do at that point?" - So if a criminal breaks into your house, and you defend yourself against him, would you ask what's the criminal supposed to do? "So people are just allowed to commit crimes and if the police don’t get there to stop them and the person goes away they can just get off Scott free?" - Huh. I hate to break it to you but that's how it works. If you weren't even there to witness the crime you can't perform citizen's arrests on random people in the street. You do understand that a criminal getting away is better than innocent people getting killed because of mistakes, right? "this is obviously just a black and white skin color issue with you" - It isn't. "But I just wanted to point out you actually made the strawman argument." - I didn't. I replied to what you said. That's why I use quotes.
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@conservativeguitarsingerjs7937 Do you know how society works? We say it's better for a hundred criminals to go free than one innocent person being punished. We as a society agree that it's better to catch someone later than trying to rush justice. You can attack a police officer if they are acting illegally. There's been cases of people who fired on cops performing no-knock raids. "If they are attacking you you should absolutely kill them" - Not if you're committing a crime. You won't have justification. "This is common sense dude you fucking common sense and just have a base level of morality." - The morality is that false imprisonment and kidnapping are serious charges. Attempting to do an illegal citizen's arrest you f you up for life. "There are already other videos of him doing the same stuff." - Irrelevant. The shooting is defined by the facts at hand, not who is the worst person in the mix. "Quit supporting the evil guy." - The evil guys are the people who jump into trucks and start patrolling the streets and doing checkpoints. That's not freedom, that's tyranny.
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@BoomchacleV0 seems suspect that the armor simply must try an occupy the space where the chest is located, rather than pushing a chest offering almost no resistance.
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@Alam3dQ The first line of defense will recede until morale improves.
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Cope. Ukrainians have more warfighting experience than 90% of the armies of the world. They know better than you.
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If the pod can see something, it can lock on it. Doesn't matter what it is, as long as you have that black dot (in black hot mode) you're just telling the computer to use contrast with nearby pixels to track. If you can tell After Effects to track someone's face to do a CGI effect, you can lock on a duck.
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Actual bot behavior
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@fiazmultani Ritter is a convicted PDF file. Ritter can claim whatever he wants - Russia used the deal as a distraction to allow the attack on Debaltseve. Prepare the attack? Recapture? Russia broke the deal the DAY AFTER MINSK II WAS SIGNED. Fortifying Bakhmut? In less than a day? An attack in 6 months involves more labor than peacetime build up.
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@Rekthun Ryan is wrong, the data shows it.
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@matthewkuhl79 Russian APT evidence is extremely widespread. Any sort of knowledge on cybersecurity makes it obvious. You can tell when a computer was ran on Ru-Cyrillic keyboards and malware code is reused and repurposed often so you can make a sort of genealogy tree of who has been attacking systems.
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Fun fact - the Russian victories are happening slower than a snail's pace. In fact, if snail had started from the 2015 borders in 2022 they'd be across the Dnipro at this point.
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Are they? How come they go to court and force other outlets to issue retractions all the time? Seems everyone else is lying about them.
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So instead of actually holding people actually accountable for what they've actually done, the solution... is taxation?
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Elizabeth "I took 15 million from oligarchs" Warren and Bernie "Old Towne Media, LLC" Sanders. No refunds.
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The Concorde supercruised for most of the trip. It used afterburners for the takeoff and pushing through the transonic region.
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You're welcome to join the winning team if this is what winning looks like.
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@bubbathedm You're not acknowledging anything by giving airtime to nutjobs, but go off.
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 @nooneking3959 Ukraine already shredded through a professional and a private army. Ukraine already won militarily but Putin keeps sending lemmings forward.
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@rogerout8875 It's Russian telegram channels trying to do damage control
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They did the flour cannon.
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Imagine being a grown man and being insufferable online.
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Strelkov was a FSB asset. He was working for the Russian government. The problem is that they thought Ukrainians were weak but once they pushed back Russia could not flood them with weapons and ammo without getting caught. Part of the "success" of the Donbas operation was that most of the world didn't care about the US presenting the hard evidence of Russian intervention. Had Russia actually given them the entire support they asked, the EU could have been persuaded into boosting Ukrainian capabilities.
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They shut off NS1 citing nonsense oil leaks. They just smeared oil on a control panel.
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Russia has a seat in the security council.
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@feitme It does sound bitter, but that's because society grows bitter as a result. Past a certain age where people can make their own choices an age gap isn't "wrong", obviously, but there's a consequence - it takes people off the dating market in their own age bracket. This forces them to go younger, or if they're young, to not find a dating partner. People can grow bitter from it, or just stay emotionally stunted as they missed out on relationships and need to catch up. Which leads to more age gaps as young people can't find people with the desirable levels of maturity.
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@AD-wm9if I heard there's no immunity and the disease becomes more lethal if you get it twice.
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70 billion is equivalent to 200 billion USD thanks to purchasing power parity. So Russia spends 1/3rd of the US budget.
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@MrGman2804 I understand your frustration but he explained what he meant. He added the information, you could have thanked him or told him that it doesn't make a difference. The conversation could have stopped there.
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Never salute a man in the field, makes him a target for snipers.
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There's a ton of second and third order effects you're not considering. The Air Force has no business commanding pilots in carrier ops, considering that they don't have the experience to run carrier ops - the Navy does.
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Russia invaded Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania and Moldova since 1991. If we count Soviet Russia, we'd have a list as long as the US.
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@ОлегРябинин-ч3в Persian Gulf War was the defense of Kuwait, Somalia was a UN-sanctioned resolution to protect the air delivery after Pakistani peacekeepers were killed, Bosnia was aggressed upon by Serbia, Afghanistan was self-defense and it triggered NATO Article 5, the intervention in Libya was requested by the Arab League and approved by the UN.
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@chaoschaoforever 6.8 is garbage, with no offense to the developers. Worse trajectory, much higher ammo weight, only benefit is slight energy advantage. Like the Soviets figured out, 5.45 beats 7.62.
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@Gearshoot What do you mean, inferior powder? There's no "hotter powder", if you make a cartridge hotter not only do you overgas the rifle, but you also completely make the range settings on the AK sights useless by changing the trajectory.
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@t.s.9996 How are you sure you're taking out targets when you're just releasing high dispersion weapons? By your own standards most missions are failures due to the inability to target with precision and readjust.
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@danielm6049 Please stop propagating this myth. The government accountability office actually slammed the USAF for buying too many A-10s in the past.
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@Predator42ID Which missiles scored direct hits? Because apart from shoulder fired MANPADS I don't see anything not instantly splitting any aircraft apart.
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@JohnRodriguesPhotographer I'm not sure which seeker is being used on Stingers currently.
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@JohnRodriguesPhotographer That's just a lie. The USAF was actually criticized for buying too many A-10s in the beginning. Please stop parroting narratives made up by lunatics in the Reformist crowd.
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@JohnRodriguesPhotographer Meanwhile in the real world the USAF commissioned the A-X program, axed the A-7 upgrade plans to buy the A-10, got so many that the government had to start grilling them, and only really started trying to replace it two years before it was meant to. 1993.
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@JohnRodriguesPhotographer "the criticism for the number of a10s purchased started around the so-called end of the Cold War" - This is not true. It happened in 1979.
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@JohnRodriguesPhotographer How would the 30mm the ineffective in Vietnam? Its use is mostly against infantry, and the best aircraft to target infantry in Vietnam fired machine guns/cannons/rockets into the jungle.
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2014? The president realized he'd be prosecuted for ordering police brutality so he fled the country.
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They were warned by their own engineers to build a higher sea wall and take the generators out of the basements.
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Nadeer They're getting cut off at Izium.
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Nadeer So? Russia still losing.
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Nadeer Watch the Russian sources, they're admitting that they're losing.
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They're winning on the battlefield? Could have fooled me.
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For years I read the Metro and literally had the exact same news as other papers and from the same sources.
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@Ryan_Harkin it tells me that Metro doesn't stick out like a sore thumb nor does the fact that it is free matter. So calling fake news on this just because it's Metro...
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 @venator5 a T-62 was destroyed in Marinka, March 15 2023. Please stop lying.
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Even the loyal wingman program is not ready for prime time. The F-35 is combat capable.
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@peternystrom921 Yes, it is absolutely needed.
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@jimayers4397 Not in terms of herd immunity. If taking the shot only affects the individual, the passports/certificates need to end. And businesses need to stop mandating them for employees.
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@jimayers4397 "this is a work in progress" - Call me when it's finished.
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Actually there's an even split. And the studies saying it doesn't work involve people in critical condition where the virus is already done, it's the inflammation and oxidative stress wrecking havoc in the body. Because the mechanism of operation is by preventing the virus from binding to cell walls, those studies essentially only prove it's not effective when you give it to people too late.
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"we have to ban speech to ensure a free society" - mang just come out and say you don't want a free society because you're not willing to live with the consequences of freedom
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@ianmustazza7915 Actually, it is free speech. Sorry. "if the result of a free society is people being shot in their place of worship humanity doesn’t deserve free society because we obviously can’t handle it." - then just come out and say it. That's all I asked.
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NATO was already on Russia's border in the Baltic states.
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Nobody is telling you what to do, we think it's a big deal being told what to do. Big difference.
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Klitschko filmed the warhead.
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@Withnail1969 It's obviously a Khinzal. Please look at the pictures of the crashed Khinzal from last year. Even American cruise missiles have this style of construction, a warhead inside the body of the missile that looks more like a naval shell.
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@carter2008 Look at the picture from last year where a Khinzal crashed in Russian territory. The warhead inside looks like a bunker buster bomb. You think you understand, but you don't. Just lookat the pictures of the Khinzal's INTERNAL parts, not the external shell.
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@Withnail1969 It's a Khinzal. Look at the warhead inside the Khinzal crash wreckage found last year. The thick steel is the penetrator of the warhead, plenty of missiles both Russian and Western use that construction.
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@djinghiskhan9199 Anyone with eyes can see that the Khinzal which crashed last year has a warhead that looks exactly like the one Klitscko handled. It even has the same eyelets.
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@billhanna8838 so you're claiming the aircraft was flying stealth and endangering civil flight by hiding themselves from air traffic controller? It is well known that F-35s wear reflectors in peacetime to prevent enemies from trying to sense their real cross section.
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Oh but he "experimented" plenty of times with those.
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@jedidiah5131 Stop reading specs sheets and basing your arguments off that. How many guided missiles have been made for the Tornado? No HIMARS has been taken out, and the evidence is that the Ru MoD releases fake footage. A truck with no pods in the back, 4 random rectangles that they missed with a laser guided weapon, a transport truck for the M777 that has angular faces but bigger windows than HIMARS, and a second floor in a building. Those are the "destroyed HIMARS". So no, we can't agree on a lie.
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You mean disgraced sex offender Scott Ritter. Physical access grants operational control. If I steal your safe and bring it to my garage, the lock won't stop me. I'll grind through the side. Claim operational control all you want, if you have no physical control that warhead is lost.
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Not a single aircraft or naval vessel has been sent. The only tanks that will be sent are spares with the DU armor removed. Europe is padding the Leopard 2 deliveries with Leopard 1s. The Javelins sent were manufactured to destroy Russian tanks, which is being accomplished.
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@ThursonJames Most figures you've seen include the dollar value of the materiel sent as if brand new. They're not getting taxpayer money, they're getting metal. In fact, the taxpayer pays to upkeep and dismantle that equipment. Sending it to combat is dirt cheap.
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@ThursonJames If nobody wants to buy, it has no resale value. Also, explosive material and rocket engines have to be remade. Can't be sold "as is", fuel can develop cracks and cause rockets to explode on launch.
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I used to work in fast food and we had this regular customer who was the spitting image of the SOAD guitarist, if he grew a goatee and put on that dark makeup on his eyes he'd fool hardcore SOAD fans. No joke, it was full doppelganger.
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That's minimizing the weight of the term. It's associated with conspiracy theory. For example Soviet disinfo started the conspiracy that HIV had been created by the US as a bioweapon. It was called Operation INFEKTION and reasonably successful. So you'd say stuff like "AIDS was created to keep us down, stay woke my brothers". Leftist and black nationalist conspiracy theory were what drove "woke" into the lexicon.
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Reminder that lockdowns were based on the numbers from a professor who fudged his study and then was caught breaking lowdown rules so he could get nasty with his extramarital affair.
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The "DIY garage drone" had the design contracted to a Chinese engineering firm, it used expensive aircraft grade engines, servos and avionics.
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@brunneng38 Heinrich Hartmann was forced to crash land a dozen times due to his enemies exploding and his aircraft getting pelted with the debris. He shot down 345 Soviet aircraft in WWII. Was he a bad pilot?
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It's fitting? Mariupol is on the coastline with the Azov sea. They used to be stationed in Mariupol and are known for defending the city when Russia attacked in 2015. It's a perfectly fitting name.
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@derek96720 The justification for the invasion involved the "mobile labs" and the fears of the anthrax attacks, while they needed to sell nukes to convince the populace the chemical and biological part was HUGE post-9/11. Today we only care about nukes but back then nightly news was honest to God trying to convince us two semesters of microbiology would be enough to cause mayhem from a home lab.
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 @acmhfmggru He literally said the opposite.
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It is. Speed is life and altitude is insurance. The purpose of the A-10 was brute forcing warheads onto foreheads back when you couldn't guide them. You had to go low and slow because otherwise unguided weapons would miss.
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+Stacey Story most guns are semi-auto, most countries allow semi-autos.
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+Shanequa Campbell define this "military grade" for me. What kind of grade is it? What makes the weapon different from "civilian" weapons?
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@ulrichkristensen4087 F-22s dropped JDAMs in Syria a decade ago. From the start it was given the ability to drop B61 nukes so the JDAM compatibility was a no-brainer, it cannot use laser guided munitions though.
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@liberalsocialist9723 Pause. Are you implying people are not innocent?
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@liberalsocialist9723 What are they guilty of?
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 @СерхиоБускетс-ф7я the F-35 is itself an AWACS, it's necessary because the F-35B in USMC service would need organic AWACS support which has to take off from a short deck carrier.
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@СерхиоБускетс-ф7я Cope. The F-35 has LPI radar. The frequency hopping is encrypted to mask the radar as background radiation. The skies are filled with TV, radio, etc so random energy will not trigger a RWR.
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@СерхиоБускетс-ф7я Any radiation? So the Su-57 is getting radar lock warnings from the local 80s hits radio station? If you listen to everything, you listen to nothing at all. Like wearing hearing aids at a rock concert. Nothing can hide from modernized radars, but we have scout drones filming the demise of a S-400 platform in Crimea. How many of your wunderwaffe SAM sites need to get wrecked before you finally learn that you can't save yourself from US air power? The R-37M much like the AIM-54 Phoenix is meant for high altitude, fat, non maneuvering targets like bombers, AWACS and tankers. It's a big fat missile, very low Pk against an aware and maneuvering target at the edge of its range.
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"This is photoshopped. I can tell from the pixels and I have seen quite a few photoshops in my time"
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@vendomnu and be someone famous
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They're great to augment capacity and off grid but they still need batteries or else they only work during the day.
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Also in Canada they tossed out the long gun registry because it was too expensive and it didn't solve a single murder. Gun registries are only worth so that the government can decide to ban a category of guns and then know exactly who owns them. The RCMP did that to the Chinese QBZ rifle and tried to do that to the Swiss Green rifles.
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But vaccinated cops can still spread.
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An IR launch sensor won't do much against a radar guided Buk missile.
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Just taking photos of modded Glocks as a whole. We get it, it's a custom slide, gold plated barrel with heavy stippling and a gouged out trigger guard. Seen it before.
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The separatists started because of FSB agents like Igor Girkin. Russians without any links to Donbas entered the region with weapons and started seizing goverent buildings. Later they captured comms towers and made sure most of the population watched Russian language news produced by Russia or pro-Russian oligarchs like Medvechuk (arrested at the start of the war).
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@rob_one4511 "Displayed no conpetence? What metrics do you use to make that statement? Do you realise the size and capability of the UKR military prior to this? + A decade of US funding and training" - You contradict yourself. If the Russian military was competent, they would have realized the implication of the size of the military and the funding and training.
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@Petal4822 Did Ukraine have American missiles pointed at Russia?
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@jesusaguilar4585 "the Ukrainian government refused the Russian corridor offer for soldiers to leave the steel factory" - We all know which soldiers are inside the factory. We all know what the Russians are asking of soldiers that surrender. Those men will prefer to die or straight up suicide vest than get caught. If you were in the same position, you would refuse the corridor.
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@awdrpepper "without devastating infrustructure and/or civilians" - Entire cities were ravaged. Few civilians are getting killed because MILLIONS have left Ukraine.
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@the_motherlord Ukraine has lost all that shit, and still putting up a fight? That makes it even more impressive.
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@the_motherlord "Russia leaving was part of military strategy" - LMAO "they were in that position as a feint" - Then it is absolutely shameful to get that many men killed. You would be devastated if your father, brother or son died in that "feint". "Your inability to agree with, appreciate or comprehend strategy differing from shock and awe" - This was shock and awe. Missile strikes and VDV drops. But they messed up. They attempted shock and awe, they were going for the first night decapitating the military and command and control so they could roll in unopposed. "Time is on Russia's side" - The other way around. Ukraine is already ravaged. It's a desolate country. They have nothing to lose anymore and NATO/EU is giving them the infinite money cheat. Meanwhile Russia has to pay billions for every day this operation lasts. Time is not on Russia's side because the more people lost in the special military operation the more families will be angry at the government. The more money spent the less the Russian government can provide for the people.
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@rob_one4511 They've been pasted? With no Russian losses? Really?
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@rob_one4511 Then if they're taking big losses too, "pasting" adversaries isn't a brag. They're getting pasted just the same. It's called "war", I hear it's pretty brutal. Yes, Ukraine having external support is a given. They're the defender and also the smaller country. Those are the starting conditions. If we're going to hit the reset button and see how it goes if Ukraine gets no external support, I also want to strike the Cold War from history so that Russia can't have a large stockpile of materiel. Things are the way they are.
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@rob_one4511 How are the majority of forces destroyed? Did hundreds of thousands of people die since I went to sleep last night? I don't think it could be possible to hide such a massacre. Fixed in location? Rendered ineffective? The enemy turning their backs and leaving seems effective to me. It's not a remarkable feat. It's below passing grade. If they're so capable, why are they afraid of Ukraine in NATO? Intent past Ukraine? They can have all the intent they want, they don't have the means. After the KIA, captured and wounded, materiel losses, etc they don't have the means to progress past Ukraine even if Ukraine surrendered right now. Give it a decade to heal from the losses before they're capable of another invasion of similar scope.
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@rob_one4511 The US won almost every head on engagement against Vietnam. Who cares if Russia wins head on? They can't win where it actually matters. Asymmetric operations against logistics is a victory like any other. Starve the enemy forces of ammo, food and fuel and how will they fight? This is not Napoleon's game anymore. Russia wants to fight in X terms. Ukraine wants to fight on Y terms. You never fight on the enemy's terms, said Sun Tzu. This is how warfare works. It doesn't matter how much firepower you can bring to bear if when you move it you fall into ambushes, and when you arrive the truck carrying the munitions got blown up by drone sighted artillery. The RF equipment is superior, and it doesn't matter. You can be more accurate, and it doesn't matter. You can have the range advantage, and it doesn't matter. You can shoot faster, and it doesn't matter. You can have the numbers, and it doesn't matter. A single shot into a truck's engine block can delay munitions transports for hours. Funnily enough, doesn't the Orlan-10 use commercial Canon optics? How will Russia manufacture those, I wonder?
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>Carrey as an American citizen is doing the same So you're comparing being productive with being an ass. I'll be the first to defend his rights, as the rights of the people who are complaining. >The only killings he talked about is the cold dead hand and trigger finger of those of the NRA is in support of. Yes, because the NRA is actively interested in getting flak for people getting killed. How about the ATF giving guns to cartels? No "satire" for them?
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Do tell.
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It's usually the other way around, we destroy our own industries so it can be moved overseas. We're very "not in my backyard" these days.
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@georgeian3243 They get a bad rap these days but they sure warned us of every possible pitfall.
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The Netherlands has been cheating on fertilizer use and overproducing for EU export.
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Specialized aircraft are better? Name a few.
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Kadyrov is a Prada-wearing clown. His troops are meant for internal suppression. His father was a traitor to Chechnya. There's Chechens fighting for Ukraine because of what Russia did to them. Kadyrovites are just lackeys.
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Budapest Memorandum. It's our problem.
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@SebHaarfagre Yes, it did. The bombing of WTC in 1993, the attack against US troops in Beirut, the attacks on embassies, not to mention the hijackings from previous decades set the tone for the post-Soviet collapse as an age where fighting terror would be the focus.
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@wert7773 Chechen volunteers largely did not exist. Uzbek volunteers did serve in Afghanistan but the Russian FSB spread the rumor of Chechen involvement to get the US to support the second Chechen war.
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The UK has a rolling 7 day average of fatalities higher than same time last year.
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@StoutProper holy shit I want some of that anti-mold bread
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Debris of Uranian drones have been found. Chinese weapons still seems to be a rumor, North Korea is more likely.
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HIMARS blowing up ammo dumps with no air superiority. Russian artillerymen starved of ammo? No buneo.
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@princesofthepower3690 I don't listen to bellingcat. I listen to people on the front thankful that the shelling stopped.
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>You said HITLER was elected. He was the leader of the ruling party. I'm sorry but that's the way it works in my country and I'm sort of used to saying it this way. >Hence, the reason smart people see the ballot box as a chance to change, and not guns in some basement. The smart people are: 1. voting on other people on a to weaken the mains parties or 2. voting for people who benefit their business
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 @GreenBlueWalkthrough It's already been succeeded by the F-16 and Strike Eagle.
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@cheztaylor8 1) Russia has never cared for legitimacy in targeting. Also, Iran has provided weapons to Russia, maybe by your logic we should Tomahawk the Iranian government. 2) Ukraine restricts foreign volunteers to only those who have been in combat. Russia will take anyone, though.
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@billnikola2463 the DPR and LPR were created by Igor Girkin, FSB agent
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Electronic warfare is basically jamming.
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I'm pretty sure the construction will the similar to the EPR.
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They lied lol
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@g.g.hochstetler2286 They don't have evidence to confirm their claims. You seem to be confused. They made the claim, they need to prove it. They've done nothing except show blurry video of them missing four trucks in a parking lot, and then cutting to footage of a bush burning in the middle of a field. They didn't prove their claim, so I can dismiss their claim without proof. That's how it works. The burden is theirs. Ask them. Not me.
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@g.g.hochstetler2286 The evidence was provided by the videos (filmed by people behind the front lines, not the Ukrainian government). You introduced a different claim, which is a couple of them were destroyed. Look at your original comment. There's no other claim. It's there, 15 hours ago, it hasn't been edited. You have not mentioned anything other than the Russian claim. Back it up. Doesn't matter who I agree with. Back it up, Z-boy.
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@chadthunderkoch9540 Bro, what? He's implying that although the review is not being "paid" in money, it's being paid by letting him keep the rifle. Shipping and paperwork doesn't matter, receiving compensation for a review does.
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Pretty sure it's already regulated as if it was real. It was possible to run stuff on a local machine for like two years or so at this point.
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Japan and Germany were wrecked by WWII. Ukraine hasn't suffered a tenth of the damage those countries went through.
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DU is equally toxic to tungsten carbide. Countries that don't use DU use tungsten carbide. Russians also use DU. How come Russians and all the other soldiers from different countries don't have GWS despite using DU and components equally as toxic?
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Well, defenses over Baghdad fired at random into the air precisely because the F-117 wouldn't show up on radar.
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 @-Kailinn- So all the youtubers advertising Raid Shadow Legends, Nord VPN and Ground News don't care about the things they talk about?
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Why is Britain and Austria doing all the heavy lifting, then?
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Do you want to pay for the court fees?
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That's not true at all. First and foremost the F-35 started as a Harrier replacement which is a critical need for the USMC and partner nations. Second the USAF does need a replacement for ageing F-16s. The A-10 is an aircraft that's 30 years past retirement kept of life support due to Arizona lawmakers.
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@jpower723 It wasn't a fraction of their forces. They are clearly in a hurry, hence the multiple failed advances on Vuhledar.
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Funny how all the bots just cry "propaganda" and never say what is wrong.
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The E variant is more famous.
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 @lindascott1874 the Arab League asked for intervention and the UN voted yes. Gaddafi's economic ideas were just a rehashing of stuff that didn't work in the past.
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@ameritus9041 but no 6 billion were sent. They sent equipment. The military wrote down "worth 20 billion" and the government said "but depreciation makes it 14 billion". That's not 6 billion sent. It's a disagreement on the sticker price.
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@edgerrr "I'm just a jarhead but my opinion is that the A-10 will be a viable platform until an unmanned version is in production" - It wasn't a viable platform in 1991 when it was pulled out of action due to all the losses it suffered against the Iraqi Republican Guard. It isn't a viable platform now that it only performs roughly 10% of CAS missions.
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A-10 Warthog: "No I'm not." Armed forces: "Okay boomer" - gives majority of CAS missions to F-16s, F/A-18s and Strike Eagles
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@seantaggart7382 Already been defeated. Only 11 percent of CAS missions as of 2014.
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@seantaggart7382 firing before the target is spotted, that's the A-10 alright. Probably killed friendlies, too.
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It's not falling apart, if anything it's being validated. This is time preference, they'd rather gain greater control over society to earn more money in the next few decades.
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It means that if I was a journalist and felt offended by your comment I could go to YouTube to ban your account.
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The police are willingly obeying the orders. They have the power to refuse.
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@brian91145 worthless on mobile, youtube app won't load videos if you block ads.
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@calebchristensen8207 Well, he's sort of the only one that decided to be a "celebrity". Jstark hid his face on the only interview he did, Ivan only did podcasts, I don't think any of the AWCY have shown their face either, Derwood has a... complicated temper and people like Mussy aren't liberty freaks like Cody. Usually I'd chalk it up to journos being journos but there is some logic in not spoonfeeding. Anyone who wants in can fall down the rabbit hole, but keep Cody around as a lighting rod that attracts the hate from the normies who can't figure it out.
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@shinqqing5161 nukes aren't real
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Because a pin size object will not reflect enough energy to be detectable until it's just a few miles away.
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Correct, but that's not just due to convenience. Electronics in transmit/receive components have a signal to noise ratio. Noise is useless, and hinders operation. You only want signal. So anything below the noise floor is ignored. If you try to increase the sensitivity, you go below the noise floor. Now the radar just sees noise everywhere.
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It's not too many random individual signals, the entire reception is noise. It's like an antenna TV that's not tuned, you only get static. You can't see anything because everything is "signal". Radar already filters through speed, this is necessary to remove ground clutter. The ground is static in relation to radar so it can be eliminated.
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 @THERECOVERY90 Putin himself said on the Tucker interview it wasn't about NATO.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp9v_QkTBT4 not with that attitude. Better than factory? Hell no. But it's gonna survive a few gunfights.
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The other way around. Jets like the Su-25 are a MANPADS magnet. This is hard to target because the exhaust is much cooler.
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@layinlow77 The Baltic states are NATO. A missile in Ukraine has no advantages over a missile there. Finland may join NATO as a result of this debacle.
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@layinlow77 The "killing" of "ethnic Russians" in Donbass is a result of a separatist movement that resulted in civil war. Not killing for funsies. It's a civil war, deaths tend to happen in those.
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@nickies7863 Negotiations means that both sides are in position to negotiate. If you're unarmed, you don't get to negotiate with a thief. He just takes everything he wants.
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@apa5589 14k people died on BOTH SIDES and most of the deaths occurred in the first two years of the conflict. More people died in car crashes in Russia in 2021 than died in the Donbass conflict.
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@layinlow77 Minsk II was immediately broken when DPR forces initiated an assault in Debaltseve, forcing the Ukrainian army out, in the very next say after it was signed.
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@layinlow77 "Yanukovych was not removed through due process" - Exactly, he wasn't even removed. HE FLED THE COUNTRY BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE PROSECUTED FOR HIS CRIMES. Due process happens when the person involved is present. If you just decide to disappear, you'll lose the seat.
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@apa5589 The implication was that 14k people were killed by the Ukrainian government, but 14k people on both sides died in a civil war. That's not justification for anything that's happened. I'm not belittling anything because the casualties happened on the side I support too. It's you people who cheer for Russia, you don't actually care about casualties. You just care about being contrarians and picked up a new cause.
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@layinlow77 Huuuuh are you trying to imply that the invasion of Russia and the arming of separatist factions is a "conspiracy"? Your timeline of events is "coup -> killing" when it should be "protests -> people beat up and laws against protest are passed -> MORE people join protest -> people die -> President flees with some cabinet members -> Russia invades". There's NATO weapons everywhere, and there's Russian weapons everywhere. The world has weapons. Grow up.
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@apa5589 You don't have facts, you have a fairy tale that's been spun by pro-Russian sources. Yes, there's been a civil war. And you people are pretending it was a genocide.
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@nickies7863 But you're making my point for me. They're already demolished and displaced. Now it's Russia that stands to lose the most.
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@apa5589 There's not "health" or "respect" to be had dealing with people who make excuses for Putin's actions.
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@layinlow77 Yeah the 8 years of civil war provoked by Russia. Before Russia invaded? They invaded in 2014. Ukraine being "neutral" means a weakened Ukraine that needs Russia to survive and be subservient to Russia. Or else they invade. Could you imagine if Canada invaded the US because they didn't like that Trump got elected? And just seized Alaska?
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So they lost their flagship, their air base, their bridge, their troops are retreating... they're winning slowly how?
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@airforceone6523 They haven't gained territory in months. They don't advance every three months. They retreated in April. Then they advanced slowly. Then they stopped. Now they're losing territory and not advancing. Russia deaths are much higher. That's what they don't show you. The original army was wiped out. That's why they need 300k poorly trained civilians to replace 150k professional troops.
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The F-16 does more CAS than the A-10.
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"Russian forces suffered minimal losses in contrast to the Ukrainians, who suffered as much as 20% casualties" - How did they suffer 20% casualties without slowing down? Are the Ukrainians superhuman? They just shrug off artillery and charge forward? At those speeds, they were not suffering casualties. They were shooting fleeing Russians in the back.
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@tomo6293 They were stopped? At the border.
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@tomo6293 Border with Belgorod, ya muppet.
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Heard that last March.
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Is it? Because after Port Arthur they had Monash, and had to revise their handgun laws. Seems like it didn't work the first time. Through the 2000s and 2010s there were half a dozen gun massacres. There was one just last year. But there were also several mass killings by arson. Congratulations, people burn to death instead of being poked full of holes.
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@WingsaberE3 "At least Australia and Canada are trying" - "At least doing something" is the worst argument ever. Things are done because they're right. Not because they're "something". That's exactly what leads to knee-jerk reactions.
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@WingsaberE3 But that's the point. How do you know if it leads to less dead kids if it's a thoughtless, immediate reaction? If it doesn't make a change, would you roll back the changes?
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@WingsaberE3 "New Zealand and Australia both had drops in gun-related deaths and mass shootings since gun regulation." - New Zealand just passed their regulations recently so you can't use a singular statistically irrelevant event to create a pattern, and Australia was already dropping in gun homicides since the late 60s without the rate of drop increasing after Port Arthur. Also, mass shootings in Australia since Port Arthur are like 2/3rds of what they had from 1980 to 1996 so... In addition New Zealand also had a few mass shootings in the 1980s and 1990s but they stopped without them passing anti-gun legislation. "Yeah maybe there have been a few more arson related murders but I really don't see arson being as big a threat as an assault rifle." - You do realize that the Canadian murderer killed like half his victims with arson, right? Sorry but... if mass murderers simply switched to fire and kept killing, you're not saving any lives. If you don't think it's a threat, then you're simply biased against guns. I can accept that. I can accept that people hate guns and want them banned. I'd appreciate the honesty. But when they try to hide behind the excuse that they're trying to save lives, and then openly admit they don't care about alternative methods of mass killing, that's hypocritical.
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@WingsaberE3 "weapons meant to kill a lot of people quickly" - That's like, most weapon designs since the 1840s. "We already have gun control in the form of children and other people can't buy them, why not just a little more?" - I can't believe I have to explain this, but gun laws have been increasing ever since they started. I can't write a comment addressing all of them but for example the 1968 gun control act targeted "Saturday Night Specials" (which originates from a racist term) to make cheap guns illegal, in 1989 there was a ban on the import on foreign rifles, and the way you got hold of a foreign rifle was to destroy the receiver before importing, bring them over as a scrapped gun, rebuild it either by making a new receiver or re-welding the torch cut pieces in a jig, then assembling it. But to complicate it, there's 922r compliance. This means that a firearm built off an imported parts kit could not have more than 10 foreign parts. So if a rifle has 11 parts, you'd need to replace one by a US made part (which is easy because you already built the receiver in the US). But what if a rifle has 19 parts? You'd have to toss out 9 foreign parts and find a manufacturer that is making those replacement parts so you could have a legal rifle. Now, in 2005 it was signed into law that the barrels in those parts kits had to come to the US destroyed. So now you'd have to get a US barrel maker to manufacture you a clone barrel for a foreign rifle and you wouldn't be able to use the original. Are you bored yet? This is only a sliver of all the gun laws that exist. And if you're building a rifle, you have to take care of your barrel measurement and decide if you're going to have a normal stock, a folding stock, or a pistol brace. Because the EXACT SAME WEAPON can be a rifle, a SBR, an AOW, a "pistol" or a "firearm" depending how you configure it. The SBR and AOW require a 200 dollar and registry with the ATF or else they'll come kick your doors in and shoot your dog. Oh, and if you assemble it as a pistol you can later decide to make it a rifle, but if you go from a rifle to a pistol you've just committed a crime. Not bored yet? Look up a flowchart for the legality of a rifle in California. I can't even describe it through text. You need a freaking PhD to figure out some gun laws. We already have all these unreasonable, nonsensical and useless gun laws. And you ask, why not a little more? Do you want me to laugh in your face? You think it's not going to affect us if we get MORE of this bullshit? "We already have gun control in the form of children and other people can't buy them, why not just a little more?" - It NEVER ends. "Hell I have to renew my scuba license and lifeguard license every couple years" - And if you want to cut other people's hair for money you need a 300 hour course but if you want to cut your own at home there's clippers for sale at Walmart for like $24.99. The equivalent to a lifeguard in the gun world would be like being an armored car company's armed security. Pretty sure that requires licensing too. "Do you really need heavy machine guns and sniper rifles to defend your house?" - Machine guns are banned. It's almost like you people insist on being wrong on the facts. And then you complain that we're being pedantic by trying to enforce terminology. I couldn't give a rat's ass about terminology, my issue is people taking advantage of terminology to pretend that machine guns are legal. Also, what the fuck is a sniper rifle? Snipers in history have used everything from the first rifled muzzleloaders, hunting guns, heavy machine guns (Carlos Hatchcock used a scope-equipped M2 Browning machine gun to make a kill at 2500 yards) and more modern rifles like the Accuracy International series (famous for the AWP/AWM from Counter Strike) started off with a British guy building custom rifles as a hobby in his literal shed (and got a government contract before he even had a factory because his rifles were so fucking good). You want to ban a gun because it's built too well? "And if you're going to fight the government that's dumb unless you have the couple million laying around for a SAM launcher." - Those are inflated Military Industrial Complex prices. I can make you a SAM for a few thousand.
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@WingsaberE3 What's messed up is that for 20 years psychologists have warned that media focus on mass shootings and sensationalist pieces push more people over the edge, and around 2016 a study found "contagion" effects in mass shootings confirming that the infamy gained by mass shooters inspires people under similar conditions to take action, but yet only about a year,year and a half ago did some media outlets announce that they were going to stop mentioning the shooter's name. What's messed up is that statistically, one is more likely to get killed by lighting strike in America than in a school shooting. I mean, after the Madrid bombings, which happened in fucking Spain of all places so had nothing to do with us, police went to schools and gave us a lecture on identifying different types of IEDs. I liked it, I'd assume most kids didn't give a shit, but I found value in gaining a skill that could save lives. But we didn't have repeated drills. Should people be taught how to act in case of a mass shooter? Sure. But when you think that it's messed up that children are being subjected to repeated drills, remember that someone knows that school shootings are statistically insignificant and yet they're knowingly traumatizing kids for no reason. "instead of a discussion on how to resolve it." - We had that discussion multiple times but since the answer isn't guns nothing gets done. So not only are organizations perfectly willing to mentally fuck up kids by reinforcing their belief that they're gonna die out of a cause of death that is less common than lighting strike, they'll allow that statistically low number of deaths occur and work to cause MORE through media exposure until they get the gun legislation they want. I'll accept the criticism on the "thoughts and prayers" under the condition that you think about the people who say "we don't want thoughts and prayers" but will literally refuse alternative solutions and actively cause more mass shootings through non-stop media coverage.
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How is it going well?
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Imagine using nukes because of cardboard lmao
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The heavy damage happened to be clouds passing over. Pictures taken later showed the damage to be less than initially reported.
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"If you were to modyfi a pistol with a longer barel and a bipod and a stock. It would become more "effektive" at longer ranges, while "still" beeing a pistol" - Okay, but pistols are more regulated than rifles. Why not start from a rifle? "Explain to me how switzerland can have higher gun desity than the US" - It actually doesn't. Switzerland has 45.7 guns per 100 people, the US has over 100 guns per 100 people. The number is not actually known. "Where im from (norway), you need a legitimate reason to own a gun, be it for competition or hunting. And you need proof that you are using the gun for what it is registerd for, or else your gun permit is invalid" - Okay. In the US you don't need a reason. It's a right. This is not negotiable with with all due respect, we don't care how it's done in other countries. "If you are using it for just shooting, having the ammo only at the range would not be a problem." - So why keep it at home, then? Without ammo it's a paper weight, just display. "And are more or less the reason why people think they need a gun for protection, since that sketchy neighbour has a gun for no "legitimate" reason." - Not true at all. Most people trust their neighbors. Also, the gun isn't to protect against guns. It's to protect against taller and heavier people who can kill me with their bare hands. Knives. Bats. Tire irons. I have the right to have an unfair advantage over an attacker who wants to harm me.
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@Marinealver The F-22 is the twin-engine air superiority fighter like the F-15. It needs a smaller single engine companion, like the F-16 is.
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@colinsanders9397 "The F-35 consistently loses in dogfight exercises unless other aircraft follow a script" - False. You're repeating a lie by David Axe. A smear merchant.
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@jackaubrey8614 "If you don't have F22's (and only USAF has) then that leaves the whole usage of the F35 in doubt" - Not true. The F-35 is a killer by itself. "Air-to-air F35 armament is limited" - 4 AMRAAMs per plane is enough, the Sidekick mod will give the A and C variants 6 AMRAAMs. "I'm in no way convinced that fitted to F35 will ever be as truly effective as its developers would like us all to think" - It's already been used. Red Flag exercises show that it's unparalleled in its abilities to see and not be seen.
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Better yet, it was connected to the cooling fans.
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I am not Conservative. Bob Costas is a douche. Stop with the partisan attitude, dividing people won't solve anything. This isn't about political views, this is about state vs freedom.
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@katiek.8808 Well word on the streets is that facebook was conviniently launched just as the government "ended" it's project to keep logs on people's lives. I don't trust them.
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@katiek.8808 how is a decentralized system "run by the banks"?
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@katiek.8808 no no no. You gotta show me the source code and point to me where everything ties back to the banks. Otherwise I can't believe the claim.
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@katiek.8808 aka you can't back up your claims. Everyone does that shit to cope, don't worry.
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Ritter is a convicted child predator.
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A day trader evaluated GameStop over a year ago, there's a 56 minute video of him explaining why the short makes no sense and that despite all the criticisms GameStop still has value. It wasn't a "oh hell no!" it was a case of people doing their due diligence. That's what DeepFuckingValue did.
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Not even 7h and this comment already had the Curb Your Enthusiam theme play.
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@valemusic8479 whataboutism
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I am willing to suffer the risks of liberty than having the false sense of security of a tyranny. Even if everyone was educated, don't you think people would just keep voting on those that promise more handouts and free stuff?
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 @fredymader1750 their hopes and dreams are to make money in Ukraine Fortunately, most never see the money.
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 @GulfbeachMateo How is that an argument? Seeing an object with your eyes does not change the focus capabilities of a lens.
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@GulfbeachMateo Already did. You didn't answer the question. You presented an invalid argument so again - what do the eyes have to do with lenses?
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Nope. They'd keep fighting knowing that they only have to reach Russia's breaking point.
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How is it a bad idea? It's simply a different way of doing things. The AR design doesn't suffer from having a Stoner gas system. There's testing where ARs went through several thousands of rounds without cleaning and they kept chugging despite the gunk accumulating.
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 @brockvegas9571 If you can be brought to a field hospital they'll debride the wound and give you antibiotics.
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Second place after the first did it on 1969 gets you no points, bub.
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Not in the slightest. For one simple reason - Russia can pump out 4 or 6 times more propaganda because of chaging narratives. Whenever something happens Russia says: 1. It didn't happen. 2. It was faked. 3. They did it to themselves. 4. Actually we did it and they deserved it. So right there Russia can beat Ukraine 4x over the baseline. And Russia does have a higher baseline but I don't feel the need to prove it.
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There's no genocide in the US.
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@calitaliarepublic6753 America does not erase cultures or languages. The people imprisoned are not there because of ethnicity, but because they're criminals. China is attempting to erase vast swaths of land they need for themselves. America simply has a high prison population from having a high crime rate.
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@calitaliarepublic6753 It's a myth that most drug offenders in prison are non-violent. Data from the state of Florida shows 56% of people in prison for drug offenses have violent felonies on record, and less than 1% only had burglary on record, with most having forcible felonies only or forcible felonies and burglary. Less than 1% of the federal drug offenders were imprisoned for simple possession. It's hardcore criminals doing time, and you should not shed a tear for them. Most countries have standards for immigration. Being a hard worker doesn't excuse cutting in line. You can go anywhere else, you will be deported if your immigration status isn't in order. It seems the United States is the only country where immigration is considered a human right that should not be hindered in any way, but most of the world secures their borders. Ask China. They were very fond of deporting Black immigrants or denying stay to them in hotels during the pandemic.
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@freepalestine4192 Don't ask me, ask everyone else. Freedom of movement exists where countries agree with each other to receive immigrants - such as the EU for example - but there's limits. Before you try and change the US to become an infinite receptacle for everyone, demand from every other country to accept an unlimited amount of immigrants first. Then you cna point the finger at the US. Being an undocumented immigrant under a legal framework where you have to have documentation is by definition a crime. If you drive a car that's not registered with the DMV, you'll get it confiscated and fined.
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@freepalestine4192 How is that my logic? Every country has immigration laws. Not every country has China's laws. Just say you love China, you want to live in China, you love everything they do and you hate America. We all know that's why you're here. Congratulations, you endorsed Israel's actions in Palestine.
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One extra digit is enough to send you in a frenzy?
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They'd make more money if they could.
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Russia lies all the time. Okay - let's listen to Russia. Moskva sunk due to accident. Snake Island was goodwill gesture. Now that Ukraine is recapturing territory they say they don't know where the borders are. Listen to Russia, you'll go insane trying to salvage any coherence.
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The gun wasn't a factor in Vietnam. Most issues with the Phantom were due to them being attacked in hit-and-run passes while escorting bombers and having poor radar coverage from ground bases. USAF Phantoms scored 89 kills by missile, only a dozen with guns. The Navy Phantoms scored 40 kills, no guns in their F-4s. Even the Navy's "last gunslinger", the F-8, scored most kills with the Sidewinder.
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He was a sex tourist taking advantage of his Dollar going further in a former Soviet state where the minimum wage was lile 250 bucks.
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+The radical Teddy kills look can you give some credentials? Because we get a lot of people who don't know anything about guns telling us what guns will do the job or won't. Do you have any tactical/law enforcement/military background or you're just basing your opinions off what the media says?
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Shawn Ryan (Sean Palmisano) lied about training Keanu Reeves for John Wick 3 years ago.
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Okay, that one is funny.
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Battlefield 2 was online only and GR was a "realism" shooter. Not a blockbuster kind of game.
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@bodiant5887 That activates Article 5
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Who cares? Dig all the trenches, none of them will matter when Tokmak is under artillery range. Would you spend a winter in the trench when the only rail line supplying you is under attack?
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The Soviets were using 80% of their GDP on defense while the US was spending 30%. No collapse.
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@harmless6813 Trump was intelligent enough to tell Germans to stop buying Russian gas.
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The AWACS could be intercepted by fighter jets...
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+Kevin Kennedy to legally dispose of a gun you need to cut it with a torch in two places and make sure it melts away a quarter inch of material on every cut to make sure it can't be easily re-welded back into a gun. Now ignoring the legal aspect, the firearm is the lower receiver. That's the serialized part you need to destroy. Cutting the barrel just shortens it. The short barrel can be re-profiled and drilled with a new gas port, the gas block reinstalled and the gas tube replaced and it will function fire. As it stood in the video, it would be capable of firing single shots, it would be just the gas system that wouldn't work. By the legal standard, and common sense, it was still a functioning firearm if the lower is intact and it can fire.
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It didn't hijack anything. The original CALF program was always meant to be a STOVL aircraft. The B variant was the "og".
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Reallistically you could get by with only platoon leaders being required to be billingual and 90% of their communications would be with their own countrymen anyway. Plus, during NATO exercises there's a lot of cross training and I don't think language is a problem right now.
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Everyone with a brain knows thatthe Hostomel capture would allow for more forces to be deployed by transport aircraft. It was a repeat of the gameplan used in the Czechoslovakia invasion.
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@gabrielschultz89 even if people don't know they heard about it on the news, think they know what it is, and then hear that the guy running for office doesn't know. It doesn't matter if people know or don't know, all it matters is that the average person thinks he's smarter than Johnson.
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@presleymeck You were talking about cities and then switched to oblast. Nobody was saying anything about what's bigger. You were talking about Russia's retreat from Kherson city and then you switched to oblast to pretend there was no retreat.
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Probably not, but stay off boosters.
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Then some funnyman starts running attacks by taking advantage of the traffic sign reader abilities to inject code into the autonomous driving.
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Thermal is just nuclear energy with extra steps. The water injection into the porous rock has the same downsides as fracking, and when the water comes back up it brings radioactive isotopes to the surface that are often unregulated. I know it's only one study but an area around a geothermal station in Iceland was found to have higher cancer rates. Further study is necessary.
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@robames1293 Because probably it was identified, it was nothingburger, they kept on living their lives but the footage ended up being blown out of proportion and the people in the know can't comment on what happened while people outside the military can theorize about aliens or advanced tech. The knowledge being compartmentalized and people currently serving not being free to discuss their operations and capabilities in detail creates a situation that makes the military look bad even though they're just doing their job, and the whackos are taken seriously.
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This is our business. Budapest memorandum.
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 @Hebdomad7 Not really. If Ukraine was more mountainous or had dense forest, trenches wouldn't be as necessary.
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@djinn666 Vietnam lost militarily, however they inflected enough damage to turn the US population against war. The Russian population is subject to punishment if they protest against the war. Please look into the Tet Offensive to take a good look at how despite shock and awe they were slaughtered, to the point the Vietcong were nearly eliminated and had to be replaced by regular NVA troops. Do you want Ukraine to get massacred? Ask the Vietnamese. Want Ukraine to win? Ask the US.
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@djinn666 Nice change of subject there. The US trained the Ukrainians by playing the Russian side.
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@peteo3436 And that overshadows his actual reporting?
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+Adnan Omerovic it's important to remember that media wasn't as consolidated as it is in the present. A few decades back you could get your news from newpapers, several TV channels, radio, etc and as long as you could pick apart the political biases by getting news from different sources you could be well informed. But now all the media in the US belongs to something like 6 companies.
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The same FSB that got the Sims 3 games instead of three cellphone SIM cards? The FSB that shot an airsofter to death because he was playing with a STALKER larp kit?
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Latin America Russia Today promotes pro-woke stories. Brazil would never go against woke, their gay and trans scene is known globally.
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You misunderstand. Russia spent two decades crafting a weapon. Specially made for us. They pointed it at our collective heads and pulled the trigger. Misfire. At that point, what is the course of action? Forgive and forget? Or take the malfunctioning weapon out of the assailant's hands and use it as a blunt instrument against his skull?
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@Lovemy1911a1 We cut off trade because we need to starve their war machine. How can you blame us?
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@Lovemy1911a1 We consider Ukraine to be one of us. And they will become a EU member after the war. They have attacked our friends, and even if they were not our friends we think it's an injustice. Their revenue comes from an increase in sales. If you are having a panicked firesale, that doesn't mean you're good at business. The major buyers are getting their reserves filled so they cannot take much more unless the price is right. Remember when during lockdowns jet fuel went into the negative? Almost nobody was flying to reserves were full and ships had to dump it or lose money. That's Russia. The Russians started the economic war by making us dependent. Economic stability? Russia is an unstable supplier. It won't blow up in our faces. Russia is relying on Iran because their weapons manufacturing has issues.
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The US wrote the book on unravelling ground based air defenses.
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 @Acolis Ukraine also hunts former Wagner in foreign soil. So just because they got redeployed to Africa that means they can't be struck?
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The "BRICS market" okay man, who is China's biggest market? The US. They move away from the Dollar in the 10% of stuff they can de-dollarize. China imports food from the US and Brazil. You think they can switch to Brazil alone? Say bye bye to the Amazon rainforest.
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I've seen Nokia brand rifle ammo.
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That's mystical woo. A "master" in the sense of a teacher/coach isn't expected to fight because age will hinder their abilities. However if you want to master your craft you do need to fight. Not in the streets and getting into trouble.
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How is he a genius? This is a V1. Bombed London, still lost the war.
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You needed confirmation? It's out in the open. Even Bernie Sanders voted in favor of the F-35 because it would bring jobs to Vermont.
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@John Smith those 50% are just real life NPCs, it's the only explanation
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Striking the top requires a steep dive. You want to risk a headfirst dive into the ground, knowing that the enemy can hit one of your engines? Can you pull up with only half the thrust? Just launch the Maverick from several miles out. Save the gun for trucks.
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This reads like a bad script. Do you get paid for this?
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@randomlyentertaining8287 Because we typically care about our troops, so we want them to have modern optics and good protection. The same job can be done with older and expendable vehicles, but expendable crews. Tons of flag draped coffins coming home isn't good for morale.
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@ProblemOfficer3000 Imagine Mexico essentially getting a "sorry man, you'll stop existing in three days so we're leaving" so they had to fight off the US with only Cold War era stuff before the actual aid arrived.
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Russia blasted so many empty fields with Soviet style doctrine that they needed North Korean ammo. And Russians complain their ammo isn't very good.
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You can find unsafe videos from any country, and imagine what was never recorded.
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Thanks, king.
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And the Yak-141 swivel nozzle was a copy from the concept in the Convair Model 200.
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Millennium Challenge 2002 was not designed to test the US navel forces against small ships, it was designed to test net-centric warfare. It was Van Riper who tried to make it about "testing" the US forces against small-ship guerrilla tactics.
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They're forced to sell at a discount, making up for the difference by selling a higher volume. Other countries are stealing the bread from the Russian people's mouth and Putin has no choice but to allow it. Most pipelines lead West.
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Biofuel by its very nature captures carbon from the air when manufactured, thus "cooling" the planet or at least preventing more carbon from being emitted. Normal fuel takes carbon stored for millions of years during the period where CO2 was much higher. We don't want it all back in the atmosphere. Geothermal heat alone would make Earth unlivable. Our surface would be frozen solid. It's the Sun that gives us our livable temperature.
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@fotoyartefotoyarte1044 Okay. If we don't use biofuel at all, just fossil fuel, CO2 rises. If we only use biofuel, CO2 doesn't rise. The waste heat will be emitted in either case.
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 @skylinefever Sex work is a bandaid that falls off 5 seconds after applying it. It's not real.
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But 2000 years ago Greek philosophers already knew it was round.
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@DavidVercettiMovies so planes lever land or crash?
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 @posthumecaver Russian breakthroughs are meat wave attacks and Chinese golf carts. Have you watched the Ukraine footage? You'd swear it's an impoverished African country fighting, not Russia.
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Worth nothing that when Vietnam got S-75s their AAA kills increased because American pilots started flying lower to avoid radar SAMs. Flying higher doesn't hide from radar.
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 @TACNERD1 How is it wrapped up when Russia has suffered three major defeats in their advances and are now contesting single settlements?
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It's not just the taxes. These new laws could allow a few gun owners being caught for "illegal guns" (guns that were inherited, bought in private sales, etc), being used as an example for the rest of us, and then the belief that Mr. X down the street owns "illegal guns" will be a useful probable cause for search warrants.
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How is it a better idea?
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@robertsmith4681 Those are reasons why getting F-15s to fulfill a need for F-15s is a good idea. The F-35 is: - stealth - mini AWACS - Marines organic air support through amphibious assault ships - allow partner nations with only helicopter carriers or operate Harrier to field a 5th gen naval fighter, which is unprecedented - the missile warning system turned out so great, it's now also the best IRST, making those bubble things on Russian fighters look like a toy - the A variant is cheaper than 4th gen fighters How's the EX a better idea? How are you gonna launch them off a USMC short deck carrier? You know how many F-35s have been made? They delivered the 600th like two years ago. They have the logistics. The EX? It's gonna get what? 80-100 built? It's a small run to keep the St. Louis plant open due to lack of orders...
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@robertsmith4681 Okay, then don't hang anything outside the bay. It can still carry missiles and drop bombs. The F-35 will be closer to the enemy. Nobody can do the job as well as a stealth aircraft because they have to stand far away.
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@cuda426hemi "Socialist Idea as Right To Repair" - lmao do you people take credit for every idea?
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@Danielle-xs5cz If you think the fire department has any obligation to save your stuff, how about you find out in court? Try to sue a fire department for letting your house burn down.
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@Danielle-xs5cz "Your fundamental understanding of fire departments is wrong" - No, your understanding of the argument is wrong and that's why you brought up the fire department in a way it shouldn't have. It simply doesn't work. If a manufacturer takes your money but doesn't give you the phone you paid for that's fraud, if the cops can't prevent every single crime and the fire department can't put out every fire that an issue they can't be held liable for.
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@Danielle-xs5cz You don't even know what you're arguing against. This isn't about how fast something burns, we were talking about entitlement and payment for services. And they put out the fire every time doesn't even make sense, all that means is that at some point the fire is going to run out of fuel or the weather will change in a way that makes harder for flames to propagate. Entire states/countries can go up in flames and countless homes and forests. You can't say "they put out the fire though". That's like if Apple had a million orders for an iPhone, they deliver 10k, and say they provided the service.
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@moiseshuerta3984 the Donbas had many of the young flee West in 2014-2015, and the men have been conscripted by the DPR and LPR since 2022.
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@mikem2132 Duck and cover actually worked. This was proven by the airburst meteor that fragmented over Russia 9 years ago or so. A school teacher told all the kids to duck and cover while she looked out the window. No child was injured while the teacher suffered injuries from the shattered glass.
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@Justme-ie5fb Stop signs don't do anything. If you drive carelessly because there's a stop sign, you'll get T-boned. You're not protected by a stop sign. It simply provides an easier way to figure out the priority and who has the right of way in intersections.
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@mikem2132 Do you spend a lot of time in schools that can't afford windows? The duck and cover technique was developed through testimonies of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima survivors, and nuclear testing in mock ups of towns to study the blast effects. Who said anything about a bunker? Nice strawman fallacy. By all means look directly into the flash and stand tall to face the incoming shockwave. I'll go under the desk.
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The Prussians were a Baltic people, they were conquered by the Teutonic Knights.
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Gripens can't be upgraded. The Gripen E/F is physically larger than the C/D. It's like the Hornet and Super Hornet. Similar looks and name, but different.
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The difference is that there was a big group that wanted slaves. Those who want more gun control in the US are a minority. There was also no constitutional right to keep and bear slaves.
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@Danielscottrhoades The Black Sun Boys? You mean Wagner and Rusich?
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@fakeascanbe423 How am I a hypocrite?
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Cope.
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@baroneleve1196 "But ukraine is paying an even higher cost because they are the ones at the receiving end of an unrelenting barrage of unrelenting artillery and air strikes" - And if you check, most of the artillery is landing on empty fields. Ukrainians abandon positions when they become unsustainable, but the "unrelenting barrage" exposes artillery guns to counter-battery. "After causing enough damage, they then move in with heavy armor and tank support" - Where AT mines and Stugna-Ps do their job. "He described it as hellish" - Many Russians/Donbabwe fighters are also describing the situation as hellish. It's all about how much pressure is applied and where. There's also an Ukrainian fighter in the front line who said that after HIMARS, the barrage had ceased in his position and was much more sporadic. "all of the donbas will be conquered by the end of August" - And Russia will give it back as a form of good will. Ukraine can strike Crimea, it can strike all of Donbas. How do you hold terrain when your military can be wiped off in single strikes like that? "Because there's no counteroffensive in Kherson" - Russia put 22 BTGs in Kherson and 27 BTGs in the opposite side of the Dnipro. Without a counter-offensive in Kherson, they're stuck there. They weakened their Donbas forces to expect a counter-offensive in Kherson. The Ukrainians have been talking about an offensive for a month. Think a little, they wanted the Russians to pull troops out of the Donbas.
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If it spins freely it can start to twist the strap.
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@JCH5391 More like a twizzler. There are limited rotation QD points, which supposedly would be the best of both worlds.
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Russia embarassed itself. Get the timeline right.
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Then we'd get in a "who watches the watchmen?" situation where the tools used for the "greater good" are actually a form of oppression. "People with political opinions? They are all retarded!" *swoop*
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They are in a rush because they are. Nothing seems to indicate calm, the battlefield videos show Russia is desperate for a win.
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They're not fighting for civilization, they're fighting for old men in power.
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Cheap bullets leave a body. Bodies have to be buried. People disappearing raises questions. Mass graves can be seen in satellite pictures. Set a house of fire with people trapped inside, cheap and gives you plausible deniability. Nothing needs to be hidden.
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@jasonbarima8779 The guys who showed off HIMARS fragments outside but not inside the building. The side who lies, had a reason to lie.
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@Crunch_dGH he didn't say ICE was more efficient than electric, he said people benefit from higher efficience ICE designs.
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The opposition army is growing, the Russian army is dwindling. Exactly how is this a good result?
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The current unit price of the F-35A is cheaper than many 4th gen fighters.
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What is a full swing of an institution based on grifting? Meanwhile in the real world, Russian servicemen are discussing on telegram how bad North Korean ammo is.
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Because of politics. Military wants it retired, Congress forces it to stay in service.
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Boxing had qualifiers and 4 eliminations before the finals. Imagine fighting several times to qualify and then 5 times at the Olympics. You can get hit by elbows and cut or tweak joints during submission holds, it would be impossible to have an Olympics without losers moving ahead due to the winners in their brackets being too injured to continue.
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@tusharmahapatra6302 more like 15% and 5% was already in separatist hands.
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They already have zero risk, they use coercion and money to get people to cross the borders with drugs.
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The cost goes to the pockets of the workers building them, who then use their money to stimulate the economy. We all rise out of poverty as a result. Donations don't end poverty - economic growth does. Give a man a fish...
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Whataboutism.
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@TheRestedOne Drones don't kill people, Hellfire missiles kill people.
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Russia bombed Syria.
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You don't bomb civilians. When you bomb them the terrorists tell their neighbours they need to join and fight the US. If you don't bomb the rest of them will just call the terrorists crazy and go on about their day.
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Russia and China mock how "woke" the US is and you claim they're white supremacists?
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Kosovo isn't the 51st state. Why doesn't Serbia ask for Croatia and Bosnia too? What's so special about Kosovo, an autonomous region in Yugoslavia, that they can't demand independence?
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@markdowding5737 It's not a violation of international law, genocide is a recognized valid reason for unilateral declaration of independence. That's exactly why Russia tried to use the genocide excuse. They know what they're doing. A cheap copy of things that have happened before. The bombing of Serbia was a response to a blatant violation of human rights, and also justifiable because Serbs have a history of taking peacekeeping forces hostage to continue their genocides. There were peacekeepers in the Balkans to preventing the conflict from escalating was reasonable. There would be no bigger military confrontations. Russia was there because it was an internationally agreed upon peacekeeping mission. Don't try to deny it, even Russia participated so don't try to come up with excuses. Russia started a conflict in Donbas. Serbia started a conflict in Kosovo. How is this hypocritical? Yes, Russia tries to do cheap copies of what the West has done. But they are purely cynical about it. They know they're lying and know we know they're lying. But we have to remain respectful and diplomatic even if the face of such evils.
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You don't need a license to have a car. Costco is a private business that has the right to demand membership. But the government can't simply put licenses on voting...
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Pandemonium Doom you're just as bad as the leftists.
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Why should he train realigning the sights if the slide does not kick back and there is no recoil? And why would he "fish" the sights? It's much easier to reacquire the sights by pushing the barrel forward than "dipping" the front sight (this causes inaccuracies). Just saying, but I'd at least give him credit for faking the recoil to the masses at home. If he's training in a gun that doesn't need sight re-alignment and on top of that doing it all wrong, then I can't really defend him.
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There is nuance. The lootbox isn't a lottery ticket because apart from an error in the service, the lootbox is always a purchase for an in-game item. You don't get to pick which one. That works like booster packs for trading card games. The moment it becomes a game of chance for money, it's gambling. But people say "you get a tshirt, the chance to win is just a bonus". Right, but selling products with a "low" value/demand and enticing the customer with a chance to win is a known form of scamming. So the product is seen as a lottery ticket even though it has an alternate use. To avoid legal issues, products marketed with the whole "chance to win X!" are either registered as lotteries with the gaming/gambling comission, they have a free mode of entry (no purchase necessary) or they're ran as a contest rather than game of chance.
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Both sides gave shot down Su-25s. These types of aircraft are very vulnerable.
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You can bumpfire without the stocks. You want to ban bumpfire, you need to ban all semi-autos: Look at these idiots who managed to do it without stocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqzS9b1Msyk Even a WWII era weapon such as the Garand can be bump-fired with a finger through the belt loop in your pants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dinl3ohoXtM Should we ban pants too?
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The RPGs are not as effective as the NLAW.
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Fat positivity is advocating for destroying the body Advocating for freedom doesn't harm the body. Big difference.
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@biltrex All diseases are potentially deadly. We all have gaps in our genetic strengths. You can get killed by something that doesn't affect 99.9% of the population. The most effective mitigating factors were not meant to protect people. They were meant to slow down the spread, which was a scenario where we all got it and those who died died, but we could save those that were savable by not having to ration care. The 6ft distance was based on an unscientific concept from a previous pandemic and was not considered credible, as you'd need more like 15ft minimum due to the aerosolized spread. Also, Herman Cain died before the shot was available. So there's no irony there. He'd have died anyway, because the point was to slow down the spread. He would get it eventually. He would not have been saved by social distancing or masking. Only isolation from society could have spared him.
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Show proof of pounded HIMARS.
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@pauldean8638 MacGregor said that Ukraine would be defeated April 2022. It's been a year and a half. Why does MacGregor lie?
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How is it xenophobia to point out political issues?
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"OH IF IT SAVES A LIFE IT'S WORTH IT" That kind of people should be forced to tell 10 couples their children were murdered so that another wouldn't have to. It's a fucked up logic, but I fight fire with fire.
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 @kimlavender185kimlavender9 Europe will fall without global trade. Just went to Ikea. The box says "made in China", not "Sweden".
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"Meaningless" he says, while typing on his device that requires global trade to function.
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How is my personal sexual preferences the law? I prefer white and asian women. Where is a law saying you can't be attracted to a black woman? There isn't. My point is that not everything has to be a law. Just have no laws that infringe on people's right to choose. Laws that people will break and won't create any victims or hurt anybody. I thought this was a libertarian-oriented channel, but there's a metric ton of statists, pro-big gubment "think of the children" drones and moralists.
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Dude, they already have more tank battle experience against peer enemies than any Western nation. It takes half a year to train a kid straight out of bootcamp. These guys have been warfighters for a year.
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@lxy0709 "people who got detained at the US/Mexico border concentration camps" - Let me ask you, what do you think happens if you try to make your way across the Chinese border through Pakistan/Afghanistan/Tajikistan?
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@lxy0709 That's funny. First of all they'll just assume you're a spy so don't count on a phone call saving you. Second, being on friendly terms with a state doesn't negate the fact that China has had terror attacks and they know that the US will use these borders to move trainees out of the country so that they can attend training camps and then moved back in.
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>you can be inside the system but so peripherally that you're functionally independent even if only for a couple of weeks or a month until you require the system's commodities again >you can be in contact with peers or motivate yourself, hell I'd have a ton of projects I'd get into if I were in the countryside >nobody needs to live in poverty to enjoy the countryside, if you acquire skills you can trade them for money and engage with the system at will so you can CONSOOM product
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"""Black""" activist said the CIA is great? Lmao the same people responsible for the crack epidemic?
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@KarlEriksenopinion "By "restraining" I think you mean "regulating in the public interest", which is the only kind of capitalism that has ever worked well." - and yet countries with more economic freedom are in general better off than countries with economic restrictions
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@KarlEriksenopinion "All the nonsense about "unregulated" free markets are simply appeals to allow market regulations to be designed, implemented, and controlled by those who already have wealth" - bullshit. Deregulation of markets prevent those who have wealth from gaming the system by simply eliminating the competition.
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@KarlEriksenopinion and yet the most developed countries typically rank at the top in economic freedom... Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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@Tugela60 They have boats. And they received an extra 40 boats through the foreign aid program.
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@geodkyt Survivability is a meme. Not getting hit in the first place is the name of the game. F-16s, F/A-18s, Strike Eagles, etc have done gun runs during the GWOT and there's simply no losses to small arms. Anyone better armed than insurgents has toys that bring stuff down. It's not the 1960s anymore. What would prevent that standoff, then? Flying into the fire is suicidal. Tunguskas showering an A-10 with 30mm will bring it down in a single burst. Modern MANPADS are not like the old ones, they'll actually perform a last second jink to penetrate the fuselage and blow up inside rather than detonate in the exhaust plume through proximity fuse. The cost of maintaining the A-10 is obfuscated by the countless upgrade programs it has required to stay relevant. Yes, it's worth skipping considering how much resources it drains away from the rest of the fleet. They were deliberately designed according to 1960s concepts that are less relevant these days. The stealth coatings already received multiple upgrades through the F-35's life. They're not as hard to maintain as the F-22's, and gaps can be covered in much cheaper ways than having to chisel the old coat out and bake in new one. Now they have both a putty and a tape specially designed for the maintenance of the F-35 skin that streamlines the maintenance procedure.
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Supply and demand. Rifles are mass produced for governments and sold by corrupt military officers, sent clandestinely by foreign governments or dropped so they're everywhere. Handguns need to be shipped from the US, probably.
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Can't help people who were dealt a bad hand and decided to double down by refusing to improve themselves.
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@booboopriestess9321 That's not what decisive means.
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More instructors from several countries are being sent to the UK. There's also training centers in Poland and Germany, I believe. Germany has American bases.
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@matthewomalley1 nice lack of counter points and admission of bias Seems like you lost you cool, like benny boy did
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 @Ksins1 May we see them?
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Air superiority isn't being contested and Russian commanders have admitted to have lost artillery superiority in some areas.
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Last time the US was about to defeat North Korea China entered the war.
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@mikaelTyon79 that number is completely false.
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They are scraping the bottom of the barrel. The reason small arms are used is the close range to civilians. Shooting rockets and large autocannons inside cities will cause more damage than the drone. We've been through this with V1s.
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@kenphilpot1903 "makes America look weak" how? It has the biggest defense spending and a nuclear arsenal, along with a history of invading other countries. The fact that America did NOT go to war is respectable.
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Being effective requires delivering a similar result. You mean efficient - you get a dodgy final product but you save in resources to the point it makes up for the lost quality. Effectiveness is getting to the objective standard, whether you skimped on resources or wasted them.
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@evaristo6832 "The Russians are developing a completely new way of going into air combat" - So exercises where fights are "simulated" by actually doing them for real while burning real fuel in the air and simply not actually firing the weapons don't count, but Russia's purely theoretical new way of war is the gamechanger. I'm actually baffled.
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North Korea doesn't need WMDs because their mutual assured destruction is leveling Seoul with conventional artillery. North Korea has a knife on South Korea's throat without even needing nukes.
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Not sure how animal abuse is dealt with because every state has their own quirks on how they fail to uphold the law, but I'm pretty sure that DV misdemeanors are already an instant failure on the NICS check and during the Obama administration stalkers and people with restraining orders were added to the prohibited persons list.
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Why are you shilling for Russia. I click on your profile and I see you shilling for Russia's low debt to GDP. Russia isn't trusted to pay back their loans. Simple as.
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But there's a bunch of early production Typhoons that will be retired.
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Then it's just endemic?
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The gas is being burned, the flaring is seen from space.
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 @Shadowiann_ It was a picture of a storefront in Japan parodying Microsoft Windows. Some guy went into the rabbit hole and found the exact location of the store.
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If North Korea and Iran stop sending Russia munitions, this is over too.
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First, I'm pretty sure the Soviet Union itself killed 30 million. Their concern trolling about Nazism is a sham. Second, Minsk II was immediately broken by DPR forces with their assault on Debaltseve a day after it was signed.
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@doublehelix7880 You're changing the subject. Did Russia invade US for awarding medals to American soldiers who fought against the influence of the Soviet Union in Vietnam? No. If you're worried about statues and street names on a foreign country, you're mentally ill. Nice strawman. Nobody said nobody died in WWII.
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@rightiswrongrightiswrong806 "The older systems have 120km range" - Who cares? 120km range but the dispersion requires large volleys to have a chance of hitting. "with Glonass\GPS guidance" - How many of those were produced? "The World Wide Web has all the answers to your childish requests, let your fingers, do the walking" - Yeah, because you're a wikipedia warrior. You look at specs sheets and think war is decided by numbers. Meanwhile just a handful of HIMARS have blunted Russia, while Russia can't use their MLRS the same way. Funny how that works.
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@justworkingfortheweekend8504 Okay, but Ukrainian soldiers are dying for Ukraine. Russian soldiers are dying for nothing. A completely pointless death.
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@Lazar Ovich Ukraine loses soldiers defending itself. Russia loses men by throwing them into a meatgrinder, with no respect for their lives. The Donetsk people's forces have suffered 2000 dead and 8000 injured by their own admission. In a statelet of 2.3 million people, that's the equivalent of the US suffering 1.4 million casualties. Imagine if the US went into Iraq, in 5 months suffered 1.4 million casualties and was still nowhere near Baghdad. It would have been a disaster. The fools from the DPR thought they were real Russians. Putin uses them as meat.
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Su-25s have been shot down on both sides. Interdiction is just an expected life span shortener. Close air support is being provided by pitching up and lofting rockets in a ballistic arc to prevent overflying enemy units.
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 @Rasmos it's a blatant false-flag post lmao
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Nice name/pfp
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@No-timeforimbeciles It's all true. Let it sink in. Let it cause mental anguish. I want you to witness reality crashing down on you - you're gonna witness what you didn't want to see.
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It's just common internet lingo.
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They get paid extra. It's really not that complicated.
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Whataboutism.
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Missiles riddled with fragments can still fall and detonate on the ground.
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Inner cityyyyy
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No, it doesn't. Only murderers think like that.
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@jrex3 They're right.
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Remember how the non-existent Kherson offensive was your punching bag last year? Then you lost it.
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@up4open Huh, what? The Russians are famous for using AA like the Shilka against infantry.
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By the time they do, there may be nobody manning it.
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Mf'ers be playing Command & Conquer the way they be saying "CHINA WILL GROW LARGER" on youtube comments
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@theoracle10 Your opinion is your opinion. Hospitals weren't protected anyway and tons of people died. The shots didn't work, which is why boosters are needed in the first place. Don't pad the points in your favor by bringing up blunders and the necessary corrections. But this isn't the topic at hand - incidental hospitalizations are NOT new. Yes, it did happen. "you are 68x more likely to die of Covid if not vaccinated than if vaccinated and boosted" - This is worthless. Then how come deaths weren't 68x higher in 2020??? Everyone who got exposed had no choice but to face it while unvaccinated. When you say things, make sure they make sense. Such as by making sure that deaths were reduced by that order of magnitude. And define "boosted". We know this period lasts about 10-14 weeks last I checked. So you have a ten/fourteen week interval in which you can be exposed and enjoy the 68x lower lethality. You're going to keep boosting 3-4 times a year for the rest of your life?
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Che Guevara is hailed as a hero by many but he ordered the execution of people for the heinous crime of deserting. He consider war veterans heroes but for example in WWII and Vietnam pilots dropped incendiary bombs on civilians or even things like Agent Orange.
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@notlikely4468 This is a complete non-sequitur. Many countries allowed the return of their citizens and kept them under a 10-14 day quarantine in hotels rented for the purpose, or under stay-at-home orders. The whole country was under lockdown so they were not missing much anyway.
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@notlikely4468 Completely irrelevant. Test or no test, if you wanted to accept people back in the country they could remain in isolation. You don't need to know who has or who doesn't have it if you're only running a mercy operation to repatriate people.
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@jfryer485 This is ridiculous. It's not my problem that a pilot who was in contact with people who needed to be isolated was not isolated himself. The people in charge needed to do better and they failed at every step of the way. My point was that you can close borders and still accept your own people back home.
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@jfryer485 This is nonsense. First, they did not exterminate the virus. I remember as clearly as it was yesterday, they just stopped counting. Nobody with half a brain actually believed them then, if you missed this part it might seem plausible when the story is retold, but then you could ask anyone in the street and nobody believed that they had stopped anything. Second, there was no repatriation. People were simply allowed to travel as the WHO recommended against border closures. This means Chinese nationals who immigrated and only went back for the new year celebration were allowed to exit the country with no issues, not just people with citizenship outside China who were visiting relatives. This is how I got infected the first time so I remember it clearly. Third, your timeline is off. We know community spread outside China existed in late 2019. The big boost of cases was triggered by the end of the Chinese new year celebrations, but the pandemic had already started. We just hadn't noticed it yet.
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@notlikely4468 If someone was asymptomatic, but isolated, then how did it slip? Yes, the second line had to be used. Why did it fail? There were lockdowns. There you have it, the third line of defense. Now what?
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@notlikely4468 I ask again - what does it matter if you have a positive or negative diagnosis, as long as you didn't come in contact with anyone? Negative? No contact. Positive? No contact. Your transmissibility doesn't depend on diagnosis. History of travel? I mean, we're talking about people being repatriated during a period where borders are closed. Check. They could clear quarantine, and because of quarantine the transmissibility was avoided. That's the point of quarantine. If care givers don't have infection control protocols when treating an infectious disease that's not my problem either. You're trying to shoot down an idea by bringing up the fact that this whole thing has been a two year slow motion train wreck. We get it. Not my problem. Tell the "if it saves one life! flatten the curve! protect our hospitals!" crowd that they were the ones who failed. I'm giving you "solutions" to solve something that isn't really a problem. You're saying it's unsolvable because the people in charge are idiots... Point the finger AT THEM! Not me!
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@notlikely4468 We eventually stopped pretty much all travel, with countries either closing borders entirely or requiring a justification to enter the country. Claiming we can't is a fallacy because we eventually did it.
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@notlikely4468 So your complaint is that there wasn't even an attempt to control anything, so we need to control everything else. Non-starter.
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@notlikely4468 Way more practical than just letting the bug in and then trying to catch up. We failed at that.
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@notlikely4468 Almost all travel was considered unnecessary, therefore banned. The WHO announced it too late. Nobody is saying people should be refused entry to their own country. The argument is that if you let in everyone from the hot zone, and then plan to lockdown to make up for it... you're being foolish. You're trying to run after a problem. And like we saw, it wouldn't work. As soon as you think the coast is clear, the problem comes back. You're purposefully arguing in bad faith by claiming that people need to be refused entry. Period. End of discussion.
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@notlikely4468 I did.
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@notlikely4468 We've been through this. You can enact a travel ban and still accept mercy repatriations. Your argument is "no we can't keep tens of thousands of people on lockdown for two weeks, we MUST keep the world hostage for two years!".
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@notlikely4468 We've already established that people can return to their country, and still prevent the introduction of the pathogen. You're just arguing in circles and being stubborn. So your solution is bringing hot everyone, and then trying to chase after the problem by having hot everyone stand in line at the grocery store, 6 feet apart. We tried that. Didn't work. You can't lock everything down. You need those hot aircraft and hot crew. They need to go home. They need to go to the grocery store. Like I said, your solution is letting the plague in, and then trying to contain it with half measures. Your opinion is that harming millions of people for two years is more feasible than inconveniencing a few thousands for a couple of weeks.
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@notlikely4468 But we did ground most aircraft. At one point most airliners had barely any flights because the only people who could board were people with pressing matters, doctors being sent to areas that needed them, and planes chartered to move medical equipment. So we did end up resorting to travel bans anyway. France has a 200 per 100k mortality rate. So what? Replicating what Canada did doesn't give you Canada's results. Science means repeatability.
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Now that you mention it, I do say an-TEA-freeze.
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@Valentin_126 the world wars happned when birth rates were above replacement
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 @Roxor128 Creating less traffic by forcing me to take trams everywhere literally does not benefit me. To enjoy lower traffic I'd need to drive.
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@Roxor128 But that way traffic doesn't improve...
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@Roxor128 You don't understand. You fundamentally cannot use less traffic as a selling point to people because you need them to stop driving. If everyone keeps driving in the hopes of benefiting from less traffic, traffic will continue to be a problem.
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Yeah and Antonovsky bridge is fine too. We all saw the russkie propaganda.
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@trenaceandblackmetal5621 We're talking about different generations. Gen X and below was raised in a more cynical era and thus distrusted those raised during the height of the conflict. For example the Duck and Cover drill was KNOWN to save lives as it was developed withthe help of testimony from Nagasaki/Hiroshima. But for decades people have been saying Duck and Cover was a government lie to fool people into thinking they could win an exchange. America bad.
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Trump said Germany needed to stop buying Russian gas. Some buddy...
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Their logo is now three daggers pointed downward.
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Bro they need cheerleaders now.
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Soldiers serve the state, mercenaries serve the company.
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@valdanur It's supposed to mean that technically Wagner employees can finalize their contract. It's one of the reasons why one would even want a PMC contract - you fight for X amount of time and then leave. If you get mobilized, you get sent to the front until you expire. Wagner is high risk, high reward. The Russian military is medium risk, no reward. You're trapped in the war until it ends.
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How do you generate an EMP without a nuke?
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How many important "happenings" in the gaming industry happened outside NA or Japan? Sorry, but as an European person I've noticed lot of European outlets are mostly translated press releases or rewordings of American games media so I don't read it nor do I know their names. I'd say more Europeans know Adam Sessler, Jeff Gerstmann or the Dorito Pope himself Geoff Keighley than European games media personalities. Hell even YongYea probably gets more daily hits from European viewers than most European websites.
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Right, the thing is that Russia was an empire, then became part of a Union, the Union collapsed and had to become a federal republic. Now the issue is, does the republic keep the territory from the empire? Imagine that the US, with troops in West Germany, Philippines, Japan, etc collapsed during the Cold War. Then these countries asked Washington DC to leave. And Washington DC says "No we may have lost control of the US but we want to occupy those lands".
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Debt leads to bankrupcy? Big if true.
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Interestingly, the Russians are in on the scheme because they're complaining about the losses.
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Yeah, capitalism is shit for giving people a choice, in fact we should shoot the local farmer in the head for being a kulak.
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Seems to me they pocketed the money rather than prepare.
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@AndreAngelantoni First, the rails on the road were indeed blown sideways. Second, you can focus an explosion through lensing or shaped charges. The segment that broke in the middle was the source of the explosion, which pressed down on the deck, lifted it off the supports on the pier through leverage, and caused the other segment to also go down due to it being dislodged off the support. The bomb got through because Russian security is garbage.
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The warhead is the same as the one on the Khinzal that crashed last year.
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But mercenaries can just get paid more by the other side, and Wagner is the Russian government. They're "privately" owned for deniability but they get FSB fake IDs, they fly in Russian air force airplanes, etc.
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@SAVikingSA A Western based PMC will be defanged. No secret/"sensitive" electronics on their aircraft (limited air support, no air to air ability), no capacity to produce their own heavy artillery, tanks cost millions of dollars and are even harder to maintain than purchase. Wagner only gets away with all they do because they obey the government handing them out the toys to play with. Western PMCs are glorified mall security and bodyguards.
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But Karl Marx was German. The Russians were only adopting ideas from a German.
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@Drew Peacock dude I'm not in charge of the Belgian defense, don't complain to me.
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@Drew Peacock I'm not talking about hardpoints but the number of different weapons systems that integrate with the F-35 ecossystem.
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@Drew Peacock We're talking about 5 bomb variants and 3 ground/ship missiles for the Gripen while the F-35 is meant for 8 bomb variants and 5 ground/ship missiles not including planned ones. Variety is the spice of life. "Plus Belgium already has F-16s" - And one day they'll need to be retired. Do you live under the impression that Belgium or whichever country is making a purchase can only look for replacements after the aircraft are too old to take off? By that logic why is Russia pursuing the Su57 when it already has Su27s? Why were the Eurofighter Typhoon and Rafale developed when there's still old aircraft capable of doing their jobs? "why would I possibly want to contact Belgian officials to tell them what aircraft they should buy?" - Then don't come telling me Belgium made a bad choice if you're not willing to tell them, because I have no vote in the matter. Why are you telling me you disagree? "you're advertising the F-35 as if it's the only option" - No, I didn't. I simply laid out the facts as to why a country may have decided to take the F-35 over everything else. I never said it was the only option.
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@Drew Peacock You've come here, made up statements in your head that I never uttered myself, and then accuse me of being a shill? You're either delusional, or a hater. I don't know what's worse. I'm all over YT dunking on people too "simple" to understand aviation, and who have been fed catchphrases they can parrot (such as "fast jets can't perform cas" even though they do). Example, you claim fast jets can't do low level cas. I've sent you links. You deny the reality. So how can you accuse me of being unreasonable when it's you who can't be reasoned with?
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@hegaliandialectics4289 that's the opposite of what I heard, arctic is growing and greenland is shrinking
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Mearsheimer's reputation is in the mud, my man. Dude really said Putin was too smart to invade.
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@milaro222 "when it becomes completely safe" it's not safe, because LPR and DPR forces are now composed by Russian mobilized men. What happened to the Russian speaking men in Ukraine? Their safety must be exaggerated because they're not fighting like they were in 2022.
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They had no time. They fled pretty fast once they got the news that collapse was imminent.
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They're not socialist.
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I wonder if the child died from neglect or a range accident...
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@predragmanov6341 Gonzalo was a sex tourist grifter.
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@oxinguelingue Look up Coach Red Pill. He made a career out of being an internet lolcow, then started pretending to be a journalist while livestreaming from hotel rooms.
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Heavy bombers are easily shot down by S-300 or Buk.
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@sahar1213 What do military interventions have to do with loans?
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@sieveign How is it imperialism to say "okay you get money but you can't remain a backwater"?
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The EU isn't splitting, China and India have asked for the war to stop, Turkey is only being self-serving and they sell weapons to Ukrainians too.
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Money. They are paid to protect. If they let the principal get killed, people will stop hiring them. And then the jobs are gone.
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Look up the Canada attempts to shoot down a weather balloon in 1998. Please stop acting like a know it all when what you say is disconnected from reality. A weather balloon was "poked" a THOUSAND times with 20mm CANNON rounds. It crossed the Atlantic and got shot down by Russia.
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 @kennyk541 Most serious manufacturers "SCAR-proofed" their optics anyway.
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 @kameraldbahrul3432 Then why can't Russia win if they're that effective?
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The warthog was meant to be retired in 1992-1993. It's literally only in service because of Arizona representatives having a stake in its prolonged afterlife.
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 @FreedomForce100 How many targets has it engaged at 400km?
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@blooperman1997 There were WMDs, they were found, several soldiers suffered neurological damage from exposure to nerve gas. But releaving the caches would lead to Al Qaeda starting to look for them so the discovery was suppressed.
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I can find you examples of Ukrainian troops saying much worse. People can say vile stuff as a way to hype themselves and others for a fight, but still conduct themselves properly in warfare.
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Ironically it's you who lives in a bubble. I'm not American and I remember that many people thought that Mandela had died in the 2000s, unrelated to the 1980s movie. Making mistakes isn't ignorance. Even you make mistakes. And from what I've seen, Gen Z is more willing to roll with the punches than millennials.
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@MFLimited I'm being rude because she's pretty? Are you people all insane?
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@Saffron-sugar "Er, Mandela WAS dead by 2000"/"He died in 1999" - Uhhhhh. He died in 2013. You just Mandela'd yourself.
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They're "sitting there" because of no parts.
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Engineering programs have not closed down. Stop listening to culture war vultures.
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@otrada8925 What number of Ukrainian casualties? The Russian MoD ones? Lies.
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Patriots are to be used against missiles, not drones.
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If you post a bs comment people will reply "fake news" even if it's just a mistake and not even news. It became a generic expression by now.
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@jacobchang7955 Kind of my point. If you're limited to pokey .224" bullets you're not much better off than the guys with MP7s who claim they need to hose people with half a mag to bring them down.
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It's only manifesting itself fully about now. Image generation got better, conversation skills got better, voice generation got better. Before you could argue 4chan and reddit had bots thumbing the scale. Now it's eveywhere. It's not just you getting trolled by a faceless account on reddit, bots now have conversations with each other on twitter and post automated content on youtube.
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And other countries using the Euro?
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We saw new variants before the first shot was even deployed. It's impossible to give the shot at the same time to everyone in every country of every age group. We will never catch up and it's about time we admit it.
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This was said about the T-62s. Then we got videos of Ukrainians rolling past the destroyed T-62s. And now Russian citizens are complaining they're being assigned to the LPR/DPR. The losses are so great, they're putting mobilized Russians in those units.
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It's a reference to Task Force 121, the guys who went after Ba'ath party members, Saddam and his sons in Iraq.
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You do realize that economists aren't a monolith and aren't in charge of everything money related, right?
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@Koenshakuable "Like the nine out of ten dentists that prefer colgate over crest in a commercial... We can agree they're not dentists." - You do realize that that number is basically "9 out of 10 dentists recommend using this toothpaste over not using anything at all" and they shorten it to "9 out of 10 dentists recommend using this toothpaste", right? They use real dentists on polls, they just reserve the right to cherry pick them and twist the words on the questions. "Point being, were they actually addressing say, the systematic pattern of wealth extraction in the last several generations" - Jesus, with that sentence alone I can tell how insufferable you are.
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@Koenshakuable Your comments are like mixing a Banksy art piece and a Jayden Smith tweet. Just because you don't understand a field or what they do it doesn't mean you should be mouthing off about how they're not doing this highly specific thing in a way I can notice in my daily life. It's like asking "why are scientists giving drugs to mice instead of curing cancer?". God. Stop being 12 years old.
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@Koenshakuable You're arguing from bad faith against a strawman. Bad luck to you, sir.
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There's only around 220 built so a country would need to give up their air force. F-16s were sold like hot cakes (4000 I think) and the UK was going to have to retire early production Typhoons anyway.
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Russia put Russian troops inside Ukraine for 8 years. Remember MH17? 298 people were killed by the Buk launcher marked 332 from the 53rd anti air missile batallion... supposedly stationed in Kursk. That's a long way from home.
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The Taliban were hunted like animals. The US got tired and signed a peace deal to get out. I guess you also claim the deer win every hunting season, because eventually hunters run out of tags or the season ends.
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Moderna induces higher antibodies because they inject a much larger dose. C'mon, man...
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@papasmurf9146 the "pro-Russia" president was actually open to dealing with the EU but Russia pressured Ukraine by embargoing their goods, and then causing delays at the border. This was extremely punitive to the Ukrainian economy. The pro-Putin guy was also a pro-West guy, he just got pressured to change his campaign promise at the last minute by Putin. And in fact, Putin's paranoia made him think Yanukovych had betrayed him. NATO was already on Russia's border. It just increased now with Finland joining. Please think for a second.
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The scientists who said it couldn't be a lab leak were found to be in conflict of interest.
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@Asbjoern that's wrong. It would have cost a whole lot more to develop 3 different aircraft.
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@TheManelich the F-4 Phantom was multi-branch. So what?
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It's possible to deepfake voice.
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Gun crime rose in the UK after the bans. "The idea that you need a gun for safety is only true because so many people have guns in these countries." - False. If people come at me with knives, tire irons or baseball bats, I want a gun. Even a roided up asshole is a life-threatening weapon against a person of average stature like me. Multiple attackers are easily able to severely injure a victim. ~With no guns, it's extremely easy for criminals to make the streets unsafe.
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@StephenBenHinds "do you have a source?" - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/1440764.stm https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223193/Culture-violence-Gun-crime-goes-89-decade.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/3222063/Gun-crime-60pc-higher-than-official-figures.html "a criminal was subdued by civilians without the use of guns"- and in America a mass shooter with an AR was also subdued by a civilian without guns. "the fact that deadly force was only available to trained professional other than street justice by any random passer by makes me feel more secure" - Not me. "Trained" professionals are behind some of the largest massacres in mankind's history. It's not reasonable or even sane to defend the state's monopoly on the use of weapons considering how much carnage governments have caused. "the UK only having 97 deaths from terror attacks while the US has 408 since 2005" - Did you adjust the numbers to population? "i disagree with the line "With no guns, it's extremely easy for criminals to make the streets unsafe."" - Then sorry to break it to you, but you are a fool. Dangerous people can control the streets without guns. "even the worse streets i have walked down i have yet to be terrified of being shot" - You being "terrified" of being shot or not is purely based on media and perception ingrained by anecdotal evidence. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/27/police-struggle-to-stop-flood-of-firearms-into-uk The police themselves admits they can't stop the flow of guns. The criminals have guns. But you don't hear of shootings so you don't worry about being shot. You hear of a lot of shootings in the US, so you would fear getting shot there. It's all about perspective. But notice - your standard of safety is being shot. Not being shot doesn't mean you are safe. That's insane. You can be unsafe even without weapons around. Being beaten into a bloody pulp isn't safety. "finally the lack of school shootings" - In the US you're more likely to die from lighting strike than in a school shooting.
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@pomg6512 Kosovo declared independence 9 years after the war. Not during one.
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Most people can't squat 300lbs either.
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It happens in real life and TV too.
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Except most weapons are decades old and tested to hell and back. ATACMS? The US is sending it because the PSrM will replace it. We have tested the ATACMS. It was used in Desert Storm. We don't need to test something that will be pulled out of service.
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@Lobsterwithinternet /watch?v=puqaaeLnEww
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How do you outlaw me writing an IOU in a piece of paper and handing it to you?
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@JamesSmith-ix5jd It doesn't have to be accepted at the store. As long as you can come to me and force me to honor that debt, that piece of paper I scribbled on holds its value. Now extrapolate. There's a million people around the world who will accept my IOU. That means you can shove that piece of paper inside a book, travel to another country, find a trader who will accept my IOU, and give you your money back. It's infinitely easier than moving drugs. How do you ban it? There's a reason criminals loved the 500 Euro bills. It's a pain in the neck to move cash. Can you shove a million dollars inside a book and go through an airport?
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NATO will respond by doubling down on anti missile defense.
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We'll check your country's history to make sure if you get wiped out.
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@alastairward2774 Got who? Someone who isn't aware therefore not complaining? The complaint would require awareness of some sort.
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You're sincerely off your rocker. Any country with agriculture has biolabs for disease prevention. How would Ukraine poison Russia without poisoning itself?
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And can afford it.
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They left the parking brake on by accident so the towing vehicle couldn't move it either.
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He wasn't a civilian. The definition of terror is leveraging violence for the purpose of achieving political goals. There was no terrorism involved, because there was one target and he can't feel terror anymore.
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Under lockdown. 28 US Marines riding on black Ford Raptors.
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No, they're fighting the rear echelon troops. The trained and well equipped Russian forces are holding the line, while Ukraine is already deep inside the beast and carving out every organ.
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His domestic support is entirely manufactured by government agencies. And many people say they support Putin to get out of trouble anyway.
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Two more weeks, Zisters!
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The M4 caliber change limits you to whatever can fit in the magwell. It didn't work out.
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But they sunk billions into stealth aircraft...
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It was an error? Then don't post comments. The device you're using and the internet itself depends on global trade. Everyone wants the sausage but not see how it gets made.
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 @shawnd5746 America does need the world. Why do you think the US Navy ensures the safety of global shipping? Because if everything goes to sh1t the US falls right after.
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An "EU army" would be worthless, what we should have is every country maintaining a decent armed force. But everyone is unwilling to commit because having a nominal force and scraping materiel cuts costs. The EU Army is just a way of deflecting responsabilities towards Brussels instead of just biting the bullet and investing on the military as both a fighting force and an attractive career.
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@Niitroxyde Temporarily. Rusich has described the defensive positions. They were built by civilian contractors with no attention to military tactics.
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The other way around. Typically training standards lag behind acquisition because only after the technology is introduced is it possible to assess how training standards need to change.
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@senselessnothing the military's retardation in regards to PT isn't really the best example. I'm talking about things like the military realizing that if you give M16s to people running a qualification course for the M14 almost everybody scores Expert or that running optics on a course meant for iron sights also lets anyone with a pulse score higher than their skill level. Adopt training standards and then buy equipment is retarded enough to be par for the course for military brass, but on the other hand it would require actually thinking about improving training and nobody wants to do that unless they absolutely have to.
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Because if you were an American sailor during WW2 and fell overboard you couldn't be chalked up as a death caused by Germans or Japanese.
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Do you honestly believe 800 thousand STEM jobs are created every year?
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"then isnt there so many non-stealth jets shot Down?" - The US lost seven A-10/AO-10 during the 1991 Gulf War, with more receiving heavy battle damage and limping back to base.
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But still winning in the battlefield. Power lines can be repaired. Russia can't recover from their losses.
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@rene8445 They already reached Russian borders.
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 @Liminal_Simulacre Funny because academia is losing face from all the fraud and publish or perish model.
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@baneofbanes either copium or krokodil.
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The baseless conspiracy isn't about the existence of the unit, but the portrayal as some kind of SS unit rather than a national guard regiment protecting Mariupol (in Russian-speaking Eastern Ukraine).
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There's like 4 million guns in the UK, shut up. They still allow guns.
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@jamesdunn9609 "It was not a failure of the A-10's design" - Yes, it was. The USAF had a great CAS aircraft in the A-7, which suffered low losses from AA despite being (if I remember correctly) ranked third for the aircraft that dropped the most ordnance in Hanoi. The problem was that it was too fast for the army, which wanted an escort for helicopters. We know CAS is a risk. If you know the risk is there, you don't send an aircraft with a purpose-built flaw: being slow.
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Killing bad people leads to PTSD too. One guy who volunteered at the start of the Ukraine war shot a Russian, even though he knew he was justified in shooting the invaders executing civilians he still said it felt like murder in interviews.
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A conservative gay man was raped by a Grindr date and when he shared the story on reddit the LGBT community shat on him.
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Wagner was just a thinly veiled SVR deniable asset, they had facilities inside Russian army bases, flew Russian air force aircraft, and used FSB fake IDs for travel. They were government goons under a private lick of paint.
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@shrayesraman5192 I compared solar panels to wind turbines and you want to talk about gas plants...
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@thetayz72 They lose efficiency and the glass needs to be cleaned of dust. But they're very set and forget otherwise.
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He was pressured by Sony to do so. Hindsight is 20/20, had he fought legally the future leeches wouldn't have tried to shake him down.
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@jcwiggens It doesn't have to do the tracking or targeting. If the launching ship can give rough mid-course updates you can have the weapon use its own seeker for terminal phase.
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@jcwiggens This is a joke, right? British testing determined that AIM-120 without mid-course corrections are LESS effective than the previous Skyflash missile.
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@jcwiggens No argument so you resort to jokes. The fact is that mid-course correction is used on missiles while you claim it's useless. Reality proves you wrong.
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@jcwiggens How is it a strawman? The AMRAAM uses mid-course correction. From the same page: "The missile uses this information to fly on an interception course to the target using its built-in inertial navigation system (INS). This information is generally obtained using the launching aircraft's radar, although it could come from an infrared search and track system, from a data link from another fighter aircraft, or from an AWACS aircraft."
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@jcwiggens Yes, because AMRAAMs have like 120 mile range in the most recent variants. That's waaaay more than IRST ever could reach. I didn't cherry pick. Like the article states, the AMRAAM targeting system can take coarse information to get close enough, then turn the radar on. Yes, it does say IR. That's what the bold letters are for. Again: "The missile uses this information to fly on an interception course to the target using its built-in inertial navigation system (INS). This information is generally obtained using the launching aircraft's radar, although it could come from an infrared search and track system, from a data link from another fighter aircraft, or from an AWACS aircraft." "although it could come from an infrared search and track system, from a data link from another fighter aircraft, or from an AWACS aircraft." "although it could come from an infrared search and track system" It said IR. Dude. "You claimed that "rough" course corrections from an IR system were effective." - The article you quoted says it's effective. "then you use a radar-guided missile(non IR) as your supporting argument" - Because IR gives rough estimate of target position, and then the AMRAAM turns on the active radar when close enough. Come on, man. If you fire an AMRAAM blind, that's a maddog shot. It will seek whatever it sees first. IR search and track allows you to fire at a specific target and not trigger a lock on warning until it goes pitbull.
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 @QANews There was no coup and the US was happy to keep Yanukovych in charge.
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@QANews Hey Q-boomer. Examine the context of Oliver Stone being friends with Hugo Chavez and Putin. And having a son who worked for Russia Today. It's literally a cope to respond to Winter on Fire, a documentary released a year prior. The deep divisions did not exist, it was political posturing. Preserving lives is done by removing the killers from the face of the Earth.
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KGB2101 Okay you kind of deserve to be falsely accused of a crime because of that. Just for fun. It's like a rollercoaster ride but more drawn out.
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They took their sweet time. It's never going to be produced, India pulled out.
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And?
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Sorry man but that's an incomplete explanation. The fact is that the stock market is overvalued. The "wealth effect" theory proponents argue that maintaining the sham is required to keep people spending. When you add bailouts to the mix, it gives investors the incentive to take the gamble on riskier investments. The financial sector needs to be punished for bad investments or else you're compounding the problem.
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So you click on every upload and comment to increase his algorithm metrics?
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No.
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 @Ghastly_Grinner Damn Ukrainians getting beat that bad and Russia still can't move forward! EMBARASSING!
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@doabarrellroll69 Well, they reach high top speeds but the motor burns out after a few seconds and then they start slowing down. It's always preferable to be at a high energy state when firing a missile or just be very close because they start to have trouble catching up against a target fleeing at a steady speed.
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There were no "large number of armored vehicles" in the area. There was a green army van with an insignia, but that was it.
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The world existed before we were born, you know? And before we were born, parents used to send their children to buy alcohol or even tobacco, and they did what their parents told them. The world didn't go to the shitter, because we're still here. >all for damn good reasons I'm sure those are good reasons. Doesn't change the fact that the drinking and smoking laws stop 0 teenagers from drinking until they die or smoke like chimneys. Don't even get me started on porn, because internet.
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That's the "official" name, but planes get nicknames. The Strike Eagle is the "Mudhen", the Fighting Falcon is the "Viper", the Super Hornet is the "Rhino". The A-10 is the Thunderbolt II but its nickname is "Warthog".
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Hey, the aircraft that didn't get hit in the first place also brought back the pilot. One aircraft that was brought back damaged killed the pilot on the attempted landing. It would have been preferable to ditch that wreck rather than try and save it but because of the A-10s reputation the pilot was killed.
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They are not native to South Africa, though. The native South Africans typically side with the whites because they're also a minority in SA. Most of the SA population migrated from north to south.
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 @iamspock Venezuela has F-16s, Russians could just ask them. DCS isn't exposing anything new. Especially since it's based on a circa 2005-2006 F-16.
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No, the calculations for radar were discovered beyond the Iron Curtain, but the Soviet leadership thought they were useless and allowed them to be published. It was American aircraft designers who read the equations and realized they could use them to design stealth aircraft.
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The "genocide" that killed less people per year than driving accidents in Russia. Please stop parroting Putin's shoddy excuses.
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And after Gaddafi was killed, Libya became a hotbed of terrorism and had open air slave markets.
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 @kassygendron3022 when statistics say X% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck never forget that includes the people earning 6 figures too
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 @CJPhu the pipeline was ended without physical destruction.
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@jamiebrooks3864 But the sources for pro-Russian talking points and stories are the Russian media companies.
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They're commercially available in the sense that countries can place orders unlike the F22. Joint adoption would mean that all the countries involved in the project would get them, but doesn't imply any more would be sold to anyone else.
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Man's about to leave office and you still let him live in your head rent free.
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France can flip with elections. Xi fanboys forget that.
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The rail had a fuel train burning for hours. Concrete loses strength in high heat, rebar adhesion to concrete also weakens.
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@joeking5679 It would require demolishing the existing concrete and steel structure, and replacing it. That would be seen in satellite just like the road repairs could be visible.
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@klaasvakie It wasn't up and running. Locals confirmed that travel was redirected through land, on phone map apps the detour was announced.
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@Kncperseus Farming basically requires being a DIY engineer, because you can't afford to keep paying real engineers to fix your stuff. American farmers paid Ukrainian hackers to jailbreak their John Deere tractors so they could repair them themselves without bricking the software. Harvests do not wait for you to put your tractor in a trailer and send it back to factory.
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So, I take it you can't handle sarcasm. The AK's were seen as evil because of their use by the USSR, and now by terrorists. Now the AR15 is seen as evil, despite the fact that it existed since the 50's and nobody feared it until the ~90's. >But Communism? Good idea, just been done wrong in the past Fuck no, I used to accept Communism as a good idea but upon reading and actually understanding it I'd rather get shot trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
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The Russo-Ukrainian conflict is several centuries older than NATO.
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But Bellingcat literally uses open source evidence, aka stuff that doesn't require any foreign agencies. They use social media posts, photos, videos, metadata and satellite pictures anyone can get. The only "spicy" information they've used were lists of Russian government documents that they bought on the dark web, because such data bases are hacked all the time.
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"Huhhh this guy was speeding? I wonder what the backlash would be if I did drive by shootings"
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Their reasoning isn't logical. It's sheer schizo-fascism.
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Dave Smith just copypasted Scott Horton talking points. The eternal lolbertarian who'll sacrifice liberty anywhere in the world if it prevents armed conflict. Being anti-war is a very respectable stance, but being anti-self-defence is just foolish.
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How did Russia's troops get depleted?
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@whatsmolly5741 What facts? Like the fact that Igor Girkin, a FSB agent, kickstarted the Donbas war and faked a "civil" war despite being a foreign national? The fact that we have photographic evidence of which Buk launcher shot down MH17 but Russia peddled conspiracy theories, like one involving a photoshopped satellite picture? The fact that Russian forces invaded Ukraine in 2014 and when Ukrainian authorities showed the captured Russian nationals the Russian government said they got lost during training?
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@GodSoulNight I thought global warming was going to prevent that.
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 @GodSoulNight Yeah, cope and seethe. Russians are a dead empire, it's time to start accepting it instead of throwing your weight behind the losing team.
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@stolidvessel2550 He said Sweden and Denmark were informed of the diving operation. Which means everyone knew about the secret operation, ahahah what a crock.
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The F-16 has done 3x the CAS the A-10 did since 2014.
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@HypnoticChronic1 I'm not saying that more is better, I'm saying that the A-10 isn't even the main CAS aircraft in inventory. It's not erroneous. It's called being "up-to-date". If we go back to 2001-2014 the A-10 did 20% of CAS. Better, but not the majority. The comprehensive argument is that the munitions dropped by A-10s can be dropped by other aircraft and there's no longer any unique features in the A-10 that make it relevant. So the USAF has plenty in the arsenal that does the job just the same. Additionally, the Navy and Marines couldn't operate A-10s off carriers which means they have CAS aircraft and none of them are A-10 analogues.
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@HypnoticChronic1 It's not a specific time frame. I have no data on CAS prior. "How about the fact it does not require a prepared runway?" - Meaningless since the USAF isn't going to risk pilots, munition, fuel and maintenance crews by setting them up in the middle of nowhere. "very low stall speed?" - How is that better? "Or ability to carry a large amount of ordnance for its size?" - Which is rarely done, the A-10 is underpowered and putting too much weight on it is irresponsible. You couldn't take off a fully loaded A-10 from Bagram airfield due to the almost 5,000 ft elevation and thus thin air. "The main issue the A-10 faces is its avionics being out of date" - This is HILARIOUSLY wrong. The A-10 almost looks like a F-16 from the inside, the flight stick was even switched for one that has the F-16 configuration. They're integrated for targeting pods, new munitions, they even had a comms suite upgrade a few years ago. We're at the point where the aircraft itself is the problem.
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@HypnoticChronic1 The majority of A-10 missions in Desert Storm were Interdiction, I believe. Not Close Air Support. It's not a cherry picking. It's almost TWO DECADES of data during a period where the A-10 was most relevant. If the US spent the 2000s and 2010s fighting near-peer forces the A-10 would have stayed home. Basically, 2001 to the late 2010s was the best period for the A-10s combat record and you're calling that cherry picking? If anything, I am facilitating the pro-A-10 argument because when else has it been used prominently? Operation Allied Force? Almost 20 years of data are less of a cherry picking. "many of the air bases in Vietnam" - Vietnam was over 50 years ago. The US also operated inside South Vietnam, Thailand, etc. so the better comparison was Afghanistan. When you can't trust the locals you really shouldn't keep aircraft in the middle of nowhere. That's asking for ambushes. "That aside the A-10 is designed to make use of things like highways or potted runways as it has to worry less about debris intake in less than austere conditions, should we happen to go to war with specific Asian nation I feel pretty confident we are not going to enjoy uncontested air space" - My dude are you gonna fly A-10s across the Pacific to be stationed in island air bases with actual runways? There's sea. You can't use highways, you have water. Forget contested air space. Some ship is just gonna fire a SAM before the A-10 can get feet dry. "in reference to the low stall speed it permits the use of shorter runways" - Are you planning on using aerodromes? This would make sense if the US was an impoverished nation that can't afford proper air bases. "there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the design of the aircraft itself" - But there are issues: - Placement of engines limits upgrades. They have to fit a similar profile and weight. - The gun and ammo drum is so massive that you can't even remove it to save weight, it would unbalance the plane. - The airframe is built for slow speed when the "low and slow" dogma has been superseded by modern CAS doctrine.
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@HypnoticChronic1 Pause. The numbers I cited were published in 2019. I said 11% of CAS from 2014 to 2019, the date of publishing. And 20% since 2001. 2001 to 2019 is 18 years. That's almost 20 years, and comfortably "spans two decades". It's not my problem if you misread my posts. I clearly said "since 2014" and then added the "since 2001" number. "Bagram was ostensibly located in the middle of nowhere and yet the USAF still used it" - Bagram is a massive airfield. I didn't mean "middle of nowhere" as in a remote location, I meant middle of nowhere as some backroad with ordnance and fuel trucks hiding in the bushes. Bagram may be remote, but you'd need a freaking battalion to assault it. It's fully staffed and secured. "first by assuming we would only be operating from the sea" - It's not even an assumption. Sea ops are required until an air bridge can secure an airfield in land. "one particular Asian nation of note which they are not fond of" - That doesn't narrow it down in Asia, they all hate each other. India wouldn't go for it and Taiwan still has a strait to cross. "not every nation has US standard runways or airbases in fact most don't outside of maybe international airports, so if we had to make use of those non standard runways then yes it would be beneficial to have aircraft whom could make use of them." - It's preferable to use a non-US standard airbase than freaking dirt roads. The A-10 capability to operate out of rough terrain makes it unique enough that it pretty much won't be used that way. We can't have high performance fighter jets and the rough field operations at the same time. It's better to compromise by deploying out of a subpar airbase than using roads or actual backroads. "I would ask why would you?" - Removing weight would increase performance. A thousand rounds is excessive and the 30mm cannon's job can be done by 25mm. Since most of the damage it can cause to MBTs only causes mission kills rather than full penetration, a smaller caliber can achieve the same. Its performance against IFVs, light armored vehicles and soft skinned vehicles would be essentially the same. If the majority of the work done by A-10s will be PGMs, and APKWS already does the job of a gun run from 5-6 miles away instead of 2000 feet, the GAU-8 is superfluous ballast. "but in uncontested and certainly in COIN circumstances I think the low and slow approach is beneficial" - CAS doctrine puts the weapons release in the hands of the JTAC. We know that the pilot can't be trusted no matter how slow and low he's flying next to friendlies. He's not allowed to go ham. The guys on the ground hold his hand. Because if he flies low and slow and tries to identify the enemy, he's gonna shoot at friendlies. "visible deterrent" - I am reminded of the Stargate quote. "This is a weapon of terror, it intimidates the enemy. This is a weapon of war. It kills the enemy."
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@HypnoticChronic1 I said that the F-16 did 3x the CAS since 2014, then my comment 9 days ago said: "If we go back to 2001-2014 the A-10 did 20% of CAS". The 3x for the F-16 was 33% which in turn means the A-10 did 11%. "Maybe be more explicit in your meaning next time" - It shouldn't be necessary since the context was dispersed operations out of rough terrain. "Those non-US standard runways are often effectively "freaking dirt roads"" - They aren't. They're like in Ukraine where there's separate concrete pads instead of the spotless tarmac we see in the West. Though the taxiways in some Portuguese and Dutch air bases also have that concrete pad look. "airbases are often one of primary targets for either strikes" - And if you look at Russian strikes on Ukrainian airfields, a third of the missiles missed. "given that the A-10 was effectively built around the gun removing it would as you previously stated yourself here "The gun and ammo drum is so massive that you can't even remove it to save weight, it would unbalance the plane." and thus would hamper rather than improve performance" - That's my point. The A-10 has a very specific airframe that is held back by outdated thinking. While other aircraft have performance and we just bolt new tech and weapons into them, the A-10 is lugging unnecessary weight when it already has underpowered engines. And even if the engines were upgraded, the airframes have been flying since the 80s. They deserve a rest. "would you not want it to be something like the A-10" - The problem is opportunity costs. How many airframes can't be purchased because I'm maintaining A-10s? How many airframes are waiting on repairs because I have maintenance personnel trained on A-10s but not on F-35s? How many losses am I taking because the guys have to wait for the slower A-10? We're at the point the A-10s should be considered losses due to wear and tear and yet they're still pushed beyond the limit and forced to fly as Ships of Theseus with Boeing wings that cost two billion. The point was the quote, not the virtues of the P90. And hell, if the situation doesn't call for the use of ordnance, the F-135 engine is supposed to be the noisiest in the fighter jet business. I bet a show of force can rattle the fillings out of people's teeth.
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Nowadays people use apps for texting and voice messaging, so that's a fun question because below a certain age I don't even know people's ringtones.
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@MiggsMultiple You download at home with your wifi.
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"My Putin... Steinerovich..."
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@mr.h5028 Mind that the reason WWII happened was because of WWI. So not having a military would have actually prevented those things you mentioned.
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@mr.h5028 The revolutionary war was fought with a militia, though. Nothing wrong with the people fighting for their independence. The Spanish war was triggered by the explosion of the USS Maine, which was not definitely proven to have been caused by the Spanish or by an internal source. WWI was a family quarrel between European royals. My point is that your claim that a military was needed because of the bad things that happened in WWII, well WWII was caused by the consequences of WWI. We reap what we sow.
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@mr.h5028 It doesn't matter what I believe. My point is that WWII was a direct consequence of WWI. You can't justify having a military to stop the holocaust, if the existence of military forces was what lead to the holocaust. Also, by the way, when Polish resistance member Witold Pilecki volunteered to be captured to be taken into Auschwitz and then escaped, relaying the information about the death camps to British and American intelligence, they actually suppressed the information because they felt that if it seemed that the war was being fought to end the Holocaust, the Americans would actually becomes less supportive of the war. The objective was to defeat Germany.
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Generic User someone would come up with an alternative.
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@kansasscout4322 The defenders seem to be doing poorly, either running away or getting captured. Turns out you don't need more than a 1:1 ratio if the defender is underfed, has no water and knows he's not getting paid.
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Oh no, the tax payer in 1980 who paid for stuff that wouldn't ever be used is really mad!
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@armyman-ig7qs It's not a strawman. The billions are old vehicles. You're complaining about nothing.
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victor soto >prestitigous institution >place of knowledge Did you watch the video?
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victor soto so you graduated from a place that teaches future war criminals, serial rapists and vulture businessmen?
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victor soto so there was no drinking, no sex, no racism and definitely no crass jokes in that establishment, ever! And professionals never commit immoral acts! It's the poor people working low wage jobs who actually drop bombs on civilians and murder prostitutes! You keep digging yourself deeper.
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A SEAD campaign would require even more F-16 deliveries (with HTS pods and AGM-88s of a more modern variant) and SEAD doesn't eliminate MANPADS or manually aimed autocannons.
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 @augen8819 The Inquisition was around after the Caliphate was forced out of Iberia.
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Install CS Source
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You're ignorant. Kherson is both the oblast and the city. They're fighting in the Kherson oblast. The point is that once the city is cut off from supplies, the Russian forces will not defend the city.
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@Hereford1642 It's not a matter of disagreeing. It's a matter of a person thinking that the fight for Kherson has been won when it hasn't even started.
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He's also into minors and served two years in prison over it.
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@olafweyer859 There's quite a big gap between being a top player in the Nazi regime and doing webcam videos from home. Even though Speer's accomplishments are tarnished, at least he accomplished something.
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@olafweyer859 No, it's because if you want to defend a bad person by bringing up his accomplishments, at least make sure that person actually accomplished something (fun fact: some of Speer's accomplishments might have been lies). But nice of you to strawman the argument, I guess Ritter fanboys have no way of arguing except through lies. Vicky the Viking was a great show, shame to see it associated with people who defend nonces.
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By that logic, you should keep going anyway. If it's already lost, gut the enemy. It might not save you, but will save countless in the future by making it known that the small guy will cripple the big guy. And plays like these will kill empires.
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@samething9376 Okay. Should we go tell Putin his actions also affect others? The Russian claim that 95% of their forces are combat effective kinda leads credence to the estimate of 10k dead and injured. Far less optimistic than Ukraine's bolt claim, but pretty severe. That's not miniscule. The equipment damaged is also a huge factor, and even if they sent older stock the losses are not recoverable in this economy.
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@samething9376 I didn't say you said that. I simply asked you to apply the same logic. You're concern trolling about casualties, because you see the defender as having the moral responsibility to limit them, even though it's the aggressor who's firing the shells. There would have been ZERO war casualties had Putin not called for the invasion. It is a lot. Please think. The Russian Federation is losing a lot of valuable equipment and men. Even though these losses may seem sustainable, this "special military operation" is costing them men at rates seen in total wars. The munitions and fuel being spent are also depleting their stock. 10k dead and wounded in two weeks means 100k dead and wounded in two weeks versus a more capable adversary. The no-fly zone wouldn't do anything. There's essentially no middle-road here. The damage has been done. The only options are either instant capitulation or fight until defeat. The half-measure of giving up now will not bring back the dead. It will not rebuild Ukraine. Many of course want to return, but there will be nothing but exposed concrete and rubble waiting for them. You think surrender will make things get better, but they won't for several years. The homes, the roads, the bridges, the jobs won't be there. People will be refugees in their own country. And you're asking of them to just accept that. Roll over. The fact that the outcome is the same only reinforces the point - if the country is a wreck either way, might as well ask Russia to pay with the blood of their young men and the aluminum and steel of their war machines. The outcome will be the same for Ukraine. But it won't be the same for Russia. You're asking for Russia to get away scot free.
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@samething9376 Oh yes, the usual "no solution" cope. Bad bosses love it, the workers can't call out bad decisions that everyone knows are bad, because they're not aware of better alternatives. Let's just drive off a cliff because nobody knows which way the destination is! Want to limit casualties? Russia stops attacking. Simple as. Surrender? Who said surrender? It's you who's denying the solution now! The murderer gets away scot free! The solution is easy, and you're actively supporting more strikes! The mask comes off, you have been concern trolling about casualties all along, like I predicted. The negotiations failed because Russia is demanding Ukraine to stop being a country. They turned it into rubble, and want to make sure it can't resist invasion again. The robber steals from your house. Then demands you can't change the lock or install an alarm. Yes, it's the home owner's fault this deal can't be made. It's out of the question to have peace? Oh, so Ukraine gets beaten into a bloody pulp, but can't even leave this fight humiliated and shake hands. It needs to submit even further. Out of the question, you say. Defeat isn't enough for you. I mean, Putin... You're clearly making excuses for the aggressor and pretending you want him to stop, while actively saying it's impossible to stop. It's not impossible, that's what China did after they invaded Vietnam in 1979. Their losses were unsustainable so they declared victory, said they had caused enough punitive damage and left. That's not fanfic. That's not universal world peace. It's the real world.
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@samething9376 And you are waaaaay to emotionally attached to Putin's idea of might makes right. I gave plenty of retorts. I didn't say they "should" stop, I said they have the ability to stop this at any time. You blame the victim and refuse to blame the aggressor. "Well Ukraine should just stop existing" genius why didn't anyone think of that? Come on Ukrainians, just be Russia. You're saying Putin won't stop if you ask nicely, but then claim Ukraine's only option is to... ask Putin to stop. You defeated your own argument. You're admitting that surrender will not erase Ukraine's troubles. He will not stop by asking nicely. You're the one promoting the kumbaya fantasy that Russia will simply stop having an interest in a subjugated Ukraine. I'm promoting the harsh reality that Ukraine will only achieve satisfactory conditions by forcing Russia to pay in blood. This is not kumbaya. This is speaking the only language that you "might makes right" fools understand. The more power you give to force, the more you practically beg for force to be used against you. You asked for these rules. Now we will play by them. You think the victim should stop by asking nicely. Instead the victim focuses of making you bleed. Bad guys are bad. Which mean good guys should make them pay. In blood. Or else they won't stop. Bad guys won't stop being bad. They stop. When their heart stops. You are ignorant of what "concern trolling" is. I didn't call you a "troll". You don't understand what terms mean, that's fine, we're not born with all the knowledge. But learn. You have no complaint here. Your fanfic is that bad people will stop when asked nicely. You make the case that Russia won't stop, then say the solution is asking them for a timeout. All I'm saying is if Russia won't stop, Russia must bleed until it learns the lesson. You say might makes right and everyone else should cower, but you cower at the use of might and say that instead Russia should just be allowed to march into Kiev for a victory parade. You're the one writing the fanfic where the bad guy stops, even though your entire argument is based on bad people not being bad.
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"We" lol you're typing on a keyboard, you didn't do squat
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And the debris fall on target
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@SatanicKale You said she was less qualified. Cenk just said she was the smartest. That's not mutually exclusive.
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@bsg111987 So because Britain had pubs open the US shouldn't have backed them in WWII?
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@samy7013 Don't want to support the war? Stop buying Russian gas.
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@ciilqabeduubi3953 "even US generals" - name them
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Not true.
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@carissahowell Because you can just look at data from countries like the UK and Israel.
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@ratherbefishing4225 I don't see how that matters considering that you can make stable jet powered aircraft. Either way, there was a jet powered VariEZE - that crashed from structural failure caused by lack of resin impregnation in sections of the wing fiber weave, not flight instability - and a rocket powered LongEZE.
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@_5_675 "reject medical knowledge gained by experts around the world" - They're not experts on the new one. They know nothing.
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@sjsk313 Is it false?
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@sjsk313 Huh? Huh? Huh? You've seen the comment multiple times. All you can do is say you've seen it before. You can't disprove it. All you have is mockery. Because it's true.
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Ukraine is sort of "unique", many of the lessons learned there won't apply to a different country.
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Nonsense. That's like saying we can take all the 35-50 year old working age people still in the rust belt and turn them into Silicon Valley employees. How will they "find their way" when they can't afford these new units? Even if the CCP gives away the houses for free, the money is still gone. That was a financial loss and the future of the country was gambled away. You put a command economy in charge of the sea and they'll find a way to run out of water (Aral sea).
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Textron and GE.
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>all firearms should be registered Why? Canada threw away their registry. Why? It doesn't solve murders (the same way a car registry doesn't solve "hit and runs"). It's just a database. It's worthless and expensive. >should require a license You don't need a license to drive a car in your property, just to drive in public. Why not the same with guns? >You cant defend yourself against your government anymore You might want to read into Vietnam, Soviet-Afghan war, Afghanistan, etc.
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 @tricksterjoy9740 The DPR/LPR flew a ton of Antifa flags. You should watch the 2014-2022 events instead of applying your American politics brain to stuff you don't understand.
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@sugma3475 it didn't really switch around, it's just that a ton of the Antifa bros are no longer among the living. And some quit lol there was a Brazilian antifa guy who showed up to the Donbas to fight Azov and gave up because of the racism.
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They're not efficient because so far most strikes have not affected the situation onn the ground.
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@alunjones2550 If Russia is having supply issues, they're willing to pay to get stuff from the outside. Closed systems are nearly impossible.
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 @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 I bet those "brand new" tanks have been sitting there for years. Remember the new article claiming Russia had give 200 T-90s to the separatists? Where are those?
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 @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 I don't dispute that Russia has thousands of tank hulls. I dispute that they're all usable.
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It was legal. All weapons are military style. Rittenhouse did need to shoot people. They were attacking him. All weapons are assault weapons. You beat someone with a wooden chair, it's assault with a deadly weapon.
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@charleynewman5057 Neither have most groups of any side. So by that logic everything's fine. Resume your normal lives.
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Cope and seethe.
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@Naskinlahtaaja how on earth are you ignoring all of the instances of normal people like me and you being punished for "speech crimes"?
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@Naskinlahtaaja how is it whataboutism? You're essentially saying something is not happening when it actually is.
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@Naskinlahtaaja but it is what we're talking about, it's the same exact topic.
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Try saying to the people living in countries we'll stage coups in to get access to their mineral resources that renewables are all sunshine and roses. Everyone will be affected by something. 1.2 million people die per year from traffic accidents (or at least they did in the mid 2010s when I checked) and we still agree motor vehicles are nice to have.
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That's fucked up. "look at these criminals, you know what we gonna do? prohibit them from owing their own businesses, that will keep them away from crime" Sure, the legitimate business may just be a front for the gang and actually used to launder money, but it's the government that has to prove that. They probably pay someone to "own" the businesses for them, anyway.
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Shotguns are used for breaching, and ironically with the smallest shot available (or even a powdered matrix of filler and metal dust). What shotguns lack in velocity (versus rifles) they make up in payload, so they rip the lock or hinges off.
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Russia annexed Ukrainian territory which means Russians can legally be forced to fight.
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The other way around. Russia is rushing forward with reckless abandon because they know they are on a timer and they want to seize the most land.
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Your system is a closed system when in reality wealth can be generated. There's 109 dollars. Plus the 10 loaves there's 119 dollars in the economy (let's assume it's an island without trade). However if one of those people goes fish and brings a fish and that fish is worth, say, 5 dollars, now there's 124 dollars in the economy. If three guys get together and decide to go in the woods to kill a hog or something, and the whole hog is worth 30 dollars, now there's 154 dollars in the economy. What if the remaining guys plant wheat so they can make more loaves? The money inside the economy keeps growing.
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I'm against any kind of licensing, registration or harassment, undermining, limitation or restrictions on the Second Amendment. Most murderers have a violent past (such as domestic abuse), normal people don't just murder others. Easy way to solve this situation is make domestic abuse a felony, because felons can't legally own guns.
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South Vietnam was our ally. Why wouldn't we help them against conquest?
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That was WW3, the Nazis came back but America was too concerned with the 1973 oil crisis.
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India supports Russia by demanding low oil prices. India straight up scamming Russia and helping them go bankrupt for profit.
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In the creation menu, remove everything that you ditched at the point you turn 45º. You'll just pick the thing you ditched last and the first stages will stay attached, just put them on the side. Now, on your rocket try to figure out where the center of thrust and mass is. If you have a top-heavy rocket, it will just dip and start spinning. If you still can't, add some RCS, use it to turn to 45º by pressing R and press T to lock onto the angle you want. But this adds even more weight.
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@enriquelaroche5370 Your fault for going to San Francisco. Probably voting democrat too.
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@@patagonianpaint Sorry, imagine living in hellholes and complaining online when it's entirely your fault they are that way.
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The HR department suffering consequences? That would be a sight to see.
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What a riddiculous argument. That's not how it works.
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@darkstorminc I am certain this would be a problem in a tank. All well designed military equipment had unforeseen troubles that required an upgraded variant to fix them.
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@toasty4000000 Fuel isn't flammable. The fumes from gasoline are flammable. Diesel needs to be much warmer to reach ignition point.
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@toasty4000000 A battery is more dangerous. Yes, we have fire suppression because we recognize that things can and will go wrong. But that's because fire suppression can mitigate fuel or oil fires. If the whole thing becomes an inferno due to battery fire, that's worse.
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@andrasbiro3007 That doesn't make any sense. There's footage of Russian tanks getting hit, flames breathing out the hatches, and you still see the three crewmen getting out alive. So the "they're already dead" logic doesn't make sense. Things are never that linear. No, the mass doesn't provide protection. No, battery isn't armor. Solid steel isn't good armor anymore. A steel casing is soft as butter for the purposes of armor.
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@andrasbiro3007 1. Battery on the floor means huge volume that forces the tank to be raised off the ground. This makes tanks easier to hit. It also prevents the use of an escape hatch under the tank. 2. Danger is always present. A hit not near the battery can still cause a fire in the battery. A hit not near the crew can still cause a fire or secondary that is dangerous for the crew. 3. How's that important? 4. Yes, armor on the bottom is not strong. How's that gonna make batteries any better? 5. I can layer wood laminate and glue. That's a composite. It's not going to stop a tank round. Just because something is made out of several materials it doesn't mean it can't be shot through by a tank or missile like a hot knife through butter. Composite armor in tanks usually mixes extremely high performance ceramics, steel, even some alloys based on tungsten and depleted uranium in some cases. A battery isn't armor.
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@andrasbiro3007 A couple of inches? You're gonna be moving several tons of steel and composite armor. Not a Tesla model S. Having fuel and ammo is precisely why fires are bad. When tanks are hit, you don't want fires to happen. Hit the battery, and the vehicle will be engulfed in flames. Which will then spread to the fuel and ammo. That's bad. Batteries are not harder than steel, and steel alone isn't able to defeat modern anti tank rounds. The bottom doesn't "require" the least protection. Everything requires all the protection it can get. But you have a weight budget and you have to spend it wisely. If we could, we'd armor the bottom, the top and the back. But pesky physics won't let us. Putting a huge fire hazard in the place we can't protect will probably cause the increased development of weapons that dive under the tank instead of attacking the top. "Hard stuff inside" isn't armor. Look up actual tests. APFSDS and HEAT rounds eat steel for breakfast. There's a reason ERA and composite armor is used. Instead of putting "hard stuff" in the way of projectiles made to penetrate "hard stuff" like a hot knife through butter, we defeat (or at least mitigate) incoming projectiles by presenting them with armor which either disperses the HEAT jet or forces shear stresses to break the penetrator.
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And then you get infected anyway because it doesn't stop the spread, only suppresses symptoms.
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@jeffreyparker9396 How does it prove your point? You make the argument regarding society rather than personal benefit, and now you flip flop back to personal benefit even though your argument regarding the social good was demolished. You're the one proving my point by making this about PERSONAL choice as it only affects the person who takes it.
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Trump shouldn't have the power to do it either. The problem isn't that Trump, or Biden, or the green alien can do it. It's that none if them should be able to.
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@LSturdy It's not a matter of pretending. Trump didn't want his feefees hurt by mean tweets, the opposing side is using government institutions to control discourse.
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@rhodium1096 "Russian army took the military airport of Kiev in 2 hours" - Hostomel airport was only defended by a local national guard garrison, with assistance from some Georgian legion and SOF units. They also didn't take the airport until the following day, Ukrainians took photos inside the airport after the first battle because the VDV air assault was surrounded and had to leave for the woods until backup arrived by land. They were there one month because Ukraine cratered the runway. The airport became useless so there was no point trying to force out the Russians. You're bragging about a pointless feat. The mission was to land IL-76 transports near Kiev like in the Czechoslovakia invasion. They failed and the IL-76s had to turn back and land in Belarus as the cratered runway would have made it a suicide to land. While they "held" the airport for a month, they were allowed to sit there and be useless while their brothers took the casualties. Why not talk about the units who left the airport and tried to push into the actual cities? They were inside the aluminum coffins in those pictures of burning columns.
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@Free-g8r My point is that listing off a label doesn't actually say much. You just named the actual "active ingredient", delivery mechanism, and the stabilizers/preservatives and other additives. You don't know what's the actual mRNA strand. I assume some vials are pulled and tested to make sure the strands are the right ones for quality assurance. But I don't think you were invited to the lab and see for yourself. So you don't know. It's all based on trust. My problem isn't that you trust the lab, I'm sure they're doing a good job. But you come here on the internet and you're sure of things you couldn't possibly know.
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@platosbeard4449 Sweden also has higher populational density compared to its neighbors. Mindless experiments? You mean the non-stop mass psychosis that has been happening all over the world? You're in one too!
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@platosbeard4449 Still ranking 40th in mortality rate, and their excess mortality only rose significantly above baseline during the 2020 peak. Morality rates are similar to Norway and Finland, with 0.04 per 100k while Sweden had 0.06 per 100k. Germany had similar deaths per 1M despite mandates.
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But the same thing was said about T-62s. Today, we see them taken out in frontline combat.
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@MFitz12 The evidence says they haven't ran out of rusted hulls in Siberia. The evidence says they are running out of components and refurbishable units.
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@MFitz12 Thousands of hulls beyond saving can't be brought back. Thousands of hulls that had the parts stripped to repair working tanks or sell to foreign export markets can't be brought back. The thousands of hulls don't have thousands of trained crews either.
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@MFitz12 Americans don't treat hulls like Russians do.
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@limedickandrew6016 No need to meet a tank for Ukrainians to blow it into space. 1965 to 1955 is a huge gap. A Bradley would chew through a T-55 because it chewed through T-72s in the 90s. Dude... A T-72 wasn't an even match for Bradleys in Desert Storm. What makes you think the T-55 will fare better? Air power over Ukraine - when Kharkiv happened they stopped responding to calls for help due to the number of airframes lost in 1-2 days. Ukrainians certainly don't leave airpower out of the equation. That's why they bring air defense traps with them. Attack a Russian position to get them to call air support, aircraft come in, defenses were pre-positioned to ambush the Russians. That's how Kharkiv was possible despite the so-called Russian air superiority. Ukraine is on the defense. Russia picked the time and place. They had every advantage and squandered it. That's why we laugh. You try to sucker punch someone, but slip and fall, we laugh.
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Paperclip was after the bomb had already been mostly built.
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@Hans "unemployment benefits would have helped to stabilize people's income and thus demand for businesses and that would have prevented more layoffs." - the unemployment benefits have to be paid by those businesses so all the extra business they get is money taken from their pockets. They're gonna lay off people to be able to keep the lights on.
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@jhespinosa because through the benefit of hindsight we know that the new deal actually made the depression worse, so it didn't work.
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@Hans "Libertarianism is based upon the idea that the individual regardless of his value and actions for society would have the right to life and freedom. Which is nothing but wishful thinking" - funny, who's to say it's you who doesn't deserve to have those rights? Always happens with you fuckers, it's always other people who are undesirables, not you. "In nature there exists no such thing." - yeah, it is. The gazelle has the right to kick the cheetah in the mouth. "These things are the result of natural observation" - naturalistic fallacy "they are science" - no, it isn't. "thus the true natural law and the only valid moral" - Bullshit. Your naturalistic fallacy pretty much detaches mankind from the ownership of their actions and if you do not own your actions there is not objective moral code to follow. "the fake moral finger at the Nazis for performing natural laws" - that's pretentious and fallacious.
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@jhespinosa from you own source: "While the economy had somewhat recovered, it was far too weak for the New Deal policies to be unequivocally deemed successful. In 1933, at the low point of the contraction, GDP was 39% below the trend before the stock market crash of 1929, and by 1939, it was still 27% below that trend. Likewise, the number of private hours worked was 27% below trend in 1933 and was still 21% below the trend in 1939. Indeed, the unemployment rate in 1939 was still at 19% and would remain above pre-Depression levels until 1943." I mean...
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@Hans comments disabled ahahah oh wow OP is a coward, thanks for putting pro-Nazi propaganda on my internet history you bitch. "You can't escape the natural laws" - natural laws allow you to escape from natural laws. "Things that are observed as a rule in nature are no naturalistic fallacy" - nature allows for contradictory observations, and mere observations can be affected by a huge number of possible biases (for example survivorship bias, you can make observations that are indeed correct but the conclusions being wrong). You're trying to justify your ideology with nature while vehemently ignoring all the instances where nature does not conform to your ideals. "but the foundation of science" - not really. Mere observation is not science. Look at Cesar Milan. He is famous for understanding dogs but his understanding of dogs comes from flawed observations of wolves in captivity. Therefore his knowledge is not scientific in the slightest because his hypothesis was never confirmed into theory and he never did the scientific work required to do so. Just like yours. "there is no right to win." - literally nobody said that. "If the cheetah wins the fight, the Gazelle can not claim some rights to life and liberty, because there is no one going to enforce that." - but if the gazelle had human understanding they would figure out a plan to take advantage of the fact that cheetahs can only sprint at full speed for a few seconds. They would entrap and kill the cheetahs to eliminate the danger and avenge the fallen. Fortunately they do not possess the level of understanding and rationality or else animals themselves would have upset the natural balances, but we do. Obviously I cannot jump off a cliff and argue with gravity I have a right to life. But my right to life postulates that once you break the unwritten contract and kill me, you have put up a bounty on yourself.
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@jhespinosa "Did is work or did it not?" - there's evidence that it didn't, and the evidence that it did that you provided actually said it didn't do a whole lot. "The New Deal policies implemented by Roosevelt went a long way in helping to reduce income inequality in America" - okay, but was the objective to reduce income inequality or save the economy from crisis? "And that is my point, you can distort the facts to fit your ideology." - okay but you just distorted the fact that the New Deal reduced income inequality into the New Deal saved the economy from the Depression.
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@Hans "Guess why we never had a depression again?" - remember when Reagan pulled the US out of a huge crisis in the 1980's? (and then fucked it up with massive spending) It was kind of a big deal. Unemployment actually hit a peak higher than the 2007-2008 recession. And before him JFK had also proposed to Congress that taxes were paradoxically too high. George Dubya also had great success with his tax cuts. So not only there have been serious economic downturns since the Great Depression, which shuts down your claim, there's also the fact that the US govt. adopted a lot of free market ideals since. You can claim that those free market ideas are what caused the recessions (even though they seem to have fixed them) but you cannot claim the New Deal is the reason recessions haven't happened since.
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@jhespinosa you selected the facts, you just ignored what didn't fit your narrative.
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@Hans how does that graph prove that anything is false?
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@Hans it nearly duplicated govt spending in relation to GDP.
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@Hans "spending to GDP ratio automatically increased without spending a single additional cent" - yeah that still counts as an increase in spending. If you're not scaling back spending along with the GDP then you're making a conscious decision to spend "more". "multiple times lower than during and after WWII " - yeah, wars tend to be expensive. That doesn't mean it's a good thing. "probably the most prosperous time in the American history" - because the rest of the fucking world was either broke or turned to rubble. Anyone in the field of engineering or manufacturing knows about this tale. American manufacturing was the best available at the time and there was no competition. After Deming popularized the idea that striving for quality and continuous improvement would lead to savings and increased productivity, Japan and then the rest of the world started to steal America's thunder. You can't replicate the 1950's unless you nuke half the fucking world and rise from the smoldering ashes as a place where even mediocre manufacturing quality can get you sales.
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@Hans "The question wasn't wether wars are a good thing or not, but how government spending saved the economy" - it didn't. Government spending did not save the economy, demand for American products and thus labour saved the economy. Spend without a demand and you'll be stuck in Hitler's position. "And no, decreasing GDP and stagnant spending is still no spending increase." - it is a relative increase. If you earn less money this month but keep your expenses the same, you're increasing the rate at which you're going bankrupt. "The point wasn't to replicate the 50's" - by claiming that the 1950's had levels of prosperity that are desirable you are indeed pointing to certain conditions you defend being the determining factor by that prosperity. Except that they aren't. "The point was that since WWII there hasn't been a depression again" - but there have been. "because government spending went up and created the most prosperous age in the American history." - it didn't. The most prosperous age had to do with the fact that the rest of the world was either broke or in shambles. You can't ignore the most important factor behind the 1950's economic situation and attribute sole responsibility to government policy. "If government is so bad, why hasn't the standard of living and the economy collapsed since then." - cost has decreased and quality increased in the sector controlled by the free market while government-controlled housing, education and healthcare are in shambles. "And thus your libertarian ideology also economically debunked. " - pretentious and fallacious. Also, the Nazis lost and don't control any government. Nazism debunked lol get fucked kraut lover
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@Hans "So your argument would be irrelevant, since sooner or later Europe and Japan did recover from the war." - and behold, the US loss some relevancy in the worldwide economic plan and hit quite a few speedbumps. It's almost like things aren't as good as in the 1950's, huh? "If big government would be really so bad as you Libertarians claim, why this period of big government has become the most prosperous and economically stable period in modern human history?" - the US has been losing prosperity. "Do you notice how you switched from "the New Deal was a disaster"" - I didn't. I'm just working with what you people have been giving me. ""but this economic miracle that was created in this period of massive government spending is not too blame on this massive government spending"" - yeah and I have this rock and there's no tigers around me, so clearly this rock repels tigers. It's not an economic miracle that the US bombed the absolute fuck out of the rest of the world and then became the leading industry for a few decades until Zee Germans, post-Mao China and the land of the rising sun caught up. That's not a miracle, that's a logical result. ""but only the private sector did prosper" ???" - way to miss the point. What I said is that we're living in a world where technology is getting more and more accessible despite of the fact that it's extremely complex and cost-intensive to produce due to how the free market works. But things like houses, which are relatively simple and we have been building for millennia are becoming more and more difficult to own. Our prosperity is tied to the fact that trinkets and creature comforts are extremely cheap, to the point the poor in America can afford a car, A/C and a smartphone. But break a leg and you won't be able to afford the hospital bill. Our actual living conditions are decreasing in comparison to previous generations. "Also you coming up with this ridiculous demand argument. Guess what? That demand was created by government first" - Hitler tried that and he entered an economic bubble. He needed war or else he would have to stop producing war material and send people home. Creating demand by government is the assbackwards way of doing it. "The Nazis were defeated militarily, not economically." - are you fucking kidding me? The Nazis were defeated economically through and through. Not only were their oil reserves insufficient to win and depended on the capture of Russian oil fields to have a chance of winning (they were pushed back before they could restore the Russian oil equipment into working condition) but they also depended on foreign alloys such as Swedish steel and Portuguese tungsten. Most of German's losses can be attributed to logistical factors, such as their inability to use Russian railroads and their dependence on horses.
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@mazza4190 Blitzkrieg doesn't exist. It's a term made up by journalists.
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It also allows anyone who has beef with you to call a red flag on you and take your guns away until you can prove to the court you're innocent.
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@qwipperty yeah poor private businesses would have never coughed up the money for oil explorations if the state had refused to pick up the tab. Poor, poor industries. They can't do anything for themselves, they're soooo pooooor.
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@myjizzureye you pay taxes on your income you pay taxes on your property you pay taxes on sales you pay an added tax on gas, you know, to pay for the roads then to build the roads and bridges the state funds them through concession of the road to a company that puts a toll and you pay the toll meanwhile the companies make a lot of money from those roads and avoid taxes and you praise the government for making them earn money easier? yeah bud, you're getting screwed and don't even notice it.
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Whataboutism. Stop dodging the recruitment and go to Donbas, bot.
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@KB4QAA You don't need to post your credentials if you're just going to repeat the talking points, plus biology is a pretty big field.
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@KB4QAA He probably knows better than a biologist.
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@vladimirdyuzhev you people are worse than nazis
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Rampage's life would have been different if everyone had a cellphone with a camera back then.
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In Europe the receiver isn't regulated, the bolt and barrel are.
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@donjones4719 Congress is composed by out of touch and incompetent people, so it checks out.
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@oliverwells8011 So bad people never lied? Police is on its way! Just sit here with us for a minute. Yeah, right.
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@oliverwells8011 It doesn't matter. It's not about one believes. It was an illegal citizen's arrest and by committing that crime you've forfeited your self-defense rights if someone responds accordingly. Saying that the police has been called doesn't matter. First of all, it doesn't have to be truthful. Second, it doesn't legitimize a false imprisonment done at gunpoint. Your idea is that we should just submit to random hicks driving around town looking for suspects when they don't have the right to do that. That's wrong. And I hope the next hicks who try to pull this BS come across an innocent person who happens to have a CCW and the skills to dome those idiots. It's sad that it has come to this, but people have to start getting clapped on the streets to learn to behave. This goes for all kinds of criminals, the career criminals and the people who think that they have a right to rule society for having a truck and a gun. "Common sense" doesn't exist now that the law is involved. It's "common sense" that he was the right guy. But that's not what the law is about. You can break the law and tell the judge how it was "common sense" you had to do it, see how far that will take you.
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It's not whataboutism. It's a legitimate issue.
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@oh_nur The people quote unquote in denial are keeping you alive. Let's see you survive in a world where they stop working too. How long will you survive locked inside your home, with no food, heat or water? Thought leaders? You mean TV and politicians? You independent self, you came to your own conclusions without any suggestion or instruction... We've had collective action. It failed. Either shit or get off the pot. Doubling down on failure isn't acceptable. You haven't started the process over. You're simply doubling down and asking for a repeat of the same failed policies that KILLED people through second and third order effects. If you're comparing breathing to drunk driving you're completely off the rocker. Prior to man standing up for the first time in history pathogens already existed. And they will keep existing after we go extinct. If your argument is that living your life causes the same peril as hurling down a metallic weapon that's over one ton at 60mph down the street I suggest you either reevaluate or just follow down your thought to its ultimate conclusion. If you truly believe your breath is moral danger to others, feel free to address that concern. I will not follow you down that path. And then you mention breaking analogies as if you haven't just accused people who aren't even infected of creating so much danger they're the equivalent to one to two ton cannon balls speeding into minivans full of children. Your own overlords, sorry I meant thought leaders, said the mask didn't work which created doubt. Then they said they did, but you could wear any piece of cloth. Now they're back to saying they're theater and you really need N95 ones. Washing hands? Are you listening to yourself? First, I already washed my hands before because I'm not a maniac and second, touching surfaces is a much less prevalent form of transmission. You're here doubling down on what didn't work and giving us the same spiel as in March 2020. We did that. Give us something new.
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Ritter was in prison for a reason.
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Ticket prices confirm that demand to leave Russia increased.
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@ESO529 Dunno why my comment got deleted, but Russians themselves are confirming the exodus.
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@ESO529 Most countries do not draft unless in case of emergency due to invasion. Russia was not invaded.
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@ESO529 That conscription system cannot be used for invasion in most countries. Ukraine is a sovereign country - it got its sovereignty by bleeding Russia in the battlefield. Have a terrible day!
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Eastern fence Lizard "The rich people who have done this to us have personal chefs and people to grocery shop for them" - This is a massive cope. If it took chefs and assistants to be healthy, then obesity rates would be 99%. Clearly, there's plenty of people who can cook and shop no matter the income level. Trump has been out of office for almost a year and you're still letting him live rent free in your head. There's so many out of shape rich people it actually debunks your argument. "almost no one succeeds long term" - Doesn't need to be long term, only until the coof is finally endemic and becomes the common cold. "Expecting this to change overnight and somehow have foreknowledge of the pandemic in order to address it before it hits is not at all reasonable." - We had foreknowledge. You people called us racist conspiracy theorists for saying something was happening in Wuhan. Either way, if a disease threatens you with death and you can't change overnight... again that seems like a personal problem. Why should I suffer? "Losing weight and keeping it off basically means changing everything about being an American" - No, it doesn't. "Do you really think people are going to just stop eating foods they have been eating all their lives, to stop playing addictive video games or binge watching Netflix?" - Excuses. You can do that and still not put on weight. It's called moderation. It's called not overeating. Listen to yourself. So if danger of lung cancer is looming, you're really going to argue you're not going to stop smoking because you've been doing it all your life?
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Eastern fence Lizard "if it were really so simple why would we have a population where 2/3rds are overweight or obese?" - Because people are so stubborn they can't do simple things. "Few people know how to cook anymore" - There's literally books and youtube channels about it. Anyone can cook. "we don't teach it to our children in school" - I think it was Mark Twain that said to not let schooling get in the way of education. School can't teach everything. "they are bombarded with processed food advertisements all day long" - And telling kids about advertising and how it manipulates people is too hard? This is literally just excuses. "We don't as a society promote and value human health" - More people than ever are going to gyms. At least until they closed down.
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If Russia did not want to get encircled it should have stopped pissing off so many neighbors.
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Even if you passed a 100% inheritance tax and shot all of the 400 wealthiest Americans in the head, and nationalized and sold off every American company on the Fortune 500, you still wouldn't have enough money to run the US budget for a single year. Eating the rich will only stave off the hunger for a couple of hours. And you'll have destroyed the entire ecosystem, nothing more to grow and eat for the next few years.
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Is that a cleanprincegaming reference? The dude with the "didn't just die... It was murdered" clickbait titles.
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@umamidayo Nope. Ukraine already said they don't want it. The defense minister at one point said they'd take the A-10s but in a later interview he clarified that he was not aware of how that would be a waste.
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 @userequaltoNull The A-10 isn't perfectly good. It has ageing airframes and parts are difficult to get.
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@SoloRenegade Irrelevant. You could have 50 F-15s surrounding an A-10, the humble Strela fired by some guy hiding in a bush could slap it down without any of the F-15s noticing anything. It's not loneliness that kills the A-10. It's the low speed and low visibility of the weapons that can take it out.
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 @PaxHeadroom It would hurt. Every pilot trained in the A-10 would be one less pilot trained on fighters. It would jeopardize thwur defense to put pilots into such a niche airframe.
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 @cedriceric9730 The S-400 in Crimea that blew up says otherwise. An an Ukrainian S-300 radar and launcher were hit too. Just this week air defenses faced hard counters.
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@SoloRenegade The F-16 has options. The A-10 is a one-trick pony. You don't need to go Mach 1. You only need to be fast enough to get out of trouble. The A-10 has been underpowered since the beginning. It was actually considered for an engine upgrade in the 2000s but there were other priorities in upgrading avionics. Visibility with the naked eye is a prime example of a false economy. A-10 pilots have failed to identify friendlies many times. Its speed and altitude are a liability, and evidently they still can't see right. The A-10s suffered 6 losses because there was an OA-10 that never gets counted. The F-16 suffered 3 losses in 12,000 sorties. The A-10 couldn't match that. The A-10 has been mostly smashing insurgents with no access to proper MANPADS.
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Russia is taking money from pension plans.
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Why is the Harrier better?
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 @bodasactra "waaaaa if you put DEFENSIVE missiles in another country I'll nooooook waaaa"
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"Hurr durr the western companies will make money" mf'ers read Smedley Butler once and will not stop with the negativity
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The West is not getting rich off the war.
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Here?
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@ngangom.thangmeiband Guterres was the president of Portugal at the time, not secretary general of the UN.
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 @Rick8191-tv8pg It wasn't a meat wave attack as the advance wasn't slow and creeping. A meat wave on D-day would have looked like row boats delivering a few squads per day over months.
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There were WMDs. US servicemen found them, and suffered neurological damage as a result. The US military lied about finding them fearing that Al Qaeda would start a treasure hunt for weapons caches. The free press latered uncovered the lie and exposed the veterans who had their health issues covered up.
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@cybervigilante But it isn't the easiest or simplest explanation. That would be solved UAP cases cluing us in. Stuff that looks alien turns out to be mundane.
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Based.
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@LucioFercho The ANA should have not been included in the treaty for the same reason the ANA couldn't fight: lots of people at the top made a lot of money while the people doing the fighting were underpaid, underfed and underequipped.
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@LucioFercho "YOU PUT THOSE PEOPLE IN POWER, YOU TRAINED THEM, YOU ARMED THEM" - No, I didn't. I was against the invasion since 2001. I have spoken against the massive scam that was the nation building process. Don't blame me for not noticing what was out in the open for everyone to see, and don't blame me for being the one who has to tell you. I'm also amazed that you call me a trumptard when this was not a discussion about politics. You seem upset.
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How did you determine few people need them? How did you determine one is enough? "balistic searches" - actually CSI lied to you. It's a complete crapshoot to use ballistics to track guns. "I would even include fingerprinting every citizen or at least gun owners" - why? First of all, that's really invasive. Second, fingerprinting analysis is extremely weak. Remember that after the Madrid bombings an American was arrested because his fingerprint was on a bomb? He was innocent but his fingerprints were so similar that the person doing the analysis botched the job and considered them a match.
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@adrianpintea9675 Q1. Not only do I dot care about what other people need, especially those who live on the other side of the world, I do think gun rights are universal. We have the right to be innocent until prove guilty, not have our property searched or seized without warrant, and we have the right to live our lives the way we see fit. So if I have a gun and harm nobody, I committed no crime and trying to prosecute me is an attempt to consider me guilty for a crime I haven't committed. Guns are necessary for protection even if others don't have them. Sometimes criminals are stronger, or may have baseball bats. Bad people can kill me in an instant even without guns. I want to even the odds. Q2. There's a multitude of tasks regarding firearms and you can't have one that does it all. Q3. The fact is that several states do have legal ballistic matching databases but I don't think any have ever solved a crime. Not only is matching an extremely iffy analysis, criminals typically don't use guns that were on the database. Q4. You don't have to agree. You can run anti-tracking tools. I keep my phone GPS disabled at all times except when I need directions. I take a screenshot and disable it again. Make people more responsible? You mean keep people in fear. Also, how many people use fingerprints on biometric locks? Any breach into the fingerprint database would create a massive security concern as every laptop, phone or even safe could be vulnerable to phoney fingerprints.
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@adrianpintea9675 I didn't change the subject. You use other people as comparison but you never use other people. Like your parents used to say, if other people jumped off a bridge would you follow them? I care about my rights, but I said I don't care about what other people think. No contradiction. "rescue or escape from a bat or knife is greater than the one from a gun" - still puts the blame on the victim by forcing the victim to run Q2. Try to hunt a turkey or waterfowl with a deer rifle. You'll quickly realize why there's so many kinds of guns. Q3. How is it a strawman? A strawman is misrepresenting an argument so you can easily debunk it. There's no misrepresentation. Those states had the supporting legislation. The fact that even CLEANING a gun will change the markings left by a gun makes the system unusable. Q4. You're the one advocating for near total control of citizenship by governments, you're the one who's so afraid of the world you'll take all freedoms away.
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Canada tried to down a balloon witu guns a few decades ago, they shot a thousand rounds and the thing still crossed the Atlantic ocean leaking helium.
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@limabravo6065 First of all, the F-22 is an air-breathing engine aircraft. Not a rocket. At the altitude the balloons were, the F-22 would be pushing through the service ceiling. For controlled flight you need thrust and lift. When you fly through thin air you lose lift which forces you to fly faster, but thinner air has less oxygen to burn with the fuel, so you lose power. Hitting the bits does nothing. Hitting the solar panel wouldn't do anything to a balloon that would still be carried by the wind. A refund on the plane for what? You're using an argument from incredulity, which is not a real argument. It's a fallacy. I don't care if you don't believe in the physics of flight. The aircraft doesn't exist to please your cartoonish fantasies of what fighter aircraft do. There's no such thing as cheap bullets in air combat. Your pilot cost more than a million bucks to train, and the aircraft costs several Gs per hour to run. And you're trying to save money by using the cannon? The debris fly off and your 220 million dollar aircraft ingests the bits through the intakes, busting the engines and forcing the pilot to ditch the aircraft. Suddenly those cheap bullets became seriously expensive. The cargo plane does orbits and shoots at the ground. Gravity helps. The Japanese had trouble shooting down B-29 Superfortresses and made heavy fighters with cannons angled upward so that they didn't have to climb as much. Still didn't work. To fire a cannon at an air target, especially when fighting gravity, you need to be within a few thousand feet. If you got more questions I can lecture you on air combat all day.
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So the parliament voting to have early elections is Jan 6?
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@jakepistolero How was it a violent ousting? The parliament had a vote.
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@jakepistolero I remember those images too - from every country, all the time. It happens, protests are normal. There's protests in Iran right now. Protesters entered the presidential residence because Yanukovych betrayed his own security forces. How can you blame anyone else but Yanukovych? If the security forces no longer want to protect the president, how can you point the finger at protesters?
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The A-1 suffered extensive losses over Vietnam.
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There's no hypocrisy there. You don't get to murder babies just because you feel like it, but I can't be held responsible if my fart causes a hurricane in the other side of the world.
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@bobbypinkston9374 If you park your car in a spot, and someone else has to park somewhere else, and a tree falls on them when they leave the car, that's not a negligent homicide. You sure you want to bring charges for negligent homicide? Every breath you exhaled since the moment you were born carried pathogens, and there's always people with weaker immune systems. You might have been directly or indirectly involved with someone's death. You sure you want to do this?
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I'd rather have the asset that gets to me sooner.
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The problem is, then the A-10 becomes redundant and a F-16 can drop the bomb. If an IR missile is fired at an A-10, there's nothing a SEAD F-16 can do to save it.
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@jimfarmer7811 That makes no sense, because the A-10s mission profile makes it vulnerable to IR and electro-optical tracking. Defenses could essentially hide themselves from suppression and wait for the A-10s. The fact is that multi-airframe missions are a mess. Look up Package Q. F-4Gs and F-15Cs supposed to protect strike F-16s had to turn back and leave. The F-16s went in alone. Different engines, different payloads, different fuel tanks, different speeds. The complexity of the mission just scales exponentially. You don't have infinite F-16s or infinite A-10s. Sending pilots in A-10s is suicide. The F-16s would multitask. You can provide support and switch to suppression once a contact appears.
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@jimfarmer7811 Do you think ATGMs teams will just stand by while infantry and IFVs take out the anti-tank missileer crews? Every weapon in warfare has its counter. The best option is operating where there's no enemy radar presence at all. Second best is destroying the radar. Third best is suppressing it. If you know there are radar contacts in the area, SEAD cover will lob HARM missiles which are automatically programmed to pitch up and use their rocket burn to gain altitude. As they tip over, the seeker is on. At the moment of firing, SEAD flight will announce a "Magnum!" call on radio. SAM operators will both see the HARM in flight and hear the radio call, prompting them to shut down the emitter. If they're skilled. If they're not, they'll just hear a large bang outside and the radar goes offline. This gives a minute or two of radar suppression. When the radar turns back on, SEAD flight will again fire another HARM and announce the firing on radio to make sure he is heard. Another minute or two of radar suppression. Just like that, the SEAD flight gave the aircraft doing the attack run 2-4 minutes to take care of the job. "You have to use combined arms to win a war." "You need to use the A-10s as ground support" - That's like saying you have to use M60s or else it's not combined arms. You have infantry, IFVs, artillery, air support and Abrams, but because there's no M60s it's not combined arms. "The A-10s can orbit" - They can't. Aircraft don't orbit in Ukraine. They fly in, drop payload, fly back out. The clock is ticking and you have SECONDS to make it out alive. Those who don't... we have the video of them either ejecting or losing their lives. The footage is widely distributed and you're denying it. "They would sweep in with fire and forget weapons" - They can't. The fire and forget weapons require line of sight, which means flying above the horizon to scout and acquire targets. They would sweep in, spend several minutes using the pod to look for enemies, and then not get to launch or return because a missile brought them down. They would need to spent time over the enemy to look for their positions on a 8 inch screen. It is suicide. I'd rather give them the weapons that put them in the least risk.
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@susanmercurio1060 Did you research the Kupiansk rail hub? Russia just lost it. It's going to cost them Severodonetsk.
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@shanefiddle I don't consider 8-10 years a short while. Solar only works during the day, depends on the weather and is almost useless the further away from the equator your house is. I think solar is great for self-suficiency/off-grid but generally speaking it can't provide constant and predictable energy.
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@larspelley8865 but you can't build them everywhere because it interferes with fish life cycles and totally modifies the hydrographic basin.
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Russian origin? But a ton of them were Roma. If you're going to accuse this of being ethnically driven at least make sure you're aware of the ethnic groups that were way overrepresented.
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Infantrymen have carried weapons that could destroy tanks since WWI.
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Finland's analysis put the Gripen operating cost higher than the F-16. And this was the older variant because it was in the 90s. An E variant will obviously be more expensive. If you can't afford a F-35 you can't afford a Gripen either. South Africa famously put half their fleet in storage because they couldn't afford to fly them.
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His channel is garbage, sorry. I clicked a video and he's doing a Command & Conquer LARP.
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Snowden is alive.
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Which is why they resorted to using S-300s as ground attack missiles. When your opponent is running low, he stops firing.
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lmao
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They blew the bridges after leaving. They know they're not coming back.
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"Some say" that's great, can you point to these people?
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Progress? You mean an Orwellian police state! How is the police going to check if you have your skin tagged? Are they going to ask everyone to take off their clothes to shine UV light on them? That's my issue. But I'm glad you mentioned it - police officers can use this to incriminate people. Even if they miss they are incriminating people accidentally. No developed country should allow this kind of evidence in court! If you want to say goodbye to your rights, do so alone.
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@heliopyre Look up Modern Monetary Theory. They'll just keep borrowing money from central banks.
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@williamlloyd3769 The HARM is a pretty heavy and complex weapon. It needs an aircraft with a decent EW suite or pod and a trained pilot to use properly.
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Dave Grossman's entire body of work is based on nonsense.
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I understand Rand Paul. Unfortunately, it seems the world does have cartoonishly villainous leaders that won't stop if we just leave them alone.
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So Ukraine moved hundreds of vehicles still in RF colors so stage it all?
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But the windows were not shattered, so it wasn't a blast. It was burning rocket fuel from those DIY rockets.
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Well, most couldn't, which is exactly why NATO exists.
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@corvanphoenix The fuel needs of a larger fleet (because you're going to suffer many more losses with Harriers) will be worse than operating F-35s. Iskanders? They're the ones at risk that close to F-35s.
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It's not Vietnam anymore. No, we shouldn't do the same. It's shameful and ineffective. All countries bar males from leaving in case of invasion. Look at the fine print - in the US all males 18-45 are part of the militia and the governor of their state has the right to call them to arms.
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@mikesvacation It's not Vietnam for Russia. They're not even drafting, it's a "special military operation". Get it? It is shameful. It is ineffective. Prisoners should pay their debt back to the victims. Society earns nothing from war. Russian society is being harmed by war. Criminals with PTSD from war? What a combo! The US doesn't recruit mercenaries from around the world. Triple Canopy? You have to apply, and you'll be rejected. They don't want you. You have nothing to offer to them. Blackwater? Doesn't exist anymore. For about a decade. Weird you equate that to males being called up in case of INVASION, which the US isn't under. Being barred from leaving isn't a draft. My father was barred from leaving the country. He was drafted later. But he was barred from leaving the country at 17. Russia hasn't mobilized because they haven't been invaded. Ukraine has. There is fine print everywhere. Militia Act of 1903. If a state of emergency can be declared to prevent you from leaving the country due to lockdown, they can prevent you from leaving due to war. I'm not doing anything of the sort. I'm just correcting your blatantly incorrect comments.
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@mikesvacation Everyone called it the Vietnam War and there was a draft. Moscow isn't fighting Western influence. They created a fake civil war instigated by FSB agents so they could engage in conquest. The non-felon kid doesn't have to die because he's not being drafted. A (presumably) non-felon Wagner fighter was recently filmed in a hotel lobby starting fights. If that's how normal Wagner people behave, imagine these criminals. They'll come back home to murder. Remember the Soviet-Afghan war? The veterans ended up as the gangsters in 1990s Russia who shot machine guns and used bombs during their gang warfare period. American PMC avoid the classification of mercenary. They aren't even allowed to wear camouflage because they are not combatants. They mostly provide security services and don't engage in combat. Yes, they don't need combat arms. They need helicopter pilots. They need HVAC technicians. Medics. Dog handlers. Meanwhile Wagner is hiring "assault infantry" aka cannon fodder. The Donbas has been genocided by Russia's mobilization. Russians will have trouble getting visas now, so the point is moot. If they're on erroneous charges, why should they catch a bullet in Ukraine? How is it justice to have to face combat for early leave for crimes they didn't commit?
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 @stopitas5790 "bUt WhAt AbOuT?"
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What a lie. The USAF has relentlessly done CAS for the entire GWOT with no Army plans to have organic CAS. Any interview with Air Force pilots will expose how much they love supporting troops on the ground.
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The AMRAAM D variant gets to close to the Phoenix range it wouldn't have mattered anyway.
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That makes no sense. First, the Afghanistan government was Soviet aligned and the insurgents were explicitely a destabilization force. In this case, Azov is a loyalist force fighting for government stability. Which doesn't matter anyway, as most are dead, injured or captured.
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>FaZe clan >Ricegum looks at calendar
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Not true. 1917-1921 the Ukrainians were able to stand their ground against the Bolsheviks so a peace deal where Ukraine SSR would be one of the founding Soviet Republics was reached. They weren't "absorbed" by the USSR. They earned their status as a republic by fighting off the invaders. Those areas are ethnically Russian because of forced displacement during Communist Party rule. Moscow saw fit to take natives and send them to remote areas and replacing them with Russians. Theres's a region in the far east of Russia called Ukrainska.
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The diagrams are available online, worth noting they did not have the regular amount of rounds because of the space taken by explosive filler. If used on a weapon or unloaded manually the follower rising in the mag moved a plunger which actuated the firing train.
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The puppet governments wanted this. Reminder: many in the LPR and DPR administrations are Russian citizens and even held political offices in Russia, the so-called republics abuse the elderly population by taking advantage of their degrading mental capacity, and as part of the "Russian spring" of 2014 the separatists took down transmitters to increase the consumption of Russian media.
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Because the Humvees were towed into the craters to stage the combat scene, Russian telegram is already alleging the burnt corpses are possibly staged too. Remember how Patrick Lancaster filmed burned corpses in a roadside IED attack by "Ukrainians", but the skull had marks of an autopsy?
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Russia started the war. They always invade. They did it to Chechnya, Moldova, Georgia and now Ukraine. Russian imperialism is older than the United States. Do not flatter yourself. Do not be egocentric. This beef is centuries old, it was never about you.
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The US didn't start the war, Russia did. It wasn't a lost election. The president at the time, Yanukovych, was pressured by Russia to drop the EU deal. So people protested. Yanukovych's response was to have police and paid thugs beat down protesters. This lead to people who weren't involved in the protest to join. Yanukovych passed laws suppressing speech and freedom of the press. People joined the large protests because now it was about freedom. Police started shooting steel slugs meant to disable vehicles into crowds. That's when the violence spiraled out of control. Yanukovych fled to Russia because he feared prosecution for the deaths carried out on his orders to curb the protests. Russia already has NATO on its borders. The Baltic states. Their excuses don't even make sense. They were not pushed into a corner. They subjugated several countries for decades, now they're mad that other nations are afraid of them and want protection?
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@phillipbradshaw4006 Victoria Nuland did not pick presidents. So it's NATO's fault that Russia's own geography dealt it a bad hand? Why are you lecturing me on warm water ports? The US didn't "start putting in troops". Almost every country has a military force, that doesn't mean they intend to do harm. There were no "NATO troops" in Ukraine. So Russia's home turf extends beyond its borders? Why isn't Russia in Finland and Ukraine's home turf? Why isn't Russia in Japan's home turf? You really want other countries to start acting like Russia? All bets are off? Is Russia such an insecure country it will end the world simply because it can't handle losing at geopolitics?
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The pro-Russian sources are panicking. The HARM is overblown? There's HIMARS strikes during the day, and less and less attempts at interception. Russia is pulling S-300s out of Syria. Why? Tell me, why would they need more S-300s? Kiev risked the jets. Kiev took out the anti-air. Cope. Seethe. Needle stitch attack? The base got demolished. How many pilots and maintainers got turned into paste there? Russians have similar missiles, and don't use them. Pontoon bridges get hit. Ferries get hit. Transport helicopters? Chornobaikava airfield got hit. They're not safe. If Crimea isn't safe, how is the airport next to Kherson safe? The GMLRS rocket has around 85km range.
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And now F-16s perform more CAS missions than A-10s. They were right, people were just not ready to accept it.
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The US developed bombs that don't explode but release carbon fiber to cause shorts which allows a temporary blackout. The US does that to cover their advance and minimize casualties. Russia does it because they're angry. They're not bombing out of necessity, they bomb because they're children throwing a tantrum.
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 @equim7363 Housing is a short term inelastic supply, knocking down buildings to construct taller ones with more apartments reduces housing availability for a year or more.
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@trokt2 Many don't create jobs because they got their wealth somewhere else and now enjoy the cheap living. If you retire in the West and move to Thailand you won't create a lot of jobs because you don't start a business. Maybe if you hire a maid. The consumption of goods and services could mean the money stays with the import companies and not the local community.
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@Hans "USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand" huehuehue countries with massive governmental spending and taxation are libertarian top lel
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Just googled for it. Holy crap that's a lot of brass.
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Maybe European countries should pick up the slack (I say this as an European). I also don't want to pay more taxes over it. Let the govt figure that out.
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@scoth2930 No, it isn't. I'm sorry but Dems handed Trump the win on a silver platter. Biden/Kamala didn't have the balls to grant Ukraine total victory, so all they promised us was more of the same 2021-2024 and that wasn't good enough.
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Don't see how that's related.
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The Russian army had a contingent there since last year.
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How is it DC's problem that you have crappy mayors? The wastelands are there because your neighbors keep voting for them. You want to defend borders with HIMARS? Kind of psychotic, bud.
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"We have a blended socialist capitalist economy" - That doesn't even make sense. Socialism requires the prohibition of capitalism. "Obviously The police fire and military are socialism" - They're not. They're paid off your paycheck. In socialism, you wake up to go to your factory and there's no boss. You and your coworkers control the factory. None of you can make a profit. That's socialism. Abolishing private ownership of the means of production.
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Scott Ritter, you mean the man who served time in prison for prowling for minors online? Get out of here with your Duginist nonsense.
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@macilowiecki9158 An intelligence officer. Which means he can't actually use his skills because nobody gives him any intelligence as he's retired. Then worked for the UN. Which is irrelevant here. He's been constantly wrong since the start. He's not a good source.
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@macilowiecki9158 Those contacts need to be immediately arrested for leaking classified information, then. Especially to a convicted felon. He doesn't explain anything. He makes up stuff, and then gets proven wrong. I'm not clouded by emotions, I'm "clouded" by his predictions being wrong.
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I can see how some coffee shops and restaurants make money from people that pass by them while commuting or work in the office across the street and eat lunch there regularly. I'm sure they're not the people she was thinking of when she said that, but still...
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@grundlehunter69 I don't think you should be misinterpreting people's comments in the worst possible way to dunk of them.
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The fuselage is driven by weapons and fuel requirements, not the B. There's a reason why the B has a slightly smaller weapons bay.
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NRA is bleeding members. They're controlled opposition and got exposed.
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 @Unapologeticweeb How do you know those super chats aren't money laundering? How do you know those superchats aren't charged back?
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 @ulooqulg Holy king of whataboutism... what about when a Russian nuclear missile failed in the arctic in 2019??? What about that one?
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Are you kidding? Right after WWII the US had Korea and Vietnam.
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@taker610 The fighting was conventional in both. In Korea the North had lost most of the territory when China intervened and fought off the UN forces. In Vietnam the US "won", a peace deal was signed, North Vietnam broke the agreement and the US said "no más" and left. Sure they were quagmires, but the point is that post-WW2 had plenty of conventional fighting. Gulf War '91 was also conventional.
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The Su-57 has a negtive KD - the only shootdown was a friendly S-70 drone.
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@AzriusN The cure also works for grapists. Funny that.
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@AzriusN But I'm not one. Also, funny your comment got shadowbanned.
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+Roy Merritt isn't Army Intelligence an oxymoron? Because I'm pretty sure people like you have also participated in this discussion and admitted that the US is a logistical nightmare to contain a rebellion in. The US military has "superior weapons" but the population can easily stop the logistical backbone that keeps it fed with ammunition and fuel. You think a convoy would survive an American highway unscathed to keep the F-35s fueled and armed?
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+Vendicar Decarian you're right, the NRA will roll over and accept gun control to protect profits. We need to replace them with people who will defend the 2nd Amendment and never back down. Maybe Gun Owners of America should take over...
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Nice cope.
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They're not "misinformed". Things aren't as simple as just having bad information. They looked at the state of things and see Russia defeating the US as a way to further their goals. You can give them all the information, the US is their boogeyman so they need a competing superpower.
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Most of the weapons we sent are outdated and combat proven, they don't need any testing.
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Doesn't help in semi-auto.
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@Mitsurugi2424 I know all about KAC. Constant recoil is useful for machine guns but not semi-auto rifles. Military issue rifles also recoil the way they do by design. When the AK was competing with the AB, the AB rifle was made to be a very soft shooter while the AK was overgassed. This meant the AB was more accurate in trials because of better recoil recovery, but it jammed more often. The Russian military prioritized the reliability of the AK even at the cost of an overgassed weapon. For the same reason, a slightly overgassed AR is preferable to the military than a tuned SR-15. KAC does a wonderful job. But the military is going to twist their nose at trying to minimize recoil that way when they could just give he bolt a little more gas to push through friction in the action.
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@Mitsurugi2424 "I simply said KAC makes weapons that don't have the exact issues" - KAC to my knowledge has never made a rifle for the NGSW program. "the AK won out because of its simplicity and price more than its reliability" - The historical record is very clear on the reliability being a main concern. "So it was innovated for its time" - It's literally a Garand bolt. "no more(arguably less) reliable than the even the original m16 or car15" - Military weapons gassed for reliability rather than for recoil.
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@Mitsurugi2424 Then you can't claim KAC makes weapons that address the issues, because they've never shot the caliber that's generating these issues. It's a good rifle. It's objectively still a good design.
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@alienbsg the USA has more criminals
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Afghanistan defeated Russia. Chechnya defeated Russia.
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@chelseyfrancismccarthy4214 Not true. Russia was given a chance to present evidence in the UN and it was embarrassing. You're falling for fake news created by a warring nation to justify their crimes after the fact - and soiling the name of those who seek the truth.
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They did it backwards. First they should have shorted the stocks, then destroyed the businesses. They can't even do fraud right.
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You can't be up in the air without technology. You can't get off the ground without technology or even aim and fire the gun without technology. F-117s served with distinction until around 2006-2007 and retired due to age.
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Yeah a South Korea/Israel vs North Korea/Iran proxy war.
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There's pictures of Castro being visited by American schoolchildren wearing military caps and fake beards. It sounds insane until you see them.
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Because there were two drone attacks. They were climbing to check the damage from 20-30 minutes prior.
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@karlyo6937 Baghdad bob is claiming all ammo depots were fertilizer storage warehouses.
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Shut up, bot
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It wasn't ignored, it was reported. You ignored it. Not Vice's fault.
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"The government can't violate the constitution" - You could have just put the period right there and end the sentence.
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 @fuzzywumble Tree decomposition releases CO2 by itself.
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That's an admission that Russia lost, and their leadership is so insane they'll use nukes. Which means we'd all be dead anyway because that level of insanity is impossible to control.
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Tons of people must have done it in small promotions during the Tapout/Affliction era of MMA.
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@dailyrant4068 Nice strawman. And Singapore is actually seen as controversial for handing out the death penalty for drug offenses.
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BS. FSB goon Igor Girkin and the little green men took over Crimea and oversaw a phoney referendum. There was repression of dissident voices like the Crimean Tatars.
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If frame rate increases without a fluid response you're essentially just increasing the FPS counter number.
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Yes, but I thought the argument was on katanas. Not only they were not the primary weapon, the katanas produced were either a cheap weapon meant for regular soldiers or a symbol of the samurai. Mind that Europe also knew that spears were superior to sword fighting.
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They are.
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Ghost of Kiev was a rumor that spread online after Russia claimed to have destroyed the entire Ukrainian air force on the ground and a MiG-29 in Ukrainian camo was seen flying over the capital. A gamer from another country (I think India?) made a video in DCS as a tribute which made a lot of boomers think it was real. The Ukrainian Air Force said it wasn't real. The HIMARS strike was reported by Russian sources themselves. It was a New Year's Eve gathering in a building that was meant to serve as sleeping quarters also being used to store ammunition. The building was leveled so most people inside didn't come out unscathed. Bakhmut is both the city and the general area. When you hear about Ukrainian advances in Bakhmut they're talking about the flanks. Journalists aren't very knowledgeable about the military. But you also should acquire some media literacy. Many people heard of Putin visiting Kherson and got confused. Because Kherson is also the name of the district, though Ukraine controls the city.
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They don't take a percentage dawg, they want entire mines to be put under their ownership. They just use shell companies to look like Wagner doesn't own them.
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Some countries are only now finally switching from 7.62 to 5.56, and others recently purchased 5.56 weapons like France and the HK416. They're not gonna follow the change until they retire the current weapons.
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Thanks for parroting RT and their fake deep web page with pictures they got from google.
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@mrpilkington9710 "Indoctrination" says the person who believes the media tales about dark web weapons bazaars. Please, by all means. Send your money. See how quickly you get scammed.
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The cockpit fans are integral to the operation of the helicopter.
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@fifteenbyfive How is it impressive? Crazy Ivan did the classic rookie maneuver of pulling the nose to get away, but misjudging the velocity vector. It's how pilots hit the ground when they don't give themselves sufficient altitude for maneuvers.
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@fifteenbyfive Precision flying would mean not hitting. Maybe watch some red bull air races. It worked? Russia damaged an aircraft, the US is just sending another drone. Not impressive at all. The pilot had an accident.
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@fifteenbyfive There was a collision. The last few frames show a high closure rate and a failed last minute attempt to pull the nose away. Classic case of flight path vector not responding to stick input.
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Now suddenly it's about rationality. Before people cried about peace, and the lives being lost. Now it doesn't matter, Russia must keep winning. What a 180° you people have done.
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It's easy to hack a drone to make it stop phoning home.
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@UnbrokenWillll If this was a significant concern, there wouldn't be drone footage being consistently posted almost every day.
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@tommyanomaly6193 That's not how it works. You don't gain permission from others doing bad things. By the way, Russia supported the invasion of Afghanistan because it assisted their war on terror narrative for the second Chechen war. Even US soldiers thought they were fighting Chechen volunteers in Afghanistan because Russia liked to spread the propaganda of Chechens as dangerous terrorists.
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>cars are pretty much impossible to live without They are as easy to live without as cocaine. I spent the first 20 years of my life without driving any car. >there is a lot of regulation already in place Only in public roads. You can drive anything from a tank to a go-kart in your property. Just like guns, most states require a permit to carry. The "fast car" can be more effective, but I don't doubt a lot of people would live with a ban on cars that go faster than 70mph.
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The crew costs more than the Javelin. Either way, Ukrainians have FPV drones with RPG-7 warheads zip tied to the bottom. The warheads are free.99 and FPV drones with enough power are most likely 600-1000 bucks.
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@buckstarchaser2376 The RPG warhead is a HEAT round, which are employed precisely because they still work at range. Is there a slight difference in warhead behavior? Sure. But once set off, the explosive drives a copper slug into armor independently of forward velocity of the warhead. HEAT works even when the charge is static. lmao the POW schizo cope. Okay bro, lay off the /pol/ copium.
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@buckstarchaser2376 Nobody said anything about melting. Drones fly over berms. Fuzes can be altered. Some are triggered electronically, there's video of a Russian soldier hitting a downed drone with a stick, and the impact is enough to touch the wires. They don't drop it like bombs. They fly it kamikaze style to crash into IFVs. There's plenty of footage, the best pilots even aim for the open hatches so that the explosion takes out the crew. I forgive you for not paying attention to the war.
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@Scorpion122178 >only the alt-right defends capitalism I see anti-capitalists act like children even 100 years after their first revolution.
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The Budapest memorandum essentially gave security assurances to Ukraine in exchange for their nukes. Want to pull out? Give them back the nukes.
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@KillerKowalski_ There was global scientific consensus on a ton of stuff that ended up being wrong.
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Seymour Hersh made up the story. Explosive salinity? Jans Stoltenberg being a US agent since age 16?
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It's not a done deal. Russia has a piece of paper. Ukraine has the scalps of all the RuZZians they've killed to get to the occupied regions.
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Your money is stolen either way, that's a given. This is the first time I'm satisfied with how the money is being used.
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It wasn't lol if it were why isn't Russian sending more missiles right now?
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It happened to Jason Unruhe, he said that maybe the left should stop alienating white people and he got called a racist 🤷‍♂️
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@TrappedInTheNorth He didn't have to "pressure" the scientists. Funny thing is that scientists in contact with the Wuhan researchers were also in contact with Moderna. Remember the articles saying they had a vaccine in 48 hours after the gene sequence was released? That was a lie. They had backdoor access and were working on it since 2019. The people who made the virus are in essence in cahoots with the people selling the cure. Trump was panicking because he wanted the reelection, but this is all on the pharma companies. They were not under pressure.
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Changing the thumbails helps the algorithm.
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@utkarshsatyaprakash4383 Veritassium did a video on it. Essentially the first people to watch the video are subscribers with the notifications on. When people click the video, it starts to trend and get recommended to people who didn't subscribe. So youtubers release videos and track their metrics. Sometimes they have pre-selected thumbnails and titles, and they pick what works best.
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"There is no ammount of radiation that is safe" - This is false. We're bombarded by radiation every single day.
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No individual service rifle is effective at crew served weapons range.
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But many militaries operate in the arctic and have reliability requirements to handle the arctic conditions, plus proper procedures to avoid condensation.
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@kansaspartan7625 Dry ice is just a way to achieve the same results faster. The Alaska police rifles were supposedly tested in the realistic manner, which required leaving them to freeze overnight. A government organization can do that by comissioning that test, a youtuber has to do it himself.
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I woke up and chose violence today so I'll offer the countering opinion. While Stingers are out of production, the obvious direction for next gen manpads involves true imaging seekers. Instead of a heat source, the missile "sees" an aircraft and can be programmed to slam the fuselage rather than the tail. Even gen 2 Strelas had a control algorithm that gave it a last second jink to impact ahead of the heat source, because it was understood the small warhead was a problem and a slightly higher chance of direct impact was helpful. If an enemy has the ability to attack airfields, you'll have trouble operating A-10s as they'll need fighters to cover them.
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More like mandatory firearm safety course for everyone. Your idea sucks and here's why: it would likely not be an anonymous deal, and people would wear those black masks around the eyes like in that WWII OSS footage. Second, it wouldn't be the children taking the safety course in your scenario. You don't put the guns away and hope children aren't curious enough to try to find a way to get to them. You prepare children for the day they might encounter a firearm, even outside the home.
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@Rudenbehr okay, let's limit radiation and chemicals. No eating food, and we live in 0 Kelvin freezes to prevent radiation.
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Didn't they already pull the order back to 88?
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@dunningkruger4863 yeah Ukraine started the war by being invaded and the invader declaring a "special military operation".
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Clothes are comfy. Meanwhile you'll wear the mask forever.
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@nosugarcoating6793 Exactly. Only an ignorant person would compare nudity with not being forced to wear a muzzle.
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And the barrage starts getting intercepted when it crosses the border. Basically this is the goalkeeper to defed from the real strikes after the lesser defense systems take out the volume.
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It's a total mobilization just under a fancy name.
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@jackuzi8252 Not true. The Republican party mostly supports Ukraine.
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@jackuzi8252 Not really, China is a naval war while Ukraine is a land war.
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@Angry Justinian thorium reactors burn nuclear waste.
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Just like the First Order - they lose the Starkiller base, a dreadnought, the Supremacy flagship, a bunch of star destroyers and at the end of TLJ they're still "winning" and the Resistance is in shambles.
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No. Their plan was to knock out the Pacific presence at Pearl Harbor and secure themselves their imperial ambitions.
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@SlavGod47 The F-35 was deliberately developed with concurrency in mind. Over a hundred Block II F-35s have been upgraded to Block III. In the past, the USAF would have to put hundreds of relatively recent but outdated aircraft into the Air National Guard and get newer variants as replacement. The first F-15s the USAF had were sent to ANG service and replaced by newer F-15s after just 5 years. A 5 year service life is really short for such an expensive fighter, and this happened to hundreds of them. What you think is a problem is actually the way to solve it. Meanwhile older aircraft actually had that problem, but nobody complains about it because 1) they don't even know about it and 2) aircraft like the F-15 are legendary while the F-35 is a newcomer.
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I mean none of that is accurate, are you sure it's the F-35B?
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And I've seen a lot of "antigun"/"not-so-pro-gun" people on the internet post comments saying they never felt the need for a gun yet never walked away from a fight. That's exactly the type of person who isn't supposed to carry anyway - people who think they are so "manly" for being in stupid fistfights and that it's okay in a society to get involved in them regularly at adult age. Not taking unnecessary risks is not cowardice.
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@e.h.5680 They also prevent you from self-isolating. You'll just have a single cough in the office break room and not think twice about it.
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@e.h.5680 If you are afraid of spreading, you should isolate forever. Some of us are not afraid.
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@e.h.5680 "So as long as you use society's resources you will abide by its rules." - Funny. How about mandatory dieting and exercise considering that obesity and diabetes were the main comorbidities? Abide by the rules. You're using resources.
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@alexbork4250 There's plenty of black suns in Wagner and Rusich. Ukraine will not pay. Russia is paying. And Putin is to blame.
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The Russian underbarrels work differently. It gets muzzle loaded, and when you fire the propellant gets ignited which pushes the driving bands out due to pressure. So the grenade can slide in with hand pressure, but on firing the side of the grenade expands and gets engraved by the rifling. The entire grenade body flies out. The M203/M320 style 40mm grenade used in the West is breech loaded and has a casing that stores powder and gets left behind after firing.
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To me the "waves" is almost like zombie/horde mode in videogames. You clear "waves" and wait for the next, repeat. Evetually you will be overwhelmed and lose.
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The best part about the non-aggression pact is the people who don't follow it.
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UN resolution 660 is dated August 1990 and the attack was in February 1991. They had months to comply and didn't.
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Because it's a waste of time and money.
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@KawaTony1964 It would be. Diversifying a force always costs more. You're having to split your training of pilots and maintenance crews, your logistics, etc. The A-10 is a museum piece. The reason it's being considered for retirement is literal lack of parts.
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I am not rich. I don't do anything illegal. I'm done listening to the "if you have nothing to hide..." excuse. The rich get richer and terrorists slip through the cracks, but I have to live under surveillance. What a joke.
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So it's a PR win to take over the rail hub that feeds Severodonetsk? The Russian withdrawal completely exposed Luhansk.
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Zelensky was elected precisely because he wanted to court peace and negotiation, making him popular in the East.
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By the way, the channel "taofledermaus" has some high speed footage (slow mo video) of the Big Sandy event.
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@Gunni1972 the A-10 has already largely been replaced by the F-16, F-18, F-15, B1, etc. Since 1991 that we know that the F-16 is better at the A-10's job than the A-10 itself and it's been getting less and less missions. By 2014 only 11% of CAS missions went to the A-10.
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I'm European and the people bitching about Imperial measurements need to get a life. Jesus nothing but whining on every fucking video.
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To be fair, Zimbardo manipulated the Stanford experiment and one of the subjects admitted to faking a mental breakdown so he could study for exams. When he volunteered he didn't realize he would not be allowed to have his textbooks.
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@whoisheiforgothisname2103 Chernobyl used the RBMK-1000 which was a design finalized in 1968, the Unit 1 of Fukushima-Daichi was a GE BWR-3 with a Mk I containment, which is a 1965 reactor design with one of the earliest containment structures. The Unit 2, 3 and 4 were BWR-4 which is a 1966 design, still with Mk I containment.
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That's a parka that comes with the flag pre-sewed on. The camo pattern is Flecktarn so it could be German military surplus.
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@jacqdanieles Doesn't make a difference so they didn't bother. They wear armbands for identification.
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Thank you very much, best wishes.
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It's interference. Not on behalf of Trump but trying to fan the flames of division.
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 @cq4fun How would Russia do that?
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"richest country" - 23 trillion in debt
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@yeoshenghong4802 Oh, they're going to nuke the West? The oligarchs and the sons and daughters of oligarchs live in the West. They love London, Paris, Rome. They live among us and study in our universities. Russia nukes the West, they're nuking the relatives of their most powerful people.
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Kit Rose ahah it happens.
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Like if you bring rappelling harnesses to all your airsoft games not to break safety rules and go down elevator shafts, but because you like how the leg straps have a push up effect on your glutes.
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You're entitled to your wrong opinion.
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@Lucas12v That research was very surface level...
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The quick explanation is that they's spaces clearly meant for human activity, but there is none. The original picture has wallpaper and carpet, but no furniture. It looks like a labyrinth. It's unnatural.
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And yet the F-16 is a jack of all trades, and better than many planes at their respective roles.
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So Russia knocks the table over, and it's Zelensky who must bend over and pick up the broken dishes? Is Russia going to start WW3 over some ships?
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@515coldfire They gave away the Kupiansk rail hub, which means giving away Severodonetsk and then giving away Luhansk? And giving away Luhansk means giving away Donetsk.
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Because you turn your back when going cold. Turning away is a valid military tactic, as you never enter a fight you know you'll lose. If a F-22 squadron faced three squadrons of Su-35s, they'd probably turn back too. Since the WWI days that air combat is ruled by "see without being seen, and never get into a fair fight".
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It's JP-8, and Australia uses diesel in their Abrams.
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Ukraine purposefully targets troops away from the front lines. You won't fight directly? The missiles and artillery still rain on you. Take out one logistics trooper, you starve out 10 frontline soldiers.
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The library was not related to the attacks. The third bomb was not deactivated, after the two blasts they cut the signal on cell phone antennas because they thought the detonators were cell phones. That's probably what stopped the third bomb.
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They're not trying to capture the entire Ukraine (as of now), their main objective was Kiev to force a relatively smooth regime change, while linking up the forces from Crimea to the ones advancing from the Donbas region to encircle the fighters attacking the separatists. They failed because Russia's actions telegraph their expectation that the guy in charge would capitulate, now they're bogged down by their own failed prediction.
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@FerroEquus-262 Coal plants burn off stuff we dug up from the depths, so there's radioactive elements in it. Burning coal releases more radiation than active nuclear plants during its operation.
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Mind that the military has programs that never go anywhere. Nothing suspicious about things that drag on for years and don't get adopted.
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@Sbeatly But that wasn't about work hours, it was school hours.
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@nelson1tom We're not talking about morality clauses. If someone looks you up online and finds anything they don't like on social media, they'll never give you a contract to sign in the first place.
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You don't need to know the difference, there's plenty of people in this world that have fought in wars and killed people without needing to know the model of their own weapon.
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 @daboos6353 They weren't heros. They were Ba'ath party losers and Iranian militias who had to bomb markets full of civilians like cowards. They killed Iraqis.
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"Iraqis" didn't fight back, they killed other Iraqis. They were duped by the Ba'ath party and Iran to kill civilians in secterian fighting. That's terrorism.
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@DakotaofRaptors "War is a racket" - Major General Smedley D. Butler
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No, it hasn't.
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Doesn't prevent scamming.
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@AGayTwitterArtist Cryptocurrency technology itself isn't a scam. It's just being used for scams. Thanks for proving my point. Read your own post. You're agreeing with me, but I'm the shitter? Yeah, the scams with USD typically involve asking you to buy worthless garbage or trick you into sending it directly.
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Because the DEEP STATE will send UN troops and sink your boat. Stay woke.
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Yet Russia doesn't fly over Kiev. Why not?
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They are winning by all objective means. Russia lost its professional army, has no initiative, and is trying last ditch defensive lines to hold Ukrainian advances near the 2014 borders.
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@kbean5338 He's hit infrastructure and civilians since say 1.
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@kbean5338 His arsenal of conventional weapons is failing. He's using Iranian drones now.
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"Fairly competently" loses against "moderately good". Competency is the bare minimum.
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Don't you think Ukrainians seeing A-10s get shot down would have a massive (negative) psychological impact? Effectiveness is more important than psychological impact.
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@sirmingusdewiv8325 It was implied. What do you think the word "also" means?
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@FirstDagger by asking if the F-16 would "also" have an impact, the "also" clearly refers to an alternative aircraft. The context makes it clear it would be the A-10. If the OP meant another aircraft he needed to specify.
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 @kodax2 Russia? Tons of pics of elderly folks mobilized from the separatist republics.
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@arrow1414 "If you had a heart attack who would you listen to, a cardiologist or your uncle Ted?" - Does the cardiologist have a better track record than Ted?
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@arrow1414 Yes? But that's wrong. Experts said there was no virus. Uncle Ted said there was. Experts said there was no human to human transmission. Uncle Ted said there was. Experts said there was no airborne transmission. Uncle Ted said there was. Experts said there was no pandemic. Uncle Ted said it was a pandemic. Experts said it was gonna just be two weeks. Uncle Ted said it wouldn't. Experts said there would be no QR codes and passports. Uncle Ted said there would be. Experts said the solution was 95% effective. Uncle Ted said it wasn't. Seems to me Uncle Ted has beat the experts 7-0 and I could have looked up more blatant lies or bad information the "experts" provided.
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That's a ridiculous argument. So it's car culture's fault if the DMV had people killed in a raid over cars that weren't street legal. Or the drug's culture's fault if the DEA killed a bunch of teens over suspicion of having a weed plant.
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He was absolutely willing, but there's no guarantees. Last time a ceasefire was signed, Russia kept shooting.
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How is it spitting in the face of NATO when no NATO country has been attacked?
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@Tribalpotato Because NATO doesn't want to start WW3.
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@Tribalpotato The only thing they promised was resorting to the UN Security Council to provide assistance to Ukraine. Also, NATO isn't part of the Budapest Memorandum, the UK and the US signed it along with Russia. So Germany, Poland, etc could refuse to help if they wanted even though they're in NATO.
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With manuever warfare, it becomes an underground POW camp.
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@harrybuttery2447 Yes, there was. There's plenty of evidence of it from the Russian side, gathering volunteers, people being "voluntold", the military cannibalizing their units to send reinforcements. It's all true. The Russians complained about it on social media. The captured soldiers admitted it.
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@harrybuttery2447 I'm going to explain slowly. Invasion? Losses. Send more? Losses. Reservists? Losses. Mercenaries? Losses. Without hiring or "reorganizing" anything, the Russian army sent more men than initially planned. You're trying to convince me that if the 82nd Airborne had been wiped out in Iraq and the US had to send more units overseas that's just "reorganization". No, it's WIAs, KIAs, and people quitting their contracts. Don't make excuses. If you're not going to listen to captives, listen to the wives and bosses in businesses who were complaining that they had to pull people out of work to send them to Ukraine. Russian men were "mobilized" to Ukraine before general mobilization was announced and at this point you're denying reality.
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There was nothing wrong with the region. Building next to water is logical. The only thing that failed was that when cooling was shut down as part of procedure they could not start it back up and the generators were flooded.
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1.6 losses per 100,000 flight hours btw. How many flight hours does the entire Su-57 fleet have?
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@SnownelVEVO then don't introduce that as evidence...? Turn in the evidence, they start the investigation, get warrants and then collect admissible evidence.
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It does hurt you. It hurts the content creators you watch, and hides coupon codes from you as Honey is essentially using mafia tactics to pressure businesses to work with them. Honey will hide codes from you.
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+DeusShaggy "A well-balanced breakfast being necessary for the start of a healthy day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed." --- read that and tell me, do you have to be breakfast to be able to eat? Is it right of the breakfast, or right of the people? Does it say that the food has to be healthy? No, just that you have the right to it. So it doesn't even need to be a well-balanced breakfast. Actually read what the founding fathers wrote at the time, that no free man should be barred from owning arms, etc you don't need to be in a militia. Either way, the Militia Act of 1903 makes all men 18 to 45 part of the militia.
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BRO why does everyone have short memory? The Kherson offensive was portrayed as a massive disaster. Russians cheered at the start but Ukrainians got a few breakthroughs, even reversed an upset where their river crossing was threatened. Same thing happened to Azerbaijan. Armenians online clowned on the Azerbaijan offensive "failing" but they broke through. And if you go back to WWII D-Day only secured a pocket. It took a month to break the German lines.
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@Kirkaloozenstein What dam floods? The south bank in Kherson is at a lower elevation than the city. If the problem was floods, they'd fight to remain in the city.
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@Kirkaloozenstein They withdrew to positions that are now in greater danger of flooding. Please look at a flood map, I beg you.
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Antisemitism? You need denazification. Putin himself said in a speech Russia is multicultural, he is Russian, he is a jew, he is a tatar, he's everything his country is.
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@Valorius Almost every weapon used against tanks and armored vehicles are HEAT. RPGs are HEAT. The drone-dropped grenades are HEAT.
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@Valorius Okay, exactly how many fin stabilized discarding sabots are being shot at tanks in Ukraine? I didn't bother mentioning HE artillery shells because those obliterate the vehicle independently of the cage.
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@Valorius Stop being cryptic and spell it out. Javelin, HEAT. RPG-7, HEAT. RPG-22, HEAT. Stugna-P, HEAT. RKG-3, HEAT. MATADOR, has HEAT mode. If you have something to say stop with the weasely comments, most threats not counting other tanks and artillery are HEAT.
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@Valorius Yeah, it's cryptic because you're refusing to say what you know. You tell others to "learn" when you know damned well that they know what they're talking about, you just want to avoid saying anything that would make you look bad.
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@Valorius HEAT, HE-DP, HE, HESH, Thermobaric. That's five. Now actually explain your argument.
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@Valorius And I already addressed that argument - the vast majority of weapons being used against armor in Ukraine are either HEAT, or artillery which is outside the scope of this argument. Almost every day footage comes out of either Stugna-Ps or drone-dropped RKG-3s disabling or destroying armor. HEAT is the most common threat you could try and defend from. Artillery is far too damaging to armor against.
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@Valorius Kills are still visually confirmed after the fact. Yeah, tanks don't have gopros. But a kill doesn't have to be filmed "live" to go on record, it can be observed later. How many HESH rounds does Ukraine employ? T-64s, T-72s and T-80s use the 125mm smoothbore gun with APFSDS and HEAT rounds. The HEF is essentially the anti-personnel round and would not be used except in very last resort. As we have learned from WWII, tank on tank kills aren't the primary cause for tank losses. So three out of five? HESH isn't even in service in Ukrainian tanks. HEF would not be used. So in the end it's 1 out of 5 for the KE rounds which won't see that much use because tank on tank slugfests are really bad for both sides. RPGs are the "majority", but that's because of low cost. Ukrainians aren't sprinting across open fields to get within 250m of armored vehicles and firing. They're lobbing artillery shells from 10km away. They're dropping grenades on top from remote control drones. They're setting highly effective guided missiles like the Stugna-P, laying AT mines, and when push comes to shove Javelins and NLAWS. Trying to use RPG-7s in open fields is suicidal and they're best used if vehicles walk into ambushes or move into urban areas. The RPG-7 might be the most "common" weapon in inventory, but it's not the main threat. Walking around with bags of rocks expecting hordes of men to sprint with RPG-7s on their backs is delusional. It's artillery shelling that will kill you. It's drones that will kill you. Not RPG-7s.
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@Valorius I didn't, you just look for any cop out to not have to defend your position.
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@Valorius Satellite photos and drone footage can be used to confirm even if you retreat. Also, the Russian forces gave up on the Northern offensive which would allow even more losses to be confirmed.
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@Valorius I didn't contradict myself. You can't even point out the contradiction. You appeal to your authority, but present no argument (which any faker could do on the internet). Welcome to the internet. Having a good argument beats complaining and claiming a job title.
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@Valorius I know what my comment says, I don't need to read it. You're wasting your time because you lost. Since the start that you came up with cop outs and refused to clarify your position. Should have just admitted it because your time is so precious.
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@Valorius Said the guy who brags about Soviet tank killing.
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@Valorius I don't know why you're quoting Nickleback lyrics.
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"in such an environment people will actively resist private individuals/organisations" - And what if they don't? "demonstrably more efficient in many sectors" - Hmmmm I wanna see these demonstrations and how they're any different from successful privately-owned companies.
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@TDMFAN "then you end up with a Corporate Plutocracy?" - Why? Your own claims state that the coops would outperform them. "worker-coops are 'privately owned'" - You know exactly what I meant.
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@TDMFAN "you don't seem to understand that Capitalism doesn't promote the most efficient business models at all" - You don't seem to understand this isn't what's at stake. I couldn't give less of a shit about which business is the most efficient. You said something was demonstrable, and I want the demonstration. If you're unable, or unwilling, to demonstrate something then maybe don't call it demonstrable. I asked twice now. "Also I said that people will resist them." - Again, why? After all of what's been revealed, people would resist the corrupt systems all over the world. Pentagon papers, Wikileaks, Panama Papers, Afghanistan Papers.... But they'll keep going good little tax cattle and stuffing their money in the pockets of the people above them. People will literally cry that you only want to lift the quarantine restrictions because you worship billionaires, when the fact is that the most affected were small businesses and the billionaires kept making money even when everyone is under house arrest. I hate to bring up such a cliché quote but a person is smart, but people are dumb. And they'll believe the most retarded, ass-backwards things as long as you can tell the lie convincingly. If I can offer a better deal than a co-op, why would people resist? They're not resisting right now.
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@TDMFAN Learn what a goddamn strawman is, cuz this ain't it chief. "First you asked me to demonstrate that worker coops are more efficient than privately owned businesses when they fall into that category" - Oh my god what a fucking nitpick. Demonstrate worker co-ops versus non-worker co-ops, inside the category of privately held businesses. I said, you know exactly what I meant. You're just playing games to avoid answering. "then to demonstrate that they outperform other businesses, which isn't a necessary indicator of efficiency" - It is on the long run. Lack of profitability is a income/expenses ratio lower than 1, if you input more into a system than you get back that is the definition of inefficient. If you're inefficient, you can't perform because on the long run you're taking in too much debt.
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@TDMFAN "as for current resistance - with State militaries backing up the global conglomerates, what do you expect?" - State militaries that couldn't handle a bunch of goat farmers in the middle east. There's millions of us. And only a few of underequipped, undertrained and underpaid dimwits to defend the state.
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@TDMFAN "you did 'attack' a strawman of what I had said twice" - except I didn't. "Yes, it's one form of efficiency out of several." - Way to play with words to continue to refuse to address the actual topic. "A business could be inefficient as heck but have extremely high revenue" - If you're inefficient, you're taking in more debt than you gain in revenue. Unless you want to simply violate the laws of thermodynamics.
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@TDMFAN "yeah because they wouldn't just drone you lol." - You mean that stuff that killds 49 innocent people for every insurgent? Yes. Please. I beg you to fucking drone me and obliterate dozens of families who are now willing to fight for my cause because you decided to fuck with them.
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@TDMFAN You first link is to a literal co-op promotion website, and the paper is extremely surface level. The definition for co-op is so loose it includes companies where workers don't own or manage shit. The second link isn't the smoking gun you said you had. I'm disappointed. Also, the writer literally typed that conventional hiring of an employee is exploitation so I'm not gonna delude myself into thinking the paper had no bias.
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@TDMFAN But I did address the content. I'm just pointing out that a paper published by an organization that promotes co-ops rather than an unbiased publisher doesn't mean much. It's like going to a tobacco industry association website and they have a paper published by them about how tobacco is healthy. Come on. "You can follow the various studies they reference" - I'm good just assuming they were accurately referenced. It just wasn't the smoking gun. You can't say "co-ops are demonstrably more efficient than private business" and then point to studies where in 2 out of 3 countries they have a slightly lower percent chance of going under. Big whoop. "Just keep believing what your masters tell ya to and what the likes of Ben Shapiro get paid to convince you are true." - Fuck you. I didn't make this personal so do me a favor and go fuck yourself. Nobody brought up that idiot but sure, assume everyone who disagrees is a Ben Shapiro follower. You cunt.
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@TDMFAN "you cry about one of the sources being a co-op organisation" - No, I merely pointed out that in a very surface level exposé on co-ops, the paper is literally published by a promoter of co-ops business. "it'd be like me moaning about Economics professors praising Capitalism, 'b-b-buh it's in their interest!!1'" - But there's multiple schools of economics. The real analogy would be a paper touting the superiority of Austrian economics published by a department that is ran by Austrians. Come the fuck on. "sell them your labour for less than the value you're actually producing" - This is nonsense, but it pretty much requires its own thread. When someone else owns the means of production, you cannot even start to produce that value unless you access said means. The only way to solve this conundrum is the easy way out and take an anti-property stance. To which many people will say, to hell with that. "Fact is that the majority of people want to be their own boss or at the very least have a say in how the business they work for runs" - But consider that the majority doesn't want the responsibility of being in that position. If you're the boss, your neck is on the line. You're the manager that Karen is going to be calling all the time. Look, of course people want a say on how the business runs. I have seen some of the dumbest decisions being made by people in managing positions. The beautiful part is that when I get complaints I can say "it's the rules coming from above" and never get in trouble. Allow me to make decisions, and suddenly I have to make calls that can affect the business and face the consequences. I can work with decisions that make the business less efficient, but I can't work having to second-guessing everything I do. My heart will give out before my mid 30s if that's how I have to live my day. "as opposed to if the workers - who actually know what's going on" - HA! I don't know shit, my dude. I know what's "going on" in a limited area around me, and that's a perspective that bureaucrats lack, but I also don't know whatever the fuck is happening right outside my attention, what's going on at different departments, I don't know what's going on at marketing, IT, in the warehouse or even the distributor level. Your pretend world where the gentle laborer is omniscient about all aspects of business and has an accurate perspective that allows him to make better decisions is simply as untrue as bureaucrats having any idea what goes on at the ground level. "'Going under' is completely irrelevant dude. Businesses will always go under as the market dictates." - So, one of the metrics used in the studies you posted to argue that co-ops are slightly more efficient than conventional businesses... doesn't matter? "you seem awfully eager to defend pointless hierarchy in businesses" - It's only pointless when you don't understand business. Let me put it this way. A soldier might be on the battlefield, but it doesn't mean he has the vision to command an entire army. You can claim a general is a dipshit because he's back in a safe position while ordering troops around, but the hierarchy sure as shit isn't pointless when compared to having a 35 ASVAB scoring 18 year old infantryman trying to lead a war. "you've been duped by the LIKES OF Shapiro" - Shapiro isn't even the first to "defend" hierarchies (I don't even know if he ever debated such a concept) or have a unique take on capitalism. If I have been duped, it had to be by the way I was raised, personal observation and my time in college attempting to get a degree. To think that people think differently because of one man (whoever he is) is such a dismissive, shitty thing to argue. I don't like the analogy because it sounds infantilizing, but just because there's shitty parents and parents who forgot how it was like to be a child, it doesn't mean we need to uproot families and put kids in charge of the household. "say that worker-coops and flat organisation wasn't any more or less efficient than other models of organisation, what's the point in not doing them then?" - I never said we shouldn't. You confuse opposition to a claim of superiority with complete disbelief in the concept.
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@TDMFAN "Could it be that they're the only people actually bothering to test their ideas and weigh up the data?" - Not how it works. The same data would be available to unbiased observers and even antagonists to a particular school. Just like there should be people studying businesses who have no particular ideological drive.
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@TDMFAN "Not sure how it's difficult to get that it wasn't the co-op organisation doing the research itself" - Then there's no need to point to the organization when they have done none of the work. "So basically Capitalism is the OG 'Coomies promising utopia but ultimately failing to deliver," - We're reaching levels of rationalization that shouldn't be possible. Capitalism always existed. It's like evolution. It didn't get "invented" by Darwin. "Yes but if you're in a worker-coop, then you share that responsibility along with any financial liabilities - so instead of a business going bust and one person losing, say, $1 million - ten people like $100,000 each." - Buddy, I don't have the financial structure to lose 100k like that. "An easily assigned role, or people can even take turns. It's not often bosses actually engage with customers, moreso lower management who do that." - You don't understand my point. You're responsible for the choices you make. So when the choice you've made in the interest of the business collides with the interests of the customer, something's gotta give. If your choices were "best for business" but ended up blowing back with negative customer response you're the one damaging the company. You're bringing the heat away from the bureaucrats and making workers face the negative consequences of mismanagement. "Except that won't stop you from copping the abuse." - I'm the one abusing customers by ignoring what they say and repeating that I'm just following orders. It's like the Nuremberg trials except I'm winning. "If you're in a worker-coop, then you'll be able to brainstorm ideas together" - Too slow, leads to contradicting decisions. "you could have someone in the coop who has studied business management and so on whose duty it is to do all that stuff for you" - So the solution for effective co-ops is to have people who studied to become bureaucrats making choices for the workers. "...this might blow your mind dude, but the people who know what's going on in those other departments are co-workers" - And this might blow your mind, but they're ignorant about everything else that isn't on their department as well. "I get it dude, you PERSONALLY just want to cruise by not advancing in any way." - lmao I bring up how unrealistic your ideas are and you make this personal again. "Obviously in flat organisations and worker-coops, the workers/worker-owners have ALREADY learned all this." - But that isn't the case. Like I mentioned several posts ago, co-ops include companies with defined hierarchical structures. A worker isn't expected to learn anything, he is simply allowed a vote on who gets to be the manager. "I guess we can't all be willing to improve ourselves" - That's the thing. My self-improvement is completely unrelated to how I make a living. It's amazing that the one criticizing capitalism is the one trying to make "you're not willing to pull yourself up by the bootstraps" into an insult. My self-improvement does not match whatever companies or society wants. Meanwhile you see self-improvement as a rat race. "If a market dies then any business involved in it will die too. As I said, there's other forms of efficiency which I was referring to. Why you've chosen to focus on that particular one is beyond me." - Because... that's the metric that makes co-ops look better??? The whole reason you linked me the studies??? "Shit I guess that's why we keep having to bail out big businesses in order to keep the global economy afloat... those amazing generals man." - Nice strawman. Next time argue that the soldier can indeed lead an army or just skip ahead and take the L. "If we actually sat back and let big businesses collapse" - You mean... CAPITALISM???? "Oh and boy, has this SARS 2.0 thing done some amazing work at setting the stage or what?" - Are you kidding me? It destroyed small businesses while allowing massive corporations to be the only ones remaining open for business. "there's nothing preventing workers from learning how to replace upper management" - Except for natural disadvantages, there isn't. "I mean yeah, superior efficiency. Demonstrated." - Except you didn't, and the way it was better demonstrated was by a small difference in the percentage of businesses that go under every year, which you said that doesn't even matter.
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 @maximilianodelrio It was a very different war. Simon has battle descriptions in his video about the Soviet invasion of Afganistan, stuff like that didn't happen in 2001-2021.
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The Navy already requested in 2021 to stop the Super Hornet purchases as they fear they'll be forced to fly them past an age where they're obsolete.
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@nattygsbord That's a major red flag considering that the Eurofighter Captor-E has been a clustertruck of F-35 proportions. Gee, the Gripen radar has the same basic design as the Eurofighter's Captor, which has been begging for the AESA replacement for like 15 years?
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Your hate is just a childish feeling with no actual way to enforce it. Ukrainians got killed and maimed by your people, you fought dirty, and they harnessed their hate into something useful. You're complaining online, while Ukraine made its goal to turn Russia into a failed state.
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Texas asked to start up gas plants and the federal government mandated that they could only do so at absurd prices. Essentially the federal government refused to let Texas handle it.
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The nuclear winter effect was overstated by scientists as a way to promote nuclear disarmament. The hundreds of oil fires started in the 1991 Gulf War really put Nuclear Winter into question when columns of thick black smoke rose for months and the cooling effects were quickly subsided after the fires were put out.
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lmao there's no cauldron, Russian milbloggers are reporting that Russia left Izyum.
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@lordjarjar5805 So why not stay on the Western side?
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@lordjarjar5805 Again, I ask why not stay on the Western side? The right bank of the Dnipro is higher than the left bank. Russians are moving to the area that wil be washed away, while Ukrainians will stay feet dry if they chose to strike the hydro dam. Which they won't, because the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant needs a certain water level.
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No. Even with air superiority the A-10 is still vulnerable to ground defenses.
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Has Canadian Prepper stopped warning of incoming apocalypse every 2 months?
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What escalation? Putin is already trying to genocide a country. He's the one escalating. This is deescalation. Defense. Protecting lives.
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Some doctor in Boston in the late 1700s did a better job than modern labs and billions in funding lol
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That doesn't make sense, it can't replace the F-22 because it's the F-22's companion. Just like the F-16 was the smaller and cheaper companion to the F-15. Anyone pitching it as the F-22 replacement has no idea what they're talking about. The three types make it not do any job well? Why? What would be the reason?
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Numbers alone don't mean much. Men without uniforms, boots, armored vehicles will have a bad time.
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@Neyreyan They're not using NATO military. The Soviet Union gave North Vietnam aid. They can't cry now.
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@stevebuckley7788 the winter was very punishing for Russia in February
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Ci Jey the Ukrainians say "it's not call of duty, we won't take you unless you have specific skills". Meanwhile Russia is giving citizenship to foreigners who fight for them. Go fight!
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If you replace the milk for powdered milk then you'll only need the water. These guys need to offer me a job.
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The concrete dome over the reactor can handle a 747. Aircraft are lightweight aluminum and composite. Empty tubes.
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@skywrathmage6450 Right. It just broke the back of the Russian army. Beating up a cripple is easy. So breaking one's back is winning the war on my book.
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@Silver_Prussian 1. Russia bled heavily for Kharkiv ground. 2. Russia hesitated for months. A Western military officer would have left at the first signs of trouble.
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+L A I guess Brazil is full of drafting engineers because half of the guns seized by police over there are homemade. Jesus Christ low IQ criminal scum in the slums with no access to precision tooling can make machine guns.
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+Poor Finian "Because laws matter, and tells the prospective shooter you will be prosecuted if you do this" - as opposed to being prosecuted for the shooting itself? He was going to murder someone ignoring that murder is illegal, but getting a gun is illegal so he'll think twice. Huh. ""They're just gonna build em anyway so let's not bother drafting laws against it"?" --- the difference is that most laws exist to punish bad behaviour that hurts people. Stealing, murdering, etc should have laws not because we believe criminals won't break them, but because we know they will and we throw the book at them and slam them in jail. Making a gun at home is legal. It's not bad behaviour. It doesn't hurt anyone.
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+A Taurus Knows Best at which point are you willing to stop? Plenty of people have gunsmithing books. Chemistry books. If you want to outlaw information at least be consistent and admit you want censorship.
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@Aaron25thinfantry False. You're confusing discretionary spending.
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@BartBart22 It was. It was something like 30% of the GDP. It's 5% now.
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Oh and by the way, there's a huge problem with sexual assault among conscripts in Russia. It seems that if you get conscripted there's a huge chance you'll either face abuse, you'll get severely sick due to being sent to bases in cold climates and sleep in barracks that are not weather proof, or being used as free labor by generals who want to build a summer house. Maybe Putin is protecting children, but it seems like once they're 18 they're fair game.
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@grubbybum3614 "They don't need to make 100% profit, either. So it's way cheaper." - nah they simply lose more and more money and demand bigger budgets every year to stay in the black
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@grubbybum3614 uh, no it's called mismanagement and will only further increase the deficit
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Joined 2 years ago. Bot account.
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You can't cool in the "absolute zero" of space because there's no convection or conduction, only radiation losses. A friend of mine designed electronics to go on a satellite and he was forced to use very low processing power, low memory systems because anything modern would cook itself to death in the insulating vacuum.
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@AbuHajarAlBugatti the Tet Offensive broke the back of the North Vietnam forces. By the admission of North Vietnamese generals.
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@ostiariusalpha Russia still has plenty of troops. See where this is going? They admitted they were broken as a whole. Replacing the VC meant diluting the quality of the NVA.
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 @mhjmulhof ICE is not a technological dead end.
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@jwatkins672012 The example is fine. Diamond is abundant, extraction is the problem. The same way we easily produce artificial diamonds, nature also produced them easily. Just not in sufficient concentration across the entire globe.
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"Oops my anarchy symbol"
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+DC S it's not an assault rifle, though. And a responsible gun owner would know that cutting off a barrel without a permit from the ATF makes him a felon.
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Koekenzopie and yet the "rest of the world" issues carry permits to celebrities, the elite, those with connections, bodyguards, etc. So civilized... They tell you that you don't need one while surrounded by meatheads packing heat. Some animals are more equal than others.
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"In my country and the rest of Western Europe the celebrities can walk around safely" yet most legislation in most countries allow carry permits for important people. If they walk around safely why the bodyguards? Oh wait, the armed bodyguards make them safe. I'm from the Western Europe and people discovered that the standard for issuing carry permits wasn't that high and the number of licenses was increasing at the rate of 4 thousand per year so they made it harder to them them a few years ago. But armored truck security/drivers, taxmen, etc people who deal with money/have high risk jobs (like bodyguards) can get the permit. Their problem was that the common people were getting permits too, a restaurant owner could argue he needed a permit. England never had a problem with guns, they passed gun laws for fear of a revolution after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, despite the extremely low gun murder numbers. "We don't want people shooting at our [....] concerts [...]" You mean like in France?
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"there are no body guards for the Jimmy Kimmels from my coutry" to be honest I doubt America's Jimmy Kimmels have bodyguards either. But the Kardashians definitely have. Didn't Kanye and Kim have armed bodyguards when they got "robbed" in France? "Btw how many of these permits lead to a mass shooting since I can't recall reading about it?" mass shooters don't get permits, if you're going to kill people will you really care about gun laws? You have to be fucking kidding me. My point was that carry permits exist, they're just not for the "peasants". "Look how your gun laws helped you in Texas" I'm not from Texas, and I'm not from America. I'd appreciate if you actually read what I write if you're going to reply. "That's about the same number US did in the last 8 months" did what? " your own terrorist casualties" Your? Again I'm not American. "So 50 years of terrorism is equal to 8 months of normal day to day life" I'm not even sure what you're comparing. 11 thousand people killed in the US and Europe in different time frames, but what are you even comparing? Terrorism? All deaths? Just homicide? Terrorism killed X people in Europe since Y and that's about the same the US did in the last 8 months. The US did the kills? Are we talking about warfare? Your sentence doesn't make sense, man.
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+Koekenzopie "you're not from America but you sound like you are so I'm going to pretend you're American" yeah that's good logic bud. "And looking at the mass shootings in the US by the peasants, that thought saved many lives" mass shooters don't get carry permits. They don't get licensed to carry guns because they'll only have to carry ONCE. Did the Bataclan shooters get permits? Did the Charlie Hebdo shooters get permits? Did the Utoya shooter get permits? Did the Cumbria shootings guy get a permit? My point is that the state deems that some lives are worth protecting, others aren't. Guess which category you belong to. The state sees you as cattle "Just like speeding on a highway is only allowed by people who received proper training and only use it when necessary" that's a poor analogy because 90% of the cars on sale are able to speed over the limit by just flooring the throttle. You're able to own the means to speed, but trusted not to do harm with it. "US people shoot each other" You didn't clarify this. You just compared European terrorism to an unspecified statistic. Either way, I assumed the EU population to be 510 million and the average homicide rate as 2.69 per 100,000 people (stat by NationMaster, number dates to 2004). The math gives me 13719 homicides in the European Union in the same time frame those Americans gunned each other down. Congratulations, here in the EU we shot, stabbed, bludgeoned, asphyxiated, etc each other to death an estimated 14 thousand times. By your logic, it doesn't seem a safe space no more. "So a sane person prefers 11,000 murders in 50 years instead of 11,000 in one year" You're comparing terrorism in 50 years to straight up homicide. We've had 14 thousand homicides in the same time period. Higher population, but if you look at it the difference is minimal so the whole "preference" argument doesn't make any sense. And most of that homicide in the US happens within disputed blocks in large city gang warfare (many of those cities also have strict gun control). Unless you're in a gang selling drugs in specific areas of specific cities you're not likely to get shot. "So the point I'm making which any person in any other developed country already knows, US homicide rates is ridicously high" Not really. It's about two times as high as the average in the EU if I'm not mistaken. You want to see ridiculous? Brazil, Mexico, etc. The United States has a lot more in common with those countries than Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands... You look at some American cities and they're shitholes virtually indistinguishable from South America, except for the lack of jungle. And projects instead of favelas. But it's just as violent, poor as shitty as the neighboring countries. "And it will always stay ridicously high since they refuse to do anything about it." well legalizing drugs would curb a lot of homicide but what else would they do? There's millions of criminals who don't know how to do anything but be a criminal, sell drugs, and shoot people who sell drugs for another gang. Cities like Chicago have hundreds of shootings and these criminals are to blame. What else are they going to do? Life in prison? They're overcrowded. Drugs can't be stopped, gangs can't be stopped. The more you try to stop them the more violence. Doing anything about guns wouldn't have effects from centuries, there's 300 million guns in the US, criminals would never run out of guns to use. In Europe we don't have a border with Mexico, the US has one. In the US the drugs and cartels cross the border and bring their problems. How would the US do something about it? Trump's wall? They have drug smuggling boats and submarines. They can dig tunnels.
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Maybe because cities required a lot more population working the fields, and industrialization brought more jobs to the city while allowing farmers to replace human labour?
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It's not because it's not even about the virus. It's about people, they're telling us to hate our neighbors.
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@diogenesdacynic8656 same shit. Socialism has a government and communism doesn't but the theory is the same.
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Nobody did the Life is Tumblr? Disappointed.
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"Martial arts" is not a set number of moves. Just because they didn't do a spinning butterfly kick or a Matrix-style punch combo doesn't mean they weren't fighting with the tools they received from training martial arts. They happened to be martial arts competitors who stopped an armed robber. That's what was on the title and that was what you saw on the video.
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"What a waste of money! We already bought you all of those plastic caskets!" - the govt
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Because it takes time and money to train people. It's a waste when that time and money could be spent elsewhere.
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@jnonya7743 you're comparing the 1.5 trillion of the entire cost of the program until 2070 or whatever, to the unit cost of a SINGLE unit. The super carrier project had to be designed, it will have to be maintained, etc.
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Now do that to a fleet of thousands of armored vehicles. Anyone can do a one-off of anything. It gets exponentially harder to mass produce.
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Okay but Crysis was also one of the most pirated games ever because people pretty much used it as a benchmark. Benchmarking your own rig so you can show your friends other nerds online how much of an epic gamer you are is a thing.
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@Fuckalope Georj Warrell
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Albedo. Milankovitch cycles have to do with changes in orbit affecting the Sun's radiative energy.
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@Gmail X "It can't do all the "amazing" things that were promised" - yeah, it can. It absolutely wipes the floor with 4th gen aircraft in exercises. "You just can't see the difference between the sales/PR hype and the delivery." - 17:1 kill ratio at Red Flag and loved by the people who actually fly them. Hated by internet experts and known lunatic Pierre Sprey. Hmmm I wonder who has more credibility...
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@Gmail X lmao where are your objective measures? Post proof. I eagerly await. Go back to your Putin-funded propaganda YouTube channels.
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Putin was WEF. Whatever happened to that?
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They said that about Kherson. Then they fled.
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Putin is so ahead of the curve, his 3 day special operation is now going on 11 months.
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@duncansmith7562 No, it was proven by the OMON with riot gear rolling into the outskirts of Kiev and the Russian article that accidentally got published about Russia's victory.
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Trump WonBig Russia has leveled entire cities already. They're not minimizing civilian casualties, it's just that their ammunition stockpiles aren't unlimited and turning cities into rubble makes them harder to capture. The Crimea water situation is Russia's own fault. So if Canada seized California would they have the right to ask the rest of the US to help them with draught? No! You want the land, you figure it out. Now you want charity? Minsk II was broken by DPR forces when they began the assault on Debaltseve the day after it was signed. Your comments are one sided by implying that Russia deserves Ukrainian water and that the Minsk agreements falling through are unrelated from the fasct that separatist forces took advantage of the ceasefire to continue fighting.
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 @nunya___ The reserves sit on a decaying area. It's like the Anerican rust belt but actually war torn.
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Cope lmao Russia's defeat could be the end of Russia, nothing's guaranteed, but the world would move on. Wouldn't ve missed.
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@515coldfire Because it's the perfect response to copium. People coming here to go rah rah Russia muh end of the world. Who cares?
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@TheShrike616 "Might I suggest some fact checking" - You'd benefit from your own advice.
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@TheShrike616 How is it funny? You made a claim. I don't have to provide anything.
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Notice how the thread was successfully derailed by the Russia shills. Since the unit was ambushed they had to know they got found out.
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@Mike Mo Those ships carry products, if there's no canals blocked and there's no issues with labor at the ports or the way containers are handled. You criticize crypto for existing in computers and internet, but you are dependent on global trade which is no better. You trust the products to keep moving back and forth no matter what. The day there's no computers running 24/7, you won't be getting products from around the world either. No matter how much you want them.
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@Mike Mo Stop upvoting yourself. A mockery of scarcity? You mean like fiat currency? Real products? What is real about them? Most of it is trash and will end up in a landfill in a few years. The materials are dug from Earth and we put them back or worse, throw them into the ocean. Nothing was real. Digging a hole and filling it back up does not net you a real currency. It's as real as Runescape gold.
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@Mike Mo Can you condense your spergery to one post and stop upvoting yourself? Thanks.
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@Mike Mo This is the pot calling the kettle black. You're on record defending the biggest scheme in the world and upvoting yourself like a loser.
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@Mike Mo Who mints dollars?
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@Mike Mo Please, keep humiliating yourself by upvoting your own comments. The more you do this the worse it gets. Government backing doesn't mean two squirts. If you have no computers and not internet for the buttcoins, you have no government either. People who actually store value trade their dollars away for appreciable assets.
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@Mike Mo I don't buy literally nothing. You're barking up the wrong tree. Why are you talking about gold? You can't pay for meals in gold either. Unless you're in Venezuela and people are literally grinding it into flakes.
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@Theactualstoic You people come here and ask me for a full throated defense of BTC when I'm not the guy. I'm not. You're all punching air. All I pointed out is that you people come here and your argument is that your funny money is worth more than someone else's funny money. I just pointed out the lunacy of trying to pretend that BTC having no value after a collapse (no computers/internet) means anything when most people have money as a digital number in a database that's also based on computers and interconnectivity.
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@Mike Mo Gold is not a thing of value unless it can pay for your meals. If it a thing of value, it should be able to promise any meal you could afford. In a convoluted sense you can indirectly pay for a meal with gold by exchanging it first. But if there's no place to exchange gold, and all the restaurants tell you they only accept a certain currency, you can have all the gold you want and still not be able to pay for a meal. So how is gold a thing of value when in a vacuum, you can't get anything for it? You misunderstand value as an intrinsic property, but it's clearly entirely subjective no matter which way you slice it. Obviously in real life you'd find a manager who'd willingly take a piece of gold for the meal, but only because he can later exchange it.
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@Mike Mo Again punching air? Who said you had to buy a tally mark? Not me.
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HK made the HK 33/41/93 and the G41, Century made the C-93.
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The establishment media is parroting the claims Thunderf00t is debunking. Think before posting.
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@TheBushdoctor68 He has debunked several aspects of the claims made. The eye witness reports are being dismissed because the EVIDENCE presented doesn't match the claims made. Trustworthy observers? Who determined their trustworthiness? The establishment media is uncritically parroting claims instead of actually investigating.
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Everyone who disagrees with you is a kid. You sure are mature to have such high esteem of your own opinions.
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But we know. The US was supposed to use Yucca Mountain but it was mothballed, both Finland and Sweden are finalizing their geological deposits.
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@Taunus-Tim There's a natural reactor in Oklo, Gabon and the nuclear waste only shifted a few feet in the last 2 billion years. You won't get leaks because the material is converted into a glass or ceramic form that is not water soluble.
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He made the ammo too.
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Yes, a bunch of cowboys did it, not the guys who look and sound like Russians. An American trying to speak Russian would get found out the moment he opened his mouth.
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Whataboutism.
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@andrewpienaar4522 But it isn't. The video is about one topic. And like you said, he didn't have to mention something that was off topic. What do I think? This is a video about Russian corruption. Make your own video. They were achieving objectives near Kiev too. Then had to go back. They'll achieve plenty of objectives in Donbas. But then have to go back. As horrifying as it is, this is a video about Russian corruption. You're free to make your own video about it.
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It's not cost effective, people just refuse to account for the costs of maintaining old aircraft by contracting small batches of replacement parts.
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@marnette73 It hasn't been studied for years.
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@MRantzWI Look up what is being given to hospitalized patients. You'd be surprised.
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"BOOGALOO Bois and other groups are inflitrating protests to cause the exact stuff you criticized the protests for" - you got any evidence?
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I don't think the government is doing that at all.
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It's not nonsensical. You cannot be sure your property will increase in value exponentially in 100 years because you don't know if the area you're buying in will still be in demand 100 years from now. Where you buy a house today could be worthless in 100 years. Could be a total ghost town.
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That was already used in the Gulf War.
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Hell one of the mosques shot back at the perpetrators. Seems like Christians, Muslims and Jews should take steps to protect themselves and start carrying.
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@GulfbeachMateo And pilots do die. You know how people get their bearings? By looking at things they know. You look at something you've never seen, you have no frame of reference. You look at a control tower, you know roughly how many miles you are away from the runway. You look at a balloon, which is just a grey blob or a light spot if it's reflecting the sun? You have no idea about its size or distance. Want to not die flying an aircraft? Look at the control towers, hangars, the coastline, etc. Not blobs. You do not know anything about they, you will crash your aircraft trying to use them as a reference.
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It was absolutely a sanctioned fight. That's the problem with this farce. If it were just for show nobody would care, but they did this in Texas because their boxing comission allowed it. Had they done it in Vegas the Nevada boxing comission would be issuing fines over what went down.
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That's nonsense because either way GoF research couldn't be funded. Even if they were negatively affected, they shouldn't have received any money at all for the rona research.
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Flu deaths are estimated through models because many cases are undiagnosed and thus underreported. There's actually a study about how during the swine flu the normal influenza was undercounted by a factor of 5-6x.
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That's the warhead. Look for the picture of a crashed Khinzal after it fell off the aircraft during launch inside Russia. You'll see the EXACT SAME warhead inside the crushed nose cone fairing. Klitchko is holding what survived the crash, the aerodynamic nose probably disintegrated.
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All trained by Steven Seagal
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 @ThirtytwoJ No. One is hacking all GPS devices to pinpoint anyone, the other is tossing a tracker into the money bag during a bank robbery.
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Canada. UK. Australia. All of them confiscated items that were legal.
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Novorossiya flag.
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If a bunch of news outlets start mentioning you in regards to some controversy, you can easily contact one of them and say you're willing to do an interview.
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But the thing is that for most people the nose is a restrictor so they'll fall back to mouth breathing, even if unintentionally.
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Ukrainians ambush them with AT mines and then use artillery-deployed mines so that anyone trying to escape the kill zone has to drive through more mines.
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 @christianjones1834 Akon's stuff was a scam too.
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Orbán is a Putin simp.
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How does that make for a strategic win?
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No. There's no cheap 6th gen multirole in the pipeline.
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There's solutions but anti-nuclear people refuse to acknowledge them. Both Finland and Sweden are finalizing their geological deposits right now. It's a solved issue everyone pretends we have no answers for.
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Many rifles were produced and kept in deep storage. They probably spent decades sitting in a basement, covered in cosmoline grease.
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The USAF never operated Harriers, so to quote The Simpsons: "Boy I hope someone was fired for that blunder"
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A major world power that needs militias from the country they're trying to invade.
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@BonannoCM It already escalated. Good job.
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Stamped steel? It's not 1950 anymore. HK wants to move away from stampings, that's why they wanted the UMP to take over the MP5.
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The CIA must have had hundreds of thousands of employees in the last few decades. You can find anyone willing to say anything. There's a former Greenpeace director who says climate change is overblown.
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The MiG-21 was shot down like it was a sport.
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Soviet Russia and Maoist China trained and armed revolutionaries in Africa to fight European nations. Just saying.
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@Maxim_aka_Doka Russian territory has been attacked recently. First stage not going too well.
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Bloomberg has his private army - the NYPD (his own words).
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@yulusleonard985 An invasion would trigger nuclear war, making Ukraine meaningless.
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@yulusleonard985 The hell does that even mean? Do you think life is a game where a "win" is more valuable than the lives lost?
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@crow9149 Bruh shame your comment got hidden, that's gold.
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Because the VDV is doing the actual fighting.
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This assuming that the jabbed can make new antibodies instead of just being stuck producing 2019 Wuhan strain antibodies.
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No. It's just "globalization by choice" and "globalization by conquest". Lisbon to Vladivostok is globalism under an iron fist.
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If you took it but speak against the mandates, you're considered one too. That's where we're at now.
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They're "paradox rifling" I think, it's a hybrid between smoothbore and polygonal rifling that gives a little twist.
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@gezalesko3813 They won't need a black sea port when the black sea fleet is losing ships at this rate :)
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Russia announced a retreat from Kherson.
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Destruction and looting? The US government did the atomic bombing and Agent Orange, among other things. A lot of armies have used plunder as a legitimate tactic. You're acting like people never switched allegiance. "Honor"? A lot of people only joined for the pay or free college. You're acting like logistical nightmares aren't a thing with government armies, look at WWII Germany - the mythical Germany war machine was plagued with logistical problems. The US government also does the same with cheaper equipment, they developed the shitty USGI aluminium magazines and soldiers were bringing the superior Magpul magazines and the armed forces wouldn't let them use them. However soldiers didn't care because those were the best possible magazines for their rifles and they have been in service unofficially. The Marines adopted magpuls in 2013 while the Army stubbornly sticks to it's guns and has wasted money developing a new follower for the USGI aluminium mags that is compatible with the M855A1 round. The Soviet Union committed mass rapes and attempted genocide across Eastern Europe, how could anyone be worse than them?
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That's not what happened. Al Qaeda was a self-funded venture by Saudi billionaire playboy Osama Bin Laden. They never had US support and were never betrayed by the US. OBL's quarrel with the US was the fact that Saudi Arabia rejected his help to fight off Saddam's forces in Kuwait. The Afghan Mujahideen were supported by the US. In 2001 when the US invaded Afghanistan they linked up with their allied Mujahideen in the Northern Alliance and fought the Taliban side by side.
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lol the Russian simps will suffer the biggest aneurysm when they see their failed God stumble
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@Junius24 how intellectually and morally consistent to constantly call the government a bunch of murderers and thieves and then simp for the establishment.
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@MrMoss786 John Mearsheimer said Ukraine should keep the nukes in the 90s.
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Pickin Dim Exactly, clownery is CRPs game.
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The Iranian centrifuges were in an air gapped system and they still got infected with STUXNET. When there's a will there's a way.
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@DrJellyFanguzzz Again, the controllers that ran the centrifuges were NEVER connected to the internet. They still got hacked. An air gap is not enough.
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Yeah in Ukraine they're using AI to identify corpses by matching them to Vkontakte pictures. This will eventually be used on the living too.
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@captainkiwi77 they were clearly overprescribed on purpose and got people addicted for profit. Now that regulations clamped it down people are resorting to street drugs. That smack is serving a medical purpose now.
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No need for an EX to fight 5th gens.
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@sashazxtt What's yours? 21 people died in 2021, 26 in 2020. Way more have died in the conflict.
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@sashazxtt Ah, so now you have to pull casualties from an alternative timeline to argue your case.
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@sashazxtt lmao as if hospitals were not shelled by Russia Next time try not to use Hamas tactics and use civilians as human shields, the footage of Grads being fired from the middle of Donetsk is easy to find.
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@sashazxtt Cope. The proof is all over the internet, anyone who wasn't living under a rock has seen it. I could be kind. I won't be. But here's footage: /watch?v=mLj2mTbbwvY 200 meters from a hypermarket and 500 meters from a school. Return fire from a similar rocket artillery system would have to hit civilians to respond to "separatist" (Russian) attack.
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@sashazxtt There's FAT Russian soldiers crying they were starved by Ukrainians during their time as POWs. While Ukrainians with bodybuilder physiques came back skinny. Patrick Lancaster is a literal war criminal who took bodies from morgues to stage scenes.
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@sashazxtt It wasn't a missile attack. It was a fire. Either an incendiary grenade or RPO style rocket. Oh no, videos where he talks to civilians. There's also a video where he was escorted by the boxcutter guy.
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lol, nice one
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@ktcool100 but if a company expects to have money deducted from their profits they will charge you more up front... Seriously, don't throw around the r-word... Glass houses and shit...
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+Damion jackson you'd be surprised at how many libertarians reject the constitution.
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You don't need to actually lift your 1RM, there's equations with pretty good predictions. If you can do X for 3 reps then you can do Y for 1RM.
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A congressman believed a bad photoshop of Sam Hyde in a F-16 cockpit was the Ghost of Kiev...
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No kidding. Don't want to go into detail but a friend of a friend was in a night out in Belgium, her last night over there, and met a guy. He asked her to come to his place. She had a gut feeling and declined because it was her last night before the flight anyway. Without saying anything that could be identified, her coming in contact with him left evidence that exposed the dude as a serial killer. She had to be questioned by interpol until they figured the evidence was not hers but from the dude she had been in close contact with.
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They win wars by smashing against defenses for years?
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It does, actually. Combined arms predates the existence of aviation.
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@MC-ht8ud The date of the comment is irrelevant. If we could do combined arms before we had aviation, we can do it today without aviation. Many countries have awfully small air forces, and basically no air forces at all in some cases considering lack of maintenance/parts or skilled aviators. Yet they still partake in warfare.
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 @DoodleNugget9 The US spends over a trillion on Medicare and Medicaid.
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While some gangs did originate from the black panther party, I was expecting him to say black separatists. Black separatists or nationalists got a much worse connotation than militant. Hell, nobody bats an eye at militant, but mention militia and everyone thinks of the Viper militia and McVeigh.
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@Louis_Davout an encyclopedia will not tell you what was the first reich because it's not called that
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@Ben-xe8ps Yes there have. The Norwegian pharmaceutical authority, whatever it's called in Norwegian, issued a warning regarding the vaccination of the elderly because the reaction to the shot could kill them. Healthcare workers were warned to take the second shot on a Friday if possible because the reaction is severe enough they'd have to miss work. If a healthy person can get knocked out of action for a day, it's obvious that the elderly will have a tougher time resisting.
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They are.
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@topbanana.2627 How? They lost more land in 4 days than they could gain in 2 months, they just had their ships attacked in their own port, and their air bases infiltrated to place explosives on their helicopters.
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The footage shows Russians lol why wpuld DEFENDERS push forward when it's the Russians advancing?
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@yukiko6137 How is it an economic victory to inherit a bombed out Eastern Ukraine, when Africa and China can get the minerals?
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@viktoriyaserebryakov2755 Russia was concerned with the Finnish border in WW2. What happened to the geography of the area since the 40s?
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@rahn45 The reserve groups were called BARS units. They were in Ukraine since early last year. They were also encircled and bruised badly in the Kharkiv counter offensive. That's something most people don't even realize, Russia called in the reserves almost at the start of the war. What military technology? Which banks are failing? I don't know, didn't a couple of banks collapse in China last year? They also had unrest over Zero Coof and the housing bubble controversy where people were paying mortgages for homes which did not exist.
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Why? Only naval forces and training squadrons fly MiGs. They retired the majority of MiG-29s because it's less powerful and has less range than the Flanker.
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@milsimmaniac711 That makes no sense. The MiG-35 program was scrapped precisely because they had no foreign buyers and thus couldn't afford it. The MiG-29 production could be restored but the MiG-35 production would have to be built from scratch.
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Youtube don't care.
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So can artillery. Air power is a red herring.
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@owenmclain3327 You don't understand Darwinism.
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@macjimjava The "proper information" you claim is proper comes from people with ties to the industry. I'm glad we agree people are dying for no reason. It's insane how we have a year and a half of research into this disease and we're killing people without outdated treatment protocols.
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@r3wturb0x51 It's rare, but so is death in my demographic. Also, it's not immediately fatal but it reduces your survival rate.
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@blueeyedwolf2205 But we're not talking about them. We're talking about the people who took it. Don't change the subject. I could die crossing the street too. I'm not going to stop.
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@edmundooliver7584 But what's the problem with spreading if people are vaccinated? Or the other way around, why be vaccinated if you're blocking the spread?
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@edmundooliver7584 Again, if you're blocking the spread with the mask, why vaccinate? If you're vaccinated, why need to block the spread?
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@edmundooliver7584 Then what's the point of getting it if the mask works?
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Honestly it looks like a basement and it is intended to look like a basement. The black plastic is because in the movies the bad guys love to lay plastic everywhere so they can kill/torture and then just roll up the sheets to make the clean up easy. They could easily go to a clinic or dentist's office if they wanted to make it look medical, they wanted it to look "evil" and "criminal".
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Nobody claimed that. 6.8 SPC was dropped from SOCOM testing in around 2007, that's when they stopped ammo acquisitions.
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So?
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@zeddy2284 "we have a buffoon as usa president and these guys are taking advantage of it, when they cross the line" .... are... are you aware that Trump is one of the few politicians who has tried to pressure China, right?
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@jonnie2bad But Ukraine can't buy active seeker missiles from Russia. Their only option is firing AMRAAMs from F-16s. Because their enemy won't sell them the good missiles. "then shut off it's own radar" - This is never done because the missiles need mid-course updates before going active. If you shut down radar the missiles will lose track before the active seeker goes online.
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It was like 190k dead to uphold the Saddam regime and 220k dead in the aftermath of 2003. Not a big improvement. Plus Iran injected weapons and financing to purposefully destabilize Iraq.
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You overlook one important factor. How would a shot down A-10 impact the morale of friendly troops that desperately needed CAS?
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@saschawagner5167 That doesn't even make sense because I never said aircraft shouldn't have cannons, but okay. The A-X program actually started specifically to be used in the COIN role in Vietnam, and the Soviet armor thing was a change in scope of the program. It was estimated that it would have fared poorly against Soviet armored columns, essentially being a suicide mission to halt progression. It wouldn't have survived that role. Not providing overwatch? But it was also specifically meant for helicopter escort and CSAR. It's not cheap or easy to maintain. The company that made it no longer exists, and its so old it needed a 2 billion dollar re-winging program because the original ones had too many flight hours on them.
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@eeee0027 But that person paid so little it doesn't make a difference. When you buy a sh1tbox for a few hundred dollars you're also fully aware that you may be that car's last owner. You're not "stuck" with it. You're just accepting you're gonna drive it 'till the wheels fall off, and in the end you'd have saved a ton of money on Uber so you're actually coming up ahead.
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"Why would anyone need to run around with guns in today's world unless there are others armed with guns?" - Even if there's no guns around me, I still want guns. Tire irons, baseball bats, knives, etc hurt, kill and maim.
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@martymatic3575 I don't care about sports. By your own logic, if weapons are so dangerous, why do you justify owning them for sport? If they're that dangerous, why allow them for something as inconsequential as entertainment? It's a massive contradiction. I don't care if knives or baseball bats shouldn't be carried in public, they will be anyway. People who hurt others don't follow the law. It's already illegal to stab or beat people up.
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@martymatic3575 You were talking about sports shooting, not sports knifing. Okay, bats aren't used in public. Except when people do. Police is always half an hour away when you need them. Plus, what are police if not just armed men? Taser and mace are banned from carry in most countries with gun control, or at least require licensing to carry them because they're still considered weapons. And those licenses aren't handed out like candy. Like it or not, defensive weapons are still weapons. The government sees it that way, and to them it's more important that you don't carry a weapon than having the ability to defend yourself. Come up with a weapon that reliably knocks people out cold without killing them, and I'll get it. I have no interest in lethality, it does me no good if an attacker dies 3 hours later in the surgery if I already sustained damage. Honestly, I trust the deranged friend guy more than the average midwit who thinks having rights and the ability to defend oneself are paranoia. That guy will never cause as much damage as the millions of people walking around thinking that outsourcing all aspects of our lives to governments is the way to go as a species.
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@martymatic3575 But did he? Or is this just a baseless accusation? A right to own a piece of property isn't the right to end someone's life. That's like saying the right to have a penis is the right to commit sexual assault. Please think twice before posting such nonsense. You live in a free society? Rule of law? Since when? It's been 20 years since 9/11 and that's 20 years of more and more freedoms eroded away after the War on Terror started. Cops get bad training everywhere. You think your cops are trained? You'd be surprised. If the price of going into space is that my phone has to be listened to, my movements tracked, my banking transactions monitored, etc etc etc etc etc, you can keep your space exploration. The juice is not worth the squeeze. The Wild West was safer than you think, it wasn't like in the movies. I've been using my voice. It's people like you who try to shut me up. It's the crabs in the bucket model, the state doesn't even need to silence me, they have millions of people who try to silence others. How would they not accomplish that? The fact that you're trying to discourage it only makes it seem more viable. I'm going to get killed by the army? So having an army willing to kill me already justifies my stance. You'd rather flee? To where? Most developed countries are in lock step with each other. How would you even board a flight? Do you know where you'd get modern forged IDs? You may want to spend the rest of your life on the run. But that's all you'll do. Run. When people in the future ask why things are the way they are, the answer will be because the people who could have stopped it decided to run. They delayed the inevitable for themselves. But one day they got old and died and didn't care to leave a future behind.
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@martymatic3575 You have no arguments. You just call people deranged. You live in a free society? Okay, start mouthing off some inappropriate opinions and see how that goes. What criticism? You do realize that Dankula was actually in legal trouble over his speech, right? His internet humor video was not criticized, he went to court for it. Why should I have to travel? I am not American.
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@martymatic3575 Thanks for coming back and admitting I won.
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@martymatic3575 Insults are just another admission of loss.
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@martymatic3575 Some people actually work for a living. Sorry I can't be online all day like you.
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Refusal to engage tactically here is strategic failure. If you want to preserve shipping, you have to show the willingness to go kinetic over it.
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Not really. The A variant is already cheaper than 4th gen.
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@joeya6795 Don't know a thing about projection my guy, but Russia is getting curb stomped. This is a failure that may actually break up the Russian Federation.
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@ryantannar5301 I had to look into it. At the start of the game it says there's disrurbing content and if you want the option to skip it - you can opt between "Yes, ask me later" and "No, I won't be offended". If you say "no" you get No Russian without a skip prompt. So many people not knowing about No Russian probably thought they were being asked about blood splatter/gore and said they wouldn't be offended so they never got the skip option when No Russian came up.
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It's a combination of overhead cover and quick response. If helicopters hover around outside MANPADS range but low enough to be masked against longer range surface to air missiles, they're hard to take out. However a fighter can fly within a few miles of the frontline and use look-down radar to destroy the helicopters. If you need to drop artillery on defensive positions you need drones to scout the frontline and call in those fire missions. A pilot with a targeting pod on his jet can perhaps see ATGM teams on infrared camera and drop a bomb on their position within minutes, without having to communicate someone else to fire and wait for them to line up the artillery pieces.
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Yes, being invaded is desperation.
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The WHO completely mishandled this from the very beginning.
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@sevenproxies4255 "xaxaxa look at that poor country being poorer than me" That's not a good defense of Russia, is it? Ukraine relies on the Western world. So? You people are out here claiming that Russia is the best thing since sliced bread, and not even on the Western world can they ask for help - they have to go to Iran and North Korea. If this was a sentence uttered a few years ago nobody would believe it.
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@filmandfirearms >cheap expendable Yeah they were getting fleeced on the Shahed deal
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@sevenproxies4255 You think of national debt as household debt. Russian national debt is low precisely because of how precarious their economy is. That doesn't mean they run a tight ship. It just means how little everyone else wants to do business with them. Western sanctions work fine considering they're pulling T-55s to the front.
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By the way, a ton of stuff is turned to companies that handle the disposal, they destroy the "receiver", and the usable parts are sold as kits. HiPoint parts kits used to sell for 30 bucks until people started printing frames for them.
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@JA-nq7xf Totally false. Russian OSINT researchers have used data from the current conflict and historical data from artillery heavy conflicts - they came up with 25 thousand killed. Seems that Ukraine may actually be trading favorably. They estimate that Ukraine can continue combat operations for another 1-2 years without more mobilization waves. But they are doing more mobilization waves. With premium training from the UK, New Zealand, etc.
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Pissed off that they'd get 10 years in prison for shortening a barrel but this guys does it and people applaud?
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@oknevals The Ukrainians are using RPG-7 warheads on FPV drones. They're really only able to destroy IFVs and APCs. But introducing the T-55 means that now Ukrainians can easily kill Russia's MBTs. Russia does not have 10k tanks in action.
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@oknevals Because Ukraine can't replace Soviet stuff that comes from Russia. Because they're fighting each other.
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Stay on facebook.
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Tomahawk missiles into factories and rail hubs to make sure that whatever happens, the enemy will run out of supplies and have no ability to restore them.
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Eusebio would be embarassed.
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Military acquisitions require a lot of legalese stipulations in regards to materials, sources/suppliers, testing standards, etc. For example magnets in one F-35 part were found to come from China, and the mamufacturer has to change suppliers. So you can't just go down to the store and get some bushings. You have to pay for a factory to custom make you bushings that obey the standards (which often involve inspecting 100% of units, rather than using a statistical model to make entire batches pass QC).
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 @southafrica8140 Hello mister South Africa, perhaps instead of cheering for Russia online you could fix your country.
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@answerthequestionplease5073 And Ukraine also only needed to nibble a little bit of Kherson to send the Russians running across the river. That's how Russia loses. First it starts slow. Then it all collapses in a blink of an eye.
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@southafrica8140 Mr South Africa never been to South Africa. Why do you cheer for countries like South Africa or Russia?
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 @southafrica8140 Amazing how every Russia supporter can't stop thinking about man ass.
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@answerthequestionplease5073 Ah, so now Russia wasn't afraid of Ukraine breaching the dam, they breached in on purpose. You switched the talking point lol
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That's not true. ONE Army general spitballed that idea, others assured him it couldn't be done and he was like "oh well". That was it.
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 @up4open So the Army is going to waste billions doing a branch transfer for an aircraft that's running out of usable hours?
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@up4open Develop what? A 20th century style of aircraft nobody else is developing? Does Russia have a follow up to the Su-25? Does China?
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"the $27000 package is only accessible if you have pledge over $1000" - that doesn't matter, it makes it even worse in fact because that's 28k down the drain. "it was backers that asked CIG to create that game package" - maybe backers should have asked for a finished game "which is still cheaper than buying all the ships individually" - but that's the problem, Roberts thinking his unfinished game is worth more than 27k of content. That's the psychological manipulation of sales, you think you're saving money by spending money on things you don't need.
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Israel "got inside" their bunker with a USB pen.
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@someboi4535 Not a power plant. An enrichment facility inside a bunker. Almost 30 feet underground, with a concrete shield over the concrete bunker itself. The place is covered in anti air defenses like a military base.
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@someboi4535 Nuclear plants are usually referred to as such because they're "POWER plants". Stuxnet did not attack a power plant, but an enrichment facility. The virus was meant to disturb the RPMs on industrial controllers to cause centrifuges to damage themselves. Centrifuges don't belong on nuclear plants, just enrichment facilities.
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@someboi4535 But they're not power plants. This argument is beyond useless, the point is that the Israelis bypassed the military defenses and structure hardening by attacking the computers themselves with malicious software. Doesn't generate power, it's not a power plant. By that logic an oil refinery is car engine.
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Maybe it's hard for you. I guess thinking isn't your forte.
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@lediapronica2249 What white band?
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It's a war.
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I don't remember if Infinity Ward went there or just used photos to recreate the location, but there's photos of GSC Game World devs on location to study the area for STALKER SoC.
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How could Russia detect the salinity of the explosives in other nation's waters? Why would a P-8 drop a buoy rather than a civilian vessel?
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@speedyv6247 Yeah, it happened. Go back to the announcements being made at the time.
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@galacticverse7694 Being surrounded by three sides, but the encirclement failed when Ukraine reinforced the flanks. That means that Russia has to advance through the town, which is extremely costly for the attacker.
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God is clearly in Ukraine's side.
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@americase7en "I think it should be in the constitution for every American to visit Europe and check how it is possible to live in a territory where you are not always thinking that at any given time someone is carrying a gun!" - I'm European and I do check suspicious people for guns. There's a ton of guns in Europe, and criminals don't care about gun laws.
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Doesn't look like a tictac and Fravor is not reliable since he got in touch with the UFO nutters. Yeah, we won't be happy until we have evidence. Sorry, if the girlfriend goes to another school or lives in Canada, we're just going to assume she doesn't exist until proven.
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The 5th gen aircraft were shot down because they were caught by surprise. The first that got raked by a gun was not expecting it while they were interrogating the F-14A, the third was shot down by an unseen Hangman. In air combat most losses are from pilots not expecting to be hit. Not fair fights.
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@daiwizzy I didn't tag anyone so the response is to the OP. The third one is movie magic, it's difficult to show the tension from getting yeeted from 15 miles out so they put the Su-57 right behind it and with no chance of missing.
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It's unsafe. People will have to go into settings and allow unknown apps, which is fine for some things but dangerous for bank apps. People will create fake bank apps that steal information.
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The major point is that the Tea Party "well" has been "poisoned". It's like Feminism. I mean, who actually thinks women don't deserve rights? But that's not what Feminism is about today. Feminism has got closer and closer to more radical roots of misandry, blaming their problems on a mysterious god-like entity called the "Patriarchy" - that for some reason also hurts men. The Tea Party is to libertarian values what Feminism is to egalitarianism.
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Identification is provided by ground units. You can read the manual on CAS - only TAC qualified ground troops can provide weapons guidance and release authorization. It's not the pilot's call when the target is in close proximity to friendlies due to the danger of friendly fire. The ground troops have limited capabilities? Pilots are even more limited. A-10s are known for friendly fire, there's a reason JTACs are required to hold the pilot's hands during CAS. How are long range shots with missiles not an option?
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@Winstonrodney6989 if it was the 1920s and you were on a jury to convict Hitler for a crime he didn't commit, would you have done it knowing you'd save millions? People believe the Orange Man is one of the most evil politicians alive, could they not chose what they believe is moral without conspiracy or corruption being involved?
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The oligarchs are still fleecing his country. Putin himself is, his wealth is literally incalculable because so much of it is under others' names but under Putin's control. I mean, look at the missing 1.5 million winter uniforms. Anti-corruption in Russia is just a shortcut to get rid of people. The system is based on corruption, and everyone is corrupt. If anyone starts misbehaving they get charged with corruption. But that's the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
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 @alexnderrrthewoke4479 America was willing to let Yanukovych stay in power. The US didn't want to destabilize Ukraine while Europe pushed for EU integration.
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AA has no bearing on air superiority. You can achieve full air superiority with ground threats still active. For example Serbia.
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You mean like the Russians took down MH17?
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Appeal to authority. You wanna tal about alien pilot corpses, you bring the evidence. I don't care if you're the Queen of freaking England brought back to life, no job title prevents people from being crazy or telling lies.
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Liquid nitrogen is still denser than air so it would cause the float to trigger. Also, they'd need to put a hole in the casing without toucing the foil.
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-Todd Howard
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Trump doesn't understand American debt. They have infrastructure to show for it? First, don't count tofu-dreg projects. Second, wait for the bill for the maintenance of that infrastructure to come up. In a few decades, all that shiny new infrastructure will be in a state of decay because provinces won't be able to maintain it.
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Research done on the StG? The AK is essentially an upside down Garand system, with similar trigger and the safety/dust cover from the Remington Model 8. Why would they need research on a German weapon that works completely different? And Hugo was sent back to Germany and died before the AK design process was finished. Heart and soul is German? It doesn't have the German complexity.
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@klchai7884 Mucho texto.
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Zelensky tried that. Putin wanted it all.
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Yeah it was just some intern a certain guy told to whip up a convincing story that webbed together existing conspiracy theories.
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@jaredhonusankrom literally just looking up "wuhan bats" will yield tons of results, you know damned well that posting links gets comments spamfiltered.
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 @freakishuproar1168 But they also used the O and V. The Z just happened to become more symbolic.
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Read the reports of SOLVED unidentified aerial phenomena. Sane military personnel reported strange sightings, they get investigated, sometimes they get solved, sometimes they don't. The mundane isn't gripping so you are told these tales as if they're out of the ordinary but they aren't.
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@Gorrgrim Were you manning that radar? Witness testimony is unreliable as hell. Do we have this radar track?
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I think it's the other way around. Ukraine counts people they have to defeat to defend their country. Other countries only count the Russian army, because to them Wagner and DPR/LPR are not a threat.
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The standard was set by South African and former Rhodesian soldiers forming PMCs in Africa. And comparing the "standard" of security work to the "standard" of war crimes and tanks is like saying taking a 20 dollar bill from a wallet you found is equivalent to the North Hollywood bank robbery.
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@plantbased4430 I don't act like an expert. My reaction was denying you a reaction. Have a terrible day.
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@plantbased4430 How do I come across as one? No libshit I ever known would ever defend whipping out the strap and executing the truck bubbas in """self-defense""". You want to live in a PVP enabled world, you play by PVP rules. No respawns.
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@plantbased4430 You're the one who brought up black protesters. A libshit does that, which is why you assumed I would defend them based on skin color. I refused to look into the case any further and you got on your "I got what I wanted" shtick. You got nothing. You don't know what libshits are, then. Knowing the enemy is really important, and you're out here thinking libshits are radicals.
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@plantbased4430 And I looked them up and instantly noticed what you were up to. My mistake, your comment was above one saying "you wouldn't care if the guy was black" so I thought you had brought up race earlier.
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How does that affect a fetus?
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@albatross8361 Why is Tulsi's policy to be a rabbid warmonger except when it threatens Russian interests? When the US military appallingly directed a drone strike at a van with civilians in Afghanistan based on faulty intel, Tulsi went on TV to say "we have to fight them over there".
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@albatross8361 /watch?v=YttVX5KU8hY it was on Tucker's segment, the Hill has a reaction to it.
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@julesandersen3659 haha you are so full of propaganda from the east
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 @davidpax Oh they could be given computers loaded with Falcon BMS, it would have erased the Russian plane from their brains months ago.
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 @festekj Backed by gold? AHAHAHAH They're lead by 19th century economists now? Maybe China and India should focus more of their border beatdowns.
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Won't work.
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That's a good theory.
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Both sides used fighter jets since day one.
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 @jbak87 And he's going to have to admit it again in Ukraine's case. By the way, Iraq did have WMDs.
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@jbak87 And Germany and France's doing.
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@nolocontendere7642 It was no laughing matter for the US servicemen who were accidentally exposed to nerve gas and suffered neurological damage, then prevented from talking about it until a decade later.
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"countries with a national health service still have health insurance options" - But then you're just paying for healthcare twice, the one you use and the one you don't. "prices are lower because the state negotiates de prices to be lower because is the biggest insurer and has more lea way!" - It's the opposite. Imagine the public outcry if the state refused to buy something if it was too expensive. The state would get forced to go back to the negotiating table and give in.
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@vascocardoso3131 "I live in a country with such a system." - How is that in any way related? "This is false, the insurance premiums are laughably lower" - That doesn't make it false. "the NHS pays the same for your illness treatment with or without insurance" - Dude what the fuck does this mean??? So you pay for insurance, but the NHS covers it anyway? What the fuck? "the insurance provides an extra on top of the basic care, it allows you to use private clinics and doctors to get care faster" - But again, you're paying for a healthcare system you're not using, and then for the one you're actually using. "I challenge you to find a treatment that costs less in the US than in other countries with a NHS." - I challenge you to find the real values that the government pays. "US health costs per capita are one of the highests, while you median quality of care is not that great" - This is completely irrelevant. I am not defending the US and yet you keep talking as if I did. "If you fancy a read to see how preposterous your prices" - YOUR prices? I'm not American.
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This is scripted lol
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@surfingbilly9654 Ukrainian valleys are meaningless in the nuclear age. If tanks start rolling Russia will nuke the US.
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 user-yg5hl7gr7j I never heard any other version.
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"We accept claims like masks and vaccines work because we have plenty of evidence from the past to indicate that." - How does evidence from the past apply to a new vaccine? It literally has no past. It just started existing. And it's made by a company with a history of lawsuits that makes it untrustworthy with new, not-established products with a track record.
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@sonofbarrel361 People with a history of lying want us to trust their evidence. Ha. Actually, it was from scratch. From what I understand, it's the first mRNA vaccine, right? A bad history teacher won't leave people with life-long problems. The vaccine for the 2009 pandemic caused some people to develop narcolepsy. It was extremely rare, but people got stuck with a condition because of it.
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So the Ukrainians were Nazis now they're Marxists?
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@StanTheMan-us3tp Keep rolling up your sleeves.
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@StanTheMan-us3tp How is anything going to go back to normalcy with a shot that wears off in 6 months and doesn't prevent transmission? I'm ready to go back to normal, it's you who's complaining.
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Russia already probes American airspace. Are you saying we should shoot next time?
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Does it? Not only were many in the ICU still with Delta while Omicron was the vast majority of cases, we're still not clear on "die from" vs "die with".
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The F-35 is a success with over 1000 produced while the Gripen continuously fails bids.
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Russian shills BEGGING for the war to stop. They know they're gonna get ran over.
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Hardly. Vietnam then had to fight China, effectively curbing the domino theory.
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You mean cultures that arrest women for carrying pepper spray on their purse?
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@mytruthslays1303 "The plane and the price COULD be improved" - It's already cheap. 79 million flyaway cost for the A variant. The less capable and less survivable F-15EX is at least 85 million flyaway. When the EW and pods are added to the package it easily adds up to the same cost as F-35A plus spares and service. The fact that it could be cheaper is encouraging, because it should be, but if Lockheed Martin is selling 5th gen for 4th gen prices why would they focus on that right now? They're selling a killer and charging less than Boeing, Dassault and Saab. It's insane.
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@pistonburner6448 The estimated cost for a renewed F-22 program was over 200 million per unit. It was unfeasible to restart production. Nothing is impossible, as long as you throw practicality out the window. It's like Rocketdyne F1 engines. We can't remake the Saturn V rocket engines. In fact, we could, but why throw good money after bad?
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@josephobrien942 Obama wasn't the only one, from Gates to McCain a lot of people demanded the end of the F-22. Obama just takes the heat because he was president. But republicans were calling for the F-22 shutdown since the early 2000s.
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Whataboutism. You deserve a stint in a Russian prison.
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+Campy Camp if they start giving away RPGs I'll want them.
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Credibility is relative. Credible people have lied or been wrong, that's why they were believed. People self-sabotage all the time. People will find a new purpose and seek pointless pursuits with their entire being, at the cost of everything else.
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"a wife who didn't have to work" - but that's exactly the point. Because women are expected to work, you have a greater supply of labour. But because married couples are not consuming twice what they used to, demand has not increased. You're blaming immigrants competing for jobs and ignore the fact that women entering the workforce essentially doubled the pool of available labour.
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The Kerch bridge was attacked last year. So if another attack blows the bridge, it will wait for repairs until 2024?
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If everyone decided to fight it they would have to blink first in the staring contest. Just saying but the defeatist attitude sells out everyone down the line. Now those who wanted a choice can get purged.
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@fritzjackson4336 this is a phenomenon that is just too consistent to ignore. Typical conservatives think liberals are just misguided or misinformed, while liberals think conservatives are malevolent, stupid, etc.
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Stealth works due to the inverse square law. If you're inside gun range, radar stealth isn't helping.
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They didn't erase him lmao it's easy to find the details on his life.
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Only the people with severe schizophrenia, I think.
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 @JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine Western sources focus on Russia proper, Ukraine counts Russians and separatists.
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You cannot hire Wagner. They're a creation of the Russian military intelligence.
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"cheap version of stg" - it's literally more expensive to make
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@teemumyyrylainen9247 again, stamping dies and forging dies are extremely expensive. The StG was totally streamlined for wartime production. Any big factory was bombed. So the Germans decentralized production.
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1. That's not a reason for war. 2. Still not an excuse. 3. The war is being fought with decades old Cold War equipment. If the MIC caused the war then how come they weren't ready for it?
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They fought a defensive war and now need to push back. The offensive requires more hardware than holding the line.
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There's no reason why it would get worse. A more violent infection would be more visible and thus easier to quarantine. It's the mild stuff that escapes unnoticed.
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Crimea is a peninsula with a narrow chokepoint. It can only be attacked after amassing a large assault force.
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@kf8346 If anyone's being dishonest, are the people deathly afraid of anyone mentioning any sort of discomfort. Even correctly administered injections can lead to swelling and pain. Doing it incorrectly can actually be so much worse. Hitting a nerve during the procedure can be very damaging. So don't be defending improper practices to push your narrative.
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@HiwasseeRiver They opened it the day after the attack. Like everything else, Russia constantly likes to remind their subjects that everything is fine. What's the point of reporting on the 30th reopening?
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David Suzuki is just kind of left leaning. A lot of stuff doesn't exist in nature, and mankind made them anyway.
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What happens if you do kill the "suspect" and turns out you misidentified him?
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@tak4043 You'll find out the hard way the law won't protect you in that instance. You made the mistake, you bear the legal responsibility for that death. Nothing suspicious about a victim feeling cornered and trying to disarm the aggressor.
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Private citizens and businesses could pool their money and contract a construction company to make the damned roads.
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Does Russia have the SEAD/DEAD doctrine to get anywhere near a Patriot with anti-radiation missiles? Thank you.
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@matttaylor6500 "Comparing 3rd world countries to the US is a little far fetched." - take a look at San Francisco requiring poop patrols to clean up the literal shit and needles left in the streets. Look at Flint, MA where the corrupt government was telling people the brown water filled with rust and lead was safe to drink. You think it's far fetched? "Canada has reasonable gun restrictions" - no, they don't. You can own a Vz.58 but AKs are on the Prohibited class and very difficult to own and shoot recreationally. Also, maybe this has been changed but rifles have 5 round limits, however you could buy magazines for a .50 Beowulf AR pistol, which can hold 10 rounds. The .50 Beowulf caliber was designed to fit inside AR magazines so you can get that magazine and fill with with almost 30 rounds. The RCMP are a bunch of crybabies who constantly wake up butthurt from the fact that Canadians can own guns (GASP!) and they throw temper tantrums by reclassifying legal weapons as Prohibited and sending letters to gun owners telling them to turn them in. They have a massive stick up their ass and getting out of bed in the morning must really sting so they take out their frustrations on LEGAL Canadian gun owners. "we didn't have 337 mass shootings last year" - the mass shooting tracker is a fucking joke. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/no-there-were-not-355-mass-shootings-this-year/ https://www.vox.com/2015/12/4/9849390/mass-shootings-count Even liberal outlets call out the mass shooting tracker claiming >300 mass shooting per year. "Australia banned guns after a mass shooting, no more mass shootings" - AUSTRALIA DID NOT BAN GUNS - THEY JUST PASSED AN UNGODLY AMOUNT OF RESTRICTIONS AND RIGHT AFTER THAT MONASH UNIVERSITY HAD A SHOOTING THAT ONLY LEFT 3 DEAD SO IT DOESN'T COUNT AS A MASS SHOOTING EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT. AS A RESULT THEY HAD TO PASS EVEN MORE RESTRICTIONS, PROVING CLEARLY THAT THE POST-PORT ARTHUR LAWS WERE NOT THE CATALYST FOR MASS SHOOTING PREVENTION. It's also proof that as soon as the US passes more gun control ANOTHER tragedy will occur and you people will AGAIN force gun control down everyone's throat even though we already gave you what you wanted. Since the 2000's Australian gun owners essentially replaced the guns they gave up after Port Arthur and there' no major issues to report so clearly it's not the guns. Also New Zealand stopped having mass shootings in the 90's and they didn't pass gun control like in Australia.
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I'm 90% sure there was a "corrected" census that put back the missing people, but they forgot to account for populational growth so the numbers did not match either and that census was suppressed.
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Sounds like what Ritter said early in the war. 5 hits without kill is insane, it would have to somehow miss every vital component.
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@Ayvengo21 There's footage of a tank hit in the barrel by a Javelin. The crew abandoned it and was rescued by another tank. It's not a one shot one kill, but the tank was "killed" just the same. I seriously doubt that after 4 hits there's no system, be it fuel or hydraulic lines, engine, drivetrain, crew, sighting, etc. that wasn't hit.
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Yes. And it's difficult to fix into the soil and water, which is why we use fertilizers.
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@brianchecketts9792 I mean, just take what you said and apply intensive farming to it. Natural nitrogen fixing is slow. Farm a soil too much, it gets depleted. Add fertilizer to fix it, some ends up in ground water. Keep doing this, the water will have way more nitrogen and phosphorous than it would ever have naturally.
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@igotufoinformation9636 More like 15%, and 5% was already in separatist hands with another 5% controlled by traitors who flipped to the Russian side.
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Buddy the defense contractors pay taxes and they employ people. Your pocket is gonna have to cover the shortage, indirectly.
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"took advantage of those jumping on and not from the elite class" - Huh pretty sure the hedge funds shorting GME were forced to buy to close their positions.
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Calvin Something Name a broker that's willing to face a mathematically infinite loss just to do a hedge fund a solid.
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Calvin Something I didn't say they they closed out. I'm saying they're forced to close as prices rise because they're the ones on the hook. A lot of "ordinary dummies" didn't get into it as a get rich quick scheme because it wasn't about that. Anyone who thought it was easy money and bought overinflated stocks is a real dummy. Read the comments, people are saying they don't care, they pitched in a little money just to stick it to the man.
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Calvin Something If you're buying at the peak you're losing to other WSB people or others who may have had GameStop stocks for years.
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Air superiority is the ability to conduct air missions with no concern for the enemy air force. Russia cannot even contest the air space over Ukraine because they'd get shot down by SAMs before the survivors could meet the Ukrainian air force playing on home turf, so they have to drop bombs and missiles from their own airspace and turn back.
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Some guy in Brazil owed a boatload of money to the government (don't remember if it was taxes) so he sold all his assets and converted to bitcoin.
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@promo242 No idea because I don't remember his name, a friend of mine told me about it became he became a legend in Brazilian libertarian and ancap circles. It's presumed he fled the country but I could be misremembering it.
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@promo242 Sometimes they claim they "seized" it but the government doesn't actually have access to the account. This month it was reported that the German authorities seized a bitcoin wallet worth 60 million but they don't have the private keys and the owner refused to hand it to them. Articles from 2013 say that the feds never got Ross Ulbricht's private keys either so despite the bitcoins being "seized" the government can't actually access them.
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Russia was not outnumbered.
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There's way more. Patriot, Redut, E.N.O.T., etc.
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God seems to punish Russia, though. They wanted to freeze Europe and we had one of the warmest winters ever. God's clearly not on Russia's side.
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@falten2 I'm not American.
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Russia sent in over 200k, they had the separatists, they sent in reservists (BARS units), SOBR police units, they mobilized Donetsk and Lugansk, they took sailors and strategic rocket forces troops and converted them into infantry. Wagner also recruited from prisons, and prior to that Wagner and Redut removed the requirement to have military background in their hiring ads. You're missing hundreds of thousands of men Russia pulled into Ukraine prior to mobilization. In addition, Russia conscripted men at once, which lead to insufficient training capacity. Many videos of men dumped into empty fields or abandoned buildings with no bedsor toilets. Ukraine mobilized in batches because they respected the limit of troops that can be trained at once. Instead of doing it like Russia and mobilizing in one go, they staggered their boot camps.
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They weren't paying it when Milosevic tapped out. When you get your arm taken and twisted to the point you scream for it to stop, you can't chant victory.
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@vincentlamb3436 People would have a choice if more people were willing to make it.
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The pilot isn't the limiting factor in maneuverability. If you have a 20,000lb payload and you pull 9Gs, you're carrying a 180,000lbs. Either the weapons will rip themselves off the pylons, or the wings get ripped off at the root. In fighter aircraft human pilots occasionally over-G their aircraft during training. The human is fine. The aircraft has to be grounded and deep inspected to make sure there are no stress cracks. Where this myth of the pilot restricting maneuverability comes from I'll never know
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🎵 "AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE BEST OF MEEEEEE" 🎶
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I used to pirate games as a kid (not anymore) and even then companies were sticking all sorts of killswitches to disable the game if you didn't pay. One or two weeks later hackers would have a crack that would disable this feature and trick the anti-piracy to stop phoning home. There's simply no way to prevent people from changing how things work when they have access to the physical object. If push comes to shove it's even possible to desolder a chip from a board and reprogram it.
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@SeniorSquidWFO I looked up "hacked tesla" and Rich Rebuilds did it.
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@SeniorSquidWFO Because that's not the point and that car was manufactured before any law? The point is that if you can hack it, you can hack it. It's hacked. You're in control, you're God, you have full access. An LS swap would be even more unreasonable. So you have electric powered motors, and you make it harder for yourself by taking them out and replacing them? When all they need is being fed electric power to work? Sometimes I don't understand people. Do you not have imagination? You live your life based on seeing guard rails and thinking it's impossible to jump over them? Why the strict thinking? You can fool a computer into doing what you what, and your first thought is "doing anything else is impossible".
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 @z-America Where was S-400? Sleeping?
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The Yak 141 was a worse platform. What would even be the point of that?
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The Arisaka and Carcano used round nose bullets, I think. The .303 British was also seen as a puny cartridge when they were forced to cover the round lead nose with the jacket. When they gave it a spitzer shape and the aluminum/wood pulp nose to shift the weight to the rear it became known as a manstopper.
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Well, there's multiple theories that deals have been made. China, maybe the Iranian ballistic missiles, etc. I think it's because the USMC is retiring tube artillery and testing the use of HIMARS from the decks of ships. ATACMS would be an addition to helicopters and F-35B jump jets, so the US can't just give them out without depleting stocks that could be needed in the Pacific.
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@marrs1013 No need for a shotgun, a smooth pipe is a barrel. No need for "ammo", just pre loaded cartridges. No recoil, just do like the shoulder fired weapons and use countermass. Targeting device? A Raspberry Pi with a dangle the size of a portable phone charger can do AI vision at 60 fps. Go up in the air, chase enemy drone, shoot, land back down for reload.
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Okay, and encryption was a way to evade the spying by making your communications unreadable. They want to make it illegal.
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@huracan360 worse, making it illegal for any service (be it VPN or chat app) to encrypt your data in a way that doesn't allow governments to see it.
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Meanwhile the Donbas is depopulated by Russian stooges. Being a Russian stooge is voluntary genocide, while Ukraine will be rebuilt.
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Half the people in prison says they didn't do it. He was also seen murdering JD Tippit.
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Watch the map. No movement for a month.
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Meat Salad If it's false, why did Ukraine get the 4th GTA tanks?
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They have M16s and M4s with M203 grenade launchers in the new Azov unit that was formed.
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@MattSchuster2565 The rifles? Photos on twitter. Obviously links get purged as spam. But look up "ukraine humvee" or "AT4", you'll even see Browning M2 .50 cals.
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 @JinKee the F-35B, the STOVL variant, sacrifices weapons payload and maneuverability for the lift fan and swivel nozzle. CATOBAR aircraft just perform better.
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This has to be bait.
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@thecrimsonmeteor You're unironically against the rule of law. To use force against a group, you have to use the legitimate process. By opening fire first, the law enforcement automatically made themselves criminals.
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We had copies of CS 1.5 or something (before 1.6) that would run off usb sticks because we didn't have admin privileges to install programs.
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At least you admit Russia is a gas station country.
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@alexeishayya-shirokov3603 Yeah, you did: fuel for the car and shower at McDonald's. That's gas (petrol) and gas (natural).
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@gumerzambrano Please, do look back in history. FDR and his gang of retards thought that destroying food to keep prices high would fix the economy, and handed the national recovery administration to corporate cronies.
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There's no missing money.
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@solomonheppner don't they get plugged during hibernation by the stuff they eat? I think that's from the Dr. Doolittle movie so it might be wrong.
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@solomonheppner I know, the joke is that it would end up on their GI tract and show up on xray
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Pretty sure PhysX could have done that in 2007 simply by not having the entire scene rendered with volumetric smoke/clouds.
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@aksmex2576 There's a lot of footage of Russian troops being killed too. Best way to start the morning.
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@v.5442 That's Severodonetsk numbers.
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@BullGator-kd6ge And most sorties are "flying artillery", firing dumb rockets in an arc because neither side can fly over troops.
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So you're a snowflake?
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Sounds like strategic value to me. Now two pieces of scrap are blocked inside those dry docks.
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Their engineers fled the country.
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If Canada says that about America is common sense, if America says that about Mexico it's racism. lol if a wall doesn't stop immigration/drugs what exactly is going to stop guns?
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@flexibleaspect One of the few actually blaming the hospitals which I respect, but it's the insurance company that goes to the hospital and say "F off, we're not paying 50k, we're paying 20k" and gets the hospitals to back off and lowball their fees.
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Even Tulsi Gabbard has backtracked. Trump was right.
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Viễn-Phương they were not destroyed
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They fired shells like mad for half a year.
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Underrated comment.
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Many jobs are giving up drug tests because they can't find enough workers.
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@stephenbailey9969 How are they designed to save lives when every step of the way the science has "changed"? Almost everything we did was based on flawed models and shoddy science that ended up coming into question. True liberty requires responsibility? Are you willing to be held responsible for all the people who committed suicide due to declining mental health? Everyone who missed the early screenings for cancer? Are we going to see responsible people stepping up to the plate to face the consequences?
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@stephenbailey9969 "That's how medical science works. The positive effects are weighed against the dangers." - and what happens when the dangers are outright not being recorded as official policy? OSHA mandates the shot but won't record adverse effects. So tell me... your idea of medical science is not how it actually works. Will you speak up? Or continue supporting the people lying to you?
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@hivezphone One of the reasons the bridge was built was how much money Russia was bleeding into Crimea. It was one of the areas in Russia that got the most subsidies. Yes, Crimea was supplied before the bridge. But it was an extremely inefficient task that cost Russia money, and usually you want to profit off the land you acquire.
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@nathanielnachtigall7074 Oryx regularly corrected those issues. I've been hearing about the tank counted 3 times for two years, that means Oryx was so good the critics always have the same example.
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@nathanielnachtigall7074 What audit? I don't care about what Vatnik OSINT says anyway, if Oryx is wrong then I guess Russia isn't using motorcycles and Chinese golf carts to cope with the losses.
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Military losses are lower than Russia's. Civilian casualties won't be fully tallied until some kind of investigation is done on recent grave sites inside the Russian area of control.
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"National stability and security is important" - giving up freedom for security will get you neither "if the provider is honest and being checked" - were you born yesterday?
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Cope.
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 @yung.g0d You can like cars without knowing what models are passing you by.
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@geniusderweise400 So they didn't have a million man army when the Russian assault was defeated, genius.
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Look at the map, what business does Russia have being in Kaliningrad? Why does the US have Hawaii? Or Alaska for that matter? I look at the map, that territory seems Canadian to me. Why does Portugal have the Azores? The fact of the matter is that the Soviet Union gave Crimea to Ukraine SSR, and Ukraine SSR petitioned for independence from the USSR before the collapse, then Russia went ahead and took it. Not content, they decided to invade a whole ass country 8 years later over the water rights and access to the Sea of Azov. If Britain had gifted the Falklands to Argentina, but then ended the monarchy and replaced it by a republic or whatever, and the new government wanted to take it back, but also arm and support separatists from the Tierra Del Fuego or whatever so they could claim that part as Rightful British Clay and invade towards Buenos Aires... you'd have a point.
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Because they can't.
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@bmeo1234 You did.
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@grahammewburn your yatch and solar panels were not the result of simple living. You reap the benefits of large industry and then pretend everyone can live a simple life like you. If everyone lived a simple life, solar panels would not exist. The steel, aluminum, carbon fiber, fiberglass, thermoplastic, epoxy, etc would not exist to power your lifestyle.
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@polisci4457 There were NATO peacekeeping forces in the region. Due to the Serbs' history of taking peacekeeping forces hostage and threatening to kill them with artillery, the intervention in 1999 was justified without UNSC resolution. Milosevic stans and Russians can cope as seethe about it.
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So the NSDAP didn't win with 43.91% of the votes in federal election of March, 1933? I'm not talking about the position of Chancellor, I was talking about the ruling party. >If people were really so fucking paranoid on that point, they would vote differently "I'll tell everyone I'm a bad egg before the elections" - said no dictator, ever. Still, governments have been brought down by force and military juntas instated in several countries. It happens.
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The video in those basements shows otherwise.
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How would tax cuts increase tuition costs? The costs started rising because of the 1978 Middle Income Student Assistance Act. From 1965 onwards banks had the loans backed by the government in case students defaulted. In the 70's Sallie Mae started buying the loans off banks. The socialization of risks and privatization of cost obviously created an incentive for more loans to be issued by the banks, which always had their money guaranteed. Combine this with the 1978 expansion of federal assistance and prices can simply rise unchecked.
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@yarnpower "Tax cuts meant less income for the federal govt." - but that's false. Tax revenue actually increased. In 1980 receipts were 517k Million dollars, 1981-599k M, 1982-617k M, 1983-600k M, 1984-666k M, 1985-734k M, 1986-769k M, 1987-854k M, 1988-909k M. The income actually grew, in fact almost doubled. "so they in turn had less to send back to each state" - not only is the premise that the government was taking less tax income false, but even if that was true that doesn't cause tuition to rise. States could easily bump sales, property or income tax. I want some documentation proving that state governments all together decided to increase tuition as a tax collection scheme because there have to be meetings on record and bills passed that put this theory on paper. "Private colleges then felt free to raise their rates." - that doesn't even make sense. If state college becomes more expensive for factors unrelated to private schools then they get a boost in enrollment. That could explain a slight increase in tuition costs simply because demand is higher than the supply - more students trying to join than a college can accommodate - but it wouldn't explain a 1000 percent increase over the last few decades. Are the states still trying to cover up a budget hole after all these years? Please come to your senses. Are private colleges still in a race to the top with states trying to raise an infinite amount of taxes by bumping tuition costs? Or does the existence of laws that make banks profit off excessive loans create a spike in demand that allows the supply side to keep increasing prices?
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They didn't "cater to multiple audiences". They got bought out by traditional media, which doesn't understand what made Vice appealing.
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@willofdodge1 Your comment is precisely what DJ Moon is addressing. You can't just "go to the NHS system", because that would require the US to be absorbed into the UK. Trying to replicate the NHS in the US will cost 15,000 bucks per person, even though it costs 5x less across the pond. That's exactly what DJ Moon is trying to say. You can't just do that.
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@willofdodge1 Google the profit margins on insurance companies. It's 3-7%. They're just skimming off the top, the biggest crook is the one providing the service. "We are already spending 4500 per person in the US thru goverment" - And that's just a fraction of healthcare costs. Because the government rates are set by law and they're artificially low, the private sector makes up for the difference by charging more to whoever isn't using medicare/medicaid. "How else can we make healthcare affordable? Just bc we are diiferent doesn't mean we cant do something similiar" - That's the core of the issue. You can only do something similar... by becoming similar. This means having to change how medschool even works, possibly having to impose a debt forgiveness system to those who haven't paid back their loans yet, dealing with the wrath of those who did pay back their loans and are now pissed off that they're having to compete with the next generation, and flat out just having to deal with the established doctors who don't even remember the year they paid back their loans and are just used to a fat paycheck and don't want to give up their 1% lifestyle.
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@willofdodge1 When you're promising better, cheaper and faster that's the hallmark of a scam. At least pick two. What others are doing in totally different countries isn't going to work in the US. You have to turn the US into a different country.
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@willofdodge1 You're just recycling talking points that end up proving me right. Providing a fraction of the population with medicaid/medicare already costs more per capita than in other countries, and you think somehow expanding those programs will somehow cost less. The world won't end, but the American people will suffer from the economic slump.
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@BeanCounterProductions The high barrier to entry is artificially kept high. Insurance companies don't charge whatever the hell they want. They're the ones coughing up the money. The providers charge whatever they want. Insurance companies negotiate with them to lower prices. If you look at the profit margins on insurance companies, they're reasonably thin. That's because the vast majority of the dough is going to overpaid doctors and a managerial class sitting in board rooms. Hybrid systems are never hybrid. A lot of European countries have those. You're still paying for the public system if you want the private option. To add insult to injury, often the private sector is being paid by the state to provide services. So you're paying for your healthcare, everyone else's healthcare, and in the end the money circled back to the private provider you chose anyway. What a mess. The massive markups are created by a) Big Pharma and b) the tremendous cost of running healthcare in the US. In the US becoming a doctor is more expensive and laborious/time consuming, it's also a much more sue-happy country. In other nations you don't see the huge profits in the pharma business because it's essentially kept out of sight and out of mind when the state pays and subsidies most things. So your little theory doesn't work unless you tell the AMA to frig off and kick universities in the balls. Doctors get knocked down a peg, they're now cheaper to train and employ at the cost of them being worse academics but probably not worse doctors. Probably. You also need to severely gut medical patents and - this is going to sound radical - promote more safety in medical trials by reducing the punitive aspect of lawsuits against Big Pharma. Right now it seems the winning tactic is to push expensive drugs to as many people as possible to cover the costs of lawsuits and payouts. We should reverse that. As a former liberal, I understand where you're coming from but you don't get everything for nothing. There's no magic "we can be more cost-effective" crap. Want to be cost effective? This means slashing spending. And nobody wants to be out of a chair when the music stops playing. Nobody wants to be the side that's going to get the money tap turned off.
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@BeanCounterProductions That's a bad faith argument. You do realize that medical practices existed before large hospitals did, right? Do you require a MRI every time you go to the hospital? I specifically pointed to doctors being overpaid and a managerial class INSIDE THE HOSPITAL and you blamed it on insurance companies. Insurance companies skim off the top. Board rooms make the big bucks. Don't twist words in your favor, it just looks bad. It's levied against everything else. Public roads are a mess and totally mismanaged but that's beside the point, private roads are not a good comparison. A better comparison would be small ISPs versus big companies being paid to provide for rural areas. There's private operators of small ISPs which get fiber connections to towers and then use radio to cover the last leg in rural areas. Meanwhile large corporations get millions from the local governments to provide ADSL coverage for a higher cost than small ISPs do. Security guards do not have the power of law enforcement. Again, a bad comparison. "when there is market inefficiencies as a result of profit incentives" - Market inefficiency from requiring doctors to be overeducated? The market wants cheap doctors. "we can be more cost effective" - By removing hurdles from the market? Sure. But that's not your magic hybrid system at play. That's just removing hurdles and making things easier and thus less costly. "The US currently spends more per capita on healthcare than the UK does. The only explanations for this are either that the corporations we should be bringing in line are charging insane markups or that the countries with similar rates of lifestyle issues have their citizens magically more expensive to treat in the US." - It's not magic, it's simply expenses. The NHS essentially having doctors employed as public servants allows costs to be cut. This has the effect of public systems losing good doctors to private practice because they feel underpaid, or difficulties in assigning doctors to rural areas because most don't think the money is worth living in the middle of nowhere. Everything's a balancing act.
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@disfordumboo4411 "there’s a lot of redundancy" - Okay. The point is that medical service providers are the ones overcharging, insurance simply skims off the top. People act like insurance are the biggest thieves, but won't dare criticize the actual medical sector for the stuff they pull. Redundancy or no redundancy, it's having insurance that typically lowers costs because they have deals with providers and negotiate rates. If you don't have insurance, the hospital will often charge you more than they would an insurance company. "not only would switching to universal healthcare cut down on those costs" - But it wouldn't. The costs are upstream. Switching system wouldn't do that. You have to eliminate the issue at the root. Otherwise it's all a moot point. "the fact that the services are paid for through taxes means we can make sure that the less money you make, the smaller the percent of your income is going towards healthcare" - But the less you make, the more you're affected by tax rate even if you are at a lower tax bracket. In fact it's easy for someone's income to go mostly towards taxes even if they pay a very low tax rate.
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We have economics students in the comments saying they agree woth the black magic comment.
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He got it. Which is why he explained how the market would react.
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Cope lol Russia was allowed to present evidence of bioweapons at the UN and they had nothing.
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3.8 billion years ago, when the Earth began to cool....
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How did collective IQ go up? Most of them had the opportunity to have children, plus they're intelligent enough to recognize that compliance will lead to more totalitarian measures.
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They've been ground. 300k civilians to replace 150k professional troops.
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Soldiers are not given enough intelligence ahead of time to precisely make them useless when they're being interrogated.
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The US had to use Patriot to defend their bases from Iraqi Scud attacks. Those are not sandals.
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Historically they also suffered severe upset losses.
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Okay, and what happens when the loser of the match does not obey the conditions?
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@VashtheStampede007 then why should one even show up to the following match? The boxing match solution makes no real difference because it is no different from the talks. You can talk all you want and continue your nuclear programs and your arms sales, etc. You can be challenged to a boxing match and simply not show up just like you didn't do what was promised in the talks.
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@ivanfiorani1363 well the last ship to be attacked was carrying stuff into China so from our perspective Houthis were stopped. They're hitting Russian and Chinese assets as western ones were protected.
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@hbmike47 So it's okay to cause harm to people as long as you're administering doses to everyone? Yeah, what Kyle is saying is a small number. But there's many other adverse events. So the small numbers pile up. 3,000 recorded in a setting that aggressively suppresses evidence of what's happening. It's like you didn't listen to his ordeal.
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But doctors are controlled by politics. What happens when speaking against something gets you sacked?
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@davidwebb913 There's a difference between science and The Science™. The science said tobacco was bad, The Science™ said that tobacco was good. The science said that chemicals like atrazine were causing damage to nature, The Science™ said it was fine. You have to be able to discern between the two. Because you can be told something on TV that's completely contradicted by the actual published studies. For example, have you heard of Merck's new drug? Have you heard that the active compound has been linked to increased mutagenic activity in animal cell cultures? Merck is already doing damage control trying to drown out the facts with studies they funded themselves. Doctors around the world are doing what they can. The problem is that they're bound to their national authorities as well.
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@DennisMerwood-xk8wp you just repeat your copy pasted message
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@DennisMerwood-xk8wp I'm glad you're such an efficient worker for foreign agitators. You're not doing this for free, are you? Because if you were you got hoodwinked.
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@nicholaswhite7351 That is not true. You are a liar.
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It was a real front where real people died. No troops were drawn because they were territorial defense and would not leave the capital undefended. Everyone who died there died for nothing. You got it wrong, because you get your information from Russian pundits. They laugh all the way to the bank, where they have Euros and Dollars rather than Rubles, earned by lying to people like you. Just answer one question? Would you have volunteered for the "feint"? Would you toss you life away to draw away troops that would never leave the capital if you weren't there? Would you serve Putin like that?
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Tucker probably doesn't believe any of it, but pretends to do for money and clout.
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@myratsalad Hm, Maxxpros were designed to let the occupants survive blasts...
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Josh Lee How does that matter? Yes, they were on the lookout for suspects and as luck would have it, they happened to get the right guy. They attempted an illegal citizen's arrest.
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Germany supposedly has their reserves at 70% and may get 75% filled.
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 @conchfritters01 They were fixed wing drones, though.
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@user-ww8nz5oo2l Good thing Mathias was not flying a drone, he was flying a Cessna.
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@godfroi10991 what ammunition development? Also, I cannot find a single source for A-10 mounted Hellfires. You're conflating different concepts. You can't do an Osprey's job with the A-10. You're not gonna send an Osprey to do the A-10's job.
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@H. Honkler but that's not the end of it. The Air Force was most times going in blind while North Vietnam was aware of USAF flights way before they entered Vietnamese air space. The North Vietnamese interceptors simply went around the USAF and came in from behind at high speed. Obviously the poorer training standards were an issue but the F-4s were escorting slower attack aircraft and could not get up to speed to chase the hit-and-run interceptions. Even if they started the war with better training or the internal gun, the USAF was swimming upstream.
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@godfroi10991 but again, the Osprey is understood to be a platform that will always require escort due to it's vulnerability to threats from both air and ground so it can be excused for "faults" that aren't really faults. If the A-10 requires escort to deal with air threats, but also is more vulnerable to ground defenses than its own escort, and the escort planes can do the exact same mission as the A-10... what exactly is the A-10 doing in the picture?
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@godfroi10991 but the same aircraft model can perform dedicated fighter and dedicated a2g. We've already seen F-18s shoot down aircraft and bomb targets in the same missions. Loitering time can be extended through air refueling and loitering time means nothing when the A-10 is not as survivable.
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They've been releasing it for years. Eating a banana will give you a higher dose than eating fish from the coast of Japan.
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You can't get better cameras. These are state of the art.
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"They failed to break the Serbian air defense after 80 days" - But it was suppressed. That's all that matters. What good is an air defense when it shuts radars off to avoid targeting, allowing infrastructure to be bombed?
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ArtisanTony tried to print the Liberator with the cheap printers. Not very easy, he had to alter the design.
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Zelyonka (Ru) or Zelenka (Ukr). It's an antiseptic.
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@cethyhnc9305 Are you stupid? Coal comes from the depths of the Earth, burning it releases radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere. Meanwhile nuclear plants have to monitor their radiation leaks. You can doubt the facts all you want, but incredulity is not an argument. Not everything that disagrees with you is trash. Are you a child?
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@cethyhnc9305 I didn't insult you. I asked a question. I am not wrong and you never told me I was wrong. You just acted incredulous. And I pointed out that you acting incredulous isn't an argument.
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Money isn't a form of speech is a lot of countries but we're still fucked by regulation.
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Really, "googleuser541"? Very bot-ish name.
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 @fearofowl5973 I don't think peope gave much of a damn then, or even knew it was being used.
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@skipperg4436 You'd need to know when the missile is launched.
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@knifedance2402 Anti-tank weapons that are infantry portable were somewhat common decades ago, and non-so-portable anti tank weapons were highly common soon after the tank was deployed. The tank has always faced danger from infantry, it was known even in WW2 that tanks alone against infantry were picked off. Tanks are still extremely important. The survivability onion is more important than ever. Don't be seen, the infantry with AT weapons won't see you until it's too late. Don't be hit. If hit, make sure your crew survives so that you can pull them out of the hull and stick them back into another one.
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Maneuverability looks like in videogames and movies, but in real life most pilots get shot down without knowing a missile was coming.
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@DennisMerwood-xk8wp A flop that has 140 produced per year (there's 14 Su-57s, only 16 built and two crashed). It already flew missions against territory defended by Russian S-400s and Iran by Israel.
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They did it in Kherson.
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It's not working smart lol it's interpolation. Working smart is all the optimizations to avoid rendering stuff that doesn't need to. This is taking a print screen and moving things around to look like it's a new frame.
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He was a hero for being a hitman with no uniform, excluding him from the protections afforded by the laws of combat? The invaders were the North Vietnamese, puppets of the USSR regime. Today Vietnam has McDonald's and a stock market. Funny how after the USSR went away their puppets distanced themselves from socialism. Hm.
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More like VT fuses, combat drones, etc. Yes, the US had combat drones in WWII.
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@maliant16 so why would they vote for someone stupid enough to hold said rallies?
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@Sourav okay, now power a factory with several double crank presses and CNC milling machines. Your panels can power your own house and that's it - and it's only economically feasible thanks to tax credits/subsidies. Apartment buildings don't have enough footprint to power every house, which means powering a city from the rooftops can't work. Powering a country's industry? Not happening. You'd need large solar farms.
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What do you mean disagree with the Ukraine war? If you disagree, you have to go after the culprit. Not the victim.
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"Russians would never!" yeah this war had a lot of firsts, they're doing everything they'd never do.
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@thunberbolttwo3953 the problem is that others can crash the oil prices or decrease demand for US dollar. Saddam was selling oil for Euros in 2002. Guess what happened next year.
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@thunberbolttwo3953 what the fuck does the UN have to do with anything? The US economy isn't based on oil but the value of the USD is. That's why the allies of the US that produce oil have made a cartel that trades oil in USD, to maintain a global demand for US Dollars. If there's demand, value increases. Countries like Iran and Venezuela are a problem to the US because they're not in the cartel.
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The Colonel who predicted Ukrainian defeat months ago?
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These same excuses were posted in 2017. You'll be posting that comment in 2029 at this rate.
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The operating principles are the same. Both terrorists and cartels are intermixed with local populations so fights tend to create civilian casualties. Either way, even insurgent groups have multiple layers - normal foot soldiers, "immersion" fighters who only detonate their vests when surrounded, and dedicated suicide bombers (who are psychologically unwell people taken advantage of by religious leaders). Cartels also have normal foot soldiers and complete nutcases who seem to have a deathwish. There's a strong folk religion aspect as the cartels have their own saints.
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Isn't Mercouris the guy who scammed a woman and was disbarred?
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Really? Trump basically got the isolationists to vote for him and now he can say "waaa it's out of my hands, Putin refused the peace offer". Trump knew that the military can undermine him just like when there were 2000 troops deployed in Syria but they kept telling him it was just 200. Trump got another stint at the white house based on a promise he won't ever have to fulfill. Blame Biden for the war while Joe is in office, then blame Putin when he gets inaugurated.
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We evolved for long distance running so we don't need to climb and hang on trees.
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We're also refusing over here. It's not an American thing. It's a human rights thing.
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Same reason why huge warehouses and server farms are built outside population centers. I think the closest coal powered plant in relation to my city centre is probably 15 miles away. It's a big, ugly building. Even if it had no emissions it's just expensive to purchase premium city land to plop down a concrete monster.
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@CellGames2006 "since they come from combat reserves they are probably better trained" - Hardly. The document "Z O V" by a Russian paratrooper who fled to France and ripped his Russian ID in the airport explains how bad their reservists will be. He did a contract in the army and had very poor training, couldn't get into his preferred university, came back to the army under a new contract and assumed the reforms had improved training. Nope. He had to pay for his own lodging because the barracks were unbearable, until he managed to trade for a new bed in a different barracks belonging to another unit. There was no training - they went to the range and took photos with the weapons in hand, signed the documents saying the training happened, and went back to their unit. All those "combat reserves" are like this. The guys with Syria experience etc already work for Wagner and Redut so Ukraine has already fought them.
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Does the M9 require the trigger to be pulled to be dissembled? Also, Air Force is master race, jk.
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It would take a missile per plane to destroy them. The point of revetments is that if you hit one, you don't hit all. But the fuel and munitions scattered by the explosions made the revetments useless.
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But Ukraine was never in NATO. Your logic is that the US invaded Mexico with them never joining the WP.
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No fighters, navy vessels or modern tanks were sent.
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At that point, boneyard F-16s and F-15s would be brought out to be repaired abd refurbished.
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We have apples and fruit.
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Right. In Kharkiv the Ukrainians just followed retreating Russians to the next town, threatened encirclement and pre-sighted the artillery. When Russians finally got enough and decided to retreat, they got their escape routes shelled. Without being encircled, they suffered similar losses. By walking into the killzone. The pictures are online, the escape routes looked like a tornado hit a butcher shop.
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Shoigu announced a retreat from Kherson.
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But the wound does not match AR-15 5.56 ballistics.
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@rev6litrej560 No, it doesn't. The fragments of the 6.5 were recovered inside the car while no 5.56 fragmentation was found in the wound.
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@manojpatra2840 India acquires some material from Russia. Turkey got kicked out of the JSF program for buying the S-400. I doubt they'd be allowed to acquire F-35s.
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The US didn't lose to Afghanistan. Afghanistan lost to itself. The Taliban signed for peace, then waited for the US to leave.
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The place is rubble, dawg. Didn't you see the buildings cracked open and partially collapsed? Nobody lives there.
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+Mike D host the data encrypted so that they don't even know what they're hosting. Also, ever heard of P2P? Host it on a computer, seed.
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@jessehachey2732 Did you not see the Ukrainian flag hoisted in the air by party balloons? The cardboard drones? Or how Ukraine printed large canvas of their destroyed hangars so they could build new ones and satellite pics from above kept showing the crater?
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@jessehachey2732 The point is that weird tactics have been used.
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I'm on the "right", whatever that means, and the McMichaels are guilty. I think people see themselves as the McMichaels in this situation and don't even realize how incredibly stupid and irresponsible it is to create these confrontations.
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@LePlerome The "reasonable" is on thin ice, but regardless suspecting someone of a burglary does not legitimatize their behavior. They should have know that the confrontation would be dangerous and that presenting their firearms would complicate the situation. If George Zimmerman was walking after Trayvon with his gun out he'd have been found guilty.
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@jcannoncraig cartels would just set up water filters, rainwater collection, etc.
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The US flew hypersonic aircraft in the 1960s and has flight tested hypersonic cruise missiles since 2004. Unlike others the US doesn't need to hype its projects.
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 @liljepolak8565 So it's not free if you're still paying, dawg
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That was already a thing. Did you sleep through the 90s and 2000s?
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@E_Ten fake IDs exist
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@E_Ten You say "PAssWoRdS cAn bE sTOlEn" and then right afterwards admit that two factor authentication exists. This was what's called erring in the side of caution.
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It's also human medication, that's a fact. You can lie with the facts. All day long. It's you who's spreading BS.
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@MaryluxVanoria "I have to work extra hard to be able to kill just 1 person by stabbing em" - maybe if you're obese or something, but anyone reasonably fit with a knife can create a fucking bloodbath
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@MonMalthias "Bad faith argument. The point is that firearms are more efficient at killing people than wading into melee, engaging mano e mano, where physical size, strength and endurance play a much larger role in the successful perpetuation of violence than simply pulling a trigger." - one of the biggest massacres in the US wasn't even completely intentional: the Happy Land fire that killed 87. Can of petrol down the stairs and a lit match. Not effort at all. No melee, no mano a mano, no physical size involved. "There are other forms of violence!" misses the point that society should be working to reduce all of them" - then why single out guns? "it declined particularly rapidly during the gun buyback period" - not at a greater rate! If you look at trend lines it didn't even move!
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@SuperSupermanX1999 I said you can create a fucking bloodbath with bladed weapons, not that it is "more effective". You either don't bother to read or you don't bother to tweak your pre-written arguments. "why do we send soldiers to Afghanistan armed with rifles rather than machetes?" - that is completely nonsensical considering the argument at hand. We're talking about going to a place like an office building or a school and attacking people who have no means of self-defense. The Taliban have means of self-defense not limited to rifles and machine guns but also mortars, rockets, etc. "“if we take away guns then criminals will have to use less effective tools” which, in the grand scheme of things, is a trade off I’m perfectly happy to accept if it means fewer people dying" - there's several problems with that argument: 1) You cannot guarantee less people dying. The Sagamihara massacre in 2016 left 19 dead and 23 injured which is very comparable to the American shootings in terms of casualties. You mentioned machetes a whole ago and I can't stop thinking about the Rwandan genocide, in which not only government-armed groups were killing people but civilians took bladed weapons and committed atrocities without needing access to a gun. Hell, one of the worst mass killings in the US was the Happy Land fire, which killed 87 people and only took a can of petrol and a lit match. 2) Not only are the "less effective" methods pretty fucking effective, you also can't disarm criminals. By definition they do not obey the law, not even gun laws. But even assuming that wasn't true your "trade off" is pretty disgusting because you're essentially giving the power to the criminals as long as they don't hurt us as much. It's the "peaceful slavery" over "dangerous freedom" argument, who cares about criminals still doing whatever they want to us as long as they do it at a lower rate. Mind that it's not going to happen at a lower rate. But in terms of principle it's completely wrong. It's the innocent self-punishing hoping that criminals will lower their crime rate.
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Joe Blow the IRS desk jockey can't go around exposing your finances either. Does that mean you're an alien?
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@ivanvoronov3871 The ability to fit a missile doesn't mean you can use the same radar. Radar performance is directly tied to missile performance. That's why the AIM-54 Phoenix became useless when the F-14 was retired along with the AWG-9 radar.
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@thethirdman225 It means that whatever it takes, pilots are going in. With CAP following along to fight the battle, or with just enough missiles to fight off the enemy air power.
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Didn't play for them in Finland or in February 2022. General Winter is a meme, he kills Russians just as well as their enemies.
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The Badman because CONK CRETE BABEEYYY
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@Rammy What what if I told you the thermal expansion made junctions pop out? If you break the connections between pillars wouldn't a building come down?
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The Badman ... precisely... The tower that burned but did not collapse has concrete in the construction.
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The Badman https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/WTC_bathtub_east.JPG/1024px-WTC_bathtub_east.JPG it was meant to be a steel structure. The tube frame design was meant to save weight, concrete would have defeated the purpose.
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The Badman the whole point of the WTC design was having open floor space. I'd assume most floors would be furnished with lightweight prefab construction but even if someone was enough of a maniac to haul concrete slabs to make divisions in his floor that wouldn't mean anything because there would be no load bearing from the concrete. The steel fails, the concrete comes down. In the case of other buildings with concrete sections that actually can bear a load, the concrete's lower sensitivity to heat allows it to stand.
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The Badman because the towers "easily" supported the impact, the tower was designed to take severe wind loads (every once in a while the East Coast gets big storms) and even a plane due to the possibility of an airplane trying to land in fog getting lost (although I think it was designed to hold up against an impact of a plane of a smaller size). I'm gonna try to explain something about engineering - we make things with a margin of safety. And when people are involved, the liability involved with the loss of human lives requires those margins to be pretty high. So when the planes impacted the towers, one lost I think around 15% of the wall beams and another lost around 20% of the wall beams. But, the walls were designed if I remember correctly to take 40% of the load while the core of the building was designed to take 60% of the load (in fact in one of the collapse videos you can see to core sticking out of the smoke because that part of the structure was stronger). So while the buildings had pretty much one face taken out of the equation most of the load was still placed on the cores, and even assuming that one of the faces of the building did not held up to the impact you still had the other 3 faces of the building carrying the remaining 40% of the weight. Back to margins, when the building was designed they figured, assume that the building is filled with the weight of all the people, offices and elevators and now assume that it's going to suffer hurricane winds. How strong does the building need to be to hold up? You then figure out how many beams/how thick each beam is to support that load. The engineering team then says, okay now make it twice as strong. That means the hypothetical project I made had a factor of safety of two. When the planes crashed, they're mostly made out of aluminum so while the steel got bent and junctions broke off, the plane was heavily damaged and shredded itself on impact. It was like a huge shotgun blast going off inside the building, which tore off fire insulation from the struts and pushed the contents of the office into corners, meanwhile fuel was sprayed everywhere and stuff caught on fire. If the fires were put out the building could have actually been repaired and it would be still standing to this day, because workers could have gone in over the following months and cut off and replaced the damaged steel. But the heat made the horizontal steel sag. The horizontal steel beams were connected to the outside wall and the core. By sagging, the steel started pulling on the walls. This is seen right before collapse, there's sections that should be straight on the WTC 1 and 2 walls but they started bending inwards because they were connected horizontally to beams that were being pulled down. You'd think that the top of the building should have tipped over like a tree being cut but what brought the towers down was not cutting action. It was the side walls that were pulled from the inside until they snapped. When they snapped the building was unable to hold the weight of the top section and gravity pulls things straight down. When a tree is brought down they deliberately weaken one of the sides so that the tree follows that direction and doesn't kill the lumberjack. When the towers came down there was no "weakened" side to make it tip over, it lost support on the whole 4 sides at roughly the same time. You see the top tipping a little when the collapse begins but gravity isn't pulling it sideways, it's pulling things down. It also didn't drop from the bottom, this can be seen on videos shot from the ground. The bottom is waiting, rock solid, while hundreds of tons of building crash into it. Videos from above do make it seem the bottom of the building is collapsing under it but video shot from the ground makes it clear. If you look at controlled demolitions videos you'll hear explosions going off like Chinese firecrackers but with thousands times the power. They're compromising all the structure simultaneously. The reports of loud bangs do not match controlled demolitions. There would be also traces of detcord spread all over New York and the beams would have had the copper from the linear cutting charges fused to them. There were so many firemen and rescue personnel on the scene, they would have been able to grab some evidence.
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The Badman but it was... when the towers collapsed WTC 7 was showered by debris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEgPNNcdtu4 0:42 Those debris carved a huge chunk out of the building, it's hard to see it in pictures but the firemen described the building had been gutted. The fires burned for hours and there were three diesel generators in the building. Again if I remember correctly heat made a steel beam expand which popped the junction bolts/rivets causing an elevator shaft to come down. The whole penthouse collapsed and pulled the insides of the building with it. At this point you can see in the video that WTC 7 is hollow - you can see the blue sky through the windows. Seconds later the walls simply buckle due to the fact they have no support and the "skin" of the building comes down. The firemen responding that day predicted that WTC 7 would collapse hours beforehand and had the area evacuated, why would demolition be necessary when the firemen involved already knew the building was coming down from the extensive damage it received?
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The Badman why? I want to know why. Are there legitimate holes in the explanation? Are you just refusing to listen to contradicting evidence?
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The Badman oh yeah the story is shady as shit. If you want to "look into it" the Corbett Report has videos on the fact that a Saudi on a terror watchlist was part owner of a private contractor auditing several federal agencies and they were the ones who suggested doing the hijack drills. I am a firm believer that the government knew. But I don't think they planned it. But why does it look like a controlled demo?
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The Badman I'm not sure about Silverstein. The fact is that all-risk coverage before 2001 often included terrorism in their commercial clauses because the assumption was that events of terrorism were so rare that insurers would put that on the contract. In 1993 the WTC suffered a terrorist attack and the insurers paid. After 9/11 he did manage to get them to pay for two terrorist attacks but they still only awarded 4.5 billion with the NY Port Authority having to cover the other 3 billion to rebuild. The story that he made a huge profit... hmmmm it's not like I would put it past him but the story doesn't make sense once you put it into context: he ended up losing money, the insurance policy was actually taken 2 months in advance and the WTC was highly profitable. Before the attacks it was at 98% occupancy, the mall was one of the most profitable in America and the "windows on the world" was the highest grossing restaurant. "Controlled demos the buildings ''fall from the bottom''" - okay but the WTC 1 and 2 fell from the top. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMZ-nkYr46w 3:04 the bottom of the building is not moving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLShZOvxVe4 from another angle 1:02 no movement in the bottom 2:03 again you see the top section coming down while there's no movement in the bottom. "so it does not impact the surrounding areas" - but it did... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSQYOq71io8 6:45 if it was a controlled demolition then it was the worst ever considering how many buildings it damaged. The Marriott Hotel was destroyed, the Verizon building suffered heavy damage (but the masonry facade protected the internal structure), etc. The Deutsche bank suffered so much damage it had to be taken apart despite not collapsing. When there's a controlled demolition they set off small charges that weaken the building so that it can come apart. Then they blow the load bearing struts to take away the support, the building crashes into the ground, since the building is weakened it crumbles floor by floor and you see the building "vanishing" into the ground with a cloud of dust forming at the bottom. The WTC 1 and 2 did not have that first sequence of weakning charges and when it started coming down you see that the bottom stands, but the top of the building is coming down. The smoke cloud formed on the top floors crashing into the bottom section and accompanied the crash, didn't form at the floor level. Again, in WTC 7 the firemen heard creaking sounds at 2:00, started evacuating at 3:00 and let the fires burn until it collapsed at 5:20. If the firemen predicted that fires would bring the building down why were explosives used 3 hours and 20 minutes later?
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The Badman for some reason as soon as I wrote Deutsche several paragraphs of my writing changed colour to red. I don't know what that is - but it happens when I'm typing controversial comments. I have googled it before and I have no idea because it seems nobody else is asking about this issue. So if my comment got shadow banned and you can't see it that might be it.
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So Russia goes for power but their engines are weaker than Western ones. They go for maneuverability when maneuverability has been countered by tactics in the Pacific and Vietnam. They go for close in fighting in the age of BVR, and they brag about the R-37M missile... Seems like it's just cope. They don't have a different philosophy. They're just poor.
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This is absolutely nonsensical. First, the concept of Afghanistan and Iraq is this really weird "fight for democracy" concept where nations which otherwise wouldn't care about Afghanistan or Iraq are supposed to build a nation inspired by Western democratic liberalism. Ukraine and Russia have a shared past and border each other. They cannot be compared. Using the "heavy stuff" also means having to drive more weapons and munitions to the front. We know Russia has issues with bringing stuff from where the rail system ends to the front. They have a hard cap on how much heavy weapons they can deploy. Taking out infrastructure is all well and good when you can just pay Haliburton to rebuild, but Russia would suffer trying to finance the rebuilding of Ukraine.
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Take your meds.
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And yet it got splashed by the Iraqi National Guard to the point it had to be pulled back.
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With 7 Ws and 2 Ls in the ring and some experience as an assistant coach... Guns are better for defense. (but learn how to whoop ass if you can)
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Nonsense. The war was won in the early days before Ukraine received American weapons. Russia is Muhammed Ali if he was a terrible fighter. Russia's professional army was destroyed in Ukraine, now they need to send in the amateurs.
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If you keep your hands down you get punched in the face. If you keep your hands up you get punched in the liver. You can cry all you want "WAAA WAA FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN!" but those who fight smart live to fight another day. Those who fight brave... we'll give them medals and a flag.
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Projection. Russians see Putin as their God Emperor, so they pin everything Ukrainian as subjects of Zelensky.
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@donaldmiller8629 if you have a stable job and quit you just "lost" the remainder of your wages for the year. No, you never had the money in the bank. But you threw the opportunity away.
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>shoot a rifle with a scope? No. Shooting is only part of the sniper school. They are not brain dead trigger fingers, they're experienced in maths, survival, all kinds of things. >as the scope is to provide accuracy No. Accuracy comes from the shooter. Precision comes from the rifle. A scope is just the middle man. >it has been modified Jebus, you just attach it to a rail/mount. >what do you call a scoped rifle A rifle. Machine guns, assault rifles, SMGs all can be fitted with scopes.
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Underground warehouses are expensive to build.
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@WorldAlien-79 Iran needs to protect itself from American air assault. Russia can trade land for time. Totally different requirements.
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Cheeki breeki iv damke
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There's no such thing as depleted uranium bombs. The DU is used in penetrators and the dust is toxic. But the tungsten carbide in the ammunition used by other countries is also toxic.
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Well, they're not acting that independently when they're coordinating attacks.
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I love how you people always bring up Pizzagate when it's so fucking obvious those people are pedos and they laid out all the hints for the internet to see. Whoa, the highly questionable story of a dude who grabbed a gun and wanted to see the basement? I change my mind.
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@adamg810 He's not being conspiratorial, though.
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@Sw4mpette Dude has a back problem, most likely crippling to the point of needing pain meds daily. If he got away with it, what would he even do? His life is severely limited. Why not let himself get caught and just do the time?
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The hell does that mean? So it didn't happen, but if it happened it couldn't be this because of the molecular structure...? What homework?
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But the concentrations weren't that large and the bit and hold tactics worked. Russians suffered more confirmed losses in the Surovikin line than Ukrainians.
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The war in Armenia has nothing to do with NGOs. Armenia seized land that belonged to Azerbaijan in the 90s, then lost it in 2020 in the Nagorno-Karabagh war. Now they refuse to abide by the ceasefire terms. The Azeris are not very good people and committed atrocities. But the Armenians have been committing them too.
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@nvelsen1975 HIMARS was used as a tactical weapon against Wagner in Syria, 2018. If you look up the video here on youtube you can see the thermal footage of a telephone pole sized rocket landing right on their position and obliterating them.
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China and Canada signed a military cooperation deal in 2013.
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@Weathernerd27 hospitals are being overburdened by healthy teens and young adults?
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@Weathernerd27 the European countries are also claiming overburdoned hospitals to mandate the shot. Please tell me how they're doing better.
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@gbcrump Ethics is irrelevant here. Even if the service was provided at cost value to eliminate the profit out of the equation, there's a balance sheet that comes out with the loss somewhere else. It's not more "ethical" when the loss simply goes where we won't see it. Our wallet just appreciates it more.
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@thepowerofmyth Fun fact, even if you erased capitalism out of existence, you'd still need profit. If you banned nutrition as a field of study, people would not stop starving or getting heart attacks. Capitalism is just the theory. Having enough resources to run a system is practice.
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Did you see the footage of Russian assaults in Vuhledar? The first wave rolls over AT mines, the second wave gets shelled. Survivors are hunted by quadcopter drones.
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The same people who claim Ukraine in NATO would be a springboard for a US invasion want to convince us that we should have just let Europe, Africa and South America get gobbled up by Moscow-supported groups. Hmmmmm.
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How do we know who is fleeing or who is a security risk?
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They are a US ally considering that the Budapest memorandum had several Western nations pledge support for Ukraine in case of invasion. It's a US problem in the sense that the country both promised support in exchange for giving up nukes, and the US is sort of the "caretaker" of many former Soviet messes the Russian federation couldn't afford to clean up. Remember all the labs talk by Russia? Moscow set up those lab programs. The US had to pay to keep biologists and nuclear physicists employee to prevent them going to Iran or North Korea.
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@listener523 Doesn't matter. If you pledge help, then you help, it's a thing. The legislature seems to not be against support. So as always, cope and seethe.
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Sure, but doesn't the UK had something about crimes committed on people under 16 not counting for stats?
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It doesn't have insufficient range. 4th gen fighters need to carry 2-3 external tanks to match F-35 combat range. It also doesn't have insufficient payload. If you already went through 4 AMRAAMs in a fight with 5th and 6th gens, you already committed to many mistakes.
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It was a Khinzal, and a wall will stop you even though it's stationary. Don't believe me? Run full sprint at a wall, head first. Report back after you try it.
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@pasquinomarforio Because that's a warhead. Warhead has to fit INSIDE the missile. You understand that, right? You can't fit something bigger inside something smaller. The wreckage is consistent with the Stavropol 2022 crash.
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@pasquinomarforio Nobody mentioned any sabots. Learn to read. No spin. Google "kinzhal crash Stavropol". Do it. Bet you won't, because you're afraid.
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Trump told Germany to become independent from Russian gas. They laughed in his face.
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Oh, not perfect. Nobody asked for perfection. You people read from a script. Nobody said it had to be perfect. But we were told we had to get it to prevent the spread. It doesn't. So how come we're losing freedoms over it? It's not similar at all. The flu shot is reformulated every year to match the predicted strains that are going to be the most serious.
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Because they care about money, not people.
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@waynejohnson1786 But it's not. Debt isn't going to trigger a revolution. This is not. how. money. works.
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Tim Kennedy parroted that myth...
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Funny because major scientific breakthroughs came from going against the current. Heat was thought to be an invisible fluid. Light in space was thought to move in the ether.
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Periods of freedom correlate to economic development and innovation. This is known.
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@martincahill5622 Did you know that Shi Zhengli, the "batwoman" who studied the viruses, co-authored papers with Ralph Baric from the University of North Carolina? Did you know who signed for the transfer of materials from Moderna to the University of North Carolina? Ralph Baric. Do you know what those materials being transferred were? Take a guess. Now, when were they transferred? 12th of December, 2019. Did that get your noggin joggin?
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But that's fine. I like the idea of solar for energy independence. I don't like the idea of huge solar farms anywhere that isn't a desert.
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The problem with Turkey and Greece is that they have all those tanks to deter each other.
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@MetalMachine131 the problem is that those 5-6 bucks probably add 30 to the sticker price. Aesthetics is marketing and you're paying for it.
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Not really. The end game of capitalism is to continuing to create and nobody can own it all. Government restricts you at every turn and only multinationals are allowed freedom to create.
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Lmao the "combat veteran" account being used to talk about South Africa
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What did he do "wrong"? What was the great moral violation comitted here?
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@JusSick24 "purposely used the N word 10 times" - I'm still going to need you to explain how the fuck is that a moral wrong. Who is the victim? "then texted something along the lines of "kill all the Jews"... while being Jewish..." - how the fuck is that a crime? Since when is self-deprecating humor morally wrong? You have not explained the alleged lack of morality or named a victim. "you like it so its ok to support racism and genocide..." - fucking love it when you slimy fuckers do this. You know you're fucking wrong so you have to turn this shit personal because you can't answer the question. Stuck in a corner? Accuse others of racism and genocide. Like fucking cowards. Never admit they're wrong.
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Electronics are shielded and the skin of the aircraft acts as a Faraday cage.
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By the way there seems to be a Brazilian contract leak too. Says nearly the same thing.
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It's sold as faux champagne for children in some countries. With glass bottle and cork and everything.
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He stood to watch the grenade fall, which you're not meant to do when you finally get to toss a live one with fragments. He learned a lesson that day.
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After the first or second year? My brother in Christ they're bringing out 60s tanks and 50s naval guns. How much longer do you think they can sustain this? How do you hope for diplomacy with people who execute you with automatic fire when you put your weapon down?
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@cte4dota Russia has bombarded civilian infrastructure relentlessly.
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That's not true. After the oil storage attacks in Sevastopol, Russia attacked a known chemical plant where Ukraine's old nuclear rockets were stored. Big bang, nothing actually important was hit. There were news articles from 2020 talking about that storage location so Russia knew that whenever they needed a big explosion to show to their subjects on nightly news they could just hit that place.
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@emanuelceccarini9632 you do realize that certain YT channels had videos blocked in Germany, right? That's the joke.
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@ABESAALE What intelligence? There's no benefit for Russia in getting their young men killed. Territory in Ukraine comes at a cost - lives. More territory but no young men, the country dies.
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@francesconicoletti2547 more like, Ford trucks are designed to safety standards that end up becoming Red Herrings when pitted against smaller cars, Tesla didn't give a fuck about safety standards in the first place.
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@nirfz Smart cars deform less because their vulnerability required the use of a frame that wouldn't allow the car to deform so much it would crush people inside. Most cars don't have a similar design feature.
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Literal schizo theory. Who the hell is out rioting while cruise missiles fall from the sky?
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@joshuamitchell1733 NATO spends Dollar/Euro, Russia spends blood. Do you realize that you're glorifying Russia as a nation killing its own people for the sake of robbing us of money? Maybe they should make videogames and movies, then we'd give them the money. Save lives, keep the money. They'd rather fight us by losing their lives so our taxes are a few cents higher? Uhhhh.
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"police said" whoa when was that evidence filed?
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He had a top secret clearance and was the IT guy. The guys who admin over the computers are difficult to isolate because they're given a lot of access that meybe they shouldn't have to make their job easier.
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Fukushima releases were mostly gas or water that was dispersed by ocean currents, around Chernobyl you're not supposed to dig into the dirt because the radioactive material is buried. Russian soldiers were rushed to Belarus in early 2022 due to radiation poisoning because they dug trenches. You can't build housing or let kids play freely.
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That's like saying MMA can't be all wresling so Ben Askren didn't deserve any W. If you can outstrike a mixed martial artist, you're winning. It's a fight, not a kata demonstration.
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Zimmerman was just on the lookout. By that logic nobody can go anywhere. There's dangerous people everywhere and they rule the streets. Only criminals and uber eats can move around now.
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@mrmagoo-i2l Seems like my comment didn't go through. My reply is that it simply makes no sense. Noisy is good. There's no such thing as too noisy. Unknown variable? These people are all predictable, they're trained by their ideology.
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@MacTastic360 Yes, and they didn't need false flags to cover it up, they just did it and had enough allegiance from their own power structure to do it in the open and get support for their actions.
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It's out until 2023 according to Russian media.
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We've hit peak child in the 2000s. Population growth is driven by people getting older, not reproduction. Even in Africa birth rates are going down.
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@kallindar123 Russians prefer the grind thing. They ground themselves down. Wagner is going back to Africa, now Russia's casualties will no longer be prisoners. They'll be Russian men and boys with families that will miss them. Not convicts.
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The problem is that Realists like Mearsheimer are academics who poisoned the field. If you study IR, you will come across people who think Russia didn't do anything wrong, but because IR isn't a hard science you can't prove them wrong and get them thrown out of the curriculum. Russia has spent decades antagonizing its neighbors, making nuclear threats, etc but they cry victim and claim everything is a CIA conspiracy. Definitely not what authoritarian leaders do, right?
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They're being abused.
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 @joeshmoe4207 pretty much
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So the Army conspires to make the USAF obsolete and even sacrifices lives by avoiding calling in CAS during the 20th century because they're obsessed with being independent, but it's the USAF's fault?
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@TheMrPeteChannel Hell the Army should have their own ships too. That simple.
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Armies are also smaller today, since mechanization and electronics replaced manpower. Just imagine the number of scouts and recon elements you'd need to get the coverage a humble drone can get in a day. The clearer battlefield picture also made dangerous to amass too much force. As soon as a staging area is discovered by drone, aircraft or satellite, rocket artillery with cluster warheads would shred the attacking force before it even began the assault.
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It's from a Pakistani nationalist, but the levels of delusion are the same.
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He literally tested it on himself. He got an affiliate link and "stole" the comission from himself to be sure.
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@Milkmans_Son Maybe only 10% of people who watched the ad installed. I saw Honey ads dozens of times and never installed.
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Their army was 250k. It only increased to 650k with mobilization. The NATO training was only offered to 30-50k men at most.
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Thermite doesn't work like that. /watch?v=yp90C0KWaY0 /watch?v=yto4Sx-yhFY Thermite can't even destroy a filing cabinet full of paper.
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I'm glad everyone becomes weary of Keynesian economics on the topic of the F-35. I hope you guys don't forget that lesson on literally every other topic.
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@maralonent6257 If someone puts what you love or need, be it a job or a hobby, behind a gate and only allows you to enter if you do something, that's wrong. I don't care if you got it or not. I care that you're here telling me I can't ask of others to hold the line.
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In the 17th the TB2 was used to film the tugboat getting hit.
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Lee Harvey Oswald was a Soviet Union fanboy. Of course Stone deflects by accusing him of being a spy. He can't let it trace back to his beloved Mother Russia.
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>but those machines are ridiculously expensive Let's speak in relative terms. AKs and other stamped guns are mostly cheap and mass produced easily, but the stamping machinery is quite expensive. Most small arms makers use CNC machining as pretty much anyone willing to do the investment can afford one. Expensive for personal use? Totally. But if it's an enterprise and you're in it (tooling, operators, etc) it's probably the way many started.
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@MsDestroyer900 I think the content cop theory has been debunked.
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How come the Soviet Union traded land for time? I guess Germany won.
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How many rubles is it costing per Russian death?
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They're Russian speakers because of Soviet policy of locking job opportunities and education behind the Russian language. Which is why Russian as a first language is concentrated in the industrial zones and big cities while the countryside of South and East Ukraine are an even split between Russian and Ukrainian as first language.
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@djinnxx7050 Basically gold sits in vaults and countries use it as reserves, trading it by switching the numbers around in a glorified excel sheet. For people like us gold means little. It can be used to bribe someone if fleeing a country with a worthless currency. In Venezuela there are stories of traders/businessmen who use scales and gold dust because their currency is so unstable.
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No because tritium is in water molecules and thus acts like water. So it passes through the membrane.
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The easiest way to protect Taiwan is to arm Ukraine, let them finish the fight, then turn slowly to China and say "we don't even need to put our boots on the ground to get the job done".
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 @mohammeddavidzhang-singh5846 Mick West and the Metabunk people helped solve a UAP in Chile, filmed by their Navy.
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@ReichLife Yes, because Bayraktars cannot operate in close range. Glide bombs can only reach so far. Lack of footage doesn't suggest being wiped out. We know Bayraktars were received during periods where no footage was coming out. So there was a flyable fleet of them, just no footage. You're using absence of evidence as evidence of absence.
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However I really liked how inside the pool the high table enforcer fired his weapon under water and John swims away to let the bullet slow down. So many movies show bullets zipping into water and going through people swimming like it's nothing.
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Technically lying on the form is a crime itself. The issue is that most denials are false positives.
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@nedyahyakcam Desert Storm was a complete victory. In fact the US won against Iraq twice in Op Desert Storm, Op Iraqi Freedom and a third time allied with Iraq against ISIS during Op Inherent Resolve.
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@nedyahyakcam That essentially didn't happen. Most casualties inflected in Iraqis were caused by other Iraqis. The Body Count Project attributes most fatalities to the sectarian violence and insurgency, not US combat action.
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Russia messed with Ukraine, it happened. To Russians. 300k amateurs to replace 150k professionals? The Russian military was wiped out.
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@juskis01 Then why are they sending 50 year olds with rusty AKs to the front?
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They'll probably remain nameless for decades as they were drone pilots.
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Minsk was broken by DPR forces. Russia sees agreements as weakness, they never respect them.
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Based.
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@tiagomelo1887 The Californian economy taking a hit will affect all states that provide goods and services to Cali.
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Germany and Japan have higher GDP per capita.
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@iwantsalmon6846 Albania isn't racing to dethrone the US as the top economy of the world...
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@iwantsalmon6846 The video itself explains that while the phenomenon is not exclusive to China, other countries are high income. China isn't. It's the middle income trap. China had to clear the hurdle before time was up. If you don't, you hit the bar. You can either stay a developing power and use your low income to keep growing your economy. Or you become a high income country. China is not low income enough, nor high income enough. It doesn't matter that the phenomenon is global. We still have the economy to delay the major effects.
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To be fair... could be the other way around. People know they're about to be cancelled so they start swinging. Anyone remember the last moments before Dr Disrespect got banned off Twitch? He looked at his phone, stopped for a moment, then immediately started going off about how he's getting into David Icke.
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@JamesOMalley-hb4tf But 4,600 F-16s were built compared to 1,600 MiG-29s. It's not cheap. It's not even successful. The F-16 outsold it by over 3x.
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Bro, it's almost a certainty. The backing up is really long and difficult to explain, but ratg13 is fake because it doesn't make statistical sense (someone wrote down sequences manually to make it look natural), there's markers like the HIV-1 sequences, the fact that prior leaks happened and the lab was warned that they needed to tidy up their act, etc. The Peter Daszak open letter to the Lancelet where people with conflicts of interest co-signed the natural origin theory and discredited the lab leak even though he was the one who redirected funds to perform GoF research... It's not just smoking gun. We have the pistol, the recovered bullet, the shell casing, finger prints, gunshot residue on the hands, etc. We just don't have video of the shooter but this is more than enough for the courts.
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@oolong2 How super close? Binding to ACE2 isn't new, in fact papers have been published about viruses that did that. They serve as a good starting point, though. How many of these natural viruses are shown to be highly infectious in ferrets and minks too? Either way, that still doesn't reconcile how the pandemic seemingly started when most bats species are hibernating. Or how out of the vast swath of land where bats live, the epicenter was in the same city as a BSL-4 lab. Lab staffed by none other than Shi Zhengli, who was in contact with Ralph Baric, a researcher who in 2015 published his creation of a chimeric virus. Same Ralph Baric who in the University of North Carolina signed for the reception of vaccine candidates from Moderna in the 12th of December 2019. Same Ralph Baric who was told by Peter Daszak to not sign the open letter to avoid suspicion, but went public anyway and was interviewed by the media early on, when he said that we should be more worried about the flu. Damage control. It's not conjecture. It's inference. You want me to believe that one in a million genetic sequences show up on this virus, and it pops up in the same city that has a lab studying bat coronavirus rather than in hundreds of other cities. You better buy lottery tickets son, because you're more likely to win than this being true. You mean to tell me that a lab that was not allowed to be investigated for almost a year has no links? Even criminals can wash their clothes. You're trying to convince me a criminal can get off scot free simply because he remembered to send his stuff to the dry cleaner.
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@Junglebtc Please read comments before replying because that response doesn't make sense. Thank you.
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@Junglebtc No. You didn't read my comment properly. "How do we propose we do it" - I didn't propose anything. Why are you asking me this question? You seem to think I'm advocating something I never said. "You can keep praying to God" - I'm not religious. Again, you're reading something that simply isn't there. If you read my comment again it will be clear you want me to clarify a position I simply don't have.
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I heard about the PzH 2000 but not the Excalibur. That's great news.
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The A-10s are being flown until retirement so nobody wants to make replacement parts, there's still a Boeing contract ongoing for wings and it's really expensive. Also vulnerable to air defenses.
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@concernedaussie1330 How are they a better force? They had to use expendables to advance. If your force has to wear itself out BY DESIGN you're not a better force, you're just taking more casualties as a doctrine.
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The point of a wrestle takedown is to rob the explosive power of striking. You need the legs to drive your weight around to hit the opponent with power, otherwise all you have are the much weaker "arm punches". If the opponent gets up and keeps striking you, he's the better fighter. It doesn't matter how much effort it took to take him down. Much like a spinning kick that doesn't drop the opponent doesn't make up for getting outstruck with jabs. Sure, the spin kick takes much more effort. But you get rewarded for getting results, not attempting to get them. People have accidentally killed attackers in self-defense by punching or kicking and the guy's head hitting concrete or those anti-parking bollards. Striking can end people with one-shots too so it's not exclusive to wrestling.
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False. There are shotguns that fire the whole taser assembly. You can use it as many times as you want if you keep loading the tube with more shells.
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Aenema by Tool is actually a pretty good song. Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A. / The only way to fix it is to flush it all away Any fucking time. Any fucking day / Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona Bay
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@kas1987kas what, you think liberal media would ever teach your about it?
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@Ghesh_Vargiet Not really. Their cops go after people over mean tweets while they cover up real crimes so...
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 @NovajaPravda Meanwhile if they let China take over, they'll lose their dignity anyway and a lot more.
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@maryginger4877 Even Igor Girkin, one of the architects of the Crimea seizure and the war in Donbas, says the DPR and LPR have worse living conditions than Russia.
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Youtubers make videos about current subjects to ride the algorithm? No, must be the CIA.
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I suppose it depends what "general point of aim" means at close distances but everyone with a resume pretty much says that they want precise hits, for example if you get someone in the teeth or in the high forehead there's a chance for bullets to change direction and miss vitals, while hitting the eye or right below the nasal bridge will actually "guide" bullets into the brain. However, old school SAS did use the bright spot in the center of a flashlight beam to aim their MP5s at close range. So the truth is probably down the middle.
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The only legendary thing about History Legends was his drunk crying video after Kharkiv. HL is a pro-Russia copelord in disguise.
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@deus_ex_machina_ "much better than coal power" - is there anything worse than coal power? But yeah water electrolysis can be used to take in excess power generation.
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@Dean.Hilleary "where so much is spent on more or less "unburning" Hydrogen so we can... burn it again" - But at least it's a cycle, so you're not adding carbon to the atmosphere if the electrolysis and compression of the fuel comes from solar/nuclear.
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Putin is using Russian lives to further his objective.
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Not all freedoms. You are subject to military authority but soldiers are not cattle, and can disobey unjust orders. Then it's an issue for the courts.
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Cope.
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The F-4 was great.
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@mountsj That was correct, though. The CEO also said that Christian symbols were signs of huwite supremacy.
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The video uploader was CNN. They had the rights to post the whole thing, by the way. Says a lot about someone who keeps mouthing off and insulting other people. Ad Hominems are not real arguments, they're only the confirmation that you lack the ability to maintain a logical debate. And the stereotype about gun owners? You're the same kind of POS that makes racist/xenophobe remarks. In your brain irrational hatred sounds good, but that's not how it works in real life.
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Changing the brand would cost them money. They might be progressive but they love their money.
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Virgil Grin "every country engages in shady shit" yeah I remember when the US sent billions to the UK so they could blow up the Irish.
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@pashapasovski5860 "Stealth is a myth" Russia and China develop stealth
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@pashapasovski5860 F-15EX is corporate welfare for Boeing.
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@CoffeeMatt10 Stealth also includes heat. The F-117 has flat exhaust to reduce engine heat signature. Same as the F-22. The F-35 heat reduction is even more advanced. Noise cannot be used to guide a weapon in air combat. The naked eye can't shoot. The F-35 has LPI radar. It mixes frequencies so make it look like all the radio communications in the sky. The air is full of radio waves. By mixing radar emissions it's very difficult to detect the F-35 radar. It's a needle in a haystack. Also, you can have other aircraft and AWACS feed the F-35 with radar information so that it doesn't have to turn it on. Stealth has not been negated. It's used not just in reconnaissance but also strike. It's not a novelty - China, Russia and Europe are all developing stealth. There's no dogfights anymore, just exercises and shows of force (like Greece vs Turkey). If pilots are in for a real fight, they fire missiles. In a dogfight you die for no reason. Supermaneuverability is nonsense. Supermaneuverability is control of the aircraft post-stall. If you stall your aircraft in the air during combat, you're dead. You can't run away from a missile when you lost almost all velocity. "Let's see you try to shoot me?" Okay. Shoot a missile, the plane stopped in the middle of the air explodes. Good job.
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It's a two decade old drone, it's not going to help much.
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 @triggerwarning5762 but are people in Germany and Poland coming to Kiev just for the clubs?
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@@JulianKazmier-vo3fn "muh nukes"
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@@JulianKazmier-vo3fn Yes, Ukraine is the home of the Rus people. But Russia isn't the Rus.
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@TheBobVova They took the name of the Rus. Marketing is always a trick.
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@TheBobVova There's 195 replies on this thread, put some context into that question.
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@alexnguyen1284 Mind that cartels bought and built resorts as a way to launder money so usually they don't want bad stuff to happen where the gringos go. If Ukraine had a financial interest in bringing Russians to Crimea despite the war, they'd keep the attacks away from tourist destinations.
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@TheBobVova "Russia = Rus" that doesn't make any sense. I can call myself Italian but that doesn't make me Italian. Russia named itself after the Rus. But it's just a name. Like calling oneself the Holy Roman Empire.
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@TheBobVova The Rus settled in Kiev. Centuries later the Muscovites, former Mongol vassals, called themselves Russians to pretend to be inheritors of the Rus.
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@TheBobVova Why would Europeans pretend to be the inheritors of the Roman empire?
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Why?
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By that logic hydroelectric dams shouldn't be built because if the three gorges dam fails it will be a disaster.
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 @jack99889988 But it is used everywhere else.
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Russia punching air while their military gets shredded.
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@nikosg1386 No, you don't. Bombing parks and pedestrian bridges isn't a military operation. Cope.
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Defending his hide-n-seek championship belt
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Not really. The swarm is essentially reflecting multiple returns making it harder to accurately track every individual drone and the bullets will fly through the empty spaces in the swarm.
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@kimjuanjun7124 buddy forget about the US, South Korea itself is a threat to them.
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That's the SAC. It's arguably easy if you do the research. The FAC is harder.
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Octagon control is the secondary tie breaker to prevent a 10-10 round. Doesn't matter how much control you have if all you do with it is getting your face caved in. Read the rules: first criteria is scoring; if scoring is tied the secondary criteria is aggression; if both fighters are tied in aggression then ring/cage control is the tertiary criteria. It's so far down the hierarchy of scoring rules it basically only ever matters when two fighters are equally matched.
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 @Jimmy-ye3wg Funny how every Russian attack hits NATO generals and Ukrainians in hiding and every Ukrainian attack is intercepted and the debris cause damage.
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Still coping about a 1.5 year old meme while Russia gets pelted.
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And Egypt is certainly happy Iran is messing with their Suez revenue going down.
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Pentagon1337 tapping energy from hydro means using gravity to pull water to a lower height. The Netherlands contained the water by fighting gravity. They're trying to keep the water "up" or else the country floods.
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Lmao at complaining about the lore needing analysis because the creators won't spoonfeed it. You're supposed to make the connections yourself while watching, and if you don't the lore spreads by word of mouth.
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If Russia had the numbers they wouldn't be pulling T-55s out of storage. Stop falling for the "RUSSIA STRONK" meme.
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museack not a fighter
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The F-35C will be the next single engine Navy fighter though.
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@johnharris6655 Who asked?
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@soloistdeve the army couldn't obliterate a bunch of goat herders in central Asia despite being at it for almost 20 years.
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@soloistdeve lmao cope
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@acealban It is the case. New Zealand is becoming a little weird, Australian and UK cops are jackbooted thugs.
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@frosty848 Finland gave up some land and concessions in terms of foreign policy in exchange to not being a Soviet Republic. Seems like a win.
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Russia has no incentive to keep them either. They're just going to help Europe after a potential regime change. Russia has as much incentive to destroy them as throwing executives out the window.
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Plenty of countries wore them and it didn't make a difference.
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In January media was saying it was a hoax. And it was supposed to be just two weeks when it became real. Boosters wouldn't be needed. No we didn't want to close schools.
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 @JesusSaysMAGAtrashMAGAfilth 3 minute old comment with three upvotes, thanks for proving you're a bot
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Farley Moab don't you know that's offense? muslims are the religion of peace you neo-nazi!
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 @rogerjohnson6676 beast mode is the name for the external ordance kit, bro keep up
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@@nevash6537 Mozart was a scam business, not "special forces".
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Don't believe in fireproof safes, most fire departments have seen countless "fireproof" safes have unrecoverable content or have actually been destroyed by the fire. Simply put the temperatures inside a house fire can reach really high numbers but it's the duration of the fire that kills it. Just get stuff insured.
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@NaibutekiNaisou "lmao cause jobs don't exist on the internet" - what is that supposed to mean? 95% of jobs do not require people to know what DNS or TCP IP means. The fact that there are jobs related to the internet doesn't disprove what he says. "I don't have the time to learn about football because I have jobs and shit to do" - yeah and there are jobs related to football too, doesn't mean that a person who has a job somehow has to understand football just because some people have jobs as coaches.
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Kherson will be abandoned, according to Shoigu.
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Spam bot
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Take your meds.
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 @sjoormen1 They don't seem good enough, they get killed easily by flying RPG-7 drones while more modern tanks are only damaged.
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Yeah we can figure that out. We have to stop fishing because most of the plastic down there is from fishing nets.
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@THESLlCK How long since you've been to a beach? You literally find the blue plastic strands that come from fishing nets in the sand.
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@THESLlCK No, fishing wire is typically one strand of nylon, I'm talking about frayed blue strands that make up the fishing nets.
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@VisibilityFoggy Something like this: https://www.123rf.com/photo_80596324_dangerous-plastic-sea-pollution-tangled-nylon-fishing-net-washed-up-and-caught-on-a-rusty-beach-groy.html These fishing nets eventually come apart and in many beaches you can find the frayed strands. If you live close to the beach I don't know what to tell you, I haven't inspected every single beach I went to so I don't exactly notice if they were present or not, but maybe there's not a lot of fishing in your area. As a kid I dug a lot of sand to build tunnels and castles in the beach so I found the plastic all the time, as a grown up I'm not exactly digging trenches when I go on a beach outing.
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They were parked because they drove ahead and used the two trucks to corner the guy. Maybe they didn't want to kill, they just liked buttstuff that much. Doesn't matter, it was false imprisonment so they shot a guy while comitting a crime. Womp womp.
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Is Lt. Patrick Olson thankful? He got posthumous promotion to Cpt. after trying to land a damaged A-10.
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Are they being interfered with? Surely. Can INS be interfered with? No.
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He throws straight punches like a karateka rather than an orthodox boxer. The switching stance blitz is an unorthodox technique and the vast majority of boxing coaches advise against it.
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That's not English.
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It's not a right, it's a privilege. By that logic citizens of Hong Kong have the right to keep arms, as long as they pay the equivalent of two BMWs every year because of how elitist their gun laws are.
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It's just Ukraine. They want to be called Ukraine. The Netherlands wants to be called "the Netherlands". You don't say The Uganda or The Uruguay.
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@flipsvaldes8325 Hey "champ" you can make a point and still strive for accuracy in your statements. Nothing wrong with that.
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Because they can't fly them off carriers? Plus, they have F-35Bs. Why would they care about old trash when they have modern jets?
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The consensus seems to be that Lee was brilliant at defense but subpar on offense. I'm not American so I have no horse on this race.
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@yourlocaltoad5102 It failed because he was using a variation of rocket candy as gunpowder.
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@feartheghus Telling people to stop talking about it because somehow it damages the right is defending it. I didn't lie about anything nor am I attacking anyone, nor do you know what I agree or disagree with. You people need to stop being touchy about a funny remark made in passage.
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Not what happened. Also the Army legally can't take it the same way the air force can't ask funding for aircraft carriers.
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@ExplorerBob "Endanger" Finland by making it stronger and impossible to attack? Why would Finland as a NATO nation be in danger if Russia can't attack it without triggering WW3, but safer by keeping itself weak?
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@ExplorerBob When the tables were turned around, the US didn't invade. They negotiated. Khrushchev also realized that Castro was a loose cannon and could use the nukes so he removed them. This isn't a threat to Russia. This is securing Europe. Is a secure Europe a threat to Russia? What were they planning? It won't endanger Finland. Now Finland will be untouchable.
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@ExplorerBob It's not the Cold War anymore and Ukraine does not have nukes. Stop the false equivalency.
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@dee-vee It's also easy for fools to believe appeasement will work again after it failed time and time again.
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That's pretty hypocritical, but fair enough. Most people also "only" have guns for self-defense. What do you think most people have guns for? "Only" school shootings? "Only" doing drive-bys?
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2 million men without uniforms or ammo?
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They regularly deconflict. In fact some times there's negative losses because of double counts being removed.
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That's the thing, the bullet causing that much damage to an extremity is more likely with 5.56 than 7.62x39 or 5.45.
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@Zulu4impi If those grunts were in Ukraine, they'd be watching A-10s get swatted out of the sky like the Su-25s are. Instead of talking to grunts in a bar who punch people, talk to people who were in a "real" war. GWOT veterans who volunteered in Ukraine said it was nothing like they were used to.
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>And atheism is right wing in the US? What the actual fuck? I never said that. I just said that being an atheist doesn't make you a left winger in the US. You can be extremely conservative and not have any religion.
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Sending Armatas to roll over AT mines is a waste.
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@waynejohnson1786 That 20% is worthless since Russia destroyed everything in its path and forced the men into conscription to use as human shields. Was it worth losing an army and an economy over? For a scorched earth with no industry, no workers and only pensioners?
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Contrarianism brainrot. They'll claim Ukraine banned Christianity or something.
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@waterdrinkingexpert6797 are you fucking kidding me? Obama kept up the Bush-era drone program and eventually bombed even more countries the US wasn't even at war with. He also had "moderate rebels" in Syria armed which created the whole ISIS clusterfuck.
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Plot twist: churchgoers get exposed to the virus and develop immunity despite tragic loss, ride out the second wave like bosses.
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@TofuNapa Buddy, I'd take care of those issues once this all blows over because there's some deep seated anger there
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@TofuNapa buddy I work for a living and get exposed to hundreds of people per shift
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Do cucumbers have anything to do with annexing Austria and Czechoslovakia?
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And here in Europe snails are sweet water fish. Why? Governmental interference, France wanted subsidized escargot capture. >Don't you see the invisible revolving door between corporations and government? Because of lobbies. >It's not a free market It took some time for you to understand it. I'm against governmental proteccionism and lobbying. The more the government interferes, it's less "free" the market is. That's why insurances and healthcare fuck people over. Lobbies.
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 @babakd9892 unlike nordstream we know only Russia had the access to the structure.
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@justcurious1157 "I just don't recall anyone bringing all the dead killed in war back to life. Does that mean it is "fine"?" - Right. Russia killed those people. We can't bring Ukrainians back to life. But we can wipe out the killers. Most of them already have been.
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9/11 wasn't Iraq.
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They've already been moving. The videos of Russian vehicles constantly driving into landmines is a riot. They should be watched with Benny Hill music over them.
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 @diagatjl6096 Or that the majority of T-62s are unsalvageable and those T-55s are still usable.
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@diagatjl6096 "It's simply easer restoring T62's" - To a point. About 800 T-62s will be restored, that's the rumor. I assume they picked the best they had. Beyond that, T-55s may be easier. Even if it's just 200-300.
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 @Senumunu Pretty much everything about Tulsi is slimy. She's always doing the anti-war shtick when it benefits Russia to stay away, but defends the Afghan war and civilian casualties.
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"Socialism is obviously better" - lol
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 @blanewalker5512 I can see each bottle being 1lb
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F-117s mask the engine heat.
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Okay.
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Trump told Germany to stop buying Russian gas. They laughed.
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They believe in propaganda because they're not unbelievably stupid to the point of believing that appeasing leads somewhere?
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@teosal3224 Took them 9 months. Battle of Bakhmut lasted longer than Verdun by a few weeks.
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@frank1313 How does that make it better. So there's this guy who convinces girls, without forcing them, to do cam work. Now think about all the decent guys trying to find a girl, and they find out they did cam work prior. They're going to be uncomfortable, right? If you really are trying to help young men with the redpill and exiting the Matrix, why would you support a man who asks women to do things the redpills don't want their women to do and plugs them into the Matrix?
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There's no independent journalists in the frontlines, just propagandists getting a ride on Russian military vehicles.
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@NeilBaylard Not up close. A machine gun can lay effective fires up to 1000-1100 yards. AKs are accurate enough.
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Incredulity fallacy, argument from authority, and the burden of proof is on the UFO crowd. Try again.
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Attrition has worked so far.
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Because there's a ton of trained workers, store managers, branch managers, etc and a Russian corporation that already operated many McD's locations. So it's just a matter of taking over the remaining locations and removing logos, everything had been set up for them.
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@reav3rtm It's possible that there was an under the table deal or they paid hackers to reverse engineer it. They passed a law that said it's now legal to hack software that was pulled from Russia if it's needed to keep things running.
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bULLSHIT. Robert's own words: "There has been some concern about “feature creep” with the additional stretch goals. You should all know that we carefully consider the goals we announce." "we don’t commit to adding features that would hold up the game’s ability to go “live” in a fully functional state. Also remember that this is not like a typical retail boxed product — there is no rule that all features and content have to come online at the same time!" Roberts promised that the stretch goals wouldn't expand the scope of the game and could be delivered after release so saying the community voted to expand the scope of the game is not accurate. The over 80 percent of people who voted Yes voted to CONTINUE TO OFFER STRETCH GOALS. Stretch goals are bonuses. You can't claim that the core gameplay is too hard to develop when people voted for polish. How is it people's fault that Roberts is a liar?
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Pistols and hand grenades do be assaulting trenches in WWI doe
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@kishanchali8752 Huh, think a little. They use shoulder fired missiles because Russians fly low. Why do Russians fly low? Because of Ukrainian AD. If Ukraine only had shoulder fire weapons, they'd be unable to target high flying aircraft. Russia canno fly high. Ukraine has S-300s. The Kharkiv offensive also showed mobile Buk launchers following the advance to bring down aircraft that tried to defend Balakliia or Izyum.
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@kishanchali8752 If Ukraine doesn't have functional AD systems, why are Russian aircraft avoiding Ukrainian airspace? Shouder-fired missiles are only effective when the enemy has to fly under AD. When the Soviets gave Vietnam S-75s, the US started suffering more shootdowns from anti-air artillery. By your logic, if Vietnam had functional AD, they wouldn't need AAA. Turns out that AD forces the enemy to react by flying lower. Alternatively - if Ukraine had no AD, why is Russia suffering losses from shoulder launched missiles? They could just fly above MANPADS range.
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@kishanchali8752 How does that have anything to do with what I said? I asked why aren't fixed wing assets flying above MANPADS range like the US did in Desert Storm after the AD network was taken down.
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@kishanchali8752 In Mariupol, which was surrounded by Russian territory with no Ukrainian defenses. Why aren't Tu-95s flying over Kiev and Lviv? Why aren't paratroopers being dropped in Odessa?
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It's not the conservatives, it's Catholic hero Biden!
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Everyone getting brought in for questioning for watching this right-wing extremist content lmao
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How does that validate chiropractic medicine?
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I suppose next time they should put Katy Perry.
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 @ΚωνσταντίνοςΑγγελόπουλος-ξ7μ plenty of ethnic Russians who curse Russia for bringing war to their land.
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Gunpowder doesn't use charcoal so hopefully you didn't answer coal industry.
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Someone warn the families of the dead pilots that it was all a prank.
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@jasonjean2901 The US didn't push for war with China. China built their military for war against the US. They created opfor units with American-looking uniforms. They made weapons specifically to target US naval power.
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It's Russia vs Ukraine. When you fight in a ring, do you fight the boxer or the coach in the corner?
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@Civility9 Okay but you don't cry "waaa we didn't lose against Arsenal, we lost to all the waiters, accountants and Uber drivers in attendance". It's Russia vs Ukraine. Russia is also being trained by Belarus and armed by Iran.
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@Civility9 The initial invasion debacle happened before the aid arrived. Even if they had lost, Russia would have had to sacrifice its army to "win". Pyrrhic victory wouldn't be enough to describe it. And Russia would still have to contend with non-stop insurgency. Honestly, Ukrainians could probably just keep blowing up a few barracks or ammo dumps per month for the next few years, wait for Putin to die, and Russia would abandon Ukraine. Okay, so the USSR was participating in Vietnam? Let's nuke Russia for old time's sake then.
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Can we see those 200 T-90s?
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What the hell is "fair"?
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Identification after the fact. Okay. How is the police even going to see the tags? What if a rioter is hit in the crotch? Do you want the police to knock on your door and ask everyone in your family to let their genitalia get seen under UV light? >Or would you rather a bullet hole? False dilemma or even Strawman argument, that is a logical fallacy.
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The Dollar Flu
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It was "our" fight. The UK, France and the US pledged to help Ukraine in exchange for the Soviet stockpile they had on hand.
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@mikeronni1 EDIT: Sorry, wrong comment. Ukraine had Soviet nukes. They gave them up in 1994.
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Except that it's easier to just optimize games to run on potato hardware and use AI upscaling to increase quality. There's simply no game developed for 8 year old 4000 USD pcs let alone 1 year old 4000 USD pcs. Console hardware is also becoming architecturally similar to PC hardware so finally console optimization will help PCs. Brutally demanding games cost more to produce and require longer dev cycles so the business side itself will never move to a point where cloud computing benefits gamers. And if it did, bandwidth requirements would again increase to keep up with the visual detail required.
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Hugh Manatee they've already have got gun control, the idea has been tested and it doesn't work.
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I have a friend who makes a point of photographing his Kinder eggs next to his guns due to bullshit arguments like these. If you want a Kinder in the US there's stores that carry them. The FDA ruling is a blanket ban and doesn't target Kinder specifically.
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That would be the point. To stop the war. I thought this was all about saving the lives and how Zelensky was evil. Turns out he was right and Russia does not want peace. Will Trump blame Zelensky again? Or finally hand him the keys to victory?
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lul making 400 million guns illegal will make them go away
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The CDC admitted that 96% of that number is "died with" not "died from".
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M16s use 20 inch barrels. Who the fuck runs around with a 29-30 inch barrel? AR-15s used to be like that before flat top rails and quad rail handguards. It's an AR15.
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Several brands sell AR15s, and even each brand has several models. Overall length varies because a lot of people go with 16" or 14.5" barrel with a welded and pinned flash hider to make legal length, etc. So you can't just make the distinction based on length because an AR15 sold with the rifle buffer tube+rifle stock and a 20" to match the M16 configuration will be 39 inches overall too. It's not a M16 because the pins have a different reflection, and it doesn't seem to have a reflection where the third pin hole goes. A real M16 receiver costs almost 30 grand. "Over 30 years ago" the M4 didn't exist yet. So when you went out and bought an AR15 most were in rifle configuration (20" barrel and fixed stock). Nowadays most come in carbine configuration. But they're all AR15s.
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So what?
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If it was something we didn't care was let loose, would it be worth studying?
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@big.atom37 not true. The Oak Ridge reactor ran for years without problems.
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@drunkenhobo8020 "Solar and wind keep coming down in price" - and none of them are able to satisfy our needs. Topaz solar farm clocks in at 550 MW and requires 19 square kilometers. You can have 5000 MW worth of nuclear reactors in a plant with 3.5 square kilometers.
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Cheaper fuel means an expansion of the economy which means more jobs. Paying Eastern Europeans also means they'll be able to afford imported goods so that means even more jobs. If you want Western Europeans to work the oil fields that's fine, but be mindful that to pay those Western Europeans higher wages you'll have to scale the economy back. And thus impoverish Western Europeans.
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 @IFNKOVHGROGHPRM Russians only recently started using armor? Brother they're drving Ladas into battle because of the armor they lost...
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 @paradoxicalmadness4507 One Finn fought for Germany, fled to the US, signed up in the US military and fought in Vietnam. Who cares?
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They're doing defense in depth, though.
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@ericconnor8419 I fat fingered my phone screen, meant to type "they aren't" and it probably autocorrected.
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Gas station prices. To us it would be like 3 Euro or 3.5, I think?
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@Drbeattles Mining is only a part of the reason GPU costs are up, plus proof of stake vs proof of work also changes the dynamic.
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@Drbeattles This assumes higher supply. The basic economics still need things to happen for you to see a change.
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@timjansen7694 But there is evidence. We know the NIAID was in contact with EcoHealth Alliance and the University of North Carolina. We know people in the NIH talked about suppressing dissent. We know people in the WHO have connections to the CCP. We also know that many politicians are part the WEF. What do you mean there is no evidence?
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@timjansen7694 The fact that you need to change subject to the "moon landing hoax" conspiracy when someone mentions verifiable emails that have been presented in Congress hearings only tells me you're panicking.
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That would be a nightmare to reprogram and re-wire.
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War thunder is a P2W grindfest and Tarkov is hilariously one of the most controversial games due to game philosophy changes and cheaters. To the point people are playing a singleplayer mod (which the developer hates).
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@Spearhead45 They aren't. One is a soul-sucking experience and the other is an eternal early access title.
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It's not going to be over. Look at the data. What theories? If you take it and you still spread it, it will never be over. Give it up. It came from animals, it can jump to them and come back later. Just admit defeat.
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@peterreber7671 And what happens when 6-8 months after the last booster the protection wears off? You'll be back in the hospital again. There's no scenario where you get out of this without throwing in the towel.
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@peterreber7671 You obviously have no argument so you have to tap out. Your own side is pushing for boosters. If they know how the immune system works, why are they admitting the effect wears off after 6 to 8 months?
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"world war 2... on Earth"
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Alternative platforms that just parrot Russian propaganda?
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@major685 The land bridge hinges on rail hubs and bridges that can be targeted. This war has shown how that will play out.
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350 tanks on paper, but the operational number was around 200.
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 @krishthakar6661 drones are small and shooting down satellies will create a cloud of debris which could damage communications across the world.
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Rosstat is the only agency that can report it. We can't look at their economy and measure it.
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What about WW2? Russia and Germany split Poland. Then Germany invaded the Soviet Union. No red line, just Operation Barbarossa. Russia then used Soviet Ukraine and Soviet Belarus as meatshields.
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Well they went from massive multi-pronged onslaughts to capture terrain and encircle the capital to being on the defensive.
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What treaty?
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Easliy Displeased who cares about them bombing each other? These wars created the refugee crisis that brought more of them over here. Now because of the wars they hate us.
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@ahsanxr Incredulity isn't an argument. In New Zealand a man shot to death was counted as C19 CoD. In Portugal a stillbirth due to intercranial hemorrhage was tested postive and declared C19 CoD.
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@ahsanxr My grandfather survived almost a decade with several comorbidities. Pneumonia finally took him out. As tragic as it was, my family somewhat saw it as a blessing. If you were going to die from an opportunistic infection after getting the flu or cold with several co-morbidities in 2022, this stuff got to you first in 2020. There's also the aspect of improper treatment protocols killing people and the many who had their treatments and screenings suspended. We also have the issue with local governments sending sick people to care homes. So called deaths of despair, suicide and alcoholism/OD actually surpassed C19 deaths in many cities. Some countries actually saw increases in road fatalities, despite lockdowns. Less people driving around, more deaths on the road. Something to keep in mind. The claim that all deaths when you severely hinder human activity have to come from the disease and none came from the quote unquote cure is seriously delusional. Obviously a ton of people will die from lack of care, from their life hitting rock bottom, etc. without ever being infected.
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No. It was a military attack.
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The US curbstomped Iraq when it threatened Saudi Arabia. That would be an idiotic conclusion. Meanwhile, China hasn't fought in decades and they got beat by Vietnam last time they fought a war.
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@TheBooban that's great, until you have a fleet and manpower you can't use because the weaker enemy purchased defenses from a stronger one
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It isn't.
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Shut up, Botski. The US didn't invade Ukraine.
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You do understand that you're comparing a virtual world where you take sequential screenshots to render on screen to us giving our hard earned cash for performance increase and the performance is achieved by interpolating, right? When you take a movie recorded at 24 fps and run it through one of those TVs that has smoothing enabled to run at 60 fps, you're not going back to the movie set and recording extra frames to gain more visual information. The TV's chip simply runs interpolation to create "in between" frames, essentially creating frames that never existed. Is a movie watched through 60 fps worth more? No, if anything people dislike that because it gives it a soap opera look.
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No. Ukrainians know how to speak Russian. Even with an Ukrainian accent they sound like Southern Russians. They are able to drive around Russia and cause fires or fly drone attacks. There was an Ukrainian saboteur who filmed himself inside a Belarus airbase placing explosives under Russian helicopters.
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@mattgarcia440 Image is stabilized by rotating mirror, which keeps the horizon stable. "Object" is a smear (like astigmatism) which rotates due to stabilization.
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@williamprosser7637 No.
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@YoYoYoYoYoYoPeace They didn't debunk anything. Mick West has proven himself right with his demonstrations and a USAF crew chief confirmed the inner workings of the FLIR pod.
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@YoYoYoYoYoYoPeace Military rank doesn't mean anything regarding physics and optics. Radar evidence was never presented, the claims are about video footage. Stay on topic.
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Why would he repeat the Russian side? You can get that information elsewhere. We don't need it parroted.
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@Princip666 Nobody said anything about propaganda. The point is that the complaints about "one-sided-ness" are completely unfounded. Parroting information you already got elsewhere is not a productive endeavor.
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Russia is failing to deliver because they're producing for the war.
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Raptors have never been exported. Australia didn't spend a red cent on Raptors.
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 @GruntoSkunko jesus did some boot steal your gf?
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 @ramtron1775 it was America that was paranoid about stolen nukes and forced Ukraine to give up theirs
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It's not so much resources but the fact that the Russian state won't be able to justify why Ukrainians got wealthy and Russians stay impoverished, so they have to keep an easily influenced puppet in power or inflict poverty into Ukraine. This whole mess started because Putin thought Yanukovych had double-crossed him and was going to sign the deal with the EU when the negotiations between the government and the opposition started. The FSB attempted to have uprisings in Odessa and Kharkiv as well, but those failed. It just so happened that Luhansk and Donetsk managed to gather enough support. Putin tossed a large net and only a couple of fish got caught, I wouldn't call it coincidence that it was the most Eastern regions that had success but the fact that there's overlap with gas fields is at best an afterthought.
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You're conflating military alliances and economic blocs. You're trying to spin a narrative.
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@dylanwhite3383 I guess starting WW3 by shooting down Russian jets is a measured response.
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@dylanwhite3383 What the hell are you talking about? Nobody mentioned war crimes, I'm just calling you out for defending a massive war. If you want war there's wars being fought right now, you're welcome to join. But don't rope millions of people into it.
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@dylanwhite3383 Why are you begging for that war to exist? I'm not afraid, I'm simply calling you out for extracting happiness out of war machines being used for killing rather than peacekeeping. Closer look? How old are you? Jesus.
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@dylanwhite3383 No, you don't have a heart because you're sad the F-22 isn't being used. Now you're just deflecting and coming up with a ridiculous narrative that nobody brought up about civilians, as if an enemy will simply allow you to get inside visual range. Grow up.
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@dylanwhite3383 I spelled SAD because that's what I meant to say. SAD. Not said. You not only don't have an argument and have to resort to correct people's spelling, you also got the spelling wrong.
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Fun fact, someone ran the serial numbers of the remnants of an exploded HARM and it had a 1991 manufacturing date. Ahahah.
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@hhiippiittyy In what world is that a good argument? Yes, it's not charity. It's trade. It happens between states. If subsidies stop, food prices increase as a response. Essentially if we ignore maybe third order effects, eliminating the subsidies just means food prices increase so states that import food pay more for it, while states that export food get paid more. On paper there's no difference except you pay for the food at full price from the grocery store rather than partially through taxes.
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@dkoz8321 The Ju87 was an aircraft that became outdated during WWII itself. Tank kill claims by aircraft are overinflated. Both the Soviets and Germans made such exaggerated kill claims that they came back from battles with more tanks claimed than the enemy actually had in the battlefield.
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@dkoz8321 I can only find a source labeled Coram 2004, page 235 which is probably a Robert Coram book about Boyd, and the origin of the claim is attributed to Pierre Sprey. Do you have any idea how little confidence that inspires? Sprey was not on the Fairchild A-X team. He was a DoD analyst. He says he required the team to read it. Him saying that doesn't mean it happened, and even if it did the Fairchild engineers could have tossed the books straight into the bin and he'd be none the wiser.
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Ukraine is only 50% jabbed by the way. Russia had mandatory jabs to ride the bus. Putin is WEF.
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@arnoldvezbon6131 According to the evidence. In fact, just the fact that Russia came up with several alternative theories just makes them look guilty. So far Russia has claimed: - MH17 was filled with dead bodies to stage a false flag war crime - The target was Putin's airplane - a secret air traffic controller witness claimed a Ukrainian jet shot down the plane - a Ukrainian Buk shot down the plane - they went back and claimed a Su-25 (a ground attack plane) shot down the airliner and used a photoshopped satellite picture to pretend they had a photo showing the missile trail - a bomb exploded inside the plane - the US shot down the plane - an Israeli missile shot down the plane - an air traffic controller was responsible for the plane crash - the MH17 was a false flag to spoil the World Cup in Russia Deployed and ready? Then it should be easy to point which one was used. Also, stop using the term "gaslight" wrong.
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@mikemurray2027 you're going to explain to me how people fleeing US aggression flee to the US rather than literally anywhere else
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@mikemurray2027 But they'd be better paid and have better care in other countries. What does it matter if the US has the wealth if they are not going to get a cut of it? If you were Iraqi, would you seriously think "yes Americans killed my family and destroyed my home, I will move there and work for under minimum wage and no healthcare because that's where the wealth is". Do you think this makes any sense at all? "you can't deny that there is US aggression against the countries these poor people are fleeing from, nor can you deny they are fleeing." - Weird way to frame the discussion. Of course I can't deny it, I'm also against US imperialism and foreign intervention. That doesn't mean I can't question the logic I'm being fed, especially when it suspiciously lines in with establishment talking points. "If you maintain they are coming to the promised land of the USA" - Why is it a promised land? "why then are they fleeing other capitalist countries that are allies of the USA" - Don't see how this makes the US a people magnet. "whose leaders have been installed by the USA" - Still don't see how this attracts people. "whose economic and social policies have been forced on them by the USA" - Still not seeing how this attracts people. "with bombs, terrorism, death squads, genocide, assassination, etc etc?" - THIS SHOULD SEND PEOPLE RUNNING THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. Again, I am against all of those things. You don't need to pitch this idea to me. All I'm asking is, can you explain why people who by all accounts should hate the US, and will live very poor lives in the US, decide to move to the US? Because none of what you said actually answers the question. If China destroyed my home, why would I move to China? If my government was a China puppet, why would I move to China? If my home country was an ally with China, why would that make me want to move to China?
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@mikemurray2027 Can you stop posting multiple replies? You have time to structure your argument, just add them all up and hit post. Shotgunning doesn't earn you points. - I simply asked a question and you're not answering. The US isn't bombing 90% of the countries in the world. The US isn't bombing the UK. Or France. Or Germany. Italy. Norway. Or even China or Russia. - Can you stop gloating about what's not being contested? Yes, it's not being contested because that's not what being argued. Again, all those things make the US an awful pick. Find peace in the US? Why not pick a country with less gun crime, then? Why not Canada? The US isn't bombing Canada. - You're still not answering the question. I'm not bothering you. I'm just exposing the fact that you can't answer a question. You've been fed establishment talking points and repeating them. When actually asked to explain those talking points, you tap out. You're dismissed.
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That's why they covered themselves in vaseline and pubes and ran into scientology churches - the CIA had nothing better to do. Also CIA agents are fat and balding neckbeards for some reason.
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 @matso3856 As opposed to Swedish arrogance? They even tried to bribe governments into buying the Gripen, and proposed to take part in Libya to get some advertising for the Gripen.
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I am done attributing to ignorance what can ne clearly assumed to be malice.
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@nattygsbord It's actually pretty cheap.
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 @evanabbott2737 thank you, psychic anon
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False. The USAF acquired over 700 of them and the GAO actually slammed the Air Force for purchasing so many without justifying why that excessive amount was acquired. Reformers invented the fairytale that the USAF never wanted the A-10 which is historical revisionism.
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There's the issue of cluster munitions leaving UXO on the ground, Ukraine wants the land back. It's not great if then Ukainian soldiers advance into land that's peppered with dangerous bomblets, or a farmer accidently triggers one.
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Same place where all the rockets land.
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OSINT aggregates that information. For long periods of time Russia is on the offensive which means they take the most losses.
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NATO already bit the caravan. Wagner tried to go against US troops in Syria, got clapped by air support.
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No need to settle, Russia can just physically be removed.
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 @velimirkolundzija4451 the S-500 is an anti-ballistic system, not anti-aircraft. Stop watching youtube text to speech military channels.
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 @velimirkolundzija4451 the S-500 is just an upgraded S-300V system. You can look up, it's the style of conical missile used for ABM, like the S-300V had.
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@nerdjournal It's like you people insist on not reading. The "TREND" of sending threats is being blown out of proportion. That means, very few people are doing it, but it's being portrayed as a trendy thing for teens to do. It's not a "trend", but isolated events connected by short spans of time. We know that school shootings and mass public killings are events that occur in bursts due to social contagion.
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Sure. Meanwhile Aliexpress drones bought by Ukraine attacked the Sevastopol naval base HQ twice.
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Yes. The president was elected in 2019.
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They didn't seem to do shit when Israel flew near them.
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@jrd33 Hard kill APS uses a radar so even unguided munitions like the RPG can get hit.
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I think her "art" is garbage but you didn't change your mind because of this. Stop lying.
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They have record revenues because they have sold more volume.
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@andrewstout5400 If they're not starved for funding why are they having to sell more? Going on a fire sale is usually a sign of desperation.
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@whiteybul Ukraine defeated the mercenaries. Their bodies are stacked in Bakhmut and Priggy is going back to Africa with what remains of the PMC to earn his gold. And it wasn't even the best of Ukraine - they used TDF and National Guard units.
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@fate2452 The Russian armed forces made the decision to "outsource" their losses to prisoners. Ukraine knew that this gave Russia a very powerful combat potential as now they had a large number of expendables who'd go forward no matter the cost. So they selected Bakhmut (an already heavily shelled town) to gain time while training offensive brigades, and protect cities like Kramatorsk from long range shelling. There's not much to be heartbroken over, that town had pretty much no untouched building before Russian forces entered it. On the other hand, Prigozhin's constant begging for shells starved the real Russian army out of real offensive potential. We saw what we saw at Vuhledar.
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Saddam expected a massive air campaign in 2003 and planned his defense around it. Then an undersized US Army went in and toppled him.
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Okay, and now they just exposed the South. The rail hub at Kupiansk allows Ukraine to starve the defenses and maneuver into Luhansk.
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@colonel-klink14 that's not how it works. Russians claim they have a radar blocking grid. But it would block incoming air. Serrated edges do nothing, the speed of the fan blades would cause doppler shift.
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@colonel-klink14 there's photos of the intake, there's a straight shot into the fan blades.
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@_Epsilon_ The F-117 radar blocker worked by following the shape of the aircraft and by having the intakes above the "belly". The entire aircraft looks weird due to how it was designed, so the blocker and intakes are part of the design. The Su-57 looks like someone glued F-22 parts to a Sukhoi fighter. The radar blocker doesn't complement the design, it's an addition to a more conventional intake duct.
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Still kind of unacceptable. And one could argue they were hurt by participating in a controversial ad.
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🚨🚨🚨FEDPOST ALERT🚨🚨🚨 How about you start? Instead of posting comments on YT?
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Common sense lol almost nobody gets the law enforced against them in the US. When was the last person prosecuted? Maria Butina, right?
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@FireDarkness39 If it was about economic stimulus, winning the election wouldn't be the condition to get it.
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Every victory for Russia has been Pyrrhic so far.
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Brother the US was actually in a shooting war in Russia-backed Syria and despite the close calls there were no nukes.
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I think the pilots have been training for a few months but it's going to be a while. There's been rumors of increased training activity and sightings of Ukrainians in air force bases in the US.
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@ilyap1503 We test human vaccines in mice.
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@ilyap1503 Evolutionary pressure works similarly on all animals.
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Cope at its best.
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Russia loved the nukes, they lost to Japan prior.
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@coachwhitford7315 "bring ukr forces back to Kiev" - This didn't happen. Army bases are spread around the country, and they have Territorial Defense Forces. Nobody was cut off. The capital is never undefended. How was it a trap when Russian special forces, airborne units, etc got slaughtered trying to reach Kiev? A mad rush through roads meant the Ukrainians only had to hide and fire rockets at passing vehicles to create massive casualties. The pictures are online, burned out IFVs and trucks with lifeless bodies collapsed around them. This was a trap? For the Russians. They stepped on it and paid dearly by losing elite fighting units.
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RWR Christmas party, aka baiting for Storm Shadows. HIMARS already bagged a S-400 radar, how much more can they get?
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@hrvojebartolovic2545 Playing coy isn't going to get you nowhere. SAMs take time to pack up and relocate, and Soviet RWRs are absolute ass. With modern sensors getting a radar location is easier, which means an aircraft doesn't even need to get into HARM range. Just feed the location to a Storm Shadow and let it rain. The radar is quite literally the beating heart of a SAM system. R-37s shot from a hundred miles away and dealing with clutter and chaff near the ground will have a near zero Pk. Yes, Syrians intercepted everything. Then we posted the satellite pictures of their targets demolished. They can claim whatever they want, Igor Konashenkov style. We bring the receipts.
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In the 90s the Patriot could defeat Pershing II warheads, which were hypersonic.
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@carter2008 Look at the Khinzal crash Sept 2022. You'll see the same concrete piercing warhead.
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"The less cash we have to use the less we are exposed to the preying instincts" - and yet cybercrime and fraud increase... really makes one think "inflation, interest rate" - you do realize that inflation and interest hits you just the same even if you don't have cash, right?
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Come up with an argument rather than saying it's wrong just for the sake of saying it. Weak? How? Misleading? How?
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Cope. The best defense is attack.
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@clutchboi4038 Drug decriminalization worked because instead of being charged with a crime for simple posession, you get redirected to rehab. Americans presumed you could copy the Portuguese solution without making the tough call of getting people to quit. The War on Drugs did not work.
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 @JayJay5244 They're embassy security staff. No point in sending anyone into combat.
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It was a SOCOM program to replace the M60. It "makes sense" to scrap M240s and just use Mk 48s but things are not that simple. It's like a company, all the servers run Linux and people at the office use Windows. You ask why not change to Linux in the office, it's because they need to use software not available on Linux. The fact of the matter is that you'd need to have a program to replace M240s and you can't just say the Mk 48 autonatically wins because it "makes sense". It might actually not. There's M240 based weapons like the coaxial on the M1 Abrams and it's the vehicle mounted MG on a ton of them. The receivers have double the life of the Mk 48.
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@shapshooter7769 Even if you could get a contract just to replace infantry MGs, it would have to be open to any manufacturer who wished to compete. Someone else could win the bid with a new machine gun and the Mk. 48 lose.
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@longdongjon1201 Only people inside the NPP can create a disaster. It's heavily shielded from the outside.
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Laaavrooooooov Yeeeenkins.
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Because after the big ticket items like air defense, tanks and IFVs, men still need cars and sleeping bags and whatnot. You think Biden flew in a bunch of old F-150s to act as utility vehicles?
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Weight is not negligible, there's a reason the XM250 is a big deal. Dropping MG weight is one of the most efficient ways of gaining carrying capacity for ammo or other equipment at a collective level.
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He died in July 2020. How was he foolish? They were announced in November, I remember because it was right after the election.
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No, that's for ballistic missile defense.
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@kleanthisxanthopoulos4697 Ukraine is more militarized than ever.
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Not true. They based the CoD mission on stuff that happened in Syria. They just named it Highway of Death because they use controvesy to drum up sales (No Russian, the Paris attacks in MW3, etc).
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@Pronto MUH RUSSIA
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@Pronto Okay now you're defending NATO intervention in the Balkans, which today most consider to have been a mistake, done under false pretenses, caused more harm than good and just another example of American imperialism, World Police and perpetual war.
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It's amazing how countries dependent on oil are more developed than the countries dependent on selling oil.
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@Legomanfred The point is that it was McDonald's. People respect you for starting from the bottom. If your first job was a three letter agency everyone would assume you were a trust fund kid or nepo baby. Saying you worked at McDonald's makes the working class respect you.
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Not On Normal Communal Exercise. Prison term.
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Internet lingo.
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The B-21 kind of looks like the B-2. But the helicopter probably has nuances that can be picked up by observers.
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How are they breaking the encryption, though?
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He had his life turned upside down, how is he shitting on Russia by wishing how it should be better?
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Doesn't it make you ashamed to keep saying this for a year?
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Because NATO expansion is inherently a a Russian narrative. It's not NATO that expands, it's countries that realize that neutrality is death so they ask for protection.
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They'd suffer more casualties but ultimately still win.
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Attack helicopters can use mast sensors (like the Longbow radar inn Apaches) to lob missiles from behind cover. The A-10 has to do attack runs over the horizon. No airplane can truly take a hit. Not in the age where missiles habe warheads designed to split aircraft in two. Loitering can only be done above helpless foes like the Taliban. You try to loiter near someone wth missiles, you're gonna hit the ground within minutes.
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@hayleyxyz only /pol/ is pro Russia, /k/ is pro Ukraine.
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@genericnamehere7602 those dastardly antisemites that travelled to Israel to form Kibbutz communes...
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ALSO-RAN ! Most of the aircraft is not armored or else it wouldn't even take off, and it's not any more armed than any other aircraft that can also carry the same bombs and missiles. In 1991 Chuck Horner pulled the A-10s out because the losses were unacceptable. It can't handle that kind of combat.
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Tanks will secure peace. Weakness attracts war. Strength destroys warmongers. Find those prosecuting the war, roll the steel tracks over them. Peace will be ensured.
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@nunclejrod then why do we need certificates if it only helps the person who takes it?
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They can't nuke the country they want to annex. Think about it for a second.
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@hknokke it doesn't really cover it up, in fact it only begs more questions about the US's own activities.
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 @AspieTrips Protecting Bosnians from Serb genocidal maniacs.
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 @aniksamiurrahman6365 Nice cope. The Russian offensive was stalled before Starlink or lethal aid.
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@jetli740 While Ukraine's air defense is depleted, Russians are defeated on the ground.
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How is the fan any more of a liability than the ducting?
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@MagikarpMan veteran of the American civil war?
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@rowaystarco First, you have to understand how the federal system works - whatever isn't a federal issue has to be handled by the states. That's how it works. But even if that wasn't the case and the federal government imposed a 24 week limit, you'd still see people screeching about it. The promise that everyone's going to play cool afterwards is just too optimistic.
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@KateeAngel I said the limits were looser, not that limits didn't exist. Also, ironic how the algorithm suppressed your comment.
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@rowaystarco No, it's not problematic. It's how absolutist state power is prevented. There's other federal systems in existence in modern societies too. It's also easy to cross COUNTRY lines in the EU. You're subjected to different nationwide laws when crossing Europe. No, doctors shouldn't have control over the law. We don't give police control over the law. We don't give the military control over the law. There's a reason for powers to be separated. Like it or not, one side of the political aisle in the US made abortions a goal. Tell those people that. Abstinence was not mentioned in this conversation so I don't know why you're ranting about it.
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The F-5 is still in service.
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After videos of Ivan missing with the company-level RPG-7 and the entire trench being cleared by the rushing tanks and IFVs, yeah that's kinda true.
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Why does every video about Ukraine has people talking about the equipment in Afghanistan? Rhetorical question, I know why.
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Not really. The leaked documents last year pointed to 49k KIA based on government payouts. At the time Ukraine was estimating 50k enemy KIA so their figures were accurate last year.
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Maybe vote on your local elections instead of hoping Trump will fix it.
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Okay. So it's ironic either way, because those who protected themselves died too. If you were going to get a bad roll of the dice, unless you had a neutral opinion you wouldn't escape the irony. And when everything's ironic, nothing is.
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The swarm of drones will take massive losses against any unit with access to airburst cannon rounds. Meanwhile a tank and its crew can survive multiple clashes with the enemy (who has tanks, RPGs and ATGMs).
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@Victor-vj5ds How do you counter battery what's essentially a machine gun? Some of you people are out your damn minds.
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@AkiraNakamoto Agility won't protect one from a shower of frag.
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@Victor-vj5ds The point is that counter-battery radar tracks the trajectory of artillery shells. An autocannon firing rounds will not be detected due to horizon.
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@AkiraNakamoto No. If something explodes, frag is thrown all around. You move up? You get frag. You dive down? Frag. Move to the left or right? Frag. And the autocannon has more power than a small drone.
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@Victor-vj5ds Forget the horizon. There's modern systems with FLIR-style cameras which track objects. A little rat-ta-ta and the drones go down, and there's nobody to counter-battery it.
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@AkiraNakamoto Okay? So your killer bots can detect the anti-air? It's not so much a paradigm shift, but the fact we haven't invested in SHORAD. We'll deal with drones just like we dealt with aircraft in the past. By shooting them full of holes.
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ISIS got powerful because they took advantage of the US support of "moderate" rebels against Assad. Now the US is cleaning up the mess they created. "I don’t understand this argument that “we’ve been there 19 years” or “America’s longest war”. So what?! How is that an argument?!" - so you spent 2 weeks headbutting the wall and you still haven't breaches through the brick wall. Should you pack up and leave or keep headbutting? “If the Taliban fills the void again were we to leave, how long before another September 11th?“ - I know that this is probably the first time you've heard this but most hijackers in 9/11 were Saudis. They were not Taliban nor representing the nation of Afghanistan during the attack. The United States tracked Bin Laden's whereabouts and demanded the Taliban to surrender him, but Bin Laden had asked them for asylum first and the Taliban did not want to break their promise. After 7-8 days of bombing the Taliban eventually reconsidered and said they agreed to surrender Bin Laden to a neutral country but the US refused the deal and pressed with the invasion. Before 9/11 the US maintained open dialogue with the Taliban and now after almost 20 years of war the US has resumed negotiations. There's a pipeline to be built through Taliban controlled terrain and everyone wants a deal to make sure the Taliban will agree to not attack it. Because there's no chance the US will take over nor will the ANA manage to keep those installations under control. Now mind that it is thought that Bin Laden fled to Pakistan after the Battle of Tora Bora so suppressing the Taliban meant nothing. Bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan and was killed in Pakistan according to the official story.
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@OptimusJedi "Are you ready? It doesn’t matter" - LMAO so it doesn't matter that you're OBSESSED with the ocupation of Afghanistan when they were not behind the attacks. "The same way it wouldn’t have mattered if the pilots of the Japanese Navy had been Greek when they bombed Pearl Harbor" - the problem here is that the correct analogy would be something like a group of Guam separatists or something attacking Pearl Harbor instead of the Japanese, but you still want to invade Japan. "The hijakers could have been Australian and we wouldn’t have invaded Australia because, wait for it, THEY WEREN’T OPERATING UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN MILITARY’S ORDERS!" - they weren't operating under the Afghan flag nor were they Taliban or following Taliban orders. "Where was Al Qaeda based? Afghanistan" - YOU CLEARLY STATED THAT THE TALIBAN WOULD COMMIT ANOTHER 9/11 AND IMPLIED THAT THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO PREVENT TALIBAN CONTROL Your worries about leaving Afghanistan were not about the Al-Qaeda but the Taliban.
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@OptimusJedi and men who initially fought against the US invasion of Iraq later joined the coalition forces to fight Al-Qaeda. Sometimes players change jerseys. "You also clearly aren’t getting the point in regards to the absurdity of arguing that the hijakers were Saudis." - it's you who doesn't get the point, because you implied that if Afghanistan was left to its own devices that a second 9/11 would happen. "I also find it interesting that you think I have an obsession" - you literally have an irrational desire to occupy Afghanistan. How is it a projection to correctly state the facts? To you, it doesn't even matter who did 9/11, what matters is preventing the Afghan people from causing another.
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@OptimusJedi I love the historical revisionism. Not only are you ignoring the Surge policy revisions that emphasized not treating Iraqis as the enemy, you're also discounting the efforts in integrating fighters into the security forces or even how the US straight up paid fighters to be on the US side. It's not a matter of "realizing the US wasn't all that bad". The US committed a huge mistake by disbanding the Iraq army, leaving fighting men unemployed and who found their new line of work in the insurgency. Part of the Surge policy was, get this, allow these men to take up work as security forces. During the 2006 Battle of Ramadi the killing of Abu Ali Jassim also lead to the creation of the Anbar Awakening movement. So no, it wasn't a case of people suddenly having a change of heart. The US had to undo its mistakes and benefited from happenstance that caused tribal leaders to turn against the Al Qaeda - and fight alongside the US now that they could get paid for it. And then the mistake was remade when Nouri al-Maliki refused to let the militias be integrated and caused some to go fight for ISIS. "it’s the remnants of Al Qaeda and the Taliban!" - again, the US is attempting peace talks with the Taliban. The US apparently has no problem in leaving the Taliban be as long as they don't become a problem. In fact the Taliban have fought the Islamic State while the Afghan government has been caught helping it.
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@OptimusJedi The Surge worked because it forced the US to reconsider the Iraq situation. The problem was caused by the US wrecking a country, and then setting loose fighting men who had no opportunities in a war torn country rather than integrating them. You completely missed my point, which was that you can't get hung up on people changing from the Taliban to Al Qaeda in places where the battle lines of tribal warfare often change not through capture of territory but simply switches in allegiances. "some of them saw that siding with the US was the better option" - but the problem is that you're coming at it from the standpoint that Iraqi people "saw the light" and decided to side with the US because they're better. The changes in policy MADE the US better. Pre-Surge US was the invader that destroyed your country, occupied your land and literally dissolved your job position. Post-Surge US offered you a better paying job. We can downplay it as much as we want, but the US essentially bribed people to stop fighting. You can't say that people changed their opinion of the US because over time they started to enjoy their presence, it was mostly a fact that the job was more secure than having funds sent to you through dodgy mosques that support Islamic extremism. "Shouldn’t we keep troops in Afghanistan until that time?" - so essentially the conflict dragged for years for nothing?
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@OptimusJedi "The end result is that the surge resolved the problem" - I'm baffled, because I only used the surge as an example of allegiances switching (and thus why people moving from the Taliban and Al Qaeda and vice versa isn't the big deal you seemed to imply it was). The problem being solved or not wasn't the topic at hand. "Therefore, having troops" - back the fuck up. The surge fixed the problems in Iraq in the same way that if you go out to buy a bunch of superglue you're gonna glue mom's fine china back together after you rode a skateboard in the living room. The change in policy fixed the US's mistakes, and most of the problems that were fixed were directly caused by US intervention. So saying "therefore, having troops" over there is the solution when sending the fucking troops was what caused the clusterfuck in the first place... That's circular logic. "I never said that they saw the light" - brother then stop saying they "realized" the US wasn't as bad. They didn't "realize" shit, they just got offered a better deal. "Bin Laden is dead as a result of the war in Afghanistan" - holy shit and the internet exists as a result of Hitler invading Poland. Gather round all the families of dead US soldiers and the maimed veterans and let's tell them - we sent them to a kerfuffle just to keep UBL hidden in Pakistan for like 10 years then shoot him. "Afghanistan is no longer under the yoke of the Taliban" - but the Afghan government only controls 30% of the country and the Taliban still control key areas which is why negotiations are necessary. "doesn’t have Al Qaeda terrorists running around the country" - that objective was completed essentially a decade ago as Al Qaeda presence in the entire country was estimated to be lower than 100 members and the Taliban severed their ties to them. What was 2009-2019 for, then? "So much so that our enemies have come to the table to talk" - You misunderstand their position. The war is massively unpopular at home. Where have you seen this before? Vietnam. They take the "loss", and then they win.
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@OptimusJedi The issue is that I talked about the Surge as an example of why you can't be offended at people changing sides in a place where alleigeances are fluid. Yesterday's enemy is today's ally and tomorrow's enemy again. You somehow steered the conversation to a point where if the Surge worked, you "win". Even though the point was that you can't take things personally. And that the Surge working points to the fact that you need to learn to work with the people who were shooting at you for the past few years. ”merriam-webster definition of “realize”” - holy fuck if I paid you 5000 dollars to say I'm right and I won the argument you wouldn't have realized shit, you'd simply take the bribe. You can pull all the fucking dictionary definitions but if I pay you money to fuck off that doesn't mean you conceived anything as real. “Now, why was Bin Laden in Pakistan again? He ran away from the invasion. One thing leads to another. Follow along.“ - Bin Laden fled to Pakistan in 2001 after Tora Bora. There were rumors of him coming back to Afghanistan in 2009 but they weren't credible. This makes the invasion completely useless from that moment up to now. “The Afghan government controls 30% of the country. Ok, how much did the democratically elected government control before the US invasion?“ - so the Afghan government can't even keep their own country under control with US presence, how the fuck is that a victory? “You understand that stability is needed to ensure that our enemies don’t return right?“ - Al Qaeda? The Taliban have agreed to the deal that they won't harbor terrorists. “Massively unpopular?“ - the current US president campaigned to end the wars. The democrats are also taking about pulling out. Now, if both sides are campaigning to bring the troops home wouldn't you call the war unpopular? “considering there were active protests“ - Irrelevant. You had literal communists in universities and unions. What matters is the fact that the populace has no interest in the war, politicians are promising to end it. The Taliban will sign a peace deal, promise to keep terrorists and the Chinese out in addition to the cease fire. Then the US pulls out, the Afghan government will get overwhelmed and the Taliban will regain control by breaking the cease fire just like the North Vietnam broke the peace treaty. But the US will not come back.
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@OptimusJedi "Strange that it’ll go exactly like Vietnam as you describe" - yeah strange that a group fighting the US would use a tactic that was already proven to work against the US. And that Taliban leaders have already slipped up to journalists and many Afghanis who have participated in activism against the Taliban fear the Afghan government's incompetence will lead to them suffering reprisals after the peace process is done. It's almost like things make sense when you pay attention. "My point of giving you the dictionary definition was that you made huge jumps in logic" - No, I didn't. You flat out claimed insurgents realized the US wasn't so bad. That is completely wrong and you still haven't retracted that statement after I completely debunked it. "What time frame, in years, does the US have to declare and then end the war? How many years can we be at war in your opinion?" - That's completely irrelevant by your own admission. The objective of the Afghanistan war was, by your own standards, about pushing Bin Laden into Pakistan. This was acomplished in 2001. Nobody is asking for a time limit. The war just went into overtime for no reason.
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They have to. Keeping records of victims and the content is how they can tie content creators to victims. It's a timestamp of the rough timeline of when the crime occured.
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@OBrasilo whenever the facts don't fit the narrative, actually use them in support of an additional narrative
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The bodies had to be dug out as part of the investigation. Forensic experts need to exhume them. The families are looking for their dead relatives in the exhumed remains. If they were kept in the ground, they wouldn't find them.
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It's not terrorism and it wasn't suicide. Explosion cane from underneath and lifted the bridge off the support bearings.
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You're making me feel old. I was put on the lists during the Bush 2 administration.
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But hasn't the UK closed all but three ranges that allow 50 cal, meaning that even if technically it's legal it's incredibly difficult for the police to approve a license?
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Yeah. One less ship, one dry dock blocked with a scrapped ship. Try to run a navy without spare ships and repair facilities.
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The GAO is wrong about the F-35 too.
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But the firebombings were just as destructive and didn't end the war. Russia also conducted an orderly retreat from Kiev early in the war.
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@TresTrefusis Fighting for the freedom of whom?
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We still use manual machines even though CNCs are the big dogs. In fact back then factories bought a ton of manual machines and used a jig to lock it down and only do one operation. So even though the machine was manual the operation was quasi-automated to save time and just hand off the part to the next operator instead of one worker doing all the operations himself on the same machine.
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@mhappy01 Can't fly them off carriers.
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@Sir_Godz They have F-35Bs. They have no need for outdated and worn out airframes.
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What's even that supposed to mean? Expat is also used to colloquially refer to people who reside outside of their country of citizenship.
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@alexwest909 He's called an expat because that's what we call men who go abroad to marry women in poor countries and stay there. There's also the more negative term "sexpat" if you prefer. Dude was Coach Red Pill. He promoting doing the thing where you abandon Western women and marry people abroad. All those British and Australian dudes in Thailand, what are they called? Expats.
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If I tell you not to touch the hot stove, that actually means it's cold.
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@hamzamahmood9565 Can't mislead a mid course update with flares. The flares are still near the aircraft which means that when the missile turns its seeker on, it will just follow the aircraft and not see the flares.
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@danwelterweight4137 "They can easily track stealth aircraft with their ground based anti stealth radar" - Is there any proof of this? "they emit live information to their jets which can use it to track and engage stealth jets" - But these jets have a much tougher fight against stealth. Which is why they developed their own stealth. "The reason why they are building stealth aircraft is for entirely different reasons the US has built stealth aircraft."/"The reason why they created the J-20 is to attack US AWACS and air fuel tankers across the first and second Island Chain." - This is just a contradiction. They're building stealth aircraft because they know that if they try to go after AWACS or tankers with conventional aircraft, they get killed. So it's the exact same reason as the US.
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@malokegames "then the pilot will narrow it down using the IRST" - But the IRST has less range than radar. So despite knowing where to look, it's still an uphill battle.
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@slartybarfastb3648 But that argument fails when you consider that radar guided missiles are also directed to the terminal phase by coarse data obtained by tracking radar rather than locking. Telling a missile where the target is in relation to the aircraft, and the missile using that data with its own inertial navigation data, allows the missile to be guided to the rough position it needs to be at to turn on the active seeker. But you're right in the sense that radar-equipped stealth aircraft outrange IRST.
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@malokegames You need to be fully stealth to win a detection battle against a full stealth fighter. Yes, there is sense. Round surfaces are to be avoided, which is why stealth fighters do not have round nose cones and use chimes. The sensor itself is a radar reflector. If I'm using a flashlight to look for someone wearing black clothes, a round IRST bubble is like holding a white ping pong ball.
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@malokegames It's not insignificant. That's why the American and Chinese systems use diamond shaped "bubbles". Also, the F-22 canopy is known for being impregnated with material that helps minimize the canopy's contribution.
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@slartybarfastb3648 The missile seeker is low resolution and expendable. An on-board IRST allows greater detection range, meaning that the missile is now limited by kinetic energy rather than seeker thanks to lock-on after launch.
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@malokegames But a stealth fighter has a range detection advantage because it can see without being seen. To be on equal footing, the enemy fighter needs equivalent RCS reduction.
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@malokegames That's not true. First, RWR only gives a direction of the source because you can't get range information from RWR, so they don't know exactly where they are. Second, modern radars are low probability of intercept, which means they can scramble their emissions to look like background radiation - the air is filled with radio, tv, ground radars, etc - and you can only predict the frequencies by breaking the encryption. Third, aircraft can get radar information fed from AWACS which means stealth aircraft can get long range detection without even turning on their radar.
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@hongshi8251 The war ends when Russia leaves. They can negotiate any time, but they insist on digging their heels...
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The problem is counter-battery fire. If your artillery doesn't significantly outrange the enemy, he'll fire on your position. You need to be ready to shoot and scoot.
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Clearly a diversion where manpower, equipment and fuel was wasted for nothing. The capital is never left undefended. There's logistical issues with sending that much territorial defense to the East. Elementary school logic doesn't apply to real life. Please, just admit it failed, it's less embarassing than actually comitting to a diversion that only works in a child's mind.
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@MrReddevil420 There isn't a ban. Last I heard some people online tried to get someone fired from a fire department for having it. Don't remember if it was successful but it's happened once, hardly a ban.
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No need for Javelins when the Russian armor force is burned through.
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@dughallhalliday1713 Ukraine used Bakhmut as a speedbump that stood for months longer than it should ever have. The overland communications will be struck, and Crimea abandoned like Kherson city. The Ukainians did it before, they'll do it again.
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Ukraine has done everything including attacking Russian soil. Russia won't do anything.
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@sirchriswitlessjesuitpuppe5804 Go to Donbas, Z boy! Stop dodging the recruitment. Your brothers need you.
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Well, semi-auto weapons cannot be assault rifles because the definition only applies to automatic weapons which were banned in 1986, but if you mean long guns it's just a matter of training the algorithm.
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NYS? Typo or just "New York Shitty" self-deprecating joke?
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The US didn't go there to conquer. It set up new goverrnments and left.
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Wrong. It is your war because you asked Ukraine to give up their nukes in 1994. And that 40 mile convoy would have been torn to shreds with ATACMS back in 2022.
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@alderwolf7687 Dead pilots and burning airframes cost even more. Stealth might be costly but it's the price of admission.
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@alderwolf7687 Again, pilots cost money. You'll need bottomless pockets to replace them. The reason there's ejection seats is because the government would rather lose an aircraft than a pilot.
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@alderwolf7687 That doesn't counter anything I said. The pilot is more valuable. You're not saving any money by sticking them in vulnerable machines that can and will be shot down over enemy territory. If you're worried about budgets mind how much it costs to train a proficient pilot.
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You need to learn the definition of socialism.
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@pkz420 "collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production" - this means lining up bosses and rich people to the wall and riddling them with bullets. If you're not going to remove the means of production from private hands, it's not socialism.
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@pkz420 Does the system you think of allow capitalism? Then it's not socialism. Socialism stands for the abolition of capitalism. You want to work with "nuance"? Then you're just a bleeding heart liberal. Congratulations, I used to be one in the 2000s. It's a basic bitch political stance, not revolutionary in the slightest.
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+Bob der Bär so by that logic Christoph Waltz is an asshole for accepting the role of an SS officer in a Tarantino film.
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+Maershkin Schrabs not to mention the multiple war crimes committed by allied forces meaning that by their logic nobody should reenact as any side at all.
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@rajaydon1893 That's not how any of this works. According to Shoigu in 2021 or 2020 or whatever they had a hundred and something combat capable BTGs and a hundred something were used in the invasion. Basically the Feb 2022 invasion used 90% of the Russian army's combat capacity (not all of an army is "combat arms"). Russia does have a storage capacity for tanks. But these tanks are not manned. There's no guys in those storage locations waiting to step into the tanks and start rolling. The amount of tanks that can be put forward is limited by logistics and trained crews. Ideally you always have more tanks than you can put forward, as they're in reserve and storage.
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Whataboutism. One side of the political aisle doesn't want to have a border and thinks we shouldn't prosecute crime, the homeless get billions, price hikes are due to the world getting wrecked in 2020.
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Russia would do the thing all the simps and bots said they would. Turns out that Russia is indeed the warmonger. Will the Russian simps get out of the way and accept the aid to Ukraine to flow freely? How much egg do they have on their faces?
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If you think about how many rounds are expended per kill in a war, civilian casualties are a sad reality. However, they should spend a little more money to equip cluster bombs with redundant fuses that cause it to self destruct inside the combat area and not when someone walks by a month after. I mean ANY mechanical or electrical device created by Man can fail and cluster bombs are no different from other kinds of explosives.
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You're not that old. Ukraine SSR existed since 1921 and prior to that the Ukrainians resisted Bolshevik attacks. You weren't alive during Tsarist Russia.
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@hyouzanren1846 don't worry, the MIC made a killing with the billion dollar contracts going to Boeing to keep the A-10 flying past its due date.
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@Голубиный-глаз98 Russian GDP figures are reported by Rosstat, there is no audit on Russia's economy to calculate their GDP. Basically Putin says his nation's GDP is increasing, and we believe him.
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The gun hasn't got any better, in fact the API round was pulled from service and only brought back to fight ISIS. The A-10 is physically an A-10, better avionics do not solve the critical issues.
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And yet Bradleys are still assaulting Russian trenches.
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In the real world they typically pop out the back like a zit or are found in the perp's clothes. Modern rounds are pretty good at preventing collateral damage - the peril is missing entirely and hitting a bystander.
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 @RSProduxx that's not a thing, because you could just will yourself into having that worry. Worrying is not dependent on external factors but purely internal ones.
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DCS gang.
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They are very pessimistic because they are realizing they're losing. Your faith means nothing. Patience means nothing. The more you cling, the more the inevitability of Russia's loss will hurt you. Give up.
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We gave a lot of military equipment to Iraq.
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@hypothebai4634 They ended up needing it due to ISIS.
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Because humans existed for a million years and cars only since the 1900s and it was understood that existing was always a right and cars a recent privilege?
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@wurm6635How did the West take advantage? The oligarchs robbed Russia blind and say the West did it. It worked so well, even Westerners think we have the money.
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He went to a fucking private clinic... Do you think Canada gives out free healthcare to anyone who crosses the border?
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You should brush up your reading comprehension, I never said that. My point is that illegal stuff ALWAYS gets around. Drugs get trough the border all the time. But firearms don't need to be planted or treated with chemicals that are on a DEA watchlist. They can be made by drilling, filing, soldering and hammering pieces of steel. They do it in Brazil, India, Philippines, etc. /watch?v=pAOdzCx7Cr8 /watch?v=gNcLjtfj1o0
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How would Trump unprint the 4 trillion? We're seeing the aftershocks of sudden expansion in money supply, which was still a Trump measure in his last year in office.
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@angus7278 A lot of weapons couldn't have been made in-house, just smuggled. Ian from Forgotten Weapons did a video reacting to a supposed sniper rifle factory and he quickly determined none of the machines present could do the parts shown, only small pieces like scope rings, etc.
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@Eran Riblo They sacrificed the norther rail supply lines, which means a ton of captured territory is under threat.
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@stvk99 Was the Wagner pilot who got shot down the other day appearing weak?
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Except that's false.
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A B-52 tailgun radar painted a F-4G during desert storm and thinking it was a ground radar the WSO fired an anti-radiation missile. It shredded the B-52s tail but it landed and was dubbed "In HARM's Way".
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The Snowden stuff is complicated because he passed off documents relative to intelligence agencies to journalists in Hong Kong. If we just allowed anyone to do that we'd basically have to legalize espionage. Morally he was right in exposing the surveillance programs but the law says otherwise.
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Russia took 3 months to take two steps. Ukraine took 4 steps in 3 days.
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4 HIMARS intercepted? Where did the other two land?
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What an ignorant statement. Read the report yourself.
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One of the roots of libertarianism was Lysander Spooner, who despite being a socialist essentially wrote the sacred text of right-libertarianism.
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 @ОлекЛис jet engines do not consume all oxygen. That's why afterburners work, there's still oxygen in the exhaust.
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Automatic weapons were banned in 1986, restricted since 1934. Only one or two crimes were committed with them. Even illegally obtained automatics are rarely used in crime. There's no such thing as extended clips. A stripper clip is a piece of metal that holds the ammunition and feeds it into a magazine. There's extended magazine baseplates but they give you one or two extra rounds. Please look into the arguments you make before engaging in any debate.
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No one knows what it's like to be the bad man to be Assad man behind blue eyes
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You can only be deceived if you want. Why ban one deception but not the others?
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@KjellsCells How is it highly effective when everyone is backing Ukraine? Literally only contrarians back Russia, and they're doing it as a reaction to the overwhelming support. Hell, Russia's own state media ran an article saying that many Westerners are misguided and see Putin as a "savior" when he's not interested in the alt-right. Even Russia called out these people. Hackers? You're confusing cyberwarfare with psyops.
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@libertyforever4270 "You are making up stories and telling falsehoods." - You have claimed that cloth cannot stop microscopic matter. The microscopic matter is carried by droplets and aerosols, which can get trapped in cloth. That is precisely why surgical masks don't work when wet, once soaked through the microscopic matter can go through the filtering layers. I posted a link stating that homemade masks are 30% as effective as real masks. You're wrong. Just accept it. "Darkwing Dork agreed that masks do not stop viruses" - 1. I don't care who he is and what he admits is not my problem. 2. The mask doesn't need to stop the virus, just the particles that spread the virus. If you have a problem understanding how masks work I can sit here and explain a hundred more times until you get it. "You, evidently, are another defender of Big Government" - Not only are you making an unproven accusation, it treads on Ad Hominem. Do you have an actual argument? Or should I take your paranoid delusions as a sign that you've run out of things to say and you're lashing out?
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@FilmFlam-8008 "wet coverings actually increase the filtering capability. They filter more." - Then that's a different mechanism. What I'm describing is that the fibers in a factory made mask cannot be so tight that breathing is compromised, so the mask uses thickness to increase statistical chance of something getting trapped within, like a labyrinth filter. If those fibers get wet, they're not tight enough to stop viruses. It would be like trying to stop brewed coffee with a coffee filter. Not the same thing as a wet covering. "the government was not hoarding the support for itself. they were trying to keep the supplies open for front line workers that need them, trying to prevent the rush. Don’t go down the conspiracy hole." - Obviously I am putting governments, WHO, CDC, healthcare providers in the same bag. In many countries the healthcare system is a government institution. That's not a conspiracy.
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@libertyforever4270 I'm not stopping you from expressing your opinion, I'm just saying it's retarded to bareback all the local crack whores simply because the government told you to wear a condom.
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@libertyforever4270 "Put on your precious little mask, lean up against a mirror, cough normally, lean back and look at the foggy spot you leave behind" - You're not supposed to cough in people's faces. Also, if you cough without the mask, you'll have a lot more particles in the mirror anyway. Also, most of the fog is left on the mirror by gaseous water and gas molecules do not carry virus particles. You cannot attribute all of the fog to aerosols and thus you can't measure how much of the fog you left would actually carry a viral load. "That spot would have many millions of viral organisms if you had been infected by the coronavirus." - Again, reducing the number of particles by 30% versus a factory mask means reducing transmission, or at least making sure transmissions carry less viral load making people less sick. " Finally, you are like all totalitarian Dictators. You are a pathological liar and a jerk." - I'm a totalitarian because I know a physical barrier is better than no physical barrier? I'm a liar for speaking the objective truth? I'm a jerk when you're the one who hasn't stopped acting aggressive and paranoid?
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@FilmFlam-8008 No, the wetness makes it hard to breathe because you're trying to force air through a liquid so air takes the path of least resistance through the small gaps it can find. But virions won't get filtered by the mask. They'll ride in the liquid. "And in the US, we have private healthcare" - Irrelevant. The private sector is so intertwined with government it's barely worth making the distinction. And considering this is a global issue, globally the medical system and government are joined at the hip. If a government agency is attempting to save masks for the private sector, they're in cahoots. Full stop. No need to go any further. The CDC and WHO employ doctors. They're part of the same "class". "Putting everything in the same bag is disingenuous. It is easy to say, but not logically accurate. With that same logic, you should not trust your doctor (healthcare provider)" - It's not disingenuous. Is the government managing and distributing supplies for the medical field or not? They are. The tumor example is completely out of context because there's no reason for the government to request an overestimation of cancer diagnosis or anything. If there was a reason to distrust a cancer diagnosis maybe the example would make sense. "You are muddling things together in a conspiracy mindset" - It's not a conspiracy mindset. First of all, accusing others of being conspiracy theorists is in itself a way to discredit without addressing the argument (just the other day I told a tankie that Nazis found Soviet mass graves and realized their own mass graves would be uncovered and decided to dig the bodies out and burn them to erase the evidence - I was accused of being a conspiracy theorist even though this is a proven historical event). Second, I didn't do the "you can't trust anybody" move, I simply stated that government agencies lied for their own benefit. Anyone with a brain saw the underlying motive. This isn't a conspiracy. There's no conspiracy. Stop accusing others of being conspiracy theorists when there's none.
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@libertyforever4270 You have no argument. If you were right you'd be able to explain it. But you can't. Thanks for admitting it.
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@FilmFlam-8008 "The government is sending supplies to medical facilities. Yes. Because the hospitals need them. That is a fact." - Which I never disputed. "That does not mean the hospitals are working for the government and you can’t trust hospitals." - You're strawmanning. "The government giving supplies to a hospital <> the hospital being an arm of the government." 1. I just said they were working together. 2. In many countries they ARE an arm of the government and this is a global issue. "You need to step back and realize that." - No, you need to step back and realize that you took a statement I made out of context and you've created a web of conspiracy from it. You're even contradicting statements I never made.
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@libertyforever4270 Keep admitting that you have nothing to offer except insults.
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No-one bats an eye, precisely because no-one bats an eye. I personally know of a case that happened to me and my brother, he took my card by mistake and enrolled into college. Nobody checked. The document had my name on it, nobody cared. So yes, this form of control completely outpaced everything we already had.
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@Butters-_ I'm talking about the fact that nothing was enforced strictly. No, I'm not talking about ID. He wouldn't have been able to sign up with my ID because it wouldn't match his school record. They had his name, they had his ID, he presented the WRONG document and not a single person looked at the fact that the name was wrong. Nobody cared. There were exemptions for children too. And if you lived in a district where for some reason no school accepted exemptions, you could homeschool. People "accept" it because it's also done in the interests of children by protecting THEM, and those shots have years of safety records that show adverse effects are rare. Now you want people to be subjected to a rushed product that's losing effectiveness anyway. Stop deflecting towards other issues. For people who consider a fetus life, there's no civil liberty in denying life. That's a moral divide you will never solve by pleading to one's sense of liberty. That's completely unrelated and not in any way equivalent.
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It's not meant to replace the F-15, the F-22 is the F-15 replacement, and the A-10 has already been replaced hy the F-16. Just not on paper because Congress doesn't allow it. "China has the plans" even if they did, do what? You can't cheat physics.
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In the 17th a bayraktar filmed the tugboat that got sunk.
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What? The F-35 did 17 to 1 at red flag.
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@FlyingFarmerTom Wow straight for the jugular. You claimed the F-35 doesn't do well against red elements. The actual figures say otherwise. "they took an A-10 and stuck the same weapons on it, and it literally picked off several Gen 4 fighters from 50-100 clicks away, just like the F-35 can do" - How does an A-10 without A-A radar and stuck with a severe lack of thrust manage to score BVR kills against gen 4 fighters? The kinematic performance would have been horrible considering the A-10 has trouble with speed and altitude. If it had even been able to fire.
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@FlyingFarmerTom So a specially custom tailored airframe that could never be used for real managed to score several kills on 4th gen drone aircraft? Why did they waste 4th gen target drones on such a useless test? "I don’t want to go for the jugular" - Yeah you did, otherwise you'd have brought up actual arguments. "their has to be something wrong with you or something" - *There "Your fixated" - *You're "give zero regard to any other facts" - You said F-35s lose on exercises, actual data says they wipe the floor with everything else even when flown by rookie pilots. I'm not fixated, I'm simply stating the facts.
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The Stuka quickly lost psychological effect and started taking massive losses.
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@Tyrfingr But it isn't. The troops on the ground started ignoring the Stuka and the pilots asked for the sound generators to be removed. Stuff stops being scary after the first couple of times.
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@christopherduke2477 BS. Not only is the Russian economy collapsing, the dissident right was pro-Russia from the start. Neocons are pro-Ukraine. Mind that Milley also said he'd warn China if the US was about to attack. I cannot imagine why he would ever admit that.
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@DaleGribbleMD I wasn't. But continue to wait for the Blue Helmets, dawg.
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@clunkerdunker6321 Funniest part is how while they still have the white vehicles and blue helmets for the peacekeeping missions, a lot of the contingents sent are full bore combat units still riding around in military color vehicles and their helmets. Particularly in Africa.
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The performance will never be amazing because you're asking the computer to imagine the frames. How the frames are rendered absolutely matters.
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But not Soviet made parts. We could make the parts ourselves.
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Buddy even the Israelis hired former Waffen-SS Otto Skynerzy to work for the Mossad. Nothing new under the sun.
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Two decoys lol
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@GodsAutobiography so employers are going to ignore the risk of both male and female employees simply dipping out of work, forcing you to pay for their leave and to retrain a replacement? If they're ignoring the hiring risk, then they're going to increase the prices.
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@GodsAutobiography so free money fell out of the air?
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@Saeronor "Hell, given how men have no issue fathering a kid or two while looking like Bernie Sanders" - the people who look like Bernie Sanders and have a woman young enough to make babies with have no money problems "If you spread the risk employers can't cherry-pick effectively" - so everyone becomes a risk, which is exactly my point. Either everyone gets paid less, or products cost more. "Children that are being taken care of and form a bond with their parents are less likely to be a burden on society" - this doesn't happen within 12 weeks. That argument works if we were discussing about 5 years of paid leave, not 12 weeks.
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@Saeronor "average elderly men can easily have kids" - it's not easy. It's sort of a myth that men can just pump it and make babies. While women progressively increase risks as they age and eventually reach menopause, as men get older they also lose fertility. Yeah they can father children - it's also not "easy". "I imagine this is also why life in Europe consists of higher prices and tiny paychecks. Not to mention costs are split with social security. Amazing how paying for it can result in ability to benefit." - yeah I certainly enjoyed working for less than 3€ per hour and then out of that little money I earned having 11% taxed out of my paycheck. It's really great when your """free""" college that my parents paid taxes for has tuition costs, I'm also studying maths every time I think about how it would be easier to pay my tuition with those extra 11%. "Businesses survived just fine" - there's serious chances that when I get my degree (just one more semester...) I won't be able to find a job in my country because our industry is fucked, and it was deliberately fucked over by the EU so that the businesses in Germany, France, etc could survive. So rather than buying stuff made in our country we have to keep buying French and German! Hooray! The kicker is, we're having problems with the fucking birthrates too. Don't worry, we're preserving the "longevity of society" with immigration so we don't even have to worry about kids. The government is going to outsource that shit too! There's nothing to worry about! "it's up to millions and millions of people to decide how much of their life an employer is entitled to" - that's not how it works. If businesses are forced to take a loss they'll just pay less. You'll get exactly the same as if you just worked normally, saved up to have a child and took a normal leave. But our little primitive monkey brain is terrible at this shit so we don't save as much money as we should, and if given the exact same sum of money but taken from our paycheck and given back throughout our leave we'll think we're getting more bang for the buck even though the amount of money is the same. It's that or raise prices and risk less consumption. Sales tax in the twenties isn't helping either.
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@Saeronor we don't use the public healthcare system in my family anyway (military benefits, paid for by the lower income one gets by working for the government rather than private sector) "other people going through college" - which they also paid for, thanks for missing the point. "Even if it really is true in its most absurd form (the obligatory purchases part)" - way to miss the point, it's not a matter of signing a contract and being legally obligated to buy from X, Y or Z. It's a matter of a complex web of regulations, benefits and other small things that push the buttons and pull the levers of the market in order to benefit some types of industry over the others. What ends up happening is that fishing is better in one place, agriculture is better in other, industry is better over there, etc. The worst part is when foreign investment buys up the industry when the EU is trying to promote it by giving freebies and they profit massively. When the welfare runs out, and after they have crushed the competition, they pack up and leave for other country where the EU is giving handouts. We're chasing the problem rather than recognizing that this "free" market where the only freedom is in the flow of capital is crushing the smaller countries. "they could use it to fund tax breaks" - you don't fund a tax break. "Perhaps... it's something about job security or other wonderful perks of shitty "pro-business" short - term legislation, which empowers all kinds of dicking?" - I thought the grass was greener on the other side. "if it affects every business equally and they all do it, then they are going to cut into their own profits, because how exactly a massive population is going to keep up their own spending if their bosses cut everything?" - that would happen in a world where business is a hivemind. It's more of a contest of who blinks first. I'm fairly sure that a business forced to carry the risk of paying someone for no work while having to retrain replacements will not dig into their razor thin profit margins. In the end CEO Joe Schmoe will laugh all the way to the bank as he gives up a couple of billions but completely crushes all the small and medium businesses.
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Nice missing of the point.
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Sanders rejected himself. Biden is a very good friend.
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Because every structure is vulnerable to cyclical loading. There's boneyards with aircraft that won't break down anytime soon, but if you tried to fly them they'd break apart in mid air.
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@hutsongamble5086 You wouldn't need to wonder if you just looked at the results.
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Nice cope. The Strike Eagle and Viper have been doing the Az10s job for years. The "new plane" would be pure SAM bait. A waste of pilots' lives.
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@denniskrenz2080 Really no room to talk when the A-10 tops the list of fratricide by aircraft.
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@bennuredjedi Yeah, those were Army pilots in WW2 because the Air Force was only created in 1947... Bruh...
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Russia's problem is exactly that. The maps. Focusing on painting red on a map while depleting your forces will mean you lose in the end. If you looked at the maps, Germany won WW2. But it cost them so many troops to reach Moscow they fell back to Berlin.
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 @CaseyChesshir Recent video from the Russian artillerymen show refurbished shells missing the explosive.
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"because it needs the collaboration of the population in Ukraine" - Bombing that population was a surefire way to ensure they will hate Russia with a burning passion for a hundred years.
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@brentwilbur "A commitment by the people of NATO-aligned nations to the people of all Soviet Socialist Republics remains" - What does that even mean? Nobody under the age of 50 today had anything to do with any such commitments. And if you look at the actual commitment, it was respected. To this day, there are no international bases in Germany in the territory of the former DDR. NATO bases only exist in the former West German republic, not the East. "The formation of any legal document is an ultimately irrelevant and pompous gesture." - No. Getting stuff in writing is the basis of modern law. Otherwise I'll take you to court and say you owe me a million dollars. Why? You committed to it. The proof? You said it was irrelevant and pompous. Hand over the million dollars. "There was an agreement not to spread east." - Into East Germany. The agreement was not made after the split of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact. It was made during German reunification. So the agreement can only include Germany. At no point would the Soviet Union ask NATO to not accept the SOVIET UNION into NATO. The Soviets controlled the Soviet Union. It's in the name. Why would Moscow say "please, we are so weak, do not make us join NATO"??? That makes no sense! Think a little! Meanwhile, East Germany was former Warsaw Pact and it would be assimilated to a NATO nation. "This is a conflict 30+ years in the making." - Then why has Russia ignored the Baltics and Finland? This is only about Ukraine. It was never about NATO. "NATO started the war by abandoning its agreements" - The Soviet Union also agreed to use Lend Lease and they never paid back while the British did pay their debt. They abandoned their agreement. "NATO is the aggressor" - NATO didn't lay a finger on Russia. Typical Russian crybully behavior.
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All bark, no bite.
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Before he was a caterer he was a criminal. He was in prison during the 90s.
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Not equivalent to the F-35.
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But the Armata was being delayed before the war.
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@tbtb9595 It would have had the civil war after the USSR collapse and ended up under Taliban control anyway. Sorry but I can't stand you people who defend the Soviet Union for doing the exact same shit as the US - trying to have a puppet regime in Afghanistan.
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Because Western PMCs are security companies, not private armies.
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Yeah but that's not something that's said about women...
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Big cope.
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Okay, so if we take Iraq as a comparison, Russia is taking double the time to get half the work done. That's not a good comparison, it makes the Coalition look like a well oiled machine. "Hitler said before the invasion of the Soviet Union “We have only to kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.”" - Funny, Putin must have said the same about Ukraine.
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@CaratacusAD All I know is that they clearly planned for a two day incursion, which failed the moment the airfield at Hostomel was damaged in the fighting. Historically, they'll look for whatever they can get and declare victory. Look at the Winter War. They were unprepared, their enemy was weaker and would certainly lose, but the cost was too great so they got land out of the deal.
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 @jordan8056 last I checked, the prosecutors said they had no video evidence to charge anyone with homicide. So how can HBO determine guilt?
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 @jordan8056 Which officer was stabbed.
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Well at least the MIC provides Americans with jobs, what does Russia provide?
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The CIA doesn't do military planning. Their paramilitary is rather small and mostly focused on bringing people in and out of other countries. Not brigade level maneuvers.
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When you log maintenance without writing down the purchase cost for replacement parts, it's cheap. The wings ran out of hours and new ones had to be built. Boeing made 2 billon off that. How much did that add to the hourly costs? I doubt it was accounted for.
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Is Bakhmut the legal center of Ukraine?
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 @danielstapler4315 And they buy Chinese-made.
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Youtube does that, not the uploader. Jesus Christ is this your first day online? Stop being such a snowflake when you don't even know how youtube comments work.
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@hippopotamus86 the optical spectrum is absorbed by the atmosphere at a shorter range than the microwave spectrum
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 @afinelad3673 That's edging. I'm pretty sure a goon session is just doing it without interruption, so even if you finish you keep going.
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@titaniumskunkogkush4365 only in case of invasion
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InRangeTV recently tested the G36 and many Germans said they loved it in the service. The melting issue was a non-troversy kickstarted by a minister of defense who wanted to sue HK and get funding for a new rifle.
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 @annawagner4147 You think that because in your schizo brain anyone who thinks differently is paid by intelligence agencies.
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Are you FSB sponsored?
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Ohhh he's mad.
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@AliHamza-sv4ni BS. Stuff always comes back to haunt people. It's not that they won't be recognized, it's that they'll be named. People who typically go into obscurity are just "normal people" so they didn't have to give up a career in modelling or acting, also mind that nowadays people find obscure stuff like who created X meme on iFunny 6 years ago and ask for small interviews. Random nobodies have been tracked down online simply for having social media accounts. They don't have to be traumatized for life. That's a strawman. Please stop making excuses for this.
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@Jykobe491 11 months into a 3 day sped op, bragging about the capture of small towns at the cost of thousands of men.
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Sure thing bawss. And SJWs never existed, prominent feminist writers never openly hated men, etc. You only support good things for all.
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Intel has fabs in Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Massachusetts, Ireland and Israel. TSMC has most fabs in Taiwan. Global Foundries has NY, Germany, and Singapore. There's a bunch more in Japan and South Korea. "How long do you think the people in the USA will put up with not getting all the new tech and hardware and start demanding" - gamers aren't big enough to exert political force and actually many gamers are willing to give the middle finger to China as well. The professional sector will get their tech anyway.
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@oddvardmyrnes9040 The US government spends more on healthcare than on the military.
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@eKko0 My dude, if you resort to pepper spray to perform an arrest, the cause for arrest was the original charge. The pepper spray was not used to protect life and limb of self and/or others, it was used for the purposes of subduing the person being arrested. The "subtle" difference doesn't exist. It only kicks in when the situation changes, for example a person being arrested for a legitimate charge turning violent and the force escalation stops being about the arrest and becomes something entirely different which is preventing harm.
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Just the other day a train carrying tanks was struck by HIMARS when it arrived in Donetsk. Doesn't matter how many they send if they get destroyed before even entering combat.
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>It doesn't follow. Yes, it does. First, gives bad publicity to the pro-gun side. Second, it somehow proves something about people not being able to react to a shooter. >What's far more likely is that it was a group of gun nuts trying to make a point of how defenseless they were. The pro gun side is realist. They would have considered someone fighting back and getting killed/kill the shooter. >no regard for human life >no business being anywhere near firearms Yeap, they were anti gun.
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@djsoldier76 The guys in the back are not paratroopers. They're meant to disembark on the ground. Not to mention that failures close to the ground would mean the chute would not be open for anyone tryimg to bail.
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Biden you crazy old man, stop creating alternate accounts.
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You might want to shift that red dot on your political compass to the authoritarian side.
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@kweightthree because of the authoritarian logic.
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Not even Shigeru Miyamoto would defend this mess.
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Breh. If Russia collapses you WILL want boots on the ground. Thousands of warheads to secure.
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That's false. There's always a risk. It's just higher if you hit the bloodstream directly. But even if you don't the pharmacokinetics seem to show it still ends up all over the place.
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Russia shelled the NPP, and fired a missile at another one.
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There's a natural nuclear reactor in Oklo, Gabon. The waste only moved a few centimeters in the last 2 billion years.
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How do you repair the buses? How do you make the cars? Ladas already lack features. How do you get the cheap gas? Do you manufacture all machines? And repair parts? How do you claim to be able to do all this and have an economy worth "zero"?
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@ezorro5920 she backtracked her opinions on Israel pretty quick
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A few glide bombs don't change a war.
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They absolutely tried to. In the first days of the war there were gunbattles in the streets of Kyiv as the assassination teams were discovered.
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@zack9912000 The main point is taming the muzzle blast. No need to slow anything down, it's not the speed that makes it loud - it's the heat and high pressure of expansion gas meeting the atmosphere. Cans allow some cooling and pressure reduction with no impact on muzzle velocity. Sometimes it increases velocity by a little bit.
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Can't wait to see F-16s score air to air kills.
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Mehlm We do have a business - Budapest Memorandum.
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NASA famously dragged their feet on the SLS launcher for years and SpaceX beat them to the punch.
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Because those billions are decades old vehicles and missiles gathering dust. You can't give them to Americans as aid.only spend them, or put them in the desert and rig them with EOD charges.
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Ukraine is getting stronger. Prigozhin said it.
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Actually a $500 gun also chambers this round. But it's sort of ugly and it's definitely not easily concealable. It's the Masterpiece Arms 5.7.
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And yet Russia begs like a child for sanctions relief.
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VW has experts in automobile engineering. So if they say they didn't cheat in emissions tests, they didn't. Of course, we know they cheated in the emission tests. Experts can lie. That's why you have to use evidence.
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@Bike_Lion If his military experience makes him better equipped, then how come he claims garbage that is disproved by real world events?
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@TK-ev The currency surging is bad for exports. Revenues aren't profit.
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Евгения Едалина For example, the claim that it takes 5 Javelins to take out a Russian tank.
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False flag means you are posing as a different country.
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16M subscribers but some videos don't get past 200k.
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@Obez45 That's like saying the invention of black powder was bad because governments use guns to enforce their will. The tech is not at fault, the user is. And you can use your own tech against the go government's tech.
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@Obez45 Some people already had to do it due to their own countries unpersoning them due to their unjabbed status and not allowing them even inside grocery stores. To ironically quote the Architect from the Matrix: there are levels of existence I'm willing to accept. The state sees me as subhuman? I'll be a rat.
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To fire a AGM-65, you have to pop up (to be able to see over terrain) and lock on the target. This exposes you to a MANPADS operator.
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@tobiasfreitag2182 There's bigger SAMs than MANPADS. Climbing exposes the aircraft to them. In US service the aircraft doing SEAD, CAP and CAS can be the same. Flying 3 different aircraft with 3 different engines and 3 different fuel tanks is asking for disaster. Package Q had F-16s loaded for strike go into combat with no F-15 air cover or F-4G SEAD because they ran out of fuel and had to turn back.
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@tobiasfreitag2182 I did read. That's why I addressed your claims.
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@tobiasfreitag2182 If it doesn't do better, then we're not helping anyone by sending them. They need something that fights in the air to save the guys on the ground. By giving them A-10s we're just continuing the cycle of a powerless airforce unable to help the guys dying on the ground.
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@tobiasfreitag2182 It barely works within the US military. 20% of CAS since 2001, 11% of CAS since 2014. The F-16 does 33% of CAS.
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How have the policies changed with the situation? Many countries are throwing in the towel because the scientific consensus is that it's unstoppable, mild and close to endemic. And yet, some countries are rabbidly pursuing a useless strategy. How does that make sense? Yeah, I think even a trucker can notice something's up.
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In most of the world it's like that.
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Optics. Now the world knows Putin wants land, not peace.
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@B_B-420 Self-fulfilling prophecy. The first people to get doses are the elderly, medical staff, first responders, then people in their 50s-40s, etc. There will always be a gap between age groups and countries, meaning you'll always have the magic excuse. Also, having the shot does not prevent infection, meaning that mutation still occurs. Testing in the SF Bay Area also shows that the unspiked carry older strains in equal proportion to newer strains, while the double-spiked are 70-80% carrying newer strains. Go pick another excuse.
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At 18,000 mph you'd want to be stealth, because if I know where you are I can just put something in your flight path. At 18,000 mph it doesn't take much to destroy an object.
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At 18,000 mph you'd want to be stealth, because if I know where you are I can just put something in your flight path. At 18,000 mph it doesn't take much to destroy an object.
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Soturian if they independently tested what triggers the demonetization then it allows them to fly under the radar.
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Aren't you tired of posting the same thing for 3 years?
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Why do you care?
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@Trashboat4444 Social media isn't about communication any more. Hasn't been for a long while. When you look at the cherry picked photos meant to convey your highschool friend is having a better life than he actually does, that's not communication.
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China has to fake their economic growth.
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@radiotec76 so basically if I have a grocery store in a remote area that serves a small population, and thus doesn't make enough profit, I can't hire anyone to help because my business doesn't deserve to exist?
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@radiotec76 so the person I can't hire anymore should stay home getting paid 0 dollars?
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@radiotec76 no, I am not. It wouldn't be starvation wages if it wasn't for the rampant inflation. You still have not given a satisfactory answer, should businesses close down and tell people to go home without a job if those extra sales and profits cannot cover your magic number? Yes or no?
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@radiotec76 "So you would like to pay a liveable wage if it weren't for inflation." - you need to speak in terms that make sense. A person gets hired to perform work that adds to the profits. If the wages paid to the person surpass the extra earnings created by that labour, it stops making sense to keep the person around. This has zero to do with livable wages. "Price hikes on key items like gasoline have a knock on effect with others or would you just keep you prices where they are at and loose money?" - and if the cost of energy increases then that means the costs of many goods will increase because fuel is used to power machines and to transport said goods. A price hike on gasoline can take a huge hit on the economy. "No, you'd raise prices on what you're selling. If prices of things go up why not people's labor?" - and that's what I am trying to explain. If prices raise on what you are selling the economy will slow down. "If you have to pay your workers a wage so low they have to take a second or even third job just to pay the basics" - what if they don't have to? Maybe they have another income at home from a husband/wife. Maybe they live with their parents. Maybe they live with other 3 people sharing a cheap house. Maybe the government should take action against inflation to make sure the cost of living falls in relation to wages. "then it's already failed and shouldn't exist." - which doesn't make any fucking sense. If hiring an extra person generates (say) 15 dollars an hour to my business and I have to pay 15 dollars an hour for that labour, I get 0. That doesn't mean my business is failing. It just means that it makes zero sense to add a cost to my business that brings no return. "It's strange your even debating this" - how is it strange? It's fucking maths. If I look at the cost of hiring someone and the theoretical revenue I can get, and I realize it's a bad decision to hire someone that job position is eliminated. "And finally do you really want to pay workers so little" - bro if you could make me 300 dollars an hour I'd certainly pay you 200. But if you only generate 15 dollars/hour I can't give you more than 10. I am always astonished at the divide, of course there's asshole bosses everywhere but straight up assuming that if I were a boss the wages I would be paying would be too low on purpose?
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>If someone breaks into my house and they see me holding a shotgun that enough is intimidating I've seen people holding shotguns for years and I've never shit my pants. >And remember, when you use a shotgun you don't have to waste as much of that AR ammo you have in the closet Maybe you should see what 55gr M193 or 77gr OTMs do at close range. You need the mag capacity for multiple assailants, not because they're .22LRs.
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The engine is kind of underpowered for that kind of circus trick.
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@quadling101 The two wing contracts were around 2 billion total. That's a lot of F-35As.
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It's not money, it's weapons. How do you help people with a decades old missile or IFV?
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So the ruse would involve scaring American citizens? The US warned its own citizens to avoid large gatherings due to the terror threat. If Russia didn't believe the warning at first, they should have taken it seriously when the US wasn't feigning concern about the lives of Americans.
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Every pilot loves their aircraft. The troops are psychologically attached to A-10s they can see and hear even if the job was better performed by something else. The job is what matters, not the air show. The US had air to air combat in Iraq. The F-22 is a drain because there was a bipartisan will to stop the program, which makes it more expensive in the end.
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They have a ship in Turkey which was comissioned before the war started ad finished a few months ago.
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Should self-destruct. Guess the Soviets bungled that one up too.
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@Hue Wong Because several studies have been done with different methodologies and different sample sizes. These studies have to extrapolate and estimate for a larger population by taking a sample size that can go from hundreds to thousands of people. For example, you can be sure that it's higher than 100k because the study that extrapolated 130k defensive gun uses per year was literally rigged to reduce the number of responses. On the national crime victimization study only people who said they were victims of a crime were asked if they used a firearm for self-defense. This obviously suppresses the number of people who have used firearms in self-defense but don't consider themselves victims because they thwarted the crime, so they never got the defensive gun use question. Middle of the road estimates shoot for that 500k to 700k number, the studies that go over 3 million have problems with a few people reporting multiple defensive gun uses so they tip the scale. So one study reported 5 million, which is exaggerated.
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The Moscow patriarch is a KGB/FSB stooge. Russia's religion isn't Christianity, it's the church that puts Soviet atheists on their murals.
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Yeah because all social media isn't colluding or anything. Ignore Twitter, it's not like it's not coming to youtube. Enjoy the makeup tutorials, because the content you like on this website might get banned one day.
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Not true. He was going to sign the deal with the EU but Putin forced him to cancel the plans by sanctioning Ukrainian goods. With Ukraine's economy held hostage he was forced to blow off the EU. There could be no middle ground because once you enter EU space you can't have a porous border with Russia. That's a fantasy. It's like the Brexit and the Northern Ireland border with Ireland, the UK leaving the EU creates a situation where NI could create an uncontrolled entry point into the EU. Easing up border control for Ukrainian goods would let Russia funnel goods into the EU without getting caught if such a "middle ground" existed.
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The count is for indirect fire. It includes mortars too but gets translated as artillery.
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It's an energy drink.
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So they just tell people this but there's nobody investigating?
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@WillBloodfarm So let me get this straight. The MMA promoter Pride FC had its owners told in no uncertain terms that whatever happened, if they did not close up shop Japanese media would keep tarnishing their reputation with exposes and investigative journalism into their connections to the Yakuza. To the point that when UFC CEO Dana White got to Japan after buying the rights to Pride FC, he realized he wouldn't be able to revive the brand because of the media hounds. But they won't investigate deaths and coverups...?
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@spazzypengin I've already got dunked on.
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Funny, Russian talk shows complained about spetsnaz worship, and how they were wasted in the frontline.
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The 4 missiles is only a limit without the Sidekick expansion program that extends it to 6. Also, missiles on a 4th gen are used for spoiler shots that are never meant to hit, just for the enemy to go defensive. With stealth, you can position yourself to have every missile be a kill shot. Hang 10 AMRAAMs on a 4th gen all you want, half of them won't be able to score kills on a purely statistical basis. It's not the slowest jet. A F-16 needs to punch afterburner to fly in formation with a F-35 in dry thrust according to F-16 pilots. Ground radar and AWACS doesn't make stealth irrelevant. It doesn't have limited AoA, it's in fact a nose pointer. Pilots describe it like a F/A-18 where the nose pointing authority can be used to defeat more nimble fighters. It's not bulkier than other modern fighters.
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@saquist 1. Okay. In the old days aircraft were made and only had the ability to fire AIM-9s and had to wait for Sparrow integration. Big deal. 2. Low probability of intercept radar. Also, there's other means of acquiring lock. 3. The F/A-18 doesn't have thrust vectoring. Or canards. Your "doubt" does not contradict real pilots. I don't know who taught you about aircraft but get a refund. 4. All the other aircraft carry external tanks so they're in a worse spot than the F-35.
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>You don't need to strike someone to assault them "BUD". Spitting on someone is considered assault. Therefore, you believe spitting is grounds to engage in battery? >No one actually witnessed the initial assault except the person on the phone Who admitted she couldn't tell who started the fight. >You don't tell someone to get off when you've grabbed or hit them first Prove it happened.
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Cope.
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@hankakah4180 Not all parts are interchangeable. The interchangeability means that the same factories can produce parts for all aircraft variants without requiring changes in their tooling, but it doesn't mean an aircraft can be converted from one variant to another. If I'm not mistaken only around 30% of the parts are interchangeable between the A and B.
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@hooplehead1019 fusion has been around the corner in the last 40 years.
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@Gabifuertes I think that the technical reason for no power connector to the back is that during manufacture all the components are inserted into place with the connector pins sticking out and then the motherboard is floated on a solder bath to connect everything in one step.
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The A-7 was almost as rugged and was much faster. But the Army demanded an aircraft slow enough to escort rotary wing aircraft.
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+Mior Akif Mior Farid that's an incorrect way of putting it. What you're saying is that you can have a piece of paper written by politicians saying that the flu can't exist to prevent you from catching it. Obviously the flu doesn't care, it can't even read. So you catch it anyway, but the law on the paper just made it illegal. You're not any less sick, but it's illegal. A law isn't an active measure of prevention, a law is a way to charge people with something so we can bring them to court. The equivalent to getting a vaccine would be kicking down the doors of every single gun owner and take their guns by force, shut down all machine shop operations, outlaw scrap dealers from selling steel alloys, licensing machinists and rationing the appropriate steel alloys and cutting tools on the basis of absolute need to prevent all unauthorized manufacturing of firearms. Would some cutting tools and appropriate alloys end up in the hands of people with home shops? Would some gun owners bury their guns and retrieve them later to sell in the black market? Yeah, some. But those would be preventive measures. And unless you're willing to do all of that, you can't claim to be the "vaccine" that cures gun violence. You're just a worthless piece of paper saying guns shouldn't exist.
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Mior Akif Mior Farid you can't even define the measures you are asking for let alone prove them to be efficient. What is an increased background check? What is a shady past? Any felony, drug use or domestic violence misdemeanor already nullifies your gun rights. Oh, people can keep their guns? Can you get that in writing? Because that sounds like when people could keep their healthcare plan. No, criminals do not use the legal means to acquire weapons. They skirt around regulation. How can you make it harder if they have no intention of following the law? It's like saying that if we lower speed limits criminals won't be able to flee from police.
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"of yours" I'm not American. You're right, it's a state issue because it falls under intrastate commerce. So it's left up to the state and many states don't want that. The federal government cannot enforce it until it becomes interstate. But my point was, what you just said isn't accurately described by the word "increased". How do you "increase" a background check? Some people call them "extended background checks" and to me that means something like extending their reach so they can check if you ran with scissors in kindergarten or something, extending the research they perform on the governmental lists. The more "accurate" nomenclature for what you want is "universal background checks" but you could just say "end private sales" - all sales go through the gun shop. That's essentially what you're asking for. Yeah, drugs shouldn't be regulated. The higher street price makes it profitable to murder over drugs, remember Al Capone and Prohibition? "Less" criminals have access to illegal drugs? You're joking, right? Criminals smuggle tons of the shit. In fact the high price pays for the expensive smuggling operations, if drug prices plummeted cartels would have trouble affording all the drivers, mules and bribes to the police. The fact is that drugs are dirt cheap where they're produced locally. The more middlemen in the way, the more expensive it gets and the more impure (and therefore less safe to consume) it becomes. Prohibition/War on Drugs increases murder rates because criminals aren't paying street price for the drugs. They're selling at that price, which means that they bought them for much cheaper - they're murdering each other over drugs exactly because profit margins are so high. And the people who smuggled them through Mexico and into the US, for example, paid even less than American gangs. Like, did you actually believe you have a point there when everyone with half a brain knows that decriminalization and treating drugs as a health problem rather than a crime problem will actually decrease hard drug use, overdoses and HIV/Hep C transmission? "how about 5000-10000 dollar fine and 10 year imprisonment" congratulations, you've probably deterred the tiny minority of collectors who are willing to break the law to privately collect historical guns or something and who wouldn't hurt anyone anyway. The people who buy guns to MURDER other people are already looking at 25 to life so 10 years is nothing to them. And by the way, we know that harder punishments do not necessarily prevent violent crime because it's widely known that states with capital punishment do not have lower murder rates as a result. "And if you lower the speed limit, cars would be slower thus making it harder for a escaping criminal to navigate" if cars are all moving at the same relative speed to each other (near zero unless someone is overtaking) it wouldn't make a difference.
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@Sam-hu3cw one small house cat
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I guess it's the colloquial way of saying "embracing the concept in a literal sense".
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lmao so it's only bad when an American works for peanuts, racist much?
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No. This was settled back then and the USAF chief of staff agreed to not meddle with rotary wing purchases.
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@johnthepreceptor3575 You didn't say anything. Having no home bases is a bad idea and the USAF is always on call for the GWOT.
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Over 600 F-35 deliveries achieved last year, with over 100 yearly production schedules. It's doing very well.
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The country building defensive weapons is currently attacking a nation.
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1/10 for getting me to reply. "clip drum magazines"? And yes, there is a right to own the same weapons as the military. They are not inherently more dangerous, because the military designs are just based on knowledge that existed in civilian firearms before.
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Shouldn't you make those choices? A study proving that smoking is bad for you isn't the nanny state. Banning you from smoking is a nanny state. And so what if you have unprotected sex with Cambodian transvestites? HIV seems like the appropriate Darwin Award. A government that is strong enough to prevent you from having unprotected sex is also a government strong enough to shoot you in the head for having sex with a man.
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You do know that fraud is illegal, right?
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Weirdest political protest ever, but it's only 6 more years.
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 @maritaschweizer1117 Since when? SDBs were purpose built for less collateral damage. There's no evidence for a cluster munition SDB.
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But a more offensive style would give the title to DDP on a silver platter. The awkward blitzes have caught many talented fighters because DDP is willing to just walk forward and clash bodies which gives him a free takedown. Fighting defensively punishes the awkward guy.
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Allah is clearly on Ukraine's side lmao
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@ibrahimcehajic Russians coasted off the success of Armenians, Hungarians, Ukrainians etc during the Soviet Union.
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@ericsuarez834 Stand against NATO? They're fighting an 8 year old army and hundreds of thousands of grocery baggers, lawyers, football coaches.
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@ericsuarez834 Ukraine did hold Russia back in 2014, the perfect raid counterpunched an advancing Russian force which would crush Ukrainian defensive lines and encircle a large amount of troops.
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I'm not from the US. I am against nonsensical gun laws.
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Most aircraft pile too much into the package at once. It works fine.
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@Rill_1 Non-fiat currency can't back an economy. You dream of deflation because your savings will be worth more, but that's a fantasy. Human activity generates far too much wealth for money to keep up, which is why expansion of money supply is necessary. A slight inflation is good because it promotes consumption as assets appreciate over time, deflation means that holding onto money is more profitable which collapses economic activity.
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Tons of dead and captured Russians. You look at the Russian side of the propaganda and refuse to accept that even Russian propagandists are starting to admit losses.
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It would deplete the US reserves of tungsten.
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Just deleted a troop filled building yesterday.
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They sent around 200k in the first batch, reinforced with an unknown number of contract soldiers, unknown number of reservists, unknown number of mercenaries, then 300k mobilized. Way more than 400k were sent so far.
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They already tried. East Ukraine has no water due to Russian attacks.
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 @TheGuyfromValhalla Being on a lost doesn't prove the crime.
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Yeah, it always starts like that. The TSA and the PATRIOT Act was also just meant to stop the bad terrorists.
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 @havable It's not ironic, have you ever heard libertarians? They're worse than leftists on how anti-US they get when it comes to the military ventures overseas.
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@TheTrueDeitel Most ancaps point to the use of the military to defend corporate interests as one of the top reasons to be antistate. "OG libertarians" sound more like ancaps than modern left-lib. I swear you people rarely leave your bubble.
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@ricomajestic You moved the goalposts. The 9/11 attack was a well financed attack on the US as retaliation for US intervention in the Middle East. The following attacks as retaliation for Afghanistan and Iraq were less organized and financed, plus had to go against a stronger surveillance apparatus. But countries like Spain and the UK suffered public transportation bombings as retaliation for their contribution to NATO efforts in the Middle East. And France was targeted by massacres that served as retaliation for actions against ISIS. So in the end, if any attacks were foiled it wasn't due to troop presence in Afghanistan or Iraq because terror cells moved around the world. When Qaddafi was killed and Libya went downhill, it became a hotbed for terror groups. Al Qaeda has cells in Yemen. Bin Laden spent a lot of time in Sudan before he asked the Taliban for asylum.
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The stupid tactics that depleted so much manpower, Kharkiv was steamrolled and Ukraine took in one week territory that had taken 6 months to capture.
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Would you support measures that would stop Islamic terrorism by refusing sympathy to peaceful Muslims? I know you don't, but let's not let the hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide stop you.
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But near the coast is where the water is. Large bodies of water provide an emergency heat sink. Even the reactor design, which was old, survived the earthquake and tsunami easily. The problem was that the generators and switchboards were put on the basements, which flooded. If they had been mounted uphill the pumps could have been restarted and the reactor cooled down.
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 @thisguy1141 You do understand people just lie, right? They have ulterior motives. How coincidental that all of these "don't care" types all defend a situation where Russia would win.
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@stevebreedlove9760 Don't slap a tag on your shirt saying "male feminist" for clout, that's all we're saying. Huge red flag.
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@s.ormgamalson6489 Unfortunately feminism has been co-opted by people who do not actually want equality.
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 @brokenwrench404 That didn't happen, though. Watch the Vice series in Eastern Ukraine and what happened when Ukraine retook towns from Russia in 2014.
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Not much different from building a car for the track despite not getting into the race pilot pipeline. The military side just tends to attrack more weirdos.
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@ofekk213 Not the Arie. A F-4 Phantom. With water+methanol injection to cool the engine and further compress the incoming air.
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Most of them were not destroying local businesses, and were in fact helped by business owners. Against the CCP you can't fuck around.
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He was wrong about Syria.
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@Jmoneyjc I remember 20 years ago there were 12 IP addresses inside NK. They obviously allow high ranking officials and hacker groups to access the internet. Kim Jong Un also studied in Switzerland as a child. They send their kids abroad to learn.
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Just dropping by to say that you can't outrun a bad diet. Exercise is vital for health and weight loss but the energy expenditure in the treadmill is easily undone by a cheat meal.
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Bullshit. Zuck was assblasted to no end. He looked like he was about to die, at least more than usual.
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TheFinnishBolshevik congrats for sharing the nationality with the world's best commie killing sniper.
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+Mstislaw AA I just thought it was funny not one but TWO self-professed Finnish individuals would defend the ideology that tried to buttfuck their country. But I guess that calling me autistic is how you deal with your own problems in life.
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They also pulled troops from the far east bases guarding the borders, sailors, strategic rocket forces guys, etc. who need replacements.
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In the end Kyle doesn't say "stay at home lol", he explains we need to use more realistic thresholds, factor advanced age into equation, have contingency plans for the elderly, etc. Better safe than sorry but the evacuation also took lives so the "risking people's lives" applies to either choice. And how many lives were ruined to save every life at risk? Perhaps hundreds. Loss of home and livelihood is a guarentee while lives saved are shadowed by uncertainty.
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 @MM-vs2et There's technical limitations on hardware. For example China depended on a Dutch company to sell them the machines that do the lithography.
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You can't just drop statements and assertively portray them as facts. What's your reasoning, the "common sense" you speak of?
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@danishbiochem Americans can't have bazookas and grenades at home. Not only are they Destructive Devices because you cannot own explosives encased in a container without asking the federal government for permission, you cannot keep and store explosives without an explosives license (which explosives sellers, mining companies and demolition workers have), asking local law enforcement for permission and have a bomb squad verify that you keep explosives in a storage magazine. So according to your own definition the US already has common sense.
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So instead of standing for your rights, you are dividing the community and allowing divergences to be the downfall of gun rights. You sir are not pro-gun at all. You're an elitist. Guns are for you and police officers, not the average Joe. Not even an average Joe with a popular youtube channel that makes more sense than any political campaign ever. You're a better anti-gunner than any other anti-gun and you're doing their job with your attitude.
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In Portugal the domestic airliner TAP had a data breach this week that exposed personal info, including emails and phone numbers. Obviously people looked at ".gov" emails in the database first and found the president and other politicians' personal info.
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Comparing the efficiency of commercial shipping lanes to a strait crossing is like assuming the short hop flights in Cessnas to islands benefit from all the economies of scale airliners flying Airbus do.
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It's sort of a meme. If you're speaking as a "Soviet" or "North Korean" character you add the "we will crush those capitalist pig dogs", if you're doing a Jihadist character you say "we will defeat the American pig dogs". I don't know where it started but it's a stereotype that non-native English speakers will call Westerners/capitalists "pig dogs" when speaking English.
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The cast AKs use castings on the locking lugs, bolt lugs, etc. This uses real AMD-65 forged parts which are safe.
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 @workingclassless84 WP is okay to use. It's a misconception that it can't be used - the criticism is towards indiscriminate firing on civilian areas.
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Russia's PMCs are actual private armies. American PMCs are slightly better armed mall cops.
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Embassy protection.
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@Rick-kw2ti How is the US Dollar not a bunch of Ponzi schemes?
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One fell overboard and another jumped after him in an attempt to rescue him.
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What deal? End wars forever?
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 @michelestefanini5466 That's the point. Almost nothing needs testing. We know it works.
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 @chazw6023 a bunch of instagram influencers?
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 @josephpeeler5434 Common sense? Why did Seymour Hearsh claim Jans Stoltenberg was an American agent since his teens? Or that explosives can be detected by salinity?
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 @kawaylao2956 That report is full of mistakes. Such as Norway using an aircraft they had not yet received.
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@Qvolepues The explosives were planted months prior to the war according to Hearsh. You're claiming that Norway planned an operation with a plane they didn't have. There was also no Norwegian P-8 in the area, it was an American one. There's also no explanation why the sonobuoy had to be dropped by aircraft rather than boat, or how Russians would detect the salinity in the explosives from hundreds of miles away. Or why Jans Stoltenberg was an American agent at age 16. The mix of gasses used in the diving apparatus was wrong.
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The US isn't making Ukraine the 51st state. We want Ukraine to be Ukraine.
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Which Russian airplane used it?
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@heyro3852 Bad faith argument. Scams were ran with money all the time. Here's this unregulated market - you send money to the Nigerian prince, you won't get it back.
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Why does anyone need an army? Is everyone inventing wars? Brazil? South Africa? Australia? Who are they planning to fight with their army? I demand everyone to disband their armed forces before we disband ours. Very reasonable request. The US pays back debt, that's precisely why new debt can be issued. Otherwise nobody would trust the US economy. You're way out if your depth in that topic.
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>George got away with murder, for now. AHAHAHAHHAAH. NO, REALLY? AHAHA. Who's going to get him, then? You? Good luck. If he's the cold blooded murderer you claim he is, wouldn't it be suicide to go after him?
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Azerbaijan used IAI Harop drones as anti-radiation weapons to protect the TB2s.
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@UltraSuperDuperFreak "so if you paid attention to infomation giving to you" - like the promised 2014 release? Or the promised 2015 release? Or the promised 2016 release? The information keeps changing. You're telling us to pay attention, I tell you to pay attention to the fact you have been consistently lied to and you're defending it.
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@VictorECaplon "Until 2015, they did not have the team to develop the tech required for this game" - why was that not disclosed in 2012?
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Clear optics are expensive and heavy, you need a larger drone. There's a reason why targeting pods are a million dollars.
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>You people bitch about 2 thing when it comes to illegal I'm not bitching at all, and I am not blaming anyone for the "problems". I'm just saying that freedom and illegal immigrants aren't related or mutually exclusive. If I am for freedom, should I be for accepting illegal immigration?
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You're comparing fighters to a bomb? Buddy you take out the launch aircraft, forget the bomb.
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Poland is a champ, incredible levels of support.
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@thedave8097 Literal Kremlin propaganda.
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@imrekalman9044 Yeah, here's how I know you're guzzling Russian propaganda. The "30% aid" was an out of context quote from a volunteer who has a non-profit organization and was running supplies into Ukraine. He did not have any hand on government supplies. He couldn't have handled weapons because that's illegal, it's arms trafficking. As a private citizen, obviously he had difficulties with crossing the border and properly distributing the aid to those who need it most. There's non-frontline troops who also need aid. There's stuff that gets lost in transit. There's cars stopped at the border. He also stated the situation had improved. But CBS (not the NYT) edited his quote to appear right after a discussion on weapons. That made it seem the Western support to Ukraine was getting lost. They issued a retraction for that blunder. Russian propaganda said only 30% of western support makes it to the front line. So I know you're parroting Kremlin propaganda because I know how the sausage was made - I know who whipped up those fake news and I know who fed them to you. And you're here thinking you're smarter than everyone else. But I already know what your thoughts are before you can even think them.
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It wasn't magical anything. Even a Russian propaganda channel filmed a crash site of a gas cannister. Chlorine was used.
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I think he turned every cellphone into an echolocation device because you could see a blueish video feed from every phone. Because bats
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Javelins exist to take out Russian tanks. Switchblades are a niche. Only a dozen HIMARS were sent. The claim that stocks are depleted is clickbait.
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@Screzzex the FLIR pod shows nothing out of the ordinary
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@angelgjr1999 That's not how it works. We spend MILLIONS to see the invisible with neat machines that augment our capabilities, but they're still flawed. Red eyes in camera photos is not a sign of demonic posession, but tech having limits.
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@InTimeTraveller They were carrying RPGs. The Apache gunner was defending a US convoy from incoming fire.
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@nitehawk-cg6jb How did the pilot know it stood still? Optical illusions are a thing.
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@InTimeTraveller Yeah, Wikileaks made their name off flawed reporting. If you actually look it up the men are armed. Photos of the scene taken after US troops arrived show the weapons.
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Now that there's a commercially available gun that shoots it, maybe more ammo will be sold? You're essentially describing the chicken or the egg riddle, nobody is making enough to stock shelves if the only customers for 4.6 are full auto rental ranges.
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Trouble is, the tagging gun was made for the police in Britain. I'd rather the people were using lead for legitimate self-defense (like the Korean store owners in the LA riots) than giving the police the right to execute rioters. However, it would be hilarious if the police had rubber slugs and rubber buckshot. Why tag people with paint if you can just give everyone bruises?
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That's a lie. The USAF acquired 700 of them and the GAO slammed the Air Force for buying so many A-10s without a justification for such a high number. If they hated it they wouldn't have bought so many.
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Cruise missiles don't have a pilot. Drones don't have a pilot. Helicopters hide behind terrain.
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@sammcbride2464 The point is that your arguments don't apply to the items you're enumerating. Cruise missiles are literally expendable, they're meant to blow up. Drones are considered less of a liability if lost. And the slower speed, smaller size and stealth shaping of drones makes them harder to detect. Helicopters can hit without getting hit by using the sensors in their mast to look over the horizon. They can for example target SPAA from behind the ridgeline and shoot a guided missile at the anti-air defenses without them being able to shoot the helicopter down. All the other piloted planes aren't as vulnerable as the A-10.
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@coreytaylor5386 We'll negotiate the return of the weapons. Tons of generals want to retire and not face charges in Nuremberg 2.0.
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@@renegade7056 There's never been such a nuke sold to any terror organization or rogue nation. The warlords would thank Ukraine for their new power.
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@therion961 The cartoon dogs broke your mind, twitter is not real they can't hurt you.
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Zelensky doesn't matter. You people think that just because Putin is your daddy that presidents are gods to everyone else. Zelensky could be deposed and Ukraine would still fight.
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@Oldsmobility98 Cope lol the ATAMCS strike wiped out a helicopter base. Those that didn't burn to ash looked like someone had magdumped a Saiga full of buckshot on them.
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@japaneserequired6314 No, but Ferrari would face bankrupcy and adapt to the market. Ford made the Mustang an EV. Think about it.
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Expensive test. Wagner killed Russian pilots in this sh1tshow. They're hard to replace.
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Yeah they just put centrifuges in a hardened bunker dug into a mounted and denied IAEA inspections for the bit. It was a really funny joke and we ruined it by taking it seriously.
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@Nick-yv1wy It's about the act, not the target of the act.
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The MIC is a welfare queen. The MIC is not capitalist for it depends on state subsidy to exist.
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@ChairmanMo Because it's falling apart from old age. It cost 2 billion to remake the wings.
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@ChairmanMo Because the company went out of business in the early 2000s. It's essentially a 1960s design. No point in starting over.
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The A-10 has proven useful against insurgents with no air defense.
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It's called Trinitite and many took pieces as a souvenir.
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Kyle skipped from plant worker deaths during the disaster to long term consequences. It was not the best way to deliver.
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@bfure1 Actually it's 80% of the rounds land within a 12 meters of the aim point from 4000 feet of slant range. That's more accurate than the Vulcan.
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A DV misdemeanor automatically takes away gun rights. No need to be a felony.
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That thing came down at Mach Phuck
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Jellied gas was used in flamethrowers prior to Vietnam.
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Sargon thought he could handle big boy politics and got gutted like a fish. We can all laugh at it but it was his honest mistake. You don't care, which is why more men like this will continue to grift us. Because some people think that being above it all and not caring is cooler than drawing lines in the sand and enforce the bare minimum of standards.
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@HollowWeird What crap did Sargon do? I only remember his RL politics stint. Tim's case is more similar to sxephil than Goldman/Murphy. You're trying to place way too many things under the same umbrella. While I don't recommend Disney+, you get exactly what you paid for. I didn't get grifted. We should care.
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@HollowWeird Okay. It's their content. There's nothing wrong with creating content and getting paid for it.
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Guns are not defensive weapons? Then the police only exists to attack? Guns only serve to impose fear and intimidate? Then the job of the police is to oppress us? If what he said couldn't be used against gun owners, we'd see a Occupy proportions crowd trying to get him out of his job.
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And yet Peskov says he doesn't know where the borders are. Aka "If we draw a line Ukraine will cross it and capture our land, so we can't say anything"
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It was a consulate annex. Not the consulate itself according to the sources online.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po7sX-rKuQs
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How do nukes do any of that? If anything, it would mean Russian nukes falling into the hands of a Belarus coup.
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Yes.
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You can read the report. Skip to the conclusion page. It's essentially "I'm noticing flight regimes where I lose performance, please remove software restrictions and performance will improve".
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But there is a point. If you run it as a benchmark, the results you get do not guarantee you similar results in games in general. Is it because other games are shitly optimized? Yes! Does it mean Ashes results are equivalent to real world? No.
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@Evaldas Pauliukonis Those regions were taken in the early days of the war. Russia only has partial control of Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk. Also, recent Ukrainian advances are threatning Luhansk and the north bank of the Dnipr in Kherson so the Russians are about to lose more.
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Apparently nobody wants to enter the urban meatgrinder and is happy to shell/rocket the city into submission from the suburbs.
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There's a worse seal so gas blows by the sides of the bullet. With rifling, you do lose some of the energy, but the bullet being engraved actually makes it harder for the gasses to escape as the jacket is tight against the barrel surface.
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 @morlov4076 the AIM-120D range makes a Phoenix style missile redundant.
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@martinilopez1 lel Russia can't fight without muh nooks.
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@patf92 Sorry I confused you for someone else in my notifications.
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@masstv9052 "until they are forced to close due to lack of capital" - You're treating this as a foregone conclusion without the premises to support it. "Then they can set the prices at whatever they wish after they've crushed competition" - Yes. And when they set prices above what the market supports, anyone can come in and take the market for themselves. You're treating a crushed competition as something permanent. Instead of like a mold that just grows whenever you stop cleaning. "they can force retailers into selling their products only" - This is very true. Which is why it would still be possible to engage in direct sales to skip the retailer. Especially with the internet. "A larger company has the capital and cash flow that new and smaller competition doesn't have" - Yes. Now why would you need "cash flow" when your product sells itself by virtue of not fleecing the customer and doesn't need massive advertising campaigns? As long as you don't do something stupid like grow your operations too fast, you're golden.
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@AO-xc8mz After those lawsuits they created a company that was operating in Ohio and controlled through trusts to retain their monopoly. It's not BS. Back then plenty of companies were state subsidized. Rail, shipping, etc. If they were losing money then how was Rockefeller filthy rich?
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@AO-xc8mz Apple is actually increasing prices to compensate for dwindling sales. If you go to the Apple board of directors proposing a price cut they'll skin you alive. Is "fairness" better if the products underperform and cost too much? An unfair market where I get a good product for a good price seems better than one where I have 50 choices, but all of them suck. Telecom markets are the opposite of free.
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@AO-xc8mz You do realize that there's an entire federal agency called the FCC, right?
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Like others have mentioned, those NG personnel are most likely medical staff in the military but their main job is the medical field in the civilian sector. So they'll be taking their own jobs away by being temporarily pulled from their civilian job and then do it through the NG. That's the insanity.
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It's not free, it cost billions in taxpayer money.
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Only 1 or two crimes weere committed with legal MG's. And if you can't get new ones, they are banned, duh. The pre-ban Four Loko can be stored or sold on ebay, but you can't get new cans. So the booze+caffeine Four Loko is indeed banned.
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Why would they play? Luhansk and Donetsk's People's Republics? Would they want Hong Kong People's or Xinjiang People's Republics on their hands? Russia creating separatist movements in Ukraine is exactly the kind of thing China is building camps to avoid.
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That would go incredibly wrong.
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@RodGustavson "The ACLU is advocating for those that can’t get vaccinated" / "It makes it less likely to spread" - You've just admitted you're wrong. If those who can't get vaccinated are out and about, they're meeting tons of people who can spread every day. That's a dice roll for every person, every day, they're bound to get a six. Also, many places do NOT have exemptions so if you can't get vaccinated you're going to get fired or be expelled from your school.
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 @dealwolfstriked272 and if I'm not mistaken the backseater did two interviews with Mick West and she doesn't seem as adamant about what she saw.
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@dealwolfstriked272 Brand new radar was funky, Fravor saw something unrelated. Big whoop. The FLIR does not corroborate the radar phenomenon (sudden altitude drop) nor the sudden disappearance from visual. Three separate behaviors captured by three sets of instruments.
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Elaborate.
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They don't seem to be able to.
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Completely different.
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@movieyyy It's sea water. It has salt. Drinking it is dangerous as salt water does not hydrate you (you'll probably throw up) and it damages the soil. China already dumps radioactive water so their risk is zero.
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Phillip Morris donated 500.000 cigarette packs to the Ukrainian Army. Now we know where they're dropping them.
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Because they trust him to return the cards in case they need to be RMA'd?
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@TheQualityrkc everyone deserve healthcare. Doctors provide it, not us. Demand the doctors to treat for free rather than asking us to pay their outrageous prices. That's what you deserve, asking what you need from people who can provide it and hope for their charity abd mercy. Forcing others to do things or pay for them? You don't have a right to that.
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The only one where mass shooters are treated like anti-heroes and glamorized by the media.
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Putin claimed it was Russian territory and he would defend it by any means necessary. Now they leave? Lol
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But that also locks one to a generation of graphics for the same time it takes for the CPU to be outdated. If more devs make use of APIs to offload the work between multi GPUs one would be able to use the expansion slots to keep the system up to date as the APU deals with less demanding tasks and the newer cards do the heavy lifting.
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Yep. Rate of speed would be acceleration. Rate of closure is more apt.
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Imagine having principles being something with a time limit.
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@FBI-fedburofinv Blind to what crimes? Also, Whataboutism.
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@user-ux9nc2hu3z What does that have to do with the fact that we can't have records of war crimes of places we haven't gone to?
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We'd still have to bribe the anti-diver dolphins.
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The Dutch want blood after their citizens were murdered by Russia in the MH17 shootdown. Do not underestimate a grudge. They might not show up to the Hague for their trial, but the Dutch will be satisfied with making other Russians pay in blood.
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@MaxKissler I'm glad you can do autopsies from thousands of miles away.
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Those weren't meat waves. Meat waves only make sense in the modern world where technology like drones prevents bunching forces together.
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I knew about several of these topics independently and never tied them together. It all makes sense now.
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Joe Rogan has a bias, nothing that can be done about it.
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That's the point. People understand the struggle.
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Zelensky only tried to join NATO when Russia massed troops at the border. Zelensky tried everything to get Putin to stop but the demands were basically to shut down the entire army. A robber breaks into your house, and promises to leave if you remove the locks from your door. Exactly how would you trust him to simply not open your door tomorrow night?
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NATO peacekeepers were taken hostage and the influx of refugees was a genuine concern for Europe.
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@stitch77100 a stealth bomber that wipes out fighters at a 20:1 rate at Red Flag? That's a fighter.
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S-400s are a lot like onions. You can just peel the layers off.
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@BlueChipAllure I won't cry tears for a bunch of decoy drones.
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@BlueChipAllure Not one has been claimed by S-400, and it's probably gonna stay that way.
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If I moved to the US and started a family there, I'd definitely send my kids to university on my home country. It's probably cheaper, too.
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 @3bSneaky_ The car is your car. The Abrams isn't yours.
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The general staff of the Russian armed forces confirmed it.
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So Iran lied?
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@m1a1abramstank49 Not to mention that the F-117 broke lock twice, and they only attempted a third lock because they knew there were no SEAD aircraft at the time due to observers reporting aircraft take offs from Aviano, Italy and thus wouldn't get a HARM fired at them. Even then, out of the two missiles one also lock track and the second missed, detonating by proximity fuse.
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Bruce Simpson (known for the youtube channels xjet and rcmodelreviews) wrote a guide in the 2000s. His model cost 500-600 in Australian dollars, non inflation adjusted.
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The NGAD is a F-22 replacement, and the F-15EX is both a bone being tossed at Boeing by their friends in government, a way to keep military manufacturing busy, and a source of fresh F-15s that can then be passed down to the air national guard.
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How is the phone company not comparable?
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Good thing that Russian defenses were sold to so many countries, F-16s already took them out.
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@FUCKYOUTUBEANDITSIDIOTICHANDLE "nations without airforce" because they were destroyed on the ground and the few that stood their ground got splashed. Air to air kills (which can only be acomplished against an air force) clearly show Western aircraft to be dominant. Queue the "monkey model" cope.
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How the hell are they going to shoot one down?
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Don't leave the house then. The institutions in charge of motor vehicles and air travel are going to get you killed. Never mind, your house was built up to code too and probably projected by architects and engineers. You know how those institutions can't be trusted. Leave the house too. By your logic literally no technology can be trusted, not just nuclear power. You're throwing out the baby with the bath water.
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 @gregoryfilin8040 your way of life is subsidized by US military spending. Prepare to live under Amish standards once the US Navy stops enforcing freedom of navigation across the world.
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@vii7031 Russia is fighting Ukraine. And losing.
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Russia wasn't invaded.
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Russia knows the conditions for negotiation.
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I guess they may have been told to chant something patriotic so they said "thank you (to the guys)" instead of supporting this nonsense.
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@christianvachon2235 First, that's the Russian excuse. We know their strikes are woefully inadequate in terms of accuracy, yet they nail a smuggled weapons cache? Stupid things? How did the weapons arrive to the port during the blockade?
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@christianvachon2235 How was it a blow? You literally provide no evidence, you're just telling a tale. How did it get past Istanbul?
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@christianvachon2235 "How they got them was unclear" - You mean it was made up. "it could have been via either Bulgaria, or Romania and not from Istanbul" - Then how come this wasn't done before? "For the US, that meant a heavy loss in money" - Well, Russia already lost more in the Saki air base. "Russia had more ways of tracking weapons transfers than known" - Pure conjecture. You have not proven there were weapons, or that Russians knew there were weapons. "Russia was very adamant that they would not allow NATO weapons transfers to Ukraine and destroy them" - NATO weapons still clapping their cheeks every day, though. "sealing of the coasts prevented weapons transfers close to the conflict zones" - Weapons have been entering Ukraine since day one. "The Russians issued their statement and its likely true" - It's a lie like everything they say. They offer zero evidence and lie through their teeth every day. "But Ukraine is currently understocked" - Damn and still destroying Russian stockpiles with precision. Absolute Chads, those Ukrainians. "I am not trying to excuse the Russians but explain what is happening." - Your explanation is based on believing everything the Russians say, uncritically.
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If it wasn't for the war they would have jobs and wouldn't worry about empty promises of 72 virgins. When you can't make a living and your town has been bombed out you'll accept the fairly tales.
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"It's far smarter to go with the plane that can do the job well enough and build a lot of that than to spend more and get less. The US knew this in WW2" - by that logic the P-51 Mustang wouldn't have existed. Why bother with the Merlin engine? Just put something more reasonable in there.
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They're using the lockdown to dig up all the dogs he buried.
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@pheonyxior_5082 Adapted to what? Most of the proposed gun laws are about shafting the legal owners, not actual murderers. The NRA isn't in the way. They actually supported a lot of gun control laws.
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 @ChinaIsNotOurEnemy Phased out? And replaced by what?
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They can easily access western media, but only people who already have a bone to pick with the government do that. Most prefer to assume everyone is lying, so they don't trust Russian media but also don't bother looking for the alternative. They become "apolitical".
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@Gum_Cuzzler My grandmother refuses it and I guarantee she saw much more hardship than the average American from the same generation. In the years before the polio vaccine was introduced, 3000-1000 people died from it. In a country with 150 million people. Half of their brothers weren't dying. If you're going to make a point, at least don't make it apocryphal.
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@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz The secret is letting others get suckered into buying first gen. If a product can't survive the first gen issues, it probably didn't deserve to exist.
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@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz Like I said, if they had one shot to fake it till they made it with the second or third gen, and they blew it... It deserved to die off.
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@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz If you can't monetize your teething problems you're pretty bad at your first run. If your product could succeed, it would be better in the hands of a company that knows what they're doing.
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Most people are naturally averse to radical change and would rather deal with the devil they know, so a centre-right position is more popular than wanting revolution. More news at 11.
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What would be the point of removing android code?
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Dozens of countries? There's what 192 countries in the world, there's bound to be a few dozen lead by batshit insane people.
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The Ukrainian forces have shared footage of this, they use drones to find the counter-drone antenna, stay outside the range, sight for the artillery and they fire a barrage at the counter-drone antenna.
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What power vacuum? Also the invasion happened under Biden.
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Before leaving, the base would have to have gone into lockdown. They'd notice the civilians who work there and whatnot being sent home.
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I also spray aerosolized pathogens. It's called a sneeze. More effective than high altitude deliveries of pathogens which will be destroyed by UV before they reach the ground.
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This, but unironically.
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@evviolet8370 Most people who die are well past their breeding age.
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@jsmcmxlvii "This war is draining NATO resources" - NATO has not yet sent a single Western jet fighter or naval vessel. We're sending artillery ammo and Javelins. The majority of aid are old armored vehicles like the M113s, Humvees and MRAPs. It's you who doesn't get it. The Javelins exist precisely to destroy Russian tanks. We send those. They destroy Russian tanks. Who else would we use Javelins on? Nobody else has a larger tank force. We're sending a lot more artillery than we thought would be necessary. But that's because we launch cruise missiles and air strikes in wars. We depend less on artillery than Russia or Ukraine. The claim that NATO is depleted is nonsense.
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Jack Strawb This is missing critical information. There's 4 or 5 brands of toilet paper in every store I go. Maybe those 113 companies aren't all overlapping in terms of distribution and if I move away from my home town I start to see other brands. That's 113 brands providing something we need while employing people so they can feed their kids. Is this wrong?
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BS. They're still having cases but simply downplaying the issue.
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The warhead is exactly like the one that crashed in Russia last year. You are comparing nosecone to warhead. But the picture of the crashed Khinzal proves the warhead inside has that shape.
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There's more vehicles than just tanks that have been destroyed. The weapons also have to be distributed among the troops, you can't give 500 soldiers a Javelin and tell them to find a tank. You have to arm thousands of people for them to be ready when tanks come in.
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@andrej13666 Bay of Pigs was BEFORE the Cuban missile crisis. Learn some history before coming here and embarassing yourself.
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Buying computers is cheap, restoring their depleted soil is expensive. They essentially bankrupted themselves preparing to take over South Korea. And intensive monoculture ruined their already rocky soil.
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@valyshknee4203 If the government proposes to increase penalties for internet and phone scams targeting the elderly, I don't need to know where the scams are happening. Helping people in need is a good thing.
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 @anteerceg14 Germans were carpet bombed.
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Just a month ago Reason interviewed the director of Combat Obscura, an anti-war documentary. You can perform searches inside a youtube channel, did you know?
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A grand total of a handful per country. Did you know there are also US Marines deployed in Moscow right now? They're the embassy guard. Those handfuls of guys are protecting diplomatic buildings and their staff.
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You can't trigger a volcano by releasing the pressure. If you punch a hole in the rock the gasses come out instead of building up.
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Cope. Most of that money goes towards freeloaders like you. You don't pay taxes.
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Lmao the winning team? Russia comitted hara kiri with this stunt.
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Luhansk won't last a week at this pace.
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The USA didn't do it. A guy with a made up anonymous source said the USA did.
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@michaelwolgast6993 "I do not know that the 36 was likely to blow up in your face Just because of water inside" - Oh boy you got fooled by HK propaganda. Yeah, conveniently ignore that the HK rifle was allowed to drain for an extra second and that the HK 416 used was a OTB model. Not all HK 416s have the full suite of OTB modifications because one of them, like the reduced chamfer around the chamber, causes ammo compatibility issues.
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There's only 3 grams dilluted in massive volume of water. It's essentially impossible to separate.
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To be fair, Stephen Thompson was trained by his father and he's known as one of the nicest guys ever.
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There' simply no way to back a modern economy on gold. That kind of stuff is specifically targeted at those who haven't got the memo and think gold is going to save everything.
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@Destination_Euphoria What does that guy have to do with the 2022 war? He was an interim president just to warm the seat until elections.
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@Destination_Euphoria No, I am not talking about Yanukovych. Yanukovych was not "dethroned" by a coup. The government had a vote. Yanukovych definitely did not prefer to keep Ukraine non-aligned. He was going to put Ukraine on the path to EU membership. But he was threatened by Putin imposing sanctions on Ukrainian goods. There was no pro-West government installment. The government had a vote and scheduled elections. Happens a lot in European governments, it's not a coup.
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@MrChickennugget360 the US has been sponsoring shitstirring in the middle east for decades, way before 2004
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+Sasuke Uchiha "Terrorist can always get more people because most people in the Middle East have lost at least 1-3 family members to Russian, America and Western military occupation, not to mention having brutal dictator like Assad" - dude if anything brutal dictators kept the peace. Saddam was removed, Iraq becomes hotbed of terrorism. Qaddafi was removed, Libya becomes hotbed of terrorism. If Assad gets toppled the US wins - Qatar can sell natural gas to Europe and they give Putin the middle finger.
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The convoy is long enough that striking the first and last vehicle would make absolutely no sense, striking the rear vehicle is done to trap all vehicles by preventing them from backing out. If the convoy is as long as the sat pictures shown seem to indicate, they can't back out for that many miles like a huge game of snake. It's simply faster to overtake and the convoy follows the new lead. Always striking the lead would make more sense as it would create roadblocks and have the aditional effect of forcing the rest of the convoy to look at the wrecks and burned bodies.
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Underrated comment.
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Really blowing up. Hope they blow up more!
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He bought the images. He just can't show them on youtube.
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If you flip it upside down and make the bolt carrier also the fixed firing pin, sure.
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Why hasn't Russia done that, then?
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How well maintained is the mothballed equipment? Artillery is still artillery, but there's photos of D30 guns with the breech cracked. No offense, but Ukraine is getting steel on steel first hits on a regular basis. You can say "I couldn't do that, we used it as an area weapon" well but area weapons do not suffice. They need to hit the Russian artillery close enough or else it can be recovered and repaired.
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Hitler had his country bombed relentlessly by Americans and Brits.
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It wasn't a cluster bomb. Each submunition seemed to be independently targeted.
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Ukrainian air force already raided Russian home territory.
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@Milivoy84 the F-35 dominated adversaries at Red Flag. It's important to consider that the evolution of all aspect heat seeker missiles changed the priorities of close range fighting, there was a huge emphasis on rate fighting but now the ability to point your nose is more important. And pilots say the F-35 almost fights like a F/A-18 with it's ability to pull high AoA. For the stealth aspect, the F-35 will need it the most when it's "kicking the doors in" and it's perfectly possible for the F-35s with bomb loadouts to be escorted by A2A F-35s. In 1991 the F-117s had to go in by themselves and it worked. It's extremely likely that the F-35 will knock out radar and even destroy fighters on the ground in a first strike using stealth before it needs to be sent in with wing pylons.
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@Milivoy84 Every side was playing the misinformation game, Zoltan Dani initially claimed that they had made field modifications to radars to defeat stealth but later recanted that they were simply using the radar on the lowest frequency available and this was common during the war. "Second one fell on US friendly soil so there were no wreckage to be shown and ofc no reason to acknowledge it officially." - This would require a conspiracy where the USAF hid the loss from the records by having an aircraft fly home twice so that it could be observed and only one loss counted, plus somehow keep the GAO from discovering an aircraft was missing from inventory. Additionally, there's a F-117 in a museum that suffered missile damage but was patched up and kept flying until retirement. "even today it can be fond that something fell and left a mark in that area" - Strange that erosion didn't wipe the marks after 20 years but still, could have been any aircraft. "even if only one was shot down, idea that a stealthy plane that is made for suppressing AA defense WAS detected and shot is just showing that stealth isn't a clocking device or invisibility armor." - It was never meant to be such a thing. Reducing a radar cross section is extremely helpful because radar power decreases by the inverse square. At one point when you are close enough to a stealth aircraft the radar return has enough energy to be picked up on radar. "Serb AA was operational until the end of conflict so the plane that is made for ONLY one role - failed in it" - The Nighthawk continued flying and dropping bombs. It didn't fail. "And idea that Su57 will not enter production or that it will be bad is totally wrong" - Why? Even if it enters production, it's going to take years to catch up.
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@Milivoy84 "It can't replace A10" - Why? "That's why it has stand off munitions loadout." - Anything is a stand off munition in the age of GPS and buddy laser guidance. "Also B21 wouldn't be developed if current US planes were still undetectable for the enemy radars" - That's ridiculous. The B-21 is the expected replacement for the B-1, B-2 and B-52. That's a good reason to develop a plane, it needs to replace an ageing fleet.
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The F-16 did 3x the CAS missions the A-10 did during the second half of the GWOT. The A-10 barely does CAS anymore
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It's a mandate the moment OSHA had to get involved. Also, you're deflecting unchecked government power towards unchecked corporate power. That's cowardice.
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@adalbertoruize Like I said, cowardice. You changed your tune the moment someone pushes back.
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Which aircraft would get close enough to deploy an anti radar missile? Ukrainian MiGs have to get close to the frontline and pitch up to fire HARMs into frontline radars. Would Russian venture near Kiev without getting shot down?
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@arbelico2 So why haven't they done it?
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Because of an accident?
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+Pudget I am an anarchist and I'm against gun control. You tried a strawman but we do really exist.
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 @camokoy So train them wrong, send them into battle, they'll mess up under stress. Good idea.
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"Ukraine used an old tank once!" Jesus...
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But crime is already rising in Russia due to released Wagnerites. There's videos of former Wagnerites in public causing problems and beating up cops until OMON arrives. Murder and armed crime rates in the regions near Ukraine are rising due to the violent people coming back from the war.
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@jackandblaze5956 As stated in the original comment, they make the bulk of their money from people who aren't health conscious. That's not a Randian notion. Ayn Rand's argument would be more akin to the greed and self-interest being the real charity, not who to turn away or serve.
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@Sunny45553 The explosion will be near the net. Just put the net where explosions are acceptable, away from buildings.
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They can't even move towards Mykolaiv.
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@Thea-gj2or I cared. Shut up.
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 @wallingnaga6563 the US gave Afghanistan MANPADS after the USSR gave SA-2 SAMs to Vietnam.
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@jerryle379 That doesn't detract anything from my point. The USSR explicitly used aid to kill US servicemen, and covertly used SAM operators and fighter pilots. The US covertly gave Mujaheddin Stingers. You need to learn history. The Taliban did not exist. They came from the Pakistan border area AFTER the USSR left.
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No, it's slightly off center because the barrel that fires is on the "side" rather than the top or bottom. So the recoil aligns with the plane centerline. The forward landing gear is actually off center to allow for the gun to be in this position.
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@mountsj It's also sad that some of their employees are using their freedom to stand against freedom.
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@mountsj I'm not a BRCC employee :)
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Why would Putin obey Trump?
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I watched pretty long MGS4 videos over the last year. Looking forward to a new one.
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"and the most advanced air defenses have been removed from the board" - Which is impossible nowadays. "I personally think we need these aircraft well past 2050" - That's just not happening. The "youngest" A-10 was manufactured in 1984. It will be 40 years old in two years. Aircraft cannot fly forever. "But a lot of the threats aren't modern" - The Soviets made air defenses to deal with the A-10 in the 1970s and 1980s. A lot of non-modern threats exist specifically to splash A-10s.
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@RickySpanish12344 They didn't do amazing in Iraq, six of them got shot down. Insurgents in Afghanistan did not have the means to shoot down aircraft, the OA-X program was considered precisely to deal with insurgents in those circumstances - it was a program for a turboprop like the Super Tucano or AT-6B.
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Same. I have heard that the point is relying on future convictions. I don't buy that, that implies that they will get arrested in the following couple of weeks, which is a long shot, and it assumes that all rioters are hardened criminals, which they aren't.
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@NafUuII Territory? Look at the WW2 maps over time. The Soviet Union lost territory like nobody's business. Germany gave it back. Gesture of good will.
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"pay doctors more" - but medicare offloads their costs through legal mandate. How are doctors gonna get paid more when medicare offloads the costs into private customers?
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@EnriqueVivancoH Lenin did not create Ukraine. Ukraine declared itself independent and fought the Bolsheviks prior to the Soviet Union existing.
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@JoeOvercoat What he said is that there's a point in the tank that is shaped to act as a no return valve so that the pump is sucking fuel rather than air in case the fuel sloshes around. Gravity would not pull the fuel in that sutuation.
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 @Chaosoftheunicorns Since when do they need examples?
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@PK-lz4ho Advanced weapons systems do not make up for other weaknesses.
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Several bases were struck today. It's not base security. Ukraine is hitting them with missiles inside Russian territory and the Russian missile defenses can't stop them. Russia is pulling aircraft out of Crimea. Forget security. They know they'd get hit again.
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Remember when mass gatherings to protest wouldn't cause spread, because racism is the real virus? Miracles.
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I have played violent videogames before I was a teen. I've never killed anybody. I'm not saying that parents should just buy M rated games to their children but millions of them are exposed to violent videogames and they never killed anyone. Just like if I took those SSRI drugs doesn't mean I'll kill people. It's a combination of factors that pushes people over the edge. Videogames have been investigated for two decades, let's investigate the drugs NOW.
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Hunter Vibin'
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Aggressive neutrality Swiss style is covering the mountains in bunkers and rigging every bridge. Not making satire hit pieces. How can your "Switzerland" criticize Ukraine for defending itself like Switzerland would?
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America is still better? Depends on location. A lot of places in the US are significantly worse than many other countries.
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I forgot he was still around. Rarely breaks 30k views per upload despite almost 1.2 million subs.
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@Daragh Kiernan But if you're given a position of authority on a certain subject it stands to reason that you should have some kind of knowledge.
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@TheMisleduser "Who gives a fuck what nomenclature they use to describe them?" - Because the nomenclature is being used as an emotional argument to sway people's opinions. "Would it be different if they said "we need to ban semi automatic carbine length rifles with detectable magazines."" - Kinda. People would actually have to put their brain in gear rather than assuming that the government is protecting them from the end of the movie Commando.
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@jman75234 "america is right up amongst the top when it comes to fire arm deaths per capita" - It's not even in the top 10.
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@Daragh Kiernan "They only need to know their capabilities, fire rate, magazine size etc." - Okay. Did they ever mention fire rate numbers or where the limit is? Or do they just call them assault weapons to make people believe they're evil? Also, rifle magazine sizes are restricted to 5 rounds in Canada. I seriously doubt there's an issue with fire rates considering that a reload is necessary every 5 rounds. "Names of the guns aren't even particularly important." - But they literally banned weapons... by name. They went over gun catalogs and copy pasted every single name they found. They even banned an airsoft replica, coffee and a website because of how rushed they were in trying to copy names... "Call it what you want 'assault weapon' or whatever. If it can theoretically cause the same amount of mass murder as the weapons involved in all these mass shootings then they should be banned." - A pump action shotgun can theoretically cause the same amount of mass murder. In the Virginia Tech shooting the shooter used two handguns. Killed 34 if I remember correctly. So basically, ban every single type of gun? "Assault weapon' is a catch all term for these in the minds of those who oppose them." - But like I pointed out, if your "catch all" catches everything, there's no point. just say you want to ban all guns. I'll actually respect that. I'd rather talk to honest people who hate my guts and want the cops to kick my door down and shoot me in the head because I like guns, than talk to manipulative liars.
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Because they're liars. They shelled Donetsk with 152mm artillery and claimed it was 155mm CEASAR. They burned their own prison camp and said it was HIMARS.
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@spartenkiller456 It also has nothing to do with the subject. The OP seemed to imply the sea accidents involving F-35s were due to engine failures but they weren't.
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@puhelimentili805 I actually completely stopped watching those. And I do recommend people stop watching them too, if they want to keep making them relevant they're free to do so. But I think RT, CNN and Fox all deserve the same, which is cease to exist.
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@yam2050 "but there's a reason why majority of the world buys Russian military hardwares.. because they are cheap and rugged." - Not really. Poorer countries and countries with bad relationship with the West buy Russian because of cheapness, and because nobody would sell them better technology. Most of that "rugged" hardware fails constantly or is left in disrepair because of the maintenance nightmares.
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@PyromaN93 Russian fighters also typically have half the engine life of a Western fighter.
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Winter in the Nothern hemisphere means they have the long nights there right now. You have to go to the South Pole to see the 24h sun. But yes my father saw the midnight sun when he was in Norway 20 years ago.
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@crhu319 The DPR assaulted Debaltseve the day after Minsk II was signed. Russia sees agreements as the enemy putting its guard down. Russia always tries to win with suckerpunches.
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What do you mean containment vessels? Hydrogen "pooled" up in the roof and deflagrated. There was no containment, it was just the roof of the building trapping H2. It would have leaked out if it didn't catch fire.
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Cope. Zelensky was a pro-peace Russian speaker. He wanted peace with Russia, that's why he was elected over Poroshenko and cancelled his weapons projects. Russia deserves no respect. The war ends when they leave.
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@tacioob2337 Lie. There's videos of him going to the front in 2019 and confronting Ukrainian soldiers.
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@tacioob2337 Cope. Russia defeated by a puppet. Embarrassing.
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@tacioob2337 So Russia was fooled by America? Russia is funding wars and coups. 2014 wasn't a coup.
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Who's "we", Harib?
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Terrorism is the use of terror tactics (as the name implies) as leverage for political gains. The bombing wasn't meant to terrorize anyone. It was meant for a person, who can't feel terror anymore.
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It's a pretty common saying.
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It's not the franchises per se but the people involved. I'm sick of people comparing politicians to Voldemort or Dolores Umbridge or saying they're part of the "Resistance" (because they wouldn't even bring the Rebel Alliance back for the sequels). I don't wanna hear about that shit anymore.
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I remember I celebrated that one with a rum and Coke.
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False. The West tried to help, but former Soviet apparatchiks ignored them and continued Soviet era policies. The crook oligarchs stole from Russia, not the West. That was Yeltsin's loans for shares plan. Russia never made any real attempt to standardize their military to NATO specs or convince their population to support NATO. In fact when the Russian military had joint training with NATO militaries, the Russian population protested against it. Russia also had a history of using military force to solve their disputes while NATO has a requirement to solve them diplomatically instead of using force as a first resort. 14,000 were not killed by shelling. That number includes 5,000 separatists and 3,000 Ukrainian military. They were legitimate combatants. So no, it wasn't 14,000. It was around 4,000 killed, most in 2014-2015. The conflict then become more or less frozen.
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@nacetroy It's the truth. Russians stole from the Russian people and told them the West did it. Where are all the American and British CEOs of Russian corporations?
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@igory3789 Nobody cares about fruits and veggies, we care about Su-57s and T-14 Armatas. Buy all the fruits and veggies you want, we just want Russia unable to project military power. China and India aren't being friendly, they're profitting.
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@igory3789 How? Russia has lost a significant amount of armor and combat troops. We got what we wanted, preventing the series manufacture of modern equipment is the bonus. No Su-75 Femboys for you.
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@igory3789 Russia already showed their "gestures of good will" by abandoning land. What does it matter that Ukrainians are fleeing and losing, when Russians will leave anyway? All those deaths were for nothing.
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@igory3789 So how does this end? Every contract soldier gets a rotation in Ukraine for the rest of eternity, where they get shelled by Western weapons? The US called it quits in Afghanistan after 20 years, and they didn't lose as much troops as Russia lost in just 5 months. "Check facts", there was no good will not peace agreement. The Northern offensive failed, the Snake Island occupation was unsustainable as Ukrainian weapons could reach them there. There was no good will, that's COPE from the Russian propagandists who get punched every day and say the purple in their face is a new type of make up. The first phase of the offensive was unsuccessful and Russia should have known it wouldn't work. They've achieved much better success in the Donbas. Funny how there's no show of goodwill there. Only good will when they lose.
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If you want to watch that movie, there's Sunk Cost Galaxy here on youtube. It's on 7 parts now and the last one is an hour long.
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It's patterned after the 1911 but has a double-stack magazine, look up "2011" "double stack 1911" or "1911 raceguns" and you'll find brands that make them.
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He's in the military...
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Well PETA would complain if they shot the worms.
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 @PartisanHypocritesEverywhere "which is illegal in the UK" Okay but legality isn't morality. In my opinion she might as well be open carrying an AR15. So what else you got?
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@lol-dm8wx It's not about money meaning you're a bad faith actor. It's the fact that he collects money from the working class so he can live the bougie lifestyle. Elon at least attempts to make the things he proposes, and has failed. I don't think he has bad faith but he has slipped up. I think Trump entered office with good faith but ended up losing interest. Bernie may have had good faith, but he kissed Hillary's ring. Biden is not a good faith actor. Neither was Obama past 2008. I wasn't around for Reagan.
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Here's the deal: we do that to recruit from Western countries, but in that case people from the same countries who posted any message in support of Russia or Putin have to be tried for treason. We also create penal battalions to go in before the Ukraine flag brigade.
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Well first of all they need artillery.
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>50. Caliber sounds like a round .50 inches, as in 12.7mm. 50.0" is 127mm. That's not a bullet, that's a Howitzer. >being modified as in putting on a scope..makes it a SR It's not a modification. It does not alter the mechanical function of the weapon in any way. Putting a scope on a rifle doesn't make it a sniper's weapon. The sniper system depends on many things, specially the shooter. There is no such thing as a sniper rifle.
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He didn't take Crimea, that was Igor Girkin (FSB) and Russian Spetsnaz inserted into Sevastopol naval base under the cover of exercises.
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I believe in evolution, and nature will select for a disease that spreads more and kills less.
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Because of the beam scattering in the atmosphere and losing power over distance, the energy requirements of a destructive laser would need batteries so heavy the plane wouldn't take off.
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 @skyway7582 It's out of the question when the quantities released are measured in grams.
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@skyway7582 Michio Kaku went insane years ago. All he does is say crazy stuff on documentaries. Can you name scientific work he's done lately?
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Not true. The F-22 is a twin engine air superiority fighter, like the F-15. The F-35 is a single engine multirole fighter, like the F-16. The F-35 doesn't replace the F-22. The NGAD will. The A-10 has already been replaced. The F-16 and Strike Eagle got its job.
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Usually it's the opposite, for every 5-10 wounded there's a KIA.
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How is it a slippery slope? It's happening right in front of us. Yeah, they banned full autos in 1986 and now want to ban semi autos. Biden says he wants to ban 9mm pistols. How is it ignorance? You're the one who's ignorant of how gun control moved inch by inch.
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Ukraine does not use chemical weapons, stop listening to Gonzo Listerine. Russia broke Minsk II by ordering the DPR to assault Debaltseve the day after it was signed.
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@EvgeniyYakushev-m2u Erdogan and Orban were not in power when Turkey and Hungary joined NATO. Also, Portugal's entry was controversial but the Azores island is critical because it's an air base in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. NATO needs that base to move aircraft around.
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Can't fly A-10s off a Navy carrier.
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 @fredflinstone6601 There's no good reason to go ham and take your anger out on the innocent. Absolute Skool Chooter mentality.
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 @robertbeisert3315 Something called restraint.
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They don't need to prove it was a coordinated attack to ban people, though. A lot of individuals wanted to give journalists a piece of their mind and did not need to be instructed by any "campaign".
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Because satellites need fuel to stay in orbit. A small satellite is less costly to build and launch. A satellite that's meant to stay up there for decades may be a billion dollar project.
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I checked, still there.
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@BeingFireRetardant SmallArmsSolutions has a video on the JFK ballistics. The head moves back because the ejected mass created a recoil force greater than the force imparted on the skull by the bullet.
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@scroopynooperz9051 The bullet pushes mass out of the way and imparts little momentum, the skull and brain mass ejected forwards causes a recoil backwards.
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 @Spearhead45 Can we hear those questions?
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@umungus518 the 2 trillion are nowhere, the Pentagon was moving paper records to digital and recipts were missing. If you go grocery shopping and lose the recepit that doesn't mean your money was stolen.
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 @tomstarcevich1147 costs you less than a cup of coffee per day, and it probably doesn't cost you anything because you most likely complain about taxes while living like a bum
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"Not a warmonger" literally the guy who promised fire and fury
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But the McMichaels were committing a crime themselves. Should have someone else shot them in turn?
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 @nev.catalyst7478 And that was around the same time CS 1.6 started having billboards on maps.
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I assume that's the test - getting the people being instructed to think of a solution, and there isn't one way to solve it but multiple procedures to deal with the problem. Such as using the x-rays to determine which methods can't be used, finding a way to open and pry the box with non-metallic/conductive means, where and when to set off charges that rip the components out and cut the connection, etc.
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The F-35 has been used in combat. And so has the F-22, dropped JDAMs in Syria.
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 @BoinkrNanis Insurance isn't gonna cover it. The point is that your life is worth more than the job.
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@CrackinJacks138 Kinda. With no security guard people will feel bold and shoplift. When there's security guards most opportunity shoplifters don't try. When the pros give it a go despite security, when caught they drop their stuff and run knowing that they won't be chased. You basically take care of 80-90% of losses by just having someone in uniform stand there. Most people stealing don't want to start a fight, unless they're homeless and looking to spend the night in jail.
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He's a Russian asset. Maybe don't be friends with the invader?
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That doesn't make any sense. The Mujahideen were fighting against the Afghan government. The guys being armed are fighting for the Ukrainian government.
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@metallicarchaea1820 You're preaching to the choir. The Muj are not Taliban and the Taliban are not Al Qaeda. So there's an entire sequence of events you're skipping. Beyond that, the US was purposefully sowing chaos. Chaos gets out of control. In Ukraine, the US is helping the stability of Ukraine. It's an entirely opposite goal compared to Afghanistan.
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Ukraine actually participated in the NATO ISAF contingent in Afghanistan.
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Exactly. She talks like she has marbles in her mouth, sounds like an actor trying to speak in a very ugly accent in a movie.
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Bogus? Share with the rest of the class.
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That's why pilots from other planes were trained on F-35s and quized about their likes and dislikes. Obviously they were biased towards their own planes, but by cross referencing what they answered you can tell by the overall picture that they were impressed and liked it.
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It's a stand alone complex. People see a stock rising and start buying because they see a payoff, triggering more people to notice that it is rising and thus rush to buy more before the peak. The WSB may be more comparable to a hivemind but everyone else is the feedback loop that sent GME through the roof.
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I'm Rick James, bitch.
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3d printing has problems of it's own. And so does scanning, if you have blueprints you essentially have the ability to do the CAD models by hand, it will take less time than clearing up a scan.
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@ton73z28 Because all those weapons can be used on other aircraft. It doesn't get talked about because it's not unique.
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In the USA he wants to bring these people in. So he can suppress wages. You know people can hold contradicting beliefs, you understand that very well. But you assume that's not the case with people on "your" side.
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Becuase you believe your own propaganda.
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We're witnessing the death of liberalism. Liberalism was supposed to be the side with the "facts and logic". Liberalism was supposed to be the ideology that would not censor you for disagreeing. It's a farce and the people realizing it either moved further left or towards the right.
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Tell steel case manufacturers to stop skimping on powder, then.
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MacGregor predicted Ukraine's loss in April 2022. He's just been pushing the date forward for over a year. Like a doomsday cult leader.
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They don't need sympathy. They're fine just fanning the flames of division. Remember when Russia was running BLM pages? They did that to sow chaos. They don't need to gather sympathy for Russia. They just need Americans to be at each others' throats.
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How is it a self-own? Russia is being taken out for the price of peanuts, and China is realizing how bad a hypothetical war would go down for them.
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Sensors are fallible and able to be spoofed. Most sensors can't even detect origin of something.
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Yet it's Russia that's going all out with offensives. It's hail mary after hail mary. Watch the videos. Especially the aftermath ones. Ever seen a guy try to end it after being wounded, but he lost his rifle so he had to use a knife? That's Russia's mighty advance. Rush a few hundred meters, meet OJ in the afterlife. OSINT mappers paint red where you fell.
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>they want the police to protect us >they don't want armed people in schools Anti-gun logic.
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Because they're not really private, they're a deniable asset of the Russian MoD. Prigozhin used to threaten defamation lawsuits to people who wrote about him being involved with Wagner. They really only went mask off in 2022.
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Thanks for recommendation. We used to call those "Kremlintarians" in libertarian/ancap circles.
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@alexeyamosov664 Glad to exchange some ideas and thanks for the video recommendations too!
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It's not indoctrination, it's reality. If they kept losing VIPs nobody would pay for protection.
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The end of development, which will never come lol
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Not true. It would be impossible to hide the casualties. You can't just 86 hundreds of people per year under "training accidents". Families would ask questions.
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NATO only formed because the Soviet Union took over half of Europe. The UK declared war on Germany to help Poland. When asked to let Poland get independence Stalin said "Nah". It was a huge betrayal that indicated Soviet expansion and forced Europe to stick together.
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@stanklepoot dude fondled children on camera and you call it a conspiracy theory. How delusional do you have to be?
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That would figure under inflation.
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Hamas fighters were not just present, they used hospitals as HQs and had tunnels underneath. Was the children's cancer ward in Ukraine a military HQ too?
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A-10s are a death trap, you know this.
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@The_Crimson_Fucker "It makes some sense to have greater expectations for a substantially more expensive aircraft built 50 years later." - What does that even mean? VTOL is for air shows. There's no reasonable expectation for an operational aircraft carrying full fuel and weapons load to take off vertically when a rolling take off is extremely short. "it is not as stealthy as older stealth aircraft" - There's literally no proof of this. In fact the military suggests it's better. "there are weapons that older generation stealth aircraft can carry internally that F-35 can't" - The next generation AGM-88 anti radiation missile will be designed to fit the F-35 bay. Older weapons get upgrades. That's how it works. "given the engine it has it could stand to be markedly more maneuverable" - It's very maneuverable. Long gone are the days of restricted software. "this will be at least the 3rd time someone thought to trade maneuverability for BVR capabilities, and the last 2 times ended badly" - Not true. "There's no particularly strong reason why the targeting features need to be exclusive to the F-35" - Giving those targeting features to other aircraft is a waste. You need a stealth design to make use of them. It's a game of seeing without being seen. "it sure costs as much as great" - Apart from the F-22 it's a menace in the air. Rookie F-35 pilots wipe the floor with experienced 4th gen pilots. And it costs the same as 4th gen aircraft.
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People who plan the construction don't operate it.
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Because the untrained men exist to force Ukrainians to expose themselves and bring ammunition to foxholes. When Ukrainians killed them, the mercenaries came in already aware of any ambushes and traps and with ammo already waiting for them in the fighting positions.
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He's probably got a flagship phone that shoots video in high quality. This is probably recorded in a laptop with a 15 dollar headset.
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Lukashenko risks revolution is he does. Putin can't help him.
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The US armed everyone's enemy to the teeth and they ended up biting back. Anyone who follows this strategy is a goddamn fool because you reap what you sow and the Empire always comes back home.
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Then the PLA got smoked by Vietnam themselves.
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@jaystevens1965 The concept would be that the barrier would arrest the larger particles. The problem is that this is only doable for the first few weeks, after it starts to blaze through the population the sheer number of people spreading does not create a safe distance.
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@F343x2 No, it doesn't. Airbags either work or they don't. If they fail to work... too bad. But airbags do not have a failure mode where they actually prevent you from evading a potential crash. In this case, we're arguing about a safety mechanism that has the potential to make a gun stop working when you need it, when you're arguing for prevention of accidents that would happen after the user already disabled the safety.
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@luisa9628 "No it describes a semi automatic rifle capable of chambering 10+ rounds and firing at 1.5k pounds of force." - Buddy I can describe a "Nincompoop" as any car weighing over a ton capable of reaching 100mph but I just made up that term on my head. "A 308 bolt action will do that too but you can't get 10 shots off in less than 5 seconds with one of those." - Is that a challenge?
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@coroso136 Gewehr means rifle. Waffen means weapon. They called it Sturmgewehr not Sturmwaffen.
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The rail line is still damaged from last year's strike. The supplies and vehicles brought over the Kerch bridge rail were massive prior to the attack. They don't have the ability to push the same tonnage as before.
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@zhanglin317 no apologies necessary
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It didn't happen like that. Iraq asked about the oil dispute and the US's official position was not to intervene. The US never said an invasion was acceptable.
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There are.
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 @stephenguthrie3907 By that logic, North Korean and Iranian weapons are attacking Ukraine.
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@tsp312 Oryx has corrected duplicates.
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@Oldsmobility98 Titles don't matter, the objective truth does. Russia got BTFO. Time to get your head out of the sand.
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They do that because the recordings are taken from moving jet fighters and the vast background of ocean and sky create apparent movement.
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China and India have warned them not to.
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You do realize that Rostov is a supply hub for the Russian army, right? They could have taken what they needed when they seized the town.
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So they couldn't do that in previous wars? The US has fought Soviet armed nations before, Russians know damned well what our weapons do. We even publish test footage.
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 @delanofernandes6471 it's Hamas that baits the bombardment.
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They aren't intact. Veterans? Of what wars? Afghanistan in the 80s? They're elderly at this point. Chechnya 1? Also a little old, also that war went tits up. Chechnya 2 or Georgia? They already fought for Wagner, Redut, etc which suffered so many losses they started recruiting non-military people and prisoners.
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@Rivenburg-xd5yf "If your brave enought to go to an unessesary mass social gathering with all the evedence showing several of these have already backfired horridly, then be a man and fess up to your risky lifestyle" - lmao there's way worse bugs to be carrying around and you never demanded anyone to wear a mark. This is where you draw the line? "Give the people you interact with the chioce to share in your risk level or not." - If you're so afraid stop interacting with anyone. The clerks at your grocery store are exposed to more people than churchgoers.
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@Rivenburg-xd5yf that justifies what, what?
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@Rivenburg-xd5yf bish, don't make stupid questions and you don't get stupid answers. Freedom justifies it. The fact that you're more worried about people exercising their freedom than the greater danger you face just going to the "essential" businesses speaks volumes about your priorities. Also, why are all the politicians and government officials all together when they appear on TV? Why aren't they criticized for breaking quarantine? But sure, churches are the problem.
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Our puppet states aren't doing things like convincing Hamas to go on shooting sprees.
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Cope lmao
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Nobody who likes Putin understands why he started the war.
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@byMxqa Forget about liking or hating. The motives for the war are clear once you ignore all the chaff and made up excuses. Ukraine would have crippled Russia economically if allowed to exploit their reserves and sell to the EU.
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Wrong. The US spends around 1 trillion in healthcare and 800 billion in defense. 200 billion wouldn't make healthcare free
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>We do have dog sniffers on public transportation Not everywhere. You must live where the streets are paved with gold. >we did give law enforcement more tools to be able to strike down people Period. We gave up rights in the name of a fight against an ideology. Seriously... >Nahhhhhhhhh, let's not do a thing. Sure, because tracking down the CAUSE of the shootings isn't doing anything at all. I'm going to have to tell you to go fuck yourself if you're implying I support the killings.
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Canada signed a military treaty with China in 2013.
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@Lithium_82 They're just gonna point to a photo of John McCain meeting some guys in Syria and then "match" them to ISIS but they don't even look alike lol I believed that picture for years until it got reposted on 4chan more recently and I decided to actually look closely.
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They also went to work for the Soviet Union, Israel, South America, etc.
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@mariamm7695 I'm not American and don't like her at all.
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He doesn't control any of them.
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Lint in the firing pin channel is also a common one.
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A different investment manager. They actually have similar names on purpose, because one was created by a person who split from the other.
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"WhErE iS tHe MoNeY gOiNg?" do you know how large the frontline is? What elite school? There's several training facilities in Europe where Ukrainian servicemen are being sent to train. These are the guys who didn't get to go. They have an army, a national guard, they have territorial defense forces and even militias who are semi-independent.
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@fernandovillagallga8637 but many people take pride in earning what they have. No matter how materialistic you are, you know which things you earned and which you stole. Taking pride in thievery is beyond materialism, that's a different mindset. The rich are getting richer... and the rioters never go after them. Funny how that works.
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@Soildus Whenever countries need to use something else, they do. That's why the Dollar isn't 100% of transactions. But for most cases? It's just simpler. As Zeihan mentioned in prior videos other countries don't want to take the hit of their currency fluctuating based on international trade. China likes their capital controls, otherwise capital flight happens.
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@Soildus Gold backing doesn't work. 19th century thinking.
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+ZoooZov mandar-me emigrar? Não sejas piegas. That's not really true. The terrorists in France didn't get their guns from a complex terrorist network (which was exactly what make explosives harder to use due to surveillance), they got them from a guy called Sasha W. in Germany. If you want to commit a mass shooting just find your own Sasha who will sell you guns. The guy from Norway who killed 69 people got his guns the legal way. And if you divide the number of shootings per million people there's a few non-EU countries in Europe which have greater frequency of mass shootings than the US. But since they're smaller countries, everything is smaller scale do you don't hear about it. You do realize that Portugal cut addiction by 50% in one decade by decriminalizing drugs, right? You do realize that just like the US has a peak in murders due to Prohibition of alcohol, the War on Drugs is responsible for the peak of gun murders felt through decades and only started declining in 1993. Making drugs a crime actually is part of the reason the US has high gun murder. Also, doing drugs only hurts you just like being alcoholic only hurts you. The stealing, the driving under the influence, etc that's all your personal responsibility. We don't put people in jail for buying wine, they only get in trouble after doing something that hurts others. We don't make murder illegal because we think it magically makes murder go away, but to have a reason to charge someone and bring them to court. So yeah, owning a gun shouldn't be penalized, that's not the same as decriminalizing murder. "The article does refer that it is going by the NARROWEST definition of mass shooting. That is ONE definition. Not the ONLY ONE." I don't care about the wrong definitions. If we're going by the mass shooting tracker that has been PROVEN to count BB gun injuries, knife-related incidents and gang warfare that lead to people getting killed in the same location *but at different times*. Some parts of American cities are borderline 3rd world. "The fact that shootings that start as other crimes is also ignored... also laughable. And so on." By that argument Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, etc have a ton of mass shootings because of all the gangs shooting each other. "I mean, who the hell cares how it starts? Do the people that end up killed matter less?" apparently you don't care when it's terrorism. It's not that the deaths don't matter, but if you're going to count bystanders in the middle of gang warfare (which again, is fueled by making drugs illegal), which also happens a lot in South American countries independently of gun laws, you're only admitting that the problem won't be solved by gun laws but by lifting people out of poverty, ending the revolving door prison system and the exploitation of the poor and the minorities as labour when in prison, a cultural and social shift, etc. "I mean gun control isn't meant to just stop shootings on a large scale. Is it ok if a random shooter just kills one single innocent life?" the problem is that you're stating as if it was established fact that gun control would prevent that death in the USA, where there's a shit ton of gun murder in cities like Chicago despite their more restrictive gun laws and there's already over 300 million firearms, most of them impossible to trace to their current owners.
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"Mini 14 is a hunting calibre rifle" it fires .223 Remington which is virtually identical in performance to 5.56 NATO. In fact 5.56 NATO rifles are able to operate .223 Remington easily (but not the other way around). So an American Utoya shooter wouldn't have any advantage. "he would have access to a 100 round M416 " the 100 round magazine is often a piece of shit, it actually jammed on the Aurora Theater shooter and he switched to a shotgun. The HK MR556 (416s are not legal for sale in the US) is not any more lethal than the Mini-14, both are semi-automatic, magazine fed, air cooled intermediate caliber rifles with comparable performance. "Your point was about how EU laws ain't shit, but it turns out they are shit. It's not a complex terrorist cell, but that's a gun dealer" What's your point? My point was that if you want to create a mass shooting in Europe, you just need to find an illegal dealer. And terrorists have switched from explosives to just buying guns from dealers because it's actually easier. "You need to ween off of the drug by being able to take it in gradually smaller quantitites without having to worry about anything over time" and that's why they're testing weed to counter the effects of heroine width-drawl in the US. Sucks that the US government forces studies to be performed with shit ass weed in many states which doesn't represent the state of legal medicinal marijuana. "Because you said the government legalized drugs" In the US? "That's such bullshit" They even admit it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsbcPTIDFJc "Nobody would even buy half the shit they make in prison, the very idea that products are made in prison is bogus" Use inmates to cook rather than hire contractors that deal in mess halls/cafeteria/whatever. You're getting money to house the inmates, but you give the labour of housing people to the inmates themselves. If you don't want to work and you're just a criminal troublemaker, they'll try to push you into a state prison so that you become the government's problem and not theirs. It's true.
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+Black Knight the Mini-14 is absolutely a semi-automatic rifle and .223 is dimensionally very similar to 5.56 NATO, to the point it's interchangeable if the barrel is rated for 5.56. "Instead of having a crappy hunting rifle from the 19 fucking 50s, he would have a 2017 Heckler and fucking Koch which can be hand held and is designed to be fired 30 or 20 times without interruption, while a hunting rifle is designed to be fired with a scope, after careful aiming, ONCE" the HK MR566 is a piston conversion of the AR15 which is a downscalled version of the AR-10 design from the 50's. In fact the AR-15 patent was sold to Colt in 1959 so the AR15 is a 50's gun, modernized. "One is a hunting rifle designed for scoped one shots" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej39umHaB08 it has open sights and there's a full auto version of the Mini-14 called the AC556. "it was a gun dealer" yeah. so? That's where you get illegal guns, from illegal dealers. If you want a legal gun you get one from a legal dealer. A dealer is just a person, one who has an occupation that involves firearms, but it's just a person you need to find to have a gun. Obviously that asking cashiers, bank tellers or bus drivers won't get you a gun, you go to someone who sells guns. "But since there are no normal over the counter dealers" The Norway guy got his guns legally from a over the counter dealer. "Because manufacturing explosives is a chemical job. It requires actual skills, not just connections" A lot of times they use straight ammonium nitrate sold in many countries as fertilizer initiated by a small amount of commercial explosive used in demolitions and mining operations, to avoid the chemical part of the job. The connections to import large amounts of fertilizer from impoverished countries that rely on ammonium nitrate fertilizer and divert small amounts of explosives from the legal channels make it an operation that is bound to be picked up by the counter terrorist agencies, when just setting up a meet with an underground gun dealer is much lower profile. "In Portugal." Yeah but I clearly switched the subject and was talking about the US. "that's just to help out with the running." for profit - if they're cutting costs then surely the state should pay them less. That was just one example. Inmates grow vegetables for Whole Foods, sew McDonald's uniforms, etc.
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The Mini-14 initially had problematic barrels and still has an undeserved reputation for being inaccurate so your opinion that it's a long range rifle is pretty funny. "5.56 NATO is notorious because its carried in AR 15 type guns, and is used in military conflicts. The m14, while being standard military issue........was issued back in the 50s or something. It has no full auto function, and wouldn't even dare think of one" the M14 was literally designed with a full auto function for walking fire but reality came down hard and the Army gave up because it wasn't effective. If you buy old surplus M14s many times you will see that the receiver was modified to remove the full auto switch. It's not a tractor and an Atom comparison. Both spit bullets the same weight at almost the same velocity. The differences are merely dimensional. " Mini 14 would pass for muster as military issue" The Mini-14 is literally a downscaled M14 which is more or less a downscaled M1 Garand. It has military weapon heritage and it was literally proposed for military service as the AC556, but only a couple of countries bought it for their armed forces. "So it wasn't just some random dude called Sasha W whom you just find on the street! You can't claim that these guys are just all over the place and the EU's laws are so lax." What's your problem? It's not that the laws are lax, it's that these people ignore the law? My point is that they just found a guy who had guns for sale. He sold guns on the deep web according to the news. But you can find them in the street. A few years ago in my country a couple of journalists went to the streets to ask around for illegal guns. 2 hours and 50€ later they had a gun in their hands, just from asking around. "THAT'S MY POINT, THE TERRORISTS HAD TO USE ILLEGAL DEALERS TO DO WHAT THEY HAD TO DO" And the deaths don't count because the guns were illegal? You only care when the guns are legal? My point is that if you want to kill, you can have guns easily. Of course, it's against the law, but so is killing. In the US even the Columbine kids broke 21 gun laws in their quest for arming themselves. Criminals don't care. "But it isn't a random guy on the street who has guns because apparently the EU has no gun law and guns are just hanging off of everybody's ears." Illegal gun dealers ignore the law. Our restrictive laws only bother the legal gun owners. It's not "lax" - it's that criminals don't obey the gun laws. "And the gun that he got was probably the most military grade hunting rifle they had." and he killed more people than the Las Vegas guy. So why does the "grade" matter? "but you aren't either, so save your armchair bomb expert-ing for somebody who can't tell the difference. A bomb takes actual knowledge of explosives" Why are you being hostile? Anyone and their mother knows that fertilizer bombs are the most common when you want a large volume bomb such as a truck bomb. It's completely impractical to synthesize any explosive in large amounts, but if you can obtain or purify Ammonium Nitrate you have a powerful explosive that is sold by the hundreds of pounds. Many bombs in the Middle East are straight AN because impoverished countries don't ban straight AN from being sold. The IRA used AN. The Oklahoma City bombing used fertilizer. Even the Norwegian guy only made a 1.5kg booster charge, the vast majority of explosive charge was obtained from commercial fertilizer. Knowledge of explosives means that you need to bring one of your bomb-makers to Europe, have him meet with the terrorists, make the bomb, and then return to the Middle East without getting caught. If you can get fertilizer, and a few pounds of commercial explosive to use as booster and the blasting caps used in mining, it's "plug-and-play" and you can send your retarded terrorists on a mission without risking losing your bomb-makers. "I think you were talking about Portgual being a good example of drug legalization working, and I'm saying that maybe not that many were addicted to drugs to begin with, and that this was a trumped up statistic that there was such a huge problem with drugs." That's why the decrease is shown in percentage and now raw numbers. If the country was bigger and there were more addicts, 50% less addicts would still mean a big improvement. "Maybe the state wasn't paying them enough in the first place, and that's why we got this mess, and why they want to put criminals to working in the cafeteria." The definition of for-profit prison systems is that they take inmates for profit. If they were getting profit and they're making even more on top of it, that's a HUUUUGE incentive into increasing the incarceration rates. Look it up, the US has the highest incarceration rate. "are extremely infrequent" look up prison farms. It's way more frequent than you think. "Relax with the sympathy for people who actually do bad things in thsi world, kill rape and steal from people" the problem is that a huge percentage of prisoners never did any of that and are there for drug related reasons.
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+Black Knight that's a very reductive statement. WWII guns are absolutely viable, in fact the StG-44 is being used in Syria right now due to stocks of guns and ammo being produced in Eastern Europe. Until very recently the 1911 was the sidearm of the MEU(SOC) and is being replaced by an upgraded version, and the LAPD SWAT issued a Kimber 1911 as a sidearm. The 1911, as the name implies, predates the First World War and the design is over a hundred years old. The Bren was only retired from service in 2006. The German and Portuguese armies still field the MG3, which is a 7.62 NATO caliber version of the MG42. And the world's most popular assault rifle, the AK, is still based on the AK-47 design from 1947. It's pretty much right after WWII. Old guns still kill just fine.
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I am not American and I don't know the standards of manufacture of the Ruger corporation. But for decades the Mini-14 was considered an inaccurate piece of shit and the problem only seems to have been ameliorated in probably the late 90's or early 2000s. That means that the old "inaccurate" barrels were sold for decades but if you buy a new one it's pretty acceptable (still not as accurate as the AR which is the industry standard as you can easily get 1 MOA with off the shelf components). You claimed it was made for long range shooting. For decades it wasn't suitable for long range shooting with many people who shot them in the past citing an average of 5 MOA. It's still not a sub-MOA rifle as it averages 2-3 MOA depending on ammo. Is it accurate? You'll hit your target at 50 yards, even 100. Long range? With 3 MOA you have way better options. "In other words, was it known to be inaccurate as a GUN or as a long range rifle?" a deviation of 5 minutes of angle is considered inaccurate as a rifle... For long range shots it's borderline unacceptable. A deviation of 5 MOA is enough to make you miss a man-sized torso at 200 yards even though you were on target. " It wasn't reality that came down hard, people realized that the M14 is a glorified hunting rifle. " it was literally a magazine-fed Garand on 7.62 NATO. The M1 Garand, you know, the rifle that did just fine at killing Nazis? "so fucking what, a tank can very easily have a 20mm full auto turret on it, and fire it at the same rate as an M14" https://gundigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2_AR-15-223-vs-556.jpg this diagram shows the difference between 5.56 NATO and .223 Remington. Are you saying that M14s and 20m autocannons fire the same round? Because .223 and 5.56 can be fired from the same gun. A M14 can't fire 20mm. An AK4 can't chamber .50 BMG. But .223 and 5.56 are interchangeable, the only reason you can't shoot 5.56 NATO on .223 barrels is because the throat angle is more aggressive and will lead to overpressure. "The differences are not merely dimensional," and yet they are: http://www.americanweaponscomponents.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/223vs556-e1446155529154.jpg "Which is a hunting rifle, type thing. M1 were used by sharpshooters to aim, then fire, one shot rounds. They weren't used on the front lines with MP 40s." Jesus Christ the M1 Garand was a frontline weapon. MP40? The American submachine gun in service was the Thompson and smg was issued to officers and rear echelon troops. Infantrymen got M1 Garands. "Some heritages are longer than tohers." so you're denying that the Garand is a military design? "Same reasoning, it's an old gun, it could pass muster for military service, during the time of the M1. Namely WORLD WAR FUCKING 2. Pre-Nuke time." Like the caliber fired by the Mini-14 didn't even exist back then, it only came out in 1963. It was only produced in 1973. The Bermudas purchased their Mini-14s in 1983. WWII ended in 1945. Your timeline is all wrong. "We were talking about Sasha W, you made him sound like some hunter who had the freedom to sell guns to terrorists. People don't have that kind of freedom in the EU." In no way was that my intention and I apologize if my comment was misunderstood. My point is that they did't get guns because of a government connection or a large terrorist network that only terrorists can access My point is that they found someone who sold guns and contacted him - I posted his name because that's who he was, just a random guy who decided that his way to make a living was the black market My point is that if you want to commit a mass shooter you don't need to be a terrorist - just find your own Sasha the weapons guy "You telling me a psycho with time like that couldn't find a gun but this guy could?" He was a foreigner, which probably makes it harder for the locals to trust him. Probably thought he was interpol or something. Anyway he was asking for grenades (which is kinda weird if the dealer doesn't trust you enough) and AK47s despite of the fact that the Vz.58 is more popular in the Czech Republic. "I am saying that the statistic is made up and you are talking about how good decriminalization is, which I doubt it was" Then there's no point in discussing it. "the costs of running a cafeteria is like 5 people." you have no idea how lucrative those contracts are. If the state is paying you contractor money and you just stick 5 inmates in there you're pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars at the end of the year. "They might say they are" somehow I don't think studies get past peer review by reporting on the crimes committed by asking prisoners rather than actually looking up DOJ and BJS statistics
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+Black Knight you haven't addressed the fact that the Mini-14 is capable of rapid fire. You were WRONG this entire time.
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Black Knight lmao I left because you got reamed by another person and you wouldn't reply to me so I had no notifications. The M14 was designed as full auto, the capability could be requested to be disabled by officers to conserve ammo. Many were converted to semi auto and sold on the civilian market, you can still find stocks with a relief cut for the selector, but the selector is missing. It's not single fire, it's a magazine fed semi auto. Single shot or single fire is when the firearm is only physically able to hold one round in the chamber and has no repeating mechanism.
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+Black Knight so you've conceded your point that the M14 was never made as a fully automatic battle rifle? Thanks. Also, you still haven't addressed the fact that the Mini-14 is not a "paused fire" weapon like you claimed.
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He's changed his claims over time but he's saying that the M-14 was never issued in Auto and that the Mini-14 is not a "real" semi-auto because you need to pause and fire. His defense is that his call of duty logic is sound because sometimes call of duty makes sense.
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He deleted ahaha
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@leekah9981 How did Brandon start the war? Also, funny thing about the petrodollar... turns out the dollar is more resilient than the petro. lol
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Traidor, se gostas tanto da Rússia vai para lá.
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The US has troops in Moscow too. It's called the embassy security.
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I was taught like this. Which is precisely why I refused to accept the excuses given by governments and recognized the inherent immorality of mandates. Teaching people to think for themselves will only make them question everything.
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@Danji_Coppersmoke Morality isn't group survival tactic. It's an objective standard.
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Rocket fuel is consumed in mere seconds.
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Remember when John McCain was voted out? Check the balance of private war mongers? Stop paying them. Privatizing war means that the private military corporations have to replenish their equipment and men out of their own pocket rather than stealing more from the taxpayer and forcing drafts. The biggest profits to be made are if you get paid to protect, but nobody attacks. You get money, but don't lose any men or equipment. You enter a war, you send all your money down the drain.
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That's pretty heteronormative and rapey of you, comrade. 10 years in gulag.
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@yukiko6137 It's not the firepower, it's how you use it.
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Helicopters can fire at enemy ground units from behind the terrain.
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The AR was designed for 20-rounders, though.
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@Live-ib5yi Just fucking look at confiscation pictures.
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@azurezerox8392 I'm sure there's no data because government is a mess. But on the internet I see gang members posting their shooters. Obvious P80s with aftermarket slides, drum mags, they like the transparent ETS mags or whatever. It's like jewelry to them. Call it weird, but instead of looking at social media pages where people post their 100th Mk18 Block II or Mk12 SPR build I look at guns the gangs and narcos post online.
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Most civilian casualties in Donbas were accidents with mines or unexploded ordinance.
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He's not wrong, music is "cheap" so labels now want a cut of tickets and merch.
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Tech Jesus is the way and the light, and occasionally the light is ray traced
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The "pipe" is what's inside Khinzals. Proven by the crash last year.
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"He is firm on no gun control like every Trump supporter ever" - Trump said take the guns first, due process later, banned bump stocks and he said that he didn't like silencers.
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@kamilkarbari4906 And the rest of the world will see the Kremlin as criminals.
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@ReetinEntertainment look Ben made himself look like a tool and got exposed, but he did what you said. Look at the BBC video 13:07. The fact is that Shapiro is WRONG on the Israel/Pelestine debate. But he did address that tweet already. I seriously hate how everyone seems to be jerking Andrew Neil off because he doesn't deserve respect. He made Benny mad. Broken clock is right twice a day. And the way he pretended he's not paid big bucks to be on TV... He's an elitist douchebag just like Shapiro.
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@richardthingsilike9562 if Andrew Neil knows what he's talking about then why is he a climate change denialist?
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They didn't backfire.
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@zjpdarkblaze "if you attack the weakly defended areas it's not a success" are you actually out of your damn mind? It's literally warfare 101
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Biofuels are incredibly expensive to manufacture at scale.
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It doesn't happen because the gold is needed at reserves to handle transactions.
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It's not really meant for long range sniping, it can be used for that purpose but most of the ammunition is just accurate enough to disable vehicles, radars, power generators, cooling units, etc.
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It doesn't. Kosovo created no such precedent.
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@Komentariram Genocide is an internationally recognized way of achieving unilateral independence. Serbia wasn't fighting separatists, they were genociding people.
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@mikeg9277 All those construction projects are just more air inside the bubble. They pulled 800 million people out of extreme poverty because we gave them money for their products. Thanks man, we only need to go back to 1800 living standards to make products cheap enough to become the world's main exporter. We'd be sending people back to poverty by doing that. They also made a deal with the devil. The one child policy means that they'll have an ageing population and no young people to pay for it. The devil always comes to collect the debt.
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No it isn't. Tons of countries would start nuclear proliferation after seeing Ukraine fall. Countries would stop trusting each others as allies. States like China could make military moves sensing that nobody would support the invaded countries. Think for a second.
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 @JsfosstdjsfJsfos-lf4tg billions in MRAPs and M113. Lol the kind of stuff we dump out at sea to help build coral reefs.
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@Finite Automata It was a Russian missile impacted by a Ukrainian S-300. The crater was huge which pointed to Russian warhead, but wreckage of Ukrainian AD gave an easy way out to not declare war over a missile landing on a farm.
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@J_Madison Russia is ranked #2? Which year was this rank taken?
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@J_Madison The leaked Pentagon numbers show that Ukraine is killing Russians at roughly 3:1.
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@drno3391 Bonus info, the crater was too large to be a S-300.
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@Finite Automata Because a missile knocked off the air can have the guidance or steering damaged, causing it to crash and the warhead detonate from impact fuze or some kind of self-destruct. I ask you the same question: why would an anti-air missile that is made to strike targets painted by radar hit a tractor? The missile can't just lock onto a piece of metal. First of all, S-300 missiles first use command guidance from the ground controller, then switch to semi-active radar homing. This means the ground radar must paint the aerial target. Because the Earth is curved, and there's hills and trees in the way, a radar can't paint a tractor. Please. Think for a second. Aircraft use low altitude flying to evade radar, and you think a semi-active radar homing missile can lock onto a ground target? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, you thought that it was an active radar homing missile. Those emit their own radar energy to see the target. That's fair. Russia has those. Ukraine doesn't. Russia kept developing the S-300 upgrades and the S-400. Ukraine's missile stocks are Soviet era. The active radar homing missiles are the 9M96 series which are compatible with S-300PMU-2 and the 40N6 from the S-400. S-300PMU-2 were never exported to Ukraine. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt once again, and let you off the hook because you assumed all S-300 launchers are the same and Ukraine could have imported some missiles from Russia in the 90s and 2000s. That's fair. The problem is that you don't understand how radar works. Radar isn't a metal detector, it will bounce off the ground too. If you point a radar in the air at the ground, you get clutter. Just noise, because all your radar energy is being scattered by buildings, trees, the ground features, etc. Even if Ukraine had bought the right missiles before 2014 and then modified them to work with their older gen S-300s, the active radar seeker would still not home onto a tractor. It would just see radar bouncing from everything, effectively blinding itself. Do you understand now? Your "reasonable conclusion" is completely detached from reality. I get you. I understand. You have a rough idea how the missiles work, and then created a logical chain of events that made sense in your mind. The problem is, without any actual knowledge about surface to air missiles, or even how radar works, you created an hypothesis and declared it to be "reasonable". It's actually quite an unreasonable hypothesis. Do you understand what I'm saying? I'm not pissed at you because I expect you to have in-depth knowledge of missiles, because almost nobody cares enough about the topic to learn. I'm pissed at you because you come here and declare yourself to have the right opinions, and they're the ONLY conclusion that's reasonable.
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@Finite Automata Skip to 0:45 seconds: watch?v=eWtYtsVboBI That's ground on radar. It's a massive cloud. The ground reflects radar. Tractors are small compared to the Earth. We don't need NATO intervention. Ukraine is shredding Russia on its own.
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@susannehartl3067 "By owning a gun you make a choice, whereas poll taxes apply to everyone." - False. Poll taxes don't apply to anyone who doesn't wish to register as a voter. "I missing the connection between poll taxes and voting right" - the point of poll taxes was to make poor people unable to register to vote and thus deny them the right to vote without explicitly banning them from voting.
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+STC "But it would only happen when it is like 50 miles away, which is good enough" how is that good enough? A radar station can be destroyed from 50 miles out. "For stealth warship, the radar will see a fishing boat 200 miles away. "hey cute ship, let me scan it" and its cover is gonna to blow" is this freaking star trek? How do you "scan" a fishing boat?
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Support them with what? Rusty AKs?
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False. The first machine gun, with revolving chambers, was invented in 1718. A rapid fire rifle was made in 1777. Repeating rifles existed since the 1600's in Europe. Just because the American rebellion used mostly muskets (and artillery, owned by civilians) doesn't mean other countries were oblivious to firearms.
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Cope. The US left Ukraine and said "good luck but you'll lose in three days". The US didn't want to help at all.
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They'll scratch out the Samsung label and sell them as ths Putinphone. Yes comrade totally invulnerable to NATO hacking.
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They don't have the ability to reverse engineer them, plus the Chinese already have a Javelin equivalent missile. They can just buy it and skip the expensive reverse engineering program.
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 @RomanianReaver Non sequitur.
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@AnnedolfFrankler911 NATO is not aggressive. Ukraine wasn't going to join NATO. It's not self-defense until you're attacked first. Ukraine is defending their national security.
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@RaneBane of course it replicates. But if I multiply 1 by 1000 we get 1000 and if we multiply 3 by 1000 we get 3000.
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@charlenefrench5404 Two people wounded is what the news are saying. I've only seen video of one person wounded in the leg and the people nearby started doing a tourniquet so he probably made it.
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Tons of injuries on Mike (he had to get surgery after falling off that "hoverbike" gizmo). A 56 year old that didn't accumulate damage can still use his crafty tricks to outbox the young.
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That's against the Fourth Amendment.
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There's a big reason. The US pressured Ukraine to give up its nukes. By giving up on Ukraine the world learns that security comes from nuclear proliferation.
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Civilian GPS automatically shuts down once it goes over Mach 1 to prevent it from being used in weapons.
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Nope. It was not operational, no point.
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@calebharris4127 Did you notice the part where he said that instead of buying more equipment, they just train?
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Russians penetrate American and Canadian airspace all the time. Are we saying we should shoot them down next time? Are you?
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The only ARM that the A-10 would be able to feasibly carry would be the AGM-122 Sidearm. I'm pretty sure the stocks of that missile were allowed to be depleted and no more made because it's really a last resort defensive weapon. The biggest issue with the A-10 is being shot from the back or the side while maneuvering. The A-10 would not be within firing parameters to retaliate. You cannot clear radar. Look at Serbia. Their defense was not as degraded as assumed, and the USAF moved on to strategic targets rather than focus on eliminating defenses completely. Thinking that skies will be cleared of radar when any Shilka out there is keeping their radar off until the A-10 passes overhead is just optimistic. Not to mention that anti-helicopter weapons often use electro-optical and IR tracking, and can use weapons that use alternate means of guidance like laser. So they can't have ARMs fired on them.
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@tinkerjeeppublications9823 Narrowing the window of interdiction matters when you have one opportunity to deter an attack deep into your territory. Not when the enemy aircraft will be loitering around. If you're sending other elements to destroy AA, those same elements can just do the A-10s job. Why send less capable aircraft that need escorts, if the escorts themselves can just do the job in the first place? Other aircraft can do the job without needing that support. The fact of the matter is that defenses can be masked from ground troops while being able to engage aircraft once they cross a certain threshold. So an aircraft cannot depend on ground support to engage the defenses. What's new is that your proposal to have ARMs doesn't make a lick of difference when the A-10 is most vulnerable to defenses that are not directly in front of it. There's context behind the things I say, and we were talking about your ARM proposal. The fact is that other aircraft do not have to place themselves in this risky situation, and your argument is that we should place the A-10 in this situation, and as a last resort give it a weapon that won't have the effect you think will have. Please don't start the F4 thing. The Phantom didn't need a gun. The Navy didn't put one in their Phantoms. The "reputation" of the GAU-8 was scope creep. The A-X program had nothing to do with the Phantom, and the lack of gun wasn't an oversight. No, the F-4 wasn't better with a gun. It required the use of a smaller radar and the weight up front negatively impacted the handling characteristics. Over Vietnam the USAF scored 89 missile kills, and something like 5 kills with the internal gun. The Navy scored 40 kills without guns. The A-10 isn't effective. It's not proven. The first real war it got, it had to be pulled back due to excessive losses. The countermeasure to a 30mm bullet is concentrating fire on the aircraft that is performing a predictable straight line dive. Which is why in 1991 pilots quickly learned they had to use the Mavericks to take out targets from a distance and save the cannon rounds for later. If there's a hurricane outside and we have save means to accomplish a task, you don't insist on going outside because it's the only way you know how to accomplish it. It's not that you'll get wet, it's that you can get killed or waste emergency service resources.
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@tinkerjeeppublications9823 "you failed to mention how the Hog has evolved over the years" - The arguments seen here also apply to current A-10Cs. I don't see how any of that addresses the concerns such as the flawed argument in dedicating SEAD escorts that cannot save A-10s from SHORAD.
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@marlonsmith3923 And don't you think that's exactly what "they" (whatever that means) want? The way things are unfolding is only possible because we've allowed ourselves to be bullied. Our "opposition" is more nihilistic than us and reproduces at a low rate. What do you think would happen if we simply outnumbered these people?
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@marlonsmith3923 If they're complying, they're not counting towards our numbers. The people who comply are reproducing at what, an average of 1.5-1.6 children per couple? What if we reproduced at 2.1? Not outlandish, but clearly overtaking our opposition. They get used to the tyranny if you let them. Is a school going to suspend 60% of the students? And the other 20% that join the protest simply because they'll only comply because they have no leader? Our children will know what we teach them. If your stance is that your children will only know what you allow them to be taught by outside interference, you've kind of allowed the enemy to defeat you by making you think you've been defeated already. Even though the enemy did nothing except trick us. Even Mark Twain said, don't let schooling get in the way of education. It's all just a trick and we can't be demoralized by it.
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SimCity was actually used as part of the electoral campaign in Providence, RI in 1990 and in Warsaw in 2002.
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@franciscobermejo1779 If someone did that to Cheney, tons of Americans would cheer. In fact, many Americans said John McCain's tumor deserved a Nobel Peace Prize.
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@kentershackle1329 Most of the population just wanted autonomy, the FSB wanted war. The Donbas residents were against the actions of the militias.
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I mean back in the day workers were paid in company script. Minimum wage being for kids is a modern revision, back in the day adults were exploited.
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Okay. There's plenty of videos of POWs, there's photos of abandoned uniforms of soldiers who switched to civilian clothes in panic, and Ukraine keeps liberating towns left and right.
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The missile "thinks" the thrust is normal. If thrust is offset, it will try pointing the fins to correct but the thrust will keep bringing it out of the correct path. It's like picking up a small dog and they keep running in the air with their legs.
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A married man is by default not a simp because the relationship is reciprocal. And millenials are not the kids anymore, it's gen Z. Amazing how you complain about priorities, but you're the one complaining about jokes.
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@cicadasmasher8082 "This guy, who's video this is making these stupid statements, is a millennial" - but the people making the memes are Gen Z. "Boomers actually rock, Unlike millenials, they've done a lot for this world" - What did they do?
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A factory in Donetsk? Seems like HIMARS will visit.
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@aidegrod First, the F-35 can fly completely outside of MANPADS range. So right there your concerns are proven wrong. The F-35 turns on a dime. Lack of maneuverability? You have to be joking. You're talking about a mission profile that doesn't require stealth, and that alternative aircraft would NOT have ANY stealth in the first place. Your concerns are again proven wrong. Who's talking about anti-armor? You're also completely wrong about weapon accuracy. The military has worked to deploy weapons with SMALLER blast radiuses and lower fragmentation to prevent collateral damage. You're talking about mechanical accuracy of a dropped dumb bomb but the mechanical accuracy depends on pilot accuracy. You're completely ignoring REALITY and what the armed forces are actually doing, and what they need. That's why what you think is good enough is wrong.
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momentinpassing yeah because the average building is just steel framed.
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The Mujahideen had US backing. The Taliban mostly hid as they got slaughtered. The guys who "won" Afghanistan in 2021 basically destroyed a country and lost their fathers to 18-19 year old American kids trying to pay for college or a Dodge Charger. Is that what we want for Ukraine? Have 20 years of "Z safari" where Russians go into Ukraine for sport and then come back for book deals and podcasts?
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She wasn't innocent.
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retro gamers don't even have RGB PC Master Race: 1 Retro gamers: 0
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No.
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Just like Kherson is forever Russian?
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He claimed 250 Iraqis who surrendered after fleeing the Highway of Death were murdered by US soldiers. That engagement never happened, yet Hersh claimed it did. Why did he lie if every word he says is true?
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That doesn't make any sense. Using nuclear weapons requires activity in the silos and the dispersal of mobile launch platforms. So it's possible to monitor most weapons which are not submarine launched.
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@michaelmoorrees3585 Export control just means that Mauser was approved to buy it, and Mauser is legally liable if they knowingly sell to places like Iran or Russia. The end user doesn't have to be aware of export controls.
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@samfraley4570 You had nothing to say in regards to his argument so you nitpick a common expression.
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Scott Ritter is a convicted nonce.
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Google refused to address the criticism or acted with arrogance in response to concerns. It simply seemed like they were trying to break into the gaming industry without having to prove their worth to gamers.
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NS2 was blocked by Germany. It was done. There was no need to physically destroy the pipeline. Also, Biden was talking about NS2. It was NS1 that got bombed, with NS2 having one pipeline left alone. So your own evidence suggests that Biden didn't do it.
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Meds. Take them
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They can be intercepted during mid-course. Israel did one interceptio of an Iranian missile in space.
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@Danielscottrhoades Copy paste bot
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That was the B61 thermonuclear bomb.
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Most of their trade partners are poorer nations. I like how "restructuring" an economy is just flipping a switch to you.
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@ew6546 China is one country. India is one country. They're not the majority. The majority of Russian trade partners, aka not India and China, are less developed nations. I mean Brazil is pretty big but I'd hesitate to call it a major economic player.
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@ew6546 Okay, then you just own up to the wrong terminology. You're not saying most countries, because there's like 160 of them not engaged in sanctions, you're saying most relevant trade partners. If you add them in, you don't get much. And by the way, how likely is that Brazil will switch tune if Bolsonaro loses to Lula?
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@ew6546 I'm not manufacturing anything. Most of the world does not matter. Yes, there is a point in dealing with hypotheticals. You brag about Brazil, which is a country full of issues, and want to ignore how it may fall onto the grip of a left wing president simply because Bolsonaro should have more tact and know when to not put his foot in his mouth. His chances of reelection would be better if he didn't keep giving his opposition reasons to smear him.
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He's now "Falko - Formerly THaC". He developped a game and joined the army reserves.
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The railway monopolies laid rail as long as inefficient as possible for the government subsidies!
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@marcusaurelis No, I wasn't going to refer to that. I'm going to call you out because the censorship is the end goal that's beyond the red vs blue BS. You think you're above it but in the end you just reinforce their plans. Once the misinformation is tamped down, along with all the valid criticisms coming from the left and the right, you'll only have the red and the blue. You'll be stuck inside the system because criticism won't be allowed. You made your bed. I sure hope you won't have to lie in it.
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@marcusaurelis So social media is bad and is lying, but I'm supposed to get a Netflix subscription. Oh wow. I already knew of the concepts a decade before that documentary was released, I'm sure it's new to you so you're pretty excited about it and you want to tell others, but no matter how much I agree that social media is a plague I'm not going to argue for censorship. They allow misinformation to run rampant? Buddy, people who said things that are now true have been banned for spreading misinformation back then because the governments and fact checkers said it was a lie. Now it's true and we don't get so much as an apology. Who do you put in charge of deciding what is misinformation? It's the classical who watches the watchmen dilemma? If the government or organizations with interests lie, and you catch them in the lie, if you try to expose them you'll be banned for misinformation. At least think of the consequences before begging for more control.
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@marcusaurelis It was all known. I had the documentary described to me and I already knew everything I was told. Maybe there's critical information I was not given by the people who watched it, but everything else was ripe for the picking. If you bothered to look. Nostradamus made predictions. I didn't predict anything. I simply read the information already available. "Stopping surveillance capitalism" - OH. That's a very, very different subject. You're still barking up the wrong tree if you think politicians will help you there. Watch more documentaries. If you think social media is bad, you'll be amazed at what politicians have been doing. You wrote something that was clearly hinting at censorship and pat yourself in the back for predicting a response lmfao
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Full missile loadout? The drag will prevent them from chasing down F-35s.
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Big Suka Sukhoi - we WON'T build the plane! That's right we WON'T build it.
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The bench is also wet because they dumped water on it as if the fragments had been pulled from the fire. Why did they jump into a fire to grab fragments? What did they use to pick up the fragments and put them on the bench if they were so hot?
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Most of them are rust buckets.
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@Vile_Entity_3545 So Russia claims they hit Bradleys, Patriots and NATO generals and there's no pictures. Ukraine hits a S-400 command post vehicle, there's pictures of it completely shredded (with blood visible), etc and that's propaganda?
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She was right, smart girl.
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Eastern fence Lizard "DYou think rich people are stupid?" - Well, you do. Because you're the one saying that they're ignoring the problems and will have to deal with them in the future. If they weren't stupid, they'd do things that actually benefit them in the long run.
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He's using the low pressure ammo.
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@cahsahhhhhhhn F-15s have not lost in air-to-air, but have lost to SAMs.
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The A-10 did less CAS than the F-16 in 1991 and suffered more losses. It was outdated in 91, it's even more so now.
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The hell does that mean? A lot of stuff does not have alternate manufacturers.
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The life expectancy is probably because the food isn't crammed with sugars. Because if you got something stronger than the yearly sniffles universal healthcare will have you wait.
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South Africa disbanded one of the world's best police response units because "muh racism". SA has one of the biggest glass houses.
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@mikemartin5749 so struggle never caused death? Either way, funny how the people who claim that they value life over property always cry about the lives of those who damage it than the lives of those who lost their job/savings.
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@mikemartin5749 "Jobs and savings can be replaced." - So it's okay to just lose everything, huh? I get to rob everything you own and you can't do anything to stop it because I'm more valuable than your hard work? Life that you traded away? Jobs can be replaced. And until they come you get to stick a needle in your arm in abandoned houses.
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@mikemartin5749 yeah now I know what you typed in caps, gg on deleting
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It goes into the cartridge. It's not a caseless design.
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@Drownedinblood You probably have pans and utensils to cook with plastic handles. You don't get burned by touching the plastic, but maybe you'd feel the heat if you broke the plastic handle and touched the inside while cooking with the hot metal in the stove.
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Okay, give us the REAL version of the events then. Oh wait, you have no arguments and that's why you resort to insults.
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The problem is that the sign existed before and had benign meanings before. Essentially only Very Online People know about this, so the general public keeps using the sign. And the intention was to pretend that OTHER people were Nazis. It wasn't to identify themselves, it was to falsely identify innocent people and entrap them with existing photos.
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@burtonstudios5223 Fine. So all signs are hate signs now because these people will just move on onto others symbols. No signs anymore.
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The real airborne sniper is the MiG-31. That one has the radar, missiles and speed. The Su-57 doesn't.
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@mikeyplayzwrld Why is it? The MiG-31 has the bigger radar and bigger engines (more electric power) and since it goes faster it can sling the missile further. Russian missiles get better range performance when fired from a MiG-31 than a Su-57.
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Raising obvious concerns isn't shitting bricks. I mean, the alternative to mRNA vaccines was adenovirus - Sputnik and J&J. We engineered a virus to fight the virus. Hello?
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Not true.
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@gettogo0159 They're not cheap and there's not a lot of fly-worthy ones. The F-35 is produced at a rate of almost 150 per year.
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@gettogo0159 There's no cheaper aircraft, really. All of the modern 4th gen are over 100 million per aircraft. Boeing is only manufacturing Super Hornets and their fighter plant in St. Louis was having troubles until the USAF put in orders for the 15EX. And the EX is actually more expensive than the 35.
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Palestine had been British-owned when Israel was created, it wasn't sovereign. Russia's presence in Syria was in support of the Assad government, not an invasion.
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@محمد-م5ث1ش Who cares about Britain? The point is that in 1948 the creation of Israel wasn't an offense like the Ukrainian invasion. If you want to talk about unjust it was, that's a topic for another conversation. Not really relevant in Ukraine's case. The US didn't steal anything. Putin getting his land back? It was never his. Ukraine fought against the Bolsheviks for independence, and when the Soviet Union was formed it received status as an independent SSR rather than be part of Russia. Ukraine also asked to leave the USSR before it collapsed. I never said Assad was a good guy.
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@محمد-م5ث1ش No, I didn't want to talk about Palestine, and no I didn't want to make the invasion legal. You're the one who brought it up. Well, the world had just come off a world war. Europe was destroyed, taking with it a large amount of industrial production capabilities. Palestine was British territory at the time. You really think people in Europe wanted to start a war over Israel? It's not the same situation as Ukraine. Ukraine is Ukraine. Palestine was Britain. Ukraine was invaded militarily. Britain ceded territory for the UN to create Israel. You're reaching here. I didn't support Assad. My point is that Assad asked Russia for support. How are we helping Assad? If anything, the attempt to topple Assad made things worse. The West armed and trained the FSA and "moderate rebels". The moderate rebels turned out to be ISIS. The West created a massive terror organization trying to topple Assad. That's how poorly things went. The Soviet Union was not a single country. It was an alliance of countries. You know the European Union? Also a union. That doesn't mean that France belongs to Germany. The UK voted to leave. Yes, I'm not denying that Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, but that doesn't mean that they couldn't ask to leave. And they did. The Soviet Union did not own Ukraine, so Ukraine doesn't belong to Putin, and Putin isn't the Soviet Union. It's over. It's been 30 years. The peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine only said that Ukraine would give up its nukes and if invaded, Russia pledged to use the UN security council to help. Well, Russia invaded Ukraine and has veto power in the UN security council. Ukraine didn't break any rules. Russia did. Stop trying to invent rules after the fact.
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That argument can be used for anything. Today you're a responsible driver, tomorrow you'll be a drunk driver. Today you use propane tanks for a BBQ responsibly, tomorrow you'll be burning down the neighborhood.
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If the fans are all running at the same speed, it should be positive pressure. The cooler fin stack creates an impedance on the CPU fan that the rear fan helps to beat. So those two fans in series with an obstacle in between operate at a lower efficiency than the intake fans in parallel.
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Pretty much all airliners are FBW. How many crashed due to loss of power in the controls?
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@AceDan-gc9po They are fully digital. If you "lose power" you also lose instruments and engine control. If hydraulics depend on engine-driven hydraulic pumps you only have the accumulator's worth of time to maneuver.
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If people aren't buying then demand is down.
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@Da... they made ads about people hanging out in their underwear because of their infinite gas. Once you showboat, you can't slip up. The number had to be zero if you want to claim Russians can sit in their underwear during the winter because their healing bill is negative rubles.
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@dolphin069 Not really. The third phase of the trial just measured symptoms that started to get tracked after two weeks of taking the second dose and assumed a 95% risk reduction from a very small number of people in the control group who got infected. This is not proof, it's inference.
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@dolphin069 Pfizer, third trial. The J&J was similar if I remember correctly, just with different number of people involved.
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@stephaniekicks6636 cope.
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No, it's to both not provoke Russia but also threaten against escalation. The more Russia pushes the more weapons we give. They turn up the heat, we turn up the heat on them. If we open the floodgates they'll panic and do something horrible.
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Whataboutism.
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Seethe, vatnik.
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@billrosenstein Nope. Meanwhile Russia required QR codes to ride the bus.
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Because if I hate two people and they start fighting, I cheer so that they fight harder and hurt each other more.
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@nahumhabte6210 And what would they do? Fun fact, military forces that only exist to be meat waves would do terribly at social welfare, pensions, healthcare, education, etc. The military is like 1% of what a government does. Wagner in charge of a country is like children wishing they were adults. They have no idea how much responsibilities weigh adults down.
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Sq ft increasing is undeniable but building became cheaper with better materials and techniques. Sq ft increased because you can build a larger house for the same cost as a 1950s home. And banks offer worse conditions on loans because they want people to be pressured into buying larger, so real estate developers have no incentive to divide property into smaller lots with modest homes.
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You can start with yourself. Your internet and electronic device aren't natural, so why are you consuming energy and resources? Everyone wants to restore nature but nobody wants the huge hit on their quality of life.
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@Safetytrousers OP does whatever he wants. You said tech tubers were not saying to stop buying Intel.
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Everyone is flying low due to SAMs.
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There was one case of a school age FtM wrestler who was not allowed to compete with boys so she was just demolishing girls thanks to the HRT.
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Regarding education, they pump out students to Western universities where due to financial reasons the professors don't want to fail Chinese nationals. So they'll happily take Chinese money and in return churn out degrees in baloney.
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Why is it obvious?
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@pathetic_bot9476 it doesn't shoot around corners, the XM8 was a rifle. The XM29 was the predecessor.
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@pathetic_bot9476 what do you need any gun for?
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@pathetic_bot9476 Yeah, and I need clarification to know what's the framework of the question being asked. What do you think of the guns people "need"? What are their qualities, and what makes them different? Because to me, a mechanically-inclined person, I see the XM8 as simply a different mechanism to achieve the same goal. Fire a projectile. If it's that obvious that nobody needs something capable of firing projectiles... then I need to know what you think is reasonable for one to "need".
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@pathetic_bot9476 but that's the thing. What is military grade? Do you actually know what that means? Or you just heard the term somewhere? While I'd like you to tell me what you feel about "military grade" I'd still want to know what do people need. Why are the weapons people "need" different from military grade?
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@pathetic_bot9476 I am not dodging. I am asking you to clarify what you mean so I can know how to respond and it's you who refuses to answer. Are you for a total gun ban or no? Since you're not answering, if I assume if you're a total gun ban then the conversation is useless. If you're not for a total gun ban, then surely you must understand why people may need some firearms. What do you think military grade means? Since you're not answering, I'll assume you either believe the stupid ideology that military grade means the guns were sprinkled with murder dust at the factory that made them better for killing, or you simply heard the term and think it's unreasonable for the people to own something made for the military. If you believe the first, then the conversation is useless. If you believe the second, then you have to understand what military grade actually means. It means it passed military requirements. That's it. The military will specify how many rounds a weapon has to fire before it has to be refurbished to make sure it lasts long enough, how many malfunctions it is allowed to have per X number of rounds fired, that it must survive exposure to salt water, be able to fire in both arctic and sandy conditions, etc. Why shouldn't one want a rifle that is durable and reliable? And another thing, the military has used all kinds of weapons. When muskets were the best firearm available, it was used by both civilians and military. When revolvers were the sidearm of military forces, civilians had them. When bolt action rifles were the standard issue, civilians had them. The military grade weapon was always used by civilians. There was no such thing as a civilian grade weapon except for maybe highly custom guns that were handcrafted by gunsmiths and would not survive the rigor of combat. Most people wouldn't be able to afford those anyway. Even today, the pistols you see on the hips of police officers and that people buy for self-defense, have virtually no difference between them and military pistols. See? You could have at least ATTEMPTED to explain to me what your concerns were and I could have explained it calmly. But you forced me to be aggressive because you REFUSE to have a conversation. There's no fucking difference between a XM8 and any civilian semi-automatic rifle. It shoots bullet. There's hole in barrel. Gas seeps out of the hole and pushes metal rod. Metal rod unlocks the breech, cartridge gets kicked out and new one is stripped from magazine. It's like 90 year old technology. Every fucking gun works through different but essentially comparable systems that achieve the same thing. God. What's the matter with you people?
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@pathetic_bot9476 Exactly. You were a waste of my time. Fuck you.
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His arrogance is earned. When some guy goes "NUH UH I FLEW DA PLANE" and his instruments can outright tell you it was an object flying at wind speed, you earn the right to be arrogant.
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They have a massive problem. People will ask where the previous 300k mobilized went. There's not enough uniforms, chest rigs, armor plates, etc to equip a large amount of troops in a short while. They'd need to drip feed these men into the fray.
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@lifessogood2995 "Ukraine is just next to Russia they can go war in a decade" - Not if the federation breaks apart.
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@lifessogood2995 We don't want the Russian territory, we just don't want to live next to a gas station with nukes.
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@СерхиоБускетс-ф7я Depends what the trajectory is. You're assuming the missile is horizontal and covering a great distance. However it's near the target, which means it would have been falling near vertically. Patriots were tested against the Pershing II warhead in 1997. That was a maneuverable reentry warhead, and it came in at hypersonic speeds. You're claiming something isn't possible when it was tested two decades ago.
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If you don't fight it now, you won't get a chance later.
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Several shooters have recreated this shot. In fact an Army sharpshooter managed to pull it off in 4.5 seconds while Oswald had 8-9.
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@RandyWRodrifuez Warren Commission Hearings & Exhibits Vol 3 pg. 446-447. Shooter was Specialist Miller.
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lmao not even the UK has mental health tests to own a gun, and their parliamentary office for science and technology literally issued a report saying that not only it would be too expensive it wouldn't even work.
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@rolturn Reducing the symptoms means the symptomatic will not notice the occasional cough. That increases spread. Oh that was the goal? Give the people something that 80% already had?
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@rolturn Oh really? We were told that March 2020. That's what "flattening the curve" means. Not zero cases. It means everyone gets it, but not at the same time. Congratulations, we're back to where we were 1.5 years ago. Huh, yes there is. It was reported that out of the people tested, 80% were asymptomatic. You don't need mass testing because the sample size was large enough. And it happened all over the world, so I don't know how Trump is involved in all of this.
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Not really. The right to own a weapon, or to carry it, has no bearing on whether or not you can become a vigilante or change the delicate nature of citizen's arrest.
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But where does it stop? Everyone who got it "asked for it" because they had to work, or stand in line at Walmart, or be stuck at home with someone infected. Everyone pretty much died from their own actions. Especially since obesity is such a serious comorbodity.
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China isn't in position to benefit from anything as their economy is in shambles. Republicans have no institutional power to rig elections and they support Ukraine too. You think Republicans don't invest in arms makers or don't represent the constituents who work in such companies?
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The US didn't take Iraqi oil. Russia has hurt ten thousand times more people than Abu Ghraib. False equivalence. You want Russia to be powerful, you deserve what you'll get when Russia cones for you. Have you read what Wagner is doing for gold in Africa? You see Ukrainians as terrorists? You're awful.
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You do realize that CA has armory companies with massive collections, that have the "Hollywood exemptions" that allow them to have all the ebil weapons you're not supposed to own in CA, right? Those people handle guns as much as an employee at Battlefield Vegas.
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He did do enough. Outstruck his opponent and turned his face into a blueberry muffin. Nothing else was required of him.
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Putin's popularity is a meaningless metric, as people who hate him refuse to respond or lie.
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"Resisting" lol
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Upgrades? You mean essentially remaking that thing from scratch to replace all the aged parts?
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+FrigginSweet societal gauges also say communism and nazism are pretty good because they were popular in their time. And they massacred hundreds of millions of people. Only slightly worse than TBBT.
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What? The Nighthawk saw combat and entered production first. It's not glazing to state the facts.
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You can't turn a bunch of alcoholics and babushkas into warfighters.
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@limedickandrew6016 Well, considering that the alcoholics were mobilized in Russia last year, things can't be going too well.
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+kissfan7 do you actually believe that poor white people from the South who didn't own any slaves wanted to die over black people? Just like in most of history poor people signed up or were forced to fight due to the conditions they lived in. How the fuck would you support slavery if you were a poor white and couldn't find manual labour because black people were forced to do it for free? You'd hate slavery just like modern Americans hate losing jobs to overseas sweatshops.
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@antediluvianatheist5262 "You described trickle down economics, and insisted it wasn't." - No, he didn't.
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Silence, collaborator.
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They were living in the Byzantine Empire which fell because of the Ottomans. Maybe blame the Turks?
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MANPADS are very weak due to their man portable limitation. The Iraq "desert army" was the 4th largest in the world and was defended by then modern Soviet defenses.
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@BRANFED America has fought over the most dangerous air spaces protected by Soviet defenses, even flying over the USSR with spy planes before satellites became the primary intel source. You're calling the Iraqi Republican Guard or Serbs "tribesmen"? The US has struck Syria with B-1s, through Syrian and Russian defenses. Those Russians in their S-400s, are they tribesmen too?
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@raysschoko Russia is fighting to the last man. Stop believing schizo propaganda about women in Ukraine.
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@BRANFED Iraq had the Kari IADS built by France, French Roland missiles and American MIM-23 Hawk captured from Kuwait. Cope all you want.
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Does the button work? Someone may have stolen the copper wire.
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So?
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Elizondo is a UFO nutter so he's already a biased source.
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A MiG-31 just crashed a couple of days ago. A few weeks ago another one crashed in Murmansk. They lack pilots. The airframes are worn.
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Why is it a serious blooper? F-15 twin engine air superiority, F-16 single engine multirole. F-22 twin engine air superiority, F-35 single engine multirole.
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Federal cases are not livestreamed.
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FLIR footage is grainy, deal with it. Look up videos of people hunting wild hogs at 100 yards with thermal imaging, it's blurry as shit for how close the object is. An object several miles out is obviously going to look blurry.
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That's not a problem, people MAKE it a problem so that they can complain. Look up "natural nuclear reactor", I think its in Gabon or something, the radioactive waste has not moved more than a few meters in 2 billion years and doesn't leech into water.
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@ts9749 It is not a problem. We know how to safely contain nuclear waste but at every step of the way the anti-nuclear movement opposes every attempt to deal with it. At least in the US, Finland and Sweden are moving ahead with their geological repositories.
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Yeah don't you need like a whole facility with millions of miles of pipe just to separate weapons grade uranium from reactor grade? You can't just "print" a nuke.
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In Feb 2022 two thirds of missiles fired at Ukrainian air bases missed.
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@kingofracism dude national socialism is an economic clusterfuck. I don't even need to critique anything else, this is an economics video so let's talk about economics. Hitler created an economic bubble and forced him to go to war despite his country not being ready simply because he needed the conflict to start before the bubble burst. His public works program is no different than the bullshit China is pulling to artificially make their economy keep growing. And we can just look at what happened at surviving fascist regimes. For example Portugal was absolutely wrecked economically by fascist policy.
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The Gripen depends on the GE F414 engine which is American
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@ЮлияЛ-щ9ш Most of the inflation (60%) is due to corporations increasing profits as a 2020 aftershock. Meanwhile Russia is resorting to North Korean shells. Seems to me sanctions are crippling them.
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@ЮлияЛ-щ9ш Russia had one mobilization where they mobilized so many men, they had no facilities or inatructors to train them. That's why hundreds of thousands were kept in rear areas or sent to Belarus. Ukraine did several mobilization waves so they could cycle people through the training program. Look up the mobilization videos, there were Russians sent to empty airfields and bases in disrepair from abandonment. They mobilized ALL AT ONCE which is silly. Takes as long to train them all.
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They don't have to be thrown out, the expenses to stay just have to become too great to sustain. Russia cannot reach the positions they want and dig in. They need to capture more to gain defensive positions, and then capture more to get a buffer zone they can "give up" and maintain a demilitarized zone between them.
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 @TotalBlackoutPainting Paula Dean earns her N-word pass through trial by combat.
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@peytonalexander5300 Why give any validity to those people? Yeah, it's not a mystery that people jump to conclusions and associate things that really aren't even in the same category. I'm not saying people were not looked at with suspicion. I said that plenty of people who were looked at with suspicion simply did not address the rumors and let it blow over. You completely misrepresented what I said. Anybody with a connection. Okay. His job was literally get connections. So if a criminal is at a party and meets one of your friends, and he asks him for your phone number because he needs to talk to you, does that mean you're suspicious of a crime if he has you on his contacts? You can't look at the book as some kind of evidence of blackmail. It's a paper version of a facebook friends list. Nothing wrong with asking questions. But there's more pertinent questions that you could be asking, and if you do society will tell you it's perfectly acceptable to meet the rumors with silence and not give attention to the internet rumor mill. This is completely flimsy in comparison to many rumors floating around. Yeah, and he's the guy at the top. There's a chance he doesn't even know what goes on in the studios and doesn't care to know about anything else that isn't how much money they're bringing in this quarter. You're tying accusations that have been brought against other people to the person at the top who has nothing to do with the crimes committed, because his name is on someone's phonebook. A phonebook with almost 2000 names.
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Depending on how the computer works, if the ground forces are directing an attack and know the coordinates even with GPS down, they can still feed it to the pilot whose aircraft has his INS calibrated to an airfield with a known coordinate. Otherwise a markpoint can be selected with the targeting optics and again INS can be used to calculate the release point.
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 @fredmdbud Conglomerates exist because purchases and mergers are the only way to survive.
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Without surface ships, then Ukraine could use stuff like helicopters dropping sonar buoys to track submarines.
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India was closely aligned with the Soviet Union during the Cold War as part of the USSR's plan to imfluence the Third World and the US cooperated with Pakistan which disputes Kashmir with India. To this day India's military still uses a lot of Russian designs. And when India trades with Russia, beggars can't be choosers so Russia has to accept being paid in Rupees. They spend some of that trade balance on hiring bot farms to post praise for Russia online.
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Won't do any good versus modern armor.
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 @tedbenveniste412 bro there's been anti-Asian hate before the kung flu, ever heard of the Rooftop Koreans? Korean-Americans were targeted during the 90s LA Riots. Trump wasn't president.
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Low recoil is not nicety. Literally makes troops deadlier by increasing hit probability. And hits kill. Misses don't. Plus smaller ammo means more carrying capacity. Easier to kill with, and more rounds means more killing.
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@cocopud I did read it. If one can't cheat physics, training can't cheat physics either. Stopping power doesn't exist.
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"Russiansupporter1674"
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He took a plea deal, no evidence of crime was required.
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@dasderpdood228 "if they did skew the 2016 elections" - they didn't.
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You're begging for a HIMARS. We can send you just the rocket.
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The UN weapons inspector who was prowling for minors on chat rooms?
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@RichardCurrie This preceeds Trump.
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The A-10 needs two engines because you know it will get hit. In the air not getting hit in the first place is better.
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 @Omenowl you straight up switched from the subject of military to geopolitics. So Russia can via willpower alone reverse casualty ratios?
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 @OnyedikaGabriel-un3gm the US defended South Vietnam and lost way less troops.
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They already have.
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Because these people are liars.
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Marten Dekker those can't be balanced, they're mutually exclusive
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Marten Dekker Don't know why your comment disappeared but "regulating" capitalism is still capitalism, public services are not "socialism". Socialism doesn't mean free stuff. Socialism is defined by the prohibition of capitalism - property and profit are banned. The funds for the libraries, roads, healthcare, education, etc are simply "skimmed off the top" from capitalist profits. That's how it works in most of the western world. It's not socialism. Socialism is arriving at the factory, taking the owner up to a wall and executing him so that the "workers" (represented by the state) can collectively own the factory.
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Marten Dekker Social democracy is still a liberal, thus pro-capitalist, ideology. Tyrannical socialism? I'm sorry, but you can't go around saying others are wrong when it's literally you who hasn't spent a minute learning the theory. Socialism has ALWAYS been a post-revolutionary system meant to transition the state into a stateless system. Within socialism, the vanguard party takes control of the state and uses its power to bring about the implementation of communism. You can literally look this up. That is why there was a Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, and all of these Socialist Republics were controlled by their respective Communist Party. Have you ever wondered why Communists controlled states when their ideology is meant to be stateless? That's why. They were meant to use socialism to transition to communism. If you're out here genuinely arguing that socialism is actually a pro-capitalist system and the "socialist socialism" is the tyrannical variant... Please brush up on your definitions.
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Marten Dekker Sure, that's why "liberal democracy" is a thing. Sorry, but liberalism is inherently capitalist. You should look up what liberalism means. Libertarians are often called "classical liberals". "A country that has a fairly regulated capitalist market, and socialized healthcare, education, transportation, roads, libraries, and basic welfare income for the disadvantaged... Is not only capitalism" - But it is capitalist nonethelesss. "and it is not only socialism it is a blend of the two" - There is no blending. You can't blend poison and antidote. You can't blend matter and antimatter. Socialism is the antithesis of capitalism and prohibits capitalist activity. You think socialism is simply government doing stuff. That's not what it means. "Just because you want to use the term socialism to only mean the all encompassing form , is daft..." - It's not me! The people who created socialism wanted it that way! Go tell real socialists that they're still capitalists. See how that goes. You're the one who wants to use "socialism" to mean something it doesn't, the reason why not being clear, and insisting everyone else is wrong. Including socialists themselves.
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Down votes drive engagement.
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The uniform had the Ukrainian flags ripped off. Seems like DPR/LPR militia.
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@DeadManShow_DMS Supposedly it's easy, but only gore sites seem to publish this information. I don't care about gore sites.
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@DeadManShow_DMS Usual news sites don't typically report on a random suicide caught on camera, but maybe our definition of usual is different.
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Even Western communists are split into those who agree the Soviet Union is bad, and tankies. At least half of communists in the West would agree Moscow should not be allowed to own everything from Lisbon to Vladivostok.
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@einarabelc5 Wasn't a one time event. Also happened to F-16s as well.
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Plenty of artillery and artillerymen hit by M777s before those M777s were hit. Some people have left their arms in the Ukrainian plains and can't load artillery no more.
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@kisu_ve625 Nowadays it's not as relevant but in the old days if you wanted to be accepted by the community, you'd have to earn respect by breaking into systems.
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@genobreaker1054 you repeat the term "conspiracy theory" as if it wasn't a proven fact that Eugenics was really popular in the early 20th century, as if there weren't articles decrying laissez-faire economics for breeding "imbeciles", or the union leaders at the time were not concerned that minimum wage would become the "maximum wage" and take away bargaining power. Henry Rogers Seager, president of the American Association for Labor Legislation, wrote in The Theory of The Minimum Wage in 1913 that he wanted to cut hereditary lines. Sidney Webb, Fabian socialist, wrote in 1912 that minimum wage would prevent those he called "parasitic" from finding employment. Royal Meeker, economist, argued in 1910 that minimum wage would deprive the "incompetent" of work and making them unable to breed more of their own kind. Those motherfuckers all wrote down their thoughts, were not shy about it, for you to come here today and say it never happened. Kappa.
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@genobreaker1054 >bunch of people pushed a fake dossier as legitimate intelligence to target a political adversary vs >eugenicists and politicians writing down their arguments for policies that purify the genetic pool
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@genobreaker1054 "Each example is a bunch of people pushing bull" - so wait, people who are eugenicists, who want to kill off the poor and then state they want state policies that disenfranchise the poor so that they can kill them off without genocide... were playing 4D chess all along? "despite what arguments people may have made for or against minimum wage at the time, when you look at the policy itself, and the actual historical context" - you means those people who were literal eugenicists and wanted the measures put in place?
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@genobreaker1054 "Eugenicists were pushing a bunch of bull" - said "bull" was... drum roll... minimum wage laws.
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@genobreaker1054 I fail to see what you're trying to prove. So these really "progressive" people who were all about science and manipulating society towards their dream world got into positions of power to implement measures to harm the poor and you're really out here dismissing the events as they happened? "The IDEA that minimum wage laws were some effort to weed certain groups out of society by preventing them from earning enough money to survive on, BY RAISING THE AMOUNT THEY GET PAID TO THE MINIMUM LEVEL REQUIRED TO SURVIVE, is seriously tin foil hat level nonsense." - it isn't. Maybe you didn't watch the multiple videos Tim has uploaded regarding minimum wage but that's okay. The minimum wage kicks out the bottom steps of the economic ladder. The point wasn't to force less capable people to get paid more. That's laughable. Employers would simply stop hiring people who were not capable of producing enough to offset the minimum legal wage and without reliable means of legal employment people would not be able to reproduce. There was no Soviet "everyone has a job" mandate. If it cost you X to employ someone and they could only bring you Y, you simply wouldn't employ them. You'd employ a skilled worker.
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@genobreaker1054 "you just described half of free market economics" - I like how free market people traveled back in time, started writing about eugenics, got into positions of power and passed minimum wage laws all for a smear job so they could accuse people who want higher min wages of being complicit with eugenics. "Minimum wage INCREASED the wages of the earners" - I mean, anyone who was earning more did not get a raise or was raised very little, the people who were already bang on the limit was obviously paid the same... but jobs where wages were lower were simply eliminated. "Does that mean factory owners hired fewer people to work? Almost certainly, as more expensive labor and safety practices would cut into a businesses profits and ability to survive and grow." - that's just missing the forest for the trees. I'm not making the point of boohoo much economy muh GDP muh layoffs that you're gonna expect in a pure economics argument. The point is that anyone who had an "important" job was retained because the business required it, but people doing more menial tasks for little money were simply prohibited from working. Who do you think was affected by this, the skilled machinists or less capable people? "minimum wage was a pay INCREASE" - Was it? Because if people were getting paid in average a dollar and min wage stipulated 2 dollars (just simple numbers as an example) that would seriously harm the economy as only huge factory owners would make enough profits to pay their workers. You just doubled personnel cost, I'd assume the min wage was just stipulated to be just enough to maintain most jobs. I'm gonna need actual numbers for this conversation to happen because you're making it seem like it was money falling from the sky. "Does it mean people lost jobs at the lowest levels? Yes. What did they do? What people always do, adapt." - my dude we're literally talking about people who couldn't adapt. They were eugenicists. They literally wanted to cull "undesirables". I'm gonna say it, they meant disabled people and low IQ people. "I bring this up because people did have options if they lost their jobs" - if you literally couldn't dig a ditch because you had a disability that wasn't really an option. "And there is plenty of historical documentation that unions arose as mobs of disgruntled workers banded together to shut down their bosses and demand better conditions and pay" - yes, through collective bargaining. Which is an effective tool because it balanced supply and demand. Because unions were perfectly aware of what a minimum wage would mean. As unions became more powerful they started lobbying for similar measures to kick out the bottom steps of the ladder and use wages or licensing to prohibit non-union members from stealing their jobs. This lead to temporary prosperity but it was a huge incentive for automation or manufacturing overseas to escape the regulations unions lobbied for - and eventually unions lost their power because workers no longer had collective bargaining as leverage against businesses that no longer needed to hire them. They were aware of the dangers of minimum wage in the beginning, then thought they could harness regulation for their own benefit and it killed them in the end. Poetic.
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@genobreaker1054 "Most factories weren't paying people to do nothing but take up room on payroll, you were expected to contribute." - and the point is that everyone can contribute with SOMETHING. Unless that something is less valuable than the minimum wage. Cinemas used to have ushers and more projectionists. Compared to today, they were "doing nothing but take up room on payroll". And that's the point, after someone's contribution is seen as not having a monetary value higher than the min wage we suddenly think it's a useless job position. But we clearly had them.
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@genobreaker1054 "I'm clearly not going to convince you it was workers fighting for what they needed (yes, they got greedy, such is human nature. Unions were originally a good thing, but have been cancer for decades)" - but that's the thing, they wanted collective bargaining and not min wages as they feared it would become the maximum wage. Take care.
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They are fighting to the end because it's illegal to surrender and barrier troops will put them in penal battalions if they try to flee.
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Cope.
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Britain's gun crime rose after the handgun bans.
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@gerritbosch5269 "cant handle seeing a woman with muscles" - Buddy my girlfriend has muscles but this is ridiculous. Wearing a tight shirt she looks bigger than the dude wearing a thick coat. Where the fuck is she getting the steroids?
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@iankemp2627 How does it being aimed at laptops change anything?
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15 years ago in Portugal stores would hand out keychains with a coin-shaped tip so that people would have a convinient alternative to a real coin, but it was attached to keys so it was too important to leave behind.
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@prashantnegi007 The worst part is the hypocrisy.
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Wait a minute. James Gunn being obsessed with pedophilia is "just jokes". Two satirical comments make Doom alt-right? Hmmmm.
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Putin, naive? Russia used Minsk II to assault Debaltseve. It's Russia who uses treaties to strike.
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Agree, Russians should surrender.
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And that's exactly the problem. Insurance profit margins are between 5 to 8 percent. It's the hospitals that overcharge insurances and insurance simply passes the costs down to you.
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They're being used because of losses
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@disconductorder And they wouldn't need to be used if the Russian army was intact.
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Hundred yards? These things are miles away. FLIR pods have zoom function.
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Not true, the US is the only country were things are routinely declassified.
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There were rumors about a F-19 and triangle shape aircraft. But it was assumed to be rounder.
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It was estimated that the entire A-10 force would be shot down within weeks if in 1980 the Cold War started at the Fulda Gap. You think 2020 China wouldn't handle the A-10 better than 1980 Russians? Even the 1991 Iraqi Republican Guard got the USAF to ground the A-10 due to 7 shootdowns and 13 battle damage losses.
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@भगवानगणेशभगवानगणेश Russia incited the separatists into bloody violence...
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But the first B-52s started getting retired in the 1960s. The B-52Gs were destroyed in the 90s to comply with the START treaty. Only B-52Hs remain, which means none of them will have 100 years of service.
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Copium.
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@minarulkarim743 false, only bootlickers wanted it but it was forced. You should go back and watch TV shows and news from those days. It was probably the last time the media was in the side of the people. The media actually questioned the Iraq war and warned us about losing freedoms. Now they tell you if you're against the war in Syria you're a Putin troll. If you don't want censorship you're a Nazi.
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@g.2080 You're still denying that Moderna had the stuff in December 2019? Still denying the BLAST searches that show the genetic code was on patents prior to the pandemic?
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@hrs2044 Easy to be "savvy" when you already did the work prior to 2020.
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@hrs2044 The fact that Ralph Baric, who co-authored papers with Shi Zhengli from the WIV, signed for the reception of jib candidates from Moderna in Dec 12 2019.
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@hrs2044 I'm not copy pasting. A scientific researcher who was in contact with another scientific researched from the Wuhan institute of virology was also in contact with Moderna. Moderna provided candidates for a shot to the University of North Carolina in late 2019. That's the claim. These are complete sentences. They are originals and not copy pasted.
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@hrs2044 If you have read the document in question, you already know it.
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@hrs2044 I've read the actual source. It establishes that a researcher was involved with Moderna and the WIV. The CEO of Moderna also worked for BioMerieux, and Merieux helped the development of the WIV. Said researcher was also told in an email to not sign the Lancelet open letter because it would look suspicious. Searches in the BLAST database show that Moderna had relevant patents prior to the pandemic.
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TUMS FESTIVAL!
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So a man kills 10,000 people and you think you won't be number 10,001. Just saying. What I wanted to say is that your situation explicitly shows the state broadcasting a positive ID of the suspect so if you do see him, you have a reasonable expectation that it's the guy. The McMichaels essentially screwed themselves because they were chasing some guy they assumed to be the same person seen in the video. That's not a positive ID.
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Israel voted due to US pressure.
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Biting winter lol we have clothes.
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@royhuang9715 Impressive, you get almost everything wrong when it comes to freedom. Also, McCarthy was right.
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@connorm4145 In finding infiltrators in the US government. The things you criticized him for, he was actually right on. And you obviously know it, because now you had to change the critique.
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@connorm4145 Oh yes, he did. The real marketers were the people who convinced you that McCarthy was wrong.
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>US doesn't invade for freedom, but for oil The US produces almost as much oil it imports. >iraq wasn't a threat Tell that to the Kurds. >the US did it to fight Iran It was the Germans who gave Saddam most of his chemical and biological capabilities. >north korea, which has ACTUAL WMD! Implying NK is actually a threat. The US, South Korea and the Japan Self-Defense Force would rip Kim to shreds.
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A ton of black projects were eventually revealed. Most stuff never leaves the paper or only has mock ups built. The truly remarkae stuff is talked about openly, like the SR-71 and the fact that the CIA had a higher performance variant.
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Define built for CAS use.
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Calling them hypersonic is extremely charitable, I sincerely doubt the ground clutter doesn't mess up that shot. All of the Russian wondertech seems to have been overhyped until we saw it. The MiG-31 and the fat missile are about the only things we haven't captured or seen destroyed precisely because they don't dare get close to Ukrainian airspace. Are we really going to take their word for it? After all, an estimated 6 missiles are fired daily to suppress the Ukrainian airforcd but only a handful of kills have been attributed to them.
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@obsidianstatue I'm going to also ask you to also understand what you're replying to. The other poster said that since the DF-17 has not been used in combat, he's going to assume it's like the T-72 - scary on paper, but when real life catches up to the claims it seems to have trouble meeting expectations. He didn't say the T-72 was in few wars. He was talking about the way technology is treated before it sees combat.
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@agapp11able Is this a joke? If you're forced to retreat, you've failed. If you come up to me to mug me, and I pull out a gun, and you run away scared, are you going to claim the crime wasn't thwarted because you weren't pushed back by bullets? Yeah, because Ukraine gave up territory for safety. Seriously, what do you think war is? Just people with no brain running full speed at each other? When an enemy force is trying to overwhelm you and you know standing your ground is certain death, you pull back and allow that advance. The problem with those advances? The further away Russian forces are from the rail network, the worse their supply lines get. It also allows the defending side to pull away from the fighting forces, and come from the side to attack the supply forces. You don't fight the men with the guns. You use your guns and kill the guys driving the trucks.
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@AlexOnTheSide183 Not sure what your point is. At no point was the US running out of Abrams, but it seems Russia is transporting T-62s. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel. Ukrainian vehicles being destroyed doesn't matter, they're fighting for their land, not their vehicles. Russia needs to seize control of Ukraine, and that means they need vehicles to conduct operations. There's also footage of the DPR/LPR conscripting men by force. Russian commanders have also been killed.
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@AlexOnTheSide183 The T-62s were seen in rail transport in Melitopol. I didn't "dig", it's all over the internet, several people with phones filmed the T-62s on rail cars. The point is that the losses are forcing more conscription, while you minimize this occurrence. LPR and DPR are fools fighting for Russia. They are fighting for someone else to take the land. They're being used as meat shields, Putin does not care about their lives.
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@AlexOnTheSide183 Is this a joke? So Ukraine sent their tanks to Russia to send them back to an area of Ukraine that's under Russian occupation? Are you kidding me?
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@AlexOnTheSide183 Why would they put them on rail in Melitopol, and then unload them again? I'm sure the crew will give a shit about their death trap. The T-62 can be killed even by a RPG-7. "As song as it can do what its supposed to do" - And it won't. That's the problem. Decades and decades of this "old and cheap is fine as long as it does the job" and American weapons obliterate them.
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@Ravi9A Are you denying that modern equipment has been destroyed in Ukraine?
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@AlexOnTheSide183 Plenty of places, such as Iraq. The US never used Stugna-Ps or Soviet AT mines. They dropped things like laser guided bombs from F-111s, Mk 20 Rockeyes from A-6s or Maverick missiles. Cheap, but efficient. And dead. Even Bradley IFVs took out T-72 main battle tanks. Expensive IFV beats cheap main battle tank. You forgot that efficient doesn't mean effective. It just means you spent little money. Gun goes boom doesn't mean much when a store bought drone can drop a grenade on your cheap tank before you can even get within gun range of your enemy.
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@Ravi9A It's not an irrelevant question. The best Russia has to offer isn't doing them any good. They're pulling out T-62s out. Things aren't going well.
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@Ravi9A It's not Syria, dawg. Melitopol.
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Jefferson said no free man shall be barred from owning arms.
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 @golovkaanna8757 taxing luxury items would cripple the industries that produce, distribute and market them. The improvements to society would be offset by job losses.
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Lmao the Ratnik gear was sold to Anerican airsofters on ebay.
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Laughable. If you can't admit your're wrong, call the other person troll.
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@NovusRex1788 I'm not American so I'm definitely not coping. More people have rifle permits. Okay. If a country has 10 people and one rifle permit, then 10 years later it has 2 rifle permits and 30 people, the number of gun ownership actually went down despite the number of permits doubling. Do you understand this?
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@hen_the_ren1841 oh damn nice eye
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They had offensives in Kherson and Kharkiv without those. Tanks, IFVs, engineering vehicles and more artillery will do more than a handful of fighters.
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The construction of this bridge is highly complex because the soil is very soft there. A big shock leaves the structure compromised, it will need replacement.
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The ex-marine in Thailand. Why are all these shills like Gonzalo Lira going to less wealthy countries to marry?
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Were the McMichaels aware of this evidence?
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Any weapon is a war crime if used against civilians.
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No. Both sides use the same frequency ranges. Early warning radar can "see" stealth but can't shoot weapons. It's not accurate.
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Everyone has that right. When you go to the store, see things are more expensive than somewhere else, you leave and go there. There's your price cap. You have all the right to do that.
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Why would the Marines want something they can't fly off carriers? The photos are pure survivorship bias. You don't see the ones that got shot down after receiving similar damage.
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How?
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The SR-71 had American parts. The titanium may have been Soviet, but it was bent, machined and welded into shape in America. At no point did America say the science was too tough to develop.
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Being on the defensive isn't a deciding criteria unless the scoring is too close to call. If you outstrike the opponent you win the round no matter if offensive or defensive. It's martial arts. If you win a war defensively you won, if you're attacked in the street and fight defensively to protect yourself you won, as a sport and combat art there is art in the ability to score while playing defensively so you won. When the aggressor is able to overcome the defense and score the same as you, he wins by virtue of aggression. Not if he gets tagged all round.
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Izzy went defensive but he got beat - dropped even. Sean walked forward, defended Izzy's strikes, and scored more than Adesanya. DDP walked into Sean's fist all night, which Izzy did not do to Sean when he had the chance.
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Did you seriously gauge combat capabilities by looking at dates?
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 @FreeGumFighter A ship that was under attack was bound for Italy. Why should Italy not worry? It's their goods or their economy being targeted.
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@kensurrency2564 Pretty bad case for socialism when both Stalin and Mao managed to "hijack" the movement. Seems like you people have a hand for picking the worst possible leaders.
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@vinnyb3978 Seems to me like the free market is solving the farming problem, then. Government regulated markets choke farms out of existence? The farmers use the free market.
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It avoids shocks in the global market, and leaves more on the table for future transgresssions. If we go full bore embargo and blockade, Russia just gets to also misbehave as much as possible knowing there's nothing left except boots on the ground.
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A glorified money laundering operation does not a success make.
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They'd rather you collapse on the way home than get scared from the ouchie.
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The Soviets backstabbed the Spanish Anarchists. Once they realized that Soviet citizens could be inspired to demand an anarchist implementation of socialism, they let the fascists have Spain.
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@DutchStar Trump fell in line quickly.
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@deancooper7760 "bail your free trade asses out when your capitalist dreams collapse" - What? All this garbage was created by government action. The capitalist dreams didn't collapse, the central banking/fiat currency/nanny state dream collapsed. The bail outs interfere with the free market. "Free traders didn't allow America to process the slave grown cotton. No, the cotton was sent back to England where child, prison, and sweatshop labor turned it into cloth." - "Free traders" restricted trade? Ahahaha.
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If you're playing catch up, you can't trip and fall. Others already won the race decades, even centuries ago. China still has to cross that finish line.
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Ridiculous. Neither the A or C variants have vertical landing. The B requires it. It is useful. It allows helicopter carriers to launch and recover fighters. The S-400 has been humiliated in Ukraine. Even the GMLRS rocket artillery breaks the S-400 defense.
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Last year or whatever one Hell's Angels guy got merc'd in New York by two guys with cans. Even if suppressors were used often it wouldn't matter because criminals just get them from machinist dudes willing to make a buck.
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The Glock barrel doesn't rotate either, but on tilting barrels the motion is addressed by the booster/Nielsen device. Because the added mass of the suppressor creates resistance to the recoil operation, the threaded endcap is riding on springs that allow the suppressor to stay mostly fixed while the barrel starts moving. The issue here isn't how the gun operates, but how tight the clearance between the bullet path and the baffle edges are. The suppressor is cantilevered off the treads on the barrel, and adding too much weight could cause enough of a deflection for the bullet to rub against the baffle edge.
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@normanboyes4983 Reuters has done a report on Western tech feeding Russia's war machine. They investigated the crashed pieces of missiles, took note of the manufacturers and warned them that shell companies are being used to escape from sanctions. Expect the supplies to dry out.
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@Riceball01 "The A-10 can already carry a ton of ordnance with the GAU-8" - It really can't. If you look at Bagram air base footage, they take off lightly loaded. One of the A-10s problem is that the engines are weak enough to the point that at 5k ft above sea level you can't even take off with a full load.
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14 Challengers from the UK, 14 Leo 2 from Germany, 28 Abrams from the US. So that's 4 months of ass kicking. Kharkiv took a week, Kherson about two months. How far will Russia retreat in 4?
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=xKlfd6PiJKk this can be made on a 300 dollar printer, 600 rounds of 9mm. Have some faith in technology...
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Perks of serving under a warlord who's literally paid off by Putin to remain loyal.
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This was attempted in the 90s, it's not feasible.
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 @nic12897 Bruh TRILLIONS were spent in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ukraine is cheap compared to those.
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 @nic12897 KIA number estimates allow your enemy to take conclusions about current force strength. Why would you let your enemy know when you are weakened?
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@KasperYakolev-j1h Russia lost in Afghanistan.
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Mathius S "high levels of thermite" - so they found iron and aluminum in a crash site of an aluminum plane into a steel building...?
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@DFWFoundationRepairCompany if you look at controlled demolitions it's very different. There's tons of videos available, you hear several successive explosions and the building comes down from the bottom. When the towers fell there was no staccato of explosives and the buildings came down from the top. Only Tower 7 kinda looks like a controlled demolition.
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Mathius S what are theirs?
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Northrop stays in business by making parts for non-Northrop aircraft.
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Running a deficit is the norm.
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@curtrobbins Iraq was said to be the 4th largest army in the world at the time. Iraq had world class air defenses - all the Soviet stuff, they had French Roland missiles, American MIM-23 Hawk missiles they captured in Kuwait, and all controlled by a French IADS system made specially for them (Kari, which is the French word "Irak" backwards). World class air force? Russia is using their aircraft as unguided artillery.
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The problem is that your car can sit on the garage/driveway as long as you give it a spin once in a while. The A-10 needs hundreds of pilots and mechanics to keep in service. You can't just forget it like an old car. You have to baby it even if you're not using it. Imagine you had to pay for a chauffeur and a resident mechanic to keep your shitbox. You'd get rid of it, pronto.
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@Farfromperfection when he got elected he had a bunch of lawsuits pending so he settled on all of them, I think.
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Fs in the chat for an absolute king.
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@hoocares939 lol reminds me of this video of the lunk alarm going off at planet fitness https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx5FYSrgMBd/?igshid=iibzpch8j5kb
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@karlyo6937 You come to these videos to cry.
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There's no magic bullet. The seating arrangement in the presidential limo and lesser known photos of the recovered bullet show everything lines up with physics and there's no magic anything.
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Telegram damage control.
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Low frequency radars are not proliferating. They're larger and harder to move. They're the first targets for cruise missiles day one.
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@coshyno People with weak immune systems and comorbidities won't take care of a bad flu. Hello?
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@willmiller7794 lmao China is back to having cases. They simply stopped counting.
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@willmiller7794 Serological testing done in December 2020 determined that the number of cases in Wuhan were undercounted at a ratio of 1 to 10.
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@righthandstep5 North Koreans are used as very cheap labor in countries like China and Russia. Some attempt to flee, but the vast majority doesn't - they fear for their families suffering reprisals.
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@waynejohnson1786 He's a war criminal staging BS for Russia. He isn't a journalist. There's plenty of Russian journalists who speak English already so he's redundant. I honestly hope an American 155mm catches up to hit. But doesn't kill him. I want him to suffer the consequences and spend the next decades of is life regretting what he's done.
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@MFPRego "but reality tells us a diferent story!" - reality says that the F-35 wipes the floor with anything else in inventory.
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What are the stats?
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Not true.
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@joeking5679 Funny how the wikipedia page itself state that there's no source for the claims made about civilian infrastructure. Almost as if an anti-american vandal edited the page.
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You know that thumb over bore appeared waaaay before Magpul/OPERATORS were a fad, right?
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@shadowspider9 those people aren't streamers.
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A lot of the military comes from those red states...
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@phillupspace3534 Look up fragging.
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It was orginally a chat for gaming. There used to be GameSpy, Xfire (pronounced "crossfire"), TeamSpeak and Ventrillo. Discord came out and now is the biggest text and voice chat for gaming, becoming a social media platform in itself.
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Pure concern trolling. Stop wastig your time.
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If nvidia didn't give devs a crutch they'd fix the games.
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A vacuum chamber can't be at 1.5 kelvin because there's no heat convection in a vacuum.
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@alienscientist8893 We can get to within 0.1 K with some methods. You don't need to cool the vacuum chamber because the vacuum has no temperature. Temperature is a measure of energy in the molecules of a material (solid, gas or liquid). Vacuum is the absence of material. No molecules, no temperature. The sides of the chamber are irrelevant. The sides of the chamber do not touch the rocket, just like in space nothing touches the rocket.
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@alienscientist8893 But in space there are no sides of the chamber. And yes, you could run the test with large vacuum chambers, this is also how high supersonic wind tunnel testing is done. Large vacuum containers are opened and gas is sucked through the object being tested, it only lasts a few seconds. Why does the engine need vacuum testing, by the way? Just to understand what you're trying to get at. The rocket's most demanding phase is inside the atmosphere. The rockets used in space are weaker and thus less difficult to design.
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If you watched the video you'd see they started the count in January, back when almost nobody had it. Stop parroting this excuse.
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They take 5 minutes to reload. A battery of artillery has to be driven to the spot, dismounted, sighted, fired, then packed up and hooked to its transport. Not only do you get a very short range unless you use rocket assisted shells, you're vulnerable to counterbattery. They won't get it together, hopefully. I want to see them in pieces.
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@the11382 "LNG can be transported by truck as well" - delusional...
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@TheFlyingFish692 Yes, because their buildings keep collapsing. Tofu dreg
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 @leamon_3 Patrict Lancaster has been caught faking scenarios and hanging out with the boxcutter genitalia thief. He's a war criminal, at this point.
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That's only because gas powered plants can throttle and back off quickly and sell their power at a premium to deal with short term peaks in demand. Nuclear has to sell power ahead of time for cheap and only cover an estimation of the base load.
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@emilnarud5955 Why would they regret it? Is that a threat?
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@emilnarud5955 Missiles would be pointed at them anyway. Anyhow, Russia is so depleted they actually pulled defenses away from the Finnish border.
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@emilnarud5955 You have a weird definition of what neutrality is. Russia did run out of missiles, which is why they manufacture them and fire them in volleys, using S-300s and Iranian drones to plug the gaps.
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@emilnarud5955 They use S-300s on ground targets, this was reported months ago. And they were using so many, they pulled S-300s out of Syria and the border with Finland. They're not manufactured in Russia lmao.
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@emilnarud5955 It was a Russian cruise missile. Crater was too large.
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@vitalymaliarov696 Russian media accidentally released the article celebrating victory in three days.
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@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz Putin forgot that a nation that learned what Moscow had done during the Soviet era and suppressed the information would bite and not let go.
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@RoberttAvro Neither China or India are sending critical supplies. They're bending Russia over a barrel regarding oil prices though. They want that discount.
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@robertbeisert3315 BRICS is a term made up by an economist. It's like PIGS in Europe. The I and S in BRICS have a border conflict where occasionally the Indian Army and the PLA go at it with sticks because they agreed to not have firearms in those regions or else all hell breaks lose.
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They wanted it. They were criticized for buying too many. It was meant to serve until the early 90s but got constant life extensions.
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The DPR forces assaulted Debaltseve the day after Minsk II was signed. Russia has fanned the flame of conflict at every step of the way. Russia isn't just "no saint". They hate us. They manipulated us. They bribed our officials to become dependent on them. They weaponized energy against us. They wanted this war, and moved the chess pieces to make sure we were caught in a deadlock. High energy prices? The price was always high. We were just paying with lives...
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The antibody monitoring in the UK shows that almost 100% of the population has either got the shot or natural immunity... but the proportion of people who have antibodies against the nucleocapsid (as opposed as solely against the spike) has stalled. It's unbelievable how garbage this product is.
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+Gallowaysiege Jensen and Todd Howard get on stage and just repeat "it just works" in unison
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Blackwater ended. They renamed to Xe and Academi but the reputation was too stained. The company assets were purchased and merged under another company.
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@Rake3577 No, it's not the same people. Erik Prince isn't involved anymore. The thing is that you're trying to compare a private venture with an oligarch shadow company that served as a deniable asset. It's like if Sony had to close their Playstation division and all the assets were sold to Nintendo. If Nintendo is selling Switch consoles made in former Playstation factories, does that mean Playstation still exists? No, it closed down. It's over. Now if Sony declares that PlayStation is closing and announces the SlayPtation that is the exact same and has the same games... the legal entity ceased to exist but the company is still alive. Blackwater is so dead, the last time I heard of them the owners of the brand were trying to make money by selling the brand to an ammunition manufacturer.
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Geothermal is just nuclear with extra steps. Radioactive decay is what keeps the mantle warm.
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@jarrod752 You can disagree all you want, it's just the facts. Modern gen reactors can't go into meltdown either, and geothermal does leak radiation. Studies have found that geothermal in Iceland pulls radioactive isotopes from the crust and the sludge that is pumped back up contaminates the surface because there's no nuclear regulation overseeing the process. Radioactive decay is responsible for at least half of the geothermal temperature gradient and used to be more, so there would be no geothermal with pressure alone.
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How is it not feasible? Brother the Russians are using DONKEYS. They're on the ropes. Either let the ref break the fight or let the knockout happen. You don't award the loss to the guy standing tall.
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@b1bbscraz3y nobody paid those rates, and tax revenue increased when they were lowered
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@b1bbscraz3y that's not true. They actually paid very little because the bracket for high income wages was so high, very few were rich enough to get it. And the rich weren't even rich enough for the 90% to be a lot. For example if the 90% was on the 100,000+ bracket, then a very wealthy man earning 110,000 (which used to be a lot) would only be taxed 90% of his 10,000 dollars. So that bracket was nearly useless. When the tax cuts were implemented more people became more wealthy and although tax rates were lower, they paid more through taxes. If you make a million but pay 30% taxes, the government pockets 300,000. That's more than 9,000. "also no one has called for taxing anyone at 90% so you're lying" - don't you EVER call me a liar. OP said tax the rich 90% and you said, like almost the majority of the 20th century. I simply corrected your history knowledge and never claimed anything about anyone wanting to tax 90%. I just responded. "go look up Sanders' tax plan and stop being a bootlicker for people with more money and more power than you" - LMAO sanders has more money and power than you, and yet you act like a bootlicker for him
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@b1bbscraz3y not in the matter of a couple of years. "you say the revenue the government makes from taxation increased when taxes were lowered. wouldn't that therefore mean you should be against lowering taxes" - that doesn't make any fucking sense. I can't evade taxes or else the state will come after me with armed men. So I'd rather pay less taxes. I'm also a truthful person so I'm going going to lie and claim high taxes are worse just for the sake of collapsing the government.
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@b1bbscraz3y Several things you've shotgunned at the wall and many of them wrong. "I believe the 90% tax applies to those making millions" - oof, this discussion has been happening way before people were earning millions per year. If you made 100,000 in the early 1900's you were Great Gatsby level rich. "when the tax cuts were implemented more people also became more poor, and wages became stagnant" - and employment went down and government revenue increased as well. Wages becoming stagnant is the natural effect of a recovering Europe and Asia competing with America. Want higher wages like in the 1960's? Start WWIII to curbstomp Europe and Asian industries and tell women to be stay at home moms. It's not the 1960's anymore. "trickle down economics is a fantasy" - because it doesn't exist. Trickle Down Economics was a smear invented by butthurt historians to get back at Andrew Mellon. There is no economic theory called trickle down or that works like trickle down is said to work. Andrew Mellon's stated goal during the Coolidge era was to shift the burden of taxation towards the wealthy and it worked, while also shedding four and a half billion from the national debt. "I call people whatever the fuck I want" - then that makes you a liar, and by being a liar you're already forfeited this argument. Thanks for playing, you already lost. But I'll keep beating you to the ground. "OP was obviously being sarcastic" - It is completely irrelevant. You implied that taxation was high in the 20th century and I countered that rhetoric because I have seen hundreds of people parrot that incorrect factoid. What number he said or whether he was sarcastic or not has absolutely nothing to do with the argument. "the fact still remains the nominal rate was 90% " - which matters for absolutely nothing considering almost nobody paid that rate, and the bracket was so high most rich people only barely earned above it, meaning that the 90% tax barely contributed to government revenue. "apparently you don't understand how lobbying, political donations, and bribery works" - Irrelevant. You've giving me corruption talking points when I simply flipped the script - you can't accuse others of being bootlickers and then shill for a career politician. "yet he is the most grassroot funded politician in the country donated to overwhelmingly by working class people" - and he threw it all away when he bent the knee to the DNC. No refunds. "he just simply has the most amount of fact-based data and evidence on his side to back his positions" - you mean like his support or breadlines or claiming there's too many deodorants? Or when he kept claiming Scandinavia was socialist and even the prime minister of Denmark or whatever had to respond? I understand people putting their foot in their mouth when they talk for a living but Bernie's position is hardly the FACTS and LOGIC kind. He's an idealist and he'll pick the facts and data that supports his side, just like everyone does. "[some strawman bs]" - Irrelevant, and also your personal opinion. Blog it, don't post it as an argument.
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@b1bbscraz3y in 1921 you were taxed at 73 percent if you made over 100,000. "so tax cuts made employment go down and government revenue increase. so why do you support tax cuts then? the logic is inconsistent" - stop being asinine "if that's the only way you think wages can be raised" - it's the way it worked in the 1950s and 1960s. I'm just stating the facts. "an accurate term" - it isn't. "to describe the fantasy economics of the Reagan era" - except that it doesn't come from the Reagan era, please stop being wrong about history "don't like the term, that's your problem" - by that logic I can call your ideology Asspoop and it ruins the country. It doesn't reflect reality, your problem. "that is just a term to use to more quickly name the Reagan-era economics that ruined the country" - except that the tax cuts, AGAIN, pulled America out of a crisis, increased government revenue and solved unemployment. And the kicker is, Reagan's problem is that HE INCREASED GOVERNMENT SPENDING. That's what fucked him over and caused the deficit. "that's actually not irrelevant. because I said no one is calling for 90% taxes, and your response to that was saying that OP is calling for 90% taxes." - except I didn't. "the nominal rate was still 90% and the effective rates were higher than they are today " - except that lower nominal rates increased government revenue. "you don't know the difference between getting money from the citizens of your country which is and should be what a public servant does" - no, it isn't. They get paid more than enough through the government. The taxpayer already funds these leeches, the citizens shouldn't be compelled to fund them even more. "Sanders was opposed to the Reagan foreign policy of intervention" - but supported the bombing of Yugoslavia and had anti-war protesters evicted from his talk. "all fact-based data and evidence show to be the best systems in the world" - but also the worst. "universal healthcare systems are consistently the best ranked and most efficient systems on the planet earth" - but the US ranks 37th, right? There's like 170 countries in the world. You don't get to toss out 140 test tubes and say yeah these 40 test tubes confirm my hypothesis. That's not science. "I don't know what this refers to" - exactly, because it was so unimportant you don't even remember
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The "reserves" are getting struck during transit, surrendering and even volunteering the location of their Chechen barrier troopsto Ukraine.
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 @jasonfabo7126 if you ask them you get different answers. I've had several Marines say the Navy Hornets were their favorite CAS.
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You probably don't pay taxes so why do you care?
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@ARandomCatOnAKeyboard The issue is that they had moved away from that original "trigger shaped" charging handle and adding a side charging bolt would mean opening a channel on the receiver which would allow for ingress of debris and dirt. Neither was an option and the FA was the "least bad" design so it stuck.
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@mattbowdenuh Not true at all. The F/A-18 is a naval fighter. On a carrier F/A-18s don't have F-15 or F-16 backup because the USAF doesn't fly from the sea. And many countries only operate F-16s, no F-15s. The F-16 is a do it all fighter.
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@jhedrich This changes the outcome. Ukraine cut off Russian supplies from the north, because the rail lines from the east don't fully connect to Severodonetsk.
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@MC-wh3xm The entire war was lost for Russia in the 24th. This just accelerates their defeat.
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@GregDeman Whatever their goal is, it's not being completed.
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A GoPro fits in a flight suit cockpit and you can mount it with a suction cup. No need for a maintenance team.
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The results aren't doing anything in the field. Russia still loses.
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The soldiers who escaped Kuwait immediately went into Iraq to suppress rebellion against Saddam. If they were fighting unwillingly, they could have changed sides and fight for the people. Instead they brutally repressed them.
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 @waaagh9730 Reality has an anti-Soviet bias.
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"He didn't have social media, fed plant!" - says person behind an anime pfp
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The vaccinated are also infecting others. Is it okay for them?
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Ironica because the Gripen has been plagued with bribery scandals.
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Bro. Russia broke Minsk I within the first 24 hours. Please stop listening to washed up politicians cope and try to look like master strategists. Russia attacked and seized Debaltseve right after signing. Minsk II fell apart with the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport. Russia used the scheme. Merkel sold you COPIUM to pretend she didn't get played and you believed her.
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 @lexburen5932 What brain? Minsk I and II were broken by Russia.
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It's funny how engineers quit and blew the whistle on the safety concerns but the regulatory agencies didn't fix it.
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 @elnach3240 They didn't ask for women for the front, they asked for women with medicine credentials (nurses and doctors). Those are not frontline infantry positions.
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@keithdrewv1161 If you're afraid of only getting the Western perspective, check out the Russian ultrabationalist/milblogger sphere. They curse the administration for their incompetence. Several milbloggers were threatened by the Russian government and one in particular, Igor Girkin, was arrested and put in the same cell as Ukrainian PoWs. Igor "Strelkov" Girkin was involved in Transnistria, Serbia, Chechnya and the 2014 covert invasion of Ukraine. He is a die-hard Russian who fought for Russia across decades and he's criticized the Russian MoD.
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@timur3505 Just like all the Russian artillerymen and tank drivers were promoter to infantry, da?
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How does steel cased ammo affect the results? In rifles you're used to steel cased ammo being loaded for low cost rather than quality so steel case is loaded with sloppy powder measurement and sloppy bullets with copper plating rather than copper jacketing, then being fed into weapons made to fire brass. If the cannon is made for steel, and the steel case is loaded for quality rather than cost, the bullet doesn't care where it's fired from. The moving platform has gyros and radar lock to compensate for the movement. The heavier the round, the less it is affected by the atmospheric conditions. If the benchrested precision rifle could be made to fire something with the mass of a baseball rather than a 200 grain pill without losing muzzle velocity you'd get something that's 3000m capable. You'd need the rifle to weigh-in at 20 lbs or something.
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@michaelabratzel6371 I can't find any sources for the testing of the XM140 cannon but it might be possible the target was 25 inches rather than centimetres, which would give 0.72 MOA.
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@michaelabratzel6371 Since the GAU-8 Avenger from the A-10 is rated to land 80% of shots inside a 40-foot diameter circle at 1.2km, could the target be 25 feet rather than inches or cm?
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@ERAUsnow You can't "fight it after" if you're a corpse.
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Stop. Things should be fixed during trials. It's a debacle that something broken was adopted and fixed after the fact.
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Oil prices increase due to war.
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Didn't happen. The pod lost track and just stared into the distance. This makes the object appear to accelerate but no - the camera stopped moving.
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The former president of Yemen who was removed by the Houthi rebellion is exiled in Saudi Arabia who want to put him back in power. The rebellion in Yemen is also an Iran proxy. All in all, Saudi Arabia can declare itself to be upholding order and technically be correct.
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@Scar626 They're not threatening territorial integrity, and not challenging Yemen's independence. Funnily enough, that evades the UN charter's characteristics for an illegal war. Technicalities are a beyatch.
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@Scar626 Saudi Arabia isn't annexing territory, Russia is. Houthis are Iranian proxies. Why should Iran have their proxies install a leader friendly to themselves and antagonists of Saudi Arabia?
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@Scar626 The criminal charge being raised is about ethnic cleansing through the kidnapping of children. Bypass what the Iraqi people wanted? And yet the Iraqi government had significant pro-Iran majority. Funny, the US installed a government that was friendly to a hostile country? Come on now...
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That's often to break the repetitiveness. "The exception proves the rule" and all that. I am unsure about earlier seasons and I've mostly watched SVU on the last few years but it seems to me they wanted to break the mold by throwing smart villains into the mix, Internal Affairs as the adversary, etc. but it is still mostly a reassuring fantasy.
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@Simon-fm8yc Russia destroyed all equipment and stockpiles, yet it can't get past Donetsk city suburbs since 2014. Damn, Ukrainians are holding Russia back with sharp sticks and strong language?
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@OSUMARU1654 Okay? Air defense is the biggest killer of aircraft. Iran has it.
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They fire from Russian airspace to avoid surface to air missiles.
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Needs more half button presses.
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Unless your chiropractor is making you work out, he's not helping your muscles. Helping your muscles would kill their business, because strong muscles would stabilize your bone structure.
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@Rick Ramsey And we'll continue burning fossil fuels because developing countries want a fair shot at development too. Don't worry, documentaries wouldn't have killed fossil fuels.
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@Rick Ramsey We'll have lost a few small islands because the sea level infiltrated fresh water supplies but that's pretty much it.
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@Rick Ramsey Considering that climate models predicted warming 2.2 times higher than we had from 1998 to 2014, you can multiply those decades by 2.2 to get the real number. Either way, we have nuclear. Just saying. There's an easy way out for this.
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@Rick Ramsey "We could easily have our own Fukushima event here" - It was called Three Mile Island. Fukushima was an alignment of the planets event. The plant resisted the earthquake, it even resisted the tsunami despite the undersized sea wall. The switching stations and diesel backup generators were placed in the basement levels, which flooded... Without that, people today would think Fukushima was a type of sushi roll.
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Yes, the stability of not having enough women due to selective abortions and the prosperity of gutter oil. Giving up liberty for anything else means you get neither.
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@hadara69 lmao the gun side has the facts on their side but go off, I guess
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@hadara69 facts like the fact that gun crime rose in countries that adopted sweeping gun control, or that the US's gun crime is heavily influenced by gang activity which greatly outnumbers other western countries in terms of gangs per capita, etc. The facts that gun ownership doesn't correlate to gun homicide. What part of "right of the people" do you NOT understand?
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Losing an aircraft and pilot due to a predictable dive for a gun run placing the aircraft into a vulnerable situation is not "pennies" in terms of cost. The Stuka had overrated psychological effects. I don't remember where but it might have been this channel that posted a testimony from British troops that essentially said yes at first they were scared but then they learned to live with the Stuka threat and go into cover. No, it can't ignore basic AA, because basic AA now is 23mm. How impoverish does one have to be to be using Brownings as AA? Being common doesn't mean they're the threat to worry about. The missile jury-rigged to a trailer that shot down a Saudi F-15 in Yemen is a thousand times more concerning than a million Brownings waiting to be welded to the back of a Toyota. The US armed forces are pivoting away from counter-insurgency. The former Army chief of staff already said he doesn't care which aircraft drops the ordnance, be it B-52 or carrier pigeon. They're not fiercely opposing anything, they trust the USAF. It's Congress that keeps staling. It's expensive to maintain, impressions are secondary to effectiveness, and it's not even getting the job done considering the F-16 does more CAS. What more do you need to be convinced that it needs retirement?
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Considering it's mostly been replaced by the F-16, Strike Eagle, B1, etc it shouldn't be that hard of a question to answer.
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Their constitution doesn't allow for elections while under martial law and even if they could, all their voter registry is useless due to the internally displaced and refugees living abroad. Plus many citizens are living inside Russian held territory. How can an election happen like this?
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It's not propaganda. Ironically the videos filmed by Russian propagandists helped provide evidence that the Assad regime had done it.
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The coup didn't remove the government. In fact the government had a vote to strip the president of his power. The military was not involved. Why do you lie?
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Boo hoo
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@孫慧娟-u9c Putin is starting Steiner's counterattack
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I won't freeze. Hate for vatniks will keep me warm.
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@razakkalik9072 Then why did they fake the Bayraktar TB-2? The tail is wrong, the typeface is wrong, the bombs are held with zip ties.
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It was the year before.
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@spacerockerlightyears If they won't work against the new variant, why would a booster for the 2019 strain help?
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"You are entering private property. This airspace secured by FIM-92 Stingers"
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@alexanderbarkman7832 Almost all of the Hamas tunnels run along busy streets. It's nearly impossible to nail a tunnel without shaking the foundations of buildings nearby. Gaza is one big human shield. You can't drop a bomb in Gaza without hitting a human shield much like you can't go to LA and throw a rock without hitting an influencer or struggling actor.
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@L3gionMusic LMAO IT WASN'T THE TALIBAN TACTICS, IT JUST WASN'T WORTH THE MONEY AHAHAHAHAH What do you think guerrilla tactics are for? Hold that L.
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@L3gionMusic "Guerrilla tactics are Taliban tactics you spack." - Literally what? You might want to re-read my comment because you're replying to a comment I didn't make. I do find it funny you call them Taliban tactics when the Taliban are not even close to be the most well known users of guerrilla tactics. "Please also learn about the continent called Europe." - I am European. "Do you really believe that the Empire wouldn't have wiped out America if it wanted to?" - I'd suggest you take a good look at a map of the United States. " We later repelled your invasion and Canada, marched into your capitol and burned the White House down pal. Maybe you weren't aware of that." - to be honest any real American should want the White House burned down but that's beside the point. I just find it weird that you're flexing about a meaningless symbolic gesture when the fact is that the British could not control the US. You can burn a building down. But that amounts to nothing, it's an act of hooliganism. It's a child throwing his toys in the fireplace because he can't have his way. "The cost of maintaining a presence in America was to much considering it was pretty much a desert in the middle of the pacific. Britain had a whole Empire to worry about." - Precisely the purpose of a guerrilla war. Hold the L. "In fact, Britain was at war with, the US, France, Spain, Dutch Republic, Vermont Republic, Kingdom of Mysore, the Oneida Tribe, the Tuscarora Tribe, the Watauga Association, the Catawba Tribe and the Maratha Empire all around the same time." - Oh boo hoo poor victim Britain. "Much bigger things were happening around the world than they were America. Britain is an old country and was used to fighting wars as well as gaining and losing territory. Grow up pal." - AHAHAHAHA says the guy who can't even read and replies aggressively to arguments that haven't been made, jerks off about destroying a building in a temper tantrum and then fucking off the country without being able to actually hold ground, claims other's countries aren't important because his huge empire was sooooo amazing. You lost it anyway. You're proud of the evil acts of an EMPIRE, you know, the bad guys that the good guys rebel against... It's like you can't be proud of anything you've done your whole life so you need these pathetic displays of patriotism to feel better about yourself. Because your racist ancestors thought they could own the world. You're telling others to grow up because you can't get over the fact that Britain lost the US and you need to pretend you weren't even interested. The explicit purpose of a guerrilla war is making war too costly for the oppressor. That's like Americans bragging about their kill count in Vietnam or saying "we were only there to contain Chinese expansion". They can beat off all they want to the dead Vietnamese and the thought that they could have razed North Vietnam to the ground but the fact was that the war became too costly for the US and they had to pull out when North Vietnam broke the Paris Accords. That's an L, babey. Just like the one Britain held.
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You do not eliminate recoil. The magnetism repelling the projectile also repells the electromagnets.
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No, it's just Soviet boomer propaganda. Remember the Berlin Wall? They called it the anti-fascist wall. When they talk about "fascists" it's just code for adversaries. Gets a lot of mileage considering that reaching Berlin is one of the peak moments in Soviet history.
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lol learning the truth from Oliver Stone, friend of Putin and Hugo Chavez.
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Can't be. There's no room to grow. F-16s started as hotrods and always had the raw performance. Because they're a tube with wings, more powerful engines could be mounted to give it more performance. The A-10 engines are mounted on pylons so you're limited to a specific size and weight of engine.
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NATO mercs ahahah take your meds
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Not all price increases are inflation.
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@TheGreatLiberator1209 talk about missing the point
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Thanks ChatGPT
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The "Russian populations" are gone. At least the men - conscripted and used as cannon fodder.
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@domino20 Not really. Ukraine has Ukrainians. Donbas is being repopulated with Russian nationals to replace the people of Donbas.
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Bullets cost just a few cents and take out soldiers.
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@Hereford1642 So the HIMARS crew only needs to be lucky once, Russians need to be lucky every single time. You don't want to man the HIMARS, but would you like being the target? Even if they find the vehicle (they won't) the rocket still knocks on your door. By heavens, look at the time - it's HIMARS o'clock!
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I'm sorry, did Tim "18 year olds are too dumb to own guns" Kennedy just say that the Iron Cross is a Nazi symbol when it was used before the Nazis and it is still painted on modern German military vehicles?
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Right but the Su-57 seems circumcised. Aircraft are fragile.
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The bear was kicked in the teeth by a smaller animal.
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@kevinb6831 All air force bases have armed guards. Obviously they have less lethal means to stop people so they can throw the book at you, but don't go up there and expect to not have rifles pointed at you.
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Without the energy we get from burning fossil fuels, we wouldn't have the need or the economic capacity to afford those alternative uses.
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They took out comms early in the war. That's why Ukraine uses Starlink. Liar. Ukraine was relentlessly bombed.
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The US is converting RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles to replace Buk missiles.
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Ivan's original channel got nuked. Now he just talks and shoots without showing the printing.
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Hello Mearsheimer.
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Russia started a war.
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@sbwlearning1372 If there's a 1% rate of these officers, then the chances of both being paired together is 1% x 1% = 0.01%.
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@sbwlearning1372 Where did you learn probabilities? A 1% chance is 0.01 if we consider 1 as the whole. 0.01*0.01=0.0001. Times a hundred to get the percentage, 0.01%.
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@lgriestra Those are not the "moped" drones. The Shahed-136 are "blind" drones that do not record the impact, just follow waypoints.
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Because if he does his job well, he joins the inner circle. Putin keeps his henchmen fighting each other for a seat at the table.
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 @redf7209 Wasn't a explosion. Windows weren't shattered by a blast. Rocket fuel fell on the ground and burned.
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Russia would starve you just to have Donbas.
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 @Lumpy_Peter any employer has to account your time off as a risk.
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@Lumpy_Peter Right, that's Zeihan's point. To us it's not perceived, but to companies it's dollar signs. Or Euro signs.
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@D-B-Cooper "killing of ethnic Russians" only 18 died in 2021. It's pretty tame for an active conflict.
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Cope. The history is indeed complex - studying it would reveal how important it is to stop Russia.
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Oswald already had attempted an assassination which failed (the bullet was recovered from a window frame later to compare to the ones used in the JFK assassination). Why would he bother? He left a message to instruct his wife on how to tell his story after he became a communist hero by killing a US Army general. But he missed.
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The rail was damaged by heat last year. An oil fire raged all night long. The concrete is heat damaged and the rebar lost adhesion to the concrete.
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@renzo5282 "We have 40 million americans dying every year due to lack of healthcare" - BRUH according to you the US population is gonna be over in a couple of years.
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@erzan if the EU stands for Liberty, explain Article 11 and 13...
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Living life through never-ending restrictions even if you've been boosted?
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@thilehoffer In many countries even if you are boosted and have a negative test, you were still limited to 6 people per dinner party these holidays. There were many NYE events cancelled worldwide.
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@thilehoffer Depends on the state. If for whatever reason you live in a place with a mask mandate, that's still a restriction imposed on you no matter how much you boost. So in the end you're still trapped in the treadmill even if you try to move on.
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@DeadlyPlatypus they did put countries in blacklists which effectively shut down travel because after your arrival at the UK you'd essentially be on house arrest for two weeks. Only people returning from trips or people willing to be in country for an extended stay agreed to those conditions.
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@DeadlyPlatypus "So, they still let people back in?" - They put in place a system that discourages travelling. It's a ban without banning. "And did these conditions apply to people returning from EVERY country?" - Every country with contagion numbers. "And were people who lived with those quarantining required to stay home as well?" - I don't remember, honestly I think people were actually QUARANTINED, not the "2020 quarantine" where nobody actually follows procedure, but if people could reside with quarantined people and still go out that doesn't mean the UK didn't put a policy to blacklist travelers, it just means that whoever came up with the policy was too dumb to actually develop proper procedures.
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Eisenhower made his speech when defense spending was 10-15 percent of the GDP. It is now 4-5 percent. Eisenhower would be quite happy.
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The rate of new production is lower than refurbishment rate. Both combined is lower than loss rate, making recovery mathematically impossible.
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Nobody cares about nationality, you think people got congratulations when Brazilians or Russians got titles?
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They didn't create it to catch people, they created so they could do spook stuff without getting caught. Their need to remain undercover is more important than catching anyone.
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@zCaptainz No, being able to move information out of places like Iran or foreign corporations/universities without flagging who the leak was.
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And what would have they done? Refuse to stop international travel? Deny that there's airborne transmission for weeks? That's what all the pandemic response "teams" did all over the world.
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@kingade2931 Ebola is deadlier but less transmissible. The experts politicized this mess in the first place.
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Time doesn't benefit the Russians, and they don't have more bodies. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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Grendel is a compromise caliber. Heavier ammo for very little benefit.
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But the US "won" in Vietnam. It was North Vietnam that broke the peace deal and the US cut their losses and abandoned South Vietnam.
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A casualty doesn't mean dead. If you have to go to a hospital to dig a fragment out of your buttocks because of a drone-dropped VOG, you're a war casualty. If it happens again, you'll be counted as another WIA.
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@charlespancamo9771 It's a shooting gallery where the targets have a curtain in front of them. To call artillery you need either spotters or drones. Or just fire blindly.
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 @anubizz3 the cost of tooling, pretty much.
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Republicans felt cheated by the War on Terror, which lead to ideological synthesis. Libertarians injected a lot of anti war rhetoric into the party when the Democrats were seen to not do enough to end the wars and in some cases edge close to escalation. Russiagate also made many believe that Russia was an innocent scapegoat. Now they believe Russia propaganda because they think the government is lying.
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 @nickwannabe1878 Zelensky pleaded to negotiate with Putin. He wanted war.
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@nickwannabe1878 It's widely known knowledge. Next you'll ask me for a link proving the sky is blue. Zelensky tried everything to stop the war that destroyed his homeland. Putin wouldn't budge. He believed he could crush Ukraine and get it all.
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That was never the idea. The idea was using the F-22, which is the actual air superiority fighter. But not enough ones were made.
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What does that have to do with anything? The current president was elected in 2019, beating Petro Poroshenko.
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@genxrush1773 Why not? If anything, the pro-NATO candidate lost and the Russia-appeaser won.
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Disprove Mick West, then.
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@hharlington7156 Yes, it's applied science. And to be fair there's mechanical engineers who go into research and are part of scientific studies. But that's a specific career path and it will mostly deal with materials and novel structures (like "compliant mechanisms" which use bending of the material rather than hinges/joints).
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Are you joking? There's not enough people in the DPR and LPR. The Kadyrovite tiktok army isn't large enough. There's a very large Russian force and this is evidenced by the units present.
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The military rebuild is working? It looks deconstructed to me. Brother, the US sent food aid to Russia and the former Soviet countries in the 90s, the US even wanted to keep Yanukovych in power in 2014. At every step of the way we fed Russia and they took a bite out of our hand.
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@DunklerJägerZach when debating Vegan Gains that fat neckbeard Vaush tried to use the standard communist response "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism so I can do whatever I want and not be a hypocrite" so Vegan Gains asks him if he supports CP because those who consume it aren't responsible for the creation of CP. So Vaush waits two seconds and says "Yes".
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@chars_78 Conventional. Vegan Gains trapped Vaush on his "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" argument.
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@christopherlee9026 Wrong. Vegan Gains was challenging Vaush's notion that there's no ethical consumption under capitalism by asking about CP. By Vaush's own logic, CP is moral because the consumer isn't responsible for its creation. So Vaush faced the choice of either renouncing his beliefs or admitting that CP is moral. He didn't renounce his beliefs. Also "He believes in the eventual transition to communism, so I guess you could say he's a communist." - what the fuck do you think a communist is?
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@christopherlee9026 "I believe most people would consider themselves communists, since most people will agree with the idea of fully automated space communism" - You'd be surprised. You have the people who theorize that it's literally impossible, and the people who reject the idea even if it were possible.
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Dude just laid near a fire lit by the explosion and kind of rolled towards the flames until his uniform caught fire. It even looks accidental but the guy actually picked a spot to lay down and consciously approached the flames.
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Not all animals are affected equally. Some insect populations have been greatly reduced due to them laying eggs on radioactive soil. Deformities in cattle born in the area were recorded after the disaster but subsided as the months passed. Another aspect is life span. Humans live long lives. One issue with exposure is that one can get enough to increase the risk of cancer later in life, but not be immediately harmful. There's the famous case of older people in Japan volunteering for the Fukushima cleanup because they knew they wouldn't live long enough to get cancer.
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S-500s are ANTI BALLISTIC SYSTEMS not anti-aircraft. Also, how do you launder money? You have to take illicit gains (drugs, prostitution, etc) and then pass that money through a legitimate business and EARN that money "legally". How do you launder money by SPENDING it?
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The problem is that even if you started a hasty restart procedure, you'd have to wait until next Autumn at least. The plants are being decommissioned, which means many parts will need to be remanufactured or refurbished and the plant recertified to work again. For them to continue to run this winter, you'd have to breach nuclear safety protocol.
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What is Russian kit doing inside Ukraine?
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@tealc6218 Oh, so this is all Russia's fault, gotcha. Jesus, you were explicit, you should have noticed I was trying to set you up.
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That was the cope. There was no ruse. The "peace at any costs" crowd just wanted the conflict to freeze and get that gas. The "military buildup" were Ukraine stuck to mostly Soviet inheritance? Come on man, politicians lie.
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You bought the dip on Putincoin?
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 @dutchsailor6620 Any other jet can carry AGM-65s so why spend billions maintaining an old airfrake just to haul them around?
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@dutchsailor6620 the mighty BRRRRR requires being closer to enemy forces and thus increasing chances of shootdown. It's preferable to use missiles and rockets, and only use the gun after the enemy is softened up.
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@dutchsailor6620 No, it isn't. Close Air Support means that the support is delivered to troops in close contact. That means you have to hit the enemy without hitting friendlies. CAS is provided by everything from F-16s to B-52s.
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They tried to get him back multiple times.
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I second this. In a lot of Eastern European countries getting a carry license is a pain in the ass but people get blank guns for defense, as there are "blanks" that shoot pepper spray or "traumatic" rounds (rubber bullet).
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Amazing how you've been spamming this comment for over a month and you have ONE instance of that happening.
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The problem is that for a Russian soldier, peacekeeper is a good gig! Keeps him out of the frontline.
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"Meme your enemy until he cries, then make memes of him crying" - Sun Tzu
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@wenmoon448 25 million with alcoholism, obesity, drug resistant TB, HIV, etc. You can't throw a net 25 million people wide and catch able bodied men. Even the US admits that only 23% of the population is fit for service.
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 @phill5917 Turns out the Felons were more menacing in the Hollywood movie than real life?
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Which is an insane plan. Most troops in Kiev were territorial defense, while most of the Army was fighting in Donbass. The capital is never left undefended. There's also a limit on the troop density that can be deployed, as sending more people to Donbass would cause even more strain on supply lines. By your own logic, Russia comitted a massive blunder by wasting money, lives, vehicles, fuel, munitions, etc on a distraction that was useless.
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@PaulTheadra Okay, that's not the point. My point is that if governments were doing this for the bottom line, they would restrict testing to hide asymptomatic cases to keep people working. The way things are now, an entire chunk of the workforce can be sent home because someone tested positive. Even though nobody's sick. I don't have an issue with testing, I'm saying that the explanation you proposed doesn't seem to work when the government is royally effing with a company's ability to be productive by forcing healthy staff into isolation.
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The Australian F/A-18s were absolutely ran through. Making them flyable would take billions and a couple years.
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Nuking over some cardboard? Small D energy.
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The infrastructure is demolished. East Ukraine is a full blown humanitarian crisis. They have no water. Scott Ritter is welcome to go take a sip from the puddles. Also, did you know Scott Ritter is a convicted nonce?
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 @domestosteron Should have made a pill and hidden it in a crayon.
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Why do you think it's called that? Wouldn't wearing the wrong flag be required?
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Friendship simulator. Tons of people have nobody to hang out with after work.
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They can't reverse engineer the weapons lol who cares? Their industry is toast.
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Military forces rarely disclose anything. The US is somewhat unique in the way there's a strong civilian oversight over what the military is doing. However I think Chile declassified UAP footage recorded in a naval helicopter.
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Machine works so well even Russians are admitting the loss.
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So you're implying that the West is the only place in the world that takes loss of combat capabilities seriously, and everywhere else people just mindlessly charge forward with no care for loss rates?
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Kek we literally have the video of the failed Russian offensives.
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@Princip666 How is it nonsense? We have the videos of armored columns busted in minefields.
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Now the entire center of gravity and fuel consumption has changed. You'll have to redesign it again. And then redsign it to address the issues caused by the redesign.
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I've seen this comment before.
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We have a video by ivan where it works fine, and a video by Brandon in which he admits he built it incorrectly where it doesn't work. Hmmmmm.
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There's dozens of US and foreign pilots who disagree.
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@jimtaylor294 He is. There's way more pilots that say it's one of the best performers they ever flew.
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A lot of """"science websites"""" flat out tell you how to make explosives. You don't need to understand science to know that you take that explosive, pack it in a container and surround it with shrapnel. The Boston bombers put fucking fireworks inside a pressure cooker detonated by a gutted RC car. That's not science. It's basic McGyverism.
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Finland rejected the Gripen C a long time ago. Funnily enough because it had higher flying costs than the F-16.
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They aren't. Hitting civilians doesn't win wars.
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@etienne8110 France can't trade AMX-10s for schools. You can't get billions back from Cold War equipment. Ukraine is asking for the stuff the US and Europe got to fight the Soviet Union. That was decades ago.
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@MonMalthias we call those "moderation fees" . It prevents the poor from accessing healthcare? Tough shit. Our universal healthcare is tied to the government and since the government went broke, they had to put fees in place.
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"demand for healthcare is inelastic" - pretty sure there's elasticity in those 45,000 dead people from lack of healthcare "Markets don't always lead to socially optimal outcomes" - I find it funny you claim the market doesn't work in healthcare while you point out that there's no real market. You get no choice and the lobbyists control the rules in their favor.
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@estoyaqui5386 "good deal for RU" - Very bad deal for the men who burned inside those tanks.
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@sislater6334 "I expect Russia is very very happy with the way things are going." - So, how many more sunk ships and obliterated air bases until they start to become unhappy?
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@estoyaqui5386 False. Stop being a Russian propagandist.
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Another poster here said it was common in REFORGER, yanking people from IRR replaces the reserve and guard units in exercise.
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Marine A-6s also dropped Mk 20 Rockeyes on columns.
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No, they can't withstand more Gs. Airframes crack if over-Gd. Humans have cracked airframes.
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We'll push towards peace. By making war unbelievably costly. Anyone who wants war, pays for it with blood.
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Avdiivka was a massacre, though.
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Russia broke Minsk II the day after it was signed. The Battle of Debaltseve was an advance that forced the Ukrainian government forces out of a town they controlled after a ceasefire was declared.
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They bombed their own apartments to kick off the second Chechen war. They considered Kherson Russia and abandoned it like a redheaded stepchild. It's clear that they don't see Novorossiya as "real" Russia.
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Difficult to reach with MANPADS, perfect launch platform for AGM-88 HARMs which seek the S-300 radar.
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Copium overdose.
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Trump doesn't want the border issue to be fixed or else Republicans have no big issue to run on.
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@dr_UiD Igor Girkin has addressed this multiple times, in livestreamed debates even. They had guns held to politicians' heads, they put their stooges in power, they paid people to stage protests to make their "revolution" seem legit. It all crumbled under its own weight and the people in charge begged for the Russian army to cross the border. Funnily enough, Vice was there for when the insurgents had to retreat and the Ukrainian army reached towns where people kept pointing the finger at each other because they had supported the DPR and LPR out of fear that they'd be mistreated by the Russian forces once they arrived.
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The fighter pilot has experience in being a fighter pilot. Investigating UAPs? He has zero experience at it. He wasn't trained to chase mysterious lights, he was trained to shoot MiGs and drop five hundred pound bombs on enemy tanks. That's his experience.
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Not to be an ass, of course you don't put all the eggs in the NRA basket, but the NRA used to be a sports association, not a gun rights association. They were run by fudds, for fudds. And back then, from what I've been told, not enough people tried to fight the AWB. The advantage of having more real pro-gun people on the NRA means they will control where the organization is headed. The UK has an NRA too, maybe they shouldn't have had such a ratio of fox hunters to pro-gun people.
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Red Flag is done with "aggressor" squadrons. A-4 Skyhawks to mimick MiG-17s, F-15s to mimick Su-27s and F-16s to mimick MiG-29s. These are the secret aircraft that were used to gather information on the real thing, rather than simulate it.
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@stefantheconqueror8710 Where are these videos of multiple hits?
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@stefantheconqueror8710 None of those hits look like Javelin hits. Hit number two detracked the vehicle on the left side. Third hit penetrated, smoke comes out of the hatch and muzzle of the gun. Those look like RPG-7, RPG-22, LAW, AT4, etc hits coming from the side. "Small" warheads with no tandem charges. Only one crew member seems to have survived, and the tank is not "functional" at all. It got detracked and the smoke from the muzzle seems to imply damage inside the turret. Second hit rendered it immobile and third hit most likely made it unable to fire. We went from "tank survives 5 Javelin hits and remains functional and crew is alive" to "cheap disposable rockets made tank immobile on the second hit, unable to fire on the third hit and 2/3rds of the crew is dead".
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And yet they're better than everything else in the air.
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@raymondflores5176 we all paid for wall street's bad decisions
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@evanserickson the issue is that getting money from the government is simply getting back some of your stolen goods if you steal from me and leave my stuff on the street for the taking, I'm picking it up
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China has trained with Canada. No war.
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@silafaupaulmeredith7251 Do you know what "moving the goalposts" is? Your argument got debunked, move on.
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@silafaupaulmeredith7251 Youtube deletes links but there's news from 2020 of leaked documents and the Canadian government had to come out and say they canceled joint exercises. They were based on a 2013 agreement done under Harper.
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Damn Ukraine winning even with democrats stealing their money. Fighting with one hand tied behind their backs.
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 @dakotareid1566 that's just nostalgia and Gen Z discovering stuff from when they were kids
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What if they exist but at the same time Jesus confirms they never visited us? What about that?
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It is an argument - if it was just a study, the real place of origin would be found. SARS 1 was found.
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@viviancouper4636 That's not how it works. The spread would have been traced back to a rural area, and then to a specific cave. SARS was traced to the cave it came from. SARS CoV 2 wasn't. It has no natural origin point. The only evidence of natural origin is ratg13, a virus that was written into record to pretend it had been found in nature.
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@arminiuschatti2287 The fuzing system was optimized against aircraft and not missiles, and there was also a problem with the internal clock accumulating error if the system was not rebooted from time to time. There have been several improvements made over the years, and despite some controversial failures the Patriot systems in Saudi Arabia intercept most strikes nowadays.
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How is it racist to point out this aircraft has never flown?
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@gagamba9198 the US reaped the benefits for decades. The prosperity the US has is in part owed to its manufacturing being spared during WW2. An isolationist US and an Europe that had to spend money in defense would be less developed today.
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Nobody else had access to the dam.
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No, it's not fascinating. It's only purpose is governmental oppression, infringement of rights and the foundations for another level of police state. I mean, it's just a paintball gun, so it's not even fascinating.
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Anyone can make a gun at home as long as it doesn't violate any law. EDIT: In the United States, just to clarify.
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He gave money openly, but nobody knows about it unless they heard it from the "crazy internet people". Also, plenty of these outlets deserved to shut down. News outlets should trade in trustworthiness and at a time where trust is at an all time low, it's the job of the market to cause bad business to fall and give room for good business to flourish. Just by thinking a couple of seconds longer you'd have figured out that you're defending a bailout of failing businesses. They're failing because they can't be trusted. And now they have a hand that feeds them, and you don't bit that hand.
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@Novastar.SaberCombat ask Gates about his time with Jeffy E.
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144 GPS munitions hitting ammo depots silences the guns. When they run out of depots to hit maybe they'll drop one rocket on an artillery crew. Just to give them a taste.
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If you use private investigator methods you are a PI. To knock down a building you call a crane operator, to do a controlled demolition you bring in explosives experts. The result may be the same but how you get there matters.
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Do you have the money to rent those babies from major corporations like GE or Lockheed Martin?
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@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 How is it a cope? If the Kherson bridgehead is so easy to clear, why hasn't Russia done it?
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There's a weird move towards Mykolaiv but other than that the advances are stagnant.
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Credit card theft happens all the time, and autopay is essentially a psychological trick to make us less able to handle our money.
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Russia uses metric. A ton is 1000 kg.
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It works by sacrificing fluid response, but okay
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My favorite reply to him was the New Year's tweet about how orbiting around the sun has no meaning to the universe. Comedian Norm MacDonald said (paraphrased) that we are part of the universe and it means something to us. Even when he's "scientifically correct" you don't need to use science to explain how insufferable he is.
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But "lesser powers" may get weapons from real powers and use them in proxy wars.Don't forget, the US had to bomb insurgents in Iraq after actually defeating the real Iraq armed forces.
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@rikflare7970 That's why it would be a government settlement. The settlements don't come from the companies.
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"A mixed economy, with only small amount of socialism admixed into mainly free market capitalism" - That's like saying you're gonna suicide yourself a little bit but remain mostly alive. The purpose of socialism is the elimination of capitalism.
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@aitchisondaniel But we're not talking about discomfort. Socialism is meant to kill capitalism. You can't have partial socialism. "There are some (very few) things where centralised governmental control can be better than free market control: Do we need a Fire Brigade?" - That has zero to do with socialism. "Don't be so fanatically opposed to the S-word, that we miss those few bits where it is suitable," - It's not fanatical opposition. I just want people to use the correct terminology. Socialism is the elimination of capitalism. Not public transport. Not a fire brigade. Socialism is taking the bosses to the wall, riddling them with bullets, and the workers own the factory.
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Electronics and services have plummeted in price since the 50s. In the 1950s things we consider easy to afford were huge expenses. The level of tech in a smartphone would cost more than a house in 1950s. Technology progressed. Instead of netflix you paid like 50 cents to watch two movies and then put a few coins on the jukebox while getting your pepsi float. Cheap luxuries.
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He was one of the few people pushing for the teaching of liberal/capitalist economic theory in universities behind the iron curtain. Before the union fell many people were demanding economic reforms and the governments were forced to liberalize the economy. He wasn't the sole responsible but he was an agent for change.
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@ColinTherac117 you can just go to a corrupt country and pay off a few people to do it. I mean, Epstein had a pedo island. If rich people have islands so that they can fuck kids, which is explicitly against the law in most Western countries I know off, I'm sure there's places that will look away from the "licensing" and "certification" aspect.
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@jjmbeausoleil What do you mean nope?
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@stevemcgowen Trucks full of ammo or fuel?
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@stap1er Depends entirely in warhead, fuzing and the target itself.
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@saquist 1.7 trillion is the projected cost until 2070, inflation adjusted. You wouldn't be able to buy all that stuff and actually keep it running until 2022 as you'd have blown through the entire budget.
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@saquist You're moving the goalposts. You made an incorrect statement and I corrected it. Stop trying to deflect from the fact that you were wrong.
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@saquist You're arguing over details I never questioned, such as which part of the cost is inflation adjusted and what isn't. But you pretended that you could just do a straight purchase of materiel and not have to deal with any of the running costs.
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Putin literally tried to win the war by freezing civilians in the winter. Can't win the war with the military so he tried to use terrorism.
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Sometimes the people in danger are just translators. Oh you translated for the CIA? Now Assange published your name and the Taliban will get you in your sleep.
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It has to do with the flight profile (bang bang controls in the first variants) and the fact that sidewinders are pit vipers (they have an organ that senses the heat of the prey through IR, like the seeker).
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How are they demilitarizing Ukraine if their military keeps growing? The more Putin fights, the more nah-tzees they turn into.
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They can't even shoot down aliexpress drones over Sevastopol.
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The 2012 movie had a Chinese invasion but they changed to North Korea at the last minute. In 1984 Red Dawn China is allied with the US due to the Sino-Soviet split. The pilot says their own ally are 600 million Chinese. One of the Wolverines asks "aren't they a billion?" to which the pilot replies "Were.".
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Runways can be easily repaired. There's a reason anti-runway weapons have to be devious, like the rocket ones which fire a thruster so that it punches under the concrete pad foundation and dislodges the entire thing by detonating underneath, or the runway cratering weapons which also deploy AP mines with both anti-handling and timed fuze features so that they keep going off at random times and prevent an engineering team from repairing the runway until EOD clears the lot or just lets them keep going off for a day or two. Drones? They can make a hole, and the hole gets filled with a patch.
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I mean, you're still bound to the oil companies. Gasoline isn't freedom if the Saudis can adjust production and manipulate your cost of living based on us turning a blind eye to murdered journalists.
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Cope and seethe.
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2017. A Super Hornet shot down a Su-22.
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Damn a person being interviewed on the topic of cars will not mention boats?
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@anthonyc5039 I'm an atheist and I can confirm this is what happened. People may scoff and how you mentioned social justice, but this can be traced back to "atheism+". It was a massive internal war.
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The F-16 is a do everything multirole.
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Doesn't matter when fleeing Russian troops are being chased on the road by wheeled vehicles.
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>it doesn't require them to take their clothes off, it penetrates past the clothes Read what you just said. It goes past the clothes to reach the skin. Skin you can't remove. Clothes can be removed. The whole point of this gun is to TAG THE SKIN, not the clothes. How does the police get the right to take a look at my skin without probable cause?
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If they're not under pressure why leave?
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Big whoop, Ukraine already expected a Belarus incursion since last year and prepared accordingly. Those hundred kilometers are a bunch of ambushes, kill zones and minefields. And reportedly only 8,000 Wagner will stay in Belarus, accommodation is being built to house them. You don't build barracks for men about to invade.
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The AR charging handle is in a great place. It stays out of the way when not needed, which is 99% of the time.
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You're forgetting all the other terms.
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It's a scripted segment to present to the population. A decision like that isn't made by presenting a powerpoint and the defense minister says "yes, I agree". The decision was probably made weeks ago, when they ordered the civil adminstrstion to leave.
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Phillip Scott who cares about the worldwide reputation of people not smart enough to be Americans? Checkmate, Atheists.
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Tritium half life is 12 years.
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Blackwater does not exist. The trademark was sold to an ammo company to make novelty ammunition branded with the Blackwater logo.
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@wintersking4290 They don't have a different name. They literally do no exist. They tried the different names with Xe and Academi. Didn't work. They stopped existing. Now keep up.
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 @arvinthkumar841 One of the videos published was a decoy.
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 @andygozzo72 It would be easier to just have people with their own houses with garages to charge at night and keep charging stations at the workplace for those who have apartments but no garage.
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 @josephs.3372 It isn't. There's a reason the definition of gambling excludes stuff like TCGs.
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I remember when Snopes used to be about AIDS blood on McDonald's ketchup and criminals using ether to knock out people and steal their organs.
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Gripen needs numbers. Saab never manufactured enough.
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They're getting their ass kicked so much they run after the Russians in panic.
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 @4dbullshitpatroll6 Why would they use HIMARS on a building that was 5 km from the frontlines?
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>in islam if your father is muslim you are a muslim Good thing I don't live in a freedom hating country.
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Grenades with a fiery explosion aren't that common. Fiery explosions mean combustion. Grenades are most often filled with high explosives aka detonation. The reaction travels too fast to create visible flame.
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The other way around. The rear is the foundation of a war, the situation at the front can change. The rear needs to send ammo, food, fuel to the front. When the fighters eventually start lacking on those, the front can collapse.
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The fact that Russians are wearing sneakers and slippers instead of boots does scream weak logistics.
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@ZeroOskul okay so if Soul Man had multiple studeents receive the scholarship it wouldn't have been racist?
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 @danielescobar7618 B-52s have been retired up to the G variant when the Cold War ended, leaving only the Hs. So it's not a bunch of early B-52s still flying around.
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 @Jenseduca look up Operation Storm-333. Seems like an invasion to me.
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As others have mentioned it will take a while to replace most 5.56 weapons in inventory, but other than that reducing demand for 5.56 will not make the supply flood the market, it will follow the demand.
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He's always been like this. He's right in this case, as much as it pains me to say it.
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That's not true. The F-22 was cut because a ton of stuff was needed for the GWOT. From MRAPs to uparmoring Humvees, there was a pressing need to divert budget to things that helped in a counter-insurgency and trim the fat on peer warfare. It should have tipped you off that the main air superiority fighter and interceptor is still the F-15C, and not the F-35. The room was taken by the F-15C fleet, which already existed at the time while the X-35 had not even beat the X-32 yet.
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Sparkle Plenty Imagine the cost of fighting a war. On your own soil.
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They're not being given money, they're given weapons. If you want weapons, you can sign up.
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@Knight_Kin Invalid argument. I didn't say Winter caused the Soviets to fail, my point is that Winter punishes Soviets/Russians equally. They do not have special powers. They are still made of meat and bone, and they can be made to freeze. There's drone videos of Russians dying of hypothermia in their holes. Winter punishes them.
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Fragments from missiles are smaller than the autocannon rounds in AAA.
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China has 10x the population.
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They had a lot of top of the line Soviet equipment and even Soviet operators/pilots working for them in secret.
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Why would a hostage taker start executing hostages?
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Alixundr "wehraboo trap" yes because all the pro-Nazi people want is convincing the public that nazis were socialists, when socialists are the mortal enemies of wheraboos.
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Just wiped out tomato town
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"We do not need guns in normal society anywhere" - And yet the cops and military have them. If society doesn't need guns, shouldn't they give them up? What are they afraid of?
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You're speaking like pilots have to be grown on vats. You think the Ukrainian air force has not recruited a single pilot in two years?
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What a nonsense statement. Mariupol was surrounded. The choice was filtration camps or take the supposed humanitarian corridors that could be shelled (like Russia did in Syria. Bakhmut was mostly evacuated. Cities are where roads and rail lead to, and structures offer shelter. Concentrating military forces away from supply lines in the middle of open fields is illogical.
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@martstam2016 That's an insane comment. So instead of buildings, lives should have been annihilated. You're accusing others of seeing this as a football game, but you want men to take their deadly weapons and fight away from cities where they'll suffer massive casualties as soon as they're within range of artillery. Open terrain does not offer cover. The outskirts of Bakhmut have tons of trench lines. The RF take casualties there because they cross the open terrain and get clipped there. Human life is worth more than concrete. So we should use concrete jungles for protection. Urban warfare was MASSIVE in WW2. Is this an absolute joke?
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Capitalism didn't create shit. Countries not running on capitalist systems also made a fuckton of pollution and environmental disaster. Do you need to keep people fed? Housed? Any system that requires production causes pollution.
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Every time they retreat Ukraine sends them running again. By the time a nuke arrived, the Ukrainians would already be chasing the Russians 20km away.
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They seem to not interfere. When the USAF struck Assad's facilities as reprisal for gas attacks, Russian defenses either did not detect the incoming strikes or simply decided it wasn't their business.
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You don't even know what imposter syndrome is. Imposter symdrome is when an overqualified person doubts his/her own skills.
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Cope. It was meant to have ended within 96 hours.
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Let's get you to bed, grandpa
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The F-16 does more CAS than the A-10.
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Calls are actually slow means of information because stressed people give poor information and dispatchers can't tell law enforcement what's happening.
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@kdemetter how many people did you get sick before this pandemic? Viruses existed before 2019. Do you want to be held to those moral standards? You may not like the answer.
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@2g00dt0btru Some of us remember the AZT scandal. A man's expertise is thrown out the window when he throws the toast at the wall to see if it sticks, endangering people in the process. How much backbone did he show by having to lie about masks?
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Yeah man you're so much smarter than him.
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@dano6845 I don't know how you can type that out and still come out thinking anything other than Ukrainians named themselves after their historical name, Russians named themselves after something they thought was cooler.
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Putin needs North Korean weapons. Their industry is under Ukrainian drone attack daily.
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No. The Su-25s have proven that kind of aircraft to just take losses without doing much.
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@bennyklabarpan7002 The cameras are operated by the sat company. When you contract the sat company put it in writing that you have total and full ownership of the images. They won't let you. They have the sat. You contract their images on their terms. Don't like it? Launch your own sat.
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Their air force lacks maintenance and the pilots crash their aircraft on takeof...
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Meds. Now.
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Why exactly are you following a libertarian oriented channel if you believe that religion and morals should trump people's rights to do what they want? What "God" said isn't interesting to me. The "Devil" rewarded humans with critical thinking and a life in the real world where they're free to pursuit their desire. The "Devil" doesn't judge us for who we are, punishes bad people and he killed way less people than "God". I am not against religion. I am against religion being the law.
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When the smart people vote, it doesn't stop the dumb from voting. If anything, it just sweeps the problem under the rug. Now you're still fighting the problem without solving it.
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The sky is falling stories to get more budget, transparent as glass.
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Ukraine has proven the US has no real peer, and the F-35 has been tested against Russian built defenses.
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 @AdamHoffman-lt7eq he accepted it in Finland, the Baltics and even Ukraine in the mid 2000s.
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@AdamHoffman-lt7eq Don't know what that is and don't care. Putin's reasons and the reasons his fanboys come up with don't make any sense if you look at the actual history and the things they've claimed.
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@cakefromkorea1507 I mean that sorta calls back to the "USA = world police" concept which people actually see as a joke nowadays so...
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@cakefromkorea1507 it's a bad comparison either way. Only the most obedient of boomers would consider the US a good "police officer" of the world considering it turns a blind eye to fucked up shit, instigates conflict and then punishes those who don't deserve it. As a police officer, the US is pretty corrupt. On the other hand, the police are hardly beacons of morality. I don't actually trust cops with guns because I know their budget is too small to actually train properly. And I do think more people should have guns. Not only it allows them to protect themselves, it also allows the people to fight corrupt cops.
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@sebastiandeisel There's a two billion year old natural nuclear reactor in Gabon. The "waste" has been there all this time. It's fine. Finland is finishing the construction of their geological deposit. If you want to solve it, it can. The problem is NIMBYs.
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Same cope as last year.
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If it's unguided, it could land on civilian homes by accident. The idea is good, but it should have some kind of way to either crash safety, self-destruct, etc.
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@egelpom8948 The problem is that at such longer ranges and speeds (because it has to mimic HIMARS) the spread of the rockets increases when they're unguided. The problem isn't even civilian areas, it's how even aiming at an empty field can destroy some farmer's house or even start a brush fire during the summer.
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@egelpom8948 Yes, but the unguided rockets have comparatively shorter range. It's like a shotgun, shoot someone across a hall, the pattern is fist-sized. Shoot at someone 100 yards away, most of the pellets miss. If you fire unguided rockets at the range they're meant for, you get some accuracy despite the dispersion. If you fire an unguided rocket at the distance HIMARS reaches to make a convincing decoy, it's probably gonna go off course. If you watch amateur rocketry videos, people spend a lot of time trying to make really good rockets but when they're fired they end up becoming unstable or at least spinning out. Making a stable rocket cheaply is pretty hard. At some point adding some kind of rudimentary guidance would be worth it.
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@MarloSoBalJr "it's slow (which is a good thing)" - yeah because taking too long traveling to where you're needed is such a positive "Speed is not always the solution which is why the A-10 has lasted this long" - Literally the opposite. In the air, speed is life. The USAF had an excellent CAS aircraft in the A-7 but the Army requested a slower aircraft that could escort helicopters. Some politics and corruption later, the USAF passed up an upgraded A-7 variant for the A-10.
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@petertimmins6657 "This is indeed the correct hammer for CAS, not some fast mover that can’t loiter near as long" - But the A-7 is a fast mover compared tom the A-10 and it had an excellent track record in Vietnam. "nor carry the same types and quantity of ordinance guys like me need" - But many planes can carry the same ordnance as the A-10, and more of it. "F-16 and F-15 are great planes, when you place them in the role they were specifically designed for." - The F-16 was designed for everything. It's a great fighter and a great bomber. The F-16 and Strike Eagle get more CAS action than the A-10 itself.
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@elmgful John McCain's brain tumor deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. There's multiple compelling reasons to retire the A-10, such as the fact that it was outdated in 1991 when it had to be grounded due to all the losses it suffered against the Iraqi Republican Guard.
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@einarabelc5 "no other plane has a gun like the A-10s" - Why is the gun needed? It hasn't been able to punch through tanks since the 80s, and against thin skinned vehicles and foot soldiers it doesn't do anything that 20mm or 25mm already won't do.
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@bartfoster1311 "the F-16 and the F-35 are less capable aircraft for close air support especially in mountainous areas like Afghanistan" - And yet the A-10 gets a minority of CAS missions, most being given to F-16s, Strike Eagles, F/A-18s and B-1s. So much for the mountainous areas of Afghanistan being a problem, seems like the fast jets are doing fine while the A-10 struggles.
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"Highly detailed" with pixels the size of my thumb.
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@KLA611 it was only a pretend-UN, but yeah she and Zoe Quinn spoke at the TEDx variant of the UN.
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@trevorshea1930 There was simply no other option. Russia would know the plans even if Ukraine didn't announce them. Ukraine would be able to cross the Dnipro with a large enough force, nor could they go around Luhansk. Meanwhile Tokmak is the exposed part of the jugular. Everyone knew that was coming.
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@TheOpenedScrollMinistry There's no two sides. The only response from the Russian side is denial and deflection. If they want to have their side heard, they need to behave like humans again.
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@TheOpenedScrollMinistry Ukraine refuses volunteers. Russia is taking any man they can, even from other countries. If they are winning overwhelmingly, what happened to 150k professional soldiers to mske them need 300k civilian replacements?
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Please volunteer for the Russian army.
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Exactly how would anyone be compromised if not for the implication that the girls were underage? Just the fact that Joe is saying that anyone photographed near Epstein has to fear for their reputation means he acknowledges the underage part.
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@spookytkid Russia has something called Purchasing Power Parity advantage. Their 67 billion defense budget is equivalent to 220 billion USD defense spending because they buy from themselves and Russia is a less weathy country where things are cheap. They printed a trillion rubles at the start of the war. This is costing them a lot, they even had to take money from the pension funds.
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The same can't be said because the US has been stalling on delivering Abrams, Russia is already bringing T-55s out of storage.
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Bruh they reach the top of the atmosphere and come back down, they are basically doing reentry like astronaut capsules.
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The arms dealer Boeing made 2 billion from just making new wings for the A-10. Yeah, Boeing does a ton of military stuff, it's not just 767s.
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@Markle2k How.. how is running away with one's imagination to correctly consider the past to be history? "I'm not the manager of the disposal project. But you certainly are not, either." - Dude this isn't the time for childish nuh-uh like it's the goddamn recess, do you have an argument or not? "None of them involve dropping casks" - Nice strawman, strike three. Get out.
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@lycan7157 Do you know the thing where the judge can't define something but he knows it when he sees it? I can tell the difference between open carry and someone looking for trouble.
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@chrisperkins7331 1. Hitler did not have the strategic oil reserves. They depended on capturing Soviet oil fields by the Soviets sabotaged them. They were also up against US industrial power. It was game over. 2. This is just bad faith. Germany and the Soviet Union also used US technology to build their war machine. Is it wrong to fight Germany and later Communism because you sold them stuff before? No.
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@TK-ev Russia pulls all the strings to have another go at the usual pattern of carving out territory with separatist forces and then crying genocide to invade. People say "it's complicated".
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Russia doesn't have enough materiel and manpower to fight Ukraine, how are they going to fight the world?
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The video proof literally has the broken bridge visible in the background.
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@frankiep1387 Slow moving trains without cargo. Same as the Antonovsky bridge stunts.
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@qwertyui-EFRB It was never about mass. Nearly every interview with Ukrainians on defense say they same. The waves are small. They just get tired of fighting and run out of ammo. The "mass" is a red herring by the pro-Russia crowd misusing meat wave as the old "human wave".
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@gideondejongh838 What poker players? Big stacks of chips? Resources are useful if you can actually use them. That's why countries with resources sell rather than making. Fold? The US became powerful off its industry, and the fact that WW2 ravaged other industrial nations.
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Actually a MLU program extends service hours by 4,000 hours. That's a 50% increase over the original 8,000. The price of a MLU program (which includes a ton of upgrades beyond the airframe refurbishing) is less than half of a new F-16 Block 70/72. So cordially, stop talking outta your @ss.
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The US has pledged to join as long as they are assured they won't be unfairly targeted. Lots of sore losers after intervention.
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NATO is already on his border. What are the Baltic states for 500, Alex? And now Finland will join as soon as the watermelon seller is reminded of his place. Zelensky's government actually opened a criminal investigation against an editor in chief of a publication who posted video on social media of himself firing artillery at the separatist regions and calling for violence. Zelensky was reasonable and a Russian-speaker himself.
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Putin laid out his objectives in his speech announcing the incursion.
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Everyone has this problem, Turkey Tom also has them.
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Whatever was on the balloon, it was important enough that a satellite couldn't do the same thing those instruments could. This drone is decades old and Russia is using Iranian drones so it's not like their industry is in a good place.
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@alexholker1309 I saw a bunch of them. I follow channels like Forgotten Weapons and there was a time YouTube was cracking down on gun videos so the sidebar would come up with either no recommended videos or put several of those Elsagate videos in a row.
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Patriot has already been tested against Russian and Iranian crap.
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Six A-10s were lost, and they were re-tasked. The F-111 killed more tanks.
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Not everyone lives in places where used 1080s could be found for 300-350.
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@ValentineC137 crazy, right?
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Say sike right now.
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Reportedly? Reported by whom?
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 @stevenblackwell4903 His name was CoachRedPill. He was an internet clown, you address him by his clown name.
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No relevance for Europe? Bruh.
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Just like binoculars, guns or phone tapping everything can be misused. A private drone owner shouldn't be treated like he's invading privacy until he does.
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Ukrainians have cheap FPV racer drones. The real killer is getting the crew to abandon the tank then finish it off when the hatches are open. Many Lancet strikes damage the tank, but it just gets recovered and repaired.
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"Giant corporations can unperson and deplatform people questioning the narrative but I'm gonna compare mass censorship to child stuff lol"
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But it's basically SMG shaped while the MP7 is a large pistol. If you're bringing a P90 you might as well bring a short barrel rifle, while the MP7 is more convinient when climbing ladders or doing tasks that require hands like dog handling.
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How were Russians the first to use drones? ISIS in Iraq had one of the first confirmed uses of quadcopter against tank. The first airbase attack by cheap drone was against the Russian air base in Syria.
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"What color is the boat house at Hereford?"
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You wish Lockheed Martin was cutting costs. It's a jobs program, so don't worry because this fucker was subcontracted to hell and back. California has 277 suppliers, Texas 79, Florida 94, Connecticut 80, even fucking Australia has 27 contractors working on the project. I don't know how many people each subcontractor is employing but there sure is a ton of them. The only states not supplying F-35 parts are Wyoming, Alaska, Hawaii and Nebraska. So don't worry, the taxpayer's money is funding a hell of a lot of jobs. I mean, that money would fund even more jobs if it wasn't robbed through taxes but since when does government care about the hidden costs of their programs?
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1 year old account lol
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It's not bizarre. It's the laws of warfare. By refusing to wear a uniform you endanger civilians. By not wearing a uniform you are forfeiting the laws of armed combat.
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@wolfiestreet6899 "You are also overlooking the issue that as this was not an official arrest, it's not clear what difference this would make?" - you'd need two people to agree on performing it
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@wolfiestreet6899 How is it a moot point? You're seriously arguing that two people watching over each other do not reduce the chances of an illegitimate arrest? Operationally infeasible. Okay, then all lone officers are forced to wear a bodycam they are not allowed to turn off. I don't care, they can figure it out. The police is already absurd, so them working under absurd conditions shouldn't be a drastic change. Yes, we can't prevent everything. But the fact remains that we've created a class of people who you cannot fight off for legal reasons, and you're at their mercy.
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@wolfiestreet6899 Sorry to disappoint you, Ben Shapiro.
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Considering the footage of the Russian assaults and the fact that Russia is now visibly using African and Asian foreigners as troops, yeah.
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@TheNewton oh, so it's a conspiracy that government wastes money
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@Ottuln https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQSs2kN2GpQ credited for the F-15 and F-16 (even though he hated the F-15 lmao) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE7NDEYB5yU "helped" the design of the A-10 and F-16 (helping is an extreme reach) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP0f1_f8nuc "creator of the old F-16" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Z_DuF CBC's The Fifth Estate wrote on the description: "Our 2012 interview with Pierre Sprey a defence analyst who spent 20 years working at the Pentagon and helped designed one of the most successful jetfighters ever, the A10 Warthog." https://gizmodo.com/the-designer-of-the-f-16-explains-why-the-f-35-is-such-1591828468 "According to the Pierre Sprey, co-designer of the F-16..." https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/pierre-spreys-anti-f-35-diatribe-is-half-brilliant-and-1592445665 "A video is making its way around the net right now that featuring an interview with F-16 co-designer and king of the 1970's era "Fighter Mafia," Pierre Sprey." I think the lie was spread by Sputnik News and Russia Today and then it kept being repeated by aviation fans on the internet and secondary sources repeating the story without fact-checking.
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He's a convicted human trafficker.
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It's also a result of the musical chairs. As command is changed from person to person or even restructured we see the differences in patterns.
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People of East Ukraine who supported the government fled the area, the "Russian ethnicity" militias were actual Russian citizens (such as FSB agent Igor Girkin) before the conflict grew larger, and as these militias were used as bullet sponges for the Russian army they forced East Ukrainian men to serve against their will. The videos are available, men are beat unconscious and handcuffed to be sent to the frontline.
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That's an old wive's tale. The GAO actually got all up in the USAF's business for buying 700 A-10s without any reasonable justification for buying that many.
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@jackharter660 That's great. Still doesn't disprove the fact that the Air Force was buying too many A-10s. If they hated it like you claimed, they'd have bought 350 and be down to 0 after those 6 months. Problem solved. Literally listen to any pilot. There's TONS of podcasts now. There's pilots with youtube channels. You can listen to them tell you that they LOVE air to ground. Jesus. It's the information age and you're partoting stuff that was written in the 70s and 80s to sell books.
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@jackharter660 This just in, no pilot ever made General in the USAF. Privates in the air force are airmen. Pilots are Lts. Only the Army has enlisted pilots through "highschool to flight school", in the USAF you have to be an officer. Yes, F-15s have been doing the A-10s job since the 2000s. He said it because it's true. In the early 2000s A-10s only ran 20% of CAS missions. As of 2014, only 11%. Most CAS is done by F-16s and Strike Eagles.
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@jackharter660 It's literally their name. In the Army you're a private, in the Navy you're a seaman and in the Air Force you're an airman. It's not an exaggeration. The branches have different names for their ranks. Just like the army doesn't have admirals, the air force doesn't have privates. Air Force Generals are often former pilots. They loved their job. The A-10 isn't cheap.
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@jackharter660 But it requires billions in parts and entire sections being reinforced or remade because they already ran out of useful hours. They already flew past the point where they should have been scrapped. They're not saving money, they're requiring more money to keep in flying condition. It's not cheap to purchase. Taking into account inflation and upgrades, each A-10 is about 50-60 million USD worth. Being able to take damage is moot when it can't help but get hit. Other aircraft simply get hit less often.
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@jackharter660 But it isn't. Not only does keeping the A-10 in service makes every other aircraft more expensive to run because of the drain in resources it causes, its cost estimates ignore the added costs of keeping the aircraft in the air. There's maintenance, and there's the fact that the USAF has to pay to rebuild entire sections of the aircraft. They don't do a better job.
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@jackharter660 It's not cheap. If it costs you less fuel to drive an old car but every year it costs you thousands in repairs, your fuel costs are misleading. You're sinking money into driving a wreck, but you claim the fuel costs are lower. This is what the A-10 does. Nominally cheap to run, massively expensive to keep in the air because these contracts are not added to the per hour running cost.
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@jackharter660 The B-52 was never replaced so it can still do jobs other aircraft won't. But the A-10 had its job taken away by the F-16 and F-15E.
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@jackharter660 I never said you said the B-52 was replaced. I swear, people don't read anymore. Do you know how many times I've presented an argument clear as water and people get back to me "I never said". I know. Point to me where I said you said it. Read again. Memories are emotional and based on feelings. They're fallible. Even witness testimony can be manipulated just by asking questions differently. The opposite, actually - you don't keep planes in the air without a very good reason. They're only meant to fly for X amount of hours. After that they either need to be partially rebuilt and re-certified, or scrapped. Scrapping planes is the default. It's necessary for safety reasons. Sorry, but we have a ton of scrap planes. We don't need a reason, hours alone are enough to take them off duty. The air force hasn't decided anything. They actually requested for the retirement of more A-10s.
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@jwenting the A designation had just been used in the A-10 when Have Blue was being developed.
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@jwenting Okay, right before the A-10 adoption the USAF picked the A-7 as the interim close air support aircraft. And nowadays there's the A-29 Super Tucano.
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Ground battles are also decided by air and naval matters. To fight on the ground you need fuel, equipment, vehicles. Those cone from factories, depots, refineries, all kinds of facilities. If you have not noticed, Russian facilities keep going up in flames. A-50s help paint a picture of the airspace, because unlike ground radar they are less effected by the horizon. If drones are carrying payload headed to facilities, and they fly under the radar, how do you detect them without A-50s? Russians are already riding into battle in T-54s. You really think the ground war is gonna go well when a third A-50 goes down and the long range attacks start gutting Russia's power projection?
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 @viktorbagic5516 Agricultural work is just outdoors factory work. Lots of machines involved.
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+Julian none of that is true. First of all, the orange tip in airsoft is for commercial purposes only - once bought there's no obligation to keep the orange tip, in fact some manufacturers include a replacement muzzle device in the box knowing that airsofters won't want the orange to give away their position. Second a paintball market can have the hopper removed and cause confusion anyway, also there's realistic looking paintball markers fed from a magazine. Third, unless there's specific local laws in some specific city or something it's perfectly legal to paint real guns however you like: http://s14544.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Possibly-the-ultimate-Hi-Point-build-bubbles-to-the-surface-PHOTOS-3-1024x1024.jpg
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Makes perfect sense if you want to send the message. It's a warning to everyone else.
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Nice try, vatnik. Also, pretty sure you used a slur. Wonder what happens if I decide to report it for hate speech?
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What "today's technology"? It's just a stock with a cavity to let the gun recoil. It's Newtonian physics, they've been around for 15 billion years.
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+Jonathan Nguyen there's a lot of new technology by that definition. Actual mechanisms or electronic systems, programming, etc. The bump stock got around the ATF by not being "anything". It can't have an actual mechanism. It's as much of a "new technology" as a cup handle.
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@bigvis497 2016: You can't call everyone Nazis, free speech for all! Stop deplatforming me! 2022: PUNCH THE NAZIS PLEASE OH GOD DENAZIFY EVERYTHING
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Still damaged from the 2022 attack. Usable, but I wouldn't call it ok.
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There's also videos of them going high order.
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No, because you can't flip flop at the last minute as infrastructure is being built, contracts have been paid, etc. Flip flopping is the worst thing to do, it's a staring contest and you never blink first.
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It's expensive as hell. It's pretty in news reports and Discovery Channel documentaries, but Dragon Skin is useless on the field. If a SAPI plate breaks, you slide a new one into your armor. DS has those scales bunched together so if it breaks, everything must go to be repaired. Pinnacle Armor shipped a ton of DS armor that arrived broken. It breaks down in salt water, heat, cold and diesel fuel. Bullets can still go trough from certain angles.
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Two more weeks, Zisters!
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Russia is failing in foreign sales because they need it domestically. South Korea is the big seller right now.
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There's no EMP device that could provoke the effects you claim other than high altitude nukes.
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@bighands69 What do those countries have to do with unconstitutional laws, which apply to America?
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Free speech. It's incredibly hard to sue in the United States.
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I don't think they even bring it up, it's not just a blatant foreign sales cash grab but the internet collectively deciding on the NATO designation was a psychological killshot.
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Leftist? But aren't those who want more governmental control? Shouldn't be the right wing questioning why we are losing our freedoms? Why the government is trying to gain control and invade the privacy of the population by using "terrorism" as an excuse?
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It's to shoot down ballistic missiles, not drones.
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That didn't happen. Iraqis and Americans defeated ISIS. Americans left Afghanistan and the Taliban defeated the ANA, not the US troops.
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Russia was offering 4 figure salaries (in USD) and only a few thousand came.
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Really doc? What do you wear on the ICU? The surgical mask that's been in the jeans pocket for two weeks? The silly cloth masks sold as novelties? Can't protect others with security theater.
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@FrankCalisch So security theater when around normal people. Yeah. The data backing up cloth masks was based on a study where the mask was covering a tube that spat out particles, and it was tightly mounted on the tube with an elastic band to make sure there were no gaps. Not just that, but the mask had three layers and was made from different cloth materials for both the labyrinthic properties and also static filtering. For a 67% reduction in particles. Nobody is wearing their masks as PPE, there's gaps, and they're mostly single layer or double layer. I am more confident in the fat TSA lady's ability to stop an ISIS attack than those novelty masks.
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@FrankCalisch Reduce risk = still transmitting. Instead of infecting 100 people through the entire day, you infect 30. Whoa. The real social distance should be 15ft and when attending patients a full face sealed respirator would be necessary. Goddamn aerosolized fecal matter infected people in a building in the original SARS outbreak. You're following the "we're all going to get it, just not at the same time" guidelines issued at the start and thinking you're "protecting" yourself and others. No. You simply have a mix of live ammo and duds in the belt and you're firing it at a crowd. Most were spared by the duds but real people still got real hits. You've internalized the "indiscriminate but reduced spread" narrative from the start and combined it with the "I'm personally liable for every droplet I spit out" narrative. You're taking the "everyone gets it" narrative from the start and combined it with the "we need to get to ZERO cases" narrative we're seeing now. You're still inhaling it, you're still pumping it out, and the goddamn fake mask probably works better than whatever 50% of the people on the streets are wearing.
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@vaska1999 But they would. Russia bombarded Kiev from day one. What a bad excuse.
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 @bryan-f00 Youtube will autoflag perfectly normal comments, the algorithm has a hair trigger.
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@mikeyo1O1 So a cluster bomb instead of a normal bomb.
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@benjaminjohnsonboston Don't change the subject. Where is the proof?
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>Just because someone is 12 years old doesn't mean they can't argue correctly Mr. Colion Noir It doesn't. But that's also not what he said.
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@NDJ1978 You don't have an opinion. You have pre-approved lines. When you have opinions at least they make sense because you had to think about the facts and reconcile them with your beliefs. Pro-Russian stooges often are betraying their own beliefs. That's why it's not an opinion, there's no logical train of thought.
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@NDJ1978 WMDs were found in Iraq, this was reported a decade ago (2014) because journalists investigated the cases of US troops who came back with neurological damage from Sarin exposure. If you had any clue about the topic you wouldn't expose your ignorance with gotcha questions.
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Imagine thinking that if the wreck did happen, they just didn't hire actors and reenacted the whole thing for drama.
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@SousukeAizen421 They're also not conviniently lining themselves up in convoys, no comparison is possible.
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They're probably more focused on working harder and building a better China than trying to police what other people in the world are doing. And that's why they're winning.
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Negotiation will come after Russia's defeat.
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Something being documented doesn't mean you've seen it. It just means there's a record of it somewhere. Before the internet there's probably people who documented every day of their lives in a diary, and now it's in a filing cabinet somewhere without ever being seen.
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The missile wreckage was not inside the building. The building was set on fire.
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@TheRolvaag to restore spent shells for guns, you can pick up range brass, run them through a tumbler with steel pins, water, dishwasher soap and a touch of citric acid. The cases rolling around with the steel pins and chemical cleaning makes them shine like new. You'd need a comically oversized tumbler to clean tank shells, though.
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Those aircraft are meant to fight Taliban and cartels. Individuals with no AA or armor.
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@TheRealBobBasher Blindly firing 50 cals into the air isn't a reliable way of bringing down aircraft. Russians have radar guided 23mm and 30mm AA guns that fire at high RPMs.
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Ahahahahahah you're serious? Any alternative platforms either get threats about being kicked out of the servers or are told the credit card companies or payment processors are unwilling to work with them. If servers won't take you or you're unable to make payments how do you want to have an internet platform?
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Look up the Demon Core. Fissile material over a certain mass (critical mass) achieves fission spontaneously. So just touching the two halves is enough.
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The US went to war with North Korea already.
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Cope. So the assault in Hostomel was also light reconnaissance?
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Jesus Christ but instead of time they lost the men and materiel.
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@jackprichard6780 More.
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"there are ways to have markets without the hoarding that comes along with capitalism" - then it's not a market, it's simply a game we agree to play.
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@andrewmarkmusic It's not. If you're gonna call a system libertarian and then put artificial limits that's the real meaninglessness.
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@andrewmarkmusic No, I really have to be a troll. Saying one is for markets but then impose limits on markets is like saying you're all for basketball but the score counter needs to stop at 100.
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@andrewmarkmusic I didn't misrepresent you anywhere. I'm not dismissing anything. "Capitalism is antithetical to free market" - No. "it functions via the force and coercion of the nation-state." - Capitalism doesn't require a state. If we're stranded on an island and I lend you my fishing net for a portion of your catch of the day, that's capitalism babey. No state. "your analogy isn't very good" - Who cares? What matters is that you can't be for markets and then say "noooo you're too good at this market stuff, we have to stop you". Just say you're against markets and go.
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@NostalgicLink Are you gonna pay for those better fences? We're not talking about the perimeter of your average white picket fence suburban home. We're talking large swaths of land. "don't create environments where "pests" naturally thrive" - Oh so stop farming altogether? Sure bud. But the food doesn't come from the grocery store. "Do you also shoot dogs and cats who roam from house to house and produce litter after litter every spring because the neighbors take pity and leave shitty kibbles out for them?" - Dogs and cats have a symbiotic relationship with humans, I feel embarrassed that I have to be explain 6th grade biology to people on youtube comments. There's a big fucking difference between domestic and wild animals and the types of nuisances they cause, a cat isn't going to ruin crops. Also, we control the population of pets by neutering them. "Or, does your cognitive dissonance tell you dogs and cats shouldn't be shot, but hogs are fine?" - You don't even know what cognitive dissonance means, you're using it incorrectly. Also, for it to be cognitive dissonance cats/dogs would have to be comparable to hogs. They're not. As mentioned above, animals can form pairings that are mutually beneficial that get ingrained into their biology. You can't have a wolf as a pet like you would a dog. We don't share the long history of bonding and selective pressure we do with the dog. Dogs can read human emotion and communication better than chimpanzees or bonobos. There is a factual, objective and scientific difference between a dog and a wild animal like hog. There's also no benefits to killing dogs for food or to protect livestock/crops. If anything, we use dogs to protect our livestock. "Hell, by your thinking, why not start taking out the homeless? The homeless stain otherwise nice locations and laws aren't strict enough to keep them out." - Do you have an actual point or you simply argue from bad faith?
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@NostalgicLink "I'm fully aware of the amount of land being used primarily to feed animals being taken advantage of around the world. And, yes, I'm solely going to pay to fix the situation, since that's what you're trying to insinuate I aught to do." - Stop being a child. Fences are expensive. You're demanding of others to pay for something you're not willing to contribute to. Either stop making unreasonable demands or pay up. "Yeah, I definitely said we should just stop farming altogether. You're an idiot." - Yeah, you said that humans can't create environments that attract the hogs. This means no farming, bucko. "Cats might not be able to ruin crops, but they can cause problems. I had to lay down anti-cat spikes in my small garden to keep them from digging up the soil and chewing up leaves to clean their teeth." - I'm gonna pretend I didn't just read the implication that the damage caused to your garden by cats is as serious as the damage caused to crops by hogs. "Every now and then he tries to round up the females to have them neutered, but more show up every year anyway" - The fact that you can do that to cats only drives my point further home. Hogs will straight up gore you. "You believe cats and dogs have the right to live even when they can be pests, likely because of your relationship or understanding of the normality of the relationship, but not all other animals, even though all other animals are trying to live just the same as cats and dogs." - Yes, this is called basic biology. Is the shark disgusting because it doesn't kill the remora? "I do know what cognitive dissonance is, I am using it correctly" - You're not. Cognitive dissonance requires a state of dissonance. If someone is confident about their beliefs without suffering the stress of trying to balance them, they do not suffer from cognitive dissonance. "Cats and dogs are comparable to hogs, in many ways." - Two things being "comparable" doesn't make them equivalent. "Notably, as I've described, they're all animals that are just trying to live" - So is a mosquito. If you want to remove the "animal" qualifier even black mold is just trying to live. Even things that aren't technically alive, like viruses, are "trying to live" by holding onto hosts and replicating their genetic information. A criminal breaking into my home is an animal trying to live. It's not an excuse. "You're okay with killing one but not the other, despite their similar desires to not die." - See example above. Oh no, the mosquito doesn't want to die. Fuck him. He's gonna die because his bite is inconvenient to me and also they spread diseases in some countries. Even a rapist has the desire not to die. The desire to not die is not an excuse. At one point actions have to have consequences and the culprit can't say "noooo you can't harm me because I wish to not die". "You're also okay with killing hogs as they are a nuisance, but not the homeless." - The homeless aren't out there absolutely targeting our food supply nor are they multiplying because of their invasive nature you sick fuck. If a homeless guy tries to jump you with a knife then sure, it would be wise to defend yourself. "Have you attempted to bond with a hog? Have their been studies attempting to do so?" - How about you try first and nobody steps in to help you if it goes wrong? "Have humans historically attempted that? No, they did so with cats and dogs" - BUDDY DO YOU KNOW WHERE DOMESTICATED PIGS COME FROM? I MEAN I WAS ONLY HALF JOKING WHEN I SAID YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND BIOLOGY BUT YOU REALLY OUT HERE ADMITTING YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT DOMESTICATED PIGS WERE BRED OUT OF WILD BOAR 10,000 YEARS AGO "There are plenty of people who take pigs as pets though. Why's that?" - Because they were bred for it, and are not wild animals? What you're doing is like saying wolves are suitable pets because dogs exist. "When a homeless guy does nothing but bother you for change every time you go to the store, offering you nothing in return but his gratitude, do you think "he's not as useful as a cat or a dog, so why don't we just eliminate him?" No, you don't, because you were shaped to know that would be wrong, and you should know that it's similarly wrong to just eliminate hogs." - And also because there's a big fucking difference between giving up a dollar once a week and entire farms getting wrecked? Even the health concerns with dirty needles or human excrement in cities due to homelessness isn't as big of a deal as wild pigs being a vector for swine flu or possibly carrying pathogens that can wipe out deer populations.
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@NostalgicLink "I'm not going to waste my time reading the rest." - Awww but you didn't read the part where I explained to you that DOMESTIC PIGS WERE BRED FROM WILD BOAR THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. "You're a lost cause who'll eventually die off and be replaced by others who understand how wrong you are." - No. "Within 100 years, the vast majority of people will look back on us with disdain just as we look back on those who once thought the genocide, slavery, segregation, etc. of our own species was ever okay." - No.
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@NostalgicLink did you just censor words with umlauts?
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They recently broke the line...
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@mjb6446 the police doesn't protect you
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@thepolishlatinofromphilly9709 but that's sorta idealistic. Even in purpose they fail, most crimes take less than 5 minutes to commit and most places have a 5 min response time. Some have 30 to 40 minutes.
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@mjb6446 supreme court already decided police doesn't protect you
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Who'd sue? Putin?
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Uhhhhh so was the whole crypto hype propped up by Chinese money from people trying to invest in a country where they had limited options?
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@waterandafter you can't be a platform and exercise editorial rights over what gets published. Nobody forces you to be a platform, you voluntarily become one in exchange for special privileges such as legal immunity. If you don't want to be a platform then simply give up your legal privileges. That's all we're asking for.
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@Logic44 they shouldn't
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It cost the Russian air force the lives of 12 pilots, who don't grow on trees. If it was staged, it was a mess.
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If you consider the Ba'ath Party Headquarters to be "civilian infrastructure", sure.
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Pure coincidence.
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Ukrainian constitutional regulations prevent elections during martial law. How do you hold elections in a war zone?
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No, they aren't. If you are forced to take the risk of employing future mothers costing you money, you simply deduct the costs from all workers, male and female. All the money the women get from paid leave came from their paycheck and their male coworkervs paychecks. No discrimination.
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Crypto was born to be decentralized. The fact that scammers picked up on it doesn't mean you can rewrite history. The Miss Something scammers are also using normal trading in their scams, not just crypto.
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But solar is mostly "solid state" electronics while wind has a spinny thingy-majig which means maintenance and breakdowns. Solar blocks sunlight from hitting what's beneath them (can be good or bad) but wind has downstream effects regarding temperature and humidity by "robbing" wind energy from the air. Also, build more panels, they all produce independently. Build more wind turbines, the energy taken away from the wind means that there's less wind energy for others to use.
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The situation is outright inhumane for Russia. The men are walking on foot across empty fields and taking shells and drone dropped grenades.
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@thr0waway Satellite pics show that shells fall on empty fields. And Russian artillery keeps firing less and less. Being shelled when in a fortified position is better than a single 30mm grenade dropped while unprotected.
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@thr0waway Ever heard it's not the size, it's how you use it? Well, here it's actually true. You can fire at a 1000 to 1 ratio. If 1000 hit empty fields and the 1 hits the artillerymen in counter-battery, one shot is worth more than a thousand. Soledar's gone. Only took 6 months of massive casualties storming defensive positions.
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You get my upvote, but people do get into leftism to be weird. Like Caleb Maupin the Spankie Tankie. Or Beria. How to uphold the glory of the Soviet Union? Put a serial grapist in charge of the NKVD. Seriously, you gotta watch out for snakes in the grass.
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@flynnhaasch5681 Silence is as suspicious as dissent.
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@flynnhaasch5681 Nice lack of argument. Several people already told you that you were wrong. Maybe take your own advice and learn to take a loss.
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@flynnhaasch5681 First: stop strawmanning. Second: there are organizations like the Confucius Institute that perform surveillance of Chinese students while abroad.
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@Wishalloy They didn't. The Phantom scored kills with missile, only a handful were by gun.
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@Wishalloy Not true. They were not screwed. They were just ambushed. MiGs would do high speed passes and run away, too fast to be chased and gunned down. The E variant got a gun, but later variants did not have them.
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@johns70 How do you defend infrastructure when you already admitted you can't defend an airfield? Instead of taking the airports out, the enemy - knowing you have a doctrine of dispersing forces - will instead target the stuff you can't disperse and cripple your country. I'm looking at Ukraine. 2/3rds of the missile attacks on airfields missed, and those that hit runways were repaired.
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@craigfinnegan8534 But if you have a vulnerable location, you can address its vulnerability.
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How do you replace a government the people are fighting for? You need occupation. That's the million dollar question.
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@Gio954 Because puppet governments can be thrown out and concessions walked back on. What's the point of getting concessions if Ukraine can just break their promises a year later?
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@Gio954 My point is sort of that Russia has already lost so much money in this fight, they probably wouldn't go back inside Ukraine. Hence why occupation is needed.
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The government was not coup'd, the US didn't back the Rada vote, and Russia blew the pipeline.
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The tax will be passed down to the consumer.
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Still the 30th (comment failed to post?)
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 @SrdjanBasaric-w2s what do you mean "soon", Russia isn't gaining ground.
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Buddy tax evasion is based but you can't go "sorry officer, it wasn't a robbery my suspicious withdrawl is justified by my attempt to dodge taxes".
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So you're using the Hitler argument and accusing me of not lobbying against the "mood altering drugs for everyone, inc", while you're the one wasting our time. You're not creating any change here, and instead of helping us solve the problem of mass killings you're after the "gun bogey man". Seriously!
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Most gun memes come from the internet rather than some kind of knowledge passed down to kids. In fact a lot of gun memes revolve around the fact that in the age of easily accessible knowledge from experts people still believe totally wrong "conventional wisdom" that gets passed around gun shops/shows.
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 @Mortablunt kek LNR vet, guess you got lucky. How does it feel? To know you destroyed the very thing you fought for?
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@Mortablunt You fought for their demise. If you cared about them, you wouldn't have put them through the horrors of war. You "fought", they died. You're here on youtube talking about it, while your precious people are either in graves or still in trenches and shell craters, rotting in the mud. What safety? Russia arrived and destroyed everything. Russia arrived and conscripted them. Russia arrived them and brought in the Tuva and Buryats to live in "ethnic Russian" Donbas. I don't hate you. But I will take pride in making sure you will regret everything for the rest of your life. You'll live as a coward posting on youtube about his grandiose fight, while others died in your place. You're quite happy with the destruction of Mariupol? It's funny, so many Ukrainian soldiers still speak Russian. Azov was mostly Russian speakers. Nobody was killed over language. You got fooled. You destroyed what you loved over a lie. And you will live to realize what you've done.
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"When you're less likely to be infected, less likely to have a high virus load, and clear the virus faster, that means you're less likely to infect others." - But you're still infectious, meaning that all you're doing is delaying the inevitable. "Only the delta variant" - And we have incoming variants that are also resistant. That's the evolutionary pressure. If anything, the unvaccinated are keeping the non-resistant strains alive. "This is typical of none of the dozens or hundreds of daily contacts people have." - This seems like more of a critique of the lockdowns than anything else. If the people who are in close contact and then have hundreds of daily contacts are not the issue, then the lockdowns were a crime against humanity. "Households with vaccinated people who never caught the virus are omitted." - What would be the point of including them? To measure effectiveness you have to narrow down on the ones who were exposed. That's how the trial of the shots was done. Not focusing on the 43k people who never got infected. But the 177 unvaccinated who got sick and the 8 vaccinated that got sick. Those who got exposed? They don't matter. Can't measure effectiveness without putting the stuff through the paces. "the less the strain on health services" - They're strained not by being overwhelmed, but due to continuous pressure. There's staff shortages, people quitting. "Subsequent variations are expected to be less lethal; it's better to be infected later than sooner." - So we should have locked down the vulnerable and let it burn through the healthy to generate the less lethal variants? We instead let it burn through the elderly and then the less lethal variants spread to the healthy. Great job. We did it. "Medications and treatment protocols are being improved and developed; again, later, rather than sooner." - They were known pretty soon. We know exactly the mechanism that is killing people. But if you treat them... there goes the emergency use authorization. "There's even a new generation of vaccines coming, which will, hopefully, provide even better protection" - Don't hold your breath. It's a money making racket and they're dishing out a third shot of an outdated variant. This is an instance where we can't help but talk past each other. All you're saying is technically correct. And I believe it's absolutely worthless. Oh, this only applies to Delta? Tough titties, the shot is made for the 2019 Wuhan strain, a two year old strain. There's more variants coming and they're also under evolutionary pressure to infect the vaccinated. If daily outside contacts don't matter, then there's no public service being done. Sorry to be an asshole about it. I'm not questioning the things you're saying, which are probably all true. But there's logical reasons why those things are absolutely worthless to me and many others. I'm happy to see you're also against mandates. I simply think the corruption goes to the top and there's no "actual" benevolent way to implement the measures they want. I think their measures actually made things worse and they killed people for money.
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It's a total non-issue. Finland is finishing up an underground vault for spent fuel. The US had Yucca Mountain but it has been mothballed. Encased in steel, sealed in copper, buried in geologically stable rock that's not permeable to water.
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@chrisfoe4297 If they have the technology to drill that deep, they'll know what nuclear geologic deposits are.
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@keltskiy It shouldn't take state secrets or 5D chess. If you say they have different goals they're acomplishing, we should be able to see them. So far, they've lost a significant number of men, vehicles and even generals in this mess. They must be getting something big out of it for it to be worth it.
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@keltskiy MK Ultra was CIA, not NATO.
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@keltskiy I'm sorry, we all obviously know that France and Poland were behind it all.
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@keltskiy Lock him up. Do you have an actual argument or you are just saying things?
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@keltskiy How does this relate to Russia winning or losing? Also, wasn't Putin also WEF? Why the break up?
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@keltskiy Stalin cooperated with the Nazis.
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@keltskiy Even Israel cooperated with Nazis, what's your point? Everyone cooperates with everyone they need.
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@WarriorCrimson "Minimize" the "likelihood" doesn't mean certainty that a bullet will stop inside.
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Some American sites, especially smaller news sites, are inaccessible in the EU. Most likely they cannot guarantee compliance with EU law and just said "fuck it".
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Government infrastructure prohecrs are always a huge scam. I appreciate trying to limit the scam, but it's still one.
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@david7384 Cope. Oryx is by definition open source, and there's both pro-Ukraine and pro-Russia observers going over the data to double check. There's been days where Russia suffered "negative losses" due to corrections being issued. Oryx is the best resource that is not classified and thus out of reach. You cannot "disqualify" someone for using the best possible info. Want to correct him? Break the law and publish the classified data you have access to Bet you won't.
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Seething, lol
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Ender 3 is like 180 bucks on sale. Stop being poor. Buy more money.
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You do realize that there's a timetable for weather conditions and the location was obvious, right? The trailer didn't give up the exact grid square. Get a grip.
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@Nero-Caesar If the offensive can only happen in place X and time Y, there's really no opsec possible. It's not like Russia concentrated their defenses in the exact place Ukraine attacked. They put defenses EVERYWHERE.
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"I can atleast see that it makes the society better" - Government is responsible by the degeneration of society. It sends our young to war under false pretenses, it jacks up the prices on education and healthcare, etc. Almost everything wrong with the world derives from government. "the pro are far better then the cons" - When the NYPD went on strike crime dropped. The pros clearly don't outweigh the cons because armed thugs with a license to kill a union backing enforcing unjust laws have almost no pros. They spend more time on bullshit than actually solving crimes.
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But the demonetization means less ads and less views, which means less money overall.
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@jamesgarner4127 "all ad revenue goes to YouTube and not the creator" - Okay but it's better to get 25% out of 10,000 dollars than 100% of 100 dollars.
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@n0odles86 I know. But demonetization means less views. Ads before, during and after a video score greater profits with a million views, than ads before, during and after a video that gets 10,000 views. It's all money in youtube's pocket, but it's less money overall. Less views = less money.
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@gerard22 They purposefully sat outside M16/M4 range with PKs. Accurate PK fire is goddamn terrifying. WW2 surplus trash ammo still hits like a brick when you see it impact inches away from your face.
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@wildcat_reloading "With open site, a worn-out barrel.... Hitting 800m is then more luck than skill" - Skilled PK gunners put plenty of people in the dirt in the last 30 years.
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@wildcat_reloading Only two 240 gunners per rifle company. That's a lot of people taking fire but with very diminished ability to return fire.
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A booming economy? Why? Significantly lowered internal consumption, increased wages discouraging exports. The worst of both worlds.
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One guy fired warning shots at people firebombing his house and he spent 2 years in court because prosecution argued that if he had time to retrieve his firearm and load it he wasn't obeying safe storage laws. You can use your firearm in Canada, but by law it must be stored separately from ammunition so be ready to explain how you loaded it in time.
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 @stvrob6320 An airborne radar will track a helicopter from further away than a ground radar. Remember that the Earth is curved. The horizon physically blocks radar energy.
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@lethalfang Nope. You can be inside your own SAM umbrella and get speared by an AMRAAM flung from outside SAM range. Your SAM umberella is centered around the launch vehicle, not the helicopter.
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@idlereport You people just repeat the same talking points.
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@parkyayak " Fukushima was built in the 'ring of fire.' Eighty percent of the world's most powerful earthquakes occur in this area." - And the plant survived easily. The problem was that the cooling system was halted for safety reasons and then couldn't be restarted. "Another problem with nuclear power is it is an eyesore" - But hills covered in solar panels and wind turbines aren't?
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@parkyayak Wrong. Reactor 1 did not have a turbopump but a passive cooling system, which lasted for 10 hours. The tsunami arrived less than an hour after the earthquake triggered the control rods. That means that cooling of reactor 1 continued uninterrupted for 9 hours after the tsunami. Operators had to shut down the heat exchanger for safety reasons. When they tried to operate the heat exchanger again, it could not be restarted. Reactors 2 and 3 the turbopumps operated for 24 hours. The claim that the tsunami flooding stopped the cooling is false. "A nuclear meltdown and a few chemical explosions, the results of these explosions was actual damage to the facility. This and you say, "the plant survived easily."" - Because it did. The tsunami did not cause nuclear meltdown or the explosions. The plant survived the natural disaster. Failures only started occurring later. "Also, pay no attention to the exclusion zone where no one is allowed to live, even ten years later, because the plant survived easily. Pay no mind to the contamination caused throughout the area that is still in the process of being contained, even ten years later, people cannot return to their homes, but the plant survived easily." - Which was not caused by the tusnami. You're being ridiculous. Stop this childish nonsense. You have no arguments, you're just trying to make an emotional case and enumerating consequences, without actually drawing the relationship between cause and effect. The plant easily survived the natural disaster, and this is evidenced by the fact that the engineers that blew the whistle many years prior had suggested to move the backup systems uphill. They knew the plant would survive the disaster, it would be the backup systems that could fail. And they did, while the plant itself was more than salvageable.
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Other countries don't have FOIA equivalents so the military just keeps the footage.
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WMDs were found in Iraq. Several US troops suffered lifelong damage due to nerve gas exposure. The story broke in 2014 but nobody seemed to care. Soldiers who found the caches of Saddam's nerve gas shells were exposed to leaking nerve agent. When insurgents daisy chained artillery shells to their IEDs, they unknowingly had gas shells in the mix which instead of boosting the explosive created a cloud of nerve agent. The troops who were exposed received treatment but were ordered to remain silent about it.
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>lemon 550 built and counting. This lemon is dumping lemonade all over the open wounds.
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@assualtcrab The F-111s were done for no matter what and the Super Hornet fleet will not be scrapped until the Navy gets the sixth gen F/A-XX. Not combat ready? Already used to bomb Syria by Israel. Pending fixes, as if half the goddamn planes in inventory didn't have issues that required grounding over the last decade, issues that you don't know about because you won't read anything that isn't related to the F-35. Almost all planes take that long to be useable. Do you know how long the F-16 take to be useful? At the start it only had a gun and heaters. No capability to even fire the AIM-7 Sparrow.
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@assualtcrab I missed the part where you said you were not American, yeah. The US is also trying to streamline the amount of aircraft it has on inventory, more different aircraft means more logistical nightmares. Unfortunately it's not feasible to have an entire Hornet fleet, an entire Super Hornet fleet, or even an entire F-35 fleet. Many countries don't have dedicated air superiority. I don't know what you're planning to get Australia into but does it need a dedicated bomber? What do you mean inferior? The F-35 was always meant to be an export aircraft. If you're worried about China, anything that doesn't have the stealth and sensor fusion of the F-35 is toast. You can wait for the 6th gen Tempest.
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@kataliyun226 North Vietnam also signed a peace deal. They went back and invaded the South anyway.
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>You mean, is the judgement of the general public better than that of trained professinals? Then why not ditch suffrage and just roll with a technocracy? Trained professionals? When there's a shooting, cops have 11% chance to hit a bystander, private citizens only have 2%. >I don't trust myself That's all I needed to hear, then. You're the kind of person who thinks you should be told which sodas you can't drink. I am a big boy and I can choose what to do with my money.
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I see Russia losing artillery superiority and the high ground next to Tokmak as a success.
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Sure. Russia retreats to its 1991 borders as sends all war criminal suspects to The Hague.
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We'll never forget their sacrifice.
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@MilwaukeeF40C that's a controversial statement. Around 50% of NG have combat experience because post-9/11 America made heavy use of them in deployments.
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Yeah, it's a problem because methodology used in the world of medicine is completely inappropriate to deal with the field of criminology.
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 @ammm-wq2mz they posted publicly
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The barges/ferries are being hit. The airfield in Chornobaikava has been hit multiple times so using helos is going to be Groundhog day for the Russians.
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@martinsmith9054 The Dnipro is almost a km wide at Kherson. And IFVs have very little space, they guzzle fuel compared to trucks. Using IFVs for resupply is actually an indicator of disaster.
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Same as the picture of the crashed Khinzal last year. It crashed in Russian territory so we know Ukrainians didn't fake it.
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Deaths are not peaking because omicron is milder. This is also seen in South Africa, where the rate is lower.
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I don't place the Grim Reapers in that high of a pedestal but that's just me. Defenses in DCS are very dumb. In real life the humans manning the defenses would realize they're being baited and stop firing. There's no such thing as "cheap" fighters. All of them cost millions, they're worth more as assets than burning wrecks on the ground, and they carry a valuable pilot inside.
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@rags417 EW systems are extremely expensive. Fitting them to older gen aircraft is also expensive as you're essentially re-engineering a new variant.
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Not really. Designing an AR for suppressive fire is kind of an ordeal. You have to make changes in the barrel and gas system because the gas tube is meant to burst as a protective mechanism when it gets too hot. In the end you get a semi-auto weapon that can be used as an automatic when needed. For dedicated automatic fire weapons you really want the belt and a different internal system.
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I don't give a shit about the law, I don't give a shit about BLM and I don't give a shit about "thugs". I know to to make the casings and bullets, the primers and the powder. To send someone to prison they gotta be caught first. There's so many machine shops and people with sheds in their off grid properties, how the fuck you're gonna catch them in a big ass country?
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They invaded the freaking Baltics when the Soviet Union was collapsing, of course we had to take them into NATO.
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 @jb13611 gun depression has limits.
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WMDs were found. Journalists uncovered it in 2014, locations of WMDs were kept secret because of fears that Al Qaeda would try to recover them.
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 @grahamcarpenter5135 people with one track brains took a story about close range hand to hand fighting and are patting themselves in the back by repeating it ad nauseam
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Yeah the whole "it's French" excuse has been worn tired since... the 90s?
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They have enlistment offices but you should contact their embassy first. You may get rejected there so it's a trip wasted. Also some countries strip you of citizenship if you are caught fighting for another nation so find out if you'll be in trouble.
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@aykay1303 Yeah they seemed to have made the process as boring as possible to filter people out. I guess asking around online is really the only way, having a contact is always better if you're making the trip.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris "Stein began negotiations via fax, offering 75% of the revenue generated by Stein from the license.[37] Elektronorgtechnica ("Elorg"), the Soviet Union's central organization for the import and export of computer software, was unconvinced by this offer and requested 80% of the revenue. Stein made several trips to Moscow and held long discussions with Elorg representatives.[41] On February 24, 1988,[42] Stein obtained an agreement with Elorg, which he signed on May 10, 1988,[43] for a ten-year worldwide Tetris license for all current and future computer systems.[44]"
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He has a terrible take. In fact, in the 90s he used to say Ukraine should keep their nukes.
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@conorwhite2066 Yeah okay but now Mearsheimer switched tune, that's my point. He would want Russia as a wedge against China at the expense of Ukraine, which means what he says now is his personal political bias and not actually academic in nature.
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This is Russia's middle east, bud. They're spending billions per day to run intense combat operations.
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@spitefulraven Literally how? It's Russia who is sending their men to die (making their demographic crisis worse) and spending billions per day to conduct offensive operations, while NATO dumps old stock. Their "response" to "expansion" is like fighting quicksand. The more the squirm the deeper they find themselves, now Finland is joining NATO too - and Sweden as soon as the watermelon seller gets his pound of flesh out of it. Switzerland broke neutrality. Israel already got pissed at Sergei Lavrov and now Vladimir Solovyov says this is the fault of "j3 w1sh colonizers". There's no way to rationalize this debacle.
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@CJP-oz6hr Pilots wear flight suits even in classrooms and briefings.
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@CJP-oz6hr They're pilots and they wear the pilot uniform. You're making a mountain out of a molehill here.
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"b-b-but Ukraine" yeah, Ukraine is at home. If both sides have the same problems, Ukraine doesn't have to go anywhere.
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@Trener_Artem Imagine this situation: Igor Girkin, Russian, and several other Russians without any connection to Donbas, start a FSB plot to create a fake revolution. They get beat, so Russia sends their army in 2014 (no asking for help for 8 years, Russia entered almost immediately). Russia used Minsk II as cover to assault Debaltseve.
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@Trener_Artem The Soviet Union was defeated in Afghanistan, and Russia was defeated in Chechnya the first time.
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No, every part of the government budget is being wasted. People just blame the military budget because the US allocates so much money to it, but the US spends more on social programs. It's so easy to disperse that social program money through webs of corruption.
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It's a full blown war. Russia dedicated most combat capable troops.
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That's an exercise in missing the point. First, there's been some hub hub about central banks issuing "real money" crypto. This might be inescapable. Second, having a stable token is not a replacement for the whole crypto sphere. It's a way to have middle ground.
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@realpolitik01 And the Kremlin got droned lol what S-400 doing?
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@zaniwoob Literally anyone that climbs into the sky and reflects radar will be detected by the military and even civilian air traffic controllers. Amateur rocket enthusiasts often have to get FAA permissions to make sure no traffic controllers are going to send airplanes into rocketry launch sites.
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ESPETÁCULO!
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 @iMost067 They're refurbishing 800 T-62s (over the next three years). That alone tells you, there's no thousands of anything. A few hundred per year is all they can muster.
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Europe was on Russia's side in WW2 you maniac. Stop huffing jenkem.
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Nobody's making modern A-10 analogues. No aircraft manufacturers are proposing it and no country is issuing contracts for such types of aircraft. That's a hint.
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So what will you say when Russia abandons Zaporizhzhia? Here's some minimal knowledge of military strategy - what do you say when your main rail supply line for the entire front is being threatened by the enemy taking the high ground?
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 @jjustdancerr8119 How many Krasnopol per dumb artillery fired? Probably 1 in thousand?
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@dr.embersfield1551 the US suffered less casualties than Iraqis by not getting bogged down. Russians are bogged down. Driving columns of vehicles into mine fields and then assaulting defended positions is bad for your health.
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 @dr.embersfield1551 Air Supremacy is the ability to fly over the battlespace without contest from enemy air forces. The Russian air force does not venture into Ukrainian space.
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People in this country get a ton of money. Trillions every year. Ukraine gets a few billion and now everyone wants to feed the homeless.
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The IMF has no means to analyze the Russian economy, they just use the numbers provided by Rosstat. The Russian statistics agency
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Not really. There was a cutural shift. Entertainment is actually rejecting the edgy. Videogames don't make you think bad things are acceptable. Culture made people think bad things were acceptable. Gen Z grew up with videogames and they are more conservative than millenials.
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@rbo.4985 Not how air combat works.
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@attilamarics4808 So it's safe, Russians won't bomb it any more.
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The T-62 pillboxes are being used as tanks, and failing.
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@OGPatriot03 But they weren't. They never used T-62s until a few were captured in working condition. And they didn't use them as pillboxes.
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@chico9805 Try 150k. They burned through their professional military.
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25 M is randos. 300k is what they can get right now.
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Moving in and out of vehicles.
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If Russia wasn't getting North Korean and Iranian aid they'd have folded too.
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@Hellosecsi DPR broke Minsk II.
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He took a picture in a gas station geolocated in the Rostov region in the beginning. One of his personal friends also got clipped in the first days as a Kadyrovite convoy so he ordered Kadyrovite forces to remain as second and third echelon forces to spare them from frontline combat.
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The US used a volunteer force, not conscripts. They signed up.
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@PRubin-rh4sr Okay, the point is that Russia can do that to civilians. The civilians have to obey military orders and fight the useless war. At least the soldiers who went to Iraq knew beforehand there was always a risk they'd go to war.
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@hansonlee5847 Okay but Stewart didn't say it was weaponized. There's a difference between lab leak hypothesis and full blown BIOWEAPON CONSPIRACY!1!!11!!! in this debate.
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@NoMatureContent Yeah, we can't do it specifically. We just do it until we get what we want. Like breeding banana trees until we eliminate the seeds out of them. Yes, natural banana fruit are full of seeds.
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IQ testing is also a tool used by fascism and eugenics, so... Anyway, the US average is 98 and the Swedish average is 101. That's not above normal, to be above normal you have to have an IQ of 147-150. But IQ testing is generally meaningless, almost everything is a learned skill. There's old guys in Africa with IQs of 180-200 but they never learned any science all their life so they're not capable of solving maths problems or anything.
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And then what? He goes to prison and his son gets raised by the state?
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The US already tested hypersonics in 2004.
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@broperfect7669 Now write that in English
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@Ali-hu8jr Real life. Look it up. I bet you won't because you're afraid.
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@juryfilatov4520 A S-400 radar was destroyed by HIMARS which falls at Mach 2 lol
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@broperfect7669 Cope.
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@srijanme Nope. Why isn't Russian aviation working over Kiev? Because Patriot is there.
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Because it's cheaper to wait for an old building to get knocked down and put the insulation on a new building.
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Only in the B and C variants, at very high altitudes. It's a freak situation that is hard to replicate.
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But a lot of the energy is thermal. Sure you could try to directly capture neutrons, x-rays and gamma rays but one of the main features of nuclear reactors is that they get hot and will literally melt themselves if you stop cooling them. Even if you had direct radiation capture to get energy, you'd still need massive cooling. And steam is way more efficient than using solid state thermal generators.
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@jonloomis5210 I don't see steam as a limitation. It's actually quite poetic that our planet is covered in a substance that can carry so much thermal energy through phase change.
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@nias2631 I googled "tech press AMD bias" because I often research into AMD recent developments and I was looking for cases where the tech press had made mistakes or lied about AMD products to make either Intel or nVidia look good. I got three pages of articles debunking Trump's claims. Now I don't know about you but I certainly didn't want results about fucking Trump when I'm googling about AMD and the tech press. Isn't this bias?
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 @Bramble20322 Accusing people of being Americans because they speak English or sound Western... you anti-Americans are something else.
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The US is trying to negotiate a ceasefire while Israel wants to fight to the end. How is a proxy calling the shots?
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@Blind_Hawk Development hell can be used for STALKER SoC but it was nowhere near Star Citizen or Duke Nukem Forever levels. BF2042 is straight up a botched launch, I wouldn't call it development hell. It's not a simple comparison, it's a really specific case of games as a service and early access. Your defense is straight up to point fingers at a Western and Ukrainian game which is somewhat strange. Especially when Duke Nukem Forever is the best known case of development hell. And neither are early access cases.
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@binoemixtv9395 Donbas is misery if misery was a place. Put terrorists and criminals in power, you get real life STALKER. The DPR admits 2k dead and 8k injured. The DPR had 2.3 million people in 2021. For comparison's sake, 10k casualties would be the equivalent of the US suffering 1.4 million casualties. Imagine that. Imagine if the US went into Iraq in 2003, and five months later all they had was 1.4 million casualties and still nowhere near Baghdad. It would be a debacle. This is a tragedy. Thanks to Russia, Donbas is dead.
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@UnfollowYourDreams Typically? No. They are mandated to perform minimum services. Otherwise hospitals, police, public transportation would shut down. Have you ever watched the news from around the world? This is a frequent tug of war in many countries, as police forces are stretched thin and underpaid, doctors and nurses in the public sector are shifting to private, etc.
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@jdotoz I don't want to make assumptions but that's the kind of first order analysis I'd except from a teenager. Yes, the government is powerful but elections and issues such as constitutionality provide a braking force that prevent abuse of government workers. If anything, in the developed world a government job is typically seen as a good gig. While you make more in the private sector in government it's incredibly rare for layoffs to happen, they typically get the most paid time off and holidays. There's hardly any reason to abuse government workers, because they and their families will vote for change in leadership out of spite, but also because the public doesn't want to see government services cut as a result. On the other hand, public sector workers can easily damage the reputation of a government and trigger an electoral loss to the administration with little to no personal consequences. The strikers could just return to work and the new government pass legislation to "reward" them.
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@dipertag but we can hold people accountable for the cult of personality they created. People to this day still say the only "controversy" his administration had was the tan suit.
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@Predator42ID Completely incorrect. Visual identification is extremely unreliable and the A-10 has been involved in multiple friendly fire incidents. There's a reason why close air support is managed by forward air controllers, they guide the pilot's attacks and they're the ones who give final authority for a strike. When A-10 pilots are given free reign over an area, they'll fire on friendlies too because you can't see anything specific from inside the cockpit. You can be dead certain of the coordinates, because the troops on the ground dictate them to the pilot. Mistakes have happened and a forward air controller once gave his own position as the strike coordinates to a B-1B, but that could have happened to an A-10 as well as evidenced by how pilots can't tell friend from foe with the naked eye when left to do their thing on their own.
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You're the one arguing nonsense. When you refer to the right of a body, actually you mean the right to evict another body. That discussion is a moral argument about where we draw the line at recognizing rights, and if a human in gestation has them. In the firearms subject, one side wants to be left alone and the other wants to sic the cops on their political opponents to kick their doors down and retrieve firearms. There's no moral argument here. There's no line to be drawn. You think fetuses have no rights? That's fine. Some people do. That's fine too. Wanting to have cops use violence to enforce gun laws? Not fine, and that needs to be argued.
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Yeah, so that people can die while nobody does anything. Your logic is perfect, just wait until the shooter runs out/the police arrives and he kills himself. Let the police put everyone in body bags instead of actually giving them a fighting chance. It's not your job to be a commentator, yet you posted a comment. It's not his job to be a police officer, but he will defend others from harm. Also, never heard about good Samaritan laws? Not applicable in a shooting, but it's good to save lives.
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Yeah rail has never been attacked.
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@geraintwd try flying a drone over the White House. It will lose control. You think the government doesn't have anti drone measures everywhere? Also, hidden cameras existed before go pros. Your comment is a mess.
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 @GuyFawkesCat You do realize the "chemicals in the water" thing about Atrazine was uncovered by an actual scientist, right? I'd rank a scientist over a detective.
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@Amanik_Capoli And scientists discovered it was bad before that. Did you need a detective for that? No. It was scientists.
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Degastan is already in uproar and may be exempt from mobilization if they keep up the pressure.
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 @alexkozliayev9902 The difference is that buildings in the frontline are evacuated. So the concrete is the protection, not the civilians.
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Look at the map. That's where it's going, defeating Russia.
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Look into epoxy concrete CNCs. Pretty interesting stuff.
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@kathrineici9811 The issue is that there's got to be sense in the use of dark topics or else it's part of the "exploitation" genre. It's like the Exploding Varmints VHS tape RedLetterMedia reviewed on best of the worst. There's reasons to hunt varmints. There's reasons to get invested in the technicalities of rifle, scope and bullet selection. But watching animals getting blown up for an hour is madness.
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He was originally going to make tea.
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@dominikmackovic5453 I'm not sure because I haven't watched in a while but Steve1989MRE also uses warm water for the juice because the granules are sometimes hard to dissolve.
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The local "Russian" population was partially genocided by Russia's conscription. They used "Russian" Ukrainians as meat shields for the Russian army. I think a lot of people won't care to see the Russian army leave.
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"As the putsch regime forces have since found other supply routes, Izium has no military importance for either party" - False. The rail line from the East does not go into Severodonetsk. This means a critical defensive position had to be supplied by rail from the North. The seizure of Kupiansk will undo the entire defense of Luhansk, which will undo the defense of Donetsk. This offensive greatly accelerated the collapse of more fronts in the East. Russia does not have the resources to commit, they already deployed 120 of their combat capable 170 BTGs (Shoigu, 2021). All they can do now is throw untrained men in antique tanks at the meat grinder. Russia tried shock and awe the first day. They launched massive volleys of cruise and ballistic missiles. They were under the moral barrel. Russia has shown to be beneath any invading force I've ever seen in the modern world.
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Russia lost a S-400 a few weeks ago, then lost like 5 Buks, now another S-400, and more recently another 2 Buks.
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@polnoeceloe It does affect the situation because Russia is having its attention divided. They need to protect Russia proper from drones, the frontline and Crimea. Ukraine is making Russia choose what it wants to protect the most, then attack what is protected the least. Embarrassing losses could lead to Russia defending Crimea and Russia proper, thus giving up the frontline to Ukrainians because news don't travel as fast there.
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@polnoeceloe But the offensive goes on despite those attacks. The offensive force is not distracted by the defensive efforts.
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@ryancappo Wearing the P100 all day would just clog the filters and require replacements. Deploying the national guard takes away people who work regular jobs while not on duty. So in the end you're still using the same people.
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The Iraq had state of the art Soviet systems and some Western systems.
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@michaelcummins7397 "That investment needs to be better spent on renewable" - And you'll be spending that money all over again in 15-20 years.
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@zuiop9993 A group of engineers actually blew the whistle on Fukushima lacking safety precautions and were ignored. This happened in 2000-2001. So don't be so quite sure.
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A cluster munition can be dropped from aircraft and glide until release, after which the drones fly under their own power.
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@limedickandrew6016 the JSOW can glide for like 70 miles, and 20 minutes is plenty of time if the cluster is dispersed right on top of the targets/if the drones are allowed to descend and glide individually to greater ranges without using power. The aircraft dropping those cluster munitions would be obviously escorted by EW and SEAD aircraft.
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@limedickandrew6016 What makes you think the JSOW isn't a decoy meant to get the defenses to turn the radars on so that they can get tagged by HARMs?
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@limedickandrew6016 Huh... you can't decoy a radar emission, it needs to be real or else the missile won't pick it up. If the enemy is willing to waste money building functional radars to soak up HARM those decoy radars are not actually protecting them from the drone payload so in the end it was all fruitless.
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KING!
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@Xcepter the world also operates on electricity and motor vehicles. Should everyone also get a mandatory mechanics course and a degree in electrical engineering?
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@AlexMetslov I had physics at my school too. Didn't teach us how to strip an engine, realign suspensions or change tires. Didn't teach us how to built multi-kW transformers for factories.
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@Xcepter High-school maths and physics will not teach you anything to keep a motor vehicle or electrical grid operating. If you put a bunch of highschool graduates in charge of mechanics shops and the power grid the world will grind to a halt in less than a week.
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We're gonna get Dogpack404. Now watch this drive.
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GPS munitions switch over to INS guidance once jammed.
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>The issue is with high-cap mags and certain assault weapons Non-issue. Street crime kills more people than mass shootings, and what do criminals use? Cheap pistols and revolvers, possibly sawn-off shotguns. Banning those items would not make criminals turn in their magazines. Assault weapons are rarely used in crime. And yes, they are coming for them. This time they're just going to wait until we all die. And they are coming for pistols with threaded barrels too.
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Terrorism requires a political goal. Some people don't care at all about any goals and just want to strike.
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@euunul Not really. That's just revenge. Not political at all.
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@TuorTheBlessedOfUlmo "idolise the state of isreal as a perfect ethno state" - you mean like the plans that mid-century Germany had to send their undesirables to Palestine? Yeah, why would a Nazi admire Israel? Really activates the almonds.
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Condoms actually work.
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Oh no, Russia is being backed up by Latin America. I'm shaking in my boots. They are struggling. The vast majority of their military cannot participate in the conflict unless they declare mobilization. Declaring mobilization is an admission that the war isn't working out. So they have to have most of their military kicking rocks or being forced to build summer homes for generals, meanwhile they're sending 50 year olds to fight. There's a reason for China not to invade. You saw what happened to the Moskva? If Taiwan is gonna have a last stand, they're gonna hit the troop transports and drown the PLA. That's a lot of only sons in the bottom of the strait. What will parents of single-children do now that their retirement plan is sleeping with the fishes?
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@Tespri Am I? It seems poorer countries are the ones in the chopping block. I am extremely concerned. How could Russia threaten their food security? Maybe the people from Africa and Latin America should join Ukraine and fight back against the people taking the food out of their mouths, instead of being allied to them.
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@KA3A4EHbK0 The grain deal now seems quaint. Russia can whine all it wants about sanctions, but Ukraine can blow up Russian ships in port so they can't fully embargo the grain. Deal or no deal.
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Because it was made to eat a steady diet of 10,000 rounds of +P++++ nuclear hot 45 loads and the madmen at HK actually did it.
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Fuck yes.
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 @toto-yf8tc Jan 6th had no tanks. Meanwhile Wagner shot down Russian aircraft.
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 @austenhead5303 The Wagner convoy was bombed. They used force
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 @harryflashman4542 NATO isn't coming. And aircraft wouldn't do anything.
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 @harryflashman4542 Russia conscripted the people of Donbas and used them in suicide assaults. Shows how much they care.
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Hospital isn't rubble, the photos show it still standing.
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@bjrnmagnusson5351 After photos surfaced, the hit was on the car parking lot. It was mostly burned cars. Not a OKC scenario by any means. Which still had tons of rubble because you can't wipe out the face of a building without leaving rubble.
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They're not fighting anything, this is pure greed. If they wanted to fight the great reset, why would they develop their own spike juice and issue the QR codes?
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 @JC-af So it follows that repaying all that debt would mean selling assets from the private sector to tax the income. Now you got no economy.
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@JC-af The government can certainly compel you to pay up. The fact of the matter is that the Clinton era budget surplus was a drag on the private sector balance. To pay national debt the private sector has to incur loss. This was also seen in Japan, which ran a budget surplus before their economic decline. Sure, the assets don't disappear. However, everyone's trying to offload assets to pay up the debt. This causes quite the conundrum. Whoever is buying the assets can't expect a return considering everyone is on the hook and facing financial ruin from the genius idea of erasing the debt.
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@smile-tl9in renewables are not enough
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@smile-tl9in the claim is yours so it's your burden to prove it.
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@smile-tl9in "actually renewables could be enough. There are permanent natural phenomenon we can tap into." - 1 day ago You made the claim, burden of proof is on you.
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@smile-tl9in you said renewables are enough, the claim is yours. The reason I'm proposing they're not enough (and most people don't consider nuclear renewable) is because "renewables" are simply indirect and inefficient forms of using nuclear energy. All renewables are based on the nuclear fusion from the Sun, or the nuclear decay within the Earth. I propose that they are not enough because they're extremely inefficient in terms of space and cannot be relied on. Renewables can't be enough if it causes the system to be dependent on the weather. You'll always need the back up.
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@smile-tl9in ""actually renewables could be enough. There are permanent natural phenomenon we can tap into."" - you made the initial claim. "As for being inneficient it is simply that the technology is immature" - not really. The theoretical maximum for solar panels for example is around 42% and we're already close. We can't "mature" past physics. Due to the laws of the universe, you'll always have to build solar farms where in essence half the panels aren't doing anything but take up space. Wind is also another case, for example you can't build each fan too close to one another, etc. "And yes they can be relied upon since once the grid become large enough any weakness of one part can be compensated on another part" - that's extremely optimistic. "evens out on a large enough territory" - but if you are transmitting power too far away there will be transmission losses. "geothermy" - has the downsides of fracking, creates radioactive sludge because you're tapping into radioactive decay as the heat source
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@smile-tl9in "actually renewables could be enough. There are permanent natural phenomenon we can tap into." - 2 days ago "renewables are not enough" - 1 day ago I made my comment after yours.
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@smile-tl9in "1% of the earth surface recieve as much as energy from the sun as the world energy cunsumption several times over" - okay, and the vast majority of the Earth is covered by water. Out of the rest of the surface that has land, there's also a large percentage that has lack of accessibility, is too remote, too mountainous to build or simply would cause too much environmental damage to build. So where do you put that 1% considering that you probably only have 3% available? "Saying that we can't use solar because it only convert 42% of the sun energy" - except I didn't say that. My argument is that you can't say "technology will solve it" when we're about to reach the limits of technology. "because turbines only convert about 30% of the energy of vapor" - which doesn't mean shit because 30% out of a metric fuckton of energy is better than literally anything else we have. "No that's just a fact" - But it isn't. Things like night time and seasons are examples of phenomenons that are inescapable and cover an immense amount of land. "the grid i am speaking about would not be much more extended that it would be if we used all-nuclear" - but it would. We're talking about retrieving energy from Africa during European summer, or drawing energy from Russia when it's night in Europe. "Remember nuclear power plants are big and supposed to power a large territory. The grid to deliver said power is very extended" - but they're in that large territory. A system you're talking about would tap energy from several territories across. "you proved you know jack shit about geothermy" - It doesn't, but you can lie all you want. "If it was true every volcanoes would be a radioactive hazard" - volcanoes do spit out Radon gas which is hazardous. The thing is, if you're exposed to Radon you'll also be exposed to SO2, H2SO4, H2S, HCl, HF, CO2, etc. so you'll probably be killed before you develop cancer. But in volcanic regions Radon exposure is a concern. For example Ramsar in Iran has the world's highest natural background radiation because of the hot springs. "The radioactive elements are literally miles deeper that anywhere we can dig. " - that's false because for example the seas have uranium and thorium diluted into them because those elements are spat out from underwater volcanoes and tectonic faults. There have been cases of regions affected by high background radioactivity due to houses being built from igneous rock that contain radioactive elements that emit radiation into the house and then decay into Radon gas that hangs inside the house. You do realize that the Earth is a planet with geological activity, right? That means that what we can dig, has probably spent time very, very deep millions of years ago. https://opinvisindi.is/bitstream/handle/20.500.11815/161/Geothermal%20areas%20and%20cancer.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3511870/ Remember, according to you the radioactive elements are miles deeper than we can dig. But Iceland, Sicily and Portugal (Furnas, Azores) have noticed that volcanic/geothermal areas have consistently higher cancer rates.
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@smile-tl9in that's not my comment so how is the burden mine?
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@prizrak-br3332 I'm not looking at data right now but there's a possibility that allows Bradleys to have a skewed kill record - they were often finding themselves doing recon ahead of the M1s so they came face to face with tanks in defensive positions and had to take out tanks while waiting for help to arrive. The TOW missiles they carried were effective at taking out tanks even though that's not what the vehicle was meant for.
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@JojoJoget WRONG. Human wave attacks are mass attacks to overwhelm defenders. Meat wave attacks are small groups of troops meant to inch forward and eventually be defeated, for the next wave to reach the position the previous attack dug in.
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"They had him on tape stealing from a house. He came back and was seen drooling on a window looking for more to steal." - Where is the evidence? "The video clearly shows him running up to 2 white people in a car with his shirt off trying to beat them" - That is not true. He didn't have his shirt off. You can hear a shot ring out before he charges. He was fired upon first.
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@peterflohr7827 Not when most of the repairs have succeded.
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Strategically significant. Russia lost a rail supply line.
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They're long range drones. If deployed near Moscow, one would replace the fuel with more explosive payload.
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@Diatribe55 the IRA were struggling against British oppression.
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FDR was a simp for Stalin
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You support a loser ahahah
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You're misinformed. A good percentage of child abusers are not actually exclusively pedos but opportunistic abusers. They abuse adults and children, and many of them focus on children because they are easier to manipulate. Many abusers have girlfriends and wives, and then start abusing children once they have access to young family members.
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Germans were fighting for their home, which was lead by genocidal maniacs. The North Vietnamese were fighting for their home, which was lead by the same sort of maniacs. Explain how killing 100 million under the reds was better than 12 million under the fash.
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The ability has nothing to do with the ad. The ad is just the way to get you to click. Once you've been fooled, the scammer is giving you the tools, not google.
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@wrongthinker843 How is it corpo bootlocking? OP wants a way for google to run the ad, but somehow jump in front of you like the Secret Service taking a bullet for the President. The answer would be to NOT RUN THE AD AT ALL instead of expecting google to control the actual internet beyond their reach. Don't "AcKtHuAlLy" me when you are actually defending a convoluted, physically impossible way of protecting people from ads.
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@wrongthinker843 Address the argument. Google isn't going out of their way, at most you could cite incompetence or apathy or both. Do you even know what a strawman is?
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A single man named Putin did.
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@feetsies "reward for meeting quotas" - The issue is that you're introducing something that can be "gamed". There's a reward for meeting quotas? Then people will try to do whatever gets them to meet the quota with the least effort possible.
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What are the consequences? We sell tanks to non NATO countries.
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@DrakyHRT You couldn't reliably buy ships in game due to frequent wipes and loss of progress due to crashes/bugs. So people bought premium ships as they are "permanent". The wipe frequency slowing down made grinding for ships reliable. But this is recent.
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@gregbailey45 What do you mean? We control the output of our carbon capture by using different methods. It doesn't have to be flammable.
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It was Ottoman and later British land.
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@robderich8533 Russia uses those when they want everyone to know they did it. This time they had to actually pretend it was something the SBU would do (they have used bomb assassinations against LDPR leaders).
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They haven't been produced since 1984.
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You're right. We should accelerate the downfall of Russia, then we take as much free gas as we want.
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@matthewhammond859 Resources are only worth something when easily extracted. How's Russia going to extract after their heavy industry dies? Their strongest ally? Russia is going to North Korea for artillery. China has told them to F off. China is not a friend. They'd rather have Russia broken, beat down and on a leash. And squeeze them for all they're worth. Sad.
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The Italian press reported on covert aid.
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I will unironically volunteer my basement. No, it doesn't need monitoring. It will stay there, there's a natural nuclear reactor in Gabon, has been there for 2 billion years.
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From what I heard the military structure is more secular while Netanyahu has allied with the Orthodox faction in the past few years. So there's an internal disagreement.
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You can choose not to go to Africa.
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@PittsburghSonido complaining about Republicans coming to terms with homosexuality and disavowing warmongering, jesus...
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+negatyve Canada got rid of the registry for long guns in 2012
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Who has helicopters over Syria?
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Yeah, which is why they retreated from Kiev and Kherson. Like a person going bankrupt sells the sports car and the mansion to stay afloat, Russia knows that mathematically they cannot sustain the war so it progressively scales back to a level they can sustain.
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More than 200k were sent. Reservists in BARS units, PMCs and shadow mobilization before the mobilization added to the count.
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The area north of Kiev is mined to high heaven. It would be a slaughter.
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The underlying roots of marriage is people wanting to fuck but they believe they have to get married or they'll be living in sin. Sure, marriage is a great thing for family stability. Except people can get divorced anyway. Marriage should be religious, and the government kept out of it. People will do whatever the fuck they want, we can't pretend that having a moral code or law will prevent people from wanting to ditch their family. I don't necessarily agree with the guy, though.
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 @elijahtiemens5532 No, it isn't. Give money to a drug addict, he'll do drugs. Buy defense equipment, defense companies hire workers, workers then pay for their houses, etc.
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 @jakemckeown9459 Algebra classes don't cover how the DoD budget isn't used to cover the potholes in your road.
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 @mitchyoung93 "border fence" most illegal immigrants are overstaying visas anyway, and coyotes are paid to bring people across through obstacles. Cartels have tunnels under the border.
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@Lastjustice One guy has the ability to shoot live rounds, and you the ability to shout "stay back". I don't think you win that fight.
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@Scott6794 A reasonable person could also conclude that the police thing is a lie and it's a kidnapping.
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@Bourikii2992 They drove past him as a way to corner him between vehicles. You know how an ambush works?
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@Bourikii2992 He didn't "sneak" past anything.
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@Lastjustice But that goes both ways. If armed gunmen are coming after me and they have held their fire... I have reasons to think their motives are actually worse than just murder. Was armed robbery aware of the filming? Also, plenty of people film their kills. Remember liveleak? I couldn't make a decision on intent. If you go around chasing people with a gun, you cannot force your victims to make a 100% accurate assessment of your intentions. Your victims are awarded the right to fear for their lives even if you claim that they should have magically read your mind and figured out your intents. Just like many say don't go around robbing construction sites, don't go around chasing random people with a gun. It will go wrong and bad things will happen. "if you tell them you called the police" - Could be a lie. People don't have chips in their brains that force them to tell the truth. "I'd taken my chances trying to talk my way out of situation" - That's great, man. What happens when the "police" finally arrives and it's just more of their friends and they're bringing rope and tape? You had more chances fighting out two guys and then fleeing from the third than now trying to fight 5-6 guys. "Moving into closer range against a shotgun only increase their odds of hitting" - Running away doesn't decrease the chances either. Buckshot will easily land on a man-sized target from 70 yards away. "By maintaining a distance and putting objects between you greatly reduces the odds of being hit" - There was no cover in the immediate vicinity. "I can't say i feel remotely sorry for this career criminal." - I don't feel sorry either. I'm kind of glad this happened, because this means the wannabe cops will lay low for a while. Now if someone stops you with a gun and tells you to wait for the police, you know damned well they're lying to you. Now nobody reasonable is going to attempt that crap.
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@Bourikii2992 Talk about missing the point. You used the term "sneak" which is not applicable here.
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@Lastjustice "I don't know where hell you live that people rolling up with guns is common" - That's precisely the point. I don't want it to be common. So the people who'd do it have to know that if they want to play wannabe cop they either end up smoked or in prison. "instead fo cuttign through yards" - You can see even from the limited FOV of the recording camera that there was no suitable cover. "Most people have shitty aim" - Most people also have a shitty stress response when you get up in their face. "I don't go around pissing off professional hitmen. If you are...you're probably doing it wrong." - Exact same argument as anti-gunners. If you need a gun for self-defense, you pissed off someone you shouldn't have.
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@Bourikii2992 Yeah, you did. You lied about the footage and I corrected it. That's not a dumb point. It's being accurate. You're welcome.
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@Bourikii2992 Do you know what sneaking is?
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Muh both sides
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One of the hypersonic missiles crashed in Russian territory. Their stuff sucks.
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Jesus you want to send F-16s behind the Urals? The battles are happening within walking distance of the Russian border, you'd spend more fuel lining up for a refueling than just doing the mission.
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Where where the SPGs in Kharkiv?
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When those things were reported, the Russian forces were a hundred miles deep into Ukraine, spearheading attacks with no flank security and too few trucks to bring them supplies from rail to the front. They pulled back and focused their efforts where they could supply themselves with food, ammo and fuel. The situation totally changed and you're complaining things aren't the same. No shit, Sherlock!
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There's still footage coming out daily. You're not finding videos of pure incompetence, you find videos of Stugna-P hits, drone dropped grenades and artillery landing on Russian artillery pieces.
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@mr.j7444 They were the aggressors. Come on.
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The whole point is that art can be judged even if the artist is a wonderful person. If you demand the art to be tainted by the artist's bad behavior you will always misunderstand art because you'll apply judgement not based on the merits of the artistic work itself. You're not being asked to enjoy the art or support the artist, just judge it "as is" so you can learn what makes it good or bad. It amazes me how this can be explained in plain English and people will still try to argue as if Wendigoon did not lay out the ground rules.
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@CheezChopper If you haven't noticed the whole controversy with "react" content, you can be rest assured that you can engage with the art and the author doesn't see squat in terms of financial returns.
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So what happens when Iran spends another 100M and Israel figures out it's just cheaper to send them back to the stone age? Is that a win too?
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Yeah and Russia builds the steel casing and pours the warhead payload. The electronics are Western or Chinese on their missiles.
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@Tank50us But... the point is that we need to mine those minerals to stop polluting. We have a choice between leaving an Earth that will need cleanup, and an Earth increasingly hostile to human prosperity.
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@Tank50us Neutron bombardment can transmutate elements and turn non-radioactive objects into radioactive ones. For example it's safe to eat food that was x-rayed because the x-ray radiation just goes through. Neutrons actually can hit an atom and turn it into an isotope.
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grahambennett8151 But one nuclear plant generates ao much power it's worth it.
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It's important to remember that he was mixing sea and fresh water at a 2:3 ratio and also ingesting fresh water from fish.
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+L Bo why is this so common? Self described "legal and sane" gun owners who are clearly against other people having guns. "Cheap guns" and people "who shouldn't be around guns at all" is the excuse from every elitist gun owner who obviously hates the poor and minorities. Since the 60's the government has regulated "saturday night specials" and "zip guns" to disarm the lower classes and blacks.
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+Texas Trad this isn't about "feelings". I am pointing out the hypocrisy of the Fudds and "sane" and "liberal" gun owners. They want guns, but only for themselves. I don't care for IQ statistics - but goddamn it if they're gonna call right-wingers racists I'll call them racists too because that's what they are. Gun laws have always been about disarming the poor and minorities. By being against cheap guns they're the racists. Just saying.
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It was kind of ambiguous and hard to tell which group I was pointing fingers at.
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 @toh6261 Dollars are worthless. The weapons do the trick.
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@toh6261 If I have an old computer that I lend to a friend in need, did that cost me a computer I wasn't using anyway or dollars?
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 @seanbrockest3888 can't make money selling if everyone pledged to stop buying.
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If you put that money on consumer goods you destroy the purchasing power of the dollar.
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"You came to free Palestine!" "I wouldn't say freed. More like, under new management"
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The survivability argument doesn't make much sense when it's so easy to bring down, to the point it needs to be pulled away from Iraqi Republican Guard units. The A-10 is thrust limited enough that it still needs to get considerably closer to the opposition. Firing the gun from 4km away would lead to 80% of the rounds landing inside a 40 meter circle, with the remaining 20 percent falling outside of it. I don't see much value in firing bursts that have that much dispersion. Afghanistan would be better served by an aircraft like the Super Tucano or the Pucará. It worked for interdiction, until it didn't and F-16s had to take over due to the excessive losses.
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Hamas slaughtered civilians. Ukraine hit military targets inside a CONTESTED area.
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@KMC5240 Andrew Neil is a mix of the bad parts of center-left and the bad parts of conservatism. I wouldn't call him someone with "sense" just because he embarassed Benny boy.
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@BG......... Pretty sure the Alpha thing was based on observations of captive wolves.
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@wtfdddf you don't know what a right is.
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@mathewkelly9968 cope
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I assume that it's just that most people aren't interested in military matters and don't understand how the no-fly zone gets enforced. Americans are within ICBM range so war would happen.
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Saving a handful of Armatas means nothing. The tankers losing their lives inside 60 year old tanks were more useful than modern tanks with rookie crews.
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Plenty of impoverished countries sell primary goods. Having mineral resources is both a blessing and a curse. If other countries blame the West for Russia invading another wheat producing country, they're barking up the wrong tree.
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@gearoidt6761 so after spamming for months you call people bots. Truly incredible how mentally deranged Z-posters are.
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No. Those billions are slaughtering the country waging economic war with Europe. Those who want us poor, die.
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It's a disputed fact. The call is real. It just doesn't prove what you think it does. Russians probably had similar conversations.
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@barrysoetorro9123 lol complete vatnik delusion, bringing up the Polish conquest. "Russia is disarming nato." - lol the US still has all their carriers and all their fighters. How is NATO being disarmed when the main source of power projection is untouched? "The US fired 60,000 artillery rounds during the entire gulf war. Russia and donbass ukrainians fire 60,000 artillery rounds a day." - Because they're a cope army which can't fight so they have to blast their inaccurate artillery everywhere. The Gulf War had less artillery because American air power destroyed Iraq's forces before ground units could advance. Russia can't use their air power to accomplish the same, so they have to fight the hard way instead of the smart way.
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@barrysoetorro9123 Seems like your boys are getting slaughtered in Kherson.
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You think this a) won't affect all the services you use that will have to comply with American law and b) that European governments aren't reading online activity or even asking the US for intelligence.
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Do you fly formation with Cessnas?
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The point of the incognito browser is that if someone writes something in the search bar on your computer or cellphone the browser won't display porn results from your history.
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There's anodization but I have no clue how it affects thermals.
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Turkey now can't make their helicopters because they won't be sold new engines because of their little gamble.
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Everyone's complaining. Some have it worse than others. Simple as.
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He's right, though. Plus your own nose mucous is a line of defense, it can capture particles without them entering your body. So when they dig up your nose, you can contaminate the swab with particles that never infected you
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Lukashenko is afraid to get ousted by a coup if his army goes abroad to fight. He doesn't want to deploy.
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 @jonathanleblanc9034 it was the mini sub Russia has, their ship with a submersible was in the area of the pipeline attacks
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The bear is stepping on every bear trap in sight my dude. Methodically and carefully? They send convoys into assaults to get blown up like mad.
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 @alberteinstein8862 Seriously hope you're a bot. Because if you're a person you deserve the Hard Candy (2005) treatment.
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Meanwhile it's Russia going into battle in Chinese electric carts. Looking like Paul Blart the mall cop over there.
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 @ThatOneGuy-mn6dv History Legends posted a video of himself on the verge of tears and drinking heavily when the Kharkiv offensive happened... bruh.
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 @ThatOneGuy-mn6dv History Legends is a confirmed vatnik
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Pretty much no lives would be lost. In fact the A-10 is known for being at the top in terms of friendly fire.
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@nickkacures2304 Moore's Law is dead. We're hitting the limits of silicon so we're increasing the number of cores instead of pushing the GHz higher.
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They make those movies because WE watch them. Don't you blame music, videogames or movies. I mean, I know Germany is a bitch when it comes to videogame censorship, but movies, songs, books or movies are NOT to blame. >The ida of solving evrything with violence is part of the problem Really? Because usually on these kinds of videos we see comments from all over the world calling gun owners names and saying they use fists like real men. Violence is used all around the world.
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Star Wars ripped off Dambusters and 633 Squadron. It was Lucas who stole the trench run from aviation movies.
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It's illegal to use in civilian areas. It's legal to use in battle if you have not signed the treaties (neither Russia or the US signed).
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Increasing the supply of grain lowers prices globally. If grain prices increase, Europe buys thanks to their money and Africa starves. Add the grain to the supply, now Africa can afford it. The first shipments were supposed to be received in Lebanon but was rejected due to the delay. It wasn't meant for Europe.
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Because back then people didn't know FDR and his lackeys thought destroying food and paying farmers to not produce would alleviate poverty.
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@dylanlinzer6734 Don't turn this on me, bub. If you ban child labor after it's already on decline you're not a hero. And I'm not a bad guy for pointing it out. "Ohhhhh noooo this means you're okay with child labor" go bother someone else. You're only resorting to this tactic because I touched a nerve. Let me be clear: it's extremely likely that most of your heroes were absolute POS'es. If you go through life accepting that maybe mainstream narratives stem from historian bias and/or cults of personality, it's not gonna hurt as much when you're confronted with who they really were. And you won't have to shoot the messenger.
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MacGregor nuked his career, which is why he does online shows instead of being a general.
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@AlexLawable Only 5k because Russia doesn't have 50k working armored vehicles. Go on, strap yourself to one of those vehicles and go against the western weapons you claim aren't effective.
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Proximity is irrelevant. Close in close air support means the ordnance is landing close to friendly troops.
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@simonmoorcroft1417 No. A conventional horizontal stabilizer on the tail pushes down to counteract lift pushing up. This is necessary due to the forward center of gravity of having the engine and payload up front. This means you're paying in drag to have lift countering the main wing lift. What a canard does is that the main wing and the canard both have the lift vector pointing up, so the drag you incur all contributes to lift rather than having a counteracting force. Canards help delay stall because the canard is designed to stall before the main wing, so when you stall the canard the main wing lift causes the nose to point downwards and thus regain airflow over the canard. Canards do not allow you to fly slower, when you fly slow the nose just enters a dive and you regain speed.
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Some people believe Russia is winning. And yet Ukraine still stands.
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Not really.
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It's okay I've met my fair share of PhDs who became alcoholics or straight up act like alcoholics without being addicted because academia fried their brain.
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This was used in 2018 to attack tyhe Russian air base in Syria. The drones were not under human control and just flew into the base to drop bombs.
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@AnthonyRizzuti Ukraine really said "we'll stand here and kill you", they killed Wagner and now they're leaving, Wagner simps on the internet will chant about the great victory. Buddy. Wagner did exactly what Ukraine wanted. The convicts are gone, now Russia will gave to see its doctors, teachers, IT experts etc return in coffins.
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Boiling the frog.
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@blogintonblakley2708 Scott Ritter? So now we listen to p-a-e-d-o files? Patrick Lancaster the faker? Did you see the video where he pulled a body from a morgue to stage an attack?
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The psyops have been going on since 2014. We only call it "Z" now because that was the IFF marker in vehicles that became te symbol of the war. But prior we just called people "vatniks".
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Growing watermelons in Scandinavia, but you'll have to foot the bill for the relocation of Mexicans and Brazilians to Greenland as they'll gave instant heat stroke temperatures in the shade. You're ready to pay for those trillions?
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The West is chock full of Stalin meat glazers. If anything there's more Westerners carrying water for Stalin than anywhere else. Muh Red Scare lol.
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@ryanscott6578 There have been.
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The fatality rate was in the centesimals for the non-elderly. You already lived with tons of diseases forever. You never complained. It always made sense.
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The majority of traceable weapons come from the US. The majority of weapons seized by Mexican authorities are not traceable. What the cartels like to get from the US is ammo and handguns.
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@karlchilders5420 "it also has "the gun"" - The gun hasn't been able to be a tank killer since the 70s, I don't think thin-skinned vehicles or people made out of meat and bone can really be less "dead" after getting with with 20mm.
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The Il-22 landed after a distress call requesting ambulances for the dead and wounded, and the A-50 shootdown was witnessed by a Sukhoi pilot. Russians admitted it was real. Stop coping.
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The prison was burned, not blasted. You can even see the stone with blood where limbs were chopped off, they set a fire to hide the torture.
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@ngood888 TL;DR russians staged massive street battles and now it's the Ukrainian government's fault that violence happened
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There's footage of American soldiers playing with children in Afghanistan and Iraq, and we also know of American war crimes. Just because you saw soldiers acting professionally, doesn't mean nobody else lost their cool. Did you ever hear the case of the American soldiers who left their base, murdered a family but kept a girl alive to assault her? That scene didn't fit the narrative either. It happened.
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They're using conventional weapons.
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@chromeuserisme3551 It was 13k killed on both sides.
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@chromeuserisme3551 It was 13k killed on both sides.
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 @Madmaxxxx1984 The US did not invade Cuba in the Bay of Pigs. Cuban dissidents with support from the US invaded Cuba to counter-coup the Castro revolutionary government.
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No, I'm in Europe, Portugal. I was talking about TV documentaries that were part of the Geology program in highschool, they kept saying "it's overdue, it's going to happen, hurr durr". Still better than History Channel and aliens, though.
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@milosmilictrob2046 Russia lost in the winter offensive.
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5 months? I can't deal without keyboard and mouse, the big widescreen and... RGB.
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That's a good way to put things in perspective. We can't exactly ban serial killers but fighting sports can stop sanctioning man vs woman fights.
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@randomdude2832 Yes they did, Thales for example was criticized for delivering parts for T-90s after 2014.
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@chinazieswillstartww3253 Multiple accounts from both 2022 servicemen and even older accounts from Chechnya stated that soldiers barely got anything. If they were all veterans, why did Russia create training areas (in decrepit bases) and ask Belarus to train some soldiers too?
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How the fuck is this inside tech, the project was killed 15 years ago and it has been shown in movies, videogames, etc since?
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That's because we don't have footage of the opposite side. Maybe we should get footage of Russian artillerymen after counter-battery hits them, but nobody's filming it. I bet it's a thousand times more distressing.
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@markojuric979 It's not wishful thinking. We have the footage of them dying and getting wounded from the sky, which looks funny. We don't have footage from the ground, which is probably very ugly.
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Nah they'll get cancer from smoking and sunbathing during summer vacations. Do not take the plight of Downwinders and make it about yourself.
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How exactly is it anti-Soviet? I seriously did not pick up those vibes.
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Survive.
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The Russians are unironically solving the Ukrainian supply issue by leaving all their weapons and ammo behind.
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@-Zevin- Source? You do remember how the Azeris lost 50 tanks and the Armenians mocked them online... then the Azeris broke through. The Armenians weren't laughing no more. Losing a handful of Leopards (some of which were recovered already) is peanuts.
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 @-Zevin- The Vikhrs took out a bunch of John Deere farm equipment too!
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 @careylymanjones "maybe it won't last" so you already accepted Zeihan's premise after dragging him...
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It means you can verify the data yourself.
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Please, I want to see S-300s smacking those bombers. I want to see the crash sites full of charred crewmen.
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@skygge1006 The Q stuff was linked back to Gen. Flynn and Gen. McChrystal. There's both republican-leaning and democrat-leaning intelligence officers behind Q.
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MANPADS are short range and can't hit at high altitude.
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They'll blame us and see the government as a protector. You can get much further as a ruler if you use fear, but not by making the people fear you - by making them fear an outside enemy. "They're not after me, they're after you. I'm just in the way." - Putin, probably
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 @WLM1212 What problems?
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@WaxNumen "The government wouldn't decide who gets healthcare, everyone would get it." - that's just false, if (say) the government has a budget for 100 people to get healthcare (small country) and 101 people show up what happens? The government will have to decide who doesn't get it. This is what happens when resources are allocated, when the government purchases X amount of a certain treatment or gives a budget to run machines for Y tests they are essentially making the decision of who lives or dies. This shit happens, a bunch of people died because the government in my country didn't have the budget for enough colonoscopies, there was a controversy and they pledged to increase the budget for that test next year. Since their budget is not infinite I am sure you realize they had to get that money by cutting costs elsewhere. "because doctors would not be forced to do their occupation" - okay, what happens when we take that to the extreme and doctors start quitting? Does the state keep its promise? If the state is going to guarantee healthcare nonetheless, someone will have to be forced to work. You might cry "hyperbole!" but it happened in my city, doctors from a hospital quit en masse because the conditions were so poor they felt like quitting was the only way to get the hospital to shut down. And the state has trouble convincing doctors to go an work in the countryside because nobody wants to move out of the city. You might think you have all the answers but doctors are humans and they cannot be pushed around for too long. Also, nurses have been dealt a pretty bad hand and they constantly protest for better conditions. Their only tool is strikes, if it gets to a point what do you think is going to happen? The state will either have to drop their promise of guaranteeing healthcare or simply change the law so that they can force people back into their shitty jobs and keep the healthcare system running.
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@WaxNumen about the "to to the jungle" argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fasTSY-dB-s
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The radar doesn't have the necessary number of transmitters to scan for targets. It's a comms/datalink system.
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Bro there's a ton of cellphone footage. Less than when the conflict started, but for example the Chechens have some kind of special allowance because they upload videos all the damn time.
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 @TacoSallust Tell that to Murz. Bet you don't even know who that is. Or was.
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 @asahearts1 Germany claimed so much Soviet territory. So much. All for nothing.
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And yet Russians on telegram are bitching about it. Funny.
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Because a communist country wouldn't use bots to shape people's opinions, right?
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@FH-cn3mg Roswell was the crash of a high atmosphere nuclear detonation sensor.
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It worked amazingly well. The F-4 Phantom is known as the world's largest distributor of MiG parts.
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It can run, it can turn and it can hide. Exercises have shown it murders everything in the air.
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The US has allies South Korea and Japan nearby, and it has the recon satellites to get up to date information.
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They're losing the artillery too.
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Nuclear waste is a non-issue turned into an issue over politics.
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@willp5709 The problem isn't rarity. It's getting the stuff to your door. Afghanistan is sitting in trillions of dollars of rare earth minerals. But if you go get them, you'll lose money. Even before you start thinking about how to deal with the Taliban so they'll leave you alone, you'll have to set up extraction in a mountainous region (expensive) and then haul the minerals to the closest sea port (pretty far). We'll never trully run out of stuff. We'll just run out of profitable extraction sites. Because once companies stop being profitable they'll either close or increase prices beyond what you can afford.
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 @willp5709 Soup Emporioum debunked the DeBeers stuff.
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How is the F-16 inferior?
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"Loosing"
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Why would the US shoot it down? Didn't the pilot have a saved flight in MS Flight Simulator that matched the intentional crash when his house was investigated?
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Well you could get a .22 WMR AR if you can justify it by getting into shooting competitions, but expect it to be a hassle.
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 @jaythomas3224 But Russia sent units to reinforce the first line. They only let the first line break after the reinforcements are beaten.
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@benanders4412 If they were destroyed within days, why did HIMARS bonk Russian targets for months?
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@samsungtv4u Vlad, for the sake of your own people stop with this brand of schizoid paranoia. Brexit has been a disaster for the UK. Russia "stepped in" back in 2014. The LPR and DPR were artificial creations of FSB agents like Igor Girkin. The original separatists were Russians with no links to the Donbas. Russia broke Minsk II by ordering the DPR minions to attack Debaltseve the day after it was signed. The audio recording proves EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what you think. The US was okay with Yanukovych, the deal was that the Euromaidan opposition would get the PM seat as a way to reconcile with the president. Ukrainians REJECTED the deal. They weren't talking about the president - they were talking about the PM! Yankuovych was to remain PM! That's why they said to "F*** the EU"!
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The point is that the information has to be absorbed and the context to why it might be needed is not important. If you're receiving a set of instructions on how to survive a nuke, your brain will instantly come up with questions like "why would my country get nuked, why would my city get nuked, why haven't anti-missile systems stopped the nuke?" and the point is to get your mind to stop wandering and just focus on the information.
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So there's only democratic policy and reaganomics?
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@Frenchfrys17 That's partly because the Russians have poor SEAD doctrine and equipment, and also lack the necessary precision weapons. Were the Russians capable of covering their strikes and able to conduct precision bombing at a high tempo, they'd be death from above. When you're dropping unguided bombs and you're afraid of the very few S-300s still active, yeah you won't be pulling your own weight.
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@Frenchfrys17 They really haven't. I'd say the drone can do 10% of the job but at 1% of the cost. The cost disparity really drives home how important they are, but they cannot replace the manned aircraft. Looking at the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, you can see how lack of manned aircraft leads to drones being used for... targeting information so that ground based systems can strike. There's also the fact that SEAD operations may not even need to pick off air defense systems, they can get by on just forcing them to shut the radars down. It really is important to consider that if one side has drones and the other has a force of 5th gen aircraft, with the future new HARM or with 4th gen carrying current HARMs, the side with the drones will be able to produce more casualties with artillery and missile strikes. But the side with the 5th gen will target command and control centers, government buildings, power plants, industry, etc. You can't "win" a war if enemy air power can pummel a nation back to the stone age with relatively cheap PGMs and selecting a few critical targets.
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@Frenchfrys17 I'm not overlooking anything. Airborne targeting is one thing. Usually what for? Artillery spotting, or maybe even targeting for laser-guided artillery. Now look up Operation Opera or the Iranian raid on the H-3 airbase in Iraq. These are operations you cannot conduct by drone. Air to air missiles depend on the platform's radar and own altitude and speed. You need a big, powerful radar to feed the missile an initial track, and your range is determined by your own altitude and speed at the moment of firing. Well, one of the reasons these drones are hard to fight is that they're kind of slow. A F-35 is at this point as cheap as a 4th gen. Stealth isn't increasing cost by much. It's not 1990 anymore. The force with drones facing a modern air force will get slaughtered. Sure, the drones may help increase the kill count on the ground by a few thousand like in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but the nation with the real air force is going to just enjoy the free reign over the skies to bomb every supply vehicle and make sure that eventually there's no laser guided artillery shells to fire.
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"The devs would have NO BENEFIT from "intentionally only developing just enough to sell ships, avoid releasing the game"" - but they do. Once the game releases, sales will diminish. "Because you probably arent familiar with MMO's. The BIGGEST income boom they COULD attain, is if they DID in fact finish the game ASAP, because then they will get MORE income than they EVER Have so far" - not really. Once the game is finished, everyone who was interested in the game already bought it. "It's in their BEST FINANCIAL PROFIT interest, to make the game as complete and finished as they possibly can, as fast as possible" - again, no. They made millions of the sunk cost fallacy. People fearing the money running out before release allowed people to rationalize their spending. After release, people already have the product and are burned out from spending so there's no incentive. "The biggest surges in their income always comes right after they announce and demonstrate new features in the game" - because it keeps the dream alive.
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The Plastikov is something that was probably made for the lulz. The real goal is the FGC9, which is a Shuty AP9 with improvements and no longer needs the Glock barrel so it can be made in Europe because it requires 0 gun parts, and they're also working on a homemade nitrocellulose process that can be replicated even in countries where you can't get nitric acid.
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@mithrandirthegrey7644 The Panama papers were before the invasion.
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@mal6232 No, he was a billionaire before the war. He may have been an average rate comedian but he struck gold with his TV show. He owned his own production company and thus profited from other TV shows and soap operas. Many of which were syndicated and shown in Russia. Don't shy away from stating Zelensky is a billionaire. Because he made his money being the owner of his own production company. And he was extremely popular in Ukraine and even in Russia (there's an old clip of a Russian new year's eve gala where you can see Zelensky is on stage). You know how Taylor Swift owns her own masters? She re-recorded and re-released her first six albums so that she could hold control over the songs rather than the old record label she was signed under. That's Zelensky's "big crime". Owning his own stuff so that he didn't have to hand over all the profits to someone else.
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Europe isn't Siberia.
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@kylevernon "Giving up on Afghanistan means losing our military capabilities" - Actually, by leaving counterinsurgency behind they're increasing. "giving our enemies quarter" - They've always have it. "we should have treated terrorism like we did piracy" - It's easier to protect shipping lanes than every road and street corner.
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Because high def cameras help you see black heads on someone's skin from a few feet away, but do jack squat about picking up objects tens of miles away. These sensors are made for warfare, not netflix shows.
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@stylis666 That doesn't even make sense. The point is that you can't point at a bad thing and say "oh your argument? it's exactly like murder". It like saying Hitler drank water. So if you drink the wet water, you're a wet Hitler.
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The American propaganda where they keep being saved by the British.
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Why would they need NATO forces? NATO isn't super serum, and Ukrainian troops are more battle hardened than the vast majority of NATO.
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It's not insane, the US currency depends on oil. As long as oil is priced in USD there will be a global demand for the US dollar. Iraq began trading oil for Euros in 2002. They got invaded. Libya tried to use their oil to create a pan-African currency backed by gold, and accumulated 7 billion dollars worth of gold and silver by 2011. They killed Gaddafi. The point isn't accumulating resources. It's making sure producing nations do not go rogue and damage the US economy by trading in other currencies.
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@Aus10McNeal lmao. The US supported Saddam's antics during the Iran-Iraq war. The US never had an issue backing radical dictators. If Gaddafi was such a problem, why wasn't he killed before? Chris "Tanto" Paronto, one of the guys present when the Libya situation went down, said Gaddafi's guards were the ones helping get Americans out of the country alive. "it sure as hell wasn't over oil" - did you know that after the US backed the Mujaheddin, Afghanistan broke into civil war? The US then backed the Northern Alliance to try and keep the country stable. Eventually when the Taliban came out on top the US started dealing with the Taliban to construct a pipeline. The deal broke down because UBL bombed US embassies and the Taliban's official position was that Bin Laden was a stand-up guy. So the US had to remove the Taliban from power and construction was supposed to start in the 2000's but the area was not stable enough. The pipeline only started to be built in the Turkmenistan side in 2015 and in Afghanistan in 2018. Did you know that there's a proposed pipeline going from Qatar to Turkey? Syria stands in the way and Al-Assad won't let it be built. Why does this matter? The Trans-Afghanistan pipeline will allow the West to bypass Iran and Russia. A pipeline going through Turkey can sell gas to Europe, which buys natural gas from Russia. Al-Assad is allied with Russia, and won't allow the construction because he and Russia know that the purpose is to get Europe independent of Russian gas and cripple Russia's economy. Oil tankers are fine and dandy, but gas tankers - they exist, they're the ones with big spheres - are not as optimized to transport natural gas as pipelines. There's an extra cost in liquefying the gas and operating a ship in the sea compared with constructing a pipeline and just doing maintenance. What's my point? My point is explaining that although North America has natural gas out the ass it's perfectly viable to go to war over gas if it means tanking the economy of a strategic foe. Europe wants to stop sucking on Russia's teat and the US wants it even more "We have the largest economy on the planet" - backed by a dollar which is in high global demand because you need to pay oil producing countries in USD. The problem arises when countries like Iraq, Iran, Venezuela and Libya ignore the script and start doing what's better for themselves rather than what's better for the US. By the way, I'm still blaming Chavez and Maduro for the collapse of Venezuela. But the fact is that there's countries oppressing their own people and civil wars in a lot of places and the US doesn't threaten intervention. "Starting wars doesn't help that fact." - not for the little guy. But if you play the cards right you help cripple the economies of foes and you come out better, in relative terms rather than absolute terms. Either way, who cares? It's you and me who are going to pay the bill for the wars.
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You can be sure that they complained, but war propaganda wouldn't let you see that.
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We dropped bombs over residential areas just to hit a factory or rail yard back in WW2. Was that a terrifying sense of morality?
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They're not legit wound care. They cannot beat arterial blood pressure.
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Unironic thanks to Zoe Quinn for proving something that would have been considered a conspiracy theory if the SJWs hadn't outed themselves.
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@satanfornoskit there are levels of survival we are willing to accept.
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Cope.
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 @kkarx They're using T-62s as MBTs.
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Thanks for what? They don't have the ammo.
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@bmad0 There's no confirmed info, but I ask again: why would that matter if they can't get the ammo? Take it apart? So that's an admission that Russian weapons are inferior and they need to copy captured weapons?
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@bmad0 Confirmed by whom? I can confirm the moon is made of cheese, but my confirmation means nothing. It's not a waste. They sell, they get rich. Russia goes bankrupt trying to stop the arms flow. Let Putin steal the bread from the mouths of his own people to bribe Ukraine.
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@bmad0 Media and news from the area? Why are they not showing pictures? Latin America reports the truth? lol Countless videos of Chechens magdumping into empty buildings after the cannon fodder already cleared the area for them? lol
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@bmad0 There's no pictures. Only blurry video with jump cuts.
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@bmad0 It's not suppressed. It's just that it's so obviously fake we just mock the people who produce it and those who believe it. Latin American reporting... O que é absurdo é a America Latina ter ficado tão ressabiada com os Estados Unidos que até hoje baixam as calças e dobram-se perante a Rússia após o que os comunas fizeram. Se pudesses até deixavas os Russos colonizar o teu país e dizias que era caridade. Esquerdalha de merda que por alguma razão se alia à direita Russa. Who gives a damn about Spain? They get gas from North Africa. A pacifist Ukraine means a kicked down Ukraine. Of course Russia wants pacifist neighbors. It's easy to win wars against pacifists. The Cuban missile crisis didn't end with invasion. It ended with the US solving it diplomatically. Everyone understands this. Russia kicks the table and shits on the floor while screaming.
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Doesn't use stamped sheet receiver, doesn't have the double-action first shot feature and doesn't have quad stack mags. They modernized it by building a 9mm SCAR?
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For now.
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@aydenfisher5770 his number 1 point was about health, not climate
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The 90s ones? Yeah. The modern ones? Kadyrov had to pressure Putin to let them act as barrier troops. They don't fight on the frontlines, they just roughen up Russians who retreat.
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+Andre De Angelis you do realize that if you have a massive health problem in any other country and you can't work you'll go bankrupt as well, right? Not all kinds of treatment are free, we have this thing called "comparticipation" aka the things cost money, but the government agrees to pay for it and the percentage can change. We had an issue years ago where people with melanoma required a form of treatment that had 0% comparticipation because it was skin beauty related. Here in Portugal people died of colon cancer because they couldn't even get a colonoscopy. The government promised more slots so that people could schedule more appointments but it doesn't change the fact that the system is slow enough to kill people. "Bullshit is when a noob job is prioritised over a life saving operation because the recipient of the boob job can pay to jump the queue" --- I seriously doubt that the same doctors at the same clinics are performing two very different types of surgery. "Do rich people who can afford private security firms get a refund for the taxes they pay to fund the police department?" --- that doesn't make any sense because 1) private security cannot perform the duties of sworn officers and 2) the police has no duty to protect meaning that even if they can't get to you in time to prevent a crime you're not entitled to compensation. If you write "syke this universal healthcare bill isn't actually universal because it doesn't guarantee you anything and you should fucking die in a ditch and we won't be held liable for our delays lol" I will wholeheartedly support that bill because it will admit that it won't solve the problem just like the courts determined that the police doesn't have to protect you. Actually tell the people you're selling false hopes and dreams that they're signing up for.
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"leading military sources" - from Russia?
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@b46ene "something doesen't add up" - they lied.
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This is why I have my own IFAK. I actually get proper first aid equipment so that I don't get this MacGyver crap used on me.
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The pilot would have no means to take a prisoner in that situation.
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Iron Dome doesn't target MRBMs. Stop guessing.
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@bluemarlin8138 Air support can't solve the artillery problem.
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@derinden15 Russian air defense is a known problem. That's why stuff like the AGM-88 HARM are important, and Western aircraft that have the avionics to use them are better than strapping them to MiGs. The Soviet Union/Russia invested heavily in air defense. Which meant that the US invested heavily in using air assets to seek and destroy air defenses.
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@KSCPMark6742 Yeah but we're also kind of underarmed.
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@FannyLerouxTime Yes, staff was rotated in early April.
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False. Belarus to Kiev is 140km, Basra to Bagdad is 280km. The US got to the capital twice as fast and covered twice the distance.
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The early backers wanted it. The hilarious conundrum caused by "games development as live service" is that the new money wants to elbow the old money in the face and tell them to get lost. The only reason Star Citizen exists is because the early backers financed SQ42.
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@Exactly17777 Germany caused the downfall of Europe. Not only it caused the loss of lives of millions of Europeans, their hatred for Britain had them allied with Indians and hatred for a certain group had them allied with Muslims. Their plan was to literally cleanse Eastern Europe. How do you consider this to be good for Europe?
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You can't move an entire bunker with a nuclear facility inside.
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Iraq wasn't a NATO op. Libya was a UN op, that was asked for by the Arab League. NATO only took over the No Fly Zone, and didn't engage in land fighting in Libya.
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It matters because the T-55 can be taken out with cheaper and accessible weapons.
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You can. How much you're betting that yt will trottle views and withhold your earnings? Actually, you'll be too broke to bet.
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Nuclear waste disposal has been solved. People just reject every proposal and pretend there's none.
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The issue is that it also allows Ukraine to use older weapons and save the high tech missiles for the modern tanks coming in later. And by then many tank crews will have died.
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Putin has been bombing the Belgorod People's Republic for a whole year, he gave Zelensky no choice but to invade to stop the oppression.
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@waynejohnson1786 99%? You need to check those numbers.
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@r.a.llorente2694 There's no EMP weapon, only nukes.
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@waynejohnson1786 "Ukraine can’t retake their own territory right now" - that's like watching Rumble in the Jungle and saying Muhammad Ali can't punch.
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@waynejohnson1786 Last time I checked, Ukraine recovered more land in 2 weeks than Russia could take in 6 months. Ukraine is blocking the punches and letting Russia tire itself out. You're gonna see a well oiled machine run through a degraded Russian army. You will see fireworks. I'm one of those people who can notice bad arguments from a mile away. You're saying "Ukraine isn't attacking now so they can't attack in the future". But we already saw how Ukraine fought defensively for months, made Russia bleed for territory, then swiftly took it back. You're seeing the defensive phase and judging the offensive capabilities based off a strategy designed to shred Russians who willingly throw themselves into the meat grinder. Why not give them what they want?
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@TheSecondInitiate The TOR and Pantsir ate sh!t in this conflict.
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@3plechief The vast majority of drones are taken out. US military tech is curbstomping Russia considering that Russia is losing to our surplus and a pack of bubblegum we found under the seat.
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Even if a deal was made, they'd have to wait for several years before Saab could deliver the order.
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Gasses have partial pressure.
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The Russians are bringing T-55 tanks to use as indirect fire guns due to the ammo and barrel wear issues they're facing. You don't do that if you have a so-called "advantage".
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@michellelewis3063 Why isn't the Russian air force flying over Kiev right now?
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@wbspensfan28 Yes, it is. The Russian air force never developed a complete SEAD doctrine meaning that Soviet air defense is enough to deny air space.
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@Steelrat1994 Javelins are relatively slow anti-tank missiles. They can hit low flying helicopters but not much else. The Russian air force was held back by S-300s and Buks. Do you know what a S-300 is? It fires a telephone pole sized missile at Mach 5. A warhead weighing in at 100kg. Javelins can't do that.
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University sports exists outside the US but nobody cares about it and there's no money. I never joined my own university's sports team but I joined another university's kickboxing team.
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Lots of places, no pipelines.
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@Razor-gx2dq Yes, it is.
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@kerbalairforce8802 Small CNCs are garbage. The working area is small and they're terrible at cutting steel. You'd have to build one to your own specs.
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You don't know by how much the infections were slowed down, considering that the pandemic started late 2019 without we even noticing and case numbers did not correlate to mandates. Hundreds of thousands were only at risk due to early treatment being suppressed. The shot took way too long to be a simple delaying matter. It was over a year of waiting for anyone who wasn't elderly or medical staff. And the elderly should have been protected because they're the demographic most affected, while many governments pretty much purposefully infected them by corralling the sick into homes.
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@call-1515 No offense but I'm weary of trusting the "if we did nothing" numbers because most of them were based off bad modelling. And again, we did allow it to ravage through the older populations unchecked - we slowed the spread down among the less vulnerable, which was both useless but also counterproductive. We will probably have 5-10 years of increased mortality due to diagnostics and early treatments we missed, not to mention the psychological and economic harm we caused. The lockdowns were not early. We have found antibodies in samples collected in late 2019 in the Americas and Europe, so the community spread was occurring months before. It's also very misleading to call them early lockdowns because everyone with half a brain or more in their head could see something was happening in Wuhan, and the authorities denied it. When it finally became impossible to put a lid on it, the WHO denied there was human to human transmission. When transmission was confirmed, the WHO denied it was airborne. When they finally admitted it was airborne they refused to call it a pandemic. I can't post images but certainly you remember it too - the media ran multiple articles saying the flu was a lot worse so don't worry about it you racist. When the lockdowns were put in place, it was beyond too late. I'm not talking about the US. I'm talking worldwide. You can't look at cases over time and place a flag on the date mandates were introduced and say they correlate to cases. You people always have an excuse. Okay, if many ignored mandates, you'd still see an effect on the numbers. Women also forget to take the pill sometimes, but as a whole birth rates kinda show we plan our kids ahead rather than have accidents all the time, know what I mean? Even with delinquency there's effects. No healthcare system is designed for the population as a whole. Which is why in every country the lockdowns were sold as a way to save their healthcare system. You think that just because something is public, scarcity doesn't exist? There's physical limits on the space available in hospitals. There's a limit to how many can get to med school and graduate. There's a limit on how much you can order be it medication or masks. Simply because the state controls healthcare, doesn't mean they get to snap their fingers and the whole population is protected. I don't know who sold you this sham that we have unlimited healthcare capacity but we don't. There's a budget every year, and it's really difficult to find the extra money in case something starts to make people fall ill all at once.
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@call-1515 You implied it. By accusing the US of limited capacity you're implying the alternative is unlimited capacity. Yes, and profit motive had hospitals focus on the money train being awarded to them by the government. Yes, you do need to trust a source. What if the spread was the same with or without lockdown? We're clearly seeing what happens right now, the reinstatement of mandates is not limiting the spread of omicron at all. Which sort of gives us an indication that spread of the original variant was probably capped. You do know the fundamental science? You mean bad science, like the imperial college numbers? The mathematics? Bad mathematics? Garbage in, garbage out. If you write a garbage algorithm that has no bearing on the real world, you'll get garbage predictions. Child hospitalizations were on the rise already thanks to things like RSV.
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The objective isn't killing Russians. We're happy to see Russians alive. We just want their arms, oil and gas industry dead.
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 @barryscott6222 Yes, they were. Care to disprove that?
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By the way, tell that to Moscow. They wouldn't survive the war with Germany without US support.
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It was claimed that the object buzzed out of the field of view at very high speed. The targeting pod simply lost track which makes it seem like the object ran away - but the truth is that the object did not change speed, it was the airplane moving forward that caused apparent movement.
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@comrade9374 People protested. People voted for Obama to close Gitmo. Ignorant.
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Literally all modern fighters are fly by wire. They're unstable by design, if the computers get damaged the aircraft cannot be flown by hand.
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I kinda don't. Once one realizes he suppressed leaks about the Russian government, the magic is gone.
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Says you, on a youtube comment.
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@NuEnque because credit card companies and payment processors refuse to deal with alternatives unless they follow the same guidelines against hate speech and harassment.
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@NuEnque "so you're saying conservatives should just quit? If you fail you get up and try again." - I'm not making this about conservatives, I could hardly consider myself one but my opinions go against the left so by default I am "right wing", my problem is defending anything that goes against the status quo. You know the definition of insanity? Trying the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. This is not Rocky Balboa getting up after getting hit. This is running into machine gun fire in No Man's Land and after a failed attack, blowing the whistle again and sending more men out of the trench. I am convinced it will come to a point internet will become the new TV and the lack of freedom and choice will force people to go into the deep and dark web, encrypt data and use untraceable payments that are completely decentralized and do not need banks (speculators fucking ruined crypto). I'm not quitting. I'm just telling people "see you on the other side". "Enlist help from the NRA and FOX News." - FOX News is a cog in the machine, they are mainstream and will side with the mainstream. The NRA is basically a front for the PR firm Ackerman McQueen. They're a money-making business that panders to boomers. They're not interested in freedom. "Liberals control social media but the president is a racist republican with zero experience." - he's a lifelong New York Democrat who simply predicted the pendulum swing and became Republican when he saw popular opinion turning on Obama. Also, in the politics business, having experience is exactly what I don't want. I don't want a "Frank Underwood" character in office. I don't want a guy who knows all the tricks, has dirt on others, has been corrupted to the core for decades, etc. "Experience" in politics simply means you have done what it takes to survive in that world while the honest people get the boot. You keep bullshitting about republicans and conservatives and racism and hate speech, this conversation is a fucking poisoned well. You think there's no racism against white people? Sexism against males? You think one side is guilty but there's plenty of hate from any sector, my only problem is that it's clear that one side is allowed to err while the other gets instantly deplatformed. We're rushing towards a 1984 world where anything can be redefined as a thoughtcrime or wrongthink and rather than address the issue honestly you pretend this is all about creating a racist website. This is about information and how it is accessed. What happens when a government or corporation decides that WikiLeaks cannot be indexed on google or mentioned on youtube/twitter/etc? Only the people who know about wikileaks would know how to access it, and it would be impossible to warn anyone that new leaks dropped. Create your own website, but you can't talk about it anywhere. The inconvenient has to sit "outside" of the web 90% of people don't step out of. But sure, let's make this about being racist online. Not that long ago the Defense Distributed website was blocked on several states because it distributes gun blueprints. I guess gun blueprints are hate speech now.
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Air bases do not change position. Imagine cluster munitions landing across helicopters and jets.
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@fauckcryptic3977 "they made up the word" as if we don't know damned well where it comes from.
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Good times create soft men, soft men create hard times, hard times create hard men, hard men create good times.
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Missile trucks would be vulnerable and thus fire from further away, reducing range. Unless these missile trucks are orbiting at outrageous altitudes or strapping booster rockets to air to air missiles, they'll be very limited in usefulness.
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lel literal BRICS flag profile pic
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Only if the imbalance is small enough for the fins to correct it. The missile knows it's off-course, but all it does is repositon the fins to straighten it back. If the thrust just keeps pushing the missile off its path the guidance system will just keep command the fins into max deflection and wait until it straightens out.
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There are failed and weak states. The US is a weak state. But tell me, are the ghettos under control? Does the police have the capability to sit 24/7 on every corner where the drug dealers make their money? Inside certain parts of the city, the US is a FAILED state. Japan doesn't have ghettos full of drug trade. It's just a weak state. BTW, India has plenty of gunsmiths that make weapons illegally.
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The Gripen was designed for "let's lose the war less quickly" warfare. Basically deter invasion by making sure that the invading force is bled dry. You don't have the money to have a large standing army that overpowers the enemy, so you let your enemy know that they'll win but it will cost them so much they shouldn't even try. Ukraine has to overpower Russia. A deterrence fighter meant for guerrilla won't work in the offensive.
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@ExUSSailor Of course that Sprey would be wrong about the world's largest distributor of MiG parts.
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This effects the front line, Russia was providing air support from that base. It also forces air defenses to be moved to the bases to protect them, meaning that Ukrainians might be able to use more air support.
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@kentershackle1329 Any aircraft can perform CAS. There's more air support than just CAS. Perhaps don't learn about aviation from videogames? Without fighters, you cannot cover air support craft (including CAS). 200km is nothing for an aircraft. Do you think Russia is flying fighters 5km from the frontline? They'd be shelled. The Ukrainian doctrine is grind down the advancing forces, when positions are unsustainable move back and repeat. Even DPR fighters are complaining that Ukrainians have experienced fighters because they prioritize the survival of troops, while they have fresh conscripts getting mowed down.
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If you go deaf from your own gun firing you won't be able to tell either.
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No. They need the parts availability of the F-16. You can't get by with Cold War export fighters in Ukraine - they need the full hog 21st century upgrade.
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The Glock fit the modularity requirements.
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Yes. Already happened in Iraq. The F-15s with the improved IFF got the authorization to take a BVR shot without AWACS.
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No, they didn't. Both court case and a meeting settled that issue and the Army was free to purchase the Cheyenne. It was only killed off after failing tests.
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@qrsx66 The question was "I thought invasion was bad?". The thing is, they're not technically invading. You're not wrong, but you want to debate the particular nuances in this case while I'm responding to a simplistic question.
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Not true. The USAF originated from the USAAF and inherited the Army doctrine of picking the weapon for the most demanding task and then using it across the board. Strategic bombing, interception and deep interdiction were the most demanding roles which required jets. It was a problem introduced by the Army's own books on how to do things.
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They don't have the capacity to divert the European market to the East.
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@caravantravels-r7w At capacity.
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Nike: "You wouldn't download our sneakers" Me: "Just Do It."
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@williamherman9065 But how would you know about Joe Rogan without social media? Someone would have to tell you about it, which limits the listener base.
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Saddam did have WMDs. The stockpiles were found but kept secret. Journalists found out in 2014 after investigating the soldiers in the VA who were being treated for nerve gas exposure.
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The US fought a Soviet-armed North Vietnam and didn't nuke the USSR. The US also fought China in Korea and didn't nuke them despite some generals asking to.
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Please. Let them get all their ammo destroyed, their troops will get slaughtered on the ground while they wait for the aircraft.
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Rapid follow up shots are always essential because most shots fired in combat are not hits. Spoiler shots are a thing, especially at unknown range, unknown wind, unknown running speed of the target, etc. Miss by a foot, adjust, hit.
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 @guaporeturns9472 Prevention of attacks comes down to the nuclear arsenal and air defenses, not MiGs.
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@JamesBiggar I can't build my own where I live. In theory I could, but I need the DMV engineer to sign off on it. They never do. Anyone who builds a kit car or recovers an antique chassis registers them in a country where laws are lax and then pays the HEAVY import fee to inherit the foreign VIN. Same as fighter jets in civilian hands being registered as experimentals in the USA because the FAA is more lenient than most countries. If I were wealthy I'd build my car. I am not, so I am limited to the market.
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RT is absolutely worse. Have you actually researched their lies or the discrepancies in the English vs Latin American coverage?
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 @peterc.1419 To be fair, on a PC the case is just a box. On an aircraft, replace all the insides, the airframe is still being punished by G forces, friction heating, etc.
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@peterc.1419 Airframes are typically retired. There's a refurbishing program that can add 4,000 extra lifetime hours to a F-16 and I don't know how much is "replaced" but a similar process by Dassault used composite patching to extend airframe service life. Reinforce the old, fly it 'till the wheels come off, figuratively of course. Trying to take the guts out of an old airframe and sticking it in a new one is probably pretty rare. Some F-15s are so old, they still use magnetic data tapes. Bringing up technology in military aircraft is actually where the example shines, when military software doesn't need the bloat of civilian devices and it uses specific languages and standards, you can get away with using pitifully outdated computers.
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"If I pay for 20 mbps, I wont affect the network by more than 20 mbps. If ISPs can't keep up with what they promise" - but like gyms selling subscriptions to people who don't exercise or airliners overbooking, you'll suffer the sticker shock if you're suddenly charged the "real value" it costs to keep your service running.
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Fukushima is a nothingburger. There's no China Syndrome.
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@urorazbojnik5678 "production doesn't cost that much" - Adding up the components and manufacturing costs for the PS3 resulted in 800 dollars. for the 20GB model. They were selling it for 499. The PS4 reportedly cost 380 to manufacture and retailed for 399. That's narrow. "look at intel cpu's, sold for 2000$ then when the first real competitor came they crashed the price" - Think about what you said. Intel had no competitor. Sony has Microsoft as a direct competitor. So what you said doesn't apply to consoles.
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@biodidu25 France, Paris Oblast?
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 @tellyboy17 F-35s already flew near S-400s, when flown by Israeli hands.
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@tellyboy17 If the S-400s can detect the F-35s, why won't they feed the intel to Syrians? Russians may not fire, but Syrians would. And Russians did say they linked the S-400 to Syrian defenses.
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 @esbenm6544 "I know writers who used subtext, and they were all cowards!" (This is a joke from a show pls no bully)
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Vatnik delusion.
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Because they take photos of vast amounts of land? You know, kind of like almost all of the planet is covered by Google Earth?
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What?
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Because the USAF uses F-16s and not 18s?
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Cope, Vlad. You're in St. Petersburg working for Glavset.
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They've been doing this for months. Do you think before posting?
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That's the point, you could feed the AI any home video of yours where your voice gets picked up. You'd recover your voice without 8h of recordings.
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100 millions in weapons means most of it was old stock. Unless the poor can eat sheet metal and rocket fuel, it wouldn't solve anything.
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@tuber9211 Selling 100 million dollars of materiel on paper gets you 20 million in the real world market. Whoa.
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@tuber9211 Forget salesmen. It's old stock. It's useless for any prospective buyer, and only worth something for anyone in active conflict and desperate for help. All the other nations shopping around for defense items. They'd see it as an insult to be sold that kind of stuff. Yeah, war materiel had to be bought. It's an insurance. You buy it hoping you won't have to use it, and then you get rid of it when it's time to buy new. All defense budgets are a loss. That's how it works and always has. Giving it away is not a loss because that money had to be spent. It's like if you had to buy a laptop for college, and then after using it for several years you give it to a friend. You had to spend that money, so there's no point in crying about it.
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If the bore isn't of the correct diameter there's some gas leakage. The rifling actually helps seal the pressure behind the bullet due to the way it bites into the jacket.
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@coles.1524 In theory, sure.
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@coles.1524 Yes, if you use a sabot that helps seal the projectile to the barrel.
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Is this some kind of gotcha? A "fake frame" is generated by interpolation rather than being drawn from what's happening in the game engine.
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Not at all. Blackwater was paid to guard some buildings and protect some people. The antics they got up to was because they lacked discipline and got tired of being attacked so they started firing wildly and killing everyone as a response. Blackwater was like a mall security guard who decided to do coke one day and beat up customers.
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@darkmath100 You said Blackwater did (not does, they don't exist anymore) what Wagner does. But that's not true. They were just security. And some of the guys were hot headed and decided to disobey and retaliate for an attack on them. It's not the same.
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@darkmath100 Neither Xe or Academi still exist. Wagner's private airforce just had a Su-25 shot down the other day.
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Just like Antonovsky bridge. Propaganda.
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One of those "gotta learn to follow the rules before you're allowed to break them" type of situations.
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@SaveMoneySavethePlanet There is excess solar in certain regions - California has paid Arizona to take their excess energy. Lack of storage automatically makes solar easily go into excess in sunny regions even though it can't cover our needs, because it can generate more power than there is load on the grid on occasion and that power can't be saved until it's needed, forcing us to resort to fossil fuel.
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@@OhlordyWeArefalling They're as cheap as Block 70/72 F-16Vs. Maintenance cost is about 20-25% higher than F-16s.
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@@OhlordyWeArefalling Wrong. The 1.6 trillion figure is for the purchase and maintenance of 2000 F-35s from 2010s to 2070s.
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 @curiositycloset2359 the F-35 isn't obsolete. It's the most high tech fighter until NGAD enters service.
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Russian men are ellegible for mobilization even if they got a waiver to skip conscription (due to university or health) and even those who went through conscription got barely any training. Even contract soldiers reported dissatisfaction with their lack of training. But Ukrainian mobilized men only had to hold the line to defend the homeland. Conscription is understood in most European countries to be a defensive measure, not offensive. With refresher training a conscript can ambush Russian columns. Assaulting well defended positions? Suicide.
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@babanagrahim5439 Russia lost the best troops. They died around Kiev, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Severodonetsk, etc. Ukraine traded territory for time. Russia doesn't retreat to save troops. They retreat when encircled, and Ukraine fires artillery on the escape routes. Look at Lyman. The roads were full of meat. Just meat and shredded clothes.
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@Naprolom177 So what happened to the defectors and that British woman?
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German nuclear tech was behind the US.
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Even if you saw the smoke puff from the moment of fire, the missile only gives you a second until it hits. Assuming half a second reaction time from the tank commander, the driver has to react, and tanks can't stop or accelerate in time. The more mass you have, the more difficult it gets to be erratic.
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@rick-be Basically, you never know when you're being targeted. You'd be acting like a maniac 99% of the time hitting the brakes, for the shooter to actually notice and wait for you to accelerate again and shoot before you brake.
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Lmao
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@medyenseid3026 Yes, it's funny how the line broke at Kharkiv with only 15-18 tanks.
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@medyenseid3026 No need to take on Russians, they died where they laid.
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Russia depends more on gas sales to Europe than Europe depends on purchasing gas from Russia.
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@Paul Martin Worrying about Glock's confusing numbering scheme is such a weird purity test. Yes, the model number is related to the caliber but one can just ask for ammo in that caliber at the store and not worry about it, so it doesn't prove anything.
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NATO AWACS can see them. They're just staying out of range.
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They'll just use the cheap drones.
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The Apache has been upgraded.
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@thevoxdeus Exactly. And Ukrainian SOF has more experience fighting Russia than the highest Tier American/British SOF. This narrative of NATO special ops falls apart when we remind ourselves they've been doing counter-terrorism for the most part.
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@vemundr9263 it works so well that most countries have lost their military industry and buy FN Herstal or Heckler & Koch. Speaking of bureaucracy, take a loot at the Eurofighter. Never get into a multi-supplier, multi-national bureaucratic clusterfuck. That's the F-35s job.
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>accuses the right wing of only understanding the mainstream left >only understands mainstream right Ironic.
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 @mr6687 300,000? I thought it was 600,000. Well everyone forgets it's actually a million. I'll forgive you for not knowing it's actually 3 million.
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 @marlandtownsend4715 they didn't want to negotiate surrender, it was a peace deal. Then the Bucha mass graves were found.
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 @nadezhdaplotnikova7504 No, they didn't. Most Russian gains happened in the initial rush to Kiev.
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 @irisbristow2977 Was Mariupol saved?
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 @helloimthemailman6566 How will they complete that objective now that Azov went from a bunch of loons to national heroes? All of Ukraine now looks up to the men killed and tortured by Russia.
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@donlod322 BRICS is a major cope. Russia is a future North Korea, China has pulled all the stops to fake their economy, Brazil is Brazil, India has a border dispute with China and South Africa is a hellhole. BRICS is the group project by the class rejects.
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F-16s have landed with half a wing missing. A F-15 actually landed with one left wing and two feet of right wing left. The secret is not getting hit in the first place. SAM killers cannot deal with SHORAD. The A-10s will have to deal with it alone. Otherwise might as well just use the aircraft targeting SHORAD to do the A-10s job in the same sortie.
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There are no numbers from Israel and Turkey didn't publish them.
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@aleong.9566 It's not an opinion. It's a lie. Israel never published those numbers and a website being based in Turkey doesn't mean the Turkish government backs those numbers. Some insane person dreamed those numbers and published them online. Youtube is American. I post Russia lost 10 million soldiers. Therefore America published the numbers.
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@JedisfuneralTM And on average each drone destroyed more than their worth in equipment. And to take a dark turn, there's young men who won't come back to their families due to those drones. They did their job.
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The US used drones in WW2.
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Define mentally ill.
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Copium
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@J_X999 Improved childcare doesn't matter. People want to go to college and have good jobs. They want to buy houses. Kids get in the way of that. Unless China promotes people sticking to a highschool diploma and getting less demanding jobs so they can raise children, the childcare doesn't matter. The childcare is just one of the parts of raising a child.
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@J_X999 People are not having children because they already have trouble getting a good job out of getting out of college at 23/24/25 and affording a house. People are not having children because dating and social connections are becoming harder. If everything else was solved, childcare wouldn't be a problem. You know what childcare was when I was a kid? My parents dropped me off at my grandparents' home. I was looked after for free.
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@J_X999 Cope. The vast majority of people my age are just struggling in the housing department. Forget about affording the things listed after the child. People have trouble affording those BEFORE the child.
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Bob is a proven liar.
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@truthsayer9534 He is. He forged his documents and made errors that expose him.
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From the information that's available there could be a missile that's designed to be long range to target AWACS and tankers. Trying to shoot down F-35s is difficult, but you can gain breathing room by making sure AWACS and fuel has to stay distant.
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@news_internationale2035 The IR spectrum is absorbed at shorter ranges than the wavelengths used in radar. Also, the F-35 does use cold air mixing by blowing it around the exhaust nozzle to mask the thermal emissions.
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@BlueSky-vd6qh it's not WW3 just like Iraq wasn't WW3. Just a bunch of countries dunking on a single common enemy that has no worthwhile allies.
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@frankzappa9853 The real report states 43.k casualties. It was Russians online who photoshopped the leaks to make it look like 17k because the BBC and Mediazona are checking obituaries and social media posts and they've confirmed 16k dead. Obviously there's a lot more who didn't have obituaries or social media posts so it's a lowball estimate.
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Did they follow those procedures?
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The last air-to-air kill by US aircraft was in 2017 and the previous one was in 1999. At this rate it would take 432 years for your requirements to be fulfilled (two dozens * 18 years between kills).
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@johnparrish9215 "It is not even as agile as a Mig 21." - show us footage of a MiG-21 pulling these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBEbdCgJvdg "untill stealth is defeated, about 10 years" - the laws of physics will not be defeated with time. "The biggest flaw in the F-35 was in forcing the designers to give it VTOL, if the Marines had asked for it to be able to operate from a 350 meter dirt road the aircraft would be far better, more range, more agile, higher top speed." - There's literally no basis for this claim other than Pierre Sprey's 1950s aviation knowledge. No, "forcing" the VTOL is not a flaw. Short deck carriers are not 350 meter dirt roads.
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3d render
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Because when you point a finger, ten point back at you.
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Okay. Anyone who suffers a side effect gets to collect a pound of flesh from who mandated it. Let's have consequences, Saudi Arabia style. You sure you want to play the game that way?
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@JavierPerez-se2pb Like I said, don't you want consequences? Let's have them. Why are you suddenly quiet on that subject?
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Nobody is "handed out" firearms. It's not a charity. Background checks are fine. The problem is that they want to use them as a stepping stone for a full registry. The federal government has no right to dictate the rules on private sales, only the state has. So it should be the state's decision on how private sales are handled.
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 @alienzenx the story is bunk because there's no evidence, the total humiliation of the nutjobs who point at blurry video is just the cherry on top
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But the force isn't concentrated. It took months to capture towns like this. It's a trickle.
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They have Su-25s.
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You people are displaying your ignorance in full force. How is a pro-nuclear video a defense of the fossil fuel industry?
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Bf2 is goated but it's not a blockbuster with campaign and plot, it was online only.
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You're looking at Ukraine and your conclusion is that cheap garbage works? Many have tried the quantity over quality and got curbstomped. Maintenance is possible during war. Both Russia and Ukraine are doing it. The Sherman in WW2 was specifically designed so that once it crossed the Atlantic, it would never have to come back to the US for repairs. The F-15 has over 100 air to air kills with no losses. The F-15 is easier to find and kill than a F-35. You really think the random guy is an event you want to bet on? 200 planes instead of 20. Do you have ten times the pilots and ten times the fuel? Ten times the spare parts?
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@Chuck59ish If you're worried about fuel you don't want a pod causing extra drag.
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 @Gouda992 what does that even mean, you're acting like the Democrats are leninists...
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Could we leave Mattis out of this and just gulag Kissinger two times harder?
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@dippyfresh5130 being allowed is not the same as being forced
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@MrCarGuy Quickly moving between cities on predictable roads is also how to constantly get hit by ambushes.
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@benjaminpeters6729 No. The actual trial was only for measurement of symptoms. Not prevention of infection. It's not a "break through" because there's nothing to break.
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@benjaminpeters6729 They measured symptoms two weeks after the second dose to get the 95% relative risk reduction.
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@benjaminpeters6729 It contradicts what you said?
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@benjaminpeters6729 What something was designed for and what it does isn't the same.
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@benjaminpeters6729 And data from the real world shows the studies are not applicable to real life.
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@notawinemom8540 "We could have started this school year with no masks required for HS students" - But vaccinated people still need to wear masks. You can't even get the story straight. "The faster your immune system response to the virus, the less virus you spread" - But you still spread. 6 months later we're back to the starting point. "No one ever questioned any of this before 2020" - Before 2020 we were not being threatened with losing jobs or being kicked out of university. "It's like everyone forgot everything they already knew about vaccines once politicians politicized the virus." - YOU people politicized it. "have no issue taking experimental drugs not FDA approved" - They're not experimental when they have decades of use. "2020 was the worst year of my life. I want this to be over." - You're this close to having an epiphany. This is over when you say it's over. "When is this going to end? Never?!" - If you allow them to. "She missed 6 days of school & by Tuesday night I receive an email from the bio teacher that she's failing. Do you see the problem here?" - Yes. I see the problem and I pointed it out over a year ago. "keeping this going is really putting the rest of society out?" - It's not us prolonging this. It's not us paranoid about a sore throat. It's not us demanding society to grind to a halt and hit "pause" on the economy. You look around and think who's actually ruining your life. Hint: it's the people who are willing to keep this going no matter how much you comply. We take the two shots, they'll demand a fourth. This stops when you say it stops.
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@yaz2928 The airport capture was interrupted by territorial defense and attempted again the following day. After being reinforced they did capture the airfield but the fighting had damaged it so much it was all for nothing.
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Simp.
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@nikolajk5330 Nah it just detected your wording and tone.
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If Russians believe Putin's schizo ramblings, it's their funeral.
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Shadow Company is also a reference to the documentary "Shadow Army" about Blackwater and other PMCs that came out in the 2000s. Everyone was making references to Blackwater in media. State Of Play (with Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck) features a PMC called Point Corp which uses the Blackwater crosshair on their logo, but blue instead of red. The 2010 A-Team movie features Black Forrest. Payday 2 has a PMC called "Murkywater". Basically they were catching strays from all sides, they had to rename the company to Xe, later Academi and then just got sold to Constellis because the company's reputation was so bad.
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That's not how it works. Radiation spreads according to the inverse square law. Out of the radiation you output from the transmitter, only a small fraction hits the plane. Out of the radiation that bounces off the plane, only a small fraction gets to the radar receiver. Because the signal decays with the square of the distance. And it has to cross that distance twice. A bumblebee, even if made out of pure steel, would simply not get detected by radar until it was extremely close (wavelength and noise/clutter issues notwithstanding).
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@bigusj You want the military involved. Sweet.
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@bigusj Thanks for admitting it, bootlicker.
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Cry more vatnik
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lol
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@BlyGuy How would hacking work? Fighters don't have a trailing ethernet cable while flying.
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@hphp31416 Flight controls are not connected to anything outside in the case of digital control either. Airliners are fly by wire and not once was an aircraft hacked and controlled remotely.
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@vinrico6704 kinda hard to hack something that's not connected to anything
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 @emptywindexbottle97 The Russian government is in a way a reflection of its people. Ukrainians actually stood for freedom and duked it out with riot cops.
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 @HiberNAT He was discarded by a guy who attempted to assassinate Edwin A. Walker in order to become a commie hero.
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You mean in the game or real life? In the South African Bush War a plane had it's tail fin shredded by a MANPADS, the pilot instructed everyone to change seats and used the crew's weight to shift the center of mass of the plane and land. Balls of steel stuff.
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If you draft an email you have zero proof it's real. You could say it was Trump emailing you to tell you that Taylor Swift controls the drones.
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The issue is that for the average grunt more recoil correlates with worse marksmanship, and the bullet weight is high enough that it essentially forces troops to carry less ammo.
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Cope. Tent cities aren't a result of economic or infrastructure decline but liberal states having been blessed with such prosperity that they fooled themselves into thinking that people have the right to camp and do drugs.
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@easonhuang7117 that's not diversity, that is erasure.
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@asdfghjkl92213 this isn't about the West
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@easonhuang7117 I'm not from the US so I don't know why you're pointing at others. You're the misbehaving kid in class pointing fingers at other kids. That only means you are misbehaving. At least admit it.
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@easonhuang7117 and that is good how?
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@easonhuang7117 prove it.
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@asdfghjkl92213 Prove it.
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War is a business, and it's booming. Forgot where I heard that.
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Teddy Atlas was also in Michael Moorer's corner and he called the KO. Moorer refused to listen to the advice due to ego.
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*Clinton
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@yspear_ The MANPADS is not stationary, but if you're going to assault minefields and trench lines you can't just put your MANPADS guys forward of the enemy positions. JuSt GeT cLoSeR are you out of your mind? Hide in some bushes? Do the trench lines have bushes to conveniently hide approaching troops like a freaking cartoon?
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@voidtempering8700 There's no obstacles. Just hover inside the safety of your own territory and lob missiles at incoming columns. They don't have to find a target. The advancing column has to get close to the trench lines to breach. They don't fly over MANPADS. They fly inside Russian territory.
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@Killdozer-do4mc Explain why it isn't logical. It's perfectly logical. The Ka-52 suffered losses as the attacker, but in a defensive stance the missiles it fires can get to the enemy before the enemy can bring MANPADS close.
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The Abrams was designed to defend Europe. The MBT-70 program was even supposed to replace the Leopard 1 in West German service. Zee Germans went with the Leopard 2 and the US kept revising the design until it became the M1.
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A country hosts you instead of requiring the usual immigration channels. You cannot overstay a visa in a foreign country and thus need to gain residency, by claiming you will be prosecuted if returned to your country of citizenship, another country may give you permission to stay.
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If stealth tech is negated, only stealth aircraft will be able to fly. Every other aircraft will not go airborne due to the risk.
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He can't find a thermometer with a °F readout in Ukraine, genius. Stop overthinking things. He saw the trmp in Celsius so he said Celsius. Most people can't do the proper conversion in their head.
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@PunkOnARant "I mean you could call WATER an "experimental substance"" - Water has existed in the universe for billions of years and it's the basis of life. "some guy on the internet says "we are being lied to"?" - You can just look at the numbers. The number of cases we're seeing in many countries make it mathematically impossible for the unvaccinated to be the ones getting infected. "i would assume that your politicans with staff are being closely monitored in regards to covid, probably tested very often for it" - That's not an excuse. "Usually a vaccine mandate only means that people who attend different things, such as concerts." - Then you are wrong. The US president issued a mandate that essentially forces all workers in companies with more than 100 workers to get it. "A vaccine mandate only means that us who choose to be vaccinated would get to do things such as go to concerts, and you who choose not to would not." - That right there says why it's a bad idea, you want a two-tier society. "By being against a vaccine mandate for things like concerts, you're actively opposing my freedom." - BS. The vaccinated can still spread. So when you attend your concert, you're exposed to untested vaccinated people. "For why should I not be able to do things i want because YOU choose not to be vaccinated?" - The other way around. Why should you be allowed to say who has freedom? Why should be be able to spread the disease to others by presenting a card? "So a vaccine mandate is good because it allows freedom" - IT DENIES FREEDOM. This is blatant 1984 newspeak. War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Papers please is freedom. "and why your politicians and their staffs probably dont require vaccinations." - That doesn't even explain it. You're just saying you justified it without justifying it!
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@PunkOnARant "Okay. I dont really care." - You meant to type "I was wrong, sorry". That's what you say when you are wrong and act like you aren't. "i dont even see why we're talking about their work place related issues now" - Because the mandate was introduced through workplace regulations???? "they'd have to stop with concerts and stuff again of course. Easy as that." - This is completely disconnected from reality. If the economy stops again it will be a catastrophe. "So you're against me being able to go to a concert" - I'm not. I'm against your hypocrisy. "not doing math guessing games" - Where are the extra people coming from, then? Math doesn't lie. "That's really unsolidaric" - It's also "unsolidaric" to demand people who have a 1/5,000 chance of developing myocarditis or pericarditis to take the shot at their own risk so that you can go to concerts. "WHY are vaccine mandates BAD?" - Because it denies freedom. "You want me not to go to concerts" - No, I want you to stop being a hypocrite and thinking you going to concerts is the biggest problem here. "so you'd rather have a shut down" - No, this is you strawmanning what other people say.
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@PunkOnARant So you scatter a bunch of nonsense that has to be addressed separately, and then complain that you can't work with that? It does work on youtube. It had worked for 13-14 years so far. They're not out of context. Do you understand what context is? If I am addressing separate claims, each of them are addressed separately. The context is available for everyone to see, it's on your comment. This is not decontextualization. You're just using an excuse without even knowing what it means. I'm also not strawmanning. I'm addressing specifically what you said. I never argued against concerts. You're the one strawmanning. I'm not having it both ways. It's you who's misreading. You don't want people to "freely chose" if their choice is being made under coercion. There's no ad hominem anywhere. Do you know what ad hominem is? Ad hominem is "you can't trust what he says, because he shoplifted once". Ad Hominem is attacking the man rather than the claims. I only attacked your claims. Again, you misuse the names of logical fallacies as excuses when you don't even know what they mean. Again, you accuse others of using logical fallacies but you ridicule all opposing arguments. I am for your freedom because I don't think you should be controlled by mandates, QR codes, tracking apps, etc. You're not being offended. You're being told the consequences of what you support.
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@williamhestilow4021 Gen X got high off their own supply trying to revive the 60s counterculture. Gen X was the one that started dyeing hair back in the grunge days. Millenial emo and Gen Z e-girl aesthetics are just copies of what Gen X was doing.
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And Israel has shown F-35s can fly over Iran without defenses picking it up. An Iranian general was fired over than blunder when it happened.
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It would be charitable to call that a "report".
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@SNESLIVE the coffins were probably for hurricanes
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Russia invaded in 2014. They also fired Grads from inside Russian territory at Ukrainian cities. The LPR and DPR "free" people? They were force conscripted into being bullet sponges for the Russian army.
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Finn Mueller the size of a gun doesn't matter. In fact the bigger the gun the harder it is to use in a crime. Most countries make small guns harder to get because criminals want them.
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+Finn Mueller "u wouldnt have to defend yourself so much if it was harder for criminals to get a gun" I'd like you see try to fend off 6 guys with tire irons and baseball bats with your bare hands.
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No, you said guns are only needed to protect ourselves from guns but go off I guess. And lowering the crime rate is much easier than taking guns away because criminals will never be disarmed. Look at Mexico and Brazil. In Brazil criminals even make their own weapons. Wanna lower the crime rate? Make drugs legal. It will instantly collapse the cartels and the gangs if people have no reason to keep funding their operations. Easy, but the government doesn't want that. Why would we give up the guns to the same government that won't keep us safe by ending gangs and cartels?
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Secession of the Donbas was started and armed by Russian operatives. It would be the same as French people entering England with French weapons and saying "Hello fellow Normans, let's seceede?".
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@sowianskizonierz2693 Which is precisely why I mentioned the Normans, as the English share ethnic background with the French. Also, nice lie. Vkontakte posts prove that Russian military was in the separatist regions because people literally cannot stop pasting their faces online. The OSCE observers also have seen modern Russian armed forces equipment in the area. The MH17 flight that got shot down was fired on by the Buk launcher marked 332 belonging to the 53rd anti air missile brigade from Kursk. What were they doing inside Ukraine? Just stop lying, we know what Russia did.
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Zelensky was elected in 2019. How did he fight a war for 8 years when he was still an actor on TV? The Minsk II agreement was broken by DPR forces assaulting Debaltseve the day after it was signed. Some people are smart enough to not fall for your lies. Such as claiming that Zelensky fought for 8 years since 2019.
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@asdf3568 Hold on. Russia claims they're not a party to Minsk so they can arm the separatists all they want. You say the separatist forces aren't a signatory party to Minsk. So what's the point of the treaty? Ukraine has to negotiate with someone, and if that someone doesn't want the war to end they can't negotiate.
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@asdf3568 And the war continued because the DPR claimed Debaltseve through force.
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@asdf3568 The peace agreement could not be implemented when one side initiates military assaults. What does negotiation lead to when the rebels just keep on attacking? Yes, it's an anti-terrorist operation. Don't like it? Don't have nutters like Igor Girkin conduct their operations. It's "angels". Angles is when two lines aren't parallel.
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@asdf3568 There's violation of ceasefire and there's conquest. If you want to call it quits but keep taking land for yourself, you're begging for return fire and the end of negotiations. You complain about bias, but you're the one arguing that separatists can do whatever they want, but then cry foul when Ukraine treats them like they deserve.
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@asdf3568 No country is democratic or peaceful by those standards. Democracy doesn't exist, we pretend it does, and the sky isn't falling. No country would be "peaceful" to any organization that insisted on kicking its teeth in at every chance it got but then cried foul when said nation struck back. I am an extremely peaceful person. And I am willing to keep the peace by force if necessary. I didn't change the subject.
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@asdf3568 You try and start a civil war inside your country and see if you're not arrested. The "coup" was the then president fleeing the country because he feared being prosecuted for the deaths of protesters. I didn't change the subject, I told you that Ukraine is peaceful and had a war brought to their doorstep. So if you kill in self-defense, you are a murderer?
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@asdf3568 Ukraine was democratic and defending itself from Russian-backed separatists. The people who trespassed into the capitol weren't trying to start a civil war. I'm asking you to take foreign weapons, foreign pay, even foreign leaders, and try and fight your own government (not just walk around a building). Just as an experiment. Let's see how democratic your country is. Yes, it was a revolution because the parliament voted to relieve the coward from his duties. Cowards in suits who pay cops and thugs to beat down and kill protesters don't deserve your sympathy, so you can stop simping for them.
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@asdf3568 Seizing control of a building doesn't give a crowd magic powers. How would they have reinstated Trump? This is borderline delusional. They weren't under threat, or they would have fled like Yanukovych. They voted like that because the coward left after people died at the hands of his goons and the politicians in the parliament owed no allegiance to him. Or his laws restricting freedom of assembly and free speech. You know, like a democracy should have. Very democratic of Yanukovych.
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@asdf3568 They didn't. Yanukovych's coalition collapsed in the parliament, and with 233 votes the disbandment of the anti-riot forces got passed. After he fled, the parliament decided he had relieved his duties. In the elections after Maidan, neither Right Sector or Svoboda got into parliament. Weird way for a bunch of Nazis and Nationalists to seize power, have the parliament vote against the president and then fail at the elections. The direct cause of the civil war was the Russian armament and support for separatist forces. Remember the MH17 shot down? The launcher used was the Buk numbered 332 belonging to the 53rd anti air missile battalion stationed at Kursk. Now, what was a Russian military vehicle meant to be at Kursk doing in Ukrainian separatist territory? Putin wanted the war. Donbas was just another South Ossetia, Abkhazia or Transnistria. What Zelensky did? Such as adopting the stance that a bad ceasefire is better than a good war?
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@asdf3568 Funny, so Yanukovych can use politicized persecution of his opposition, stifle free speech, etc. but as soon as the tide turns he can't handle the heat of politics in a corrupt Eastern country. The man could have personally shot someone at the square and you people would still simp for him. The subject was not changed. Russian aggression is Russian aggression. Oh, radars. Oh, manipulated audio. I guess that undoes the criminal culpability? You might now know, but that's because you're willfully ignorant. The West didn't have to do anything, the cover-up was just sloppy enough that the timeline of events could be pieced back together, and separatists posted on social media that they had shot down a plane that day. Was that also manipulated by the SBU? The airspace was not closed because as usual, airline companies thought that flying over 30k feet would be safe as military aircraft typically do not use that space. Airliners flew over wars before this. Russian backed separatists (or even Russian troops on "vacation") shoot a missile at a civilian airliner, and you still put the blame on Ukraine. You people will literally blame Ukraine for everything. It just doesn't stop, it's just bias. And the sooner you recognize it, the better.
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@asdf3568 Then why the hell are you complaining? I'm sick of people pretending he was a victim. Oh, he didn't ban opposition parties, he just arrested members of the opposition, conducted voter intimidation and ballot stuffing. Thanks bro, makes it so much better. Oh, yes they did. Igor Girkin posted about it and deleted it. You criticize both sides - while making excuses for one, blaming the other for things they didn't do, and grasping at straws to deflect from the real evidence. Really fair and balanced. Other countries have not closed down airspace. Airliners were warned to avoid it but wanted to fly over the area to save on fuel. Yes, flight control and the airline company themselves deserve the civil liability. But we're talking about who pulled the trigger. You want to talk about the civil liability of allowing a flight to fly over but this is about the Russian-sanctioned murder of civilians. The blame is on the killer. You're out here claiming a person with gun in hand who pulls the trigger is not to blame. Russia also shot down a civilian airliner that got lost on its way to Korea. You really want to bring up history?
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@asdf3568 The US admitted they did it. Russia denies it was them. You are defending the man, because people can criticize Zelensky but as soon as heat comes Yanukovych's way, the poor baby did nothing wrong and he needs to be coddled. He flees, you call it a coup. That's defending the man. Again, no country is a true democracy so this is all moot.
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@asdf3568 Where did I blame the Iranians? He feared being killed after his actions lead to the deaths of people? Oh no, I feel so bad for him! How about you define coup? Because impeachment or issuing a vote of no confidence is not inherently a coup. A president fleeing and being relieved of his duties is not a coup. You're defending democracy, but your defense hinges on an anti-democratic president being removed from office after calling it quits. Waiting for the next election? So just let bad politics run rampant? You're defending democracy by removing the right to free speech and the right to protest, just vote harder next time. It wouldn't have prevented the civil war because if pro-EU parties won, Russia would have armed separatists anyway.
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@asdf3568 Voting intimidation happened in the 2004 election where Yanukovych "won". The punishment is deserved because of the denial. If they had come forward and admitted a mistake that would be one thing because mistakes happen in war. The problem is, they probably didn't want to admit Russian military fired the missile. So they instead started sharing conspiracy theories about a Su-25 shooting it down.
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@asdf3568 The rebels themselves claimed they couldn't have fired the missile because they're not trained for it. Could be just an excuse and they actually did it. Doesn't matter, what matters is that according to the people being fingered by Russia, they couldn't have done it so the ball is back on Russia's court. I'm not claiming anything. You're the one saying Ukraine is responsible for something they didn't do. We could talk about civil liability after you admit the criminal culpability. The CIA didn't oust him in a coup. His own party disowned him. That's what's evidence. The fraudulent vote thing is a Yanukovych play. You're only further proving that Maidan removed an undemocratic president.
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@asdf3568 And airliners had a responsibility to avoid the airspace. Again, several things went wrong, the fact of the matter is that Russia/separatists like to obfuscate and deny. Giving Russians autonomy has always been the Russian playbook. Wherever they are, Russians get to carve land for themselves simply because they're Russian. Imagine the United States if every ethnic group demanded an autonomous state. Special military operation? It's war. Don't be a coward, call things by their real name.
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@asdf3568 Uh, no. Busy? It's passenger's lives were're talking about. They do keep themselves informed about everything including weather patterns, and organizations like the ICAO issue warnings about flying over conflict zones. You seem to think the world is a lot more simple than it actually is. You know how much red tape there is in getting an aircraft into the air?
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@asdf3568 The hell does that mean? Independently of where they got the information, ICAO issued a warning regarding Southeastern Ukraine. So whatever you're trying to get at, rest assured you are wrong and ICAO ws provided the right information. Of course the red tape is not "done" by the airlines. They abide by it. That's what I meant, there's a ton of independent agencies working together to ensure safety. You really want to bring up the 737 MAX? Okay, let's do the analogy correctly. The airliner was warned about the MCAS (ICAO warning of SAM threat). After the crash, you want to blame whoever is in charge of the airspace for not prohibiting the flight even though the airliner was the one that decided to go ahead ignore the warnings. It's not their job to reverse engineer whatever blackbox stuff Boeing did to hide their corner cutting, but it's their job to listen to warnings. Airliners do not have to gauge SAM threat by themselves, but if they are warned of a SAM threat they should take it at least as seriously as a bad weather warning.
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@asdf3568 Russia sent the separatists the missile system that could reach that altitude.
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 @petesjk except that .280 Brit was more in line with 7.62x39
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@zoiders Nope. There were two variants of .280 British - one that was anemic, and another that had the power. The latter version had the recoil and muzzle flash of a full power rifle cartridge, so it wasn't developed further. People forget that there were two main .280 British loadings and thus think that it had the best of both worlds.
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@zoiders The hot loading was not developed any further.
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China wants to seize land from Russia.
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It is. Look for the September 2022 Khinzal crash inside Russian territory. It has the exact sake warhead.
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@RK-yu7mp So it was a Khinzal. What over delivery system could do it?
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@RK-yu7mp Doesn't matter, we know that Russia chimped out and fired 6 more Khinzals. That's proof that one got shot down and they needed a win to compensate for that humiliation.
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German radars can't beat physics. You can't make a black tshirt appear white no matter the kind of flashlight you point at it.
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A-10s would do any better than the Su-25s.
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From a distance the returns will be too weak, you'll only get the B2 on screen when it's flying close enough to the antenna.
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SIG USA.
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 @pogo1140 Drones can be replaced by ordering new ones. Pilots take 18-25 years to grow.
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 @ometec the Su-25 is faster meaning it has the speed to outrun problems. The A-10 is forced to stand and bang.
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@pogo1140 the F-22 has zero kills because nobody wants that smoke. Get Putin to agree on no nukes and the F-22 gets stationed in Ukraine. It would have easily 300 kills to its record by the war's end.
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An AC-130 crew shelled a MSF hospital in Afghanistan. Funny you mention hitting hospitals because that's actually comparable.
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 @GamerShowdown-h8j America isn't a hermit, it's literally called "World Police" sarcastically.
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 @perryblanco1446 It's the casing for the unitary warhead. The rest of the missile did not survive, got torn to pieces. This survived with a crack near the nose.
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@gratius1394 The thing is that the US looks for bodies in the countryside, the inner city, colleges, recent college graduates, etc. A guy working IT in Moscow could have lost his job due to the sanctions. Is he getting recruited? Or sheltered from the facts of war?
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@gratius1394 Reservists are not off limits. They're explicitly recruiting them because they can sign a contract and be sent into combat with a 7 day refresher course (there's rumors that they're given 2 days of training and then shipped to the front but you know how rumors are). Unfortunately image search is terrible these days and links get comments deleted, but people have photographed their recruitment posters. They're promising huge signing bonuses and pretty high wages compared to the Russian average.
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@gratius1394 You were talking about Soviets and what the Germans thought of them. That's unrelated to Ukraine.
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@gratius1394 Nobody said anything about a draft. Sweep the street for 100 bucks a month, or serve 6 months at 2000 bucks a month with a 3000 dollar signing bonus? I know a guy who knows a guy from Belarus. Was working IT, joined Wagner to make bank and is an artilleryman in Ukraine. I hope he gets maimed. Not killed, just disabled for life.
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There's more Ukrainian pilots than MiGs. And since pilots can eject, you usually lose more aircraft than pilots in a war. So there's a bunch of military men lacking the weapons they use, they want some even if they have to retrain. Artillerymen used to Soviet artillery learned Western artillery, tankers used to Soviet tanks learned Western tanks. Fighters is just another tool for the toolbox.
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 @Nick-wh4jt they'll lose that territory too.
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@Nick-wh4jt They're doomed? But it's Russia doing the human wave attacks.
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If they do that and money becomes worthless they also kneecap the financial and industrial sector. That would be a nuclear option.
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Poland's order is just insanity. And their order was made before such event could happen.
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@AStri-zg5xc There's literally no way you can make such claims. Just seems to me you got a faulty product and doubled down on it.
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@mirozen_ Can we get post 21 July data for greater accuracy? Thanks.
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@mirozen_ "I'm focused on getting work done on my house" - Blog about it. I don't care about your personal life, I asked for good data instead of bad one. "has the dashboard link right at the top of the results" - First result was the Seattle & King County page. On the last 30 days 75% of deaths were unvaxxed. Meaning that yes, it's a moving target. But if I sort by age, I get 0.05 deaths per 100,000 per day for people 30-49. Whoa. What a nothingburger.
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@mirozen_ It's not an "adversarial exchange", it's just the fact that I'm sick of you people using skewed metrics and then saying "tee-hee I can't be bothered to check". Time and time again I see you people using data from January to June or whatever, which pads the data with people who had not been able to get it. "Makes not getting vaccinated look like a pretty stupid choice." - Not really considering the extremely low death rate, compared to the low but not negligible risk of heart complications. Why would I incur a non-negligible risk for a negligible benefit? "My next door neighbor was both 42 and white but she died of Covid-19 last year" - And what was the treatment protocol administered? "It would be smart for you to get vaccinated just in case" - It wouldn't because the risk of complications actually increases my chances of dying.
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But it doesn't keep people from getting sick.
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Russia already started WWIII bub. They are allied with Iran which helped Oct 7 and the Red Sea attacks by Houthis. They are allied with NK which can use their profits from selling ammo to boost their capabilities to take South Korea. They are in an under the table relationship with China which wants Taiwan. Russia dumped the powder keg and is holding the match. They caused WWIII.
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@laurad4822 Seems to me that you're just reaching for excuses. If everyone had cooperated you'd still be in the same situation, you'd still be complaining about the heretics and sinners. I can't believe I have to explain this.
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@ccdogpark A conspiracy theory of a mole inside the GOP would make more sense than just media being bombastic because if it bleeds it leads?
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It's also bugging me so what I think they're trying to do is segmenting the frag sleeve and the switch makes it come apart when you release it after throwing. Because I know frag/concussion combination grenades exist but they typically involve either unscrewing the frag sleeve or clipping a spring-tensioned metal ring to the body. By flipping a switch? That's a tough one.
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Putin is a sweet old man when he talks? Oh wow nobody ever lied to the cameras ever.
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Cope Botski
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Balancing the budget is financial disaster. Clinton did it and the consequences set the stage for the 2008 crisis when household savings took a dive.
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It's the other way around, nobody wants to say anything that could hurt them in court. Getting cleared in the court of public opinion is not that useful.
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@17nirmalya Logic ended when you compared sniper operations to infantry combat.
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@17nirmalya Nobody mentioned assassinations. You did. Those are not snipers, those are designated marksmen. Designated marksmen are specialized troops who have the training to use their tools. Just like Stinger operators are trained to use those missile launchers. What does regular infantry use? 5.56x45 or Stinger missiles?
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@17nirmalya It does. The US military tested it, and with 5.56 more soldiers scored Expert than with 7.62. The Russians also found out the same when they evaluated 5.45 vs 7.62. Snipers and designated marksmen already require good qualification with the standard rifle before they enter their specialization school. They already have to be good shooters. Then they are trained to make use of extra energy in cartridges. The average infantryman cannot be trained to make the most of full power rifles, which is why most infantry rifle fighting occurs within 300 meters.
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@17nirmalya The majority of American deaths were due to suicide bomb/IED/mortar/RPG and aircraft crashes. The firearm most feared was the PK machine gun, not rifles. The myth of bolt action rifles taking out American servicemen is just a myth, 1000 yard shots are incredibly difficult with open sights. 5.56 weapons were underarmed... against PK machine guns... That's normal. The crew served weapon usually defeats individual rifles, that's how it works in US doctrine too. The NGSW is meant for modern peer nation armor. If the issue was range, there's more efficient and lighter recoiling cartridges. The 6.8 NGSW program is entirely about the steel core busting ceramic. The AK-203 is an export weapon for the Indian military. The AK-15 doesn't even get its own wikipedia page, it's under the AK-12 page. Because the AK-12 is the successor of the AK-74M.
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@17nirmalya Anyone can make a video and say whatever they want. The facts do not change. Bolt action rifles were not as big of a problem as PKs. Firing 30 rounds in a minute at 1000 yards? Sure. The SAW, as the name implies, is the squad automatic weapon. The M240 is brought by the weapons squad supporting the rifle squads in the rifle platoon. You're a nothing warrior. You're out here giving off incorrect information and pointing to youtube videos. I can't exactly call the Russian army right now and ask them where the AK-15s are. So I looked it up. Okay, Russia won't publish state practices, so you claim the AK-15 is the main service weapon? How would you know? You just said it was a state secret. I don't need your good luck wishes, because coming from people like you they're certain to jinx me. Hope you stop being an embarrassment by making up lies and citing Youtube videos while criticizing research.
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@17nirmalya 1. Knowing what a rifle round is capable of doesn't mean ability to use it accurately past max effective range. 2. The SAW is, like the name implies, a SQUAD weapon while the M240 is used by the weapons squad inside the rifle platoon. So each rifle platoon is covered by two M240s. 3. 5.45 and 7.62x39 are used in Russian weapons. They do not outrange 5.56. 4. Kalashnikov concern always manufactures several variants and calibers. There were several -100 series AKs. The AK-103 was 7.62. The AK-101 was in 5.56. Why would they make an AK-15? Because they always make multiple variants.
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@17nirmalya Yes, because casualty production is achieved through mortaring, artillery and air support. Individual rifles have never been the main casualty producer in modern warfare.
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@17nirmalya So due to poor performance in Afghanistan, Russia, which is not planning to take over Afghanistan, is going to change their main caliber based on it?
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@17nirmalya Why the change of subject?
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That doesn't make ANY sense. The F-22 and YF-23 are, like the F-15, an over-engineered and overpriced aircraft that beats everything in the air. It's just too expensive. So a smaller number of expensive, large, twin engine air superiority fighters are purchased. To make up for the low numbers, a smaller and cheaper multirole aircraft is purchased in high numbers. That was the F-16 in the F-15s case. The YF-23 would still need the smaller and cheaper F-35 to exist in large numbers.
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Human swarms don't work. Artillery does quick work on them.
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They've been doing terribly. And sanctions are indeed working, that's why they tey to convince you they're not. They want sanctions relief lol
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This story comes out every year during the summer. The offensive is doing better than Kherson, and Kherson was a decisive Ukrainian victory.
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@myhandlewastakenandIgaveup The problem was that "tactical" became a useless descriptor. "Military" or "combat" boots became tactical boots. A soft shell jacket with pockets and velcro pads for patches doesn't make the jacket "tactical". You may just get these items for a hike, but apparently they were infused with the special sauce to handle tactical situations. "Tactical gear" may be an easy catch-all for the stuff used in military/police operations and that's fine but when the hat is tactical, the pants are tactical, the messenger bag is tactical, the sunglasses are tactical, etc it's an absolute joke.
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You have to realize it's a government's job program clusterfuck. They intentionally dispersed the workload over hundreds of different subcontractors to create jobs in their respective states. The money goes back into the economy not through Lockheed Martin, but the fact that there's a dozen dudes laying up carbon fiber for a section of the right wing in Bumfuck, Alabama and another dozen dudes laying up carbon fiber for a section of the left wing in a factory in fucking Burbank, California or something. Add it all up and the plane had like 8 factories in Turkey, 40 in California, a couple in Texas, etc. I don't remember the exact numbers but essentially all countries that pitched in for the Joint Strike Fighter project were "rewarded" with factories in their country getting jobs.
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@mainstreetcoinjewelrysanja5174 flying golf carts have done a number on insurgent forces.
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Do you know what natural selection even is? It's amazing how you people pose as edgy eugenecists but don't even understand how it works.
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>could do so through other vendors who are currently not obliged by law to perform background checks on their customers? Any "vendor" of firearms has to have his FFL, just like any bar has to have a license to sell booze. Any vendor has to be licensed and all licensed FFLs do BG checks on ALL customers otherwise they are engaging in a very illicit act.
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You're right in the sense that the F-35 is a jobs program but the F-16 is a 4th gen fighter which took the role of multiple planes. It does CAS better than the A-10 which was why there was an attempt to put a 30mm gunpod on the F-16 that didn't work out.
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@BookOfEnoch3 For obvious reasons? Kampf is both "fight" and "struggle". Nothing wrong with struggling. But bad people defend their actions as if they were good. I don't care for the "struggle" of evil people. Their "struggle" is to impose real struggle on others. They play victim while oppressing.
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What happened to the dude who planned that? He got canoed. And John Cena announced it live on WWE.
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@monty2654 They entered mass production and kept killing people.
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@nattygsbord What about the air? Would the crew be forced to close the air intakes? Because there's filters to prevent the poisoning, but I can't imagine hot air getting sucked into a metal box won't turn it into an oven. Resisting heating from the outside also means build-up of heat inside because you can't just conduct it away easily.
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Those are Russian MoD claims. They are false.
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 @ДимитърЙосифов-т7ъ The 10k aircraft were not all B-52s. They were A-4s, helicopters, etc.
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@zemm9003 The US gave up because after Watergate there was no political capital to intervene. The North tapped out with the Paris Accords, and they broke the peace deal when they saw the US would not step up.
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There's zero reason to buy steel or Chinese unless you're planning to hand out plates to people you don't like.
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He has no source, so he made one up. There's a reason it's on substack and not any major news outlet. Jesus, just reading it reminds me of bad fanfic. Air force wants to use a bomb, CIA wants to be covert. Like characters explaining their personality traits through dialog.
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@Social Enigma this would damage small businesses much more than the "corporate elites". Most businesses operate on thin margins and increasing risk is not sustainable. Do you also think banks should be forced by the government to give out loans to people who have a higher risk of not paying?
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Fukushima is not uninhabitable. There's just no jobs and Japan pays a stipend to the relocated. So nobody wants to go back. Who'd want to rebuild their flood damaged house while having no income?
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 @NickKautz one of those "all PR is good PR" types. So I guess Elon profited a lot from his hand gesture, right?
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It's a massive twin engine fighter. Comparing it with the F-16 is weird.
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Russian missile parts were found in Poland.
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The Navy never integrated guns into their Phantoms.
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@Bazompora "Maduro is elected" - plenty of dictators were elected. My family lived in a dictatorship too, and the dictator was elected. Then the military got fed up and started a coup. I see Maduro apologists and the parallels between situations and I figure that you people would rather my family live through dictatorship and have me be born into a dictatorship.
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>gun violence on TV doesn't really ruin anyone's life Of course not. It just influences poor kids that being a gansgta is a good way to get money and bitches. I'm being Devil's Advocate because I believe TV should air whatever they want. I don't think they are the cause, I think they're just not helping. >automatic rifles Banned since 1986. >sniper rifles Basically any rifle with a scope. Sniper rifles don't exist, they are part of the sniper system. Without a sniper, it's just a rifle.
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What the F is that username, dawg?
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@ngood888 holy crap you're paid to spam this?
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Russia has air superiority, but cannot conduct proper air power operations. Where's the close air support? Flying close to the ground, pointing the nose up, firing rockets in a lofting trajectory and then turning back and heading home.
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Lies. Russia broke Minsk. NATO promised not to expand to the POLISH BORDER because of German reunification in 1989. The Soviet Union only fell in 1991.
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@mikemurray2027 We got co-opted by big business.
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The biolabs lol
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Crypto has public ledgers. I bet you never went ahead and actually looked at the FTX accounts. Random youtubers can track all of Logan Paul's crypto and NFT scams to see where each transaction goes, but you've never seen any evidence of FTX laundering being tied to Ukraine. You were told there is. You've never seen it. Because there's no proof. You're fed lies masquerading as news and think you're enlightened.
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@Critter145 The FTX claims started a month or two before the twitter files. Not my fault you can't read a calendar.
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@Hyposonic That's what I said, the F-22 will be retired.
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 @crescent4996 Ukraine has no nukes. Try again.
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@crescent4996 Ukraine wasn't in NATO and couldn't join due to Crimea/Donbabwe. Try again.
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The police does have the right to stop drivers. Last time I checked, there is no right to stop and search without probable cause. It's a crime to drive drunk, it's not a crime to for some reason having this special paint on you (miss/incrimination). That's like assuming I robbed a bank/cracked into an ATM if I am found with marked bills. >take off your shirt Yeah, what if a young female was hit in the bum? Is your teenage daughter taking off her clothes or will you call a lawyer?
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Ironic because Saab desperately tried to lower their bids to get sales and even resorted to bribes.
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False. They openly mocked negotiations. When asked about their continued arming of separatists, they said they never signed any agreements so they can do whatever they want. The Minsk II treaty was broken the very next day by DPR forces. They planned an assault on Debaltseve right after a ceasefire went into effect. What kind of cowardice is that? Begging for mercy and then stabbing when you let your guard down. Shelling of innocent people for eight years? Do me a favor. Post the number of people killed in 2021.
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>everyone keeps doing what they are already doing How? There will be no corporations to invest, to produce or even to sell anything. >we dispense with the need for currency. i.e. free housing, free food And how would it be paid for? I know you have dispensed currency, but food doesn't just come on the table. Does that mean that people will get food off the backs of poor bastards? Who don't even get paid because there's no currency? Slavery much?
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There's what, 8 MiG-35s in flying condition?
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Not really. Americans didn't have a real wage increase because of increasing supply of labour without a proportional increase in demand. If you want to go back to the 1950's and 1960's, you gotta bomb the shit out of Europe and Asia and slap your wife until she stays home instead of working. Increase the demand for American products by making sure nobody else has factories still standing, reduce the supply of labour in half by forcing women to become housewives. If you don't want this, then get married. Your and your wife's salary combined is your wage increase.
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A revolver is not a semi auto, unless it's one of them Matebas. The rotation of the cylinder is caused by the trigger pull. It's not a self-loading design. Translating into handguns, it would be as if you needed to pull the slide every time you fired. Just because Double Action made firing a revolver more convenient, they still have no self-loading mechanism, requiring an action of your finger. Any semi auto can be converted to auto. Can a revolver go full auto (single pull of the trigger)?
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Because it's an aging aircraft that has largely been replaced by multirole aircraft.
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@RobinHartJones An Aston Martin is an Aston Martin. You're stupidly paying for something, but it's an Aston Martin. You're a big shot, go ham. If you do the same thing with a videogame... That's actually sad.
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@fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617 Yeah, those battles were months ago.
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@rAven-zv4cw Having resources isn't the only issue. Extraction, processing, distribution, etc all requires resources to be diverted away from something else.
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"The only time I care is when the OF creator has kids" - Okay, and how many OF creators will have kids in the future? 90%? 70%? Even if only 50% of OF creators end up having kids, that's still 1 out of 2 OF creators deserving your judgement. How can you claim to not care and then care?
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@jjhanson343 if you don't know anything about the military, maybe
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@Mr.Killswitch defending the country is done at home. Not thousands of miles away.
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There's footage.
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SC is absolutely a scam. Ever heard about Theranos? They ran blood tests through regular labs while trying to make their machine work. SC went from selling jpegs to only having a hangar, to finally having an alpha, and now they rely on FOMO to sell ships which they eventually nerf to sell newer ships. CIG is basically trying to build the road as they drive, as long as funding continues they'll keep going but if funding stopped right this second they couldn't finish the game.
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At any kind of range low recoil is desirable. In ArmA 3 I love 5.56 weapons and hate 6.5. You have to fight the recoil so much and long distance shots do need fast follow ups.
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 @jaredwilliams2357 Yes, becuase you are not curious. The information has been available for almost 20 years. If you wanted answers you'd have them.
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Same excuse as the T-62. It was later used in the frontline.
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@elizabethchan1831 because of advertising and subscribers? You know, how money used to be made 20 years ago?
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@elizabethchan1831 You question how money can be made from listeners, I explain it to you, then you act like it was obvious all along. Huh. Why did you ask, then? Try to keep up lul
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@leeds-yoga9265 Brian Berletic the man who said HIMARS wouldn't make a difference. HIMARS then proceeded to break the back of Russia's modern fighting force, requiring the switch to Wagner tactics.
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@stephenglover8828 Credentials are relevant. Alex Mercouris is a scammer and a fraud. Look at how much they got wrong. If you got a MBA but keep getting things wrong, you're wrong. If you're someone who has scammed clients and then go on the internet to continue your career as a liar, you're just continuing business as usual.
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@theboss4359 We took measures to prevent Ukraine from being invaded even further after 2014. Didn't work. What are we going to do with Georgia, give them nukes? Chomski's advice is garbage. You settle, you create the conditions for a further push. You're literally giving Russia pause to try and build up forces again. Unless your argument is that along with a "settlement" we just focus on bankrupting Russia even more.
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@dimon5891 So if Russian aviation can't handle 3 Patriot batteries, what happens when there's F-16s hunting them? Usually when there's more sources of danger, the cumulative effect is stronger because now pilots get task overloaded from managing the different threats.
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Because video feed from remote drones is garbage compared to TV grade recordings.
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 @ahuman7199 Pretty sure the Greeks had it before Russia. And the Russians got it from the Tatars.
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Caps lock is cruise control for cool
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It wasn't a P226 it was a USP.
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TIGHT TOLERANCES?!?!
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@ishitrealbad3039 Nobody's revolting. People didn't have the balls in 2020.
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"the soviets may have not had the proper tooling for the STG-44" - This is completely ridiculous. The machinery behind the AK was much more developed than the StG. You know how the StG was headspaced? They used a bolt to space the locking tabs and filled the remaining gap with lead. "When Schmeisser went to Russia he most likely had to help design something based on the tooling they had at that time." - So he made a design that had absolutely nothing to do with the StG, was in fact superior to the StG, because he was... limited by tooling?
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@slickceretto9760 This doesn't make any sense. So they didn't use the StG operating principles and instead copied the Garand, but they also didn't have the "right tooling" so they opted for an even more high-tech manufacturing process... but still copied the StG for completely unnecessary reasons.
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@slickceretto9760 There is no argument, just the debunking of false narratives. The proof is in the puddling? Even though the pudding is a cake? Totally different. A German didn't make it because it doesn't even have any German lineage. It's an American weapon internally with the external build of a Soviet mid century weapon. Not only was a German not necessary to arrive at such a design, it was also extremely unlikely considering the quirks of German weapon designs.
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@slickceretto9760 So why would he be needed? If he had to learn to do everything the Soviet way.... They might as well just use the existing Soviet designers. He was also reported to be uncooperative and had lack of technical education, as compared to the other Germans who had been captured and also sent to Izhmash. Yes, it does matter where the features come from because if they got a German to design a distinctly non-German weapon... This makes the German guy in the story pretty useless. Top weapons designer? You sure about that? Then how come the top weapons designer had problems with the stamped receiver, went back to Germany, died, and then the Soviets solved the issues with the stamped receiver by introducing the AKM 4 years later?
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@slickceretto9760 there's no signature design choice that can be attributed to Schmeisser. In this case the meat and potatoes are fish and salad, so he had nothing to do with the process. He was also never anywhere close to the design process or trials, before Skype, Zoom and Dropbox I don't think he could work remotely. The Soviets may have lied but so did Germans and Wehraboos.
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They're buying GPS guided drones from Iran. Their manufacturing is a mess.
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 @neurofiedyamato8763 love the implication that Vietnam is in the southern hemisphere.
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@paavali1896 It's true, which is why Russia is pulling T-55s from storage rather than manufacturing Armatas.
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@paavali1896 The local optics are considerably worse than the French imports. Worth putting on a T-62 because it's better than nothing, but a complete nerf on a T-90M.
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@MrKKUT1984 1. China and Canada joined a military alliance in 2013. Nobody cared. 2. Mexico isn't afraid of US invasion, if anything their military is the only force that can be trusted to fight cartels so they cooperate closely with the US. 3. Ukraine wasn't going to join NATO until it was surrounded by troops in late 2021.
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Oliver Stone, Putin's friend and whose son works for RT.
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F-16s.
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Because it's what the bots he paid to spam comments sections said. That he wanted peace. Turns out the West and Zelensky aren't the warmongers! It was Putin all along! Oh nooo three years of people glazing Putin and Russia, and the bunker Tsar just embarassed them all.
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The company that made it went out of business.
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It actually weirds me out that so many people are confused about this. The brass is also a heat conductor. This means heat inside is heat outside. If you touch a pan with a brass handle you get burned. With plastic, more heat is absorbed because it's an insulator.
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@shoyupacket5572 Maybe they're not lying. Maybe they genuinely don't know what they saw and have allowed UFO nutters to poison their heads. Look at Fravor. The other guy saying "there's cold air around the aircraft, that's cold thrust". Well, Fravor should have known that the white halo around the hot spot isn't a cold area, but an edge detection algorithm that increases contrast so that the pilots can see their target better. He should have stepped in to correct the other guy and said there's no cold air anywhere. Is he lying? Or did he forget how his own sensors work? Because pilots know how to enable and disable this effect as needed. Or more simply, he's surrounded by UFO nutters and has started to act more in line with them rather than reasonable people who don't believe the sightings.
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The problem is that we're starting to see all the people who took that advice clogging the funnel. The trades aren't what they used to be.
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Russian SAMs have got dabbed on by everything from Storm Shadows to trainer aircraft loaded with HE.
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 @mannymushies5241 Incredibly hard to prove defamation in the US. For example in the UK it's much easier.
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@Hillary Cliton go home Hillary, you're drunk
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That doesn't make any sense.
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@dengawr6000 Everyone is free to support their friends. If you're robbing my friend's house and he calls me, I can show up. You're gonna complain that it's not my house? Who cares? To be a "world war" it has to be worldwide. It's just a few nations bonking on a single one.
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I don't trust the "specialists" either. A mess of a government is honestly preferable to efficient tyranny.
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And yet the multirole had to be called in to do the A-10s job in 1991.
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It eventually sank. They were correct, just ahead of time.
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@xinceras-6542 I live in Europe and on occasion I get American drinks from import stores. HFCS tastes different. There's a specific taste/feel to drinks which aren't available here, and the ones which have an European bottling taste differently from the local stuff. It's not a sugar industry psyop.
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The pipeline where the Russian ship with the mini sub were seen in the days prior to the attack?
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@Legendary_SuperWarrior When people started complaining about mr beast milking views off the wells and blindness surgeries it made sense to defend it because mr beast was using his wealth for good so who cares if he makes the money back? Now it changes the perspective because mr beast made money by fooling his audience and promoting all sorts of purchases and schemes to maximize his views. Yes it's true mr beast did help people but he earned the money in a scummy way. It's like The Completionist, he gave the 600k to the charity in the end but he's not a hero, he was sitting on the money while claiming to be a main donor to a university research program.
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SubtoPolecat324 Jets have been asked to do anything since the F-4 days. Naval interceptor, air superiority, close air support and SEAD. No problem. F/A-18s wrote history by shooting down Su-22 and proceeding with a bombing mission. No problem. The F-16 is both the fighter that mimicks the MiG-29 in aggressor squadrons, and was chosen for the strike missiom Operation Opera. No problem. Suddenly the F-35 is the issue?
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SubtoPolecat324 Jets have been asked to do anything since the F-4 days. Naval interceptor, air superiority, close air support and SEAD. No problem. F/A-18s wrote history by shooting down Su-22 and proceeding with a bombing mission. No problem. The F-16 is both the fighter that mimicks the MiG-29 in aggressor squadrons, and was chosen for the strike missiom Operation Opera. No problem. Suddenly the F-35 is the issue?
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@teemuvesala9575 the F4 is still the world's greatest distributor of MiG parts
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@teemuvesala9575 False. USAF F-4s scored 3.8 to 1. This was due to F-4s conducting escorts for bombers falling into ambushes. USAF F-4s performing combat air patrols killed MiGs at a 5.5 to 1 ratio. After Teaball radar and listening station was introduced, the USAF enjoyed a 15 to 1 kill ratio from 1972 to 1973. The USN scored 4.7 to 1 ratios, and CAP F-4s scored 6.4 to 1 ratios. After TOPGUN was introduced they scored 8.7 to 1. Even by the worst metrics the average is 4.25 kills for every lost by USAF and USN. The American pilots were also very inexperienced in air combat as their training was mostly about shooting down bombers. Once training increased and better tactics introduced, the Phantoms beat the MiGs senseless.
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@teemuvesala9575 Oh, so now you question the statistics. Moving the goalposts. Never heard of a Phantom flyer who didn't know how to fly it. "so bad lol" is that your military analysis or a text sent by a 16 year old?
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@teemuvesala9575 The 12º degree angle on the wing tips is a stability augmenter. It wasn't a "design choice", it was a fix for a problem found in testing. Amazing how such a badly designed aircraft was so successful both in Vietnam and the Middle East. By the way, the proposed IAI Super Phantom would be able to super cruise and the RF-4X capable of reaching Mach 3 despite having conformal water thanks for the pre-compressor injection. Not bad for an aircraft that is "horrible aerodynamically".
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Government programs bad, welfare bad! But we should spend MORE on Israel, we'll get so much technology back - technology to fight wars!
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It's too late to cut supplies. It's a terrible bet.
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 @fastride852000 It's already been replaced. F-16s and F-15Es silently took over the A-10s job. It does the minority of CAS sorties.
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The countries with universal healthcare are also in on this lie. So that changes nothing.
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Should have been retired in 1991.
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@captainkiwi77 riddiculous death toll? How many?
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Name checks out.
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@marcobonesi6794 The US defeated Iraq with less than 150 combat fatalities in 1991. Russia has suffered countless KIAs, to the point military cemetaries are expanding at alarming rates in Russia and Crimea. You really want to fight for a country like Russia?
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@marcobonesi6794 Javelins blunted armor advances. HIMARS turned Russia from an artillery country to a meatwave country. These FABs helped (?) Russia take a town at the cost of 16k. I'd rathet have HIMARS.
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It's not vigilantism if it's only defense of the self. People don't have the right to stop someone who defended himself. None of this would have happened if the criminals out that night didn't decide to chase Kyle.
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@deletedTestimony how is it for the good of humanity if you still transmit?
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@whytherumgone They can still get it. The shot doesn't prevent transmission. Also, why are they afraid if they took it? If they have sick or elderly in their family, they should stay away. You're outright admitting that they can still spread, but the person you're replying to is somehow the bad guy.
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@varkgriep That's US officials dumbing it down for the general population. The Kharkiv offensive is focused on gaining territory. The Kherson offensive is focused on grinding down the troops that are underfed, underpaid and low on ammo.
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Tulsi Gabbard is not a scientist or inspector. Who cares what she says?
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The only way for the gun to be reliable and effective is to search people's skin up to two weeks after the riot. Tell me, how doesn't it infringe on the rights of innocent people, and guilty people who should be considered innocent before proven guilty?
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It has. A couple mediatic failures but hundreds of successful intercepts.
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@63phillip So the intercepts are fake?
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@dahorn100011 It's not the only nation with a high gun homcide rate.
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@tombrazy12hunnit Source: the fact that battles happen.
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What if NY had sponsored Florida's chemical weapons program and Florida used then against NJ? Remember, Saddam was America's buddy when Iraq was fighting Iran.
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 @Erik_Ice_Fang bruh AWACS can operate in US skies, I saw flightradar screenshots the other day even P-8s were in on the action
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Ukraine has been bombarded almost every single say since 24 Feb 2022. This is the retaliation. Stop being regarded.
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@warpnin3 How will they stop it? They have no way to control them. The Soviet Union has been dead for thirty years yet the useful idiots they put in the West to undermine us are still working, not knowing they were part of a program. Rioters and looters will continue to riot and loot well after they outlive their usefulness.
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@TheInverseable "You hire a PMC" - Good luck. State Department controls who can be a PMC, they can immediately revoke licenses. Erik Prince went to live in the Emirates when he sensed trouble with Blackwater because there's no extradition treaty. Chris Kyle was a liar, by the way. "absolutely cleanse the area" - these areas are self-dirtying. Without major criminal justice overhaul at the federal level you wouldn't be able to pull it off. We're talking about actually undoing stuff the ACLU spent decades to achieve. Undoing massive leftist gains since the 60s to make a few million?
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Intel has deposited 0.02 cents on your account.
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@zinjanthropus322 "it's presighted" okay but if you have no recon units telling when to fire and where you're SOL. You're welcome to fire on pre-sighted positions at random intervals. But your opponent will simply stay away from those locations.
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@mattipps No, it isn't. Often the airframe is limited to 7.5 or 8 Gs even though the human inside can sustain 9 Gs.
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@nana-booboostickyourheadin4169 In particular?
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 @ndenise3460 The Sidearms were taken out of service almost 20 years ago.
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@nightraven2975 You're twisting your own words. The article said that in the close city fighting, it was small arms and shovels. You omitted the small arms, and only say shovels. Trying to make a mockery of others doesn't work when you only mock yourself.
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@PDK7654 According to their plan? Electronic draft to prevent dodgers? Is that the plan? They risk troops all the time. Watch the videos from Vuhledar. Russians were slaughtered there. A town with buildings and flat land all around, perfect visibility on advancing Russians.
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Carrying a sidearm is not a big burden. Having a large number in a fleet getting repairs because it was designed to take hits instead of not getting hit in the first place is a burden. It was a bad call, and now there's a price to pay for it. While the sidearm... who cares? It doesn't have much room for new tech. It's already crammed full of upgrades. Mavericks are too expensive? Too bad. The A-10 uses them and needs them.
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DPR forces are being rebuilt with mobilized Russian men. They took tremendous losses.
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They didn't have the weapons. They specifically asked for ATACMS for the HIMARS and M270 launcher vehicles. The US refused to consider ATACMS for over a year.
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Also they had TRAITORS in their country, some Ukrainian mayors flipped to Russia's side. One Ukrainian combat engineer sacrificed his life to detonate a bridge they couldn't rig to blow in time. He blew the bridge with himself in it and with Russians already crossing it, pinning him down. "Doesn't add up" those guys gave their all for their country and you sit on a keyboard questioning it.
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More like, Congress won't let us retire the A-10 unless we come up with an A designation plane so let's give them the stupid A plane and just use the F-16 anyway.
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"Higher" than the background levels, but not high enough to matter.
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@LennardA320 You'll literally get more radiation from a banana than eating fish from the Pacific. If I exhale, the atmosphere will have more CO2. Doesn't mean it's significant. The longer the half life, the less radiation it emits. The short half life isotopes are the deadliest because they zap you with more energy.
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That million is a made up number and if you look it up it's based on face to face surveys rather than body count. The results aren't repeatale.
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They wouldn't risk a Su-34 70km near Kiyv. The aircraft dropping glide FABs are vulnerable to SAMs.
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@majedalqadi275 The USA isn't the country with the most gun crimes. Criminals without guns are still dangerous. Tasers don't work, and in occasion do kill people by stopping their heart or making people hit their head on the ground.
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Images of the Leopard 2 being repaired already surfaced.
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Like there aren't 30 year olds playing 18 year old teens in movies and Tv...
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Look around. Nobody else has A-10s. Nobody else is building aircraft like it. There's no A-10 replacement just like there was no T-Rex replacement. Dinosaurs are just gone. Now it's the time of shaved apes. We lack size, raw strength and sharp fangs. But we rule the planet with our brains.
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@Grimoirei https://youtu.be/C0J9rG2AJ_g?t=13
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It has excellent range. Estimated 600-700 combat range which matches 4th gen with three external fuel tanks.
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It's not a problem, critics just insist that it is by refusing to address it.
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@lol1210Lipop Not me, the solution was already found by people more knowledgeable than me.
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UAP just means unidentified. If a bird flies in front of you, just you just see a black blurry shape speeding past, that's UAP.
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If they go after every mag fed weapon, people will use en-bloc clips. After that is banned, stripper clips. When all it remains is tube fed, they will make speed loaders like they make for shotguns. David Gregory brought a 30 round magazine to DC. Even HIM is able to break the law. Why should we ban citizens from having magazines the size they want if criminals will get their hands on everything they want?
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Extremely high risks for Russia. You got it backwards, bub. If they fail, they've killed one of their industries.
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They violate patents anyway, who cares if they invented it?
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Forget the media. In the real world, Russia is losing.
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The enemy gets a vote whether or not you'll be in MANPADS range. Because you may think you're outside MANPADS range, but there could be a guy right below you and ready to take a shot.
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 @jaycole5353 Homeless people gets tons of aid. Most prefer to remain homeless or are just unable to be housed.
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@suckieduckie One thing I've learned over the years is that people underestimate how easy it is to be humble in victory. When you're on top of the world, it's incredibly easy to be the "top guy". Want to test someone? Make them lose. People gracious in victory many times end up sore losers. Mandela got what he wanted, all eyes were on him, why throw it all away and ruin his reputation? Have an alternative universe where he loses, Apartheid is still in effect, but his sentence is commuted for whatever reason. And nobody cares who is he. He'd go right back to helping the militant faction of the ANC.
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How does the targeting computer know? Radar only points forward with a certain scan angle. But look at a target, and you can tell the targeting computer about an enemy the computer can't see.
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Which is a twin engine because they can't make a Pratt & Whitney F-135.
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What's natural to ants isn't natural to humans, just saying.
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That's the Chinese conspiracy to deflect blame. It's been pushed by Chicoms since the start.
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Most of the population in the West Ukraine, including Russian-speaking Ukrainians, hate Russia now. The Russia simps are dying, because Russia forces them to be bullet sponges.
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@Aqua Fyre If it was true then, why are you still saying it now?
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To be fair they used M4s like SAWs. Most guns will either start to choke or have the handguard catch fire when abused like that.
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Russians do combined arms. It's all captured by drone footage. Typically the lead vehicle hits a land mine, then they get hammered by artillery. FPV drones pick off armored vehicles. IFVs and APCs start dumping troops, panick, sometimes run over their own men. These are the real deal offensives, not just meatwaves. They get hammered just the same.
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What good is gas when the cars are junk?
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They don't rise through the ranks. They are just sent out again. The only ones who can rise through the ranks are the former spec ops guys.
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@bramharms72 This is the real world. Russia filmed some propaganda about the guys who lasted 6 months and were released. There's a handful of them on camera. Thousands are buried. There's satellite photos tracking the growth of Wagner cemeteries over time. New graves are constantly being dug. They're criminals. Why would they give them promotions? They're not trustworthy.
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@bramharms72 That's a question for Russia to solve. Did you know that crime inside Russia near the border areas has increased tremendously? What skills and experience? They're used as recon by fire. Aka advance until they get shot at and force Ukrainians to expose themselves. Recognized for what? Not dying? Promoted to what? More valuable bullet sponge? I'm not American. So your argument fails right there.
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@HingerlAlois The irony is that T-72s have a low profile (check out the size comparison with an Abrams) and they're adding to the tank height to protect... from RPG-7s or hand/drone-thrown grenades. With NLAWS in play, which can overly embankments and detonate on top of hidden tanks, having a 1/1.5 meter tall structure on top is seriously detrimental.
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@squidwardo7074 In Iraq the cages actually worked against the most common threat, and they were installed in more places than just the roof. Some vehicles were completely covered, looked like a chicken coop.
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Why? They're tanks, and anti-tank weapons exist.
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The problem is that it makes even less sense because twitch would have a 100% legit way to revoke the contract. Twitch decided to keep paying him for no reason.
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@dirtyblueshirt This is absolute cope. Move the goalposts until you can claim that success is defined by doing the bare minimum and pat yourself in the back while pissing away lives and money. Not to mention that military action against Assad and Qaddafi created safe havens for terrorists - not to mention that support for Saudi Arabia's actions in Yemen is helping AlQaeda. Might as well have allowed the terrorists to have Afghanistan. Not to mention that most likely the peace deal with the Taliban will most likely involve allowing Uyghurs to move across the border to train fighters. So not only are your objectives questinable when taking the costs into account, they are also contradicted by other aspects of foreign policy.
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The F-35 is quite maneuverable.
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@samoldfield5220 No, I am not talking about submarines. INS guidance inaccuracy comes from drift. That's why GPS guided munitions in the West are actually INS guided munitions with continuous GPS correction to account for drift. If you jam the GPS, the munition spends a grand total of a fraction of a second inside jammer range. The modern battlefield is full of GPS jammers because it hinders commercial quadcopter operation. It's simple as that.
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Well they're not going to send pilots to the trenches so them getting a few months of training is better than have them sitting in an airbase with no aircraft to fly.
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@firstandforemost87 Homes are cheap in poorer countries. People can't afford houses in developed countries because we have this nasty habit of having "zoning laws" and "codes" that prevent stuff from toppling. If we had more poverty and more bombs falling, we could just build more high rises (with tofu dreg quality) that block out the sun and we'd live like in the Kowloon walled city. But because we're not fortunate enough to be poorer and have buildings demolished routinely, we're stuck having to build more low density suburbs outside cities.
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@firstandforemost87 Housing could keep up with population if we kept toppling buildings and constructing larger ones. We won't do that because zoning/planing/regulations will always make things remain static on a longer timeline. Which comes with the good and the bad.
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First the Teixeira leaks and now this. We really can't stop the Ls.
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 @locomotive9122 obsessed
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That's John McAfee's whalefucking argument to a t.
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Never with the intent to freeze Iraqis into submission. The Iraqi government was steamrolled in 2003, there was no point in using civilians as hostages. Russia can't defeat thr Ukrainian government, so they act like terrorists executing one hostage for every hour.
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You'd need an area like 3x the size of Egypt to have a noticeable effect.
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Yes. Acting as glorified mall security for infrastructure, or as bodyguards for CEOs. They were never tasked with war objectives.
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@targetingmolecule5816 Yet quality trunced quantity. Russia is pulling T-55s out of storage. Their tanks are mostly inoperable.
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@targetingmolecule5816 Russia had 15,000 tanks? You mean tank hulls. Actual photos of them show they're rust buckets, exposed to snow and rain for decades.
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Special forces train locals. You heard what you wanted to hear, which is "Americans are conducting special operations" which is not true. Special forces are an unconventional warfare asset that trains others to fight wars so that their country doesn't have to fight.
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 @b.a.m.5078 It didn't get jammed. Those ballistic missiles come in screaming so they don't spend enough time inside the jam bubble. It broke apart over water.
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@fwfeo Russia also had tank advantage and still got shredded. Advantages are like dick size - knowing how to use it is what matters. Russia squanders its advantage by bombarding empty fields, even Russian soldiers complain about the ammo wasted.
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That shirt with the desert night camo is a banger.
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The first attack took months to repair.
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Jesus Christ the point is that the algorithm was looking inside clothing it could be misused to find all sorts of objects and violate your privacy under the guise of looking for firearms.
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"Cashless payments will be the biggest single advance against crime" - not really, crime will still happen. Imagine that instead of having a knife or gun pointed at you for cash it will be to hand them your card and unlock your phone for them.
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This was said when the 2080 was announced. Years later we're still waiting for the next tech to save gaming. System requirements will continue to increase.
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This isn't about feeling. It's about effectiveness. It's proven that low recoil rounds make troops deadlier because they hit more. Remember, those Garands were phased out because everyone realized full rifle calibers were a waste during WW2. If American troops were issued M16s in WWII it would have been ridiculously effective.
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Then lose sovereignty to whatever country issues your new currency.
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Do not redeem!
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There's legislation against scams with real money, people still pull the stuff.
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@zachman_jd he uploaded the video on his youtube account...
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@jared.p240 Again, because it gets a reaction out of people. Brandon's channel mocks AR owners all the time. Why do you think he does that? It's also a push back against decades of people dismissing "plastic" guns. People who fundamentally did not understand the engineering of firearms assumed "steel = good" while some 1911 brands had a decline in quality as the cost of manufacturing metal frame handguns increased.
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No. Brandon Herrera got a manufacturer's license some time ago, I think. Essentially all machineguns made after 1986 are illegal, unless manufactured by a holder of a manufacturer's license that allows them to deal with NFA items. These machine guns are post-1986 dealer samples, and if the manufacturer goes out of business it must be destroyed. It can be sold, but only to government agencies or other dealers.
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False. Explosives and rocket fuel are decommissioned because past a certain date they're considered degraded. Ordnance disposal is a thing.
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Problem is, all the generals and politicians have their kids living in our Western cities and studying in our private universities. Who's going to follow the order?
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Millenials are like 35-36 now.
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Is it?
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@youtubeurevil The A-10 was "invented" for Vietnam (A-1 Skyraider replacement), then repurposed against the Soviet Union. It's old.
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@solarissv777 To fire a Maverick you have to climb over the horizon to get eyes on the target. You can't "rocket artillery" a guided missile. You have to have eyes on the sky.
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@solarissv777 A GPS one? No, there's the electro-optical, thermal seeker and laser. I guess you could provide lasing with a drone that has the compatible designator but those can be shot down more easily than the quadcopters spotting for artillery.
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They're so clever that they lost the rail hubs in the north? Now the East is threatened. Russia will suffer more defeats as a result of their supply lines being cut.
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@rudedude1686 Right. Just like that Ka-52 hit the bridge support and claimed it was a barge.
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@rudedude1686 Nah, Russia losing will benefit me greatly. It was Russia who pressed the gun against the middle class. They pulled the trigger. It misfired. One someone wants to kill you and misses... That's when you take their gun and cave their face in with the cold steel.
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This is the casing of the unitary warhead. A Khinzal crashed in Russia last year and it also had one of these slip out of the nosecone when it impacted.
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Dispersal only helps if you know the strike is coming.
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They already levelled Eastern Ukraine, they conscripted the "Russian people" and killed them by using them as suicidal assault detachments and recon by fire elements.
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Minsk 2 was violated by DPR forces in the assault at Debaltseve the day after it was signed. Russia will never honor a treaty.
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Food isn't the only consumer good. Raising wages raises business overhead, which increases prices. This isn't about corporate bonuses, but actually making businesses unfeasible.
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@p_serdiuk The electronics suite is somewhat of a red herring. The A-10A is stone age technology compared to modern aircraft, but the real issue is deconfliction and ground observers. A JTAC called a JDAM on his own position by mistake, and the B-1B crew made the drop leading to friendly fire. Sadly, the JTAC assumed the crew on the aircraft could see the IR strobes on FLIR pod when they could not. That's the problem with air support. Pilots often are in situations where they cannot compensate for the mistakes of others. Most A-10 friendly fire comes down to pilots being told there are no friendlies on the area and attacking targets at will. It's not that the A-10 is bad because of friendly fire. Just that the "low and slow" tautology doesn't actually help.
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@p_serdiuk They were mistakenly told "no friendlies in the area" and POPOV 36 saw what he wanted to see. If a gun run didn't make him realize those were Scimitars, no amount of optics would solve it. Most aircraft can't self-lase without a pod. The GAU-8 isn't imprecise, it's dispersal is almost half of the M61 Vulcan (5 miliradians vs 8 miliradians).
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@p_serdiuk A gun run requires the pilot to come around 2700-2500 feet of the target. If he couldn't tell the vehicles were armored rather than trucks with rocket artillery in the back, optics wouldn't solve the issue. Dude wanted to see Iraqi vehicles, so his eyes saw them. Nobody should have never said there were no friendlies in the area.
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@p_serdiuk You're just throwing the usual talking points without any concern for how they fit into the picture. I know all of them. I've been using them for the past decade before NCD and LazerPig made the A-10 criticism popular. The bottom hemisphere being obscured is nonsensical because the nature of the HUD on a dive gives you a straight ahead picture of the target. The round count is preserved by a burst limiter, which allows the A-10 to perform multiple passes. Pilots can't hold the trigger for 12 seconds. That's not how it works. The problem is that you fundamentally misunderstand CAS. When close air support is used, the inherent danger of the procedure takes away weapons release authority from the pilot. There has to be a forward air controller qualified man on the ground to direct the pilot. The USAF as a matter of doctrine does not trust the pilot to make IFF decisions alone and puts the final authority on the troops on the ground who risk getting the ordnance dropped on them. It doesn't matter if it's targeting pod or binoculars, there's a man or woman on the ground holding the pilot's hand. No friendlies in the area? Go ham, the pilot is free to do his thing. I'm not arguing anything. What I'm saying is that if Sherman gunners were told "everyone from here forward is an enemy" they're gonna start shooting. Because they clearly received a confirmation that nobody they could shoot at will be a friendly. And there's friendlies ahead... they're gonna get got and the gunners will only be told about it after it's too late.
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In theory the system is simple but making it reliable isn't.
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 @Demopans5990 and they got killed when it cashed.
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They're planning on taking over with sharp sticks? Russia came in with tanks, aircraft ad ballistic missiles and still got driven back from Northern Ukraine.
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@Yodalemos Funny thing is in Europe there's massive violations of gun safety by cops but because there's no gun culture that goes unpunished, but cops that do use the firearm justifiably can get jail time. This happened in Portugal, some irresponsible parent decided to do a robbery with his kid in the car and when a police officer was shooting at the car in an attempt to disable him, he unknowingly struck the child killing him. The cop was sentenced to something like 8 years but he served less, I think. Shouldn't the criminal father have been charged instead? He was the one who placed the child in the path of those bullets. That cop then became the poster boy for the "muh cops are unfairly treated" shtick of a right wing party. Well they're not unfairly treated, it's just that the justice system is r-tarded.
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@Yodalemos The thief was not just "escaping", the shots were directed at the vehicle because the fleeing suspect was using the van as a weapon and threatening both bystanders and officers' lives. Honestly he should have directed the gunfire at the driver's head, but that might have not got the limp body to release the throttle, while a busted engine will resist the turning of the crank and thus stop the axle.
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Nonsense. You pay for the bus fare. It costs money to keep it running. It's a transaction. And if you don't want to take the bus, you can drive. Or walk.
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@Aaron-wq3jz The A-10 has already been replaced by F-16s and F-15Es. It gets less and less CAS missions.
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@Aaron-wq3jz What does it matter if it's cheap if you can't buy one? The company that made it went out of business. The last one made dates from 1984. Niche? Its job is performed by F-16s, 15Es, 18s and Harriers. The army doesn't want it. Do you know how much trouble it would give them to set up their own flight training, maintenance training, etc for a +30 year old aircraft? Waste of time and money.
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@Aaron-wq3jz "really just a morale booster" - Amazing, we teach people to kill but we have to worry about their feelings. How about treat them like intelligent people that don't need a good luck trinket flying in the sky? "a lucky shot wont cost you 100 million" - A "lucky" shootdown of an A-10 will cost you an aircraft that literally cannot be replaced and potentially the pilot (which is a lot more valuable). However, the shootdown wouldn't even be lucky, it would just be common occurrence. The A-10 had to be pulled back in 1991 due to excessive losses.
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@Aaron-wq3jz Then don't increase morale by lying to troops and claiming air shows are the most effective CAS available. Increase morale by telling them that fast flying jets can point a laser at someone's dick from 15,000 feet AGL and drop a bomb on it. "We do need worry about their feelings, that's one of the main things they teach you to control in the military." - You know what I meant. It was a rub on the whole "facts don't care about your feelings" meme. Do we talk about combat by pointing out what's effective? Or what "feels" effective? "The plane is built with a titanium bathtub to protect the pilot" - Because it was designed at a time 14.5mm was seen as the biggest threat. The world has moved on. Now, if your plan A is expecting to get hit, you've already failed. The pilot will still go down if the rest of the aircraft is shot full of holes. Integrated air defense systems are a death sentence to A-10s, MANPADs are a threat and the 23mm ZSU-23-4 is more than capable of bringing A-10s down. The 2K22 Tunguska is even worse, as it fires ammunition almost as large as the GAU-8. If you slap enough armor on an airplane to survive the modern battlefield, it won't even make it out the runway. "the A10s niche is low intensity warfare again a poorly equipped enemy" - A niche better served by turboprops that fly almost as fast but can take off from FOBs much close to the action, loiter for longer, guzzle less gas, cost less to maintain, etc. "Even if you are in combat against a well equipped enemy you just load stand off weapons" - standoff weapons gain effectiveness by being launched by aircraft flying faster and higher. "on a cheap platform" - The A-10 is not "cheap", it's straight up an aircraft that you can't buy more. The price may as well be "infinite", it doesn't matter how cheap it was in the 1970s if you can't replace it. That makes a greater case for armed drones because they're replaceable, don't risk the pilot, etc.
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@Theggman83 You're the ignorant one. You have verifiable numbers regarding the death toll of the 2014-2022 conflict, but you never mention them. You don't mention the Russian speakers in Ukraine conscripted into the war, and then replaced by Russian citizens to repopulate the area with non-Ukrainians.
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@davidsimpson7373 Just to Red Team you a little bit, mind that any function can have local linearization. This means that although you have an overall logarithmic function, if you look at a small enough delta it will be approximated by a linear function. Just pointing out that there's a way to justify the "runaway" model.
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@davidsimpson7373 Again, this is a mathematical concept. Functions can be locally linearized. Your limit when approaching infinity tends towards the asymptote, but we're not dealing with infinity. We're going from x1 to x2 which means on the Y axis we go from y(x1) to y(x2). And on the "runaway" model we can end up at y(xn). It wouldn't be catastrophic world ending, turning into Venus kind of deal, but still uncomfortable. This is why I don't like the logarithmic argument.
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First of all, it's nearly impossible to know which country you'll be beforehand. We know that the outbreak had spread to some countries as early as 2019. For many countries, a "real" lockdown would crush them financially, and then when they opened back up they'd realize that they had missed their window and now they were dealing with many cases. Now the choice is let it kill people and save the economy, or go under hard lockdown again and kill what's left of the country.
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It's not a global conflict. It's Europe and the US dunking on a nation that is more isolated and less capable of waging war than ever.
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Did you post this comment twice or was it someone else? The Atomic Plague was acute radiation poisoning. They created the 100 mile radius for test sites believing it wouldn't happen. And it didn't. Cancer and mutations from fallout isn't the same as acute radiation poisoning.
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@zaphodsbluecar9518 They were aware of Acute Radiation Poisoning. That's why they set a 100 mile radius.
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They have threated nukes every year since around 2010. Medvedev threatened that armageddon would be unleashed if the Kerch bridge was struck. Then it was, he deleted the post. If they mean what they say, why have they backed down ever single time?
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@sOnIcBo0mBoY The guys in control of the nukes, are they suicidal? Their kids are living in the West.
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@sOnIcBo0mBoY Doesn't matter. I don't need to be smart or rational to know that by firing the nukes, I'm going to piss off all the oligarchs and generals. So Putin can scream all he wants on his phone, I won't turn the key. World wars require the world being involved. This is one country being dunked on.
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It's easier to find a hill and build a rail uphill, put the concrete in cars. It's easier to get a runaway railcar to stop eventually than stopping a concrete block mid air.
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 @KaleidosXXI They got him to endorse Hillary lmao he absolutely would play ball. Bernie was absolutely based on the F-35 and the gun issue, but Dems forced him to backtrack on the guns.
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 @easyegg9760 It's relevant because the OP claimed Russia was free from poverty. The fact that Russia keeps the city clean but the rest of the country is poor is evidence of the lie.
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 @FKnATOO Clearly you don't know about krokodil
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@FKnATOO Anyone who wants a roof over their head can get one in America. The issue is, the homeless would rather do drugs and be "free". Housing policies are extremely effective, almost 100%, among those who want to be housed.
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@easyegg9760 Homelessness is the ultimate consequence of poverty.
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@easyegg9760 America has a "I don't want to do anything with my life" problem while Russia actually doesn't give you enough options to improve your life. America has these pesky things called "freedom" and "rights" so the mental health asylums (which were awful) were closed and it's incredibly difficult to put people away. So they roam the streets and do drugs. In most countries, they just lock you up and keep you sedated until you die.
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 @knowahnosenothing4862 They wouldn't, the engines would need to bave a similar size and weight. Aircraft are very sensitive to changes in center of mass.
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Jack Bradford I'm not defending the military.
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@circle7673 So Britain robbed but not Russia?
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An effect can be created in 1995 for a game and then released as royalty free in 1998.
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1. Unofficial channels means that someone's taking a cut, and Russia isn't that someone. 2. Do you think they're in a position to get anything other than money? Trade works excellently with money. Especially if your economy is going down the drain. 3. Most of the pipelines lead West. The infrastructure to sell to China isn't there. 4. Do you know who buys more goods from China? It's not Russia. The EU and US are much bigger trade partners. China's strategic interest would be more to turn Russia into a vassal state since they can exploit them, but not use them as some kind of lifeline. If the EU shot itself on both legs, then surely Putin and Lavrov will come begging for even more sanctions.
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Because police picks people off the crowd and nobody does anything. In Iran protesters gang up on police and beat them down.
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The Mirage III and Daggers were not flying supersonic because the Falklands were far away enough that using the afterburner would mean not enough fuel to come back. Their average time on target was just a few minutes before they had to turn back. Also, Exocets were carried by the Super Etendard.
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No plausible deniability if the military starts losing people left and right and a bunch of people named "Jackson" and "Martinez" get burial in Ukraine.
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Almost all pilots speak English because that's a universal ATC language.
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Ukraine invaded regions that were annexed the day after. If Ukraine can wage war against Russia, literally take territory Russua claims as theirs, and not get nuked, how is an arrest an act of war?
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The thrust vectoring is a way to trim an aircraft without having to use deflection of control surfaces, which increases RCS. Will it work? Time will tell.
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Seems like Western hegemony is pretty solid. Wouldn't you rather be on the winning side?
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@lolitololito2563 Seems like you can take the petro out and it's the dollar that matters.
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@lolitololito2563 It's late November, I leave home to go to work at 5 AM and in some days it's not even cold enough to require gloves or scarf. We're not freezing because we're not living in Siberia.
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@lolitololito2563 It's not western hegemony, it's simply living near the Mediterranean. Russians love it, all the ones with money come here.
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@ЕвгенийБелошицкий-г4я The Soviet Union lost in Afghanistan too, sit down.
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@leandrocerneira The US suffered two losses in the movie. Rooster and Maverick. Typical Z-boy, God wasted a brain on you.
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@ЕвгенийБелошицкий-г4я Not true. The Taliban were a group who formed in Pakistan/Afghanistan and fought for control against many former Mujahedeen. Even then, the Taliban did not attack the US. Al Qaeda did.
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@ЕвгенийБелошицкий-г4я There was no pro-American regime. Only a pro-stealing regime. The USSR collapsed after Afghanistan. WMDs? Please tell Russia to stop complaining about biolabs.
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And the Su-25 had been shot down on both sides, showing that the Az10 would be SAM bait.
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Why would anyone believe your Russian MoD numbers?
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Of course not, it's only for defense.
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@AmericaAndAllies You're either severely missing the point or pretending not to get it. You don't turn in any card. The US invaded Iraq for example, but NATO Article 5 was not invoked because the US had not been attacked.
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They were made for Vietnam before SA-2s were donated by the USSR. 14.5mm AA and sporadic 23mm presence. Designers cannot look into the future and changing an aircraft after it is built is nearly impossible. So the A-10 was made for a war that mo longer existed. It was given a new role - sacrificing itself. It was known that A-10 pilots in West Germany would be shot down in a couple of weeks, enough time for US reinforcements to cross the Atlantic by ship.
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Because the solid gunpowder already becomes a gas when it burns? And by starting with a solid, you get more mass AKA more gas inside the case than you would with a liquid or gaseous propellant?
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That's called being a terrorist. We don't deal with terrorists.
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 @edc1569 Do you want to sit in a field or under bombs?
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 @johanmetreus1268 British people are confined to islands and even that didn't stop them.
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Western tanks have better logistics. At least you can order parts replacements from the West. Meamwhile Ivan has to ask Yuri from across the country if the tank graveyard full of rust buckets has part XYZ or if they all got sold to Syria.
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@vlad_47 Relatively meaningless. It's Russia that's crossing no man's land with tanks and stepping on every single mine on the way to Ukrainian positions. That's the real nightmare, because Ukraine needs the tanks to retake territory, Russia needs tanks just to keep pressing.
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@vlad_47 Oh no, the mighty Russian airforce will save the day. They couldn't do the job when they had the surprise, they're somehow going to do it now that Ukraine has western AA?
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 @kilianklaiber6367 aircraft cover different time frames, duh
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@kilianklaiber6367 If we take the first 10 years of operation of an airframe and the first 10 years of another, the total service time doesn't matter. Most crashes happen in the early days.
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lol cope
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Nice cope. 40 out of 24 HIMARS destroyed, right comrade?
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@openlyracist8055 What are they losing? Russia has not provided evidence of a single HIMARS loss. A few Polish tanks were knocked out in Kherson. The outcome? Kherson city was liberated. You lose stuff even when you win. We're sending stuff, they win. I'm happy if metal gets destroyed if it saves human lives.
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@thulyblu5486 you're conflating the LEGAL threshold for consumption for the actual SAFETY threshold for consumption. While the law might be about safety on paper, that doesn't make it true. If that source is right in saying that you'd need to eat 28lbs of boar to get the same exposure as in a transatlantic flight I'd say the meat is well within safe levels. What you said was wrong. You have the best excuse, you were mislead by being told that the safety level was too low. But the fact is that you spread a piece of propaganda that I believed and then I see that the propaganda has been debunked. You can double-down all you want.
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@thulyblu5486 "The legal limit is the safe limit." - evidence? "the fact that the wild boars are pretty much all above the limit is not propaganda" - above the legal limit =/= above the safety limit ""lose their radiation very quickly" which is absolutely moronic" - it's not. Every isotope has it's own rate of decay. "you get above a set legal safety threshold" - because the threshold was set low. Unless you eat nothing but boar you can consume it and be at no more danger than a businessman who takes a few long flights per year. You also shouldn't eat too much tuna because of mercury poisoning. Everything has limits.
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The ocean already has tritium, uranium and thorium naturally.
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@tannerbobanner9453 "well, jets" so they take the unintelligent brute force option and have two jet engines which do nothing during conventional flight. The Mirage had done that decades early. They get no points for replicating an old brute force solution.
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A few were liberated in exchange for Putin's friend, Medvedchuk, but many are still POWs. Former Azov guys who were not in service when the war started formed Kraken, which is a unit under the command of Ukraine's intelligence services. There's Azov SSO which is a spec ops unit in the national guard and the Azov 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, but these are not the same Azov as the ones stationed in Mariupol. In fact 3rd Assault Brigade was formed with new recruits who volunteered to join after the war started.
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@Baffi_ Ventilation actually helps the death spiral. Not only it injuries the lung tissue and contributes to inflammation, it also promotes the formation of oxide radicals. How is it better for the economy? Until very recently people had to be in isolation anyway. And close contacts too. So you could be near someone who tested positive, stay negative, be told to stay home, then come back to work and then have contact with someone who tested positive. Businesses were complaining about the restrictions due to staffing issues. How is it better for the economy to have this revolving door?
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The US has no stake because Germany already said it best - Russia is an unreliable supplier.
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Or training started 3 months ago and they're working weekends.
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It's not that old school mentality. It's that the military will need everyone - even the lowest common denominators in society - to be able to use the weapons they are issued without shooting themselves in the face. I can't imagine the number of NDs every time someone had to disassemble a glock.
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The effective tactics in Mariupol, Severodonetsk, etc. later lead to Kharkiv being undermanned. If your effectiveness gets 6 months of work rolled back by the enemy in a week, it's not actually effective.
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@johncarter9054 That got a chuckle out of me.
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It just increases the chances, even a proper administration doesn't prevent the stuff from leaving the injection site.
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They already said they don't want them.
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@dragonstormdipro1013 So? It proves there's ways to go around the rules of thumb. Kharkiv was undermanned. Ukraine attacked it. Ukraine damaged the Antonovsky bridge and Nova Khakovka dam bridge, taking out critical supply routes during the attack on Kherson. Ukraine has taken steps to avoid fighting Russia on equal footing. Just like right now, since the initial rush into defenses failed Ukraine switched to bite and hold tactics which force the Russians to fight in the offensive even though nominally they are on the defensive.
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@thepostmodernvampire Special pleading. Point is that the art of war is fighting where your enemy is weak. Kharkiv's thin defense ensured Ukraine didn't have to obey the rule of thumb. In Kherson the Russian forces were fighting with reduced supplies.
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CoachRedPill OD'd on red pills.
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Xi already told him to not use nukes. Putin knows things will be worse for him if he uses a nuke than if he just loses.
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Russia soaked a lot of those billions with their prison population.
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@matchesburn Nobody's asking for 5th grade anything. Just for less text, holy crap. 1. Again, it was a fallacy. Everyone knows what a 20mm M61 Vulcan is here. 2. Yes, requiring specific cartridge dimensions when context makes it clear is peak internet insanity. Stop being like this. Be a normal, sane person. 3. Irrelevant. The same goal is accomplished with smaller cartridges. 4. I have not strawmanned you a single time, while you do it every time. 5. Nobody's talking about IR. Smoke will block VISIBLE radiation too. What do you use to aim at tanks through the HUD? Eyes. Nobody said cannon rounds are heat seeking. You're an insane person. 6. Again, another fallacy. Nobody said training isn't training. I'm saying that not being shot at makes things easy. Again, you're insane and you cannot read. Yes, it was a strawman. 7. Actually, the results I got were from the END of the report. Not page 3. 8. There's no contradiction. Smaller cartridges can cause external damage. 9. You're insane. You copy-pasted the following: "The U.S. Army is managing the potential 'demilitarization and disposal' of the depleted uranium (DU) ammunition, which also includes hundreds of thousands of 105mm and 120mm armor-piercing tank shells." You brought up 105 and 120 shells first. Did you not read what you copy pasted? If you didn't read why did you even post it? Still, if you had read the rest you'd see over 30 million 30mm rounds were to be retired. You just stopped reading when your eyes saw 105/120 mm and decided to copy paste.
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@matchesburn It's you who doesn't understand the difference because you're asking for details that shouldn't be required. You have not proved anything. Smoke prevents hitting weak spots because you cannot see them. The purpose of the scenario is to test the weapon, not the pilot's skills. I'm not interested in your excuses, you copy pasted text with 105/120 mm shells mentioned as a way to disprove that 30mm ammunition was being discontinued. If you didn't edit it... then what did you think it said? Joe Biden shaking my head at me is a compliment. It's you who didn't read, because you claimed you didn't mention 105/120.
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@matchesburn Okay. We're talking about the GAU-8, the Mauser BK-27, the GAU-12/22 Equalizer and the M61 Vulcan. Any questions? "I proved you wrong with your own sources - that you didn't read - twice." - That was regarding the fallacies. You accused me of strawmanning but you did not prove your arguments were weakened for my benefit. "The two are not mutually exclusive. Try again." - One would want them to be. Imagine you design a good weapon that fails trials because of lack of operator skill. Is this a joke? Either way, like I said dodging punches in front of a mirror does not mean you can dodge them in real life. "Since the source also says that 30mm is still in use" - The claim wasn't that ALL 30mm ammunition was in use. Fact: you said you didn't mention 105/120mm. Fact: you mentioned it by virtue of copypasting. "Out of embarrassment? No." - Joe Biden doesn't think it's embarrassing to sniff people's hair and grope minors on camera. So what he thinks is embarrassing is just how normal people act. "Quote me where I said I did" - Already have. Your post, two days ago: "You, again, didn't read the entire article in your desperate grasping-at-straws effort to not admit you were wrong: "The U.S. Army is managing the potential 'demilitarization and disposal' of the depleted uranium (DU) ammunition, which also includes hundreds of thousands of 105mm and 120mm armor-piercing tank shells." You used this as evidence to claim that 30mm rounds were not being disposed on.
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Yeah it only cost them the brutalization of their own people. There's satellites for recon, you know?
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@thef0urth326 The temperature records are adjusted, did you know that? Solar pannels do not make you self-reliant, you can uncouple from the grid but now you're dependent on high tech just the same. You can't easily manufacture the silicon wafers. You can't easily manufacture the inverters which give you AC power from DC generation (although you could use a DC motor to spin an AC generator). Deep cycle batteries wouldn't be hard but what about battery controllers? PV cells will most likely work well for 30 years and maybe even do 50 if no damage occurs. But anything craps out, you will have to turn to the system and ask them for help. That's not self-reliance. That's buying time. Which is helpful, but not the same.
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Cope.
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McCarthy is a fool lol the Republican minority leader Mitch McConnell will ensure the US continues to expand military support.
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ChadWarden1337 giving us the scoop on Jaka Parker.
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It alters drag, center of mass, etc which can cause issues with the weapon mounted during flight or even cause a low pressure zone to suck the weapon into the wing or fuselage and cause an accident during launch.
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I mean, within context you do need to code a way for all the different animations to be called. You can make 60 animations for a character but the game engine won't allow them to be used because it would need extra scripting.
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But that wouldn't power industry.
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@MichaelSmith-nd4rr low and slow was only part of the CAS deal when the human in the loop couldn't see squat and was dependent on forward air control. Now with gimbaled pods that let the pilot see enemies picking boogers off their nose from 10,000 ft low and slow isn't necessary. What they want is low maintenance, low consumption aircraft that can operate from small bases close to the action.
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@michaelmckinnon1591 Heh, fair point. I've only got a glimpse of a modern gen screen on a cockpit and it was pretty insane how much detail could be seen in the foliage in a hillside miles away. Most pod footage uploaded to the internet is either old or severely compressed video files.
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After the counter munition is expended to defeat the first AT rocket/missile, the anti tank team will get every cannon, rifle and machine gun unloading on their position. To make a single tank run out of hard kill APS you'll need increasingly complex ambushes that afford you the opportunity to fire that many weapons without getting killed.
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To be fair, 2015 Trump laid the ground work for his campaign by criticizing the wars on twitter.
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That doesn't make any sense. The NSA collects information from cell operators. The brand of the chip is irrelevant.
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Uplink
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 @squashedshibber2684 "This is how you DON'T try to cover up a murder"
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NASA did not invest in the R&D - they just purchased them once they were invented. Also the cosmonauts also purchased them, because breaking a pencil lead or sharpening it in space is a no-no. Graphite will get into the electronics and cause shorts.
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tell that to the F-16
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Hold on so you want men to be sterilized against their will? What if the vasectomy can't be undone?
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Russia is also using 40-50 year olds on 3 month contracts.
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Taking out Sukhois? Russians lost 11 in two weeks. Releasing the bomb requires high altitude which exposes the aircraft to SAMs.
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@PhrozenFox The government is trying to ban blinds/shutters.
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@The_Primary_Axiom I am against net neutrality because it stems from the fallacious premise that the internet is neutral. I do mind about information being watched online. The two subjects are completely unrelated.
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@pain5835 EDIT: next time make it clear about who you're talking about, lol
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@primmakinsofis614 You can commit a crime without intention to do it.
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@prof_kaos9341 "But who's to judge with many months of war left, many Red Army troops would be required to make the ultimate sacrifice from Jan-May 1945" - Funny you mention them. Should we start by talking about 200,000-2 million rapes?
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"it was all white people with guns nothing happened" - thanks for admitting you only saw the CNN version of events
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 @iwannadance3070 krokodil and 5 rubles per post
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When you're on the receiving end, the bullets impacting near you suppress you a lot more than the faint pops from hundreds of yards away.
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But it was Elizondo who sent it to the New York Times. The military didn't make it public.
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Talking about infrastructure is like Americans talking about "body count" in Vietnam.
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@doughohulin3546 there's far too much profit involved for the data to not be tainted, but even assuming it is clean it's merely a patchwork solution considering how effectiveness seems to nosedive.
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China purposefully kept the existence of a massive contagion under wraps and then blocked travel between provinces while allowing flights to go abroad. They decided that if they were gonna get shut down by the thing, everyone else had to.
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Russian bloggers confirmed the loss.
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@ShawnRitch Atmospheric water condensing is free and it's called "rain". A glorified dehumidifier doesn't add to the water cycle, it just skips a step. Affordable desalination would allow us to remain somewhat independent of the water cycle.
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The places hit were munitions dumps and a fuel depot. When the explosions happened, the base became an inferno with fuel spraying everywhere and bombs undergoing sympathetic detonation. Both planted charges and cluster munitions would have had the same outcome, hell on earth. I think it was a unitary warhead, though.
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It won't, because by the time these aircraft are built Martin-Baker will have fixed their s-.
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 @messire9837 No, it isn't.
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300blk is terrible as the bullet weight is roughly twice of 5.56. Why bother making the change to heavier, shorter range ammo?
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 @gregbagel791 Any unit that would benefit from a 300 BLK already has it in inventory.
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@pontiacmaniac2 It's still on youtube lol /watch?v=ntLR34ozSdY
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Crime doesn't correlate to poverty, though. It looks like it, but that's because criminals tend to live in poorer areas.
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@naejimba What if the intent wasn't killing? Personally I'm not into buttstuff so I'm Rittenhousing the people in the truck.
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@chrisbammer8679 I'm also less likely to die if I put a round through them first.
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@JustLP3rd You'll always side with the person with the weapon? So if Kyle Rittenhouse was unarmed and Gaige was after him you'd side with Mr. Byecep?
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@Marinealver It wasn't shot down by AA.
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The A-10 would suffer greater losses than the Su-25 on both sides.
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@beready992 Actually, yes. The Su-25 is faster than the A-10. The L-39 is made of paper compared to the Su-25. The Su-25 was not designed as a trainer, it was a "shturmovik" from the beginning and intended to carry the armor plating that other aircraft lacked. The A-10 was designed for an attack role closer to Vietnam. It carries ordnance (ordinance is an order or law, like "city/local ordinance") but the ordnance doesn't help it dodge SAMs. The cannon is a close range weapon that puts it well inside missile range. Flying tanks don't exist anymore. It's not Vietnam with manually aimed 14.5mm guns. Missiles now carry warheads that can split aircraft in half. You can't tank that.
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@beready992 What's the name of this original aircraft? One A-10 was lost to AAA in Desert Storm, February 5th. Actually it was seven losses. Across around 8,000 sorties. The F-16 performed 12,000 sorties with just 3 losses. One A-10 pilot was killed trying to land a damaged A-10. He could have ditched it and survived. The A-10s reputation killed him. The A-10 would not be effective. Just like the Su-25 isn't effective and has been relegated to flying artillery.
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@Coyote27981 Wing loading mattered in the 1970s. The F-16 has higher theoretical wing loading than the F-4. That's because old fuselages were metal tubes. Now fuselages are lifting bodies (they act as wings).
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@klokoloko2114 How did nuclear tests reduce the temperature?
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@astrixau8928 oh shi
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He was welcome to come back to Ukraine. He gets the presidency but also the murder charges.
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The problem is that we'll be hosting people who were pro-war but didn't want to be mobilized because suddenly they realized they were cowards, we'll be hosting both Russians and Ukrainian refugees which is going to be a problem, and we'll be de-stabilizing our own countries with even more people without housing or employment while Putin gets rid of the "refuseniks" and the population self-selects towards being a more loyal fighting force.
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@MatoVuc Russia drove tanks into ambushes. Hence the discrepancy.
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War Thunder has an extremely limited simulation. They're not using the processing power for graphics, they're doing approximations of the fluid dynamics involved, weather, they have the full internal systems simulated so that instructors can cause malfunctions in mid air and the student fix them.
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@bigmeatyclaws3278 To be fair, DCS A-10 II is actually used by the Air Force and it looks gorgeous. The issue with a lot of newer aircraft is that there's so much technology that's still classified so they hire companies dedicated to making simulators for the military. They're not videogame developers used to the latest and greatest DirectX.
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Muzzle blast is probably insane with these high pressure calibers.
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Getting info readily available from the internet is not stalking. If you had decent persec only an actual stalker would be able to get your info. The world doesn't hate the US. Someone has to be really sad to start hating another country to forget about their own problems.
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@Sujay95 Back then US didn't depend on Iraqi oil either. Yes, Iraq was in debt and had trouble paying it off, so they invaded a country, got kicked out, and they damaged the oil infrastructure on the way out. What does that have to do with 2003?
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@Sujay95 But Baghdad wasn't taken then.
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Man, I sucked at Combat Arms.
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@GoGeoGo There's a Combat Arms Classic on Steam but I don't think it's that "classic" because it seems to be more about the 2014 era (I think?) than the actual older days. I don't know how to explain it, I spent a lot of time on CA and loved it but there's something about the engine and gameplay that promotes speed over everything and makes aiming weird. I've also been playing with SMGs at close range, I should be trying one-tapping with rifles from a distance.
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With lobbyists, the US buys F-15EXs they don't need because Boeing pays off politicians. With Russian corruption, the airplanes were stripped of parts.
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But all cops signed up to be bastards. They looked at the law, said "I want to enforce this", they looked at the government, said "I want to be a violent tool for this institution". How is he a smoothbrain for realizing cops are the ones enforcing all the government BS?
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@randommexican5664 Voting is just a silly popularity context. People voted for Obama to end the wars and close Gitmo. We're still in the wars and only now started talking about Guantanamo Bay. If politicians are just going to lie to get in office, how can you hold voters accountable for anything? "you vote for someone else" - Thanks for the advice man, never tried that. You're just passing the buck. Oh you don't like Biden? Vote harder next time. 4 years. You didn't like Trump? Sucked to be you for 4 years. You didn't like Obama? You didn't like Bush? Vote harder dude. Just ignore that the people you vote for LIE, and there's millions of people voting against you. "You don't go after the cop who is enforcing a law" - Actually, I go after them. "that was legislated by people who were voted in lol" - Those people would have no power if not for cops. They could legislate all they wanted, nobody would hear them outside the echo chamber. It's cops who look at the laws and say "I agree with using violence to enforce all of this, even what I disagree with". If cops are so innocent, they could just not join. Or resign. Being complicit makes them guilty. If a cartel leader orders a journalist or judge to be executed, the sicarios are not to blame? Only the head honcho is at fault? Not the thousands who signed up to serve the cartel? "why most people immediately dismiss most libertarians" - Most people are dumb. Being dismissed by most people is a sign of intelligence, if anything. "Being an edgelord isn't a tenable political platform lmao" - Neither is being an order follower or a government simp. You support the system until the day the system decides to screw you over. It's never tenable. The only tenable platform is being in control. And govt. simps are not in control. They're just the useful idiots who get sacrificed.
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Their chase resulted in someone's death. It happens that the death was caused by a struggle for the gun, but they provoked the situation. One person being a criminal doesn't change the facts. On the same day Kyle was acquitted, a felon in possession of a firearm was acquitted from the murder and attempted murder charges from when he shot at cops raiding his home. Even though he was committing a crime by having a firearm, that doesn't change the fact that the no-knock raid provoked a situation where he thought he was in danger and thus shooting at cops was justified.
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They did change the game. Javelin changed the game from a tank rush to a slow artillery grind because all the Russian tanks were popping off. Then HIMARS starved the Russian artillery by forcing all the ammo dumps 80km away.
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They rammed a plane so they spent more than just using a missile.
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Yeah, if only those "other studies" were looked into... and the use of person-days was being used to propagate misinformation when it comes to layered efficacy...
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You'd recover more energy from spinning a turbine with exhaust gas.
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@kevinrusch3627 I'm not really optimistic due to the Stirling's low power to weight ratio. Essentially having a Stirling using the hot coolant coming off the engine would probably not eliminate the radiator unless you were hauling multiple Stirlings in tandem, and there's so much mass and area it actually ends up cooling the fluid. Just the fact that the radiator is still needed to actually cool the liquid properly before it's pumped into the engine again means most energy is still wasted towards the atmosphere. If I'm not mistaken there's cars that do use engine heat to provide cabin heat, which skips the losses in efficiency. In terms of exhaust, I don't think the exhaust would be well used with the coolant (you don't want to re-heat the coolant nor cool the exhaust) so that would mean another Stirling being hauled.
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@rahn45 So they left a skeleton crew to defend the Kupiansk rail hub? Now the east is threatened. Ukraine will cause another frontline collapse.
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Sadly geniuses won't save you. Even if immunocompromised, the fact that we will always carry it will present a threat to you.
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Russia started the war.
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But that is peak "it doesn't affect me" mentality. A legal adult can go overseas and kill, or vote for the politicians who decide who will get killed next, but purchase a weapon and suddenly he's the bad guy for not waiting until 21?
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@zyeborm Charge air cooling works on jet engines too. Israel planned to use it on a Mach 3 recon variant of the F-4 Phantom.
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@zyeborm To increase thrust you burn more fuel, which makes things hotter, which causes turbines to fail. So you use cooling for more thrust. Same as the intercool after the turbo allowing for greater HP by charging the air without problems, or NOS allowing for increased fuel injection.
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X is experimental, M is for model. Same convention was used in the XM8. Also, this is 6.8.
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At 0:44 seconds you can see that there's dirt and rocks possibly glued to the wood.
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The program is MSI Afterburner
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He studied the "no touch KO" with George Dilllman.
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But they wouldn't have to fight their way there. They could just drive. North of Kiev is mined, and Ukrainians have a water reservoir that can be opened to create mud. If they try the North again, it will be a massacre for the invaders.
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A lot of historical cuisine was purely a flex. When spices were hard to obtain covering food in it to the point of absurdity would show your wealth. As access to spices became commonplace, it stopped being a flex. It wasn't about the poor. It's just that you gained nothing from doing that. Then the focus became quality ingredients. You could afford food so good that too much seasoning would be a waste. Didn't matter how much or how little seasoning the poor used - what mattered was that you could afford the good stuff.
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You really can't. It's an ageing aircraft, who would start an entire supply chain, training school, etc just to operate an aircraft that's going to cost so much money to keep around? Plus the Army cannot operate it by the Key West accords and the USMC can't make it take off from short deck carriers. The F-35B can.
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What's ridiculous about that is that it's not even about safety, just like in Utoya, Norway a mass shooter could jump through those hoops but people without much money or free time would not be able to comply with those requirements.
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The Ukrainian govt. created an app for the citizens to report sightings and locations of Russian military equipment. I haven't seen it but I heard that after a report you can play a minigame where you fly a drone.
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The thing is that Iraq was to destroy their WMD stockpiles, with compliance assured by UN inspectors. There was a controversial period where UN inspectors were being denied entry but they still said there was no indication of a new weapons program. The US accused Saddam of trying to procure yellowcake uranium and using mobile facilities to maintain a WMD program out of view of UN inspectors. When Iraq was invaded, weapons of mass destruction were found. But they were old stock from the Iran-Iraq war and degraded/leaking. There was no ongoing WMD program and these lost weapons were not in violation of UN guidelines. People say "there were no WMDs" in the sense that the accusation of new weapons program/non-compliance with disarmament procedursles was false, along with the yellowcake distraction.
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@rahn45 Russia isn't even contesting air superiority. They're inside Russian airspace lobbing missiles from a distance. 15k casualties on the Russia side? The leaks clearly state they estimate as much as 43k KIA and 180k WIA. That's over 200 thousand casualties on the Russian side.
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@rahn45 "You'll note that in many of those videos there's no evidence of any Russian troops around" - There's plenty of videos of Russians. You just don't find them where you look because it breaks TOS to show what happens to someone's face when a grenade lands near them. "The front line is moving in Russia's favor (even if slowly)" - That's like judging Rumble in the Jungle in George Foreman's favor. Remember last year when Russia gave their all to capture Severodonetsk and Lysychansk then declared an operational pause? Then it was Ukraine's turn and they captured in a single week more territory than Russia could in six months. Russia is the big guy who punches non-stop but eventually gasses out. All you have to do is stay defensive until he starts to to gasp, and counter heavy. "is a few dozen tanks going to change the tides?" - The Kharkiv counter-offensive began with 15 tanks breaking the frontline. Again, you didn't see the images because they were too gruesome for most websites but Kharkiv was an absolute massacre. You think you've seen internet gore? There's stuff that happened to Russian bodies I didn't even know was possible. There were roads that looked like there had been an explosion in a butcher shop, just chunks of meat wrapped in the dark green uniforms Russia uses.
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@SansSentiments Sorry, the sarcasm got lost in my reading.
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Have you ever gone through a Shoot/No-Shoot gallery?
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@Naskinlahtaaja bit not the first time someone gets in trouble over speech, when a police twitter account posted the butter knives "weapons" they had confiscated from the streets the online mockery they received had them start threatening legal action againt the people making fun of them.
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@Naskinlahtaaja You haven't heard a lot of things, but you think you're entitled to lecture others on what is really happening. Not relevant? Cops can't handle the bantz and start reminding people it's a criminal offense to mock people online. Just recently the royal family themselves asked for tougher guidelines on online harassment. For years we have seen people being detained for posting their opinions on immigration or criticizing the troops or whatever. You claim it doesn't happen, when confronted with reality you claim it's not relevant. Amazing.
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Hello, Glavset.
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@jnucleo Cope.
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They have already been used against us. Remember Solemani? He was a general that lead the Iranian forces handling these sorts of proxy wars. We hit him with the flying slapchop.
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People in red states feel safe. That's a lot of people who have been pacified and reduces the will to fight.
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@zero1zerolast393 As someone who watches gun videos for like 70-80% of my youtube usage, even I recognize that most people are looking up tutorials on how to bake fresh pizza, C++ tutorials, how to change tires, etc. There's billions of safe videos that keep people here.
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@wanderingthewastes6159 Não, Portugal.
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@zero1zerolast393 We now have people doing videos on how to make essentially 1970s chips at home. 10 years from now, you might want to learn how a 40 year old thing worked so you can preserve it.
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 @ferretyluv Duck and cover does take into account radiation. If you duck after a flash you will receive a lower dose.
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"Seize to amaze"
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The movie premiered during a period where schools had been closed. Compare that to Duck! The Carbine High Massacre which released just six months after Columbine.
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I agree, not letting domestic abusers keep guns because of domestic murders won't solve anything because women (and men, to be fair) around the world are stabbed, pushed off balconies, beaten to death, hit with a blunt object on the head, etc. But the anti-gun logic is that it doesn't matter how people die as long as it's not a gun that was used. And I do believe a domestic abuser is more likely to be a murderer than the average person.
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Everything is based on nothing.
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Okay. Let's see you surrender peacefully to the two bubbas. You trust you're not gonna end up gagged and hogtied in the trunk?
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@terrymcgee3504 And Epstein didn't have the stereotypical glasses and pedostache. So what, sometimes bad people don't look like movie characters. All I'm saying is, it's gonna be satisfying when one day an innocent guy gets stopped and he John Wicks the hicks. No charges, because it's clear cut self-defense. People got to learn the hard way not to do stupid things.
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The Biden administration being a trainwreck is a moot point. Increasing energy independency would hit back against countries that depend on oil sales.
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Literal fake news, the 1 trillion is the cost to buy and operate two thousand aircraft until 2070.
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@wino99999 If comms are poor then they can't drop weapons. Or else stuff like the AC-130 attack on the Doctors Without Borders hospital happens.
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@gilliesiut2332 Low and slow doesn't do anything. The targeting is done via optics and GPS coordinates. Relying on physiological effects that just send the enemy running so that he can fight you again is precisely the broken logic that leads to insurgencies running rings around conventional forces. Fighter jets have done shows of force. What do you think happens when a jet kicks the afterburner and does a supersonic shock wave? If you want people to back off without turning them to paste, you don't use the cannon.
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When the offensive starts come back with your drivel.
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The Poles are buying Abrams to replace them.
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@kerrishaw9417 A pandemic has nothing to do with existence of treatment.
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Lt. Patrick Olson made it back on an A-10 and he still lost his life. Amazing how A-10 fanboys always remember Campbell but make sure nobody knows about Olson trusting the A-10 to bring him back. He should have ejected but the plane's reputation kįlled him. And you people NEVER say his name because it counters the narrative around "KC" Campbell.
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@patkelly931 nobody asked lol
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But now we have learned that the Wuhan lab was doing gain of function research (which the Americans were performing but had to stop because the Obama administration banned it) and the same lab had been criticized for lack of safety before.
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@matparry9773 David Boreanaz carries the damned show on his back.
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Barrel length doesn't add accuracy and properly designed suppressors have very negligeable effects on velocity. Once the gasses enter the first expansion chamber they expand on all diections rather than just pushing the bullet and there will be a slight gap between baffle and bullet that allows gasses to vent past.
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@RSBDeprecated No, it doesn't. Stiffness and harmonics have an extremely significant effect on accuracy. Barrel length, not so much. "Not only does additional barrel increase velocity meaning less time subjected to environmental forces" - Depending where you make the cut we could be talking about a 100/200 feet per second difference which translates into a 0.04 second difference even if you go from 2800fps to 2600fps. Also, if you're shooting from the same barrel with every shot (one would hope so) the time to target will be consistent and so the effects will also be consistent until the wind changes drastically. Air pressure will not drop drastically unless you're going to take a shot from a huge cliff and then base jump to the bottom and keep shooting. "it also adds to the stability of the bullet due to the rifleing" - lower velocity does mean slower rotation, but the fact is that 1:7 twist is meant for the longer tracer rounds so there's some leeway.
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The US has been involved in Yemen, though.
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But China is Argentina in this case. The island is full of Brits who don't want to be Argentinian. Taiwan was formed by the government in exile which does not want to live under the CCP.
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Why would you want a match? The only thing that could match it is something equally outdated.
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@fishfuxors Improvements such as stealth, higher speeds, etc? We have those already.
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@damienholland8103 First, FDA approval means nothing. Plenty of things get pulled from the market despite being approved. Reducing death is accomplished with early treatment and providing the prophylactic shot to the elderly and people with several comorbidities. Long covid is too broadly defined.
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@faboolean7039 Africa created omicron, or so the experts have been saying, which is nothing to worry about. Also, it's a moot point. Mute is someone who can't speak.
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@damienholland8103 Yes, they are. The average age of death is over the average lifespan in most countries, and comorbidities are a common denominator. The CDC director, Dr Rochelle Wallensky just said that 75% of the people dying had 4 co-morbidities. The definition does matter. Having a cough 5 weeks after recovery is a "long term symptom" that isn't uncommon even after a cold. The NIH also puts depression and anxiety under long covid, even though those are conditions are not a result of viral infection. So yes, it does matter and you telling me that it doesn't only tells me that you want to fraudulently increase the incidence of the problem. Their life before and after has changed??? If we accept a strict definition of causing long term disability. You're not willing to do that. I just asked you to limit your concern to actually life changing conditions and you say you didn't want to because it doesn't matter!
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@TheShadowblast123 Bruh the odds are like 99.97%.
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Fake news.
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Because people like you forced her to.
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Take your meds.
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 @orlock20 Also because they turn entire grid squares into the surface of the moon, indepedently if the target is still there.
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@sheffield99 then if you're fortunate enough to have private healthcare, the government just stole your money to fund the public one you don't use. Capitalism works when companies can fail (why the bailouts are wrong). The public healthcare can never fail. So there's no incentive to improve.
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@sheffield99 "they haven't stolen our money." - What happens if you don't pay? "They are using it how the voting public want." - Who decided that the voting public had any right to make the decision? Who says the voting public is right? "its cost me zero." - You paid up front, but that's beside the point. This is all irrelevant. My point is that people are having this argument from the standpoint that people fear losing their private system and you guys are trying to reassure them that they won't lose it because your country allows both private and public systems. But that's not the issue. The issue is that you're paying for the public system no matter what. So except for the upper-middle-class and above or people who have jobs with benefits it makes no financial sense to pay for a private system when you're already paying for the public.
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@sheffield99 "People use the private system if they have insurance and dont want to wait in the public system for elective surgeries" - You keep rambling but not addressing the core issue. You offered a reply to someone. I replied to it. What you're talking about right now has nothing to do with that. You can't say "my country has both systems" thinking that you're talking to people worrying about their elective surgeries. "when your politicians have peoples best interest at heart" - AH! Good joke. "We are a capitalist and socialist country. You can have both and it works well." - No, you're not. Socialism is the abolition of private property. It's the abolition of capitalism. Socialism isn't when the government does things. That's the American Republican definition of socialism.
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None of those are linked.
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They have. Just today I saw someone mention how they took most of the casualties during WWII so we should be thankful. They literally have grown a death cult around the Great Patriotic War.
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Bakhmut isn't in the outskirts of Kiev lol it's a speedbump on the way to Kramatorsk. You thought Bakhmut was hard? That was just the tutorial level.
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@Thomas-vd7ez And this means I'll implicitly trust them with a rushed product?
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@Thomas-vd7ez They fucked up taking out the horse meat out of the lasagna. Pre-made lasagnas tasted like ass for years because they were forced to use the cheapest cow meat, while the horse was delicious. Rigorous. Forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't there a notice not to take the shot if you have allergies or are pregnant because there wasn't a statistically significant number of pregnant women in the trials? A lot of the products I trust were not rushed, were not tied to draconian house arrest orders or a crippling economic crisis, and have years of existence on the market.
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+Mikayla Bonner doing the right thing? By committing a felony? Cutting a barrel without tax stamp is a crime. To legally destroy a rifle you need to cut it with a torch and melt away chunks of metal, not with a saw.
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The 1 trillion dollars have not been spent. That's the planned cost to operate ALL F-35s until retirement.
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@hfricke2661 Latin America is part of Russia's "global south" strategy of taking anti-American sentiment. The US support of right wing regimes and the spat between Britain and Argentina over the Falklands make it easy for them. Both Lula and Dilma Roussef (president prior to Bolsonaro) were leftist militants under a right wing regime.
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Funny, you should take a trip to Afghanistan and remind the Taliban that they can't hold back drones, helicopters and anti-tank missiles.
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@peejay6930 Yeah, after they captured them. How many US servicemen killed by helicopters and anti-tank missiles during the GWOT? Still funny.
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@philtimmons722 I don't think it's necessarily the math but working in the industry. I had a classmate in college whose mother worked in a power company. She admitted in private that the wind farm had been a massive scam because instead of the power going to the localized grid it had to plug back into the larger grid "hub" so to speak, and contractors cheapened on the connection so the cables had greater losses over a larger distance. Also the position of the turbines disregarded the studies on efficiency and they were placed where they'd have to pay less subsidies to the counties involved. Obviously I cannot give details that would identify the location or company to not get anyone in trouble. My point is this corruption affects everything, but wind power is already in the edge of not being that great that the normal corruption might actually make the wind farm a net negative. The added corruption of all the government subsidies just sweetens the deal for anyone who wants to make a fat stack building stuff people don't need.
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@Buran01 The F-22 performed strike missions in Syria, where there's Russian defenses operating.
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Lower recoil means you get on target faster. That's physics.
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How do you get less healthy or less free because of Dutch F-16s neing donated at the end of their service?
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@heavensanchor6055 What state of the art cinematography? It was never used again and now we just use CGI.
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@demonofheavn It's not that I'm smart, it's that you should know better than trying to discuss science when you can't even type properly. You're probably not a native English speaker so you're jealous of America. Good luck in your country that can't achieve the same feats as the US.
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Congratulations in achieving something done in 1969.
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If everyone is lying to you, maybe it's you who is wrong.
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But then cheaper weapons take out the T-62 too...
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Going well with no medkits, rusty weapons, no training.
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Building in Canada would be even more expensive. The Brazil contract was 215 million per plane because of the tech transfer cost.
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You think the European energy market is isolated?
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Ukraine did not threaten its inhabitants, the territory was seized by force of arms. Russia threatened the inhabitants by creating a war zone. That's like saying the Normandy landings in D-day threatened the inhabitants of France.
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Even in pro-Russian areas, partisans are assassinating mayors.
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@ryancappo And China dealt with the problem by stopping to count the cases. They just started blaming other countries for new infections.
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@panpluto13 Your standard of "lockdown" would mean killing everyone due to starvation (no shopping for food), dying from the cold (no heat because no power plants are working), thirst (no water treatment).
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Contact paper authors rather than the hosting services. Most of them happily give them away, they are forced to publish and don't get paid for it.
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I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure almost every country will deport illegals. Being an illegal immigrant has fuck all with having freedom, it's leeching (sorry for the choice of words, but I'm not a natural English speaker) of the freedom and opportunity in a country by taking it away from those who worked to get citizenship. Anyway, isn't illegals more a problem with the country they came from? If their country was better there would be no need to move.
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That is a misleading recounting of the events. The fact was that the USAAF becoming the USAF meant that their original doctrine was based on Army doctrine. And what did it say? Get the weapon for the hardest job, it will do the easier job well and you won't have to buy twice. What does this mean? Nuclear bombers and high speed interceptors. Get them for the demanding mission, use them for everything else. Obviously, it didn't work well. But the problem wasn't the fliers. This was USAAF, and thus Army, doctrine. Multiroles neglect CAS? F-16s do more CAS than A-10s.
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Considering that Russia had one of their assets come up with a conspiracy theory full of holes and mistakes to blame the US, it was probably Russia.
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@zeljko1718 Russian media accidently posted a pre-written news piece about the victory.
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@zeljko1718 Not MSM. It was a ready made article clearly written by the Russian government, which controls media in Russia.
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Vehicles break down, run out of fuel, soldiers steal food, and you claim there's no logistics issue.
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The Strongest Punch Ever Recorded in a Weird Contraption Almost No Other Boxer Ever Used And Reports The Results in a Unit of Measurement Nobody Else Uses
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Not a war crime. It was combat.
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@itzikashemtov6045 you're forgetting that British and American special forces went into Iraq in 91 to destroy the Scuds to protect Israel.
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@gatomirai nice claim. It is a shame that there is no source or evidence accompanying it.
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@kull_killaf2507 okay now give me the Venn diagram between rural car owners and people who want self driving... Exactly.
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@Luke Suchy because "waaaaa it's dangerous and government needs to protect you from yourself"
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The SAMs from the 90s and 2000s don't seem that much improved from the 1970s. In the 70s the Soviet Union was making bank from the 1973 Oil Crisis. In the 90s the Russian economy was in dire straits. In the 2000s the recovery was only starting,
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The author of the article claimed Jans Stoltenberg was working with the US since Vietnam. He was 16 years old when Saigon fell ended.
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Completely unrelated. The only think air power could do would be filming neat tank kill footage, because aircraft can't remove mines or stop artillery in mid air.
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Copium.
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@admiraltroll5255 I wouldn't want to be in an old tank against an autocannon. Again, drone that bad boy in the turret.
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The issue is that MILES works for like 700 yards, simunition works for 50-70.
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It would require more transport, which Russia pays for. India wants a good deal, not giving away charity.
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 @Alex-cw3rz it's not about armor but employment. Apaches can launch precision missiles from behind cover. The planet itself is armor.
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@winterhaydn It's been done in viruses. Look up The Thought Emporium. He engineered a virus to infect his gut cells and make him produce lactase to temporarily cure his lactose intolerance.
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 @SuperTonyony Socialism is incredibly exploitative.
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@louvendran7273 Indentured servitude was common precisely because of the lack of capital. Without enough goods or services to trade, people became a commodity. Slavery as a practice started becoming economically unsuitable due to the industrial revolution. The machine can outproduce an army of slaves. Slave owners could not compete.
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monks9098 you came to the wrong place. Being a part of the country? Never signed any document or gave formal consent.
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@bakonax7080 Ok Russian bot, keep sowing disinfo.
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@hoteldritchhorror2240 Having a cheap rifle that he purchased through mail order proves that he had to plan the assassination within his means. If a government, mafia organization, or even elements within the US establishment were involved, a better rifle would have been provided to him. The bullet was not perfectly preserved. It was squished on the sides.
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@Max-ek3kf But it isn't. Just look at the facts. He was a loser. He wanted to be a commie hero by assassinating a US Army Major General and missed. If Oswald wasn't acting alone, why would they hire a guy who missed a prior target?
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@fynncarey5030 First shot misses, second shot penetrates JFK in the back, exits his throat and hits Connally. JFK leans forward and reaches for his throat wound. Third shot penetrates back of the skull, exits through the top, fragments hit the windshield of the limo.
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@bakonax7080 Sorry, I'll try to refrain from using terms the Russians invented.
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And yet no actual trial for fighter adoption has found that price differential. Funny how the people who look at the actual numbers don't see the Gripen as cheap, but the people who look at two decade old marketing wank think it's the best thing since sliced bread.
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@claymclaren5788 Nobody thinks its cost effective except for the internet. If you're chronically underfunded, you can't afford the Gripen. The South African military put half their Gripen fleet in rotating storage because they couldn't afford the per hour flight costs. If you can't keep 100 tanks running, you can't keep 4 Gripens running. Aircraft are expensive. Either pay up or give up on having an air force.
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The issue is that even the smaller M61 20mm gun can deal critical damage to those vehicles, and so does the 25mm. The A-10 might not want to deal with AA, but AA will be there to deal with the A-10. Like, the enemy knows what an A-10 is. They won't simply allow their troops to get massacred. They'll want to bring A-10s down. Regarding BMPs, on the Fighter Pilot Podcast there was one guest who shared his story, all aircraft were running away from a sandstorm but a Marine infantry unit was about to get cut off by an armored convoy. The pilot went back and due to the sandstorm he couldn't use his precision guided weapons, so he had to resort to the 20mm cannon to chew out the IFVs and save the Marines. He was flying a F/A-18 so the claim that a fast mover will never get close simply doesn't make sense.
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That would be the A-10. Highest friendly fire rates in service.
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We have established that gangs are a big problem. However, their activity is backed up by guns, not caused by them. "Banning guns" does not have a great effect on crime reduction, as gangs would still have baseball bats and knives. Now, in Brazil gangs often make their own weapons. Somewhat cruder than this, but the process is similar. /watch?v=pAOdzCx7Cr8 /watch?v=gNcLjtfj1o0 Banning guns does not un-invent them.
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Russia still sells their weapons to nations that the West is not in friendly terms with.
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Virgin "One gun for multiple criminals" UK vs Chad "more guns than people" USA
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@sotirmilivojevic6233 "Every news coming from the west about Ukrainian wins is to be divided with 100" - Every Russian win from their media has to be divided by 10.000. Russia just claimed to have hit a troop transport barge with a guided missile from a helicopter, but it was a bridge support in the middle of the river. Every day Russians make up fictional wins.
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And yet it has already been replaced by F-16s, F/A-18s, Strike Eagles and B-1s.
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@joek600 "You just shoot them, pile them up, spil some gasoline and they are gone forever among the many casualties of war" - They're POWs. This means people will ask questions. Yes, wars have MIA. The problem is, Russia made a huge victory lap over capturing the fighters stuck at Azovstal. Claim they moved to another location? Sure. Show them. If they had to go "missing", they'd have to pretend to not have captured them. a) That's ridiculous. The DPR forces wouldn't have that grudge against the Azov guys, because when they were captured the Western equipment was still trickling in. They're suffering the bombardment now. Not months ago. Weapons depots aren't usually just struck based on a rumor, the entire battlespace is being monitored. A rumor that there's a weapons depot in a place nobody saw trucks coming and going with weapons will not be struck because the US intelligence will simply tell the Ukrainian forces it's empty and to wait for it to fill up with ammo. b) How is it a PR disaster? Everyone knew about them. Except for the media carrying water for Azov, and the people with the memory of a goldfish, "everyone" knew about Azov. That being, everyone with half a brain. Nevertheless, any confession obtained by the Russians is assumed to have been extracted under duress. They'll admit to the most heinous crimes just to get a chance of a lighter sentence. Or to make the torture stop. So they could be on camera admitting to executing civilians and nobody would care, everyone would assume they were tortured, there would be no PR disaster.
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@pooq6611 Or, they just hated those guys and burned a building with them inside. What's more likely? War crimes, which happen in every war? Or a massive conspiracy you're unravelling on a youtube comment?
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@joek600 It's harder to deny in the age of cellphones. You forget that Ukraine wants to trade prisoners. They have Russians. "bombed the shit out of Donetsk for 8 years" - Look up the casualties over the years. Almost nobody died in the last years. It was 2 years, tops. And the DPR also shelled civilians. They shelled Mariupol. They shelled bus stops in small towns. They're as bad, if not worse than Azov. They should hate themselves. "even has a report about neo-nazi children camps run by Ukrainian nationalists" - I saw that documentary when it was released. And 2022 honestly justified the existence of the camp. There's enemies training to kill my children. I'll teach my children to get the drop on them first. "they are dragging kids and old men in the army" - Russia is doing that in the DPR/LPR. "making cracks on their narrative" - There's no cracks. Russians tortured them to confess. Simple. Now what? "winter is coming in europe with a high probability of many people to start re-evaluating their degree of involvement in this war." - I'm European and I say we should send even more weapons. We want our collective enemy broken, beaten and humiliated. We have been cowards and pussies thinking that giving peace a chance would work. We stuffed Putin's pockets to maintain peace. Winter is coming? Wear a sweater. Russian's problems won't be fixed with more clothes, though.
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 @rogerwilco5918 the AR was beyond fully tested. Army Ordnace effed it up with last minute changes.
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 @impyrobot Western PMCs do security work. Russian PMCs fly attack jets and drive tanks.
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 @ryan.1990 What naivety? Post proof of Western PMCs flying A-10s like Wagner flew Su-25s.
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@ryan.1990 Chop a link so we can remove the spaces and use it on the browser url tab. It's not a fixation on Russia. The war in Ukraine is ongoing which means it brings in the views. Blackwater don't have to be good boys or bad boys. They got paid to protect businesses and corporate executives. They were mall cops with guns. Wagner was an unofficial arm of Russian intelligence and had the capability to fight wars. Blackwater never had tanks or artillery. Black ops use special operations units to retain government oversight.
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Just like the Kherson offensive. Remember how humilitated you were after you chanted that it wasn't coming last year?
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@1CE. I don't trust the reporter who made up engagements that never happened in desert storm to make US troops look like murderers.
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@teemuvesala9575 American analysis like David Axe, who have no actual credentials except being a war journalist almost 20 years ago.
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Official names and nicknames often don't match. The F-16 is the Falcon but it's referred to as the Viper. The Super Hornet is called Rhino to prevent any confusion with the legacy Hornet.
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@glebbak19 Everyone else is trying to earn glory from this war, and thus willing to lie and deceive. Girkin's bitterness is what makes him more honest than the propagandists.
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The rebels cut off the M5 highway in the north and had a surprise pincer coming from the south. The SAA was already surrendering in other cities so it was hopeless to resist on a cut off city.
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Zoomer Stasi if Ukrainians have no AA why are strategic bombers a no-show?
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@hernerweisenberg7052 That's not air superiority. Assuming no SAM engagements can Russia fly ovet Kiev or Lviv without getting shot down? No. You can only achieve air superiority when you have the ability to fly uncontested by enemy fighters.
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@molusco1059 They don't have to come to terms. They can just refuse to sell. Portugal tried to play hardball over a Hep C therapy. The manufacturer walked off. People protested. The government was forced to crawl back. Pay up. 90k per person.
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@TomisaLami The reason corn (source of sugar) is subsidized in the US is that otherwise global agriculrure would collapse. American exports would cause several countries to stop farming as their agricultural sector would become unprofitable.
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@ln6593 They're trying to tie the vaping lung disease stuff in 2019 to Fort Detrick.
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@RetiredInThailand so I take it that you're here to collect CCP money, then?
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Mike had to postpone this fight due to health complications. He had to get surgery after falling off that hoverboard years ago. Stipe Miocic fought Jon Jones this saturday and at 42 years old he was also busted. He was a full time firefighter in the last few years.
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+Brea Storm most guns are semi-auto. Most countries allow semi-autos. Banning them would make the US one of the strictest countries in the world when it comes to guns, more than the UK which still allows semi-automatic shotguns and rimfire guns.
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Weapons manufacturers can lobby for war, but not actually cause it. Warlords can just send men and fight no matter what.
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If you equate fuel by pounds and not 50% fuel level it has more than >1 TWR. The problem is that most fighters carry fuel externally so they report high TWR on 50% internal fuel. The F-35 with 50% internal fuel is comparable to 4th gen fighters carrying fuel tanks.
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Gazprom is unironically bleeding money and staff. They are badly run. They had a lucky streak via the shutdown of coal in Europe which basically gave them a free money printer. Now that they actually need to be managed to deal with the war, they're tumbling down.
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Pretty much all countries have it written into law that the state can call on all able bodied men to serve in case of invasion, thus ban them from leaving.
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A ton of captured tanks turned out to be garbage on tracks. They have to be fully tested, inspected and disassembled to bring back into operation. The 93rd Mechanized already was using the best condition tanks they captured from the 1st Guards Tank Army. The rest were in need of repairs.
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How is he winning?
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@techiefromcanada the police will only come after you've been murdered. Do you think your precinct is gonna waste resources keeping you safe? Not unless you're an important witness for a trial.
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@orhion14 there's many domestic franchises and cafés in Russia, often a little cheaper than McD's. McD's is more of a commodity, a "teen"/young adult thing to eat when going to the mall. Additionally, they have the alternative of potato wedges which use a different type of potato which was not affected.
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Ka-52s were brought down mo problem, only difference is now they're defending so they can stay outside defensive missile range. But a third of the fleet has been destroyed or damaged.
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They were donor aircraft for spare parts. One of the A-50Us hit was the one that got attacked by drone in Belarus.
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Obviously the person doing it is the main culprit but boxing is different. After grabbing hair and wrestling was banned from early bareknuckle there were almost no reasons to ever open your hand. In MMA the Thai inspired techniques of long guard and entries for elbows and knees involve opening your hand so that a boxing glove can slide into the opponent's guard and stuff his face, grab the arms and yank to rip the guard, grab the head and pull down, slide forward and crash with the forearm/elbow, etc. These techniques are eye safe when sparring with boxing gloves.
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You could, but you aren't.
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The F-35 won't be in danger. The eagle and viper aren't abandoned.
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@studiobauhaus7740 Russia destroyed Syria.
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Not always. Collateral Murder omitted the actual truth.
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The homeless get billions in aid. You want them off the street? The current housing programs will have to implement no behavioral rules.
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So sorry. It's truly heartbreaking.
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The Soviet Union has boots on the ground in Vietnam. That wasn't a world war.
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Racism isn't a crime, though.
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You got the timeline wrong. It was the pro-Russian fifth columnists armed with Russian weapons and lead by Russian operatives who took the chance to carve up the country, and groups of hooligans, nationalists and police officers banded together to help defend Ukraine when the army couldn't. Azov was a monster created by Russia. Without their antics, they would just be drunk losers watching soccer.
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@Mmmmkaaay You've been exhaling dangerous pathogens into the atmosphere since you took your first breath and you will not stop until your last. You never gave a damn about others until last year you got an excuse to point the fingers at others.
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@pilotmanpaul What about it? There's reports that the attacks were planned before Kerch.
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Yeah, but they have more than one mid-century German symbol. At one point it stops being coincidence.
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@dziban303 it's metaphor
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Yeah I remember that article. It was like "he said make america great again 800 times". So basically 30 lies repeated amost a thousand times.
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@thecaptain4630 MUHH RUSSIA
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@silver4436 not in the democratic process. Elected means you were put in your position by the voters, appointed means another official in the government gave you the job.
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No, it was the year and a half where the economy was forced to halt in many sectors. That's the reason.
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 @569-m5p the USSR was looted by Yeltsin and his friends. The oligarchs aren't called "John Smith". They are former Soviet/Russian.
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@kokoleka808 I don't think we should tax people.
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We are sparing Ukrainian blood. We're guilty of paying for Russian gas with their blood, it's only fair we give them what they need to limit losses.
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My brother actually purchases those, there's specialty stores and online sellers that focus on American apparel. Particularly cheap and worn stuff. He got a Carhartt jacket that was imported still has the company patches in the front and the back, it was from a fracking company.
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@collinstiernagle3553 lol around 30-35 bucks here, the people doing the imports get them really cheap from goodwill stores and such. I don't know how the rest of the market is like, because there's probably people paying more in higher income countries.
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Jeff Lauden must be my southern European blood, we're very distrusting people.
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I didn't do anything here. You're the one saying that criticism stems from envy. Seems like you're envious.
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There's footage from another angle showing impact. Roof also caught on fire.
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They scrapped the bottom of the barrel, for that one.
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Russian forces and proxies in Africa are effectively stranded now. Was giving up the Africa operations part of Russia's plan?
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@maanvol That still doesn't explain why Russia gave up their hub to Africa.
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I mean, who cares about freedom when you can profit off it, right?
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Russian national media is schizophrenic. A week after they said that they complained that Trump was going to f- them. They say whatever just to get the talking points out so that Russians can discuss topics along the approved lines and not turn their anger at the guy on top.
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Why would one need to suffer due to the laws in some other country?
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No. You get some support from the government if you do military movies and games, like access to consultants and vehicles. But as a condition they make sure they approve the script. You're free to criticize the US military, you'll just be rejected aid. It's no different than a sponsor. A car manufacturer can sponsor your movie as long as it doesn't lose a race or crash. Most racing videogames with licensed cars don't have damage physics beause brands don't want their cars to be wrecked in game.
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@lantinian The YF-23 would need to be replaced too at this point.
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@leoschmain Even a F-16A made in 1979 most likely received the MLU. That means it can interface with missiles that weren't available in the 80s.
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Ahahahah holy based
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He didn't make a mistake, he knew exactly what he was doing
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Betting is by definition gambling. Betting markets only know what betters know. There's a reason why you win money betting on the underdog. You expect the market to be wrong.
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The 72k number is based on the Shoigu statement to TASS, a Russian news agency. Why does MacGregor believe the numbers from the Russian Minister of Defense?
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They weren't destroyed. Ammo dumps, bridges and rails blowing all around and you say few missiles are being fired... the Wagner HQ was destroyed. Missed Preghozin, unfortunately. The former SBU building in Lysychansk was being used as a Russian HQ, also blown up. A position in Nova Kakhovka (as evidenced by a burned out BTR) was also blown up. HIMARS is surgically eliminating command & control.
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@hailus7714 Right. And the source is Igor Konanshenkov? The S-300 is certainly capable of shooting down HIMARS. But Ukraine fired Grad and Smerch rockets to overwhelm batteries. Kind of like Hamas uses cheap rockets to overwhelm Iron Dome.
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The full context is probably "knife fight in a phonebooth" but he shortened to knife fight.
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It will pull ever more heat. When you touch the handles on your pans and pots, do you need to wear a mitt or use a cloth towel on the plastic handles or the metal ones? Plastic acts as insulator, meaning the heat is trapped instead of allowing it to flow into the chamber through conduction.
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No. Yanukovych faced protests, told the police and thugs to deal with him, people died. So he fled the country with some ministers because he feared prosecution for the murders. Since the country had his president missing, the parliament voted to relieve him of his duties. He gave up his seat by virtue of being a coward who can't handle the consequences. That's not a coup. Zelensky wasn't installed by any coup. He was elected in 2019.
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@katerinacervenkova5797 Russia did one round of mobilization and many had to wait for months to get training. Ukraine does one round, training, another round, training, another round, training, etc. Ukraine knows that you can only mobilize a number you can train. Russia just mobilized everyone, then let them wait for their turn.
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They also make less money which means you'll have to use much more wasteful technology.
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Offensive? I'm sorry, but you are seriously judging my emotion from bland text? Emotionless text? I'm just saying something, not insulting you.
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They won't cross the river - they're already on both sides in Zaporizhzhia.
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@Solidekans84 What people wanted was not being lied to. They're gonna have to pull out the time machine to do that. Don't you understand that breaking others' trust isn't something that gets fixed by correcting the mistske? They did what was legally required of them. To truly get redemption they're gonna have to work for it.
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 @SylviaRustyFae Most journalists aren't investigative journalists. An investigative journalist has one of the most prestigious positions in media.
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 @RichHeart89 Most trusted name in news since "Tyler Durden" writing for Zero Hedge.
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@Solidekans84 We will complain because wrongdoers need to be shamed. This is the equivalent of letting people get away with anything with just a fine and slap in the wrist. Social shaming is needed to keep people in check. Or else people will just do whatever and not think about consequences, thinking they can just pay it off.
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I'd suggest reading this document if you have the time: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/pn087.pdf But here's the summary if you don't : "Other ideas voiced after the Dunblane massacre included a system requiring holders of firearms and shotguns to obtain an annual certificate of fitness to hold a firearm from their doctor each year. The gun lobby objected to this, citing the cost, and the British Medical Association [BMA] also opposed the move, claiming that it would be impossible for doctors to provide such “sanity certificates.” [30] While past mental illness, alcoholism, and drug addiction is taken into account when issuing firearms or shot gun certificates, "it is virtually impossible for a doctor to make a judgement about someone’s fitness to hold a gun, according to the BMA." . . . And given the number of certificates issued annually—each is renewable every three years—"it would be frankly impossible for psychiatrists to provide a full psychiatric examination of everyone holding a certificate, and there would be no guarantee even then that you would spot the people at risk." [31] Doctors were also concerned over their potential liability if they provided a clean bill of health for a certificate and the holder later went on a rampage. [https://www.loc.gov/law/help/firearms-control/greatbritain.php]
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The difference is that CS knives are tied to a game which can fall out of popularity, while Bitcoin is tied to the need of moving money around. The latter will be around for much longer than CS.
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Wasn't there an actual HIV outbreak at a furry convention and now they have testing stands in the convention floor?
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@grandspringdale1564 calling people cartoon characters while you take exercises seriously. OpFor not winning means no lessons learned. Show me an army that always defeats OpFor, and I'll be looking at some tin pot dictator's outfit.
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@grandspringdale1564 Yeah, "excuses". How about the "excuse" that OpFor was a USMC unit augmented by foreign participants? USMC defeats USMC doesn't look interesting as a tabloid headline, does it? But you only read the tabloid news, don't you? What's your "excuse" for being a low-information reader who believes the MSM shlock?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp9v_QkTBT4
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Because the rifling is pounded into shape rather than cut. That aligns the grain on the metal and by working it cold it work-hardens the material.
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@morganhazel2373 Without landlords, the only housing available for many people would be essentially dormitories and long term stay motels. Great, you technically got rid of landlords but you didn't actually address your grievances regarding renting and real estate.
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@morganhazel2373 They're built. Okay. Are you going to buy them? You're saying you're getting rid of the middleman. Sure. Get people together and you get a collective loan to build the apartment building. Aside from your local government maybe having some insane rule against that, why aren't people doing that? I can think of many reasons. It's a long term commitment with a ton of downsides. In fact it's pretty tragic how some real estate companies are outright scamming people in Russia with these collective contracts. Saving poor people a lot of money. Okay. If they have this money, then shouldn't they be purchasing instead of renting instead? If people get out of the renting market, landlords will have vacant houses and in need of tenants. This means some will be willing to sell to prevent losing money by lowering rent, putting more houses to the market. Obviously not applicable when the fucky regulations promote keeping property vacant like Louis has proven. Useful areas of the economy. Is housing not useful? I love how you're trying to make this personal as a cheap gotcha, but being mad at me isn't going to solve the issue.
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HIMARS broke Russia. Patriot slapped the hypersonics out of the sky. Bradleys shred, they're great. S-400s can't even protect Russian factories from prop trainer aircraft.
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This was said about the T-62. Then T-62s were used offensively.
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Afghans did not have cheap AliExpress drone parts and a nation of highly educated engineers. Ukrainians have degree holders and hobbyists working diligently on construction, programming, etc to make these attacks possible. The first drone attack of this kind against an airfield was in Hmeimim, Syria back in 2018. And the drones dropped mortar rounds based on timer or GPS waypoints because the majority missed.
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@Ciachoo Does the HCA also apply to the people who now have a lower 10-year survival ratio due to myocarditis? Because rates almost doubled in Israel compared to the 2019-2020 average.
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@Ciachoo Because isn't the award for people dying from their choices? So if for example young men, who have a higher chance of getting cardiac complications from the shot, and thus increasing their chances of dying, are they not making themselves candidates for the award?
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@Ciachoo Here's the medical recommendation. I have a one in (number too large for me to remember) chance of dying. I have a one in a few thousand of developing myocarditis, which also reduces my lifespan. Gun to the head, you're forcing me to play russian roulette: I'll pick the revolver with too many empty chambers for me to count. Playing with the smaller number of chambers just to please you is running for the award.
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600-700 billion a year for the past 30 years to fight Russia and China. 80 billion to take out Russia. Extremely cheap.
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Running that experiment on a New York city studio apartment was clearly an OSHA violation.
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The state-ran Chernobyl ran fine, didn't it?
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Youtube now wants me to see my credit card or ID so I can watch age restricted videos. Yeah, I don't want websites to "check" ID either because security breaches happen all the time.
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Copium
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NASA does a lot of aircraft research and they do have Broncos. Haven't seen anyone about them doing restoration work.
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BRAAAAAAP
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Well I'm sure the LPR and DPR would not like to be compared to the UVF either.
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Not necessarily. Foreign nations back botting operations to change your opinion.
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 @ManiaMac1613 No, the theory isn't challenged. You don't run into a knife fight when everyone has guns.
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 @somethingtojenga You will disengage and your wingman takes the shot.
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 @somethingtojenga Because there's a squadron with you on their missile range while you try to get inside gun range. You will not get close.
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I never said "only" 20 kids died. I'm saying that we have to PROVE the root cause of these mass shootings. The rest of the world has firearms, legal or illegal, and people aren't killing each other. Guess what, the rest of the world doesn't have a broken mental healthcare and the Big Pharma pushing their mood changing drugs into everyone who's got a mouth to take them.
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They copied the Space Shuttle. That's how bad things were. Their scientific/engineering juggernaut was built off reverse-engineered tech and stuff done in satellite states. They had a tremendous disadvantage in computers.
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The shart heard around the world.
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Yeah mighty ALBANIA is one country so basically they can help as much as the US. Brother and when Liechenstein gets involved, the Russians will be driven behind the Urals. The Vatican? The Russians will make their last stand at Vladivostok.
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@Ijusthopeitsquick Exactly.
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Most modern rotary cannons keep the casings due to the danger of jets ingesting cartridges through the intake. It's usually belt fed or revolver cannons that eject casings.
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@Andrew-ob5ij Because it was newsworthy when it happened, the German delegation laughed in Trump's face. And the media made it seem like a huge own.
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@marioreds7826 There's a very important reason why Trump gets mentioned - the media was on Germany's side and mocked Trump by saying the Germans laughed at his face. Yeah, he probably heard it from someone else. Doesn't change the fact that the German response was cheered.
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Almost 1 trillion per year goes to Medicare and Medicaid.
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@akeffo And the US spent more on healthcare in a single year (pre-Covid) than the entire F-35 program has for 20 years. So your original comment regarding how the F-35 is taking money from the healthcare system doesn't make any sense considering how much money is thrown at healthcare every single year.
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@akeffo Keep twisting my words bud. Doesn't change the fact that you're wrong.
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@akeffo Go burn down a Target or something.
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>Such ignorance... Such Ad Hominem... >As much as you want it to be so Strawman argument. Putting a dead person on trial? Waste of money. >Had he been alive and the trial was to charge TM for assault he would be found innocent as well Yeah, and? You seem to think I care about TM's image. I don't care. Zim was told the incident had been recorded and he was thankful for it. Does that sound like someone who initiated the fight?
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Not true, the Ukrainian government simply had a vote. That isn't a coup.
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This video is a complete strawman and also incorrect in many aspects. Do you think the J&J vaccine is a conspiracy? Well, their vaccine is an adenovirus. Engineered to enter the cells and produce the rona spike protein. That's an engineered virus, as normally viruses hijack your cells to produce more virus and keep infecting the host cells. We did it. We used science to create something Thunder claims it's not possible - and we did it to counter the rona.
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Virus needs to be grown in a lab, then they need to test on animals, go back to the starting point if it doesn't work, then proceed with human trials.
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@Daniel-fv1ff yeah it seems they skipped the red tape.
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The construction work done on off-shore wing farms can damage their hearing. It's also possible that the whooshing infra-sound could be interfering with the sound reflections.
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 @BlackjackCZ No need to sit at a table. Putin can just call it quits. It's that easy.
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@BlackjackCZ We're having dialogue. Russia is a sore loser and wants to hold what it has now. But we know that if the fight continues, they'll give it up. Why would I let my mortal enemy get away and recover if I can end him right now?
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It wasn't stealth, that's a myth. It had exposed turbines. The Doppler returns from spinning blades is impossible to mask, stealth aircraft push the engines deep into the airframe to make sure they don't get illuminated by radar.
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@outlawking4106 A flying Ho 229 would bounce the spinning compressor blade returns. It would light up like a Christmas tree if it were actually working.
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I must have watched a different video, was this about the Netherlands?
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@ucmanhho9457 in the same sense that the US lost Vietnam on the internet
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Unless I am mistaken he started dumping pounds to devalue it causing others to be mislead into dumping even more. I don't think it's legal to do the same in Wall Street, you can bet against a company but you can't pretend that a company is about to crash to send shareholders into a panic and reap their stocks.
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Civilian casualties are overstated and most times were genuine mistakes. Nobody talks about the crimes against humanity comitted by the losing side, and the ones prevented thanks to their defeat.
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@MMG-q1v Harmful substances are regulated. Smoking is harmful. Tobacco companies hid the fact that it was harmful so they could fly under the radar. Please do not insult my intelligence. So it would be impossible for tobacco companies to hide evidence of the health effects of their product if computers existed? Then please explain how Syngenta was able to discredit studies done on Atrazine by coming up with the manual of practices to follow during studies in the 2000s and had lawsuits through the 2010s. Computers existed. What's your excuse now? I've seen people so incompetent they wanted to go ahead with studies using expired drugs never lose their position, and they go on TV and get praise for their work when they don't work worth a damn. Cafeteria worker my ass. These people have been failing upwards for decades. I've seen the sausage get made and it wasn't pretty. Seems like you need to take the blinders off. Maybe you'll get in trouble. Maybe you'll lose your job. You're not one of them. They'll trample over you and get a promotion. Should have made more friends at the top, I guess.
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 @stevegolden8720 How is it true? With 700,000 casualties the Ukrainian army would need to have 7 million troops to remain combat effective.
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You are absolutely misinterpreting the data for your own benefit. There is no increased suicide risk, there is an increased risk of the suicide method being a firearm. You can't measure intent to commit suicide nor how many people have decided not to kill themselves after considering suicide. You simply CAN'T use any phrasing you want because then the data won't support you. Having stairs at home increases the chances that I'll fall on those stairs, not my chances of falling to death.
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The only thing that changed was flight planners not using the same routes every night. If it was so easy it would have happened more times. It happened once.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp9v_QkTBT4 the plastic is not used for the pressure bearing parts. The barrel/slide combination is not regulated, but the frame is. Mechanisms can be just purchased off the shelf, but even then they're sheet metal and springs. You don't use the printer for those. Sure, if we are counting the time to acquire a printer and learn how to set it up it's gonna take longer. But a fully functional Glock is so much better.
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Do not redeem
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No offense but that's the definition of too little, too late. If people are coming down with delta, it's too late. Omicron will have already outcompeted delta by the time you see the results of the lockdown due to the time lag. If anything you may contribute to household spread of delta and prevent omicron from taking over.
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In the Pacific, not Europe.
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+Mat Broomfield the leading countries in murder rate have very low gun ownership rates. There's absolutely no correlation between number of guns and deaths.
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Gamestop has been dying a slow death for years.
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@dm1i Wrong position data can be filtered out by comparing to INS. If the missile is going to land in Kursk, and the jamming tells it that it's about to land in Warsaw, the missile computer can just say "yeah right, that's not possible" and keep going.
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@Станислав-с6п8я And yet, Russia isn't moving forward.
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@kevinjohnson6331 You have no consideration for others. You took it for yourself. You know you're not protecting anyone. Don't want to get sick? You'll have to stay home. Your antibodies will run out in 6-8 months. How many years are you planning to live without getting sick?
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@kevinjohnson6331 Yeah, and that reason is "they lied". Gosh, I say the same thing. So, boosters twice a year for the rest of your life?
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@kevinjohnson6331 People didn't get unpersoned for not taking the flu shot.
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Same could be said about the designer of that tagging gun. We have over a hundred years of development of reliable magazine fed firearms that don't require them to be shaken. If the design forces the officer to take the sights off his target, then it's a failure in my book. The tagging gun should be self-loading, there are paintball pistols that don't have this kind of problem.
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Bud there's already a US base in Syria.
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@doomedwit1010 A 1950s truck has lack of spare parts and guzzles fuel compared to a modern engine. They can make rifles? Rifles don't win artillery fights.
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porn theater mop bucket Shoigu announced retreat from Kherson. How about them apples?
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Same exact script as Kherson.
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Nothing will unfold. How many times has this song and dance happened?
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@jimbo8651 how does a person pay 9 million in taxes? Wasn't Biden retired from any political office? And how does someone who was earning 200k-400k a year from politics pay 9 million?
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@jimbo8651 This isn't about net worth, this is about income taxes. Even discarding the lower tax brackets, he'd be paying the highest tax rate on at least 8 million dollars. Where did he earn 16 million dollars in a single year from?
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@jimbo8651 So in a single year Biden got enough from books and speeches to pay 9 mil in taxes? Can we get links to those speeches and titles of books? What businesses does he own? Plus, speeches and book deals are a known form of corruption. You can't buy a politician directly, so you use book deals and speeches to pay them.
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Luty made the ammo himself. He took blank gun cartridges, removed the powder, soldered brass tube to the cartridge to make it hold a larger caliber bullet, then put the powder back inside and loaded it with lead bullets.
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Because 6.8 SPC is not an improvement. Putting a bigger bullet without increasing the cartridge length means more lower muzzle velocity and more drop. Makes it harder to hit in combat, makes the bullet less effective against armor and also makes it less likely to tumble inside tissue.
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@SpaceDebris15 Increase in pressure without redesigning the locking lugs will lead to shorter bolt life. "there is onlt a 2mm different in case length" - the bullet is also required to be seated deeper to retain OAL. Remember, the Army will probably stick with the EPR design so you have to replace a good chunk of material from the bullet with steel. This makes the bullet even longer than commercially available bullets because of the steel's lower density. You lose even more case volume. "when using the 85 gr projectile you have the same velocity as the 5.56" - 85gr in 6.8 has low sectional density. You'd be increasing the weight of the round for a very marginal increase in energy at range, essentially making 5.56 objectively better. "it would be easier logistically and financially to choose a already existing round. " - it really isn't. "It exists" doesn't automatically make it viable in terms of logistics or finances. The military has so much power to drive economies of scale that it can order a totally new caliber and it's viable because they drive so much demand for product that the industry will meet it with supply. It doesn't make sense to compromise when you have the freedom to specify exactly what you want and not be constrained by commercial offerings.
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The F-35 is a good aircraft smeared by bombastic headlines (like conflating full mission capable with flight worthiness to make it seem most of the fleet is grounded).
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So they copied a bunch of stuff (they had spies steal nuclear secrets from the US). Basically had the Brits not allowed them to buy jet engines and walked around the shop floor for the shoes to pick up metal shavings, and had the US actually cracked down on leftist sympathizers, the Soviet Union would have been nerfed.
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Yeah and if they spent them all in one salvo they'd need months to produce enough for the next.
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The NRA is not even a big lobbyist. Most of the money they get is from gun companies. Plus, they're crumbling apart.
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Pantsirs are often missing from the S-400 battery.
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More like, the Tea Party was quite clearly co-opted by corporate interests and lost all its credibility because it became about erasing regulations the companies didn't like while not actually doing anything for the people.
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@chancetempleton3829 I'm sure someone had a hearty laugh about that sign after seeing the picture on the newspapers. Meanwhile the exposes on who controlled the Tea Party absolutely nuked its credibility.
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Fuel is dumped as a mist, not a high pressure jet. The fuel dump was attempted 19 times, it didn't break the props 19 times.
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Same demand but lower supply means that to keep getting access to fuel you'll have to bid higher. If you don't someone else will buy it off you.
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To take money out of circulation. According to modern monetary theory the state won't use taxes to finance its programs, it will simply pay it with debt, and taxes are the means to scale back inflation. I don't agree with it, but that's how it was explained to me.
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This "the real army hasn't even shown up" cope since Feb 2022 is getting old.
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14 as in 14 that actually work?
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Meanwhile Russians are forced to die in Western owned fields. You didn't think about that.
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@brickleberry7829 I'm not blindly following anything or any narrative. The fact is that Kherson is no longer Russian. How's that for independent thought? Mr blindly follows the Russian narrative.
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 @ГеоргийМурзич They still carry the 15 and 18 designations. Kinda proving our point there for us.
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@ГеоргийМурзич Are you kidding me? The US openly advertises its products as the SAME model, but with an upgrade. The "marketing reasons" is literally pretending that they aren't upgrades to get more sales. You're missing the point with the F-21. Lockheed isn't marketing for sales. They're playing up India's ego. It's the Indian model so they want to call it something different because it's theirs. And Lockheed still sells F-16s to other countries. Because nobody else cares about the name.
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 @johno1544 They were refusing to sell the gas. They wanted to freeze Europe, remember?
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They're throwing themselves at Bakhmut and suffering huge losses.
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They're really good at practicing being the targets.
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"Russian minorities have been a part of Russia for hundreds of years." - They're importing tons of foreigners.
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Usually private investors. There's money people who agree to finance for the first few years in the hopes that it gets big and they collect their returns then. Some carefully pick what they invest on, others have a shotgun approach and will finance anything in the hopes that one becomes a huge deal.
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@niceshotapps1233 If you go into a cave, whatever pathogens are there aren't optimized for humans. Maybe there's zoonotic jump, and you'll get sick. But maybe you do not infect others. Or maybe lightning strikes twice and you infect other people. Now say, you have research animals in a lab which were engineered to be humanized. You pass through that cave virus through them. Bam. You'll have a virus that is perfectly primed to spread among humans because you optimized it.
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@theultimatereductionist7592 If the CCP donates food to the hungry I'd say that's good. If a bunch of people get shot and the CCP is found to be hiding smoking guns, I'd consider the fact that they're hiding them bad.
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Every foreigner chimes in about American gun laws, now you people get mad over it?
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Always great to hear an argument based on facts.
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 @emeraldivy1621 If you call the Mongo Straights Sheriff's Department about a sighting, they will come over to your house and preemptively kick you in the balls.
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@BertoxolusThePuzzled The US Army hasn't recruited from prisons in decades.
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Iraq.
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Mujahedin fought off the Soviets and Chechnya fought off Russia.
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A golf ball will not reflect enough energy until it gets very close to the emitter. Radiation energy decays by the inverse square law. Energy will decay from emission to aircraft, and then decay again from aircraft to receiver. A golf ball's reflection will be lost in the atmosphere and not make it to the receiver.
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They're buying at a discount. They're not charities. They're gladly exploiting Russia's woes for their own profit.
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@foxman1546 With friends like those, who needs enemies? India isn't giving support. They're scamming an impoverishing Russia. They'll gladly make them a vassal state because then Russia will rely on India and thus give them anything they want.
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Again, you're MASSIVELY misinterpreting what I said. I said that you used a logical fallacy called Ad Populum. > I think this is something that should be taken seriously ._. And that's why you're using the silly little smileys. I'm using FACTS and you refuse to address them, while you use emotional arguments.
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Which is still voting for evil.
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Turkey is in NATO too. You thought that was a gotcha?
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@Justme-ie5fb The fellow employees are killing them either way. They can still spread.
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@Justme-ie5fb I'd say you have no argument so you have to waste my time responding with insults. You have not addressed the fact that you're the one contradicting the CDC by spreading the myth that it prevents transmission.
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@Justme-ie5fb One more time, immunity only lasts for 2 months and protection against hospitalization lasts for 6-8 months. Even CNN has reported on it. Oh, it slows the spread? Then why did Israel actually surpass last year's numbers this year in terms of daily new cases? Transmission was actually slightly faster this year. Explain that.
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 @darenzy It's Russia that's begging for foreigners, though.
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@supermarx Iraq was never part of America, and when the US built up the Iraqi state, it actually allowed the elections to swing in the pro-Iranian stance. Russia claims Ukraine belongs to them, even though Ukraine predates Moscow.
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Definitely don't look up the percentage of pepple suffering from "long covid" who have not had a single positive test.
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Taxation is a way to create demand for money and taking it out of the economy. Taxation is what allows money to be printed. Otherwise inflation would be rocketing past our current figures.
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@radaro.9682 you can still be identified by your eyes and bridge of your nose, plus you shoes and gait
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"Just doin ther jerbs" is a bad take. There's a way to do a good job and ways to do bad jobs. If I have a legitimate reason to call the police, and then the officers responding make everything worse (which was not the case here) I shouldn't be blamed.
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@then8ivepatriot That's kind of my point. I don't need to call the cops, I got the problem solvers at home.
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Actually more than 58% are combat capable. The clickbait is just manipulating data.
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There was no regime change. The president flew out if the country and the "regime" voted to have snap elections.
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Blade never existed. Black Panther was the first black comic book hero in cinema.
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It is safe to handle, just like normal subcritical uranium is safe to handle. You just can't breathe the dust after impacts. Which you can't do either if they were using tungsten instead.
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So obvious seven Russian aircraft were shot down by Wagner.
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@finerbiner A strawman is erecting a purposefully flawed argument to take it down. I did no such thing. I just pointed out your complaint. This country has no path forward due to irreconcilable differences, not the tactics used in arguments. I'm listening to your opinion. I find it lacking. You come here complaining, I find what bothers you. You then switch gears and pretend you never complained. You'll be a victim too. All your arguments apply to you despite you trying to pretend to be above it all. If you were above us mere mortals, you wouldn't even have posted your first comment (a complaint). I'm a loser because I am vocal about what displeases me? I'm a loser because others show their vulnerabilities trying to stamp out dissent, and I make it clear that their vulnerability is my gain? You don't understand. You made it clear that people acting indignant forever can hold you hostage. You told the losers how to become winners.
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Just two more weeks, Zisters!
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If Russia is fighting at less than full capacity, what capacity do they have left? Their materiel is being abandoned and destroyed.
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@MrAce2000 You hear about Russia capturing stuff daily because they have claimed to capture Pisky 8 times. Yes, they are shooting at the NPP. The craters prove it. The Rosatom trying to convince the inspectors that Ukrainian rockets do a 180 before landing proves it.
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Because they had to make it seem like the attack was for the airbase. If they destroyed the SAMs in the canyon the enemy would know that's where they were headed.
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>certified gamer >cant even play games on his mac Pleb.
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My dude India and China have drawn blood over mountains and rock. If the "west" becomes a threat (for what reason?) BRICS can't save you.
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And Putin too. Through his mother.
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Nose down and call it a night...
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 @RobotacularRoBob And "low cost" is $5000 for a part instead of $5500 from the other bidder. Not $5 and they get it from Aliexpress.
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@michaelwhite3615 It was Russia's fault. Thank you.
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+sykeo123 if the laws aren't being enforced properly (ask any anti-immigration person) then enforcing them will require a bigger legal system to put the offenders through. This means more cops enforcing the law, more jails, more detainees, etc.
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@garretttobin7451 They have a year of tank warfare experience already.
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@alexnderrrthewoke4479 Taking off from Rostov on Don and landing in Belgorod counts as a mission. The number of missions is irrelevant, are they risking their lives flying in Ukrainian defended airspace?
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So grocery stores increase prices based on how much weapons Ukraine gets? I didn't know your local Walmart was funded by the DoD.
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Cope. They're proven right every time - only Congress can save the A-10 from the chopping block. The entire fabric of the universe is against the A-10, but Congress uses its God hand to save it Deus Ex Machina style. Only politics, and corrupt ones at that, kept the A-10 in service.
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@artruisjoew5473 That would only drive normal Afghans uninterested in the fighting to join the Taliban forces. They'll probably beat the highscore in terms of of suicides a day they manage to cause in the invading force.
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@artruisjoew5473 Funny that you think that the Chinese wouldn't get slaughtered in the hills. You know, where even the Mongols didn't bother to go. Some of you people get off on praising the PLA when in their last conflict they got embarrassed by the Vietnamese. I'd pay the Taliban for footage of a PLA trying to operate in rough terrain where armored vehicles can't go. I wonder if they accept bitcoin.
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The infantry support vehicle still has to cross from staging area to battle in order to support the infantry. Enemy will see tank, and target it like a tank. The crew can scream pretty loud that they're just "infantry support" but the enemy will bring down the hammer on them.
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@SassoSkorzeny Downplaying the importance of what? Russia is not succeeding because their gains will be rolled over. Ukraine can undo in a week several months of costly Russian gains.
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The strategic value is that it keeps Russian troops away from other defenses.
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@billmoretz8718 That's just giving in to the enemy.
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@billmoretz8718 To keep Ukraine away from logistics hubs. Letting Ukraine get close = shelling with cheap artillery rather than expensive cruise missiles.
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@AlexIlinet-o5u That's not how it works. When you gamble with others' money they start to pull it out. And people pulling out the money creates a rush to withdraw.
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@tkkape Cope harder
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BEEFCAKE 306 Please say sike
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In CAS the pilot is not ID'ing targets. Ground controllers are. A-10 pilots are famous for their poor ID'ing of targets and firing on friendlies. It was designed to soak up punishment from 14.5mm AA. Fast firing 23mm are a huge threat even though critical components are shielded, modern fast firing 30mm AAA is a death sentence. Not to mention the missiles.
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@will.roman-ros "Universal healthcare doesn’t necessarily mean public takeover of the means of healthcare, rather, it can be a government intervention for the private sector" - just ask for the healthcare system to be totally nationalized. State intervention on the private sector will only make things worse, and does absolutely nothing to prevent Big Pharma or medical supply distributors and manufacturers from overcharging the government paying for the stuff. I actually would respect a position that I disagree with but seeks to completely change the situation, than take seriously the proposal to take a broken system and then absolutely mangle it through methods we know will not work. "The free-market can only work with educated, logical individuals" - sounds an awful lot like "the poors are too stupid to decide for themselves" and that's why anyone can easily argue that the left actually hates the lower classes. "It was a suggestion by Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations" - the references I find are to justify the "invisible hand" concept he was not suggesting any system at all - it was an observation he made which can be incorrect for all I care, but the point of it was explaining his "invisible hand" concept and not propose any system. "Trickle down economics only happens with charitable business owners/hierarchy." - which is why everyone takes down the trickle-down strawman. The right-wing concept (and some dumb fucks on the Republican side are absolute brainlets for believing the strawman rather the actual political theory) is that putting hurdles on productivity will lead to the wealthy accumulating wealth or putting their wealth where it can't be taxed. By limiting productivity and having the rich save rather than invest not only will the country lose jobs and send people to unemployment, but the government will actually earn a lower tax revenue. " Low taxes only gets you less from the government. Less security, less education, less healthcare, and less infrastructure." - which is the totally ass-backwards way of looking at it. You think that lowering taxes lowers tax revenue but when you lower taxes productivity increases and the wealthy invest rather than hoard wealth. You actually INCREASE government revenue from low taxes. Again, Woodrow Wilson and JFK both used low tax rates to increase government revenue. Reagan massively increased tax revenue and decreased unemployment with his tax policy (although the government was at a deficit because of his spending). The point isn't that rich will give to the poor. The point is that increasing taxes lowers government revenue and kills jobs,
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"Cause dem military boys is always doing the good stuff and blowing up Obama Bin Laden in the mountains of Irak." But really, the military is the "good guys" most of the time. The glorification of the military is more about the discipline, the preservation of the country's safety, etc than mindless killing. I totally disagree that videogames or movies make people violent. I just think that it would be in bad taste if Rockstar said nobody should have guns.
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Strykers were retired and the Bradleys being sent are A2 I think. No biggie.
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@kylemitchell5301 The MGS variant was retired. The others aren't being sent to Ukraine.
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@dughallhalliday1713 And what major war would that be? Russia is depleted and China would be a naval war, not a land war.
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@princesofthepower3690 Why did the US overhype the MiG-25? To make the F-15. You should know that the US always overhyped enemy weapons.
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@elchippe But nature isn't better. If the virus lives away from humans, zoonotic jump is made harder. With a few cells in a lab, you're actually more likely to get the result you want. Because you can just keep forcing and forcing artificial selection to steer the virus the way you want, while natural selection Fs off doing whatever without anyone steering.
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Both export and internal consumption.
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Funniest thing is that these people whined when businesses put the added cost of a minimum wage raise to receipts.
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@davidthedictator nothing is being ignored on renewable energies.
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@electronresonator8882 geothermal is just nuclear energy is extra steps.
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@davidthedictator No no no no no. You made the claim that breakthroughs are being ignored. You back up your claims. "So then why is it not used more often then?" - Several reasons. Area required, practicality, power requirements, initial installation costs, etc.
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The referendum happened after seizure.
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Wrong. Buddy take a tv with motion smoothing on and play a movie. People will complain it looks like a soap opera. That's because movies are shot at 24 frames and soap operas at 60 because TVs run on 60hz. 24 is the number used for FILM because more frames requires longer reels and more time editing.
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Russia is Mike Tyson? They're bringing out T-55 tanks, unarmored golf carts, and firing old North Korean ammo.
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That's just pro-Russia with extra steps. If you witness a crime and say the police shouldn't get involved, you're pro-criminal.
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Worry about yourself. Last century our own governments murdered hundreds of millions of ourselves and you think they can be trusted with the guns? Best regards, a non-cucked European.
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The US Navy has helicopters eith thermal imaging and AWACS. You must understand, Russia can't match American power and also buy yachts and mansions.
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Uh oh another Saab cultist on the loose.
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@ABCantonese It's more powerful, but not enough to make a difference. There is only one aircraft that carries it, so it's incredibly hard to justify keeping it in the air. Modern cartridge design (like 25mm APEX) can compensate for the smaller payload. If you want even more explosive filler, a APKWS rocket has around 5-6 miles of range and it gives you a pinpoint rocket strike at a comparatively low cost as you don't have to put millions of dollars worth of aircraft and pilot within 2500 feet of the enemy. The 30mm isn't going to be shared with ground troops. First, that's a logistical nightmare to rob Peter to pay Paul, only the most dire of situations would require it. Second, you don't know what "near the frontlines" is. Third, there's only a small amount of Stryker Dragoons with the Bushmaster 30mm cannon. Sorry, the USAF won't keep fuel, weapons, pilots and maintainers (very precious resources) near the frontline where a good MLRS attack could wipe out an entire air base.
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"unproven" - you can literally see the Baghdad air defenses fire blindly into the air in panic as bombs fell and they could not see where they were coming from.
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Purely self-serving. Russia intel fed us the fairy tale of Chechen fighters in Afghanistan because they wanted to whitewash their own counterinsurgency in the Caucasus.
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 @dr.jonas.skeppstedt Who's going to rejoice? Families are separated due to Russia.
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Didn't they lose against Japan?
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@cougar1861 What a cope. Forget quality of life - what about the men? The statelets have kidnapped all the men to fight and die as human shields for the cowardly Russian forces.
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@cougar1861 I didn't change the subject. The LDPR are a shadow on the wall. Russia killed the people they said they were protecting.
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 @zarjesve2 But it didn't. The F-117 retired around 2007-2008. It actually retired after the F-14 Tomcat.
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Starlink is disabled over Russia
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He's Denis Pushilin. People swap the letters to mock him.
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 @roro-v3z but humans can think in things that aren't words.
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The issue is that money thrown at the least effective solutions is money not thrown at actually promising stuff. If I want to change a lightbulb standing on a chair is almost as effective as a ladder, but it doesn't cost me billions of USD.
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@crawkn I don't think you got the picture. Even the study didn't estimate using seaweed alone. It was about removing 1 gigaton per year or 25% of the total removal per year necessary to meet 2050 goals. So basically we're already throwing our hands in the air with a hail mary just to give seaweed the best chance. So no, she didn't say it wouldn't solve CO2 alone. She said it wouldn't even make a dent, let alone solve any problem by itself. It is cost prohibitive. Farms produce for the purpose of selling. CO2 capture would mean having to sink the algae to the bottom. So you're producing to waste the end product, not use it as food. And farms have a logistical limit to their size, surely there's overcrowding, fertilizer dispersal and disease issues. So you're trying to say that just because we have dairy farms, that means it's possible to have an Egypt sized cow farm. You'd need to charter private jets to take veterinarians to see the cows. Cost prohibitive. You can't make stuff comically sized and expect them to work.
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The government shut everything down! If government was growing the food then they'd have to break their own quarantine rules.
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Imagine thinking that Iraq was fighting against the US after 2003. The Iraqi government was on the US's side, it was Iranian backed shia militias and former Ba'ath party militants that kept fighting.
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Shawk Tuah???
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She started this when she was still in thr US Navy. That's a big no-no.
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It will be retired because of parts. No amount of pivoting can solve the issue of the company that made it not existing any more, making all replacement parts extremely expensive to contract out. Closer to the front? The USAF won't risk pilots, fuel, munitions, maintenance crews, etc. when it's just easier to operate from bases. Cheaper to operate? On paper, after fudging the numbers. The A-10s problem isn't just SAMs but MANPADS which cannot be suppressed. Anything the A-10 can be used against can shoot back. It's not 1972 anymore.
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@furkadurka What the USAF has actually said is that they want to divest from the A-10 and stop flying it by 2028. And Congress allowed another 21 to be sent to the boneyard in the 2023 national defense bill. Having an A-10 is Arizona is not "the front" because the US Navy never let any ground troops land in American shores. The air force's words? They want the A-10 gone. Go "well actually" them.
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@YouAintGotNoTegridyBoi virtually every war caused innocent civilian casualties. The Allies firebombed German and Japanese cities. Americans killed a lot of civilians in Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan. I'm more than happy to call every country on earth terrorists because they qualify, but I want to make sure if you would do it too.
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There's no true stealth implementation. These 5th gen aircraft are modifications to the base game made by the community. The actual products you can purchase are aircraft simulations described as "study level". In the sense that you do sit down and learn how to start the aircraft from a cold and dark, how to work the radar, how to employ GPS guided weapons, how to relight the engines in case they flame out in mid air, air to air refueling, etc. EW has a ton of classified information so it's fudged in game, it's driven by the devs guessing the effects of EW based on declassified information. But if you buy a BVR capable aircraft, you can do BVR.
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@lmaoroflcopter that's how police works anywhere in the world. All law is based on violence.
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@DaddyBear3000 The UK is no different. Protection and defense is achieved through force. However, people have too high of an opinion about UK cops. I've been there and they grab the MP5s over anything.
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@lmaoroflcopter I'm not American. It's definitely the case. Watch some footage from other countries. Look at the French cops rushing into a house to beat down a rapper in his studio or whatever. Or the Canadian cops who tackled a woman into the ground because of her Star Wars cosplay having a blaster. Cops without violence are just parking inspectors.
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@Zoroaster4 "I almost never am calling for them to use force to protect me. A lot of the time it's because I need an officer to reiterate to them that their choice is either live peacefully in the house or live however they want in a mental hospital or jail." - That is a threat of violence, which is violence. You're still calling the state to come on down and tell people that if they don't correct their behavior, they'll have force used against them. It's amazing, you're actually making Correia's point for him but can't even see it.
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@lmaoroflcopter It is the case. A less lethal round is a form of violence. They're not exceptions, they're reality. You're simply denying the everyday reality. If you think policing is about de-escalation, then prohibit police from touching anyone. They're barred from using force. Do it. If you think the way you claim to think, you can't claim this is a ridiculous idea. "You call 911 to have someone with authority beyond your own to resolve a situation" - Yeah, force. Authority is derived from force, the government holds a monopoly over it. If you live in a place where government doesn't have authority, that's a place where the monopoly on violence is contested. Due to insurgency, warlords, civil war, whatever. "Yes the resolution may result in a violent action being taken, but that is not the intent of policing." - You're just splitting hairs. If you're calling 911 you're calling for government force. You can say that's not the intent, but the intent is just about political correctness. If you were calling people without the authority to use force, it would be useless.
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@Zoroaster4 No, we don't. To point at a badge and say "I will use force if necessary" to make people comply is simply put coercion. If I hold a knife at someone and ask for a wallet, I can't tell the judge "I didn't start stabbing so there's no crime", it's still robbery with a deadly weapon. All law is backed by violence. You can comply, if you don't then force will be used against you and if you resist that force the guns will blaze.
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@lmaoroflcopter No, I'm not assuming anything. If you're calling 911, you are calling people to use violence in your behalf. Period. "Resolve a situation" is just a politically correct way of saying it. If it was just about "resolving situations" you could call anyone else. A teacher. A judge. The mayor. But you call the people with the badges. Really gets the nogging jogging, people say it's not about asking for state violence but you call the people who are tasked with performing violence on the state's behalf. Hmmmmmm.
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But it is. Food/water can go in the trachea.
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He is a pilot. Why would Ukraine waste resources like that? If we stop being emotional for a second and just look at the "spreadsheet" - Ukraine's only need for Denys is if they need to strap pilots to aircraft.
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@timn5008 "This is what Wall Street andd the Corporate world want" - Wall St and corps have been making bank from people being locked inside homes. You got it the other way around, bub.
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@RottenProduce As long as I can get you first if you don't have a sealed CBRN Hazmat suit.
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The war was monitored by international observers. 21 people died in 2021, including mines and unexploded munitions harming civilians by accident.
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 @ZOMBIEo07 bro there's no intelligence involved, the scam works precisely by tricking the consumer, not the company. They use the consumer as an unwitting accomplice.
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Putin wasted his Soviet stockpiles, begs Iran and Fat Kim for ammo, and his only leverage is the nuclear button (which does require men like you and me to carry out the actions to fuel the missiles and turn the keys to doom the world they live in).
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@PumpkinHoard the US didn't destroy the Nordstream. The hint was that NS2 (inactive) was destroyed and NS1 (halted by Russia) was damaged. Russia offered to repair the NS1 in exchange for sanctions relief. Curious. Also the Russian research ship with the minisub was sighted in the area.
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"IT'S JUST A FLU, BRO!"
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@darrenlowe3445 I'm being ironic. The people who went through it and lived said it's 10 times worse than the fucking flu. Three people in the comments said they have not recovered their sense of smell and taste yet and it's been weeks. You think this is a fucking flu? Then go to a NY hospital and go lick the doorknobs. Go.
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@w_stew8912 Brandon didn't have domestic AKs.
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Houthi forces were helping the US fight Al Qaeda Yemen. We gave them intel, and they killed them for us.
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 @tranvinhnhat1289 the minister of defense, Shoigu, owns a PMC. He started it in 2019.
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And Ukrainians will remain static for the hour or two that takes to find a position and tell a jet to take off?
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@duckydarkstar38 It's the government. They authorized the nerds to fire.
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@michaelpcoffee F-16s, Strike Eagles, B-52s, B-1s, etc.
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It's ok, Russian Donbas conscripts get two days of training and they're sent to the meat grinder.
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@federicox8484 But that's their blindspot. If we allowed Russia to do whatever they wanted, they'd be knocking on Italy's door soon.
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The NRA helped gun control legislation go through. In fact they're in hot water with gun owners who have moved on to other organizations as the NRA is primarily a firearms industry shilling operation, they don't care about gun control as long as it makes money.
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Just needs the laser reactive targets and a sound system all over the house then.
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Russian tanks made with American steel, and by people fed by American canned food. The people were not broken thanks to generous American aid in WW2.
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People become such boomers after hitting their 30s.
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Not true. Many of the captured tanks were inoperable due to Russian lack of maintenance.
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Not true. Many of the captured tanks were inoperable due to Russian lack of maintenance.
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No. Most if them were either paid by Iran to fight or conned into participating into sectarian violence aka told to hate other Iraqis for following a different variant of Islam. They weren't fighting any invader when they left bombs in busy markets full of innocent civilians.
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The act of war was seizing Crimea. If Crimea needs water Russia should have thought about that first.
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But he didn't have to lie. "Someone told me" = everything can be fabricated but he doesn't get in trouble because he isn't lying if someone was lying to him. Think for 30 seconds.
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There were like 15-20 cases of celebrities or "twitter personalities" touting the safety of the [PRODUCT] who dropped dead a few days after injection. You also want to look into that or it's just coincidence?
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 @allenneva5213 So the light touched the positive but current was drawn without closing the circuit by touching the negative?
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 @Skim_beeble7125 Nobody said anything about identification. It was about brand. If someone says they don't drink coke, do you also assume they'll just die of thirst?
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Doesn't matter who the president is when your boss is willing to fire you over China.
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@CynicallyDepressedx Sorry but that's not accurate. You didn't handle it better, you put a dome over the country for two years and let it run through. The USA is known for overcounting deaths. There's multiple recordings of healthcare workers exposing how hospital bureaucracy just shrugged and marked causes of death over money.
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@черныйтень05 Are you drunk? Look at the comment I replied to. France and Germany aren't the EU. EH? EH?
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@TheScandoman Portuguese, Spanish, French, English.
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But the personality change as a result of a trip could.
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@captain-chair Think. Think. How did the rule breakers ruin it if the cases went down? They didn't ruin it or else the numbers would show it. Think. Why did they come out of lockdown? Think again. Why did cases go up after coming out of lockdown? If the rule followers came out of lockdown and cases rose up again, doesn't it mean rule breakers had not enough effect to ruin anything, thus lockdown was lifted, thus rule followers are responsible? If you just think a little, what you're saying doesn't make sense.
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"Thankfully the A-10 isnt going anywhere" - yeah they're gonna keep them in inventory sucking up money while most missions are given to F-16s and F-18s because of idiots like John McCain.
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@sultros Are you gonna send A-10s to do FAC in any zone less permissible than Afghanistan? There is a FAC phase in F-16 WIC. There's just more roles to focus on compared to the A-10 but that is easily mitigated.
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The War of the World broadcast scare is exagerated. Very few people believed it.
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He was alone. Besides, he survived a fuckload of time against a country with a 700 billion dollar defense and high tech drones. It just proves how the good old fashioned tactics of evasion work against the big brother. Now try to pull off a Chris Dorner on 100 million gun owners, all at the same time, when roughly only a quarter of the armed forces will fire on civilians.
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jxsilicon9 all guns are untraceable.
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I mean, they share nothing between them except the swivel nozzle, which was developed by Pratt & Whitney for the Convair Model 200 in the 1960's anyway.
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@MrTnylam Just like after the US the CCP also failed in Vietnam, it's the CCP's turn to have fun in Afghanistan.
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"Waaa we just want to be left alone" "lol we invaded Ukraine and started comitting war crimes" jesus you're gullible enough to believe the stuff that murderers say on parole hearings
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@archsimpson4511 It wasn't illegal and it wasn't a coup. The parliament showed up and voted. That's it. Happens a lot in Europe. Spamming buzzwords only flags you as a Russian shill.
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@archsimpson4511 That's a protest. Not a coup. The protesters didn't remove the president, the government did.
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Russia has threatened nukes for 15 years. People are starting to realize it's all bluff.
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Then the drones could take out the convoy. Why waste time with A-10s?
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And? Is Bakhmut the portal to an alternate reality?
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 @nikolaboskovic5793 He served a couple years in prison.
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Tidal is garbage.
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But a ton of Russian shells went up in flames when a few HIMARS showed up.
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Okay. What happens when the Russian forces leave, and Ukraine immediately goes back on their promises? Are they going to go back in?
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@EnigmaHood Do you understand that a nuclear device is pretty much surrounded by those "blocks" of C4? Conventional explosives are set off by a primary. So the safety is dependent on mechanical separation from the detonator to the explosive train. Nukes use an explosive bridgewire detonator which instead of sensitive primary use a wire that is exposed to a very high energy pulse which vaporizes the metal itself. It's much less sensitive.
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Because most of those, except the Jav, hit from the size. The NLAW is meant to be used in overfly mode so it hits the thin armor on top.
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It's easier to track the control boards. The flying Ginsu will also need a rocket boost and thus leave chemical traces.
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This is simply reductio ad absurdum. Free speech doesn't mean criminal acctivity. Just like gun rights doesn't mean mass shootings.
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@novakattila 8chan is one website. There's probably dozens of millions of websites without speech regulations that never hosted that content. Want to be obtuse? I'm more than you'll ever be.
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@RealCurrencies And then they used everything from F-22s to B-2s, A-10s and OV-10 Broncos.
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It's called A242 but people know it as Novichok.
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The EU is starting new facilities. Seems like they didn't foresee that.
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@stepup898 Countries like Venezuela and Zimbabwe had economic collapses and the countries didn't stop. Do you know how riddiculous it would be if an entire country came to a halt? That's farcical.
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How many can be trained in an air force academy per year? 30? 60?
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 @thecompleteartform They literally forced people to convert or pay a tax. That's the opposite of coexistence.
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The shuttle didn't "work" as it was essentially more expensive than rockets.
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Take a decent camera. Now try to film something 10 miles away. It's a blurry mess.
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How did they inflict heavy losses when they left all the weapons behind? The Su-25 that showed up got shot down. The Su-34 that showed up got shot down. The Ka-52 that showed up got shot down. Tons of POWs were captured. Just "how" was it a withdrawal with minimal losses? How did they inflict heavy losses if Ukrainians chased the occupiers like dogs with their fangs stuck to their buttocks? Come on.
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It's not an actual interview. Sorry to ruin the fun but you must be new to the internet if you don't know the Onion.
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I'd rather get my big break by starring as a dead body in CSI.
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An airframe that's 30 years past its deadline. Are they planning on losing how many per year?
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Commercial pilots also got fooled by Starlink. You think things aren't possible because perspective plays tricks on you.
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That's the rock that repels tigers logic. I have a rock, there's no tigers around, clearly the rock is working. Certainly couldn't be due to the students being young? Or them already having immunity from last year? Or the fact that most cases have always been asymptomatic from the start?
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@jay_kay709 There's gambling and there's scams. With gambling you're hoping to win where others have lost, on a scam you just lose.
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@andreypetrov4868 Spain isn't genociding people. Scotland has failed the referendum for independence. The CalExit movement has literal Russian assets involved.
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Not only is the US subsidizing the defense of multiple countries, China also has purchase power advantage.
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BS. That's a clear moving of the goalposts. First you people wanted herd immunity now you're claiming it's just about deaths and don't care about cases, but you'll use cases as justification for more lockdowns. Get the hell out. Also, the UK is seeing more daily average deaths than the same period last year. Explain that.
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It's not just pinpoint accuracy. The Tomahawk has a lot of neat tricks like the terrain countour matching mode. Even if GPS is jammed the missile can survey the terrain ahead and compare to a topographic map and photos loaded onto its internal memory so that the missile can figure out where it is even if it has no connection to satellites.
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The US sent Marines to recover as many as they could.
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@lucassmith889 oh my god it's not precise but just half the value in pounds to get a rough estimate in kilos.
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The rotor would be stopped with some kind of braking system, and if the blades have adjustable angle of attack they could be set to minimize forces. Letting them spin at overspeed could ruin the bearings or possibly lead to blade structure damage.
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No. Socialism is worker's ownership of the means of production and the prohibition of profit. Communism is when you have that in a stateless society. That's why the USSR was controlled by communist parties. They were nominally socialist states, lead by communists. The communists were meant to oversee the transition from state to stateless.
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@yellowtunes2756 Russia is taking ground because they're desperate for the US election. They're throwing men and materiel to get those gains. Men do not come back. The land will be there.
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Imagine trying to get to a country in conflict with full battle rattle. Not only you're risking stuff getting lost in transit if you're flying but actually getting stopped because intelligence agencies have noticed you are trying to get to a conflict zone. How do they determine you're not trying to join ISIS or Wagner?
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Because an energy independent US wouldn't lower demand globally? Causing prices to fall?
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Initial reports mentioned two missiles. Most likely a Russian missile was knocked down by an Ukrainian S-300 and crashed into Poland. The crater even looked too large for a S-300. So both. Most likely a launch from Belarus hugging the border areas to avoid obvious flight paths and come around behind defenses.
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Nice cope. Russia will suffer another loss and you'll look for more excuses.
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@jwenting But most of the stuff found predated 1991 and was in poor condition. I've never seen any evidence of a "modern" batch.
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NATO air intervention decided the Kosovo war.
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treydarling "the insurance company charges several 1000%'s the actual cost (material cost, employees ect.)" - because the hospitals are overcharging and the big pharma industry is overcharging hospitals. Profit margings in healthcare isn't that high. Insurance companies are simply passing down the buck because they're getting fleeced as well.
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Planes are harder to maintain than a wheeled vehicle.
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@zedeyejoe Okay? While your plane flies faster, it spends half the time on the ground for maintenance. And can be shot down by air defense. Meanwhile no HIMARS has been hit, and it can drive around collecting rocket pods in resupply points.
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Debatable.
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Russia punching air as usual.
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+Master Tracker since 1944 that the M43 bullet design was changed to include a steel core. Steel core 7.62x39 predates the state of Israel.
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You mean like the T-14 that broke down on parade?
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+John Fox the redesign of a legacy aircraft would cost as much as a new plane...
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 @HughyB27 LTT put jobs at risk first. Stopping a bad outcome justifies something that could be bad for the one(s) responsible.
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@HughyB27 but it's not a wrong. Just like "jusifiable homicide" is a thing. If someone tries to kill you that's wrong, if you can overpower your attacker and do the same to them, that's righteous.
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@cristitanase6130 Drones not being allowed near frontlines when they're providing targets for artillery is a hilarious concept. Just the other say video was released of a drone providing targeting information to hit... an anti-drone antenna. The drone doesn't drop the payload, it looks from a distance and the artillerymen finish the job. The footage actually showed the shells missing by about 10-15 meters but the point is that drones being used against anti-drone technology just shows how the problem just requires workarounds and smart usage.
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@cristitanase6130 Special pleading. Despite the losses, they caused disproportionate damage well worth the purchase price. They served well. Cheap rocket from the 60s cost a lot. In fact, the Strelas and Stingers are being used despite how much they cost against cheaper drones because a drone is worth a lot more in terms of damage it can cause vs purchase price. Like I said, drones using the off-nadir angle can sight the anti-drone tech and have it destroyed with another weapon. Powerful jammers make themselves easy to detect due to their emissions. Have a drone sight it from outside jammer range and plop it with artillery.
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@cristitanase6130 Luck shots? Stugna-P footage comes out every day. Drone bomb drops almost every day. Artillery pretty much every day too. It's not lucky when it's done at an astonishing consistent rate. Just a few days ago, an entire command post was rained on by artillery. A day after or something, and it's a grouping of BM-21 Grad, fuel trucks, ammo trucks and crane loader getting hit by artillery. That's not luck. That's the US telling Ukraine where to hit, and they hit it. Slow is good. Doppler shift makes aircraft easy to detect due to their speed. The first hit probably disabled it, the second is probably just to permanently trash it or try and get the crew inside. Ammo dumps are still going up. One got hit in Donetsk like two days ago. There's still drone hits. The footage is available and constantly being updated so it's not recycled. Luck luck luck. It's all cope. Please, the Lugansk and Donetsk republics need men, how about you go and just brag about how you're not getting hit, because Ukraine only can produce casualties when they get lucky?
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@cristitanase6130 The cheap artillery is starting to become a death sentence. I said it was a drone-assisted artillery hit. Learn to read.
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@Mugdorna it doesn't impact the aircraft is any meaningful way.
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@MauveGun bro, he specifically mentioned Nazism. So I countered with the fact that historical videos and even German military songs (even if written post-WWII) after taken down due to censorship. So how am I missing the point? Having rules against harassment isn't censorship in the same way that a law against speeding doesn't infringe on your right to travel.
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Cope.
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Russians confirmed it.
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The F-16 was made with the same multirole philosophy and it's an excellent aircraft, adopted by dozens of countries. It actually excels at air-to-air so the US uses it for their Agressor squadrons to mimic the MiG-29. It also excels at air-to-ground to the point that in 1991 it did more CAS than the A-10 while suffering less losses. While a different design path was taken, the F-4 Phantom was designed as an interceptor, forced into a fighter role, eventually had the air to ground capability exploited by its use as a bomb truck and for suppression of enemy air defenses. Also had Navy carrier-borne and Air Force traditional runway landing variants. Air planes aren't cars.
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Molecular vs atomic level. Without googling I don't know how "wide" an O2 molecule is but you're not fitting air channels between transistors. It would be like a clay pot, technically porous but not very breathable.
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They responded to a fake surrender meant to kill Ukrainians and the Russians were the ones shelling the plant.
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How do you prevent that right now?
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@williamdelahunty3677 The state barely functions, and I have no hope for any stability. The state just performed a controlled demolition of the economy and I'm being sold "stability"? I don't even know which new rules will be introduced next month and walked back in 3 months, for them to be reintroduced 5 months later. Somalia without a government actually showed improvement over the previous government.
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@AH-lw2bj "How do you stop a foreign nation with an army from invading a country with no leader or governing body?" - How is a foreign nation going to occupy a location without leader or governing body? Without a local government to accept peace talks, you can't do anything with that nation. What do you want? Mineral resources? What happens when your miners and geological surveyors simply get shot by locals?
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@williamdelahunty3677 Why do you take for granted that having a state would make you able to overcome an invading force? The US wasn't trying to win? Cope. How are you going to feed the government agents? Where are governments going to get the bullets? How do governments stop artillery? The Big Government tough guy act is delusional and cringe. The state isn't deterring the state right now, why the hell are you afraid of a foreign nation when you're just getting milked by your own countrymen?
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@williamdelahunty3677 Vacuum doesn't suck, pressure pushes. The problem isn't vacuum but the pressure. Most of the universe is vacuum. Nothing's trying to fill it. Right now whoever has the most force makes the rules. The state has the monopoly on force. Natural resources aren't evenly distributed, but humans aren't evenly distributed across the planet either. We concentrate where they are available, and slowly conquer inhospitable regions by making them livable. And I think we all know what happens when states are in charge of resource distribution.
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Still produces spike proteins. The delivery mechanism is adenovirus instead of mRNA.
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No, it wouldn't. Reactive armor works to disrupt a HEAT jet or snap a penetrator rod. When a heavy wheel or a track rolls over a tripled mine, that's three times the HE.
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>problems in the West Whataboutism. The topic is Tate's support or "feigned neutrality". Not "West is best".
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So Palestinians will rise up against Hamas for being Zionist, right?
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He's a radical feminist?
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kek meanwhile Ukraine recovers in a week more land than Russia can take in three months
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@Migsie73 It's lasting long. Russia plays the long game of suffering economically, wasting its demographics on a pointless conflict, and not having manpower.
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@murderedcarrot9684 That's the weirdest take possible. The mining is what makes proof of work possible.
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@militaristaustrian the imaginary losses from Igor K. at the Ru MoD. Russian OSINT calculated 25k irrecoverable losses (KIA and crippled) by correlating figures and statistical data from artillery-heavy wars at around the post-Severodonetsk mark. This was the point where the Russian military hit the hardest, and the Ukrainians were taking the most losses. You're trying to claim that Ukraine suffered over half of these losses in just a month, month and a half despite of the fact that at that point they were better trained, the Russian forces were past the tipping point and had their ammo supplies and ground lines of communications attacked?
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@militaristaustrian Not if they're only fighting with 1/3rd of the supplies. Trashed equipment doesn't mean much. Ukraine was losing 200 per day for like a week. Zelensky said that ONCE, several months ago, and you're extrapolating that to 8 months. Stop playing. Ukraine cancelled conscription. They have enough troops.
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Slasher movies hit a stagnation point, the whole trap/torture genre also hit stagnation, then we had the paranormal activity CCTV style hit stagnation.
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We're all going to be living under tyranny within 10-15 years and you people asked for it. I personally blame you all, just saying.
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They don't want to make that public. Any information posted online is used by Russia to strike.
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Mauris the slide locking back on MP5s was offered at the request of the FBI.
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It's important to consider that the MP5s are probably beat to shit. Buying new MP5s probably costs as much as the B&Ts solution.
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That's because your mental age hasn't progressed past 10.
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Anton Petrov made a video a couple of weeks ago which is about protein folding - basically life is statistically impossible inside a galaxy. Galaxies with life should be extremely rare and those that have it should only have one populated system. Distance between galaxies makes it practically impossible to meet unless we get the eormhole tech.
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@nikibronson133 It's rough math. For example the protein that makes photosynthesis possible has a chain of 250 amino acids. This means that the number of possible combinations is larger than the number of stars in the galaxy. There are reasons why proteins fold "correctly" but it requires perfect conditions to happen consistently.
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"killed government workers just for their jobs" - Calling the type of people who pose for photos while children's bodies are still smoldering behind them "government workers" is like when Washington Post or whatever said al-Baghdadi was an "austere religious scholar".
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US confirmed it.
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@sasaasassasa1245 You're seeing the actions of a conqueror desperate to be seen as a liberator. Who cares? Like seeing people behave when they know they're filmed by CCTV. Not worth writing home about. Russia chose their role. It's their responsibility. They should have thought before acting. Too bad. Of course it stinks. They should have known beforehand the blood would always be on the hands of the aggressor.
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It was provoked. Saddam kept breaking the peace terms for the entirety of the 90s.
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 @Drunkieman Jetpacks exist since the 1950s, they're not new technology. They're just impractical.
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 @moses2445 because the first country to give up nukes will have no defense against a country that keeps theirs.
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I have no interest in you insults, but at least I don't pretend I have the right to silence you. Now that I think about it, at every point of this conversation you had the opportunity to settle this. You just retorted with half-assed internet harassment. More power to you, if you think that hurts me in any way.
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 @fatalmokrane Lie. The Taliban showed up after Operation Cyclone. The US armed the Mujahideen.
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@deidradahl2802 8,000 dead from the invasion, 230,000 dead from the insurgency and sectarian violence. The majority of lives claimed in Iraq were by the hand of fellow Iraqis.
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@deidradahl2802 9/11 happened because Osama Bin Laden was personally offended at the Saudi govt asking for US assistance to protect them from Iraq. 9/11 was caused by the ego and delusion of a trust fund kid from a billionaire family.
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But during daylight aircraft are visible, it was night time bombing that made radar the big threat.
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Yeah, they are. We don't have modern Russian equipment to fake those losses. Could only come from them.
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@attilamarics4808 That was Lysychansk. Sivierodonetsk was a brutal urban battle. You constantly prove you have no idea what you're talking about.
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Supermaneuverability is an air show trick. Doesn't help in combat unless you're already dead and you figure out that low chance of success is better than certain death.
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@JosePineda-cy6om Extreme agility doesn't matter much. Agility has to be paired with speed, energy efficiency and energy recovery. Being agile while you're stopped in the middle of the air does not fool a missile.
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60 million died in WW2. WWI already had hard to believe fatalities. WW2 was just massive.
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@majormoolah5056 What? Iraqi Freedom had Rumsfeld's light expeditionary force, Brits, Australians and a few Polish. How was it pronounced?
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@mcribisback7105 Incorrect. Russia cannot plan an incursion into Kiev without taking Ukrainian fighters into account, so they have no superiority. Even if the SAM threat is greater.
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@vangoghsseveredear Strawman argument. You've already admitted your loss. Thanks for playing.
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The former champ got dropped by one of those.
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Spinning back fists are illegal because you're supposed to hit with the knucles, spinning backfists hit with the base of the palm.
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The ecosystem doesn't self-regulate, it achieves equilibrium. Add energy to a closed system, it doesn't go back down. Volcanoes are irrelevant here except in the sense that an eruption can cool the Earth by blocking the sun with smoke particles in the high atmosphere. The heat in the magma is a result of the Earth's formation and billions of years of radioactive decay releasing energy. It has nothing to do with solar energy reaching the Earth.
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LMAO it was Al Assad who let extremists out of prison to sow confusion during the Arab Spring, and Russia provided cover for the government forces. It was the rebels, Kurds and Americans who did the heavy lifting against ISIS.
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Nope. George Washington wasn't part of a death cult.
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Putin's war is a failure, yes.
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 @philippe2715 lol the usual Ru-shill cope. Minor Russian losses my butt, Telegram was full of videos of the roads littered with Russian corpses.
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@littlejimmy8744 Yeah, a column of western goodies traded for the lives of invaders and the land back to the rightful owners. This is pure projection. Read actual, truthful reports from people fighting for Russia. They don't care for human losses, while they curse the Ukrainians for preserving their troops. They are forced to fight with fresh, inexperienced forces while Ukrainians develop experienced fighters. Read Murz's accounts. Even Girkin says Russia is doing frontal assaults with no purpose.
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Shut up, only dystopian hellholes like China ban guns.
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*no one dared to take a sip
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 @MumboJumboZXC Nope, it's metal. Equipment isn't dollars.
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@marceloorellana5726 By that logic no nation was ever a sovereign nation. The US belonged to the UK. Portugal belonged to Spain. You make yourself a sovereign nation by spilling the blood of whoever says you aren't. Seems to me Russia cannot contest Ukraine's sovereignty, which makes it a sovereign nation.
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The greatest journalist who spent the last 30 years lying?
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Missing the point. The claim was that the weapon was banned under the Geneva comvention.
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@mickeyblueeyes I don't get your point. The issue raised was that Russia was using some kind of gruesome, banned weapon. So that was just a lie. Nobody said Ukraine has to use fists to defend themselves, the issue is that you're implicitly defending the use of lies to raise moral panic. In fact, thermobaric weapons being legal means that Ukraine can use them too. Nobody's saying they're aggressors using banned weapons. You're the one defending the lie about banned weapons.
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@mickeyblueeyes All bombs are indiscriminate. No humane government would drop bombs on population centers, which by logical conclusion means there's no humane government on Earth. I'm not arguing on behalf of a bully state. I'm arguing on behalf of truth, because the Ukrainian side shouldn't have to lie when reason is on their side. You ask around online, many people are pro-Russia simply because they're sick of Ukrainian propaganda. There's a psychological trick in which we're always much more susceptible to the information we hear first. So when people saw Ukraine propagandists lying, they're now tuned out. You can show them how Russians are lying, they don't care. Their brain is stuck on "Ukraine lied" and now they won't be moved.
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Lobbing an artillery round at IFVs will also shred them pretty good. Why waste an airframe to deliver cannon fire?
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 @nateoliver3285 "Global Currency: The Dollar ain't going nowhere" 3 months ago
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The kind of garbage published in The Sun wouldn't go well with actual fascists. It's mostly conservative, shock value news with celebrity gossip which appeals to a ton of old people. In the previous video that article about Gwineth Paltrow's tips for threesomes? Fascists would deem that as degeneracy.
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The logic is that the cameras are already everywhere so it's not more invasive than it already is. But yeah, I agree it's invasive.
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@earlwyss520 F-16 being overpriced garbage? One of the most succesful aircraft ever. The F-117 opened its bomb bays often over Baghdad. The F-22 dropped bombs over Syria.
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@earlwyss520 The Iraqi military was said to be the 4th largest in the world in 1991 and Baghdad was the most defended city from the perspective of aerial defense. You can literally just look up the footage of desperate AAA fire lighting up the skies because the Iraqis couldn't see what was dropping bombs on them. Syria has modern Russian air defenses and even Russian operators manning some of their network. Nice special pleading. You really think the nationality of the pilot is going to save their bacon?
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@earlwyss520 The Iraqis were also warned in advance that an attack would come. Also, none of what you mentioned contradicts the fact that bombs were raining over Iraq while panicking group defenses filled the air with AA because they couldn't see anything on radar. You're just fleeing from corner to corner whenever you get punched. You claim stealth doesn't work, and when faced with the reality that it does you start going off about nationality of the pilots, the air force fleeing (which doesn't mean anything because ground forces were still getting pummeled by stealth aircraft they couldn't see on radar) and the "parity" of a military when they get Russian weapons the Russians sell them precisely so they can test them against US forces. Give up. You were wrong and now you're making up excuses. Stealth works despite your denial. Ironically it was invented by Russians.
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@earlwyss520 It doesn't prove anything. It was a single shoot down that required extreme skill and luck from the operators and has never been replicated since. Wasn't done in 1991. Wasn't repeated in 2003. "burning stealth aircraft will rain from the skies" - Anything that kills stealth aircraft will kill non-stealth. Are you seriously kidding me?
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@earlwyss520 "I do realize that what kills stealth will also kill non stealth, but at a fraction of the price" - You do realize that the man inside the aircraft is worth more than the airframe itself, right? It costs millions to train a military pilot due to all the JP you have to burn to bring someone to reasonable proficiency and all the logistical backbone that needs to exist for these flights to occur. If your plan is sending cheap aircraft that are going to get pilots killed, captured or require hundreds of search and rescue missions that risk even more pilots and special operations, you've already failed. This is why amateurs discuss tactics while professionals discuss logistics. You think you have the perfect solution in your head but you lack the foresight to even understand why it's an absolute failure. The military is willing to give a man of meat and bone a rocket seat to ditch an 80-100 million dollar aircraft. Aircraft can be made at a factory and you have millions of taxpayers to buy new ones, good pilots can't be made in an assembly line.
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@earlwyss520 "Everyone is expendable" - Sure. But you have a limited supply and a barrier to the training of new ones. Ration them carefully. "they were potentially going to get shot down in highly irradiated areas" - Getting irradiated is not a death sentence, you know? Literally any military survival guide will describe how to mitigate radiation poisoning by moving towards the wind, sheltering yourself, not drinking the water, etc. I'd rather eject and decide on not having kids than driving myself into the ground. "The smaller MiG-21s would hide in the larger MiG-25s radar signature" - What would this accomplish? The MiG-25 would get shot down and leave the MiG-21 exposed. Even if the Americans held their fire the F-35's DAS would literally see the formation through thermal imaging. "The expensive F-22s & F-35s are vulnerable to the oldest, and cheapest jets available." - Old and cheap jets are vulnerable to AIM-9X missiles.
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The American people didn't ask for it. If you can round up all the people who organized the research funding, you're free to punish them the way you please.
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@TheGaymo Why? Before Las Vegas the deadliest mass shooting was Virginia Tech, with over 30 dead with a 9mm Glock and a .22 pistol.
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Something wrong with satellite photos?
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@atmosrepair The running apps worked much better though, because when the geolocation heatmaps were released they revealed the outlines of buildings of secret American bases because people tended to run in a straight line along the walls.
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????
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Same thing was said about Izium. Same thing was said about Lyman. Always a trap... then it isn't.
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Blumenthal went to the RT 10 year gala. He's a Kremlin stooge.
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They're living in red states so they feel safe.
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Sure. It's just terribly impractical to dedicate that much processing power.
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But they are. Russia wasted ten thousand men assaulting a small town. Meanwhile Ukraine recaptured Kharkiv in a week and forced Russia to retreat from Kherson city without a direct fight by starving them of supplies. Not to mention Russia had their strategic bombers damaged by long range drone strikes and had to relocate them almost to Mongolia.
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There's 24h news broadcast channels now. Back then you couldn't be interrupting every show with breaking news.
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Copium. Not even once.
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Iraq and Serbia flew in areas declared no fly zones. Didn't go well for them, but they flew.
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@cartwheel8319 Nobody talked about Red Square. But Russia lost their army. Not the media's fault Russia used prisoners and T-62. Turns out wars last longer when one side has WWIII supplies from decades ago.
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It's a RNA virus so it doesn't have DNA.
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They did run out, which is why they switched to Shaheds and S-300s to produce more. There's a manufacturing rate and an expenditure rate, whenever your expenditure rate is greater than the manufacturing you are running out. Using alternative forms of attack gains you time to produce more by making the expenditure rate go to 0.
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If they go scorched earth, what do they gain? You destroy your own country, now you can't pay or feed your army. What happens to all those people who are now angry at their own masters?
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Fires burned long enough that it seems to have buckled. I'd hire a team of engineers and wait for their findings.
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@kei2142 Oh so anyone who died from unrelated causes didn't actually die of the vaccine? I wonder which other metric would be affected by applying such logic...
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Is it 6 months for the certificate or final results of an autopsy? Six months seems unreasonable, imagine all the dead people with all their bank accounts, contracts and IDs still active because no certificate got emitted for six months.
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@skulldozer1462 "MoDuLaRiTy" isn't a big deal because nobody is swapping parts in the field, the point of the chassis was that it prevents the M14s accracy issues by eliminating the old stock. But the problem is that the chassis had to be torqued in a specific way to tune the harmonics, when they got shipped out armorers they were not told they couldn't disassemble the rifles so when they got overseas the armorers stripped them to clean them. Womp womp. Torquing it back together turned 1 MOA rifles into 3 MOA.
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Because the story is the same? Do you think alternate realities bleed into our own.
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>however they have the liberty to exercise the rights given to them by the constitution. And this is why you don't know shit about the Constitution. There is something called the Ninth Amendment which preserves rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. The Constitution doesn't specifically state that I have the right to open a Chipotle in Eastchester, but that doesn't mean I don't have the right to create my business.
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Ready or Not
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It's not funny, you get double-dipped.
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The older the aircraft, the more ut costs to keep flying.
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@1970DAH It IS relevant because you pointed out the fact that the video was on FB. God-fucking-damn it. If you're gonna bring up FB as a reason as to why the video should be better known, then the fact that FB is losing popularity is VERY relevant. It didn't show up in the news and even if I used FB nobody I know would have shared that shit.
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@1970DAH 1. Because it wasn't. News isn't the same everywhere in the world. I have the news on the background most of the day and nobody mentioned anything about a beheading. 2. You are being obtuse. The fact that I don't use facebook means that I'm not up to speed with whatever is going on there. Therefore I can't be outraged over a beheading video I wasn't aware of. Also, even if I was using facebook I wouldn't have known about the video unless it was reported on the news because nobody on my facebook is gonna post that shit to my feed. When those 3 or 4 people kidnapped and tortured a guy on facebook live I didn't watch on facebook. I heard it on the news. When there was that allegation that a sex video had been broadcast on facebook live and it had been a rape, I didn't watch it on facebook. I heard it on the news. Your post assumed we had to be aware of something we don't know. We didn't fucking know and for very understandable reasons but you go on here and scream "irrelevant!" when someone brings them up.
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@1970DAH yeah I get the same results if I specifically look for it. But for that I have to first know it even happened, and all the sources that are talking about it seem to be British/Australian with CNN, CBS and NY Times representing the American media. I don't watch British/Australian news and I don't care about CNN. I'm sorry, apparently late Christmas shopping, the Gatwick flight suspension due to drones or the upcoming football games are more important because that's what been airing the last few days.
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 @distrologic2925 The US produces more oil than Saudi Arabia.
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 @carlosdeleon8527 Mike Pietrucha has been invited to podcasts to talk about being a backseater in F-4Gs and F-15Es. I'd think the pilot who was a Strike Eagle WSO knows more about that.
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I think there's some parts of Sweden (might be wrong, though) that kinda allow it, but generally people don't "accept it".
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Simping for thugs.
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I don't see how a rotor can blow ram coating but not supersonic flight in a F-22.
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And what do they gain by mobilizing? More untrained crews for whatever bottom of the barrel equipment they can scrape?
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@zerofactor7871 The issue is that production M14s of the time were totally hit and miss. The design used the White gas system which was a mistake, and caused so many problems a lot of parts were off spec when made at mass manufacturing rates. If you have a modern production M1A, or had the rifles hand picked for your unit, you never got a taste for the shitshow that was the M-14 adoption. The Italian BM59 is a better M-14 than the M-14.
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What? It's Russian defenses that are getting embarassed by everything. Storm Shadows, ATACMS, prop planes...
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@KRYPTOS_K5 How it is amazing? It's a rocket that flies. We had those in the 60s. How would they sink a carrier? Carriers are not fixed. They sail. And Khinzals were stopped. America always does that. Remember the missile gap? The bomber gap? The MiG-25?
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Global shipping is what allows you to post this comment. You don't use 2000lbs bombs to secure borders. Unrelated to the topic.
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 @rodmod7863 the AC-130 that struck the hospital in Afghanistan had problems with communications and the gunner thought a building with a similar roof was the target. It was a mistake.
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Usually stealth aircraft incorporate all of them.
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@geelee1977 Okay but barring that we can absolutely engineer them. The Thought Emporium engineered a virus to infect his gut cells to make him lactose tolerant. Is that not engineering?
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Because the shape is too conventional to make a "silent" variant. Meanwhile if you look at the F-15 it already kinda has similar structural layout to the F-22.
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Drone sighting for artillery is what forces attacks to be conducted at company level. Too large of a force becomes an Iskander/Tochka/ATACMS/Grad magnet.
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@esealit2233 Pilots aren't simple men. They're kind of equivalent to knights in the modern day. Expensive and difficult to train.
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@berndenamurdurd2073 Everyone would be banned immediately. You have no social media when everyone who posts has to essentially be an "artist" signed to your "label" or "writer" signed to your "publisher". If you recorded a video of yourself and it caught a glimpse of a TV broadcast or Netflix stream... the platform would get pelted with copyright infringement lawsuits. You don't understand. The laws don't exist to protect posters. They exist to protect the PLATFORMS.
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@bigyeet3629 "the government put something in the water that turns frogs gay" - Atrazine caused the frogs to develop hermaphroditism. It didn't make the frogs gay, it just messed up their reproductive system by feminizing it.
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Value of human life, not cost of living.
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Turns out we all groomed Tom. See you in court, folx.
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And they became permanent and a way to have zero cases. The goalposts shifted. The narrative was that 15 days would allow us to get the virus and live. Now you're treated like a plague rat if you're not scared of getting it.
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AI recognition can now identify people by eyes and bridge of nose. Plus it can map your gait.
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They're Hitler in this case.
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People weren't protesting for EU trade deals. They were protesting against police brutality.
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@CujoHyer The guys hiding in the mountains are dead. Their sons, who were unborn or children on 9/11, don't even know why their fathers were hunted down. But they wanted to inherit a broken country, and they got it.
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@ImmortalWombat Russia is using everything. Their superior tech? A handful of Su-57s and T-14 Armatas which are basically prototypes.
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@martinmanky9015 And yet Russians are in the run.
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@Ominiumshadow24 All you bots cry about CNN.
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Budapest Memorandum 1994. The US, France, UK, etc gave Ukraine security assurances in exchange for nuclear disarmament.
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So instead of buying the aircraft that has hundreds of exports and thus plenty of parts, buy the Saab unicorn? Okay lol
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@Alphoric That's... that's not the point. Everyone eats apples. Say we have a technology that allows us to farm 10x more apples. People aren't going to start eating apples on every meal. If you tried to put that intro practice you'd actually crash the market price of apples. Machines won't leak or burn off more lubricant just because we have more oil. So if you start producing more lubricants, prices will crash, leading to the entire industry becoming unprofitable. The supply vastly outpaces the demand. So the oil industry would slow down extraction. You can't conceptualize that resources aren't like a stat you can use a slider on a videogame. You can't just put all points on oil and win off that. In the real world, there's issues like demand and supply. And demand won't increase if fuel goes away.
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 @K.F-R Drones and MANPADS can't fight against F-35s...
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The rpm value will depend entirely on the motor used and the load. With a transformer you could run a motor that draws more current at a low voltage. You could have a small motor that draws very little current at a high voltage. If you get a motor spinning at low RPM you could connect a geared transmition with a ratio that gives you higher RPM. That's why you see wattage ratings for motors, you can use your amperage and voltage information.
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@shangri-leicht8923 They always flag themselves as Russians by using such terms.
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It isn't. Your eyes can't measure accelaration without a frame of reference.
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All countries the US fights are retroactively demoted to poor nations where people wear sandals and don't have machines, the only jobs available are rice farming and goat herding.
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Some turn the muzzle on themselves. It's been filmed by spotter drone, there's like 10 videos so far of them "pressing X to follow the coward's way out" like in CoD 4.
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That's the naive assumption. The restrictions are more about controlling the market than actually making things safe. If it was about safety, you'd have modern and safer plants being built because the regulations promoted it. Instead, we're dragging our feet and jeopardizing the entire industry.
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Chinese internal consumption is hamstrung by years of real estate speculation and a demographics issue. Russia has always worked with non-Western nations.
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@kiritugeorge4684 How are they being pushed? What's viable and sustainable? Their failures now are the failures you will see for the next few decades. Undeniable? The consumption based economy will require that somehow consumer confidence won't be wiped out by the housing market, that somehow Chinese consumers will lose interest in imported goods. You can't overcome internal problems with hope. They should have started solving those issues a decade ago. And they don't seem to be reversing at all. You need an adult working population NOW, and they take 18-20 years to grow. Imagine having such a weak ego you come on the internet to claim "Western hegemony is broken". What hegemony? There's no hegemony. Everyone does whatever they want, it just so happens that being in good terms with the West is more financially productive. You dream of the la-la-land where somehow hindering your own economy is better. This is the hallmark of the copium dealers who have forgotten to explain why North Korea and Iran do not rule the world when they're already on the Western naughty list and thus should be stronger for it.
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 @orooropaa1846 An attack for the sake of leverage is the definition of terrorism.
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@pdoylemi It was designed for Vietnam. By the time it was repurposed to fight the Soviets, it was already outdated.
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@pdoylemi Yes, the project started in the 60s as a Skyraider replacement. The design considerations were chosen in accordance with the conflict being fought at the time. Close air support "is what it is", and almost nobody in the world uses A-10 equivalent aircraft for close air support. They either use light attack aircraft, bespoke attack aircraft or multiroles for the most part. What you think CAS is has the hallmarks of a narrow and romanticized view, but everything from F-16s to B-1Bs provides CAS.
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The head went back because the bullet transferred very little momentum to the head, but shot brain and skull matter forward. The human tissue being shot forward requires conservation of momentum to be obeyed still so the head recoils back. The experiment with watermelons wrapped in fiberglass shows the same thing. Bullets shot into the fruit cause them to roll towards the shooter due to recoil rather than be pushed forward.
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Really? Lots of people use that grip, he could have picked it up from anyone. That's basically what I said, and there is no emotion added. Of course, if you want to take this to the path in which you claim you have psychic powers, I'm done.
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Ukraine is not getting manpower from the West. Yes, it's a sign of weakness. They're trying to salvage what they can because Ukraine is coming back with a vengeance. Russia can't decide anything.
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Yeah just drop an ICBM to perform CAS...
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@VT-mw2zb that excellent CAS plane would have been trucidated in the 80's had the Cold War ever gone hot. It performed worse than the F-16 by flying less missions but suffering more losses which actually lead to the testing of a 30mm gun pod for the F-16. Your arguments are weird. There is a place for something in between ICBMs or cruise missiles and artillery/mortar support. The concept of a large missillier aircraft makes no sense once you actually think about kill probabilities of missiles.
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@VT-mw2zb but the F35 is actually liked by the F16 and F15 drivers in terms of maneuverability. And no, you still want a light and fast base platform to launch missiles from. Missiles launched too early have poor kill probabilities. Getting up close with a 747 would lose you an expensive aircraft, electronics suite and a dozen trained crewmen. Fighters can go where 747s can't and do what 747's can't. Really, wasting several cruise missiles in a single engagement? For the entire duration of a war?Whoa.
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+Xuan Vinh To there would also be no rescue cost if a drone-piloted strike fighter got shot down. Either way the strikes on Syria aren't comparable with the gun runs on Taliban positions when ground troops run into trouble, which is the whole fucking reason people are still enamored with the A-10. The fighters can participate in a fight without endangering the tanker or the AWACs. Launching too early is a bad idea. Why? Because as soon as AWACs are fitted with long range missiles every single combat pilot in the world will be aware that an AWACs radar being turned on means a missile launch is incoming. If you launch from a long distance you're just giving everyone time to turn their backs and outrun your missile before it even comes close. You will still need to get close enough to enemy aircraft to launch a missile that arrives on target with high probability of kill. "It's not that hard to evade one missile" - it's fucking hard in combat simulators, imagine how hard it would be in the real world, with your life on the line. Yeah, not hard at all. "Fundamentally, missiles are fast but have large turn radius. Fighters have small turn radius and they can turn inside the missile's turn." - and the MiG 21 could turn inside a F-4 Phantom's turn but F-4 drivers just learned how to use their speed advantage to let MiG 21 pilots tire themselves out pulling Gs but never managing to get the F-4 off them. A small turn radius only means the missile will have to deflect less to slam into you. You really should look into why turn rate (degrees/second) can be an advantage over turn radius. "No US fighters have integral IRST." - the F35's sensor fusion doesn't have IRST? "The F16 has an pylon mounted "pod"" - does it work or does it not?
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It was damaged last year and it's harder to strike.
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Wipes the floor with everything else on exercises.
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And how many of its true rivals have been built?
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It's the Bill of Rights not the Bill of Needs.
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+Gottenhimfella you do realize that after the buyback Australians kept buying guns and importing them, right? Today gun ownership in Australia is higher than it was before Port Arthur.
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+TorianTammas trick question, you're saying "civilized country" so that we have to ignore that gun control hasn't done shit for Mexico or Brazil. Gun control only works on countries that weren't violent in the first place... That's intellectual dishonesty. Places like Chicago, Detroit are pretty much 3rd world levels of violence, and you claim gun control works on the 1st world countries.
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+Gottenhimfella I know Australian gun laws almost from memory, mang. I'm not misinformed. What I meant was that LEGAL gun manufacture of guns that are considered LEGAL in Australia and then subject to LEGAL importation into the hands of LEGAL gun owners in Australia has lead to an influx of guns in Australia which has surpassed the decrease during the buybacks. Meaning that there's more guns than before, but people aren't murdering each other. The problem was never legal gun owners in the first place.
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+Gottenhimfella and if you actually zoom out on those figures you'll see that firearm homicide was falling at the same rate since the 80's and the percentage of crimes involving guns was falling since the late 60's. But yeah, attribute to the laws a decrease in violence that happened decades before they were introduced. Not to mention, several developed countries suffered a decrease in violence in the 90's as well (America's homicide rate peaked in 1993 and dipped 50% in the next 20 years) and you're not controlling for that factor in your claims.
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+The Batman but cocaine should be legal. First of all, you have the right to put whatever you want in your body, and unless you're tricking/forcing people to take it there's no actual crime being committed if you have cocaine. If you take it yourself, there's no victim. Second, the Big Pharma prescribes synthetic derivatives of cocaine for use in surgery. Controlled substances is a major con because if anyone was able to grow drugs legally nobody would give the pharmaceutical companies so much money. Big Pharma wants you to be addict popping pills, they just don't want you to get them off the street where they make no money.
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NATO was already on Russia's steps. That's just the excuse. Stop believing liars. They didn't invade the Baltic states. Or Finland.
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@zackthebongripper7274 That rumor is a load of baloney that came from a general in the early 90s. And he had nothing to do with the decision and was just spitballing because the Key West agreements prevent such a thing.
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@LupusAries "or do you see the russians getting rid of their Frogfoots?" - The Ukrainians already lost 4 Frogfoots against the Russians, and the Russians only seem to have acknowledged using them in Debaltseve which was encircled by pro-Russian forces.
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How?
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@NBSV1 You don't get it. It's not about making it seem better, it's about not attaching the colloquial meaning of density to every term that includes that word.
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They just trained Ukrainians. Same as all equipment. They're motivated, Americans can compress training schedules for an emergency. You won't know they've been trained until the stuff is on the field.
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Right. There's plenty of aircraft with smaller guns perfectly capable of shredding trucks.
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@charleshixon1458 You don't want to be caught lacking at slow speeds. You kill and disable tanks by damaging them externally rather than penetrating, same as the 30mm. In a contested environment, the A-10 won't be allowed to fly. It's just reality.
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@charleshixon1458 "you also cannot fire a gun accurately from high altitude at high speed" - If you need to be at high altitude, you wouldn't use the gun. If you're in a gun fight, don't mount the bayonet and rush through an open field. It's not about safe environments, but sane environments. Combat involves risk. But you don't do risky things when you can do the same job with less risk.
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@michable100 you are insane for thinking that paying to avoid jail is "sharing".
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@tieman3790 if they benefit from it, they would happily give that money away without being forced. Why do you defend forcible taking of money if you claim they'd give it away out of self-interest?
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@michable100 companies don't threaten you. What a riddiculous concept. Before corporations you still had to hunt and forage for food. Nature threatens you. Not companies.
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@mauricio9564 European Conservatives are brain dead because they stand for nothing. They don't conserve anything.
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@mauricio9564 The point is that Somalia isn't an argument.
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@Christopher Grant Don't know how McConnell relates to any of this but I think you're using the word "often" pretty loosely. Most European conservatives are moderates, Keynesian and their current line in the sand when it comes to traditional values is not teaching 4th graders about gender stuff. But they'll cave to that one too. They're barely more to the right than 2000s Democrats in America.
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Have you seen the pushes? It's human waves. They're advancing on foot and getting slaughtered.
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SAMs cannot seize air superiority. The definition of air superiority is the ability to conduct air operations with little regard for the opposing air force.
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@4dbullshitpatroll6 Nope. The US routinely has flown into SAM coverage to contest air superiority. Air superiority means your opposing fighter force is either depleted or not taking off due to risks. If you fly into enemy air space just to deal with SAMs or avoiding them, not concerned with the enemy air force, you have air superiority. Doesn't matter if your enemy has a thousand SAM batteries.
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@4dbullshitpatroll6 lel you have no argument so you resort to nonsense. Google Desert Storm.
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That only proves stealth works.
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I wasn't paying attention, Turkey Tom got you into CBT?
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Money is given to charities and government programs. Giving them 100 million isn't gonna solve the issue.
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@mannymejia4339 the universe has a sick sense of humor because it seems Russia watched all of Western media about the Soviets and decided to adopt the comic book tier villainy even when it's not historically accurate. To paraphrase Warlockracy, we live in a simulation programmed by American boomers and we're all NPCs.
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No, we don't ignore. Blackwater was lambasted by the media, they had to change names several times and eventually become a subsidiary.
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Full production Felons do not exist. It remainds at around two dozen built in nearly two decades, which is a very "artisanal" process. To make up for the costs in machinery and tooling you have to make dozens per year.
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 @chromeinox How will people be informed to not buy it if people don't raise a stink?
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"Conservatism is the rebranding of FASCISM." lolwut?
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@Nmccarville So they deployed cops with riot shields for what purpose? They thought they'd capture the city and only have to beat down a few protesters. Instead they drove vans full of cops into Ukrainian ambushes with machine guns and missiles.
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@QwertAsdfg-ih1ow What does the desert have anything to do with anything? Why did they send riot cops if they didn't expect to take the city?
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@aaronbone4572 Why would they want a heavier round than 5.56 that's much slower?
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Sounds like what a missile strike would look like.
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@konstantinavilov1192 "rather crude and imprecise SMGs" - this doesn't say anything about the stamping process itself "the German stamping technology was used not only in gun-making" - yeah, which is why the StG development needed help from a company that made stamped parts, Merz Werke. "So they had vast experience - unlike the Soviets." - Again, this doesn't mean anything. Soviets had already stamped guns before. The AK is a relatively simple stamp that didn't require any of the finesse seen on the StG because the Soviets were working with better alloys and didn't need the reinforcement.
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So Russia attacking Ukrainian bridges is terrorism? Or is it different?
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@JamesCasatelli "And it's worked for them." - Did it?
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Brother Ukraine used Aliexpress drones and general aviation light aircraft crammed with explosives to attack refineries and Shahed manufacturing plants. There's footage inside Pantsir of them launching interceptors at Storm Shadows through the electro-optic tracking mode and missing.
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The F-35 shouldn't have been cancelled. Stop getting your defense knowledge from Reformists and Boeing shills.
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He didn't say they were making them deadlier, just spread more.
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@duramaxdad The first SARS had a 46% fatality rate or whatever. This one has like a 0.05% fatality rate, with a 1-3% fatality rate with the elderly. It's extremely mild in comparison.
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Money. It was mainstream media that ran hitpieces accusing youtube of profitting off terrorism when ISIS had youtube accounts, and it caused a huge dip in revenue to youtube. So they're very inconsistent at applying the rules when it comes to independent content creators, but the industry giants are protected.
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NATO did not fight in Iraq, Syria or Libya.
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@dobrasilaomundo.8086 Then it's not NATO. Did the CSTO invade Ukraine just because the biggest member invaed Ukraine?
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And how much power is allocated to those "long antennas"? If you just think about stuff for a second you avoid falling for these pitfalls. A nose mounted radar antenna on a fighter jet is powerful enough that it accidently broadcasting while on the ground is dangerous for nearby crew. Do these "long antennas" have that sort of broadcast power, or higher considering the presumed threat has reduced reflections?
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@StrangerHappened "how an ancient Soviet S-125 air defence system was able to down a "stealth" bomber back in the 1990s" - A 1960s air defense system brought down 1970s stealth tech in the 90s thanks to all the stars aligning. Big whoop. Did not change the outcome of the war and F-117s kept being used to bomb Serbia. The missile was fired at almost point blank range (8km). The first true attempt at stealth hindered by 1970s computers is able to degrade SAM tracking to the point that they need to be within 8km of the flight path of a stealth aircraft? Sounds great to me. The SAM site lost the lock twice and the commander only attempted a third lock because he knew there was no SEAD support at the time. A two missile volley was fired, the first missile lost track. Seems to me that stealth worked perfectly, and it required tremendous luck and skill from the operators to bag that Nighthawk. The wavelength explanation is BS. SAM warheads are typically large because they need to handle misses. Radar resolution isn't great at the edge of the range and maneuvering targets can easily slip past missiles so a large warhead is required to ensure a kill when the proximity fuze is activated.
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Dozens of AMRAAMs are necessary when you are not stealth and you need to fire "spoiler" shots not intended to hit but force the enemy into the defensive. When you are stealth, you just take the shot and hit.
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THEY'RE TRASHING OUR RIGHTS!
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A-10s are crammed full of upgrades. They're almost F-35 levels of cost. Plus the pilot is more valuable.
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Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys.
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You may be thinking of M777 gun artillery.
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Nice cope.
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Not really. 5.56 is cheap because of the economics of scale. If you remove the military demand for 5.56, production plants will shift to the new caliber.
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@seanwilliams3634 But the law itself is about being mean on twitter. The online communications act of 2003 or whatever its called. You're using circular logic here.
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This was actually a W, and a L for Thunderf00t.
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Most of the warhead is hollow. The inside space needs to be empty for the jet to form.
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The Frogfoot is forced to fly at high speed, pitch up, release unguided rockets in a ballistic arc and turn back home. There's no difference - we'd send A-10s to do a pathetic job. Mobile ballistic rocket launcher. I'd be ashamed to claim that "help".
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@abstractapproach634 I'm sorry but of all the reasoning you could come up with that is the weakest one. You have to simultaneously believe that they don't make mistakes but also get caught slacking. Not to mention that there's perfectly valid reasons to kill people in ways that are obviously going to be tracked back to you. Why would Putin get people killed in ways that scream Russia did it? Either way, the Epstein case was widely publicized and there was a generalized consensus that he would be suicided. In fact, many people were surprised not that he was killed, but that he was killed in the way everyone predicted. This isn't slacking. It would have required the biggest morons on the planet to plan that killing, unless they have absolutely no care in the world or in fact want you to know they killed a guy and there's nothing you can do about it.
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I think this misses how deadly drone-corrected artillery and drone-dropped grenades have been. Getting close enough to a tank to fire a RPG at it is a dreadful proposal. To get a good hit probability you have to get within 200 meters of a tank. Artillery can be fired from 10km away. Not to mention that RPGs cannot penetrate the tank armor except from the vulnerable angles.
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Why would Mao be entitled to an ally?
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@nl7270 Impressive, almost everything you've posted is incorrect. First of all, Mao would have backstabbed the US, nothing personal that's just business, the US did reach out to Russia but there's a whole can on worms there regarding internal issues, Russia's at the EUs doorstep? Are you kidding? Their conscripts are too busy being used as free labor or being forced into prostitution to fight a war. They have 12 Su-57 aircraft while US and allies have 625 F-35s. Is this a joke? Mao doesn't deserve an ally in the same way that you can't demand people to be your friends or spouses. People are free to do what they want and you don't deserve others to just give you what you want. Uniting China, how is that important for the topic? He is revered because of state propaganda, not for any good reason. And like you said, his killing of millions is enough to deny him an alliance.
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@nl7270 If China isn't threatened, why are they both investing in trade routes that avoid the sea and on anti-ship weapons? Seems to me they feel the threat of US naval power. How is US Japan? Where is the Pearl Harbor attack?
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H2 power doesn't exist. It's just a way to store energy, not a source.
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Wondering how much you get paid to post comments.
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Not true.
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@chaozboy9482 Why would I need to be a fortune teller? Just look at the past. Other countries are already ahead of the US in distribution, and they're having outbreaks.
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@chaozboy9482 The numbers are equalizing.
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@chaozboy9482 You haven't presented a single source now you want them. Go look at them yourself, every country posts their numbers. If you were sure of what you were saying you'd have looked at the charts. Apparently, you haven't.
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@chaozboy9482 You're the cheap one. I'll provide a source when you provide yours. Yeah, I can't post links either. So you've been asking me for something I can't provide. Funny how that goes. F statista, it doesn't have the numbers you need to support your opinion, go check actual official reports. Tell you what, I'll give you a freebie. Next comment I'll provide one source without you having to provide yours, but you have to admit that you're the one who made the initial claim without a source so your claim can be dismissed without a source. Don't disappoint me.
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@chaozboy9482 I replied to you but YT deleted it. I already told you that Statista doesn't show the information I needed, and YT probably deleted my response because I started naming actual government sources.
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And Russians write with a "B" (which is the V equivalent in the Latin alphabet).
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>biger
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@MinhVu-fl4nn The preventive use is a very low dose. Why would you spin the chamber and pull the trigger on your head every 6 months?
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@MinhVu-fl4nn What's preferable? A low statistical chance of getting it, or a 100% statistical chance of getting it? "Everyone who is prescribing these drugs are merely guessing and adjusting dosage on the fly" - Same deal with the shots. They knew of the antibody halflife so they're distributing massive doses. The Moderna dosage is even higher than Pfeizer's. "then they are taking more of a risk actually getting the virus themselves" - This goes for the people who took the shot and now think they're immune due to a massive advertising campaign.
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@jetfighter200 that old junk unravelled Saddam's air defense network in 1991.
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@a5cent There's no 1000km range missiles. The 400km range on the S-400 brochure is also marketing - Turkey said the target has to fly at 5km to get detected.
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Defenders would be fixed in place no matter what. A literal child would understand that. The capital is never undefended. There's a practical limit on how many people can be deployed in the Eastern front. Either the Kiev offensive failed, or Russian military planners have below 80 IQ. They should have known it would ve impossible for those troops to be diverted elsewhere. Everyone who died in that "feint" died for absolutely nothing. Who would fight for a country who'd get him killed like that?
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@ftboomer1 The fact is that they did - by virtue of trying to move West and South to cut off highways leading to Kiev. Stop changing the subject, Z-boy. Say if you'd be willing to die in the feint, Z-boy.
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@ftboomer1 And how many will die to kill those 100,000, Z-boy? Can you tell me the expected casualty rates suffered in offensive vs defensive operations, Z-boy? You're pounding at the keyboard with glee for death because it's not your blood being spilled. People like you deserve to be sent wearing the Z to the frontlines.
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Because it would step on the toes of the Big Pharma. I'm assuming you're a liberal. Watch Micheal Moore's SiCKO. There's no excuse to marketing anti-depressants to everyone who has human emotions. Specially when most mass shooters were taking them.
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Depleted uranium and tungsten are equally poisonous/carcinogenic heavy metals. Unless everyone agrees to go back to maraging steel, no nation is innocent. Everyone's using tungsten and not a peep, but fingers are pointed at the US for using DU.
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@KaelNL if you don't lose your rights when you get cuffed then you're being "kidnapped". It is understood that being arrested suspends most of your rights or else you'd be free to leave.
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@joan smith everything is propaganda
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@lilartay Yes, you are allowed to disarm people.
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 @TheMysteryDriver I just hate TYT more than cops.
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"mount a better radar" - sure, let's violate the laws of physics.
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Bakhmut is a speed bump on the way to Kramatorsk, which will ne 10x harder to capture. It's literal uphill fighting beyond Bakhmut, the city resides in a valley.
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@joshhanklon 1. Russian media accidentally let it slip that the government intended to win in 3 days. 2. Russia used Minsk II to attack Ukraine. So accusations that Ukraine ignored Minsk are lies.
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@MattMajcan So you're saying they hinged on a quick victory, but saying they did is hilarious. Okay. It's still a failure, and their performance clearly indicates they weren't ready for a real war.
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@trevorcrook5753 In a sense, they will end it. By either leaving, or by the last man falling.
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@trevorcrook5753 They're pulling out T-55s from storage now. Russian attrition is incredibly high.
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It's more because it's a small fuselage and if the pilot sat upright the canopy would have to be taller. Can't link source but read it on f-16 net forum.
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@johnp139 I'm right. A pilot inside the F-16 upright would require a massive canopy. The tilt back saves on height. There's no mechanism through which G load is reduced by tilting the seat 30 deg.
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It wasn't automatic.
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Not how it works. The US never reached for the nuclear option post WW2.
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Okay.
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@90hijacked and the labourers in the USSR also had the time to read all the books and take on projects, kappa. That's why the USSR banned Grapes of Wrath because despite showing the plight under capitalism it actually made the soviets think poor Americans had better conditions than them.
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 @90hijacked if you're going to say nothing you might as well not respond.
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@slyleggs4344 Yes Russia destroys Ukrainian missiles by hitting them with their equipment.
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That's an invalid analogy and a serious Reductio ad absurdum.
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Less than half for a T-72 without upgrades.
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@thelordofcringe So we knew that was a problem and our solution was burn gas? Hmmmm
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@andrabook8758 I mean, there's the drone video of the oral bonding exercise...
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@KRGruner You can succeed at bringing down a brick wall by hitting it with your forehead. I'd call that stupid. Even if it was technically successful.
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@KRGruner I won't try it, because I'm not Russian. Yes, Russian tactics succeed in the short term, but cause long term ruin. Just like Severdonetsk was cheered as a huge victory, but that battle alone broke so much Russian offensive potential, it eventually lead to the Kharkiv collapse. Tactics repeatable over time? Sure. Russia has raised a new army over this BS. If I get to bring a new head to bang against the wall, it only needs to work once.
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I don't think that's the point. I'm not going to watch Kickass 2 if Carrey objects to guns until he gets to profit off them. I mean, the first Kickass did have it's fair share of guns, it's not like he didn't have a previous warning. Combine that with mocking someone who was more of a man than Jim, is already dead, whose movies are more relevant than Carrey's carrer and then acting like a bitch on Twitter. Free country means everyone can whine all they want at his "comedy".
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Russia insists on fighting to the bitter end.
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PESA (Passive Electronically Scanned Array) means that multiple antennas in an array are fed signal from a lone transmit module. AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) means every antenna has their own transmit module.
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Underrated post.
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If you have comorbidities. We have treatments available, but the healthcare system would rather tell you to wait at home for 10 days so you can get worse, then they hook you up to O2 and let you die.
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Not true. Less than double digit deaths 2016-2021, most due to mines and unexploded ordnance. Accidents.
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And who'd buy a system they cannot get training or ammunition for?
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Overworking the heart is not good either. What's more likely is that since the muscle fibers are not as fast dividing as mucosa or skin, and it wasn't irradiated, the organ was stable and was only affected by the other symptoms and organ failures.
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 @typhoon20724 AKs jam on the mud test lol
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 @monkecontent8419 It's not a waste. This is the best investment in years.
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@typhoon20724 Chinese Type 56 AKs are regarded as being higher quality than Russian made.
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@typhoon20724 It's not a waste of money, and you're citing a fake news article with no source.
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The body of PFC Joseph Allen, working under the CIA, was found on the scene.
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Ukraine had no access to the dam.
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 @misanthropicservitorofmars2116 All Russian billionaires are just involved with the state. You get thrown off a window if you don't do what the state says.
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Is there a rational excuse for Jewish communities vanishing from Europe but also not turning up in Israel? I mean, they couldn't keep them all in hiding, and Israel could have used the manpower in the wars.
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Funny, they claim to be self-reliant... why was the turbine outside Russia?
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Not true. Russia instigated it.
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Already a thing. Hamas is being less successful with drone use after an initial upper hand, an assassination attempt against Nicolas Maduro was stopped when a drone IED was jammed.
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@cornelkittell9926 They weren't reservists. They were civilians. The reservists were in BARS units which were in Ukraine prior to mobilization. They were famously involved in the Kharkiv rout, forced to retreat under shelling.
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@cornelkittell9926 You're using the "western" terminology. A reservist is someone who is considered to be in reserve, part of the reserve forces. They're military, but not active duty. Usually, after a few years, you are removed from reserve duty and become a civilian. That's when you're retired from the military. The Russians are calling everyone with a prior conscription service a "reservist". The problem is, every man in Russia bar a few exceptions is supposed to serve a conscription year. So EVERY. SINGLE. MALE. in Russia is in theory a reservist. Even those who evaded conscription with minor health issues are still given a military card that allows them to be mobilized in case of war. The reservists in Russia are BARS units. They were deployed early in 2022. The 300k mobilization are JUST MEN. JUST CIVILIANS GIVEN A UNIFORM AND A GUN. They are NOT reservists as they were not part of a reserve force that conducts training. They're just MEN.
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@cornelkittell9926 What you heard and what is true isn't the same. Technically, every man in Russia has prior training. Problem is, many men evade conscription and many conscripts never got training. In Russia conscription is known to be a wasted year. I suggest reading a translation of "ZOV 56" by Pavel Filatyev - a memoir written about the poor state of the Russian armed forces by a man who was wounded in the first few months of the war, and served both as a conscript and a contract soldier. Of course you do not see the utility in calling untrained personnel. Most personnel in Russia is untrained. Tough luck. You're applying your logic to Russia. There's a reason Russia sent many mobilized men to be trained in Belarus. Why would already trained men be put through basic training again? Conscript training is a joke. Since conscripts would never be used in an expeditionary war, and Russia has nuclear deterrence against foreign invasion, it was never a high priority to actually train them.
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If they destroy the dam they flood their own defensive positions on the left bank.
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@LudosErgoSum There was no trap. They just ran away.
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@ollieb9875 It's Russia vs Ukraine with access to a surplus store.
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@samy7013 Russians are surrendering.
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I sure hope they're designed to kill, if I defend myself I want something that hurts the criminal, not tickle him.
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Why should a passport phase out of reality? Just wondering why it is strange that it was found.
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Too many lies from Lazar. Fravor is questionable because crew chiefs have called him out for not understanding how his own FLIR equipment worked.
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+Nathaniel Bixby then if he loves guns but values human life he should go back to China and just love guns without actually getting near them. He doesn't. He stays out of China to be able to play with guns, he just thinks he's a big man with a gun and doesn't want others to have what he has.
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@HT-io1eg because otherwise you could just build more solar and wind and get your money back instead of investing in fusion and waiting decades for profit.
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Funny, a year and a half of destruction and what has Hamas acomplished? How much did Gaza improve after their stunt?
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The rights still belong to Remington unless somehow the deal with Magpul expired.
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Plot twist: MundaneMatt was Matt from Tinder.
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False. It will be more stealthy than the A-10. And it will have the performance to evade danger.
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 @lucqq3792 most of thst crime is related to drugs or prostitution.
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Oh the company that makes the product is saying we need to buy more? No conflict of intetest there.
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Putin didn't have to invade.
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Then explain the Winter War in Finland. Soviets saw Finland as a threat as it could lead to German invasion. Finland is now in NATO. Is that not a big check mate? If you're using history to justify this nonsense, then face the fact that history shows Finland to be a threatening invasion axis.
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That's not desperation. Ukraine is winning in the battlefield and it will win even more now that the bridge is damaged. Russia is losing, so they resort to this nonsense.
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Yeah because a real hedge fund should... have hedged their bets.
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Russia is forced to go on offensive. Bite and hold tactics. Russia is on the defense yet they have to throw reserves at the front in offensives against Ukraine to prevent territorial loss. So Ukraine is doing defensive pressure. Move forward but defend to catch the enemy.
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It is accurate, though.
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@Registered_Simp Compared to the M61 Vulcan's 8-milliradian dispersion, the GAU-8 has 5-milliradian dispersion making it almost twice as precise as the Vulcan. Yeah, it is a "shotgun". It's a rotary cannon, pretty much all of them are. That's the nature of the beast. It's almost twice as precise as the 20mm, that's one of the few advantages the 30mm has.
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 @danielgonzalez7541 Why? The encirclement was prevented so Russians had to do exactly what they wanted to avoid. An urban assault.
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@MuffHam If that were true (it isn't) you'd be a disgrace to your country and uniform. Running psychological operations in the name of a hostile nation is about the lowest a former serviceman can sink to. Putin never abided by peace terms. Learn some 21st century history.
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Give us the quick rundown on what the CIA's position is and why.
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@dennisyoung7363 Not a single encirclement has been accomplished by Russia.
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Gold has no real value other than being good at being a currency. Gold can't back an economy, we produce too much wealth and gold backed economies become deflationary.
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Russian shills: "Ukraine is only winning on twitter!" The Sun youtube channel:
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@thundermarkperun1083 "my 100 cheap tanks can be in twice as many places" - if you have twice the fuel trucks and twice the maintenance crew. What happens when your fuel trucks and maintenance crews start to get targeted?
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+Matsimus one of the requirements to replace 7.62x51mm was equal lethality. When 5.56 got to South Vietnam, they called 5.56 a meat axe because due to unknown ballistic phenomenons, it created wounds that appeared to "blow up" inside tissue. They actually thought that 5.56 had brought increased lethality. The US had fought human waves in Korea and guerrillas in Vietnam, which did not have the ability to evac their wounded. Even if the Cold War went hot the Russians would not be able to transport and care for all their wounded due to logistics. Why would the US choose a round to wound in an attempt to tie up resources that the enemies possibly didn't have?
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Okay, nevermind - wagner website was hacked by ukraine
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The Russian MoD also reported the air base returned to location under its own power.
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@panzer_waffle4150 Do you people believe we live in Siberia?
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@Sobriety4Reality Buying Rafales doesn't mean being pro-Ukraine.
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@Sobriety4Reality Training isn't wasted time. And India's Russian fighters had to be reworked with French and Israeli technology because even they realized the Russian stuff is garbage. If India wants to counter the CCP threat, they could start by showing their allegiance in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. We'll help them after they help us.
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 @garythesquidsquid7779 The DU core is sealed inside the round so handling the round is perfectly safe. Only after impact turns the DU into dust does it become inhaleable.
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You don't get 10 tanks for the price of one.
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They'd save money reporting the crime. The bad PR is not as bad as the worse PR that comes out when the coverup is reported.
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Karens were the ones who called managers to get people in trouble or did things like call the cops on lemonade stands. Karens are snitches.
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@scruffydelilah1186 And it didn't work. This is the first one to reach humans.
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@adamplevey8385 If there's enough of us at the camp, maybe we can overpower the guards.
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I'm the one fighting for the right of his son to live. The dad was irresponsible. His son was too, a lesser extent and whatnot. If the dad didn't have guns, he'd have stabbed his son or crushed his skull with a baseball bat. His dad was a danger, not the guns.
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Post the receipts because that would be a bombshell.
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That's because you clearly haven't read up on the subject, or you can't understand plain English. If the firearms are unregistered, how do you prove that your guns were bought legally? Because the UBG check would require a bill of sale, a will or some sort of legal document that would prove the gun was mine. The UBG check would make millions of people turn into felons overnight because they don't have proof that their gun is theirs.
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Russia is aligned wih China, North Korea and Iran. Stop being delusional.
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"quarter of your landmass" - Just ignore how the Russian side had the separatist regions and traitors that allowed fast advances in the south.
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They don't have private armies but security companies. Civilian trucks and helicopters. Wagner had attack jets and tanks. Wagner is an arm of the Russian military, you can't hire them.
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 @hedge68 lmao the denial is really something
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it's been a year and this cope is stale
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The US can't use nukes
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Claim: the Clintons got paid for the Uranium One deal What's true: the Clintons did receive money from Russians involved with Rusatom What's false: there's no evidence they got that money in exchange for the deal lol That's fact checking in a nutshell. Yeah this happened, but DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.
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@dipropyltryptamin2815 Unable or unwilling?
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Cope harder lol
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Number one in paying hospitals to declare everything as C19.
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That's why they allowed it to happen?
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@hhiippiittyy This is absolute nonsense. I live in an area with extremely high compliance. I complied. I stated this went too far, but I complied anyway. We're still living in this nightmare. No, we did not deserve this. You're just pulling accusations out of your rear end.
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@nufh I live in Europe. We masked. We followed social distancing. We have a 90 percent vaccination rate. This has not gone away. We're not South East Asia. We've not been allowed to move on. We made the government's job easy. We don't deserve this. Please. Stop talking about what you don't know.
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@nufh Oh boo hoo, show me the social distancing in SEA then.
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You gonna give those billions to addicts? They'll just do more drugs.
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Nah, what works in your country is having low crime. Brazil and Mexico have high crime. Despite their strict gun laws, they have extremely high gun crime. Telling criminals not to get illegal guns doesn't work.
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@DerSwaider You actually think that people are secretly bad and will turn bad if given a gun? Geez. "kids in your country" - I'm not American.
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@Social Justice Warrior I am using it right now to dunk on people.
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It's not a matter of stupidity. It's a matter of high demand and low supply plus the financial costs.
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Not true. They are not independent republics, they are a fiction created by FSB agent Igor Girkin. Russia attempted to have multiple revolutions inside Ukraine but only Luhansk and Donetsk panned out. The war had been frozen for 8 years.
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That's a total lie, though. Both the US and European central banks printed massive amounts of currency during lockdowns. They managed to hold off the consequences until the war gave them an excuse to go balls out, like a fat man finally breathing out and popping the buttons on his undersized shirt.
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"Nooo you can't be heckin' negativerinooo to the airplane or address the root causes of its problems..."
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Less people making money and producing goods too. It's a death spiral. They don't need to be populous. They need to sustain their economic growth. The demographics do not allow it. Japan and Sweden are higher income countries. So they escaped the middle income trap. China hasn't.
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@lubricustheslippery5028 As you sustain fewer people, you actually get less workers. If you start with 500k men and women and each have one child, you will have 500k adults and 250k children. Those children, assuming an even male-female split, grow into adults and have 125k children. In each generation, you will have twice the elderly to take care of compared to every working adult. You HAVE to grow the economy, or else you stagnate under the burden of your dwindling population. If you have a growing population you can counteract a stagnant economy because at least you'll have more labor. With a population collapse, each laborer has to be significantly wealthier than his parents or else the system crumbles under its own weight.
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@lubricustheslippery5028 But Japan made it out of their middle income trap. China hasn't.
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Yeah it's a controlled release of talking points. A short guy with goatee and glasses, and an Armenian-looking man are regulars in these shows and they always drop pro-Ukraine data that gets everyone to start shouting at them.
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They buy Iranian drones because they can't build their own.
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 @mathewvanostin7118 Russia's military industries do not have a good reputation. What breakthroughs did they have post USSR collapse?
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 @debraoroark49 What Russian metallurgy? They constantly have to overbuild their equipment so they can use weaker alloys.
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No, he was a civilian being conscripted into the Syrian forces but he wanted out. So he was accused of being ISIS because according to their logic, anyone against the Syrian army has to be ISIS.
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Ukraine has defeated Russia. This is just mopping up those who refuse to believe.
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@user-md3wm7vu1f Nobody forces you to wear a seatbelt or put on a helmet. You can still do as you please as long as there's no police around. I can't remove the shot once it's in me.
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We know very little, we need to take indirect observations.
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That's not occam's razor. Without the raid, targeting coordinates are meaningless. You can get the coordinates from civilian satellite pictures. The "precise targeting" would be detected and intercepted. But since the raid happened, the radar didn't give enough time to react.
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Good joke. The US has pledged a tabk delivery which will taje 6-12 months to start arriving. This means they know Ukraine is not going to lose.
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@Kefuddle No. It's not desperation, it's the knockout blow. Mark my words. I hope the full psychological blow of Russia's defeat hits you like a ton of bricks.
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How do you scramble what's essentially an uber-FLIR camera that's not available on the market because the resolution and sensitivity is regulated?
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1:55 Saki air base lul
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Pretty sure youtubers like Kyle Hill have addressed it. There's a smaller youtuber which I can't remember the name of who also did videos on nuclear myths.
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@SocialDownclimber Of course they weren't designed to be "dangerous", but they are still fail-deadly designs. Even with all the safety systems in place, they need active protection to prevent a meltdown. And if active protections fail (like the backup generators in Fukushima) the reactor will continue to self-destruct. The answer is a fail-safe design. Something that unless active measures are in place to keep it working, stops.
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@SocialDownclimber Solar and wind are not suitable as replacements. Solar farms take far too much space and wind whacks birds out of the air. It also affects the climate by slowing down winds.
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@SocialDownclimber The fact that it does. A median of the land taken up by US nuclear plants shows it requires 1.3 square miles for every GW capacity. For a solar farm, it would require between 45 and 75 square miles depending on panel efficiency. "If you can power your whole house" - Exactly. You're only thinking of houses. Now power industry. Large machines the size of a house but consume a lot more than a residential building. Server farms. A TV, some lightbulbs, a computer and a phone charging aren't a big deal. "wind turbines to not affect the climate by slowing down winds." - Yes, they do. Otherwise you'd have free energy which is not possible. By taking energy out of the wind, you're changing the natural climate conditions. Wind carried thermal energy and moisture. By extracting energy from the wind you're creating a resistance to these climate balancing effects.
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@SocialDownclimber No, that's not true. First of all, solar panels do get hot. Second, you're both strawmanning and appealing to the absurd. You can confirm this yourself, by taking away win energy the areas that are "downwind" will suffer changes to their local climate. You can deny physics all you want but wind is not free energy, that would be a violation of the laws of thermodynamics. No, you don't use them as much, because there are large areas that may need that wind to control temperature and moisture.
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NATO has not sent a single naval vessel, aircraft or Western tank. How are we depleting everything? We still have JDAMs, Tomahawks, F-16s, Typhoons, Mirages, Abrams, Leopard 2, etc.
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Zelensky could surrender. Ukrainians would continue killing your troops. Then it would be you called to stop the insurgency. Have fun dodging IEDs.
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@wisenber It does.
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@luigimrlgaming9484 Old missiles received infrared as an impulse. They tracked this impulse, which caused them to seek flares. AIM-9Xs don't see impulses, they see objects. Like FLIR.
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A worker inside the Zaporizhzhia NPP shared video of the Russians stockpiling military vehicles inside the plant. Usually supply vehicles are full of explosives. That person filmed with a cellphone while walking, so clearly he or she risked his or her life to tell us the Russians are doing something.
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You do light off a fission nuke to initiate a fusion weapon.
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Oh boo hoo they signed up for the job, if they can't handle the trauma they need to quit. Unfit people on the job can actually endanger others.
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Man's crashing out over CoD. Are you sure you weren't looking for In Praise of Shadows?
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In my country it's technically illegal but it's not prosecuted, the compromise is that every purchase of digital storage has a tax per GB.
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@ferouihamza With inflation I barely noticed it. It's an issue for professional photographers because RAW takes up a ton of space and thus they felt the increase due to their regular purchase of storage.
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@cre8tvedge "If the cartel is coming to your house you have something going on that is way outside the ordinary American's life." - Not true. I happen to know someone who had his brother survive a gang driveby where the gang shot at his windows. I haven't heard back but it was assumed to be a mistake with the address. He returned fire with his AR. They drove off to the nearest hospital. One was dead on arrival, one died in the ER and two were wounded.
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@obijuan3004 Hilarious. The security of a FREE state, meaning if a state stops being free, it no longer fits the bill.
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@obijuan3004 That's a wall of text full of logical fallacies and purposeful misrepresentations. The people who drafted and ratified the bill of rights clearly foresaw the danger of a federal standing army. The people who declared independence clearly stated that a government that does not serve the people should be dissolved. Everything else you're trying to say to detract from the facts is pure bull. One guy was quoting Mao. Power flows from the barrel of a gun. And for all his flaws, Mao was right. What can a government do without the means to violently enforce its will? You can own a Tomahawk missile, just no defense contractor will sell it to you. Rocket engines are legal. Small scale turbine engines are legal. GPS and INS systems are legal. Even a conventional warhead is legal. You cannot fire a rocket into the air without FAA clearance, you cannot fly an unmanned aircraft over most locales without authorization and registration, you cannot communicate with your missile or have the missile itself use radar in any way that violates FCC broadcasting, and you cannot detonate explosives outside designated bombing ranges. Every functionality you have in a Tomahawk is legal, you're just not able to use it without pissing off several agencies. Saying that the Las Vegas guy couldn't have gotten more kills through other means makes no sense. Ever heard of the Happy Land fire? Some dude with a can of gas and a lit match killed 87. There is no answer. Look at Europe. When attacks like the Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan massacre became more difficult to pull off, extremists started telling their martyrs to go solo and rent trucks. No matter what, you will always be at the mercy of dangerous people. I know it's a sobering reality, but you do really have to come to terms with the fact that even without guns your family can still end up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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@obijuan3004 "nowhere in the Constitution does it say you can call a law, like say Obamacare, government tyranny and stage an armed attack on the federal government, just because you don' t like the law" - This is beyond childish. "your answer to domestic terrorism is Shite Happens, don't worry about it" - What's your answer? PATRIOT Act? NDAA? Censorship of the internet? TSA? "I'm trying to give a heads up here" - Quit the concern trolling. "that will make China the winner" - As if you cared. Again, this is pure concern trolling. "Here is one Missile law, 18 U.S. Code § 2332g" - Funnily enough it doesn't apply to Tomahawks. As long as you don't have a guidance system meant to target aircraft, that law doesn't apply.
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 @JianYZhong The hell does the "global south" have anything to do with this?
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@JianYZhong They don't have a say. Also, you forgot to switch accounts.
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@JianYZhong The "global south" isn't a thing nor does it have a say. It's a cope fiction created by Russian shills. Guess what - Australia is in the southern hemisphere. Suddenly it's not "global" anymore, you have to kick them out for being US allies.
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@tiptoucher3694 just a question, how exactly do you think that the armed forces test experimental aircraft that cannot be disclosed to the public?
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@jimluebke3869 "it would have been impossible for any Anarchist to stop the Germans from sweeping all the way to Vladivostok" - Germany was critically undersupplied in terms of oil and they could not use Soviet rail.
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@jimluebke3869 Germany didn't get to suck a single drop of oil from the captured oil fields due to the sabotage.
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@jimluebke3869 Maikop was captured in August 1942 and they were forced to withdraw by January 1943. They never got to get the installations back into production.
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@jimluebke3869 Anarcho-syndicalists are cringe and they're disliked by right anarchists and ancoms. I'm also curious how engineers and oil field workers were somehow busy fighting. Seems like the eternal German is not so efficient after all.
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@jimluebke3869 Security forces are turning wrenches now? I don't know man. You seem to have a fetish for conquest. We can solve this by you getting your boys, so you can be the alligators, and we find a plot of land you guys need to invade, and I get to live in anarchy which means there's no laws regulating what kind of weapons I can own. Let's see how far your alligators go. I'm gonna need legal immunity by the way.
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@jimluebke3869 What slang? You were the one who mentioned the alligators. Take your Alzheimer meds. A single teenager without state support managed to take down three organized assailants. In fact, the state is now charging him as the criminal. Not really helping your case, bud. Seems like a bunch of Kyles in Poland, with each bagging three Wehrmacht or Red Army cucks per Kyle, would have been the prescription the doctor ordered. Hey, since you're such a simp for the Red Army, why not bring up the mass rapes and how the NKVD would execute resistance movements who had fought the Germans?
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That's just governmental bureaucracy. Same as the Department of Energy doing research into the WIV lab. The military was actually the intended source of funding for GoF research and they rejected it.
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Non-fragmenting 5.56 also does this, in fact Brass Fetcher used to have a video of M856 tracer and it damn near tore the block in half as it yawed. Must be privated, last I checked. I don't know the final design but all XM5 candidates had to use a specific 6.8 projectile independent of what cartridge they chose and it years ago the rumor was that it had to be EPR construction. The 7.62x51 EPR bullet (the one on M80A1) is such a good performer it can be loaded on a 300 BLK case and still fragment at 1700 fps. The Spear has nothing to learn from 7n6 because Uncle Sam designed something even better a decade ago.
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6.8 out of an AR magwell is absolute garbage. Great if you need to hunt in a state that won't allow 5.56 but it being forced to shorten the round to fit the AR magwell makes it stubby. Worse recoil, worse trajectory and worse velocity which makes it inferior at defeating armor.
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@hescamping5982 Because if the Washington Post publishes 99 pro-Ukraine stories they call it propaganda, the minute it says something remotely anti-West they copy paste it across the internet. Nobody's "engaging" because it's a cherry picked story, we keep seeing GPS guided weapons making hits when these people say they don't work. What may be true at a certain time and place could change in some other place and for a certain weapon (ground launched SDBs and air launched are not equally susceptible to jamming). But that story is etched into perpetuity so as GPS guided weapons make hits on air defense systems here come the shills saying it can't happen because look at this WP story from months ago. To you, it's a story - you haven't seen it before. To us, who have seen the story copy pasted a thousand times, it's an active program to spread demoralizing info.
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If people acted differently life would look differently? :BIG THONK:
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The problem is that time and time again the leaders trend towards hypocrisy while followers are blinded by idealism. Are they really willing to pay the ultimate price just for the next generation to benefit?
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@davelowe1977 "They sell as much as there is demand for on the international market" - Not possible. With western pipelines shut down, the eastern pipelines and LNG plans cannot take the full volume of extraction. So gas is sold cheap to prop up demand.
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@xijinpingpong4426 you can't "regulate" to keep things closed, all government funding hinges on tax revenue and a shut down economy means no taxes to collect. You think government regulation is fairy dust?
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@xijinpingpong4426 Increase taxes on what? On a destroyed economy? Yeah, that'll work and definitely won't kill even more businesses. Increase debt? Can you pay it back? Give social support? What for? If you close the economy there won't be anything to buy. I'm not American. I just know how things work and understand that everyone sitting on their thumbs at home will wreck a country and there's no amount of government that can change how reality works.
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Then why doesn't he shut up about guns?
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They already had Tochka-Us, just ran out of ammo.
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+Gaius Baltar that's bullshit because people compare themselves with their peers, not people outside your community. "Inequality" doesn't cause crime, much less turn people into murderers. If you increase taxes money will just go to offshore accounts, people will stop investing, there will be less jobs, etc. There's an actual effect that has been observed for decades, when tax rates go up revenue goes down. Increasing minimum wage will lead to job losses and increased prices, meaning those who got raised are back to square one anyway. Throwing money at the education system hasn't increased student intelligence.
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+Garrett B NCR then what if criminals realize that cops will hesitate upon seeing an orange tip? They will paint orange in the muzzle of their real guns to get the upper hand. Back to square one.
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@KondorDCS how many claims have Ritter (p3do) and McGregor walked back? I haven't heard much from them.
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@Gabriel_McMillan don't respect Mr. Ritter. He got caught prowling for minors online. He got his second chance and could turn his life around, but then got caught again. He does not deserve respect, only a frienly reminder of what happens to those who harm children.
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@Gabriel_McMillan He served two years in Laurel Highlands prison, look it up.
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@hocumd2852 The M270, which fires the same rockets as HIMARS, was tested in full scale combat during Desert Storm. We don't need "testing". We know it works. That's why we're sending them.
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@hocumd2852 GMLRS missiles were tested in combat in the 2000s, they were introduced in 2005-2006. Either way, we know how they work.
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@princesofthepower3690 His expertise is consistently getting things wrong. How many claims has he walked back since the start of the conflict?
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@hocumd2852 A missile works differently in Iraq or Afghanistan? "LPR investigation team" lol There were no explosions? First, there's no certainty those were HIMARS hits as many have pointed out they could be extended range 155mm shots. Second, you can clearly see massive fragmentation around the impact areas. The guard rails are punched with holes and the asphalt is pockmarked. That's evidence of explosion, not penetration.
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@hocumd2852 I tried to look up those pictures and I can't find them. I saw the exploded remains, not entire rockets. You can't see because you are blind. The guard rails are riddled with holes. /watch?v=xglYlqljebE they look like Swiss cheese. What makes you sure penetrations only cause neat round holes? The object would deform on impact and also change orientation. The "wunderwaffe" has forced an operational pause, and allegedly cut off a bridge to Kherson. Any pontoon bridge is also not gonna fare any better. Seems like 4-8 systems have mauled the bear. We got many more.
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@Layde30s The US didn't take oil from Iraq.
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@KondorDCS He got caught twice. If it was a false accusation, they'd simply have hacked his PC and leave the incriminating evidence on the hard drive. But when you get caught, the charges dismissed and told to behave, and then you do it again, that's 100% you dog.
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@abhabh6896 Not true. The elections in 2019 were not held by force. And Poroshenko was replaced by moderate Zelesnky who wanted to make peace with Russia. Zelensky was himself a Russian speaker before the war.
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There's a "burden" on media because before modern tech the newspapers could paint a rosy picture of the war to keep the citizens willing to volunteer. So they have swung the pendulum and constantly reminding people of how bad it was.
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The problem is that anyone trying to "improve" healthcare only wants to throw money at the problem? Want to improve healthcare? Remove all subsidies and liability immunity to Big Pharma, force them to pay royalties (with retroactive effects) on any drug, treatment or equipment that was developed with government money. Tell the American Medical Association and colleges to go fuck themselves because medical school is now like in European countries, also MDs from foreign countries with a medical system above a certain arbitrary rating automatically are authorized to be doctors in the United States and compete with American doctors for competitive wages. I don't know how to deal with corrupt hospital boards. A law forcing hospitals to pick the lowest bidders? Give incentives to small clinics that provide cheap healthcare but maybe don't have the uber qualified brain surgeons and multi-million dollar top of the line 2019 MRI machines and deal mostly with broken bones and routine cancers? At least something that would actually change and drive prices down. All the people who want to "improve" healthcare only want to drive more money into the corrupt industry so that they can offer worse services for more money. They just want to sweep the government bill under the rug.
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Well, the IL-2 is overrated as evidenced by the comparison between claimed kills and actual German losses, and the USAF did not try to ditch the A-10, in fact they were slammed by the GAO for purchasing an excess of A-10 without justification. The move to try and ditch the A-10 started in the 90s, which was the preplanned retirement age for the A-10. It's congress that insisted on keeping it in service despite that.
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@exharkhun5605 When doctrine is based on lies rather than what actually works, it's garbage. The USAF did not ditch its CAS doctrine. This is an old lie promoted by alternative outlets that enjoyed being contrarians, writing books and articles about how everyone except them was wrong. They are retaining the A-10 because they're legally bound to. In fact the USAF requested the retirement of 42 A-10s to be able to put that budget where it's actually needed. The F-22 will only be retired when the NGAD project is fruitful. Don't throw around fallacies. The fact is that IL-2s, Stukas, etc are overrated and doctrines derived from faulty numbers are not worth pursuing. Of course there would be military planes left. Those that actually work.
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How are they arrested? The video said they would be arrested when the DNA tag is revealed. If they could identify the rioters, the DNA tag is not necessary. Since they can't, the only way to take a look at the paint is search INNOCENT people until they find someone with the paint. These paintballs have a good effective range. A miss or a negligent discharge is enough to mark innocent people. Also, you're ignoring that officers can incriminate people with this paint.
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That question is so nonsensical it hurts the brain. So Musk owning something in China somehow reverts all problems?
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@GaryArmstrongmacgh "When the government says surrender you do!" - yeah there's a ton of people who did that and it ended very badly for them across history
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Saeed B. So if the corrupt system wrongs you through police action, you hope for the system to correct that wrong? Did you hear about the cops who raped an 18 year old and despite all of the evidence they only charged them with misconduct while on duty? The system protects cops.
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@Iconoclasher "Koresh could have diffused the situation himself" - and the Sheriff knew Koresh's routine and could have grabbed him while he was out and about. The ATF wanted a siege.
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@Iconoclasher Koresh offered to let the ATF inspect the BD's weapons but they refused. They set up surveillance and alleged that Koresh was running a meth lab to get access to military assets, despite no drug charges being added to the warrant. The ATF commander, despite knowing that the raid only made sense with surprise advantage, was informed that the BD were aware of the impending assault and he decided to go ahead. At several points they would have avoided the fight but they made sure one would happen. You're dealing with a cult and you force them to play the role of the cornered animal. It's completely unreasonable to expect a peaceful stand down.
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They also insist that the NRA were good little boys who supported gun control but have been taken over by extremists. So which is it, good boys or racists?
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@Kneeslider64 Already been exposed. I don't get positive.
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@lmcwill0502 If you have to keep getting a shot to update your passport, your government is taking your money to pay for the shots. Think for 2 seconds before posting.
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@chriserskine6879 What right thing? It does nothing at best, and it can cause side effects at worst. Go concern-troll somewhere else.
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@chriserskine6879 The draft is a massive violation of human rights. The requirement is loosely enforced with a paper document I have had to present only a few times in my life. When enrolling schools. And I could BS my way through with a religious exemption if I wanted. Now you want QR codes, app tracking, denying entry in businesses and people to lose their jobs. It's not the same, and you're a dishonest person by pretending it is.
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@chriserskine6879 how do you lift restrictions "too soon" if the vaccine worked? If it worked, it would not have mattered how "soon" they ease the restrictions because they'd be protected.
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@chriserskine6879 You want a war on nature. Sadly, nature will always win. It came from animals which means it will always be able to jump back. We've cohabited with all kinds of bugs since before we split from other primates. We will continue to simply live with it. Scared? Wear a bubble.
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@chriserskine6879 You unwittingly proved my point. If you break your hip, best you can do is fix it. You're standing on the edge of the cliff and insisting that if you wish very hard, gravity will cease to exist. That's not how it works. You seem to have a problem understanding things. Even if the vaccine was 75% effective, if you eased restrictions with active cases you'd still have a situation where three out of four people in the street could not be hosts for the virus. The vast majority of transmission chains would be broken. So it shouldn't matter if you opened "too soon". In fact, if you kept the restrictions for too long the immunity would be wearing off on more people. The fact that Israel beat the daily new cases record only shows how pathetically bad the product was. No refunds. You paid dearly for a product that doesn't work. Billions. And the contracts are iron clad, they're not liable for the product not working. Congratulations. You took part in the world's biggest heist.
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Used to be. His career is so weak he had to kick a hornet's nest to keep people talking about him until Kickass 2 comes out.
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@domtweed7323 They have traffic cops. Buddy, it's the national guard. They have disaster response and enforcing martial law as part of their duties. The entire GWOT was an exercise on finding the broad spectrum between innocent civilian and a threat.
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@domtweed7323 Concern trolling. Did Bloody Sunday happen in Kosovo since your comment? No. So were you lying, or just wrong?
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What do you mean? The roads are littered with Russian corpses.
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@agnostinosatomon7023 if PETA takes a moral stance, which they do, then betraying the morals makes it worse...
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@agnostinosatomon7023 this is your brain in utilitarianism. They take the moral stance that almost any human activity that involves animals is wrong but they value their lives enough to use animal products/animal-tested products to save their own lives. Despite of the fact that their moral stance is being against animal testing even if it saved lives. They're garbage people who make a living out of being insufferable, hypocrite assholes while convincing you and thousands of other useful idiots that they're morally superior. If you were dying they'd deny you the life-saving cure while administering it to themselves because their lives are valuable enough to kill animals. Yours isn't.
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@agnostinosatomon7023 "Mary Beth Sweetland needs because of her Diabetes" - she could have either died for her beliefs or stepped down and taken the L by admitting her life is more important. "Are you morally superior, because you don't rape women ? Or do you rape them, since you are a sexist and women have to submit under your "natural" dominion ?" - that went from 0 to 100 real quick "Would it be o.K. for you to test pharmaceuticals on, let's say darker skinned people or Jews in order to save your pale skinned live one day, since you are a member of a superior race and other races have to succumb to white skinned rulership ?" - that's dumb. The testing should either reflect the general population, or if the medicine is supposed to help me later down the line I'd rather it got tested on a white majority group to make sure there isn't a weird genetic difference that makes the treatment safe for other ethnic groups but dangerous to whites. "Cannibalism, human sacrifices, slavery, opression of women, abuse of children...these actions were all widely accepted and welcomed by different societies in previous times and still are in some places." - and you make the same mistake of assuming that the future will validate your beliefs. "Pigs, cows and lambs are o.k., but Labrador and chimpansee is not o.k. to eat...THAT's pure hypocrisy, based on cultural habits, nothing more." - not really. Dogs and humans share a symbiotic companionship, I can actually use a dog to hunt other animals. There is no logical reason to eat a dog except in extreme starvation. The chimpanzee I would think it's actually dangerous to consume because we share enough DNA for diseases to easily jump across species. Wasn't AIDS spread to humans due to people hunting chimps? I understand there are cultural reasons to not eat dogs but there are logical ones as well.
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Britain is one of the countries that pledged to support Ukrainian territorial integrity in exchange for their nuclear stockpile. Also, Russia conscripted the Donbas people and used them as bullet sponges. That area will not be a problem, the deportations and press ganging have caused Russia to actually help Ukraine ensure that the area will be empty of Russia supporters.
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 @GrimGatsby I won't. Literally what would be the point? It's just too late, the hype is gone.
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How does the Gripen provide "top cover" for an A-10? The Gripen pilot will be able to call a SAM launch, but what else can he do but watch?
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Not an issue unless Russia wants free reign to invade Ukraine. Turns out that's exactly what they want.
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@mickybender7726 No. A defensive shield against invasion literally only matters if you want to invade in the first place. Russia being mad that they can't invade countries justifies NATO.
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@breadnewbie6326 East Germany was not Soviet
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@Manco65 the 1/14 twist was because at the time nobody made .224 bullets for military use, so the barrel blanks were all rifled to stabilize 40-45gr bullets, 50gr max. The military did a 55gr which stabilized, but in arctic conditions the colder air made the bullet unstable. This means keyholing. The bullet is going sideways. You can't even hit what you're aiming at because it just does random flips in the air. Since the military was going to adopt it, it made sense to have factory produced 1/12 barrels. When the stories of 5.56 wounds started circulating, people assumed incorrectly that bullets were hitting bodies sideways and attributed it to 1/14 not understanding that with the bullets flying sideways, they wouldn't have hit anyone except by accident.
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@Knight_Kin Hypersonics exist to deal with naval forces moving. A supersonic anti ship missile has to scan a huge area to find a moving ship. A hypersonic missile gets to target fast. It's not about defenses.
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But then tank crews are depleted.
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@n4zou Every conscript is a worker who's not paying taxes, making kids or working for a company to generate wealth. This proves the saying right. When you go on a quest for vengeance, dig two graves. Destroying Ukraine will destroy Russia too.
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@kathylarson8876 They don't have time. Kreminna defenses are not set up, if the frontline does not stabilize another collapse will happen. Untrained troops will be cannon fodder. The Russian government is essentially euthanizing those men.
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@blackberrythorns How was the game changed? Over 90% interception rates, some stuff gets through. Exact same we've seen in Ukraine. The game is still the same.
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@hamadkennedy6295 The damage is relevant. If I protect my radars, my launchers, my hangers, etc and a missile lands in an outhouse, I did my job successfully. I still got hit? Okay, but I prioritized what shouldn't get hit.
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@Mr_MikeB They're making more money, by selling more volume. If you're earning more money, but you're working longer hours, you're actually getting paid less.
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Not true. There was never any paper and Zelensky and Putin never talked directly. The Ukrainian and Russian delegates were meeting each other for negotiations in Turkey but Russia demanded the Ukrainian army to be disbanded. What do you think a robber wants when he demands you to uninstall the door lock?
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17:1 at Red Flag says it's a fighter, cope and seethe
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The sitting president was removed by the sitting parliament.
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"Just get it out of air" - Okay, but all you're doing it extracting rainwater before it rains. Unless you vent all this dry air over the ocean, all you're doing is getting that air to reheat and evaporate humidity from "fresh" water such as nearby rivers or lakes.
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@rusher2937 "USAF doesn't like it for a simple reason, it can only do 1 thing, pound ground targets" - that's funny because the USAF flies planes like the B-52, B1, it flew the F-117 which despite the F was a bomber, the F-111, A-4, etc but apparently ONLY hates the A-10. Hell, the USAF must HATE all their transport aircraft and the AC-130.
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@havoc3742 the F-4 was an interceptor forced into a fighter role an then forced into a multirole with ground attack and SEAD capabilities. Even recon variants were built. The F-14 had ground attack abilities added almost as an afterthought but it only became the Bombcat later in its career. Meanwhile the F-16 was built as a multirole and it beats the A-10 at CAS. Nearly every modern aircrat uses turbofans. DU rounds aren't used. It's typically bad PR to spread heavy metals when you're invading other countries. Both the F-16 and F-15 have had situations where the plane remained flyable after losing an entire wing.
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Copium overdose.
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What's the misinformation?
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No, I expect Russia to crumble. We'll get all the cheap gas we want once their empire falls.
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You get the worst of both worlds.
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Youtube just pockets the money. I got 4 ads on a Forgotten Weapons video, and Ian manually disabled monetization on his channel.
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"The catch with democratic socialism is certain human needs are met- free healthcare or free education" - That's social democracy. "In my case- I had 3 full scholarships to go to college and wanted to pursue a music degree. My parents wanted me to be a doctor. We were so poor I had never been to a doctor so I had no idea the value of becoming a medical professional. If I had been to regular wellness checkups or been to the doctor when I was sick- I may have chosen to pursue the medical route." - I see this as a reach. The average musician wouldn't make it through med school.
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What do you mean, when I'm shot or after I am shot?
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M855A1 already uses hard steel tips inside a jacket.
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Is that the one where the simulation looks drawn on MS Paint and animated manually?
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If I recall correctly AfD members were the "foreign observers" tasked with "certifying" the referendum in Crimea 8 years ago.
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@mirekslechta7161 "Russia is not USSR" - The USSR collapsed only about 30 years ago. Many in power are still Soviets. Putin was KGB. " We want to get along with Russia since they are our important neighbour" - The "important neighbor" invades and slaughters the people around it. Why would you want to get along with that butcher?
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A S-400 command vehicle was destroyed by GMLRS.
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@BigSmitty1 Yes, Bureau of Land Management land. Federal land where you can shoot.
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Meanwhile actual North Vietnamese officers admitted they were on the verge of breaking. The US public opinion, which was based on journalism and not actual military intelligence, saved the North Vietnamese regime.
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Iron hands on that bitch and wait for the recovery.
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Several countries dunking on Russia isn't WW3.
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Anti-anti-air systems have existed for decades. Missiles that seek anti air defenses have been in common use since Vietnam.
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It's a governmental jobs program. There's hundreds of smaller companies subcontracted across most states to spread the money around.
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They did have international support, there's a network of jihadist financing.
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You people never hear of a Pyrrhic victory?
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The flow of aircraft was not constant. It was a bunch of handme downs, supposedly taken apart. Pre-2022 MiGs have been seen flying, including the rare MiG-29MU2 which could have only come from the Lviv plant where Ukraine was modernizing their MiGs. They still have Su-25s, Su-27s and Su-24s. Those were not foreign donations. So please stop repeating myths. They have also been filmed using Ukrainian air bases and even roads, so the claim that they take off from Romania seems exaggerated. The often repeated "250 sorties a day" is fluff. That's for the Kremlin eyes. What passes for a sortie is just take off, pitch up, fire rockets, turn back and land. They fired a guided missile at a bridge support and claimed it was a barge full of Ukrainian troops. They're taking the piss. Capture new territories? Russian probing attacks are beyond suicidal at this point. Defend the old ones? We're at the stage where Ukraine is able to break Russian defenses. Russian accounts from the field say that aviation is unreliable and often doesn't help.
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@bagochips834 That's nonsense. If anything, the reloadable design would make more money because eventually the users would have to buy new launchers as they wore out.
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@Spollekop Military ammo is going lead free anyway.
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@simplegamerman5815 "not really", he says while male testosterone levels and sperm counts are plummeting
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North Vietnam did negotiate an end to the war. The fall of Saigon happened after a peace treaty, NV had tapped out. It just so happened that the war was upopular enough for the US to ignore their comittment to South Vietnam.
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@abrahamdozer6273 The Tet Offensive broke the NV, the VC were nearly wiped out and had to be replaced with NVA regulars. Even North Vietnamese generals later admitted that the Tet Offensive was a massive tactical failure that nearly cost them everything, but miraculously turned into strategic victory by fooling the US domestic audience.
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@abrahamdozer6273 But I never said that. Ukrainian counter-offensives are actual tactical defeats of Russia. Especially Kharkiv, it looked like a tornado had flown through a butcher shop. I had never seen unidentifiable chunks of meat laying on roads like they had fallen from the clouds. Russia keeps pursuing the war no matter what the Russian people say. The US was close to victory but the public pressured the government to stop. So despite the US pledging to back South Vietnam in case of invasion, internally it was decided that if enough time had passed until the next Northern offensive, they'd just leave. Entirely different situations.
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@abrahamdozer6273 Muh both sides BS. There's nothing heroic here. Just facts. Supported by North Vietnamese commanders who had every reason to lie and hide the true cost of their strategic victory.
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Explosions (point source of overpressuee) lose effectiveness by the inverse square. This means you need an exponentially larger warhead to deal with a linear increase of distance.
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The Taliban do it too. What's the point of being in charge if there's no freak offs?
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@daniels0376 He's not calling out both sides. He's just arriving, dropping his pants, dumping a fat steamer and walking away. He doesn't care. He just wants his crap to be spread all over the internet, and now we're stuck discussing the sh!t that's on comment sections. Please, tell me, where is his grand critique? Where? Nowhere. It's just a pile of sh!t.
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No, he's such an expert in martial arts that he recognizes that there's limits.
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Yes. They failed to secure the air bridge.
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Exactly. This is like politicians geting paid half a mil for a 45 minute speech or gettinga book deal after retiring. They're not paid for using their political power, they're just coincidentally getting money from organizations they helped. Tenet is just like the book nobody buys or reads. Tenet is just the reward.
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 @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 Serbia was genociding Bosnia, Libya was an intervention requested by the Arab League and approved by the UN, Afghanistan was self-defense after the 9/11 attacks.
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@penultimateh766 Using Stalin's purges as a good example makes no sense. For example the purges of capable officers was one of the reasons for the Winter War debacle, where the Red Army suffered embarrassingly disproportionate losses for minimal gains.
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@penultimateh766 Poe's Law. I had been arguing with seriously challenged people all night so I took it at face value.
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That 50k rockets and shells statistic is a snapshot from one day. They've gone down to 20-10k per day since HIMARS arrived.
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Then what incentive is there for a ceasefire? If nothing guarantees peace the only way out is through.
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 @syrasmine But it isn't. If they could get away with it, they'd let her cheat on the BF. The only respect here is for their own time. They're gonna cast their net somewhere else
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@Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ Why didn't they?
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@DevilDaRebel I'm not oblivious. I directly pointed out many were against the Iraq war. So how are people hypocrites if they're against both wars?
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@snowsnow4231 Don't ask me. Why don't you ask other countries?
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@Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ I was.
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@DevilDaRebel Deflecting instead of answering. Childish response.
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Patrick Lancaster is an unironic war criminal. Right when the war started he showed off a supposed roadside attack on a civilian vehicle. He shows a skeleton in a burned vehicle. However, the skull as a straight cut made by a saw. That was a body either stolen or bought off a corrupt coroner or funeral home because that's clearly a cut made during autopsy.
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The police and military are order followers. Kyle doesn't deserve that fate.
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"the GDP of north korea means very little for a communist country, the physcial economics still work" - what? "north korea is not capable of growing enough to feed everyone" - partially because North Korean policy wrecked the soils "made a nuclear bomb on their own" - it was russian technology Also, the hard part of making a nuke is acquiring the highly controlled fissile material. If you have fissile material you can build a nuke in a shed. The problem is always the material.
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@cageybee7221 "GDP is a measure of financial assets mostly and very little is actually from productive actions" - but if you're productive, GDP increases. "NNP was used by the USSR as a more accurate gauge" - if the state owns the means of production, you cannot obtain information on the value of goods. The Party could choose whatever it wanted as a gauge, but it wasn't accurate. "Source please" - you're really out here asking for a source on North Korea adopting single-cropping and fertilizers to boost agricultural production? "they basically made to reinvent the ICBM" - lol they're using scaled up RD-250s they either got through Russia or illicitly through contacts in Ukraine.
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@cageybee7221 >"production, it's the profits" - okay I'm not a native English speaker so to me "productivity" inherently implies that what you're doing is "productive". If you're producing something that doesn't generate profit, you're not being productive. I was not considering that it could be different in English. >"physical resource production and goods manufacturing of their economy in non-financial terms" - but that's a non-starter because you don't know how "productive" aka how "profitable" your production is. "it is the number the state used to plan it's economy" - yeah and it was a terrible system. >"yes i am asking for a source for that, you still haven't provided any" - my dude you're asking me to go back and track down a historical event I know from the top of my head, that is widely known, that I don't exactly remember where I read and I can't link to anything affiliated with the US. I wasted 30 min of my life and I found it on "Origins of North Korea's Juche: Colonialism, War, and Development" by Chae-jŏng Sŏ, Jae-Jung Suh, Page 141. It describes the overuse of fertilizers and lack of crop rotation that lead to the soils degrading. And you're gonna tell me they're US/South Korean pawns anyway. >"by truck (really obvious and totally out of the question)" - so no trucks ever cross the China/Korean border? >"they are too heavy for cargo planes" - the wonderful thing about mechanical objects is that they're often able to be dismantled. Also, you don't need the whole rocket to reverse engineer it. >"ukraine could not have given them to north korea if they wanted to." - and the Koreans couldn't have made such progress in such short time if they wanted to.
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@cageybee7221 you corrected me, and now you're correcting me for correcting myself. Bah! "not even know what production is" - I wasn't talking about production but PRODUCTIVITY. Production can be unproductive. "you can easily measure productivity without profit. how much goods are being produced, what is the rate they are being produced, and how much is wasted" - not really. The Soviet Gosplan had no fucking idea what they were doing because they couldn't accurately gauge what was being wasted, because the recipients of resources could not waste time going back and forth and simply traded goods with each other. Another issue is that without profit or loss, you cannot even tell what is being wasted. Production can be "unproductive" and you don't actually know it because everything looks right in the chart. "it was not a terrible system" - it was, it lead to constant shortages, they were hindered by ideological bias, and pressure to comply with projections lead to reports using falsified data which further caused more problems down the line as the central planning was more and more detached from reality. "it took russia from a feudal agricultural backwater centuries behind the rest of the world" - but it didn't. This is the same shit as Nazi Germany, everyone thinks Hitler saved Germany from the economic recession and whatnot. The fact is that he created an economic bubble that would plunge Germany into a worse crisis and forced him to go to war. When you control a government, and there's no way to go but up, you can use the force and violence of the state to "do things". So the argument that the Soviets "did things" doesn't actually prove that the Gosplan was working right because it wasn't. "it took most capitalist nations over 100 years to do the same" - because others had to actually develop the technology over time, the Soviets imported foreign technology and put it to work so they could make their own. Weird analogy, but for example Beretta had been in the firearms business since the 1500s. What you're saying is like claiming that Beretta took almost 500 years to come up with the Beretta 92 (the former United States service pistol and famous for all the 1980's police movies like Lethal Weapon) and Gaston Glock only took a year to make his Glock 17. Same as the human dream of "heavier than air" flight requiring hundreds of years until the Wright brothers came along, and then a couple of decades later there were teams of engineers who could design, prototype and test a new airplane in a matter of months. "that is by definition not terrible" - because you're talking about different things. If you have control of the state, you can use your budget to buy technology and put your educated people through college to make more of that technology on your own. That's not the same thing as trying to plan an economy without profit signals. Point the guns, collect money, spend that money = easy. Figure out where resources need to go when you're not sure you're making a profit or a loss = complete clusterfuck. Can't conflate the two. "never heard of this soil issue" - "Regular application of large amounts of fertilizer, combined with the lack of crop rotation or incorporation of crop residue into the soil, greatly degraded the soil’s fertility." "Decades of over-fertilization have rendered the soil acidic and with low organic matter." - https://www.38north.org/2010/05/why-north-korea-could-feed-itself/ "In a 1991 "advisory note" addressing the North Korean economy for the years 1992-96, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the only international agency resident in P'yongyang, warned that the practice of intensive chemicalization has led to land degradation--that is, declining soil fertility, falling organic matter content, erosion and soil acidification, and water pollution, with resulting environmental damage." - http://countrystudies.us/north-korea/49.htm "Soil fertility in many areas was trashed by decades of overuse of chemical fertilisers, up to the late 1980s. Yields still suffer." - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/north-korea-farmers-pressure-feed-nation-kim-jong-un "In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), soil fertility decline is a major factor that prevents the national grain production goal from being realised. The strategic use of legume-based pasture leys as rotations in intensive single and double cropping systems has proven to be a sound, low-cost means to boost soil fertility in other parts of northeast Asia. However, using pasture species in this way is a new technology in DPRK and there is some reluctance by cooperative farm managers to devote any of their cropland to ley pastures, irrespective of soil condition, because of a fear of failure to meet grain production targets set by the Government." - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223561605_Strategies_to_improve_cropland_soils_in_North_Korea_using_pasture_leys "During the 1970s and 1980s, North Korea experienced great success in agriculture as a result of high-density planting and extensive use of fertilizers. These methods however, proved to be detrimental to the natural soil balance and subsequently brought on such negative side effects as soil fertility deterioration. International organizations have urged North Korea to decrease its planting density and use less fertilizer to restore soil balance. " - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/288201/files/6.pdf "But by 1987, food production started to decline as the country’s soils began to collapse after decades of industrial agriculture on often marginal lands." - https://foodfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/PB11-Famine-in-North-Korea-Christine-Ahn.pdf "The area under cereals covers over 80 percent of Korea's arable land. The limited availability of arable land and the government policy of food grain self - sufficiency has led DPR Korea to opt for high intensity agriculture. Soils are poor (pH 5 to 7, with organic matter only at 0.5 to 1.5 percent) - and the risk of erosion is high in uplands." - http://www.fao.org/3/ac623e/ac623e0e.htm "North Korea stresses that this is essential to avoid further soil acidification caused by the excessive application of chemical fertilizers." "The prevailing system, in which a single crop of rice is grown in paddy fields and a single crop of maize in the uplands, is now being revised, and double cropping is recommended. Crop rotation has the advantage of improved fertility for soils depleted by monoculture, as well as higher total yields per unit of land." "Third, North Korean authorities ordered farmers to cut down perennial plants such as pine trees on mountain slopes, and plant corn in their place. This method was successful at first, but corn production required a great deal of fertilizer. The rugged terrain also meant that a large labor input was needed to harvest the corn and transport it to towns. The really damaging result was that as trees were cut, there were landslides which destroyed not only the upland terraces but covered fertile lowlands in sand and rock. Forest clearance and the construction of terraces were the main cause of the floods in 1995 and 1996." - http://www.fftc.agnet.org/library.php?func=view&id=20110726131553 I'm a complete layman and I know about the North Korean soil issue. "STILL haven't provided an actual source for it" - I DID YOU ABSOLUTE LIAR. READ MY PREVIOUS COMMENT AGAIN. "Origins of North Korea's Juche: Colonialism, War, and Development" by Chae-jŏng Sŏ, Jae-Jung Suh, Page 141 "you mentioned you couldn't find a single non-US backed source" - NO I SAID THAT ACCORDING TO YOUR RULES I CAN'T LINK ANYTHING RELATED TO THE US SO I'M POINTING HOW THE DIFFICULTY IN TRYING TO REMEMBER IF A SOURCE I DON'T REMEMBER IS IN ANY WAY AFFILIATED WITH THE US GOD YOU PEOPLE ARE SERIOUSLY DIFFICULT TO TALK TO WHEN YOU'RE ALL WILLING TO PULL AT ANY THREAD TO SEE IF IT UNRAVELS "that truck would have to go through russia and be put on a train to north korea, meaning it would have to cross hundreds of miles through one of the most corrupt nations in the world and somehow not be stolen." - lol so you went from "it couldn't be done because it's illegal" to "those places are so used to illegal shit it would be stolen". I couldn't give less of a shit where it came from but there's one good side to corruption - you know you can pay people off to make shit go through. The fact is that they're using a design that isn't theirs. "clearly, north korea did make such progress in such a short time because they have the bomb now. you are just denying reality at this point." - again, you're unable to argue so you'll strawman everything I say to make it seem like I said something else. Here's a good explanation of the NK rocketry design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UieXfhcmkpQ Either way, you accused me of not providing a source. Either you're not paying attention, or lying. It's not like I have a scoreboard for arguments or anything, but even you need to recognize that if you need to lie about my comments and strawman me it means you're losing. I expect better, no strawman arguments from now on, please.
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+Panzer Blitz so because a person knows the law he's a terrorist?
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@ja37d-34 the point being that the US doesn't necessarily need Javelins except for fighting off large tank forces. One is getting defeated in Ukraine, the other is a defensive tank force protecting China's borders rather than a Pacific naval asset. Abrams can easily be used to destroy enemy tanks so the Javelins are a redundant capability as we also have TOWs.
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The natural nuclear reactor in Gabon has been there for 2 billion years.
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@snooons88 It doesn't, it's just that the US makes it easy to request things to be declassified. Have you noticed how you can get entire archives of CIA activity, but you can't ask Russia or China to also admit stuff they've done?
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They're gonna sneak around the landmines too? Ukrainians made the region north of Kiev the Murder Park since the Russians left, with water reservoirs ready to wet the soil and create mud so that Russians get stuck in the kill zone.
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@Alexander-bc8dh "there are many things lik Healthcare, Police, Firemans, etc.. which work better under a Govermental system than private" - government police is absolute garbage
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@blombidobadila8084 Studies done on people dying from the inflammation and oxidative stress and who have very little virus in them anyway.
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@dallysinghson5569 I know athletes who had it - got it from Italy, no less - and returned to training pretty quickly. The virus didn't destroy them.
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@mikees9959 How would the rise be even higher? People wouldn't get it twice after reinfection, and those who didn't get it the first round would have natural immunity the second time. There's no way to go up, only down.
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ShellShock NAS3 cases use a much weaker joint, and a youtuber tested their 9mm cases to survive 10 reloads 15% above the +P pressure. It failed at the 11th shot, not from the joint breaking but the case wall failing near the case head, like in one piece brass cases. It's much easier for the brass to split than the head to separate.
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@TheSoundsage Drones flying around would attract attention. Missiles fall from the sky at supersonic speeds.
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Most "anti-zionists" are just anti-semites anyway and those who are honest about it are in bad company, and Assange leaked classified intel plus he had links to Russia.
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"cheap"
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The issue is that games are not getting easier to run and this tech will just lead to games getting less and less optimized. We're just paying more cash to run games that don't look that good.
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Ruining the country? They are the 10th biggest lobby. You have the pharmaceutical lobbies that make medical care expensive, that make the government protect their "right" to charge 10x what the same pills cost in other countries. I think that the thousands and thousands that suffer from unfair business practices in the medical field are a bigger issue than a sportsmen association that decided to defend a constitutional right.
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@isodoublet "You're still assuming there's only exactly a 'third', when in reality there'd be more" - So you're now using 4-5 radars all in redundant positions to do the job of ONE radar could do against 4th gen. Seems like 5th gen is amazingly useful by forcing countries to spend all their money on redundant radars. "you fire your SAM, and then you move" - You can't pack up that quickly. "Powerful enough, and the most important part of that was 'smart'." - No you said the radar would be larger and now you're trying to backpedal. Smart? Amazing. Unexplained technology. "Please look up the word "smart" in the dictionary before continuing." - Please disclose what kind of technology you're talking about or your argument will be dismissed. "That must be why they're now thinking of retrofitting bigger AMRAAMs into the F-35." - They're not absolute telephone poles like SAMs are. AMRAAMs are fired from altitude, at speed. SAMs have to be fired from 0ft AGL and at 0 kts airspeed. To get decent range out of a SAM it's got to be a telephone pole because you need to spend a lot of energy just to get from stationary to airborne. "Not after a "slight nudge of the stick" you don't." - Please educate yourself on how energy works. When a missile is fired at the max range of a SAM, the targeting system has to point the missile to where you WILL be in the future. By changing your heading you're forcing the missile to spend its boost phase getting to speed to intercept a point you don't intend to be. That's why firing at max range doesn't work, the aircraft can simply turn back and it's suddenly outside range. The way to score a kill is to fire only when you have the aircraft inside your no escape zone, or fire multiple missiles to get the aircraft to go defensive and eventually make a mistake. "Look at the Su-57's engines and get back to me." - Again, it's a sorry excuse of a cope aircraft. I'm not sure what the lack of s-ducts have to do with your position but it sure as hell shows it's a cope.
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@isodoublet "You need to pay attention to what's actually being said" - You first mentioned putting a larger radar on the missile. Now you're trying to backpedal by saying it just needs a smart tech upgrade, without disclosing what smart tech is going to improve radar performance.
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@isodoublet "Any technology they have to shoot down stealth aircraft will obviously be kept close to the vest" - This is optimism bias. A nation would rather make it clear they will shoot down stealth aircraft and deter a war than wait for a war to spring a trap. How would this tech even be kept secret if AA crews would have to be trained to shoot down very low observable aircraft? Eventually people finish their conscription or contracts, and after that they're private citizens. They could talk to an intelligence asset in secret. They could emigrate and be free to disclose information overseas without fear of being detained by the authorities. Or, nobody's actually being trained and thus this secret tech will not be available when it actually matters. "they're just using the Syrians to collect as much data about stealth aircraft in realistic conditions" - Didn't a Russian general get sacked because he admitted that Russian and Syrian IADS were linked and then the Israelis BTFO'd some of their batteries? "the Russians have had 40 years to figure out how to modify their radar systems to exploit known, objective, factual, and unavoidable shortcomings of stealth platforms" - And they have nothing to show for it.
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@isodoublet "Please show where in that I said the radar needs to be so big it'll ruin the point of the missile." - I already did. You want to downplay what you said by bringing up "computers". Just admit you were wrong when talking about power and move on. "I'm explaining to you why that's absurd since there's no sense in which the possibility of Russian success would cause me optimism" - Is this some kind of joke? You have a vested interest in the failure of stealth technology and a belief that things will just go better than expected for anti-stealth tech, so that is optimism. No matter what nation you're in. "I'm calling it like I see it." - Well, I'd suggest going to the eye doctor. "I have no idea what you're on about." - Projecting strength prevents attack. Hiding strength will require a bloody conflict to be useful. You know what I'm on about, you're just playing to not have to be forced to admit you were wrong. "The contrary." - Then why do Russia-aligned outlets trash stealth? "If they can already detect them, they'd want the US to continue to compromise their designs" - But conventional designs would be even easier to detect. "more expensive" - You already said the US has more money. You've already conceded defeat in this argument. "If they're trained in a strategy you can already defeat, it doesn't matter." - What? Crews need to be trained to use this new technology. That means it becomes public. "Lol that doesn't prove anything." - It does. You just claim it doesn't because it torpedoes your narrative. Russian aligned outlets badmouth stealth and try to convince American citizens it's a waste. "It's cultural." - So it's in their culture to be suicidal enough to keep a secret that would discourage attack if made public? "Strategically, it makes more sense to hide the capability" - No, it makes more sense to do everything to deter attack. "motivate the US to waste money and overcommit to a strategy they can already counter." - Like you said, the US has more money. So they would simply increase the cost of the war, but still lose in the end. "stealth puts the adversary in a comparatively comfortable position because it's so expensive to build and operate" - Again, the US can afford it. Russia's economy can't. "That would not be the case if the US' strategy were based on overwhelming numerical superiority" - The US has the two largest air forces in the world. "It doesn't prove any of that, sorry." - Don't have to be sorry, but the F-35 still humiliated the Russian defenses. "It doesn't matter that they're linked" - It does. It means they got BTFO'd. "I did, and you still don't know that." - Then you'd know that a major plot point is that the Soviets unknowingly doomed the world by activating the doomsday device before publicly announcing it. I don't think they'd accept destruction just to score a couple of kills on stealth jets over deterring a conflict in the first place.
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@isodoublet "Maybe that can be done against joke states like Syria" - Defended by both Syrian defenses bought from Russia and Russian forces themselves. "Prove it." - You're asking me for evidence it takes time to pack up the erected launch tubes and the raised radar dishes? "I'm asking you to prove your claims. Not that hard." - Which claim? That's why I asked for context. "You do know what a computer is, at least?" - Can you explain how a "computer" improves a missile? "English please." - Exactly, you don't know what energy fighting is. I already described it to you. It's forcing a missile to waste energy trying to chase predictive trajectories. "I guess if the probability of kill is < 1, the system is worthless and doesn't work." - Strawman argument. If Pk is 0 you don't fire.
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@isodoublet I'm sick of this. My point here is that you're the alleged physicist who claims stealth doesn't work, then implies that it requires the defending nation to invest in 5x more radars to do the job of one, it requires more power on the radars mounted in active/semi-active missiles, then claims that signal processing can see stealth and expects to be taken seriously when LITERALLY EVERY ONE OF THESE MEASURES WILL MAKE 4TH GEN OBSOLETE. You make stealth visible, no 4th gen can enter contested airspace. You will not save money creating hordes of easily shot down 4th gen aircraft that will be easily targeted by defenses that defeat stealth. Not just due to the cost of dead and captured pilots, but also because capable 4th gen is as expensive as F-35s if not more. You've already admitted that stealth works by pointing out how a defending nation with less money than the US needs to invest 5x on the number of radars and crews just to be able to have enough redundancy to deal with strikes on radar sites. Not just that but your dream scenario of stealth defeating technology essentially makes stealth aircraft the new normal aircraft, while 4th gen and prior become vulnerable turkeys that cannot get anywhere close to any foreign nation implementing this Jesus tech. And somehow, despite having 5x the number of radar crews, not a single one has posted anything online while drunk late at night, been contacted by intelligence agencies or just emigrated from outside the reach of his country's intelligence and blabbed about their plans to shoot down stealth aircraft. You're also the alleged physicist who doesn't understand missiles have a limited energy budget defined by their fuel capacity and their aerodynamic efficiency when maneuvering, so you sit and type about 50G turns not understanding that SAMs do not fly like in Behind Enemy Lines. You claim that radars that need to get packed into u-hauls can move out of the way from anti radiation missiles, then come around and ask for specifics when it's your burden to explain how quickly the radar can be moved. Russian-built defenses already got BTFO'd by F-35s. Russian-built defenses already got BTFO'd by drones. You have nothing except optimism bias and a secret hope that stealth fails, and if the day comes that God forbid this gets tested for real, you will remember this conversation and realize how wrong you were.
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@isodoublet I tracked down the information on the Russian-Syrian link. August 2017, reported by tass / defense / 962057 A unified air defense system has been set up in Syria thanks to efforts of Russian and Syrian military experts, Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces Major-General Sergey Meshcheryakov told a round table dedicated to the Syrian experience at the Army-2017 International Military-Technical Forum. "Today, a unified integrated air defense system has been set up in Syria. We have ensured the information and technical interlinkage of the Russian and Syrian air reconnaissance systems. All information on the situation in the air comes from Syrian radar stations to the control points of the Russian force grouping," he said. The Russian air defense group in the Hmeymim airfield area includes a radio engineering battalion, a battery of the Pantsir-S air defense missile and gun systems and the S-400 air defense missile systems. "These air defense missile systems are capable of destroying targets within a range of up to 400 kilometers at an altitude of up to 35 kilometers," Meshcheryakov said. In April 2018 it was reported that AGM-158B JASSM had been used to strike weapons facilities in Syria, with none being intercepted. The Syrian defenses launched forty SAMs blindly, and only by the time they realized there impacts were coming. The Russian defenses were active but they did not engage. This combined with the Israeli strikes and the drones in the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict really show that Russian defensive systems are lacking.
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@isodoublet Nope, it sounds like stealth features on munitions worked. Praising Russian-built defenses and then blaming the operators for not being able to target a B-1 and the low observable munitions is the definition of vatnik cope.
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@isodoublet "there's zero evidence that's the case, sorry" - Then why didn't they fire and kill the incoming B-1s? Oh let me guess - the vatniks told you that the Russians were warned of the attack by the US and told to stand down or something. I've seen people delusional enough to claim that. "And I've been asking several times for evidence that the Russians have been committing their top shelf radar assets to this" - Special pleading. I already sourced the statements by Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces Major-General Sergey Meshcheryakov. Additionally - from oryxspioenkop / 2018 / 10 / flying under syrias radar special: "While the tasks of the aforementioned helicopters are relatively straightforward, the SyAAF also operates at least two Mi-17s airborne jamming platforms for the jamming of enemy air defence radars. First seen during a large-scale Syrian Arab Air Force exercise in July 2012, the first type was seen equipped with two oddly shaped containers installed on either side of the fuselage. While the exact purpose of these containers remain unknown, it is now believed that they are part of the North Korean TACAN electronic jamming system installed onboard at least one SyAAF Mi-17. The TACAN electronic jamming system was reportedly (quoting statements from a Syrian defector) used against a Russian crewed SyAADF Pantsir-S1 self-propelled anti-aircraft system in a series of test taking place in early 2012. This test came after Syrian complaints regarding the Pantsir-S1's ability to cope with electronic countermeasures, which are heavily employed by the Israeli Air Force during their raids against Syrian military installations. While the Soviet Union's and Russia's standard response to criticism on its military hardware has been to blame the operators and not the quality of the hardware itself, the Russians suffered a serious blow when the TACAN electronic jamming system successfully managed to jam the Pantsir-S1 during the 2012 test. Despite the Pantsir-S1's supposed ability to deal with heavy electronic countermeasures, the Russian crew's efforts to evade the jamming were in vain." Syrian-operated helicopters with North Korean-built jamming equipment can defeat Russian Pantsirs crewed by Russians. And the claims come from a Syrian defector.
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@isodoublet "I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about stealth planes here? Lmao keep it straight." - You do realize that the B-1 is a low observable aircraft, right? Although not a pure stealth its radar cross section is similar to a small fighter and its compressor blades are hidden behind s-ducts. Either way, you do realize this makes it worse for you, doesn't it? A bomber with just enough stealth features to reduce its RCS to of a small fighter can strike with impunity by delivering standoff munitions (not even the extended range variant) that have low observable features, and you're out here claiming Jesus tech allows Russian-built defenses to target true stealth? Come on now. "coming from someone who believes the laws of physics are being held in abeyance just because his country's military told him so?" - People who question stealth are literally the ones who don't believe in physics. "Give proof or admit you can't." - I already gave proof of what I claimed. Russian defenses were linked to Syrian defenses, as claimed by a Russian officer. You're the one using special pleading to divert the conversation into something that's impossible to prove.
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@isodoublet "So, not stealth?" - And yet it BTFOs Russian built defenses, even with Russian batteries and Russian crews linked to the Syrian ones, as claimed by the Russians themselves. "The contrary. It makes your position that these batteries were being operated by people who knew what they were doing utterly untenable." - You'd think the Russians, who were linked to the Syrian defenses, again as claimed by Russian sources, would tell them what to do? Literally what else are they doing in Syria except making their own defenses look worse? Not to mention, Turkish and Azeri drones still did a number on Russian built defenses. "Explain how a coat of paint can affect 10m+ wavelengths" - Explain how the entire spectrum of low observability features is reduced to a coat of paint.
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@isodoublet "So what's the point of stealth?" - Weird question to ask, because stealth features were added to the B-1. What's the point? Obliterating facilities protected by enemy defenses. "Why spend a trillion dollars" - That's the projected cost until 2070. That money hasn't been spent yet. If your problem is the total cost of a project from start to retirement, you'll have to compare it to other projects. "when something not stealth gets the job done for less money" - The B-1 is a notoriously expensive aircraft and was considered a waste when it was starting out. It's impressive that you'll resort to nonsensical arguments like pretending the B-1 is the "cheap" option. "I don't think you have a point beyond "America good! Russians bad!"" - No, I have many points. You can read them all on this thread. I'm actually against American intervention in Syria. But it's hilarious to point out how embarrassing it is that Russia devoted their R&D to defenses and yet it seems like the attacker still has the advantage.
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@Drew Peacock The leading edge L-band radars are tiny.
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@Dmytro Russian outlet TASS reported that repairs will only be complete in 2023, check your facts. Russian propaganda also drove cars over Antonovsky bridge to pretend it was fine while building a pontoon bridge, check your facts. A military truck that tried to drive over Antovonsky crushed the shoddy concrete repair, check your facts. The 4 car lanes have been reduced to one and trucks aren't using it, check your facts. Only an empty train rolled over the undamaged rail and no freight cargo has been attempted, check your facts. The line to cross the Kerch strait by ferry is miles long, check your facts.
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Because UK prime ministers are asked that question. Same was asked to Theresa May, her response was that "nuclear deterrence only makes sense if I'm willing to use them".
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How are they putting people in danger?
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"Socialism is the far left?" - let me guess, you think Denmark is socialist...
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Roswell was a nuclear blast detection system that could pick up the shockwave halfway across the world. When it crashed the government secretly pushed the UFO story to prevent the Soviets from figuring out the US could spy on their nuclear tests.
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The problem is that the A-10 is also starved of spare parts, and we'd need to train ground crews for months for them to just use the A-10 as they currently use Su-25s anyway - ballistic rocket launchers.
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 @someonerandom704 Get the Japanese involved and the boys are back in town.
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@huntman1412 You're obsessing over cheap, there's no such thing as cheap. Go look at what a modern F-16 costs. Recent contracts go up to 100 million per aircraft. You're not getting a dozen F-16s for the price of a couple F-35s.
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